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ItepnaHAw TBOMPSOW, Publishers.
j* COOPERSTOWN, N.DAKOTA.
of tie Week.
IMTBRE8TINO NEWS COMPILATION.
DOME8TIO.
THB boom in the iron trade continued
on the 23d, and it was said the furnaces
oould not fill the orders they were re
ceiving.
THK candle-works of Thomas Emery's
Sons at Ivorydale, O., were destroyed by
fire on the 83d. Loss, 9100,000.
THE United States grand jury at Hel
ena, Ark., returned ten indictments on
the 23d for election frauds alleged to
have taken place at the last Congression
al election in the First distriot.
Br an accident in a mine on the 33d
at San Andreas, Cal., sixteen men were
killed outright and thirty inlured.
NKAB Austin, Tex., on the 23d J. R.
Sevan, a wealthy Englishman from
Liverpool, committed suicide because a
young woipan refused to marry him.
THE jury in the case of John Sage at
Marion, Ind.,. tor murder, disagreed on
the 23d after being out eighty hours.
THK Commercial Telegraph Company
was sold at New York on the 24th to Ed
ward C. Pratt and John W. Mackay for
9155,000.
STKEL mill and blast employes of the
Lackawana (Pa.) Iron & Coal Company
were notified on the 24th that on the 1st
of January their wages would be in
creased ten per cent.
TIIHEK sailors were drowned on the
24th at Yaquina City, Ore., by being
washed overboard from the tug Reso
lute, and four men met a like fate in the
harbor at Vallejo, Cal.
AT Baltimore, Md., John A. Wehner,
.a grdceryman, discovered his wife in
the company of her lover on the 24th
and out off her nose with a razor.
AT Washington more patents have
been Issued from the Patent Office this
year than ever before. The total number
up to the 24th was 23,860, against 19,585
last year.
JOSKPH WOODWARD, mailing clerk in
the Denver (Col.) post-office, was
arrested on the 24th $pr robbing letters
of 91,200.
DIPHTHKBIA. was raging on the 24th in
Eureka, S. D., and over thirty deaths
had occurred.
THK corn crop of Kansas this year is
enormous, and corn is so cheap in con
sequence that thousands of bushels
were being burned on the 24th for fuel
,in place of ooal.
IN a quarrel in a saloon at Stinesville,
ilnd., on the 25th George Buskirk shot
and killed George Easton and John
Douglas.
ADVICES of the 25th announce the
death at Archer, Fla., of a colored man
named Unka Santa Quanta, who was
one hundred and twenty-three years old.
J. D. REVELT., his wife and baby were
instantly killed at Wilmette, a Chicago
suburb, on the 24th by an express train
on the Northwestern railroad.
IN a quarrel on the 24th at L'Ange
Gardien, Ont, W. H. Ford killed his
wife and then took his own life.
WHILE crossing the railroad traoks on.
the 24th at Kinzers, Pa., Mrs. Annie
Mcllvaney and her eleven-months'-old
child were struck by a train and killed.
IN a fit of jealousy on the 24th Dr.
Munroe, of Larch wood, la., shot and
killed his wife and then took his own
life.
ADVICES of the 24th say that Mike
Marker, James fiardie and Tug Wilson
perished in the snow on the BlU:.' mount
tains in Oregon.
JAMES HICKERSON and wife were assas
sinated in their home near St Albans, W.
Va., on the 24th, by unknown parties.
ON the 24th 080 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York.
AT Baltimore, Md., on the 24th Carroll
S. MacGill finished his task of eating
thirty quails in thirty days. He said
hereafter quails and himself would be
strangers.
PBOF. BBOOKS, director of Smith Ob
servatory at Geneva, N. Y., discovered a
new comet on the 25th.
WHILE returning from a Christmas eve
dance on the morning of the 25th Miss
Mamie Campbell and her escort, Benja
min Lovett, both of Wilkinsburg, Pa.,
were struck by a train and killed.
THE stock barn of W. P. Eells near
Cleveland, O., was burned on the 25th,
and thirteen head of valuable Holstein
cattle were suffocated.
Miss MABT MILES, of Marion, Ind.,
while curling her hair on the 25th
touched one of her eyes with the hot
iron, searing the iris and destroying the
sight of her eye.
