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DETOTED TO Till■: HIEING, AOMCVLTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND,
WHITE COUNTY AND NORTll-FAST GEORGIA.
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CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY,
AUGUST !), 1895.
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82.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. WASHINGTON NOTES
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Doings of flic Chiefs an<l Heads of the
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filiiutstbreks land.
They Successfully Eluded tlio Watch*
ful Cruisers.
Information Ins been rccoived in
New York of Ibo Biicccseful lauding
in Cuba a few days ago of two lnrge
bodies of insurgents who brought with
them two ennuon, fully 700,000 rounds
of ammunition, 500 pounds of dymi-
mito and hundreds of repeating rill os
and revolvers. One expedition con
sists, it is said, of 278 men, and the
other of seventy-five men, almost nil
of them veterans of the last revolu
tionary war in Cuba.
Letters announcing the safe landing
of two expeditions on the south const
of Santa Clara province, Cubs, were
also received at tho headquarters of
the Cuban revolutionary party in New
York. One of the expeditions was un
der tho command of Major General
Carlos ltoloff and Brigadier General
•Tobo Rodriguez, chief of staff of Gen-
( ral Gomez, was leader of the second.
Tho expedition, it is stuted, started
from Two Bays, in tho Bahama island
and were taken in small boats to sev
eral sailing craft which convoyed tho
whole party to Cuba.
311 * SISS11*1*1 POPULISTS
Hold Their Sta
* (on volition i
Name a Ticket.
The populists of Mississippi hold a
state convention nt. Jackson Wed no day
and nominated a full ticket. Interviews
with the most prominent lenders devel
oped the fact that they have st rong hopes
of such dissentions in tho democrat
ranks that a political revolution will
be brought about and that they will
have a chance of electing their ticket
from governor down.
Hon. Frank Burkitt was nominated
for governor. Forty-seven count:
ftv.ro represented by 122 delegates.
A resolution arraigning the demo
crats for the treasury defalcation and
severely criticising the democracy
pissed. The platform demanded pc
omy and declares for the free oinuxo
of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1, with
out international agreement.
ft was the largest and most enthusi
astic convention in opposition to de
mocracy, cr.mpt h -.1 of white Missiw:p
pinne, pince the war.
Greatly Exaggerated Reports.
Advices from Salt Lakers who are
summering near Yellowstone park,
and who passe 1 recently through
Jackson’s Hole, indicate that tho news
of an Indian outbreak has been greatly
exaggerated. No special anxiety is
felt over absent tonrists in that local*
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All IIau<ls on Full 'Time.
The Sauta Fe railroad has put its
entire force in the shops at Topeka on
full time of ten hours a day. There
are between 1,200 and 1,300 men at
work, and up to the present only about
800 men were working full time,
According to reports received by the
marine hospital sorvioo, tho yellow fo-
vor is making largely increased ravages
among the people of Cuba. The
medical inspector nt Havana states that
in the week ended July 25th there wore
seventy new cascR in that city and
twcuty-tbreo deaths. From Hiogo
aud Tokio, Japan, comes the report
that in the week ending July 0th there
wore 104 now cases of cholera with
seventy-nine deaths.
Naked and Starving.
Tho condition of tho distressed no
gro colonists from Georgia aud Ala
bama, who deserted tha Thnhualilo
colony, in Mexico, is more deplorable
than at first supposed. Consul Sparks,
at PietlroB Nogins, telegraphs tho state
department that while rations are
being furnished the 300 colonists ftvho
havo reached Eagle Pass, Texas,
they are practically naked. Tho
other three hundred who have not
yet crossed to tho United States
have little to cat. Subscription
to furnish those colonists with food
and clothing and transportation has
been started and the stato department
bus no funds for the purpose. Many
are ill, but are receiving medical at
tention from Assistant Surgeon Ten-
eyck, of the army. It is not. known
how tho colou'sts will be cared for
unless a subscription is started for
their relief, such as was done in this
country, for tho starving Russian
peasants.
Talked With Bowler.
