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XXIII.
SET Til ASM APIfiE *
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nm lie's Atemp: to Burn
Matt^V ......' in, N, Y,. ' Institution l
DEED Or A' DESPERATE MANIAC-,
1C, ^ Mitthell, a Mad Pri*oier, Imperils
- Lives of Hundreds of Convicts---
Wild Panic ^oiong the Terror-Strfaken
Itfanfacs—Remarkable in the World’s
Criminal Insane History.
Eire started by a ma lm was discovered
in the New York State Hospital for the Con¬
vict Insane at Matteawaa anl caused the
greatest excitement, no^nly in Matteawau
end Fishkill, but tht firbout Dutchess
County, and even across the Hudson River
fntcj Orange County.
The fires, which wore five in number, were
started by a convict named ('. F. Mitchell, a
pyro-maniac, sentenced to life impris¬
onment from Cnoida County in 1831,
nnd transferred from Auburn Prison in 1891.
His crime was arson, in which two lives
were lost. It was onlv because cf the
’excellent discipline which is main-
tallied in the asylum that the fire was un-
Httended by fatality. The moment the
smoko began to fill the corridors the 539
patients in the asylum were driven into
various wards and corridors like sheep in
shambles; force the lights were extinguished, and
p. of fifty armed men stood guard over
the desperate people in their charge.
- The story of this conflagration is unique
m the criminal - insane history of the wertd.
T)r. Allison,-the Superintendent, says no
similar event hm, ever before occurred.
"With the proverbial cunning of the lunatic
Mitchell prepared to burn the asylum. He
know the building was splendidly equipped
for the fighting of a fire and that he could
blaze. not hope to do much damage with a single
So ho planned for five simultaneous
ones ••-•caller at widely separated points, brigade hoping to
the forces of the fighting and
thus Insure n conflagration.
Ho laid in a store of straw and shavings
%nd small sticks an 1 hi 1 them indifferent
warts of the basement and the cellar, to which
fte had gained access by means known only
to himself.
And then he Uset” the fires, one underneath
the Kitchen, two underneath the' dining¬
room, one in a particularly large pi’e of in¬
flammable stuff under the infirmary, and
the fifth in the cellar of the north wing, i
considerable distance from the others.
Mitchell worked with the utmost secrecy,
nnd doubtless chuckled to think of the glori¬
' i as blazes that he was about to kindle. Then
he kept his eyes open for a chance to light
the Arcs when lighting would do the most
or harm.
Wh?n no P one was/fooki nVu' 0 P ek“i
h door and crept down to the heap cf straw
underneath the kitchen. Having put the
IrSiu? « h L S wi vi,iteJ his other P ilea and
t m l,ar UQ der ,
13 di 9ta ? 0a from
vca«\-h« ar ® co li{iued , • T sooner
?^ r dl r? f c ad6 ^y ered t .°a e 3 tl t . ?^S tue ,s ^ aort k flames tvmg
'i S °) fil* S mT :<i i 0 un ateC ‘2 1 . vrb f. f, be r0 wa OTer ^f* , a
on o^.6 w.m fa .i Ul'.rrg +i the v building, u . lhe
patients were terror-stricken, especially the
v.-omen.
rlt.im*. ,:ii- eeu ral ether scattering blazes
were discover* 1 in various sections of the
asylum, and soon the fli;s were beyond the
eoa.rol o. the hospital attendants, even with
h^irexceilent facilities to cope with auemer-
gencyoftha. .;mu. IIvip w;;s at once sum-
ncmcd *r-un _ ishnill Landing, abou. two
; Ql 88 distant, lhe —.-'aeon (iu i Tompkins
aose coni panics arrived m a short time, and
i. - 00 k the como-.ned forces ox the hospital
#vttaches an>l the others Uhul •< o cloex to get
tbe fire past the danger point.
whom - no men lia l pdtien.s, a dozen or more o.
worked heroically, every and opportunity to escape,
it was due in some
instances to their exertions tnat pa.mats
wuo were terror-stricken were assisted to a
p. ace of safety.
Dr. Allison, the superintendent,, says the
men patients throughout the building acted
’.u a manner so cool and courageous as to
panic, astonlsh with the doctors, all who at first feared a
its terrible consequences,
among the insane.
After the outbreak, and when it was found
that the total destruction of the asylum w?.s
threatened, all of the attendants were placed on duty
in departments ready to remove
tha patients. Particular attention was paid
to the female inmates, who were greatly ex¬
cited, and who pleaded with the keepers to
save them from the flames. No one was in¬
jured, and tha damage to the building was
slight.
VENEZUELAN COMMISSION MEETING.
Valuable Documents In the Possession ol
tlie Boundary Board.
The Venezuelan Commission, all its mem¬
bers attending, held practical y its first for¬
mal business session in its temporary quar¬
ters at Washington and made matters of rec¬
ord the result accomplished by its members
acting independently the last two weeks.
Considerable in formation—geographical,
historical and of a legal nature—has been ac¬
cumulated through the efforts of the com¬
missioners working in special lines, and
documents bearing on the commission’s
work, be now ia public and private libraries,
will made accessible whenever desired.
A great mass of material has a ready been
accumulated, and tha commission has no
doubt now that sufficient evidence will bs
forthcoming.
