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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
IN
TERMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Pall Where They May.’’
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XIII. NO. 27.
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY^, JANUARY 22, 1895.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
The Argentine Republic has in
creased its appropriation for an exhibit
at the Cotton States Exposition. The
amount of the increase is not known.
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The supervising architect at Wash
ington, 1). C., has completed his test
of Stone mountain granite. It stood
nil tests admirably and will be accept
ed for the Kansas City public build
ing. The bid was for $325,000.
* * *
Many of the farmers of Oglethorpe
county have adopted the plan of pay
ing their hands on a basis of the price
of cotton next fall. They agree to
give them the proceeds from so many
pounds of the staple, one thousand
pounds being about the average
named.
* * *
The Athens foundry and machine
works have closed down for several
weeks. It will start up again soon in
its regular line of work. There is a
rumor to the effect that a party of
gentlemen ore at work organizing a
company to take charge of this foun
dry, but this is denied by the manage
ment.
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General orders No. 2 have been is
sued by Brigadier General E. T.
Sykes, as adjutant general and chief
of staff, announcing the staff of the
lieutenant general. Ordinary W. L.
Calhoun ,\./s been houored and is on
the staff of Lieutenant General S. D.
Lee with the title of judgo advocate
general.
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The railroad sensation in Savannah
just now is tho proposed charge of
$500,000 which it is said that R. T.
Wilson & Co., of New York, will make
ngainst the Southwestern Railroad
Company for standing security cn the
supersedeas bond in its appeal from
the decision of Judge Jackson on its
liability for certain of its moitgage
bonds.
* * *
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was completed aud reported to the
house of representatives at Washing
ton Tuesday. For Georgia it carries
appropriations as follows: Savannah
public buildings, S100,000; quaran
tine station at Brunswick, $1,550; im
proving Savannah harbor, $356,250.
It also provides for a survey of the
entrance to the Savannah harbor.
Robert N. Ely, who was attorney-
general of the state of Georgia under
the administration of Governor Col
quitt, diod at the Fulton county alms
house last Monday afternoon. He had
been confined to the place for more
than two years and Lad been in a bad
state of health ever since he first en
tered the institution. Mr. Ely was
well known throughout the entire
state, especially in his old home in
Southwest Georgia. During his term
ns attorney-general, he fulfilled the
duties of the office in a meat efficient
manner. After his term expired, how
ever, ho began drinking, and it was
not long before he was n total wreck,
both physically and mentally.
* * *
Several hundred advaucod women
who have given the subject earnest
thought, and hnve concluded that they
have a right to vote, will assemble in
Atlanta on January 30th, next, to hold
their annual convention. They will
meet under the name of the National
American Suffrage Association, which
is the largest suffrage association in
the world, and tho convention will be
tho twenty-seventh annual one. It
will be composed of several hundred
of the brainiest women of America,
and the proceedings will be marked
with unusual interest. As the question
of woman suft'rago is growing in inter
est every year, the convention that will
be hold in Atlanta will be, perhaps,
tho most interesting that has ever been
held.
Ex-Senator Brown’s Will.
Tho will of tho late ex-Senator Jo
seph E. Brown has been filed for pro
bate in solemn form in the office of
Ordinary Calhoun at Atlanta. The
will disposes of a greator amount of
wealth than has ever been involved in
a will filed in Fulton county, and gives
explicit direction to all the great for
tune of the dead statesman. The bulk
of the fortune goes to tho mem
bers of the Brown family. The will
will be probated in solemn form on
the first Monday in February, in
accordance with the application made
by tho executors, Julius L. Brown aud
Joseph M. Brown, and the executrix,
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, widow of the
late senator. The amount involved in
tho will is not to be obtained by a pe
rusal of the senator’s last testament.
A large amount of real estate is set
forth, but the value of the stocks and
bonds is verv indefinite, and may range
from $500,000 to $1,500,000. The
will covers about thirty pages of closely
written legal cap aud contains sixteen
items. The codicils, which were made
at different times, number four. The
■will was signed by Senator Brown in
1880, and tho witnesses are C. JL Mad
dox, J. S. Courtney and E. F. Black.
The document is exceedingly thorough.
* * *
i Ready for the Income Tax.
Deficiency appropriat ions bill passed
by congress or - not, Collector Paul
Trammell, of the internal revenue de
partment will begin wark at once to
collect the income tax. The forms used
in making returns have arrived frt m
Washington. Collector Trammell < s-
timates that under the income tax law,
15,000 persons and corporations in
Georgia will have to make returns.
Atlanta contains about 2,000 of these;
Savannah about 1,200; Augusta about
900; Macon about 700 and Columbus
about 400.
A feature of the income tax law not
generally understood perhaps is that
tho exemption of $4,000 does not ap
ply to corporations. An individual
can have an income of $4,000 before
he pays the tax of 2 per cent; but a
corporation’s net income is taxed.
That ip, if a corporation has for in
stance, an income of $200, it must pay
a tax on that amount of two per cent.
Collector Trammell estimates that
about fifty per cent, of those who are
required to make returns of their in
comes will have to pay the tax.
In tho case of individuals, the blank
forms will be sent to every one thought
to have an income of over $3,500. In
dividuals are exempt from $4,000 of
income, but $3,500 is the figure
named, so that no fish will escape the
government nets. Farmers who raise,
according to the present price of cot
ton, 140 bales of cotton will be re
quired to send in returns.
