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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1890.
NO. 240.
OPENING
Fall and Winter Millinery
Tuesday and Wednesday, Oc
tober 7th and 8th.
Everything strictly first-
class.
At the same time we will
show some new Dress Goods
in Camel’s Hair, Tartan, Tyro
lean and Caledonia Plaids.
J. A, Kim & CO,
BIS HE HAPPY
both in school and at play,
when clad in Clothing,
Shoes and Hats trom
CHAHELIM PEARCE,
They are not afraid to jump,
slide and tumb e.# No dan
ger of ripping or buttons
flying off.
25 Suits, age 4 to 12, $2.( 0, worth more.
50 Suits, age 4 to 12, $5.00, sold usually $4.00.
125 Suits, age 4 to 12, $4.00 and $5.00, good valu * at $6 00.
150 Suits, age 4 to 12, $6.00, $7 00 and $8 00, that are
beauties.
500 cdd Pants at a price, and as many more to arrive this
week, to be sold for 60 and 75 cents.
Shoes and Hats at prices to suit.
JAMES H OOUDEN PAINTS SIGNS.
J®=Office over Howard & Newsom, opposite Bell Tower.
O-A-HjI-i .AJSTID SIEE IMIE.
A FAR WEST WRECK.
A NORTHERN' PACIFIC PASSENGER TRAIN
COMES TO GRIEF.
Helena, Mont., October 4.—News has
been received here of a wreck on the
Northern Pacific railroad to the east-
bound passenger train this morning at
Mullan, near that city. A Journal’s spe
cial says the accident was caused by an
open switch, the passenger train colliding
with an engine standing on the track.
Engineer Masser was killed and his fire
man badly hurt. The thail coach was de
railed. None of the passengers were in
jured.
LATONIA RACES.
Cincinnati, October 4.—The track was
deep with mud.
First race—One mile and twenty yards;
Neva C won, Robin second, Kinglike third.
Time 1:49J.
Second race—One mile and a sixteenth;
Meckie H won, Pantalette second, J T
third. Time 1:554.
Third race—One mile; Major Tom won,
Elio second. Consignee third. Time 1:46.
Fourth race—One mile and three-six-
teentlis; Blarney Stone, Jr., won, Silver
Lake second, W. G. Morris third. Time
2:07}-.
Fifth race—Five furlongs; Washington
won, Birdella second, Miss Hawkins third.
Time 1:05£.
THE TREASURY CLOSED.
IN RESPECT TO A DECEASED EX-SEC
RET ART,
Washington, October 4.—The Treas
ury Department was closed today out of
respect to the memory of e:;-Secretary
Thomas, of Maryland. Secretary Windom,
Assistant Secretaries Spaulding and
Nettleton,and General Appraiser Tichenar,
! spent the day there, however, in confer
ence over questions that have arisen in
regard to the execution of the new
tariff law, which takes effect
Monday morning. Several importers, de
sirous of receiving the full benefit of the
existing tariff rates, applied to the Treas
ury Department for permission to enter
goods at the customs houses up to mid
night Sunday. Assistant Secretary Spauld
ing informed them that this is a matter
entirely within the discretion of the col-
I lectors" of customs at the various ports,
; and that the department is not disposed
to interfere in the matter.
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS.
Washington, October 4.—Capt. James
F. White, superintendent of the sixth
division of the railway mail service, with
headquarters at Chicago, has been ap
pointed general superintendent of the rail
way mail service at Washington, vice
J. Lowrie Bell, recently appointed Second
Assistant Postmaster General. Lewis L.
Troy, assistant superintendent of the sixth
division, has been appointed s uperintend-
ent of that division in place of White.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTE!* PURE
FRANTIC INPORTERS.
RACE TO BEAT THE NEW TARIFF
DUTIES.
WILD SCENES AT THE NEW YORK CUSTOM
HOUSE—THE COLLECTOR OVER
WHELMED—AWED BY HIS
ROLLS OF MONEY.
