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®i t SatMtittuth Sfribttne* Published by the Tram Publishing Co.) J, H. DBYEAUX. Msaiaan V VOL. IV. ' FROM FAR AND NEAR, NEWS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. The Governor of Dnkoia Renders Hi* An unal Report. The annual report of Governor Louis K Church, of Dakota, which has just been printed, is a very full and complete state ment of the condition and resources of that Territory. The Governor’s statis tics relating to the population of Da kota will be studied with interest by Con gressmen, who will soon be called upon to vote on its admission to Statehood. Govern or Church says that the population of Dakota in iB6O, according to the national census of that year, was less than 50. K). In 1870 it was 14,181, showing an increase during that decade of about 200 per cent. In 1880 the number of inhabitants in the Territory amounted to 135,177, or an addition of 850 per cent, to the popula tion of the previous census, and five years later this number had increased, as shown by a Federal census, to 415,610, a gain of more than 200 per cent, in the period between the years 1880 and 1885. There has been nd offi cial count of the population since the Federal census of 1885, and the only figures available for the years 1888, 1887, and 1888 are estimates, approximately correct, made by the Commissioner of Immigration, and based on the public land entries as reported by the ten United States Land offices within the Territory. On June 30, 1886, the Commis sioner estimated the number of Dakota’s inhabitants at 500,000 souls. A year later, June 30, 1887, the same authority gave the Territory a population of 568,477; and his estimate for the year ending June 30, 1888, indicates a gain of 63,348, or a total population to day of 640,823. This, of course, does not include Indians, Govern ment employes, or the other inhabitants of the numerous Indian and military reserva tions which cover one-fifth of the entire area of the Territory. Add these and the whole number of people within the boundary of Dakota will appro®-h clo=? i JJ,OOO. Capture of Counterfeiters, Chief Leif or the (Secret (service of the Government, with several of his men, has for the past few days been closing in aronnd a gang of counterfeiters, who have been the cause of a great deal of annoy ance and trouble They were making bogus money, of a kind that it was almost Impossible to detect, in dollars and half dollars. None but experts have thus far been able to tell the spurious money from genuine, and only alter it had been carried some time, when the coin begins to turn black, can its true value be discovered. Large quantities of it have been made, and Erie, Penn., Warren, Penn., Oil City, Penn., and Jamestown, N. Y., have been thegrentest sufferers. Some of the stuff also reached Buffalo. Seven of the gang are under arrest. The authorities thought it best to separate •them, and put them in different jails as others are wanted. “Squire” Richardson, one of the men who is said to have attended to the manu 'acture of the money, was brought to Buffalo and taken to the Erie County Jail. Richardson is fully sixty years of ago, and it is thought he will “squeal” on the whole party. He was arrested at Casadaga. N. Y. More artests are expected. It is impossi ble taget the names of the gang at present, as they are scattered in the different county jails in New York and Pen ns vl vania, and the Secret Service men will not talk. Drowned to Save His Bride. Patrick Waters was married at St. George, the County seat of Thomas Tucker County, W. Va., to a charming young lady of that town, and for a bridal tour the young couple set out on a trip up the Black Fork River. Arriving at the junction of Shaffer’s Fork, they stayed all night at (the house of a friend, and about eight o’clock next morning started to cross the unfinished railroad bridge on a narrow walk of a single plank. When about half way over Mrs. Waters became dizzy and, losing her balance, fell into the river. The Stream is very high, and the current, always e v’olerff, was running t-w'-n --ty miles an hour. Waters plunged into the river after his bride and succeeded in reaching her. Grasp ing her in his arms he attempted to reach the shore, but he coul l moke no headway against the violent current and was borne rapidly away. The heads of the half drowned couple were seen occasionally as they bobbed above the waves. Half a mile below the bridge at Silas Ferry the boat was in mid stream as Waters and his wife came along, and they were rescue 1 alter one of the ferry men