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TERMS, $1. Per Annum,
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May."
JOHN E, HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XII. NO. 16.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The population of the almshouses
of the United States is estimated at
i\E\VS IN GENERAL
74,000.
The Germans published 23,000
books last year- -as many as England,
the United States, France and Italy
combined.
The Railway Age says that though
times are hard, there will be more
than 22,000 miles of railroad built in
this country during 1894.
The Hessian fly is gradually extend
ing its ravages in Europe, as, in the
summer of 1893, it was recorded, ac
cording to Nature, as occurring in
Norway, aud injuring barley.
Russia has few stranded actors.
When a manager takes a troupe on
the road he must make a deposit with
the Government to pay the way home
for the members in case they become
stranded.
The New York Sun contends that ail
papers printed and intended for circu
lation in this country should be in the
English language. It says that foreign
ers in the United States are seriously
hampered every way by their ignor
ance of the vernacular of the country,
end that they should set themselves at
once to the task of mastering it.
Philadelphia has the name of being
almost supernaturally well behaved
and quiet, notes the New York Mail
and Express, but some statistics re
cently published in regard to the pop
ular demand for books at one of hex
big public libraries show that the pro
portion of novels called for is 107
times greater than that for “spiritual
and religious works.”
The Russian Government, in its
r.Torts to suppress the Polish national
spirit, recently ordered the police of
Warsaw to visit all the stores aud
studios and destroy all the busts of
the Polish heroes, Kosciuszko and
Powniatowski, which they could find.
All sculptors in the city were obliged
to send a written communication to
the city officials, promising not to
make busts or statues of the two men
in the future.
A society which the New York Tri
bune believe-s would have a wide field
of usefulness in this country would be
one of similar to the Shipwrecked Mar
iner s’ Society, of England, which has
headquarters in London aud agencies
scattered all over the United Kingdom.
• By the payment- of seventy-five cents
a year a British seaman can enroll him
self as a member, securing many ad
vantages for himself and his family in
health and material assistance in ease
of shipwreck or sickness.
The railways that have been estab
lished in Australian colonies, and in-
•» deed, in practically all new countries,
have not, in the estimation of the Rail
way Review, yielded results as a rule
that were sufficiently satisfactory to
encourage capital, considered merely
at an investment. Take Australia as
a case in point. In Victoria the Gov
ernment railways only return 2.64 per
cent, in the form of net revenue on
the invested capital; in Queensland
the return is 2.65 per cent; in New
South Wales 3.67 pier cent; while in
South Australia the amount rises to
4.85 per cent.
The export of cottonseed oil to the
Netherlands for adulteration of butter
bas rapidly increased. In 1889 we
furnished the Dutch butter-makers
with 1,739,341 gallons. In 1893 it was
3,736,155 gallons, and during the first
eight months of the piresent fiscal year
it was 2,227,631 gallons. Our imports
of olive oil from Spain have decreased
very rapidly owing to the increased
use of cottonseed oil on the tables of
the United States—in 1890, 80,202
gallons; in 1891, 11,252 gallons, and
in 1893, only 320 gallons. A similar
decrease is shown in our imports from
Italy. Our exports of cottonseed oil
to Italy last year were much smaller
than usual, for in 1890 we sent 2,197,-
311 gallons and took only 448,964
gallons of olive oil. In 1S91 we sent
1,159,163 gallons of cottonseed oil
aud took 326,748 gallons of olive oih
In 1892 we seut 1,001,200 gallons of
cottonseed oil and took 431,322 gal
lons of olive oil.
A St. Louis drummer says that the
typewriter has cost him a good many
customers in the backwoods districts
of Arkansas aud the Indian Territory.
He tells of a visit that he made iu the
country some thirty miles from New
port, Ark., to a customer, who had
always received him gladly, and enter
tained him loyally. This time, relates
the Atlanta Constitution, the merchant
would hardly speak to him, au 1 his
wife aud daughters turned their backs
and walked out of the store when he
entered. The situation was soon ex
plained. Said the merchant, tossing
a type-written letter toward him:
“You think up tbar in St. Louis thet
me au’ my darters can’t- read ‘ritiu,’
do you? an’ so you've gone to havin’
my letters printed!” Iu vain the
drummer explained the machine on
which the work was done and the uni
versality of its -,Lse 1 y business houses,
the man would not believe that there
was any such machine, and persisted
iu considering the letter a» a printed
circular and u.r erscnal affront-
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF IMPORT
ANT HAPPENINGS
Showing What is Going On In Our
Own and Foreign Bands.
Justice Kenneth F. Sutherland, who
was convicted for his connection with
the Gravesend elections scandals of
IastNovember, has surrendered himself
to the Brooklyn, N. Y’ , police.
At Indianapolis, Ind., the jury re
turned a verdict of “guilty” in the
case of Percival B. Coffin, Francis A.
Coffin and Albert S. Reed, on trial for
wrecking the Indianapolis National
bank.
The Cincinnati road began its policy
of retrenchment at Chattanooga,
.Tuesday, by dropping eighty men out
of the 125 workmen, boiler-makers,
machinists, ear repairers, etc., em
ployed in the railway shops.
A special from Denver, Col., says:
The committee on arbitration met tc
renew the efforts towards a settlement
of the miners’ strike. The deputies
are in camp at Ylidland and no move
will be made until the arbitration is
settled.
