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* vol. ran ffiolumliMS DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, S< NDAY MORNING DECEMBER 28, 1890. NO. 320. Why Shiver In the icy North breezes when you can buy a Wrap at less than cost of the manufacture? J. A. K1RVEN & CO. Are offering 200 Jackets, worth from $8 to $15, at $5 each. Also their Plush Wraps in Jackets, Dolmans, Sacks and Capes at less than cost. CHILDREN’S WRAPS.' Prices cut in half. No play, but strictly business We ate determi ed to s? 11 them, therefore no reasonable offer will be refused. 00 Wishing Our Friends a Happy And prosperous New Year, we thank them for the liberal patronage they have bestowed on us in the past year, the most successful of any of the past lourteen, and promising our best efforts to merit a continuance of their favors, We are, gratefully youis, J. A. KIRVEN & CO Have About 150 BOYS’ OVERCOATS, I ’ | Sizes 2 to 11. These goods are worth from $3 00 to $15.00 each. They must be sold at once. I How does tiiis strike you? A $3.00 Coat for $1.00—sizes 21 only. A $5.00 Coat for $2.50. A $5.00, $7.00 and $10.00 Coat for $3X0 to $6.00. On Men’s Overcoats You can get some similar bargains. Shoes! Shoes! There is just no end to their Shoe stock. They have the goods The style, comfort, quality and price sell ’hem. Note their $3X0 and $5 00 beauties. A PRISON FrRE. A BOILER EXPLOSION rilK DAMAGE DONE BY THE FLAMES AT AUBURN. WRECKS SEVEN BUILDINGS AND INJURES * SEVERAL PEOPLE. Auburn, N. Y., December 27.—Fire broke out in the broom shop in Auburn prison at 7 o’clock this morning and spread into the adjacent shops. The slate shop was entirely destroyed and the broom shop badly damaged. The storf room of the collar shop was partly burned. The chair shop was slightly damaged. There is no estimate of losses, neither is it known how or where the fire started. Fred A. Wildock and James Erano, firemen, while on a ladder were precipitated into the ruins by the falling of a wall and seriously injured. They are now in the prison hos pital. THE SENATE. Washington, December 27.—There were eighteen Senators present when the Senate met at noon. Prayer was said by the chaplain, and then the journal of Wed nesday last having been read and ap proved, the Senate, on motion of Iloar, ad journed till Monday at noon. AN ASSIGNMENT IN NATCHEZ. Natchez, Miss., December 27.—Sam Rkvk, a general merchant, assigned today. Preferred creditors $8500; total liabilities estimated at $80,000. Britton & Kaunt’s bank are lossers to the amount of $7000. Cincinnati, O., December 27.—A small boiler, used to furnish steam for a four-horse power engine in the sausage factory of Gus Lowenstein, at Ninth and John streets, blew up at 11 o’clock this morning. The engineer was not present when the explosion took place. There | was a terrific upheaval, and seven build ings, occupied as dwelling houses, were wrecked and torn so that they will have to 1 be taken down. Bertha Gray, aged two ] years, was killed, being found under the . debris of one of the houses. Mrs. Lowen- | stein has a broken hack and cannot live. Five other persons were badly but not i fatally hurt. HEAVY FAILURE IN VICKSBURG. Vicksburg, Miss., December 27.—Late . this evening the dry goods firm of O. F. : Guide & Co., assigned to D. J. Shlenker, to secure a claim of $42,000. There are other preferred creditors to the extent of $20,000. The firm is comparatively a new- one’composed of enterprising young men, but was the third largest dry goods house there. In the early part of this year their store was partly burned, and the firm was i virtually out of business for three or four ■ months, while their store was being re- j built. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY pure Hn DISTINCT Bvif THERE WAS NO TROUBLE OVER THE TRANSFER OF THE STATE RAILROAD. THE OLD LESSEES RELINQUISHED IT AND THE NEW TOOK IT—AGREEMENT ABOUT THE BOLLING STOCK. Atlanta, December 27.—[Special.]