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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-31

Mrs. Burke Johnston will be the guest of
Mrs Benjamin j. Dryer the week of the
governors ball
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Gray, who are at
Sewanee, Tenn, will return to Birmingham
in day two.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-31
Mr.. and Mrs. d. e. Wilson have returned
from their wedding Journey

Mr.. and Mrs. Felix NJ. Drennen have re-
turned from their wedding journey east.
They will be at home with Mrs. Dryer at
her Sixth avenue residence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
ESTABLISHING A STOCK FARM.
w. a. Wilcox Going Into the Bust
ness Near Dnrien.

Darien. Ga, Oct 23.-Mr. w, A. Wilcox.
a prominent and wealthy merchant of this
city. has decided to go into the stock
raising business upon an extensive scale.
He is the owner of Egg Island. one of the
best pieces of property in this section. He
also owns a stallion with a distinguished
pedigree. Last week he purchased twenty
five mares, which he is sending to the is
land. He will have everything fixed up in
shape to make an ideal stock farm of the
. island. That he will make a success of
his new venture no one who knows Mr..
Wilcox will doubt.
The sugar cane crop Is one of the most
profitable of any in Mcintosh county.
There is no reason why it could not be
raised in immense quantities, and it will be
if IA sugar refinery is established close
enough to furnish a steady market. Cane
is now offered on the streets, and is tax
ing the place once occupied by the popu-
lar watermelon.
More timber has arrived from up the
country at Darien during the past week
than any time since spring. Hundreds OF
timbermen who have been waiting for
rise in the river, have had their wishes
gratided and their bank accounts repen-
ished by liberal checks from the timber
merchan As many as forty RATS arrived
in one day, and every day during the past
week has been q busy one in Darien.
The price of cotton does not directly in
terest any of the people of Daren as a
babe of this staple would be a curiosity
here, but a means of increasing the
prosperity of the whole South there are
many here who are gratifed at the upward
tendency of the market.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist Church was held at the church
in Darien this morning. Presiding Elder
Whiting presided, and there was good at
tendance of official members.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
Dewey's One Misfortune.
From the Chicago News.


The American people and the world have
agreed that Admiral George Dewey was
born under a lucky star. But for some
inscrutable purpose Providence seems to
have Wiled il that Dewey also should be
unfortunate in at least one instance-Sen-
ator Mason of Illinois favors him for the
presidency.
OF course, as everybody knows, it is not
of the slightest consequence what Senator
Mason says or thinks on most subjects.
But he should have spared Dewey. The
cap and bells of the Senate and of. the
people of his own state, a man who
bushes for his country when he is not
playing the buffoon, Senator Mason is a
very tender subject to mention to a pa
triotic Illinois audience Possibly the peo-
pie of this state are as ashamed of Will
lam e. Mason as he can possibly be of
sis country, and all they ask of their
friends in other states is such forbear-
ance as they are capable of until this
state has an opportunity of retiring this
peculiarly endowed senator to the obscur-
ity he is well fitted 10 adorn There.
he can blush unseen" and to his hearts
content.
In the meantime Dewey is as we have
said unfortunate. He has done nothing to
deserve the obloquy Of being publicly men,
toned for the presidency by a man who
bushes for his country. Dewey is proud
of his country and his country is proud
of him. He may be assured at least. that
he will have the sympathy OF Illinois in
his undeserVed misfortune.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
SERIOUS AT WACO.
Cowboys Determined to Prevent RE-
mONRI of Americnns.

mOVal of Americans.
Dallas. Tex, Oct. pa special to the
News from FL Paso Tex. says;
Advlces from Bisbee Ariz. tonight de-
scribe the situation al Naco as critical
1t has been learned that James Ryan, kill
ed by the Mexicans yesterday, was a Brit
sh subject, and steps are being taken by
British subjects at Naco to have the affair
investigated by their government.
Joe Rhodes and George Marts. captured
by the Mexicans, are still in Jail on the
Mexican side of the line and are kept in
communicate. The cowboys on this side
of the border learned to-day that the
prisoners would be removed to an interior
town for trial, and they are determined
not to let the removal take place, as the
method of executing prisoners in Mexico
IS well known to them, and they fear to
trust their friends to the guards knowing
ii means certain death. An effort will be
made 20 rescue the prisoners unless they
are released.
Fully 100 cowboys, armed with Win
chesters. are assembled at Naco tonight.
and threats of violence are heard on every
side. The Mexican garrison has been re-
inforced by 200 rurals 50 cordados and a
number of guards.
Col. Kosterlitzky and Gen. Fochio of the
Mexican army in Sonora, have been or
dered from Magdalena, and are now on
their way to Naco. Both officers have
been engaged in the campaign against the
Yaqui Indians. Col. Kosterlltzky is
known as the Roosevelt of Mexico.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
STRIPPING THE SHAMROCK.
Her Crew Has Begun Work to Get
Her Under Jury Rig.


