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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
THREE-LEGGED GAME COCK.
Surprised It's Opponents and SONS
Sports From WoOdside, L. 1.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Oceanside, L. l., May 25.-Last spring
hen belonging to a well-known resident
of this community Matched from a purc
game egg chicken with three legs. The
little thing was a neighborhood curiosity,
and grew into a fine young cock. Two OF
its legs are normally placed, while tho
third is at the rear a little to one side.
Some of the sporting young men OF
Oceanside noticed the young cock, and
thought they saw possibilities. Week be-
fore last one of them went over to Wood
side and casually began to talk chicken
among people there who are interested in
the subject. He had no trouble in pro-
voking defiances when he remarked that
Oceansde had a bird which could whip
anything of its weight and age In the
world, and match was arranged for last
night.
The Oceanside chickens extra leg was
tied up with a string passed under his
wings, and he was weighed in without
question. He is a handsome cock, but his
somewhat peculiar way of standing was
against him, and after looking him over
the Woodside men had secured NE"
Jersey champion doubled up on all their
bets.
The cocks were gated by their handlers
and went at each other the instant they
were released in the pit. There was the
usual cloud of feathers and fiutter of wings
and then the Woodside people observed
with Consideration that their cock had
squatted helpless,y, and was looking abous
in surprised way. Meanwhile the Ocean
side chicken was dancing all over him ann
digging gaffs into him.
After the Woodside mems chicken had
been killed its hackers protested against
payment of bets or stake money, as their
bird had fought three legs and three gafIs'
The referee has reserved his decision, as
he says the question is a new one anu
there is no provision in the old Galway
rules by which cock fighting is governe1
in the case of a three-legged chicken.
-Suocess-Ernestine st. John, as her
name would indicate, was the child OF
wretchedly poor parents but she was am
bilious. At the age of II she left sehOoi'
and at IS accepted a position IN "s
partment store. At Is she was abe "
marry a Hungarian duke. That is ~
say, no ambition Is too lofty for an AMER
can girl to entertain, providing she
brave, frugal, industrious, capable hohss"
and very beautiful. besides having tact
Detroit Journal. IA
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

River Report-The hight of the Savan-
nah river at Augusta, at a. m. Goth me-
ridian time) yesterday, was 73 feet a
fall of O.5 foot during the preceding twen.
ty-four hours.
Cotton region bulletin. Savannah, Ga,
for the twenty-four hours ending at a,
H., 18th meridian time, May q, 1899:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

Special Texas Rainfall Reports-No rain
, fall in Texas.
Missing data, Alapaha, Ca. May IS
Temperature, max, 81; tenn, min, s.; rain
fall, 90; pit. cloudy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
T0-DAYS WEATHER FORECAST

General conditions at p. m, Nav ~
1897 The area of low pressure yVbioh
has been central in the West the no.,
twenty-four hours, has spread over To-
as. AS yet there is no disturbance fror,
this storm in the Southern states. tn
pressure remains comparatively high alon~
the Atlantic coast, but is decreasfns.
throughout this section. A few locei
showers developed on the East Gulf coast
and rain is falling at Key West. Tn
temperature over the southern section or
the country is rising slowly, but remains
below normal generally. The maximum
did not go above the eighties in the warm
est localities.
Washington Forecast for Sunday.
For Georgia: Increasing cloudiness Sun
day; probably showers Monday; ught =,
fresh southerly winds.
For Eastern Florida: Threatenine
weather, with showers in southern nor
ton Sunday; probably showers Monday.
light easterly winds.
For South Carolina: Fair Sunday; in
creasing cioudiness and Threatening
weather Monday; light 10 fresh southerly
winds.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature, p. m. rs degrees
Minimum temperature, a, m... 81 degrees
Mean temperature ............... 70 degrees
Normal temperature ............ n degrees
Deficiency of temperature .... Z degrees
Accumulated excess since
May l Observation-Disclosures. .1W degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. l ........................... 16 degrees
Rainfall ......... GO inch
Normal ......... 49,. ......... 10 inch
Deficiency since May ......... "a inches
Deficiency since Jan. l ......... .35 inch
ho oh If fha
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
Yale Won the Boat Race.