Justice Brewer, said that the commission
was making excellent progress, and that
while the great interest taken by the public
in appreciated, its proceedings it would was be iutiv extremely recogniZaa injudi¬ and
cious to attempt to make public bills of evi¬
dence in a haphazard way, whjieh might be
exceedingly ■^ork in hand. misleading and injurious fo the
Monty Elected Mississippi's Senator,
At Jackson, Miss., the Legislature took a
-Dint balldf for United States Senator, restat¬
ing as follows Money, 186; Burkitt, 2.
These two votes were from the two Populist
members of the House, and were given as a
compliment to Frank Burkitt. their candi¬
date for Governor at the last election. Her¬
nando De Soto Money, of Carrollton, Miss.,
was Born in Holmes County, in that State, in
1839. He is an alumnus of the Law School,
and was a student in the literary department
of this University of Mississippi; was a mem-
b«r of .the XLIVth. XLVth. XLVIth.
XLYIItb, XLYIilth and LUid Congresses,
and was reflected as a Democrat to the
LlVtb Congress.
Cleveland’* Condolence*.
The British Foreign Office has issued the
following: “The president of th® United
States Of America, having received, through
Sir Julian Fauncefote, mournful British ridings Ambassador
at Washington, the of the
death Batfifaberg, of His Rbyot immediately Highness, made 1’rince Henry
of expression,
through the Hon. Thomas Fv il.tyaro, United
rtf at S3 Ambassador fo the Court of St. James,
of his sincere 'Condolences to the Queen.”
_ Esther ____ Cbess ch.,mi.ion, __
In the International Chess Tournament, at
St. Petersburg, Russia, Lasker, the German,
pv drawing a game with Pillsbury, the Aater-
i«aa* wwi am p rise,
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The Toccoa Neats.
Y/ELUMSTON ELECTED SENATOR
Tlie Maryland. EejjltJatitre FormaUt
I Chooses Gibson’s Successor.
| The Maryland Legislature met in joint ses.
sioa at Annapolis ana formatfy elected
: GsorgeL. Wftilmgtoa as successor to C. B.
Gibson in the United States Senate.
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0ECE5E Xj. WELEIKOXOX.
George L. Wellingtoji is of German par¬
entage and was born in C tmberiaad, -Md., on
January 2S, 1852. Ha attended a German
school fora brief time, but is otherwise self-
educated. When he was twelve years old he
began work ia a canal store in Cumberland.
In 1870 he was employed as a clerk, and
later became teller of the Second
National Bank, of Cumberland. In 1882
he was appointed Treasurer of Alle¬
gany County and served until 1889, being
again appointed in 1893. He was a delegate
to the Itepublicau National Conventions of
1984 and 1888. In 1889 he was nominated by
the Republicans for Controller of Maryland,
but was defeated after an active campaign,
in which he polled one of the largest vo es
ever given to a candidate of hig
party on the State ticker. In July,
1890, President Harrison appointed him
Assistant United States Treasurer at
Baltimore. Mr. Wellington was nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth
District in 1892, but was defeated by W. M.
McKaig. In 1894 he was nominated aud
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress. Mr.
Wellington will succeed Senator Charles H.
Gibson, and hl3 term will begin on March 4,
1897.
AN APPEAL TO THE POWERS.
lho & “ nate ... Reminds . , Them of Their Duty .
io Armenia.
Having stood idly by for months while the
Turks have been slaughtering the Arment-
:ms - ifc is believed by some United States Sen-
ators that the great Powers that are parties
to the Berlin Treaty of 1878 may be induced
to reverse their position out of regard
f or American sentiment, as expressed
in. a resolution of Congress-such
a resolution, for example, as was reported
g eaa t Q Committee on Foreign R9la-
tions, and has now been,passed by the Scn-
' The calls
Powers ate. resolution Christians upon Turkey European and
to protect President in
pledges g f fo ” support l f h6 Dardanelles, to the in a show
ee iu
The resolutions which were adopted are
preceded by a preamble wnich sets forth the
p rovisions of the Treaty of Berlin, and then
j a effect criticise the Powers that became
parties to that treaty for their failure to
carryout its provisions. The President is
requested to communicate the resolutions to
^he respective Powers. Then the concluding
resolution assures the President of the sup-
p 0rt Q f Congress in the most vigorous action
he may take tor the protection and security
0 f American citizens in Turkey, and to ob-
tain redress for injuries committed upon
their persons or pronerty.
Perhaps the most sensational remark made
was that uttered by Mr. Frye that if he could
have had his way Russia would have been
told t0 take possession of Armenia, with the
assurance that tha United States would stand
py her. Mr. Frve did not refer to the possi-
ble results of such an alliance. The rcsolu-
t!oa nowgoe3 to the House for its concur-
r ence
STORMS EAST, SOUTH AND WEST.
Raio, Snow, Sleet ami Heavy Wind Oaua*
Great Damage-
On® of the heaviest storms of the season
prevailed in the South for three days and
then traveled slowly North. At the same
time there was heavy weather in the far
North and Northwest. Both storms moved
toward the Eastern coast, and New York
got tha benefit of the combination.
The storms were characterized by terrific
winds, heavy wires rainfall, and snow and gieet.