Every corporation in the state, large
or small, if it operates under a char
ter, will have to make returns. Part
nerships on the other hand will be vir
tually exempt up to the $4,000 limit,
because blanks will be sent to partners
as individuals.
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To Organize In Georgia.
Colonel TV. A. Broughton, who was
appointed by the national conference
at Jackson, Miss., president of the
Goorgia association for tho reduction
of the cotton acreage in this state, is
full of enthusiasm for the successful
working out of tho scheme. He has
implicit faith in the work that has
been started and is confident that the
people of Georgia will take a hand in
the undertaking and do their full part
in the work of bringing* about more
favorable conditions for the farmers of
the cotton growing section.
Colonel Broughton is just the kind
of man for the place to which he has
been appointed by the president of
the American Cotton Growers’ Protec
tive Association. He is prominent in
Georgia, having always been closely
identified with the best interests of the
farming people of this state. He was
for a long time a leading member of
the state alliance, and when it comes
to consulting the farmers’ interests he
is broad-minded enough to lose sight
of all political spirit. He is himself a
prosperous and successful farmer and
a cotton grower on a large scale.
Speaking of the organization of the
work in Georgia the Colonel says:
“I will appoint the county presi
dents as soon as I can secure suitable,
active men, who will act with me, and
who are willing to devote most of their
time for the next two months for the
general interest and benefit of the
agricultural classes. The main feature
in the plan, as you will readily see by
reading it, is to reduce the cotton
acreage. The obligations are not
binding unless 75 per cent, of the
cotton growers in 80 per cent, of the
cotton counties sign the agreement to
reduce their acreage at least 25 per
cent. After getting up all the statis
tics of cotton acreage and signatures
of the ten cotton growing states and
the one cotton growing territory, the
stato presidents and executive com
mittee will meet in New Orleans the
1st of April, and if. the proper number
of cotton growers have joined the asso
ciation the obligations are binding
and operative.
“By this plan you see at least three-
fourths of the cotton planters will be
on the same footing, and only a few
small minded, miserly farmers will
clear up new grounds and sage fields
for more cotton. If this reduction of
only 25 per cent of acreage would re
duce the number of bales of cotton,
say 25 per cent (taking Mr. Neil’s
enormous estimate for this year’s crop
of 10,000,000 bales), then we wonld
have only 7,500,000 bales of cotton for
next year’s crop, which would be about
1,000,000 bales less than actually need
ed to supply the world’s demand, and
by that crop we would get not less than
10 to 121 cents for every pound of it.
“If the daily and weekly press of
Georgia will help ns in this work I be
lieve we will be successful. There is
no politics in this association. The
doors ore open to democrats, republi
cans, populists, Jeffersonian democrats,
prohibitionists all alike. It allows the
woman’s suffragist, if she be a cotton
grower, to come in and vote for the
THE CONGRESS.
THE NATIONS’ LAW-MAKERS RE-
SU3IE OPERATIONS.
The Proceedings of Both IIO’J
Briefly Epitomized.
THE SENATE.
Monday was the most thoroughly in
teresting day of the session in the sen
ate. The two democratic giants of that
body crossed swords and fenced fierce
ly for four hours. The fight was sen
sational in tho extreme. Gorman and
Hill crossed swords. They slashed and
gashed one another fiercely. The re
publicans looked on in high glee.
Democrats regretted it, because it in
jures the party. Still they were in
terested and enthusiastic in their in
terest. Every democratic senator
was arrayed on one side or the other.
The senate was packed. Members
of the house crowded into the cham
her. It looked like older times, when
great political struggles were on. Af
ter the routine morning business the
urgent deficiency bill was taken up,
the question being on Mr. Hill’s ap
peal from the decision of the chair
ruling out the amendment offered by
him to authorize the United States
courtB to hear and determine questions
as to the constitutionality and validity
of the income tax. Stewart took the
floor and concluded his speech begun
Saturday—a free silver speech. Gor
man next addressed the senate. He
sought to discipline Mr. Hill and crit
icised the New Yorker for his recent
fight against collecting the income tax
and censured him for his fight against
the tariff bill of last session. Hill
took up his foil and responded in a
vigorous defense of himself and made
a vicious assault upon the Marylander.
In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Yoor-
hees, from the finance committee, fa
vorably reported the bill for coinage
at the branch mint at Denver. Mr.
Manderson secured the passage of two
important resolutions calling on the
secretary of the treasury for informa
tion on the tariff. One resolution asks
for quantities of spirits and high wines
taken out of bond during the 60 days
prior to August 28 last, when the new
tariff law took effect, the names of the
parties or concerns who took the goods
out of bond and all detailed informa
tion concerning the same. The other
resolution calls on the secretary for
full information as to amount of sugar
imported during the 60 days prior to
August 28, the names of importers,
amounts of imports, the country
whence it came, etc. The debate was
then resumed on the income tax item
in the efficiency appropriation bill and
Mr. McCall, of Florida, addressed the
senate in favor of the appropriation.
The debate bn Senator Hill’s
amendment to the urgent deficiency
bill, in reference to testing the consti
tutionality of the income tax, occupied
most of Wednesday’s session, and
ended in the rejection of tho amend
ment by an overwhelming majority.
