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PROGRESS. W1P3. TERMS, $1. Per Annum. — “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XII. NO. 52 VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY IT, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. \ 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. LATEST TELEGRAMS CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND BREEZY PARAGRAPHS, And Giving the Gist of the News Up to the Time of Going to Press. 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. CORRECTED WEEKI.V. <«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- Market cle-ed Quiet. Middling 0 masmwBBm jfe-fffiafr. f