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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
R/ JNO, R. GLEN
DETOTF.n TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
TERMS: One Dollar Per Year.
VOL. IV.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2?, 1895.
NO. 4'
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THE LEGISLATURE.
A SOLON3 MRKT IN RRQ
UL.VR SESSION.
1'rococdlngs of Che Senate and House
Presented In Hrlef.
Wednesday's session of tho house
was a short one, as the body adjourn
ed nt 11:30 to attend tho “Drummers’
Day” exercises at tho exposition
grounds. No bills woro passed, but
tho following were introduced and
read for the lirst time: To establish a
now charter for the town of Covington
in Newton county; To repeal section
4162 of tho code of Georgia; To
amend an act to provide for tho levy
uud Bale of property ; To amend the
charter of tho town of Shellmnn ; To
nmoud an act known as tho general
pension act of 1804; To regulate pro
ceedings to sell real estate under «
power of sale in mortgages and deeds;
To provide for a correct survey and
plot of tho Cherokee purchase lino,
also a bill to prevent the shoot
ing of flro arms on tbo Sabbath
day and to prescribo penalties for tho
snmo. The following resolution was
offered by Mr. West, of Lowndes:
*'Resolved by the house of representa
tives, the senate concurring, th it lion.
Hoko Smith, of Georgia, be invited to
address tho general assembly on the
public issues of tho day one evening
next week nt such time ns ho may
designate.” The resolution was unani
mously fTgreo 1 to. This action is in
nocordance with tho desire evinced by
the legislature to hear from Georgian
now* prominently before tho people,
which desire resulted in tho invitation
extended ex-Speaker Crisp last week.
Other distinguished Georgians will
probably bo called upon later.
Willingham stated in < ffering
tho resolution that he felt it
necessary, by reason of the ever
ready suspicion that “tho hit
dog yelps,” to say that ho had been a
favorer of tho measure in question and
that his views on tho subject had al
ways been well known. At the same
time ho considered it a slur upon every
gentleman in tho koufr*, which could
not but be a disreputable insinuation
on tho way jn which each member cast
his vote when the bill comes up for
passage. He, himself, repudiated the
slanders, and in spite of his previous
friendliness to tho bill would refuse
to vote for it unless tbo charges were
sustained or retracted, referring par
julurly to tho WaiiBfcm.^iLLfi8tinu
....yatedod to culotfizo the
oity of tho members of the house.
Ho said tho writer hud simply liod.
Tho resolution wns then put to a vote
end passed unanimously. Tho inves
tigation committee were thou appoint
ed endure Messrs. Willingham, l’rieo,
Hopkins, Traylor and Hull. When
rontine of business was taken up, n
number of new bills wero presented
nnd tho following wore passed : A bill
to amend the charter of Guyton in
Effingham county; A bill to provide
for tbo removal of obstructions from
tho running streams of Forsyth
county. To prevent the sale of liquor
in Elbert county ; To amend the char
ter of" (ho city of Dalton. A great
deal of debate was raised by Mr. Flem
ing's bill to make tho poreinul earn
ings of a married woman her own
property nnd not liable for tho debts 1 such policies to tho contrary shall bo
of verdict by a majority of tho jury in
sny case. It offers nn amendment to
the constitution of the stnte so that tho
general assembly may require a major
ity, consisting of not less than two-
thirds of tlio jury trying the cause, to
find a verdict in any court in this
stato. Tho bill has been made tho
special order for next Friday. Tho
following new bills were introduced:
To make tho theft of domestic animals,
of a valueless than $50, a misdemeanor;
to amend an net incorporating tho Sa
vannah Hank and Trust Company; to
prevent tho sale of liqnor nt Triou fac
tory. Also a bill to prohibit the snle
of intoxicating liquors within certain
limits of tho depot on the Atlanta aud
Richmond lino nt Duluth. Tho fol
