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DECIDED AGAINST RAILROADS
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMIS
SION SAYS RULE Is VIOLATED.
DECLARE RATES ARE EXCESSIVE.
The Case Is Similar to the Celebrated
Social Circle Short Haul Contest.
Its Nature Sweeping.
The interstate commerce commis
sion, at AVasliiugton Thursday, in an
opinion by Commissioner Frouty, ren
dered a decision in the case of Brewer
A Hanletter against the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company, Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
way company, Western and Atlantic
Railroad company and Central of
’Georgia Railway company.
The commission decides that these
carriers in charging on freights from
.Louisville to Cincinnati more for the
shorter distance to Griffin, Ga., than
for the longer distance over the same
line to Macon, Ga., have violated sec
tions three and four (the long and
short haul sections) of the interstate
oommerce act.
What the Decision Means.
This is another Social Circle case,
and the question decided is one of
far-reaching importance involving the
relations of small towns to commercial
centers. It is especially interesting
just now because it establishes one of
the propositions laid down by Mr. W.
H. Brewer in his recent application to
the railroad commission of Georgia
for a reduction of 33l per cent on all
freight rates in the state.
One of the grounds of that petition
was the allegation that the railroads
were handling freight from Ohio river
points to Macon for less than they
carry it to Griffin.
This is the second important deci
sion the interstate commerce commis
sion has made on the long and short
haul claim of the interstate commerce
act on a oomplaint from Georgia. The
decision in the Social Circle case was
affirmed by the United States supreme
court after protracted litigation.
It was a qualified decision, however,
and the result of the new case, which
is likely to go to the court of last re
sort, will be watched with interest.
The principle is in favor of the small
towns and against lower rates to the
commercial centers and tends to put
all communities on an equality.
The president is now undecided
whether or not to send in any message
for the reason that a number of most
important leaders of the party in the
senate and house have made a strong
representation to him of the inadvis
ability of sending a message to con
gress while the tariff bill is in confer
ence.
WHOLE FAMILY CREMATED.
Non© Were Able to Eftoap© From Their
Burning Cottage.
A special from Pineville, Ivy., says
that Hugh Joeson and family of five,
who live fifteen miles northeast of that
place, were burned to death Tuesday
night, being unable to escape from
their cottage, which was fired over
their heads.
The dead are: Hugh Joeson, the
father; Mary Joeson, his wife; Fanny
Joeson, a daughter, fourteen years
old; Joe Joeson, a sou, ten years old;
a daughter, eight years old; Maggie, a
daughter, six years old.
The remains of all six were found
in the debris. The fire was undoubt
edly of incendiary origin, and t.ie
Bel! county officers are taking steps to
discover the guilty party or parties.
BANQUETED AND DIED.
Quartet of Paris Dressmakers End Their
Live# Together.
A great sensation has been caused
at Paris by the discovery that four
dressmakers have committed suicide
by inhaling charcoal fumes in a fiat
wherein they lodged.
The four met in the evening, par
took of a sumptuous dinner with wine,
sang and smoked until late and con
cluded life with the statement in writ
ing, signed by all:
“We die deliberately and without
any regret.”
When the bodies were discovered
the tables and floor were strewn with
cigarettes and cigar ends. On the
center table were letters addressed to
their relatives.
TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN
The President Will Go To Spend Hia
Summer Vacation.
President McKinley will spend most
of his summer vacation on the shores
of Lake Champlain. Plattsburg, N.
Y , will he his nearest town. His
party will consist of the members of
the presidential family, of Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Hobart, Secretary Alger
and family, Secretary and Mrs. Porter
and probably of some other members
of official society.
The president will make quite a
prolonged stay, lasting several weeks
at least, The president’s summer plans
were informally talked over with the
oabiuet members Friday.
SPEER NAMES DATE
For Hearing Petition of Macon Citizens
Against Kailroad Consolidation.
A telegram from Macon states that
Judge Emory Speer has set the first
week in August for a bearing on the
petition brought before him by the
merchants and citizens of Macon
against the consolidated railroads in
Georgia by the Southern railway.
The petition asks for an injunction
and receiver for stock claimed to be
illegally held. The hearing will be at
Mount Airy, where the judge goes
everys umrner.
A CAMPAIGN ISSUE
To Be Made of the Lease of the North
Carolina Bailway.
