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WASHINGTON NOTES
NEW* fONUKItMNG THE VARI
Ot’S DEPARTMENTS.
SiiylngH and Doing-, of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
Orders have been issued to hurry
the work ori the Detroit at Norfolk, so
that she may sail for China in compli
ance with Secretary Herbert’s direc¬
tions as soon as possible.
T he mail from Gray Gables received
at the white house Tuesday morning
Contained forty-seven commissions of
newly appointed officers, among them
twenty-one postmasters in New York
state.
Secretary Carlisle has asked for the
resignation of Jeremiah O’Rourke, of
Newark, N. J., supervising architect
of the treasury department. Mr.
O’Rourke was appointed to his pres¬
ent position by Secretary Carlisle
shortly after the advent of the present
democratic administration, succeeding
W. J. Kdbrooke, of Chicago.
The first matter that occupied the
attention of Secretary Herbert when
he returned to the navy department
after five weeks’ absence, was that of
reinforcing the Asiatic squadron, and
afti r a brief consultation wit h Secro
tury Gresham, In issued preliminary
orders to the commanders of the Ma¬
rtinis and Detroit to prepare to pro¬
ceed to China as soon as possible.
Tho post office department, because
of tho insufficiency of the appropria¬
tion, is obliged to stop advertising un¬
claimed letters, which cost $20,000 a
year, Quite a number of other de¬
partments notably the army and
navy departments by reason of ser
vices of exigency, are on the ragged
brink of deficiencies, which it will be
difficult to avoid.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the ma¬
rine hospital service, tins appointed
I’asscd Assistant Surgeon J. A. White,
Lieutenant Robertson, of the revenue
cutter service, and Dr. G. G. 'Thomas,
of Wiimiug, N. G,, as aboard to select
a site for a quarantine and marine lies
pital station at <>r near Southport, N.
C. Congress made an appropriation
of $25,000for this station, and us soon
ns the hoard selects tho site work on
the building will begin.
Firing I lie Clerks.
Employes of the treasury depart
inent are thoroughly worked up over
the discharges now being made to
carry into effect the reorganization
provided by the Dockery commission.
So far the “ax” has fallen most heavily
upon the women employes and many
high-priced female clerks have been
discharged. The scene Monday and
Saturday, when the dreaded yellow en¬
velope containing the discharge was
handed to the victims, were in many
cases pathetic. It was not unusual to
have a half dozen groups of pretty cry¬
ing clerks in one bureau. Many of
tin' female clerks discharged had been
long in tho service, and one case is
mentioned of a woman who wus among
the first ever appointed to government
office by United States Treasurer Spin
K^r. over thirty-/^u_xAa.rs atro. Twelve
merks were dischargcr^OTOTOttyr - *
Tl»i‘ Govei nineitt Taking an Interest./
The government has asked fa be
given general supervision.(^iii. geofo^ftnl exhi¬
bit of the mineral aud re¬
sources of the southern states at
the Cotton States and International
exposition, and the exposition com*
which nnny has gladly granted a request,
will menu very much, not only
to the exposition, but to each and
every southern state. This exhibit is
to be made entirely outside of the gt >v
eminent exhibit; and the decision
means that the government will have
the general supervision of the exhibits
in the mining building as well as of
the government, exhibit itself. This
request not only shows tho great inter¬
est. which is iting felt by the goveru
inent officials in the exposition
movement, but display so
arranged nml handled that it
will afford the southern states an
opportunity of making a display of
their mineral wealth, which should be
practically impossible, under any (if oth¬
er circumstances. The force the
geological survey will practically be
placed in this exposition work and the
government geologists will bend their
energies toward making it the most
thorough and complete exhibit of
southern resources, which has ever
been made—greater, perhaps, than has
ever been believed possible. Tho prop¬
osition comes from the government
without any solicitation on the part of
tho exposition people, aud the cost will
be defrayed outside of the exposition
appropriation. It means, in fact, just
that much additional aid from the gov¬
ernment, and it is a very great deal.
Sugar Men Want Damages.
