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THE VIENNA PROGRESS
TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JNO. E. HOWELL, 1 bIU
LACY A. MORGAN, 1
VOL. XII. NO. 2.
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VIENNA. GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEFT
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OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
of Georgia to the close of business Ju
ly 12th, make a fairly good showing
in comparison with the banks of other
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Tlie Happens of a Day Chronicled in d“Sh“tter^f^entS it
Bricf and Concise Paragraphs.
tional banking law are taken into con
sideration. The Georgia banks hold
a reserve fund of twenty-five and fifty-
Happenings from Day to Day in the
National Capital.
] with the whole soul purpose of getting
j quick action for its money and wiping
I from the • face of the congressional
| earth every-.vestige of offensive Chi
nese legislation.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from two one hundredth percent, while the
London states that there have been requirement of the law is only fifteen
C>00 deaths from cholera in Mecca and i P er cent.
2,312 in Jedda since the present epi- j Evidence of a startling nature con-
demic broke out. cerning the cold storage warehouse fire
Attorney General Ellis, of Michi- taken by the grand jury at Chi-
gan, has given an opinion to the effect cago Thursday. The witness who gave
that the insurance law passed by the the startling testimony was John Jos-
last legislature is unconstitutional, e Ph Duggan, formerly a Stony Island
owin
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Appointments in the Various Depart-
ments—Oilier Notes of Interest.
John S. Payne, of Tennessee, a re--
tired army officer, has been appointed
a member of the board of pension ap
peals in the interior department.
- i , , , The First National bank, of Ken-
to section o, which permits un- avenue saloon keeper, and the man aallviUe, Ind., whicL suspended pay-
companies to do business who first told of the looting of the ment June 22, 1893, has been permit-
“ * ht Stste - I ? oId storage warehouse and its firing ted to u its doors for busiuess .
burgeon General Wyman received a a & an 8 of robbers. He was flushed . . .. . , , , „
cable message Thursday morning from and excite<1 with the inquisition he 6 18fme of tke stan< t“ ri1 dollars
Surgeon E. B. Young, of the Marine ' ba d undergone, but said he had made
a clean breast of it all.
Tie News of tlie World Condensed Into
Ply and Pointed Paragraphs.
IN A COMMON CAUSE.
THE WORK OF LYNCHERS.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
The American Bimetallic Leaps Meets
in
Interesting and Instructive to Ail
Classes of Readers.
Hospital service, stationed at Naples,
stating that the condition of affairs in
that city in regard to cholera is grow
ing worse.
The treasury, in response to its
counter offer of Wednesday, has
bought 149,000 ounces of silver at $0,-
7090 per ounce—the entire amount of
fered. The price of silver was up in
London Thursday, beiug in our money
$0.7161 per ounce.
At the regular weekly meeting in
London, Thursday, of the directors of
the Bank of England it was decided to
advance the rate of discount to 3 per
cent. The advance, which was unex
pected, is attributed to the further
large withdrawal of gold for shipment.
Judge Logan E. Bleckley, of Geor
gia and Miss Chloo Herring were
united in marriage Wednesday night
at the bride’s home, on West Fifty-
Eight street, New York city. The
marriage is one in which ail the peo
ple of Georgia are much interested.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Paris
says: The Behring Sea tribunal of
arbitration has made good progress
and it is expected a decision will be
rendered in a fortnight. The dispatch
adds that every point at issue has now
been adjudicated and that the decision
will give entire satisfaction to Great
Britain and Canada.
The town of Birsk, in the govern
ment of Orengburg, Russia, has been
visited by a most disastrious conflagra
tion. One hundred and eighty houses
were burned, seven persons killed aud
a large number injured. Among the
buildings destroyed were the city hall
and Catholic church.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
The plan for the resumption of the
busiuess of the First National bank
has been approved by the clearing
house and cheerfully endorsed by de
positors. Confidence is generally
maintained and the situation is tran
quil. A fortuight will probably see
the First National resume.
A private bank at Chicago owned by
Lazarus Silverman suspended Wednes
day morning. A notice declaring that
the difficulty was temporary was posted
on the door of the bank. Bankers esti
mate his deposit account at $600,000.
It is of a commercial nature and de
positors are for the most part Jewish
dealers engaged in small business ven
tures.
The treasury department is taking
measures to curtail the expenses of
the national commission and the board
of lady managers at the World’s Fair.
It iB stated that both of these bodies
have been and are now in session un
necessarily, involving large running
expenses. Both bodies have executive
committees authorized to transact any
business demanding urgency, and it is,
therefore, contended that it is not ne
cessary for both or either of them to
remain in session at this time. Sec
retary Carlisle’s attention has been
called to the large expenses thus in
curred, and recommendations have
been made to him looking to the cur
tailing of the expenses of both these
bodies.
A Chicago special of Thursday says:
The opinion is unanimous among
lawyers, that the gates of the World’s
fair will be opened every day in the
week from now until it is finally closed
next October. The appelate conrt will
not he in session until after the mid
summer vacation which ends in Sep
tember, and the appeal prayed for on
Wednesday cannot, therefore, be
passed ou until October.
A report reached New York City
Thursday night that the steamship
Ivarmania, from Naples, had arrived
at quarantine with cholera on board.
Three deaths among the passengers
occurred during the voyage. Dr.
Jenkins boarded the vessel at quar
antine aud soon after hurried to the
city with the intention, it is said, of
holding a conference with the health
board authorities. The latter so far
refuse to enlighten the public on the
matter.
