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death in an explosion.
SIX LIVEB BNDFFBD OUT BY A
FLASH of powder.
Twelve or Fifteen °tiier People More
or Less Seriously Injured- A Numb
of Factory Cottages Destroy
BaUway Tracks Fairly Torn Out of
the Ground.
Cincinnati, 0.. July 15.-A terrible
explosion occurred late this afternoon at
King’s powder mills on tne Little Miami
railroad, twenty-seven miles east of this
Six persons were killed and a dozen or
more seriously injured.
Two empty freight cars were being rolled
on to a side-track, where two cars’containing
500 kegs of gun powder were standing. As
the cars struck there was a terrific explosion
and immediately afterward another car
containing 800 kegs of guu powder exploded,
making thirteen hundred kegs altogether.
A brakeman blown to atoms.
Wm. Frawley, a brakeman in the service
cf the Little Miami road, was standing on
one of the cars when the explosion occurred.
His body must have been blown to atoms,
although no trace of it has yet been found.
Five other persons, supposed to be em
ployes of the powder company, were
k Tbe King Powder Company and Peters
cartridge works have works on both sides of
the river along the railroad. The explosion
occurred on the south side and the destruc
tion was enormous.
There were a number of cottages occu
pied by workmen in the factory, and situ
ated close to the track. These were shat
tered by the explosion and their inmates
injured.
A DOZEN GIRLS HURT.
Twelve or fifteen girls at work in the
cartridge factory were crippled by the ex
plosion.
The railway station and freight house
belonging to the Little Miami railway,
together with ail the adjacent buildings,
were set on fire and totally consumed.
The havoc wrought by the explosion of
sixteen tons of powder is dreadful. The
track and ties of the railway are fairly torn
nut of the ground and a great hole plowed
in the earth.
Peters' cartridge factory was burned to
the ground. Nothing but a mass of smolder
ing ruins remains to mark the spot where
the building stood.
As goon as the news reached this city,
about 5 o’clock,a relief train was dispatched
to the scone of the disaster, with Supt.
Peters and a large party of surge ms on
board, and relief was afforded the sufferers
is soon as possible.
. SEARCHING FOR TUB MISSING.
The work of searching for the missing
and caring for the wounded is now pro
cessing. As most of the girls who were
injured live at Morrow and South Lebanon
It is most probable that they will be taken to
their homes in these places. Peters’ cartridge
factory was a large building, and fully sup
plied with a groat amount of costly rau
shinery, both for the manufacture of shells
ind the loading of shotguns, and ammuni
tion. A large force was at work at the
lime of the explosion.
News from King’s mill at 0 o’clock to
light is to the effect tnat ten dead bodies
lave been taken from the ruins, and that
iliirty are known to be buried. Later nows
s more apt to increase the list of casualties
than to diminish it.
a woman’s back broken.
Cincinnati, 0., July 15, 11:59 p. m.—The
Panhandle train due here at 6:30 o’clock to
ught arrived at 11:45 o’clock. The delay
f five and a quarter hours was caused by
the accident at King’s station. Passengers
Du the train say that the wrecked district
presents a scene of utter desolation, and
jive further information that ip dwell
ing shattered by the explosion an unknown
Woman had her back broken by the ex
plosion. The reports of thirty wounded are
lso confirmed.
as bright as day.
Cincinnati. 0., July 16, la. m.—A mes
senger of the Adams Express Company on
the local train of the Panhandle road arrived
rom the scene of the explosion at 12:45
I’clock this morning. He says that when
e passed King’s Mill station at 11:30 o’clock
t was as bright as day all around. Every
thing combustible was burning and the
people everywhere for a great distance
iround were fighting the fire. He says
Peters’ cartridge factory was a large tbree
itory brick building, and that it was still
turning. He says the roadmaster of the
Little Miami road got on at that station,
where he had been for several hours.
THREE FAMILIES MISSING.
The roadmaster’s information was that
here were three families living in the
*™ e cottages near the place of the explosion,
ind the six hours’ diligeut search failed to
Ind any trace of them. He said further
nore that all was confusion there and that
|uch a thing as ascertaining names was next
lo an impossibility.
. incident related by him was that
tight or ten girls in the cartridge factory
B v * llemßeves from the flames by catch
tig hold of a rope that happened to hang
■rom the house to the ground and sliding
lown. Hi3 story is that more than ten were
titled.
FIVE NEGROES SHOT DOWN.
‘hey Were Running Away From
Their Employer.
New Orleans, July 15.—A special to
he Times-Democrat from Merrouge, La.,
ays: "Sunday night twenty-five laborers
rom the plantations of A. Heffner, near
Jakrldge, Moorehouse parish, and whose
had paid from North Carolina,
juic their homes and commenced under
raver of the night to make their way into
wDK)t county, Arkansas.
PURSUED BY A POSSE.
/3 hf * 7 l "'l ro Pursued by a posse of friends
rr, Heffner, and this morning were
lound lying in ambush. When notified by
, 6 P°sje that they were surrounded by a
jarty of men who would do them no harm
-iu only asked their return to their homes,
a willinguess to return, but
nen the posse went forward to meet them
' as > hid by one bold trouble-maker,
■ ) ed fire on the posse, and for one minute
■ hd some line shooting.
j u FIVE SHOT DOWN.
