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TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Tlie Ms of the World Condensed Into
Ply and Pointed Paraphs.
Interesting' and Instrnctiye to AH
Classes of Readers.
with a surplus of $44,000. The re
sources are placed at $296,000 and
liabilities at $170,000,
The Wisconsin Fire and Marine In
surance bank at Milwaukee closed its
floods Tuesday, by reason of the strin
gency of the money market.
A meeting was held at Denver, Col.,
Tuesday night to devise means of tak
ing care of the destitute. There are
over eight thousand of them.
A cable dispatch of Thursday to the
New York Herald, from Panama, sayB
a private telegram from Nicaragua an
nounces the Leon revolutionists have
captured the city of Managua. The
details have not been obtained.
Ripley & Bronson, iron merchants
and dealers in all kinds of iron, at St.
Louis, made an assignment Tuesday
morning. Liabilities $150,000; as
sets not given, but probably close to
the amount of liabilities. Stringency
in money circles is the cause.
Fire brokg ont Sunday in the stables
of Jones & South, at Hagerstown, Md.
Their wholesale house was completely
destroyed, together with the adjoining
houses of John Emmert and J. S.
Wishard. The total loss is about
$125,000, of which Jones & South lost
$100,000.
A new anarchist monthly, under the
name of Die Brandfaickel (the flurning
torch), made its appearance in New
York City, Tuesday. While the editor’s
name is given as C. Timmerman, the
real editor is believed to be Alexander
Berkman, now in prison at Pittsburg
for trying to kill Mr. Frick.
The S. M. Mitchell bank, at Martins
ville, Ind., established thirty
years ago and backed by $300,000,
went into voluntary liquidation Thurs
day. There is $100,000 in its vaults
and deposited by it in Indianapolis
banks. The cause of the action it is
Baid, is the division of the estate.”
The J. Oberman Brewing Company
at Milwaukee, Wis., made an assign
ment Tuesday. The failure is due to
the suspension of the Wisconsin Ma
rino and Fire Insurance company’s
bank. The assets of the brewing com
pany are nominally $500,000, while
the liabilities are given as $294,000.
A special from Bangkok, Siam, says:
Notico was given Thursday of the
blockade by the French fleet. Outgo
ing vessels have been warned that they
must clear from Bangkok and Koli-Si-
Chang Saturday or submit to deten
tion. The blockade will extend along
the entire north coast of the gulf of
Siam. *
Clause Sprecklcs, who arrived at
San Frnncisco Wednesday from Hon
olulu, says the provisional government
of Hawaii is doomed. Not a quarter
of the people are with them and the
consensus of opinion is that the queen
must be restored. The question of
government will eventually be put toa
popular vote and the queen will win.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Tuesday
says: Judge Ricks, of the United
States court,has appointed John Eaton
receiver of the property in Ohio of the
Oil Well Supply Company, of Pitts
burg. The appointment is at the in
stance of Edward H. Cole, a stock
holder, and is supplementary to the
action taken by the United States
court in Pittsburg in the same suit.
Following a confession of judgment
for $87,155 in favor of the Continen
tal National bank, of Chicago, Park-
hurst k Willinaon, iron merchants of
that city, made an assignment after
the courts closed Tuesday night. The
concern’s assets are estimated at $1,-
000,000. The confession of judgment
was made on notes which the firm was
unable to renew or meet.
A New York special of Sunday says:
Joseph Jefferson is seriously ill. Mr.
Jefferson’s physicians have been for
some time baffled by his disease, which
is attributed partly to carelessness in
treatment of a boil that appeared some
time ago. It can be stated positively
that radical measures must speedily be
resorted to if America’s great comedian
is not soon to go the way of Edwin
Booth.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday
says: The world’s fair authorities
have been served with a notice by the
attorneys for Charles W. Clingman
that they will ask Judge Stern for an
order compelling the directors to show
cause why they are not in contempt of
court for violating the injunction
heretofore entered restraining them
from closing the gates of Jackson park
on Sundays.
Monday morning the Ohio Well
Supply Company, operating in Ohio
oil fields at Findlay, Fostoria, Ma
rietta, Hissing Sun, Van Wert and
Pittsburg, Pa., went into the hands of
a receiver upon application of Edward
II. Cole, of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of
the largest stockholders. Mr. Eaton
in his petition states that the com
pany’s indebtedness will amount to
over $800,000.
The First National and Montana
National banks, at Helena, Mont.,
failed to open Thursday morning.
The two closed banks have ample as
sets but cannot realize. The capital
stock of the First National is $500,-
000, surplus $100,000, undivided prof
its $600,000 and average deposits
$3,250,000. The capital stock of the
Montana National is $500,000, surplus
$100,000, undivided profits $100,000,
deposits $1,500,000.
Joseph Jefferson, the actor, was seen
by a United Press reporter at his villa
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Notes ot Her Progress and Prosjertty
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
The Bristol, Tenn., Bank and Trust
Company decided to go into voluntary
liquidation Tuesday. They have $80.
000 assets and owe depositors $15,000
Unprofitable business is the cause.
About 500 negroes were shipped
from Birmingham, Ala., Sunday night
to Leavenworth, Kas. It is proposed
to replace strikers with them. Agents
of the mine owners will endeavor to
procure 1,000 more negroes.
