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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-21
I: MORY
COLL: GE:
A. GREAT KENTUCKIAN.
He Made whisky which Captivated
Henry Clay.
OXFORD. GA.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.

From the Chicago Tines Herald.
Some months ago, while travelling in
Kentucky, / visited the grave of James
Crow, which is situated up in the noun
tains, near Vanceburg. 1t was and is In
dilapidated condition. There are neither
head nor foot stones to Indicate the name
of the man who died and whose remains
were there inferred. Molly cotton-tailed
rabbits made their homes in the sedge
grass that grows around 1t. The day 1
visited il some vultures had brought car
rion near by and were having a kind of
can-can dance when my friend and I APP
preached and frightened them away.
Around the grave are rocks and crags and
misshapen trees. The hillsldes where the
grave stands slants gradually TO a creek,
whose waters are as clear as the eyes of
a blue grass baby. Rattlesnakes abound
by the hundreds in that vicinity. The rat
tie of these venomous reptiles, the cav
of crows, the whirr of passing woodpeck-
ers, the babblng of silvery streams over
limestone, the signing and sobbing of the
wind as it travels through the branches
of deformed trees, are the only sounds
that reach the ear. Away off to the east
are the mountains where the Hatfeld-Mc-
Coy feud has been going on for quarter
of a century. Looking to the west may be
seen the tops of the oaks under whose
branches was fought the great fight be-
tween Col. Johnson and the Indian chief,
Tecumseh. 1t is a weird spot
And who was James Crow? Crow-Jim
Grow? Back in the thirties he moved to
Kentucky, fresh from college at Edin
burgh, Scotland, where professors teach
chemistry. The war with the Indians was
over. McCreary and Hendricks and John
son and Boone and other pioneers and
path-finders had, long before, made the
way peaceable and convenient for immi-
grants. They had chased the noble red
brother westward-across the Platte and
the Missouri and the Mississippi. Corn
grew on the mountain sides and in the
valleys when Crow went into that neigh
borhood, where but a few years before,
the savages walked and stalked and
slaughtered Time made wonderful and
excellent changes in Kentucky those days,
just as has been done In the last two
years. Crow watched the crystal waters
trickle down between the rocks He saw
the corn blades wave in the sunlight. He
watched immigrants with covered wag-
ons and thirsty looks. pass on in the direc-
ton of the setting sun Thoughts came
10 him during the stiffness Of the long
nights. Thoughts bring action and action
brings res's,ts. SO, In time, he had bridled
the waters that flowed by his modest
cabin, shelled the corn that the squirrels
had left unmoested in the valley beneath
him, and had constructed in a crude way
pipes and watts. Then he ground up the
corn, poured the water upon it. boiled it
and then allowed the residue to ferment.
In time he bottled IL and sold 1t. Travel
ers tasted 1t and smacked their lips. His
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-21
THE BASE BALL LEAGUE.
Election of Officers and other Pro-
ceedings of the Meeting.

Election of Officers and Other Pro-
ceedings of the Meeting.
New York, Sept. GA meeting of the
Atlantic Base Ball League was held to-
day at Newark. There was a long wran.
gle over the retention of the Athletics in
the league. This, it is said was finally
settled.
President Barrow was reelected and
Messrs. Ellis of Newark, Wood of Hart
ford, Spurrier of Lancaster were elected
directors The Soby cup was awarded to
Lancaster, Newark refusing 10 play for it,
The circuit remains the same as the past
season, with the exception of the Ath-
letics.
Sharsig has been given until Nov. ] to
locate the Athletic franchise in Worcester,
Harrisburg or Wilmington, all three hav.
ing bid for it. The league meets in Phil
adelphia during November.
The meeting also authorized the transfer
of the Paterson franchise to a local syndi-
cate. Each club put up $500 as guaran-
tee to go through the season. BILLY Shar-
sig, the owner of the franchise of the
Athletics of Philadelphia, stated that be-
sides Worcester, Harrisburg and Whining
ton, he also had an offer from Allentown,
Pa.
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COURT AT BAXLEY.
Heavy Docket-Judee

