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THE » TOCCOA NEWS
VOLUME
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Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Une Division.
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ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
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cept and Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 15 p
m, 9 35 a m, arrive At liens 10 00 p m and
11 20 a m. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15 pm
and 7 07 a ni, arnVe Lula 7 55 p ni and 8 50
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ly; except Sundae, leave Toecoa 1140 am
arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leave s Elbertou 5 00 a m
and arrives Toecoa8 30 am.
Nos. 9 an l 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be-
iwoon Atlanta and New York.
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ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
’Washington. New York I brough Pullman al-o Sleepers be¬
tween and New Orleans, between
Washington Birmingham. and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Observation car lietween Wash¬
ington and New Orleans.
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet Sleeper be¬
tween Wash ngton and Atlanta.
For detailed information as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’f. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, tia. Charlotte N. 0.
P. HAMMOND,
YV. Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
H. GREEN. 80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta, Ua.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
T0CC0A CITY, GA.,
"Will practise in the oountio* of Haber
■ham aud Rabun of the Northwesterr
Circuit, and Frank!'n and Banks of thi
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all business entruste<i*co him
The collection of debts will have speo
ial attention.
MORE TERMINAL NEWS.
Drexel, Morgan & Co. Asked to Take
Hold of Affairs.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says. For several days a quiet move¬
ment has been on foot among security
holders of the Richmond Terminal to
request Drexel, Morgan & Co. to take up
the reorganization of the Terminal com-
pany. A circular letter addressed to that
bouse has been very numerously signed.
Spencer Trask, John B. Bloodgood and
others have been quite active in the mat¬
ter. A conference committee was ap¬
pointed and a meeting held, The com-
raittee was comprised of J. C. Mahen,
W. H. Qoadley, G. F. Stone, Samuel
Barton Swerome, G. B. Schley, W. L.
Joseph BlaoJen, Herman Clark, L. L.
Monson, G. Foster Peabody, J. A. Ruth¬
erford, J. II. Davis, Henry Clews and
John Bloodgood. The result of the meet¬
ing was unanimous upon the adop:ion of
the resolution asking Drexel, Morgan &
Co., to undertake the reorganization.
BIG DAY IN ROCHESTER.
Harrison and Flower Make Speeches—
*250,000 People Present.
Monday will ever ba a memorable day
in the hist ry of 11 icbester, N. Y'. Never
before has the city been so crowded and
never before has it entertained such dis¬
tinguished company. Public and private
busioc.s was suspended and everybody
took a holiday. It is estimated that fully
25),000 people took an active part in
the various demonstrations, Of this
number fully 100,000 came from the sur¬
rounding country. The president was en¬
thusiastically received everywhere and
was compelled to bow his acknowledge¬
ments to almost continuous cheering.
The weather was bright and fair. The
feature of the day was the dedication of
the handsome monument in Washington
square in honor of the soldiers and sail¬
ors of Monroe county who died in de¬
fense of iheir country. Speeches were
made by President Harrison and Gover¬
nor Flower.
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
proceedings from day to day briefly
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
TnE HOUSE.
Tnr | (SDAy —Cheatham of North C’aro-
* 1Da * the colored member who poured oil
on the troubled waters Wednesday, was
recognized in the hou=e Thursday morn-
ing to ask consent for the consideration
of the b .' 11 appropriating $100,000 for
the compilation of statistics showing the
progress of the colored race from Janu «rv
86 3 ’ to : Jttm ; a, 7* : r - Kil s° re >
?* * exas Y i objected, and the . house went
into a committee of the whole, Mr. Les-
ter in the chair, on the sundry civil ap-
ro P riatioQ bil! - 1 he Parting quei-
tlon was on ^ ie subject of the
Sunday closing of the World’s fair.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, offeied as a
substitute the following: “Provided,
that the K overnmcnt exhibit at the
World’s Columbian exposition shall not
be open io the public cn Sunday.”
Adopted. The question then recurred on
the original amendment as emended by
tbe substitute, and it was adopted.
Friday.—I u the house, Friday, on
motion of Mr. Cockran, of New Y'ork.
the joint resolution was passed to correct
a clerical error in the McKinley tariff act.
It corrects the error whereby a duty of
from 15 to 50 cents per pound isimpo -ed
on sweetened chocolate, aud fixes the
duty at 2 cents per pound. On motion
of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia, a resolu¬
tion was adopted calling on the civil
service commission for information as to
whether there are on the eligible list of
typewriters and stenographers, women,
who have passed the examination and
have not received appointments and
whether any department refuses to accept
The women house as stenographers and typewriters,
then went into committee of
the whole, (Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the
chair,) for further consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Mr. Richardson, of Tenn., limiting the
number of copies of public documents
which may be printed by the heads of
bureaus without express authorization by
congress. Rejected by a vote of 91 to 93.
