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JOHN E. HO WELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XIII. NO. 4
VIENNA. GA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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4wenty miles of railroad. 1VUL1> O .UAiMl LMU.
SEVEN WERE KILLED
TELEGRAPHIC NEWSj ^ proves. 1 SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTORIOUS OUTLAW KILLED.
HALLS OF CONGRESS
The overhead trolley has succeeded
in providing itself more deadly than
the underfoot banana peel, remarks
the Washington Star.
A newspaper man, who recently
took a stroll across the Brooklyn
Bridge, heard ten different languages
on tho way, besides profane lan*
guage. _______________
The British and Continental press,
generally agree that the election of
M. Casimir-Perier to the French
Presidency is a conservative and
moderate republican victory over the
radicals and socialists.
Secretary Morton, in the interest of
farmers, urges better protection for
the birds. “It is a melancholy fact,”
ha says, “that our women and our
boys are the birds’ most destructive
and relentless enemies.”
Dr. Dale, of London, who has been
been writing book reviews all his life,
says that he believes most books are
written by people' who are not quite
right in their minds. He thinks that
this is about the most harmless occu*
pation for such people.
The Baltimore Sun calls attention
to the fact that wheat sold for a cent a
pound in the Baltimore market the
other day while oats sold for a cent
and a half a pound, oats selling for
fifty per cent, more than wheat. The
Sun remarks that this is probably
unprecedented.
By irrigation 25,000,000 acres are
made fruitful in India alone. In
Egypt there are about 6,000,000 acres,
and in Europe about 5,000,000 acres.
The United States have just begun the
work of improving waste area and
have already about 4,000,000 acres of
irrigated land.
Mulhall estimated that the agri-.
cultural earnings of the United States
are $3,490,000,000; tho earnings from
manufactures, $4,330,000,000; from
mines, $180,000,000; from transporta
tion, $1,155,000,000; from commerce,
$160,000,000; from shipping, $60,000,*
000; from banking, $260,000,000.
In Missouri and Kansas the foreign
element, or its immediate descendants,
comprises over a fourth of the popula
tion ; in Ohio, a little over a third; in
Iowa and Nebraska, between a third
and a half; in Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota, the persons of foreign
birth, or their descendants of the first
generation, outnumber the native
population.
There will be no nonsense about
duelling in tbe Kussian army hereaf
ter. The Czar has issued a decree ap
pointing a court of honor to deter
mine in each ease whether a duel is
the proper thing. The decision is to
be final, and under it any officer who
refuses to accept a challenge will be
cashiered in disgrace. Officers whe
are not adepts with the foils will now
have to guard their tongues.
jVIme. Carnot is reported to have had
a presentiment of the fate that awaited
he? distinguished husband. She has
been in constant dread of late that
the assassin’s weapon, which had twice
failed against his life, would at last
reach it. She anxiously looked for
ward to the end of his term as Presi
dent, and it was her fears that largely
influenced Carnot not to seek the
Presidency of France for a second
term.
Fresh finds of rich beds of gold and
silver are the order of the day. The
latest announced is in a despatch
from Manitoba, to the effect that an
immense bed of aurifereus ore, a mile
wide and two miles long, in one tract,
has been discovered between Bat
Portage and Port Arthur, seventy
miles south of the Canadian Pacific
Kailway, which assays an average of
$S in gold and $4 in silver to the ton
of ore.
The miners who go to the new camps
in West Australia and New South
Wales will, in the opinion of the San
Francisco Chronicle, earn all that they
get. No mining in this country is at
tended with such dangers and hard
ships except in a few places on the
Mojave and Colorado deserts. At
Coolgardie water is so scarce that it
commands twelve cents a quart and all
provisions are extremely dear. Camels
are used for transport, as the desert
heat and drought prove fatal to horses
and mules.
Says the Boston Advertiser: There
is growing a strong public opin
ion that the law in its modern opera
tion has been abused so. gravely thata
good, shrewd lawyer with no case at
all can save a client from proper pun
ishment for months and even years al
though it is patent to everyone that
no valid reason exists why justice
should be delayed a day. Legal
“pleading” is now such an intricate I
and many-resourced art that plain,
old fashioned justice must stumble
and grope through wearisome and de
vious pathways before she can clutch
an offender who has sharp-ey^d coum
sgl to guide him. ~ ;
UK ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO TIIE
PEOPLE OF ALABAMA.
His Managers Charge Rank Frauds in
tlie Election.
The conference of the Kolb leaders
which convened at Birmingham con
sulted on the situation and discussed a
jdan of action. The following address
to the people was given out as the re
sult of their labors:
“To the People of Alabama: The
compaign committee of the Jefferson
ian democracy and the people’s party
of Alabama have been instructed by a
conference of our state candidates, the
leading supporters of that ticket and
the state executive committee to pro
mulgate the following:
“The election returns, ns reported
by the Associated Press and support
ers of the ticket headed by Colonel
Oates, show a repetition of tbe election
frauds of 1892, with less pretext and
absolutely without the least semblance
of justification, in order to overcome
legitimate majorities of our ticket in
forty-one white counties.
