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NEW NATIONAL GALLERY
FRANKLIN W. SMITH’S BIG SCHEME
FOR WASHINGTON.
The Propose! Institution of History
and Art to be Modeled After the
Kensington Museum at London-He
Expects the Buildings to Cost
$5,000,000.
Washington, Dec. 27.—Franklin W.
Smith of Boston, exhibited this evening at
his parlors in the Arlington the plans for
the national gallery of history and art,
which he hopes to see established in Wash
ington. His project, which he has kept
secret until to-night to avoid prematura
publicity, involves the construction of
buildings covering, with their parks and
courts, 250 acres, on a hill northwest of
W ashingtOD. They are to be reproductions
in ornamental cement of classic buildings,
the Panthenon crowning the hill.thesameas
the Acropolis in Athens.
THEIR COST.
They can be erected, Mr. Smith says, for
$5,000,000. They need not all be erected at
once, for each building or court is complete
in itself. A million dollars would, Mr.
Smith says, put up the nucleus of the
edifices. When erected the buildings are to
be fitted with historical paintings and re
productions of all the valua le works of art
in the world, as well as such originals as
can be obtained. Its object is to aid in the
cultivation of the art sense of the United
States,developing artificers as well as artists.
STRICTLY PRACTICAL.
It ii tc be strictly practical, being man
aged on a similar theory to that governing
the management of the Kensington museum.
Mr. Smith will not trouble cougress. He
proposes to raise the money needed by pop
ular suscriptions, he himself heading the
list with a generSus gift, including the art
treasures which he has accumulated during
twenty-tiro years since he retired from
business, during which time his idea of a
natio. al gallery has been growing. He has
made sixteen trips to Europe to study art
and history.
SMITH’S FAMOUS VILLA.
Mr. Smith thinks the Pompeiian villa
■which he has ! uilt at Saratoga and the
Spanish and Moor.sh hotels iu Florida,
which be suggested, the materials especially
in tne Casa Monica at St. Augustine and
the Pompeiian villa being the same as pro
posed for the national gallery, so far demon
strate the practicability of his project,
which turns upon the cheapness of con
struction, as it is to be the largest structure
ever erected. Mr. Smith is confident of
success.
MEETING OF THE SENATE.
Only Eighteen Senators Present and
an Adjournment Taken.
Washington, Dec. 27. There wore
eighteen senators present when the Senate
met at noon to-day. Prayer was said by
the chaplain and then the journal of
Wednesday last having be*su road and
approved, the Senate on motion of Senator
Hoar adjourned till Monday noon.
There was not a committee meeting on
the Senate side to-day, arid as but one re
publican member of the finance committee
(Mr. Hiscock) was at the capital, there was
not even conversational reference among
the senators to the finauclal bill whicn was
but a few days ago the all-absorbing topic
of interest.
THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS GAINING.
It is an undeniable fact that the conserv
ative element among tne republican sena
tors, those who believe that there should bo
no legislation at all on financial matters,
have gained some ground by the interval of
the holiday season. They relied largely
upon the heavy Christmas trade, with the
correspondingly quickened circulation of
money, to allay the agitation
among the business men of
the ... country. They also cal
culated that the delay gained by the
recess would increase the individual discon
tent with the caucus financial bill, and hero
again they 6eein to have been successful,
but the extent of the disaffection cannot yet
be foretold, and if the pending business in
the Sonata is disposed of within a reasonably
short space of time, it is probable that
the financial bill will be brought
up by the votes of senators who
feel that, while it is not acceptable to them
in every particular, still it is the best com
promise measure attainable.
With the exception of a coterie of newspa
per men chatting with Representative Crisp
of Georgia, the hall of the Home was well
nigh deserted. Besides Mr. Crisp, Messrs.
Hayes and Wade were the only members
present, and they were engaged in their
correspondence. There was a dearth of
gossip and the news gatherers found their
seurch a bootless one.
SILVER POOL CHAEGBB.
An Inclination to Report the Dockery
Resolution Favorably.
Washington, Dec. 27.—The final conclu
sion with respect to the Dockery resolution,
providing for an investigation of the
charges that representatives and senators
were interested iu a silver pool, will proba
bly be reached by the rules oommittoe soon
after the holidays are over. The com
mittee. when last the subject was con
sidered, discussed the advisability of
summoning n few witnesses to bo in
terrogated under oath before deciding
what report to make to the House on the
resolution. It was thought if regularly
subpoenaed the correspondents of the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, in which the charge
of the legislative silver pool was originally
made, might be willing to make some more
tangible statements than they had pub
lished or had been willing to volunteer to
the committee.
THE SPEAKER’S ATTITUDE.
The speaker was favorable to this course,
as he has doubt of the propriety of the in
vestigation. The charges do not make spe
cific and definite allegations, or give cir
cumstantial detail, and the committee
thought the charges should have more basis
than a simple newspaper publication uron
which to order an investigation. Messrs.
Bietin' and McMillin, the democratic mem
bers, thought the committee would be justi
fied inorduringauinvestlgation.andMr. Mc-
Kinley was alsoof the upinion that an inves
tigation ought to be bad. A decision to
report the Dockery resolution to the House
with a favorable recommendation bail
almost been reached, when the shipping bill
Lid other matters cameupaud postponed
the determination of what to do with the
rseolutiou.
Re-election to Mexico's Presidency.
Civr or Mexico, Deo. 27.—Troops end
officials marched through the streets of tbit
city to-day sod officially posted a ootio#
that le-eiectioo to the p/mid-iicy of the re
public is now permitted by law.
