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<l!ic .Cinvi'inniih (tribune. Published by the Tansroni PabllshißX Co. i J. H. DKVEAUX. > VOL. IV. THE WORLD OVER. < • - • INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD. Twenty persons were injured in a Boulangerist row in Paris, France. The Berkshire Woolen Company, of Great Barrington, Mass., has failed. The schooner Mokoh, of Astoria, Ore gon, was wrecked near the entrance of Tillamook bay, and all hands were lost. ♦ Thirty thousand men employed in Derbyshire collieries, in England, have been conceded an advance of 10 per cent, in wages. There was a mutiny among the con victs at Orbetello, Italy. Thirty prison ers and several jailers were killed or wounded. In Paris, France, the approaches to the Maierie were thronged on the occa sion of the marriage of Gen. Boulanger’s daughter to Capt. Driant. 1 A fire has been raging since an early hour Monday at Huenfield, near Cassel, Germany. Two hundred houses are in ashes and 1,500 persons are homeless and destitute. The Pall Mall Gazette says that except for the chance of catching the Irish vote by abusing England, it thinks that no one in America would care two straws what Lord Sackvillc wrote or thought. Au explosion of natural gas in Schul theis’s tannery, at Lima, Ohio, killed John Schultheis, Peter Klein and James Hubbard. Schultheis was burned to death, the others crushed by falling walls. At Boston, Mass., twenty-one women in convention nominated Miss Alice D. Stockton, ot Wheaton, as the candidate of the Equal Rights party for governor of Massachusetts. The candidate is 26 years of age. The relief committee in London, Eng., discredits the story of the massacre, of the Stanley expedition. Members of the togimittee do not doubt that Stanley is the white, pasha reported to be in the Balter El Gazelle province. Mrs. George Wzugh, wife of a tanner employed at Harrisburg, N. Y., acciden tally killed her little daughter while en deavoring to take away a pistol with which the child was playing. The mother went violently insane. Ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, declines to receive the document notifying her of the divorce obtained by her husband, w’hich was brought her by a special mes senger to Bucharest, and the decree will therefore be conveyed to her through the foreign office. IL Clausen & Son Brewing Co., have Sold to George Sherman, John R. Kings ford and Isaac Undcrmeyer, representa tives of an English syndicate, all their property on Eastern Boulevard and For ty-seventh street New York City, the price paid being $4,500,000. The cornerstone of the big Spreckle’s sugar refinery at the foot of Reed street, in Philadelphia, Pa., was laid with appro priate ceremonies on Monday. Mr. Adolph Spreckles, son of Mr. Claus Spreckels, >. placed the cornerstone in position, amid the cheers of the invited guests. J. D. Sheehan, member of Parliament for East Kerry, Ireland, arrested at a meeting of Lord Kenmore’s tenants for advocating the plan of campaign, has been taken to Tralee jail. The police offered to release him on bail if he would promise to keep silent until his trial, but he refused to do so. A banquet was given in Paris, Fiance, on Monday, to commemorate the pre sentation of the statue of “Liberty En lightening the World,” which was given by the French people to the United States. McLane, American minister, and Goebel, French minister of foreign t affairs, were among those present. faa. The steamer Saginaw, of the Clyde ■Bafrue. recently refitted at Crump’s ship- I was at her dock in ' New York, loading for a trip to the West Indies, when she suddenly listed P toward the dock, water poured in her open portholes and the steamer sunk. L bhe will soon be raised. r ■ New Bedford, Mass., was visited by two well defined earthquake shocks on Monday night. At the Weld street po- • lice station the shocks were felt, and were .preceded by a sound, and th red distinct < scillations ™re felt, f >l -by a tremulous movement. The ’ shocks were distinctly felt across the Acushnet, in Fair Haven. Patrick Skelly, ®f Lou-iana, was found in the streets of" New York with nearly 116,000 in his po-*?s>iun, wandering •Wound. The doctors who examined s. 