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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
FAVORABLE TO LUETGERT
Judge TuthiII Says He viii
Never Be Tried
IN THIS COUNTRY AGAIN
The Matter of Finding a Competent Jury
viii Be the Htch-The Ques-
tion of Allowing Bail.

4 Chicago, Oct. 22.-Judge TuIthill, States
Attorney Deneen, Assistant States At
torney McEwen, ex-Judge Vincent and
Attorney Phalen had an informal confer
ence lasting over one hour in the judges
private chamber today. George Middle
ton, the manager of a museum, was in
ithe court building today and 1t was said
he was ready to schedule $4,000 and to
sign Luetgert's bonds If the noted pris-
oner would place himself on exhibition
at a salary of $500 per week Luetgeqt
Is not favorab1y impressed with the
proposition, as he believes it would injure
his business in the future.
No agreement was reached at the con-
ference. States Attorney Deneen vigor-
ously opposed the demand that the pris-
oner be released on bail. and the upshot
OF the argument was that no formal de-
mand for the prisoners admission to bail
was made. Ex-Judge Vincent said he
would lett the matter rest for two or
three days and then make formal appli-
cation. He added chat any reasonable
bond could be given. 1t was intinated
that if 1.-THE formal demand was denied
writ of habeas corpus will be applied
for. If this action is taken States AIT
aorney Deneen says that fle will at once
put the Luetgert case on the calendar
for trial again, and 1t is among the pos
sibilities that the big sausagecnaker ma y
again be on triad for his life by the mid
die of mex. week.
Speaking OF the prospects of new
trial, Judge Tutllill said:
u fancy Luetgert. will nevsr again be
tried In a court I'm this country. That
is question which must be decided upon
when the state begins to make ano.her
move. With the pubaictiy the news
papers have given the evidenaa. the
marked attention which 1t has attracted
in all parts of the country and all-the
frenzied interest which the people of Chi
cago have taken in the outcome OF the
trial since the case went to the jury,
I hardly think that the prosecution can
find twelve men who have not already
tried the accused in their own minds
and either acquitted or convicted him.
THAT is the problem confronting the
staIte's attorney now, and unless he
solves III by presenting the men, OF
course Lue tgeaIt will 60 free"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23

to Selma tonight, and their report will
bs given to the public as soon as made.
The sick man lives on Lamar street,
few doors in the rear of the court house.
He is a contractor, and built the two
houses out at the camp Of detention, but
this was more than month ago. He
has not been away from Selma, and II
he has a case of the dreaded fever 1t
must have been communicated to him in
some manner through the mail
OF course our people are excited, and
many are preparing to leave on morning
trains, but the citizens of Selma are a
unit in according full measure of praise
to the board of health. The hope of all
is that the experts will not declare the
suspect a typical case.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
N0TASULGA VACATED
Because of Case of Fever There-0pelika
Wants More Refugees.

Special to The Age-Herald
Opelii1a, Oct. 22.-Yellow fever has
broken out at Notasulga, Ala, twenty
miles south of here. State Health Off
Ger Sanders went there last night and
diagnosed the case as yellow fever. The
patient is George w. Arberry, a foreman
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad
who, with his family, fled from Mont
gomery. The case has caused the little
town to be almost depopulated.
Roanoke and Birmingham quara ntined
against Opelka to-day.
There is no fear of fever here, and the
hundreds of refugees are happy. Ope-
lika wants 5000 more such refugees as
it now has. Our physicians and citizens
invite them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
SELMA ALARMED.
A Suspect in the City, and Drs. Sanders and
Guiteras Asked to Investigate.

