The morning news., 1889-05-16

one Of the old water works tanks-and q
steam pump with a capacity u $50 gaUsns
/ per minute nat to work \ " ter pressure
OF twenty-five pouads will be furnished
from the tank, which is thlrty-elght feet
high.
Mrs. Samantha CLARK, daughter of Bur-
rell Yates. living six miles frsm Alsslmnee,
! was burned 81 badly on wednesday tnat
! she died after a few hours II groHt suffer
/ in. She had moved u a new place, and
+ had beea buPning t~ash in The yard aud by
accident t.s houss eau hit On hrs, asd n her
| Efforts to exinguish the IA es her clothing
caught, but she put the fire out and CON
! u ued her efforts 70 save 0as house, when
her clothes caught drs agaia aRd sac could
not get 1t out. Size rushed for & SD lag
near the house ana Plu gsd iato the wator,
but uot before her clothing vas entirely
burned or, leaving nothing on Aer but shoes
and hager riAgs.
Mayor c. B. Smith Of Jacksonville is
constantly getting letters from craaks, and
generally this stuff iads its " Ry 20 the
waste basket, but the following letter de-
serves ano her fate, 30 the Metropolis pub
fishes it for the benefit Il IT'S many thousand
readers, so tsat the public caA judge Of &r.
johnson thenssjVes: KING GEoRSE Z
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, Nav ), 1889. 9.-HtS
Honor the Mayor Of Jacksoncttfe:: | I'D
dress your honor because L have SO nethlng
scourge of yellow fever which visited your
city during the summer and autumn OF last
year was not a contagious disease or epl-
demc, 10 was an awful crime. Human cleo
trlcity, which came int tae world at the
birth OF child III this csu2ty, was carried
OF, and Is now in the possession Of bad men
IN possession of this hun 4 electric ~ have
experlmented, made discoveries, aud a 9
now in active opsr attn by becoming
charged themselves. Ta9y can send an in
visible current Through the abmosp here any
distance, through bricS walls, d entering
the blood Of thsir victims. Produce the
symptoms of any known disease and cause
death By al limitation 50 success tul that
physlc.e IS cannot detect the imitation
from the real |. was a great crime to de-
strOy huad eds of your citizens aud call l.
yell lw fever, and these bad men t2e great
est Criminals of mOdera times should be
ought 70 Justice, aad this electricity
placed where 1t could not be used. Tney
have hired expert who telegrapas to me
ince sanity, rslatisg ais operatioas in tle
ooldest amer. This humane electricity
being q perfect electricity without wire.
Their motive in teAegraphisg to me is that
l was tn3 chid al whsse birth this cleo
tricItY came int ths world. d they, re-
gard g ms as the owner. perSacu.e me in
many ways. Among t2em is iucsss2Nt tel
eg.aOhi z, and ia this way they have con-
viueed me tda5 they Aave killed great num-
.ers If human bsIass, among them hun
dreds Of Ysur citz IA, by ini5iatiaZ ysllsw
fever. have 7rlJtea nearly a huGdr I'd
letters to editors ald prominent men nIy
efforts to hA them a res ed, but they are
81 carefully cozceaiea, and no one seemiag
to k&ow that this da garous human cleo
tricity is in the world, taa- 1 have not yet
succeeded. l write this, hearing that your
honor and the editors at jacksonville will
assist in ori ging about their arrest. Re-
specJfully, Oscar D. Johnson"