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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 242
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, ISSfi.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Yesterday'9 Proceedings of the Annual
Convention at Richmond.
I'he Hciinrt of till 1 CrciloiilInlK Cnitiiiilltct 1 ■(«>•
rfivrfl—\ Lrest I’o Ilo Aliout no liifilitiilllniiit
Negro—All IiinuII to the lt<-N|>iM'1iililo Pooplo of
llU-liinoiiil-Tim Knights Vi-goii Not to Drink.
Richmond, Va., October 6.—General
Worthy Foreman Griffith called the second
session of the Knights of Labor convention
to order at 9 o’clock this morning, in the
absence of Powderly, who was detained at
his hotel bv business. It was announced
that the committee on credentials was not
ready to report, and nothingcould be. done
until their renort was received. While
awaiting several speeches were made by
delegates to aid in idling the time away.
Shortly after 10 o’clock Powderly ar
rived, and was presented by Brother
O’Donnell with a gavel made from the
wood of an orange tree that grew on the
spot where Gen. Packenliam was killed at
the battle of New Orleans. The presenta
tion was made on behalf of the New Or
leans Knights.
It was learned that the committee on
credentials would not be ready to report
until 2 o’clock this afternoon. The con
vention then adjourned until that hour.
Before the delegates left the hall Pow
derly strongly urged them to avoid the use
of strong drink while in Richmond. As
individuals, he said, he had no right to
dictate as to what they should do, but
they were not here as individuals, but as
representatives of a vast constituency. The
eyes of the world were upon them while
here and that constituency would be
judged by tbeir conduct.
It is expected that the afternoon session
will be occupied by the consideration of
the report of the committee on credentials,
and that actual work will not begin until
to-morrow.
The convention went into session again
this afternoon at 2 o’clock. The report of
the committee on credentials was then
read. It was very long, and Secretary
Turner said it wjiuld take four hours to
read it. It was doubtful whether the con
sideration of the report could be completed
and action on it taken this afternoon.
The committee of arrangements of the
local knights, appointed to determine the
details^ of the entertainment to be given
the visitiug knights next Monday, have
decided to let the question of the coming
of . the white and color
ed people at the ball that
evening settle itself. It has been arranged
to have two dancing pavilions at the state
fair grounds. Chairman Lynch said this
afternoon that it was not the intention to
assign one to white knijjhts and the other
to colored knights. This order recognized
no such distinctions, but at the same time
the feeling here in regard to the social in
tercourse of the races was so well under
stood that they anticipated no trouble on
that score. It was expected, of course,
that the colored people would prefer
to associate with their own people.
If, however, a colored knight and lady
should choose to dance with the white
people in the other pavilion, he knew of
no intention to prevent them. When asked
if colored guests should present themselves
at the tables where the whites were seated
at the banquet, what would be done, lie
replied that he expected no trouble in that
way, but did not suppose they would be
prohibited from doing so. lie intended
speaking to Powderly on the subject in a
day or so. He repeated, that
be expected no trouble. The
funds for the entertainment of the guests
was raised by the colored and white local
assemblies of Richmond. The knights
here have separate assemblies, and the
colored knights have contributed more
than the whites to the entertainment
fund The arrangements for Monday next
include a parade of the local assemblies
and visiting knights, Powderly, the execu
tive committee and the invited guests in
carriages. Speeches will be made by Sen
ator-elect Daniel, Governor Lee, Mr. Pow
derly and others.
Although the second dry of the Knights
of Labor convention has passed, that, body
is not yet ready to begin the business
which culled it together. Nothing could
be done before the organization of the
convention, and before that is done it is
necessary to know who are entitled to
membership of the convention. The first
step toward accomplishing that result was
taken yesterday, when a committee on
credentials was named. From the time of
the organization of tha 1 committee it has
been busily engaged going through
the tedious and laborious task of
examining the list of delegates from
the assemblies throughout the l nited
States and Canada and comparing with I
Secretary Turner’s books to determine the
standing of the assemblies they represent j
and the claims of the assemblies to be, rep-
resented. Over this work they toiled until
a lute hour last evening and the toil was (
resumed early this morning.
