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STATISTICS ON STRIKES
THE BUREAU OF LABOR SUBMITS
ITS ANNUAL REPORT.
Six Tears Covered in the Report—The
Showing Made by Each Year—What
the Strikes Cost Employer and Em
ploye in Dollars-The Number of Men
and Establishments Involved.
Washington’, Dec. 29.—Commissioner
Carroll P. Wright lias submitted to the Sec
retary of the Interior the third annual re
port of the Bureau of Labor, which relates
entirely to strikes and loe.kous for a period
of six years, ended Dec. 31, 1*5(1. This re
port is regarded as of special importance,
as it is the result of the first general
Investigation ever mado by any nat on
of the facts concerning strikes and lock
outs for any extended period of time, or for
any wide extent of territory. The report
covers about 700 printed pages, and gives
details of each strike and lock-out oecuring
in the United States during the period
named. It exhibit* the facts belonging to
each industrial trouble for each locality
where trouble was found, without attempt
ing to establish or decide upon the connec
tion between them.
THE SHOWING BY YEARS.
The following statement shows the num
ber of strikes occurring during each of the
last six years the number of establishments
involved and the average number of es
tablishments involved in each strike:
In 1881—-471 strikes, involving 2,928 es
tablishments, being an average of 0.3 estab
lishments in each s.rike.
Ia 1883—171 strikes, 3,105 establishments,
average 4.6 establishments.
In 1883—478 strikes, ‘3,759 establishments,
average 5.8 establishments.
In 1884—448 strikes, 2,367 establishments,
average 5.3 establishments.
In 1885—645 strikes. 2,384 establishments,
average 3.5 establishments.
In 1886—1,412 strikes, 9.893 establish
ments. average 7 establishments.
Totals, 3,903 strikes, involving 22,336 es
tablishments, the general average being 5.7
establishments.
THIS TEAK’S record.
In 1887, the report says, there were, ac
cording to the best information obtainable,
553 strikes, the details of which are not ob
tainable. The report shows that, during the
six years covered by the investigation New
York bad the largest number of establ sh
metits affected, both by strikes and lockout.-,
there being for the former 9,247 and for the
latter 1.528. The building trades furnished
<1,060 of the total number of establishments
engaged in strikes.
The total number of employes involved
in the whole number of strikes for the en
tire period is shown to have been 1,818,004.
The number of employes originating
striKes was 1,020,832. The number of em
ployes in all establishments before the
strikes occurred was 1,662,045, while the
whole number employed in the establish
ments involved after the strikes occurred
was 1,616,247, a loss of 25,798.
THE NEW EMPLOYES.
There were 103,088 new employes engaged
after the strikes and 87,483 were brought
from other places than those in woich
striked occurred. In 2,182 establish
ments lock-outs were ordered dur
ing the period named. In these
there were 173,995 employes before
the lock-outs occurred and 109,436 after the
lock-outs, while the number actually locked
out was 159.548. There were 13,976 new
employes retained at the close of look-outs,
and 5,682 were brought from other places
than those in which the lock-outs occurred.
“It should be remembered, however,”
says the report, “that these figures
do not reurese t the actual number
of individual establishments or different
employes engaged, as in many cases t here
have been two or more strikes or lock-outs,
affecting the same establishments in the
same year. Iu such cases the establish
ment and the number of employes engaged
are duplicated.”
HOW THE SEXES WERE DIVIDED,
Of the whole number of employes in
volved in strikes during the six yeai-s cov
ered by the report, 88.56 per cent, were
males and 11.44 per cent, were females. Of
those involved in lock-outs during the same
period 68.78 per cent, were males and 31.22
per cent, were females. An examination of
the tables appended to the report shows that
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
Ohio and Illi.iois represent 74.74 per cent,
of the whole number of establishments
affected by strikes throughout the
country, and 90.80 jier cent,
of the lock-outs. These five States, it is
stated, contain 4 per cent, of all the manu
facturing establishments, and employ 58 per
cent, of the capital invested in the mechan
ical industries of the United States.
Of the 22,336 establishments in which
strikes occurred, in 18,342, or 82.12 percent,
of the whole, the strikes were ordered by
labor organizations, while of 2,182 estab
lishments in which lock-outs occurred,l,7s3,
or 80.34 per cent., were ordered by combina
tions of managers.
THE TIME LOST.
Of the whole number of establishments
subjected to strikes there were t emporarily
oios and for business 13,443, or 60.19 per cent.,
and on account of lock-outs 63 00 per cent
The average durations of the stoppage on
account of strikes was 23.1 days, and for
lock-outs 21 days. The results of the strikes,
so far as gaining the objects sought
arc concerned, are shown to be as
follows: Success followed in 10,407 cases, or
46.59 per cent, of the whole; partial success
in 8,004, or 13.45 per cent, of the whole,
•fid failure followed in 8,910 cases, or 39.89
per. cent of the whole. By lockouts 504
establishments, or 25.85 per cent, of the
whole, fueceoded in gaining their point; 190
or 8.71 per c nt. partly succeeded, and 1,305
or 59.80 |jer cent, failed.
As to tbe causes or objects
of the strikes it is shown
that increase of wages was the principal
one, 42.44 per cent, Other leading causes
are given as follows: For a reduction of
hours, 10.45 per cent.; against a reduction
of wages, 7.75 per cent.; for increase of
w ages and reduct ion of hours, 7.57 per cent.;
uguinst increase of hours, a little more than
yC t per cent. Tt.e total for the five leading
causes is 77.83 per cent, and for all other
causes 22.17 per cent.