Senator (Jeffrey, Representative My-
er-and Judge SemuioH, the latter coun
sel for the sugar bounty claimants of
Louisiana, had nn audience Wednes
day with Comptroller Bowler, of the
treasury department, regarding tho
unpaid sugar bounty for tho fiscal
year 181)4. Tho throo gentlemen repent-
d the arguments they had previously
made, but the comptroller insisted
that ho saw no reason to change the
position previously taken by him. It is
said that Comptroller Bowler may, if
ho chooses, reserve his ultimate decis
ion one year, but it is not believed he
ftvlll do ro. It is thought that his de
cision after the formal houring next
week, will bo roudorod as speedily
as is consistent with tho impor
tance of tho case. Should it re
main unchanged, oongress will be
. .asked to amoudlhe JMr under urhioh
- that his duties
shall bo of n purely ministerial char
actcr.
Secretary Carlisle has boon informed
by these Louisiana gentlemen that tho
continued withholding of tho money
will result in a defeat- of tho demo
cratic party in Louisiana aud that
nothing cun prevent tho stato from
swinging into tho republican column
next year unless tho money shall be
paid within a short period. It is
feared by the Louisiana people if tho
money bo not paid before the meeting
of congress next winter, a bill will bo
introduced to repeal tho law under
which tho bounty is to bo paid.
The News Confirmed.
The Shanghai Express prints a tele
gram from Foo-Chow, under date of
August 3d, reporting a frightful mas-
fiaorce of Christians in Kuoheng, in
the province of Konsu-Sin-Kiang.
A cable dispatch, received at the
stato department from Mr. Jarnignn,
United States consul general at
Shanghai, reports a massacre of
Christians at Kuoheng, China. No
Americans ftvero killed, but one ftvas
seriously wounded. The name of tho
place where the massacre occurred was
not plain in the diepntcli, but it is un
derstood to bo Kucheng.
At the state deportment it is be
lieved that the massacre is simply tho
result of another outbreak of fanati
cism, such as wus rampant during the
Chinese-Japaneso war. The greatest
riot at that time against Christians oc
curred at Chong-Tu. The American
mission buildings hero were damaged,
but no American avow killed. Minister
Denby protested against tho treat
ment of the American at Cheng-Tu,
and tho Chinese government gave sat- |
tho month wore $581,790,093, an In
crease of $2,591,830. Tho total cash
in tho treasury ftvas $837,897,830. Tho
gold reserve was $100,000,000. Net
cash halanoo, $87,119,530. In tho
month there was a doorcase in gold
eoin and bars of $539,805. Tho total
at tho close was $155,854,005. Of
silver there wasnu increase of $107,399.
Of the surplus there was in national
bank depositories $15,920,823, against
$10,903,120 at tho end of the preced
ing mouths.
SCORED GOMAN.
STATIC 81C NATO It II AYES SAYS HR
WAS BASRljY OKCRIVRD.
TilK QUINTANS C ONFKSS.
They Noctii to Know Much About
Holmes’ Affairs.
A OhicftRo morning pnprr gives tho
following particulars of tho confession
mnilo l>y tho Quiulnn. to Chief Biuien-
ooh, which was taken down by a sten
ographer. They related that in their
opinion, Mis. Oigraml, Mrs. Julia
Connor and her daughter, Pearl, and
Minnie and Nannie Williams nro nil
dead and that Helmet) murdered them.
Piets-,el, they said, quarreled frequently
with Holme, because the latter would
not. net square with his associate in Iho
dealings, and they believed that
Holme, killed Pietzel so aa to prevent
him telling of his crime, which, they
believe, Piotzol was aware of, to some
extent. Aa to whether Pietzol partic
ipated in any of the murders they do
not know. They beliovo that Holmes,
after killing Pictzel, felt it nooossary
to dispose of the dead man’s children,
and that Alice, Nellie nnd Howard
l’iotzel worn killed by him. Aa to
Mi»H Van Tassel they know nothing
Bud never saw her. Misa Cigrnnd,
Miss Connor, Pearl Connor, Miuuio
nnd Nannie Williams, they thought,
came to their death in tho Holmes
building.
Mrs. Quinlan related that one day
when her hu-hacd was away aho saw
Holmes polling into tho stove in his
office, which waa red hot, something
looking like portionsof a human body,
nnd that a horrible odor camo from
the room. Quinlan said that after
Holme, had gono away he found a
bottle of chloroform in (hosted vault.