When the convention assembled at 9 t
o’clock the work was still incompleted,
and the convention was compelled to ad
journ to 2 o’clock this afternoon to await !
its completion. When the convention
went into session at that hour the report
was not completed in all its details j
and was not presented till II o’clock. From
that hour until 5:30 o’clock the time was
occupied in reading the long roll of over
800 names. The committee has |
reached a decision on all j
but eight or ten names, and these |
were refbfred to the convention itself. I he |
report presented was unanimous. Protests [
were made on behalf of the delegates ex
cluded by the decision of tlie committee, j
Arguments were made for and against the
acceptance of the report. If the state
ments of the delegates w f ho left the hall |
during the debate may be be- ,
lieved, the feeling shown on both
sides in the several cases |
was very strong. At length the report ;
was accepted and it was decided t hat those
whose names had been read from the roll |
prepared by the committee on credentials
were entitled to seats. When this result
was reached the others were requested to
leave, and quietly retired from the hall.
The work of assigning seats to the re
maining delegates was then began and
——oi 7-an nVlm-lf. when an
of membership entitle them to. The rules
require that the represe < .. ion shall be
based on the membersj: ; shown by the
secretary's books Inst .) by. When this
question is-decidcd the convention w"' “e
ready to listen to Powdorley’s uuu. ,ss
showing tin: progress of the order during
the ear and settle down to the business
awaiting its attention.
CONTEMPTIBLE CONDUCT.
This evening delegates from district 49,of
New York, sixty in number, with twe nty
additional delegates from other districts,
marched to the academy of music where
Randmann is playing Hamlet. In the fore
most ranks was Frank Farrell, the colored
delegate of district 49, who was refused
admission at a hotel on account of his
color. One of the leaders bought c-ighty
tickets for orchestra seals and distributed
them to his fellow-delegates. All marched
toward the door keeper with Farrell at the
head. The management of the theatre de
termined to avoid trouble. Farrell was
admitted. took a seat in the front row of
the orchestra chairs and remained undis
turbed throughout the performance. This
action of the New York Knights of L ibor
will create great excitement in Richmond
and provoke the resentment even of many
white men who belong to the Knights of
Labor. It is the first time a
colored man or woman sat throughout a
performance in other than the section re
served for colored people. In the theatre
here about eight yenrs ago a young man
escorted a fashionably-dressed woman into
the Richmond theatre, where they occu
pied orchestra seats. The woman was
whiter than many having no negro blood
and her race was not suspected. After she
had sat there an hour the manager was told
that she was of negro descent. She was
ordered to leave and did so. The same
evening a light-colored mulatto gained en
trance to tiie dress circle. When noticed
an uproar ensued, the play stopped, the
audience yelled “ hang him !” and violence
was threatened. He left the theatre.
One result, the citizens here say,
will follow the admission of Farrell to the
academy of music. It will insure the elec
tion of George D. Wise, democratic candi
date for congress in this district. Wad-
dilly is the republican candidate, and Mul
len, master workman of the Knights of
_nbor of this district, is the labor
candidate. Now they say no
white man will vote for him. The Phil
Kearny Post No. 13 G. A. R. have invited
the G. A. R. members ol' the Knights of
Labor here to a reception to-morrow
evening.
THE RED DEVILS.
The Hostile Aptu-lieK StealTwo Humlmi IIoi-m-m.
Chicago, October 5.—The Times’ spe
cial from El Paso,Texas, says news has
been received which confirms what has
been feared for several weeks, that the
hostile Apaches are still out and the cap
ture of Geronimo did not end the Apache
war. Lieut. Britton Davis, recently of the
United States army, is now manager of a
ranch in Chihuahua. Eight hostile
Apaches raided the ranch during hiB ab
sence and drove away two hundred nnlles.
He started in pursuit and after following
the thieves for several days under the im
pression that they were rust
lers, came up with them
sixty miles from this city
ir Chihuahua. He was amazed to find
that they were Apaches. A sharp battle
ensued, but none of the pursuing party
were seriously hurt. The Apaches have
evidently been camping for months only
ninety miles from El Paso. Lieutenant
Davis says that old Maugns was the leader
of the thieves. Mangus has been for
twenty years t he terror of the border. He
is regarded as a far abler tactician than
Geronimo and is imbued with a deeper
hatred of the whites. Mangu3 and
Geronimo are half-brothers, both being
sons of the great Apache chief,
Mangus, of Colorado, said to have been the
worst Indian ever known to the early
white settlers. Lieutenant Davis says in:
pursued Mangus and his band to within
twenty-five miles of El Paso, where lie
abandoned the trail which led in this
direction, not however, until he had learn
ed that Mangus had been joined by three
bucks of Geronimo’s party who o oaped
from Foil Bowie. Davis thinks the
hostiles arc by this time in New Mexico
and they intend to make a raid through
New Mexico and Arizona.
VVliat is Transpiring on the Other Side of
the Waters.
