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THE » TOCCOA NEWS VOLUME RICHMOHD & DANVILLE R R. Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Une Division. Trams, in " < 2S£$5£ > ~j &£■ j gy * No. Daily 12 Lv. Atlanta (1,71 T - ---- ] ( liamblee ( 1 i ,tD * pnj| « 05am . , <J 24 | Norcross . ‘ *.....i 8 40am " ’ *'........| 9 35 pm Duluth ... * * ........j pm i j 8 52am •Siiwanee.. fi m L i •* 04am Hiwlr /.Df&ncli........10 i;...... • i........JO 10 pm! ‘itfcm G&jnr 24 pm 9 42am J.ul ...... a 03 pm ]0 45 pm 10 03ain 1 Iv j it i in........i........dj i' ‘ ‘'' ■! 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Mount’ll ....... 2 3 35 00 pm | 3 3 01 27 am •Gtov ........ pm am v ......... ........ 3 16 pm | 3 43 am Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... ........ 3 26 pm; 3 53 am ........ 3 44 pm 4 10 am Clifton........ Cowpens...... ........ 4 10 pm 4 42 am ........ 4 13 pm 4 45 am Spartanburg.. W.Ufori........ 11 43 am 4 28 pm 5 00 am ........ 4 50 pm 5 23 am Greet s......... ........ 5 09 pm 5 42 am (ire ,ivilIo...... 12 36 pm 5 35 pm 6 10 am La Moys...... 6 09 pm 6 38 am ........ Central........ ........ 6 34 pm 7 10 am Seneca......... ........ 7 17 pm 7 58 am Westminster.... ........ 7 35 pm 8 17 am Toeeoa........ ........ 8 11 pm 8 55 am Alt. Airy....... ........ 8 40 pm 9 30 am Cornelia....... ....... 8 43 pm 9 33 am Bell ton........ .... ..... 9 05 pm 9 58 am Lula.......... ........ 9 07 pm 10 00 am Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 33 pm 1C 28 am Flowery Buford........ Branch ........ 9 52 pm 10 48 am ........10 17 pm : l 02 am iSuwanee....... ........ 10 23 pm| 11 15 am Duluth........ ....... 10 34 pm ill 25 pm Norcross ...... ........ 10 45 pm: 11 37 am Chamblee...... ........ 10 56 pm pm| 11 49 am Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm j 11 30 12 25 pm Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac¬ commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬ lanta 6 15 p m, arrives Lula 9 00 p ni. Return¬ ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50 h m. Between Lula and Athens—No. If dpily, ex¬ 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 » i«. Between Toecoa anil Klbcrton—No. 61 dai¬ 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. Nos. 37 and 38, Washington aud Southwest¬ 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- m miinr- >1... i ...... Lt into n com- i! i J a 1 a d (j 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.