The Laud Loan and Collection
Agency of Murphy and Bolanz, at
Dallas, Texas, made a general assign
ment Wednesday. The chances are
that the liabilities will reach $500,000
and the assets fully that sum.
The new Farmers’ bank, of Mt.
Sterling, Ky., closed its doors Thurs
day morning. Deposits about $300,000.
The bank holds $600,000 in first-class
paper, The depositors will be paid in
full. The capital stock is $250,000.
Jake Schwartz, liquor dealer,
Louisville, Ky., announced Tuesday
that he had suspended. He owes $70,
000, three-fourths of which, he says, is
secured and with time he claims he
can pay off the rest and have some
thing for himself. He is a brother of
Moses Schwartz president of the as
signed Louisville Deposit bank.
The special dispatch from Ocala
Fla., printed in the New York papers
Thursday morning, stating that the
entire system of the Florida Central
and Peninsular Railroad Company had
been sold to tho Plant Investment
Company for $13,000,000, and that
the new management would take
charge October 1st, is shown, on in
vestigation to be false.
Henry Singleton, who murdered
Lula Payne in the penitentiary
Jackson, Miss., a few days ago, has
been indicted for murder and will be
tried at the present term of court if
his condition will permit it. Single
ton is now serving a sentence for mur
der. His case will perhaps be the on
ly one on record where a life convict
has ever before been tried before
court for murder.
The Llano Improvement and Fur
niture company, of Llano, Texas, went
into the hands of a receiver Monday
upon the application of the- North
Texas National bank, of Dallas. The
liabilities of the company amount to
$80,000, and its assets $1,000,000
The company is unable to raise money
due, and a receivership was thought
best to ease up its difficulties and fide
over the present hard times.
The North Carolina state weather
crop report, issued Monday night, says
of cotton: “The amount of sunshine
during tho past season was about nor
mal. Tho rainfall was again badly
distributed Drought prevails over
some entire counties, particularly in
Central, or the chief cotton district.
Cotton, though small, looks healthy
is blooming fast and is becoming rap
idly covered with squares.”
The failure of the Louisville Ky.,
Deposit bank caused three Nashville
firms to go to the wall Wednesday,
These failures are comparatively small
including two liquor dealing firms of
small capital and a vinegar manufac
turer and produce dealer with little
more than $10,000 liabilities. The
firms are Sulzbacher Bros. Loventhal
& Son and M. J. Levy & Son. The
latter two firms are whisky dealers.
The Louisville, Ky., City National
bank suspended payment at 1.20
o’clock Monday afternoon. The bank
lias a capital of $400,000. Three
years ago W. H. Pope, its teller, fled
with over $70,000, and this was a hard
blow to the bank. Bank Examiner
Escott has been placed in charge.
Depositors will be paid in full. The
bank was chartered in 1865 and re-
eliartered in 1885. It was pretty
generally known as Lerche’s bank.
Its individual deposits were- over
$222,000, and on Monday its cash was
reduced to $14,000.
GROWTH 0T THE SOUTH.
The
Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
Tlie review of the industrial situation in the
South for tho past week shows Ihe orjun z ition
at New Orleans, La., i f the Consumers' Joe
Company, L’t’d.. capital $400,0011. by X. D.
Wallace and other-; of the K- ystone Mining
Company, at Roanoke, Va., cipilal $150,000, bv
,1 no. F. ilartle't and associates; the building -
a $:50,(K0 cotton mill at Savannah, Ga., by tli-
Soutliover Land Company; the orfjan zatinu of
die Star mid Crescent Coal Company, capital
ilOP,000, at Coleman, Texas, by J. W. Gibson
and others; of the Northwestern Louisiana
Land and Immigration Co , at Benton, La.,
capital $100,000, by C. J. Hugh s and o'hers;
or the Worthington Coil and Coke Co., capital
$100,000, at Fairmont, W. Va.; of the Eads-
Xell Manufacturing Company at Atlanta, Ga..
capital $50,000; and of an Implement Manu
facturing Co., with $25,000 capital,-at Greer’s
Depot, S. C.. by W. C. Moore and associates.
Twenty-seven new industries were established
or incorpo. atel during tlie week, together with
five enlargments of manufactories and 8 im
portant new bu 1 lings. Among the new indus
tries not alwve r ferred to are distilleries at
Bentonvillo, Ark., and Je.lico, Tenn.; a flour
and srist mill at Hickory Grove, N. C.; an elec
tric light and pow r plant at J. 11 eo, Tenn,
and iron works at Terrell. Texas. Coal mines
are to be opened at Jellico, Tenn., and Hai-ey,
Ky., a crockery company lias been chartered ai
Litile Rock, Ark.; plumbing and h-atiug work.'
organized at Blehmond, Va., and a window
glass company at Wellsbu'g, W. Va.
A rope factory is reported at Opelika, Ala ;
woodworking plants at Morristown, Tenn., Mid
Kilgore. Tex.; basket works at Charleston, S.
C.; handle factories at Bennetisv.lle. S. C.
-vr,,..,. -\r ... i i and Front Rival, Va.; a lumber company or
al Buzzard s Bay, Mass. , Monday morn- i ,. aD:2cd at Ah ; m ’Bridge. W. Va.; and sawmills
and shown the published dispatch
which stated that he was dying from
cancerous affection of the throat. Jef
ferson laughed heartily when he read
the item and said : “You may deny
the story. It is absolutely false. I
never was in better health and spirits
than at the present time and have en
tirely recovered from my recent indis
position.”
