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VOLUME XXXI.
BORROWS RILLED.
the great outlaw for
ever SILENCED.
HE 18 CAPTURED. FREES HIMSELF AND,
AFTER A DESPERATE EIGHT WITH *NE
OF HIS CAPTOIIB, MEETS A THIUL . ING
DEATH.
Telegrams were received at Binning
ham Tuesday night announcing the cap
,ture of thb noted train robber, Rube Bur
rows, in Monroe county, Alabama. He
was caught Tuesday afternoon by a farmer
named McDuffie, who succeeded in diaw
ing him into a trap. The great outlaw
was secured without a struggle, and is in
jail at Linden, Marengo county, Alabama.
The total of the rewards offered for the
capture of Buriows is $7,51)0. The South
ern Express Company, which has been
the greate-t sufferer by his robberies, has
spent thousands of dollars in efforts to
capture him. In addition to hi 3 numer
ous robberies, he is wanted in Lamar and
Blount counties in Alabama for murder.
TnE STOKY OF HIS CAPTURE.
A Deraopolis dispatch of Tuesday
says: This afternoon, in South Marengo,
Mr. John McDuffie and others, sent out
by the Southern Express Company, cap
tured the real, genuine Rube Burrows.
As reported in the daily papers, he was
making his way back to Lamur county,had
passed through Monroe, and has been In
Marengo the past few days. Detectives,
assisted by deputy sheriffs, have been
close behind him in this county since
Sunday. Today Mr. McDuffie came upon
Rube, who had stopped out of the rain
in a house. Mr. McDuffie arranged with
two colored men to go in the house, os
tensibly for some other purpose.
Rube had placed his rifle in the corner
of the room, but had his revolvers on
him. The darkies engaged him in con
versation, and then grabbed him by his
hands, preventing his shooting. lie
fought the darkies manfully, until Mc-
Duffie and others got in, when, after a
desperate straggle, they 4Kcceeded in
conquering and securely ticing the great
desperado.
STRAPPED HAND AND FOOT.
McDuffie went to Linden jail thk.after
noon, with Rube strapped hand and font
in front of him on his horse, being across
the head on one side and the feet on the
other. His position was very painful,
but he had to be allowed no chances.
The great Rube is now in jail in reality.
IJe had only $17,800 on his T>er^».
RUBE 1“ KILLED.
A later telegram from Demopolis says:
Rube Burrows, train robber, murderer
nud outlaw, is dead. He died with his
favorite pistol in his hand, in a daring
and reckless attempt to regain his liberty,
and when he fell, two men had gone
down before his unerring aim. To the
last he displayed that spirit of devilish
running and daring which for years lias
made his name a terror in the South and
West, but at last he was face to face with
a man his eqal in courage and his match
in the skill of handling a revolver.
Tuesday night Burrows was taken by
his four captors to the little town of Lin
den. He was a A-aluable prize, and they
could not trust an outsider to watch him.
With his hands and feet tied they placed
him in the sheriff’s office in the jail, and
John McDuffie and a negro named Mar
shall sat down to watch him through the
night. The negro was one of the captors.
•I. C. Carter, who planned the capture,
took the money found on Burrows,
and went to the hotel to sleep. McDuffie
and the negro, Marshall, were to re
main cn guard all night, and they did
not dream that their shackled prisoner
would think of escape. The door was
heavily barred, and while Burrows was
quietly sleeping, his captors sat near him
with pistols in their hands.
THE GAME COMMENCES.
At 4 o’clock Wednesday morning the
prisoner awoke. “I am hungry, get me
something to eat,” he said. “We cannot
get anything at this hour,” answered
McDuffie. “Well, hand me my satchel.
I have some crackers in there.” A
leather satchel which Burrows carried
in his hand when captured lay iu one
corner of the room where it had been
thrown without examination. McDuffie
handed the satchel to Burrows. The
manacled hands of the prisoner were
thrust inside, and bringing out a handful
of crackers he handed them to his guards,
and McDuffie and the negro put down
4heir pistols and began to eat the crackers.
Again the shackled hands went down
into the satchel, and when they again
came forth the startled guards looked
into the muzzles of two gleaming re
volvers.
