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J Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. V
) J. H. ESTILL, President, )
MAY BE WAR’S FIRST GUN
ENGLAND SilZ'23 THE ISLAND OF
MI XYLENE.
A Force of Blue Jackets and Marines
With a Battery of Gattlinar Guns
Landed From an Iron-Clad—Rumorß
That the Island Has Been Hastily
Fortified and Protected bv Tor
pedoes .
Constantinople, Sept. 14.—A detach
ment of blue jackets and marines from a
British ironclad, accompanied by a battery
cf light field pieoes and several gatling
guns, landed yesterday morning at Sign,
ou the island of Mitylene formally occupy
ing that place in the name of the Queen of
England. There is a good harbor at Sigri
and it is supposed that the British naval
officers at Mitylene intends to fortify the
island and make it a coaling station and
rendezvous for the British Mediterranean
fleets. Sigri is on the coast of Mitylene,
about sixty miles from the mouth of the
Dardanelles.
BURROLTtDED WITH TORPEDOES.
It is stated that the French and Russiau
ambassadors here have reoelved telegrams
from their respectives oousuls in Mitylene
announcing the occupation of Sigri, and
stating that guns have been landed and that
the inlet has been surrounded with tor
pedoes,
EXCITEMENT AT LONDON.
London, Sept. 14.—50 soon as the report
of the occupation of Mitylene by the British
foroe was receive 1 here there was consider
able excitement. Up to this hour (5:30 p.
m.) there has been no official utterance on
the subject. Reporters and correspondents
by the score have called at the foreign
office and at the admiralty, but the officials
on duty there decline to confirm the report
that Great Britain had taken action in the
Dardanelles question. Naturally the fact
that the foreign office and admiralty offi
cials only “deciiue to affirm” the re
port gives strongth to tho reports in
circulation and tho genoral public is conse
quently led to believe that there must be
some truth in them. A dispatoh has been
received from Constantinople stating that
the occupanoy of the island of Mitylene is an
accomplished fact and it has found an echo
on all the continental bourses to-day. The
general opinion seems to be that if the British
forces had not landed iu the neighborhood
of the Dardanelles, ueitherthe foreign office
or admiralty would have refused to deny a
rumor calculated to awaken the gravest
apprehension in financial and diplomatic
circles.
The St. James Gazette this evening says
that the startling news concerning tho
island of Mitylene obviously possesses po
litical significance of tne first importance.
THIRTEEN MEN-OF-WAR ON HAND.
Late this evening another and still more
startling dispatch comes by tele
graph from Athens. It is that the
Greek consuls at Mitylene and at
Bmyrna have wired the Greek government
that thirteen British meu-of-war landed
troops and guns at Sigri on Friday and that
they have strongly fortified that plaoe.
Lord Salisbury’s chief private secretary has
returned unexpectedly to London and is
busy at the foreign office.
THE FIRST INTIMATION.
An intimation of the intention of the Brit
ish government to occupy an island giving a
p int of vantage near the Dardanelles was
first heard of m the inner diplomatic circles
of Vienna and Berlin soon after
William White’s audience
with the sullan Friday last.
Nothing about it, however, appeared in
any European newspaper till to-day. The
reports were at first treated as incredible,
ami are still held to be of doubtful authen
ticity, or at least exaggerated. In the ab
sence of foreign office confirmation of tho
reports and until details of the action of
the British warships are known the full sig
nificance of the movement cannot be under
stood.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SULTAN.
It eui be stated on high authority that
Sir \\ illiam White asked the sultan to as
sent to British occupation of some point
wiiiiiu ktriking distance of the straits and
ottering good harborage for a fleet. Tenedos
and ifesika bay, where the fleet rendezvoused
from 1870 to 1878, have been surveyed re
cently and were reported to the admiralty
adversely. The offer made to the sultan
revised the request which the British gov
ernment made in 1877, prior to the acquisi
tion of Cyprus, to purchase an island near
the Dardanelles. This project was long
a subject of negotiations and was aban
doned on the signing of the Anglo-Turkish
convention in June, 1878. The seizing of
bigri, therefore, cannot have occurred
without connivance of the sultan.
AN ENTENTE WITH TURKEY.
An official announceement issued in Con
stantinople yesterday stated that a com
plete entente had been arranged between
Sir William White and the sultan, butthe
terms of the restored harmony were not
mentioned. The intimation that the seizure
of the island would be followed by its fortifi
cation is modified by a Berlin report to
night that Lord Salisbury does not contem-
r a '® Permanent occupation of the island
out has designed the movement rather as a
demonstration to checkmate the Franco-
Kussian game.
ACCENTUATES THE CRISIS.
The movement accentuates the diplo
matic crisis. Admiral Hoskins, in com
mand of the British Mediterranean squad
ron, is about to be replaced by Admiral
irvon, who hoisted bis flag in 1857 on the
r .], e Wi “ sailed from Portsmouth for
Gibraltar on Friday to take over the com
A BELLICOSE ACT.
thl'?e’ D ° N ’ t - 4 A - M.-The News and
me Chronicle both say that the report of
‘ occupation of Sigrl cannot be without
jeandation, and that if true the seizure will
* ess . t,laa a bellicose act, of
v.‘ ch L , rd Salisbury could hardly have
luAm Capa , ?. s ' nco he escaped Beaeonsfleld
wi'i, 6 ? 8 i the government will.
delay, inform the public of the real
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY S INTEREST.
