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< Established 1860. Incobpokated 1888. >
( J. H. ESTILL, President. )
GEORGIANS ON A HUNT.
A NOBLE ARMY OP OFFICE-SEEK
ERS our GUNNING.
Secretary Hoke Smith Decapitating
Offensive Partisans With Neatness
and Dispatch—Mr. dußlgnon and
Judge Falligant Have an Audience
With the President—Lively Fights
for the District Attorneyships.
W aSHINGTON , March 25. When the
Senate reassembles Monday it is possible
that the subject of the reorganizing of the
clerical force may come up. Tne demo
crat- have made their nominations for sec
retary and sergeant-at-arms and these may
be elected ADd qualified, but it is doubtful
if a complete change of subordinates will
occur, because of the republican opposition
and their threat to indefinitely prolong the
extra session.
An extended list of nominations is looked
for Monday. Among them are several
Georgia names. ISo important official was
agreed upon to-day besides E. O. Graves,
of Seattle, Wash., to succeed Mr. Nebeker
as treasurer. He was chief of the bureau of
printiog and engraving during Mr. Cleve
land’s first term. He is expected here
April 5.
Among the President's callers to-day were
Hon. Fleming dußignon and Judge Robert
Falligant, representing Mr. Rucker. Their
audience began at 10 o’olock and lasted
forty minutes. It was a very pleasant one.
On retiring they met Senator Gordon and
Speaker Crisp at the door going to boom
Mr. James. It is a hof fight, so hot that
Mr. Elliß may compromise. The President
declared himself puzzled with the Ge rgia
situation. Judge Falligant returned home
to-night to open court on Monday. Mr.
dußignon will go to New York before re
turning home.
At the white house tn-day while Senator
Gordon and Speaker Crisp were waiting for
Mr. dußignon and Judge Falligant to get
through with the President, Senator Gor
don met Maj. J. F. Culver of Union Bprings,
Ala., applicant for marshal, and upon im
mediate mutual recognition embraced his
old army friend. They bad not met in
twenty years. Maj. Culver was major of
the Sixth Alabama regiment when Gen.
Gordon commanded the regiment.
Under the new prorating of consular pay
Georgia is entitled to about $30,000, Florida
to $5,000, South Carolina to $19,500, and
Alabama to $20,000, Iu Georgia Mr.
Blackburn expects a mission, as does Gen.
P. M. B. Young; Editor Richardson of
Columbus a consulate, Mr. Cohen of the
Atlanta Journal a consulate, Bascom
Myrick and Mr. Boggs, son of tbs chan
cellor, and others, consulates.
Mr. Blount’s salary don’t figore against
tiie state's quota, as that is paid out of the
contingent fund of the state department.
Representative Tate has drawn first
blood for a postoffice, having ousted the re
publican and fixed Ben F. Terry at Canton,
Cherokee oounty. Fourth Assistant Post
master Geueral Maxwell wields a ready ax.
Mark Cooper Pope, appointed a chief of
division in the interior department, quali
fied to-day and assumed his duties.
Secretary Hoke Smith’s attention was
called to the presence of one Greenwault, a
clerk in the pension office. He is the man
who mailed Representative Cooper of In
diana a decoy letter endeavoring to entrap
him into accepting a fee for a pension ease.
Greenwault’s head was out off in exactly
forty minutes. Another chief of division
in the pension offioe who was trying to run
underground into the civil service protec
tion to-day was decapitated instantly. Sec
retary Smith is acting with promptness in
all such cases.
An old Georgian living at Galveston,
Tex., T. T. Laylor, has made application
for colleotorship of bis old state. He has
Gen. Longstreet's indorsement alone.
He is an old soldier and wants to get back
home.
Col. John Troutman of Fort Valley is
going home to-night. He has thrown up
the sponge and thinks Col. Leverett has
won the fight for the innrshalship of the
Southern district. Hon. C. C. Duncan,
who came with him, will remain a day
or so.
Maj. Gary returned home to-day. Great
pressure has been brought to bear for young
Callaway by Senator Gordon for attorney
for the Southern district, and he may win.
Lomis D. Pace of Covington was pro
moted to-day in the interior department
from a clerkship to examiner with a salary
of $2,000. Nothing appears settled except
Col. Leverett as marshal for the Southern
and Col. Dismuke for the Northern district.
All is ohaos, disquiet and uncertainty.
New Free Delivery Offices.
Washington, March 25.—The oivil
service commission is making good progress
in olassifyiDg the 556 free delivery post
oflices recently brought within the civil
service law and rules. Boards of examina
tion have been organized in a large number
of offices and examinations have been held
in many of them, including all iu the states
of Vermont, New Hampshire, N rttj
and South Carolina, Massachusetts, Flor
Ida, Louisiana, North Dakota and South
Dakota.
Fighting in Hayti.
Washington, Maroh 25.— A cablegram
was received at the state department this
afternoon from Minister Durham at Port au
Prinoe. Hayti, stating that the Insurgents
had crossed the Haytian frontier from San
Domingo and that a decisive battle was re
ported. The dispatch added that the Hay
tian troops would be sent to the frontier.
IAH Under the Civil Serv ce Rules.
Washington, March 25. —There are on
file in the treasury department nearly 100
applications for appointment as chiefs of
divisions. So far no appointments in this
class have been made. Many of the appli
cants have been surprised to learn that oven
this class of positions are within the civil
service rules or partially so.
