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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11

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Observer, Weather Bureau.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11

NOTICE TO CITY TAX PAYERS.
City Treasurer's Office, Savannah. Ga
oct. l, 1S97-The following taxes are now
due:
REAL ESTATE, Third Quarter 1897.
STOCK IN TRADE, Third Quarter 1897
FURNITURE, ETC, Third Quarter. 1897
MONEY, NOTES, ETC. Third Quarter
1891
MORTGAGES, ETC, Third Quarter.
1897.
a discount of TEN PER CENT. will be
allowed upon all of the above il payment
is made within fifteen days after oct. /.
1897. c. s. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11

Our double sole Russia Calf and Box Calf
Shoes for fall and winter wear displayed
in our windows are pictures to be admir-.
ed, and represent the zenith of shoe
makers skill.
The wearing qualities of these shoes ara
of the highest order, and the shapes ard
styles displayed challenges every ones
admiration
GLANCE IN OUR CORNER WINDOW
AS YOU PASS.
Our fall and winter shoes for ladies'
are here in all their beauty, and await
your pleasure. Our Children's Shoes
speak for themselves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11
DIR. AIKEN

DIR. AIKEN
Has returned TO the city
and resumed practice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.

EDDIE BALD WILL NOT GO TO
FRANCE.
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THE CHATHAM BANK.
SAVANNAH, GA.

SAVANNAH, GA.
Transacts a general banking
business, maintains a liberal saw
ings department..
Foreign and Domestic Exchange
specially.
Having a large number of interior
correspondents, we can handle col-
lectiOns at very reasonable rates.
Correspondence solicited.
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NOTICE.

Neither the master nor consignees Of the
British steamship Feronia,J Banbridge
master, will be responsible for any debts
contracted by crew of said vessel.
]. It. MINIS & CO., Consignees.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11

The Barnes Cycle Co. objected to his
leaving the national circuit until its finish,
so Bald defers whipping the French cycle
racing men for the present.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
SUCH A JAM.
Difficulty of Providing for Everybody
at the Festival Queens Ball

The managers of the Festival Queens
ball at the state house wish it distinctly
understood that no tickets are reserved
for any special persons. Everyone is
welcome to attend the ball who will con-
form to the rules by which the ball is
governed and pay the price fixed for the
ticket.
The fact is recognized that the festival
is a great public occasion and that the
ball is for the entertainment of our visit
OrS.
Unfortunately the only suitable hall in
the city is far too small. If we had the
proposed auditorium, 5000 tickets could
be issued to the ball, but experience has
proven that not more than 600 persons
can crowd into Representative hall and
dance there. So the tickets must be linn
tied to the capacity of the hail. and first
come first served. Complimentary tick
cts have been issued to the heads of the
state administra ton and prominent guests
invited by the Committee of Fifteen This
left only about 200 tickets to be sold; it is
a physical impossibility to get any more
people into the hall
Today the executive council made the
provision that both the east and west
galleries should be open to the public free
of charge. 1t had been intended to re-
serve one gallery for the newspaper men
from all over Kansas, and the executive
council were beseeched to permit this res
ervation to be made, but they would not
yield. The head of the press committee,
Mr.. L. L. Kiene, then asked the state
house people for forty seats for editors,
but with no better success. This is not
just treatment of Kansas editors by the
state administration and the blame will
have to go where it belongs.
More than half the tickets to the ball
have already been sold. 1t is more than
likely that $40 apiece could be obtained
for the tickets on the night of the ball.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
LATE NEWS OF THE WRECK
Rock Island Officials Place the Blame
of the Accident

Rock Island officials in this city state
today that the wreck near Edwardsville
last night was caused by Engineer Wood
all of the Rock Island westbound passen-
ger train running by the meeting point of
the two trains at Muncy. At the C., r. l.
& p junction, three miles out of Kansas
City, Engineer WoodaH and Conductor
Libbey received orders to meet the extra,
Union Pacific train at Muncy. This order
Engineer Woodan apparently entirely
lost sight of, and Conductor Libbey dis
covered that Muncy had been passed
only moment before Engineer WoodalI
saw the other train and put on the air.
The report that Engineer Woodall was
killed is false. He was uninjured. The
list of injured on the Rock Island train.
according to the report received in this
city, is follows:
Fireman Foley, seriously injured inter-
nally.
Mail agent. name not yet known. inter-
nally injured.
J. w. Jones, baggageman, badly bruised.
Mrs Wood. passenger, leg broken.
All Union Pacific and Rock Island
trains between Topeka and Kansas City
were run over the Santa Fe tracks last
night. The Union Pacific track was
cleared this morning.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
HORIZONS DAY.
Celebrates Its Eleventh Ami
Versary With POmp.
Flower and Float Parade Over
Mile Long.
AT NIGHT
Rock Island Shops Show Ten
Handsome Floats.
Carriages of the Ladies Were a
Dream of Beauty.

