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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 265
CpLUMBUS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY MORNING, OUTORI
1SSC>.
PRICE FIVE GENTS
T l I V land and the other ladies having decided
IK not to make the journey at to; ,|ine. The
' tiaiu will make a short fit ■ ■■ at Fredericks-
— | burg but will not stop at a.o'other station.
.. . The party will reach llfchmond at 12
Blaine Makes an Idiotic Speech in Pitts- ! o’clock and will be driven directly to the
| fair grounds, where the president
i will be formally welcomed by Gov
ernor I.eo. A general reception
I °f the public will follow, the president
_ I having advised the committee that he
nltli on Alleged •‘Southern Letter”-The Mulin' ■ wished to adhere to Ids original request
Statesman Overdoes Unison min Becomes I,mil- that any desire on the part of the people
•touh—Arc Powderly unit Hlolne In Partner- G° be presented to him shall be gratified
„l,lu! I without restriction. The party will leave
Richmond by n special train at 5 o’clock
and reach Washington at 8, It is not ex
pected that the short stay will enable the
president to do more than carry out the
burg.
Some Southerner Gulls the "Plumed' Knight”
Philadelphia, October 20.—Jamas G.
Blaine left on his tour of the interior
towns of Pennsylvania to-day. In accord
ance with his wishes there was no formal
demonstration. He left his hotel at a little
before 10 and went at once to the Pennsyl
vania railroad station. A little crowd of
men was gathered there to see him off and
applauded him cordially as he passed
through the gate. The train left as soon
as he and his party were seated. The gen
tlemen who accompanied him were Gen
eral Beaver, candidate for governor, and
two of the latter’s associates on the ticket,
Messrs. Davies aid Norris; Senator
Cooper, chairman of the republican state
committee; President Stuart, of the Young
Republican club, Charles Emory Smith,
City Solicitor Warwick, Major W. P. Bow
man, Col. A. Loudon Snowden, Dr. Donne,
of Williamsport; Marriott Brosius, Col.
Wm. B. Mann and Isaiah Y. Mears, the
colored orator. The trip from the station
to Downington, the first stop, was unevent
ful. At Downington, hardly more than a
village, Mr. Blaine was enthusiastically
received, the meeting there numbering
over two thousand, many having driven
in from several miles round about. Gen.
Beaver, who was also cordially greeted,
Bpoke and ended his brief speech by intro
ducing the Maine statesman. At Lancas
ter, the next stop, Mr. Blaine addressed a
crowd numbering between five and six
thousand in McGrau’s park. He met with
another enthusiastic reception there. While
others of the party were speaking
he took a drive round the town, and vis
ited the graves of Thaddeus Stevens, Presi
dent Buchanan anrl General Reynolds. On
the grave of Stevens, whom he regarded
as one of the greatest men this country
ever produced, he placed a rod rose.
A halt was made at Mount Joy, a few
programme at the fair ground.
Richmond, October 20.—Governor Lee
to-night received the following telegram
from Washington:
“Gov, Fitz Hugh Lee, Richmond, Va.:
Mrs. Cleveland and ladies will not ac
company me to Richmond, and my en
gagements are made to return to Washing
ton at an early hour. I regret that I am
obliged to forego attending the reception
at your house on this occasion.
[Signed] “Grover Cleveland.”
This action of the president created sur
prise in view of the fact that only this morn
ing it was announced that Mrs. Cleveland
and other ladies would certainly be in tlie
presidential party. Gen. Lee had arranged
for the reception at his house, and had is
sued invitations to prominent citizens to
greet them.
THE OUTLOOK IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Iiiilicutioiis Hull the Labor Vote Will Bo Gist for
tlir llciitocrutic Ticket.
HARRISBVRa, October 20.-While there
is no sign that the labor element of this
state will have tickets in the field, or that
distinctively labor candidates will be
named for any of tiie offices to lie filled, it
is clear that the workingmen will exercise
a potent influence in the coming election.
There are in the state fully 200,000 men
connected with the labor organizations.
These include Knights of Labor,the miners’
organizations of various kinds and
railroad men connected with protective
associations, the irou workers, and others
properly belonging to the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers, the
miles -west oi Lancaster, where tho orphan ■ textile workers, and mixed trades, mainly
soldier boys and girls Hocked around t.ie organized as Knights of Labor. Of the
car. When Mr. Blaine was pointed out | 0o ,q m i ners there are in various organizu-
they set up a gleeful hallooing. Mr. Blaine | tions 1)0,000. of these 35,000 work in the
shook his linger at them in a good natured | anthracite region and 35,000 in the bitumi-
menacu, at which they waved thpir caps nou8 The railroaders uu
and ran alter the train as it fled before
them to the west. At Steelton, a few
miles outside of Harrisburg, Messrs. Blaine
and Beaver. Smith and Snowden left the
train and drove to the country home of
General Cameron for supper.