k,^. DA . P * 8 J H . Sept. 14.—The Father
Iq- \. % uoubtlesa insDired through its edi
eommiJf reporter of the foreign
da -l! Hungarian delegation, lo
*irestiH J . at . Austria-Hungary’s in
tha tfle sardanelles5 arda nelles question is greater
S a ‘ Britain’s, adding: “Can Aus-
R Ute °L k |. on , wtth complacency while
ing t r ', , rl | lr !f J er *olf barred from expand
routi in P ,lll (? ar ia, advances by a shorter
ure.,c‘ he^ oalßho haa ia view-theseiz
■pensatf. ? nsta " tino Ple- England can com-
C’^ 11 with Egyph but where is
not tn , com F K> nsation r The powers ought
Berlin?” boßltate to check Russia. Does
Russia’s coup d’maix.
seize*Con!e K 1° tho allf K ed Russian plot to
Father , 7 an t*nople by a ooup d'main, the
by the ( a document prepared
taiCthT, Nlchol “ in 1853. minutely de
infonfrv b t P 01:8 bv whioh a force of Id,ooo
ihirtv-twn* ° 6 ° tn,M * Cossacks and
tho Bosni n? Un * ‘ oul d force a passage of
Admiral 1 vr* 3 Constantinople.
a ‘ to Me^ bikoff flounced tho
Tho pmr I. , an Impossible one.
an aiternativ 1 * * al<1 ’ then P romi * B ' l -
alternative, a surprise, landing
%\)t Jfcfning
at Bourgaz, a seaport in Eastern Roumelia,
seventy-six miles northeast of Adrianopele,
situated on the Gulf of Bourgaz, which has
a depth of from six to twelve fathoms. The
idea was that after landing suddenly and
unexpectedly at Bourgaz, a small Russian
foroe could from there make a rush upon
Constantinople and capturo it before the
powers could intervene.
MENSCniKOFF’S ABILITY.
Admiral Menschikoff was at that time at
the head of the Russian navy, which he bad
raised to a high state of efficiency, and so
he may be supposed to have well weighed
the question before he pronounoed as im
possible the proposal to force the Bosphorus
by a coup d’main.
In March, 185S Admiral Menschikoff was
sent as ambassador to Constan inople,
where he speedily brought about a rupture
between tho porte and czar and eventually
caused the Crimean war. During that war
he commanded both the land and naval
forces of Russia, and displayed the greatest
enorgv and skill in defending Sebastopol.
The Pest her Lloyd , in conclusion, says
that it has also become known, from words
dropped here and there recently at St.
Petersburg, that these coup d’main projects
have been revived in high official circles
thore, and that various plans of capturing
Constantinople have been disoussed, in view
of their great feasibility, owing to the ad
vantage of modern war equipments.
UNEASINESS AT PARIS.
Paris, Sept 14. —A decided feeling of un
easiness has been caused in diplomatic and
financial circles here by the receipt of an
alarming dispatch announcing that Sigri,
on the west coast of the island of Mitylene,
an island belonging to Turkey, near the
coast of Asia Minor, and within easy steam
ing distance of the Dardanelles, has been
ocoupied by a detachment of British
troops or marines, landed there from
a British ironclad. No details
have been received and the
report lacks confirmation. The island of
Mitylene is within twenty-five miles of the
Hellespont, has an area 276 square miles
and a population of 40,000. It has g od
harbors and a fertile soil. The principal
towns are Castro for Mitylene and Alolivo.
The island of Tenedos, on the other hand,
though occupying a much more advanta
geous position, being to all intents and
purposes tho actual entrance of the Helles
pont, is only fire miles in length, and it is
of a rugged, rooky nature.
Upon the opening of the bourse here this
morniug there was a general weakening of
prices due to the reported action of Great
Britain in landing troops at Sigri on the
island of Mitylene.
AN ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION.
Under ordinary circumstances little or no
credence would have been placed in this
alarming rumor, but coupled with the story
broadly circulated on Saturday that Great
Britain, in view of Russia’s
practical coercion of Turkey in re
gard to the passage through the
Dardanelles of vessels belonging to her vol
unteer fleet, intended to occupy the island
of Tenedos at the entrance to the Hellespont
or Dardanelles, mure serious attention is
paid to this dispatch from Constantinople.
The island of Mitylene would form a most
advantageous position from wnioh Great
Britain oould control the waters of the
Hellespont.
ITALY TALKS OF WAR.
Rome, Sept. 14.— The Esercito contains
an article, supposed to have boeu inspired
by tbe minister of war, which predicts an
outbreak of war during the coming winter,
and urges tfie government to take active
steps to prepare the army and navy for the
fray. The article is supposed to "be a pre
lude to a demand for a military credit.
RUMORF.D AT FRANKFORT.
Frankfort, Sept. 14. —The report that
Great Britain has seized aportou the.island
of Mitylene was circulated here this morn
ing, and the effect was to weaken prices on
the bourse.
fcPAIN’S BLOOD.
Twenty Thousand Lives Reported Lest
In the i-rovince of Toledo.
Madrid, Sept 14.—Official information
has been received here from the scene of
the terrible flood in the province of Toledo.
According to the news received 20,000 peo
ple have already perished and an immense
amount of damage lias been done by the
swollen waters. It is at present utterly im
possible to send assistance to tbe survivors,
sis all railroad communication with the
seeue of the flood has been out off.
RELIEF MEASURES.
The cabinet met to-day and deoided
to take measures for the relisf of the desti
tute. Fresh floods are reported in Almeria,
Valencia and Badajos, and 400 houses have
been destroyed in Almeriaand many families
are homeless. Five hundred houses are in
ruins at Cousequeira, and the oocupants
are buried under the debris. Two hundred
bodies have already been recovered. Many
persons are dying of hunger. The queen
has given SIO,OOO to start a relief fund.