New York, October 4.—The most in
tense excitement has prevailed in and
about the custom house all day. Whole
troops of importers and brokers kept com
ing and going. As 3 o’clock approached,
the numbers increased until finally the
rotunda of the custom house was filled
with a solid mass of humanity which per
spired, jostled, pushed and yelled. All
carried large sums of money. They were
on hand to enter goods that were ex
pected to arrive late this afternoon. They
wished to get their entries in under the
old law, and stood ready to make the
entries the moment a vessel
was sighted at Fire Island. By
decision yesterday, the custom house was
to have been closed on the stroke 3 o’clock
this afternoon. All goods arriving after
that hour were to come in under the new
law and duty charged accordingly. The
mass of importers and brokers in the cus
tom house was so great at 3 o’clock that
Collector Erhardt deemed it inadvisable to
close at that hour. He announced that
the time would be extended to 4 o’clock.
Each moment after 3 o’clock the excite
ment became greater. Those in the ro
tunda appeared to be going crazy. They
shouted, yelled and made futile efforts to
move about. The scene was not
unlike that of the Stock Exehange.
The clerks in the various divisions were
swamped with business. Not for years
has such A scene been enacted hr the cus
tom house. Every few minutoo whole del
egations of importers and brokers invaded
the collector’s office and importuned him
to keep the custom house open4tntil mid
night. The collector was inlEqnandary.
His office was jammed full oOmpsrters,
who waived rolls of bills in their hands and
shouted to him not to close Hje-custom
house. The pressure onu the: col
lector became so great that
finally he sent a telegram , to Wash
ington to Secretary Windom requesting
advice as to what the collector should do
under the circumstances. The importers
expected the vessels to arrive at 5 o’clock.
In a little time there came air answer
from Washington-- It was froai the Sec
retary of the Treasury, and informed the
collector he could use his own discretion
in the matter. Upon the receipt of Secre
tary Windom’s telegram Collector Erhardt
and his seven deputies held a consultation.
They decided to Keep the custom house
open till midnight. *
POLITICAL SURMISES.
HOW THE SENATORIAL SITUATION IS
VIEWED.
Atlanta, October 4.—[Special.]—It’s
all politics, and nearly all seuatorship.
Who will it be ? Developments are
beginning to show a method in this chaos.
The uncertainty is lifting, like the smoke
on a battle field when the battle is over.
Certain it is that the Alliencemen hold the
trumps in their hand, and it will take
wretched playing to lose them the game.
One very interesting fact is this—that the
Alliance drift is towards Livingston. It
is true that he will not openly become
a candidate, even after the Legislature
meets. But the fences are built, and being
builded, so that when the stampede comes
there is only one way to go—which means
Livingston. I believe this because Living
ston’s closest friends say so; and for the
additional and fairly conclusive reason that
Gordon and his friends think so. Indeed,
some of the most sanguine of Gordon’s
friends are ready to admit that his vote
will not elect him on the first ballot, but
argue hope in this theory :
‘Finally the effort will be made to elect
LiviDgston. Now, while it is true that
he may gather more votes than any other
one Alliauceman, there are Alliance mem
bers of the Legislature who will vote for
Gordon before they will for Livingston.
The General will hold his votes—nearly
enongh to elect him—and when Living
ston’s name is sprung enough more will
come to Gorden to elect him.”
Another thing, going to show method
in the seemingly no-method proceedings of
the Alliance.
Yesterday I was talking to one of the
closest personal and political friends that
Livingston has. He had just remarked that
Livingston was almost inevitably the next
Senator.
‘In that event,” I suggested, “Rufe
Dorsey, of Fulton, would make a good
Congressman.”
“I would promise to help elect him,”
was the rather reluctant admission, “but
I’m pledged.”
“To whom?”
“Emmett Womack.” .
Now, Womack did a great deal to elect
Livingston, but friends of Living
ston would not gratuitously, I think,
“pledge” themselves to Womack or any
body else, unless there was solicitation
from Womack and acquiescence—or more
than that—from Livingston. And Emmett
Womack would ask a “pledge” for the
sake of holding it in his pocket.
In short,it may be all taken to mean that
Livingston’s own program is to go to the
Senate and to have Womack take his place
for Congress.
THE IROQUIS AFIRE.
THE NARROW ESCAPE OF A COTTON
STEAMER.
