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THE CAPITOL
The Bank Tax Re peal up in the
House.
SENATE TALKS TARIFF
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Mr Call Has a Besolutlon for
Investigation the Manner
Conducting Election.
Washington, June 1. —In the senate
a resolution was offered by Mr. Call
and went over for a day for the ap
pointment of a select committee of five
senators to investigate the subject of or
ganized efforts of corporations to con
trol elections of state legislators and
members of congress, and ascertain
whether corrupt means, such as bribery
by free transportation and the subsidizing
of newspapers have been resorted to;
and whether such acts are consistent
with the preservation of the republic of
the United States and the rights and
liberties of the people. At 10:40 the
tariff bill was laid before the senate,
the sugar schedule being the pending
question and Mr. Manderson proceeded
to speak upon it.
Mr. Strauss, of New York, offered a
joint resolution in the house upon the
extradition treaty with Russia, which
was referred to the committee on for
eign affairs.
After the call of committees for re
ports, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, an
tagonized Mr. Springer’s motion to take
up the bank tax bill by a motion to
consider bills on the private calendar.
The vote on a division was, ayes, 60;
noes, 88.1 Mr. Reed demanded a vote by
yeas and nays.
The motion was defeated, and the
house proceeded to consider the bank
tax bill.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, was enti
tled to the floor, but relinquished it in
favor of Mr. Mr. Broslus, of Pennsylva
nia, a member of the committee on
banking and currency, announcing that
he would finish his own speech at a later
period.
Pendleton King, of Guilford county,
North Carolina, has been appointed
chief of the bureau of archives of the
senate department.
Referred to the Grand Jury.
Washington, June I.—District At
torney Birney has concluded to lay the
matter of the two correspondents, who
refused to answer questions asked them
by the sugar investigating committee,
before the grand jury on Monday next.
Attorney Birney said he did not expect
an indictment to be made out in less
than 10 days, and it will take nearly
that length of time to prepare the docu
ment.
A Transfer of Officials.
Washington, June I.—George H.
Donnell, of Mississippi, has been ap
pointed chief clerk of the census bureau
at $9,500 per annum. James H. White,
of New York, whom Donnell succeeds,
has been transferred to the pension
office.
For the Arrest of Waite.
Denver, June I.—lt is reported that
arrangements were made by the United
States army authorities to arrest Gov
ernor Waite for sedition if he sent mili
tia to Cripple Creek to prevent the de
puty sheriffs from discharging their
duty. This was done under instructions
* irom Washington, it is said.
Schofield Denies It.
Washington, June I.—General Scho
field denies emphatically the report that
the troops had arranged to arrest Gov
ernor Waite in case of his attempt to
take command of the Colorado troops in
connection with the miners’ strike at
Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Governor Jones Is Indignant.
Caddo, I. T., June I.—Governor
‘ Jones has denied that he had ordered
troops to be sent here to protect the
mines and remove intruders. He says
if an order w?s sent with his signature
attached it was forgery. He is very in
dignant over the fraud practiced.
Breckinridge Declines.
Fulton, Bls., June I.—Colonel W. C.
P. Breckinridge has declined the invita
tion to deliver an oration here July 4,
writing that urgent business at Wash
ington and the great distance to Fulton
prevents his accepting.
Canada Accepts Bond for the Visitor.
Sandusky, > June I.— The yacht Visi
tor, recently seized for fishing in Cana
dian waters, has been released on giv
ing bend in 16,000. The Leroy Brooks
is still held at Amhentburg.
Cyrus W. Field Very Low.
NbwYobk, June I.—The condition
of Cyrus W. Field, who is lying ill with
consumption at his home, is reported
very grave. It is feared that he cannot
live more than a few days.
Faculty Members to Resign.
Bloomington, Ills., June I.—Five
members of the faculty of the Illinois
State Normal university, it is an
nounced, will resign at the close of the
present school year.
A Kentucky Coal Mine Bold.
