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SILVER FO3ION IN NEBRASKA
THE THREE PARTIES COMBINE
AM) HOLD CONTENTION.
M ALLIANCE MAY BE FORMED.
W. .1. Bryan Makes an Address In Which
He Urgos the Necessity of Co-Opera
tion For Silver’s Cause.
The Tripartite Alliance of the Ne
braska free silver forces was given
considerable headway at Lincoln,
Wednesday, by three large conven
tions held, respectively, by the demo
crats, populists and free silver repub
licans.
These gatherings, conducted under
separate organizations, acted in per
fect harmony, and when this routine
work had been disposed of the repre
sentatives of the united parties gave
their attention to addresses by leading
free silver advocates.
The nomination of a fusion state
ticket seems assured.
During the morning the democratic
state central committee agreed upon
C. A. Shallenberger, of Alma, for tem
porary chairman; the silver republi
cans selected F. W. Loomis, of Oma
ha, for the same position, and the pop
ulist state central committee decided
to leave the election of a temporary
chairman to that convention.
The three conventions were called
to order at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,
the populists meeting in the Lansing
theater, democrats in the public hall
and the silver republicans in the
Young Men’s Christian Association
auditorium. Had there been a hall in
the city large enough to accommodate
the crowd the three conventions would
have been merged into one. The
democratic convention was probably
the most enthusiastic of the three.
The hall was hilled to its utmost ca
pacity.
The three conventions appointed
their committees and took a recess
until 7:30 o’clock.
At 4 o’clock the delegates gathered
in the statehouse grounds and listened
to a number of addresses by W. J.
Bryan, ex-Congressman Charles A.
Towne, General Weaver and others.
Mr. Bryan said iu substance:
“The democrats, populists and silver re
publicans were led to co-operate last year be
cause they agreed in opinion upon
the subject of bimetallism and also agreed
in the belief that the money question was
the paramount issue before the people.
“If bimetallism was right then, it is right
now. If co-operation was wise then; it is
wise now. The three parties can net together
without injury to their party organization;
without sacrifice to principles and without
harm to each other.
“The money question must be settled be
fore other questions can be seriously consid
ered. To light each other in the presence
of a united and unscrupulous enemy would
not only postpone the restoration of bimet
tallism, but endanger the success of every
necessary reform.
“In this great contest men are only valua
ble as they contribute to the success of the
cause. Personal ambitions must be subor
dinated to the public good. The man who
here or elsewhere urges his own candidacy
to the detriment of the cause is unworthy
of the office to which he aspires.”
At the evening session Attorney
General Smyth, of Douglass oounty,
was chosen permanent chairman of the
democratic convention; W. A. Poynter,
of Boone county, was chosen by the
populists to fill the same position, and
A. J. Weaver, of Richardson, was the
selection of the free silver republicans.
Conference committees were appointed
and immediately set to.xvork to form a
fusion agreement.
At 12:30 a. m. no conclusion had
been reached. The democratic con
ferees were uuinstrueted. The plat
form adopted by that convention in
dorsed the Chicago platform [denounc
ed the proposed retirement of green
backs; deplores the delay in settling
the Hawaiian question, and extends
sympathy to the striking miners.
The platform is very brief. The
declarations of the other conventions
contain strong free coinage planks.
During the evening the waits of the
report of the conference committee
were filled in by speeches. The three
conventions finally adjourned until
midnight to await the action of the
committee.
A ROMANCE DISSIPATED,
General T-ee Keports His Investigation of
the Evanjjeliim Cisneros Case.
Consul General Lee’s investigation
into the circumstances attending the
arrest of. the young Cuban girl, Evan
gelina Cisneros, has resulted in sweep
ing away a great deal of the romance
that was attached to her case.
He cables the state department from
Havana that the girl is not the niece
of the marquis of Santa Lucia, as has
been publicly proclaimed, but is the
daughter of a j>oor and respectable
Cuban named Augustine Cossio. Her
mother’s name being Cisneros, was
added to her own, making her full
name Evangeline Cossio Cisneros.
