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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
All MOBILE.
Much DestitutiOn in the Families of
the Poorer Classes.

Mobile, Ala. Sept. 29.-Yesterday
rather big report of ten new cases was off
set today by small report of four. The
only death i'm the twenty -four hours ending
Mt noon was Brother Symphorian at the
Industrial gardens reported last night. The
new cases are:
VI. G.. Pelham, Elmira, near Charles;
Mary Otis, corner Palmetto and Chatham;
u. $. King, 700 Savannah street, and Will
liam II. Ray, Marine, near New Jersey:
The cases of the two boys ut the Industrial
gardens have not been reported as yellow
ever.
The recoveries are: Mrs. KinslOw, Mrs.
Matthews. Adolph Muntz and Mary Bias
Sett.
Total cases to date, 6S; deaths. 10: con-
| NalcScent and recovered, 3; under treat
ment. "a.
| There is much restitution in the families
of the poorer classes in the infected dis
trct. The families in which are sickness
are practically shut off from the world
and soon get out of food. The Cant-Get-
Away club is minstering to their necessi-
ties with great energy and is successful in
| relieving most of the destitute.
The situation will improve rapidly for
the reason that at the beginning the ma
chnery of relief aid did not work easily,
because the quarantine regulations were
| Cant-Get-Aw members as against non
professionals generally. The regulations
! have been modified and it is believed that
| the relief will be sufficient to supply wants
adequately in the future. 1t is not the
| families where there are sick people that
are the only sufferers. There are many
people out of work and they are slow to
make their condition known. The club
is helping them as fast as their condition
| is discovered.
unchanged. The report that there are 500
sick is not true.
Your correspondent interviewed the of
ficials. and the highest average estimate
is that there are not 100 people sick in
Mobile from all causes, yellow fever in
Guided
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
AT .EDWA ARDS.
Tycnty-four New Cases Were OIL
cinIIy Reported Yesterday

Edwards. Miss, Sept 29.-Dr. Dunn
of the state board Of health tonight gave
the Associated Press the following state
mcnt:
The following cases of yellow fever are
reported today:
WhItes-Panl Boxtell. Ervng Wimher-
Is. Mcrtle Rauch, Mertlc Ratlif, >; H.
], Il. Young. Vassa Long. Edward
Ucwrs. c. Havenknott, Allen Tatum,
Laurence Hcwcs, Mrs. Title Young.
Colorcd-Amie and Ellen Lunn, Mandy
Fox. Emma Head. Henry Harper. George
Prossrr. Minnie Wilson, Frank Preston,
Caroline Clifford, T.. Harrington.
Total for the day, "a total number OF
cases to date. 236; number OF cases under
treatment. 1U3: number of cases Gonzales
cent and discharged, 110; number SERIOUS
Iy i'll, :. ,..,,.
rived about 3 o'clock, bringing a much
needed druggist and six additional
nurses, who were Immediately put on
DR.. Purnell went to Champion Hill to-
day aud found DIR. Wallace Champion
much improved. While there he met
Dr. Watts from Brownsville and the
latter reported two new cases, Miss Mira
Hall and Theodore Taylor, also mum
~
for some time. DIR. Watts reported one
death, n child named Taylor. DIR. Nc
Callum is reported resting very easy TINS
evening.
The people here will ever remember
tbc pcope of Vicksburg and especially
Superintendent Bond who has furnished
special trains to transport all the relief
kindly rendered by the people of that city;
The fever in the Anderson ncighborhood
is spreading and one or more are daily
added to the list from that section. Inc
doctors are kept busy with not moment
to spare. having hardly time to give in
their daily reports.
There are several who are desperately
III and their condition causes their friends
and relatives much uneasincss.
DIR. Dunn, up to this hour. has not been
able TO secure Transportation to Clinton
and it would be useless to try to
do SO by dirt road, as the bridges
are torn M between these two points.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Quarantine Matters.