A disastrous explosion occurred
Thursday on board the German armor
clad steamer, Baden, at Keil, Germa
ny. Lieutenants Oclsner and Zam-
bach and seven seaman were killed
and seventeen persons wounded. It
appears that some of the men just re
moved from the magazine a grenade
measuring 26 centimeters in diameter.
Through some cause not yet explain
ed the grenade exploded, killing or
wounding nearly every person iu the
immediate vicinity.
A Pittsburg, PA.,dispatch of Thurs
day says: The New York and Cleve
land Gas and Coal company, one of
the largest concerns in the Pittsburg
district, whose mines are located on
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad
nre unable to pay tlieir miners in full.
The proposition has been made to 800
employes to pay them one half their
wages for six months and the balance
with interest at the end of that time.
The officials state unless this propo
sition is accepted the mines will close.
Minister Blount’s long expected re
port on Hawaiian affairs in the posses
sion of the secretary of state. It arrived
in the official dispatch hag from San
Francisco, in eonqiany with a conimu-
eution from Mr. Severance, the U. S.
consul general in Hawaii, telling of
the Fourth of July celebration in Hon
olulu, at which Minister Blount pre
sided. Mr. Blount is expected in
Washington about August 20th to par
ticipate in the conference of the presi
dent and Secretary Gresham over the
amended protocol of a treaty submit
ted by the provisional government.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
The review of the indu-d ial situation in the
sou l) for the past week reports the organiza
tion at Kina’s Mountain, N. C., of the Pied-
mmi Miner.il Company, capital, $500,000. by
A. It. Kutliril and othtra, " " ” ' ~
from the treasury during the week
ending July 30th, was $442,369 for
the corresponding week of last year,
$440,065. The shipment of fractional
silver coin from the 1st to the 30th,
amounted to $725,473.
The comptroller of the currency has
been informed that the First National
Bank of Birmingham, Ala., capital
$250,000, and Elpaso National Bank,
Elpaso, Texas, capital $150,000, had
closed their doors Wednesday morn
ing. These banks carried quite a
line of individual deposits.
The total amount of national bank
notes outstanding August 1st is $183,-
655,920, an increase of $5,041,335 dur
ing the month. This is an unusually
heavy increase and is occasioned by
the fact that many national banks are
increasing their circulation. The
number of new banks being organized
is unusually small.
The report of Minister Blount on
Hawaiian affairs is due in Washington
and is likely to be delivered to Secre
tary Gresham at any time. Mail sent
from Honolulu on fhe steamer Austra
lia reached Washington Monday and
as the Oceanic, which carried Mr.
Blount’s report, arrived in San Fran
cisco Tuesday the mysterious docu
ment seems to be slightly overdue.
Secretary Carlisle left Washington
Tuesday afternoon over the Pennsyl
vania railroad for Buzzard’s Bay, Mass.,
on a visit to President Cleveland. The
Adam Smith & Co., wholesale liquor
dealers at Chicago, assigned Wednes
day morning. The assets were sched
uled at $150,000, liabilities $125,000.
| The works of the American Rubber
Company at Cambridgeport, Muss.,
closed down Wednesday morning for
two weeks. This action throws 1,700
; operatives out of work,
i The Bellingham Bay National bank
at Whitcom, Washington, did not
open its doors Tuesday. Assets are
$270,000; liabilities $160,000. The
hank will probably resume business in
a short time.
, The North American Provision com-
I pany, at Chicago, assigned Wednesday
morning to William Schwabacher. The
assets are scheduled at $500,0001 lia
bilities are not estimated. The failure
is one result of Tuesday’s board of
trade troubles.
i Levi P. Morton’s immense new barn
at Ellesee Rhinebeck, N. Y., chicken
houses and outbuildings, together with
one hundred head of Guernsey cattle
and all the farm horses, was destroyed
by fire Wednesday morning. Loss over
' $100,000.
j The sum of 930,000 pounds was
i withdrawn from the Bank of England
Tuesday for shipment to the United
! States. A portion of this amount will
be shipped on the steamer Majestic,
I sailing from Liverpool, and the bal-
i ance on the Spree, sailing from South
ampton.
A New York special says: A sensa
tion was created in The World office
Two Negroes Meet Death Under Most j
Horrible Circnmstances.
A Columbia, S. C., special says: j
Will Thompson, one of the three ne
groes who committed an assault on
Mrs. Arch Seightler, was lynched at
Gaston Sunday morning. He met
death under the most horrible circum- i
stances, his torture being long drawn
m, ,. . ,. , ,, | out. After beiug almost flayed alive
The national convention of the ... „ , , ,
, , . . , . with a leather strap in the hands of
American bimetallic league met in ^ hnabaad of t he outraged woman,
Chicago Tuesday morning and the at- he WRS kicked and beate “ then 8US .
tendance was larger than that of any ; ^ {rom a limb unti l he was be-
previous assembly of like character in i strangled, after which the deter-
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
A Heterogeneous Assemblage of Vete
rans of Financial Agitation.
