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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
TROUBLE IN THE HOME.
Inmate SIMPSONS Confinement in
His Room Result of DisobedieDce.

Atlanta, Aug. 9.-As a sequel to an
alleged assault, which he claims was
made upon him last night by j. NJ.
Wilson, superintendent of the Confed-
crate Soldiers Home, w. E. Saunders.
a gray and aged veteran, is under ar
rest in his room at the institution, and
he declares that the matter shall be
brought before the trustees for investi-
cation. Saunders came to the home
from Jackson county on June g. He
was, during the war, a member OF the
First Georgia Regiment.
According to his statement, made
while under confinement this morning
the trouble grew originally out of a
difference existing between himself and
his room mate, John Barrett, known
at the home as DIR. Barrett According
to Saunders statement, DR.. Barrett's
wife had been in the habit of visiting
her husband, and her continued pres
ence in the room was annoying to him.
On one occasion, he states, he was re-
quested by the couple to leave the
room, although he was i'll at the time
and barely able to walk.
Thursday night at the supper table
DR.. Barrett and w. E. Saunders had
some words. Saunders says that Supt.
Wilson shortly after the scene at the
table took him by the arm and ordered
him to his room. Saunders refused to
obey the order, and he was carried to
the room by force. Since then ne mas
remained in the apartment practical
prisoner. The investigation Of the case
by the trustees promises to be inter-
eSting.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10

Within a few seconds my efforts
were rewarded, for / was able to show
my patient very vicious looking tim
tack (Which / had taken from the
drawing room carpet, and l had the
satisfaction of sending him away hap
by. to advertise my skill among his
friends.
zone good lady, who is a small and
constant annuity to me. vows that I
am the "cleyerest doctor in town." and
has sent me crowds of patients. She
is one of those people who are always
imagining they have some new all
ment indeed. think by this time shs
must almost have exhausted all the
ills that flesh is heir to-" and will have
to begin again.
"Of course there is nothing whatever
the matter with her. except Incidence,
which is the mother of all kinds of lis
orders, real and fanciful. Fortunately
for every ailment I am able to provide
specific, which never fails to cure her
in a few weeks The curious thing is
that, with a slight variation in color
ing and flavor. the medicines are all
ways the same. and contain nothing
more potent than a little sugar. with
tablespoonful of wine or spirit
Some people would say that it is
wrong to deceive a patient in this way:
but cannot see 1t. Since women are
never happy unless they are under
the doctors hands," and If one man
won't doctor then another will. My
medicines certainly do them good. lie
only in imagination; and in this par
ticular case do not cost my patient a
tenth part of the money she spends ON
her pet dogs.
you did not know that II is possi-.
BILE to turn a mans head completely
round without killing the patient, did
your. Well, 1t is, for l have done 1t.
and ought to know.
About year ago a man called to
ask me If could do anything for him.
He told me that by some means, which
he could not explain, his head had got
twisted completely round. so that the
back of II was In front and his face
behind. This was a serious state OF
things. though / admit the mans ap-
pearance seemed to me quite normal.
However ! was equal even TO this elner-
gency, and invited the man to call
again at an appointed time. prepared
to undergo an operation.
by an arrangement of mirrors the
man was only able to see the back of
his head, a fact which, of course, con-
firmed him in his hallucination. The
lights were then turned out, and in the
darkness gave my patient a series OF
electric shocks from a powerful bat
terry, during which my assistant gave
his head a series of violent twists and
wrenches. until the poor man begged
US to desist.
with final shock and twist the
lights were relit. and to my patients
delight he saw his face in the very
mirror where only a few minutes ear
lier he had seen only the back of his
head. The cure was complete, and the
patient is firmly convinced that during
that awful period Of twists and shocks
land Juggling with nfirrors) his head
was actually twisted into its proper
position again."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
WANT STRIKERS BACK.
Petition for Return of Deported
Comrades.