Mr. Butler favorably reported from
the committee on naval affairs the bill
for comprehensive revision of the per
sonnel of the navy. Bills were passed
to provide for coinage at the branch
mint at Denver, Col., authorizing cer
tain naval officers to administer oaths;
to exempt from duty foreign exhibits
at the Cotton States Exposition at At
lanta, and granting the Gilla Valley,
Globe and Northern railway a right of
way through the San Carlos military
reservation in Arizona.
Mr. Pugh, democrat, of Alabama,
secured recognition soon after the sen
ate met Thursday to present what he
regarded as a solution for the present
lack of government revenue. The sen
ator varied the usual custom of intro
ducing a bill by reading the full text
of bis measure with great deliberate
ness, and then commenting upon it.
The bill provides for the immediate is
sue of $100,000,000 of treasury notes
to meet deficiencies, these notes to be re-
rednction in cotton acreage; it opens ! deemed in coin and to be constantly re-
its doors to all races and allows the
colored man to enlist in this move
ment for the prosperity of the south.
It is no secret or political organiza
tion, but allows all to help us in the
cause for the upbuilding of the farm
ing interest of the cotton growing
states, whether actually growing cot
ton or furnishing supplies or money
for the cultivation of cotton. It is
impossible for me to accomplish suc
cess unless the people of the state co
operate with me, but if they do, I
will put forth all my energies and
time and guarantee^ a change in the
farming of this country and in a few
years plenty will abound and our far
mers will be once more independent.”
Colonel Broughton, as president of
the Georgia state branch of the na
tional organization, will go to work at
once aud appoint the county presi
dents for this state, calling upon them
to aid in the organizations. On the
second Wednesday in March all of the
counties are to hold meetings and send
delegates to a general state convention
to be held in Atlanta the latter part of
March, the date to be made known la
ter. This meeting is for the purpose
of getting under one head what has
been done by the counties and send
ing delegates to tho conventions to be
held the first of April in New Orleans,
which is to the final national conven
tion for the purpose of putting the
plan into operation.
TO RESTORE PRICES.
Galveston Cotton Exchange Recom
mends Reduction in Acreage.
The following telegram was received
at New Orleans Wednesday:
“Galveston, Tex., January 16.—To
Robert S. Day, President New Orleans
Cotton Exchange Cotton Factors’ As
sociation : The directors of tho Gal
veston cotton exchange heartily and
most urgently recommend to the
planters of Texas and the cotton grow
ing states a reduction of 25 per cent,
in acreage to be planted this year as
the only way of restoring prices to a
compensating basis.
“Julius Rukce,
“Pres’t Galveston Cotton Exchange.”
Fined for Publishing on Sunday.
W. F. McLean, member of parlia
ment, proprietor of The Toronto,
(Can.) World, was fined SI and costs
for publishing on Sunday, January 6th,
a newspaper returning a report of The
Globe fire. Several boys charged with
selling the paper were discharged.
issued. It further directed the coins,
of the seigniorage, and thedepositofsil-
ver bullion from American mints. Mr.
Pugh proceeded to urge the gravity of
the present situation. It was such
that he was ready to surrender long
convictions in order to secure a rem
edy. “Thus far,” said Mr. Pugh,
“senators havo stood here and torn
down. It is easy to tear down, but
| hard to build up. We have torn down
j until we have pretty nearly torn down
this country. ” Mr. Pugh begged that
the finance committee, in which he
had great confidence, should do
something at once. Mr. Sher
man, republican, of Ohio, as soon
as Mr. Pugh had closed, rose with
another important financial measure.
Its reading received the closest atten
tion from senators on both sides. The
Sherman bill provided for the issue
and sale of bonds under the provisions
of the resumption act from time to
time, as the deficiencies of the treasury
require, the proceeds to be used wholly
for deficiencies, the bonds to run five
years, and not to exceed three per
cent interest. The second section pro
vides that, in lieu of the foregoing,
the secretary of the treasury may issue
coin certificates in denominations of
$25, $50 and $100, bearing three per
cent interest, and put the certificates
in circulation thr >ngh the treasuries
and postoffie s. The third section
deals with thi dopisit of bonds in na
tional banks. Hr. Sherman’s bill was
referred, without comment, to the fi
nance committee.
THE HOUSE.
Speaker Crisp laid before the house,
at the opening of the session Monday,
the resignation of John C. Black, of
Illinois, who resigned to accept a po-
sion of United States district attorney
for the northern division of Illinois.
Mr. Hatch, d-inncm*. of MLson-’.
called up the Grout bill to make ole-
omargerine and all other imitation
dairy products subject to the laws of
the state or territory into which they
are transported, which was under con- !j
sideratiou on Satur .lay. Mr. Bynum,
democrat, of Indiana, resumed his
hostile attitude toward it, indicating
a disposition to fillibuster if necessary
vo defeat it. He also moved for a re
cess for one hour. On a rising vote
the motion was defeated, 3 to 117, Mr.
Bynum made the point of no quorum.
Chairman Sayres, of the appropria
tions committee, reported the sundry
dl appropriation bill to the house
Tuesday. Mr. Grosvenor, republican,
of Ohio, presented a reply to a recent
memorial sent to the judiciary com
mittee by Mr. Ritchie, of Akron, O.,
supplementary charges ngainst Judge
Ricks, of the United States conrt
of the northern district of Ohio.
