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TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
H 2 W York wants imprisonment for debt
Soolished.
Sensational rumors of a general dis¬
armament pervade European diplomatic
circles.
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Property along the proposed route of
the Nicaragua Canal is advancing iu value
eery rapidly.
The battle against the desecration of
the Sabbath continues to rage furiously
in England.
A charter has been granted for a rail¬
road in Liberia, Africa. It will be the
first in that country. Its length will be
656 miles.
The steady rise of workingmen’s wages
now' going on in Great Britain is so gen¬
eral, declares the New Orleans Picayune ,
as to attract attention.
The Congo district of Africa appears
to be developing as a producer of to¬
bacco. Brussels tobacconists say that its
leaves are remarkably w’ell adapted for
cigars, being of exceedingly good flavor
And very supple.
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic,
and the surrounding pampas seem just
*aow an earthly paradise for horse fanciers
jmd horse breeders, where money is lit¬
erally no object, so long as the right ani¬
mal be secured by its means.
The preachers took a very prominent
part in the constitution making in South
Dakota. In the convention w'ere six
preachers (three Methodists and three
”ongregationalists) and they were nearly
all chairmen of important committees.
There was a recent ease to confirm the
hile of the English law that persons get¬
ting their luads crushed by the slam¬
ming of railway carriage doors cannot re¬
cover damages. The doors are meant to
be shut, and passengers must look out for
them.
The English language is pervading the
earth. Most of the large cities of Eu¬
rope, and many small ones, now have
their English newspaper. Nice, Dres¬
den, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Na¬
ples, Geneva aud many others have one
or two.
A “railroad regiment” has now been
added to the French army, and the Min¬
ister of War is about to set it at work
constructing an experimental line within
a given time. The regiment is expected
to do everything connected with the lay¬
ing of the lino.
Says the Chicago Times: “.Wo are
largely indebted to Grass, Gall, Hairy
Chin, Red Fish, and Four Clams for tho
signing of tho treaty filching 11,000.000
acres of land from tho Indians, These
loyal braves talked the common herd into
letting go their hold on their reserva¬
tion.”
Who ever heard of a cheese mine? Yet
one has been discovered at Palmyra, Wis.
It isn’t precisely a mine; in fact, being a
large quantity of cheese which was bur¬
led many years ago beneath a factory and
there in some manner forgotten. It has
£ust been discovered and the valuable
product is being quarried out by the
present owners of the factory.
A quarter of a century ago most of our
paper was manufactured abroad. Now
wo mnnufaefure for our own markets, im¬
port hardly any, and export some to Aus¬
tralia, Mexico and South America.
Thriving towns have sprung up in con¬
nection with this industry in different
States, aud our farmers are thus able to
<ell vegetables aud other farm products
dearer home.
eerrr.
An eminent cartographer declares that
the map of Africa is changed by every
mail. Fresh geographical news from the
Dark Continent twice made necessary
changes of parts of the great globe of the
Paris Exhibition during its construction,
and two years ago some Belgian map-
makers were five times compelled to take
from the press a large map of the Congo
6tate for additions and corrections.
It is said that the common cowcatcher
attachment to locomotives is about the
only article of universal use that was
never patented. Its inventor was D. B.
Davies, of Columbus, Ohio, who found
his model iu the plow. Red lights on
the rear car of trains, it is further said,
were adopted 1 at the suggestion ^ of 1 the tbe
%at< Mrs. Swi>shelm, afier a railway , acci-
Sent in which she had a narrow escape.
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The New Tork Commercial Advertiser
observes that photography has disclosed
the existence _ of uebulai in quarters of the
heavens where previously none had bee;l
seen even * lth • f v, the 8ld . a of ', the most
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erful 4 telescopes. Its aid has now been
euccessfully called in to detect the errors
©f witnesses where error was as little e mis- us
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©ected as nebulae. In the inquest at
«toch£ster, N. Y., into the recent Forest
Lawn railway accident, several witnesses
.ad testified'that «* of fhe
press train that caused the wreck and loss
of life had reversed his lever before the
collision occurred. A photograph of the
wreck was produced at the inquest, and
•howed that the rod running from the
tever to uk shaft v. ;n' operating so as to
dove the trt m tor ard Instead of back¬
r-:L ’s :.'„ay be mistaken*, but
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
XSWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE*,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTERFKT.
