The Twice-A-Week Courier-Journal, 1897-10-20
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Criminal' Carelessness Two Cases In BAD DAY AT MOBILE Health Beard ef Miatgoaerj Rrperta' the Diaeaae la That Cilj fr " j '' : TWO CASES ACKNOWLEDGED When the Board of'Hmlth closed its bpoka last night there bad hem nlnaty nlnaty-three - three nlnaty-three fatal Caeea- Xfr tween last night and nightfall to-day seven deaths were reported Btalsomtury uf deaths has oo oo-ourrsd - ourrsd oo-ourrsd aS'Unopar aas thuvfW oaaea that Aavv bam'morted to the' board slam " " iWji Baftembwhm the first inadJtA' SMrsaraaua- la'Navr -Orteana inaWkavar iday'B record baa f-Ay' na terrible ojbnlnal negtsatV -the poorer olssaes' '' TJierymcorS i-aqlay ' weatiy no mmna rvissefnn'' Early evanlqg the new omaxekid" thlrtiv gusd a deatha aA lLij aairl I xa as - i ti still but M tlW Alius Horary Jan In Morgan' Janln Rocha 5515 Daronne Dr Georgs Xneger Baron ns and Euterpe Louis Motets UR Chartres Hugh C Cans 1444 Webster Mies Catherine Butter-worth 1511 IL Charles Alias Lewi 15U Bums McGrath Jr 515 Carendalat Grace Go Go-grave: - grave: Go-grave: Simple end Hillary Mlao Barths Wlnth ISM Tchoupiwulaa Flaranos Ir Iron - on Iron a HU Maurapaa J Gorofalc HR Bui" gundy August Cedar Isolation Hospital taken from 1X04 Totouae Dr J A leaf leaf-worthy - worthy leaf-worthy 1H5 Ramson Henry Ulrich HI Hn LAreota 1755 Bourbon Mlao Baas Cherrils 1XX) Bixth Mabel Schnetdau 14M Nash villa Mrs Hattie Hiller UR Polmanla Julhia Koenlgen HOC gL Charles Master Kannath Ray' MB Cal Calhoun - houn Calhoun Hobart Coolett Isolation Hospital tskan from U06 Camp K J Flynn HI South Rampart' Alfred Mogul Dees re and Mmraiaa Sydney Bowling UM SL Charles avenue Mary Balvant MM Ureu Ureu-llna - llna Ureu-llna street Cecil Solvent m Ureullna street John C McDonnell Isolation Hos Hospital - pital Hospital Charles FOwler Hotel Dlen Them eca Scott IK InCayetta avenue Irene Parses 1241 Tontl Albert Hubener UM Sixth Hermann Horslea MM Henry Cloy Deaths - Fanny Winters HM Tcheupltou Tcheupltou-las - las Tcheupltou-las Antonio Barono UN Chartres Paul Caruso XMt Chartreo Mias Adelaide Rob Roberta - erta Roberta HT SL Joseph J Gorolafo M7 Bun Bun-gundy - gundy Bun-gundy - r- Gounolon Madison between Chartres and Decatur John Goods Jeols Two lives might have been saved If any attempt hod been mode to give tha patients attention Early thto morning Coroner Lemmonnlar found the dead body of Psptno Gornkffo in a room to a bouse on Bor-gundy ntreeL Tha body wan lying on the floor and thorn In the pinoe arid that the man had gene to bed and rolled out upon the floor to a stupor It took Dr Lemmonnlor about two minutes to decide that the man had died from-a genuine case of yellow fe fever - ver fever and eub sequent autopsy confirmed the doctor's baity diagnosis Tha body was Immediately buried Later on during the day tha Coroner was ealled to view tha body of Antonio Barron a The Coroner at ocoe diagnosed the cam aa also one of yellow fever Both of these oases bad been absolutely concealed from the Authorities and hod died without a doctor bring called to to give relief The first case of yellow fever at Baton Rouge the capital of the State waa re reported - ported reported to-day The ease was that of Willie Rivas who lives on tha outskirts of the dty AT M0RILE 8ix Now Cases and One Death tiro Record of a Bul Day Mobile Ala Oct 18 - Six eases and ona death lo the yellow fever report for the poet twenty-tour hours The new eases are: Mrs R P Destion Herndon Deshon Conception near Government Ernest Grube Augusta near Marine Mrs K 8 Bmlth 564 South Dearborn Dr George A Sheldon BL Anthony corner Joachim Joseph Bret tell Dau Dauphin - phin Dauphin between Jackson and Clair-borne The death In that of Nellie McKnighL Enlnve near Hamilton Recoveries - Ambrose Trw Mias A L McDonald Fred Blackaheor C XL Sny Snyder - der Snyder Lucy A Buckley S J Haley Jo Joseph - seph Joseph BrettaL Total cases to dote 178 deaths SX Re Recoveries - coveries Recoveries 104 under treatment 44 The weather has been very hot day and night for n week past and particularly so since Friday A northwest wind baa been blowing to-day but the air was very sultry until about I 001001 when the temperature dropped a dosen de degrees - grees degrees In an hour's tlma A storm is pre prevailing - vailing prevailing to the southwoatward and tha
