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ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22, 1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
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SQUALLUPSETS BOAT
Another Disaster Wherein Waves
Claim Many Victims.
SIXTEEN LIVES REPORTED LOST
IM-Fated Vessel Was the Golconda, I
Plying Between Paducah, Ky.f
And Elizabethton, III.?Details
of Disaster Meagre.
The steamer City of Golconda, ply>-v
ing
between Paducah. Kv., and Elizabethtown.
111., was struck by a squall
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during a storm about 7 o'clock Mon*
day night as she was en route to Paducah.
She turned over in 10 feet
of water, six miles above the city, as
she was going into Crowells landing.
Sixteen persons are reported drowned,
the disaster occurred as supper was
served, and many of the seventy-five
persons were in the cabin. The wind
struck the boat without warning and
there was no time for those on the
inside to escape.
Captain Jesse Bauer and Pilot E. E.
Peck were the last to leave the boat
and swam to shore. They saved several
persons struggling in the water
and left the survivors in a house near
^ the bank and came to the city. Captain
Bauer, who arrived in Paducah
two hours after the catastrophe, said:
"xue boat was getting ready to land
when the squall strucK her and she
e" listed. Several passengers, who were
inside, jumped overboard and were
caught by the boat The ladies, all of
whom were in tne cabin, could not be
reached. The boat settled down in
ten feet of water over a reef and two
of the men who were in the cabin?
H. E. Worten and N. S. Quartermouse,
f Hampton?broke through the glass
; , and were saved. Three colored deck
. hands saved a woman and child, and I
think she was the only woman saved.
A yawl that had broken loose was
caught by some of those struggling in
the water and taken to the bank. We i
?' returned to the boat on this, but coulJ
find no signs of life, and returned to
shore."
The boat was valued at about $2.?
600 and had been in the trade for sev.
eral years. There was no way to de
termine the number of dead and tneir
names until the boat's books should
be found. Captain Peck places th<3
-J number at sixteen. The. Mary N. left
soon after the survivors reached the
city for the scene. She returned at
11:30 o'clock Monday night with those
tp saved. They report that ten women
.. were drowned and the total number
of those who perished will reach seventeen
or twenty. None of the bodies
were recovered Monday night, as the
rescuers could not get into the cabin.
WILL CHALLENGE HOWISON.
Schley's Attorneys to Investigate a
?&' Member of Inquiry Court.
The navy department has decided
III' that the Schley court of inquiry shall
be held in the gunners' work shop at
the navy yard. The work shop is a
large, new building and well adapted
to meet the requirements of the court.
' Judge Jere Wilson and Hon. Isadore
| Raynor, counsel for Rear Admiral
Schley, called on Acting Secretary of
the Navy Hackett Monday and made
inquiries regarding the department's
list of witnesses. During their conference
Messrs. Raynor and Wilson advised
Hackett that a communication
would be sent him relative to certain
statements reported to have been
made by Rear Admiral Howison, a
py member of the court of inquiry, in regard
to the Schley-Sampson controver.
sy. The letter to Secretary Hackett
L-v will inclose copies of interviews purporting
to have come from Admiral
I Howison, stating among other things,
that the battle of Santiago was won
by Sampson; that the latter's presence
was unnecessary at that fight; that
Schley deserved no credit tor the victory,
and that between the two officers
f.. " Sampson is the better one.
Mr. Hackett is requested to forward
V-' this communication to Admiral Howison
for his consideration, and a copy
of that officer's reply to the departv
- ment is asked for.
WELLS TO ASSIST SCHLEY.
Admiral's Flag Officer Called to Washington
as a Witness.
Lieutenant Wells, who was flag officer
for Admiral Schley during the
West Indian campaign, has been detached
from the Kearsage and ordered
to Washington to assist Admiral
Schley in the preparation of his case.
"This, action was taken at the request
of the admiral, who said he desired the
assistance of Lieutenant Wells because
of his familiarity "with all the
correspondence during the time he
(Schley) was in command of the "flying
squadron."
COSTLY TOBAUtu SMurvc.
Building of American Cigar CompSiy
at Richmond Destroyed By Fire.
At Richmond, Va., Monday, fire de^
stroyed what is locally known as th^
J. Wright Company plant of the
American Cigar Company. There were
about 400,000 pounds of leaf tobacco '.n
the building, and this, with the machinery,
it is estimated, was worth j
$1~,>,000. The total loss is placed at !
about $200,000 insurance $112,000.
"HANDS OFF," SAYS COLOMBIA.
Minister Silva Begs Uncle Sam Not
to Interfere Just Yet.