Mr. Grosvenor stated that Mr.
Ritchie’s charge incidentally involved
ex Senator H. B. Payne and Jndge
Stevenson Bure, and the reply which
was presented through him gave
a full statement of the pertinent facts
in connection with the Ritchie charges.
On behalf of these gentlemen, Mr.
Grosvenor asked for a full investiga
tion and completo report, censuring
and prosecuting, or exhonorating
them. Mr. McCreary, democrat, of
Kentucky, called up a bill authorizing
Lieutenant Colonel Forwood and Sur
geon Pensore to accept certain testi
monials from the Argentine republic,
and it was passed; also authorizing
Commander Dennis W. Mullen,United
States Navy, to accept a medal from
the government of Chili.
Major T. O. Towles, chief clerk of
the house, called the house to order
Wednesday and read a communication
from Speaker Crisp, who is somewhat
indisposed, appointing Representative
A. M. Dockery, of Mississippi, to con
duct the duties of the chair. Mr. Mc-
Gann, democrat, of Illinois, asked
unanimous consent for the considera
tion of a resolution to increase the pay
of printers and book binders nt the gov
ernment printing office from 40 to 50
cents per hour. Mr. Sayers objected.
On motion of Mr. Cockrell, demo
crat, of Texas, a bill passed to author
ize the Kansas "City, Oklahoma and
Pacific railroad to construct a railroad
through the Indian territory. On mo
tion of Mr. Doolittle, republican, of
Washington, a resolution was passed,
authorizing the expenditure of $10,000
appropriated for dredging Evertt har
bor, Washington, in the construction
of a fresh water harbor at that point.
At the opening of the session of the
house Thursday, a bill was passed, on
motion of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois,
to grant Mrs. Sarah A. Clapp the pay
and allowances of a surgeon, for serv
ices as such in the Seventh Illinois In
fantry. The senate amendments to the
urgent deficiency bill were disagreed
to, and the bill sent to conference.
Mr. Richardson (democrat,) of Ten
nessee, chairman of the committee on
printing, then, as a matter of privilege,
had read a paragraph printed in a local
paper relating to the incorporation in
the printing bill, passed at the last
session, of a clause extending the
franking privilege to members of con
gress for correspondence with officials
and private individuals on official or
departmental business. The para
graph indicated that the clause had
been incorporated in the bill surrepti
tiously. Mr. Richardson read from
the Record showing that the clause
had been debated and adopted by a
vote of 42 to 40. The house then went
into committee of the whole for tho
further consideration of the Indian
appropriation bill.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH,
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
The report on the industrial condition of the
south for the past week shows that the iron
producing indus ry continues to be active.
Four furnaces are to go into blast at once;
three at Sheffield, Ala., and one at Covingt n,
Ta. Southern coal miners are now mining
and selling more coal than ever before, and the
market for coke can hardly be supplied, owing
to the demands of the furnaces, .'-on'hern coke
lias been greatly improved in quality by the
use of coal washers, with which all the princi
pal plants are now supplied. The lumber mar
ket is improving. Louisiana cypress is in good
demand at advancing prices, and poplar is
scarce. The official figures of the Poplar Asso
ciation, show that for 1894 the poplar ent was
56 per cent, of that of a nor ual year, the
shipments 90 per cent, and the stock on hand
40 per cent.
The interest Bhonn by northern "capitalists
in southern locations for their cotton mills
continues to increase. The Boott mills and
tho Massachusetts mills, both of Lowell, lia-a.,
have applied for charter amendments to per
mit them to build in the south. It is under
stood that the last named company will locate
in Athens, Ga. Cotton mills, each with $100.-
000 capital, have been organized during the
week at Birmingham, Ala., aud Wilmington,
N. C., and one with $50,000 capital at Irene,
S. C. O hers are reported as Ozark, Ala.,
Flora, M-ss., Charlotte and Shelby, N. C., and
For smouth, Va., and a $50,000 cotton raid en
largement at Baleigh, N. C.
There is also reported steel works at Birm
ingham, Ala., a $150,000 iumber eompanv at
Hinton. Va., $50 000 machine works at Iti.-h-
m md, Ya., and a $23,000 foundry at Galves
ton, Texas; canning factories at Abbeville, Ala.,
and Athens, Ga., flour und grist mills at Rome,
Ga., Had nevill -, Ky, Dillsboro, N. C., and
Bybee. Tenn, anil guano factory at l’or s-
month, Va. Machine works are to be built at
Shelby, N. C., and Pocahontas, Ya., a shoe
factory at Pittsburg, Texas, a tannery at Ash
land. Ky., sugar mills nt Ho ima, La., and
woodworking plants at Cedar Bluff, Ala., Wil
son, N. C., Trenton, T nn., Balias and Waco,
Tex is, and Portsmouth. Va.
The enlargements for the wo- k include a
cotton mill at Charlotte, N. C-, flouring mills
at Eastland, Tex., iron works at South Pitts
burg, Tonn., and a wagon factory at Baleigb,
N. C. Among the new buildings of tho week
are business houses at Louisville, Ky.. Eliza-
lietlitown, Tenn., and Fort Worth, Tex., a
$15,000 city hall at Biioxi, Mis-., a church at
Peleisbnrg.Ya., an opera honse at Bluefit ld,W’.
