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THE COOHTY RECORD
~ KiNGSTREE, S. C.
LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Kd. &, Prop'r
A NATURAL BONESETTER.
trofeMor John Atkinson,a Noted TCngllsh- j
man, at Work In New York.
Professor John Atkinson, bon?3etter, has
r tome to this country from England to set
bones and cure the deformities of the
JflLcted. Asa bonesetter he claims to haye
to equal. He says he is not a doctor nor a
mrgeon, but just a man who has studied
bones and joints and the best ways of treat
kg them, until he Is able to mot. mem
back Into tb?ir noroial form when they have
been displaced or injured. Atkinson has
fc; . the most powerful pair of hands in the
|rorld. They may not have the greatest
amount of crude strength, although the
nets he can do by his mere grasp are no
I mean ones, but he claims they are at least
the best trained and most capable hands in I
jaorxssoB atkxsoit.
I "the world for manipulating human bodies. '
All of Atkinson's work is done by the slm|fle
use of his hands. He has no instruSneati
and uses no appliances or remedies.
.When s patient comes to him he examines
l n eazefully. and then rnbs and poshes
Mi muaolas and bones into place. I
Atkinson's career began when he was a
.Mr and bad an opportunity to watch the
(Mitni bonesetter. Hut ton. For a long
Jimohe devoted himself to healing animals,
Work which had to be done withont pu ting i
jatlcnts to bed and withont their taking I
cart of themselves. Then he applied the \
^knowledge he had gained to the treatment
M human beings. Professor Atkinson has .
two homes In London, at one of which he j
V JSSOleea the poor gratuitonsly, and at the
. i Other of which he receives his rich and
{Mfctoeratie patients. Among those he has
* ,oured have been the Dncbees of 8ntherland,
Sflosrge Lambton, Prince Henry or Pless,
Duke Ernst Gnnther of Schleswlg-Holstein
and Lord Hyde.
nt Dm ran nest of a New York newspaper
I'*; {Professor Atkinson Is tresting free o<
eharge all the mnlned and the halt who are
K fcroaxbt to him at a public b&U in the
tmpolla. *
GENERAL TRACY NOMINATED.
Qhaam the KcpabUon Candidate Vol '
Kayor of Greater Mew York.
She Republican Cltj Convention nomin,
tad Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-Secretary oj
the Kavy. tor Mayor ot Greater New York;
Ashbel P. Fitch, the present incumbent,
tor Controller, and R. Ross Aopleton for
f pmtdeut ot the Council. Seth Low repaired
fwty-nlne rotes for Mayor. The
jipto m;iin ?. TKACT.
jtUail of 8anator PUtt were In fall eonbaL
The platform reaffirms the St. Loaii
mUeui platform and condemns Tammany
|HalL General Tracy appeared before the
jconvention and aooepted the nomination.
FIVE MINERS SUFFOCATED.
JoncwoM by "Black Damp" La a Pennsylvania
Mine.
J Jive men met a horrible death from
j**blsek damp," the after accamutation of a
, are, in the Jermya No. 1 mine near Rend'Bam.Pena.
The dead are Isaac Watkins,
Are boas; William TUomnkins, Joseph
Smith. John Gallagher and William Frank- ;
Jin. company men.
The bodies of all bat Watkins were discovered
by a man who went down into the '
mine with supplies to combat the Are.
g> f 5-The men who lost their lives represented i
it ' , jCM "shift." They went on dntv at 3 o'clock,
lY and nobody knew of their death until the
Safe Mtooovery of the iifeless bodice. Not a man i
i' jb the party survived to tell the story.
j- , v?TO Vi r<avu w4J kUQ ura'1 jyuiUkCU ,
ft*-' Mwd toe shaft. indicating that they had
t WPeped ud struggled toward the shaft and
mh air, while su Joeation was overcoming
v?i?f dhem. b
* . jjKILLED AT A RAILROAD CROSSING.
Two Children ami Their Driver Meet a
Horrible Death.