Henderson, June I.—TheSurgis Coal
and Coke mines of Union county, which
the United States court had placed m
the hands of the Ohio Valley Banking
and Trust company as receivers on
March 10, were sold to Chicago capital
ists for $150,000, on terms satisfactory
to the former owners.
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
DYNAMITE IN ATLAN 1
The House of h Prominent Citizen Shaken
Up—Nobody Was Hurt.
Atlanta, June I.—Some one placed a
dynamite cartridge under the residence
of Mr. D. C. Wall, 23 Walker street,
some time after midnight and shortly
before 1 a. m. the .cartridge exploded
with a terrific noise. The explosion
shook the earth for several blocks away
and woke everybody in the Vicinity of
the place.
The force of the explosion tore up the
earth for several feet around anil did
great damage to the residence of Mr.
Wall and to the parsonage of the Wal
ker street Methodist church, occupied
by the family of Rev. J. H. Eakes. But
fortunately no one was hurt.
A detective went out to the scene of
the explosion about 1:30 o’clock, and
had a talk with all the parties. Rev.
Mr. Eakes was quite confident that he
was not the intended victim of the dy
namite. Mr. Wall believes that he is
the man the midnight murderer was af
ter, and thinks that he has a clue to the
guilty man. He had a difficulty with a
certain man several days ago and be
lieves that this man is at the bottom of
it. Something interesting, if not sensa
tional, may come out of the affair iu a
day or two.
WEALERS SPLIT UP.
Kelley's Crowd Quarreled at St Louis
and Two Hundred Deserted.
St. Louis, June I.—At daylight Gen
eral Kelley ordered the hausers cut
loose from the levee where his navy has
been tied up for some days and the fleet
started on its way down the river to
Cairo. Owing to dissension in the navy
over charges of misappropriation of
funds, improper distribution of supplies,
indiscreet conduct with one of the “an
gels,’’ etc., about 200 of the common
wealers under the leadership of Colonel
Speed, deserted the navy here and re
fused to continue with Kelley. They
are still encamped on ths levee and de
bating whether to go to Washington
over land or follow the regular contin
gent.
Mrs. Edna Harker, of Council Bluffs,
yvho, with Mrs. Annie Hooten, of Oma
ha, has been with the army since leav
ing the latter city, has deserted the
party. She alleges that her departure
is due to her indignation over the im
proper conduct of Mrs. Hooten and Gen
eral Kelley.
CHOLERA NEWS.
Surgeon General Wyman Has Been Ad
vised of Its Progress Abroad.
Washington, June I.—Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, of the marine hospital ser
vice, has received cablegrams announc
ing the presence of cholera in Silesia,
Prussia and Poland. Dispatches from
Surgeon Irwin at Berlin are as follows:
“ f "’olera prevails at Myslowitz, upper
Silesia, and is spreading over the Rus
sian border pud m the district of
Stetin.”
A second message says; “Cholera
Sevails at Mlava, in Poland, near the
strict Stettin, but not In town.”
Referring to these dispatches, Dr.
Wyman said the disease, so far, was not
epidemic.
Cholera Reported at Mecca.
London, June I.—A Cairo dispatch
to The Daily News says it is reported
that there has been an outbreak of
cholera at Mecca.
Marder and Suicide.
New Orleans, June I.—At Simmes
port, a small town on the Atchafalaya
river, a difficulty occurred between one
Dr. Mason and a fisherman, resulting in
the probable fatal wounding of the for
mer. Thinking that he had killed Ma
son, the fisherman jumped aboard his
shanty boat and turned it adrift on the
river, after which he set it on fire, shot
himself through the body, aud was
burned up with the boat. Both parties
are strangers.
Amateur Aeronaut Drowned.
Cincinnati, June I.—At Manhattan
beach, down the river, Eddie Hill, an
aeronaut from Staten Island, N. Y., re
fused to ascend because it was raining.
Isaac Adler, a youth, broke away from
his mother and sister and volunteered.
When 1,000 feet up he released the
parachute. Adler, who was inex
perienced. fell on his back in the Ohio
river and disappeared. He lived in
Cincinnati.