The Colombian minister, Dr. Silva,
had a conference with Secretary Hay
at Washington Monday. Dr. Silva
gave Mr. Hay information to the effect
that traffic on the isthmus was entirely
unobstructed, and also assured him
of the ability of Colombia to keep the
traffic open, also that the United
States is not called upon to act iLQtil
Colombia finds herself unable to "fulfill
the primary responsibility.
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CREAH OF NEWS
Summary of the Most I"
*J Important DaiL^ |?
?? Happenings Tersely Told.
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?At Hogansville, Ga., Friday, thero
will be a contest of "fiddlers," There
will be prizes offered for the best,
poorest, the lean and the fat.
?Farmers in Mississippi are send- I
ing agents to the cities and towns for
labor to help gather their crops. Labor
is growing very scarce.
?The post office inspector at Norfolk,
Va., has ordered the mail of the
Fidelity Mutual Company held. It has
thousands of contracts out.
.
?The number of persons tfho perished
by the sinking of the steamer Islander
has been placed at sixty-seven.
The passengers were asleep when the
steamer struck.
?The steamer City of Golconda
went down near Paducah. Ky., Monday
and sixteen persons?ten of them women?were
drowned.
?Two negroes were lynched at
Pierce City, Mo., Monday for assaulting
and murdering a white girl.
?Monday the steel trust succeeded
in placing in operation some of the
plants which have been crippled by
the strike.
?By the explosion of a shell at Fort
Riley, Kans., Monday, two soldiers
were killed and seven injured.
?Admiral Schley's attorneys have
challenged the right of Admiral Howison
to serve on the court of inquiry.
?Four men were blown to pieces
and a roundhouse destroyed at Herkimer,
N. Y., Monday by an explosion
of dynamite.
?An explosion of benzine at Philadelphia
kills three, injures twenty and
destroys property valued at $500,000.
?The Textile Workers' Union will
disband and members will unite with
the Federation of Labor. A ten-hour
dov will ho HomonHod in fhp annfh.
?Americans stopping at a London
hotel leave because negro delegates
to the ecumenical conference are arriving.
The proprietor refused to
make any distinction as to his guests.
?It is reported in London that J.
Pierpont Morgan has bought the city
line of steamers owned by Glasgow
parties. ?
?The British surprise a Boer laager
and kill twenty, but are forced to retreat.
?Colombia has requested the United
States not to interfere on the isthmus
until requested to do so.
?Ruskin commonwealth of socialists,
near Waycross, Ga., is breaking
up, having proved a failure. Sheriff
will sell the property.
?The people of Harmony Grove,
Ga., criticise the verdict in the Gus
Fellows trial. They say the negro
should have been hanged.
?Officers have succeeded in recapturing
seven of the ten prisoners that
escaped from jail at New Berne, N. C.
?Confederate veterans had a grand
time at their reunion at Lexington,
Ky. It is estimated that there were
over ten thousand of the old soldiers
present.
?The steamer Islander struck an
iceberg off Douglas island and went
down, carrying sixty-five to eighty
persons.
?The steel trust has smuggled
strike breakers from the south into
the Monessen mills.
?Treasurer Hayden, of the New
York branch of Swift & Company, is
missing, together with a large sum of
money.
?The carriage manufacturers of
Cincinnati have discharged all union
men and will run their plants nonunion.
?General MacArthur has reached
San Francisco from the Philippines.
He says war has caused many natives
to revert to barbarism.
?Mr. Kruger, in an interview, says
the Boers will never yield until granted
full independence.
?Ecuador has joined forces with
Venezuela and has sent an army
across the border of Colombia.
?It is alleged that continental Europe
is forming an anti-American combination.
?Ben Hill Madden was shot by
Henry Smith at Concord, Pike county,
Georgia. Smith caught Madden In
the room where his children were
sleeping.
?A third oil well is now gushing at
Sunnybrook, Tenn.
?II. Hauser, a Wilmington, N. C.,
jeweler, is charged with incendiarism.
At a tire in his estaonsnment evidence
was seen of his guilt.
?International Typographical Union
adjourned Saturday after a week's
meeting at Birmingham, Ala.
?Communication has been restored
throughout the storm swept section.
The property loss is great, but few
lives were lost.
?The strikers have succeeded in
closing the Bay View plant of the Illinois
Steel Company. Fourteen hundred
men will go out.
?The crops have failed in European
Russia and over forty million people
are in danger of starvation.
?France, Germany and Great Britain
will seDd warships to the isthmus
cf Panama to guard their interests.
?r?he praliament of Great Britain
was prorogued Saturday. There was
nothing notable in the king's speech.
?The London Sun states that Lord
Kitchener is moving to receive the surrender
of General Botha.
?The German papers are harshly
criticising Von Waldersee for talking
so much. It is said Von Waldersee
hopes to succeed Von Buelow as chancellor.
?At Chicago and Brooklyn trolley
cars collide with trains at crossings.