Horton, Sept. 21.-Several thousand peo-
pie were here yesterday to help celebrate
the eleventh anniversary of this city.
Front street was literally blocked with
a crush of good natured people when the
parade started at IL o'clock.
There were seven divisions to the pa
rade.in charge of the following marshals:
Chief marshal, w. H. Kemper; first di-
vision, c. c. Crewson; second, Don Jack
son; third, A Duff; fourth, J. w. Magee:
fifth, T. J. Payne. Jr.; sixth, w. ]. Brain
erd; seventh. F. H. Letson.
For mile and a half the floats, gaily
rugged out, and the beautifully decorated
carriages of the flower parade strung
out.
Ten handsome floats, representing every
department of the Rock Island railroad
shops in Horton, took the leading position
in the great procession, following the
Horton band of twenty-five members.
Then followed handsome floats, represent
ing the business institutions of Horton.
Every business man in the town had
float in the parade.
The carriages were decorated in those
beautiful bright paper coIored flowers and
all the ''prismic colors of the rainbow
were shown.
To Miss Eva Clevenger, who with three
young lady friends occupied a beautiful
carriage, was given the honor of first po-
sition in the flower parade. The carriage
was decorated in. yellow and pink chrys-
anthemums with a pink background. A
beautiful black animal was driven with
gilded tinseI harness. Pretty vari-colored
ribbons, streamers and pennants hoated
from the whip and top of the vehicle
The other young ladies with Miss CIeven-
ger were Miss Ethel Morris, Miss Flor
ence Musson and Miss Bessie Fluke. The
young ladies all wore Grecian white
gowns with short sleeves and large black
ribbons about their arms.
Another beautiful turnout was that of
Mrs. w. II. Steele, who occupied car
riage with three other ladies. The vehicle
was decorated in Nile green and white
and was trimmed in rose poppies and the
carriage lined with roses. Little Roy
Steele drove the horse. The other ladies
were Nrz. ]. H. Mitchell. Mrs. c. Sauter
and Mrs. George Sprague.
Miss Rose Heatherly. who had a float
in Topeka's flower parade last year,
drove a beautiful horse to a phaeton
trimmed in pink and white chrysanthe-
NUNS She was accompanied by Miss
McNerney.
Mrs. w. NJ Hobbs rode in a phaeton
trimmed in the national colors. red, white
and blue. She was accompanied by Miss
Gertie Mitchell. Little Mabel Hobbs
guided the lines over a beautiful horse.
In the evening the Horton and Hiawa-
tha bands combined gave u concert at the
corner of Front and Main streets. The
bands then headed the procession for the
pvrotechnic display given by the Horton
Flambeau club of thirty-two members.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
E1oPED FROM LEAvENwoRrH
Romantic Marriage of Two Society
Young People of That City.

Leavenworth, Sept. 21.-Society here
is all in a flutter over the elopement
and wedding yesterday of Henry Burr
and Miss Grace Ryan at Kansas City.
The groom is a son of Henry Burr,
wholesale shoe dealer of this city. and
the bride is d daughter of Matthew Ry-
an, one of the wealthiest men of Leav-
enworth. He is at the head of several
ice manufacturing plants in Kansas,
and owns half dozen ranches in
Kansas. Nebraska and South Dakota.
Mrs Burr is the oldest of a family OF
four children.
For a number of years Henry Burr.
the father OF the young man, has had
the contract for the labor of the con-
Victs in the shoe shops at Lansing.
The serious intentions of the young
couple could not have existed longer
than a month previous to their elope-
ment, according to friends of both in
this city. It is said that Miss Ryan
was engaged to be married to young
editor on a Colorado Springs newspa-
per. and that he spent July in Leaven-
worth. They had first met While she
was visiting in Colorado Springs.
About the first of August however,
it became generally known that the en-
ga cement had been broken. The young
editor left suddenly for Colorado
Springs.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
WEATHER DOUBT.
Mr. Jennings Can't be Sure YetAbout
Weather Next Week.