1,500 LOST AT CONSUKURA.
Official telegrams report that 1,500 per
sons perished in the destruction of Cou
susgra by the overflow of the Amaraguillo.
Hundreds of others were injured by the
fading buildings and enormous numbers of
cattle perished. At other places many per
sons wera drowned and much property was
damaged.
Mrs. Maybrick’a Imprisonment.
London, Sept. 14.—The committee
formed with the purpose of leaving no
stone unturned in order to bring about the
release of Mrs. Mavbriok from prison has
retained the services of Sir Charles ltussell
and Sir Horace Davey, in order to test the
legality of Mrs. Maybriok’s detention in
prison.
Cholera on Men-of-War.
Bombay, Sept. 14. There have been fif
teen deaths from cholera recently on board
her majesty’s ship Morthtou and her ma
jesty’s ship Redbreast and not on board her
majesty’s ship Blanche, as first raported.
Yellow l ever at Rio.
London, Sept. 14.—The s ' earner Sorata,
at Plymouth from South America, reports
that yellow fever Is raging at Rto Janeiro
and that two Portuguese died of the fever
on the voyage.
A Swiss Village Burned.
Chur, Switzerland, Sept. 14.—The
village of Refel, in the Tyrol, was destroyed
by fire yesterday during the absenoe of the
inhabitants at a religious festivity.
Milan’s Strikes Ended.
Rome, Sept. 14.—The strikes in Milan
have ended and work has been resumed in
the factories. Twenty anarobists have been
arrested for incitiug the strikers.
Chile Buys a War Ship.
Rome, Sept, 14. —The Chilean authorities
have purchased the Aquila, which has been
transformed iuto a cruiser.
Mains Case Arguments.
Hampton, Va.. Sept. 14.—1n the Hains
trial the entire day was taken up in argu
ment. When the court adjourned John
Goode was making the clostug argument
for the defense. He will finish to-morrow,
and then Senator Yoorheos will close lor the
prosecution.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1891.
NEW YORK’S DEMOCRACY.
THE CLANS SWARMING IN SARA
TOGA READY FOR THE FRAY.
Flower Has the Inside Track for the
Gubernatorial Nomination Hill
Seems to be Out of It Entirely—A
Lively Fight on Between the Rival
Organizations.
New York, Bept 14.—The delegates to
the democratic state convention from New
York and Brooklyn loft t'le Grand Central
station for Saratoga this morning in a spec
ial train. Tbe Tammany people were tho
first to leave, and they were followed by
the Voorhis men. the County Democracy
and "Boss” McLaughlin’s Kings county
ooatingeut. The members of the various
delegations went away in different frames
of mind. The Tammany men were
shouting for Flower and were
boasting of what they intended
to do in the way of annihilating the County
Democracy. The Voorhis men were silent
on the question of the nomination and had
little to say on the. question of representa
tion, except to express the hope that they
would obtaiu some recognition and to al
lege that they were more entitled to repre
sentation on the state committee and in the
convention than were the County Demo
cracy.
STAND OF THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY.
The County Democracy were quiet but
firm in their determination to insist on the
retention of one-half of the representation
of New York city. They repeated the state
ment that they will hare their entire repre
sentation in the conveutlon, or else will
have none at all. The Kings county
men who mingled with tho County
Democracy at the station were not loth to
say that they would give the anti-Tammauy
organization a helpiugjhand. As for them
selves they had no question of representa
tion to disturb them, ana the burden of
their conversation related to the guberna
torial nomination. They insisted that thov
would have Mr. Chapin at the head of tbe
ticket, or else that they would
have no Kings county man on it atsall and
would not be responsible for the result of
tho election in Kings county.
THE CROWD AT SARATOGA.
Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 14.—This morn
ing the main streets and hotel corridors
presented a striking contrast to their appear
ance of yesterday. The Tammany braves
are now on the march and the other New
York and Brooklyn delegations are ex
pected to swell the crowd of poli
ticians to about 8,000. Tho rink at
which the convention will be held has a
capacity of about 2,500. There will be
7,503 there, though the convention numbers
only 384. Slates are made and broken with
persistent regularity, but Rpswell P.
Flower’s name is the most prominent for
the head of the ticket.
the lieutenant governorship.
One of the most prominent politicians in
the state said this morning that for lieu
tenant governor there was no doubt that
William F. Sheehan would receive the
nomination, although the same interests
whiob oppose Mr. Flower are against Mr.
Sheehan. Senator Donald McNaughton of
Rochester is also prominently mentioned
for second place on the tioko’, and is said to
be favored by the Hill faction. Senator
McNaughton has stated that ho was a candi
date only in the event of Speaker Sheehan
refusing the nomination.
It looks as though Simon W. Rosendale
of Albany will be nominated for attorney
general, and Martin Schenck of Renssalaer
county for state engineer. Johu Folev of
Saratoga and John Bogart of New York
are also mentioned for these positions
For treasurer, Elliott F. Danforth of
Chenango; for controller, Frank Camphell
of Steuben, for secretary of state,
Frank Rice of Ontario are mentioned.
THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
Oeorgo Raines will be the temporary
chairman.
It has been decided that some New York
man will place Mr. Flower's name before
the convention. The mayor of Water
town will second the nomination.
It is rumorod that the delegates from the
counties along the Hudson are much
dissatisfied that no place on the
ticket has been given to a repre
sentative from that section and that they
will make an effort to substitute Charles
McClellan of Westchester in place of Mr.