New York, October 4.—An evening
paper has this: The steamer Iroquois lies
on the mud flat between two coal docks at
Communipaw today, the worse frgm a
stubborn fire which has been smouldering
in her lower freight compartments for the
last thirty-six hours. The fire was discov
ered, when the Iroquois was off Cape May,
in the first forward compartment. Quar
antine was passed at 2:15 o’clock p. m.
yesterday, but nothing was said about the
blaze in the hold, and when the Iroquois
docked at her wharf at the foot of Dover
street the passengers alighted without any
knowledge of the danger. The freight in
the compartments not reached by the fire
was deluged, and a Chapman
Wrecking Company tug towed
the Iroquois to the mud flats
in Communepaw. Her hold was entirely
flooded with water and the obstinate and
persistent fire was subdued about 2 o’clock
this morning. Wm. P. Clyde, a represen
tative of the line, spent the entire night
on the Iroquois directing the efforts to
quench the flames. The origin of the fire,
as in the case of many similar cotton fires
which have broken out on steamships, is
decidedly a mystery. The water has been
pumped oat and the damage done found
to be very slight, not exceeding $2,500.
Captain Pennington, commander of the
Iroquois, said today that at no time was
there any cause for alarm, as the com
partment in which the fire broke out was
kept closed and flooded with steam so that
it was impossible for it to spread.
THE TUNNEL CAVED IN.
A BAD WRECK ON THE EAST TENNESSEE
ROAD.
Atlanta, October 4.—[Special.]—
Engineer J. B. McCoy killed, fireman
knuckles badly injured, and the entire
train demolished. That is, in brief, the
story of the caving in of a little tunnel on
the East Tennessee road, near McPherson
station, today. This tunnel is the shortest
on the road, and for that reason no watch-
mas has been kept there. It is approached
through deep cuts on either side. Recent
heavy rains have, it seems, soaked into the
top of the tunnel, and some time Friday
night a large mass of earth slid from the
top of the tunnel upon the track below,
completely blockading the entrance to the
tunnel. The firjt section of freight train
No. 29, running at full speed, dashed into
this mass of earth and went to its complete
destruction. The engine dashed far into the
hillside, and the concussion caused another
landslide, the earth mining with the cars
which piled on top of onfe another. Then
fire broke out and five cars were con
sumed by it. Strangely enough both en
gineer and fireman, though badly hurt,
succeeded in making their way out after
an hour’s striving. The engineer’s head
was terribly mashed, and he only lived a
few hoars. Knuckles is not dead yet, bat
can hardly live. The train hands escaped
injury. The road has been blocked all day
and will be until Monday.
A MURDERER*ARRESTED.
AN ITALIAN PEDDLER THE VICTIM — A
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Birmingham, October 4.—[Special.]—
Charles Henley, a negro, has been arrested
on the charge of murder and is in the
county jail. The crime was the murder of
an Italian peddler at Oxinoor in January,
1889. Ben Eizy, who was hanged here
April 18 last, confessed to that and several
other murders, and implicated Henley
and other parties. About that time
the grand jury found a true bill against
Henfey and lid left town. Upon his re
turn today he was arrested. He refuses
to talk. The evidence of three responsible
men has been secured against him.
At Little Warrior river, thirty-five miles
west of here, ten cars of a west bound
Georgia Pacific freight jumped the track,
and three of them fell off a trestle 100 feet
high. Elijah Harrison, the brakeman,
went down with them and was fatally
hurt.
BUILDING BATTLE SHIPS.
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT AWARDS SOME
BIG CONTBACTS.
Washington, October 4.—The Secre
tary of the Navy this evening granted to
Wm. E. Cromp & Sons, of Philadelphia,
the contract for the construction of two
coast line battle ships, increased in length
twelve feet over the department’s plans,
for $3,020,000 each, and a contract for the
construction of one triple screw protected
cruiser, under the department plans, at
their bid of $2,725,000. The Secretary
also notified the Union Iron Works, of
San Francisco, that they would be given
the contract for the construction of one of
the battle ships on the same plans as the
other two provided they are willing to un
dertake the work for $3,180,000, being the
price at which the Cromps offered to build
one vessel, plus $190,000 allowed for
transportation expenses. This is $60,000
less than the bid of the Union Iron Works.
