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Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

the sitting room. AT that time and
during all the afternoon he was in good
spirits. and at dinner, at $50 last even
ing, he seemed to have good appetite.
DIR. Llewellin left the house about s
o'clock, and few minutes later the
justice was seized with violent pains
in the heart and died at the hour men
toned
fLucius @. @. Lamar was born in Putnam
county. Ga, September /, 1925. and after his
fathers death was taken to Oxford. Miss,
where he received part OF his education He
graduated at Emory college. Ga, In 1915;
studied law in Macon, and was admitted to the
bar in 1Si7 In 1879 he returned to Oxford,
Miss. aud for year held professorshipin tho
university OF Mississippi. He resigned and re-
sumed the practice of law IN Covington. Ga He
was elected to the legislature in 1853. and in
1854 again returned to Mississippi and settled
on his plantation in Lafayette, being shortly
afterward elected to congress democrat.
He served from 1851 until 1880 when he resigned
to take a seat in the secession congress from his
native state. He cast his fortunes with the
'lost cause and left the army with the rank
of colonel, after having shared In many en-
gagements. Ho was again professor in the
university OF Mississippi and again took a seat
In the house OF repressn tatves; was elected to
the senate marfn D, 1911. MARCH ., 1000, ITtsl-
dent Cleveland appointed Mr.. Lamar secretary
OF the interior. and afterward elevated him TO
seat on the supreme bench.
Mr.. Lamar was, perhaps,us prominent figure
as any that has occupied seat on the bench OF
that august body. but for months back he has
been almost too i'll to take moro than a per-
functory interest IN the proceedings His
health has been failing for some time and it
was almost tin defiance of nature that be took
his seat the usual decision day-Monday.
He left Washington for the south about q
month ago. He had then been for some time
confined to his house in that city and was una
Bile to attend all the sessions OF the suprems
court, his abssnco causing soms little
delay in the decision OF 1.-THE we'll known lake
front case, wherein the city Of Chicago and the
Illinois Central railroad were the participants.
Just before his departure from Washington,
however, Justice Lamar was thought to hays
considerably improved. He took advantage OF
an improved feeling, the day before his de-
parture from the national capital aud made
| two or three calls on friends there. 1t was not
| without dismal forebodings that hts friends
| learned after his departure that he had been
| compelled to take one or two intervals OF rest
before arriving here; and his death while IL
will cause a very severe shock in this com
munity, where he was so widely known and az
fectionately regarded will not be a great sur
prise.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE State Senate of Alabama on the
Gath by vote of II to Is refused to pass
bill granting pension of $500 per
year to the widow Of Jefferson Davis.
In the past few years the value Of i'm
ports and exports from the port OF Phil
adelphia have been steadily increasing.
The total value of exports and imports
for the year 1892 were $123, $685. 977. an
increase over 1891 of 100000.
THREE prisoners made their escape
from the jail at Camden, Ark, on the
Gath by overpowering the jailer and
securing his pistol.
A QUEER tumor on the right eye Of
Chinaman at Napoleon. Ga, was taken
for insipient leprosy, and there was great
excitement until physician pronounced
it tumor.
ALI, national banks have responded
to the call of the comptroller of cur
rency for the condition Of each bank at
the close Of business on December 20
last. The report shows that the aggre-
gate of resources of all national banks
is SO, 4sO, 349,667.
THE indications are that there will
be an unprecedented rush into the
Cherokee strip as soon as opened to set
tlement.
JUSTICE l.. @. c. LAMAR died at
Macon, Ca, on the 23d. The death was
sudden in the extreme, for, although he
had been ailing for some time past, JUS
tice Lamar appeared to be gradually
gaining health.
ABOUT million and quarter bushels
of wheat was stored in elevator G, OF the
Carondolet Elevator and Grain Company,
which was burned at st. Louis, on the
23d. The building and contents are
total loss, and will sum up in round
number 81, 100000.
r. J. KNIGHT, receiver Of the order OF
Iron Hall, has collected from 700
branches Of the order in Massachusetts
about $50, 900. There are eighty more
branches to be heard from, and the re-
ceiver expects to collect over S275,ooo.
AT the City of Mexico, statistics have
Just been issued showing that during
the year ending December 81, 1897
there were 81 public companies or
ganized abroad for operations IN the
republic, 50 of the companies being
American and 12 English. The total
capital aggregates $40, 100000.
HENRY SUMNER, who died suddenly
in Hartford, Conn, on the goth, in
cheap lodging house., was the possessor
Of $50, 900 in his own right.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
HUNTSVILLE. ALA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2s 1898

