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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 259 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1SS0. PRICE FIVE CENTS George McKinney Sends a Bullet Through His Own Brains. tip IMps In n Cell St tlip station Ilmisp— Fiinonil of Poor lloli Alston—Up lollopim! (lip Kiunllj Tra dition—Cornor-Stoiio for the V. M. ('. A.—Miscel laneous Notes. Special to Enqutrer-Sun. Atlanta, On., October 25.— Sunday morning about 2:30 o’clock George W. Mc Kinney sent a bullet crashing through his brain, and fell down to die upon the floor of his cell in the station house. McKinney was employed in the Franklin job printing offlde, and was arrested Saturday by Sta tion House Keeper Buchanan because of his resemblance to a description of a man wanted in Sewanee, Tenn., for whom there was a published reward of $150. When taken to the station house McKinney ad mitted that he was the party wanted in Tennessee; and, after being searched, lie was locked in a cell to await the next morning, when Mr. Buchanan would leave with him for Setvanee. It seems that Mc Kinney and Pillett. a tailor in Sewanee, had quarreled about a bill, and Piltet bad sued and garnisheed McKin ney. Bitter notes had been exchanged and when they met upon the street McKinney had fired several shots at Pillet, none of which took effect. Pillet ran to escape being killed, and then Mc Kinney fled to escape arrest. After hiding out in the neighborhood for a week. Mc Kinney came to Atlanta, and began work in the printing establishment of Franklin & Co. In the meantime Pillet had pub lished a reward for his arrest and issued descriptions of the fugitive. One of these being received at the Atlanta police head quarters, stationkouse keeper Buchanan recognized McKinney and made the arrest. He expected to take McKinney on the morrow to Tennessee, but the, desperate man put an end to his career, and his re turn was as a corpse. When the report of the pistol attracted the station-house keeper to the cell McKin ney was found lying upon the floor with his brain oozing from a hole over his right ear. In a chair lay a pistol and the following note, written upon a tele graph blank in pencil: “Dear Sisters: When you read these sad lines my poor spirit will have flown from this prison house of clav and from these cruel walls of stone and iron—from the power of merciless money-loving men to the paradise of an all merciful God. My life has not, for some years, been worth living, and now it is intolerable. I have no hope for future pleasure on earth, and there is certainly no worse hell elsewhere. Do not weep,but count me at rest,sweet rest from the distracting sorrows of this life. May our merciful Father send the holy comforts to your poor hearts. The laws of man have no further claim upon my worth less body. Take it and do as you like. Goodbye and God bless you. Your lovir.g brother George McKinney. To Mrs. M. P. Orr, Chattanooga, Tenn., Mrs. Julia Price, 28 Winnie street, Lexing ton, Ky. “P. 8.—I am not afraid of men, but care not to live.” The wounded man lingered but a short while before breathing his last. In re sponse to a telegram received from his sis ter, Mrs. Orr, in Chattanooga, his remains have been forwarded to that city. As he Was carefully searched before be ing locked up in the cell, how he got the pistol was a mystery, but when the under takers were dressing the body for burial they found a pistol thrust into the left sock wlieye it was secured by pinning up the leg of the hose and tying a string around the barrel of the pistol and the ankle holding it in position. It is supposed the other pistol, with which the shooting was done, was concealed in a similar man ner in the other sock. McKinney was a neatly dressed, attrac tive looking man. Boll Alston'* Funeral. Atlanta, October 25.—The funeral of young Robert W. Alston, son of the late Colonel Robert A. Alston, who committed suicide in Washington city Saturday, will take place to-morrow at 10 o’clock at Decatur. The remains will reach Atlanta to-night at 9:40 o’clock, accompanied by his sister and several of Mr. Alston’s asso ciates in the treasury department. Bob Alston is the last male member of the family but one, so I am informed, and he f dlovv’ed the family tradition and “died with boots on.” Twenty-eight years of age, he was yet at the dawn of what might have been a useful and distinguished ' career. He possessed a mind of more than i ordinary brightness and a heart full of generous impulses. Tint he should have I ended life’s possibilities in a moment of depression is a source of regret to numer ous friends of the brave hearted, impetu ous boy. Hi 1 Mmlc a Fool of Himself. Atlanta, October 25.—Denuty United States Marshal McDonald telegraphs back from Texas thattbe man arrested there on suspicion is not John Coffee, the moon shiner and murderer of Deputy Merritt at Lula. To Lily life Cornerstone. Atlanta, October 25.