'Ihese false and fradulent majorities
a oK re gate 34,107 from fifteen black
belt counties. In 1S92 these enme
black belt counties aggregated major
ities of 28,639. In addition to this,
frauds have been perpetrated in white
counties of not less than fifteen thous
and. With the consummation of these
has also been brought forth four or
five fraudulently elected senators and
eleven or twelve fraudulently elected
representatives in the general assem
bly. This outrageous action, intensified
by the impudence and effrontery with
which it has been taken, displays a
disregard of public sentiment in such
a brazen-faced manner that it seems to
have been intended to add insult to
injury.
“The law under which the election
of 1892 was held was devised to assure
the perpetration of fraud with ease,
facility and saFety, has been amended
by the Sayers law, the purposes of
which were to disfranchise illiterate
voters and to assure the perpetration
of greater frauds in the black belt
counties ns has been demonstrated by
the election just held, and as was
known by the usurper who exercises
the functions of governor, as was illus
trated by his remark when he signed
that bill. A contest law was promised
to allay and prevent a popular upris
ing in 1S92, to be broken in tbe most
shameless manner, and the perfidy
and treachery displayed was after
wards boasted of as a fine piece of leg
erdemain. We admonish our people
not to accept promises nor pledges
from those who have proven them
selves recreant to every requirement
of law, to every demand of honor, and
to every exnction of duty, as well as
demonstrated that they arc enemies to
liberty and to republican institutions.
“In tbe face of the facts that only a
few months since the opposition de
clined to submit to a state primary, in
which only white voters should partic
ipate, which was afterwards so amended
as to meet their supposed wishes, by
eliminating white republicans, which
they declined to accept upon a spe
cious excuse that was an afterthought
and puerile, combined with the fact
that only forty-two thousand were
polled in the state primary that
brought out the full strength of that
party, they now claim, urge and insist
upon the most extravagant and ridicu
lous figures as correct and true.
“The condition in this state has
reached a climax. There is no doubt
that the state ticket headed by Captain
It. F. Kolb has been elected. The
alternative is presented of submission
to wrong, insult and robbery, or to
assert the sovereign power, before
which thrones totter, scepters fall, and
the outrages of tyrants cease. That
alternative must meet a response from
manhood or silent submission from
those unworthy of citizenship. A
proud and chivalrous people, worthy
of freedom, cannot shirk the respon
sibilities the situation enforces. A
distinguished patriot has asserted that
‘the man who will not fight for his
liberty is unworthy of freedom.’ We
do not advise fighting or lawlessness
of nuy kind; but the crisis has arisen
which demands that the sovereign
pow< r shall assert itself to compel un
worthy servants of its will to submit
to its power and recognize its au
thority.
“Your committee recognizes that it
has been entrusted with certain dutiep,
and that its powers are circumscribed;
nnd it feels authorized only in going to
the extent of advising and urging those
whom it represents to exercise the
power vested only in them, and to
hold meetings on Thursday, the 23d
day of August, 1894, at the respective
court houses, if not otherwise speci
fied, to act upon this great crisis, and
to insist that that manhood,patriotism
and love of liberty which has always
been invoked prompt and decisive ac
tion from them shall find expression
in their course that will be creditable
to their revolutionary sires and fur
nish a precedent in our history to
which all will ever revert with pride
aid satisfaction.
“At the same time nnd place we
•would urge the organization of law
and order leagues to uphold the su
premacy of that greatest of ail law
and power—the sovereign will of a
free people.
“Upon the. adjournment of ihese
county meetings, reports of the pro
ceedings should be furnished immedi
ately to W. II. Skaggs, chairman,
Birmingham, Ala.
“W. H. Skaggs,
Chairman Central Campaign Com-
'mittee. A. T. Goodwtx,
Chairman State Executive Committee
Jeffersonian Democratic Party.
John W. Pitts,
Chairman People’s Party Executive
Committee.”
Boycott Declared Off.
The Denver, Col., lodge of the
American Railway union has declared
the Pullman boycott off on the Union
Pacific and the Central Pacific, Den
ver and Gulf roads. Some of the
strikers have been taken back. The
strike is not declared off on the Santa
Fe, as the receiveis have rejected all
overtures from the old employes.
And Many Others Wounded in a Rail
road Wreck.
The northbound Ilock Island pass
enger train was wrecked on a high
bridge between four and five miles
south of Lincoln, Neb., shortly after
10 o’clock Thursday night. Seven
persons are known to have been killed,
five of them being burned to death.
Particulars, owing to the distance to
the scene of the wreck, are hard to
obtain.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the World.
There were five new cases of cholera
reported in Amsterdam, Holland,
Thursday. There was also one death.
At Maastricht, there were three new
cases, and at Barsingerhorn there was
one death.
Thursday was the hottest of the sea
son at St. Joseph, Mo., 105 degrees.
No rain has fallen for several weeks
nnd the corn crop is damaged so badly
in many places that rain would not
now 6ave it.
The Consolidated Coal Company, of
Frostburg, Md., has notified ali the
miners who stuck to their post during
tlie recent protracted strike that they
will each receive nine month’s regt
and fuel free.
