North Carolina Newspapers

VUL. A. , villi , I Will Result In Prosecution. I - j i 1 , - - . i I nr.- .1 . t:. tv. ' . .- I I . MARINE HOSPITAI OFFICERS NO TIFIED AS TO TJiEHt DUTIES. FEVER IS SLOWLY PROGRESSING. Panicky. Feeling In New Orleans Caused Py Report of Kew Cases Serious Situation at Other Points. , A Washington special says: Surgeon General Wyman has issued to marine' hospital officers the following instruc tions defining their field of operations' in behalf of the government in aid of state authorities in dealing with yel low fever; . 'Surgeon Murray, in charge oi ail matters between Louisiana and Ala bama, line south of but not including' Jackson and Vicksburg. "Surgeon Sawtelle, at Atlanta, in charge of Georgia. "Surgeon Carfer in charge of New Orleans and Louisiana. "Past Assistant Surgeon Glennan, at Mobile, in charge of Alabama, and prepared to establish a detention camp near Mobile. ' ' "Past Assistant Surgeon Geddings, at Jackson, Miss., in charge of north ern Misfissippi, is establishing deten tion camp near Edwards, Miss. ' "Past Assistant Surgeon Young, at Memphis, to aid Mississippi river in flection and co-operate with local au , thoritics. "Each officer is to wire daily, if pos eible, the number of cases and deaths v at points in district " The advices -received by Surgeon vjrenoraj wyrnan imciny mgnt m4 eluded the following: From Vicksbnrg, Misj., Dr. Hud ter,' president of the state board o health, reported that there had bee one suspicious case at Nit ta Yuma. There is no one sick noAv. From Mobile, Dr. Guitcras reports Day ending at noon, cases previous re . port, throe; new cases, two; snspiciou cases, three; deaths, two. Total unde treatment five. The fever situation in New Orleans assumed a more serious aspect Friday than at any time since Sunday, wbe six of the St. Claude cases were de clared to be yellow fever. At C o'cloc in the eveniug the board of health q - the city announced tho appearance of eight new cases, and of these one death. At the office of the board. of! health reports were considered some what surprising and disappointing. Friday was one of the hottest days of the mouth, and as yellow fever thrives in that character of weather, there seems to have been a rapid development of germs. The physi cians still feel, however, that there is much that is tatisfactory in the situa tion. It is true that the new cases re ported represent the extreme upper, the extreme lower and the central portions of the city, but there has been no serious spread from original foci, and tho hopeful opinion is still expressed that the disease may be controlled and that there is no imi- nent danger of an epidemic- Secretary Patton, of the board, saicl xriday evening: "The appearance of eight cases to day is not necessarily alarmiug. I eaid three evenings ago that the pros pects seemed to point to the develop ment here of at least fifty cases as a result of" constant intercourse we have been having with the infected towns on the gulf coast and the fact that a promisjuous throng of some 700 or 800 people had hastened into the city on the Monday evening following the declaration of the Ocean Springs sick ness to be vellow fever. "We have had now twenty-eight cases and two deaths. . The majority of the remaining cases are improving. It is still quite likelj that there will appear numerous cases in New Orleans, but the' situation is not distressing and the chances of a disastrous epidemic are remote." WORKING-HOURS EXTENDED. Ten-Hour 8ytem Adopted by the D. and W. Railroad. Advices from Scranton, Pa., state that the Delaware, Lackawanna and .Western railroad has placed its severa hundred shop men in this city on ten hours time, an increase of two hours a day over the time worked, the last eight months. WESTERN GRAIN FOR EUROPE! Two Cargoes From Kansas City and St, Loots to Bo Shipped Via Charleston. A Charleston dispatch say's: Tw) cargoes of western grain have bee;i booked for Liverpool from Kansas City and St. Louis by way of Charles ton. This means the opening of the new grain elevator on the South Carolina and Georgia railroad terminal and the establishment of direct trade with Eu rope. The grain will come in over the South Carolina and Georgia railroad and western connections ' and tho Charleston transport line of ateamerk. THREE GIRLS DIE BY FLAMES Their Home Destroyed hy Fire and Thoy Were Unable to Escape. The three daughters of Preston How ard were burned to death Friday morn ing in their home at Port Alma, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. The rest of the family escaped from the burning building. The girls were aged sixteen, ten and six years respec tivly . J One of'them had escaped, but met death in returning to assist her sisters. 1 I , - .-."-''.'..' . . r I : .- . j . i I - j i. - ' - . ' 1 . ; ' ; -,.,. .I, i i i - i . 