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■LED THROUGH TRESTLE.
A TRAIN ON WAIHSH RAILROAD
WRECKED IN A GULCII.
SEVEN PEOPLE TAKEN OUT DEAD.
Nineteen Others Were Injured But Not
Seriously—Disaster Caused
by a Rain Storm.
The St. Louis express on tlie Wa
bash railway, which left Kansas City
at 6:20 o’clock Saturday evening,
plunged through a trestle at Missouri
City, Mo., at five minutes of 7 o’clock,
carrying down the entire train with
the exception of the rear car, a Pull
man.
The gorge, which a few hours pre
vious was practically empty, had be
come a raging torrent because of a
tremendous downpour of rain and the
structure weakened.
Asa result of the catastrophe seven
people were killed. A correct list is
as follows:
W. S. Mills, postal clerk, St. Louis.
O. M. Smith, postal clerk,St. Louis.
Gustave A. Smith, postal clerk, St.
Louis.
Charles Winters, postal clerk, St.
Louis.
F. H. Brink, postal clerk, St. Louis.
Edward Griurod, baggageman, St.
Louis.
Charles P. Greasley, brakeman.
Nineteen passengers were injured*
but not one is in a critical condition.
Among them all there is not one bro
ken limb, though many of them were
thrown three-quarters of the length of
the coaches in which they were riding.
John Ennis, traveling salesman for
Beckman & McKnight, was in the rear
end of the train which was the only
one that escaped injury. It was like
wise the only car in which none of the
passengers were injured. Mr. Ennis
had an interview with a farmer who
had come from Missouri City in the
evening and was at the place where
the wreck occurred to flag the train.
The farmer claimed to have waved a
flag on the track, but owing to the
terrible rain the engineer was unable
to see the signal. Mr. Ennis said the
wreck occurred at 7:0o o’clock.
One of tlie moat important things,
and one which secured the safety of
the remaining passengers on the train,
was the flagging of a freight train
which followed the passenger train
about ten minutes.
This freight train was flagged by
passengers 300 feet from the wreck.
The engine passed over the trestle,
nroke immediately afterwards,
the front or
wn
nnis
e was
practical, j ge, but
at the time of the wreca . raging
a torrent of ten feet or more iu depth.
The former said the bridge was clearly
unsafe, which had impelled him to
stand in the storm and attempt to
flag the train.
KENTUCKY HORSE WON’.
Ornament Captures the .St. I.ouis Sweep
stakes of $13,000.
Kentucky beats Missouri—Orna
ment outran Typhoon II in the St.
Louis derby Saturday in the $12,000
sweepstake for three-year-olds and
several thousand St. Louisians walked
home.
The much-played Typhoon II was
beaten, not only, by Ornament, of
Kentucky, but also by Buokvidere, a
twelve to one shot, who came near get
ting in first-place. Aside from the re
assertment of Ornament’s superiority,
the race was a disappointment, Orna
ment’s price, 19 to 20 and out, pre
vented any heavy play on him by the
visitors, while Typhoon, II to 10, was
hardly more attractive.
AIiL (JUIET AT KEY WEST.
Governor of Florid h ho Wires the Wash
in "ton Authorities.
President McKinley has received a
message from Governor Bloxham, of
Florida, stating that the sheriff of Key
West wired Saturday morning that the
contemplated trouble did not materi
alize and that everything there is quiet
and orderly.
“OLD GLORY” TORN DOW N.
United Staten Flat; Jerked From a Sit-ins
of Other Flags.
A news special from Halifax states
that the United States flag was de
liberately torn from a string of other
flags on Queen Victoria’s jubilee day.
The flags were displayed by Thomas
Lowndes from his residence. The
flag was a very large one and only the
band of it was left on the rope. Some
time ago Mr, Lowndes received a
threatening letter concerning thi
United States flag which was display
ed by him on another occasion.
The outrage was committed early
in the morning and the perpetrators
fled before they oould be arrested, .
NEGRO MAY BUY THE MILLS.
Would Use Colored l-abor, and Throw 300
Whites Out of Work.
Selma, Ala., is much exercised over
the report that a wealthy New York
negro will bid heavily for the Mat
thews cotton mill property to be sold
nt foreclosure next month.
He proposes to operate the mill with
negro labor. This would throw the
three hundred white operative out of
employment.
The property is very valuable. A
large block of this stock was owned
by the defunct Commercial hank.