Six persons were killed and many injured.
?The Fall River manufacturers assert
that they must cut wages in order
to compete with southern mills.
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I SOUTH CAROLINA 1;
) STATE NEWS ITEMS. |
?C\lfMCNJC\JCMrslfsirsJ? I
Fjrsl Baie at Charleston,
The first oaie of new cotton was received
a day or two ago from Conners,
0, C. Fully middling, 52G pounds. It
was bought by Inman & Co. for 10
cents per pound.
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Final Payments Made.
The government has taken possession
of the property of Charleston
upon which the new naval station at
that place is to be constructed. Capain
Longnecker and Paymaster Skeld ng
have notified the department that
sue last 01 tne purcuasc muutrj nau
paid and the property taken possession
if. The purchase price was about
$90,000.
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Illinois to Have Building.
The Illinois exposition commission,
charged with the selection of a site
for their state building at the Charleston
exposition, concluded its work and
returned home a few days ago. One
of the most advantageous sites at the
exposition grounds has been allotted
to the state of Illinois and the con!
tract for the handsome structure
which that commonwealth is to put up
was quickly awarded and work upon
It will begin at once.
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Memorial to Dr. Rhett.
The executive committee of the Robert
Barnwell Rhett, Jr., M. D., Memorial
Association, which was formed at
Phnrlpstnn a davs aero held a I
meeting later and issued an address to
the people of Charleston. It is proposed
by the association to collect a
; .'und of $50,000 to be invested in the
interest of the widow and children of
Rhett, and ultimately to be devoted
:o the erection of some permanent
memorial to him in the city. The executive
committee appointed sub-committees
for every ward in the city of
Charleston to take charge of canvassing
in the Interest of the fund which
'hey are to raise.
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New Mil! For Gaffney.
Some time ago a northern concern
began corresponding with some one in
Gaffney relative to the location of a
factory there for the manufacture of
supplies for cotton mills, such as cams,
rollers, bobbins and such other articles
as are in constant use by cotton
factories. The northern syndicate sent
their representatives to the town recently
to confer with the business
men and as a result they agreed !o
build a $25,000 factory with the assurance
of an early increase in the capital
stock, and let the contract for sam?
before leaving. They do not ask that
any of the Gaffney people invest in the
enterprise at all.
The factory will be located Just outside
of the eastern limits of the town
between the Southern and South Carolina
and Georgia extension railroads.
The articles they will manufacture are
those that are manufactured entirely
at the north at present.
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Killed By Watchman.
A Charleston dispatch says: The
sudden death of Coroner Vaughan prevented
the holding of an inquest over
the body of young John M. Ward, a
cotton buyer, who was killed by
Watchman Keegan, at Chilolm's mill
late Saturday night. According to the
evidence gained thus far, Ward and a
gay party had been out sailing. A
number of the young men had been
drinking, and, it is said, Keegan remonstrated
at the' noise they were
making. A difficulty followed, and
Keegan says he shot in self-defense.
Ke claims that Ward had thrown him
down and was choking him when he
fired. This is denied by the sailing
party, their claim being that Ward
was killed by a bullet which was intended
for another.
The members of the sailing party
are all well known and well connected,
but some of the youngsters are gay for
their age, and are wild and rapid. By
reason of Ward's standing in Charleston,
the killing has created much concern.
and the regret is that he was
caught in bad company. Keegan is In
jail.
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Strikers "Evacuating" Charleston.
The letter sent to the commercial
j organizations by President Samuel
! Spencer, of the Southern railway, in
which he declared that the railroad
had no concessions to offer the striking
machinists, has forced the strikers
to the conclusion that they will not
be able to return to their former positions.
So far as the railroad company
is concerned, the troubles have
been ended. The shops at Charleston
are filled with new men brought in
from the north, but the strikers have
useu greai enoris to nave the new
men quit work. It was announced a
day or two ago that many of the strikers
had left the city for other points
where they have secured work. A
number of the machinists have been
employed at the various phosphate
mills above the city, and the men are
not thinking seriously of being reinstated.
The strike troubles at Charleston
were more aggravated than at any
other town along the Southern railway.
The troubles there were increased
by politicians, who have endeavored
to make capital out of the differences,
in the hope of securing the machinists'
votes in the next election.
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Vile Liquor Sold to Army Men.
A communication sent to a New
York newspaper by Mrs. Sanford. wife
of Captain J. C. Sanford, engineer
corps. U. S. A., stationed at Charleston,
has been widely commented on.
both in army and temperance circles
of the city. Mrs. Sanford took occasion
to point out the bad results which *
have followed the abolition of . the ;
i
army canteen. The fact was cited
that three deaths were recently caused
at Fort Fremont, S. C.. by the drinking
of vile whisky, concocted and sold
by negroes to the soldiers. These no
grocs live on the outskirts of the pos:
and did a thriving business.
