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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, $1. Per Annum.
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Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May. 1
JOHN E. HO WELL, Ed tor and Proprietor.
voL. xirr. no. 11
VIENNA GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
GEORGIA IX BRIEF.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATH
And Condensed Into Pithy and Into**
esting Paragraphs.
A paper mill and a creamery are two
new enterprises for Marietta.
...
It is estimated that Georgia’s water*
melon shipments hare brought into
the state from half to three-quarters of
a million dollars.
* • *
xhe governor has reappointed as
stav depositories for a term of four
years the Milledgeville Banking Com
pany and the People’s Savings bank,
of Rome.
...
The grand jury of Habersham coun
ty has recommended that $2,500 worth
of bonds, for the purpose of building
a new court house, be issued. The
question will bo submitted to a vote of
the people.
Barnesville will have another knit
ting mill. This is now a certanty.
citizens’ meeting was held in the city
council chamber recently and a full
discussion was held. It was the unan
imous opinion that Barnesville should
and could secure the new enterprise.
The Fulton county grand jury has
indicted Ed Hooks, charged with em
bezzling tho funds of the Seaboard
Air-Line. The witnesses that went be-
. ,| ^fore the grqpd jury were Local Agent
i , jflioyle and Major Courtney, who ex-
ft grained Hook’3 books.
...
The Herron-Tliomas Tobacco Com
pany say they intend having a plug to
bacco exhibit at the Cotton States and
International exposition, in Atlanta
next fall made of Georgia-raised leaf,
and a filler that will prove an eye
opener to both exhibitors and visitors.
...
Ih the concluding chapters of the
Crowley tragedy at Atlanta it now
soems that youthful Will Myers will
have to play tho ugly role of a branded
criminal. The words of his own
mouth, as well as nearly every detail
of the tragedy, point to him with ter
rible distinctness as the sole perpetra
tor of the deed.
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING THE
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
under orders from the governor, Gen
eral Kell threw out the fonr votes of
the company and declared Captain
Miller elected major by a majority of
three votes.
* * *
Dr. George F. Payne, state chemist,
has just issued his complete fertilizer
bulletin for the season 1893-’94. It is
an interesting and valuable publication
and contains a vast deal of information
of special value to the planters of this
state. The bulletin is larger than usual The president has issued a procla
and contains in addition to the regular mation granting full amnesty and
analysis, a great deal of valuable infor- Freedom to all persons who have vio-
mation concerning fertilizers. The j lated the Edmunds act against polyg-
bulletin ought to be in the hands of amy.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of th. Cabinet.
Big preparations are being made at
Hawkinsville for the Wiregrass ex
position that will open there on the
9th of October, and continue four
It will he more than a county
/embracing a comprehensive ex
tut of the agricultural and industrial
/Sources and products of the wire
grass region.
* * *
The Crown cotton mills at Dalton
have the foundation laid for a two
story brick addition, 50x128 feet,
which doubles the capacity of the
mills. Their engines, slashers, card
ers, etc., were originally bought with
the view of doubling their capacity,
hence the present addition will cost
only about one-third the original capi
tal, or about $35,000.
Jeff Rockmore, the negro who mi
raculously escaped the gallows after
the time for his execution had been
twice fixed, died in the penitentiary
last week. His sentence was commu
ted to life imprisonment last March.
Rockmore killed a negro on a Georgia
railroad work train about two years
ago. The killing occurred while the
train -was running at full speed be
tween Decatur and Atlanta.
A reward of $150 each has been of
fered by the governor for the capture
of some unknown murderers and their
delivery to the sheriff of Dougherty
county. On the 30th of last June, the
dead body of Watt Ellis was found in
the Flint river. A gunshot wound
was found on his body and his throat
had been cut. On the 10th of Sep
tember in the same locality the skele
ton of an unknown man was found.
The cases are mysterious, and and it
is believed by the local authorities
that the offer of the reward may un
ravel the mystery.
For the first time in its history
woman has entered Mercer college as a
student. This new thing took place a
few days ago when Miss Pauline Gam
brel!, daughter of Dr. Gambrell, the
president, was admitted to the school
of pedagogy. At a meeting of the
board of trustees held in J line last a
resolution was adopted establishing a
school of pedagogy, and it was at the
same time agreed to admit both males
and females into this department.
Miss Gambrell bears the distinction of
being the first to apply for admission
in this department, and her applica
tion was favorably passed upon.
Mr. John R. Young, of Savannah,
who is president of the Atlantic Short
Line Railway company, gives it out
that work on this road will soon be re
sumed. The road is projected to run
from Macon to Pineora, a point nine
teen miles west of Savannah. The
road is graded between Stillmore and
Bruton, a distance of thirty-eight
miles, and eleven miles of the track
are laid. The road will be an impor
tant link to the south and, it is claim
ed, will soon be ready for operation.
