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NUMBER 47.
VOL. VI.
Het '/’/
ALL OVER THE NA’lifc"
The People of Sister Statesand
Their Movements.
ITEMS THAT ARE FRESH FROM WIRES
Alabama’s Several Hangings—Trusts That
Are Forming—Men Moving to Alas
ka— Other News of Interest
Told in a few Words.
Nelson Dinglev, father of Congress
man Dingley died the 3rd inst.
The blow of a hammer upon a nail
caused a 1540,000 fire at Olean, N. Y,. on
the 28 th ult.
The mormons have been holding a
big meeting in Randolph county, Ala.
Ten were baptized.
Kate Pior Kouski, of Chicago, a
white woman, has gone crazy because
her skin is rapidly becoming black.
At Greenville, Ohio, Burhl Perkins,
aged 94 years, married a widow of 76.
Both are negroes.
The examination of 1800 applicants
for positions on the Chicago police
force, will begin the L2th of this month.
A four million dollar company has
been incorporated in new Jersey to
make sugar out of corn.
Samuel Blair, a wealthy citizen of
Chattanooga, suicided Tuesday, cutting
his throat from ear to ear.
A New Jersey justice has sent to jail
a six year old boy charged with steal
ing an old toy wagon.
Drummers have organized a political
league in New York to prevent antago
nistic legislation.
Over a million acres of crops were
destroyed in South Dakota last week
by a hail storm.
Lewis Thompson, a negro, was con
victed of assault at Decatur, Ala., last
Thursday, and will be hanged.
A negro was arrested Friday at Kitt
rell, N. C., charged with assaulting a
twelve year old girl.
Mills alias Pig Newall, was hanged
at Selma, Ala., last Friday, for the
murder of Wright Crawford.
John Johnson, a negro, was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala., last Friday, for
murdering Archie Clarke.
Maximo Martinez was hanged at
Floresville, Texas, last Friday, for the
crime of triple murder.
Albert Schultz, of Watertour, Wis..
shot his wife and then blew his own
brains out. The woman will recover.
A mad dog bit David McGaha, a
child, near Huntsville, Ala., last Fri
day The child will die.
Mrs. A. W. Oakley, wife of the county
treasurer of Ail;en, S. C., committed
siAc.ue by taking poison last Friday.
On July 29th Harry Vandewater, of
Middletown, N. Y., died from the effects
of a yellow jacket sting.
Lightning killed Nathan McCowan,
of Jackson county, Ala., during a thun
der storm last Saturday.
Thomas Alexander, the giant, of
Rushville, Ind , who measured six feet
ten inches high, is dead.
A miner, while crossing the moun
tain from Dyea, Alaska, was s unstruck.
He eventually recovered.
Sugar has been advanced again by
the trust, and granulated now sells for
five cents per pound
Samuel Lewis, oldest iron founder in
America, aged 92 years, died Sunday in
Allentown, Pa.
General Stewart L. Woodford, the
new minister to Spain, sailed on the
Steamer Paris Wednesday the 28th ult
The faculty of Brown University
have protested against President An
drews resignation. Under his presi
dency the college has prospered.
A mad cow gored Adam Dau®, of
Lancaster, Pa., Thursday while he was
trying to rescue his grandson, whom
the cow was pursuing. Daum will die.
Howard C. Benham, a Batavia, N. Y.,
banker, has been convicted of wife
poisoning after a trial which consumed
nearly three weeks.
Waterbury, Conn., was deluged by a
cloud burst on Wednesday night of last
week. Portions of New York State
have also suffered from excessive rains.
Mrs. C. C. Bass, of Florence Station,
Ky , is the mother of a new born boy
baby who has two well developed front
teeth.
Dr. James Charles, of Richmond,
Ind., has invented an airship which
will sail like a bird. Capitalists are
backing bis invention.
J ules Bunnell and his young bride of
a week, committed suicide in Houston,
Texas, because the husband could not
find work.
President J. D. Porter, of the Physi
cians Supply Company of Arkansas
City, committed suicide because his
young wife would ride a bicycle.
Nearly 900 farmers in the vicinity of
Rochester, N. Y., are raising beets, in
anticipation of the big beet sugar fac
tory that is to be started there.
The 25th United States Infantry Bi
cycle Corps, all negroes, reached St.
Louis Friday, having ridden 2,000 miles
in forty days.
Two negro men and a negro woman
were sentenced to hang Sept. 7, in
Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday for assault
ing a small white girl.
Gold coin amounting to $750,000 was
withdrawn Monday for export to
Europe. Since the recent movement
began 828,119,573 has been exported.
The Fox Solid Pressed Company of
Joliet, 111., has mortgaged the plant for
$150,000 to pay debts and to handle
future business.
Thomas Jones, an old and respected
citizen of Mobile, Ala., was murdered
by a negro named Jo Davis on the night
of the 27th ult.
