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CLUYERIUS HANGED.
HL DIES WITHOUT COXFESSIXG
UIS GUILT,
The Doomed .''lnn Calmly Face* Death With
out a Kifn of Fear.
Cluverius was hanged at Richmond
Va., at 1:08 o’clock Friday, for the min -
der of Lillian Madison.
Cluverius was up early. His counsel,
Mr. Bev. Crump, parted with him at two
o’clock in the morning, and he afterwards
took only a few hours rest without re
moving his clothing. lie eat sparingly,
but bore up bravely, and seemed to be
hopeful.
Croups of people gathered around the
newspaper offices and in the vicinity of
the jail, anxious to hear what action, it
any the Governor had taken.
As the hour wore on, the crowds in
creased, and the excitement became more
and more intense. Ths telephone at the
city jail wjm in constant use, asking for
the latest news.
The prisoners souse three or four hun
dred in number, msstly negroes, shouted
in loud voices theft peculiar hymns while
waiting for the hour of execution.
The scaffold was erected in the en
closure of the jail yard and admittance
was gained only by a ticket from the city
sergeant.
About 11:30 o’clock the prisoner sent
for Mr. Bev. Crump, and they had a con
ference, the exact nature of which is not
known.
12:10 p. m.—The prisoner was fur
nished anew suit of clothes, but declined
to use them, he purchased one himself.
After it was reported that the Gover
nor had determined not to interfere, Ser
geant Smith hurried his preparations for
the execution. Those outside, number
ing at least 15,000, yelled and hooted,
and seemed impatient for the crisis.
At 1 o’clock the prisoner was led out
of his cell. He wore a neat suit of black
diagonal cloth and a water-proof cloak,
buttoned behind. Ilis arms were pin
ioned in front, and his step was firm and
nerveless.
The pr ople on the house tops and in
the trees yelled when they saw him as
cend the steps, and this was the signal
for a general whoop from the crowd.
Cluverius was cool and collected. He
did not quiver nor show the slightest
nervous embarrassment. He stepped
quickly and naturally up the long flight
of steps, and stopped immediately in the
centre of the trap door.
Sergeant Smith advanced to the front
of the scaffold, and in a loud and distinct
voice read the death warrant. Turning
to the prisoner after finishing the reading,
he asked: “Have you anything to say?”
To this Cluverius replied, in a voice in
audible ten feet away, “Not a word,
•ir.”
Rev. Dr. Hatcher then said, “Let us
all pray,” and kneeling upon the rough
pine boards of the scaffold, offered up a
fervent appeal to the Throne of Mercy.
When the prayer was ended, the con
demned man asked Dr. Hatcher to come
near him, and when the doctor did so, a
few words in a low 7 voice were said to
him Turning to the crowd below, Dr.
Hatcher sSId: “lam requested by the
prisoner to say just one word—that he
carries no ill feeling to-day agaiust any
one on earth.” /
Dr. Hatcher then turned and bade the
firisoner farewell. Deputy Sergeant Al
en tied his legs together, and put the
black cap over his head, and adjusted it.
At 1:08 o’clock the trap w 7 as sprung,
and the body of Cluverius shot dow nw ard
no quickly that none could describe it.
Then a scene was witnessed. The silk
rope did poor service, and it was seen
that the noose bad slipped and the rope
stretched fearfully. The feet of Cluver
ius were just touching the ground, and
only a turn and a half of the noose w r as
left. Horror was on the faces of the
spectators present, and in in a minute the
police were ordering every one to leave
the premises.
Dr. Openheimer examined the body
and at first said that the pulse w 7 as beat
ing regularly, there w 7 ere gutteral soun Is
for six minutes, gasps for breath, and in
dications of strangulation.
The victim, however, did not writhe,
his head hung on one side, and around
the neck was a red, livid mark made by
the fall of eight feet, the color of the
countenance commenced to change, and
in sixteen minutes after the fall of the
drop Drs. Harrison, Beall and Cabel pro
nounced life extinct.
On the morning of March 14, 1860, Mr. L.
Rose, keeper of the old city reservoir,discov
ered the body of a woman in the reservoir.
It proved to be that of a good-looking woman
about twenty-two years of age. The Coroner
pronounced it a case of suicide, aud had the
body removed to the morgue for iden
tification, Mr. Peter J. Burton, a re
porter of the Richmond Dispatch, sub
sequently went to the reservoir and
then to the morgue, and his investigation re
sulted in a murder theory upon a chain of
circumstantial evidence. During two days
many people saw the body, and it was finally
recognized by two young ladies as a friend
of theirs. Miss Fanny Lilian Madison, of
King and Queen County, but who had for
some time past been teaching school in Bath
County.
Detectives and police v, re sot io work,and
in a short, time brought to light circumstan
ces that added strength to the murder the
ory. A woman who lad registered at the
American Hotel on the b th of March under
the name of M:ss F. 1.. Merton was missing
from the hotel, and her disappearance aud
the finding of the body about the same
time furnished the clue. While the so
called “Miss Morton" was at the
hotel she wrote and received several
notes, but one directed by her was never de
livered. and after her departure from the
hotel it was torn to pie es by the clerk and
cast into the waste b isket. The scraps of
this not ' and the envelope were subsequently
brought to light, and w hen pasted together
itserved as one o: the principal liuks in the
chain which convicted the murderer, it b.ing
addressed to “T. J. Cluverius."