United States, in his letter to the presi
dent of the cotton exchange Juvouet
encloses a statement showing
that in Louisnna the not profit
of $49 per acre can he made by cultivating
ramie, and in his statement to the produce
exchange lie shows that the cultivation ol'
jute will yield a net profit of>4(1 per
In, •
Hilly lint Wl'illlliT on tie- (V
I'lifiuis tin* 11 nitrill-Inil tutlio
ieil ill tin- Glut- at Kililnro,
The second )>
London and
New York.
le of ramie has In
the second bale
Blit tc
if jllte ti
Untiring Efforts to Save the Condemned
Anarchists.
TIioiiniiikIs ol' Sue hi lists Hunt at Work In Tlnlr
liehn|r Tim IMi'ti tlmi They are Mil) Blather.
Idles lint Nut Hunlerers.
London, October 5.—The miners of
Yorkshire demanded an increase of 10
per cent, in wages. If a strike should re
sult from a refusal to grant the increase
asked it will affect 40,000 persons.
unprecedentedwarm weather.
London, October 5.—The temperature
in London to-day has been abnormally
high, registering 80 in the shade this
evening. Never before during the past
forty-six years has it beon so warm at any
time during October. The warm weather
prevails nil over the continent. The Paris
theatres arc described as furnaces, and the
attendance is very limited in consequence
of the heut.
Bulgarin.
THREATENED WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
Sofia, October 5.—The note presented
to the Bulgarian government by General
Kauibars before liis departure was, in
effect, as follows : “ The Imperial govern
ment desires the release of all persons ar
rested in connection with the disposition
of Prince Alexander; also that the elec
tions be postponed till November. The
consequences of a refusal to comply with
Russia’s wishes will fall upon those actual
ly governing Bulgaria.”
Iri linn).
A PRIEST KILLED AT THE ALTAR.
Dublin, Uctober 5.— Archdeacon Kavn-
nugli, parish priest of Kildare, county Kil
dare, and formerly president of Bt.
Patrick’s college at Carlow, was instantly
killed this morning while celebrating mass
at his own altar by portions ol it falling on
him.
Spiiiii.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS PARDONED.
Madrid, October 5.—All of the revolu
tionists who were sentenced to death have
been pardoned.
The* ( IioUth.
London, October 5.—Four persons died
of cholera at Pe.sth yesterday, and six new
cases are reported in Trieste. There were
two deaths and eleven new cases, and in
all Italy six deaths and thirteen new cases.
A BOY S TOTAL DEPRAVITY.
killing kiuI Mniming Kona*, t on* sod Poultry
Out of Eleven ire.
MRS. CLEVELAND IN BUFFALO.
stu
• at Hi
Crowd Who Ex
- iu Church.
Milton’s Bridge, Pa., October 5.—Last
summer Noah Mott a farmer of Lyell
township, took a 14-year-old boy named
Orrin Sullivan to earn his keeping in the
former’s family. The boy’s parents were
drunken and disreputable people, who
had always neglected him, and who disap-
{ >eared from the vicinity last spring,
eaving the boy to shift fbr
himself. He was an extremely
bad boy, but in the hope of reforming
him and making something of him Farmer
Mott took him in. Young Sullivan was
sullen and disliked work, but performed
such duties an were laid out for him, but
always under protest and grumblingly.
One day last week he Hew in a passion at
a horse he was leading, and was hammer
ing it unmercifully with a fence rail when
discovered by Mrs. Mott. She ordered tin*
boy to cease, and lie swore at her and call
ed her vile names. SSie told her husband
of the boy’s conduct, and he btrated Sul
livan soundly, and ordered him to emit the
premises and never come back. The boy
went away cursing and muttering.
The next morning Father Mott found
his thirteen cows in his barn yard, each
with its tail severed close to its body. A
corn cutter, the blade covered with blood,
1;^’ in the vard. On entering his barn after
this shocking discovery, the farmer found
two valuable colts hamstrung, and a favor
ite mare dead, with her throat cut. The
poultry house floor was covered with dead
chickens. No one has any doubt that this
frightful work was done by Orrin Sullivan
out of revenge. The country is being
scoured bv searchers after the young vil
lain, and it will fare badly with him if he
is caught. As yet no trace of him has
been found.
REPARATION WANTED.
Buffalo, October 3.—Mrs. Frances
Folsom Cleveland has passed a very quiet
Sunday with her friends in Buffalo. Ar
rangements had been made for her to at
tend the morning service at the Central
Presbyterian church, of which she was
Alleged Outrage l i
Ottawa, Out., October 6
was completed at 7:30 o’clock, when an
adjournment was taken to 9 to-morrow
morning. _ , ,
During the afternoon session Powderly
received the following telegram :
Terre Haute, Ind., October 5.—The
brotherhood of locomotive firemen send
congratulations and best wishes, and wish
you and your order every success.