Annapolis, May H.-Yale won the boa,
race from the Cadets by eleven and one
half seconds. Distance, two miles. Time,
1928.
Princeton, u; Harvard, 2. 7FF
Dartmouth s; Brown, Z.
Cornell, 8; West Point, g.
AT New Haven-Yale, 6; Andover, 2
AT Worcester-Holy Cross II; George
town, 4.
At adelphia-Pennsylvania State
College, 4; Fordham, 2.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

1T, temperature; *V, velocity of wind.
II. b. Boyer,
Local Forecast Official, Weather Bureau.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
sALUTED THE WRONG MAN.
Opening of the Provincial LeGisin-
ture ut Halifax.

Halifax, n. s, Feb: 1.-THE Provincial
Legislature of Nova Scotia was opened to-
day. The speech from the throne was de-
livered by Governor DAILY. Legislation is
promised regarding the river and shore
fisheries which recent decision OF the
Imperial Privy Council takes away from
the jurisdiction of the Dominion and vests
in the province. The Liberals control
the Legislature. In the House of Assembly
there are only three Conservatives.
a humorous incident occurred in con-
nection with the opening ceremony. 1t is
customary to receive the Governor with
guard of honor at the legislative hall, and
to fire from the citadel a salute of twenty
one guns in his honor as the representative
of the Queen. When General Lord Sey-
mour, commanding the military. drove up
in his carriage, quarter of an hour be-
fore the hour for opening the Legislature,
the sergeant from the Leinster regiment,
who was in charge OF the signals, took
him to be the proper one to salute, and
he signaled the citadel, half mile away
to fire the royal salute. This was at once
done, and when, later, the Governor ar
rived on time there were no guns.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
WIsCoNsIN's NEW SENATOR.
Known in His state as Joe
QuarIcs. a Wan of Quiet jest.
From the New York sun.)


zoe Quarles. who has been named by
the Republican caucus of the Wisconsin
Legislature for United States Senator. is
one of your quiet forces, said a Badger
State man now in New York He added:
The Congressional Directory and news
papers in the East will call him J. V.
Quarles. But in Wisconsin he is Joe
Quarles, and he has never been anything
else. How the devil Joe Quarles ever got
to the front will be a mystery to some
people who do not understand how a man
can succeed unless ne travels with a brass
band. Joe would sit in lawsuit all day
with his eyes shut, and apparently asleep.
The other fellow would make the noise I'M
til finally Joe would trap him at the turn
OF the case and win by a single question.
When all was over you would hear about
three days after of q lot of things that
Joe Quarles had been doing. l don't know
how he will take in the Senate. but before
q jury he talked Just as he would in q
country store on rainy day. And he al
ways said something in a quiet way. You
didn't seem TO think of it until he was
gone. Then you went around and told
everybody you knew what Joe Quarlcs
said.
Il was at school with Joe at Racine Col
lege There wasn't the same reason for
me to study that there was for Joe. Ny
father was rich, and l had a fool notion
that didn't have to study. One day after
| had been assigned to write an essay l
went to Joe Quarles and told him had 10
go fishing and asked him if he would write
my essay for me. He consented. Then he
asked me which / liked best, prose or
poetry II struck me that poetical essay
would be novelty, and | told him to grind
out one in verse. and that would give him
some OF the fish. When | returned he
asked for the fish and got it, and then he
said: There's your essay The next day |
stood up before the class and read with
innocence the verse dialogue beginning:
'Lochiei. Lochiel. beware of the day"
etc. l read the whole OF 1t. while the pro-
fessor and class giggled. When resumed
my seat the professor asked me ii | wished
to be understood as the author of the pa
per- and / said of course He said that
if was right Tom Campbell was a pirate.
That evening | met Joe Quarles and
asked him who the devil Tom Campbell
was.
which Tom he asked.
~ said the one who was a pirate Joe
replied that that was the one he didn't
know. That essay cost my GUY nor 800
The class was hungry. In after years Joe
Quarles managed my guv' nor's estate, and
when l asked him what l owed him, he
answered:
Nothing. When are you going fishing
again
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
TROOPS OFF FOR MANILA.
The Sherman Sails From Liberty
Island Today.