Tho Miles Planting and Manufac¬
turing Company, a corporation of the
state of Louisiana, organized for the
purpose of planting and growing sugar
cane and manufacturing sugar, filed
in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia Wednesday afternoon, a pe¬
tition for a writ of mandamus directed
against Secretary Carlisle aud Com¬
missioner of Internal Revenue Miller,
make to compel these two officials to
their a preliminary inspection of
works. The petition says that
the company was induced to go
into the sugar business by the bounty
act of October 1, 1890. l he commis
sioner of internal revenue issued five
licenses to them July 2, 1884, for their
manufactories, which are situated at
Amite, Homer, Monroe, St. James and
New Hope, and they were required
to give bonds for $250,000. There is
a rule of the treasury department
whieh requires preliminary inspection
of a manufactory of sugar aud the
petition states that the present is the
time for such inspection of the com
pany’s works, but both Commissioner
Miller and Secretary Carlisle have re
fused to comply with this rule. They
claim that this is illegal and will dam
age them to the extent of $50,000.
They say there is no substance to the
pretext that the new tariff law went
into efffect August 28th last, repeals
and annuls the old law, and that the
failure of the government to inspect
their works practically amounts to the
destruction and confiscation of their
property. A rule to show cause was
issued by the court returnable on Oc¬
tober 1th,
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSTHY OA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1894.--EIGHT PAGES.
CiOV. Tl USKV COMMKN'DKD,
A Delegation of Negroes Present Him
NVith Resolutions.
A Nashville special says : The com¬
mittee appointed tit a meeting of col¬
ored citizens last week to present Gov¬
ernor Turney nset of resolutions about
the Millington lynching, called upon
tbe governor Thursday. Speeches
were made by members of the com
mittee. The governor, in his re
sponse, said that he took the onth of
office to enforce the laws and that this
he would endeavor to do as long as he
was governor.
VICTOR 101 S JARS
MAKE MAKE IT II nmnihir DECIDEDLY ,-vr.i l NPLEAS- ,-. B
ANT rOR JOHN CHINAMAN.
Thousands Killed and a Host of
Prisoners Taken.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Shanghai says Japanese reports
received there place the number of
Chinese captured nt Ping Yung iu the
recent battle at 11,000, including four
general officers.
Advices from Chemulpo state that
there are 50,000 Chinese between Ping
Yang and Yalu. Tho Chinese are still
interrupted.
The Shanghai correspondent of The
Pall Mall (jfuzrtte telegraphs that the
Japanese iu three divisions attacked
Ping Yang. The assault was entirely
unexpected by the Chinese, who,
though poorh armed, fought well be¬
hind their earthworks. After a series
of desperate butt Is, the Chinese were
completely routed and all their arms,
ammunition and stores were taken by
the enemy. The fighting lasted
throughout the night, bright moon¬
light enabling the Japanese to use
their field guns with much execution.
Three hundred Japanese were killed.
The Ping Yang garrison numbered
20 , 000 .
THOUSANDS OF FRISONERS.
A dispatch to The Central News from
Ping Yang,dated September 17th,2:30
o’clock ]>. m., says that 14,500 Chinese
prisoners were marched through thi re
yesterday and hundreds of other pris¬
oners are coming in every hour. None
of these men were wounded. Trans¬
ports have been ordered to Ping Yang
inlet to convey the prisoners to Japan.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
report that 50,000 Chinese troops are
between Ping Yang and the Yalu
river is generally discredited. The
force around Ping Yang comprised the
flower of the Chinese army and was
really the ouly effective force in Chinn.
The men composing the levies now
being made inland have no idea what¬
ever of modern warfare.
Tho Fall Mall Gazelle's Shanghai
correspondent says the Japanese are
rapidly advancing upon Moukden.
Tho correspondent also says it is re¬
ported that Viceroy Li Hung Chang
has been deposed.
The Shanghai correspondent to the
Central News telegraphs as follows:
“While Chinese transports ; land¬
ing tucked troops the at CM^^KK Yalu]AjiH^|M MSeet at
the __ conveying"
transports. A severe battle fol¬
lowed. Tho Chin-Yuen and another
Chiuefie warship were sunk and the
Chao-Yung and Yang- Wei went ashore.
The Japanese lost three vessels. The
Chinese report that their loss at Ping
Yang was six thousand six hundred
men.”
THE PLATES GIVEN UP.
It Was Done at Attorney General
Olney’s Request.
A Jackson, Miss,, special says: In
tho matter of the controversy between
the state officials and the United States
treasury department over the issuo of
special warrants, the governor and
state their treasurer Tuesday morning gave
personal recognizance to appear
before the November, 1894, term of
the United States district court in
Jackson. Upon the request of Attor¬
ney General Gluey through District
Attorney Lee, the auditor of public
accounts delivered to Mr. Lee the
plates on which the special
warrants were printed. These plates
are wanted to be used in evidence
against the St. Louis Bank Note com*
pany, with whom the contract for the
printing of the warrants was made.
