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KNIGHTS F0RSILVER
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR OP¬
POSITION TO BOND ISSUES.
Amendment to Seventeenth Plank
Causes Lively Discussion.
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor in session at Rochester, N.
X, had a rather lively meeting Friday
morning. The recommendations of
General Master Workman Sovereign
were indorsed by the adoption of an
addition to plank 17 of the preamble
of the order to read, “and that gold
and silver, when so issued, shall be
by the free and unlimited coinage at
the ratio of 16 to 1, regardless of the
action of any other nation.”
The following resolutions, sent in by
district assembly 41 of Maryland, wero
adopted: believed
Whereas, it is by many,
and is now a demonstrable fact, that
the great objection by the money
power of the country to the demo¬
cratic and people’s party platforms iD
the recent campaign were those
planks that found their basis
in the sixteenth plank of the
preamble of the Knights of Labor,and
which plank, in brief, put the party in
line with the people in opposition to
the issuance of more government
bonds and favored the issuance by the
government of all necessary medium
of exchange direct to the people,
without the intervention of the banks,
and, chambers
Whereas, the various of
commerce and boards of trade and
banking associations of every kind
have already commenced their warfare
on the currency known as greenbacks
and treasury notes, with a view to
having them all retired and an inter¬
est-bearing bond issued therefor, there¬
by leaving the circulating medium of
the people entirely under the control
of the national banks; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the general assem¬
bly of the Knights of Labor, in con¬
vention assembled, denounce this at¬
tempt so soon to be made to take from
the government of the people the fov
ereign right to issue money, and we
pledge ourselves to renewed efforts to
defeat tfiis nefarious scheme.
Resolved, That we call on the peo¬
ple everywhere to watch their repre¬
sentatives in congress and demand
from them such legislation that will
continue the use of and issuance of
government money in preference to
money of private corporations (nation¬
al banks) and the reservation of the
people’s sovereign rights as enunciated
by Hamilton, Jefferson and Jackson.
Copies of the new plank relating to
free silver will bo sent to all the local
assemblies and each will act separately
upon it.
P. AND R. ORGANIZED.
The Capital Stock Fixed at Twenty
Millions.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail¬
road Company organized at Philadel¬
phia Tuesday by the election of a pres¬
ident, a secretary and six directors.
By the terms of an act of May, 1887,
known as the “railroad law,” the
change of the name of the railroad,
which was sold under foreclosure pro¬
ceedings in Philadelphia on September
23,„was made imperative.
Under the plan of reorganization
there will be three companies, the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Read¬
company, the Philadelphia and
ing Coal and Iron company and the
Reading company. The latter is applica¬ known
as the national company ; but
tion has been applied for in court to
have the title changed. This latter
company, which was the parent organ¬
ization of the Philadelphia and Read¬
ing company, will have the supervision
of the other companies.
WEYLER ASKED TO RESIGN.
Open Rupture With Home Govern¬
ment Given as the Cause.
A special cable dispatch to the New
York Journal from Havana says:
“It appears to be a positive fact
that General Weyler has been asked
to resign on account of an open rup¬
ture with the home government. Gen¬
eral Prando, it is thought, may suc¬
ceed him.
“It is conceded on all sides that his
personal leadership of the forces
against Maceo has ended in most sig¬
nal failure.
“The attempts of the Spanish to
make victories out of the so-called
capture of the rebel strongholds of
Dinar del Rio are laughed at. Maceo,
*nth the science of Fabian, always re¬
treated in time to defeat Weyler’s tac¬
tics. Maceo, it is conceded, is short
of ammunition, which is the greatest
reason for his not accepting battle.”
Diphtheria Doing Deadly Work.
An epidemio of diphtheria is
threatened in a number of localities in
Northern Indiana. The entire Tom¬
linson family, living____ near New Car
lisle, sis in number, has been wiped
cut by the deadly malady. Other
cases are reported at Otis, four chil¬
dren in one family at Auburn have
died and general alaim prevails in tho
Q ricken district.
AFTER SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
Organization of an Importing Com¬
pany at Charleston, S. C.
The Charleston, S. C., Importing
and Exporting company was organized
Wednesday with a capital stock paid in
of §100,000.