[Signed] D. P. SARGENT.
The telegram was read and a committee
was appointed to send a suitable reply.
Powderly also received by wire to-day from
Richmond, Ind., the congratulations and
thanks of James L. Townsend, colored, of
Post 49, G. A. R., for the stand he had
taken in behalf of the colored race.
To-morrow will be taken up in the dis
cussion of the question of the admission or
rejection of eight or ten delegates whose
cases were referred to the convention by
the committee on credentials. They come
from several states and consist of members
of delegations from assemblies claiming a
larger representation than the strict rules
a member when Dr. Sunderland was pastor. ■ ion government are interesting themselves
and she was to have been accompanied in behalf of George Matheway, a British
by Mrs. Daniel N. Lockwood. Mrs. * * ‘
Lockwood drove to the house on Bryant
street for her at 10 o’clock, but for some
reason she did not go. It is thought she
declined on account of notices in the morn
ing papers that she would attend worship
there. The church was crowded, and after
service was over the sidewalks for the
whole block were lined with people w it-
ing to catch a glimpse of the wife of the
president.
Mrs. Cleveland spent the morning at the
house of her aunt, 230 Bryan street. It is
a two story and a half frame house, stand
ing on the south side of the street. It has
a big bay window in front and n cosey
piazza at the side—a place that in that lo
cation would rent for $35 a month. One of
1 he surprises of tlie morning was a present
from the lonesome husband at Washing
ton. Wilson S. Bissell went fbr it at 11
o’clock on Saturday night. It came by the
Lehigh Valley, via Philadelphia, and was
marked “very valuable.” What it was no
one knows.
This afternoon Mrs. Cleveland took
luncheon at the palatial residence of Nel
son Holland, Buffalo’s lumber king, at the
corner of Delaware avenue and Bryant
street. The Hollands have long been
friends ol the Folsoms. Some idea of the
wealth of Mr. Holland may be had from
the fact that recently his confidential clerk
owned up to stealing $85,000 from him,
for which he was merely discharged. Dur-
ins the afternoon quite a number of lady ce8Sor lo lIJU lnu , „„„„„ 1My , 2Jr , lv
and gentlemen friends called there, some | fi( . ul is thtJ (illh - tV h« has been elected
of them old schoolmates, hut she wished
no one to eall on her simply because
she was the president’s wife.
There was such a mob at the Bryant street
house that, desiring to escape, the whole
family at 4:30 p. m. took an omnibus and
drove down town. At 6 o’clock Mrs
,Jwith s:
oldc
ernmonts, and, it is believt
infactory results.
Hathaway belongs to one of the
and most influential families in the
province of New Brunswick.
II aril III (let II l!i,!ni|>.
BALTIMORE, October 5.—Rev. Dr. Wing
field has telegraphed from Beneea, Cali
fornia, declining the bishopric of the Epis
copal church of eastern Maryland, to
which he was recently elected as a suc
cessor to the lute Bishop Lay. Dr. Wing-
The first three declined and Rev. Dr. Dris-
dule, of New Orleans, died before he could
take possessession of the vacancy.
Till' Now .liM-siqv Kl'llllIllicitI1N.
Trenton, N. J., Octobers,-- The repub
lican state
Ii. Frank limvey, of Warren county, for
governor. The platform reiterates its ad
herence to the national republican princi
ples and declares il is a friend of the work
ingman. 11 favors compulsory education
and opposes convict labor. It condemns
the removing of crippled union soldiers
from public office and also the attitude of
President Cleveland on the pensions ques
tion. it accuses tlie democratic party of
violating its promise to the civil service
law, and it declares its belief in the sub
mission to t he people at a special election
of t he question of controlling the liquor
traffic. Finally it endorses its guberna
torial candidate.
Chicago, October 6.—The triumphant
■ ition to-day nominated ! prediction made by State’s Attorney Oriu-
tiell, at the close of the anarchists’ trial,
and echoed since by Capt. Sell sack and
others of the state’s forces, that the verdict
of death rendered against Spies and his
fellow-prisoners was a verdict of death to
anarchism in Chicago, has not beon made
good by subsequent developments. Even
at the time when it was made, most well-
informed persons must have known that
the boost was ill considered or insincere.
Most likelv it was the former for Mr. Grin-
noll, but reflected the popular feeling that
there was no real difference between an
archism and socialism, and that all con
cerned in either alike ought to lie hanged.
