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THE DIME ADVERTISER
KOUSYTH, GA.
Official Orcan of Monroe Couniyl
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BY MrGTNTY k CABANT8S.
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A French wtaliatician asierta that the
average stature of man has decreased
four inches in 200 rears.
Tt is Gated that tourists and winter
resident spend annually in Florida
nearly $6,000,000. A mot ter 0 f
fact, avers T Ciiica r> Herald, they
leave nenrh £ much cash in the hands
of Florida people each year an the
orange and cotton crops combined.
Tt will scarcely he believed that wheat
te sold in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland under nearly two
hundred different systems of weight
There is almost as much diversity in
regard to barley and oats. Tho result
is that quotations from tho various
markets create bewilderment and con¬
fusion oven in tho minds of experts.
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I’rofessor A. H. Hardy has, what the
Chicago Herald considers, somo very
wholesome ideas concerning realism,
“A man nowadays,” he is quoted as
saying, “goes out and tho first thing
ite sees is a mud puddle, and he de¬
scribes it. But if you look sharp
enough and long enough at tho bot¬
tom of every mud puddle you can sen
the skv; and that's just what your
modern realist doesn’t see.”
A curious state of affairs prevails in
France in relat ion to women. A French
woman may become a doctor, a lawyer,
n member of the Board of Education,
nnd may even bo decorated with the
Gross of tho Legion of Honor ; but she
may not w itness a legal document. She
occupies an important place in art,
business, and commerce; but she can¬
not possess her own earnings if she is
married, and she can neither buy not
sell property without her husband’s
consent.
A rich discovery of the finest quality
of porcelain clay, red and white in
color, lias been made six miles n
of Pleasant Grove in Utiihtifl
Utah. Samples
Institutio iTos^
bceived
most as
ji made
‘the red
l of the
■feet in
donoo of childish superstition, relates
the New York Tribune. A woman had
been murdered, ami the husband was
’suspected of having committed the
murder. There is an old wives’ fable
to the effect that if a murderer is
brought into the room where the body
of his victim lies the wounds will at
once begin to bleed afresh. Acting on
this belief, the Chief of tho Police
brought the husband into the morgue
where the murdered woman was. But
the wounds did not bleed. To be
thoroughly consistent the police de¬
partment ought to discharge the sus¬
pected man ; for liis innocence has been
proved in a way that those who believe
in it at all must consider divine.
^ The report of tho Department oi
‘Agriculture concerning the condition
of growing winter wheat indicates, as
was expected, that tho wheat crop this
year will be a small one, states the
Now York Times. The average of es¬
timates, based on this report and the
State reports recently published, does
not exceed 430,000,000 or 440,000,000
bushels. Late reports as to the condi
Oil of growing wheat in Europe give
very little information that can be
used in estimating the quantity that
will be required from this country.
•In Italy, however, the shortage in all
the grain crops, caused by drought, as
ascertained recently by the Govern¬
ment of that country, will compel the
importation of a very large quantity
in excess of the amount commonly
drawn from abroad. It seems proba¬
ble that there will be a good market
for all the wheat that we shall be able
to spare.
The last Congr ess appropriated $10,
000 to the Department of Agriculture
for the special purj >ose of enabling tho
Secretary of Agriculture to make in
qiuries concerning the systems of road
management throughout the United
States, to make investigations in regard
to the best methods of road making,
to prepare publications on this subject
suitable for distribution, and to enable
him to assist the agricultural colleges
and experiment stations iu disseminat¬
ing informat ion on this subject. The
American Agriculturist thinks that the
farmers everywhere should heartily
co operate in this investigation, nnd
request their several Agricultural Col¬
leges and Expc iment btatious to pay
especial attention to this research. The
engineering departments of the State
Universitit 3 ft nd mining schools should
also be called upon to lend hand. By
a
concerted action our wagon roads may
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e greatly improved, to the daily gain
-Uiu farniAr
THE MONROE ADVERTlSER,~FuRo A JEffl JUNE ‘2 » 1898.-EIGHT PAGE S.
s tb .
Of the Now England Slate', Connec¬
ticut lias the highest rate of collego
mulenta to the population.
I Edison is quoted as saying that, “in
h '" e ?7’? en “’ wh *‘"“ h “ ' ,MU
proTeci to imposaibie by rnathmatical
authorities has been the easiest iuven
lion to produce.”
Weatern railroads are making great¬
er efforts than ever before in develop¬
ing their local territory. Nenrlv r
of them have established industrial de-
1 partments and are offering extremely
favorable concessions to successful
manufacturers everywhere who wish to
locate in the West.
