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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Certain citizens of Savannah have had
experiences with water meters, but none
of them probably ever had to deal with
meter of so many vagaries as were pos
sessed by one on the premises of Mr.. No
bles of Nutley. N. ]. Mr. Mobiles thought
the meter was running little ahead of
schedule, but the water people said it was
all right; it couldn't be wrong as it was
automatic. We have heard the same sort
of thing in Savannah. At the end of
three months the meter declared that Mr..
Mobiles had used 1880 worth of water. He
disputed the bill. The meter must have
fallen a victim to its conscience about that
time for shortly after it had charged up
these hundreds of thousands of gallons of
water, it began to run backwards, at the
rate Of $1,000 gallons a week. Had it not
been removed by the water authorities as
soon as il was after 1t began running the
wrong way. the 1880 bill would have been
wiped out in less time that 1t took to pile
it up and the city would have been in debt
to the water taker.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Augusta is moving in the matter of the
Improvement of the Savannah river. AT
meeting of the council of that city the
other day the mayor and city attorney
were appointed a committee to draft a
suitable petition on the subject and re-
quest Congressman Fleming to present it
to congress and ask for an appropriation.
The authorities of Savannah, public and
corporate should back up Augusta in the
effort to have the river between the two
cities improved. The chief obstacles to
navigation are near Augusta, but all
along the river there are snags and over
hanging trees which render steam boat
navigation tedious and often dangerous.
The Savannah Cotton Exchange had this
matter brought to it's attention by ex-
President Dwelle in his last official report.
but If the exchange has taken any action
in the premises the fact is not known to
the public. There should be a pull all to-
gether, and an earnest effort made to Sc
cure an appropriation from the present
congress.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
The New Attorney General.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican Qnd).

Whether or not the attorney general Is
a man of character and caliber to justify
his elevation to the supreme bench, there
is no doubt that his successor in the cab
met, Gov. John w. Griggs of New Jersey,
is better man. He Is an ADLER attorney,
and although he has been corporation
lawyer-as what man of signal ability in
the profession has escaped being ?-he is
said to have no hampering connection
with great corporations, such as made
Garrett A. Hobart Vice President.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetngs-Mistletoe Camp No. 4, Wood
men of the World; Palestine Commandry
No. 7, K. T.
Special Notices-Wanted, Butcher or
Grocer to Rent Store, Henry Solomon &
Son; Residence Telephones; Dividend No
tice, Chatham Bank; We Have an Iron
Clad Cinch, r. D. & VIM. baltimore; An
nual Afternoon Tea at Episcopal Orphans
Home Saturday Afternoon; State and
County Taxes. 1897; Levys Discount No
tiee; Notice to Superior Court Jurors; Spe-
cial Notice, Charles Jemdal; Special Auc-
ton Sale Monday, Dec. 10. Younglove &
SipDle
Business Notices-Invitation, E. & W.
Laundry.
Those Special sales-Metropolitan Cloth
sng Company.
Ladies Should Ponder-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Dress Patterns for Christmas-Leopold
Adler.
Auction Sale-Old Hoss Sale, s., f. &
w. r. R. Unclaimed Freight by J. Nc
Laughlin & Son, Auctioneers.
Legal Notices-Notice to Debtors and
Creditors Estate Ellen r. Leacy. De
ceased Libel for Divorce, NIyer FISHER vs..
Sarah Tishler.
Beauty in a Laundry-Georgia Steam
laundry.
Medical-Munyon Remedies; Duffy's
Malt Whisky: DR.. Charcot's Kola Nervine
Tablets; Cuticura Remedies; Hoods Pills;
SCOTS Emulsion.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
Tor Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Reports from Kingston indicate that
there has been no abatement in the yellow
fever epidemic in the Island of Jamaica.
On the other hand, the fever is said to be
spreading with frightful rapidity among
the black and colored population, which
GLASS has been comparatively exempt in
previous outbreaks. Quarantine regula-
tons. it is said are being enforced but
loosely. Jamaica viii have to be watched
closely by the health authorities in this
rOlntrv
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Senator Carter is reported by the Allan
ia Journal to have said to his populist
friends and conferees at their caucus the
other day: THE country is going hell
wards, Legislature, state and national
are getting more corrupt and patriots are
getting scarcer. The interests of the peo-
pie are less and less regarded" Let's
see; the populists have made two presl-
dental campaigns, have elected a number
of legislators, congressman and a senator
or two. Is this the effect that populism
has had upon the politics of the country?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The United States authorities viii prob
ably put a check mark against the name
of Joseph Cespero. the uaturaIized Ameri-
can who, after having been released from
a Spanish prison in Cuba, has gone back
to the island and Joined the insurgents
again. BY his act he forfeits the protec-
ton of this country. and must take what
ever consequences may come 10 him as
result. without Interference in his behalf
on the part of the United States govern
ment
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The populists of Georgia will have a
hard task to explain to the people how
they reconcile their demands for absolute
paper money and free and unlimited sill
yer coinage with their demand for the
limitation Of the circulating medium to $50
Ter caDifa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Possibly the Georgia populists think
that by making their campaign nine
months long they viii be able to get the
farmers so much interested in politics that
they will neglect their farms and thus Gre
ate the occasion for new calamity howl
when It is time to gather the harvest. We
have an idea that the political party that
goes to bothering the farmers in the spring
and keeps on at it during the summer will
be mighty apt TO hear something drop in
the fall; and when it drops 1t will hurt.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The proposition to bold wake" of old
New York and a celebration of the new
Greater New York on the night Of Dec.
81 and the morning of Jan. l, is plan
which does not seem to meet with the en-
thusiastic approval Of many of the leading
men Of Gotham. tlX-Mayor Hewitt has
declined to have anything to do with the
scheme, and other gentlemen, especially
Of the political factions which were whip
PED IN the recent election, are not dispos.
60 to give time, talents or money to the
celebration. On the other hand, many OF
the Tammany men are red hot for great
blowout and speech-making.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The Georgia legislature has killed a Gig
arctic bill regularly az every session for
a number of years; nevertheless it is dol
lars to doughnuts that another cigarette
bill will be introduced as soon as the
next general assembly meets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
Get the Lash Ready.
New Orleans Picayune Dem).