had near y io-,t his life. . W’aters was dead when taken from the water and his wife apparently so, but> she was revived after unremitting exertions ex tending over half an hour. Three Englishmen Killed. An explosion occmred at Bris'ol, England, an board the schoo er United, which was laden with 310 barrels of petroleam. The vessel was wrecked and three men who were at work on board were killed. ►. Burning oil floated on the water and chused great consternation among shipown ers, who feared the (lam s would co-n uuni ca’e to the r own craft. Th force of the ex plosion was so great as to wreck the wi • dows in the buildings near the scene of the explo sion. The African Slave Trade. A despat b fr un Lan (bar, Africa, says: “The British Consular authorities have issued a proclamation in regard to the slave trade In which they warn British subjects of the pena ties which they will meur in matin.' illegal contracts The slave owners have united in a monster petition against the enforcement of the law against the slave traffic, w.ii'-h th-y a-sert has been in practi cal abeyance for many years. It is re;>orted that ;he entire p(an of blockad-* has l«*m changed in order to include the whole coast.” There* arc indications of another small - y. pox epidtvnic in New 5 ork, and vaccination r<-v4'c mticn are urged n on Die corn* > \tv Uv the State Board of Health. a M SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1888. NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. An apparent shortage of $23,000 has been found in the accounts of W. P. Copp, the missing tax collector of Saugus, Mass. John Flack, fifteen years old, was killed by being disemboweled at Bellefonte, Penn., by falling upon the coupling of a revolving shaft. The car strike on fourteen miles of street railway in Brooklyn has been brought to a close by State Arbitration Commissioner Denovan’s decision in favor of the company. The men have returned to work. A great snow storm swept a ten-mile belt of country south of Erie, Penn., and the oldest inhabitant says that it beats the rec ord. Snow filled the roads and shut off travel. Cattle iq the fields almost perished. Inventor John W. Keely, of Keely mo tor celebrity, has been sent to prison and will stay there until he has purged himself of the contempt committed in not obeying the or der of the Court, which required him to clearly explain to a committee of experts the workings of his machine. Rear Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, United States Navy, has died of Bright’s disease, - at his residence in New York city. , He was born in that city on September 3, 1 1822, and graduated from the Naval Acad j emy at Annapolis on April 24, 1839. A second and successful attempt to burn j the Constable Brothers’ planing mill at Erie, Penn., has been made by an incendiary. 1 Loss, $40,000. John Hodel, alife convict,ihas committed suicide in his cell at the Connecticut State Prison. The election in Rhode Island resulted in abolishing the property qualification for vot ing for general officers. John T. MacGoniole, Collector of the Ninth Revenue District of Pennsylvania and for three times Mayor of Lancaster, has died, aged fifty-eight years. In early life he was a telegraph operator and was the first person to apprise President Buchanan of his election, carrying the message to Wheat land. John W. Keely, who was sent to Moya mensing Prison, Philadelphia, for contempt of court, in refusing to give to experts ap- Eointed by the Court information is mysterious motor, has been released on bail. South and West. The Chattahoochee Valley exposition has been opened at Columbus, Ga. Captain John Miller, a farmer living near Jonestown, Indian Territory, who had the name of having killed thirty-two men,has been shot and killed by a tenant named Jim Abies, whom ho attacked with a knife. Mamie Tawn, Allie Redman and Emma Nickens, three young girls, were caught by a train at Circleville, Ohio. Miss Tawn’s leg was cut off and Allie Redman was horribly mangled, both dying, while their companion escaped with serious injuries. Lendaukr Brothers & Co., the largest i wholesale clothing firm in Chicago, have failed for $181,652.08. It is estimated that at least 100,000 bushels of corn between Evansville and Green River, Ind., have been ruined by the overflow of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. Henry W. King, Jr., son of a million naire clothing dealer of Chicago, was shot dead in an Omaha (Neb.) hotel by a woman i claiming to be his wife. There are indications of a hard winter in : Albuquerque, New Mexico, which may cause