LOSSES OF BOTH SIDES.
Dlscla niing absolute accuracy the rejxjrt
gives the losses of employee and employes
resulting from strikes and lock-outs astol
lows: Losses to strikers during the six yeai-s,
covered by the investigation, $51,816,135;
loss to employes for lock-outs during the
same period, $8,132,717, or a tot al wage loss
to employes of $59,948,883. This loss oc
curred for both strikes and lock-outs in
24,518 ' stablishments, or an average loss
of $3,445 to eacb establishment,
or nearly $4O to each st: liter involved. The
assistance given to the strikers during the
same period, so far as ascertainable,
amounted to $3,335,057, and to those suffer
ing trom lock-outs $1,105,538, or a total of
$4,430,595. These amounts, however, the
commissioner says, are undoubtedly too
low. The employe, s’ losses through strikes
for six years amounted to $30,73i,653, and
through lock-outs to $3,433,361, ora total
loss to the establishments involved of $34 -i
164,914.
Appended tables also show that, the chief |
burden of the strikes was Ijorae by thirteen 1
industries, viz: B. sits and shoes, '352 ostab- I
lishmeuts; brick-making, 478; building
trades, 6,000; clothing, 1,738; cooperage,
484; food preparations, ~419; furniture,
• 491; lumboi, 395; metals and metallic goods,
1.585; mining 2.060; stone, 408; tobacco,
2,959: transportation, 1,478. These repre
sent 89 35 per cent. of the whole number
subjected to strike*.
Jn lock-outs five trades bore 80 }>er cent,
of the whole burden, as follows: Boots and
shoes, 165 establishments; bul.diiig trades,
531; clothing, ’<'73; metals and metallic
foods. 76, ajii.l tpbacoo 220, or a total of
,74SL
Beside* completing the tbdd work for this
report and the compilation of the inf ~.rma
tion the bureau has carried on aim st to
completion the investigation begun last year
concerning the moral, physical and eco
nomical condition of the working women
of tlie great cities, and has continued its in
vestigation into the cost of the distribution
of the great staple products. It has also
undertaken, according to Congressional in
struction, the collection of statistics of mar
riage and divorce in the United States, a re
port of which may be submitted before the
close of the present session of Congress.
A CONGRESSMAN'S WIFE DEAD.
She Fell on the Street In a Spasm and
Eer Identity Th :n Unknown.
Washington, Dec. 29. —Mrs. Titylor, wife
of Representative Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio,
Garfield’s successor in the House, wes
stricken with apoplexy this afternoon in
the street not far from her homo, and re
moved to the Providence Hospital, where
she died before her husband or any of her
friends knew she was ill. Mrs. Taylor went
shopping about noon. When she did not
return at her usual hour for dinner her
husband became very uneasy Picking up
an evening newspaper he road this para
graph: "About 12:30 o’clock to-day a well
dressed ladv, apparently 59 or 60 years old
was found lying on the pavement nt
Connecticut avenue and L street, where it
is supposed she had fallen in a spasm. She
was unconscious at the time, 'the police
ambulance was sent for and she was re
moved to the Providence hospital. The
poLk-e could not find any person who could
identify her. On a handkerchief found in
her pocket was tlie name ‘Bosworth.’
At 2:45 o’clock she died with
out having recovered conscious
ness.” lfe almost fainted as he real
tlie last words. Bosworth was his wire’s
name when he married her. Hurrying to
the hospital he found her dead. They were
only married n month. In their youth they
were engaged, but the engagement was
broken off. Both married. His wife died
and her husband died. So they were
married. They were very happy for a
month, and now she has died.
SUNK NEAR LAND.
Lose of a British htsamer With a Cargo
of Merchandise.
Baltimore, Dec. 29.—Capt. Seavey, of
the schooner Annie I. Grace, at this port,
from Boston, reports that on Dec. 24, as bo
was passing South Shoal lightship, off Nan
tucket, he saw a small boat put off from the
lightship a mile distant and bear down to
meet her. Capt. Thornton, of the British
steamer Newcastle City, from Newcastle
for New York, who was on board the small
boat, reported that his ship hod been lost,
with a heavy cargo of asserted merchan
dise, on the morning of the preceding day.
The crew, all told, numbered twenty-five,
and they had sought refuge on the light
ship. It appears, from the statement of
Capt. Thornton, that his vessel was on
the inside, between the lightship and
the land, where the water is from
two to three fathoms deep, while the
steamer drew over tw nty-five feet. When
asked by Capt. Seavey how it occurred, he
replied that nis ship “took bottom.” The
sea was very high at the time, and the bot
tom of the Newcastle City was crushed in
when she struck the hard sand. The officers
and crew had much difficulty in escaping
from the wreck. Capt. Thornton made no
request to be taken on board the schoo.er
and returned to the lightship. The steamer’s
cargo, consisting of iron, cement and fire
bricks, was valued at $75,000 and is fully
insured. The vessel was worth SIOO,OOO and
is only partly insured. The wrecked
steamer Newcastle City was a screw vessel
of 2,129 gross and 1,384 net tons. She was
285 feet long, 36 feet bread and 24 feet deep,
and was built at West Hartlepool, Bug,, in
1882.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
The Effort to Secure Legislation at
This Session.