OVER five thousand ooal miners in the
vicinity of Scranton, Pa., were thrown
out of work on the 25th by the shutting
down of mines.
ANNA C. JONES, the seventeen-year
•old daughter of Rev. Sam Jones,
the noted evangelist, eloped from Car
tersville, Ga., on the 25th with William
M. Graham, a stenographer, and the
couple were married at Chattanooga.
IN a race riot on the 25th at Jesup,
Ga., two white men and seven negroes
were killed at Clarksville, Tenn., two
colored men were killed while resisting
arrest at Augusta, Ga., two more ne
groes were killed for assaulting police
officers, and in a riot at Barnesville, Ga.,
three negroes were killed.
CHRISTMAS DAT was generally ob
served throughout the country on the
25th, and spring's etherial mildness was
reported prevalent all over the United
States.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made in
a Kansas City (Kan.) gambling-house
on the 25th to murder Bob Ford, the
slayer of Jesse James.
THE business portion of Europa, Miss.,
was destroyed by fire on the 26th.
DoBiNa November 29,097 immigrants
came to this country, against 25,419 in
November, 1888. Germany furnished
6,782, England and Wales 8,788, Italy
8,147, Austria 3,160, Hungary 2,201, Rus
sia 2,819, Sweden and Norway 1,968 and
Ireland 1,909.
SABAH DKMEBETT, aged eighty years,
and Charlotte Thompson, aged seventy
years, were suffocated by coal gas on the
86th at Dewitt N. Y.
THB merchandise exports from the
United States during November were
valued at 993,660,889, against 976^878,609
in November, 1888. Imports were 959,
007,173, against 958,876,789 in November,
1888.
AT Ludlow, Mass., on the 26th John
Bessette a mill-hand, killed his wife
with an axe and then killed himself.
JOHN P. JONES and William H. Pal
mer, of Bangor, Pa., blew out the gas
on the 26th in a hotel at Bethlehem,
Pa., and were suffocated.
SIMON SPOHN, a miser worth 940,000,
was killed by the oars on the 26th while
picking up coal on the track at Reading,
Pa.
ON account of the mild weather the
directors of the Carnival Association at
St. Paul decided on the 26th to abandon
the carnival and ice palace.
FLOODS in California had on the 26th
caused a loss of 9200,000 along the line
of the Santa Fe railway and 9150,000 loss
on the Southern Paciflo lines.
TmtBB children of Mrs. Lena Sohip
were burned to death in their home at
Omaha, Neb., on the 26th. The mother
was absent and the house caught fire
with the little ones locked in it.
A WIND-STOBM on the 26th leveled
hundreds of derricks in the McKeanand
Allegheny (Pa.) oil fields, and two
houses at Bradtord were wrecked.
THE Nadean winery near Los Angeles,
Cal., was wrecked on the 26th by the
breaking of a levee and nearly 9100,000
worth of wine was destroyed.
AT Bowling Green, Ky., J. McDonald,
as the outcome of a family quarrel, fatal
ly shot his wife and hiiqself on the 26th.
A PETITION addressed to the Congress
of the United States praying for the
speedy establishment of a Territorial
government in Oklahoma had on the
26th received thirty thousand signatures.
ADVICES of the 26th from Jesup, Ga.,
say the jail was broken into and two
negro prisoners were shot to death. A
large number of negroes were taken
from their homes and scourged and
many others were compelled to quit the
town. In the recent riot ten negroes
and two white men were killed.
DCBING the past year about five thou
sand miles of main track railways were
built in the United States, being the
smallest construction recorded since 1885.
THE Indiana Afro-Amerioan League
was organized at Indianapolis on the
26th, the object being to protect the
colored race against outrages.
A TEST was made on the'26th by "a
party of New York experts of the elec
trical execution machines at Sing Sing
prison, and they were found to be even
more deadly than they had been repre
sented.
THE Wabash Manufacturing Com
pany, large dealers in stationery in Chi
cago, failed on the 26th for 9300,000.
THE main building of the Western
College at Toledo, la., was burned on
the 26th. Loss, 9150,000.