A special from Raleigh, N. C., says:
Governor Russell says the lease of
the North Carolina railway to the
Southern is positively to be made an
issue in the nest campaign; that he
does not know whether a plank de
claring against it will be in the repub
lican platform, but it will be in >yhat
I*9 terms the voters’ platform,
SENATE HONORS HARRIS.
Body Adjourns Out of Respect To the Deed
Senator.
The senate met Friday under the
depressing influences of the death of
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who had
been one of the conspicuous figures in
the upper house of congress for over
twenty years. The desk he occupied
so long was not draped, as the senate
had as yet no official knowledge of his
demise.
Rev. Johnston, the chaplain of the
senate, in his invocation, referred
feelingly to the loss the senate had
sustained and spoke of his “rugged
honesty, his unswerving attachment
to his political principles, his opposi
tion to all he considered wrong, his
devotion to his state and his service to
the nation.”
After the journal had been read,
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, made the
announcement of the death of his col
league. In doing so he paid a high
tribute to the memory of the distin
guished dead. He spoke of the con
spicuous part he had played in his
state and in the nation during his
long and eventful career.
He was the last of the great war
governors, north and south, said Sen
ator Bate, who presided over the des
tinies of sovereign states during the
stirring struggle between the states.
Mr. Bate then offered the usual reso
lutions which provided for a funeral
in the senate Saturday, to which the
house was invited, and for a commit
tee of nine senators to accompany the
remains to Tennessee for interment.
Mr. Cockerell, of Missouri, offered
a supplemental resolution extending
an invitation to the president, mem
bers of the cabinet, members of the
supreme court, the diplomatic corps,
the major general of the army and the
admiral of the navy to attend the
obsequies.
Then, at 12:15, on motion of Mr.
Bate, as a further mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, the sen
ate adjourned.
MANY DRIVEN TO DEATH
By the Sizzling Heat In Crowded Chicago,
St. Louis and Cincinnati.
A Chicago special says: Of all the
hot days that have made life a burden
since the warm weather of 1897, Fri
day was the warmest. There were
more deaths of human beings and of
animals and the number of prostra
tions was greater than upon any other
day of the long hot spell that has hung
over Chicago.
Sixteen people are dead of heat, two
are insane and out of a large number
of prostrations ten cases are critical.
Out in the Bridewell, where seven
prisoners went insane Thursday be
cause of the heat, others suffered the
same fate Friday. Three men either
strong in the belief that a life of
rectitude secured an eternal abode in
some place less hot than this, or de
termined to be packed in ice at any
cost—took their lives. Friday was a
sizzling horror, there was comfort to
be found nowhere—it was the hottest
night Chicago has ever known.
A Cincinnati special announces the
number of heat deaths in that city
Friday as six. Thirty prostrations
were reported, with the usual quota of
serious cases. The maximum heat by
trustworthy thermometers for the day
was 96 at 4 o’clock p. m. It was 81 at
7 o’clock in the morning, and it was
82 at 11 o’clock at night. The num
ber of deaths in the last seven days is
sixty.
Seven people died from the heat in.
St. Louis Friday.
DYNAMITE’S DEADLY WORK.
Five Negroes Blown to Pieces By a Hidden
Bomb.
While a gang of workmen were mak
ing excavations along a line of street
railway at Lexington, Ivy., Friday,
one of them struck what appeared to
be a piece of pipe, but which proved
to be a sixly-four-pound dynamite
cartridge.
A fearful explosion followed and
five of the six negroes in the gang
were blow'n to atoms. The other was
so badly injured that he cannot re
cover.
The police are inclined to think the
dynamite was placed there by some
miscreant who had a grudge against
the street car company; others think it
was left there by workmen on the Cin
cinnati Southern some years ago when
they were making excavations for a
road in the same neighborhood.
Windows in the neighborhood were
broken and several buildings slightly
damaged.
I)EMANDS INDEMNITY;
Senator Lodge Reports a Very Significant
Resolution.
The senate committee on foreign
relations, through Senator Lodge, re
ported a resolution Wednesday author
izing the president “to take such
measures as he may deem necessary
to obtain indemnity from the Spanish
government for the wrongs and inju
ries suffered by August Dolton and
Gustav Richelieu, two naturalized
American citizens, by reason of their
wrongful arrest by Spanish authorities
at Santiago deCuba in the year 1895. ”
The resolution further authorizes
the president to “employ such means
or exercise such power as may be nec
essary.” __
REPORT ON COTTON.
