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ESTABLISHED 1887.
(IW IN MICHIGAN
Several Small Towns Wiped
Off the Face of the Earth.
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED
The Path of the Cyrlou* Wm Nearly a
Mlle Wide and Extended In a Straight
Course For a Di.tnnce of Over Thirty
Mile*- Illinois Abo Suffers Severely
From a Hurricane.
Oxford, Mich., May 28. —A cyclon*
•wept this part of Oakland county, doing
great damage. Everywhere is devasta
tion. Villages that- were Monday the
homes of contented citizens are now
desylate sites, and maimed and bruised
fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters
mourn for those who met death in the
twisting, grinding, resistless wind.
The death roll in this vicinity may
run to the 100 mark, for many homes
that were on the edge of the cyclone
■uttered fro-.n its fury. At Oakwood, a
hamlet 50 tnftes north of Oxford, hav
ing a population of about 200, not a
house is loft standing. The two churches
are flattened to the earth.
The path of the storm was between a
half and three-fourths of a mile wide
and extended in a nearly straight course
eastward foi over a distance of 30 miles.
A remarkable circumstance is that
buildings in close proximity to each
other were blown in opposite directions,
some being swept northward and others
Southward. The following are known
to have been killed in this county:
Near Ortonville:
W. J. Mitchell, wife and two children;
Diyiiel Thompson ami s. >u;Absitm Quick,
wife and tWb children; Mis. Henry
Sluick, John Wilkins, John Porritt, Mrs.
oseph Porritt, John Milkey, T. E.
Gleason,.Mrs T. D Eaton, Abe’Kited
ell, Mrs. William Kjtdjen, Edwin Fi
field, two children of Mr. Howe.
At Oakwood: >
Mrs. Susan Stewart, Mrs. E. A. Wol
verton, Mrs William Davidson and
daughter Ida, Ed Fifleld, child of Alfred
Fifleld. Ed Howe is fatally injured.
At Thomas:
Charles Hicks and son.
At North Oxford:
Mrs. Oscar Slate, Thomas Bishop, a
farm laborer, name unknown, Joseph
Smiley and son.
Injured:
• Frank Laidlaw, wife and child; Mrs.
Lqidhaw was seriously hurt.
At Thomas:
Mrs. 0. A Hicks, frightfully crushed,
Mrs. Sid C' peman, will not live; El
veroy Hicks, badly crushed; T. P.
Knapp, head badly bruised; William
Althonse, internal injuries; George Hib
ler, both legs broken; William Oarr,
tearfully bruised and injured internally;
Charles Bradley, injured about the head;
A. M. Kidder, arm badly shattered.
At Oakwood:
Al Fifleld, both legs broken, daughter
Jessie, badly hurt; Harvey Francis, in
ternal injuries, cannot live; Myron
Johnson, leg broken; Mrs. E. A. Howe
and one or two children.
Near O •■•nv’dlo between 20 and 25
were more or less seriously injured.
Thirteen Lives Lost at Cairo.
Cairo, Ills., Muy 26.—A storm struck
this locality at 8:30 a. m. There was a
terrific wind and rain. The opera house
and union depot wore unroofed. Num
bers of trees wei - destroyed and-signs
blown down, but no houses were des
troyed nor lives lost in the city. The
ferryboat Katharine was capsized at the
mouth of the Ohio, drowning all on
board but the captain, and engineer. As
near as can be learned, the dead num
ber 13, among them Captain Ditten
b *>se, superintendent of the ferryboat
company, Dr. Orr’s two daughters and
Richard Thurman of Wickliffe and
Charles Gilhoffer, a merchant of this
city. Oidy three bodies, those of Thur
fiiqn, Miss Orr and a deckhand have
been recovered.
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Wholesale Killing In Indiana.
VINCLNNES, Ind., May 26. Fort
Branch, a small village south of here,
was the scene of a wholesale tragedy.
A circus steamboatdanded and those on
board proceeded to take the town. They
sold liquor on board and all were drunk
and disorderly. The sale of whisky and
beer was ordered stopped, but little at
tention was paid to the demand of the
town marshal. A posse of citizens was
deputized and marched to the river
where the boat was moored. The posse
made an attempt to arrest the boat gang
and a prolonged battlejensued in which
it is reported several were mortally
wounded and five killed. The citizens
made an attempt to secure the craft
but failed, the circus • anchoring it in
midstream. All is now quiet and the
circus has left.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New InduHtrlee ai Reported For the Week
, ICndlng Tuesday, May 26. .
