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( THE MORNING NEWS, i
1 ESTABLISHED 1?50 INCORPORATED 1888. r
| J. H. ESTILL. President. (
BRECKINRIDGE BEATEN.
End of the Heated Contest in the Ash
land Congressional District.
The Colonel Is a Crushed and Disap
pointed Man— Hie Own County
Grieves Him Most of All— A Major
ity of at Least 800 Votes Expected,
but Only 205 Found.
Lexington, Ky.. Sept. 15. To-night
Col Breckinridge was in his headquar
ters surrounded by the friends who
have stood by him in all his troubles.
He was a crushed and disappointed
man. Just as the last news was com
ing in be turned from the table
where his son Desha was figuring upon
the returns and said: “It is my own
county of Fayette that gives me
greatest grief," said he. "I thought she
would give me at least 800 majority, and
many of my friends expected as much as
1,500. Instead of that my majority in my
own county is only 205. In Woodford we
also expected a majority of several hun
dred, but that county has gone
against me, as has Franklin
county, that I thought would give me a
•mall majority. They are holding back
the returns from Scott county, for the
purpose, I believe, of doctoring them, if
the news from the other counties does
rot suit the Owens people. In this way,
they will probably defeat me. I had ex
pected Scott to go for Owens by about
1,200 majority, but of course, they can
tix the returns to suit themselves.”
A FUNEREAL ASPECT.
At the colonel’s headquarters things
•eemed almost like a funeral, but the
colonel himself held up well under his
defeat, which he did not fully acknowl
edge, and talking about his future plans,
said:
“I expect to live out my days right here
In Kentucky, and will continue to go in
and out among these people, until I am
laid away in the beautiful Lexington
cemetery, where sleep all that is mortal
of my ancestors. As X said to these people
on the stump, if they do notchoose to send
me hack to congress, I will find some
other sphere to labor for them.”
CHEEKS TOR THE WOMEN.
Col. Breckinridge is in splendid health,
hut he presents a sad sight. To-night
around his headquarters everything was
silent as the grave, and one square fur
ther down the street at Owens’ head
quarters thousands of young men and old
ones too, are making the night hideous
■with their yells, blowing tin horns
and shouting for Owens. Gen.
Gentry proposed three cheers for
the women in the district, ana they were
given with such a will as to almost deafen
people who were standing on the other
side of the street. They then gave three
cheers for the newspaper correspondents,
who kept before the world the sins of
Breckinridge.
At 11:30 o'clock a. m. there
was much excitement at many of the
voting places. Kverybody desired to
cast a ballot- young, old and middle
aged, republican and democrat,
and some repuDlicans have slipped in al
ready. At Precinct I, an officer in the
republican organization put on a Breckin
ridge button and was voted in without
question. It is doubtful here if a full
vote will be cast, for nearly every one.
since the judges were given a tip as to
the occurrence, has been challenged.
Spotters immediately notify the official
challenger when a man is coming
in whom they wish questioned. Friends
of Owens say they intend to make as
much out of the Breckinridge gag rule as
possible, and so they will retard the
vote if they believe there is any trickery
goiug on in the Breckinridge camps.
In the country this morning Prof A. A’.
Gordon, who conducts a private school,
applied to be voted, but beiue a strict par
tisan for Owens was asked if he would
support the nominee. The anti-
Brerltinridge officers opposed challenging
Prof. Gordon. but, after some wrangle. he
was asked the question, and indignantly
left the booth, saving he had voted the
democratic ticket for .years without ques
tion. He is a brother to Thomas K. Gor
don of Louisville, and an ex-confederate
soldier. The American Protective Asso
ciation vote is being cast for Settle al
most entire, and in I J recmct L there are
no questions being asked. Settle men are
busy. Desha Breckinridge in a buggy is
busy going from one precinct to another.
He says he is sure his father will be the
nominee.
ALL DISTRICT CITIES HEARD FROM.
All the cities in the district are heard
from. Breckinridge carries Lexington by
about 200.
Frankfort, complete, gives Owens 658,
Breckinridge 27b. Settle 60.
Georgetown, Owens’ home, gives Owens
4->2, Breckinridge 28; Owenton, Settle’s
home, goes for Breckiuridge; Paris goes
1 for Owens.
V. oodford county, with two acknowl
edged Owens precincts to be heard from,
give, Owens 25b over Breckinridge.
Scott ('ounty—Georgetown: Owens 415;
Breckinridge 28; Settle 7.
, Henry County Eminence: Breckin
ridge rtl ; Owens 87; Settle 45.
Bourbon County—Hutchison: Breekin-
Gdgu 43; Owens 88; Settle I.
CERTAIN DAKEAT.
All precincts in Fayette county except
five heard from givo Breckinridge a plu
raiit.y of only 216, and is considered as a
certain defeat. Owens’ men very jubi
lant.
At 6 o’clock p. m. it is estimated that
complete returns from Scott county,
' 'wens’ home, will give Owens 1,600 mu
jerity. Owens claims the nomination by
1.000 plurality.
COLONEL’S DEFEAT CONCEDED.
The Breckinridge people practically
concede that they are defeated by Owens,
tights were numerous throughout the
district, but only one man is reported
badly hurt.