BOILER EXPLODED.
Two Children Killed and Electric Eight
Plant Demolished.
The Morton, 111., electric light plant
owned by Byer Bros. & Cos., valued at
$14,000, was completely demolished
by the bursting of the boiler from
some unknown canse Sunday evening.
Two girls, aged five and nine years,
were killed outright, and two boys,
aged four and twelve years, seriously
hurt. They were the children of Mose
Byers.
Banks County Journal.
PENSION PAYMENTS HEAVY.
IVflrlt of Five Millions For First Two
Months of Fiscal Year.
According to a Washington dispatch
the pension payments are beginning
to frighten the republicans as well as
the democrats. The total receipts of
the government for the first two
months of the present fiscal year from
imports at all customs houses was only
$23,954.49, and there have been ex
pended during these two months $28,-
349,378.20 for pensions, or nearly five
million dollars more than was collec
ted in our custom houses.
The treasury department in its bud
get calls attention to the large pension
payments and accounts for the great
deficit by this means. The deficit for
the last month was 814,351,794.01.
The deficit for the fiscal year was
about 825,000,000. The receipts from
customs have onlybeen 80,980,702.84,
a little more than one-third as much
as the customs receipts of last month.
The decrease is, of course, due to
the natural cessation of imports fol
lowing the henvy and anticipatory im
portations during July, when the
Dingley bill was still pending in con
gress.
The internal revenue receipts were
for the month $11,198,194, or more
than two millinn dollars less than the
pension expenditures for this month,
which were $13,391,000. The receipts
from customs this month were less
than half the rmount required to pay
pensions. The government expended
during the month for the civil, mili
tary and naval establishments the sum
of $16,004,000. This includes the
salary of every officer from the presi’
dent down to the chairwomen all over
the country, and all military and naval
officers, the federal judiciary, new
ships, fortifications, river and harbor
improvements and all public buildings
being built.
HESTER’S COTTON REPORT.
Secretary of Cotton Kxcli2tng;e Givß I’i|f
nres For the Fast Pear.
Secretary Hester’s New Orleans cot
ton exchange annual report was issued
Friday. Mr. Hester puts the average
commercial value of the crop at $86.76
per bale, against $41.09 last year and
S3O in 1894-95, and the total value
$321,925,000, against $294,045,000 last
year, nearly $28,000,000 more than for
the same period last year. The past
crop cost growers less than any yet
produced. The total spindles in the
south is 3,851,991, an increase of 158,-
753. The total number of mills is
482, an increase of seven.
Mr. Hester says that, while the sea
son had not been favorablo to American
mills, final results indicate that the ex
tent of the depression has been decid
edly overstated in the public prints
and otherwise. The takings north and
south during the past year, practically
all have been consumed, have been ex
ceeded but twice in the previous seven
years. The mills of the north have
worked up as much cotton, while those
south used 138,000 bales more than
last year. Imports of foreign cotton
amounted to the equivalent of 106,000
last week. Of this 771,001 is Ameri
can, against 803,000 last week. The
total visible stock shows a decrease
compared with last year of 383.000.
IVILL FIGHT IT OUT.
D’Annilt His Company Will Stand
Firm.
A Pittsburg diseatcli says: The set
tlement of the coal strike on the basis
of the proposition now under consid
eration at the Columbus conference
will have no effect upon the future ac
tion of the New York ar.d Cleveland
Gas Coal Company, according to the
statement of President DeArmitt.
Said he:
“Even if the great bituminous coal
strike is settled in every state and dis
trict involved, and all the strikers re
turn to work pending arbitration on a
new price, the miners of the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal company still
have to fight it out with the company
and return to work to carry out the
contract legally signed aud accepted
by the strikers. ”
NEW GEORGIA POSTOFFICES.
A Washington dispatch says: Fourth
class postoffices have been established
at the following towns in Georgia:
May, Haralson county.
Rollo, Screven county.
Paulina, Harris county.
Townsville, Meriwether county.
The postoffice at Catoosa Springs
has been ordered abolished.
A NEW TURKISH MINISTER.