And Important Happenings from Daj
to Day Tersely Told.
the history of the financial world i mined ]vnehers fiI]ed hig w with
lhe delegates assembled, over crowded • rT -i _ , ,. - r
the First Methodist church auditorium
before the morning session was called
to order, and it was early apparent
that a larger hall would have to be se
cured for future sessions.
bullets. The lynching was one of the
most horrible on record. The victim
came very near being placed -on the
railroad track so that the train would
run over him, and a proposition was
rrr, . . , also made to slowlv burn him, which
The features of many of the battle , many of the crowd " would bave assent .
scarred veterans-of financial agitation
were visible in the heterogeneous as
semblage. General A. J. Warner, of
Ohio, president of the bimetallicj
league, stood side by side with Con
gressman Bartine, of Nevada, and a
short distance away was seated Con
gressman W. K Bryan of Nebraska, j <^d became
of opposite political faith from Mr.
Bartine, but foremost in the battle for! ; bo VlTclo7k Preston was captured
r m 1 _ C °L nf l ge ’ . ,, I five miles from the scene of the morn-
The Colorado delegation had Gover- „ , g ]vnehi He vas taken to Gaa .
nor Waite, of the silver state, convers-j ton and the 8ame brutal treatment waa
ing with Senator Stewart, of Nevada, ! accorded him before he wafl finally
ed to, but which was finally abandoned.
SECOND ACT OF THE HORROR.
The second act in the lynching was
completed Sunday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock when Tom Preston,who Thomp
son implicated in the crime, was hung
and shot. After hanging Thompson
even more savage.
The whole county was scoured, and
The Anniston Cordage Company at
Anniston, Ala., manufacturing all
kinds of cotton cord, started up Tues
day. The company is capitalized at
$100,000 and uses three bales of cot
ton daily. Seventy-five hands will be
employed.
In compliance with a resolution
adopted by the Pioneer Citizens’ So
ciety a committee of consultation has
been appointed to consider arrange
ments for celebrating the semi-centen
nial anniversarv of Atlanta on Decem
ber 23d, 1893.
The Chino, Cal., sugar factory, the
largest in the United States,with max
imum reducing capacity of 734,000
pounds of beet sugar, started up Wed
nesday. The factory gives direct em
ployment to 2,000 men in Chino and
700 at another point.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Beau
fort, S. C., says: The top of the
cabinet of the schooner Charles lias
drifted ashore off Hatteras. Also the
BUSINESS REWl
lican, but both united in a common | that had no effect
cause today. United {States benator
Mantel, of Montana, and Shoup, of anxllashes wither'bLggy Trace'
Idaho, conversed for some time with 1 - - - —
T. M. Patterson, of Colorado, the first
two republicans, and the last the leader
of the free coinage faction of the
democratic national convention of a
year ago.
“Governor 1
c . . , . , ., ., , . Wednesday evening when Colonel
Secretary. 8 vuat to the President at Cbarles H . Jones wa f ked into the edi _
the Kiemult Con- this time is atthe request of the presi- i . ... , • ,
trailer Company, at Alexandria, Va., capital dent who desires naturallv ennno-h t-U rooms and assumed direction of
$250,000, to manufacture tel phone supplied, v ’ ... , . - P the paper. He will not only act as
and of the Branchville Clay Company, aloof dl8CU8S ^ th hlB secretary of the treas- ; edit but as the personal representa-
Alexandna, capital $100,000. The organize- firy xhe financial situation before he t j ve of p u ljt zer with supreme
authority over all departments of the
tion is also ienor:ed of lhe Powell Oil Compa
ny, capital $50,000, at Bastrop, Texas, by TV.
Powell and associaus, of the G iliad Water and
Light Company, capital $30,000, of Goliad,
Texas, the rebuilding at Mementon, La., of
th - E lua Hice .Mills, by Jos'ph llenge, of New
completes the preparation of his mes
sage to congress on the silver question.
AdviceB of Thursday state that Sen
ator Vest, after having prepared a bill
Orieois, and the incorporation, at Clark-burg, ^ free Coinage at the ratio of twenty
TV. Va ; of the Butters and Birtlett Folding to
Grato Company, by J. P. Clifford and others.
Twen’y-four new industries were established
or incorporated during the week, together with
three enlargements of manufactories, and four
teen important new buildings. Among the new
industries not ab <ve referred to are a canning
factory at Brunswick, Ga.; a distillery at,
tas, Tenu. ;a stave factory at Buena Vis a, Va..
■ nd a carriage and wanon manufacturing com
pany at New Orleans, Li.
Water works are reported as to be built at
Luverne, Ala., Forsyth, Ga.. and Sheloyville,
w.,.." xhe enlargements for the week include
organ factory at Key West, Fla., a knitting
11 at Kinston, N. C., an i a cotton mill a'
one, has discussed the subject with
Acting Director of the Mint Preston.
Mr. VeBt has changed his bill to
a ratio of twenty-four to one and will
introduce it in that shape. It is
understood that the administration is
FmithVa' T 1 aa Sjotrio liSKHngpUnt.at wi J lin | to accept twenty-four to one, j i‘ 5(J0 looms aud employin
5; ,rs > th, tra.; flour and grab mill* at Elkin, aud there may be a compromise on - - - i j
N. C., Woodward, S. C., and Cookville. Tenn.: that basis
a mineral wool company at Salem, Va.; a phos
phate company at Bartow, Fla., and a wlioe Judge Crisp says he is unable to
factory at New Orleans, La give any information or make anv pre-
A soap factory is report* d at Victoria Texas- j- a- a at. t v 1
steam cotton gins at Putt am and Smilcv, Texf; di °, tio " s as to the policy of congress,
saw mills at Willmington, N. C. and Pocahon- 88 h fi I> a s seen but few members. He
says there is a manifest diversity of
opinion. It is apparent that the demo
crats are waiting to ht-ar from the
president. His message will no donbt
tend to crystalize democratic opinion.