The Sheriff of Roanoke, 111, tele
graphed Governor Tanner on the 28th
for troops to protect the lives of min
ers who. desire to continue at work.
Isaac B. Allen, the negro member of
the Governor’s Council in Massachu
sets, was in the poor debtors’ court last
week, for failure to pay a rent bill of
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER
(J . NISBETT UNDER FIRE.
The Bin*? jk Committee and Col. Swift are
Saying Hard Things.
Commissioner of Agriculture Nesbitt
opened the bids for guano tags Monday
at the S tate house.
The state printers bid through two
employees Col. Prather at 97% cents
per thousand and J. A. Hayden at 75
cents. The contract went to H. L.
Girtman of Savannah at 54 cents.
Last year the State paid 81,60 per
thousand and only as far back as 1891,
82. each year showing a decrease of 10
cents in the price.
Representative Swift has come out
in an interview declaring the Commis
sioner’s action outrageous. He claims
he has bids as low as 20c per thousand
and in bulk 17c. In his interview, Mr.
Swift says:
“I am willing to stake my reputation
that I could have secured all these
tags for which Mr. Nesbitt has paid
842,174,44 for $6 000. I have no hesi
tancy in saying that right here in
Atlanta I have found merchants who
say that six years ago they could buy
these same tags for 40 cents per 1,000
in spite of any imaginary patent. The
work of the committee has secured a
reduction of $4,240, as compared with
the tag expenditure last year, but it
should have been more than that.
Nesbitt proposes to pay $2,160, and if
he had taken the bid I offered him he
could have gotten them for 8800. These
are facts which I don’t believe it will
be easy to get away from.”
Col. Nisbeit has refused to be. inter
viewed.
A few years ago, it is reported, about
1893, he asked for bids and received sev
eral, one at a price that saved the state
a large sum When the matter was
brought to a final decision, he decided
that the state printers (who had in the
meantime learned of the competition
and lowered their figures a trifle, de
manding the contract as their right)
should be given that year’s contract at
their own figures.
$22.80. He was discharged, as it could
not be shown that he possessed 820
worth of property,
Theodore Schmitz, a prominent Chi
cago lawyer, is under arrest on the
charge of embezzling SI,OOO given him
for investment.
Small-pox has again broken out in
Birmingham, Ala., there being 60 cases
in the pest house and detention camp..
All negroes.
In 38 hours, “Pedro” a carrier pigeon
of South Bend, Ind., flew from New
O-leans to his nest, a distance of 1,000
miles, breaking the world’s record.
Charles Schank, of Chicago, awoke
speechless one night eleven years ago.
He has had his speech restored by use
of electricity after this long silence.
John Willie, a young man of Rich
mond, Va., tried to kill Miss Mollie
Jenkins, because she refused to marry
him.
A felon on the thumb of Wash Du
rant, a South Carolina negro, has prop
agated worms in the member, and a
number have been extracted.
Troopers Bertrand and Jackson, of
B. troop, Second U. S. Cavalry, were
drowned Friday night in a reservoir at
Denver, Colorado.
J. H. Ingraham, indicted for the
murder of John L Hoss, escaped from
the jail at Clayton, Ark., one day last
week.
There are threats of lynching Ben
Vaughan at Perry, Okla , for shooting
into a crowd of children at a Sunday
school pienic.
A Swedish colony from Illinois has
purchased 15,000 acres of land on Mo
bile Bay, Ala., and will make their
homes there.
General Wade Hampton, U. S. Com
missioner on Railways, is in San Fran
cisco on his annual inspection tour of
government aided lines.
Forty steamers have been chartered
to ship grain from this country to
Europe. They will take 4,000,000 bush
els of grain.
The Negro Chautauqua Association,
which was to be held at Talladega,
Ala , August stb, has been postponed
to December 20.
A cyclone struck the farm of A. C
McDowell at San Jose, Hl., last Friday
killing seven people and seriously in
juring three others.
Mattie Parden and Francesca Oclepo,
two girls of Passaic, N. J., were fined
825 each last week for confining two
pet robins in a cage.
The Brownlow Car Company of St.
Louis, one day last week, filed a deed
of trust to F. W. Thompson for $182,-
364.59.
An express train on the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Rail
way was derailed near Thornton, Ind.,
on the 30th ult., and four people were
killed.
An attempt to kidnap Ernest Ochs, a
wealthy Williamsburg, N. Y., brewer,
on last Thursday, failed. The object
was to get a heavy ransom for his re
lease.
The Natchez Cotton Mills of Natchez,
Miss., suspended last Saturday on ac
count of lack of raw cotton. Three
hundred people were thrown out of
employment.
Sunday August Ist was a hot day all
over the country. At St. Louis, Louis
ville, Atlanta and several places the
thermometer ranged between 98 and
101.
Captain James Whalen, of Union,
N. Y., jumped on a bicycle Saturday
and pursuing a runaway, caught the
horse. In the carriage were his wife
and children, frightened but uninjured.