I __ Jh 6 posse returned the Are and the result
1 ', at flve ue Broes were killed. Running
Ir, , J N f - rom men who have brought labor
I >niv P arolina the P ast season, their
I ihpfr bem K to . planters out of
I ‘mnJ 118 ?* 9 to Louisiana, has become too
■ -ornmon during the past two months,"
I Clergyman Charged With Forgery.
I Mk^hJii WoBTH ’'7 Jtx ’ Julv 15.—Dr. W.
I -enan i ’ the Broadway Presby-
J Fort Worth, was arrestid
I* *3^r° Untm * to 125,000.
t Richmond No Small Town.
foung of'thi. /f'i July L 5
Dually iwi5 <llßtri n t B ® ys tllst he ilu ’ P er '
bat for tto** UP the census returns, and
S -HJoandho! 0 C o y they foot up betw##B
Wat itemufl
CROPS BLOWN TO THB GROUND.
Minnesota Farmers Heavy Losers by
Sunday's Big Blow.
St. Paul, July 15.—A special to the
Pioneer Press from Flainview, Minn.,
says: “News has just reached here of a
terrible hail and wind storm in the towns of
Highland, Glasgow, and Beyers Sunday,
about 12 o’clock, which cut crops to the
ground. Farmers who had bought
harvesting machinery and twine
are bringing them back to the dealers, as
they will have no use for them this season.
One hundred thousand dollars is thought
to be the very lowest estimate of the dam
age to crops. At Elgin the wind blew down
J. W. Bryant’s barn and knocked over
every chimney in town.”
DEATH IN HORRIBLE FORM.
Minneapolis, July 15. —Another victim
of the Lake Gervaise cyclone died yester
day. It was Mrs. John Clark, whose home
at Little Canada was wrecked. Her left
arm was torn off, and her lung exposed.
She died in great agony. A splinter pierced
her husband just above the heart, and
though he hovers between life and death, it
is thought he has a chance to recover.
CAPT. WETHERN IN DANGER.
When Capt. Wethern of the Sea Wing
left for his home at Diamond Bluff, on the
Wis onsin side of the river, yesterday, he
went in company with the sheriff of that
county. It was explained that they went
together as old acquaintances and friends.
A report comes that Capt. Wethern is un
der arrest, having been arrested at the in
stance of his friends, who consider him to
be in danger of his life from friends of the
victim and they had him placed in jail for
his own protection.
YACHTSMEN LOST AT SEA.
Only One Man Out of Three Survives
a New England Gale.
Portsmouth, N. H., july 15.—0n Satur
day last the small yacht Marion, belonging
to the Bay View Yacht Club of South
Boston, left Boston in charge of Capt.
Vernon Locke, with E. C. W. Kimball and
Benjamin Cobb of Boston, for a two weeks’
trip along the coast. About 9 o’clook Mon
day night the yacht struck a sunken ledge
off Rye Beach. The captain ordered all
hands into the tender, a mere cockle shell,
which capsized and threw the meu into the
sea. They managed to get astride the keel
of the tender, where they were twelve
hours, with the sea continually breaking
over them.
the first to drown.
Finally Mr. Kimball was washed off and
drowned. Capt. Locke and Mr. Cobb tried
to work the boat toward shore, but to no
avail, and as the captain was trying to
climb on the bottom of the boat again he
was washed awav. Mr. Cobb floated for
some distance, when a huge wave washed
him off. He succeeded, however, in reach
ing the boat. This morning about 3 o’clock
a fisherman picked him np in an exhausted
condition and brought him here. Capt.
Locke leaves a wife and several children.
The others are unmarried.
A THONDBB-3TOKM.
Wllkesbarre’s Low Lands Flooded and
the People in Terror.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 15. —A terrific
thunder cloud burst over the Wyoming
valley late this afternoon, and in a few
minutes every inch of low land was covered
with water. The rain came down in sheets
amid blinding flashes of lighting that
struck terror to the hearts of the citizens.
Every cellar on Canal street was flooded
and thousands of dollars’ worth of goods
damaged.
A washout on the Pennsylvania railroad
delayed passenger trains, while the New
Jersey Central trains were compelled to
come into the city on the Lehigh valley
tracks.
The Jersey Central railroad crossing at
Market street was completely submerged
with water. In the surrounding seotion the
full extent of the damage cannot as yet be
ascertained, but it is supposed to reach
several thousand dollars.
BEHRING 6EA CORRESPONDENCE.
Harrlaon Believed to be Reading Every
Page of It.
Washington, July 15. —Chairman Hitt
of the foreign affairs oommittee, who put
through the House, at his friend Secretary
Blaine's request, the resolution calling upon
the President for the Behring sea corre
spondence, feels disappointed because it has
not come in yet. It was all ready at the
state department when the resolution was
passed last week, and was sent at once to
the white house. Apparently the President
is reading every one ot the hundred type
written pages, blue pencil in hand.
BOODLER DEMPSEY RETURNS.
