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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 311
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1886.
BRICE FIVE CENTS
cm ITEMS.
General Logan’s Obsequies About Ar-
ranged at Last.
U Th 'a* Se *!“ S '' na,e Will Be Arranged.
The Fundf 0 ".’! tom, »“toe« to Attend.
Und Iletter. f ° r ‘" e Cere
commXfi™ N 1 la D rge e of b t e L ffl L~ The f Senat 1
Sw8' d Z°h’r S ,??Y en out ' Itisasfol-
mittop body wlTl be taken by the cotn-
stnf f 0f ? rrau S el neuts of tile United
nintf ti S6nate an “ of ttle house of repre
sentatives, escorted by the posts of the
of Columbia at ‘la® M pu , blic of the W strict
at 12 o clock noon, Thursday.
P® c ? m b er '}°i from the residence to the ro
tunda of the capitol.tvhere it will lie in state
until noon of the following day under a
guard of honor detailed by the grand army
the t 6 re P u bbc and the military order cff
Fm,n°fl, L , eg ? n 0f the Unit ^ States.
P- »• of Thursday until
11 octock a* of Friday, the public
j!' t th« adm t it a ed t0 t i le rotun<la , passing
The 1 east H 1 ^ a “ d OUt at the West
the east door of the senate wing of the
capital will be opened at 11 o'clock a. m
to those having tickets of admission. The
diplomatic gallery will be reserved for the
families of the diplomatic corps. The
tickets thereto will be delivered to the
secretary of state for distribution
TrJm / a «B les of the president,
cabinet officers, justices of the supreme
court, president pro tem. of the senate,
speaker of the house, and of the ex-presi
dents and ex-vice presidents will occupy
seats in the gallery east of the diplomatic
gallery. The families of the senators and
members of the house of representatives
will occupy seats in the east reserved gal
lery. The reporters’ gallery will be re
served exclusively for repoctersof the press
and admission thereto will be upon the
usual tickets to that gallery. The remain
ing seats in the galleries will he open,with
discrimination, to all who have general
tickets to gallery seats.
The president and cabinet officers will
meet in the president’s room ; the supreme
court will meet at the supreme court room
and the diplomatic corps will meet in the
marble room. The vice-president’s room
will he reserved for Mrs. Logan and fam
ily. The members of the house of repre
sentatives will meet at the hall of the
bouse. The committee of the Grand Army
of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, and of the Mexican war
veterans, will meet in the office of the sec
retary oi the senate. Seats will he reserved
by the sergeant-at-arms for those entitled
to seats on the floor. Hon. John Sher
man, senator of the United States
from the state of Ohio, will preside. The
order of procession from the cipitol to
U ikhill cemetery will be under the direc
tion of Lieutenant-General P. H. Sheridan,
to whom all organizations should report
as speedily as possible. The committee
hus invited a committee of twuuty-tlve
from the grand army and one of tell each
from the military orders of the Loyal
Legion, and Mexican War Veterans Asso
ciation to occupy seats on the floor of the
senate. The committee on the part of the
house will comprise flit.-an mcuioars, in
cluding all the members of the Illinois
delegation. The others will be selected by
Speaker Carlisle thus evening.
General Sheridan, who will have charge
of the funeral procession of General Logan
ou Friday, has appointed General Albert
Ordway chief of staff. No aids have yet
been appointed, and it is not known
whether it will be necessary to appoint
any. All organizations desiring to appear
in t he procession are requested to notify
General Sheridan, who will assign them a
8 lace in the line. Generals Sheridan and
rdway have been in consultation during
the day arranging the details of the pro
cession. Invitations have been sent to the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal
Legion, Masonic organizations, the district
militia, and others, and places will be pro
vided for such of these organizations as
signify ati intention to be present, and also
for ali other organizations or individuals
who desire to take part. Geueral Sheridan
said to-night: “There is so little time that
organizations at a distance that would
like to participate will have
little chance to do so. It is scarcely possi
ble to secure such a demonstration as the
country would like to make upon such
short notice as has been given, but an op
portunity will be afforded b,y which all
who can participate may do so.”
Tlie Washington Cadets (colored is the
only organization which has, as yet. noti
fied Gen. Sheridan that it will be present.
