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VOL. VI. NO. l.»58
SUGAR SENTIMENT
May Play a Part In the Lou
isiana Senatorship.
SENATOR BLANCHARD
His Free Sugar Idea May Mili
tate Against Him—Gov. Fos
ter Against This Clause.
Washington, Feb. 21. —The belief is
Strong in the Louisiana delegation in
congress that Representative Blanchard
will be appointed by Governor Foster
sen ..or to succeed Senator White, and
I* *• Blanchard was greeted by bis asso
dates in the house as “Senator” Blanch
ard. .He Was a leading candidate for
thasenate at the time of Senator Gibson’s
death, and, up to the time of Senator
Cass rey’s appointment it was thought
Mr. Blanchard would be named. He
comes from the northern part of the state,
and as that section has not had a senator
i in 50 years it is said that Governor
Foster will be inclined to go there for
the new senator.
Jr Senator (Jaffrey, thinks, however, that
Mr. Blanchard will not be chosen, and,
as he is very close to the governor, being
his appointee as well as his cousin, bis
opinion is entitled to credence. He
thinks an appointment will be made
1 soon, and that the appointee will be a
l man who will help to make the fight in
Efe the sugar interest in the senate.
to the senate would be unquestionable if
! it were not that he voted tor the Wilson
I bill with its free sugar clause. Governor
I Foster comes from one of the large sugar
K sections, and is said to be one of the most
■ Vigorous opponents of free suar,
F The appointment to succeed Senator
White will be operative only for a few
V months, as the Louisiana legislature
r will meet in May. It will have the un-
L usual task of filling three senatorial
terms. It will name a senator to till the
k < unexpired term of Senator Gibson, to
which the governor appointed Senator
Caffrey; a senator for the full term af
ter March, 1895, and a successor to Sen-
* ator White.
When Representative Boatner of Lou
isiana, was asked halt' an hour after the
nomination who was the strongest can
didate for Senator White’s seat, he re
plied that, in his opinion. Representative
Blanchard stood the best chance for the
■uocession.
AFTER ABSENTEES.
L Mr. Reed Wanted to Know of the Ser-
| geant-at-Arius Where They Were.
1 Washington, Feb. 21.- After read-
ing the journal in the house Mr. Reed
b asked for a report from sergeant-at-arms
I under the order to arrest absentees.
That official reported all absentees either
in Washington or en route hither, except
those sick and excused and seven others
who had been sent for.
, Mr. Reed asked if any were under ar-
t rest. Sergeant at Arms Snow reported
that there were none. Mr. Reed re
marked that there had been no difficulty
in arresting Republicans, and insisted
that the others should be arrested.
Speaker Crisp thereupon directed Snow
• to execute the order.
Mr. Bland moved to take up the seig
norage bill and the yeas and nays were
ordered without division. The vote re
►- suited: Yeas, 159; nays, 10. Ten short
of a quorum.
K , The vote on the second roll call stood:
k Yeas, 157; nays, 10. Twelve less than
a quorum. Mr. Reed made an effort to
induce Mr. Bland to permit the house
to proceed with the dubate, but it was
' unavailing.
In the Senate.
Mr. Allen, Populist, presented a reso
lution directing the attorney general to
I inform the senate whether he had in an
opinion to the secretary of the treasury,
k held that silver certificates were not le-
gal money, and if so to transmit his
opinion with ill the correspondence to
the senate. The resolution, after a slight
amendment, was adopted.
Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the com
mittee on finance, denied in a most posi
tive manner the statement made in the
Washington dispatches to a Philadelphia
’ paper as to the action of the Democratic
members of the committee who are rep
resented as having gone to the White
g House and consulted with the president
K ub to certain items of the bill.
F He declared there was not the slight-
f est, faintest trace of truth in a single
k world or syllable in it. He was asked
B .- By Mr. Chandler as to the composition
» Os the committee. Whether Mr. Mills,
of Texas, or Mr. McPherson, was a
■ member of it, or whether both were
K members.
■ - A discussion was started, in which
I Messrs. Chandler, Platt, Voorhees and
B others, and is still going on, and has at
■ this time taken the character of sharp.