INCIDENTS OF THE DAT.
Owens won his victory to-da.v b.v superb
organization. At every precinct his
voters were on hand early and forced the
voting This news spread over the dls
nct and had a wonderfully discouraging
Toct on the Breckinridge people.
FRIENDS FALL OCT.
Some of to-day’s happenings have been
“musing, others dramatic, and in one or
two instances there has been a deeply
touching picture in the panorama
or events. At a down town
precinct this morning Cupt. H. J.
coacy, president of the Owens
club, and his son-in law. JamesC. Rogers,
cierk of the circuit court, were ranged
W)t JRjrfmug pj
upon opposite sides in the duty of chal
lenging votes. Both these men are promi
nent horsemen, known all over the
I nited States. They have been intimate
friends for years, but the bitterness of
this day's contest has perhaps broken the
peace of their families forever. Several
times to-day these two men nearly came
to blows, and it was only the presence of
cooler head* that prevented an unfor
tunate affray. Dapt. Treacy had
determined to challenge every Breck
inridge vote. He had blanks
already prepared, and upon these he had
wfitton the names of the entire list of
the congressman's supporters iu the pre
cinct. As each man offered to vote the
captain handed in to the election officers
the printed challenge, and then a furious
wrangle followed. His son-in-law, Hog
ers, undertook to retaliate by challenging
all Owens’ followers, and the voting was
delayed in many instances for half an
hour, while the enraged men fought it
out.
DESHA ON THE WAR PATH.
At 1:80 o’clock this afternoon the first
personal encounter of the day occurred.
It was at D, Second ward, and
the participants were Desha Breckin
ridge, the colonel's son, and J. Walter
Peak, secretary of (he Owens club. The
trouble occurred over the challenge of a
vote. Peak had entered the [lolling place
by permission of the officers, and was pro
ceeding to make an affidavit when young
Breckinridge appeared and declared in a
boistrous manner that no man had
a right to enter the precinct
room. Peak paid no attention until
Breckinridge demanded that he come obt.
Then a war of words followed, and finally
Breckinridge rushed through the door
and attacked Peak. Eai h received a few
blows, and Breckinridge, during the
melee, attempted to draw his pistol.
Officers and bystanders interfered
and a shooting was prevented.
Both men were taken in charge
b.v their friends, but to-night they are
looking for each other.
In Precinct B, First ward. Mike Mona
han and John Hafey attempted to bull
doze the Owens men, when J. D. Mc-
Namara and his brother. Ed, began fight
ing them- Monahan's head was badly
beaten and William Calvert, another
Breckinridge man, was badly injured
with a rock.
Two brothers had a desperate fight at
one ot the polling places this afternoon.
Ernest Cassiday is an active Owens man,
while rAisiie Cassiday is a strong sup
borter of Settle They became involved
in a quarrel and Leslie Cassiday was very
badly hurt. He was cut with a knife in
the hands of his brother and taken to the
family home.
On the main street in front of the Phoe
nix hotel this mormon, an express mes
senger who has always been a strong
Breckinridge man, was on his way to the
polls, when ho was mot by his aged
mother, who, with tears in her eyes,
begged him not to vote for the “Brazen
liberrine,” as she called the congressman.
The boy promised and one more vote was
made for Owens.
THE COLONEL TUTS ONE IN.
Col. Breckinridge was himself one of
the first to vote. He lives in the Third
ward, and as he approached the polls the
crowd fell back and some of his friends
cheered him. The colonel bowed his most
graceful acknowledgments and then put
in a ballot for himself.
No general effort was made in Lexing
ton to enforce the rule requiring voters to
take an oath to support the nom
inee. in some parts of the dis
trict this was insisted upon, and
numerous quarrels resulted. At Paris,
where Gen. Ezekiel Clay had deelarod
that if an.y man challenged his vote there
would be bloodshed, some of the officers
of election enforced and others ignored
the injunction issued by Judge Cantrill.
The streets to-day were strewn with
proclamations, announcements and vari
ous public statements from each of the
candidates or their managers. Samuel
Shouse, of Versailles, sent up thousands
of flaming dodgers in which he de
nounced the Owens men as “infamous
liars” for spreading a report that he had
advised Settle's supporters to vote for
the candidate from Scott.
BfcOAN WITH PRATER.
The prayer meetine advestised to take
place at Morrison Chapel this morning at
II o'clock was attended by sixty of the
best ladies in Lexington. About fifteen
men were present. Elder J. W. McGar
vey presided over the meeting and made
the first prayer. It was very temperate
in tone and did not come up to the
expectation of the audience. He
prayed God to guide the people
in what they wore about to do to-da.v,
and beseeched him not to lay his hand
too heavily upon them. He prayed for
peace and for the coining of the day
when no man should receive the votes of
these people unless he is worthy of their
support. The congregation then sang •O,
Lord, Our Help in Ages Past.” Dr. W.
F. I). Bartlett, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, where Col. Breckin
ridge usually attends when in Lex
ington. and who has generally been
counted as his friend, then offered a
prayer asking God to guide the people and
bless the affairs of this district. He be
sought the divine ruler that when the
final result of the day’s contest was over
that there should be sent to represent
this district in the halls of the national
legislature, a man whom God
could approve, and a man after
God’s own heart. He prayed that all
feeling of bitterness be dissolved and that
contentment once more should be settled
down on the people and their homes.