Mr. Richardson then offered the same
amendment with modification which ex¬
pressly excepts the department of agri¬
culture from limitation. Agreed to with¬
out opposition.
Saturday.—T he house finished the
general debate on the postoffice bill.
Several good speeches were delivered.
The bill will next be discussed by sec¬
tions. The house adjourned till Tuesday
on account of Monday being decoration
day.
Tuesday—A fter routiue business Tues-
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THE SENATE.
Thursday.— At the opening of its
session Thursday morning Senator Stew¬
art caught the senate napping, and made
a motion to tike up the pending free
coinage bill. Before the senators actu
ally realized what the motion was the
clerk was calling the roll. Tnen there
was a stampede from the chamber by the
senators who feared the issue. Senator
Hill was one of those who declined to
commit himself by a vo:e. Mr. Stewart’s
resolution passed by a vote of twenty-
eight to twenty. This vote probably rep¬
resents the sentiment of the senate
on the question. The debate
then commenced on the bid,
and went on un‘il adjournment.
The principal speech of the day w s de¬
livered by Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
who declared that if both parties nomi
candidates for president who were
to free coinage, the great mass of
people of the country who were iufavor
the free coinage of silver, would have
but little preference for one over the
The inference drawn from his
was that thousands of people,
who want financial relief, would be
forced to join the third party. Pending
the debate the senate adjourned.
Friday. —"When the rou’ine morning
business of the senate was disposed of
Friday morning, eight, the calendar was taken
up under rule but Mr. Morgan
voluntarily abandoned his right and con
seated to have his resolutions laid aside
without action. That having been done,
the business on the calendar wrs pro¬
ceeded with in regular order under rule
eight. Among the bills passed were the
following: To reclassify and prescribe
the salaries of railway postal clerks.
The rates fixed are: First class, not ex¬
ceeding $800; second class, not exceed¬
ing $i,000; third class, not exceeding exceeding
$1,200; fourth class, not
$1,300; fifth class, not exceedin: $1,500;
sixth cla^s, not exceeding $1,600, and
seventh class, not exceeding $1,800.
The senate adjourned until Tuesday with
the understanding that the silver bill
would then come up.
Tuesday. —There was a very small at
tendance of senators at the opening s s-
sion of the senate Tuesday morning.
The vice president was absent and Ylr.
Manderson took the chair as president
pro tern. At 2 o’clock the calendar was
laid aside and the bill to provide for the
free coinage of gold and silver was taken
up. Ylr. Sherman addressed the senate,
prefacing his speech on the silver bill by
saying tisan that he did not regard it as a par¬
which measure, or as a political measure,
on the parties were likely to di¬
vide. It was largely a bed measure.
There was no question to be compared with
it in the importance of its effect on lhe
business interests of the couutry. He
representing a state nearly central in pop
ulation, had tested the sense of the peo¬
ple of Ohio and ihey, he believed, were,
by a large majority, not onl? iu
the republican party but iu" the
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4 , 1892.
democratic party, opposed to tbo
fiee coinage of silver. They believed
that it would degrade the body of cur¬
rency, reduce its purchasing power one-
third, destroy the bimetallic system of
the country and reduce the country to
the single monetary standard of silver,
measured at the rate of 371 grains to the
d Tar. He went on to defend the finan¬
cial action of the republican parlv and
his own part in it. During the two and
a half hours that Mr. Sherman spoke,
but few senators left the chamber. The
senator commanded close attention of his
hear* rs. He h id not finished his argu¬
ment when the hour of adjournment
came.
NOTES.
The president, on Thursday, issued a
proclamation promulgating a reciprocity
treaty with Austra-Hungary. Its terms
are similar to those in force with Ger¬
many, Italy and Switzerland.
The house committee on elections Tues¬
day, decided, by a strictly party vote of
7 to 2, to report in favor of the democrat¬
ic sitting member, Turpin, in the con¬
tested election case of McDuffie vs. Tur¬
pin, from Alabama.
Col. Polk, president of the Farmers’
Alliance, has come out in a card in the
third party organ at Washington declar¬
ing for the the Third party, and stating
that his paper in North Carolina will be
for it hereafter.
