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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
Old Lake Steamboat.

The best vessels of early steamboat days
on the Great Lakes, says the Marine Re
view, were built on Lake Ontario, and it
is certainly surprising to note how the
power and speed of some of the side wheel
ers that were engaged as far back as six
ty years ago for the Lake Ontario-St.
Lawrence river trade.
From an old newspaper clipping it is
learned that the steamer United States
was built in Ogdensburg, in 1881, by a
company formed for that purpose and
known as the ST. Lawrence Steamboat
Company, and was launched Nov. IT. 1881
This steamer was $50 feet long on deck,
rs feet beam, 10 feet depth of hold, and
measured about $50 tons. She had two
beam engines, 40 inches in diameter and s.
feet stroke. Wheels were IS feet in diam
eter, feet face of bucket; draught of wa
ter, s feet. She had two boilers on deck
one on each side of her guard forward
of the wheel. Her speed was ten to twelve
miles an hour
Consumption of fuel wood was about
100 cords each trip from Ogdensburg to
Lewiston and return William Capes of
New York was the ship carpenter and
William Avery of Syracuse built her en-
gines. Capt. Elias Browbridge of Oswego
was her first commander, and Capt. Bates,
from the Canada side, was her sailing mas
ter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The British Steamship City of GIou-
cester, StiII at the LOwer
Wharves, Where New Propeller Us
Being Attached to Her-NEarch sta
tistics of the POrt-Marine Notes
From Darien-Savannah Hgeamer
Alpha Soon u BIZ Reformed From
Observation-Disclosures of Interest
TO Shippers and Mariners.
The British steamship City of Glouces-
ter Capt Millburn, is still at the rock
dock" below the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad wharves, where a new
propeller is being shipped by John Rourke
& Sons The Gloucester lost her propeller
on the voyage to Savannah. The vessel
has been tipped in the usual way to bring
her in position 10 attach the new propeller.
1t is expected that work will be completed
tomorrow, when she will be shifted to the
CLIFTON wharves to load cargo for Bremen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
Cor. BrOughtOn & Barnard.

delphia; Raymond T. Maull, Smith, Phil
adelphia.
Charleston, S. c., March s1.-saiIed,
steamer Algonquin, Plat, Jacksonville;
schooners The Josephine, Townsend,
Brunswick; Woodward, Abrahams, Mar
shall, Weymouth
Brunswick Ga, March 29.-Arrived,
banks Monarch (Sw), Gronberg, Bristol;
Herbert Fuller, Nash, New York; schoon-
ers H. b. Homan (Br), Mcneil, Barbados:
d. H. Rivers Colcord, Philadelphia; Helen
L. Martin, Fountain, do; Penobscot, Phil
brook, New York; Jennie French Potter,
Potter, Portsmouth
Sailed 29th steamer Navahoe, Staples,
Boston, via Charleston.
Daren, Ga, March 29.-Sailed steamer
Cairncrag (Br, Gibson Amsterdam.
Liverpool March 31.-Arrived steamer
Bramham, Savannah.
St Michaels, March 31.-Arrived, steam
er Tergosto, Savannah for Genoa Qor
coaD.
Odessa, March 31.-Arrived, steamer
Rosalba, Savannah
Rotterdam, March 31.-Arrived, steam
er Newstead Savannah.
Venice, March 31.-Sailed, steamer Kali
ros, Hampton Roads,
Baltimore March S1.-Sailed, steamer
Allegheny, Savannah; schooners c. S.
Glidden, Port Tampa; Ida Lawrence, Sa-
Vannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
DANK OUGHT NOT TO SHARE.
The Creditors of c. Gray & Son OBJ
iecf 10 PriOrifies.