Status of tli Staple I. (liven Out By the
Government.
The July returns for cotton to the
department of agriculture at Washing
ton indicate an average condition of
B'i, as compared with 83.5 in June, an
increase of 2.5 points. The average
condition for July, 1896, was 91.5.
The averages of the states are as
follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina
)0, South Carolina 86, Georgia 85,
Florida 80, Alabama 85, Louisiana 89,
Texas 88, Arkansas 88, Tennessee 80,
Missouri 95, Oklahoma 82, Mississippi
31 and the Indian Territory 93.
TO RUSH TARIFF BILL
House Committee on Buies Will Allow
Only Short Debate.
The house committee on rules deci
ded Thursday to present a special or
der sending the tariff bill to confer
ence as soon as it was received from
the senate. This will give but 20
minutes’ debate on a side. The dem
ocrats tried to secure an agreement
for a time to debate the conference re
port, but none was made. The repub
licans offered a day, and the demo
crats asked for three or four days,
SENATE PASSES lIFF Bill
THE FINAL TOTE WAS THIRTY
EIGHT TO TWENTY-EIGHT.
POPULISTS HELD OFF FROM YOUNG.
McEnory th Only Democrat to Vote
For the Bill—Measure Will Now
Go to Conference.
The tariff bill passed the senate
Wednesday afternoon, the vote being
38 to 28.
This large majority of ten votes
was due to the action of some of the
populists and silver republicans in
withholding their votes. But one
democrat voted for the bill, McEnery,
of Louisiana. There was nothing
dramatic about the final vote. Just
before it was taken there were some
interesting explanations by individual
senators as to their position. Every
body was anxious for a vote and every
body seemed glad when the vote was
announced and the end of the senate
struggle reached.
Speaker Reed, Chairman Dingley
and many of the members of the house
of representatives were in the rear,
while every seat iu the galleries save
those reserved for foreign representa
tives was occupied.
The early part of the day was spent
on amendments of comparatively minor
importance, the debate branching into
financial and anti-trust channels. By
4 o’clock the senators began manifest
ing their impatience by calls of “vote,”
and soon thereafter the last amend
ment was disposed of and the final
vote began.
There were many interruptions as
pairs were arranged, and then at 4:45
o’clock the vice-president arose and
announced the passage of the bill
yeas, 38; nays, 28.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas —Allison, Baker, Burrows, Carter,
Clark, Cullum, Davis, Dehoe, Elkins, Fair
banks, Foraker, Gallinger, Hale, Hanna,
Hawley, Jones of Nevada, Lodge, Mcßride,
McEnery, McMillan, Mantle, Mason, Mor
rill. Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Con
necticut, Platt of New York, Pritchard,
Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Hhoup, Spooner,
Warren, Wellington, Wctmoro and Wilson
-38.
Nays—Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery, Can
non,' Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner.
Gray, Harris of Kansas, Jones of Arkansas,
Kenney. Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills,
Mitchell, Morgan, Pasco, Pettus, Itawlins,
lioach. Turner, Tnrpie, Vest, Walthall and
White—2B.
The following pairs were announced.
The first named would have voted for
the bill and the last named against:
Aldrich and Murphy, Chandler and
McLaurin, Frye and Gorman, Gear
and Smith, Hansbrough and Daniel,
Hoar and Harris of Tennessee, Thurs
ton and Tillman, Wolcott and George.
An analysis of the final vote shows
that the affirmative war cast by thirty
five republicans, two silver republi
cans, Jones, of Nevada, and Mantle,
and one democrat, McEnery, total
thirty-eight.
The negative vote was cast by twen
ty-five democrats, two populists, Har
ris, of Kansas, and Turner, and one
silver republican, Cannon, total twen
ty eight.
Eight republicans were paired for
the bill and eight democrats against
it. The senators present and not vot
ing were: Populists five, viz: Allen,
Butler, Heitfeld, Kyle and Stewart.
Silver republicans two, viz: Teller and
Pettigrew.
Following the passing of the bill a
resolution was agreed to asking the
house for a conference, and Senators
Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of Connecticut;
Burrows, Jones,of Nevada;Vest,Jones,
of Arkansas, and White were named
as conferees on the part of the senate.
Story of tl© Debate.
The tariff debate began on May 25th,
on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of
the finance committee, made the open
ing statement on the bill.