H. M. Buies, a wealthy Chattanoo-
gnn, who disappeared some days ago
with a large sum of money, and of
whom descriptions have been sent
broadcast over the country, has been
located in Houston, Tex.. It is be
lieved tbnt he is deranged. He will
be brought home immediately.
The Southern Lumber Manufactur
ers’ Association met at Memphis, Tenn.,
Thursday with delegates present from
Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,Mississippi,
Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgia and Florida. The chief sub
ject before the convention is ways and
means to reduce the output of yellow
pine.
United States Bank Examiner Miller
has closed the Second National Bank,
of Atoona, Pa., pending and investiga
tion of its books. The shortage of
Cushier Gardner, defaulting cashier,
is placed as hign ns $63,000 by street
rumor, but nothing certain is yet
known, ns bank officials refrain from
giving out any statement.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Tennessee Bar Association passed
a resolution demanding that the next
legislature call a convention to draft
a new constitution and revise the code
of the state. It was urged that laws
like those of the stato of Georgia be
inserted in tho new code relative to
the doing away with the fee sy stem,
which is now the main method of pay
ing public officers in Tennessee.
Ex-Secretary Tracy, Boardman &
Platt, attorneys for the Jelico Manu
facturing Company, have filed a com
plaint in the United States court for
the southern circuit ngainst John D.
Vermilye, vice-president of the Hol
land Trust Company, charging him
with the misappropriation of over
$100,000 of the funds of the Jelico
company, deposited in trust with the
trust company for the development of
railroad property in Tennessee.
At New Orleans, Thursday after
noon, the grand jury came into court
and presented three indictments in
connection with the bribery charges
against members of tbe city council.
Two are ngain-t William J. Kane,
chairman of the new courthouse and
jail committee, and one is against Kane
and Frank B. Thriffiley jointly. All
three indictments were brought on
evidence given before the grand jury
by Mr. P. B. Ligon, and the alleged
bribe taking was in connection with
the new courthouse and jail affair.
A BRAVE ENGINEER
Thwarts Train Robbers by Rushing
Through an Obstruction.
Lake Shore express train No. 12,
arriving from the west, puffed into the
union station at Cleveland, O., Tues
day morning after having enjoyed a
most thrilling experience on tlie plains
of Indiana during the night. An at
tempt was made to hold up the train
at Kessler, Indiana, upon the iden
tical spot that the train was held up last
fall. The train was fast approaching
a split switch at Kessler when the
engineer noticed that the switch was
turned so as to run the train on the
siding. A big obstruction of ties and
lumber was piled upon the siding a
few rods ahead of his engine. The
obstruction did not appear to be im
passable, and the engineer put on all
the steam and dashed through the pile,
passing safely on to the main liue
Ihrough the split switch at a high rate
of speed.
As the train passed the obstruction
the engineer noticed a group of masked
men and as the engine cleared the
track of all obstacles the wonld-be
highwaymen fired several shots into
the train, none of which, however,
took effect.
The United States express car was
attached to the train and had on board
a large amount of money. It is
thought that this was known to the
desperadoes who attempted to hold np
the train. Their disappointment in
not carrying out their plans of stop
ping the train was evinced in their
firing of shots when they saw that
their plans had been foiled by the
boldness of the engineer in dashing
through the heap of ties upon the
track.
THE EARTH SINKS,
Causing a Panic and Much Damage to
Property.
The greatest mine cave-in that Scran
ton, Pa., has known in years occurred
Thursday afternoon at the Diamond
vein of the Hampton mine. Eight
acres and twenty-eight dwelling houses
were affected, one or two of the dwell
ings being almost irreparably damaged.
It is reported that the loss will reach
over a quarter of a million dollars.
The cave-in occasioned a great panic
in the neighborhood and the residents
rnshed pell-mell into the streets, bat
rione of them were injured. 1
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
sixteen districts in Galicia are affected
with cholera. During the last two
days there have been 126 new cases
and 83 deaths in these districts.
Henry E. Smith A Co., the largest
wholesale dealers in boots and shoes
in Worcester, Mass., have assigned.
The liabilities amount to $209,000,
and the assets are about $240,000.
Queen & Co., the leading opticians
of Philadelphia have made an assign
ment to John G. Gray. Neither the
liabilities nor assets are yet obtainable.
The cause of the failure is not known.
A dispatch from Rome to the Cen
tral News agency of London says that
many persons have been killed and
enormous amount of damage done
property by an earthquake which vis
ited Sicily Wednesday afternoon.
A special from Lyons says that Ca-
serio Santo, the assassin of President
Carnot, has persisted in his refusal to
make an appeal to the court of cassa
tion, and the time of appeal having
elapsed, the papers have been sent to
Paris for the signature of President
Casimir-Perier, fixing his execution for
ten days hence.
Zelmer & Co., retail dry goods deal
ers at 225 and 227 Sixth avenue, New
York, have assigned with a preference of
$34,771 to Samuel Zelmer. The firm
was established about two years ago
and is now one of tbe largest dry
goodB establishments on Sixth avenue.
