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JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 52
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY IT, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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One-half the wealth of England is in
possession of 1000 persons.
Recent insurance statistics show that
if the wife dies first, the husband on
an average survives nine years; while
if the husband dies first, the wife sur
vives eleven years.
The writing of popular songs is not
so profitable in France as in this coun
try. Such composers as Delormel,
Gamier and- retit earn hardly more
than $1503 a year thereby, while the
“Boulanger March,” notwithstandin
its great vogue, realized only $0000
for its author.
An illustration of the agricultural
depression ift England is afforded in
the fact that the rent of a farm of 800
acres, in Kent, for which the owner
paid $160,000 and which rented for
$0 )00 a year for many years has fallen
to $1500 a year. Another farm, said
to be one of the best in the countv,
rented in XS3 3 for $1503 now rents
for $1500.
A beautiful charity, “The Home for
Aged Couples,” in Philadelphia this
year makes its appeal to those inter
ested in it in what the >iew York Post
esteems a novel way. Two bags of
silk, one bright and one sober in color,
are sent out in nn envelope, with the
request that one cent for each year of
the age he placed in them l>y the heads
of households.
During last year 11” murder charges
were tried in Great Britain, of which
twenty-one were of child murder. In
thirty cases verdicts of wilful murder
were returned; in twenty cases the
defendants, were found not guilty; in
fourteen the accused were found to be
insane, and in the remainder verdicts
of manslaughter in various degrees
were returned. The number of charges
of wilful murder were more than
double the number in the preceding
year, anti the number of convictions
was also nearly double.
Chemistry seems to furnish substi
tutes for the expensive perfumes now
made from flowers. It has long been
known that the extract odor of the
banana is piroduced in the laboratory.
There seems a possibility, however,
that even when some fragrant plants
cease to bo cultivated for the per
fumes many may become of impor
tance in surgery. It has been dis
covered that some such plants are
free from the attacks of insects and
from fungus growths, and this may be
due to the fact that their essential oils
have antiseptic properties. The
eucalyptus yields au antiseptic, and
so do other familiar plants.
Among the various expeditions this
year which have for their object
northern exploration, the one com
manded by Professor Charles E. Hite,
of the University of Pennsylvania, to
Labrador is of much interest. Dr.
Dawson, in his essay upon the unex
plored parts of Canada, called atten
tion to the fact that the greatest area
of America still almost unknown lies
within the boundaries of Labrador.
It is the int Ration of Professor Hits
to.take a party of ten men to the in
terior of this country for the purpose
of exploration and scientific research.
The party will he taken Borth in th<
steamer Newfoundland by Dr. F. A.
Cook, of Brooklyn, who will soon bs
on his way to the Arctic regions. Ths
explorers will be landed at Kigolette,
Labrador, whence a boat will take
them to Goose Bay, at the month ol
the Hamil ton or Grand River. Hers
the party will divide. Four men, in
cluding Professor Hite, will advance
up the river, carrying their boats and
provisions around the numerous and
dangerous rapids. The remainder ol
the party will remain at headquarters
on Goose Bay and explore the region
in that neighborhood, paying especial
attention to collecting the flora and
fauna of the countrv.
The European newspapers are full
of stories of the devastation wrought
by the recent earthquakes of Greece,
but also all essential points in them
have been anticipated by the cable.
One writer contributes the following
little bit from Athens. “A moment
or two after the great earthquake the
streets presented a singular spectacle.
Men. women and children, pale with
fear, rushed frantically from the
house-doors; the loungers in the
cafes for once looked serious as they
quitted their billiards and backgam
mon ; the venders of evening papers
ceased their cries, and for an instant
there was comparative silence. Then
followed an outburst of eager con
versations ; the men gave voluble ut
terance to their alarm, while the
women, once safe in the open air,
found leisure for fainting fits, hys
terics, or prayers. In the open space
before the Parliament House a crowd
gazed awe-struck upon a large vul
ture which had perched upon the
highest point of that building, and
many persons sank on their knees and
crossed themselves in order to avert
the evil omen. The bird, with that
wonderful prescience of natural
phenomena which has often been ob
served in the animal world, had suc-
jeeded in escaping from its place of
jonnnement in a neighboring house a
moments before the shock.”
CONGRESSIONAL.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA IN BRIEF.
BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED IN FUNG- NEWSY ITE^IS GATHERED HERE
ENT PARAGRAPHS.
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
The Discussion of Important Measures Chronicling Events of Special Interest And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter-
Briefiy Epitomized. to Our Readers.
After several private relief bills had
been passed the house, at Tuesday’s
session, adopted, without discussion,
the resolutions of the committees on
election in their report on the con
tested election case from the eighth
Tennessee district, that P. H. Thrasher
was not elected and that B. A. Enloe
was entitled to the seat. Mr. Mc
Rae, democrat, of Alabama, chairman
of the committee on public lands,
called np the first bill, the bill to re
peal an act to exempt public lnnds in
Alabama from the operations of the
laws relating to mineral lands, passed
in 1853, and it was agreed to.
Speaker Crisp having been called
home by sickness in his famiiy, Mr.