The Grand Army men objecting to
the Confederate flag, the ex-Confeder
ates of Springfield, Mo., have refused
to go into a parade at a coming re
union.
Governor Barnes, of Oklahoma, is
charged with appointing marshals for
a portion of their fees. He denies the
charges which are filed with Attorney-
General McKenna in Washington.
Anton Lucki and Angelina Musca
lino eloped Sunday in Hackensack.
N. J. The girl’g father pursued the
FLANAGAN MUST DIE.
The Dekalb County Murderer
is Found Guilty.
INSANITY PLEA PROMPTLY RULED OUT
Trial Cost County Three Thousand Dollars
—Angnst 25 is the Day of the Hang
ing—Experts Failed to Con
vince the Jury.
Edward C. Flanagan, who murdered
Mrs. Allen and Miss Ruth Slack last
fall at Poplar Springs, DeKalb county,
was sentenced to hang August 25th, the
jury, after a six days trial, bringing in
a verdict of murder.
Flanagan was infatuated with the 12-
year-old daughter of Mrs. Allen, and
not being allowed to marry her, mur
dered Mrs Allen and a young lady vis
itor, Miss Slack, and seriously wounded
Mr. Alien.
Col. Glenn, his attorney pleaded on
the ground of insanity, and experts
were introduced.
An appeal has been filed.
The trials have already cost the
county $3,000.
couple, who were riding a tandem bi
cycle, but arrived after the ceremony.
Two lawyers named Bird and White
acre, respectively, had a quarrel in a
Richmond, Va., court. Bird threw an
inkstand at Whiteacre, striking him
behind the ear and causing concussion
of the brain.
George Martina and Albert Albertini
quarreled over a woman at Hazelton,
Pa., last Thursday. Martini struck his
rival over the head with a gun barrel,
killing him instantly.
The corn crop of Kansas is reported
as being only one-third the usual crop
on account of drouth. On Saturday,
Sunday and Monday the thermometer
rose above 100 all over the State. Far
mers are cutting their corn for fodder.
Congressman Brownlow, of Tennes
see, does not keep up with his constit
uents. Recently he had Peter Yoakley
appointed to a postofiice two months
after he was dead.
President McKinley will visit Senator
Hanna at the latter’s home in Cleve
land during August. While there the
party will attend the marriage of Ex-
President Hayes’daughter.
J edge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michi
gan, is now an inmate of the ii sane
asylum. Judge Cooley was the first
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Ben Chesterman. of Huntington, Ind.,
was accidentally shot by his cousin
Saturday, the ball entering the brain,
will recover, although considerable
brain matter oozed, out from the wound.
N. C Etting bought at auction in
Florence, Ala., Monday for $60,000 all
the property of two boom town compa
nies. The land was once valued at
several millions.
Wicher Smith died in Newberry
county, S. C., Tuesday. His sons dis
agreed as to who should bury the body.
One shot the other and was stabbed in
return. Both will die. The funeral
will be a triple one.
A wild cat in the kitchen of John
Henderson living near Oviedo, Fla.,
clawed up both Henderson and his
wife badly’ last Saturday before it was
killed,
An eleven year old girl living on a
farm near Lancaster, Pa., awoke last
Friday night and found a snake crawl
ing over her. She moved and it bit her.
Her screams brought the family, who
killed a large copperhead. The girl
died Saturday night.
Henry Crosby and his bride of ten
days attempted suicide at Starke, Fla.
Crosby soon died, but his wife recov
ered. She will say nothing as to the
reason that prompted them to eeek
death. They’ had recently moved to
Florida from Ware county, Ga.
Max Siberman, an aged Jew of Chat
tanooga, assaulted and beaten into
insensibility some days ago by a negro
woman. The woman rilled his pockets,
stripped off his coat, and was removing
his shoes when she was discovered by
a policeman and arrested. The old
man may die.
Howell C. Rees, a wealthy manufac
turer of New York, who was commit
ted recently to an insane asylum on
affidavits of two physicians, has been
released by the court and will sue the
parties for false imprisonment. He
was given a certificate showing he is
sound physically and mentally.
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, bossed
the Democratic Convention of that
State last week—writing the platform
and naming the candidates. The plat
form declares that the Democratic
party has always stood for sound
money. It endorses bimetalism, but
says nothing about ratio.
Dudley Johnson, a white cap of Mad
ison county, Ala , and a well known
farmer, was found dead in the road
Monday night. Frank Simmons had
been seen with him and a mob formed
to lynch him but he fled to the woods.
Simmons wi'e claims that the white
caps came to their house to whip her
husband. He shot the leader as the
crowd broke in his door. They retired
carrying the body away. Simmons has
sent word he will surrender to the
Sheriff if he is protected from the mob.
Trouble in Portugal.
A grave political crisis exists in Port
ugal. The ministerial organs warn the
Republicans that they will be rigor
ously dealt with if they provoke agita
tion and disturb the public mind.