a loss of millions of dollars to stock growers, i John Coon, of Berea Village, Ohio, was | struck with a stone by his son Joseph while | trying to stop a fight between the latter and | his brother Louis. The father’s neck was broken and he died instantly-. Mr. Clement Hanbury, brother of Lord ; Hanbury-. of London, England, was found j dead in his bed on his ranch at Brady, Texas. He was very old, and lived alone ten miles in the country. Already fatal blizzards have begun in i Western Kansas, and the people have been ; compelled to leave their homes from fear of i starvation. Ness City, Eighton, Scott City and many other towns are almost depopu i lated. The peoDle have had no crops and are heartbroken. Eva Mitchell, a pretty girl nineteen years old, was mysteriously murdered in Chicago. Mlle. Goitdert, a y-ung French govern ess in Youngstown, Ohio, committed suicide by jumping from a roof. At the old concentrator of the Boston and Montana Consolidation Works at Meader ville, Montana, a boiler exploded, killing four men and injuring three. The public school building of Carrollton, HL, has been burned. Loss $50,000. The first heavy snow in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, of the season, has fallen. Fire broke out in one of the cells of the Watertown. Dakota, jaw 1 . Halts Nelson i from Wets ter, Dakota, naf. been in the cell about an hour when the ajiriii was sounded. He was burned to an uujbcognizable mass. Forty passengers were more or less injured by the wreck of a train near Harrison, Ohio. The house ot John Gregg was burned at Leesville, Ky., and five persons perished in the flames. George H. Foebel, who “dropped” aljout $43,000 at the time of Hutchin-on’s Septem ber wheat squeeze, kil.ed himself at his boarding house in Chicago. The Georgia Legislature has elected A. H. Colquitt Unite 1 States Senator to succeed j himself. Henry W. Grady declined to be a ! candidate. Washington. An order has been issued from the War De partment relieving General Schofield, at his own request,of the command of the Division of the Atlantic, and appointing thereto Major-Genei al Howard, now in California in command of the Division of the Pacific. Genera Howard is the officer next in rank to Genera Schofield.and will assume command at Governor's Island, New York. The responsibility for the j 1 100 in standard siher dollars, recently ship|x*d Jroin the United States Mint at New Oriean* to the United States Treasurer at Waohmgten and delivered iu the form es bird-hot, has Gsen practically establish*-1 by the payment of the amount m uaestiou to L.uted Stales '' rsi»- *•" ’ v . / urer Hyatt’by the agent of the express company. The report of Chief W ilson shows that the expenses of the United States navy for the ! past year were $46,662,000. The estimated expenses for the next year are $46,364,535, ; of which $3,540,000 is for new cruisers. W. F. Doolittle has been appointed I Assistant Superintendent of Railway Mail I Service, with headquarters in New York, in | place of Jackson, resigned. Congressman Ferry Belmont, of New i York City, has been appointed United States Minister to Spain. He has sent a letter to President Cleveland accepting the position. The Corean Minister, who has been granted an indefinite leave of absence on account of ill health, has left Washington for Corea. He was accompanied by his suite. The State Department officials at Wash ington believe Sir Francis Clare Scott. English Minister to Madrid, will be appoint ed to succeed Lord Sack ville West as Minis ter to the United States. Between December 1 and the end oi President Cleveland’s administration « commission of eighty Postmasters appointed by President Arthur will expire. United States Consul Seymour, at Canton, China, reports that the silk produc tion will fall off over fifty per cent, owing to j the floods, and that Europe and America will ! not get more than iO,(XX) bales instead of 21, - 000 usually sent. The silk is valued at S3OO I per bale, representing a loss of $3,300,000 to , China i The United States Treasury Department ; has issued a circular announcing that no i more deposits to retire circulation will be received, as the $3,000,000 monthly limit has been exhausted. Major Henry J. Farnsworth, Assistant Inspector General United States Army, has died at Fortress Monroe, where he had gone from Washington for his health. I Reports received at Washington indicate 1 that there will be an unusually large number of contested seats in the next House of Rep- I resentatives. j The United States Department of Justice has not sufficient funds to pay all the