— The State road has passed into the hands of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company. The transfer to the new lessees was effected this afternoon at the capitol. Governor Northen, Acting Attorney-General Clifford Anderson, Col. Stahlman, Thomas and Ambrose were pres ent at the conference. J. B Gumming and Jule Brown appeared as counsel for the old lease company, and Ed Baxter, of Nash ville, for the new. Everything was re duced to writing. Agreements were drawn and signed by which the old company de livered the road to the State and the State to the new lessees. Many cars being ab sent carrying freight over connecting lines in other States, ail parties agreed that such absent rolling stock be actually de livered to the Governor as early as possi ble, within three months, and by him to the new lessees immediately on receipt thereof. It was also agreed by the old j company that if any of the property delivered should be, in a worsi- condition thin when received in 1870, other rolliug stock in as good con dition be substituted, or the difference paid in cash. The State receipted to the old lessees for the road, and all the realty and such personal property as could now be delivered in the condition in which it was received twenty years ago. wilt) the further understanding that any deficiency be made good within ninety days. The new lessees then receipted to the State for all the property, real and per sonal, which the old lessees turned over today, and agreed to received personalty not now in condition tobe delivered when ever the same was received by the State. All the old officers are retained, uxc pt I that Engineer Parsons, of the Nashville, j Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad will take charge of the road and bridg's. Gov- | ernor Brown and Major Stahlman, as re- j eeivers of its old lease, company, will wind : up the affairs. Their duties began to 1 night. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE MUDDLE. AN INJUNCTION SUED OUT AGAINST THE HOUSE CLERK. Concord, N. H., December 27.—Copies of the petition of . Harry Bingham and other Democrats, for an injunction to re strain Clerk Jewett from placing the names of ‘‘if entitled’’ members upon the roll of the next House with a notice that a hearing will be held there before the full bench of the Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon, are being served upon the forty members thus elected. Clerk Jewett has tiled, this afternoon, answers to the hill I entered against him by the Democrats in connection with the make up of the roll of the next House of Representatives. L* avers therein that he is not preparing a roll of members elect for use in the organ ization of the next House of Representa tives; that he intends to prepare a legal roll, and to do his duty in the premises according to law: that he is not now able to determine what his * duty will be, because no certificates of election have been presented to him; that he does not know how many, if any, of the said forty persons named in the bill will present certificates, or claim to have their names put upon the roll, or what will be the form or substance of such certificates, if any are presented con taining their names; that he is informed that the certificates returned to the office of the Secretary of State are formally and substantially unlike on this point; that for this, and other reasons, he has re frained from determining any ques tion that may arise on the certifi cates, and has merely desired and still desires to be informed and iustrueted as to his duty in the premises, wherefore he prays the advice and instructions and de cree of the court as to his duty, and to that end he especially prays the court to inquire and ascertain what certificates will be presented, and to determine his duty in each of the forty cases named in the bill. In the second answer lie shys he has not undertaken to determine what his duty will be in the premises but desires to he instructed and directed therein by the court. In his third answer, he says he has supposed, and still sup poses it to he his duty to put on the roll the seventeen names mentioned in the petition, provided proper certilicates are presented, and that he now intends to put them on the files unless he shall become satisfied that such is not his duty. But nevertheless he prays the advice, ins'ruc- tions and decree of the court as to his duty in the premises. GREAT BALE OF RACERS. AUGUST BELMONT’S STABLES PUT UP AT AUCTION. Babylon Depot, Long Island, Decem ber 27.—The sale of crack racers and the j pack of yearlings at the nursery stables of j the late August Belmont, brought hosts of the most prominent, turfmen iu the coun try out to Babylon today. The event was generally regarded as the most important sale of racing horses that has occurred since the selling of Rancoca’s stable in 18Sti, and the interest was correspondingly great, but there was some disappointment as to prices, l’otomac was started at $15,000, j and was knocked down at $25,000 to Michael Dwyer. Michael Dwyer also bought Raceland at $7000. LaTosca was bought by the Hough brothers at $13,000; Prince Royal by Philip Dwyer at $5000; Masher, by the Keystone stables, at $0000; Magnati, by the same purchasers, at $3500; St. Charles went to A. M. Barrick at $4000: Magnolia, to L. T. Rothschild, at $5100: St. Carolus, to Philip Dwyer, at $5100; and St. Florian to R. W. Walder, at $0600. railroads winning the fight. Glasgow, December 27.