They both said that they saw tho Wil
liams girls about July Mil, J8D3, for
the last time, ami that, they must,
havo boon put out of Ibo way ut that
time. * .
To Kxlitblt the “Castle.”
The police havo nothing now. to an
nounce in the llulmoH case. Inspector
Fitzpatrick said work was being pur-'
suod on tlib cuau upon (lie liuca sug
gested in information gained from tho
Quinlans.
It is stated that a dime museum firm
lias secured a luoao on the Holmes cas-
tlo ill Englewood and will fence it and
charge visitors 10 cents for adoirasiou
to the houBo and groi;uda.
COX ft Y NAMED FOlt GOVERNOR.
Ohio Populists Most In Convention.
The Parly Platform.
Tho Ohio populist stato convention
was held at Oolutnbus, Friday. Tho
wholo forenoon was spout in tearing to
pieces tho plntform reported tho night
boforo by tho committoo on resolu
tions.
Tho platform as fiually adopted re
affirms tho priueiples of the Onrnhn
platform; Coxey’a non-interest bonds
and good roads bill; issuing of enough
legal tender paper money to put tho
country on a cash basis; free and un
limited coinage; nationalization of
public monopolies; denounces intor-
ost-lieariug bonds ; denounces process
in Dobs’ enao as subversive of rights
of trial by jury; favors law against
payment of uny debt iu gold only; do-
niauda immediate abolishment of na
tional bunks; favorH a per diem ser
vice pension bill.
Ah to slato bafilia tho platform de
mands tho referendum plun ; reduced
Balariea; tnx reform; regulation of
coal Boreons; eight liourH per day ; op
poses fusion with old parties; favors
election of nil officers, state nnd na
tional, by direct vote of tho people;
state control of liquor traffic without
profit, and indorses union label.
Jacob S. Coxoy, of Massillon, woh
nominated for governor.
CliOUDUUKST IN COLORADO.
An Aftermath of the Maryland Dem
ocratic Convention.
A Baltimore special snya: Tho most
sensational scene in commotion with
the State Democratic Convention did
not occur in tho hall where tho ses
sions were hold, hut in tho Carrollton
Hotel. Stato Komitor Thomaa (1.
Hayes played tlio principal part and
United .States Mounter Arthur T’ugli
Gorman was tho other aotor, though
tho performance was merely a dumb
show of the meekoBt variety.
Hayes oame to tho convention con
fident of tho nomination for governor.
Ho has made (l great reputation ill tho
legislature" ns tlio champion of re
assessment, a very popular iHHiio. HiB
strength ou this score nnd the assur-
anco ho had pt Senator Gorman's sup
port led .llayeH to consider liis nomi
nation absolutely certain. Ho wna
astounded to learn on the day of tho
convention that Gorman had gono
hack on him. llis indignation nnd
that of hia friends know no bounds.
Tlio Scene at tho Hotel.
Wlint occurred between Hayes nnd
Gorman soon after the former found
that he had been deserted is thus re
ported by a delegate who Bays he heard
it,.
The interview wan opened by Hayes
who said to Gorman:
“I now discover your baseness.
Wlmt the people of tho slate believe of
you is all true. You have posed ns in
favor of reassessment and have used mo
for your baso purpose. If you had
given mo a few more hours to i xposo
your nefarious schemes I should havo
lot the people of Maryland know of
your deception. I dospiso yonr meth
ods and do not fear you or your hench
men. I am determined that if 1 can
prevent it Hint yonr grip oh tho dem
ocratic party shall end with your nom
ination of Hurst,”
Throughout the interview Sir. Gor
man remained silent. IIo did not say
a word. Ono of Konator Hayes’
friends, in speaking of his candidacy,
said that “Seuntor Hayes was iuilucod
to cuter the content at Mr. Gorman’s
suggestion. Tho reason assigned by
him that he was tho only available
candidate, because reassessment was
tho only issuo which could unite tho
party and that a provision In tho plat
form without Senator Hayes’ ouuilida-
oy would he mistrusted by tlio peo-
• Continuing, |lto said: “Ttierc in no
baser treaohor/ on record than Gor
man’s to Hnycs. Mr. Gorman led Bcn-
ntor Hayos and his friends up to two
hours before tho convention mot to bo-
lievo that he was to he nominated. Tho
delegates to tho convention were elect
ed in many counties without opposi
tion, because thoy wore told they wore
to volo for Hayes."