deputy | marshals engaged on Election day and many j will have to wait some time for their pay. The subscriptions to the fund for the Har rison and Morton inauguration ceremonies I now reach $21,380, or half of the sum re ! quired. Foreign. | Fierce gales have done much damage in Great Britain to shipping and towns along the entire coast. / ; A coasting steamer with 900 natives on ooard is believed to be lost off the coast of j India. < The sudden formation of ice has caused j the detention of sixty vessels loading with grain in the Sea of Azof, and they will be laid up for the winter. Brotherton’s cotton mill at Preston, Lan cashire, England, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $200,000. Albert Ashley, aged fifteen, of Cale donia, Canada, hanged himself because his father had scolded him. The Prize Court of Port au Prince, Hayfci, has condemned the American steamer Haytian Republic to confiscation for violat ing the blockade of the port of St. Marc and Cor actively participating in the rebellion of HaytL A secret treaty has been concluded be ; tween Russia and" Corea, providing for a Russian protectorate of Corea. Pilot Evans and his boat’s crew of four men were drowned off Nassau Bar, on the Bahama Islands, by the capsizing of their boat during a squall. Heavy and destructive storms are re ' ported at ports in the North and Black seas. Sir Henry Arthur Blake, whose ap fiointment to the Governorship of Quens and met with so much opposition, has been appointed Governor of Mauritius. A revolution has occurred in Bolivia to overthrow President Arco and make General Cornacho President. Several towns have been occupied by tbe rebels. In a fight at Cataquita the government party was suc cess! ul. General Comacho was made pris oner of war. The rebels, however, are still active. The royal yacht, Dearing the Empress Dowager Victoria, of Germany, her daugh ; ters and the l r.nceofWaJ.es, reached Port Victoria, England. Queen Victoria and her daughters. Princesses Louise and Beatrice, accompanied by Count Von Hatzfeldt, German Embassador, went to the port to meet them. The Empress landed at noon, and was received by the Queen, who em braced her and kissed her several times. A spinning mill in Rome, Italy, 300 years old, has been burned. Three children per ished in the fire. Palma Island, one of the Canaries, has been declared infected with yellow fever. The British cruiser Hyacinth has taken possession of the Cook Islands n the name of the British Government. The natives are rejoicing. The Mayor of Havana, Cuba, uas issued a proclamation imposing a consumption tax on all eatables, drinkables and fuel, to take effect on the first of January next. The press and public condemn the measure. Lord Back ville, the former British Min ister at Washington, wiil go to Madrid, Spain, and S.r Francis C. Ford, the present Minister there, will betransf rred to Vienna. Stealing a Cisternful of Water. An extraordinary burglary occurred in New Orleans. No rain had fallen thert for six weeks and a water famine was the consequence. In one part of the city where wafer was scarce a Mr. Lorio hud etected a cistern which he kept well sup plied. The other morning, however, he awoke to fiud that burglars htd broken into his place and carried otf from 15 >U to 2000 gallons of water, having not enough to make a cup of coffee. He has • no idea how the burglars got to his cla i tern, and as he cauuot identity his lost troperty the chance* of its recovery ure uncle**. J‘im» i. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Miln, the actor-clergyman, is in Aus tralia. Adelaide Moore, the actress, is now re ! siding m Paris. Edmond Gondinkt, the French dramatic author, is dead. wnSK*" p '“ ying " A r " p “ Ignatius Donnelly, of Bacon cipher fame, is lecturing on his bobby. Edwin Booth says that the leading trage dians of the future will be Americana Miss Minnie Palmer, tho clever little American soubrette, is playing at Newcastle, England. The thirty-sixth anniversary of the first performance of ‘-Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” re cently occurred. .u C ?, AR a K ; s T - Beauregard, a nephew of the Confederate General, is one of tho latest accessions to the stage. A handsome monument to John McCul lough has been erected in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia. Milton G. Barlow, the well-known min ptrel has been engaged to travel with a new Uncle lom’s Cabin Company, After the longest rest during his profes sional career, Joseph Murnhy, the Irish comedian, has resumed acting. Josef Hofmann, tho boy pianist, has so far