The striking miners are jubilant
over the desertion of the mines, both
at Pittsburg and at Weir City, Kansas,
of a number of negro miners, who
have been imported from Alabama.
The deserters claimed that they were
misled as to the situation and that
they will return to their southern
homes. The strikers seem confident
and derive much hope from the assur
ances they have received from Missouri
that the miners there will strike Au
gust 1st.
The farmers’ National bank, one
of the popular financial institutions of
Findlay O., closed its doors Tuesday,
because of inability to realize upon
its assets, and the comptroller of the
reported a r Stamp-?, Ark.. Hollaiulale, Mis-*.,
Bosley, N. C.. and Ba-? c City and Oakland,Ya.
Waterworks are to l»e built at Ballinger,Tex.,
and Berkeley, Y.<. The enlargements for the
week include a flouring mi l at Wii Chester,
Tenn.; a cotton compress at Bonham, Tex.; in
oil mill at Wliitewiight, Tex.: a coil mining
.company at Big Stone Gap, Ya., and a newer
'company at Galveston, Tex.
Among ti.e new buildings arc a $40,000 bank
building at Knoxville, Tenn.; churches at Cor
inth, Miss-, and El Paso. Tex., & c dlegcbuild
ing at Richmond, Ya.: a $28 000 jail at IJnnts-
viile, W. Ya-; an ofiice build 1 ng at Lou : sville,
Ky., and a school budding to cost $15,000, at
Paris, Tex.—Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The King Wants Peace.
Advices of Wednesday from Bang
kok state that M. Pavie, the French
minister resident, prior to his repart-
j ure, had a final interview with the
' Siarnes foreign minister, who said that
his government was astonished that
j France considered their reply to the
j French ultimatum as a refnsal to corn-
i ply with its terms. It was impos-
; sible, he said to aceept definitely
! an indefinite proposal. France
j had never defined her rights in Annam
and Cambodia ; but the king, earnest -
; ly desiring peace and a speedy settle-
currency was at once notified to take ment of the whole case, had declared
charge. * The officers say they will be His readiness to abandon Annam and
able to pay dollar for dollar. Ever Cambodia at the post that had been
since the failure of ex-Secretary of attacked, as well as the territory near
the Treasnry Charles Foster the bank them, including Stnugiren and
has been drawn upon heavily by its Khong, although these places were
depositors. The capital is $80*000 admitted to be Siam’s,
Eapninfs from Day to Day in too
National Canitai
Appointments in the Various Depart-
ments—Other Notes of Interest.
Signs of the opening of congress are
beginning to appear. About a dozen’
members of the house and several sen-
tors arrived Thursday.
One hundred thousand dollars’ worth
of gold bullion was purchased in Lon
don Wednesday for shipment to New
York. Five hundred thousand dollars
in gold was received from Havana.
Assistant Surgeon C. B. Young, of
the marine hospital stationed at Na
ples, Italy, cabled Surgeon General
Wyman Monday that the cholera con
tinues nt that place, averaging three
cases daily.
Comptroller Eckles was notified
Monday morning that the failed First
Nntional bank, of Kendallville, Ind.,
and the failed Northen National bank,
of Big Bapids, Mich., would paobably
resume business in a few days.
A Washington special of Tuesday
says: In consequence of gross care
lessness on the part of the local au
thorities, which nearly caused an epi
demic of yellow fever,, the Marine hos
pital service has assumed control of
the quarantine service at Brunswick,
Ga.
Captain Jim Tillman left Washing
ton for Columbia, S. C., Tuesday
morning. Mr. Tillman carried his
card with him. It will be published
in the Columbia papers, and will un
doubtedly fall like a bombshell into
the political element of South Caro
lina presided over by Irby and Gov
ernor Tillman.
Private letters received at Washing
ton from Paris state that Senator
John T. Morgan, one of the Behring
sea arbitrators, will sail for home
August 5th. He intended to leave
in time to he present at the opening
of congress, hut will be prevented, by
private business, from doing so. All
the other American members and the
consul have gone. The general im
pression prevails that the United
States ease is not as strong as it should
have been, and a report in favor of
England will cause but little surprise.
The distillers of Cincinnati and vi
cinity who will by law be called upon
August 5th to pay their share of about
$8,000,000 of taxes on whisky distilled
in May and June, 1890, have unani
mously addressed a request to Secre
tary Carlisle to instruct the collectors
to delay the collection for ninety days.
They say the present financial situa
tion is abnormal; that to withdraw
that large sum of money from the
banks and from circulation at this
time would heighten the present dis
tress and would be of no advantage to
the government. The local bankers
have endorsed the request.
Since the grand jury’s indictment
against Colonel Ainsworth for crimi
nal responsibility for the Ford theater
calamity there has been much specu
lation as to his status in the
army. By a few it is claimed he should
be suspended from his position in the
war department pending his trial by
the civil court. Secretary Lamont has
refused to interfere on the grounds
that Colonel Ainsworth holds his office
by virtue of appointment of the jiresi-
dent and cannot be derived of his mil
itary rights and duties without tlie
concurrence of the president. Thus,
unless the president interferes Colonel
Ainsworth will not be disturbed in his
present position notwithstanding the
criminal indictment against him.