or this amount IST3S3J8T Wereorlglnal dapoalts and MX10X1C1 redepoalta The original deposits were chualflad as follows: Dotnaalio bullion ' 8931133 'mutilated and nncurrmt domaatln coin tUliJUl foreign bullion and coin BL 5M5M old plate and Jewelry 3310543 'The eokiage' value' of sliver bollloa ra mivad during the ypar was KinMlK' Of this amount M7M teya bclgtne)4 pool ta -an tha amalndsr "Star The orlglaal da5ksta " follows: Domes Ue)9oD current domeatll: oo4n Jf AMift material (MA37I eld pMteStteL U : -15 7 The purchases of sretMUtg! pOb- folio Gold - a a a a a 0T14dSK nna7ui Jutsridlory jillver tlKM Minor HIM Tha silver dollar! coined were from sll sll-vew - vew sll-vew bullion on bond purchased under tha act of July 14 1M0 The total coinage of eilver dollars from bullion purchased under that act from August IX UN (dote the law took effect) to July 1 187 hoe been (5745477 piece containing 5t17&(50 trances of fine silver coating (51551154 giving a eeigniamga of 117514 SSL Of the subsidiary silver coinage 5X0041 5X0041-4M - 4M 5X0041-4M were oolned from uncurrent eilver coin transferred from the Treasury for re re-col - col re-col nags and NL506 from bullion pur purchased - chased purchased under the provisions' of motion SAM Revised Statutes for the subsidiary silver coinage On the hitter tha seignior seigniorage - age seigniorage was 54XXZ2 The balance of silver bullion on hand at the mints for the coinage of Oliver dollars and subsidiary silver ooine July L 187 was: Purchased under set July 14 1510 125455455 fine ounces coat 5104 5104-555515 - 555515 5104-555515 for subsidiary 'silver eoinag L L-84Ssu - 84Ssu L-84Ssu fine ounces cost 51(41 AN at United States Assay Office New York for payments of depoalte In fins bars 506015 fine ounces cost 5515755 lnclud lnclud-lng'the - lng'the lnclud-lng'the balance on hand at the mints July L 1(75 the net oelgnlorege on the coinage of eilver from that date to June 50 157 was (S4ASSASL The value of the gold and cilvar bars manufactured at the mints and essay offloee during the fiscal year was: Gold I54A1L010 silver (UM151 total W W-UOJCL - UOJCL W-UOJCL The highest quotation Cor sliver MM In the London market during the year waa S1K pence equal - to 50(0061 per ounce fine United States money the lowest quotation eras 37K pens equal to 90(0X67 The average quotation for the year waa S (-1C pence equal to 50(474 per ounce fine - At tha average price of silver tor the year tha commercial ratio between gold and silver waa 1 to 11(4 at the average price of silver tor the year (1 would pur purchase - chase purchase 741(6 grains equivalent to 1A4 ounces The net Imports of gold were 544000 544000-41 - 41 544000-41 aa against 87fS04C13 net exports tor the previous fiscal year The net exiiorta iff silver were 533550 533550-536 - 536 533550-536 as against 5XXXC3S8 tor the fiscal year INK The product of gold and silver hi the United Rtales tor thfc calendar year 18M wae: Gold LAOkLOVU silver-coining value $7500033 The value of tha prerlous metals em employed - ployed employed in the Industrial arte in the l nurd (ism during tint calendar year INC waa: Gold DlX56k34 silver 81 81-104375 - 104375 81-104375 The stock of gold and silver In the United Hla tea on July 1 17 la estimat estimated - ed estimated tn have been: Gold 8000370545 sil silver - ver silver 634500751 Total D no 730323 The total metallic stock and uncovered paper of tha world complied from the latest reports la estimated to have been on January 1 1807: Gold 34X5M00000 full legal-tender silver 85A16AOOOM limited-tender silver I4&2590000 total me metallic - tallic metallic stork x (27 00000 Uncovered pa paper - per paper 5MZOOAOO total (111710010001 The world's product of gold and silver tor the ratenaar year 10M was: Gold 83O4AMO0O silver (commercial value) (1004OCI0U silver (coining value) 216 216-8(3700 - 8(3700 216-8(3700 The coinage of grid and Oliver by the various countries of the world eo tor aa reported was: Gold 5116AMA17 ailvar 5155555740: The Director of the Mint In his report reviews the decline nf silver since 1873 and attributes the decline to the great inures In production
