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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
YELLOW FEVER N NEW ORLEANS.
CAUSES DEATH.
A Million Dollars will be Expended to sup-
press the Dread Disease.

The Louisiana state Board OF Health
kept faith with Its sister bodies of the
South and the rest of the country
when II made official announcement
Monday, as a result of a careful au-
topsy that Raoul Gelpi. 13-years-
had died OF yellow fever at New Or
leans. Uelpi was the son OF promin-
ent people. and had been spending
some time at Ocean Springs, Miss,
where he was taken down with fever
and brought home. Soon after avviv-
ing. despite the best medical attention,
he died
we have no fear" said DR.. Veins
ley, acting president of the Board of
Health, that the fever will spread in
New Orleans The Board of Health is
prepared to spend million dollars to
stamp II out. and we see no reason to
feel alarmed. People ought not to get
frightened. This one case was taken
charge of In time. and such scientific
fumlgatlon has been applied as To war
rant the hope that we shall promptly
and effectively stamp out the disease.
We have made arrangements tn issue
a circular to every practicing physi-
clan in New orleans, commanding
them to report to the Board of Health
every suspicious case of fever. We
nave made arrangements to act
promptly In every case and IL. un-
fortunately other casese Of yellow fe-
yer shall be brought to our attention,
we shall without delay notify the
world through the press of the facts"
DIR. Walmsley was disposed to hold
the representatives of the Marine Hos
pital service and the Mississippi Board
OF Health to some responsibility for
the Invasion. He said that the fever
had unquestionably been communicat
ed by the constant intercourse of
Ocean Springs with Ship Island. where
there Is a United States government
quarantine station. Ships from all por-
ticns Of the world touch there. A
large number from tropical countries,
where yellow fever Is indigenous to
the soil, report there weekly. There
has been steady and uninterrupted
communication between the island
and the coast towns. and DR.. Walms-
ley has little or no doubt that this has
been the means of bringing into Ocean
Springs the deadly germs of yellow fe-
yer. III rigid quarantine had been
maintained between the island and
shore. he believes that Ocean Springs
would now have little else to contend
with than the dengue fever. Immu-
nifty from epidemic, however, has
had tendency to breed carelessness,
and the result Is to be found I'm the
calamity which has befallen the pop
ular sound resort.
The board of health at New Orleans
Sunday declared six of the suspicious
cases to be yellow fever and announced
another pronounced case at Miro and
Esplanade streets. also In the lower
part of the city. The authorities do not
believe that the situation Is materially
and they are still confident of their
ability, with modern sanitary applian-
ces. successfully to quarantine the in
fected districts.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
DEPEND ON AMERICA.
Europe Will Need 1870, 900. 600 More Bushels
Of Wheat than Last Year.

w. p. Atwell, commercial agent of
the United States at Robaix, France.
sends to the State Department report
on the short wheat crop in France. He
says the crop in France. and, in fact.
in all Europe, has fallen much below
the average, and that II Is estimated
that the United States and Canada will
be called upon to export from l20, ,000.-
900 to 100000, 900 bushels more than they
exported to Europe last year. France
will require about 10000, 900 bushels to
meet the deficiency in that country.
Consul Heenan, at Odessa, Russia,
has made quite an extensive report to
the State Department concerning the
failure of the crops in Russia. In many
districts II has beef the wettest season
ever known and grain has been de-
stroyed by both rain and hail. Much
of the grain was not worth the ex-
pense of bindiEg. Wheat received at
odessa Is of very inferior quality.
The report predicts that little wheat
will be exported from Russia during
the season of 1S97-9S. as there Is little
available for that purpose, the old
stocks being practically exhausted and
the new crop little more than sufficient
for the home-demand. The failure OF
the wheat crop in Austria Hungary,
Roumania and Bulgaria. Consul Hee-
man continues. has brought buyers
from those countries into Russia.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
AFFAIRS in CUBA.
Consul General Lee Talks Concerning the
Condition of the Island.

Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., ar
rived from Havana on board the Sc
guranca at New York last Wednesday.
When asked as to whether he would
return to Cuba or not, the general
shook his head and said: II cannot
answer that, and l would rather not
talk on Cuban affairs until | make my
report in Washington"
There is a good deal of suffering in
Cuba" said the General, but the
Americans, numbering about l,4O0. are
being cared for from the fund of $780,
900 which was appropriated for that
purpose. They receive relief daily. and
up to the present time about $4,000
has been expended"
rs there any sign of business I'M
proving or a change for the better in
Cuba?"
mo: am sorry to say that there is
not" replied the General. And there
will not be any Improvement until the
war is ended"
when will that be, General?"
To this question Gen. Lee replied in
Spanish, a free translation of which Is.
THAT is too much for me, l cannot
say"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
THE MERCHANT MARINE.
Interesting Figures Regarding tho Increase
and Decrease Of Tonnage.

The documented merchant marine of
the United States on June 30 last num-
bered 22,6S3 vessels of 4,769.020 gross
tons. an increase of s., 400 tons over June
30. 1896. and a decrease of 275 vessels.
The tonnage of the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts is 2,647.796, a decrease of 10000
tons. The tonnage of the great lakes Is
1,410. 1903 tons. an increase of So, 900 tons.
Pacific coast tonnage was virtually
stationary. American sailing tonnage
has exceeded steam tonnage for the last
time in our history, the steam tonnage
on June 30 amounting to $500 vessels of
235S, ,55S gross tons, an increase of 81, 900
tons over the previous year. Nearly all
of this increase Is on the great lakes.
where steam vessls number 1,775, of
977.235 tons. - ,Ix
New York state has the largest mer-
chant marine, 4.857 vessels of 1881, ,743
gross tons, an increase of $1,000 tons.
The state exempts from taxation its
tonnage in foreign trade. Michigan
ranks second with 1.132 vessels of A.
COZ tons. Ohio's vessels are the largest
and most modern. 55S OF 390.052 tons.
Names fleet numbers 1871 vessels of
1923. of 1901. 222 tons. an increase of H.
600 tons. During the year 6S iron or
steel vessels of 124,395 tons were built
and documented. Vessels registered for
foreign trade number 1890 OF S05.5S4
tons. OF 72.000 shipments of seamen on
American merchant vessels before Unit
ed States shipping commissioners for
the last fiscal year, 22,500 were OF Amer
leans. $4,000 Scandinavians, 1900 Brit
ish, 5000 Germans. and the balance OF
other nationalities. Shipments at New
York numbered $4,000. San Francisco.
1850, Boston, 7.700; Philadelphia, 1000,
and New Orleans, 4.100.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
RESCUED BY LEE.
American Citizen Has Narrow Escape From
Being Deported To Africa.

Among the passengers who arrived
the other day at New York on the
Ward line steamer Yumurl, from Tam
pico and Havana. was James T. Carey.
who claims TO have seen service in the
insurgent army of eastern Cuba. He
says he represents New York paper
Another passenger was Lorenzo Wives
who was arrested last December at the
Hotel Angleterre, in Havana, and I'M
prisoned at Cabanas for five months.
Wives is an American citizen. He de-
nounces in bitter, terms the hotel pro-
prietor Of the Villamill, who is cap
tain in the Spanish volunteers. Villa
mill reported to the Spanish authori-
ties that Wives was a Cuban sympa-
thizer and caused his arrest Without
friends at hand, or means of communi-
eating with them, Wives was held at
the Cabanas for five months. when he
was taken out with a large number of
other prisoners 10 be transhipped to
Africa. but Consul-General Lee ap-
peared and picked out Wives from the
crowd and demanded his release as an
American citizen. Wives was sent To
Jail and later. through the efforts OF
General Lee. obtained his release.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
TRAINS COLLIDE.
Three Locomotive Boilers Explode and Many
are Dead and Injured.