Pittsburg, October 20.—Mr. James G.
Blaine addressed a crowd of 10,000 per
sons here to-day on the subject of the
“bloody shirt.” He said “colored men are
now, and have been for ten years, enter
ing into many of the mechanical indus
tries. In Birmingham, Ala., in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., and in various parts of Vir-
g inia they are making pig iron at wages of
•om 60 to 70 cents per day. The product
of their labor has thus far been so small
that the Important fact that I
am now stating has attracted com
paratively no attention, but if the
number 15,000,
the iron workers 15,000, the textile work
ers 30,000, and tiie mixed trades 50,000.
Ii goes without saying that so strong a
bodv of men, acting in unison, can exer
cise an important influence on elections.
Politically, these men are divided about
equally, but this year they will vote almost
as a unit. The influencing cause of their
action will be the store order business. On
that question the workingmen have a deep
feeling. General Master Workman Pow-
deriy has declared his reprehension of tiie
system in tho most emphatic terms.
The recent declaration of the su
preme court, pronouncing the law
Forbidding the issue of store orders
constitutional, hns excited the greatest
interest, in the subject on the part of the
workingmen throughout the state. Those
likely to he effected by a return of the per-
quantity which they manufacture attains j nicious system naturally desire new iegis-
large proportions, it will necessarily com- j lation on the subject, and they begin to
pete in the markets of this couutry with realize that with Gen. Beaver in the execu
tive office there would be no possible
pete in the markets of this couutry
pig iron made in Pennsylvania and Ohio
and they themselves will compete with
men here who are paid $1.50 per day.
What response is to be made to that by
our workingmen now who receive the bet
ter wages? The answer will bo just this :
That either the great body of workmen
in the south must have justice
chance of securing such legislation. Beaver
has, through a corporation of which ho is
president, constantly evaded the law by
issuing what are callled trade cou
pons, while Chauncey F. Black,
the democratic candidate for
governor, has always beeu out
done them and be fairly compensated for j spoken in opposition to any method of
na labc
what they earn ill the sweat ofthoir faces
or else the wages of every northern
laboriug man must be injuriously affected.
This statement when first made by me was
rnet with ridicule and derision but when
that great organization of Knights of I was directed toward tho formation of a
Labor met in a national convention in j strictly labor ticket, but the convention
Richmond, Va., the other day under their wa,s captured by the emissaries of the re-
Chief Powderly, whom I take to be a man publican ring, and a greenback instead of
of extraordinary ability and perception. I a labor ticket was nominated. The labor
compensating labor other than by money
payment.'
When the greenback labor party held its
state convention in this city there was a
strong labor influence in the body, which
[Prolonged cheers.] Tne first thing they i men wanted to endorse part of the derao-
ran against was the absolute unwillingness j cratic ticket, but that was also prevented,
on the. part of the dominant white race of However, the textile workers of Phila-
the south to allow tiie colored laborers of delphia, in an organization known as the
that region to have any benefits from the Labor League, have endorsed the noniina-
Knights of Labor organizations or from {tion_of Maxwell Stevenson,the democratic
itididate for congress at large, and he
bituminous miners have endorsed the
candidacy of W. J. Brennen, the demo
cratic nominee for auditor-general. With
the feeling favorable to the election of Mr.
Black pervading all the labor associations,
and these separate movements for Steven
son and Brennen, it seems as though the
labor votes would he thrown generally for
the democrats.
t rliv
ON ’CHANG!;
•jHiot I»ti> ,
any other organizations that could protect
them in their right to be paid
wages which they earned. By a
strange coincidence I received this very
morning a letter from the south on that
subject. The correspondent gives me an
appalling picture of the south, and in one
portion of his letter says: “ But after all
we are ahead of you in the north in respect
to labor, for in a great many parts oi the
south we have established the eight hour
law for the colored man—eight hours in
the forenoon and eight hours in
the afternoon.” [Universal and long
continued merriment ] Now, gentlemen,
I do not hold out to you the slightest be
lief on my part that the republicans have
any prospect of carrying a southern state.