Tampa, Fla, Aug. 9.-The members
of the Resistencia Cigarmakers Union,
whose leaders have been deported by
the citizens. are circulating a petition
directed to the president of the Centre
Espanol, asking that ne call special
meeting of the Centre. TO take action
demanding that the case be taken up at
once by the Spanish minister at Wash
in Non. 1t is stated by citizen, how
eve, that all the deported strikers who
are native Spaniards are naturalized
citizens of the United States. Another
petition directed to the Board of Trade
asks that this organization intercede
for the return of the strike leaders.
The Centre Espanol is an organiza-
ton in the nature of a club, but with
many different branches and features
all the way from a theater and club
rooms to beaevolent organizations. and
it's membership includes about all the
Spanish people in the city
A number of the strikers left for Ha-
vana last night and to-day, and were
escorted to the train by immense
crowds OF strikers, who cheered them
off
The city is quiet and there have
been. as yet, no evidences of serious
disorder.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
WILL SUE INSURANCE COMPANIES

New YOrk's Insurance Director so
Notifies Controller General Wright.
Atlanta, Aug. 1.-Two Atlanta insur-
ance companies, the Southern Fire IN
surance Company and the Georgia In
dustrial Company are in conflict with
the state laws of New York and the
insurance director of that state notified
Controller General Wright this after
noon that he expected to bring legal &C
ton against both concerns. Neither of
the companies mentioned is entitled to
do business in Georgia. The securities
of neither one are regarded by she in
-surance commissioner as sufficient to
warrant their doing business in the
state.
1t was considered a coincidence that
the very day the Controller General
received the communication notifying
him of the status of the two concerns
in New York, the Southern Fire
Insurance should make another eff
fort to secure a license in Georgia.
In 1891 the company, which was then
known as the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, applied to the Secretary of
changing the coInpany's corporate
name to that of the Southern Insur-
ance Company. In payment of the fee
of SIS required by law for the amend
ment, the company is said to have ten
dered bogus check. The sum was
never collected from the company al
though repeated efforts to do so have
been made. AS the payment of a fee is
a prerequisite of securing an amend
ment, the name of the company has
never been legally changed, and the
company has been doing business I'M
der an Illegal name for nearly four
years.
The humor of the situation is in
creased by the announcement by the
attorney of the Southern Fire Insur-
ance Company that If the controller
general continued to refuse a license
to the concern, the matter would be
taken to the courts. The outcome of
tn action to be brought by the New
York authorities against the two COM
panies win be watched with interest
in insurance circles all over Georgia.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
A Pullman
Palace Car Man
ON
GRAPE-NUTS.
(See below)
(See below.)

I'm the morning, when you don't have
very much of an appetite just fill your
coffee cup about third full of
Grape Nuts, then ill up with hot coffee,
sweeten to taste, stir well and let settle.
Now try your coffee. Why man 1t will
make your hair curl. After drinking
your coffee, add a little more sugar and
eat your Grape-Nuts with a spoon. and
my word for it you will feel like a
fighting cock until dinner time. II you
never have. and want something good,
try ii once"
The above is from Pullman Palace
Car man who starts out by saying tnat
Grape Nuts are fine with cream, but
let me tell you what to do when the old
COW goes dry" We would further sug-
gest that persons who have trouble In
digesting coffee. use Postum Food Cof-
fee for the morning meal and try the
Grape Nuts with IL instead of with or
binary coffee.
Both Grape Nuts and Postum contain
certain elements that are of great value
An rebuilding the human body,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
HEALED BY HUMBUG.
Confessions of a Medical Man Who
Remains Anonymous.