Ex-Surgeon General Joseph Beale died
in Philadelphia Tuesday.
Ini., Diptberia is prevailing in Marion,
schools to have such an extent that the public
been closed.
Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been
seriously don, ill for some time, died at Lon¬
England, on Monday.
The man-of-war, Ossipec, sailed from
Boston, Monday, for Hayti with Fred¬
erick Douglass, the new minister.
The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa¬
ny hag been incorporated. Capital stock
$1,000,090—10,000 shares at $100 each.
The reports from the rhine wine grow¬
ing districts of Germany, indicate that
this year’s vintage will be the best of the
century.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Indiana supreme court has de¬
cided that bicyclists cannot be made
liable for damages resulting from horses
becoming frightened at. their wheels.
The New York Daily Graphic , which
has for soaie time past maintained a
fluttering existence under financial diffi¬
culties, has ceased to exist, The last
number was issued Tues lay.
The state inspector of New Jersey, on
Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at
Fleischmsnn’s distillery, at Millstone,
Somerset county, aud twelve head on
adjoining farms, that were afflicted wdth
pleuro-pneumoDia.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The stevedores employed ou the East In¬
dia dock have again gone on strike.
They claim that the companies are not
engaging the old hands as they agreed to
do when the strike was set.led.
The police commissioners of Kansas
City have ordered the chief of police
to suppress the Salvaiion Army in that
city. The order was issued on account
of the numerous cases of peace disturb¬
ance at the army’s headquarters.
Seely Hopkins, a citizen of Phillips-
burg, Pa., on Sunday, shot and killed
both his wife and mothersn-law, and
then tried to kill himself, but failed.
Hopkins has engaged in numerous quar¬
rels with his wife during the past two or
three months, which culminated in the
murders.
The mammoth publishing house of
Belford, Clark & Co., of Chicago, which
has the largest establishment in the city
and branches in New York and Sau
Francisco, went to the wall Monday, and
was taken in charge by the sheriff. The
assets of the firm are supposed to be
about $350,000, and liabilities about
$400,000.
In the case of Henry F. Barber, of St.
Paul, Minn., arrested for selling meat
from cattle not inspected on hoof, Judge
Nelson, on Monday, rendered a decision
that the law is unconstitutional, as it in¬
terferes with commerce between the
states. The prisoner was ordered dis¬
charged. Notice of appeal to the su¬
preme court was given.
Lewis Bros. & Co., dry goods com¬
mission merchants of 88 Worth street,
New* York, whose failure was announced
some time ago, have just made their
formal offer to their creditors to com¬
promise at 57 J cents on the dollar.
Creditors to whom the settlement has
been presented have all expressed a will¬
ingness to accept the terms and have the
firm resume business.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there remains in
the treasury but $837,821 standard silver
dollars that are not represented by silver
certificates in circulation out of a total
coinage of standard silver dollars to date
of $339,293,650. This balance is about
$10,000,000 less than it was a month ago,
and about $85,000,000 less than it was
July 1st, 1886.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad com¬
pany at New York on Monday, it w'as
resolved to issue thirteen million dollars
of new stock, the proceeds to be used to
retire $9,402,000 collateral trust six per
cent, bonds at 110: A special meeting
of stockholders will bo held in Louisville
to ratify the action of the directors on
October 1st.
A story reached London from St. Pe¬
tersburg, Russia, which recounts that
just previously to the czar’s departure for
Copenhagen, ploded a chest of dynamite ex¬
at Peterhof station. The station
was badly wrecked and a railway signal
man killed. It is fully believed it was
the intention to have the explosion take
place when the czar passed through the
station on his way to the train, but
through some miscalculation, it occurred
before the time of liis majesty’s de¬
parture.
The official report of the trial board of
the new ciuber Charleston, was received
at the navy department from San Fran¬
cisco on Monday. Reports show the
max mum horse power developed to be
O, 816, while the average power was con¬
siderably less, making a deficiency under
the contract requirement calling for
about $20,000 penalty. In other re¬
spects, the vessel was up to the required
standard. No action has as yet been
taken upon the report, but the vessel
will undoubtedly be accepted.
It is reported from Denver. Col., that J.
