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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15
Germania BanIS,s Directors.

The annual election Of directors Of the
Germania Bank was held yesterday. The
board elected was Messrs Henry Blum.
Irwin y. Tiedeman. Patrick Brennan.
Garland NJ. Ryals. A. 7. Solomon. n. NJ
Hun. Amson Mohr. George W. Owens.
Nicholas Lang ana John N. Hogan.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

80 that your deficiency on December 81,
1898, viii be about $2l. 500. &c. You will.
probably, not receive IN 1898 more than
one-half of the amount due from the
state appropriation prior 70 January, 1899,
but on the other hand, you can probably
get an advance Of SIS 900 TO $4,000 in No
vember and December. 1895, from the
county commissioners from what may be
appropriated for 1899.
Your committee regret that existing cir
cumstances require them 10 recommend
that your board abolish. for the present.
the night school ana the departments Of
drawing and music. This will decrease
your expenses about $1,000 per year. and
reduce your deficit In 1898 say to about
100000.
In the estimates submitted your COM
mittee have taken no account of interest
which your board viii be called on 20 pay
IN carrying the deficiency debt; nor have
they calculated upon any increase IN the
number of pupils or school facilities.
You are advised that a number Of chill
dren, entitled 10 the privilege OF public
school education, cannot now. for lack OF
room, be allowed admission into the pub
lie schools. IL is not likely that this num-
Der OF children viii diminish, but rather
be on the Increase during the coming year
and future years.
Touching this very important matter OF
additional school facilities, your commit
tee strongly recommend that for the fu-
ture this board do not attempt 20 erect.
rent or purchase additional school build
ings. or enlarge and improve those now
existing except upon specific approprn-
ton made for such purposes. II must not
be forgotten that every new school house
IN the city adds "a yearly increase IN ex-
pcnses of 5000 10 $1,000
Your committee have carefully consld-
cred the salaries paid TO the teachers iu
me public schools with view, " posi-.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

In the city court the day was spent In
the trial of the case of Emma T. Maury,
administrators, against Annie Brown. The
dispute is over certain properties.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

Letters of guardianship were granted
by Judge Hampton FerriH of the court of
ordinary to Picnic Warfield on the estate
of James Wayne.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

Mrs Ellen G. Murken died yesterday an.
ternoon after a short Illness She viii be
buried az Laurel Grove to-day
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

There will be but one hearing in the
superior court to-day, owing to the ar
rangement of the docket as necessitated
by the absence of lawyers in certain
cases. Tomorrow, however, there are
several cases down for hearing, and the
business of the court will be resumed with
a rush
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

The Charleston cracks returned home
well pleased with the treatment accorded
them and feeling as we'll as a defeated
team usually does
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15
NO DIstresr Now,

After a long sickness I was left very
weak and my stomach was In such a con-
dition that / could not retain food de-
cldod TO try Hoods sarsaparlla and I
found Il gave me relief. I was soon so
much better that I could eat ana drink
anything wished, and / gained rapidly
IN flesh Mrs. J. y. Stokes. North De-
catur, Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15

Hoods pills are che favorite family ca.
tharuc' Easy to take, easy IN effect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-15
Ladies'
Underwear.

The liberal demand has
encouraged us to pay special
attention to
LADIES, MISSES,
BOYS and CHILDRENs
GOOD UNDERWEAR
In no other shop will you fin6
so generous a supply of light
weight, airy cool undergarnenM
The QUALITY and
PRICES are in keeping with
our reputation. We take
MUTUAL PREMIUM COUPONS
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
MARION AND RUTH SPEAK PIECES.
Children of the High and Mighty
Held High Carnival.