At Brooklyn, N. Y'., Ex-Justice of
the Peace Kenneth F. Sutherland, of
Gravesend, one of McKane’s hench
men, was sentenced to two years and
eight months in Sing Sing prison and
to pmy a fine of §500. The sentence
includes the sentence already imposed
for misdemeanor, of one year’s im
prisonment and $500 fine.
The shipment of cokcjo the Edgar
Thomson steel works plant at Bradd ock,
Pa., has entirely stopped. Furnace “A,”
of the Carnegie plant, making manga
nese, which has been operating since
the iron furnaces suspended some days
ago, may close. The minor departments
of the works will have to stop), now
that the coke supply has ceased.
The Erie forge, the Nagle furnaces
and several other iron plants at Erie,
Pa., have shut down, and it is expected
that within a few days twenty- of the
various manufactories will have to
close until coal can be secured. An
thracite coal is being used on freight
engines of the Philadelphia and Erie
road with very unsatisfactory results.
Advices from Y T ancouver, B. C., are
to the effect that the overflow of the
Frazer river is causing great destruc
tion and loss of life. The valleys have
been submerged, houses of ranchers
have been swept away and fields laid
in waste. Many herds of cattle and
flocks of sheep) have been drowned.
Whole villages on the banks of the
stream are floating.
The socialist labor party of Massa
chusetts held its fourth annual state
convention at Springfield and put in
nomination the following candidates :
Governor, David Taylor, of Boston;
lieutenant governor, Morris Ruther, of
Holyoke; secretary of state, Joseph F.
Maloney, of Lynn; treasurer, Emil
Auerbach, of Adams; attorney general,
Fred Nagler, of Springfield; auditor,
Charles N. Wentworth, of Lynn.
A great drought in the far western
part of Nebraska is reported. The
farmers have been unable to raise a
crop or obtain water for stock. As a
consequence hundreds of fauns in
Lincoln and adjoining counties are
being deserted by their tenants, who
are moving eastward in wagons. No
rain has fallen in weeks, and all vege
tation is parched. Other p>ortions of
the state fare very much better, but
in many places the small grain is a
failure.
There is a storm gathering about the
head of General Kelly, of the Califor
nia industrial ai my. Three members
of the army will make charges before
United States Commissioner Craw ford,
at St Louis, against their commander.
When the command left Des Moines it
included a glee club of eleven men
who sailed in a boat pnirchased by
their own money. They say that the
money earned by their singing was
turned over to Kelly, but that Kelly
wanted to get rid of them because they
knew of his alleged irregular use of
money contributed by the public.
A Topjeka, Kan., disp>atch says: Ex-
Adjutant General Artz, at the head of
his commonwealers, marched from
their armory Tuesday afternoon to
the office of commissioner of elections,
and each of the fifty men were regis
tered, all announcing their intention
of returning from Washington in time
to vote at the November election.
Governor Leweliing addressed the
company. He said that while ho did
not entirely approve of the methods
adopted by the wealers to accomplish
the desired end. that they had a per
fect right to travel over the country at
will, and that no one had any right to
interfere with them.
Au appeal has been made by the Ba
roness Rouques, the mother of Mrs.
Ylaybriek, to the p)ress of England and
America, asking their aid in behalf of
her daughter, now serving a life sen
tence in the working prison for
the murder of her husband. The
appeal is aceonpanied by a pam-
phlet containing the latest evidence
gathered in favor of the prisoner. The
baroness attributes the refusal of the
home office to reop>en the ease of her
daughter to the fact that the home of
fice authorities are iu possession of ad
verse evidence which they obtained se
cretly. She appeals for the assistance
of the piress as an American and as a
mother.
Belva Lockwood Barred.
The supreme court of the United
States has rendered its decision upon
the application of Mrs. Belva A. Lock-
wood for a rule against the Virginia
court of appeals to show cause why
they should not admit her to practice
before that tribunal. Chief Justice
Fuller announced that Mrs. Lock-
wood’s application must be denied,
upon the ground that it was compe
tent for the Virginia court of appeals
to finally determine upon the eligibili
ty of persons to practice before it.
Storms ou Lake Superior.
A heavy northwest gale raged on
Lake Superior, Sunday and Monday,
aceonpanied by snowstorms. The tug
Andrew J. Smith was compelled to
abandon ber raft of many million feet
of logs iu the middle of the lake,- as
she could not make any headwav with
it and was in danger herself. The tug
Samson also dropped her raft and
songfct shelter.
LATEST TELEGRAMS
CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS,
Aud Giving the Gist of the News Up
to the Time of Going to Press.
Abingdon, Va., is threatened with
an epidemic of smallpox. Martha
Washington Female college was closed
Thursday and Jackson Female -insti
tute is said to be in strict quarantine.
J. Irby Hurt, a young lawyer, is the
only stricken person at present.
The conference of the coal operators
of Illinois, held at Springfield to ar
range prices and to comedo an agree
ment whereby the competition of the
northern and southern and central Il
linois fields could be adjusted to the
end of settling the great coal strike,
came to naught.
At Cincinnati, Thursday, Judge
Taft decided that the receivers of the
Queen and Crescent (Cincinnati South-1
ern) had the right to reduce the scale
of wages or lessen the number of
hours, thereby accomplishing the same
result. He p>ays high tribute to Re
ceiver Felton’s ability.