The silver debate opened in earnest in
the senate Tuesday. Senator Sherman
consumed all the afternoon in an argu¬
ment against free coinage. The silver
senators polled the senate, and Senator
Teller expressed the opinion that it would
be out of the question to force the anti¬
silver senators to a vote until after the
Minneapolis convention. Thus the silver
question can play no part in that conven¬
tion.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
completed Friday by the house commit¬
tee on agriculture, and will bo reported
to the house early next week. It appro¬
priates $507,500 more than the bill of
last year. One million dollars is appro¬
priated to carry out the provisions of the
meat inspection law, which is half a mill¬
ion in excess of the appropriation for the
current year for the purpose. One hun¬
dred and thirty thousand dollars is al¬
lowed for the distribution of seeds,
against $30,000 during the present fiscal
year. For investigation on the subject of
forestry and the continuation of experi¬
ments in rain production, $20,000, is ap¬
propriated. this is an increase of $5,000.
Secretary Rusk secures $5,000, being
$2,500 more than the current appropria¬
tion to enable him to continue his work
of ascertaining the feasibility of creating
foreign demand for additional agricul¬
tural products of the United States.
Tlic Postofflee Bill.
The house finished general debate on
the postoffice bill Saturday. There will be
two this contests during the discussion of
bill by sections. One for free deliv¬
ery of mails iu the country,and the other
Io pay ail railroads the same for carrying
nails. The majority of the members of
he house favor the rulal delivery of
Lails, aud the fight for such will be
arnest. The only question is that of ex¬
pense. lear to do While, the whole perhaps, thing this at house will the
Ixperiments once,
loanees will be extended, and the
are we will have free delivery
Ivery I where very soon. There is a clause
the bill to pay land grant roads but
JO per cent of the amount paid other
roads for carrying mails. As it costs the
land grant roads just as much as it does
others to carry mails, this reduction of
their compensation is considered unfair,
and a strong fight will be made to amend
the bill as reported from the committee,
aud place all the railroads on the same
footiug. It is also possible that an effort
will be made to pay the Richmond and
Danville the same compensation for its
fast service to the south as that paid the
Atiautic coast line. It is considered by
all the southern members as only right
and proper that, the two systems should
be paid on the same basis, especially as
the Richmond and Danville mail service
is quicker and superior in every way to
the other.
CORN IN GEORGIA.
The Census Office Gives the Average
Yield Per Acre.
The census office at Washington has
just issued its report of the average yield
of cereals per acre in Georgia and Ala¬
bama. Of corn in Georgia the yield U
11.33 per acre, while in Alabama it is
14 14. Of oats, in Georgia, 9.22; in
Alabama, 9.37. YVheat, in Georgia,
5.58; in Alabama, 5.26. Of rye, in
Georgia, 4.15; in Alabama, 6.67. The
county largest in Georgia which produced the in
number of bushels of corn
1889 was Burke, which produced
598,585, but that was produced on 64,480
acres, while Floyd produced 506,377
bushels on 30,087 acres, or over twice as
many bushels per acre. Washington
county produced 510,560 bush-
els on 57,621 acres. Bartow
produced more wheat than any
other county in Georgia. It grew 66,-
933 bushels on 9.906 acres. Gordon comes
next wi.h 57,164 bushels on 8,524 acres.
There are twenty-six counties in Georgia
which did not produce a bushel of wheat
during that year. There are but three
counties in the state that produced They more
than 100,000 bushels of oats. are
Brooks, Floyd and Wilkes. Brooks pro¬
duced 122,775 bushels ou 13,225 acres,
Floyd 102,642 bushels on 9,759 acres and
Wilkes, 134,401 on 12,697 acres.
GERMAN SUGAR
stored Up by the Ton Awaiting Ameri-
can Buyers.
A cable dispatch of Monday from Ber-
Ho. Germany, says : Last year $3,673,-
899 worth of sugar was exported to
America from .he consular jnri,diction
o: Berlin including the two great sugar
centers, Hamburg and Madgeburg. Dur-
ing the quarter of this year not one
pound of sugar was exported. One hun-
dred thousand tons of raw sugar are
stored in Hamburg, and an equal amount
is held at Lubeck. btethn and in the
manufacturing districts. the Oerman
merchants and producers wish to sell,
but no buyer appears. It is very unusual
situation, and many reasons have been
given for its existence.
NEW YORK CONTEST.
The Syracuse Convention Selects Dele¬
gates to the Chicago Meeting
THUS INSURING A RITTER CONTEST—THE
MID-WINTER MEETING DENOUNCED
AND CLEVELAND INDORSED.