Carlisle Reducing Hie Force.
W ashington, March 25. Secretary
Carlisle to-day reduoed the treasury force by
discharging six Chinese inspectors and five
immigration inspectors. He stated that the
vacanoies will not be filled.
A New Consul to Glasgow.
Washington, March 25. President
Cleveland has decided to fill the important
position of consul at Glasgow. Scotland, by
the appointment of Allan P. Morse of
Michigan.
I %i Jloftting fbttft
INMAN MAKES A SCOOP.
He Buys a Large Holding in Tennes
see Coal and Iron.
New York, March 25.—1n Wall street
lightning never strikes twice in the same
place, but John H. Inman does. About five
years ago he made the biggest deal in Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company stock which
up to that time had ever taken place. On
that occasion he bought 11,000 shares from
William Dunoan of Nashville, and so soon
as the purchase became generally known
Tenneesee coal boomed, enabling Mr. Inman
to realize over SIOO,OOO profit on his trade.
To-day he discounted his deal
with Mr. Duncan by buying for
himself and associates 22,500 shares
of the same stock from Col. H. F. Debard
eleben. For several months past it has been
oommoii talk in Wall street that Col. De
bardeleben owned over 60,000 shares of
Tennessee coal, and it was thought by some
that the recent heavy decline would force
him to dump his holdings on a falling mar
ket and thereby involve him in serious
financial embarrassment. The colonel has
proven his ability to take care of himself
even in Wall street. By his deal with Mr.
Inman to-day he gets about $600,000 in cash
and still remains the largest individual stock
holder in the Tennessee Coal company, and
is as ‘’independent as a wood sawyer” of
money lenders and st ck exchange fluctua
tions. The terms of his trade with Mr. In
man were private, but the price paid for
the stock is said to have been $25 a share.
It dosed on the exchauge to-night S2B bid.
At the annual meeting of the company to
beheld April 4, Mat Baxter, Jr., of Nash
ville will be elected president in place of
Politician Tom Platt, who recently resigned.
The change of administration will no'doubt
greatly increase public confidence in the
management of the property. M. J. V.
A DIVORCE SENSATION.
Ex-Congressman Dunham Files a Bill
Against His Wife.
Chicago, 111., Maroh 25.—Ex-Congress
man Hansom Dunham to-day filed in the
circuit eourt a bill for divorce. The bill is
a sensational one, the charges beiDg of the
gravest character. The matter has been in
volved in secrecy, the oourt officials joining
with the lawyers in keeping the proceed
ings from the public gaze. Although the bill
eiuded the public vision, it was learned that
the co-respondent was a wealthy banker
named Allen, and vice president of one of
the wealthiest institutions of its kind in the
city. Behind the bill is au aotion against a
banker, which has not yet been filed, in
whiob $5U,000 is claimed as dam
ages by Mr. Duobam for alienation
of the affections of his wife. In bis bill Mr.
Dunham deolares that he deeded to his wife
the homestead in which he now lives in
order to secure to her a home, and that he
also assigned to her life insurance polioies
amounting to $27,000, on which he is
still making payments. He declares
that she is about to dispose of these things
and leave him without a home. He also
asserts that on Deo. 31, last, Mrs. Duu
bam, without any cause whatever, left her
home and is cow in South Dakota, where
she has retained counsel and has begun suit
for divorce, alleging that her husband was
unkind and guilty of oruel treatment,
which Mr. Dunham denies.
AN ENVOY STRICKEN DOWN.
A Complication of Apoplexy and
Paralysis.
Washington, Maroh 25. Baron do
Aguiar de Andrada, the Brazilian envoy
extraordinary aud minister plenipotentiary
in Washington on a special mission, was
stricken with apoplexy and paralysis last
night and died at his room in the Arlington
hotel to-night at 9 o’clock. The baron
attended the National theater, sod fell just
as he was descending the steps at the en
trance on bis exit from the building. He
was placed in a carriage, taken to his apart
ment aod a physician and watchers sum
moned. The physician found that apo
plexy bad been followed by a stroke of
paralysis.
Baron Andrada was the oldest diplomat
in the Brazilian service. He was here at the
head of the commission wnich will present
President Cleveland the Brazilian side of
the controversy between his country and
the Argentine republic over the boundary
line in the Missions country.
CLEVELAND TO GO SLOW.
Ne Choice Mada Yet for Public Printer
or Pension Commissioner.
Washington, March 25.— President
Cleveland said to-day that he would not fill
the positions of pension commissioner and
public printer for some time to come. He
is giving careful conauleration to the claims
of all persons whose names have been pre
sented for the two places, and intends to go
slowly and surely. It is certain that a num
ber of candidates for the peusion commission
ership have already beeu rejected because
they do not come within the requirements
of President Cleveland’s expressed intention
to appoint only a man of established busi
ness capacity, against whose politioal repu
tation the charge of ‘ 'bossism" has never
been brought. Candidates for the oommts
siouership are numerous, but the number is
exceeded by the aggregate of those who
want to bo publio printer. Tennessee alone
has seven candidates for the latter office.
Ambassador to London.
Washington, Maroh 25.— Inreferenoe to
the rumor that ex-Secretarv William C.
Whitney will be appointed ambassador to
Great Britain it is stated on unquestionable
authority that neither Mr. Whitney nor
any other man has been selected for the
position. Iu fact ris asserted positively on
the same authority that the matter of ap
pointing a successor to Minister Lincoln has
not been considered.
