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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1901)
Wayne County News 9 VOL. V. ANOTHER HOT WAVE Practically the Entire Coantry Sweltered In Sunday’s Heat. PREVIOUS RECORDS EXCEEDED Prayers Ascend In Kansas and Mis¬ souri Churches—Farmers Plow¬ ing Up Corn and Sowing Gracses. Saturday was an exceedinly hot day in Kansas. The mercury ranged from 106 to 109. Farmers are beginning tc plow the early ruined corn fields and bow them In wheat and alfalfa to make pasture fields for the stock -n the fall and winter, but the Kansas river, run¬ ning through Topeka, is so dry that green grass is growing in the center oi the river bed. Most of the streams of the state, except the larger ones, have gone dry, and there is a poor prospect for stock water. The weather bureau at Washington issued the following bulletin Sunday night: “Practically the entire country wag covered by hot wave today, except the Immediate Pacific coast and in the states of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois nearly all previous records were ex¬ ceeded. The maximum temperature line of 100 degrees encircles the en tire great corn belt. At Davenport and Bubuque, Iowa, and at Springfield, Ill., the maximum temperature of 106 de¬ grees were 2 degrees above the higu est previous record, while at St. Lod:s the maximum of 106 has been equaled but once before, on August 12, 1881. At Chicago the maximum of 102 de¬ grees equals tho previous high record of July 10th of the present year. In the states of Iowa, Missouri and Kan¬ sas the duration of the present heated term is without precedent, there hav¬ ing been practically no interruption to temperature of 90 or over since June 18th, a period of thirty-four days. On eighteen days of this period the maxi¬ mum temperature at Kansas City was 100 or more. “There are as yet no indications of any relief from the'abnormal heat. No rain has fallen in the corn belt for the past three days, and none Is in sight. It is. of course, probable that scatter¬ ed local thunderstorms, which are al¬ ways accompaniments of protracted periods of heat, may fall at times, but no hope can be entertained at this time of any general rains or perma¬ nent relief.” Hottest at Omaha Since 1394. With the exception of July 26, 1894, on which day the temperature reach¬ ed 105 degrees, Sunday has been the hottest day Omaha, Neb,, has experi¬ enced in twenty-seven years. The max¬ imum was 104 8-10. There was not a trace of rain anywhere in the vicinity and what little wind there was came from the south and instead of being a relief added to the discomfort. Three Deaths at Kansas City, The heat at Kansas City broke all records, the temperature at 4 p. m. be ing 104. Thermometers on tho street at 11 o’clock Sunday night recorded 93. In Kansas City, Kans, three deaths from heat were reported during the day. Prayers for rain were offered in nearly all tho churches in Kansas City and generally throughout Kansas. Goes to 103 at St. Louis. On the day (Sunday) that Governor Dockery designated for fasting and praying to God that the present drought might be broken in Missouri, all records for hot weather in St. Louis were broken, the weather bureau ther¬ mometer on the custom house register¬ ing 108 degrees. On the streets and in exposed places the mercury went many degrees higher. The record bro¬ ken was that of 106, made in the early eighties. This was the second proclamation of the character ever made in the history of Missouri. In 1875, a time of drought and grasshopper pest. Governor Charles H. Hardin called upon the peo pie of the state to pray for relief. This call was also generally observed. Chicago Records 103. All heat records since the estabiish ’ of the weather bureau in Chicago ment thirty years ago, were broken, the gov ernment thermometer registering 103 degrees. Down on the street it was from 3 to 5 degrees hotter, and, to add to the suffering, a hot, snifiing wind like a blast from a furnace, blew all day from the southwest. From 5 o’clock in the morning, when the thermome ter registered 77, a gradual rise fol lowed until at 4:30 Sunday afternoon the top notch had been reached. Prostrations were numerous and po lice ambulances were kept busy tak Ing care of persons who were over come on the streets. 106 at Decatur III. At Decatur, Ill., it was the hottest day ever known, The government thermometer registered 106. Ik? . GEORGI A.-FRIDAY. JULY 26. 