A Bloch In Ruins.
Vicksburg. Miss., Deo. 27.—The Flood
block, five email two-stary building*, were
borittid to-uigbl. together with the eon- i
Iwli. The lues Is | -*5,1X10, and the Useuf
ante lih.Wk.
SIX MEN BHOT.
One Killed Instantly and Two Others
Fatally Wounded.
New Orleans, La.. Dec. 27.-A special
to the Times-Democrat from Lumberton,
Miss., says: “Daviston, a small town a mile
and a half below here, was the scene of a
fatal shooting affray this afternoon
at 3 o’olock, in which six men were
bhot, ore being killed instantly and two
i others fatally wounded. The trouble
originated from a fight at a party on Christ
mas evening near Red Top between four
“??'’T F L T -tL a r e ’ one Parker - S rahan
and John Hickman, when lav re fired on
| .he croud, kiiiing Parker and dangerously
wounding tho other two. Favre was ar
i re *tßd and placed in the Eilisville jail for
j safe keeping by J. F. Cocke, justice of the
peace of District No. 1.
ANOTHER JUSTICE INTERFERES.
‘‘Justice of the Peaoa J. M. Smith of dis
trict No. 2 dispatched Deputy Sheriff W. W.
Stack still with the necessar, papers to ob
biln Havre's release ou SBOO bond. Sheriff
Shivers, upon hearing of his release
summoned his deputies and came
ro Daviston on a local freight to
re-arrest Favre. Just a3 the train
came to a halt firing began. Favre was
killed instantly, and Sheriff J. M. Shivers
was shot through the left lung with a
W inchester rifle ball, and Deputy Sheriff
T. B. White was shot in the left side with
a pistol. The ball passed through
and came out on the right side. Both of
the latter are announced to be mortally
wounded. The two wounded sheriffs were
brought to this place, where they are re
ceiving the best of attention.”
kkan’s Assara shrinking.
Creditors May Only Get 5 or lO Per
Cent, of -heir claims.
Chicago, Dec. 27. —It lad i een thought
that the ebb mark in S. A Kean's bank
assets had been reached, but the sum to be
distributed among the depositors has been
further diminished by upward of SIOO,OOO.
It looks much as if from 5 to 10 per cent,
will be all the creditors will receive. Of
the original figures, $270,000 c.r thereabouts,
for bills receivable, $36,000 vanished early,
it being found that a large amount of Mr.
Kean’s personal notes, accommodation
paper of his friends and worthless
claims were included. Now the expert
occountaut, who has been going through
the bills receivable, reports that fullv SBO,-
000 consists of protested notes, the makers
whereof arc entirely Insolvent. Many are
long past due, some of them more than a
year. In addition to this SIO,OOO on deposit
at the American Exchange Bank of New
York has been applied on Mr. Kean’s paper
held by it. A Boston bank did the same
thing with $8,500 in its vaults.
NO TROOPS HEMMED IN.
Capt. Fountain Denies the Recent Ben
sational Rumor.
Dickenson, N. D., Dec. 27.— Lieut.
Suydenhnm and Scout Spencer of Capt.
Fountain’s command, of the Eighth cav
alry, have arrived here with dispatches.
They report that there is no foundation for
the story that the command was hemmed in
by 500 hostiies in the Cave hills. Capt.
Fountain had not, up to Christmas morn
ing, been able to discover any trace of the
Indians, but had learned that Sitting Bull’s
followers are ou their way to the Pine
Ridge and Cherry creek reservations. The
stories about ranchmen murdered and
property destroyed by tho hostiies are also
Btated to bo unfounded. As far as the mili -
tary authoriti?s here are aware, not a shot
has teen exchanged between the Indians
anti troops. A general summary of the dis
p isitiou of the troops shows that the entire
reservation is hemmed in by troops ready
for the field, and fears of an outbreak in
the spring are groundless.
IDAHO’S NEW SENATORS.
Their Coming Will Give the Republi
cans a Majority of 14.
Washington, Dec. 27.—The two new
senators from I iaho, Gov. Shoup and Mr.
McConnell, are expected here next week.
This will make the senatorial representation
complete, eighty-eight in all. Of the Sen
ate the republican contingent will number
fifty-one and the democratic thirty-seven, a
renublican majority of 14. When the
Fifty-second congress assembles the republi
can majority will not be so great. The ac
cession of these two Idaho senators will
still further strengthen the force of the free
coiuage men. They are claimed by Senator
Hoar as cloture accessories.
WRECKED BY AN EXPLOSION.
Seven Buildings Ho Damaged They
Will Have to be Demolished.
Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 27. —A small boiler,
used to furnish steam for a four-horse en
gine in the sausage factory of Gus Lowen
stem, at Ninth and John streets, blew up at
11 o'clock this morning. The engineer was
not present when the explosion took place.
There was a terrific upheaval aud
seven buildings occupied as dwelling houses
were wrecked and torn so that they will
have to be taken dowD. Bertha Gray, aged
2 years, was killed, being found under the
debris of one of the houses. Mrs. Lowea
stein has a broken bacit aud cannot live.
Five other persons are badly, but not
fatally, hurt.
FIRS IN AUBURN PRISON.
It Broke Out in the Broom Shop and
Damaged Several Others.
Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Fire broke cut
in the broom shop in Auburn prison at 7
o’clock this morning, and spread into the
adjacent shops. The shoe shop woa entirely
destroyed, the broom shop badly damaged,
tbo store room of the collar shop parriy
burned, and the chair shop slightly dam
aged. Frederick A. Mildrock and Joseph
Evans, firemen, while on ladders, were pre
cipitated into the ruins by the falling of a
wail and were seriously injured. They are
iu the prison hospital.
