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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
NAVAL FIGHT FACTORY.
scenes of the War with spain Made
20 Order.

Waukegan, H., Letter to the Chicago
Record.
Millions of people in different parts of
the world see every night in The yeaF
naval engagements which TOOK place in
a Waukegan backyard. Great audiences
have been made, by clever contrvances,
to witness in the moving pictures rep
resent,ng war scenes in she late war
the fierce fighting of warshlps which are
now piled no in an old hen house in this
city. In this town were made every one
OF the films from which the naval con-
fiicts, both a Santiago and Mauil1, were
projected by the magniscope on screens.
and still being shown IN amos. every .alge
ely Of the world Recently a Sax of these
pictures was sent direct from Wdukegan
to the Spanish government to be used in
the naval courtmartial at Madrid. The
paraphernalia is all here, and !, occupies
a dooryard forty feet square. Tho man
VINO Inspired he whole scheme IS z. H.
Amet, the Doreer Of moving picture in
ventions. He e here ana tells the story
himself, exhibiting the evidence in sub
stimulation of his statements.
AL OF the boats seen in the pictures
were made Of sheets OF TIM they floated
about in a tank 10 by - and Is inches deep
and holding somewhere near 400 gallons
Of water. The tank was partially sur
rounded by q collection of Spanish scenery
and by entertainments of sand and coal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
PLANTING AT DARIEN,
Orange Trees Are Coming Out-More
Rice to Be Planted


Darien, Ga, Feb. 10.-The tuck farmers
of this section are now making active
preparations for the spring and summer
crops. Some vegetables have been grown
throughout the winter, so that the local
market has been supplied to some extent
by home farmers A few spring gardens
have been planted already, and nearly all
will be planted by the end of another
week.
The orange trees which were killed
down by the cold last winter have sprung
up again and are growing quite wonder
fully. A few more years will witness the
bearing of many oranges in this section,
unless extreme cold comes again to cut
down the trees.
Mr.. J G. Legare has been elected a
pilot commissioner by the Board of City
Commissioners. The board also elected
Mr.. Willoughby Lilliott port warden to
succeed the late Mr.. William Downey
A meeting of the Confederate Veterans
Association will take place at the Court
House on the goth instant.
The industry of rice planting will be en-
gagged in more extensively this year in
this section than for some time Many
of the fields which were idle last year are
being burnt off now preparatory to plant
ing.
During the past week there was shipped
from the port of Darien, coastwise and
foreign, 2,29,l12 feet of timber and lum-
ber valued at $2S,974. Twelve vessels are
in port loading with timber and lumber.
as follows: British steamship Acme, Nor
wegian ship Saga Norwegian banks Bar
fod, Henry, Douero, Ingomar and Prince
Regent British banks Norman and Eu-
phemia and Russian bark Eliel, American
schooners Henry Ciausen, Jr., and Layina
NJ. Snow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
INSANITY DUE TO BROKEN GLASS.
Death of Thomas Hennessy Ascribed
TO n Peculiar Mania


Thomas Hennessy, manager of the st.
Louis Radiator Company. who killed him
self by leaping from a thrd-story window
at Mercy Hospital. was, according to DR..
w. Lewis Talman, who had attended him,
impelled to his death by the strange in
nuence broken glass had over him. DR..
Tallman said:
For years the breaking of glass, so
Hennessy said. had always been attended
by some calamity. He was prosperous
contractor in st. Louis, and the inventor
Of steam heating apparatus. once he
was on his way to Milwaukee to close a
100000 contract. The car window at his
elbow was accidentally broken, and in ter
ror from previous experience he left the
train and tried to do his business by tele
graph. lie failed and lost the 100000 con-
tract AT another time a glass bottle
broke In his pocket, and to that he blam-
cd the failure Of another contract
Saturday night IN Chicago restaurant,
he lifted a goblet Of water to drink 1t, and
the glass split from top to bottom. The
shock of the falling glass was too much
for him. He became violently sick, and /
was summoned to the fremont House to
attend him. There he told me Of this Pc
culiar mental craze that was upon him.
He told me not to tell il unless something
happened to him, but some terrible thing
he knew was impending. He said he had
been drinking heavily lately, but had TAX
en- nothing since Wednesday. This left
him weak He did not want to go TO the
hospital but the next day. when l called,
he was gone, and the next heard was
the report from the hospital that In a
frenzy ne had driven his nurse from the
room and had sprung from a third-story
window. His mind had evidently been
unhinged by the recurring association OF
broken glass with some misfortune 4"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
PLANTS TO BE REBUILT.
Announcement Made by President
Perkins of Augusta.