“Untie me, and be quick about it,”
said Burrows to the negro, who obeyed
at once. “Now, unlock the handcuffs on
mv wrists,” and again the negro obeyed.
“Put them on that man,” was the next
order, and the trembling negro closed the
cuffs with a snap on the w rists of Mc-
Duffie.
“Open the door,” commanded
Burrows, and the bars were
hastily removed. Keeping the negro
covered with Ins revolver. Burrows
locked the door on the outside, leaving
McDuffie a barred and helpless prisoner
within.
“Now, where is that man Carter with
my money?” asked the outlaw of the ne
gro. The neero told him, and was or
dered to lead the way to his room. They
went to the hotel, but Carter was not
there. lie was sleeping in a room in the
rear of the store of a merchant named
Glass. The negro led the way to the
store, and Burrows knocked loudly on
the door.
“Who is that?” asked Carter.
In a whisper Burrows ordered the ne
gro to answer, which he did. “Tell him
to get up quick, that McDuffie wants him
at the jail,” said Burrows in the same
slow whisper, nnrl the tremtVing negro
repeated the words. Carter recognized
the voice of the negro, and coming to
tlie door lie opened it and asked, “What
is the matter. John?”
“Where is my money? Give it to me
nt once!” said Burrows, and his pistol
was nt the breast of Carter. A glance in
tlie semi-darkness was .enough Carter
recognized the situation in an instant®
but lie was not going to lose his S7,SOQi
prize without a struggle. Instantly h£
sprang back to the bed where his pistol
was lying, seized it, and turning to the
door again, fired almost at the same in
stant that the report of the outlaw's pis
tol woke the slumbering echoes of the
quiet, town.
Botli shots were well aimed. The ball
from tlie outlaw's pistol struck Carter in
the left breast above the heart, and pass
ed through the lungs. Burrows was shot
through the bowels, the ball passed en
tirely through his body. ITe staggered
back into the street, but raised his pistol
again and sent a ball crashing through
the shoulder of Marshall, the negro, who
was standing there half dead with fear.
THE FIGHT CONTINUED IN TIIE STREET.
Carter was staggering from the shock
of the wound, but lie ran out into the
street and seven more pistol shots rang
out on the night air. Both men had
emptied their revolvers. By this time
Burrows had crossed to the opposite
bidewalk and Carter was near the middle
of the street. As the echoes of the last
pistol shot died away both men sank to
the ground. The shots had aroused half
of the people in the little village, and
the inhabit ants, running into the streets
in their night clothes, stumbled over the
bloody forms of the two men lying prone
in the dark street. Soon a lantern was
brought, and its pale light cast ghostly
shadows about the weird scene. The
startled people heard a groan from the
man lying on the sidewalk. They gath
ered about him just in time-to witness
ow) long? convulsive shudder, and then
Rube burrows, the man who had so
often defied the grim destroyer, was
dead,
Mr. Carter was carried to his room and
everything possible done for him. lie is
yet alive and may recover, but his wound
is a terrible one. The negro, Marshall, is
badly wounded also, but his wound is
not considered dangerous.
Wm Alter an inquest, the body of Burrows
was turned over to tlie officers of the
-.express company, and they decided to
send it to his relatives in Lamar county,
Alabama, for burial. So cuds the career
of Rube Burrows, a man whose history is
without a parallel. The identity of the
dead man seems to be established beyond
qqestion.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The announcement iu the evening pa
pers that Rube Burrows had been killed
down in Alabama, created a great deal
of interest around the postoffice depart
ment Wednesday afternoon. Bubo has
robbed the mails three times, and the de
partment has a standing reward of SI,OOO
lor his capture, and conviction.
THE BURIAL OF RUBE.
In a little graveyard, among the hills
of Lamar county, Thursday afternoon, all
that was mortal of Rube Burrows was
laid in the grave by the side of his wife,
who died six years ago.