New York, Feb 1.-The troopship Sher-
man, having on board 1000 men and Off
GERS of the Third and Seventeenth United
States Infantry who are going to Manila
to reinforce General Otis army, with the
wives and families of a number of officers,
left her pier at the foot of Pacific Street,
Brooklyn, at 3 O'Clock this evening and
went out to Liberty Island, where she cast
anchor for the night. She will sail away
at 10 o'clock tomorrow The Sherman
was to have sailed today but the Third In
fantry was late in arriving.
It was after 4 O'Clock when the last of
the soldiers and their baggage was aboard.
There was a dozen women with the Third
Infantry and four with the Seventeenth.
Three passengers will also go to the Phil
ippines on the Sherman. They are Albert
Hay, son of Secretary Hay; Eugene Hale,
son of Secretary Hale, and James Wads-
worth, son of Congressman Wadsworth.
The young men are all recent graduates of
Yale and are going to the Philippines on
pleasure trip. The Berlin. it is expected,
will start for Cuba and Porto Rico with
supplies tomorrow.
Secretary Alger will not go on the
steamer this trip. although at one time he
expected to. He will wait until her next
sailing date. which will be March 9.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
The Expansive AnsIo-saxon.

CIiou. A Lawrence Lowell, in February Atlantic.)
We must not forget that the Anslo-Saxon
race - expansive. While the elaborate
administrative systems Of Continental Europe tend
20 make men dependent upon the Government tire
common law develops self-reliance. and 1T, man
TO cope alone with conditions 4 c0lonst 10
succeed must be allowed 10 make his own way
as best suits his surroundings ntrdmmelcd by
administrative regulations; and it j. a striking
tact that German emigrants do not flock 10 their
own colonies They prefer IN go 10 America, or
10 an English colony. and thrive better there.
The habit OF shifting for ones self Is Not any
deeply ngIained by the Western movement Of tht.
population, until the idea Of lettering i.iS pros
poets by immigration comes naturally 10 every
American. That a tendency 50 firmly rooted
should die out the country nils up; that tic
custom Of pushing into any favorable opening
should not operate beyond the present limits Of
the nited States. seems incredible The rush
Tor the hl0ndike Is enough 10 dispcl such an lin
zion. Now ii a large number Of American citi-
zens we're TO pour into any country whore law
and order are not etfectualy maintained and
where there l. no adequate security for the en-
t"rccnent Of contracts. our Government would
certainly he called upon interfere. and the ap-
peal would not long be made in vain.
1t seems altogether probable, therefore, that
If the war had not broken out with Spain the
concrete form before many decades had passed
and that II would ultimately have been answered
III the Affirmative The has forced the issue
pEcmIturely. perhaps. and. rightly or wrongly
Tor good or fer evil. the die is east. II et0oves
u~- therefore 70 consider the causes Of our paSr
success in expansion or colonization and sci. how
lar they are applicable 10 our new possessions
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
GIANT STREET CAR COMPANY.
Plans for FinnncicriuE baltimore
Bic Corporntion Nnfured.

Baltimore, Feb. Alexander Brown K
Sons, head OF the syndicate which has alb
sorbed the street railways and electric
companies OF Baltimore, completed plan
for financiering this giant corporation to-
day. II is said that there will be a total
of $50 900 coo of stocks and bonds issued
OF this amount 100000 will be fifty
year per cent gold bonds, Sli ,00o. 600 Gu
mulative preferred 4 per cent stock, and
$4,000. 900 common stock.
a syndicate has been formed to under
write the securities. The subscribers will
be given the privilege of taking a proper
ton of the cumulative preferred stock.
They will be given a bonus in the shape
of % per cent in common stock
The stockholders of the Consolidated
Railway Company. who elect to accept
payment of their shares in the securities
Of the new company in lieu of cash. will
have the same right as the syndicate sub
scribers- The Interpretation placed on
proportion of cumulative preferred stocks
is that subscribers will be given about 80
per cent in bonds and 45 per cent III cumu-
lative preferred stock
City passenger stockholders will be paid
cash for their stock. There will be re-
served in the treasury sufficient amount
of securities to pay for the electric prop
critics should it be decided to operate the
street railways and electric light compsr
MES by one management.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION.
Fireman Thrown Thirty Feet In
the Air and Killed.