The marines and third a tiller} - sta
tioned in this city will nl-;o he _ in
line. The route of the procession
has not been definitely detenu ned 11001.,
but. will be substantially as follows: form
at tlie east front of the capital, mar h up
the avenneto Fifteenth street, up r uo nun
street to Vermont avenue, thence to Inode
Island avenue, up Rhode Island avenue to
Seventh street, tip Seventh street to “he
Soldiers’ Home road, thence to dock
Creek cemetery opposite the bjhhers
Home, where the body will be placed in a
vault. It is expected that all the details
of the procession will be fixed by to-mor
row afternoon, when they will be made
P The 0 remains of Gen. Logan are clad for
burial in the general’s ordinary oituen»
dress of black. Upon the left blest are
the badges of the 15th army corps, with
the legends. “40 Rounds,” “Grand Anny
and “Loyal Legion,” and upon t ape
are buttons of the grand army and lo} at
legion. The remains will be accpinpauica
to '
Get
his
funeral This is to be done hi dctctcu ■ ^
the sentiment of Mrs- ^ogan» - :
members of the family should
near the dead until the burial. Atng
the visitors of the day were Col- tea
Grant and Chester Allan Arthur. LG;
tions from the west, consisting of t in \ ■
alier Bayard commandery, the i °
League club and the Union Vetera dab,
post 28, all of Chicago, are on thenu ^
attend tlie funeral. A number o hand
some floral offerings have been rue
the mansion from a distance. L • - .
tary of War Lincoln and Gov. Rusk,
Wisconsin, will be unable to g
as pall bearers. Then- substitute
not yet been selected. Speak
lisle has appointed the fo. 1 owing
named gentlemen as a committee t .
sent the house of representatn es at ne
funeral of General Logan: Messrs. 1 h >|;
Springer, Henderson, Townshend, J. aj ^
Worthington, Hitt, Riggs, Rowel no
Neeee. of Illinois, Reid ot Maine, Cur. m
of Pennsylvania, Burrows of
Siinmes of Colorado, and Cary ot W} “ |
ing. The members ot the Army
nessee, of which General Logan 1
originator and a life long member, a '-l.
cially invited by Mrs. Logan to be pi
at the funeral.
£2.1.000 to Hate. . I
Washington, December 29.—Subscrip- ,
tions to the fund for the benefit of Mrs.
Logan received by Mr. Ionium up to date
aggregate $25,000.
Gevel*nd Improving.
Washington, December 29.—The presi
dent is steadily improving in health. He
has not resumed his office work yet, how
ever, as his physicians advise him to secure
as much rest as possible.
Itnynionil’H Failure.
New York, December 29.—Charles H.
Raymond, a dealer in supplies at 121
Chambers street and 103 Reads street,
made an assignment to-day for the benefit
of his creditors to James M. Oakley, with
preferences amounting to $206,699. Ray
mond has dealt in hardware supplies for
twenty-five years, having for his heaviest
customer the United States government.
He dealt mainly by sample, carrying no
stock worth mentioning. His warehouse
was at 103 Reade street, and up to about a
year since, he was reported to
be very wealthy, and his credit
was of the best. But since
then he has been lax in his payments. He
once owned sixteen or eighteen first-class
pieces of real estate in Brooklyn. This
assignment to Jus. M. Oakley, of Jamaica,
L. I., was filed in Brooklyn this afternoon.
The amount of liabilities is unknown, but
they are estimated to be nearly $500,000.
Raymond is a silent partner with George
II. Creed in the supply business and at
their establishment nothing was known
regarding the financial trouble of Ray
mond.
The Thrilling Story of Their Capture
Continued.
How Youtiir Wit rock 1><t(*Iv<m1 II In lloncnt Mother.
ItcportcrK Surround I ii k n House to Which
They urn Denied Admittance and Talking
Through Cracks and lllinils— How the Men
Sought to Kradc Arrest.
NASHVILLE’S BOOM.
A New Iran, Steel und Charcoal Oompaay lo Or
ganize and Halid Furnace*. Chemical Works aad
a New Town With $5,060,000 Capital.
Nashville, December 29.—A movement
of vast importance to the material wealth
and prosperity of Nashville has taken
shape. A company called the Nashville
Iron, Steel and Charcoal Company will,
this week, be organized and have for its
objects the erection, during the year 1887,
of two charcoal ttfty-ton|furnaces, und alto
charcoal and chemical works under the
Pierce patents, for the treatment of 80,090
cords of wood annually, for charcoal, wood
alcohol, acetate of lime, and other woo l
products. Inexhaustible iron ore beds lie
within easy railroad and river communica
tion with this city, and an unlimited
amount of wood can he delivered in Nash
ville by .way of the railroads and Cumber
land river at prices not higher tliuti the
average furnace companies of the United
States imy.
The citizens of Nashville have agreed to
donate a site near the city, running 1003
feet on the Cumberland river and 1600 feet,
deep, in all about, forty acres, on which to
erect the furnaces, roiling mills, steel and
chemical works.
