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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
LIPPMAN BROTHERS.
PROPOSALS WANTED.

City of Savannah, Office Director of
Public Works, Savannah, Ca, Dec. p,
1S99.-Sealed bids will be received at this
office until Monday, jan /. 1900. at IL
o o'clock noon, city time to furnish the city
of Savannah with supplies until Feb. 1,
1900. All proposals must be made on off,
cial forms, which can be secured al this
office on and after Saturday, Dec. %, 1899.
Envelopes TO be marked Proposals for
Supplies" The city reserves the right to
reject any or all bids. Bids to be opened
in the presence of bidders.
GEO. M. GADSDEN. Director.
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bids wANTEn.

City Of Savannah. Office Director Of
Public Works, Savannah. Ga, Dec. 22
ls99.-Bids Will be received at this Office
until Monday, Jan. I. 1900, al u O'Clock
noon. city dime, for furnishing feed a. fol-
lows: No. ] Timothy hay per 100 pounds.
best quality feed bran per 100 pounds.
best quality corn per bushel. best quality
mixed oats 10 be- weighed al the city lof.
Envelopes 10 be- marked Bids for Feed %
Tho elty reserves the right 10 reject any
or 81 BIDS. BIDS 10 b. opcncd in The
presence ~ Bidders
GEO. a.. GADsDEN. Director.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
SAVANNAH BOARD OF TRADE.

Al the request of those most directly
interested, special meeting of this body
VIII be held at its room Thursday, Dec
3, inst. at II O'clock to hear Mr.. Lock-
wood Myrick of Springfield, Mass, in op-
position to the proposed policy of the
United States government for admitting
the products of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines free of duty TO
the destruction of the rice, sugar cane, to-
baceo and fruit and vegetable industries
OF the South Atlantic and Gulf states.
Public generally are invited to be present
and participate in proceedings of meeting
fraught with the deepest concern for the
most vital interests of this section.
d. G. PURSE, President.
p. G. TRENHOLM, Supt and Sec'y.
Savannah. Ga. Dec. Is 1899.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28

Atlanta Dec. 27.-Gov. Gambler wound
Up his days work at the executive de-
partment late this afternoon by making
six appointments OF state bank deposit
tories, follows: La Grange Banking
and Trust Company. Griffin Banking
Company, Commercial Bank OF Valdosta.
Third National Bank OF Columbus, Bank
Of Thomasvilie, Bank OF Waycross.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE no LIauon nEAHnnr

~ S'ty Of savannah, ONCE Clerk Of coyn.
81 ~ savannah, Ca. Nov IS. S9S-Ali rsr-
80 10 u ,sl TO retail liquor during tbe
80. ''p VIII NE their application with
- ,et =, -su,eil ~ once 20 that same can
upon said application before t6c 80. ,s,,'.il
" htnli provided for by ordnance
WA y BAILEY, Clerk of couneu-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that John
Rourke, Jr, has been this day admitted
into our firm as a copartner, and that
hereafter our business will be conducted
under the firm name of John Rourke &,
Sons. This Dec 25 1899.
JOHN ROURKE & SON.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE ONLY PLACE IN the CITY.

THE ONLY PLACE IN the CITY,
The only place thoroughly equipped lOs
packing for shipment and moving pldIiyb,
and nice furniture. The only place VIZ" M.
apparatus for hoisting pianos ana T Tho
er heavy furniture to upper hoois' ,itnn
only place where special attention Is si i,ss
to storing nice furniture and merchanasre
The only place where carpets are p lin
ly cleaned by machinery instead o. hes
a club The only place tnat t III
bicycle messenger boys. rms - nj Mr. ~.
DISTRICT MESSENGER AND DELI
so1 We. 1,..s.-'.sss Telephone
c. III Medlock. supt. and Msr
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
NegrO Killed ut DnisY.

Daisy, Ga, Dec. ga 16-year-old negro
boy by the name of Pet Bacon was shot
and killed last night by Charley Beasley
and another negro. Christmas whisky and
an old grudge is supposed to be at the bot
tom of it. The murderers are being hot
" pursued.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT.
James Hall Has Been at Liberty
Nearly Nineteen Years.

