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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29

Ten New Cases of Fever and One
Death Yesterday.

MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 2s.-The noon report
OF the Board of Health to-day showed the
effect of the excessive hot weather of the
past six days on the populace. The number
of cases recorded for the past twenty-four
hours was ten, all of the patients having
been taken i'll from the 23d to the 26th. The
new cases are:
J. B. EASTBURN, III Savannah street
WILLIE WHITE corner New Jersey and
Marine streets.
FRANK PEAR, 1858 Savannah street.
MRS. DANIEL PETTY, Cedar between
Monroe and Eslava streets.
GEORGE STOUTSEE. corner Warren and
Charleston streets.
CHARLES LOSING.
ALBERT and CARRIE HEALY, Augusta
street, near Charles.
LIZZIE TEET, sl2 Savannah street
THOMAS WAINWRIGHT, Franklin
street. near Canal street.
The one death announced was that of Mrs.
Alma Kersh Savannah street, reported last
night. The boards summary is sixty-four
cases. nine deaths, thirty recovered and
twenty-five under treatment. The ratio of
death to cases is fourteen. Brother SYM
phorian died at o'clock this afternoon at
the Industrial Gardens and Boys School,
on Lafayette street.
The work of combating the disease goes
on uncea singly. The whole fever-infected
district has been cleaned and disinfected.
The yards, sinks and drains, streets and
cutters and the districts adjacent are now
receiving like careful treatment The eX-
odus, called, has apparently come to a
standstill. But four passengers left on the
Mobile & Ohio this afternoon and not more
than half dozen on the Louisville & Nash
vile this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29

plants trip up the road tomorrow at the
invitation VI the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company with a view to securing a modifi-
cation Of existing guarantees will settle
one way or another whether or not trade
is to stagnate for several weeks longer
or whether ii is partially TO be resumed at
once. The trip will also setsle the question
of whether or not New Orleans VIII raise
the bar against Galveston and other Texas
points In the meantime the Crescent city
finds itself incapable Of shipping pound
OF freight to the Lone Star State. The re-
suit Of this. Of course, is the throwing out
of employment of hundreds OF thousands Of
tories, the big wholesale and retail stores,
have 2ll dispensed with the services OF
many Of their employees until business again
Now that the force of the senseless shot
gun guarantees is being felt, the theaters
and hotels more than ever are a thermome-
ter of the injury that is being done this
city The hotels have done away with all
extra help and have cut off many of their
hands. and every man. woman ana enid
is living with rigid economy. The condition
of affairs is due entirely to the strict shot
gun guarantees that have been established
in the country. when there IS no poSslDle
chance OF an epidemic here. 1t IS prob
able that there have left town some ten
thousand people, but there are still here
not fewer than 275.O00. and even those who
were frightened a fortnight ago have come
TO realize that there is no possible chance
whatever for an epidemic.
The Board of Health for the State of Lou
isiana announces the status of affairs in New
Orleans tonight as regards yellow fever TO
be as follows: During the twenty-four hours
ending Tuesday, Sept q. at p. M there
were: Cases of yellow fever, 10; deaths. 2;
total cases of yellow fever to date, 17s; total
deaths from yellow fever to date. q.
Dr. Olliphant and DR.. Carter, with DR..
Guiteras, will leave in the morning for a
trip along the Southern Pacific and the
Texas Pacific roads to confer with local
boards of health along the line and also
TO meet DR.. Swearingen, the Texas health
officer.
Mrs. A. T. Wimberley's case was declared
TO be yellow fever to-day, but she is now
almost convalescent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
LIGHTHOUSE EXPERIMENT.
Ship to BE MOOred ON One of the Most
DANGEROUS shoals on the COast.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S-Captain Aug.
E. Blom has left Washington for Norfolk,
Va, where he will take charge as master
of the New Diamond shoal lightship, No.
SO, on her arrival to-day or tomorrow from
New York. 1t is expected that the ship will
be on her station by the Goth inst. She will
be anchored in thirty-five fathoms of water,
five and a half nautical miles from the
easterly point of the other Diamond shoal
Besides the master and the mate, the yes
sci will have a crew of eleven men, This
point is regarded by navigators as one of
the most dangerous on the Atlantic coast
and owing TO the shifting sand bottom
doubts have been expressed of the ability
of any anchor to hold a vessel in place
during a gale Commander Geo. e. Wilde,
the naval secretary of the lighthouse board,
who designed the vessel, has taken every
precautiOn against failure. He has provided
a mushroom anchor weighing 5000 pounds,
attached to 1,090 feet OF cable chain, the
whole weighing seventy-two tons. The ves-
sci is partly relieved of this great weight
by wrought steel mOOring buoy of over
LOCO cubic feet measurement. 1t is eX-
pected that the anchor in short time Will
have sunk in the sand to a considerable
depth and so form a perfectly stable an
chorage. News of the performance of the
vessel during the first heavy gale will be
awaited with interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
OPIUM AND YELLOW FEVER.
Chinese "Pipe Hitters" Declare the
Habit viii XIII the Fever Germ.