Southern democrats and those from
the middle west say they have no sym
pathy with the western mine owners
and operators.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the
marine hospital service, received a tel
egram Wednesday from Surgeon Har
gis at Pensacola, Fla., stating that the
Spanish steamer Lenora, which nrrived
at the quarantine station on the 22d of
July from Cuban ports, brought two
sick seamen who were admitted to the
hospital. Their disease developed into
yellow fever. The steamer was sent to
Chandeleur station Wednesday morn-
The superior court judges of Georgia an d the physicians, nurses and
met in convention in the senate cham- sick weru isolated and all preventives
her in the state capitol Monday morn- taken.
ing. It has been fourteen years since Heretofore it has been the custom
a similar convention was held in the to examine every tenth bale of impor-
state. The call was issued by Judge ted tobacco to determine tho grade, so
A. H. Hansell, of Thomasville, and the as to properly assess the rate of duty,
object was to revise the rules govern- Loss of revenue has resulted from this
ing practice. Judge A. II. Hansell, of method, and now Acting Secretary
Curtis has directed that not less than
an average of every fourth bale of im
ported tobacco he examined. This ac
tion is mainly directed against fra udu
lent importations of Sumatra wrappers
for tobacco, the duty on which is $2
per pound.
The sentiment among southern con
gressmen is strong and apparently al
most unanimous in favor of repealing
the Sherman act. The sontheru mem-
Gibsonville, N. C
Among th ; new buil lings are a banting lionet
at Gaetonia, N. C.; business houses at Lous-
ville and Madisonville, Kv.; Alv.n, Texas, an
P cahontas, Va.; clmrches at Norfolk an
Wytlieville, Va-; a court h use'renovation
Memphis, Tenn.; ball and stores at Jladisoti-
vtlle, Va.; a hotel and a j til at Inverness, Fla.;
an office bui ding at Atlsnti, Ga.; a seboo
building at. Gr.asbeck, Texas, and a wareliotis
a* Ty er, Texas—Tiadtsmrn (Chattanooga
Tenn.)
CONVENTION OF JUDGES.
Heads of the Superior Courts of Georgia
Meet in Atlanta.
Thomasville, called the meeting to or
der. Mr. Logan Bleckley, upon re
quest, called the roll of judges, and
reported the following present:
Judge A. H. Hansell, of Thomes-
ville, southern circuit; Judge Henry
C. Roney, of Augusta, Augusta
circuit; Judge C. C. Smith, of
Hawkiusville, Ga., Oconee circuit;
Judge Hamilton McWherter, Lexing
ton, Ga., of the Northern circuit;
Judge R. Falligant, of Savannah, Ga.,
Savannah circuit; Judge J. L. Sweat,
of Brunswick, Brunswick circuit;
Judge H. Fish, of Amoricus, South
western circuit; Judge C. G. Janes,
hers will vote for repeal. The project
of making an agreement to consider a
silver bill after the repeal of the Sher
man act is'still being agitated and
of Tallapoosa, Ga., Tallapoosa circuit; ! f^ 8 “° re P°P" lar - 14
t a w m u t x> 9 ; ed to interpose anv obstacle to the re-
Judge W. M Henry, of Rome Ga., , of the ' gherman law, but to vote
Rome circuit; Judge George R. Go- ^ that willingly; thpn ft ’ biU provid .
ber, of Marietta. Ga., Blue Ridge cir
cuit ; Judge C. L. Bartlett, of Macon,
Ga; Judge John J. Hunt, of Griffin,
Ga; Judge T. W. Milner,
of the Cherokee circuit; Judge
S. W. Harris, of the Coweta j
circuit; Judge R. L. Gamble, of the j
Middle circuit; JudgeC. J. Wellbore,
of the Northeastern circuit; Judge J.
H. Guerry, of the Patnula circuit;
Judge R. H. Clark,of the Stone Moun
tain circuit.
, r , „ I Upon motiou of Judge McWhorter,
r 40 .! 0 u i 'o: j Judge Hansell was made permanent
known English medical weekly, chole
ra has been epidemic in Marseilles for
the last three months. The local of
ficials, it is asset ted, hive carried their
policy of deception to such length that
even the government has been led
astray in regard to the real state of af
fairs. The prefecture now admits that
there has been 601 deaths from chole
ra in Marseilles since the middle of
May. During the last four week there
have been S2G deaths throughout
France.
chairman. Mr. Logan
made seeretarv.
Bleckley was
GOOD NEWS.
A New and Unexpected Element of Re
lief for New York Bankers.
A New York special of Tuesday says:
A new and unexpected element of re
lief has been injected into the financial
situation. United States bonds have
reached such a low figure that the na
tional banks see their way clear to
A Jackson, Miss., special of Thurs- make a profit by issuing circulation
day says: JudgeChrisman holds that against them. Arrangements have,
the Postal Telegraph Company must therefore, been made by some of the
pay a privilege tax of $1 per mile per more prominent banks to increase their
year. The amount involved is $927.21 circulation from the minimum limit at
as taxes lor the last three years with 6 which it now stands to such an amount lk * 8 6a * d > are t> a ?kin:
per cent interests. There is more in- as will materially relieve the present
volved in the case than the $927.21. If position. It is estimated that eight or
the postal is exempt other companies ten millions of dollars will be so added
that have been paying taxes will also to New r York’s supply of currency
claim that they are exempt. The case within a very short time. Orders have
will be appealed. The suit was brought already been placed with the comp-
by the state revenue agent. ; troller of the currency for part of the
News is received from Washington I new Dills, and home of the banks have
he abstract of the national banks
bought their bonds, preparatory to
depositing them in Washington.
for free coinage upon a ratio of
perhaps 24 to 1 will be offered and
duly considered.