Kf. - Maud Baldwin, six years old, and George
? ' / Baldwin, twelve years old, children of
Bobert L. Baldwin, orerseer of J. Edward j
Addieks's farm, nearClaymont, Penn., with .
ja the driver of their wagon. Mytoo Dobriskf. '
were instantly killed by a train. The horse |
$J.- was also killed and the wagon was torn to
? splinters.
|? DobriskJ had started to the home of Mr. |
Addicts. They reached the railroad cross- j
I teg at Carrcroft just as the exr.ress train
L tec Philadelphia wa? doe. It is believed I
that Dobrisld thought that the train bad )
passed, for he drove on the tracks. The
worse and carriage were burled into tb? air,
and the oecat?ant9 of the vehicle w? re '
thrown ont and terribly mangled by the
wheels of the train.
Hnsbftcd?"Do you n^d anything for I
|v the house r Wife?"The cook says
k there Is not enough chics to last the (
|l<- week outV-Life.
I AUSTRIAN PREMIER IN A DUEL. [
Co ant Rftdenl Won-ided by 11 r. Wolff, tht
German Nationalist Leader.
A pistol duel was fought In Vienna
between Count Baienl, the Austrian (J
? ? -rv- ?T-1<? H,. Slorman V?_ ,
.Premier, ana ui. ??urn, mo ...
tionalist leader.
Smooth-bore pistols were used, and the
conditions were that three shots were to be
exchanged simultaneously at twenty-five
paces. 1
Count Badeni was wounded on the first
fire, but not seriously. The bullet entered
the right wrist and came out above the elbow.
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MMII I B.VDEXI.
(Wounded In a duel with Dr. Wolff, German
loader In the Austrian Unterhaus.)
The meeting grew ont of Insults addressed
by Dr. Wolff to the Premier during
a session of the Unterhaus, involving a
charge of "rascality."
Dr. Wolff fought a duel with swords on
Hay 8 with Herr Horica, a Czech member
of the Unterhaus. as a result of violent ,
scenes In the House between the Germans
and Csechs, in which personalities were ex- j
changed.
Count Badenl was formerly Governor of
Gallcia. He Is a young and able Pole, but
very little known, even in Austria, until he !
was unexpectedly called upon to form a
Cabinet in September, 1895, when he assumed
the duties of President of the Coun-1
ell of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, i
ni. nAVllif^ /tafaw hint onlir tft his father.
His mother's brother, a Count Mier, marlied
the famous Oerman actress, Anna 1
Wierer, who eventually left her large for- 1
tune to her two nephews, Count Caslmir '
Badenl, the present Premier,and his younger
brother. 1
OCEAN- RECORD SMASHED.
i
New Steamship Kaiser Wllhelm Der <
Groue a Marine Marvel.
The Kaiser Wllhelm der Grouse, the larg- \
est ocean steamship afloat, arrived off
8andy Hook Lightship Sunday evening at '
9.09 o'clock, having broken all records for j
the Western passage from Southampton, j
It was the maiden trip of the Kaiser, and :
she not only justified the great hopes that !
were entertained foot her by her builders
and owners, but exceeded them in the
bargain. She crossed the Atlantic in five
days twenty-two hours and forty-flve
minutes, lowering the time between ports ) <
one hour and forty-six minutes.
The previous record held by the American
Line steamship St. Paul was six days thirty-one
minutes.
Not only has the big ship beaten the
Southampton record, but she has also to j
the exedlt of her maiden trip the fastest ;
single day's run. On the nautical day end- .
ing at noon Sunday she reeled off 561 knots, 1
Kw 9 mA tnAtil 9Ko f QCfpcf H ffr't I '
VAVwumg ajj nv %uvm ?*?v ?
ran by the steamship Lucania. *
OHIO VILLAGE FIRE SWEPT.
Twe X?a Lose Their Live* and Seven j
Other* Are Hart.
The village of Bainbrldge, Ohio, has been
the seene of a disastrous fire. An entire i
square, containing most of the prominent )
business houses, several handsome reel- j
denees and the Methodist Episcopal Church, <
was entirely destroyed, and two prominent \
men lost their lives in an exolosion whioh |
occurred in the drug store of W. P. Beards- |
ley. ? !