1 j - v --vaaaw - v -av vMiwn . , V mm ft ft W a A W V W ewB W It Tho Shootlnjrof HosansTllle's Postmaster Will Result In Prosecution. The attempted assassination of the colored postmaster of Hogansville, Ga., has attracted the attention of the whole country. " The shooting has . aroused the gov ernment authorities, and' President McK.inlfv himself in "mafeinc a TtAmnnal effort to have the would-be assassins 1 of the negro punished. District Attorney Angler announces that he will prosecute ex-Posrmater. Hardaway to the fullest extent of the law for violating the postal laws. It develops that the Hogansville people had been told by the govern ment authorities that they would lose nudi. ruoirfjiuuo u mcv uiu uuv laise the boycott against Loftin. The general opinion of the federal authorities is that the shooting of Loftin was the immediate result of the visit of the postoffice inspector to Hogansville some days ago. The in spector went to Hogansville to inves tigate the reported boycott. He found on arriving there that the citizens had not only boycotted Loftin, but were rcaning a postoffice of their own, with ex-Poatmaster Hardaway as their postmaster. The inspector called a meeting of the citizens at his room at the Hogans ville hotel. - The business men of the town responded and met the inspector, who told them that they were violating the Iaw by operating a postoffice in opposition to the regular legal office. He farther told them that they must raise, their boycott or lose the post office altogether. I No attention was paid to the inspec tor's warning and his efforts to adjust the trouble proved vain. When he left they were still running the oppo sition postoffice. A day later Loftin was shot. " District Attorney Angier has re ceived positive instructions from Washington to prosecute the case. ATKINSON CRITICIZES M'KIXLEY. Intimates That President la Accessory to Hogansville Crime, ' Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, tel egraphed the New York Herald, in response to a request for his views on the Loftin shooting, that President McKinley is morally an accessary to to crime of the man who shot the Ho gansville postmaster. The governor does not defend the crime of the would-be assassin, but he blames the president for the condi tion which brought it on. The telegram was in response to a request from The Herald for the gov ernor's views, and was substantially as follows: "The court will convene In that county In November and the grand jury will inves tigate the matter, and if there is evidence to convict anyone there will be no trouble in punishing the guilty party. The officers are. capable men and will do their duty. The shooting of the negro i? universally condemned by the people. ;. "The same spirit of candor in which I have written compels me to say that our people are uniformly of the opinion that the man who appointed the "postmaster at Hogaosville over the violent protest of those citizens who furnish ninety-nine one hundredths of the business of the office, who own almost the entire property of the j community and who represent the forces which made and constitute the civilization of the community, knowing at the time that the appointment would be taken as a delib erate effort on his part to degrade and humiliate them, was himself, from a moral standpoint, an accessory to this lamentable crime. t "Even these men, who took this view, do not blame the republican party for giving positions to the negroes who have been faithful to them, but it would havo been better for the negroes and pleasanter for the white people of the sonth if they had given them positions where they were not j brought so directly in contact with the peo ' pie to whom they are offensive as officers, j "You ask me what is going to be the ef " feet of thij. I reply that the effect will be the same it would be in Ohio if the same con j ditions prevailed. Leaving- ou$ the ques tions arising from prejudice, -what would be the result in Ohio if the president, in mak ing appointments, ignored the ;views of property holders and all the best ! elements of the community, and over their violent protest appointed to office a man whom he knew to be offensive to them?" The governor concluded with the statement that the law would be en forced in Georgia without fear or fa vor. LEE CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. Consul Reviewed the Situation In Cuba at Length. A Washington special says: General Fitzhugh Lee had a long consultation with the president at the white house Saturday. It vas the first time General Lee had seen Mr. McKinley since the former's return to this country about a fortnight ago. He saw the president by special appointment and all visitors were excluded during the progress of the conference except Secretary Alger. The conference was a long one. last ing almost two hours. General