Rifaat Bey Will Represent That Country
at Washington.
Advices from Constantinople state
that Rifaat Bey, until recently coun
cilor of the Turkish embassy in Lon
don, has been appointed Turkish min
ister at Washington in succession to
Mustaplia Talisin Bey.
FI.EEING FROM CHOLERA.
The Scourge Sail to 15** Gaging In British
Columbia.
It is reported that the people are
fleeing for their lives from the town of
Saudou, B. C., on account of the chol
era, No estimate of the number of
deaths has been received.
SETH LOW ACCEPTS.
Hr I. Willing In Content For Mayoralty of
Greater New York.
A dispatch states that President
Seth Low, of Columbia university,
has accepted the nomination of the
Citizens’ Union for mayor of Greater
New York.
He was officially notified of his nom
ination by a special messenger of the
Citizens’ Union. In his reply Presi
dent Low stated that he would soon
prepare a letter formally accepting.
HOMER, GA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9,189 L
II SOUTH 18 PROSPERING
CROP REPORTS FROM EVERT STATE
ARE ENTHUSIASTIC.
THE FARMERS ARE REJOICING.
New Orleans Tlmei-Democrat’s Annual
Trade Edition Contains Facts and Fig
ures From Commissioners.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
is out with its annual trade edition
and contains a summary of the crop
conditions in the south reported offi
cially from the various states by the
commissioners of agriculture. The
reports are by telegraph made on a
September Ist basis, and the condi
tions on the whole are more encourag
ing than they have been in many
years.
The reports confirm the statement
.that there was a heavier acreage
planted than ever before in the south.
Not only is the cotton acreage 8 per
cent larger, but corn is 12 per cent
larger, and cane, rice, potatoes, tobacco
and nearly every crop grown. The
southern farmers were determined to
do all they could to bring themselves
on a good, sound financial basis again.
They planted more food crops than
usual, so as to reduce their expenses.
Virginia cut down its tobacco acreage
somewhat because of a decrease in the
foreign demand, and planted the land
in wheat—a fortunate change, for
wheat has boomed in price, and the
6tate will profit by it.
North Carolina is enthusiastic over
its prospects which are the best since
1880. It planted more land in cotton
than usual this year, and was reward
ed with a prolific crop, so that the
yield will be the largest ever raised in
the “Old North State.”
South Carolina is equally successful.
She also increased her acreage in cot
ton, and with a good yield will raise
not only the largest crop ever grown
in the state, but the largest by 75,000
bales.
Georgia will pass the 1,100,000 bale
limit in cotton, will raise the best
wheat crop in years, one of the best
corn crops, freeing the state entirely
from dependence on the west. There
will be plenty of “hog and hominy”
in Georgia this year, and Commission
er Nesbitt predicts that the farmers
will be “happy and contented” if they
only get a fair price for their cotton.
Florida’s cotton crop is below the
average, and so is corn, but the oat
crop is the largest iu acreage and the
heaviest for many years. Sugar cane
and rice are both doing well, and to
bacco is 40 per cent ahead of last year
aud of fine quality. Oranges will yield
close on to 300,000 boxes this season,
haviug recovered from most of the
losses from the last freeze.
In Alabama the cotton crop has re
cently deteriorated, but the others are
doing well. Wheat is the best in
years, and so are potatoes. Corn is
above the average; hay very good, and
will supply all the local demand; oats
are fine, and tobacco, with an increas
ed acreage, will yield better. The
fruit crops are above the average.
Mississippi will do well with her
crops this year in spite of the overflow
of the Yazoo Delta. The overflowed
lands were replanted, but the crop is
naturally late.
Louisiana cotton, particularly in the
northern part of the state, deteriorated
during August in consequence of the
drought. The other crops promise
well. Corn will be greater than the
big yield of last year.
Texas makes a less favorable report
than the other states, for the rains
came too late there to benefit the cot
ton much.
The present season is declared in
Arkansas to be the most bountiful ever
known in that state. Cotton was
hardly au average, but Arkansas has
of late diversified its products, instead
of concentrating its efforts on cotton.