The fire was started in a barn in the rear I
of Perrii Brown's general store by two lit- i
tie boys who were playing with matches. 1
The flames spread rapidly. In the midst of j
the excitement a terrible explosion oc- j I
ourred in the drag store, and Mr. Beards- M
ley, who was trying to save some of his |
property, lost his life. His brother-in-law,
Thomas Higgle who went to bis rescue, 11
was unable to get out, and was burned to !
death, while seven other men were more or
leas injured, bat none fatally.
TWELVE MEN KILLED. \
Miners Burled Alive by the Caving in ef f
n Mine In Mexico.
The San Pedro Mine in the Corralitos
group, twelve miles from El Paso in
Mexico, eaved in, killing twelve men. The (
unfortunates were buried alive under
thirty feet of rock and dirt.
The San Pedro is one of the oldest mines
of the group and rich with silver. It Is the !
property of the wealthy Corralitos Com- ;
pany, the principal stockholders of wltieh '
reside in New York. President Gerry, of
the Kio Grande. Sierra Modre, and PaeLflo '
Koaas.ana j. Higgins, dow ox new lorx, ;
are stockholders. '
It the mine was not timbered the Metd
can Government would impose a heavy '
One on the company on account ol the
wholesale killing. J
INDIA'S CREAT ACCIDENT* j
150 Person* Killed in the Railroad Smash*
Up in Southern India.
Details of a railroad disaster on the lino
running between Bangalore and Mysore in j
India show that 150 persons were killed. ; t
Seventy others escaped death, but fourteen J
of them were seriously injured.
A train ran into a demolished bridge and |
dashed into the river, the boiler of the en- t
giue exploding, aud blowing the engineer j
and fireman to atoms. Tho Ove cars be- j
hind the engine plunged into the flood and 5
most of those who lost their lives were f
drowned, though some were crushed be- ; f
tween the^t^tered cars.
TT nter Prospect For Gold Seekers.
District-Attorney Bennett, of Alaska, j,
says the lives of many gold seekers are j
sure to be lost in White'Pass this winter.
Gold Seekers on Bicycles.
The stampede to the Whatcom gold mines 0
on Silicia Creek, in Washington, continues. |
Beturning prospectors say that there is a j
continuous procession of men, horses, f<
wagons and bicycles between Wuatcomand
Eignt Mile Post, on the State trail.
Three Killed In a Boiler Explosion. 0
The boiler in the sawmill of ?. G. Dez, A
three miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up, J ?
Three men were killed und ten Injured. < j.
Cold water run into tfc e t>oiler caused the
accident.
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BATTLES AMONG MINERSj
!
Sanguinary Conflicts Between Two
Factions in Pennsylvania.
\N OUTCOME OF THE STRIKE.
r*o Furious Fights In Which Guns,
Axes, Knives and Other Weapons
Were Used?At Least Nine Men Fatally
Wounded, and Forty More Injured^
Many Ringleaders Put Under Atrest.
Giraedville, Penn. (Special).?At least
Dine men received fatal injuries and possi.
bly two score others were more or less seriously
wounded in a bloody riot here late
it night and early in the morning. The
battle was the outcome of a quarrel over
the Hazelton troubles.
Thirty-six men are known to have bee
wounded and about fifty more are being se.
ireted by their friends, who fear that they
rill be sent to jail. Twelve of the ringleaders
were brought before Justice Elias
Kissinger, and ten before Justice H. B.
Johnson.
All were charged with assault with intent
to kill, housebreaking, and rioting,
and were held in heavy bail for court. ,
Many more warrants have been issued, but .
have not been served as yet.
Dr. Charles Sctilesman attended to
twenty-two of the wounded, nine of whom,
he says, will die. Drs. William Monogham ,
and Joseph Donaghue attended to four- 1
teen others, and how many the other
physicians cared for is not known.
Several hundred Polanders board at Will- i
lam Culacabbage's hotel on Second street.
Joseph Cavendish is proprietor of a hotel
at the east end of town, where several hundred
more Polanders make their headquarters.
Bad blood has always existed between
them for a long time and the recent
itrlke troubles at Hazleton e nbittered them
still more.
Culacabbage, It is charged, and his followers
to the number of several hundred,
arming themselves with guns, revolvers,
?!? m n aA k A/1 f A Pa?An_
kuivrs, mrs, auu uuus, utaivuvu iv vaiyudish's
Hotel, where several hundred of (
their enemies were celebrating pay day.