P. Williams, receiving teller of the First
National bank, is a defaulter to the ex¬
tent of <8,000. The first of last week
Williams was granted a vacation, and
to<">k K»- fnnidv to tin- mount in«. Tie*
next cray ne returnecr, ana gave as an ex-
c us ® ! hat h ®. ha( J C( ^ m ® back for some
! clothing . which 1 they had forgo'ten. Sat-
urday the bank officials received a lettei
fr* om Mrs. Williams asking where hei
husband was. They became suspicious,
and an investigation of the books was or-
dered, which revealed a deficit of $8,000.
A letter written by ex-Father Butler to
bis Bishop Wigger, craving forgiveness for
mistake and importuning the bishop
to relegate him to a place of confinement
to do penance for his blunder, was read
from the altars of all the Roman Catto-
be churches in the dioceses of Newark,
bunday. About four years
ago, Father Butler, then assistant priest
at St. Bri lgett's church in that city,
eloped with Miss Mary Brady. They
were married b v a Protestant clergyman
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be reins' ated.
ANOTHER PROFESSION.
“Let's sec," said Mrs. B., “she mar¬
ried a Thompson, didn’t she:’’
slightly “Hey r” exclaimed Mr. B., who is
held in deaf, pausing, with a potato
air ou las fork.'
“She married a Thompson, didn’t
she :” .asked Mrs. B. iu a louder voice.
“No," said Mr. B. gravely, “shemar¬
ried a ministar.”
TRADE REVIEW.
REPORTED FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER
21ST, BY DUNN <fc CO., OF NEW YORE.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Throughout the country the
state of business is encouraging. Stocks
have not quite maintained the recent ad¬
vance, and have relapsed into shares dullness,
with salts of less than 90,000 for
the week, the chief cause b ing the
western railroad wars, The specul ition
in breadstuffs and cotton has been slight¬
ly lower than the range of prices, with
but moderate transactions. Oil specula¬
tion is a shade stronger, and provision
steady. Reports from cities for the past
week correspond fairly with clearings
outside of New York, which show an in¬
crease over last year of about four per
cent in the aggregate. At Philadelphia,
mone, is active and jobbing good; in the dry
goods trade continues grocery
trade improves, exceeding last year’s;
paper trade decidedly revives; liq nor
trade is active, aud drugs and chemicals
moderately active; but in w'ool there is
very little movement. At Chicago thire
is a decline in the receipts of wool and
of grain, higher prices for wheat, leading
the farmers to hold back, but there is a
large increase in provisions. Trade in
dry goods and other merchandise is
quiet, after the exceptional activity of
August. For Ihe year thus lar, trade
exceeds last year’s. Milwaukee reports
constantly improving business with ac¬
tive money. Kansas City reports busi¬
ness and collections fair, an average sea¬
son, and Cleveland increasing activity,
especially in iron ore, with prospect for
higher late for money. At Omaha,
great crops give good business and col¬
lections, and at Pittsburg Bessemer further im¬
provement is seen in iron and
steel, in coke and in coal with resumption
of glass woiks at 54 per cent, higher
w r ages. Southern reports also are all en¬
couraging as to crop propsects and pres¬
ent tn-.de. These specimens illustrate the
general tenor of the reports. Great in¬
dustries appear to be gradually improv¬
ing in condition. While improvement is
slow in wool manufacture, there is clearly
more active demand at Boston, and sales
of wool there during the week were 3,-
258,000 pounds, including some former
tales just made public, but a larger
movement, mainly in fine wished fleece,
has been secured by concessions in prices.