Lee carefully reviewed the situation in Cuba, and explained at length all the points on which the president bid asked for information. WILSON INSTALLED AS PRESIDENT Of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. William L. Wilson, ex-postmaster generalj and formerly a distinguished member of the house of representatives, was installed into office as President of Washington and Lee university at Lexington, Va., Wednesday. At an early hour students, friends and alnmni of Washington and Lee university began to gather on the cam pus to take part in the ceremonies. SALISBURY. HOB OYEBPOWERS JAILER AND SWING UP SIX JIE5. DEPREDATIONS INCEHSED PEOPLE. Taken By Fore From the Authorities and Death Meted Out To Them B the "Hempen Eoute." A special of Wednesday from Osgood, Ind., says: ''Incensed by numerous depredations, Repeated burglaries and daylight robberies; the people of Ripley j county, Indiana, have taken the . law into their hands and meted out to the perpetrators a punishment greater than provided for by the law. - A mob took from the authorities and lynched Lyle. Levi, Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon. William Jenkins and Hiney Sohuler. Stout ropes, not over six feet in length, had served to send each to his eternity and their feet were but a few inches from the ground. : The mob was composed of citizens from Milam, Sunman and other towns. The mob on horseback entered the town an' hour after midnight and call ed out Jailer Kenan, who, upon refus- ing to give up the-keys, was overpow- ered. w ' The mob soon pushed its way into the cell rooms and in their impatience fired on the five prisoners and then dragged them to a tree a square froru the jail door and hung them up. Andrews and Gordon had already been wounded, having been shot sev eral times while attempting to rob a store at Correct several days ago Schuler was in school for attempting burglary and Levi .and Jenkins had been indicted by the grand jury for robbery. They had failed to give bond and were put in jail. It was thought that Lwvi and Schuler were both dead from the shots fired by the mob when they were taken from jail. r - The bandages on the wounded men were found later in the day on the streets through which the men we: dragged along, Lyle Levi was an old soldier and bore on his face wounds received during the civil war while fighting for the Union. , ' None of the lynchers are known. They all came from a distance. Versailles is a town of 800 people.' It is one of the oldest in the state, and although it isifive miles from a railroad station and has no telegraphic com munication with the outside world, it is still the county seat. For four or five years, and even longer, the farmers of the county have been the victims of a lawless gang. Farmers would come into town with a bunch of cattle, or load of farming products, and next . morning they would be found along the road side suffering from a wound and minus the' proceeds of their sale. ANDREWS WILL REMAIN. He Finally Decides to Withdraw His Res ignation. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn his resignation as president of Brown university. The students celebrated the event and the uiii versify reopened Wednesday with renewed activity and vigor. President Andrew's letter on the subject to the committee is as follows: " Gentlemen , fThe resolution of the cor poration of Brown university on the l3t in stant, communicated to me by you, has been, carefully considered. I take pleasure in assuring you that the action referred to entirely does away with the scruple which led to my resignation. At the date, how ever, when . you laid the communication before me I had undertaken to perform the coming year certain work, which, after learning the judgment of the corporation on this subject, I came to regard as Incom patible with the duties of the presidency. I therefore felt obliged at first to adhere to my resignation. But being now free to give to the university my undivided servioe I have withdrawn my resignation and have DOtifled the secretary of the corporation to that effect. . . "I am, gentlemen, yours with sincere es teem, E. Benjxmis Asdbews," , This move was entirely unexpected. About a week ago Dr. Anderson, sec retary of the corporation, admitted "that he had received a letter from Dr. Andrews renewing his resignation. DISASTER TO SHIPS. Terrific Storm Does Great Damage on the Japanese Coast. Dispatches received at the Merch ants' exchange at San Francisco con firm the news of a terrific hurricane on the Japanese coast. The Norwegian bark Alette, which sailed from Vancouver for Yokohama, was caught by .the hurricane at Nishis ka and was wrecked. Some of the sailors were drowned. A part of the cargo may be saved. The hurricane struck heavily at Yo kohama: The British ship Glenerich, bound for Oregon and the British ship