Special to The Age-Herald
Selma, Ala, Oct 22.--Selma keeps her
word to the rest of the state. There is
a suspicious case Of fever here, whether
1t is yellow fever will be decided tonight
or early tomorrow morning. There will
be no Montgomery business with us, or
with our doctors. Tonight the following
was given out by the board of health:
To the People Of Selma: The committee
Of public health of Dallas county con-
slider the symptoms of Mr.. H. L. Chaplin
sufficiently suspicious of yellow fever to
ask DR.. Sanders, state health officer, and
DR.. Guiteras to come to Selma for in
vestigation. Clement Ritter, M. d., E.
3. Ward. NJ. D., John p. Furnss, M. D.,
John A. McKinnon, NJ. D., committee.
A special train win bring the experts
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
CROKER ANSWERS GEORGE
Claims His Rights as an Ameri-
can Citizen.
HAS NO PERSONAL ISSUES
But Seeks Only the interests Of the Peop'e
The Campaign Guns Are Boom
ing Along All the Line. /

New York, Oct. ga great number of
political mass meetings were held
throughout the metropolitan district to-
day, and the champions for the different
mia yoralty candidates were out in force.
Senator John Ford presided at repub-
1ncan meeting held in THE Atlantic Ca
sino In this city, at which Gen. Tracey
was the principal speaker.
A Citizens union mass meeting was
held at Clermont Rink, in Brooklyn, un-
der the auspices Of the Ger,man-Ameri-
can Reform union of New York. at which
DR.. John W. Spildge presided, and the
chief speaker of the evening was Carl
Schurz. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the Tammany Hall candidates
as "notomously nothing but tools of one
man." denouncing the republican candi-
dates as equally under the subsection
of one man." Henry George as dream
er and theoifst, who has never studied
municipal problems, and whose adlninis-
tration would undoubtedly be failure"
and pladging the support of the Germans
to Seth Low.
"A letter was received from Orwald
Ottendorfer, proprietor and editor of the
New York Staats Zeitung, in which he
said: "In Seth Low we have man. who.
if 1t IS at all feasible. will bring some
system and order into the chaos which
will follow The enactment Of the charter
for Greater New York.
Henry George made the rounds of the
east side tonigllt>in a carriage, accom-
panied by his wife and two friends and
In the several halls he visited he was
greeted by large and enthusiastic audi
ences, who crowdede him with an ova-
ton.
Eschard Croker, In an interview to-
night, replied to the attack on him by
Henry George ana =. W. Dayton, IN
their stumping for the Jefferson democ-
racy.
Mr.. Croker said: ri regard the at
tacks of Henry George and his friend,
Mr.. Dayton, as the utterances of men
who have been disappointed in their
ambitions and are now seeking to hood
wink the voters in the interest of the
republican party or Citizens union. I
feel complimented by the fact that they
appear to have made me their plat
form. 1t shows how utterly lacking
they are In issues.
"They claim I went abroad. So 1 did.
I went because my health demanded It,
Had not done so would not be alive
today. I think that even my enemies
xcontlnueo on second Page)
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
Some Consular Appointments

Washington, Oct. 22.-The president
made the following appointments today:
Consuls--John Howell Carroll, of Ma
ryland, at Cadiz, Spain; Charles B. Har-
ris, Of Indiana, at Nagasaki, Japan;
William Wallace Mills, Of Texas, at
Chihuahua, Mexico: Oscar F. Williams,
of New York, at Manila, Philippine
Islands; William Martin, of New York,
at Ching Kiang. China.
Matthew b. Mcfarland, collector Of
customs for the district of Tampa, Fla.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
Fell a Victim to the Disease While
at the Post of Duty.
FOUR DEAD AND FIFTY NEW CASES
The Report From the Crescent City-More
Encouraging From Mississippi = Nota-
sulga, Ala, Has Case-Mobile Re-
ports Two Death, Ten Gases.
Special to The Age-Hera1d.