NEW ORLEANS’ STRIKERS.
An Opinion in the Matter Rendered
by Judge Billinas.
New Orleans, March 25.—Judge Bill
ings in the United States oourt to-day reti.
dered an opinion in the BUit of the govern
ment against the amalgamated counoil and
the officers of the various labor organiza
tions which ordered a general strike In
November last. An Injunction against the
organizations was asked for under the
act of congress prohibiting the combina
tions in restraint of trade. In an elaborate
opinion the oourt sets aside every claim of
the defendants and declares that the acts of
the amalgamated council and officers of the
union were unlawful in ordering a general
strike, and that the merchants are entitled
to injunctions and other relief. The decis
ion discusses fully the rights of labor unions
and is far-reaching in its effects. Asa
result of the decision, criminal prosecution
against the defendants would probably lie
but it is not vet known whether the United
States authorities will proceed against the
alleged labor leaders.
A Brokor Falla.
New York, March 25.—The failure of
James B. Irwin was announced at the con
solidated exchange this morning. He was
short of Reading.
SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
HOME IN A Will) PANIC.
A STONE THROWN AT THE KING
IN HIS CARRIAGE.
The Missile Missed Its Object and Its
Thrower Apprehended—He la a
Murderer Just Back From the
United States—The Scare of the An
archist Bomb Campaign Still Great.
Rome, March 35. —The city is in great
excitement over au assault made this even
ing on Kiug Humbert. The "king was re
turning from the Villa Borghese, where he
had been spending a portion of the day,
when a person having the general ap
pearance of an Italian workingman
threw a stone at the king, the missile
almost striking the king. There was a con
siderable number of people in the streets at
the time, it being about 5 o’olook in the
evening, and several persons rushed upon
the assailant and seized him before he had
a chance to make ar other attempt at vio
lence. The assailant was promptly taken
in hand by the police and oonveyed to
prison. Otherwise he would in all probatiilty
have been killed by the angry multitude.
An immense crowd assembled ana cheered
the king with frantio enthusiasm and all
the way to the palace the scene was like a
triumphant progress. King Humbert
gracefully acknowledged the ovation and
was evidently deeply moved by the evi
dence of loyalty on the part of his subjeots.
The King’s assailant is, it appears, a re
ligious fanatio named Berardi. The au
thorities have made inquiries regarding his
history and have Ascertained that he was
seutenoed to imprisonment for seven years
for a murder committed a number of years
ago. In 1883 he was released from prison
and emigrated to Amerioa, the au
thorities thinking they had got rid
of him forever. JBerardi, however, recently
returned to Rome, but his presence did not
attract attention until to-day. He has
acknowledged sinoe his arrest that his in
tention was to insult King Humbert be
cause the king declined to be reconciled to
the pope. He also claimed that be bad been
engaged in forming missions for the libera
tion of slaves in America and China. The
police are trying to find out whether he
had any accomplices.
At noon to-dav the jury acquitted 241
anarchists on trial for taking part iu the
anarchist not at Villa San Michele in Octo
ber last. The riot was a desperate affair
and several persons were killed. The ac
quittal of the accused has caused surprise
aud some indignation as tending to encour
age similar lawlessness.
THE BOMB SCARF.
London, March 25.—Mail advices from
Rome prove that a very inadequate idea of
the dynamite oampaigo of tbe Italian an
archists has been communicated by tele
graph to the outside world. A strict cen
sorship is exercised over all dispatches bv
the government, and everything likely to
oreate a panicky feeling is suppressed.
The seriousness of the situation is shown
by tbe fact that three regiments from North
ern Italy are on the way to tbe city,and
that furloughs have been suspended among
all tbe troops in the immediate vicinity.
Although not a day has passed without tbe
finding of bombs by the police all the
authorities declare that the attempts of
tbe dynamite rs have practically ceased and
that all except a few of the most venture
some anarchists have left the city. Much
of this deception is practiced merely to
allay tbe growing uneasiness of tbe foreign
sovereigns expected to be present at the
silver wedding of King Humbert and
Queen Margaret next month. For
instance, tremendous efforts are makingjto
suppress the news that a bomb was found
Wednesday evening near tbe house of Herr
von Bulow the German ambassador to the
Vatican. An infernal machine was re
ceived bv the secretary of tbe Austrian le
gation Thursday but he disoreetly referred
it to the inspector of police, who has been
detailed to open such packages sent to the
state departments.
A BOMB AGAINST A HOUSE.
Thursday evening a cement bomb wound
with heavy wire was found against the wall
of Admiral Brin’s house iu the Palezzo
Odesoalchi. The atteutiou of a policeman
was attracted by tbe burning of the fuse.
He extinguished the light and carried the
bomb to tbe police officials, where an ex
amination showed that enough explosives
were placed in it to wreck the whole house.
The rector of the University Della Saphi
enza reoeived yesterday morning a box
marked "books.” The exceptional heavi
ness of tbe box excited his suspicions and he
gave it to tbe poiioe with a request that
they open it. Upon removing the bottom
of the box the police found several small
tubes of explosives which would have been
set off by a spring aud hammer bad they
lifted tbe cover. On a slip of paper within
was written, ‘'Be6t wishes to the papal
bigots from tbe International Association
of Anarohists.”
A similar infernal maohine was received
at the ministry of the interior packed with
a leather strip, on which was printed in red
ink: “Blood, fire and revolution to help
tbe great cause of humanity."
