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GREAT CROWD THERE
Democrats of Cobb County Gather al
Marietta
A GREAT RALLY THERE YESTERDAY
■Garrard Makes an Earnest
Speech For the Party
GOVERNOR ATKINSON WAS THERE
Great Enthusiasm Was Shown by the
Crowd, Which Was a Lalge Oue-Popu-
Hs s Were Present in Large Numbers—The
People are R ady to R.illy Around the
Flag of Democracy.
Marietta, August 4. —Governor At
, kinsou with Colonel Louis F. Garrard
of Columbus, fired the first guns of the
state campaign here today.
The occasion was a big rally of the
democracy of Cobb county, who were
on hand to the number of several
thousand.
The governor devoted himself to
the subject of silver and state issues
and discussing the convict lease
system, which will be one of the vital
questions before the next legislature.
The crowd began to arrive with the
sun this morning, and by noon when
the speaking began the pretty little
city at the foot of historic Kenesaw
was fairly overrun with the “wool hat
boys” and their families. The public
square was completely hemmed in by
the buggies and wagons that brought
them to town, and when Governor
Atkinson faced the big crowd, he had
before him practically the entire yeo
manry of the county.
In addition to the democratic rally
which brought out the democrats the
populists of Cobb county held their
county convention here today and
the governor had the pleasure of
pouring some good hot shot into the
followers of Judge Hines, who two
years ago put up a fight that left him
a majority of only one vote in the
country precincts. Marietta, how
ever, redeemed the battle and gave
him the county by a respectable mar
gin.
The populists had the court house
’when the democratic speakers arrived.
.'They had a big crowd of their own.
The governor smiled when he saw
them and urged the manager of the
democratic speaking to hold off until
after the populists were through with
'their business of putting out a county
ticket so that he could get a whack at
them.
On this account the speaking did not
I commence until 12 o’clock. The crowd
I of mixed democrats and republicans was
! entirely too big for the court house and a
stand was hurriedly put up in the public
square.
Governor Atkinson and Colonel Garrard
with a number of others reached here
from Atlanta at 9 o’clock this morning.
The Governor and Colonel Garrard were
piloted by Judge Geo. F. Gober, who
stopped over in Atlanta last night to be
escort.
At the station the party was met by
a crowd, with a brass band and the
Marietta Rifles, 19 strong, commanded
by Captain Sanford. Colonel R. T.
commissioner of agriculture,
drove the governor and Colonel Gar
rard to the hotel, escorted by the mili
tary and the band which gave a con
tinuous free concert to the crowd un
til the arrival of the time for the
speeches.
All the speeches were good, and
were loudly applauded.
GRAVES NOT AT CARTERSVILLE.
He nibsed the Train anil Conld Not Get
There in Time.
Cartersville, Aug. 4.—John Temple
.Graves did not speak here this morning.
A telegram received by Major A. M.
Foute stated:
“By unfortunate circumstances I missed
the morning train. Express my sincere
regret to the people and say I hold my
’self subject to their first call during the
campaign.”
Gold Deposited by Chicago Hanks.
Chicago, Aug. 4. —The Chicago banks,
volunteering to strengthen the treasury
with some of their gold, have made all
of their deposits at the Chicago sub
treasury. Cashier Pratt said the total
amounted to $2,245,000. The gold is
now being weighed for shortage. All
coins falling below the limit must be
made good by the banks depositing.
Thus far in the test the gold has been
fbund as of a standard weight. The
deposits bring the supply of the yellow
metal in the Chicago office up to $12,-
500,000.
Murderer Rushin Ar rente a.
Thomasville, Ga., Aug. 4.—J. T.
Rushin, the man who killed J. F. Lilly
at Metcalfe, is now in jail in this city.
Sheriff Doss arrested him and brought
him through the country to this place.
His arrest was effected without trouble.
He went to sleep from the effects of the
lauduuum taken in the effort to kill
L himself. He talks freely about the trag
edy and says the only thing he regrets
is that he failed to kill himself. Ac
iaording to his own statement, he had
Been planning this murder for two years,
but could never screw up his courage to
the point before Sunday. His friends
claim that his mind is-rfnbalanced, due
lo worry over a note he owed Lilly.