The white men have the political power
of that country in their grip. At first
they said they would not let the negro
come to congress as soon as they got :
power to stop him. Well, the !
negroes stepped aside. Then they [
said they * would not let the
carpet-bagger come to congress. Well |
the carpet-bagger eloped. ^ [Laughter.J J
Now they say that they will not let a
native wnite man come to the front if col- j
ored men vote for him. [Laughter.] That j
closes up the avenues pretty tightly. That
would speedily settle the questions. They
have eighty-five representatives in °°p-j large buying of Lake _
gross from the eleven states that were in l jj me Oregons advanced on the rumor of
the rebellion. With the exception of, I be-, tljeir absorption by the Union Pacific,
lieve, one in Virginia from a white con- I p r ; cfcS t(, e opening were higher in th
New York, October 20.—The stock
market this morning showed more strength
than for many days past, although it was
quiet and with very little feature beyond a
weakness in Reading. . Assertions
were made this morning tiiat
iu all probability they would
not offer the assessment on Jersey Central
or at most not over 10 per cent. This held
stock firm with the remainder of the list
and prices slowly advanced until the mid
dle of the afternoon when everything
vielded and Jersey Central was particularly
prominent. In the decline which followed
there was some Loudon selling oi Read
ing and St. Paul in the early morning, anil
'■ ’ ’ ”bore. At the same
II 1’ASIPAir.X IS MING
Mr. Hewitt's Democratic Friends Prepare
for Two Grand Rallies.
TiiousitnilH of lti'imldiciins (llvhia I heir Adherence
to Hewitt Ih-ruilsi' of Their Faith In Ills Itipe
Judgment-Tuion ill AI0114 the Oemucvatlo
Lino—llow tiir fimgrossnun Arc til lie A|>*
|ioiiiteil.
New York World.
Mr. Hewitt has not opened any head
quarters, but his campaign may be said to
have begun. Tammany Hall and county
democracy are both busy preparing for
grand ratification meetings. The Tammany
Hull committee of arrangements will prob
ably report in favor of a mass meeting in
and outside of the wigwam tor some even
ing next week. The county democracy
mass meeting takes place at Cooper Insti
tute next Friday evening. Mayor Grace
will be asked to preside. Mr. Hewitt is in
daily receipt of hundreds of letters
from republicans promising him
their earnest and active support.
It is believed thus early in the campaign
Mr. Hewitt will receive fully 10,000 votes
from republicans. The nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt does not appear to be
well received by the old time republicans
and tax-payers. They think that Mr.
Hewitt has a riper experience in municipal
affairs and that their interests and those of
the city will be better protected by him.
There is also a strong feeling among the
business republicans that Mr. Roosevelt
was merely nominated by the machine
bosses to be defeated; The argument is
made that if there was any chance of tiie
republicans electing the mayor Mr. Roose
velt would not be the nominee.
The belief is general that, the republican
district bosses will do everything in their
power to elect members of the assembly
in the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth,
eleventh, thirteenth and twenty-first as
sembly districts who will vote for Levi I’.
Morton for United States senator. In or
der to elect several pledged Morton legis
lators from this city, Mr. Roosevelt will he
sold out and traded oft for George or any
other candidate. Mr. Roosevelt already
mistrusts John J. O’Brien, Bernard Biglin,
Mike Cregan, John Collins, John Siuipson
& Co., and has determined to watch all
their movements. The district bosses ilo
I not enthuse over Roosevelt, and arc allow*
' ing him to carry on his own cam-
’ paign from the Giisoy House. It is
! understood that he will pot baud the boys
I any boodle directly, hut will pay a round
i assessment to a finance committee of his
; oWn selection, who will parcel it out very
I carefully. Thousands of republicans who
think that Mr. Hewitt will he elected by a
I handsome plurality are determined to vote
for him iu order to swell his vote. Mr.
! Roosevelt evidently knows of this, and is
[ making an effort to stop such a stampede.
| He is telling his friends that he has every
hope of being elected and that the contest
j is between himself and Mr. George. Mr.
Roosevelt has hired a literary bureau, and
i its business will he to scatter broadcast
i Mr. Roosevelt’s legislative record, speeches
j and special committee work. Among the
| congratulatory dispatches received by Mr.
! Roosevelt is one l’rornW. F.Cody, ‘ Buffalo
; Bin.”
! The betting last was $1000 to *300 that
! Mr. Hewitt would be elected, and $1000 to
; 8600 that he would have 20,000 plurality, j
j Bets are even that Mr. Hewitt will have
j 35,000 more votes than the second man in J
i the race.
! The union of tho democracy on con- I
j gressional, assembly and aldermanie noin-
! illations will have a beneficial result as far
I as Mr. Hewitt’s vote is concerned. It will
■ prevent bargains and trades and keep the
j Tammany Hall and County Democracy
i lines straight on election day. The two
! organizations will work faith I Lilly together
| ana will present a solid front from the
! Battery to the Bronx.
The union on congressional nominations
j will probably be decided to-day. TheTom-
mady hall and county democracy convcn-
' tions reassemble to-night. The conference
committees of the tenth and eleventh con
gressional districts met yesterday and
| reached a conclusion. Iu the tenth dis-
, triet, comprising the eleventh, sixteenth
and eighteenth assembly districts. General
| Francis B. Spinola, Tammany hall, was
] agreed upon as the uuion nominee. The
I Tammany hall delegates from the eleventh
district voted for Jefferson M. Levy. The
! sixteenth district delegate presented Gen.
j Spinola and the county democracy dele-
; gates named James M. Fitzsimmons. Gen.