—There is a slight change for the better in connection ; with the railroad strike. Even the strikers j admit that the railroad companies are making improvements in the train servi ces. The number, regularity and punct uality of trains are increasing, and with j this improvement the hopes of success for j the strikers get smaller ami smaller. The 1 North British Railroad directors have de-1 dined to allow the Motherwell engine i drivers to return to work, in spite of the fact that these men have ren dered help. Their submission would be of great assistance in breaking up the remains of the strike, as coal, with the drivers as sistance, could be brought in considerable quantities from Motherwell, which is a coal district situated about thirteen miles from this city. The freight traffic is still in a state of almost complete paralysis, and the number of factories and mills which are clo ed on account of the strike increases day by day. THE SILVER POOL. GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST CONGRESSMEN TO BE INVESTIGATED. Washington, December 27.—A final consideration with respect to the Dockery resolution, providing for an investigation of the charges that Representatives and Senators were interested in the- silver pool, will probably be reached by the rules com mittee soon after the holidays are over. The committee, when last the subject was considered, discussed the advisability of summoning a few witnesses, to be interrogated under oath, before deciding wha f report to- make to the House on Toe resolution. It was thought that, if regalarlv subpoenaed, the correspondents of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, in which the charge of a legis lation silver pool was originally made, mig’it be willing to makesonv more tangi ble statements than they had published, or liad been willing to volunteer to the com mittee. The speaker was favorable to this course, as he has doubts of the propriety of investigating charges that do not make any speeific and definite allegations wii h some what of a circumstantial detail, and thought tile rules committee should have more basis than a simple newspaper publi cation upon which to order an investiga tion. Blount and McMitlen, Democratic mem bers, thought the commit tee would he justified in or leririg an investigation, and .McKinley was also 1 f 'lie, opinion that an investiga ion ought to be, had. A decision to report Dockery’s resolu tion to the House with a favorable recom mendation had almost been reached, when the shipping bill and oile r matters came up amt deny d a final determination of what to do wi h the rcsoiu'ion. BIRMINGHAM’S BUDGET. THE USUAL RECOi.'D OF CRIMES AND SasUAU'I ies. Birmingham, December,27.—[Special.] At Hillman, eight miles South of here, last night, a desperate tragedy occurred. .J. L Dmiel, a prominent citizen, returned home with a hideous mask on his face. At the gate, his brother-in-law, Johu Tarpb y, refused to allow him to enter the house. Daniel attempted to force an entrance, when he was shot and killed by Tarpley. The mask then f -11 off, and when Tarpley discovered he had killed Daniel, he was crazed wiili grief. Tarpley thought Daniel wasarobber. ihedeceased leave.; a large family. United States Commissioner Sam Thompson, aged sixty seven, was found dead in his bed at Ely ton today. A switchman on the Georgia Pacific railroad named Ilirris, was killed in a col lision between cars in the yard today. No on' else was hurt. He was twenty-four years old and unmarried. Wild cars ran . down the mountain on the Woodward Iron Company’s road today, colliding witli an ore train, and killed James Williams, a brakeman. At the Greely ore mines today, a pre mature explosion of powder injured seven Italian laborers. The foreman had an arm blown off and was fatally hurt. The oth ers were not seriously injured. A SCHOOL TRAGEDY. A TEXAS CADET ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS COMPANION. Staunton, Va., December 27.