Everv year the demand for common
horses is becoming leas, the Farm,
I - ield and fireside notes. The demand
for finely bred horses, especially car
riago horses, is not likely to be affected
* n ^ho least by the introduction of
cable and electric cars for city trun
Bportation. Tho “motor” can never
displace the carriage for the pleasure
drive or family ride.
lt would be interesting to know how
tho word “key,” which is the char¬
acteristic name of many small island,
in the Spanish-American waters, should
have crept so far north ns the coast oJ
New Jersey, where it is found iu Kej
East and Key West. The word is from
tho same root as quay, and it appears
some hundreds of times between Flor
ida and the coast of South America.
The annual meeting of the Mont¬
gomery (Ala.) Industrial nrul Com
mercial . Association brought
out many
important facts. The increase of the
enrollment of school children since
1890 has been fifteen per cent., in¬
dicating an increaso of about 4100 in
population during that time. Tho In¬
crease in tho assessment of property
has been $2,000,000. About 1000
buildings have been erected during
that period. There are 115 new
establishments, employing 2600 hands
and turning out an annual product
valued at $9,000,000. Tho increase
in theso stablishments in three years
has been forty-five.
■Oregon and Washington send mil
ions of feet of lumber to the Austra
ian colonies, whore the native wood is
too hard for building nnd joining. The
kinds of timber most in demand are
Biigar pine, redwood, spruce, and “Ore
gon” pine. Tho last named is used for
bridge work and the exterior of houses.
For lighter work, s\igar pine is used
the most, and is preferred to Michigan
clear pine. Redwood is i R-egon pine,
cheap cabinet work, fittb
ITT soTd ns
trade with
{■^^■■Mlen _
off sharply of late ’ ow
‘
ing the collapse .. of . . bvulding . societies
and the bursting of the land boom, and
it is estimated that the present supply
of Oregon and Washington lumber now
in the hands of the importers, about
12,000,000 superficial feet, will fill the
demand for the next twelve months.
Tho recent marriage in New York
City of the Earl of Craven to Miss
Bradley-Martin lias given the curious
statistician cause to calculate the
amount of “plebeian” American cash
that h»» been paid for fusty European
titles in the past twenty-five years.
Forty-eight marriages are" mentioned,
and the estimate of wealth transferred
to the other side of the Atlantic is
$50,000,000. Twelve brides took
$32,500,000 with them. Among the
richest of these were, The Dnohess !
of Marlborough, daughter of Joshua
1 of em Troy, and , widow ., of Louis .1
rice,
Hammerslev, of New York, $7,000,
000; the Marchioness de Mores, daugh- '
a ter of ,tv John Hoffman, it a? of . , New T York, ,
$5,000,000; the Princess of Galatio,
Colonna and of Stigliano, daughter of
John W. Mackay, of San Francisco,
$5,000,000; the Duchess de Dino,
daughter of the late Joseph Sampson, j
of Sew York, $3,000,000; the Duchess !
of Lante-Monfeltrio della Rovere,
daughter of Thomas Davis, of New
York, $3,000,000, etc.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Rec¬
ord makes the point that diversified
agriculture has driven out the single
crop notion in the South. It says:
“In 1892 the cotton crop of the
South was valued at about $815,000,
000 . The corn crop was valued at
$248,000,000, wheat over $40,000,000
and oats about $25,000,000. These
three products were then of equal
value with the cotton crop. Adding to
them the value of tobacco raised, over
$22,000,000; of rice, about $10,000,
000; Florida oranges, about $35,000,
000, and of garden truck, fruits and
vegetables shipped North, between
$40,000,000 and $50,000,000, the total
of the products named amounts to
about $400,000,000.” For some years
after the war cotton was produced al
most to the exclusion of food crops,
but it is not so now, and in Georgia
and the Carolina?, the Atlanta Consti¬
tution predicts, it will soon
hold second place as to value
among the agricultural products, be¬
cause of the increase iu cereals, fruits
and vegetables. Certainly the South
cannot be accused of sticking to the
single crop system, when her agricul
;ural products in 1S92 were valued at
£400,000,000, not counting cotton, ’ J
»vhich was valued at $315,000,000.
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GEORGIA NEWS NOTES,
f Items . ot t Interest * * n Gatberei j at i n Random j
iroffl All Over tie State.
The majority of Savannah’s physi¬
cians predict that this smmer will be
the healthiest the city has experienced
iu years.
Colonel James D. Waddell, presi¬
dent of the State Agricultural Society,
has recently made the rounds of the
state in the interest of the next fair.
Colonel W addell reports that he has
hjuau the farmers in a more prosper
ous condition than rnv time since the
Mar. They have not much ready nil
money, but they have supplies of
kinds in abundance, and consequently
they are independent and don’t need
m, wh mono.