Richardson, of Tennessee, was elected
speaker pro tempore of the house
Wednesday. The senate amendments
to the house bill was agreed to, divid
ing the southern judicial district of
Mississippi into two divisions and pro
viding for holding a term of court at
Meridian.
The house at Thursday’s session
concurred in the senate amendments
to the house bill for the admission of
Utah as a 6tatc. This passes the bill
and sends it to the president for his
approval. The senate amendments to
the postoflice appropriation bill were
also concurred in.
THIS SENATE.
As a sort of compensatory move for its
long daily sessions during the three
months that the tariff bill was being
considered, the senate, after two days’
recess, spent only an hour and a half
in session Friday and then adjourned
until Monday at noon, having first
made an order that its daily meetings
shall be heraftor at noon, instead of
two hours earlier. Several bills were
passed during the short time that the
session lasted,including the joint reso
lution continuing the employment of
mechanics and laborers at the several
navy yards.
In the senate, Monday, the house
bill to fix the terms of federal district
aud circuit courts in the southern ju
dicial district of Mississippi, to bo held
at Meridian, Miss., was passed.
The Indian appropriation bill was
reported to the senate Tuesday aud
pluced on the calendar. The resolu
tion offered -Monday by Mr. Pieffer as
to government control of railroads and
other kindred matters, was laid before
the senate, and Mr. Pieffer addressed
the senate on it.
In the senate, Wednesday, Mr. Dan
iel, of Virginia, offered an additional
clause to his substitute to the Peffer
resolution. This additional clause was
that, while the senate expressly de
clares its determination to endorse ex
ecutive in enforcement of the laws and
in maintaining the supremacy of the
constitution, it deems it proper
also to declare its adhesion to the prin
ciples of the arbitration of difficulties,
and controversies between employers
of labor and its employees, as recog
nized in the laws of the United States,
and to express its condemnation of
the refusal of the party to such
controversy connected with the late
disturbances and vicinity, to submit
such difficulty and controversy, to
a fair and impartial arbitra
tion, and its determination. Also, to
use in promotion of such arbitration,
whatever constitutional powers it may
possess. The clause was fully discuss
ed and finally withdrawn by Mr. Dan
iel. His amendment of Tuesday,
nfter being slightly modified, was
then adopted by the senate with
out division. It us follows: Re-
sulved, That the senate indorses
the prompt and vigorous measures
adopted l>y the president of the United
States and the members of his admin
istration to repulse and repress by
military forco the interference of
lawless men with the due pro
cess of the laws of the United
States and with the transportation
of the mails of the United States,
and with the commerce among states.
The action of tho president and of his
administration has the full sympathy
and support of the law-abiding masses
of the people of the United States and
he will be supported by all the de
partments of the government and by
the power and resources of the entiro
nation.
The army appropriation bill was
taken up in the senate Thursday. The
committee amendment, striking out of
tho house bill an item of $152,000 for
general service clerks and messengers,
which also repeals the law of 1880, au
thorizing their employment, was
agreed to.
COTTON CROP REPORT.
A Slight Improvement in Condition
During tlio Month of June.
Returns to the department of agri
culture at Washington for cotton make
the average condition 89.0, against
88.3 in June, showing nn improvement
in its condition of 13 points. The
condition in July, 1893, was 82.7. The
averages by states are as follows:
Virginia, 87; North Carolina, 91:
South' Cnrolina, 'S-S; Georgia, 78:
Florida, 93; Alabama, 87; Mississip
pi, SS; Louisiana, 94; Texas, 99;
Arkansas, 97; Tennessee, 73.
The reports show a slight but gen
eral improvement of condition through
out the cotton belt. In five states—
Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana nud Tennessee, there has been a
decline, while in the states of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida and Texas there has bem au«
improvement in the condition of lh
crop.
TERROR IN TURKEY.
Many People Killed and Buildings
Destroyed by Earthquakes.
Four fresh shocks of earthquake
were felt at Constantinople Wednes
day. Many houses collapsed at Stam-
bonl, and the Grand bazaar, in the
jewelers’ quarter, fell, occasioning the
greatest confusion. The merchants
fled in terror, leaving their valuables
behind them. Many shopkeepers and
passers-by were buried beneath the
ruins. It is impossible as yet to give
the number of people killed and in
jured, but it is known that over 150
people are buried beneath the debris,
The Nichola Lumber company, of
Nichola, Ala., has made an assignment
to L. DeChaudron and E. D. Smith.
The property is valued at $100,000.
Liabilities $35,000. Slow sales were
the cause.
The South Carolina reform state
committee met nt Columbia Tuesday.
Tho only action taken was to change
the date of the reform state convention
from August 14th to August 16th, and
also the date of the convention to Au
gust 13 th.
A Knoxville dispatch says: The
printers employed in running the Mer-
genthaler machines have struck against
a reduction of wages in the Sentinel
office. The Journal has been using
the same machines to get out its morn
ing edition aud will also be affected by
the strike.
A Nashville special of Wednesday
says: So far as the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railway is con
cerned, the strike has totally col
lapsed, and on the Louisville and
Nashville the situation is hourly im
proving, as the striking men are grad
ually going to work.