Weather Observer T. B. Jenning says
that if the low barometric areas form
in the northwest and travel southeast
erly in as rapid succession this week as
they did last, there will be some cloudy
weather Fall Festival week. This, he
says, does not mean necessarily that it
will rain that week, for the barometric
conditions may change completely and
fair weather may prevail the entire
week. The center of a low barometric
area is spoken of in meteorological
language as ''low."
When a "'low'' forms in the northwest
the opposite condition, or a high forms
around it and keeps crowIing it south
easterly and gradually neutralizes it
partially, and sometimes wholly. 1t is
when a locality is on the whirling edge
of low that storms prevail. These
lows travel very rapidly and when
they come in large numbers, one after
the other, they cause unsettled weather
and often heavy rains.
Mr.. Jennings is not willing to say
that the Fall Festival will have clear
weather the whole week, but the chan
ces are greatly in favor of it, Just as
soon as the proper observations can be
made the people of Kansas will be no.
titled.
Several other weather prophets in and
around Topeka have prophesied fair
weather for the week
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
LARGEST PASSENGER ENGINES
Euer Built in America Arrive in To-
peka for Santa Fe Co.

Today there arrived in the Santa Fe
yards in this city two of the largest
passenger engines ever built for any
road in the United States. They are
the first of a consignment of eight en-
gines built for the Santa Fe by the
Dickinson Locomotive works of New
York after plans submitted by Superin-
tendent of Machinery John Player, and
ale to be used on California trains
1 and from Topeka to Las Vegas,
New Mexico.
The engines each weigh over 20 tons.
and the driving wheels are as large as
those OF any ten-wheel locomotive eV-
er turned out of an American shop
From rim to rim they measure six feet
and the cylinders are 2S by 1919 inches.
The engines are constructed for pres
sure of $50 pounds of steam, or 30
pounds over what was a few years ago
considered a remarkable pressure.
The engines are built especially for
speed Trains 1 and are the heaviest
trains on the Santa Fe system, and
hardly a day now goes by that No. 1 is
not cut in two sections at Topeka and
sent west as two trains, or two engines
attached to pull it At points along
the line from Topeka to Las Vegas the
grades are unusually heavy, and singly
none of the engines row owned by tn
road are able to pull the train on time
when the equipment amounts to IL or
II cars
Only one of the new engines will be
required on a train of Il cars. and it
is expected that even better time than
the present schedule can be made with
the California trains.
The remaining six engines will ar
rive within 80 days.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe to Make Additional
Topeka improvements.
To Erect Wheel and Uphol-
stering Shops at Once
AT A COST OF $4,000.
Move i'm Their New Car Repair
Shops Today.
Wreck at EdwardsyilIe Between
u. p. and Rock Island.

improvements amounting to over So
0O0 will be made by the Santa Fe at the
general shops in this city within the
next 60 days. This is on top of the $780,
coo expended during the past go days in
the construction of a new car shop and
the Encouragement OF the tracks in the
Topeka yards.
The improvements will consist of a
new wheel shop 40 by 60 feet in size.
The shop will be built between the car
penter shop and the new car shop, and
will be of frame and corrugated iron.
The wheel shop will be fitted with
the latest machinery. and here all the
wheel work of the Topeka shops will be
done in the future. At present this work
is done in the machine shop, and the
new shop will not only afford more
convenient location for the work, but be
the means of providing needed room in
the large shop.
The upholstering work of the COM
pany in Topeka is now done in the sec
ond story of the planning mill AS soon
as the new shop is built all the ma
chinery and equipment will be moved
from the planning mill and the work done
in the separate shop.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
RIPLEY's REPORT.
President of the Santa Fe Tells of the
Relations of the Road.