^ ^ ^
According to reports 'has the haulim* of
the watermelon crop stirred up
bad blood between the Central and
the Savannah, Florida and Western
railroads. The Central railroad peo
pie complain that the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western road absolutely re
fuses to place their cars for melon
shipments, with tlio result that the
Central’s business is very largely cur
tailed and the Savannah, Florida and
Western is getting the lion’s shure oi
the melon business.
The Augusta and Manchester rail
road, which is a branch of the Atlantic
Coast Line, will be built to Augusta,
and the distance between Augusta and
New York considerably lessened. The
building of the road has been a matter
of conjecture for some years, but now
all doubt is set aside, and it is positively
known that before the close of this
year, the road will be completed and
in operation. The best evidence of
the fact is that the railroad has bor
rowed money enough to construct,
e( l ui P» maintain and operate the lines.
In the United States court at Atlan
ta, a few days ago, Judge Newman
heard the arguments in the case of the
government for a new trial in the case
of Scott and others against the United
States. The plaintiffs were the own
e rs of property which the government
took in order to establish Chieamauga
park. The land owners sued the gov
ernment and were awarded $6,600 with
interest. The government thought
that the damages allowed were exces¬
sive and applied for a new trial.
Judge Newman said that if the plain¬
tiffs would throw oft - the odd $600 and
interest and make the amount an even
$6,000 he would deny the government’s
motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs
agreed to this and the motion was de¬
nied.
The Negro Press Assoeinl ion.
The Negro Press association of Geor¬
gia held its annual meeting in Atlanta
Tuesday. Seven newspapers were rop
resented by a delegation of nineteen
members. I he meeting remained in
session during the forenoon and the
following resolutions were passed:
To The People of Georgia. —Tho Negro
Press association or Georgia in convention as
Wo reaffirm the principea set for h in our
address to the public issued at Augusta, Ga.,
December 2b. 1892.
We are oppo.-ed to tho whol site emigration
of our people. Other things being equal, if the
negro cannot succeed in the south, he will not
succeed elsewhere.
We urge upon our people the necessity and
duly of properly educating the young—teach¬
ing them to acquire a skilful knowledge of tho
va-ious mechanical trades, to enter bu inesss
pursuits and :o have a higher sense of rtcpect
for the homo and family circle.
We would recommend the practice of economy,
temperance and sobriety, together with all
those habits and practices which go to make
good citizenship.
We heartily endorse the course of his excel¬
lency, Governor William J. Nortlien, of Geor¬
gia, and of the better element of the white peo¬
ple of the south against lynch law.
Iii this same connection we take occasion to
cle, The Charleston News and Courier and otli
£ wTT
serve m thls enlightened condition of public
sentiment a ray of hope lor our people.
To our brethren who constitute the Negro
Press Ass elation of Virginia, we extend greet¬
ing, and wish them much success in their new
organization.
preference ,™;X? to other L“
any term caui.es ui at this
time to renew the suggestion and urge it, if
possible, conclusion, with more beg insistence.
In we to say that we are s!ill
fighting the battles of the race, and we shall
continue to fight so long as we have strength
and power. We do this, although we are fully
mindful of the fact of the gross lack of sup
port from those for whom we labor.
The Georgia Teachers.
The following is a condensed pro¬
gram of the next annual session of the
Georgia Teachers’Association,
will be held at Gainesville on the 27th
inst. It willb e interesting to nil the
teachers in the state and to the public
generally:
Tuesday, June 27th, 8:30 p. m.—
Addresses of welcome: Mavor John
A. Smith, Hon. H. W. J. Ham, Prof.
A. W. VauHoose, Gainesville. Re¬
sponses, President E. B. Smith, La
Grange ; Secretary J. W. Frederick,
Marshallville; Treasurer E. C. Merry,
Atlanta. Lecture by Major Chas. H.
Smith, Cartersville.
Wednesday, 9:30 a. m.—Reports of
committees, etc. The Country Teach¬
er—His Trials and Mishaps, L. A.
McLaughlin, Dalton. Theme, The
Quarterly Payment of Teachers. The
Necessity for it. Major R. J. Guinn,
Atlanta; How it May be Obtained,
Hon. W. H. Fleming, Augusta. Dis
cussion led by Captain J. R. Anthony,
Crawfordville. 8:30 p. m.—Address
by J. B. Robins, D. D., Atlanta. Yil
lage Farming, Dr. H. C. White,
Athens.
Thursday, 9 :30 a. m.—Election of
officers. County institutes, Hon. S.
D. Bradwell, Atlanta. Discussion led
by Gov. W. J. Northen, Atlanta. The
Southern Educational association,Maj.
W. F. Slaton, Atlanta. Address by
W. H. Payne, LL. P., Nashville,
8:30 p. m.—Our Educational and
Civil Life, Superintendent P. D. Pol
lock, Newnan. Address by J. L. M.
Curry, LL. D., Richmond, Ya.