DURING the seven days ended on the
27th there were 288 business failures
in the United States, against 342 the
previous week. For the corresponding
week in 1888 the number was 334. The
total of failures in the United States
January 1 to date is 10,590, against 10,
416 in 1888.
LLOYD & Co., of Ellensburgh, Wash.,
the principal mercantile firm in the city,
failed on the 27th for 9150,000.
SOME thirty post-office clerks at Balti
more were suffering from influenza on
the 27th and were unable to work.
BUD WILSON, a negro accused of an
assault upon a white woman, was taken
from a party of officers near Tusca
loosa, Ala., on the 27th and lynched.
IN Burnet County, Tex., Will and
Calvin O'Dell, brothers, charged with
murder and robbery, were killed on the
27th by a deputy sheriff while resisting
arrest.
THREE workmen, William Denby,
William Devine and Thomas Elliott,
were fatally injured on the 27th at Bal
timore by a falling scaffold.
THE discharge of twenty brotherhood
engineers and one brotherhood brake
man was causing trouble on the Cincin
nati Southern road on the 27th, and
there were rumore of a strike.
THE Farmers' Alliance of Douglas
County, Kan., on the 21 th adopted res
olutions boycotting dressed-beef men
or butchers who handle the products of
the so-called beef combine.
REVJ JOHN SHANLEY, of St. Paul,
Minn. Rev. James McGolrick, of Min
neapolis, and Rev. Joseph B. Cotter, of
Winona, were consecrated as Roman
Catholic Bishops at St. Paul on the 27th.
AT Newport, Ky., on the 27th Mrs.
Rena Huch, aged eighty-two years, was
run over and killed by a locomotive.
AFTEB an idleness of three years the
furnaces of the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore
Company at Columbia, Pa., were being
repaired on the 27th, and would soon be
put in full blast
OTTO LEUTH, aged seventeen years,
who in May last killed Maggie Thomp
son, a seven-year-old girl, at Cleveland,
O., was found guilty of murder in the
first degree on the 27th.
RANDIEZAZ, an Apache Indian, was
hanged on the 27th at Globe, A. T., for
the murder of Lieutenant Mott last
March.
Two CHINAMEN were waylaid and
killed in San Francisco on the 27th by
highbinders.
THE Secretary of the Navy on the
27th adopted a new design for the flag
of the na^y, to take effect July 1,1891.
It will be applied to both the flag and
the union jack of the navy, and consists
of a rectangular arrangement of the
forty-two stars.
IN Boston 25,000 persons .were on the
27th said to be suffering with influenza,
and in New York and Brooklyn the
number was also large.
A WIND-STOBM on the 27th at Fall
RVyer, Mass., unroofed several houses
and tore down church steeples.
IN an address at DUbuque, la., on the
27th Governor Larrabee said that the
prohibition law was a success in the
State, that it decreased crime and was
depopulating the jails and peniten
tiaries.
THE Navy Department on the 27th ao
cepted the new cruiser Baltimore from
the contractors.
A CAVE-IN on the 27th of several acres
at Plains, a suburb of Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
damaged St Leo's Catholic Church and
other buildings. Great holes formed,
•°me
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^em thirty feet deep.
IN a street at Bvansville, Ind., on the
27th William Hargrove met his wife, out
her throat with a pocket-knife and made
his escape.
JOHN CLARK and John France were
on the 27th sentenced to two years in
prison and disfranchised for five years
for a burglary at Kouts, Ind.
PERSONAL AND POLITIOAL.
ELLIS WILCOX, who celebrated his
one hundredth birthday tour months
ago, died on the 23d at his home near
Berlin, 111.
NELLIE THATCHER, the fifth victim of
the recent Tilden school fire in Detroit,
Mich., died on the 23d.
DR. JACOB CABB, of Flndlay, O., the
discoverer of natural gas in Ohio, died
on the 28d.
HKNBY W. GRADY, editor of the At
lanta Constitution, and famous in later
years as an orator, died, at his home in
Atlanta, Ga., on the 23d of pneumonia,
aged thirty-eight years.
HENBY W. AUSTIN, the founder of the
village of Austin, a Chicago suburb, died
on the 24th. He was sixty years of age,
a successful merchant and a prominent
Prohibitionist
DENNIS O'HARA, aged one hundred
and ten years, died on the 24th at his
nome in Chicago. He had always ex
pressed a wish that he might die on
Christmas Day.
