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( THE MORNING NEWS. 1
} Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
| J. H. ESTILL PresideuL
LOSS OF THE CORONA.
SURVIVORS TELL THE STORY ;OF
the explosion.
Remarkable Escape of Mrs. Banks and
Her Two Children— Her Husband and
Sister Among the Lost—The Cabin
of the Steamer Blown Into Two
Farts.
New Orleans, La., Oet. 4.—A number
of -urvivors of the Corona disaster reached
this city to-day. Seven of them came by
rail, and others by the City of St. Louis.
Those who came by train were Capt. T. C.
Sweeney, who was a passenger; Pilot L. W.
Hawlins, Bill Clerk Billy Higgins, Jack
Green, captain of the deck watch; Robert
Carnes, carpenter; Second Steward Will
j am Fleming ad Engineer Wllliam Handly.
Jlr?. Henry Blanks was among those who
came down by the Anchor line steamer City
of St. Lo is. S o was on the Corona with
her sister, Mrs. Huff and two children, en
route to Columbia as a passenger.
HER NARROW ESCAPE.
She says: “I was standing with my sis
ter and youngest child in my arms in the
rear of the boat’s cabin when the explosion
t k piece; a chambermaid came unning
t us with life preservers, which we fastened
on/ A pantryman then came running to us
ail told us io go up on the hurricane roof
u! til he could get the life-boat down,
V.- ich he did in a hurry. We then
g t into the yawl, and hardly bad we been
seated when tne boat was swamped, throw
ing us all into the river. I, with my 3-vear
oiii child in one arm, held on to a piece of
wreckage u til one of the St. Louis boats
came and saved us. I told the child.
'Hold tightf and .tighter; God will save us.’
Of my sister, Mrs. Huff, who is a widow
from Opel usas, I saw no more after our
boat oapsized.”
BLOWN INTO THE AIR.
The little 6-year-old boy of Mrs. Blanks,
who was blown into the air by the explo
si : , ail: “I was out looking at Cant.
(Sweeney tixing the elect do light, and then
w nt into the cabin, and hardly got as far
as the office when I was blown away into
the air, and when I came down I fell into
the liver ou my back. \\ hm I came to the
surface I caught on to a sack, and
a:i old man was near by holding a piece of
w > and and howling for yawls to co.ne and
save him. It was then th 11 was frightened
aid began to yell also, when a skiff came
and picked me and the old man up, and took
ns on their boat, the City of St. Louis.”
The brave little fellow is badly hurt about
ti e head. He stated that this was caused
by a man throwing a plank on him.
CAME LIKE A THUNDER-CLAF.
Capt, Sweeney stated that the whole thing
came on so suddenly that he hardly had
time to see anything.
Capt. Blanks, who was sitting in the bar
ber’s chair, was hurled through the cabin
rof and instantly killed. The others iu
the cabin were struck by flying timbers,
among whom was Shrimp Hanna, who was
sitting near the clerk’s office. The explosion
seemed to go downward, and the full force
was in the rear part of the boat. The cabin
parted and one half of it fell into the river
arid the other half floated with the wreck.
These who were not killed by the flying
timbers were pinned down and scalded to
death.
THE SCENE INDESCRIBABLE.
Capt. Sweeney said that the scene was
indescribable. AVhen the explosion took
place he was on the forecastle, and t hus es
, >ped the heavy timbers that were flyi g
around. He remained on the wreck as long
asp: s3ible, and as there was no chance to
rescue any one, he sprang overboard and
"as picked up by the yawl of the City of
St. Louis.
Hen y Baughman, a passenger of Dau
ville; Peter Le nard, a roustabout, and
Alexander Seymour, night watchman—the
latter last night reported lost —were all
badly urt, but .vero rescued by boats from
the City of St. Louis, and came down ou
her and were se it to the hospital.
DEATH IN A DINNER PAIL.
The Handle of the Tin Blown Into the
Celling by an nxpiosion.
New York, Oct. 4. —There have beon no
arrests yet iu connection with the bomb esK
plosion in J. & P. Scanlou’s office in West
Fortieth street yesterday, but Inspector
Byrnes and bis detectives are energetically
at work on the case. There is no doubt now
that the explosion came from a geuui .e in
ternal machine. It was contained in a i
ordinary dinner pail, the handle of which is
imbedded for three-quai ters of its length in
the wood-work of the ceili g directly over
where the pail was placed on the office flour.
DISCOVERY OF THE PAIL.
W hen the butchers were about to begin
■work \esterday morning at 7:30 o’clock,
one of the number noticed behind a large
do r leadi: g to Fortieth street anew tin
dinner pail. He called Supt. Mahoney’s at
tention to it, because it was an unusual
piace to ree a pail. Supt. Mahoney took off
the e ve , and found the upper part of the
pod jammed full of cheese and bread. All
the men present viewed the pail, but nobody
claimed it.
PUT IN THE OFFICE.
Nisht Watchman Jeremiah Mahoney
shortly afterward, before going home for
•t i i v ’ |,ut tll ° P a *' * n tbe office, thinking
}: “ el t to one of the men, who had left
uat door : y mistake. He did not find
® ; & t it contained an infernal machine
11 , 11 lio beard of the blowing ud of the
office last night. "
WHERE IT COULD DO THE MOST HARM.
* ' otchman says the pail was placed
1 corner be iud one of the heavy doors
oe t<> the building. Why it should have
i '7; 1 le!t in that spot is a mystery, unle s it
' at a the door is the principal means of
to the street more dimage could be
e there than anywhere else.
A RIO REWARD OFFERED.
V Scanlon said to-day that the customers
•'i members of the firm frequently stand
,1 a . tL ? d ( 'or to do business on pleasant
n-' Mr. Scanlon says he will willingly
1 J ,00 for the conviction of tho man who
the machine in his place.