He Gives Bond for His Appearance in
Court if Required.
New York, July 15. —Ex-Alderman
Charles Dempsey, of the boodle board of
1884, who was connected with the passage
of the Broadway railway franchise, and
who has been sojourning in Canada for
some time past, made his appearance at the
district attorney’s office to-day. He came
back to give bail and wait any further de
velopments in the matter of the indictments
against him. His bonds are being made
out.
FATHER AND BON3 KILLED.
Sudden Closing of the Oates Left
Them in the Train’s Path.
Chicago, July 15.—Hugo Blindsee, aged
50, and his two sons, Hugo, aged 6, and
Max, aged 12, were struck by a tram at the
crossing at the corner of Paulina and Kin
sie streets last night and fatally injured.
The sudden closing of the guard gatos
penned the unfortunate trio helplessly on
the tracks In front of the ooming train.
TWO DEAD IN THB CAB.
An Engineer and Fireman Die To
gether in a Collision.
Rochester. N. Y., July 15.—Walker W.
Harris of Buffalo and William Callapy of
Hinsdale, N. Y., engineer and fireman of a
West Shore freight train, were killed in a
collision between their train and a train on
the Western New York and Philadelphia
road at the Genesee Valley Junction “Y,”
four miles south of this city, this morning.
The Chootaw Lottery Scheme.
Ngw Orleans, July 15. —A special to the
Times-Democrat from Paris, Tex., says;
"It seems that tne proprietors of the Choc
taw Orphan Asylum Lottery Company
have not abandoned their scheme yet.
They declare that the United States gov
ernment has no right to interfere, and that
they intend to proceed to bold a drawing
and test their legal rights.”
Gotham’s New Aqueduct.
New York, July 15.—Water began to
flow into the oity reservoirs through the
uew aqueduct to-day.
A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
A BIG WAREHOUSE IN RUINS AT
MINNEAPOLIS.
The Flames Started on the Second
Floor and Quickly Spread to Every
Part of the Immense Structure—A
List of the Occupants and Their
Losses.
Minneapolis, Minn., July 15.—The
large seven-storv warehouse of the Security
Warehouse Company on First street and
Fourth avenue, north, owned by Wood &
Morse, was burned this afternoon, entailing
a loss of nearly $1,000,000.
The Are caught upon the second floor of
the building and is supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combustion.
It soon spread to the upper floors, which
were filled with agricultural implements,
while on the fourth floor were 500 tons of
binding twine, which added fuel to the
flames. As soon as possible the firemen got
to work but were hampered by the intense
heat. It was impossible for one to approach
within 500 feet of the burning building
unless his face was protected. Two men,
Mr. Morse, one of the proprietors, and the
engineer, were rescued by means of ladders
from the fourth floor. They were almost
blinded and suffocated by the dense smoke
whioh overhung everything, making it im
possible to distinguish anything at a dis
tance of ten feet.
surrounding property saved.
On the south side was the large store
house of the John Deere Company, which
was saved by heroic work.
Just at the rear stood the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railway
roundhouse, in which six engines Btood in
their stalls. They were quickly removed,
as it was feared that the house would be
crushed by the walls, but happily this was
not tho case.
UpoD the north stood a three-story stone
building owned by Matt Keys and occupied
as a dwelling by a number of Jewish fami
lies. This was crushed flat, as was a one-story
frame building used as a shipping room, in
which was stored a quantity of machinery.
The burned warehouse was erected in April
of this year and was used as a storage ware
house and was one of the largest establish
ments of its kind in Minneapolis. It cost
$50,000 and was insured for $35,000. Its
proprietors say they will rebuild.
THE OCCUPANTS AND LOSSES.
The first floor was occupied as a shipping
room, the second by offices, the third by the
William Deering Company, tho fourth by
the Appleton Manufacturing Company, the
fifth and sixth by general storage, and the
seventh by furniture. The losses are as
follows:
National Cordage Company, binding
twine, (insured) $ 235,000
William Deering & Cos. of Chicago 125,000
Emerson, Talcott & Cos. of Rockford, 111. 25.01X1
Grand Plow Company of Dixon, 111 25,000
American Road Machine Company of
Philadelphia 10,000
Appleton Manufacturing Company ot
Appleton, Wis 35,000
O. S. Kelly & Cos. of Springfield, 0 10,000
S. Waterbury & Cos. of New York... , 100,000
Wood & Morse 50,000
Miscellaneous losses at least 200,000
In addition to these amounts are the
losses of individuals who had furniture
stored. There was a large quautity of
silverware burned.
All the insurance save that on the build
ing was held outside the city and conse
quently the names of the companies and
amounts cannot be learned at this hour.
A BUSINESS BLOCK BURNED.
The Total Loss SIOO,OOO and the In
surance Only $45,000.
New Orleans, July 15.—A special to the
Picayune from Denton, Tex., says: “Fire
this morning destroyed one of the principal
business blocks of Denton. The loss is
SIOO,OOO, with insurance of $45,000. The
fire engine was out of order. The heaviest
losers are: A. Graham, dry goods, build
ing and stock. $28,000; C. A. Williams, dry
goods, building and stock, SIB,OOO, and Mrs.