Bargee Adrift at Sen.
Delaware Breakwater, Dec. 27.—The
steamer Saturn, from Boston for Newport
News, put in here this morning. The cap
lain reports that be lost the bargee Storm
King and Antelope, which ho was towing,
at ft o’clock yesterday morning during the
starni. At tuo time the boritss broke loose
tb Saturn was about thirty-five miles
northeast of Fire island. The Saturn pro
ceeded ou her voyage.
A Passenger Agent Drop* Dead.
Memphis, Teen.. Dac. 27.—Clarence T.
Hall, passenger agsnt of Nachor lias of
steamers, dropped dead to-dsy at noon on
the corner of Union and Front strwts from
apoplexy. The decoaaed was V. years of
age and bad been oc .nected with river lu
te rest* for mors than thirty years.
traatlO'dcat Haderelebon.
Itsai.is, Dee, 27.-There Is a eertou* out
break of nmai.pot at the seaport lows or
lied*slatted. (Several deaths have oo*
•erred.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
BOGUS LYMPH o,\ SALE.
FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN LOADED
DP WITH THE IMITATION.
The Police Trying to Unearth the
Peddlers of the Imitation-Dublin
Doctors Send a Check, but Stop Its
Payment Before It Falls into the
Hands of the Sharpers.
(Copyright, 1890, by the Sen York Associated
Pre fj
Berlin, Dec. 27. —1 t has been discovered
that a spurious imitation of Prof. Koch’s
lymph is being manufactured, and a num
ber of cases have been reported in which
foreign medical men have been deceived
iuto purchasing tho bogus preparation. Tho
agents of Prof. Koch have been unable to dis
cover the manufacturers of the counterfeit.
The police are working on one case .where
fraud was attempted upon Dublin physi
cians. A man, who gave his name as
Bouges, and who pretended to bo attachod
to the Koch clinic, opened communications
with the doctors of the Dublin hospital,
offering to send them a quantity of lymph
on the payment of a certain sum of money.
A CHECK FORWARDED.
The doctors, in reply, forwarded a check
for £ls and told Bouges to send lymph.
Bouges also got £25 from another Irish
do tor, who was visiting Berlin. Later,
however, the senders of tile check, sus
pecting a swindle, telegraphed to
stop tho payment. Bouges had
given the check to the manager of a hotel
where he was stopping in payment of his
bill. The manager informed the police, bat
Bouges had decamped, leaving a quantity
of plausible imitations of the Koch lymph.
The medical profession throughout the
empire gets more and moro indignant over
the manner in which the lymph is dis
tributed and Prof. Koch’s secrecy regard
ing its production.
PROTESTS SENT IN.
The medical associations of Brandenburg
and other provinces have sent protests to
tho government against the secret manu
facture of the Koch remedy, which they
say is giving rise to scaudal. The Breslau
medical society sent to Prof. K icb and also
to Dr. von Dossier, minister of ecclesiastical
affairs, a resolution declaring that it works
great Injury to the profession at large to
allow hospitals and privileged p rsons in
private practice a monopoly of the lymph.
KOCH INDIGNANT.
Prof. Koch, in an interview with an emi
nent English physician who urged the pro
fessor to disclose the whole process, got very
wroth at the proposal and declared that be
had a right to do as he pleased with bis dis
covery. The Tageblatt assails this position
as scandalous, aud says the rapacity of the
Koch clique will certainly be severely criti
cized when Dr. von Gossler moves in the
Landtag a grant for Prof. Koch ad his
assistants of 3,000,(XX) marks, with 15 per
cent, on the annual sales of the lymph. The
treatment in the case of William Began,
who came here in charge of Dr. William
A. Taltavall of New York, has proved to
be a failure. Degan has had four Injec
tions, the last two of which produced no
reaction, and his symptoms aro now the
same as they were when he arrived here.
He wishes to return home, and will probably
sail on Saturday next.
St. Petersburg papers state that Dr.
Pfutal, Dr. Koch’s son-in-law, has been ap
pointed a director of the Russian Institute
of Experimental Medicine.
A LECTURE ON THE LYMPH.
Palis, Dec. 27.—Dr. Peau in a lecture
to-day at St. Louis hospital on the result of
the Koch cure upon diseases of the throat,
stated that three patients bad been given
injections of the lymph for affections of the
larynx. One of the three had been com
pletely cured. Another who ii suffering
frem tuberculosis, combined wit'i pul
monaryX lesions and laryngial fistula-, is
progressing favorably, the gstul® giving
evidence of healing. The third patient,
who had lost his voice, has recovered it.
No treatment other than the lymph had
been used. It was, therefore, clearly a
remedy in effecting cures, al: hough up to
the present time it could not * be
claimed that any really permanent
cures had been effected. It was,
nevertheless, the case that notable ameliora
tion approaching a cure had been achieved.
Dr. Pean’s statement made a profound im
pression upon the large audience of medical
men present.
The veterinary society has made an ap
plication to the municipal authorities cf
Paris for a subvention to assist in maxing
experiments with the Koch remedy ou dis
eased cattle.
POLITIC3 ON THE RHINE.
The Conservatives Inclined to be
Troublesome Under Bismarck.
( Copyright 1800, by the Aeio York Associated
Press.)