Chattanooga, May 38.—The indus
trial growth of the south shows no
abatement during the week ending Muy
26. The following new industrial estab
lishments were reported to The Trades
man:
Brickworks at Clarksburg, W. Va.;
the Georgia Car and Manufacturing
company, capital $500,000. at Savannah,
Ga.; a cotton compress at Ruston, La.,
and another at Yazoo City, Miss., to
cost $40,000; an electric light plant at
Dawson, Ga.; a grist mill and gin at
’ Weldon. Tex.; the Bonanza and Dry
Bone Mining company, capital SBO,OOO, 1
at Little Rock, Ark., and at Paris, Ark.,
the A merman Oil maximum
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
capital $1,000,050, to .reVeiop coal and
oil fields. At Sumter, Ark., the Sum
ter Cotton Oil and Fertilizer company,
capital $20,000, has been chartered; a
tannery will be erected at Dillsboro, N.
C., and a central ginnery at Vicksburg,
Miss.; cotton mills will be built at Char
lotte and Cherryville, N. 0., and a
woollen mill at Columbus, Ga., by the
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing com
pany. Woodworking plants will be es
tablished at Chattanooga, Tenn.; Ma
rion, N. C., and Fayetteville, W. Va.
Among other new industries in con
templation which have been reported
are clay works at Fort Payne, Ala.;
cotton mill at Corsicana, Tex.; electrical
plants at Barnesville and Gainesville,
Ga., oil mill at Ellerslie, Ga., and water
works and electrical plant at Alvin, Tex.
The enlargements reported include an
electric plant at Chattanooga, Tenn.;
copper mines kt Ducktown, Tenn., and
cotton mills at Augusta and Columbus,
Ga., and Blacksburg, S. O. The Colum
bia (S. C.) Water Works Power com
pany has increased its capital from
$600,000 to $1,000,000, and a cooperage
plant at Friar’s Point, Miss., will be en
larged.
Among the new buildings for the
week are a $40,000 church and a $20,000
club building at Louisville, Ky.; as2B,-
000 jail at Alvin, Tex.. and a iusidenoe
to cost $16,000 at New Orleans, La.
Business houses will be erected at Au
gusta, Ga., and Victoria, Tex.; an SB,OOO
church at Covington, Ky., and a court
house at Murick's Corner, 8. C.
GORDON ISSUES ORDERS.
Calls Attention to the Unveiling of a Con
federate -Monument at Winchester.
New Orleans, May 26. General
John B. Gordon, commanding United
Confederate /Veterans, in a general or
der referring to the approaching re
union, says:
Many of the veterans who attend the re
union at Richmond will visit the historic
battlefield in Virginia, numbers of which
they enriched'with their own precious,
blend and contributed by their valor to
make memorable for all times
la addition to tbe lading of the corner
, stone of the Jefferson Davis monument,
which will take place during the reunion,
the general commanding deems it proper
to call the special attention of all veterans
to an incident of great importance which
will occur at Winchester, Va., on July!,
the date having been changed from
June 27.
The Louisiana veterans will take advan
tage of the time and occasion to unveil
the monument which they have erected
'in the beautiful Stonewall cemetery, in
the historic town of Winchester, to the
memory of their beloved comrade's, the
confederate dead or Louisiana.
The reunion will close July 2, and the
unveiling of this monument to the Lou
isiana heroes will occur J uly 4. It will be
an event of unusual interest: t he • maimed
hero," General Francis T. Nicholls, will
be the orator of the 'day, and the good’
people of Winchester extend a hearty wel
come to all.
BIDS FOR GEORGIA BONDS.
A Cincinnati Firm Makes the Highest Offer
and Will I’robably Get the Entire Issue.