Inquiry showed that the man was a young
lawyer of King and Queen county and a
cousin of the deceased girl. This led to the
arrest of C uverius, who was known to have
ibeen in Richmond on the Kith of March. He
was found at the residence of his auut. in
Kingand Queen county, ami brought
<0 Richmond. He wa- indicted in
April for murder, and his trial began at
the May term of the court aud continued for
twenty-eight days. The prisoner pleaded not
gui.tv. Nearly two hundred wdtuesses were
examined, aud st p by step the evidence
upon the prisoner tee brand of se
■oucer and murderer. The jury, after a
few minutes' consideration,' rendered a
verdict of murder in th > fir-t q-ree
Cluverius was sent need to be hanged Vn the
a*h of November. lrv>. An an; eal was
then taken to the Supreme Court of the
State, which, however, availed the prisoner
nothing except tha: it staved the exe ution
for over a year, as the court, with but one
dissent mg voice, adirmc-d the udgnv ntof the
lower court. He was then re-emeu 'ei to
be hanged December 10, 18nA Tue Chief
Executive was finally applied to for pardon
or commutation of sentence to life imprison
ment, but the Governor coukl find no
reason for interfering with the mandate of
t*e court. He. however, respite i the con
demned man until the Uth of January.
GOLD AND SILVER IN' VIRGINIA.
Botetourt county is excited over the
discovery of gold and silver deposits on
the line of the Shenandoah Valley rail
road. The assays range from $lO per
ton for surface rock to stjO at the depth
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THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA.. TUESDAY. JANUARY -25, 1887. —EIGHT PAGES.
MORE ABOUT THE BOOM.
Kami from Montom*ry, Tu*raloo*a, Blf
mingham and Bristol.
The declaration of incorporation was
filed Saturday for the charter of the new
railroad to be known as the Alabama
Midland railroad. It will run from Mont
gomery to Troy, and from Troy to Chat
tahoochee, Fla.
The Highland Park and Land Improve
ment company was also organized, with
a capitol stock of six hundred thousand
dollars. The company owns five hundred
acres of land, mostly oak and pine forest,
in the eastern suburbs of the city. The
gtock is all taken.
TCSCALOOSA’S BIG COMrAMT.
Articles of incorporation of the Coal,
Iron and Land company have been filed,
and a stockholder's meeting held for the
election of a board of directors. The
capital stock is fixed at one million dol
lars, and every dollar taken. The com
pany has secured, in addition to its five
thousand acres of suburban land and city
property, ti large ar.d ample acreage of
the finest coal and iron land in the state,
w 7 hich lies at a comparatively short dis
tance from this place. After paying for
all lands, the company will have in its
treasury a cash capital of five hundred
and eighty-five thousand dollars.
It is now an assured fact that the min
eral railroad, a branch of the Louisville
and Nashville system, the terminus of
which is now only twenty-six miles dis
tant, will be completed at an early day,
thus securing to Tuscaloosa tw 7 o of the
most important railroad lines in the
south.
Capital has also been secured for build
ing the Macon, Mississippi and Tusca
loosa railroad, and one of the officials of
this road has been there to secure railroad
privileges and facilities.
A party of New Orleans capitalists
have made large purchases of land in and
about the town of Northport, just oppo
site Tuscaloosa, on the Warrior river.
NEW INDUSTRIES IN BIRMINGHAM.
The East Birmingham Land company
has closed a contract with a company,
which will at once erect a large foundry
and machine works on the company's
lands. The new company is headed by
R. W. Ballard, of Birmingham. Among
the stockholders are the presidents of two
of the city banks.
Mr. H. F. Debardeleben announces
that he has perfected arrangements for
the erection of a large rolling mill at
Bessemer.
THE BOOM AT BRISTOL, TENN.
The city councils of Bristol and Good
son have unanimously voted a subscrip
tion of 150,000 to the Bristol and South
Atlantic railroad, and the road to Eliza
beth, Tennessee. They also offer a do
nation of SIO,OOO to the first person or
firm building a 100-ton iron furnace in
their town.
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION
The President Tenders a Reception to the
Dlploinntic Corps.
At the white house on Thursday even
ing, the long corridors and large high
rooms were brilliantly lighted, while in
every niche were placed tropical plants of
all varieties.
In the east room the decorations were
supplemented by a great profusion of
choice cut fVowers, while/gilded columns
were wreathed with fern and palm leaves
and the large chandeliers twdned with
smilax. The Marine band, stationed in
the corridor, furnished the music.
The gaily decorated rooms were crowd
ed from 9 till after 11 o’clock with con
gressmen, diplomats, judges, department
officials, army and navy officers and other
prominent people with their wives and
lady friends.
The receiving party consisted of the
president and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Man
ning and Mrs. Vilas. Marshal Wilson
made the presentations. Behind the re
ceiving party in the blue room stood
Secretaries Bayard, Manning, Endicott
and Whitney and Postmaster Vilas; Mrs.
Charles W. Goodyear and Mrs. George J.
Sieard, of Buffalo, and Miss Hastings,
the President’s nieces, who are new guests
at the white house; the young ladies of
the cabinet, and Colonel and Mrs. La
rnont.
Mrs. Cleveland wore a trained gown of
ruby plush, cut square in front with a
moderately high and pointed back; short
lace sleeves, a single rosebud, diamond
necklace with pendant, and diamonds in
her hair and tan gloves reaching to the
shoulders.