BROKE A BRIDGE.
£ -Taction H-ngine Falla Into a Stream
f and Kill* Iwo Men.
RT \\ ayxe, Ind., Oct. 4.—A traction
‘gmeaud threshing machine, while being
•ed acr, ,ss a small s r am near J a esville
P : ,' ls county, yesterday, broke through
, hjr " d e*ndla ded in the water some
n, delow. Five men were buried
li r V 6 dohn Sparks and Henry
gut were pinioned bene th the boiler,
i h,y could bo veiled had b-en
Tl death by the escaping seam,
h jumi her:i Were s ‘ JTerely ' bul eot fatally,
Children Play With Powder.
ojiT ’ oct 4 --Three children
and obtained accoßS to the pow
-f,86 of ttle gypsum mine here yeeter
-1 .IS 0 ", 11 ’ a,ld on ® of them lighted a
0 ignited a quantity of powder.
tliu othar „" as llttrally blown to pieces, and
wu other cannot recover.
KILLED IN THE BARTH’S BOWELS.
A Dynamite Cartridge Accidentally
Exploded in a Mine.
Houghton, Mich., Oet. A—Two men
were instautly killed, another fatally in
jured, and about twenty more or le3i hurt,
at the bottom of the Calumet and Hocla
perpendicular shaft yesterday. T,e usual
blast of dynamite was fired Wednesday
evening, but one failed to explode. At
noon one of the miners at work accidentally
struck the c arge with his pick. A deafen
ing crash followed, the dynamite exploding
and sending mas/es of shattered rock in
deadly showers all arou and the spot. Otto
Fiinkand Alfred Erick-.on were killed in
stantly, their bodies being frightfully torn
and scarred by flying pieces ot r, ck.
HURLED AGAINST A ROCK.
Nelson Boone, who sto id a sort dis
tance off, was iiurl'd against a rock aid
sustained serious i juries. He cannot live.
Capt. John Cameron had his right arm
broken in two plac*s by piacos of stone,
and both of his logs were cut in many
places.
Those were the only men who stood close
to the place whero the charge exploded,
but twenty-six miners wh > were at work
in the vicinity were all more or less injured.
The accident occurred 1,000 feet under
ground.
MORMON ELDERS DRIVEN OUT.
Citizens of a Tennessee County Show
that They Mean Business.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 4.—News comes
from Wilson county that Morm >n elders
have been driven out by White Caps. The
elders disappeared some time ago when the
agitation was hot against then. A few
days ago they returned, believing that the
storm had blown over. However, the
people who wane i them proposed to make
their threats good.
RAIDED THEIR DOMICILES.
Forty or fifty masked men, robed in
white, last nignt visited the houses of
William Barrett, Theodore Smith ad Lee
Barrett, where the elders have been, search
ing for them. Someone, however, had
given warni ig, and not an elder was to be
found. The house owners were cautioned
against allowing the elders to eve 1 and rkon
their doors again, and the elders left the
county yesterday. A number of converts
have declared that they are done with them.
Tue experience of a worn n of the neighbor
hood—now in Bowles, Ky.—has had a
beneficial effect. S.ie went to Uah as a
convert, but is back in her old home warn
ing others.
KILLED AT THE ALTAR.
A Bride and Groom Slain In the Hat
field- dcOoy Vendetta.
Chicago, Oct. 4. — A dispatch from Jam
boree, Pixe county, Kentucky, says: “The
old Hatfleld-McCoy feud has broken out
again, and at least three more lives have
been sacrificed iu the bloody vendetta,
which has now lasted over seven years.
The shooting recurred at a mirriago at a
farmhouse at Peter McCoy’s. His daughter
was to bee >me the wife of John Ha and, a
relative of the Hatfield gaug. and me nbers
of both fac ions had sworn to preve t the
union. Hand had never been connected
witu the disputes of the factions and refused
to recognize the leaders.
KILLED AT THE ALTAR.
“Tuesday night the bridal party assem
bled in McCoy’s house, and just as young
Hand and Miss McCoy st oil before t e min
ister a volley wa- poured tnrough the win
dow, which kilied bota of them and fatally
wounded the clergyman. Rsport says that
the far nersand mountaineers of the locality
are tainting for the murderers, but no trace
of them has been found.”
A WARNING TO THE TOUGH3.
Incendiary Fires rat Helena Revive the
Vigilantes.
Chicago, Oct. 4. — A dispatch from
Hele ia, Montana, says: “Toe figures
‘ 3777,’ the warning of vigilantes to hard
cases, were chalked cn tha street corners
and printed in the evening papers yester
day. This call for a return to the methods
of early days was occasioned by the dis
covery of four fires in as many houses the
night before in tho heart of the business
section. All the fires were put out
before serious damage was done, and ia
each case it was found that rags bad I e?n
saturated with oil and fired. The incendi
aries are evidently tho same gang who Lave
been in northwestern t >wns during the
summer, and to whom the big fire iu Butte
is attributed. The city is patrolled by po
lice.”
ROBBED OF HER LIFE’S SAVINGS.
A Woman Almost Killed by Gas Falls
Among Thieves.
Chicago, Oct. 4.—Mrs. Mary O’Brien,
60 years of age, was robbed yesterday of
83,000, that represented her savings for
years. Mrs. O’Brien came from Waltham,
Mass., Wednesday, on her way to her son’s
home at Elgin. She had sol I her home in
Waltham, and in a long envelope inside of
her dress was the proceeds of the sale. Mrs.
O’Brien went to a cheap hotel near the depot,
where she was givt-n a room. Yest-rday
the odor of coal gas was noticod coming from
her ro >m. The door was broken, and the
gray-haired occupant was found lying on
the floor unconscious. As istance was given
with such vigor that when Mrs. O’Brien
returned to consciousness her money had
disappeared. An employe of the house has
been arrested.