Atlanta, May 26. —Bids for the issue
of $242,000 of bonds of the state of Geor
gia were opened in the treasurer’s office
at the capitol. They were as follows:
E. D. Shepard & Co. of New York for
the 4 per cent bonds, 101.25; for 3% per
cent, .93. W. J. Hayes & Son of Cleve
land for 4 per cent, 100.67. Lamprecht
Bros. & Co of Cleveland for 4 per cent,
103.60 for $25,000, with the privilege of
taking the whole issue. Rudolph, Kley
bolt & Co of Cincinnati, 105.54 percent
and .97% for 3%. Deitz, Denison &
Prior of Cleveland and Boston for 4 per
cent, 102.78, for 3%, .96.16. Edward O.
Jones & Co. of New York for 4 per
cent, 102.10. John W. Dickey of Au
gusta for 4 per cent, 104.87, for 3%,
.97.97. Third National bank of Atlanta
for 4 per cent, 101.16. George W. Par
rot for 4 per cent, 102%. G. A. Speer
of La Grange for 4 per cent, 101.
The bid of Rudolph, Kleybolt & Co.
being the highest, will probably be
accepted.
The bonds are to be payable in “law
ful money of the United States.”
Searching For a Negro Fiend. '
Little Rocif, May 26.—A negro went
to the home of Mrs. Ingram, a respecta
ble white woman, 40 years of age, liv
ing three miles south of the city, and
committed a criminal assault upon her
and her 10-year-old daughter. The ne
gro clubbed both of his victims lentil
they were nearly dead. When the ne
gro had left her house, Mrs Ingram,
with her head and face cut and bruised,
and her clothihg torn and covered with
blood, made her way to the suburbs of
this city and gayb the alarm. Large
posses of officers are scouring the coun
try, and if the negro is caught there
Will surely be a lynching.
Dwyer Has Confidence In His Colt.
New York, May 26. The World
says: “Philip J. Dwyer has announced
to his friends that he will bet $50,000
that his colt Handspring will beat
August Belmont’s Hastings in the Bel
mont stakes at Morris park June 2. Mr.
Dwyer also announced that he was will
ing to mati-h his colt against Hastings
for $50,000, or against any horse in the
United States, weight for age, over any
distance that a 3-year-old could fairly
be asked to go.”
Contracts Will Be Respected.
Washington, May 26. —The state de
partment is officially informed that all
coiftracts for Cuban leaf tobacco en
tered into before the publication of the
order of Captain General Weyler, pro
hibiting its exportation will be respected
and that citizens of the United States
proving themselves to be boualide own
ers of such tobacco prior to the promul
gation of the order will be permitted to
export the same as heretofore.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, OA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1896.
A BIG DEMONSTRATION
Tennessee’s Fair to Be Form
ally Inaugurated Next Week.
STATE’S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
June 1 and 9 Will Be the Occasion For
Speech making, Far a des, Etc., at Nash
ville—Principal Address of the First
Day to Be Delivered by Hon J. M.
Dickinson*
Nashville, May 26.--The magnifi
cent preparations, that have been in pro
gress for three mouths for the events of
J une 1 and 2 in honor of the one hun
dredth birthday of the state of Tennes
see are nearing consummation, and the
city is a beehive of hurrying feet and
busy hands. On those days, with elab
orate c*j;einonies, the Tennessee Cen
teaflial exposition, now almost half
completed, will be formally inaugu
rated. The exposition will be open to
the public from May to November of
next year.
The troops which are to give the
splendor of martial array to the June
demonstration will arrive Saturday.
They will number between 4,000 and
5,000 men, infantry, artillery and cav
alry, about equally divided betweenffed
eral and state commands. June 1 Will
open with a sunrise salute of 16 guns,
indicative of the fact that Tennessee
was the sixteenth state admitted to the
Union. At 10 o’clock the parade, com
posed of the troops, 38 bands, distin
guished federal and state officials, so
cial, benevolent and industrial orders
and societies, municipal departments,
bicycle brigades and citizens in car
riages, on horseback and on foot,' will
move through the city to the exposition
grounds. Fifteen thousand, school chil
dren, having previously marched in pro
cession around the walks of the exposi
tion, will meet the head of the prin
cipal parade »t the gates, singing
“America.”
Where the Exercises Will Take Place.