Late reports say a reign of terror ex
ists. Citizens are seized in their beds
at night and put into prison. Italian
warships have been ordered to Lisborn.
Ryder Lynching.
Governor Atkinson says he has the
names of several of the Ryder lynchers.
Governor Atkinson has offered a re
ward of S3OO each for the first two
lynchers of Dr. Ryder and SIOO each
xor as many of the remainder as may
be caught and convicted.
“EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY Al GUST (>, 1897.
THE STRIKE IS SPREADING.
Coal Miners are Desperate but are Still
Under Good Control.
The great coal miners strike is still
the subject of attention in the Eastern
States.
An appeal was sent out by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, to all the north
ern branches to devise ways and means
for the assistance of the striking
miners. It was adopted at a conven
tion of labor representatives held at
Wheeling, W. Va., and says among
other things, after making a strong
plea for assistance to the miners:
“ We denounce the issuance of in
junctions by judges of West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and other States as
wholly unjustifiable, unwarranted and
unprecedented, and especially in tne
absence of any exhibition or manifes
tation of force or lawlessness on the
part of the outraged miners.
“We call upon the Governor of ’Vest
Virginia, and upon the Governors of
other States, and all public officials for
full and ample protection to the exer
cise of our rights of free speech and
public assemblage. We have no desire
to trespass upon the rights of any one,
but we demand the exercise of those
rights handed down to us by übe
founders of our Republic.
“We recommend that indignation
mass meetings be held on Tuesday,
August 5, throughout the entire coun
try, to give expression to our condem
nation of the unwarranted injunction
interfering with the rights of free as
semblage and free speech, and to also
extend sympathy and support to the
mine workers to the utmost extent.”
A non union man fired into a crowd
of strikers at Scottsdale, Pa., last Fri
day, A crowd attacked him, and lie
was severely beaten before the police
could rescue him.
Over 400 families of miners at Dan
ville, 111., are in destitute circum
stances.
About 800 miners at Greenville, la ,
have demanded 1892-1893 prices. if
the demand is refused, there will be a
general suspension.
The coal output from West Virginia
mines was only one-half the general
average last week. The strikers are
making desperate efforts to make the
suspension general. Coal operators
claim they can keep half of their
miners at work, while the labor lead
ers hope as a result from the “Miner’s
Day” demonstration to tie up all mines
now running.
Wednesday’s reports show that the
strike has gained good headway this
week, nearly every man in the De
Armitt mines being out
DeArmitt threatens to spring an in
junct on granted in May, 1895, and su
tained by the Supreme Court, whi< ’>
forbids perpetually all miners frem
camping or assembling upon the high
ways, roods and premises adjoining the
DeArmitt mines or in the vicinity of
the same for the purpose of intimida
ting workers in his mine.
De Armitt claims that West Virginia
coal operators contributed SIO,OOO to
the strike leaders to let West Virginia
mines run and close him up.
At Ottumwa, lowa, 1000 miners are
out and a general strike in the state is
expectod.
The strikers have broken the record
both as to the large attendance on their
mass meetings and their excellent or
der and behavior.
Sheriff Lowry wired Governor Has
tings, of Pennsylvania, from Pittsburg
Monday night that the situation was
critical.
The superintendent of the Fleming
ton, Pa., mines has ordered strikers to
vacate the company’s houses at once.
New camps have been struck close to
the mines where men are still working.
Flanagan’s Diserse Spreading.
Panoia, the mental disease with which
Attorney Glenn claims Flanagan is
afflicted seems to have spread recently.
A man named Moyes from Greenville,
Miss., called on Col. Glenn during the
trial and engaged him to defend a mur
derer of Rome He stated he was a
New York attorney and an expert on
mental diseases. He attempted to
assist Col. Glenn in defending Flanagan
After Flanagan’s sentence it was found
that Moyes was crazier than even Col.
Glenn insisted was Flanagan. He was
arrested and sent home after, however,
several capers in Atlanta which showed
his insanity.
A few days afterwards another man
claiming he was pursued by the police
called at police headquarters for pro
tection. He is affected in the same
manner.
Policeman’s Bullet Fatal.
Charles Welch, a white mechanic,
beat his wife Monday night on Deca
tur street. He ran when bicycle pa
trolman S. B. Bankston went for him.
When overhauled, Welch, it is claimed,
drew a knife and threatening the offi
cer advanced on him. The officer shot
him, the bullet entering the heart.
A New York Brute.
George B Chase, who abducted Kitty
Chase, a fourteen year old girl from
Rallston Spa, N, Y., on July 2, was
caught on the 28th ult., in the moun
tains of Montgomery county. The girl
tells a story of terrible hardships.
Chase has been in prison half a dozen
times.
Flocking to Alaska.
So many of the employees of Moran
Bros., ship builders at Seattle, have
left for Alaska that the firm has given
notice that the mill will require an
extention of time to finish the torpedo
boat, Roman.
Andrews Get a Job.