Tiie promoters of this movement are
members of the Standard Charcoal, Iron
and Chemical company, with a capital
stock of $5,000,000 Their headquarters are
in Nashville, and the officers are: E. W.
Cole, president; J. M. Head, vice-president;
J. C. MoRoynolds, secretary, and H. M.
Pierce, general manager. Among the
stockholders are such men as E. W. Cole,
Dr. T. A. Atchison, T. D. Fite, Judge How
ell E. Jackson. J. C. Neely, of Memphis;
E. H. East, M. A. Spun - , J. M. Head, 11. M.
Pierce, and others.
The books of the new company will be
opened in the offices of the Safe Deposit
Trust, and Banking company at 9 o’clock
Wednesday morning.
The above gentlemen see in Nashville
the capital and largest city in Tennessee,
and, next to New Orleans, one ot the most
important commercial cities in the south,
over two hundied cities and villages and
an immense agricultural district being de
pendent upon her for their supplies. They
believe that the establishment of large
iron and steel industries will not only be
remunerative to those organizing and
operating them, but that such industries
will be of inestimable benefit in building
up Nashville.
In order to carry out at reasonable cost
these extensive plans, the company have
purchased very near the corporate limits
of Nashville an immense tract of land of
nearly five square miles. On this they pro
pose to build a new town. The entire tract
cost in the neighborhood of $300,000. On
this property all of the works above re
ferred to will be located. The Northwest
ern railroad will run a branch road from a
point near their machine shops to
the new town. The owners
of the property will in addition lay
a track from a point on Spruce street to
town, and run dummy cars to and from
Nashville every thirty minutes. This will
connect the new town directly with the
old, so that each may derive all the advan
tages to be furnished by the other.
A cable railroad company with $330,000 |
capital has been chartered to build a cable I
road from Confederate Hill, in the extreme \
east of Nashville, to the extreme west of |
Nashville. ^
PUSHING UP POWL/ERLY.
Murmurs Among tlie Uluglits Against Their I'hliT.
Chicago, December 29.—A morning pa
per says that the movement in opposition
to Powderly’s mandate in reference to tlie
anarchist liind and the united labor party
hus been started by the socialists, it is in
the form of a letter to Powderly from an
outside standpoint, to be signed by 190
leading socialists. The knights of this city
are protesting against what they claim to
be his arbitrary interference with the
rights of the local assemblies. A letter,
which, it is stated, will be dispatched
this week, sets forth the amount
of the assessment' which each
member pays pro rata, which is levied for
the support of the district stale and |
g: neral assemblies, and claims that after j
ali these obligations, are discharged and
the local expenses are paid, each assent j
bly should be at liberty to devote any ;
surplus which it may have at the end ot |
any quarter for the promotion of any
object which it. may see fib. It iurther j
characterizes Powderly’s recent order as I
having been issued by him at tlia request j
ot a small clique in Chicago, who do not '
represent tlie majority of the knights and i
who wish to govern by the use of the chief j
executive’s whip. It warns linn against
being led away by old fogies in tlie labor
movement. It protests against the action
he has taken, and explains that his action ;
will be interpreted as having been taken !
in the interest of capital and old political
parties. It asks for the appointment ot a
committee to investigate i he labor matter
in this city and demands me revocation ot
the order issued. It also explains that uu- ,
1-ss the latter is done his authority in this
city in the majority of local assemblies will :
not be recognized.
I,,.I i s Hear When They Do Something.
Alexandria, Vn., December 29.—The
annual meeting of the Virginia Midland j
Railroad Company, adjourned from week
t 0 W eek since the 12th lust., met at noon
L-dav at the office of the company, Gen.
Wm F Payne being president and E.
Snowdens secretary. It appeared, upon j
the appointment ot a committee on ere- |
dentiafs, that a quorum of the stock was
..resent. No business was transacted, how- ,
ever, and the meeting adjourned till Jan- ■
uarv 5, 1887. I
Leavenworth, Kansas, December 29.---
When the Rock Island train arrived last
night four men in charge of another
hastily left the rear conch, and jumping
into a hack were rapidly driven toward
North Leavenworth. A reporter caught a
glimpse of the man covered by the other
Four and saw the well-known face of Fred
Witrock. The detectives, with their
prisoner, were driven directly to WitroeK’s
residence. When the reporters, who had
followed, reached the house, the party had
entered. In a moment thereafter njoans
could be heard in the house coming from
the mother and two sisters, who were
clinging to the now noted train
robber. The reporter besieged the house
but failed to gain admittance until
reinforced by Colonel Anthony, of the
Times, who employs one of the Witrock
sisters as a book-keeper. With Anthony’s
aid an entrance to the house was effected.
