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VOL. I. EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED IN AL ABAMA—FIVE DEAD AT GENOA. SCENES OF GRIEF ST ARLINGTON. Southwest Georgia Experiences Heavy Floods—Relief For Sufferers Along the Mississippi. All of the section to the northwest and southeast of Americus, Ga., has suffered severely from the storm which was a continuation of the fearful cy¬ clone that struck Arlington such a fearful blow. The little town is still a scene of sad disaster, for the gloom of sorrow shrouds several homes while in mauy others there are those who were injur¬ ed in the fatal destruction of the school building. The people have not recovered from the shock of the sudden storm attack, and find it hard to realize that one sudden sweep of a wind could do so much damage. The funeral of the eight little ones occurred Tuesday afternoon, The scenes were heartrending beyond de¬ scription. Tbe wounded ones are slowly im¬ proving, with the exception of Dudley Killebrew, while Professor Walker, who was thought to have been fatally hurt, is likely to get completely well. Trains Blcekad«d* On aeeount of several washouts on the Central railroad below Americas, two special trains conveying compa¬ nies of the Second Georgia regiment and visitors to the Albany chautauqua could proceed no further than Ameri¬ cus. There were ten companies and at the request of committees of citizens Col. C. M. Wylie, commanding the regiment, ordered a dress parade and inspection in the city park in the after¬ noon. The total rainfall from Sunday af¬ ternoon to Tuesday evening was eight and three-qnarter inches. A special from Troy, Ala., says that the rainfall for two days has been ter¬ rible. All schedules on the Central of Georgia and the Alabama Midland have been annulled. Many bridges have been washed away and the Cone¬ cuh river is out of its banks. The rain ceased Tuesday morning. Reports from Eufauia, Ala., state that the cyclone which swept over Arlington, Ga., with such deadly re¬ sults, visited that section of Alabama in its regular path, leaving behind it an appalling list of dead and injured and destroying much property. Alabama,around From Henry county, Abbeville, there come stories of death and wreck, but no names have been received. A family of five are reported killed near Genoa. A second disaster, that of floods, is now upon the county. The rivers and creeks are swelling with the rainfall, which almost resem¬ bled a cloudburst. A total of twenty-one deaths have resulted from Monday’s cyclone, touch¬ ing several points in Alabama and south Georgia, doing its most appall¬ ing work at Arlington. From the heavy rain storms that followed south Georgia is practically under water, the floods from.tlie swollen streams being larger thar ever before in the history of the se< .ion. The loss of property, includ/Sg farming interests, is enor¬ mous. News was received Tuesday morn¬ ing of the drowning of a family of eight pei ons on the Alabama side of ♦he river in Henry county. Richard Manson, with his wife and six chil¬ dren, lived in a cabin on the river bank at the crossing of the Central railroad from Columbia. The water rushed in, surrounding the cabin. All were lost. Acting upon an appeal from Gov¬ ernor Jones, of Arkansas, for assist¬ ance, the Merchants’ Exchange, of St. Louis, Mo., subscribed §3,000 for the relief of the flood sufferers. This money and future donations will be banded over to the Memphis relief committee. A startling statement by a river pilot bas just been published. He says: “All the rescue work seems to be done on or near tbe Mississippi river. Nothing is known of the fate of the 100,000 people in the lowlands of the White, the Arkansas and the Black rivers in Arkansas. When the death roll is made up it will be largely from these valleys.” TURKS KILL AND PILLAGE. One Hundred Christian Armenians Mas¬ sacred While at Church. Details of the outbreak on Sunday last at Toka, in the Sivas district of Asia MinoT, when the Turks attacked the Armenians while the latter were in church, show that one hunnred Christians were massacred. The Armenian quarter in Bazaar was given orer to pillage for eight hours. The representations of the ambassa¬ dors of the foreign powers the disturbed condition of Anatolia made but little impression upon the sultan, who, having the support Russia, is convinced that he has noth¬ ing to fear from the so-called of the powers. Wayne County r-... ■ $ News, i -. JESUP, GEORGIA, MARCH 26, 1897. LIVELY IN THE SENATE. The Civil Service law Roasted—A Relief Bill Passed. There was much applause in the senate galleries Tuesday, when such prominent republican senators as Gal linger, Hawley and Wilson grew elo¬ quent and emphatic in their declara¬ tion that the civil service law as it has been administered is an arrant hum bng. There of laughter were outbursts as some of the absurbities of the exami¬ nations were pointed out, and the vice president had to threaten to clea the galleries after the demonstration which followed Senator Wilson’s announce¬ ment that the republicans proposed to push forward a bill to repeal that law. The discussion of this law furnished a series of interesting episodes. Final¬ ly a resolution paving the way for a general investigation of the operations of the law was adopted. made Mr. Tnrpie, democrat, Indiana, nn argument in favor of a constitu¬ tional amendment to make United States senators elective by popular vote instead of by state legislatures. At the close of Mr. Turpie’s remarks the senate went into executive session. After a short time the doors were reo pened and legislative business was res f i. A bill was passed directing 7 jretary of war to supply a thou s tents to shelter and relieve the suflerers from the flood in the Missis¬ sippi river. bill (modi¬ The Torrey bankruptcy fied) was reported and was, on motion of Mr. Hoar, made the unfinished bus¬ iness, not to be called up immediately, however. A constitutional amendment to make the 30th of April inauguration day was introduced by Mr. Hoar. At 3:45 o’clock p. m. the senate adjourned until Wednesday. A PIOUS THIEF. Professor Dille Acknowledges Crooked¬ ness and Skips Out. Dayton, Tenn., is revelling in a genuine sensation. Prof. D. A. Dille, formerly a professor in Dayton Uni¬ versity, at present principal of the city high school, has been forced to leave the city in order to avoid the dis¬ grace of a prosecution for theft. When his school closed, about two months .ago, he accepted a position temporarily with the Dayton Coal and Iron Company as bookkeeper. Last Saturday the envelope contain¬ ing the wages of one of the company’s employees, amounting to §90, was missing. On investigation, Dille, un¬ der promise that he would not be prosecuted, confessed that he had stolen the §90 and immediately turned it over to the company’s representa¬ tive, and left town at once. Dille was president of the Epworth Leage, leader of the Methodist choir and a conspicuous figure in the society of the little city. A number of other peculations have been discovered since his departure. WILL PROSECUTE WOOD. Another Probable Chapter in tlie Murder of Pearl Bryan. There is to be another chapter in the murder of Pearl Bryan. Since the execution of Scott Jackson and Alonzo M. Walling, the friends of these men have determined to prosecute William Wood, a consin of Pearl Bryan, who was charged by Jackson with her downfall and getting Jackson and Walling to help him out of trouble. Wood has not been at his home in Greencastle, Ind., for months and his present whereabouts is unknown. It is proposed to get the secret service of the government after him. The Bryan family are also wanting Wood prosecuted and have been pursuing him. SEIZED COTTON SEED MEAL. South Carolina Ha* In Its Possession Ninety-Seven Tons. The state of South Carolina has on its hands ninety-seven tons of cotton seed meal, which it bas come in pos¬ sesion of as a result of seizures of adulterated articles. According to the law, cotton seed meal must be tagged with the privi¬ leged tax tags and the guarantee filed with the authorities at the state agri¬ cultural college at Clemson. Failure to comply with this regulation subjects the meal to seizure and confiscation. A Quake in New York. At about 6:05 o’clock Tuesday even¬ ing there was a heavy earthquake shock at Malone, N. Y., starting with a sudden boom-like explosion, and reverberating with a grinding motion for some seconds. It seemed to travel from southeast to northwest. DAUNTLESS LIBEL CASE. Judge Locke, at Jacksonville, Overrules Some of the Exceptions. In the case of the United States vs. the steamer Dauntless, for forfeiture, Judge Locke has overruled the excep¬ tions to the libel, excepting as to the second count, and that overruled was as to the fourth count of the declara¬ tion, but sustained as to all others, and the government was given amended tnree days in which to file an answer, The