Berlin, Dec. 27. —The prospects of the
submission of the conservative majority in
the Landtag on the communal reform bill
have become remote. Prince Bismarck’s
organ, the Hamburger Nachrichten, in a
series of articles evidently ms f ired by the
ex-chancellor, urges the conserv
atives not to yield. lierr Rauchaupt,
a leading conservative, who is
president of the committoo which
lias charge of the bill, declared to Herr
Herrfurtli, the Prussian minister of the
interior, that the government must accept
modifications or take what other course it
pleases in toe matter. The Reichsa zeiger,
an official paper, announces that the gov
ernment has resolved to maintain the pro
ject in its integrity.
clamoring for dissolution.
The liberal press continues to clamor for
immediate dissolution. Other menacing
causes of tba political conflict are Emperor
William’s oducational projects and the Aus
trian treaty of commerce. The Hamburger
Nachrichten leads in an aggressive cam
paign. The paper asserts that the Reichstag
ought to he dissolved aud tho sense of the
country taken on the projects, which havo
never beon submitted to the electorate, and
which yet affect the highest interest! of
the empire. The same paper, commenting
on the negotiating of a treaty of commerce
wlih Austria, says the popularity of the
Austrian alliance will vanish if tbo opinion
grows that Germany is obliged to pay tribute
to Austria in order to prolong the alliance.
Prince Bismarck’s tactics in assuming the
offensive against the government are sup
pose 1 to nave (icon adopted simply for the
purpose of fomenting general parliament
ary disorder and embarrassing the min
istry in the hope that be might prove him
self again an inevitable caief.
von gobbler’b difference*.
Herr von Dossier is known to differ with
the emperor in regard to bis ideas < n educa
tion. It is reported that at tho request <>f
the emperor he ha* c nsented to remain for
the present so at to give the emper r time
In which Pi make a selection of his suu
ressor, who, ills thought, will hn Dr. iilux
pe.er, the emperor** former tutor.
A Germ in .!u-of- Aar Floated
lifHM*. Dec. 27.— The German moa-of- I
ear Kretdrlch Kb I, which snick on a
r* ck off tha l* la oil of Lily lene, in the
;-*u we, hoar the a Am', of Asia Minor,
wee floated CkihtiiiM day. I
02 HMANY'B SOCIALISTS.
The Leaders issues a New Manifesto
to Their Followers.
( Coryriyht , 181X1, by -io York Associated Dross.)
Berlin, Dec. 27. —The socialist leaders
issued a manifesto to-night The document
affirms the delerminatoa of tho socialist
party to rally the peasant! around the flag
of socialistic reform. It says that tiie life
of the agricultural laborers is scarcely
human, and that they are serfs in all but the
name. They are opposed to the tyranny
of capital quite as much us aro the
Rutdan factory hands. The bright dawniug
of anew era shall bring rej icing to tue
peasants as veil as lo the toilers in the
cities, aud they shall learn that they havea
right to the beautiful earth, the fruits
whereof they may stretch forth their hands
and enjoy. They must be taught that the
patriarchal system is the mortal foe of the
agricultural laborer.
slaves of machinery.
Peasant, proprietor and aristocracy are
becoming brandy distillers and wilt make
the pea-ants slaves of machinery, as the
town-w on ers have already been made.
The poetry of country life has departed
and can only be restored through,
relieving the peasau.s from tho
heavy burdens arising from their
oppressed condition and eiviug them
a higher sense of existence. Tho manifesto
concludes by asking tho members of the
party to contribute money to assist in the
rural propaganda. Behind the declarations
in the manifesto, which the government
might disregard, are practical arrangements
for lecture tours, the dissemination of
socialist ieafiots and formation of
rural branches, which are already having
a disquieting effect upon the official mind.
The nature of the manifesto was known to
tho government before its publication, and
tho matter was referred to the emperor,
who instructed that nothing should be done
to suppress it.
GEN. BOOTH’S FARM SCHEME).
Three Articles of criticism in the
London Tiroes.
London, Dec. 26. —The Times to-day
published three head column articles criti
cising Gen. B >oth’s scheme of social regen
eration os sat forth in bis took, "In Darkest
England and the Way Out.” The writer of
the article says: "Gen. B-oth cannot think
he is to bo authorized to collect, by foroe,
moral lunatics, irredeemable slaves of vice,
crime and drink. He can’t expect us
to believe that he can compel
us to work men who admittedly
will not work, or that any colony of such
men, oven under the stimulus of the lush,
which Gen. Booth is too clever to ask for.
could be compelled to he stlf-supporting ”
The article accuses Gen. Booth of child-liko
ignorance of farming and of recklessness in
entering on a contract for the purchase of
land for a farm colony in Essex. It admits
that there is likely to boa certain fier
ce tage of successes in connection
with the farm and colony schemes,
but the question is whether Gen.
Booth is the right man to control the opera
tion. The editorial states that tiie article Is
the first installment cf b-'critical exentizUfr
tiou of the scheme by a. well oualWed
writer, and says: "Wo da not affect to
regard the scheme with anything but pro
found distrust. We urge the putilic not to
conclude in the first hysterical emotion that
Gen. Booth deserves to be entrusted with
an immense sum of money, but to wait and
hear everything that cau be urged against
the scheme.”
BURNING OF THE SHANGHAI.
Over 200 Lives Lost—A Panic Among
the Chinamen.
