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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGINTY <f- CABANISB.
Only fifty years ago, says Sir Spencer
Weils, the average duration of human
life in Great Britain was thirty years; to
day, according to statisticI*, 1 *, it is forty
nine years. In this fifty years the popu
lation has increased by 8,000,000. At
least two cut of this 8,000,000 of in
crease may be put down as the fruit of
improved sanitary and medical work,
and of victory over preventable sickness.
While a jeweller was chatting to a
New York reporter a colored lady, at
tired in the latest devices of fashion,pur
chased n brilliant and planked down
$240 v. ithout a murmur. ‘‘Some of our
best customers are colored people,” said
the jeweller. “When they have money
they wear good clothes and good jew
elry. Diamon 1 ear-rings are s .‘t off bet
ter on a dark background, and the
colored ladies understand it."
An ancient naturalist once declared
his belief that monkeys were able to talk,
and the reason they did not use the gift
of speech was because they were cunning
enough to know that if they were to
talk they would be put to work. If this
theory is sound we may expect monkey
dom to burst into speech at once, for a
Kentucky man—J. B. Parkes of Kings
ton—has trained seven large monkeys to
work in his hemp field and break and
prepare hemp for market, and has sent
his brother to South Africa to get ten
more Simian slaves.
The Rev. Jonathan Crossett, who for
seventeen years has been a missionary in
China, says that one section of China is
still untouched by the missionaries—the
Mongols living to the north and west.
Tho Mongols go down to Lnssa in Tibet
ns to a Mecca, and evidence can be found
among them of the teachings of the early
Christians. They arc tho most tenacious
ns to their religion of any people whom
he had ever met. Their deity is called
Borhan, or “light,” and their belief—
Lnmaism—is founded upon tenets held
by all Christians. They observe one day
in every seven, and although they wor
ship idols, they have ten commandments,
and their system of morals is very high.
On the 31st of May, 1883, Marguerite
Bogenval, of Origny, France, went to
Bleep, and has not wakened since, nor so
much as stirred a finger. She has been
kept alive by the administration of milk
and highly concentrated beef tea. De
spite the most careful attentions of those
watching her, she is now emaciated to
an extreme degree, and her bones are
piercing her skin. Siie lies perfectly
still and rigid, her eyes closed and her
teeth set fast together. A peculiarity of
the case is that in raising one eyelid and
allowing the light to fall upon the eye,
a shudder is noticed, followed by an im
mediate lowering of the eyelid, or an at
tempt to do so. Marguerite’s respiration
is p rfectly normal in its regularity, and
lnr pulse, though feeble, is not much
below the ordinary rate of beats.
Love laughs at the locksmith more
frequently than at the law, but a youth
ful cvup'e, the children of residents of
Sellesburg, Indiana, are laughing at
both. Having escaped from surveillance
at home th y went t> the county clerk
for a marriage license; lor, as 1 hey were
both under age, the clerk refused to
give them one. i licit next step was to
induce the gir.'s mother to grant her
consent, whereupon the young man
went to a judge to have a guardian ap
pointed who would give the consent
that the would-be groom’s father denied.
The guardian was appointed, and the
consent given, whereupon the young
mans father blocked the game by i
notify ng all the clergymen in town not
to marry the eoup’e. But the young
people saw the stern parent and went
bun several times better. With the
written consent of the girl’s mother and
the young man’s guardian, they fled
into another county, obtained a license,
and were united. Y\ hethcr they will
live huppi v ever afterward remains to be
seen.
A Soldier’s Sword.
In hi< wii : , the late Gen. Durbin
Ward of Ohio, gave to his neice, Ella
W ard, the j we.-mounted sword which
had becu preseutc 1 to him by the
privates of his old regiment. He enjoins
her that she shall “deliver it to her
eldest son, should she ever be blessed
with one, ami if he shou and die, to the
next eldest in succession, and with it
the charge never to draw it in a bad
cause, and to never leave it sheathed
should a goxl one require its aid, and
command him also to send it down to
posterity to the eldest son in the direct
lin' so long as any Ward blood can
weild a sword, until that blessed time
shall come when all swords shall be
beaten into ploughshares.’’
The Foris Around Paris.
The forts which have becu constructed
round Paris since IS7I are so far outside
the old forts and form so wide a circle
that it would require an incalcuble
number of men to invest the city. It
took 300,000 Germans to encircle the old
line; tiiere are not enough men in Ger
many to encircle the new one. It would
accordingly be impossible to prevent
the garrison of Paris from receiving
supplies and reinforcements, and the
city could hold out for ever. The only
way to capture it is by assault, and as
this method was considered impractica
ble in 11*70, it is not likely to be tried
iv xt time, [Times-Democrat.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES
SOUTHERN PROGRESS,
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
Manufacturing and Other Banin©*® lat#r
e®t® Booming Nevr Railroad®, Etc.
A soap factory will be built at La-
Grange Ga.
The Presbyterians will build an SB,OOO
church at Gainesville Fla.