recovered as to be allowed by the doctor to practice daily on the pianoforte. Harry Maoarthy, an oid actor, and author of the “Bonnie Blue Flag,” died lately in Ban Francisco in great destitution. Mme. Patti will make her usual annual farewoll tour in South America this year under the direction of Signor Cincchi. Mary Anderson is more slender than when she left, but her cheeks are bright with good health, and her eyes are brilliant with high spirits. The highest priced singer at the French Grand Opera is the baritone Lasalle. He gets $17,690 for an engagement of eight months. Miss Madge Wickham, who promisesto be one of the first violinists of her time, has just returned from Europe, to begin her career in America. It is said that Sir Arthur Sullivan has three nieces in the chorus at the Savoy Thea tre, London, where his opera “The Yeoman of the Guard,” is being sung. Buffalo Bill says that all men who wear long hair are cranks. Ho adds: “I’m as bad as any of them: my only redeeming feature being that I was the original.” Happy Cal Wagner, who, a few years ago, was a famous negro minstrel, is fore man of a gang of laborers at work on a new street railway in Syracuse, N. Y. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Mikado” is being performed in the Danish Circus at Stock holm, Sweden, but without words or Bing ing. It is danced and pantomimed. There is both money and fame awaiting the writer who can produce a play with a real snow blizzard in it. The water tank has had its.day, and so has the dog and the baby business. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, passes many of his odd hours painting sketches in oil and water colors. He has a deft touch with the brush, and is a connoisseur of the first order. Old Bouffe, the doyen, cr “father” of the French profession of actors, died recently in his eighty-eighth year. He was one of the most celebrated players of his day. His stage career began sixty six years ago, when he played villains for $5 a month. One of the most skillful mountebanks and clowns of France is a scion of the Laßoche foueauc family. This is the bluest blood in ail France, and he is the next to inherit the title of a Duke. He was a pupil of the fa mous Paris an showman Moliera. By a recent act of the City Council of Davenport, lowa, the theatrical license has been reduced from $lO a performance to thirty-five cents, or from $250 per year to $35. Freaks have to pay $lO per night, as heretofore. Thirty-five cents a performance is probably the lowest license paid in any town in the country. REWARDING LIFE SAVERS. The Government Presents Medals to Many American Heroes. The Secretary of the United States Treas ury has awarded a gold medal to Captain Christopher Ludlam, Keeper of the Hereford Life Saving Station, New Jersey, and silver medals to Jason Buck, 11. W. Hildreth, Willard F. Ware, 8. C. Godfrey, Smith S. Hand, and Providence Ludlam, members of the crew of that station, for extreme heroism in rescu ing the crew of the schooner D. H. Ingra ham, while stranded on tbe north bur of Hereford Inlet in De ember, 1886. A go'd medal has also been awarded to William A. Harris of San Bernardino. Cal., for rescuing Ilarry Willis from drowning in the Pacific Ocean, near Santa Margarita Creek, Cal., in August, 1886. Silver medals have been awarded to Mrs. Mary Whiteloy and Maud King, the latter of wh< mis 13 years of uge. for saving the lives of E. John White anti George H, Louan, who were upset from a boat in the harbor of Charleston, S. C., in August last. Silver medaia have also been awarded to the Allow ing named persons: Dennis O’Hara, for rescuing Bridget Gar rity from drowning in the North River, New Y'ork, in December, 1,8^5. Private .lames Manning of the Birth U. S. Infantry, for saving Private Edmunds of the same regiment' Worn dfotening at Grand pßi.'Ae Crossing, Ufkhajp June, 1886. x John F. Condon, rptjh- r uJig » * nu per sons from drowning iflßiie ♦u-miLy a>i New York ii:y in tlie ve*irTWl t rivate John »»)de of tho twenty-*ecoiid U. H. Infantry, for Saving the fife of a lady at Old Faithful Geyser, YelluwsUme Park, in August. Henry A. George, of Virginia, for rescu ing u young comrade named \\ iiliarn Wert • nu nk r from drowning near CbarlotUivble, V«,» ($1.35 Per Annum; 75 cpnt* for Six Month*; < 60 cent* Three Mentha; Single Oopia* I loenU'-In Adr&aoa. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The salary of Lord Sackville was -?30,000 a year. Vice President-elect Morton Is worth i $20,000,000. Mrs. Harrison’s favorite flower is th* ( old-fashioned sweet pea. Mr. D. L. Moodt is holding revival meet* ings at Portland, Oregon. , Editor Dana of the New York Sun is en* ! joying a vacation in Paris, Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, who has been ill, is convalescent. 