New York, Dec. 30, 3 a. m.—The World ,
in its city column to-day, says: “If the
combined.efforts of authors and publishers
can bring it about, the present session of
Congress is likely to pass some measure pro
viding for iuternatiouai copyright. At
the suggestion of George Walton
Greene. Secretary of the Authors Copy
right League, concerning the desirability of
appointing a committee from the Authors’
League to secure an international copyright,
a call was issued for a meeting of publishers
at Delmonico’s yesterday afternoon. The
call was signed by all the publishers of this
city and Boston, the J. B. Lippineott Com
pany of Philadelphia, Cushing & Bailey
of Baltimore, Robert Clark of Cine n
nati, and A. C. McClung of Chi
cago. The meeting yasterday afternoon
was accordingly a thoroughly representa
tive one. It was decided bo organize with
the name of the American Publishei-s’ Copy
right Association. 'William H. Appleton
was elected President; George Haven Put
nam, Secretary, and Charles Scribner,
Treasurer. The Executive Committee is
composed of the three officers above named
and Joshua W. Harper, A. D. Randolph,
and Dana C. Estes, of New York; Henry O.
Houghton, of Boston. and Craig
Lippineott, of Philadelphia. The
membership is limited to American pub
lishers who favor tho international copy
rignt. The Executive was instructed to co
operate with the Author’s Committee to do
whatever might bo done to secure the pass
age of an international copyright measure
at the present session of Congress.
PROHIBITION IN MISSOURI.
Kansas City Saloon Keepers Have a
Regular Jubilee.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 29.—There was
a jubilee of saloon keepers last evening
when it became generally known that Re
corder Davenport ha 1 declared tho Sunday
closing ordinance unconstitutional. The
decision considered at gi oaf length tho right
of the Council to give tlie Recorder power
to impose greater penalties thnp those
allowed by the charter, and holds
that the Council did not have
such power as that. Part
of the ordinance being void, the whole was,
and revocations of license was intended as
part of the penalty and could no; hold. The
Judge referred to the fact that 1,200 signa
tures had been obtained pledging him sup
port in case he upheld tho ordinance, and
stated that he could ouly decide in the way
he thought, whether public opinion was
with him or not. The case will be taken to
the Supreme Court by the temperance
element.
LOADED WITH RUM AND WEALTH.
A Narrow Escape from Freezing to
Death in the Gutter.
Cincinnati, Dec. 29.—Patrick O'Brien,
of lowa, was picked up lad night insensible
from liquor and cold in one of the worst
localities iu tho city, and was taken to tho
station houre. He bail SB,OOO in cash, $6,000
in checks and a quantity of valuable jew
elry on his person, but be would have been
frozen to death if the jiolice had not found
him.
Upper Berths Under the Ban.
Bt. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20.—The State
j Rail, ouil Commissioners to-day issued per
i einptory orders that after January ouch
upper berth in any sleeping car run or
operated u)>ou any railroad in this State
shall be and remain dosed wlieue .'or the
berth under the same shall ba occupied by
a passenger, until such upper berth shall be
needed for actual occupancy by some other
j passenger requiring the same.
Lack of Orders.
Pittsburg, Dec. 29.—H. K. Porter & Cos.,
locomotive manufacturers, have suspended
one-third of their employes on account of
luck of orders. When the trade improves
the meu wifi be given their old uositiona
HIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1887.
RAILROAD BUILDING
More Miles of New toad Completed
This Year Than in Any Previous ne.
Chicago, Dec. 29.—The Hallway Age to
morrow will say: The year 1887 has sur
passed all other years in the extent of rail
way mileage construction in the United
States. When six months ago the predic
tion was made in these columns that the
total new mileage for the year would not
be less than 10,000 miles, with a likelihood of
sui-pas-ing the record of 1882, the year of the
greatest railway construction in the history
of tiie country—it was not generally be
lieved. But figures obtained b>-careful in
vestigation throughout tlie year and con
firmed by official information now prove the
prediction to have been more than war
ranted. Our returns show that during 1887
no less than 13,724 miles of new main line
tracks were added to the railway systemso.
the United States, no account being tak n in
this of hundreds of miles of side track
built, nor of thousands of miles of main
linn tracks re-laid. While the search has
been unusually thorough and the totals cor
roborate the record kept from week to week
it is not improbable that some scattering
additions may yet be received, so that it is
safe to state that during 1887 nearly, if not
quite 13,000 miles of new mam line tracks
were constructed.
From a table showing the number of lines
and miieage laid in each State the following
is extracted:
Stall'. Lines, itiles.
West Virginia 3 53
Virginia 4 64
North Carolina 10 184
South Carolina 7 101
Georgia 8 281
Florida 10 193
Ai ibama 15 515
Mississippi 5 99 •
Louisiana 4 65
Tennessee 10 68
Kentucky 8 168
A GALE ON iHE COAST.
Great Damage to Shipping In Nova
Scotia and ivaine.
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 29.—A terrific south
east gale prevailed last night, and caused
extensive damage to shipping in the harbor.
All the vessels in port were more or less in
jured, and in some cases wharves were dam
aged. Several vessels sank and others were
wrecked at their wbarvas and in the barlior.
The wind at St. John, N. 8., reached a
velocity of seventy to eighty miles an hour.
Some damage was done to tne wharves and
shipping, but nothing serious.
UNPARALLELED FURY AT ROCKLAND.
Rockland, Me. . Dec. 29.—A southeast
gale raged here all night with unparalleled
fury, doing great da t age to shipping m
this” harbor, washing away wharves and
w. od, demolishing windows, blowing down
chimneys and doing other damage. One
sejiooner in the harbor was blown on the
rocks and wrecked, another sank at her
wharf, two others are practically wrecks,
and minor damage was done to many
others.