The CaTendish men ascertained that their
foes were marching on taem and arming
themselves hurriedly awaited their arrival.
\fter a demonstrative march the CuiacabLure
contingent arrived and immediately
stormed the saloon.
Then a bloody battle ensued. The men
fought like demons; the shooting was fast
ind furious; axes, knives, clubs, and other
sreapons were used with deadly effect. The
battle lasted almost an hear, when the
uulacabbagegang was routed, leaving their
srounded behind.
Everything in the house was smashed,
ind the floors were strewn with wounded
men. The walls were be? pattered with
?lood and shreds of human f esh.
After the routed rioters had returned to
;heir headquarters the Carendish men
armed themselves to the teeth and marched
:o their enemies' rendezvous, where & battie
still bloodier than the flr*t ensued. The
;>oKce force and the constables of the surrout
ding region were called to the scene,
jut were unable to cope with the rioting
Jorde, who continued hostilities until
morning. v
The townspeople did not sleep a wink all ;
light, and while they watched the progress
>f the flght during the night they made no
kttempt td interfere. The residences of
nany citizens were damaged, and several
mtsiders were wounded.
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CLAIMS A CENTURY OLD.
fannaylTwnla Farmer* Called to Pay
SI,000,000 to the Stale.
In accordance with the provisions of a
tew law many Pennsylvania land owners
ire now being called upon by the State to
layover about $1,000 000 in cash owing to
:he Commonwealth for over 100 years, and
;hey aremuch perturbed. The debt isupon
lands bought from the State, part payments
on which only had been made.
Every gounty in the State Is concerned.
Schuylkill County owes $23,000; Lehigh,
i20,0<)0; Chester, $50,000; Lancaster, $70,K)0;
Lebanon, $10,000; Montgomery, $10,>00.
and so on. The forefathers of famous
>ld Daniel Boone's father and grandfather,
vho bought lands from Pennsylvania, lyng
along the Tulpehocken Creek, Berks
bounty, failed to pay a cent of the purchase
nonev, and all this must l?e - paid by the
iresent Innocent owners of the lands,
unonnting to quite a sum. It must either
>e paid In fifteen days, or it will be a lien
ipon the property. The father of Daniel !
Boone bought 160 acres in Cumree townibip,
near Reading, but paid nothing on it.
Abraham Lincoln s ancestors also bought
nany acres in 1790, but they paid every
>enny, spot cash, for all tbe land they bargained
for. Hundreds of farmers feel like
contesting these century old claims, but the .
awyerssay that tbey had better pay them,
is with the accumulating interest arter '
iwhile the claims will be so high that thej
can't pay at all.
In some ca?es nearly every dollar of the
armer's profits for the season will be retired
to pay this indebtedness.
A FARMER'S AWFUL CRIME.
Sarders Mis Wife and Six Children and '
Gives Himself a Fatal Wound.
John Boecker, a German farmer living '
eight miles from Carroll, Iowa, murdered |
lis wife and five children and fataily
rounded his eight-year-old son, Henry.
Lfterward the fiendish or demented man
ent a bullet into bis own head, inflicting a
atal wound. The family were prosperous
Germans and, as far as is known, lived
tappily. No motive for the tragedy has !
>?*en disclosed. Boecker's victims are his
rife and these children: Caroline, age.l j
ourteen; Christine, aged nine; Henry, aged
igbt; Lizzie, aged six; John, aged three,
ind an infant.
Cultivation of Sngar Beets.
From reports received on experimental
growths, Secretary Wilson, of the Agrionlural
Department believes that sugar Insets
an be cultivated successfully in nearly all
he States of the Union.
Rhode Islander Choked to Death.
Michael Hennessy, aged about sixty i
rears, choked to death while eating sup- i
>er, at t is home. In Central Falls, B. I. A j
)iece of meat lodged In his throat.
Sixteen Killed by a Boiler explosion.
Sixtee a persons were killed and several
njured by the explosion of a boiler In a
ugar factory at Botfalu, in Hungary.
Two Couples Lost In a Squall.