New York, Oct 2S.-The crew of the
Shamrock began work early this morning,
stripping the yacht of her racing rigging
at her berth in the Erie Basin. Her top
mast was sent down on deck and then
transferred TO her storage lighter, after
which her running gear was unrove and
all the sails taken from the yachts hold
and transferred to the lighter.
Capt Hogarth said that he expected to
take the mast off tomorrow and to have
the yacht under jury rig by the end of
the week
Tomorrow night Capt Hogarth, Capt.
Wringe and Shamrocks crew will meet
Capt Barr and the victorious Deer Isle
boys from the Columbia in Prospect Hall,
Brooklyn. a feast and general entertain
ment has been prepared for the vanquisn-
ed and the victors by the Yacht Masters,
Yacht Engineers and Yacht Officers AS
ISOLATION. a variety entertainment win be
provided after dinner
Sir Thomas Upton will so to Chicago To-
morrow. He has expressed his intention
of challenging in 1901, as he does not care
to try TO get ready for next year. He viii
give way, however, to anybody desiring
10 challenge before him. Sir Thomas said
his yacht alone, as she stands cost him
about $500. COO
VIII Fife, the designer of Shamrock, is
still very seriously i'll at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel So much is he suffering from in,
flammatory rheumatism that frame had
to be built over mis- bed to prevent even
the bedclothes touching him. 1t is said
that it is extremely doubtful if he can
return to England with Sir Thomas Lip
ton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
ACCOUNTS THE PAPERS GET.
stories correspondents Wire the
Great London Dailies.

Great London Daiites.
ro,don. oct. 24-Interesting and graphic
o.,ounts are supplied by the war CORE
s,,ndepts of the battle of Elandslaagte, OF
which the following are extracts;
THE Daily Telegraph says:
cen. French commenced the action at
cana m. The enemy had only just finish
,l coffee when they were surprised, and
re,-,v all our prisoners We're caught In
,7e vicinity of the captured train. The
mining and railway officials escaped from
tb. enemy and came in to us, to the num-
ber of thirty-seven whites, BESIDES many
natives and coolies.
Both of the latter classes had been rob-
he'd and compelled to work by the Beers,
Ina the whites were treated fairly well
though they were made to take an oath to
remain neutral. etc. A Boer sergeant,
naive Of Cape Colony, hid his rifle and
came IN with twenty of his late captives
The Manchester regiment, with the
Characteristic hardihood OF British infan-
try marched strai ght back at the enemy,
TOO often careless of taking cover, despite
he rafting, Kissing and splitting of the
Nmser bullets. Tommy Atkins says in
effect What, Hide from yokels Let
em shoot
Tine enemy bobbed about over the
rocks like jack-in-the-box. firing heavily
at u.s. and with fair accuracy, for the
magazine Mauser rife is terrible wea-
1on although it inflicts clean wounds
Many Of them used explosive bullets
"Cot Scott-Chisholm, one of the Impe-
rial Light Horse courted disaster by wav-
ms his scarf to give encouragement 10 his
men who really needed none. Suddenly
l-I- obi, ~,I mkt A,r II
Hamilton tried 10 stop the fighting, nut
party Of Beers eusconced on a conical hill
and caring nothing about their comrades,
took advantage of the lull to deliver
heavy fire. The Gordon Righlanders and
the Marchesters were rendered more saw
age than ever by this and redoubled their
energy while the Beers in the hollows
were delivering a thanking fire"
The Daily News says:
The approaching fall of darkness was
great factor in the last phases of the
fight making the capture Of the position
at once absolutely imperative BY this
time the crack of rifles and the rattle Of
N3xims had become absolutely furious
Our men understood the necessity wei
enough Nothing 10th, they exposed them
selves calamity in their resolution to drive
the Beers from their last stand. Officers.
sergean,s and men fell in the lines, but
TO hing checked the fierce onset. Con-
spIcuous among the Gordon Highlanders
and in the fighting line throughout was
Lord Ava. attached specially to the brga-
dors staff.
'The iual rush was a sight to see. With
oveAtd bayonets, cheering as they went,
Or men sprang over the boulders that
were strewn at their feet. The Beers. re-
oo.ng fired wildly and then dashed down
the rugged steep to escape the humiliation
threatening them"
Some, desperately determined on killing,
returned 10 the Mex, in the rear of which
the Hishlandors had crouched behind some
touloers. These men fired on ambulance
men at work among the wounded. and
o'oets there can certify from our own ex-
peience to this dastardly act"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
SUPPLIES FOR THE WAR.
Great Demand for American Goods
in south Africa.