Two Young Ladies Drowned.
Washington, June I.—A special from
Birmingham, Ala., says: S. W. King
and his two daughters, aged 18 and 16
years, respectively, were crossing the
Tennessee river at Hobb’s island, Ala
bama, in a frail skiff, following in the
wake of a transportation steamer, when
the strong suction from the steamer
pulled the skiff under the waves. The
girls were drowned before help arrived.
The Author of “Hazel Kirke" Divorced.
Sioux Falls, 8. D., June I.—A de
cree of divorce has been filed in favor of
Mrs. Mary Cahill, of Brooklyn, N-. Y.,
from Michael Cahill, of Chicago, editor
of The Home Light. Non-support was
alleged. The plaintiff is known in lit
erary circles as Marie Walsh, author of
“Hazel Kirke” and other kindred nov
els. Cahill was here but did not con
test the decree.
The St. Thomas Flag incident.
St. Thomas, Ont., June I.—United
States Consul Willis has been called to
Ottawa by the consul general in con
nection with the flag incident on the
aueen’s birthdav.
Claims of Bank Tax Repealers.
Washington, June I.—The leaders of
the state bank tax repealers in the house
claim to command 140 votes for repeal
in some form. This, in a full house.will
not insure victory, but they claim, will
win in an average attendance.,
SOME, GA, SATURDAY .MORNING, JUNE * 1894.
THAT CONGRESS.
Matters About immigration
Pretty Weil Adjusted.
STRONG RESOLUTIONS,
The Direct Trade and the Cot
ton States Show
Endorsed.
Augusta, June I.—The Immigration
congress, in point of numbers and the
character of the work accomplished, has
been a success; every southern state,
with the exception of Louisiana, being
represented.
The following recommendations sub
mitted by the committee on resolutions
were adopted by the congress:
1. That wherever county and state or
ganizations have not already been formed,
they be at once perfected, and that the of
ficers of such county organizations consti
tute a state board or immigration.
2. That the officers, duly authorized by
each state convention shall report the re
sults of their efforts at least twice each
year to the secretary of the Southern Im
migration congress.
3. That the Southern Immigration con
gress urge the co-operation of all rail lines,
state and county officers and the citizens
at large in the furtherance of the plan
proposed.
4. That this congress earnestly recom
mends to the congress of the United States
the establishment of a permanent exposi
tion at the national capital in which the
products and resources of the several
states of the Union may be fitly and prop
erly displayed, and we urge upon the leg
islature of the various states an appro
priation of the money necessary to estab
lish and maintain this most practical
method of bringing to public attention
the resources of the one common country.
5. That the congress of the United
States is earnestly urged to make such
appropriations as may be needed to carry
into effect the recommendations of this
Congress.
6. That this congress appoint a commit
tee to consist of five of its members, to de
vise some practical plan to lay before the
better class of immigrants from Europe
the manifold advantages of the south and
to induce and direct this immigration to
the southern states, which committee
shall report to the next meeting of this
congress.
The congress urged combined efforts
on the part of newspapers, lauded cor
porations, boards of trades and railroads
in establishing a train of cars, laden
with the products of the south, to be
sent through the north and into Canada,
exhibiting the rich resources of the sec
tion.
A committee, with Governor Northen
at the head, was appointed to confer
with the Southern Railway and; Steam
ship association for the purpose’ of se
curing the best rates possible on south
ern products.
A strong plea was made in favor of a
better public road system; direct trade
was heartily endorsed; geological sur
veys were commended, and an urgent ap
peal made for fair and equitable treat
ment, on the part of the people, of the
two great interests of the country—labor
aud capital.
A set of resolutions was offered by
Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
strongly endorsing the Cotton States
and International exposition.
STORM IN TEXAS.
No Lives Lost, but a Vast Amount ot
Damage Was Done.
Hillsboro, June 1. —A destructive
storm of wind and rain has passed over
this city. The Episcopal church is com
pletely demolished. The residence of
John Hodge was blown down, and part
of it, with most of his furniture, was
blown into the lake. The grand stand
at the fair grounds was blown away, a
portion of it being blown nearly a mile
across the lake.