Authentic advices received at San
Francisco, Tuesday state that Minis
ter Blount has determined to turn
over matters in Hawaii, as far as the
United States are concerned, to Com
modore Skerrett, of the Boston, and
he will sail for the United States on
j the 6th instant, without waiting
for the appointment of his suc
cessor. Mr. Blount may, therefore,
be expected to arrive at San Francisco
about August 12th. Meanwhile his
repiort, which has been mailed by the
] steamer Oceanic, will have preceded
him, and by the time the special com
missioner and minister arrives in the
j east the president and Secretary Gresh
am will have the full opportunity to
carefully consider its contents.
A Chicese Lobby.
It is alleged the Chinese will swoop
down upon Washington with a live
and vigorous lobby. It will raid the
capitol building early Monday morn
ing. There is to be war to the knife
and report has it that it will be push
ed in up to the hilt. The Six Compa
nies, the great Chinese eorporatioi .
the play and
everything possible will be dot:
to effect the repeal of tm
Geaiv or Chinese exclusion a.
which passed the lust eongr..;
If the reports that come from the Pi; -
cfic slope can be relied upon, :•
lobby of gigantic proportions,equalim-
that of the famous credit mobilier in
1871. is to infest tho coming eongrtr-.
paper.
The plant of the Valley Falls com
pany at Woonsocket, B. I., engaged in
the manufacture of colored cotton
dress goods, and running 340 looms
with 135 hands and weekly pay roll of
$1,000, have shut down for an indefi
nite period owing to the lack of mar
ket for their goods. The same com
pany’s mills at Valley Falls, running
600 hands,”
shut down also.
A panic prevailed in the Chicago
j provision market Tuesday morning.
| When the market opened pork de-
■ dined $4.50 per barrel from Monday
night’s closing price, and almost im
mediately afterwards dropped $1.75
more, making a total decline of $6.25.
The failure of the following firms,deal
ing in provisions,has been announced:
E. W. Bailey, F. E. T. Hemholtz, A.
Feber and Wright <S: Haughey. It was
also announced on board of trade that
John Cudahy had failed.
Advices received Tuesday at Paris
from Bangkok, Siam, show that no un
derstanding has been reached in re
gard to delimitation of the territory
claimed by the French, or, at least,
that no knowledge to the effect has
reached the Siamese Capital. Neither is
it known at Bangkok that the block
ade is to be at once raised. On the
contrary, dispatches from Bangkok
fully support the latest reports cur
rent, and much uneasiness as to the
final outcome of the trouble is felt in
Bangkok, and that anxiety is increas
ing daily.
Beginning Tuesday, according to a
Chicago dispatch, the council of ad
ministration of the World’s Fair will
not be allowed to spend a dollar with
out the approval of the board of fi
nance. A statement was made that
the council of administration, after
repeated conferences with the depart
ment chiefs and others had succeeded
in bringing the payrolls for the last
two weeks of July down to $210,000.
This would mean a monthly payroll of
$420,000. Hereafter the board of fi
nance expects to reduce it at least 20
per cent more.
The Chamber of Commerce of Taco
ma, Washington, Wednesday evening
adopted a resolution favoring the im
mediate repeal of the Sherman pur
chase act, declaring that the wide
spread disaster and distress at present
prevailing are directly the outcome
of the theatened overturning of
the protective policy of the
country and requesting the senate and
house of representatives to adopt a
joint resolution to the effect that no
legislation shall, during the next four
years, he enacted upon the subject, or
in any way affecting the duties levied
upon imports of merchandise.
...... ......... . body of a man wrapped up in a small
k ° k h, 1 S . T , an ° T „ I killed. Preston denied his guilt, but standing jib. He could not be iden-
He was stripped
and stretched across a log and a hun-
were
laid upon his person. He yelled and
screamed at a terrific rate and pite
ously begged for mercy, but the more
he begged the harder the lashes were
laid upon him.
At last, ho was taken to the same
tree upou which the bloody bullet-rid
dled body of Thompson still hung. A
platform of crossties was made and the
rope was put around the same limb.
The platform was pushed away by de
grees, and the victim was slowly stran
gled.
The crowd did not shoot until he
had hung several minutes. His body
was then riddled with a thousand bul
lets, more than was given Thompson,
opposes j f or be waB afflicted with a disease.
The two ghastly bodies were left hang
ing, while the mob proceeded to ar
range for the lynching of the third
man in the jail at Lexington C. H.
HOMESTEAD MILLS CLOSING.
Tlic Carnegie Steel Works Affected by
the Dullness of Trade.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special of Monday
says: The trouble among the iron
mills resulting from the unsettled trade
conditions has at last come to affect
the steel works of the Carnegie com
pany at Homestead. The night turns
will be diseontined in the plate mill.
Trade is rated as especially significant
because this particular department has
never been slack of orders before. It
has been running three turns, and un
der the new arrangement the men in
each turn will work every third week.
The announcement of the third change
caused general comment and specula
tion, and some startling stories are
afloat in Homestead.