Telegraph were blown down in many
States, in some eases the polesbeingblown out
of the ground. Great trouble was experienced
in the South, especially at Baltimore, Md. A
hurricane blew there, and the ratn^ came
down in torrents. In Buffalo, N. Y,, and
Detroit, The Mich., they had rain the and Gulf snow.
main storm started in of
Mexico, oscillated and between moved the North. Ohio The Valley, storm Tennes¬ centre
see and Georgia, but the spread to Iowa, Valley. Ne¬
braska and through Mississippi
The lake region had heavy snow.
In New York City and vicinity the high
wind stripped the tre?s of all loose branches,
which, at daylight, and were strewn dooryards. about The the
streets, on lawns, in
wmdaiso had the effect of starting thelarge
fields of ice in the Hudson River away with
the high tide.
Along the New Jersey coast an unusually
violent Northeast storm raged for the twenty-
four hours. The wind blew with force
of a hurricane and did considerable damage
Long at Ocean Branch, Grove, Montclair Hignlands and of the the Orangea. Navesink,
Reports state teat a b.izzard raced in
Rock, Ark,
Reporter*’ Hand* Cat Off.
The Shoans, of Abyssinia, who are invest¬
ing the Italian fortress, have redoubled thsii
vigilance to prevent the Italians from send¬
ing out any news, aud have cut off the hands
of threa reporters whom they captured, and
shot' a messenger who was endeavoring to
get into the Italian fortress to carry the*
i\qws of his to promotion Major Galliano, the rank ths of commanding colonel.
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Killed by Natural Gas.
The immense pumping station of tha Ohio
and Indiana Natural Gas Company, in Red
Key, Iqi.* was blown up. Six persons were
killed and several surrounding otners dangerously buildings in¬
jured. Eight the wart
destroyed also consumed-. by fire and pumping station
was
Silver Man Will Meet In St. Louis.
The Committee _ ... on Reorganization „ ... of , the
Bimetallic Conference reported ia favor of
holding a National convention at Sf. Louis
Juiy re'pbrr. 22 next. The convention adopted
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An Indian Kmberz’er.
Chief Alexander Tall, a full-blooded Osage
Indian, Treasurer of the tribe, is short la hu
accounts from *3000 to $ 4000 . a session cl
the Osage Council has been called to inve*
TOCCOA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896.
RED CilCrSS TO AID ARMENIANS.
3Il!s Clara Barton Sail* on He* Errand o 1
Mercy.
Tbs American Line steamer New York left
her pier, New York City, filing the Red Cross
flag from, her mammast, and bearing Miss
Ciata Barton and her company o! helpers on
the first st&za of their journey fo Constanti¬
nople, for Armenians.* the purpose he of aiding the dis¬
sisted tressed Miss Barton, 1 party sailing con¬ Na*
Bed o.f President of the
tional Cross Society; Dr. J. B. Hubbell,
general Held agent; George EL FhUman, Miss
Barton’s secretary; Ernest Miss Lucy Graves, sten¬
ographer, and Mason, interpreter.
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HISS CLARA BARTOX.
The proposed route of Hiss Barton and
her party is to London, than Paris, Geneva,
Baden-B.iden, Vienna aud then to Constanti¬
nople. This trip will probably occupy about
three weeks. She will confer with iheBrit¬
ish, French and German Red Cross Societies
an l with the International Society in Gene¬
va, with regard lo co-operation with the
American society.
On reaehiug Constantinople Miss Barton
will make an appeal to the Sultan through
the American Minister for help in her work
of mercy. Port stations for the work will be
established at Alexandretta, on the Mediter¬
ranean. and Trebizonde and basso urn on the
Black Se I-
found Should the possibilities for relief will work cable be
to warrant it Miss Barton
for several active members of the Red Cross
Society, as weli as six trained nurses.
PRINCE HENRY DIES OF FEVER.
Queen Victoria's Son-in-Law Expires
While on the Ashantee Expedition.
Prince Henry of Battenberg husband of|
Queen Victoria’s ninth child and youngest;
daughter, Princess Beatrice, who was taken
ill while accompanying the British expedi-;
fever lion against his the Ashantees, from died Cape of Coast coast)
on return voyage
Castle to Sierra Leone. His death occurred
on the British cruiser Blonde. Th9 Blonde!
put into Sierra Leone, and the news Of his!
death was immediately cabled to the,
Queen and Princess Beatrice at Osborne,
War and Office. a'so to The the Queen Admiralty intensely and agi¬ the)
was
tated upon the receipt of the news, aud
Princess Beatrice is almost crazed with
grief. The Queen's review cf the flying,
squadron off the Isle of Wight, has now been'
abandoned iu oon-:equence of Prince
Henry's death, All the warships
in the Solent, the royal yachts ami
the club house of the Royal Yacnt
Squadron put their flags at half-mast as a
mark of respect to the memory of Prince
Henry, public and flags were half-masted upon
and private buildings in London and
all of the great towns, in which the church
bells were tolled when the news of Prince
Henry’s of death was received. At the desire
the Queen Mr. George J. Goschen, Firs:
Lord of the Admiralty, has cabled instruc¬
tions to Commander Henry M. C. Fosting,
commanding bring che body the of British cruiser Blonde, England; to
Prince Henry to
with the least possible delay.