The failure is said to be duo to the
general financial depression and laird
times.
A St. Petersburg special says: From
July 13th to August 4th,313 new cases
of cholera and 204 deaths from the
disease were reported in the city. In
the town of Warsaw from July 22d to
July 28th, 159 new cases of cholera
and 83 deaths were reported. In the
province of Warsaw during the period,
394 new cases of cholera were reported
and 213 deaths.
The convicted anarchists who led
the memorable riots of the silk work
ers in Patterson, N. J., during Mnrch
and April last, and who were convict
ed for assaulting workingmen, throw
ing bombs and writing threatening
letters, were sentenced Wednesday by
Judge Hopper in the court of quarter
sessions. Tbe sentences ranged from
six months to five years in jail.
The big anarchist trial was continued
at Paris Tuesday in the court of as
sizes. The prosecutor and presiding
judge examined at great length Felix
Fenon, formerly clerk in the war office;
Armaml Matha, publicist; Philippe
Ortiz, shop clerk. Van Bertani and
Chericotte, All efforts to trap them
into admissions of guilt were futile, as
the men stoutly denied everything.
A special from Fall River, Mass.,
says: The reasons for the reduction of
the wages of the operatives voted by
the cotton manufacturers’ association
which affects 26,000 mill hands, ait
the falling off the market price for
prints to 2 5-8 cents, 1 per cent off,
and the poor demand for goods even
at that figure. A reduction will also
take place in the fine goods depart
ment.
The Nebraska democratic congres
sional convention of the ninth Iowa
district met at Council Bluffs to nomi
nate a candidate. About two months
ago General James B. Weaver, late
populist candidate for president, was
nominated for congress by the popu
lists. The democratic convention de
cided to make no nomination, but en
dorsed General Weaver by a vote of
72 to 20.
The American Federation of Labor
of Pittsburg, Pa., is waging a war
against the Knights of Labor in flint
city. The brewery workmen’s union
has issued a circular denouncing the
loefd Knights of Labor officials for
adopting a scale lower than that of the
union, and alleging that they are in
collusion with the brewery proprietors
to destroy unions affiliated with the
American Federation.
Dispatches have been received at
Shanghai, Chinn, confirming the re
port that the emperor has divested
Viceroy Li Hung Chang of the order
of the Yellow Riding Coat, which is
the highest order in China, allowing
the wearer privileges next to those of
royalty. The emperor has freely ex
pressed his anger at the viceroy’s hav
ing allowed Japan to get ahead of
China in preparing for war.
The striking railway employes at
Cincinnati held a meeting to hear the
report of Master Workman Sheehan,
who had just returned from a confer
ence with Debs. Sheehan announced
that Vice President Howard would soon
issue a manifesto. By a vote of 254
to 224 the meeting voted to continue
the strike. Meantime the railways of
the city refuse to re-employ any
strikers.
The Denver Xews says that Joseph
R. Wilson, the El Paso county deputy
sheriff, who was captured by Adjutant
General Tarsney in Missouri, has made
a full confession and given to Chief
of Police Armstrong the names of all
the men connected with the outrage
committed in Colorado Springs a few
weeks ago. He confirmed the story
that the murderer from El Paso county
jail was allowed to help put the tar
and feathers on Colorado’s adjutant
general.
The five hundred or more members
of the commonweal army, under Gen-
trals Calvin and Thomas, left Wash
ington for their homes Tuesday night.
Before their departure the command
ers gave out a letter expressing grati
tude to the people of Washington and
vicinity who in any manner aided and
assisted them, and particularly thank
ing Chief of Police Moore, who
proved himself a true and humane
man, and also the district commis
sioners, who cheerfully responded
when transportation was reqnested.
Once it was “tramp, .tramp, tramp,
the boys are marching. ” Now it is
“boys, boys, boys, tbe tramps are
marching.”
Bradstreet’s Report of Business for
the Fast Week.
Bradstreet’s Business Review of the
past week says:
“While little significance is attached
to the moderate improvement in trade
at San Francisco, Pittsburg, Balti
more, Augusta and Atlanta ; when it is
added that clearing house totals foi
July report twenty-nine cities with
larger aggregates than in July last
year, contrasted with the June report,
which contains only eighteen cities
with aggregates larger than those in
June a year ago, it is pereeived that
there are influences at work at the in
terior favoring an increase in the vol
ume of business. Wool remains steady
at last week’s 1 cent advance,
speculation having been stimulated
by differences of opinion as to the
tariff outlook for that staple. Wheal
has advanced, in sympathy with corn,
on increased orders and reports of
crop damage from abroad, while corn’s
charp advance is due partly to exag
gerated notions of damage from
drought. There is little likelihood of
the corn crop being smaller than in
either of the two preceding years, not
withstanding our advices of 25 per
cent damage in Kansas and 40 per
cent in Nebraska. Southern crop
prospects generally are excellent.
“The improvement announced in
the general trade at San Sraucisco is
in part based on the interest manifes
ted in the war in Asia, provision deal
ers particularly anticipating largely
increased trade.