One of the worst wrecks in the his
tory of the Santa Fe occurred three
miles east of Emporia, Kan, last We'd
nesday night. Twelve or fifteen per-
sons were killed and as many more
were badly wounded The known dead
are: Jim Brennan, engineer. Topeka:
Nate Hollister. fireman, Topeka; j. f.
SOurs. Kansas City, express messen-
ger, body almost consumed by fire:
William Frisbey, engineer; II. A. Do
ran, Emporia, postal clerk: Con
zales, fireman westbound train; Brag-
man, first name unknown, Topeka:
Ben Water. st. Joseph. Mo-. a fireman
on the westbound train, Is missing;
unknown man. tramp.
A fast mail train going east and the
Mexico and California express collided
head on. The Mexico and California
express was pulled by two locomotives,
and when struck by the engine draw
Ing the fast mail the boilers of all three
engines exploded and tore a hole in
the ground so deep that the smoking
cars of the west-bound train went In
on top of the three engines and two
mail cars and balanced there. without
turning over. The passengers in the
smoking-car escaped through the win
dOws. The front end of this car was
enveloped In volume of sitting smoke
and steam, belching up from the wreck
tight In the wreck of the car behind.
The wreck caught fire from the en-
gines. The cars In the hole burned to
ashes In no time. Climbing out of the
smoking-car several men fell through
the riffs below, and 1t Is impossible to
tell whether they escaped or were
burned to death.
The westbound train carried seven or
eight coaches, and its passengers in
cluded many excursionists, who had
been to hear Hon. w. J. Bryan speak
at the county fair at Burlingame. Mr..
Bryan himself was on the train. but
was riding In the rear Pullman, some
4U6 feet from the cars which wrecked.
He states that nothing but a heavy
jolt was experienced by the passengers
in his coach.
Mr.. Bryan was one of the noblest
men in the crowd of rescuers. He help
ed to carry out the dead and wounded
their care. One poor fellow who was
badly MANNED. called to Mr.. Bryan
and said: II went to hear you to-day;
am now dying and want to shake your
hand and say God bless you. If you
possibly can, Mr.. Bryan, get me drink
of water
Mr.. Bryan went into the fast mail
car, one end of which was burning, and
came out with the drink of water,
which he gave to the suffering passen-
ger. He brought out cushions for
others of the injured and was every
where present to minister to the wants
of the suffering.
1t is stated that the wreck was
caused by a miscarriage of orders from
the train-master. At Emporia the
eastbound fast mail train received or
ders to pass the California express at
Lang, seven miles east. Another order
was sent to Lang for the California ex-
AL. IL.
order was not delivered and the west
bound train passed on. the trainmen
expecting to pass the fast mail at En-
poria.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
LONDON's STRIKE.
Workmen Say that Poles, Huns and other
Foreigners Destroyed Unionism In America.

The engineers on strike at London
have won the cordial support of the
trades union congress, now meeting at
Birmingham, and the struggle will
continue exceptionally stubborn and
hard fought. The supposed labor stu
alton In America Is being cited as an
example or a warning, according to
the point of view.
English manufacturers claim that
In Pittsburg and other American CEN
ters of industry the thraldom of
unionism" has been shaken off; that
the employers are entirely independ-
ent of the workers and are better off
in consequence.
In England the so-called solidarity
of labor" and right to organize has
been generally admitted, and the urg-
ing of american methods" has acted
on the unions like a red rag on a bull.
They reply that where unionism has
been beaten in America II has been
done by the employment of Poles.
Huns and other foreigners. and that
the scheme will never work in Eng
land.
The ninth week of the engineers
struggle in London leaves $4,000 en-
gineers, 1000 trades unionists. 1000
non -unionists and 5000 laborers out OF
work, with strike pay amounting to
$165, 900 per week. New firms depend
cnt on engineering are stopping work
daily and some of the locomotive man
ufacturers have posted notices as fol-
lows:
Eight hours a day, with the present
rate of wages, would be disastrous to
the locomotive trade of England. in
the face of American and Continental
competition. We therefore feel 1t our
duty to counsel the men to refrain
from any announcement or support of
the eight-hour movement"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
CRAZE CONTINUES.
Expedition Being Fitted Out to Proceed to
the Klondyke Gold Mines,

The Klondike rage survives In Lon
don despite the discouraging reports.
The steamship companies say that in
quiries still are active for spring de-
partures. one vessel being commission
ed to take party by way of Cape
Horn. reaching the Klondike by way
of st. Michaels early in June. The fare
for the double journey Is $3.50. including
a s., 500 life policy. The, idea is to keep
the steamer In the Yukon district as a
foatic- hotel to avoid camping out.
Fifteen Klondike companies already
have been formed here with capital
of si0.O0O,000. of which s5,0Oo.oO0 are Of
fered to the public.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
TONS OF POSTALS.
Four Hundred Freight Cars Necessary to
Transport the Cards to Washington.