Washington, Dec. 25.-Christmas was
celebrated in a joyous, homelike fashion
at the White mouse. The children, not
only of the president, but of the entire
cabinet circle, held nigh carnival in the
White house library. A Christmas tree
stood in the center of the semi-circle
room, SO tall that it touched the lofty
ceiling and so thick and broad that it al
most filled the large room. Until late
in the night many willing hands had work
ed under Mrs. Cleveland's direction in
identifying this Christmas tree, and rs 1t
stood this morning when the bright sun
of Christmas day shone upon its tiuls
and silt and sparkled on the artificial
snow and the pendant icicles and betray-
ed some pretty toy or knicknack conceal
ed in the foliage, it was a tree worthy of
the White house. The children were early
awake, up indeed before most of the SER
wants and We're soon gloating over their
presents and the contents of their stock
ings.
Marion and Ruth, who have gotten along
nicely in the study of German, gave some
pretty recitations, and Christmas carols
were sung.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland exchanged pres-
ents, as has been their practice ever since
their marriage, and each of the employees
the White house received some appro-
pirate and useful token of esteem.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
SANTA CLAUS TO VISIT A CRUISER.
Brooklyn Will Hang Up Her Stock
ing and Get IL Silver Service.

Brooklyn Will Hang Up Her Stock
ing and Get IL Silver Service.
Brooklyn, Dec. 25.-Preparations are
about completed for the presentation Of
the silver service set by this city to the
new cruiser Brooklyn. The exercises of
presentation will take place at the navy
yard. Ex-Mayor Schieren will call the
assemblage to order and preside. and
Mayor Wurster will make the formal
speech Of presentation. The presenta-
ton committee consists of William Ber-
ri, eX-Mayor Charles A. Schieren, Henry
w. Maxwell. Willis L.. Ogden, Don c.
Seitz, Colonel George A. Price and Mar
shall T. Davidson. The committee has
raised 0,2S7 for the gift to the Brooklyn.
The gift will be a solid dinner service
weighing 1850 ounces. The o"rnamentation
on the larger pieces Will be an engraving
of the cruiser.
The Brooklyn was launched October 2,
1895, from Cramps shipyard, her contract
cost being s2,9S6, 900. The Brooklyn is 400
feet 6 inches long, GA feet 8 inches broad
and draws "a feet. She has Twin screws
moved by four vertical triple expansion
engines, two coupled on each shaft, of
which the forward pair may be readily
u%ncoupled for economical cruising. Her
coal capacity is 1853 tons, arranged so as
to help protect her vitals. This will en-
able her to run across the ocean and back.
She will have 566 officers and men in all.
lhe distinctive features of the Brooklyn
are her three very tall smokestacks, which
are expected to give her tremendous natu-
raj draft power, her eight semi-rapid fire
eight inch guns, firing three or four shots
apiece a minute, which are the first of
such large size installed in United States
war vessels, though Chill, Argentine, ia
pan n France have many guns OF
nearly equal power, and her three inch
water line armor belt, s feet 8 inches
wide and long enough to cover the ma
chinery and boiler space. This will give
protection against secondary battery fire.
The Brooklyn represents the highest de-
gree of perfection yet reached in the con
struction of vessels Of her class. In gen
eral design and appearance she resem-
bles the New York, but in fighting efIici-
ency, steaming radius, coal carrying ca
pacity and weight of metal discharged
by her batteries, she surpasses not only
the crack flagship of the service, but
Will further be the peer of any ship not
carrying heavy armor afloat. In her hig
smokestacks n tumble home sides
she resembles the Jean Bart, the great
French armored cruiser that attended
the Columbian parade in New York har-
Dor In the spring of 1896.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
Killed Police officer White the
Morning After Election.