But both newspaper men were promptly
ejected by the detectives. Their subse
quent efforts to interview the inmates of
the house through closed doors and win
dows produced small results. But shortly
after midnight the detectives who brought
Witrock to this city left Witroek’s house
with their prisoner and repaired to the
hotel, where they took a room and re
tired. While the two officers
were absent with young Witrock
from the house, Mrs. Witrock
was induced by the reporter to toll wlmt
she knew of tlie case, as her son’s connec
tion with it could not be concealed. Be
tween broken sobs she admitted that Fred
had participated in the robberv, but would
be released, as he had confessed all to the
detectives. She said that shortly after the
robbery Oscar Cook came to Leavenworth
and visited her one evening, and after talk
ing to her for some time said Fred was in
trouble; that ho had made a large sum of
and steel works. The Daily Age, of this
city, claims that, it contains errors in the
Tradesman’s Alabama statistics. The Ago
says: Instead of only six furnaces building
in Alabama, there are thirteen in process
of construction and ten actually projected,
the building of the latter to begin us soon
as t he former are completed. Of the fur
naces building, 11 are within a radius of 10
miles of Birmingham, the other two being
at Sheffield. Ot the furnaces projected six
are within a radius of ten miles of Birming
ham, and three at Sheffield and one at
Florence. The Age estimates the annual
capacity of the furnaces now in blast and
projected at 872,800 tons, and of the plants
projected 357,000 tons, or what will alto
gether very soon assure Birmingham or
tho Ala ama district an output of a little
more than 1,200,000 tons of iron.
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
A Batch iff Items From the Shite Capihil.
Atlanta, December 29.—The cold wave
flag flops in vain from the custom house
cupola und Atlanta still enjoys warm
weather. The clouds are somewhat
ominous to-day, however, and it is not im
probable that we will have an inclement,
day for new year’s calling on Saturday.
The number of houses will bo few in At
lanta, but n large number of ladies will
congregate at each place.
Interstate Agricultural t'onvcntlnn.
Atlanta, December 29.—Governor Gor
don has received a circular letter from
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, notify
ing him of an interstate agricultural con
vention to be held in St. Charles, La., on
the 22d of February, 1887, and asking the
appointment of delegates from Georgia
agricultural societies, farmers’ clubs, etc.,
and promising hospitable entertainment
lor the same.
Al|iha Tail Otnrgn.
Atlanta, December 29.—The delegates
to the Alpha Tau Omega national congress
continue to arrive on every train, and the
session opened this morning with about a
hundred present. The ddress of welcome
on the part of the fraternity was delivered
by Mr. W. A. Hay good, a prominent
young lawyer of this city. To-morrow
night the convention will hold a public
session, at which Governor Gordon, Con
gressman Carlton, Mayor Illllyer and
European Disquietude Depicted True to
Life.
HunkIh Mussing Her Troup* II)- llunilmlu of
TIiouniukIn—The Itnvernment Stationing the
Troops In the People'* llnnieu— Htsninrek I,cure*
Austria In the Lurch—England Still Ferment
ing.
of the money until she hoard from
him further. This she agreed to do, and
the money was left in her possession. Some
time after this another young man who
lives in this city, but whoso identity she
refused to divulge, called and left another
package of money, and, on two other oc
casions two other young men called at dif
ferent times and left money, which they
said hud come from Fred. When asked if
she know the amounts or sum total she
said she did not; that they were large pack
ages, but she had never counted it, believ
ing implicitly in Fred’s story, and thinking
she was aiding him by caring for his
property, and not dreaming but that
he came by it honestly. She
had no occasion to use any of the money,
having money of her own. When asked
how the detectives happened to be here
searching her house she said, “When f
read of Fred’s arrest I immediately wrote
to the express company telling them of
the money and requesting them to come
to Leavenworth and that is undoubtedly
why wicy are here.” This seemed to bo
about all Mrs. Witrock could tell and lb,,
reporter passed to another room where
two of the detectives were seated. In re
sponse to a question as to the amount of
money they had recovered they disclaimed
any knowledge of any money having
been found at the house.
They were told what Mrs. Witrock
had said and then admitted that a large
amount had beeu secured. When asked
where it had been secreted he said that
some of it was found under a barn, but not
on Mrs. Witroek’s premises. They after
wards denied this story, and said that tlie
details as told by Mrs. Witrock were sub
stantially correct. At t his juncture a knock
was heard, and the officers who had been
absent with Fred Witrock returned.