Then followed the song "My Country 'Tis
of Thee,” after which Elder J. B. Jones
offered a prayer in which he asked God to
bestow upon this people that which they
needed. The audience then sang “How
Sweet is the Communion of Saints” to the
tune of “Sweet Home,” when the bene
diction was prononneed.
THE RESULT UP TO 11 O’CLOCK.
lA'xington, Ky.. Sept. 15, 11 p. m.—The
campaign between morality and licen
tiousness is fought out and the indica
tions are that Owens has won. The re
turns at U o'clock show the following
pluralities of the chief candidates over
each other in the counties so far as heard
from:
Woodford Five precincts, four mis
sing: Breckinridge 688; Owens 911: Set
tle 146.
Henry- Eight precincts complete:
Breckinridge 847; Owens 898; Settle 705.
Owens— Fourteen precincts, one mis
sing: Breckinridge 1,085; Owens 222;
Settle 1.290.
Fayott. complete—Breckinridge, 1,975;
Owens, 1,815; Settle, 482.
Franklin, complete- Breckinridge, 998;
Owens, 1,517; Settle, 296.
Oldham, complete—Breckinridge, 243;
Owens, 207; Settle, 265.
Scott, complete Breckinridge, 635;
Owens. 1,819; Settle. 146.
Bourborn, complete Breckinridge.
1,251; Owens, 1.098; Settle, 50.
Total Breckinridge, 7,722 ; Owens,
8,192; Settle, 3,380.
At thuse figures Owens is nominated;
plurality, 470.
WILD HUMORS AFLOAT.
There arc the wildest rumors afloat
concerning the vote of the missing pre-
SAVANNAH, GA„ SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 16,1894.
cincts, and all manner of charges of fraud
are made. Communication was cut off
temporarily with Owens and Henry coun
ties. and immediately the cry went forth
that the Owens men were cooking the re
turns. However this may be, there is
now little doubt that Owens is nominated
by a safe majority.
VICTORY FOR OWENS ANNOUNCED.
At 1 a. m. Mr. Owens announces his
victory, giving the vote by counties and
claiming a plurality of 565. This will not
bo materially changed when the final
count is made.
Gol. Breckinridge to-night declared he
would support the nominee as a loyal
democrat “Neither I nor my friends
will oppose W. C. Owens before the peo
ple. 1 have alwa.ys been a democrat, and
1 shall not allow this defeat to affect in
any way my duty to the party and the
principles 1 love.”
TUB FATEFUL FIGHT.
Frankfort, Ivy., Sept. 16. —The election
is passing off quietly, no difficulties of
consequence have occurred. But four
men are known to have been challenged
up to this time. The poll of the town at
Hi o'clock shows 597 votes have been cast:
323 of these were for Owens. The full
vote is being polled. Owens men here are
confident and hard at work. Breckin
ridge men seem demoralized.
The vote in Frankfort at noon, as best
determined, is Breckinridge 133, Owens
437, Settle 33. Senator Lindsay, who ar
rived this morning, said: “I will vote
for Owens as soon as 1 can get to llio
polls.” Two more precincts of the couuty
are heard from, Bloomington and Peak’s
Mill, it being the vote at 10 this morning,
Breckinridge 41, Owens 53, Settle 15.
THE BLUFF FAILS TO WORK.
John E. Miles, a well known merchant
miller of this city, senior member of the
firm of Miles & Son. was challenged at
the court house this morning and asked
that he subject himself to a pledge to
support the nominee. Mr. Miles said the
election officers had no right to question
his vote. If he were not permitted to ex
ercise his constitutional privilege he
would have the election officers enjoined,
besides holding them personally respon
sible. lie turned to leave the poils but
was called back at this juncture and per
mitted to vote without question being
asked.
CLATS NOT CHALLENGED.
Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 15.—The Times
Star, Paris, (Ky.) special dated noon,
says: ' The Clays were not challenged,
as had been expected, and Owens is get
ting a majority in Bourbon county, which
was concede! to be Breckinridge's strong
hold. Four votes wero challenged out at
Frankfort, where Owens is riqiorted as
sweeping things. Specials from ottier
points indicate that Owens is running
ahead more than expected.
A BATTLE OF WOMEN.
Sanguine Ladies Appeal to Heaven
to Defeat Col. Breckinridge.
Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 15.—Special from
Lexington, Ky., says: “The women, who
have made a most noble fight during the
campaign against the defamer of their
sex, gave a last appeal iu the local press
here this morning, and to-day at 10
o'clock they met with the ministers in
Morrison Chapel to offer up a prayer for
Breckinridge's defeat Following are
some of the many small cards issued by
them this morning: ’To the men of Ash
land district. We the wives, mothers
and sisters of many of the voters of
the Ashland district appeal, to the voters
to help us in this fight against Col. Breck
inridge. It is the fight of virtue against
vice, and we appeal to the brave men of
this glorious old district to help us win
and we will pledge ourselves to go on from
this to other equally useful victories, and
in a short time we will free our lovely
city from the curses which now endanger
our beloved ones and rid the community
of the saloon, the corner grocery, the
house of the scarlet woman, the gambling
hells and the race tracks, and will redeem
the fair name of our district. Signed.