The recent murder and suicide at
Sullivan's Island, when Private Hacker^
murdered his wife and then killed
himself, has been traced directly to
the effects of the bad liquor sold by
contraband dealers. The liquor is poisonous
and fires the brain of men who
drink it in a startling manner. The
dealers who are operating the blind
tiger canteen system sell a concoction
composed of one part of the cheapest
liquor, two parts of kerosene, a liberal
quantity of extract obtained by boiling
tobacco, lesser amounts of red pepper
and sulphuric acid, and the rest
water. It does not take an experienced
drinker long to figure how soon a
drink of this kind will knock him out.
TO WATERY CRAVES
More Than Two=Score Steamer
Passengers are Consigned.
VESSE WRECKED BY ICEBERG
Boiler Exploded as Splintered Wreck
Went Down, Killing Many
That Might Have
Been Saved.
The steamer Islander, the crack passenger
steamer of the Alaskan route,
operated by the Canadian Pacific Navigation
Company, of Victoria, British
Columbia, struck an Iceberg off Douglas
Island at 2 o'clock on the morning
of Thursday last and went to pieces,
carrying down from sixty-five to
eighty souls, including passengers and
members of the crew. Some of the
survivors arrived at Victoria Sunday
evening by the steamer Queen. They
report that as the vessel went down
her boiler exploded, causing the death
of many who might have escaped. Captain
Foote was on the bridge when the
vessel struck and stayed there and
went down with his steamer.
There was $275,000 in gold on the
steamer, $100,000 of which was carried
by passengers. H. H. Hart, who
has spent sixteen years in Klondike,
lost $35,000 in dust.
No accurate list erf the dead will be
had until the arrival of the purser on
the steamer Farralton.
George McL. Brown, executive
agent of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
after interviewing the oflloers
and passengers who returned, said:
"The purser is remaining in the
north attending to the forwarding of
through passengers. It is impossible
to give an accurate nsx. 01 muse iuim.,
but the fact that 113 were saved, the
number lost must be very much below
the figures mentioned. In my opinion
the loss of life will not exceed twenty/'
PRINTERS FINISH LABORS.
International Typographical Union
Adourns at Birmingham, Ala.
The forty-seventh annual convention
of the International Typographical
union came to an end at Birmingham.
Ala., Saturday morning, adjournment
being taken to meet next year
in Cincinnati. An amendment to the
constitution was adopted by which the
plurality rule will hereafter apply in
the election of the president and secretary-treasurer,
tne same as to the
other international officers. The majority
rule has heretofore prevailed.
A proposition to levy a special assessment
for label agitation was adopted,
as was also a proposition to make
machine tenders' assistants members
of the union. The latter prevailed
over the adverse report of the laws
committee.
A proposition excluding the testimony
of non-union printers when a
union man is on trial also carried.
PILOT BOAT RUN DOWN.
Out In Twain By Big Steamer and
Four Occupants Drowned.
A New York dispatch says: The
German steamer Alene, now running
in the Atlas branch of the HamburgAmerican
lino, ran down and sank the
pilot boat James Gordon Bennett No.
7 Saturday afternoon and drowned
three pilots and the cook of the Bennett
The accident occurred near the
Scotland lightship while the pilot boat
was lying hove to on Sfendy Hook bar
about ten miles ea6t of Sandy Hook.
The survivors say the whole thing
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floating in the water before they realized
what had happened. The big
steamer cut the pilot boat completely
in twe.
Machlas En Route to Colon.
Having been aavised by the weather
bureau that danger from the recent
storm had passed, the gunboat Machias
weighed anchor at Norfolk, Va.,
shortly after noon Saturday and sailed
for Oolom.
DOCTORS ANSWER SUIT.
A Brother M. D. Claims Damages For
Alleged Injurious Assertions.
TV.,-. momHorc r?f tho Atlanta (CI a 1
Society of Medicine, through their attorneys
have filed answer to the $10,-1
000 damage suit recently instituted
against the society by Dr. E. S. E,
Bryan, who alleges that by direction
I of the Atlanta Society or Medicine his
name was presented to the grand jury
in 1900 as an illegal practitioner, and
it is for that he seeks damages.
Applies Only to Oilier Countries.
The treasury department has decided
that a customs duty of 5 cents cannot
be imposed on coffee imported into
Porto Rico Irom the United States.
The duty applies, however, to coffee i
imported from other countries.
SIXTY=SEVEN KNOWN DEAD.
Further Details of Steamship Islander
Disaster and Consequent Frightful
Loss of Life.
The steamer Queen arrived at For}
Townsend, Wash., Monday from the
north, bringing details of the wreck
of the steamer Islander, which proves
to be one of the most appalling marine
disasters on the Pacific coast.