—This evening,at Prof. Kable’s military academy, A- K. Hatheway, aged fifteen years, of Dennison, Tex., was accidentally shot ami instantly killed by James Whiteworth, ivged seventeen, of Sulphur Springs, Tex. 1 hey were playing with an old pistol, 44 calibre, not knowing that it was loaded, when it exploded, the ball entering under the hoi’s cliiu and coming out at the top of his head. Both were students at the academy. 1HE SHIPPIVG TRADE AFFECTED. THE STRIKE CU £ OFF THE SUPPLY OF COAL. Glasgow, December 27.—The lailroad strike has now seriously affected another branch of business. Following upon the announcement, that the mills, factories and docks were closing their gates, owing to lack of ftp 1, comes the statement that the shipping trade of this port will soon lie at a stand still, as tlie supply of coal available for steamers is almost entirely exhausted. Should this S'ate of affairs continue much longer considerable suffering must fall to the lot of the poor classes of people, especially upon those, who depend upon the acUtal day’s work for their daily bread. Should the steam shipping trade come to a stand sriil here, many other trades, direct ly or indirectly depending upon this ship ping, must also suffer. The steamship companies, it is understood, have ordered coal to be sent here by water, but several days, at leasr, must elapse before it can reaeh this port. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. RAILROAD DEPOT BURNED WITH ALL ITS CONTENTS. Cincinnati, O., December 27.—The freight depot of the Little Miami Railroad was burned at 8:30 o’clock tonight. The length of the building was fifteen car lengths, (about 600 feet), by about 135 feet wide. At the t itne of the fire it contained about forty-three carloads of unloaded freight, though only four freight cars were in the depot, among the freight were nine ty barrels of whisky and 30 bales of cotton. The fire spread with great rapidity, and within half an hour the building was a total wreck. The snow delayed the fire engines somewhat, though prompt and efficient service was quickly at hand and the fire was brought under control within an hour and a half after it started. The total loss is estimated at about $150,000. The loss on the building will be $25,000, with no insurance. HEAR THE SOCIALISTS. THEY ISSUE A MANIFESTO TO THE GERMAN PUBLIC. THE KAISER NOT DISTURBED—THE LAT EST ABOUT KOCH’S LYMPH—SPUR IOUS IMITATIONS—FAILURE ON AN AMERICAN PATIENT. Berlin, December 27.—[Copyright 1890 by the New York Associated Press.]—The Socialist leaders issued a manifesto to night. The document affirms the deter mination of the Socialist party to rally the peasants around the flag of Socialistic reforms. It says that the life of agricul tural laborers is scarcely hu man, and |that they are serfs In all but the name. They are opposed to the tyranny of capital quite as much as are the Russian factory hands. The bright dawning of a new era shall bring rejoicing to the peas ants as well as to the toilers in cities, and they shall learn that they have a right to the beautiful earth, the fruits whereof they may not stretch forth their hands to enjoy. They must be taught that the patriarchal system is the mortal foe of the agricultural laborer. The peasant pro prietor and the aristocracy are becom ing brandy distillers, and will make the peasants the slaves of machinery as the town workers have already been made. The poetry of country life has departed and can only be restored through relieving the peasants of the heavy burdens arising from their oppressed condition, and giving them a higher sense of existence. The manifesto concludes by asking the mem bers of the party to contribute money to assist in the rural propaganda. Behind tlie declarations in the manifesto, which the government might disregard, are practical arrange ments for lecture tours, the dissemination of socialist leaflets and the formation of of rural branches, which are already having a disquieting effect upon the of ficial mind. The nature of the manifesto was known to the government before its publication, and the matter was referred to the Emperor, who instructed that nothing should be done to suppress it, SPURIOUS LYMPH, It has been discovered that a spurious imi tation of Prof. Koch's lymph is being man ufactured, and a number of cases have beeu reported in which foreign medical men have been deceived into purchasing the bogus preparation. The agents of Prof Koch have heeff unable to discover tiie manufacturers of the Counterfeit. The police are working on one case where fraud was attempted upou Dublin physicians. A tnan who gave liis name as Bouges, and who pretended to be attached to the Koch clinic, opened