“War between China and Japan has
not affected the price of tea here yet,
though there is an increased demand
noted at New York, Boston and
Chicago. Cable advices are that crops
of tea are likely to equal those of last
year. Teas are low now, and stocks
here moderate. If tea ports should be
closed high prices would follow quick
ly. China exports but little rice, and
Japan’s rice export season has passed,
while we are entering upon anew crop.
Prices of rice would probably be sharp
ly affected should the war continue
another season. They may be moder
ately enhanced in any event.
“Added interest in wool has charac
terized the Philadeliihia as well as
Boston markets. Slight increases in
the demand in nearly all leading lines
are reported from Pittsburg, and at
Baltimore jobbers iu dry goods, no
tions, hats and shoes report business
more encouraging. Providence jewel
ry manufacturers report orders very
small and tbe outlook not promising.
“Advices from southern cities re
port moderate gams and fair prospects
for tbe fall at Memphis, no improve
ment in Charleston, the trade selling
cautiously at Savannah, and business
quiet at Jacksonville, where collec
tions are slow. There is an improve
ment in the volume of business at Au
gusta, and jobbers at Atlanta are filling
orders more freely, owing to good crop
prospects. Nashville, too, announces
an improved outlook. Chattanooga’s
July trade is reported larger than for
June, but at Birmingham business is
quiet and collections nuimproved.
Trade has been slack at New Orleans,
bnt tbe boot and shoe business is im
proving and manufacturers are busy.
Advices from Galveston and other
points in Texas continue to report im
provement.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for tlie Past Week.
The Tradesman, Oattanooga. Tenn., in its
report on tlie iminstrial condim n “f the sou'll
for the past week says: The lumber manufac
turers, who have been working for email profits
for some time p 'Hi, report an increased demand
and ] rosp' cts of an advance in prices. Stocks
of lumb- r are lower than usual. Coal and iron
operators are slowly increasing their outputs,
but have not reached their full capacity. The
ex ile mills throughout the state are domg
well. The cotton crop will be a very large one,
and wiih slight prospects of beiDg sold at prof
itable prices to growers.
Twenty-four new industries were established
or incorporated during the week, together with
six enlargements of manufactories and six een
iuipor ant new buildings. Piom u nt among
the new industries of the week are: the Monroe
Electric Co., of Key West, Fla., capital $75-
IX 0; the Railroad Compress Co., of Birin ng-
ham, Ala., an 1 the Fort Smith Compress Co.,
of Fort Smith, Ark., each with $10,000 capital,
and the Corsicana Shippers’ Compress Co., of
Comicanna, Tex., capital $30,(X)0; the Rock
dale Pressed Brick Co., of R .ckdale, tex., with
$30,000 cap tal, and F. L. Slade & Co., incor
porated, of Norfolk, Va„ capital $25,000; a can
ning factory at Yailaha, Fla.; cotton mdisat Toc-
eos, Ga.. and Louisburg, N. C-; cotton com
press at Cartersville, Ga., and an electric light
ing plant at Paducah, Kv. Flour and grist
mills are to be built at Brown's Snmmit, Madi
son and Raleigh, N. C.. and Fort Worth, Tex. ;
iron works at i.cucv ll', Ky., and Jackson
Tenn.; a knitting mill at. San Angelo, Tex.; a
tobacco factory at Siloam, N. C.: a large box
factory at New Orleans, La.; fibre works at
Mobile, Ala., and wood working plants at New
Decatur, Ala., and L ringston, Tt x.
Waterworks ate to be built at Key West, Fla.
The enlargements for the wetk include gas
works at Helena, A’k.; iron works" at Pi dmout
an l Wheeling. W. Va.; a cotton m It at Piue-
v.l.e, N. C., and woodworking plants at Avou
Park. Fa., and Monroe, La.
Among the new buildings are a bank at Sa
vannah, Ga.; a $75,000 hotel at Berkeley
Sol mg 4, W. Vs.; a $25,000 business bloek a r
Knoxvdle, Tenn , and others at Butler, Ga.,
and Abbeville, S. C.; an open house at Bowie,
Tex.: pencil w iks at South Pittsburg, Tenn.;
a $20,U00 residence at Knoxvide, Tenn., and
one to cost $15 000 at Houston, Texas.
THE GUILOTINE
Will be the Fate of President Carnot’s
Slayer.
The trial of Santo Cesario was con
cluded at Paris Friday. When tbe arg
ument had been concluded tbe court
gave these questions to the jury: “Did
the prisoner, Santo Cesario, assassin
ate President Carnot, and was the
crime premeditated?” The jnry retired
at 12 :05 oclock and was out just thir
teen minutes. They returned to court
and presented an affirmative answer to
both questions. At the announcement
of the verdict the supercilious grin
which Cesario has worn most of the
time during the trial disappeared like
magic and his face blanched.
Attorney General Folchier demanded
the immediate imposition of the death
penalty. There was a bilence for a
moment and then the judge in solemn
tone, bnt with a touch of harshness,
pronounced the sentence that the pris
oner be put to death by the guilotine.