A CALL for the twenty-second annual
convention of the Woman Suffrage As
sociation to meet in Washington Feb
ruary 18 to 21 was issued on the 26th.
THE widow of General George H.
Thomas died suddenly in her home, at
Washington on the 26th.
HENBY WOLFORD, who had been con
tinuously city treasurer of Louisville,
Ky., for thirty-two years, died on the
27th, aged eighty-three years.„ „.
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FOREIGN. '5
TEN THOUSAND boot-makers were on
the 28d locked out in the labor distriot
at Bristol, Eng.
DISPATCHES of the 23d from St Paul
de Loando report that numerous photo
graphs of the eclipse of the sun were
obtained by the American expedition
during the period of totality on the 22d.
ADVICES of the 23d from the Congo re
port very satisfactory progress in the
equipment of the new stations that are
to be the basis of a systematic opposi
tion to the slave trade.
THE influenza epidemic had on the
23d spread over every part of Germany.
NELLY BLY arrived at Hong Kong,
China, on the 23d, on her trip around
the world. She expected to complete
the journey in a total of seventy-five
days.
INFLUENZA was making great ravages
at Brussels and Vienna on the 24th.
CHABLES MACKAY, LL. D., the well
known author and journalist died in
London on the 24th, aged seventy-five
years.
A BLOCK of buildings in London was
burned on the 25th, causing a loss of
9750,000.
THOMAS A. EDISON'S Christmas gift on
the 25th to Archduchess Elizabeth,daugh
ter of the late Archduke Rudolph of
Austria, was a phonographic doll whioh
talks and recites verses.
INFLUENZA in Paris was increasing in
violence on the 26th, and of the total
number of persons attacked six per
cent died.
THE town of Aci Reale, in Sicily, was
shaken by an earthquake on the 20th.
and several houses collapsed and many
persons were buried in the ruins.
AT Vancouver, B. C., a party of young
men in a sleigh were struck by a falling
tree on the 27th, and four of them and
the two horses were killed.
IT was reported on the 27th that 580
deaths from inflnenza had occurred in
Paris within twenty-four hours.
LATE8T* NEWS.
,JRoastedto Death..::
HANCOCK, Mich., Dec. 29—At Huron
»wa a family named Gross, consisting of
•he parents and eight children, with a
visitor,were consumed in a burning dwell
ng. Theodore Gross and wife returned
'rom a dance near by at 2 o'clock. At 2:30
son, Theodore Jr., returned from the
luion stamp mills, where he is employed.
He went into the houxe and to bed. Short
ly after he was awakened by his brother
Nicholas, who heard screams coming from
in adjoining room, occupied by their three
tisters and three little brothers. They
'an to the partition door and found the
room a mass of flames.
All attempts at rescuing were fruitless.
After the bouse had been consumed a
searching party went over -the ruins and
iiscovered eleven bodies. The victims
were: Theodore Gross, aged flfty-sevenf
his wife aged forty-seven Catherine
John, Toney, Mary,Lizzie, Joseph, Michael,
and Lenie—all children of Mr. and Mrs.
Uross and LenaErost, of Lake Linden, a
guest. The age* of the young people
range from two to twenty-two years.
Terrible Accident.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec. 28.—A terri
ble accident occurred this morning on the
Chesapeake & Ohio road ut White Sul
phur Springs, 125 miles east of this place.
The Vestibule train No. 3, on the Chesa
peake & Ohio, left the track two miles
west of White Sulp ur Springs at 7:30
this morning, demolishing six cars, killing
eleven peope, und injuring .bout twenty
five. The accident was caused by the
rails spreading. It was a fearful wreck
and the damage to the railroad at this
time cannot be estimated. Luckily the
cars did not take fire, being heated by
steam. The 6ngine did not leave the
rail*, but the tender was left without any
trucks. The rear sleeper had its front
truck on the ground and remained on the
rails. Ten persons were killed outright
and at l.-ast twenty-five more seriously
injured.
SQOATTEKS on the 28th, attempted to es
tablish a town on the south side of the
Missouri, opposite Pierre, but were driv
en off by the half-breeds.