From Bits.
Yes, I have had some strange pa
tients in my time, as. indeed, every
doctor of any experience must have
had" said the medical man. And /
have performed some wonderful feats
Of curing by methods which would not
be recorded in the Lancet.
'Of course, among a Doctors clients
are many whose ailments exist only in
their imagination, and not a few of
them are positive cranks.
only a month ago a man called to
see me in a state of great distress. He
assured me that he had got frog in
his inside He had swallowed 1t in a
condition of infancy in glass Of i'm
pure water some months earlier, and II
had grown to an enormous size. He
was sure that 1t would be the death of
him If he could not get rid of 1t.
I'm vain j pointed out that the frog
existed only in his own fancy; he
grew furious at the suggestion. and
said that / was an incompetent and
unsympathetic as all the other doctors
he had consulted.
AT last. to get rid of the man,
said: Very well, you may be right
after all. At any rate, come here
will see what can be done"
HE came at the appointed time and
/ told him that an operation would be
necessary. to which he gladly consent
ed. / made him lie down on a couch,
administered chloroform, and when he
recovered consciousness was able to
show him a very large and frisky frog
as the result of the operation. His
delight was unbounded. and he went
away blessing me for saving his life.
OF course, he had no suspicion that the
frog had been especially imported for
his benefit.
Another of my patients has to thank
me for his preserved eyesight-at least,
so he is kind enough to say. He in
formed me that a tin-tack which he
had been hammering had sprung up
and lodged in his right eye, causing
him infinite pain-and certainly the
mans eye, from constant rubbing, was
in state of great Inflammation.
II examined the eye carefully, but
could find no trace of any foreign sub
stance in IL: and. as for there being a
tin-tack buried In it." the idea was
preposterous. However as I saw the
man was convinced the tack was there
and was making himself i'll with anx-
iety about 1t. / suggested a small OPP
Grafton. A few minutes preparation
was all that was necessary. Fortu-
nately one of my boys had a magnet
which l discovered. and attaching this
TO battery I held it in proximity to
the mans eye.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
DESPITE SOME IRREGULARITY, AG-
GREGATE BUSINESS OF CoUN-
TRY GOOD.

Notwithstanding Corn Damage and
General Steel workers strike, the
Volume of Trade i'm Most Sections
Fair and In Some Unprecedented.
New York, Aug. s.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Despite some irregularity, due to the
recurrence of corn damage reports
from the Eastern surplus producing
states and the formal launching of the
much heralded general steel workers
strike. the aggregate business the
country over seems TO be of a good,
and, in most sections. unprecedented,
volume for this season of the year.
Changes noted for the week
have been rather of tone than of actu-
al demand. and it is in this matter of
tone or sentiment that the favorable
developments have arisen. All avail
able measures of supply. demand and
movement point to the business done
in July having exceeded anything
transacted in any similar midsummer
month. This. to, despite the exception
ally hot weather, drought. sArike talks
and similar conditions unfavorable to
business extension.
General prices have been rather ir-
regular, but the main tendency has
been upward, partly because of renew
ed crop damage reports as to corn,
'frosts" having already begun to be
sighted by nervous crop estimators
The main strength of wheat. however.
lies in the continued heavy export
business. the clearances this week were
enormous and far in excess of any pre-
vious week on record. and the rather
smaller volume of receipts OF winter
wheat.
The textiles show little change on the
week. Cotton goods have been firmly
held despite the quiet and even dull
condition of business at first hands
The Eastern jobbing business in prints,
ginghams and cotton goods generally
has been of good volume, though small
er than expected, possibly because of
crop and strike talk. Print cloths are
easier. though not quotably lower, ow-
ing to the formal dissolution of the
selling committee plan at Fall River.
Talk of wage reduction is again heard,
but there Is still an unwillingness to
strike at the real cause of trouble. that
of over production of certain kinds
of print cloths. due to changes
in style and fashion. Recent recorders
Of mems wear fall weights have given
the mills plenty of occupation and as
manufacturers are meeting the lower
price for spring weights set by the
principal interest a good volume of
business is being done in those goods.
Women's wear goods, particularly the
palmer sorts, have been literally or
dered. Wool Is firm and manufacture
ers are steady buyers.
Business failures in the United
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
THE FIRST GUN.
NOR dupont Guerry Opened the
1ubernatoriaI Campaign mt Pei
ham Yesterday.