Special to The Age-Herald
Montgomery, Ala, Oct. 22.-The board
of health reported the following new
cases tonight:
Hugh McCutcheon, All Heron; Mrs.
Blggio. 430 Clayton; F. 1d Mcqueen, IS
Washington; VIM. Mcdaniel, 29 Heron;
Terrence R. Hardaway, Plant System
hospital; r. o. Parker, 507 Columbus; D.
L. Bray, Ill North McDonough; Ed. Big
gio, 4SO Clayton; Miss Mollie Mulcahy,
corner Bell and Dickinson; child of ].
Prendergrast, years old, Bell street.
DR. Guiteras, after visiting sixteen pa
tients, six of whom were old cases, re-
ported that the disease prevailing was
the typical fever. In an address, he said
the fever was not contagious; that the
germs were responsible for its becoming
epidemic
The doctor will leave for Washington
tomorrow.
THE fact that case of fever has de-
veloped alt Notasulga, forty miles east of
here, and two ARE reported at Robinson
Springs, ten eniles north, is not at all
reassuring to the people of the surround
ing country.
THE NotasuIga patient is George w.
Arberry, who lives at Ala North Martha
street in the infected district in this
city. He is a Louisville and Nashville
track foreman. Health Officer Sanders,
who visited his case last night, pro-
nounced it undoubtedly yellow fever.
Pleasant N1cAdams, who died last
might, was only IS years old. His father
was formerly superintendet of the ice
company here and IL now superintend mt
of one at Petersburg, Va He and his
mother, sister and brother started last
Saturday 70 leave here for Virginia,
but the youth had a chill just as they
were preparing to leave the house and
died last night of yellow fever.
ALI street cars stop running here at
o'clock now. The telegraph messen-
gers nor anyone 0lSS eAcepD TesalueHI
policemen and physicians are permitted
to enter the infected ward.
Mr. F. M. Billing, president Of Josiah
Morris & Co.'S banking firm, has gener-
ously rendered the use of his spacious
brick and stone residence on Clayton
street, in the center of the infected dis
trfct, for the use Of the ward as house
of detention for those who have been
directly exposed.
Or. Guiteras has been at work diigent-
Jy all day. He is a tiny. dapper lIttle
man, with cinnamon colored whiskers all
over his face, bright steel-gray eye
that shows intelligence and determina-
tion, and he moves about in a business
like way.
= The daily meeting of the physicians
was held at o'clock instead of ait noon
sn order that DR.. GuiteraH' report might
be heard.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
Wants Redwine Pardoned

Washington, Oct. Ex-senator Bacon,
of Georgia, saw the president today and
urged the pardon of Louis Redwlne,
formerly cashier of an Atlanta bank
who Is now confined In the Columbus. o..
penitentiary under a six years sentence,
which viii expire Nov. 4.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
HUNTSVILLE ACTS.
Declares Quarantine Against Memphis-Local
Officers Reinstated on-the M. & c. Road

Special to The Age-Herald:
Huntsville, Oct. 22.-The city council
held a meeting tonight and quarantined
Continued on Second Pag@)
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-23
At the Noon Hour

Lexington, Va, Oct 22.-The Mon
mouth postoffice, four miles from Lex
ington, was robbed by three men at
noon today Thirty-fve dollars were Sc
cured. The burglars escaped.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
Outgrowth of Democracy.

That trusts are the outgrowth of
democratic policies and maladministra-
ticn is very clearly proven when we see
Mr.. Roswell P. Flower, democratic ex-
governor of the state of New York,
coming to their defense. Mr.. Flower
has been, with the democratic ex-
President Grover Cleveland, notorious
ly interested in the Chicago Gas Trust.
This monopoly, together with the
Standard Oh Trust, the Ice Trust, the
Bread Trust. the Cigarette Trust. and
the Sugar Trust, aggregates combina-
tion of capital that has been fostered
under Free-Trade, Or by other demo-
cratic alliances, for the sitting of COM
petition, the enhancement of prices and
the oppression of the poor.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
One o3 Rrran,s Rreats.

In his statement in the Sunday New
York World Mr.. Bryan gave AN in
creased volume of money" as one cause
of the higher prices of farm. products.
He mentioned this as another confirm
ton of the arguments made by the BIZ
metallists. ga large: part of this
money comes from abroad he said,
and he added that IF we had enough
money in this country an increase in
the volume would be an injury"
But in the last eight months, during
which the advace in prices has occur
red. we have received no money bal
ance from abroad. On the contrary, we
have lost heavily. From January 1 to
September l the net exports of gold
were So4, ,1SS.1T9 This is a loss of ST.
a7a. .O59 more than in the corresponding
period last year. During the last fiscal
year our net loss of silver coin and
bullion was $50, ,050,30
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01

for the free coinage of silver has dis
appeared and thousands of men who
advocated 1t year ago now admit
that they were wrong. Tens of thou
sands are indicating their qualification
that it failed and / did not hear of
any who regretted his vote for McKin-
ley, sound money and protection"
What has brought this change in so
short a time?"
improved business conditions, i'm
proved confidence, improved wages and
improved prices. They have all come
steadily since the election of Mckinley
and especially since 1t became known
that protective tariff law would be
promptly passed, and have come in the
face of a steady fall in the value of sill
yer. This fact shows to even the most
unthinking that they were being i'm
posed upon last year by the statement
that prosperity could only come
through the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver and has thoroughly disgusted
them with the imposition. never saw
so sudden change in so short time -
G. H. Willam3.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
All I'm But Silver.