Hundreds of men and women who had
been playmates and friends of the dead
outlaw came for a last look at his face, and
one and all recognized him at once. The
last link in the chain of his complete ideu -
tification had been forged. His relatives,
friends and neighbors, who have known
him from childhood, said without hesita
tion that the dead man was Rube Bur
rows. A gray-haired mau of seventy
years was the last to look upon the face
of the dead, and when he turned from
the coffin a sigh of relief came from his
lips, while tears flowed freely from his
The old man was Allan Burrows,
the father of Rube, an honest citizen,
loved and respected hv all who knew him.
THE SCENE IN BIRMINGHAM.
The body of Burrows arrived at Bir
mingham from Deinopolis at 3:30 o’clock
Thursday morning, Even nt that hour
thousands of people were gathered about
the depot, hoping to catch a glimpse of
the body, or at least the coffin containing
it. At" every station ulong the road
where the train stopped hundreds had
gathered out of morbid curiosity. The
coffin was opened, and all who cared to
were allowed to sec the body.
Placing the open coffin oil end, aird ar
ranging the outlaw’s rifle and pistols at
his side, a flash-light photograph was
taken. Among the articles found on the
outlaw when captured were the railroad
cheeks and, vouchers for $*2,000, and the
lottery tickets taken from the express
ear at the Floinaton train robbery. He
also had the pistol he took from the ex
press messenger at the same time.
THE CABIN BOUGHT.
THE LOG HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN LIVED TO
BE EXIBITED AT CHICAGO.
A committee from Chicago, in the in
terest of the World’s Fair, has visited
Washington county, Ky., and purchased
of Henry Reed the log cabin in which
Abrahain Lincoln lived as a boy and
where his father was married to Nancy
Hunks. The price paid was SI,OOO, and
it will be torn down and erected on a
prominent site at the World’s Fair.
A TIME CONVENTION.
A LARGE GATHERING IN NEW TOItK OP
LEADING RAILROAD MEN.
■ A New York dispatch says: The gen
eral time convention opened Wednesday
morning. There was present a large
representation of leading raiiroad men
of the country. President H. S. Haines,
of Savannah, Ga., was in the chair.
Those present represent 101,000 miios of
railroad.
SUCCESS TO ALL WHO PAY THEIR HONEST DEBTS—“BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT—THEN GO AHEAD.”
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BLAKELY, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17,18110.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN TnE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THfc GREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
A number of prominent Allianeemen
have leased the Southern Mercury , the
State organ of the State Alliance
of Texas. They propose to put ample
capital behind the enterprise and make it
a stroug Alliance publishing house. They
will employ an able editorial corps and
make the Mercury one of the best reform
papers iu the land.
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A few weeks ago the. Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union of New Mexico
met in the city of Albuquerque, for the
purpose of completing a constitution and
by-laws for the territorial organization,
placing efficient and energetic lecturers
in the field, aud attending to such other
business as may come before it. Presi
dent Polk and National Lecturer Ben
Teirell were present. Thus the good
work goes grandiy on. —The Southern
Mercury.
V
The condition iu Wall street for the
past two weeks is a living and practical
demonstration of the necessity for the
sub-treasury plan. The only thing that
saves the country from a panic when the
exploiting class let out credit paper as a
circulating medium to supply the defi
ciency of money to move the crops, and
let it nut much slower than needed, iu
order to produce a stringency that will
reduce prices, the only thing that pre
vents a panic as a result of this pressure
is money furnished New York bankers
from the United States Treasury. When
the debt is paid we wiil be compelled to
have the sub-tressury plan or a panic.—
National Economist.
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The Democratic convention of the sixth
congressional district of Louisiana adopt
ed the following resolutions:
We demand the abolition of national
banks at as early a day as practicable,
and in lieu of national bank notes tlie
Government shall issue legal tender treas
ury notes in sufficient volume to do the
business of the country on a cash basis,
and all money so issued shall be a legal
tender for all debts, both public aud
priva! e.
Wc indorse the sub-treasury or ware
house plan as a incans of relief to the
agriculturalist within the scope of the
fe.deral constitution, and urge the nom
inee of this convention to advocate such
legislation as may permit graduated sales
of our products.