■ personal animosity between Mr. Chand-
B ler and Mr. Vest. Senators Mills an 1
v McPherson have also stated their rela-
K tive position m connection with the sub-
■ committee on tariff.
B The Lottery Laws.
■ Washington, Feb. 81.—The attempt
■ of the Louisiana Lottery company to re
st establish itself on United States soil at
| an obscure point in the state of Florida
1 ' has called attention anew to the federal
■ statutes, and with the purpose in view
■ of making them more binding than they
B are Senator Hoar introduced his bill
■ supplementary to all existing legists-
■ tion.
P OFFICIALS REMOVED.
B The Governor of Micblpan Take s Some of
■ Hi* Subordinate* to Account.
B Lansing, Feb. 21.--Drafts of indict-
■ ments are, it is reliably reported, being
ft prepared by the prosecution for submis-
B sion to the grand jury iigainst Secretary
K / es State Jochim, late Treasurer Hain-
blitser and Land Commissionyr Berry.
THE ROME TRIBUNE
c<jnecuveiy, lor maxing a raiserocora or
votes on the salary amendment of 1893. I
Another is against Attorney General El
lis for forging certificates of returns
from Gogebic county on the salary
amendments. All of Ihe cases grow out
of the alleged raising of the election re
turns to show the passage of amend
ments to the constitution increasing sal
aries.
Governor Rich, who has bad the cases
before him for some time, has decided to
issue an order for the removal of the ac
cused officials. When these officers
qualify they will at once commence quo
warranto proceedings against the pres
ent incumbents, who will be ordered to
show by what authority they hold their
office after the governor's removals.
They will show their certificates of elec
tion, and the appointees their appoint
ment to fill the vacancy. This will
make the issue to which the arguments
of counsel before the court will be ad
dressed.
NOVEL PROPOSITIONS.
Some Advice Furnished the Committee
am to How to Raiae Revenue.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The ways and
means committee has preserved a spe
cial bunch of papers containing remark
able propositions from people in various
parts of the country as the means for
meeting the government deficiency. One
of these urges a tax of $lO each on each
baseball or football club in the country,
and an additional sl<_>o for every game
of baseball or football played.
Another proposition is that a reduction
of iO per cent be made on all salaries to
goverment officials over SIO,OOO, the re
duction to continue until the hard times
are over. Another reformer proposes a
heavy internal revenue tax to be placed
on revolvers, pistols, dirks, daggers and
other weapons used in committing bodily
violence.
Various plans for protecting working
men have been suggested, one of thes.i
being a tax of $ iOO on every immigrant
coming to this country to work.
Senator Gonnan Has Estranged Himself.
Annapolis, Md., Feb. 21.—Reports as
to the strained relations between Presi
dent Cleveland and Senator Gorman, on
account of the latter's vote against Peck
ham, have produced a profound impres
sion in Annapolis. A large number of
members of both houses of the general
assembly are applicants for federal
offices, and they have been relying upon
Mr. Gorman's supposed powerful in
fluence witli the president to make their
calling and election sure. Reports of
decided differences have reached Annap
olis, and the candidates for places are
beginning to ask themselves “where they
are at?”
Took Antimony for Bismuth.
Montreal, Feb. 21.—The young wife
of Dr. F. R. England, a prominent phy
sician, has been killed by a clerk’s mis
take. An order was telephoned to a
drug store for bismuth, but being out of
the drug, it was filled by a wholesale
house, where a man of many years’ ex
perience sent antimony by mistake. The
powder looked so much like bismuth
that Mrs. England took ihe antimony.
Clark Howell Preferred.
New York, Feb. 21. —At"a meeting
of the executive committee of the Inter
national League of Press clubs, held
here, Mr. Clark Howell was elected first
vice president to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of George W. Childs. The
execut : ve committee discussed the com
ing international convention to be held
in Atlanta and made some arrangements
in regard to the convention.
Christened the President's Daughter.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The presi
dent’s younger daughter was christened
Esther Cleveland in the blue parlor of
the White House, by Rev. Dr. Sunder
land. The president, Mrs. Cleveland,
Mrs. Perrine, Dr. Bryant and a very
few intimate friends of the family were
present. Mrs. Perrine left for Buffalo
after the ceremony.
Puck*. Editor Dead.