HANGED FOR OUTRAGE.
The Doomed Negro Protests Hl3 Inno
cence to the Last.
Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 4.—Paul
Key (colored) was hanged here to-day at
11:34 o’clock for outrageous assault, com
mitted on the person of the young daughter
of Arthur Ballard, in this city, last April.
On the gallows, when as ,ed if lie had any
thing to say, Key re lied in a feeble voice,
“No.” His neck was broken instantly, and
at 12:04 o’clock his body was cut down a id
turned over to his wife. He ma lea state
ment lost night, iu which be denied being
guilty, and in response to a question to-day,
on the gallows, just before the trap was
sprung, said his statement last night was
true.
A Hotel Burned.
Stowe, Vt., Oct. 4.—The Mount Mans
field hotel has been burned. The loss is
$105,009. The property was partially in
sured.
A MOROCCO SHOP IN RUINS.
Salem, Mass., Oct. 4. —The large four
sto y morocco suop of Peter Sim & Sons,
on Grove s r-et, was burned to-night. The
loss is SIOO,OOO. The property was partially
insured.
Buck at Washington.
Washington, Oct. 4.—C01. Buck, who
had been visiting iu Delaware, returned
10-day. His appointment as inar hal of
the nortliern district of G -orgia is expected
daily. He will probably see the Attorney
General to-morrow.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1889.
STEAMISG TO THE HUB.
THE ALL-AMERICA PARTY NOW EN
ROUTE TO BOSTON.
The Trip From West Point to New
York Made Down the Hudaon on the
Cruiser Yorktown—The Delegates
Talk About the World’s Fair.
New York, Oct. 4.—The All-America
excursion party this forenoon inspected the
military academy at West Point, and about
11 o’clock embarked on the cruiser York
town, and sailed for New York. The for
eign visitors were much interested in the
magnificent vessel, which they inspected in
evory part under the guidance of the offi
cers of the ship. Later in the day they fell
to discussing the proposed world’s fair.
INCLINED TO BE NON-COMMITTAL.
Clearly they all appreciate the situation,
and the feeling has . eon ascertained to be
genuine among them that the Americans
should settle the question of the site a moug
themselves, and uninfluenced by the opin
ions of foreig ers. So clearly is the situ
ation understood among the foreigners that
they will be found reticent to attempts to
gam pledge, for any particular city. Some,
nowever, are outspoken,
ONE SPEAKS OUT.
One, the acting minister of his nation to
this country, freely canvassed the su 'ject.
Now York city ho reg irds as the emoire
city and the most eligible site for the fair.
Manv of his people could visit Ne v York
who could not or would not go to Chicago
upon th * occasion of the world’s fa r. Liv
ing in Washington, In his opinion, upon the
basis of personal observation, is against it
as a world’s fair site. Chicago will grow
and bo, in his opinion, highly eligiule as the
site for t ie next world’s fair.
SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE THIRD.
So confident is the gentleman of the
growth of the United States that for the
third next world’s fair in America, he
deems San Francisco ai a fair candidate
for the honor. ‘“Tne i,” he remarked, “we
will come with our people and go ids, and
land on the other side of your continent.
I beli ve if New York is chosen the popula
tion of the U lited States during the fair
would be swollen to 7i),0J0,0U0, 20,000,000 to
30,000,00(1 of which would visit the fair.”
Tho I'fficial whose views are quoted is
Francisca Silva of Venezuela, and their
publication is made witn his assent. N<w
York was reached about 3:30 o’clock this
afternoon, and at 5 o’cl ck the party were
transferred to the steamer Puritan and
started for Boston by way of Long Island
sound.
BLAINE NOT LIKED BY ALL.
Washington, Oct. 4. —Chili and the
Argentine Republic have not, for
g tten Secretary Blaine’s peculiar South
Aineric in policy. I hey remember the
comm suon c imposed of William Henry
Trescutt aid Walker Blaino, which Secre
tary Blaine sent down to South America in
the interest of his friends in 1881, and
whlca Secretary Frelmghuysen, for ob
viously goed reasons, promptly recalled.
Consequ-ntl v those countries cannot enter
in entire satisfaction a congress controlled
by Secretary Biaine and of which Mr
Prescott is a member. There is no doubt
that their representatives would have
opposed Trescott far president if Secretary
Biaine had proposed him, as he (Blaine)
had planned.
BLAINE’S RIGHT TO PRESIDE QUESTIONED.
The Chilian minister says it is not true,
as reported, that he opposed Secretary
Blaine; but he admits that the delegate
fro 11 the Argentine Republic did question
Secretary Blaine’s right to preside over a
congress of which he was not a member,
and he and es not attempt to sav that Secre
tary Blaine’s election was agreeable to him.
He states very positively that the repre
sentatives f. om Chili and the Argentine Re
public have no intention of withdrawing
from the conference, but cannot say that
they expect much fro .1 it. Asa matter of
fact It is rec ignized that very little Can be
expected of the co gross, the views of the
North and South Americans being so di
verse. Secretary Blaine wishes it under
stood that tho cougress will take a trip
through the south in January. It was
Sostponed at the suggestion of Delegate
tanson of Georgia.
INVITED TO NASHVILLE.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 4. —The follow
ing eleg.atus were sent last night to
Secretary of Stita Bla tie:
Nashville, Tens., Oct. 3, 1889.
To Hon. Janies O. Blaine, Secretary of State,
WashinQ'on, D. C.