Department Pkogkams.— Snperin
tendence. Wednesday, 3:30 p.m.—
President’s address. Superintendents’
experience meeting. “Every one pres
ent expected to say something.” Elec
tion of officers.
Normal. M edneeday, 3 :3Q p. in.—
President’s address. l)o easy methods
in education give best results'?. Super-
intendent W. .T. McKemie, West Point.
State aid to high schools, Otis Ash¬
more, Savannah.
Thursday, 3:30 p. m.—County Nor
nmi institutes, w. r. Power, Marietta.
Discussion led by H. W. J. Hum,
Gainesville, Election of officers.
Elementary and Kindergarten—
Wednesday. 3:30 p. m. — President’s
address. Progress—The New vs.
The bus. Old, General J. ^E. Witherspoon, Colum¬
discussion. Thursday,
3 :30 p. ni.—English in Primary
Schools, Superintendent W. H. Wood
all, Columbus. General discussion.
Reports of |committees. Election of
officers.
—Presidents Secondary—Wednesday, 3 :30 p. m.
address. The Function
High School, J. E. 1 endergrast,
5^™“' Xlmrt,da Y. 3:30 P- m -~
the New o System of Grading and Pro
motlo n > Superintendent Wm. Harper,
. Flection of officers.
An 3!* r *£ U8 '
—President’* address*' The correla¬
°t educational forces, J. B. Gambrell,
^ ^acoD. Election of officers.
; * *
1 he weather sj»te and Cr® P effect Report., Georgials
on
cro lJ* s has, in the past week,
differed considerably in the different
Re(dlons °* state. In the northern
c 811 ? ul 0 ' ^ 'l’buititiv ies * . ^infall (none was too about much), the do¬
was
. "ml distributed
ir >J and very bene
. but in other
lf “ ft crops: see¬
tions , of the s^ite the rainfall
was gen¬
erally distributed. heavier^ iln than usual and unevenly
many localities the
heavy rains as', .were a source of much
complaint, beginning from their effect, crops
are to get very grassy,
owing principally IcmI) to the fact that the
ground is wet to hoe or plow.
Temperatures nil over the state have
been warm aiql seasonable during the
latter half of the week, while in the
earlier portion of the week it was
somewhat cool. Cloudy weather has
prevailed during much of the week.
A continuation of the present warm
weather, and more sunshine, is what
the crops at present need. It should
be stated here, \ that locally, over very
small *
areas, hailstorms, there have been some
very heavy that the cot¬
ton plant was [stripped of its leaves,
and wholesale/ damage was done to
other crops. I
The cotton crop, on the whole, is
quarter steadily of improving, thejstato but from every
effect that reports are to the
the .'size of the plant is
smaller than ustjtal this year, and has
been so from th ik very first of the sea
by son. the Farmers lice i^ire their being annoyed now
other on cotton, and an
keeping source a 1 f annoyance, which is
hands >y, is the rapid and
heavy the grow th sections p [grass. All through
southern of the state cot¬
ton is putting on forms; though,
yet, to the not recent very hetvy raficjly, rains. probably owing
The indications Relative to the com¬
ing yield of corr yitre generally pretty
good. Upland \v%ile orn is, at present, do¬
ing the best, lowland corn is
generally not %ood, on account of
some with “bottoms'mbeing Cofra literally soaked
water. is nearly all “laid
by” except in • ri me northern coun¬
ties. -SjL "
The Warvestir f wheat and oats
l{as ContW^
ties little remains ^ to tiSMESS be cut, while Em- in
the more northern counties considera
ble yet remains standing. Rust has,
as usual, made its customary appear¬
ance on grain, though not to any great
extent. The oat yield, as a rule, will
be fully an average one. In some
counties, principally in the south, oats
have turned out much better than
usual. Wheat has done very well this
year and the yield will generally be up
to the average or nearly so. Rye is
reported, in the north, as doing very
well. Many farmers think that of
late more and more attention is being
paid to the raising of breadstuffs and
that the supply this year will be more
plentiful than usual.
Sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes
are doing well and are fully meeting
expectations. This year’s peanut crop
is growing finely. Gardens are gen¬
erally flourishing, and a scarcity in
vegetables is not reported in any sec¬
tion. In the melon growing districts
of the southern portion of the state
watermelons and cantaloupes are rip¬
ening rapidly, and shipments are be¬
coming more and more frequent. Fair
weather now would be very beneficial
to melons and aid their ripening much.
The large annual fruit crojD of Geor¬
gia is slowly ripening, and the only
complaint is that many apples and
pears have fallen off the trees. Most
of the complaint comes from the south¬
eastern counties, where high winds
have been the principal cause of the
dropping of the fruit.