The Strike Declared Off.
At a meeting in Chicago of the gen
eral strike committee of the American
Railway Union it was decided to declare
the great strike off in Chicago. This
does not include the Chicago and East
ern lllinoisnor the Santa Fe, where the
men have voted to continue the strike
to settle local grievances and where
they think they have a fair show of
winning.
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Advices from Fort Worth, Texas,
are to the effect that immense damage
is being done Texas cotton fields by
boll w. rms. Some fields have been
entirely destroyed.
The celebrated arson case is now on
trial in the circuit court at Meridian,
Miss. Much interest is manifested in
the trial, as public opinion is strongly
in favor of Belk and Scott, tho defen
dants. The case of W. C. Schambers
for erson will be next tried.
Pensacola, Fla., was visited by one
of the worst storms ever known in that
locality Wednesday night. The wind
came in great gusts from the gulf,
driving torrents of rain, which fell
without ceasing throughout the night.
Nearly every honse in the city felt the
effects of the storm.
Alex Barlor, Washington Hudson and
W. A. Hoigley, three intelligent white
men of Eufaula, Ala., have been ar
rested, charged with taking one-dollar
bills and making tens out cf them.
Southeast Alabama has been flooded
with such currency, and it is claimed
that it emanated from the three men
in custody.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
The state has at last caught on to the
practical way of downing “blind
tigers,” and a new grade of whisky
will be put on sale at once at 25 cents
per pint. This may prove effective, as
the “tigers” charge 15 cents a drink.
The label, “guaranteed U. S. 100
proof,” will be replaced by one with
80 per cent.
The advisory board of the associated
railroads of Virginia and the Carolinas
held a meeting at Virginia Beach
Wednesday. There was a large attend
ance, the Southern railway, Seaboard
Air-Line and Atlantic Coast line being
represented by all their general officers
of traffic and executive departments.
Excursion and freight rates was the
burden of discussion.
The tenth district congressional
deadlock at Hallettsville, was broken
Wednesday morning after eighteen
hundred and eight (pilots had been
taken and State Senator Miles Crow
ley, of Galveston, was nominated on
tbe first ballot as the democratic nom
inee for congress from the district.
This was the result of a caucus by
the Gresham and Lane factions.
Special Agent Burns, of the secret
service bureau in Washington, who
was sent to Mississippi by Chief Hazen
to see tho governor about the Missis
sippi special warrants, is still in Jack-
son. He has as yet made no demands
on the governor and is personally try
ing to find where special warrants have
been unwittingly taken for United
States currency or national bank
notes.
The North Carolina democratic
state convention met nt Raleigh
Wednesday, nearly every conuty being
represented. The convention will
nominate four supreme court judges
and a state treasurer. The incumbents
of these offices have no opposition.
The interesting questions are the sil
ver plank and the question of pri
maries for the instruction of members
of the legislature for United States
senators, there being two to elect in
January.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road company has made a proposition
to the miners to give them 37J cents
for mining coal as long ns foundry No.
1 was $8.50 per ton and less, and to pay
them 2h cents per ton advance for
every 50 cents per ton that foundry
No. 1 increased until it reached $11,
and then to pay them 2} cents for each
dollars’ increase. The miners met at
Birmingham and decided that they
would not accept the proposition.
They will not work f r less than 45
cents per ton.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the Tennessee Bar Association assem
bled on Lookout Mountain Wednesday
morning. A number of the leading
barristers of the state were in attend
ance. The first day”was spent in re
ceiving reports from the several officers
and committees. The second was de
voted to the discussion of a paper on
“Constitution-Making in Tennessee,”
and a report of the committee on new
constitution and code. As a constitu
tional convention will be held this fall
these subjects will be vigorously dis
cussed.
MORE JAPANESE VICTORIES.
Great Britain and Russia Fail as
Peacemakers.
Advices of Wednesday from Yoko-
homa, Japan, state that additional
battles have been fought between the
Japanese and Chinese, and the latter
have been defeated. Seikioan has
been taken by the Japanese with trifl
ing loss. The Chinese in this engage
ment lost 500 killed. The enemy fled
in the direction of Koshin. The Jap
anese are in possession of Yashan.
An imperial ordinance just issued
permits Chinese to reside "in Japan on
condition that they engage in peaceful
pursuits. The greatest excitement
prevails at Yokohoma, at Tokio and at
other towns, ns a result of the victor
ies of the Japanese troops. Kumors,
however, are current that the Japanese
naval forces have been defeated in an
engagement with Chinese war ships.
THE FEACEKAKEBS FAIL.
It is officially reported from Tien-
Tsin that the efforts of Great Britain
and Russia to bring about a peaceful
settlement of the disputes between
China and Japan have failed. China
is willing to pay an indemnity, but she
refuses to surrender her sovereignty
over Corea. The Chinese government
haB closed the Amping andTakao light
houses, on the island of Formosa.
Serious Strike at Omaha.
A special from Omaha, Neb., says:
The crisis has arrived, and if there is
no improvement several companies of
militia will be sent to south Omaha
and the packing house district will be
placed uuder martial law. The situa
tion is most serious and the 1,100
strikers have beep doing about 93 they
please.