The Commercial Club, representing the
industrial and commercial interests of the
metro oils of this section, extends a cordial
invitation to our nation's guests and their
Amer can escort, to visit the great south
thro gh this, its natural gate way. The horn ■
of Jackson, Polk and Johnson throws open wide
its gates to your honorable delegation. If
possible, come to Nashville, accept our hospi
tality, and see the wonderful prosperity of a
city of American born people.
Lewis T. Baxter,
President Nashville Commercial Club.
Charles Sykes, Secretary.
FR )M THE MAYOR.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 3. 1889.
To Hon. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State,
Washington, D. C. :
The city of Nashville will be honored In enter
taining tue visitin ; delegates to the congress of
the Tbr-e Americas and their escort of Ameri
can citizens. I’lcase extend the hospitality of
our city. C. P. McGarver, Mayor.
REGARDED AS AN ADVERTISEMENT.
Berlin, Oct. 4. —The North German Ga
zette regards the Pan-Ameneau Congress as
a means for a tracting the attention of the
whole western hemisphere to tha imposing
preponderance of t ie industrial enterprises
and commerce of the United States, with a
view to the proposed international exhibi
tion of 1892.
SHOT DEAD IN HIS SKIFF.
The Negro Killed Who ia Supposed to
Have Fired Into a Church.
Mobile. Ala, Oct. 4.—A special to the
Register says that the nogro Stork, who is
believed to have been the man who fired
into a church at Moss Point Wednesday
night, killing a respectable citizen, named
Dan K. Melnnes, mortally wounding bis
diughter, a id seriously wounding He iry
Blutner, was found to-day paddling
down the Pascagoula river in
his skiff. He was ordered to stop
and hold up his bands, but instead hasten and
his speed, whereupon a negro in the hunt
ing party fired upon him, hitting him in
the band. S ork raise ! his gin ami aimed
at tho crowd, but the woap n missed fi e.
A deputy e eriff then fired, filling Stork
with buckshot, killing him instantly.
Druggists May Deal Out Drinks.
Chicago, Oct. 4.—A dispatch from
Lansi .g, Mch., says: “Owing to a mis
take made by the legislative bill clerk, sec
tion 10 of the high license liquor law is vi .id.
Tiii, section compelled druggists to ecu e
permit- and thus make annual statements
of their sales. This, it is considered, will
nut inviolate the entire law, but it removes
all restrictions from druggists.”
Four Kilied In a German Bmaah-up.
Berlin, Oct 4.—A collision occurred to
day between a passenger and freight train
at Lasswi z, in Posen. Four railway
officials were killed and many passengers
were injured.
A LINGERING DEATH.
Result of the Autopsy on the Body of
Morris Adler.
Washington, Oct. 4.— An autopsy per
formed to-day on the body of Morris Adler,
who died late last night from the effects of
a pistol shot wound, inflicted more than
thr*-*e months ago by Frank K. Ward, a
well-known dairyman, will undoubtedly be
one of Iho main reliances ,f the detense
when Ward is brought to trial for the mur
der. Adler was shot in the fleshy part of
the back of the neck, and when, s >ou after
ward, paralysis set in, the attending physi
cians made a diagnosis, and stated that the
spin ll coni had either been out or lacera’ed,
and that death was inevitable. The autopsy
to-day revealed the fact that this diagnosis
was incorrect, and that the spinal cord had
not been injured in any manner, except
possibly by the shock.
THE AUTOPSY.
The autopsy wa/conducted by Dr. E. M.
Schaeffer in the presence of a number of
physicians well known locally, and lasted
several hours. It took an hour and a
quarter to find the bullet. It was shown
mat the ball had struck the spinous
process of tne fourth cervical vertebra
and smashed it. Ihe bone had
deflected tiie bullet, which then
passed around the spinal cord in
an upward direction, and Anally 1 >dged in
fro it of the third cervical vertebrae. The
attendi g p lysicians soon after total
paralysis set in stated that death was on;y
a matter of a short time, and that all that
could be clone was to wa'ch the patient
carefully.
AN OPERATION AFTER FIFTY DAYS.
It was not until after the dead man had
lingered fifty days that they at last per
formed an operation and removed a portion
of the spinous process. This gave tempo
rary relief only, and death at last came
from inanition, or “exhaustion,” a*
the coroner will report Adler’s body
was frightfully emaciated, and covered
at every joint with suppurating bed
sores. He had wasted away until nothing
remained except his frame and a covering
of skin tightly drawn over his bones. The
vital organs were all found in healthy con
dition. Ward was released on $20,000 bail
a few days ago, but was locked up again
last night on the death of Adler.
TRIAL OF THE BALTIMORE.
Wonderful Speed Developed Despite
Her Lack of Horse 1 ower.
Washington, Oct. 4. —The official re
port of the trial board of the cruiser Balti
more relative to her recent run was re
ceived at the navy department this morning.
The board states that the average horse
power developed by the engines .vas 8,977.88,
the requirement being 9,090, thus maki g a
deficiency of 22.12-horse power, which
would incur a penalty of The screw
made an average of 117 revolutio is [ier
minute, which, allowing 10 per cent slip,
would give her an average speed of 19.6
knots an hoar.
THE INDICATORS BROKE.
The report states that du 1 ig the run two
of the indicators which ha. been thoroughly
tested before the trial, broke, and it was
necessary to substitute two others, which
had not been te-tod. O.i the record of
these indicators depended tire record of the
development of horse power.
(Secretary Tracy, after reading the report
this mor.ii g, decided to waive the question
of acceptance of the ves-el until be could
hear from the contractors as to whetner or
not they were willing to let the last trial
stand a- the final one, or preferred to have
another trial run with indicators thoroughly
te-ted. His action in tnematter is based on
the accident to the indicat rs.
WONDERFUL SPEED.
The report shows that the ship made
wonderful speed notwithstanding the failure
to develop 9,000 horse power, and the
secretary is inclined to look upon the
achievement as eminently satisfactory.