A VITCHED BATTLE
A Mining Town Almost Destroyed
During a Heavy Storm.
Adelaide, a flourishing mining town
in Colorado, was struck by a series of
cloudbursts Tuesday that flooded the
entire district and devastated over
. , , ....... ,| fifty houses. Ho far as known tlireo
J,!^ i Persons were drowned and swept away
' ' " ' “ l ‘"‘ " j,y jjjg ru „h H f <l 10 water aud many
punish tho offenders and to prevent .a
repetition of the outrages. The Brit
ish missions nt Cheng-Tu were also
damaged and tho Ifritish government
has just sent one of its consular offi
cers to make inquiry into tlio nfiair
with a view to demanding damages.
The Debt Statement .
The debt statement for July, issued
Thursday afternoon, shows few changes
since the Juno statement. Tho inter
est bearing debt was increased 331,-
157,700, tiiis being the amount of the
last half of tho recent issue to the
bond syndicate, the firit half having
been included in the last previous
statement. This will make tho total
bonded debt 3747,359,700, and tho
whole national debt, exclusive of cer
tificates nn I treasury notes, 81,138,-
170,820. The cash balance of 8195,-
240,153 reported last month will bo
decreased by about eight million.
Tho interost-hcnring debt increased
$31,158,340; tho non-interest bearing
debt decreased $813,025, and cash in
the treasury decreased 88,090,622.
Tho balances of the Heveral classes
of debt at the close of business, July
31st, were: Interest-bearing debt,
$757,360,400; debt on which interest
1 in ceased since maturity, $1,699,600;
debt bearing no interest,$378,198,384;
total, 81,127,258,435.
The certificates iu treasury notes
offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury outstanding at the end of
narrowly escaped drowning to ho ren
dered homeless.
Tlio cloudburst was followed by a
second one and again another, which
razed many buildings to the ground,
including stores and residences. Tho
damage to tho town will exceed $109,-
000, and in the path of tho storru it
will be many days before an estimate
of tho damage can bo made.
Itailroad and telegraph communica
tion have boon cut off from tho town,
and tho trnokH aro washed away for u
distance of four miles on either side of
tho town.
Kiiinorcil Railroad Deal.
Negotiations uro said to bo pending
between President Humuel Hpencor,
of tho Southern railway, and Presi
dent Cl. P. Huntington, of the Houth-
ern Picific Company, looking to tho
formation of a traffic alliance and the
establishment of nil rail route bo-
tween Washington and Han Francisco.
It iH stated that J. l’ierpont Morgan
has given his sanction to the (rheme.
Quiet at Jack oil’s Hole.
Saturday Agent Trier b legraplicd
Indian Commissioner browning from
Market Lake, Idaho, stating that he
liuil just returned from Jackson's Huh
and tumid everything quiet there.
Commissioner Drowning thinks th
trouble is now at an end,
Eotwoan Negroes anil Whites In Cobli
County.
A Borious riot occurred Thursday
night near the midnight hour about
half way between Smyrna and Bolton,
Ga., and us a result of it ono white
man, Charley Dowda, is wounded by
being shot in tho hind. Other whiten
whoso minion have not boon obtained
were also wounded. Four negroes uro
badly wounded by gun and pistol shots
and one, it is thought, may havo died.
Tho riot was tho outgrowth of an at
tempted criminal assault tlio day boforo
by Jess Hardeman, a negro about
twenty-seven yeors old, upon Mrs. .Too
Kobinson, near Smyrna.
A warrant was secured for lfnrdo-
man's arrest and Hiuoo thou almost a
continuous anarch has been carried on
by a party of indignant citizoua.
Joss Hardeman was soon luto Tlmrs-
dry afternoon in tho neighborhood of i
Smyrna and thia caused tlio posso to
redouble their i (Torts.
A largo body of well-armed rnori
scoured tho country for miles around.
A report became current in Smyrna
that tho negro had boon caught and
that tho crowd had lynched him by
hanging him from Collier’s bridge,
near Holton.