Prince H°nry Maurice of Battenberg was
a (Hesse) son of Prince Alexander of Battenberg
and the Countess von Lauck,
War, daughter of a former Polish Minister of
who was raised to the rank of Princess
on her morganatic marriage with the ruler
of Hesse. He was born October 5, 1858.
and married July 23, 188-5, Princess Bea¬
trice Mary Victoria Fedora, tha ninth and
youngest child of Queen Victoria. On the
day of hi« marriage he received the rank of
Que “Royal Highness” by letters patent from the
d. He was later appointed Governor of
and, the Isle of Wight and of Carlsbrooke Castle,
although not really an officer of the
regular army of Great Britain; he was indi¬ In;
cated as a Colonel in the army list.
November last Prince Henry joined
the British Ashantee expedition in a Colonel special
capacity and sailed on December 7.
Sir Francis Scott, commanding the expedi¬
tion, appointed him his military secretary.
In the early part of January he was attacked
with swamp fever at Nyisa and returned
to Cape Coast Castle in charge of
a surgeon, though it was announced that
Ms illness was not serious. Prince
Henry was a younger * brother of the
late Alexander cf Battenberg, some
time Prince of Bulgaria. The Prince’s posi¬
tion at the English court was an uncomfort¬
able. ia some respects perhaps a painful
one. Like tee late Prince Consort, posthu¬ whoso-
popularity "was In England was woolly little favor
mous, he regarded with on
account ferior rank of his Nationality, his of his relarively in¬
and lack wealth.
MISSISSIPPI’S NEW GOVERNOR.
Ex-Senator McLaurin Inaugurated at
Jackson.
Ten thousand people witnessed the inaug*
urntioli of Governor McLauxin. at Jackson,'
*ippi j™*™«»»***« National Guard were in attendance.,
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GOVEEXOB X’LtaiS.
The address of welcome was delivered by
Mayor Clifton, and the new Governor spoke
*2 *he taultitu le from a platform in front of
SmtSiw oth?t ^
' CRAIN CROPS IN THE SOUTH,
Farmers Less Bur Tene t XVItlr Debt Than
Since the TVat\
The Southern Si.ates Magazine of Balti¬
more. Md., publishes reports from over five
hundred correspondents in all parts of tha
South as to the financial condition of farm¬
ers. These resorts v -■ w that Southern farm¬
ers as a class are IPS'- burdened with debt than
they have been atRnv nrevious time since the
war; that they are now more and more
visions every year producing at homethslr own pro-
and becoming less and less depend¬
ent unon the West for corn, flour, pork, hay
and lilt a supplies: that growing these thine*
themselves they a savin'? the enormous
profits chants, on them formerly paid to supply mer¬
and that living thus ”
cn their
own profit resources whatever they can count largely
such H3 they may *Au receive for
cotton R3 they crow. advance
report of tho corn' crop of 1895 in the
South from the United States Agricultural
Department is pubb’she b It shows that to
the great yield of 4‘‘3.COO.OOO bushels in that
year, the South has now added 124.000.00t
bushels, the total for 1S?5 having ro'iohsd
the unprecedented figures of 607.fi00.000
bushels, a gain of 172.000,000 ever 1893. Add¬
ing to the corn 'Top the yield o" wheat and
oats, the exact figures of which are cot vet
obtainable, give- the South a total grain
production in 1895 of 74 ),< 00.000 bushels.
MISS BARTON IS ADMITTED.
The Saltan of Ttirkey Yields to Minister
Terrell’s Ur.iing;.
Oivin.or to the energetic representations of
United States Minister Terrell, M'ss Clara
Barton and her party will be permitted by
the Turkish Government to distribute relief
to the distressed Armenians, although the
Red Cross itself will not figure in the work.
This news came to the State Depart meet
nt Minister Washington in a cablegram from the
lo Secretary Olney. in which he
says that white tho Forte refuses such per¬
mission to the Red Cross, or to the members
of tho Red Cross us such, and thereby decline
to permit officially recognize that society, it will
any person whom the Minister names
and approves to distribute relief in the in¬
terior of Turkey, provided tho Turkish
authorities are kept informed of what they
are doing.
There can be no question that Miss Barton
Rnd h«r party will be so designated by Min¬
ister Terrell, but it is apprehended that they
will encounter almost insurmountable ob¬
stacles iu reaching the field of action as the
mountain passes between tho seaboard and
the interior are now practically impassable
owing to the deep snows.
Tennessee Exposition Postpone l.
The Board of Directors of the Tennessee
Centennial and International Exposition at
Nashville voted to postpone the opening oil
the fair from September 1, 1896, to May 1,
1897. The exposition is planned to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of the State,
p.ud the State was admitted June 3, 1798.
But the enterprise has grown to such pro-
portions that the Directory decided that the
exposition In addition, could political, not be completed and this year.
business interna¬
tional disturbances, they say, make this
year a bad one for a great industrial exposi¬
tion.
Decay of “Chinatown.”
The decay of “Chinatown" is one of the
most remarkable features of San Francisco
life. Five years ago Chinatown bad 25,093
Inhabitants and trade was lively, many of the
larsre merchants doing an extensive business.
Rents were higher in Chinatown than in
other parts of the city. Now rents have
fallen more than one-half in this quarter, real
astate is unsalable and the copulation has
shrunk to 15,000. The last China steamer
sarcied 700 Cainamea bask to their homes
the der part of whom will not return.’ <
gra Chinatown six
At the present rate, in months
will not have 10,000 inhabitants.
Sweden and tkorway at Peace.