Galveston. Tex, Sept. 29.-(Special.)-
Quarantine matters today from various
parts of the state is briefly told as follows:
Beaumont-State Health Officer Swear
ingen officially announced release OF quar-
antine against Beaumont.
HoustOn-Trafiic Manager Beln OF the
Southern Pacific announces that the
steamer Ell Norte will have to leave Cal
weston light owing to the refusal OF the
Galveston board of health to allow the
transportation of cotton from Houston for
the ship.
Tyler-The citizens demand of munich
pal authorities that quarantine be estaD-
iished against infected points
Bryan-Releases shotgun quarantine anu
will admit mails after fumigatioD.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
AGAINST A SNAG.
The Lone Star Health Official struck
One Inst Afternoon.

Lake Charles, La, Sept. 29.-Whlle
DR.. Olliphant and associates on the coll
ference train from New Orleans were
in communication with Calcasieu parish
in their efforts to reach this city, South-
nrn Pacific engine and coach slipped into
the Lake Charles depot from, the, west
bearing DIR. Swearingen and other health
officers of Texas. They had hoped to
meet the New Orleans delegation here,
but upon finding the situation as it was
FASTENED back across the CalcaSicu river
where the train remains. The wires
were kept hot all the afternoon. and to-
night President Meyer of the Calcasieu
parish writes:
Il have consented and authorized the
special from Houston bearing Texas
health officers to cross our parish for con
ference with your delegation, providing
Acadia parish consents"
There seems little prospect that the
conference can take place in this parish.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING.
Members Dumb rs an Oysters IN
Hot stew.

Washington. Oct. 1.-The, cabinet
meeting today was devoted almost en-
tirely to the consideration of the span
ish situation and other foreign. matters;
1t was one of the longest meetings held
since the advent of the, present aaihlliec
hours. The main subject of considera-
zion was the present cabinet crisis in
Spain and the effect it would have on
orr relations with the Madrid govern
ment II is believed that an important
cable has been received from Minister
Woodford, and that this formed the
basis of the discussion. The members Oh
the cabinet were extremely reticent, as
they always are when matters of grave
IMPORTANCE have been before them. but
at the conclusion of the meeting one OF
them said that the discussion had not
eventuated in anything definite and that
no immediate action would be taken.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07

ing for State Health Officer Swearingen,
has pronounced the suspicious case at Vic
toria not yellow fever. When kilograms
TO that effect were received here tonight
DR. Berry, county health officer, declared
ali quarantine against Victoria raised.
When informed by the Express late to-
night that DIR. SwGaringen had issued proc
lhmation stating that quarantine against
Houston could with safety be raised, DIR.
Rerry said he would release the quaran-
tine against Houston early tomorrow
morning
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
FROM JAPAN.
Tremendous Rice Crop and Revival
of Business in the Country.

San Francisco, Sept. 29.-The steamer
Doric arrived this evening from Hong
Kong and Yokohoma, bringing the follow
ing advices:
Reports from all parts of Japan indi-
cate that the rice crop will exceed in guam
tity any during the past seventy years.
The crop will be from Is to 40 per cent
above the average.
The Jiji Shimpe says that the days of
the present japanese cabinet are num-
bered, and ascribes the principal reason
to the alleged fact that it is divided against
itself.
To make next years income equal to the
contemplated expenditures, it is proposed
to raise 100000 yen by increasing the
rate of sake tax and interdcting all brew
ing of sake for domestic use, but to re-
frain from any other addition to the pres
ent weight of taxation. When the new
tariff is put into force it will yield an adj
ditional revenue of 100000 yen.
A revival is perceptible in Yokohoma
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Power station Destroyed.

Washington, Sept. 29..-Ihe immense
mower station of the Capital Traction COM
pany. occupying the entire square between
Twelve and half and Thirteenth streets
and pennsylvania avenue and d streets;
is burning. 1t is occupied by officers and
the power plant. ,, na
The building has been abandoned and
the entire fire department. is at work on
adjoining property The flames are
Snreadinc east and several buildings on
The south. side of PENNSYLVANIA avenue are
an fire. The loss probably vii! reach
100000 or more. The cable INES are
lied up and the electric lights OF the CITY
are out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
INDIANA YELLOW JACK.
II Is - "Supposed" Case and Not n
"SuspiciOus" Case.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 29.-The News
today received the following dispatch
from correspondent at English, Craw-
ford county. Ind:
A supposed case of yellow fever is re-
ported at Mifilin. seven miles southwest
of here. The patient is Edward McKin-
ney. He returned from Jonesboro. Ark,
last Friday, took sick Sunday, and has
not spoken since. Numbers of people
have recently died within mile of Jones'
boro. Mckinney, it is said, has true vel.
low fever symptoms. DR.. G. Hazelwood
secretary of the county health board, re-
fuses to admit that it is yellow fever, but
DIR. w. n. King does not hesitate to pro-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Quarantine Withdrawn.