HornellsvilIe. " Y, Feb. Am Erie
engine blew up while standing on a siding
at Cameron early this morning, killing
Fireman F. W. Chamberlain and seriously
injuring Engineer Frank solomon and
Brakeman Melvin Mccormick, all OF
whom live in this city.
The injeetors on the engine failed TO
work and stop was made at Cameron TO
ascertain the cause. Fireman Chamber
lain had just closed one fire-box door and
opened the other when the explosion came
He was hurled forty feet in the air. sus-
tanning bruises from which he died in
few hours.
Brakeman Mccormick was standing on
the tank of the engine. The force OF the
explosion tore OF the fre-box door that
Chamberlain had just closed. which hit
Mccormick in the head. He was badly
scalded, will lose an eye. and be marked
for life if he lives.
Engineer Solomon was seriously burned
by the escaping steam, but the physicians
have hopes of saving his life. The engine
was not badly wrecked
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
Why He Did Not Report.

II might be unfortunate for Secretary
Alger If he should succeed in having Gen
eral Miles made the subject of a court of
enquiry for his failure TO report his dis
coyery of bad beef to the War Department.
That is, il the enquiry should not be so
sternly limited as TO prevent the accused
from attempting to Justify that failure. It
may be assumed that General Miles has
been in the army long enough to know his
duty in any circumstances, and II 1t was
his duty to report his suspicious and sub
sequently his evidence TO the War ONCE,
he had good reason for not doing So The
public can guess why he made his first
statement on the subject TO Commission
and DOT TO the Secretary OF War. In re-
ply to the question as to who was respon-
sible for what he called a pretense of an
experiment, he said: ASK the Secretary
Of War or the Commissary Office" This
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
Make Dewey an Admiral at once.

We trust that Congress will take up and
promptly pass the joint resolution, favor
ably reported by the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs. the objects OF which are TO
revive the grade of Admiral for the benefit
of Rear Admiral George Dewey, and to
enable him 10 serve his country ten years
longer.
The measure is one which has the ap-
proval of every American, and its enact
ment into law will be hailed with general
enthusiasm. The American people have
grown a trife weary of Witnessing the at
tempt to rob worthy naval officer of the
credit and promotion he fairly won in his
victory over Cervera. and TO give them TO
a Navigation Bureau favorite who was as
innocent of participation in the sea fight
off Santiago Hsrbor as he was of winning
the Battle of the Nile.
Just by way OF variety therefore it will
be pleasant TO see one hero rewarded with
out any effort being made by the Navy De-
partment to prevent such action. Rear
Admiral Dewey is justly entitled to the
highest recognition the country is able 10
accord him An English officer in like
circumstances would be made peer OF
high degree. would receive the star and
ribbon of the Garter, and would be pre-
seated with a palace and a million or so
in cash. In our Republic such things are
impossible, but what We can do we ought
to without question or delay. To give
George Dewey The rank that should be a
permanent one in our navy, and to provide
for his active service for a decade beyond
the present legal date of his retirement
is little enough in the case of great
American captain, diplomatist, and admin
istrator VINO has reflected eternal lustre
upon his service and flag has changed the
map of the world in day, and has added
rich and magnificent Eastern empire TO
the possessions of his country.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
Too Much Genius.



some men that nave average or more tbs-,
average intelligence in certain directions. seem
to lack even the protection Of instinct in other
directions. You've heard the old story OF the
man who got the wrong side Of The saw
while trimming tree and never realized his
error till he had dropped twenty feet 10 hard
ground! Well, sir, | have true incident 10
match =
Go ahead, was urged upon the philosopher
who is Of Detroit's big ice dealers
~ chap came To me early in the season anil
wanted me 10 invest IN an cr-Cutting machine
he had invented. He tried tu tell me all about
il, but ! simply told him t. get his machine cut
on the ice and put it to work a. soon AZ We
commenced operations. II It would 10 what
claimed for it. would have diffcult- in
coming To terms / happened to be on the iHId
the morning Of his appearance. hut too
busy experimenting affairs To give him his
device any special attention.
suddenly there was great yelling. spEtter-
ing and calling Tor help. We fished my IL
ventivc friend out oi the water. half drowned
and half frozen. His machine had started. under
the ice. Tor a journey toward Niagara Falls"
''Iiow did the thing happen
Nothing accidental about it. The machine
was made 10 cut circular pieces OF ice. The
whole trouble with the thing that the
genius and his machine had 10 stand in the
center OF the iatcd circle while working
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03