A Queer Fear of Figure*.
Much interest has been aroused
among statisticians by the discovery
that the figures of the balance of trade
against this country for the fiscal year
ending June 30th last, as shown by
the records of the bureau of statistics
in the treasury department, are about
$40,000,000 out of the way. Instead
of an adverse balance- of $93,000,000,
the corrected returns will show about
$50,000,000. The error occurred
through one of those curious slips
which come between the branches of
the same department of government
where their dependence on each other
is not understood equally on both
sides.
Com in its»i oner 3IiIIerr , s ltepot.
Commissioner Miller has submitted
to Secretary Carlisle a preliminary re
port of the operations of the internal
revenue bureau for the last fiscal year.
The total collections from all sources
of internalrevenue were $161,002,000,
an increase of $7,145,000. The per
centage of cost- of collection was $2.62,
as compared with $2.80 for the year
1892. The sum of $9,375,130 has been
paid as sugar bounty during the year,
as follows: Louisiana, $8,854*864;
Texas, $174,943; Florida, $3,980;
Mississippi, $60 (aboveon sugar cane.)
The total paid in sugar bounties in
wo years was $16,177,208. The in-
rease this venr over last year is $2,-
033,053.
Speculation as to the .Message.
1 here is a great deal of speculation
being indulged in as to the message
Mr. Cleveland will send to congress
when it meets. There are a number
of things he wants this congress to do,
and considering which he will read
them a lecture, at the proper time,
but it is understood that he does not
expect anything to be done at the ex
tra session except with relation to
finance. It is expected, therefore
that his message will be confined
olely to that question, reviewing the
financial situation and calling atten
tion in his most impressive style to
the necessity for the immediate repeal
of the Sherman law. His first inten
tion was, it is believed, to strike for
the unconditional repeal of this law,
ithout amendment or qualification,
but it is said now that he is seriously
considering the advisabily of making
some recommendation for a substitute
to be carried with the repeal. It is
intimated that he is considering a propo
sition for the free coinage of silver de
prived of all but a limited legal tender
uality—legal tender, say, in payment
of debts not exceeding $50 or $100.
omptrollcr Eckels Explode* a Fallacy.
Comptroller Eckels has broken over
precedents again by making public
part of the official report of D. A.
Cooke, the examiner in charge of the
Missouri National bank, of Kansas
City, Mo., as follows: “This bank
uspended on the 17th instant because
of a run on the part of its depositors.
There was nothing in its condition to
arrant this rim or to occasion suspi-
ion as to its solvency. It seems to have
been prudently managed and its re
sources are unusually free from items
of questionable value, there being no
bad debts. The bank is solvent and
should be permitted to resume. The
depositors very generally express a
desire to have the bank resume and
promise every assistance in their pow
er. Tho available assets of the bank
amount to $964,283.95; its liabilities
to $708,228.2p. The remainder of its re
sources consist of cash and items readily
converted into cash. ” The idea of the
comptroller in making this statement
public is to show the fallacy of the
theory that everything is going to
rack and ruin because banks are clos
ing here and there. If the people who
have money on deposit were not panic
stricken and did not join in wild and
unjustifiable runs many banks which
are now closed would luive remained
open and done a healtny business.
AN OMINOUS WAR-CLOUD.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
The Mails Between France anfl Siam
Approaching a Crisis.
Siam’s Obstinate Resistance Said to
Be Dne to English Influence.
A special oahlegram of Monday from
Paris says: M. Develle had a long
conference with the premier/deputy
all day Sunday. Only at the last
„ , . _ . ~ 77 „ . „ . minute was it decided to impart to the
Report of Trade For the Past Week ay | presB Siam’s reply and the government’s
Dnn <s to - j decision. It is stated that M. Develle
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of has notified Admiral Humann to pro
trade says: During the past week the ; ceed at once to declare a blockade,
country has stood surprisingly well an i The French government has not yet
extraordinary strain. The failure of notified the powers of the intention of
many banks and firms has come des- ! France to blockade the Menam river,
pite the relaxation in eastern and some j It is stated that M. Pavie, the French
IN BEHALF OF SILVER.
western money markets. Den
v-er banks were overthrown largely by
the crazy unwisdom of the people, but
in most cases statements show tho
banks in a healthy condition, and there
has been since noticed more readiness
to extend accommodation.
Under all conditions it is astonish
ing that business has been so well
maintained with so little evidence of
unsonndness. Even while cotton und
xioolen mills were working over time
on past orders, the scantiness of new
orders was noticed, with the great
frequency of cancellation. Close ob
servers say wholesale dealers find less
encouragement to buy. In dry goods
cancellations are still numerous and
orders are small. Some improvement
is seen in dress goods. Sales of wool
are remarkably small.
Wheat has fallen 2 cents; corn, 1
cent; pork products and oil are lower.
In place of the expected advance in
sugar a decline has come, and cotton,
after some advance, recedes again.
Receipts of wheat at the west are
moderate and exports fairly large, but
unprecedented stocks are pressed for
sale. The stock market closed last
week hopefully, but prices had reach-
ep the lowest average since 1884. Lon
don and short sellers then bought and
some recovery has followed. At Phil
adelphia the banks are holding cur
rency and strengthening themselves.