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT.
Mr. and Mr*. Cleveland May Visit San Fran
cisco and the Yellowstone Park.
It is said that the president and Mrs.
Cleveland contemplate a lot of jaunts this
summer: that they intend going to the
Pacific slope, through the south, spend
ing some time in the woods of Michigan
and New York, and that the president
hopes to take sufficient exercise to work
down his superfluous flesh and give his
muscles some elasticity, so as to obviate
the danger he Is in of a stroke of appo
plexy or something else. Last summer
he had such a good time in the Adiron
dacks and felt so greatly improved that
he will try it on a larger scale.
It will be remembered that last sum
mer efforts were made to get Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland to go to San Francisco,
St. Louis, the Yellowstone Park and a
number of other places, contemplating
travel over a large scope of country. The
president hinted at that time that he
might pay visits to all those places in the
future. This summer will cover the long
vacation of congress, or rather the inter
im of great length when there is no ses
sion. The offices will nearly all have
been filled by new men, and they have so
completely mastered the details as to be
able to run the machinery of government
without his directing care. So the mo
ment for politics, recreation and social
visits will be opportune about June or
July.
THE RIDE TO DEATH.
Four Tramp* Burned to Death in a Locked
Freight Car.
Asa special freight train of nineteen
cars, loaded with cotton was pulling into
Paducah. Ky., on the line of the Chesa
peak, Ohio and Southern railroad Mon
day. one of the cars was discovered to In
on fire. It had been taken on and locked
at Memphis, being transferred from the
Louisville. New Orleans and Texas rail
road at that point. The engineer back' *
on the side track and the crew endeav
ored to extinguish the flame with hose
attachments. All they succeeded in doing,
however, was to prevent the fire from
spreading to other cars. While removing
the debris of the burned car, four dead
bodies, charred beyond recognition, were
discovered. They are supposed to have
been tramps. Whether white or black it
is impossible to say. The car was locked
at s’cm phis, but the men must have en
tered to their horrible fate through a
window in the end, which could have
been opened from the ouwide,
ROBERT EVAN SPROUL.
HAXGKD AND THEN PROVED TO
BE IXXOCEXT.
Ob U* Scaffold He fa Notified that He Is Heir
l* a Fortne— Damage >ult.
For the six months preceding the 28th
day of September, 1885, there was
throughout British Columbia, and indeed
throughout the Dominion of Canada, the
greatest interest felt in the case of Rob
ert Evan Sproul, then under sentence of
death at Victoria, B. C., for murder. It
was a case of life or death with the ac
cused, and being an American citizen,
and that government being impressed
with his innocence, taking every possible
legal action to prevent the hanging of
the condemned, tended to create moie
than ordinary interest in each step of the
proceedings which were then going on.
Robert Evan Sproul was a miner who
had moved to Canada from Kennebec
county, Me., in 1880. He was the part
owner of one of the richest mines in the
Kootenary district of British Columbia.
On the Ist day of Jannary, 1885, one
Thomas Hammel, also a miner, and a part
owner of the Sproul claim, was killed,
and suspicion pointed to the accused
Sproul as the guilty man. He was ar
rested and charged with the offense, but
stoutly maintained his innocence, and on
his trial, -which was had at Victoria, B.
C., endeavored to prove an alibi, but
failed. After the trial bis counsel alleged
certain irregularities in the hearing,
among which was the non-description of
the court, but the provincial supreme
court sustained the decision of the lower
court. Five respites however were
granted the condemned man by the gov
ernment, and at last he was hanged by
order of the minister of justice, who re
fused to interfere, although urged to do
so by Mayor Fell and some five hundred
residents of Victoria, as well as by the
secretary of state of the United States.
After the" trial, the chief witness for
the prosecution, one Charles Wolfe, made
an affidavit in due form that the evidence
given by him at the trial was false, and
the American counsel at Victoria reported
to the lieutenant-governor of British Col
umbia that after the investigation he be
lieved the prisoner to be innocent. Not
withstanding the order of the highest
court in Canada, Sproul was hanged on
the 28th of September. He maintained
his innocence on the gallows. Now a
witness whom he could not procure on
his trial has turned up in San Francisco,
and in order to satisfy the relatives of
Sproul that he had been hanged for a
crime of which he was innocent, Beatty
went before a judge of competent juris
diction and made an affidavit that he was
with Sproul from eight o’clock in the
evening of the 31st of May, 1885, until
half past six of the night following, and,
moreover, that they were at least fifteen
miles from the scene of the crime As
the murder was committed between these
hours, according to the prosecution, this
disposes of the theory that the accused
Sproul did the deed.
This affidavit has been filed with the
Secretary of State. Acting on the advice
of Counsel Frank Sproul, a brother of the
deceased and administrator on his estate,
has begun action against the Province of
British Columbia for $50,000 damages on
account of the illegal hanging.
One strange thing in connection with
the affair is, that four days before the ex
cution, a friend of the prisoner died in
Boston bequeathing him SIOO,OOO, which
was not made known to the condemned
man until he walked out on the gallows.
CHATTANOOGA SCOOPED.
The City Astounded at the Recent Railroad
Cliaiitfes.