The complainants in the case of the II.
B. Clafin Company against Christopher
Gray & Son and Others filed in the Supe-
rior Court yesterday, lengthy amend
ment 10 the petition filed by them in the
first instance.
The amended petition is directed largely
TO the claim of the Manufacturers Nation-
al Bank of Brooklyn, that it is epHi led TO
certain liens and prioritIes jn|the distri-
button of the funds of the defendants now
in the hands of the receiver appointed by
the court. The claim of the Brooklyn bank
is based on the fact that at the time OF
the death of Christopher Gray, il held the
notes of the two firms in which he was in
terested and of which he was the seliof
partner and that the claims of the other
intervenors rest on debts contracted after
this time and after the organization OF new
firms under the same names.
The amendment to the petition that was
filed yesterday repudiates any flght 70 p. /
ority on the part of the Manufacturers
National Bank on several grounas ODe
is thdt at the time Of the death Of the e
Nor partner of the insovent firms the
bank held securities worth largely in eX-
cess of the amount of its claim, $4,000, ana
Notwithstanding this fact held on TO then
until November, 1893, when, on account Oh
the depreciation in the value OF invest
ment securities all over the country ard
the general financial stringency that then
existed, il was compelled 10 sell the secu-
rites at a material discount upon the price
they would have brought had they been
sold at an earlier date, and receive lof
them a sum not sufficient 10 discharge It's
debt in full
Another objection to the banks claim
for priority in the distribution of the es-
tate is based on the fact that after the
death of Christopher Gray and upon the
maturity, within ninety days after that
event, of the firm notes it held, 1t dld not
seek to collect the money due II, out by
making arrangements with the firms that
were then formed by the surviving CO.
partners, invested them with credit, on
the faith of which other mercantile houses
sold them large bills of merchandise.
A third objection has 1T that the bank
has already filed suit in New York for the
enforcement of the claim it holds and has
obtained from the Surrogate's Court an
order directing the sale of a house and
lot in Brooklyn, belonging to the estate
of Christopher Gray. 1t would be unfair,
the other intervenors in the litigation
think, TO force them to go to New York
to institute proceedings for the recovery
of the various amounts due them
For all of these reasons they objectNot
only to the Manufacturers Bank being
granted a priority in the distribution OF
the funds in the hands of the receiver
here but they object to its participation
at all in the division and to its recelV-
ing any share whatever. These arguments
and objections are set out at length IN
the amended petition filed by Messrs. Car
rard Meldrim and Newman.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
Automobile versus TroIIy.
From the Automobile Magazine

From the AutomoDlle Magazine.
Street railway men have long declared
that the average American is in too
much Of a hurry to take time 60 climb
to the second story of a double-deck car,
but there is every reason to believe that
a type of automobile, built after the FASH
ion of a tallyho or an omnibus with seats
on top, will ultimately find favor with
suburban and long-distance passengers.
The posi- bilties in the matter of speed
may be realized from the recent record
OF an English machine which made the
journey from Coventry TO London, dis
lance of ninety-two miles, in four hours,
an average of twenty-three miles per
hour.
The cheapening of the motor vehicle VIII
naturally prove an important factor In the
extension of its use as a competitor OF
the street car. Indeed, Il will reach ia
fullest development IN this direction only
after the price of an autocar Is approx
imately that Of a street car fitted with an
electric motor. once started, the en-
croachments OF the automobile on the
field OF municipal TRANSPORTATION will no
rapid. The new web IS may also be eX-
pected 10 dispiace streets cars In many
auxiliary services, such as the convey
ance Of che mails and the transportation
Of farm products In the rural districts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
THE DELAGOA BAY AWARD.
4 Brief Sketch of the Claim and
CIaimanfs

AS stated in our dispatches, the
amount OF the Delagoa bay award was
SO O62, 800, with per cent. interest from
1889 The arbitrator were Swiss. II was
expected that at least s6OOO,O 900 would be
awarded, and many thought the amount
would not be less than $4,000, 900 The fol-
lowing is an outline of the history of the
case:
In 1883 Col Edward McMurdo, an Amer
lean living in London, obtained a con-
cession from the King Of Portugal for the
construction of a railway from Lorenzo
Marquee to the Transvaag frontier.
Two months after THE death of Col.
McMurdo in 1889 the railroad, with all
connecting property was seized by the
Portuguese government on the ground
that the road had not lbeen built to the
Transvaal frontier, as the conditions de-
handed This was generally regarded as
a prtexet for seizure off great property,
for the boundary was not fixed until two
years afterward.
Many Englishmen We're interested with
Col. McMurdo, and joint demands for
reDaration were made by the British and
American governments. The Portuguese
government abandoned its charge of tech
meal breach of contract and confessed
unwarranted seizure of the road.
The case was submitted 10 arbitration
in 1890 when the President of the Swiss
Republic appointed as jurists of a tri-
bunal Messrs. BlaSsi, Hensler and Col
dau. These juristsl were simply to fix
the amount of indemnity.
Delagoa bay is sometimes called the
front door of the 1ransvaal, and the
Delagoa Railroad is rel arded as the most
valuable sixty miles Of trackage in the
world. The value of the road to the
Transvaal government in time of war
cannot be estimated
Kruger recognized the Importance of the
road when it was opened, and his gov
eminent offered $1,000, 900 for Col. McMur-
dos stock in the enterprise.
The claims which were laid before the
commission were those of the Delagoa
Bay Company for S.25O,OOO and of Mrs.
McMurdo for nearly $l,5O0,00O. Competent
engineers, thoroughly acquainted with
that country and with the whole subject,
estimate the concession to be worth at
present more than $50 100000
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
VERUKPs FINE RENTED.
Judge FalIigant Reversed the De-
cisiOn of the Recorder.


