The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 07, 1905, Image 3

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" -t i FEVER" is" oTWANEi I j Cumulative Evidence of a j ! Steady improvement Noted, j I ! NEW CASE IN PENSACOLA! . i I i Deaths in New Orleans Continue to ; Be Few and New Cases Friday j Were Below the Daily Average for Weeks. One new case of yellow fever de- [ veloped in Pensacola, Fla., Friday. J The person is George Dansby, a j negro man, who arrived in the j city one week ago from Marianna, j 2nd secured employment in the d:s- i trict, where the fever later developed. He vas taken ill Sunday, and j Dr. (iuiteras, me uuoan lever exjwii, : pronounced it as .a mild type of the | disease. Ore patient, WL J. A bell, j died early Friday morning. A New Orleans special of Friday j says: For the firs.! time in several j weeks the "number of new cases on a : week day was below forty, which is J regarded 23 cumulative evidence of i the steady improvement in the local situation. The deaths continue to be few, but for the first time since the fev^ j broke out, not one of them is an j Italian. One is a negro, and all lived ; down town. j A nest of three cases was discov- I ered just across the protection levee ! above Carolltcn, in Jefferson parish, j the patients being Italians. Hospital ! street, which has had 160 cases so ; far titled to report a new case Fri- j day. tv, . ! Assistant Surgeon W. C. Rucker of j the marine hospital service is down v * with a slight fever, but his case has not yet been diagnosed as yellow fever. Passed Assistant Surgeon Currie, gat* > who has besn in command in Algiers, has just recovered from an attack j or ainencucius. The country infection is still a I source of anxiety, because now that | the city being cleared of infection j there is danger of reinfection. In M:s- ; sissippi there have been about seven- j 4 ty cases to date, and only one death, i There have ben no C2ses trace<l ! : to the country since the new regula- ; tiocs hare been in effect, but the fact J that, Vicksbiyg and Natchez, vrlth their air-tight quarantines, nave :?z in infection, leads to the determination on the part of the s*nte health authorities to exert themselves to th* ; utmost to control the country, situa- j tion. Strong measures are being j adopted wherever there is evidence ' N of the slightest laxity in the situation in anv country community. One wealthy sugar planter who re . _ fused to allow or contribute to the ereotion of an emergency hospital cn his place, where quite a number ot Italians are infected, will have his place declared a public nuisance and the state beard will take control and . force him to pay the bill. The two cases discovered at La Rose in La Fourche parish, thirtyfire miles from Le6ville, have been traced directly to Leeville. one of the patients being Dr. Tertrau, who attended several cases in Leeville. Reports from Outside. The following reports were received Friday: Patterson, three cases, one deatn. j Waveland plantation, throe cases, j one death. Kenneh, four cases, one death, Efcfnson City, two cases. Amelia, live cases. Bayou Barrow, two cases. Bayou Cook, Plaquemines parish | (new focus), one case. Lake Providence, two cases. Gulftport, two cases. Mississippi City, two cases. Natchez, two cases. I FAVOR PRINCE CHARLES. Swedish Court is Supporting Candr- j dacy of King Oscar's Son. . According to a Copenhagen sipeciai, it is expected that negotiations be- j tween Norway and Sweden will soon ! result In v full agreement on the ! subject of the dissolution of the j union. The Swedish court favors the can- I didacy of Prince Charles of Sweden j for the Norwegian throne, but it is I not certain that rhe riksdag will ne- | cept tne Norwegian oner or TUlMH'U j crowns yearly as an allowance for ! the eventual king. DEPEW LOAN IS REP>V?J. i i Equitable Gets Big Pile of Cash Prom < Improvement Company. Announcement was made at New York Thursday by the officers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society that j the Indebtedness to the scciery of the j Depew Improvement company was j paid Thursday afternoon, the princi- ! pie and Interests amounting to $293,- ; 850.82. I i ' ROAST FOR MAYOR. Atlanta City Council Condemns Action of Woodward at Municipal League Meeting in Toledo. In strong terms the general council of the eity of Atlanta Friday ar* ?