Lonsdale for Victoria, were driven ashore. THE OLD STORY. Five Children Locked In Building and are, - Cremated, as Usual. News of a terrible accident near the little town of Richmond, in Little River, county,! Ark. , has been received. Mariah Billingley, colored, living on Ben Love's, place, went to church, leaving her five children, the oldest being eleven years of age, locked up in her house. During her absence the house caught fire, and burned to the ground, the fire children being cremated. N. C. WEDNESDAY. CiUlcni nf Mlulalml. r...l1 n.l.. Away. I Advices of Wednesday state that Jackson, Mississippi's capital, ( is de- populated, its business houses closed, j it newspapers suspended, seven cases of yellow fever officially announced at I i its. yery doors -with many suspected cases at various points, an embargo on the railroads of the state and grave ap-j nrAnnairmn flint ft-, AraA Ai a Aft eA rt as ' obtained a foothold in numerous parts of the state and wild alarm everywhere. Such were the conditions existing in the middle, western and northern portions ; of the state Wednesday. ;The worst fears of the medical fra ternity and - the public have been . realized and the prevailing disease at Edwards has been pronounced yellow j lever. -rfi . - The state board" ot health has laid a general embargo ' on trayel except out . of the state by means of an order ! promulgate Wednesday afternoon ana addressed to all lines ox transpor- ration. s ; M Travel from infected places is abscn lutely barred. Tlie bright side of the situation is that the disease is of a very mild type. i The exodus from the city, which began in a small way several days ago, has attained unptecedentcd propor tions. j While the -'-state Board advise all who can to leave; the railroads : say they can handle the largest crowds. The most rigid local quarantine pre vails. INVESTIGATION ORDERED. Mr. Carter, of Engineer Corps, Charged ! ' '' . : With Changing Government Plans. A Washington special says ; The secretary of war has appointed ii board of engineer officers, comprising Col onel Gillespie and Majors Adams and Raymond to proceed at once to Savan nah, Ga. , to investigate certain reports that have come to the war department to the effect that the work upon the river and harbor improvements of Sa vannah river and Cumberland sound under the charge of Captain Oberlin M. Carter, of the engineer corps, has npt been done in accordance with the' rproject oi tne department, it is ex re wi-ressly stated at the war department that there is no statement of irregular ity in the accounts of Captain Carter, but merely a change of departure from the authorized plans of of the depart ment. -.-"' ':..''- 'v-'" The captain enrs a most emphatic denial that he has done anything that was not in the interest of the United States government. ! j The board appointed to, inquire into the matter is composed of the ablest men in the engineer corps. Colonel Gillespie is president of the Missis sippi river commission, stationed at New York. Major Adams for years was the righthand man of the chief of engineers at Washington and is now stationed at New York, while Major Raymond has charge of important works in Pennsylvania and a Dela ware section." FLANAGAN BROUGHT TO BAT. Murderer Escapes From His Cell and Is Recaptured After a Struggle. ; Great excitement prevailed in De catur and Atlanta Wednesday over the report that Edward Flanagan, twice murderer, had escaped from the De catur jail during Tuesday night. 1 When Sheriff Austin went up to the cells to carry Flanagan his breakfast at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning the murderer was miSsing. An alarm was at once raised and a search immediate ly instituted. One of the searching parties foun the murderer in another and unused cell of the jail into which he had mysteriously gained admit tance and hid. When discovered Flanagan showed fight and attempted : to brain one of the intruders. - In making the capture a desperate struggle ensued, in which Flanagan was finally brought to bay by a blow on the head from a scantling in the hands of the village blacksmith. MILLIONS IN GOLD DUST Reach San Francisco on Long Steamer from Alaska. Delayed The long overdue steamer Excelsior, which left St. Michaels, Alaska, for San Francisco some six weeks ago, but was compelled to put back to Unalaska for repairs, having broken two blades of her propeller, arrived in port Wed nesday with sixty-three passengers and about $2,500,000 in gold dust. MORE CHILDREN BURN. Negro Family, Lock Them In a House and Attend Church. Andy Smith, a negro, and his wife, living in the country near Donalds, Abbeville, county, S. C, locked in their house six children, four of their own and two visitors from a neigh bor's. i The youngest was eighteen months of age and the oldest seven years. The parents went to