The entire working force of the Mo
bile and Ohio railroad shojis at Whist
ler, a suburb of Mobile, Ala., hnve
been laid off on the ground that the
strike having laid off freight trains,
there is no work for the shops. Three
hundred nnd twenty-five men are
thrown out of employment.
The department of agriculture of
North Carolina issued its July crop
report Wednesday, based on returns
from over twenty thousand correspond
ents. The following are given as per
centages of condition: Cotton, 87;
rice, 82; peanuts, 92;corn, 91;tobacco,
74; sorghum cane, 86; clover and
grasses, 72 ; sweet potatoes, 90.
A strong petition has been presented
to the Louisiana legislature protesting
against lynching and calling on that
body to pass some law that would have
the effect of checking and preventing
it. ’The petition is not the work of
the negroes, nor have they anything to
do with it, but emanates from the lead
ing white citizens of New Orleans.
Governor Tillman has pardoned
Thomas W. Ezzard,who was convicted
and sent to the penitentiary from
Barnwell county, S. C., for breach of
trust. He was the agent of an estate
consisting of lands lying in Wilcox,
Irvin and Worth counties, Georgia,
and belonging to >T. J. Hill, Malveua
Hill and othei*. Ezzard will be tried
again on another charge of malfeasance
in connection with the estate.
Judge Bruce, of the federal court at
Montgomery, Ala., gave judgment to
the Farmers’ Loan and Trust com
pany, of New York, against the Mont
gomery aud Eufuula railroad for
$1,640,000, being tho principal and
interest since July, 1893, on $1,500,000
of bonds. The road became involved
about that time on account of the
financial difficulties of the Georgia
Central and the Richmond and Dan
ville and defaulted on its interest.
Tho Texas State Horticultural Socie
ty passed unanimously strong resol u
tions endorsing tho Atlanta exposition
as a broad project for national pro
gress, as a line occasion to make nn
object lesson of the south’s vast and
versatile fruit possibilities. It was re
solved that Texas should present there
her rapidly developing horticultural
interests and the resolution urged the
Texas statesmen at Washington to sup
port a national exhibit.
For some time Cuban smugglers
hnva been doing a lively business on
the east coast of Florida. There was
a regular fleet of smacks engaged in
the business, and not only the revenue
laws, but also the quarantine regula
tions were broken. Wednesday the
revenue cutter McLnne arrived at Au-
elote and found six smacks anchored
there engaged in illegal traffic. The
McLane took tho entire number in
charge and proceeded with them to
Mullet Key, where they were turned
over to the authorities.
TRADE TALK.
Report of Business for tlio Past AVeek
by Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review cf trade
for the past week, says:
“The interruption of business by
the railroad strikes has been such that
the usual signs, whether bright or
gloomy, have Tittle value. Clearing
house returns for the first week of
July are 19.2 per cent less than last
year and 25.1 per cent less than in
1S92, but these record half
yearly settlements rather than
the volume of current busi
ness. The iron industry had not yet
recovered from the coal miners’ strike
when it was seriously interrupted by
the blockade of the railroads in the
west. An obvious effect will be the
restriction of repairs and car building
and of track laying, nnd the track laid
during the first half of 1894 has been
only 495 miles, the smallest addition
for many years, against 1,025 in the
first half of 1893.
“A long and somewhat lasting re
duction in the demand for iron is the
natural consequences of the disturb
ances nffectiDg railway earnings. The
demand for iron products does not ap
pear better, and prices are again tend
ing downward, in spite of the general
feeling that an advance must follow
the termination of the miners’ strike.
“Textile manufactures do not show
improvement, two important cotton
mills that manufactured colored goods
having stopped indefinitely, while the
unsold stock of print cloths at Fall
River and Providence has reached
1,064,000 pieces, and a downward turn
in prices of bleeched sheetings is ex
pected. Quite a large number of
woolen mills have filled all orders on
hand and closed for the present, and
in most branches orders for the future
fall far below expectations.
“Failures during the week have been
181 in the United States, against 334
last year, and 34 in Canada, against 23
last year, with no important disaster
as yet since the new half year began."
esting Paragraphs.
Ignorance ig a road that leads to
repentance.
The King’s Daughters, of Savannah,
are raising a fresh air fund to give the
children of that city who are unable to
enjoy the luxury, a day on the Island.
The will of the late Colonel L. M.
Melton, of Marshallville, has been ad
mitted to probate. The estate covers
much of the most valuable lands in
Macon county.
Angnsta and Savannah stockholders
are again anxiously awaiting the pay
ment of the net earnings to the com
pany liy the Central, and the declara
tion of a dividend.
The prohibition movement set on
foot in Walton county a few weeks ago
by State Lecturer Sibley has assumed
such proportions already ns to make it
certain that an election will be held in
the county during the summer.
J. E. Clarke, convicted of embez
zling funds of the Ellaville bank, while
cashier of that, institution, has been
sentenced to three and one-half years
in the penitentiary. Four of the five
indictments against him were nol
pressed.