They are to be returned to the auditor
at the conclusion of said trial. The
“demand” made by the special agent,
Burns, for these plates, which belong¬
ed to the state of Mississippi, was re¬
fused by the state officers, but the
courteous “request” of the attorney
general of the United States was cheer¬
fully granted.
NEWS FROM CHINA.
A Fearful Conflagration—Japanese
Routed by Coreans.
Ad rices from Shanghai state that
the city of Lung Kin, in the province
of So-Chuen, has been visited by a
conflagration which has destroyed two
thousand buildings. Over a hundred
persons lost their lives in various ways
as the result of the fire. Among the
dead is the wife of the governor of
Lung Kin. The governor’s house was
burned aud several temples were de¬
stroyed. The loss is estimated at ten
million taels.
Advices from Corea say that the
Coreans attacked the Japanese advance
guard, 2,000 strong, who were on the
march from Fuesan to Seoul, and so
completely dispersed and destroyed
the column that only eight hundred of
them succeeded in getting back to
Fuesan.
General Li Yung Fu, of the Chinese
army, attempted, with a chartered
steamer, to convey 500 troops from
Swatowa to Formosa. The owners of
the vessel, however, rescinded the con
tract upon hearing that the Japanese
squadron was in the vicinity. Subse
quently three Japanese officers board
ed the transport and examined her
papers,
A Victory for the A. P. A.
The largest caucus ever held in
Springfield, Mass., was that of the re¬
i publicans Wednesday night and the
A. P. A.’s carried a majority of the
wards. The notable victory for the
A. P. A. was the defeat of the ex
Mayor E. S. Bradford, who was run
• ning for representative in the fifth
ward. The Australian system was
used in the caucuses.
LATEST DISPATCHES
giving tut: news i p TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Hrief Summary of Daily Ilappen
Digs Throughout the World.
An official report received at Paris
from Ma Noxipal, of Tonquin, says
that a number of pirates have attempt
cd to wreck the train from Langston.
I he Chinese engineer was killed and
two T renchmen were carried off.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Adams Express Company at New York,
Sanford Thursday, the resignation of Henry
was received and accepted.
L. C. Wier, of Cincinnati, was elected
president. Mr. Hanford will continue
us a director of the company.
W. T. Mogning, a farmer living
near Fort Worth, Texas, was robbed
Thursday of $500. Mogning had sold
a quantity of cotton to Dallas mer
chants,and was on his way home when
he was intercepted by three highway
men, I hree suspects have been ar
rested.
The Nicaraguan minister nt Wash¬
ington has received official notification
that martial law at Bluefieldshas been
euperceeded by a decree issued by the
governor DeMadris, re-establishing
the constitutional law of Nicaragua at
that place.
General Howard has issued orders
from the headquarters department of
the east, at Governor’s Island, N. Y„
to Lieutenaut Allyn Capron, Fifth in¬
fantry, with Company I, Twelfth in¬
fantry (Indian company), to proceed
without delay to Fort Sill, Indian Ter¬
ritory, with all tho Apache Indian pris
oners (Geronimo’s band) now at
Mount Yernou, Alabama.
J bo Brotherhood of Locomotive
Tiremen at a meeting at Harrisburg,
l’a., Thursday, adopted a series of res
olutions denouncing the action of those
members who struck through sympa¬
thy with the Pullman strikers, pledg¬
ing the brotherhood to hereafter
abide by nil its agreements, and to
await the action of the grand lodge
officers before going out on a strike.
The democratic congressional con¬
vention of the first Nebraska district,
met Thursday at Tecumseh and en¬
dorsed the nomination of Mayor Weir,
of Lincoln, for congress. Weir is the
populist nominee aud an able man.
Although Lincoln is very strongly re¬
publican, Weir has been elected twice.
This fusion makes the first district al¬
most certain to go for Weir. The re¬
publicans are very much enraged at
the fusion.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Captain JohnG. Capers, Senator But¬
ler’s political manager, was tried at
Florence Thursday and promptly ac¬
quitted cf the charge of criminal libel,
brought against him by Dr. Boyd, the
Tillmamte state senator elect. A card
had appeared in the Columbia Slate,
ever Capers’s signature, intimating
that Boyd had improperly gained pos¬
session of a political letter written by
's.
layers’ UMj^at Fal hRiver^
> held a Targerneeting Thursday
morning aud voted io grapt one-half
a w’eek’s pay to all financial members.