Cincinnati, Sept. 29.-Receiver S. NJ.
Felten of the Queen and Crescent Rail
road received the following note today
from Health Officer of the city, withdraw
ing the yellow fever quarantine from that
road:
"The health department has withdrawn
the quarantine inspection of the queen
and Crescent, and | take pleasure in thank
ing you for the kindness and consideration
shown the inspectors by the employees OF
your road, as we'll as for the courtesy eX-
tended by you to this department.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07

business circles. The recent apathy Is as
crjbed to fears of the probable effect OIL
the change in the currency that comes
INTO force AT the beginning of October,
The japanese railway bureau has OF,
dered twenty locomotives from the United
States. Yokohoma, Toxic and neigh4ol-
ing districts were visited on the morning
Of September 8 by severe typhoon' M1ca n
damage was done Oh land and sea, ana
number of lives were lost. Shipping SUI
fpred greatly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
AT EDWARDS.
No Deaths, but Nineteen New Cases
RepOrted Yesterday.

Edwards. Miss, Oct DIR. Dunn of
the state board of health tonight gave
the Associated Press the following
statement:
Nineteen new cases have been reported,
of which eleven are white and eight
colored, as follows
Whites-Ora Boxtel. Miss Norma
Howell. Perry Ivy, Miss Allie Coker.
Miss Fannie Slocum. Mr. Sid Pond. A.
II. Havenkott. Mrs. s. u. Halves. Glen
Hawes. Mrs. A. H. Evans, Miss Farr.
Colored-Mary Presser. J. a. Kirk
hrcugh. Willie Marcksy. Nina Peterson
Walter Pitchford; Jim Washington, H.
Furnishes. John Hawkins.
Deaths today, none: total deaths, to
date, o.. total number of cases to date,
2S4: number convalescent and dis
charged. 151; number under treatment.
1874: number very sick, 8; sick with
black vomit, 2.
Rev. Colmerv and family are doing
well.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
NashyiIIe ENnOsitiOn.

Nashville. Sept. 29.-Of those invited to
speak on German day at the exposition
the following have so far accepted: Hon.
John Ruhm. Maj. ]. w. Thomas, Gov: L..
l.. Taylor. Mayor Mccarthy: Nashyille;
Gustav Tafel. mayor of Cincinnati; KEY
John Grueningen: Richard Bartholdt, st.
ouis congressman from Missouri. and
Rev, +. w. Peschau of Greensburg, Pa.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07

Bryan. Tex. Sept. 29.-(Special.l "A
negro named Button Williams has been
lodged in jail here, charged with shooting
his wife through the abdomen. The
shooting took place in the Brazos bottom
and the woman was considered fatally
wounded
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Sensible Merchants.

Washington, Sept. 30.-News has
reached the state department that the
merchants in Bluefields. Nicaragua, have
adopted the gold standard. Prices will
be given in silver for goods sold for
cash. but in case of credit transactions
every charge is to be in gold. and either
gold or its equivalent will be eXacted at
the time of payment.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Carried Free.

Vicksburg, Miss. Sept. 29.-Supt Bonl
of the Queen and Crescent Railway issued
orders tonight that all contributions for
the relief of the people of Edwards should
be carried free of charge by the Alabama
and Nicksburg Railroad. a special train
went to Edwards this afternoon. taking
two white and two colOred female nurses,
druggist and all kinds Of supplies.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
PATIENTLY WAITING.
Galveston Has Great and Justifable
Confidence in DR.. SwearinGen.