A FREIGHT RATE FIGHT.
i
The War in Illinois Still Being Pushed
Vigorously.
Chicago, Dec. 29.—The Illinois freight
rate war is still being prosecuted with vigor,
but as the roads are not publishing regular
tariffs, but make private rates to shippers,
there is not as much excitement as there
would lie otherwise. What the exact rates
from Chioago to East St. Louis and other
Illinois town’s are, is hard to tell, but it is
generally admitted that they are
very low. There is little
freight being shipped West from Chicago
to Illinois pom s, notwithstanding the low
rates, but as far as can lie ascertained the
Chicago and Alton road gets the bulk of
the business. This road seems determined
to keep about Id per cent, below competing
lines. From St. Louis the rates to
Chicago and all Illinois points are
getting as badly demoralized as from Chi
cago west. The general opinion is that the
war will not long be confined to Illinois,
but will spread to all the territory west.
Low II inois rates naturally affect rates to
points beyond as the combined locals are
less than through rates.
PLEADS GUILTY.
Huggard Afterward Called to The
Stand as a Witness.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29.—Just be
fore the Commonwealth closed this evening
iu the trial of Thomas L. Huggard, cashier
of the Shackamaxon Bank, Samuel P. Mil
ligan, paying and receiving teller, and
George W. Bumm, and William H. Bumm,
sons of the late President of the bank,
charged with conspiracy to defraud, the
counsel for Huggard,” who previously
had remained a silent participant
in the cause urose and raid:
“May it please the court, I desire on be
half of my client to withdraw his lea of
not guilty anil enter one of guilty.” The
plea was accepted and Huggard was called
to the stand as a witness for the Common
wealth. Tlie Shackamaxon Bank suspended
May 29, 1887, with a s ortage of $400,000.
Legal proceedings were begun iu the civil
courts for the purpose of collecting from
the stockholders sufficient moneys to
liquidate the debts, and criminal suits
charging conspiracy to defraud were
brought against Huggard, Milligan and the
Bumm brothel’s.
A GREEN GOODS DEAL BUSTED.
Crooks Caught Dickering With a
Quartette of Countrymen.
New York, Dec. 29.—“ Green goods”
men were arrested in a saloon to-day while
they were negotiating with four country
men for the sale of mythical counterfeit
money. '1 he intended victims were Jeffer
son Davis Lawrence, a grocer and farmer,
and Tuily J. Losior, a sa'oon keejier,
both of Sumter county, S. C.; anil John C.
Wilson and Cornelius Price Hampton,
farmers, both from Yancey county, .N. C.
Two of tlie green goods men were lined $lO
each for vagrancy; a third, named Morris,
was held for examination in default oi
$10,090 bail. Lawrence and Losior wen
committed to the House of Detention, as
witnesses against Morris and Wilson and
Hampton were let go after being soundly
lectured by the court.
RUN DOWN IN A SNOW DRIFT.
An Engine Dashes into the Rear of a
Pa senger drain.
Minneapolis, Dec. 29.—The cannon bull
express which left Chicago on the Albert
Lea route, Tuesday at 12:05 o’clock ran into
a snow drift near Ely, la., twelve inlet
from Cedar Rapids, at. 2:30 o'clock yester
day morning. Before tue drift ooulil bi
cleared away a freight engine drawing n
caboonsadasheil into tlie rear of the train,
telescoping the dining car and crushing the
ends of nearly all the cars on the train, a
well as damaging the second engine, the
train living a double-header. Several peo
ple wctc seriously injured and nvuiy suf
fered bruises, but none were killed. The
train reached here last night at midnight,
over fifteen honra late.
OLD BOREAS ON A HIGH.
The Spree the Worst Ever Known to
the People of r rederick.
Frederick. Md., Dec. 29.—This city was
visited early this morning by the most vio
lent wind storm ever known by the oldest
people here. A number of houses were un
roofed and large trees were uprooted. Rev
eral wagons and tlie Jefferson mail coach
were uplifted and dashed to the roadside,
completely demolishing them. Pedestrians
were afraid to venture on the streets. Much
damage is reported throughout Frederick
county.
Rest assortment of Gentlemen's Slippers
ever shown, can be seen at Rosenheim's
I Shoe Store.
GEORGIA'S RAILROADS.
The Brunswick and Western Purchase
—The Central’s Annual Election.
New York, Dec. 29. —The negotiations
for the purchase and sale of the Brunswick
and Western railroad were concluded to
day. The entire capital stock was formally
delivered to the purchasing syndicate and
duly paid for. This syndicate includes
prominent capitalists largely interested in
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way and it is therefore fair to assume that
hereafter the road will tie run and operated
in harmony with the Plant system.
COMING TO SAVANNAH.
To-morrow night a party of distinguished
gentlemen, prominently identified with tlie
Georgia Company, will leave for Savaunah
to attend the Central railroad’s annual elec
tion. The partv will consist of James
Swann,►Emanuel Lehman, Alfred Sully,
John C. Calhoun and John C. Kessler, of
Kessler & Cos. Messrs. Swann and Lehman
are appointed by the Georgia Company as a
committee to cast its vote at the Central
election, an*. elm being a majority of the
whole Central stock, will determine the re
sults of the election.
TO TAKE A RUN THROUGH THIS SECTION.