Va., and a §50.000 Masonic building at Colum
bus, Ga.—Tradt sman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
Stato Legislatures Choose Their Rep
resentatives in Congress.
The following state legislatures bal
loted for United States senator last
Wednesday:
New Hampshire—The legislature in
joint session elected William E. Chan
dler.
Massachusetts—The legislature in
joint session declared George F. Hoar
to be his own successor.
Maine—The election of William P.
Frye to succeed himself was formally
announced by the legislature in joint
session.
Colorado—The legislature in joint
session re-elected Edward O. Wolcott
to the United States senate. Lafe
Pence, the nominee of the populist
party, received a complimentary vote
from the members of that party in the
assembly.
Montana—Lee Mantle,of Butte, and
T. H. Carter, of Helena, were elected
United States senators in joint assem
bly. Both are republicans. Mantle
gets the short term and Carter the long
term.
I Nebraska— The legislature met joint
ly and listened to the announcement
of the election of John M. Thurston
as United States senator.
HORRIBLY 31 ANGLED
NEARLY A HUNDRED PEOF
HURLED INTO ETERNITY
PRESIDENT FAURE. ’ FROM WASHINGTON.
Fatoi-ies Resuming Work.
Tha Singer sewing machine works at
South Bend, Ind.. employing 300 op
erators, have resumed operations.
There was also a resujpptiou of work
in all departments of the Studebaker
wagon mannfaat-OTy, employing 1,000
men.
By Powder Explosions During a Fire
in Butte, Montana.
At 9:55 o’clock Tnesday night, the
fire department of Butte, Montana,
responded to a call from box 72—tho
call of death to nearly the entire de
partment.
The fire was either in the store of
Kenyon Connell, or the Bntte Hard
ware Company’s warehouse. There
was a rumor that there was powder in
the buildings, and this reached the
ears of the firemen as soon as they ar
rived on the scene, but it was denied,
and, after a moment’s hesitation, they
began fighting fire.
The men had barely started to work
when there was an explosion which
shook Butte to its very foundations.
The powder in the warehouse blew up,
spreading death and rain to all who
j were near. All but three of the fire
men were killed. It is believed that
in the first explosion only three fire
men were killed.
There were heroes among the spec
tators, however, and as soon ns the
stun of the shock passed away, while
some ran in terror, others immediate
ly began pulling the mutilated bodies
of the firemen aud the injured from
the proximity of the flames. From
all over the city people began moving
toward the fire and the crowd had
greatly increased within five minutes.
Just about that length of time after
the first explosion, a second explosion
almost equal in volume to the first
heightened the terror all over the city
and spread death and desolation among
scores of citizens.
Parts of bodies were hurled hun
dreds of feet away. A man near tho
Northern Pacific water tank was al
most struck by the leg and thigh of a
human being, driven by the force of
dynamite from the fearful scene.
There were still heroes left to help
pull the shrieking wounded aud the
groaning dying to a distance, but the
people up town hesitated. There had
been two explosions and there might
be more. There were rumors of car
loads of pc—der in the vicinity,besides
that stored in the warehouses.
Five minutes Inter a third explosion
did come, but it was a mild one, and
it was believed that very few if any
were injured by it. The disaster had
all occurred in fifteen minutes, the
most horrible in the state’s history.
Like a Scene of Battle.
The terrible scene after the explo
sion resembled a field of battle more
than anything else. The dead were
strewn everywhere and the groans of
the injured and dying, presented a
scene altogether unearthly. Blood and
brains were spattered about. Here
were legs and arms, scattered around
were pieces of flesh and entrails. It
was sickening.
Between the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern depots, a space of
300 feet, the ground was literally cov
ered with parts of human beings and
with the dead and injured.
The scene was one of utter and ab
solute destruction. The houses in the
vicinity were as thoroughly wrecked as
if a cyclone had passed through them.
One of the rescuing corps gathered
27 dead bodies in one pile. Eight were
in another. Two and three were in
groups here and there. The rescuers
pulled some of the bodies out still
quivering, the remnants of the human
beings still groaning while legs and
arms had been torn off. Shapeless
trunks quivered and died in the arms
of the living.
The work of rescue was prosecuted
in earnest. Every vehicle in the city
was brought into service to carry away
tho scores of dead and the hundreds
of injured. The hospitals were filled.
The spare rooms in the hotels were
taken aud private houses were thrown
open where it was necessary.
It is estimated that 75 to 100 per
sons are already dead, and it is impos
sible to get the names on account of
the mangle condition of tho remains.
It is likely that many will never be
identified. Investigation but adds to
the horrors of the terrible accident.
The brilliant glare of the skies from
the flames of the burning buildings
passed away only to be succeeded by
the leaden gray of early morning, thus
giving to the awful scene a fitting
canopy.
Who Is Responsible?
There is the greatest popular indig
nation over the storage of nitro-glyc-
erine, giant powder and other explos
ives in the heart of the city which is
responsible for the horror. An inves
tigation will be institnsed to discover
who is responsible, and if it is found
that any public officials are to blame
for the violation of the city ordinances
they will find the climate too warm for
them. On the other hand if the mer
cantile firms who owned the explosives
are found to have violated the law de
liberately they will suffer financially
and otherwise. The people are thor
oughly aronsed over the catastrophe
nnd will make some one answer for it.
From all that can be learned, the total
amount of explosives that went np in
the three explosions were nearly thirty
tons. There were twenty tons of giant
powder alone that went up in one
blast.