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
CQNDITION OF COTTON.
What the Regular Monthly Report For
the Memphis District Shows.
Memphis, Aug. 4. The regular
monthly cotton crop report for the
Memphis district, published by Hill,
Fontaine & Company, says:
“The weather during July was in the
main unfavorable. This is especially
true of conditions that prevailed to
wards the close of the month when the
temperature became abnormally high
and a heated spell sat in, the duration
of which has never before been ex
perienced in this section. Since about
July 18, the Memphis district has felt
the effect of a torrid wave that has been
most injurious to cotton. The extreme
heat, coming as it did in the midst of a
long continued drouth, has caused
wholesale shedding of squares and
young bolls and in nearly every section
of the district the plant is lepirted suf
fering from blight and rust, the effect
of the unprecedented hot weather.
“Os our 468 correspondents, 238 re
port the plant as forming, blooming and
boiling well up to July 28, and 230 re
port unusual heavy shedding; 178 re
port the crop in good condition, 42 in
fair condition and 248 in poor condition;
182 report the present condition of the
crop better than last year and 254 re
port it much less promising; 314 report
damage to the crop ranging all the way
from 5 to 80 per cant; 154 report no ma
terial injury.
“The damage by states is as follows:
Arkansas, 24J£ per cent; Missouri,
per cent; Alabama, per cent; Ten
nessee, 11% per cent. In this connec
tion it should be stated that the cotton
crop did not begin to fail until about
three weeks ago and the damage re
ported by our correspondents was the
actual condition of the crops on July 28.
Since there has been no break either in
the drouth or the extreme hot weather,
and many of our correspondents have
since written telling of still greater in
jury to cotton than was originallyre
ported and add that if the present spell
of weather continued for ten days longer
the damage will be in the nature of a
great disaster.
“Three of the Arkansas, excepting
those counties in the extreme north,
close to the Missouri line, and in north
ern and central Mississippi and in the
counties of the Yazoo delta and those
counties bordering on the Mississippi
river, the drouth has been most severely
felt. In Bolivar and Washington coun
ties of Mississippi no rains of any .m
--portance have fallen since April 19. As
evidence of the effect of the hot weather,
many fields are now white with cotton,
the heat having prematurely forced the
bolls to opening and picking commenced
Aug. 1, and may become general by
Aug. 10, which is a month earlier than
last season, when the picking season
was not under full sway until near the
middle of September.
“The corn crop suffered greatly from
drouth and it won’t exceed half a crop.”
NESBITT GIVES ADVICE.
Tells Farmers of the South How to Foil
Plans of the Cotton Tie Trust.
Atlanta, Aug. 4.—Southern farmers
may inaugurate an effective fight on the
cotton tie trust. The farmers are in
arms as a result of the increase in the
price of cotton ties, which amounts to
100 per cent. In the aggregate, this
added price will take thousands of dol
lars out of the pockets of the cotton
raisers. The farmers are looking for
effective measures to prevent being
squeezed by the trust that has been
formed. The following address, issued
by Commissioner of Agriculture B. T.
Nesbitt, suggests a remedy:
To Farmers of Georgia and of, the South :
A few years ago we were confronted by
a gigantic monopoly, the bagging trust,
which endeavored to force from farmers
thousands of dollars, which in their de
pressed condition they could ill afford to
lose. By united effort among the farmers
this evil was averted and the huge octo
pus which had fastened itself on the agri
cultural industry was destroyed. Today
we are confronted by a similar trouble.
The manufacturers of cotton ties have
formed another grand combination and
without any reason, except to gratify an
unlawful greed, have entered into an
agreement to advance the price of their
goods 100 per cent. If the price of iron
ad advanced there might be some reason
for this action, but iron was never cheaper,
and the same must be said of coal and la
bor.
The fact is simply that an effort is being
made to force the farmers of the south to
contribute millions of dollars to swell the
profits of a powerful combination of man
ufacturers.