second exception is as follows: allege “The said libel does not m any of the articles therein contained that the said steam vessel Dauntless was fitted out and armed within the limi ts of the United States.” AWFUL WORK OF A CYCLONE AT ARLINGTON, GA. * SCHOOLHOUSE BLOWN TO ATOMS. Scholars and Teachers Buried In the Wreck—Dead and Dying on All Sides, A Scene of Horror. The gulf cyclone which strikes into the Chattahoochee of Georgia, carrying death and desola¬ tion along its path, paid the state an¬ other visit at an early hour Monday morning, creeping slowly upward over the old and well-beaten ground. The wind of death swept down upon Arlington and accomplished a work of horror. In the tragedy which it left in its wake in the peaceful little vil¬ lage it outstripped all its previous rec¬ ords since its first visitation in 1804., Eight school children taken out dead and horribly mangled from school- un¬ der the debris of the fallen house, about twenty others wounded, several of whom are given up to die have been enough to turn the village into a home of mourning, such as even a great battlefield could not exceed. Arlington is situated in Calhoun county on the Columbia branch of Central railroad in the center of a levfel plateau which lies between the inter¬ section of the Flint and Chatta¬ hoochee rivers, which come together and form the Apalachicola in seeking an outlet into the gulf. As the happy school children were trooping up to the school building about 8 o’clock Professor Covington, looking out of one of the windows facing to the south, saw the coming windstorm and hurriedly gathered in the little ones already on the ground. In this he was aided by Professor Walker, when they closed the doors and stood at the windows watching the coming of the storm with curious in¬ terest. It was not long, however, before they saw that it was an agent of deaim and ruin, for those at the windows beheld it gather up negro cabins like toy boxes, wrenching and splintering them in mid air and sending the frag¬ ments flying in all directions. The children, thoroughly scared, clung around their teachers, who vainly sought to quiet them. They begged to go home, but that would not do. In but a minute more the crunch¬ ing of the wind could be felt twisting the house in which they stood. And then the terrible tragedy began. The roof was lifted completely off, shivered into fragments and fell, thus accelerating the falling of the already crumbling walls which were swaying under the lashing fury of the winds. The doorways were blockaded and there was no escape, and un’<w the crushing weight of the falling bui : ding those not killed before were ».anght between timbers and crushed to death and wounded in such a way that a number of them are still expected to die. When tbe dead were extricated from the wreck they were found to be: Claude Roberts, aged 14, terribly mangled and internally injured. Mollie Parratnore, aged 17, crushed beneath a chimney. Albert Butler, aged 6. Alice Putnam, aged 15. Willie McMurrie, aged 10. Kenneth Boynton, aged 7. Mary Wellons, aged 8. Maud Johnson, aged 10. The dead were fearfully mutilated, their bodies being crushed and bruised by the falling timbers and debris. Thirteen others, including the two teachers of the school, were more or less seriously injured^ some probably fatally. Only five of the pupils es¬ caped unhurt. about completed As the -wreck was and the wind passed off to the north¬ west, a terrific rainstorm followed, only to drench the hundreds of people who, leaving their homes in the midst of the storm, rushed to the school house in the vain effort to save their children. The storm, of which this great tragedy was the center, followed the well-known beaten course of gulf storms, crossing over the state of Georgia and escaping into the ocean again off the const of North Carolina. THIS COMPANY SOLVENT. Judge Decides in Favor of Building and Loan Association. Judge Clarke, of the United States court, at-Knoxville, Tenn., rendered a decision Monday in tbe Southern Building and Loan case in which he declares the association solvent and orders its affairs back into the hands of the officers of the association and enjoins the stockholders from filing further suits against the association on the ground that a stockholder is a part of an association and is not a creditor and therefore cannot file bills for re¬ ceiver against such association. This ia reversing the decision of the special master. CONDITION