W. E. GLADSTONE attained his eightieth
birthday the 20th.
AT Barnwell, 8. C., the 28th, three hun
dred masked men took eight negro mur
derers from the jail to a secluded spot
outside of town and literally shot them to
pieces.
THE ex-Empress Theresa of Brazil -MFTD
of heart disease at Aporto, the 28th.
Six thousand bales of cotton valued at
9800 000 were burned at Yasoo City, Mich.,
the 28th.
JOHN CLABKB, a farmer affected with
paralysis, took a hot bath at Kokomo, Ind.,
the 28th. The attendant forgot all about
his patient and left him in the tub all
niarht When found he was dead. I
'Li'TdM
THE TWO DAKOTAS.
SOUTH DAKOTA SUFFERERS.
Governor Are All
Mellette Says They
Right—State Aid.
Governor Mellette, of South Dakota,
recently expressed his views apropos to
the resolutions adopted at the recent
Watertown convention, whioh stated
that no attempt at concealment of the
iestitution among the people of the
State was wise. He said the district
where there is suffering and want is con
fined to a small area of the State, com
paratively, and the balance—fully eighty
per oent. of the State—is in easy circum
ttanoes and oould help the rest in a
measure with what aid was coming in
from outside. The Northwestern rail
way alone has contributed over 940,000
already in freights to the sufferers, and
Is still continuing its half and free rates
»n coal and supplies where the neces
sity for them is shown.
VICTIMS.
MANY
u.-
Diphtheria Raging Among Bussian Set
tlers In South Dakota—Thirty Deaths.
The Superintendent of the State
Board of Health recently went to
Eureka, the center of the great
Russian settlement of Edmund and
McPherson counties, to take meas
ures for the suppression of
malignant diphtheria, now raging
among the Russians. The disease was
brought to the settlement by a family
of Russians who recently came over,
losing two children en route. Thirty
deaths have already occurred. One
farmer lost six children and another is
said to have buried four children in one
grave.
RIGHTS OF SETTLERS.
The Trnet Opposite Pierre In Dispute—
Governor Mellette's Opinion.
Governor Mellette was recently asked
regarding the right of settlers to ocoupy
the mile square opposite Pierre on the
reservation before the land is opened.
He said he thought the agreement en
tered into heretofore between the Gov
ernment and the Northwestern railway
would give the company the first right
to occupy the mile square or as much as
was needed for railroad purposes, after
which the rights of settlers living there
might be recognized, provided the Gov
ernment did not decide to clear the land
of every body before opening it
Sentenced to Death.
Lehman, the man who about four
months ago shot and killed Constable
Burns at Oelrichs, S. D., while resisting
arrest, and who evaded the officers of
the law for a long time, but was finally
captured, was tried in Custer County re
cently, found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged.
Lehman is the first person sentenced to
death under the laws of the State of
South Dakota.
New Railroad for South Dakota.
At Mitchell the oommittee appointed
by the railroad conference met and
drafted articles of incorporation recent
...ir a railroad from Forest City to
.na, a distance of 355 miles, and to
be known as the Omaha & South Dakota
Railway Company. The road is to be
built from Forest City to Omaha via
Blunt, Mitchell and Yankton, and to be
capitalized for 95,000,000.
Left Many Debt*.
Matt Miller, who was discharged from
the Sioux Falls penitentiary about a
year ago, where he served three years
for assault with a deadly weapon, and
who had been engaged in buying live
stock in the country surrounding Sioux
Falls since his release, disappeared re
cently, leaving debts amounting to over
91,000. His scheme was to buy on credit
and sell for cash.
Short News Items.
A heavy snow-storm, accompanied by
high wind, raged over North Dakota the
other night.
It has been discovered that Ole Olson
was the first white man born in South
Dakota. It was in I860.
Recently a hunting party from Fort
Meade killed the largest deer ever shot
in the Hills country. It weighed six
hundred pounds when dressed.
Two Oneida (S. D.) marksmen fired
ten shots apiece at a steer recently, and
finally killed it by shooting it with an
axe.
Mrs. John Hunter, one of the first in
habitants of Sioux Falls, S. D., cele
brated her eighty-second birthday re
cently.
Fifty farmers of Ingham County, Mich.,
will form a colony and locate in the
vicinity of Pierre, S. D., next spring.