Proceeding upon this cheerlul theory,
there are not less than 30,000 candidates
for the gallows in Chicago to-day—to say
nothing of many thousands in other cities
i/the union.
Certainly there are fully that number of
able-bodied workingmen in this city who
are daily laboring and contributing of
their substance to the defenoe and sup
port of the convicted eight now languish
ing in jail. Tho money of these sym
pathizers paid the expense of the trial, in
cluding *100 a dav for the services of Capt.
A Itiillriinil Sold.
Charleston, October 5.—The George
town and Lanes railroad was sold to-day
under an order of the United States circuit
court in the suit of the bank of New York,
of the National Banking Association. The
road runs through Georgetown, S. C., to
Lanes on the Northeastern railroad, a dis
tance of thirty-six miles. The railroad
was finished in 1S.83 at a cost of f425,000, of
which amount $325,000 is In first mortgage , „ . ^ - — .-
seven per cent, bonds. The bonds are ! Black; it has paid for the support of tile
held largely in New York, and the mart- I wives and dependent relatives of the
gage was foreclosed in 1885 when the road ] prisoners since May last, and it is pouring
went into tho hands of the receiver. The m thousands to defray the expense of the
road was purchased to-day for *80.000 by new trial. There is no reason to doubt
Muj. \V. II.
holders.
Brawley, agent of the boigl-
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF MISS LEWIS.
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Suit
Ban Franc
papers in the
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trim Olliuur*.
i. Cal.. October 5.—The
for divorce brought b.\
Miss jeflVeys Lewis, the actress, against
her lni.,baiid, Adolph Maitland, are full of
scandalous revelations. They are largely
made up of accounts of alleged verbal
abuse and heatings to which he subjected
her. The scandal, however, regarding her
own conduct is a good deal more interest
ing. Mr. Maitland is still in Australia,
whither he went with his wife when
stie was on a professional tour.
He is an Englishman, und until
“Bonanza” times was a music teacher at
a small interior town. By sheer luck lie
became rich at Virginia City, but almost
as rapidly went down ngain on the other
Bide of the hill of fortune- He came to
San Francisco with tiie reputntion of
wealth and laid siege to the heart of Miss
Jeffreys Lewis while she was playing at
the California theatre in “Diplomacy.”
They were married in 1878. Rumors were
almost immediately heard of Mr. Mait
land’s cruelty. They subsequently sepa
rated, came together again and again sep
arated. The latest reconciliation was just
before their departure for Australia.
A STAGE LOVER’S CHARMS.
'Mins -Lewis returned iVom-flkepn alone
and has since been starring in strongly
emotional parts with Mr. Harry Mainhafl
as her leading support. He was married,
but, as the story goes, she showed great
fondness for him, and he yielded, it is said,
to her fascinations. Mr. Mainhall’s wife
objected to the growing intimacy, and for
six months remained away from him. He,
meanwhile, professed repentance and
there was n reconciliation with the pro
vision that Mrs. Mainhall should lie pres
ent at all rehearals and performances in
which he appeared with Miss Lewis. The
arrangement did not last long. At Port
land, Oregon, Miss Lewis put her foot
down and asserted her empire. Either
Mrs. Mainhall must not be at
the rehearsals or she would
leave the company. To prevent
tliis disaster Mrs. Mainhall consented to
absent herself. Boon afterward Mr. Main-
hall is said to have confessed that he was
in the trammels of MiHs Lewis and that
she loved him better than his wife did.
Mrs. Mainhall left him and began proceed
ings here for divorce, which was granted
Inst month. Mr. Mainhall telegraphed her
asking to be taken bnek. declaring ho was
“out of the trammels.” Ilis wife states
that Miss Lewis paid the costs of the suil
and that she in now working fur a divorce
for herself, in order that she may marry
Mainhall. Miss Lewis, in an interview,
fails to deny this. Thestorv has created a
sensation here. Mr. Maitland has moved
in the bust society on the Pacific coast.
that there is an ample fund ut hand for
tiie prosecution of long and expensive ap
peal to the supremo court of the state, in
a word, so fnr is it from true that the con
victed eight nre alone and friendless, that
they should rather be described ns reveil
ing in the substantial sympathy of their
friends.
tl is not difficult to learn who these sym
pathizers are. They hold public meetings,
at which they bitterly denounce the “capi
tal stie press” as the prime agent of their
friends’ discomfiture, ami openly subscribe
money to the defense fund. The testimony
of Parsons in his mvn defense has been re
duced to a thin pamphlet and peddled
throughout the land upon the plea that
the proceeds were for the support of Mrs.