Lincoln Journal: Mr. Bryan ex-
plains to the st. Louis Post Dispatch
that the pops are not dismayed because
wheat and silver have parted company
as it proves what they always knew,
that the price of both is governed by
the law of supply and demand.
But he says that the rejoicing Of the
farmers over the rise in the price OF
wheat is proof that the people haven't
money enough, and ne declares that
if the farmers are benefited by the
rise in the prices of one product ''how
much happier they would be" if
everything rose with wheat He also
growls that wages ought to rise with
wheat.
This shows that the present prosper
ity which is caused not only by the
rise in the price of wheat but in the
price of corn, beef, cattle, pork, hogs,
sheep, horses, and pretty much every
thing that the farmer raises is a source
of no pleasure to Mr.. Bryan because
silver bullion, in which the farmers
are so deeply Interested, hasn't risen
any lately in price.
As for wages, when the unemployed
all get jobs, and they are getting them
very rapidly, there is little doubt that
they will participate in the rise. The
main point just now is for our indus
tries to recover the business they had
before Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Wilson and
the democratic party monkeyed with
the tariff.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
Nothing MystcriOus.

1t is very amusing to observe the
struggles CT the Free-Trade press to as
certain how the discriminating duty
clause was slipped into the new
Tariff There is nothing strange about
it. The section as read. and as passed.
was submitted to every member OF the
ways ard means and finance commit
tees by the friends of American ship
ping. The clause was revised by Unit
ed States Senator Elkins of West Vir-
ginia, and general information on this
subject was furnished to the members
of the committees together with draft
of the section by The American Pro-
tective Tariff League. There was moth
ing of mysterious nature about the
proposition; nothing accidental. 1t was
purely intentional, for the sole purpose
of extending the policy of Protection
to American transportation interests
both by land and sea.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The silver fusionists in Mr.. Bryan's
own state arc confronted with circum-
stances of the most discOuraging sort
on the very Threshold of their cam
paign. 1t was only the other day that
the widely advertised 'triangular" con-
vention was held at Lincoln with 2,70O
delegates present. and with General
Weaver, "Cyclone" Davis, Senator Al
len. Mr.. Bryan and as many as dozen
brass bands in the way of attraction.
The ink is hardly dry on the platform
denouncing the greed of the money
power, deploring the impoverished con-
dition of the people of Nebraska and
declaring the gold standard to be the
parent of miseries without number.
And now the whole army of populists
and silver democrats are forced to sec
the city bonds of Omaha-which one
year ago found no takers selling read
lily at u premium. These bonds have
ten years to run and bear = per cent.
interest The figure at which they were
sold was % per cent. higher than the
best rate which the municipality of
Omaha has ever been able to secure for
this type of security i'll the past.
DuL JIilS IL HoC dill ~ vi tiiO
State Board of Agriculture who has
been personally investigating the sub
ject asserts that the grain crop of Ne
braska is worth not less than Sl95, ,000,-
900 at ruling prices. Nebraska is not
ordinarily found among the large pro
ducers of wheat, but her farmers have
IN unusual acreage of that cereal this
year. and they will reap the full benc-
lit of the increased prices of corn, oats
and other grain. With Il better return
for their labor than they have had for
some years. these voters are not likely
to be deluded by the stupid Bryanite
cry that prosperity is impossible un-
der the gold standard. Both in their
own circumstances and the rising cred
it of the cities of their state they read
the refutation of their falsehoOd. The
republican leaders of Nebraska will be
culpable indeed if they do not make
the most of their advantage.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
supply and Deruand.