Chattanooga is wrought up to a pitch
of high excitement over the sc xop of the
East Tennessee system by the Richmond
and Danville. Official of the former line,
state that information from the controll
ing elements is to the tffect that the
headquarters of the system will be re
moved to Atlanta, and that the consoli
dated shops will be built there, as that
city is the geographical center of the
new consolidated system. The headquar
ters have been retained at Knoxville in
consequence of local influences, but now
that the control has passed to others, the
the natural conditions will be carried out.
The scoop leaves the Norfolk and Western
bottled up at Bristol, and already an or
der has been issued that all freight from
the South and West should be sent via
Morristown and Asheville, instead of
Bristol, as heretofore. The Norfolk and
Western, it is thought, will unite with
the Baltimore and Ohio to build anew
line through East Tennessee to make
western and southern connections at Chat
tonooga, and will hasten the building of
the Tennessee Midland from Bristol to
Memphis, Tennessee, a line diagonally
across the State. The effect of the scooj
will also be to cause the immediate ex
tension of the Memphis and Charleston
from Stevenson to Chattanooga.
A TOWN TERRORIZED.
A Bad State of A Hairs Reported in a Texas
Village—Two Men Murdered.
A perfect reign of terror exists in the
town of Catulla, the county seat of La
Salle county, Tex., eighty miles south
of San Antonio. As the result of fatal
fueds existing in the community County
Commissioner Hill and and another man
have been shot down and killed in cold
bicod within the past month, and the
slayers of both, although perfectly well
known, have not been arrested. Half a
dozen vigilant committees have organ
ized to hunt the assassins, but they seem
to make no headway, although it is *n
derstood that the murderers have never
left the county. The town is practically
under martial law, and business is almost
suspended, in fact so great is the feeling
of insecurity that many are deserting the
village for fear of losing their lives. Cap
tain Schmidt has a company of State
Rangers, who patrol the streets night and
day to prevent an outbreak of hostilities
between the two factions into which the
community is divided.
TROUBLE AT NIAGARA.
A Large Mass of Rock Falls on the Cana
dian fidc.
Over 223.000 Quebec yards of lime
stone and slate rock of the bank of Nia
gara river, near Horseshoe falls, on the
Canada side, fell out Thursday. The
mass fell with a tremendous crash, which
was heard and felt for miles around. The
break has considerably cl inged the ap
pearance of the bank, and now a dark
chasm can be seen behind the falls from
the bank above. The mass of rock which
fell was sixty feet long and one hundred
and seventy feet deep. Its fall from the
main rock has left a perpendicular wall.
The .tremendous weight of the ice
which has accumulated during the past
three weeks, with steady frosty weather
and low water was the cause of the
break,
WRECKS ON THE RAIL.
SVral Lively
but No Ca#unltf*s.
The Lehigh Valley passenger train, due
at Buffalo at 11 o'clock Thursday night,
left the track at Attica, N. Y. The bag
gage car and four coaches were thrown
on their sides. Only one passenger and
the conductor of the train hurt; both
slightly.
The Limited Express from St. Louis,
on the Erie road, due at New York at 11
o'clock Thursday morning, was thrown
from the track by the rails spreading,
near Middletown, N. Y. The tender of
the engine, two baggage, three day
coaches and three sleepers left the track
and ran an eighth of a mile before stop
ping, where they still stood upwright, but
pointed in as many directions as there
were cars. Everybody was well shaken
up, but the only man suffering actual in
jury was the baggage master, upon whom
a heavy trunk fell. The train was run
ning fifty miles an hour when it left the
track.
A second wreck occurred Thursday af
ternoon at Middletown, N. Y., growing
out of the first wreck on the Erie. The
wreckers had hiought to Middletown
three of the coaches of the-wrecked train,
and while they stood on the main track
near the station, the express due in Jer
sey city at 5 o’clock, dashed into them,
wrecking two engines and five coaches,
and causing another blockade. No pas
sengers were hurt.
A serious collision occurred Thursday
morning at two o’clock, between the
freight and passenger trains on the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western railway,
seventy-eight miles from Savannah. The
passenger train was coming from Jack
, sonville and the freight was going south.
The passenger engineer heard the whistle
of the freight,but was uualite to discover
it clearly, as it was very foggy. The
passenger was backing at the rate of four
miles an hour, aud the freight running at
eighteen miles. The engineer and fire
men of both trains sprang from their en
gines in time to save their lives, and no
one was injured save one colored man,
who was slightly bruised. The freight
engine was a total wreck, and the pas
senger engine considerably damaged. One
car was telescoped by the freight tender,
and four freight cars were thrown from
the track. The track was also torn up
for some distance. The passengers on
the northbound train were considerably
shaken up, and the train was delayed
three hours, but no one ivas injured.
hazen dead.
Th# End of the Chief of the Signal S#r
vice.
General W. B. Hazen, chief signal offi
cer, U. S. A., died at Washington of
diabetes, at eight o’clock Sunday even
ing. He had suffered from diabetes for
some years, but of late had improved in
health and strength, and hopes were en
tertained of his complete recovery. At
the reception of the diplomatic corps
given by the president, he took a severe
cold, causing him to keep his bed on the
14th. On the 15th instant lie was up,
and reported himself much improved,
saying that he would go to his uvuTld- j
Monday.
f)ciations are proving I
sician, benefit and profit. - m '
moned to swln.u tewu —ylight.
He at once repaired to his rooms and
found an alarming change in his condi
tion, suggesting poisoning of the blood.
