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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

who has been a widow seven times over
in the last fifteen years
Every single one of her seven husbands
has met with a violent death. The first
was killed in a carriage smash, the second
took poison by accident the third was
crushed in failing mine, the fourth shot
himself, the fifth ended his life by a fall
from his horse. the sixth tumb,ed off a
high scaffolding and the fast of these I'M
lucky men was drowned.
How the black cats of ODorto must oh.
jurgate one of tier number. This wretch
ed creature managed to break into the
municipal laboratory and kill and eat
some of the rats which had been inocu-
lated with the plague virus 1t was seen
pursued, and, as some thought killed But
there seems great doubt as 10 whether af-
ter ALL the real culp1it was des royed.
Now all black cats in the city are viewed
with dark suspicion, and many are paying
with their lives for the sin of one.
A traction engine on a tear is not the
sort of thing you would care
to meet. One of these weighty
machines was drawing three trucks
of furniture down a Welsh noun
tain road one day last August when its
driver lost control of it, and it went off
at terrific speed down Werenogingle The
three vans were stopped by a tree, but the
engine went on full tilt One man jump
ed and was killed; two others fell Off,
and were seriously injured. The engine
roared on, Slowed off the road, and hit a
big tree, which it carried bodily away
Then it turned two somersaults, and nm
ally the boiler burst, and the hywheel
was hurled ninety feet away.
That a flooded river should cause the
burning of a farm and the death by sui
eide of number of fat pigs, sounds wild
ly improbable. Such a case actually oc-
Cured some years ago, about three miles
from Marlborough, in Wiltshire The Ken
net came down in bunker and flooded a
farmyard A quantity of quicklime in a
wooden outbuilding was heated by getting
wet, and set fire to the shed. The pigs
fat ones-were caught in their sty and
forced to swim round and round. A fat
pig strikes so high in swimming that IL
ends by cutting its throat. Such was
the fate of five fine porkers.
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REFUSES TO DIE.
Though His Body Is wanted to start
From he New York Journo

From The New York Journal.
why doesn't Louis Ensue der lis the
question that the stockholders Of a Gene
terry in Passaic. N. j. with whom he male
a compact which they say requires that
ne breathe his last within reasonable
time, are continually asking.
why should 1 die?" queries Ensue, and
as no one can answer satisfactorily, he
goes on living. He is So years old, and afe
Insurance agents are sim after him
TIE present anxiety about his longey ity,
comes of a supersti ion to tho effect that
"the devil gets the first person burr I'd in a
cemetery" When this Passaic bury,ng
ground was started The trustees locke
about fer a first customer. Some thought
of interring a body from a m deal coleee
but others thought this would. not count
with the devil, who would take the first
person buried in the regular course of bus
iness. and head off anything resembling
a subterfuge.
The trustees therefore ransacke the
town and found the oliest. poorest end
prs sumahly the sickest man in it. This
was Louis Ensue. He was 81 years of age
aud the undertaken in his Olcck had an
eye on him.
we viii Keep yOu lot Ane rest Oh your
life, the trustees said 10 he old man, IF
you accept lot in the cemetery and agree
10 be buried in It when your tlr1e arrives "
Ensue accepted the offer That was
eight years ego, and he is healthier 10
day than he was then. The trustees can
hardly conceal their anna cement.
What do you ask?' the Oid man SAYS
in tn voice Must / omm't suic de o
"Thcre IS tenn erance IN .ongevitv as ia
other ihings" the trustees reply gGOmly
They want to open their graveyard. Many
lot holders are d iscontentel because they
can MT bring their friends there.
Louis Goodman. The trustee who made
The ayr ement wi Ensue. much BAN
ell y his CO lleacues. DISGUST 4 wi h their
long wa he rustces secur.. I East week
the ody Of frendless orphan enid and
bur ed IL in the pot reserved for Eusue.
Now he cemetery will soon open Tor busi.
ness.
Ensue, however. says his agre ment SIN
holds good. He lives i'm the basement Of
the Balkan Groin Synagogue, a conces-
sion ma to him by he tius e s. and re-
fuses 10 cave. lie has consulted his law
yer about their threat 70 st D his pension
ioF not dying and, is convinced that he
can recover il In court Of law.
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To Sunday
Advertisers.