Pursuant to call the Cleveland Demo
orats met in convention in Syracuse, N.
V., Tuesday. The meeting was called to
order at 2:30 o’clock by Charles S. Fair-
child. chairman of the state committee,
who made a brief speech. Hon. John
D. Kernan was named as temporary
chairman of the convention. Mr. Iv< man
then took the chair, and addressed the
< onvention. At the conclusion of his
remarks the roll of delegates was called,
and the convention took a recess until
3:30 o’clock. During the recess delega¬
tions met by congressional districts to
elect members to each of the committees
hat had been provided for before the
intermission. At 4:15 o’clock the con
vention was again called to order by Mr.
Kernan, who asked for reports of the
committees. Jacob F. Miller, of New
York, as chairman of the committee
ed m permanent organization, report¬
for permanent officers the
temporary organization. Air. Ker¬
nan thanked the convention for its
renewed courtesy, and called on Ellery
Anderson, chairman of the committee on
resolutions, for the report of that com-
mitt* e. Chairman Anderson then sent to
Secretary Baldwin the platform as pre¬
pared and revised by the committee dur¬
ing the recess, and it was read.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED. *
The platform opens with the declara¬
tion that the democratic party alone is
rue to the people and can be trusted to
administer the government in their inter¬
est; denounces the republican party and
its billion dollar congress and its McKin¬
ley bib and the force bill, and contrasts
with it the wise and prudent democratic
administration of Grover Cleveland. It
condemns, with much detail, the McKin¬
ley tariff act aud says the democratic
party has no more urgent mission than
to destroy much a system productive of
so evil and, in a spirit of
moderation with due regard to
the interest of capital now invested
and labor now employed in protected
industries, the paramount dirty of the
party is to continue its opposition to the
tariff until all customs taxation is enacted
for revenue only. It approves the use of
both gold arid silver as money and de¬
mands that all dollars, whether gold or
silver, shall be equal in value to each
other, in fact as well as by declaration of
law. It demands the repeal of the -her-
man silver law of 1880, as an obstruction
of international bimetalism and because
it is rapidly bringing this country to sil¬
ver monometalism with all of its attend¬
ing evils. It recognizes the necessity of
an organization through which the party sucii
may direct its energies, but when
organization claims to lie the party itself
instead of its instrument, then it sup¬
presses the voice and misrepresents the
desire of the party. When it
calls caucusses at unaccustomed seasous,
and upou insufficient notice; when re¬
gardless of the votes it placed upon the
convention roll, it admits to the conven¬
tion only those who, without respect to
to the voice and wishes of their constitu¬
ents. will agree in advance to support the
schemes and oligarchy it has established ;
when it gives notices in advance that
they who will not agree to be subservient
will not be admitted—then it ceases to
be representative, creates discontent,
rouses resentment and imperils the suc¬
cess of the party. In this emergency it
becomes the dutyof the original elements
of the party to take such notice as will
restore to it the just relations between its
members and their agents. The platform
closes as follows:
The democratic party retains unshaken
confidence in the ability and lofty integ¬
rity of Grover Cleveland, and in"his de¬
votion to public duty. He is the choice
of an overwhelming majority of the
democrats of New Y'ork, and the coun¬
try may rely with confidence on his abil¬
ity to carry the state triumphantly iu
November. We believe that by nomi¬
nating him to lead the party in the ap¬
proaching contest for the presidency, the
national convention will carry out almost
the unanimous wish of the party and best
consult the welfare of the country. We
pledge ourselves to support the candi¬
date nominated in Chicago. The dele¬
gation chosen by this convention is in¬
structed to act as a unit according to the
determination of a majority of its mem¬
bers.
The denouncement of the midwinter
convention was greeted with tremendous
applause. The reference to Grover Cleve¬
land as being able to carry New Y'ork
state also moved the convention to its
feet and brought op a storm of applause,
while the affirmation that this conven-
tion and its constituencies would support
the nominee at Chicago, whoever he
might be, was greeted bv a burst of ring-
ing cheers that left no doubt as to the
purpose of-the convention. At the close
of the reading the throng was again upon
its feet, and the applause was long and
uproarious. Several enthusiast c and
earnest speeches were adoption made in seconding plat"
the motion for the of the
form. The report of the resolutions
committee was then endorsed' adopted, the fo.Lv- plat-
fom, Seing thus supplementary The the
ing realoution to
platform was presented and adopted :
Resolved, 1 hat this convention ap-
prove, the administration endorse and of point Grover with Cleveland, pride to
and we recommend him to the Chicago
convention for nomination, and to the j
the ?? untr7 for *0 election again to thi the
presuency. ‘S’dtoS c ,v „i rrmntv i
r m L" Pr ^
chosen bv the districts acd Chicago' bv the
" de egates to the
co mittee 0D
convention The work of the committee
^ " ved and t h U3 the question of ’
a f 8fc had ]yeen determined, and a
col rge q{ ccnteet and dem and at Chi- j
ca£ro for the seventy-seats of New Y'ork
yorlc had been fixed upon.