- J V ^ /..m/lii/it f.f ternoon coinenmeu me wuuuvt Mayor Woodward when he was attending the convention of the League c! American Mvjaicipaiities at Toltdo, Ohio. The resolutions adopted by the council, and which was reported from a committee of the whoie are as follows: ' Whereas, Mayer James G. Woou ward attended the League of American Municipalities, recently held In Toledo, in his official capacity and a- the expense of the city of Atlanta, for the purpose of inviting the convention to hold its next session .n Atlanta; and, "Whereas, the committee appointed by the city council to attend the i-,f thn loajrne has returned dCOd.UU VI W*iv - ? ? and made its report to the city council and the mayor has also made a statement to the council; and, "Whereas, it appears from the press reports throughout the country and from other reliable sources, that the mayor, on the flcor of the convention, and during; its delibera'ions, was in a s*ate of partial intoxication, and so conducted nimself while in Toledo as to bring discredit upon Atlanfa- and humiliation to her people; end, "Whereas, by such conduct in his official capacity he has outraged the sentiment and spirit of our people* be it, therefore, * "Resolved, by the general council of the city of Atlanta as follows: "1. That we deplore and condemn the frectscle mvie of himself by the mayor of Atlanta on August 24 on rhe floor c-f the convention of tl:e League1 of American Municipalities, and his conduct during his scjoura ?ji Toledo. "2. That the condition and conduct of Mayor Woodward cn the occasion mentioned a.re in no wise typical of Atlanta, but meet with severest censure of this body and the strongest condemnation of our people. "3. That a copy of this resolution be sent to the mayor of Toledo, the officers of the League of American Municipalities and, through the Associated Press, to the leading journals throughout the country with the request that they give the same as prominent space in their columns as was given to their reports of the exhibitions made by the mayor of Atlanta." Mayor Woodward made a statement before the council, which had m'2r.y sensational turns. He denied that he h=d acted in any way wrong, but admitted that he had "taken a few beers." He declared he had done nothing for whioh he would apologize, and that if he should go of? and drink itoda water somebody would tell lies cn him. DISCUSS TYPE OF CANAL. Prominent Fngineers of Europe and America Meet in Washington. Eminent engineers of America and Purope met in Washington Friday upon the call of President Roosevelt to investigate and make recommenafttions as to the type of canal i*na.t is to connect the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The recommendations of the consulting engineers will not be final, but will be made to the isthmdan cats?>l commission, which, in turn, will use its own judgment in a report to the president. BAN PLACED ON BOYCOTT. Chinese Government Issues Important Edict to Under Officials. China has placed the boycott of American products ivader an imperial ban. An e.Pct has been issued by tfcv. government comandins vieerovs ard governors cf provinces to take measures for tha suppression of the boycott *nd holding Them strictly responsible. The state department at Washington has received a cablegramfrom "Minister Roekbill at Pekin giving a summary of the edict. BUBONiC IN CANAL ZONE. Dread Plague Makes Appearance in Panama, But No Fear is Felt. A Panama dispatch says: Colonel William Corgis, sanitary officer in the canal 'one, officiaJly reports that a bacteriological examination confirms as a case ->f bubonic plague the disease from which one man died at La Boca Sunday last. All those who have been in contact with the case have been strictly isolated, and the entire village has been thoroughly disinfected. No fear whatever of a spread of the disease is entertained. EARTHQUAKE AT PORTSMOUTH. Seismic Jars Follow Closely After Peace Agreement. A series of earthquake shocks, the most severe ever experienced in the section, were felt at Portsmouth, N. H., Wednesday afternoon. Buildings trembled perceptibly, and in many cases people rushed in terror from their houses into the street. There were three distinct shocks. IA NEW LABOR WAR I I ' : I j Erecks Out in Chicago and Reaches Acute Stage. i ! ' I iiinnn o m ?i t r no f>Tnil/r UlNIuw rtiiiNic.no 01 mac.: i Fight Begun in Attempt to Force Em- ! pioyers to Accede to Cemands for the Closed Shop and the E.ght.Hour Day. j ! The aeuco stage