INDICTED AS KU-KLUX.
Prominent Citizens of Murray County,
Ga., in a Bad Box.
Five of the best known citizens ol
Murray county have been indicted by
the United States graud jury at At
lanta, Ga., for murder and conspiracy.
The men indicted are John Edmond
son, Tom Wright, an ex-United States
deputy marshal;W. A. Hannah,George
Terry and Merrill Wood. These par
ties are all believed to be members ot
the Kn-Klnx baud.
Jadge John Edmondson owns 3,00:
acres of fine land in Murray county
and is one of the leading citizens of
his section of the state. He gave a
$5,000 bond and went back home. Ed
mondsen is snid to be the leader of the
band.
Victoria’s New Governor.
A London cable dispatch says:
Lord Braasey has accepted the govern-
ship of Victoria, Australia, fa succes
sion to t)je Earl of Ifo'petimn,
A NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF
FRANCE ELECTED.
The Assembly at Versailles —Faure
Wins on the .Second Ballot.
The French national assembly, com
posed of the senate and chamber of
deputies, met at Versailles at 1 o’clock
Thursday afternoon to elect a new
chief magistrate. In anticipation of
the meeting the nsnally placid palace
of Versailles, where the election took
place, was humming like a beehive.
The senate is composed of 300
members aud the chamber of 584. A
president is elected for seven years by
a majority of tho votes of the national
assembly.
M. Challemel LaConr, president of
the senate, the presiding officer of the
national assembly, called the senators
and deputies together at 1 p. m. The
proceedings were no sooner opened
than M. Henri Michili, revisionist,
asked leave to address the assembly
with tho object of recommending the
convocation of a constitutional assem
bly. The president refused to hear
him and ordered that the first ballot
be taken. This was proceeded with
amid considerable excitement in the
galleries, and in the great hall which
were crowded to their utmost capacity,
with notables representing every pro
fession.
The following are the official figures
for the first ballot for president: M.
Henri Brisson, 344 ; M. Felix Faure,
216; M. Waldeck Rcnssean, 195. The
number of scatteri ig votes was not
announced. A majority of the total
number of votes cast is required to
elect. As they differed greatly from
those current- in the lobby, many of
the members of the national assembly
demanded an adjournment, but M.
Chalemel-Lacour ordered that a sec
ond ballot be taken. Soon after this
it was announced that M. Waldeck-
Rousseau had retired in favor of M.
Fahre.
Faure Elected.
Tho announcement of the second
ballot was made amid a terrible din.
The Brissonites were so busy groan
ing, cheering and reproaching their
neighbors that they paid no attention
to Challemel-Laeour when he arose
and read the figures. The president’s
voice was quite inaudible and his hands
trembled violently. The figures gen
erally known were then only approxi
mate—Faure 430 and Brisson 361—
but they sufficed to show that Felix
Fanre was the new president of France.
The scene was absolutely devoid of
solemnity or dignity. The Brissonites,
who had not only ceased howling, were
joined by other malcontents and the
windows were fairly shaken by the in
describable tumult. Tho radicals
mounted chairs and benches,shouting:
“Down with this president, elected by
the right. ”
The socialists ran np and down the
aisles howling “Down with the thieves!”
“Down with the Congo adventurers!”
“Down with the Panama scoundrels!”
Occasionally, when the din subsided
for a moment, the socialists would yell
in an ear-splitting chorus: “Hurrah
for the social republic!” “Hurrah
for the social revolution!”
There have been five presidents of
the third French republic.
M. Thiers, elected August 31, 1871;
resigned May 24, 1873; died Septem
ber 3, 1677.
Marshal MacMahon, elected May 2,
1873 ; resigned January 30, 1879; died
October 17, 1893.
Jules Grevy, elected Jannary 30,
1870; re-elected December 28, 1885;
resigned December 2, 1887; died Sep.
tember 9, 1890.
M. Carnot,elected December 6,1887;
assassinated at Lyons Juno 24, 1S94.
M. Casimir-Perier, elected June 27,
1894; resigned January 15, 1895.
USELESS TO KICK.
The Income Tax Musi be Paid at AH
Hazzards.
A Washington special says: Senator
GordoD, of Georgia, in conversation
with senators called attention to cer
tain provisions in the income tax law
which compel tax-payers to make re
turns and pay their taxes upon incomes
whether the pending appropriation
passes or not.
He said: “The mere withholding of
the appropriation asked for will have
no effect except perhaps to deceive the
uninformed and beguile them into a
feeling of security and cause them to
neglect compliance with the plain re
quirements of the law itself. Those
who hope to escape payment of in
come taxes through the failure of
congress to make the appropriation
asked for, and who are thus led to
neglect making their returns at the
time fixed by the law, will find them
selves involved in 50 per cent, heavier
taxes and will be compelled to pay
them. The failure by congress to ap
propriate money to collect the income
tax will not prevent such collection,
and it is a cruel wrong to the people
to mislead them in this matter.”
LEFT THEIR CARS.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings ot the Official
Heads of the Government.
Five Thousand Trolly Car Men Strike
in Brooklyn.
At 5 o’clock Monday morning all the
trolly cars in Brooklyn, N. Y., were
tied up, the employes refusing to take
ont the cars. Over five thousand men
quit work. This includes tho motor-
men, conductors, electricians, switch
men and other employee at the va
rious power houses. All but one of
the surface railroads, and that a com
paratively minor concern, are affected.