From present indications a West Vir-
ginia paper company will manufacture
all the postal cards used in this coun-
try during the next four years, and
the timber reserve or Northern West
Virginia and Southwestern Pennsyl-
vania will be drawn upon for the ma
terial to be used in the pulp from
which the cards will be manufactured.
When the bids were opened for this
contract IL was found that a former
contractor, ex-State Senator Daggett
of New York. was the lowest bidder by
about s25, 900 per annum. AS he did not
own a paper mill, the third assistant
postmaster general. Mr.. Merritt. called
upon him to designate the mill that
would manufacture the cards This
was necessary, as the freight to be paid
on the cards would count in awarding
the contract.
Mr.. Daggett named the West Vir-
ginia Paper Company, whose principal
mill was at Piedmont, with another at
Davis. II all Is found to be satisfac-
tory the contract will be awarded to
Mr.. Daggett, and IL will commence on
December / next and last for four
years.
Few people realize the size of this
contract. 1t Is estimated that during
the four years the government will re-
uuire 2.500, ,000, 900 postal cards. These
cards will weigh about 10000 tons. and
nearly 400 railroad freight cars will be
required to transport them from Pied
mont to the government supply depots.
The government will send five men to
Piedmont to look after its interests In
the contract. The value of this con-
tract Is in the neighborhood OF 500. 900.
OF this amount nearly all VIII go 70
Piedmont. as Mr.. Daggett the COM
tractor. will be satisfied with a nice
profit for his enterprise and pluck In
making the bid. For the common pos
tai cards his bid was less than "a cents
rar thouaand
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
wEYLER INNOCENT.
But He Declares that the Cubans are Respon-
sible for Their Misery.

Gen. Weyler. on his return to Ha-
vana the other day. talked freely to
number Of leading Spaniards OF his
policy, the first time he has done this
since he came to Cuba.
What means all the outcry against
my decree ordering the concentration
OF pacificos? Only that II was a mil
itary measure, favorable to Spain. 1t
IL not my fault II hundreds OF thou
sands of people have to die from ef-
The revolutlonists cast the die. and
thev must stand the consequences. -
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
Secretary Reeder Resigns.

Secretary Frank Reeder of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania has resign
ed at the request of Governor Hastings,
The vacant position was offered to Col.
James III. Lambert, the present insur-
ance commissioner. but he refused the
office.
David Martin, of Philadelphia. has
been appointed to fill the position OF
secretary of the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania.
State Chairman John p Elkin retired
as deputy attorney general OF Pennsyl-
vania Friday, and Colonel Wilbur r.
Reeder of Bellefonte was appointed his
successor.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
CAPITAL oLEANINos.

Secretary Alger returned to his desk
last Wednesday after six weeks alb
sence. He said. adopting a military
simile. that general prosperity had as
sumed full command Of all forces OF
the United States throughout the
country He was impressed with this
evidence wherever he went.
S. N. ID. North. OF Boston, has been
selected as the superintendent OF the
next census and his appointment will
be made as soon as the necessary leg
islation can be enacted. The president
ID said to favor the establishment Of q
permanent bureau OF census.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
To stamp Ont Sect tarianism.

the czar's commission to consider the
introduction OF universal and compul-
sorry education throughout the empire
comes a strong crusade on the part OF
the Russian bishops to stamp out Sec
tarianism. The bishops have agreed
to demand OF the csar that Tolstoi and
his followers be prosecuted. that the
sectarian schools be closed,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
Famine in ireland.