The exercises will take place in the
auditorium, which has been completed,
with a seating capacity of b,OOO. The
governor of Tennessee will preside and
the principal address Will be delivered
by Hon. J. M. Dickinson of Nashville,
at present the assistant attorney general
of the United States. A salute of 100
guns will mark the 100 years of the
state’s existence. The centennial proc
lamation will be read by Major John
W. Thomas, president of the Tennessee
Centennial exposition, and as 44 guns
gre fired for the states of the Union and
as the thousands of children sing “The
Star Spangled Banner,” the flag of the
United States will be slowly hoistedtj
the tppjif {he stag, or sejafs of staffs,’
300 feet high. The prize centennial
poem by Mrs. Virginia Fraser Boyle,
who wdh the honor over 143 competi
tors, will be read, and a recess will be
taken until the afternoon, when the va
rious bands in different parts of the
grounds will give simultaneous concerts
of patriotic airs. At night there will
be a grand display of specially designed
Tlie addresses of the second day will
be delivered by Hon. A. A. Taylor, on
“Early Days in Tennessee,” and Hon.
E. W. Oarmack, on the “Future of the
State.” The exercises of the afternoon
will be conducted serially by the Ladies’
Hermitage association, the Daughters of
the American Revolution and the Co
lonial Dames, and the day will close
with a sham battle of immense propor
tions.
First State to Celebrate Its Birthday.
Tennessee is the first state of the
American Union to celebrate on a large
scale its one hundredth birthday. The
idea now being carried out took definite
shape in June, 1894, and the actual con
struction of the exposition began in the
fall of 1895. The demonstration is not
planned as a moneymaking enterprise,
but for the higher and nobler end of
meriting with proper dignity and dis
play the end of a century of vigorous
history; and only such things will be
Considered by (he management as dis
tinctly tend toward the holding before
the world, for a period of six months,
from a material standpoint, the most
complete array of attractiyg features,
and promoting, from a spiritual point
of view, the most patriotic feelings.
Three of tire exposition buildings have
be4n finished, alia the visitor on June 1
will find the walks of the principal
plan in perfect condition arid trees and
grass and flowers growing in profusion.
The three finished buildings are the au
ditorium, with its handsome colonnades
and 140-foot tower the woman’s build
ing and the administration building.
The commerce, machinery and transpor
tation and fine arts buildings are com
plete as to outward outline and another
month will find them finished. The
agricultural building has been com
menced. AU the buildings are to be
white. The exposition grounds comprise
a park of 20 acres, lying two miles west
of the state capitol and approached by
three lines of electric cars and steam
railway.
KIECKHOEFER LOCKED UP.
He la Charged With Eitihezz!lng 837,463
of the State Department Funds.
Washington, May 26.—Francis J.
Kieckhoefer, former chief of the bureau
of accounts and disbursing officer of the
state department, was arrested at his
house on a warrant sworn out by Chief
Clerk Renick of the state department.
He is charged with being on Aug. 10;
189 u, an embezzler of $37,465 of state
department funds.
Mr. Kieckhoefer might not have beetr
arrested had not a suspicion arisen that
he intended to go to Europe, where his
family ij->w is.
Mr. 'Jxieck’ioefer has prominent and
nfluential friends, and his release on
■ail will probably be secured in a few
tays. Had lie wanted to leave Wash
ogton at any time in the last five
nouths since his removal he could
etsily have done so.
The Kieckhoefer scandal daces back
o last August, when Auditor Holcomb
■f the treasury department began an
nvestigarion of state department ac
•ounts. He was incited to this by ru
nors which connected Mr. Kieckhoef
r’s name with that of a heavily losing
■ookmaker at the Jackson City and St.
ksaph tracks.
The state department accounts were
’ound to be badly mixed. The chief of
he.bureau of accounts not only handled
he salaries of ministers and consuls
.broad, but also all passport fees, the
noney received from the sale of bound
olumes of the United States statutes,
did the large sums in the various trusts
unds deposited by foreign nations as
(Wards to American claimants.
Owing to the lax system of accounts
t required long and careful examina
■•■ns by expert accountants to deter
mine how much had been taken. The
Audition of certain accounts rendered
v impossible to tell how • much was
’one, but in November Secretary Olney
oinunded Kieckhoefer’s resignation.
Early this month Auditor Holcomb
vas advised by the experts that they
iad discovered shortages amounting to
129,000. This the in excess of the
ulus which Mr. Kieckhoefer had turned
ii by the sale of property in an endeavor
o make good the deficit.