King Oscar of Sweden, in a speech at the
opening of the Riksdag, said that the anx-
iety concerning the Union of Sweden and
Norway had diminished and expressed the
bone that tho cause, for discord would per¬
manently vanish, recent events making it
more needful than ever for Nations to
hold together for security and liberty. Ha
said that the present large surplus for National ia the
Treasury wou [ d permit the grants of warlike de¬
defeuee. and that in event
velopments in Europe, Sweden and Norway
would maintain a strict neutrality.
To Coin Standard Sliver Do.iar.
Secretary Carlisle has directed Mint Direc¬
tor Preston to prepare to coin standard sil¬
ver dollars at the Philadelphia and New
Orleans mints. It is probable that not more
than 7,000.000 standard silver dollars will be
cornea. Two things will happen as the re¬
sult of this decision to coin standard silver
doilars. viz.; The re-opening of the New
Orieans mint on a sma 1 scale, and the con¬
tinuance of coining operations at the Phila¬
delphia mint.
Times Improving in Prussia.
The Prussian Diet was opened in the White
Hall of the Schloss, Berlin. The speech from
the throne was devoted to domestic affairs.
It is stated that the budget for 1898 'vill show
a smaller deficit than that of 1895, owing to
increased railway receipts due to improving
trade.
The Last of the Watuppas.
Dr. B. W. Perrv, the iast of the Watuppa
Indians, the tribe which refused to join
King Philip in his war for the extermination
of the whites, died suddenly at Fall River,
Mass , at the age of seven y-five. He wa3 a
great athlete and skater.
Unprospecced Arizona Minerals.
The largest tract oi mineral land in the
United States nor yet prospected is in Ari¬
zona, The mountains ara full of gold, sil¬
ver. coppfer, lea i and other valuable me&iA
Dicycle Kills Vha Kor33 Cars.
The street railway company of a Eastern
city hag resolved to suspend the running ol
€h« horse cars, cwlng to the fact that the
blc'yUei has diminished their profit:.
Natl opal Finances iu a XuUheF.
In 1:S5 _ the , puhu^ . s.-ta o* 1 * rV. Um-.ed a
States was on.y ■>o7.al>.
Not quits haM oi outf revintolast t wto
. dut.ei,. year
received iromhustotns
in *ha v(*a.- Hvu- *in ohlv bhatU elcht'viArs Lro’n
now Ok)j mhst jc re-
deemed.
In the receipts trpm the tat Iff on
ports amounted to 677.030,090 more than ia3t |
yea- !
The tariff on imports m:o the United _
t abhinr aUmi “ ^ ^ ^ j
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Thirty-seven cents per capita in 1S94 was
Bufflbiont to pay the iatertfet on the Nation’s
^ >£S$ . _.. ,
In ISM three cents per capita of silver and ,
In BfVt-v-s.X 1894 thineen cents per Capita o: gotd capita was of ebjqaj. Silver
cents per
md %1.17 ol gold Was m.ate: 1
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The indeUteiiibssoi ihe United States, less ;
cash on hind on Xoveu o’er 1, 1?35, was
%S12,1S7,610.8b Withua: deductions and
including certificates and Treasury not^s it 1
was $i,7J7,4Si,773
SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.
The Manufacturers’ Record Gives a
Cheerful Summary.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record
weekly summary of industrial interests in
the South show that increased attention is
again being given to textile matters, and
that several of the oldfst and largest New
England cotton mill companies are now in¬
vestigating in the South f.r locations foi
building mills to cost over 3500,000 each.
Among important matters reportpd for the
week were the privileges secured at New
Orleans by the Diinois Central railroad for
the construction of wharves, warehouses and
grain elevators at a cost of about t-750,000—
the Intention being to provide Increased
facilities not only for the export trade, but to
give foreign special attention to the development of
imports. Cotton mill enterprises
6how a 6,000 spindle mill at Charlotte, N. 0.,
a 5,000 spindle mill at Monroe, N. C.; is to
double capital; a 15.000 spindle mill at Hills¬
spindle boro, a knitting mill at Winston, a 2,500
mill proposed at Sparta, Ga.;a $150,-
000 mill proposed at Charleston, S. C.: a
of $100,000 mills mill Lynchburg, at Beaufort. S. C.; enlargement
at Va. and Bamberg, S,
C.; contracts let for a 100,000 car wheel works
at Birmingham, to be established by western
people and for a $10,000 bolt ancl nut works
at the same place; a $300,000 company to
build electrio plant at New Orleans; a $40,-
000 company at Alexandria, La. to build
5 ton refrigerating and 25-ton ice making
plant; $40,000 a $25,000 ice plant at El Paso, Tex.;
a extensiye tanning enlargement company at Tyler, Tex.; an
of a gold ore reduc¬
tion plant at Blacksburg, S. C., iaoluding the
establishment of chlorination work 3 and a
stamp mill. The sale is reported of 17.000
acres of land near Southern Pines, N. C., to
New Ycrk colonization agents, who expect to
settle about 1,600 families on the property
within the next 12 months.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.
The Convention Adopted Important
Resolutions.