Within less than twenty-four hour*
the Atlanta and Florida road was plac
ed in the hands of a receiver, the re
ceivership dissolved, and the road re
sumed operation on the former flourish
ing basis—all by the same parties,
through the same attorneys.
The Atlanta justices of the peace are
already beginning to prepare for the
convention of justices which will meet
in the city on August 1st. The entire
state will be well represented. The
fee system will form a large part of
the convention’s discussion. There
will be several meetings of the local
justices of the peace to arrange for
the convention.
Mr. W. W. Randall, who for the
past six or seven years has so success
fully conducted the La Grange Ornith
ic, has sold out his interest to Mr. O,
G. Cox. Mr. Randall was the founder
of the paper aud, by hard work, has
made it one of the best Georgia week
lies. Mr. Cox, his successor, is a re
cent honor graduate of Emory college,
and a very forcible and terse writer.
The little error of the Georgia Mid
land and Gulf railroad has been fully
forgiven and that line lias been re
ceived hack into the fold of the South
ern Passenger Association. The boy
cott of ten days ngo has been with
drawn. A circular restoring the road
to full relations with the other roads
of the association has been issued by
Assistant Commissioner M. Slaughter,
and was good news to the officials of
that line. The restoration was doubt
less due to the energetic efforts of
General Manager Gunby Jordan, Gov
ernor Northen’s new appointee as rail
road commissioner.
The convention of Georgia’s ordi
naries will occur at Atlanta on the
18th, and there will be more than 100
in attendance. On the day before the
convention there will bo a committee
meeting in the office of Ordinary Cal
houn. Ordinary Calhoun desires to
call to the attention of the various or
dinaries that the fare for tho trip will
be a one and one-third fare Com
missioner Slaughter suggests that the
ordinaries purchase tickets to the most
convenient points—Savannah, Jessup,
Augusta, Americns, Albany or Macon,
and then repurchase to Atlanta, ac
cepting receipts in both instances. The
convention will be held in the court
house, and a large number will be in
attendance.
A Washington special says: Senator
Gordon’s patriotic speech in the senate
yesterday has set the country by the
ears. Every New York, Washington
and Philadelphia paper of the next
morning with praise of the eloquent
Georgian. The Daily American de-
pic’s it as “the most pathetic speech
delivered in the senate for years,” and
describes the scene provoked in the
senate as unparalelled. The Tribune,
World and Sun also sing the general’s
praises while the Herald says: “His
utterance was received with a tremend
ous outburst of applause which started
on the floor nnd spread over the sen
ate chamber nnd into the galleries.
No speech delivered in congress since
the war, has done more to wipe out
sectionalism and bring about a feeling
of good will between the north and
the south than that delivered by Sen
ator Gordon today,”
DEBS ARRESTED.
Charged With Conspiracy to Interfere
With the Mails.
Eugene Y. Debs, president of the
American Railway Union; George W.
Howard, vice president; Sylvester
Keliher, secretary; William Rogers
and J. S. Merwin were all indicted at
Chicago Tuesday afternoon by the
grand jury for conspiracy to interfere
with the United States mail. Debs
was arrested at the Leland hotel at-5
o’clock and Keliher at Ulrich’s hall a
half hour later. The other three are
also believed to be under arrest. Bail
was fixed at $10,000 in each case. The
penalty is a fine of from $1,000 to
$10,000.
A MEETING AT CHATTANOOGA.
Railway Employes Decide to Remain
at Their Posts.
A largely attended meeting of the
employes of ten railroads, members of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive firemen, the Order of Railway
Conductors, the trainmen’s nnion and
the United Beneficial Order of Switch
men, was held at Chattanooga Sunday
to discuss the strike. It was decided
to remain at their posts until their
respective chiefs called them out, and
the unanimous sentijnebt was that no
strike be ordered.
THE STRIKE FAILS.
SOVEREIGN’S ORDER TO iv. OF L.
GENERALLY DISREGARDED.
Only a Few Unions Go Out—Chicago
Resuming Her Normal Condition.
The great railway strike is practical
ly at an end in Chicago. Trains on all
roads are moving, passenger trains are
almost without exception on time, and
freight traffic is rapidly becoming reg
ular.
“The back of the strike is not only
broken, said Manager Egan, of the
General Managers’ Association, Wed
nesday afternoon, “but the backbone
has entirely disappeared. The block
ade is raised and it will require but a
short time to get the railroad business
of the city into its regular routine.”
HOLDING THEIR JOBS.
The ultimate effect of the appeal is-
-ued by Grand Master Workman Sov
ereign, of the Knights of Labor, call
ing all knights throughout the country
and those in sympathy with them to
quit work, and the order issued at
about the same time representatives of
all allied labor in Chicago to do like
wise, cannot yet be certainly
foreseen. All that is known is
is that the Knights of Labor at
all points heard from, including nearly
all of the large centers of population
in the United States, remained at work
during the day with practical unanim
ity, and that in Chicago the number
of members of the allied trades remain
ing at work so far outnumbered those
who quit, as to make no appreciable
change in the industrial appearance of
the city.