The books of the company were
opened at noon and that amount was
immediately subscribed. The stock¬
holders’ meeting chose Messrs. F. S.
Rodgers, W. E. Huger, R. G. Rhett,
A. C. Tobias and H. F. Bremer as a
board of directors for the company,
and at a subsequent meeting of the di¬
rectors Mr. H. F. Bremer, who was for
several years connected with the firm
of F. W. Wagener & Co., of Charles¬
ton, was elected president. Mr. C. E.
Rodgers was made treasurer and Mr.
T. J. Tobias was chosen secretary.
The company will do a general im¬
porting and exporting business, be¬
ginning its operations at once. At the
outset the major portion of its atten¬
tion will be devoted to the importa¬
tion of coffee.
It will have its own steamer connec¬
tions with the leading Brazilian and
South American ports, and it is an¬
nounced that its first cargo of coffee
will be landed in Charleston within
the next few weeks.
The company is backed and indorsed
by a number of the leading business
men and capitalists of Charleston.
LADIES SELL JEWELRY
In Their Patriotic Desire t« Subscribe
to the New Spanish Loan.
The Daily News (London) publishes
a dispatch from Paris detailing a pa¬
triotic outburst in Spain, which is
manifesting itself in an eager desire to
subscribe to the new internal loan
issued by the government.
Ladies are selling their jewelry in
order to raise money to help the gov¬
ernment, while the bishops are prom¬
ising to devote the' gold and silver
plate belonging to the churches to the
same object. Brokers in Madrid have
undertaken to dispose of scrip to the
amount of £4,000,000 sterling.
So great is the popular desire to
take part of the loan that the Bank of
Spain and the Bank of Barcelona were
opened Sunday in order to receive
subscriptions.
A special from Madrid says: The
newspapers unanimously express the
opinion ihat the new Spanish loan wil’
result in an imposing demonstration
of national enthusiasm and that all
classes will co-operate to cover the
amount of the loan, which is nomi¬
nally 250,000,000 pesetas. The bonds
will be guaranteed by the customs
revenue.
TO DEFEND FLORIDA COAST.
Forts Are Being Put in the Strongest
Possible Condition.
A Pensacola, Fla., special says:
Since the recent visit of General
Craighill, chief of engineers of the
United States army, a large force of
workmen has been eDgcged night and
day in pushing the work of modern
fortifications on Santa Rosa island to
completion.
Immense disappearing batteries of
modern guns are being put in. .The
fortifications at Forts Pickens and
Barrancas are also being strengthened.
In a very short while this work will
have progressed to a point where it
would be impossible for the war ves¬
sels of aDy foreign enemy to come close
enough to do any damage to the city.
Entrance to the harbor is protected
by electrically operated sunken torpe¬
does. ___
CARPET 31 ILLS CLOSE DOWN.
3Iany 3Ien Throw u Out of Work By
Surplus of Goods on Hand.
Owing to a large surplus of carpets
on hand the big tapestry mill of the
Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Com¬
pany at Yonkers, N. Y., has closed
down.
It is rumored that the shutting
down of other mills operated by the
company will shortly follow, This
close-down throws from 300 to 400
hands out of employment. of
It is stated that if the rumors
closing down of other mills prove true
there will be 7,000 hands out of em
ployment. The Smith carpet mills
are the largest in the world.
RESTRICTIONS BY KNIGHTS.
No Man to Join Whose Allegiance Is
First to Another Order.
The general assembly of Knights of
Labor in session at Rochester, N. Y.,
adopted the recommendation of Gen¬
eral Secreta r y Treasurer Hayes that
the National Brewers’ Union No. 35
should sever its allegiance to the Fed¬
eration of Labor or to the Knights of
Labor, and that, no man can become a
member of the Knights of Labor whose
first allegiance is to another order.
THIRTY-FIVE MEN KILLED.
Fearfully Fatal Colliery Explosion
Near Berlin.
Advices from Berlin Btate that an
explosion in a colliery in Westphalia
killed 35 men. Forty men were in the
colliery when the explosion occurred,
but five of them were rescued alive.
All the bodies, that were for several
hours entombed, have been recovered.
WEYLER WOUNDED.
REPORT THAT THE SPANISH
CAPTAIN-GENERAL MAY DIE.
Insurgents Have Possession of Sev¬
eral Important Strongholds.