Atlanta, Dec. 27.-Gov. Gambler to-day
received a communication from Gov.
Johnston OF Alabama, stating that James
Han, an escaped convict, had been ar
rested in Birmingham.
Hall was convicted of simple larceny in
Nuscogee county Georgia. in 1872. and
sentenced TO fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary. He served nine years, when he es-
capped, and has been al liberty nearly nine
teen years.
Recently, Hall had a quarrel with his
brother, who betrayed him to Sheriff
o. Brien OF Birmingham. He will be re-
turned 10 Georgia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
The GERMANIA BANK
GA.

CAPITAL .$2OO,gO
OhoVlued proDtS ...................'. 49,
This bank offers it's services to corposS-
tons, merchants and individuals.
Has authority to act as executor az
ministrator, guardian, etc.
Issues drafts on the principal cities IN
Great Britain and Ireland and on the Con-
tinent.
Interest paid or compounded quarterly
on deposits in Inc Savings Department
Safety Boxes for rent.
HENRY BLUM, President.
!. B. TIEDEMAN. Vice President
JOHN NJ. HOGAN, Cashier.
WALTER F. HOGAN. Asst Cashier
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ALLEGED NEGRO INoENDIARY.

Was Caught After Running Two
Niles with Bullet in His Leg.
Americus. Ca. Dec. 27.--The negro charg-
~ wis the burning Of the large country
siorthouse owned by DR. Murray near
TazeBol. Marion county, was captured
near Americas tonight. Murray followed
ihe negro here and with the assistance OF
officers affected his capture, though the
fugitive ran two miles after being shot IN
the leg.
Murrays store WAS burned sunday night
last cniallng loss ~ 5000. with no Ia
furance Murray f. confident be has cap.
cured the right man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
WALL PAPEn, PAPER HANGING.

We carry complete assortment of latest
style papers, and employ only best artists.
See our goods and get our estimate be-
fore giving out your work. Our prices the
very lowest.
SAVANNAH BUILDING SUPPLY CO..
Corner Drayton and Congress.
Phone $40.
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Murder at Dublin.

Dublin, Ca, Dec. 2s.-Last night. as a re-
suit OF @ drunken quarrel, an unknown me-
gro was stabbed 90 death by bud" An
dffsOn, aleo coiOred
mall ham0r oaBod Dadow dawod wad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SAVANNAH BANK AND TRUST co.
Savannah, Ga, Dec. q, 1Ss9.-A dividend
Of three dollars per share has been de-
clared by the Board of Directors of this
bank to stockholders of record this day,
payable on and after Dec. 2S, 1899. The
transfer books are closed until Dec. %. 1899.
w. G. CANN, Cashier
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nYAN,s nusINEss coLLEGL,

Rooms a ana 20 Proyident Bu 1Llll mi,
Competent cfiice help supplied li1 ~ for
college. Students prepared orc ara
business. Day ana night session., ,.glne.
20 operate the new models Of ~ ~ IL
ton STANDARD Typewriter, ibit "a 90
machine which the business 80
pioyA peaunE 8 Iull, Sole pf''f'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28
FOR THE HOLIDAYS,

Two beauties,
THE SINGER PIANO,
THE HARRINGTON PIANO.
Call and see these
beautiful Pianos.
Sell with guarantee
for great durability,
elegant singing tone.
The price will astonish
you--far lower than you
ever dreamed of,
and such pianos, too.
LIPPMAN BROTHERS.
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MEETINGS.
ZERUBBABEL LODGE NO. Is, F. &
A. VI.

A regular communication of this a
lodge viii be held this CThursday) NY
evening at SIS clock w
Members of sister lodges and transient
brethren are fraternally invited to meet
with us. BY order
PLEASANT A. STOVALL. w. NJ.
j. A. HERSCHBACH, Secretary
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28