President Andrews, who was com
pelled to resign from the presidency of
Brown University, because he opposed
monopolies will take the management
of a college to be started by John
Brisben Walker.
A Mosquito Draws Blood.
Private Flynn of the U. S. Army at
Governor’s Island, N. Y., was bitten
Saturday by a mosquito. He lost near
ly a pint of blood before the surgeon
could dress the wound. The mosquito’s
lance had punctured a small vein.
HERE IN OLD GEORGIA.
Doingsofa Week Gathered in
Brief Paragraphs.
SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE.
Happenings of General Interest From
Many Counties—Crimes and Crimi
nals—What the Other Fellow
Saw And Tells You About.
Negroes of Cordele, Ga , are holding
a Chautauqua meeting.
Floyd county tax returns show an in
crease of $259,718.
Chief Connolly of the Atlanta police
is very ill at his home.
Fire on Sunday burned the Naylor
Hotel at Tybee with a loss’ of $12,000.
The State League of bicyclists meets
in Macon August 5.
The State Horticultural Society is in
session at Savannah.
State School Commissioner, G. R.
Glenn, issued teachers licenses to twen
ty six persons last week. .
C. C. Clay, of Sumter. Ga., picked the
first new bale of cotton on his planta
tion last Friday.
JudgeS. W Fite inflicted severe penal
ties on the illicit liquor sellers at Car
tersville last week.
The annual re-union of the Thirtieth
Georgia regiment was held at River
dale, Clayton county, last Friday.
The Federation of Trades is making
extensive arrangements to celebrate
Labor Day in Atlanta.
Muscogee county’s tax returns show
a decrease of $1,345 029. Negro tax
payers returned $285,000.
A model school house to cost SI,OOO
will be built near the State Normal
School at Athens.
It took five policemen and two patrol
wagons to arrest a twelve year old
negro burglar in Atlanta last Friday.
Walton Jones, an employee of the
Southern Plow Works, of Columbus,
had his hand crushed by atrip hammer.
W. C. Smith dangerously stabbed
Cicero Howell near Lumpkin last Sat -
urday. The men were in a quarrel.
Miss Eva West fell from a porch at
Albany a few days ago and broke her
shoulder.
Atlanta’s Board of Health is watch
ing suspects coming from the Alabama
districts where smallpox is epidemic.
Savannah’s first bale came in Mon
day, was classed full middling and sold
at 10 cents.
F. M. Bryan a prominent Macon
county citizen died Monday at Rey-
Perry, the DeKalb county murderer,
under sentence, has engaged additional
counsel who will appeal the case.
Geo. R. Lombardy has been elected
to succeed J acob Phinizy on the Au
gusta water works commission.
Mrs. Felton will address the Agricul
tural Society meeting at Tybee next
Thursday.
The ninth annual reunion of the sur
vivors of the Fourth Regiment, Geor
gia Volunteers, will be held at La-
Grange on Wednesday, Aug. 18.
Dr. A. B Calhoun, father of Atlanta’s
famous eye specialist died at Newnan
Sunday in his 89th year. He was a
noted physician for the past 40 years.
Mike Lenaham, a boiler maker of
Newnan was found dead in an alley in
Atlanta Sunday night. Foul play is
suspected.
Judge Butt will present the Ryder
lynching matter to Talbot and Harris
county grand juries at the September
session.
The fire boat at Savannah saved the
Barkentine Cypher Saturday night.
The vessel was loaded with rosin and
was burning rapidly.
A man named Kerr is in jail at Spring
Place, Murray county, charged with
cutting Henry Dickson’s throat Satur
day night with a razor.
A negro boy was caught in Atlanta
Tuesday stealing the contribution bas
kets from the tabernable where the
Sam Jones’ revivals are held.
Judge Beck has charged Spalding
grand jury to bring the lynchers who
hanged the negro Oscar Williams be
fore the court for trial.
A thousand people are attending
Jefferson Court, Jackson county, where
Reynolds and Brooks are to be tried for
murdering M. C. Hunt.
E. W. Barrett, formerly of the Atlan
ta Constitution Washington bureau,
has taken charge of the Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Alfred Douglas, the negro applicant
for the Talbotton Post office who with
drew last week denies that the fear of
lynching caused his action.
Frank 11. Ellett, yard conductor of
the Seaboard Air Line was crushed to
death between the cars in the Atlanta
yards last Saturday.
Rafe Jenkins, a negro brute, who has
confessed to assaulting Mrs. Georgia
Taylor in Franklin county last week,
has been jailed at Carnesville.
One of the corner piers of the new
Forsyth street bridge in Atlanta has
sunk 5 inches since Christmas. Prompt
attention may save the bridge.
John S. Becker, of New York, has
bought and will run in the future the
Georgia Staats Zeitung, Atlanta’s Ger
man weekly.
Hon. Fleming du Bignou refused to
state positively to a Macon News re
porter last week whether he would or
not be a candidate for governor.