has been reached 1 in a aew labor war, in Chicago. Nine- : teen of the larger printing houses ; i | of Chicago were without un.on com- : j pcsitors Thursday evening, che result j j of a series of strikes inaugurated Dy : ! Typographical Union No. 1G against j J members of the Chicago Typotuetae, j I the purpose of the strikes being to : I compel the typochetae as an organ- i ization to accede to demands for the j "closed shop" and that eight hours ! constitute a day's work. Further strikes are expected in I case other houses undertake to do j work for concerns at which strikes ! have been begun as the result of j the posting of notices of an inten- j tion to inaugurate "open shop" and ; "nine hours," where it is claimed con- j I trarv conditions have been tLS rule. ! j Pending such assistance to strike j | affected firms, the strike leaders pro-! i nouncei the strike complete and de-1 clared the outcome a matter of en- i durance, a spread in Chicago or to ; other cities not being contemplated j for the present at least. ? Not counting other employees of j the nineteen printing houses involv- j : ed, printers to the number of nearly j ; 500 are interested. The strikers claim j j that eight large esiablishmbnts -will i j remain neutral, not accepting work j | for houses where strikes are in prog-j j ress, and that in these eight and | elsewhere twenty-five hundred mem- I i hers of the union will be at work J and will furnish funds for strike bent efits. At the union headquarters it leaked j out that union printers from various j j parts of the country are taking ad- i | vantage of the offer of Chicago's ! j strike affected print shops to come to j ! the city in the guise of strike break- , ! ers, their Iraveling expenses paid. ! After reaching the city they desert ! instanter. ! PRESIDENT'S SYMPATHY ! i I i i ; Sent to the Brave People of New Or leans :n Reply to a Telegram of Congratulation. ! Evidencing his deep sympathy with j i New Orleans, President Roosevelt i | Thursday rent a notable ackncwledg- j | ment to Mayor Martin Bchrman of a ' j telegram applauding the president's ; j sendee to humanity in restoring peace j | l/CLWCUil LIU? Witl llllo UtlLiUiJO 111 LiiC J j far ease. i ' New Orleans hastens to give e::- i | pression to her profound admiration j ; of your wonderful accompl.shment. ; It must prore a source of, lasting j pride to all true hearted Americans j to feel and to know that the whole j civilized world is paying homage to I the chieftain of our great country i from whose master mind emanated an I I j achievement in the cause of humanj ity, which will rival any of the m-asJ ter strokes which ever have been or j ever will be recorded in history." j The president's reply follows: j "Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 31.? | Hon. Martin Behrmau, Mayor New | Orleans: No telegram has touched me | as deeply as the telegram from you | showing that in the midst of the great | trial New Orleans is so keenly -alive i to all that affects the Interests of | the world and the hcr.or cf our couni try. You have given fit expression to the feelings of your brave and gallant pecole, for only those witn j lofty souls can in the midst of their j own grief find time to think of others. : I trust I need not say how deep and i constant my 'anxiety is for the we!j fare of your city and state. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." 1 i ! GERMANY FEARS BLACK PLAC'JE I I I j Asiatic Cholera Creates Consternation i in Kaiser's Domains. A Berlin special says: The spread I of cholera from two localities on the j river Weichsel five days ego, to 39 j cases in twelve localities, extending I from the Baltic to the river Warthe, j 150 miles smth, and its appearan< i in Ham bur; has given an unpleasant i thrill to the -people of Germany, for 1 I it may mem a long and steady fight; | as in 1S92 93 to prevent the disease | from getting beyond control. In those ; years it is estimated that 800,000 per! sens died in Russia from cholera. i | SULTAN OF MOROCCO DEFIANT. \ I Absolutely Refuses to Comply With Demand Made by France. | The sub an of Mcrocea has replied j by letter to French Ambassador St. . j Rone Tailtnder that he continues to ( regard the recently arrested French Algerian merchant, Bouzian. as a Moroccan citizen and trill refuse to i comply with the demand of the I French government for his liberation. ^ ATLANTA IMMUNE | Presence of Refugee With | Yellow Fever Brings Test. i GATES TO REMAIN OPEN| State Doard Censures City Board of Health and Demands Quarantine, But Orders Are Not Obeyed. Situation is Serene. A case cf yellow fever, brought j from Pcns-vcoia, Fla., was discovered in Atlanta a few days ago, and the patient, Joan C. Caruthers, is now at the detention camp, three miles out from the city. C&niihers reached Atlanta Thursday night and stopped at one of the smaller ho els of the city. Friday morning he was taken ill and during the day repaired to the offices of the city board of health, asking that his condition be locked into. Dr. J. P. Kennedy, e?ty health officer, examined the man and detected symptoms of yellow fever. While the news of the case of vellew fever was the topic of much dis cession, there was no alarm manifesied by anyone. At the office of the board of health it was sta+ed tihat there was absolutely no ground for worry on tre part of a single resident of Atlanta. The patient is a carpenter and his residence In Pensacola was only a short distance from that of the Greeks who are now down with the disease in that city. It is regarded by the local authorities as fortunate for Carethers that he reached Atlatna be- j fore being taken ill. Atlanta's health board was made the subject of severe censure by the state board of health, which met ar the state capitol in called session Saturday for lis failure to promptly notify the state board of the existence of the Car ethers orse. In connection with the resolution censuring Atlanta's board of health, the state board also adopted a resolution advising that Atlanta should at once institute and declare quarantine against all yellow fever infected points. Miany other cities in the state, particularly the railroad centers, were advised to institute quarantine against infected points without delay. Strongly asserting their belief it. the oft-proven contention that yellow fever cannot gain a foothold in Atlanta and thai the fever cannot spread from any imported case, the city board of health Sunday morning declined to accede to the request of the state board of health and will not quarantine against the lever infected districts. When the question of quarantine had been fully discussed a motion was made that action upon the matter be deferred until some future date. This meant there is no probability that the oi.ty board of health will institute a quarantine. Marine Service Confident. A Washington special says: Atlanta is not regarded as infeetible territory for yellow fever by the public health and marine hospital service, and no spread of the disease there is anticipated. This view is hased on the experience of the past, as cases of the fever have several times i appeared in Atlanta, but have never produced a new case. Surgeon General Wyman sa'd he had received a report of the case developed there from Surgeon Wertemberger of the marine j hospital service stationed there. The | infected person has been removed i several miles cut of town and screened. Dr. Wyman said, however, { that the yellow fever mosqui'o does j not breed in Atlanta, and for that ! reason no spread of the disease may te feared. Won't Quarantine Against Atlanta. Dr. W. H. Sanders, state health of- | ficer of Alabama, announces that he ' will refuse to quarantine the state against Atlanta on account of the solitary case of yellow fever reported from the Georgia capital. F?VER SITUATION HOPEFUL. New Cases in New Orleans Sunday Fell Below the Average. For the fhst time in over a montQ the number of new cases of yellow j fever in .New Orleans Sunday was j in the twenties. With only three j deaths, compared to S3 deaths on Sep- | tember 3, 1S7S, the feeling of confi- j uence that the lever is being wipeu ! out is growing. The local situation looks so bright j now, that were it not for the nests j of infection in the country, it could j be said that the worst was over. | BOTH DUELLISTS WERE KILLED, i 3roth.?rs-in-Law Engage in Doubly i Fatal Shootina Bee. Fletcher Map.ess .and Bud Akndge, brothers-in-law, shot and killed each other Saturday night near their homes, j about six miles from Pelham, G-a. it seems that quarrel arose be- j tween the two men, when each drew ' his pistol and emptied it into the ; other, eight shots being fired in all. FEVER IN VICKSBURG~~] Two Cases of Mild Type Reported by j F+ealth Authorities?Appearance of i Disease in Pensacola Confirmed. j Dr. John Guiteras- of the public ! health anj marine hospiisj service j Wednesday afternoon reported t-wo | positive o*ses of yellow fever ia j vicksburg, Miss. The sickness is of a very mild j type. Local physicians first diag- | nosed the disease as yellow fever, j the announcement creating somewhat of a panic. The origin of the fevef has not yet been fixed. Both ipatients are white and neither has been out of town for months. New Case at Natchez. After six o'clock Wednesday evening, one new case of yellow fever, which was reported convalescent, was discovered in Natchez. Otherwise, there has been no change in the local yellow fever situation. 