PUBLIC OFFICIALS WARNED.
Many officials have received warnings
that they will be killed before May 1, and
in all departments of the city and national
government the number of guards has been
doubled for their protection. The ap
proaches to the public buildings swarm with
detectives and anybody who fails to give a
satisfactory acoount of himself can
hope to get near tbe public
offices. The police have shown them,
selves utterly incompetent. Although
searching day and night for tbe store of
dynamite upon whioh tho anarchists are
drawing, they have accomplished nothing.
Since the explosions of a year ago they have
paid little attention to the anarch
ists, and, therefore, do not know
which way to turn to arrest
the plotters. In Rome the developments
of the coming week are awaited with the
keenest anxiety.
FLOODS IN RUSSIA.
Whole Villages Inundated and Great
Distress Among the People.
London, Maroh 25.—Russia has set up
this week the ever-reourrlug wall of dis
tress. Kharkov, Kazon and several other
governments are partly under water. Tbe
Volga and tbe Don are flowing through
villages aud over fields. Smaller streams
have swollen to devastating torrents and
are sweeping away the few cattle which
the famine toft tire peasants. The loss
of human life is considerable, notably in
Kharkov, where some twenty-three cases
of drowoing have been reported alreudy.
Tbe subsidence of tbe floods is regarded as
little less appalling than their raising, as
fevers and chulera are expected to breed in
the fields strewn with dead oattle ana
wreckage, and covered with the foul river
mud. The general loss of property has im
poverished hundreds of families who had
survived in comparative prosperity tbe
disasters of the past two years.
Dealers in Pig Iron Fail.
Cincinnati, Maroh 25. - Bacon & Chesl
dine, successors to Bacon, Floto & Cos., deal
ers in pig iron and irou ares, doing business
at 127 Main street, bare assigned. Their
assets are over $49,000.
NASHVILLE'S BIG FAILURE.
A Bank Dragged Down Dobbins
Makes a Statement.
Nashville, Tenn., Maroh 35. —Jdie
Commercial National Bank of this city has
failed. The cause is due to the failure a
few days ago of Dobbins A Dazey. The
capital of the bank is $1,090,000.
J. F. Dobbins has made tbo following
statement oonoorningthe failure of the firm
of Dobbins & liazey: "The firm of Dob
bins A Dazey has been in business sixteen
years and has steadily prospered. March 9
I had every reason to believe, and did be
lieve, that our businesa was worth $500,000.
On that day I received a telegram reporting
that some drafts of our Nashville office
had been protested. The news surprised
me, as I did not think we
owed auy money and had received no in
formation about this from our Nashville
office. I came by the next train to Nash
ville, going direottoMr. Dazey, who seemed
to think that our business was all right. Mr.
Dazey was then, and Is now, sick. On in
vestigation at our office I found that we
were largely in debt, much of it to New
York and In the east. It seems that over
$500,000 had been lost in various ways from
our business, leaviug us unable to meet our
obligations,ali of which are debts of theNasb
ville ortioe. To protect our creditors
we have made an assignment,
surrendering all assets of all kinds tielong
ing to the firm. Also all my individual
property. Nashville is our parent 011100 aud
Mr. Dazey the resident partner. 1 reside
at Now Orleans. During sixteen years of
most intimate association with Mr. Dazey
I never questioned a statement he ever
made. He has tuy fullest confidence. I
have believed him to be a man of the high
est order of integrity. 1 cannot explain
his statements or ais notions and he bos
refused to explain them to me.
Our business, oonduated according to the
purpose of our partnership, has always
beeu profitable. It Seems that heavy losses
were made by outside speculations, whioh
had nothing to ip with our business.
Among them is a heavy loss by the Union
Mill Company. 1 mention this that the
cause of our troubles may attach where it
belongs, and not to any fault of our busi
ness. The managers of our branch offices
are not liable in any wav for our
obligations. I will stay in Nashville for the
present aud look after the interest of the
business. Ido not think the suspension will
have any effect on the cotton market, as we
have little or no interest in it now. Ido
not think it will materially affect our local
banks, as our branch offices owe nothing
and their business is in go <d shape. Our
affairs may wm l up much better than the
present outlook would seem to indicato.”
a failure at coffeevillk.
Memphis, Tknn., March 25.—Hpecials to
the Appeal-Aralanche from CoiTeeville,
Miss., -ays: "Newhargar Bros., the most
extensive cottou factors in the state and
large merchandise dealers, failed last night.
Their linbilltlei are estimated at SIOO,OOO.
The amount of the assets is unknown. Home
creditors are preferred. The shrinkage in
the price of cotton cause! the collapse.”
MR. s'AVla' REMAINS.
The Arrangements for :helr Removal
to Richmond.
New Orleans, March 25.—Mayor J.
Taylor Ellison of Richmond, Va., arrived
in this city yesterday and held a conference
with Gen. Glynn and Btaff of the Louisiana
division of the Confederate Veterans’ Asso
oiation relative to tbe removal of the re
mains of Jefferson Davis to Richmond.
The details as to the date of removal,
composition of the escort, numbsr of stop
ping places and the route will be agreed
npon at another conference this afternoon.