Every church in town is damaged.
Several houses are reported blown down
in the country.
The cresting on the courthouse was
blown off and the roof badly damaged.
Fifty houses were shifted on their foun
dation.
The corn and oat crops are seriously
damaged. No lives are reported lost.
Railroads suffered severely from wash
outs. Their losses will amount to sever
al thousand dollars.
Destruction in Colorado.
Colorado Springs, June I.—Chicago
creek and Clear creek are raging tor
rents. Telegraph poles and trees are go
ing down before the flood, and thous
ands of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed. Many mines have been
flooded and tunnels have caved in.
Freight and passenger trains are many
hours late.
A Wealthy Citizen's Suicide.
Anthony, Fla., June I.—Mr. Dave
Turner, a wealthy citizen of this place,
committed suicide by hanging himself
to a girder in hie barn. He left a note
stating that he was too miserable to
live. Why he was miserable no one
knows,as he possessed a comfortable for
tune and his domestic relatione were
pleasant.
A Ministerial Crisis in Uruguay.
Buenos Ayres, June I.—According
to advices received here from Montevi
deo, the cabinet of Uruguay is on the
point of dissolution, and President Idl
arte Borda will be compelled to an
nounce a new ministry. The retire
ments of the ministers of finance and of
foreign affairs are momentarily expect
ed.
Quiet in Illinois Mining Towns.
Minonk, June I.—Everything is quiet
here and in the surrounding mining
towns. Trains are all running on time
and hauling more or less coal. No
trouble is anticipated unless the strike
continues into next week. The relief
committee is attending to the wants of
all miners actually in need.
THE RED CROSS.
t f J •' .1 ’ ■ ! ; ■ . ! :
The South Corlinlans are very
Greatful
THEY HAVE BEEN AIDED
More Than Thirty Thousand
Suffers From the Great Storm
Have been Cared For.
Beaufort, June I.—The National
Red Cross is nearing the completion of
its valuable work in the Sea Islands,
along the South Carolina coast. It has
taken care of 30,000 sufferers from the
great West Indian hurricane of last Au
gust, besides assisting more than that
number of persons outside the Sea
Islands territory, and all on less than.
$35,000. So valuable have the people in
and about the devastated district
thought the services of Miss Clara Bar
ton and her assistants of the Red Cross,
that 10 of the most prominent citizens
of that part of the country, including
Mayor Holmes, of Beaufort, and Com
modore L. A. Beardsleo, U. S. N., the
commandant of the United States naval
station at Port Royal, have issued a
statement in which, after praising Miss
Barton for her unselfish and untiring ef
forts in behalf of the stricken Sea
Islanders, they say:
Upon closing up her labors In this- field,
we, in behalf of the thousands who have
been so liberally benefitted by her chari
table work, tender to her and her staff of
co-workers our most heartfelt and sincere
thanks and high appreciation of the grati
fying results of their labors.
In conclusion, we deem it a pleasure to
be enabled to place upon record our confi
dence in the Red Cross, together with that
of the thousands of others through the
country who have preceded us, and who
have had an equal opportunity with us to
observe the workings of this organization
and be imbued, as we have, with its effi
ciency and availability promptly to meet
any emergency upon which it may be
called to administer, and to affirm how
well founded is the confidence reposed in
tne American National Red Cross.
A TRAMP’S VICTIM.
The Young Daughter of a Massachusetts
Farmer Assaulted While Alone.
Greenfield, June I.—William Sees
ler, a farmer, came to Greenfield for the
Memorial day exercises, bringing all
the family but his pretty 15-year-old
daughter, whom he left alone in charge
of the house. A man who looked like a
tramp stopped at the Sessler home and
asked the girl for food. She declined
to give him any. Thereupon he seized
her by the throat, choked her and beat
her with a meat cleaver which was
lying near.