Sheehan for lieutenant governor. They
say also that Mr. Flower is to be run as a
New York man, but that the patronage, if
he is successful, will go to Jefferson oounty.
All doubt as to Gov. Hill having a place
on the state ticket is now dissolved. -Mr.
Flower is booked to stay, and, with Mr.'
Sheehan, will be nominated unless violent
complications, now unforeseen, shall arise.
The democratic state committee met to
night. Daniel G.. Gritting of Watertown,
chairman of the executive committee of the
state oommittee, moved, and it was
carried, that the preliminary roll call
of the c nvention delegates be read
as prepared by the secretary of the state
oommittee. The roll call in districts in
which there are contests except in New
York county in all cases contained the
names of the regular delegates as certified
to the secretary by the respective members
of the state committee. •
LEFT OUT THE COUNTIES.
The roll call gave Tammany Hall the full
representation of seventy-two delegates.
The County Democracy committeemen were
amazed at this, and to their interrogation
Clerk Defreest replied that the only list of
delegates from New York oounty which he
received was the Tammany list.. Mr. Foster
moved that the County Denv craoy be allow
ed one half the delegates from New York
oounty on the preliminary roll call. The
arguments in favor of this motion were
lengthy and heated. The motion was lost
—yeas 8. nays 22.
John R. Voorhis moved that his faction,
the New York Democracy, be allowed half
of the New York oountv representation.
Mr. McMahon’s substitute for Mr. Voorhis’
motion, that the roil be adopted as read,
was then carried. Yeas 22, nays 10.
The three County Democracy members
then withdrew in pursuance of the instruc
tions of their organization.
Daniel G. Drifling moved that George
Raines of Rochester be selected as tempo
rary chairman of the convention. Hugh
McLaughlin moved to su stltute the name
of D. Caddy Herwick in place of Mr,Raines.
This was lost by a rote of 5 yeas to 22 nays.
Mr. Drilling's original motion was then
adopted.
PRIZE FIGHTING RULED ODT.
Tennessee’s Legislature Prohibits
Slugging Contests.
Nashville, Tenx., Sept 14.— The lower
bouse of the general assembly passed, on
the third reading, this morning the anti
prize fighting bill. There was a heated dis
cussion, but it went through by a big ma
jority. The Senate hill making it a high
misdemeanor was substituted for the House
bill making it a felony.
Senator Stroud's bill prohibiting the
whipping of convicts, was killed in the
Senate this morning.
The re-apportionment bill was introduced
in the House and passed on its first reading.
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrlspn Sands Out a
Circular.
Washington, Sept. 14. — Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison has sent out the following cir
cular:
Washington, D. 0., Sept. 14, IS9I.
To the Recents of the XaUonaJ society of the
lUiughtert of the Atveri('<*th Revolution:
With a view to tho establishment of a com
plete unity of action and perfect harmony of
feeling throughout the national society
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, tie board of management,
conecious of the integrity of its purposes
and the legality of its actions, requests a meet
ing of every officer of the societ y and of every
lady who has at any time received an appoint
ment through any olfioer of the society,
whether she has received noti * that such ap
pointment has been couflrmed or not. The
meetiug will be held Thursday, Oct. 6,
in the drawing rooms of 140? Massachusetts
avenue, placed at the dispow&i >f the society
on that date as a hall, aod to he in no sense
considered a private residence. It is earnently
requested that every onapter formed, or in pro
cess of formation, shall be on this
occasion. It is requested that the ladies com
ing to this meeting shall bring a i-a ly defined
statement of any just cause of complaint tbev
may entertain, and documentary evi
dence to support the position
they are prepared to take. The
advisory board or the national society will be
present and each chapteri regularly formed is
Invited, if it so desires, to send one member of
its advisory board or council of gentlemen to
aid Its lady representatives in maintaining its
views. The fullest opportunity will be
allowed for the discussion of rvery question
and it is believed that in the course
of this candid and friendly conference a
full understanding of the mutual relations will
be attained, aud confidence established in the
society of tho Daughters of the American llevo
lutiou, which has for Its high aim the
promotion of patriotism in <mr native
land. Plans will be propose! fur tbe ad
vancement of the society. Practical lines
of work will bo considered, and each regent is
invited to pronent her views and thom of her
chapter upon these subjects. It must he under
stood that this meeting is for • oufereneo only,
and does not t ike the i place of the continahtkl
congress, which meets Feb. 22, 1*92.
Caroline Bcott Hakrison,
, President Uemirai.
M. V. K. Cabell,
Vice President (general Presiding.
Mary 1.. Shields.
Recording Seer, rary General.
Ellen Hardin Walworth,
Corresponding Secretary General.
MACQUE ARY TO APPEAL.
He Claims tho Bishop Han No Right to
Interfere With His Sentence.
Canton, 0., Sept. 13.—The Rev. Howard
MacQueary has been rusticating In Virginia
and sojourning at Washington to gather
nerve tissue. About the first thing he re
ceived upon his return was a raeisage from
Judge Macmath, his attorney at Cleveland,
saying Bishop Leonard moditi-d his sentence
to depose him, bat proposed continuing his
suspension Indefinitely after .Sept. 18, when
the six months fixed by the ecclesiastical
court expire. Mr. MacQueary had seen
this in the newspapers, but said he
did not believe the bishop would
assume to change the xontonoe of
the court to such a time as lie would
promise to let up on his opinions. The
verification of the ohango of sentence came
In Judge Maomath’s telegram. The sus
pended rector of St. Paul said he would cer
tainly contest this, but declined to talk for
publication. He left for Cleveland Friday.