Many Women.
AMATEUR ATHLETICS-
A Series of Games at Traver’s Island.
Records Broken.
Travers Island, N. Y., Sept. 15. —A
more thoroughly interesting and enjoy
able set of games than the seventh an
nual championship games of the amateur
athletic union proved to-day, it would be
a difficult matter to find. They
were of more importance than
any set of that have been
played in this country during the
season, as they decided the champion
ships of the year. Furthermore, the
competitors were made up of the very
cream of the country in the athletic line,
and they clearly demonstrated this fact
on several occasions by not only lowering
the American records, but the English
records as well. A couple of thousand
people were assembled at Travers Island
to day to see the games, but that was
merely a handful compared with the im
mense throng which assembled at the
same place a few months ago to see the
annual spring games of the New York
Athletic Club. It may be years before so
many records will be broken again
at ac hampionship meeting. The
record smashing began with the
very first event of the day,
when the worlds swimming record, 100
yards, was broken by A. T. Kennedy of
Philadelphia. Kennedy held the Ameri
can record, but he not only heat his own
record by 2 4-5 seconds, but the
English record as well by
2 2-5 seconds. The world's record
was again lowered in the 120 yards
hurdle race (over 10 flights, 3 feet 6 inches
high), the best previous American recora
being IST, seconds and the English record
16 seconds Stephen Chase of the New
York Athletic Clubaccomplished the feat
in 15 8-5 seconds.
Thomas 1. Lee of the N. Y. A. C.
turned up in good shape in the 100 yards
run. and he ran his heat, also the final in
10 1-5 secouds, winning each in three and
four yards respectively. The Liebgold
Brothers had things prettv much their
own way in the mile and three mile
walks, Sam winning both.
The majority of the events were run off
In good time, and those present witnessed
a good day's sport.
A Sale of (Securities.
New York. Sept. 15. The securities of 1
the companies formerly embraced in the*
Richmond Terminal system, advertised to
be sold at public auction Sept. 25, weto
part Of the collateral behind the floating
debt, and the sale is a technical proceed
ing in order that the reorganization com
mittee may perfect the title to the sceur
ttles.
Oapt. Brldgsznan Dead.
Tacoma. Wash., Sept. 15.—Capt. Will
iam Bridgeman, United States navy, for
mer commander of the cruiser Baltimore,
died here this morning at H o'clock or
Asiatic fever.
BROUGHT ntllil BRITAIN.
Onr Weekly CaWe Letter—A Stale ol
Political StagnatioD.
The Government Programme—The
Duke Of Devonshire Said to Have
Advised Salisbury to Accede to a
Reform of the House of Lords The
Irish Still Squabbling-Abuses in
India.
Loudon, Sept. 15.—Underneath a seem
ing stagnation of politics two highly ira
partant movements are progressing. The
movement of first importance is the ini
tiative step of the Chamberlain unionists
who are about to merge with the con
servatives, partly with a view of consoli
dating the anti-home rule forces in the
t coming general elections. The mere re
form of the mechanism of elections is not
by any moans the tiiggest changes in
tended to he brought about through this
movement. The Duke of Devonshire, the
arch-unionist and his scarcely less astute
coadjutor, Mr. Chamberlain, propose a
common programme marking the entire
absorption of the uiouists ly the conserv
atives. the chief features of the move
ment being the revision of Mr. Chamber
lain's Irish local government scheme to
the extent of croa’ing county councils
with the central legislature lo
cated in Dublin. The Iluko of
Devonshire is also credited with
having urged Izord Salisbury to
accede to a reft cm of the House of Lords
by decreasing the hereditary element and
increasing the representative element.
Obviously it is the desiro of the liberal
element of the unionists to go to the coun
try in the next elections with a platform
containing the most attractive planks of
the election manifesto of their opponents.
The other movements, which originated
with the wire-pullers of the national liber
al federation aims to recast the Newcastle
programme, putting in the foreground tho
proposals for the abolition of the veto
power of the House of lairds and the Eng
lish labor questions, and keeping in tho
hack ground the questions of home rule
and church disestablishment. The execu
tive committee of the national federation
are convinced that home rule is no longer
a potent party cry. and believe it neces
sary that the electorate should be agi
tated upon other grounds.
THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME.
Lord Roseberry will announce yio pro
gramme or tho government in a speech in
Glasgow in November and in view of this
the conference of the liberal associations,
which was to oe convened in Edinburgh
in October, has been postponed. A sec
tion of tho Irish party, which lias admit
ted the necessity of first controlling the
House of Lords by extracting their fangs
before the question of home rule is again
submitted, have been convinced of their
error and practically side-tracked
THE IRISH CIRCULAR SQUABBLE.
The latest development in tho contro
versy over the Irish circular to which Mr.