Kowskey, $5,000.”
FRANCE AND THE CONGO.
Preference Rights Claimed Under
Former Treaties.
Paris, July 15.—Documents relating to
the Congo state have been issued to the
members of the Chamber of Deputies. They
include a list of letters from the president
of the Congo International Associa
tion, written in 1884, giving
France preference rights to buy
territory, and a letter from the chief of
foreign affairs of the Congo state written in
April, 1887, admitting that the Congo state
could not be ceded to Belgium without
recognition of the preference rights of
France.
RUSSIA’S HEBREWS.
The Government Peparlng Measures
Against Them.
St. Petersburg, July 15.—There is
strong irritation among the anti-semitics
owing to the fact that some of the prisoners
convicted in Paris of being implicated in
the nihilist plot are Jews. Stringent
measures against the Jews are being pre
pared by the authoriti&s. These include
the suppression of the newspaper Novosti,
whose editor has been warned thpt he must
settle his affairs and leave the country by
1892.
Constantinople’s Big Fire.
Constantinople, July 15.—The fire on
Saturday in the Stainboul quarter destroyed
1,000 houses and ruined 125 timber mer
chants. It is feared that many lives were
lost.
The losses by the fire amount to £IOO,OOO.
There is an insurance of £63,880 in
British companies on the property de
stroyed. ______________
The French Shooter Insane.
Paris, July 15. —The man who fired the
revolver outside the Elysee yesterday while
President Carnot was passing from his car
riage to the palace was examined to-day
by physicians and pronounced insane.
Stanley Very 111.
London, July 15.—Mr. Stanley continues
ill. Dr. Parke’says ho is very weak. The
queen has sent a m9esago by wire making
inquiry as to his condition.
Spain’s Cholera.
Madrid, July 13.—The Gazette says that
in the last two months there have been 445
cholera cases in ’ Spain. Of these 251 have
been fatal.
The Heligoland Bill.
London, July 15.—The Heligoland bill
passed its third reading in the House of
Lords to-day with only a verbal amend
ment.
Argentine Republic Finances.
Buenos Ayres, July 15.—The financial
situation has decidedly improved. Nego
tiations will be reopened for sterling.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY Hi, 1800.
TENNESSEE’S DEMOCRATS.
The State Convention Meets at Nash
ville.
Nashville, Tenn., July 15.—The demo
cratic state convention was called to order
at 12 o’clook to-day by the chairman of the
state executive committee, who afte -,|mak
ing a short address, announced the name of
Hon. N. W. Baptist of Tipton county a<
temporary chairman and J. D. McLin of
Davidson county as temporary secretary.
The temporary chairman assumed his duties
and the roll was called for the selection, by
congressional districts, of the oommitteemeu
on permanent organization, credentials and
resolutions.
At the afternoon session the only busi
ness transacted was the hearing of the
report of the committee on permanent or
ganization. Congressman James D. Rich
ardson was made permanent chairman and
E. B. Wade, an allianceman, chief secre
tary.
The platform was submitted at the even
ing session.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform indorses tho administration
of Grover Cleveland, denounces the McKin
ley bill, demands free coinage of silver and
denounces the importation of pauper labor.
It declares that the agricultural inter
ests are the mainstay and support of
our government, state and federal.
R arraigus and condemns the Republican
party for its legislative discrimination
against this class, which has greatly re
duced the price of farm lands and products,
for its corrupt grant of large subsidies to
special corporations, for its revolutionary
methods to perpetuate its powers, for its
reckless squandering of the public
money for party purposes, for its
corrupting and deb tuching of the American
franchise, for its efforts to foment sectional
strife and thus disturb the business of the
country; for its efforts to foster combina
tions, unlawful trusts and monopolies, op
pressive to the great mass of the people; for
its attempt to pass a force election bill, or
federal bill, designed to engender a conflict
between the races of the south and to
strengthen and entrench monopoly; for its
utter disregard of the will of the people in
unseating legally elected democratic repre
sentatives, and its shamelessness in denying
the right of statehood and territories fully
qualified for admission by the number of
tneir citizens because they are democratic,
while they admit other territories as states
with much smaller population for the
reason only that a majority of their voters
are republicans; "and in contrast with all
this and the weak, vacillating, selfish
strife producing and labor dissatisfying ad
ministration of Renjamin Harrison, we
present with pride the administration of
Grover Cleveland, marked as it was by
high moral courage, exemption from
nepotism, jobbing and speculation.” Tho
balance of the platform refers to state
issues.
THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE.
One ballot was taken for governor as
follows:
Buchanan . 759
Baxter 297
Taylor 177
Patterson 370
——
A TARIFF REFORM RALLY.
A Conference Held at Baltimore by
Btate Clubs.
Baltimore, July 15.—Eight counties of
Maryland have each organized a tariff re
form club. These clubs met in conference
to-day in the rooms of the Maryland Tariff
Reform Club in this city. James Alfred
Pearce, son of ex-United States Senator
Pearce, presided. There were also present
at the conference (by invitation) democratic
friends of tariff reform from those counties
of the stato in whioh local clubs have not as
yet been organized. After an interchange
of views concerning the work already done
and upon the necessity of establishing tariff
reform clubs in every county in the state, a
letter was read from ex-Presideut Cleve
land.