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On Tuesday Col. Livingston, president
of the Georgia State Alliance, spoke at
Raleigh, N, C. He devoted himself to a
description of the sub-treasury hill, and
a-serted that he would vote for no
man, not even his own father, who did not
support that measure, He declared that
the farmers must and will not give up
their plan for sub-treasuries, and that if
they are not given a better bill than the
one now before congress, they will push
that one right through, no matter how
great the fight. He called on all classes
to aid the farmers iu their struggle, say
ing it was not between farmers and the
lawyers and merchants, but between the
money power and tile people, and that
the lawyers and wholesale merchants of
Georgia are now seeing this, and falling
right into line with the alliance.
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New Albany (Miss.) Gazette gives this
good advice: “The idea that the Alli
ance is of short duration is a thing of the
past The key-note has been struck at
last, and today all eyes are turned in the
proper direction for relief. Noft, if the
brotherhood will but hold out faithful
and make each meeting what it should
be, more interesting than the one before,
success is inevitable. Then we would
urge the importance upon our sub-alli
ances of making your meetings interest
ing. Meet and discuss matters of
general interest. Don’t stay at home
and say they never transact any busi
ness of importance, but attend every
meeting, and say we will make our meet
ings interesting. Is it not strange that
farmers (Alliance men) will say “they”
in speaking of their own order? It seems
that many of the brethren fail to appre
ciate the importance of the position they
occupy. They each have a duly tojier
form. There is no room for drones and
dead-heads. What we want, aud what
tlie emergency demands, is that each
member do liis whole duty, and victory
is ours.”
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I^ooki.i ic Toward Union.
President Polk lias addressed the fol
lowing letter to 11. L. Loucks, Esq ,
president of the Farmers’ National Alli
acee:
“ 1 he time for action—prompt, united,
decisive action on the part of the farmers
ol the whole country, is absolutely and
imperatively demanded. No argument
could emphasize this truth so deeply and
indelibly as it has been impressed by the
alarming and constantly augmenting de
pression of our great agricultural inter
ests. It is written on the lintels of al
most every farmer’s home in this land.
Impelled by the force of its demand,
farmers of localities, States and sections
have combined in various forms of organi
zation. Differing only in name or form,
these various organizations are actu
ated by some common purpose, and are
guided by one common principle—the
elevation and betterment of the agricul
tural interests of the country. But con
fronting them all is the stern truth that
the greatest evils under which they so un
justly suffer, and of which they so justly
complain, are national in their character,
anil tlmt they cannot be corrected by lo
cal, State or sectional remedies. Na
tional legislation which discriminates
against or oppresses agriculture in New
York, Indiana or Kansas, affects equally
(hat interest in Virginia, Georgia or I exas.
Hence, to meet the demands of the situa
tion the farmers of the United States
mus form one grand, compact national
organization. They must make com
mon cause against a common danger.
Impelled by these considerations, and
in confoimity to the aims and principles
of the great order which I have the honoi
to represent, I beg to extend to yon, and
through you to the brotherhood of your or
der, a most cordial and fraternal iuvitntiou
lo meet w.th our Supreme Council at its
regular annual session at Ocala, Fla., ol
'1 uesday, the 2d day of December, 1890.
Permit mo to suggest that properly ac
credited delegates, representing your en
tire order, or the separate States compos
ing it, vestcdgvilh such powers as would
give them fml authority to act iu the
premises, and meeting in conference with
representatives similarly empowered of
the other orgnizations, would greatly
facilitate the determination of the great
and vital question—whether any plan can
be devised tot securicir frateruitv am/
unity of action between the farmers
of the country. 1 The National Farmers’
Alliance aud industrial Union now em
braces thirty-five of the States of the
Union, all of which will be represented
in our meeting, and I beg to assure you
that the representatives of your Order
will be welcomed by that body with the
most cordial considerations of fraternal
regard aud respect. A letter of like im
port hns this day been mailed to tho
chief officers of the Pat: ons of Hus
bandry, tlie Farmers’ National League,
the Patrons of Industry, and the Farm
ers’Mutual Benefit Association. Will
you kindly indicate at your earliest con
venience whether this proposition meets
• your approval, ana whether your order
Will be represented? Any information
or service I may be able io under is freely
at your command.