The farmers are in good condition just
now to fight this trust. They have their
provisions, there are few debts to be met
until later; therefore, no pressing neces
sity to force their cotton on the market. I
would advise that they hold meetings in
every section of the south and denounce
this effort to defraud them of their earn
ings. At the same time, let them advise
together as to the best method of meeting
this new enemy. In the meantime, the
department which I represent will make
every effort to investigate such substi
tutes for cotton ties as will meet the re
quirements of durability and safety.
Wilkinson Arrested at Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Aug. 4.—The police have
in custody here W. M. Wilkinson, a
prominent lumber dealer of Asheville,
N. C., who is wanted at that place for
participating in a shooting scrape over
a woman, which occurred on the night
of July 29. Chief Deitsch has notified
the Asheville authorities. They are
also holding C. E. Perry for the authori
ties of Hagerstown, Md., where he is
wanted on a charge of embezzling funds
from the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen.
Forty Miners Entombed.
Swansea, Wales, Aug. 4.—A dispatch
from Neath, seven miles from here, an
nounces that 40 miners were entombed
in the Bryncoch pit near that place by
an explosion which occurred Tuesday
afternoon.
THE HOME THIBUNE, ROME. GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1896
JOHNSTON IS ELECTED
He Carries Alabama by Thirty
Thousand Majority.
FUSION TICKET SNOWED UNDER
The Tribune’s Estimate Yester
day Very Nearly Correct
THE MAJORITY NOT LESS THAN 30,000
Fully Three Fourths of the Members of
the Newly Fleeted General Assembly
Are Democrat Populistg-Kepublicans
Raise a Ciy of Fraud and Claim That
Their Ticket Has Been Fleeted.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 4.—lncom
plete returns from the election held in
this state Monday indicate that Captain
Joseph F. Johnston been elected
governor by 30,000 nffijority over Cap
tain Aimer T. Goodwyn, the nominee of
the Populist-Republicans. The fus on
ists appear to have carried only 18 coun
ties. Fully three-fourths of the mem
bers of the newly elected house and sen
ate are Democrats. The Democratic
state ticket which was elected is as fol
lows:
For governor, Joseph Forney John
ston of Jefferson.
For secretary of state, James Kirk
man Jackson of Lauderdale.
For attorney general, William Coch
rane Fitts of Tuscaloosa.
For treasurer, George W. Ellis of Dal
las.
For auditor, Walker Scott White of
Colbert.
For superintendsnt of education, John
O. Turner of S . Clair.
For commissioner of agriculture, I.
F. Culver of Bullrock.
Captain Johnston, the Democratic
nominee for governor, was a candidate
before the convention of 1894. He was
defeated, but supported the Democratic
ticket. This year Johnston captured
the party machine, secured the nomina
tion for governor and had the party
pledged to the free coinage of silver.
Many of Johnston’s supporters inside
the party are opposed to the free coin
age of silver, but supported Johnston in
order to destroy the old machine. Good
wyn, the nominee of the fusion ticket,
left the Democratic party in 1892 and
was active in the campaign of 1894
against the Democratic ticket. The
Populist convention nominated Good
wyn for governor on a platform declar
ing for honest elections, free silver and
a tariff on revenue basis. The main is-,
sue is the demand for honest elections,
and in-this issue the Republicans have
supported the Populists, Many admin
istration Democrats wopld not support
Johnston, but others have supported the
state ticket, declaring that they desire
to retain the state government with
Democracy,.but will not support Bryan.
Captain Kolb, who ran for governor
on the Populist ticket in 1894, claims
that the Democrats have resorted to
fKaud« and that complete returns will
show the election of Goodwyn by 15,000
majority.
The Populist leaders in Birmingham
are beginning to cry fraud, claiming
that thousands of fictitious votes were
cast in the black belt and they threaten
that if Goodwyn is not seated they will
organize the Populists of the state
against Bryan and carry the state for
McKinley iq November.
MET ON A TRESTLE.
Passenger Trains Collide and Fngineer
Heady Is Almost Instantly Killed.