It is understood from his friends here that
be will take the case to the civil courts, su
ing for his salary after Sept. 18, claiming
the bishop has no more right to make the
suspension last longer than six months than
a govenor has to increase a sentence of a
prisoner from six mouths to a life sentence.
He says he will never compromise his free
dom of speech by a promise never to talk or
write the views that have brought the dis
pleasure and punishment of his eburoh upon
him.
LIVED MORE THAN A OENTORY.
A Maine Woman Who Attributes Her
Longevity to a Lack of Corsets.
New York, Sept. 14. —Mrs. Sarah Van
Nostrand, who is now entering upon her
104th year, and Is still bale and hearty, at
tributes her longevity and good physical
condition to the faot that she never wore a
corset. The hale old ladv celebrated the
anniversary of her 103d birthday the other
day at her home in East Millstone, Me.
She was ooueedei to be one of the
“youngest'’ in the party, so lively and sooi
able was she. On that occasion she did not
hesitate to make it known that *her disobe
dience of fashionable decrees,and especially
those that ordains the corset, was the cause
of her hale old age.
“If our girls would abandon the corset,"
said she, “they would live longer and be
healthier. I always hated corsots and would
never wear them."
She was married in 1810, and during her
fifty-five years ot married life she gave
birth to eight children. The old lady says
she thinks she will live to see her 125th
year.
DEVOURED BY HOG3.
A Man and Little Girl Katen by Swine
Near Williamsport.
Williamsport, Sept. 13.—Several chil
dren were aotracted to a barnyard. this
afternoon on the public road to Warrens
ville and were horrified to discover a drove
of bogs feasting on the dead bodies of a
man and little girl. The children gave the
alarm and the near-by farmers hastened to
the scene. The bodies were horribly muti
lated and recognition was impossible. They
had evidently been dead for some time.
Coroner Bell was notified this evening
and will begin an investigation to-morrow.
The affair is shrouded in mystery. Full de
tails have not yet reached this city.
An Epidemic of Diphtheria.
Chicago, Sept. 14.—A special from Shel
by vllle, lad., says: "Diphtheria is epl
demicjin this city. The public schools have
been closed and a general quarantine has
been established. Thirty deaths have oc
curred within the past forty-eight hours,
and adults are being attacked as well as
children. The disease is D) in every por
tion of the city, and the physicians ore
alarmed at its malignity.
Hon. George 8. Loring Dead.
Hat.rm, Mass., Sept. 14. —Hon. George
B. Boring, ex-minister to Portugal and
former commissioner of agriculture, died
suddenly this morning of heart trouble He
was 74 years old.
Not Cut In Arkansas.
Bt. Louis, Sopt. 14.— A dispatob from
Newport, Ark., >ays: The big cotton pick
ers’strike which President Humphreys of the
negro alliance said would take place yester
day all over the south did not materialize
in this district, although many of his cir
culars had been scattered here. The negroes
paid no attention to the circulars, but kept
on picking at the price they are getting,
which is generally 75 cent per 100.
WOKE STOPPED IS FI-ORENC* COUNTY.
Charleston, 8. C. Hept. 14.— The presi
dent of the o >lored alliance in Florence
county says that the Humphreys circular b*s
li en received aud distributed to his alliance
and that the members of tbs cottou pick
ers' alliance of that county stoppod work on
buturdajr last.
TRYING TO BULL WHEAT.
ANOTHER ALLIANCE CIRCULAR
BEING SENT OUT.
A Million Copies to be Mailed to the
Farmers Calling on Them to Hold
Back the Crop—A Claim That the
Crop Has Been Greatly Over-esti
mated.
Washington, Sept. 14.—A dispatch from
St. Paul to a Chicago morning paper says
the farmers’ alliance leaders iu Minnesota
aud North and South Dakota have resolved
upon another attempt to stop the tremend
ous flow of wheat to the markets. The al
liance, therefore, yesterday began mailing
from its headquarters 1,000,000 letters to the
farmers, calling a halt all along
the line. The letter states
that tbe new wheat growers’
association and alliance secretaries all over
the couutry are unanimous that wheat is
bound to sell as high as (1 50, and possibly
$2 per bushel, and they are unanimous iu
ibis waruiug to the farmers not to sacrifice
their wheat and give speculators all the
profit there is in it. The letter says that
the crop is being greatly over-estimated by
the newspapers and grain dealers.
WHAT THE ALLIANCKMEN SAY.
It is said at the headquarters of the
farmers' alliance press bureau of informa
tion in this city that the circular letter
above referred to simply conveys informa
tion relative to the condition of the wheat
crop of the world, whioh the officers of the
bureau say is suoh as must result in
an increase of the prioo of the
American product. The object of tho
bureau is to put the information into the
bauds of tho producers iu order to enable
them to take advantage of the existing con
ditions and reap the benefit of any increase
in the price themselves, rather than
let their products go to the middlemen,
who, it is asserted, are now buying wheat,
and will sell it later on at an advance. The
circular referred tj is not an official docu
ment of tbe alliance, but merely a letter of
information, intended not only for the
benefit of members of the allianoe but for
farmers everywhere.
SENT OUT BY A PAPER.