—To-morrow the corner stone of the new Young Men’s i Christian Association building will be laid with impressive ceremonies. The address will be made by lion. E. P. Howell, and . short talks will be made by Gov. McDaniel, Chief .Justice Jackson, Mayor Hillyer and Dr. McDonald. Exercises at 10 a. m. The building when completed will be one of j the handsomest in the city. M. Stewart, wife of the late millionaire dry goods merchant, A. T. 3tewnrt, died suddenly this morning at h -r residence on Thirty-fouth street and Fifth avenue. Mrs. Stewart died at 10 o’clock t his morn ing of congestion of the lungs and heart trouble. On Friday she took dinner with Mrs. Henry Hilton, and on the way home contracted a heavy cold. On Saturday she was so ill that she was compelled to go to bed.and Dr. Milner was sent for. Yesterday Mrs. Stewart grew worse and Dr. Milner remained at the house all night. At half- g nst 9 o’clock this morning cx-Judge [oraee Russell called at the Stewart man sion and was'informed that., although Mrs. Stewart spent a restless night, she was feel- inabetter and was able to sit up In bed without great effort. A few minutes after 10 o’clock ex-Judge Russell was surprised to learn from a messenger that Mrs. Stew art was dead. ON ’CHANGE. A <{til<>t,Steady Market—Fluctuations Couflnod to a Narrow ltniige. New York, October 25.—The stock market to-day was again dull, and fluctua tions as a rule were conllned within a nar row range. There was some wide fluctua tions, however,In Jersey Central, Canadian Southern, and Union Pacific. The general tone of the market was weak, which was almost entirely duo to heavy selling by room traders. Though there were some fresh short lines put out by the more prominent bears. There was some ex citement in Wall street in the early part of the day and Louisville and Nashville was conspicuously strong. In buying for foreign account, Vanderbilt’s and Grangers’ were heavy through the day, St. Paul being the only one which showed any activity. There was considerable strength shown by Central up to the last hour, which was attributed principally to the covering of shorts. The general weakness in the market is attrib uted to the efforts of the bear leaders, who have made a scare-crow of the possible election of Mr. George the advocate of higher prices. In the meantime little or nothing in the market was done. The opening was generally Arm, the first prices showing advances of J to a. Trading was tlie dullest for the first hour for many weeks. Prices were somewhat irregular and In some cast’s feverish, being left at noon at about the opening figures. The market then became intensely dull except for a movement in Jersey Central and Ca nadian Southern; but prices began to yield and at the close, which was steady, at'quo tations generally fractions below the open ing. Jersey Central was the only active stock on the list, and is V higher to-night. Louisville and Nashville, New England and West Point sho P advances of slight fractions. The remainder of the active list is invariably lower. Sales 243,000 shares. , BOYCOTTED BY GAMBLERS. Curd Players Propose to (let Even With a Poilre Commissioner. The Diplomacy of the Bear Exhibited. Murks Site tins Made Kiurhuiil's Old Enemy on Her (iiinril -Lookout for Bussia - It is Meek or Nothing Now. Cincinnati, October 24,—A boycott has been declared by the Cincinnati gamblers against the house of Russell, Morgan & Co., printers and lithographers. A profit able part of t he business of the house is the making of playing cards, which are sold in large quantities in all parts of the country. Robert Morgan, oneof tho firm, is presi dent of t he board of police commissioners, and instrumental in getting an order pass ed by the board directing that al) the gam bling houses should be closed. The gam blers retaliate with the boycott. They state that in the various gambling anil poker rooms of the city not less than 500 50-cent decks of Russell, Morgan & Co.’s cards were used and thrown aside for new ones daily up to the time the order of the police commissioners was made. This boycott will not bo limited, how ever, to the Cincinnati business of the of fending houAc. The gamblers have had circulars printed, which are being sent to every’gambling house and poker room in the country as fast as the addresses can lie secured. The circulars call upon the frater nity generally to join in the boycott. It is stated that the business of Russell, Morgan & Co. can easily he injured in this way many thousand dollars a year. POUND TRE POLES. They Art Outrageously In Milwaukee. Chicago, October 25.