Galveston, Tex. Sept. 29.-(Special.) y
General Manager Van Week of the
Southern Pacific tonight wired Health
Officer Fisher that if cotton at Houston
and Galveston would not be admitted to
Galveston tomorrow his line would be
compelled to send it to Sabine Pass for
loading on Morgan line ships. DR.. Fisher
replied that Galveston would raise quar-
antine against Houston as soon as DR..
Swearingen declared the suspected case
not yellow fever. The same message was
sent to Mayor Rice and Health Officer
McElroy of Houston.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Clerks Suffer.

Houston Tex, Sept. 29.-(Special.)-ln
view of the blockade of business through
the instrumentality of quarantine the mer,
of the leading merchants, came to an
agreement this evening to cut the wages
of clerks % per cent. :
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
OPENED YESTERDAY.
The State University Formally
Opened Yesterday.

The university was formally opened yes
terday by an address by President Win
ston to all the students who were assem-
bed for the purpose of hearing it. The
various Glasses were also classified and the
students were given work for the session.
They will from now on settle down to
their studies. and the monotonous druds-
ery of school life will begin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
At Biloxi.

Biloxi, MISS. Sept. 29.-OfIicial report
of the Mississippi state board of health
for twenty-four hours ending at Z p. m.
today: 40.
Total yellow fever cases to date, 142;
now under treatment, rs; suspicious cases,
Is: dengue, 4. Total yellsw fever deaths
TO date, 6; new cases today, 10.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07

neunce it genuine case and refuses TO
attend il.
The News has received Il telegram from
DR.. Hazelwood, as follows:
"There is considerable excitement at
Mifiin. In my opinion the case there is
not yellow fever"
The state board of health has not yet
been notified of the appearance of the vel
low fever at Mifflin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Spreading ut Scranton.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. ga special TO the
Register from Scranton. Miss, says that
nine new cases of yellow fever and one
death, that of Mrs. n. o. Franklin, were
renorted today.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
4 New FOci.

McHenry, Miss. Sept. 29.-Drs. Was
din. Harlason and Cant tonight pro-
nounced the suspicious case reported here
by the attending physicians to be yellow
fever The patients are G. A.: Pughey
and Charles Thamar, both well known
citizens
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Death Sentence.

Nashville, Sept. 29.-In the criminal
court today Fred Moore. the negro con-
victed of rape. was sentenced to be hanged
ON November D, 1891.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
THAT HOUSTON CASE.
Expert Testimony That Will Prob
ably Restore SantOne to Its
Normal Condition.

Houston. Tex, Sept. 29-(Special;) y
Houston is thoroughly worked up today
over the situation produced hv the yell
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Midnieht ReDOrt.

New Orleans, Sept. 29.-The board of
health of the state of Louisiana officially
announces the status of affairs in New
Orleans as regards yellow fever to be as
follows:
I'm the twenty-four hours ending Sep
TENDER % at 0 p. M, there were twenty
five cases of yellow fever today; deaths
today, four; total cases of yellow fever
to date, 204; total deaths from yellow
fever to. date. twenty-five.
rs. r. OLLIPHANT. NJ. D.,
president of the Board of Health for the
State of Louisiana.
"WALTER c.. FLOWER.
Mayor"
Outside of the above, Pierre Poublanc,
a Frenchman, died at the isolation hos
pital tonight.
The citizens sanitary committee met
tonight and received reports from all
wards showing that the city is in perfect
sanitary condition. The great work will
be continued, however.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-07
Now Kick Yourself.

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 29.-(Special.)
DR.. Ketch,,m state medical expert, act
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31
IS AMEN PASSING AWAY

North Carolina Christian Advocate.)
1t is to be feared that the amen is
losing some of its popularity. 1t is
not considered exactly "the thing" in
some city congregations. We can
almost see sometimes a shudder run
over the congregation when an amen
leaps red hot from the heart of some
brother and explodes amid the frigid
stiffness of the formal service Is
the amen passing away? God for
bid Has the fact of its decadence
any connection with the spiritual
GOODNESS of the church? We fear that
it has. Political gatherings, operas,
lectures, etc, are not considered
complete without the presence of the
secular amens in the form of APP
plause. Why should the sacred amen
be considered out of place in Gods
sanctuary? 1t comes down to us
through the hoary centuries under
the sanction of Jehovah. 1t has been
thrilled and illuminated by the Holy
Ghost. 1t has a place among us. Its
place is too often vacant. Let US re-
yivify and reinstate the amen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31