New York. Oct. 29.-Shipping agents re-
port demands for freight space to South
Africa are rapidly increasing, and in con-
sequence there is a corresponding increase
in rates.
AT the office of Barber & Co., in the Pro-
duce Exchange. it was said to-day that
they had contracted for the shipment of
large quantities of canned meat. The
market has been ransacked from top to
bottom said a representative of the com
pany, and every obtanable lot of can
ned beef of the required quality has been
bought up. Ii would seem that the local
market had been cleaned up. We shall
ship a large consignment of this to South
Africa within a few days, and others will
follow as they come in from the West
There is also big inquiry for hay ard
oats, large quantities of which will soon
he shipped. We have received peremptorv
orders, however, to stop forwarding ma
chinery and mining supplies to South AZ
RIGA. There has been a large demand for
mules, 100, and it is not abating. but they
are mostly shipped from New Orleans and
other Southern ports"
Other steamship and shipping ogents also
told of constantly increa sing demands for
freight space
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
FATHER MCABE DEAD.
1t Was He who Helped O'ReiIIy Es-
cape From Australia.

1t Was He who Helped O'ReiIIy Es-
cape From Australia.
Waseca, Mimi, Oct 23.-Rev, p. NJ. Nc
Cabe, a well-known Roman Catholic cler-
gyman, is dead of Brights disease at St.
Mary's, a small mission near Waseca. His
death recalls an exploit of international
interest, in which he was a conspicuous
actor. 1t was Father McCabe who was
instrumental in liberating the political
prisoner, John Boyle O'Reilly, who after
wards became the noted American poet.
O'Reilly was detected propagating Fen
ianism in England. He was arrested and
sentenced to penal servitude. Father Nc
Cabe was stationed at the Australian pris-
on as chaplain and to him O'Reilly confid-
ed his intention of making his escape. The
in 1869 the two met by appointment and
the priest and the prisoner exchanged
clothes. In this disguise O'Reilly depart
ed in an open boat, without food or drink.
After three days of terrible exposure he
was picked up by an American whaler and
carried to Liverpool. Thence he made his
way quickly to the United States.
THE priest reported TO the prison Off
Gals that he had been waylaid by the con
vict, who compelled him TO make the ex-
change of clothing. When the truth leak
ed out later on, Father McCabe was oblig-
ed TO bake a hasty departure from Aus
tralia He came to this country and APP
piled to Archbishop Ireland for a charge
in this diocese about eighteen years ago.
He has remained in Minnesota ever since.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
NEARLY suFEocArED ny SMOKE
Fire Came Near Causing Fatality
ON Duffy street.

Fire Came Near Causing n Fatality
ON Duhy street.
Fire came near making a clean sweep
of the two-story frame house, No. 90
Duffy street, east, near Lincoln street. at
l O'Clock this morning, AS IL was only
the vigorous work Of the dremen from
No. and engine houses saved the house
and its contents from total loss. and prob
ably the adjoining houses from destruc-
ton.
The house where the fire occurred is
owned by Mir. William Mayer, pastor OF
Sacred Heart Church. and was rented
by Joseph W. Huntington, a marine engi-
neer, who is now in Cuba in the govern
ment service. In his absence his family
was sleeping elsewhere, and the only one
in the house was II. p. Lane, who was
occupying a room upstairs
About 1 o'clock Mr.. Lane was awakened
by the smoke pouring into his room from
the hallway He was nearly sufocated.
but managed to get out. About the same
time some street car employees who were
passing the house saw the smoke and
shouted FIRE" An alarm was sent in
from poN A. at Abercorn and Henry
streets and the engine companies in the
southern section of the city were soon at
work
The fire started in closet ,under the
stairs on the first floor and had got well
under way when the frcmen arrived
Their prompt and vigorous work. however.
saved the house from destruction. The
furniture of the Huntingtons was badly
damaged. The house is fully covered by
insurance. but whether the furniture is
insured or not is not known.
Just how the fire originated further than
that it started in a closet the dremen
were unable 90 discover Everything was
apparently all right when Mr.. Lane went
10 bed. His escape was a narrow one.
The upper part of the house was thick
with smoke and that he was able to make
his way out was remarkable
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
ROCKEFELLER on THE BOARD.
And Ii Is Believed Big Railroad
Consolidation viii Follow.