Secretary Whitehead says the amount
of money that will be given out will
be about $3,500. The union has $12,
000 in its treasury. The idle weavers
in aud out of the union are clamoring
for assistance and the savings banks
report that the withdrawals are three
times in excess of the deposits.
The ready-made clothing industry
of Boston, Mass., was completely para¬
lyzed Thursday bv a strike of opera¬
tives. At an early hour in the morn¬
ing a committee from tho United Gar¬
ment Workers’ Union, acting upon the
instructions from tho clothing trades
district council, No. 2, commenced the
war by calling out every operative,
pressman and Raster employed in the
shops. By noon 2,000 were out and at
rlie close of the day 5,500 clothing
workers had joined the strike.
A New York dispatch says: It be¬
gins to look as if the doom of the whis¬
key trust has been sealed. The shares
of that arrogant monopoly, which two
years ogo ruled the markets of the
country for spirits sold at $9 on the
stock exchange Wednesday, the lowest
price it ever touched. A sensation
was created by the news that Nelson
Morris, the cattle king of the west,had
resigned as director of the trust, of
which he was the virtual founder and
for a year past the sole acknowledged
dictator and financial backer.
The Columbia, S. C., Register pub¬
lishes an article in which it says that
it has reliable authority for stating
that the judges of the supreme bench
have written their decisions in the
celebrated dispensary cases. The in¬
formation is that Justices Pope and
Gary will declare for the constitution¬
ality of the law in toto, while Chief
Justice Mclver will maintain its uu
constitutionality on the same grounds
advanced by him in a previous decis¬
ion. This is the way everybody ex¬
pected the decision to be rendered
and the story is likely true.
BANKHEAD A VICTOR.
Renominated After a Hard Fought
Contest.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
Bankhead wins and he wins on a 16
to 1 silver platform. The action of
the state executive committee at its
meeting Long, Wednesday caused T. L.
the only remaining contestant
for the nomination, to withdraw and
Bankhead will be nominated at the
sixth district primaries without oppo
sition. It will be remembered that
over five hundred ballots were taken
in the sixth district convention witli
out making a nomination, and by res
olution the convention referred the
nomination to a district primar-y.
SENATOR JONES W ILL RESIGN
On Demand of the Republican Com¬
mittee of Nevada.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, who was
asked by the republican state commit
tee of Nevada to resign his seat in the
United States senate because he bad
gone over to the popnlist party has
decided to comply with the request,
This decision on his part is given on
the authority of bjs closest political
friends.
lam lick is commander.
Grand Army Veterans Elect Him by
a Smalt Majority.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: After
one of the most heated contests in the
history of the order, Col. Thomas G.
Lawler, of Rockford, Ill., was elected
commander-in-chief of the Grand Ar
my of the Republic, defeating liis only
opponent, Colonel Ivan N. Walker, of
Indianapolis, Ind., by the narrow ma¬
jority of eleven in a total vote of 619.
Considerable excitement attended the
balloting, the two candidates fre
quently running nec«; and neck, while
twice the Indiana man was in the lead,
His friends had figured out that he had
won by six majority until the result of
the ballot was declared and the boys
from Illinois, in the theatre as well as
in the lobby and out on the sidewalk,
went fairly wild with enthusiasm.
Lawyer’s election marks the down¬
fall of the Pennsylvania and eastern
element that has long been all-power
fal in the high councils and control of
the order, and will lead to the appoint¬
ment of a new- quartermaster general
to succeed General Lonis E. Wagner,
of Chicago. Lawler was offered the
support of the Pennsylvania delegates
on condition that the appointive power
was given to the east, but he declined
to enter into anv bargain, and so the
eastern strength™ thrown to'Walker.
The western and southern delegates,
however, voted solidly for Lawler. He
was nearly forty votes ahead when the
calling of the'roll of delegates WM
concluded, but twenty-nine votes from
the officers and council of the admin
istration went to his opponent and tho
Rockford veteran was literally pulled
through by J the skin of his teeth.
THE OTHER OFFICERS.
The other officers elected by the en
campment were: Senior vice comman
der, Major A. P. Burchfield, of Pitts
burg; junior vice commander, Charles
II. Shnle, New Orleans; surgeon gen
oral, O. W. Weeks, Marion, O.; chap
lain-iu-chief, Rev. T. II. Hagcrty, St.