j.. ii
LAS a rule those who denounce opium
smoking most vehemently know little or
nothing about it," remarked Wong Chin
Foo to me as he lighted the little peanut
oil lamp between us.
1.-The most enlightened of them he went
on, have perhaps read De Quinceys Con
fessions of an Opium Eater and deem it
a liberal and sufficient education on the
subject. The fact is that the pipe is one
of the best things in the word If you
have. just enough of it and not too much
which may also be said of potatoes and
matrimony." Fits slender fingers deftly
twirled the little bubbling bead at the end
Of the needle while he talked in a gentle,
low monotone. The bead changed tint from
black to brown, with CLEANS of gold, and
then to a dark VelVety gray as he contin-
ued to murmur: THE moralists and the
police-antithetical on many matters, but
harmonious concerning the opium pipe-in-
Weigh against it and prosecute those adj
dicted TO IL IN even a milo degree We
smoking here in a back room OF an emf
nently respectable Chinese merchants
store are not safe from raid. That is
because it is a Chinese habit, mainly. The
police would not think of interfering with
the II o'clock ceremonial in an American
merchants private office. 1t is pity that
your doctors do not, for the sake of human
ity. seek TO know the good there is in
opium smoke.
Then ensued brief period of peaceful
calm, that he was too wise TO disturb by
even a whisper. The nasal drone of
Chinese voice, with occasional murmured
responses by his friends. hoated in from
tant chant and chorus. which a few more
pipes would doubtless have made seemingly
objective.
Indeed Wong Chin Foo" said to him
when he was engaged in cooking a sec
ond bead for his own pipe, 1T is known
to me that apprecative poets have sung
as the dispeller of care the soother of
sorrow the consoler of grief, the bring
err of happiness the heghtener of JOY
the inspirer of divine hal monies and so
on, but why should doctors especially seek
the wisdom of it's knowlcdge2"
ITO save the lives of men, he replied.
Mature has been very good to man. She
has provided a myriad of things 10 benefit
him for one that will do uim harm. but
she requires that she shall know how right
ly TO employ the gifts of her beneflcence.
Indeed II may be ques toned If there is
anything that is not kindly in its use. how
ever fatal in its abuse. About opium your
chemists and doctors know much. but not
all. The medical profession would be at
loss to get along without laudanum, and
there are some thirty distinct alkaods-
morphine, codeine and the rest which
are greatly valued for their specific eff
fects. But are they not capable of sus-
pecting in the crude drug some potent
principle too subtle and volatile to be
caught in their alembics? Some gentle
spirit who can only be wooed to manifes-
tation by the adorer who invokes her WITH
the breath of flame?"
Come on the roof. Wong. and IL you
know that opium smoke is good for any.
thing but to promote blissful indifference
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as to how tomorrow is going to become
yesterday say so plainly"
Well, for one thing, 1t cures yellow
fever"
THAT is claiming much. If true 1t should
be known in Charlestown, where many are
dying just now from yellow fever, and
science is making little Roadway against
the malady.''
1T would do no good to proclaim it, The
doctors would deride it as barbarian super
stitton, since no great professor in Europe
has told them it is so. The clergy would
probably denounce the claim as a vile of
the enemy of souls, and the newspapers
likely to try the remedy except some poor
stricken Chinaman, who would calmly re-
sort to y, get well and say nothing about
well?"
None whatever, unless he should be ac-
tually moribund before he could hit the
pipe The habitual opium smoker is inn
mune against the germs of yellow fever.
He is no more endangered by that malady
surrounding him than he would be by cal
losities on the feet of his neighbors. 1t
may attack the nonsmoking Chinaman.
but all he has to do is to smoke pipe after
pipe Of opium until he is in a state of in
sensibility, and when he wakes from happy
dreams he will be well.
Il do not see why 1t should not affect in
the same way men of other races, but, OF
course, cannot positively affirm that 1t
trying it. 1t seems to me that as it is
remedy little likely to do harm 1t would be
well, and certainly would be easy, to try
it. But what does it matter? We China
men do not care to convert any one to our
ways of thinking, or to NEEDLE with the
beliefs of others, or to interfere with the
fate that brings death to every man when
his time comes. If it is written that one
shall smoke and live, he will do so
Since the recent outbreak of yellow fever
In the South has revived my recollection
Of that long-ago conversation and interest
in the subject, / have tried to find, among
the Chinese, confirmation for Wong Chin
Foo's averments. Several have cautiously
admitted that they vaguely remember
hearing something OF the sort from opium
smokers. but for themselves, they of
course, knew nothing about it, since they
were not addicted to the pipe. And they
would say so. even while standing, leaden-
eyed, at the door of a Joint" with the
smell of the opium heavy upon their gar
ments; 1t was. much for them to admit
enough knowledge of English to UNDER
stand the questions addressed to them
when opium smoking was spoken of. Sus-
picious by nature and trained by expert
ence to be especially apprehensive Of spies
hunting for evidence against their
Joints" they generally take refuge in
stolid, wooden-faced, assumed ignorance OF
everything. Enough was learned, however,
to give assurance that Wong Chin Foos
statement was not merely a "pipe dream"
but something worthy of experimental in-i
vestigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
PROGRESS of the w. G. II. U.
Frances Willard, in Review of Reviews