1001. REWARD OFFERED FOR MOB. Governor cf Mississippi Anxious to Make Amends For Murder of Italians. A Washington special says: Mr. Ca raignini, the Italian charge, called upon Acting Secretary of State Hill Futurday to prepare a note as to the progress being made into the investi¬ gation of the killing of the Italians at Erwin, Miss., recently. The charge has not yet been able to secure evi dence to establish the nationality of the men, although the Italian authori¬ ties originally reported otherwise, and unless this shall be forthcoming and it shall be shown that they were not neu¬ tralized to the United States will be no further proceedings in the case as far as the state department is concerned. Governor Offers Rewards. Governor Longino, of Mississippi, Saturday afternoon offered $100 re¬ ward for the arrest and conviction of each of the murderers of Glovanna and Vincenzo Serio and the wounding or Salvator Liberto by a mob at Erwin, Miss. The governor received a letter from Secretary Hay inclosing a copy of a note from the Italian charge d’affairs. in which Secretary Hay asked to be ad¬ vised whether the persons killed were Italians subjects or had been natural¬ ized. Replying to Secretary Hay Sat¬ urday, Governor Longino states his private advices are that none of the Italians named above were alized American citizens, but that will make official inquiry and report later. The governor advises Secretary Hay that he went in person to ington county the second day after unfortunate occurrence, where he learned from the sheriff that the ian consulate at Vicksburg had asked for protection for these Italian sub¬ jects. The governor found that the promptly upon the receipt of his gram, visited the scene of the but he was unable to ascertain names cf the guilty parties. The was committed under cover of ness and the murderers fled, leaving trace of their identity. The people of Greenville, the ty site of Washington, where the der occurred, met In mass meeting by resolution deplored and the action of the guilty parties requested a special term of the court in order that the stain may wiped out by the punishment of criminals. The governor transmits a copy of these resolutions to Hay, whom he assures, and him the Italian government, that effort will be made to apprehend punish the guilty parties. MORE CENSUS FIGURES, Statistics of School, Militia and ing Age In Georgia and Florida. The census office at Washington sued a statement Saturday giving the statistics of the school, militia voting population of the state of ida and Georgia as follows: School Age—Florida, 197,600; gia, 885,725. Males of Militia Age—Florida, 50 0; Georgia, 409,186. Males of Voting Age—Florida, 139. goi; Georgia, 500,752. The school children are as follows - Florida—Foreign born, 3,668; ed, 87,063; males, 98,820; females, 9<v 780. Georgia—Foreign born, 1,154; ored, 427,841; males, 439,450; 446.275. The foreign and colored males militia age are as follows: Florida—Foreign horn, 7,934; ed, 53,723, of which 53,546 are negroes. Georgia—Foreign born, 3,827; col¬ ored 185,058, of which 184,907 are ne¬ groes. The foreign born and colored of vot¬ ing age are classified as follows: Florida—Foreign horn, 11,736; col¬ ored 61,417. Georgia—Foreign born, 7,012; col¬ ored, 223.304. All Records Are Smashed. Saturday’s temperature of 103 t, rea k g all previous records in the history of the local weather bureau at Lacrosse, W!s. Thermometers in many places showed 110. Numerous prostra¬ tions are reported. COMING TO INVESTIGATE. New Italian Ambassador Will Proba Our Recent Troubles With Italy. Marquis Malispani, the new Italian ambassador to the United States, has written from Rome that he will arrive at Washington early in September, This is earlier than he expected and is probably due to the desire to have the ambassador take up th* several impor tant international questions which have arisen of late between Italy and the United States, including the levy ing of a differential duty on Italian sugar, the killing of several Italians in Mississippi and the negotiations for an Italian treaty of reciprocity. COMPROMISE BARRED Millionaire Morgan Says Trust Will Concede Nothing. DENIES RUMOR OF SETTLEMENT Battle Between Labor and Capital Must Be Fought Out to Bitter End—Both Sides Are Firm. A New York special says: J. P- Mor¬ gan gave positive denial Friday to ru¬ mors that the steel strike had been set¬ tled. He made this statement to the Associated Press: 4 “There is not a word of truth in