Hon. Dupont Guerry Opened the
GubernatoriaI Campaign mt Pei
ham Yesterday.
Pelham, Ga, Aug. s.-Hon. Dupont
Query of Macon, ably seconded by his
law partner, Hon. Joe Hall of Bibb
opened the gubernatorial campaign
here to-day.
An audience of 800 to 400 people
greeted the speakers in the opera
house OF these so were ladies' Many
came from the country around. Messrs
Terrell, Brown and Estill were also in
vited to speak, but for various rea-
sons all declined. This was referred to
by Mr.. Guerry in his address.
Mr.. Query spoke on the prohibition
question, against corporations, and
then attacked the political record OF
each OF the recognized candidates for
governor. He declared there could be
no local option without prohibition, be-
cause Atlanta, Savannah and other IL
quor centers supplied the dry counties
lie sail none of the other candidates
was sincerely for local option. Terrell
ne calico Frank Potts local option
Isl. Estill was for local option every
where but in Savannah, and Pope
Brown did not himself know where he
stood Mr.. Query declared that the
Whiskey ring which runs things in At
lanta goes hand in hand with the cor
poration or railroad ring and these con-
troll the election of legislators. 1t is
time TO stop this now, he asserted,
Mr.. Query declared that it was not
TOO early to open the gubernatorial
campaign. since others had been at
work on 1T for months and years, or
ganizing their friends and writing let
ters. But when they are invited into
public debate, he said, they cry that
II premature. Mr.. Guerry attacked
the railroads on the ground that they
90 not give in the returns for taxes
they should. He spoke of the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western, which he
said gave in last year 1924, 900, while
Poor's Manual showed the company
was worth over $4,000, 900. Thus, he
said they give in less than one-third,
and Pope Brown. the Railroad Com
missioner, consented to a reduction of
$4,000 below what the road had given
IN Thus Brown had made Superin-
tendent Knott out a perjurer against
his own employers. Mr. Query dealt
briefly with the political record of each
candidate, and concluded by introduc-
ilg Joe han as the BrainieSt, braveSt
and best man in Georgia"
Mr.. Hall devoted his hour and a halt
to discussing his record on the At
lanta depot problem, which Mr.. Query
had also discussed, and on which he
scored Mr.. Terrell who, he said, had
given two opinions against the stand
he had taken before the Supreme
Court. Mr.. Guerry will speak in Clay
county Monday and Tuesday.
clay will have an election for pro-
hibition on the 18th.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
LABOR DAY IN ATLANTA.
Music and Addresses the Chief Fea-
ture of the Occasion.

Music and Addresses the Chief Fen-
ture of the Occasion.
Atlanta, Aug. 9.-The preparations
for Labor Day in Atlanta are going
forward rapidly. Tonight the general
Labor Day committee reported the
programme. which is as follows:
Opening statements by Dennis Lind
sey, president of the Federation of
Trades and master of ceremonies of
the day.
Short address by Mayor Livingston
Minis.
Music.
Address by C. T. Ladson, orator of
the day.
Music.
Short talks from local and visiting
citizens and guests.
This report will be acted on by the
General Labor Day Committee to-
night. The committee is composed of
Messrs j. y. Hewitt, chairman; j
w. Bridwell. NJ. r. Emmons and
Clark Howell.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
DOWN IN A NINE.

vice President Roosevelt Decends
One Thousand. Feet Into the Earth.
Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 9.--vice
President Roosevelt visited the Port
land mine at Cripple Creek to-day. He
descended 1000 feet into the earth.
He win lay the Y. M. G. A. building
cornerstone tomorrow, and probably
will remain in this city one week.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10

States number 1856 as against 100 last
week, 172 in this week a year ago.
Canadian failures number twenty
nine as against eighteen last week,
twenty in this week year ago, TWEEN
ty-seven in 1899, thirty-three in 1898
and thirty-one in 1897.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
IIlLMAN SUED FOR $4,000.

ibis il the Amount of Damage Es-
timntcd TO Have Been Sustained
by Young Jones.
columbia, S. c., Aug. "A Young
Jones has filed suit against Senator
tiiiman for $4,000 damages for SLAM
uer The alleged Islander was uttered
months ago, but Mr.. Jones' action
seems to have been hurried by the re-
port that Senator TiIlman had money
w. plunge in Beaumont oil. The COM
P.aihant IS we'll connected, a brother of
Oh important state official. Tillman, in
speech delivered months ago, alluded
MN as crazy old thing. just out
feet
Iillman would say nothing when
Aotf1ed of the action.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
MANUFACTURER MEET MONDAY.

When the Proposed Reduction of
Wages VIII Be Discussed.
Fall River. Mass, Aug. "A meeting
of the Fall River Cotton Manufactur-
ers' Association has been called for
next Monday, when it is presumed that
the proposed reduction of wages will
be discussed. No intimation has been
given of the plan that will be adopted.
Manufacturers favoring a reduction of
wages persistently declare that they
are in the majority, but there seems
TO be a diversity of opinion concerning
the details.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
M,LAURIN AT GREENvILLE.
He Discusses Issues Last Presented
Before the Civil War.