London, Dco. 27. —Further advices from
China as t > the burning of the steamship
Shanghai near Woohoo, in the province of
Nghan Iloli, about fifty miles from Man
king, show that the disaster was much more
serious than at first imagined. The earliest
advices received stated that the victims con
sisted of about sixty natives, together with
several European officers who are supposed
to have met death, either in the flames or
subsequently by drowning, while attempt
ing to escape from the burning vessel. It
now seems that the number of
liv©3 lost will amount over 200.
A terrible panic nppeurs to have occurred
among tbo Chinese passengers and crew as
scon as the a arm of fire nos heard, and the
panic increased terribly when the flames
spread beyond control. Tr.o terror-stricken
crew and the few European officers on
board the Shanghai seem to have done their
be-t to maintain some kind of order among
the Chinamen, without result. It is thought
that a large majority of those who lost their
lives did so by ju nping overboard, in order
to escape foul the flames. Ot i rs met
death through t he swamping of tboclumsily
lowered auu overcrowded boats.
FRANCE'S HIGH TARIFF.
The Agriculturists Working: to Se
cure a Closer Mamet.
Paris, Dec. 27. —Notwithstanding the
protests made by M. Ribot, minister of
foreign affairs, and M. Roche, minister of
commerce, against the tariff committee’s
augmentation of the tariff duties proposed in
the government bill, the committee contin
ued until its adjournment to raire the tariffs
to a prohibitive pitch. The representatives of
the agricultural interests in tha committee
have supported prohibitive duties on manu
factures, in the expectation that In return
they would obtain a close market for farm
products, The agricultural party isstrouger,
both in the Chamber of Deputies and
iu the Senate, than the industrial ele
ment, aud will wreck the bill unless
their demands are conceded. A major
ity of the committee are dissatisfied
with the proposal of tba government for
free entry of leading raw materials, silk,
wool, bides, oil, seeds, etc., and will offer as
a substitute a prop sal to impose duties
with a drawback upon manufactured a, ti
des exported with or without the govern
ment's assent.
GERMANY'S CENSUS.
Berlin Leads the Cities With a Popu
lation of 1,674,485
Berlin, Dec. 27. —The official census of
Germany which was recently completed
gives Berlin a population of 1,574.485, being
an increase of 269,000 iu five years. The
city containing tne next highest number of
people is Hamburg, with a population of
570,524. This is an inoreave of 90,584
sii.ee 1885. Hamburg, with the
city if Altana, 71,170 inhabitants, has
added 21 per cent. t> its population within
tho last five years. Lhl[ sic, which has
353.272 inhabitants, hod only 159,500 in
IN**6, This is the greatest increase in any
city, beiug 02 per cent. Munich has 844,.
B'ih nbab.tants; Urmia.i, 334,710; Cologne,
288,537; Dresden, 276.086; Magdeourg. 200..
007, and Frankfort ou-the-Maiu, 179,850,
A (.'antral Court of Kateranoa,
Berlin, Da*. 27.- I'rioce Holionaicb-
Carelaib grand master r.f the Mason*, bat
•er.t proptoati tatbe leading Masonic 1 edges
ou the oontp.e-it for the establishment of a
e# Uai o> urt ot reference It is reported
that tbs grand orient of Kota* favor* tha
pi upoeoi*. „ „ . ... „ ~ „ _
SCOTLAND’S BIG STRIKE.
TRAINS NOW MORE REGULAR AND
MORE PUNCTUAL.
The Supply of Coal at Glasgow for
Steam re Nearly Exhaus:ed—Dan
ger That the Shipping Trade Will
Coroe to a Standstill—The Poorer
Claeses the Sufferers.
Glasgow, Dec. 27.—There is a slight
change for the bettor in connection with
the railroad strike. Even the strikers ad
mit than the railroad companies are making
improvements in the train service. The
number of regular and punctual trains are
increasing, and with this improvement the
hope of success for tho strikers gets smaller
and smaller. Tho North British railway
director! have declined to allow the Mother
well engine drivers to return to work, iu
spite of the fact that these men have ten
dered their subuds lon aud would bo of
great ass.stance in b eakiug up tho remains
of t. a strike, as coal, with the drivers’as
sistance, could bo brought in considerable
quantities from Motherwell, which is a coal
district situated about thiiteen miles from
this city. Freight trafflo is still in a state
of almost c miplete paralysis, and the num
ber of factories and mills which are closed
on account of the strike increases day by
day.
steamers witaout coal
The strike has now seriously affected
another branch of busiuess. Following tiie
union announcement that mills, factories
and docks ware closing their gates owing to
u lack of fuel, cumes the statement that the
shipping trade of this port will soon he at A
standstill, as the supply of coal available for
steamer* is aim oat eutircly exhausted.
HARD 6n THE POOR.
Should this state of affairs continue much
longer considerable suffering rnurt fall to
the lot of the poorer classes of the people,
especially upon those who depend
upou actual days’ wages for their
daily bread. (Should the steamship ping
trade come to a standstill here, many other
trades directly or ludireotly depending upon
tills shipping must also suiter. The steam
ship companies, it is understood, have
ordered coal to t e sent here by water, but
several days at least must elapse before it
can reach this port.
CONFERENCES OF THE IRISH.
William O’Brien Complains of False
Statements In the Papers.
Dublin, Doc, 27.—Tiie Freeman’s Jour
nal to-day announces that the conferences
between William O’Brien and Mr. Harring
ton have resulted in an understanding
whereby tho funds of the national league
now in the bauds of that organization aro
to bo devoted to the maintenance of tho
tenants who were evicted for not paying
thoir rents under the plan of campaign, which
was inaugurated on different estates
throughout Ireland by tho national league.