r j be following are the delegates at
j arj , e: Alexander E. Orr. Brooklyn;
p,. 9der j c k R. Coudtr*. New Y'ork ; C. F
Bishop, Buffalo; ex-Mayor Edward Fitz¬
gerald, Troy.
ENDORSED THE ELECTORS.
Before adjournment was had the fol¬
lowing resolution was presented:
“Whereas, The object of this conven¬
tion is to correct the wrong done to the
democrats of New Y'ork by the conven¬
tion held at Albany on the 22d of Feb¬
ruary last in the selection of a delegation
to Chicago not representative of their
will; and
Whereas, We realize that the action of
the electoral college clearly registers the
will of the party, as prop >sed at the na¬
tional convention and expressed at the
polls; now, therefore, better to assure
the democratic party that we have no
other wish than that the will of the party
shall be fairly ascertained and registered
by the electoral college, we hereby nomi¬
nate as electors f> r president and vice
president of the United States the fol¬
lowing citizens of New Y'ork:
Mr. Fairchild then read the list of elec¬
tors named at the Albany conventi >n in
Feb uary,nnd the resolution was adopted,
i nd the nominations thus were endorsed.
A resolution of thanks to the citizens of
Syracuse was adopted, for their hospita¬
ble treatment of tlie convention, and at
5:50 o’clock p. m., the convention ad¬
journed sine die.
TRAIN ROBBERS KILLED.
Another Drama Enacted in the Flor¬
ida Express Robbery.
Dispatches of Wednesday from Jack¬
sonville, Fla., state that there his bjen a
desperate fight between three fugitive
express robbers aud a posse five miles be¬
low Palaika, One robber was killed and
one wounded. The two are in custody.
A Palatka special says: “About 12:30
o’clock. Wednesday a hatless negro stag¬
gered into the courthouse and said:
“ ‘Come to Buffalo Bluff—robbers.’
“Deputy Sheriff Upson aroused his posse
and a special train soon left wiih them.
At 11:30 a. tn. George Wurtz and T. II.
Wigg, the guard placed by the sheriff’s
posse at Buffalo Bluff bridge saw three
men coming from the south on the railroad
track. As the first passed three feet,
ahead of the others the guards called,
‘Hinds up,’ and the first one obeyed.
The second aud third drew their revol¬
vers and the guards knew’ that the d< s-
perate robbers were facing them. Firing
was begun by the jobbers and a bullet
grazed Wigg. Wurtz fired his shotgun
loaded with buckshot aud Williams fell.
The man iu advance then ran toward
Palatka, the other man rau backward and
was shot in the leg by Wurtz.
BEHIND A TREE.
“An engine load of young men com-
vosed the special, and among them was
Dr. Benjamin B. Morgan and Mr. Wil¬
lard, of the express company. This spe¬
cial now arrived on the scene. The big
man of the robbers had takeD to the
swamp. They pursued him, aud suddenly
a ball ripped through Dr. Morgan’s vest.
He saw the robber behind a fallen tree,
and fired his shotgun, loaded with buck¬
shot, and Saunders’ murderer had met his
doom. Both bodies were laid on the
bridge, and afterwards brought into
with town on a passing freight train. A posse
deerhounds is pursuing the other
man, and Superintendent Myers and party
sistance. at'%goiug ou a special train to their as¬
falo Captuie is almost certain. Buf¬
Bluff bridge is on the St. Johus river,
five miles south of Palatka.”
BROTHERHOOD OF ENGINEERS
Adjourn After a Two Weeks’ Session in
Atlanta—Chief Arthnr Re-Elected.
After a two weeks’ conference in Atlan¬
ta the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin¬
eers of the United States adjourned Tues¬
day. Much important work looking to
the interest of the order was transacted.
The attending delegates together with
the members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary
were royally entertained by the local com¬
mittees and citizens of Atlanta, aud all
expressed themselves as much pleased at
the many courtesies extended them.