A CORRUPT CITY GOVERNMENT.
CINCINNATI OFFICIALS TO BE OVER
HAULED BY THE LEGISLATURE.
Columbus, O., October 4.—Governor
Campbell stated tonight that, unless some
thing unforeseen happens to change his
mind, he will possibly call an extra ses
sion of the Legislature, to convene about
October 14, for the purpose of considering
the situation at Cincinnati and taking
such action as it may deem proper in con
nection with the rumors relative to the
Board of Public improvements in that
city, as well as other departments of the
city government. He states the cost of
the session will be about $1,500, and, if
the members demand mileage, it will not
exceed $5,000.
MORRIS PARK RACES.
New York, October 4.—One of the
largest crowds of the season was at Morris
Park today. The Comte de Paris and
his son, the Duke of Orleans, occupied a
box in the grand stand.
First race—One mile; Eon won, Mad-
stone second, B. B. Million third. Time
1:46.
Second race—Five furlongs; Balia Hoo
won, Bradford second, Gunwad third.
Time 1:00.
Third race—One mile and a furlong;
Reporter won, Diablo second, Nevada
third. Time 2:00.
Fourth race—fourteen hundred yards;
Equity won, Kildeer second, Mimi Filly
third. Time 1:24.
Fifth race—Moshalu stakes; one miie
and a furlong; Tournament won, Master
Lode second, Cliesapeak third. Time 1:59.
Sixth race—Three fourths of a mile;
Serviter won, Mr. Sass second, Tom Don
ahue third. Time 1:15.
KAISER AND SOCIALIST.
THE REPEAL OF THE ANTI-SO
CIALIST LAWS CELEBRATED.
EMPE20B WILLIAM PUSHING MANY
SCHEMES — TBIBBFIC STOBMS.
DEATH OF A CARDINAL.
LAWN TENNIS CON
DEMNED.
A FUGITIVE OFFICIAL.
THE POSTMASTER AT BATON ROUGE HAS
ABSCONDED.
Washington, October 4.—The Post-
office Department has received informa
tion that the Postmaster at Baton Rouge,
La., has absconded, and that his bonds
men have taken possession of the office.
No further particulars have been received.
Berlin, October 4.—[Copyrighted 1890
by the New York Associated Press.]—
The lapse of the anti-Sociaiist law has led
to a renewal of the discussion regarding
the Emperor’s attitude toward the Social
ist question. The Cologne Gazette reports
the Emperor and all of his ministers, with
the Exception of Bismark, desired the
continuance of the special act, and were
ready to accept a permanent act in the
form offered by the National Liberals,
namely; without the power of
expulsion, but Bismarck disagreed
and the Reichstag was, in consequence,
dissolved. The Emperor himself, says the
Gazette, would never voluntarily have dis
pensed with the act. This statement is, in
the main, correct with except that the
Kaiser opposed any modification of the
laws, if retained. At the same time he
views the death of the laws without re
gret, confident of his ability to solve the
social problem without them by means of
remedial legislation depriving the party of
discontent of their most serious grievances.
Meetings of the Socialists in celebration
of the event have been held. The tone of
most of the meetings was one of exulta
tion, but all wdte perfectly orderly. A
great meeting of the Socialists was held at
Bockbrauerel. The men present appeared
to belong to the intelligent working classes.
They were accompanied by their wives
and families. All were well clothed, and
had the appearance of beine well fed, and
all were carrying some kind of red symbol.
Had it not been for these, the meeting
might have , been taken for an ordinary
election meeting of working constituents.
After a speech by Rebel, several
women addressed the meeting. A sheet
entitled “Farewell Socialist Law,” ex
plaining how Christianity might have
been destroyed in its inception if the Jew
ish and Roman authorities had only imi
tated the Russian police and dissolved
every meeting of its founders, met with a
large sale. Bebel, who for firmness and
earnestness has been compared with John
Dillon, the Irish leader, declared, in an
interview, that his party would meet the
Government’s remedial bills on their
merits. Where the clauses appeared to be
beneficial to workmen, the Socialists
would support them, otherwise they would
oppose them. With regard to the work
men’s insurance act, he said that he did not
desire to postpone its operation, although
he considered it far from perfect, inas
much as small employers could not afford
to contribute as much as was required,
while the workihm reaped too little bene
fit from it, It is not believed that the
Emperor’s scheme for the formation of
boards of workmen to carry on negotia
tions with the employers will succeed.