"J * ^ . ... ^‘ .. h “*
« central c fP*rt‘s . and southern too wet Georgia, at present condi¬ n
tions are favorable for all crops. If
warm and sunshiny weather could pre¬
vail now for the next week or ten days
crops will continue to rapidly im¬
prove ; and again, fair weather now
would accomplish another desirable
object in enabling farmers to keep
down the troublesome grass.
LIGHTNING’S FEARFUL WORK.
The Bolt Strikes a Circus Tent Iu
stanlly Killing Seven People.
A terrific thunder storm raged at
River Falls, Minn., Wednesday after
noon. Rain fell in sheets, and there
was unusual thunder and lightning,
Ringling’s circus had just finished its
performance, and, as the concert was
about to begin, a number of people
who did not care to attend the latter,
were making their way through the
menagerie tent, when a terrific bolt of
lightning struck one of the tent poles,
and more than fifty people were pros
trated. Seven were killed instantly,
and a number were more or less in
jured.
The scene of consternation which
followed when the survivors realized
the extent of the fatality surpassed de
scription, and when men and womeu
surged toward the scene it was only
by the exercise of a rare presence of
mind, on the part of Messrs. Ringland
and employes, that a serious and prob
ably a fatal stampede was avoided,
The Ringlings did everything possible
to alleviate the sufferings of the in
jured. Rough canvasmen, stake dri
vers and animal attendants vied with
one another in their attentions to the
wounded.
TELMmLraun
Tie News ot tie Woril Counsel Into
Pitly and Pointed Parappls.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
Sloan, Johnson & Co., wholesale
grocers, of Omaha, Neb., assigned
Thursday. Liabilities, upwards of $300,
0.)0; assets, $80,000.
Admissions to the world’s fair Sun¬
day were: Adults, 54,582: children,
3,094 ; employes, exhibitors and other
free admissions, 16,836 ; total, 74,512.
The City National bank of Green¬
ville, Mich., was closed Thursday
morning by order of Bank Examiner
Caldwell. No statement of the bank’s
condition has yet been made public.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
London says: Advices from Mecca
show that three hundred and seven¬
teen deaths from cholera occnred at
that city from June 13tli to 16th.
Natural gas was struck at Iron City,
Tenn., Tuesday. On lighting it a
blaze shot up several feet and burned
steadily. The enthusiastic citizens
fried fish by the heat and will contin¬
ue boring.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
in the coal mines of Hartley & Mar¬
shal at Banksville, near Pittsburg, Pa.,
Tuesday morning. Three miners,who
have not reported, are believed to be
entombed in the mines.
The Ridgeway Bank, a private in¬
stitution at Ridgeway, Penn., closed
its doors Thursday morning. The
officers of the bank say that all de¬
positors will be paid in full as soon as
the assets can be realized.
The third and final act of the Penn¬
sylvania National bank at Pittsburg,
Pa., which failed seven years ago for
$3,000,000, was filed Tuesday. The
balance on hand will be sufficient to
pay the creditors 1-8 per cent or 12
per cent in all.
One thousand miners struck near
Dux, Bohemia, Tuesday and held a
meeting to decide upon their future
course of action. A company of mili¬
tia tried to break up the meeting.
The miners repulsed them and the
police then began firing. After seve¬
ral strikers had fallen severely wound¬
ed the strikers dispersed.
The Capitol National bank at Indi¬
anapolis, which suspended business
May 11th, resumed business Monday
morning. The bank officials received
many congratulatory words from the
business men. “The comptroller re¬
quired that we should have $750,000,”
said President Byram. “We have
about eight hundred thousand dollars
—money enough for all.”
A dispatch of Sunday from New
York says: A modification of the
Richmond Terminal plan has been
made so as to bring in the East Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Georgia equip¬
ment and improvement bond, thus
giving the committee control of the
East Tennessee system. Th
nati extension bonds are
remain to be brough t in.
and Congress __ Chicago,
avenue street,
was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday.
The structure was occupied by a num¬
ber pf firms, whose combined loss aggre¬
gated $300,000. The building was
valued at $150,000 and was owned by
John Quincy Adams, of Wharton, Ill.
It was burned two years ago and had
only been recently rebuilt.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern ; the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas ; the Cotton Belt and the Santa
Fe roads, on Wednesday, made a re¬
duction of rates from southern points
to St. Louis and Chicago of nearly 10
per cent of the present rate for the
round trip. All the roads claim the
honor of the reduction, but the Mis¬
souri, Kansas and Texas first mado the
reduction.
A London cablegram says: Thomas
F. Bayard, American ambassador to
Great Britain, proceeded Thursday
from London to Windsor castle, where
he presented his credentials. In acord
ance with the usual custom that ob¬
tains in the case of embassadors, a
state carriage was furnished by the
British government to convey Mr.
Bayard from liis hotel to the railway
station.