CLEVELAND’S CHEERING WORDS.
In his letter Mr. Cleveland says: “In
common with all who are interested in the
movement, I am exceedingly gratified with
the evidences constantly presented of the
activity and organization in aid of tariff
reform in your state, and I hope that the
proposed convention will be full of encour
agement for the friends of the causa.”
The delegates to the conference were en
tertained at lunch by the Maryland Reform
Club.
In the evening a public meeting was held
and It was fairly attended, considering the
season. The speakers were: Buchanan
Schley of Maryland, Charles F. Crisp of
Georgia, John J. Hemphill of South Caro
lina, W. S. Wilson of West Virginia, Will
iam McAdoo of New Jersey and William D.
Bynum of Indiana.
BAD BLOOD IN KBABSB.
Whites and Blacks Ready to Shed
Each Others’ Blood,
Bamberg, S. C., July 15.—News from
Kearse, a township in Barnwell county,
where a race trouble occurred some months
ago, is to the effect that there is more
trouble between the races. A man just in from
Kearse states that over 300 men, armed
with now Winchester rifles, had gathered
and that serious trouble was anticipated.
One negro had been killed and several of
both races injured. At 0 o’clock to-night a
white militia company left this place for
the scene of the trouble, and the whites will
bo reinforced by those from the surround
ing county. No cause is assigned for the
outbreak beyond tjhe bad blood between the
races caused by the riot some time ago.
CAUSE OF THE OUTBREBK.
The latest ad v ices are that the riot was pre
cipitated by an attempt to arrest negroes
concerned in the event several months ago.
They resisted. One white man named
Kearse was killed and another fatally
wounded. A negro named Grant was shot
down. It is said that Grant's house was
garrisoned by a strong force of blacks.
The scene of the riot is twenty miles from
a railroad or telegraph office and details are
meager.
GORMAN ON THE WATOH.
The Republicans Won’t Be Able to
Spring a Surprise.
Washington, July 15.—Senator Gor
man, the tactician of the Senate democrats,
is not thrown off his guard by the seeming
republican indifference to the force bill.
He is just as alert as though the republicans
had adopted a rule and a greed to put it
through at once and to follow in with the
force bill immediately. Unless he receives
unquestionable assurance that the force
bill is not to be taken up be will use the
tariff bill and every other bill as a fender
to keep the force bill off. Senator Gorman
is In a position to know the inwardness of
all the republican plans and will profit by
bis information.
Raum Must Face tbs Music.
Washington, Julv 15.—Congressman
Coojier of Indiana, finding Speaker Reed
and his committee on rules unwilling to re
port his resolution nroviding for &u investi
gation of the charges against Conirmatloner
Uaumappealed to-day to the House. This
may move Speaker Reed to report.
HE HAS IT IX FOR BLAINE.
M’KINLEY WAITING TO JUMP ON
THE MAN FROM MAINE.
The Secretary of State’s Utterances on
the Tariff Bill to Be Attended to In a
Speech In the House at the First
Favorable Opportunity The Rec
iproclty Scheme etands a Poor
Chance.
Washington, July 15. —Representative
McKinley has, of course, read all that
Secretary Blaine has said about the Mc-
Kinley bill, including Secretary Blaine’s
last letter published this morning, with its
cunning attempt tot wist the non-o uninittal
message of the President conveying Secre
tary Blaine’s reciprocity report into an in
dorsement of the report. Mr. McKiuley,
who dines at tho white house en famille
oftener than Secretary Blaine dines there in
state, knows from the President’s own lips
that he considers Secretary Blaine’s
scheme impracticable and has given reasons
which to the protectionists seem conclusive
against it, but Mr. McKinley says never a
word about it at all for publication. Ho is
saving himself up until the tariff bill comes
back to the House, when he may make the
most striking speech of his life in roply to
all that Secretary Blame has said. Neither
Mr. McKinley nor any of the other House
leaders expect to geo Secretary Blaine’s
reciprocity scheme as embodied in Senator
Halo’s amendment tacked to the
tariff bill in the Senate. So far the
Senate finance committee, to which It was
referred, shows no sign of reporting it
favorably, although, as a matter of courtesy
to tho premier, it will have to be reported in
some way. But Secretary Blaine will do
big best, through Senator Hale and
a few other frionds, to have it
put in the bill in some form
so that Secretary Blaine may got his finger
in the pie. In this he will be helped by
some of tho anti-Harrison senators just be
cause the President does not approve it. The
democrats have not determined wnat they
will do with Secretary Blaine’s scheme, but
in debato they will welcome it as a recruit
in the cause of enlarged freedom of trade.
A REPUBLICAN TRICK.
Pension Appropriations Held Br.ck
TUI After tho Elections.
Washington, July 15.—Mr. Cannon of
Illinois this morning moved that the House
go into committee of the whole for the con
sideration of the bill apprpriating $626,189
for an additional clerical force to carry Into
effect the provisions of the dependent pen
sion bill. Tbe additional force provided
for is 636. Pending this motion he moved
that tho general debate bo limited to two
hours. This was agroed to by a vote of 72
yeas to 60 nays. One hundred and twenty
two members were announced as paired on
this vote.