Frances Willard, in Review of Reviews.
Our knowledge of the correlation of the
forces in the natural world and in the
world of philanthropy has had much to do
with our devotion to that modern temper
ance reform which seeks cooperation
rather than isolation. We believe that while
everything is not in the temperance re-
form, the temperance reform is in every
thing; that each philanthropic movement
has its temperance aspect and with this
we are to deal. The alcohol-nerve runs
through every part of the great body polite
and wherever the nerve goes there the
scalpel must follow and, at whatever cost,
must dissect it out. The modern temper
ance reform moves along circular rather
than straight lines; 1t seeks harmony with
parallel philanthropies, so that all Christian
workers may have common consciousness
that they form but single group in their
devoted labors for God and humanity. Such
a concept would have been impossible save
that science has furnished Us with a work.
ing hypothesis.
We are one world of tempted humanity.
and the mission of the w. G. T. L. is to
organize the motherhood of the world for
peace and purity. for the protection and ex-
altation of it's homes. We are sending forth
an earnest call to our sisters across ali
seas and 10 our brothers none the less Wa
are no longer hedged about by the artificial
boundaries of States and nations. but we
are saying as women what good and great
men long ago declared: THE whole world
is my parish and TO do good is my re-
Ifpionf'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
AFTER THE LYNCHERS
WIFE Of ONE OF THE VICTIMS DE-
TERMINEs ON VENGEANCE.
Judge New VIII Not Agnin Call the
Ripley County Grand Jury-Meet-
ing of Glass Trust.
sneciel 10 the Indianapolls journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VERSAILLES, Ind, Sept. 2S.--Mrs. Will
liam jenkins, wife of the late William Jen-
kins. who was lynched at this place. was
tried before Squire Evans at Osgood on the
charge of larceny and there being no evil
dence against her she was acquitted. 1t
is reported that since the t'lsi she has been
seen in this vicinity two three times
dressed in mems clothing. sc impression
seems to be that sha is 4 .nirsd to be
revenged on those VINO tcok part as deputy
sheriffs in the affair at Correct. AS a re-
suit of this considerable ners BUSINESS is felt
on the part of the officers and their friends.
Aside from this very little uneasiness is
felt throughout the county on account Of
the lynching.
Judge New will not reconvene the grand
jury and will adjourn court tomorrow
morning He states that he asked Prose-
cutor Connelley to examine closely the six
ty persons who were before the grand
jury, which was done, but nothing was
learned concerning the makeup of the
mob,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
INDIANA YEARLY MEETING.
Annual Gathering of the Old Quaker
Society at Richmond.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 2S.-The seventy
seventh annual gathering of the Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends, orthodox, begins
here tomorrow. To-day the ministers and
elders held two sessions, which are prelim-
mary to the general meeting. This Yearly
Meeting has always been held here and was
established in 1921. The membership is now
about 10000. One of the interesting matters
to come up at this session will be another
proposed division Of the meeting. The MEM
bers of the Wabash, New London, Fair
mount Marion, Kokomo and Vandalia,
Mich, quarterly meetings want an indie
pendent annual gathering similar to the one
held here These quarterly meetings have
q membership of about 1900, and they want
the new meeting to be held at Marion and
be known as the Marion Yearly Meeting.
Last year this meeting appointed COM
mittee to visit the yearly meetings named
and make a report this year as to the adj
visibility of the change. II the report is in
favor of division and is adopted this year
the order for the division will be made eff
fective in September, 1898. The committee
has kept secret the contents of its report,
but 1t is we'll understood, however, that it
is against the division.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
Doings of the Hicksite Friends.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 2S-At the Year
ly Meeting of Hicksite Friends this morn
ing the state of society was further con-
sidered. Nearly all the members are free
from any touch with the liquor traffic and
also from the cultivation and use of tobac-
co. The statistical report shows the MEM
bership to be 4S7, the net gain for the past
year having been only eight. This after
noon the phianthropic committee reported.
This committee has secured for this city in
August next the most important gathering
Of this branch Of the church, the meeting
Of the Friends union for philanthropic la
Dor, the general conference of the first day
schools, the religious congress and the edu-
cational congress. The sum of $500 was APP
propriated for the work of this committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Henry Spaet tried to raise a rumpus at
the home of DR.. Fisher, at Alton, ILL., He
was shot.
The negro children were again elected
from the white schools by the police at
Alton, ILL.,, Monday
Farmers near Centralia. ILL.,. claim the
screw worms are causing deaths among
their cattle, sheep and hogs.
The settlement of the coal strike at AL
ton, ILL.,. has enabled the Illinois Glass Com
pany to put $500 men to work.
Mrs. Dorothy Lamon, of Washington. has
q cane that was carried by President Lin
coin up TO the time of his death.
Junior Order of United American Me-
chanicS day was celebrated ut the Tennes-
see Centennial Exposition yesterday.
A package of papers and periodicals re-
ceiVed at Wharton, Tex. from New Orleans
was destroyed by the Board of Health 1 he
owner was not allowed to receive them.
One hundred miners went to work in the
Des MONIES Ua) district mines, yesterday
practically being the end of the strike
there.
b. W. Tollerton. of Toledo. has heard
from his son Harry; who v as supposed to
have been captured by Swiss brigands The
sen is safe at Lucerne.
The Dawes and Creek commissions have
concluded treaty whereby the Creek In
dams agree to an allotment and change
IN their form Of government.
George II. Snow. cashier of the Cane Cod
tMass0 National Bank, has been removed
by the board of directors OF tire msutu-
ton. The directors state that the hank
accounts are ali correct.
The fire which threatened the destruction
OF Williamfeld. H.. was brought under con-
troll Monday at midnight Two blocks of
stores in the business district We're de-
stroyed The loss is estimated at SIS, 600.
Ex-Policeman John Reidy, the default
ing treasurer of the st. Louis Police Re-
lief Association, who has been missing for
three weeks. has surrendered 10 the author
ities. Reidy's shortage amounts 10 5000.
The American Paper Company of Chi
caEo. dealers in printing paper assigned
yesterday TO Frank +. Tyler. Assets $52-
eco; liabilities, about $50. 900. Difficult coll
lections are said 10 have caused the fail
ure.
Jack McAuliffe, who is TO fight Tommy
Ryan, or Philadelphia, at Scranton on
Thursday night next. was yesterday
matched to meet Jack Downey of Brook
Ign, for six rounds before the Arena Ath-
letlc Club in Philadelus.s on Oct. 4.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
PLAGUE-sTRICKEN EDWARDS.
Twenty-One New Cases Yesterday
Making $50 to Date.