The Northwestern Life Insurance
Company, with a capital stock of 9100,
000, organized at Huron a few years agoi
has failed.
Mr. and Mrs. John Olson, of Sioux
Falls, have so far furnished material
for two base-ball clubs. No. 18 was
signed the other morning.
E. T. Cressy, managing editor of th*
Sioux Falls Daily Press, has been ap
pointed Librarian of the United States
Senate.
Mrs. Charles Spinks, of Yankton, pre
sented her husband with triplets, two
boys and a girl, as a Christmas offering.
The children were all living, but the
mother was in a precarious condition.
A fire in the interior of the Sioux
Falls University early the other morn
ing came netr to destroying the main
oollege building. The students who
boarded at the oollege, armed with
buckets, soon squelched the flames. The
damages to the building are about 9100.
Prof. Walsh's library was damaged.
Arlington, S. D., has a town marshal
but no jail, and when the marshal make
an arrest he has to take the criminal
home with him and look him up in the
cellar.
An Ohio syndicate purchasing large
ly of real estate at Chamberlain. Post
master Jones, of Columbus, arrived as a
representative of the syndicate and was
investing heavily.
One hundred and seventy-four head of
cattle were recently killed at Lowei
Brule (S. D.) agency for the winter'!
supply for Indians. About two hundred
head more would be killed as soon aa
the weather became colder.
A BLOODY CHRISTMAS.
Heeks and Whites at Jesup, Ga., Observe
the Day In Sanguinary Manner—A
Blot In Which Tea of the Former and
Two of the letter Are Killed and Many
of Both Baees Wounded—The Trouble
Not Yet Over.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 27.—Ten negroes
md two whites were killed and many of
both races wounded in the fight in and
around Jesup Wednesday, and the
trouble is not over. The fight be
gan about 10 o'clock a. m., when
Chief Marshal Leggett and assist
ants attempted to arrest Bob
Brewer, the notorious negro out
law and fugitive. Brewer raised his
gun to his shoulder and deliberately
shot down Assistant Marshal Barnbill,
killing him instantly. The chief mar
shal then fired on Brewer, but missed
him. Brewer returned the fire and
shot Leggett through both legs. Brewer
and his crowd of ten or twelve men
then fled to McMillan swamp, a few
yards away.
The report of the guns threw the town
Into a whirlwind of excitement and the
negroes were followed into the swamp
by several citizens. Among them were
William Wood, a carpenter, and his son,
William Wood, who was on a visit from
Ridgeland, S. C., to his father. The ne
groes dodged into the swamp and when
young Wood ran in behind them Brewer
cose up and shot him through the head,
killing him instantly, and shet Wood's
father in the face. Accomplishing this
much, the negroes ran farther
Into the swamp and escaped.
The news of the death of young
Wood and the serious shooting of
his father spread like wildfire over
the town. Confusion reigned for a time
and Jesup seemed to be in the hands of
a violent mob. Mayor Hobbs called a
meeting and hasty arrangements were
made to protect the town. Seventy-five
armed men were gathered in a few min
utes and followed Brewer and his
party a distance into the swamp. Mc
Millan Bay covers over 400 acres, and
Brewer is so familiar with its hiding
places that the efforts of the posse to lo
cate him in the swamp were regarded as
In vain.
The strength of the posse was in
creased by a posse of twenty-five armed
men before an hour had elapsed, and a
picket line was formed on the east side,
so aa to prohibit anybody coming out of
the swamp to the town. Brewer is
thoroughly familiar with the bay, hav
ing been skulking around and hiding
there, fishing and hunting, for a number
of months.
About 8 o'clock Thursday morning a
party of unknown men attacked the jail
at Jesup, driving away the guards. In
a few minutes the door was battered In,
and four men went inside and shot and
killed Peter Johnson and Bill Hoppe.