The men’s grievances and demands
are thus stated: The state law pro
vides that a day’s work for street rail
way companies shall consist of ten
hours, within twelve consecutive hours.
It is alleged that the corporations have j
required the men to work eleven hours, i
and even, latterlyy twelve hours, with
no longer interval than ten minutes for .
lunch and even depriving them of that
brief time in most instances.
The wage rate agreed upon a year 1
ago was $2 for the statutory day’s :
work; the companies, it is alleged, :
have made no allowance for overtime. ;
The men demand adherence to :he law
regarding the hoars in a day’s work or
$2.25 for a day of twelve hours.
The senate Thursday confirmed the
nominations of A. G.«Ware, postmaster
at West Point, Va., to be assistant
commissioner of Indian affairs.
The president sent to the senate
Tnesday the correspondence in the
case of the Japanese spies, together
with a letter from the secretary of
state, in which it is stated that the
American consuls had no authority to
protect Japanese in China except so
far as using their good offices when oc
casion demanded.
The Hon. Wm. L. Scrnggs, ex-min
ister to Venezuela, spoke to the house
committee on foreign affairs, Thurs
day, as a representative of the govern
ment, urging that congress suggest to
Great Britain by resolution the advis
ability of submitting to arbitration the
boundary dispute between British
Gniana and Venezuela.
At the opening of the supreme court
at Washington, D. C., Thursday, Chief
Justice Fuller announced in the mat
ter of the United States vs. Eugene
V. Debs et al., that the court was
unanimously of the opinion that the
writ of error would not lie, aud, there
fore, that their petition for leave to
file a motion for the issuing of such a
writ has been denied. The petition of
the same parties for leave to file a mo
tion for the issue of a writ of habeas
corpus, the chief justice announced,
wonld be granted and a rule issued
thereon, returnable Monday, January
28th.
The democratic leaders in the house
are still devoting themselves to the
task of getting a bill upon which they
can agree, and which can secure a ma
jority in the senate for the reorganiza
tion of the currency. They have been
in conference more or less for the last
two days, and it is understood that the
deliberations are based upon the J ones
bill. Mr. Jones has perfected the
measure, but he adheres to his original
determination not to introduce it, un
less he can be reasonably assured in
advance of its passage. He and the
supporters of the bill are devoting
themselves to ascertaining jnst what
support can be obtained.
New Protection Order.
The national cabinet of the recently
organized patriotic order known as
the American Knights of Protection
have adopted resolutions and a decla
ration of principles, setting forth the
purpose and scope of the organization.
The object is defined to be chiefly the
furtherance of the doctrine of protec
tion to American industries, through
tariff and immigration restrictions.
The order has located the national as
sembly offices in Baltimore. General
Cyrus Bussey, late assistant secretary
of the interior, is president of the or
der; Representative John B. Robinson,
of Pennsylvania, is counselor.
Hints to Americans.
United States Consul Warner, at
Cologne, in a report to the department
of state, gives some valuable hints to
American merchants about the best
methods of introducing their wares
into Germany. He says that many
houses make the grave mistake of con
fining their operations to the great
seaports instead of pushing their goods
into the interior. Being sold in the
seaboard towns, many American pro
ducts, especially bacoD, and other hog
products, are held many months for
speculative reasons. Consequently,
they deteriorate in quality and appear
ance and lose in weight and so earn a
bad name for all American food pro
ducts.
To Modify tiie Copyright Law.
The amendment to the copyright
law, which Representative Covert, of
New York, has proposed in the form
of a bill, is intended to correct a very
costly error in the laws now in force.
Under the existing statutes any person
who reproduces a pictorial likeness of
a copyrighted work of art, drawing,
'statue, photograph or other form, is
compelled to forfeit the cuts, and is
subjject to a fine of $16 for every re
production in his possession. To do
away with these possibilities which the
law offers, the amendment proposes to
limit the fines which may be levied to
twice the value of the copyright of the
picture which is trespassed upon.
For Southern War Claims.
What may result in a division of the
honse on strictly sectional lines will bo
an order from the committee on rules
in the near future, fixing the time for
the consideration of a bill to pay cer
tain southern war claims. A bill pro
viding for the settlement of the claims
of citizens in both northern and south
ern states was reported some time ago
from the committee on war claims,and
is now on the house calendar. Some
of the members of this committee
learned that another bill, which looks
only to the payment of southern claims,
is the one which the committee on
rules will take cognizance of. The war
claims members are exercised over the
matter and an effort will be made,
when the rule is reported to defeat it,
their argument being that tne bill re
ported from their committee is fairly
and impartially drawn and the only
measure that ought to pass the house.
Sugar House in Ashes.
Tho sn-ar honse and refinery of Jo
seph Mee*er, near Lecompte, La., has
been entirely destroyed by fire. The
entire building, which was a new one,
was consumed, together with two
thousand barrels of sugar. Loss, $130,-
000; insurance, $74,000, mostly north
ern and foreign companies.
The Reserve Tumbling.
Assistant Treasurer Jordan, at New
York, telegraphed the treasury that
$1,250,000 in goldwas withdrawn from
tho New York subtreasury Tuesday—
$750,000 for export and $500,000 by
banks. This reduces the gold reservo
to $76,081,799.