The chances are that congress, at its
present session, will accomplish nothing.
In this event, the country next year will
punish the republican party for failure to
do its duty and carry out its pledge to
the people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

1t is a little difficult 10 see how the
county commissioners can avoid wasting
money on the proposed Skidaway bridge
since the court has ordered that it shall
be built. Still, it Is probable that if the
commissioners desire to avoid the waste
they can do it. They have heretofore been
very successful in finding ways TO avoid
doing things which they do not wish to do,
hence it is within the scope of possiblli-
ties for them to save the $4,000 or more
which the bridge would cost. This is not
the time to make prodigal public expendi-
lures, or to build bridge to an island the
taxable value of which Is less than the
estimated cost of the bridge. The people
are now taxed too heavily, by state, coun-
ty and city, and every effort should be
made to cut down expenses where 1t can
be done without positive injury to the
general welfare. Years ago there NAV
have been a reasonable demand for such
a bridge as is proposed, but times have
changed, and there is now little If any
demand for such lands as would be
opened up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The number of persons to be seen on the
streets with bandaged heads, arms, in
sings, on crutches or limping along, might
lead a stranger TO imagine there had been
"a battle somewhere near and the wounded
had arrived. our wounded, however, are
blcyclsts and are the victims of bicycle
accidents Native pedestrians are seldom
hit by a wheel nowadays; they have be-
come 50 used to lodging bicycles, electric
cars, hacks, trucks, drays, carriages and
numerous other vehicles that some Of
them are almost able to corkscrew their
way between the drops in a smart shower
OF rain without getting wet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The Luetgert trial, in Chicago, appears
to be even further from conclusion now
than it was when it was begun. It seems
that there is little probability that jury
can be secured, and It is thought by some
of the lawyers that the second attempt
TO secure verdict will end in fiat fail
IRE to have the trial.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

Mr. Tom Watsons snub to the Georgia
legislature will probably teach that body
not to be too previous" In future. The
next time it thinks of inviting anybody to
address it. it will take the trouble to ascer-
tain if the person has any desire to speak
no it
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10

The recent advance in the price of sill
Yer, which has gone up cents per ounce
since Sept. l, and is now quoted around 60
cents, is accounted for by the fact that
there have been large shipments Of the
metal from London to Russia during the
last few weeks. There has also been a
revival of the demand from China, and a
continuance of the fairly good demand
from India More silver is being used in
the arts than ever before, it is said. These
things, and the fact that there has been
no increase in the production, are said to
be responsible for the increase in price
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
Needs the Surgeon.

From the Atlanta Journal Oem).
No. the Georgia legislature is not sur
fering from cirrhosis of the brain, 1t has
only a slight case of locomotor ataxia
which is durable.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
Come over, Friends.