At the last day’s session officers were
elected and installed. Grand Chief Arthur,
who has been at the head of the brother
hood for eighteen years, was re-elected
for a term of four years. A. D. Young-
son was re-elected assistant grand chief
engineer for two years. The next con¬
vention will be held in May, 1894.
Biennial conventions will be held here¬
after. instead of annual meetings. In¬
vitations have been extended to the broth¬
to hold its next international con¬
in Indianapolis, Minneapolis,
O., Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Schenect'dy, N. Y., and other cities.
Schenectady and Grand Rapids seem to
be the favorite eities. The invitations
received are accompanied by letters from
the mayors of the respective cities and
governors of the several states.
THE MAURITIUS HORROR.
Over a Thousand People Were Killed
In the Tornado.
/£• J ca > ' e dispatch of 1 uesday from -lar-
seilles, France, says’. Mails w uch *ve
just arrived from Mauritius contain me
^ injured .* P^ >ous %ver ‘ 1
ant in t ie recen j ultl
c 7‘ n e ’ Th, hurricane was preceded by a
vl °l , er R magnetic is ur ance. The sea
ros <? nlDe f e e t. the highest level since the
W'™ ° 1818 ;
ia co 0D ^ esc! ?P. ' Manx '
", % »te oh^h , -.[1 " *£ erc
y e of
Immac ulat9 Conception is in ruins. The
cathedra]< ’ however, by a strange chance,
V * The dead include a large num-
. lea , iin(r inhabitants. Fearful
^ witne8S3f , in the streets. Oue
fa ^ tor collapsed. killiDg 200 destroyed. inmat-s.
0 f tbe sugar crop was
Th. &, plant rs’ losses arc incalculable. A
>pec „, ief : 0 an of £60 000 will be ob
tained fiom jwcn.y-flve the imperial government
be npiidjn j«y .
C olored G. A. R. Men.
The first parade ev,r seen in . Gharles-
ton, S. C., of a colored Grand Army post
was witnessed on the streets of the city
Tuesday. It was James C. Beecher post
Grand Army of the Republic, which had
been to Beaufort to decorate the graves
of the union soldiers in the national cem-
- ery there. The post turned out about
hirty men in uniform and was escorted
>y a detachment of colored troops.
_
A CYCLONE’S WORK.
Wellington, Kana a Heap of Enins
and a Scene oi Death and Disaster.
THE DEAD AND DYING UNDER MASSES OF
BRICK AND MORTAR—INCIDENTS
OF THE CALAMITY.
A disastrous cyclone stiuck the town
of A\ ellingt >n, Kan., Friday night which
plowed its devastating track through the
business part of the town, killing and in¬
juring hundreds of p ople and destroying
an immense amount of property. A hi a«ry
storm of wind preceded the cyclone
about half an hour. A few minutes after
9 o'clock the cyclone struck the city,
coming from the on hwest. There were
no indoors premi and n tory the ig s. Everybody was
cloud passed with its
destructive rush and awful roar. Wash-
ington avenue, principal bu iness street,
is lined on both sides for blocks with
min*. To add to the horror, fire broke-
cut among the debris of Colonel Robin¬
son's block. A solid block of brick
buildings containing half a dozen
stores and the postoffice and ; Tint¬
ing i dices lies a tumbled heap of bricks
and mortar. No reports have been re¬
ceived from other points. Wellington is
the county seat of Sumner county, and
his a population of over ten thousand
inhabitants, It is in the center of a
thickly settled agricultural district. It
is the most prominent town in southern
Kansas.
FURTHER DETAILS.
A special dispatch of Saturday from
Kanuis City gives lurther details of the
cyclone horror and says: The cyclone of
last Saturday night was terribly destruct¬
ive in its effects. Fifteen persons are
known to have been killed, acd an in¬
vestigation of the wrecked buildings has
only been barely conmenced. The cy¬
clone did not do much damage until it
reached the center of the town. On
Jefferson avenue it destroyed the Luther¬
an church, but only unroof' d residences.
Us most furious work was done within
the compass of foursquares bounded by
Jefferson avenue, Avenue C and Seventh
and Ninth streets, Every building
in those four * qua res was demol-
ished and wrecked. Fortunately, resi¬
dences in that locality are not numerous,
otherwise the loss of life would have
been much greater than now appears to
be. The Phillips house, a hotel, was de¬
molished, and seven dead bodies have
been taken from the ruins. The work
of rescue there is ju>t only begun. The
home was well filled with guests, and
the lots of life in the house is thought
to be great. The offices of the four local
news!) apers—The Monitor, The Press,
The Voice and The Mail—were destroyed.