| Greensboro, KY, Dec. 26.-Alfred Holt.
colored. alias Alexander, who murdered
Police Officer A. White, was taken from
the Jail by a mob at 2:30 this morning and
/ hanged to a tree. Two men knocked at
the Jail doors and informed the deputy
jailer, John Ashby, Jr., they had a prison
er they wished to lock up. Thus thrown
| off his guard, Ashby opened the door, only
to face two big revolvers. He was over
powered and his keys taken from him.
Pleading for his life, Holt was taken out
of Jail to the court house yard. He was
given ample time to pray, then a rope was
placed about his neck, he was swung high
death. Then the mob mounted their horses
in ~neighboring streets and alleys and left
town as quietly as they came.
Hollis crime was committed the morning
after election. White was killed with his
own pistol, taken from his pocket by
George Basket, a negro, and handed to
Holt. Hollis trial began this week, and
the commonwealth rested Thursday, after
producing conclusive evidence of the ne
gro's guilt.
Including Holt, seven men ave met
| death at the hands of mobs in Kentucky
in about a week. Last Saturday Henry
F1ndley was called to his door near May
field and shot to death by masked men.
Two days before the three Proctors were
victims of a mob in Logan county, two be-
ing hanged, one shot in his cell. Sunday
night Jim Stone was lynched at Mayfield,
after a pledge guaranteeing safety had
been made by the citizens. Tuesday night
Will suet, a negr boy, was brutality slot
| to death near Mayfield.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
STUDENTS CHESS BATTLE.
Four Big Universities to Compete
for III Over the Table.

New York, Dec. 25.-The fifth annual inter
collegiate chess tournament between Columbia
Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be held al
the Columbia m School here from Mon,
day to January 2. The contestants and substi.
tntes Will be as follows:
columbia contestants, Asa w. Parker, Jr.,
Mines, 80, and George O.. Seward, Mines, '9S;
substitutes, G. Parker. 1900, and A. a.. Price,
97, Law.
Harvard contestants, Arthur W. Ryder, ~
and Elmer e. Southard, '97; substitutes, w
g. Arnsberg, 1900, and James Hewins, '9S.
Yale contestants, Il. A. Lehlbach, '9S, and
William M. Murdoch. '9s; substitutes, l.. A,
Cook, 1900, and II. c. Robbins, 80.
princeton contestants, Edmond b. Seymour,
9S, and William w. Young, '99; substitutes,
J.. A. Ely, SO, and F. W. Jarvis, 1900.
Last year Harvard won by half a point over
Columbia in a grand finish by Ryder. The score
Of the tournament was: Harvard, won 81,
lost 3A; Columbia, won s, lost a; Princeton,
won 4, lost s; Yale, won 3k, lost SH. Harvard
also won the tournament In 1S94-95. These
tournaments have created considerable inter-
est since 1892, the score up to the present time
standing: Columbia, 2SA; Harvard, 80; Yale,
1919, and Princeton 16.
The trophy for which the colleges play is a
beautiful silver cup, and Is now held by Har-
ward. It passes each year into the hands OF
the winning university. The cup is one Of the
%prettiest emblems that figures as prizes in the
whole range Of competitive events.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
VICTIM OF A FAILuaE
OTTO wAsMANsDORFF DRIVEN TO
SUICIDE.
Collapse of the National Bank OF
Illinois Dragged His Firm to
Financial Ruin.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-suffertng from de-
preston, caused by financial reverses
Otto Wasmansdorff, a well known banker
of this city, today fired a bullet into his
brain and died almost instantly. Banker
Wasmansdorff killed himself in a front
hall bedroom at his home in Cleveland
avenue this morning. His sons, William
G. and Otto, Jr, were in the parlor be-
meath their Iatners Deuroom and near
ing the report Of the revolver, rushed up
stairs. Running into the room, the horri-
fled sons beheld their father lying on the
bed, dying, a 32-caliber revolver lying at
his side. He had shot himself in the right
temple and a small stream of blood was
flowing down his cheek.
Everything in the room was in perfect
order. The deed apparently had been de.
lberately planned.
Mr.. Wasmansdorff was a member of thu
private banking firm of Wasmansdorff 4
Heinnernnann, which failed a week age
as a result of the failure of the Nationa
Bank of Illinois. The failure of the bank
had a crushing effect upon Mr.. Wasmans-
dorff and also seriously affected his wife
who is i'll. The banker for several days
was unable to eat or sleep. The criti-
cisms of unfortunate depositors weighed
him down and he was in a constant
troubled state of mind. ~..
At the time of the failure the assets
of Wasmansdorff bank We're given as
$3.50, 900 and the liabilities as $145.000. Mr..
Wasmansdorff had been a banker in this
city more than 25 years and during all
that time he was a member of the firm
which went down in the crash last Mon
day.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
FORMAL WORK ON THE NEW TARIFF
Hearings Before the Ways and
Means Committee Monday.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Formal work on
the new tariff bill will be begun by the
ways and means committee Monday, when
the first Of the series Of hearings which
are to extend over IL days will be held.
Judged by the amount of correspondence
which has come to the committee on the
subject there Is a more widespread inter-
tached to any other revision of the tariff
and the number Of business men who de-
sire to be heard before the committee is
unusually Great. me program arranged
by Chairman Dingley n his colleagues
c~ontemplates a public session from 9 to
III O'Clock. To hear all the interests on
the ground one or two schedules of the
bill to be covered each day by the reports
Of every interest will be obliged to con-
dense their statements. No allotment of
time has been made In advance to any
applicants, but or each day the commit
tee will arrange a program based on the
number who appear to speak. Instead of
listening to each member Of the various
delegations the committee will avoid rep
etitions by asking every delegation to
select a spokesman to present its views.
Several labor organizations have signi-
fed their intention to make arguments
before the committee in the interest of
protection for the Industries in which
they are workers. In addition there will
be reports of various commercial bodies,
! as well as the usual delegations of manu-
facturers, producers of raw materials and
importers.
The statements made orally to the COM
mittee and the more valuable of the writ
ten statements submitted will be printed.
After the hearings to outsiders, 1t is prob
able that the government officials, par
ticularly appraisers, will be called upon
for assistance and expert testimony from
other quarters may be asked.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
SPRING HILL COAL MINES ON FIRE
Enormous Loss by II Dreadful Con-
migration Under Ground.

