Atlanta Constitution, The (Newspaper) - January 13, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia p FIVE OVER Steamer Wrecked and Crew and Passengers ROT ESCAPED Vessel Goes Ashore While She Sinks Flie Breaks HO CHANCE FOR ANY RESCUE WORK Bodies Are Seen Floating Around in the but the Seas Are Bough No Recovery Can Be Attempted by the HAMPTON AND THEY WILL BE GIVEN AT 8. C. Is After the Ducks While the Old General Is Shooting St. January a. The wreck and burning In St. Marys bay of the unknown two-masted Its crew probably sixty and sibly sonje all Is one of the worst marine disaster In this section for a considerable There Is not the slightest prospect that any soul aboard escaped as the Intense midwinter cold would kill any who caped ill-fated vessel was of nearly tons She went ashore before daybreak ing a ledge at the foot of the where escape was The crew launched the but probably during the pan- ic some were crushed against Jier others being and all the panis apparently The ship was seen to be afire by dents six miles Attracted to the they found the after half of the wreck blazing and the forepart under Kerosene In the cargo helped the At that time only men were left on Two were on the bridge and one was in the Those on the bridge were safe until 2 when they were washed overboard and the bridge being carried The survivor soon after left the swam to the rocks and twice endeavored to get a Falling in he made his way back to the where he died of exposure during the Many dead bodies visible tossing In the Two of them thrown up In a cove cannot be reached owing the heavy is thought to be that of a Boats and other wreckage are strewn among the rocks for Friday was more stormy than the day and It was impossible to reach the which has gone to to such an extent that it has sunk beneath the A severe Rale Is raging tonight which is likely to reduce to The wreck commissioner hopes to be able to obtain her name today Residents along the shore made every possible effort to rescue the survivor in but lacking proper outfits they were unable to A messenger who has Just arrived from Peters reports that a trunk filled with women's clothing has been washed ashore as well as a garment which Is cither a waterproof such as is used by a woman or a man's was found some marked with the Initials This seems to indicate that the ship had WITH WIFE Man Under Arrest for Slaying a man in New New January who and killed one of his whom he was in under night of December 2Sth, shot his she died the following Me appeared to te stricken over the and told a pitiful tale of how Oie shooting was the of fright occasioned by a dream of The knowing that was said thait the shooting was and attributed it to the same cause as Morrison The jury Some days ago Morrison's original whom he many years ago under tie name of gave out the mation the man was a and had practically and from that on facts tending to place Morrison In a- bad light have been was held to the action of and committed to Jail without Ixi INVESTIGATION GOES ON The Witnesses Testify To Handling Money in the January were or five witnesses before the senate committee on privileges and elections day in connection with the attack upon the right of Senator of to his seat in the One of State Senator produced a letter from C. W. son of the telling him had for- Warded as a retainer for him as attorney In connection with the coal in- the A dentist named Ector also displayed letters from Senator himself referring to M. iord ns a representative of and that while he knew nothing of claims for his policy was to re- munerate all that served It. S. January Hampton and Cleveland are to be ed a banquet at Both are hunting In that Cleveland ing arrived this Cap- tain Evans and gone to the duck while General Hampton Is enjoying sport with Despite his years and cork Hampton gives the ident no showing at all on a deer hunt where horsemanship Is He rides erect and If wind or branch of tree takes off his hat he sthl picks It up cowboy fashion The quet will he given by Palmetto THE LEE Goebel's Friends Claim That Miii in Citizen's Clothes Are Coming Given by the North Carolina Society a j January company representative of the entire attended the ball given by 'the North Carolina Society of district tonight in of General Robert E Lee memorial The occasion also was Intended as a compliment to Mrs. Z. B one of the society's who has been elected It was a The proposed monument to be erected Meyer on the heights overlooking near tha famous ok home of General Lao at IS AGAINST WOOL Utah Says the Nebraskan Has Given Personal January weekly re- the wool market The Commercial Bulletin tomorrow will correspondents of Boston wool houses say that have received sonal assurances from W. J. Bryan that If elected he will retain a duty 6n having changed his on free BELMONT WILL DINE Tammany Except Will Meet New January H. P. Belmont today Issued invitations to a dinner he will give in honor of William J. Bryan upon the of the braska leader's coming to this The dinner will take place on Monday January 22d 111 Mr. Belmont's Mr. Belmont has invited to meet Mr. Bryan on that occasion the leading men In Tammany hall and the Democratic Richard Croker will the only one of the notable Tammany leaders who will not SYMPATHY FOB THE Mass Meeting in Toledo Declares Against January hall was filled to the limit of standing room with Boer sympathizers who