'him mu<l that he w.is suffering from par f** *x) jaualybis, anil was airciuiy beginnii 4 ot softening of the SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1888. brain. He has eaten no solid food for some time, but starves himself to increase his gains. ' An accident to the Czar’s train on Tuesday resulted in the killing of twen ty-one persons. The minister of war and the commander of the body guard, were injured. The Noblo brothers, Baku petroleum refiners, spent $25,000 in entertaining the Czar. They present ed to the czarina a diamond bouquet holder, valued at SIO,OOO. Another petroleum firm at Baku spent $20,000 in honor of the Czar. Hermann Baade, section foreman on the Burlington road, started for Du buque, lowa, on Monday, on a handcar, having with him his wile, three children and a friend. When rounding a sharp curve, they were run down by a special making a quick run between St. Paul and Chicago. The handcar was thrown from the track, and Mrs. Baade and her two sons, aged seven and thirteen, were instantly killed. Baade and the other man escaped. When the train struck the car, Mrs. Baade threw her baby down a bank twenty feet high, and saved its life. Capt. Tufts, of the schooner E. 11. Foster, of and for St. John, New Bruns wick from New York, October 26th, put into Southwest Harbor, Me., and reports that on the 24th fell in with an unknown schooner on Jeffries bank about 8 a. m. At noon the wind was a gale, accompan ied by snow and rain. The captain of the Foster noticed that the strange schooner was steering badly and was falling astern. He watched for signals of distress, and was prepared to lender assistance. A little later, being then about one and one-half miles in the rear, the unknown schooner suddenly sank, and Capt. Tufts has no doubt that all on board went down w.th her. The spirit of riot on the north side of Chicago, Ilk, is still rampant. Cars on the Fourth avenue line, near Milwaukee avenue, were stopped every trip by ob structions, and great crowds thronged the sidewalks and intimidated passengers, but no damage was done, and only a few stones thrown. Several North Hal sted street cars were derailed during the afternoon at a point where the street had been torn up by pavers. The police had considerable trouble dispersing the crowds at various points along the line, and were kept busy all the afternoon. A strike by the recently imported em ployes of the Yerkes street car system is among the possibilities. YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Caldwell, volunteer physician at Enterprise, Ala., has issued a call foi $1,500 for the immediate relief of suf ferers. There are now sixteen cases un der treatment. The postmaster has re ceived official information of the exis tence of yellow fever in Baldwin. The disease appears to be spreading out in various parts of the state. The weathei is very warm there and showery. Offi cial bulletin in Jacksonville: New casei 16, of which 6 are white; deaths 3. To tal cases to date, 4,059. Total deaths, 848. Bishop Weed continues to im prove. The following was sent to the Commercial Gazette, at Cincinnati, Ohio, with the request that it be given to the Associated Press: “Decatur, Ala.—Tc the people of the United States: We an supplying 600 destitute white people and 1,000 colored, and are now out of supplies. We appeal to the char itable people of the whole country foi assistance for the next three weeks. Re mit to John S. Reed, chairman relief committee, New Decatur, Ala. Andrew C. Frey, Mayor of New Decatur.” There were no new cases and no deaths by yel low fever on Sunday. The sick are doing well. A TERRIBLE CRIME. At a wedding supper, in Minneapolis, Minn., a family of eight Bohemians, after swallowing a few mouthfuls of food, fell on the floor, exhibiting all the symptoms of poisoning. George Martin, the bridegroom, was one of the victims. All of the party were very sick and likely to die. It is believed that a jeal ous rival of Martin poisoned the food. Mrs. Martin, the bride, who was oppor tunely absent from the poisoned least, took a dose of arsenic with suicidal in tent. A half empty box of the poison ■was found in the house an 1 discovered in Mr. Martin’s room. Various theories are advanced as to the reason of the crime. One is that a young man named Misco, was a jilted lover of Mrs. Martin, and that he had put the poison in the flour. OPPOSE THE PULLMAN. A consolidation of the interests of the Mann Boudoir Car Company and of the Woodruff Palace Car Company has been affected by the Jackson A Sharp com pany, of Wilmington, Del. The new organization will be known us the Union Palace Car Company, with a capital of $3,000,000. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS. ALABAMA. Gen. Thomas A. Walker diedin Selma, i He was a general in the Indian war, and was identified from time to time with ! railroad building and management. The control of the Anniston Land I Company has been sold to Northern capi talists for $600,000, which amount will i be invested in various industrial enter ; prises in that city. ARKANSAS. An. East bound passenger train of the • Iron Mountain Railroad was held up by train robbers on Sunday two miles west of Newport. The passengers were rob bed of about S2OO. FLORIDA. Jacksonville has received so far. $312,- ; 376 as an epidemic relief fund, of which $210,654 has been expended. A large number of the men employed by the sanitary committee on the public works in Jacksonville have been dis charged, and only a limited number are retained. Enterprise on Monday made a requisi tion on Jacksonville for 400 rations for a I period of two weeks. Seventeen cases and two deaths in the past forty-eight hours were reported. : The United States government has cs- ■ tablished a baggage fumigation station j at LaVilla junction, near Jacksonville, under charge of Dr. Julius Wise of the Marine Hospital service. GEORGIA. Dr. James S. Hamilton, of Athens, died of pneumonia after a short illness of one week. He had been in very fee ble health for the last year, and taking a 1 severe cold hastened his death. Dr. | Hamilton was one of Athens oldest citi j zens, and during his life had amassed quite a fortune. He was at the time of his death president of the Princton Fac ! tory Company. Arthur Watkins, of Huntington, was ' shot and instantly killed, on Tuesday ■ afternoon by Marshal Rosebraugh. Wat- I kins had been arrested in the morning, and while awaiting trial gave the officer the slip. Rosenbraugh followed and coming up with him, ordered him to halt. He responded by drawing a knife and rushing at the officer, when the lat ter shot him, killing him instantly. The 102 d annual session of the grand j lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for I the state of Georgia, convened in Macon |on Tuesday at Masonic hall. Most Wor shipful John 8. Davidson, of Augusta, presided. He delivered a splendid ad dress at the morning session. It is said to have been one of the finest produc tions of the kind ever heard by Georgia Masons. The jury in the case of George M, Eddleman, a real estate dealer in At lanta, charged with killing Tom Gres ham, a railroad man, lust. Summer, brought in a verdict on Monday of “not guilty.” An indignation meeting was hel 1 at night in the square in which the artesian well is located, and arrange ments perfected by the citizens to burn ■ the jury in effigy in front of the court ' house on Tuesday night. .MARYLAND. National Watts, aged ninety-three, die ! of pneumonia in Bdtimore, Md. He was an Old Defender and one of the patriots who, September 12, 1814, re pulsed the British attack upon Baltimore. MIKNOURI. A sensation was created in the crimi nal court in Kansas City on Tuesday I morning by the suicide of Jack Fleming, deputy marshal, who drew a and blew his brains out, while the court ' I was tn session. SOUTH CAROLINA. The great event in the history of the ' Lutheran churches of Charleston, the I , celebration of the Festival of the Refor mation, will take place in St. Matthew’s | German Lutheran Church, Sunday. The celebrated corpse trust case, which made such a sensation in Charleston, has i ■ again been brought to public notice. | J A conspiracy was formed among a num- ' ! ber of whites and negroes, by which certain life insurance companies in New 1 York and the West were swindled out of I thousands of dollar-. The conspirators ' , insuring fictitious persons and passing j off corpses procured from the potter’s j field, as the deceased personages. The . case has been reopened by a suit insti -1 tuted l>y the heirs of Pat Foley, who killed himself some time before the ex . posure of the conspiracy and who is sus j pected of having been concerned in the i conspiracy, to recover a policy of $5,090 on his life. VIRGINIA. Petroleum has been discovered in an artesian well being sunk at Houck’s tannery in Harrison, at a depth of 600 feet. The discovery has created a great stir among the