The case was deemed of so extreme grav
ity that his relatives in Washington were
informed, and they at once gathered
about him and spared no effort to bring
him relief. Every measure that skill or
science could suggest failed to rally the
sinking officer, and he breathed his last
at eight o’clock in the evening.
Information of General Ilazen’s death
was conveyed immediately by Colonel
Huntingdon and Captain Greely to the
secretary of war, who communicated the
sad intelligence to the president.
A FIGHT WITH ROBBERS.
Cars Loaded Willi Arms and \tusn 11 nil lon
Broken Open and Rifled.
Five masked robbers boarded a Pan-
Handle freight train near Sheridan Sta
tion, just at the outskirts of Pittsburg,
Friday night, but they were detected in
the act of throwing freight from the
moving train, and in a desperate fight
which ensued, Fireman Curley was shot
through the right thigh, and a brakeman
was knocked senseless with a stone. The
train men then gave up the fight to at
tend to the injured men, and the thieves
escaped.
It is thought the robbers secreted them
selves in the cars before, the train left
this city, and as soon as they w r ere be
yond the city limits forced the doors and
threw off a number of boxes of guns and
ammunition. It is thought the men got
away with some of the arms.
Several theories have been advanced as
to why cars were selected tnat were load
ed with arms. It is thought by some
persons that the gang may have been An
archists, and that they were trying to se
cure rifles and ammunition for future
use. They seem to have known wiiat
the contents of the ears were, as both of
the cars broken open contained arm3.
A TRAIN IN A SNOW DRiFT.
Fatal Pinnae ef a Missouri I'aciflc Passen*
ger Train.
A south bound passenger train on the
Missouri Pacific extension was wrecked
near Dunbar, Neb., about midnight
Wednesday. The wreck was caused by
the loosening of a rail, done by parties
unknown. Several spikes and fish plates
had been removed and the train coming
along at the rate of thirty miies an hour,
plunged fifteen feet down an embankment
and landed in a snow drift. James De
witt, of Wyandotte. Kansas, engineer,
was caught under the boiler and killed,
his body not being recovered at last ac
counts. Frank Honewith, express mes
senger, was internally hurt and may die.
A lady, whose name was not learned, was
badly hurt, but the other passengers were
not seriously injured So far as known
here, ail were shaken up, however, and
more or less bruised. The entire train
left the track aud probably the loss of life
would have been greater except for a
snow-bunk which broke the force of the
plunge. Missouri Pacific officials state
that the wreck i- the result of a third at
tempt upon the life of Engineer DeWitt.
PIG IKON FROM ENGLAND.
The Shickle, Harrison and Howard
Iron company, of St. Louis, in conse
quence of their inability to obtain suffic
ient supplies of pig iron from the south,
has c-on'racted for ten thousand tons of
number three from a Middleborough,
England, foundry for immediate ship
ment via New Orleans. The price is
about s2l, duty included, on the wharf
in St. Louis, which is one and jllar less than
the present quotations on a similar grad©
oi tiou iroip "h©
OUR DEFENSELESS COAST.
UXCLE SAM URGED TO TAKE IM
* MEDIATE ACTIOX,
Calling a Convention to bo neld at De-
Ftiuink Spring*, Florida.
The executive eoramitte of the Coast
Defense Association of the coast cities of
the South have issued the following cir
cular:
“We, the undersigned citizens of the
South Atlantic and Gulf coast seaports,
regard with alarm the unprotected con
dition of our cities, which in their
present defenseless state render them and
our homes liable to destruction or to the
exaction of tribute equally as ruinous in
the event of war. This feeling of alarm
is intensified by the huinilliating fact
that a single gunboat of any third "power
may take posession of and destroy any
one of our scajxirt cities, while we are
unable to defend or offer successful re
sistance. W bile the nation has expe
rienced long the blessing of peace, we
cannot always expect this boon, and it
is imperative that our ports be placed in
a state of defense, which would alone
have a tendency to avert war.
“We therefore reccommend that a con
vention be held at DeFuniak Springs,
Fla., a central and convenient point to
convene February 8, 1887, to counsel as
to the best method of securing the pro
tection of our coast, based upon modern
improvements. We recommend that
his Excellency President Cleveland, the
honorable Secretary of War aud the Navy,
both commitees of Congress on military
and naval affairs. General Gilmore and
Captain Greene, of the United States
army. General Newton, Hon. S. Cox, of
New Y ork and others be invited to at
tend. Also the governors of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, with four delegates at large and
one from each congressional district,
appointed by the governors of the above
States, and delegates from the cities of
the coast States. We would gladly in
clude all the coast States, but in a coun
try of such vast distances, each section
should move in convention or otherwise.
The circular is signed by wealthy and
prominent citizens of all the Southern
coast cities. Among the signers are
Governor Drew, of Jacksonville, and
Messrs, Adger of Charleston, Fairbanks
of Fernandiua, Dunn of Brunswick,
Dismukes of St. Augustine, Bethel of
Key West, Orman of Apalachicola, Mc-
Quaiue of Cedar Keys, Chipley of Pen
sacola, Cunningham of Mobile, and
Richardson of New Orleans.
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE DIES.
lie Faint* while ascending the Stairs of Lord
Salisbury’s Residence.