—A Daily News special from Milwaukee says : “Considera ble excitement was created here Saturday night by the wild actions of the mob of , Poles, who succeeded in breaking up the I democratic mass meeting. The people, it i is claimed, iiad been commanded by the j priests to attend the meeting, which was held in the parish school house. Before J going there they went to a hall and were | addressed by Alderman Reedzinski, who | obtained some notoriety during the May j labor riots. He showed the crowd pic tures of the Polish insurrectionists, | who have been put to death in the past and made an incendiary speech. The people left Reedzinski all in a body and went to the school house where John Black, the democratic congressional candidate and other politicians were con gregated. Black was chairman of the grand jury that indicted the rioters last spring, and when lie attempted to speak the mob hooted him and his companions, and made such a demonstration that the politicians had to leave the hall. For two or three hours about 300!) Poles crowded the streets for blocks around, yelling like madmen. London, October 25.—General ICaulhars has informed the Bulgarian government by note that Russia will regard the pro ceedings of the sabranje as null land void. A dispatch from Athens says a rumor is current there that tlie czar has consented to occupy Bulgaria. Nobody will Cure. PARIS, October 25.—The Edgnro says: It is expected that Degiers, tlie Russian min ister of foreign affairs, will issue a circular to the powers declaring active measures necessary to terminate the anarchy pre vailing on Bulgarian grounds. It is dan gerous to the pence of tho Balkan states and offensive to Russia. Work of tho Royal Commission. Dublin, October 25.—-The royal com mission. which lias been enquiring into the causes of the recent riots in Belfast, con cluded its labors to-day. The Irish Times says: The reports in circulation that the government’s programme includes a visit ol’the queen to Ireland in 1887 are true. The ministry has already submitted "the project to the queen, who entertains the suggestion favorably. ('rownoil Beads I’rpsont. St. Petersburg, October 25.—'The czar and czarina yesterday, after unveiling the monument in memory of tlie Russo-Turk- ish war, attended a lunch given by oilicers of the army. The czar, proposing a toast to the officers, said: “In drinking to you, permit me to wish you success and full enjoyment of health in tl\e future. In the hardships you underwent in the war with Russia and Turkey, I express these thanks in the name of him who is no longer among us. Once more, I thunk you.” Four Deaths from Clialoni. London, October 24.—Four deaths from cholera have occurred on the British troop ship Euphrates, now at Suez homeward bound. The Old Man Is All lllt-lil. ' London, October 25.—The Times’ corre spondent at Berlin suys: “The Emperor William looks astonishingly well, and at the opera he apparently led the cneering of the scenes in the military ballet. It is learned from an undoubted source that Bismarck is equally averse to the Bussiau occupation of Bulgaria and to the English exit from Egypt. In accordance with French notions M. Herbet is making the most favorable impression. It May Be So. Vienna, October 25.—A political corre- sponeent here has a telegram from Sofia saying that tlie Russian partisans tln.ro have circulated the report that two Rus sian frigates have arrived at Varna. The Bulgarian government puts no faith in the report, and consider ttiat- it was invented with the object of intimidating the people. ltussiiin Citizens In Dnnitcr. Vienna, October 25.—The Political Cor respondence has received a telegram from Odessa which says the Russian consul at Varna asked for tlie despatch of a Russian war ship to that place to protect the con- i sulate and the Russian residents from tlie j violence of the populace. It's Tiki Thin. (’Iinrley. London, October 25.—The Evening j News publishes the notes which Sir Charles Dilke, after his trial jn connection with the Crawford case, banded to the { committee of gentlemen formed for the purpose of making enquiries into tho I merits of the case. The committee is now at work upon its investigations, and Sir j Charles Dilke has sent to it new evidence which ho has recently obtained. The . committee will, within n few months, pub lish the evidence taken at both trials of the Crawford case, together with the last criticisms made by Sir Charles. Tlie edi- j tor of the Evening News says it is not pre tended that tlie notes which lie publishes to-day embody completely the opinions of Sir Charles Dilke or the case. But he says that with some necessary omissions they form the first part of Sir Charles’ defense. They Went for ’Km. London, October 25.—The Crnfters of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, attacked a force of police who were assisting the sheriff to make evictions and the military had to lie called out. It- was necessary to charge the crowd with bayonets before it could lie dispersed. Several were wounded and six were arrested. Vou Don't Say So t London, October 25.