people. NORTH CAROLINA. State Secretary Polk announces that the time of the meeting of the National Alliance is changed from January 16 to December 5, at Meridian, Miss. Dele gates were appointed to represent the state alliance as follows: S. P. Alexan der, of Mecklenburg; L. L. Polk, Ra leigh; D. M. Payne, of Robeson; J. C. Beaman, of Sampson, and Elias Carr, of Edgecomb. A man named Dixon, aged about 75 years, arrived at Greensboro and related a most startling story. He said he had been overtaken by two armed men, whose intention to first rob and then hang him was evidenced by their calling him to halt, at the same time demanding his money and producing a rope. The interference of a boy with a gun, how ever, prevented the double crime of highway and lynching. Dixon hails from the West, and had ou his person a ticket stamped at Kansas City, Mo., to Raleigh, N. C., also about one thousand dollars in money, beside papers, checks, etc., to cover several thousand dollars. At Shelby, on Tuesday night, fire broke out in Wray block, ‘originating in the engine room of the Aurora newspa per. The town is without tire apparatus, and nothing could be done. The block was consumed. The occupants were the Southern Express Company, Babbling ton, Roberts & Co., wholesale and retail stationers and printers, Gardner & Quinn, wholesale and retail druggists, D. C. Webb & Son, general merchandise, the Aurora and Babblington, Roberts & Co., iob uriuters. TENNESSEE. Julius Ochs, the treasurer of the Tima Printing Co., died at Chattanooga ot chronic bronchitis. He was 63 years old. Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia, Pa., filed in the court of chancery at Knox ville, a bill of complaint against the consummation of the lease of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway to the Richmond & Danville. Charles Emory was killed by a train on th*c East Tennessee Road, near the east incorporation line' in Chattanooga. He was standing in the middle of the track as the train approached and re fused to heed the signal of the engineer. A mammoth enterprise is now on foot by which Chattanooga is about to secure an expenditure of a large amount of money on river improvements. R. C. Cook, of Clinton, Mass., is the leader in the movement. The syndicate which Mr. Cook represents will buy all boats plying between Decatur, Ala., and Chat tanooga. Joe Williams, Hardie Pope, Hardy Lews and Jack Bailey, made their es cape from the jail at Kingston, on Tues day. When the sheriff and jailer opened the doors the quartette pounced on them, and after securing the sheriff’s pistol made a break for liberty. After a lively chase in which a large number of citi zens joined, the prisoners were all re captured. A fight commenced at a festival ol colored people out on the Shelbyville road near Murfreesboro, which was free ly participated in by ail the attending merry-makers. Pistols were drawn and a running fusilade was commenced. During this skirmish a negro named Frank Rucker attempted to piay the part of peace-maker and was slain. The crowd then repaired to their respective places of habitation. After the fight three pistols were found and eight chambers were found empty which had been discharged at the time of the fight. Nine shots were fired. The sheriff thinks he will be able to find one more pistol, which will account for the nine shots. There is pretty good evidence against Alice Smford, as she had a No. 33 pistol and every chamber was found to bo empty. The negro who was killed was well known throughout the county. He was considered very influential among the colored people and was quite a promi nent politician. ADIEU DEAR JUTE! The jute industry in Salem, Mass., is to be abandoned, and 500 employes will be thrown out of work. Two mills art to be shut down. Each contain about GOO spindles, and the annual production has been about 1,000,000 yaads of cloth, which has been used principally for bal ing cotton. The material used was Ben gal jute. Early last Spring several car goes of jute were landed there from lndf->, but during the Summer upward of 7,0 r 0 bales have been shipped from Salem lu ether ports, principally New York and Charleston, 8. C. The opinion was of fered by many that tire days of jute are passed, and that bagging in the future , will be made from biumv. ($1.28 For Annum; 76 cents for Sil Months; ■< 50 cent* Three Months; Single