It is said that the work of construction
will be taken up very soon, and that it
will be pushed forward to a speedy
completion.
An order issued by Adjutant General
Kell makes Captain John A. Miller, of
the Governor’s Horse Guard, major of
the First Battalion of Georgia Cavalry
instead of Captain J. M. Barnard, of
the Troup Hussars. An election for
major was ordered for the 19th of
September. The candidates were
Captain-John A. Miller, of the Gov
ernor’s Horse Guard, and Captain J.
M. Barnard, of the Troup Hussars.
The election eame off, each company
voting through its commissioned offi
cers. Barnard received eight votes
and Miller seven. The election of the
Richmond Hussars was found to have
been illegally conducted, and aoting
every man in Georgia who desires to
farm intelligently. The fertilizer busi
ness is not ouly growing in every state
in the union but in every civilized
country in the world. Georgia is the
largest consumer of fertilizers and
charges by far the smallest tax. The
tax of 10 cents a ton runs the depart
ment free of all expenses to the 6tate.
No other state hns a smaller tax than
25 cents a ton, some running as high
as 50 ceuts.
Cue of the most important meetings
ever held by the Home Mission Board
of tho Southern Baptist convention
that recently held in the office of
tho board at Atlanta. Action was
was taken in two very important mat
ters—the election of Rev. Dr. Lansing
Burrows, of Augusta, as assistant cor
responding secretary, and the recep
tion of a committee’s report in regard
to important concessions made by the
northern Baptists to thoso of the
south. Rev. Dr. Lansing Burrows is
now pastor of the First Baptist church
of Augusta. He has been with that
church for eleven years, and is univer
sally loved and respected in that city.
Ho is a man of splendid appearance
and is an orutor of no mean ability.
He is better known as the secretary of
the Southern Baptist convention, tc
which office he was elected in 1882,
Means Much for Georgia.
Governor Northen’s immigration plan
for Georgia is attracting wide atten
tion. It will,when established, be the
largest affair of the kind in the south
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record
said of it in a recent issue:
“One of the greatest friends of
southern immigration is Governor
Northen, of Georgia. He was one of
the first to perceive how necessary
were more people to the prosperity
and development of his own state, Geor
gia,and the whole section of this coun
try. Recently he has perfected an elab
orato plan in which the railroads enter
ing the state will participate. Briefly
stated he will combine a bureau of in
formation with a land and immigration
agency. The governor will take charge
as soon as his present term of office ex
pires, which will be in November. The
different counties iu the state will be
advertised by pamphlets and other
matter setting forth their advantages
to would-be settlers. This advertising
matter will be systematically distrib
uted in the north and west, and as the
governor states that the railroad com
panies have promised him $12,000 to
start the enterprise, he will be well
provided with funds at the outset.
“The Manufacturers' Record con
gratulates Georgia upon the decision
of Governor Northen to devote his at
tention to attracting settlers to that
favored state.”
Voters Will be lJusy.
On October 3d, the voters of the
state will have their hands full. Be
sides the two tickets the voters will be
called upon to vote on three amend
ments to the state constitution. Each
voter will vote “for” or “against” th
amendments, either one or all of them.
One of tbeamen<1 meuts]cal 1 s for'chang-
ing the sessions of the legislature so as
to make them annual, beginning on
the last Wednesday in July instead of
the last Wednesday in October as at
present. Another amendment pro
posed increases the power of the legis
lature to grant pensions in certain
cases. Another amendment increases
the number of supreme court justices,
from three to five.
The democratic state ticket will read
aa follows;
For Governor William Y". Ntkinson.
For Secretary of State—Allen D.
Candler.
For Treasurer—Robert IT. Harde
man.
For Attorney General—J. M. Ter
rell.
For Comptroller General—William
A. Wright.
For Commissioner of Agriculture—
Robert T. Nesbitt.
The third party ticket will be pre
sented in this shape:
For Governor—James K. Hines.
For Secretary of Orate—A. L. Nance.
For Treasurer—C. M. Jones.
For Attorney General—J. A. B. Ma-
haffey.
For Comptroller General—W. R.
Kemp.
For Commissioner of Agriculture—
James Barrett.
BLOW AT JACKSONVILLE.
The Hurricane Does Considerable
Damage in the City.
A Jacksonville special says: The
hurricane passed northeast of this city
at 1 o’clock Wednesday. The highest
wind here was forty-six miles per hour.
Rain fell in torrents and gusts of fierce
winds dashed it into houses. Nearly
every residence in the city was well
drenched in this way.
There were not many disasters or
heavy losses. The most serious was
the blowing down of 900 feet of the
new terminal station that had been
put in position. It was laid flat and
M. H. Maynardie, station master of
the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway, narrowly escaped death. He
was knocked down by flying timbers.
The loss is above $10,000.
Trees were blown down and tin roofs
were torn off. Much damage was
caused in this way throughout the
city. Some damage is likely to be re
ported from the railroads south of j|
here. All have been seriously washed.