Pinkerton was asked abou the amount of
money recovered. He at first deniecithat it
was that he was here for and that any
money bad been recovered. When asked
what an empty tin box had contained
which was standing near by, ho said it
was $19,000, and bore all indications of not
having beeu tampered with, but could not
say.
PINKERTON FULLY EXONERATED MRS.
WITROCK
and family. They had only done what
others would do under the circumstances.
“They have done nothing wrong,” said
Pinkerton, “and I anticipate that wh -n we
come to examine what we have g<
Atlanta, Dec saber 29—The public
session of Alpha Tau Omega convention
has been postponed from Thursday to
Friday evening, and the exercises will
close with a banquet that might. To-day’s
session was private, but well attended, and
the convention is pronounced a success by
the fraternity men.
A Noonday Blaze.
Atlanta, December 29.—About noon to
day the fire department was called out by
an alarm from box 26, and the fire was
found in the residence of Mr. A. M. Speed,
way out on Simpson street. It caught on
the roof from a defective flue, and was ex
tinguished with buckets of water without
serious damage.
Stewart'* Opinion.
Atlanta, December 29. —The Constitu
tion will, to-morrow, print an article from
J. A. Stewart, a well-known expert, in
which the cotton crop is claimed to reach
only 6,000,000 bales.
A Stilt stolon.
Atlanta, December 29.—John Harde
man. colored, living at Smyrna, in Cobb
county, lodged a complaint with the police
department, to-day that the body of his
son buried in Smyrna Sunday afternoon
had been stolen from the grave, and he
believed was in a medical college in At
lanta. He took out search warrants and
officers went through the three colleges
here. A number of stiff's were found but
the body of the missing boy was not
among them. The old man went home
much disappointed and perplexed.
The Atlanta liblt-s.
Atlanta, December 29.—The Atlanta
Rifles, a new and popular young military
company, gave a ball at the Kimball
House to-night, which was quite a success.
Tho object was to raise funds for purchasing
dress uniforms, as the members are only
provided with fatigue uniforms now.
ON CHANGE.
(Find Sales lint Prominent Feat it res,
New York, December 29.—The stock
market to-day was active and strong, and
almost without reaction from the first few
_ minutes to tlie close. Foreign houses did
:vill find it till in the same condition ■ but, little in consequence ot the lack of
as she received it..” This ended j communication with London and the un
talk on the subject. Before going to bed, j settled bear contingent, and the bulls took
Robert Pinkerton visited the Times office ; advantage of their temporary hesitation to
and corroborated in his statements all that ' push prices up still further. This induced
had been said by Mrs. Witrock. He rc-i an extensive covering of shorts, and in
fused to give the minutiae of th ■ trunsae- j some few stocks there was good buying for
tion, but declared that no promises or in-] long accounts. A half dozen stocks
ducements were held out to Witrock to monopolized the greater part of the inter-
make a confession; that whatever lie did est in specialties, but u greater animation
was done voluntarily without promise that J was also noticeable in several specialties,
he would not be prosecuted. It could not ! Reading was a great feature of the day,
be ascertained whether any additional ar- , although the only item of interest as to its
rests will be made or not. ; value was the statement that an agreement
for an .interchange in traffic between that
llalght’* Relation t<» the Robbery. j line and tlie Jersey Central was in process
Chicago, December 29.—It is stated that j of arrangement. Jersey Central was also
convincing proof of Haight’s complicity in j materially aided by the same story. Rich-
the Frisco express robbery is in possession | niond and West Point became specially
of the Pinkertons, and there is no longer active and strong in the
doubt that Haight was the instigator of 1 heavy buying. The adv
doubt i hat Haight was the instigator
the crime and Weaver and Witrock were
his partners. It was Haight, it is said, who
conceived the ideu of writing to J. 15. Bar
rett, the route agent, in order to get a
copy of that gentleman’s letter heads.
Haight also liad bogus business cards
with the name, “W. P. Damsel,” on them.
The Pinkertons have learned that tlie
plotters tried to have these letter heads and
cards printed in St. Louis, but they were
either afraid to do t-o or could not "do so,
and they had the work done in this city
by a firm that has admitted it to the detee- Advances anging up to ■/ h
tives, and told still further that Ilaigbt was l;e,J -’i established. This was fol-
the man who gave the order. It was on lowed by a period of comparative
these letter heads and cards that the orders quiet accompanied by a slight recession in
were written, and used as a means to get prices, but before noon the activity and
Witrock aboard the express car with Foth- advance were again renewed and lasted
eringham.