The girl wrested herself away fxom
the man and ran upstairs to her cham
ber. The man followed, threw her to
the floor and beat and choked her until
she became unconscious, and hence an
easy victim. The child’s clothing was
almost torn from her body and her as
sailant evidently left her for dead'
When she began to recover conscious
ness her first thought was of flight, and
she jumped from a window lo feet to
the ground. The fall rendered her un
conscious again, but after a while she
recovered and was able to crawl to the.
home of the nearest neighbor, where
she was carad for.
There were no men at homo in the
neighborhood, and it was late in the day
before officers were notified. They have
found no trace of the assailant.
The girl is so badly hurt that she may
not recover. It appears from her story
that the man called early in the day.
She thinks she lay unconscious for a
long time.
AN AMERICAN ARRESTED.
General Hewston Accused of Killing a
Street Musician In London.
London, June I. General John
Hewston, an American who has been
staying at the First Avenue hotel, has
been arrested, charged with causing the
death of George Burton.
While walking in Gray's Inn road
General Hewston was rudely jostled by
a party of itinerant musicians. He re
monstrated,whereupon the party turned
upon and struck him.
General Hewston defended himself
with an umbrella, the point of which
entered the left eye of Burton, one of his
assailants, and he fell. Barton was
taken to a hospital, where he died.
General Hewston tells the police that,
as he was passing through Gray’s Inn
road, three musicians, who were play
ing in the road, molested him. He ex
postulated and asked to be allowed to
pass, but the men, seemingly bent on
mischief, continued to insult him. Fi
nally one threatened to strike him with
a stool. The general raised his um
brella to ward off the blow, and the
ferrule by accident penetrated Burton's
eye.
Burton, in an ante mortem statement,
denied that he attacked anybody.
An official from the United States
embassy offered bail for General Hew
ston, but it was refused.
General Hewston is a Californian.
How to Treat Tarantula Bites.
Dubuque, la., June I.—Jacob Werb
was bitten by a tarantula while hand
ling a bunch of bananas. His thumb
immediately swelled to an enormous
size, but a string quickly tied about the
base stopped the circulation of the blood
and spreading of the poison. He was
hurried to a surgeon, who silt the thumb
down the middle and then cauterized
the wound. This prompt action saved
his life. _
Petroleum Oil from Russia.
San Diego, Cal., June I.—There is a
story current here to the effect that ar
rangements are being made to supply
the Pacific coast with petroleum from
Russia, and it is said that the Standard
Oil company is interested.
FOR TOTAL PROHIBITION.
The Georgia Convention Believes In Mo
Half-War Ground.
Atlanta, June I.—The convention,
of Prohibitionists, just adjourned in
Barnesville, speaks in up uncertain
terms on the liquor question, and those
who-believed that the agitation of this
matter ip politics had taken a back seat,
may have, been disappointed.
The following resolutions, offered by
the chairman of the committee on reso
lutions were adopted by the convention:
Whereas, It is our belief that a majority
of the voters in the state of Georgia are
against the perpetuation of barrooms;
therefore, be it
Resolved first, That as consistent Pro
bibltibniste, conserving alike our con
science dnd our conviction, we hereby
pledge ourselves to support no man for
the legislature who is known to be op
posed to the enactment of a state law.
Resolved second, That the executive
committees in the respective counties arg
hereby charged with the duty of ascer
taining the views of those who propose to
represent us.
Resolyed third. That our president is re
quested to see that there is such a com
mittee in each county, urging the above
duty upon them when such committees
exist and appointing when they do not.
Resolved fourth, That as individual
members of this body, we pledge ourselves
to lend our influence and aid In carrying
the above action into effect and in securing
the great end contemplated.
Resolved fifth, That in furtherance of
the above ends, our county executive com
mittees are earnestly requested to circu
late petitions urging upon the next gener
al assembly the abolition of barroomsand
forward said petitions to the president of
this association.
The convention outlined a bill to be
presented to the next general assembly
of Georgia which is designed to effectu
ally prohibit the sale of liquor within
the state, and a committee was appoint
ed to draft the bill and attend to its in
terests before the legislature.