The session of the American Manufacturers ‘nuiHccurers
vtr iw nela .14 In iv, Chicago, m ^lie next , session will
.
be held in Philadelphia, the timo to be fixed
by the president. A number of resolutions
■trprf. rr.r.r.rtn,i p rom ue ___ lommitiee, ,,,, aud , ad- ,
opted without comment, and others after
brief discussion. They were ss follows-
tat he Dlanoftribht £15? (Vnfto'i. "E‘?. 0 E Vo 3
miiform throu-'koot tho
afS'£a»w,' 7
from SISK sinL ?Ws dlSoS'o tmR J e h? mm ,°„? ed f° r
them th« ado do; tion of such a plan
arranged freight j by i a large , committee of their ablest
interests, men, representing defeated all the different
was on account of the
Jealousies therefore, of some of the leading carriers-
’
Resolved, That the national association of
manufacturers of America respectfully and
earnestly petition the congress of the United
States to authorize and direct the interstate
commtrce commission to prepare or cause
to be prepared at the earliest possible time
a throughout plan of rates which shall be uniform
the United States and to ordar
the same to bo put in effect January 1 1897
on all the railroads in the United States eni
gaged Resolved, in interstate commerce.
That it is the sense of this con¬
vention that a department of manufactures
be established under a secretary of equal
rank with the secretary of agriculture and
that the executive committee be imtructed
sai^object b St6PS &S 23ay s F eecll] y accomplish
be Resolved, requested That the executive committee
to consider what action should
he taken to prevent tha obstruction of traffic
business between the States of this Union
owing to severe and inequitable laws.
States Resolved, That the senate of the United
is earnestly requested to pas 3 prompt-
ly and send to the President the emergency
revenue bill which was adopted by the house
of representatives.
We insist that congress treat domestic su¬
gar as it does wool and other agricultural
products and we demand for the beet and
cane sugar industries fair legislation and lib¬
eral encouragement.
The committee on resolutions declined to
report on the resolutions of sympathy with
Cuba, on the ground that th3 manuscript de¬
clared the war had ended, extolled the in-
eurgents harsh and denounced the Spaniards in
terms.
Richard H. Edmunds, editor of The Manu¬
facturers’ Record of Baltimore, submitted a
strong argument in favor of a new cabinet
position to be designated as the department
of manufacture and commerce, and there
XJlysses was an address upon international banks by
D. Eddy of New York.
A BIG RAILROAD COMBINE.
The Whole Southern to be Parcelled
Out Between the Great Systems.
The New York Mail and Express prints the
following:
L is learned on the highest authority that
..
tho lines comprising the Southern States
Freight Association, are preparing a plan
whereby It is prooosed to pool the traffic to
and from Southern points within the juris-
en t ha,-been al.^ady taken and the special
committee from that Association which was
in in this City p&rt o* iHst
week, discussed various means prepared a
basis on whim it proposed to divide the bua-
mess. This committee was headed by Com-
Freight missioner Association, Ha;ne3, of and the Southern States
among the other
membors present were Yice President Fmley,
Sea^BSiSd-vlcl-StofE^!
c^fttlAS'ufooS? "<S£
mitttee held a final meeting on Saturday
morning at No. 24 Park Place, and they will
meet soon again to make their r.renewed reports ae to
the ■icc.-ntimce nf the- i.’an
T: c present unsatisfactory condition of
‘For some time past it has been apparent
that ha\e .-ti-p-s t -e proposed direction would
to oo t.-a ia order to prevent open
rebellion. T ie aoti-'c of withdrawal of tffi^
Sehloard Air Line hastened matters, and
under satisfied. the proposed Differentials plan all differences will
be are propped, and
the general plan of Uiu Joint traffic Assoc’ia-
tfo’n wil-' b'» fo owf*d.
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CUBA LOST TO SPA1X.
__ i
That ia tlio Opinion i. of the German
Emperor.
It is stated upon good authority that the
Emperor of Germany, in ccaY^reation With
a’ guest ht dinner in the Caetle, expressed |
o'pinfon that the Island of Cuba Was Tost t’d
Spain. The heat course for Spain to fake |
th’e Kaiser is alleged to have said, would b*e
tcf ffome to some gbrt o. arrangement with
1 "* Wr
find Mechanical College trustees htfld in Co- j
lumtia. th? resignation of two ol the leadlnd
This professors has of that institution was requested. j :
The created seething of a sensation,
Charge aghicBt them was innempetEhey. j
THE F1FTY-FOI K ill CONGRESS.
A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both
Houses.
T2E spxatt.
Taeaday Ua. tha routing buslnAss ol tno hewr-e Gfi
a ‘‘service pension bill” was report¬
ed from tha committee cn pensions, without
any calendar. recommendation, A and was placed on the
resolution was offered and re
ferredto the committee on foreign relations,
requesting the President cf tho United
States to inquire into the arrest and forcible
removal of Mark C. Rodriguez, a aitizen of
the United States on board of the United
S at >s mail steamer Olivette in the harbor of
Havana on the 15th instant, and also in the
arrest of Louis S. Someillan and his son in
Ha\ana; and if no just cause forsueh arrests
exists, mediate that the President demand their im¬
release. The bond bill came up as
the unftniohed business, but it also went over
for the day and business on the calendar was
proceeded with and about 65 bills, to which
45 no objection was made, were passed. About
were private pension bills aud half a doz¬
en were bridge bills.