The leaders, however, say that there
is nothing in the situation to cause
discouragement and that the public,
through a lack of knowledge of the
machinery of industrial organizations,
lias been led to expect results which
were in contemplation when the strike
orders were issued. Mr. Sovereign,
for instance,points out that his appeal
was not an order to strike; that in fact
he has no power to order a walkout;
but that the persons acquainted with
the working of the organization would
know that iD effect it would be the
same as an order.
THE STRIKE HANGS EIRE.
In short, he was perfectly confident
that by Saturday next, after the vari
ous local and district assemblies had
time to meet and take formal action
on tile appeal and to rally their friends
outside of the order, the result would
show 1,000,000 of men idle ns a conse
quence. The local strike leaders also
claimed that a little time was the only
necessary condition to a wulk-out of
the 100,000 men whom they represent,
and by Saturday, after the. various
sub-organizations had had time to
consult together, the proposed tie-up
of business would be fully as effective
as they had predicted.
Surface indications so far, however,
tlo not bear out the claims of either
Sovereign or the Chicago men. It is
not recorded yet that any district as
sembly of the Knights of Labor has
voted on the strike. On the other
band, the Brooklyn district, which is
composed of railroad men, and there
fore naturally supposed to bo in sym
pathy with their fellows in the west,
at a meeting confined their ex
pression of sympathy to a tender of
financial aid, but declined to strike.
THURSDAY’S DISPATCHES.
The following telegram was sent to
President Cleveland Thursday after
noon by the American Federation of
Labor conference;
“The gravity of the industrial situa
tion of the country demands extraor
dinary and exceptional action of a
connciliatory character at the ha fids of
all men. Recognizing this fact, the
executive council of the American Fed
eration of Labor and the undersigned
officers of national and international
trades Unions and brotherhoods of
railway organizations of America are
in conference in this city. We qpk
yon, in the name of the working peo
ple and the entire citizenship of our
country, to lend your influence and
give ns ymir aid so that the present
industrial crisis may be brought to an
end, alike to the advantage of the peo
ple of our country and the institutions
under which we live.
“We, therefore, ask yon to come to
Chicago and meet this conference, or,
if the condition of public business does
not warrant such course, that you will
deputize some one as your representa
tive.”
Signed by the executive council
American Federation of Labor, Sam
uel Gompers, president; C. P. Mc
Guire, first vice president; C. L.
Drummond, second vice president:
James Bretelle, third vice president;
William Marden, fourth vice president;
J. R. Lennon, treasurer; Chris Evans,
secretary; and representatives of all
organizations present. The telegram
was addressed simply, “To the Presi
dent of the United States.”
Tho strike situation throughout the
country Thursday was, in general, one
of quiet news. The central point of
interest was the meeting of labor lead
ers with President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, at their
headquarters in Chicago. Among the
suggestions considered were the fol
lowing :
First, that the striking Pullman em
ployes, on high patriotic grounds, ap
peal to President Debs to declare the
strike off, becanse of the infinite dam
age wh:ch is being done to the busi
ness of the country.
Second, that the leaders unite in an
appeal to the public to quit patroniz
ing Pullman sleeping, drawing room
and dining cars.
Third, that President Cleveland he
requested to appoint a commission to
investigate the strike and the causes
which led np to it, in the expectation
that the president’s commission would
justify the action taken by the strikers,
and free them from charges of rioting
and disorder.
Fourth, that immediate efforts be
made to secure the impeachment of
Attorney General Olnev.
Fifth, that pn effort be made to se
cure the passage of a compulsory ar
bitration law by congress.
Sixth, that complaints be lodged
looking to the indictment of the rail
way managers for conspiracy to ob
struct the movement of United States
mails by refusing to run mail cars ex
cept in cognectios with Pullman care.
ANOTHER RESTRAINING ORDER.
Another omnibus bill and restrain
ing order was issued against E. V.
Dels and others by Judge Taft, of the
United States circuit court at Chicago,
Thursday, similar to that filed on July
4th. It covers the Pittsburg, Cincin
nati, Chicago and St. Louis; the Col
umbus, Hocking Yalley and Toledo;
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St. Lonis; the Columbus, Akron
and Cleveland; the New York, Lake
Erie and Western; the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio; the Norfolk
and Western; the Baltimore and Ohio;
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern,
nnd the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton.
l T p to 4 o’clock Thursday the follow
ing nuions nnd members were repre
sented at the headquarters of the
American Bailway Uuion as beiug on
strike: Iron workers, 1,700; painters,
3,500; bakers, 1,000; machinists, 500;
cigar makers, 4,Out); carriage and
wagon makers, 700; teamsters, 1,500;
cloak makers, 1,400; lake seamen, 3,-
000; moulders, 500; tinners, 1,000;
glass workers, 70; beer pump workers,
200. Total of trades unions, 21,865.
In addition to this nre about 10,000
Knights of Labor, of which 6,000 were
thrown out of work by the closing out
of packing houses and factories.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES
W’hicii Happen From Day to Day
Throughout the Busy World.
A coach load of firemen, engineers,
switchmen, etc., left Cincinnati Tues
day to fill the strikers’ places at Bir
mingham, Vicksburg and other places.