—The lord mayor has received a letter from tlie mayor of Charleston expressing thanks for the money forwarded from London for the Charleston sufferers. The fund has been closed. BLASTED BY A NOMINATION. $15,OAK). This afternoon lie gave some j startling testimony id It is examination, j James-Moran, of t he board of public affairs, who is charged with certifying to fraudu- j lent roiiehurs, is one of Ids victims. Ht> j said he got Ids nephew, Joseph Peters, to | personate Joseph Meyers & Co. and draw i money on false bills, that Peters gave money to him and lie paid three-fifths of it to James Morgan, lie mentioned specifi cally where and when lit: paid money to Morgan on two of llicse hills for $500 each on c ross- uxam i nut ion. Sioter admit ted lie hud sworn in Ids former trial that Peters did not personate Meyers & Co., and lie did not draw money, but said lie swore in fhat way to shield Peters. The case of Morgan was submitted without argument. Judge Fitzgerald held Morgan to answer to the grand jury in $2000,which was given. This testimony by Sieter was wholly unexpected at this time, although it has been thought lie would tell all he knew before the trials were ended. DUDLEY ON THE CANDIDATES. Hn Thinks Blaine Is FtarOil of Defeat and tliat Bill Is tlie Coming Man. Washington, October 23.—Colonel Dud ley, ex-commissioner of pensions, is noted throughout tho north as one of the most vigorous and energetic managers of the republican party. He was one of Mr. Blaine’s confidential lieutenants during the canvass of 1881. Dudley has just re turned from Pennsylvania, where he was with Mr. Blaine for two or three days. When asked if lie thought Mr. Blaine would be a candidate for lenomination. lie said: | “1 have no such relations with Mr. Blaine that I think he would have told me if he was a candidate if he laid made up his mind on tlie subject. I am certain Mr. Blaine does not want to go through another fruitless campaign. Outside of a personal campaign .ur. Blaine’s judgment is clear and unbiased. I feci perfectly con fident that lie doubts his ability to lie elect ed if he should he’ nominated again. If lie becomes convinced of that you may be sure lie will not permit his name to be pro se. lied to the convention.” “Do you think Mr. Blaine will be re nominated?” “It will depend upon what the democrats do. 1 think Air. Blaine could carry New York against Cleveland, but 1 do not think he could carry it against Governor Hill. 1 regard Governor Full as oire of the most astute and able politicians of his time. If he were to he nominated the republicans would have lo he governed in their choice by that fact.” Colonel Dudley tlie-i went on to say there were a number of Western candidates coming up. li the nomination should not go to Mr. Blaine it would prob ably go west, and in that event would naturally go to somebody agreeable to Mr. Blaine. Mr. Allison he regarded as very prominent on this account. If Indiana should go republican this fall by any chance, that fact would bring General Harrison to tlie front. Governor Foraker, of Ohio, was also coming up. He is very popular with young men, and in the event oi Blaine’s nomination might go second on the ticket. “Do you think Cleveland will be renomi nated?” “No, I do not. I am almost alone among my friends in taking this view, but I have been all over the north during the sum mer and have made a careful examination of this possibility of opposition to Mr. Cleveland within his own party. The lead ers do not like him, and the people with whom he is popular are not enthusiastic over him. l am confident lie will not be renominated. The feeling in New York, especially, I know to be very strong against him.” BUTTONS MOVED THREE INCHES. Till) President Sim Taking an Adipose—To Try Mnssiuc Trent ment. New York, October 23.—A Washington special to the World says: The expert from the Neiv York School of Massage, who lias helped Secretary Manning so much, had an interview with the presi dent yesterday. Mr. Cleveland intends to take a course of treatment to see if lie can not reduce his flesh. He has gained so much in the lust six months that lie has had to have the buttons on iris coat moved three inches. Gen. Sheridan placed him self in the hands of this massage professor yesterday to have his waist reduced to normal size. Massage and Swedish move ment promise to t)e very fashionable with Washington notables aiiiieted with large waistbands. And Shed Crocodile Tears at the Grave of Thaddeus Stcvcn9. An Analyst* nl’ I lie VoltMif I’l'iinsylvaniii anil tlie rrnlialiilltli's The Ki'iinlillnin Figuring Milken (lie Margin I'ncfiinfeirtilbly Narrow -The Con- gresslnnal (hillnok. Pittsburg, Pa., October 23. — Tlinn IleulI, In a Steam Mill. Reading, Pa., October 25.