Never under German laws could such
boards secure the power which the
English have secured. It is no
ticeable that in the Berlin elec
tions for * delegates to the com
ing Socialist congress at Halle, all the
men elected belong to the moderate section
of the party. A large restaurant has been
purchased at Erfurt for 120,000 marks, and
another, with a large hall for meetings at
tached, will be bought shortly to assist the
propaganda of the program published in
the Volksblatt, which is identical with the
famous Gath program of 1875, which
could not be openly published while the
anti-Socialist laws were in force. Know
ing, however, that the repeal is only an ex
periment, the party will be careful to
avoid giving occasion for a renewal of the
coercion laws. Herr Liebknecht will ad
dress a great meeting at Bachum tomor
row and open the campaign among the
miners.
The Emperor is bestowing special at-
tion upon the schemes which the Govern
ment is preparing for the reform of the
rural local government and the National
school system, as well as upon the project
of direct taxation. The far reaching pro
posals of HerrMiquel, Minister|of Finance,
for the collection of an income tax, it is
estimated, raise the amount of the collec
tion 25 per cent. v
The North German Gazette, comment
ing upon the Kaise’s reception in Austria,
gives a hint which appears to confirm the
renewed rumors concerning a new com
mercial treaty with Austria.
The fact that the Austrian Ministers
were not present at the railway station in
Vienna to meet Emperor William on his
arrival there is much commented on in
connection with the dreibund, but is offi
cially declared that their absence had no
political significance. In consequence of
the Emperor William having ignored him
last ypar Count Von Taafe purposely ab
sented himself.
terrific storms.
Terrific storms are reported in Schles
wig and the east sea provinces. Hail
ruined the crops and smashed thousands
of windows at Elmshom, which was flooded
by the sea. Numerous houses were un
roofed and many of the inhabitants in
jured. At Neustas a man was blown into
a well and drowned. In the same town a
tent and the paraphanalia of a circus com
pany was destroyed by the storm.
At Duntzi,a train of cars was overturned,
and several of the occupants were crused
to death. Many shipwrecks, attended by
loss of life, have been reported.
The report of the , German Consul at
Zanzibar concerning the recent massacre
of Germans in Vitu, says the Sultan had
the party brought to Vitu because Herr
Knenzil, the murdered merchant, igttored
his demand to produce a letter from the
British Consul at Laniu. The party at
tempted to effect a forcible escape, but
were pursued and killed.
The Schesesclie Volks Zeitung says the
Government is seriously considering the
advisability of readmitting Russian cattle
to Germany.
Disciplinary proceedings have been in
stituted against a Judge at Koenigsberg for
belonging to the Fieisiaauge Electoral As
sociation and denouncing the last military
bill.
The editor of the Mayence Volks Zeitung
has been arrested for ridiculing the cele
bration of the battle of Sedan and eulogis
ing France.
death of a cardinal.
Cardinal Hergewother, the Catholic
historian and champion of Vatican de
crees against Dr. Dallinger, whose pupil
he has been, died today at Mohran
Monastry.
The clergy of the Rives have denounced
lawn tennis as an unbecoming game for
German girls.
THE FOREIGN VISITORS.
INSPECTING THE GREAT IBON WORKS OF
THE COUNTBY.
Philadelphia, October 4.—Two spec
ial trains from New York bearing the iron
and steel men from England and Germany
arrived at Tacory at 11 o’clock. The great
saw and file, works of Henry Disston &
Sons were inspected by the visitors, and
the process by which steel and iron are
converted into saws and files explained to
them. The party then went aboard Hermer
Columbia and steamed down the river to
Chester. After a brief stop, the run down
the river continued as far as Wilmington
and Newcastle. The steamer with the
party on board arrived at the wharf at 5
o’clock, and the guests were driven
to their hotels. Monday even
ing there is to be a closing reception
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Aits. After leaving Philadelphia Tues
day morning the excursion will proceed to
Lebanon, Harrisburg, Johnstown and
Altoona, arriving Wednesday evening next
at Pittsburg, where joint international
sessions will be held for the reading of
papers.