Certain items of shortage were se
<>.cted upon which a strong case could
■e made and the arrest followed. It is
xpected that a presentation to the
fraud jury will be made at the present
erm, though no trial can be looked for
’ lefore fall.
READY FOR THE FIGHT.
■ early All the Delegates co the Prohibi
tion Convention Are Now In Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, May 26.—Nearly all the
relegates to the national Prohibition
•onvention have arrived and thousands
■f visitors interested in the proceedings
iave come with them. As each state
•elegation arrives, the friends of both
actions, free silver and gold standard,
o after them with arguments of per
vasion.
Each faction is doing its utmost to
■ioselyte supporters of the other’s prin
iples. Each faction claims a majority
>f the delegates, but the efforts are un
eiaxed and the contest is as yet any
tody’s
The first question upon which the op
■osiiig wings of the party will test their
wul be the naming of a tem-
TGriry chairihau. He will be chosen at
be mating of the national central com
uittCT to be held at the Seventh A va
lue hotel. Those prominently men
ioned for tbe place are A. A. Stevens of
Tyrone, Pa., and Edward J. Wheeler of
_\’ew York. The former will be backed
jy the narrow gnagers or gold standard
nen, while the latter will carry the
tree silver standard.
Wiiidowglafta Factories to Close.
PITTSBOHG, May 26.-In harmony with
the agreement of the Western and Pitts
burg Windowglass Manufacturers asso
ciations, all the factories in the country
but one will down next Friday,
May 29, for an indefinite period. The
suspension will last at least three
months, perhaps longer, and will affect
5,000 glass workers, comprising blowers,
gatherers, cutters, flatteners, day hands
and laborers. The one factory that may
not close is that of James A. Chambers,
at New Kensington, employing 500
men. In July a delegate convention of
workers will assemble in this city to
discuss proposed changes in the policy
of the association. The convention is
expected to be the most important ever
held and the factional quarrels which
have been disturbing the affairs of the
association are expected to be fought to
a sharp finish.
A Big Fire lu Ontario.
Ddseronto, Ont. w May 26. —Fire broke
tiyt in the tie dock of the Rathbun com
pany here, and in a short time spread
ti. the docks adjoining, destroying large
quantities of shingles, posts, Lardwood,
etc., a flour mill, bran house, elevator
aud the cajioe club
northward and east ward it swept away
almdst ths entire eastern portion of tlid*
town. The Roman Catholic church and
several stores were enisurned. The
flames spread so rapidly that many lost
all their possessions. About 9 o’clock a
terrific downpour of rain helped to ex
tinguish the flames. About 75 families
are homeless. The loss will aggregate
over $350,000.
Turkish Soldiers Attacking Christians.
Athens, May 26.—Advices received
here from the island of Crete state that
the Turkish soldiers at Retimo are con
tinuing their attacks upon the Chris
tians, who have barricaded themselves
within their houses at that port. Tele
graphic communication with the island
of Crete, excepting messages to and
from the foreign consuls there, has been
prohibited by the Turkish authorities.
Work For Six Hundred Men.
Middlesborough, Ky., May 26.—The
Watts Steel plant has been ordered by
cable from’ London to start at once.
This is the only basic plant in the south
and the largest in the United States.
Six hundred men are employed.
An Ex-Coufederate Critically 111.
San Francisco, May 26. Colonel
John S. Mosby, the ex-confederate sol
dier, and more recently coiiiul to Hong
Koug, is lying critically ill at his home
in this city. He is suffering Iron* ap
. ueudicitia.
BIBOWFMNON
The Coronation of the Czar at
Moscow Was Announced.
NOW’RULER OF ALL THE RUSSIAS
The Crowning Was Attended by the Great*
est Ceremony and In Accordance With
the Religious Forms and Ancient Rites
of the Empire—Program Carried Out
Without a Hitch.
[Copyrighted, 1896. by Associated Press.]
Moscow, May 26.—His majesty, the
Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovitch, em
peror of all the Russias, and her maj
esty, the Empress Alexandra Feodo
rovna, were solemnly crowned in the
cathedral of the. Assumption with the
utmost ceremony and in accordance
with all the religious forms and ancient
rites.