London, December 29.—It is rumored
that ’Rasatoula, the Abyssinian com
mander who undertook the relief of Kas-
soln, which has been besieged by the fol
lowers of tlie late El Mahdi for upwards of
two years, hay succeeded in rescuing tlie
city from the Arabs. Another report
states that the Dervishes defeated Abys-
sinians at Sabderut.
MR. HEALY’S SPEECH.
Mr. Healy in addressing a mooting at
Glasgow said he was glad to see signs
which indicated that Mr. Chamberlain
was returning to the liberal fold; bethought
it was extremely unlikely that laird lFar-
tington would enter the conservative cabi
net. Regarding tile plan of campaign
which the national league is conducting In
the interest of the Irish people, Healy
denied that there was anything dishonest
in the movement.
POLITICS,
The Pall Mall Gazette says: Lord Ran
dolph Churchill is not satisfied with the
explanation of his resignation which the
Marquis of Salisbury has put forth, and
has declared his intention of explaining
the premier’s explanation. This, Lord
Randolph says, unduly narrows the issue,
and he will emphasize what he calls the
growing divergence between himself and
Lord Salisbury on nearly every political
question. Lord Randolph will also, the
Gazette says, maintain that the govern
ment’s army and navy estimates which he
opposed were excessive. The Gazette adds
that Lord Randolph Churchill expressed
the conviction that new toryism, of which
he is the representative, will eventually
predominate over that represented by the
majority of the present cabinet.
WIIO’D - ’A THOUGHT IT 7
Lord Iddcsloigh to-day unofficially re
ceived the Bulgarian deputation.
GLAD TO HEAR IT.
The Marquis of Hartington arrived in
London at 8 o’clock this evening. lie look
ed robust, and cheerful.
HE LEFT MONTE CARLO.
Lord llartington left Monte Carlo yes
terday and will arrive in London to-night.
The queen has gone to Osborne.
THEY WANT IIIM BACK.
The Post, referring to the vacancy in
the cabinet, urges t he ministry to endeavor
to provide somo means by which Churchill
can resume office. The Telegraph thinks
Flint W. H. Smith, secretary tor war, may
be appointed lender of the government
party in the house of coininonsi The
Daily News this morning advocates the
postponement of the redemption of con
sols for five years in order to pave tlie way
for tlie eventuality of tho war loan.
GIVE HIM ANOTHER NAME.
Godban Effendi, special envoy from
Turkey to Bulgaria, lias been recalled to
Constantinople.
LOUD HARTINGTON MAY ACCEPT.
Lord Chamberlain hus changed his mind
and has informed Lord Salisbury that he
will do his best to induce Lord Hartington
to accept office. The situation therefore
has materially changed. It is possible that
Lord Hartington will accept office, although
the whig unionists distrust Chamberlain's
good faith and are prepared to urge Lord
Hartington not to accept office. Simp
ly owing to that distrust, tlie queen will
hold a council on Friday when parliament
will be prorogued to January 27.
N|min.
THEY'LL HANG THE PRIEST.
Madrid, December 29,—The supreme
tribunal has refused to commute tlia
sentence of Father Sabat who was con
victed of the murder of Mgr. Isquirdo and
comdemed to death.
I it-In n it.
THEY SHOULD NOT REJECT CATHOLtCS
Dublin, December 29.—At the HUgo
assizes to-day another batch of Woodford
prisoners was arraigned for trial. All
Catholic jurors on the panel were rejected
and the counsel for tlie prisoners there
upon left the court.
BLOOD ON THE MOON.
‘We urn Coming. Ijltlmr A lira limn. Tiiri-r linn.
itri'il lliousnnd .Stroll*.”
Vienna, December 29.—Tlie Vienna
press is becoming convinced that Russia is
determined on war. Reports of increased
Russian armaments are continually com
ing to hand from various sources. Tlie
latest intelligence of this kind is to the
effect that 300,006 Russian troops lmve been
ordered to mass in Kicff and that the occu
pant.) of 10,000 houses have received
official information that soldiers will
soon be billeted in them. The
Neuve Froi Press plainly hints that
the best thing Austria can do is to submi'
to Russia’s wishes in order to avert a con-
11 ict.
Togblatt, and other papers, bitterly de
plore the fact that Austria is compelled to
abandon her Balkan programme because
she bus been left by Bismarck, who has
made peace with Russia.
pended upon to create political enthusi
asm in a great measure. When Logan
whs nominated he stated positively to his
friends that ho would not conduct that
kind of a campaign. There should not bo
a drop of whisky in his
era, who were in many cases interested
i his polities. The lead-
in the grocery trade, remonstrated, but ho
remained firm. They told him he would
certainly be defeated. ‘Very well,' be Baid,
‘I want to run on that plan and get beaten
If necessary.’ The result surprised every
body, as he was elected by an overwhelm
ing majority. It is a mistake that Mrs.