Many breaks are reported along the
coast below St. Augustine. At Jupi
ter and Lake Worth it is feared that
much damage has been caused if not
loss of life. The wind there was sixty
miles an hour. Jacksonville has had
no communication with any portion
of the state south of here since last
night. Much uneasiness is expressed
over the situation.
The postmaster at Savannah) Ga.,
has been instructed to dispatch through
registered pouches for Brunswick, Ga.,
daily, except Monday, instead of daily,
except Sunday, as at present.
The president Tuesday appointed
General William WardDuffield, of De
troit, Mich., superintendent of the
coast and goedetic survey to succeed
T. G. Medenhall, resigned. The posi
tion is worth $6,000 per annum.
W. H. Pugh, commissioner of cus
toms, who was legislated out of office
by one of the Dockery commission
laws, will be assigned within a short
time as chief of the special agents to
be appointed in connection with the
collection of the income tax.
For the first time in several months
all the prominent officials from Secre
tary Carlisle down, are “on deck” in
the treasury department. The change
incident to the reorganization which
goes into effect October 1st, is engag
ing most of the time of Secretary Car
lisle at this time.
The United States has not signified
its intentions with regard to the Pan-
American monetary conference pro
posed by Mexico, and this, with the
delay of other governments to send an
swers to the invitations, will cause the
postponement of the meeting which
was set for next month. It is proba
ble that this government will decline
the invitation.
The republican congressional com
mittee, at its meeting Tuesday, dis
posed of the last contested nomination
case before it. It was that of Cheat
ham against White, from the second
North Carolina district, and was de
cided in favor of Gheatham. The con
testants are brothers-in-law, and both
colored. Cheatham has served a term
in congress.
The plans submitted for the gigantic
railway bridge across the Delaware
river to connect Philadelphia with
Camden, N. J., have been approved
by the war department, the only change
required being iu the location of the
draw. The draw will accomodate
ships with the tallest masts. This
bridge will give through rail connec
tion to the sea shore and New Jersey
towns. Work will commence within a
year.
The contractor in charge of the work
on the Port Royal, S. C., dock has ap
plied to the nevy department for an
extension of time to complete the
work, as the time for finishing it un
der the contract, which has already
been extended two or three times, ex
pired on the 23d. While no action has
yet been taken on the request, it will
probably be granted. The work is said
to be highly satisfactory to the depart
ment in spite of the delays, and it is
thought the dock will probably be
completed within a month.
A change will be made in the office
of the deputy commissioner of inter
nal revenue within the next two oi
three weeks. Captain George W. Wil
son, of Ohio, a republican, has held
the office up to this time, during the
present administration, his long ser
vice fitting him for the dnties. It has
rot been an easy matter for Commis
sioner Miller to find a man for the place,
but he has, it is giveu out semi-offi
cially, decided upon Mardis Woods, an
Alabama man, who possesses the req
uisite qualifications. The new appoin
tee is not endorsed by the Alabama
delegation, but is said to be the per
sonal choice of the secretary of the
treasury.
Thirty-five treasury clerks have been
reported to the secretary of the treas
ury by name as' having attended the
horse races at Alexander, Ya., about
three miles from Washington across
the Potomac river last Saturday. The
names of the clerks have been forward
ed to the head of the bureau or divis
ion, and an explanation, it is said, has
been asked from the clerks. Whether
detectives have been employed for-the
purpose of “spotting” treasury clerks
of a “sporty” inclination or whether
the information has been volunteered
by some treasury employe or official,
intimate knowledge of the personnel of
the male clerks in the treasury has
been shown, and it has created a com
motion at this time,especially as many
changes are being made to carry into
effect the reorganization that takes
place October 1st.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Commissioner Miller has prepared a
statement showing in detail the collec
tions of internal revenue taxts for the
the past two months. The aggregate
is stated to be $51,924,878 against
$25,092,304 for the corresponding
period of 1893, as follows: Spirits,
$39,705,000, an increase of $26,468,-
000; tobacco, $5,025,000, an increase
f $655,450; fermented liquors, $6,-
837,000, a decrease of $310,877,
and miscellaneous $38,955, an in
crease of $15,842. Of the $39,705,000
collected from spirits $36,693,000 was
on whisky alone, showing that in two
months nearly 40,000,000 gallons of
whisky were taken out of bond in an
ticipation of the increased tax. It is
estimated that the mouthly consump
tion of whisky in the United Statis is
000,000 gallons, so that dealers have
on hand a snpply of several months,
which, until it is exhausted, will not
necessitate further withdrawals from
bond, and this will not bring internal
revenue receipts up to their normal
figure before December or January
next.
WIND 0E DEATH. SOUTHERN SPECIALS
A DISASTROUS CYCLONE SWEEPS
ACROSS THREE STATES
Killing Hundreds of People and De
vastating Millions in Property.