WILLIAM P. BAILEY,
Clerk of Council.
FIREWORKS.
An ordinance TO permit the firing or fire.
crackers and fireworks during the Christ
mas holidays as herein provided
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah in
Council assembled, That the firing of fire
crackers and fireworks is hereby permit
ted in the city of Savannah on Liberty
street and south of Liberty street (exce ut
on Bull street north Of the parade ground)
from Dec. "a TO Jan. /, both inclusive. and
the ordinance heretofore passed on this
subject is amended accordingly. EXCEPT
as herein provided, the firing of fireworks
and firecrackers in the city of Savannah
is forbidden under penalties of existing or
dinances.
Sec. 2. That the firing of frecrackers or
fireworks in. from or into Forsyth Park
Is hereby forbidden under the said penal
ties.
Sec. 3. That all ordinances and parts or
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed
Ordinance passed Dec. Is, 1897.
BONFIRES,
An ordinance to permit bonflres in the
Park Extension or parade ground during
the Christmas holidays.
Section l. Be IL ordained by the Mayor
and aldermen of the city of Savannah. in
Council assembled, That the building of
bonfires in the Park Extension or parade
ground, from Dec. "a to Jan. T. both in
elusive, is hereby allowed
Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed
Ordinance passed Dec. Is, 1897.
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SPECIAL NOTICES,
NOTICE.

City of Savannah, Ca,
Office Clerk of Council, Dec. Is, 1899.
The following ordinances are published
for the information of all concerned
WILLIAM P. BAILEY,
Clerk of Council.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-28

FOR SALE,
y miles 30-lb. steel relaying rails.
~ miles 35-lb. steel relaying rails.
No. Baldwin Standard Gauge Engine.
IS tons.
/ No. Porter Standard Gauge Engine.
i6 tons.
Narrow Gauge Engines, Is Narrow
Gauge Cars, 10 Box cars. bABEL BROS,
Jacksonville Fla
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
TEST OF AUTOMOBILE.
Fire Chief Edward r. Croker, of New
York, Finds New vehicle Aids
in Getting to Fires.

According to Chief Edward +. Croker,
of New York city, it is only question
of time until the fire departments APP
paratus will run without horses. Chief
Croker said that the first step had been
taken in that direction in his expert
ments with automobiles for his own use
in getting to fires. He is now consider
ing an automobile made by new Amer
lean company, and after a ride of about
40 miles through the Borough of the
Bronx, during which he tried the ma
chine under all road conditions Of hin
and level, smooth and rough, he was
enthusiastic about his experiences.
Il need an automobile, and need il
badly" he said. "My territory extends
from City Island to Coney Island and
four horses a day are not enough to
carry me to fires.
Il think eventually there will be au-
tomobile engines, trucks and hose carts.
1t has been demonstrated already that
eight and ten ton trucks can be run
without horses easily"
1t is claimed by the makers of the
automobile with which the chief eXper-
imented that it was capable of speed
of 40 miles an hour on a good, level road,
and that it can climb any hill that a
horse can haul a wagon on at Is miles
an hour
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
DISCOVERY ON POLAR STAR.
Planet Now Found 70 &c Triple
Body, Two Parts Revolving
Around the Third.

The north star, the best known in
the armament, instead Of being sin
gle body, is really triple system. Two
of the bodies in this system revolve
around each other in a period of four
days, and at the same time move in a
much wider sweep around third body,
in much the same way as the earth and
moon do around the sun.
This is the discovery just made by
Prof. Campbell with the great telescope
at Lick observatory. The fact is an
nounced in a bulletin, which says:
The separate bodies which compose
the system cannot be seen with the
telescope, nor is it likely that they ever
will be seen with any instrument.
Their existence is demonstrated by
observations made with spectre
scope"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
KILL AND EAT A MAN AT SEA
Shipwrecked Sailor Tells of His Ter
ribie Experience with His Ma
nine Companion.

The British steamer Woodruff, which
has arrived at Charleston, S. c.. from
Hamburg, brings two cannibal seamen,
one a maniac. Two hundred and fifty
miles south of Charleston the Woodruff
picked up Maurice Anderson and Good
mund Thomasen, survivors of the Nor
wegian bark Drot, wrecked off the Flori-
da coast. The Drot was bound from Pas
cagoula to Buenos Ayres. Anderson is
raving maniac, and his companion is
badly mutilated from bites of the crazed
man.
Thomasen says that the captain of the
Drot and seven seamen were swept over
board and lost in the West Indian hur-
ricane. The mate and seven other men
put to sea on a raft made from deck
ing, but the raft parted soon after, and
the mate and one man were separated
from the others.
The mates companion, who was land
ed at Philadelphia by the German
steamer Titania, stated that the mate
committed suicide.
OF the six men on the other part of the
raft, one became crazed from exposure
and jumped into the sea. Two others.
exhausted from suffering, fell over
board and were lost
Anderson, Thomasen and a German
seaman drew lots as TO which should be
eaten, as none of them had had mouth
full since they took to the raft. The lot
fell to the German. lie was killed and
the blood was sucked from his veins by
the two survivors. Soon after Ander-
son lost his reason.
Both men are now at the city hospital,
and the Norwegian consul has taken the
case in hand
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
PLAYS SURGEON ON HIMSELF.
Inma tie of a Wisconsin Asylum shows
Skill with u Knifc-Cuts
Dat a Hernia.

