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NEW CASES OF “YELLOW JACK
IN VARIOUS TOWNS.
MOBILE IS NOW IN DIRE'- DANGER.
New Orleans Shows Additional Cases of
\ the Oread Dlseases-Feople Floe
From the Feat ilenc«.
Three new cases of yellow fever
were officially announced Tuesday by
tbe board of health of Mobile, Ala.
Tbe announcement caused much
mbre alarm than did the discovery of
the first case, which was regarded as
sporadic.
The people who can ave leaving for
points of safety.
Home 0700 worth of tickets to At¬
lanta were sold during the day by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and
outgoing.traius are crowded.
The Same is true of the bains on tbe
Mobile and Ohio railroad.
V)r. Guiteras left Mobile for Ed
"wards, Miss., ordered thither to inves¬
tigate -the- disease prevailing there.
He Reclined hr tell what have been his
observations, saying be bad first to re¬
port to the surgeon general at WasU
ington. department
The has sent out the
follfegy.il g from' Wash ing ton:
part of tins city nearth© totality of the <*as<»
vcporteil today, and wherts the disease, l')r.
Guffefns says, will to begin assume and epi
demie form.’’
* When asked upon what he based his
telegram to the surgeon general that
Hi^re would *be a spread of tlie disease.
fee said that the,city has had a long
immunity from the disease and there
is much material for it to feed upon.
Jachffdn'ii I'opniatlon getting 1 .
About half the population of Jack
son, Miss., lias fled, the exodus being
caused by rumors of yellow fever at
Edwardg, twenty evening miles; west/yffieially be yellow
stated Tuesday to
fever.
Tbe state authorities have called on
Wyman for help.
Business is suspended, though many best
people, feere, Some of them the
know-n citizens of the state, refuse to
leave. All mails have been ordered
fumigated by the health authorities.
The Howard Association has been
organized, with Colonel Stew’art as
president, and is ready for any emer¬
gency.
Situation at New OiteMU.
At nightfall Tuesday the books of
tbe New Orleans board of health show¬
ed the’ following recapitulation of the
yellow fever situation:
There has been reported to the board for
Investigation tweuty-six oases which the at¬
tending physicians considered eonspieious.
()f tUeswthirteen eases had teen found suf¬
fering witu a harmless fever, five eases were
regarded as suspicious but necessary to be
further investigated before a definite report
could be made upon them; there were no re¬
ports as to four eases, and four eases had
"teen pronounced genuine yellow fever,
though one of th© latter was classed as of a
mild type.”
The most serious of the four yellow
fever cases is located in the neighbor¬
hood of the French market.
USED WINCHESTERS.
Miners and Guard. ExelianKe Slid. In tlie
Jellico District.
.4 A speeial from Oswego, Tenn., a
small station on the Knoxville and
Ohio road in the Jellico mining dis¬
trict, gives account of an encounter
Tuesday night between eight United
States marshals and the striking min¬
ers. deputies
The marshals are special
sent to guard the property of the
Standard Coal and Coke Company,
which ifT in the hands of United States
court receivers, Non-union miners
were put to work and trouble came as
expected. marched toward tbe
A mob compa¬
ny’s store when they were ordered by
the marshals to halt and leave the
property, which they refused to do.
The lnsgshals then took refuge in a
blacksmith'shop aud fired upon the
mob. The miners reheated, bnt re¬
turned the fire with their winchesters.
WRECKED VESSEL FOUND.
But None of tbe Big Fortification Guu*
■ - Were Located.
The wreck of the schooner Agnes I.
Grace, which sunk August 6th, with
four sixteen-ton guns for the Tybee
fortifications on board, was located
Tuesday twenty miles southeast of
Tybee sea buoy by the tug William
F. McCauley. The wreck had moved
about It miles from tbe position
buoyed by the United States buoy
tender Wistaria.
The deck was sounded in search of
the guns, but they w ere not on board.
They evidently rolled overboard when
the vessel sunk.
The Grace is fast breaking up.
Wayne County News.
GEORGIA. FRIDAY, IT, 1897.
A MURDEROUS FAMILY.
Gkastly Crimes Committed t>y the Staffle
backs—Lynching Probable.