DAVIS’S RECTOR DEAD.
Kev. Dr. TJarten, of Christ Church, Nor
folk, Va., Fusses Away,
Rev. O. S. Barteu, D.1)., rector of
fclhrist church at Norfolk, Va., died
Saturday afternoon, aged fifty-seven
years. Dr. Barteu was one of the
most prominent divines in the south
ern diocese. He had been rector of
Christ church since 1865 and was
rector for Jefferson Davis during his
incarceration at Fort Monroe imme
diately after the war.
GREAT NAVAL REVIEW
Of Warihlps of the World In Honor of
Queen Victoria.
A special from Pcrtsmouth,England,
says: The most magnificent display of
naval strength ever witnessed occurred
off Spithead Saturday, the occasion
being the grand naval review held in
honor of the completion of the sixtieth
year of the reign of Queen Victoria.
The Prince of Wales, representing
her majesty, reviewed a fine fleet of
foreign warships, representing all the
maritime nations of the world, proud
est, strongest and swiftest of these
crafts being the United States armor
ed cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of
Bear Admiral Miller, and the heir ap
pareni also inspected about thirty
miles of British warships in which
were 196 fighting ships of different
classes, carrying about 900 heavy
guns, manned by over 45,000 men, and
of about 60,000 tons in all.
Each maritime nation sent an ad
miral in his flagship to witness tlio
review. They formed a line abreast
of the British battleships, where they
were favorably placed to compare their
own naval, architecture with that of
other nations. Each nation sent its
best available ship and a magnificent
display resulted.
An interesting feature of the British
fleet was the training ships, which
comprised three of the early iron-clads,
a squadron of cruisers which usually
winters with a training crew on board
in the West Indies, or in some other
warm latitude, and a fleet of training
brigs which cruise in the neighborhood
of the British ports.
The British fleet assembled June 22
and was drawn up in four lines, ex
tending from abreast of Portsmouth
harbor to a distance of about five
miles to the westward.
Following the precedent of former
naval reviews there was free access to
the review ground up to the hour
named for the official inspection, when
all vessels with visitors anchored in
their assigned positions, and the tour
of the fleet was commenced by the
Prince of Wales.
WILL REFER TO LEGISLATURE.
Governor Kllerbe Will Not Issue Order
Reprimanding Gen. Watts.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Ellerbe will not issue a gen
eral ord. r reprimanding adjutant Gen
eral Watts, as recommended by the
court of inquiry.
It is probable that the governor’s
not being on the pleasantest personal
terms with the general may have in
fluenced him in this regard, he desir
ing to avoid the possibility of letting
personal feeling influence him. Then
the action of the board is equivalent to
a reprimand, and the legislature can
decide whether a more serious view
shall be taken of the case.
The governor’s order issued says:
“The report of the court of inquiry
and record of proceedings will be at
the proper time transmitted to the
general assembly for such action as
that body may deem proper w ith ref
erence to the adjutant and inspector
general, who in this state is a consti
tutional officer, and it is ordered:'
“First, That Private Fishburn, of
the Richland Volunteers, be discharged
from the military service of the state.
“Second, That the captain of the
Richland Volunteers publish an order
reprimanding Private Dunning, of said
company, for leaving ranks without
permission.
“Third. That the court of inquiry
having completed the duties assigned,
it is hereby dissolved.
“Fourth. That the commander-in
chief desires to express his high ap
preciation of the complete and careful
manner in which the court has per
formed its duty.”
INSURGENTS KILL THIRTY.
They Attack Stnan Coach and Capture
31iich Booty.
A news special states that a stage
coach from Havana for San Jose de
Las Lajas, a nearby-settlement, was
stopped on the road by a large hand
of insurgents, who killed with their
machetes eighteen scouts escorting the
coach, six guerrillas, one Spanish offi
cer, a doctor, a carpenter and three
other passengers who attempted to
save their lives by fight.
The only occupants of the coach who
were not killed by the insurgents were
a woman and a child, who were among
the passengers. The bodies of the per
sons slain were stripped of their cloth
ing and left lying alongside the road.
The insurgents captured a consider
able amount of booty.
HUDSON’S FATE SEALED.
Governor Atkinson Has Refused to Com
mute the Negro’s Sentence.
Terrell Hudson, the young negro
murderer of DeKalb county, will now
hang. Governor Atkinson has refused
to commute Hudson’s sentence, and
the execution w ill take place at Deca
tur.