A copy of the oiroular was obtained at
the alliance buroau here. It U a supple
ment to the Slate, the alliance organ of
Minnesota. It bears the caption, “Facts
Worth Money,” and its opening paragraph
says: ‘‘Wo have hit upon a plan of adver
tising tho Statu by showing our ability to
make for the farmers of this country a
few hundred million dollars, trusting that
thore are enough sensible and decent
people among them to swell our circulation
to such proportions that we would reoeivo
the proper reward for our expense and
trouble. This idea was tho origiu of our
now famous wheat circular, of which we
sent out over a million about two months
ago, aod whioh has started a discussion
about the breadstuff supply that bus helped
to tbe extent of many million dollars even
those who through ignorance or neces
sity throw their grain prema
turely into the hands of speculators.
Wo issue this treatise ou tho wheat question
in tbe samo enormous numbers again, and
request m the first place all secretaries of
the alliances to distribute them promptly
and have a special meeting called to dlsouss
them.”
SMOKELESS FOWDER.
Successful Experiments at the New
port Torpedo Station.
Washington, Sept. )4. —At the Newport
torpedo station the naval ordnance bureau
is conducting a series of progressive experi
ments upon various formula! for smoke
less powder. Now It is believed that tho
ideal power for small arms has been
obtained, as a velocity of 2,180
feet per second has been given a rifle
ball with the low pressure of 11.9 tons in
tho powder chamber. The new powder is
safe, cheap and convenient with gun cotton
as its base, gives remarkably regular re
sults, aud as it has been developed by naval
officers the government will not have to
pay royalty for its use.
A BIX INCH RIFLED GUN.
Its Projectile Thrown 2,180 Feet in a
Second.
Washington, Bept. 14.—The ordnance
bureau of the navy bat secured some re
markable results from the recent trial of the
new six-inch rifled guu built at the Washing
t n navy yard. This gun is probably the long
est piece of its bore yet undertaken, boing
forty calibre in length, or twenty feet in
ternal length, and has just thrown
its projeotile 2,180 foet lu one second with
out exceeding fifteen tons pressure to the
square inch in the chamber. This typo hat
resulted so well that it will be used for the
armament of the twin "pirates,” known as
cruisers 12 and 13 now building.
Purchases of Silver.
Washington, Sept. 14.— The amount of
silver offered for sale to tbe treasury de
partment to-day was 1,408,000 ounoes and
the amount purchased was 343,000 ounces
at 98(c£95.10.
TERMINAL’S DEBTS.
The Officers of the Company Working
on the Extension Scheme.
New York, Sept. 14.— The officers of the
Richmond Terminal Company were at
work all day on a plan to extend its float
ing debt, but at the end of the day it was
stated that nothing definite had been ac
complished. Among those present at the
meeting of the executive committee
were George J. Gould, John H. Inman,
Abram 8. Hewitt, John A Rutherford and
Samuel Thomas. It was reported after the
meetiug that notices had been received
that JfI.OOU.UOO could be counted upon at
once if the committee should agree
tipou a plan to extend the floating
debts of the various companies in the sys
tem similar to that adopted by the Union
Pacific company. President Inman says he
thinks that slo,ooo,ooocollateral trust notes
will be issued, guaranteed by the Richmond
Terminal Company, each of the allied com
panies depositing collrteral to secure its
own floating debt. It is officially stated
that the floating! debt of the Richmond
Terminal Company is $530,000; Georgia
Central, $3,800,000; Richmond and Dan
ville, $3,21X1,000, and the Hast Tennessee,
$ 1,400.000
SHOT BY A CONSTABLE.
The Officer Claims that He Acted in
Self-defense.
Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 14.— William
MoK.ee, a young white man of Clear Creek
township, this county. wm this morning
shot and instantly killed by Constable
Phillips. A bell stolen from a church over
a year ago had been found in McKee’s pos
session. Constable Phillips went to Mo-
Kee's bouse armed with a warrant for his
arrest. The constable claims that McKee
resisted, and that he shot him in self-de
fense. The bullet entered McKee's back,
killing him instac ly.
HALF’S NEW ALLIANCE.
An Organization Bure to be Effected
at tbe 8t Louis Convention.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 14.—W. S. McAllis
ter and U. S. HaU, members of ths na
tional executive oommittee of the farmers’
allianoe, had a conference this afternoon
to consider whether or not tho moet
iuge of tho anti sub-treasury bill con
vention, which begins to-morrow, will
be secret or open. It was decided to
hold the convention with open doors and
the public is invited to be pre-ient. A de
cision has been reached to go into anew
national organization. The idea is to create
an industrial alliance and adopt a policy as
to eligibility that will admit a powerful
heretofore excluded from membership.
Ihe order is to bo non-political and non
secret.
delegates arriving.
Delegates from Texas, Mississippi, Arkan
sas and Minnesota have arrived and every
train brings representatives of tbe anti
sub-treasury aud anti-third party wing of
the fanners’ allianoe. Probabilities this
afternoon all poiut to the attendance of
between 400 and 600 delegates. The Texas
delegation, where the alliance originated,
is a unit for tho new organization and
a lot of hard work is being done in that
direction. Iho consensus of opinion sooms
to be that anew national alliance is a cer
tainty. Ex-Treasurer McAllister, who
recently had the scrimmage with Dr. Mn
cuno, is outspoken for tbe new organiza
tion.
DEATHS AMONG THB INDIANB.
Hundreds Dying on the Cheyenne
aud Arrupahoe Reservations.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 14.—A dispatch
from Guthrie, O. TA NARUS., sayß: "A government
inspector just iu from the Cheyenne and
Arrapahoe Indian reservations tells of a
largo number of strango deaths among the
members of these tribes. For nearly a
week they have been holding a grand
dance on the Washita river. They
dance all night and during the
day feast on melons, both
green and ripe. During the past two days
nearly 100 of the Indians have fallen uncon
scious during the ilanca, and fully half of
them have died. Boores of others are yorv
sick. The dauce was startod by tho Indiana
to appease the evil spirit and drive away
tbe malarial fever, which has beon preval
ent among tile tribes all the summer, caus
ing the death of several hundred.”