'Br. W. I-L Aikman, county health officer, is in charge and had reported that there were no new cases nor any suspicious cases. Dr. Goldsberger, of the marine hospital service, viewed the patients and concurred in the diagnosis made by the local physicians and Dr. Wasdin in every ?par| tiCUl'ST. At noon he addressed the physicians and said the fever could be stamped out. Mayor Brook issued a proclamation calling on the citij zens to right the mosquito. The wofk of fumigation is being carried on in every home. ? New Case at Pensacola. One case 01 yenow lever ueveiuycu j in Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday. It was in the infected district, the patient being a tailor, who had quarters adjoining ihe building in which the firs: casa was discovered. The case was found Wednesday afternoon and was pronounced by physicians to be yellow fever. All cf the patients are doing well, and the fever seems to be a very mild form. The citizens do not seem to be panic-stricken as in former years, though a through train, which left at noon, carried perhaps one hundred persons away. There were many also to take boats, and go far up the bay in camp. Dr. Guiteras, the famous Cuban yellow fever expert, arrived from Nev? .Orleans, and was soon in consultation with Dr. Porter and the state health authorities. The fever report for New Orleans Wednesday was as follows: New j cases 46, total to date 1,S78, deaths ! Wednesday 4, total deaths to date I 271. Among the list of stricken We3i nesday arc two physicians, making j four in all who have succumbed. 1}he latest victims arc Dr. J. T. Wolfe, I who lives below Canal street, and has j had a large practice among the ye!* j lew fever patients in th-at quarter,ami I Dr. LaMaraux, health ofiDcer of St. I Bernard parish. Both were undoubt1 - - edly infeered by stegomyia wane moving among their patients. TO ABATE SULPHUR NUISANCE. State of Georgia Will Enter Suit Against State of Tennessee. The special commission appointed ! under resolution of the Georgia genej ral assembly, at its recent session, to I investigate the destruction of vegetaj tion in Fannin, and other north Geori gi-a counties, as a result of the fumes ! from the copper and sulphur smelt| ing works at Ducktown, Tenn., re| turned to Atlanta Wednesday and report was made to the governor. The commission reports conditions i in the affected section as most deplorI able, says the destruction is becoming more wiespread than ever, and thrtf I with the- destruction of the forests", ! the north Georgia' streams will dry up and be subject to freshets and floods. The report concludes with the rec| orrrmendaticn that; immediate legal i steps be taken to abate the nuisance, as it is stated it will be better to wipe out the entire industry than to permit the destruction of all the vegetation in half a dozen counties. SUITS FILED AGAINST ROADS. Georgia Commission Will Endeavor to Force Obedience to Orders. Suits for the penalty of $1,000 to $5,0C0 provided by law in cases where railroads refuse to obey the orders of the Georgia railroad commission, were filed in Fulton superior court at Atlanta Thursday morning, against five of the railroads entering Atlanta, because of their refusal to accept stoves tendered by the Atlanta Stove Works, under the rate made in cir cnlar 009. The commission decided not to give the railroads thirty days notice. NOT TILL TREATY IS SIGNED. Japs Insist on Holding Up Arm:stle? for Good Reasons. Japan has refused to consent to the cessation of hostilities until the treaty of peace has been signed. Baron Komura explained that while bis government was ready to consent to an armistice, his instructions were that it should not take effect until after the signing of the treaty. a- ' 'IM PRESIDENT PRAISED j x I Crow I'd Heads of Europe Send Congratulations. LAUDED