A special dispatch states that the
Staffleback murder trials at Columbus,
Kas., have brought to light some
bloody butcheries that rival the crime
of the Bender family twenty years
ago.
The Staffleback family, consisting
of mother, stepfather and three sons,
have for years been murdering and
Tobbing people and five murders have
been traced to them by developments
in Monday’s and Tuesday’s trials.
Separate trials were'given the three
Staffleback boys and their mother.
They murdered a man named Frank
Galbreath at Galena, Kansas, last
July and threw the body into an old
abandoned mining shaft.
On the trial George Staffleback
broke down and not only confessed to
this murder, but told of other mur¬
ders that the family had committed.
His wife also revealed some of thoir
crimes. One of the murders was that
of an unknown Italian peddler two
years ago. His body was also thrown
into au abandoned mining shaft.
Two girls who were inmates of the
Staffleback house and witnessed this
murder were killed and thrown into
the shaft two weeks after the peddler’s
murder.
An old man was killed and robbed
by these peoj.de, five years ago in Jop¬
lin, Mo.
Crowds of men are watching the
search for the bodies, determined to
lynch the whole family if the bodies
are'fonnd as represented. ,
The Stufflelmcks are in jail in Colum¬
bus, Kan., and representatives of the
vigilauts who have organized to lynch
them are seeing that they are not re¬
moved. .
POPULISTS ISSUE ADDRESS.
Special Committee Holds a Meeting: In
l.yni'liburg, Va.
The populist special committee
which met at Lynchburg, Va., Tues¬
day night lias given out its address to
the "people’s party of Virginia.”
The address severely censures the
democratic state convention for its re¬
fusal to nominate Captain Cocke, the
populist, for lieuteutaut governor, idig
characterizing such refusal as an
nity and insult to the populist party
under the circupistances.
The address, however, says that in
the opinion of the committee condi¬
tions have not so changed as to make
any further populist nominations desir¬
able able; urges that to populists elect Cooke use lieutenant all honor¬
means
governor, and to elect members of the
legislature wherever they can, the
committee affirming its belief that
many “patriotic democrats” will indi¬
cate tlieir disapproval of tbe demo¬
cratic convention’s action by voting
w ith tbe populists. Only three out of
tbe five members of tbe committee
signed the address.
STORM REPORT EXAGGERATED.
Eater and More Accurate Dispatches Are
items Received.
Later and more accurate reports re¬
ceived Tuesday from points in the storm
belts in Texas show that tbe reports
that reached Galveston were greatly
exaggerated. following
At Sabine Pass the are re¬
ported as drowned: Captains Green
B. Moore, L. L. Bettis, George Wal
ford and Engineer William Batchcliff.
These men were all on vessels which
sunk.'
Along-the Gulf anil Interstate railway
several were injured, but none were
killed.
Port Arthur suffered the brunt of
,
tbe blast and half tbe town is estima¬
ted to have been destroyed or badly
injured. Only two people were killed.
MASSILLON MINERS AT WORK.
They Hold Mas. Meeting and Decide to
Accept New Kate.
Tlie coal miners in the Massillon,
O., district held a delegate mass meet¬
ing and decided to accept tbe new rate
for mining at the expiration of the ten
days’ limit.
Parts of the compromise agreement
were rejected, however, and a commit¬
tee was appointed to confer with the
operators. If the demands of the
men are not granted within ten days
the strike will be continued. Four
hundred men at the Goshen mines re¬
turned to work Tuesday ignoring the
ten days’ danse. the Silver Creek
All the mines in
and Clinton districts, near AkroD,
have resumed operations. r
CIVIL SERVICE KNOCKED OUT.
Judge Cox, of District of Colombia, Ken
tiers Important I>eci*ion«
A Washington dispatch says: Tbe
back door of removal is still open.
Such was the decision of Judge Cox,
of the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, Tuesday morning in the
case of John D. Wood, superintendent
of mails at Louisville.
Wood asked that Postmaster Gen¬
eral Gary and Assistant Postmaster
General Heath be enjoined from remov¬
ing him from office. The case was con¬
sidered a test of the power of removal,
andthe delivery of the opinion drew to
court room many public officials, in¬
cluding tbe members of the civil ser¬
vice commission.