William Philips, Jr., eighteen yeare old,
f Swarapscott, Mass; Patrick C. Horgan,
Ighteen; Bessie Corcoran, eighteen, and
adie FJynn, seventeen, all of LvnD, were
rowned'while sailing in the harbor at the
jrmer place.
A Mexican Town Delnged,
Terrific rains have caused great damage
n the Pacific slope of the Sierra Wadros.
torrent of water swept down from the
lount&ins upon the town of Candelero,
[exieo, washed nway many of the buildigs,
and drowned ten persons.
THE NEWS EPITOMISED. j
Washington Items.
The President has made the following
appointments: Ex-Congressman Hosea
Townsend, of Colorado, to succeed the
late C. B. Kilgore as Judge of the United
States Court for the Southern District of
Oklahoma; Charles A. Wilson, of Rhode
Island, to be United States Attorney for J
the District of Rhode Island; Benjamin F. i
Stone, of Ohio, to be Consul at Huddersfleld,
England.
Newton C. Bates, U. 8. N., hsa been appointed
Surgeon-General and C hief of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the
Navy.
The report of the Director of the Mint
shows the total coinage executed at the
United States mints during September to
have been ?10.044,449, classified as follows:
Gold, $8,702,375; silver, tl.050,092; minor
metals, $231,982. Of the silver coined $100,
vou was in sianuara aonnrs.
Secretary of the Interior Bli*s has ap*
proved the action of the Commissioner of
Patents in disbarring John Wedderbtirn A
Co., of Washington, from practising before
the Patent Bureau.
The monthly Treasury statement shows
that at the close of business September SO,
1897, the public debt, less cash in the
Treasury, was 11,012.122.713, an increase
since August 30 of $3,787,592.
During September the Government receipts
were $21,933,096. and the expenditures
$25,368,815, an excess of expenditures
of $3,435,717.
Since the recent shooting of the colored
Postmaster at Hogansville, Oa., tho Administration
has ceased appointing negroes
to local offices in the South.
Secretary Long, in his annual report,
will recommend to Congress that three
battleships and ten or twelve new torpedo
boats be added to the nnvy.
President McKinley and his party have
returned to Washington from their trip to
Massachusetts.
Fire entirely destroyed the central power
station of the Capital Traction Company in
Washington. Adjoining buildings were
gutted. The total loss is estimated at
$500,000.
Senator Wilson, of Washington, says that
a scheme of goveriunent for Hawaii had
already been considered by several Senators.
Secretary Wilson will ask Congress for
a large appropriation for the Bureau of
Annual Industry, the Farmers' Bulletins
BUU mo ntxiijcr uumu.
Domntic.
BZCOBD OB THB LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Pw
Clnba. Won. T<o?t. e?. | Clnbs. Won. Lost. ct.
Boston ..93 38 .7101 Brooklyn AO 71 .453
Bait 90 39 .698 Pitt9b'jf ..58 71 .450
N'w York.83 47 .633 Chicago .57 71 .445
Cinein'atl74 55 .574 Loulsv'le 52 74 .413
Clevel'd..69 59 .539 Philad'a..54 78 .409
Wash'n.. 60 71 .453 St. Louls.28 100 .219
The appraisers of the estate of the late
James O. Fair, the California millionaire,
pnt its value between $12,000,000 and $15,000
000.
William Ogllvie, Canadian surveyor o*
the Yukon country, reports that there are
enough provisions at Dawson City for 4000
persons during the winter.
Tne town of Willow Springs, sixteen miles
from Chicago, was destroved by fire with
a total los9 of about $50,000.
The Boston Cluh won the National League
baseball championship, the Baltimore Club,
champions for the past three years, being
second in the race and the New Yorks third.
The miners employed in the Hadtson Coal
Company's shafts "in Edwardsville. 111.,
were attacked by a mob of strikers and
womrn and badly beaten. The armed
deputies woo guaruca me miners wcm alav
roughly handled.
John jSucher, a Brooklyn (N. Y.) tailor,
who had long been ont of work, drowned
himself in a sauerkraut Tat which he had
partially filled with water for that purpose.
Ezra T. Sawyer, of East Hampton. Mass.,
died from the effects of swallowing two
false teeth while asleep. He was sixtyeight
years old, and a prominent business
man.