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Distinguished Judge Dead.
Jndge James Taylor Jones, judge of
the first judicial circuit and former
member of congress from the first
Alabama district, died Tnesday morn
ing at Demopolis, Ala , after a linger
ing illness. His age was fifty-five years.
MR. VEST’S BILL.
A NEW FINANCIAL 3IEASURE IN
TRODUCED IN THE SENATE. i
The Provisions Fully Set Forth by Its
Author.
Senator Vest has introduced his
financial bill in the senate. It pro
vides that all treasury notes and gold
and silver certificates shall be de
stroyed and an equal amonnt of notes
payable in standing gold and silver
coin shall be issued and paid out in
stead of the notes. No coin notes of
a larger denomination than $500 or
smaller than $10 shall be issued, and
the denominations higher than $50
shall not exceed one-fourth of the to
tal amonnt outstanding at any time.
The coin notes are to be legal tender
for all debts.
The second Bection repeals all laws
which authorize the owners of gold or
silver bullion to deposit and receive
gold or silver certificates, and the sec
retary of the treasury is directed to
receive no more coin or bullion in the
future.
Section three provides that the cer
tificates now outstanding are to be
paid in gold coin and the silver cer
tificates in standard silver coin or coin
notes. If the gold in the treasury
amounts to less than $100,000,000 ex
clusive of that necessary to redeem
gold certificates, they are to be re
deemed in silver coin; if more than
$100,000,000, the secretary of the
treasury, in the exercise of his discre
tion, may redeem in either gold or
silver coin.
NO NATIONAL BANK ISSUE.
Section 4 makes it unlawful for any
national bank to issue bank notes or
currency and all acts authorizing such
issue are repealed.
It is mads the duty of the secretary
within twelve months to sell United
States bonds deposited in the treasury
by national banks to secure circula
tion in the case of national banks re
tiring their circulation, or of going
out of business, and after redeeming
in the coin notes hereby authorized
the outstanding notes or currency as
provided by the national bank act,
the surplus is to be also paid in the
coin notes to the banks owing to the
bonds, in the amounts respectively
due them.
Section 5 requires the secretary of
the treasury to have coined as fast as
possible the silver bullion held in the
treasury purchased under the Sher
man act of 1890, including the gain or
seigniorage, and this coin is to be used
in the payment of public expenditures
and for the redemption of the coin
notes authorized by this act.
BONDS TO BUILD UP THE BESERVE.
Section six provides that when the
revenues of the government are not
sufficient to meet its current expenses,
the secretary of the treasury shall
issue a sufficient amount of coin notes
to cover this deficiency, and all laws
authorizing the issue of future interest
bearing bonds of the United States,
are repealed, except as otherwise pro
vided. The section also provides that
if the gold in the treasury at the time
the act takes effect does not amount to
$100,000,000, exclusive of that held to
redeem gold certificates, the secretary
is directed to sell United States bonds
at not less than par in gold coin, bear
ing not to exceed three per cent, in
terest, redeemable after five years, but
no greater amount of such bonds are
to be sold than may be necessary to
procure for the treasury the full
amonnt of $100,000,000 in gold.
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
Section 7 provide--, that silver bull
ion brought to any mint of the United
States for coinage shall be received
and coined into standard dollars of
412 1-2 grains, but no deposit of silver
bullion ot less value than $100 shall be
received, nor shall any bullion be re
ceived that is so bare as to be nnsuited
for the operations of the mint. The
director of the mint is to retain a
seignorage and cover into the treasury
the difference between the New York
market price and the coined value of
the bullion, and this is to be paid out
by the secretary of the treasury in the
current expenditures of the govern
ment.
CONDEMNING PERIER.
Frenchmen Say Hs Acted Cowardly
in Resigning.
Cable dispatches from Paris state
that at a meeting of the ministers held
for the purpose of discussing the
changed sitnation in view of the resig
nation of President Casimir-Perier,
there was a full attendance of the
members of M. Dupny’s cabinet and
the gravity of the position was fully
taken into consideration.
A meeting of the socialist members
of the chamber of deputies was also
called for thepnrpose of deciding upon
the courso to be pursued by the so
cialist group in view of the election of
M. Casimir-Perier’s successor, and
discussing the availability of candi
dates. As the resignation of the cabi
net, followed by that of the president,
is regarded by the group as a socialist
triumph, it is assumed that the leaders
of that organization will assume a
thoroughly aggressive attitude.
The action cf M. Casimer-Perier in
abandoning his office in the face of
the enemy is vigoronsly condemned by
the newspapers, which regard his with
drawal at this time as an act of coward-
Shipment of Gold.
A New York special says: The ex
pected shipment of $800,000 in gold
by Hoskier,Wood & Co., on the steam
ship La Champagne Saturday was re
duced to $500,000. Lazard Freres
shipped $1,600,000, making a total of
$2,100,000 on the French vessel.
Desperado Bill Cook Captured.
Bill Cook, the train robber, mur
derer and all-round desperado, has
been captured near Fort Staton, Lin
coln county, New Mexico, by Sheriff
Perry, of Chavese county.
Water Rising in the Mine.
A London cable dispatch says: At
noon Tuesday the water was rising in
Dig lake colliery at Hanley, where
ninety or 100 men are entombed. It
is feared most of them have been
drowned.