Dave Turner, a wealthy citizen of
Anthony, Fla., committed suicide by
hanging himself to a girder in his
barn. He left a note stating that he
was too miserable to live. Why he
was miserable no one knows, as he
possessed a comfortable fortune and
his domestic relations were pheasant.
Owing to the scarcity of coal the Il
linois Central will discontinue two
passenger trains in the Springfield and
Gilman division and every freight train
excep)t one. The Wabash bhops, em
ploying nearly 1,000 men, will close
down, and every freight train not abso
lutely necessary will be abandoned.
Within one week it is thought every
industry in Springfield will be at a
standstill for lack of coal.
Holders of certificates of indebted
ness of the Central railroad to the
amount of §1,140,800 met at Savan
nah Thursday. All had signed an
agreement, which became operative
when signed by §1,000,000, face value,
of the debentures. A committee of
five was appointed to act as trustees of
the debenture holders in securing for
them pjrop>er recognition in any re
organization p)lau that may be put for
ward.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says:
The celebrated White Sulphur springs
property has been sold to Julian T.
Burke, of Alexandria, Y r a., agent for
the preferred bond holders, lor the
sum of §265,000. The season at the
White usually opens June 1st and
while there is no definite information
to that effect, it is expected that
Major Earle, who has conducted the
popular resort for many years, will
again become the lessee and that the
spmiugs will be opened as usual.
A terrific storm struck Hillsboro,
Tex., at 2 o’clock Thursday morning,
accompanied by torrents of raiu and
incessant lightning. The Episcopal
church was completely demolished, as
was also the house of John Morgan.
The pump-house at Lake park was to
tally demolished and the grand stand
at the fair grounds blown into the lake
thirty yards distant. Quite a number
of dwellings were blown from their
foundations and badly damaged. The
destruction to the oat crop) and shade
and fruit trees was very great.
The whistle at the Denver paper
mills, south of the city of Denver,Col.,
began to blow shortly after 11 o’clock
Thursday night to warn the residents
of the Platte river bottoms to seek
higher grouuds. The river has been
steadily rising at the rate of from four
to six inches nu hour, and is outside
its banks. The water is backed up) to
the Rio Grande shops at Burnham. At
Jerome park the residents sought ref
uge in a school house, which is now
partially submerged. There is much
excitement in the flooded districts, but
it is thought that all will be rescued.
The mines at Whitwell, Tenn., have
been leased by the Pikevilie Mining
Company, and it is reported that work
will be resumed at once. The striking
miners will go back into the shafts on the
old sdale, the action being merely out
of sympathy with the general strike.
The Tennesse Coal, Iron and Railway
Company, owners of this extensive
property, closely following the strike,
abandoned the place, shipping away
all their movable property, and many
families left the mining settlement of
3,000 souls to cast their fortunes else
where. Six hundred men will be
given work.
A Memphis, Tenn., disp>atch says:
The Louisville and Nashviile railroad,
the East Tennessee, the Kansas City,
Memphis aud Birmingham and the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroads posted a notice Thursday that
a reduction of 60 per cent on freight
to and from eastern pwints would take
effect June 2d. The notice of the cut
creat ed no little excitement in railroad
circles, but it was thought that passen
ger rates would not be disturbed. The
idea was dispelled, however, when the
Tennessee Midland posted notice of a
sweeping cut iu passenger tickets to
eastern and northern p>oints. The
Louisville and Nashville promptly met
the reduction and announced that it
was in the fight to the finish.
EXCHANGED PRISONERS
To Save the Lives of Three Men Cap
tured by Miners.
A special from Colorado Springs,
Colorado, says: Sheriff Bowers has re
leased Russell, Mason and Todd, the
three miners captured in Wilbnr, iu
pursuance of agreement, in order to
save the lives of Samuel McDonald,
superintendent; Charles Robinson, fire
man, and Jack Goodhue, a miner cap
tured by the strikers in the Strong
mine, after blowing up) the shafthouse.
The miners’ hatred of McDonald is in
tense and they had determined to put
him to death, and then execute the
other prisoners, if the exchange of
prisoners was not agreed to.
Reinforcements for Coxey.
A Washington dispatch says: Coxey’s
army reinforced by 150 men under
“General” Galvin (who arrived at
Coxey camp) Tuesday) marched into
town memorial day and decorated the
peace monument on Pennsylvania ave
nue at the western end of the capital
grounds with evergreens and wild
flowers and then marched back to
camp.
WASHINGTON NOTES
’AHAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S HEADQUARTERS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
tlie Various Departments.
The democratic managers are be
coming impatient at the time being
consumed by the republicans in the
discussion of the metal schedule and
are beginning to talk among them
selves of the advisability of prolonging
thejiours of debate.
Secretary Carlisle is very much an
noyed and disgusted at the newspaper
publications hinting a deal of some
kind concerning the sale of the govern
ment building at Chicago. It is learn
ed that he had written letters to Col
onel Livingston, as chairman of the
sub-committee on appropriations, show
ing that the charges made are utterly
false and ridiculous.
The dismissal of 450 clerks in the
war department and 500 employes of
the government printing office has
caused consternation among the gov
ernment employes in Washington. Al
most every clerk fears the ax will fall
upon him next time. Those who have
been dismissed are beseeching the sen
ators and members to have them rein
stated.