The steamer sailed from Skagway
August 14, and when nearing the
southwest end of Douglas island at
2 a. m. August 15, running at full
speeu, sirucK a noauug lceueig unu m
less than twenty minutes went to th-3
bottom of the deep channel, carrying
men, women and children to water/
graves.
The Islander had 108 passengers
and all were in bed when the vessel
struek. The shock was so severe that
many were thrown from their berths
and the wildest excitement prevailed.
V*>rd was soon passed that the vessel
was doomed and a general scramble
for the lifeboats ensued, many jumping
overboard and attempting to swim
for the shore, the distance being short.
In the scramble to get into the boa:s
many were hurled headlong into the
chilly water, which, according to passengers
arriving from the scene,
seemed alive with human beings. Before
all the passengers had left the
vessel gave a lunge and went down,
bow first. It is known that sixty-seven
lives were lost. It will be some time
before their names can be definitely
learned, as the purser lost his passenger
list.
Story of Survivors.
United States Consul Smith, of Victoria,
who was a passenger on the
Queen from Juneau to Victoria, gleaned
the following story of the wreck
from among the forty survivors who
were passengers on the Queen:
"The Islander left Skagway for Victoria
Wednesday evening with 3 OS passengers
and a crew of sixty-one men
on board and ten or twelve stowaways,
j All went well until 3 o'clock Thursday
morning, when the south end of Douglas
Island was reached. Then suddenly
the steamer encountered an obstruction,
said to have been an iceberg, and
stopped with a jar which aroused
many of the sleeping passengers.
"Captain Foote was having breakfast
an<j the pilot notified him of the
trouble. When the vessel struck, the
water rushed in forward in great volumes,
and the pilot advised that the
vessel be mn on the beach, not over
half a mile distant, at once. To this
the captain objected, saying the beach
was too abrupt. He thought there
was no Immediate danger, but wouJd
run a few miles farmer down, where
he knew there was a good landing.
"The captain assured several passengers
there was no immediate danger,
and that they could go back to
bed, and sent the first officer down to
examine. That officer reported there
was great danger, and urged that the
vessel be beached at once. The first
officer ordered the boats let down, but
this order was countermanded by the
captain who, however, finally realized
the seriousness of the situation and
allowed" the first officer to get down
the boats.
'-Meanwhile, the passengers, aroused
to their peril, appeared on dock
and a rush was made to the purser,
who had been given much treasure for
safe keeping. Purser Bishop handed
all out except two bags of $10,000 each,
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went down with the vessel. The bow
of the steamer steadily sunk ani
twenty minutes later propeller and
rudder were high in the air and useless,
but the captain remained on tho
bridge until the last and finally jumped
on a life raft. When the steamer
went under an explosion occurred. The
captain lost his hold on the raft and
went under."
All the rescued speak in high terms
of the courage and assistance given by
Chief Engineer Brownlee and First
Officer Neurotsos, who saved several
lives.
Storm Damages Batteries.
The war department has been informed
that the damages to the batteries
at Fort Morgan, below Mobile,
Ala., from the recent storm are very
extensive.
TRU8T GETS BETHLEHEM WORKS
Option Held By Schwab Passes Into
Hands of Big Corporation.
It was indefinitely learned at New
York Monday that the control of the
Bethlehem Steel Company is no longer
in the hands of Charles M. Schwab,
president of the United Steel Corporation.
Mr. Schwab, it was authoritatively
stated, has allowed his interest
in the Bethlehem Steel Company to
pass into the hands of a syndicate
identified with the United States Steel
Corporation, the manager of which is
the banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan
&. Co.
ACTING FOR MORGAN?
Line of Fourteen Steamers In East
indies Trade In New Hands.
It is reported in Glasgow, Scotland,
that J. R. Ellerman, of the Leyland
line, has purchased the old established
City Line of fourteen steamers en
gaged in the East Indian trade, the
price being nearly 1,000,000 pounds.
Mr. Ellerman, acording to rumor, is
acting for J. Pierpont Morgan and his
associates.
RESCUED AT LAST.
Men Trapped In Lake Tunnel at Cleveland
Are Finally "Unearthed."
Adam Rest and Joseph Eugine, two
of a dozen or more workmen who were
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hundred feet below the surface of
I.ake Erie by the burning of Crib No.
2 last week were rescued from the
horrible position late Monday afternoon
and are now lying semi-conscious
at Huron street hospital, Cleveland,
where, with careful nursing, the physicians
say, they will soon recover.
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GULF COAST STORM j
Wind and Wave Play Havoc From
Pensacola to New Orleans.
6REAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
Wires Are Prostrated and HurricaneStricken
District is Totally Isolated?Many
Vessels Face Grave
Dangers.