Augusta, Feb. 1O-President Henry C.
Perkins of the Perkins Manufacturing
Company and the Georgia Iron Company,
which property was recently destroyed by
fire, announces to-day the purchase of a
number of lots of land on Marbury aud
McKinne streets, adjoining the Standard
Manufacturing Company, of which he is
also president and giving him about ten
acres of land. He says also that he will
a once build new lumber and iron plants,
with all modern machinery, putting $50, =
eco in the lumber plant and $4,000 in the
iron works
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL,
There Is Talk of an Offensive ana
Defensive Alliance

Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press5
London, Feb. -10.-There exists to-day
what practically amounts to an offensive
and defensive alliance between Great
Britain and Portugal.
A representative of the Associated Press
learns that intense pressure is being
brought to bear on Portugal, by continent
tai powers. to prevent her from giving aid
to the British. Portugais minister here,
Senior Pinto de Several, is almost as
much an Englshman as Portu-
guese, and his government is
only too willing to do everything
far beyond the bound of neutrality, to
help Great Britain to protect Portugal.
Lord Salisbury is determined this shall
be done and is counting on the co-opera-
ton of his countrymen to put the nation
on a footing to defy European opposition.
He has, this week, taken definite measures
regarding the certain ports that can only
be described as daring. Portugal bending
to the modicum of coercion and convinced
that Great Britain is able to uLalold her
has acquiesced until there practically ex-
lists to-day an alliance of the strongest
fiber between Great Britain and Portn-
gal Yet, for reasons of diplomacy. moth
ing could be more quickly officially de-
MED in London or Lisbon.
II is scarcely necessary to say that all
the foregoing is CLEANED from the highest
sources and is based on unimpeachab
authority
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
HEAVY Conductors.
A Theory That The Jarring of the
Trains Increases Their Weight.
From the Chicago--Nows.

From the Chcago--News
"Why do railroad conductors get fat?"
and Should they be discharged merely
on account of their excessive weight?,
are two questions which have been agi-
tating heavyweight railroad men about
Chicago ever since It was reported that
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad intended
to- employ no more conductors who
weigh more than $50 pounds As a ma,-
ter of fact all railroad men express little
concern over the reported plan of the Bal
timore and Ohio and officials of the latter
line denied the rumor, but the suggestion
has at least served to call attention to
the fact that the majority of conductors
and brakemen grow portly after years Of
service.
Physicians agree that there are few oc-
equations more heathful. Fresh air. light
but almost constant exercise, and regular
hours scare away consumption and chron-
ic diseases, say the doctors one physi-
clan attributed the proverbial good health
and stoutness Of veteran railroad conduc-
tors to the perpetual Earring and motion
of the trains.
There are two conductors on the Chi
cago and Northwestern road who weigh
more than 300 pounds and a number Of
others who weigh between go and 200
pounds. Barney Kayanaugh. on the Chi
cago-Milwaukee run, and Simon Crowley.
who has charge of the Harvard train
are the heaviest. They have both been
in the service for a quarter of a century
and more
Among the middle-weights on the North
western are Patrick Davis. who weighs
more than go pounds; Frank Carney, 2i5
pounds, and Conductor McCanery, 225
pounds.
Other roads are almost as well supplied
with heavy men, and it has been esti-
mated that II a rule making the maximum
weight for conductors 100 pounds should
be established large percentage Of the
conductors now in service would have to
find other employment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
CHATTAHOOCHEE is RISING.
River at Columbus Is Higher Than 1t
Has Been for Months