The scaffold which was erected sev
eral weeks ago, has been left standing
by Sheriff Austin, and is in readiness
for its victim. Hudson was to have
been hanged on June 11th, but on ac
count of a sensational affidavit made
by one of the most important wit
nesses in the case the governor granted
a respite.
FIVE MEN DEAD IN A WRECK.
Fatal Collision Occurs on Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad.
A serious collision occurred on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad near
Burts, Va., Saturday night, in which
two engineers and three other railroad
men lost their lives.
Two freight trains collided with a
terrible crash, burying both engineers
in the mass of wreckage. They were
burned to death by escaping. steam
from the engines. The wreck was a
had one and the road will be blocked
some time.
CUBAN BONDS SOLD.
John Jacob Astor Buys One of the 91,000
Six Fer Cents.
Anew York telegram states that
John Jacob Astor has purchased one
of the thousand dollar 6 per cent gold
bonds of the republic of Cuba, which
were-issued last April. Dr. W. Seward
Webb has purchased one of the 6 !
per cent bonda^^^-
These 50
cent •>( bu
GENERAL GORDON RE-ELECTED
CONFEDERATE VETERANS WOULD
NOT LET HIM RETIRE.
THEIR VOTES WERE UNANIMOUS.
The General Delivers an Address Review
ing the Advancement of the Order
During the Past Right Years.
The business meeting of the ex-con
federate reunion in Nashville was called
to oi'der by General John B. Gordon
Wednesday morning. Prayer was of
fered byKev. D.C.Kelly, of Columbia,
Teun.
The report of the committee on his
tory was presented and referred.
General Gordon then delivered his
address,prefacing it with an announce
ment of his intention to resign as gen
eral commanding. There were cries of
“Nol no” from all over the hall and
when quiet had been restored, General
Gordon proceeded with his address.
He said in part:
“Mr. President and Comrades :
Permit me with few words to return
the commission with which you have
honored me for eight years, and by
unanimous vote. Within the next few
hours you will elect my successor.
When this duty is performed by you I
shall gladly take my place by those
united heroes who so grandly bore the
battle’s brunt in the stern work of
wa'. Such a step voluntarily taken
ought not to be considsred a strange
condescension by any man. To me it
is a privilege.
“Mr. President, in these closing
hours of my long service as command
ing general I must ask the conven
tion’s indulgence for a brief review of
that official relation and possibly for
some suggestions as to the future.
“On the 10th day of June, 1889,
eight years ago, while serving as gov
ernor of my native state, I received
from New Orleans the wholly unex
pected announcement of my election
as commander-in-chief of the newly
organized United Confederate V et
erans.
This new communion of ex-sohliers
began its somewhat unpromising
career with the modest number of but
ten organizations, united for peaceful
and noble ends. Today it presents
the proud array of more than a thou
sand camps answering the roll call,
and reflecting merited honors upon
the different commanders, and espe
cially upon our able adjutant general.
In the next few hours I shall turn
over to my successor thi3 army of
more than a thousand organizations,
rapidly advancing toward the second
thousand.
“I said Mr. President, that I would
turn over an army. It is an army of
ex-sohliers, of ex-Confederate soldiers,
of exfighting Confederate soldiers,
philanthropic and broadly patriotic.
It is an army still, Mr. President, but
an army for the bloody work of war no
longer. Its banners no longer bear
the flaming insignia of battle. Its
weapons no longer flash defiance to
the foe nor deal death to the opposing
ranks. Its weapons are now the
pen without malice, the tongue
without aspersion and history without
misrepresentation. Its aims are peace
ful, philanthropic and broadly patri
otic. Its sentiment is lofty, generous
and just. Its mission is to relieve
the suffering of the living, cheri-h the
memory of the dead and to shield
from reproach the fair name of all.
This now mighty organization, while
insisting upon complete historical jus
tice to the south, will scorn to do less
than complete justice to the north.”
General Gordon Re-Elected.
When General Gordeu had concluded
his address, a motion, that General
Joseph Wheeler be requested to nomi
nate General Gordon for re-election,
was made and carried. General
Stephen D. Lee, who had been called
to the chair, declared the nominations
closed and General Gordon was unan
imously re-elected. The thousands of
delegates present cheered and waved
their hats and handkerchiefs and the
scene was a most impressive one.