A New Orleans special says: The
storm which has been sweeping the
gulf coast from Pensacola and moving
westward during the past two
days has prostrated telegraph and tel
ephone wires to such an extent that
news from the outlying sections is
hard to get at. The greatest fears have
been entertained for the safety of the
people living at Port Eads, which is
at the mouth of the river, and for the
ships that started for sea just before
the storm began. The wires there
have been prostrated since Tuesday
night at 8 o'clock, but a man has been
reached who left Port Eads at 2
o'clock on Wednesday. He was seen
at Euras, which is 60 miles down the
river, and the farthest point with
which there is wire communication at
the present time.
This man describes the storm which
swept that section as a regular tidal
wave similar to the one which resulted
in such awful loss of life in 1893.
He says all the people living on the
east bank of the river have moved to
the "jump," which is 15 miles from
the mouth of the river.
Family of Fifteen Lost.
The house of a man named Cobden,
half a mile above the quarantine station,
was swept away, and the fifteen
members of the family, including nine
children, drowned. The quarantine
buildings were badly damaged, but no
one injured. Tbe big towboat Chamberlain
was driven high and dry m
the marsh, but her crew are safe. The
government boat at General Reise is
believed to have been lost. Captain
O'Brien's house was swept away, but
he was on the boat which was believed
to be outside. The pile driver at Port
Eads was sunk. The steamboat Burns
was driven ashore near the light
house and later it was reported that
she had sunk. Her crew were said
to have been saved. The tugboat Ve*
lasco went down to Pass A. L'Outre,
which is the eastern mouth of the
river, with two barges. When last seen
she had her decks awash and is believed
to have gone down. If this boat
and her barges have been lost, twenty
people more have been drowned.
There are numerous reports of individual
casualties all along the river
from Burns down to the passes.
All the steamers which started for
the sea Tuesday remained inside the
passes until Wednesday evening, and
then went out safely, among the number
being the Cromwell liner Proteus
and the British transport Mechanician,
which was dynamited while in port a
few days ago. Not a single vessel has
passed up the river since the storm
began and great fears are entertained
for the ones which are expected.
Great Loss of Life Feared.
There is serious apprehension concerning
the Cheniere, Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the south Lou
isiana coast, west of the Mississippi
river, where 2,000 lives were lost in
1893 by the tidal wave. Up to this
writing no word has been received
from that section, which is largely
inhabited by fishermen, mostly Chinese
and Malays.
Up to midnight Thursday night
everything seemed to be sa.fe at the
Mississippi coast towns, Bay St. Louis,
Pass Christian, Biloxi, Mississippi
City and Ocean Springs, but since
then not a word has been heard from
them. All wires are down but no
great fear is entertained. The only
reports of damages so far received
are of destroyed bath houses and uprooted
trees.
Storm Isolates Mobile.
The tropical storm which raged
along the gulf coast completely isolated
the city of Mobile, Ala., from
the outside world.
SCHLEY CONFERS WITH COUNSEL '
Admiral and His Wife to Remain In
Washington Pending Inquiry.
Admiral Schley arrived In Washington
with his wife Thursday night to
remain until the court of inquiry which
is to investigate the Santiago campaign
completes its work. The interim
between now and the opening of
the sessions of the court, September
a2, will be devoted to the preparation
of his side of the. case. Friday he had
his first consultation with his counsel,
Judge Jere Wilson, of Washington,
former Representative Raynor, of Baltimore,
and Captain James Parker, of
New Jersey
ACRES OF BUILDINGS BURN.
Fir* at Berkeley, Cal., Causes Loss of
$120,000 to Lumber Yards.
Fire broke out late Thursday night
In the engine room of Nichaus Brothers'
planing mill at West Berkeley,
Cal., destroying three acres of buildings,
lumber piles anu finished products
of the mills. John Everding's
work and his residence adjoining, were
also badly damaged, as was also the
Haywood lumber yards. Loss $120,000.
Stork Honors Governor Beckham.
The stork visited Governor Beckham's
mansion at Frankfort, Ky., Friday
morning and left a fine girl. The
governor was away at Bardstown.
This is the first baby born in the executive
mansion since the Buckner administration.
c:^r.nr> Cpienl'c Rpmains In Church. I
wiynvi w. iw^> w ...
The remains of Signor Crispi were
transferred to the Capuchin church in
Palermo, Italy, Friday, where they will
remain until permission is granted
for their interment in the Pantheon.
MANY BATTLES FOUGUT.
Forces of President Castro, of Venezuela,
Have Numerous Engagements
With Revolutionists.