Kolb, of Alabama, sur
rounded by a score of brawny popu
lists, was one of the most conspicuous
figures in the convention, and ns he
conversed warmly with Editor Good
win, of the Salt Lake Herald, the tw o
were joined by Herman Taubenecke,
of the executive committee of the peo
ple’s party, and a moment later the
trio was increased by Senator Dubois,
of Idaho, who, although a republican,
will observe no caucus that
the free coinage of silver.
When Chairman Warner called the \
meeting to order, Bcores of delegates j
were obliged to stand in the aisles. In
a few opening words, Charman War
ner introduced Mayor Carter Har
rison, of Chicago, who welcomed the
delegates to the city.
The Hon. T. S. Patterson respond
ed. Chairman Warner delivered his
address, the usual committees were ap
pointed and the convention took a
recess uutil 2 :30 p. m.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
When Chairman Warner had called
the convention to order at 2 :50 o’clock
the committee on permanent organiza
tion reported the permanent organiza
tion of the convention in this order:
Chairman, Allen W. Thurman, of Ohio;
secretary, Joseph Hutchins, of Colo
rado : assistant secretaries, Lee Cran
dall, of Washington, and Amos Simp
son, of Illinois; sergeant-at-arms, C. S.
Chase, of Nebraska.
The committee on credentials re
ported 810 delegates present from for
ty-two states and territories. Chair
man Thurman then -took the platform
and addressed the convention. He
wound up by submitting the follow
ing:
First, let onr adversaries agree to
the free coinage of silver at either the
ratio of 15 1-2 to 1 or 16 to 1. I pre
fer the former. If they do we will
agree to the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law. Next, amend the
national banking law so as to permit a
national bank to issue its notes up to
the actual value of 100 per cent upon
the deposit of 90 per cent with the
United States gold or silver coin other
than subsidiary silver. Then repeal
the tax on state bank circulation.
Mr. Powderly was then called out
and spoke briefly. Next Ignatius Don
nelly spoke for an hour, his speech
verging upon the dangerously inflama-
tory. At 6 o’clock a recess was taken
until 8 o’clock.
THE MEETING AT NIGHT.
A still greater crowd assembled at
night. It was a mass meeting and the j
big hall was packed from the upper j
THE THIRD ONE LYNCHED.
Additional advices from Columbia
state that Handy Kaigler, the third
negro in the Gaston outrage, was strung
up Monday morning to the same limb
upon which the bodies of Thompson
and Preston were hanging. Kaigler
had been in Lexington jail four days
for safe keeping. When he was taken
there it was understood between the
lynching crowd from Gaston and the
sheriff that Kaigler should be deliver
ed to them whenever he was wanted,
as the man was not committed by reg- :
ular process of law. The sheriff prom
ised to keep him and deliver him when ;
wanted. At 12 o’clock Sunday night I
six men rode into Lexington village ;
and having produced the proofs that
they were representatives of the peo
ple of Gaston, Sheriff Drafts delivered
Kaigler to them. There was no ex
citement or anger displayed. The
crowd was there for business and they
transacted it in short order and went
away. They took the prisoner back
to Gaston, arriving about daylight
Monday morning. A large crowd was
present and the same treatment that
was accorded the other two men, who
were hanging lifeless and perforated
on a small limb, was accorded to Kui-
gler. The state authorities took no
steps whatever to prevent the enraged
mob from carrying out its purpose.
WASHBURN’S CIRCULAR
floor to the gallery with au audience
well dressed and of a high order of in
telligence. Senator Stewart, of Neva
da, was the principal speaker.
THE SECOND DAY.
As soon as Chairman Thurman call
ed the body to order Wednesday morn
ing. J. S. Dougherty, of Texas,moved
that the roll of the states he called for
the appointment of a committee to de
vise a plan and consider ways and
means for impressing upon congress
the ruin and peril now threatening our
material interests by the de
monetization of silver. General Warner
announced that the committe on reso
lutions would fully cover the subject.
Which Briefly Outlines His Yieivs on
the Silver Question,
George F. Washburn, of Boston,
Mass., national chairman of the east
ern division of the people’s party, has
sent to the state committee a circular
letter conveying his views on the sil
ver question. It is in part as follows:
The most gigantic trust the world
has ever seen is the present interna
tional bond-issuing and silver-boycott
ing syndicate. The most colossal con
spiracy the world has ever known is
the present one, originated and guided
by Baron Rothschild. Their silver
scheme is an attempt to enslave a
whole world and in a wholesale man
ner swindle and plunder God’s people.
The first step in this international
plot on the part of the usurers will be
to still further corner our circulation
here in America and then force an is
sue of bonds as a means of relief.
If half tho population of the world
use silver, and if half the metal cur
rency is and always has been silver,
how can we increase our volume of j
circulation by striking down one-half
of the amount? If a man has been |
forced to live on two meagre meals a
tified, bnt is supposed to be Captain
I. Edmund of the Charles.
A. B. Wheeler, superintendent of
the Biltmore brick and tile works at
Asheville,N. C., was arrested Wednes
day morning on a charge of larceny
preferred by Charles Moname, agent
for George W. Vanderbilt. Wheeler’s
system of stealing, it is alleged, was
falsifying pay rolls.
A mass meeting of the business men
of Birmingham, Ala., was held Tues
day afternoon at the Commercial Club
rooms, called for the purpose of tak
ing action on the repeal of the Sher
man silver purchase law. The movers
of the meeting were prominent busi
ness men who favor the repeal.