Halifax, Dec. 2e.-Abcut 5 O'Clock Thurs
day the coal mines of Spring Hill we're
discovered to be on fire. The fire orig
mated in a pipeway on the east slope of
the S0O-foot level. 1t soon ate into the so
foot level and developed into a aging FUR
mace. When Government Inspector Gill
pin arrived fire was issuing from avery
opening In the mine. Two cupolas were
burned and the bankhead had to be torn
away. Miners tried to stop up every air.
| way. Gilpin had to call the men from this
work, as it was attended with great risk.
The flames shot 100 feet into the air, the
reflection being visible at Amherst. The
extent of the fire Is not known, but most
disastrous consequences are feared. The
loss of the east slope is believed to be com
plete. AT 4 in the afternoon of Friday The
slope was reached all right, but the mon
will have hard work 20 save it. Five years
ago 100 lives We're lost by an explosion in
these mines.
1t Is likely that the. most serious damage
will be confined to the east slope, In which
the fire started. 1t seems to be burning
Itself out. The loss will be enormous.
The fire will cause great destftutIo,,
among miners, as, even If the fire does not
spread through the entire mine, it Is con
sidered doubtful If work can be resumed
during the winter
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
WITH FRESH NEWS FROM CHINA.
Steamer Peru Arriyes--SeVere Fam
iRe-NeHy Charters Asked.