An axe and pick handle factory is to
be erected at Floyd C. 11., \ a.
O. A. Johnson and others will build a
large hotel at Hot Springs, Ark.
Bowman <fc Spriggs are opening man
ganese mines at Tunnel Hill, Ga.
A company has been formed to build a
street railroad at Maryville, Tenn.
An ice factory and a cotton compress
are to be built at Brookhaven, Miss.
A company has been formed to build
a large wagon factory at Selma, Ala.
J. C. Stevenson and others will start a
steam cracker factory at Wilmington, N.
C.
A stock company has been formed to
build a large rice mill at New Orleans,
La.
A broom factory will be started by H.
E. Carter and J. H. Copeland at Marshall
Ga.
The Presbyterians of Sweetwater,
Tenn., will build a church to cost $9,-
000.
The Texas legislature has appropriated
$50,000 to build an asylum at Austin,
Tex.
A $25,000 bank building will be erected
on Noble street at Anniston Ala., by D.
F. Constantine.
The Jesuits will build a fine church at
Macon, Ga. F, J. M. Daly can give par
ticulars.
G. N. Henson, of Chattanooga, it is
reported, will build a furniture factory at
Loudon, Tenn.
•T. W. Bentz will erect a stamp mill
and hoisting machinery at Bear Ark , at
a cost of SIO,OOO.
The Texas & Pacific Railroad Cos. will
build a round house and repair shops at
Maringouin, La.
Eagan & Cos. are erecting brick works
at Chattanooga, Tenn., and have pur
chased machinery.
The TeDsas, La., Land Improvement
Cos. has been organized with a capital
stock of $3,500,000.
F. Muench, of Charleston, and others,
contemplate starting a canning factory at
Mouut Pleasant, S. C.
The Raleigh Street Railway Cos. will,
it is said, build a short street car line at
forehead City, N. C.
B. F. Avery & Sons are building a
our-story addition to their large plow
works at Louisville, Ky.
A wagon manufacturing company, of
Decatur, 111., have decided to move their
plant to Little Rock Ark.
A $50,000 cornpan; has been organized
at Fort Worth Texas to erect w T orks for
manufacturing car wdieels.
The Knights of Labor Co-operative
Cigar Manufacturing Cos. has been incor
porated at Covington, Ky.
The Georgia and North Carolina Man
ganese, Iron and Marble Cos. has been in
corporated at Nashville, Tenn.
The Little Rock & Ft. Smith Railroad
Cos., is to be extended from Van Buren,
Ark., to Fort Gibson, Ind., T.
The Carolina Iron Cos., of Pittsburgh,
Pa., are erecting machinery to develop
mines at Kings Mountain, N. C.
The Fork Shoals, S. C., Manufactur
ing Cos. have purchased considerable new
machinery for their cotton factory.
The Fort Negley M. E. Church, at
Chattanooga, Tenn,, will erect a new
building at a cost of about $20,000.
The Decatur Ala., Laud, Furnace &
Improvement Cos., are negotiating for the
location of a rolling mill at that place.
The Central Railroad & Banking Cos.
will erect another cotton compress at
Columbus, Ga., to cost about $05,000.
Simmons Bros, and others have pur
chased 100 acres of marble lands 8 miles
from Burnet, Texas, and will open quar
ries.
The Tampa Hotel C“., capital stock
$50,000, has been organized to build a
hotel at Tampa Fla., to cost about $150,-
000.
A company has incorporated at Greens
boro, N. C., to manufacture and sell to
bacco. Their paid-up Capital stock is
$13,800.
The Cherokee Iron Cos., of Cedartown.
Ga., A. West,president,will build an ad
ditional furnace, with a capacity of 100
tons daily.
S. L. Carter, L. H. Davis and brothers
of El Paso Texas, have organized a stock
company to erect a powder factory at
that place.
The Hiawassee Railroad Cos. has been
chartered to build a railroad froip Chat
tanooga, Tenn., to the North Carolina
State line.
A company is being organized with a
capital stock of $50,000 to establish a
large dairy farm and creamery near Bir
mingham Ala.
William H. Ford, of Lynchburg, Va .
has recently purchased a large tract of
timber land near Rustburg,Va., and will
erect a bark mill.
Adou <fe Lobit have organized a com
pany with a capital stock of $500,000 to
build a large bagging and cordage factory
at Galveston Texas.
The Southern Car Heating and Illum
inating Cos. has been chartered at Nash
ville, Tenn., to build machines to light
and heat railroad cars.
1 fie Little Buck A: l exasßailroad Cos.,
capital sock $5,000,000, has been incor
porated at Little Rock, Ark., to build a
railroad from Little Rock to llackett
City.
N. K. Mead and associates of Cincin
nati. 0., have organized a $50,000 stock
company to build a saw and planing mill
and a sash, door and blind factory at De
catur Ala.
Chattanooga, Tenn., will decide by
popular vote on April 21 whether or not
to issue the $500,000 of bonds for public
improvements recently authorized by the
State legislature.