Kansas City, Aug. 4.—A Santa Fe
train, made up of undamaged cars from
the trains in a collision Monday, near
Dean Lake, Mo., reached Kansas City
late Monday night bearing the injured.
Some of them were taken to Topeka and
others to Chicago, a physician accom
panying each train. The injured, as
far as known, are progressing favor
ably.
The accident occurred on a trestle 60
feet above ground and situated midway
between Dean lake and Bosworth. The
California express, westbound, was ten
minutes late and should have waited at
Dean lake for No. 18, the Fort Madison
passenger, which was in charge of Con
ductor Blue and Engineer Fred Heady.
Instead, through a mistake of orders
somewhere, No. 1 pulled out for Bos
worth. No. 1 passed Bosworth running
rapidly. Just as it turned a curve lead
ing to the trestle the engineer saw No.
18 approaching on the other end of the
structure. The fireman jumped and
was uninjured. The engineer did every
thing to stop his train, but it was im
possible. The trains met in the center
of the trestle with a terrific crash. Both
engines jumped the track, falling 60
feet to the ground below," a mass of
shapeless ruins.
Heady went down wdth his engine
and was horribly mangled. He lived
only a short time. The engineer and
fireman of No. 1 had jumped and es
caped injury. The force of the collision
drove the express car of No. 1 back
through the smoker, telescoping it. All
the injured, except the express mes
senger, were in this car. The remainder
of the train was not injured, and the
passengers in the Pullman were only
slightly shaken up.
Miller Nominated For Congress.
Pittsburg, Aug. 4.—The Twenty
second congressional Democratic dis
trict convention nominated John T.
Miller, Esq., for congress in opposition
to Hon. John Dalzell. Resolutions in
dorsing the Chicago platform and Bryan
and Sewall were adopted.
MOORE BROS. FAIL
The Promoters of the Diamond Match
Company Insolvent.
SENSATION IN BUSINESS WORLD
The Anouncement Was Made
Later Monday Night
THE TALK OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE
The New York Biscuit Company Also Af
fected by the Lrash—Not Likely That
the Failure Will Result In a Discontin
uance of the Business of the Concerns.
Stock Exchange Closed.
Chicago, Aug. 4.—Moore Bros., pro
moters of the Diamond Match company
and the New York Biscuit company,
have failed. The announcement was
made late Monday night and caused a
great sensation in the business world.
Nothing in years has caused such a
flurry in commercial circles as the col
lapse of the Moores in their efforts to
maintain the control of the Diamond
Match stocks and the New York Bis
cuit. It has been the talk of every
man connected with the Stock Ex
change and the board of trade. Another
striking feature of the failure, and one
which, in a measure, showed its length
and breadth, is the fact that the Stock
Exchange, for the first time in its his
tory, adjourned indefinitely at once its
doors were opened Tuesday morning
without doing, one dollar’s worth of
business. The following notice was
posted on the doors of the exchange:
The Chicago Stock Exchange has ad
journed, subject to the action of the gov
erning committee.
(Signed) J. R. Wilkins, Secretary.
William H. and J. H. Moore, the
members of the firm of William H. and
J. H. Moore & Purcell, made their first
move as promoters in putting on the
market the stock of the Frazer Axle
Grease company. While this company
has been but little known, the Moores
made considerable money out of it.
The first corporation of any moment in
which they were interested was the
Diamond Match company. This com
pany was originally a Connecticut cor
poration, and it had been formed for
the purpose of controlling the manu
facture of matches. It had not been
successful, however, and at the time
the Moores took hold of it, it was
in a disrupted state and competi
tion nearly had' caused its down
fall. The Diamond Match company
of Illinois was formed, wh ch took over
the properties of the former company.
Since the’ formation of this company,
its success has been phenomenal, and .
out of it the Moored made fortunes for
themselves and for others. O. C. Bar
ber, the president of the Diamond Match
company, has hard control of its actual
working, although the Moores have been
recognized as the real people behind the
company. Diamond Match stock was a
speculative security in the true sense of
the word during the first two years of
the company’s existence. It went ahead
making money and dividends were paid
regularly. At the time of the organi
zation the capital stock was $6,000,000.