Lonis; representative to council of
administration, Charles W. Gerwig.
The southern members of the eoun- j
cil elected are: Virginia oiid North
Carolina, August Hagen; Tennessee, (
11. W. Neasey; Arkansas, ... D. Thom- I
as; Georgia, Joseph H. Thibadeau;
Alabama, G. H. Patrick. ;
Hearty npifiause greeted the resolu
tion directing the incoming command¬
er in-chief to endeavor tq secure the
reinstatement of discharge! from gov
ernmental service, and also to protect
such veterans as yet reman in office, i
As a rider to this resolution the fol- j
lowing was also carried amid vocifer- |
ous shouts:
“That the Grand Army of the Re- i
public, in the twenty-eigdi national
encampment assembled, respectfully
request the president exectJ^ve -oLthe United
States io issue an order to
the heads of the several tepartments |
of the government, and though them
to its subordinates having- the power
of appointment, empl«*ftn at and re
ice, tentiou that of due persons consideration in theipublic serv
be given to
the claims of veterans the war, and
that in letter and igw it any laws in
reference preference,JdK therjdrffjl '•sfiive ^rried them out.” a
; s.
within two days,
tional encampment of Granrmv
Thursday of the Republic night. adjourped A sine die
yekr from
Monday the boys in blue, crossing
Mason and Dixon’s line for the first
time m the history of the order, will
fraternize with their opponents of the
sixties and thus make visible demon
stration of the oft-repealed assertion
that there is no longer orth or a
south, but one country, OTe and nn
davided. And, if but a tithe of the
pledges and promises made by the
visiting Kentuckians are redeemed the
encampment of 1895 will never be for
gotten, either by the union or confede¬
rate veterans. that are fortunate
enough to be among the participants.
FARMERS AS HIGHWAYMEN.
Au Attempt-to Rob a Train Results j
Disastrously.
A special from Fort Malison, Iowa,
says: Four masked men attempted to
hold up traiu No. 5, the Utah and
Colorado express, on the Atchison,To
peka and Santa Fe road near Gorin,
Mo., seventy-five miles west of here,
at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. As a
result “Dad” Prescott, the engineer
of the traiu, is probably fatally
wounded. Two of the bandits are be
lieved to Tie dead or wounded in the
woods that surround the track, and
the other two are fleeing across the
country pursued by railroad detectives
with bloodhounds.
The attempt to rob the train failed
completcdv. The plot was formed
three weeks ago and the railroad and
express officials have had a spy in the
camp of the bandits ever since. From
the time the traiu left Chicago a»t 5
o’clock last evening, railroad and ex
press detectives, all walking arsenals,
climbed on at every station.
TWO OF THE ROBBERS CAPTURED.
A dispatch from Keokuk says: Five
farmers living three miles north of
Arbella, Missouri, are the men who
held up the Santa Fe traiu at Gorin,
Mo., fifty miles west of .here, last
night.
Two of the men were captured at
Memphis, Mo., this morning, one be
ing shot six times with a Winchester,
He cannot live. The names of the
captured men are Charles Abrams and
Lincoln Overfield, the former being
the one badly wounded.
DEMOCRATS FLOP.
Lousiana Sugar Planters Go Over to
the Republicans.
A New Orleans special says: The
sugar planters’ convention or mass
meeting held Monday went over bodily
to the republican party. If there had
been any purpose on the part of those
who were faithful to the democracy to
attend and capture the meeting it was
abandoned as hopeless. The session
passed off without a word being said
m behalf of the democratic party t and ,
without any debate or discussion of
any kind. There were 850 present,
sugar planters, manufacturers and
merchants. Although the lumber, rice
and other interests had been invited,
there were very few persons present
except sugar men.
Don’t be so aristocratic ss to b«
aahamtd of commonsen.se,
OWENS A WINNER.
BRECKINRIDGE IS DEFEATED
BY A SMALL MAJORITY.
His Friends Threaten to Contest.
Great Excitement.
The Contest Abandoned.
Latest dispatches from Frankfort
state that the tide was turned in the
contest matter, Monday afternoon,
when B . J. Welsh, the committeeman
from Breckinridge’s home, and one of
his strongest supporters, announced
that he would never go behind the re
turns when the committee met at
Frankfort. As this would leave the
committee a tie, or five to five in any
event, and as other Breckinridge men
on the district committee who had
stood by him to tho last, were not dis¬
posed to go behind tlie returns, the
old guard of the silver-tongued orator
gave up the struggle. They will not,
however, concede the plurality of 526,
which the Owens men claim from com¬
plete returns.