Columbus, Ga, Feb. 1O.-The Chattahoo-
chez river is higher than it has been for
months. 1t has risen fifteen feet at the
Columbus wharf in the last day or two
and this afternoon was rising sixteen
inches per hour, due to heavy rains up
the country.
To-day the waters swept away twenty
five yards of masonry work in a retaining
wall at the North Highlands dam, besides
floating off considerable timber belonging
to the contractors. The main dam itself
was not injured in the least. This is the
highest water had during the building of
the plant of the Columbus Power Com
pany, and was quite a severe test of the
new dam
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
JENKINS FATALLY SHOT.
Result of a Dispute Over "A Land Deal
In. Virginia.

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 1O.-Information
reached Norfolk to-day of fatal shoot
ing affray which occurred at Norton, Va.
The victim was William J. Jenkins, a
well-knOwn attorney, and John Wampler
is named as the man who fired the fatal
shot
The shooting was occasioned by a dis
pute over piece of land which Sam Wax
and Wampler sold John Bates. Wax, IL
is said, was wounded, and Bates is impli-
Gated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
An Honor WOrthiIy BESTOWED
From the Charleston Post.

TVIH IUt VTdTItoION TOSt.
Mr.. A. 6. Kaufman, capitalist and
philanthropist, Charleston, s. c." has
been named by Miss Clara Barton as None
Of the incorporators Of the enlarged
American National Red Cross Society MIR.
Kaufman's name in the charter is asso.
ciated with the names of some OF the
most distinguished men in the country.
and rare and distinctive compliment has
been paid him. Miss Bartons action
shows that the good lady appreciates Mr..
Kaufman's qualities and knows how to
reward them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
LIBEL SUIT COMPROMISED.
Venctia Paid One Tug $4,000, and
Has Another to Settle with,

Norfolk, Va, Feb 1O.-The libel suit
brought against the British steamer We
META to recover $4,000 alleged 20 be due
the tug Stella for salvage, mas been COM
promised by paying $4,000.
The $4,000 claim of Clark & Co against
the Venetia is still pending 4' ,It.
These suits grew out of services alleged
to have been rendered the Venetia Jan II
and Is, when she went ashore on Sabine
Pass Shoals
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
An Open Winter.

An open Winter is not without its terrore
for those who do not use Or Humphreys
Specifics. In the East wind turks Grip and
Colds C'broken up" by ~. In the
dampness Rheumausm C'15' is the cure).
Dyspepsia. Indigestion and Weak Stom Oh
are especially prevalent in Winter toured
by 100 Humphreys Specifies furnish
a cure for each and every ailment. All
drug stores sell them 25c a bottle.
We have few copies OF DR. Humphreys
Specific Manual Edition de Luxe-white
and gold-to send free on request; address
Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co,
cor. William and John sts. New York
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
Tallahassee News Notes.

Tallahassee, Fla. Feb. l0.-Seventeen
members of the Orlando Rifles, who now
reside beyond the jurisdiction of the com
pany, have applied TO Adjt Gen. Houstoun
for discharges.
on Jan. !, 1863 Jackson Lodge No l. f.
and a. NJ, located at Tallahassee had
sixty-nine members, of which number only
three are sim living and members OF the
lodge, namely: John l.. Thomas Capt. c.
A. Bryan and w. NJ Mcintosh, Sr. Dur
ing this period the lodge has collected
SG.4S763. The records II this lodge from
Dec 81 1884, to Dec. 81. 1899, show that $50
have been Initiated, 265 passed 2l3 raised
l6G affiliated, 119 died hfty-three suspend
ed, 157 Identified, three expelled and eleven
renstated.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
-FOUR NEW COTTON MILLS.
New Corporations Put on Foot in
South Carolina.