In addition those funds will be uaod to assist
the sufferers who aro depending upon tho
lesgue for support. All disbursements will
be made by Messrs. Kenny uiid Webb, mem
bers of parliament, joint treasurers of the
league.
THE LEADERS IN PARIS.
Paris, Dec. 27.—The announcement
mode in the newspapers Of this city that a
formal conference net ween the Irish leaders
will take place Monday is officially stated
to be promaturo. William O’Brien com
plains of a number of false -tab-merits made
in the nowspa[>ers hore and attributed to
Mr. Gill and himself. Mr. O’Brien espo
daily class s as untrue the ossortlan made
that he would recommend that Mr. Parnell
be maintained as leader of the Irlih party.
Mr. O’Brien has not, yet seen Mr. Parnell,
but it is said he expects to meet him next
week.
O’IIRIEN NON-COMMITTAL.
Since William O’Brien’s arrival be has
been beset by a horde of French and for
eign reporters, but he has not yet breatliod
a word ns to whether he favors reconcilia
tion with Mr. Parnell or will ad
vocate a permanent rupture with
his former leader. Among the im
portant communications which ||Mr.
O’Brien found awaiting him at Boulogne
was a letter from a leading English radical
stating that the split in the Irish party
must eoon be repairod, otherwise the lib
erals would be forced to subordinate home
rule for Ireland to other questions. Paris
pupers generally lean toward Mr. Parnell.
Balfour’s programme.
London, Dec. 27. —It is announced that
Chief Secretary Balfour has changed bis
mind, aud that be will oot carry out tbo
programme previously mapped out by him
self, of delivering a series of speeches In
January through the province of Ulster.
POPE LEO'S ENCYCLICAL.
The Whole Question Affecting Wage
Earners to be Expounded.
Paris, Dec. 27.—Advices from Rome
state that the pope has finished the draft of
bis encyclical upon social questions. His
holiness has been working upon the subject
for over a year, and at his request the
most competent economists and bishops
of the different countries, in
cluding America, have furnished
memoranda. Tne pope considers the ques
tion the greatest of the present time. The
encyclical will be the crowning act of the
pope in this direction. The date of its pub
lication has not been fixed. The pope is in
the habit of carefully correcting and pol
ishing his writings. He will also consult
with coriain cardinals and prelates on lead
ing passages of his encyclical, but the As>o
ciatod Press correspondent is enabled to
give the substance of it now.
ITS TENOR.
The encyclical will review and expound
the whole question affecting wage workers.
The document will comprise three parts.
The first Dart will develop the principles
upon which social economy is founded and
the dominaut idea of distributing justice
which should regulate the Intercourse of
men and the sproad of wealth. The pope
says that distribution and restora
tive justice is reeded to pre
vent misery and suffering on one
side, and exorbitant riches and tyranny ou
the other. The tecond part comprises the
origin aud cause of the present condition of
the social piooiem. On this point his holl
neis takes anew thesis, first developed in
his encyclical on socialism.
tub remedies.
The third part oontaius the views of the
pope regard lug the remedies, beyond re
ligious and moral inlluenoes, to be advo
cated His holme** expresses himself
agei in favor of Intervention by the state
witbi i the limit* previously set forth, lie
(unideuin* cap lalism as now organised, and
>te a more equitable distribution of
riches.
. encyclical will prouahly appear be
l re Lister. Tbe pops urk* upon It pearly
•vary day. He is oouv mewl that the papacy
and tba church should lead tha piasent
social and deu.oorat c movement, ad will
abp al U, mU the conservative forces and fo
th* Irdestaute to aid in securing U>* safely
of society.
The pope’s physician says his hollnoas
may live for some time yet, as he liu a ro
bust constitution aud is suffering front no
indrmity.
FRANC* AND NEWFOUNDLAND.
The Negotiations with England Tem
porarily Suspended.
Paris, Dec. 27. —Negotiations in connec
tion with Newfoundland aro for a time
suspended. Lord Salisbury is considering
what part of the British possessions to offer
as territorial compensation in exchange for
a French shore. M. ktibot never treated the
suggestion of the Ht. Pierre counoil serious
ly. Regarding the cession of Burin penin
sula, if the whole of British Gambia is
offered M. Ribot will consent to enter into
negotiations.
Franco’s Senatorial Election.
Paris, Dec. 27. —The senatorial election*
will bo held on Jan. 4. Heventy-nino sena
tors are to be elected. Of those retiring
sixty-throe are members of the left anil six
teen belong to the right. The republicans
expect to return member* to replace all of
those retiring who belong to their party
and to gain six representative*.
A BOHEMIAN JACK THE RIPPER.
He Horribly Mutilates a Mao He Was
Jua'.ouß Of
Sayvillk, L. L, Deo. 27,—Bohomio is a
tillage of 500 inhabitant** three miles north
of here, occupied entirely by Bohemians,
most of whom are cigan linkers and quiet
people. Hera Frauk Krulir. last night
killed Winnie Croupa (a man, notwithstand
the name,) and mutilated his body
In a fasblou somewhat like Juok th>
Ripper. Later iu tho night he
walked Into a saloon In Bohemia and laid
one of Ids victim’s fingers on the counter
anil said be had killed Croupa. Nobody
believed him, and ho was ordered out of the
saloon. He then went, to the house of a
constable, laid the dead man's linger on the
dining-table and announced his crime.
HARD TO CONVINCE.