Heavy DOcket-Judge Sweat
Charged the Jury rs to COnvicts.
Baxley, Ca, Sept. 20.-Court convened
at 10 a. m, Hon. J. L. Sweat presiding,
and the following attorneys in attendance:
Solicitor General John N. Bennett, ]. C.
Mcdonald, Wayqross, Ga; j. L. Bishop,
Eastman; e. d. Graham, McRae. Hon. w
G. Brantley, Brunswick, Ca, aud the local
bar.
The civil and criminal docket are both
large. The judges charge was an unus-
ually able one He touched at length on
the convict question, and stated that in his
opinion it was Illegal to work the convcts
for the benefit of private individuals, and
ii made no difference whether the county
furnished the guards or not
He stated that it had been given as an
opinion that if the county would furnish
the guards and control the convicts that
they could be leased to private parties UNI
der such regulations But ne said that
court differed, and from the courts con-
structiOn they could not be leased at all
10 private parties but could only be work.
ed on public works. The court construed
the law upon reason. and said if il was the
law that conVicts could not be leased by
private parties, where the lessees controll-
ed them, il would not be good reason for
the law to say that it could be done If the
counties furnished the guards. And, in
fact, there was no law that the court
could find that would warrant that con-
gtructiOn
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The situation at Edwards.

Edwards, Miss, Sept. 2O.-New cases
since last report
DIR. Wallace Champion, John Guy.
Frank Angelo, Mrs. D. Rattliffe, Ernest
Birdsong, Mrs. Emery, Mrs. Frank White.
Jesse Sharp (colored), Mary Leonard (col-
ored), Cynda Garrett (colored), Louis
Thompson (colored).
Total number yellow fever cases regis
tered fifty-four
Col Robb is reported very sick. Nathan
and Hudaken also quite sick. They re
Gently came here from Louisville. All
other cases reported are doing well. Ev-
evrything is moving along smoothly, and
every one working tremendously together.
The quarantine is as strict and effective
as it is possible to make it. DR.. Purnell
is IN charge. DR. Waldauer of Vicksburg,
Dr. McCallum, DR.. Rattcliffe and DR..
Pool, local physicians, deserve especial
praise for their untiring zeal DIR. Wa
dauer is fumigadng infected residences
and distributing disinfectants where most
needed.
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ODD FELLOWS CONVENTION.
Large Gathering of the Order Vow
in Session i'm Springfield.


Springfield, Ill, Sept. 2O.-The Sover-
eign Grand Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, holds its annual session here
this week. Delegates from every state,
and many from Europe. Canada, Austria
liza, and other foreign places are present.
The opening session was held this morn
ing in the representatives hall of the state
house, ex-Adjt. Gen. Alfred Orendorff pre-
siding Gov. Tanner delivered an address
of welcome for the state; Mayor Lorene
Wheeler, for the city.
Addresses were made by Hon. George c.
Rankin of Monmouth, grand master; S.
d. Murphy of Bushnell, grand patriarch;
Mrs. May ID. Stone of Vandalia, president
of the Rebeksh assembly.
Grand Sire Fred Carleton, Austin, Tex,
responded to all the welcoming addresses.
AT the afternoon session, the following
appointments were made: Assistant
grand guardians, Henry A. Stone Illinois;
Charles Kahn, Texas, and Jasper Grim
stead, Illinois; assistant messenger. Frank
S. Emmerson, South Dakota; custodian of
secret work. John w. Gooden, Vermont;
assistant custodian Of secret work, VIII
liam Mason, Iowa; official reporter John
w. Bourlet, New Hampshire.
One of the most important resolutions
presented and referred instructed the as
semblage to bring up the Daughters of
Rebekah ritual
Richmond, Detroit and Boston are work
ing hard to secure the location Of the next
session, with chances favoring Boston,
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MANY CASES, BUT NO DEATHS.
CONTINUED from First Page.l

vessels from New Orleans. Surgeon Car
ter has arranged train inspection of all
vessels leaving New Orleans.
The poStoffice department has received
information that the Mississippi state
board of health has quarantned all mails
from the infected districts of that state,
and refuses to permit them to be dispatch
ed to their destination, even if fumigated.
Surgeon General Wyman will take action
in the matter, with a view to raising the
embargo SO far as properly disinfected
mail is concerned.
Among the advices received by DR.. Wy
man tonight were the following: Six per-
sons were admitted to the detention camp
at Fontainebleau, Miss, to-day. One hum
dred are expected tomorrow. Persons
from Mobile and New Orleans are asking
admission.
Surgeon Carter, in charge of service mat
ters a New Orleans wires that he has
effected arrangements with the Mississippi
and Tennessee state boards of health to
receive freight from New Orleans when
accompanied by certificate from the ma
rine hospital service.
One new case is reported on the dredg-
ing boat Alpha on the Kentucky side of
the river opposite Cairo, Ills. There is no
fear of the spread of fever in Cairo.
DIR. John Guiteras, the expert has been
directed TO proceed to Point Pleasant Mo,
to investigate the conditions in the dredge
boat Fleet and institute the necessary pre-
cautionary measures.
Surgeon Sawtelle at Atlanta, reports
that there are no suspicious cases in that
city. The case placed in the detention
camp on the 18th, is reported well by the
secretary of the board of health, but will
remain in the camp for ten days. Mr.. Saw
telle has consultations daily with the rail-
road officials and the state board of
health, and all are working together har-
moniOuslV
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-21
ARE DOGS PROPERTY.
The SpOrtsmen of Florida Think So
and VIII Try to Protect Them.