OF TREASURY. How Uncle Sam’s Account Stands—Avail¬ able Cash Balance. The following is a statement of the condition of the United States treas¬ ury on the 20th day of March, 1897: Cash in the treasury, §147,156,615; gold bullion, §11,828,028; total, $188, 984,644. Net outstanding gold certifi¬ cates, $37,498,778, Standard silver dollars, $382,603,030; silver bullion, §821,566; total, §383,424,596. Net outstanding silver certificates, §364,- 447,208. Standard silver dollars of ■I860, $10,136,048; silver bullion of -1890(eost)’,$107,150,232.25; 286,380.251 Hess total,$117, outstanding treasury cy certificates, §74,430,000. Treasury notes of 1890, §26,S59,335; national banknotes, $13,084,098; fractional sil¬ ver coin, $15,879,724.91. Fractional currency, $82.37; minor coin, §1.282,- 885.91; deposits in national banks, $16,509,682.39; bonds aud interest paid,§614,794.36; total, §74,230,602.94. Less national bank, 5 per cent fund, $8,160,588.44; outstanding checks and drafts, $6,353,871.99: disbursing offi¬ cers’ balances, §27,824,028.94; post office department accounts, §3,732,- 194.55; miscellaneous items, §2,596,- 814.18; total, §48,668,098.11. Available cash balance, including gold reserve, §217,200,053. SHROPSHIRE MAKES DENIAL. Says He Had Nothing: to Do With Finances of Consulate. A cable dispatch to The New York Herald says Clyde Shropshire gives an emphatic denial to the charges of finan¬ cial irregularities made against him in The Tribune. He frankly discussed the matter with a representative of The New York Herald at the boarding house at which he is living in London. “I have seen The Herald," he said, “and you can imagine that these alle¬ gations have given me a painful shock. I was quite sure, however, that Mr. Morss would deny having made such a report as mentioned by The Tribune. I had some differences with Mr. Morss before I left Paris, but these were in connection with a law office with which I was connected and had noth¬ ing to do with money matters or con¬ sulate affairs. In fact, as Mr. Morss says, the handling of the accounts of the consulate did not come within the scope of my duties in Paris. ” ESTIMATED REVENUES Which Will Be Available Under New Tariff Measure. A Washington special says: The ways and means committee made pub¬ lic. Monday a detailed statement show¬ ing the estimated revenue under the new measure for each schedule, with the average ad valorem rates under the McKinley law, the present law and the pending bill: Dutiable value of merchandise for the year 1893, §400,069,658; for 1896, $390,796,361; estimated by proposed law, §479,540,406. Revenues collected in 1893, §198,373,452; in 1896, §156,- 104,598; estimated by proposed law, §273,501,721. Equivalent ad valorem under law of 1893, 49.58 per cent; under law of 1896, 39.94 per cent; under proposed law, 57.03 per cent. OSBORNE SWORN IN. New Con.nl General at London Ready For Duty. The new consul general at London, M. McK. Osborne, is tbe first of the foreign appointees of the administra¬ tion to enter upon his work. He took the oath of office at the state department Saturday and imme¬ diately began to accumulate the knowl¬ edge of his new office in the hope of being able to relieve Consul General Collins at the earliest possible mo¬ ment. As soon as he can be made familiar with the routine he will leave for Lon¬ don. TEXAS COTTON FIRM ASSIGNS. Convey Property Creditors. For the penefit of Their Martin, Wise & i itzhugh, of Monday Paris, Texas, made a deed of trust conveying all their property to a trus¬ tee for the benefit of their creditors. This firm was one of the largest and oldest cotton firms in the south. They are financially connected with the Denison Cotton Mills, an unfinished institution, that represents capital al¬ ready expended to the amount of half a million dollars. They also have their own cotton compress in the state. TWO STATES OF NEW YORK. Bill Will Be Introduced With That Pur pose in View. A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,says: What has been feared and suggested by the republican leaders from the in¬ terior and np-country section of the state has come to pass. They argued that the creation of a greater New York was the first step toward making a separate state out of the territory ad¬ jacent to New York harbor. Assemblyman Trainor will introduce two bills looking toward the creating of a new state out of the counties of New York, Kings, Richmond, Queens, Suffolk, West Chester and Putnam. S