PEACE AT RAYMOND.
The Anticipated Trouble With the
Miners Fail to Materialize.
Raymond City, W. Va., Bopt. 14.—Tho
trouble that was expected here to-day be
tween the striking ooal miners and Marmot
coal works did not materialize, notwith
standing that the company put in a lot of
negro miners. There witl be another
installment of negroes here to-mor
row, and the miners will begin
work with a full complement of negroes.
The company has sixty armed men from
Cincinnati who are doing guard duty anil
patrolling the road leading to tbe mines.
Trouble is not expected to-night, but
what may transpire during the next two
days is decidedly hard to tell.
GIFT TO ASHEVILLE.
George Vanderbilt and His Mother
Will Build a Y. M. O. A. Hall.
Asheville, N. C., Bent. 13,—The colored
people of Asheville have to thank George
Vanderbilt’s mother for a bona fide gift of
SIO,OOO lu cash to bo expended in tbe ereo
tlon of a $20,000 Young Men’s Christian
building for colored men, and George Vau
dorbilt individually for brick enough to
build it. They have also to thank It. N.
Garrett and his friouds of Asheville for the
$5,000 lot on which tbe building will stand.
The building will be located in Eagle terrace
and work on it has already begun, lu tbe
same locality a $12,000 hotel for tbe colored
people will be built by a joint stock com
pany.
LYNCHERS ON HIS HEELS.
A Negro Assaults a White Woman in
an Alms House.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 14.—A epeoial to
the Register from Union Springs says: "A
negro named Bob Woodson yesterday com
mitted an assault upon Mrs. Jackson
Powell, living at the alms house, three
miles from hero. She was alone in the
house, and the brute accomplished bis pur
pose before her screams brought her
husband to the sesne. The negro knooked
the old man down and escaped. A warrant
has been sworn out for his arrest, but a
large uarty is scouring the woods for him
and if he it caught they will not wait for
a trial. Woodson is a notorious character
and if caught will mako the seventh negro
lynched in this section for this offense.”
A NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATION.
The Day Marked by a Parade and the
Laying of a Corner-stone.
New Orleans, La., Kept. 14.—T0-day
there was the most important celebration of
the 14 h of September anniversary that has
yet taken place. After the usual proces
sion cams the ceremony of laying
the corner-stone of the monu
ment which is to comemorate
the deeds of the white league and
other oitizeus who took part in the light on
Canal street that resulted in the overthrow
of the Kellogg government seventeen years
ago. Tho monument will be erected on
Liberty place, Canal street, near the scene
of the conflict.
SAW-MILL HANDS ST BIKE.
They Demand Shorter Hours and an
Increase In Pay.
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 14.—Two thousand
men, mostly French Canadians, employed
in the saw-mills, struck today for a re
duction of one and a half hours’ work per
day and an increase of 50 cents in
wages jier week. Their demands are con
sidered just, but the lumbermen say they
will not yield. The men hare been receiv
ing from ffi to $3 per week and working
eleven and a half hours a day with three
quarters of an hour for dinner.
ROLLED DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
An Engineer Killed end Five Other
Train Bends Injured.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 14.— An east
bound train on the Georgia Pacific railroad
jumped the track and rolled down a high
embankment near Day’s Gap this morning.
Engineer John F. White worth was instant
ly killed, and Fireman Brewster. Conduotor
Hilton, and Brakemen Beverly, Crawford
and Gamble were slightly bruised.
President Fitzgerald’s Illness.
Lincoln, Nbb. , Sept. i4.—The physicians
of John Fitzgerald, president of the Irish
Land League of America, say he will sur
vive bis attack of congestion of the brain,
but admit reluctantly, that mentally he
will never be himself again.
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WAR OX A RACE TRACK.
DWYER TRIES TO SHUT OUT THE
BOOKMAKERS.
Tha Western Union Company Hires a
Hotel Opposite the Grounds and
Builds a Tower on It to Get the News.
A Carrier Pigeon Service Also Used!
Summaries of tbe Races.
New York, Bept. -14. — Tne weather and
track was all that could be dstired to-day,
aud an enormous orowd visited Gravesend
to witness the beginning of tbe fall meets
ing of tbe Coney Island Jockey Club. A
good portion of the actendanoo to-day was
oomposed of ouriosity seekers, who came to
see bow the war between the track offioiala
aud tho city doo! rooms would
turn out. Iu aocorduuce with his statement!
msdo at the Coney Island Jockey Club
grounds during the late meeting there;
President Dwyer had a large fence built on
top of the track fencos at points where It
was thought that tbe allies of the pool
rooms might be able to get or see anything
of the races.
WESTERN UNION HIRER A HOTEL.
To counteract ttiis the Western Union pes
pin leased on old hotel directly opposite the
muin entrance to tbe track and began td
orsot a tower something after tbe plau of
the one at Coney Island. Mr. Dwyer, see
ing this, ordered that no more obstructions
be built on the fences, but be will retaliate
by refusing to send out the entries In the
future. Ha also refused to permit the names
of the jockeys to be put on the bulletin
boards, but thoy could be bad in
the ring. Tbe Western Union company did
not confine thomsalves to the tower by any
means. They had a number of employed
inside the grounds, and also a number of
telegraph operat rs up in tbe trees whioh
overlooked tho track feuoos. The people
inside the track devised a code of Bignals
whereby their confederates could gat a
guod description of the rases, which they
did.