New York, Feb. 21.—Joseph Kep
pler, the caricaturist, the editor and
part proprietor of the comic journal.
Puck, has just died at his residence, 27
East Seventy-ninth street, in the fifty
sixth year of his age. The immediate
cause of death was heart failure, result
ing from a complication of lung and
spinal troubles.
How the Student Was Killed.
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 21.—The re
sult of the autopsy on the body of A. H.
Linder, the Harvard student who was
fatally injured in a friendly boxing con
test last week, shows that death was
caused by a hemorrhage from a ruptur
ed blood vessel at the base of the brain.
Otherwise Linder was in excellent con
dition.
Czech Anarchists on Trial.
Vienna, Feb. 21.—Fourteen Czech
anarchists, who were arrested in Sep
tember last on charges of high treason
and manufacturing explosives have been
placed on trial here. The accused are
being tried before a jury.
The Prince.. Colonna's Divorce.
New York, Feb. 21.—There has been
a rumor to the effect that Princess Co
lonna, daughter of John W. Mackay,
had left for Dakota to secure a divorce.
Mrs. Mackay denied the story.
The Bennington in Behring Sea.
Gibraltar, Feb. 21.—The United
States steamer Bennington sailed hence
for Behring Sea, where she will do
guard duty under the provisions of the
Behring Sea tribunal of arbitration,
_ •
Chris Evans Captured.
Visalia, Cal., Feb. 21.—Evans, ths
outlaw, and his companion, Monel, sur
rendered to officers and a posse which
surrounded Evans' house at noon. <
HOME.UA.. iHUIiSDAY MOKNING, FEBRUARY 22. ia:.4
I PEACE REIGNS.
William and Bismarck Good
Friends Again.
Will be no chancellor
Will Bismarck Be, But Will
Stand High Up In the
Councils.
Freidrichsruh, Feb. 21.—The visit
of the emperor to Prince Bismarck, and
the complete reconciliation between
these two great personages will long be
the talk of Germany.
The emperor was warmly welcomed
at the railway station by Prince Bis
marck, who, after an exchange of cor
dial greetings, escorted the emperor
through double lines of enthusiastically
cheering people to the castle.
The emperor, upon entering the castle,
gave his arm to the princess and led her
upstairs to the drawingroom. Dinner
was begun at once. Twelve covers were
laid. The emperor had the princess on
bis right and the prince on his left.
Politics were not touched upon during
the dinner. The emperor chatted pleas
antly with the prince and princess en
tirely upon general subjects —the storm,
his children and the recent explosion on
i the battleship Brandenberg. The em
peror’s spirits have been depressed con
siderably by the sad accident on the
; ironclad, and he expressed his grief
■ freely. He also mentioned the recent
bomb explosion in the Hotel Terminus
case, Paris, and in Greenwich park,
London, saying that last week was a bad
week.
Then the emperor inquired after every
1 detail of Prince Bismarck’s health.
The dinner was the emperor’s regular
plain hunting fare, with brook trout,
, wild boar’s head and pheasants. But
the wines were most eloborate. The em
-1 peror tasted and drank of nearly every ■
• thing, but ate and drank little.
i The dinner lasted from 6 to 7:45. Then
the emperor rose and led the princess
into the drawingroom. The suite fol
; lowed.
] The emperor and the prince seated
I themselves at a small round table in a
, corner. Coffee, liquor and cigars were
served. The emperor smoked a cigar
. and Prince Bismarck smoked his pipe, a
j small oil lamp with a red shade stand
ing between them—there is no gas or
, electric light at Friedrichsrub. They
r then, for the first time, conversed alone
for over half an hour animatedly.
Princess Bismarck and the emperor’s
suite strolled about the adjoining apart
a ments.
It was generally noticed that the em
’ peror, throughout the visit, was very
• serious. Although not exactly ill, he
i looked pale and far from well.
f At 9 o’clock the emperor rose, bade a
j cordial goodby to the prince and prin
cess, and left, requesting the prince not
j to accompany him to the train. Prince
i Bismarck, however, followed, resting
on the arm of Count Moltke, and waited
till the train passed away.
When the train started the emperor
, was looking out of his car window. He
waved his hand to the prince and ac
’ knowledged the cheering of the crowd.