Mayor Ellison says the reinterment will
take place in Hollvwood cemetery, at Rich
mond, May 30. The spot was feleoted by
Mrs. Davis, aDd will be reserved for tho
Davis family. The Louisiana divisiou will
have charge of the oeremonies at New Or
leans and Lee camp at Richmond. During
tho coming summer or fall designs for a
Davis monument will be asked for. The
monument will be raised in Memorial park,
and the projectors expeot to lav the corner
stone, begin work next year, and complete
the structure within tbe next two or three
years.
WORK OF THB WIND.
The Damage Worse Than Waa Ex
pected at Keily.
Kelly, Miss., Maroh 25. A more
thorough investigation regarding tbe dam
age doue by tbe ovclone shows that matters
are worse than expeoted. Reports are
numerous and every oountrymun who
comes in adds horrors to the situation.
Kelly itself is only a small plaoo of about
thirty houses, of whioh twelve or fifteen
were entirely swept away, and there re
mains nothing to show that there was ever
a residence there except a mass of debris,
which is scattered in all directions. As far
as can be learned there was not a house left
standing within the soope of tbe cyclone,
which ranged from a quarter to a half mile
in width. Southwest of Kelly trees were
mowed and torn up by the roots as though
a scythe had been used. Tbe list of casual
ties include thirteen negroee Injured and one
killed. One white child was fatally in
jured. All sorts of singular freaks of the
stor m are reported.
MISSIONARY UDQB FARMS.
Scenes of Hletor c interest In tho
War Bought.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Maroh 25.—0r 7
chard Knots, celebrated beoause from there,
exposing himself to the guns of tbe enemy,
Gen. Grant commanded tbe battle of Mis
sionary Ridge, has been purchased by the
United States Natioial park commissioners,
and will be included In the Chiokait.auga
aud Chattanooga National park. A few
days ago the commissioners purchased the
site of Gen. Bragg's headquarters at the
time of the battle. The commiseloDers are
now negotiating for the point of Lookout
mountain, having been given suoh authority
by a recent act of oongrees.
Suic'-de After Four Attempts.
Petersburg, V a., March 25.- Stephen
Britton, aged 50, a well-known resident of
this city, attempted suicide to-night by
shooting himself through the breaßt with a
pistol. Britton had made four previous
attempts to take his life, thopgh this attempt
proves fatal. Melanobolia is said to have
been the cause.
Killed In a Power House.
Richmond, Va., March 25,—George
Hughes, an employe of the electro power
house on Johns Isiand, near Freebridge,
was killed by ap electric wire while oiling
the machinery this morning.
Dubose to Be Impeached.
Nashville, Tenn., March 25. The
committee Investigating the charges against
Judge Dubose have reported that charges
sufficient for bis impeachment are fully
maintained. There was a minority report,
holding that only part of the oharges were
proved.
DEMAGOGUE AHLWARDT.
HE IS NOW THU HERO OF A JEW
BAIriNG MOB.
He Reiterates at Two Publio Meetings
the Chargee Against Prince Bis
marck and Other Promlneut Per
sonages Which the Reichstag Re
pudiated—The Coming Election.
Berlin, March 25.— Scotched, but not
killed, Ahlwardtism continues to rear its
ugly head aloft- If Ahlwardt had an atom
of regard for the contempt heaped upon bim
iu the lleiohstag, or tor the universal voice
of scorn in the publio press, he would van
ish from politioal life, hut with the front of
a thrasher aod sustained by the Jew-baitlng
mob he remains a dangerous factor iu
public .life. Since bis exposure in the
Reichstag his reoeption on the streets and at
two publio meetings whiob he attended has
been like what might be aooorded a great
servant of the state. W ithin a few hours
after the complete collapse in the Reich
stag of his oharges against Prince
Bismarck and other well-known
personages, Herr Ahlwardt repeated and
enlarged them at a nieetitig held at tSpaudau.
The meeting was very largely attended by
workingmen, many of whom came from
the royal faotories. A large number of
these men were not of the stamp whose
ignorauce oould excuse them, yet they are
blind supporters of the vulgar demagogue.
The meeting was presided over by l ‘apt.
Herter, a retired officer, who crowned Herr
Ahlwardt’s head with a laurel amid the
frantio plaudits of the spectators. Every
utterance of their hero of the hour was
cheered to the eobo by the workingmen.
HE CLAIMS UNFAIR TREATMENT.
Ilerr Ahlwardt said he had been troated
by the Reichstag with gross injustice. The
members, he declared, obviously wanted to
suppress the evidence he possessed to sup
port his charges. He had a baud full of
documents whioh he Had offered to produce
for the examination of the lleiohstag. Con
tinuing, Herr Ahlwardt said that if he had
been givon time do unbiased mind would
doubt the truth of his proofs. He refrained
for the present from disclosing how he pro
cured thsdooumenta, but gave au instance
of how one was pioked out of a waste paper
basket by a servant of a public official. This
paper had been brought to him. it was
a receipt for a large sum of money that had
been given to the judges of a eertafh court
who had but recently decided a suit by
which bribers obtained several millions of
marks.
oth official and unofficial papers ooncur
in the optuion that it was an error in tactics
to link the whole question of anti-Hemifism
with the question of Herr Ahlwardt's
veracity. In the debate in the lleiohstag
the conservatives repudiated him, yet they
have taken another step to want strength
ening the anti-Semitic platform; twenty
six members of the party are l ack of the
bill prohibiting Jewish immigration
and naturalization of foreign 1 Jews.
The bill is designed to catch votes iu the
couutry districts, where the judeuhetze has
spread like an epidemic.