A LONESOME* CANDIDATE.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS WANT A CONGRESS
MAN FROM VIRGINIA.
Roanoke, Va., October 4.—The pro
hibition convention of the Sixth Con
gressional district met here today and
nominated Wm. J. Shelbum, of Mont
gomery county, for Congress. Twenty-
two delegates, representing three counties,
present. Shelbum appeared in the con
vention and accepted the nomination. The
nominee is a farmer and member of the
Alliance. He was elected to the Legisla
ture as a Democrat in 1877. Shelbum ex
pects to secure the Alliance and Republi
can votes.
A POISONING SENSATION.
A ROME LADY DRUGGED BY HER NEIGH
BOR.
Rome, Ga., October 4.—There is great
excitement here tonight growing out of the
discovery of the poisoning of Mrs. M. A.
Wimple by her friend and neighbor, Mrs.
Doss McKee. Money was the cause of the
act. Mrs. Wimple is at the point of death,
and a warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Mrs. McKee, who has Ifeft here, and
the Sheriff is unable to locate her.
ROANOKE HOSPITALITY'
WILL BE EXTENDED TO THE IRON AND
STEEL MEN.
Roanoke, Va., October 4.—The Com
mercial Club tonight took steps looking to
a magnificent entertainment of the mem
bers of the British Iron and Steel Insti
tute while here on their trip through the
South.
A BANQUET TO THURMAN.
CLEVELAND WILL BE ONE OF THE
SPEAKERS.
Cincinnati, October 4.—Ex-President
Cleveland has accepted an invitation to be
present at the Thurman banquet to be
given November 13, under the auspices of
the Thurman Club of this eity. Judge
Thurman will be seventy-seven years old
that day.
THE LONDON GAS COMPANY GUARDING
AGAINST TROUBLE.
London, October 4.—The directors of
the London Gas Light and Coke Company
continue their preparations to guard against
the stoppage of their works in consequence
of possible trouble between them and
their employes. Barracks have been built
at Beckton to shelter the non-union em
ployes, and the cavalry and infantry which
it mav be necessary to call upon to protect
the workmen. The company has enough
coal stored to meet its requirements for ten
weeks. The stokers reiterate their state
ment that they never intended to strike.
, SUN’S COTTON REVIEW.
New York, October 4.—Cotton futures
declined three to four points, closing quiet
and steady. The depression was due
mainly to a weaker report from Liverpool
and the clearing weather at the South,
there being no signs of an early frost. No
early damage was done by the excessive
rains; still there was no great pressure to
sell.
Spot cotton was dull. Middling up
lands, 10fc.; gulfs, JO 9-16c.
AGAINST THE EIGHT HOUR DAY.
London, October 4.—At the session of
the Dockmen’s Congress today a resolu
tion was adopted declaring it impractica
ble to limit the working day to eight
hours. Delegates, however, were strongly
in favor of the proposition that forty-eight
hours labor should be a week’s work.
The Library Notes—That in the de
parture of Mr. Joseph E. Johnston for his
future home in Americus the library loses
one of its best friends. For the last two
years Mr. Johnston has voluntarily taken
charge of every entertainment given for
the benefit of this institution, and to his
untiriDg efforts' is due the financial
success of each and every one
of them. He added largely to
the appearance .of the library rooms
by the pretty drop curtain which has been
so much admired, and, not satisfied with
that, he has just finished painting another
to be used for the smaller stage. The last
represents an old negro woman catching
“one of them black nigger boys” pulling
her sunflowers. Mr. Johnston calls it his
“caught-in-the-act curtain.” We hope it
will not be very long before Mr. Johnston
is caught in the act of returning to his old
Columbus home and his many friends.
That subscribers are indebted to Miss
Augusta Howard for the Woman’s Jour
nal, a weekly newspaper published every
Saturday in Boston, and devoted to the
int rests of v Oman.
That the Eclectic for October surpasses
itself, and that the Kipling boom has
surely reached Columbus.