The actual consideration of the bill
began the next day, May 26th, when
schedule A, relating to chemicals, was
taken up. The debate was continuous
since that time,covering six weeks and
one day.
Mr. Aldrich’s illness took him from
the chamber after the first day, and
the bill was then in the immediate
charge of Mr. Allison. The opposi
tion has been directed in the main by
Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and Mr. Vest,
while Senators White, Caffery, Gray
and Allen have frequently figured in
the debate.
HOSPITAL FOR ASHEVILLE.
Millionaire Vanderbilt Will Erect One
For Treatment of Indigent Sick.
Asheville, N. C., is to have a mam
moth hospital. The institution is to
be erected and maintained by the
Biltmore millionaire, George W. Van
derbilt, and is intended for patients
who are unable to pay for treatment.
All kinds of diseases will be treated,
especially tuberculosis, and ailments
that are contagious. A corps of ex
pert physicians will be in charge, and
every convenience and comfort possi
ble for such an institution will be in
stalled. Mr. Vanderbilt will begin the
project with an outlay of SIOO,OOO.
TURNPIKE CHARTER SOLD.
Famoim as Being the Road Over Which
Andrew Jackson Traveled.
The charter of the once famous Cum
berland turnpike has been sold to
Cumberland county, Term., for $75.
This was one of the first roads built
in Tennessee and over it emigrants
came from North Carolina and Vir
ginia when it w'as but a trail. When
iffages coaches were in vogue the mail
from Knoxville to Nashville was car
ried over this road, and over it passed
“Old Hickory” on his pilgrimage from
the “Hermitage” to Washington to
take the oath of office as president.
BEER TRUST PROBABLE.
Twenty-Six Breweries in Detroit Contem
plate Going Into One Syndicate.
It is reported that the proprietors of
the twenty-six breweries in Detroit
are planning to sell out to a syndicate
composed chiefly of English capital
ists. Nearly all the brewers have
signed an agreement- for the above
purpose. The result of the combina
tion will be a rise in the price of beer
from $4 and $5 to $6 per barrel.
CYCLONE KILLS FOURTEEN.
Iloii.e. Demollnli><l ami Railroad Train.
Wrecked lly Wlml In Minnesota.
Fourteen people are known to have
been killed in the cyclone and cloud
bursts in Minnesota Wednesday. The
storm was general and it is impossible
to estimate the amount of damage with
any degree of certainty. The cyclone,
which was central near Glemvood, was
the W'orst that ever struck the state.
The list of dead at Glenwood, so far
as known, is as follows: Toleff Lavan,
Samuel Morrow, Mrs. Samuel Morrow,
Winnie Morrow aud Oswald McGow
an. Others were fatally hurt.
Trainmen say that a number of
houses were blown from the founda
tions by their storm, and undoubtedly
more lives are lost.
Railroad traffic is paralyzed because
of the heavy fall of rain. The rain
came so suddenly and so fiercely in
some places that many trains ran into
washouts before they had any intima
tion of danger.
A bad wreck on the Great Northern
is reported about eight miles west of
St. Cloud, twenty freight cars being
ditched. Charles Washburn was in
stantly killed and W. H. Pepper, the
engineer of the train, was seriously
injured.
A freight train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul road w as wrecked
near Faribault and two of the crew
were killed. Crops have been damaged
to an irreparable extent, and a large
amount of live stock was killed. Re
ports of washouts, floods and cyclones
are being received hourly. Every rail
road in the state has some damage to
the tracks and rolling stock. It is hard
to even approximate the loss, but con
sidering other damage it will probably
exceed §1,000,000.
TRANSFERER TO GOVERNMENT.
Monongahela River Is Now Open for Na
tional Commerce.
The formal transfer of the property
of the Monongahela Navigation com
pany to the United States government
was made at Pittsburg Wednesday aft
ernoon. The Monongahela river is
now free to the commerce of the na
tion.
The transfer was made to Assistant
Secretary of War Micklejohn, who de
livered the warrant drawn on the
United States treasury for the amount
awarded $3,601,615.56, to President
Donnell, of the Navigation company.
The freeing of the river mean; a sav
ing of $225,000 annually to the coal
operators.
The transfer will release nearly
10,000,000 bushels of coal which has
been held in the pools by the opera
tors to save lockage tolls. This coal
will be carried down to Pittsburg at
once.
THORNE MAKES CONFESSION.