Mail advices received at San Juan,
Porto Rico, from Caracas, Venezuela,
under date of August 10 give accounts
of numerous engagements in the state
of Tachira between President Castro's
forces and the revolutionists. In Castro's
official bulletins he mentions the
Colombian army. He reported engagements
since the battle of San
Cristobol, July L9, at Pirineos, Las
Felipas, La Parada, La Grita, Encontrados,
Colon and Las Cumbres, all in
Tachira.
The Venezuelan casualties, according
to Castro's official bulletins, were
General Rosendo Madina and four colonels
killed and 300 men killed and
wounded. Madina was a prominent
man. He wag formerly a governor and
senator. August 8 there was an encounter
at Las Cumbres with a second
force of revolutionists.
The News' Caracas correspondent,
writing August 10, says a second Colombian
army invaded Venezuela.
This second force is reported to a
number 5,000 men. Friday troops attacked
Las Cumbres and were repulsed.
The main division of the armies
have not yet met.
French Warship at Colon.
A Washington special says: No Important
developments in the ColombiaV
enezuela situation were made known
to the state department during the
early part of Wednesday, and the reported
death of General Uribe-Uribe
could not be confirmed In any official
quarter. It is expected that the Machias
will complete her coaling and
taking on of ammunition and will be
off for Panama at the earliest possible
moment.
In this connection it is noted that
the French warship Suchet has arrived
at Colon. Although the French
are understood to have considerable
property Interests on the isthmus, it
is said that there is no provision in
the treaty between France and Colombia,
similar to that in the treaty between
France and the United States,
requiring that free transit across the
isthmus shall be kept open. However,it
is not doubted that the presence of
the Suchet will have a salutary Influence
in quieting disorder.
According to advices from Paris the
French papers seriously comment on
the South American troubles and the
probable action of the United States.
The Journal des Debats says:
"It is to be presumed that the Colombian
government will think twice
before accepting the aid of the government
of Washington in its trouble
with Venezuela. The recent history
of Cuba is not encouraging in this connection.
It is difficult to imagine the
United States rendering assistance to
Colombia without demanding compensation
and the establishment of some
form of American interest in the isthmus
seems to be the compensation expected.
Such an event as this would
far exceed the proportion of American
happening."
MALE PASSENGERS FLED.
Only Woman and Her Husband WereLeft
to Face Lone Stage Robber.
News was received in Glens Falls,
N. Y., Wednesday night that the Blue
Mountain stage was held up by a
masked robber about noon at North
river and completely looted.
The stage connects with a train
which reached North Creek, Warren
county, a station on the Adirondacks
and Hudson railroad, at 10:20 o'clock
a. m. When it left the station Wednesday
it contained seven men and
one woman, besides a quantity of express
and mail matter for Blue Mountain
Lake. When the stage was one
^ nnrfh r\f Hnn 1 an'c hn-.
auu a uaii uiiico uv* v*. ^uuiMi
tel, at North river, a masked robber
suddenly appeared.
His first move was to shoot one of
the horses. He then ordered the passengers
to hold up their hands and
alight. Six of the men immediately
took to the woods, the remaining man
staying with his wife, who was relieved
of $20.
The highwayman then rifled the
mail bags and plundered the express
packages, taking everything of value.
He then disappeared into the woods.
SANFORD SHORTAGE VERIFIED.
Committee of Expert Examiners Report
to County Commissioners.
The special committee, consisting
of M. F. Govan, C. M. Marshall and
Foster Harper, mado its report to the
county commissioners at Rome, Ga.,
Thursday afternoon on their investigation
of Tax Collector V. T. Sanford's
books.
They report a shortage of $35,657.18,
an increase of nearly $2,000 over the
amount reported by ' the grand jury
some weeks ago. Of this amount $19,000
is due the county and the balance
the state.
GOVERNMENT IN POSSESSION.
Final Payments Made on Naval Station
Property at Charleston.
The government has taken possession
of the property of Charleston, S.
C., upon which the new naval station
at that place is to be constructed. Cap
tain Longnecker and Paymaster Skewing
have notified the department that
the last of the purchase money was
paid and the property was taken possession
of on Wednesday.
GEORGIA'3 TREASURY BALANCE.
According to Official Report For Last
Quarter Sum is $836,180.91.
The report of Georgia's state treasurer
and comptroller general, showing
the receipts and disbursements at the
state treasury for the quarter ending
June 30, 1901, was issued Wednesday
by the executive department.
The total receipts for the past quarter
were $1,603,488.55; the total disbursements,
$767,307.64. The balance
in the treasury on June 30 was $836,180.91.