On Wednesday after t e routine
—the presentation of petitions and the intro-
auction and rsfurence of bills—the resolu¬
tion directing the Secretary of State to send
to the Senate tho dispatches of United Stab ?
consuls relating to the war now carried ou
in Cuba was reported back adversely from
the committee on foreign relations, and was
placed on the calendar. The committee on
foreign relations reported a preamble and
concurrent resolution in regard to the Arme¬
nian outrages in Turkey. Senator Walcott
addressed the Senate at length on the Vene¬
zuelan question concerning the proposed ex¬
tension of the Monroe doctrine, and in criti¬
cism of the action of the executive aud legis¬
lative departments of the government.
Three set speeches were delivered in the
Senate on Thursday—Warren talked tariff;
DuBois, iel the bond bill and free coinage; Dan¬
defended the administration’s course it
the Venezuelan matter. A bill was introduced
to repeal the refunding act of 1870 aud the
resumption fered act of 1875. A resolution was of¬
for tho appointment of a select com¬
mittee to inquire into the imprisonment of
?.n railroad gGn9 i V strike). ; (i R A ooane resolution , eti ? D with was the offered £ re,i j
and referred to tbo committee on comtneico
directing the chief of engineers of the atn_y
make n surve y across the Peninsula ol
Florida for a route for a ship canal aud to
prepare estimates therefor. The Senate thrr
proceeded to executive business,
In tho Senate on Friday the committee on
The tta> Dapout plsction case (rom D-1-
aware. concurrent resolution reporterl
' v n" esd,y ', r r t ';° «>r iit ec «
rs,: , 1 3i
tie Mtahaii o 1. nh'aJjt. ; R^al, ni fc tb;’ Uni S
Statea uaval atatiou at P « rt S. G, wu
passed adjourned After a short executive MoiSay session tnp
Senate “ u .' jui ueu until unui mommy,
The two Senators from the new State of
Utah took their places in the Senate Monday,
making hat the whole number of members of
t b R dy 89 ’ The joint resol u tlon reported
from the committee on agriculture mstruct-
inR tho 6ecr etary of Agriculture to comply
with the law rec t ulrin S tho purchase and dis-
tribution of seeds was debated. No action
free ta colna ^ en S ’ e Th substitute, ? ^ oasa was bond laid , b i U :^ before ith the
Senate unfinished business. Two speeches
were made on the bul * but the biU weat over
without action. After a short executive ses-
sion the Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
ed Oil Tuesday a resolution of inquiry report¬
from tho committee on inter-State and
Secretary foreign commerce was voted, directing the
of the Treasury to inform tho
House whether or not, iu his opinion, the
regulations travel for tho safety cf tho public in
ocean these are adequate, and if so, whether
or not regulations are being carried
out. The House went into committee of the
whole to consider the urgent deficiency bill.
A brief general debate ensued upon the sub¬
ject of the fee system la paying officials of
United States courts and th9 necessity for
its reformation, if not abolition. Several un¬
ing important for amendments and one appropriat¬
ands, £5,000 added, the survey of Chippewa Indian
being the committee rose and
the bill as amended was passed.
Two-thirds of the three-hour session of
tho House Wednesday was occupied in the
consideration of a Senate joint resolution
authorizing the expenditure of 655,000, ail
told, for the the employment of outside assist-
Treasury ance to in the supervising and architect of tho
plans specifications and
imous report of elections committee No. 2,
that H. C. Milner was entitled to the seat now
occupied ninth by York him as Representative from tho
New district, and that Timothy
J. Campbell, contestant, was not entitled
thereto, .was agreed to without discussion.
debate," as Mr. Doliiver, the of Iowa, expressed
it, was responsible for only enlivening
feature of an otherwise dry stretch in the
House proceedings Thursday. Immediate-
ly after the reading of the journal Mr. Hen-
derson. of Iowa, reported the quorum-count-
amended t^me'et 6 ob“cHon? mSd^lo its
original from, and it was agreed to. After
the transaction oi some routine business, the
House, took a recess urn d Friday night, for
at theScffisionof that^mS^fto^taadad-
Journed until Monday.
There was a fair attendance of membeis
Friday first night, when the tii6ITifty-foiirtli House met for the
pension sossion of Oon*
gres.-. Among the 13 bills which received
favorable consideration were the Senate bill
cM-amirm a nenc’nn lato of S75 nor month tn
widow of the Brigadier General W. 4
Cogswell, bill of Massachusetts, and th® House
increasing to 672 per month the pension
^ o W a ^dJ°a«rfSuM 0 Jay.’
The House on Monday diecuseed for four
. hours and passed, by a vote of 143 to 26, the
Senate concurrent resolution declaring it to
be an imperative duty in the interest of hu-
mamty, to express the earnest hope that the
K*idi European concert brought £^L about by tho
0« fimattcirm y Mv. S andlawl«8 e «kSiS
violence.
and assure unoffending Christians of the
Turkish Empire all the rights belonging to
them aa men and Christiana and as bene-
^ tbat treaty, the and , requesting expllC1 ^ provisions the Presf- ol
dent to communicate the resolutions to the
that fije signatory Congress powers will support thereof; the and President declaring in
the most vigorous action he may taka for the
protection and semirity of AmHrican citizens
lu_ injuries Turkey committed and to obtain th. redress for
^uch upon persons
or P r °r , ^ rt y ot eltleens. A
message wa3 received from the President
asking an appropriation for the transporTa-
tion for the negro coldfcists who went to
^^repWrfed, J ' vh " '' 2
-
.
The Goldin This Country.