; Spinola was afterwards unanimously agreed
i upon. Mr. Levy’s friends were Uisappoint-
j eu at the result, and said they might ask
j him to run as an independent candidate
I with the republican and labor indorse-
j incuts.
The conference committee of the
j eleventh district agreed upon the uomina-
| tion of Col. T. A. Merriman, county demo-
I crat. There is no change in the sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth, twelfth and thii-
! teenth congressional districts. Tho lirst
| three will probably nominate county demo-
j cracy candidates and Tammany hall can-
j didates will be selected In the ninth,
I twelfth and thirteenth districts. There is j
j no opposition to S. S. Cox in the ninth,
j and W. Bourlce Cochran will be the choice :
> in the twelfth. This district ranks among
j the wealthiest in the Uni ed Slates arid
; Mr. Cochran will make one of the best
I representatives it bus evei had.
! Jt looks as if ex-Alderman Thomas t\ ,
j Walsh has been bowled out of the nomina-
ition in the seventh district. The confer-j
: enco committee meet this afternoon. It is 1
j lik !y tii.ff the convention will nominate i
I Cot. John R. Fellows.
j There is -i hi eh in the eigtlidistrict. 1
Timothyi. C.i.;ip/ell muy be laid on the!
i shelf aid a i m.yomise nominee agreed
; upon. The G ..nan-American citizens
j have agreed upon him.
in the thirteenth district Tammany j
j Hall’s choice will be either ex-Assembly-
man Ives or Orlando B. Potter.
the altar she was joined by tiie governor,
who was waiting them with his best man,
Mr. Upshur Lloyd. Rev. Dr. Barber, of
Cambridge, Impressively performed the
ceremony.
Both bride and groom were attired in
traveling c istunics, and immediately after
tbs oeremouy they left on the train for a
northern tour. The story of Governor
Lloyd’s courtship is one quite romantic,
and has ext.unlcd through several years.
Commencing when Miss Btaplofort was a
blushing school girl, her youthful ways
and aemiuicnts captivated him, ami as the
girl grow into the woman he loved her tiie
more fur her accomplishments, refinement
and beauty. Miss Btaplelbrt is without
fortune; she is a perfect blonde, hns tender
blue eyes, Grecian features and a figure
graceful and dignified.' The governor will
reside in Cambridge until December, when
he will take his bride to reside at the ex
ecutive mansion at Annapolis.
A CHICAGO BRUTE
Tan", the Knrrlngs Fruiu Ills Uiienud M'lie’s
Furs.
Chicago, October 18.—According to tho
story ol' flic police, Mr. 1. H. Cady was de
fendant in a suit for divorce about a week
ago. Mis. Cady was the plaintiff, and
thought she had got rid of her troubles.
But this morning when she was about to
enter the building at the northeast corner
of Clark and Adams streets, where she
works, her former husband rushed up to
her, and without a word of warning, grub
bed one of her earrings and tore it out of
the ear.]
Mrs. Cady screamed in agony, and her
cries attracted the attention of the hun
dreds of people passing along tho thor
oughfare. The passersby stopped, and
seeing a woman with a bleeding ear and a
man running away, imagined they were
witnessing a highway robbery. Hundreds
of men started in pursuit of Cady. Tic
swiftly sped down Clark street, and finally
ran into the hands of an officer, who toon
him to the station. ITad Lire crowd got
hold of him he would have fared very
badly.
< A Fin. hi Ualctgh.
RalEigh, N. C., October 20.—Early this
morning a fire broke out in the Pioneer
mills here, and in a very short time de
stroyed the mills and phosphate factory
adjoining. The Pioneer mills made great
quantities ...{'shuttle blocks, bobbins and
shovels Mainly for foreign trade, and tho
phosphate factory was I lie only one in tho
state working up valuable phosphate de
posits recently found in North Carolina.
The less on both companies, which were
owned and operated practically by
one corporation, is about $25,000.
The insurance ■ is $25,000. Colon
M. Hawkins and Peter Wilson
own nearly ull the stock in the company.
They will at once rebuild the shuttle and
block factory which was in operation.
But the phosphate factory was to have
started again next Monday, having been
equipped with new machinery to give it a
capacity of twenty tons daily. Both mills
as rebuilt will be more extensive and with
better machinery than before. Work will
be begun Monday. Large orders tor phos
phate cannot be. filled for some time.
Eighty-five persons ure thrown out of em-
ploymsht.
Raleigh, N. 0., October 20.—The loss
by the bi£ burning of the Pioneer mills
and North Carolina Ph >sphate mills here
to-day is now accurately stated to lie $35,-
000. The insurance aggregates $21,100.
,ANTA
The Technological School Goes to the
Gate City.