The Athens Mining A Manufacturing
Cos., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized at Athens, Tenn.. and secured
1,000 acres of land and proposes to spend
$500,000 in building three large cotton
mills, a large woolen mill, water works,
a $40.00 hotel, and a SIO,OOO school
building.
Messrs. Alfred Tyler and Samuel No
ble, of Anniston, Ala., and others have
purchased the entire property of the Ca
haba Coal Mining Cos., for about $1.000.-
OOU. and. in addition. 15.000 acres of
coal and iron h-nds. They will spend
about $1,000,000 in developing the prop
erties, opening new mines, etc. 500 < <>ke
ovens will be built to supply the twonewr
furnaces at Anniston with coke.
The Iberia Opera House Cos, capital
stock $20,000, has been organized at
New Iberia, La., and will soon begin er
ecting an opera house.
The Brazoria Land & Cattle Cos., of St.
Louis, Mo., are arranging to establish a
large abattoir on Dickinson Bavou, 16
miles from Galveston Texas.
The Palatka A Northwestern Railway
Cos., has been formed to build a railroad
from Palatka Fla., to a point in Gadsden
county, with several branches.
It is reported that the Pepper Mining
Cos. will resume the development of their
mica mines in Stokes county and open
coal mines near Stokesbura. N. C.
The Portsmouth, Va., water works
have been purchased by Charles D. Ward,
of Jersey City. N. J., for $81,150, who
will complete the building of the works.
It is reported that the Notasulga Gran
ite Cos., capital stock $500,000, will be
organized by Birmingham parties to de
velop granite quarries at Nostasulga, Ala.
The Fort Worth Texas Machine &
Boiler Works will build new works at a
cost of about SIOO,OOO. Plans have been
prepared and work will shortly begin.
The I.ttele Rock Automatic Refrigera
ting Cos., capital stock $75,000, has been
organized at Little Rock, Ark., by Logan
H. R oots and others.
THE LINES TO CONNECT.
A Contract Between the Louisville Ac Nash
ville and the Nerfolk dc Weiier®.
Official announcement is made from
Philadelphia that a preliminary contract
has been executed between tbe Louisville
and Nashville and the Norfolk and Wes
tern railroad companies by the terms of
which each cornany undertakes promptly
to cause surveys to be made, with a view
to construct an extension of its lines to
a point of connection in Wise county,
Virginia. The extension of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad will be from Cor
bin station, on their present Knoxville
branch, through the Cumberland valley
of Kentucky, and the extension of the
Norfolk and Western railroad will be from
Graham station, on their New River di
vision, through Clinch valley of Virginia.
The total length of the line to be con
structed is about two hundred miles, and
as the meeting point will be east of the
Cumberland mountain, in Wise county,
Virginia, each company will have about
one hundred miles to construct, and the
work will be pressed to completion as
rapidly as possible, Engineers have been
engaged for several months past in loca
tion of the line. The Louisville and
Nashville railroad company has already
thirty-five miles of their portion of it un
der contract and to be completed during
the month of August of the present year.
It is expected that the entire line will be
completed and connections made within
the next twelve months.
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER.
Wliat the Toronto (Bob© Hum to May of
the Document.
Toronto, Ont., — The Toronto Globe
of Monday says: The letter of President
Cleveland to the president of the fishery
union is a remarkable and important doc
ument. It is not. such a letter as Ameri
cans interested in the fisheries desired to
receive from the president, but the letter
was evidently intended as a warning to
Canadians, also. While we desire that
the rights of Canada be firmly and effi
ciently asserted and maintained, we hope
that American fishermen will not be re
fused any privileges to which they are
entitled, and that they will never experi
ence unjust or unfriendly treatment from
those employed in the protection of out
rights. It would be folly, however, to
put out of sight the fact that many in
the United States, including, apparently,
the president himself and members of his
cabinet, assert that fishermen of the
United States have rights in our waters
which we believe they have not undi r
the terms of the treaty now in force, and
that there are privileges to which they
are entitled, in the opinion of the presi
dent, to which we say they have no title,
whatever. From the misunderstanding
if we assert what we believe to be out
rights, greater misunderstandings may
arise. This letter although studiously
moderate in tone, intimates plainly w lit
may follow. The position is, to say tin
least, exceedingly serious.
FOREIGNERS FIGHTING.
A Bloody Kiol at a (hristeuing F© rival
in Dearer, Col.
Denver, Col. — A bloody riot occur
red Sunday night between rival Swedish.
Polish and Hungarian colonies at 34th
and Blank street, which resulted in the
fatal shooting of one man and the scrim
wounding of several others. It grew out
of a christening festivity. When the
christening party had eaten and drank,
they went out upon the sidewalk and
made war upon the inhabitants of a
neighboring house. Others in the neigh
borhood became involved and the up
roar became so great that it required a
detachment of a dozen police, armed,
with Winchester rifles to quell the dis
turbance. Three or four police first
made their appearance, when the rio'ers
postponed their contention and joined
forces against the common enemy. They
could not stand against a platoon of rifles
however, and about thirty were lodged
in the calaboose and some in the hospi
tal. But one or two of the prisoners
can speak English. They are ail ragged,
dirty and spattered with blood, and
have the appearance of belonging to the
lowest type of humanity. Many of them
arrived in Denver only a week ago direct
from Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and
other ports of Europe.