A special of Wednesday from Los
Cruces, New Mexico, tells of the ar¬
rest by the sheriff of six counterfeit¬
ers, three men and three women.
They were traveling emigrants and
claimed to be on their way to El Paso,
but had in their possession a supply of
spurious coin and, the necessary tools
to make them. They also had letters
showing their connection with experts
in Denver and New Yoak.
Dispatches of Monday from St.
Paul, Minn., state that there were
many mining camps employing a large
number of men, in Nunberhood, and
Sunday’s they were undoubtedly burned by
forest fire. Among them
were the Mountain Iron, the New
England, the Rouhleau, the One Jack
and Poca mines. AH the camps had
had large storehouses. It is feared
that some of the men may have per¬
ished in the fierce flames.
Wednesday a number of prominent
men met in the First National bank of
Jersey City to elect directors for the
International Navigation Company, of
New Jersey. The company is a com
bination of steamship lines for the
purpose of controlling the greater por¬
tion of traffic between New York, Phil¬
adelphia and several European ports.
The capital of the company will be
$15,000,000. They are held at $100 a
share.
A special of Sunday from Duluth,
says: The towns of Virginia and
Mountain Iron, on the Duluth, Mes
saba and Northern railroad, have been
destroyed by forest fires which have
been raging for a week. Messaba and
Biwabik, on the Duluth and Iron
Range, were also invaded by serious
fires and Tower had a like experience.
There are 2,000 people homeless in
N irginia and without food or shelter,
every j^rovision depot and their con¬
tents in the place being destroyed.
The will of the late John Creerar,
of Chicago, disposing of an estate of
$4,000,000, was sustained in all its
provisions Tuesday by the Illinois
supreme court. Distant relatives liv¬
ing in Canada were the disput-
The bequests " ^ ’ u ' a
nuts. will wore attack¬
ed and which H jt^id the
CreeraT-4»uhli^™^^S2.200,000; arc
monument ond Presbyterian 100,000 ; Sec¬
church and missions,
8200,000; Bible Society, §10,000;
Chicago Literary Club, $10,000.
The assignees of Herman Scaffuer A*
Co., the insolvent bankers of Chicago
completed the examination of the
firm's affairs Monday and filed a ro
port. The liabilities secured and un¬
secured are put dow n to be$2,350,Oil.
The total estimated apparently good
assets $1,804,904 and the total assets
of every kind $2,132,218, leaving an
excess of liabilities of $37,102. The
substance of the report is as as follow s:
Total liabilities secured and unsecur¬
ed, $2,350,011 ; the total estimated
apparently good assets, $1,804,904.
The amount of the clearing house
certificates issued at New York Thurs¬
day was $2,250,000. This brings the
total up to $4,900,000 since it was de¬
cided to issue the certificates. This
amount, with the exception of the
$1,000,000 first taken by the Bank of
Commerce, is divided up among sev¬
eral of the old banks belonging to the
Clearing House Association, no one
bank taking any large amount of cer¬
tificates. So far the hanks have re¬
mained iu good condition, and the
clearing house committee has not been
called upon to examine them.
BOMB-THROWERS BLOWN UP
In im Attempt to Take the Life of
Ex-Premier Castillo.
A cable dispatch from Madrid is to
the effect that a large dynamite bomb
was exploded at midnight Monday
night a few feet from tho res¬
idence of Canovas del Ons¬
tillo, the ex-premier. The explosion
was heard throughout the city. The
immediate district around the house
was shaken as if by an earthquake.
The policemen ran to the spot. They
found the dismembered body of a man
in the street and caught a In an crawl¬
ing down the street on his hands and
knees. When arrested the man re¬
fused to say what he knew of the ex¬
plosion, but complained that he was
severely wounded. One of his legs
was broken, liis scalp was torn and his
face was covered with blood. He was
taken to a police station, and was
there identified by a servant employed
in a house opposite the ex-premier’s,
as one of three men whom she had
seen standing on the other side of the
street just before the explosion. After
the explosion she said she heard a man
run away.
Many houses in tlio neighborhood
where the explosion occurred were
badly damaged. Windows were shat¬
tered and walls -were sprung, but none
of the occupants were injured. While
the policemen were looking around
just after the explosion Canovas open¬
ed the door and ordered all his serv¬
ants to help in the search. A head
and hand was found seventy feet from
the place where the boniiV -as set off.
"of the expk«i^>n spread
jMM'he city before 1 o’clock.
fit ministers and many
jumties called upon L,
■Hu late him upon lniHra
/
a< t^ v i cos •ill Madrtd t
that the wounded accomplice of the
dead bomb-thrower has made a partial
confession. Under pressure from tho
police, the man whose name is Suarez,
admitted that the dead man was an
anarchist, named Raise, and that ho
carried at the time of the explosion a
bottle containing gunpowder and shot.