The previous motion was then agreed to
by a vote of 135 yeas to 37 nays, and acco d
ingly the House went into committee of the
whole, with Mr. Burrows of Michigan in
the chair, on tho bill stated.
LACK OK PENSION APPROPRIATIONS.
Mr. Dockery of Missouri criticised the
majority of the c immittee on appropria
tions for not reporting a bill making an ap
propriation to pay the pensions which
would be granted under the dependent bill,
and intimated that the failure was attribut
able to political reasons. The appropriation
would not be made before the November
elections.
Mr. Sayers of Texas predicted that the
next session of congress would bo called
upon to appropriate no less than $40,000,000
to supply deficiencies in the appropriations
for the payment of pensions.
Messrs. Enloe and llog rs of Arkansas
thought that before any more money was
paid for pensions an investigation ot the
bureau should be had, and Mr. Cooper of
Indiana reoeated the charges against Com
missioner Raum which he set fortu when he
recently offered his resolution for an investi
gation of that officer.
Tbe defense of Commissioner Raum was
taken up by Messrs. Cannon, Cutcbeon, J.
I). Taylor, McKinley and Cheadle of In
diana.
lottery of the offices.
In speaking to a verbal amendment Mr.
Evans of Tennessee declared that the
apportionment of govornment employees to
the various states was unfair, and he alluded
to the civil service as a great lottery.
In speaking to a verbal amendment Mr.
Peters stated as a reason why no additional
appropriation to carry out the provisions of
the dependent pension bill was made tho
horde of ponsion claims filed under that act.
It was the first number. Then a call was
made on the record division of the war de
partment and on the second auditor for in
formation. Next came an order for a
medical examination. This was followed
by reference of this examination to the ref
erees of the bureau. The next step was
an adjudication of the case by the division;
and next reference to a board of review.
The claim was then sent to the certflcato
division, and the operation was ended by
the sending of the certificate to the agent.
All this required time. Afe w cases could
bo adjudgod before the first of January, at
which timo congre s would be in session
and ready to make the necessary appropri
ation.
A WARM COLLOQUY.
A little colloquy in regard to the civil
service law arose between Messrs. Cannon
and Houk, which afforded tho democratic
side of the House much amusement. There
was some warmth shown in the dialogue,
growing out of a remark by Mr. Cannon
to the effect that Mr. Houk saw in the bill
only an increase in the force and not benefit
of the old soldiers.
Mr. Houk resented that any such imputa
tion be cast upon hiui, and denied t e right
of the gentlemen to cri.icUe his motives.
Mr. Cannon referred to his having
been in the war, and a good soldier. Since
the war, in season and out of season, the
gentleman had not hesitated to say so.
Mr. Ilouk said that he hail never spoken
of it in his life. Nobody hod ever heard of
the gentleman playing soldier, because he
had taken care not to do It.
Mr. Cannon said he had a right to discuss
legislation.
Mr. Houk—You have no right to make
personal reflections.
Mr. Cann n—There is one thing I have
no right to do, and that is to make a com
mon nuisance of myself.
Mr. Houk —Then you have done what
you bad no right to do, nocause you have
demonstrated now that you are a uuisance.
The oommittee then took up the bill and
passed it, and, at 5:50 o’clock, the House
adjourned
Congressman Grimes Coming Home.
Washington, July 15. —Congressman
Grimes has gone to Geirgia to take part In
the struggle m his district. The democrats
of the House hope to see him returned.
Rome’s New Bank.
Washington, July 15.—The National
Bank of Home, Ga., was to-day authorized
to begiu business on a capital of 9160,000.
LONGEST FAST ON RECORD.
John Roth Dies After Going Sixty
Days Without Food.
Galena, 111., July 15.—John Roth, who
outdid Tanner in his celebrated fast, died
yesterday at the county asylum, having
passed his sixtieth day of total abstinence
from food or nourishment, except a small
quantity of water, which was forced into
Ills stomach mechanically every twenty
four hours. For such an absolute fast his
record is no doubt the longest
ever“tnade. Recently Roth worked at
Beales Mound, near this city, till attacked
by progressive paralysis two months ago,
which incapacitated him for work and soon
made it impossible for him to eat. After a
week of fns ing he was brought to the
county asylum May 28, and there lingered
for fifty-three days without food.
HEWITT'S MEN TO STRIKE.
A Refusal to Sign the Scale the Cause
of Dissatisfaction.
Trenton, N. J., July 15.— Fiye hundred
iron workers at the New Jersey Steel aud
Iron Company’s works here refused ti go to
work this morning. This is a mill princi
pally owned by Abram S. Hewitt of New
York, who is traveling in Europe for his
health. The strike is tho result of a refusal
to sigu the scale of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, which
has been quietly organizing tho workers
here for some time past. Supt. Stokes says
that in Mr. Hewitt's absence no one has
authority to sign the scale. The men met in
Hartman's hall this morning and agreed not
to go to work till the scale wag signed.
