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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 223.
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GOLDEN FORTUNE
IN A SAILOR'S BELT.
Charles Bedell, From South Af
rica, Loaded With Money
and Jewels.
ARRESTED, HE TELLS HIS STORY.
Bauman, Jameson Raider, Shadowed Him,
and, Mistaken For Him, Was Knocked
Out By Thugs.
A sailor garbed young man has
walked the streets of Brunswick for
the past few days, carrying, iu a belt
about his person, live thousand dollars
in golden English sovereigns, besides
many diamonds and a rich lot of gold
jewelry.
This fellow, who took a small for
tune about with him, had come from
Cape Town, South Africa, as a com
mon seaman on the schooner Ella M.
Willey, and, during the entire voyage,
bunking in the forecastle with rough
sailors, climbing rigging and hand
ling rope, lending his hand in all the
ship-board labors, yet all the time
keeping his treasure safe, and keep
ing his mates from learning his secret
—except one man, who “peached”
when lie arrived here.
The young man’s name is Charles
Bedell. He shipped as a “consul’s
man” on the schooner, which is but
another term for “working your pas
sage.” “Consul’s men" receive nora
inal wages of $1 per month on vessels
There was another “consul’s man” on
the Willey—E. M. Bauman, of Chi
cago, who had been in South Africa
for four years, an interview with
whom was published in Sunday’s
Times.
When the schooner arrived here Be
dell and Bauman were discharged.
Bedell drew $1.57 from the custom
house for his work on the voyage and
Bauman 82 cents, advances deducted
The sailor who knew that Bedell had
the money and jewels, with intent to
do a service to the cause of justice,
notified Deputy United States Marshal
Emmett Taylor of the fact, and also
told a startling story that opened the
official’s eyes.
The sailor said that Bedell and his
chum, “Liverpool Jack,” had murdered
a rich resident of Cape Colony, divided
his money and jewels, and that Bedell
had sailed on the schooner, while “Liv
erpool Jack” started for the states by
way of Australia.
Mr, Tajlor accosted Bedell and
placed him under arrest. He searched
the suspect and found £I,OOO in gold
and diamonds and jewelry of inesti
mable value. The opening of the sail
or’s belt disclosed a treasure-trove
that made Taylor’s eyes blink. When
a statement was demanded, Bedell
said: “I have been a conductor on the
South African railroad for a number
of years and accumulated this money
by hard work. A murder and robbery
of a wealthy mine owner occurred and
myself and thirty-three other railway
employes were placed in jail at Cape
Town, charged with the crime. After
several months’ imprisonment myself
and three others were released, an in
vestigation having established our in
nocence, 1 was given a discharge by
the government, which I here exhibit
to you,”
The officer read the discharge, which
seemed to be in proper form, and hav
ing no positive facts to warrant de
taining Bedell, released him. Bedell
sailed on the Colorado for New York,
much amused at the discomfiture of
his sailor accuser. The facts in the
case have been wired to New York.
Bauman’s part in the story is, partly,
an amusing one. Bauman is the son
of E. Bauman, a prominent and
wealthy merchant of Chicago. In his
interview in ThkTimks he stated that
he had been connected with the Jame
son raid, and had to get out of the
country. He stated at the custom
house that he had been in Cape Town
tour years, trying to get home.
Whether Bauman had any knowl
edge of Bedell’s treasure cannot be said
but it is true that he shadowed him
during his stay in Brunswick. The
two men, in turn, were shadowed by
sailors. A number of these sailors
ran upon Bauman in the shades of
the unfinished market building late at
night, and, mistaking him for Bedell,
gave him a knockout blow. Realizing
their mistake, they tied. Bauman re
covered and reported to Officer As
bell, but his assailants oould not be
found.
The next day, Bauman received a
railroad ticket to Chicago and a sum
of money from his father, and left for
his home. He said he wanted no more
of Africa.
Bedell may be arrested when he
leaves the steamer at New York. A
more thorough investigation will
probably be made there, which will
bring forth new developments.
BOY LOST.
A Five-Year Old Youngster From the Coun
try Disappears.
Alfred Sullivan, colored, living in
the country, came into the city yes
terday afternoon, accompanied by his
five-year-old son, Benjamin. He is
now looking for the little boy, who
has inexplicably disappeared.
Sullivan says he left the boy in one
of the vacant Madden cottages on Am
herst street, while he proceeded to Mc-
Crary’s stable to put up his team.
When he returned the boy was gone.
He searched, inquired of the neigh
bors, but couldn’t find him.
Sullivan describes the boy as bright
skinned and wearing blue cap, white
waist, gray coat and cap, and was
barefooted. He would appreciate any
information in regard to the little fel
low’s whereabouts.
THE MARKETS.