The attention of those who patronize the
Cheap and Want Columns Of THE SUM-
DAY MORNING NEWS is called TO the
fact that their ads viii be repeated in the
MONDAY MORNING NEWS at HALF
RATES! IT is not necessary 10 tell ex-
perienced advertisers that repetition Of an
advertisement is a great reinforcement to
the effects Of the first publication.
You should see that your advertisements
go in on Mondays as well as Sundays.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Per steamship City of Augusta for New
York-501 bales cotton, LIS bales sea Is
land cotton. 256 bales domestics. 81 sacks
rice, 100 barrels rosin, 116 barrels turpen-
tine, 254,SlS feet lumber 765 barrels cotton
seed Oil barrels fish. 225 cases cigars, $50
boxes fruit, q barrels vegetables, 345
crates vegeta bles 40 tons pig iron, 200 bar
rels soap stock, 80 barrels rosin oil, IS
cases canned goods. 95S packages mer-
chandise
Per schooner James G. Beecher for
Philadelphia, 65l6 ties, measuring 243, 26i
feet, by Dixon, Mitchell & Co., and AL ,075
feet by Southern Pine Company.
Per schooner Viola Reppard for New
York 337. 3S1 feet yellow pine lumber-Car-
go by Chares s. Hirsch & Co.
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base, to Baltimore. lie; to Philadelphia
17l5c; to New York. 1Sc
BY m-Lumber-Savannah 10 Balu-
more $500; 10 New York, $780, TO 90 K
$675; ightered-to Boston, 10 dock, $Iy0.
Naval Stores-The market Is frm' me-
dunn size vessels. Rosin-Cork for orders,
IS per barrel of 80 pounds and per cent
primage. Spirits. Is Sd per 20 gallons
gross and per cent. primage. Larger
vessels, rosin, Is Sd; spirits, As Steam, l0c
per 100 pounds on rosin; soc on spirits
Savannah to Boston. and SIC on rosin'
and soc on spirlts to New YORK.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17
INVENTED THREE-CARD MONTE.
Lew HOuck Made Thousands out OF
1t, But Died "a Pauper.

From the Kansas City Star.
The death of Lew Houck, the inventor
of three-card monte and the cleverest
card sharp in the world, started the old
time gamblers and police officials of this
city to talking about him and his adven-
lures and tricks here and elsewhere.
Houck was well known here. He oper-
ated in this city off and on for twenty
years, making Kansas City a sort of way
station" on his trips East and West.
The last time Houck was here he had
just returned from a European trip. He
produced papers and letters to show that
while he was in London he was feted and
dined by some of the upper crust of Eng
fish society. He had passed there as a
wealthy and Travelled American. He had
letters. too. from Secre tary Oiney, Secre-
tary Carlisle and other leaders Of the
American political world, which recon-
mended him in the highest terms. not only
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17
vessels Cleared Yesterday.

Bark Marta Gtal), Scarpah, Genoa
Chr. G. Dahl e. Co.
Schooner James G.. Beecher, Dunn, Phil
lphia-Dixon, Mitchell & Co.
Schooner Viola Reppard, Dunton, New
York-Charles S. Hirsch & Co.
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WHEAT RULES FIRM.

Chicago. Nov. 16.-Wheat, Influenced by
the steadiness of cables, the smallness of
the receipts and the strength of the out
side markets, ruled firm to-day. closing
A@3sc over yesterday. Corn, affected by
light country offerings and the strength in
wheat, closed AG3sc higher. oats closed
haAc up, and provisions slightly lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Steamship City of Augusta, Smith. New
York.
Bark Caterina NJ. Qtal), Zinc, Hamburg.
Schooner James G. Beecher, Dunn, Phil
adelphia
j. e. duBignon. Turner. Perth Amboy.
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Steamship Cassius (Ger.), at Swansea,
Nov. 10. (Was bound for RevaD
Steamship Maltby (Br), Chiswick, Liv-
erpool, Nov. IA.
Schooner Vanlear Black, Lacey, passed
Cape Henry Nov. IA, for Baltimore.
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River Steamers.