addressed by Former Congressman John of Resolutions were adopted denouncing the war as a blow at and holding as American citizens and freedmen we test against any manifestation of thy on the pant of our government with the British government In Its war against the South and that we particularly denounce any alliance whether expressed or between the government of the States ana that of Great Britain or any other The the and the Interests of the people ot the United command them to Sympathize with sister republics any struggle against aggressions of empires and NO AT Heavy Bains Have Filled the Tugela It Is January Dally Tele- graph has the following dated January 9t'h. from Frere heavy storm has been raging all and there is every prospect that It The roads are able and the rivers and are There has been no firing at Ladysmith or The trenches musit be filled with The Boers are holding Mount they are certainly quite as their bridge the la been carried INDIA MUST SOON BUY Government Needs Metal To Meet Bupee Coinage January buying of ver by the Indian The Statist cannot be much longer In consequence of rupee coinage and this will lead doubtless to a marked improvement In tha price ot OTIS ADVANCE Operations in Luzon Made Known to War January Otis has made a report to the war office In regard to the military operations In south of showing the capture of several and a large number of prisoners with arms and Died While in January D aged 5o, while in a chair In his room at a boarding house at yesterday dropped He had been suffering with asthma for and this is supposed to have the cause of his Dallas made a preliminary Contest Committees Will Hold ing Today To Arrange WILL BEGIN MONDAY In the Resolution Whallen and Bryan with Contempt Are In- and January Goe and con- test committees will each hold meetings at which they will arrange for the trial the The ing of evidence begins and 1 Is a conclusion that the state will overrun with visitors at least during the early part of the About witnesses are ex- The arrival of about fifty men from eastern Kentucky created a Goebel circles when H was charged that the new arrivals were In republican circles was laughed and it Is they are only a few hundred of Taylor who have been summoned here give In be- half of Both branches of the legislature had quiet sessions today and the house tin til The only thing done In which had any bearing on the contests was In the where the resolution charging John H. Whallen and Charles Ryan with con- tempt In offering to bribe Senator rel was adopted as amended in the The amendment concurred in directs the speakers of the houses to name two democrats and one republican each on the joint committee which is to conduct the These committees have not been The Franklin county grand which has also been Investigating the bribery continues to have before It as nesses persons who were prominent in the late and as yet none ot the matters which have been Included In the wide scope of Its investigation have been reported The republican leaders Insist on the claim thait the contestants for state of- fices must receive a majority In each branch of the legislature Instead a In the aggregate as claimed by the democrats and this is another of the questions which may have to go to the If the republican contention Is sustained it Is admitted Goebel would be 1n exceedingly close lines in the ate with the chances against him in that branch for the The latest poll of that body by the republicans Is that It contains at least five bel and Senator 111 .at home with HUle prospect of getting here during the With Hill and bel not the democrats under these the republicans could not muster a The Goebel leaders late tonight claim telegraphic advices from counties in the eastern part of the state that military companies In that section are being equipped to come to Frankfort IS HANGED IN Condemned Man on the Gallows Ar- His January alias hanged day at the poor farm and died In thirteen minutes after the trap was Ho declared his innocence and reiterated his story that Tom now In Jail at charged with another assault n Colorado and a man named did the and thai he was suffering for their He ascended he scaffold without a tremor and was given a drink of whisky and His ast words my grandfather I meet him n the 13th ot last April aid a girl named Rosa who was returning from Instructions In in the church at He beat her Into Insensibility with a rock frightful and then out- raged Thinking she the body on the track for the lext train run He escaped to Eagle Lake and arrested next brought back and identified by the He was sentenced to death In and today expiated his crime on the Prominent Passed f at Palm CAUSED DEATH INCREASE TAXES f Proposed Emergency Levy Will if Meet with Defeat Body Will Leave Palm Beach Reaching HIS LIFE OF UNSELFISH Death of Colonel B. Maddox Only a Tew Months Ago Followed by That of His ner and Life Long Colonel J. W. of this dent of Banking died at Palm last night at 9 The sad Intelligence of the end of a life spent In maturer years In the rial of was received with sorrow by those heard It last and Its announcement today will be followed only by sadness wherever it Is received the receipt of the dispatch telling of the end a telegram the city announcing that the attending cians had lip hope and that death might ensue at To ihe friends Colonel Rucker In this city the final was no great