New York Oct. 2S.-William Rockefeller
was to-day elected a member of the execu-
tive council Of the New York Central
which authorized an issue of SIS, O0OO.O ad-
ditional stock.
The World says: "The election of Mr.
Rockefeller to the executive council of
the New York Central is of much import
ance and it marks the surrender of the
New York New Haven and Hartford sys-
TEN to the New York Central. Mr.. Rookie
Teller was elected a director in the New
York Central a few weeks ago. He and his
brother, John D. Rockefeller, have never
heretofore commanded any interest in
New York Central affairs although they
have for several years held a big block of
its stock. But they have been important
factors of the management of the New
York New Haven and Hartford.
William Rockefeler's election 10 the
executive committee of the Central IS
therefore accepted as an indication that
the union of the TWO systems viii shortly
follow"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
OPENED ITS HORSE SHOW.
Kansas City Made the Occasion n
Social Event.

Kansas City Made the Occasion n
Social Event.
Kansas City, Oct. 23.-Kausas City's
horse show opened tonight with nearly
500 entries from all parts of the country.
1t was the first time the show had been
held under cover. and the event was made
a social one, hundreds of spectators ap-
pearing in evening dress. The hall, seal
ing 10000 people, and with an immense
arena, was brilliantly decorated and light
ed. Representative horse and stock men
were present from twenty different states.
The show will last all the week.
The big event of the exposition, the
awarding of the $1,000 Stilwell purse for
the best saddle horse, mare or geldiug,
was on to-night's card. There were eleven
entries in this class. The prize winners
were:
First, $500 Highland Chief, owned by
Ball Bros. Versailles. Ky; second, $3.50,
Thornton Star, owned by J. A. Potts, Mex-
leo. No; third. $50 Preston, owned by
Pat Dolan, Lexington, Ky; fourth, $100.
Darkness. owned by Ball Brothers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
SALVATION ARMY PROTESTS.
Against the Treatment of Joe, the
Turk" Received in Turkey.

n
Turk" Received in Turkey.
New York. Oct. 29.-The attorney for the
Salvation Army has called the attention
Of Secretary Hay TO the indigni'ies legged
to have been heaped on Joseph Garabed,
an ensign OF the Salvation Army, known
all over the United States as Joe, the
Turk" who went TO Turkey recently for
the purpose of visiting some OF his rela-
tives On July II, 1890, he got a passport
and necessary papers which he supposed
would protect him as an American citizen
in Turkey, having been citizen of this
country for over eighteen years.
on landing. instead of receiving protec-
ton. he says his passport was contemptu-
ously received and he was seized by the
Turkish authoTi les aud thrown into jail
BY considerable expenditure Garabed says
he was abe TO reach a United States con-
sui. lie says the consul not only refused 10
protect him. bui ordered him 10 leave the
country, as the Turks had directed, on the
very next steamer, or else be incarcerated
by the consul in the American jail until
the consul could place HIM aboard a steam
er 10 some foreign port Garabed took a
Russian steamship and left the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
ILLUSTRATION or TACTICS.
Correspondent So Describes the Bat
tie at EIandsIaaEte.