it. There has been no settlement and there can be no compromise on such a question. The position of the operat¬ ing companies is perfectly simple and well understood and, so far as I am concerned, has my unqualified ap¬ proval.” Mr. Warner Arms, vice president of the American Tin Plate Company, made the following statement Friday to a representative of the Associated Press: “Mr. Shaffer wants these companies to sign for all the non-union mills. A wage agreement is a contract entered into voluntarily between two or more persons representing certain interests, Mr. Shaffer has no right to ask these companies to sign an agreement with him for persons he does not represent. These companies are not antagonistic to labor and have proved it by entering into wage agreements in the past with Mr. Shaffer for those that he repre¬ sented. This year the American Tin Plate Company entered into an agree¬ ment for one year from July 1st, but Mr. Shaffer violated that agreement by calling out the men on a sympathetic strike when they had no grievances.” No Change In Situation. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The strike situation cannot he termed ma¬ terially changed. Many rumors are in the air to the effect that a settle¬ ment of the trouble is imminent, but none of these reports have been veri¬ fied. At the offices of the Carnegie company and at the headquarters of tho manufacturers the usual silence is preserved. President Shaffer, of the Amalgama¬ ted Association, expresses his entire satisfaction with the progress of the battle, and says the workers have gained steadily, while the manufactur¬ ers have lost continually since the strike began. He says up to the pres¬ ent the Amalgamated Association forces contemplate no change in their programme, being fully satisfied with the showing their people have made. President Shaffer says the advance in wages offered the tube mill workers at McKeesport Friday, while seeming¬ ly large, will not bring the pay up to the union scale. Commencing in a day or two, weekly bulletins will be issued from Amalga¬ mated headquarters to give the work¬ ers and strikers official news of the exact condition of strike affairs. From the storm center at Wellsville, O., comes word that the striking mill men in that vicinity spent an uneasy, restless day. The American Sheet Steel Company has many of the town’s largest mer¬ chants back of it In Its fight against the that workmen, if the the merchants trouble fearing along present goes much further the Wellsville plant will be moved across the line into Pennsyl¬ vania. Grocers, clothing men and oth¬ ers are trying to show the strikers that they are wrong and foolish in keeping up the fight. Ex-Senator Pugh Improving. Former Senator Pugh, of Alabama, who has been critically ill in Washing¬ ton, has improved considerably. His physician now believes the senator has a god chance of recovery. Lives of Boers Are Saved. Advices from Cape Town state that Lord Kitchener has commuted the sen¬ tence of death passed on thirty-four Boer prisoners to penal servitude for life at Bermuda. TAMPA’S STRIKE TROUBLES. International Cigar Makers Take Places of Za Resistencia Workers. More than one hundred Internation¬ al Cigarmakers broke the La Resisten¬ cia strike at the factory of Cuesta, Rey & Co., at Tampa, Fla., Monday. The La Resistencia struck because the house opened a branch in Jackson¬ ville, The Internationals commenced work Monday morning under a heavy guard of deputy sheriffs. The general strike, which is now threatened, will affect more than 4,000 people. HUNT TO SUCCEED ALIEN. Present Secretary of Porto Rico Se¬ lected By McKinley For Gov¬ ernor of the Island. A Washington special says: William H. Hunt, the present secretary of Por¬ to Rico, has been selected to succeed Governor Charles II. Allen upon the retirement of the latter from the in¬ sular government. Governor Allen brought with him all of his household goods when he came from San Juan, and does not expect to return to Porto Rico. The formal an¬ nouncement of the selection of Mr. Hunt for governor is withheld until the regular appointment is made, and this cannot be before the expiration of the leave of Governor Allen next Septem¬ ber. William II. Hunt was horn in Nc.v Orleans, La., November 5, 1857, and is the fourth son of the late William Henry Hunt, of Louisiana, who was secretary of the navy in the cabinets of Presidents Garfield and Arthur, and minister to Russia. When he was twenty-seven