The Alabama (Selina) Mirror says: “In
the light of the present manipulation of
the price of cotton, the intention of the
sub-treasury bill to prevent such an oc
currence is clearly manifest. With some
such relief afforded to the farmers they
could have held their Cotton crop
until the manufacturers would pay tho
value of the staple instead of being forced
to sell to speculators at a loss of $lO per
hale. The.sub-trea.sury bill lias received
no recognition at the hands of Congress,
but the farm rs can now see the necessity
of demanding some protection nguinst
the | resent financial ]>oliey of the paity
in power.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN & I*o.’s WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE
CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
The weekly circular of I). G. Dun & Co.
says: Business iu all branches shows an im
improvent and speculation in breadstuffs
is stronger, hut the stock market has
been liquidating and quotations have de
clined. The street is no longer a barom
eter and the industries aud trade of the
country pay no attention to the stock
exchange. The prices of commodities
are a shade stronger than a week ago,
grain aud oil having advanced with many
kinds of manufactured products, but the
general advance since Oct. Ist is not a
quarter of 1 per cent as yet. The move
ment of commodities is very heavy. The
jponey market is nowhere a source of em
barrassment, aud the feeling of confidence
everywhere increases.
Southern reports are generally bright,
tlie movement of cotton being remarka
bly early and large. Great industries are
gaining. In spite of the enormous out
put of pig-iron the tone is stronger, and
at Philadelphia mill iron is 25 cents
higher. Breadstuffs had been advancing
in spite of small exports, which full far
below last year’s as yet. Wheat has risen
3£ cents for the week on sales of 20,000,-
000 bushels at New York, and corn neurly
2 cents on sales of 10,000,000 bushels
Oil lias risen 2 cents, with insignificant
dealings, and coffee is a quarter lower,
the present range of prices being decor
ously described as “strained,” Foreign
trade is fairly satisfactory, for while ex
ports of grain are restricted, cotton
moves largely, though the value of ex
ports last week showed a decline in com
parison with last year. The number of
failures for the week in the United States
is 180, compared with 182 for the same
time last yeur.
STILL AT WORK.
NINE WEEKS OF MISSISSIPPI'S CONVENTION
AND THE END NOT YET.
A Jackson dispatch says: The ninth
week of the Mississippi constitutional
convention closed Saturday evening, and
it now appears that its work cannot be
properly finished before November 10th.
The judiciary article is still under con
sideration, and while the vote was decis
ive that supreme cont judges shall con
tinue to be appointed by the governor,
subject to confirmation by the senate,
the friends of the elective system will
make a fight for the election of criminal
judges and chancellors.
AN HARBOR WANTED
AND A COMPANY ORGANIZED WITH sl,-
500,000 TO BUILD IT.
A San Antonio dispatch of Wednes
day says: Another enterprise has been
formulated and work is soon to begin,
looking to the securing of a deep-water
harbor on the Texas wharf at Padre is
land. The harbor will be secured by the
building of a viaduct sea wall, the esti
mated cost of which will be $1,500,000.
The syndicate is composed of local and
eastern capitalists, and is backed by un
limited capital.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE '
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The Jews in Sebastapol have been or
dcied to leave that city.
Pillow & Horsey’s rolling mill, in Mon
treal, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Six men were injured Wednesday by a
boiler explosion at Muskegon, Mich.
A dispatch from London says that tlie
new tariff bill will destroy Birmingham's
button trade.
Secretary Halford says the question of
calling an extra session of congress lias
not yet been decided.
Fire in the Academy of Music, at Pitts
burg, Thursday, damaged the structure
to the extent of SIO,OOO.
The strike of the silk ribbon weavers
at the mill of Johnson, Cowdin «fc Co.,
Patterson, N. J., lias been settled.
Tho first picking of the Egyptian cot
ton crop has been finished. .The quality
of tho cotton is reported to be very good.
The population of Brooklyn, N. Y., ns
announced by the census bureau Thurs
day is 804,377, an increase of 237,714 or
41.95 per cent.
Wm. Peters, supposed to have been
the largest man iu the country, weighing
over 400 pounds, died in Lukin town
ship, 111., Saturday.