Lord Iddesleigh is dead, He is better
known to fame in British politics as Sir
Stafford Northcote, He fainted while
ascending the stairs of Lord Salisbury’s
official residence, in Downing street, as
lie was about to visit his lordship. He
was taken into the prime minister’s room
onri instantly expired. Aphysi
'Ao-Julletin announces that Lord Id
dlesleigh died from heart disease, from
which he had suffered slightly for sev
eral years. A few moments before he
w r as stricken, he seemed to be in per
fect health and spirit. His body has
been removed to the family residence in
St. James place. There will be no in
quest, the doctors certifying that death
resulted from a failure of the heart’s ac
tion.
A LAND GRANT DECISION.
The Alabama nnd (Imtlnnooen Kailrcaii
Cannot Condemn Certain Land*.
In the case of the Alabama and Chat
tanooga railroad company against the
Tennessee and Coosa railroad company,
the secretary of the interior has affirmed
the decision of Commissioner Spatks, of
July 23 1885, which held that a tract of
land within the six miles granted limits
of the grant to the state of Alabama by
the act of June 3, 1856,t0 aid in the con
struction of the Tennessee aud Coosa
railroad is not subject to selection by tlie
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad com
pany, as indemnity, notwithstanding the
the fact that the Tennessee and Coosa
railroad has not been constructed. Tlie
decision is made on the ground that the
grant in question has never been forfeit
ed by congress. The case involves sev
eral thousand acres of laud in the Hunts
ville, Ala., district.
THE E. TANARUS., V. & GA. RAILROAD.
Becomes a Dependency of (lie Kichmonil it
Danville System.
An important event of the past few
davs Avas the sale of the East Tennessee
Virginia & Georgia railroad to the Rich
mond and West Point terminal com
pany. It is officially stated that the main
points for the sale, comprising 1,423
miles of railway in the States named,have
been agreed upon with representatives ol
the Richmond and West Point company.
Parties holding control of the East Ten
nessee sell their preferred stock for $4 -
400,000 in cash and 40,000 shares of Ter
minal stock at forty. Richmond and
West Point company will put the East
Tennessee preferred stock in trust a
coiattcral for $8,500,000 of colatteral trust
bonds, which the syndicate has agreed tc
LOTTERY TICKETS COUNTERFEITED.
It has been discovered that Louisiana
lottery tickets have been counterfeited
for a year, and sold on the Pacific coast.
A ticket bearing a one thousand dollar
prise number was sent to New Orleans
for collection, and there pronounced a
forgery. The man who made the dies
and printed the tickets is known, and he
has given the names of the men Avho or
dered them and sold the counterfeits.
No prosecution for counterfeiting can be
sustained because the lotteries have no
legal standing. The only prosecution
that can be made is for misdemeanor for
disposing of lottery tickets.
A BRIDGE FALLS IN’.
A special from Adrian, Michigan, says:
The iron passenger bridge spanning the
Raisin river, connecting the two princi
pal portions of the village of Blissficdd.
ten miles east of this place,fell yesterdav.
the intense cold causing the iron to con
tract and draw upon the supports. Wil
liam Slack and Charles Quigley, with a
herd of cattle, were precipitated to the
bottom. The men are injured fatally.
A SMALL POUCH STOLEN.
The mail pouch for the north bound
train, containing about 100 letters from
New Orleans and MaysviU'e, including two
registe:ed letters. Avas stolen from the
catcher at the depot at Roiling Fork
Miss., Saturday. Later in the dav the
thief was wrested.
A DISTILLERY BURNED.
The Building nnd Machinery Entirely De
stroyed nt Terra Haute.
At 3 o’clock Saturday morning an alarm
of fire called the department to the lerra
Haute distillery, where the fire was found
raging in the upper floor of the main
building, in which were the wine and
beer rooms and wine vats. It was found
impossible to reach the fire with a stream,
and for a time the effort of the firemen
were turned to saving the surrounding
buildings from destruction. About 1,-
000 tons of bay was packed in a yard
contiguous to the buildings. The firemen
repeatedly extinguished the flames which
had started in the roofs of the dwelling
houses adjacent. The fire burned north
and south through the building. The
roar of the flames and the hissing of the
burning liquor was fearful. The crash
ing of the ponderous vats, rectifying ap
paratus, stills and all the network of
the machinery was appalling. At 4:30
a. m. the upper floors and walls of the
south wing went down into a seething
mass of fire, with a thunderous crash that
made the ground tremble. The fire spread
downward through the building, and
soon the boiler room was burning from
end to end. Tremendous clouds of sparks
aud living coals tilled the air and were
scattered broadcast by the wind. Great
fears were entertained for the safety of the
bonded warehouse, but it was saved from
destruction.
In the building were not less than 65,-
000 gallons of high wines and 20,000 gal
lons of low wines and rectified whisky,
and a large amount of rye malt and oats
were in store; also about 10,000 bushels
of corn. The building from top to bot
tom is a total w 7 reck.
James Nugent, a watchman, is sup
posed to be buried in the ruins, as he
cannot be found. Crawford Fairbanks,
the principal owner, estimates the loss at
about SIOO,OOO. The insurance will ag
gregate about $70,000. The building
will be rebuilt as soon as possible.
At 9 a. m. there was nothing standing
except one back Avail. One year ago this
month a boiler explosion at the distillery
killed seven persons and caused heavy
damage to the property.
RISING FAWN RIOT.
A Desperate Negro Shot nnd Killed by a
Guard.
For some weeks past Captain Conner,
Avho is in charge of the convict camp lo
cated at Rising Fawn, Ga., lias suspected
that two convicts named Jim Holt and
William Jackson were planning an escape.