for been known since yesterday that his tion was but this did not serve to lighten the when it was that the true the unselfish man had breathed his The death of Colonel Rucker was due to of pneumonia contracted some ago Mr several days he to at Beach Palm where he had as was his custom of late to spend a part of the By his side throughout his illness and when death came was his faithful wife and at her call the of medical but even such careful nursing and attention could do nothing to stay the progress of the dread Yesterday afternoon It was stated in a dispatch from Palm Beach that pneumonia had Infected both ungs of the and then it was mown that one of his advanced age the end was R. F. second vice dent of the banking company with which Colonel Rucker had connected for nineteen left for Colonel Rucker's side when the first announcement of his serious IHness arrived last night ten minutes after the sufferer had passed The body of the accompanied by the relatives and Mr. will eave Palm Beach for Atlanta this ng and reach the city early Sunday Arrangements for the service and take place n will be announced His Business Life in Since the close the war between he In which Colonel Rucker took he active part of a he was en- gaged In business in this being one if the first merchants of the In 8SO he formed the late Colonel R. F. Maddox the banking firm of Rucker in which remained until their It Is a striking and one be id only that the death of hese two associated for 10 years in the closest relations which men can bear to one came n quick succession and only separated iy the passage of a few short Together in business and the ment of a concern to which they early stability and sound hey always among the first to do heir might for the good of ng their lives with the humble fortunes f a village forty years they tolled or its as only those can toll whose hopes are bound up In Its How well they succeeded with their pioneer brothers is told in the ess regret followed the ng of one only a few months ago and he death of the other which occurred i another state last Together they began their work for he city of their and pride and was fitting that together they should ease their Colonel J. W. Rucker at the time of is death was approaching seventy-five ears of He was born In when district of the state was more than a but reaching majority he moved to Atlanta fpr ie first time In 1S47. only a ew months In he felt the ouch fever at tne announcement of ie gold discoveries In and in 149, with a of he left or the new Four years of the wilderness sufficed Ifor during that time he success In the i COLONEL J. W. His Latest The Atlanta Banker Death Occurred at Palm Last THE COUNCILMAN INTERVENED Majority Say They Will Vote Against the AID WON DOUBTFUL for and beyond that he had ed lessons of temper from the companions whom he was Colonel Rucker back to Georgia after and again tled in From time to time first years of his residence he was engaged in business with different with D. H. Dougherty for a later with tihe late W. A. in the tobacco After the war the business connection between Colonel Rucker and Colonel H. F. Maddox began with a venture in the wholesale tobacco The business was a. and in a few years they branched out into the cotton was carried on after In connection the banking firm of com- Upon the death of Colonel R. F. in the early fall of last Colonel Rucker was elected president of the firm bore their For several years he has not been actively associated the business of the con- as thac spend a good deal of his time each yeax in Florida and other milder Colonel Colonel Rucker was well known for his generosity and his of unostentatious charity from the very beginning of his residence in His manly figure erect In spite of and striking kindliness of his face was never whether he was seen on the In office or the Colonel Rucker was one who believed in helping and whens It was announced at the ment of the state that Aaron of had contributed to tine textile the large audience was not prised when following the announcement came one that Colonel J. W. Rucker had given the same amount to the same His sympathy for the poor needy was in evidence as winter came and to his old comrade of une faded gray whose life Into harder lines lhan his own his heart went out with a fullness and pathy that krew no Colonel Rucker was a tical for long years an at the First Presbyterian and one of the first in carrying forward the mission work of his The striking feature of his life was its He nothing which followed his acts of and always seemed to shrink from the mention of his name in Colonel j Colonel Rucker was wedded in Atlanta in 1S61 to Mass Mary who survives I He leaves four N. 1C. of L. A. of Mrs. Mary of At- and Thomas of Ky. SEVERE ON One Man Killed in Abbeville South S. January A severe storm of cyclonic accompanied with thunder and an passed through Abbeville county last Just missing the house Dozens of houses and barns were blown down and One man number and TELEGRAPH Professor James the eminent Uni tarlan died waj In his ninety-fifth The the official re- publican a letter fn which ernor Scofield is as a vice presidential Major John B. aged fifty-five suddenly -In Buffalo last At the battle of San Juan hill Major of the Thirteenth was wounded while ing his regiment lip the son of the distinguished Italian statesman and former yesterday sentenced to four