Has A thill til Won nil lii.qit) Victor)!-Mnyur Hill*
Jci- Cmiaidprlna I ho Thorne Cime The City Will
Nut I'roseente tiir Holder of Transferred LI*
ecu sen -A Vouiiif Him Kill/, Ilia Friend.
land and Cleveland, Columbus Cincinnati
! and Indianapolis made material advances.
L special I The rise was checked toward 2 p. m. and
otton Ex- Jersev Central took the lead in the decline
rial of the which followed. Early gains were wiped j
It Will Pick Cotton.
Charleston, October 20.—A
committee of the Charleston Cotton
change who witnessed the field trial of — -------- -
Mason cotton harvester last week report | out, and final prices are at or nearThe low-
that they were agreeably surprised at the i est ol the day, the ffi^ket closing weak.
machine IdT^Tthafthfp&cffi j few finaf adttf being SrW&ikant
embodied*?? tKUuction £««■*» g
Western Union and Pacific mail each H,
Reading, New England and Delaware and
Hudson each 1. Others fractions. Sales
433,000 share.
that the cotton picked was of fully
the average quality and more free
from leaf than much of the
cotton now being marketed. The
committee think the machine requires
development and a further adaptation to
make it a complete success, as there was a
in picking and too much of the
i left \
cotton left unpicked after the passage of
A Loin? Pigeon Flight.
Wheeling, W. Va., October 18.—One of
two carrier pigeons released at Wichita,
the machine. The committee also say i j^an., at twenty-six minutes to it a. m
that the damage to the cotton plant was of
little consequence as compared to the re
sults obtained.
A Little Junket.
Washington? October 20.—The presi
dent goes to Richmond at 8 o’clock to
morrow morning to visit the Virginia j fore appro _ .. „„ inmnevs
state fair. lie will be accompanied only;' from ten days to six '1’he bird
hy Secretary of State Bayard, Secretary oi j of eight or 11,r W’ 1 ‘ l u l< *'i ^i.rhtcen months
War Endicott, Postmaster-tWral Vilas is of Belgium stock, and eighteen mourns
and Private Secretary Lainout, Mrs. Cleve- i old.
western standard time, on Saturday, ar
rived in this city at seven minutes to 3 p.
m central standard time, to-day, thus
making the trip of twelve hundred miles
in the remarkable time of fifty-two hours.
The distance is tiie longest ever flown, and
tiie time is far less than anything ever bo
ohed by birds after being out
A GOVERNOR’S MARRIAGE.
Maryland's Oiler M.ightrute Taken to liluisnir u
Lining unit Lovely llriile.
J Cambridge, Md,, October 20.—Henry
j Lloyd, the bachelor governor of Maryland,
j and a citizen of Cambridge, at 0:30 a. m.
I to-day was wedded in the Protestant Epis-
1 copal church to Miss Mary Elizabeth Sta-
! plefort, a beuutiful Cambridge belle of
| twenty summers. Daylight was but dimly
j visible in the east when the hour for the
celebration arrived, hut in spite oi this the
capacious church was filled to
i overflowing, and many persons
anxious to witness the notable
! event were obliged to remain on the out-
! side. Flowers decorated the altar and
| chancel of the church, which was also
j brilliantly Illuminated. The wedding was
in English style. Messrs. Ogle, Steele,
Levin and II. Henry, cousins of the gov-
i ernor; Guy L. Bryan, cousin of the bride,
, and John‘R. Pattison, a near relative of
| Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, were
the ushers. They led tiie bridal proces
sion, in full dress, up the aisle. The
! bridesmaidsland the groomsman followed,
j and the bride, leaning on the arm of her
1 uncle, Rev, James L. Bryan, came last. At
POOR LITTLE BULGARIA.
Sin* Stimils lii'tnce.'i Two Fin's mill Knows Not
Whiff to Ilo.
Sofia, October 20.—Gadban Effendi, the
Turkish embassador, has informed the
Bulgarian ministry that he lias been in
structed to act in concert with General
Knulbars, Russian agent, whose arrival at
Sofia Gadban Effendi says he will await be
fore making for Turkey definite proposals
to Bulgaria, strongly advising the minis
try, however, in the meantime to concede
to Russian demands and postpone the
meeting of the great subranje to electa
successor to the Bulgarian throne.
As soon as Gadbar Effendi’s information
was received, a special cabinet council
was held to consider what he had present
ed. The result of this council was' that
Gadbar Efi'endi was informed that the Bul
garin n government would no more brook
Turkey’s than it would Russian interfer
ence, hut would resist both. It is reported
in Seakoff (pro-Russian circles), that Gad
bar Efi’endi has confidentially stated that
the czar has made arrangements with the
porte, the czar guaranteeing the indemni
ty of the sultan’s dominions, reducing the
Turkish war indemnity and obtaining per
mission to garrison and fortify Dardanelles
and to occupy Bulgaria wilh Russian and
Romnelian arid Turkish troops.