A special of Friday from Lexington,
?-*•■ T - “y‘= Tomorrow The Breckinridge the campaign w.l
'? dc0lde »«r tho hoaor ,Uo primaries ^‘shonor ol
or
representing the old Ashland district.
U.. poll* wUl ... open «t . 8 0 o . c , ock , in . he
m “ ram S a “ d cIoso 4 0 c]ocli m the
a truoon *
Ibere have been eight months of the
. bitterest contention Kentucky poll
in
tics but they will be forgotten in the
eight hours ot excitement tomorrow'.
Tonight all sides claim a victory.
At the opera house, Owens and his
friends are speaking to a tremendous
audience. Colonel Breckinridge is ad
dressing thousands of enthusiastic fol
lowers from the court house steps, while
Evan A. Settle is making his last ap
peal to his homo people at Owenton.
Tlie Result.
At midnight Saturday night all the
precincts in the district had been heard
from and the indications were that the
Hon. W. C. Gwens has been nomiua
ted by a majority of something like
360 votes. The counties went as fol
lows:
Breek
Counties. Owens. inridge. Settle
Bourbon ..1,030 1,151 58
Woodford 811 688 141
Scott.... 1,829 635 168
Oldham., 407 243 264
Fayette.. 1,812 1,975 480
Owen.... 229 1,143 1,360
Henry... 468 857 669
Franklin. 1,516 995 288
The fight all through was the most
notable combat ever waged in Ken
tucky. All sorts of personalities have
been indulged in. Disruptions have
occurred in households and members
of the family have not spoken for
weeks.
There were any number of personal
encounters in the district during the
day, and fifty excursions were run and
hundreds of people went to the vari
ous towns and worked for the candi
dates of their choice. . In cverv town
LTLit counties the
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‘ I
i
t<^j§t*xingr8J^M|B|Rthe and wc^^^Wir Mr. Latonia Owens. race It
course
is estimated that more than $100,000
changed hands on the result of tho
contest.
The feeling worked up over the race
was so bitter that several prominent
gentlemen took out additional life in
surance. To show the interest mani¬
fested in the result of the race outside
of the district, it is only necessary to
mention that there were 100 newspaper
correspondents in Lexington. One
New York paper ordered 24,000 words,
Later News.
Further dispatches from Frankfort
state that Owen’s majority is 555.
During Saturday night and far into
the early hours of Sunday the friends
of W. C. Owens at Frankfort exhib¬
ited their enthusiasm, shooting oft'
fireworks and parading. Main street
was lined with old and young, cele
brating the victory. Everywhere
there was anxiety to know the
exact result.
Breckinridge men, in some instances,
still hold out that their man is a win
ner and the official count will, in their
opinion, so declare. Noel Gaines, a
prominent Breckinridge lieutenant, was
asked regarding the threats of contest,
and said:
“What i3 the use of a contest when
we have the race won? I honestly be
i lieve Breckinridge has secured the
nomination by a safe, but small ma
! jority.”
An Owens man said that he thought
such talk was a “bluff” and showed
clearly that Breckinridge was dying
hard. “But,” he added, “if they at
| tempt to defraud our man out of the
1 result there will be blood spilled. The
election was too hard fought and won
to be stolen. The first sign of chi
means blood.”
bhe people generally regard Owens
as the rightful nominee and should the
district committee, which has a major
ity for Breckinridge, declare their fa
vorite the nominee, a split is certain.
BRECKINRIDGE WILD CONTEST.
A Lexington special says: Breckin
ridge’s ity°on managers claim Owen’s plural
the face of the returns is only
135 an q sa y contest and have
e ] ec tion declared for Breckinridge,
Owens’s managers deny there is ground
for a contest and still claim 555 as 1m
majority.
CEDARTOWN’S SENSATION
Which Was Stirred up by the Last
Grand Jury of the County.
Cedartown, Ga., comes to the foie
with a sensation of national interest.
It has been smoldering just underneath
the surface of publicity for six months
and has only found its way ont. When
Cashier J. O. Hardwick, of the first
National bank, of Cedartown, was in
dicted foP forgerv thfer e was a lively
stir, but back of all these indictments,
which were renewed by the last grand
jury of Polk county, there has la* 11
i smoldering a hot-bed of tiro which is
| just now beginning to blaze, ami which
threatens to involve, not t*nly is-uo
other than forgery, but people higher
. in authority than these that hav
’ yet figured iu tbe proceedings
Schofield’s Iron Works!