A fearful cyclone swept across the
states of Iowa, Michigan and Minne-
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South's Progress and Prosperity.
The prohibitionists of North Caro
lina, in mass meeting recently, decid-
sota Friday evening, killing over one ed to make no nominations this year,
hundred people, injuring an untol.1 , let there was a meeting in Wake coun-
Arkansas Against Liquor.
A special from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: The complete returns on the
liquor license question in the recent
state election have been certified to by
the secretay of state. The vote stands :
For license, 47,662; against license,
49,595; a majority against the con
tinuation of the liqnor traffic of 1,933.
Sow your wild oats if you want to
reap a crop of had results,
number and destroying a vast amount
of property.
At Ellington, la., one Woman, Mrs.
Johnson, was killed outright and Mrs.
Roberts was probably fatally injured.
At Hayfield, another Iowa town, many
houses were carried away and several
people were killed and many were
wounded. In Bingham township, Han
cock county, five people are reported
killed.
Spring Valley, Minn., the beautiful
and prosperous city, situated amid
peace and plenty, was struck by the
cyclone at 10:30 o’clock at night,
wrecking the north or residential por
tion of the city. While a large audi
ence was in the opera house witnessing
a tragedy, another tragedy was bein
enacted a short distance away, caused
by the storm, which struck the finest
portion of the town. Teams were set
to work to carry the dead away and re
move the injured to the Lewis House,
which was converted into a hospital.
Physicians were sent for from Wykoff,
Racine, Grand Meadow and Austin,
who, with the help of the resident doc
tors, were kept busy all night setting
broken legs, arms, sewing up gaping
wounds and binding np injured heads.
News from Lowther, la., is that
three persons were killed and seven in
jured in the cyclone. The storm seems
to have swept through the northern
tier of Iowa counties and crossed into
Minnesota in the southeastern corner
of that state.
At Dodge Center, Minn., Warren
Fairbank’s warehouse was blown down.
At Cresco, la., the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul depot was severely
damaged by the wind, and it is feared
it will have to be rebuilt. The storm
crossed the Mason City line two miles
west of Grafton. The wind left a clean
pathway behind it, taking everything
within its reach.
A Des Moines special says: Fonr
people were killed north of Mason
City and two fatally injured. The cy
clone destroyed eight farm houses.
At Lerov, Minn., the damage by the
cyclone was not fully realized until
daylight. All the buildings in the
central and eastern part of tho town
were leveled to the ground and the pret
ty little village is completely crippled.
The hotel and two stores were burned
to the ground by fire, which started
early in the evening, and which be
came uncontrollable when the cyclone
made its appearance nt precisely 10:45
o’clock. The killed are: Henry Find
lay, Charles Gilbert, Mrs. Dunton, Joe
Nelson.
At Spring Valley, Mich., three peo
ple are dead and two fatally injnred.
Twenty-six persons are reported
killed in Kossuth county, la., and
thirty-nine injured, some fatally,while
the greater part of the town of Cylin
der, twenty miles west, was badly
damaged by the storm. North of
Cylinder the family of Alix Gonldon,
four in number, were killed.
Between Bart and Algona, La., the
following were killed:
Mr. Blackhouse’s child, two chil
dren of Mr. Scwappas, Mr. French’s
two children, Mrs. George Beaver,
Myrtle Beaver George Holman’s child,
Mr. Dingman, Frank Bicklemeyer.
Five persons were killed by the cy
clone which passed five miles north of
Osage, la. Many others were hurt
and will probably die. The dead are
as follows: Mrs. Patrick Lonegan
Mrs. Phil S. Herbert, Annie Perry,
Harry Herbert. Rath Herbert.
A special from Elma, la., says:
The town of Lowther, located five
miles north of this city, which was un
fortunate enough to be in the jjath of
Friday night’s cyclone, is now a mass
of bent timbers and splinters. The
damage done to Lowther and vicinity
will exceed $100,000.
CONVICT FARM SELECTED.
No More Mississippi Prisoners Will
be Leased.
A Jackson, Miss., special says:
Governor Stone, who is charged by
law with certifying that the price
agreed upon by the commission
for a state prison farm is reasonable,
has sent Attorney General Johnston a
letter in which he approves the pur
chase price of the land situated in
Rankin county on the A. and V. rail
road, six and a half miles southeast of
Jackson. This tract is known as the
Hunter and Stevens property. It com
prises 3,207 acres, for which the com
mission agreed to pay $6 per acre,
amounting to $19,472. It is estimated
that this laud is half woodland and
half cleared. The governor made a
personal inspection of all lands offer
ed. The leasing of convicts is forbid
den by the new constitution after De-
jember. 1894.
STORM IN FLORIDA.
The Expected Hurricane Reaches the
Atlantic Coast.
A special of Tuesday night from St.