An easier feeling prevails at Pitts
burg in iron. The Cincinnati money
market is easier, and Cleveland reports
the grocery trade as good, but iron
wholly inactive. Toronto notes a bet
ter feeling; Indianapolis, no improve
ment, but the banks in strong position
and doing a quiet business with the
outlook not very cheerful. Chicago
reports 19 per cent decrease iu
clearings, 25 in real estate 6ales, a
good demand for loans, but more
freedom in lending and better feeling.
P.eceipts of producls are 45 per cent
larger for corn and 30 for wool,
but most of the other articles decreased
—70 per cent in wheat, 50 in dressed
beef and 28 in cattle. At Milwaukee
the closing of some manufacturers and
the reduction of wages in others and
the failure of the great iron sj-ndicate
are noticted. At St. Paul trade is re
stricted. At Minneapolis lumber sales
are reduced and the sales of flour be
low tho output. Omaha trade is good
and St. Joseph fair.
Receipts of cattle are light at Kan
sas City. Denver trade is demoral
ized, but now more hopeful and the
many reported assignments are re
garded as a measure of protection. St.
Louis reports business good in volume
and character, but trade is retarded
by closeness of money. Money is
tight at Little Rock, but the strain is
borne remarably well.
THE SOUTHERN MARKETS.
At Nashville trade is fair, at Atlan
ta backward, at Macon a better de
mand is seen, at Augusta retail trade
fair and Columbus business is a shade
better. New Orleans finds the trade
somewhat improved, banks very con
servative, sugar weak and crop pros
pects excellent. At Galveston crop
reports are less encouraging, but at
Mobile better. At Jacksonville cred
its are cautious and at Charleston crop
prospects are poor. Tho treasury has
been paying gold to the banks, but
on the whole increasing its holdings.
Exports of products are a little larger
than a year ago, hut import sales are
large.
The failures during the past week
number 467 in tho United States,
against 168 last year, and twenty-fivo
in Canada, against nineteen, two fail
ures being of capital exceeding $500,-
000 and 101 others capital exceeding
$5,000 each. Last week the failures
in the United States numbered 374.
minister to Siam, has been ordered to
leave Bangkok within twenty-four
hours time.
Advices from Bangkok axe to the ef
fect that M. Pavie, French Minister
Kesident, handed France’s ultimatum
to Prince Devawongse, Siamese Minis
ter of Foreign affairs, on Friday. At
the same time he informed the Siam
ese government that in case France’s
demands should be resumed he would
at once leave Bangkok to board the
gunboat Forfait. The blockade of the
Siamese coast, he added, would be de
clared at once.
THE POWERS NOTIFIED.
The French government has notified
the powers that it intends to establish
a blockade of the Siamese coast, with
out prejudice to other measures that
may be taken with the object of secur
ing to France the guarantees to which
she is entitled. The French govern
ment will make arrangements with an
other government for the protection of
French subjects in Siam during the
absence from Bangkok of M. Pavie,
the French minister.
READY FOR A FIGHT.
The Bangkok correspondent of the
London Daily Chron tele telegraphs that
paper as follows:
“The Siamese war ships are anchor r
ed one mile from the French, and are
crowded with men, ready for action.
Their intention is, in ease the French
commence hostilities, to steam down
and ram the French gunboats, attempt
ing to hoard them by force and attack
their crews with fixed bayonets.”
NO OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION ISSUED.
Later dispatches from Paris state
that the reports current that the
government had notified the various
powers of its intention to blockade the
coast of Siam were premature. No
KU"h notification lias been officially ad
dressed to the powers.
A cabinet council was held Tuesday
at Marley le Roi, where President
Carnot is temporarily sojourning.
The president presided over the delib
erations, which were entirely devoted
to the Siamese question.
After the council rose a semi-official
statement of the proceedings was is
sued. This statement was that in con
formity with the unanimous vote of
the senate and chamber of deputies
the government had taken such meas
ures to guard the interests and dignity
of France as were considered from Si
am’s reply to the French ultimatugi
to have been rendered necessary.
Mass Meetings Held in San Francisco
and Butte, Montana.
A mass meeting in the cause of silver
was held at San Francisco Saturday
night. There was a large attendance.
A series of resolutions were adopted in
which the “secret demonetization of
silver” in 1873 is denounced as “a
crime which can never he expiated ex
cept in its complete rehabilitation,”
and a number of declarations made.
One of the resolutions was as follows:
Resolved, That it is tho <!u‘y of all senators
and congressmen of California in the matter of
silver, as in all other matter 1 , to regard the
will an 1 interests of their constituents and of
the people, ru lier than 1I18 wishes of tho party
leaders and tlie pr si lent, and that there rep
resentatives rf this state should fo serve the
public iegardless of patronage, party strength
and official advancement.
Delegates to the Chicago silver con
vention were elected.
A BIG MEETING AT BUTTE.
A large mass meeting in the interest
of silver was had at Butte, Montnna,
Saturday night. Leading citizens from
different parts of the state participa
ted. The meeting was addressed by
Hon. IV. A. Clark, ex-Senator Sanders,
eX-Congressman Maginnis, Hon. Leo
Mantle, recently appointed senator,
and others.