SHOT DOWN BY A PENNSYLVANIA
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES.
THE LIST OF DEAD IS APPALLING.
Miners Were Marching and the Officers
Attempted to Stop Them—Troops
Called Out.
* The strike situation in Pennsylvania
reached a terrible crisis on the out¬
skirts of the town of Latimer Friday
afternoon, when a bund of deputy
sheriffs fired into an infuriated mob of
miners.
The men fell like so many sheep and
the excitement was so intense that no
accurate figures of the dead acd
wounded could be obtained.
Reports were that from fifteen to
twenty-odd were killed and forty or
more wounded, many of whom will
die.
One man, who reached the scene im¬
mediately after the shooting, counted
thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay
in the mountains between Latimer and
Hurleigh.
Those who were not injured carried,
their dead and wounded friends into
the woods.
Three bodies were found Friday
night on Mie road near Latimer.
HOW THE 8RAUGHTKR BEGAN.
The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30
o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing
th ir intention to go to Latimer. As
soon as this became known a band of
deputies was loaded ou a trolly car
and sent whirling across the mountain
to the scene where the bloody conflict
followed.
After reaching Latimer they left the
car and formed into three companies,
under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel and
Samuel B. Price. They drew up in a
line at the edge of the vi! (age with a
fence and a line of houses in the rear,
Sheriff Martin was in command and
stood in front of the line until the
strikers approached. They and were Martin seen
coming across the ridge
went out to meet them.
The men drew up sullenly and list¬
ened in silence until he had once more
read the riot act. This finished, a low
muttering arose among the foreigners
and there was a slight move forward.
Perceiving this the sheriff stepped
toward them and in a determined tone
forbade advance.
Some one struck the sheriff and the
next moment there w r as a command to
tl’e deputies to fire. The guns, of tlie
deputies instantly belched forth a ter¬
rible volley.
Tbe strikers were taken entirely by
surprise and as tbe men toppled and
fell over each other those who remain¬
ed unhurt stampeded.
The deputies seemed to. be terror
stricken at the deadly execution of
their guns and seeing the living
strikers fleeing and the others drop¬
ping to the earth, they went to the aid
of the unfortunates whom they had
brought down.
The people of Latimer rushed pell
mell to the scene, but the shrieks of
the wounded drowned the cries of the
sympathizing and half-crazed inhabi
t&iits
Sheriff Martin sent a telegram to
Governor Hastings, stating that mob
law prevailed in the lower end of the
county, and asking for assistance.
Governor Hastings ordered Colonel
Dougherty, Ninth regiment, N» G. P.,
to start for Hazelton at once.
The regiment left Wilkesbarre for
Hazelton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing. CARDED OCT.
TROOPS
A Harrisburg special says: Gover
nor Ilastings ordered out the Third
brigade, of which General Gobin is
commander, Friday night, and in¬
structed General Bhall to bold the
First brigade in readiness.
The troops mobilized at Hazelton,
and were on the scene before daybreak
Saturday morning. Captain A. R.
Paxton, United States army, attached
to the National Guard, started for Ha¬
zelton by direction of the governor.
Superintencent Creighton, of the mid¬
dle division of the Pennsylvania rail¬
road, was called into the conference at
the executive mansion, and arranged
for the speedy transportation of the.
soldiers. i
TO FORM BEER TRUST.
American Malting: Company Organised
With Capital of •30,000,000.
It is learned at Chicago that the men
who are the principal promoters in the
big malting company which was form¬
ed in New York a few days ago are the
Milwaukee malteTs and brewers.
Instead of being a simple combina¬
tion of matters, it appears that tbe
brewers are also interested in the com¬
bination and that it is to be conducted
on such a gigantic scale that it will
virtually control the brewing business
of the country.
The American Malting company, as
the new combine will be known, will
have a capita! of 030,000,000.
DENOUNCED BY GOMPERS.
De Declares the Slaughter at Hazelton
Was Brutal Murder.
In an interview Saturday, President
Gomperp of the American Federation
of Labor, after denouncing the killing
of the men near Hazelton as a brutal
murder, said:
“The men were marching in the
public highway. They bad as much
right to march to Latimer or any other
place on the public highway as the
sheriff or governor of Pennsylvania or
the president of the United States.