THEY STRIKE OIL.
A special from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
say 9: A brief dispatch to the paper*
Tuesday, announcing that oil had been
in James county, twenty miles east of
Chattanooga, threw the city into a good
deal of excitement and at Ootelwah,
where the -well was drilled, the people
are fairly wild. Two months ago, James
Laman & Cos., of Pennsylvania, begun to
bore for oil in the White Oak mountains,
but they attracted no especial attention
until Monday, when the off begun to
flow. There is no doubt but that oil has
been struck. Two companies were
formed here a few months ago to bore
for oil and gas and the discovery Monday
had a very stimulating effect, as they will
begin work at once.
PNOW STOKJIS IN MICHIGAN.
Chicago, III. —A special from Han
cock, Michigan, says: Decidely the
worst snow storm of the season is just
over. The snow is thrty-four inches deep,
and drifted badly. The Hancock and
Calumet railroad is blockaded. The Mar
quette train was delayed several hours,
and it took the Mineral Range train sev
enteen hours to go thirteen miles, from
Calumtt to Hancock. For the first time
for the season all traffic on the street was
stopped.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What 1® B®l®( Dob© by tb© Head® of Oar
Governßient—The Week'® Review.
A CIVIL SERVICE DECISION.
The district supreme court, iu general
term, rendered a decision Monday iu the
case of Morris S. Miller against the civil
service commission, brought before the
court upon a petition of right, in which
the petitioner complained of acts of the
commission and asked to have the civil
service law declared unconstitutional.
Judge Hagner, who delivered the opin
ion, said that the court had given the pe
titioner a hearing, but could not grant
the relief prayed for. The application
was, therefore, dissmissed. The inter
state commerce commissioners are beiuo
flooded with petitioners from every sec
tion, and from present indications they
will have their hands full for some time
to come. The following rule of proceed
ure has been promulgated by them : Ap
plications made for official action by this
commission shall be made by petition
which petition shall set forth’ the facts
on which they are founded, and be ver
rified by the oath of the applicant or
some authorized agent.
A CABINET MEETING.
The cabinet met at 11 o’clock. Thurs
day according with the plan for the sum
mer months, and remained in session over
three hours. The meeting was devoted
almost entirely to the consideration of
international questions, the most impor
tant relating to the Canadian fisheries,
the policy of Great Britian in regard to
the island of Hayti, and the seal fisheries
of Alaska. In regard to the fisheries
question, it is understood that informa
tion has been received to the effect that
England sustains the position taken by
Canada, and is in no w ise disposed to
make the concession requested by this
government. The question was consid
ered by the cabinet with a view to the
advisability of suitable action by the
president under the provisions of the re
taliatory act.
The alleged demand of Great Britian
for the possession of Tortugas islands or
payment by the Haytian government of
$1,000,000 in settlement of old claims,
was considered at some length. The
United States have great interests in
Hayti, commercial and otherwise, and
are deeply concerned in its welfare and
prosperity. Correspondence will be
opened with England on the subject.
Alaska seal fisheries were discussed
with a view to their better protection
from foreigners. It is reported that in
terests are now threatened by wanton
and wholesale slaughter of seals on the
open ocean. It seems that during the
day female seals leave their young, on
the shores of islands in charge of the
males, while they go miles away in
search of food, with which they return
at night. Recently the practice has
sprung up of catching the female seals
while they are in search of food. Their
young perished, as a matter of course,
and the perpetuation of the animals is
endangered. The difficulty of controll
ing this matter arises from the alleged
want of jurisdiction of the government
over those waters beyond the three miles
limit. The question will be again con
sidered at a future meeting.
ENDKOTT AND MAYNARD DISAGREE.
We clip the following from the Eve
ning Slar of Wednesday: There have
been nnmi r jus points of controversy be
tween Second Controller Maynard and
Secretary Endicott. The secretary of
war has not in all cases been willing to
accept the decisions of the second con
troller, and has tried on several occasions
to have them reversed or overruled in
some way. There has been a conflict of
authority and Judge Maynard has held
the key to the situation. Two or three
months ago, Mr. Endicott wrote a letter
to the second controller in relation to the
accounts of Surgeon Billings, Lieutenant
Ray and Captain Wheeler for mileage
while journeying abroad, which had been
disallowed, reopened by request of the
secretary of war, and again disallowed;
and also to certain accounts of Capt. J. B.
Rawles, Majors Smith and Tucker and
others. In the letter Mr. Endicott an
nounced that he intended to submit the
cases to the court of claims under the
provisions of section 3 of the act of
March 3, 1884, which permits matters
controverted in the departments to be
sent to the court of claims.