Quotations By Telegraph for The Times’
Commercial Readers.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Grain Letter.
Savannah, .Sept. 22. —The local feel
ing in wheat yesterday afternoon was
quite bearish, notwithstanding a slight
rally near the close. Northwest re
ceipts would not only continue large,
but show a further increase, intimi
dated holders and made bears feel more
confident of their position. This morn
ing at the opening the same feeling
prevailed, as cables were lower, and
there did not seem to be anything in
spiring in the early news to crea'e
buying.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Cotton Letter.
Savannah, Sept.22.—The market this
morning has ruled generally quiet but
prices continue to show considerable
resistance to further decline, not
withstanding the limited speculative
demand, small exports and free move
ment, The reason for the status of
the market at the present time is to be
found in the fact that the trade is
rather disposed to believe that the de
cline has been sufticient to discount
for the present all the unfavorable
feautures in the situation and that a
reaction would be only natural.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Stock Letter.
Savannah, Sept. 22.—There was only
a little trace of feverishness at the
close today. The improvement in the
fever situation on the gulf and the con
tinued betterment in railroad earnings
were the influences which helped to
secure favorable sentiment. It was
rumored gold had been secured in
London in anticipation of a call for
early shipments.
Chicago Quotations.
Puino Morphy A Co.’s Quotations.
Wheat-- Open. High. Close.
December 90 0-4 92 1-2 92 1-2
May 90 91 1-4 91 3-8
Corn—
December 30 1-2 31 31 1-8
Mayl 33 5 8 34 1-8 34 3-8
Oats—
December 20 1-2 21 20 7-8
May 23 1-4 23 1-2 23 5-8
Pork—
December 8.25 8.40 8.40
October 8.17 s 3J 8.30
Lard—
December .... 4.112 4 (-7 4 01
October 4.55 4.150 4.00
Sides—
December. .. 4.87 492 4,95
October 5.12 5.12 5.10
BRUNSWICK, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1837.'
We Are Making a Great Effort to Organize. Will the Good Citizens Help ?
STRIKERS REFUSE
TO COMPROMISE.
Stevedores Offered An Increased
Scale of Wages, But It Was
Turned Down.
%
ST. SIMON MEN JOIN THE STRIKE.
They Want Ten Hours’ Work—White Men
to Be Given the Preference—Mal
lory Will Be Fixed.
There was an effort at a settlement
of the strike situation yesterday by.
which all hands could have returned
to work at an increased scale of
wages. The strikers refused to ac
cept and are still out.
The overtures came from the steve
dores, acting co-operatively. They
offered to compromise by meeting the
strikers half way. The lumber steve
dores offered an increase of cents
per hour tothe Longshoreman’s union.
The union declioned.
The old scabs of wages was $1.25
$1.75 and $2.50.
The strikers demand $1.75, $2.00 and
$3.
The stevedores offer of yesterday
was $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50.
The cotton shippers also made of
fers to their men, the objects being to
get the ships now in port clear as
soon as possible. No compromise
would be agreed to by the strikers.
The colored stevedores, Mose Saw
yer and Hamilton Scarlett, succeeded
in making a trade with their men, and
will put them back to work. Harry
Tattnall, the leading colored steve
dore, made the same offer as the white
stevedores. The white stevedores say
they will make no more overtures to
the men, but will let them remain out
to their heart’s content. They will
positively pay no more now than thp
old scale of wages.
Mr. B. Carreras, of Curtis and Car
reras, leading lumber stevedores, au
thorized the statement after the fail
ure of the effort at compromise, that
they would employ white men in pref
erence to negroes and would welcome
any who came, from this city or any
other, seeking employment. “We will
not employ the strikers on any terms
but the old scale,” he said. “We are
through with the colored labor and
prefer white men.”
The lumber was too wet for good
work yesterday, but anyhow there was
no work except on Churchill’s and the
Downing company’s wharves.
The Downing company’s men, get
ting over their little fright, went to
work yesterday morning as though
nothing had occurred.
Captain Churchill had several white
additions to his gang. They came
from the oountry and showed an
adeptness in picking up the tricks of
the trade. They progressed very sat
isfactorily in putting lumber into the
steamship Incbdune and cotton into
the steamship Buonaventuro.
The strikers are beginning to fee!
the need of monpy, but it is said that
several small merchants and one sa
loon man have come to their relief. A
check for $l5O is reported to have been
sent to one of the organizations by a
Bay street storekeeper in the hope of
cornering the trade of the men when
they do get work.
All talk or fear of violence has died
out. The community has faith in the
peaceful protestations of the negroes,
and the military guards at the armor
ies have been abandoned, Extra po
licemen, paid by the owners, are still
guarding the wharf property.