If© and Mrn.Nack Had© Way With William
Guldensuppe*
A New York dispatch states that
the positive identification of the man
arrested Tuesday night as Martin
Thorne, the alleged confederate in the
murder and dismemberment of the
body of William Guldensuppe, was
made Wednesday.
Acting Inspector O’Brien says that
he has in his possession a full confes
sion from Thorne admitting that he
had murdered Guldensuppe and giving
all the details of the crime.
Mrs. Augusta Nack, who is hold as
an accomplice in the murder, is in
prison under a charge of murder and
with a complete chain of circumstan
tial evidence woven about her. The
detectives claim that there will be no
trouble in convicting both parties.
MORE TROUBLE FOR BERESFOKD.
Fitzgerald Authorities Ask For “Me
Lud’s'* Arrest.
Sidney Lascelles, whose meteoric
financial career startled the sober
minded citizens of Fitzgerald, Ga., is
again in trouble, it will seem.
A number of telegrams were sent to
Savannah Wednesday asking that Las
celles be arrested and held until an
officer from Fitzgerald could arrive.
The telegrams were placed in the
hands of the Savannah detectives, hut
Lascelles could not be found after a
search of the city.
Several days ago Lascelles left Fitz
gerald, going to Savannah. The war
rant issued charges him with cheating
and swindling. He is wanted badly
in Fitzgerald, and if he is located, he
will be carried back to bis home to
face the charges which have been pre
ferred against him in his absence.
RUSSIAN CROPS RUINED.
Excessive Bainfall Ha* Nearly Destroyed
Hay and Beets.
The London Daily Mail’s corre
spondent at St. Petersburg says: The
harvest prospects in Contral and South
Russia are growing worse and worse.
Continuous rains are destroying the
hay crops, while the exceptionally
poor beet crop in Podolien has prac
tically ruined the sugar industry.
The crops in some of the Baltic
provinces also have suffered heavily
from rains, and a significant sign of
the gravity of the situation is the fact
that an unusually severe censorship is
exercised over news concerning it.
GAGE MAKES SUGGESTION.
Thinks That Tax of One Cent Per Pound
On Sugar Will Help Matters.
A Washington telegram states that
Secretary Gage has written a letter to
Senator Allison suggesting the advisa
bility of putting a tax of 1 cent a
pound on all refined sugar made from
stock imported prior to the passage of
the tariff bill.
It is the opinion of the custom offi
cials of the treasury that this duty
would increase the government’s reve
nues by several millions, and that the
hardship would fall ou those best able
to bear it.
SENATOR HARRIS SERIOUSLY ILL.
Too Weak To Be Bemoved to the Tennes
see Mountains, As Proposed,
A Washington special says: The
condition of Senator Harris is preca
rious. During the heat of Wednes
day afternoon there were fears that in
his debilitated condition he would not
rally again, but as the atmosphere be
came cooler towards night the senator
regained partly wbat be bad lost
during the day. His proposed removal
to mountain resort has been dismissed,
11 MINES CLOSED DIN.
RECORD OF GREATEST OF WAGE
STREGGLES FOR A WEEK.
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE IDLE.
Minors Are Jubilant Over the Situation
So Far — Success Depends on West
Virginia -Diggers.
Sunday marked the beginning of
the second week of the coal miners’
strike and already it gives promise of
being one of the greatest wage strug
gles in the history of this country.
The coal operators in the Pittsburg
district and the miners themselves little
dreamed that within one short
week such an era of general suspen
sion could be wrought as now exists in
the bituminous mining industry.
Then the mouth of the many coal
pits throughout the Monongahela,
Youghioheny, Allegheny and Peters
Creek valleys, and the valleys of
Tom’s and Miller’s Run were open
and turning out thousands and thous
ands of tons of the best coal that en
ters into the competitive markets of
the world.
Now, all is changed. The vast cav
erns are like so many graveyards. On
the hillsides basking in the shade
there is an army of 18,000 men, who
are anxiously waiting for more to join
the troops of idlers. On nearly every
railroad track leading to the mines
there stand empty cars, apparently
anxious to be loaded that their burdens
may be carried to the ports along the
lakes.
The success that has attended the
movement has greatly elated the
miners and during the next few days
every effort will be made to bring out
the men in the few mines that are still
working. This will be a difficult task,
but they express confidence in their
ability to make the suspension com
plete.