A number of prominent Cubans ar¬
rived at Tampa, Fla., Thursday, by
the Olivette from Havana, and will
make their homes in Jacksonville and
Ocala until the conflict ends. They
declare that no honest man who has
any respect for hie family can live
under Spanish law as it is administered
on the island.
A prominent Cuban said relative to
the engagement reported between
Maceo and Weyler, that important
battles had been fought and that Wey¬
ler had been defeated.
Owing to the surveillance of the
government, definite news has not been
received in this country, but that it
was true all Cabans in Havana knew
through their official sources.
He stated this information could be
given the American people with every
confidence. They further stated that
Port-au-Principe, Cascora and Guai
maro were all in the hands of the Cu¬
bans under Calixto Garcia and his
aides.
It is reported that Weyler is wound¬
ed and the rumor is believed to be well
founded. Blood poisoning may result.
Rebels Wreck a Train.
Advices from Havana state that a
train conveying troops was wrecked
Thursday near Mangas, by the explo¬
sion of dynamite bombs which had
been placed in position by rebels.
Fourteen persons were wounded.
The train was crossing a culvert
when the explosion occurred. The
insurgents had placed five bombs for
the purpose of blowing up the train,
but one of them did not explode. It
is said that the rebels thought General
Weyler wss on the train.
CONTEST IN TENNESSEE.
Republicans Charge Flection Frauds
In Many Counties.
At a meeting of the Tennessee re¬
publican slate committee in Nashville
it was decided that the result of the
gubernatorial race between ex-Gov
ernor Bob Taylor, democrat, and Hon.
G. N. Tillman, republican, would be
contested.
The committee meeting was attended
by leading republicans representing
every congressional district, and many
republican members of the legislature.
Many claims of fraud in West Ten¬
nessee have been made by the republi¬
cans, and they say that the result of a
contest will expose many frauds that
have been perpetrated at the polls.
At the meeting the defeated repub¬
lican candidates for congress were
asked to give notice of the proposed
contest before congress. A special
committee was appointed to urge con¬
gress to investigate alleged frauds in
the national election in Tennessee, and
prosecute all violators of the election
laws.
Governor-elect Taylor was shown
the telegraphic report of the commit¬
tee meeting, and said : ”1 hear a good
deal said about fraud, but I can give
the republicans every contested
county, and then have votes to spare.”
TOTAL VOTE IN TENNESSEE.
Secretary of State Morgan Gives Out
the Official Figures.
Secretary of State Morgan has given
out the official returns of the election
in Tennessee for president and gov¬
ernor. They show that the vote was
the heaviest by about 18,000 ever
polled in the state. received 163,651;
Bryan and Sewall
McKinley and Hobart 148,773 ; Bryan
and Watson 4,525; Palmer and Buck¬
ner 1,951; Levering and Johnson
3,098. Bryan and Sewall’s plurality is
14,,878 and the total vote is 321,998.
For governor, R. L. Taylor, demo¬
crat, received 156,228 ; G. N. Tillman,
republican, 149,374; A. L. Mims, pop¬
ulist, 11,976; Joseph Hopwood 2,831.
Taylor’s plurality is 6,854.
DIRECT TO ENGLAND.
Line of Steamers to Be Put On to
Manchester.
A special dispatch to The Manufac¬
turers’ Record announces that the
United States Shipping company has
arranged for a semi-monthly direct
steamship line between Newport News,
Va., and Manchester, England, the
first boat to sail in December.
This new line will be run in connec¬
tion with the Manchester Ship Canal
company, and will open up a very im¬
portant direct traffic between the south
and Manchester.
3IIssf ssiopi’s Official Count.
The official returns of all counties
in Mississippi give the following elec¬
toral vote: Democratic, 55,933; pop
ulis, 7,421; republican Hill faction,
2,125; republican, LyDch faction,
2,702; Palmer and Buckner, 1,021;
prohibition, 390. Total, 69,592. The
populist vote of 7,421 all went to Bry¬
an, so that his real majority over all
opposition is 63,354.
THE JUDGES NAMED.
LUMPKIN, LITTLE, COBB AND
FISH SELECTED.
Result ol the Nominating Convention
Held in Atlanta.