Steamer Clifton, Hnson, from Beaufort
George u. Beach. manager.
Steamer Doretta, Henry, from Button
H A. Strobhar, agent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Schooner Humarock, 1893 tons, Promised
Land to Savannah fish scrap. $40 net;
back to Philadelphia, lumber, ST. free
wharfage; option New York, $3.50, free
Wharfage
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New moon, Sd, hours and 4s minutes,
first quarter, 10th, 7 hours and
IS minutes, morning; full moon, nth, 4
hours and 10 minutes, morning; last quar-
ter, 18th, hours and 50 minutes morning.
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Sailed for savannah.
Freiehts and Chnrters.

Bark Filippo Qtal), Magiolo, passed Glib
raltar, Nov 8, Genoa for Savannah.
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a handE
5 rom
p No
a M
a. limited
Pullman Norfolk
T. and
and Scren Hotels.
D c. A.. Streets De
T A. West Broada Ilbertys reefs
O. MACDONELL. p A L A A P
Trains leave Union and Liberty
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

NeNNeIS AFTINtu 4 tbNtFuHys
Bark label (Ger), voss. st. Marc for
LAbau-Strachan & Co.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour,
steady; No. spring wheat, 64d65c; No. 2
red 6SG69c; No corn, 315sG32c; No. 2
yellow corn. 32d921ac; No. 2 oats, 23Aa
2SiAc; No. white 26c: No. white 2424@
254c; No. 2 rye, SIC; No barley. 3ed42c;
No. fax seed, 1929; Northwest. 1929;
prime timothy seed, S245d2. IS; mess pork
per barrel, T.7OdS.O5: lard. per 100 pounds,
S4S0a4 971A; short ribs sides Qoose), $3.50
b15; dry sailed shoulders (boxe6, 5ssG
51kc short clear sides (boxed), $515a59O
lon 81 OIL
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road trains and steamboats,. He taught
the trick to Canada Bill, a noted g NIB or,
and the two worked togethed over ali tha
country. They paid thousands upon
thousands of dollars to railroad men in tna
old days for the privilege of working ne
game on trains, and they made money.
Later, when nearly every state in the
Union passed laws aimed directly against
the working of the three card monte game
1t became Improbable and was given up
by Houck. But about that time an in
genious English cockney invented the
three SHELF game, which was even
and Houck took it up. The three sneil
game is a modern improvement on tie
ancient thimble rigging game that WAS
worked at English fairs for many years.
The old way was for the operator 10
crook his knee over the head of a cane that
stood upright on the ground and move
small seed around between three thimbieS
on top of his leg, offering to bet thai no
one could pick the thimble under which
the seed was hidden.
The lesson taught by the lives ana
deaths of Houck and Canada Bill and all
the rest of their kind Is that it never
pays to be dishonest or to live by one
wits. These men may get great sums 81
money by sharp practices in the course o.
a lifetime. but they all die poor and most
of them die in prison. Canada Bill, VINO
worked with Houck on trains out Of Kan
sas City and made probably $4,000 IN
his life, died a pauper in the almshous- III
Lebanon, Pa, and is buried in paLpsi
grave. Houck dropped dead on we
streets in Durango. Mexico, and his WI oW
in Ohio had 10 solicit aid to get his hooy
home to give it decent burial.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

-Economy.-"M Wigs is the closest
woman on the block
what has she been doing?"
why, she won't have her leaves rakeu
up; she says they can be shoveled up VIA
the first snow."-Detroit Free Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Connections made at terminal points with
all trains Northwest, West and Southwest
Sleeping cars on night trains between
Savannah and Augusta Macon, Atlanta
and Birmingham
Parlor cars on day. trains between Sa-
vannah and Atlanta.
For further information and for sched-
ules to all points beyond our line apply to
w. G. BREWER. City. Ticket and Pass
enger Agent, 107 Bull Street
]. c. HALLE. General Passenger Agent.
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager.
THEO D. KLINE. Gen. Superintendent
JOHN M. EGAN, Vice President,
Savannah, Ga.
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p. IN.
High water at Tybee to-day at 7:1O a. m.
and 1888 p. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later
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Sun rises at $3.50 a. m. and sets at 5;O7
d. IN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Passengers by steamship d. H. Miller
from Baltimore Nov. 13.--G. w. Lewis. f.
II. Clark, Mrs. f. HaGord. f. Hill S.
A. Demers, +. x. Lee. Miss J. Lee.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