POLITICS LIVELY.
The three weeks’ Faster recess of the
Reichstag and Landtag is generally passed
in absolute quiet. This year the recess
sees transference of political activity to the
political platform. The imminence of disso
lution 6ends most members to face their
constituents.
The central committee of tho socialists
and national liberals have met here and dis
cussed the prospects, the socialists exult
antly aid the national liberals despond
ingly. Dr. von Bernigeson warned the na
tional liberals that the elections could not
be fought by them on a mere platform of
the acceptance or rejection of the army
bill. He deplored tho want of unity in
the party and complained that ad
dresses coming from the national liberal
districts doolaririg in support of the bill
had assisted to defoat the arrangement of
any compromise with the government.
Finally tho meeting decided to leave the
method of conducting the elootorul can
vasses to individual initiative.
The center party, whicn has been repos
ing in tbe confidence that the result of the
general election would be a return of their
party nearly unchanged, have been
awakened by the return of Johnauues Fus
sangor, an independent clerical, from the
second Armsberg-Mesched-Olpo district.
The entire official mechanism of tbe
eenterist party was employed to defeat
Herr Fussatiger, who is editor of tho
Bochumer Volks Zeitung and is a rabid
Prussian hater. One immediate result of
this oenterlst defeat is the defeat of Hchor
emer, ou old eenterist.
Herr Chief will withdraw his oaDdidature
in the Dortmund election.
The element of uncertainty introduced
into the eenterist calculations may yet in
fluence the leaders to reconsider their atti
tude toward the array bill.
On all sides tho Easter recess will be de
voted to probing the constituencies.
A SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT.
The appointmen of Archduke Renfor to
officially repreeent Emperor Francis Joseph
at tbe coming silver wedding of King Hum
bert uf Italy is hailed here as a veritable
triumph of the quirinal over the Vatican.
The archduke is au uncle of King Humbert
a;.d might attend the fetes without bis
presence being considered as a politioal
event. Sent os the representative of the
Emperor of Austria, his visit may be preg
nant with consequences. The Italian gov
ernment will conilder it as definite Aus
trian recognition that Rome is tbe capital
of Italy and will now have a
right to expect Emperor Francis Joseph to
visit tbe quirinal. The reasons for this
blow to the valicun are found in the pope’s
pro-French policy aud Cardinal Kampolla’s
uncompromising attitude on the Hungarian
kulturkampf.
ENGLAND’S ARMY ESTIMATES.
All tbe Clauses Carried Despite Frivo
lous Opposition.
LoNfiou, March 25.—Throughout the
sitting of the House of Commons last night
Mr. Hanbury, assisted by William Brod
erick, conservative member for tho Guil
ford division of Surrey, and George Bart
ley, conservative member for North Isling
ton, objected to every Item of the army es
timates on purely frivolous grounds. All
the clauses were carried under application
of oloaure. In all, there were twelve di
visions, The minorities gradually decreased
until the opposition could rally only forty
votes. Every attempt to adjourn tbe de
bate before the passage of the bill was un
compromisingly resisted by Bir William
Harcourt.
Ferry 'a Vacant Chair.
Paris, March 25.—Tho senators who be
long to the left held a caucus to-day and se
lected E. Challeinellacour, senator from
Bouclies du Rhone, aud a newly-elected
member of the Freuoh Academy, as,the
candidate of the left for tbe presidency in
the place of the late -ulee Ferry. On each
ballot M. Challemellacour had more votes
than M. Coustans, formerly minister of the
interior, or M. Magui, governor of the
I’auk of France.
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
The Bulclde of a Drunken Son Causes |
His Mother’s D.-mtb.
Columbus, Ga., March 25. — Green Ren
froe, s well-known white barber in Phenix j
City, committed suloide to-ulght about 7:30 j
o’clock at the home of his mother on Inger
soll street. He bad been drinking for about
a month and was in a depressed mental
state. He was about Phenix City all day
drinking and bad several conversations with
friends during tho day, but made no allusion
to his Intended aulolde. He was so drunk
about dark that two of his friends carried
him to his mother's horns, and he was met
at the door bv the old mother who put her
anna about his neck and commenoed weeping.
He went into his room and in a short time
thereafter a pistol shot rang out. His
mother ran over to a neighbor's and told
about the pistol shot, and the neighbor went
over to the house and found Renfros dead.
The neighbor went book immediately and
made known the foot.
THU MOTHER KILLED BY TUB SHOOK.
Mrs. llenfroe fainted as soon as she heard
it. Physicians were sent for to attend the
old lady, but she was dead in fifteen min
utes. caused by heart failure consequent
upon grief and excitement.
Upon a closer examination of the dead
body of the suicide, it was found that tho
ball had entered just above the right
temple, passing entirely through the head
and coming out just above the left ear.
Death was evidently instantaneous. Brains
wore scattered all over the pillow, while
there was a large pool of blood just below
his left ear. The sight was ghastly and
sickening. Ily bis side lay the 38-caliber
pistol with which he had done the awful
dead. Hundreds of people orowded around
the house aud into the room.
The grief-stricken sisters and brothers
waited for their dead brother and mother.
Their grief was heart-rending. Nothing like
it has ever been known in the history of
Phenix City. In one room was a son lying
dead, the deed committed by his own hand
In the next the old mother, overcome with
grief at tho death of a beloved son, was
dead from heart failure.
llenfroe was well known in Columbus,
where ho formerly worked.