Five more anarchists have been arrest¬
ed in the city and seventeen in Barce¬
lona for complicity in the bomb-throw¬
ing plot.
TUESDAY’S FAILURES.
An Oregon Bank and a Number of Busi¬
ness Houses Go Down.
A Washington special of Tuesday
Bays : Comptroller Eckels is inform¬
ed of the failure of the Linn County
National Bank of Albany, Oregon;
capital, $100,000. Bank Examiner
Jennings has been placed in charge.
James McMillan, of Minneapolis,
made a voluntary assignment Tuesday
to M. C. Fletcher, McMillan was in
the hide and fur business, until a
short time ago when the business was
transferred to a corporation known as
James McMillan k Co. The assign¬
ment does not affect this corporation.
Fletcher estimates the assets at about
$700,000; liabilities $250,000.
Adrian <fc Toilers, wholesale grocers
and liquor dealers, one of the oldest
business houses in Wilmington, N. G\,
assigned Thursday with preferences.
The failure was precipitated by that of
the bank of New Hanover, in whose
favor . they executed a mortgage for
ninety thousand dollars some months
ago.
Isaac Held, dry goods dealer at
Richmond, Ya., assigned Tuesday.
Liabilities $10,500.
The General Engineer company, of
Harvey, Ill., assigned Tuesday and
liabilities said to be $75,000.
EDWIN BOOTH’S WILL.
How the Great Actor Disposed of His
Earthly Possessions.
The will of Edwin Booth was filed
at New l'ork Tuesday. Booth leaves
the bulk of his property to his daugh¬
ter, Edina Booth Grossman. The
value of personal estate is estimated
at $605,000. He gives his brother,
Joseph A. Booth, ten thousand dollars,
and niece, Mary Booth Douglass, ten
thousand dollars, and other nieces and
nephews five thousand each. His
cousins, Charlotte Mitchell Baltman,
and Robert Mitchell, of North Caro¬
lina, each ten thousand, and to sever¬
al friends five and ten thousand each.
Actors’ funds and other actors’ socie¬
ties get five thousand eaffi.
A MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
Tnenty People Killed and Much Prop¬
erty Destroyed.
A government powder magazine, a
few miles from the city of Athens,
Greece, exploded Friday. Twenty per¬
sons, including officers and soldiers,
were killed and great damage was done
to surrounding property. The crown
prince hastened to the scene to aid the
sufferer*. The loss is estimated at
3,000,000 francs. Tho magazine was
located at Bchramanga.
THE EARTH TREMBLED.
Some of Hie Seaboard Cities Yislted
by a Light Shock.
A slight earthquake shock moving
from the northwest to the southeast,
was felt at Charleston, S. C., at 11.05
Tuesday night. First there was a
tremor, then a faint roar and then
came the wave. The people got out
of bed and ran into the streets as they
did in former earthquake times.
Though considerable alarm was felt,
there was no damage to person or
property.
At Savannah the shock was felt quite
severely. It lasted from ten to fifteen
seconds. Buildings all over the city
were shaken considerably during that
time, but no damage was done so far
as lias been learned.
At Brunswick the shock was felt
about 11 o’clock. Newspaper workers
on The ’Timex and correspondents at
their desks felt a perceptible rocking
of the building nnd hurried down to
investigate tlio cause. The shock was
perceptible in every section of the city.
Augusta was shaken for several sec¬
onds bv an earthquake. It was quite
severe nnd generally felt.
rushed out of their houses and
the streets. They were a little fright¬
ened, but not seriously. No damage
was done.
At Columbia, S. C., the quake was
severe and sharp, and was felt all over
the city, causing great excitement..
At Wilmington, N. C., the shock
was felt at 11 :15, and lasted but a few
seconds. Hundreds of people wero
aroused from sleep an I many rushed
in terror to tho streets.
VICTORY FOR THE FAIR.
The Sunday Closing Injunction Over¬
ruled by the Supreme Court.
A Chicago special says: Chief Jus¬
tice Fuller, Saturday morning, over¬
ruled the decision of the federal cir¬
cuit court, which issued an injunction
restraining the directors from opening
the fair on Sunday. Ho decides for
tho United States court of appeals and
remands the suit to the circuit court.
Justices Bunn and Allen concurred in
the opinion.
Other matters of a complicated char¬
acter, he said, would undoubtedly
grow out of tiiis decision. For instance,
tho donation by congress of $2,500,
000 to the fair had been .coupled with
the condition that tho fair should not
bo open on Sunday, and the well
known intent of tho local directory to
open it on Sunday, would seem to im¬
ply on their part a disregard for the
condition upon which the money was
granted.
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
A Monster Reunion to be Held in ('Id¬
ea go in October.