The wholesale discharge of clerks
for which Secretary Lamont has so
long been preparing took place in
the war department Tuesday, nearly
three hundred employes receiving
notices that their services were no lon
ger required. Many of them were also
notified that they would be allowed
pmy until various dates in Jnne on ac
count of regular leaves of absence.
Senator Gorman has not been
in his seat in the senate since the
day he delivered his recent speech
upon tho tariff bill. It was known
that he was indisposed, but each day
the announcement was made that rest
was all he needed. Tuesday, however,
the senator’s brother was quoted as
saying that Senator Gorman is a very
sick man. Overwork, lie says, is the
cause.
The official treasury statement is
sued June 1st shows that the expendi
tures of the. government for the eleven
months of the current fiscal year have
exceeded the receipts by §72,000,000,
the aggregate standing in round fig
ures: Receipts, §268,000,000; expen
ditures, §340,000,000. These figures
indicate a total deficit for the twelve
months of the fiscal year of about
§78,000,000.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared dividends jn favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks as
follows: Second dividend of 50 per
cent, in favor of the creditois of the
Alabama National Bank, of Mobile,
Ala. making in all 100 per cent, on
claims proved amounting to §68,697.
A fourth dividend of the First Nation
al Bank of Wilmington, N. C., making
in all 50 per cent in claims proved
amounting to §551,329.
Decoration day was observed in
Washington in the usual manner.
The chief exercises took place at Ar
lington, but appropriate exercises were
held at the soldiers’ home aud at the
various cemeteries. The district mili
tia headed the procession of grand
army men and other veteran associa
tions, which marched to Arlington.
Interest in the celebration increased
by the personal participation of Pres
ident Cleveland, who left the white
house at noon and drove directly to
Arlington. •
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
South for tho past week shows that business in
the coal regions of Alabama and Tennessee is
somewhat unsettled in consequence of the
miners’ strike, and the output of the furnaces
has been diminished. Contrary to previous
expectation it has net been necessary to ciose
down any furnaces, as fuel supplies furnished
by negro and eonrict libor hive been suffi
cient. There is an incrcasin",demiud for pig
iron, and prices are irregular. Textile mills
throughout the South are running on full time
with plenty of orders an 1 encouraging pros
pects. Lumber producers have obtained lower
freight rates to the North and West, and are
doing more business than heretofore- Prices,
however, are low, and in many instances do not
afford a reasonable profit. Farmers report that
crop prospects are not very encouraging and
truck fanners have done well thus far, as high
er prices have, to some extent, offset the short
age in early crops of fruit.
Forty-three new industries were established
or incorporated during the week, among which
may bo mentioned the Keystone Cr-amery
Company, of Alexandria, Va., capital $60,000;
large sugar refineries at New Iberia and Baton
liouge. La.; a $50,000 construction company at
New Orleans, La., and the Buckley High Speed
Elevator Company, capital $50,000, also at New
Orleans, Brick worKs are to be established at
Weston, W.Va.; bottling works at Chattanooga,
Tenn.; canning factories at New Orleans, La.,
Tupelo, Miss-; Corsicana, Tex., and Arch Mills;
Va., and cotton compresses at Luverne Ala.,
and Hearne, Tex. A new cotton mill at Beau
fort, S. C-; electrical plants at Ocala,
Fla., West Point, Miss., and Victoria.
Tex.; flour and grist mills at Wortman, N. C.,
and New Castle, Va., and fertilizer works at
Abbeville. Ala. Foundries are to be bnilt at
Palatka. Fla., and Louisville, Ky., and a ma
chine shop at San Antonio, Tex. Cotton seed
oil miljs will be established at Clinton, La., and
Liberty, S. C., and a tobacco factory at Mt.
Airy, N, C. New woodworking establishments
are reported at Huntsville, Ala., Ft. White aud
Interlachen, Fla., Walnut Cove and Wilming
ton, N. C., Scranton, Miss., Erwin and Mem
phis, Tenn., Fredericksburg and Manchester,
Va., and Sutton, W. Va.
Water works will be built at Quincy, Fla„
Walballa, S. C., Bowie, Texas, and Weston,
W. Va. Among the enlargements of the week
are a spring bed factory at Houston, Tex., cot
ton mills at Whitehall Ga., aud Newberry, S.
C., and o.l mills at Union. S. C., and Cuerro.
Tex. The new buildings reported for the week
include a bank building at New Braunfels,
Texas; business houses at Orlando, Fla., Val
dosta. Ga-, Murphy, N. C-. Houston, Texas,
and Blnetieid, W. Va.; churches at Cloverport,
Ky., and Columbus, S. C.; a $44,000 court
house at Karnes City. Tex.; a $40,000 school
building at Ashlaud, Ky., and one to cost $42,-
000 at Jackson, Miss.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.)
MONEY FOR ATLANTA.
An Appropriation of $200,000 Re
ported for Her Exposition.
The Atlanta exposition will get
§200,000 from the government. Of
this §50,000 is for the building and
§150,000 for the exhibit. If the re
moval of the building is not practica
ble or if the removal and re-erection
of the building are not possible within
the amount of the appropriation, then
the secretary of the treasury is au
thorized to have-a building erected at
Atlanta, the cost not to exceed §50*-
000. If the old building is removed,
one-half of it is to be reserved for the
government exhibit aud the rest of the
building will be for whatever exhibit
the colored race may make. The
building is to be under the control oi
a board of government trustees.