' but his face wore no smile. Colorless
1 and stern were his features.
I The prince walked back—pensively,
1 of course.
Nothing positive can yet be learned
‘ on the subject of the emperor’s private
’ conversation with Prince Bismarck.
Still, the information obtained justifies
the assertion that the emperor spoke on
various political matters, notably the
• course to adopt in ease the Reichstag
I rejects the Russian treaty. From hints
[ given, it may be stated that the emperor
asked the prince and princess to visit him
’ during the spring at Potsdam.
• The reconciliation is now complete,
’ and Bismarck's influence will soon be
1 felt again. But he will never again be
1 chancellor, although he could be if he
wished to. The emperor will probably
create an entirely new office for him at
an early date.
| Valliant's Daughter's Guardian Arrested.
, Paris, Feb. 21.—Acting under orders
I from the minister of the interior, the
• police throughout France are engaged in
’ ’ making extensive raids upon the haunts
.I of anarchists. A large number of ar
rests of men known to be anarchists, or
suspected of sympathizing with them,
have been made. Among those taken
into custody is Sebastian Faure. Faure
’ was appointed by Valliant. the anarchist
. recently executed, guardian of his youug
i ' daughter.
To Take the Kearsarge’s Place.
Colon, Feb. 21.—Her Majesty's Ship,
.' Cleopatra, has arrived here on her way
I' to Greytown, in Nicaragua, where she
will protect the English and other for
eigners who have interests there. The
Cleopatra was ordered to Greytown
1 , when the news of the wreck of theKear
• sarge became known, and her captain
i will do the work which Admiral Stan
, | ton would have done.
i.
Bayard Was at the Qneen's I.evee.
London, Feb. 21.—The Prince of
Wales had a levee in behalf of the
1 queen, at St. James palace. A brilliant
, gathering of notabilities was the result.
Among those present were the United
States ambassador, the grand duke of
Hesse. thejPrinces Henry anil Louis of
Battenberg. Prince Edward of S.ixe-
Weirnar and the duke of Connaught.
A Noted Spanish Contpntier Dead.
, Madrid, Feb. 21.—Francisco Asenjn
Barbieri, a well known Spanish com
poser of mnsic. is dead. He was Lorn
lu this city in 182 J. s
An Italian Violinist Dead*
Rome. Feb. 21.—Sivori, the distin
guished Italian violinist, has just died at
; Genua.
A HAZING HORROR.
Corneil Freshmen Suffocated
by Chlorine Gas.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.
During a Banquet, the Sophs
Turned the Gas On —3O
Persons Overcome.
Ithica, N. Y., Feb. 21.—About 30
Freshmen of Cornell University were
strangled by the Sophomores releasing a
large quantity of chlorine gas in their
dining-hall, where the Freshmen banquet
was in progress. It was with great diffi
culty that the Freshmen were resucitated
and some of them are very weak from
the effects of gas.
The Freshmen were in the midst of
their first year’s festivities when the
presence of the gas was discovered. In
a few minutes they were overpowered,
some becoming unconscious, while oth
ers suffered peculiar and maddening
sensations produced by chlorine.
Search was made for the Sophomores
who were guilty of the outrage as soon
ns possible after it became known, but
no trace was found of them. A colored
woman employed as cook died during
the night, and Thomas McNeal, of Pitts
burg, one of the students, is very ill from
the effects of the poisoning.
A REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE.
Those Pennsylvania Democrats Were Com
pletely Routed in the Election.
Philadelphia, Feb. 21. —Later re
turns received show that Galusha Graw,
for congressman at large, has i pl irality
exceeding 150,000, and the inuications
are that complete returns will increase
his plurality to at least 165,000. The
Democrats were completely routed.
Berks county, the banner Democratic
county, with majorities ranging from
7,500 to 10,000, gives Hancock, Demo
crat, only 2,500.
York county, another solid Democratic
stronghold which could bo relied upon
for a majority of 3.000 to 4,000 for the
Democratic candidate, gave Graw 300
plurality. The three principal anthra
cite coal counties, Luzerne, Lockawanna
and Schuylkill, all slip over to the Re
publican column.
McKeesport's Municipal Election.