The mine operators in the madness of
their supposed power, and in their ef¬
fort to enslave labor, have used judges
and courts to give the color of law to
most flagrant violation of the con¬
stitutional rights of the people; sher¬
iffs arfd deputies, taking their cue from
their superiors, have carried out this
policy' and killled men exercising their
rights under the constitution and the
law.
“In his published explanation Sheriff
Martin makes an effort to secure the
favor of our native Americans by re¬
peatedly the emphasizing his statement
that miners be killed were foreign¬
ers. Jt may be true that these men
were not native Americans, but they
were the men brought here by the
greed and cunning of the mine opera¬
tors, and so long as they submitted to
being starved, no word as to their
foreign birth was beard, but this cry
of foreigners is like a cloud of dust
raised to obscure tbe crime, The
miuefs will win their humane and he
roic struggle; they deserve to win;
their conduct has challenged the ad¬
miration of their friends and sympa¬
thizers.”
LYNCHED WHILE DYING.
Kk-Convict Confessed to Heins; Miss Chap¬
man's Assailant.
A special from Macon, Ga., says:
Dying from a wound through a lung
and surrounded by a small detachment
of policemen and deputy sheriffs,
Charley Gibson, limb a negro ex-convict, maddened
was swung to a by a
mob hear the city Sunday.
Before the rope was placed around
Gibson’s neck he confessed that he was
the man who assaulted Miss Chapman
a few days ago, and would not deny
that he was Mrs. Couch’s assailant of
a. month ago.
„ VLien Gib«on received the wound
through the lung, of which he was
dying when lynched, he was making a
desperate resistance against officers
who were seeking to arrest him for
murder—a crime which he had just
committed. Tbe officers who hail
Gibson bad little idea at that time
that they were battling with the man
who was responsible for one of the
most shocking crimes in the criminal
history of Macon.
Not until with his dying breath
Gibson confessed did bis captors know
that the assault upon Miss Chapman
had been cleared away.
Early Han tiny morning Gibson shot
Jim Smith, another negro, and was
fleeing from the officers for that of¬
fense when bullets from Winchesters
brought him down in a stubborn
hand-to-hand fight.
MORE FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
Seven New Cased Reported by Hoard of
Health Officers.
A special from Nesv Orleans says:
Shortly before noon Sunday the board
of health officers declared six of the
suspicious cases of fever on St. Claude
to be yellow fever. A couple of
hours subsequently the board of announc¬ yellow
ed another pronounced Esplanade case
fever at Mirro and streets,
also in tbe lower part of the city, but
a mile or more away from the infected
square. the first six
The announcement of
cases as yellow fever was not unex¬
pected, although it was hoped from
the delay on the part of the experts
that these cases were simply of bilious
malaria. No general alarm has re¬
sulted, although tlie tbe city. news The author¬ rapidly
spread through tbe situation
ities do not believe that
is materially worse than-it was four or
five days ago, and they are still confi¬
dent of their ability, with modern san¬
itary appliances, to district. successfully quar¬
antine the infected
General Buggies Retired.
• A Washington dispatch states that
Adjutant Buggies was retired Satur¬
day on. account of age, and Colonel
Samuel Breck was made a brigadier
general and appointed adjutant general
of the army.
KLONDIKERS MAY STARVE.
A Shortage of Food Supplies In tlie lute
rlor Reported.
The steamer Humboldt arrived at
Seattle Monday morning from St.
Michaels. She brought fourteen pas¬
sengers and about 015,000 in gold.
Tbe Humboldt also brings back
advices which reiterate tbe stories of
the untold wealth of Klondike aud
Yukon and verify the previous rumors
of the shortage of food supply in the
interior.
There will be privation, sickness,
starvation, scurvy and death on the
Yukon this winter is what the return¬
ing gold hunters all say. Only seven
passengers of the Humboldt bad
t
A BRACE OF TEAAS TILLAGES
ALMOST DEMOLISHED.
MORE THAN A DOZEN LIVES LOST.
Many Houses Wore Lifted From Their
Foundations and Sent Spinning;
Through the Air.