The former was a man who had been
wounded and captured in the fight. The
military were stationed about a half
mile from the jail, but by the time a de
tachment arrived every thing was quiet
At I o'clock fifty men from Baxtry
and other points on the railroads led
by fifty men in and around Jesup divid
ed into three parties and started out to
visit the houses of the blacks. In all
thirty houses were visited. Six houses
were merely searched for weapons and
members of Brewer's gang, and their
occupants were not molested or
abused. The first house visited was
a large two-story frame tenement occu
pied by Sally Hopps and other low char
acters. Just previously all the buggy
whips in one store had been bought .and
distributed. The Hopps woman was
terribly whipped and told to leave
the town and never return. Two
other blaok women in the house were
let off with a lighter whipping. Three
men caught there were whipped. In
the next house Bill Fleutt lived. Fleutt
and his wife and one Schuyler and his
wife, frightened half to death,
eame out The men were ordered
to hold up their hands. Schuyler said
he had not lived in Jesup long and
swore earnestly that he had nothing to
do with the Brewer gang. "Put down
your hands," some one ordered. His
hands fell, and the next moment a gun
went off and Fleutt fell down. Schuyler,
who stood within 1«ro feet of him,
started to run, when a volley of shots
was fired. Fleutt was dead with one
bullet hole in his breast
One room in Hannah Walthour's house
was riddled with bullets before she
would open her daor. Luckily for the
inmates, they escaped from that room
quickly. One bullet went through the
footboard of a bed and buried itself
in a pillow. Another bullet went
through the headboard of the bed.
Albert Harper, Dan Jacobs and a man
known as Calvin were run out Harper
asked time to get his Bhoes. "Never
mind, you won't need them where you
are going," was Ithe reply. The women
were left and the men were taken away.
They have not been seen since.
The Georgia Hussars, dismounted, the
company ordered to the scene of the
trouble by the Governor, returned to
this city Thursday afternoon. The
Brunswick company was retained on
duty by the mayor. The returned sol
diers reported the trouble over. Their
presence was only required to quiet the
excitement of the citizens of Jesup,
who remained in their homes to protect
their families.
A special from Jesup to the Morning
News, dated 6 p. m., says that Mayor
Hobbs has called a public meeting to
take steps to defend the town. It is
believed that Brewer is near here with a
large force of negroes. The citizens are
organizing and arming to aid the Bruns
wick Rifles in case of an outbreak.
LOSt HER JEWELS.
Burglars Make a Rich Haul in a Buffklo
Ladj'i Boudoir.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Deo. 27.—Sneak
thieveB made a rich haul at the house of
John Bush Thursday night While the
family was at dinner the burglars scaled
the veranda, opened an upper story
window into Mrs. Bush's boudoir, broke
open her jewelry casket and stole a
diamond cross valued at 91,200, an onyx
pin set with two diamonds valued at
9500, a pearl necklace and earrings
valued at 91,000, and a finger ring set
with two diamonds and a garnet valued
at 9300. jfr
FURIOUS QALGS.
They Cause Great Destruction
erty uti Ihnnl Death* tm New,
Pennsylvania and' Maryland
hy the Floods in California.
NEW YOBK, Deo. 27.—A- stro^%t*A^
storm visited this city and vicinity
Thursday afternoon. In itie upper
of the city the storm was acoompahiad
by thunder and lightning, la Broekly* -.*•
a three-story frame building la
course of erection was blown down
three carpenters were burled in
the ruins. They were all rea»~
eued alive, but were badly |a»
jured. Two little girls who were pass
lng at the time were struck byflying tim
bers. One of them suffered a fractures
of the leg and the eyes of the other w««t
badly injured. In Jersey City Samnil
Bautcher, aged 52, was killed by being
struck by the limb of a tree which waa
blown down by the heavy wind.
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At Buffalo the wind reached a velocity
of sixty miles an hour, but no damage
is reported from that seotion. At Roch
ester an empty ice house was blown
down and eonslderably damaged. 8om»
damage was done to chimneys and
outbuildings. At Utica immense hail
stones fell, and great damage waa done
to fruit trees. A large blaeksmith-«dii(p
was blown down at Rome, but no im*"
was injured. At Auburn rain, hall,
thunder, lightning and high winds char
acterized the day's weather. Lightning
struck a dwelling and demolished on*
side of the house.