Near Montgomery, Texas, Tuesday
afternoon, three negroes attacked the
house of Mr. M. Marsh, killed Mr.
Marsh, brutally assaulted his wife,
murdered his infant and cut out the
tongue of his seven-year-old child.
His wife is believed to he dying. One
of the negroes was caught and lynched.
The sheriff and posse are searching for
the others.
A Savannah special of Tuesday says:
M. Comer, president of the Central
railroad, has consented to grant free
, passes tc members of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society that meets
on the 7th of August at Stone Moun
tain. This will give an opportunity
to all the members of the State Agri
cultural Society to attend the conven-
! free.
At Nashville, Tuesday, the United
j States grand jury indicted W. II.
Scoggins, of the defunct Commercial
National bank, for wrongfully certify
ing checks. A new indictment was
found against F. Porterfield, cashier
J of said bank, and one against F. Por
terfield and G. A. Dazey charging
conspiracy. George Childress, cashier
of the defunct Second National hank
of Columbia, Tenn., is also indicted.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says:
The lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Southwestern railroad to Newport
News and Mississippi Valley Company
was cancelled Tuesday uiglit. The
leaseuvas cancelled by reason of the
new state law prohibiting companies,
associations and corporations of other
states operating any railroad in this
state until they have become corpora
tions of this state.
The First National Bank of Bir
mingham, Ala., failed to open its doors
Wednesday morning. The continual
withdrawal of deposits and inability to
collect money fast enough to meet the
same, was given as the cause. The
First National was the oldest bank in
Birmingham. It has a capital stock of
$150,000. Its assets amounted to
$1,350,000, while the liabilities were
$650,000. The depositors will be paid
dollar for dollar.
After a cessation of two weeks the
whisky war broke out afresh at
Charleston Tuesday. One of the
state’s spies seized a barrel of corn
whisky, which had been lying at the
South Carolina railroad depot for six
or eight weeks. It was marked “Dia
mond B.,” but had no further con
signee on the head. It came from
Statesville, N. C. The constable did
not appear to know what to do with it,
so he took it to the county jail and
lodged it there. This proceeding will
probably bring the Evans law up in
the federal courts, where the anti-dis
pensers are anxious to take it.
A Bad Week, but the OutloJ
Promising,
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weel|
says: “The hardest week
the business world still ab
in the soundness and stf*"
closed. No hanks ntNfff'j]
other eastern cities andl T |J
firms of large impo^M 1
gone down, but numerorj
failed at the west, ineluo
of high repute and lurp
ness. Bnt through all the
banks of New York have pe'
out trouble and imports t
commenced. From one to3
lion dollars in money hasl
west every day and a large!
in bank reserves is expeetd
treasury has not been disbursi*]
ily. Fewer commercial loa
been negotiated at higher raj
cago has drawn heavily on
bnt in other cities bank states
dicate credible soundness.
“Grain rose briskly on 3
all speculative markets yieldedl
with tight money and slaugl
stocks. Wheat closed about
lower, hut the lowest receipt
moderate. Corn is a fraction
and light hog products. CofCtfl
declined an eighth, although tc
ceipts are larger and export
than last year.
“Sales of wool at the chief m 1 '
last week were about 2,000,000 pi I
against nearly 8,000,000 poundfil
year. Orders for boots and shot/
restricted. Shipments from' the*'
are 12 per cent less than for the
week last year. Bar iron is weak
sold at $1.55. Plates nre in nail
demand, and structural iron is ir|
ular, with beams down to $1.) '
steel bars, 28,000 tons were s
agricultural implement maki
Chicago.
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
‘ ‘Philadelphia reports better 1
though very little commercial p
sold at 7 per cent, and ban
hoarding money for depositor^- \
gain is seen at Pittsburg, whei.
demand for iron is small and thl
jority of tho mills have closed, bit
wage scale for iron and glass is
settled.
“At Cleveland trade is dull, and!
Cincinnati orders are not improvtf
Chicago reports smaller receipts
most products, a decrease of 22 jl
cent in clearings, 36 per cent in ral
estate sales and 20 per cent in ettj
bound shipments; jobbing trade
and retail very satisfactory. Wheal
at the lowest price ever known ah
local securities are pressed for sa!(
At Milwaukee business is contractihj
Jobbers at St. Paul arc conservativ
but average crops are expected. Omah
reports quiet trade, and Sioux Citv
good crop prospects. Jobbing trade j
quiet at Kansas City; cattle receipts
moderately low.
“Denver has quiet trade and slov
collections. St. Louis reports fail
trade for the season. At knoxville
and Nashville trade is fair; at Little
Rock, very consefvative, is fair; _
Columbus and Macon, the outlook is
good though money is tight but sound,
and crop prospects excellent. Mobil/
reports fair crop prospects: Jackson
ville, a close and cautious trade.
“Failures during the past week,
366 in the United States, against 171-
last year, and twenty-three in Canada,
against twenty-two last year. It is
noteworthy that only three failures
were of capital above $200,000 each, and
only 99 per cent of capital over $5,000
each. Over fifty banks stopped dur
ing the week, but nearly all were
the west.”
at
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
POSTPONED AGAIN.