AS PEACEMAKER J From All Sections of Globe Chief Ex* ecutive is Flooded with Telegrams Felicitating Him On vji Success at Portsmouth. Crowned heads of the world unite with distinguished statesmen of America and Europe, in according^ the glory erf peace . between Russia and Japan to President Roosevelt. Throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday, telegrams of congratulation poured in irpon the president in a great flood. They came from persons, of high degree and of low and from all quarters of the civilized world. Among tue first messages received was one from the king of England, as follows: Wrt J A t?nri?cf OQ ?Tho PfP4t .. "Alill lBUU'lU; AUJjUOl, ?tf< A uv ident: Let me be one of the first tb J|1 congratulate you on the successful Ail issue of the peace conference, to ^1g| whi-ch you have so greatly contributed. EDWARD, REX." Soon afterwards a corial cablegram was received from the emperor of \ 'vlaj Germany. Jt reads: HWk "Nevis Palace, August 29.?Presi-. dent Roosevelt: Just received cable from America announcing agreem ift . -jjgfl of peace conference on preliminaries of peace. I am overjoyed and express most sincere congratulations .J?B at the great success due to your ua- 'vM tiring efforts. Tne whole of mankind T must unite and will do so in thank-1 ing you for the great boon you have Jaw given it. WILLIAM, I. R." M Then came telegrams from diplonsatic representatives of foreign governments. In this country from Sir Mortimer Durand, the British ambas- . >^jfl sador; Ambassador Jusserand of' 'ffij France; from Mayor des Planches, -p ambassador from Italy, and Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the Chinese minCount Cassini, who recently was ; " succeeded by Baron Rosen as Rus- : $ sian ambassador to the United States, '' JjR cabled as follows: "Paris, August 30. ? President ' |^B^ Roosevelt: Profoundly happy at thar^feUtlar result of negotiations which assures a peace honorable to both nations, and in which you have taken so fruitful a part. CASSINI."" Cordial messages were received also from William Jennings Bryan,; senators and representatives in congress congratulating the president on : his great triumph for peace. Also one ~ from former Secretary of State John . M i V. Foster. . Roosevelt Congratulates Mikado. " In a letter to Baron Komura, the peace envoy of Japan to the Washington peace conference, the ipre^ident extended his congratulations u?-. ) on the wisdom and magnanimity manifested by Japan in the negotiations. The letter follows: ' "Oyster Bay, August 30, 1905.?Dear , Baron Komura: I have received your i letter of August 29. May I ssk you ;3b to convey to his majesty, the em- svjH peror of Japan, my earnest con grab ulatlons on the wisdom and magna^ nlmity he and the Japanese people -? has displayed. I am sure that all . civilized mankind share this feeling | ' with me. Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Eminent Service, Says Loubet. President Loubet of France extends vj| his congratulations in this message: "president Roosevelt: Your excellenvy has just rendered to humanity an * ,||f eminent service for which 1 felicitate Ja you heartily. The French republic re-" Jfj ! jcices in the role that her sister | America has plaved in this historic '3|| event EMILE LOUBET." . The president lias acknowledged the messages received from King Ed- *$[& j ward, Emperor William and Presi- : i dent Loubet, but the text of his responses is not made public. LIST OF INTERNED WARSHIPS To Which Japan Waives Claim and Which Are Returned to Russia. The interned warships to which Ja- I pan has waived her claim, and which j will be returned to Russia, are: * fjj? The battle ship Czarovitch at Tsing- Ja j tau, cruiser Askold, gunboat Mandjifr : and torpedo boat destroyer Grozvol ' J| I at Shanghai, cruiser Diana a<t Saigon, | French Indo-Cnina; cruisers Aurora, ?/ ||s ! Clerg and Jemtchug at Manila, cruis| er Lena at Mare Island* San Francis- *^5 PAY FOR CANAL ENGINEERS. Members of Advisory Board to Gef _ ^ $5,000 on Completion of Plans. ' ^*3 ; President Roosevelt Thursday "sign' ,-hjj I ed an executive order fixing the comj persation of the members of the a<Ii visory board of enginers of the istiimii an canal and the amount the govern- ; I ment will pay thenv for personal ex- ' | penses. Each member of the board y j will receive $5,000' on the completion.^ of the report on the canal plans which the board is to make. ^ v