Maitland. Fla, Sept 20-The Orange
County Game Association has a very seri-
Gus evil to suppress and one that has
heretofore escaped proper attention. 1t Is
the practice certain person have of coax
ing and OBTAINING valuable dogs that stray
from the owners while out on a hunt. The
evil has became a serious one in this sec>
ton, and owners of valuable dogs have
had TO pay from S to $l5 to persons who
have thus detained their dogs. 1t is some.
tunes a week or ten days before any et-
fort is made 10 find an owner. and in THIS
way big bill of expenses is run up or
course, the owners of dogs heretofore en-
ticed and detained have paid these unreal
sonable claims. but in some cases under
strong protest, without suspecting any
trickery.
The evil is hard to remedy because the
common law does not recognize in prop
or manner property in dogs thus held or
stolen. And yet the supreme court of
the United States fully recognizes dogs as
property in cases where they are killed
by railroads. The supreme court of New
York and Arkansas, as wei. as several
other states, have decided that dogs are
property, and persons destroying the same
are liable in damage to the value of the
dog killed.
But the supreme court of Georgia takes
an entirely different view of the matter,
and has decided that even railroads are
not liable for dogs killed by trains. South
Georgia and Florida. especially In the win
ter season, are full of valuable dogs
brought in by visiting sportsmen or those
residing in the south, and the evil com
planned of has become so open-faced as
to demand a remedy of some kind Game
associations can secure the names of per-
sons engaged in thus OBTAINING valuable
dogs and publish them to the world If
no harsher measures can be adopted I'M
der the law
Maitland is preparing to send two we'll
known gentlemen to the insane asylum
this week. One is Mr.. Charles Simmons
who lives out in the Lake Howell settle
ment He came here from the north some
years ago, and is highly esteemed by his
neighbors, but recent softening of the
brain renders it necessary TO send him to
the asylum.
The other case is a much sadder one, be-
cause the gentleman has been so widely
known all over South Florida as a veteran
educator. Although a native of New
Hampshire he taught school in Canada for
nearly forty years, and is now pensioner
of the educational department at Ottawa.
Prof. David Young Hoyt has taught at
Sanford, Charlotte Harbor, Maitland, Sor-
rento and other important points, his last
school being at La Grange, near TitusVille
where he was stricken with paralysis some
three years ago. His partial recovery was
slow and of late he has been very nervous
which with some family trouble made him
dangerously insane last week a strong
guard being kept over him until he can be
sent to the asylum.
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STRUCK AN OBSTRUCTION.
A Lever Car Runs Into a Tree Lying
Across the Track.


Douglas Ca, Sept 2O.-Last night as
MIR. Cary NJ. Sweat and County Commits
sioner Mack kirkland were coming from
McDonald's mill on lever car on the
Douglas and Mcdonald railroad, just as
they came to a high trestle within two
miles of Douglas, their car ran into a
tree that yesterdays storm had blown
across the track and completely wrecked
the car, which was running at a high
rate of speed, being worked by three ne
groes; all were seriously hurt.
At o'clock this evening Messrs. Sweat
and Kirkland begin to show signs of con-
seriousness. No bones were broken but
both gentlemen sustained serious external
and internal bruis es.
Coffee city court is in session. The may
or held a matinee this forenoon, and two
of Douglas youEg men contributed to the
city's eXchequer for engaging in a lively
scrap yesterday, and one of them was
bound over to the city court for a INSIDE
meanOr.
Coils. W. NJ. Toomer of Waycross and
l.. W. Nelson of Nichols are in the city.
Miss Frankie Mcdonald of Garrant is
visiting Mrs. Gus l.. Brack, at her resi-
dence, corner Sellers and Coweta streets.
Mrs. Angus ellis returned home to
Failes to-day, after a few days visit to
Mrs. Gus L. Brack.
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Enect ID the Conference in 81
NO ULTIMATUM GIVEN.
Minister WOOdfOrd Only Urged That
The War Be Speedily Ended.