NEAR Lonsdale, R. l., on the 18th,
eight persons were instantly killed and
sixteen injured by collision at a
crossing between freight train and a
sleigh filled with merrymakers return.
ing from dance and supper at Woon-
socket. -
CHARLES S. SINCLAIR, the bookkeeper
Of the Armour Packing Co., who disap-
peared from New York city on Novem-
Der II last. after defalcation of sl9,-
900, was returned to that city, on the
22d, in custody Of Charles T. Lincoln,
agent of the Missouri, Texas & Kansas
Trust Co., of Kansas City, and also Of
the American Guarantee Fidelity Co.
A REAR-END collision between the
two sections of the fast east-bound
meat train on the Pennsylvania road
occurred at Amboy, Ind, on the 22d.
The second section was running at the
rate of As miles an hour and telescoped
four cars. Engineer Mike Maloney of
the second section was killed and Fire
man E. J. Prize was seriously injured.
SEVENTY persons were frozen to death
in Russian Poland in the week ending
the 22d.
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad
car shops, located at CHARTERS station,
Pa, together with number of cars and
much valuable machinery, were de-
stroyed by fire on the night Of the 22d.
The flames were caused by leaking ma
tural gas. Loss, about 100000; almost
fully insured. tt
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


In the senate, on the 18th, Immediately after
the reading OF the journal, upon the formal an
nouncement by Senator Sherman OF the death
OF ex-President Hayes, the senate adjourned.
...... In the house the session was a short one
The bill establishing court OF appeals for the
District of Columbia was passed, and then,
after the delivery of eulogies upon the late
rutherford B. Hayes, the house, as a mark
OF respect to the memory Of the ex- presid ent,
adjourned,
In tha senate, on the 10Th. discussion Of the
anti option bill was continued, but without ac-
ton. Mr.. PETER concluded his speech in favor
OF single term for president, and new Nc
Garrahan bill was introduced and referred to
the Judiciary committee -. In the house the
greater part Of the day was consumed In fi-
clustering and dilatory tactics, defeating action
ON the bill for the erection Of a monument to
the prison ship martyrs and on the measure
Tor the construction of a revenue cutter for
the Pacific coast. But a bill was passed to
meet the requirements of the inter state COM
merce law relative to the testimony Of wit
nesses
In the senate, on the 20th the credentials Of
Mr.. Gray, democrat, of Delaware. for his sec
ond term from March next were presented
and placed on file. The senate then adjourned
out OF respect to the memory of Rutherford b.
Hayes. former president Of tho United States,
being the day Of his funeral. In the
house, after the transaction Of some unimpor-
tant business, adjournment was taken at LILO
p. M out of respect to the memory Of the late
ex-President Hayes
Is the senate. on the 21st, the new Colum-
bian postage stamp was vigorously attacked by
Mr. Wolcott tCol J. who called mp his joint res
olution directing the discontinuance OF these
stamps. The anti-optioa bill was discussed
for little ovor an hour and then went over
without action. In the house the session
was ushered in by an eloqusnt speech on the
national quarantine bill from Congressman
Raynor tMd.l who depicted the danger which
was imminent to the people of this country
from unrestricted immigration
In the senate. on the 221, the antioption bill
was taken up. but again went over without ac-
ton, an agreement having previously been
reached that vote should be taken on the
3lst. The Cherokee outlet bill was then taken
up..... In the house the quarantine bill was
| taken up. Several amendments were adopted
| and the bill was finally passed. After wran-
! gle over the New York and New Jersey bridge
| bill, the remainder of the sessioniwas consumed
| in the considerations of the sundry civil appro-
| priations bill.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
THE PANAMA FRAUDS.
Nj. Clemenceau Before the Parliamentary
Commission.