Crops have been good in Tenuesee
except in the western portion of the
state. The wheat crop is heavier,
larger and of finer quality than ever
before. Tobacco is extra good; sorgh
um is a wonder, and so are peas and
millet. Fruit, however, with the ex
ception of apples, is a failure, and the
live stock interests are suffering.
SOUTHERN CONVICT QUESTION
Will Be Discussed At a Convention To Be
Held In Nashville.
A convention has been called to
meet in Nashville, Tenn., September
28 and 29, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the disposition of
convicts in the southern states. All
of the southern states have been asked
to send delegates to this convention.
Among other things that will be dis
posed of will be the practicability of
working the roads of the several states
with the state convicts, aud the estab
lishment of a seed farm, where the
short term women convicts will be
worked. The idea being to supply
new seed at cost price to the farmers
and gardeners of the state.
INDIANA BANK FAILS
And a Bank Examiner Placed In Charge
By Uncle Sam.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington was advised Thursday of
the failure of the First National bank
of Greensburg, lud.
It has a capital of SIOO,OOO, and on
July 25th the deposits were $84,000.
Examiner Packard has been instruct
ed to take charge.
This is the first bank failure report
ed to the comptroller for some time.
TWO GAS EXPLOSIONS
In Wlilili Sl* Mm Arc Rost null Twi nly-
Flve People Seriously Hurt.
Two frightful explosions of natural
gas occurred in Broad Ripple, a sub
urb six miles north of Indiapolis, Sat
urday. Six persons were burned to
death and thirty people are lying in
the homes of neighbors burned, scarred
and with broken bones. Four build
ings occupying a block of the town are
iu ruins.
Of the six dead nothing but charred
and blackened bones remain. Two of
the dead are still unidentified, there
being no way of identification except
by listing those who remain.
The business part of the tow n took
fire aud the largest buildings were de
stroyed. The city of Indianapolis
was called on for help and sent engines
and doctors.
The first explosion occurred in a
drug store from an unknown cause.
Five men were working there and the
building was set on fire. Across the
street was the Odd Fellows’ hall, un
derneath which was a grocery store.
Seeing that the fire was spiraling,
twenty men were removing the stock
of groceries when a crushing explo
sion occurred in the store. The walls
were blown out and the upper floor
fell in on the men.
The fire spread from the Odd Fel
lows’ hall and the drug store, leaving
ruins in every direction. Five build
ings xvere on fire at once, and were
doomed before hell) could be attempt
ed.
BRYAN ON PROSPERITY,
He Says Folltics Has Nothing To Do With
the Better Times.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch prints
a letter from W. J. Bryan, the first
utterance after three months of travel
and observation during the return of
prosperity. Among other things he
says:
“Wheat has risen because the for
eign crop has been exceedingly short.
“The fact that silver and wheat
have parted company will cause no
dismay to those who understand that
the law of supply and demand regu
lates the price of both.
“Nothing can better disclose the
weakness of the republican position
than the joy manifested by the repub
licans over events for which their ad
ministration and their politics are in
no wise responsible.
“If the republicans desire to claim
credit for the high price of wheat they
must assume the responsibility for the
famine in India
“A great rise in price should be fol
lowed by a rise of wages.”
Mr. Bryan says that the joy over
the increase of money from wheat is
evident that we have too little money;
that if the farmers are benefitted by
the rise in one of their products, how
much better would it be if the rise
was universal; that the price of wheat
will fall when the foreign demand be
comes normal, and that the present
spasmodic rise will aid rather than in
jure the cause of bimetallism.
BAD FOR LUETGERT.
Damaging Testimony Against Chicago
k Sausage Maker.
Saturday was a bad day for the de
fense in the Luetgert murder trial at
Chicago, wherein Luetgert is charged
with the murder of his wife.
The strongest evidence which has
yet been given against him was
brought out, and some of it was dam
aging.