Gladstone, Lord Tweedmouth and other
eminent liberals responded in Mr. Francis
Xavier (ÜBrien's communication on the
sub ect to the newspapers. Mr. O’Brien
at first declared that he know nothing
whatever about the Irish circular. Next
he asserted that he did not sign tho
circular, though he might have known of
its existence. Finally he sa.vs: "I find
to my suprise that not only did I sign the
circular, but I made some alterations in
the wording of it.”
Mr. Healy has taken full advantage of
this admission. He has his opponents on
the hip and means to throw them. A
Healyite deputation is about; to start for
America to cultivate supiiort pf Mr.
Heal.y’s opinions and obtain funds to back
them. Mr. E. F. V. Knox, member of
parliament for Cavan, contributes to the
controversy a statement that the election
expenses of the •nuti-Parnellites in 1892
were largely paid by the National Liberal
Club of Great Britain.
The social purity clique, probably be
cause Lady Somerset, Rev. Price Hughes
and other shiniug lights are taking a hol
iday, remain silent under the attacks of
the medical journals and other publica
tions wheh are furnishing now revela
tions of the effects of the order of Lord
Ripon. secretary of state for the colonies,
abolishing the registration of woman iu
India.
The Lancet in an article on the subject,
gives an instance of a young Catoenz girl
who tried to commit suicide because one
of her brothers, a speculator in slaves,
tnreatenod to sell her to another brother,
also a speculator in the human commod
ity.
DEATH THEIR ONLY RELEASE.
in speaking of this case the Lancet says
that since the system of state protection
has been abandoned, the only possible re
lease for these poor creatures is death.
Mr. Labouchere, taking up the case in
truth as an illustration of the folly of the
well-meaning and silly men, says an offi
cer high in command in the armv in
India, gives him date of the most start
ling character, the conclusion of
which is that out of 71,000 British
troops in India, over 33,000 are
regularly rendered useless from one
cause alone The effective strength of
the army is thus reduced in numbers be
low 48,000. Concluding his article, lui
houchere asks: Could those whose opin
ions have allowed disease full p]av, and
consequently involved the empire In
peril, suggest any way out of the dim
culty?
The defeat of Lord Rose
berry’s derby winner, Ladas, in
the St. Imger is the event of
the week, to a great majority of British
race-goers, but the greatest surprise to
the sporting world is tho record of
Throstle, tho winnerof.the St. Leger. She
started at fifty to one and was unknown
outside the private dub of wtiigli her
owner is a member. The joint sharers in
Throstle's winnings are Lor! Arlington
and Sir Frederick Johnstone, who tiackevl
her lioavily and won immense sums. At
a private dinner at lxzrd /Vrlington's
on the eve of the ra e It became known
that every guest presout had backed the
horse Half an hour before the race tho
secret leaked out and tho odds dimin
ished rapidly. When Throstle was foaled
she was blind, because of a film over her
eyes, and Ixird Arlington, her owner, or
dered her to be killed, or given awav.
She was kept, however, and in three
months she was able to see. She is now
regarded as the leading mare of the
world Experts who have examined her
pedigree find that she is related to
Eclipse, Eleanor, Petrarch, Thistle and
other Derby-Kt. I-eger winners.
The czar has seut an autograph to the
queen, relnvitlug tier majesty to the wed
ding of me czarewttch and Princess Alix
of Hesse, in which he urges that himself
nud hi* whole family are anxious for the
presence of the queen on that occasion
The queen is deslriousof going to St.
j Petersburg, and is taking the advice of
her ministers and physicians on the sub
ject.
Anew British trade dollar is being
coined for use in the cast in the Calcutta
mint. It is of the same weight and fine
ness of the Mexican peso This will help
the Indian authorities to use some of their
surplus sliver.
ORIENTAL WAR.
Reporta of Two Skirmishes, With
Japan the Winner of Both.
London. Sept. 15.—A dispatch to tho
Central News from Tokio says: “News
has been received from Fusar that tho
Japanese corps from Gorian has engaged
and routed the enemy at Sing-Chuen, aud
that the Japanese advancing army has
engaged and routed the enemy at Chuiug-
Chwu. The Chinese retreated by \iu
gian Details of those buttles are lack
ing. The Japanese army is crossing tho
Taitong river. Marshall Yount > atuaga
says he has arrived at Fequo, where ho
will assume the chief command.”
A dispatch to tho Central News from
Shanghai says: “Six of the survivors of
the Chinese troopship, which was
wrecked at Chetunc while cn route to
Formosa with 1,400 soldiers on hoard,
have arrived there. They report that2oo
persons on board were drowned. The <lis
patch further says that no news lias been
received in Shanghai ot any engagement
in Korea since the skirmish of Aug. 13,
when the Chinese were defeated with a
loss of 500 men. The murderers of Rev.
James Wvlie. a Presbyterian missionary,
who was recently killed at I.iao-j ang by
Chineso soldiers, who wore on their way
to Korea, have been executed. The offi
cers in command of the troops who com
mitted the crime wero cashiered. The
chapoer, which were destroyed by the
soldiers, are to be restored to the condi
tion in which they were prior to tho out
rage at the expense of the people living in
the locality.”
MURDERED A DEPUTY.