The a.lowance made for the slip iu calcu
lating the speed is a large one. The Cramps,
the contractors, will be allowed another
opportunity to test the horse power of the
cruiser at their own expense. Should they
prefer not to have another trial, tho cruiser
will be acce, ted bv the governmo it.
KIMBERLST3 HE 1 C„tN.
The Admiral Given a Dinner at Apia—
The Nipsic All night.
Washington, Oct. 4—Rear Admiral
Kimberly, i a communication to the navy
department, rep rts his arrival at Ho .0-
lulu Hept. 20 from Samoa per the steamer
Alameda. He says that be has hoisted bis
flag on board tue Alert. He left Apia in
the Adams Sept. 13, and embarked w tb
his personal staff, Lieuts. Rittenhouse a id
Marriam, on board tne mail s earner tie
next morning. The Monongahela sailed
from Apia for the navy yard at Mare
Island Sept. 13 with the guns, gun carriages
and other articles recovered from the
wrecks of the Va.dalia and Trenton.
GIVEN A DINNER AT APIA.
The admiral reports that he was enter
tained at dinner at Apia on Aug. 14, by the
reside its of the plac ■, principally English
and Americans, at which tho kindest senti
timeuts wore expressed toward the United
States and its representatives.
Mataafa, accompanied by the principal
chiefs of the government and attended by a
largo number of Sarno n people, called 11
bid him good-by, and in confo mity with
their customs, presented him with a large
quantity of mats, fans, etc., which repre
sented gifts from all parts of Samoa.
The admiral reports ali iiuiet in Samoa.
He says the work on the Nipsic has been
well done at Honolulu, and that if a ie bad
her guru, whic.i are now on board tho Mo
nongahela, anchors and chains, she would
be as good as ever she was, and in condition
to make a full three years’ crube.
READY FOR THE KNIGHTS.
The Work of Decorating Washington
in Progress.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The streets of the
city are beginning to bear witness to the
near approach of t ie triennial canela/eof
the K dgiite Templar of the United States.
The loading hotels are gayly decorated, and
ins iy busi -ess bou-ee ani private dwellings
are assuming a holiday attire of banner ,
flags, and tne insignia of tue order of tne
templars. To-day workmen we e engaged
in decorating tte trea-ury building.
Intern and Revenue Receipts.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The aggregate
-receipt* from internal reveuui fir August
las were $1,408,967 greats'- tuan tho-e for
August, 1888. The aggregate rec ipts f r
July and Augus amount to $23,679,025, an
increase over the corresponding period of
lost year of $2,716.39 J. ,
Purchases of Bonds.
Washington, Oct, 4.— The bod offer
ings to-day aggregated sl4l 900, of which
the Secretary ae opted $117,300 at lusJf for
4%s and 127 f or 4s.
Mississippi Negroes.
Washington, Oct 4.—Ex-Senator
Bruce, iu an interview, says the negroes
of Musu-slppl must emigrate.
VICTORY FOR POWDERLY
HI3 DETRACTORS AT ST. LOUIS
COMPLETELY ROUTED.
Furlong Charged With an Attempt to
Trap Martin Irons and Others, So
as to Send Them to Jail—Ten of the
Letters Held by His Foes Proven to
be Forgeries.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 4. —Ever since the
announcement that the general executive
board of the Knights of Labor would meet
this weak in St Louis, public attention has
been kept fixed on Grand Master Workman
Powderlv and his board by a constant
series of attacks which have beeu made
upon them and their organization by dis
affected members and ex-members. Mr.
Powderly’s opposition to the appoint
ment of Furlong to the United
States secret service and his exposure of
alleged crookedness In attempts to obtain
the appointment affected the dlsauscted
element, and gave Furlong's friends an
opportunity to join forces in an attack
which they have been boasting would com
pel Mr. Powderljra retirement and destroy
tbo knights.
a public MEETING.
Since his arrival on Tuesday Mr. Pow
derly and the board have spoken only at
private meetings of the knights, but to
night it was announced that Mr. Powderly
would publicly meet and disprove all the
charges whio.i his enemies have bee hurl
ing at his head. On Wednesday lie wilor
of Chicago, mul Blake and W. D. Shaw f
St. Louis, spoke at a public meeting mak
ing charges against t tie knights and their
ofiioers and 10-day Furlong addressed an
open letter to Mr. Powderly through the
press, In w hich he challenged his truthful
ness and made a number of serious charges
against him.
A CKOWD AT A MEETING.
The expectation that Mr. Powderly would
answer all this drew an immense crowd to
to-night’s meeting. Central Turner hall
being crowded to its utmost cap icity. \J as
ter Workman R. R. Likoof district assem
bly 17 occui ied the chair. Mayo Noonan
opened the meeting with a neat address. It
was labor, not wealth, on which the couu
try’s welfare must depend, and tie was
gratified to see the greatest of Aina lean la
bor orga uzations presided over by one who
c mitnanded the respect and confidence of
the best masses in the community.
POWDERLY WARMLY RECEIVED.
Mr. Powderly was received with a perfect
storm ot applause. It bad been announced
in the pro s that Mr. Powderly'a enemies
would be allowed a chance to speak, but
they did not venture to accept. He said he
wou'd speak in tho iutcriets not ■ nlv of the
Knight- of Labor, but of organized labor.
After speaking for some time in a general
way upon the objects of the order, Mr.
Powderly addressed himself to a refutation
of the charges made against him. He sari
he would refute every charge, and his audi
ence could be his jury, whoso verdict ho
would accent.
HIS PROTEST AGAINST FURLONG.