The witness who gave the strongest
evidence against the sausage maker
was Mrs. Christian Feldt, a widow,
with whom the prosecution alleges
Luetgert was infatuated, and to whom
it is claimed he has written a number
of love letters since he has been con
fined in jail. Mrs. Feldt said that on
various occasions Luetgert said to her
that he did not care for his wife, and
once said that lie thought more of the
domestic in the house than of Mrs.
Luetgert.
He also said that he had many quar
rels with his wife, and when Mrs.
Feldt asked him why he Aid not secure
a divorce, he said that as soon as his
financial troubles xvere over, he xvould
settle with her. He repeated this sev
eral times, aud called his wife a car
cass” and other names.
Money May Succeed George.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
Governor McLanrin may not name
a successor to Senator George for
some weeks, but when be does it
seems sure that lie will appoint Sena
tor-elect Money.
GERMANY Ts SUSPICIOUS.
She Wants an Explanation Regarding
Franeo-Bussian Alliance.
It is asserted upon reliable authority
that the German government will de
mand from France an explanation of
the dispatch sent by M. Meline, the
French premier, in reply to the mes
sage of congratulation of the Alsace-
Lorraine Society upon the signing of
the Fi laco-Russian alliance, in' which
dispatch M. Meline expressed the hope
of a reunion of Alsace-Lorraine xx-ith
the French Republic.
Germany, it is announced, will also
demand satisfaction for the excesses
committed before the Germau embassy
in Paris on the evening of President
Faure’s return from his visit to Russia.
MOONSHINER CONFESSES.
He Will Now AM In Capturing Other
Murderers of Deputies.
A Little Rock dispatch says: John
Church, an old moonshiner, was cap
tured in the mountains Thursday.
He made a full confession and prom
ises to aid in the capture of others im
plicated in the murder of Captain Tay
lor and party. The posse proceeded
with Church under a heavy guard.
This xvarned him that any attempt at
treachery xvould be paid with his life.
TWELVE KILLED IN II Mi.
BODIES RECOVERED IN A TERRI
BLY MUTILATED CONDITION.
CAUSED BY COAL DUST EXPLOSION
The Death Fiat May Bea<-li a Score—Res
cuing; Parties Organized to
Search the Wreckage.
At 6 o’clock Friday evening a terri
ble explosion of coal dust occurred in
the old Sunshine mine, owned by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
twelve miles from Glenwood, Col.
Latest advices state that twelve bod
ies have beeu recovered, aud so great is
the excitement that it cannot be learned
whether there are any more in the
mine or not.
Rescuing parties xvere organized at
once and began an exploration of the
mine, while great croxvds surround
ed the entrance.
The bodies taken out xvere iu a hor
ribly mutilated condition.
Folloxviug is a list of names of those
killed, so far as known: Antoine Mar
taltono, George Dannon, Louis Raki,
Joe Martini, Joe Casa Grandi, John
Jenneni, Antoine Eppice, Theodore
Potosi, John Andriani, Emil Andriani,
Francis McCloud.
FLORIDA’S PROPOSED CANAL.
Articles of Incorporation Have Bern Filed
In New York City.
A New York dispatch states that ar
ticles have been filed with County
Clerk Purroy for the incorporation of
the Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Ca
nal Company. The chief incorpora
tors are Robert M. Caffal, Freeman
H. Baldwin, H. Bolet Peraza, consul
general for the Greater Republic of
Central America in this country; Thos.
F. Cromwell and Francis P. Fleming.
The capital is $75,000,000.
The projectors hax - e in mind the
building of a ship canal and railway
to connect the Atlantic with the gulf.
The nexv canal will be of sufficient
capacity for the passage of ocean go
ing vessels. Consul General Peraza,
in speaking of the project, said:
“The nexv canal will be of great ad
vantage in defense of country in case
of an international xvar, as well as be
ing a great commercial benefit in ease
of peace. It xvill shorten the time for
vessels going to Texas or Mexico by
three days. The waters around the
southern coast of Florida are very
treacherous, oxving to the numerous
currents. All this danger xvill be done
away xvith.