Saw-mill Hands to Strike.
Ashland, Wis., July 15.—Fifteen hun
dred saw-mill men employed hore gave
notice to their employers last night that un
less their demands for ten hours work, in
stead of eleven, aud without a correspond
ing reduction in wages, was granted by
July 18 they would walk out and close
every mill in the place. The mill owners
will resist the demand.
End of the Cloakmakers' Strike.
New York, July 15.—The cloakmakers’
strike was ended this afternoon by the
manufacturers agreeing to discharge all
tho nou-union men, wit > tho understanding
that they would be taken bock as soon as
they joined the union.
BRUNBWICK’B RUINS.
The Fire Still Burning In the Corn and
Hay.
Brunswick, Ga., July 15.—T0-night has
been the quietest in Brunswick since the
great fire, and many who worked hours try
iug to save the city from destruction are
now resting quietly at their various homes.
Those who were prostrated by the Intense
heat Sunday afternoon have recovered aud
are at their places of business again. The
Suvanuab firemen, who fought so valiantly
to subdue the tlames, left for home at 0
o’clock to-night. Bay street, the scene of
the fire, presents a busy but dismal spec
tacle.
CLOUDS OF BMOKK.
Clouds of smoke from the smoldering
ruins Boat slowly through the air, while
here and there numerous insurance men
are seen as they prepare to adjust their
losses.
All day the firemen have been playing on
the ruins, but mountains of corn aud hay
are yet burning. The fire was a severe
blow to Brunswick, but tho push aud pro
gress which seizes every one who enters her
gates can be seen in the way in which
the loseis have gone to work
to repair the damage. Wherever a person
can stand people are at work pulling out
the debris and maxing preparations tore
build, and many mouths will not pass be
fore the entire front will be filled with
wharves and buildings that will refiect
credit upon the city.
AN OIL MILL FOR MILLEN.
AUlancemen of Several Counties Se
lect It as the Hite.
Millen, Ga., July 15.—Pursuant to ap
pointment, the committee of alliancemen of
Seri veil, Richmond, Bulloch and a number
of other counties met at Millen this morn
ing at 10 o’clock to discuss plana and a loca
tion for a cot on seed oil mill. The meet
ing was unanimous in the selection of
Milieu as tho site. A committee was ap
poiuted by tho chairman, consisting of
one from each county, to work up
plans, etc., to build the mjlls. A
committee was appointed also to secure
grounds for the mills. This committee
went immediately to work. H. A. Lester
and J. H. Daniel gave tho eight acres to
build the mills on. Martin V. Calvin is
chairman of tho committee appointed to
draft plans. The town is thoroughly in
sympathy with this movement.
AUGUB TA’H MURDER CASH.
The Brother-In-Law of the Drowned
Girl Held for Trial.
August a, Ga., July 15. —In the case of
Luciuda Sims, tho negro girl whose throat
was cut, and whose deal body was found in
the river, the coroner’s jury to-day found
a verdict of deliberate and willful murder,
and charged her brother-in-law, Oscar
Johnson, with the crime. A white rnan
named Smith was arrested in connection
with the aifair, but after examination was
discharged. There is no doubt of the guilt
of Johnson in the minds of the community.
ALBANY’S STEAMBOATS.
Work on the Boats to be Begun at
Once, With the Money on Hand.
Albany, Ga., July 15.—The stockholders
of the Albany Steamboat Company held an
important meeting here to-day. After a
report from diirerent committees it was de
cided to begin work on the steamers at onca
There is $6,200 an hand now, and more will
soon be subscribed. The people of the upper
Flint are determined to have the benefits of
a line of steamers.
Waresboro Waifs.
Waresboro, Ga., July 15.—0n Monday
morning T. D. Brogdon and Miss Jennie
Hall were married at tho home of the bride’s
father. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. T. D. Stallings. The bridal couple
immediately left on a trip to Jacksonville
and other places.
The Waresboro Sunday schools will spend
July 26 on St. Simon’s Island.
The Waresboro high school opened Mon
day under tair auspices. Prof. EL C. Cook
is the principal.
A Negro Shot.
Eatonton, Ga., July 15.— Tom Lewis
(colored) was shot Sunday night in the left
wrist by a negro belonging to the M. G.
&A. surveying oorps. His arrest has not
been made yet.
Death In Baldwin.
Millepgevill*, Ga., July Mt—Maj.
U. M. Erwin, one of Baldwin’s highly-ho i
ored and respected citizens, died last night
from a stroke of paralysis. He will be
buried with Masonic honors to-morrow.
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REED’S A ROUGH ROAD.
JUST NOW EVERYTHING SEEMS
TO BE GOING WRONG.
The Action of the Senate Caucus Not
to Hla Liking -The Blaine Reciprocity
Letter Also Went Against the Grain—
The Senate Not Inclined to Change
Its Rules.