Brigands and Moonshiners Slay Dep
uty Marshal Grisson.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 15.—The re
mains of T. B. Grisson, the deputy
United States marshal who was killed by
.the two moonshiners, James and John
Cook, in Pike county Thursday night, ar
rived this afternoon and were buried im
mediately on their arraval. The body
was badly decomposed. The killing of
Grisson occurred twelve miles from
Amity, near the place where deputy
United Slates Marshal Trammell
was killed by the 'shiners in 1888. Gris
son was shot in tho heart and fired twice
at the desperadoes before he died. Tho
authorities here believe that the moon
shiners in Pike county are members of
tho Cook gang of outlaws who haa been
operating in the Indian Territory for
years.
About a month ago they robbed an
Oklahoma bank anil socn after com
mitted a robbery at Tahloquab. In a
fight with the marshals one of the robbers
was shot aud captured, and he is now in
jail at F'ort Smith.
Marshal Gaines aud seven deputies left
Arkadelphia this morning for Pike county,
where they will remain several days in
search of the m urderous moonshiners.
FATAL STREET DUEL.
Both Parties Die at Once—A Bystander
Fatally Wounded.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 15.—At Gatevtlle,
the terminus of the cotton belt, forty
three miles west of hero to-day a fatal
street duel took place between ,1. T. Good
man, editor of tho Peoples Voice, and B.
G. Armstrong, editor of tho Star, both
weekly papers. The duel grew out of a
personal controversy iu tho papers over
the Ed. Cash lynching a few months ago.
The two men opened tire on each other
just as they met in front of Goodman's
office. The latter was shot through the
heart and Armstrong through the bowels.
Both died at once. J. G. Berman, a by
rtander, was fatally wounded in the neck
by a stray stiot. All leave families and
were well known in this section of the
state.
FILLED WITH BUCKSHOT.
A Farmer Waylaid and Murdered by
Unknown Assailants.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 15.—A special
to the Advertiser from Tuscaloosa says:
”E. A. Cooper, a well-known farmer of
this county, while returning home from
town was waylaid by unknown parties
and foully assaulted. Hisboad and body
were literally filled with buckshot. It is
not known who killed him, but several
are susnected. Much excitement pre
vails and there are rumors of startling
revelations to grow out of the killing.
HEALTH OF NICARAGUA.
Disquieting Reports as to Health Con
dition on the Coast.
Washington, Sept. 15.—Disquieting re
ports as to the health conditions of the
Nicaragua coast are met by telegrams re
ceived by the navy department via New
Orleans, announcing that the health of
the officers and men on board the Marble
head anil Columbia, now stationed off
Bluefields, Nicaragua, was excellent.
These ships being entirely new und
equipped with refrigerating and velti
latlng machinery are peculiarly adapted
for tropical duty.
MRB. NASON DEAD.
Hayea, Her Son-in-Law, Now a Double
Murderer.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 15. William
Hayes, who murdered his young wife and
shot his mother-in-law on the night of
Sent. 4. Is now a double murderer. Mrs.
Nason, the inotlier-in law, having died to
night. As she was dying Mrs. Nason
said that Hayes was tlio guilty man.
1 laves denies that he committed the deed
ami Mrs. Nason's statement is the only
evidence against him. Hayes will be
tried iu October.
ENLOE PROBABLY WINS.
Reports From tbs Eighth Tennessee
District Show His Selection.
Memphis. Tenn., Sent. 15.—Report
from tho Eighth Tennessee congressional
district primaries indicate the nomination
of Congressman Enloe by 1,500 majority.
The forces of free silver centered on Gen.
J. C. I). Atkins, an old veteran, and made
a bitter fight A lew free fights in Jack
sou only marred the harmony of the
election __
Sparkman’s Campaign.
DcFuniak Springs. Fla., Sept. 15.—S.
M. Sparkman, democratic candidate for
congress to succeed K. K. Mallory, from
the F'irsl Florida district,opened his can
vass here to-day with au audience of 2,900
people.
ANYTHING TO BEAT TILLMAN.
The Opposition to the Governor
Takes Shape la South Carolina.
Columbia. S. C., Sept. 15. Mass meet
{ were held in thirty-five counties of the
state to-day to elect delegates to a state
convention, called to meet next Monday
for tho purpose of reorganising the party.
Only opponents of Tillman and populism
attended the meetings. The delegates are
advised as to the policy of placing a state
ticket in tlie field this year. Of twelve
out of the thirty-five counties heard from
three are opposed to nominations,
three instructed in favor of a full
j ticket and six send delegates unln
i strudel Sumter county declined to
send delegates to the convention on the
ground that Sumter Democrats had par
ticipated iti the Tillman partv primaries.
Newberry instructed delegates to with
draw from convention if nominations
were made. The probability is that the
opposition to noiiiiuatiutis will prevail in
the convention and that its work will be
limited to the adoption of a party consti
tution and tho endorsement of the Cleve
land administration and the Chicago plat
form : legislative tickets will bo run in
manv counties in the hope of electing
Butler or some other democrat over Till
mau should a state ticket ho nominated it
is not improbable that Mayor Walter T.
Dargau of Darlington will head
it. Ex-Judge Hudson who was
defeated for re-election by theTillmanites
on account of his adverse dispensary de
cision is also sptikon of.