The Wellington foundry was demolished,
and Mrs. William Asher and her sister,
Katie Straham, who happened to be
passing there at the time, were buried
in its ruins and killed. Their bodies
have been recovered. The destruction
in the northeastern part of the ci'y has
also been great.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
The following is a complete list of the
killed as far as known: Frank D.
Campbell, James Hastie. Leonard
Adamson, Ida Jores, Mrs. Asher and
sister, Kittie Strahan. Professor Mayer
and Horton Upson are missing and are
probably killed, Lieutei ant W. French
and Cadet S.unms, of the Salvation
Army; Mis. Murphy and a child named
Mattie Hodges are badly injured, t’as
Stoner, Gus Colby, Dick Weaver, Carrie
Mitchell and Ed Forsythe each received
injuries more or less serious. The streets
are ists impassable and nothing but ru bodies n ex¬
everywhere. At least twelv„
h ve already been taken out of the ruins,
and something less than seventy-five arc
injured. Men are working everywhere
trying to rescue the imprisoned ones.
No one now can realize the extent of
the catastrophe and dajlight will alone
reveal the saddest scene < f the ruin and
desolation ever witnessed in southern
Kansas. The Cole and Robbinson block
ruins took fire and strenuous efforts are
being made to rescue the people known
to be buried there. It is now believed
that the Lst of the dead will number be¬
tween twenty and thirty, and the injured
about seventy.
7 he most appaling scene was that at
the Phillips house, where a ball was in
progress when the cyclone burst. The
dancers were given little opportunity to
escape from the toppling structure. As
tl;e building began swaying in the ter¬
rific gale, the people in the crowded ball¬
room made a frantic rush for the doors.
The stairways and halls were immediately
filltd by crazed men and women, who
tore at each other iu their mad rush for
the open air. With the crash of the walls
about and over them, there arose a t:reat
wail of despair from the imprisoned and
doomed multitude.
As the timbers crashed down upon the
struggling merry-makers, thtir hoarse
cries were throttled by the weight of the
mass of timbers above them. 7 hen came
the silence of death and insensibility,
only to be followed, a moment later, by
the shrill blasts of the tempest, as it
rushed on to other destructive work, and
the agonized shtieks of the injured oi
dying who were pinned escaped down in from a mass tht
of debris. 7’hose who
building began immediately the work ol
rescue. Some of those who fled from,
the building left wives and sweethearts,
husbands or brothers behind. Tbes#
they sought in ttie pile of bricks ano
timbers. As fast as the bodies were
takeu out they were surrounded by ?
crowd of anxious people, who v .inly
tried to identify their'mangled remains.
A meeting of the Salvation Army was
in progress in a hall near the Robinson
block. The falling walis of this build
ing crushed the hall and it is known that
two were killed. It is probable when the
wreck is cleared away it will be found
many more perished. It was p»st tim*
f ,r the army to adjourn, but the storu
kept the meeting in. One of the mem
bers was engaged in prayer when th«
cyclone struck the Robinson block. Be
fore rvny of the soldiers could rise Iron
their knees the walls of the buildin/
give way with a crash. How any o
fcaem escaped alive is a marvel.
Seven persons at tbo residence o’
E quire Smith were badly injured an*
tu whi.le Dumber may at any time b-
added to the list of the de d.
NUMBER 22.
SILVER CONVENTION
Held in Washing Thursday—Speeches
by Prominent Men.
In response to a call, issued April 23,
1892, by the nati nal silver c nimittee
for a national convention of 4 all who
earnestly favor the immediate restoration
of free bimeta lie coinage in the United
State ,” about 100 delegates assembled
at Washington Thursday, and were called
to order by General A. J. Warmr, chair¬
man of the natioi al commi tee. Judge
Isaac C. Morris, of Indiana, was elected
temporary chairman of the convention.
Lee Crandall, of Was! ingtoe, Henry
Jones, of Georgia, and E. P. Stark, of
Ohio, were elected secretaries. After
recess, General Warner was made
permanent chairman. The temporary
secretaries were made permanent and the
following vice presidents were chosen:
Messrs. Bolter, of Iowa; Shin, of Kan¬
sas; Streeter, of Illinois; A. B. Ewing, of
Missouri; Nixon, of Nevada; ex Repre¬
sentative G. G. Symes, of Colorado, and
William II. Oliver, of North Carolina.