McKeesport, Pa., Feb 21.—The ex
citement over the four cornered mayor
alty contest was intense and the vote
was so close that no candidate was de
clared |safe until the last return was
received at three a. m. The result is as
follows: Andre, Republican, 95a;Strat
ton, Democrat, 934; Thompson, Inde
pendent, 932; Reed, Citizens, 781.
MR. MILLS RETIRES.
Ho Was Only Temporarily Placed on the
Finance Committee.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Mr. Mills, of
Texas, has withdrawn from the senate
committee on finance, and will no longer
Bit on either subcommittee or full com
mittee. The senator, in an interview
with some newspaper men, spoke confi
dently of the success of the bill, and
predicted that it would be ready to re
port this week, but gave no indication
of the-fact that he contemplated this
step.
Speaking to a reporter later Mr. Mills
Baid: “I am not a member of the com
mittee, and only went on it in an emer
gency.” Senator Vest came to me and said
Jones and McPherson were away from
the city sick and Senator Vance was
down in Florida trying to recuperate his
health and he wanted me to join with
him in getting the bill in some sort of
shape; so that the work could be done in
good time. Under such conditions I
went to work with him and Senator
Jones, who was soon thereafter able to
join us.
“There has never been really any sub
committee. Senator McPherson has re
covered and is now in the senate doing
his work, and being a member of the
committee it is no more than right that
he should go on with it in my stead, as
I was but temporarily filing his place.
I have all the work I can do without
taking this upon myself, although when
the bill comes to the senate I will do all
I can to assist the committee.”
OUTWITTED ~ THE TRAMPS.
They Called Upon a Woman for Food and
Got a Flogging.
Perth Amboy, N. Y., Feb. 21.—Three
tramps went to the house of Mary Gre
mier, who lives on a lonesome part of
the road between this city and Wood
bridge, and asked for something to eat.
She told them that breakfast was over
and she had nothing for them.
The tramps forced their way into the
bouse and ordered Mrs. Gremier to pre
pare them breakfast, accompanying
their demand with threats. Not the
least dannted, she ushered them into the
dining room and invited them to take a
seat near a cheerful fire. She went out,
ostensibly to prepare something to eat,
and closed the only door of the room.
Then she turned the key, making the
thiee ruffians prisoners.
Running through the woods nt the
back of her house to a clay bank, Mrs.
Greimer told her hnsbaiil what, had
happened and then fainted. Calling a
half dozen browny cbiy miners to his
assistance, Gremier led the way to his
bouse. The tramps were capture!,
taken to the wools and s>um<!Jy fl jggid
with green hickories. Th hi they were
told to make tracks.
Chalnganga Uticonstitiitioual.
Columbia, S. C., Fob. 21.--Chain
gangs are unconstitutional in thin state.
So Bays the supremo cjnrt in a decision
just filed. The case cc vies from Charles
ton wbora a nrieoucj was put on the
chaingang for 30 day* An appeal w .is
taken on the ground that the punish
ment was not legal except upon convic
tion by a jury of 12, and that a sentence
to work in the chaingang is void iu law.
The supreme court holds that a jury
under 12 is constitutional, but that the
sentence to work on the chaingang is
null and void, on the ground that this
additional imposition to “fine or im
prisonment” exceeds the limit prescribed
by the constitution.
A South Carolina Outrage.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 21.—The Jour
nal publishes the following special from
Savannah: Last Friday night a party
of masked men went to the house of
Gage Ro. inson, a colored man residing
near Mr. Westry llarsey’s, on Sandy
Run, and shot him to death. Public
opinion and the general sentiment in the
community seem to indicate that the I
negro was a good, quiet and peaceable 1
kind of man and was liked by all in his
community. W arrants have been issued
for the arrest of the supposed guilty
parties.
A Hoarding Hohso Blown to Atoms.
Angels’ Camp. Cal., Feb. 21.—The
Austrian boarding house, owned by M.
Magude, situated opposite Stickles mine,
was blown to atoms by about 20 pounds
of giant powder at 2a. m. Magude and
a child were seriously hurt. Mrs. Ma
gude was uninjured. Most of the lodg
ers were at work on the night shift at
the time, or there would have been more
injured and probably some killed. The
perpetrators of the deed are supposed ’o
have been some in-dici'ius Austrian
miners having a grudge against Ma
gude.