New York Commercial Advertiser:
Bryanitc newspapers throughout the
country arc ringing the changes OH
the expression supply and demand. .
They point ont that the present in
creased price OF wheat is due to in
creased demand for that staple abroad.
and insist that If the United States
would agree to- coin silver without re-
striction at the ratio of 16 to / IL de
mand would be created which would
raise the price of the white metal to
practically the same level which ex-
listed in 1873. This is Mr.. Bryan's own
contention. which he repeats when
ever he has chance. Its continual
recurrence brings to mind a familiar
proverb in which a mortar and pestle
figure. The absurdity of suppOsing
that the United States alone, without
only about one-twentieth of the earth'S s
population, could furnish a market
which would more than double the
value of the worlds silver must be
evident to all sensible men. But free
coinage advocates apparently do not
wish to be sensible. They prefer to, be
vociferouS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
TILLMAN rs WILD.
HE SAYS RETURNING PROS
PERlTY IS A MISTAKE.
Charscterlzes the Advance In Wheat
an" BUSINESS Improvement as
Hot Balloon Affair." and Predicts an
Early Collapse.
washington Letter.)

Considerable fun Is being made here
0f the assertion of Governor Tillman
that the rise in wheat is due to the
manipulation of Mark Hanna. He
spoke the other day at Troy N. Y, and
stated that he did not see any signs
Whatever of genuine prosperity. The
movement sweeping over the country
is nothing but "hot balloon affair
he said and the wheat boom merely
speculative" and designed to aid
Mark Hanna. When wheat advanced
last fall during the campaign the Pop
ocratic orators attributed it's rise to
Mark Hanna and his myrmidons,
most ridiculous charge. And now
Senator Tillman reiterates the asser-
ticn- The rise in wheat has been steady
since the country became confident
thai Bryan would be defeated. The
statistical abstract of the treasury de-
partment gives the wheat quotation in
New York on August 27, 1896 as 81
cents. Wheat is now lowering in the
eighborhood of ZOE cents, the advance
haVing been since that time fully 35
cents per bushel- The wheat crop of
the world of last year was 2.430, 1897 900
bushels and the Corn Trade News of
Liverpool estimates the present years
crop at 2,39S,OOO,OOO bushels. The ad-
vance in value of the crops of this
year over that of last would according
to Jnese iigures, he in the neighbor-
hood Of $3.50, 600 Thus Mr.. Tillman
expects people to believe that Mark
hanna can, for political purposes or
Tor any other purposes, advance the
wheat value of the world three-quar-
ters OF a billion of dollars.
Director Preston has just issued a
table showing the comparative value of
the silver and gold yens OF Japan dur
ing the past decade. One minutes
study Of these figures would have been
sufficient to show the silver senators
who have gone to Japan to collect data.
the true cause of Japan's action. Here
are he figures:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-01
D,.hone.t tobacco Importers.

From the duties upon imported to-
bacco, the government receives large
revenue. Under the Dingley Taft what
is known as filler tobacco pays from 50
to so cents per pound and wrapper to-
bacco from $1.85 to $3.50 per pound
There have been great frauds practieed
upon the government in the importa-
the present energetic policy of the
treasury department in checking them.
The most common practice of under
valuation is what is known as ''nested
goods Shat is, bale of tobacco may
contain a certain amount of wrapper
and certain amount of filters, and be
entered as filler tobacco, thus avoiding
the higher rate of duty upon the wrap
per tobacco. Another plan of avoiding
the collection of the duties is to have
bales OF tobacco similarly packed.
part of the bales being filler and an
ether part being wrapper tobacco, but
all being entered as filler
As the appraisers department gen
orally examines but one-tenth of the
importations, it will be seen that the
importer has good opportunity to
avoid the payment of duties. Within
few days the treasury department
has instructed its appraiser to examine
all tobacco imports Of certain lines.
In one Importation last week every
sixth bale was found to be wrapper to-
bacco, though certified as being filler
tobacco
This discovery only serves to illus
trate the Importance Of a Prote ection
Administration of our Tariff laws. It
has been claimed that the Government
is annually defrauded out of millions
Of dollars Oh account of the tobacco
duties. 1t is safe to predict that this
will DE corrected under the administra-
tion of Secretary Gage.