The Congressmen who t dted Honolulu
to gain accurate informath 1 about the Hawaiian
Islands arrived at ian Francisco.
Most of them express themselves as favorable
to annexation.
The National Democratic State Convention
of Massachusetts, held In Boston, nominated
ex-Congressman William Everett for
Governor.
Later returns made the result of the vote
on the anti-gambling amendment to the
New Jersey Constitution very close, and indicated
the success of the amendment restricting
the appointment powers of the
Governor. The amendment permitting
women to vote at school elections was defeated.
Dr. Robert M. Flagg, a prominent physi- 1
clan of Yonkers, N. Y., who was married
on Thursday night, killed himself at the
Murray Hill Hotel in New York on Friday
morning in presence of his bride by jumping
from a window to the street. It is
thought he was temporarily insane through
business troubles.
Eugene Kraustben And bis wife fell to the
sidewalk on crowded Broadway In New
York. They were accompanied by three
children, and were exhausted from lack of
food. The needs of the famished family
were attended to immediately by a sympathetic
crowd.
Stage robbers are again active in California.
Three stages were "held up" near
Milton In one afternoon by two masked
men and the passengers robbed.
A Rock Island pa?senger train was held
up in the Indian Territory: the passengers
and mail were robbed, and unsuccessful attempts
were made to blow open the express
safe.
The Massachusetts Republicans, at their
State Convention in Boston, renominated
all their State officers, with Governor Walcott
at the head of the ticket, and endorsed
the St. Louis National platform.
Mrs. Clara Gray was killed and Mrs. |
Rosina Nelson and two children were seriously
injured by a Long Island Railroad
train, which ran them down as they were
driving across the track at Springfield.
The farmhouse of A. L. Gordon, at Alma,
neD.. was uurncu suu mroe cmiureu perished
in the flames. They were left in the
house by the father, who went to the barn.
Gordon was dangerously burned In his
efforts to save his children.
A quarantine train which left Now Orleans
over the Southern Pacific Railroad
with Dr. Guiteras, United States Marine
Hospital expert; Dr. Carter, of the Marine
Hospital service, and Dr. Olliphant, President
of the Louisana Board of Health, to
hold a conference with the health boards of
the towns and parishes of western Louisiana,
was stopped by an armed mob at
Rayne, in Acadia parish, and compelled to
return to New Orleans.
A three days' session of the National Irrigation
Congress was held in Lincoln, Neb;
Every Western State was represented.
Rutland McEnery, a planter of Ouacita
Parish, La., a nephew of United States Senator
McEnery, was shot and mortally
wounded near Monroe, La., by Jim Turner,
a colored man. McEnery at the time was
looking for Wash Ferren, another colored
man, who had assaulted two white girls.
Turner was shot and killed by McEnery.
A slight fall from a wagon killed Samuel
Lewis, of Slatedale. Penn. He w:is twenty
years old and weighed 315 pounds.
According to Assistant Engineer Knight,
of Peary's ship, evidences of cannibalism
were discovered in Lieutenant Greeley's
camp at Cape Sabine by a landing party.
President McKinley drove from North
Adams. Mass., to Williams College, where
he held a reception.
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"spread ofthe scourge
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Stricken Districts Report Numerous
New Cases of Yellow Fever.
HEALTH OFFICERS ARE STOPPED.
Armed Guards Prevent Them From Proceeding
on Their W?y in t Special
Train?Mails Tied Up-Talk of Asklnc
President McKlnley to Interfere?A
Serious State of Afiairs In New Orleans.
New Orleans, La. (Special).?The fact
tbat nearly 100 new victims were reported
from the yellow fever stricken districts of
the South shows that the spread of tfce
contagion has not been stopped. In this
city there were twenty-four new cases and
three deaths. In Biloxi there were twentyfour
cases and two deaths. In Edwards
there ar? twenty-nine new victims of the
disease. One death occurred there. Mobile
reports six new cases and one death. There
were five new cases In Scranton, seven In
Clinton and three in Ocean Springs, making
in all ninety-eight new cases and seven
deaths. J
Although all these new cases were re- ]
ported, the most serious development was ]
the condition of affairs caused by the quarantine
regulations which have resulted ]
from the panic. So serious is the situation <
that it is the intention of the State Board of i
Health to petition President McKinleyfor |
some measure of relief from the quaran- i
tine regulations which have been imposed ]
by nearly every town in the South. Mail
has been most seriously interfered with,
and this is objected to as strongly as is the
quarantine barrier against freight. ;
A mob at Rayne, in the parish of Acadia,
refused to allow the special train bearing ,
the health officers from here to proceed.