From the best information obtaina
ble the Pittsburg operators are in no
hurry to have the difficulty adjusted,
so many of them having stocks on
railroad sidings which they hold for
an advance. Much of this was disposed
of Saturday at a good profit. One
(prominent operator said that it would
take another week to determine the
exact state of the markets, and by that
time a general cleaning up will have
taken place. All interested will be
ready to begin business on anew basis
and probably at a higher price.
“This whole thing will result in a
compromise,” said another prominent
operator. “The operators are in a
position to stand it for some time and
I believe the miners are in about the
same condition. It looks as if busi
ness will brighten up and in that
event the operators will be able to get
better prices and the condition of bus
iness and the condition of the miners
will be simultaneously improved.’’
The effect of the strike is being
manifested in the price of coal. An
increase of 60 cents a ton was shown
when an application was made for con
tracts and a number of Pittsburg op
erators, not being able to work their
own mines, are seeking to liny coal in
the West Virginia field in order to
reap the advantage of the advance.
Thore has been no intimation of
lawlessness as yet in the region, but
Sheriff Lowrey, of Allegheny' county',
has anticipated any trouble by swearing
in 500 deputies. The miners say there
will be no overt acts.
No openly aggressive work was done
Saturday by either side, but the mi
ners’ officials held a secret meeting, at
which it is believed a vigorous cam
j paigu against the New York and
Cleveland gas coal miners, which will
: be inaugurated at once, was decided
' upon. The operators apparently are
I doing little and are saving less. How
: ever, their confidence of defeating the
miners has not abated in the least.
DEMAND FROM AMBASSADORS.
| Turkish Government Ik Asked to Not Ob
struct Peace Negotiations.
Acting upon instructions received
j from their respective governments,the
ambassadors of the powers at Constan
tinople presented a collective note to
the Turkish government Friday de
manding a cessation of the obstruction
J of the peace negotiations.
A SUNDAY SESSION
Held By Conferees of House and Senate on
Tariff Bill.
A Washington dispatch says: The
conferees on the tariff bill held a four
hour session Sunday. The anxiety to
reach a complete agreement as early
as possible induced them to meet ou
the Sabbath and at present both the
house and senate conferees appeared
satisfied with the progress that has
been made.
Several hundred of the minor amend
ments have been agreed upon. Many
of them were chauges of phraseology
and on a large majority of these the
house conferees naturally have
yielded.
COMPETITOR PRISONERS
To Be Brought (o Trial In Havana at an
Early Date.
The state department at Washing
ton has been informed that the cases
against Competitor prisoners will be
brought to an issue at Havana within
a very short time.
It is expected that the cases of the
Americans, Melton and Leavitt, will
be separated from the others and they
will be leniently dealt with the Span
i all ftij t.h or ihi P-R.
MANY DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS.
Fearful Heat Continues With No Belief
In Sight.
A St. Louis dispatch says: Thurs
day was the eleventh day of 100 de
grees heat in St. Louis. By 3 o’clock
in the afternoou seven people had died
from the heat, one man attempted sui
cide and there were at least four out
of the many prostrations which will
prove fatal.
There is no relief in sight. It is a
cool bedroom in which the temperature
at night is lower than 92 degrees, and
in consequence the vitality of the peo
ple is becopiiug exhausted.
A GHASTLY FIND.
Dl.m.mbered Rodt of a Woman Found
In a Barrel.
A special from Quitman, Ga., says:
Jacob Wooten and some friends, while
fishing Saturday on Mule creek in the
upper part of the county, discovered a
barrel buried upright in the mud and
containing a human body.
The body had been cut into blocks
and placed in the barrel, and mud had
been thrown in, filling the barrel,
which was then headed and buried.
News of the discovery soon spread
through the neighborhood and hun
dreds of people have visited the scene
and viewed the ghastly remains. The
identity of the body aud everything
connected with it are shrouded in
mystery.
The swamp in which the body was
found is a dense jungle, and the spot
where the barrel was unearthed is a
mile or more from any house.
The neighborhood is thinly settled
and about fifteen miles from Quitman.
No one has been missing and none
of those who have come from the
scene can account for the mystery.
Following so closely upon the fa
mous New York mystery of the mur
der of Guldensuppe and the cutting
up of his body, the excitement is in
tense.
Wooten and bis friends first remov
ed the head of the barrel; then the
dirt which had formed into a hard
cake, and to their horror beheld a neat
plait of human hair about two feet in
length, soft and black, and evidently
belonging to the head of a young
white woman.