San Francisco, Dec. 27.-The steamship
Peru arrived tonight from Yokohama ard
Hong Kong. Although these ports have
been declared infested, the steamer was
not quarantined on her arrival, as she had
a clearing bill of health. The Peru brings
the following Oriental news:
One of the Koreans who was recently ar
rested at Seoul on the charge Of ttempt
ing to restore the king to the palace from
the Russian legation, where MS majesty
is now seeking shelter, is reported to nave
been executed without trial.
The China Gazette states that a severe
famine prevails in Chuan Tungszechucn
province, owing to the disastrous floods
which have ruined the crops. There has
been immense loss of life from landsl:Ies
in the district.
Yokohama merchants have applied to
the government for charters for two new
steamship lines. One is to run from Hong
Kong to San Francisco, and the other be-
tween Yokohama and San Francisco, via
Honolulu and Vancouver.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
SAVED BY GOVERNOR STONE.
He DissunIes IL Mob From LynchinH
IL Ravisher.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Dec. 26.-The pres
| ence of Governor Stone at the county
Jail tonight probably saved lobe Lana
han, colored, from being lynched. AT $3.50
| o'clock a mob of fully 1000 men, whites
| and blacks, surrounded the Jail, threaten
ing to avenge the most revolving murder
ever committed in Jefferson City.
Early this morning the body Of a IL
year-old negro girl, Mile Gray, was
found in a yard back of Joseph Stamp
fits furniture store. The child had been
outraged, her skull crushed and her body
mutilated in a horrible manner.
Suspicion pointed to lob Lanahan, and
he was arrested. In the basement of the
furniture store discriminating evidence
was found.
The news spread over the city, and hy
night there was great excitement. When
a lynching was finally threatened, Gov
ernor Stone went to the Jail and spoke
to the mob. He appealed to them to leave
the punishment of the crime to the Citi-
zens of the capital city. He implored
them not to allow the mob to commit
violence in the very shadow OF the cap
itol.
When the enraged men We're finally in
duced to withdraw, the prisoner wa re-
moved to the state penitentiary.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
THE PLUM PUDDING INDUSTRY.
ions of the English National Dish
Consumed Yesterday.

London, Dec. 25.-Figures given cut by firms
mat make a speciality of exporting genuine
fhglish christmas plum buildings to British
ers the world over, show that fully three-quar-
.ers OF a million buildings have been sent out
OF the country on special orders since the be-
ginning of November. This is the largest to-
tai of shipments on record, The minimum
weight has been 20 pounds and the maximum
iUo pounds. Hardly a country on the face OF
the globe has been unrepresented in the or.
ders, those from the United States and Can
ada aggregating some %, 900. Large shipments
were made to points as far distant as Australia
and South Africa.
Ihis particular Christmas industry had its
origin about a decade ago in a few orders
from English folk living in other countries who
from one cause or another found it impossible
70 successfully produce a Christmas pudding
such as they had been accustomed to in thei,
youth, and 1t has now grown to such immense
proportions that for months before Christmas
the canning factories are working night and
day, and thousands of people, mostly girls. are
given temporary employment.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
NO AID FROM THE RED CROSS
Miss Barton Intimntes 1t Can ID,
Nothing in Cubn.

NolItInE lii SuD1s
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. ga few lays
ago Joaquin Fortune, a well-known Cuban
leader In Jacksonville, wrote to Miss Bur-
ton. president of the American Red Cross
Society, asking her assistance for the in
surgent wounded in Cuba. In reply he re-
ceived the following, dated Washington,
December 20:
1t Is not possible that you will attribute
any inaction on my part to want Of sympathy
with or respect for the all-engrossing subject
Whlch you bring before me, but you Will I'M
derstand that holding the position that 1 do,
| am the last person In all our country who
could act independently in q cause at once SO
delicate and so sensational. The proper and
necessary conditions given, 1 trust that there
VIII be no lack Of sympathy found in the
American Red Cross. Hoping for better days
for you and all lovers Of humanity, I re-
main, most sincerely yours,
CLARA BARTON,
President Of the American Red Cross.
MI. fortune wrote a rather cauStic let
ter In reply, saying in part:
Miss Clara Barton-Noble Madame: I am
n receipt OF your favor Of the Goth inst. It Is
a conclusion SO extraordinary that I am fully
warranted in bringing 1t to the knowledge Of
the American people that they may know that
existing circumstances Of a nature that you
do not disclose. make 1t impossible for the
highest institution of charity In this country
to offer aid to an American nelghbor ana
friend. 1t Is my duty, as a Cuban, to bring
this fact before the American people, that
they may decide consclentiously If such cir
cumstances can subsist consistently with
American charity and American ideas OF re.
ligion. #@
And l therefore joyfully publish your letter
and my answer, giving both to the public, that
this great people and their congressional repre-
sentatives may reflect on what these existing
circumstances mean, feeling assured that the
10, 0O, 900 who are just and brave and generous
will not tolerate conditions, against the hand
full, which are neither Just nor generous.
JOAQUIN FORTUNE.