At 7 o’clock the ceremonies com
menced with a salute of 21 cannon
shots, marking the opening of the day,
and at the same hour the bells in the
cathedral of the Assumption began ring
ing. Half an hour later the court dig
nitaries and distinguished persons who
were to take part in the imposing impe
rial cortege began to assemble in the
halls of the palace and in the cathedral.
The ladies wore cour' dresses and the
dignitaries were in full uniform.
The envoys extraordinary, the ambas
sadors, the ministers plenipotentiary
and the charge d’.affaires, with their
wives, as well as representatives of the
diplomatic corps, assembled at the pal
ace of the kremlin shortly after 8 o’clock
and were invited by the master as cere
monies to repair to the cathedral of the
Assumption and take the places re
served for them.
Only 22 tickets were issued for press
representatives to enter the cathedral of
the Assumption to witness the corona
tion, nine of which were allotted to
British and American journalists.
At 11:20 o’clock the booming of can
non and the pealing of bells announced
that the act of coronation was completed.
The entire ceremony was finished at
12:30 p. m., according to program, and
their majesties reached the Granovitaia
palace at 1 o’clock.
At the banquet which followed, the
utmost state was observed, the imperial
grand dukes and grand duchesses and
august foreign princes and the leading
members of their suites were in attend
ance with the holy synod, the high
clergy and others. But only persons of
the highest importance weie present at
the imperial banquet, the other guests
being entertained according to their
rank.
WILL GO INTO BLAST.
Greeufiboro Iron and Steel Company to
Start Up on Sept. 1— Other Ncw».
Raleigh, May 26.—The Greensboro
Iron and Steel company has perfected
arrangements to put its furnace in blast
Sept. 1. It will also operate the iron
mines at Ore Hill.
The great testate of the late ex-Gov
ernor Holt is equally divided among his
live children.
The Newberne Journal was purchased
by Charles L. Stevens, editor of the
Southport Leader and president of the
State Press association, and he will edit
it. Joseph T. James, for many years
editor of the Wilmington Review, be
comes associate editor of The Leader.
John Gadberry, a negro of Yadkin
county, w r as placed-in the penitentiary
to serve 30 years for brutally murdering
his wife’s young sister.
Reports come in of the heavy damage
to small grain by chinch bugs.
The state board of public charities ad
journed. It has examined criminal sta
tistics in North Carolina for six years
past and finds that there were more
lynchings than legal executi >ns and
that over one third of the cases in court
failed of conviction.
——
Commrni on Hie H6r.il Decision.
London, May 26—On the subject of
the decision of the United States su
preme court in the Horsa case, the New
York correspondent of The Times says:
“The decision strengthens the hands of
the government in dealing with the fili
busterers and is expected to sweep away
certaiq technical difficulties heretq£oi<)
existing. TTie decision, which is final,
appears to enlarge the executive powers
and will facilitate seizures and will
make such evasion of the law as in the
cases of the Bermuda and the Laurada
and other recent expeditions more diffi
cult. ”
WRANGLE AT SARATOGA.
Approval of the Minutes the Cause.
Work of Frortbyterians.
Saratoga, May 26.—The opening of
the Northern Presbyterian general as
sembly’s session was characterized by
a struggle over the approval of the min
utes. These showed that the resolu
tions in regard to the Presbyterian house
in New York wore referred to the
finance committee and made exclusive
orders for Tuesday morning. Elder
McDougall contended that the record
was wrong. All of the clerks united in
maintaining its correctness and the lat
ter view prevailed.
The order was subject to an under
standing that in case rhe resolutions
called for serious discussion that they
should go over. Elder McDougall moved
that they be referred to the joint cofn
mittee on home and foreign missions ,
and that their report be made a special
order for Thursday afternoon. Tije as
sembly gave unanimous consent to this
course. \
PRICE FIVE CENTS
The 'committee on bills and overtures
reported papers from the Presbyterians
of New York and Long Island, stating
their intention to exercise their consti
tutional rights in the reception and li
cense of theological students. These
papers were called forth by the injunc
tion placed on the presbytery of New
York a year ago against receiving the
students of Union seminary. The pa
pers were referred to the judicial com
mittee.
The regular order was then taken up,
being the report on home missions. The
present debt was almost $300,000; re
ceipts amounted to $729,433. and expen
ditures reached $858,985. From the re
union fund receipts reached $191,230.