Congressman Stanyarne Wilson, it Is re-
ported, will try this winter to secure an
appropriation sufficient to provide a chan
mel from Georgetown that will allow ocean
steamers to go up to Columbia" He has
favorable reports and estimates from the
is confident of success" Savannah will do
well to look to it's future as a seaport"
1t has dangerous rival on the Congaree.
If the editorial staff of the Charleston
News and Courier, from which paper the
foregoing paragraph is clipped, would run
over to Savannah and see the largest ships
and steamers they ever saw In their lives,
and the forest of masts and tunnels up
and down the docks, and hear the hurrah
and hurry and hustle of the busy workers
loading and unloading the commodities be-
ing received and shipped, they would new
er say another ill-tempered or smart
word about Savannah as a commercial
city.
Their little filings mislead nobody except
those of their own people who never leave
town" The business world, including
the business men of Charleston, know
full we'll that there is no first-cEass seaport
on the South Atlantic seaboard except Sa-
vannah. This city has the business, and
it has the shipping; 1t has enterprising cit
liens who are not afraid to invest their
money for the purpose of making new
business and holding the old. Savannah
ians make their money here, and they
spend it here in building up a greater,
richer and more prosperous port and mart,
and a more beautiful city.
Come over and spend couple of days,
gentlemen of the News and Courier; 1t will
take two fun days to see the chief points
of industrial and commercial activity. The
Morning News will see to it that you re-
turn home so full of admiration for the
pluck, enterprise and prosperity of Sa-
vannah that you will feel like prodding
your own good, sleepy old city into some
show of life, and will leave off trying to
poke fun at nelghboring cities.
Come over and see a city that is alive
and awake 1t will do you good, and will
possibly correct those dyspeptic tendencies
which mar an otherwise lovely disposition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1897.
The MORNING NEWS IS publishl

registered at the postOfroe in Savannah.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITlES.


The delegates TO the universal postal con-
gyess spent yesterday in Boston
Bates Soper. who murdered his wife and
two children at Archie. Cass county. Mis-
souri,, six years ago, has been captured in
Ashland, Ore, by Policeman Sam Il, Lowe.
OF Kansas City. He has made full con-
fession
a man supposed to be B. c. Walmsley
chief train dispatcher of the Texas q New
Orleans Railroad. is in charge of the Chi
cago police, who found him at Fifty-sev-
entn street and Lake avenue, helpless and
apparently demented.
At st. Paul. yesterday Judge Lewis or
dered a verdict i'm favor of Congressman
+. c. Stevens on trial under an indictment
for an alleged overdraft in his accounts
with the Minnesota Savings Bank, of which
ne was president. The prosecution had
failed TO make out q case.
The final session OF the seventeenth an
works Association was held at Denver last
evening. Officers were elected as follows:
President, John Canfieid of ST. Paul. Mimi
first vice president. Joseph A. Bond of
Wilmington, Del; secretary treasurer
Peter Min, Of New York city. 1t was de-
cided TO have the next convention at Buffa-
10, n. Y.
Mrs Chavria Guilini. the Italian woman
who was shot by Jacopo Ferrari at Washing
ton ID. c.. Wednesday, died yesterday thus
making the deed one of murder as well as
suicide. Ferrar wooed the woman in Italy,
but was rejected and came to this country,
making his home in Detroit. Learning that
she had come TO this country and was in
Washington. he came here TO win her from
her husband and, failing, shot and killed
her and himself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
ONE QUEER SITUATION
TREASURER TULLEY, OF DANvILLE,
CAN'T TOUCH THE MONEY.
Crazy Simon stamm Nearly Killed His
Sister at Hagerstown-BrazfI
Trustees in Hot Water.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the indianapolis Journal
DANVILLE, Ind, June 10.-For the first
time in the history of Hendricks county the
treasury suspended payment and with
thousands of dollars on hand. An injunc-
ton from the court forbids the
treasurer to receive or pay out
the office in September 1855. After
few months some of his bondsmen applied
to be released. Tuliey was indebted to the
First National Bank and that institution
made Tulley's second bond under an agree
ment that he was to have nothing to do
with the Office, that the deputies he placed
in the office were to be approved by the
bondsmen, that he was not TO write sin
gle check for county money. that no money
from the office was to be expended except
to pay county warrants and the expenses
of the office; that all deposits were to be
made in the First National Bank and that
at each quarter half of the proceeds Of the
office was TO be applied on his Indebtedness
at the bank and ne was to retain the re-
mainder This arrangement was followed
until the bank officials understood that
Tulley had directed the auditor not to turn
the warrant for his June quarterly salary
over to anyone for payment that he would
claim II himself. Notice was then served on
Tulley that some of his bondsmen had APP
piled to be released from his bond. The
bank people claim Tulley IS now about 800
ahead of the bank. Tulley then took charge
of the treasurer's office, put in his own
funds in the National Bank and deposit
them in Parker, Crabb * Co.'S bank, but
the check was dishonored. His bondsmen
then tied him up with an injunction and
the First National was also enJoined from
paying out any county money. The final
hearing of the case comes up June 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
Only One Body, that of "a Child, Found
DereIict NesseI.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, June 10.-The
steamer City of Topeka arrived this morn
ing from Alaska. While she was at Sitka
the revenue cutter Corwin towed in the der
elicit schooner General Sigin, which was
wrecked while route from San Francisco
10 Unaaska, and from which all on board
were lost. Only one body was found on the
schooner. that of a six-year-old son Of
Manager Greenfield. of the Alaska Com
nereial Company, who. with his wife and
three children, sailed on the Inflated steam
or from San Francisco. 1t is thought all
on board were drowned before leaving the
schooner and that their bodies were after
wards washed out, as all the ports and
matches We're open. A bag containing s., coo
in gold was found on the steamer. The
Sigltn was nearly under water when found,
. but Is very little damaged
Henry q. Bryant has arrived at Yuakutat
at the base Of Mt. St. ELIAS with a party
Il five who will scale the mountain. Bry
bat is a Philadelphia and heaued a party
'Of explorers in Labrador in 1891. He was
also a member of the Peary relief eXpedi-
ton in 1894. Bryant is accompanied by $.
j. Entrikin and l.. Il. Latham, of Atlanta,
who is a member of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps. 1t is his
intention to plant the American flag on the
summit ahead Of the Italian, Prince Luigi,
who has gone north TO carry the Italian
flag uD the mountain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
AT HIS WIFE'S INSTANCE.
Robert Humphrey Arrested for Living
with Cora Mcknight.

