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®i.e SmMnnfth dxibunc. Published by the Tannnra PnbKihia* Co.) J. H. DEVEAUX. > VOL. IV. THE WOULD OVER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL- DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD. An unknown man jumped into the river from Prospect Park, at Niagara Falls, and w r as carried over the Falls. A mob of about 300 persons assembled on Monday in Madrid, and another out break occurred, but the rioters were scon dispersed by the police. The Vatican authorities at Rome ex press satisfaction with the election of Mr. Harrison, at whose hands the Catho lics of America are not expected to suf fer. i The Steam Gauge and Lantern Compa ny’s plant in Rochester, N. Y., was en tirely destroyed by fire. At least seven lives were lost. Loss upwards of $200,- 000. Mr. Keely, the celebrated motor man, of Pennsylvania, is to be lodged in jail in the course of a few days, unless he comes into court and reveals the secrets his invention. A stage was stopped near Downieville, Ca.,, by masked highwaymen, and an express package containing bullion and coin, amounting to about $22,500 ."was rifled of (ts contents. Sir Charles Warren, the chief of the London police, has tendered his resigna tion in consequence of the severe criti cisms of his conduct in connection with the Whitechapel murders. The Paris Temps and other journals, re gard the speech made by Baron Deßret enil at the royalist banquet at Marseilles as an indication of the abdication of the monarchists in favor of Boulanger. The Cunard steamship Umbria, called “the ocean greyhound,'-’ collided on Sunday off Rockaway, Long Island, with the steamship Iberia, The stern of the latter vessel was almost cut off, and she sank. No passengers were injured. A powerful American syndicate is about to b/; formed for the purpose of building railroads in Siberia. Besides a large subsidy, the Russian government will give four million roubles yeaily for the transportation of mails and convicts. The managers of the Spearman, Doug lass & Mobcl and Claire furnaces, at Sharon, Pa., have reduced the wages of their employes fifteen cents per day. The prospects are that all the furnaces will be in blast all Winter. Henderson fur nace will resume next week, after a long idleness. Joseph Chamberlain, the distinguished British statesman, arrived at New York from England. He started for Washing ton on the congressional train, where his marriage with Miss Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of War, is announced to take place at once. Referring to the statement that the Pope is negotiating for diplomatic rela tions with Russia as a card placed against Germany, the North German Gazette says Russia and Prussia have a common inter est. Any concession made by the Pope to Russia must be of advantage to Ger many. ». L. Botts, an insurance broker, aged thirty-five years, shot himself through the head at the Hotel Royal, in New York •on Tuesday and died within an hour. Disappointment over the election and fi nancial losses caused by it led him to drinking. Botts was a member of the famous Boots family of Virginia. There was a wholesale discharge of workmen from the navy yard at Ports mouth, N. H., in the department of con struction, including all hands.in the boat shop but one apprentice; also the ship wrights and laborers. This stops all work on the training ships. Saratoga and Portsmouth, now under repair. The blockade of the East African coast will extend from Cape Gradafur. Mass worth to Madagascar. The German squadron will be increased by three ves sels. The blockade which has been sanctioned by the sultan, has been defer red for a week at the request of the •,. British consul, in order to give time for withdrawal of the English mission at Magiia. The Knights of Labor convention in Indianapolis, Ind., was called to order Tuesday by General Master Workman Powderly. There were three lady dele gates in attendance, and besides there were other ladies present, connected with the order. About 125 delegates were in the hall when the* session opened, and the total number of persons connected officially with it was about 150. A fire on Tuesday destroyed Watson’s Store, extending from 150 to 156 Funnun street, which are about midway between Fulton and Wall street ferries, Brooklyn, N. Y. The fire was prevented from spreading to limbecks A Robert's stores adjoining. The cause of the fire is not known, but it originated somewhere SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1888. about the engine room. Loss on grain is about $400,000, and on machinery $25,000. Loss on the