It kept extending its business and pur
chasing other match factories, and as
they did so stock was issued at par to
stock were made from time to t;m§ un
til the last one, February, 1895, when
the stock was increased from $10,000.-
000 to $11,000,000, the present capital.
In 1888 the Moores organized the
American Strawboard company, under
the laws of Illinois, to control the man
ufacture of strawboard and weedpulp.
The company practically controlled the
entire strawboard output. The Straw
board company has a capital of $6,000,-
000. For the last two years the Moores
have not been interested to any consid
erable extent in this operation.
The last company organized by the
Moores was the New York Biscuit com
pany, which was incorporated in 1890.
This was a rival concern to the "Ameri
can Biscuit company, and bakeries in a
number of states were purchased and
the business of making bread and crack
ers actively engaged in. The capital
stock of this company at the present
time is $9,000,000. It owns bakeries in
nine states, three having been purchased
this year. The principal one of these
was the Mason bakery, in Baltimore,
which was acquired by the company in
March. The stock of this company has
been an active speculative security since
its format on.
It is estimated by those in a position
to know that the Moore Bros, have lost
between $4,000,000 and $5,500,000 in the
Diamond match deal. Some say it has
wiped out every cent of their fortunes.
How New Yorkers Received the News.
New York, Aug. 4.—The announce
ment of the failure in Chicago of Moore
Bros, resulted in the prevalence here
of all sorts of rumors concerning the ef
fect upon business at the New York of
fices of the concerns mentioned. Scores
of persons who are interested in the af
fairs of the Diamond Match company
visited the offices of that company in
Hutchinson street, of which George P.
Johnson is manager. Mr. Johnson was
not at the office, having sent down word
that he was sick. Mr. Johnson’s sec
retary said that because Moore Bros,
owned a good deal of stock in the Dia
mond Match company, it did not neces
sarily follow that their failure would
result in a discontinuance of the busi
ness of the concern.
"A great many others besides the
Moores own stock in the company,” I
said the secretary, “and the company
will certainly go ahead and fill its or-
ders. Deyoncr me mere announcement
of the failure of Moore Bros., Johnson
has no information.”
Until word is received from President
O. C. Barber, no official statement of
just how much stock of the company is
involved in the failure of Moore Bros,
can be made. The following statement
was given out at the office of the New
York Biscuit company in this city:
“The failure of Moore Bros, will, in
no manner, affect the business of the
New York Biscuit company. The fact
that Mr. William H. Moore of Moore
Bros, is the president of this company
is no reason why we should be affected
in the least. We have heard of the
failure and that is about all. The stock
of the company is well protected. It is
very likely that when full information
is received from Chicago it will be found
that the affairs of Moore Bros, will all
be settled within a very short time.
Whether they are or not, business here
will go on just the same as if Moore
Bros, were perfectly solvent.”
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Reported In Dixie.For the
the Week Just Past.
Chattanooga, Aug. 4. —The Trades
man’s southern correspondents among
prominent manufacturers and dealers
report some improvement in business
conditions. Indications are still favor
able for large crops of corn and cotton
and the decrease in production in the
iron and textile industries gives a more
healthy tone to the markets. The ex
treme heat of the past week has had a
paralizing effect on trade, but this is
only temporary and a renewal of ac
tivity in many lines is expected this
month.
A slight change for the better charac
terizes the iron and steel market.
Though pig ii on is still weak, some sales
are reported, and there is quite a little
inquiry for steel an<lA<)ther materials.
Buyers are still conseiWFtive, however,
and prices low, but conditions seem to
encourage tzLe belief that a change for
the better is not far distant. The Ma
honing valley manufacturers have
signed the amalgamated scale, and
nearly all the mills are getting ready to
start up. The Ashland (Ky.) Coal, Iron
and Railway company are overhauling
their No. 1 furnace preparatory to put
ting it in blast.
Southern lumbermen report increas
ing activity even at this early date, w’ith
prospects favorable for a good demand
in the fall, despite the depressing effect
of elections and the ever troublesome
money question.