Yesterday just before retiring from the
office of second controller Judge Mayn
ard wrote a sharp reply to the secretary
of war. He said that the cases had been
settled and the papers turned over to the
second auditor; that the re-examination
had resulted in postponing the decision
reached in the first instance, and that the
matter would not be again reopened. As
to the announcement that the secretary
of war intended to send the cases to the
court of claims he calls attention to the
fact that the cases are entirely under the
jurisdiction of the treasury department i
and cannot be taken to the court of
claims by the head of any other depart
ment. Moreover, he reminds Secretary
Endicott that the court could only give
an opinion and not a decision in the
cases, should the secretary go there. In
conclusion he says:
“If the secretary of war had any doubt
with reference to the correctness of his
own views upon any or all of the abstract
questions of law propounded in his let
ter, the opinion of the court of claims
thereon might be of value to him; but as
this office has no doubt, and, so far as it
can be learned this department has none,
with reference to the correctness of the
adjustment of accounts referred to, it is
not seen how a reference of these cases
by another department to the court of
claims can affect the past or control.the
future action of the treasury department
thereoD."
COL. LAMONT S ANSWER.
A delegation of Irish-Americans called
at the white house Monday to invite the
president to attend a meeting to be held
in the city to protest against the coercion
policy in Ireland. They saw Col. La
mont and were informed that whatever
the president’s private views on the sub
ject might be, it would be manifestly
improper for him to attend such a meet- i
ing in his official capacity. The commit
tee were convinced of the wisdom of this
reasoning, and withdrew without further
effort to see the president.
The president has accepted an invita
tion to review, on Monday next, a pro
cession of colored people on the occasion
of the 20th anniversary of emancipation
of slaves in the District of Columbia.
Ax eighteen-year-old young man of
Richie county, Indiana, fell ill with
measles. His grandmother, anxious to j
effect a speedy cure and “bring them |
out,” placed him betweeu two ticks of
feu there, with hot stones at his feet and j
a live sheep alongside of him. He died. '
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
A Naraber of Mm are Suffocated ia a Mlaa
t Savanna, I. T.
A special from Venita, Indian Terri
tory, referring to a mine disaster at Sa
vanna, says: The body of gas fired must
j have been immense, to’ render flames of
i Bu ch magnitude. It was followed with
! such concussion as to startle every one
tor miles around, and people in tlie im
mediate vicinity were severely shocked.
The engine house and lifting works struc
ture, over a hundred feet long and two
stories high, was blown into splinters by
the current driven out of the slope anil
; in a few minutes was enveloped inflames,
j From the character of the building and
I being literally saturated with oil, it was
not possible to save anything from the
flames. There were six men in the mine
at the moment of the explosion, which
occurred at ten minutes past one o'clock.
( These men were all killed. Their names
I areas follows: Miles Jarrett, Dave Jones,
I Hugh Dooley, William Baines, Charles
Parsons, and Bert French. The most
distressing part of the accident is the
suffering of thirteen more, who were at
tempting, with others, to reach the fated
men through an adjoining mine.
Following are their names: James
| Ward, James McGinniss, Fred Rates,
: Thomas Noven, Mike Kelley, Thomas
I Daniels, George Hill, Pat Glaney, Robert
j Miller, Pat Fagan, John Williams, Peter
j Renold and William Hudson. The
workings of the two mines run together
far down in the mine but these means of
communication have never been attended
to or the men could have been rescued.
Out of the first party attempting to reach
number two, five were lost and are still
in the mine.
A second party of twelve or fifteen
went down. At this writing, eight of
these are reported lost in the mine, over
come with fire damp. This makes thir
teen already sacrificed to inattention.
There is no telling what may be further
loss of life in the attempt to rescue the
bodies of those now in the mines. Cut
ting is now being driven through into
one of the upper lifts or entries. When
done, it is hoped they will be able to at
least rescue the bodies of the unfortun
ates. Fans have been started in No. 2,
by attaching the boiler of a switch loco
motive to steam pipes. Everything that
is possible is being done to enable the
men to reach the bottom of the slope.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Th® Vata® of Wine® Rejected at a Wis
consin Election.
Associated press dispatch from Mil
waukee, Wis, dated Tuesday, says: The
election to-day was for state associate
judge of the supreme court. Harlow T.
Orton, democrat, vras re-elected without
opposition. Milwaukee county voted on
judge of the circuit court and judge of
the superior court. The democrats and
republicans placed a fusion ticket in the
field ogainst the labor party. At 10
o clock to-night twenty-five precincts
have been heard from, giving D. H.
Johnson, democrat, and George H.
Noyes, republican, fusion judicial candi
dates, 1,14 > majority over the labor can
didates. The seventeen additional city
precincts will probably neutralize this
majority, but seven towns of the county
will go strongly for the fusion candidates,
who are probably elected by 2,000 major
ity. The labor party will elect about
half the aldermen and about one-half the
supervisors. Both bodies will probably
be democratic, as two-thirds of the al
dermen hold over. In many cities of the
state, by preconcerted arrangement, ladies
iu bodies wont to the polls and offered to
vote, claiming to be entitled to do so by
an inference conveyed by the recent law
allowing women to vote in school affairs.