of the Death Was Lata in JReaoblag Operatives Chicago Oct If - At the town of Pull Pullman - man Pullman where the greet ehope that beer the dead magnata'e name are situated no word had been heard of hie death till newspaper men began to Inquire as to the feeling of the townspeople on the subject The event had been so sudden and at such an hour that lha company officials In the town had heard nothing regarding the death of their chief till after the toilers In the huge carworka and kindred establishments had begun the dally routine all unconscious of lha tragic occurrence at the brown stone palace a few miles further north on the lake shore Immediately ho Braver prep preparations - arations preparations ware made to rinse the big shops out of reaped to the dead official ewe ce pita list Waa laieresud ansaj Chicago OcL 1A - Mr Pullman's daath affected ths Chicago stock market quite appredatily Ha waa said td have bom a heavy holder of both Diamond Match and New York Biscuit securities two of the most active stucks listed on ths local exchange When tha announcement of Mr Pullman's death eras posted on the bulletin board It mused a break In the bitter stock of IK points A braak of I points In Pullman Palace Carstock was chronicled on Wall street but a rally followed' 1 The death iff Mr Pullman besides leaving a vacancy In the Pullman Car directory also causes a similar condi condition - tion condition of affairs In the Board of Directors of the Chicago Telephone Company Ho was represented on the New York Bla-i cult and Diamond Match boards by hla sun-ln-law Frank Louden It is believed In local Stock Exchange circles that Horace Porter will succeed Mr Pullman as President of tha Pull Pullman - man Pullman Palace Car Company SUSPICIOUS TO BAT THS LEAST Drowoinr at Cincinnati of a Girl WHO Hailed From Pitts Pittsburg - burg Pittsburg Cincinnati O OcL 1 - Mr Charles Hermann of Pittsburgh arrived thia morning and proceeded at once to Covington where with much feeling ha fully Identified the remains of the young woman found In tha Ohio river aa hla daughter Mary It now becomes a matter for vigorous Investigation by tha police of the three cltledl It la established beyond an ques question - tion question that the girl who waa dreamed was rowing with a well -dressed man on tha day before her body waa found It la possible and even probable that her death waa not due to accidenL If it wps accidental why did not her male com- Knlon come forward to Identify her dy and explain the manner of her death? BY HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER Farmer John L Bailey Accl Accl-dentally - dentally Accl-dentally and Fatally Shot la Scot t Coant y Georgetown Ky OcL IS - (Special) - Hr John It Bailey a well-known far farmer - mer farmer living near Biddle yila county was accidentally shot through tlia head by hk little daughter yesterday and total totally - ly totally wounded A visitor at the house had a revolver with him which the little girl picked up She asked If It waa load loaded - ed loaded and being told that It was not point pointed - ed pointed It at her father's head and pulled the trigger A Hash and a report followed and a bullet etruek Mr Bailey In the side of the face passing through the head end lodging at the back Mr Bailey has been unconscious since and can not llvu
DANA IS DEAD Veteran Editor - Passes Away At Ills Island Home ' HAD SUFFERED FOR MONTHS And the End Had Been Expected Long LIVER CIRRHOSIS THE CAUSE Bei larltable Career if a Re Re-arluble - arluble Re-arluble Mai HIS EARLY SCHOOLING New York OcL 17 - Mr Che rise Dana editor of the New York Bun died CHARLES at I o'clock tola afternoon at Dorocls hie country place on West bland near Glen Cove L L Mr Dana's death had bean expected for several hours and hla family and physicians were at hla bedside' when tha end cams Hla condition had been such tor several months that tha members at hla family had kept themselves in con constant - stant constant readiness to go to hla bedside at any moment On Saturday morning ha had a relapse and It waa apparent that reoovary was Impossible Several times however ha rallied but toward night be began - gan began to sink During lha night there were feeds rallies but they did not hut long This morning it eras seen the end was blit a few hours off and hla attendants 'remained almost constantly at hla bed bedside - side bedside The end earns quietly The extrema heat of Saturday and Friday bad much to do with hastening death On Friday Mr Dana showed signs of distress and everything possible waa dona to relieve him - He had been weak weakened - ened weakened by hla long Illness and daring the summer was several times thought to be on tha verge of a total collapse but each lima rallied He did not Improve much with the coming of cooler weather and the sinking spells became more fre frequent - quent frequent On Friday Mr Dana waa able to taka only the slightest nourishment and thia condition continued Paul Dana and hie a latere Mrs Draper Mrs Underhill and lira Branan were at hla home on Sat Saturday - urday Saturday morning and ware warned to re remain - main remain there They were at the bedside when death came' The cause of Mr Dane's death sms cirrhosis of the liver On June 9 lie waa at his office apparently Htniua and healthy Tha next day he waa luken ill and he never afterward visited New York He waa aeventy-riicht years old Preparations for the burial hare not yet been completed OF NEW ENGLAND STOCK A Buoy and (Svaniftal Career Through Nearly Eighty Years Mr Dana was born In Hinsdale Cheelre county N H August 5 1515 By descent on both sides of tha house Mr Dana cams from the stout-hearted rugged-minded New England stock that bred men like himself and hla joumul joumul-latln - latln joumul-latln foster father and eoonsor Horace