A set of resolutions, providing for the
employment of a state organizer, at a
salary of $1,200 per annum, whose duty
it will be to travel over Georgia and see
that the Prohibitionists in every county
are properly organized, and to deliver
lectures on his rounds, was adopted,
and his salary pledged on the spot.
The following are the officers elected
for the year:
President—C. R. Pringle.
First vice president—W. B. Hill.
Second vice president—Dr. J. B. Gam
brell.
Third vice president—Rev. C. F. Wil
liamson.
Recording and corresponding secre
tary—A. A. DeLoach.
Treasurer—Captain W. H. Brother
ton.
HELD IN SLAVERY.
A Boston Woman's Treatment of a Little
South Carolina Negro Girl.
Boston, June I.—The Herald prints
a story of a colored child who was
brought to this city eight years ago
from Beaufort, 3. C., being then 10
years of age, by a Boston woman, under
promise of a good home, a good educa
tion, and other things whereby her con
dition would be vastly ftnproved.
For four years, it is stated, the girl
was compelled to do the drudgery of
the house, was paid no wages, was for
bidden books or companions, was locked
in the house, and on niany occasions
subjected to severe punishment. She
was. not allowed to communicate in any
way with her parents in the south, and
never heard from them except through
her mistress, who told her that her par
ents did not want her to come back.
One day she was visited by a negro
woman, who had heard something about
her, and with her aid made her escape
to a friend’s house in South Boston.
Since then she has worked in several
places, but her ill treatment has had its
effect upon her, and she is now suffer
ing from heart trouble, which will prob
ably result fatally in a short time.
Legal proceedings have been talked
of, but it is so long since the girl made
her escape, and so many changes have
been wrought meantime, that it is hard
ly probable that they will materialize.
Tom Paine Is Not Forgotten.
Frederick, Md., June I.—Aaron Da
vis, residing five miles from Frederick,
at his country place. Park Ridge, is
making arrangements to celebrate the
eighty-fifth anniversary of the death of
Thomas Paine, June 8. The farm bell
will be tolled and a United States flag
will be draped in black. Thomas Paine
was one of the active spirits of the revo
lution, and the anniversary of his death
is regularly observed by a coterie of ad
mirers in Frederick county. His lack
of orthodoxy in religion is forgotten in
admiration of the boldness of his pa
triotism and the great services he ren
dered the colonies in achieving their in
dependence.
Shot a Negro Robber.
Columbia, S. C„ June I.—A clerk in
L. H. Miller’s store, at Lamar, in Dar
lington county, shot and killed Will
Thomas, alias Cuffy McLeod, a negro,
who was caught by the clerk in the act
of robbing the store. He drew a pistol,
but the clerk was too quick for him.
Thomas was under suspicion of having
been implicated in a recent incendiary
fire and bore a bad character.
Dußlgnon Gives Way to Turner.
Savannah, June I.—M. F. G. dußig
non. who has heretofore been considered
a probable candidate for the United
States senatorship from Georgia, has
announced that, in view of the fact
that Hon. Henry G. Turner had an
nounced himself as a candidate for sen
ator, he would not enter the race.
will probably support Mr. Turner.
A Land Office Offender Caught.
Portland, Ore., June I,—August F.
Hanlon, who has been here for several
months, has been arrested on a tele
graph warrant from Perry, O. T. He
was an employe in the land office there,
and was indicted for taking bribes in
regard to homesteads,
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PRICE FIVE uENTS.
REMARKABLE RIDE.
James Knox Stems Hell Gat®
Rapids on a Log.
MADETHETRIPON A WAGER
He Made the Round Trip on a
Square Stick of
Lumber.
New York, June I.—Of all the sto
ries told about navigating Hell Gate
none is so extraordinary as the one of
an occurrence which a great mass of
people have just seen with their own
eyes. Probably when they tell how a
man made his way through those dan
gerous eddies and sweeping currents
standing upright on a square log the
yarn will be received with doubt.