The Servian government, finding the
presence of ex King Milan in the country
intolerable, lias resolved to ask the skupt
schina to pass a bill providing for his ex
pulsion.
The locomotive and machine works of
Adams & Price, on the northwest out
outskirts of Nashville, were destroyed by
fire Friday night. They estimate their
loss at about $20,000.
At the session of the Christian Con
ference, at Marion, Ind., Friday, the
southern wing of the church, which
seceded nt the Cincinnati convention,
held iu 1854, was restored.
Wm. 11. Sehneber, who robbed the First
National bank of Columbus, Ind., of
$300,000, fled to Canada, and was
brought back, has beeti sentenced to
twelve years in prison and a fine of SSOO.
The census buieau, on Wednesday, an
nounced the population of the state of
Nebraska to be 1.050,793; increase 007,-*
413, or 135.17 per cent. New Jersey
1,441,017; increase 309,001, 0r27.40 per
cent.
The rate war between the Ohio and
Mississippi railway and its connections
cast and west aud the Big Four and its
connections, ended Friday night by a
compact satisfactory to both parties.
Rates will be restored.
The Indianapolis Car aud Manufactur
ing Company, a concern employing 800
hands, wus on Friday placed in tlie hands
of a receiver. Tho purchasing ugent of
the company cluitns that it is Insolvent,
having debts amounting to $650,000.
Captain Peter Foster, tlieioldest mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic
in the United States, died in Mount
Pleasant, la., Friday night. He was
ninety-five years of ago and fought in the
war of 1812, the Mexican war and the
civil war.
The United States court at Little Rock,
Ark., hns been instructed by the judge to
bring in an indictment against Captain
Coffee, of Chicago, for sending a chal
lenge to Horace Allis, of Little Rock.
Coffee sent a challenge to Allis, and lie
turned it over to the officers of the law.
By a fire which broke out in the Put
nam European hotel, at Adams and La-
Salle streets, Chicago, early Sunday
morning, four lives were lost and a score
of persons had narrow escapes. The fire
was caused by the explosion of a kero
sene lamp, which had been left burning
in one of the hallways.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
says: Internal Revenue Commissioner
Mason has informed several collectors
that the section of the new tariff bilj,
relative to the fortification of wines with
brandy, free of tax, will be practically
inoperative before December lit, because
the new stamps cannot be secured until
then.
The census bureau, on Friday, an
nounced the following populations: Lit
tle Rock, Ark., 22,469; increase, 9,358;
per cent, 91.23. Baton Rouge, La.,
10,397; increase, 3,200; per cent, 44.46.
New Orleans, La., 241,995; increase,
25.905; per cent, 11.99. Knoxville,
Teun., 22,447 ( increase, 12,754; percent,
131.56; state of New York. 5,981,934;
increase, 899,063: per cent. 17.69.
The supreme court of Michigan, on
Saturday, rendered a decision in a case
where a restauranter refused to entertain
a colored man. In the court below in a
suit for damages the negro was deflated,
but the supreme court says the court
erred, as the negro is a citizen under the
constitution and cannot be discriminated
against, and says the only question that
should have been considered in the lower
court was one of damages.
A San Diego, Cal., dispatch of Friday
says: News has been received from Ros
ario mine, seventy miles inland from Ma
zatlan, of a terrible explosion which oc
curred there in the lutter part of Sep
tember. An American named McGee,
who came from Napa, Cal., was working
with nine Mexicans in a sixty-foot level
near the magazine, which contained sev
eral hundred pounds of dynamite. This
exploded in some way, and the ten men
were blown to atoms.
Acting Indian Commissioner Belthas,
at Washington, has issued a letter of in-
NUMB UK 1(>.
st ructions to Indian agents, in which he
says that the department is informed that
a company is preparing to obtain Indians
from some of the reservations to join tho
Wild West Shows in Europe. Agents are
instructed to promptly refuse any appli
cations for this purpose, as it is now
against the policy of the interior depart- ';
meat to grant permits for such purposes
under any circumstances whatever.
OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEI* NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
riTIIY ITEMS FROM ALL rOINTS IN Tnh
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER —ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Guadalupe county is said to lie the
banner Alliance county of Texas.