church, i An hour later neighbors heard fright ful screams coming from Smith's house, the interior of which was in flames. Negroes made heroic efforts to save the children, but it was impossible to reach them and they were cremated. TO INSURE PUBLIC PEACE. Dr. Murray Asks Permission to Take Charge of Affairs at Boloxi. , In his daily report to Washington from Ocean Springs, Dr. Murray re fers to a visit to Boloxi, and says: 'It may turn out that the marine hospital service will be called on to as sist the state and city authorities in maintaining guards and insuring pub lic peace. I wish permission to take charge if requested to do so by the proper authorities. SEPTEMBER 22 1897. lllUUlLiL' - 111.11 mum i n ii ETERY TRAIN CROWDED WITH TTTTTva -nxrvnenre FLEEING REFUbEES. Z";- 1 " . . m ..fr. THE PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN . Mow Cases and Additional Xeaths at Ocean Springs, Edwards and New Orleans Plague In Cairo, 111. The announcement of eleven -new cases of yellow fever at Mobile, Ala., Sunday, following so7 closely on a aim- ilar number Saturday, and the fact l, . . . . tnftt tnf enty-four Hours naa louna one victim, combined to bring the panic which commenced id the middle of la(Jt week to it8 4enlthv Monday found the city 'practically depopulated, mauy stores closed, and wholesale business entirely suspended, while retailers are apprehensive of utter ruin. - There may have been worse days in Mobile, bat the oldest inhabitant fails to remember them, j The outlook now is gloomy in the extreme, not because of the present fever aspect, but because of the entire suspension of commerce and partial stoppage of business. Every one who can afford it, with the exception of those whose callings Compel them to remain, has sought re fuge in cities beyond the state People in the city now do not fear the fever, but they tremble for its con sequences. Mayor Left the Town. Even the government head has ref u geed, and if a' meeting of the general council were to be called no quorum would be found to respond. There is one courageous band, of which i. Judge Price Williams is the leader, which remains with the stricken city in her hour of trial. They have fought epidemics before. Some of them went into the front ranks against the southern scourge in 1853 and are gray headed men now, and the constancy and heroism which they have formerly exhibited is still t4 be witnessed. These Spartans are" eil couraging.by all means in their powerf those who consider themselves unfort unate in not having the means to de sert their homes: There were two deaths from yellow fever at Edwards, Miss., Satufrday morning, one of them being just out side of town. A total of thirty-nine cases are pro nounced yellow fever by the doctors The rapid spread of the disease is re markable, and it is now well distribut ed through the town. Four new cases were reported Sunday. The fever situation at New Orleans underwent little change Sunday. The record, book in the board of health omce showed a total of six new cases 1 and one death. A special from Cairo, 111., states that Dr. Guiteras. the yellow fever expert. arrived there from Mobile at noon Sunday, and announced two suspicious cases at the marine hospi tal to be yellow fever of a mild , form, but owing to the prompt measure taken there is no danger of the pest spread ing. The hospital is thoroughly guarded. . , ' ROAD CONGRESS ADJOURNS. The Parliament Will Meet In Omalia Next Tear. At the national road parliament in session, at Knoxviile Friday, convict labor in building roads and govern ment aid were discussed. Experimen tal road bedding was advocated. Reso lutions recommending state aid and aid by the general govenment and a restricted use of convict labor were adopted. General Roy Stone was re-elected president; E. Rose water, Omaha, vice president, and the following state presidents:. Alabama W. J. Kernochan. Georgia George W. Harriscin. Kentucky M. H. Crump. Michigan A. Campbell. Minnesota William M. Hayes. Indiana Governor James A. Mount Nebraska C. C. Turner. South Carolina W. C. Cain. Virginia B. Chambers. Wisconsin Thomas B. Blackstock. Tennessee Governor R. L. Taylar. The next meeting will be in Omaha, subject to the call of the executive committee. DIAZ'S ASSAILANT LYNCHED. After the Deed Was Done Twenty of the Lynchers Were Arrested. A special from Mexico, City says: Arroyo, who assaulted President Diaz, was lynched Friday night by a mob. About twenty of the lynchers were ar rested. The mob apparently had no organization, but it was directed in some mysterious way. They broke into .the jail by forcing the doors with huge timbers handled by a hundred men. They overpower ed the guards and surrounded them, while a detail of men ran down the corridor and dragged out the trem bling Arroyo. TENNESSEE G0LDITE8. JExecntlTO Committee Meets and Decides