Parsons. Workingmen paid the cost of the
printing and bought the pamphlet without
reluctance or concealment. Every sort of
appeal has been made to every sort of peo
ple for money to roverse the decision
which, two months ago, was pronounced
by the consensus of allgood citizens to be a
virtuous visitation.
These foots, though they lie within the
scope of the most casual investigation, are
“robably not known t.o one-tenth of the
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SlEHAHLANCA, Texas
west bound Southern
train was wrecked twin
of here yesterday. The
express, and first-class
ditched. Several passe
press messenger were i
seriously injured was a
El Paso, who had li
I'l'kc'll.
October 5.-
I’aeiUe pass
ty three miles
engine, mail
11gel's and tiie ex-
ljured. Tiie most
lady passenger for
badly crushed
eitizensof Chicago. It' they were, it may
be doubted whether tho city would dare
trust itself out doors at night. Most peo
ple have no talent for discriminating be
tween theories. The sequence of facts
has happened to associate in their minds
socialism and anarchism as two frightful
horned monsters, whose touch is death
and whose breath is a destroying flame.
They know nothing of possession as dis-
tinguisod from pmpwrty, and nerw hnwrt-
of Proudhon in their lives; they simply
know that eight men who have been
oalled socialists and anarchists indi-
oriminately were sentenced to
be hanged for bomb throwing, and the.,
say, withal! their hearts, God speed tin-
day of the hanging of these and all the!
like. The fact is that there is barely a
hatful of revolutionary bomb throwing so
eialists in Chicago.
Jo3ephGruennut knows more about so
eialists and socialism than any other man
in Chicago. He is recorder of statistics of
factory and tenement inspection for tin-
health department, aiul holds this lalioi i-
ous post in spite of an avowed belief in am:
support of socialism. He knew all tin
convicted eight and all their associate .,
and testified in their behalf on the trim.
Mr. Grueiilmt said yesterday in an into
view :
“Socialism in Chicago means nothin;
more or less limn independent political
action among the workingmen—not ecu
eerted endorsement of this or that repub
lican or democratic candidate, but LI.
nomination of a separate ticket, audit:,
maintenance of a separatcuml independent
campaign. There arc 29,000 avowed
socialists in Chicago. There are 00,090
Knights of Labor who are socialists, if
they only knew It, because they are labor
ing for tiie same und, namely, to compel
the public to solve the problem of capital
and labor. The 20,000 are Germans and
Bohemians. They comprise the central
' labor union, and will vote for the labor
ticket to a man. The Knights of Labor
-The. ! vote is an uncertain factor and cannot he
mgor estimated. It is Irish and American.”
west “What is the attitude of this labor party
and ! toward the convicted anarchists?”
j all i “| suppose you mean Spies and ilis
A Terrific [taller Explosion.
Raleigh, N. C., Octobers. At Charlotte
lost evening the boiler of t he cotton coin-
press exploded, demolishing n portion of
t he building and wrecking much of tho
machinery. Moses White, the foreman,
was fatally injured; Jefferson Ilayler was
blown many feet across the street, but was
unhurt. Ed, McDonald, a clerk in the
office of the compress company, sprang^
through a window and was severely cut by
glass. Tho explosion was felt all over the
city.
Killed Willi ii Ulob.
DANVILLE, Va., Octobers.—John J. Mc
Intyre, a well known and wealthy citizen
of this place, was assaulted last evening 'n
the dark by an offended negro tenant and
received injuries from which he died about
midnight. He and his tenant had a dis
pute about two weeks’ rent due. Words
were passed and the negro dealt McIntyre
a blow with a club. Tiie negro escaped.
The deceased was originally from New
York, where his parents now live.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Itiioiorcil Knauiccnicot of .lostloe llrejr, of the
Supreme Court, wllli h ItennlII'iiI Albany Girl.
Itedurhig Expenses in the Public. Printing
0 tlli'o.
Washington, October 5.—Another 100
employes have been dropped from the pay
rolls of the public printing office. The
force lias now been reduced fully 400.
When asked if there would ho further dis
charges, Mr. Benedict said : “Not to any
particular extent. Not for the reasons that
nave influenced the discharges for the past
week, us I have now reduced the working
force to as low a limit us I dure undertake,
considering the demand being made upon
the office. While I have reached a reduc
tion of about $32,000 expense monthly in
the labor rolls, the additional sum required
to he saved must he reached through the
stinted purchase bf material, and supplies
of all kinds necessary, until congress lias
an opportunity to relieve the financial em
barrassment surrounding the office.”
