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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
SENATE IN SECRET SESSION.
Wv 40 MINUTES SPENT IN LEGIs-
LATIVE SESSION.

inc That Time Nearly 200 Bills
Introduccd-Many Others Re
TOD Back From Committees.
mo Four Unpassed Appropriation
nuIs referred to COmmittees-A
nosoIution Agreed to Calling on
s,cretary of the state sherman For
.,e correspondence in the Ruiz
case.
,,..sbington. March 22-The legislative
ton Of the Senate to-day lasted but
9s,,,. minutes, the arbitration treaty be-
IN the United States and Great Brit
~ na,ng taken up thereafter behind clos
ed doors
- the short open session nearly 200 bills
-.-e introduced and many others were re-
..toa hack from committees. Including
=. latter we're the free homestead bill
..d the immigration bill, with the pro-
,..-,,, as TO Canadian laborers eliminated
,o,b of which were under consideration
- the last congress. the latter failing to
ho,ome a law, owing to President Cleve-
lands veto.
THE four great appropriation bills. the
ogrieultural, the Indian, the sundry civil
and the general dololency
t,ue5 for lack of Mr.. Cleveland's sigma
,rre which were re-introduced and passed
,,.t week by the House, were referred to
rho committee on appropriations.
The House Joint resolution was passed
svtending until December next the inves-
.i,atton as to the use of alcohol in the arts
Nv Joint commission of congress.
A resolution was agreed to calling upon
.be President for the correspondence be-
tween this government and Spain, and be-
tween the state department and Consul
General Lee, in regard to the arrest, I'M
nrisonment and death at Guanabacoa,
cuba of Dr. Ruiz and inquiring what
stems have been taken in the matter.
Al $40 o'clock the Senate adjourned I'M
nj tomorrow.
The resolution regarding the Ruiz case
mas introduced by Mr.. Allen, pop, of Ne
braska 1t grows out of the belief that
Secretary Sherman will furnish the Sem
are with the correspondence in this case,
which was refused by Mr.. Olney when
the Senate. on Feb. %, last, passed a
SIMILAR resolution on the motion of Mr..
Mills Of Texas. At that time Mr.. Olney
sent to the Senate a statement of al
leped facts made up from the correspond
ence but declined to send the correspond
ence on the ground that it would tend to
iniure the prisoners referred to therein,
and would be incompatible with the pub
lie interests.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
IN sTAID PHILADELPHIA.
How Some Prize Fight wagers Were
Paid.
From the Philadelphia Record.


From the Philadelphia Record.
In a big dry goods establishment not
far from Eighth and Market streets the
grind OF business and the dreariness OF
the weather were mitigated yesterday by
the payment of wagers on the Fitzsim-
mons-Corbett mill" No money changed
hands, for there were no money bets But
some very funny forfeits were made good.
The betting craze had started among the
cash boys AS a result of his faith in
the pompadour beauty of the Pacific coast
one lad was obliged to make the circuit OF
the outer aisles OF the store four times,
carrying In his mouth piece Of soap. In
his case "foaming at the mouth, was no
mere figure Of speech. A very long and
very slender youth. who had moderated
the prowess of Mr.. F4tzsimmons had to
roll up one leg Of his trousers above the
knee and parade the ajsles for one hour.
The contagion of enthusiasm spread TO
the "saleeladies." A stately young wo-
man, who wears eyeglasses. paid for her
misplaced confidence In Corbett by getting
down on all fours aud trotting acrnss one
of the aisles directly In front of bald and
dignihed fioorwalker; while another girl,
who knows that she has beautiful eyes,
was compelled to wear a green shade over
one of the said optics for thirty minutes
Similarly comical penalties were numer-
oua.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
NOMINATED ny THE PRES1DENr
Binger Hermann Named For Com
missioner of the Land Office.