Marcus De Luna Shot by a Detach
ment of Mexican Soldiers.
Marcus De Luna, the most notori
ous outlaw in northern Mexico, has
been killed by a detachment of Mexi
can soldiers who had been sent in
pursuit of him. De Lnna was wanted
for many murders and other crimes
in Mexico and Texas. He has served
a long term of imprisonment in the
Texas penitentiary, bnt after his re
lease he continued to terrorize the
lower country.
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPART.MENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of tho Cabinet.
The senate has passed the bill to
further encourage the holding of a
world’s exposition at Atlanta, Ga., in
1895, admitting free of duties articles
from foreign countries for exhibition
purposes and providing for medals.
In its brief executive session Thurs
day the senate confirmed the follow
ing: Amos M. Thayer, of Missouri,
to be United States circuit court judge
for the eighth judicial district, ns pro
vided for by the act approved July 22,
1894; Henry S. Priest, of Missouri, to
be United States district judge for the
eastern district of Missouri.
The honse democratic caucus of
Tuesday afternoon adjourned after de
ciding that the house conferees on the
tariff bill should not be embarrassed
by instructions of any character from
their democratic associates. This ac
tion was disappointing to tho pro
moters of the caucus. Mr. Holman
presided. The roll call disclosed the
presence of 168 members, an unusual
ly large number.
The “tomorrow” upon which tlie
tariff conferees have been for some
weeks promising an agreement at last
gives promise of fulfillment. When
the tariff conferees adjourned at a few
minutes before 6 o’clock Wednesday
it was with the understanding that at
the session Thursday morning all the
details should be arranged and the re
publicans called in the afternoon and
informed of what their democratic
colleagues bad done.
The democratic tariff conference had
expected to be able to announce an
agreement Thursday. Instead of reach
ing any definite conclusion, the day
closed with the bill in quite as uncer
tain a stage as ever before in its his :
lory, with the situation in no wise im
proved, and with the feeling between
the friends of tho senate bill and the
house bill intensified instead of allayed,
and with no one prepared to say what
fhe outcome would be, or when the end
would be reached.
CHINA LEVYING TRIBUTE.
Viceroys Called Upon to Produce tho
Wherewith.
A dispatch from Tien Tain to the
Central A'ewn, of London, says:
“The emperor of China has directed
that a levy for war tribute be made
upon the viceroys of tho different
provinces. A foreign war loan is
mooted.
“Chinese troops with European of
ficers are rapidly advancing through
Manchuria toward the Corean frontier.
The Commissariat is experiencing great
difficulty in obtaining supplies for the
troops. Chiua is wary in preparations,
but is unsparing in her efforts to suc
ceed in the impendinfi fighting.”
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Central News says:
“According to advices from Yoko
homa and Nagasaki, Japan is pouring
reinforcements into Corea, using for
the purpose all available fast steamers
flying tbe Japanese flag.
“A fleet of Japanese transports re
cently started for Chemulpo. Another
fleet started for the north coast of Co
rea, presumably for Gensan.
“The Japanese newspapers are for
bidden to refer to the war preparation
or to publish any army news except
such as is supplied by tbe government.
“The Japanese aim to attack the
Chinese before the arrival of the
Manchurian corps.
“The Chinese fleet makes no effort
to leave the coast. Fast Japanese cruis
ers are constantly watching.
DARLINGTONITES ARRESTED.
Four of Them Charged with the Mur
der of Constable Pepper.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The state has caused the arrest of
twelve prominent citizens of Darling
ton for participation in the whiskey
riot there last spring. The arrests
were made by State Detective New-
bold. Charles McCullough, L. A.
Norment, K. D. Lucas and
Henry Appelt are charged with
the murder of Constable Pep
per. C. S. Nettles, Dr. J. C. Wilcox,
W. C. Byrd, S. H. Wilde, C. S. Mc
Cullough, Mclver Williamson, L. M.
Norment and J. H. Edmunds were re
arrested for shooting into a train in
which the constables were. They all
gave bond and the preliminary hear
ing will take place on the 14th instant.
The attorney general 6ays the cases
will be pnsbed to the end.
Pullman Works Start Up.
Steam was let into the cylinders of
the big Corliss engine at PullmaD, O.,
Thursday morniDg and the immense
fly-wheel revolved for the first time
since the great strike was inaugurated.
At an early hour 1,197 men -reported
for work. Six hundred of these were
assigned to the repair department.
The others were distributed through
out the various shops, and all depart
ments were open for business, except
the freight and street car shops.
They Gave It Up.
The congressional democratic con
vention at Texarkana, Texas, adjourned
after a ten days’ session trying to
choose a successor to Hon. D. B. Cul
berson. The convention adjourned to
meet in Paris, Tex., August 30th.
In a Hopeless Deadlock.
A dispatch from Texarkana, Ark.,
says: The democratic congressional
convention took 500 additional ballots
making the total to date. 4,785. The
copypntion is hopelessly deadlocked.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
What Our National Law-Makers are
Doing for the Country.