Logan planned his campaign. Logan did
this himself, but perhaps his wife’s advico
had greater weight with him than any ono
else. When he made a few spceclies in
Kansas last summer he was suffering very
much nt times with rhcumaiic pains, but
it is my opinion that his death was hurried
on by being overworked since that time.”
SAYS SHE SOLD OUT HER PARTY, j
Mr*. Foster, nn Ion* I’rohlliltlonlHt, on tho llc-
frn*ite—Tom|iornnco Furlion*.
lies Moines special to tlie World.
In tho state senate two years ago Senator
Bills, in defending his position in antagon
ism to that assumed by bis party on tho
liquor issue, made a direct charge that Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, tho noted advocate of pro
hibition, had at a previous election receiv
ed $1000 from tlie state central committee
in consideration of having successfully
used her influence to keep out of the field
a prohibition state ticket. This assertion
found wide circulation at the time, but
was never publicly denied by Mrs.
Foster herself, although sl’ie sat
in the senate gallery and heurd
Senator Bill’s charge. It was renewed
last summer by a Dos Moines correspond
ent of Life, u strong prohibition organ but
anti-Foster. John S. Bunnells, chairman
of tlie republican state committee at the
time was understood to have lieon tho
financial agent through whom tho alleged
negotiations with Mrs. Foster were con
ducted and the money paid. A state offi
cer, in speaking upon this topic to-day,
said that the brother of Mrs. Foster, linving
been delegated by that lady to hunt down
the authors of the charge against her, is
now intent upon securing a retraction of
these damaging accusations. In order
that no doubt may linger about the $1000
matter it is understood that Mr. Rimiiclls
has prepared an absolute denial of
having been directly or remotely
connected witli the affair, and will
demand its publication in Life in contra
diction of the articles supposed to have
been the productions of Mrs. Laura Berry,
of Dus Moines, and Mrs. Lucy Hooper, of
Mount l’lensunt,. Mrs. Berry was seen to
day and stated that she felt quite confident
Mr. KimiicUs would not put liis numc to
any such statement, but tliut if he did she
would lie compelled to refresh his memory
by producing certain evidence previously
furnished by himself of a decidedly contra
dictory character. The friends of Miss
Willard in Iowa are the active anti-Foster
element in the prohibition ranks, an,I they
ure in the mood to make some interesting
developments.
AS A TEMPERANCE CANDIDATE.
lion, .loti* ltr
unit Koliile*
|>siipi».
nit* Talk* Aliout tli* Hi-nil Frirnil,
Dll' Story of Our of Hi* Cum.
in the afternoon under
_ ance ivas accom
panied by rumors of new developments in
the property. The Vanderbilts were all Bloomington, 111., December 27.-Prob-
strong, especially Lake Shore, *J D< ] i ably no man in the country stood nearer
the entire active list participated 1 ’■ - -
THE BOOKS NOT SECRET.
railin' A dams llwidcN Tlmf Any Stockholder On n
Iunjh-vI.
Savannah News.
Judge Adams yesterday morning over
ruled tlie demurrer to the alternative writ
o. mandamus brought by General Alexan
der’s friends to compel the president and
d ( rectors of the Central railroad to allow a
list of stockholders to be taken from the
books. His honor decided that the stock
holders have the privilege of inspecting
the b< oks as a matter of right, and an
order to that clfect was immediately taken
by the counsel for the petitioners.
After this demurrer and motion to quash
were o erruled an amended answer to tho
petition was tiled by counsel for the road,
and the judge announced that he would
proceed at once to hear argument on the
merits of the case. Roth sides of the ease
were then fully discussed. General A. R.
Lawton and J. R. Saussy, Esq., spoke in
favor of the position taken by the presi
dent and directors, and Colonel William
Garrard and Mr. Pat Calhoun in opposi
tion to that position.
After the conclusion of the argument the
judge decided that the answer was not suf
ficient., and that the petitioners had tho
right lo inspect tlie books of the company.
Before court was adjourned Mr. Saussy
grtvc notice that a supersedeas will lye filed
and that the case will he taken to the su
preme court.
A MINISTER S SUICIDE.
He Druaiiml He W.e
lie
11(1 Woke Up In
ST. Loris, December 29.—A special from
Macon, Mo., says: “liev. Clayton Kelso, a
Presbyterian minister, suicided yesterday
morning at his home by hanging himself
by the neck from a beam in his barn, lie
had just returned from the funeral of his
sister, and it is supposed that excessive
grief over her death unbalanced his mind.