CONGRESSIONAL,
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
. HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
The house bill was passed Monday,
extending one year the time for ma-
king final proof of the location of a
settlement under the homestead and
desert land acts. Two or three pri
vate bills were passed, and the house
then, in committee of the whole, be
gan the consideration of bills relating
to the affairs of the District of Colum
bia. The response by the children of
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
to the message of sympathy trans
mitted by the speaker at the time of
Kossuth’s death, was laid before the i
house by Speaker Crisp.
Wednesday being Decoration Day,
Mr. Catchings at the opening of the
session of the house, Tuesday, moved
that when the house adjourned it be
until Thursday noon. Agreed to.
Committees having been called for re
ports, the house went into committee
of the whole—Mr. Richardson, of Ten
nessee, in the chair—on the 10 per
cent bank tax bill. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Cox, of Tennessee,
Johnson, of Indiana, and Black, of
Georgia.
the senate.
The tariff bill was laid before the
senate Monday. Mr. Hale’s amend
ment to continue the existing duties
on sawed boards and lumber was dis
cussed till noon without reaching a
vote, and then Mr. Walsh, of Georgia,
addressed the senate on the general
subject of the tariff.
The senate, Thursday, voted to put
lumber on the free list of the tariff
bill. This, of course, will not be sat
isfactory to the lumbermen of Georgia
and Alabama. They have petitioned
for a duty, as they sell large quantities
of lumber iu the north and west where
Canadian lumber will now compete
with the product of Georgia and Ala
bama. The sugar schedule was taken
up, but the progress on it promises to
be very slow. The great fight against
the bill which republicans are to make
will be on this. They believe if they
can defeat this schedule and put sugar
on the free list it will mean the defeat
of the entire bill, as several democrats
will vote against the bill unless sugar
is protected.
TRADE TALK.
The Past Week was Rather a Dull
One.
R. G. Dun & Co’s Review of Trade
for the past week says:
“Storms and floods, prolonged
strikes and large exports of gold have
done their utmost this week to give
business a vacation. But the wants
unsatisfied during the past year, bela
ted and much lessened and yet greater
than those of any other nation, have
caused a volume of trade quite large
for the season. While the iron indus
try especially and many others to some
extent, have been restricted by scarci
ty of coal aud coke, the number
of works resuming bas been great
er than the number stopping from
other causes. But it is a symptom not
to be overlooked that the demand for
manufactured products, instead of in
creasing, appenrs for the moment
rather smaller than before and indif
ference of buyers is shown in cancella
tion of orders hitherto given. It is a
waiting season, but tho disposition to
wait is this year much intensified.
Works in operation are fairly busy in
closing up orders for a belated spring
demand, but there is even more shrink
age in orders for the future than was
notioed last year as the precursor of
coming dullness.
“There appears no increased demand
for cotton goods and manufacturers
have agreed that the accumulation of
print cloths, which now sell at 2.69
cents for 64s must presently be checked
by suspending production. Exchanges
through clearing houses compare fa
vorably for the week, being only 18.1
per cent, smaller than last year.
“Failures diminish in importance,
the amount of liabilities for the third
week in May being only §2,204,139
and for three weeks §7,836,972, of
which §2,642,687 were of manufactur
ing and §5,025,007' of trading con
cerns. The number of failures report
ed this week is 183 in the United States
against 259 last year, and in Canada
28 against 14 last year,and again there
are noted scarcely any of importance. ”
THE ROADS'EUCHRED.
Tliey Lose the Famous Social Circle
Short Haul Case.
In therUnited States circuit court of
appeals at New Orleans, Tuesday,
Judges Pardee, Locke and McCormick
gave the following decision on the long
and short haul case, the title being:
“The interstate commerce commis
sion vs. the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific Railway Company,
the Western & AtlanticRailroad Com
pany and the Georgia Pacific Railway
Company: Appeal from the circuit
court of the United States for the
northern district of Georgia.
“Ordered. That the decree of the
circuit court be annulled, avoided and
reversed, and that this case be re
manded to the said circuit court, with
instructions to.enter a decree in favor
of the complainant, the interstate
commerce commission, and against tha
defendants, the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific Railway com
pany, commanding and restraining the
said defendants, their officers, servants
and attorneys, to cease and desist from
making any greater charge iu
the aggregate on buggies, carriages
and on other freight of the-first class
carried in less than carloads from Cin
cinnati to Social Circle than they
charge on such freight from Cincin
nati to Augusta; that they so desist
and refrain within five days after the
entry of each decree, and iu case they
or any of them shall fail to obey said
order, condemning the said defend
ants, and each of them, to pay §100 a
day for every day thereafter they shall
so fail, and denying the relief prayed
for in relation to charges on freight
from Cincinnati to Augusta. The said
defendants to pay all costs of court.”
The aggregate capital stock of
United States railways Is §4,863,119,-
073, with bonded indebtedness
amounting to §1,000,000,000 more.
PUEBLO FLOODED.
THE ARKANSAS AND FOUNTAIN
RIVERS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
Water Running Six Feet Deep in the
Alain Streets.