CARRIER PIGEONS USED.
Another scheme was the carrier-pigeon
idea. Bhortly after tbe third race one of
these pigeons was semi to tty from the grand
stand, and they oontiuued to do so until
after tbe sixth race had been deoided.
Pinkerton men spotted ouu raau who acted
suspiciously, and ejected him from the!
grounds. The racing was good, and pro
ductive of eoniejbrisk; betting. Ow ing to
the fact that the fifth race had twenty-six
entries, it was divided, making seven races
in all. The events were as follows:
First Rica—Sweepstakes for all ages, five
furlongs Dr llashrouck won. with Trinity
second and Chesapeake third. Time 1:014i.
Hioiisd Rack —Sweepstakes for 3-yesr-oTds, a
mile Bellevue won, with India Rubber second
and Terrlflor third. Time 1:44.
Tninn Ra< - Prospect BtAkos for 2 year-olds,
six furlongs. Yorkvllle Belle won easily by
two lengths from lamplighter, who ran under
the whip all tho way an 1 boat HI.FI >riau a nose
for tha place. Ttmol;l6.
Fourth Rack - Oriental handicap, a mile and
aipiarter. English Lady won easily by three
lengths from Raceland, who caino fast in the
last sixteenth and boat Demuth out for third
place. Time 2:08.
Fifth Rack -Selling, sweepstakes forJB-year
olds, half a mile. Trlnglo won, with Natalis
second and Tom Hauling third. Time 0: lilts.
Sixth Race Helling for 2year-olds, jI.iKM
added, four furlongs. Air Plant won, with
Klrsoh second and Billot Doux colt third. Time
0:50.
Brvknth Kacb—Bolling, for 8 year-olds and
upward, SI,OOO added, one and oue-sixteentdi
miles. Vlrgie won, with Coliasecond and Ilal.
lyhoo third. Tirao 1 ;44j.
GOOD SPORT AT LATONXA.
Cincinnati, 0., Bept. 14.—The track al
Latoula to day was at its best for good
time, and the weather was delightful.
Favoritei lost in all the races except the
sixth and seventh, white ia tho fifth raoe a
thirty to one nag took the prize. Following
is a summary:
First Hack—Belling, for :i year-olds and up
ward, ono mile. Joe Walton won, with Cnp
tain Jaok second and John G. third. Time
1:4354.
Second Rack,— Belling, for 2 year-olds, fire
furlongs. Orville won, with Judge Jewell sec
ond and The Queen third. Time 1:03.
Tninn Race.— Selling, for 3-year olds and up
ward, a mite and twenty yards. Royal Garter
won,with Little Scissors second and Ruby Pane
third. Time 1:44%.
Fourth Rack.—Purse for 8-year-olds and
upward, (a mile and a sixteenth Belter Skel
ter showed up crazy In the start and was taken
out. Rorka won, with Faithful second and
Lillian Lindsay third. Time 1.40.
Kiith Pace. Handicap sweepstakes for 2-
year olds, eleven sixteenths of a mile. Reading
won. witli Frank Kinney second and Dore third.
Time 1.01%
Sixth Rack—Same conditions as the second
race; live furlongs. Ollie Glenn won, with
Hiadoogam second and Ragner third. Time
1:0*54.
Hkvxnth Race—Same conditions as the fourth
race; mile and one sixteenth. Happiness won,
with Little Annie second an 1 Quotation third.
Time 1:4954.
TUB TEXAS TRUNK HOAD.
A Sheriff Refuses to Obey an Order to
Turn it Over to a Receiver
Naw Orleans, La., Sept. 14.—The Pica*
yune’s Dallas (Tex.) special says: "In the
application for instructions filed in Judge
Burke’s court by Sheriff Lewis and James
Moronoy, the court ordered these parties
to bold on to the Texas Trunk rail*
road and not to turn it over
to Reoelrer Dillingham as ordered
Saturday by United States Judge McCor
mick; and also to apply to Judge Me Cor
miok to dismiss Receiver Dillingham. The
confliot between the state and federal courts
is liable to lead to trouble, os Sheriff Lewis
will hold tba road at nil odds until his court
orders them to do otherwise.”
A NEW HOTEL IN FLAMES.
The Firemen Expected to Save AU
but the Two Upper Stories.
Meridian , Miss., Sept. 14,-The Southern
hotel, a five-story building in the course of
construction and nearly completed at a cost
of $150,000, is on lira Tho fire broke out
on the fourth floor, and the firemen think
they will be ab.e to save all but the two
upper storiea. in which caso the loss wii, be
about $30,000. Beverat men have been
severely Injured, including Messrs Boyce,
Davison, Magee and Malloy.
I OPR DBOWNBD-
Tbe Men Employed as Laborers By a
i June Dealer.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 14.— Four
men, laborers employed by Richard Con, a
junk dealer, were drowned in the Delaware
river opposite the League island navy yard
to-day, by the upsetting of a small skiff.
They were all unable to swim, and as they
wore long rubber boots not one rose to the
surface. Tho bodies were recovered this
afternoon.
Alllancemen Capture a Convention.
Staunton, Va., Sept, 14.—The alliance
men captured the o. unty convention hero
to-day and nominated H. J. W illiams and
G. W. Koiner for the legislature, to repre
sent Augusta couuty. The contest was
prolonged aud exciting. Tho nominations
were made unanimous by resolution.