Ait at GlaHOSA1aENe.
London Oct. 2S.-The Daily Mail pub
fishes the following description of the bat
de of Elandslaagte from its special war
correspondent, c. w. Stevens, filed at
Lalysmlth:
The battle was a brilliant, complete
success. The Beers numbered from 1900
to 1000 and probably had about 100 killed
and $50 wounded.
Inc fight itself was like a practical
Illustration of handbook tactics, each arm
represented doing its proper work to per
lecJion The Gordon Highlanders, in their
g,lack' advanced in magnificent order
lucy We're Immediately saluted by a heavy
!"e which told from the first Their ma
ioI rel with a bullet In his leg but as he
lay where he fell, he lit pipe and smoked
pacidy while the advance continued AS
rau dIter man dropped, supports We're
'S'ea INTO the firing line, our men dart
.e from cover to cover, splendidly led
wy ever advancing. Yet, as ridge after
Use was won the Highlanders still found
new ridge confronting them and thus
eE fought their bleeding way until the
o ,.alt Ildge was neared, with nearly every
o1lcer down.
Ihen, slamming every available man
., ]he Hrlng line, Manchesters, Devons
@- LlSnt Horse all mixed, with bugles
sn5 Jung The advance, bagpipes shrieking,
+I ,he battle confused surge our men
wss P Yelling forward, and the position
ueah"hiie squadrons of Lancers and
e 59i7s Tapped around the Boer eeft
In ia C5'chlnS the enemy as they retired
rcce, ,uer goring and stamping them to
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
A TH1RTY-THIRD DEGREE MASON
DIR. simmons of Savannah and others
Have the Degree Conferred.

DIR. simmons of Savannah and others
Have the Degree Conferred.
Washington. Oct. 2S-The supreme
council of the Scottish Rite Masons called
on President Mckinley at the White
House to-day and later concluded its BIZ
ennial session by comforting the thirty
third degree of Masonry on the following
members of the order: District of Column
bia, ]. Henry Small, Jr., Richard B.
Nixon and Halber Nelson; Kansas, Will
liam Busbee, William Green, William II.
Wilson and F. N. Hair; Minnesota, DR..
w. B. Pinee, Jerome Cooley, Clarence E.
Stone and Sheldon Frazer; Indian terri
tory, Daniel NJ. Holley; Missouri, Penn
broke r. Flintcraft and William II.
Brown North Dakota, A. c. Mather and
George n. Phelps; Tennessee, John B.
Garrett; Wyoming, w. B. Hicks; at large,
Gen. Thomas NJ. Anderson; Iowa, Silas
Gardner; Georgia, DR.. A. B. Simmons
The election to fill vacancies in the act
i've members of the Supreme Council caus-
ed by deaths during the past two years
resulted in the choice of the following in
spectors general: DR.. Morris of West
Virginia Harper S. Cunningham of Okla
homa E. T. Taubmann of South Dakota
and Inspector General Anderson of Ne
braska.
Vacancies in offices were filled by the
election of Frank Pierce of Colorado, to
be treasurer general, and James G. Rich
ardson of Tennessee, to be lieutenant gen.
eral and commander
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
A FREAK OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Queer yarn That savors of Spirit
ulism.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
TO sit for a photograph and have It turn
out to be a precise likeness Of ones de-
ceased father in a sort Of uncanny pro-
ceeding that does not happen frequently
There is a young woman in charge of a
modest little picture gallery at Broadway
and Convent street who maintains with all
seriousness that an effort on her part to
reproduce the features of an elderly Gus.
toner in a tintype resulted In producing a
Photograph OF the mans sire. The young
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24

woman does not undertake to explain the
phenomenon--she only knows that ii hap
pened, that's all
When asked for her experience with the
picture she said
IAN old German not more than five feet
tall and aged about s.. walked in amt
asked 10 have a tintype taken / posed
him in the attitude he wanted, which hap
pened to be sitting on "A chair with his
arm resting on a small table. went
about the work in my customary man.
ner. When ! developed the plate / was
astounded and a little frightened 10 find
that the picture was altogether differens
from what il should have been.
"Instead of little man seated by a Ia.
BILE che tintype showed a tall man stand
ing Immediately behind one And the face
OF that man was entirely different from
the one of the man who had sat in front
of the camera. The picture was of a
man aged al least so. and had fun. long
whiskers reaching almost TO his waist I
explained to the sitter that l would have
to make another tintype. as the first ef-
fort had turned out q failure. He wanted
to See the picture, and when he had looked
at II a few seconds, he cried In broken
English: "Mein Gottl That is perfect
likeness of my father who has been dead
for many years
These words frightened me more than
ever but the man insisted that the photo
graph was the image of his dead father.
and would not listen 10 me when | wanted
him 90 destroy il and make another OF
him. He said he would not give Il up for
anything. and, paying me more than l ask
ed, he left the shop.
He evidently presumed that, because che
picture ! tried to make of him turned out
to be a likeness of mis- dead father used
some spiriualistic process In taking tin
types, for a few days afterward a woman
came into the place and asked to have q
tintype made of her dead mother