years of age he was elect¬ ed attorney general of the territory of Montana. When Governor Allen went to Porto Rico he was requested by President McKinley to become secretary of the island and to assist Governor Allen in organizing the new civil government. Attorney General Knox is preparing ti le proclamation which will announce establishment of free trade be tween the United States and Porto Rjoo. Two proclamations will be is sue d, the first declaring the establish ]n ent of civil government in Porto Rico an( j the second the establishment of f ree trade between the United States an( j the island, BLIND TIGERS VICTORIOUS. Charleston’s Mayor Orders City Police to Pass the Illicit Whisky Sellers By. A sensational move has been in the dispensary situation at ton, S, C., and practically all restraint of blind tigers has been withdrawn. When tho state authorities withheld the dispensary profits from the city Mayor Smyth Issued orders to the po¬ lice department by which the raiding squad was notified to let the tigers alone. This leaves the unlawful sale of liquor free from interference. Un¬ der the present arrangement the whis¬ ky element is master of the situation and the blind tiger business will thrive without fear of being troubled or sent to court. It is true that a num¬ ber of liquor constables employed by the state will make occasional raids, but without the aid and co-operation of the city police department these state officers will not be able to ac¬ complish anything. This puts a new phase on the situa¬ tion there. The action taken by the municipal authorities will scarcely oc¬ casion any great surprise. In view of the action of the state board of direc¬ tors there was little else left for them to do. Time alone will show how much better, If any, the state constables suc¬ ceed in enforcing the law than the lo¬ cal police have done. CLIMAX IS REACHED. Suffrage Article Taken Up In Alabama Constitutional Convention. The Alabama constitutional conven¬ tion took up the suffrage article Tues¬ day in the presence of crowded gal¬ leries. The meeting was spent in clearing off reconsiderations and hear¬ ing a suffrage ordinance Introduced by Mr. Lowe and making special rules for the suffrage discussion, Mr. Lowe’s ordinance provides, as the only suffrage qualification, a poll tax of $3 for persons under forty-five and $1,50 for those of that ago and over. It was decided that after the ar¬ ticle had been discussed section by section, substitutes to the whole arti¬ cle will be in oi-der, Mr. Lowe will then offer his ordinance as a substi¬ tute. The debate was opened by a general argument on the whole article by the chairman of the committee, Judge Coleman, who described it as the best the committee could do with the fed¬ eral constitution on one side and the pledges of the democratic platform on the other. The committee had felt bound by that platform and therefore bound to disfranchise no white man. The committee was perfectly willing to submit to the judgment of the con¬ vention, and if improvement could be made, to accept it. His allusion tq the grandfather clause was roundly ap¬ plauded Reporters Ordered From Courtroom. A sensation was caused In the Fos burgh murder trial at Pittsfield, Mass., Tuesday by the expulsion of New York reporters from the court. The judge claimed their reports of the proceed¬ ings were improper. Superiority, Is the distinctive characteristic of our Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ and Children’s SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING I? 1 NO STOCK in the SOUTH equals ours in QUANTITY, QUALITY, VARIETY, 11 or general excellence of STYLE and FINISH, and 'wm J on EQUAL QUALITY K Our Prices Always Lead. t! * Ladles’ Tailor-Hade Suits, Waists, Skirts, Underskirts, Corsets, Neckwear, Under¬ wear, in especially exclusive selections .... MAIL ORDERS solicited. Careful attention, and shipments C.O.D. with Correspondence privilege of Invited.--- examining befo re —-t> paying. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Plant System. PASSENGER SC 1U3DULE8. Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga. In Effect Apr. 14, 1901. Arrivals. For Savannah and points North, East and Northeast. Train No. 24 Leaves C 45 a m “ •• 32 11 25 a m «< <4 30 10 45 p m «( 78 11 40 p in. For Wayoross and points Northwest. South, West, Southwest and Train No. 23 Leaves ....... 8 47 a m „ i‘ 53 “ ....... 6 27 a ra it “ 35 ....... 9 10 a m It “ 33 ....... 4 40pm "25 it ...... 