Ainfflier I'hma* ni* 1 lie est ion.
Vienna, October 20.—The Nuo Frie
Presso has a dispatch from Sofia saying
that Gadban Effendi has presented a note
to ttic regency demanding that the meet
ing <<(' tiie sabranjc lie postponed sine die
on the ground that Russia does not ap
prove of the recent elections, and that the
powers have not yet decided upon a candi
date for the vacant throne. The whole
tenor of the note is pro-Russian. There is
much excitement in Austrian official oir-
Ti!.- i ll.; llffi'krn*.
BoF'A, October 2“ Alarm is felt here
over the massing- , urkish troops, which
is in i ' grt .i eng the Bulgarian frontier.
The i. g.-.ucy nave published a decree eou-
v. r.uig the great sobranje on October 27.
All foreign consuls expect the Russian
representative will attend the opening.
Settling About Hultniitin.
t’.* uis, October 20.—The Journal Des
Debuts says tho throe empires have come
to an understanding on the Bulgarian
question on the following basis, namely:
tlial Russia shall not occupy Bulgaria and
that Amtria and Germany shall not recog
nize either regency or prince elected by
sobranje without the assent of Russia.
A I'nliil For I'rolilbitlon.
Saco, Me., October 20.—Frank Wilis, of
Union Falls, yesterday sold u cask of new
cider to Civil Engineer Wm. S. Dennett, of
Saco. The latter’s son James, aged 19
years, drank a third of a glass of the eider,
Dennett took a spoon full, and his wife
tasted it. All were tuken sick and, despite
the efforts of two physicians, the soil died
early this morning. Mrs. Dennett is very
sick, but the physicians think she will re
cover. On the head of the cask was brand
ed the word “Poison.” The cask was pur
chased from a Biddeford undertaker, and
originally contained embalming fluid.
Knights ol' tile Throttle.
New York, October 20.—The twenty-
third annual international convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
convened this morning at Lyric hail. Del
egates representing every state and terri
tory in the union were present as well as
representatives from Mexico, Quebec,
Ontario, Nova Scotia, British Columbia
and.Manitoba.
Atlanta, Ga., October 20.—After three
ballots this morning the dead-lock was
broken in the technological commission,
and on the twenty-fourth !/allot Atlanta
received three votes, a majority, and the
school will be located here. Judge Heard
showed a disposition to bu agreeable and
voted consecutively for each of (lie cities
applying. The first ballot this morning
stood: lumau, Atlanta; Porter, Atlanta;
llodgson, Athens; Harris, Macon; Heard,
Macon.
The second—Inman and Porter, Atlanta;
Hodgson, Athens; Heard, Athens; Harris,
Macon.
Third ballot—Hodgson, Athens; Harris,
Macon; Inman, Porter and Heard, At
lanta.
Having secured the location tho next
tiling will be to secure the appropriation
from tiie legislature. It is believed that
middle Georgia will oppose the measure
before the next house, and that Atlanta
has won an empty victory. How far rep-
resentatives will allow prejudice against
Atlanta to control their conduct remains
to be seen. Gov. Gordon is a warm advo
cate of technological education, and tiie
measure will have the countenance of the
executive.
(b'l/rirln Jpi-Hi/y liri'i'ili'tV Snip.
Atlanta, October 20.—A largo audience
of ladies and gentlemen assembled at
Hill it Stewarts’stables this morning, on
Alabama street, to attend the fall sale of
Jersey cattle under the auspices of the
Georgia Jersey Breeders Association.
Judge Hopkins, president of the associa
tion, stilted that cattle were furnished by
members of the association, and wore class
ified and sold hy the association. Every
animal put up would be sold without re
serve to the highest bidder, and no by-hkt-
ding would he countenanced, There was
no member of the association who would
he guilty of such conduct, and if there
was he would be promptly expelled. It
used to lie life rule of the
association that any animal hav
ing a defect affecting her butter
yield when offered for sale would have the
defect announced. This rule had been
changed, an now no animal was allowed
to bn offered for sale that bad any defect.
A committee had been appointed hy the
association, and besides tiie testimony of
the owner, the most rigid examination had
been made of each nnlinal and it could he
taken as true that every animal offered was
sound and perfect.
The bidding was not very spirited, many
of tiie animals selling low. Teuolla 3d,
aged 3 years, owned by J. B. Wade,brought
$.350, the highest price pnidJ
Thp Ihffii-miil uii/t Whisky.
Atlanta, Octobe r 20. -The Sheffield I
Company subscribes $25,000 to the Missis-
sippi nmi Atlanta railroad.
Mayor Hillyer says there will he no pros
ecutions against dealers in liquor in At
luntn under Iran:,furred lice uses, which the
supreme court hns decided to have lieeu
illegal. All of them have expired by limi
tation, and there is no desire on the part
of the city to reopen the matter.