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Special dispatches from Pueblo,
Col., state that the storm which has
been raging iu that vicinity for the
past two days broke in all its fury
Wednesday afternoon, causing the
Arkansas and Fountain rivers, whose
junction is in the city, to burst over
their levees aud flood the whole lower
portion of the town. The rise was so
rapid that the fire whistle was blown
to call out the police and fire depart
ment, also the volunteers, to as
sist in rescuing some 300 fami
lies, who were hemmed in the “grove”
or bottoms. The work proceeded as
rapidly as possible. The men in their
work were greatly hampered by the
rising water. A second alarm was
sounded calling the rescuers from the
bottoms. The levees % had broken
above the city and there was great
danger of the people being drowned.
High wagons and boats were used in
getting the unfortunates to the high
ground. When the second alarm was
sounded the work of saving the prop
erty was abandoned.
ABOVE SECOND-STORY WINDOWS.
Another cloudburst occurred at mid
night in the residence portion of town
and did great damage on Main street.
The water is two feet deep in the Pue
blo Journal office. The city is in dark
ness, the water works flooded aud fires
out. The water is six feet deep on
Court street.
THE LATEST.
Latest advices up to time of going
to press state that the greatest alarm
is felt for the safety of the people. In
some places the water is above second
story windows. The houses are mostly
of wood and cau only stand against
the present mad rush of waters for a
few minutes. The water is washing
down the principal streets at the rate
of eighteen or twenty miles an hour.
Several serious accidents have oc
curred to men and women while try
ing to wade through the streets. The
grand opera house stage is six inches
under water. The First National bank,
all the large dry goods, clothing and
other stores on main street are five feet
under water. The Central block, an
elegant building five stores high, is
flooded to witbin two feet of the ceil
ing of the first iloor. The Journal
building is under water aud the prin
ters fled to save their lives. It is al
most certain that a number of people.
Lave been drowned.
Loss of Life.
A special of Thursday from Pueblo,
Col., gives additional particulars of
the flood as follows: The cloudburst
which last night sent a vast torrent of
water down the valley aud into, this
city, caused many deaths and rendered
widespread destruction. The work of
rescue had just begun when a recur
rence of the flood caused a suspension
of the work, and it is feared that many
bodies were washed away under the
debris and will never be recovered.
Tbe list of dead-and missing compiled
shortly before midnight is as follows:
Dead—Dave Rafferty, steel worker;
Joseph I. Copper, smelter employe;
one body reported seventeen miles
below town and another two miles be
low ; neither yet received; Hoplee, a
Chinese laundryraau. The missing are
J. Yandeeer, William Bush, Harry
Burch, Mrs. Williamson, Joseph Hart,
an infant. Five others reported by
different families.
A company of California Coxeyites
numbering sixty, who were camped on
the river bank, report that five of their
number are missing. Grave fears are
expressed for twelve families of squat
ters on an island down the river. There
is no means of reaching these people
at present.
The catastrophe, similar to the
Johnstown horror of five years ago,
and remarkable from having occurred
on the same day, has utterly prostrated
the citizens and paralyzed business.
The property loss will be about §600,-
000.
TROUBLE WITH MINERS.
The Situation iu Missouri and Onio is
Becoming Serious.
The situation at Mine No. 6, at the
Kansas and Texas Coal Company, near
Macon, Mo., is serious. Tuesday
night a gang of strikers assembled
near the mine and threatened to'drive
out the negroes at work. A large
force of deputy sheriffs surrounded the
shaft and prevented an attack. The
strikers are ugly and it is feared will
set fire to the buildings. The feeling
of the villagers are in sympathy with
the strikers, and the sheriff finds diffi
culty in securing deputies to assist him
in preserving order.
CALLING FOR TROOPS.
A special from Columbus, Ohio,
says: Sheriff Riley, of Athens coun
ty, has appealed to Governor McKin
ley for troops. The strikers are pre
venting the moving of coal trains on
the Toledo and Ohio Central railway
at Gloucester, Ohio.
TROUBLE FEARED IN TENESSEE.
The striking miners of the Oliver
Springs, Tenn., district have decided
to remain out with the Jellico miners
until a national settlement is made.
The Coal Creek miners Lad a mass
meeting Tuesday night. Several Jel-
lieo agitators were present and fiery
speeches were made. Trouble is
feared.
IMMIGRATION CONVENTION
Assembles iu Augusta—The South Well
Represented.
The Southern Immigration Associa
tion organized its third annual congress
in Augusta Wednesday at noon, Presi
dent M. S. Bryan, of Nashville, pre
siding. Speeches of welcome were
made by Mayor J.H. Alexander, presi
dent, and Joseph II. Lamar, of the
Young Men’s Business League, of Au
gusta; Governor W. J. Northen, of
Georgia, and United States Senator
Patrick Walsh, president of the com
mercial Club of Augusta. Responses
were made by Governor YlcCorkle, of
j West Virginia; Governor Tillman,
i of South Carolina, and Governor Carr,
of North Carolina. President Bryan
i opened the proceedings with an ad
j dress, giving the origin of the organi
zation and its objects.
THROUGH THE SOUTH
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
Culled and Condensed From Our
Daily Dispatches.
It is said that the late frost aud snow
have killed most of the seventeen-year
locusts in the mountain section of
North Carolina.
