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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, 4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 -4 -4 J| -4 4 -4 4 "4 -4 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. 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4~ 4 4- 4 4- 4 4- 4 4* 4 4- 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. 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