In the iron business confusion increases,
because Southern coke number one foun¬
dry is offered at $16.75 for delivery to
end of January, w hile anthracite number
one sells at $17 to $18 and higher for
special brands, but consumption is enor¬
mous and seems about equal to the large
production. Large contracts for struc¬
tural iron in Chicago and St. Louis ele¬
vated roads have been taken in Eastern
Pennsylvania, and the orders for rails on
the books September 1, were 1,135,000
tons. Copper has remained dull, and
though 500 Ions tin are reported on the
way, spot is still quoted at $21 37. The
partial failure of potato and fruit crops,
and injury to both by recent storms,
cause an advance in prices, aud the gen¬
eral average for commodities is now about
one per cent, higher than Sept. 1. The
movement of cattle and fresh
beef to England attracts much attention,
exports having been made over 90,000
head of cattle and 40.000,000 pounds of
fresh beef within three months, ending
with August, besides 34,000,000 pounds
Cured or canned beef. With the National
Steamship line engaged in transporting this
cattle rather than passengers, move¬
ment seems likely to increase largely.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past week: Num¬
ber for the United States 177; Canada 31;
total 198, against 193 last week.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
THE MACHINERY FAILS, AND AN ELECTRIC
CAR DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
An accident occurred Fiiday morning
on the electric railroad ruuniug from
the foot to the top of Mission
Ridge at Chattanooga, Teun.
The car had nearly reached the top of the
very steep track, when the machinery
failed, and the car started down the
mountain at groat speed. The motor
mau tried to stop the car with the brakes,
but failing in this, the conductor shouted
to the passengers to jump from the car.
The car contained fifty people, all of
whom were visitors to the re-union of
the Army of the Cumberland, one half
the party being ladies. Then there was
a scene of wild excitement and the panic
seizing all on board, they began leaping
rapidly down the mountain who side. Five
or sik pei'sons remained on
the car were uninjured, as when
the load was partially removed from the
car it stopped before reaching the foot
of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of
.
Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the car,
received injuries from which she died.
Wm. Minford, of Casey, Illinois, in
jumping from the car, struck iu a mass
of barbed wire and was badly cut. About
a dozen others were terribly injured,
and it is feared that some of them will
die.
TOO FAST.
HALF-BREED5 WARNED THAT THE CHERO-
KEES MAT NOT ADMIT THEM.
The attention of the acting commis¬
sioner of Indian affairs, at Washington,
was, on Friday, called to the pnss re¬
ports that a large number of half-breed
Cherokee Indians, in the state of Geor¬
gia, are making preparations to emigrate
to the Cherokee nation iu the Indian
territory. The acting commissioner
tuakes the following statement in regard
thereto: “Under the decision of the
United States supreme court in the case
of the eastern baud of Cherokee Indians
against the United States and the Chero-
kee nation, commonly called the ‘Cber-
0 k te Nation West,’the authorities of
the Cherokee nation alone have the
right to admit or re-admit persons of
Cherokee blood to citizenship in tbaf
nation. Parties claiming rights of citi-
ze n-hip in the Cherokee natkrn by blood,
Would be warned against incurring the
expense of removing to said nation be-
fore their claims are allowed by the
Droper Cherokee authorities.”
A DRUNKEN DRIVER.
A WAGON CONTAINING A PARTY OF YOUNG
PEOPLE THROWN OVER A PRECIPICE.
A special from Erie, Pa., says a parh
of thirty young people weDt out in the
country, on Monday, in a band wagon
for a picnic. On their return, the driver,
bciug under the influence of liquor,
drove over a bank, throwing the horses,
wagon and party over a precipice forty
feet in height. All were badly injured,
and Patrick Flaherty, of Springfield, and
James Neyland, of Erie, were so badly
crushed internally that they cannot live.
Others received painful cuts and bruises.
Tbe driver, James Lewis, is ieverely in¬
jured.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM YA-
R10US POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A party of gentlemen from Jackson¬
ville and St. Augustine, Fla., will make
a tour of inspection through the Indian
river country, which rumor says may re¬
sult in railroad and canal enterprises.
night, At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday
eight prisoners, by means of a
handspike, removed a log of the jail
wall and made their escape. Two or
three men charged with murder were
among the lot.
Counterfeit silver half dollars, date of
1877, are in circulation in Dalton, Ga.
The counterfeit is easily detected, how¬
ever, as the coin is very much lighter
than tile genuine, and has a dull, leady
color, ^hile the milling is poor and the
figures are badly impressed.
The board of state institutions at Jack¬
sonville, F!a., on Monday, awarded the
contract for state printing in classes B
and C to the Times-Union", in class A, to
C. W. Dacosta. Since the state printing
has by law been let out to the lowest
bidder the competition for it has been
very sharp.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation iu the south, was
Lranrid by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlauta, Ga.,
business was incorporated, with authority to do
in Georgia oi any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000 .