The man who did this was James
Knox, a young Canadian, who had been
employed by the dock department for
the past five years. About a week ago
Robert S. Russell, the submarine diver
of the dock department, was talking to
some men about Knox’s skill in riding
logs, ond he ventured to say that Knpx
could make the trip through Hell Gate.
The upshot was a wager by the terms of
which Knox was to jump on the log at
the foot of Ninety-second street and nav
igate it around to the steamboat dock ip
front of the old Homeopathic hospital,
on Ward’s island, and through the most
dangerous parts of Hell Gate.
The start was made at 3:30 o’clock,
about two hours before high water,
when the tide was strong. A stiff south
east wind increased the difficulties of
the undertaking. Knox carried a pine
pole 15 feet long, tapering from 2 1-2
inches at one end to 1 inch in diameter
at the other end.
The rope holding the long was untied.
Knox pushed it a little way from the
pier and then sprang nimly upon it. He
held the pole by the small end and dip
ped the heavy end in the water. He
stood perfectly still, and then he began
to make the log revolve. It was plain
that the direction of the wind ana tide
were such that Knox could not make
headway against them. He would have
been carried up the Harlem river, and
it was therefore necessary to tow him
out in the stream. Mr. Russell made
fast a line, and pulled out towards Mill
rock followed by a small fleet of row
boats.
Knox stood upon the log with the ut
most composure. Half way between
Mill Bock and the shore, the log was
cast loose and, although Knox worked
like a man in a treadmill, the wind and
the tide carried him away from the
dangerous channel. Again he was taken
in tow and drawn to the other side of
Mill Rock, where the tide sets up the
sound.
When he was cast loose for the second
time he began to work along smoothly.
A big ferryboat passed within 30 feet
of him, and tossed his log about in the
most eccentric fashion. But it did not
trouble Knox in the least. A few min
utes after the ferryboat had passed he
approached those boiling, seething
waters known as the Hog’s Back. He
studied the water carefully, and saw
that the strongest current was inshore,
where it van like a mill race. This he
decided was best for him. He changed
his direction by making the log revolve,
but to do this he had to keep his back
towards tjio direction in which he was
moving. Every few moments he stopped
and looked over his shoulder. He
moved from one end of the timber to
the other in order that the tide would
catch it and throw it around.
When he had worked it into the posi
tion he considered most favorable,
Knox stood upright, with his pole
touching the water, and was swept
along with startling rapidity. After
Horne’s Rock was passed, Nigger Point,
that great ribbed rock thrusting its nose
into the roaring waters, confronted the
remarkable navigator. He guided the
timber farther from shore, and then ran
along with the current around the
southern extremity of Ward’s island
and into the broad channel. From
there he managed to guide the timber,
with the assistance of the current, to
the steamboat landing on the island.
Knox stood on the timber an hour and
a quarter in making the trip of a mile
and a half. He wasn’t at all tired. The
beam was tied to the landing while they
waited another hour and a half for the
tide to turn.
When Knox started back several
steamboats passed near him, and once
or twice the big stick seemed to stand
almost on end. Bnt even this didn’t
trouble the young man. Because of the
currents and the wind Knox could not
make the landing at Ninety-second
street, so he ran into the pier at Ninety
fifth street.
Russell said he had S3OO staked on
the result. Knox said a saloon keeper
named Kennedy, who has a place in
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street,
had wagered that the trip would be
made successfully.
A Little Girl Killed by Lightning.
Rich Hill, Mo., June I.—A 19-year
old daughter of Mathias Rapp, a promi
nent farmer residing about 10 miles
east of here, was struck by lightning
while milking a cow in her father's
barn, and instantly killed. A brother
of the girl was severely shocked.
The Co-respondent Must Pay Costa.
Edinburgh, June 1.-—The court
has granted to Murray Grant a divorce
from his wife, and ordered the co-re
spondent, Viscount Baring, to pay the
costa of the suit.
The Latest Froet Yet.
Nashville, June I.—There was a
light frost in this vicinity. There is no
record of such an occurence in any pr»>
vious year as late as June 1.