The house, Monday, voted to non
concur in the senate amendments to
the general deficiency bill, and asked
a conference thereon. On motion of
Mr. Catchings, of Mississippi, the sen
ate was requested to return the con
ference report on the river and harbor
bill, in which an error was discovered,
a sheet of it having disappeared. Mr.
Paynter, of Kentucky, announced that
owing to the enforced absence of Mr.
Woodward, of North Carolina, who
made the report for the minority in
the contested election case of Williams
vs. Settle,from the fifth North Carolina
district in favor of Williams, nnd
which had been set for consideration
during the day, it has been agreed that
the case should go over until next ses
sion.
In the house, Tuesday, the seuato
amendments were agreed to tho bills
to subject greenbacks and national
bank notes to state taxation and to
amend sections 2,401 and 2,403 of tho
revised Statutes relating to the survey
of public lands: also for the protection
of persons furnishing labor nnd mate
rial in the construction of buildings.
A concurrent resolution was agreed to
directing the secretary of the interior
to suspend the opening to settlement
of the Anndonda reservation in Flor
ida. A senate bill was passed to amend
the quarantine net of 1892, by reliev
ing excursion boats, plying between
Canadian and United States ports,
from its operations.
The house Wednesday passed, by
unanimous consent, a billtojtay B. D.
Greene, secretary for George E. Ward,
$J ,900 for government work done on
the Rappahannock river, Virginia.
Immediately afterwards Mr. Catch
ings, from the committed on rules, re
ported a special order setting aside
the day for the consideration of bills
from the committee on public build
ings and grounds, and Thursday for
business from the committee on claims.
The special order was adopted.
The Hawaiian question came to the
front again in the house Thursday,
forming the subject of the most spir
ited and interesting portion of the pro
ceedings. Mr. Boutelle raised it as a
question of privilege. He repudiated
the reported imputation that in intro
ducing resolutions recognizing the Ha
waiian republic he had sought to ob
tain a partisan advantage for the re
publican party, but that ho was de
sirous only of maintaining the honor
and dignity of the government and of
observing the unbroken traditions of
the country and of congress. Ho criti
cised the failure of the committee on
foreign affairs to act upon his resolu
tions and denounced the Hawaiian
policy of tho administration. The
house then proceeded to tho consider
ation of the bill to increase tbe effi
ciency of the militia.
THE SENATE.
The bill introduced by Davis, Fri
day, defining options and futures and
imposing special taxes thereon, was at
his request read the second time in
the senate, Monday morning, and laid
on the table. Mr. Mills offered a res
olution declaring that in the revision
of national taxation, these three prin
ciples should be observed: That all
taxes are burdens and can only be
rightfully imposed to raise a revenue
for the support of the government;
that when taxes are imposed on im-
ported goods, the rates should be so low
as not to materially restrict the im
portation of an article; and that in se
lecting articles to be taxed, only those
ready for consumption should bo
chosen, and that all those imported
for manufacture or re-manufacture,
should be exempt from duty. It was
laid on the table temporarily at Mills’
request, Mills saying he would call it
up in a few days and make some re
marks upon it. The Chandler resolu
tion for inquiry into the facts connect
ed with the organization and history
of the Dominion Coal Company, of
Novia Scotia, was taken up.
After an hour’s debate in tbe senate
Tuesday morning, on the claim of one
Leathers, for carrying the United
States mail on the Mississippi river
before the war, the matter went over
until Wednesday and the senate took
up the conference report on the Dis
trict of Columbia Omnibus Street
Railway bill and at 2 :05 adjonned.
In the senate, Thursday, the house
bill to repeal in part and limit the
section of revised statues under which
bounty land warrants are refused to
ex-soldiers of the Meican war who af
terwards served in the confederate
army, gave rise to a discussion. Mr.
Platt moved to postpone it till the
first Monday in December. The dis
cussion was interrupted by a motion
by Mr. Gray to proceed to the con
sideration of executive business, and
at 1:15 the senate went into executive
session and at 1:40 adjourned till Fri
day.
COMMONWEALERS CAPTURED.
Sentenced to Prison for Three Months
on tlie Charge of Vagrancy.
A Washington dispatch says: Short
ly before 4 o’clock Thursday morning,
before the inmates were astir, the for
ty special policemen from Baltimore;
under charge of Sergeant Gilbert,
swooped down on the Coxeyites en
camped at Highlands near Bladens-
burg, Md., about six miles from Wash
ington, and arrested the entire “army
of the commonweal,” eighty-eight in
number, on charges of vagrancy. The
arrested men were taken to Hyatts-
ville and put on board a special train
for Bridewell, where they will for
three months work at hard labor.
Their leaders, including Marshals
McKee and Christopher Columbus
Jones were each given one year.
Iron Mills Resuming.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The
Mahoning A r allc-y Iron Mills are re
suming after a long period of idleness.
Coleman Shields, of Miles, O., who
have been idle a year; the Girard,
Ohio, rolling mill which has been
closed six months; Brown & Bonnels,
Youngtown, Ohio, who have been off
in part for a year, are all running full.