On Jib. 1, 1336, the treasury official circu-
latfon Statement placed the stock of gold In
>»**>
RMSir ssasssi SSSSi
aSSKi Mint Preston’s figures of £583,000,-
Director
in the United Str tte is correct, makes
e3l2.000.0u0 private hanks o; and d. the poexets companies of the
in
people.
NO. 14.
LATEST SEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS p. « . ...vrc w-nvi FKO.l vi -LV.G i nm uin rs.
—-—
Important Happenings, Doth Homo
cad Foreign, Briefly Told.
Newsy Southern Notes.
Konev Las been elected United
States Senator from the State of Mis¬
sissippi.
Atlanta lias abolished its detective
department aud assigned tire members
ou the police force.
The Mississippi dea l-lock has been
broken by tho nominal a of Monty
f or United Stat. "• to tor by the
Democratic Caucus.
The Mississippi Legislature has pass¬
ed a Jaw making pistoi-carrying a seri¬
ous olTeuse, punishable by a line of $50
and 30 day's in jail.
The National Editorial Association,
at St. Augustine, Fla., was addressed
by Senator Squire of Washington,
on the pressing need of better coast
defenses.
A verdict for 81,750 has been ren¬
dered in the United States Circuit
Court against the Florida East Coast
railroad for blacklisting W. E. Willete,
a conductor.
Hon. John K. Cowen, Uepreseuta-
tive iu Congress from the fourth Mary¬
land district, has been elected presi¬
dent of the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad,
to succeed Chas. F. Mayer.
At Nashville, Tenn., the bgard of
directors of the Tennessee Centennial
and Industrial Exposition voted to
postpone tho opening of tho fair from
September 1st, 1890, to May 1st, 1897.
Ex-Congressman Oscar Turner died
at his home in Louisville, Ivy., Thurs¬
day' afternoon, at the ago of 80. Ho
represented the lirst Kentucky district
in the House of Representatives as an
Independent.
The Democratic executive commit¬
tee of Alabama met at Montgomery,
erected four free silver men to fill
vacancies cn the committee, and se¬
lected April 21st as tho date for hold¬
ing the Slate convention.
The Republican convention held in
the sixth Texas district elected two
Reed delegates to the St. Louis con¬
vention. This is the third congres¬
sional district convention thus far held
in Texas at which the delegates elected
were Reed men.
One of the buildings at the Tennes¬
see Centennial exposition will be
erected entirely with money provided
by children of the Htate. Everything
in it and around it will be arranged for
the pleasure and profit of the children.
In the tower will swing a lino set of
silver chimes.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Re¬
cord’s weekly summary of industrial
interests in the South shows that sev¬
eral of the oldest aud largest New Eng¬
land cotton mill companies are now ,’n-
vestigating in the South for locations
for building mills to cost over $500,000
each.
Northern News Notes.
A Salt , 300 feet thick, said to
vein,
be the richest in the world, has been
J? f onnf una i nn unaer der the me town lovn of 01 Little JjlulG River
Kan.
T he of Mrs. AnDa R. Aspinwall,
of of Pitt(ibur(?, about §3,009,000 Pa.;bequeaths to the nospital he, fort*.* of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in
uuaueii
The National . Association of Mann-
faeturers in session at Chicago, Els.,
t oted The ,°' of Pbi,sdel -
pbia, president for the ensuing year,
Thomas Daler having declined a re-
e i ection to that position. l
An explosion of chemicals in the lab-
oratory of tho Swanson Rheumatic
C ™ e Company, at Chicago, wrecked
the contents ot the onices on one floor.
frightened into panic the oecutianta of
the building, injured three persons
and caused a property loss of $10,000.
A week’s steady rain in the lower
xrjRcnrri -Missouri vail-v valk-y nnnr°rtorl converted creeks nropka and and
rivers into inlftBu 863.S, i nrms w$f6
inundated, fences destroyed, bridges
swent t-wepc awa~ away. The rne taronertv property damage damage is is
extensive. The railroads are great
sufferers and traffic is seriously de-
laved.
Aa electric car at SI. Louie coUMed
with a barouche conveying five Sinter,
of Mercy on Jefferson avenue bridge
aD( j four of the nuns and the driver of
carriage carr j a rre were were senous.y seriously iniured. wjurea. The xne
injuries are not regarded as fatal. The
"--otormau of tho ck-cuic car u told
for the accident.
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Washington.
HouBe committee on elections, No.
2, ,, Mr. Johnson, nf of Indiana Indiana, chairmen chairman,
has. decided to contest election caeee of
Campbell vs Miner, from th^ ninth
j". York IO district, U '. bir / C G ir; favor isvor of ui Mr -ur.
Miner, the ,, sitting mbhiVer. The xe-
p’drt Vab unanimous.
<)y -
Foreign.
bull-fighting Advices , from , tne City of Mexico . saj
hat? been interdlrtetl in
the republic after the fulfillment bf
yresent' ffontract^. The cause is sap-
po’Sed t‘d be frequent dangerous distjr-
def and turbuliTnCe at the fights b^
spectators.
&5£3£Sr«S A Kentuckian’s 2 Deed.
0 ^ J SVSZ£X2?i£St m—,*.,
^ {-j^ p seatinn was^false, H?nkin«
* tWol reptfrt shbt ^laVk he drew bh
' iuffi ill tht
. aau augt