The I'riuonprs flying. j
Atlanta’, Ga., October 20.—The Atlanta
jail is now undergoing examination and
inspection hy medical experts appointed
hy United States District Judge Newman, j
Last spring there was so much sickness
and death in tlibjail that ail the prisoner .
were liberated on patrol. In the pan), |
month there has been much sickness
j among the prisoners and two
! have died. The prisoners sentenced
I in the United States court now are being-
sent to jail iu Cobb and other neighboring i
counties. Last night an old man from j
I Habersham county, confined on the
charge of illicit distilling, died, and ap-
| prehension is widespread among the large
j number confined there. Ilis name was
Freeman Brewer, and he had only been in j
1 jail about two weeks.
llv KHh'i! Ills Friend.
! Atlanta, October 20. — To-day B. M.
Carter, a rail way mail clerk on the East;
and West railroad of Alabama, came to At- j
! lanta to get a leave of absence from Super- \
I intendenl Turner for u few days. Ho has
I just been a parly to an unfortunate aeoi- ;
: dent in which lie killed William Richards,
I an intimate friend, and a fireman on the I
same road. They were talking together ut
I the depot in Broken Arrow, Ala., and I
Richards was telling how he had
! seen a pistol taken from n ;
i fellow and the owncrti.cn thrashed. Carter ]
; told Richards hotv it was possible in hand- j
] ing a pish/l to another party and holding ;
i tiie barrel to toss it up and catch it.in his !
hand ready for use. lie demonstrated the |
feat once. Then Richards tried and then
Carti r attempted it again. This time the
pistol, which was a .self-cocker, was dia- I
; charged and Richards full dead at his feet, j
J shot through tiie breast. The ;
! accident was witnessed by otrims, and the
■ friendly relations < xi /l iiig between the j
parties being well known no arrest was !
I made. The body v.us accompanied by |
; Carter to Cedartown, the home of the ;
; dead man, and from there he came on to
procure a leave of absence, lie returns to-,
I morrow to attend his friend’s funeral and
I give himself up if there is a disposition on
] the part of auybody to prosecute him.
lie Huy Iti'illice II.
j Atlanta, October 20.—Mayor Hillyer
I to-day received application from C. C. 1
| Thorn, whose case went against trim in the
supremo court yesterday, asking for a re- I
j duction of his fine. The mayor has not
j yet acted upon the request.
TIib Pruittdsl*.
j Atlanta, October 20.—The examining
j board of the State Pharmaceutical Associa-
; tion is in sersion in Atlanta .to-day. Nine
j applicants a o before them for oxamina-
' tion. The board will sit to-morrow also.
Dr. Edward Barry, of Augusta, is chairman
of the board.
A Shl|i in IffHtrvHH.
Jacksonville, Fla., October 20.—The
German bark Welgunde, from Cape Ilay-
tien,|Sun Domingo, for Havre, France, with
a cargo of logwood, is oil'the bar in a sink
ing condition with seven feet of water in
her hold. She draws too much to get in
side the harbor, and there is little hope of
saving her from foundering. Volunteers
have gone to render all aid possible. The
hark has been in a gale ever since leaving
Cape Ifnytiun.
A Train Wreck Scar Asheville.
Raleigh, N. C., October 20.—A special
dispatch from Asheviile this evening to
the News and Observer says: “A wreck
occurred on the Asheville and Spartan-
burg railroad at 8 o’clock tiiis morning
four miles out from this city. Wbiie the
train was ascending the eighty-five foot
grade at Robert’s fill, the highest grade on
j this mountain, the railway track spread
j and the express and smoking cars were de-
i railed, live latter fell top downwards over
, an embankment and striking a large rock
hurst ed off the car roof, which
carried with it the conductor and one
( passenger, while the remainder of the
j the car bounded down tiie declivity and
I lundod on the verge of an immense exoa-
1 ration which had been made for the fill.
The first class conch and engine did not
leave the track. Some of the unfortunate
passengers in tiie smoking car sustained
serious, and it may he, fatal injuries. Phy
sicians were Summoned and all the relief
possible was given to the wounded. Tho
wonder is that any escaped with their
lives.
THE KNIGHTS ADJOURN.
Ili'fori' Ailjoiirninw They ICi'iinest Mi/roy for the
Flilmvo Anari'liM*.
Richmond, October 20.—The general as
sembly of the Knights of Labor began its
last session of the convention of 1886 this
morning. The first business taken up was
the report of tiie standing committee on
co-operation. After that eamc tiie reports
of a half dozen special committees. One
of these was that from the committee on
woman's work ; among the recommenda
tions it presented to the ussembly was one
in favor of the appointment of women who
should investigate and report on all sub
jects connected with female wage-workers
and aid in the organization of local assem
blies of females employed in the various
industries throng hunt the couutry. The
executive board will hold a meeting after
the final adjournment to-day and remain
in session all tiie afternoon. A great num
ber of delegates expect to leave here for
their homes this evening. Powderly and
others of the executive hoard will remain
here until to-morrow and then goto Phila
delphia.