TARIFF PROGRAM NOT SATISFAC¬ TORY TO DEMOCRATS. NEW RULES CAUSE J RUMPUS. Republicans Determined to Pass Bill Without Delay and Outline the Program yh^refor*, .f- „ , ■ 7A Washington dispatch says:*" The republicans Pf the house have the decks for the great tariff tight. There was a preliminary skirmish Friday in the fight over the rule pro¬ viding the manner of the consideration of the tariff bill, which indicates the treatment which the measure itself will receive, but the rule was adopted by a strict party vote. The democrats were formed into a compact body by the program adopted by the republicans. democrats Party lines were at once drawn and rallied as one man against the tariff. The debate brought out the fact that the democrats stood ready to forget all other questions, for the pres¬ ent at least, and unite on the tariff as the great issue. The administration program is be¬ ing followed to the letter. The rule admits of comparatively little debate considering the magnitude of the meas¬ ure and eliminates even chance for amendment. While on its face it seems to give opportunity for the consideration of amendments proposed by individual members, that provision is .tendered a nullity by the rule which gives amend ments proposed by the committee the right of way at all times. The rules of the house are absolutely superceded by this special rule, which gives the committee the power to force the consideration of its amendments and its amendments alone, no matter what may be pending. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, set forth the democratic position in his short speech against that rule. He declared it his belief that the sooner the republican program was put into legislation the better it would be fox the demo cratic party, for that much sooner would the futility of the proposition thnt. prosperity can be brought about by taxing the people be demonstrated. He protested against the arbitrary action of the majority as embodied in this rule, but declared the democracy was willing to abide the test of the tariff bill as a prosperity restorer. Speaking for the minority, Mr. B..i ly said: “The passage of the bill will not be antagonized by filibustering opposition. Knowing that we cannot prevent its passage, we feel it to be the best policy, from our standpoint, that yon should pass it speedily. If it shall accomplish what you claim for it, the president should not be de prived of the benefits that are to flow from it. If it should not prove to be what is anticipated for it, the sooner it will be repealed and the people re lieved of its unjust exactions. “I never was more confident of any event of the future than I am that this bill shall demonstrate the futility of the pretenses on which it is based, and I firmly believe that you won’t live long enough to get a patient hear¬ ing from the people on the absurd pro¬ position that you can make them pros¬ perous by taxing them. (Applause.) “We challenge you to pass the bill because nothing can more certainly prove to the people that you are un¬ worthy of the trust now reposed in you.” (Applause.) HEAVY WIND STORM Dors Considerable Damage In Texas Friday Night. A heavy wind storm, which in some places assumed the appearance of a cyclone, passed over a part of Texas Friday night. At Plano the gale leveled the sheds of the Cotton Beit and Central road, blew over freight cars and unroofed several residences. A number of per¬ sons were injured at Plano, but none were killed. Considerable damage was done by the storm near Itasca and Hutchinson. Telegraph and telophone wires are prostrated and it is difficult to learn the extent of the damage. The worst damage reported so far occurred at Denton, where over one hundred houses were struck by the storm, and all more or less damaged. AWAITS GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL. Tennessee Constitutional Bill Has Passed Both Houses of Legislature. Both houses of the Tennessee legis¬ lature adopted, Friday, the report of the conference committee on the con¬ stitutional convention bills, and those measures now go to the governor for his approval. As agreed on, this question will be voted on the first Tuesday in August. H a convention is called ninety-nine delegates not less than twenty-seven years of age will be elected the first Tuesday in October, election officers to serve without pay. The delegates will receive only $2 per diem and sit only seventy-five days. NO. 37. FLOODS’ FURY UNABATED. Stories