Chicago, Sept. 21.-President Ripley,
in submitting the Atchison report to
the stockholders, has this to say:
The year under review has been
largely devoted to preparation for the
future. Its early months were during
a period of continued business depres-
sion, from which no positive evidence of
recovery were discernible until toward
the close of the year. At the present
time the volume of business is increas-
ing, and the earnings of the system for
the current fiscal year bid fair to con-
siderably exceed the earnings for the
year covered by this report.
THE relations of the company to its
patrons and the communities along it's
lines are, in the main, satisfactory and
harmonious, with the exception of some
unreasonable demands for the reduc-
ton of rates.
The relations of the company to its
competitors and the general rate cOndi-
tionS are as good as can be expected
under laws which foster the evils of
unrestricted competition and forbid the
formation of reasonable agreements"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
STARTED STAR POINTER.
o. ?. Updegraff Sent Him Over the
Worlds Record.

o. P. Updegraff returned to Topeka
today from Indianapolis, Indiana. w lille
there as official starter at the Indiana
state fair he acted in that capacity on
September IL when Star Pointer broke
the worlds record in a race in which
the mile was made in 2:01. The race
was begun on Friday. but on account
of the track being heavy the third heat
was continued to Saturday. 1t the first
heat on Friday Star Pointer won in
2:O4%. In the second heat Joe Patchen
won in 2-03.
On Saturday the third heat was won
by Star Pointer in 2:01. The half was
made in one, fiat and the horses were
neck and neck. On the home stretch
Star Pointer gained and pulled under
the wire three lengths ahead of Joe
Patchen.
Speaking of the race Mr.. Updegraff
said today:
1T was the greatest race ever saw,
and in fact ever made. It broke the
worlds race record. I felt proud that
1 should have the honor of starting this
race. 1 was surprised to see the i'm
mense crowd at that state fair. and
was sorry to think that Kansas didn't
turn out that way TO see horse races
and to attend state fairs
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
FULL TEXT OF TUE VERDICT.
Wreck Blame Placed Upon Dispatch
er King and Agent Larson

Emporia, Sept. 1.-The coroner's
jury in the Santa Fe wreck case finish
ed the inquest and reached a verdict in
fifteen minutes yesterday. James Bruce
was the only witness examined, and
his testimony showed that both Dis
patcher King and Agent Larson had
failed to use proper precaution- The
coroner's verdict holds King responsi-
BILE and Agent Larson partly response
BILE. The verdict is as follows:
1.-THE jurors do say that the said Mi
chael J. McGlade came to his death by
injuries received in a wreck on the
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, three
and one-half miles northeast of EN-
poria in Lyon county, Kan, on the
evening of September g. 1897; that said
wreck was caused by Dispatcher King
of Topeka, changing said orders and
making said meeting point of trains
Nos. l and 11S Lang instead of Empor-
ia; that changing said order put said
trains in a dangerous and hazardous
position; that such change of orders is
customary but in violation of the rules
of said railway company, and that ex-
ira precautions requested by the rules
We're not taken by Dispatcher King and
Agent Larson to protect these trains:
that the appliances furnished the agent
a Lang are deficient, having no hand
lantern, torpedo or fuse, and that the
red light displayed on the evening of
Septem Der was dimmed by smoke;
that the negligent acts of said employees
of said railway company were not fell
OniouS."
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
WRECK NEAR EDWARDsv1LLE
Union Pacific and Rock Island Trains
Collide.

Edwardsville, Kan, Sept. 21.-Rock
Island passenger train No. %, west
bound, running over the Union Pacific
tracks and an east bound Union Pacific
stock train collided head-on at $50
o'clock last night two miles west of
Muncy, a flag station next east of this
place. Both locomotives We're COM
pleteIy wrecked, the baggage car of the
Rock Island train was badly shattered
and several of the stock cars were
wrecked, but no one was killed.
The locomotive crews of both trains
jumped. Engineer James W. Scarf of
Kansas City, Kan, who was on the
stock train, is seriously hurt, and En-
gineer Charles Goodan of Chicago. who
was on the Rock Island train is Slight
1y injured.
The Rock Island postal clerks were
considerably shaken up, and one wo-
man passenger was cut by falling glass.
The uninjured coaches of the passenger
train were pulled back to Kansas City
and the stock cars back to Topeka and
both will be dispatched over the Santa
Fe tracks. The wreck was caused by
the Rock Island train men ignoring or
derS to pass the stock train at Muncy.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21