The certiorari from the Police Court
of Savannah filed by Eli Veruki from a
decision rendered against him there was
sustained by Judge Falligant in the su-
perior Court yesterday and the judg-
ment of the lower court reversed
Veruki was tried and found guilty by
Recorder Hartridge of selling liquor on
Sunday and sentenced to pay a fine of
800 The conviction and the fine there
upon inflicted were based upon Veruki's
violation of an ordinance of the city of
Savannah, making such an offense pun
ishabe by fine and Imprisonment upon
conviction before the Recorder.
Recently the Supreme Court of the state
has passed upon this exact question in
Kassells case, in which the defendant
had beer fined for selling liquor on Sun
day under the same ordinance. In that
case it was declared that the sale of
liquor on Sunday was an offense pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment under
the penal laws of the state and that the
Police Court, therefore, could not take
cognizance of 1t. In other words, 1T was
held that when the commission of a GER
tain act was made a crime by state laws,
it was not a proper subject of municipal
legislation, and that city ordinances, pro-
viding for the punishment of those con-
victed of it in a city police court in
fringed the jurisdiction of the state courts
and could not be enforced
Recognizing that this case was con-
trolling, Recorder Hartridge made nc
other answer to the writ of certiorari
other than its citation and an expression
of consent to a reversal of his decision
granted by Judge Falligant as matter
of course
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
POLITICS IN GEORGIA.

Chairman c.. s. Rountree has issued a
call for the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Emanuel county to meet In
Swainsboro next Tuesday, April 3.
cambridge Democrat: Judge Allen Fort
will be brave indeed if he runs for Con-
gress after Marie Louise Myrick an
nounce so positively that he won't.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Houston county has issued a call for a
mass meeting to be held at Perry to-
morrow at which time they will fix the
date for the primaries.
Hon. N. A. Morris of Cobb, VINO repre-
sented that county in the last house, has
announced his candidacy for reelection
He has received the assurances of large
number of Cobb citizens of their sup
port.
In Burke county there are two candi-
dates at present for the three seats of
the county in the lower house of the
legislature, Hon. Hilton II. Gambler and
Hon Porter w. Carswell, both of whom
have received strong Endorsements from
the press of Burke.
cambridge Democrat: Let every Dem
ocrat in South Georgia cast his ballot
for the Hon. Tom Eason of Telfair for
prison commissioner. He is about the
only man from this section of the state
in state house position and we should
stand by him to a man.
1t has been ordered by the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Second con-
gressiona district of Georgia that the
Democratic party of said district shall
proceed to nominate a candidate for Con-
gTess in the primary election ordered by
the State Democratic Committee under
the same rules as are prescribed therein
governing voters in said primary on May
10, 1900.
Sylvania Telephone: The action of the
State Executive Committee in requiring
all Democrats to be registered before
they can vote in the primary on May Is,
is creating a good deal of dissatisfaction
over the state. 1t is possible the COM
mttee will come together again and re-
consider their action in this regard. II
is to be hoped they will. Otherwise there
will be a very small vote, as this is @
busy season and the farmers are not
likely to put themselves to any trouble
TO register, when it is only, politically
speaking, q family affair.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
FLORIDA.