Judge Sweat will hear a petition at
Waycross, in the near future, for the
appointment of a receiver of the Cum
berland Island Uotel property.
The trial of ex-Marshal Morris, of
Midville, charged with the murder of
Joe Sprinz, has resulted in his being
bound over.
While lawyer Anderson was filing
his papers in the Gunn will case in
Atlanta recently, lawyer Hastings
came in and tiled a set of papers that
has brought on a contest Anderson
BOND HOLDERS WIN OUT.
Eagle and Phoenix Savings Bank Deposi
tors Come in Second.
Special Master Wimbish has decided
that the bondholders of the Eagle and
Phoenix Company, whose mills at Co
lumbus are of world wide fame, have
a first Hen on all the property under
the mortgage.
Personal and other property not
under the mortgage is under a first lien
in favor of the Savings Bank deposi
tors.
The general creditors will get prac
tically nothing.
The Savings Bank depositors who
have supposed they were amply pro
tected will get but a small amount.
claims fraud and the legal fight is at
tracting interest.
Last week the At’antj, post master
received an unsigned letter containing
S3O, which the writer stated was due
the government.
R. H. Raine, a white man who has
recently been employed at the Chris
tian Union rooms in Atlanta unsuccess
fully tried suicide Sunday by taking
cocaine.
The Georgia and Alabama Railroad,
in, defiance of the court injunction
moved its offices from Americus to Sa
vannah during Saturday night. A
warm legal fight will result.
The Appalachian gold mining com
pany at Dahlonega has bought the
Singletdn mine. The company will
develop the 12 min.es it owns to their
fullest capacity.
George B. White, of Kirkwood, Ga.,
has mysteriously disappeared. He was
discouraged by failure in business and
it is supposed that he has gone to other
parts.
A civil service examination was held
in the government building this city
last Wednesday for the examination
of clerks and carriers in the mail ser
vice.
Miss Willie Hawkins, a school girl in
short dresses, of Woodstock, ran away
last Friday and married Will South, a
young farmer who was working for her
father.
W. J. Mayfield, serving a twelve
months sentence for shooting at I. D
Swift, of Elberton, at the polls durinsr
the state election last October, has
escaped from the chain gang.
Atlanta’s city attorney has filed the
city’s answer in the case against the
Street Railway Company in whose
favor the U. S. Court rec ntly rendered
a decision.
Thomas Wilson, on trial at Dublin
for killing Ben Smith, a negro, last
January, has been acquitted. Wilson
claimed the negro had a pistol and the
killing was in self-defen e
Florian Blindewald, secretary of the
Agusta Brewing Company, was drown
ed in Augusta Monday. He was bath
ing in the lake and went beyond his
depth, not knowing how to swim.
Guy Patterson, a negro, broke into a
widow's house near Franklin Monday
night. Her neighbor, Gus Hopson,
came to her aid and killed the man
with an ax.
A miscreant scattered tacks along
Peachtree street in Atlanta Tuesday
night. More than a score of bicycles
were disabled in a few minutes with
punctured tires.
Lord Beresford, alias Sidney Las
celles, who, coming out of the peniten
tiary, made a dazzling record at Fitz
gerald. skipping with large debts be
hind and some cash in pocket, is in
Seattle en route to Alaska.
Railway mail clerk T. M. Phillips,
was arrested in Columbus Tuesday
charged with robbing the mails. It is
claimed marked bills sent in a decoy
letter were found on his person. He is
es prominent family.
The Yorkville gold mine has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
Funds to develop the ore were used to
buy more land and the company went
to the wall.
Cooper Dorman, of Americus, swal
lowed 22 grains of morphine last week.
Prompt work of a Doctor with his
stomach pump, saved his life. The
cause was despondency resulting from
hard times.
B. M. Fowler, of Atlanta, has been
appointed commercial agent for Geor
gia at the Omaha exposition. He will
at once get up exhibits and wants eve
ry county to send an agricultural dis
play.
A rabid dog walked into the Grady
hospital Atlanta, last Wednesday night.
The nur es were afraid to use a pistol
on account of disturbing the patients,
but attacked the dog with a floor mop
After some narrow escapes they beat
him to death.
Attorney General Terrell, has decid
ed that the building and loan associa
tion license fees should go into the
state treasury instead of to tne state
treasurer as fees The estate of ex
Treasurer Bob Hardeman have notified
Treasurer Speer that $2,100 charged
against Col Hardeman will be repaid
to the State as soon as the matter is
positively decided.
Hamilton & Co, have sold their
warehouse and large brick building at
Rome to the Chattanooga. Rome and
Southern railroad for $33,000. The
road will build a handsome passenger
depot and general offices.
Acting City Attorney Pendleton ex
ploded a sensation in police court
Atlanta Tuesday by declaring that the
use of sidewalks by merchants for the
display of their goods is clearly illegal
Judge Pendleton construes the ordi
nance covering this subject to be so
so sweeping as to absolutely clear the
sidewalks of every thing, even includ
ing the two feet which has been allow
ed since time immemorial.