He the 1 detailed the circumstances con
nected with his protest agai i-t the appoint
ment of Furlong. He first produced a
batch of letters which had bee 1 carried to
him by Shaw, most of which bore on the
envelope the “re-all” of Marshal F. Mac-
Donald. Constituti ig tho rep irters present
a committee, he submitted all thedoc mi -nts
to them. He then read Sh iw’s letter, and,
then turning to the otter doou nents, lie
showed how Shaw had garbled a id falsified
the evidence he pretended to submit.
TRIED TO TRAP THE LEADERS.
Furlong’s let er In tha morning papers
was next ivorbaulod, an l from the r icordi
oft, 10 courts, sworn to at the tune, he pro
ceeds 1 to demonstrate that Fu long had
c inspired wi hone McKeagan mid others
to e tice Martin Irons and others to at
tem tto tap the wires so tnat ho could
make a criminal case against the strikers.
Tue letters carrie Ito Mr. Fowderly by
Blake were the 1 taken up, and one after
another tho raon whose names wore np-
I .ended came forward and pronounced
them forgeries.
HARRISON’S LETTERS.
No less than ten forgone i were thus
proved. Mr. Powderly the 1 receded the
charge that he had made publi private
letters of Huisel Harris n. His letter to
Mr. Harrison a l bee 1 pod lied anund St.
Louis. It was the duty of all good citizens
to prevent tho appointment of scoundrels
to positions such as the on- Furlongs 'Ught,
and in lod ing his protests he but per
formed bis duty.
AN ALIBI PROVEN.
The 9‘ory told by Biake and Mac Don aid,
that Mr. Po .< and < iy w s 111 Kunsas City last
Sunday, was disproved by telegram from
the Forest City house, Cieve and, and
Messrs. Mablev and Carew of Cincinnati,
stating that Mr. Powderly was in those
cities < n Sunday and Mi niav. Frem pub
lished oiiic.al repo ts he vindicat and his
n sition in the stock aids stiike in
Chicago and the great southwest strike.
HAP FOUND IRONS SQUARE.
Referring to Martin Irens, he declared
that he had ever found him square and
honest.. At his invitation and that of Mr.
Nea-baum of Denver be attendei the eon
vßmio lat Kansas City. He then and there
frankly told the men of the danger and
probable results of the strike. None of
the men who bore the brunt ever blamed
him, and u til they did he cured nothing
for the attacks of tue scoundrels now assail
ing him.
ACQUITTED BY THE AUDIENCE.
After disposing of each charge Mr. Pow
d-rly asked the audience: “Have I made
out my case? Who told tho lie now?”
This elicited rounds of Hpplause from tho
audio ce. He closed with a ringing appeal
to the knight* of St. Louis to close up their
ranks and perfect their organization.
The meeting was a decided Powderly
success. To-morrow night Mr. Powilerlv
leaves for Ohi'-ago, accompanied by A. W.
Wright of Toron o, and on Sunday a meet
ing wall be held at t at place, Messrs. Pow
derly and Wright returning to Bt. Louis on
Monday.
Faulkner’s Application.
Syracuse. N. Y., Oct. 4.—Application
was to-day made to Judge Wallace fora
writ of error in the case of Lester B. Faul i
ner. The judge denied the motion on the
ground that the Uuited States district
at ori.ey had not been notified of the appli
cation. The case will be brought up agaiu
next week.
Richmond’s Railways.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 4.—The rwniver
shi'i que>tio . concerning the Electric and
Huh .0 dCi y Street railways was before
Judge Fitzaugb, in the chancery court,
again to-day. By general request of the
counsel for the various Interests, the matter
was post|)Oued until Weduesiay next, the
oou Bet i 1 the meantime hoping to effect a
compromise.
No Progress in the Orontn Jury.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 4.—No additional
jurors were secured in the Cronin case
to-day.
BUSINBriB MORE ACTIVE.
Even a Closer Money Market Fails to
check Trade.
New Yore, Oct 4 —R. G. Dun & Co.’s
weekly review of trade say-
A closer money market, as was antici
pated last week. has checked operat ions to
some extent. The shipment of $1,000,000 in
gold to Europe by a firm engaged in plac
ing two large l.ratis for foreign govern
me its, and therefore anxi ns to prevent a
further advance in Hank of England rates,
was all clearer evidence of iho actual de
mand abroad, because made at a small loss
if reckoned at current rates of exchange.
A GAME OF BKE-SAW.
A sudden fall in the rate from 48S to
4s>-' 4 was followed by an upward mov >-
meat again, and it seems not improbable
that the exigo ices of the Argentine Repub
lic and the placing of the Rushan loan may
for some time to come affect tho money
market nero. The October disbursements
and umdor ito purchases of bonds h ive
made the market easier for the present,
hut tho rote on call, alter rising from
to 8 per cent.—and nv *u to 31) per cent, lor
a short time—is yet about 7 per cent., with
no improvement in tho commercial loan
market.
A HEAVY INTERIOR DEMAND.
While the treasury paid out $2,800,000
more than it took in, the interior deman 1 is
everywhere increasing, with some strin
go cy at Cleveland, an easier feeling at
Boston, and u tig it money market at Pmla
dolphia. It Is an encouraging fact that all
renorts repreent ollection* ns at leist
fail ly satisfactory, and at most points the
situation in that respect is good.
BUSINESS MORE ACTIVE.
The reports of business from all parts of
the country show i creased activity ou the
wnole, t ough in some branches trade is
not up to the Septeinlior level.
Pittsburg notes higher prices for iron
and steel, the g asi husino s active, with
the worms all operating, and the coal t ade
dull, waiting water for a river movement.
Throughout the west excellent crops are
tho basis of large buying by tho farming
districts, and confident hopes as to trade
for the rest of the year.
TUB BOOM IN IRON.