Next, pieces of flesh and clothing
were taken out, all in a fairly good
state of preservation. The flesh, had
dried and the skin had a mummified
appearance. The dress was of checked
homespun, while there was an under
skirt of bleached homespun, machine
made.
FUNERAL SERVICES IN SENATE
Conducted Over llumalnß of Hon. Isliain
G. Harris.
Impressive funeral services over the
late Senator Isham G. Harris occurred
in the senate chamber at noon Saturday
in the presence of President McKinley
and the members of his cabinet, sena
tors and members of the house of rep
resentatives, members of the diplo
matic corps, justices of the supreme
court and officials from all branches of
public life.
The chamber had been elaborately
draped for the occasion. The desk of
the late senator was heavily bound in
crepe.
In the semi-circular area, imme
diately in front of the presiding offi
cer, stood the casket, resting on heavy
black draped pedestals aud literally
buried in floral offerings. On the
plate was inscribed:
“Died July 7, 1897. Isham G.
Harris. Aged seventy-nine years.”
The services were brief and simple,
consisting only of prayers by Rev.
Mr. Johnston, Rev. Dr. Duffy, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
and Chaplain Coudeu, of the house of
representatives, the latter pronouncing
the benediction.
At 12:30 p. m. the ceremony was
over and on motion of Senator Bate,
of Tennessee, the senate adjourned.
AS BAD AS AN EPIDEMIC.
Death Record from Heat Was Three
Hundred and Fifty for Month.
The fierce heat under which the
greater portion of the country has
sweltered since the Ist of July, mod
erated iu many localities Saturday,
and predictions from the weather
bureau at Washington indicate that
lower tempeaatures will bring general
relief.
The record of prostrations and deaths
resulting from the long heated term
approaches in magnitude that of a
general epidemic. Reports from all
sections of the country received by
the Associated Press up to Saturday
night showed prostrations numbering
iu the neighborhood of 2,000, with fa
talities close to 350.
In addition to this, there were scores
of deaths resulting indirectly from the
intolerable heat, the death rate iu
many of the large cities showing a
fearful insrease over previous years.
The central states suffered more se
verely than other sections, the heat
being most deadly in Chicago, Cincin
nati and St. Louis. Iu number of fa
talities Chicago headed the list, with
87 deaths; Cincinnati and suburban
points reporting 05, and St. Louis 42.
Through the lower south the heat was
intense, hut the death rate is much
lower than in the north.
NATIONAL HAY ASSOCIATION
Will Meet August 10th With Many Dele
gates Present.
A call for the fourth annual meeting
of the National Hay association at the
Monongahela house, Pittsburg, on
August 10th, is announced in the last
issues of the Hay Trade Journal.
The crop in the state being much
larger, with probable lighter imports
than during the past few years, gives
new impetus to the trade.
Delegates will be in attendance from
all parts of the United States and bus
iness pertaining to the hay trade will
be fully discussed during the three
days’ session.
CHARGED WITH LYNCHING.
Three White Men Are Bound Over at
Birmingham Under SI.OOO Bonds.
After a three days’ preliminary hear
ing before Justice Benners, at Bir
mingham, Ala., Joe Williams, Charles
Clark and Zaek Hollins were held to
bail in the sum of SI,OOO each for the
murder of Jim Thomas, colored, near
Blossburg, a week ago.
It is alleged these men carried
Thomas to the 3 r oods and killed him
because he claimed to know the negro
who attempted to assault Mrs. Hollins.
OFFICE SEEKERS DISAPPOINTED.
No Other Diplomatic Nono,illations to Be
Made for llie Present.
A Washington special says: It can
now be announced on authority that
with presentation to the senate of the
large list of diplomatic and consular
nominations which has been prepared,
the president will positively make no
another appointment to plrces of this
character until after the adjournment
of congress.
This notice is inspired by a desire
to spare useless importunities by seek
ers after diplomatic and consular
places,
THE GREAT STRIKE ENDORSED
LABOR LEADERS OF THE COUNTRT
GIVE THEIR APPROVAL,
AND MINERS WILL GET SUFFORT.
A Meeting Held In Pittsburg and the Situ
ation Fully Discussed by Gotn
pers, Ratchford and Others.