Binger Hermann Named For Com
missioner of the Land Office.
Washington, March 22.-President Nc
Kinley to-day sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations:
Binger Hermann of Oregon to be COM
missioner of the general land Office.
Joseph l.. Bristow of Kansas, to be
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
Ernest G. Trimme of Wisconsin, to be
fifth auditor for the state and other de-
partments.
Commodore Joseph N. Miller. to be a
rear admiral
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations:
Gen. Powell Clayton of Arkansas, TO
be minister to Mexico.
William NJ. Osborne of Massachusetts,
10 be consul general at London.
John X. Gowdy of Indiana, to be con-
sui general at Paris.
Joseph II. Brigham of Ohio to be as
sistant Secretary of Agriculture
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

precious woods The Cretan dogs rivaled
the hounds of Sparta, and from the Gre
tan wild goat sprang the domestic
breeds. Ptolemy, Pliny, Strabo and 9th
ers made the circuit of the hundred
cities and recorded the beauty and pros
perity of the island.
Crete held aloof from Greek and bar
barlan alike: absorbed in commerce, she
needed not the desperate need of Greece,
took no part in the Persian and Pelopon-
nesian wars, and reared no poets or ar
lists to give her q share In the great re-
ward But she could not hold aloof from
Rome. Sixty-seven years before our era
Quintus Metellus destroyed the hundred
cities and annexed the island to q Roman
province. Her unheroic people had be-
come degenerate-the byword of the ma
lions for lying and debauchery. A CEN
tury later st. Paul, in his epistle to II
tus, thus records their III repute: "One
of themselves, a prophet of their own,
said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts,
idle gluttons."
After harboring gods and heroes and
furnishing the battle-ground for Titanic
wars, the latter adventures of the island
seem comparatively commonplace. Its
first appearance in Christian history
takes the tone of the heather tales; for
Titus, whom ST. Paul left in Crete to be-
come its first bishop, Is said 10 have per-
formed the same service for the island
which earned for st. Patrick the graft
tude of ireland. Crete remained no
man province until the year S28. when IL
fell into the hands of the Saracens and
became most formidable headquarters for
pirates. II was no easy task for its old
Byzantine masters to reeonquep II after
a century and a half of masterful law
lessness In the partition of the Greek
empire after the fall Of Constantlnople, In
1904. Crete fell 10 Boniface, Marquis OF
Montferrat. who sold il to the republic Of
Venice.
II was not until 1915 that the Turks
made any effort 20 wrest the island from
Venice, and not until 1899 that they sue
ceeded. II the Venetian rule had been
oppressive the Ottoman rule proved bar
barous, and Crete became the worst-gov-
erned province I'm the sultan's empire.
Thus, when Greece revolted In 1921,
Greece raised her standard also. But she
won only ten years immunity from Turk
ish misrule; since 1870 the sultan has
been once more her master. But he is
always a foreign master, and the Gre
tans are always rising In arms against
him. After two centuries Of Turkish rule,
Greek is stll the language OF the island.
and scarcely one-ffth OF the people are
Mohammedans.
The persistence OF the race type In
Crete mas been remarked by many writ
ers. Certain customs and garments OF
the peasantry OF to-day we're observed
by Plny and even more ancient travel
ers; perhaps they were instituted by the
great King Minos himself. From begin
ming to end the Cretans have lived adj
venturously-hghtin sailing. daredevil
ing, occasionally luxriating. But Of what
avail? They have had no poets 10 make
music OF their history no architects 10
praise IL. no painters TO picture Il. And
80 to-day their beautiful island might
HHr4 fuNs he nj l.I1 -
scarcely know II had lost anything.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
-S-1o-S----
FOUR FAVORITES IN FIRST.
Warm weather and a Heavy Track
Mt New Orleans.

Warm Weather ana a heavy Track
at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La, March 22.-Warm,
cloudy weather ana heavy track mark
ed the sport to-day. Favorites won four
Of the events. The attendance was $500.
Summaries follow:
First Race-Six furlongs. Pirate, 1902,
Powers, 20 to l, won by two lengths, with
The Sculptor, 1O5, CaywOod, even, S. cond
and Pat Morrissey, "a, T. Rurns, to /,
third. Time 1872. Hard snburg, Pop
Dixon, Gluck. Ruth, Trixie, Proverb,
Tern, Sister Florence and Boule also ran.
Second Race-Mile and a sixteenth. Go
mez. g. j. Hill, 2 to l, won by four
lengths, with Kenston, 81, Dorsey, 8 to l,
second by a head and Nobilis,' +104, T.
Burns. z to /, third. Time LIS. Mauri-
thus, Benefit, Nairete, Appleby, Merry
Saint Miss Miles and Beware also ran.
Third Race-One mile and twenty yards.
Rob Roy II, Sc Songer, u to l, won by half
q length, with Jack the Jew, 103, J. Hill,
6 to ), second by a nose, and Al Miles, 80
Dorsey 20 to l. third. Time ISL. Will
Elliott, Little Billy, Amber Glints, Plutus
and Gunwad also ran.
Fourth Race-Seven furlongs. irish
Lady, l05, Dorsey, even, won by three
lengths, with Albert s., 80, T. Burns, 4
to l. second by ten lengths and Orinda,
NO, J. Hill, to l, third. Time 1872 Paul
Pry, Dick Behan, Cousin Jeems and Ma
ME Callan also ran.
Fifth Race-SiX furlongs. Mamie Lord,
no, ]. Hill, to 3, won by length, with
Pert, 10S, Caywood, 10 to l, second by two
lengths and Oily Gamin, 1O4, A. Barrett,
10 to l. third. Time 1:19. Ben Waddell,
Hibernia Queen, Mike Kelly, Victories,
Julie dor and Verdi also ran.
Sixth Race-Seven furlongs Elkin 104,
Campbell II to 5, won by a length, with
Dawn, SO, Dorsey, II to 5, second by a
length and Ollean. 102, Powers, to 2.
third. Time 1:S4&. Stella B. and Sugar
Cane also ran.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