to Issue an Address. At a meeting of the Tennessee state executive committee of the national democrats held at .Nashville Wednes days speeches, were made by several leaaers. ; ; " - It wis decided to issue an address setting forth tne principles of the party. The party organization in ih atate will be maintained, INSURGENTS SUFFER DEFEAT. Their Camp Surprised by a Detachment of Spanish Troops. A special from Havana says: It is officially announced that a detachment of troops belonging to the Battalion of Cuba recently surprised an insur gent camp in the bushes near Baraooa, province ox Praar del Kio, and after killing sereral of the enemy captured 56 boxes of ammunition, 50" boxes of Remington rifles of the Mauser pat tern. The Wilitary commander at the Campo Florida, province of Pavana, reports that while reconnoitering he found 15,000 Remington cartridges and a medical chest. Unofficial advices from Turquino, near Uieniuegos, province oi anta Clara, are to the effect that the insur gent leader, Anastasier Jiminez, with twelve of his followers, all armed with rifles, have surrendered to the Span ish authorities. FEVER STOPS FREIGHT. Shipments Prohibited In a Number of infested Districts. The Southern railway and other roads working east from New Orleans are suffering from a total stoppage of freight traffic into Alabama and Mis sissippi from fever infested points, afnd the same is true of business from those" districts to the city of Charleston. 1 The governor of Alabama has, by proclamation, prohibited the shipment of any freight from yellow fever in fested districts into that state, and the same thing has been done by the state of Mississippi and the city of Charles ton. This stops 7 to 12 cars a day of sugar, .syrup molasses and fruits, which would hdve gone into the state of Alabama by the Southern railway, and the whole traffc oa all roads into Alabama and Mississippi thus stopped amounts to several train loads a day. .Several cars a day would go into Charleston,, and this also is prohib ited. , ''' This does not apply in Georgia, where as yet there is no state quaran tine. " IRRIGATION CONGRESS MEETS. The Southern. Association Holds Session In Nashville. The meeting of the Southern Irriga tion congress Wft3 held in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday. The delegates assembled at 10 o'clock in the morning at the Knox viile building, -on the centennial "grounds and . were called-to- order, by President J. B. Hunnicutt, of Athens, Ga. He spoke , a few words oh the purpose of the meeting to Enlighten il ii.' i" 'MS 1 i.i , ine puuiicon ine question oi irrigation, and then introduced Judge D. K. Young, of Tennessee, who delivered a warm- address of welcome. M. L. Prousse. of Kentucky, responded, in very gracious terms. An interesting address was delivered by President Hunnicutt upon irriga tion in the south. He strongly ad vocated a deepen interest and a closed investigation in this important item in a county whose pursuits ate mainly of an agricultural character, j TO FUMIGATE MAILS. Train Inspection Service Inaugurated Out of Mobile and New Orleans. A Washington special 6ays: The postoffice , department has taken the matter of the f umigatien of mails from the infected districts under con sideration, and railway mall superin tendents will be directed to fumigate mails from such places when it is demanded by the local officials. Mail .matter leaving New Orleans for Texas points is being fumigated under the direction - of Assistant , Surgeon" Norman. j Surgeon Carter, at New Orleans, and Past Assistant Surgeon Glennan, at Mobile, have been directed to es tablish a train inspection service on all passenger trains leaving each city. Medical inspectors are to accompany each train to the state lines of Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. Color of Postage Stamps. A Washington dispatch says: The attention of the treasury department has been called to the fact that the universal postal congress recent ly in session here has agreed npon a system of colors of post age stamps to be used by all nations in the postal union. The color of the two cents United States stamp as agreed on was carmine, so that the proposed change to green will not be made. I APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT. Many Plums Fall In Various Parts ef the Commonwealth. The president made a large number of appointments Friday, among them the following: j George D. Pettit, of Pittsburg, con sul at Dusseldorf, Germany. . Frank Simmons, United States mar shal for the northern district of Ala bama. John A. Steele, register of the land office at Huntsville, Ala., vice Ellis re moved. ; r , Herschel V. Catchin, receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, Ala., nee Avery removed. - INDIANA FACTORIES RESUME. , Wire Nail and Lamp Chimney "Works Be gin Operations