The constable was nearly as hard to con
vince as the people In the saloon, but after
listening to Krulix'aoircunistanHal descrip
tion of the murder lie concluded to investi
gate, and under Kruliz’, guidance fouud the
corpse. Kruliz had killed Croupa hr cut
ting bis throat, and hail disem
boweled and otherwise mutilated him.
One oar was found iu Kruliz'*
pocket When the Bohemians were satis
tied that the murder story was true, the
officers had great difficulty In preventing
them from lynching Kruliz. Jealousy aud
revenge were the motivee.
A FREIGHT DEPOT BURNED.
Forty-thrae Cara of Unloaded Freight
In the Building at tha lima.
Cincinnati, 0., Deo. 27.—The freight
depot of the Little Miami Railroad Com
pany was burned at 8:80 o’olook to-night
Tho length of tho building was fifteen car
lengths, about 000 foet. It was about 125
feet wide. At the time of the fire it con
tained about forty-three carloads of un
loaded freight, though only four freight
oars were in the depot Among tho
freight wore ninety barrels of whisky
and thirty bales of ootton. The
fire spread with great rapidity, aud within
half an hour the building wae a total
wreck. Snow delayed tiie fire engines
somewhat, though prompt and otliciont
service was quickly at hand, and the tiro
was brought under control within an hour
and a half after it started. Tho total loss is
estimated at about $150,000. The loss on
the building will he $25,000, with no insur
ance.
AN ARM TORN OFF.
It la Thrown Across a Room While Its
Loser Bloks Unconsoious.
Knoxville, Tens., Dec. 27.—William
Nelson of the Knoxville Handle Company
met with a horrible aocident to-day. Ills
sleeve caught in the machinery and his arm
was torn from the shoulder and thrown ten
feet across the room, while he fell heavily
to the floor, unconscious. The shaft was
making 210 revolutions a minute. Despite
the terrible wound tho doctors think he
may rooover. He U 27 years, old and
married.
DIDN’T KNOW IT WA3 LOADED.
A Student Killed While Playing With
a Pistol at titaunton.
Staunton, Va., Doc. 27.—This evening
at Prof. Cable’s military academy, A. K.
Hathaway, aged 15 years, of Dtnisoii, Tex.,
was accidentally shot and instantly killed
by James Whitworth, aged 17, of Sulphur
Spring, Tex. They were playing with an
old pistol of 44-callbor. not knowing one
barrel wss loaded, when It exploded, the
ball entering under tho boy’s chin and com
ing out at tivi tup of his head. Both were
students at the academy.
INGALLS’SEAT.
Congressman-elect Jerry Simpson a
Dangerous Rival.
Kansas City, Mg., Dec. 27.— A special
to the Times from Topeka says: “Jerry
Simpeon, farmers' alliance congressman
elect from the Seventh Kansas district, la
becoming dangerous as a senatorial candi
date in tlie race for tbe seat made vacant
by the expiration of Senator Ingalls’ term.
The farmers of the Seventh district have
espoused his cause, and now the Third and
Sixth district farmers have caught the con
tagion, and the ‘sockless state man’ is de
veloping a good-sized senatorial boom.”
TWO MEN MURDERED.
Whisky at the Bottom of Two Crimea
in Tennessee.
Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 27.—A special
to tho Journal report* two murders in An
derson county, near the coal mines,
Friday night. John Quincy Adams
stabbed and instantly killed John
McGum. Whisky is tho only cause. A man
named Shlnpaw sh .t and instantly Billed
another named Nichols. Hhinpuw was
drunk and killed bis victim because of
difference of opiuion about a trivial amount
of rent. _____
A POLICE FOROB BOUNCED.
They Were Unable to Cops With tbe
Chrlatmaa beveiers.
Jackson, Mibb., Dec. 27.—Tbe resigna
tion of the entire police force was demanded
to-night at a special meeting of the board of
mayor aud aldermen, owing to the appar
ent iueflleienoy of tba f -roe in dealing with
Chris mas revelers. Tneir resignations
were accordingly handed in and accepted.
A how at * Negro benoe.
M Burma. Tern., {tea 27.—A special to
tbe Appeal- A calanche from Fort Fine,
Ark., says; “Meager details were received
bare to-day of a bloody affray at Kw au Lake
la Afrtes.tid* uneuty. Two negroes are re
ported dead end ten layered. Tbe row
originated *t adobce."
I DAILY. $lO A TREE. I
•{ S CENTRA COPY. f
I WEEKLY. $1.5 A TEAR. >
BIG HAULS 1!Y BURGLARS.
AN ATLANTA MB CHANTS BAPB
BLOWN OPEN.
The Cracksmen Had Previously Matte
Him a Prisoner in His Room by
Tying the Doors -When He Tried to
Get Out They Opened Flra -A Rob
bery at Jonesboro.
Atlanta, 01, Dec. 27.— One of tha
boldest robberies ever committed in any
city was successfully accomplished hero at
3 o’olock this morning, evidently by pro
fessional oracksmen. I). J. Baker, a Hunter
street merchant, wa* fastened In his dwell
ing and kept from breaking out with drawn
revolvers, while a gang of thieves ransacked
his store and carried away S4OO in money
and $1,500 In notes. The robbers went sys
tematically to work - They first broke open
the store, then|tieJ the doors of Mr. Baker's
residence, which Is alongside hla place of
business, with hU own rope, so that they
Could not bo opened. Ono end of each line
was made fast to a knob and the other se
curely wrapped round the banisters.
SENTINELS POSTED.