Gen. Brooke and Capt Deane, United
States army, have been at Port Tampa
and Egmont Key with Capt. Rees United
States engineer on a tour of inspection.
Brooksville has two candidates for state
senator-ex-SenatorK Kirk and Dr. String
err. 1t is very doubtful if Citrus county
will have a candidate for the position this
year.
1t is said that there is no possibility
of saving the schooner Gertrude Abbott,
Capt. DeLeon, which went ashore Tues
day night on the south jetty, outside
, Jacksonville, while endeavoring to come
over the bar and that she will be a total
loss.
E. A. Waddell, one of Miami's real es-
tate dealers, has succeeded in forming
stock company with a capital stock of
100000 10 be known as the Crystal River
Manufa curing Company of Miami. The
business of the company will be the quar-
rying of rock and furnishing stone for
building purposes or any other purpose
where stone or brick is required
Charles H. Garthside, cashier of the
Bank Biscayne, has completed his ar
rangements for building brick block on
Avenue d, in Miami. The building will
be 75xS0 feet The first floor will contain
three storerooms, and a broad entrance
10 the second floor. The second floor will
be fitted up for an opera house. and will
contain all the modern improvements
Mr.. Joseph Thomas, one Of the most
prominent residents of Starke died
Thursday forenoon at his residence in
Starke. For many months he had been
a great sufferer from an incurable NAL
ady. He was born in Nova Scotia in
1922, and in early life removed TO Quincy,
Mass, from whence he removed to Flor
ida and took up his residence at Starke
in 1877.
The Gulf Naval Stores Company and
the Tampa Naval Stores Company are
both preparing to erect mammoth tanks
at Port Tampa for the purpose of holding
turpentine preparatory to shipping The
same. This and other work now in pro-
gress at that place give Port Tampa a
very busy appearance. In fact, thefe is
more work going on there than has been
since before the war.
In all probabilities the Congregational
churches in Jacksonville win form union
under one church and one roof. one week
ago meeting Of the Ocean Street Pres
byterian Church was held and he union
was decided upon for their part. Thursday
night the Newman Street Church of the
same denomination, held a meeting and
y the Same action was taken. che action be-
~ mat the churches are 10 be united IN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
HOGAN.

New York. March 31.-G. w. Storm, L.
Cupples and wife, H. Raners,. John Ken
ny, Ben Franklin, ]. Holder, Jr., Mrs.
Purcell and daughter. Mrs. John Kelly,
Mrs. j. L. Hoyt. H. A. Dolan E. w.
Whittemore, E. p. Smith, E. L. Farran,
c. A. Craighton, S. Proskey, A. r. Wat
son, Joseph Marshall, j. R. Pratt, Helen
Morris, Sarah Hallahan, Mary Nee, S. f.
Hosmer and wife, j. H. Reardon, j. D.
Smith and wife, E. L. Stryker, John X
Cheyney, A. j. Koehler and wife, Frank
GLAND, P. b. Miller, w. S. Fielding, C. B.
Caldwell
Passengers by steamship D. H. Miller,
for Baltimore, March 31.-Joseph Martin,
B. Goldman, Miss w. E Rowe, Mrs. c.
Wheaton. ]. C. German, Mrs. German, ].
c. German, Jr., 3. H. German, Mrs. Still
well. Miss Stlwell, Miss Heaey. Maj.
Bartlett, Mrs. Bartlett, j. A. Stephenson.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01

Ldppman Brothers carry In stock the
most noted brands.
Antediluvan is a celebrated whiskey,
bottled by Osborne of New York, and are
safe in saying it is one of the best
WHISTLES in the city.
The Peoria Rye Whiskey, bottle in bond
by Clark Bros. of Peoria H., is also a
fine whiskey.
The Peerless whiskey, bottled in bond at
Heudersonvile, KY, being under the SUI
pervision of the United States government.
insuring purify and strength.
Lippman Bros. are wholesale druggists,
but they intend to retail these fine whis-
kies I'D
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
BurgnIry at Helena.

Helena, Ga, March 31.-About 4 o'clock
yesterday morning as Mr.. A. r. McLaugh-
lin was approaching the store # Kinks &
Mclaughlin he heard a noise in the store,
and saw the back door open. so he gave
the alarm He said he saw a negro run
out and as he supposed that there We're
more in the store he waited for help and
the negro escaped. The only damage was
the breaking open the door and the money
drawer, but there was no money left in
the drawer, so the thief got nothing for his
trouble.
Several new houses are being built and
people are waiting for them. The ice fac
tory has started up and there is 10 be an
other firm handling ice here this year
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
THE REAL PORTO RICAN QUESTION.
why Should Rice Planters Worry
Themselves.