I mil? I... .l?,J 4 V. ? V. l_ tk. I i
JLUI9 uu procbit-?iij unu miMXj uamu vi mo ^
people of this city, and they will have to
it quietly down until the scare is over.
Even Dr. Oalteras, the Government's yel- '
low (ever expert, who wanted to get the
consent of the Texas officials to make an t
examination of Galveston's reported cases >
of dengne, was turned back, and the only 1
way he can enter Texas is by a long water 1
route. The scare has gone so far as to i
stop the work of constructing the Government
levee at Biggs, in Madison parish, i
and the contractor and Federal Inspector <
FIGHTING "YELL01
As one means of lighting the yellow fevei
burning the surface of the asphalt-paved si
The implements used are the asphalt heater
I been brought from other cities.
at work on a levee being built near the i
State capital, Baton Rouge, were arrested i
and taken to jail.
The mail situation, however, is the most <
serious, and the people of this city intend ]
: to ask President McKinley to intervene. It I
is contended that President Cleveland, !
during the big strike in Chicago, took such )
a stand in the matter of keeping up mail J
communication as to prevent any trouble 1
from that cause, and it is expected that 1
President McKinley will put his foot down <
on the small towns where a half dozen men
assume the right to stop passenger and
mail trains.
Mobile and Shreveport have practically j
decided to conduct sanitary measures by
j ot&er m^ans man oeroioion? useu. ouxtjycEort
has been spending at the rate ot five
undred dollars a day for sanitary work j
| and maintenance of quarantine guards. .
She cannot stand the ontlay any longer. '
| Mobile has undertaken drastio measures.
I She will not stop the good work nor cripple ]
herself financially. To carry on the work i
a practical system of conscription will be
j started, and men will be drafted for limited
periods for work on the streets and on
the guard lines. This is another matter
which closely approaches the workings of
war times, and recalls those half forgotten
days. One thousand men are reported as
baring been drafted for such duties to-day.
FAMILY OF FIVE KILLED BY CAS.
Mother and Four Children Asphyxiated
in a New York Hotel.
A woman and her four children were
found dead Friday morning in the West
Shore Hotel at Forty-second street and
Eleventh avenue, in New York. The vic;
tims comprised the family of Robert RavinI
ius, a United States soldier at West Point;
his wife Earoline, forty years old, and their
children?Laura, fifteen years old; William,
thirteen years old; Albert, ten years old,
and Elizabeth, three years old. All were
found asphyxiated by gas. Whether it was
a case of murder and suicide, or was due to
accident, will probably never be certaiDly
known. The probabilities are that the I
mother purposely turned on the gas after
the children were asleep and then lay
down to die, for two gas jets, one in each
room, were found turned on, and all the ]
doors and windows were closed. On the 1
other hand, the fact that the woman <
had bought return tickets to West <
Point, and had been shopping in
the afternoon showed that the
determination to kill herself and her children
must have been made after she left
home. Robert Ravinios, the husband, t
could furnish no clue to the mystery, j
There had been no quarrrel between the <
two when the wife left with her children j
on the trip from West Point to New York, j
and so far as known there was no reason (
for her terrible deed, except that she had
been ill. Ravinius and bis family were to
return to Germany next August, on bis
retirement from the service. ^
Washington's Wool Clip. <
Washington's wool clip for 1897 amounts 1
to 6,000,000 pounds. 1
Stowed Away In a Dark Corner.
The ship America has arrived at San
Francisco from Prinoe William Sound with j
a cargo of salmon, and stowed away in a
dark corner was the dead body of one of J
her Chinese passengers. It had been hidden j
by the other Chinese to prevent a burial at (
sea. The man bad been dead a week.