The chemical works of Williams &
Clark, at Carleret, N. J., Enid to be the
largest in the world, were almost to
tally destroyed by fire Wednesday
evening. The loss will be close to half
a million dollars.
A gang of incendiaries set fire dur
ing Tuesday night to a trestle bridge
over the Calumet river, three miles
south of Hammond, 111., on the Monon
road and completely destroyed it.
Traffic is effectually blocked. It was
not guarded.
The tank steamer Azof broke adrift
at Antwerp, Belgium, Wednesday, and
rnn afoul of the United States steamer
Chicago, which was at anchor. Both
vessels were damaged above the water
line, the cruiser to the amount of
about $12,000. The tank steamer will
be libeled for the damage.
A New York special says: Colonel
George Edward Gouraud, chairman of
tho Gladstone American invitation
committee, has sailed on the Umbria.
He has with him a complete list of the
signatures to the invitation, which he
will present to Mr. Gladstone, with
the compliments of the honorary sec
retary.
H. Hanford, of Chicago, second vice
president of the National Linseed Oil
Trust, and popularly supposed to have
been several times a millionaire, com
mitted suicide early Wednesday morn
ing. Despondency caused by worry
over financial matters is given as the
cause impelling him to take his own
life.
The republican state convention of
Minnesota met at St. Paul Wednesday.
Governor Knute Nelson and Lieuten
ant Governor Clough were renominat
ed by acclamation. Albert Berg was
nominated for secretary of Btate, aud
S. C. Dunn for state auditor. Henry
W. Childs was renominated for attor
ney general by acclamation.
The cable steamer Britannia, Cap
tain Kennedy, has arrived at Heart’s
Content, a seaport of Newfoundland
on the southeast side of Trinity Bay,
from London, having on board about
190 miles of cable, which comprises
the shore end of the new Anglo-Ameri
can cable. The Britannia will be fol
lowed by the Scotia with the deep-sea
section of the cable.
Mr. Samuel Spencer bought two
railroads Tuesday. They were the
Columbia, Charlotte and Augusta and
the Columbia and Greenville. Each
road was bid in at $100,000 by Samuel
Spencer, 2 ,rtB *dent of the Southern
Bailwav Company, the purchasers to .
carry ont the terms of the reorganiza
tion plan as agreed upon under the
Drexel, Morgan & Co. arrangement.
A company of regulars, commanded
by Captain Conrad, came in collision
with a mob of strikers, principally
miners, Tuesday afternoon at the Rock
Island railroad station nt Spring Yal
ley, 111., aud after patiently enduring
volley after volley of stones, fired into
the mob, killing two men and wound
ing several others. The mob was
largely composed of Hungarians,
Poles and other foreigners.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASH
INGTON CITY.
Brief Notes Concerning the Busincssof
Our Government.
GOVERNOR STONE’S WARNING.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce has decided to
recommend the appointment of a com
mittee to investigate the present labor
troubles.
The president, Monday, sent to the
senate the following nominations:
James M. Bareo, register of the land
office at Gainesville, Fla.; postmasters,
Wm. Graham, Orange, Ya. ; Frank D.
Smith, Dothan, Ala.
General MileB reported to tho presi-
kent and Major- General Schofield
Wednesday morning that everything
in Chicago is quiet. The officials at
Washington think the situation more
favorable than it has been at any time
since the strike began.
Dispatches received at Washington
from Baltimore, New York, Minneap
olis, St. Paul, Topeka, Duluth, Bos
ton, Buffalo, Milwaukee, St. Joseph,
St. Louis, Omaha, Detroit and other
cities say that there has been no strike
of labor organizations in compliance
with Sovereign’s request.
The senate committee on commerce,
Wednesday afternoon reported the
river and harbor hill to the senate.
The bill carried an increase over the
acts passed by- the house amounting to
$3,087,490, of which $2,267,430 is ex
pended on rivers and $820,490 on har
bors. Divided according to states the
increase are as follows: Virginia—
Jamestown island, $10,000; Norfolk
harbor, $35,000. North Carolina—
Roanoke river, $50,000; Cape Fear,
$132,000. South Carolina—Winyah
bay, $3,000. Georgia—Cumberland
sound, $70,000; Brunswick bar, $30,-
000. Florida—Pensacola harbor, $25,-
000; Key West, $15,000.
The fact that the senate has adopted
Senator Daniel’s resolution endorsing
the action of President Cleveland in
calling out the military to suppress the
riotous strikers, it is believed here,
will have a good effect upon the situa
tion. Mr. Cleveland is determined
that there shall be no more destruc
tion of property by strikers, and that
they shall prevent none from work
ing who care to do so. It is
probable that this strike will lead
to the adoption of some act of congress
looking to the arbitration of disagree
ments between corporations and em
ployes on the line recommended in
Mr. Cleveland’s letter to congress eight
years ago. Several members of the
executive committee of the Knights of
Labor are in Washington urging the
passage of the bill introduced by Sen
ator George, of Mississippi, which pro
vides for arbitration between employer
and employe in ca*e of disagreement.