Central or sOth Meridian Time
TINE TABLE EFF ECTINE JUNE II, 1899.
daily except 40 daily except Sunday.
.TH AND EAST NORTH AND NO
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Passengers per steamship City of Au-
gusta for New York Nov. 16-Max Solo
MONS Miss A. Feeley. Miss G. Feeley,
Sigman II. Berg. Mrs. NJ. j. Mcbride,
Mrs. Alice NJ. Hail. F. B. Stoneman, Miss
A. McPhillips, d. J. Kennedy ]. f. Helms,
Jane Williams. John Williams, NJ A.
Perry.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17

The British ship Brynhilda, Capt. Melkle
which has arrived at Philadelphia from
Taltal, west coast of South America, re
Gently broke all sailing records between
Shanghai and Taltal. The distance be
tween the two ports is 1900 miles, ant
was covered by the Brynhilda In seventy
two days, averaging more than 1870 mile:
a day.
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Passengers by steamship City of Birm-
ingham from New York Nov. 14.-G. w
Allen and wife, Miss S. A, Wilcox, Mrs
c. L. Montague and two daughters, w II.
Hoffman, wife and maid; c. L. Graham
and wife, Miss L. Schwartz, d. Bagley and
wife, ID. l.. Stafford, G. r. Champaign r.
Boerring and wife, Mrs. Walklief and
daughter, J. o. Smalls. Miss O'Connen.
Mrs. Vaughn and daughter, Miss Calvin,
c. A. Young and wife. H. NJ. Izler, G.
Malloch NJ. Hanus. w. Wells. T. Hunter.
H. l. Burback, w H. Parker, ]. W
Chase, Jennie Archibald, Louisa johnson.
Virginia Herbert, E. Witt. B. b. Frost.
NJ. Delaney, o, Robinson and wife, l..
Withaus and daughter, w II. Willis.
j. Haydock, c. L. Layton, e. N. Young.
C. Turnello, wife and son. ]. Holland. r.
Young. J. Miller, D. Morrell, J. Pierce.
Mrs Heller r. Brown Martha Deep ana
daughter. L. Lem, c. Mordi. NJ Bopi.
A. r. Gale, J. Dwyer, c. Krawalsky.
Passengers by steamship d. H. Miller
from I2o1fip1ora Nov
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Capt Bylund of Swedish Norwegian
bark Norrskenet was making prepare
tons yesterday afternoon to sail. His yes
sci dropped down TO the blight on Wednes-
day
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-07
STABBED TO DEATH.
Murder Occurs in Full View of Twenty
Policemen.

Macon, Ca, April 6-Gus Tidwell, a
butcher, was stabbed to death here today
by Charles Burge, plumber, because of
TidwelPs attention to the slayer's sister.
The crime was committed in full view of
twenty policemen and a dozen firemen and
a number of citizens who were in the vicin-
ity. The murder was done at the entrance
of the city hall, where the victim and his
slayer met both having been summoned to
the police court for fighting last night in
East Macon, about the murderer's sister,
the same motive that actuated the fatal as
sault today.
Tidwell had been paying attention to
Burgess young sister, pretty girl of about
IS years of age, and a day or two ago a
letter written to him by the girl fell into
the hands of Mrs. Tidwell. The latter told
Miss Burge that Tidwell was married, but
her husband kept up his attentions.
The crime created the greatest excite
ment occurring in the heart of the city at
an hour when the streets were filled with
shoppers and when a crowd had assembled
near the scene of the murder to attend to
attend court.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-07
LETTERS TO FAURE.
Count Esterhazy Called on the President
to Vindicate His Honor.