Robert Humphrey a barber and cigar
dealer at No. 8 Indiana avenue. was ar
rested last night with a woman who gave
the name of Ella Baker. They were living
in a room at No. SS1a Kentucky avenue.
They admitted they were not married.
Humphrey is about forty years of age and
stylish-looking and has an appearance of
responsibility. The girl, after the arrest.
told Patrolmen Holtz and Wallace that her
name was not Baker. She said her right
name was Cora Mcknight. She said she
had given the other name on account of her
family Her father, she said, is a respect
able farmer living near MarIinsVllle.
The arrest was made al the instance or
woman who claims to be the legal wife or
Humphrey. This woman lives at No. 40 ln-
diana avenue. She said her husband mad
been living with the Mcknight girl for sew
eral months. In the room on Kentucky ave-
nue. the police found two bright-loolng
children, girls aged nine and twelve years.
They are Humphreys children. lie said he
had been married twice and the little girls
are children by his first wife. The legal
Mrs. Humphreys said she was married 10
Humphrey four years ago in Nelson, n.
Y. They came to indianapolis about year
ago from Columbus, O. Mrs. Humphrey said
her husband deserted her for the Martins
vile girl. Humphrey declares he left his
wife because she did not like to have his
children live with them.
The young woman arrested with l1umph-
rey at first declared there had been nothing
improper in her relations with the man.
She said she came to live in his family to
take care of the children. She met Humph-
rey, she said, last October. She was much
agitated over the arrest, declaring she
would be ruined If her parents learned OF
her disgrace. The two children were turned
over to Mrs. Humphrey who took them to
her rooms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
SULTAN STILL DEFIANT
ABDUL HAMID HAS NOT YET SUBMIT
TED TO THE POWERS.
Now Insists on Holding Several I'M
DOrtant Points in ThcssaIy-AI-
legged German Scheme.

LONDON June 1.-THE correspondent of
the Daily News at Constantnople. under
date OF Wednesday, says: The session of
the peace conference called for to-day has
been again postponed. 1t is believed that
Turkey is prepared to evacuate Thessaly
except the large tract north of the River
Peneus which includes Tyrnavo. MIouna
Pass and other important points"
The Constantinople correspondent of the
Standard says AT Tuesdays conference of
the ambassadors for the discussion OF the
terms of peace Tewfik Pasha was present
armed with categorical instructions TO per-
sist in the retention of Thessaly. given him
by the Sultan personally. When the con-
ference ended the Sultan summoned his
ministers to a special conference at the
Yildiz Kiosk which sat until o'clock
in the morning of Wednesday, The
decision arrived at was that the
evacuation of Thessaly was impos-
sible, but that there was no necessity
for precipitate action. Being in possession
the Porte, it is argued was able to wait
patiently, and even indefinitely, while dis
cussing accidentally point after point with
the powers. 1t was also decided to continue
actively the preparations for war;
The correspondent Of the Daily Mail at
Athens says: Extraordinary rumors are
current as to the attitude of Germany. 1t
is alleged that the German government
seeks to overthrow the Greek dynasty and
to establish a rigorous control of Greek
finances. In order to attain this double OBJ
ject Germany wants a continuance of war
ana TO have the terms of peace finally die
tated in Athens itself. These statements
seem scarcely worthy of credence but it is
probable that Germany will continue to
press for financial control"