FITZ KNOCKED HIM SILLY.
Phil Mayo Learns in Two Rounds
That He Can't Whip the Australian.
Chicago, Maroh 35.— Phil Mayo of
Cleveland had an idsa this morning that be
was going to '‘do" Bob Fitz
simmons when they met to-night
iu tho Hecnnd regiment armory, hut to
night he knows better. His knowledge
oaine to him slowly with returning con
sciousness, after Fitz bad knocked turnout
iu the second round of what would have
been a 4-round contest had Mayo beeu able
to keep bis jaw out of reach of the lanky
Australian.
At the call of time Mayo began with en
ergy, landing several good blows. Hit suc
cess drove the crowd wild. Fitz caught
him once on the head and Mayo at once
grew prudent. The round ended amid loud
yells for Mayo.
The second round opened with Mayo as
the aggressor. He landed once and caught
hot left and a hotter right before he oould
got away. Ha led for Fitz’s stomach anl
lauded hard. Fitz orowded him hard,
getting in several easy blows, which Mayo
returned hotly. Fitz feint and with his left
and followed it up like lightning with his
right, catching Mayo with frightful force
ou tho chin. Mayo’s arms dropped and
be fell liko a dead man. His head struok
the boards with a crash that oould almost
have been heard in the street. lie lay al
most without breathing until the ten
seconds were up, when be was carried limp
and lifeless to his corner, it being fully five
minutes before be was aware that tbe fight
was over.
A CONVICT CAMP HORROR.
A Negro’s Leg Frozen and Amputated
in a Bungling Manner.
Macon, Ga., March 25.—Jim Thomas
(colored) was to day given a pass from Ma
oon to his home in Havannab. He Is just
from the convict camp at the Chattahoochee
Brick Company’s yard near Atlaut i. He
tells a horrible tale of suffering. One of
bis legs was frozen from exposure. No
attention was given bim and the oondition
of his limb grew worse, and inflammation
became so bad that amputation was found
necessary. Thomas says the operation was
oiumglly performed, and when he
reached here the hone protruded be
yond the flesh and the leg whs
in a horrible oondition. Hesays that while
in this condition he was compelled to work
and handle red-hot brioks with bis bare
bands until bis arms became seared and
paralyzed so be can no longer use them.
Tho negro la cortaluiy in a horrible condi
tion, and If tbe story he tells is true, a
horrible condition of affairs must reign at
tbe Chattahoochee camp.
PANAMA'S INQUIRY.
A Socialist Member of the Commis
sioner Resigns.
Paris, Maroh 25.—The committee of In
vestigation of the Chamber of Deputies re
garding Panama affairs to-day deoided
ugainst the motion of M. Maujan,
socialist, deputy for the Heine,
iu favor of extending the powers
of the commission. M. Maujan, upon hear
ing the deoislon, forthwith resigned his
place on the committee on the ground that
ihe rejection of his motion orippled the in
quiry.
M. Tallife teatlflod before the committee
that tbe English police bad secured papers
foumi in the possession of Cornelius Herz
at the time he was placed under arrest.
Brandee’ Order to Leave.
Paris, March 25, — A writ of expulsion
has been served on Herr Hrandes, the Paris
correspondent of tbe Herlincr Tageblatt,
wiio was tbe alleged authority of the ar
ticle quoted in tbe Kclair alleging that M.
Erneer, son of President Carnot, received a
share of tbe Panama bribery money.
France's Embassy at Washington.
Paris, March 25. —President Carnot has
signed a decree raising the French legatlou
at Washington to th rank of an embassey,
and a bill making neoessary provisions to
meet the increased expense attending the
chauge ha, been introduced in the Cham
ber of Deputies.
Bismarck's Health Falling.
Berlin. March 25.—Prinoe Bismarck's
health is so poor that he will probably be
obliged to give up his plan to visit Count
Herliert, in Tiume, this spring. He suffers
from indigestion and iusomnla. His appe
tite is growing rapidly less, aud his fits of
melancholy often last for days.
Hon. Alonzo Spencer Dead.
Canajoharie, N. Y., Maroh 25.—Hon.
Alonzo Bpencer, United Btatee consul at
Picton, N. S., died at his home here to
night.
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REDWINE’S FRAIL FAIRY.
THE FALLEN BEAUTY RaTHBB
BOOZY MOST OF THE DAY.
The Case Made Out Against Her at
the Preliminary Trial Baaed Mostly
on Admissions She Made to Friends.
Steve Ryan's Name Added to th
Qalaxv Mixed Up in the Soandal.
Atlanta, Ga., March 25.—A strong case
based upon circumstantial evidence, was
made out against Mrs. Jeannette Ham
mond, charged with being Lewis Redwine’e
accomplice in robbiug the Gate City Na
tional Bank, on her preliminary trial to
day. At tbe conclusion of the state's testi
mony, Mr*. Hammond’s attorneys beld a
consultation audjflnslly, without Introduc
ing any evidence for the defense, requested
that the case be allowed to stand open until
Monday afternoon, when Mrs. Hammond
will make her statement. Something
at this writing known of only by the
attorneys aud detectives is expected
to develop by Monday which may
throw the Hammond theory into the
background, anil on account of tbis Capt.