building is about sloo,ol'o, making a total of $500,000. In the English House of Commons in the debate on estimates in connection with the- supreme couit of judicature, Louis J. Jennings (conservative), moved to reduce the appropriation by a consid erable sum. Lord Randolph Churchill approved the proposed reduction. lie said that the money squandered cn court officials was a public scandal and nation al disgrace, amounting to a malversa ion of public money on a large scale. Mr. Jenning’s motion to reduce the estimates was rejected by a vote of 148 to 129. Two farmers, Hiram Rotter and Wil liam Ashley, living in Custer county, Nebraska, called on a neighbor named Halstcin, to sec him about some furniture which had disappeared from the school house in that section. Ashley and Rotter were directors. They failed to return and after waiting some time, their friends became suspicious, and in stituted search for them. On Tuesday they satv some hogseating at some object in a hay stack in Halstein’s field, and going to the spot found the dead bodies of the two directors. Rotter’s face had been badly eaten by the hogs. Halstcin cannot be found, and it is believed he took the team which the men had, and left the country. A vigilance committee, composed of over one hundred prominent citizens, of the Creek nation, in the Indian Territory, was formed for the purpose of capturing or driving from the nation, a band of desperadoes, who have long been oper ating in that section, making both life ind property very unsafe. They sur rounded the house of Abe Carr, in which the notorious Barrett gang were con cealed, and demanded their surrender. The reply came in the form of a volley from their rifles. A battle ensued, and Mose Mclntosh, a prominent citizen of the nation and a member of the commit tee was killed, and one of the despera does was killed and two others wounded. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. An accident that is remarkable in rail road history for the miraculous escape ol its passengers from fatal injury, 'hap pened on the Air Line Road Monday morning near Folsom, a small station ' ninety-nine miles north of Atlanta, Ga. Train No. 53 left Atlanta at 7.10 a. m. on Monday. It was made up of bag gage, mail and express cars, first and second class passenger coaches, and a new and elegant vestibule sleeper, the “Swannanoca.” The train was well loaded. Among them were Rev. Dr. Henry McDonald, C. Kauffman, travel ing salesman for Hirsch Bros ; Jacot Steinheimer, tobacco merchant; R. L. Williams, traveling passenger agent ol the Memphis & Little Rock Road. W. Y. Holland, of Hartwell, Ga., was also a passenger. The train arrived at Toc coa on time and left there at 10.25. • Near that place the company has a force I of men at-work laying new steel rails, and i the train was running at reduced speed when the accident occurred. Near Fol som, a small station six miles north of Toccoa, the engine and tender passed safely qver a new rail that had not beer securely fastened to the crossties, their ! weight either breaking or displacing it. The mail car struck the broken or mis- | placed rail, and jumping the track went I tumbling down a fifteen foot embank- ; ment, almost a total wreck. Down the I embankment rolled the baggage and ex- > press cars, followed by the coaches and I sleeper, and the wreck was complete, ; The following is a list of those injured f in the wreck: Postal Clerk Shumate, i seriously injured, being bruised inter- i nally; Postal Clerk Allison, bruised in- } terually, injuries serious, but not likely j fatal; E. L. Russell, a director of the ! Mobile & Ohio, and general counsel for ! the road, hand cut and spine injured; J. D. Beale, Montgomery, Ala., wounded in the hand with broken glass, and slightly burned while assisting passen gers from the sleeper; Harry D. Zeigler, j Philadelphia, shoulder dislocated; J. P. Jones, express messenger, Lynchburg, sevir- scalp wounds; W. Y. Holland, painfully bruised, and tongue badly in jured. C. Kauffman, J. M. Wood and R. E. Seligman, of Galveston, Texas, J. E. Waxelbaum, of Macon, the conductor and trainmen, were ail slightly injured. INDIANA DISPUTED. The official returns of the vote for gov- ! ernor of Indiana were completed on ’ Tuesday. The total gubernatorial vote ; was 536,624 against 495,000, for gov ernor in 1884. Gen. Hovey, Republican, 263,194; Col. Matson, Democrat, 261,- 003; Hughes, Prohibitionist, 9,776; : Milroy, Labor, 2,661; Hovey’s plurality is 2,191 against 1.392 for Governor Gray in 1884. The official returns on presi- I dential electors are not yet complete, but i returns thus fur indicate that the presi- j dential vote was only a few hundred in I excess of the gubernatorial. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —BAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS. ALABAMA. There was a slight frost at Decatur on Monday and a white frost Tuesday morn ing, with ice in many places. Tender vegetation is killed. Five new cases of yellow' fever are reported. Nearly all recent cases have been amongst nurses and persons greatly exposed, and all have been mild. A great many refugees have returned. W. A. Schumaker, the postmaster at Carbon Hill, was shot and instantly Jiilledby his wife, who is only seventeen years of age. Schumaker was much dejected over the result of the election and began drinking heavily. He quar reled with his wife, threatening to kill her. He attacked her with a knife, but she succeeded in disarming him, and begged him to spare her life. Schumaker, who seemed to have become a maniac, then seized the kerosene oil car and, cursing his young wife, told net he would pour oil on her and burn her up. As he attacked her the second time she drew a pistol and shot him through the heart, killing him instantly. Dave Kinney and John Cunningham, tivo policemen, of Gadsden, went to a negro house to make an arrest, and in the performance of his duty, Mr. Kinney was murdered in cold blood by a negro named Charles Johnson, alias Holmes. The officers were not after Holmes, but he (Holmes) interfered and told Kinney to leave the house, drawing a shotgun on him. Kinney, not being properly armed, started to leave, but turned back on reaching the door, and was shot through the stomach. Scarcely had the shooting occurred before the whole town was in a high state of excitement, and about 100 armed men started on the murderer’s track. As soon as the negro fired the fatal shot, he and the other man tied to the mountains. A reward of two hun dred dollars has been offered by Disque for the murderer’s arrest. GEORGIA. During a Republican demonstration in Atlanta on Monday night, several ne groes, under the influence of liquor, be came very disorderly and attacked a posse of police. Officer Green had one of his hands smashed by a bludgeon, and will be unable to do duty lor a month. A committee of the directors of the Augusta Exposition, headed by Hon. : Patrick Walsh went to Indianapolis, j Ind., on Monday night, to invite Presi- I dent-elect Harrison and his wife to visit , Augusta. As Gen. Harrison is anxious to visit the South, no doubt the invita tion will be accepted. John Rutherford, a negro chain-gang convict, who was undergoing a sentence of 15 years at Atlanta, for burglary, es caped. Sergeant White And Policeman Wooten located him, and when they at tempted to arrest the desperado, he opened fire on the officers with two pis- [ tols and wounded Wooten. He was overpowered and chained. On Monday night a crowd of colored ! people gathered at Willow Tree church, I near Atlanta, to celebrate Harrison’s election, and Henry Alexander was ejected for being disorderly. Reaching the street, Alexander pulled a pistol and fired into the crowd but hitting no one. Then some one downed Alexander with a shot in the thigh.... While intoxicated, Jim Henderson, a negro in Atlanta who has been arrested many times, got into a i row and was shot... .Private Jesse Jones, ; another Atlanta negro, a member of a j military company, paraded with his musket and cartridge box to celebrate ■ Harrison’s success, and a white man of- j fended him. Jones attempted to run ' the white man through and was arrested. ; Gov. Gordon was formally installed ‘ for a second term at the state capitol in Atlanta on Tuesday. He delivered a very impressive address, and at the conclusion i of his address, Gov. Gordon said: “lam | now ready to take the oath of office. I will read the oath.” In a clear, firm } voice he read the oath, after which the I Hon. Nathan C. Barnett, Secretary of I State, placed the great seal of the state I in the hands of President Du Eignon. 