The committee on credentials re
ported 7,000 delegates present and
1,000 camps represented.
General Chipley, of Florida, chair
man of the committee of the Confed
erate Memorial association, presented
tho report cf the committee.
ANSWER TO JAPAN’S PROTEST.
Secretary of State Forwarded It to Japan
*?se Legation.
A Washington special says: “The
reply of the secr.taryof state to the
protest of the Japanese government
against the annexation of Hawaii has
been forwarded to the Japanese lega
tion here, and by them cabled to
Tokio.
“The legation will probably file a
supplementary statement upon receiv
ing instructions from the home gov
ernment.
“It is expected that this will take
some time, as the note of the Japanese
government is worded in the most
carefully diplomatic manner.
REPLY TO JAPAN
Hftß Been Completed, and Is a Dignified
Defense of Our Position.
The state department has practically
completed its reply to the Japanese
protest against the Hawaiian annexa
tion treaty, but has not yet delivered
it.
The reply is understood to be digni
fied in tone, a strong legal defense of
our position, which, without in any
sense abating our claims, still does
not disdain to support them by much
citation of precedent and international
law.
JOHN L. AFTER FITZ.
It Is Said That They Will Come Together
In the Ring.
A Boston dispatch says: When
John L. Sullivan stepped through the
ropes of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons ring
in Carson City on the 17th of last
March and challenged the winner of
that sensational battle, even his warm
est and closest friends -were inclined
to make light of the matter.
Tt was a clexer advertising
♦ hey said, for Sullivan’s fighting and
mre past. But John persisted^*
A COMBINE IN IOWA.
Three Partlc* To M.roh Under One Bin
. ner—State Ticket Named.
The lowa democratic state conven
tion held at I)es Moines adjourned
early Wednesday evening, having com
pleted its work.
The two allied conventions, the sil
ver republicans and populists, com
pleted their work slightly in advance.
The three factions were, after much
controversy, able to agree on one plat
form, with free silver as the main idea
and one ticket, composed of two dem
ocrats, two silver republicans and one
populist.
The ticket will be placed on the of
ficial ballot under the name “demo
crat,” and is as follows:
Governor, F. E. White, democrat;
Lieutenant Governor, B. A. Plummer,
silver republican; Judge Supreme
Court, L. M. Kinney, democrat; Kail
road commissioner, S. B. Grain, pop
ulist; Superintendent of instruction,
G. F. Reinhardt, silver republican.
The sentiment was almost over
whelmingly for Bryan. Every refer
ence to his name was greeted with
lusty cheering. His picture was re
peatedly displayed, and every time an
orator pointed toward it there was ap
plause.
There was no quarter given to the
gold democrats. The silver element
of the party had its own way in all the
proceedings. In point of number it
was one of the largest democratic con
ventions ever held in Des Moines and
in point of enthusiasm it will compare
favorably with any of them.
RECEIVER FOR “OKEFEXOKEE.”
Company That Undertook to Drain the
Swamp Is In Trouble.
The enterprise set on foot six years
ago to make a garden of the Okefenokee
swamp in South Georgia, and inci
dentally to make money for the stock
holders, after an expenditure approxi
mating half a million dollars, has
resulted in the financial embarrassment
of the company which undertook the
work, and stockholders seek the pro
tection of the court for their invest
ments.
The Suwanee Canal company is in
the hands of a temporary receiver, ap
pointed by Judge J. H. Lumpkin, of
Atlanta, upon the application of the
administrator of Captain Harry Jack
son’s estate. This company purchased
the Okefenokee swamp fr -m the state
of Georgia in 1891, acquiring about
240,000 acres at 26 cents an acre, and
paying the statithe sum of $63,101.80.
Including this purchase money, the
total expenditure on the property has
been about $410,000.
TRIBUTE TO VICTORIA.
Acting Chaplain Johnson Mentions Her in
His Senate Prayer.
An eloquent tribute to the long and
illustrious reign of Queen Victoria
was a feature of the opening prayer
before the senate Wednesday by the
acting chaplain, Bev. Johnson.
“We thank Thee,” he invoked, “for
the demonstration of joy, both na
tional and international, over her
majesty, Queen Victoria’s completion
of her long and illustrious reign of
sixty years; we thank Thee for her
exemplary life and her social qualities,
as wife, as queen, as mother; that her
court has been pure and her throne
without a stain; we thank Thee for all
the achievements of the Anglo-Saxon
race during this auspicious period of
the world’s history in all avenues of
literature, art, science, for the cordial
relations between the two great na
tions, one in language, literature,
laws and civil and religious liberty.