The Supreme Court of Georgia Makes
Ruling That Will 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 and will attract
attention all over tho Union. The
higher court affirms Judge Clark’s de
cision and finally disposes of the case
Porter stocks was tried shortly after
the killing of Alph Cassin and con
victed without any recommendation
to mercy. His counsel moved for t
new trial and .Judge Clark granted aj
new trial on this motion. At the last
term of the superior court ho wat
again put upon trial, and after the
trial began and a number of witnesses
had been examined information was
brought to Judge Clarke that tho
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 tho court discharged the
juror. The counsel for tho 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
Then the matter was dropped and a dis- j day and complained of ? ee ling half The Southern Confederate Reinion : aftf r Stocks was again put upon trial
patch of greeting from the Knights of
Labor at St. Louis was read. It was
stated that Assembly No. 4 had adopt
ed resolutions for the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
starved, who hut a goldbug would
dream of advising him to eat only one
meal per day as a sure cure for hunger?
This gold trust, which comprises the
leading bankers and usurers of all
to 1. This was received with applause. countrie8 nnder the gene ralship of an
The committee on resolutions not be
ing ready to report, ex-Senator Hill,
of Colorado, was introduced to the
convention and spoke at length.
The sub-commit tec-on resolutions of
the silver convention at the night meet-
reed to ignore all questions with
the exeept;on of that of money and to
demand free coinage and the remone
tization of silver.
THREE MONTHS MORE
It Caused a Run.
The publication of the intended ac
tion of the New York savings banks
and institutions to pnt into practice
the law entitling them to thirty days’
notice from depositors of intended
withdrawals of money precipitated a
run Saturday morning. Some of the
banks paid the amonnts in full and
thus sought to restore confidence.
Others required notice, the time rang
ing from one to ninetyydays accordinr
to the periods
And the Greai World’s Fair Will Be
at an End-
The world’s fair is now half over,
and the total paid attendance for the
first three months numbers 7,000,000
persons. Three months of the V ig
show have elapsed, and only three
months remain before the exhibitors
will begin to move out their displays
and the work of tearing down the
white city will begin. After that ac
tion the park will belong to the people
again to be used as they please, and
the greatest fair the world has ever
known will be over and gone.
Hie Blockade Raised.
Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary
secretary of foreign office, anncniijgfcd
the house of Qftaimons at Loj
Wednesday aft;/j n ooi^
doet&de of Bft-i* -w.v. W bipPh raise,i
European Jew, is capable of anything.
No absurdity is too absurd for them to
offer as an argument; uo monstrosity
too monstrous for them to perpetrate
as an act. They are the monarchs of
crime.
Shall we, free-born Americans; we
who threw off the political yoke of an
English king, bow to the bidding of a
few foreign bankers who have bought
parliaments and congresses and are
trying to dictate our national policy?
Let us break this international servi
tude. Let us rally once more as an
American people and demand the re
storation of the money of onr fathers.
We can drive these foreign money
invaders from our shores forever, if
we begin right now. The solution of
the problem is to be found in the mon
ey plank of the people’s platform.
Now is our chance to agitate. P.ally
in attendance at the silver conven
tions. Make clear to the .people the
fact that, if silver goes down, gold
goes up.
It will take more labor from the
wage-earner, more merchandise from
the business man ; more wheat cotton
and com from the farmer than ever
before to buy the gold dollars of the
bankers, therefore these wealth-
Will be Held in October. I before another ^ and before
^ t j. • the evidence began filed
The Southern Confederate reunion lea for former jeopardy,^
which was originally to have been held Wfitl thnt the declarlit ion of a nuT
at Birmingham in July and was then : tnal £ the conrt v _. as wr and im _
postponed until September loth and . / and amounted to an acquittal.
16th, has again been postponed to j The CQUrt t into Ms order declari
take place at Birmingham on Monday j ^ mlstriid all tLe facte upon w hich
and Tuesday, October 2nd ad 3d. it bad been dec l are d and the counsel
Among the reasons assigned for ; for the Btato demurred to the plea of
further postponement is the summer former jeopardy and the court sustain-
heat to permit the harvesting of crops, j ed the demurtct and struck the plea
the hope and belief that the financial ; ftnd reqnircd stocks to go to trial he
sitation would greatly improve dur- ; fore this third plry _ and be
was con-
mg the delay and principally was the j victed of voluntary manslaughter. His
. counsel then took a bill of exception
and set up that Judge Clark erred in
! sustaining the demurrer to a plea of
desire to afford the old veterans an
opportunity of getting the cheapest
rates to the World’s fair.
Ajntant General Moorman- issued a
general order from Headquarters at
New Orleans, Wednesday, announc
ing the postponement, and stating
that the reunion would positively take
place at Birmingham on the last nam
[ former jeopardy. The case was taken
to the supreme court, and that august
1 body sustained Judge Clark
This case is remarkable iu legal histo
ry from the fact that there is no case
i to be found like it in any of the Amer-
ed dates, and that theimveiling of the; fcan states. Other grounds for de
confederate monument at ^ ^hicago ; c i ar ; n g a mistrial have been laid down
by the courts in numbers of instances,
would occur on October 7th. As this is
the only confederate monument upon
northern soil erected to commemorate !
the six thousand' confederate dead i
resting in the shades of Oakwood j
cemetery, Chicago, Commanding Gen. j
such as iliness 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 occnred in Iowa, ill
ness of the judge’s wife. Bnt, all the;
Gordon appeals to all comrades to ; re6earcb 0 f the counsel on both sides 1
form clubs and take advantages of the j f a ji ed to produce any case like this ou]
cheap excursion rates secured for the , facts. It is apprehended that nos
oc£ss:on. Hon. V?. C. P. Breckinridge such can be found.
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