The Auburn Agricultural and Mechan¬
ical college at Auburn, Ala., also known
a3 the Alabama and Polyteohnical insti¬
tute, will soon take possession of its
splendid new building, constructed at s
cost of $75,000. It is pronounced one of
the most elegant college buildings in the
South.
John B. Mcllvane & Son, consisting
of John B. Mdlvane’s estate and J.
Bank Mcllvane, of Louisville, Ky., as¬
signed Saturday for the benefit of credi¬
tors. r lhe firm has been in existence
there in the whiskey business for twenty-
five years. Tht-y are surety for Wattinglj
& Sons for $103,000. They can pay about
sixty five cents on the dollar.
Frank M. Smith, general agent for the
S mthern Mutual Benefit association, oi
Knoxville, Tonn., has gone, leaving be¬
hind him a number of unpaid bill?, in¬
cluding $200 to various hotels for board.
He sold his agency for $200. Smith alsc
formed a budding and loan association,
by which he secured $200. Nothing has
been heard from him so far.
Anderson Ward, of North Carolina, liv¬
ing near Edtnton, was found dead in his
bed on Sunday morning with his throat
out from ear to ear. The wife of the
deceased, two grown daughters, twe
young of daughters and a son eleven years
age were sleeping in the room in which
the tragedy occurred, and yet not one of
them could give any satisfactory expla¬
nation, as they were all sound asleep.
M. Bateman, a member of the North
Carolina alliance, has made arrangements
to be married on the fir t of Octobei
at the state fair to be held at Raleigh,
dressed in garments made of cotton bag¬
ging. He took that way of showing his
detestation of the jute bagging trust.
His wedding in public in his snow-white
garments will attract a great crowd, and
will be very novel. The governor will
be asked to perform the marriage cere¬
mony, assisted by the chaplain of the
state alliat.ee.
At a meeting of the Memphis, Tenn.
Cotton Exchange, held on Tuesday, the
resolutions adopted by the New Orleans
convention fixing a tare of twenty-four
pounds and sixteen pounds on
bales covered with jute and
cotton bagging respectively, wire
unanimously rejected. It was
recommended that factors in that
market tier in warehouses all cotton-
covered bales separately from jute-
covered bales, aud that it be sold upon
its merits, separate and apart therefrom.
The managers of the Alabama state
fair, to be held near Birmingham, last
week sold the bar privileges for $2,300.
Since then an act has been found, passed
by the legislature several years ago, pro¬
hibiting the sale of liquor within three
miles of a coal mine in Jefferson county,
except iu incorporated towns. The fail
grounds are three miles from Birmingham
and within one mile of a coal mine, and,
a3 the law has never been repealed, no
liqUor can be sold on the .grounds.
A LAUNCH BLOWS UP.
SAD FATE OF A YACHTING PARTY OF NINE
PEOPLE ON THE LAKES.
It is believed, at Cleveland, Ohio, that
the steam launch “Leo,” which left Lo-
raine, twenty-six miles west of there
Sunday afternoon, was blown up about
three o’clock Monday morning, 't hree
bodies have been recovered, and several
hundred men and boys are hunting for
the other six. Thursday morning the
body of Fred Pelow r wesdiscovered float¬
ing iu a private break-water, a few' miles
west of Cleveland. His lace was burned
and bruised, and his watch had stopped
at 3:18. The watches on the other two
bodies had also stopped at about that
hour. There were foity gallons of naptha
in the hold of the Leo, which was to be
used as fuel.
WILL TEST IT.
THE ACT RESTRICTING THE COINAGE O*
SILVER TO BE INVESTIGATED.
The Colorado Mining exchange, al
Denver, adopted a resolution on Mondai
to investigate the constitutionality of and the
act restricting the coinage of silver,
appointing a committee of tbice, with
authority to employ the necessary legal
counsel. The committee propose to visi:
the mint at Philadelphia with a hundred
ounces of silver and demand that it be
coined into dollars. This being refused,
they w ill bring suit against the directoi
of the mint for damages, thus bringing
the subject to the atention of the United
States supreme court.
CHICAGO WANTS IT.