Tin* SI ik<> Kiulrd.
Jackson. Tenn.. December 29. — The
strike of the freight brakeinen on this di
vision of the Mobile and Ohio railroad is
at an end. Trains began running this
morning and the yards are now clear. This
forenoon the strikers through their attor
neys notified Charles Hamilton, superin
tendent, that if the peace warrant. against
them and warrants for the conspi r acy to
appear before the next circuit court were
withdrawn they would make no further
resistance. Under this proposition tho
cases were continued until next Monday,
at which time they will be withdrawn it
the men give no further trouble. The
strikers will not be reinstated and the men
the entire active lisc participated t() *(j eDfcra i Logan than General John were paid oft’this afternoon.
more or less in the general advance. \ he | McNulta, of this city. The McNulta man- 7— ■
opening to-aayv/as irregular, changes from . nion was always his home when in this I 1 In* ftcncral Kxmitivi* Hoard WnikmK.
last evening s nnal figures ranging from 4 1 city, and the two men were closely asso- j Philadelphia, December 29.—Lewis P.
below to . above, in ere were a low slight ; j n peace, as they were in arms and 1 Smith, master workman of the Local As-
declines in early trading, in which 1 the political contests of the past. sembly No. 17, knights of Labor, read a
mg was prominent, but the general list I In an interview this morning, General ! telegram from John E. Hull, a member of
was strong and the losses were qmckly re- McNulta said: “The disease to which he District Assembly No. 49, of New York
'•'"’ereo beiore the end ot the first hour, j finally succumbed has been of long stand- (city, requesting Assembly No. 17 not to
ing. It was contracted in tin* army, and , take any action on its proposed withdraw-
! during the last twenty years he has been at al. as Master Workman Powderly had sent
1 times a great sufferer from rheumatism. In a letter to Hall bearing on tlie subject,
j 1882, he went to Hot Springs, Ark., for treat- , Smith inferred from this that the general
] meat for this malady. I was there at the ! executive board had become alarmed at
.... „ .. ,, ... time and occupied the room adjoining his i the attitude of the machinery construc-
untill after 2,when a considerable realizing for several weeks, and we were almost tions and had decided to grant the nation-
n!,,.?!l, i??’ i U , I continually together. He improved rapid- • al charter. Although Local Assembly No.
A ‘ “ 1 its connectian with the
probably request a restora-
should the national
the executive board.
Tlivy Failed on I ho Sij
Fred Paxaeil Through.
Kansas City, Mo., December 29.—Fred
Witrock, in charge of detectives, passed
through this city this morning from L av-
envvorth en route to St. Louis. No infor
mation couldbegathcred from the party.
that he was subject to these attacks, the | Cincinnati, December 29.—The execu-
. rn . . , , early report of his illness did not alarm | tive committee of the Freedmen’s Aid
Chicago, December 29.—A rimes special j me. although the change in the location of Society of the Methodist Episcopal church,
from Little Hock, Ark., says: J he failure 1 the disease was an ominous sign. • L.u n: .1—. mt—1 ~~ ,.u„: «—
of the J. Kellogg printing company and
book stationery firm, in this city, is an.
nouuced. Liabilities $20,000, assets 000-
of which Bishop Warden is chairman, has
The*
Birmingham,
Correction
Ala., December 29.
It is not generally known that he was 1 had under consideration at a meeting Here
first ejected to congress as tempera nee charges against Professor Calkin, of the
bools
Tho
guilty
man, but such is the fact. I do not mean ; Chattanooga university, one of the schc
that hr* ran as the advocate of a temper- under the charge of the society. r \
ance principle, pure and simple, but it was 1 committee found Professor Calkin gui
a good deal of an innovt “
, f „ „ The idea of a canvass v
n-ess dispatch was sent yesterday from »S. C., together with the property belong- I ronize the grocery, as 1
Chattanooga, giving the result of reports to ing to Josiah Sibley, were burned at 2 the general trade was c
the Chattanooga Tradesman from all iron o’clock this morning. The loss is $10,000. ] and be treated, and flush whisky was de- • resign.
Augusta, Ga., December 29.—The store j a goon deaf of an innovation’in those days. ; of discourtesy in a public store to Rev, Mr.
and stock of David Upheld, at Hamburg, The idea ■" ~ " ”* ** ~ ' ... - --
1 of a canvass was to liberally pat- Johnson, a colored minister of Chattanoo-
the liquor annex to i ga, and recommended the trustees of the
called. It was treat university to request Professor Calkin to