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WON’T ARBITRATE.
THE PULLMAN COMPANY REJECT
OFFERS OF PEACE,
And the Biggest Striko on Record
Will Result.
A Chicago special says: The city
council committee on arbitration and
the committee of seven appointed by
the meeting of Trades’ Assembly, met
Monday afternoon. Alderman McGil-
len briefly sketched the fruitless efforts
of the committee of arbitration, and
concluded by suggesting that, as
the Pullman Company had said
that there was nothing to arbitrate, a
committee of five to investigate that
statement be appointed, which should
inquire into all the facts and discover
if there be grounds for arbitration.
He moved that such a committee be
selected, and that two members be
named by the Pullman company, two
by the judges of the circuit court of
Cook county, and the fifth member to
be named by the four so chosen.
The meeting adopted the motion
aud a committee composed of four
aldermen and three delegates were ap
pointed, to lny the proposition before
Vice-President Wickes, of the Pull
man Company, for his acceptance or
rejection, and to report at 4 :30 p. m.
“We shall make this offer to tho
Pullman Company,” said Alderman
McGillen, “as the representatives of
the city of Chicago and its laboring
interests. If the company rejects it,
there will no longer he doubt as to
where the responsibility for the great
trouble rests.”
He Makes a Declsivo Adurcss to Rail
way Union Men.
A special from Meridian, Miss.,
says: All is quiet at this centre with
the strikers. Passenger trains are
running as heretofore aud several
freight trains that have been tied up
since Sunday, were moved out. Wed
nesday evening Governor Stone ad
dressed the American Bailway Union
lodge by invitation. He emphatically
warned them against lawlessness, riot
ing, etc. Every word that he spoke
was full of determination and courage
and will prove beneficial in suppress
ing angry feeliDgs that now exist be
tween strikers and scabs.
Newsboys Have a Boycott.
One thousand Chicago newsboys de
cided at a meeting *o join the boycott.
They announced the results of their de
liberations during a parade of the
streets at 10 o’clock. In a body they
trooped to the various newspaper offi
ces, swarmed up the st4ps and pro
claimed their intention. The news
boys’ boycott is to be forced against
six papers, three morning and three
evening issues. They were enlisted in
the cause by the energy of the Amer
ican Railway Union.
A Strike Ordered in Texas.
The ultimatum has gone forth and
the strike on the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fee, it is authoritatively stated,
will go into effect simultaneously at
Galveston, Temple and Cleburne. The
railway management is fully advised of
the intention of the nnion and does
not anticipate much trouble in moving
trains.
THE PROPOSITION REJECTED.
The officials of the Pullman com
pany absolutely refused to entertain
the proposition made by the joint
committee, and there seems to be
nothing left now to prevent the great
strike of all industries, arranged for i
twenty-four hours hence.
At midnight Thursday night both
houses of the Louisiana general as
sembly finally adjourned, the present
session of the legislature having ex
pired by limitation.
Division Superintendent Pike, of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
has issued an order requiring all mem
bers of the American Bailway Union,
in the employ of the road, to withdraw
from the order. No man known to be
a member will be permitted to go out
with a train without showing a certifi
cate of withdrawal from the organiza
tion.
The managers of the Western Union
Telegraph company, the Postal Tele
graph and Cable company and the
North American Telegraph company
have been subjiGenoed at Chicago, Mil
waukee and various other cities to ap
pear and produce the telegraphic cor
respondence of Debs and other parties
connected with the Pullman boycott
and strike.
Judge Barrett, of the supreme court
of New York, has granted a certificate
of reasonable doubt in the case of
Erastus Wimau, who was recently con
victed in the court of oyer and term
iner, before Judge Ingraham, of for
gery for having forged the name of T.
Bullinger as endorser of a check for
$5,000 made by R. G. Dun & Co. and
payable to Buliinger’s order.
Captain W. H. Murdaugh, supervis
ing inspector of steam vessels for the
third district, with headquarters at
Norfolk, Va., has received his commis
sion at the treasury department. It
had been withheld under the impres
sion that he had never been pardoned
for serving in the confederate navy.
His name, however, was found in the
pardon act of 1885 and he was qualified
at once.
A special cable dispatch from Paris
says: The chamber of deputies re
jected M. Cavagnac’s proposals for an
income tax by a vote of 267 to 236. As
the proposals had been strenuously
opposed by tho government, Dupuy
and Finance Minister Poincare an
nounced that in view of thenarrowness
of the majority they must have a vote
of confidence or resign. Confidence
was then voted by 363 to 80.
A Washington special of Thursday
says: The attorney general has offer
ed a reward of $500 each or $2,000 in
all, for testimony which will lead to
the arrest and conviction of tho per
son or persons concerned in the wreck
at Sacramento, California, which re
sulted in the almost immediate death
of Engineer Clarke and three regular
United States soldiers. The reward is
$500 for the conviction of the murderer
of each person killed.
So far as Los Angeles, Cal., is con
cerned the strike is over. Even the
strikers admit that the strike is a thing
of the past. The Santa Fe strikers
nre making application for places.