Mr.. David =. Harris and Mrs. Juanita
Duckworth OF Tampa, Fla, were married
a day or two ago by Justice Patterson 81
the latters office, on Drayton street. A
license was procured by the groom from
the ordinary's office and the marriage was
performed al once. Mr.. Harris stated
that he was a resident Of this city and
that his bride had recently come here
from Tampa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
BIG FAILURE IN TEXAS.
One of the Richest and oldest Firms
in the state Assigns.

Denison Tex, March 22.-Martin, Wise
& Fitzhugh of Paris, Tex, to-day made
a deed of trust. conveying all their prop
erty to a trustee for the benefit of their
creditors. This firm is one of the largest
and oldest cotton firms in the south. They
are financially connected with the Denson
cotton mills, an unfinished institution,
that represents capital already expended
to the amount of 100000. They also have
their own cotton compress in the state,
and, withal the failure will prove to be
the most disastrous in the south for many
wears
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

=. washington, March Ex-senator Isham
=. Harris OF Tennessee. who has been Sc
ilonsE III for the past month or six weeks,
lett Washington to-day for Biloxi, Miss.
accompanied by his son. q
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
COL. JOHN CHURCHILL DEAD.
He Was the Owner of the Famous
Churchill Downs.

Louisville. KY. March 22.-Col John
Churchill, owner of the celebrated Church.
IN downs, died here last night. aged 7S He
leaves an estate valued at $4,000 to his
wife and child.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
Chair Company Assigns.

Louisville. Ky, March 22-The Louis
Vile Chair Company assigned to-day. The
liabilities are $4,000 II Is claimed the as
sets are much larger.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

Knoxville also wants a new union pas
senger station. The Southern has no out
side lines to consult there. as 1t has in
Atlanta and II may be that Knoxville's
noted In the Southern. will have its wishes
granted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
AT THE THEATER.
Denmnn ThOmpsOn's Old Homestead
TO-night's Attraction.

IO-nRhts attraction.
Denman Thompson's Old Homestead will
be at the theater tonight The play Is
not a new one. II is familiar 10 almost
every theater-goer and this is one Of the
elements Of its popularity.
The Old Homestead is perhaps the one
play I'm which there Is no villain, in which
there is no trihing with hearts, no display
of passion or anger; but, instead a poem,
preaching peace on earth and good will
toward man. In a word, II may be termed
a pictorial sermon. That there is no VII
lain does not lessen, but rather hightens
the interest IN the play. There are few
who have seen IL once but do not 90 to
see IL again.
The Young Mems Hebrew Association
will give a dramatic and musical enter
talnment tonight az Masonic hall Some
OF the best local talent will take part.
Howe and Berry's Extravaganza Com
pany will play an engagement here Fri
day and Saturday in Edward T.. Rlce's
musical extravaganza Excelsior. Jr. The
scenery and wardrobe, which was seen at
Hammersteins Olympia theater In New
York. where the play ran for 176 nights.
will be used. Joe Cawthorn, Sadie Mar
tlnot Johnny Page, Nelly Strickland.
George Olmi, Carrie Behr and n. A. Cas-
sidy are advertised as the principal MEM
bers OF the organization. Miss Martlnot
was seen here last month in the Gay Pa
risians.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
DEFEAT FOR THE ARBUCKLEs.
The wOOIsOn Spice Company Can DO
as IL PIeases

Toledo, O., March 22.-Judge Morris to-
day rendered a decision in the petition OF
Arbuckle Brothers. of New York. and
Thomas j. Kuhn of Cleveland for a re-
ceiVer for the Woolson Spice Company
The temporary order restraining the Wool.
son Company from making further reduc-
IONS IN the price of coffee is dissolved. the
apphcation for a receiver denied and the
defendants demurrer sustained.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
WOODEN MILL WHEELS wHIRL.
The Big Plants Mt Rockville, Conn.
Go ON Full Time Again.