Matters in textile circles are quiet. A
number of mills are running on short
time, but others are still in full opera
tion with a fair number of orders on
hand.
The following new industries are re
ported: A canning factory at Green
Cove Springs, Fla.; a $50,000 electric
light and power plant at Berkley, Va.;
a fertilizer factory at Savannah, Ga.;
a flouring mill at Lillard’s Mills, Tenn.;
a cotton gin and electrical plant at Mag
nolia, Miss.; a $25,000 foundry and ma
chine shop at Birmingham, Ala., and
the T. S. Godfrey Marble company or
ganized with a capital of $50,000 at
Knoxville, Tenn. Coal mines will be
opened at Montreal, Ark., and Arte
mus, Ky.; stone quarries at Paris, Tex.;
machine works to cost $50,000 will be
erected at New Orleans, La.; a paper
box factory at Norfolk, Va.; a $15,000
oil mill at Yoakum, Tex.; knitting mills
at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Union, S.
C., and woodworking plants at Bruns
wick, Ga., and Columbia, S. O. Other
new industries reported are cotton mills
at Thomaston, Ga.; electric light plants
at Anniston, Ala.; Central City, Ky.,
and Greensboro, Ala.; machine works
at Fort Worth, Tex.; an oil refinery at
Moundsville, W. Va.; a rice prill at
Eunice, La., and tile works at Winches
ter, Ky. W aterworks will probably be
established at Gurley, Ala.; Cotton
Plant, Ark.; Guthrie, Ky., and Dech
erd, Tenn.
The enlargements include brass works
at Louisville, Ky.; an electrical plant at
Concord, N. C.; a flouring mill at Edom.
Va., and waterworks at Clarksburg, W.
Va.
Among new buildings are large busi
ness blocks at Tampa, Fla.; Stillmore,
Ga., and Petersburg, Va.; a courthouse
at Lexington, Tenn.; a $32,000 depot at
Montgomery, Ala., and a hotel to cost
SIOO,OOO at Abbeville, Ga.; a $20,000 op
era house at Washington, Ga.; a $lO,-
000 residence at Mobile, Ala., and a
school building to cost SIO,OOO at Or
ange, Tex.
Rhodes Displayed Great Courage*
New York, Aug. 4. —A dispatch to
The World from Cape Town says: Cecil
Rhodes displayed great courage in the
field while bullets were raining around
him, a war correspondent returned from
Matabeleland reports. The former said
that he could not see that anything was
to be gained by going into a hot corner,
but if he did not do so he would be
tainted with cowardice. Therefore he
exposed himself unnecessarily to stop
the mouths of his enemies. The Mata
bele rebels are surrendering, the cor
respondent declares. The fighting now
is on a small scale. At Salisbury a fam
ine is feared.
Gaudaur and Stanbury to Race.
London, Aug. 4.—A cable dispatch
has been received here from Jacob
Gaudaur, the Toronto oarsman, agree
ing to race James Stanbury, the Aus
tralian who recently easily defeated
“Wag” Harding, the English cham
pion, for $2,500 to $5,000 and the cham
pionship of the world, the contest to be
started at 1 o’clock in the afternoon of
Monday, September 7.
Big Fire at prna.
Philadelphia, Aug. 4. —A fire, which
originated in what is known as the
“cook house” in the big chemical works
of Baugh & Sons, destroyed property
valued at SIOO,OOO. The “cook house”
was a 1-story building, 200 feet long and
75 feet wide. It was totally destroyed,
together with valuable machinery.
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DISTILLERIES CLOSED
All But Six of Kentucky’s Three
Hundred Shut Down,
TIPPLERS NEEDN’T BE ALARMED
Said to Be Simply a Conse
quence of Over Production
PLENTY OF THE GENUINE OLD ARTICLE
There Are Eighty-Eight Million Gallons
Whisky In the Bonded Warehouses of
the State—Cause of the Suspension of
Operations—They Will Remaiu Idle For
Eighteen Months.