The Daily Nation" after getting a
letter from every pastor of a parish In
rural Ireland. says: "Since black ~,
the Irish laborer has never faced a
winter more fun of privation." The
harvest is as bad as can be in the west
of Ireland, and II Is pretty sure there
will be not only a food but a fuel
famine. Not only are the potatoes
rotting in the ground. with the grain
crops beaten down by rain and not
worth reaping: but the turf cut will
not dry. Unless there Is exceptional
weather within the next few days
n famine Is a certainty.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
stole the Magic Stone

The Blarney stone has been stolen
and the Irish people at Atlantic City.
N. J.. are up In arms. More than that.
vandals have desecrated and attempted
to burn up Barney castle. The castle
was 9 Boardwalk amusement at the
ocoan resort. where section OF the
genuine Blarney stone OF Ireland. re-
Gently shown At the big Irish fair In
New York. was on exhibition. Late
one night thieves entered the place.
dashed the decorations with knife,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
Disastrous Wreck.

A disastrous freight wreck occurred
on the Iron Mountain road at Hanson,
/. T., a small station west of Vanbu-
rem, Ark. Sunday. resulting in the
death of seven men and the serious in
jury of six others, two of whom will
die. The dead are: William Fame.
Charles Fame. Douglass Anderson.
John Johnson, Bore Henderson. Frank
Hamilton, III. A. Walton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-15
epaniards Fight Sick Men.

Reports allege that the Spaniards
continue their warfare against Cuban
hospitals with a vengeance. Half a
dozen Of these places have recently
been raided In different parts of the
island, their inmates ruthlessly slaugh-
tered. and the buildings burned. Wo-
men, children and sick men were gen.
orally the victims.
The times., 1897-07-20
The Milk in the Cocoanut.

Madrid dispatch informs US that the
press OF that cityexpresses much sympathy
with England in connection with the "sher-
man incident, and "cnticises the con
duct Of the American Government asHkely
10 lead, sooner or later, 20 energetic action
on the part or the powers TO check the
aggressive tendencies OF Amenca's new
foreign policy
The majority OF American newspaper
readers who have seen the dispatch in
question without doubt have regarded il
as 'bosh;'' nevertheless it may contain
meat for reflection, aud We think It does
The incident to which reference s made
was too strange and unprecedented to
carry the motive fer it, necessarily, upon
its face. The people now in power at
Washington may be considered as unused
to the courtesies of diplomatic correspond
ence, but they have plenty OF subordinates
who have been trained in and know all
about them, and who would have been
resorted to for The purpose of putting the
text os the Sherman note into appro-
pirate and decorous language If It had
not been Intended and desired to have 1t
appear exactly as boorish and affronting
as it was sent.
The American public has not forgotten
the Cleveland Venezuelan war message, nor
the terms OF studied insult to Great Britain
in which 1t was written. Since then they
have learned what it all meant; that 1t
really was part OF a plan prearranged be-
tween Washington and the British foreign
office to prepare the ground for the ar
bitration treaty which followed. In pre-
The times., 1897-07-20
THE ENvIOUs CANADIANS.
Angry Because Making Nothing Out
of the Finds at KIondfke.

Vancouver, B c., July 19.-There is
great excitement In British Columbia owing
to the fact that Canadians are ma king
nothing cut of the fabulous finds in their
own country Live Americans have been
the pioneers in the Canadian Yukon, as well
as at Kootenai,
Prominent men and the press are de
manding that the Dominion government
place customs officials at the Canadian
passes. At present Americans are Pay
Ing no duty and are getting their goods
in Seattle and other American towns, to
the great loss OF British Columbia.
The climax was reached today, when
Mr.. Percy, a wholesale merchant of Vic
toria. organized a company In an hour
which guaranteed to raise $4,000 The
company then wired the Dominion gov
eminent: "We will give the Dominion
government $4,000 a year for ten years
and pay all expenses for the privilege of
collecting the legal customs at the Ca
madam passes
The government will, no doubt. be forced
to accede to the clamors of the British
CoIumbians, and the trade will be diverted
to Canada.