Trains are running all over southern
California, passengcra and freight,
with few exceptions nre running as
before the strike. The Santa E’e is
regularly sending out its overland
trains with a complement of troops
and deputies aboard each train.
Freight trains were run on both the
Louisville and Nashville and tho Nash
ville, Chattanooga aud St. Louis rail
roads Thursday, as regularly as if
there had been no striko. The yards
iu which hundreds of cars had accumu
lated were about cleaned up during
the day. Both roads will retain the
new men employed before the strike
was broken, while those men who re
fused to take out trains will not be
given employment.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: The
third congressional convention was
held Thursday in Vicksburg. Con
gressman Catehings was unanimously
renominated. A resolution was passed
unqualifiedly endorsing his course in
congress. The national administration
was enthusiastically endorsed in every
detnil and the action of the president
in suppressing the strike was com
mended. General Catehings was the
only Mississippi congressman who voted
for the unconditional repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act.
Ald who claim to love the Lord
should prove it by taking an interest
in trying to uplift fallen humanity.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
Mayor Fly’s Proclamation.
Mayor Fly, of Galveston issued a
proclamation Wednesday commanding
all citizens to observe the pence and
abstain from violence, swore in 200
extra police and ordered out two com
panies of local military. The sheriff
also swore in seventy-five additional
deputies, and armed them with Win
chester rifles. In the face of this show
of force, the violent strikers have
cooled dwwn and gone home.
Quiet at Birmingham.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
The railroad strike situation is far
more encouraging than it has vet been.
Freight traffic is again moving on
every road entering the city, and in
dications are that it will continue
moving, as new men are being em
ployed to take the places of those who
have quit as rapidly as possible
Firemen Go Out.
All the firemen on the Alabama
Great Southern road struck at Chatta
nooga Sunday and refused to go out
on their runs. Not a freight train on
the road came into or left the
city during the day. The passen
ger trains are running. I he clerks
and officials are firing the trains com
ing into the city.
Rioters Ditch a Train.
A train loaded with soldiers was
ditched by the rioters near Sacramen
to, Cal., Wednesday. The wrecked
train was bound for ken Francisco.
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<«roceries.
CofTce—Roasted—Arbnckle’d 22.25 JR 100 lb.
cases, Levering’s 22.25;. * Green---Extra
choice 20c; choice good 19j; fair 18c; com
mon 17c. Sngar Granulated 4#c-
powdered 4*^c; cut loaf
white extra C 4c; New Orleans yellow clari
fied 4a.4*^c; yo low extra C 3%c. Syrup-
New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35(^40c; common
20@30c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35(6538c: im
itation 22@25. Teag---Black 35@55c; green
40@G0c. Nutmegs 65@85c. Cinnamon 10@12>£.
Alispice 10@llc. Singapore pepper
11c, Mace $1. Rice, Head 6c; good 5^;coinmon
4%c; imported Japan 5@5%c. Salt Hawley’s
dairy, $1.40; Ic3 cream $110;
Virginia 70c. Cheese-flats J2@12%
White fish, half bbls. S4-00; pails 6Jc;
Mackerel, half barrels, $G.00@o.50. Soap.
Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3.00@3?5.
turpentine, 60 bars, GO lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
Caudles—Parafir.e 11c; star 11c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5gross $3 75. Soda-Kegs,bulk 4%c; do 1 lb pkga
5J£c; cases, 1 lb 5%«, do 1 and %lbs 8c, do%lb
6%c. Crackers—XXX soda 53^c; XXX butter
6%c; XXX pearl oysters 6>^cahell and excelsior
7c;lemon cream 9c; XXXginger snaps 9c; corn-
bills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6c; French
mixed 12al2%. Canned goods-Condensod Milk,
$G 00a8 00; imitation mackerel$3 95a4 00. Sal
mon $5 25a5 50: F. W. oysters $175; L W
$135; eorn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $3 10. Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump.
4*2 ; nickel packages $3 10; celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 00al 40; quarts,
HO Pmwbr Riflo
$1 50al 80. Powder—hide, Hogs $3.25; l /,kega,
fl 90; V. kegs$l 10. Shot $t 35 per sack.
Flour. Grain aud .Heal.
Flour—First patent $4 50; secon I patent
(4.00; extra fancy $3.50; fancy $3 1.5; family
$2.90. Corn--No. 1 white 65 z. No. 2
white, 6Jc. Mixed, 63c. Oat3, Mixed
F-2:: white 55 c; Seed rye, Georgia,
75a80e- Ilay—Choice timothy, large bales,
$1.00 No. 1 timotliy, Inrgj bales, $1.00; choice
timothy, small bales, $1.: No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 95c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 85c.
Meal—Plain 65 -; bolted 62c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 90c, small sacks 93c. Cotton
seed meal—$13) per cwt. Steam feed—$1.10
per ewt Stock peas 31.25al.39. Grits—
Pearl $3.50
Provisions.
Clear rib Bides, boxed 7%c, ice-cared bellies
10c. Sugar-cured hams i3.l14:, according
to brand and average; California, lOI^C. break
fast baoon lie. Lard, leaf 8>fC. Compound 6J^
Cotton-
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