Columbia, S. c., Feb 10-To-day four
new cotton mills were set on foot in this
state The Cox mill at Anderson, $4,000;
the Anderson mill, increase from $500 900
to $600O90 and a 100000 bleachery at
Aiken. a concern capitalized at $1,000
obtained papers to develop water power
on the Tugela river, Anderson county, to
operate cotton mills
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
MINERS GO ON A STRIKE.
Five Hundred of Them walked Out
Mt ThzeweII, Tenn.

Knoxville, Tenn, Feb. 1O-Five hundred
miners al the Bryson Coal and Coke
mines, near TazewelI, walked out today,
after a days notice of a demand for a
10 per cent. increase in wages.
The sheriff and posse are at the mines
TO prevent injury to property in case
Of trouble.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

Fleming, Mr.. Calvin. Mr.. Guilmartin,
capt. Davis, Capt. Smith, Capt Padgett,
Capt. Scales and Capt. Bell
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

They say he is a very careful, con-
scientious husband"
HE is. Whenever he is going 10 be
home 60 dinner he always let's his wife
know before and. Puck.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

Losing Her Grlp.-Blanche-He form
er football training didn't prove OF any
use 10 her.
May-Hows that?
why, she let a millionaire slip through
her fingers. "-Brooklyn Life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

River Report-The hight Of the Savan-
nah river at Augusta, at a. m. G5th
meridian time) yesterday, was 81 feet. a
rise Of o. foot during the preceding
twenty-four hours
Observations taken Feb. TO- 1900 s D. m.
G5th meridian time), at the same moment
of time al all stations for the Morning
News
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

Fooled by Physiciau.-Hewltt-I have
been threatened with appendicitis.
.Jewett-Who threatened you-the doc
TORI Harpers Bazaar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
RheunIntisn.

"Graybeard cured me-
Il had rheumatism in the shoulder and
Il gave me great pain. took two bottles
of Graybear and the rheumatism fed. |
increased in weight. Chas. Thomas
of j. & c. ". Thomas, jewelers., 12I Whit
aker street"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Sunday and Monday
For Georgia-Rain. followed by clearing
Sunday. with warmer in northern portion;
Monday fair; fresh easterly winds.
For Eastern Florida-Fair Sunday, and
Yrolably Monday; variable winds
Fr Western Florida-Fair, preceded by
rain sunday; Monday fair; fresh northerly
vrds. becoming variable
south Carolina-Fair; warmer Sunday;
Monday fair; fresh to brisk northeasterly
winds.
Washington, D. G.. Feb. 10-Observer.
savannah Ca. Signals down Winds
will be brisk from the northeast, but not
dangerous. Gulf storm has dissipated
Moore.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature 100 a m. So degrees
Minimum temperature p. m. "A degrees
Mean temperature ............., 81 degrees
Normal temperature ............ 81 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 900. degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Feb. l ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. .......................... AZ degrees
RAINFALL ......-.... ................ 10 inch
Normal ......... .................. IL inch
deficiency since Feb 1 .......... 30 inch
Deficiency since Jan. .......... IL inch
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

The pills of all pills are the Graybeard
vegetable pills. 25c-ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
LOCAL Personal.

= II IT To y II
Local Forecast Official.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-09-20
SOME WASHINGTON CLOCKS.
from the Chicago Record.l