The greatest gathering of labor
leaders that ever assembled iu this
country during a national strike was
held in Pittsburg, Pa., Friday night
to devise means to assist the miners in
their contest for increased wages.
The conference was called suddenly,
but the officials responded represent
ing nearly every branch of organized
labor in the United States. Those
present were:
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
M. L. Ratchford, national president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica.
M. M. Garland, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers.
Stephen Madden, secretary of the
Amalgamated association.
J. M. Hughes, first vice-president
of the Federation of Metal Trades.
M. ,T. Counahan, national secretary
of the Journeymen Plumbers’ Associ
ation.
M. P. Carrick, president of the
Brotherhood of Painters and Decora
tors.
D. R, Thomas, president of the Na
tional Pattern Makers’ League.
W. P. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees.
Frederick Dolan, district president
United Mine Workers.
The session was secret, and it was
almost midnight when it was over.
The press committee, Messrs. Gom
pers, Ratchford and Counahan, then
gave out the following statement in
which was corporated, they said, all
that was done at the conference. The
manifesto follows:
“After an Informal discussion, reports
were made by Messrs. Ratchford, Dolan
and Warner in regard to the situation of
the movement, and it demonstrated that the
situation in West Virginia required atten
tion in order that the suspension should
be absolutely general and success assured.
With that object in view, action was recom
mended by President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, and it was
determined upon to overcome this feature
of the contest. It was also, determined that
every effort be made on the part of those
present to secure the co-operation and
practical aid of organized labor for the
struggling miners.
“All the circumstances warrant the Arm
conviction that the miners will ultimately
achieve victory and to this end the aid of
the labor and the sympathetic public is in
voked. Conscious of the great interest
which the public has in a contest so wide
spread as that of the miners, it gives us
great satisfaction to know that the miners
have not been and are not now opposed to
arbitration. We, therefore,urge and advise
that a conference be held by the representa
tives of the miners and the operators with a
view of arriving at a settlement of the pres
ent suspension.”
To Stop in West Virginia.
Notwithstanding the positive an
nouncement by the committee that the
statement furnished the press covered
all the proceedings of the conference,
it is known that an organized effort to
secure a general suspension of mining
in West Virginia was decided upon.
After a thorough canvass of the sit
uation it was unanimously agreed that
the West Virginia miners held the key
to the situation and without their
united support the success of the gen
eral movement would be greatly jeop
ardized. In furtherance of this de
termination, the officials present
pledged themselves to send into this
field a full quota of the best organizers
in their several associations.
After adjournment in resjionse to the
question whether a 2 per cent assess
ment on all organized labor, as con
templated, would be made, President
Dolan, of the Pittsburg district, said
he thought such action would eventu
ally be taken.
He would not admit, however, that
the matter of assessment had been
considered at the conference, or that
the question of a general sympathetic
strike had been discussed.
LEE’S GOOD ACCOUNT
Shows a Large Surplus of the Money Ap
propriated for Cuban Aid.
United States Consul General Lee
has been rendering some account to
the government of his expenditures
from the fund appropriated by con
gress for the relief of destitute Amer
ican citizens in Cuba.
His figures were presented to the
cabinet Friday, and the showing was
remarkable for it appeared that of tlie
total of $50,000 at the disposition of
Gen. Lee, hehad expended only SO,OOO
and yet had given substantial relief to
every distressed American whom ho
could find ready to receive aid and be
sides bad shipped some of them back
to the United States.
SEIZED SMUGGLE lUWEED.
Customs Inspectors at New York Capture
Choice Leaf Valued at 82,000.
Customs inspectors at New York,
Friday, seized two lots of smuggled
tobacco worth about $2,000.
The first seizure was made at a ho
tel, corner Dey and West streets, where
several bales of Sumatra tobacco was
found. Later a hundred small pack
ages of choice leaf tobacco were dis
covered hidden aboard the Red Star
liner Southwark.
DURRANT RESTS EASY.
His Fate Is Now In the Hands of Cnele
Sam’s Groat Court,
A special from San Francisco says:
The reprieve granted Theodore Dur
rani by Governor Budd expired Fri
day, but the murderer of Blanche La
ment and Annie Williams was in nc
danger of hanging. It does not mat
ter whether Governor Budd grants a
further reprieve or not, as the granting
of an appeal by the United States
circuit court to the United States su
preme conrt takes all power but of the
state officials uutil the highest federal
court renders a decision iu the case.