Henry Green, a negro from Atlanta,
has been arrested at Cartersville and
is being held as a witness to the mur
der of Policeman Albert ot Atlanta
Green says that James Williams, now
under arrest for the crime, is the one
Iwho did the shooting, lie says that he
was standing near when the officer
halted Williams and asked where he
was going; without a word the negro
HIDDEN FORTY YEARS.
A Sensational New York Mur
der Comes to Light.
USED A LINEN CORD AND KNIFE.
Dentist Burdell’s Murderers are now Dead
But the Housekeepers Confession is
Made Publie-She Wanted His
Money and Property.
On Jan. 30, 1857, in his office on Bond
street in New York eity, Dr. Harvey
Burdell, a dentist, was murdered in a
mysterious manner, the slayer escap
ing. His housekeeper, Mrs. Cunning
ham was arrested and acquitted, as
was ako a well known manufacturer
John Eckel.
Mrs. Cunningham then attempted to
get Burdell’s estate by palming off a
bogus heir but was unsuccessful though
her case caused a great sensation.
Mrs. Cunningham recently died and
the woman to whom she confessed
made public her statement last Sun
day.
E jkels and the housekeeper strangled
the dentist with a linen cord and
stabbed him with an excavator,a sharp,
keen instrument.
They wrapped the cord and knife in
a cloth, weighted down and threw it
into the East River. Both criminals are
now dead.
MATRIMONIAL FREAKS.
Two Atlanta Cases that Have Never Ap
peared iu the Newspapers.
Atlanta is proverbial for being the
home of strange people.
For instance, near the centre of the
city lives a former belle of another
city. She was married, but after a
short time both parties concluded a
mistake had been made. The wife kept
their only child, a daughter.
Later on she married a widower and
is now living happily with him. Hus
band No. 1 returned to Atlanta and is
now boarding with his ex-wife and her
husband, while his own daughter has
been adopted by husband No. 2.
Another instance recently reported
shows a general mixing up. A promi
nent lady (an old maid) raised all her
half sisters and half brothers, all of
whom are now married. Recently she
met the step father of the husband of
one of her half sisters. He was a
widower. It was a case of love at first
sight and they were soon wedded and
live with the old maid’s mother. Her
friends are trying now to decide her
relationship to her half sister, whose
step father-in-law she married. These
are actual casss from real lite.
FORSYTH COUNTY RALLY.
Largely Attended by Ladies as Well as the
Olil Guard.
The Populists held a picnic rally at
Cumming, July 29, at which General
\Vm. Phillips addressed a large crowd
in which there were many ladies.
His speech was well received and
brought into line every wavering re
former as well as converting several
Democrats who came out and declared
themselves with the party.
Senator Brooks and others spoke in
the afternoon.
Clerk Orr hospitably entertained the
speakers at his home, one of the cosiest
in the entire section. Messrs. Strick
land, Guthrie, Moore and others of the
committee made their visit a pleasant
one.
Forsyth county is Populist three to
one. All the county officers are Popu
lists, and the fine county roads and
new iron bridges show their progres
sive spirit.
The picnic was held on the lawn in
the courthouse square in the shade
of wide spreading oaks. General Phil
lips was Solicitor-General of this cir
cuit in 1850 and met many old friends.
On the return trip Editor Wilson of
the Buford Alliance Plow Boy, enter
tained the party. His good wife is the
prize winner for the best grape wine
exhibited at the /Atlanta Exposition
and a splendid hostess.
Three Murders in One Night.
Mobile, Alabama, had three murders
in one night last week. A burglar and
ex-convict killed Mr. Thomas Jones, a
prominent citizen who attempted to
arrest him while robbing his house.
Later, a negro named Knight shot a
man by the name of Dantzler, and in
the effort to escape also shot Joe
Tucker, a policeman. Both murderers
had the luck to hear the jail doors
close behind them before tney were
seized by the angry citizens.
turned and fired the fatal shot and then
ran away.
The United States court officers have
received a letter from a Federal prison
er in the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary
warning them that Louis Knight who
has just completed a ten year term for
conspiracy, will seek to kill Lem Burch
who turned informer at the time he
and others were convicted. Burch is
supposed to be in South Georgia.
The Ryder brothers have engaged
two Pinkerton detectives to work up
evidence against the lynchers. Dr
Ryder’s life insurance money, $5,000,
will be used to bring tin m to justice.
An unknown negro, bning refused
money whereby he could buy a rail
road ticket, put his head on the track
at Chula, near Tifton, Tuesday evening.
A passing train cut it off,
Peyton Truhart, a Valdosta negro,
shot and killed his daughter Tuesday
night because his supper was not
ready.
The United States Weather Bureau
Crop Bulletin, issued Wednesday, shows
the corn and cotton crops of Georgia to
be above the average.
South Georgia Democratic politicians
are demanding that the next Demo
cratic caudidate for governor comes
from that section and under Demo
cratic rule.