1 The German Emperor is having an Amer ican palace car constructed for himself. ! William Reginald Courtenay, Earl of I Devon, is dead at the age of eighty-two. As to wine on the White House table, Mrs. Harrison says that her husband will attend to that. The heaviest man in the next Congress will be Paul Eumunds, of the Fifth Virginia District. Eugene Field, the humorist of the Chi cago (Veins, has become a convert to Esoteric Buddhism. Jins. Cleveland has written to Mrs. Harrison a letter of congratulation upon her husband’s success. Henry George arrived at Southampton, England, and was cordially welcomed by a crowd of radicals. Dr. Henry B. Sands, the eminent sur geon, recently died very suddenly in a car riage in New York. Lord Tennyson is the only living author whose writings are used in civil service ex aminations in India. * Jefferson Davis is In such feeble health that ho cannot risk a visit to the Virginia Exposition at Richmond. “Pm Iron” Kelly, of Pennsylvania, will have been in Congress thirty years when he completes his present term. Mr. Spurgeon, the eminent London preacher, is again in poor health,and has left London for the south of Franoe to recu perate. Benjamin Harrison will ho fiffcy-flv* years six months and fourteen days old when he is inaugurated President of tho United States. The Czar has orderod Count Painter Zichy to paint a largo canva3 representing the Barki railroad disaster, in which he so nar rowly escaped death. Chief Justice George W. Stone, of the * Supreme Court of Alabama, recently cele brat'd his seventieth birthday anniversary by dancing a jig with his great grandson. ~ Mr. John Dillon, Nationalist of Parliament, wifi visit Australia during the winter, partly on account of ill health ! and partly to further the Irish cans® there. There is said to be kindred blood in the veins of Jefferson Davis and General Har rison, resu tmg from numerous intermar riages between the Harrison and Davis families. Miss Endicott, who has just become tbe wifeof Mr. Chamberlain, is an attractive girl of medium height, with a slender figure, ii - ht brown hair and eyes, and a bright com plexion of a very English type. She is somewhat reserved in her manner. During the recent riots in Madrid the little King of Spain was unable to take his usual daily drives. One day ho stamped hia little foot and exclaimed: “'led those naughty students that I command them to go out in tlie country when they want to make a row.” The total resources of the widow of the late Professor Richard A. Proctor are stated , to lie only $l5O. A petition is now being , drawn up in England in favor of the claims 4 of the widow and children to a pension under " the civil list in considerat.on of Mr. Proctor’* ■ervices to scieuce. LATEST NjgWß Henry James, colored, and hie wife of Livingston, Ala, went to a church supper leaving their children locked up in the house Upon their return they found the house it t ashes and the children burned to a crisp. B. F. Vandergrift made an ascent in a balloon from the Exposition grpnnds at Co lumbus, Ga., in the presence of ,12,00#* • Whefi the balloon reached a height of sir 3000 feet it burst, and the performer fell i the ground and was killed. Levi Meeker, his wife and eight-year-old l daughter we: e crushed to death at a railroad crossing near Wellington, Kan. The State Bank of Valparaiso, Neb., baa closed its doors and depositors are looking for th* managers—L. Beovilla and G. A. Crafts—with shotguns. Liabilities, $:.0),000. Oyster pirates, while unlawfully dredg ing in the ChesapeaKe, were attacked by Maryland’s gunboat and one inan was fatally wounded. Later the pirates attacked and captured the gunboat, sending her crow on ■bore. The Sioux Indian Commission has for warded its report to Secretary Vila*. Subscriptions to tho Harrison and Morton Inauguration Fund now amount to $37,210. Only S4OOO in cash is needed. Tho balance of the expenses will be paid from tho sale of tickets, etc. The expenses of the last inauguration were $46,00J, of which only one-half was subscribed. The Turkish budget show* a deficit rj*?w -SCO, ooa J • The Cabinet Minister* handed in their resignations that ’ Diaz may have full lfforty to a{u . Cabinet for the new t*rm. «! Advices from Samoa ray tlm follower* attacked a utioughold her ant* of Tama**** at Atna, t / In capturing th* r.utpotts a fighting. Hundred* ot th* o , killed. NO. 7.