Louisville, Aug. 4.—A1l but six of
Kentucky’s 300 distilleries have closed
their doors and for a period of 18 months
not a drop of the liquor which has made
the old commonwealth famous will be
manufactured. At the expiration of
that period limited production will be
begun, but it will be at least three and
a half years thereafter before a drink of
Kentucky bourbon is put on the market.
Thus the suspension of operations means
in reality that no Kentucky whisky is
to be marketed for four and a half
years.
This suspension of the distilleries is
in consequence of overproduction. Only
a few years ago the distillers of this
state were in clover. During the last
five years they have not been so pros
perous. The increase of the tax from
90 cents to sl.lO per gallon is one cause
of the present depressed market. An
other cause is the fact that in 1893 the
production of whisky in Kentucky was
vastly overdone. In that year 45,000,-
000 gallons was sent from the stills,
although consumption had even then
begun to dwindle from 30,000,000 to
20,000,000 gallons annually. Just prior
to the recent meeting in this city at
which suspension was agreed on many
distillers declared that another year such
as the last one would wreck nearly every
whisky manufacturer or dealer in the
state. Since 1893 the surplus whisky
stored in the bonded warehouses of the
state increased so rapidly that fine Ken
tucky whisky became almost a drug on
the market; competition, in order to get
a sale for a product for which there was
a continually increasing demand, be
came so great that prices were cut to the
bone; values went away below par, and
in many cases the distiller could not get
the cost of production and carriage for
kis goods.
Several efforts were made to get con
certed action on the part of the distil
lers, but all were unavailing until re
cently, at a meeting in this city, all
agreed to close their distilleries for a
period of 18 months, beginning Aug. 1.
There are now in the bonded ware
• houses of Kentucky 88,000,000 gallons
of- spirits of all kinds, so there need be
no fear of a failure to secure the . genu
ine old Kentucky article, despite tho
shutdown.
EXCITEMENT AT BOCA.
Striking Quarrymen Try to Burn Contract
or’s Houses —Talk of Lynching.
Boca, 0., Aug. 4. —This place is in a
turmoil of excitement. At 3 o’clock
Tuesday morning a cry of fire was
raised. The residence of Richard Dodd,
on Prospect street, was on fire and it
was burned to the ground, nothing be
ing saved. A wire spleen was torn from
the window, oil poured fipon aft unoc
cupied bed near it and lighted.
Dodd’s son heard the noise, smelled
the smoke and aroused his father barely
in time to get out of the house. Two
children were overcome with smoke.
The family consists of seven children.
The residence of James Woodcock, a
neighbor was also saturated with oil,
but was not lighted. Dodd is a con
tractor at the quarry, as is also Wood
cock, and both employ nonunion men.
They were asked to employ union
men, but were unable to do so, they
said, as they would not work for them.
There is talk of lynching if the culprits
who are using dynamite and the torch
are apprehended.
CESPEDES IN NEW YORK.
Left Cuba With a Party In a Small Boat.
Says Cubans Will Succeed.
New York, Aug. 4.—Among the pas
sengers of the steamer Antilia, from
Nassau, are Colonel Enrique Cespedes
of the Cuban army and seven of his
party, who left Nuevitas, Cuba, in a
small boat, and, landing at Nassau, em
barked on the Antilia for this port.
Colonel Cespedes’ companions are M.
C. Adams, Modisto Leon, Eduard O.
Laborde, Emilio Argremonte, Jose Cab
rera, Grover Flint and John H. Smith.
Flint is a representative of a New York
newspeper. Colonel Cespedes carries a
crutch, owing to a bullet wound in the
knee.
He says that everything is very quiet
in the eastern section of Cuba at pres
ent, and the situation is (favorable for
Cuba’s success. Very little news is ex
changed between the eastern and west
ern sections of the island.
Concession Granted to Americans.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 4.—A dispatch
to The Novoe Vreinya from Vladivo
stok announces that Corea has conceded
to a syndicate of Americans the right
to construct a railroad from Seoul, the
capital, to Chemulpo, the main port and
harbor. The Americans, in addition,
have the right to work the minerals
along the line of this road.