The iron busl tess s ii some danger of
running into an unhealthy "boom,” so
gl oat is the anxiety of mmy to sti .ulate
tbo demand. Hoveral large furnaces are
about going into blast, autl southern Nn. 1
is still sold here a' $1(1 75, but higher prices
than $lB are pai I for and died b ands wi ich
are semes, ad structural, plate, and
wruug it pipe are strong, b it of bar thero
is not much b mug, and some mills are
inviting or teis at #1 85.
Rails have actually sold for $39 in con
siderable quantity at eastern works, but
Philadelphia quotes $Bl, and the west corre
spondingly h g ier pi ices.
COTTON MANUFACTURE,
Cotton manufacturers have reason to
rejoice at the collapse of the Liverpool
corner, ami the price of raw cotton has
decline,! here %of a cent, with sales of
340,000 halos.
The siig ir trust seems not unlikely to fol
low the copper syndicate and ho cotton
corner, at least as far a prices aro con
cerned. Raw su nr is lower, the demand
fer consumption biting slack, and men
while h avy sales of sugar trust stock
dooressod the price to about 85. The cotton
oil rust is also Uoavily sold and declined
sharply.
TUB COAL MARKET.
The coal market improves but slightly in
the > mount of sale,, ad not at all i t prices,
so that attacks upon coal carrying stocks
have been encouraged.
Bpeculation in wheat lias weake ed, and
the price is 1% lower, with sales of 40,000,-
000 bushels here. Corn is 1 cent ami oats Jr a '
oe ,t lower, and p irk steady. The general
level of prices is, nevorttndoss, a s ade
higher tha i Oct. 1, and has advanced jj per
I>er cent, since Hept. 1, a re ult due i atuer to
the partial failure of s me crops than to
any lucre so of the monetary supply.
The volume of money ii circulation is
$l5 ,300,000 lar rer than Sept. 1. and the in
crease in three months has heen 128,000,000,
but the aggregate is scarcely larger now
than it was last December.
BUSINESS FAILURES.
The business failures occurring through
out the United Stales fo ihe quar or ending
with 8-pte ober were 2,278, showing a de
ci ease of 85 or 3.7 per ep it. fr< >m last yea ,
but, for nine months the nutnlier has been
7,370, showing an increase of 329, < r 4
[rer cent. The liabilities for the past
quarter have been swelled by a few
large failures to $39,227,045, or 40 p >r cent,
more than for the same quarter last year,
but for the nine months the aggregate as
been $105,055 890, an increase of percent.
Failu os In Cana la show a decrease of 5
per cent, in number, and 40 per cent iu lia
bility for the past quarter. For the tiiua
months there have been only three less than
ins year in number, but 16 per cent, less in
liability. For the ins week the failures
reimrled number 173 for the United .States,
anti 51 for Canada—2o6 in all, against 192
last week.
THROWN BACK INTO HlB CELL.
Conybaare Forfoits Hia Liberty
When it its Just at Hand.
Dublin, Oct. 4.—The sentence of Charles
Conybeare, me nbor of ttio house of com
mons, who has been imprisoned three
months at Londonderry for conspiring to
oppose the law, expired to-day. While he
was undergoing formalities prior to his dis
charge, he iufiinged one of ihe prison rules
and was again pi cod in a coll.
Mr. Con > b are was confined but a short
time, and at 3:39 o’clock be was discharged
from custody.
COSTS OF THE COMMISSION TRIAL.
London, Oct. 5. —The legal costs on the
Irisn side of the l a neil commission, in
cluding tiie expenses, wit ,esses and re
porters, are fullv covered by the indemnity
fund. Sir Charles Russell received jEI.OdO
fer preparing the briefs, in addition to £5O
daiiy. M ssrs. Reid ad Lockwood eacu
received oue-blf of these amounts. The
expenses of the Times exceed those on the
Iruh side.
Plans of the Czar.
Berlin, Oct. 4.— The Cologne Gazette
says that the czari a will accompany tne
czar o far as K el, and will tueuoe go
direct to St. Petersburg. Tne cza, w.il
spend only two days in Berlin. On the first
day be will inspect bis regiment, and on the
second the Court will have a hunt in his
honor.
To Demand Shorter Hours.
London, Oct. 4.—Two thousand tramway
and omnibus employes ot London held a
meeting at 2 o’cl ck this morning ami
formed a union to obtain shorter hours and
the redress of a numbe of grievances. A
ms iifesto ap wding for adherents was
issued. Lord Rose, ery presided.
Earl of Galloway In Court.
London, Oct 4. —The Earl of Galloway
was arraigned before a court in Dumfries
to-day, charg and with indecent eliavio.
toward a little girl atned Gibson. H
pleaded not guilty, and his trial was set
down for Oct 14.
, DaU Y, $lO A YEAR, )
J 5 CENTS A COPY V
J WEEKLY $1 * A YEAR, f
DIXIE’S COTTON' MILLS.
THE NUMBER IN OPERATION 339
AGAINST 142 In 1880.
•be Increase In the Consumption of
Now Cotton 232 Per Cent. In the
Same Period-oouth Carolina Uses
tho Mo3t, With Georgia Second.
Chattanooga, Tknx., Oct. 4.—Tha
Tradesman has Instituted an exhaustive
inquiry into the cotton mill industry of the
south, and has received reports from all tha
loading mills of tha sou hern states. Tha
actual number of mills in operation is 339
against 143 in 1880, an Increase of 383 per
cent, since the census year. The increase
in the mill consumption of new cotton in tha
same | eriod has been 253 per cent, 8 >uth
Car lina is tho banner state, 133,139 bales
having been consumed in that stite lost
yeai, ag dost 130,988 bales in Georgia. The
consumption of raw cotton in South Caro
lina bee iticreae’d 33 per runt, in two years,
Dixie’s advantages.