THE CITY MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO
SECURE THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1892,
aud wants it b’diy, and shs is doing
more than New' York and all other cities
combined to get the fair. The city has
secured subscriptions to the original
amount she proposed to raise, say
$5,000,000; but her people have decided
t<» make the uibscription $10,000,000.
it is published that Mr. Field, the dry
goods prince of Chicago, has added
$100,000 to the subscription in the past
few days, and prior to this the Pullmans
had subscribed $100,000.
AN OKLAHOMA RIOT.
AN ATTEMPT TO llbLD AN ELECTION
SQUELCHED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS.
A sp' cial from Oklahoma to the Kansas
City Times says: “Saturday was one of
the most exciting days in the history of
the city. About six w'ceks ago a faction
of citizens, after failing to induce the
council to call for a convention for the
purpose of framing an amended charter,
1 lamed one themselves and called an
election for the people to vote on it. As
it provided for the immediate ousting of
ihe p'.eseut city government, United
States troops, under authority of General
Merritt, prevented the election. The
original charter faction called an election
on their charter for Saturday, again
without the consent of the mayor and
council. General Merritt again sent or¬
ders to Colonel Snyder to prevent the
election, aud Captain Stiles, in command
of the troops, carried out these orders at
the poiut of the bayonet. The polls
weie opened, and a large crowd assem¬
bled. A number of persons endeavored
to vote, when Captain Stiles threw his
company across the street and gave the
command to charge. The company en¬
countered no opposition to their prog¬
ress. The leaders of the Charter faction
then rushed to another place and declare d
the polls opened again. Captain Stiles
repeated his charge, and again cleared
the streeti This operation was repeated
at other wards where the faction at¬
tempted to vote, but were routed each
time by the troops. The leaders of the
charter faction, after consulting with
Captain Stiles, then advised the crowd
to disperse. The advice was followed
and the excitement subsided. Nine of
the leaders were afterwards arrested on
the charge of conspiracy against the au¬
thority of the United States and city
governments.
A FATAL WRECK.
AN ENGINE CRA8HES INTO A PASSENGER
COACII—FIVE PEOPLE KILLED.
A frightful disaster to a suburban night pas¬ iu
senger train occurred Tuesday
the southern outskirts of Chicago, Ill.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
train, Island, which left the main depot for freight Blue
was crashed into by a
train at the Lake Shore and Pan Handle
crossings near Eighty-seventh street,
Englewood. The passenger train was at
a standstill, one coach projecting over
the crossing. Into this coach, contain¬
ing about sixty persons, plunged the
freight train. The wreck of the passen¬
ger coach was instant and complete. the
debris When a had thorough search through that
been made, it was found
three women and two men had been
killed outright, and a third man was in
a dying condition. Three other persons dead
were seriously injured. The five
were conveyed to Englewood morgue.
The list of the kiiled is: Mrs. Kelly,
J. McKinzie, Fred Huebner, Mrs. Brown
and an unknow T n woman, all of Washing¬
ton Heights. Those most seriously in¬
jured are: Gus Muleany, fatally hurt:
Miss A. K Steele, Anton Shuberg and
Parker Harden. The wreck appears tc
be entirely due to the almost criminal
carelessness of the engineer of the fi eight
train, who disregarded signals, and is
supposed to have been drunk, at the time.
A HUGE JOB.
THE PRINTING OF THE TESTIMONY IN CON
TESTED ELECTION CASES.
The government printing office, at
Washington, D. C,, has just completed
the immense work of printing testimony
in contested election cases, which will
come up for settlement before the fifty-
first congress The following are thi
titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan,
Mi sissippi; Laugston vs. Yenoble, Vir¬
ginia; Waddell vs. Wise, Virginia; Po¬
sey vs. Parrott, Indiana; Miller vs. El¬
iott, b’outh Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan¬
an, Virginia; Kernaghan vs. Hooker,
Mississippi; Threet vs. Clark, Alabama;
Atkinson vs. Pendleton, West Virginia;
McDuffie vs. Turpin, Alabama; Hill vs.
Catch ngs, Mississippi; Goodrich vs.
Bullock, Florida; Eaton vs. Phelan,
Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary¬
land; Featherstone vs. Cate, Arkansas;
McGinnis vs. Anderson, West Virgiuia;
Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia. entire The
total cumber of pages iu the work
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000 ems.