Oopie* ( I oente--In Advance. WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF FICIALS ARE DOING. The situation of affairs in Hayti, ac cording to reports received at the De partment of State, has assumed so scH ous a phase that it has been decided to semi a naval vessel to that country for the protection of American interests. The chief of the bureau of engraving and printing, in his annual report says that the production of securities by the bureau during the fiscal year exceeded that of any previous history of the Bu reau, 38,040,9-18 sheets being printed ; 5,- 388,777 more than in 1887. Because Lord Sackville-West, the British ambassador at Washington, wntto a letter to a naturalized citizen at Los Angeles, Cal., advising him how to Voto in the presidential election, the U. 8. Government has requested Lord Salis bury to recall Lord Sackville-West. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a third dividend of 18 }>er cent in favor of the creditors of the National Bank of Sumter, S. C., making in all 80 per cent ou claims proved, amounting to $75,339. This bank failed August 22, 1887. In an opinion rendered by Justice Bradley, in the drummer tax case of William G. Asher vs. tho state of Texas,! the Supreme Court of the United States,! on Monday, declared unconstitutional! all state laws imposing a license tax upon commercial travelers not residents of the state imposing the tax. President Cleveland has modified the sentence of dismissal in the case of Lieut. Col. George A. Forsyth, 4th cavalry, convicted by court-martial of duplicating his pay accounts, so as to provide for his suspension from rank and duty for a term of three years on half pay. The disgraced colonel was a trusted member of Gen. Sheridan's staff at one time, and was a brave and reckless soldier during the War. Secretary of State Bayard on Tuesday, informed Lord Sackville-West, the Brit ish minister, that President Cleveland di J rected him to officially say to him, that from causes heretofore made known to her majesty’s government, his contin uance in his present official position ;h the United States is no longer acceptable to this government, and would conse quently be detrimental to the relations between the two countries. The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the Su preme Court of the State of Georgia in the case of the Georgia Railroad and Banking company, plaintiff in error, v£ the Railroad Commissioners of Georgia. I’he Railroad Commissioners, by the au thority of the State Legislature, pre scribed what should be reasonable and just rates of transportation, and the Rail- £ road company brought an action against them, claiming that the rates established constituted an impairment of the con tract between the state and the company, by its charter granted in 1863. ' AN AUTO-DA-FE. A large procession of railroaders, headed by a brass band and marshalled by Chief of Police Connolly and twenty policemen, entered the square around the court house in Atlanta on Tuesday night, bearing twelve effigies and a mimic rep resentation of the court house. A gal lows was quickly erected and the effigies of the twelve jurymen in the Eddleman- Gresham case, duly labelled, were set on fire amid the applause of the thousands of citizens who had gathered, and the mimic court house was thrown on the smouldering heap as the effigies dropped from the scaffold. “Poor Torn Gres ham” was the label under a large oil painting of Gresham, which was borne bv two railroad conductors, COTTON. The total receipts of cotton from the plantations since September 1, 1888, are 1,461,118 bales; in 1887 were 1,994,494 bales; in 1886 were 1,524,738 bales. Although the receipts at the outportsthe past week were 279,707 bales, the actual movements from plantations was 294,116 bales. The decrease in amount in sight, as compared with last year, is 562,746 bales, the decrease as compared with 1886 is 70,163 bales and the decrease from 1885 is 124,610 bales. TEXAS. At Dalia’, the Dallas Cotton Mills, employing 250 hands and operating JI,- 000 spindles ami 200 looms, were started on Tue day in the presence of a large •»;*- j gathering. The Penu and Rio Gnuide stage was robbed near Pena. The robber was 3 ’ thick .-bort man. Sergeant Fulmer and William G. Wyant, ol the United Stutea army, were among the passengers, as ulsc Fred W. Fruitt of Langles’ New Orleans. NO. 3.