John Hardeman, tho father of tho
boy, and Tom Hardeman, bio brother,
Burry Smith and Berry Padgett,
armed with guns and other weapons,
started for tho bridge. 'They had
gone nearly to it and becoming satis
fied that it was only a rumor about
.Tense Hardeman having boon lynched,
turned around to rotruoo thoir steps
when they mot a largo body of search
ers after tho negro nml tho riot oc
curred.
MISS FLAGLER’S PISTOL
Hi-lngs Down a lloy Wlio AVas Stealing
Fruit.
At Washington Friday Misa Eliza
beth Flagler, daughter of brigadier
General Dauiel W. Flagler, chief of
ordnance, United States of Amoriea,
shot nml ltillod a colored youth named
Ernest Groon, whom alio detected steal
ing fruit nt tho suburban residonco of
her father, nml was discharged by tlio
coroner's jury on tho ground that tho
homioido was unintentional.
No tragedy of recent years in Wash
ington hiiM caused such a sensation, or
been fraught with more immodinto ex
citement in tho neighborhood of its
oceurronco. Tho residonco of Gonornl
Flagler is in tho northwestern section
of Washington, on California avenue,
aud the grounds surrounding it havo
boon carefully cultivated for tho
production of fruit aud flow
ers, and this attraction was tho
indirect cause of tho fatal event.
The premises, as well ns those
of mnny who live in tlio same suburban
section of tho city, havo boon fre
quently despoiled by youths, and in
many cases adult men, to an extent
that has tried vory much tho pntiouoo
of the property owners, nml a sad oul-
iniuntion was reached when MisH Flag
ler, who is hctwcon twenty-five nnd
thirty years of ago, saw somo ono
busily engaged in breaking tlio brandies
nml gathering fruit from one of tho
trees in their garden.
A demand to leave tho premises not
being immediately complied with, tho
lady, without, it iH asserted by herself
and her friends, any further intention
than to frighton away tho intruder,
discharged the oontouteof an army re
volver in tho direction of the plunder
er. Tho bullet plowed through tho
body of tho boy, who wna about fifteen
years of nge, aud Iris death followed
on tho instant.
Mias Flagler Surrenders.
Tho shots brought tho police, and tlio
body of tho boy wna found. Miss
Flagler at once left tho house, and her
pnrontH boing absent, from tho oity on
a summer pleasure trip, sought Cap
tain Hinder, also of tho ordnance de
partment, and, nocompnuiud by him,
promptly proceeded to tho ollloo of
Major Moore, Iho chief of police, and
lurremlcred horsolf to tho civil au
thorities.
HURST FOR GOVERNOR.
Maryland Democrats Hold Thoir State
Convention.
Tlio Maryland democratic stato con
vention assembled at Baltimore Wed
nesday to nominate candidates for
govornorj attorney general and oorngj
MfkYittn E, H '
'ins' vyi-tl - Kno w if Hopkins 'Place dry
{foods firm of HurBt, PtirnoU it Co.,
waa nominated governor on Iho first
ballot. The ticket was completed l>y
tho nomination of Marion DeKulb
Smith, of Kent county, to succeed
liimsolf ns oomptrollor of tho treas
ury,. and State Senator Charles 0.
Crothers, of Oroit oounty, for attor
ney general.
Tho surpriso of tho convention was
tho almost desertion of Uio. reassess
ment advoontc, Slate Senator Thomas
G. Hayes. Ho received but two votes
on tho roll onll.
Colonel L. Victor Boughman, of
Frederick county, chairman of the
resolutions committee, reported a
platform which praised Cleveland, an
nounced against free silver at the pres
ent ratio and denounced tho McKinley
not.
Tliore was no nllusion whatever iu
the plntform to Senator Gormnn. It
was stuted thia was hie desire, and ho
gave ns n reason that his course nt
Washington was not an issuo iu this
campaign.
Tho plntform was unanimously
adopted.
Nominations were mnilo for mem
bers of tho state oentrnl committoo; a
resolution was adopted indorsing tlio
plan to hold a contentiinl exposition
in Baltimore in 1897 nnd favoring a
slato appropriation therefor, and tlio
convention adjourned sino die.