Tho consensus of the opiuious of the lead
ing manufacturers of the south iu tneir
wri ten reports to the Tradesman is that
the south possess-s advantages over any
other portion of Amo, ica for cotton in: 1.
Proximity to raw material. S3. Superior
climate. 3. Che jier power. 4. L we. - cost
of rent and living. 5. L wor wage scale.
0. Less liability to strike*. 7. Cheaper
buildings. 8. I,ess expense for heating
mills. 9. Having on freight,
ABUNDAXT MATERIAL.
Iho report* show that the south has
abundant miteri 1 from which to develop
an excelle t labor force for the industry.
Neirly ail tho lab >r is native, and ad 1 ugh
the expansion of the industry si ce 188 ) has
called for an Increase in tho number of
hands amounting to fully JOG per cent,
there has not been in that period a single
serious strike in o e southern mill town,
and hut, one of const leraoleduration in any
mill. Iho >eports also show that operatives
do not lurk a high degree of skill.
dividends of tub mills.
Tho Tradesman lias received returns of
dividends from twenty-five leuding mills in
the south, Incited in six different states.
These divide ds run bitween tUe extremes
f 4 and 28 per cent., ami the average of
tho twenty five is Iper cent, per annum.
Ihese twenty-five fairly represent the
whole.
VIRGINIA DOESN’T OWE IT.
Ex-Gov. Plerrep nt -ays Uncle Sam
la Not Due $40,00 0.
Pittsburo, Pa., Oct 4. Ei-Oov,
Francis Pierrepont of Virgi da, who is In
tids city, was asked to-dny about tbe report
in recent dispatches that the federal gov
ernment claimed $49,000 from Virginia,
said amount being part of an appropriation
said to be utiacc tinted for by state officials.
“Virginia has nothing to do with that
money,” said the governor. “It never
went into the state treasury and was not
handled by the state’s officers.
A CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION.
“Congress made an appropriation of $2,-
(XX),IKK) to be used iu certain states in sup
pressing the rebellion. Of this the sum of
$40,009 was sent bv o'der of the President
to Daniel 1 ,1101 b to lie disbursed under order
of the governor of Vi g mi for equioping
and feeding vo.un eor soldiers while in serv
ice, and it was sodisbu se i. Mr. Lamb was
careful with his vouchers, and I was care
l’ul wit i tny warrants. lr. Ist ub need as
a dis .urging officer of the United .S ates,
and not a do.lar of t e m uey we t into
toe treasury of Virginia. It is no sense to
talk about making Virgmii liable. The
governor of Virginia wa > neither a receiv
ing nor disbursing officer, and the state
neve got a ,y of the money.”
NORTH DaK )T 1 WENT DRY.
The Latest Returns show a Majority
for Prohibition.
St. Paul, Oct. 4.—A special to the
Pioneer lYess from Fargo, N. D., siyg;-
“The Republioan this evening publishes an
estimate of tue vote on prohibition in thirty
counties, which shows a not majority for
prohibit! mof 1,796. Tnese correspond with
reports received by J. C. Wdiite, secretary
of the North Dakota non-partisan
prohibition alaa ice. Tu s, however, is
educed by Mclntosh oou .ty, >hich gave
150 m ijority ayai ist the article. Tnat
leaves Hteelo, Driggs, Rolette, Mercer,
B.lllngsa id Emmons Ciuntiet to bear from,
t ie aggregate vote of woieb, it is estimated,
will bs so eve.tly divided as not materially
to change the result. Tue other oounties in
the state are unorganized.
SOUTH DAKOTA’S BALLOTING.
The Democratic Vote In the State
Larger and ban was expected.
Bt. Paul, Minn., Oct. 4 — Pioneer Prtta
specials from Huron, S. D., say: “Zack
Thundley, chairman of the democratio
statecen'ral committee, to-night places the
total democratic vote in the state at 30,0 X),
and claims twenty democratic members of
the legisla ure. He says the vote is larger
than was expected.
“Secretary Busnnell of the state prohibi
tion committee says he bus sufficient returns
to guaran ee the statement tnat prohibition
has a majority of 6,91X1 in the state, or 3,000
more th in was expected. Hu o t has ao
ceptod her defeat for tne temporary capital,
and is in tbe race for the permanent loca
tion.”
MON lAN A BULL IN DOUBT.
Everything Indicates, However, that
Too.e is Governor.
Helena, Mont., Oct. 4—There has been
no mater ial change iu the legislative situa
tion in Montana to-day. The republicans
still claim it on a joint ballot bv tbree,
while tbe democrats claim it by seven. The
electionof Toole forgover or is admit ted by
the republicans, as far as tbe returus show,
b t tiiov clai n that the full returns will
give the office to Power yet. The contest
f >r 'control of the legislai ure pro.ois s to be
very bitter. Tbe state officers, except the
governor, are all republic n, and the senate
also, but the House is still iu U >ubt. All
the county officials are elected by the
republicans.
lucklebb Washington.
The Territory Carried by the Hepub- ■
Leans by 8,000 Majority.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 4.—lnc implete re
turns from all tue couut es iu YVa hington
territory save Douglass, Okagau, Sau Juan,
Skagit, Snohomish and Stev-ns, give the
republican eurid date for oongruss 7,629
majority. The whole state tic -et is e.ec.ed
by majorities not far from these figures,
da.as for the republican ticket are
reported from every section of the state,
and it is not at ait un k -ly that ths total
vote will show over 8,099 major!.;. S > far
as the r turns have been receive t, os.lma es
on the vote for co igresstna i are as f Lows;
WUsou, rep., 23.T50; Griffiths, dem,, 18,131;
Wilson’s estimated majority 7,629.