Augistine, Fla., says: Trains south of
here are all stopped by a storm, which
is increasing in velocity. The sea is a
mass of seething breakers and the
great waves are rushing over the sea
wall. All crafts have been taken to
Sebastian river. Anastasia island is
submerged. The storm tug Green
wood, from Eastport, Me., is anchored
in the harbor. A driving rain is com
ing in gusts. All wires south are
down.
SENATOR JONES WILL RESIGN
On Demand of the Republican Com
mittee of Nevada.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, who was
asked by the republican state commit
tee of Nevada to resign his seat in the
United States senate because he had
gone over to the populist party has
decided to comply with the request.
This decision on his part is given on
the authority of bis closest polities!
friends.
ty Wednesday and a full ticket waa
nominated, though only ten delegatea
were present.
A Savannah, Ga., special says: A
severe storm is reported off the coast
of Cuba and south Florida, causing se
vere gales in the southern portion of
Florida. The storm is reported to be
moving in this direction and all ships
are warned not to leave port.
Judge Cooper, of the criminal
court at Memphis, Tenn., delivered an
opinion in the motion for bail made
by M. Strickfadden, under indictment
for murder growing ont of tho lynch
ing of six negroes on August 21st at
Millington. Bail was denied and
Strickfadden was ordered remanded
to jail to await the trial for murder.
At Memphis, Tenn., Monday morn
ing, the family of Mrs. Annie Osborne,
numbering five, and a hoarder named
Hutt, were poisoned. The dose was
put in the coffee. Mrs. Osborne pre
pared the coffee and partook freely.
Fonr of the family are thought to be
fatally poisoned. The physician ad
ministered antidotes for arsenic. The
police have no clue, but suspect that
some enemy of the family put the
drug into the coffee pot.
About 200 employes of the Ger
mania silk mill at Holyoke. Miss.,
went out on a strike Tuesday morning.
At a< meeting they appointed a com
mittee to wait on the officers of the
company and ask for an advance in
their wages. The committee went to
the mill office but could find no one
authorized to negotiate with them.
The committee reported to the opera
tives and all left their work. Every
department iu the miil is closed.
At a meeting of the Greensboro, N.
C., Steel and Iron Company, the com
pany was organized with the following
officers: President, Julian C. Carr,
of Durham: vice president, J. W.
Scott; genernl manager, J. F. Jordan;
secretary and treasurer, D. C. Wad
dell; general counsel, R. M. Douglas;
directors, J. S. Carr, J. W. Scott, J.
F. Jordan, W. E. Ashby, Nell Elling
ton, John Wilkes and George Noble,
Sr. The company expects to put the
furnace in operation at an early date.
A state of lawlessness prevails in
Randolph county, Alabama, in the
community in which Whaley, the gov
ernment informer, was murdered two
weeks ago. Whalpy has two brothers
who live in the same neighborhood.
Almost every night guns are fired
around their houses, rocks are thrown
into their windows and an attempt was
made to burn one of their houses a few
nights ago. Several families in the
neighborhood hide out every night
through fear of visitation from this
gang of desperadoes.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
A movement is on foot to carry 500 of
the most prominent and influential
business men of Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Louisiana, to Washington when con-
j gress convenes, ror the purpose of
lobbying through the Nicarauga canal
bill. The proposition is to have the
commercial clubs in fifty or sixty of
the largest towns in these states send
ten delegates each to Birmingham,
fr«m which city they propose to go to
Washington on a special train.
LATEST DISPATCHES'TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
BUSINESS IS BETTER.
According to Bradstreet’s Report Fer
the Past Week.
In their report of the state of trade
for the past week, Bradstreet’s says:
“The condition of general trade this
week is an improvement over one week
ago, in that favorable features repor
ted then have been maintained. The
surprisingly good reports of business
south, and, with some exceptions, west,
are indicated by our special advices
from Baltimore, Nashville, Chicago,
St. Louis, Portland, Ore., and San
Frnncisco. Baltimore jobbers in all
leading lines report the volume of mer
chandise distributed in excess of ex
pectation, and especially dry goods in
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama,
except in the frnit and coal regions.
Other southern products being in good
supply, orders continue liberal and
mercantile collections are easy. Nash
ville; while reporting no improvement
over favorable features made last week,
notes their continuance and that col
lections are prompt.
“One sale is reported of 10,000 tons
of southern pig iron this week. Ac
tivity reported in almost all lines at
Chicago a week ago, is continued,
merchants being satisfied with the vol
ume. Far western buyers who used to
buy in eastern markets are purchasing
stocks at Chicago.
“Greatest activity is shown in dry
goods, clothing, millinery and shoes.
Wool is active. St. Louis manufac
turers and jobbers of clothing and
hats reported business heavier than in
their preceding experience in like
products. Sales of millinery and dry
goods are large, as well as those of
lumber.