OCEAN FLYER.
THAT IS WHAT THE COLUMBIA
PROVES TO HE.
Great Rejoicing In Washington Over
tho Now Cruiser's Rocoril.
A New York special says: Tho
United States cruiser Columbia was
sighted from Handy Hook at 9:30
o'clook Friday morning.
The Columbia sailed from Soutli-
nniptou al half past twelve on Friday
afternoon, July 2Clh, pnssiug IhoNeo-
dliH at 20 minutes after ono. Her
timo therefore from tho Noodlos to
Handy Hook bar is 7 days, 1 hour and
17 minutes.
Her log gives her arrival at tho bar
ns 8:50j aud time of hor pnsingo from
tho Needles to Sandy Hook lightship
ns 6 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes.
Iler days' runs were run 405, 460, 473,
458. 453 and 405 knots. Tho total
dis.nlioe 3,109 knots. Average speed
18.41 knots.
During tho entire passage tho crui
ser was run under natural draught.
Thirty-six hours of fog was expe
rienced on tho voyage, during which
the cruiser steamed at her usual speed.
Moderato winds aud weather were en
countered all tho way ncross tho
ocean, ,
Rejoicing Iu Washington.
There was general rejoicing in tho
navy department at Washington when
tho Associated 1’resH bulletin was rend
announcing tho arrival of tho Colum
bia off Sandy Hook." Assistant Secre
tary McAiloo expressed tho greatest
pleasure over tho last timo made by
tho cruiser. IIo went to tho WoBt In
dies aboard tlio Columbia and was con
fident from the start that she would
acquit herself handsomely on this trial
trill across tho Atlantic. Tho Colum
bia bout Iho time of tlio cruiser New
York by two days and previous to this
trip tho New York had the host record
of any warship crossing tlio Atlantic.
Mr. MuAdoosaid there was no longer
any doubt about tlio speed of tho Co
lumbia and that iho could no doubt
ovurtako any vessel afloat on a spurt,
that is, it a vessel was sighted in tho
morning tho Columbia could como up
with hor in tho evening. Tlio Minne
apolis isdier equal, if not her superior,
and tho record of tho Columbia ehpws
that the United States has tho two
fastest ships afloat. .
ADDRESS TO WORKINGMEN
IHAUCfl by tho President of tho Texas
Stato Federation of Trades.
James Scott, a loading democrat
politician and president of tho Stato
Federation of Labor of Texas linn
issued a call for a stato convention of
all trades to meet nt Lnmpnans August
2d. This is tho most powerful organ
ization of wage workers in tho state.
Tho oall says:
“You will bo called upon to dcoido
whether by your acquiescence you in
dorse tho notion taken by tho present
national administration in sending tho
federal troops to ovorawo labor in
forcing it to ncomlo to tho unjust de
mands of concentrated capital while
rofnaiug to employ the army in sup-
profiling lawlessness iu tlio Indian ter
ritory.
“You will ho called upon to dooido
whether you favor tho bonding of this
oountry iu perpetuity to tho monoy
kings of Europe.
"You will ho called upon to decide
whether you favor tho demonetization
of Bilver and imlorsQ tho subsequent
displacement of labor which filled tho
country within the past two years with
umbos of idle men, willing io work,
for whom no work was to bo had; nnd
aliovo all yon will ho called upon to
decide as to wlint forma a closer bond
of union for the continued preserva
tion of all those principles that aro
dear to the citizenship of this country,
among which nro included tho right
to life nml liberty.
“In order to resist Iho threatened
onslaught of capital it is imperative
that we should present a united front
to tho advancing aggressiveness of tho
enemy aud without seeking an appeal
to pnssion or to unduly arouse hitter
prejudices, I desire to say that tho
laboring masses of this country havo
homes to presorvo from tho lioartless
rigors of tlio cold commercialism of
tho age that known no distinction be
tween right nnd wrong, and to which
tho virtues aro summed up iu tho word
— ‘dollars.’ ”
STANDARD WAGON CO. FAILS.
Liabilities Aro Stated to bo $400,000
and AasolH $.300,000.
Tho Standard Wagon company nt
Cincinnati has assigned to Edward S.