imprisonment for the theft of Jewelry from the Countess In April ot 1896. In the South Carolina house of representatives yesterday Mr. introduced a to hibit the sale of MK a to prevent children under twelve years of ase from working in manufacturing A statement of the gross postal receipts for 1899, as compared with the re- for the same month during the pre- ceding year shows a net Increase of or 5 per cent. The total receipts for last De- cember were Foreclosure proceedings were begun yesterday in Chicago against the famous Ferris wheel to collect paid to the Company by the holders of 300 bonds of the of The wheel Is now ing In that The to give the consent of the state of Virginia to the consolidation of the Seaboard railroad has passed the ate and the and was yesterday signed by the governor and is now a Mrs. Sarah F. the only woman who Is cashier of a national bank In the United has been for the time elected to that responsible position In a bank In Ind. The institution has deposits of Representative of day introduced a. hill the suspension of tariff duties upon imports when their sale or manufacture are and providing for a commission on foreign commerce to in- and report to the president Mr. of yesterday introduced in the a to change the oath of a. cadet of the military academy so as to require him on admission to the institution to sub- scribe to an oath that will abstain from the practice of any form of hazing while at the A medical student at the University of North at ChapH has developed a case of smallpox contracted at Mount N. while on a Christmas The patient lias never been All precautions have been Batteries B and of the First whose orders to proceed from Fort Monroe to Key West were revoked has simply ben detained at Fort Monroe until all danger of a yellow fever contagion at Key their proper has been The war department is informed that the squadron of the Tenth cavalry which ly arrived at Galveston Cuba has been distributed among Forts wn and probably will arrive at those posts this The Industrial commission yesterday heard Joseph secretary of the Ohio state board on the results of. tration in He said that wherever em- recognized committees representing settlement without a strike was the re- Ferdinand commissioner general from the United States to the Parts has secured from the French government through tho department of state the remission on printed matter dealing with our He also secured space for Porto and Hawaiian products as an Independent ex- Deaths from Plague January number deaths largely from the bubonic jumped up today from 282 to 378, The normal death rate Is 75. Vessels Declared Plague The health authorities have declared plague Inflected all' left suspected ports within prior to Bawson Out of and Johnson Will Not Give His feat of Increased Levy Fore- AGAINST Mayor Pro J. L. Alderman M. M. Alderman J. W. Councilman J. H. Councilman C. A. Councilman J. J. Councilman W. M. Councilman A. Q. A. P. Councilman Henry W. Councilman T. FOB S. W. Alderman H. M. Councilman A. C. Councilman Sid Councilman John S. Councilman G. G. Councilman J. W. Alderman Harvey NOT Councilman W. C. The foregoing table foreshadows the fate of the proposed Increase of the tai There will be no Eleven state In unequivocal terms that they opposed to adding more to the taxpayer's With a view to ascertaining the tude of the different members of the general council in regard to the levy of of 1 per cent emergency tax on all taxable property for water mains and sewers as recommended In a tion of the lax committee The Constitution yesterday interviewed every member of the council with single exception of Councilman W. C. who is out of the The result shows that eleven members are absolutely opposed to levying the seven favor and one declined to state his position on the This kills the movement completely should both the members whose opinions have not been obtained favor the there would still be a. majority against It. Mayor Woodward was interviewed along with members of Following are the expressions of tha council members concerning the increased tax Against the MAYOR PRO JAMES am opposed to the tax The clause of the city charter only authorizes the levy of an ex- tax in event of an It Is It further adds that emergency Is to be ad- judged by the city but I do not understand that this would this council to adjudge the existence of an emergency at will and unless some facts tending an emergency The present state of affairs are not The debts of the city are promptly The taxes are fairly well and sufficient to meet the annual It la that there are certain and and very much needed by certain Grant it. and yet such facts do not constitute ah These extensions and Im- are such as follow the growth of the as naturally aa that bigger clothes are needed as the boy advances in but such can be be provided against by the usual prudent and The facts now existed when the legislature in and if such as demanded extra It could then been provided for in the usual a. state of affairs that has ex- isted for twelve or twenty-four months could hardly be called an SC M. South some consideration of the and as the matter appears to me I am opposed to increasing the ALDERMAN X am any municipal tax levy and shall a firm against such a- I believe such a dure entirely the opinion that city departments and works can he run without a levy of this J. First and Tai Com-