The state convention called for the
ourpose of nominating additional
judges of the supreme court met in
the hall of the house of representatives
at Atlanta Wednesday afternoon and
was called to order by Hon. Steve
Clay.
John W. Akin, of Cartersville, was
made temporary chairman. W«<dii u g
ton Dessau was made permanent
chairman. In taking the chair, Mr.
Dessau stated that a new era was about
to dawn upon the people when they
would be allowed to select the judi¬
ciary, the most important branch of
the state government.
When nominations were called for,
the following candidates were placed
in nomination:
Wm. A. Little, of Muscogee; Geo.
,F. Gober, of Cobb; W. H. Fish, of
Sumter; John L. Hopkins, of Geor¬
gia ; Andrew J. Cobb, from the state
at large; S. W. Harris, of Carroll;
John P. Shannon, of Elbert; B. B.
Bower, of Decatur. Joel Branham, of
Floyd.
The nominations closed, a motion
was made that Judge Samuel Lump¬
kin be nominated by acclamation for
the term beginning January 1st; 1897,
and continuing for six years. The
motion prevailed and Judge Lumpkin
was nominated.
Hon. W. A. Little was nominated
on the first ballot, receiving 224 votes,
fifty-two more votes than was neces¬
sary for a choice.
Mr. Andrew J. Cobb was nominated
on the 8th ballot, receiving 204 votes,
having gained slowly but surely from
the first ballot.
After the eighth ballot a number of
candidates were withdrawn.
Judge Wm. H. Fish was nominated
on the 10th ballot., against the only
contestant left in the field, Judge
George F. Gober.
The convention adjourned sine die
after making the nominations of Lump¬
kin, Little and Fish unanimous, and
giving sincere and deserved thanks to
the Hon. Washington Dessau for the
fair and impartial manner in which he
had presided over the convention.
INVITED TO OCALA, FLORIDA.
National Tobacco Growers’ Associa¬
tion Will Be Largely Attended.
Secretary Williams, of the Ocala,
Fla., board of trade, is busy sending
out invitations to the governors of
twenty-two states, boards of trade and
tobacco growers’ associations of the
country to send representatives to the
national tobacco growsrs’ convention,
which will convene in Ocala January
12, 1897.
The meeting has the sanction of
Governor Mitchell, who formulated
the letter of initiation. Secretary
Morton, of the United States agricul¬
tural department, has appointed as
national delegates Charles W. Dabney,
Jr., assistant secretary of agriculture,
and Professor Whitney, of the same
department. The meeting will be ia
no sense local.
MADE HOMELESS BY FLOODS.
Washington State People Seek Refuge
From Raging Waters.
Advices from Spokane, Wash., state
that the condition of the submerged
Souer d’Aline country grows more se¬
rious each day.
All the wagon bridges between v» al¬
lace and Wardner are out and several
railroad bridges ore gone. At Kings¬
ton the people are huddled together
in a schoolhouse. The bouses are all
afloat. The situation at Cataldo is
even worse than at Kingston. The
town is completely submerged, and
there are no boats.
In the second story of one house
eighteen people are huddled together,
their hogs and chickens occupying the
lower part.
EIGHT MILLIONS THE PRICE.
The Chicago and Northern Pacific
hold at Auction.
All the franchises aod real and per¬
sonal property of the Chicago and
Northern Pacific railroad was sold at
auction Tuesday for $8,000,000. The
sale was conducted by Henry Bishop,
master in chancery at Chicago, and
was under the judgment issued by the
United States circuit oourt, June 20,
1896.
The sale was made to William Allen
Butler on behalf of the bondholders’
committee. Mr. Butler was the only
bidder. The bondholders have not
as yet declared their plans of organ¬
ization.
Yellow Pine Lumber Advaneed.
The Southern Lumber Manufactur¬
ers’ Association, in called session at
Memphis, Tenn., adopted a prioe list
advancing yellow pine 50 cents per
1,000 feet. A committee was appoint¬
ed to prepare resolutions memorializ¬
ing congress to increase the tariff ou
Canadian lumber.
SENATOR PUGH’S SUCCESSOR.
Gen. Pettus Nominated for the United
States Senate in Alabama.
In the caucus of tho democratic
members of the general assembly of
Alabama General E. W. Pettus was
nominated for the United States senate
by a vote of 67 to 26. Governor W.