A tornado, terrible in its velocity,
struck the little city of Fort Arthur,
Tex., at an early hour Sunday even¬
ing, and six people are known to have
been killed while many others were
injured.
Buildings were blown down and
gr.eat damage was wrought by the
cyclone.
It is known that much destruction
was wrought at Sabine Pass, with
probable loss of life. Fverything pos¬
sible is being done to establish com¬
munication with that place.
The following telegram has just
been received from a prominent citi¬
zen at Beaumont:
“The relief train has just returned
from Sabine Pass. It could not get
nearer than eight miles of the place.
It is reported that the new town is
completely gone. Nothing heard from
the old town. From reports things
are bad.”
The dead are: Frank Albright,
George Martin, unknown man, May
Ainsworth, infant son of W. H. John¬
son and Fritz Michaels, laborer.
Many are reported seriously injured.
Many buildings were blown down,
including the railroad roundhouse,
where May Ainsworth was killed, the
Natatorium, the bank building, Town
Strong site company’s barns, Hotel Hayden,
& League’s building, Brennan
building, Golonade Hotel, Spence &
Lyon’B building, C. J. Miller’s gro¬
cery store, several barns, Kenady’s
saloon, Tbe Herald office, T. J. Wolfe’s
saloon, tbe Hayes building and M. M.
Zollinski’s grocery. •
Several residences suffered severely,
one being carried across the street.
Many outbuildings were completely
blown away. From early morning tbe
sky was threatening and a^ stiff gale
blew. No rain of consequence fell un¬
til 4 p. m., and then it was accompa¬
nied by a heavy wind that increased in
intensity until it reached a velocity of
eighty miles an hour. Every build¬
ing in the town is of frame construct
ure except one brick, the Port Arthur
Banking company building, one end
and tbe roof of which were blown
away.
Tlie bodies of tbe victims were sent
to Beaumont for interment, no ceme¬
tery having yet been started at Port
Arthur.
Advices from Winnie, Tex., say that
nearly all the bouses there have been
blown down, At Webb all of tbe
barns and one house were demolished.
A later telegram received from Port
Arthur reports seven killed, fifteen
wounded, three lost at Sabine, damage
slight, maximum velocity of the wind
eighty miles per hour.
WOULD BUTCHER MILLIONAIRES.
Some Fiery Speeches by “Social Democ¬
racy" Leaden In €hicax<>.
A Chicago dispatch says: Meetings
of the various branches of the newly
organized Social Democracy were held
to discuss the recent Hazleton, Pa.,
tragedy, and some decidedly lurid lan¬
guage was indulged in by the speak¬
ers. Resolutions were passed by
Branch No. 2 which contained the
following:
“The blood of an idle and useless
aristocracy is tbe most convenient me¬
dium for nourishing the tree of liberty.
‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth.’ For every miner killed and
wounded a millionaire should be treat¬
ed in a similar manner. Tbe million¬
aire class is responsible for the slaugh¬
ter of September 10th, and we regard
tbe torch as the most successful wea¬
pon to wield against them. ”
Fitzgerald Murphy, president of
Branch No. 2, made a speech, in
which he said:
“The miners should carry arms,
and use them, too. The time has
eome to meet force with force. I
should have told them to. shoot to
kill. I would kill twenty millionaires
today. ”
MANY TOWNS QUARANTINE.
They Are Afraid of Contact With Passen¬
gers From Louisiana.
Advices of Saturday state that the
towns on every trunk line opening
into New Orleans have declared quar¬
antine against Louisiana. Burgs in
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Al¬
abama have declared that no people
shall get off trains at their stations
who come from the Crescent City.
Other towns, however, have refused
to join in the panic and say that until
yellow fever is known absolutely to
exist in New Orleans they do not pro¬
pose to shut themselves in. Some of
the cities have adopted more severe
measures and have surrounded them¬
selves with shotgun guards.
NO. 10.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Established In the South
During the Past Week.
According to reports received the
past week activity in Southern indus¬
trial circles continues. A marked in¬
crease in the volume of trade is noted,
and with the heavy demand for manu¬
factured products and advancing prices,
it is the general opinion that a season
of unusual prosperity has begun.