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Sieaa Enins, Bsitos, SAW ILLS, Ssiisi Presses
General Machinery and all kind3 Castings.
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MACON. GEORGIA.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
The Galesburg, Ill., track now holds
tile world’s record for trotting, Alix
clipping a quarter of a second off her
record there Wednesday afternoon,
going the mile in 2:03b
In n fight which took place between
one hundred police constables and a
picket of men about T.onan pit,
near itlotherwelr.'Seotlaml, freelT'l'ta-police tho miner*
nao.1 catapult,, do
feude i themselves with their bat.rtli,
and tho picket was ultimately driven
back with many casualties.
Governor Roswell F. Flower, of New
York, has formally anno need that he
is not a candidate for renomination for
governor. The announcement has ere
ated considerable surprise, as there
was au impression abroad that the gov
ernor would run again. Who will be
the democratic candidate is as yet ex
tremely uncertain.
Tlie Connecticut republican state
convention, in session at Hartford,
Wednesday, nominated for governor
ex-Senator O. Vincent Coffin, of Mid
dletown; lieutenant governor, Loriu
A. Coke, of Barkinsfield; secretary of
state, Colonel William C. Mowery, of
Norwich; state treasurer, George W.
Hodge, of Windsor; comptroller, ex
Senator B. IT. Meade, of New Canaan,
The PennsylvaniaRaihoad compauy
has issued orders on the Camden and
Amboy, N. J., division for all depart
meats to resume work on eight hours’
time, six days each week. For the
past thirteen months the shipyards,
machine and car repairing shops have
only worked eight hours per day, live
days eaclTw^ck) while the trainmen
had. worked only half time.
CarrierL & Levato, proprietors of
ona • half dozen or more private
institutions in the Italian
t Pittsburg, Pa., have ilisap.
I* King ° with them all of the
5 u , i eposi t amounting to , about , ,
$ 10 , 000 . 1 | «. — , .. , t .
leetedrabou I
anxious to , I. ml . some one lipon whom r
they might wreak their vengence.
.
Trom present indications, the fire
which destroyed Stumpli Bro.’s mat
tress factory and a number of adjoin
mg buildings, was second only in its
fatal results to Washington s greatest
disaster in recent years, the collapse
of the Ford’s theatre building. It is
now believed that seven people lost
their lives and the bodies of four of
them are supposed to be in the ruins.
For the week ending September
17th, in east Prussia, there were twen¬
ty-eight new cases of cholera and nine
deaths from that disease. In the Elbe
district one new case of cholera was
reported, and one case of that disease
was announced at Hesse-Nassau. In
the Rhine district two new cases of
cholera and two deaths were reported,
and in Silesia there -were fifty-four
cases and twenty-three deaths.
At Chicago, Wednesday, Judge Gib¬
bons sustained the demurrer to the
amended pleas of the whiskey trust to
the information in quo warranto and
directed the attorney general to pre¬
pare a judgment of ouster against the
trust. Judge Gibbons granted the re¬
quest of the defendants for au appeal
to the supreme court of the state. The
court passed entirely upon the law in
the case, but at the same time declared
that in his opinion the Cattle Feeding
and Distilling Company was a trust.
A Columbus, O., special says: By
a large majority the democrats of Ohio,
in state convention assembled Wednes¬
day reversed the pronunciamentos of
all previous state, as well as national
gatherings of the party, in declaring
unequivocally in favor of the free coin¬
age of silver. By a vote almost as large,
endorsement was given through the
medium of an indirect resolution to the
attitude taken by Senator Calvin S.
Brice in the recent tariff reform con¬
test. The debate on these two issues
occupied nearly four hours of the con¬
tinuous session.
Cliinese Ships Sunk.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Shanghai dated September 19th, mid
night, says: “A number of officers
who were engaged in the naval battle
on the Yalu river have arrived at Port
Arthur with half a dozen warships
badly damaged and filled with wound¬
ed men.
The Chinese cruisers Gben-Yuen and
King Huen were sunk and 600 officers
and men on board of them were
drowned. Only a few of the men
struggling in the water were picked
up. The Chao-Y'nng and Yung-Wei,
in maneuvering for more advantage¬
ous positions, got into shallow water
and run aground. The stranded ves
sels were helpless under the fire of the
big guns of the Japanese ships and
were finally set on fire by the enemy’s
shells and became wrecks.
be Cassagnac’s .... Advice.