Daniel Nussbaum, a patient at the
Outagamie county asylum at Ocon1o,
Wis, performed a surgical operation
upon himself with a jackknife recently
and is still alive, although ultimate re-
covery seems impossible.
Nussbaum had hernia, which be-
came strangulated and troubled him to
such an extent that he determined to
get rid of it. He sharpened up an old
jack knife, made an incision in his abdo-
men, drew out the hernia, cut il of,
forced the ends of the bowel back and
closed the incision with four stitches.
He then went into the house and ate
very hearty dinner.
Nussbaum said nothing to anybody
about his attempt at surgery, which
was only discovered by finding blood on
his chair when he arose from dinner
A physician was at once summoned.
who found that the mans attempt at
self-surgery had been remarkably we'll
done, the stitches so perfectly closing
the incision thai very little hemorrhaee
resulted, but the cutting of the bowel
can hardly fail to prove fatal.
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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
Exhaustive Tests to BE Made of This
Discovery by the United
States Navy.

Wireless telegraphy is to be given an
exhaustive test on the ships of the
United States navy under the personal
supervision of Marconi himself, and if
the test proves satisfactory the system
will be adopted for signaling purposes.
The navy officials have been hampered
in their desire to inves tigate the won
ders of the new process by lack of
proper instruments. Lieut.. Command
er Colwell, the naval attache at London,
has been in active consultation with
Marconi, seeking to secure Instruments
which had his entire approval. The
negotiations have progressed to ar I'M
expected success, and Rear Admiral
Bradford, chief of the bureau of equip
ment, has now been notified that the
desired instruments of Marconi's make
will not only be furnished, but the in
ventor himself will come over TO in
stall the apparatus and supervise the
preliminary tests.
1t is proposed to establish a perma-
nent shore station and then conduct
the signaling operations from ships at
sea at different distances from shore.
1t is hoped by this means to determine
the range of efficiency of the new in
vention, the effect of weather cond-
tons, and, finally, the possibility of
using wireless biography as a means
of communicating with the shore or
with different ships at sea.
Naval officers have been quick to
realize the possibilities of wireless tel
egraphy, as it will at once increase the
radius of action of a squadron and
permit ships at sea to communicate IN
telligence or receive orders al great
distances. At present warship 80
miles off shore is almost inaccessible,
but with the new system its daily posi-
ton could be reported and orders
promptly received for movements of
the utmost Importance. If ships at
sea can communicate with one another
the possibility of extending line an
indefinite distance becomes at once ap-
parent. The proposed test under the
direct supervision of Marconi himself
will be watched with intense interest
by both the navy and the army.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21
GROWS IN PROSPERITY.
Glowing Account of Con ditfons I'm Ar
gcntine Republic Given by United
states Minister Buchanan.