“Charleston telegraphs that general
trade is fair, without new features;
Chattanooga, that there has been some
slight improvement in business; Mem
phis, that business is quite active, es
pecially in dry goods and groceries;
Atlanta, that collections are freer and
trade is improving; Savannah, that
tbe volume of business continues to
improve and that extraordinary heavy
dealings in spirits of turpentine have
taken place. Dry goods jobbers at
Augusta have been doing a larger bnsi-
ness than for sometime previous, while
at Jacksonville local trade has been
eut into by heavy rains. Only a fair
volume of business is reported from
Birmingham, and at New Orleans there
has been very little change. Galveston
reports that sales of dry goods will
continue smaller until the middle of
October, when new orders will be re-
A Brief Summary of Dally Happen
ings Throughout the World.
The Clyde steamship Iroquois ar
rived at Charleston from Jacksonville
Thursday night and reported that
Martin’s Industry lightship, off Savan
nab, Ga., is missing.
A special from Mason City, la., says:
A correct list of those who perished in
the terrible cyclone last Friday night,
residing in this state, has been se
cured. In Kossuth county there were
18; in Hancock conntv, 22; Cerro
Gerdo, 4; Worth, 3; Mitchell, 6, mak
ing a total of 53.
Captain W. Howgate, a fugitive
from Washington, D. C., since the win
ter of 1881, was arrested at New York
Thursday charged with embezzlements
and forgeries aggregating $379,000.
He was committed to Ludlow street
jail by United States Commissioner
Alexander.
The Londqn Chamber of Commerce
gave a complimentary dinner in the
white rooms, Thursday evening, to
Hon. William L. Wilson, representa
tive in the United States congress from
West Virginia. Sir Albert KayerBol-
litt presided and a hundred British
and American guests were present.
As a result of the grand jury inves
tigation of Chicago gambling, two
owners of property in which gambling
was carried on and keepers of gam
bling houses have been indicted. It
is expected that a large number of
other indictments will follow and a
thorough investigation of the charges
of police corruption will be made.
Ground was broken at Union Springs,
Ala., Thursday and work begun on
laying the foundation of the monument
to be erected by the Ladies’ Memorial
Association in memory of the soldiers
who wore the gray. Thursday, Octo
ber 4th, was appointed as the time for
laying the corner stone. Arrange
ments have been made to do this with
fit and appropriate ceremonies.
Tom Smith, a negro desperado, shot
and killed three colored United States
deputy marshals and seriously wound
ed two white officers while they wero
attempting to arrest him at the Mus
cogee (I. T.) International fair Thurs
day morning. The deputy marshals
have organized a posse and arc in hot
pursuit of the murderer. Smith used
a revolver and only fired fonr times.
Mandamus proceedings were begnn
at Indianapolis, Thursday, to compel
the school board to permit a colored
child to attend the school in Thorn
ton’s district. The officials have ex
pelled the child and are attempting to
force him to attend a colored school
some distance away. This is the first
time that the color line hns been drawn
in the city and the colored population
are indignant. The case will be bitter
ly fought.
The large western distributors of
spirits and whisky met in Cincinnati
Thursday. The delegates organized
as the Western Distributors’ Associa
tion, electing Frank Corning, of Peo
ria, i/resident, and George Deiter, of
Cincinnati, secretary. While the rep
resentatives of the western distribu
tors are all members of the Distilling
and Cattle Feeding Company, the
meeting had no official connection
with what is popularly known as the
whisky trust.
The Carnegie Steel Company, lim
ited, have given notice to its 5,000
workmen employed at the Edgar Thom
son steel works and furnaces at Brad-
dock, Pa., of a desire to terminate its
sliding wage scale contract with them.
A new scale is proposed, which, it is
said, will make reductions on all clas
ses of work except common laborers.
The posted notices contain the infor
mation that the company will he ready
to present the new scale for the con
sideration of the men by November
15th. It is to go into effect January 1,
1895.
Specials from various points in the
middle and coast regions of South
Carolina, regarding the AVest India
eyelone, report considerable damage
to corn and cotton, very serious dam
age to rice, but no loss of life. At
Georgetown the damage to the rice
crop is very great, and it is difficult
yet to estimate the loss, though many
put it at 33 per cent. A large portion
of the April planting, either in stub
ble or stacked in fields, floated off
with the tide, and June rice is, no
doubt, badly injnred, for the water
was salt for some distance up the
rivers.
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
HILL NOMINATED.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
The Scotch coal owners held a meet
ing at Glasgow Wednesday afternoon
and resolved to evict from their houses
all miners who do not return to work.
A rumor that the Czar was dead
created a panic in financial circles in
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS UNANI
MOUS FOR HIM,
Mr. Whitney Declines the Honor—The
Convention Stampeded.
The New York democratic state con
vention was called to order at Saratoga
at noon Wednesday by Senator Hill.