Minister WOOdfOrd Only Urged That
The War Be Speedily Ended.
Washington, Sept. 2O-It can be stated.
in reference to the Paris publication pur-
porting to give the substance of Gen.
Woodfords communication to the Duke
OF Tetuan yesterday, that there has been
misrepresentation on several important
points, notably in respect to an ultimatum
and the setting of a time-limit for the
conclusion of the war. Instead of fixing
the end of October next as the date for
the termination of the war, that particu-
lar date was mentioned as the time when
the Spanish court would return to Madrid
from San Sebantian and when, conse-
quently, 1t might be in order to return an
answer to the latest representations of
the United States government through Mr..
Woodford.
It is declared at the state department
that While Mr. Woodford did, according
to the original idea of his instruction, set
out the deep interest the United States
had in Witnessing a cessation of the de-
I.oraDle conflict in cuba, he did not de-
liver himself of an ultimatum, but sim
ply made a statement of our deep interest
10 q settlement of the Cuban war as a
reasonable explanation for intervening in
any manner al this time.
Mr.. WOodford's telegram regarding his
conference with the Duke of Tetuau is
now before President Mckinley.
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BONNEVILLE CAMP MEETING.
The Old Custom of Gathering on
These Grounds Is to he Revived.

These Grounds Is to he Revived.
Waycross, Ga, Sept. 2O.-The old-fash-
toned camp meetings used to be a great
event in the lives of Georgia Methodists.
and, while one or two are held in South
Georgia every year, the camp meetings
are less common than formerly. num-
Der of years ago the camp meeting tab
ernacle at bonneville was used every
year for the meetings. There were hun
dreds of people from the surrounding
country in attendance. The people went
there from every county adjacent to
Clineh county.
A few weeks ago 1t was thought that
no effort would be made this fall to have
the meetings. The Methodists Baptists
Hardshells and all of bonneville have
finally decided to hold the camp meeting
some time this autumn, and preparations
are now in progress.
This will be good news to all who have
attended one of the bonneville meetings.
The people of bonneville and vicinity are
noted throughout this section for their
hospitality, and everybody who attends
the meetings will have an enjoyable time.
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REFUGEES FOR ST. LOUIS.
Two Train Loads of Railroad People
Leave Mobile.

St. Louis. Sept. 2O.-Two special trains,
which left Mobile. Ala, to-day, are ex-
pected to reach here Tuesday morning.
On the trains are the clerks and other
employees In the general offices of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad at Mobile with
their wives and families The employees
number about 200, and they, with their
families, make a total of 1000 persons, who
will remain here until the frost kills the
yellow fever germs in the south.
Temporary headquarters of the road
have been opened up here by Acting Pres
ident Russell and General Auditor Taylor,
who have been in the city several days.
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NATIONAL COLORED BAPTTsTs

me Body Will Meet Next Year IN
Kansas City-The Days Work.
boston, Sept. 2O.-The sixth days ses-
SION Of the seventeenth annual convention
National Colored Baptists opened to.
way IN the Ebenezer Baptist church. The
Te'ouonal exercises were conducted by
-'e' d. II. Thompson of Pittsburg, Pa.
o- i'eV. j. A. Searcy of Memphis, Tenn.
Ier.3u the session by addressing the con-
owl r"' 80 on the Providence of God in Ne
t5 iN9.lSas City was chosen as the place for
''e next meeting.
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toms at Mobile to use the government res
erVation at the mouth of the harbor
there during the prevalence of yellow fe-
yer.
Gen Wilson, chief of engineers, has au-
thorized Maj Willard, the United States
engineer officer at Vicksburg, to transfer
his office temporarily to ST. Louis
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VIRGINIA'S CAMPAIGN OPENED.
senator DnnieIs Addresses "A Large
Crowd ut Chatham,

Danville, Va, Sept. 2O.-United States
Senator John w Daniel opened the state
campaign at Chatham, the county seat of
Pittsylvania, to-day, with a two hours
speech to an immense crowd.
The senator discussed tariff and the cur
rency and state affairs, but made no al
lusions to the recent lively correspondence
between himself and Gov o Ferrall
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THE CASES IN Carlo.