Borne of the discharged employes have
preferred charges against Jatnes \V. White,
foreman of the bindery. They allege that
while under Mr. Rounds lie” di $10,000
worth of work annually for parties on the
outside. The matter will be investigated.
A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO BE MARRIED.
Miss Annie Van Vechten, of Albany,who
was so greatly admired during her stay in
Washington last season ns the guest of Miss
Cleveland, returned a week since from
Europe, where she has been for five
mouths post. It is whispered about by
tho friends of Justice Grey, of the supreme
court, that after all these years of bache
lorhood he contemplates assuming the
duties of a happy benedict, and that the
beautiful Miss van Vechten will be asked
to preside over the handsome residence be
will soon build on the oorner of Sixteenth
aud K streets. While in London Miss Van
Vechten was presented at oourt, and en
tertained on several occasions by Whistler,
the artist, who is an own cousin, and also
by Minister Phelps.
A Cabinet Heeling.
Washington, October 6.—The cabinet
meeting to-day was attended by Secreta
ries Eudieott and Lamar, Attorney-Gen-
ur.i! Gxriand, Postmaster-General Vilas
and Acting Secretary Fairchild. An inter
esting question arose in the case of a
TThited States district attorney who has
been nominated for congress, with regard
to the propriety of his continuance ill
office pending tiie result of the con
gressional election. The general opinion
expressed was that the incumbent had
j better resign his federal office, and he will
| be so informed. This action is in accord-
I a
! f
nee witli the executive order in regard to-
aderal officials participating in politics.
Till' Silver llollurn.
Washington, October 5.—A statement
prepared altne treasury department shows
that there are now outstanding $00,139,952
in standard silver dollars, being the largest
amount of coin in circulation since their
issue began. A rapid decline, however, is.
now expected as a result of the. issue of the
more convenient silver certificates.
SWUNG BY A MOB.
Finn il) Pay.
of* IIIh Prime.
•niuin
guilty
tO (’ill):
r h: b
that In
mori
Louis, Oetobe. 5.--R. P. Wallace,
UL-q-rerof the L-.g.m family of five
uther, mother ana three
■ Steelville
mil. The
Steelville
i ile crime
4 for fear
dt with by
Friday
They
lean Spin
>1 anarehists: tin
The accident was caused by a washout.
NOTHING TO LIVE FOR.
Peculiarly Sml Cl
no anarehists in Chieugo worth speaking
of. Well, the labor parly, that is, the La
bor Union, is working day aud night for
the release of Mr. Spies and the other
an had bee
, Mo., win.
done, for
vo.del be st
aged cit.iz
, I )oLober 1
trance to the
laee, dragged
cell and strung
cut down after bein
short time, in on
might he forced fro
it, a m .b
ja.l, sc
him i
him lip.
g allowed b
lei- that a
in him.
imd en-
i ml
■file
chilly
rs. Craig Alex-
rly very wealthy
f g
ed Wll-
•om the
He was
i hang for a
confession
i refused to
nvn up to the crime and before the crowd
iould hang him up again the sheriff'gained
possession of him and hurried him baek to
I his cell. The crowd was prevailed upon
“Does that mean that, the Labor Union i to disperse and it was supposed that the
endorses the views of these men?” law would be allowed to take its own
“It means that these men, although a course,
puck of arrant, blatherskite monomaniacs, j Last evening, however, a second and
without education or special training, are ! more successful attempt was made to
still socialists; it means that not one of j mete justice to the murderer. A masked
their number ever threw the Iluymarket [mob bf about 100 men quietly gathered
bomb. For these two reasons we want | around the jail at midnight and demanded
immitled
■ iii-
tliis morning at 0
from tin- root of her
No. 3535 LindeH liven
failed in business sons
afterward In
an asylum,
spondent su
pressed her
Killed by u Train.
Galesburg, III., October 5.—Mrs. Wm. i
Cleveland was' caiied for by Henry W. I Cunningham and her little children. Ed-j
Box, the lawyer, and was driven to his j die and Millie, were run over by a switch- (
residence, 239 Delaware avenue, where she j ing train at a street crossing last evening. I
dined and spent the evening witli u party j The mother was cut to pieces and killed,
of invited guests. It is said that about The boy’s leg was cut c.ff, and tie cannot
thirty persons have been invited to the live. One of the girl’s feet was crushed. ,
ladies’luncheon to-morrow afternoon at > She was otherwise hurt. The regular flag- ,
the North street residence of Mrs. George i man had gone to supper and left a boy to
J. Sicard. do his work.
Lust night tiie possessions of President ! ' *
Cleveland, found ‘in his old rooms in the Itamie anil Jut.-.