Rockville. Conn. March 22-The big
wooden mills Of this city, including the
Aockanum, Sprngville, New England.
ROCK and American mills, practically re-
spmed running on full time to-day. The
nills have been running on two-thirds
time since February. 1895. These mills en-
ploy ZOO persons when running at full ca
pacity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

Jesse Cleveland, son OF President John
3. Cleveland of the Charleston and West
ern Carolina Railway Company, has been
elected assistant treasurer Of that com
pany.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

NOW. they speak of her as an up-to-
date girl. What do you understand by
thatT'
My boy a girl that is up to date is up
70 anything" PUCK.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

The line of the Chattanooga Southern
il being reballasted with rocks and Gin
ders from Chattanooga 10 Gadsden. This
work is costing 81 600 a mile.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Matters of Interest to Savannah and
Elsewhere.

Matters of Interest to Savannah and
Elsewhere.
The gross earnings of the Central of
Georgia Railway Company system for the
seven months ended Jan. 81 shows total
earnings of So 4OS, 7S9 a decrease of $59, 406:
| total operating expenses and taxes, 81
| 065,364, a decrease of $67, 164, and net APP
| plicabe to fixed charges, $1,51O,625 a de-
crease of $127,457.
Mr.. A. L. Reed, district passenger agent
| for the Atlantic Coast Line, with head
| quarters at Washington, is in the city. Mr..
| Reed was formerly located here and has
many friends in Savannah. He will be
here for several weeks on the lookout for
| the returning northern tourists, and will
make the De Soto his headquarters.
| Mr.. II. B. Plant, president of the Plant
system, left Tampa on the Olivette Sat
| urday for Jamaica. This is the last of
the three excursions between the two
places during the season by the Plant
system. Mr.. Plant will return with the ex-
curson March 80. The trips have been
well patronized by tourists.
Mr.. r. w. Hunt, travelling passenger
agent of the Southern railway, with head
quarters at Augusta, spent yesterday in
the city.
Mr.. John King of Baltimore, who died
| on St. Patricks day at Beaulieu. near
| Nice, France, was one of the most widely
known railroad men of America. His
| mother was a sister of John w Garrett,
the head of the Baltimore and Ohio sys-
tenn Mr.. King began life with the Balt-
more and Ohio as ticket agent, and
worked up TO the position as first vice
president. Later he was president of the
Erie system. He went to France for his
health several years ago. Mr.. King was
the father of Mrs. Ralph Elliott of Sa-
vannah.
The 'De Soto Limited" is 10 be the
name Of a new train the Plant system will
put on to-day between Savannah and
Jacksonville This train will run on the
schedule of train No q, which leaves here
at 4.20 o'clock in the afternoon. In fact,
1t will be No q, but will be greatly inn
proved in its service by the addition Of a
parlor car and other conveniences.
Knoxville also wants "A new union pas
senger station. The Southern has no out
side lines to consult there, as 1t has in
Atlanta, and II may be that Knoxville's
roads, through the spirit Of progress often
noted in the Southern, will have its wishes
granted.
Jesse Cleveland, son OF President John
3. Cleveland of the Charleston and West
ern Carolina Railway Company. has been
elected assistant treasurer Of that COM
pany.
The line Of the Chattanooga Southern
is being reballasted with rocks and Gin
ders from Chattanooga 90 Gadsden. This
work is costing $1,000 a mile
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-03
GOAL CARS OFF THE TRACK FINE NEW FIRE STATION N
ACCIDENT TO THE EVA LOCAL
YESTERDAY.
Telescope Into the Rear End of a Pas
senger Coach-Conductor McGuire's
Narrow Escape.