Anew. A dispatch of Sunday from Ander son, Ind., saysThe American wire nail works, employing 700 men, the Lippincott lamp chimney plant, which works 400 men and the McBeth lamp chimney works with a like number of men on its rolls, have resumed in full blast after a shut down of some two months and a half, NO. 47. DEI 111 ! wnfi nun PANIC FOLLOWS DISC0TERT or FIRE 15 BELLE ELLEN SHAFT. , F1YE MEN KNOWH TO BE DEID. There Were One Hundred Miner at TTorfc In the Slope AVhen the Catas trophe Occurred. Shortly after the m went to work in mine No. 2, of the Bessemer Land and Improvement company' ccl mines at Belle Ellen, near BJcton, Bibb county, Ala.; Monday morning, fire was discovered far down sn tho t main slope. ' About one hundred men are era-, ployed in the mine and an alarm waft , at once given. A panic followed among the workers and in the little town of Belle Ellen. ' Hundreds of men, women and chil-. dren gathered at the main entrance of the smoking mine, while rescue par ties were at once formed to relieve the miners. - . " More than fifty were got out irom the varioaa entrances without narnx. Others wereSwrcomejby Bm0K fell by the waysiaeXiese u u.i- -1 life to their unconscious friends. . .Nrv' - A iKanft nf wildest TUfllnl t!lo Mill II railed at the mine's mouth. - Women v and children were screaming and. shouting for help, and a, fire brigade was at work endeavoring to overcome i the flames. j " " Five men who were working about the slope where the fire originated, . f could not be reached, and it is regard- - ed as certain that they are dead. - ine missing were; Herman Framer, white; Hubbard . Foley, white; Henry Beeves, colored; - Frank James, colored; WUiiam x air fax, colored. It is possible that two , i or three others also may be in the mines. - ' The fire brigade battled with the flames all day in a vain attempt to reach the entombed men, but at night fall the fire-was still burning fiercely, and efforts were abandoned. A later telegram from Belle Ellen says the fire . is thought to have originated from an overheated steam pipe, which ignited gas in "the mine. A careful check ia . -being made of the list of miners in the mine where the fire broke out to ascer tain impossible -if the death list will exceed 'rive. So far it is not positive- : ly known that any others are missing. NO REFUGEES WANTED. - Governor Russell, of North Carolina Acta , Cautiously. Surgeon General John Hey Williams of the North Carolina ! state board of health, telegraphed Governor Russell from Asheviile Monday, as follows: "If It meets with your approbation, x should be pleased to telegraph Marine Sur geon General Wyman offering the mountain plateau of western f North Carolina .as a refuge for refuKees from the yellow fever stricken districts." . " - - The governor refers the matter to the state board of health. . He says he does not like to act regarding it, as, perhaps, a number of the refugees might become destitute and have to be supported and finally sent home uy the state. BOUNCED NEGRO BOSSES. Charleston Cotton Mills Experience Mere Tronble With rmployees. The managers of the Charleston, S. C, cotton mills, where negro and white labor is employed, undertook to put in half a dozen negro bosses over. the white operatives Monday ana tne latter hands went out. They left the mill, making threats. A squad of policemen was detailed to ' prevent trouble, but things became so squally that the colored bosses were promptly taken out. STEEL COMPANY RESUMES. Works at Belial re, Ohio, Gives Employ ment to Many Idle Men. After a two months shut-down and expending half a million dollars for the erection of a blast furnace, steel plant and plate mill, the Bellaire Steel company at Bellaire, Ohio, started the. machinery of the plant again Monday morning, giving employment w 0w men.' . TREATY SIGNED AT LAST Aod the Tronble Between Greece and Tur key Is AdJ anted, y. The treaty of peace between Turkey and Oreece was signed at Constan' nople Saturday afternoon. .' Early in the week it wassta" thafc Lord Salisbury's propo? : f settlement of the qnestiof feI the evacuation of Th'7 br Turkey had been accepted thf Ps . The signing the treat? ends a long and trp-tVome negotiation as the easter- Pblem been since the war beeen Greece and Turkey over Crei ws terminated. . 5EW TURKISH MINISTER. Ferrooh Bey Comes To tho United State Instead of ftifaat Bey, as K ported. A special from Constantinople states that Ferrouh Bey, councillor of the Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg, has been appointed Turkish, minister to the United States as successor to -Moustapha Tachsin Bey. The foregoing dispatch conflicts with a cablegram previously sent from Con stantinople that Moustapha Tachsin Bey would be succeeded by Bifaat Bey, former councillor of the Turkish embassy in London. J 7" rj-v - '-- -- .." 7 v;