Three hundred striking miners, out
by McBride’s orders, have returned to
work at Bathburn, Tenn. This break
will do much toward relieving the coal
famine imminent at Chattanooga.
Governor Stone, of Mississijjpi, has
offered a reward of §250, payable on
conviction, for each of the murderers
of Henry Smith and Will James, col
ored, hanged by a mob near Clinton.
Colonel Breckinridge states that be
will carry the matter of Judge Brad
ley’s refusal to allow his counsel to file
a bill of exceptions to the supreme
court. He declined to express an
opinion as to the judge’s refusal.
A special from Columbia, S. C.,
says: The military inquiry into the
conduct of the Columbia companies
during the dispensary riots Continues.
The indications are that Captain Al
ston’s company, the Richmond Volun
teers, will be retained iu the service
and that the Governor’s Guards and
Columbia Zouaves will be dismissed.
The safe in the office of the three C’s
railroad, at Y'orkville, S.C., was blown
open Monday night. It is supposed
that the job was done by professional
cracksmen. They got about §50 iu
cash. They did not visit any other
business place in Yorkville and no clue
to their identity. This is tlie first vis
it from safe crackers that Yorkville
has ever had.
Monday afternoon the immense
wholesale grocery house of Preston &
Stauffer at New Orleans narrowly es
caped destruction by fire. Damage to
stock is §60,000, and to the building
§10,000; fully insured. While several
firemen were on a shed, a lineman cut
an electric wire which was in their
midst. Captain Fahart and Pipeman
Robert Burke fell to the stone pave
ment, and were seriously injured.
The twenty-first annual commence
ment of the Alabama State Normal col
lege closed Wednesday. The annual
address was delivered by Chappell
Cory, of Birmingham. The bacca
laureate sermon was preached Sunday
by Dr. , E. E. Hoss, of Nashville.
Twenty-seven graduates received state
certificates. It was tbe largest class in
its history. The alumnial banquet was
held at night.
A good deal of excitement exists in
Mobile, Ala., over tbe threat on the
part of a number of citizens of Bald
win "county to burn tbe quarantine
plant which is located in that county,
across the bay from Mobile. Extra
precautions have been taken to protect
the plant from any such onslaught.
The threat of Baldwin’s citizens is
based on the fact that infested vessels
are treated at the plant.
At Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday
afternoon the citizens’ committee,
which was appointed several days ago
to hold a conference with mine opera
tors and bring about a settlement of
the strike if possible, met the opera
tors, but nothing was accomplished.
The mine owners declined to make any
concessions or to lower tho reduction.
With this in view aud the 10,000-tou
daily out-put of the mines, it is gen
erally conceded that the operators have
won the fight.
Robert Charben, who, for two years,
was federal commissioner at Attalla,
Ala., bas been convicted iu the United
States court at Birmingham of pre
senting false accounts to the govern
ment, and sentenced to one year's im
prisonment. He appealed to the Unit
ed States court and gave bond for
§1,000. There are four other similar
charges against him for which he is be
ing tried. This trial has created the
greatest of sensations in Alabama.
There are six other commissioners and
deputy United States marshals under
Bimiliar indictments.
A COACH TURNS OVER
And Nearly Every Passenger Receives
Injuries.
There was a fearful accident on the
Columbus, Ga., extension Wednesday
morning. The rear coach of an ex
cursion train left the track on a grade
just after Holt’s station was passed.
The excursionists were mostly negroes
on their way to the Memorial Day
celebration at Andersonville, but
the rear coach was reserved for whites
and the occupants of this coach were
the victims of the accident. The train
was on an embankment and was run
ning at the rate of twenty miles an
hour when the accident occurred. The
derailed coach with its human freight
turned over three times and nearly
every one in it was more or less hurt.
None in it were killed outright. A
spreading rail caused the accident.
A MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM
To Discuss the Situation at the Coal
Mines.
An immense throng of all shades aud
positions in life gathered at the Win
nie Davis wigwam at Birmingham,
Ala., Saturday to discuss the present
situation between the mine operators
and the miners.
Resolutions were adopted denounc
ing the check system and other evils
now existing, and a committee was ap
pointed to try and effect a settlement
of the strike; also a committee to wait
on the railroad employes and ask them
to refuse tc haul coal cut' by scabs or
convicts. Good order jjrevailed and
everything passed off harmoniously.
A FATAL WRECK
Iu Which Eight'are Killed aud Fifteen
or Twenty Injured.
An accident resulting in the loss oi
eight lives and the injury of fifteen tc
twenty persons, more or less seriously,
occurred at Marshfield, Wis. Train No.
26, on the Wisconsin Central railway
went through an open switch and was
completely wrecked. The cars after
ward took fire and were consumed.
Four persons were taken from the
wreck dead aud four others are miss
ing, supposed to have been caught in
the mass of broken timbers aud crushed.
Among the dead are the eugireer, fire
man and one of the Tweedy brothers.
THE WOMAN ACROSS THE WWT
Jly windows open to southward.
And the sun shines in ail the day,
Her windows all look northward.
My neighbor’s across the way.
ify windows are draped with curtain*
Of lace, like a filmy spray;
She has only shades of linei i
The lady across the way.
there are diamond rings on my fingers
That over tho easement stray ;
l have never noticed any
Ou my neighbor's across the way.