In Sturgeon Bay one hundred of them
voted, but elsewhere their ballots weie
refused. In Delavan, eighty prominent
ladies marched to the polls in the morn
ing in procession. A lively discussion
followed, speeches being made for and
against their right to vote. After con
siderable excitement the board refused
to accept the votes of the ladies. The
polls were blocked until after 12 o’clock
by ladies who persisted in offering their
votes. A test case will be made and
carried to the supreme court. Reports
from the interior cities are meagre. Co
lumbus, Delavan and Tomah have elected
republican mayors. Iu Depere a fusion
of republicans and democrats won over
the labor party. Kenosha elected a full
labor ticket.
A NOTED ACTOR DEAD.
John T. Raymond Dies in Evansville, Ind.—
His Wife Prostrated,
Evansville, Ind.—John T. Raymond,
the celebrated actor, died here at a
quarter to one Sunday morning. He ar
rived here from the soutli Friday after
noon, quite ill from an intestinal disor
der, complicated with heart disease.
About midnight Saturday night he com
menced failing rapidly, and became un- I
conscious. He was attended by tbe mem- j
bers of his company, who were grief
stricken over the sad occurrence. Mr.
Raymond’s family live in New York and
are not here.
John T. Raymond was billed to appear
at the opera house here last Friday from
Hopkinsville, Ky., where he appeared on
Thursday night. The previous night he
appeared in Nashville, Tenn. Although
not at all well, suffering from a severe
cold, he kept up, and it was not until 4
o'clock in the afternoon of Friday that
he consented at the urgent request of
physicians here, not to appear that night.
He was in bed from that time until the
time of his death. Friday afternoon he
slept a little for the first time in several
days. Drs. Candel and Herr, who wait
ed upon him, say that he was in a dying
condition when he arrived here. The
immediate cause of his death was heart
disease, complicated with severe cold,
nervous prostration and congestion of
the stomach and bowels.
A dispatch from a friend of Mrs. Ray
mond, in New Y'ork. to Mr. 'Walter J.
Lamb, Mr. Raymond’s manager, stated 1
that Mrs. Raymond was so prostrated by
the news of her husband’s death that she
was unable to give any directions, so it
was decided to take the remains to New
Y’ork.
ACCIDENT AT STEEL WORKS.
At the Edgar Thompson steel work*,
at Braddock, Pa., abjut 10 o’clock Tues
day morning a heat of steel had been
dumped to a portable ladle, preparatory
to pouring it into ingot molds, when the
liquid metal exploded and was scattered
in all directions. Five pitmen were
frightfully burned from head to foot. A
coke boy passing to the pit at the time
was caught by the flesh and his clothing
burned from his body. Two pitmen, it
is thought, are fatally burned. All oth
ers very seriously. All the physicians in
Braddock were promptly summoned and
everything possible done for the relief of
the sufferer*.
ANTI-COERCION MEETINGS.
M©ella(® Held Is Various Place® to Eapres®
Sympathy for Ireland.
An immense mass meeting was held in
the Academy of Music, of Philadelphia,
Monday evening for the purpose of pro
testing against the proposed coercive
legislation by the government of Great
Britain. Fully 1,000 were present, ami
a large number who were unable to gain
admission had an overflow meeting in
the streets. Besides Governor Beaver
there were present all living ex-governors
of the State and many prominent persons
of the State and city.
The regular meeting was called to
order by ex Attorney General Brewster,
and after several stirring speeches had
been made resolutions were adopted ex
pressing the sentiment of the meeting,
and the following was ordered telegraphed
to Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell:
“An immense anti coercion meeting
this evening. Five thousand people
present. Thousands unable to obtain
admission. The governor of Pennsyl
vania presided. Every living ex-gover
nor consenting to be present to express
his sympathy. No speaker Irish. All
Americans. Strong speeches were made
denouncing the bill and expressing
amazement that such a measure should
be proposed in the 19th century by a civ
ilized government.
“Resolutions expressing the sentiment
of our city of one million inhabitants,
and our State, of five million inhabitants,
in favor of Irish home rule, were unan
imously and enthusiastically adopted.’’
The cablegram was signed by Governor
Beaver.
AT BOSTON
on the same evening Faneuil hall was
packed by a thoroughly American audi
ence, the occasion being a meeting to
express condemnation of the Irish crimes
act. Governor Ames, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Brackett, Mayor O'Brien, Senator
Hoar, Revenue Collector Fitzgerald,
Mayor Russell, of Cambridge, John Boyle
O’Reilly, deputy collector, were among
those present. Governor Arnes, Senator
Hoar, Mayor O'Brien, Rev. C. A. Barton,
John Boyle O’Reilly, Lieutenant Gover
nor Brackett, Rev. A. A. Miner, Rev.