William C. Whitney was considered
the choice of the convention for gov
ernor, but announced positively that
he would not accept the honor. He
Vi " V i 1 declined to state his reasons at length,
Yienna Tuesday, but the excitement . * »
BLOODSHED EXPECTED
When Blackwell Attempts to Collect
the Bond Taxes.
A special of Monday from Sturgis,
Ky., says: If Captain Blackwell car
ries out his threat there is going to be
much bloodshed in this vicinity in the
next forty-eight hours. Blackwell has
declared that he will collect’ the bond
tax and the taxpayers solemnly aver
that he will not. The preparations on
both sides are very warlike. The big
cannon at DeKoven, which did service
in the civil war, was rolled into posi
tion yesterday and rammed-to the muz
zle with powder and slugs. It was
placed on the crest of a hill which
commands the entrance to the pre
cincts affected by the tax. At the ap
proach of the posse it will be fired, and
its discharge will be the signal for the
people to form ranks and meet the
enemy.
The situation is critical, and an
armed collision is almost a certainty.
Captain Blackwell was appealed to by
the ministers to give up his project,
but he was deaf to their entreaties and
announced his intention of collecting
the tax. He said:
“My men are ready, and my guns,
which were ordered from Boston, have
arrived. Where they are stored I re
fuse to state, and when we start I also
decline to say, not wishing to give my
plans away to the enemy. Those peo
ple owe that tax and must pay it. As
for the bullets they have for ns, I
guess we can stand them, as none of
ceived. Texas cotton is begigning to 1 ° he men ^ b(J other thaI1 men who
move,which helps business eollec- j have atood fire before."
tions.
was allayed when it was learned that
the rumor was unfounded.
A rescript has been issued, envoking
an extra session of the Japanese par
liament at Hiroshima, October 15, for
seven days, in order to discuss matters
requiring the sanction of the parlia
ment.
Beferee Edward Jacobs filed in the
superior court at New York Wednes
day morning n leport in which he rec
ommends that Kuehne Beveridge Cogli-
lan receive an absolute divorce from
Charles F. Coghlan, the actor.
At a small fire in Chicago Thursday
night one captain of the fire depart
ment was suffocated and four other
firemen were so overcome by smoko
that they were near losing their lives
and are now being attended by phy
sicians.
The executive committee of the
Spinners’ Union at Fall River, Mass.,
held a meeting Tuesday forenoon and
voted to make a second week’s strike
payment at once. The committee also
decided to call a special general meet
ing of the union.
A special cable dispatch from Mon
tevideo says: The rebels in Brazil,
according to reports received at New
York, have made a farther advance.
Motto Groso, it is said, will soon be
in open revolt. The San Maeto gar
rison deserted the rebels after killing
the officers.
Commenting on a dispatch stating
that a fresh Japanese army 80,000
strong is ready to take the field, the
London Daily News expresses the
opinion that Corea is not their desti
nation. If this is true, there can be
only one other objective point, and
that is a dash on Peking.
At New York, Tuesday, A. H. Mil
ler & Son sold at auction for the re
ceiver of the Bicbmond and West
Point Terminal Railroad and Ware
house Company a long list of stocks
and bonds held by the Terminal com
pany. The entire list was purchased
by the reorganization committee.
The Connectieutt democratic state
convention Wednesday afternoon nom
inated the following ticket: For gov
ernor, Earnest Cady, Hartford; lieut
enant-governor, Morris Z. Beardley,
Bridgeport; secretary of state, Edward
O. Kiidnff, Waterbury; treasurer,
Stephen O. Bowen, Easton; comptrol
ler, Nicholas Staub, Stamford.
One of the largest republican dem
onstrations in the history of Marion
county, Indiana, was signalized Tues
day at Indianapolis by the inaugura
tion by Governor McKinley of the
state campaign. Ex-President Harri
son presided" at the meeting and in
troduced Governor McKinley in a few
felicitous remarks. Governor McKin
ley spoke over two hours.
It is now practically certain that
three men lost their lives in the eleva
tor fire nt Portland, Ore., Sunday.
They were seen on top of the building
while it was burning and are believed
to have perished in the flames. None
of these men have been seen since the
fire, and there is no doubt thnt their
remains will be found when the debris
has been cleared away.
President F. T. Day, of the Plank-
inton bank, at Milwaukee, Wis., was
arrested Tuesday afternoon on a
charge of receiving a deposit when he
knew the bank was insolvent. Mr.
Day furnished bail for $10,000, and
was released from custody. O. L.
Olason, one of the directors of the
hank, qualified in the sum of $5,000
and the bond was accepted on condi
tion that another surety would be se
cured for a like sum.
A London cable dispatch says: The
European bourses are affected by the
news of the czar’s health, as he is now
recognized as ODe of the strongest sup
porters of peace and it is feared that
in the event of his death his successor
would seize the opportunity to secure
the naval ports on the Pacific and en
large his boundaries in the direction
of the Pamirs at the expense of China,
either of which steps, it is believed,
would easily precipitate a war.