Themselves.
Editor Morning News: The production
Of rice in the United States is extremely
near the consumption point and this is he
danger line! When that is passed the pres
ent protective tariff on rice becomes mop
erative. If the Hawaiian infamy is 10 be
repeated, and the American tariff laws
are TO be extended to the islands and the
ahen-contract-labor are not extended
or are evaded, there will be many hundre
thousand coolies making sugar, tobacco,
vegetables. fruits (surely not rice), and
there will be large and valuable market
for surplus American rice; for both the
coolies and the natives will be living large
ly on rice as the latter do now, and the
United States would be their cheapest
market.
This would be a milder infamy than the
Hawaiian, for Porto Rico IS actually an
American possession and Cuba doubtless
will be.
If the American tariff laws are extended,
along with said INSTRUMENTATION laws
the United States have nothing to fear
from native labor, or from the American
labor that may chose to go there.
Let us mark that rice is now being ad-
mitted free of duty in Porto Rico, thereby
closing the American (deareD market, ex-
cept through the charity purchases of the
United States government.
If the millennium should ensue ard the
lion lay down with the lamb, and the far
mers of the United States land the Solth
especially be placed on the happy footing
of a British or Dutch co!onlst. with the
markets of the world open to their prod
ucts. and for their labor and implements
and machinery-then we have nothing to
say!
But let us know where we are att
A Thick Headed Farmer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01

AS indicating the great advance which
has taken place in the cost of new steam
ships in England as well as in this coun-
try of late, it may be mentioned that a
firm of British shipowners, who in 1897,
had a steamship built at a cost of f47,000,
We're recently in want of a similar boat
and applied for tenders, when, to their
great surprise, they found that they could
not duplicate the 1897 vessel under 100000
showing an advance in price within two
or three years of no less than 1900. The
owners have decided to wait till prices go
down before they fill their requirement.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
NELL HEARING POSTPONED.
Argument for New Trial Goes Over
by Consent.

The hearing on the motion for new
trial in the case of the state against w
S. Nell, tried and convicted of murder
had been set in the Superior Court for
yesterday morning The pressure of other
business caused its postponement to some
future time.
This is the second time that the post
ponement of this hearing has been effect
ed This time it is not sci for day Ger
tain, but left 10 the agreement of counsel,
if they can agree. If not, Judge Fallgant
is to set the day himself. In the meantime,
Mr. r. L. Colding, counsel for the defend
ant. is granted until that uncertain day
to file a brief of evidence and an amend
ed motion for a new trial.
Nell was tried and convicted on Jan.
is. and sentenced to death by hanging
something more than a month later. Up
to the present time the case is not even
in readiness for an appeal TO the Supreme
Court, whittier, of course, it will ultimate
ly be carried
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
A TEXAS WONDER.
IsnII,s Grent Discovery.

One small bottle of Halls Great Dis
covery cures all kidney and bladder
troubles removes gravel, cures diabetes,
seminal emissions, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism and all irregularities Of the
kidneys and bladder in both men and
women, regulates bladder troubles in chill
dren. If not sold by your druggist VIII
be sent by mail on receipt of 81. One
small bottle is two months treatment
and will cure any case above mentioned
DR.. E. w. Hall, sole manufacturer, p. Q.
Box 629, st. Louis Mo. Send for testi-
monials Sold by all druggists and Solo
mons Co., Savannah. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
Seamen Defy Commander.

Thirteen able searnen part of the crew
of the United States transport Sedgwick,
were taken into New York in irons on
Thursday on that ship for defying their
commanding officers orders, while at Gil
bara, on the question as to whether they
should be compelled to work on Sunday
without extra pay The men are now
awaiting the disposition that is to be made
of their case. The Sedgwick's commander
declares that al least the seamen are guilty
of continued wilful disobedence of or
ders," and has made such a charge be-
fore the United States marshal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
Shipping Memoranda.

Fernandina. Fla, March 3l.-Arrlved,
schooner Norman, Gray, Providence.
Sailed, schooner Charlotte w. Miller,
Higbee, Havana.
Tampa, Fla. March 31.--Arrived, steam
er Winifred Langhoone, New YORK.
Sailed, steamer MascOtte, Miner. Ha-
vana. via Key West.
Key West, Fla. March 3l.-Arrlved,
steamers Miami, Delano, Havana, and
sailed for Miami: Olivette. Smith, Ha-
vana, and sailed for Port Tampa; English,
Nettleton. Huelva; City OF Key West,
Bravo, Miami, and returned.
jacksonville, Fla, March 3L-Cleared.
schooner oliver s. Barrett, Good, Phla-