Wood block, were shipped to Washington i New Orleans, October 5.—Mr. Juve-
b.v the Lehigh Valley Railroad. This j net has sent to the cotton exchange a bale
makes people here believe that the presi-| of ramie, and to the produce exchange a
dent will not return to Buffalo after his ; hale of jute, which he asserts are the first
term expires. . I bales of those products ever made in the
Unlock by junipmj'
son-in-law's house,
K5. Mr. Alexander
ness some time ago, and soon
came insane and was sent to
Mrs. Alexander became de
ni afterward, and often ex-
lesire to die, as she had noth
iiitf to live for. Her condi
tion became so precarious that
she was placed under the care of a physi
cian, hut she continued steadily to fail in
health. Yesterday she went to visit her
husband at the asylum, but his condition
would not permit her seeing him, and she
returned home apparently hopelessly de
spondent. Early this morning a servant
noticed her walking nervously backward
and forward in iier room, but no one else
being astir in the house she made no men
tion of the fact. Soon afterward a milk
man saw her appear on the rcof, walk un
hesitatingly to the edge, and jump off.
The fall killed her instantly.
Southern (,’rucker ANsoehitiun.
Montgomkrv, Ala., October 5.—The
Southern Cracker Manufacturers’ Associa
tion met here to-day. Delegates are in at
tendance from Louisville, New Orleans,
Nashville, Macon, Atlanta and other
places. The sessions are with closed doors,
but the business is to fix rates.
A Rapist Lynched.
Savannah. Octobers.—At Rocky Ford
yesterday Thomas Israel, colored, was
lynched for an outrageous assault on a
white girl aged 10 years. The crowd took
the prisoner from a constable while en-
route to jail in the broad daylight.
1 them to receive a new trial and a
I “Have not Spies and the rest declared
I themselves to be anarchists?”
“It makes no difference if they have.
I They don’t know what anarehy is. They
I may catch a revolutionary fever as they
I would catch the. smull-pox, and then fancy
I themselves to he anarchists. Anarchy,
except as a theory, is crankery, and
archists arc cranks. How many are ti
in Chicago? You might as well ask me
how many men are drunk in Chicago.
The drunk to night are sober in the morn
ing. So with the anarchists. No sane
man, no thinking man, no reading man,
no reflective man, ever conceived that the
existing state of things in America was to
be overturned by violence. Karl Marx
was not a revolutionist except in theory.
Proudnon? Proudhon was a crank. And,
mark you, if there had been a revolution
on foot, Spies and Parsons would not have
mt ranee of the jailer. This was refused
md the mob battered down the doors. A
delegation of members were sent to bring
>wt the prisoner, while tiie others were
detailed to guard the roads leading to the
teene. Wallace was wakened from sleep.
1 ragged out to the infuriated crowd ana
vas asked if he had anything to say. He
n- replied by strongly protesting his inno
cence, still adhering to the story that it
was the negro Vaughan who was guilty.
This angered tiie mob more than ever, and
with a shout they produced a rope,
one end of which they placed
around the murderer’s neck and the other
to the limb of a tree. The prisoner
still protested his innocence and appealed
for mercy without avail. Strong hands
grasped the rope and Wallace’s body
swung in the air. Another chance was
not given him to confess, and in a few
minutes his body was a corpse. The mob
down and took possession of the body.
There is no clue to the leaders or partici
pants in the lynching.
Republican Gains In Connecticut.
Hartford. October 5.—Returns from 100
towns give the republicans 54 towns, the
democrats 31 and divided 15. The same
towns last year stood, republicans 49,
democrats 34, divided 17. The net repub-
been chosen to lead it. They are not of then dispersed, and the jail officers cut
the right material for martyrs.’’
“Then why do you desire their release?”
“Simply, as I said, because ‘they are
socialists, however unworthy. I am sup
porting them and spending my time und
money in their behalf, just as I would ex
pect other socialists to support me if I
were in like trouble.”
“ Do you hope for success?”
“ 1 have no idea but that the supreme
court will reverse the verdict “
“Suppose that it should not; what effect * lcan gam is 5 towns,
ould such a result have on the niove-
ent ?”
“There is no such possibility.”
But suppose it should?”
! “ I don’t suppose anything of the kind.
It is not possible that innocent men should
i bf hanged like dogs in obedience to a pop-
i ular and ignorant prejudice.”
The Remliiiii to be So hi.
Philadelphia, Pa., October 5.—The
United States circuit court gave an
unanimous opinion to-day in the Robinson
foreclosure suit and made a decree order
ing the sale of the Reading under the
general mortgage.