The cost of administration aggregated
$81,922. Under the board is a total of
1,544 ministers, 180 churches and a
membership of 100,000. During the
year 1895 many new members have
been added.
The report of the committee made
recommendations as tu methods of ad
ministration and provided for a com
mittee of nine to investigate the affaire
of the board in order to secure improved
efficiency and any possible retrench
me nt.
With the Southern Presbyterians.
Memphis, May 26. The Southern
Presbyterian general assembly convened
at the designated hour, 9 o’clock. Th«
opening devotional exercises were con
ducted by Ruling Elder J. A. Enslow
of Charleston, S. C.
A telegram of greeting from the gen
eral assembly in session at Saratoga wa»
read by Clerk Cassell. On motion the
communication was received and di
rected to make part of the record for
the day.
The report of the committee on as
sembly’s home and school was then read
by Dr. J. A. Vance, the chairman.
Alonzo Walling; on Trial*
Newport, Ky., May 26.—The trial of
Alonzo Walling, for the murder of
Pearl Bryan, began before Judge Helm.
Attorneys Lockhart and Nelson, the
same who appeared in the Scott Jack
son case, conducted the prosecution,
while Colonel Washington and Attor
ney Shepherd appear for the defendant.
Thirty-two men were examined and six
accepted as jurors before the noon re
cess. ■
A Britlaii Bark Lost at Sea.
S.an Francisco, May 26.—Shipping
men believe the British bark Cambus
Doon has been lost at sea. She left
Java, carrying a cargo of sugar for Van
couver, Jan. 2, and has not been sighted
nor heard from since. She is 55 days
overdue.’ She was commanded by Cap
tain MacDonald and carried a crew of
30 men. • |
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An Entire Family Murdered.
Harrisonville, Mo., May 26.—The
sheriff has been summoned to Cleve
land, this county, on a telegram stating
that the entire family of Martin Frost,
consisting of wife and three children,
had been murdered. Frost is a promi
nent farmer. ,
National Waterworks Association
Indianapolis, May 26.—The sixteenth
annual convention of the National Wa
terworks association met in this city
and will remain in session three days.
About 500 delegates are in attendance.
Governor Matthews and Mayor Taggert
delivered addresses of welcome. The
morning session was occupied by the
annual address of Acting President F.
A. W. Davis of Indianapolis, and a pa
per by L. W. Case of Detroit on “The
Management of Waterworks.” Reso
lutions were adopted on the death of
President W. C. Richards of Atlanta.
At the afternoon session papers were
read by Albert Leeds of Hoboken, J.
N. Hurty of Indianapolis, and E. H.
Wells of New York. There will also be
a night session.
May Reduce the Premium on Gold Bars.
New York, May 26.—The director of
the mint is expected to make a visit to
this city within a day or two with a
view ot conferring with the superin
tendent of the assay office, regarding <
the advisability of reducing the pre
mium on gold bars from three-sixteenth
per cent, the present jute, to Qne-eighth 1
per cent. There has recently lbe6h a
disposition aj the treasury favoring the
export of gold bars rather than coin tq
as great an extent as convenient, as all
of the shippers for soiree time past have
been taking coin, owing Fo the high
premium on bars. The stock of gold
bars at the assay office amounts to about
$21,500,000, and Superintendent Mason
says that of this amount $17,000,000 or
$18,000,000 is available for shipment if
desired. The remainder of the bars
would be required for commercial pur
poses. rj
The Zeigler Boys Surrender.
Sylvania, Ga., May 26.—The two
Zeigler boys, who killed Sheriff Brooker
of Screven county last fall, and have
■ince defied arrest, walked into Sylva
nia about 9 o’clock Monday night and
surrendered to Sheriff Patrick. They i
hope to get bail before very long, but of
course surrendered to the sheriff un
conditionally.
Knoxville, May 26 Wyle Collins, a
man of family, living at Whitesburg, a
small station on thq Southern railway
between Knoxville and Bristol, jumped
in front of a passenger train as it passed
that place amt was instantly killed.
Refused to Table the Amendment. [
Washington, May 26 —The senate '
aas defeated a motion to table un !
amendment to the filled cheese bill add- S
ing 75 cents to the tax on beer. Yeas, j
25; nays, 30. J