What might have proved serious
accident was narrowly averted on the
Oahu railroad, near Pearl City, yes
terday afternoon, through the prompt
action of the engineer in charge of the
local train. AS it was two coal cars
went into the ditch, and the rear end
of passenger coach was smashed up
None were injured, although Conduc-
tor Jack McGuire had n close call.
The accident occurred on the Eva
local, which left this city at 1:45 d.
m, with the Bennington surveying
party, for Pearl Harbor. The train
was made up of two passenger coach
es, four coal cars and a box car con-
tanning the stores and instruments for
the Pearl Harbor expedition. The pas
senger coaches were next to the en-
gine and the box car on the rear end
of the train
About midway between Halawa and
Pearl City the two coal cars next to
the rear passenger coach jumped the
track, and went pounding along over
the ties. The engineer, surmising
what was the trouble, put on the air
brakes, and brought the train to a
sudden stop. The result was that one
OF the coal cars crashed into the rear
end of the coach, smashing the plat
forms, guards and door, and giving the
passengers severe shaking up.
Conductor Mcclure was on the rear
platform when the accident occurred.
and rushed into the car just in time
to avoid being caught in the wreck
age. When the train was stopped the
two cars rolled over into the ditch,
bottom side up. Neither of the other
coal ears nor the box car left the
track
Luckily no one was injured in the
coaches, although some of the ladies'
were badly frightened. 1t took nearly
two hours to clear away the wreckage
and get the train started again.
Superintendent Denison said this
morning that the accident was only a
trivial affair, and that there was at no
time any danger of the passenger Goa
ches leaving the track The coal cars
were of the dump kind, rather light,
| and of the sort that are not unfre-
1uentlv spilled on the track without
any danger to the remainder of the
| train.
The Bennington survey party arriv-
ed at its destination in due time, none
the worse for wear.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-03
ANOTHER CLIPPERTON.
Island is Claimed by Three European
Nations.

. Clipperton is not the only island
claimed by three powers. An island
appeared once in the Mediterranean,
according to Science, but before the
powers got by the ears, it obligingly
disappeared. The story is as follows:
"On July 10, 1881, John Carrao, ST.
Gillian sea captain, sailing in the Med
iterranean, was amazed to see col
umn of water 500 feet in diameter
spout up sixty feet into the air. Soon
afterward dense cloud of steam as
cended to the height of 1,S00 feet.
Eight days later Carrao passed the
spot again, and found an island twelve
feet high where was previously 700
feet depth of water. At this time the
island was eiecting large quantities
of vapor and volcanic matter. and the
sea in the neighborhood was covered
with floating cinders and dead fish.
Two weeks more and the island was
200 feet high ana nad a circumfrance
of three miles. Several names were at
once given to it by marine people, and
at least three nations claimed it, Sc
rious trouble was imminent when the
island settled the dispute by vanish
ing again. At present the place is
marked on the maps as a shoal. but
shoa under many fathoms of water"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-03
\ RE DOES NOT THINK SOMAY CAUSE IN EPIDEMIC
SEWERAGE BEING DUMPED INTO
THE HARBOR.
Government Employees Said 20 be Saw
ing Time and Labor at Expense of
Public Health.

The Pilots are up Ill arms against
the men who are EN- Jloyed by The Gov
ernment to cart she sewerage to the
scows anchored back of The pilots Of
fce, on the Mail dock, To- be toweu out
to sea by the tug boat. The o1or aris-
ing from the dumping grounds is Dad
enough under ordinary circumstances,
but the charge is made that men are
lessening their labors by du npiny The
greater portion of the filth they ham
die into the harbor alongside the d ,ok
and that the water is becoming so i'm
pregnated with the filth that there is
danger of disease germs breeding
there.
1t used to be, according to the story
told by one of the pilots, that the
scows were towed out to sea and
dumped every day, but now they only
go to sea once or twice week, al
though the dump carts appear to back
down to the dock as often, if not Of
tener, than before.
This thing is getting awful said
a pilot this morning, "and unless the
Government takes prompt action an
epidemic of some sort will surely re-
suit. / have been watching the scows
and am satisfied that the keeper or
some one from the tug boat dumps
their contents into the harbor at the
landing, often to save the extra labor
of going to sea. I have known the
scows to be half loaded at night, but
empty in the morning, without hav-
ing left the dock. 1t may be that they
leak. If they do, it is high time they
were repaired. Why, the stencil is
sometimes so sickening that we are
driven from the office to seek shelter
at the upper end of the dock in the
open air. The condition of the water
is very noticeable. 1t used to be quite
clear. Now it is thick and mug
~v. and oivXes off bad odor The
tide is not strong enough to carry off
the filth dumped there.