1 He in turn delivered the great seal to I Governor Gordon, who handed it back to Secretary Barnett. Governor Gordon | and his escort passed out of the hall, i and on motion of Senator Ballard the \ joint session convened for the ceremony , adjourn.'el. KENTUCKY. Buck McCombs aud Fulton French were shot dead while riding through the 1 woods in Breathitt county, near Lancas- i ter. French was the leader of the French faction in the French-Eversole feu I, and McCombs wus one of bis 1 friends. FLORIDA. The Board of Health in Jacksonville, Fla., repcrts seven new cases of yellow fever, only one white. Two deaths. Total cases to date, 4,518; total deaths, 390. The situation is regarded as very hope ful by leading physicians there. Capt. Fleming, the successful candi date for governor, has retired to his former home at Hibernia, on Fleming's island, in St. John’s river, and will re main until the authorities raise the cor don and permit free entrance iuto Jack sonville. Owing to a suspicious death at Ella ville, on the line of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, Madison City Jias quarantined against the former place until such time as the friends and attend ing physicians of the deceased consent to perform an autopsy on the body. There js considerable excitement in conse quence. While there has been no yellow fever nt DeLand, still owing to its presence in other parts of the state, the trustees of the university have thought it wise to postpone the opening of the college year. The announcement is made that the uni versity will open December 4th, and con tinue for three full quarters of the school year. It is believed that all posnbility of risk from yellow fever in the state will have disappeared before that day. There has been no frost as anticipated in Jacksonville. The weather is still cold, but fresh breezes precludes the proba bility of frost. The Government me ii cal bureau was disbanded,only Dr. Porter and a lew nurses remaining. Dr. Slieft all, of Savannah, Ga., a volunteer says yellow fever will probably continue in Florida all Winter. He stands alone in this opinion. All the oilier experts agree that a killing frost and thorough disin fection will result in the complete disap pearance of the disease. There were, only 12 new cases on Sunday. There were six new cases, four white, two col ored, in Gainesville on Sunday. LOUISIANA. J. Leon Ponds, who was arrested by Special Agent Baker, of the postoflice department at Covington, was arraigned before Commissioner Wright and sent to prison in default of bail. It is stated that when arrested, Pond's had three let ters in his pocket that had been stolen from the mail pouch at the time of the mail robbery on November 3d, on the Northeastern road. Cora Ellis, passing as Mrs. Girard, formerly from Tyler, Texas, came from Covington en route for Texas. She had been living with E J. Bunch,(who committed the train robbery) as his wife. When she reached New Orleans she was taken in charge by de tectives, accompanied by Superintendent Walker and Special Agent Byrne. Thirteen hundred dollars of the stolen money was found hid in her clothing. She finally confessed that Bunch gave her the money. The detectives believe they will capture Bunch within the next forty-eight hours; $10,300 was all the cash secured by Bunch from the Express Company. MIHMDURL Col. John Knapp, for many years busi ness manager and part owner qf the Missouri liepublican, died at St. Louis on Monday, aged 72 years. At St. Louis, news has been received from Tiscomingo, the capital of Chicka saw nation, that Governor Guy was as sassinated. Serious trouble is brewing between the followers of Governor Guy and his opponent in the late election. A strike has prevailed at Bevier some months and there have been frequent rows between the strikers and the new men. A short time ago a number of Swedes were engaged to take the place of strikers and, on Monday, bad feeling resulted in a pitched battle. A. J. An ders* n. a Swede, was shot through the breast and killed, and three other Swedes were slightly wounded. The situation is critical, and the militia will probably be called out. Thomas Wardell, owner of the mine, was shot and. killed by a mob of strikers about six month? igo. TENNESSEE. A difficulty occurred between Frank Forrest,-a white man, and John High tower, a negro, in Memphis, concerning the recent elections. Forrest hit High tower over the head with a pistol. Hightower picked up a stone to strike Forrest, who shot him in the side, kill ing him instantly. Col. S. C. Kellogg, U. S. A., who was detailed by the Secretary of War to complete the location of troops for a map of the battle of Chicamauga, arrived at Chattanooga. With him a considerable party of officers, who took part in that battle, came upon invitation to assist in the work of completing th' se maps. VIRGINIA. The bottom of the Roanoke city ’«atei reservoir dropped out. It is believer, the damage cannot be repaired. A similar accident occurred six months ago, soon *ft«r the completion of the reservoir. A large cavern directly underneath the South supply basins iuid the weight ol water caused this tu/givc way. (<1.26 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months; <; 50 cents Three Months; Biogls