After their special business Is over in Sa
vannah, the party will probably make an
extended trip through the South, visiting
the coal fields of Alabama, tho mineral
regions of Georgia and T nnessee, and
several of the principal cities of Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee •
The party is a thoroughly representative
company of influential and strong men,
financially They are firm believers in the
flattering prospects of the South and liiieral
contributors by investment and indorse
ment of its vast development They deserve
a hearty welcome and most generous treat
ment wherever they go, and such reception
of them will tie hospitality and courtesy
well bestowed.
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL CITY.
A Man Who Claims to be a Priest Ar
rested for Drunkenness.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29.—At the Metro
politan Hotel, near the union depot, early
this morniug an intoxicated guest created
such a disturbance that a police officer was
called in. He took him to the station house
and locked him up. The man was large aud
dressed in clerical robes. He arrived last
night and registered as J. B. Northman,
Belmont, N. C. At the station he claimed
to be a Catholic priest of St. Louis, but said
he had just left St. Mary’s College
at Belmont, N. C., where he
had been a professor for the last six
months. He stated that he was on his way
to St. Louis to meet Archbishop Kendrick
who was to assign him to other duties.
After an investigation of the matter iu
which information was sought from Father
Reily, Chief Connallv pronounced North
man an impostor. He plead not'guilty
when arraigned before the Recorder for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct, but
was fined $5 and costs, which he paid. He
has since left tlie city.
The condition of Col. Phillips, of Mari
etta, was favorable to-day, and it is thought
that he will rapidly recover from the
wounds. Bullock, who shot him, was at
his store in Dallas to-day and walking about
.he streets. No effort was made to arrest
him. It is stated that he and and not leave the
town at all after the shootin r.
Charles H. J. Taylor (colored), United
States Minister to Liberia, is here.
COLUMBUS CHAPTERS.
Death of a Prominent Citizen—Charged
With Robbing His Room--., ate
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 29.—Amery Dexter
died at 7 o’clock this morning of pneumonia,
after a brief illness. Mr. Dexter was one of
the most pfotninept mon of the city. He
was the Secretary and Treasurer of the
Columbus Gaslight Company, Secretary of
the Georgia Steam and Gas Pipe Comp iy,
aud a director of the National Ba k f
Columbus. Eagle and Phenix Manufact. ri .g
Company and Muscogee Oil Mills.
Yesterday a young man named Zach
Weems took out a warrant for auother
voting man who had been living with him.
Weems had saved his earnings, and aceu
mutated about SIOO. While at dinner yes
terday he discovered that his money was
missing, and an investigation proved that
his friend had also disappeared. Officers
are still holding the warrant against him.
The new stables for the street car com
pany are being erected in the old Chatta
hoochee depot yard and most of the heavy
grading for the new dummy line has heeg
completed and track-laying will commence
next week.
At the City Council meeting last night
the retail liquor license was fixed at SSOO.
Rev. G. G. N. McDonell, for two years
pastor of St. Luke's Methodist church here,
left this morning for Thomasville, his new
field of labor.
J. M. Delacv, successor to Delacy &
Tollman, of Greenville, has sold his stock
of goods to George P. Swift and Mr. Ham
burger, of this city.
RAISED FROM $1 TO SSO.
A Stranger Passes a Bogus Bill on
a Way-cross Druggist.
Waycrosk, GA-,Dec. 29.—Last Mouday a
gray-bearded stranger about 50 years of
age called at the drug store of Redding &
Walker, of this city, and after purchasing a
vial of cough drops asked Dr. Redding to
change a SSO note. Dr. Redd ng assented.
To-day in laying some bills tlie note was
discovered to lie a $1 silver certificate, in
geniously raised to the denomination of SSO.
iho figures 50 were pasted on the front
aud back in such a manner
as almost to defy detection, tlie color
and hue of the paper corresponding to the
dollar note to which they woie pasted. The
word “,.fty” was pasted over the word
"one” preceding “dollar.” The profile of
John Quiucy Adams was also pasted
uniquely upon the face nt the note. The
direction the counterfeiter took when he
left Waycross is not known.
MACON MENTION.
Woolfolk Arrivos - A Small Child Bad
ly Burned at a Party.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 99.—Tom Woolfolk
was brought back from Atlanta this evening
and lodged in the Macon jail, where he will
remaiu until bis case is finally determined.
List night at a gathering of young peo
ple at the residence of W. B. Petiy his
daughter Sallie. aged 4 years, while at
tempting to reach an article ou,t h mantel,
found her drees in the fire. Her s reams
attracted no attention, aud when she was
reached she was euvelopsd in flames. Tho
fire was extinguished, but not until her
oody had been horribly burned, and the
skin on her face had peeled from the intense
boat. Her hair was entirely consumed, and
her head ivai badly burned. It is thought
that she cannot recover.
AUGUSTA’S EXPOSITION.
Judge Rooney Grants a Cnartor. Which
the stockholders Will Adopt.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29.—Judge Roney
of tlie Superior Court to-day granted the
Augusta Exposition Company a charter.
At the i oxt regular meeting, to occur Jau.
3, tho stockholders will adopt the charter
and elect twenty-five directors from among
the most prominent citizens. It is probable
that James Tobin, of the firm of C. 11.
Pbinizy & Cos., will lie elected President. A
lively set-to is anticipated over the Secre
taryship.
The steamer Advance arrived at 1 o’clock
this morning and wifi leave ou her return
trip at 5 o’clock Saturd y morning. The
steamers Progress and New Soute will be
ready for service in a very short time.
Taylor & Carr’s Philadelphia Shoes can
be found in every stylo at Joseph Rosen
heim Cos.;:
FLORIDA'S METROPOLIS.