was not construed as a reflection on the
honesty of the Secretary. but it was sup
posed TO imply knowledge OF the condi-
tions under which the prepared and
canned beef had been purchased and pre-
ferred to fresh beef in Porto Rico.
Obviously General Miles did not feel sure
that the whole enquiry would not be stiiled
if he should make an early report to the
War Department. He could prove, if he
should be allowed the opportunity. that
such a fear was well founded. by pointing
to the suppression of the enquiry started
by Inspector General Breckenridge. As
soon as he had informed the Alger Relief
Commission that bad beef was supplied to
his soldiers, he turned over such evidence
as he had collected to the Inspector Cen
eral That officer set to work TO complete
the proofs and was known to be making
great Roadway when he was ordered away.
The order was peculiar and violated all
custom in the number of posts to be in
spected and the length of time required.
At the usual rate it would take three years
to complete the work to which he is as
signed. This left the meat enquiry in the
hands of Il Commission of whose members
one had expressed great indignation over
General Miles disclosures and had shown
himself strangely eager TO serve the in
terests of the beef companies.
If General Miles should be allowed TO eX-
plain why he did not report earlier, he
would have to affirm that he did not trust
the War Department, which is probably
the ugly truth. That could not be pleas
ant for either Mr.. Alger or General
Miles. If he should be put upon trial and
denied the right of justifying his course,
there would be very indignant American
people who would consider him as a
martyr, the victim of the national curse
of Algerism.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
rropo,ed New Alpine Tunnel.

Urom the London thronIclc.)
The building Of a new railway from Germany to
Italy is in contemplation The new line, which
would doubtless become 4 dangerous competitor
TO the St Gothard Railway is TO he called the
Vintsclgau Railway, and is 10 start from Ian
deck, on the famous Arlbcrg Line. and TO con
tinue through the Nintschgau Valley, by Res
clcnschcideck, Meran, lrafoi, and Borno, to
Milan.
Apart from the benefit which would accrue to
the German export trade from what would he
the shortest route from North Germany to Italy,
the railway would lie OF the finest Alpine
lines in the world, it would lead through the
ortler Mountain groups, and traverse the famous
Stifescrjoch the highest road in Europe, through
a tunnel 4 900 metres long, while the St Gothard
tunnel il over 800 metres long.
The Chamber of Commerce of Augsburg has
submitted to the chancellor petition for i sub
vention of the railway which is to be built by
Austria and was done in the OF the ST.
Gothard Line, to which Germany contributed 80
900 900 marks German trade. it is pointed out in
the petition, would derive the greatest advantage
from such q line and a s,ibvcnton would. there
fore be nothing hut Just. 1t Is interesting to
hear that in the OPINION Of experts the water
power available in the regions TO be :raverscd
is 50 considerable that the railway could Ice an
electrical one. Access to the Engadne would,
Of course, also he greatly facilitated.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-03
DEWEY PLEASED.
Hall to he Named for Him Mt Nor
witch University.

Mortified, Vt, Feb. Admiral George
Dewey has sent cable message from on
board his flagship, the Olympia, in Manila
Bay, to President Allen d. Brown, of Nor
wich University, giving his approval to
the plan of erecting a new building at the
college, which is to be named Dewey Hall,
in compliment to the admiral. Norwich
University is the admiral's alma mater,
and it is purposed TO build the hall by
the aid of public subscriptions.
The plan was originated some months
ago. AS soon as it had developed sufii-
GENTLY President Brown wrote to Admiral
Dewey, submitting the whole proposition
and asking the admiral to signify his APP
proval or disapproval of the suggestion.
The answer has just been received giving
the admiral's full approval.
In view of Admiral Dewey's favorable
attitude the scheme will now be pushed
with all possible CELEBRITY. Arrangements
have been made with John l.. Bacon, OF
White River Junction. treasurer of the
State of Vermont, to receive the subscrip-
tions and it is expected that the 100000
which it is purposed to devote to the new
hall will be contributed quickly.