Father Teeling, of Newburyport; John
E. Fitzgerald, Rev. Father Connally, of
Worcester; ex-Miyor Donovan, of Low
ell; Father McKeniiv, of .Marlboro; and
W. E. Lord, of the Advertiser, were the
speakers. Telegrams were seut to Messrs.
Gladstone and Parnell, and over $l,lOO
collected for the Irish league.
AT DBS MOINES
a large and enthusiastic mass convention,
representing the people of lowa, was
held to express sympathy with the people
of Ireland, and denounce the Balfour co
ercion lull. Governor Larrabee was pres
ident, and speeches were made by him,
Lieutenant Governor Hill, Secretary of
State Jackson, Auditor Lyon, Congress
man Conger, Judge Gwinn, severaF Pro
testant and Catholic clergymen and
others.
AUGUST SPIES DISAPPOINTED.
ll** l-'nil!* I*> Elicit ili<* Support of llio Tur
ner’s Association.
Chicago 111., —A bitter set back was
given to the friends of August Spies,
who have been endeavoring to enlist the
moral support of the Turners here for him,
and his condemned friends, but the anar
chist sympathizers refuse to acknowledge
themselves defeated, and declare that
they will carry their efforts before the
highest authority in the order, and make
the is'sue a national one among the Tur
ners. Spies was a Turner and a promi
nent one before his incarceration. After
the death sentence was .pronounced
against him and his companions, a friend
ot Spies, Chairman John Gloy and the
members of the Turners’ executive board
of this district, issued a circular to all
the subordinate Turning societies in this
vicinity, requesting them to notify the
board whether they favored the adoption
of a resolution declaring the verdict
against the anarchists to be unjust, and
asking for anew trial. The result was a
storm of protests against the action of the
board. To-day the district convention
of the Turners was held for the purpose
of deciding upon the question of impeach
ing and depositing the district executive
board, and especially John Gloy, chair
man, for over-stepping their authority
and disgracing theiroffice. Seventy-seven
delegates were present, including repre
sentatives from every 1 urncr society
within a radius of fifty miles of Chicago.
After a stormy discussion, a resolution to
depose the executive board was carried
by a vote of 42 to 35.
AN INFURIATED ANARCHIST.
Hl* Strnnji*; Art* nipt (o Wreak Vengeance
on u Railroad.
Chicago, 111.—L)r. W. N. Williams,
of No. 3,262 Vernon avenue, had a nar
row escape Wednesday evening from
death at the hands of an infuriated an
archist. He was called to attend a seven
year old son of Frank Moeek, the boy
having been run over by a Thirty-first
street car. Dr. Williams, who is em
ployed by the street railway company,
was engaged in amputating the boy’s leg,
when the father, who had heard of the
accident, arrived at home. Moeek was
furious when he saw Dr. Williams, and
was imbued with the idea that he could
have revenge on the corporation by kill
ing the doctor. Seizing a pistol he leveled
it at the doctor, but it failed to explode.
The doctor escaped through a rear win
dow, carrying the sash and all with him;
but returned later with two medical men
and finished the amputation, Moeek hav
ing been induced to see the necessity of
it by the expostulations of neighbors.
TAR HEEL. MOONSHINERS.
Information has just been received in
regard to several cases of crookedness in
the management of the government dis
tilleries in Rutherford county, N. C.
Two of these establishments have been
seized by a government official from
Washington, who, as a detective, worked
up the case. The storekeepers and dis
tillers were in copartnership and con
spired in defrauding the government.
The parties have fled. They are charged
with wholesale violation of the revenue
law’s on a large scale.
WRECKERS AT WORK.
Ihe south bound passenger train on
Mobile and Ohio railway was wrecked at
Carol! station, eight miles from Jackson,
Teun., Monday night. No one was in
jured, though the passengers were con
siderably shaken up. The accident seems
to have been due to train wreckers, a*
the switch was partly thrown and an
iron bolt was found jammed between the
rails. The railroad authorities lay the
deed at the door of residents of that
vicinity, who they claim are seeking
revenge on the engineer tor running ove'r
vome of their live slock recently.
RAILROAD THIEVES.
4 GIGANTIC SYSTEM OF ROBBERI
DISCOVERED.
Wholesale Arrest® Yladein Pittsburg, Pa.
aad Other Town® Along the l.lneor
the Panhandle Railroad.
PiTTSBi-RG, Fa -The most important
ai rests ever made in this part of the coun
try were begun at an early hour Monday
morning, by which the officers of the
Panhandle railroad have in custody the
most daring gang of railroad robbers this
country has ever known. How many
members belong to it are not known, but
they run up into the hundreds. Their
stealings extend over a period of two or
throe years, and the amount stolen reach
es nearly half a million dollars. Sinnil
taueous arrests were made all along the
line of the Panhandle road between heir
and Columbus.