He succeeded in getting satisfactory evi
dence that Holt was the leader, and de
cided to punish him. In attempting to
do this Conner Avas stabbed in the left
shoulder. With a \ r iew to disabling
Holt, Captain Conner thereupon shot at
him tAvice, but merely grazed the skin.
The friends of Holt who Avere in the
building b( came very much excited, and
a mutiny avu.s threatened. A bad state of
affairs continued up to Sunday, when
William Jackson, figuring as leader, Avas
so effectual in keeping up the strife, that
it was thought advisable to punish him.
Accordingly, he Avas ordered out, but re
fused to come, saying he Avould die first.
Late in the evening guards were stationed
at the door, and Captain Conner, accom
panied by two trusties, entered to remove
Jackson.
Jackson resisted, using a-.knife, and
several of the convicts taking sides Avith
him, hurled bottles and other missils at
the guards and trusties. At this stage
the excitement became intense, and one
of the guards seeing Jackson furiously
brandishing his knife, shot at him with
the intention of disabling him, hut the
ball hitting his arm, severed an artery,
from which he died. This had the effect
of subduing the others. No blame is at
tached to the act of the guard; and no
further trouble is apprehended.
A GREAT FIRE AT DENVER.
The ClifTord Block Entirely Destroyed—
The Loss Very Heavy.
The Clifford Block, a three-story build
ing, owned by W. B. Daniels, was com
pletely burned Saturday evening. The
ground floors were occupied by Knight
& Atmore, clothiers, who lost their en
tire stock, and It. Douglas, china and
queensware, whose stock also was totally
destroyed. The contents of the upper
floors, occupied as office and lodging
rooms, were entirely destroyed. The
stock of Kilpatrick’s furniture house, ad
joining the burned building, was dam
aged by water and smoke. The losses
are estimated as follows: Knight & At
mire $34,000, insured for $20,500; It.
Douglas $35,000 to SIO,OOO, insurance
for $34,000; offices and lodging rooms
$15,000 to $20,000, partially insured; W.
B. Daniels, on building, $40,000, fully
insured. Kilpatrick’s loss is fully cov
ered by insurance.
AUGUST HPIKS’H BRIDE.
Miss Nina Clark VanZandt, of Chicago,
who is soon to be married to August
Spies, the condemned Anarchist, is a
grandaughter of the late W. B. Clark, a
prominent lawyer at Beaver Pa. She
was among the guests at the marriage, in
Pittsburg, of Miss Walker, sister-in-law
of Mr. George Westinghouse, and was
very much admired because of her beauty
and accomplishments. Mr. Van Zandt,
father of the lady, is connected with the
well-known Morehead family of Pittsburg
being, it is said, a nephew' of the late
James K. Moorhead, after whom he was
named. It is reported that the marriage
may divert an expected inheritance of
Miss Van Zandt into other channels.
DUTCH TO SETTLE IN FLORIDA.
Negotiations were completed at Jack
sonville by which a syndicate of Dutch
bankers in Amsterdam* Holland, acquired
from the Florida Land Mortgage compa
ny, limited, a vast body of timber land in
west Florida. The purchase embraces a
solid area of nearly nine hundred square
miles heavily timbered. This is the
largest single transaction made in the
staie since the great Disston sale in 1881.
The syndicate proposes to form a great
land and colonization company, building
a railroad into the purchase and
ing from Holland.
IRON SHIPMENT FROM CHARLESTON.
The steamship Seminole sailed from
Charleston for New York Saturday with
one hundred and eight tons of iron from
Birmingham, Ala. This is the first cargo
of pig iron ever shipped from Charleston,
and is the beginning of a trade which
promises to make Charleston the most
important shipping port for Alabama iron
on the South Atlantic coast.
PENITENTIARY BURNED.
The state penitentiary of Kentuckv, at
r rankfort, was burned Saturdav. The
oorfi < i ontents valued at
t jo,ooo, aud the insurance was onlv
wer ?' p Fortunately, all the prisoner;
locked up m the cell house, which
building and QQt,
THE LABOR WORLD.
REPORT OF NEW YORK BUREAU
OF STATISTICS AND LABOR.
Inve*tl*atlon Inqnirle* into the Work-
Ingnmn'a Position.
New York State Commissioner Pock, in tha
•‘Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of
Statistics of Labor,” says:
The A-ear ISS6 has witnessed a more pro
found * and far more extended agitation
among the members of organized labor than
any previous year in tha history of oar
country, aud Avhile such agitation in our
own State has not been characterized by the
wholly unwarranted and criminal excesses
that startled with horror the populace of sev
eral if the Western cities, it has neverthe
less been earnest and pronminced. With
but rare exceptions, organized labor has
continued in this State, with creator suc
i ess aud vigor than ever before, to agi
tate. to striko and to boycott during the
past year, and ISMS will lie remembered as
one of the greate importance in the battle
waged bit"een capital and labor, the signal
failures and sueie -se- of which will uot be
10.-t or fail to serve as les on-, of A'alue to tha
student < f loeial and eci nomic que-tions.
The subject of apprenticeship is treated at
great length and in a most exhaustive man
ner. Among other things the Commissioner
ays, in discus ing the question:
‘ Asa very prominent feature of th* labor
question, it has been fond expedient and
necessary to look into our apprenticeship
system—the means at hand of renewing and
cerpetuating our lab >r supply. The broad
result is that we are largely dependent upon
foreign skilled labor. Our supply of native
mechanics is daily augmented by the skilled
labor of Europe, and Avhile this foreign ele
ment is not equal to the skilled labor which
is retained in Europe, it is in the main \ astly
superior to that produced in our own country.