A Colored School Teacher Forrnd
Dying Near a Saloon.
Jacksonville, Dec. -9.—D. W. Tillman,
a colored, school teacher, arrested last week
for forging Superintendent Babcock’s name
to school warrants, was found in a dying
condition at the rear of Ricker’s
saloon this morning. Last night
Tillman was at Baxter’s saloon,
near the Brooklyn bridge and while
there exhibited#.roll of paper money. He
afterward went to Ricker's barroom, at
the corner of Bridge and Bay streets, and
gave Ricker #45, with a request that he
eep it until called for. Tillman appeared
then to be sober and quite cheerful.
The next time be was seen
was nlxjut daylight this morning,
lying at full length on his face o 1 the
ground in a small inclo ure at the rear of
Ri ker’s building. He was unconscious,
had a contusion above his left eye and
signs of a blow across his left wrist.
He was frothing at the mouth
and was apparently suffering in
ternal pain. The dying man was taken
up and carried into a small room beneath
the stairs 6f Ricker’s building and a physi
cian called. Dr. Romero, upon seeing the
man, pronounced it his belief that he
had a fit, but afterward said
that it looked like foul play.
Indications of a struggle where he
was found this morning were visible. Till
man w'us sent out to his brother's in LaVilla,
where lie expired about 9 o’clock this morn
ing. There is a feeling among Tillman’s
acquaintance that he was waylaid and
knocked down last night for the purpose of
robbing him of his money. It is also stated
that his skull was fractured by the blow
above the eye. A post mortem examina
tion will be held in the morning and an in
quest held. Sheriff Holland is working up
the ease, but nothing haa develop'd yet.
Ozias Buddington, Superintendent of the
Western railway of Florida, who was re
cently shot at Green Cove by a negro named
Sherman Bramm, is getting better and
hopes are now entertained of his recovery.
Dr. Merrill, of Green Cove, in a letter to
Dr. Summers, this evening, made the state
ment
At a meeting to-night of the stockholders
of the Florida Savings Bank and Real Es
tate Exchange the following 018 cere we e
elected for the ensuing year: J. C. Greeley,
President: John F. Rollins, Vice President;
Harwood Morgan, Secretary and Treasurer,
vice L. D. Hosmer, resigned. Mr. Rollins
is widely known all over the State, and
filled for many years the position of Re
ceiver of Public Monies, at Gainesville.
John P. Wall telegraphs to-night that
Tampa refugees muy return to their homes
in safety.
At the examination here to-day for the
West Point appointment, Charles P. Sum
tuerall, of Le sburg, won the prize,
and H. K. ’Wheeler, of Gainesville, was
appointed alternate. The former secured
fifty out of a possible sixty, and the latter
forty-nine.
A Council meeting will be held to-mor
row to try and raise money to pay off the
city employes, as the Treasurer refuses to
pay these warrants.
A WEiCK OJND ADRIFT.
Her Small Boats Gone, but Nothing
Heard of the Crew.
Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 39. —The fishing
smack J. P. Allen arrived in Pensacola last
night from a fishing cruise. She re orts
baviug found the wreck of the fishing
smack Lizzie Ella on Tuesday of this week
in the neighborhood of the entrance of St.
Joseph’s Bay, on the Florida coast. The
smack was badly stove in, bearing the ap
pearance of having been run into by some
craft. The Lizzie Ella was a 16-ton
smack and was owned by the Pensacola Ice
Cony any of this city. Sue carried a crew of
six or seven men. When the wreck was found
no one was on it, and the boats were also
gone. There is a possibility that the crew
made good their escape after the casualty
by using the small boats. There h ive been
no tidings of the crew up to this time.
Fire at Albany.
Albany, Ga., Dec, 29.—The dwelling
house corner of Flint and Mmroo streets
was burned at 1 o’clock this inojrning. The
los is #1,500. The house was injured in the
Southern Mutual Insurance Company for
SBSO. It was the property of J. R. DeGraff
enried and was occupied by A. Garner,
whose furniture was mainly destroyed. The
furniture is insured in the Factors' ami
Traders’ Company', of New Orleans Tor #SOO.
An Alleged Burglar Shojf;.
Green Cove Springs, Fla., Dec. 29.—A.
Curry was seriously wounded to-d#y while
resisting an officer and attempting to run
from’the Deputy Sheriff, wh p tried tb arrest
him. He is charged with burglary. \
A Valuable Medical Treatise.
The edition for 1888 of the sterling Medical
Annual, knov.n as Hostetter’s Almanac. |s now
ready, and may be obtained, free of cost, of
druggists and general country dealers (in all
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of Hostetler's Almanac for 1888 will probjably
be the largest edition of a medical work lever
Subiished in any couutry. The proprietors,
[essrs. Hostetler A Cos., Pittsburgh, Pat. on
receipt of a two-centstainp, will forward a cjopy
by mail to any person who cannot procurejone
m his neighborhood. j
We Bob Up Serenely.