May they be bound together in per
petual bonds of peace.”
FATAL TORRII) WAVE.
Many Prostrations ami Several Deaths
From Heat In New Orleans.
For some days New' Orleans has suf
fered intensely from a hot wave.
Sunday tho thermometer registered
96 in the shade and Monday and Tues
day it crept up to 98 with a little or no
air stirring. The effect has been dis
astrous and there lias been probably
fifty prostrations within that time and
eight or ten deaths.
W. S. Dudley was found dead in bed
Wednesday morning as the result of
the heat. He was one of the best know’-n
cotton factors and club men in the
city. The other deaths during the
day were William Grady, blacksmith;
Peter Tickner,warehouseman; William
Griven, carriage driver, and John
Modtler.
GERMANS FOR ALABAMA.
Two Hundred Families Will Settle In (he
Town of Bismarck.
A party of 200 German immigrants
and their families from lowa and
Illinois is en route to Bismarck, a
town in Limestone county, Ala.,which
has been designed for them.
Bismarck was laid off' last fall by a
' company headed by M. Meisner, one
of the founders of Cullman, Ala., and
Captain R. B. Mason, of Athens. The
interests of the town will be vigorously
pushed There is already a movement
to build nn electric tramway connecting
it with Athens.
The immigrants will engage in fruit
farming.
GOV. BUSH N ELI) RENOMINATED.
Mark Hanna Kndorsed For United States
Senator From Ohio.
The republicans of Ohio in state
convention at Toledo finished their
work Wednesday.
Nominations were made as follows:
For governor, Asa S. Bushnell; lieu
tenant governor, A. W. Jones; su
preme judge, Jacob W. Burkett; attor
ney general, Frank Monett; state
treasurer, Samuel Campbell.
The platform adopted indorses the
candidacy of the Hon. Marcus A.
Hanna for United States senator.
EVIDENCE ALL IN.
South Carolina Court of Inquiry Gets
Through With Its Work.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatoh says:
All the evidence the court of inquiry
desires to take is in and their room
has been cleared, for deliberation. A
report to the governor will be made at
once.
Jackson Memorial Hall.
Jackson memorial
institute,
grated Wednesday
THE CRIME OF ANARCHISTS.
THE PARIS HOLOCAUST BROUGHT
UP IN NEW LIGHT.
SAID TO HAVE BEEN PREMEDITATED
Positive Proof Has Been Found Pointing
to a Duftarrily Plot of An
arch lßt.lv Origin.
The Chicago Post of Thursday says:
“Acording to a story which has
reached Chicago from Paris via Wash
ington, the terrible holocaust which
wiped out over one hundred lives at
the French capital May 4th was the
work of anarchists thirsting for re
venge on the upper classes of France.
“It is claimed that while the official
inquiry into the circumstances sur
rounding the catastrophe threw little
light on the cause of the fire, the secret
service department is working on a
clew that points to an anarchistic con
spiracy of stupendous magnitude.
“It is said the Paris detectives have
not only satisfied themselves that an
archists were at the bottom of the
awful crime, but that the leaders fled
to America as soon as they had seen
with what frightful success it had
been executed.
“It is also asserted that several per
sons are under arrest in Paris under
suspicion of knowing more about it
than they care to tell.
“A member of the French legation
at Washingtoi is said to be authority
for the story.”
A Washington special says the offi
cials of the French embassy there re
fuse to impart information concern
ing any connection that the anarchists
may have had with the holocaust in
the early part of May.
Mr. Lefevre, the first secretary of
the embassy, said that there had been
no communication received from his
government looking to the apprehen
sion of the leaders of the outrage who
it is said have fled to America.
This, he thinks, would have been
the case had it been believed such
persons were engaged in the affair
and came to this country. M. Lefevre
was in Paris at the time of the disaster
and remained there for several days.
Immediately afterwards there were in
timations in some of the newspapers
attributing the catastrophe to anarchist
sources, but they soon ceased.
Newspapers that have since come to
hand, conveyed the impression that
the opinion that the anarchists had
been at the bottom of the affair was
inconsistent with the real facts in the
case,which according to investigations,
showed that the fire was due to an ac
cident.
HAVOC WROUGHT BY HAIL.