communication with the doctors of the Dublin hospital, offering to send them a quantity of lymph on the payment of a certain amount of money. The doctors, in reply, forwarded a check for £15, and told Bouges to seud the lymph. Bouges also got £25 from another Irish doctor, who was visiting Berlin. Later, however, the sender of the check, suspecting a swindle, telegraphed to stop payment. Bouges had given the check to the manager of the hotel where he was stopping, in payment of his bill. The manager informed the police, but Bouges had decamped, leaving a qantity of plausi ble imitations of Koch’s lymph. The medical profession throughout the empire gets more and more indignant over the manner in which the lymph is dis tributed, and Professor Koch’s secrecy regarding its production. Then medical associations of Brandenburg, and other provinces, have sent protests to the Gov ernment against the secret manufacture of the Koch remedy, which they say is giving rise to scandal. The Breslau medi cal society sent to Prof. Koch, and also to Dr. Von Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical affairs, a resolution declaring that it works a great injury to the profeesion at large to allow hospitals and privileged persons in private practice a monopoly of the lymph. Professor Koch, in an interview with an eminent English physician, who urged the professor to disclose the whole process, got very wrath at the proposal, and declared that he had a right to do as he pleased with his discovery. The Tageblott assails this position as scandalous, and says the Koch clique will certainly be severely criticised. Dr. Von Gossler moves in the Landtag a grant for Professor Koch and his assistant of 3,000,- 000 marks, with 15 per cent on the annual sides of die lymph. The treatment in the case of William E. Degan, who came here in charge of Dr. William A Taltavall, of New York, has proved to be a failure. Degan has liad fi ur injections, the last two of which, produced no reaction, and liis symptoms are now the same as they were when he arrived here. He wishes to return home and wiil probably sail on Saturday next. St. Petersburg papers state that Dr. Pfuhl, Koch’s son-in-law, has been ap pointed a director of the Russian Insti tute of Experimental Medicine. EDITOR WHITMIRE. THE NEW CHIEF OF THE BRUNSWICK TIMES. Brunswick, Ga , December 27.—[Spe cial.]—At a meeting of the directors of the Times Publishing Company today, Samuel E. Whitmire was appointed editor- in-chief, and J. W. Winkfield city editor. Whitmire is the youngest editor of a daily paper in the State, being not yet twenty. His newspaper career is an enviable one, having started in 1885 on the Post-Appeal, of Atlanta, as office boy, leaving that posi tion to go on a farm, remaining there one year, until starting with the Rome Tribune, were lie engaged as pressman, at odd times assisting iu the local work. When the city editor resigned he was appointed in stead, which position he held until a year ago when Branham ap pointed him city editor of tlie Rimes, which position he has since held, after times doing editorial work. He has received many congratulations today upon his deserved pom ition. CHICAGO MARKET. Chicago, December 27.—The market for wheat opened about J cent higher than it closed yesterday. The first general trading price was 97£. There were two or three trades made at 97 5-S, but the great majority of the crowd were vainly en deavoring to sell at that. There was a gradual, dragging decline until the price struck 96£ to 96 3-8, and, this point being reached, business ceased almost entirely for a couple of hours. About 12 o’clock, the intensified dullness of the price proceedings was re lieved for a short time by a slight increase of the selling pressure, during which the price fell to 95£c in a few minutes. r Hiere was only a slight recovery, and the close was at 96£c tor May and 91 5-8c tor July. The corn market was moderately steady but fearfully and wonderfully dull, until wheat began its tumbling, after which no one had any use for corn, but as an article to be disposed of on the shortest possible notice, and without any particular regard to the price attainable. The opening price for May was about £ cent improvement on the prices at the. close of the preceeding session. The flue tuations were confined between 51 j and 51£ during the forenoon, but^ when the break started, th» price quickly settled until it finally touched 50 5-8c. The closing price, 50£ to £c, shows a decline since Friday of about £c per