Greeley all eh Ira The facta logically ate family they remained A DANA Mole are so nearly perfection that he can find naught but contempt JOr those who bow the knee to baser clay That many developing natures had similar yearnings la evidenced by the fact that -the colony numbered Bret and laat about 100 and among them were George Ripley and Hawthorne together with other letoer lights' both men and women The story Is told of Dana that ao anx anxious - ious anxious waa ha to enter the new communi community - ty community in perfect accord with their 'views and principles that he east Into the Charles river an hla personal efteota ex except - cept except tha clothing ha wore and went afoot to Bfook Farm to Join hla co-theorists Ones established there he bravely bore hla part In the manual work of tha farm and devoted a part at least of the time to philosophic calm and short moral es essays - says essays which appeared In The Dial a Journal published by the colonists But the brook Farm experiment cams to an end Then followed a trip to Eu Europe - rope Europe and kith thia preparation Charles A Dana entered tha field In which he was to be ao conspicuous a figure when In 1847 be Joined Horace Gtoeley on tha New York Tribuna Tha great question of tha day at that tlma was anil-slavery and 'Greeley and Dana were In perfect accord at llrat but os yeara passed by and the anti anti-slavery - slavery anti-slavery movement grew more and more Insistent and aroused thereby stronger and stronger opponent the younger and more Impetuous man by this time man managing - aging managing editor and one of the proprietors of the greatest organ the movement pomemed chafed under the restraint Im Imposed - posed Imposed uikhi him by ills chief and when at last the war broke eu! hie position was almost intolerable It finally became abeolululy eo and on April L IK3 Ur Dana resigned In June of the same year he was appointed a commissioner In the Department of War and In this capacity be visited the West to make reports- on pay service In thatepart of the country On June 1 ho was appointed Major and Assistant Adjutant General a title he refused to accept and one which was subsequently withdrawn On January 10 1864 Dana was named Assistant Secretary of War to Blanton and hla official reporta from tha field to the office ara atilt held up as models of Intalllaent and diligent work When
It la estimated that hla wealth to-day no leaa than 35000000 He waa bon Chautauqua oounty N T Harch 1 1851 and waa therefore slxty-elx years old At fourteen Pullman began life aa eleife In a country store later associat associating - ing associating himself with an older brother In the caMhet-makhv bualnaaa at Albion He went to Chicago In IMO and at drat en encased - cased encased n the bualneea of ralalns build build-Inn - Inn build-Inn elevating entire blocks a number of feet to brine them up to new el rades While ridlns In an'old-fash toned Bleep Bleep-Ins - Ins Bleep-Ins car from Buffalo to Westfield N Y It oecured to him that there was a Held for build Ins eomfortable sleeping coach coaches - es coaches From USt to 1M1 he made a series of experiments In the Chicago and Al Alton - ton Alton and Galena roads From these ex experiments - periments experiments he worked out detailed plana A workshop wiis rented skilled mechan mechanics - ics mechanics employed and Hr Pullman threw himself Into the task with the ardor of a man who moves from tattled convic convictions - tions convictions Although without snechan tralnlns himself he personally directed the work of others In all the minor de details - tails details of puttins the Ideas ha had arlglr nated into material form The drat ear the "Pioneer was ooee ooee-pleted - pleted ooee-pleted early In 11(5 and immediately took rank as the moat perfect railway vehicle the world had ever seen This was the beginning of the Pullman sys system - tem system which has drown to the present enormous-proportion Mr Pullman was Identified with al almost - most almost every public enterprise In Chicago The Industrial town of Pullman within the city limits of Chicago now contains over 11000 Inhabitants Mr Pullman waa a brother of the Bar J M Pullman of New York former editor of the Christian leader He leaves besides Mrs Pullman two sons Banger W and George W Jr a Made An' Enormous Fortune In the Construction I Chicago and Mrs Carolan of tan Frai It was stated that Mrs Louden ted a titled foreigner to marry an American