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WHOLE NUMBER 359.
POPULISTS CARRY APPLING.
Two Democratic Candidates Beaten by
the Straight Middle Roader.
Hazlehurst, Ga , Aug. 4.—The Pop
ulists of Appling county gave the dem
ocratic party a surprise at a special
election a few days ago.
D, Robb Carter, former County Treas
urer (democrat) having become insane,
a special election was held.
Three candidates entered the field
with no nominating convention. Two
were democrats and represented both
wings of the party. Party lines were
sharply drawn and the Populist candi
date went in by a majority over all of
16 votes. We are gaining ground rap
idly and the democrats generally are
careless and don’t seem to care which
way things go.
OUR “EXPERIENCE”COLUMN
What Populists have Done for Their Home
County.
In a recent issue the following letter
of inquiry appeared:
WANTED—AN EXAMPLE.
People’s Party Paper.
Will some county official, a reader of
your paper, whose county formerly
went Democratic or Republican but is
now Populist show by figures what the
party has done for his county in the
way of reforms or lower taxes or im
provements ?
I am often asked this question by
Democrats, who say “you fellows do
the same thing when you carry the
county and forget all about the reforms
you preach.”
1 want some county, as an example,
where I can show up the facts in the
case. H. ScitMiDT.'
Georgia.
NOW DADE SPEAKS UP.
“Replying to Mr. Schmidt, I would
say that Dade county has always been
called the banner Democratic county of
Georgia. Last fall the Populists landed
her in the Populist column by sending
to the Legislature a true blue Populist,
Dr. S. R Deakins, o-ercoming a major
ity of 350 and winning out by seven.--"
votes The grand jury last spring
(Populist) raised 'he taxes on corpora
tion and alien property to about SIOO,-
000.” L B Austin,
Chm. Dade Co. P. P. Ex. Com.
And now who’s next ? Tell it in a
few words,-get the figures and all, new
improvements, bridges, lower taxes,
ett. !
“A SET OF ASSES.”
That Is the Governor’s Reply to Charges
Against Him.
Governor Atkinson, of West Va.„ A
being charged by the Federation
Labor at Washington as co-.t'ar’Ay
bloodthirsty says: \
“This is the first time in my collec
tion that I have been denounced as _
cowardly and bloodthirsty. I do not
believe lam guilty of either charge. I
am not responsible for not allowing
Sovereign to speak to the Pocahontas
(Va.) miners. The Mayor was respon
sible for that, and I have no authority J
in Virginia. If your Federation had-JJ
any sense or were honest you
inquire as to the facts before denounc
ing some one who has always been
your friend. I have no time to waste
on a set of asses who congregate to
pass resolutions denouncing one with
out cause. The people of my state
know me, and I am glad to be able to
state to you that all the resolutions
you can pass or may pass will have no
effect upon them.”
Speeding to Alaska.
A Chicago party of 150 men, with an
abundance of money, have started in a
special train for San Francisco, where
they will board a special steamer, ancßfl
reaching St, Michael, Alaska, will there
take special steam launches up the
Yukon. They expect to reach the
Klondyke country in thirty days. They
will live in the launches through the
coming winter.
Gwinnett Has a Revival.
At Lawrenceville, last Thursday,
Gwinnett County Populists filled the
Court house to hear Col. Gowdy, of
Atlanta. Judge Hines had been book
ed to speak but a sudden illness pre
vented his coming. Col. Gowdy made
a speech that was hard to equal and
the meeting turned out to be a general
revival for the party. __ -
More Gold From Alaska.
The Steamer Portland will leave St
Michaels for Seattle on September 15,
laden with $3,000,000 in gold The gov
ernment has ordered the revenue cut
ter Rush to escort the Portland to pro
tect her from Chinese pirates.
Another Weyler Fake.
Captain General Weyler, it is re
ported, will take the field in a few days
to direct military operations in the
province of Havana.
The Girard Heirs Found.
A London correspoi dent says that
all the heirs of Stephen Girard, who
died in 1831, have been found, and that
steps will be taken to secure the resti
tution of the property he left.
A Light. Sentence
C. W. Lowery, an ex-mail carrier
was convicted at Birmingham, Ala,, of
attempting to assault a little girl. His
sentence is to pay SIOO fine and to
serve thirty days in the mines at hard
labor.
Alabama Strike Ended.
The coal miners have returned to
work in the Birmingham district sign
ing a contract at 28 cents per ton. the
strikers number 700 and all are now
satisfied.
Vanderbilt to Build Hospital.
Geo. W. Vanderbilt will erect and
maintain a mammoth hospital at Ashe
ville, N. C., for patients who are un
able to pay for treatment.
-Rejected The Offer.
Secretary Long has rejectet’fiMsß’
of the armor companies to
diagonal armor for the thrcNe3 ,
ships Alabama, Wisconsin
at a price to be hereafter
Navy Department.