General Southern Agent 11. 11. Ray
mond authorizes the statement that
he will have all the men needed to dis
charge and load the steamship Rio
Grande.
To Cure a Cold In Due Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. Twenty-five cents.
SAVANNAH WANTS
SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Following Brunswick’s Example
Calls on Waring and
Tate.
CALLS IT “HOUSE DRAINAGE.”
Waring Will Be There Today to Look Over
the Ground—Tate Will Give
Time.
Savannah, Sept. 22.—Tomorrow af
ternoon Col. George P. Waring, the
well-known street commissioner of
New York city, will arrive in Savan
nah. He is coming to consult with
the aldermanic committee on drain
age and the members of council upon
a system of house drainage for this
city. He will meet council tomorrow
evening at 8:30 o’clock. Colonel War
ing was invited by the committee on
house drainage by wire and has sig
nified his intention to accept lha in
vitation.
The drainage committee evidently
intends recommending a system of
house drainage to council.
Herbert Tate, a contractor, is will
ing to put in a system of drainage and
wait upon the city for his cash. Mr.
Tate has been over the entire city and
has carefully looked over the ground.
He thinks Savannah oan be drained
with about forty miles of pipe and at
a cost not to exceed $250,000. Ho does
not know yet where would be the best
place to empty the drainage. He will
let Colonel Waring decide that im
portant point.
A perfect system of drainage will
saye the city about 440,000 gallons of
rrtesian water daily. It now requires
500,000 gallons of water each day to
flush the sewers. It is claimed that
60,000 gallons will do the work with a
perfect sewage system. If the work is
to be done at all this year it will be
begun between November 1 and 15,
and it is estimated the system can be
completed by January, 1899. Mr. Tate
constructed Brunswick’s sewerage sys
tem. His work there has given the
best of satisfaction. Colonel Waring
will remain in the city during Friday
Shellroad tobacco at Dillon’s.
TREAT Y RATIFIED.
Hawaiian Senate Agrees to Annexation
Plan.
San Francisco, Sept. 22. The
steamer City of Peking, which arrived
in port last evening, brought advices
up to and including September 14.
The senate convened September 8, but
owing to the death of ex-SenatorG.
Rhodes, president, the session ad
journed until next day.
The session on September 9 lasted
less than two hours, but in that time
the annexation treaty was presented
and ratified without a dissenting vote.
Shorts at Dillon’s.
Charleston’s Storm.
Charleston, Sept. 22.—The storm
passed Charleston without inflicting
the least damage. The wind blew
strongall night, reaching a maximum
of 50 miles at 10:30. This morning the
storm centre passed Charleston, some
miles at sea, the barometer here read
ing 29.62. The Clyde steamer Algon
quin, bound for Charleston, is at sea
and some uneasiness is felt for her
safety.
Clipped mixed oats at Dillon’s.
Didn’t Want Him.
Madrid, fept. 22. —The cabinet will
meet tonight and receive the resigna
tion of Senor Reverter, minister of
finance, as the queen regent refused
to sign bis decree.
For water ground meal go to Dil
lon’s.
WHO WAS HE?
An Interesting Reminiscence of the Epidemic
of 1876 in Brunswiok.
Capt. George A. Dure, of Macon,
tells the Macon Telegraph some inter
esting things about the epidemic of
yellow fever in this city in 1576.
Probably someone who was a resi
dent of Brunswick at that time re
calls the person pictured in the fol
lowing :
“There was a dreadfully mean man
in the community. Nobody liked him,
and everybody, including his wife,
wanted to get rid of him. As luck
would have it, he contracted the fever
and it consumed him in a little while.
It burned him out and be wae pre
pared for burial. So many people had
been buried already, some of them in
dry goods boxes and every other way,
that we oouldn’t be very particular
about the coffins used. This man was
thrown into an improvised coffin and
taken to the grave. The ropes were
fixed and the body was being lowered
into the grave, when suddenly the lid
was thrust aside and the man’s arm
shot out of the opening. The crowd
caught bold of the arm and pushed it
back into the coffin, and the man’s
wife joined with the mourners in hur
riedly piling dirt on the body. They
didd’t want him to get back into this
world. And he was sent on his long
journey in spite of his last heroic
effort.”
For choice grits go to Dillon’s
Caught Joe Sing.
Joe Sing, a Chinaman with $250 in
his pocket, is detained at Everett City
by the Savannah quarantine inspector-
Sing came to this city as cook on the
American bark Gleneida, and was paid
off at the custom house by Inspector
Deming Tuesday. He was on the way
to New York. The inspector wired to
the city authorities and the facts were
given him. As Sing carries no mi
crobes with him, he will probably be
released.
Mill feed at Dillon’s.
SOUTH WAS COLD.