Three Deatha at Edwards Jackson Mien OcL IL - The Ntate Board of Haaith to-night towed the fol following - lowing following official bulletin Dr Dunn reports fj on Cayuga two new came and two anaptrious csCsq T C Nixon died toot nlghL Dr Bohn or reports from Clinton: "Ne now oaam one cam undar treatment and one anaptrious ossa" Dr Purnell reports from Edwards a a follows: "Two new os era both white three deaths: Mrs Fe field Qua Haven Haven-Irate - Irate Haven-Irate Jr Fannie HryanL two white and one oolored The rick oeae doing vary walL No one eritienlly 1IL" Paterson Ial Oot M general lays ago thorn wee a mmpidoue oaeo at tne reported a mHe below the aMy The premlem were Immediately put undar guard - Laat night the patten died end to-day an autopsy woe hold by Health Officer Smith and Dr Conn of the Ma Marino - rino Marino Hospital tarries They declared that the death resulted from yellow fe fever - ver fever The dead man's son Jlret contract contracted - ed contracted the disease and recovered Hie lit little - tle little daughter now has the favor Two Cases at Franklin to - Franklin La OcL IL - Two name of yellow fever have been reported here by Dr Smith President at the Parish Boirnd at Health One of the patieate la turn Clan Crawford who to eritiarily 111 the other la a little Portuguese girl who waa living In a hoaoa adjoining that in which Cairo died a few days ago No Quarantlna On Cotton Savannah Ga OcL 16 Naramnli re removed - moved removed all quarantlna restrictions to-day on cotton from yellow fever toteetsd ter territory - ritory territory The quarantine Is con tinned agninat passenger travel from infected tirttnnii KILLED TWO HER Country Merchant County Xnnn Bm AmanlL in Haaoock Knoxville Term QcL IL - In Hancock county thin State near the Kentucky line Bid Williams a' country merchant shot and killed William Epperson and mortally wounded Milan Brewer who died shortly afterward Tha two dead man assaulted Williams 'to hla store whereupon ha turned hla shotgun on
ha wished to call somo one They went to his room Immediately and fopnd him standing up and evidently In great pain One of them went to the telephone to call hla physician Dr Billings At ths same tlma ha himaelf attempted to walk to tAa lounge but before ha reached It re re-qulted - qulted re-qulted the eeeletenoe of hie frlende to get there He then became uaoooeelousL In the meantime Dr Billings had ar ar-xlvad - xlvad ar-xlvad at thq house and applied reatora reatora-Urta - Urta reatora-Urta but without avail and Mr Pull Pull-o - o Pull-o quietly passed away without re- gslnbv eonedousn health reoently formerly stomach trouble which he attributed largefcr to the condltloq of hie eyes Hie belief was that about all Uw bodily ills ware due to the eyes The latter part of last weak be gave the visiting offl- data of the Pennsylvania railroad a dln ner at tha Chicago Club and was Jn ex excellent - cellent excellent spirits RSFULLBAa ROT PRESENT Visiting In New York When Her Bns- baud Died Chicago Oct 1 - Mrs Pullman la ab absent - sent absent on a visit to New York She bad been spending the summer at tha Pull Pullman - man Pullman summer residence at Elberon N J but went to New York city a few days ago preparatory to going to Chicago for the winter She la expected to arrive to-motfuw mqrniug on the Pennsylvania limited ' lira Pullman la being accompanied on her ead home-coming by Hunger W Pullman tha younger eon George M Pullman Jr Is In this oily together with a daughter Mrs Frank O Louden A second daughter Mrs Carolan who lives In Bun Francisco was at once summoned New York OcL lk - Mrs Pullman who bad been slopping here for days past started for Chicago Immediately upon receiving word or the death of her husband In that dty to-day A FORTUNE OF 25000 ooa The Famous Car Builder and Hla Career The story of George Mortimer Pullman Is a brief one He conceived an Idea for tha comfort of tha traveling public he put It Into execution and he grew rich
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