SYBACUSB, N. Y., Dee, 27.—A cyclone
swept across Onondaga lake about 10
o'doek Thursday morning. It straek
the horse barns of the People's Street
Railway Company and badly damaged
it. Charles A. Nichols, assistant Supers
intendent, waa killed, and Giles Wood
and Joseph Forkheimerwere badly hurt
PITTSBUBOH, Pa., Deo. 27.—Quite a
heavy rain, accompanied by thunder
and lightning and high winds, passed
oyer this seotion Thursday morning.
The storm was of short duration, but
considerable damage was done by the
wind. Small trees, fenoes and dat*
houses were blown down and the tele
graph service north and south badljr
crippled by the prostration of the wires.
Johnstown, its oup of misfortune al
ready running over, was swept this
evening by a violent wind-storm whlcli
dropped the mercury away below frees*
ing point, sent people scurrying to
their frame shanties and increased
the danger of fire and feeling of
alarm. There is fear that some of
the buildings will be blown down. The
large business house of David Delbert,
partly wrecked last Saturday, is ex
pected to go any moment If a blizzard
sets in, as seems probable, there will be
muoh suffering at Johnstown.
At Bellefonte there was loud thunder,
vivid lightning, heavy rain and bright
sunshine all at one time. The
storm was followed by almost a hurri
cane, which blew down a number
of frail buildings. Pittsburgh also had
a midsummer thunder storm, accom
panied by heavy precipitation, the wind
meanwhile blowing thirty-four miles an
hour. In Allegheny the roof of Science
Hall of the new observatory was
blown into a neighboring field.
BRADFORD, Pa., Dec. 27.—A- terriflo
northwest wind has been blowing here
all day and thousands of oil derricks
have been leveled to the ground through
out the McKean and Allegheny fields.
In this city the house of John Carroll
at the head of Sandford street, was
blown from its foundation and left
reclining on the hillside at an
angle of forty degrees. The family
were In the house at the time but
escaped unhurt
At Knapp's Creek alone about 400 der
ricks are a complete wreck. It is esti
mated that the damage will approxi
mate 940,000 in the section round about
Bradford.
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Dee. 27.—A brldg«
in course of construction acroiM the
Lehigh river between Lehighton and
Weiss port was blown down by the high
wind Thursday afternoon. Three work
men fell a distanoe of thirty feet Gua
tave Berg was fatally hurt, Charles
Zimmerman had a shoulder and leg
broken and was badly cut about the
head and Thomas Crawford had his hip
broken.
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 27.—Under a per
fectly clear sky, not a vestige of cloud
being visible, a terrible gale suddenly
swept over the city from the northwest
Thursday afternoon. It is feared that
many small crafts, particularly oystering
vessels, will be caught on the bay, as
the mild weather and gentle breezes of
the last few days had started all
the bay sailing vessels. In this city
houses were unroofed and chimneys
blown down. Mamie Kummelman, a
year-old child, while playing in front of
her home, was struck by a brick from
tumbling chimney and instantly kUled.
Several other persons were injured by
flying bricks and shingles.
Los ANGELES, CaL, Deo. 27.—The
heavy rains of the last few days con
tinued Thursday morning. All trains
from the North, East and South are now
cut off. Santa Fe officials estimate
that the loss on that line will reach
9200,000, and the loss on the South
ern Pacific lines will reach 9150,00a The
Southern Pacific bridge at Elmonte is
washed away and passengers are brought
here on hand-cars. Great damage has
been done to street cable lines and
bridges in this city. Many houses in
the low lands are flooded and famiHg?
driven out It is reported that
the house of James Ryan, on the river
bank, is washed away and the whole
family missing. Fully twenty-five
inches of rain have fallen here this:
season.
EARTHQUAKE IN SICILY.
Houses Wrecked and Many'
Buried la the Buins* al
LONDON, Deo. 27.—The town of Aci
Reale, in Sicily, was shaken by an eprth*'
quake Wednesday. Several houses ool
lapsed and many persons were buried in
the ruins.
[Aei Reale is a town and seaport of Sicily,
"ell built on a height at the mouth of the Aei I
*8ven miles northeast of Catania. The popala*
Uon when last reported was nearly 95,000. The
town is built mostly of lava and |ooatains niasF
fine restdenoes. It has an aettve trad^ aad-la
celebrated not only far its mineral waters^ hot
also foe the eave of Polyphemus and the gratis
of Galatea in its vlob^ty^
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