Bitcliie, assets 3300,000, liabilities .
$100,000. Although tho company con
fessed, judgment to tho Merchants' Na
tional bank for 832;600, tho failure
created a stir, as it wap,
some ,heavier '
tics.
MARYLAND’S I’ROIIIBS.
They Meot In Baltimore and Nomlnoto
a State Ticket.
Maryland’s prohibitionists closed a
two days’ meeting at Baltimore Thurs
day afternoon. Four hundred nnd six
enthusiaatio opponents of tho liquor
traffic, representing all tho counties of
the state, took part in tho deliberations
of the body. Iho convention nomi
nated tho following ticket: For gover
nor, Joshua Levering, of Baltimore;
f,.r comptroller, Dr. J. Ij. Nicodemus,
of Frederick county; for attorney
general W. Flank Tucker, of Bulti-
inoie.
Says Altgeld la insincere.
Tho special session of tlio Illinois
legislature called by Governor Altgeld,
adjourned Friday, hiving enacted but
few of tlm numerous statutes desired
by tho governor. Tho huusu adoptod
resolutions caustically arraigning th«
govuruor as iusinoere,
APPEAL TO SPENCER.
Atlanta Wants the Headquarters of
tile Southern.
A oommittoo of citizens of Atlanta,
Ga., including delegates from tho
Chamber of Commerce, mot President
Spencer, of tho Southern Railway
Company, at New York Wednesday
for tho pnrposo of oudeavoring to in
duce the railway company to romovo
its headquarters to Atlanta.
The guneral views jircBented to Mr.
Sponccr wore that Atlanta is tho logi
cal centre of the system ; that tho cum-
j pony receives moro business from that
centre than from any other point on
its lino nnd that ns it is tlio most im
portant depot of tlio Southern system
it should bo made tho headquarters of
the company.
Tho delegation was composed of S.
F. Woodson, president of tlio Chamber
of Commerce of Atlanta; Hon. Porter
King, mayor of Atlanta; H. H. Cnba-
niss, Captain Evan 1’. Howell, T. B.
Brookside, a mining oamp twonty
milea-west of Birmingham, Ala., was
tho scene of n bloody riot Tuesday
night. Two deputy sheriffs aro known
to havo boon killed, and it is said that
a dozen negroes were shot, four or five
filially. The town iH in a state of
panic and tho telegraph oporntor, tho
only Boureo of information, is looked
in his offico, too frightened to go ont-
Bido to obtain moro details.
Messages were received at Birming
ham by Sheriff Morrow and Chief of
l’olico McDonald for all tho available
officers they could solid. An hour la
ter a carload of deputies was onrouto
to tho scene of the tronblo.
Tuesday Mino Boss Culvcrhouso, of
the Slims Iron and Steel Company,
discharged a negro driver named Jim
Biggers. Higgers remained nbout tho
plaoo making threats. Hu refused to
leave thu company’s premises and a
wariant was sworn out for his arrest
for tresspassing, and Deputy Sheriff
Arthur I’. Wood and Spcoial Deputy
John Baxter went to arrest Biggors.
As thoy approached BiggerH fired
npon them with a winchester rifle. A
bullet pnssod through Wood’H head
and another through liishcnrt, killing
him instantly. Baxter was mortally
wounded, but was able to get back to
tho onmp nnd givo tin alarm.
Tho white miners at once organized
nnd went to arrest Riggers. Tho lat
ter meanwhile had called in a number
of his negro friends and when tho-two
parties met a pitched liattlo resulted.
Over 109 shots worn fired, the negroes
finally going to- tho woods.
It is said that half a dozen or moro
negroes were shot down, several oT
whom were killed outright and tho
others badly wouudod. Whetlior any
of tho wbitos were wounded or not can
not bo learned.
Tho town of Brookside is in a Htato
of pauio,every limn being armed. Tho
shooting was kept up at intervale for
two hours.
Jiiggers and liis friends are in hiding
iu tho woods, but will be taken dead
or alive. Brookside has been tho scono
or race troubles before. Both colored
and white miners work there, but tho
feeling has not boon very cordial, es
pecially since last summer’s strike,
when negroes went, to work in white
miner’s places.