Whether unrestricted emigration be or
be r.ot a national blessing may bo disputed,
but a visit to the workshops of the State will
demonstrate the truthfulness of the statement
that the largo majority of our tradesmen
and mechanics are foreigners. Indeed, in
many trade aud industrial e-iablishmeuts
there is not a single American at work.
Nearly ail portions of trust and responsi
bility in the me-chau! a 1 Jo, at intents are in
the hands of foreign-born workers, and most
of the 1 oys aud young men learning trades
are either foreign born or the sons of
foreign-born workers. And the opinion
is now very generally expressed an 1 ac
cepted, that most of the labor troubles of tha
lost few years have been precipitated, not
by Avhole trades, but by sections of them,
and that these sections were largely con
trolled by foreigners, or natives who had
from > ssociatiou imbibed foreign ideas on
the labor question.”
The Commissioner argues in favor of man
ual training as a means of keeping up the
supply of trained labor and preventing the
coming man from becoming tiie slave of tha
machine.
The conclusion at which the Commissioner
arrives in regard to “Shorter Hours of La
bor” are thus summed tip: —“As predicted in
the last report of this bureau, a very
general movement tvas made on tlie first
day of May last looking to the reduction
of the hours of labor from ten to eight per
day. The organizations of New York and
Brooklyn seemed t > have acted more in con
cert than those of other cities in the States,
and were by far moro successful,
having Avon a majority of the case*
Avhere demands were made. It is true
that while a large percentage of all engaged
in the movement asked for a reduction of two
hours a day, very many of the organization*
did it with a view of compromising on nine
hours as a day’s work.”
He next gives brief hit cries of the leading
strikes in the State during the year, notably
those in the Troy la mdries, the sugar
refineries, and on the street rail
roads. The losses by these different
strikes, boycotts, Ac., he is unable
to give in total, but fifty-eight firms alone
report an nggregat •of $3,000,000. Oil the
other hand, the losses of wages to striking
enin'nvos are represented by the sum of 99,
,el.
COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED.
4'linttn uoogn Ilelcclfvrs Capture n Noto
rious Character.
A special from Chattanooga, says: A
detective has discovered one of the most
extensive counterfeiting establishments
yet broken up in the South. For several
weeks an almost perfeet counterfeit coin
has been circulated in the city, and all at
tempts to trace it up proved fruitless.
Saturday an old man was seen to enter a
store an<l make a trifling purchase, re
ceiving ninety cents in change. On his
departure it was ascertained that the coin
he left was counterfeit The detectives
were notified and at once put him under
surveillance. Saturday night he was ar
lested and SOO in counterfeit found on
his person. He proved to lie Mullins,
one of the most notorious counterfeiters
in America. He was arrested two years
ago at Fort Scott, Arkansas, and escaped
by turning State's evidence. It was as
certained that the den is in the heart of
the city and has been conducted as an
electro-plating establishment. It is now
in the hands of the police, and three
other arrests have been made. It is
thought that thousands of dollars have
been issued from these. The counterfeit
is nearly perfect.
A BLAZE IN NASHVILLE.
A fire broke out at midnight in B. S.
Rea A Sons’ grain and hay warehouse,
and fanned by tlie wind the flames threat
ened widespread destruction.* The fire
department, after half an hour’s hard
work, got matters so much in hand that
there was no further damage. The
of Rea & Son was totally destroyed. TIIS
loss is SB,OOO. The building, also owned
by them, was damaged SB,OOO. Both
were fully insured. The cellar contained
several thousand dollars’ worth of meat,
belonging to Hart & Hensley, which was
almost ruined. Morgan & Hamilton, pa
per bag manufactory, and Orr, Scoggins
A Cos, wholesale grocers, lost heavily by
water. The wind carried blazing pieces
of wood across the river to the extensive
lumber mills and cedar wood works of
Prewitt, Sparr & Cos.
THE MAD DANCERS.
A sad outbreak of insanity is reported
from Whiteday, W. Va. ' Washington
Lake has five grown daughters. Two
weeks ago Tabitha got married and the
young people of the neighborhood, in
cluding her four sisters, celebrated the
event by dancing all night and 11 all
the next day. On the evening of the
second. Martha, one of th<- sisters. lost
her reason and developed into a ravintr
maniac and four days later tie bride
went stark mad. Since then the three
other si stars exhibited evidences >( in
sanity and the worst is feared.
the army AND PENSION BILLS
The army appropriation bill, a report
ed to the Senate bv Senator Allison. ap
propriates $23,737,718, being $951,000
in excess of the appropriation bill as it
came from the House, and $1,778,809
le6s than the estimates. The pension ap
propriation bill, also reported by Senator
Allison, appropriates the same amount as
the House bill, and contains but one
amendment of slight importance.
A BOILER EXPLOSION.
The boiler of A M. Morris’s mill, at
Jeannette, La., exploded Saturday, de
molishing the boiler house. Demos
Morrissee and Godfrev Proost were bad
ly *c i iid. E. Pellerin and a negro
called Gus were slightly scalded, and a
girl who was pulled from under the tuiai
i believed to bo fatally scalded,