APPEALING FOR THE ANARCHISTS.
The report of the committee on womans’
work was adopted, together with its
recommendation that Lenora Barry be
elected general investigator and cor
responding secretary. The following reso
lutions were adopted:
“Resolved, That this general assembly
appeals lor mercy for tiie seven men of
Chicago who are condemned to he exe
cuted
“Resolved, That while asking for mercy
for the condemned men, we are not la
sympathy with the actions of tho anarch
ists, nor with any attempts of individuals
or associated hollies that teach or practice
violent infractions of law, believing that
peaceful methods are the surest means of
securing reforms.”
The following reply was received him
Gov. Oglesby to a dispatch from the as
sembly Hent him yesterday to Quincy, III.:
“The welcome and patriotic dispatch
from the general assembly of the Knights
of Labor on the occasion of the dedication
of the soldiers’ and sailors' home was re
ceived here to-day and will be read hero
to-morrow before the asscmhled mass
meeting of people who will bo present to
do honor to the dedication. Responding
for the soldiers of Illinois, accept our warm
est. th:. / k, for your cordial greetings and the
expru i / ; ii the hope that the assembly
•/ ! instrumental in lightening the
ouvdc:/ ;ahor and pointing the way to
recognition as an institute deserving now
and ’ hero'ifter tho pat riotic and earnest
cn./.’id; i"i*ion of all wall wishers of equal
rights and republican institutions.”
Tiie committee on co operation recom
mended that action ho taken to put into
effect practical co-operation, and a resolu
tion was adopted t hat $10,000 he set apart
each three months for that purpose. The
recommendations of tho general master
workman on co-operation were referred
to tho general co operative board.
A resolution was adopted recommend
ing that measures be taken to assist farm
ers in retaining their lands.
The special committee on the financial
and industrial depression submitted a long
essay on the causes that have led to this
depression, and on the proper principles
of production and distribution,
Tng knights adjourn.
At its afternoon session the general as
sembly renewed ils demands made for
legislation at. previous sessions on the sub
jects of land, money, railroad, telegraphs,
c te. ii instructed the incoming legislative
committee to press the same, and empow
ered the executive board to appoint a
legislative committee to intend the ses
sions. of congress or any state legislature to
further tiie objects of ’the order. Various
special committees reports opposing con
vict labor, the importation of Chinese
labor, and ins nr mice schemes for the al
leged benefit of employes of
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
and Ohio railroad companies. The
committee on education was continued un
lit next session. The general executive
hoard was authorized to purchase a home
in Philadelphia for the family of the late
Uriah S. Htevcns, founder of tho order of
the Knights of Labor.
A resolution was adopted donating to
the Little Sisters of the poor of Richmond
the tables, trusses and muslin used in
Armory hull during the session of the gen
eral assembly.
All business having been disposed ofMr.
Powderly made a brief speech, congrutula-
ting the members of the assembly upon
their good work and urging them to de
part with the determination to push the
work of inculcating the principles of the
order.
T. O’Reilly, of the telegraphers district
of New York, then sang the ode of the
French Proletariat, the delegates present
joining in the chorus, and the general as
sembly was declared adjourned sine die at
5:45 p. in.
A fro|i Estimate.
Galveston, October 20.—Cotton firms
here report the receipt of inquiries regard
ing the probable top crop yield of cotton
in Texas this season. The New York and
New Orleans Cotton Exchanges have es
pecially evinced interest in tiffs (piestion.
Tho house of Kaufnmn & Rimge, which
has over 800 correspondents in the state,
authorizes tiie statement that they esti
mate the Texas top crop not to exceed
75,000 bales under the most favorable cir
cumstances. They also estimate that over
one-half of this late yield will come from
twenty five counties comprising a contract
ed district in west and southwest Texas.
The top crop will be a failure on the coast,
where the storms were very destructive to
crops.
A Triple Kiu'ort.
Washington, October 20.—Gen. N. C.
Wickham, vice president of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad, Col. A. S. Bu
ford, president of the Richmond and Dan
ville, and Maj. E. F. D. Myers, superinten
dent of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railway, arrived here to-night,
and will accompany the president to Rich
mond to-morrow.
lie Plead Guilty.
Washington, October 20.—It is learned
I at the pension office that at Chattanooga,
Teun., yesterday, Frank Surseen pleaded
j guilty of forgery in connection with the
; pension claim of Wm. Sharp, and was sen-
; fenced to a year’s imprisonment in the
Albany, N. Y., penitentiary.