Murdered Away Underground.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 21.—A das
tardly murder was committed 300 feet
underground, at Horse creek mines.
Two miners, Henry Johnson and Ed i
Miller, were on bad terms. They were
working near each other in the mines.
Miller extinguished the lamp on his cap,
and stealthily slipping up to Johnson in
the dark, struck him heavily on the
head with a coal pick, cleaving his skull
and killing him instantly. Miller es
caped.
West Virginia’s Uatcst Candidate*
Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 21.—Joseph
E. Chilton, of this city, has announced
himself as a candidate for the United \
States senate, to succeed Senator J. N. 1
Camden. Considerable interest is at
tached, to his candidacy because Mr.
Chilton is understood to be squarely
against the Wilson bill and especially
the free coal and lumber schedules,
while Camden favors the bill. Chilton
will make the campaign on this issue. >
Tlie Manager Is Mining.
New Orleans, Feb. 2i. —The “Mr.
Potter of Texas” company, which camo
here from New York a week ago and
opened at the St. Charles Theater, is
stranded here, and Manager Stephen 1
Leach has disappeared alter collecting
between S3OO and $lu() and leav ng sala- i
ties unpaid. The membirs of the com
pany are trying to get enough money to
enable them to tour Texas on the com
monwealth plan.
Heard of no More Trouble.
Richmond, Feb. 21. —Governor O'Fer
rall has received no further nor more
definite information of the firing upon
the Virginia oyster boat in Tangier sound
by Maryland dredgers. The command- |
er of the Chesapeake has been ordered
to proceed to the scene and render as- ;
listance to the policeboat already on '
duty there. The Chesapeake will take '
in 2<>o rounds of amunition at Old Point
before starting.
Brought a Case of Smallpox Along.
Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 21.—Lizzie
Foley, who returned from Paris on board
the steamer Majestic last Thursday,
came here Saturday, after spending the
night with relatives in Springfield, j
Physicians have discovered that she has
smallpox. Her mother’s home, on Frost
Street, is quarantined, and the family,
consisting of six persons, is isolated.
A Murderou. New Jersey Negro.
Cape May, Feb. 21.—The details of a
terrible wife murder have reached here.
The crime was committed in the village
of Goshen, about 15 miles away. Rich
ard Pierce, a negro, attacked his wife
with a hatchet. After hacking her head
in a frightful manner he seized a razor
and cut the unt'ortuuate woman's throat
from ear to ear.
INDICTMENTS FOUND.
Wholesale Fraud Charged in the Sale of
Postage Stamps.
Greenville, S. C., Feb. 21.—The
grand jury in the United States court
here has found 21 indictments against
Charles R. Barrett and others for using
the mails for defrauding the government
by the illegal use of stamps. Barret is
a prominent lawyer and politician of
Spartanburg. A majority of the ac
cused were postmasters, and several
were said to have been appointed at
postoffices created for them by Barrett’s
influence. I
By tiiis conspiracy scores of merchants 1
and manufacturers in northern, western .
and southern cities were defr.mde.l. an I :
the government was made to pay large <
amounts of commissions on Iranduleut '
sales of iHistage stamps. The cases wi>l
be tried at Charleston, and the govern
ment will put up over 109 witnesses, in
eluding business men from nearly all the
large cities besides Chicago.
tetter Carrier. Gain Th*lr Suit.
Washington, Feb. 21.- The court c
claims has rendered judgment in save
of 41 letter carriers of New York an
eight carriers of Bayonne, N. J., lo:
amounts ranging from s3l to $. f-8 o:
account of over time claims ua.kr the
eight hour law. j
PRICE HVE CENTS.
THE POLICE BILL
Used As a Political Argument
by Both Sides.
A GROTESQUE CHARGE.
Captain Seay Takes the Ag
gressive and Says It Would
Be a Good Thing.
The police commission bill, like Ban
quo’s ghost, will not down. First, Mr.
Moore’s friends took it up, and now
Captain Seay is pushing it for all it is
worth.
j There was an interesting meeting at
the city hall Tuesday night. The room
was full of colored ciitzens. The chair
man, Matt Butler, presided with becom-
I ing dignity.
| The most important speaker was Cap
tain John J. Seay, who seemed to have
the entire sympathy of the audience.