dy is ours. and will be applied in time in
all The Southern States. as it is now be-
ing applied In Texas, namely, to dispense
with their labor by the substitution Of
.abor which carries moral sense along
with its intelligence and thrift Do you
ask where they will go? The Texans
are not worrying themselves about the
answer to that question. The States Of
the South are not properly wet-nurseS
for the negro race.
l have, in the attempt to consider the
question practically, ignored the pa
thetic and poetic side of the negro, who,
.sin scattered instances, has single-handed
Strengthened himself up from slavery to
improved conditions. am not, however,
unmindful of these things, nor of the
cabin light that somehow yet fingers
about the brow Of the dear old darkey Of
long ago, nor of the natural affection
that the white people of the South still
have toward the negrO-as a negro. But
there comes the end.
The white man will, in his own count
~, save himself at all hazards against
the dependent negro, producing little else
except his young, who would attempt to
rule over him and his.
The remedy OF white labor is at hand
when all else fail-but between now and
the end of it all, the night is dark, and
the gloom grows.
Even, finally, were such labor need
less as such remedy, for other mani
fold reasons the South will never put
into actually its marvellous potential
strength until it reaches out more effec-
lively toward the methods that have so
clearly enabled Texas and Florida phe-
nomenally TO outstrip their sister States
in Dixie.
w. f. CHRISTIAN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31
WHAT A LAWYER SHOULD BE.


Il
cognize that he is a Gentleman.
Edward J. Phelps, formerly minister Of
the United States to England, delivered
an address, on The Nobility of the Pro-
fession Of the Law" at the Boston Uni
yersity Law School Wednesday morn
ing. Mr.. Phelps received aH enthusiast
tic greeting on beginning his remarks,
which were listened to with the closest
attention and interest throughout Among
jother things he said: "The first idea
that the young lawyer wants to acquire
is the elevation, the nobility, the grand
eur l may almost say, of the administra-
ton of justice, which the profession of
law rests upon. The man who falls
short of this cannot have q true con-
ception of the profession. Nothing is
so high, so valuable to the world as the
administration Of justice.
The first and foremost duty of the
lawyer must he the necessity of his real
ling that he should always be a gentle
man. An eminent men, men of great
scope and action, have been gentlemen
not vanished gentlemen, but gentlemen
of clear thought, gentlemen after the
meaning Of Tennyson's use of the
phase: THE grand old name of gentle
man.
Il have spoken of the man, now what
Of the lawyer? 4 lawyer may be u
great public blessing or a very great
public nuisance. One may be a good
deal of a man, and not much of law
yer. or good deal of lawyer and nor
much of man. The lawyer must have
a great grasp of the fundamental prin-
ciples of the law. He must be able to
illustrate these principles and their APP
plication. He must have strong, firm,
clear grasp of the fundamental that I'M
derlies every proceeding of the admins
tration of justice. The law school serves
as the basis Of the law and justice. 1t
is the foundation, and after acquiring
this foundation, it is then the duty OF
the student to erect. The successful
lawyer is he who combines these two
characters-that of the gentleman and
the man versed in the great and eternal
principles Of our profession"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31
NEW ARGUMENT FOR CREMA.
TION.
Springfield Republican,

1t doesn't pay to get too rich. 1t both
ers your family when you die. George
M. Pullman's folks, warned by the A. 7,
Stewart episode, have had his body laid
in recepticle that only dynamite could
destroy. Few men OF sense would care
to be so rich that their great possessions
must thus pursue them after death.
Cremation would have been the simpler
and better way for the Pullmans to foil
possible despoilers. Here is new ar
gument for cremation, which is happily
better for rich and poor alike. If we
were obliged to depend on people worth
over $2O,000,000, the good cause would
advance but slowly.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-31
DOLLY'S FAILING.

Mamma, guess my dolly's
mamma must have been very unpious
lady"
Mamma-"Why so, Dot?"
Dottie-"Why, she made her so her
knees won't bend. l have to put her on
her stomach ITO say her prayers.-Ex-
change.