GreenvilIe, S. c., Aug. 9.-Senator
McLaurin to-day addressed 1000 people
at Oakway. near Westminster. He
emphasized his position on national is
sues, touched on the Paris. treaty ana
expansion and advocated the building
of merchant marine. which shall fly
the Stars and Stripes. Many of the is
sues discussed to-day had not been pre-
scented to the people in this vicinity
since the days preceding the attack on
Fort Sumter. The principal part of
Senator McLaurin's audience was made
UP of farmers and they applauded lib
orally.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
Prominent chattanoogan Dead.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 9.--Patrick
Walsh, a prominent manufacturer, Sc
nior member of the firm OF Walsh &
Widener. dropped dead at his home to-
day from apopIexys
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10
Iron Export Trade Reviving.

Cunningham. Ala, Aug 9.-The first
INDICATION of the revival of the export
ION trade which has been dormant for
ok months was made known to-day
Mhen firm of iron brokers booked an
order for good round lot of pig iron
ttor European points. The Southern
nonmasters had not received an ex-
port order in ten months up to to-day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10

., Washington. Aug. 9.-The following
tourth- class postoffices will be raised to
me presidential class Oct 1:
manning, s. c., Conyers, Ga
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-10

Hamilton w. Mabie is among those
whose names are being mentioned as
probable successor TO President Carter
as the head OF Williams College.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.
OIL STOVES DEADLY WORK
ONE MFNIBER OF A FAMILY DIES FROM
SUFFOCATION AND THREE OTHERS
NARROWLY ESCAPE.

,-,od Nav 10 (SpeciaD.-One member of
! the Marshall family living at Palisades Park, was
| asphyxiated by gas and three others came near
losing their lives on IhurSoay as the result OF
using an oil stove.
The MarshaIls live in a little cottage at the
corner Of Central Boulevard and Seventh-st. Pali-
sades Park The family consists of Charles Mar
shall his wife Dora and their two children. Robert,
ten years old, and Helen. seven years old. With
them lives Mrs Augustine Marie Ducrue Mrs
Marshalrs grandmother. seventy-six years old.
During the summer an oil stove is used for cook
ing.
on Thursday Mrs. Marshall got out the oil stove,
which since last summer had been in the attic.
The stove is the kind which generates gas.
Soon after the stove was lighted Mrs. Marshall
grew weak and Zen TO the floor. Her grandmother
FASTENED to the kitchen. and, believing that her
While thus engaged she too. was overcome. At
O'Clock Robert and Helen, The two children. re-
turned from school The children found their
mother ard PROSTATE upon me me
floor where they had fallen; Robert Went 10 ms
mother and asked II he should heIp her up put re-
ceived 10 reply
The children then hurried upstairs and brought
down two pillows, the hoy placing one uhuSl Lile
head OF his mother while the girl placed the other
under the head of her groat-Gr Grandmother. As the
We're overcome by the gas. the hoy falling as he
was about 10 open the door. The little glri was
later found in ghe dining room lying beneath the
table. Il was S o'clock at night when Mr. Mar
Barber No is Nassau-st. Brooklyn. returned
home, and he was surprised to find ms home IN
darkness Opening the kitchen door, he stumbled
across The body of his son; then, cropping his way
in the darkness, he stumbled again, this time fall
ing the body OF his wife. Striking light he
was horr.fed 10 find three members Of his family
apparently dead upon the floor. In the dining
room he found his daughter lying beneath the
table, while in the ha was stretched the pet dog.
Being able any Of the family. he
alarmed the neighborhood. DR.. J. 7. Wyckhoh. OF
Leonia. came quickly. and by working until after
midnight succeeded in reviving all Of the family
with the exception OF Mrs. Ducrue, who dead
before his arrival
Coroner Tracy. of Fairview. made examna-
ton OF the stove to-day. and declared that the
only thing which saved the other members of the
family from being suflocated TO death the fact
that the supply OF oil In the tank attached to the
stove exhausted.