Commission.
PARIS, Jan. 24.-M. Clemenceau was
called before the parliamentary com
mission Of inquiry at his own request
Yesterday, to answer again the testi-
mony given by M. Stephane. He said
that M. Stephane, despite his state
ments to the contrary, Lad told many
persons that he had handed to nj.
Clemenceau Baron de Reinach's list OF
persons compromised by the Panama
bribery. Stephane undoubtedly had
been intriguing against him, Clemen-
ceau said, with several other political
opponents
The sub-commission appointed to ex-
anime the records of the underwriting
syndicates which helped to float Pan
anna loans reported that they had
found evidences Of enormous frauds.
The trial Of the men whom M. Fran
queville, the examining magistrate, re-
garded as criminalIy involved in the
Panama scandal will begin probably
late in February and will last some
two weeks. Excepting Baihut, how
ever, the names of the defendants can
only be surmised
The reports of the autopsy held on
Baron de Reinach was sent last even
ing to the procureur general The re-
port states that no trace of poison was
found in the body, but that the exam
ining physicians are unable to as
sert that Reinach died of natural
causes. The unsatisfactoriness Of this
result Of the autopsy Is due to the fact
that Reinachs body was not exhnmed
pntil decomposition was far advanced,
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT 1:2O a. m. Of the 21st seven or
eight of the firemen of Hook and Lad
der Truck No. 8, of New York, were
injured. three of them seriously, by the
fall of the west wall of Story & Co. s
iour-story warehouse, at the southwest
corner of King and Washington streets,
during fire.
on the 22d the McBeth lamp fue
works at Elwood, Ind, the largest OF
the kind in the world, were destroyed
bv fire. The warehouses were saved.
The fire originated from too high pres
sure of natural gas. Over 600 men are
thrown out of employment. The loss
is estimated at $780, 900; fully insured.
ELEVATOR c, of the Carondelet (Mo.
Grain and Elevator Co., with its con-
tents of 1,1OO,O0 bushels of choice
wheat. was burned on the morning OF
the oad, involving a loss of about ST.
o5O 600. on which, however, there may
be some salvage in the way of damaged
grain.
SEVENTEEN dead and scores horribly
burned, many of whom can not recover,
was the record up to the morning OF the
esd resulting from wreck, caused by
an open switch, at Wann, Ill, OF the
southwestern limited on the Big Four
road. All of the casualties but one were
caused by the explosion OF oil-tank
cars which had been set on fire as
result of the wreck, the burning oil
enveloping the crowd that had gathered
Cd the scene
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
SUDDENLY SUMMONED.

Death of Associate Justice T.. Q. G. Lamar
of the United States Supreme Court at
tina Home of q Relative In Macon, Ga
The Summons Came Suddenly shortly
After PartalSinG or Dinner, and the Re
sponse Followed Quickly.
MACON, Ga, Jan. 24-Justice Lucius
Quintus Curtius Lamar died here
ut $50 o'clock last evening. 1t is
terrible shock to the community. The
death was sudden in the extreme, for
although he has been ailing for some
time, Justice Lamar appeared to be
gradually gaining in health. He came
from Washington TO Macon about a
month ago and has been visiting at the
residence of Mr.. w. III. Virgin, in Vine
vile, a suburb of this city.
Yesterday afternoon at about 8
o'clock Justice Lamar took his over
coat, intending to 20 to the city; but
was met at the door by friend, DR..
Llewellin, with whom he returned to
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
Son of Chas. Hermann, wann; win die.

Son OF Chas. Hermann, Wann; viii die
OTHERS INJURED AND REMOVED.
Jas. Webster. Alton: head burned slightly.
Monahan. Of the wrecking crew; slight in.
iuries.
Pat O'Mara, railroad man: hands burned.
Barney Nienhaus. Wann; slightly burned.
John Mullane, Wann; slightly burned.
Louis Mcintosh, unknown; badly burned
VIM. Mcintosh, homo unknown: badly
burned.
James Mullane Wann; slightly burned.
Thos. Williams, Upper Alton; dangerously
burned.
James Murray. Upper Alton; fatally burned.
j. W. Montgomery, Atlanta, H.; student al
Shurtleff college; badly burned.
Geo. Rolof. Upper Alton; badly burned.
VIM. Jaeger Upper Alton; dangerous.
VIM. schaeffer. Upper Alton; dangerous
John Berg, Alton; slightly injured.
Frank Still. Alton; badly burned.
Glassner (boyl, Alton; badly burned.
Timothy Sullivan, East st. Louis; fatally
burned.
Geo. Rucker, Wann; face and hands burned
j. III. McPike, Alton; slightly burned
E. M Caldwell, Alton national bank; seri.
ously burned.
John Barr unknown; badly burned
John Steele. head badly burned; home un-
known.
VIM. Ballentyne, Wann: badly burned.
Jas. Chesson, Alton; slightly burned.
Julius Miller, Alton junction; face and hands
badly burned
Frank Miller, Alton junction. face and hands
badly burned
Frank James, homo unknown; badly injured.
A. Mcmillan. East St Louis; badly burned.
John Fitzpatrick, East st. Louis; badly
burned.
Andrew Fretz, Edwardsvllle crossing: slight
ly burned.
George Drucker, American bottoms; hands
and face burned.
The foregoing lists may be divided as
follows: Dead, is; injured in st. Joseph's
hospital, 81: injured at Wann (all very
serious cases), :; others injured and re-
moved, 80.
1t is the opinion Of the physicians
and nurses that nearly all the serious
ly injured will die, and should they
live they will be physically ruined for
| life, doomed to perpetual suffering.
The extent of the calamity is as yet
hardly realized as it will be later on,
and all during this week there will be
succession of funerals, while the end
| is too far off for even an estimate Of the
| damage to life and limb, aside from
that to property, resulting from one
moments carelessness on the part of a
| railroad emDloye.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
The Death List win Reach Thirty.