London, April THE Daily Chronicle
alluded to by Examining Magistrate Bar
teluas, before the court of cessation, which
Major Count EsterhaZy addressed to Pres
1dent Faure under dates of October 20 and
October 81, 1897 and November 5, 1S97-letters
which Esterhazy alleges were dictated to
him by Colonel Paty de Clam. The first let
ter complains that he has been very much
worried by the Dreyfustes and the minis
ter of war has ignored his appeal for pro-
lection He goes on to beg M. Faure to put
an end to the scandal, and says:
"If l should have the sorrow not to be
listened to by the supreme head of my
country, my precautions are taken for my
appeal to reach the ears of my heraldic
Chief, the sovereign of the Esterhazy fam
lily, the emperor of Germany. He is a sol
dier and will know how to set the honor of
a soldier, even an enemy, above the mean
and equivocal intrigues of politics.
HE will dare to speak out loud and
strong and to defend the honor of ten gen.
erations of soldiers. 1t is for you M LIE
Presidente to judge if you snould force me
to carry the question into that region An
Esterhazy fears not anything nor anybody
If not good. Nothing and nobody will pre-
vent me acting 1 say, if 1 am sacrificed
to | know not what miserable political
combinations"
The second letter. couched in more vio-
lent terms, complains that M. Faure has
igr2-ed his appeal and threatens to publish
a photograph of "a paper stolen by Pic
quart of a foreign legation which would be
compromising for certain diplomatic per-
sonages,' il his appeals are disregarded.
The third is similar in tone.
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DEVELOPMENTS
IN DREYFU CASE
Secret DOssier Does Not Refer
to the Prisoner
EXCEPT IN ONE INSTANCE
A Letter Mentioning Him After
His Condemnation.
DISPOSITIONS OF GENERAL ROGET
Declares That BertueIas' Account of
Henry Interview is False.
THE ATTITUDE OF ESTERHAzY
Was Constantly Changed and it is Al
legged that the Count Was Paid
For it-Letters to Presi-
dent Faure.
Declares That Bertuelas' Account of
Henry Interview is False.
THE ATTITUDE OF EsTERHAzY

Paris, April 1.-The Voltaire, which yes
terday published an installment of evil
dence given before the court of cessation
by M. Paleologue, one of the permanent
officials of the foreign office, regarding the
population by the Italian government and
by Colonel Schwarzkoppen, formerly Ger
man military attache here, of relations with
Dreyfus, publishes today further INSTALL
ment, showing that the so-called secret
dossier is not connected with Dreyfus ex-
cept as regards a single document, a letter
mentioning him, which is dated after his
condemnation and is, therefore, unimpor-
tant.
The Figaro this morning publishes the
dispositions of General Roget before the
court of cessation in reply to the evidence
given by M. Berteluas, the examining mag
istrate, Colonel Picquart and M. Develle,
who was foreign minister in 1S99 General
Roget declares that the account given by
M. Berteluas of his interview with Lieu
tenant-Colonel Henry is false. He says
that Henry recounted the interview to
General Gonz, saying that M. Berteluas
embraced him (Henry) and with tears, pro-
tested that he (Berteluas) was forced by
Colonel Picquart and others but that really
he sided with the general staff.
General Roget, it appears attacked M.
Berteluas violently, asserting that he had
long usurped him. He told the court that
Count Esterhazy constantly changed his
attitude and was paid to do so. He re-
counted the efforts certain London newspa-
pers had made to get EsterhaZy to talk and
to admit the authorship of the bordereau.
Then General Roget dilated upon the mo-
tives, which, in his opinion, influenced
Dreyfus resentment for his treatment as
a Jew.
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New Feature of the Arkansas
Antitrust Law.
THE UNITED MINE WORKERS
Who are Now Conducting Strike in
the State Can Be Mandamused
and Outlawed-The Attor-
ney Generals Opinion.

Little Rock, Ark, April 6.-The antitrust
law which has caused the withdrawal of
foreign insurance companies from the
state continues to be the subject of concern
among all classes of people. A new feature
of the far-reaching effect of the law is just
beginning to be realized
That is the probability that it will destroy
all labor organizations in the state. The
law is operative against any combination
seeking to control the prices of various
enumerated commodities or anything"
Labor, being defined as "a thing" all
unions, associations. brotherhoods, fedora
tions or fraternities for the purpose of
mutual protection and the keeping up of a
standard of wages, comes under the ban of
the antitrust law.
The attorney general has already been
approached on the subject by a coal opera
tor, and he expressed the opinion that the
law can be applied to the United Mine
Workers of America. That organization
the coal mines of Western Arkansas. AL
though the union has no assembly and no
headquarters in the state, it is said the
leaders can be mandamused and the or
ganization, as such, outlawed.
Should the law be found operative against
the miners in this instance it will affect
thousands of men of all organizations, such
as the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
Firemen, conductors switchmen, printers
and in fact every labor organization whose
members may be employed under an agree
ment or contract in the state of Arkansas.