Much enthusiasm was manifested
and a very lengthy address to the peo
ple of the country formulated by the
free coinage association in the after
noon was unanimously adopted. Its
arguments are in line with those of
addresses recently adopted by the
Colorado Silver Union. It rehearses
the argument in favor of silver, dwells
oa the disastrous effects of its com
plete overthrow will have on the west
ern states and territories directly and
indirectly.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
TROUBLE BREWING.
Mine Owners of Kansas Arming Their
Men and Building Stockades.
A Kansas City special of Monday
says: There is no longer doubt that
the Central Coal and Coke Company
and the Kansas and Texas Coal Com
pany intend to bring about a crisis in
the strike in their coal mines in south
eastern Kansas in the next few days.
The Central Coal and Coke company
has nearly finished the building of
stockades around its mines at Weir
City and Sammon and has built houses
for workmen within the walls and
President Keith has given out the in
formation that the mines at both
places would be operated before the
end of the week.
To a question as to furnishing arms
to the men, President Keith said:
“We are not going to put men in our
mines to bo shot down like cattle.
There is no use trying to disguise
facts. We have no reason to believe
that they will be protected by the
state. Our experience with the state
and county officers has been bueh that
we can expect little from them. Wo
must do something. It would be folly
and cruelty on our part to put work
men in these mines with no protec
tion. When the miners go iuside the
stockades they will be prepared to de
fend themselves against attack.”
On being asked as to where his men
were coming from, he said: “Some
of our old men will be given a chance
to go to work again if they feel dis
posed. Some of them we do not want
and won’t have. Then, there are some
men coming from California and some
from the south.”
The Supreme Court of Georgia Makes a
Ruling That Mill Attract Attention.
The supreme court of Georgia has
rendered an important decision in the
Porter Stocks murder case at Atlanta.
The ruling is very important as a pre
cedent for the future aud will attract
attention nil over the Union. The
higher court affirms Judge Clark’s de
cision aud finally disposes of the case.
Porter stocks was tried shortly after
the killing of Alph Cassin and con
victed without auy recommendation
to mercy. His counsel moved for a
new trial and Judge Clark granted a
new trial on this motion. At the last
term of the superior court he was
again put upon trial, and after the
trial began and a number of witnesses
had been examined information w;as
brought to Judge Clarke that the
mother of one of the jurors had died
after the trial began. The juror was
called out and a colloquy ensued be
tween the court and counsel-about in
forming the juror of the fact of his
mother’s death, the result of which
was that the court discharged the
juror. The counsel for the state ob
jected to the discharge of the juror
and the defendant’s counsel declined
to go on with the trial with the eleven
remaining jurors. A few days there
after Stocks was again put upon trial
before another jury and before
the evidence began filed
plea for former jeopardy,
sisting that the declaration of a mis
trial by the court was wrong and im
proper and amounted to an acquittal.
The court put into his order declarin.
the mistrial all the facts upon which
it had been declared and tlie counsel
for the state demurred to the plea of
former jeopardy and the court sustain
ed the demurrer and struck the plea
and required Stocks to go to trial be
fore this third jury, and he was con
victed of voluntary manslaughter. His
counsel then took a hill of exception
and set up that Judge Clark erred
sustaining the demurrer to a plea of
former jeopardy. The case was taken
to the supreme court, and that august
body sustained Judge Clark.
This case is remarkable in legal histo
ry from the fact that there is no case
to be found like it in any of the Amer
ican states. Other grounds for de
claring a mistrial have- been laid down
by the courts in numbers of instances,
such as illness of a party, sickness of
a juror, the end of the term of court,
inability of the jury to agree, and in
one case which occured in Iowa, ill
ness of the judge’s wife. But, all the
research of the counsel on both sides
failed to produce any case like this on
its facts. It is apprehended that none
such can be found.
A FEARLESS JUDGE.
He Rules in Opposition to the State
Supreme Court.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The dispensary battle is now raging
fast and furious. The threats of im
peaching Judge Hudson for his decis
ion permanently enforcing the dis
pensary at Darlington and his later
decree refusing to grant the state
spices an order to search an alleged
liquor dealer’s house and confiscate
his property, have had no intimidat
ing effects on him, and on Monday he
put still another nail in the dispensary
coffin by calling on the Darlington dis
pensary people to show cause on next
Friday why they should not be ruled
for contempt of court in reopenim
this dispensary.
This is a bold break, but it is ex
actly what has been predicted by per
sons who knew Judge Hudson’s fear
less character. It is bold because it is
directly in the face of an order issued
by Associate Justice Pope staying and
superseding Judge Hudson’s injunc
tion order until the assembling of the
supreme court in November. The or
der of justice Pope was obtained by
Attorney General Townsend, who
went to Newberry and procured it
quietly at chambers. The dispensary
was accordingly opened again.
TROOPS FOR WEIR CITY.
A Mob and tlie Mine Guards Have
Pitched Battle.
A Weir City special says: The
guards at shaft No. 347 had a pitched
battle with a mob of strikers at 10 :30
o’clock Monday night. The mob ap
proached the mine quietly and fired
into the shaft. Deputy Sheriff Grant,
who was on the patrol guard, returned
the fire, and calling the other guards
defended the mine against the mob.
Over a hundred shots were fired, but
none of the deputies were injured.
When the mob saw that the guards
were standing their ground they fled.