Governor Leedy this afternoon issued
to the sheriffs of Lyon, Kiowa. Grant.
Atchison, and Leavenworth counties,
official proclamations ordering them to
call a special election November for
the purpose OF electing successors to
members of the legislature whose pla-
JiOn or death. In Lyon county, Rep
resentative /. z. Lambert resiga ed In
I(iowa, Representative F. T. Patton al
so resigned as did Representative c. A
Maxwell of Grant county. w. A. Har-
ris resigned as a member of the state
senate to become United States senator
Senator =. T. Wallack, Republican,
Atchison county. died. This list of fvev
includes all the vacancies that exist at
this time.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21

ed at the stock yards yesterday on war
rants charging them with obtaining
money under false pretenses from the
John G. Hall Live Stock Commission
company, to the amount of So, 100. They
were taken before Judge Fisher and re-
leased on $500 bonds each to appear for
trial on October IA.
According to the complaint sworn out
by the Hall Commission company, the
three defendants borrowed $500 and
gave as security a mortgage on bunch
of cattle and some property at Afford
There were two loans made. One of
81, 500 to the Metsker brothers and 81, $50
to Preston.
It appears now that the mortgage
given by them was valueless in as much
as they did not own the property on
which the mortgage was given.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
COLUMBUS CO., CRANK.
He Writes Letters Regularly to
Judge c. G. Foster.


There is a man in Columbus, Ohio, by
the name of Ernest Mueller who in
structs United States judges on their
duties. He writes his messages on
postal cards carefully ruled whenever
the spirit moves him.
United States District Judge c. C.
Foster regularly receives instructions
from Mr.. Mueller though it is not re-
corded that he has ever profited by the
advice The last of these mysterious
cards was received yesterday. 1t is
as follows:
Columbus State Hospital or
the U. S. NJ. Army station.
Your Honor
Citizen of the United States:
This is to show that court martial has
jurisdiction of crimes and offences
committed in the L. s. military and Z.
S. naval service. Also when martial
law has been declared all the ordinary
courts are unable to perform their reg
(SeaD HERMAN MUELLER
Judge Foster says that for a year he
has received these mysterious cards at
the rate OF two or three a month. He
usually tosses them into the waste
basket without reading them and they
are often rambling and incoherent.
that this man usually writes on some
subject that is claiming the attention
of the public. Durio & the recent strike
he instructed the court on the duty to-
ward the strikers and the law on the
question
receives similar cards from this same
man
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
Festival Week at Santa Fe Shops.

The matter. of shutting down the San
ia Fe shops in this city Festival week
has not yet been decided. On account
of the present heavy work it will prob
ably be impossible to allow the shops
to remain closed the entire week, as
was done last year, but the officials of
the mechanical department are willing
that the shops should be closed at least
three: days out of the six The general
impression now is that the shops will
be closed Monday. Wednesday and
Thursday of next week. General Man
ager Frey will definitely settle the mat
ter this week,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
STRICKEN EDWARDS.
New Cases of Fever Developing With
Extraordinary Frequency

Edwards, Miss, Sept. 21.-New cases
of yellow fever since last reported are
as follows:
Mrs. Graves, sr., and George Elliott,
both white, and three or four negroes,
names unknown.
Col. r. Robb died today of yellow
fever. Mrs. Henry is reported as not
doing we'll. Mrs. Graves, sr.. mother of
Mrs. Henry, was taken with the fever
yesterday and is quite sick
Meridian, Miss, Sept 21.-The Mobile
& Ohio railway has abandoned two of
its passenge rtrains on account of the
yellow fever. The company will run
one train each way every day.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
SPANISH BONDS FALL.
Pail Mall Gazette Attributes it to the
United States

London, Sept 21.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette this afternoon comments in it's
financial article on the fall OF three
quarters in Spanish four's on heavy
sales for continental accounts, saying:
1.-The bonds were absurdly high owing
to the support of Paris, which was
loaded up; but probably the conditions
will be changed by the action of the
United States in regard to Cuba Spain
evidently cannot wage war with Ameri-
ca, but the concessions of Independence
to Cuba may lead to disasters at Mad
rid, and if Spain defaults, the French
hnanciers viii be hit very badly"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-21
HAD HIS BEER IN JAIL.
Cunning Scheme of a Thirsty Medi-
cine Lodge Prisoner.

Medicine Lodge, Sept. 21.-Three
months ago four. cases of beer taken
from jointist by the city officials were
locked up in a cell for safe keeping.
When the authorities went to destroy
the prohibited article a short time since
they found three of the cases empty
It seems the young man sent to Jail
from Hazleton got the beer At least
he told parties after his release that he
drank from four to six bottles a day af-
ter he got action on the prohibited bev-
erage.
He claimed to have arranged hook
on the end of a broom handle, pulled
the cases to the bars, opened them and
extracted the bottles when wanted.