From the Chicago Record
There are 500 clocks in the treasury
department, and a man named Fleming
is paid S45 a month for winding them
and keeping them in repair. This duty
is let annually TO the lowest bidder. and
the cost has been reduced from SIS to
Fleming and another clockmaker who
secured the job for two or three years
through political influence during the
last Cleveland administration.
Mr. Fleming had looked after the
clocks in the treasury at a salary of
SIS a month as long as anybody could
remember. until he considered that
privilege a vested right, and when it
was taken away from him by Secretary
Carlisle he was very uneasy and finally
underbid his rival and offered to do it
for 500 a month The contract was
given him, and the next year the other
man underbid him and got the Job for
$50 a month Next time Fleming came
in with an offer OF $45 month, which
was really lower than anybody could
afford to make, because 1t requires near
ly all his time to perform the duties,
particularly as many of the clocks are
getting old and constantly need repairs,
In the other departments the mes
sengers of the different bureaus look
after the clocks, except the large ones
that are connected by wire with the
naval observatory and accurately mark
the sun time
The clocks at the White House are
looked after by one of the local jewelry
merchants, who sends man every week
to wind them and see that they are in
order. It is a curious fact that only one
of the twenty-five or thirty clocks in
the White House is OF American manu-
facture, and that is big gilt affair
which stands on the mantel in the green
room and was purchased while James
Monroe was president
The most interesting clock in the
White House is in the blue parlor. 1t
was made of alabaster and French gilt
bronze for Napoleon Bonaparte. and
was presented to General Washington
by Marquis de Lafayette 1t still keeps
excellent time and runs for month
without winding
In Mrs McKfnley's sitting room is a
French clock which has been running
without repair for over thirty-f1ve
years. It was purchased during the
Lincoln administration
We have no famous clocks in the
United States like old Tom" in the
tower Of the British house of parliament
or that in the spire OF the cathedral at
Strasburg or the one in St. Petersburg,
which is the most wonderful in the
world. IT has ninety-five faces, and in
dIcates the time of day at thirty diff
ferent spots on the earths surface be-
sides the movements of the earth and
moon. the signs of the zodiac, the loca-
tion of the principal planets and the
date. according to the Gre egorian, Greek.
AfOsIem and Hebrew calendars.
At Moscow there is a clock made for
the empress Of Russia in 1924, upon the
reverse of which is a representation of
the holy sepulchre- At a certain hour
of the day an angel appears. rolls away
the stone, an image of the Savior steps
out and a music box plays the Easter
hymns OF the Russian church
The Topeka state journal., 1900-09-20
TO MAKE RAILROAD MEN.
Eastern Railway Association to Es-
tablish 8 School of Education

Eastern Railway Association to Es-
tablish q School of Education
Saratoga, y. Y. Sept 20.-The eastern
railway maintenance of way associa-
ton, a New England organization. of
which E. A Haskell of Springfield, Miss.
is president, is in session here
Walter G. Berg. chief engineer of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, read a paper Ell
titled: s.The Education of Railroad Men
For the Subordinate Ranks of the Main
advocated the establishment of special
railroad trade schools. TO be devoted to
the teaching of practical railroad work,
the entrance requirements of which
would be limited to a general common
school education The school should
consist OF 8 regular course of one year
and Of an advanced course of one year,
in addition to a general course
Scholars for the regular course would
be boys direct from public school and
young men who, after a few years work
begin to realize that their rapid success
in life may depend largely on a better
general knowledge of any familiarity
with one subject or some speciality. The
advanced course would be open to
scholars who had completed the regular
course and men whose former education
and subsequent railroad experience
would qualify them to omit the regular
course
The general course consisting of lee
lures on general railroad subjects, would
spread a better knowledge of the gen.
eral conditions. laws and public policy
governing railroads among the general
public.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-09-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Geo. A. Crocker and wife to Daniel E
Fitzgerald. $675. lot 4S1 and north half
4S3 Harrison street, Huntoon's addition
Willis King and wife to W. E Rasor,
$500. lots 2 and 4 Mission avenue. Sea-
brooks subdivision
Mack F1eck ct al to W. F. Stah1.
$152-72, part southwest quarter and part
southeast quarter 1-13-14.
Mack Fleck. guardian to w F. StahI
$97-zS part southwest quarter and part
southeast quarter, 1-13-14
r. R. and H r. Wilson to F. KIesath
$500, part southeast quarter 2S-12-17
Tax deed-To ]. W. Henderson, lot 725
Van Buren street, Daniels sub-divis-
ion-
Nancy Reed to F. Klesath, 81, part
southeast quarter 2S-12-17.
Receiver Investment Trust company to
J. W. Kiehl. $3.50, part southeast quarter
4-12-16.