The time of the convention was de¬
voted to hearing free silver speeches from
Representatives Bryan, of Nebraska, and
Bartine, of Nevada; Senator Stew >rt, of
Nevada; and Mortimer Whitehead, of
of New Jersey, lecturer of the
National Grange. Senator Stewart’s
speech was largely devoted to condemn¬
ing proposed interna'tiohal" ni metary
conference, “My advice to yclJ
is,” said the senator, “to put
no confidence in this talk of an interna
tional conference until you know what it
is and what is prop >sed to bo done. It
is even pretended that this international
conference is for the purpose of establish¬
ing the free coinage of silver; but nieb
is not its purpose. One obj et is delay,
and another is to devis - some scheme
whereby silver can be utterly d< mon¬
etized. Judging from the speeches ol
representatives of the gold ring in the
senate, and by the writings of their or¬
gans and magazines, it is evident that
they intend to establish such a ratio be¬
tween g'dd and silver as will wholly de¬
stroy silver.”
Another session was held at night. A
driving rainstorm prevailed and the at¬
tendance was light. Among those pres¬
ent were S nator Colquitt and Represen¬
tatives Bartine, Pierce, Livingston and
Simpson. Remarks were made by Terry
C. Greene, of Iowa; Edward S. Brown,
of Colorada; Senator Colquitt, of Geor¬
gia; Representative Pierce, of Tennessee!
Representative Livington.of Georgia, and
Representative Simpson, of Kansas.
Committeea on resolu ions and finance
and on organization of a bimetulic league
were appointed. Among the members of
the latter committee are Senators San¬
ders, of Montana, Representative Sweet,
of Idaho, and Representative Tillman, of
South Carolina.
Friday's! session.
The free silver convention re-assem¬
bled Friday and was in session the
greater part of the day and evening,
which was given to speeches. At the
evening and session the following preamble
resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, With a single gold standard,
relief from evils of continued falling
prices is impossible; arrrl,
Whereas, The restoration of the bi¬
metallic standard with the coinage of
both metals on equal terms, lies at the
foundation of all economic reform; there¬
fore,
Resolved, That the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on equal terms with
that of gold, and on the ratio now estab¬
lished by law, is a paramount issue be¬
fore the American people to day, and
shall not be suppressed.
Resolved, That we in answer to the
demand for honest m>ney, declare that
the debtor shall have discharged his full
duty to his oreditor by paying to him in
such money as was the full legal tender
at the time the debt was contracted.
Resolved, That we will not support
for legislative or executive office any can¬
didate who is not thoroughly committed
by platform and declaration to the full
restoration of the monetary system vol-
unfarily disturbed by the legislation de¬
monetizing silver in 1873.
Resolved, That while we hail with joy
the co-operation of other nations in the
the restoration of silver to its proper
monetary pos tion, yet we demand that
the United States right the wrong it has
•perpetrated upon the producing and in¬
dustrial classes without regard to the
action of other nations.
It was also resolved that a bimetallic
league be formed, the object of which
shall be to unitedly resist the purpose to
fasten forever on this country a single
gold standard and io labor for the resto¬
ration of free bimetallic coinage to the
people of the United States. The league
is to hold its first annual meeting at
Washington, D. C\ on the 22d day of
February, 1893, and there are to be tuch
other meetings as the execu ive commit¬
tee may cal . The executive committee
is authorized to organize subordinate bi¬
metallic leagues in every voting precinfc
in the United States. The conven¬
tion elected the following officers
for the league for the ensuing year
A. J. Warner, of Ohio, president; secre¬
tary, Lee Crandall, of Washington, I)
C ; treasurer, Colonel J. P. Kl,ng e, of
Washington. The above with the follow¬
ing will constitute the executive comi.|t-
tee: Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada;
James B. Grant, of Colorado; Richard
L»cy, New York; S. M. Ram-ey, Mis¬
J. H. Reagin, Texas; Representa¬
tive Watson, Georgia; ILnry Carey
Baird, Pennsylvania, and Senator Daniel,
Virginia. The following were elected
vice presidents of leagues for their re¬
spective states: Senator Morgan, Ala¬
bama; A. J. Wedderburn, Virginii;
Representative Tillman, South Cir.dma;
Senator Colquitt, Georgia: L L. Po k,
North Carolina.
VIC’S BIRTHDAY
Celebrated In Grand Style by Enthu¬
siastic Britishers.
The birthday of Queen Victory was
celebrated in London Wednes f av with
much eclat. There was a very larg <
gathering, which included many foreign
visitors. The American legation and
consulate was closed, and the stars and
stripes flew to the breezes. The Ameri -
can flag was conspicuous in many parts
of London. The military display was a
great attraction.