Deputy Woods, who ivua killed, was
ex-sheriff of Talladega oounty and
leaves a wife aud ohildron. Later ro-
dono a good business , .
debts that have been .met out of t^e
earnings of tho busincis.
Boforo the assignment tho Standard
company bougnt out tho Davis Car
riage Company. Ou the sum due thoro
has boon paid about $100,000, and
there is about tlio same amount due.
Tho notes for that are falling duo all
tho timo and tho company has not
been ablo to moot them without bor
rowing money. Tlio company's orodit
wna not good, aud money could not
bo raised ou its real estate.
OKLAHOMA DIVORCES NULL. •
Justices of tlio Territory Have No
Right to Grant Them.
Following the dooisions that probate
justices havo had no right to grunt di
vorces iu Oklahoma since August 13,
1893, tho supremo court at Guthrie has
dooided that ovou before that timo
thoir jurisdiction waa oonfiuod to per
sons who had boon residents of tho
territory two years or moro aud that
all divorces granted by thorn to per
sons on ninety days’ residence aro null
nnd void nild subsequent marriagos
bigamous. As all outsiders coming to
tho territory for divorces took advan
tage of tho ninety-days’ residence
clause this decision invalidates botwcon
three and four hundred divorces
granted to eastern people in addition
to tlio seven or eight hundred roudorod
invalid by thu previous ileeisiou.
WISCONSIN HANK CLOSED.
I’lio Ileposltora, llowovor, AVI 11 bo
Raid In Full.
Iho Keystouo National hunk ut West
Superior, Win., has been taken charge
of ley 0. II. Brush, tho national bunk
ixaminc-r. Tho heavy drain of tho
last two months has caused tho
deposits to deoroaso from S‘I80,000
to $227,047. The bank claims its assets
aro $291,000 aud liabilities $259,747.
The eity had on deposit $28,000 and
the state $75,000, Other local deposi
tors bring tho amount up to $187,000.
It lias always been considered ono of
tho strongest institutions in tho city,
nud since 1S90 has paid good divi
dends to its stockholders. Tho assots
nro amply lnrgo to protect all deposi
tors, and in all probability it will ro-
H’.mo in tho near future.
Nonl, It. D. Spalding, It. M. Farrar, I porlo are to the effect that two officers
ex-Govornor B. Jl. Bullock, J. E. I and throo nogroes were killed, while
Maddox and W. C. Sanders.
President Sponsor, when soon by tho
representative of tlio Associated Press
lifter tho mooting, stated that ho and
Vice-President Andrews of tho South
ern Bnilway Company, hail heard tho
views of tho delegation and tho points
they made in favor of tho chuugo of
tho company’s headquarters from
Washington to Atlanta.
Ho declined to express any opinion
oil tho subject, saying that of course
lie could not at this time say what no
tion tho company would tako in tho
premises. Tho members of tho com
mittee, ho said, had stated tho case
very forcibly and what thoy hud said
would ho carefully wuigheij piul con
sidered by tho company.
six negroes were desperatoly wouudod.
ORGIA HORTICULTURISTS.
Fruit and Flower Growers of the State
Assemble In Culitbert.
The Georgia Horticultural Society
assembled at Cllthbert Wednesday
morning. The display of fruits, flowers
nnd vegetables was magnificent, anil
TROUBLE AT BLUE FIELDS.
Non-Union Moil Using Driven Away
by West Virginia Strikers.
The non-union men nro being forced
to lenvo tho West Virginia coal fields
by tho strikers, who throatcu porsonal
violence to tlioso who will not quit
work. Serious trouble is expected with
in tho next few days,
Signing a Now Contract.
About 1,500 tailors of tho Protect
ive Brotherhood at Now York havo ro-
reilects great credit on this section as j autnut l wo rk. The strikers stated that
a fruit region. Tlui attendance was | many of tho contractors who have
large, and war composed of tho most signed tho new contract aro prominent
prominent and practical fruit growers I members of tho Contractors’nssoeia-
in him Mato. ' tions. Tho contractors doniod posi-
— ... - — ' tivcly that thoir ranks had boon
TllBllE are persons who regard their broken, and continue to state that
friends ns victims devoted tq their they will not grftpt any poucessious to
reputation, ttjo striker*,