ALTON, ILL.,. Jan. 24.-lt is quite Ger.
tain that before the week ends the
neurological roll will include at least
thirty names. Physicians say that
nearly all of those seriously burned will
die. The full outburst of sorrow is
just beginning to be manifested as the
people realize at the graves Of the loved
relativ and friends the awful signifi-
cance of their bereavement
Coroner Kinder was busy yesterday
with two iuries impaneled, and as fast
as verdicts were rendered the bodies
were turned over for burial The re-
mains Of III. A. Cornelius were sent
yesterday to his home in Iowa, and
those of Ed Maupin to his home at st.
Charles, and the body Of VIM. Shat
tuck, the other Shurtleff college stu
dent was shipped last evening to Ches-
terfeld.
The long procession Of funerals was
begun yesterday morning the remains
of Henry Penning, John Lock, Edward
Miller, Willie Mccarthy and Charles
UT being laid to rest in the local
cemeteries.
The friends Of John Mays, of Upper
Alton, identified his body yesterday
morning at Howell's morgue, and it
was removed. A number of those
whose injuries we're at first reported
slight are developing alarming fea-
lures, resulting from lack of prompt
medical treatment, when all the doc
tors were busy with the more severely
stricken. A man from Wann named
Dumas has been missing since Satur-
day, and search for his body has been
institu ted.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Many Departments Getting Their Ex-
hibits I'm Good Shape.

hibits in Good Shape.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 34.-The depart
ment of agriculture is not behind in its
preparations for an exhibit at the Chi
cago fair Four car loads altogether
have been shipped so far, and Mr..
Willets. the representative of this
department upon the government
board, as well as chairman of the board
itself, expresses the hope that not less
than one-half of the material for the
entire exhibit will be shipped to Chi
cago before the 1ath of next month,
about which time the actual work Of
installation will begin.
Commissioner of Education w. Il.
Harris intimates that the exhibit of
the bureau of education will be par
ticularly interesting one. Among the
exhibits will be samples of text books
printed during the earliest years of
the settlement Of the country. Models
will be secured from the patent office
showing the evolution Of school furni-
ture and fittings. Laboratory teach
ers and students will daily exhibit
quickly performed experiments in
heat, light, sound, electricity, etc.
The exhibit Of the United States fish
commission is very far advan ced.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

IHE Indian may fairly be called the
greatest real estate dealer on this con-
tlnent- Transactions involving two or
three millions of acres cause no COM
ment because they have come to be
common, Recently the Pawnees have
ceded what may be left Of their 283, 900
acres after 800 allotments are taken
out and the Comanches, Kiowas and
Apaches have ceded to the government
aoout 100000 acres. The purchase
money in the latter case is said to be
ABOUT s., 1000, 900, and in the former 81. 25
per acre, of which $50, 900 is to be in
coin.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

hX-PREsIDENT HAYES died recently al
Ills home in. Ohio. He attained the
presidency under circumstances of un-
usual agitation, caused by the doubtful
result OF the election of 1876 and the
peculiar method of settling it. He per-
formed the duties of his Office with hon
es'y OF purpose, unmarked by great
strength OF character or great manifes-
'aIlons OF genius. He was thoroughly
Iohscientious *, in all things. His private
me m was blameless, and his public rec
oru was untainted. He will be classed
II history among the presidents who
nave reinforced moderate talents with
s'rlct personal and official integrity.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