This Sootion the Coldest East of the Miss
issippi Yesterday.
Atlanta, Sept. 22.—The south was
the coldest section eaet of the Missis
sippi yesterday. Jacksonville's min
imum was 49, Savannah’s 4T, Augus
ta’s 46, Charlotte’s 50, Charleston’s 56.
Wilmington’s 52, Raleigh’s 54 and
Norfolk’s 56.
Brunswick’s minimum for the 24
hours ending at midnight last night
was 60.
For No. 1 hay go to Dillon’s.
Strike Over.
Pittsburg, Pa , Sept. 22.—The bitum
inous coal strike is officially ended, as
the ten days during which it was
agreed the miners should remain idle
expired today. One hundred and fifty
thousand men, who have been idle for
eleven weeks, will now resume work
at an advance of twenty per cent. The
fight against the New York-Cleyeland
Gas and Coal company will continue.
Clipped white oats at Dillon’s.
McLean Is Ready.
Cincinnati, Sept. 22.—John R. Mc-
Lean, who is the democratic candi
date for United States senator against
Marcus Hanna, the incumbent, has ar
rived from Washington, and will re
main here till after the November
election. Mr. McLean will gUe per
sonal attention to the campaign in
this part of the state.
Tbs Unitarians.
Saratoga, Sept. 22.—“01d Theology
and the New” was the topic taken up
at the morning session of the Unitar
ian conference. Papers were read on
“In Relation to History and Philos
ophy,” by Rev. John W. Chadwick, of
Brooklyn, and “la Relation to Bible
Criticisms,” by Rev. W. S. Crowe,
I). I).
Cotton seed meal at Dillon’s.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
FOGRTEEN CASES
ANE FOUR DEATHS.
Feared That the Cooler Weather
Will Make the Disease
Malignant.
CITT GIVES HEALTH BOARD MONEY.
No Camps of Detention for Edwards—Four
New Cases at Mobile—Frost in
Tennessee.
New Orleans, Sept. 22.—Two new
cases of yellow fever are reported by
the board of health today. The city
baa decided to give the board of health
$25,000. A bulletin from Biloxi,Miss.,
reports the death of Michael Levy,
aged 17, this morning of yellow fever.
Dr. Lovell, son of Col. Starr Lovell
of Mississippi, who has been ill for
more than a week, died at 9:30 a. m.
A second death from yellow fever oc
curred at 10:30—making eight in all —
Miss Elizabeth Nussbaum, aged 17
years, at 1,300 Galve street,
RAPIDLY SPREADING.
Edwards, Miss., Sept. 22,—Eight
new cases of yellow fever are reported.
Total to date 80„ Deaths 1. Total
deaths 3.
WILL HAVE NO CAMP.
Jackson, Miss., Sept, 22.—As the
United States government would not
maintain the canrp refugees at Ed
wards, but desired instead a camp of
detention, the state board of health,
after a conference with Dr. Purnell at
Edwards, has decided it inexpedient
to establish a camp of detention at
this time.
FOUR AT MOBILE.
Mobile, Sept. 22.—The board of
health bulletin issued at 1 :30 p. m.
shows tour new cases) of yellow fever
since the last report. No deaths.
FROST IN TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Sept. 22.—Light frosts
are reported this morning at Coving
ton, Millen and Arlington, Tenn. Ar
lington is in this county and only 20
miles from Memphis. The tempera
ture at these points was 30 degrees.
Small boxes family crackers at Dil
lon’s.
THE WEATHER.
Equinoctial Storm Passes and Is Followed by
a Cold Wave.
Yesterday morning dawned with
blustering winds, but a cessation of
rain. The rain had ceased at la. m,
thus making a record of 24 hours
straight, without a break.
The thermometer gradually fell dur
ing the day and the weather assumed,
by night, the aspeot of a genuine oold
wave. The winds subsided, however,
and there were no indications of
storm.
Captain Purse, of the British steam
ship lnchdune, read his barometer for
a Times’ man. Captain Purse said
the glass had been dropping all day
Tuesday, and from 9:30 to 12 yester
day, dropped a little over % of 1-10.
From 7a. in, to 5 p. m., however, it
showed a total rise of of 1-10. This
indicates clearing -weather.
The weather forecast for today ig
•’fair.”
For cheap hay go to Dillon’s.
To South America.
“I. R. Branham, ex-general man
ager of the National Building associ
ation, of Baltimore city, who is badly
wanted in Atlanta for obtaining
money under false pretenses and the
more serious crime of forgery, is sup
posed,” says the Atlanta Constitution,
“to have gone to South America after
his hasty flight from Atlanta. It is
now the supposition that be boarded a
south bound steamer there and left
for some port on the South American
coast.”
For choice hay go to Dillon’s.