EDWARDS. Miss. Sept. 2S.-Dr. Dunn.
of the State Board of H ealth, gave out the
following statement tonight: There has
been one death to-day from yellow fever
that of w. Howie. The following new
cases are reported:
Whites-Sidney Pond, jr., Mrs. Tom AS
kew, Miss Osburn, w. H. Harris ]. NJ
Rauch, Mrs. ]. w. Tatum, Hattie Col
merry Herring Colmery. l.. c. Wintherly,
Miss Marie Boxtel, Mrs. Young, Robert
Montgomery, w. II. Harris, jr., Mrs. f. NJ
Goode.
Colored-Carrie Millsaps, Emma Thomas,
Matte Marckey, Anna Coleman, Alonzo
Bailey.
Total cases to-day, q; total cases to date
is in town and in the country; number
seriously i'll, s; number convalescent and
up, 80; total deaths to date, 8. The yellow
fever situation seems to grow worse daily.
Five out of six mentioned as seriously i'll
have had repeated attacks of black vomit
The fever is fast moving down the white
male population, and at the present rate a
few immune nurses and doctors will soon
have complete control of the town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
once Headed a Mob Himself.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. 2S.-Gus Wal
tiers, young man of good family. of this
city, was this evening found guilty of at
tempted assault on little girl and will go
to the Indiana Reformatory for term
ranging between two and fourteen years
Only a few months ago when this com
munlty was startled with the story of the
asSaulting and murder of Lizzie Buente a
little country girl, Gus Walters led a posse
in the bloodhound chase for the villain VINO
committed that crime Only a few weeks
later he was jailed for attempting a similar
crime
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
Indiana Notes.