Untold Damage Done at Topeka—Animals
Killed and People Injured.
The worst hailstorm known in the
history of Kansas struck Topeka short
ly after 6 o’clock Thursday night.
Hailstones weighing twelve and six
teen ounces stripped the trees of their
foliage, smashed window panes on ev
ery hand, including the finest plate
glass store fronts, cut down telegraph
and telephone wires, riddled awnings
and inflicted unprecedented damage
throughout the city.
Dogs were struck in the streets and
instantly killed. Horses were knocked
to their knees. Runaways occurred
throughout the city. When the fury
of the storm had passed dead birds
were found everywhere.
A heavy wind and terrible lightning
accompanied the storm.
Topeka looked like a city that had
withstood a siege of war guns. There
are not a dozen buildings in the town
that are not almost windowless and
many roofs are caved in.
The damage wrought can betfer be
imagined when it is known that the
hailstones ranged in size from that of
a hen’s egg to an ostrich’s egg and that
thirty mimutes after the storm one
hailstone was picked up which meas
ured fourteen inches in circumference.
Surgeons were kept busy dressing
tho wounds of persons injured in the
storm and reports of injuries cantinue
to be received.
The damage cannot be estimated,
but it will amount to thousands.
Window glass rose to a premium and
three carloads were at once ordered
from Kansas City.
SAYRE HOLDS HIS JOB.
Alabama Supreme Court Sustains Gov
ernor Jones.
The supreme court of Alabama
Thursday affirmed the opinion of the
circuit court of Montgomery county
in the contest for judge of the city
court between Judges J. G. Winter
and A. D. Sayre. This continues
Judge Sayre in office.
It will be remembered that when
Judge Arrington died in 1896, Gov
ernor Oates appointed Judge Winter
to the vacancy. When the general
assembly met in February, Governor
Johnson held that there was a vacancy
and lie appointed Judge Sayres.
The circuit court sustained this
action.
WANT if. & iT. RECEIVER.
Ohio Stockholders After a Tennessee
Building and Loan Cos.
A hill was filed in the chancery
court at Chattanooga, Thursday, by
A. S. Dickey, Charles Grimm and
Charles Fagan, citizens of Ohio, and
stockholders in the Hamilton Build
ing and Loan association, of Chatta
nooga, seeking to wind up the affairs
of the association.
The hill charges that the concern is
insolvent and losing money, and has
been for years, and asks that a re
ceiver be appointed to wind up its
affairs.
WILL NOT PURCHASE CUBA.
Senator Hanna Gives Denial To a Well
Circulated Rumor.
A Cleveland, Ohio, telegram says:
Senator M. A. Hanna was asked Friday
morning whether there was any truth
in the telegraphic statement that Pres
ident McKinley is considering a plan
whereby the freedom of Cuba is to be
purchased from Spain for $100,000,000,
the amount to be secured by Cuba.
“The statement is not authoritative, ”
said he.
WIFE USED SHOT GUN.
Promliint Citizen of Fmyett* County, Gs.,
Fatally Woundotl.
A terrible tragedy occurred Thurs
day afternoon in Fayette county, Ga.
The Hon. Enoch G. Jones, a promi
nent and popular citizen of the county
and a man well connected throughout
the state, is dying as the result of a
load of shot being lired into his head
by his wife.
Jones, who was told that he would
die, made a statement. He said that
he and his wife had some slight diffi
culty and his wife, in a fit of anger,
seized a shotgun and fired the contents
into the top of his head.
The desperate woman, fearing that
a mob might wreak summary venge
ance upon her for her terrible and rash
deed, hastened to Fairburn, five miles
distant, and gave herself up to the
sheriff of Campbell county. She said
she wanted protection from the Jones
boys. The sheriff was told that the
boys might lynch Mrs. Jones if they
found her and he decided to leave at
once with the woman for Atlanta.
The sheriff left hurriedly on the
train Thursday evening for Atlanta
and Mrs. Jones will be kept in the
Fulton county jail until the matter can
be further investigated.
The shooting is a sensation of con
siderable magnitude on account of the
parties being so well known and stand
ing so high in social and political life.
Mr. Jones is past sixty years of age
and Mrs. Jones is something over
fifty.
VETS HAVE MONSTER PARADE.
The dosing Scenes of tlie Re-Union at
Nashville.