Among the new industries for the
week just ended The Tradesman re¬
ports the following: A 010,000 electric
light plant at Aberdeen, Miss.; loco¬
motive works at Dallas, Tex.; the
Hayden Cigarette Machine Co., capital
0200,000, Richmond, Ya.; the Mont¬
gomery Electric Light and Water Co.,
Montgomery, W. Va.; the Virginia
Gold Mining Co. and the Gypsy Queen
Gold Mining Co., Charleston, W. Ya.;
the Timpson Brown Coal Co., Tiinp
son, Tex.; an extensive pottery plant
at Jacksonville, Fla.; a 050,000 lumber
and grain manufacturing company at
Lynchburg, Va,, and the Algoma Oil
and Gas Co., capital $100,000, at
Algoma, W, Va. A large spinning
mill will be erected at Durham, N. G.,
and the Red Bluff Mills, capital 050,000,
have been organized to build a cotton
mill near Bennettsville, S. C. Wood¬
working plants will be established at
Cordele, Ga.; Meridian, Miss.; Swan
uauoa, S. C.; Lynchburg, Tenn.;
Koanoke, Va., and Lock Seven, W. Va.
—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn).
HOWARD ESCAPES.
Was the Most Famous Prisoner Ever In
Columbus, O,, Pen.
Rev. G. F. B. Howard has escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary. He was
a most famous United States prisoner
from Tennessee. He was trusted in
the front office and walked away.
Howard was convicted at Jackson,
Tenn., and sentenced for 9 years and
fined 01,200 on 22 counts of using
United States mail for fraudulent pur¬
poses. His specialty was swindling
alleged heirs to fabulous fortunes in
England.
One of the chief witnesses against
him was Robert Lincoln, ex-minister,
to England. Howard has many aliases
and lias imposed upon some of tha
best known families of the south, get*
ting into the ministry, law and medi¬
cine. He is an Englishman.
CANDLER DENOUNCES REPORTS
Telegraphed to tlie New York Paper*
Itegarding tlie Ferry Hanging.
Judge John 8. Candler is indignant
at the false statement about the Perry
execution printed telegraphed from Atlanta World,
and in tbe New York
New York Journal and other papers.
Be has received three letters from
New York and other eastern cities,
asking whether the dispatches were
true.
These statements were to the effect
that the execution of Perry stirred up
deep feeling among the people and a
regiment of soldiers was called out to
protect him on. the way from the At¬
lanta jail to the one at Decatur. Also
that Judge Candler who sentenced
Perry commanded the regiment and
that people along the way jeered the
soldiers and cursed the governor.
WAS DENGUE FEVER.
Town of .Kdwards, Mississippi, Issues a
Bulletin to Associated Press.
Excitement is at fever heat in Jaok
son, Miss., over the yellow fever
scare, caused almost entirely by tbe
presence of thirty cases of dengue
fever at Edwards, twenty-five miles
west.
At noon Monday the mayor of Ed¬
wards telegraphed the Associated Press
as follows:
“There ate only three new cases of den¬
gue fever this morning. All doing well. No
yellow fever.” ?
The mayor and aldermen of Jackson
held a special meeting and issued a
proclamation to the people, in which
they say their fears are in-no wise re¬
lieved as to the situation in Edwards,
but that tbe dengue fever existing at
that point would be kept out of Jack
son.
SOLDIERS REFUGEE.
■“Yellow .Tack” Scares Tbom Away From
New Orleans.
The United States trpops who have
been stationed at New Orleans have
refugeed to Atlanta, Ga. '
Yellow fever scared the soldiers out
of the Crescent City, and the authori¬
ties knowing that the dread disease
eonld not live in Atlanta, ordered the
troops to Fort McPherson.
EXCITEMENT; SUBSIDING.
No More Trouble Is Feared In tbe Hmelton
Kegion*
A special from Harrisburg, Pa., says:
General Gobin notified tbe governor
and military authorities Monday that
there is nothing alarming in the strike
situation in the Hazelton region, and
that he has been assured that the in¬
structions against the marefimg of
armed bodies will be obeyed.
General Gobin reported that a num¬
ber of sensational stories had come to
him, bnt investigation showed that
there was no cause for alarm.
Full power has been given Gobin,
and he has ahundant authority nude*
the circumstances.