The thieves then posted sentluels, who ap
parently nv ant to prevent interference at
the cost of life if necessary, aud wont delib
erately to work to gat at the merchants
valuables. Procuring a sledge hammer and
a cold chisel from a neighboring blacksmith
shop, they drilled a largo hole iu the safe,
and, filling it with gunpowder, touched
it off. Tiie explosion woe so violent as to
throw the heavy Iron door of the safe
through the intervening merchandise
to the wall on the opposite
Bide of the store, where it
dug a great hole in the brlok work, and so
iuud a* to startle the merchant from hie
slumbers. He bounded to the door. It
would not open. H* shook it noisily and
the report or suveral pistols replied to his
efforts, while a storm of bullets pattered
against the side of the house. Thus vio
lently warned of his danger, ha desisted and
reuiaiued quiet till the thieves completed
their work aud retired.
A KOBUSBY AT JONESBORO.
At Jonesboro last night another merchant
was robbed. J. M. Kelly left bis store at
nightfall with $4,800, which he o intern
plated depositing in an Atlanta bank to-day.
Ou reaching borne he p'aced the treasure
under tho mattress at the head nf his lied,
and then, believing It safe, took his wife out
to spend the evening. On returning some
hours Is ter he found that his house had bean
burglarized, and of his money not a cent
remained. The thief had watched him
through a window, through which ha
crawled as soon as the bouse was deserted.
DOWN ON THE FORGE HILL.
The Manhattan Club Passes Con
demnatory Resolutions.
New York, Doo. 97.—The Manhattan
Club to-night unanimously penned the fol
lowing resolutions, condemning the tore*
bill:
Resolved, That the pretense of aiding the
colored rsoe is os empty as it Is futile. The
worst enemy of that race oould hardly devise a
plan more fatal to their peace and advunos
mtmt. They I ave prospered in the south
beyond the dreams of their warmoit frirndst
They are growing in wealth, educa
tion and intelllzenoe. They are living in
harmony with the whites, who are no longer
their inastere, but their rellow citizens. Their
career of Increasing prosperity can only be
( hooked, and then it must bo checked if an
unnatural hostile rivalry Tor social and
political supremacy is created between
’hem. Our laws have clotbod them with
new and precious rights and placed them under
til l general safeguard of our constitution. No
true friend will encourage them, under the pro
tection of Tederal bayonets, tu expect and con
tend for a superiority which they are not fitted
to oxeiciae and which no puhlla interest re
quires that they shculd bs clothed with by
force.
Hr solved. That in the opinion of the Manhat
tan Club the tone bill is a reckless and un
patriotic measure, a criminal us-ault upon
large body of our citizens having equal rights
with ourselves, and a desperute effort
on the part of a discredited arid demor
alised party to perpetuate its rule{
that It is a wicked attempt to irritate its oppo
nent into Impiu lent measures, to cream new
and most dangerous Issues, and to turn the offi
cers and trou|is of the United B.ales into eleo
tloneerisk' agents for the Republican party.
WRECK iiD BY SPECULATION.
A Roal Estate Company Ruined by
Ita President.
Chicago, Dec. 27.—According to the
ohargea made in court to-day the P. i£.
Htanioy-Winston Company, a well-known
real estate corporation, baa been wrecked
by the speculations of President P. E. Stan
ley. Bertram M. Winston, treasurer, to-day
applied for the appointment of a
receiver for the concern, and asked
that the affairs of tha corporation be wound
up. Stanley is charged with the misappro
priation of $70,000. The application for
the appointment of a receiver was made to
Master in Oanoery Noyes, who at once
recommended that the prayer of the com
plainant be allowed. Judge Shephard ap
pointed C. M. Walker.
RUINED BY BAD IN VESTMENTS.
Greeley, Col., Dec. Sf7.— The old bonk
ing firm of Hunter & West has failed
through bad outside investment*. Messrs.
Hunter & West have made an assignment
of all their personal property, as well as the
bank’s assets.
ORABHE3 IN BUSINBH4.
One of Vicksburg’s Largest Dry Goode
Firms Falls.
New Orleans, La., Deo. 27.—A speoial
from Vicksburg, Miss., to the Daily State*
says: “Late this evening the dry goods firm
of O’Keefe, Guide & Cos. assigned to D. J.
Khlenker to secure a claim of $42,000.
There are other preferred creditors
to the extent of $20,000. The firm is a com
paratively new one, composed ot enterpris
ing young men, but was the third largest
dry goo U house here. In tlie early part of
this year their store waa parily burned, and
the firm was virtually out of business for
three or four months while their store was
being rebuilt.”
A GENERAL MERCHANT ASSIGNS.
Natch**, Miss., Dec. 27.—Sam Black, a
general mere mat, aligned to-day. Tha
preferred creditors represent $8,609. The
total liabilities are estimated at $30,000.
Britton A Kounts’ bank loaoa $7,000.
UNDER A FOOT Off BNOW.
The Brooklyn Bridge Almost Block
ed ed by the Drirte.
New Yore, Deo. *7.—Altogether 18
loobee of enow, according to the weather
bureau, fell in this city yesterday. At 8
o'clock this morning the temperature was
23*. The velocity of the wind here to-day
I* twenty-six miles an hour. 1c i.ioreaaad
tewiird night, 'iters was a great lot of
slow on the Brooklyn bridge, end the cable
broke this morning aod oaueed greet delay
in travel. Cent were run by engines on
Ilf teen minutes headway.
NEARLY THREE FEET Off BNOW.
Pa**ie<m>*. Me., Dee. 27.—Fifteen
ini tree ot snow fell here iaei^n^bi,