A Nashville special says: Ten thou
sand veterans faced a beating rain and
marched out Thursday morning in a
procession unprecedented in the annals
of the south since the war. It was a
climax to the great reunion.
At night the old soldiers broke
ranks after an address by General
Gordon, and the camps scattered to
their different states, not to meet
again until next year, when the eighth
annual gathering will meet in Atlanta,
Ga.
The jparade Thursday morning was
the most picturesque ever given by
the veterans. From the time that the
warrior figure of Conynander-in-Ckief
Gordon, erect as an Indian and defiant
in attitude, was seen at the head of the
column until the straggling lines of
bedraggled soldiers brought up the
rear guard there were shouts which
made the walls of the city tremble, as
the miles and miles of grim, scar-cov
ered soldiers came by.
Sometimes it was almost like the
specter caravan, and silence was so
pronounced that this phantom parade
seemed made up of the spirits of other
days as the host swept by silently—
and many of the veterans were weep
ing.
Then again the 10,0C9 throats would
burst out with the rebel yell, which
would go down the line with an elec
tric thrill.
CONGRESSMAN COOKF. DIFS.
Found Dead In Bed In a Washington
Hotel.
Congressmad Edward Dean Cooke
of Illinois,was found dead in his room
at the Cochran hotel at Washington
Thursday morning about 5 o’clock,
presumably from heart disease.
Mr. Cooke retired about 11 o’clock
Wednesday night apparently in perfect
health.
About 5 o’clock, a. m., the night
clerk w :nt to Mr. Cooke’s room to in
quire for him. . Mr. Cooke was dead,
and the physician who was summoned
immediately said he had apparently
been dead for several hours.
The members of the Illinois delega
tion were at once notified and took
charge of the body, which will he pre
pared for shipment to Chicago.
Mr. Cooke was a native of low a, and j
was 48 years old. He was educated
in the public schools of Dubuque and ;
later graduated from the Columbian
university law school of Washington.
In 1882 he was elected to the Illinois
legislature and served on important
committees in that body.
He was elected to the 54th cong ess
from the “north side,” or sixth Illinois
district, and then re-elected to the pres
ent congress.
Republics Form Union.
Advices from Honduras state that a
treaty for provisional union of five
republics of Central America has been
signed at Guatemmala.
A BAR TO EX-SENATORS.
Mr. Hale, of Maine, Surprises the Senate
With an Amendment.
Senator Halo, (Maine), came for
ward Thursday with a surprise in the
form of a proposed amendment to the
senate rule admitting to the privileges
of the floor of the senate only ex-seua
tors who are not interested in any
claim or in the prosecution of the
same or directly iu any hill pending
in congress, and added to the text of
the proposed change the following:
“The purpose of the proposed
amendment is to prevent ex-senators
from enjoying the privileges of the
floor of the senate for the purpose of
urging or opposing claims or hills in
which they act as attorneys.”
KILPATRICK TO BE REARRESTED.
Detective Jones Believes the Doctor
Murdered Sprints.
A Macon dispatch says: Bill Jones,
the Atlanta detective, passed through
the city Friday morning on his way to
Midville.
He says that he will rearrest Dr.
Kilpatrick at once, as he has obtained
evidence iu addition to that already
secured.
Jones is very determined and claims
that Kilpatrick is undoubtedly guilty
of the murder of Joe Sprintz.
NEW RAILROAD FOR GEORGIA.
Will Be Built In Dooly County By a Tfum
ber of Capitalists.
The secretary of state of Georgia
has issued a charter for the Dooly
Southern Railway company,from Rich
mond to Irwinville, a distance of 35
miles.
The incorporators are: Geo. W. Par
rott, Sr., Geo. W. Parrott, Jr., I. X.
Chenes, W. S. Thomson, Jacob Haas,
B. P. O’Neal, Wm, Scaudrett, W. B.
O’Neal,' j. T. West and T. A. Scott.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Governor Atkinson had a hearing
the past week with the proprietors of
penitentiary camp No. 2 on escaped
convicts. Nothing definite was de
cided, as the hearing was simply to •
determine the question of responsibil
ity for the escape.
...
An effort will be made to secure
representation for Georgia at the
great trans-Mississippi exposition to
be held next year at Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha is the center of the region
from which the south expects to draw
immigration and a good state exhibit
there would do Georgia lasting good.
* * *
Anew enemy to the cotton plant
has made its appearance in the neigh
borhood of Abbeville. It is a dimin
utive bug, about the size of a bedbug.