4ut what cares she for sunlight,
This lady over the wav,
Alien a baby face illumines the place
Like the iight of a summer's day.
(Yhat need has she for eurtains
Of rare and costly laeo
Mien the light shines through a golden
mesh
Of curls round a baby's face,
fewels arc'plenty for money.
But cold to the light that lies
deflecting the image of souls that meet
In the heaven of baby's eyes.
And I sit alone in the darkness
When night comes down, and pray
That God will keep her treasure safe
For the woman across the way.
—Frances Jl. Haswin. in Boston Transcript
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Girls may be a little slower about
talking, while infants, than boys, but
;hev make up for it when they once
jet started.—Hartford -Journal.
Tom—“Are von sure yon will never
forget that it was I who gave you that
locket?” Miss Bangles—“Sure! I’m
going to note it down in my meinor-
indum book.”—Chicago Record.
YIrs. Earle—“Your daughter has
been studying painting, has she not?”
Mrs. Lamoyii—“Yes; you should see
some of tho sunsets she paints. There
never was anything like them.”—New
York Observer.
Wool—“That was a mean trick
Clarklet’s rival played ou him.” Y'an
Pelt—“What?” Wool—“He wrote
“Oh, maid of Athens, ere we part,”
etc., in the girl’s album, and the rival
changed the “Oli” to “Old.”—Harlem
Life.
“By Jove!” said Dawson, ns ha
glanced over a copy of the Russian al
phabet. “What a terrible thing it
must be to be deaf and dumb in Rus
sia ! Think of having to make those
letters with your fingers!”—Harper’s
Bazar.
Ragged Richard (insinuatingly) —
“Say, mister, have yer got eny sug
gestions ter make-ter a feller w’at
ain’t able ter raise er dime ter git
shaved with?” Grumple (passing on)
—“Yes; raise whiskers.” — Buffalo
Courier.
“You can always depend on the
newspapers,” remarked the man who
was unpleasantly notorious. “What
do you mean?” “No matter how
naughty you may be, they will never
turn your picture to the" wall.”—Wash
ington Star.
Pegg—“Sometimes m the absolute
faith my boy has in my wisdom makes
me almost ashamed of myself.” Potts
— “You need not worry. It will av
erage up all right. By the time he is
twenty he will think you know nothing
at all. ”—Tid-Bits.
A stranger iu Galveston asked an
old resident how malarial fever coaid
be distinguished from yellow fever.
“As a general thing,” was the reply,
“you can’t tell until you fiave it. II
you ain’t alive, then it is most likely
yellow fever. ”—Texas Siftings.
A Woman’s Wait: “Wait just halfa
minute,” said the lady to the elevator
man, “and I’ll ride down in your car.”
“All right, ma’am,” said the saga
cious elevator man, as he chucked his
lever over and .began to sink below.
“The elevator will be riming three
hours longer.”—Chicago Record.
“Remember, witness,” sharply ex
claimed the attorney for the defense,
“you ar.e on oath !” “There ain’t no
danger of my furgettin’ it,” replied
the witness, sullenly. “I’m tellin’the
truth fur nuthin’, when I could have
made §4 by lyin’ fur your side of the
case, an’ you know it.”—Chicago Tri
bune.
“Ah,” remarked the man who wasn’-i
minding his own business to the man
digging a trench in the street, “my
friend, you surely earn your living bj
the sweat of your brow.” “I don’l
know about that,” replied the man, as
he never stojqied his digging, “I git
the same pay whether I sweat or not.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Little Boy—“I stayed in the parlor
all last evening when Mr. Squeezem
was callin’ on sister, just as you told,
me.” Mother—“That’s a good boy;
and here is the candy I promised you.
Did you get tired?” Little Boy—“Oh,
no. We played blind man’s buff, and
it would have been lots of fun, only I
was ‘it’ nearly all the time.”—Good
News.
The young clergyman had consented
at the last moment to act as substitute
for tbe venerable man who was accus
tomed to go to the Bridewell Sunday
morning aud preach to the prisoners.
“My friends,” said the embarrassed
young man, as he rose up aud faced
the assembled toughs aud vagrants,
“it rejoices my heart to see so many
of you here this morning.”—Chicago
Tribune.
At au evening party Dttmley wai
introduced to a young lady, and after
a remark about the weather he said
gallantly: “And have I really the
pleasure of meeting the beautiful Yliss
Blossom, whose praises are being
sounded by everybody?’’ “Ob, no,
Mr. Dttmley,” the lady replied, “the
beautiful Yliss Blosssm to whom you
refer is a cottsiu of mine.” “Oh, that’s
it? Well, I thought there must be a
mistake somewhere,” said the gallant
Dumley. —Tit-Bits.
Why Manilla Paper Is Tough.
The tough paper which comes from
China and Japan is made from manilla
fiber. The new aud fresh fiber is not
used, it being too expensive, but after
it lias served its purpose as rope or
cordage and has become old it is care
fully picked to pieces into a stringy
pulp aud manufactured into paper.
The paper is singularly strong; when
rolled up into a string or cord it is
a very good substitute for cotton or
flax twine. its strength is solely duA
to that of the manilla, which is one of
the strongest fibers known to tffeman
ufacturer.—Chicago Herald.