A Chicago special of Tuesday says:
There will be a monster reunion of
war veterans, both confederate and
union, at the world’s fair October 20th
to 24th inclusive. Those days are
designated by tho exposition authori¬
ties and Grand Army posts throughout
the land will enter heartily into tho
l>lan to bring all the old soldiers they
can to Chicago. Not less than 60,000
are expected to be present to listen to
stirring patriotic addresses from prom
inent oi'iuWs -of—ixjiiT trriuiest Ar
rangements for camping outside the
grounds will be made as fur as possi¬
ble. Fireworks, reviews and parades
are among the features of celebration.
Ki lcil in a Wreck.
One of the most disastrous accidents
that ever happened on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad in West Virginia,
occured on the Big Board Tree tun¬
nel, east of Cameron, Saturday morn¬
ing. Train No. 49, eastbound, collid¬
ed with freight train No. 92 westbound,
while both were going at a speed of
thirty miles an hour. Engines and cars
were wrecked, being piled into the
creek. Engineers Deal and Kinley,
both of Wheeling; Fireman Clenchcr
and two trainmen, whose names are
not known, were killed. The property
loss will be heavy.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbiiekle’s 23.61 19 100 7b.
cases, Lion 23-60c, Leveling’s 23 60o. Green-Ex.
tra choice 21c; choice good 20c; fair 19j;com¬
mon 17a 18c. 8ngar—GranuI ated 5%c; off
granulated-; powdered 6%e; cut loaf white
extra G 4^o; New Orleans yellow clarified
Orleans 5%5%c; clioicj yellow 45c; extra prime C 4>^a4«^c. Syrup—New
20(8i30c. Molasses—Genuine 35<vg40c; common
Cuba 35@33cimi¬
tation 22(3)25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40(6>60c. Nutmegs 65@85c. Clovoi 2- r >®30c.
Cinnamon 10@12VJo. Allspice 10(®11 e. Jamai¬
ca $1.00. ginger 18c, Singapore pepper 12c; Maco
Rice, Head 6c; good 5%c; common
4%c; imported Japan 5@5%c. Salt—Hawley’s llaiak.
dairy $1.50; Virginia 75c. Cheese—flats
White fish, half bbls.$4 00; pails 60c.
Hoap—Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3.00a3.75;
Candles—Parafine turpentine, 60 bars, ll^c; GO lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
star lie. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5 gross 75. Hoda—Kegs, bulk 4c; do 1 lb pkga
5%c; cases, 1 lb 5%c. do 1 and %lbs 8c, do x / t lb
Crackers—XXX soda 6>£c; XXX butter
6%c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c; lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 7^c; 9c; corn
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick French
mixed 13c. Canned goods—Condensed milk
$6 00a8 00; imitation mackerel f3 95a4 00; sal¬
mon $6 00a7 60: F. W. oysters $2 00; LAV.
$135; corn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2 10.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4c; lump
4:- 2 ; nickel packages $3 00; celluloid $5 00.
Pickles, plain or mixed pints $1 OOat 40; quarts
$1 50al 80. Powder—Rifle, kegs $3.50; A l kegs
$2 00; A kegs$l 15. Shot $1 60 per sack.
Flour, (train and illcal.
Flour—First patent $5 00; second patent
$4.50; extra fancy $4.00 ; fancy $3 75; family
$3 25. Corn—-No. 1 white 60c. mixed,
58c. Oats, Mixed 44c; white 45c; Texas rust
proof 45c. Hay—Choice timothy, largo halos,
$1.00 No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; clmico
timothy, small bales,$1 00; No. 1 timothy,small
bales. 95c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 90c.
Meal—Plain 58 c; bolted 54c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 88c, small sacks 90c. Cotton
seed meal—$1 3J per cwt. Steam feed—$1.10
rer cwt. Stock peas G5a75c per bu. White, 75
to $1.00. Boston beans $2.65a2.75 per bushel.
Tennessee, $ 1.75a 2.0J. Grits—Pearl $3.35.
( oimtrv Produce.
Eggs 12a‘.2%c. Butter—Western creamery
20a25c choice Tennessee 15al8c; other gradei
10al2%c. Live poultry-Turkeys 10@12%c per
lb; hens 28 and 30c. spring chickens
large 20a25c; Biuail spring 12%sl5c. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys 15al8c ; ducks 15c; chick¬
ens I2%al5. Irish potatoes, 1.50(5)2.00 per bbl
sweet Strained potatoes new— 90cat.00 per bu. Honey-
8al.0c ; in the comb 10al2^c. Oniom
75ca$l 00 per bu.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 10%; ice-cured bellies
13c. Sugar-cured hams 15al7c, according
to brand and average; California, 14c.break
fast bacon 16c. Lard, Leaf ll%al2c. Compound,
8%.
Local—Market Firm! Middling 7 9-16c,