Copies ( * cents--In Advano*. i WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF* FICIALS ARE DOING. Surgeon Martin, at Gainesville, Fla., filegraphs to Surgeon-General Hamilton that there is one new case (white) in that :ity, and suggests the withdrawal of guards, as the fever has gained a foot* lold in all quarters of that city. He also lays that great destitution prevails. A. T. Britton, a well known lawyer of Washington, has been designated by the | executive committee of the Republican National Committee, to take charge of the ceremonies attending the inaugura tion of President Harrison. He has been authorized also to appoint all the necessary officers and committees to look • utter the work. The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the decision of the circuit court of the Southern district of New York city, in the case of ex-Alder man Jaehne, of New York city, now un dergoing sentence in Sing Sing. This keeps him in prison. He is one of those convicted of bribery in disposing of the Broadway Railroad franchise. The Supreme Court of the United States rendered an adverse decision in the somewat celebrated case of ex-Judge j Terry, of California, upon his application , for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he alleges that he is unlawfully imprisoned, under an order of the United States cir cuit court for the Northern district of California, in the jail of Alameda coun ty. He will now serve out his term in » ■ Dr. Porter, at Jacksonville, Fla., re ports to the Marine Hospital service that there were forty-seven new cases of yellow fever and one death on Thursday, making a total number of cases tp date ; 4,355 and deaths 367. Dr. Porter sug- I gests that arrangements be made for cor . valescents and other persons who have escaped the fever so far, and wishing to ; go North without stoppage, to points where frost has appeared this year, to do ’ so without quarantine detention nt Camp I Perry, with the restriction of disinfec-' I tion and fumigation of baggage and per sonal wearing apparel. The Department of Agriculture reports a good season for cotton picking during October, in the Southwest, and only moderately favorable weather in the At lantic coast states. The wet weather of j September proved very injurious to quality, prostrating plants and rotting bolls, causing blight and shedding, and in juring the prospects of the top crop. There is much stained fibre, and the ■ quality is much poorer than that of the previous year. The aggregate given on corn will exceed that of any previous American product, being very close to 2,000,000,000 bushels, or about thirty two bushels per capita, which has been exceeded in several previous years. Af ter three years of low yields, potatoes ; give an average of about eighty bushels I per acre, or nearly the rate of yield of 1879. The yield lias been increased in | the South. It is high in the northern belt of territories. The total product on , a basis of these averages is about 195,- | 000,000 bushels or 61,000,000 more than the estimated product of 1887. The average yield of buckwheat is approxi mately twelve bushels per acre; and the. crop nearly 11,000,000 bushels. There is a strong tendency to increase the area I of hay in the South, and the yields, upon, cultivated areas rather than natural ! meadows, are relatively large. HORRIBLE CRIME. Peter Howe, senior member of the banking film of Howe &sSon, and his wife, were found dead in tir6ir room, at Winona, 111., on Monday by their serv- ■ ant, as she came down stairs to begin her domestic duties.' They had been | beaten to death with a car coupling pin, , and suspicion became fastened upon Charles Burkhardt, and a watch was aef | upon him. Ho discovered ihat he waj i being watched and he cut his throat ib ■ his bedroom with a razor and was dead in five minutes. Mr. Howe was 73 years i old upd his wife 69. Robery was not the motive for the crime, as nothing was i taken from the house. A grudge of some sort was known to exist in Burk- I hardt’s mind, and this directed suspicion to him at once. Peter Howe, the mur dered man, had amassed a fortune cf $250,- 000. He was very charitable aud pos i eased a spirit of philanthropy which led him sometime ago to endow the Howe Institute at New Iberia, La., aud the Baptist Institute at Memphis, Tenn., the latter being a college for the education of indigent persons of both races. A LIGHT VOTE. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, moth'-r of LU* , lian Russell, the singer, candidate for the i equal rights party for the myorality in i New York, received a total eight I vetvs. NO. 5.