“We expect that 15,000,000 tons of
freight xvill pass through the canal
each year, and even light tolls on this
will make the enterprise pay. We
have applied for the charter, and wi l
probably get it next month. As soon
as it is issued xve will begin work.
“Mr. Caffal, our civil engineer, has
already surveyed the ground, and all
arrangements have been made to push
the work.”
The consul general further said that
the harbor of St, Augustine would be
the eastern entrance to the new canal.
The xvidth of the waterxvay xvill be 200
feet through its entire length, and it
will be deep enough to alloxv the largest
ship to pass through. It xvill proba
bly be about five years before the canal
is finished.
PEARLS IN ARKANSAS.
Rivers Lined With People Engaged In
Hunting the Little Treasures.
A special from Relena states that
the pearl hunting industry, xvliich has
beeu exciting the whole country, is
spreading all over that end of the
state. The St. Francis river, from the
mouth of the river to Jeffersonville, is
lined with white people aud negroes,
all engaged iu unearthing and prying
open the richly laden mussel shells.
One mac exhibited a small bottle of
them taken from Phillips bayou, a
tributary of the St. Francis. They
are darker than the ordinary pearls of
commerce, but are handsomer shaped
and of good size. All the chain of
lakes in the hitherto impenetrable St.
Francis riyer bottoms are full of these
pearl-bearing mussel i, and should
they prove to be valuable the whole
country xvill presently be engaged in
the business to the detriment of crop
gathering.
STEAMER RUN INTO.
The “Gate City” Struck by Unknown X'es
ael anil Her Starboard Stove In.
A New York dispatch says: The
Ocean Steamship Company’s steamer
Gate City was run into at 2 o’clock
Friday morning off Egg Harbor light
by a large vessel, the identity of xvliich
is not known.
The Gate City’s starboard side was
stove in just above the xvaterline and
abaft the engine, a large section of the
deckhouse also being broken. The
steamer left Savannah for Nexx- York
on August 31st xvith txventy-one pas
sengers.
In the confusion folloxx-ing the col
lision the other craft drexv off without
having been made out distinctly.
VEST MAKERS STRIKE.
Five Thousand of Them Demand An In
crease of Wages.
At New York, Friday, vestmakers to
the number of 5,000 went on strike for
higher wages. The strikers are affili
ated with the Hebrexv Trades and So
cialistic Labor Alliance of the city and
vicinity.
Half of the strikers are women.
The demand is for an advance of twen
ty to twenty-five per cent in wages.
TILLMAN TALKS TO NEW YORKERS.
South Carolina Senator Makes One of HU
Characteristic Speecliea.
Benjamin Tillman, senior United
States senator from South Carolina,
opened the local campaign at a mass
meeting of 8,000 people in Brooklyn
Thursday for those democrats of the
Greater Nexv York xvho stand by the
Chicago platform and xvho insist that
its essential points must be emblazon
ed upon the standard to be carried by
the party nominee in the approaching
election.
Tillman was introduced as “the peo
ple’s advocate and the foeman of the
sugar trust and every other form of
monopoly.” Folloxving are some of
the things he said:
“The democracy xvas .born 100 years
ago and went down to defeat in its
first struggle through the efforts of the
aristocrats. Anew, regenerated de
mocracy was born in Chicago last year,
and it went down to its first defeat
under the blows of the aristocrats and
the influence of the tens of millions of
tribute levied upon them by Mark
Hanna. But just as sure as yon live
that regenerated democracy will come
to the front again in 1900 and xvill elect
William Jennings Bryan. (Prolonged
cheering).
“The republican party in its thirty
years of rule succeeded, xvith the aid
of an occasional so-called democratic
president, in emancipating the black
slaves of the working people of the
north.
“In 1860 the millionaire xvas a rare
bird, but noxv there are thousands of
them all over the country, and there
are some men worth even $200,000,000.
It is millionaires by the thousands noxv,
but it is paupers by the millions.
Bead the history of Rome, Athens,
and of the great empires xvhich stood
where there is nothing but wilder
ness now, and you xvill find that they
fell because the few enslaved the many,
and then governments became cor
rupt. Wake up, or before you know
it you xvill have a king!