THE STORM IN FLORIDA,
A DISASTROUS STORM VISITS THE LAND OF
flowers—Damage to property.
Reports on Tuesday from various lo¬
calities in the state of Florida, indicate
that Monday's storm was a disastrous one
to properly. At West Jacksonville, four
or five miles out in the country from the
city of Jacksonville, three or four houses
were blown down and two churches
wretched from their foundations.
Through the outlying country for many
miles, fallen trees were encountered
everywhere, many of the monster moss-
hung oaks, which had withstood the
storms of a hundred years, were pros¬
trated. At Switzerland, Panama, Park,
Se Hand, Mayport, New Berlin and sev¬
eral small settlements on St. John’s
river, houses and trees were blown down.
At the Sandhills hospital, made memo¬
rable by the epidemic of 1888, the main
building was wrecked and the whole
scene is one of ruin.
SPREADING RAILS
CAUSE THE WRECK OF A PASSENGER
TRAIN KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE.
An east bound St. Louis and San Fran¬
cisco passenger train was derailed ne ii
Leon, Butler county, Kar., on Thursday,
by the spreading of rails. Three passen¬
ger coaches rolled down a fifteen-foot
embankmen’. R. M. Bemis was instantly
killed; Isaac Dean and Mrs. Matseka.
both of Wichita, were fatally cru-hed by
the weight of the car. Mrs. John Mitch¬
ell, of Fort Smith, Ark., hid one arm
and one leg broken. Mrs. R. A. Hodges,
of Arkansas City, had an arm and seve-
ral ribs broken, and may die. R. L.
Latbrop, leg broken of Kansas City, had his right
in two places and received in¬
ternal injuries. About ten more were
slightly injured.
DEARLY BOUGHT SPORT.
PARTICIPANTS IN A PRIZE FIGHT HELD FOB
MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
The principal iu the recent fatal prize
fight Mo., in Ahearn’s saloon, in St. Louis,
in which young Jackson was killed,
will have to pay dearly for their sport.
Charley Daly, Dan Dalv, Joseph A.
Murphy, a sportiog editor, and a dumbet
of others are liel i as accessories to mur¬
der in the second degree, with which
Ahearn is charged. The punishment is
oot less than tea years in .the peniten¬
tiary for principals and accessories,
THE LEGISLATURE.
BILLS rASSED BT iHE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENT AT I'FES.
A bill to incorporate the Dahlonega
and Dawsoaville Railroid company; to
authorize the mayor and council of Mil-
ledgeville to issue $50,000 of bonds for
the purpose of building sewers; to
amend the charter of Macon and to au¬
thorize the issuance of bonds not to ex¬
ceed $200,000 for the purpose of con¬
structing sewers; to incorporate the town
of Abell, in Berrien county; to pre¬
scribe the manner in which titles shall be
exhibited to the chancellor in turpentine applica¬
tions to enjoin the cutting of
boxes so ns to require the filing of
abstract instead of the original title; tc
incoipirate the town of Hapeville; to
amend the charter of Atlanta so as to
provide for the assessment of $1 a lineal
foot on property abutting on the streets
in which sewers are la d; to confirm the
ch irter of the Atlantic and Northwest¬
ern railroad company; to incorporate the
bank of Dahlonega; to regulate railroads
or other corj>orat.ous when they sell or
lease theit properly, to give notice by
posting at their dep its and places of
business^ and by publication in a public
gazette* at the places of its residence or
at ihe capitol of the state, and to fur¬
nish written notice to the railroad com¬
missioners. (This act to apply only to
the sale of lease of the franchise of the
corporation); to amenid section 4203 in
regard to filing a pauper affidavit in car¬
rying a supercedeas to the supreme and court; Na¬
to incorporate the Chattanooga
tional Park Railroad company ; to inc >r-
porate the Georgia Commercial Insurance
company; to increase the rights and
powers of the Muietta and Noith Geor-
s»i i railroad. A resolution Index to purchase
500 copies of Van Epps Digest.
To amend section 4057 of the code; to
amend the act licensing stationary en¬
gineers in Fulton county; to incorporate
the Enterprise Street Railway company;
to repeal an act approved October Gth,
1885, for two weeks’ session of the su¬
perior court of Marion county; to amend
itim 12 of section 920 of the code; to
repeal the law prohibiting the sale of li¬
quors In Smithville, Lee county: to
amend section 3G94 of the code of 1882,
regulating the .fees of ordinaries; to
amend section G83 of the code.