3. Oates received the 26 votes.
Shortly before the caucus met Con
gres-man Bankhead announced his
withdrawal irum the race. He was
followed by Senator Pugh, who was a
candidate to succeed himself. This
left the field to General Pettus and
Governor Oates.
General Pettus was placed in nomi¬
nation by Colonel B. L. Hibbard.
Hon. A. A. Wiley placed Governor
Oates in nomination. Only one bal¬
lot ws3 taken ; it resulted as above.
The nomination was then made unani¬
mous.
General Pettus was born in 1821, in
Limestone county, Alabama, which
would make him seventy years old.
After having secured a good education
at the old-field schools in Limestone,
he was graduated at Clinton college,
Virginia, and began the Rtudy of law
in Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1840. He was
admitted to the practice in 1841, aud
settled at Gainesville, Sumter coun¬
ty, where he practiced until 1848,
when the gold excitement in Califor¬
nia attracted him there. Two years
later, however, he returned to Ala¬
bama, and located at C/.rrollton, Pick¬
ens county, where he lived and prac¬
ticed law until 1858, when he removed
to Cahaba in 1866. In 1841 he was
elected solicitor of Pickens county.
Three years later he was elected judge
of the seventh judicial circuit, being
then only thirty-four years of age.
He was living at Cahaba when the
war broke out, aud entered the con¬
federate service as major of the Twelfth
Alabama. He fought hard during the
four years of hostilities, and was pro¬
moted by degrees to a brigadier gen¬
eralship in October, 1863. He was a
courageous soldier aud a gallant leader.
At the close of the war he located
at Selma, where he has since practiced
his profession, being at the head of
the bar of the state.
He is an advocate of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio
of 16 to 1.
TRADE CONDITIONS.
Bradstreet’s Review of the Situation
for the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s trade review of the
past week says:
Jobbers and other wholesale dealers
in general merchandise do not report
the anticipated increase in the volume
of goods distributed this week. There
are increased purchases for holiday
goods, and the tone of the market
lor staples is one "f encouragement.
Relatively the h aviest demand
has been for dry goods, shoes
and groceries, but even in these lines,
particularly drygoods, the volume has
been smaller than expected, and dis¬
appointment is a result. The many
industrial enterprises which have
started up continue a feature of each
day’s news bulletin, but there is rea
son to believe the significance of those
exhibits has been over emphasized in
gome instances.
THREE FATALLY WOUNDED.
A Controversy Among Young Men
Ends in Bloodshed.
Three young white men, well con¬
nected and prominent in their section,
were mortally wounded Monday night
at McLeods, a small station five miles
below Swainsboro, Ga., ou the Stil
more road.
Mr. Felix Rountree and Lis two
brothers, and John and Lawson Sut¬
ton had some words about a settle¬
ment at Sutton’s gin.
John Sutton knocked Rountree
down with a piece of iron. Rountree
arose, drew his pirtol and shot five
times. Missing, he then drew another
pistol and fired five more shots, this
time mortally wounding both the Sut¬
ton brothers.
As he walked fff someone, yet un¬
known, shot him in the back, mortally
wounding him.
MINNESOTA RETURNS ALL IN.
State Gave NfoKinley a Piurality of
58,878 Votes.
The canvassing boards in the eighty
one counties of Minnesota have com¬
pleted their work, and the result
shows that over 340,000 votes were
3ast at the election November 3d, an
increase of over 44,000 since the last
election. McKinley received 193,355
votes; Bryan, 139,477; Palmer, 3,920;
Levering, 4,002, aud Matchett, 734.
McKinley’s plurality is 58,878.
The majority for Clough, republican
candidate for governor, is 3,456. The
o’ther candidates on the republican
state ticket are elected by pluralities
ranging from 33,000 for attorney gen¬
eral to 46,000 for treasurer. The ag¬
gregate majority of the republican
candidates for congress was 41,000.
Ferris Whsel a Bad Investment.
The famous Ferris wheel at Chicago
is in the hands of a receiver. Judge
Horton has appointed Andrew Onder
donk to take charge of the assets,
under bond of $10,000. The company
was nine months in arrears on the in¬
terest due on mortgage bonds of $300,
QQQ and is totally insolvent.