A Pari* special Bays: M. Paul de
Cassagnae, writing to the press, advo
cates permanent occupation of Mada
gascar by France. The Matin urges
that the march of the French upon
the capital of Madagascar be no longer
delayed.
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NO TICKET NAMED.
“Conservative” Democrats of South
Carolina Meet in Convention.
Tho convention of “conservative”
democrats, of South Carolina, called
tojneet at Columbia, Monday night,
did not get to work until 2 :45 o’clock
Tuesday morning, the delegates hav¬
ing been in secret caucus on the sub¬
ject of “nominations” or “no m muni¬
tions” until that hour.
About three hundred delegates, rep¬
resenting nil but bun counties in the
state, and including many of the most
l>iomiuent democrats in Carolina, \vero
present. General Johnson Hagood
’'tn.'e convention dhl not nominate a
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2““,“ “ /2 , P 1 t," "T ™ " S com tC " "
.. Re8olveJj T1 , at , llis conTontion
eomnSM ;! of loyal dcl„orr„ts from all
™ rt3 of the'stnte, assemble' demands of tho
convention to bii the 19th
instant under the call of the executive- _
committee of the democratic party of
the state as heretofore organized, ex -
plicitly to declare the true and loyal
allegiance of tho whole democratic
par ty of the state of Houth Carolina to
the principles and organization of tho
national democratic party and to re
pndiato and rescind the action of tho
state convention of 1892, adopting tho
Ocala platform as that of the demo
emtio party of the state,
Resolved, That the convention also
demands of the said state democratic
convention to bo held on the 19tli of
September to nominate no one to of
lice who is not in lull accord with tho
principles of the national democracy,
nor one who acknowledges allegiance
to said Ocala platform or to the prin
ciplcs of the populist party,
“Resolved, That the nomination
by convention of the nineteenth
district of any candidate for any office
^ ie hands of the democratic party
holding allegiance to any other than
^he democratic principles and policy,
shall absolvo fl11 members of the demo
P«'ty in the state from oblign
tlon support such nominees at the
e“ e ral e 1 “ l,OQ « n0 ‘ «*“?
Part . w.ted , the recent
1 c, 1 primary
e
“Resolved, rin That . an executive com
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mittee ... consisting . . ot member f from
one
4-nie delegations, ? W which b;d by committee the re
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„ chor e(1 wit h „ 10 dut o! ttl0
better organization of the democratic
party and the presentation of the
foregoing resolution to the convention
which meets iu Columbia on tho 19th
i nst ant, and with recalling this con
vention at such time as they see lit
prior to the 1st of October. 1894.”
MYERS CAPTU R ED.
He is Charged With the Murder of
Young Crowley at Atlanta.
A Cincinnati special says: the William
Myers, charged with murder of
Forrest L. Crowley, at Atlanta, was
arrested here at 1 o’clock Friday
morning, Myers had his hair dyed in
Covington before crossing to Cincin¬
nati. He admits knowing all about the
murder, but further than to deny liis
own guilt, he refuses to tulk. IIo
consented to return to Atlanta without
requisition papers.
The claim set up by the republicans
that the new tariff law will destroy tho
woolen goods industry of this country
is proven false in Knoxville, Tenn. In
that city is located the largest woolen
goods factory in the south, and one of
the largest in this country. The
Knoxville woolen mill is capitalized at
$500,000. It has twenty sets of cards,
500 looms and employs COO operatives,
with a payroll of $8,500 a month. The
mill turns out 4 2,500 yards of cloth u
day, and the annual product amounts
to between $800,000 and $1,000,000.
ANOTHER TIIREA TEN ED STRIK E.
The Missouri Pacific Discharging Fire¬
men and Engineers.
As the last smoke of the recent rail¬
road strike died away another ominous
cloud appers in the horizon, which
may yet break with scarce less fury
than did the troubles of last July, in¬
volving the state, possibly the country,
in another labor war. Since Satur
day the Missouri Pacific is said to have
discharged fourteen firemen and six
engineers at this end of the line and
eight or ten firemen at Van Buren on
the charge of being implicated in the
Btnke . sympathy with it.
! expressing
I There are said to be twenty-five more
names on the list of men to be decap¬
itated soon.
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