William /. Buchanan, minister TO the
Argentine Republic, and who has just
arrived at New York from Buenos
Ayres, said:
The prosperity of the Argentine Re-
public is increasing year by year. The
two great products of the Argentine
Republic, wool and cattle, have shown
a tremendous growth, both in quantity
and quality, during the last two or
three years, and ia these products the
republic has become an important eX
port factor. The conditions of the
country are reflected in the apprecia-
ton of the Argentine currency. When
/ went there first the currency was SO
deprecated that the equivalent of a
hundred gold dollars was 43o paper dol
lars, but now the same number of gold
dollars will buy only 230 paper dollars.
In every way the outlook in Argentina
is bright and encouraging. Gen. Rica,
the present head of the government, is
progressive and excellent man; the
internal discussions of any kind. The
Interchange of trade between the Unit
ed States and Argentina is expanding
year by year, with a balance greatly
in favor of this country. This has been
due to the fact that our expectations
to Argentina of late have been extended
into lines which England and Germany
previously almost entirely supplied. 1t
would be to the advantage, l think, of
the United States to increase her deal
ings with the Argentine Republic, be-
cause do not think the people of this
country quite realize how cheaply the
staple products of that country are
raised"
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reimbursement OF the uitlanders. The
Dutch farmers, to whom the rich de-
posts of minerals have been but "A
small temptation, see in those deposits,
however, way of securing government
protection without the burden of taxa
tion for themselves. Totake the reins of
government from these farmers and
put them in the hands OF the uitlanders,
as enfranchisement would surely do
because of their numbers. would mean
not only an English dependency of the
little republic in short time, but would
also mean taxation for the farmers
themselves.
In the Transvaal the floating popu-
lutiou attracted by the minerals found
there far outnumber the Dutch farm
ers, and 10 grant them a voice in the
government would soon mean gov
eminent by the uitlanders exclusively,
and then annexation to England's larg-
er colony at the cape. 1t is TO avoid this
that Dom Paul is oAerting every means
of diplomacy known to him and his adj
visers. DANIEL CLEVERToN.
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farmers whom England finds hard to
manage, says of them:
"Our Dutch fellow South Africans are a
strange folk. Virile. resolute, passionate
with a passion hid far below the surface.
they are at orce the gentlest and the most
determined of people. When you try to
coerce them they are hard as steel enca sed
In iron, but with q large and generous re-
Spouse to affection and sympathy which
perhaps no other European folk gives
They may easily be deceived once; but
never twice. Under the toughest exterior
pfthe up-country Boer lies nature STANCE
ly sensitive and conscious of personal dig
nifty; people who never forgets a kindness
and does not easily forget wrong"
In that one brief paragraph is de-
scribed all of England's troubles of to-
day. BY the same class of persecution
that produced the American revolution,
persecution which differed only in de-
tails, the simple Dutch farmers of the
colony which England wrested from
the Dutch were driven from the homes
they had built further south to new
ones further north. twas not so much
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-21

England's first effort to annex the
Transvaal was made on April IL, 1877,
when a proclamation was issued an
nouncing the annexation. This step,
it was asserted, was warranted by the
reign of anarchy with which the gov
ernmcnt was threatened, and by the
advance of Cetywayo and his black
troops upon the Dutch farmers. Had
this step been taken before the dis
covery of rich minerals it would have
had a different effect. But once the
Boer farmers had had time to realize
the full significance of the step they
repudiated the agreements made by
their vacillating officials and declared
against annexation, and so followed
war.
To-day England's claim of suzerainty
can hardly be questioned, for the trea-
ties of both 1881 and 1884 acknowledge
1t. but il is IA question If that is what
England is working for. TO the Beers
the greater question must be the en-
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sN 90 90 M 90 % 90 O.

diamond fields in the Free State, and
then OF gold and diamonds IN the Trans.
vaal. Nature had provided a great
storehouse of wealth on which these
two struggling little republics could
feed, and then England was willing to
annex them, but the Dutch farmers
were not.
BY methods which Hugh Edward
Egerton, of the English bar, describes
as one of the black pages of English
history, Lord Kimberly, backed by a
powerful government, secured the dia-
mond fields of the Free State and so
robbed the little republic of the wealth
which was naturally the property of
the Dutch farmers Then other Eng
lishmen tried the same thing with the
gold fields of the Transvaal, but the
Boer farmers of the Transvaal had
learned lesson from the experience
of their kinsmen in the Free State and
fought for their rights.
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the British government which they
were trying to escape as it was the con-
ditions existing in the Cape Colony,
and had the English policy granted
them protection from the savages sur
rounding their new homes which they
asked, England would to-day have had
no Boer republic to deal with, for there
would have been none. But in those
days far back in the first half of the
century England was not counting the
expense of protecting new country
from a savage people when that coun-
not territory, but wealth, that England
was seeking.
For these reasons the Boer builded
his own government, and, though he
often despaired of success. and often
the government seemed destined to fail
for lack of support, yet in their simple
way they kept on. Time after time was
the opportunity offered England TO alb
sorb the little government with honor
to herself. for the Dutch farmer
crayed the protection for his home
which English soldiers could give. but
England al.says declined.
What is true of the Transvaal repub-
lie is also true of the Orange Free
State, which is peopled by the same
class of hardy Dutch, for the same rea-
sons and at the same time.
Then came the discovery first of vast