It is not known how many, if any, of
the mob were shot.
Eleven companies of militia have
been ordered from Topeka to be in
readiness to start for the scene of the
miners’ troubles. The situation
critical.
DRILLING THE NEGROES.
Five hundred negroes have arrived
at Weir City from the south and are
installed within the stockades. All
are armed and are being put through
a drill. There were six carloads of
the negroes. .
A STATEL CONVENTION
LIFE AND STRENGTH
Are given to weak and frail children in won
derful manner by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Mr. Ed
ward Hilbert, Lawrence,
Mass., says: ‘*Our daugh
ter, Etta, had little
strength when a baby.
When two and one-half
years old she had fre
quent fainting
npeiis f caused by heart
trouble. We gave her
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Her
general health improved
until she became healthy Etta Hilbert,
and ruggetS. We give her
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA
occasionally now. whenever she complains of
that tired feeling in spring or summer.”
M.
Hood’s Pills cure Constipation by restoring tbe
peristaltic action of the alimentary canal-
Snakes as Articles of Diet.
Italians, as is well known, are par
tial to harmless snakes and have no
objections to eat them when cooked.
A fritura composed of the common
wood serpent’s flesh is even regarded
as a dainty by the lower orders in
Borne, Florence and Naples and is of
ten served up to them in their dingy
restaurants. Parisians of the inferior
classes are also great eaters of fried
snakes, but unwittingly so, for the
reptiles are palmed off on them as eels.
Thus the apparently appetizing dishes
known as matelotte d’unguille and an-
guille a la tartare are often in low eat
ing houses nothing but harmless
snakes caught in the wilder part of the
Vincennes wood and brought up to a
special market near the Place de la
Bepublique. It is probable, however,
that even if the members of the poorer
classes here who occasionally indulge
iu fried or stewed eels were apprised
of the fraud practiced at their expense
they would evince no loathing nor
even lack of appetite, seeing that they
are ready to devour not only horse
flesh, but meat of mule, donkey and
dog any day in the week.—Paris Cor.
London Telegraph.
Not a Tenant.
Neighbor—“Does your father rent
that house you live in?”
Boy—“No, indeed. It’s his own
house, every bit of it. It’s been
bought and paid for, and insured, and
mortgaged, and everything.—Street <fc
Smith’s Good News.
Not Quite Mad.
Lawyer—“Were you acquainted |
with the deceased?
Witness—“Only in a business way.
I was clerk in a large store at which
the lady did much of her shopping.”
Lawyer—“Did yon in that capacity
notice in her any signs of insanity.”
Witness—“Well, no, not insanity
exactly—merely eccentricity. I was
in the thread department, and I have
frequently seen her buy a spool of
thread and carry it home herself.”—
New York Weekly.
A CSeneral Restorative.
The above term more adequately describes
the r.ature of Ho^tett* r’.-* Stoma^];
than any other. Tlie medicine h^g Lecifl 0
qu dities, of course, as in ca-esof Tindis
ease. dysp p ia and liver complain. its
invigorating and regu'ati >g qualities invest
it with a health-endowing potency made
manife-t throu hou r tin* system. Purity and
activity of the v rculation are insured by it.
and it tlTe-tual y counteracts tendencies to
kidney disease, rheumatism, neuralgia and
gour. ___
Neptune has drown d many men, but Bac
chus many touls.
For Dyspep-ia, Indigestion and Stomach dis
orders, use Brown’s I on Bitters—the Best
Tonic. It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
the muscles. A splendid medicine lor weak
and dtbil tated persons.
The evil thinker is a very c ose relative of
the evil doer.
The Ladies.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
which ladits may use tho California liquid lax
ative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions
makes it their favorite remedy. To get tho
true and genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near tho
bottom of the package.
Make haste very s’owly in any doubtful en
terprise.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys
tem by Brown's Iron Bitters, which enriches
the blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in generall ill v
health, giving new energy and st rength.
W© Care Rapture.
No matter of how long standing. Writ©
ter free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hoi lens worth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.
Price $1; by mail, $1.15.
Albert Burch, West Toledo, Ohio, says:
•‘ Hall’s Catarrh Cure saved ray liie.” Write
him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Mornings—Beeeham’s Pills with a drink of
water. Beecham's—no others. 25cts. a box.
You can Economize
HORRIBLE T0RTURI
Capt. Bourke Not to Blame.
Advices from Valet-ta, Malta, state
that the court martial that was ap
pointed to inquire into the loss of the I
battleship Victoria, on Thursday, ren
dered its decision in the ease of the
Hon. Maurice A. Bourke, captain of
the Victoria. The court found that
no responsibility attached to C’aptaiu
Bourke for the disaster, and he was
therefore acquitted of all blame.
Deputy Marshals at Weir.
Eight or ten deputy United States
marshals arrived at Weir City, Kan.,
Saturday morning on the daylight
trains, creating consternation. They
had about forty or fifty restraining or
temporary injunctions, which they
served as rapidly as possible pn the
leaders among the strikers.
The Dyunmo Fails in an Electrocution
iu New York.