: The main object of his address was to
explain his position with regard to the
Polcie Commission bill, which he intro
duced in the legislature three years ago.
I Some of Mr. John Moore’s friends had
made the grotesque charge that the bill
was a scheme to disfranchise the ne
groes. Captain Seay read the entire
document to his able audience and ex
plained it, paragraph by paragraph. An
amusing feature of his speech was his
mention of the fact that Mr. John
Moore, his competitor in the municipal
race, signed a petition to the legislature
to pass the Police Commission bill. He
also said that Mr. McCaffrey signed the
petition.
i Having concluded his defense to the
entire satisfaction of the audience, Cap
tain Seay assumed the aggressive and re
marked sarcastically that a police com
mission would not be a bad thing now,
when policemen in the employ of the city
go regularly into the electioneering busi
ness.
Captain Seay was followed by Mr.
Lytle, the independent candidate for al
derman from the Fifth ward, who crit
icised the policemen for electioneering
and going about bantering men for bets
on the race.
1 Mr. J. H. Hoskinson, candidate for al
' derman on the Seay ticket, also made
a short and telling speech.
ANOTHER MEETING.
A John Moore meting was held on last
Monday night at Rawlesville just be
yond South Rome, by a large and en-
' thusiastic crowd. Speeches were made
Iby Messrs. Jake Moore, John Vandiver
I and L. Lytle. There seemed to be some
1 doubt as to the political complexion of
the crowd.
’ Bad Blaze in Ouincy.
Qcincy, Ills., Feb. 21.—A disastrous
fire occurred in the business portion of
tlie city and the damage reached over
$175,0 )0. Among the buildings and
contents destroyed are Sommer & Lynn’s
wholesale drug house, loss, $90,000; Re
liable Incubator works, loss. $22,000;
Sinnock & Nichols, merchants, loss, $67,-
000. They were partially covered by
insurance.
Franklin's Statue Transfected*
Philadelphia, Feb. 21.—The large
Btatue of Benjamin Franklin which
■ adorned the front of the Electricity
■ building at the World’s Fair, has been
I presented to the University of Pennsyl
vania and will be erected on tlie campus.
The city of Chicago is to take it down
and ship it without expense lo the uni
versity, which was founded by Frank
lin.
A Car Inspector Dropped Dead.
Clinton, S. C., Feb. 21. —James H.
Garrison, car inspector on the Georgia,
; Carolina and Northern railroad at this
place, dropped dead|very suddenly while
sitting |in iront of a barber shop. He
never uttered a word. Heart disease is
thought to have been the canse of his
death. He was a Mason, and from Ma
rietta, Ga.
An Agent Shoots Himself.
Somerset, Pa., Feb. 21.—H. A. Reed,
■ operator and station agent of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad, shot himself
with a revolver. The bullet entered the
breast and passed entirely through the
body, lodging under the skin of the back.
He will probably die. Despondence is
supposed to have been the cause for the
deed.
To Classify Pottal Clerk*.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Senator Mc-
Millan has introduced a bill to reclassify
and prescribe the salaries of railway
postal clerks. It divides railway postal
clerks into seven classes, the first to re
ceive not exceeding $800; second, $1,000;
third, $1,200; fourth, $1,300; fifth, sl,-
600; sixth, $1,600, and seventh, SI,BOO.
Killed In a Tunnel.
Chicago, Feb. 21.—Henry L. Holden,
I the wealthy gas fixture manufacturer,
1 was killed in the La Salle street tunnel.
The car upon which Mr. Holden was
riding slipped the cable and started
' down the incline at a terrific rate. Ho
1 jumped and was killed. None of the
other passengers were seriously hurt.
Mrs. Maybrick Not Hypnotized.
London. Feb. 21. —Home Secretary
Asquith has refused the request of Mr.
Tyndall, lately returned'from America,
that he be granted an interview with
Mrs. Maybrick in order to induce her to
consent to be hypnotized for the purposo
of establishing, if possible, her inno
cence.
Three of the four prisoners who last
week escaped from the Erie jail have
l been captured.