The week after Christmas to some jare
pleasant recollections of the day that mas
passed: to others painful reminders of |the
night that followed. Our ideas are suf
ficiently clear and collected to notice
that we have some stock left yet—note ri
ously Overcoats. All know that <mr
severe t, meanest and rawest win ;er
weather is still ahead of us, therefo. e if
you need an Overcoat don't buy till you ve
seen us. We can give you a |>oiuter am* a
bargain or so in these comfortable gar
ments. We can sell you an Overcoat Jut
just whatever price you want to pay, giv
ing good value in every case. A f<P' v
Smoking Jackets are left, a neat prese.ut
and a useful one al any season. I
We have a good many broken suits Unit
we want to sell at “bruken prices,” alsoyi
large lot of odd garments, a coat here a vefct
the.e, a matchless pair of pants, all ojtr
best and most stylish goods, but we value
their room above their company. Our Fits’-:
uis ing Department is yet complete, and tmo
many ai tic.es needed in a gentleman’s wartd
robe’eau lie had of us much under exclusive
“furnis ing store’’ prices. Those who 10-lieve
-lieve in dressing nicely can suit thetnselvte#
from our handsome stock of tailor-Httiieg
suits at about tk cost of “misfits” else
where. No time like the present. Slaejk
trade makes low prices. V
Tho Big Golden Arm, I
Simon Mitchell, )
159 Brcughtou street./
Joseph Rosenheim & Cos. are sole agertU
in Savannah for Slaey, Adams & Cos. a®
Taylor & Carr’s Gcutfemen’s Fine Shoes. \
Each and every article marked in plop
figures, and strlctlv one price. Apptjl &
Schaul, C jtbiug, Hats and Furnishings.
The nobbiest line of 25c. Scarfs in jail
shapes, satin backs, at Appel & Schaul?,
One Price Clothiers, 163 Congress stray;,
opposite the Jdarket.
Joseph Rosenheim & Cos. have the repubi
tiou of keeping the best makes of Shoe* it
lowest prices. /
Appel & Schaul still have their own Tiff
oring Department on the second floorl in
order to make any alteration necessary Vor
a perfect fit J I
CANDLER CHAT.
Preparations for Opening the Lake
Weir Chautauqua.
Candler, Fla., Dec. 29. —Extensive
preparations are going on for the opening
of the Chautauqua at Dike Weir this win
ter. Machinery is to be placed in the mag
nificent steamer White Wing, and it will
run in connection with the Florida Southern
i ail wav. Passengers will be transferred
from tlie, ears to the steamer at Weir Park.
R. L. Martin. Esq , will open the Weir
Park Hotel, and is now building a wharf in
front of the hotel for the steamer to take
on passengers. Rev. Sam Small will be
one of the leading attractions at the Chau
tauqua this winter, and the management
also hope to have Rev. Sam P. Jones visit
us again.
F. A. Springstadt, of this place, is agitat
ing the question of having a canning factory
built at, this place, parties in Michigan will
put up the factory. If wo can secure this
it will be a boon to our portion of the State,
ns the thousands of bushels of vegetables
that are annually tais and in this section will
find a home maiket at a fair price that will
pay the growers much better than shipping
North, and ruq the risk of getting nothing.
In a few years there will be a vast amount
of fruit here, such as peaches, plums, pears,
etc., that will pay a canning factory hand
somely as people would much prater to sell
their fruit and vegetables toauomemarket.
MEETINGS.
LIVE OAK LODGE 510. sTI~CL 0?F.
A regular meeting iif this Lodge will be held
THIS EVEN ING at 8 o’clock. Election of officers
and there will be an mitiation.
Members of sister lodges and visiting brothers
are invited. T. A. WARD, N. G.
Attest: A. R. Fawcett, Sec. Pro Tem.
REPPARiI IRON COMPANY.
Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 21. 1887.
The annual merting of the Stockholders of
the Reppard Iron Company will be held at the
Company’s office. 70 Hay street , on MONDAY,
Jan. 2. 1888, at 1 clock p. m. At this meeting
the Board of Directors for the ensuing year will
be elected. NORTON FRIERSON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertlsemen' inserted unde-• “ Special
Notices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
no! ICE TO cnY C4URT
JURORS.
The Traverse Jurors of the City Court need
not appear until 10 o'clock a. m. on TUESDAY,
January 3d, 188'. By order of
JUDGE HARDEN.
P. M. Russell. Clerk.
lAEAV YEAR’S AT THUNDERBOLT.
If the four entries to the Trotting Race are
made by 6 o'clock TO-MORROW AFTERNOON,
according to the original ad, the race will go on.
If not made at that hour the race is declared off.
M. J. DOYLE, Market Square.
DRESSED TURKEYS PAR EXCEL
LENCE.
A duplicate shipment of the elegantly Dressed
Turkeys we had for Christmas, to arrive for
New Year. Send your orders as before, in
time, to JOHN LYONS A CO.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamship KATE, whereof Duikie is
Master, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by the crew.
A. MINIS A gONS. Consignees.
FOR RENT,
From Jan. Ist, 1888, the COSMOPOLITAN
SHADES. 176 Broughton street, Fixtures and
Shuffle Board. Apply in the SALOON.
DIVIDEND.
The Brush Electric Light and Power Cos.. I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 20th, 1887. f
A dividend of THREE DOLLARS per
share fi ll the earnings of this Company
has been declared, payable on and after Jan lary
1, 1888, to Stockholders of record THIS DAY'.
SAMUEL P. 11 AMII,TON. President.
6. S. CrCKENHBiMER, Secretary.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.
Auoubta and Savannah Railroad. I
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21, 1887. f
The, animal election for seven Directors of the
August i and Savannah Railroad, will be held at
the Ba i ing house of Chas. H. Olmstead & Cos.
on MOXDAY, January 2, 1888, between the
hours of 10 a. m. and I r. m.
W. S. LAWTON, President-
MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK OF
SAVANNAH.
The annual election for seven Directors of
this Bark will be held at the Banking House, on
TIJESi .VY, Jan. 10, 1888, between the hours of
12 and 1 o’clock. THOS. GADSDEN,
Cashier.
Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 11, 1887.
KIEFFER’S DRUG STORE.
I have now on hand a very large supply and
excelled variety of Cleveland Peas anu Beans,
considered the best in the market. Also. Paints.
Oils, Brushes, White Lead, etc. A full line of
Toilet and Fancy Articles for the holidays.
Window Gla.'S cat to order.
E. J. KIEFFER,
Corner West Broad and Stewart street*.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
Tla vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem For Dyspepsia. Conciliation and other
ill*, aused by a disordered liver, It cannot be
exeiled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
do -d by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
nter’s Liver Corrector and take no other. #1 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga.
HARDW ARE..
MAUI) LUVKLL l SONS,
DEALERS IN—-
(Parker and Colt’s
Breech Loading Guns.
Brass and Paper Shells.
Hunting Coats, etc.
Chamberlin Loaded
Shells.
HATS.
JUST EEAR
—GENUINE—
J. B. STETSON SOFT BATS
Reduced to $2.00-
More of Earl & Wilson collars at #2 00 per doz.
or 20 cents apiece,
WILL SELL STOCK IN BULK.
Store to Rent and Fixtures for Sale.
BELSINGER,
24 Whitaker Street.
IKON PIPE.
RUSTLESS IRON PIPE.
EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT
MUCH LESS PRICE
J. D. WEED & CO.
amusements.
BAVANN
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY,
DEC. 29. 30 and 81.
SATURDAY MATINEE. DECEMBER 81.
GREATEST PRODUCTION OF THE SEASON.
L. R. ShevveU’s Famous American Melodrama
Shadows of a Great City,
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
CRARLES AND THOMAS JEFFERSON,
_ —-PRESENTED BY—
THE ORIGINAL CAST.
Magnificent Scenic Effects, Including Lo
calities in and About New York City.
Seats on sale at Davis Bros-’s Dec 28.
Next attraction: ROBT. DOn NING, Jan. I
and 8.
A CHRISTMAS CANTATA
“KING WINTER”
WILL BE GIVEN BY MRS. E. B. BURKE, ORr
GANIST OF ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, AS
SISTED BY THE LADIES RECTORY'
SOCIETY AND SEVERAL LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN, AND THE
CHILDREN OF THESUN
HAY SCHOOL.
At Masonic Temple, Dec. 30, at 8 P. M.
During the Cantata, an illustration wi!l|be giv
en of the Music and Dancing of Spain, by a band
of Spanish musicians, in costume. After the
Cantata there will lie dancing, and refreshments
will be served.
Tickets 50c. Children 25c. To be had at Da
vis Bros, Ludden & Bates, and at llalL
PIANOS.
ADELINA PATTI lO STEiNWAY^iIONS.
Chicago, 111., January 4,1882.
To Messrs. Stein way <£ Sons, New York:
Dear Sirs— Allow me to express to you tbs
great satisfaction and pleasure that I have ex
perienced irom the use of your famous Pianos,
w hich you have placed at my disposal during
the concert tour now in course of progress in tbs
United States.
During my artistic career In the art centres of
the world I have used the pianos of nearly all
celebraied manufacturers, but none of them can
be compared to youre-none possess to such a
marvelous degree that sj mpathetic, poetic and
singing tone quality which distinguishes the
Steinway as peerless among them all. Before
returning to Europe I shall select and ptuvha.se
one of your Grand Pianos for Craig y-nos
Castle, my residence in South Wales. Respect
fully yours, ADELINA PATTI.
Const an tinoule, September 4, 188 G.
Messrs. Steinway ft" Sons, New York:
Gentlemen - His Majesty was so pleased with
the piano fortes you made for him that he has
ordered two Fancy Upright Pianos They are
to be made strong and highly tuned, but they
need not be ornamented like the two last. His
Majesty wanting plain but fine instrume,nts. so
you will please i ay particular attention to the
sound of these pianos. I hardly need recom
mend you to do your best to content His Maj
esty. for your pains are not lost. Please lose no
time in filling His Majesty’s orders, for he wants
the pianos as soon as possible, and let me know
when we may expect them. They are to cost
from ±i3o) to £.3' 0 each, the payments to be
made as for the former pianos. Y ours trul
HAKI BEY.
Note. -Since the above order was filled His
Majesty the Sultan of Turkey has purchased
seven additional pianos of Steinway & Sons
SCHREINER’S MUSIC HOUSE, AGENTS.
SPORTING GOODS.
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0. S. McAlpin,
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To Buy Your
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FISHINGTACKLE.
Special Attention Given to
Loading Shells.
Telephone No. 417.
Agent for one of the Best Powder Milk
portkaltsT
The Great Southern Portrait Company,
OF S AV,-Y TVM AT^t , GA.
L. B. Davis, Secretary and Manager, with
Office at Davis Bros., 42 and 44 Bull St.
MOST EARNESTLY INVITES and would
most respecttullv urge you to iuspect the
Beautiful Samnles of Water Color and India Ink
Portraits on exhibition at their ofilee. The work
is pronounced very fine and superior. The
company also makes a very fine Crayon 20x21 in
size in a choice and beautiful frame of oak,
bronze or gilt., for the very small price of sls
The work of the Company is appreciated by our
people as is fully shown by over 230 orders In a
little over two months, which have been and are
now being Quisbed. The work of the Comp***
is guaranteed, flake also Oil and Pastelle Por
traits. Your orders are solicited. Respectfully.
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