The Holiness Christian Church Associa-
ton of Indiana will meet in state confer
ence in Elwood on Sept. 30.
The Macbeth lamp chimney factory at
E,lwood resumed operations In full yester-
day after a shut down of three months.
Fully seven hundred hands were put to
work.
John Fleming, a horse thief arrested Aug.
% at Gas City for stealing horse and bug
gy from Thomas Williams, of Wabash was
given two years in the penitentiary yester-
day by Wabash jury.
Rev. c.. M. Baugh, pastor of the Chris
tian Church at West Middleton, Howard
county, has resigned his charge and will
take a position in Colorado. His wife OBJ
tanned divorce from him a few weeks ago,
she being a wealthy widow whom he mar
ried soon after coming to Kokomo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
johnson viii Plead Insanity.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Sept 2S.-The grand jury
of Grant county to-day returned an indict-
ment for murder in the first degree against
Noah Johnson for killing Tacie Mang, and
he will be taken to Marion for arraignment
Thursday. Young Johnson now, for the first
time, realizes the encrmlty of the offense
and is crying almost constantly. Asbury
Steele has been retained to defend the pris-
oner, and II is understood that insanity will
be the plea. More than three thousand
people attended the funeral of the murdered
girl at the M. Il. Church. situated less than
three hundreds yards from the scene of the
tragedy. Elder Fisher, who preached the
sermon, pleaded earnestly against mob vio-
lence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
Movements of Steamers.

QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 28.-Arrived: Bel
genlaEd, from Philadelphia for Liverpool
and proceeded.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-Arrived: Noord-
land. from Antwerp. Sailed: Bowie, for
Liverpool.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2S.-Arrived: Werk-
endam, from New York.
MARSEILLES, Sept 26.-Arrived; Mas
siia, from New York.
CAPE HENRY, Sept. 2S.-Passed in:
Dresden, from Bremen.
MOVILLE, Sept 2S.-Arrived: Anchoria
from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2S-Arrived: Gallia
from Boston.
HUELvA, Sept. 25.-sailed: Majestic for
New York,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
Steam Yacht Sunk.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 2S.-The steam
yacht Glance, under charter by the United
States army engineering corps as an in
spector's vessel in the breakwater construc-
ton work, was sunk this afternoon in the
Gus Drillard, engineer of the Glance, was
drowned. Major Symons, United States en-
gineer, and Captain George Moon, jr., of
the Glance were rescued from drowning
by the government life saving crew. j. c.
Quintus, of the engineering CORPS saved
himself by jumping from the Glance to the
Gazelle. The boat sank so quickly that
Drlllard was carried down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-29
Amendments Defeated.

TRENTON, N. j., Sept. 2S.-Returns up
to midnight indicate the proposed three
been defeated in the election held in this
State to-day. At II o'clock the returns at
hand show the vote to be 4,45O for and 2O,O0O
against
The anti-gambling and race-track amend
fnent and that giving women the power to
vote at school elections were the main points
al