A ghastly tragedy, the sequel of an
other one, was enacted in the prison at
New York Thursday. Murderer "Will
iam G. Taylor, who cut the throat of
a fellow-convict, was placed in the
electric execution chair to expiate with
his own life the crime he had doner
He received a shock of 1,700 volts, but
the contact was not sufficiently pro
longed, and when it was sought to turn
on the current again the dynumo would
not do its work. The man slowly came
back toward consciousness, to prevent
which morjihine was administered
while preparations were being made to
get an electric supply from the city’s
dynamo plant. For one hour and a
quarter the doomed man suffered in
tense agony. A current from the city
electric light dynamo was passed
through his body and he died immedi
ately.
Of the Georgia Prohibition Association
Called.
There will be a state convention of
the Georgia Prohibition Association in
the city of Macon on Wednesday, the
23d day of August, at 11 o’clock a. m.,
to consult as to the best course to be
pursued by the state on the great
question of prohibition. While dele
gates will be admitted from temper
anee organizations, whether state or
local, aud from counties and churches
without limit, each county will be al
lowed only twice the number of votes
it has in the house of representatives.
Let every friend of temperance see
that there will be a grand mass meet
ing rally as well as a convention.
Ladies especially invited to be pres
ent. Distinguished speakers will be
invited to deliver addresses.
Reduced railroad rates will be asked
for.
By order of the executive commit
tee. C. R. Pringle,
Pres. Ga. Prohibition Ass’n.
J. B. Hunnicutt, Cor. Sec.
W. G. Whidby, Bee. Sec.
NEW ENGLAND’S TURN
To Experience the Financial Stringen
cy and Business Depression.
A New York special of Tuesday says:
Bankers are disposed to take a some
what less favorable view of the gener
al business situation than they were a
week ago, especially toward New Eng
land and the northwest. The shutting
down of manufacturing interests all
over New England aud the private ad
vices received by the New York bank
ers as to the condition of the New
England hanks continue to make the
prospect _ for a betterment of the con
dition in that quarter anything but
good.
Arms for Hawaii.
A. San Francisco dispatch of Thurs
day says: A statement has been pub
lished that within the past month arms
have jeen shipped to Hawaii and the
belief i3 that an attempt is being made
to place the natives iu a position to
effect a successful counter revolution
against the provisional government.
These weapons were purchased of a
San Francisco dealer by a mysterious
person who refused to say who they
were for.
Colton Mills Mint Down.
The Otis county cotton mills, in
Ware, Mass., will shut down for one
month bn account of inability to find
a market for their product. The num
ber of hands employed is 1,750 aud
the pay roll is $50*,009 per mouth.
The company's miils at Warren, Pal
mer, Thorndyke, Bonrlville and Ihree
Rivers will also curtail production to
the same extJht as the mill at Ware,
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By using Royal Baking Powder to the exclusion
of all other leavening agents. The official ana
lysts report it to be 27% greater in leavening
strength than the other powders. It has three
times the leavening strength of many of the
cheap alum powders.
It never fails to make good bread, biscuit and
cake, so that there is no flour, eggs or butter spoiled
and Wasted in heavy, sour and uneatable food.
,Do dealers attempt, because times are dull,
to work off old stock, or low grade brands of
baking powder ? Decline to buy them. During
these times all desire to be economical, and
Royal is the most
Economical Baking: Powder.
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EA3IER MADE
LEMONADE, l
“German
Syrup”
I simply state that'.I am Druggist
and Postmaster here and am there
fore in a position to judge. I have
tried many Cough Syrups but for
ten years past have found nothing
equal to Boschee’s German Syrup.
I have given it to my baby for Croup
with the most satisfactory results.
Every mother should have it. J. H.
Hobbs, Druggist and Postmaster,
Moffat, Texas. We present facts,
living facts, of to-day Boschee’s
German Syrup gives strength to the
body. Take 110 substitute. ©
HEED m WARNING
Which nature is constantly giving in the shape
of boils, pimples, eruptions, ulcers, etc. These
show that the blood is contaminated, and some
assistance must be given to relieve the trouble.
Is the remedy to force out these poi
sons, and enablo you to
GET WELL.
lave had for years a humor in my blood,
wl ich made me dread to shave, as small boils or
les would becuv, thus causing the shaving to
Teat annoyance. After taking three bottles
my face is all clear and smooth as it
well, and feel like running a foot
all from the use ol S. S. S.
Chas. Heaton, 73 Laurel st. Phila.
Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
Dlreotlon*.—Te*$poonful
Cherrr Ambroaia and table- t
•poonful sugar, mixed with I
either cold or hot water. Aik f
for bottles at grocers and drug- f
gists. 25 ana 50c. Bend G 2c. |
Jools the Blood.
iQuenches Thirst.J
lAIda Digestion.
stamps for sample, by mail, o-
$1.00 for two5<»c. botiles, by express, prepaid,—enough to
make several gallons. (Agents make big pay with us.)
FRINK E. H0USH4C0,235 Wash'd st. Boston, Miss.
t3T Send 6c in s:2mpa tor xoo-p»ge j
illustrated catalogue of bicycles, guns,
and sporting goods of every description.
John P. Lovell Arms Co. Boston. Mass.
Positively cure Bilious Attacks, Con
stipation, Sick-Headache} etc.
25 cents per bottle, at Drug Stores.
Write for sample dose, free.
J. F. SMITH & CO.,'—-New York.
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
f
Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands, injure the Iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Stove PcUisb Is Brilliant, Odor*
less. Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every j
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