—Information reached here to-day of a fearful accident which took plneo in the Woodland district in East Nantmeal late Saturday evening. The boiler of .1. C. Fisher's saw mill ex ploded, wrecking tlie building and scatter ing destruction in every direction. Loss to tho building $8000. The workmen injured are: Calvin Sheets, badly scalded from 1 head to loot, and badly injured internally ] ho was thrown 175 feet. Silas Zeerbo, struck i and cut in tlie stomach; picked up uncon scious. These two will die. IJt-nry Stor- hon, several flesh wounds and hands badly scalded; Henry Bagentius, badly cut, 1 bru’ ’ " ’ scalded and bruised. Several other cm- Henry Clay, no public man has had tho | ployes received slight injuries. Tho ex- ■'*' 1 " m " ! “ 1 plosion disturbed the neighborhood like an earthquake. The wounded men were taken to their homes to-day. hold of Janies G. Blaine upon tlie masses of the American people, liis hurried trip neross tho state was one continued ova tion, such as has been necorded no private citizen since General Grant returned from Ills tour of the world Admiration for Blaine, desire to hear him, curiosity to see him, made obscure way-stations ' tempo rarily cities of people of all parties, sects and soxes. It is .beneath true journalism to strive to belittle such spontaneous and hearty welcome os was given the great re publican leader. True, tho welcome, and the cheer and tlie enthusiasm were for Blaine; hut if Penn sylvania bo saved to republi canism next month, the credit will bo mainly his. If the wrath of the republi can masses—enkindled by their leaders’ prostitution of the individual good to cor poration greed, by their shameless barter ing of the dearest, interests of the soldiers’ orphans to a machine syndicate, by the V duplicity and Insincerity of their candi dates and plntform on the great questions of labor and temperance—b* stayed, it will have been the presence and counsel of James U. Blaine which lias stayed it. Whether or not his magnetism bo strong enough to draw his party out of the whirl pool of distrust, desertion and demoraliza tion in which it is floundering, lie has se cured his prime object -the sixty votes of his party in the next national convention. THE MAN FROM MAINE played his part well. His reiterated claim of a birth-place in Pennsylvania was for a purpose. His cute yankee trick of drop ping a few eroeodile tears on the grave of Thaddeus Stevens was appreciated by the average Lancaster county Dutctunai His little sop thrown to tli whale at Altoona was relished by tho j land alter enduring great hardships. The Pennsylvania railroad men, magnates and I ship and cargo is a total loss. While com- mcudicants. Tho capture is complete.'.ing from York factory, the party met Col. From Philadelphia to Pittsburg, from I'lrio | Glider in company with a party of voy- to Gettysburg, Don Cameron, Quay, Chris agers on route for H THE BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION. The Contract Lot for tile First Twenty-seven Milos. Birmingham, Ala., October 25.—The contract has been let for the building of tlie first twenty-seven miles of the Georgia Central railroad's extension from Good- water, Ala., to this city. The completion of this gap with the Memphis and Bir mingham road, now building, and known ns tlie Kansas City route, which the engi neers say will be finished by the first of July next, will give the northwest a direct short line railway connection with the south eastern gulf const. The Georgia Central company has bought $80,000 wortli of un improved property in this city, adjoining the recent purchase by the Kansas City road, In lie usod for depot and machine shop sites. A Wreck anil a Meeting. Chicago, October 26.—A Daily News special from Winnepeg savs: “Captain lluwles, of the Hudson Bay aompany’s ship Owen, arrived yesterday over land from Hudson bay. lie reports that on the voyage from London to York factory,while doubling Cape Churchill, a hurricane rose which drove the ship on the rocks, batter ing her sides. In a crew of thirteen, and passengers consisting of a missionary, his family and a doctor, all escaped to the shore safely and made their way to York big corporate factory by boots. The crew came over Magee and the lessor lights away down to the scrub-women at the capitol, have lost their grip. Every mile-board along the line of triumph proclaimed it. Whether Beaver or Black comes out second in tlie race for pluco in November Blaine is ahead. The Plumed Knight’s dioo were loaded. THE MOST CAREFUL FIGURINO at the republican headquarters makes tho margin in the state, as Chairman Cooper Hudson bay. THE LOYAL LEGION. d Hi mil Nlii'i'hlaii Succeeds (icnerul llunim'k as Coin in iinilor-in-CItlof. Philadelphia, October 23.