Free delivery service lias been ordered
for Durham and Greensboro, N. C., on
t lie Ist of November.
lion. Isanc Stone, formerly United
States minister to Japan, died in Delaud,
Fln„ Thursday night.
A receiver was appointed by Judge D.
M. Roberts, at Eastman, Ga., on Satur
day, for the Empire Lumber Company.
Estimated liabilities $200,000; assets
$150,000.
George Adams, agent of a European
government premium land lottery scheme,
was, on Tuesday, arrested in Birmingham,
Ala., for mailing matter in violation ol
the anti-lottery law.
During the first nine months of 1890
8782 miles of new railroad were con
structed by 212 different companies, ac
cording to. the Railway Aye. The largest
amount of mileage constructed in any
one state was in Georgia—32B miles.
While six persons on horseback were
passing over an unfinished bridge neat
Webster Spring, W. Va., Saturday, the
structure gave way and all were precipi
tated into Elk river, forty feet below.
Five of the six persons were wounded,
two fatally.
On Saturday, Mrs. H. L. Whiteside,
mother of Vernon Whiteside, the de
faulting city auditor of Chattanooga,
Tenn,, sent a letter to the mayor inform
ing him that she was ready and willing
to pay any ampunt the cx-city auditor
owed the city. The shortage amounts to
$25,000.
Tho owners of the vEtuu coal mines,
near Chattanooga, have decided to use
convict labor. The miners employed by
the compuhy went out on a strike some
time since and considerable trouble has
resulted. Fifty convicts were sent from
the main prison ut Nashville to the mines
on Thursday.
The San Antonio, Texas, Street Rail
way Company begun operating its system
with electricity Wednesday. This system
is one of the. most extensive and best
equipped in the whole south. It em
braces forty miles of track, while fran
chises have been secured and work begun
on twenty additional miles.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Secretary
Beddiugtield, of the State Farmers’ Alli
unce, sends to each congressional nomi
nee what is known as a “demand card.”
On this are the demands of the Alliance,
and the nominee is asked to sign the card
and return it, thus showing that he con
siders the demand just and proper.
A Greenville dispatch of Friday says:
The board of Mississippi levee commis
sioners have let tho contracts for the work
of closing the breaks in the levee, cuu.ed
by the disastrous overflow of last spring.
The work let will cost about $135,000.
The board will have ample funds on hand
to rebuild tho levees in broken places and
to build them above the high-water mark
of this year.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Rome,
Ga., says: The search of Mr. McKee
alfd Deputy Marshal Brown for Mrs. Mc-
Kee has so far been fruitless. They have
been absent from Romo since last Thurs
day, and no news (rom them. ft is sup
posed their long absence arid silence is an
indication of good results, for Brown and
McKee would have returned if they were
riot on track of her. Witnesses were be
fore the grand jury, and a bill has been
drawn against Mrs. McKee by the solic
itor general.
THE TRIAL CONTINUED
NOTWITHSTANDING THAT DILLON AND
O’nniEN HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY.
A Dublin dispatch says: When the
magistrate’s court ut Tipperary reassem
bled Saturday morning, Crown Prosecu
tor Konuu stated that the crown had de
cided to prosecute the charges of con
spiracy against all the defendants, not
withstanding the fact that Messrs. Dillon
and O’Brien had, of their own volition,
abandoned their defense and left the
country. The courts, he said, had de
cided that under the circumstances such
as had arisen in the present case, it was
not necessary to stop the proceedings.
CAROLINA SWAMP LANDS.
A DEAL IN WHICH 100,000 ACRES ARE IN
VOLVED.
The state board of education met at
Rale lull, N. C., and received a proposi
tion to bnv swamp lands in Ilyde county,
known as' Hyde park, and containing
almost 100,000 acres. The lands were
taken twenty years ago by a company of
northern capitalists, which failed, and
they reverted to the hoard. '1 he propo
sition to purchase is made by the ilm
ington, N. C., improvement company,
which offers 45 cents per acre. The
board will probably accept the offer, and
sixty days have been given to examine
into questions as to the title.