Among tin delegates are ex-Gov. John
son ii,iygood and ex-Uov. John Peter
Richardson, both of whom advocate nomi
nations and a fight.
Indications are that the convention
will be composed of representative men
and that a fight will o made against
nominations, by a respectable minlorit.y,
who believe it too late to make a succeus
ful issue this year.
Darlington county favors the nomina
tion of Dr. S. Pope who has already an
nounced that ho will run for governor
against Evans.
OPENED THE WRONG LETTER.
Arrest of a Prominent Tlllmanlte for
Opening Another’s Mall.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 15.—Louis Ap
pelt, editor of the Times and postmaster
at Manning, S. C., was arrested to-day
fur opening a letter addressed to tho
Clarendon Enterprise, a defunct news
paper, and abstracting from it a check.
The check was signed by D. B. Johnson
and was in payment for advertising. Ap
pelt has a letter from Johnson, stating
that by a possible error he might have in
closed in one envelope checks for the
Tim sand also for the Kntcrprise.
Tho warrant was sworn out by the local
editor of the Clarendon News. Appelt
gave hail, and a petition has been largely
signed' asking his retention in office until
the charges have been investigated. His
friends claim that there Is nothing in the
charge aud that ho is tho victim of per
secution. Appelt is a prominent Till
manlte.
CLERKS DISMISSED.
Preparing for the Reorganization of
Department Forces.
Washington, Sept. 15.—Secretary Car
lisle to-day called for the resignations
of Jason E. Baker, chief of division
in tho treasurer's office, and Herrlott,
assistant teller in the cash room of the
taeasury. He also dismissed thirty clerks
in the classified service of the treasury,
the salaries of whose places range from
#720 to #I,BOO per annum. A lot of women
are amonß the higher priced
clerks discharged. The dismissals arc
made to meet the requirements
of the new organization provided in the
new appropriation hill, as a result of an
investigation made by Mr. Dockery’s
commission. These dismissals are the
first batch of 160 who will be discharged
between now and Oct. 1 next, when the
new law takes effect. Chungos to the
number of 500 in the matter of reductions,
promotions and discharges will be mado
before the reorganization contemplated is
completed.
REFUSED TO WORK.
Amalgamated Association's Decision
to Guide tho Spinners.
FTHI River, Mass., Sept. 15. —At meet
ings of the spinners and weavers unions,
Held this morning, it was voted to abido
by the decision of tho Amalgamated Asso
ciation, and refuse to go to work under a
reduced scale of wages, if an attempt is
made to start the mills Monday morning.
The manufacturers say they will not at
tempt to start the mills, anti consequently
what the operatives do is not interesting
to them.
WILL PAY NO BOUNTY.
Secretary Carlisle Addresses a Letter
to Nebraska’s Senator.
Washington, Kept. 15. —Secretary Carl
isle has reiterated his decision not to pay
bounty on sugar in a letter sent to-day
to Senator Manderson of Nebraska, in
which he says; “I have had under con
sideration the application made by certain
producers of sugar in the states of Ne
braska and California for the payment of
bounty upon the production of that arti
cle, under act of Oct. 1, 1890, and have
arrived at the conclusion that such pay
ments cautiot be mude without further
legislation by congress.
HEADQUARTERS TRANSFERRED.
American Protective Association
Make Their Futuro Home at Wash
ington.
Washington, Sept. 15.—W. J. 11. Tray
nor of Michigan, supreme president of the
American Protective Association, has
made final arrangements for transferring
the supreme council to this city. This
will ho ae-otnplishod in a few weeks. A
printing plant will be located here for tho
Issue of the newspapers and documents
printed by the association.
INVITATION EXTENDED.
Washington Wants the Neat Meeting
of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F.
Washington, Sept. 15.—The commis
sioners of the District of Columbia to-day
sent a letter to the Sovereign Grand
lodge, I. O. O. F., which will meet iu
Chattanooga Monday next, requesting the
lodge to hold its next annual meeting in
Washington. Resolutions of tlie Wash
ington board of trade indorsing the re
quest of the commissioners accompanied
the letter.
Returns From Tennessee.
Memphis, Tenn., Kept. 15. Four pre
clucts in Henderson give Atkins 258.
Fnloe 83. The returns from six districts
in Heury couuty give Atkins 165. Enloe 142.
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IN PERU. NEAR THE POLE.
Fearful Blizzards Undergone in the
Wilds of the Arctic Circle.
Dogs in Many Oases Were Frozen
Solid and Often Chopped Out of the
Ice, While the Thermometer Went to
00’ Below Zero A Tidal Wave
Swept Away Launch and Dory and
Half the Oil Supply.
St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 15.—The main
and auxiliary Peary expeditions, with all
well on board, arrived to-day from Fal
con harbor, which they left on Aug. 26.