—The com- mandery-in-ehief of the military order of the Loyal Legion held its annual encamp ment in the hall of tint Pennylvania Kle in his private circular expresses it; “un- ST satisfactorily narrow.” The managers i Society to-day. The morning ses- elaim to be able to win if the prohibition ’.fnHl ?? vote does not exceed 65,000, and concede I 1 ,^° Vm i j that nine-tenths of it will come from re- i Icrnoon. The following named compan- publioans. Nobody in tlie inside puts tlie ; ° n “ were present from New York: Major- prohibition strength at less than SOjOOO, U Schofield, Lmted States army, while ~ ~ most the 1 that loss i ... vote the democratic ticket. In 1884 the vote of the state, in round numbers, was: ,, . Blaine,473,000; Cleveland,392,000; Butler,17,- j 000,and St. John, 15,000 Upon that basis, , with the estimated diverted ilote properly “X. or “ , , , - . placed—473,000 Biaim, votes; minus is,009 i i'chl Scott Hancock, late commander-m prohibition and 14,000 liquor, equals 401.- ^ w , Lieutenant-General 1 I 000 for Beaver, while 392,000 Cleveland votes, minus 7000 prohibition and plus 14, cniei. tie 000 liquor, equals 399,000 for Black—makes . - , , . , . , , • the republican margin 2000. Of course not vor, ‘ *} G hoped to. be present in the even- nearly the vote of 1884 will be polled, but , At 6 ° clock tho encampment was both the total and the percentage or tho I nV, ' , „ , , , decrease will be against the republicans. f'i?. , c0 " 1 V l,lc Sy w"“ n h . eld 8 The larger the majority the more voters meeting at the Union League at 6.30 p. m. and invested the oincers-eiect with their of- die.-General Charles A, Carleton, and Brigadier-General John J. Milhau. Ex- . Hayes filled thechair made dentil of Major-General Win- hilip H. vvaH elected eommander-in- cliiei. General Sheridan was unable to ho present at the business session, but sent larger the majority there arc who stay at homo, and besides „ . , , . . ., , the chances are in favor of the democrats ! 1< i lul h . on °f. B l„ A “ ke £1”? getting the bigger half of the 17,000 labor votes. These figure’s of arithmetic tho re- a banquet was tendered to the companions of the commundery-iii-chief in the league building. A LiVELY CAMPAIGN. C'oiurrrssiiuui Knell Ol In i Shot. Caiitliilali's hi Trim anil One Samuil)’ Ki Alinse Being Mlsi'rlln nee Note Atlanta, October 25.—Gov. McDaniel ! to-dav issued a warrant on the treasury for | $3000 in favor of H. L. Jewett, treasurer of j the academy for the blind, the same being the appropriation for the fourth quarter. | It is somewhat hazy in Atlanta to-day and the possibility of ruin in the near fu- , ture is hailed with delight. It is intended to make the military pa rade at the inaugural ceremony an impos ing one. The legislature will lie asked to fix Tuesday 9th for tlie inauguration. The ladies hospital fair for the benefit of Ivy street hospital will begin to-morrow. A number of railroad magnates are in session in Atlanta to-day discussing rates. ; Batteries B and H, of 2d U. S. artillery, quartered here during the summer, have been removed to Florida. Anil the Boy Salli'il III. Atlanta, Ga., October 25.—Mr. T. A. Hommond, jr., a son of Congressman Nat Hammond, married Miss Clifford Putnam, a charming young lady of this city to night. ’ Augusta, Macon and Columbus were represented in the bridal party—Mr. Archie Wilcox representing Columbus. The church and vestibule wfere crowded to the utmost. The bridal party were en tertained at the home of the bride after the ceremony, and at 11 o’clock Mr. and Mrs. Hammond left on an extended north ern tour. Tho Ftioh Bio. Too. New York, October 25.—Mrs. Cornelia THE NORTHERN EDITORS. They’ll Fowl' cm mid It Will Pay. Raleigh, N. C., October 25.—The twenty-sixth annual fair of the North Caro lina State Agricultural Society begins here to-morrow. It will be opened by Gover nor Scales. The attendance will be very large and the exhibit, particularly of cat tle, is superb. The state department of agriculture makes a remarkably fine and complete display which tills a i-ery large portion of the exposition building and contains many thousand articles, includ ing ores, miners’ woods, gems and all kinds of crude products. To-morrow evening a large number of northern editors will arrive and be welcomed by Governor Scales and Mayor Dodd, of this city. They will meet with the convention of northern born settlers in this state, which meets to morrow evening. Wednesday night the city of Raleigh gives a banquet to the northern editors. A Steamer tin Fire. Liverpool, October 25.—The National line steamer The Queen, Captain Milligan, which arrived at this port Saturday from New York and which is lying at Alexan dria dock, is on lire. Tho fire is burning in three holds. Several engines are pour ing water on tlie flames. The steamer is gradually sinking from the weight of the water thrown into her. The fire originated in the cotton stowed on the Steerage deck iu No. 2 hold. The ship was filled with water and the flames extinguished. Tin: Curious l’llulif of ti Bi'iiulilican Nominee in Mii'liimiii. Detroit, Mich., October 24.