The Nevada state central committee
of the silver party through its chair
man, J. H. Kinkhead, has written a
complimentary letter to Senator John
P. Jones, commending his course in
leaving the republican party. The
letter assures the senator he need not
feel called upon to resign the senator-
ship on the demand of the republican
party and declares that he owes his
position to the whole people of Nevada,
who, irrespective of party, wish him to
represent them in the senate.
The democratic congressional com
mittee of the seventh Kansas district
met at Great Bend Wednesdav and en-
dors d Congressman Jerry Simpson
for re-election. The democrats at
Wichita say that the committee had no
authority to do this and that lh; Aus
tralian ballot law in vogue in Kansas
would forbid it, so that, as there is a
large elem ;nt of democracy opposed to
any endorsement of popnlism, it is
probable that an injunction will be
asked, prohibiting the placing of
Simpson’s name on the ticket as a
democratic nominee.
The joint meeting of the Southern
General Passenger Agents and the
Central Traffic Association was well
attended at Cincinnati Tuesday. The
chief rate clerks in the territory of
both associations were also present and
will remain some days to prepare the
new schedules. The rates for winter
tourists were fixed the same as last
year from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City and Ohio valley gateway point®.
From interior pointsronud trip tickets
will be 80 per cent of double fare for one
way. These tickets will be on sale
from November 1st to April 30th.
but gave the impression that his busi
ness interests would not allow his ac
ceptance of the nomination.
Tammany’s adherents were thrown
into a condition bordering on a panic
when the bulletin announcing that
Whitney had declined the nomination
for governor was read.
Senator Hill was first shown the
dispatch and said : “I supposed that
he would decline to accept it. I had
said all along that Whitney had no
desire to enter politics.”
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan look
ed disappointed as he read the dis
patch and said: “Whitney would have
been a very strong man, and the situ
ation is now rather mixed. We have
wasted valuable time chosing a
shadow. ”
John Crimmins, a personal friend of
Whitney, has received a personal mes
sage stating that Whitney declined for
personal reasons.
In the headquarters of the other
candidates the news caused great re
joicing, and the several booms received
a new impetus. The Thatcher jfeople
at once began to assert that their can
didate would be nominated on the first
ballot, and some of the Tammany peo
ple expressed the same belief. The
Buffalo people, on the other hand, as
serted that the candidate should be
chosen from Western New Y’ork, and
that Lockwood would be the man who
could unite all factions. The adhear-
ents of Mr. Cooke, of Rochester, also
declared that their man could be
named on the first ballot.
Senator Hill declined to say that he
was for any candidate. The partisans
of Hill were, of course, delighted at
the declaration of Whitney that Hill
was tho fittest candidate to make the
race. In the lobbies a report was
started that Bourke Cockran would
stampede the convention in Hill’s fa
vor.
Hill Gets It.
After the platform had been adopted
the convention resolved to proceed
with nominations. The chair recog
nized Gaylen R. Hitt, of A lb any, who,
in an eloquent speech, placed in nom
ination for governor John Boyd
Thatcher, of Albany.
When Mr. Hitt had finished Edwin
Reynolds, of Allegany, arose and
said: “The united demoei icy of Alle
gany county desires to place in nomi
nation their first and only choice—
David B. HilL”
That was all he had time to say. The
crowd went wild with enthusiasm. Men
stood on their seats and waved their
hats for three minutes.
Senator Hill pounded with his gavel.
Finally Colonel Fellows, of New York,
arose, and the crowd thinking that ho
would say something about Hill, subsi
ded. Senator Hill then asking the
indulgence of Colonel Fellows, said:
“I am grateful to the democrats of
the Empire State for the courtesy and
kindness of the past, but must say to
yon I cannot agree to be your candi
date again for governor.”
Forced Upon Him.
Bourke Cockran, of New York,
arose, and, climbing over the report
ers’ table to the platform, said in part:
“When the life of a nation is at stake
and tho laws which govern its existence
fail to control it3 destinies the supreme
will of the people is the only resort.
At such time the right of revolution is
invoked. Such a time has now come
to us.
“By all the ties that have bound
him in the jiast, by his hopes of the
future, by his duty to his country, I
demand that he lead us, and I now
name him for governor.” (Prolonged
cheers.)
Mr. Cockran then pnt the question
to the convention: “Will you make
the nomination unanimous?” Every
( ne i 1 the hall, delegates, spectators
and all yelled, “l r es!”
Turning to Senator Hill, Mr. Cock
ran the 1 said: “Senator Hill, we
summon you to your duty.”
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Terrence V. Powderly, ex-general
mapter workman of the Knights of La-
bOT, was admitted to the bar of Lacka
wanna county, Pa., Monday. It is
said that Mr. Powderly may leave
Scranton, and settle down to the prac
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