Peary, with Lee and Henson as volun
teers, remain at the headquarters at Fal
con harbor, to complete the explorations
next so ason. Most of the>cxpedition last
fall and winter was devoted to
preparations for the inland ice
journey to Independence bay,
which began on March 6, with
a party of eight men, twelve sledges and
ninetv-two dogs. Five natives also as
sisted during the first two or three days
of the march. On April 18th Peary,
j Baldwin, Fintrlken and Clark, with
twenty-four dogs and no sledges arrived
at Anniversary Ixidgo, having advanced
iu thirty-0110 days 134 miles, and there
cached thoir remaining supplies and
equipments, leaving I ,ee and Davidson in
charge of Dr. Vincent, they
having boon previously sent back
Incapacitated by illness or injury from
further service. Had woulher aud a sue
cession of storms culminated on March
19, while twenty-three members of the
expedition wero at a camp forty miles
from Annlverssry Lodge, at au elevation
of 5,600 feet. In the equtnoxial storm,
which continued for four days, the tem
perature averaged from 45 to 55 degrees
below zero and reached a minimum of 60
degrees, and the wind for thirty
four consecutive hours blowing forty
eight miles per hour. The combination of
temperature and the velocity of the wind,
it is believed, will break the record and
far exceed that sustained by any other
arctic exploring party. All of the ex
plorers escaped serious injury except
Dnvidson. whose left foot was frozon, but
has since fully recovered. Many of tho
dogs were frozen solid, and others” had to
be chopped out of tho ice. Messrs, l’oary,
Baldwin. Entriken and Clurk, pushed
on, and in fourteen days were
85 miles further The maximum
day's march was 18 miles, when the
plague having carried off many dogs, and
Entriken being unlit for travel and the
parly so reduced by the hardships they
had undergone that the plans for the
summer could not possibly be carried out,
and only one-fourth of the distance to in
dependence bay had been accomplished
when it had been expected that they
would rnneh that point ton days earlier.
It was therefore decided to return. The
dogs continued to die on the home.ward
march, compelling the abandonment of
the sledge during last May. On the trip
they surveyed and mapped a hitherto un
known coast line to Mel ville bay for 160
miles. Messrs. Roary and l,ec are the
first white men to see the location of and
measure the historic iron meteorite near
Uape York, which they will bring home
next .year.
Mr. Entriken and Dr. Vincent, made a
sledge Journey to Littleton Island and
would have reached Katie's headquarters
but for open water.
IJeut. and Mrs. Deary made a sledge
Journey to Olrike bay. Miss Ahnigito
Deary, who was I year old last Wednes
day, with an Lskimo nurse, the first of
of her tribe to come ' south of
the arctic circle, returned with
the party. Lieut. Deary accompanied
the F’alcon ns far as Cape York,
hoping to send home the ineterorite, but
the ice made this impossible. Fie left the
ship Tuesday morning, Aug. 28, off Pelok
glacier, thirty-five miles north of Cape
York, in an open whaleboat with Henson
and live natives, hound for Falcon [har
bor, 150 miles distant. 1-ee had been in
charge during his absence. When last
seen the boat was standing on her course,
under full sail with a fair wind.
A tidal wave on Oct. 31, at 9:30, de
stroyed the launch and'dories, and swept
away more than half the oil supply, of
which a portirn was subsequently recov
ered. Tho burros, carrier pigeons and
launch General Wistar, proved of little
service to tho explorers The party at
the lodge is amply supplied and pro
visioned .’or a year, and will be supported
on inland ice next spring by the natives.
The auxiliary expedition, despite the
fact that the ice was heavier and
more general than for many years,
accomplished much important work—all
that was in any manner practicable.
Communication with l’eary was not
opened up until Aug. 1, and Falcon har
bor was not reached until Aug. 20. Carey
Island, Cape F araday and Clarence Head
were thoroughly searched and the death
of the Swedish explorers. BJorling and
Cailestenous settled. Relics were brought
from Carey Island. A skeleton
supposed to be that of
a sailor was properly interred.
Dr. Ohliu. tho Swedish representative
with the auxiliary expedition, returns di
rect from Disco to Copenhagen. The ice
also prevented the proposed explorations
on F.llesmere Land, but the auxiliary
party gathered much valuable sclentifio
data, mado a careful study of many im
portant glaciers and obtained much new
and valuable material in arctic deep sea
dredging.
PRIEST AND SOLDIER.
Anniversary of Hidulgo's Declaration
of Mexican Liberty.
Austin, Tex., Kept. 15. —The Mexicans
In tills vicinity to-day celebrated the
eighty-fourth anniversary of the declara
tion of independence from Spanish rule,
by Hidalgo, the priest and soldier. The
celebration propor begins to-uight at
11 o'clock, nine miles from the city,
but to-da.v two Mexican military com
panies psraded the streets of the
city, carrying the American and Mexican
flags and a banner, on which was a rep
resentation of the Virgin de Gaudalupe,
whose image was worn on a medal by
Hidalgo after he took up arms. The cele
bration will extend through to-morrow,
and there will be solemn religious exer
cises, conducted by Rev. F’ather Lauth,
of Kt. Mary's cathedral of this city.
In the Lumber Trade.
New Orleans. Kept. 15.— The Lumber
Trade Journal of tho city, in its issue of
to-day, shows that the exports of lumber
and its products from southern porta of
entry for the month of August aggregates
*579,594, divided as follows: Timber
*292,379, lumber *278,590, and manufac
tures of wood *8,533.