—Louis R. ! Littlefield was recently nominated forsher- itf of Wayne county by the republicans.! To-day he ieorne I that to-morroiv the 1 democratic organ would publish the fact that twenty years ago he was a convict in ; the Albany, N. Y., penitentiary, lie there fore visited the offices of the oftornoon papers and beginning with tlie startling statement, “I am a convict,” went on to relate that, buying a horse in good faith from Thomas Manning, in New York state twenty-one years ago, lie was arrested in ; Utica on the charge of having stolen the ! animal. The ease dragged along in tlie j courts for several years, and finally, on the : advice of his bondsman, his lawyer and the I prosecuting attorney, Littlefield pleaded guilty, being assured that the judge would j suspend sentence. Instead he sent Little-: field to the penitentiary for a year. He j was pardoned out in two'months.' lie says j that he has always lived the life of an hon orable man. There is a probability that i Littlefield will be asked to retire from the j ticket, lie has lived in Detroit for eighteen ' years, and his record here is clean. drover Hunts In stair II. Washington, October 25.—The presi dent will leave Washington for New York Wednesday afternoon and return tlie following evening. He will bo accompanied by Secretaries Bayard, Endicott and Whitney, and possibly by other members of the calu met. There will lie no ladies in the party. The president will review the procession in New York on Thursday morning at It) o’clock, and will remain on the stand in Madison square until it is necessary for him to leave for Bedloe’s island, where the inauguration ceremonies will begin at 2 o’clock. The president will remain there throughout the proceedings, which will probably last till 6 o’clock, and will then proceed direct lo the Pennsylvania rail road station in Jersey (fiqy and take the first regular trail. io Washington. publican bosses hope to reverse lay BLAINE’S FIGURES OF RHETORIC, Colonel Quay stopped fishing at Atlantic City this week to assure a newspaper re porter that the republican majority in the legislature would lie twenty-five. That in- | ideates that lie is nearly as badly seared as Chairman Cooper. Twenty-five majority I an joint ballot means thirteen Li'the house, | -• for the twelve in the senate will he by | Knoxville, Tenn., October 24.—The members holding over and from over- 1 congressional canvass m the fir-.: Tennes- Wlielming republican districts, or the one ; see district is growing lively. Roderick R. hundred and l'orty-one republicans in the j Butler and Parson James White, respect- last house twenty came from tlie demo- iveiy republican and democratic nominees, cratie counties of Adams, Bedford, Bucks, ! spoke in a church building at Rutledge lirin, Fulton, Lycoming, Mifllin, Mont- j yesterday. For several days they have ginnery, Northumberland, Wayne and been calling each other liars, thieves, etc., Westmoreland and the city of Lancaster, but yesterday Butler overstopped the These twelve districts are sure to return bounds and called White a d d liar, Tic republican counties of ' whereupon tlie parson whipped out an Ci (limit Beaver, llutler, Crawiorit, Franklin, Hunt ugly hull-dog pistol and snapped it at his ingdon, Mercer, Perry, Venango and Wash- antagonist. The weapon failed to go off, nigton, with ^tiventy-lhree members, and j and friends prevented further disturbance, five in tlie cities oi Harrisburg and Phila-! Bloodshed is imminent, delphia arc fairly in doubt. Twenty-one of tlie twenty-eight members to he chosen ! in those districts will almost, certainly be | democrats. The counties named gave St. ! An I)mailIi'd For Murder. Louisville, October 25.—A Courier- Journa! special says: A large Welch dis tillery near Ownesboro, Ky., owned by Triplett & Walden, was burned this morn ing. Loss $30,000. After a friendly wrestling match yester day near Williamsburg, Ky., Win. Brough ton shot and instantly killed John Wisten- hunt and wounded Wistenhunt’s brother. The shooting was a cold blooded murder. IB Indian. - learned ti honest eloi packers, 1 n ti dav ih k of La nil I. Di'indy Si'luilli'lil to lie I n vest I ga t oil. Washington, October 25.—Commssioner Miller has directed investigation to lie made of the charges that W. H. Schofield, deputy collectorof internal revenue for the first Pennsylvania district, is, with the con sent and approval of Collector Frederick Gerker, levying political assessments amounting to three per cent, of their sal aries, upon tlie employes of that service in violation of the law. GlnrliimttFs Sin. Cincinnati, October 25.—Geo. T. Sieter, ex-clerk of the board of public works, was bound over to the grand jury to-day iu c 8-20.000. October 25.