of Death and Disaster From Raging Waters Still Come. Advices from M mphis state that a half-inch rise in tne Mississippi means the devastation of property and proba abiy a loss of life unequaled in the flood history of that section. The rise is threatened because of continued rains. Seventeen persons are reported drowned fifty miles below Carnthers ville, Mo. A stretch of country over 100 miles long from a point of seventy •fitiles miles portli.of of'.the.Teunessee'metropo¬ jMenipliis to appoint 50 south lis is submerged The* in nlac&s fertile to 4 depth of of teh feet. valleys Tennessee and,Arkansas 4nd are completely inundated many lives have been lost and stock drowned, fencing and dwellings swept away, inhabitants des¬ titute and homeless, and left to starve or drown by the remorselessly rising tide. Reports from tributary streams show rains and rapidly rising rivers, floods which will soon be emptied into the Mississippi, adding to the danger when hurled against the already weakened levees. The levees are patrolled hourly by armed and desperate men, provided with sand bags to strengthen weak places or to close threatened crevices, and rifles with which to Bhoot down any miscreant who would venture to cut the embankment and allow the waters on his plantation to And vent into the lowlands of his neighbor. The floods now partake of the nature of a deluge. As far as the eye can see nothing but water meets the gaze. MANY LIYES LOST. Eater Reports from Arkansas Show Num¬ erous Drowning*. Dispatches from Gavan, Ark., state that for many miles the country is flooded and the water is up to the Iron Mountain tracks. Hundreds of section bands are striving to keep it back with dirt bags, At every station the negroes are gathering, waiting to be taken away, Many get on the trains and are carried without pay. The list of fatalities is said to be long and probably never will be known, a mountain of household goods is piled up a t every railroad station, Whites and negroes beg for belp from ever y train crew. Houses along the road are sub merged to roofs, and cattle standing i n the fields with only their heads above water, Many corpses of hogs and cows are washed up by the water, BRAINED HIS CHILDREN. Horrible Deed of an Old Confederate Veteran. Wright Smith, a farmer living near Harlem, in Columbia county, Ga., murdered two of his children and then killed himself. He brained the little ones with his crutch and committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head, Smith went to Thomson Thursday and drew his pension, he having serv ed on tbe confederate side during the late war - He returned home in the afternoon in the best of spirits. Ho had been in the house but a few min¬ utes when a disturbance arose between he and his wife. Rather than fuss with her, he gathered his crutch and walked out to the corn crib to get corn to feed bis pigs, as -was his evening custom. In the crib were his two boys, five and three years old. The !ittle fellow-s were enjoying their sport in the crib, and upon the sight of their father they ran to him with great glee. Seizing his crutch he dealt each of them a blow over the head, knocking their brains out. They fell side by side in a pile of shucks, dead. WILL FORM A FEDERAL UNION. Transvaal an<l Orange Free State to Work Together, It is stated at Cape Town, Africa, on what is regarded as good authority that as a result of the visit of Presi¬ dent Kruger of the Transvaal, to Presi¬ dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State, a federal union of the republic* has been decided upon. Such union is regarded here with much concern, as it would se: iously complicate the situation. The result of such a union would not only open the whole question as to the position of the Transvaal republic, in a political sense, in south African affairs, but would probably give Pres¬ ident Kruger greater strength. PINGREE LOSES FOR ONCE. Supreme Court Decide. Against Him M Mayor of Detroit. A Detroit, Mich., dispatch says: For the first time in his political car reer, Hazen S. Pingree has received a terrible jolt. The supreme court haa declared that he was no longer mayor of Detroit and ordered that his sue cessor be chosen at the regular election on April 5tb next. Pingree’s elec¬ The court held that tion to the office of governor vacated the office of mayor. The fact is, that his gubernatorial job has not come up to its occupant’s expectations. The legislature has failed to pass his