A bill to prohibit the carrying and
handling of seed cotton in the county of
Meriwether “between sunset in the
evening and sunrise in the morning;”
to prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Mus¬
cogee county between August 1st and
December 20tb ; to donate Madison street,
of Dublin, to the Dublin and Empire
roads; to incorporate the Southern council Trav¬
elers’ association; to authorize the
of Lincolnton to issue bonds to raise
funds the for building liquor an academy; to regu-
ate sale of in Wilkes couDty.
A bill to amend the charter of the
Waycross Air Line railroad company.
House amendments concurred in: to in¬
corporate the Bank of Dawsonville; to
prevent stock from running at large in
the 531st district of Clay county; to
amend the act providing for the taxation
of railroads so as to include street rail¬
roads, dummy lines and electric rail¬
roads, among those whose returns are to
be made to the comptroller-general. code relating To
amend section 534 of the
to maimed confederate soldiers.
to provide for the calling of cases in
the superior court of Hall county;
to prohibit hunting and fishing on the
lands of another in the county of Tel¬
fair; to require all railroads to deliver
freight transported on through bills of
lading; to provide for the time and
mode of perfecting service by publica¬
tion; to incorporate the Atlanta and
Alabama Coal and Iron Railway compa¬
ny; to prohibit putting obstructions in
the streams in Randolph county; to iu-
corporate the Oostanaula and Coosawatie
Railway company; to incorporate the
South-western and Georgia railway; to
change the corporate limits of Wares-
boro, in Ware county; to amend the
charter of the city of Augusta; to amend
the act reducing the compensation of
county officers of Butts county; to amend
the act creating a city court for Floyd
county so as to increase the salary of the
judge and extend jurisdiction of the
couit; to continue in force the charter
of the Augusta aud Summerville railroad
company; to declare all escapes fmmthe
penitentiary negligent, unless otherwise
shown; to incorporate the Bruuswick,
Athens and Northeastern railroad; to
amend an act establishing a board of
county commissioners for Bibb county.
A DARING ROBBERY.
A BANK SAFE OPENED BY BURGLARS, WHO
MAKE WAY WITH $59,875.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in the state, is
reported from Hurley, Wis. $59,895
was taken from a vault in the Iron Ex¬
change bank, of that city, Saturday
night, which was left at the bank for
safe keeping over night by the United
States V xpress compiny. The cashier
put the money inside of the iron vault
and left shortly after 9 o’clock. A light
was left burning in the office, and a few
minutes after 9 o’clock a man was seen
working at the safe, but he had on the
cashier’s office coat, and nothing wa9
thought of it by thos; who passed the
bank. The cashier returned shortly after
tl o’clock, when he discovered that the
money was missing. No trace of the roti¬
fers has yet been found. The express
company bad no receipt for the money
from the bank officials.
WANTED FOR A SIDE-SHOW.
A ST. LOUIS MAN ASKS THE PRIVILEGE OF
EXHIBITING DICK HAWES.
Solicitor Hawkins, of Birmingham,
Ala , on Fiiday, received a letter from
W. B. Simpson, of St. Louis, asking if
he could obtain the privilege of exhibit¬
ing Dick Hawes, who murdered his
wife and children last winter, at the
state fair to be held in Birmingham
next month. Simpson wrote that he
would keep Hawes well guarded, and
return him to the county jail when th -
fair was over. He proposes to make
Hawes a side-show at the fuir, charging
admission to see him. He says: “I be¬
lieve there is big money in it, and if you
will let me have the noted prisoner, I
will divide with you.” Solicitor Haw¬
kins declined the proposition.
FOURTEEN CENTS.
A GOOD TIME FOR FARMERS TO HOLD
THEIR COTTON.
The London Timet r cos respondent at
Preston says: “There is a prospect that
American cotton may yet touch seven
pence a pound, and that a fortnight’s
stoppage in Ociober will be secured to !
punish thousand the Liverpool ring. Out* hundred 1
spindles and many thousand J
looms are stopped in North and East
Lancashire, of and notices have been given '
more extensive stoppages.”
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