It appears in great numbers, and de
vours the leaf, stem and bloom of the
plant. The farmers of the vicinity are
greatly exercised over the appearance
of this new enemy to their money
crop.
...
The Georgia Mining. Manufact' '-Dig
and Investment company’s case has
again been argued before Judge Lump
kin nt Atlanta and another sale of the
property in the hands of Receiver
Julius L. Frown is ordered. The as
sets of the company were offered to the
highest bidder but no sale occurred,as
there was no one present who cared to
give as much as the upset price ol
$125,000.
...
In spite of the somewhat somnam
bulistic pose of the state fair move
ment at Atlanta, it may be said that
the outlook was never more reassur
ing than at present. The committee
has already raised in the neighborhood
of $5,000 and the railroads are yet to
be heard from. It is almost certain
that from this source a sufficient sum
will be realized to bring the total up
to the amount fixed, $6,000.
* * *
The Northeastern railroad goes beg
ging for a buyer at $287,000. Not a
single bid was made for it. Not a
bidder appeared at Governor Atkin
son’s office on the day appointed for
opening bids. So the state will con
tinue to operate its thirty-nine miles
of road from Athens to Lula and will
make what it can out of the property.
Nothing else can be done with it until
the legislature meets and authorizes
action.
Th re is a movement on foot to ring
the Curfew bell in Atlanta. The city
council has been asked to establish the
ancient custom, and the petitioners
are many members of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union. The
union people want the bell rung at 9
o’clock every night. At that hour
they would have every boy and girl
under sixteen found on the streets
arrested and punished for violating
the proposed Curfew bell law.
* * *
Eight stalwart young men have re
ceived diplomas from the hands of
President Hall at the Technological
school ~ Georgia. The school, which
bss made such a name for itself in the
• last few years, has turned loose an
other graduating class and there was
never a class better fitted to run the
race of life. The young men who
graduated were: R. V. D. Corput, R.
M. Cnimley, F. C. Furlow, E.F. Huff,
i W. D. Nash, J. F. Ogletree, Jr., A. L.
Reynolds and E. L. Wight.
V * *
An interesting order was handed
down in the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan Association’s litigation a day
or two ago by Judge Lumpkin, at
Atlanta, denying the petition of Re
ceiver J. A. Tobin, who represents the
South Carolina courts in the case.
Receiver Tobin desired that all the
assets of the South Carolina creditors
be delivered to him, claiming that as
an officer of the court he was entitled
to wind up the litigation in that state.
Advices from Macon state that noth
ing new lias transpired in the case
against the Southern railway. In a
letter to the attorneys in the case
Judge Speer has signified his in
tention of acting slowly and carefully,
but throws out no hint as to his prob
able course. It is generally conceded,
how ever, that Judge Speer will rule in
accordance with his former decision,
which said that the Richmond and
Danville had no right to hold stock in
the Central railway.
* * *
The Atlanta city council may direct
the collection of back taxes from cor
poration manufacturing concerns
which have been enjoying special ex
emption from taxation for several years
past. The question came up in the
council meeting and an official ruling
on the legality of the exemptions was
made by the assistant city attorney.
It is the opinion of the attorney that
such exemptions are clearly illegal and
that the city has no authority to make
exemptions of the kind.
* * *
Thomas J. McClain, the Atlanta
man who shot his little son several
weeks ago, has been indicted for as
sault with intent to murder by' the
Fulton county grand jury. The child
hovered between life and death for
several days, and the grand jury de
layed action on account of the strong
probability of its dying, and a charge
of murder being made against McClain.
McClain is confined at the county jail
w here he continues to assert that he
did not intend to do any violence to
the child, and that the whole affair
was an accident. Willie McClain, the
wounded child, is still at the Grady
hospital. The physicians state that
it is extremely doubtful that he will
fully recover. His mind is said to be
a perfect blank, and it is feared that
he will never regain his reason.
TROUBLE IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
Payment of Cherokee Freedmen Cause*
Complications.
Trouble lias broken out afresli at
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, where
the Cherokee freedmen payment lias
just been resumed, and the Washing
ton authorities have been appealed to
for assistance in averting further dis
orders.
News of the disturbance came offi
cially in the telegrams received at
Washington Friday by Secretary Bliss,
supplemented by similar advices re
ceived by the attorney general and the
secretary of war.