—It was H. J. Landers, a ilis- anders, Given A Co., pork 't a number of creditors is conducted as a broker. In those matters he used the name of J. Landers, that being the name of his uncle, Jackson Landers, and at least one of the houses, a Chicago house, believed it was trading- with the uncle. What the amount of the shortage on this line will be cannot be told until the rat urns are all in. Hut it is believed it will amount to $20,000. A (Id lil Kill i’ll In ii Blair. Cleveland, October 25.—This morning Rosa, the two-year-old daughter of Henry Doembriiek, a saloon keeper, met with a horrible death, being almost eaten alive by a bear. The little one was playing in her father’s back yard and got through the fence into tlie yard of a neighbor, a saloon keener named Kerns, who kept, a bear chained in the rear of his lot. The child ventured too near the bear, which knocked her down and commenced devouring her. The body was horribly niutillated before it could lie rescued. The owner of the bear has been arrested on a charge of man slaughter. John 2800 votes. This year there are pro hibition county tickets in all of them, backed by a thorough organization and an enthusiastic following. Although classed as republican, these counties are i ot relia ble, and to-day fully one-half of the. court house offices are filled y democrats. Twenty sure to tie democratic and twenty- one out of twenty-eight reasonably certain forty-one in all -shows how biinly Col. Quay is seared and completely wipes out his narrow margin of thirteen in a house of 201 members. The republican congressional stove-pipe HAS L'NJOINTED in the Schuylkill district. There Charles N. Brumm has posed through two con gresses as a republican labor representative being both times elected by a trade-off of the republican county ticket. This year the labor people declared tlie trade “off.” So badly is Chairman Cooper seared that he persuaded the Plumed Knight to plume himself at PoUsViile on his home stretch. In Chester county the sturdy old Quakers, who love fair play and despise trickery as much in polities as in business, are making Quay quake and beating the bushes for Everhart votes. HI-inn’s special train was stopped at Downingtown and lie induced to try to stop the stampede there. In the MeKe,m district the bosses have downed I words, “Orate Pro Nabis. Senator Lincry. So much for Ids daring 1 to oppose the Cameron dynasty. That district takes in the great Bradford oil belt anil tlie greater lumber region of Cameron, Tliev'vc (iot 'Millin'. Montreal, October 25.—The Montreal delegat es to the Knights of Labor conven tion in Richmond, Va., have returned. It is understood that efforts will he made by amending the constitution to satisfy the Roman Catholic authorities of this province. lie si ole II. All tin- Siime. Mobile, Ata., October 25.—Superinten dent, C. ti. Meriwithro authorizes the st ate ment, that ail of Manager T. C. Stewart’s indebtedness to the Western Union Tele graph Co. in Mobile has been settled. Till: I’ejll's Order*. Rome, October 25.—The pope has re fused to allow any ornament to be placed an Lizst’s grave beyond an unpainted An Editor (loes to Best. Chicago, October 25.—Rev. Robt. West, Lycoming and Potter, anifabout equals in’ th” editor ofthe Advance, a widely known A pro liken Murderer. Montgomery, Ala., October 25.—A spe cial to the Advertiser from Gadsden re ports the killing of the widow Cannon hv a drunken young man named Albein. He went to her home wit ii a friend anil was put out on account of his condition. He crawled back through tiie window and while the woman was stooping over he shot her in the hack of the head, killing her instantly. He escaped. c reage to tiie states of Delaware and Rhode Island. Three of its six counties are republican. Now tlint district is de batable. Tlie dead-lock in the Biair dis trict continues. The millionaire Roberts is shooting out his hoodie faster than ever his torpedoes shot oil out of u well, and if money will place him in brave Captain Flceger’s seat in congress, h theologian, died suddenly at Sycamore this morning where he had gone*to deliver a sermon. Tin- Secretary's Oriler. Washington, October 25.—The secre tary of war has directed that Chief Mangus and the two bucks captured with Geronimo wili get and nis hand and that the squaws and children in Mangus’ band be sent to Fort Marion, Fla. there. But tile sincere, unpurchusable publicans of Butler and Crawford are treasuring up wrath unto the day of wrath'. , Scott is successfully withstanding the as- (Jeronimo's Arrival, saults '3 our "puddler-stat.esman” and our Pensacola, Fla., October 25.—Geronime glasS].blowing blower, paid emissaries of arrived to-day, and is confined with four- Maeke.v, and altogether the congressional j teen other warriors at Fort Pickens on held is ripe ior the harvest. 1 Santa Rosa Island opposite Pensacola.