Pronounced Yellow Fever in n MILD
Form-Both Are Recovering.
Cairo, H., Sept. 20.-There have been no
further cases of yellow fever in this dis
trict.
The two cases in the marine hospital,
pronounced yellow fever in a mild form
by DR.. Guiteras and the hospital surgeon,
are improving, and one of them is con-
valescent. A strict quarantine is in force
around the hospital.
Experienced physicians of the epidemic
of 1878 deny that these cases are yellow
fever, and pronounce them malarie1 fever
such as prevail every season among men
working in swamps and along the river.
The state board of health, with inspec-
tors stationed at Cairo, has decided to
quarantine against East Cairo and all
southern points.
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BRAKEMAN SUES A RAILROAD.
The Macon and birmingham Asked
For $4,000 Damages.

Macon, Ga, Sept. 2O-C. j. Proctor has
filed suit against the Macon and Birmng-
ham railway for 10000 for damages to his
person.
A few months ago Proctor was a brake
man on a freight train and while dis
charging his duties was thrown from the
top Of the car at Lizella, sustaining inju-
ries that will make him a cripple for life.
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MILITARY ON AN OUTING.
iWO New England Companies Enter
tnined in Richmond.

Richmond, Va, Sept 2O-The Hartford,
Conn., City Guard, and the Worcester,
Mass, Light Infantry reached the city
about II 30 o'clock.
Ihey were met at the station by the
l'camond Light Infantry Blues battal-
loh' the First Virginia Regiment, and the
loung Mems Business Association of the
Wv and escorted to the First Regiment
FDnoly, where they were served with re-
tleShments before proceeding 10 their ho-
ne, ilAey will spend tomorrow in this city,
IN U." 20 down the James river by steamer
Wednesday,, and leave Old Point Wednes-
gay night on the boat for Washington.
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Macon. Ca, Sept. 2O.-Yard Master
Davis was examining a derringer in the
Central railway dispatcher's office this
morning, when the weapon was dis
charged, the ball taking off one finger. He
didn't know IL was loaded The bullet
came near striking Train Dispatcher Har-
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VIII Appeal to Europe.

London, Sept. PA dispatch to the
Standard from San Sebastian, says:
Inc government will take it's time to
reply to United States Minister Woodford,
and will probably lay the case before the
European powers, in the shape of an eX-
naustive exposition of the whole matter
but last year the foreign office ascertained
mat the sympathies of the powers were
not likely to go beyond platonic censure
OF the conduct of the United States. Much
anxiety Is noticeable in court and official
circles"
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A BrenIxman Crushed to Death.

Macon. Ga, Sept. 2O.-This morning at 4
o'clock Glenn Lagerquist, a brakeman on
a freight train on the Southwestern rail-
way, was caught between the bumpers of
two freight dArs and crushed TO death at
Montezuma The deceased was a native
of this city, and was esteemed for steady
habits. His remains were brought here
for interment. .l,tF 1880
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peath Fron LocIe-Jnw.

Columbia. S. c.. Sept 2O.-Ten days ago
the l2-year-old son Of 7. b. jenkins of
Sumter ran a nail in his foot. The wound
healed. Wednesday last lockjaw set in.
and to-day, after excruciating agony, the
little fellow died. He was the fayorite OF
the whole town.
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Columbia, S. c., Sept 2O.-Miss Susan
Broadway, aged IS, was killed by light
ming at Packsville, Sumter county last
night. She was sitting by an open win
dow reading. The book was burned A
sleeping child in the room was not awak-
aned
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Big Steel Plant Started.

rnontLaIire, O., Sept. 2O.-After a two
for ms smut down and expending S5OO. 900
pl,,," ne erection of blast furnace. steel
COM, ana plate MILL the Bellaire Steel
giyIng a mere started the plant to-day.
'''s employment to 500 men.
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Hard Lines In a wealthy Thief.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Youngstown, o., Sept. 18-Robert Ander-
son. through an alarm wire placed in his
poultry yard, discovered Richard Williams
stealing chickens, and beat him until he
was unconscious. Williams is worth 800
900, and Anderson will prosecute him for
burglary.
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Paris Quarantines America.

Paris, Sept. 20.--M. Barthou, the minis
ter of the interior. has instructed the pre-
fects Of the maritime provinces TO watch
particularly all arrivals from America,
with a view to guarding against yellow
fever,