bushel. Oats were quiet and steady, arouDd 43£ to 44c for May, until the last half hour, when Partridge raided the market and caused a decline to 4l£. The raiding was light, and ali on local account. The provision market started lower, apparently because there were rather more hogs than had been lookel for and they were bringing lower prices at the yards. There was a steadier feeling during the earlier hours of the session, but later a decided weakness again ruled and prices made an easy descent, from which there was no subsequent recover}', weakness be ing the prevailing feeling at the close. Packers were free sellers of ribs. The closing prices were lower, considerably, than on Friday for all. ALPHA TAN OMEGA. ELECTION OF OFFICERS BY THE BIENNIAL CONVENTION. Richmond, Va., December 27.—The Alpha Tan Omega Fraternity, in biennial session here today, elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Worthy Grand Chief, Prof. E. J. Shives, of Ohio; Worthy Grand Chaplain, Rev. T. H. Gar- lor, of Tennessee, Worthy Grand Keeper of tlie Exchequer, M. S. Home, of Penn sylvania; Worthy Grand Keeper of the Annals, Howard Lamar, of Alabama; Wor thy Grand Scribe, Walter T. Daniel, of New York; Worthy Grand Usher, J. B. Chadwick, of Michigan; Worthy Grand Sentinel, D. zV. White, of North Carolina; Worthy High Chancellor, Judge T. K. M. Norton, of Virginia; High Council, Prof. W. M. Thomas of Pennsylvania, Rev. Q. A. Glazebrook of New Jersey, James B. Green of Virginia, Prof. W. B. Walls of Tennessee, James R. Anderson of Virginia. Representatives were present from every section of the United States. The next Congress wilijbe held at Nashville, in De cember, 1892. The orators will be W- J. Sauiford of Alabama, and the poet, T. D. Williams, of North Carolina. The society adjourned to night with a banquet. DIED OF APOPLEXY. THE PASSENGER AGENT OF A STEAMBOAT LINE. Memphis, December 27.—Clarence L. Hall, passenger agent of the Anchor line steamers, dropped dead today at noon, on the corner of Union and Front streets, from apoplexy. The deceased was fifty- five years of age, and had been connected with the river interests for more than thirty years. sun’s cotton review. New York, December 27.—Future opened at one to two points advance, clos ing easy at one point advance on near, and one point decline on late months, from yesterday’s closing prices. The tardy advance and subsequent weakness were without apparent cause, and there was very little of a market any way, most operators preferring to await the reopen ing of tlie Liverpool market Monday. Spot cotton was dull. HIS ARM TORN OFF. Knoxville, Tenn., December 27.— William Nelson, of the Knoxville handle factory, met a horrible accident today. His sleeve caught in the machinery and his arm was torn off and thrown ten feet across the room, while he fell heavily on the floor unconscious. The shaft was making 240 revolutions a minute. Des pite tlie wound, the doctors think he may recover. He is twenty-one years old and married. GOTHAM’S SNOW STORM. New York, December 27.—Altogether thirteen inches of snow, according to the weather bureau, fell in this city yesterday. At 8 o’clock a. m. today, the temperature was 25 degrees. The velocity of the wind here today was 26 miles an hour. It increased towards night. There was a great lot of snow on the Brooklyn bridge, and the cable broke this morning and caused a great delay in travel. weekly bank statement. New York, December 27.—The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Iteserve increase 33,226,275 Loans decrease ] ,056,200 Specie increase 3,335.6«0 Legal tenders increase 323,3 0 Deposits increase 1,729,300 Circulation increase 9,900 Banks now hold $7,725,125 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent rule. BALFOUR CHANGES HIS MIND. London, December 27.—It is an nounced that Chief Secretary Balfour has changed his mind, and that he will not carry out the program perviously mapped out by himself, of delivering a series of speeches in January through the Province of Ulster. inefficient policemen dischap.ged. Jackson, Miss., December 27.—The resignations of the entire police force was demanded tonight at a special meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, owing to the apparent inefficiency of the force in dealing with Christmas revelers. Their resignations were handed in and accepted. heavy fall of snow. Farmington, Maine, December 27.— Fifteen inches of snow fell here last night, making thirty-one and a half inches fallen within the past two weeks.