Boy Kills His Baby Sister. 1
Flora, the twenty-one-months old dangh.
ter of Ovid Carter, of Peterboro, N. H., was <
accidentally shot by her flve-year-old i
brother. The boy was handling a loaded <
revolver, when it was discharged. The <
bullet entered the girl's head. 1
HENRY CEORCE ACAIN NAMED.
Democratic Alliance Nominate# Him Fm
Mayor of Greater New York.
Henry George has been nominated fat *n9
STayor of Greater Sew York by the Demo* - '
cratic Alliance, comprising the Demoeratft
League Clubs of Sew York and Brooklyn
HEXSY GXOBOZ.
Progressive League Clubs of New York, the
People's Party of Kings and New York, and r . ?a
D (strict Assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor. yflft
Mr. Oeorge bad previously been noml-' aBj
aated by the United Democracy, composed
)t numerous free-silver and Bryan clnbs, ?
which were active in the campaign of last , :*j
fall. Mr. George nuce polled 69,000 votes : ft
is a labor candidate for Mayor of New
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
Fudge Robert A. Van Wjrek Nominated For ^
Mayor of Greater New York.
At the Democratic City Convention City
rudge Robert A. Van Wyck, a Tammany *
nan, was nominated by acclamation for
kfayor of Greater New York.
Bird S. Coler, of Brooklyn, a banker, was * g
inanfcnonsly nominated for Comptroller,
ind Colonel Jacob Rcppert, Jr., of New j
fork, son of a wealthy brewer, was chosen
'or President of the Council In the same ";r2
nanner.
The platform which was adopted did not j
nention the silver issue, bat denoaneed
trusts and the Balnes Excise law, and de- ,
V JACK" BY FIRE.^
r in New Orleans men are now employed la , tt]
treets to destroy larking germs of disease.' -SH
i employed by pavers. Many heaters have .*
manded municipal ownership of franchises
and dollar gas.
Judge Van Wyck's nomination made Hts i
candidates in the field for Mayor of Greater < 3
New York, as follows: Seth Low, nominated v5
by the Citizens' Unions General Tracy, <
Dominated by the Republican organization; i .
Benry George, nominated by the free all*1
rerites; Patrick J. Oleaaon. Slayer of Long
island City, candidate of the "Battle-Ax"
Democracy, and Robert A. Van Wyck, can- -3%I
iidate of the Democratic organization. /
SPANISH MINISTRY RESIGNS.
Premier Aicarrara's Cabinet Goes Oat mt
Oflce-SafMta Called In.
A crisis has been injected into Spain's at- ^
Fairs by the resignation of the Cabinet. ' iwH
rhe Queen accepted the resignation of the , ?
Ministers, bnt asked Gentfral Azcarrags, the
Prime Minister, to continue in officeanti*
a solution of the crisis could be foand.
OE5ERAL AZCARRAOA.
'Head of Spanish Cabinet which has just . ^
resigned.)
Senor Sagasta, the leader of the Liberal
party in Spain, was called upon to form a v$9
lew cabinet, and after conference with the *
jueen he declared his willingness to on*
lertake the task.
Klley's Costly Klondike Joke.
Edward Riley, of Providence. R. I., gilded .?*3
i large lamb ot coal, labelled it " 9000 gold '
lugget from Klondike," and pnt it in his
>how window. Ten minutes later a man
imashed in the plate glass window with & > jJs
paving stone, stole the "nnggwt," and es- ~ ' fr
Greece's Ministers Resign. s /J
An Athens dispatch states that the 'V.'
Premier of Greece, IT. Ralli, odlcially teniered
the resignations of the Cabinet Minsters,
and they were accepted by King i
George.
Thirty FUhermen Drowned.
The Ashing fleet which goes annually to
[celand has just returned to its hailing
port, Dunkirk, Scotland. Ninety-six smaeknj
started, but only eighty-eight canae baek.|
Eight are lost with their crews, making a>
;otal of over thirty men drowned.
Bones of s Mastodon Fonnd In Kentucky,
While excavating for a pond on the farm!
jf L. V. Harkness, near Donerail, Ky.,1 -fta
workmen discovered the bones of a mastoion.
The skull is nearly three feet I*
iiameter and the other bones in propor-1
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