6 50 p m For Jacksonville and points South. Train No. 13 Leaves 5 30 a m Solid train Cincinnati to Jaoksonville. Trains 24, 36, 78, 82, 23, 13, 53, 35, 33 and 25 are d*ily. Steamship of Peninsular and Oeci Connection made at Port Tampa with U. S. Mail deutul Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 11 00 p. m. For farther information, through car servico, trains making local stops, and sched¬ ules to other TRIPLING, points, apply to Agent, Passenger Station. A. W. Ticket J. H. PO HEMUS, Traveling Pass. Agent. Savannah, Ga. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffio Manager, Illustrated playing cards can be secured at 25 cents par deck upon application to of tho Plant System. HEAT STILL DOMINANT. Monday Was Another Record Smash¬ ing Day of Heat in the West. One hundred degree temperatures were common throughout the great corn belt Monday according to reports to the weather bureau in Washington. In various places all previous heat rac ords were smashed. Jn Des Moines, Iowa, the tempera¬ ture officially reported was 108; in Springfield, Ill., 108; in Cincinnati, 106, and in Louisville, 105.2, in each case breaking all previous records. • In Indianapolis it was 106, five de trees higher than ever before reported. In St, Louis it was 106; Omaha, 104; Bismarck, N. D., 104, and Concordia, Kana., 102. PLENTY OF BOGUS BANK NOTES. Millions Are Printed From Plates Thought to Have Been Destroyed. Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, has received a number of bank notes printed from the original plates used by the State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J, The bank went out of existence some time in the early nineties and it was understood that the steel plates Lem which its notes were printed were destroyed. It seems, however, that these plates have fallen into the hands of parties who have printed from them large quantities of notes which have been put into circulation from New York to San Francisco. KENTUCKY VERITABLE FURNACE. Al| Official and Unofficial Records Were Smashed Monday. All weather reports in official or un¬ official records were beaten in Ken¬ tucky Monday. At 2 p. m. the ther¬ mometer registered 105.2 at Louis¬ ville. The b-umidity was correspond¬ ingly lowered, however, and no fatal¬ ities occurred. Prostrations were nu¬ merous. Grapes, growing grain and gardens are killed. People are eating canned goods. NO. From Savannah and points North, and Northeast. Train No, 23 Arrives ........ 8 47 a m 53 ........ C 27 a m 35 ........ 9 10 a in ft 33 ........ 4 40 p in “ 25 ........ 6 50 p m From Way cross and points South, West, Southwest and Northwest. Train No. 24 Arrives....... 6 45 a m “ 82 ..11 25 a m «« " 86 It .. 10 45 p m “ 78 tt ..11 40 p na TRUST CLAUSE INVALID. Senator Fair’s Children Succeed In Breaking Old Man’s Will. Judge Troutt, in the superior court at San Francisco, has juset decided that tho trust clause in the Fair will as regards the personal property is void, and on the petition of the children o. the late senator has ordered a distribu¬ tion of two-thirds of the personal prop¬ erty of the estate, valued at $6,000,000, WORKING ON NEELY CASE. Secretary Root Busily Engaged In Pre¬ paring For the Prosecution. Tuesday Secretary Root gave his at¬ tention almost exclusively to the con¬ sideration of the Neely case. Besides conferring with the officers of the war department, officials of the department of justice were with the secretary as¬ sisting in the work of preparing for the prosecution of Neely for the alleg¬ ed Cuban postal frauds. It is stated that distinct progress was made as the result of the day’s conferences. MOONSHINERS HIDING OUT. Revenue Officers Osstroy Still at Scene of Recent Fatal Ambush. Tuesday the party of revenue offi¬ cers which left Nashville Monday morning seized and destroyed the illic¬ it distillery six miles from Monterey, at which the fight with moonshiners occurred Saturday morning. The moonshiners, who are known to have fled the country or are hidden out by their friends in the mountains, and the trip was made without incident. i ‘AFTER NEGRO LABORERS. Representatives of Steel Trust Want Negroes to Take Strikers’ Places, Two men from Pittsburg are in New Orleans to get negro labor to take the place of the strikers in the steel mills of the United States Steel Corpora¬ tion. They secured fifty men Friday and had reports from similar agents in Anniston and Bessemer, Ala., that they had secured forty men.