“Why is it that here in New York
you always haxe a political boss? It is
because you are such infernal fools
that you don’t knoxv any better than
to carry a yoke around your neck.
Yon have just been sxvapping bosses
he e year after year. The boss runs
the machine which names the candi
dates, and then you just go and vote
the ticket like a lot of blind asses.
(Laughter.)
“Who did you send to represent
you at the Chicago convention?”
“A lot of dirty dogs!” shouted a
listener.
“You sent a delegation xvith YVhit
ney aud Belmont and Floxver at its
head,” Senator Tillman went on, “and
they traveled xvest in parlor cars to
keep the democratic party from dis
gracing itself. But the xvest and the
south had risen, and they found out
that New York, Pennsylvania and
New England xvere not the whole
United States, aud by God they ain’t!
Why, in your local campaign here
they are asking you to give up all you
won as democrats last year. What for?
To get some money from the dirty
boodlers who have stolen your fran
chises and everything else. Sell your
birthright for a mess of pottage. But
you say you have no money to rnn
your campaign. Well, don’t get your
money from your Whitneys, your Bel
monts and your Flowers, for after
election they will rob you of $lO for
every dollar they gave you.
“They are singing the praises of dol
lar xvheat. Who gave us dollar xvheat?
Did McKinley do it? No. It was the
failure of the crops in Europe. This
dollar xvheat will go glimmering in an
other year when India and Russia and
the Argentine raise another crop and
the supply equals the demand. The
only xvay to bring lasting prosperity
Is to remonetize silver!” (Cheers).
BIG FIRM DISSOLVES.
The House of A Cos., Goes Out of
Business.
After thirty years of unvarying and
steadily increasing success in cotton
the firm of S. M. Inman & Cos., went
out of business on the Ist, the new
firnj of Sanders, Sxvann & Cos. succeed
ing. Mr. S. M. Inman also severed
his connection xt iththe firms of Inman
& Cos., Houston, Tex., and Inman,San
ders & Cos., of Bremen, Germany.
Mr. Samuel M. Inman, who has so
long been at the head of the great bus
iness house, retires voluntarily, so
that he may iay down some of the
burden which he has borne through
more than a quarter of a century of
business life
MARBLE PREFERRED.
It Will Be Used In Building: Minnesota's
New Capitol.
A dispatch from St. Paul says: Af
ter several xveeks’ consideration, the
new capitol commissioners have award
ed the contract for a superstructure
of the nexv Minnesota statehouse to
the Rntler-Kyan company, of St. Paul,
for $690,000, deciding on St. Cloud
granite for the basement and Georgia
marble for the rest of the superstruc
ture, excepting the dome.
The contractors from all over the
country xvere interested in the matter,
and there has been a lively contest to
secure the use of some Minnesota stone
for the entire building.
BROOKS WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE.
Murderer of Hunt Will Ask For a Nexv
Trial.
Bud Brooks, now under sentence of
death at Jefferson, Ga., for the murder
of M. C. Hunt, of Belton, will not go
to the gallows without making a last
fight to save his neck. He is sentenced
to hang on the 24th instant, bnt will
hardly die on that date.
His attorney has filed a motion fol
anew trial, which xx ill be argued soon
before Judge Hutchins.
NO. 23.
EPIDEMIC Of YELLOW M
OFFICIALLY DECLARED TO BE RAG
ING AT OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
TEN FATALITIES HAVE OCCURRED.
People Hurrying; Away and Rigid
tine It* Being Ksiahlishcil
Against the Plmre.
The health officers of Alabama,
Louisiana and Mississippi—Drs. 'j/.
H. Sanders, of Mobile; S. R. Oll*-
phant, of New Orleans, and 11. 11.
Harrison, of Jackson—assisted by M.
Wisden, of the United States marine
hospital service, and a number <jf
medical experts from New Orleans,
pronounce as yellow fever an epidemic
which has prex-ailed at Ocean Springs,
Miss., for the past six xveeks.