TO BREAK UP STRIKE J
? fS
Laborers are Imported From the -|
Sooth By Steel TrasL J
WATCHFUL SENTINELS ELUDED |
Special Train Load of Workers Smuggled
In and Safely Landed at
Monessen Mill By Trust
Agents. ,Jj|
a Pittsburg special says: A party.
of strike breakers brough up from *'|f
the south by special train were safely >|j8|
delivered in the steel mill at Mones- .
sen early Sunday morning and the
United States Steel Corporation, .expects
to soon add that plant to the '_ &*
number running partly or in full with
non-union men. The Carnegie proper- ^
ties also resumed Sunday night without
a break in the forces operating
them and that fact, joined with a
promise of an early start at Monessen,
leads the steel officials to take a veiy 7^
hopeful view of the situation. The
: strikers claim that men enough
start the Monessen mills cannot be ^
obtained and that they have not yet ^
shown their hand at Duquesne and %
other Carnegie plants. They promise
that'developments will indicate their
strength to better advantage.
It was anticipated that there would
be trouble when the non-union men
reached Monessen, for the strikers
were watching the railroads and river
and had expressed a determination to M
prevent the entrance of the strike
breakers. 'ihe men who were handling
the movement for the steel corporation
successfully veiled their action, ^
however, and had their charges safely
within the plant hours before it was
known definitely by any one on the 7S
outside that the men had arrived.
They were sent to Monessen by spe- jgsajj
clal train and were landed at 4 o'clock M
in the morning. It was not known how'-:|isl
many men were in the party nor where
they were obtained.
The mills are guarded and the men
will be kept on the premises until all
danger of trouble ceases. Bunks for
about fifty men have been erected and
large quantities of food have been pur* tv?
chased for them. A fence has been '?||
thrown around the property and guard ?f|
posted to keep out all intruders. The
strikers will undoubtedly make aneffort
to induce the strike breakers to
quit, and the fear is expressed that :'3g
there will be trouble if any demonstration
is made against the men or prop*
erty. The situation there is regarded
as very delicate. v |j|
Strikers Win This One.
A special from Milwaukee, Wis*
says: The Bay View men will strike.
The vote on President Shaffer's order :||jg
is said to have been unanimous after a :J|
session of the lodge lasting five hours. I|1
The plant of the Illinois 8teel Com*
pany at Bay View will be shut down
Indefinitely and about 1,400 men will "i
be rendered idle.
The above dispatch, supplemented M
by the wired announcement that the
steel men In the Riverside plant at "~^||
Wheeling had voted to strike, awak* . ||
ened new enthusiasm In the ranks of
the Amalgamated association and Its .; >
followers in Pittsburg. There had been fl|
bUllltJ uuuut oo lu tut; iiiiai uctioiuu ui ;
the Milwaukee lodges and it was
feared that if their vote were adverse JS
Joliet might reconsider its last vote
and the chances of winning Chicago ^
would be greatly reduced. The Mil- %
waukee vote inspires them with the ^
hope that Chicago may be prevailedl
upon to reconsider its vote and finally ;~2i
decide to come over to the strikers.
TEDDY COMING SOUTH. M
Vice President, Will Tarry Briefly at
Atlanta, Mapon and Augusta.
A New York dispatch says: ^ice- ..
President Roosevelt will stop over at /.1|
Atlanta, Macon and Augusta, Ga., on
his return trip from Tuskegee, Ala^ J|
where he goes on invitation of Booker
Washington. He will make speeches M
in the places he visits.
MOSQUITO STING FATAL. "* ||
Surgeon Havard at Havana Will Discontinue
Yellow Fever Tests.
Chief Surgeon Havard, at Havana, j||
announced Sunday that the expert- ^
ments in the investigation of the prop- %
agation of yellow fever, so t?x^as these ;
involved the mosquito test wilT^c^scontinued.
This decision was taken^^
because one of the non-immunes who
was recently bitten by an infected
mosquito died of yellow fever. The
man was a Spaniard who desired to be- %?
come an immune. Another man who ^
was bitten is also suffering from a
very bad case.
TWENTY YEARS FOR JACOBI.
Sentence of Court Passed Upon Assailant
of M iss Parker.
t At Montgomery Saturday Sanford
Jacobi, convicted of criminal assault
on Mtes Lizaie Parker, of Clanton,
Ala., was sentenced to twenty years
in the penitentiary. Jacobi belongs
to a prominent Montgomery family.
Jacobi escaped to New Orleans and
a legal battle was fought to evade returning
to Alabama.
FIVE DIE IN COLLISION.
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Swiftly Moving: Locomotive Dashes
Into Chicago Trolly Car. - J
| By the collision 0Dthe
Forty-seventh street line In fp^*" \
cago with a rapidly moving passePS?* J.r
train on the Pennsylvania road j &*** .
: urday night five people were
outright and ten injured. \
The accident occurred where tPer? ~?
is a large number of railroad tr^ka ^
running north and south at the 8?^
level and across these street car lM*?*
rim at jrlglyt wglee.