The winter of 1928 bids fair to be
long remembered for it's severity. The
Ohio river, for example, is frozen from
Louisville to its head waters, and its
tributaries are all in the same condi
ton. People who have asserted that
our climate has changed and that hard
winters belong to the past are not hav-
ing much to say on the subject just
now Probably, however, they think
great deal, and wish that they had
not been quite so positive in their as.
sertions.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

VIRGINIA, the Carolinas, Georgia. Ten
nessee and parts of Alabama and Mis-
slssippl, are admirably adapted to sheep
1 aaiSlng' but this industry is practically
.Aclnded from those states by the
nordes =, OF dogs that are maintained by
me people. Probably nothing has SO
ruch contributed to the habit in MANY
~ ~ Tue states OF the people moving about
~ tho country armed, as the presence OF
.:lese oogs. They are met in some Sec
s'ons everywhere in the public roads.
80 III d man must often fight for the
s - II o1 way. Should he kill one OF
Ei,s1: IsSe ofutes on the highway, there is
al 1-Aclihood OF trouble with the beasts
laa, mner, VINO is pretty apt to resent vic
-ence done to his dog.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

COMIC papers several years ago, when
the sky-scraping buildings of to-day be-
gan to be erected in the big cities, said
they would have to contain railroad
system to reach the different parts.
What very nearly approaches it will
shortly be put in operation in the new
Havemeyer building in New York. Two
express elevators are to run, not MAX
ing stops between the eighth and the
ground floor. Four Accommodation
elevators will stop at "all way sta
tions"
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

The Guelph scandal in Germany is
generally understood to be fully as dis
graceful as the Panama scandal in
France, yet there is no serious attempt
made to get at the facts Corruption
and general rascality are just as likely
to occur in monarchies as in repu blics,
and little more likely; but republics
are the only sort of governments which
expose this conduct and punish it.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
VOLUME XIV.

AN autopsy developed the fact that
Gen. Buffers brain weighed four ounces
more than Daniel Webster's. 1t goes
without saying that his nerve weighed
a ton more than Daniel Webster's, or
any of his Butler s. contemporaries.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
Later-Four More Dead,

ST. Louis, Jan. 24.-Dispatches from
Alton, H., announce the following adj
ditional deaths:
George Roloff, Upper Alton.
j. N. Murray, assessor, Upper Alton.
Charles Haller, Alton junction.
Joseph Hermann, Jr., Alton.
Herman Valentine is also at the point
of death and Otto Hagerman can not
live the day out.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

THE young khedive of Egypt asserted
himself with the surprising suddenness
of Jack emerging from his box. And
now he has been put back in his box,
fastened down and reminded that he is
not to undertake to do the rest until
England has pressed the button.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

INCIDENTS connected with Gen. But
lcrs life are very common in the pa
pers nowadays. Very few men have
had such varied life and showed such
ability as marked his path in the many
and varied positions he occupied, not
uithstanding his eccentricities.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

In the neighborhood of century ago
there was an ancestor of President
Carnot of France who showed a good
deal of nerve and skill on several crit
ical occasions. Undoubtedly the pres
ent member of the family will be found
equal to the situation if serious trouble
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

A FRENCH observer claims to have
found tubercle bacilli in mosquitoes
and flies, and that they act as carriers
OF this disease product. Flies and mos
quitoes are a little out of season just
now, but the idea is worth noting in
view Of the fact that another summer
is coming
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28
is coming

IT is said that the Canadian papers
which advocate annexation are all
prosperous. This is a pretty good sign.
1t shows that that sentiment is some
thing more than dream of visionaries
and cranks, for persons Of this class, as
rule, contribute very little to the sup
port of papers. Let the annexation
agitation go on, but do not rush mat
terS
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

LoIs against the French govern.
d- n' oy members of the deposed
t5a'13'9s 5r3tl9s are doubtless numerous, but
u, S ~. pioeVers themselves are scrupulous-
~, y e@Feiul to keep out of France. The
81 ofthof!tles th Of the republic are masters
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-28

Colorado will pay $500, the amount OF re-
ward offered thirty years ago to Tom Tobin,
scout and trapperi who k.Ded two potoriQEs
desparadoea.