Telegrams from Cadiz, Steubenville
and other places, report the arrest at
those places of a large number of railroad
men implicated in tbe robberies. Spe
cials from Dennison, Ohio, report the ar
rest there of J. R. Dunlap, leader of a
gang, and also of James and W. Colies j
with several thousands of dollars’ wortll
of velvets and high priced dry goods in
their possession. The articles were taken
from United States bonded cars cn route
to Chicago, St. Louis and other points
west. One Busby, the worst man in the
gang, slipjied his handcuffs and reckless
ly threw himself from the train whilst it
wa> going and escaped.
The arrests have created the greatest
excitement among railroad employes of
this city. The scenes about the jail doors,
where relatives of the prisoners had ga
thered to learn the causes of their arrests,
were of the saddest descriptions—wives,
children, parents, brothers and sisters,
with tear-stained faces, stood around the
entrances to the prison eager to hear the
latest developments and pleading with
the officers for admission to the jail to
see the prisoners, all of whom are em
ployes of the road.
A prominent officer of the Panhandle
road in speaking of the a tresis said:
“ 1 hese robberies have been carried on
systematically for several years. The
company have long been aware that there
was a leakage somewhere, and as early as
September, 1886,they quietly commented
an investigation. Detectives were placed
on the work. AYe had already discovered
that the robbers were employes of the
. company. In September there were
■ eighty crews of freight trains on the
Panhandle railroad, coming into Pitts
burg. of these eighty crews, no less
than seventy-five were found to be
crooked.
“Depradations were committed all
along the road,and losers reside at points
as far west as Denver. Fences were es
, tablished in this city where the stolen
property was taken and then sold, the
money being evenly divided among the
crews. It is estimated that at least
$200,000 worth of goods were taken, for
, which the company had to pay. In Au
gust last we got a clue, and the company
determined to push it to the end. De
tectives were employed, who followed up
every scent and finally we had informa
tion upon which to proceed.
“When everything was ready, we de
cided to make a move all along the line
; from Columbus to Pittsburg, and two
o’clock this morning was fixed to strike
(lie blow. About eighty warrants were
issued for men in this city, and arrests
have been accordingly made. There were
over three hundred warrants issued, and
no doubt an arrest will be made on each
of them in due time.
The men arrested include in some in
stances whole crews. J. R. Dunlap,who
is regarded as a ringleader of tin- gang,
has made a confession to the detectives
in which he implicated several outsiders
and located fences at Dennison, Ohio,
New Philadelphia and other places.
A MINE EXPLOSION.
A Sait Arriiient by \\ hirli a Y®un|| Sliutenl
ot Vnsser is Killed.
Pottsvii, le, Pa., —A shockin'? acci
dent occurred in the mine of the Cham
berlain collery, St. Clair, Monday after
noon.
M iss Berlista Sliaul, of Sharon Springs,
N. Y'., a student of Vaasa r college, was
visiting Miss Minnie Keiter, of St. Clair,
a fellow-student. The two young ladie-.
in company with a young man named
Harry Short, and Edwin Thomson, one
of the operators of the collery. entered
the mine for the purpose of giving Miss
Shaul an opportunity to inspect the o|wr
atiou of mining coal. The mine had not
been working for a week and none but
the party of explorers were inside at the
time. An explosion of fire-damp wn*
caused by their lamps. Miss Keiter was
killed. Miss Shaul had a leg broken and
is badly burned, but may recover. Short
still lives, unconscious from many inju
ries and will probably die. Thompson
is painfully but not seriously hurt.
HE WANTS DAMAGES.
A Tci® Editor filling the Member® or th*
Htat© Legislature.
Mr. H. S. Canfield, of Austin, Texas,
who was recently imprisoned by order of
the state house of representatives for
having caused the arrest of the speaker
during the recent session, has filed a suit
for damages againßt J. C. Carr, sergeant
at-arms of the house, and fifty-eight
members of the body, who voted for hi*
imprisonment. He claims $25 for actual
damages, SIO,OOO for damages in charac
ter and reputation, and $1,000,000 for
punitory damages. The members against
whom the suit is brought were served
with oitatations Monday, and shortly
after the legislature adjourned, the mem
bers held a meeting to decide upon what
course to pursue. Those present agreed
that each would pay his pro rata share of
the expense of defending the suit.
THROUGH TO (OLOIBIS.
Columbus, Miss. -The Georgia Pacific
railroad, between here and Birmingham
ls now completed, the last rail being laid
ninety miles from this place last Mondav
afternoon. A special train from Binning
>am arrived bunging the officers of the
road and a few prominent citizens. It is
believed that this road will begin build
mg west from here at once, connecting
with their Greenville. Miss., branch.
c completion of this road gives Colum
ms a direct route to all northern and
eastern markets, resulting in great sav
ings in freight s- , especiallv on cotton.
the new war vessels.
The secretary of the navy has invited
■ealed proposals from ship builders of
he United States for buiiding five new
vessels; the “Newark," authorized by
. nava * appropriation bill of 1885; two
nineteen knot cruisers known as numbers
four and five; and two 1,700 ton trun
boats, designated as number* three ani
four.