Jackson, who is prosecuting tbe cose for the
government, consented to allow tbe investi
gation to remain in statu quo until that
time, instead of Insisting upon the formal
oommttmoat of the defendant. .Mrs. Ham
mond ia still in charge of deputy marshals
at the Metropolitan hotel. She is entirely
too fastidious to lie treated as au ordinary
prisoner. In addition to her hotel accom
modations she lias been allowed to hove her
regular t< ddius and morphine lujectiona
since her arrest. Asa result of this leniency
she hoi beeu absolutely "boozy” most of the
time since she became a United States pris
oner.
TOOK A BRACER IN COURT.
Bo desperately does the woman use liquor
and opiates that in the oourt room to-day
she bad to fall back ou her band-saohel for
a ‘ brooer," which she stepped to tbe bank
of tbe room to hastily swallow. Her
nerves are lu a terribly shuttered state, but
under the stimulating effect of her little
"teddy" she appeared to take a lively in
terest In the proceedings to-day, frequently
laughing outright at disclosures made ou
the witness stand. The sensations of tile
trial were the statements of Darnel Roun
tree and Guide Allen. Mr. Roiiuiree has
figured in the case from tbe first. He la
widely known as tbe young attorney |Wbs
filed the bill which placed tbo Central rail
road in tbe hands of a receiver.
Gussin Allen, nr Gusale Jones as she ia
also known, Is the woman who was with
Mrs. Hammond when she was arresuid on
the Georgia Pacific train. She is a remark
ably handsome woman, one who has light
ened tbe pocket books of many a young
man about town, several of whom she man
aged to bring into tbe case, by name, to-day
when cross-examined by Mrs. liamniond’a
attorneys.
ROUNTREE AS A WITNESS.
Mr. Rountree as a witness was required
to give the details of bis meeting with Mrs.
Hammond at Cora Howard’s house, aud her
subsequent communications with bim in re
lation to Redwine, as was given in these
dispatches yesterday. Mr. Rountree, how
ever, avoided telling what passed between
himself and Redwine on the ground of vio
lating professional confidence. It was
pretty clearly established, however, that
Mr. Rountree did not act ns Kedwine’a pro
fessional adviser, though the effect of the
evidence was to relievo him somewhat of
the embarrassing situation into which ha
has been placed by tbe disclosure of hik
visit to Redwine while he was in hiding.
CLAIMED TO HAVE THE MONEY.
Gusale Allen swore positively that .Mr*.
Hammond had voluntarily confessed to her
that she had received $40,000 or $.50,000 of
the bank’s money from Redwine and that
the bail safely hidden It. This statement
was corroborated by Lewis Horne, a negro
boy in Mrs. Hammond’s employ, who had
overheard the conversation. Detective
Looney, who happened to be secreted under
neath tho window of Mrs. Hammond's bed
room, also swore that ho board Mrs. Ham
mond tell Gussie Allen that she bad
Redwlne's money. The two women have
been bosom friends for years. Oa
the stand Gussie Allen said she
bad confided what Mrs. Hammond
told her to Hreve Ryan, the young dry good*
man, so well known on account of his big
failure. From bim it is bollevod tbe detect
ives received the clow to her knowledge. It
also developed that Mrs. Hammond bad
promised to tell her friend where the money
was hid when they reached Hot Bprings,
their destination, when tbs trip was inter
rupted by tbe detectives.
REDWINE’S FINAL STEAL.
From President Hill of the baqk it wo■
learned that Redwine must have taken $40,-
000 or $50,000 iu cash out of tbe vault a day
or two before be skipped.
A Jew pedider told of a debt
which Mrs. Hammond had owed him since
last fall. A week or so ago, however, ska
gave another large order and said she would
settle up. tVben the time came she claimed
to be afraid to pay his bill, as she said she
was suspeoted of having Red wine’s money,
and if she paid this bill it
would excite further suspicion. As
it now stands tbe case teems to he
made out against Mrs. Hammond, but as
every point is built on her own admissions
aud talk, those who know her say she was
drunk when she made them and that there
is no truth in them.
Another report current is that advantage
has been taken of Mrs. Hammond’s rela
tions with Redwine to throw sand in the
eyes of the lawyers as to tbe really guilty
parties.
Dixie's Wholesale Grocers.
Bt. Louis. March 25.—The Southern
Wholesale Grocers’ Association ended its
second annual convention this morning by
electing the following officers:
President—T. O. Morris of Nashville,
Tenn.
First Vioe President—E. G. Leigh, Jr.,
of Richmond, Va.
Second Vic# President—E. G. Soudder of
St. Louis, Mo.
Secretary—E. E. Hooker of Knoxville,
Tenn.
It has not been decided where tbe next
convention will be beld. The matter was
left in the hands of tbe executive commit
tee.
Col. Shepard's Funeral.
New York , March 25. —The funeral serv
vices over tho remains of Col. Elliott F.
Shepard will take place Tuesday at his late
home. No. 2 West Fifty-second street. Rev.
John Hall of the Fifth Avenue Presbyte
rian church, of whioh Col. Shepard was a
prominent member, will conduct tbo serv
ices, and it is probable that he will be as
sisted by several other ministers, as tbe
colonel bad pews in half a dozen other
ohurches.
In the certificate of Col. Elliott F. Shep
ard's death sent to tbe health board to-day
the cause of death was given as lubalation
of ether. Dr. John T. Nagle, the register,
would not acoept the certificate so worded,
and would not great a burial permit, He
sent tbe certificate to the coroner witn
orders that he make an investigation.