Washington, July 15.—Speaker Reed,
usually so cheerful and chipper, looked sad
to-day. He did not like the Senate caucus
of last night. He did not like the Blaine
reciprocity letter of this moruing. He felt
disappointed at the slow aud uncertain steps
of the Senate republicans toward the
trap into which he hopes to crowd
them. He still believes they will
have to change their rules so os to make
them like his, and he still thinks that they
will pass not only the tariff but the force
bill, but there is always danger in delay,
and the speaker, with so many lieutenants
sounding the Senate all the time, knows
better than any one else that in this case
delay probably moans defeat for his plans.
Ho sees that as yet whatever they may do
in the future the relunctant senators have
not walked into the pit he has digged for
them.
NOTHING TO PLEASE HIM.
They have not accepted a change in their
rules aud they have not determined to take
up the force bill. They have, to be sure,
agreed to take up the tariff hill, but that,
H(>eakor Reed thinks, should be brought up
after the election bill. He sees in Secretary
Blaine’s reciprocity scheme a firebrand
which may start a serious conflagration
on the republican side and jeopardize
the tariff bill, certainly delaying
action on it, and so deferring action on it
until it will be impracticable to pass the
force bill. No wonder Sjieakur Rood looked
gloomy. It seemed to affect bis temper. It
was observed from the gallery that he, ap
parently not liking the way Messrs. McKin
ley and Cannon managed the defense of the
committee on rules from the charge of Mr.
Cooper of Indiana that It was smothering
Ills itaum investigation resolution, whisked
them into the republican cloak-room and
gesticulated at them at a groat rate until
Mr. MoKiuley walked away.
A GOOD WORD FOR INGALLS.
He Presides Over the Senate With
Great Fairness.
Washington, July 15.—Senator Ingalls
announced to the republican caucus last
uight that he would not play the part of
Speaker Reed in the presiding officer's
chair, unless expressly instructed so to do by
tie ropublicau caucus. Senator Ingalls bos
re elved many compliments from democrats
upon the fairness and impartiality with
which he has presided over the Sen
ate. Senator Harris, tho parliamentary
leader of the democratic senators, is quoted
as saying that Senator Ingalls in the chair
has proved to be tho Carlisle of the Repub
lican party. Senator Ingalls is very proud
of this praise and of the reputation which
it has given him. He does not propose to
put himself voluntarily in a position where
democratic senators would lie as unwilling
to vote fir a resolution of thanks to him at
the oud of the session as democratic repre
sentatives will be to vote for a resolution of
thanks to Speaker Reed.
STATED HIS POSITION.
When the republican senators were talk*
ing lost night about the first problem in a
change of rules, “bow shall we stop filibust
ering on the new rule itself," Senator Hoar
said: “The presiding officer of the Senate
has power under the present rules of the
Sonato to declare a motion dilatory and
r 'fuse to put it” (a proposition from which
no one dissented openly), and Senator
Ingalls remarked audibly, “As presiding
officer I should not exercise such a power
unless I was instructed to do so by the re
publicans of the Senate.’’ He was not in
structed to do so and will not be for some
time.
PORT ROYAL’S DRY DOCK.
The Officials Who Are to Select the
Site En Route.
Washington, July 15.—Commodore Far
quliar, chief of the bureau of the yards
and docks, and Civil Engineer Endioott
leave for Port Royal, H. C., to-morrow to
select a site for the dry dock provided fag
by the naval appropriation bill. Tbh
wording of this item authorizes the con
struction of a timber, or floatiug dock, and
appropriatios $200,000 of {the $500,000 .set
aside for tho work. There is some com
plaint regarding the floating dock at Mare
Island, and it is hardly; probable that
another dock of this type will be built,
especially as the floating dock taken to
Pensacola a year ago has since lain
unused, with one part on shore
and the remainder in the water.
Builders who are concerned in timber dock
construction claim that the $500,000 appro
priated by congress is inadequate, and esti
mate that the cost of a timber dock at Port
Royal will be $675,000. Advertisements fof
proposals at all events will be invited by the
bureau of yards and docks, and if the bids
demonsrate tho insufficiency of the appro
priation a deficiency estimate will be sent
to congress.
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
Considered.
Washington, July 15.—The Senate this
morning resumed consideration of the sun
dry civil appropriation bill at page 50, the
first item being one of $200,000 for survey
ing public lands, and the committeee on ap
propriations recommending an increase of
that amount to $600,000.
Mr. Gorman explained the amendment
by statiug that the object of it was to
throw open to settlement lauds intended
(by the act of October, 1888,) to be reserved
for irrigation.
Discussion of this amendment lasted until
6 o’clock, when, without disposing of it, the
Senate adjourned. A largo part of the de
bate was upon the management of the
geological survey.
Our Pension Army.
Washington, July 15.—A letter from
Pension Commissioner Raum, sent to the
Senate in response to the resolution of in
quiry, shows that the number of pensioners
at all the agencies was 532,429 on May 30
lost,
Congressman Lester 111.
Washington, July 15. —Congressman
Lester is quite ill at Charlottesville, Va.,
where he went to spend Sunday. His
daughter telegraphed Congressman Crisp
this evening that her father was sick in
bed.
A Pension for Mrs. Fremont
Washington, July 15.—1n the House to
day Representative Vandever of Calif ori
nia introduced a bill granting a pension of
$3,000 to the widow of the late Gen. John
C. Fremont.