The toxvn has a population of about
2,000, which is augmented in the sum
mer by numerous visitors to the gulf
coast. It is said that over six hund
red cases of fever, from which, up to
last Sunday, ten deaths had resulted,
have occurred since the disease began
six weeks ago.
Among the deaths was that of Dt.
W. H. Bemiss, of New Orleans, who
succumbed last Thursday after an ill
ness of txvo days.
Dr. Bemiss went to Ocean Springs
to attend the sick, and it is declared
that the day he was stricken lie sent
xvord home that the cases of illness ho
had attended were of a gravely sus
picious nature.
Dr. Bemiss’ death first attracted
outside attention to the disease.
The medical experts mentioned abovo
arrived at Ocean Springs Sunday noon
and after careful post mortem examin
ations upon three subjects xvho died
Saturday, decided the sickness xvas
yellow fever.
Upon receipt of a telegram from Dr.
Sanders the board of health of Mobile,
Ala , convened and upon their recom
mendation the mayor declared a rigid
quarantine against Ocean Springs,
For the past two xveeks there has
been a pretty general exodus from
Ocean Springs, caused by the general
nature of the epidemic and the ref
ugees are quartered in nearly every
toxvn and city along the coast.
PRIZES FOR GEORGIANS.
Savannah Hiflpmen Win Ali Honors <ifl
Sea Girt.
The Nexv Jersey state and national
rifle association shoots at Sea Girt
came to a close Saturday with Georgia
marksmen winning everything in sight.
The principal matches of the xveek,
the Wimbledon cup and the presi
dent’s match, were shot during the
day.
The latter, the first stage of which
began at 11 o’clock, was for the mili
tary champoinship of the United
States. The match xvas divided into
txvo stages, the first stage at 200 and
300 yards, ten shots at each, competi
tors to shoot xvith the rifle adopted by
the state they represent.
In the shoot-oil for the champion
ship, Private Battey, of Georgia, xvon,
scoring 48 points at the 500 yard and
49 points at the 600 yard targets, or
97 points in all.
The Wimbledon cup was won by
Lieutenant C. Wilson, of Georgia,
xvith a score of 125; Private George
Doyle, ul the Seventh regiment, New
York, and Colonel George T. Cann, of
Georgia, tied for second, with a score
of 117. Cann xvon the cup last year.
Before the shoot wa“ resumed Sat
urday morning the Georgia team re
eeix’ed the folloxviug telegram from
Governor Atkinson:
“The whole state is ringing with praise of
Georgia team. Citizens wiiii with enthu
siasm.”
Telegrams from Atlanta and Savan
nah citizens xvere also transmitted.
COTTON BURNED.
Over a Thousand Bale* On a Fighter irt
New York Destroy*)*!.
Txvelve hundred and eighty-nine
bales of compressed cotton, which ar
rived in New Y'oik Sunday from the
south by the Morgan line and was to
have been shipped east by the City of
Fall River, xvere burned on the lighter
Mystic alongside the Fall River line
pier on the North river front.
NOTED (RIMINAL OAIIGIIT.
O’Hara Enjoyed Si* Fear, of Freedom
After Breaking .lull.
Eugene O’Hara, alias Joe Bates,
alias James Brown, forty-two years
old, burglar, highwayman and des
perado and probably murderer, xvho
cut his xvay out of Jefferson Market
prison at New York six years ago, and
xvho has been hunted ever since, xvas
recaptured Sunday by detectives.
After his escape O’Hara, with an
other fugitive from justice, Joe Strao
alian, made his xvay to Colon, from
xvhich place they later proceeded to
Europe, where they committed a series
of housebreaks and other serious
crimes.
SULTAN AND CZAR CONFER.
Report That a Mutual Arrangement* Has
Been Agreed Upon.
The Constantinople correspondent of
The London Standard says he is cred
ibly informed that the sultan has been
in direct communication xvith the czar
and the correspondence has resulted in
the making of mutual arianpementsby
xvhich the sultan agrees never to use
his influence against Russia in Central
Asia and the czar pledges himself to
uphold Turkish rights in Europe.