lowing bills wero passed: A bill to
erente a system of public schools for
tho town of Cnrtersville, Bartow coun
ty ; to authorize the payment of insol
vent criminal costH to tho clerk of tho
superior court of Macon county; to
authorize the mayor nnd council of the
city of Bavaunnh to condemn property
for the purpose of widening streets,
Senator Hnond introduced a resolu
tion in the senate Wednesday which
was unanimously passed, appointing a
committee of two from tho seunlo nnd
three from the house to meet Governor
Hastings, of Pennsylvania, aud to in
vite him to a public reception in tho
capitol. Tho resolution recites the
interest tho state of Pennsylvania has
taken in tho exposition by her liberal
appropriation for a building and
rxjiibil, and the loan of tho Liberty
Bell. Tho committee on tho part of tho
somite are Senators Claiborne Snead
and N. E. Harris. Tho following
bills wero introduced: To transfer
the County of Campbell from the Cow
eta circuit to tho Tallapoosa circuit;
To provide for election of tho clerk of
the county commissioners of Fulton
county by tho voters of the county;
To empower the principal phy
sician of tho penitentiary to dis
charge subordinate physicians; To
change the law fixing tho license of
photographers; To allow justices of
the peace to reside outside of thoir
districts. ThO senato passed Mr.Rock
well's bill changing tho ponnlties for
crimes. The bill reduces many of tbo
penalties now in forco, making some
Hint were felonies misdemeanors. Tho
bill of Mr. Jones, amending tho char
ter of Albany, was passed. Tho senato
concurred in the house resolution,that
tho senato and house meet in joint see
sion at 8 o’clock ,p. m. to lioar an ad
dress from Hon. C. F. Crisp.
A bomb was exploded ill the sonate
Thursday morning by Senator Little,
Ho introduced a bill to move the ex
porimont station from Ontfln to ■■■At
erSoVal of the ngrioititural obllego
from Athens to Griffin. Athens is car
rying tho war into Africa, and asks
Hint all bo concentrated there. The
fight is on, and it will be lively, Tho
senato was engaged most of its morn
ing session in debnting tho Dodson in-
mirnnce bill. Sonator Cummings, Os
borne and Wade opposed tho bill,
while Senators Broughton and LInrris
of the 22d favored itH passage. Tho
bill was passed by n veto of 27 for
tho bill to five against. The bill
as passed is as follows: ‘ 'That
from aud after tho passage of this
net all insurance companies issuing
policies on property in this stale shall
) ay to their policy holders tho full
W. Law, the oolorod member from
Liberty county, introduced a rather
unusual bill. Its object is to compel
nil persons who soil or offer to Roll, in
the county of Liberty, any beef, pork
or mutton, to exhibit the oars of the
animal killed and to state tho brand of
tho same. Mr. Tatum, of Troup, in
troduced a resolution, whioh fixes tho
lime for Hon. Hoko Smith to deliver
an addross b.-foro tho legislature. The
time fixed is tho evei in j of Decem
ber lid.
The Bribery Ievestlgntlou.
The investigating committee in the
matter of tlio corruption charges in
connection with tho Bush anti-barroom
bill, began its work Wednesday after
noon. Tho two principal figures in tho
oiusns belli, llcv. T. T. Christian and
Mr. M. S. Biekart, appeared before
tho committee and gave their testi
mony. Mr. Christian was tho author
of the article in tho Wesleyan Chris
tian Advocate, and Mr. ltiekavt, of tho
firm of Blumenthal A Biekart, liquor
dealers, iR responsible for tho circular
addressed to tho liquor men. Those
two nrtiolea raised tho storm, and tho
oommittoe took up the matter from its
first source.
Air. Christian stated that ho lmd
written three articles in tho Advocnto
and that it was based on information
given him by Mr. Walter B. Hill, of
Macon, who is the vioe-presidont of
tho State Prohibition Association. IIo
showed a lettor from this gentlemen
as his authority for tho matter con
tained in tho article.
Air. Biekart was then examiuod. Ho
stated the circular had boon sent out
by bis firm, lint that nn organization
had been beon effected by the liquor
men nor any fund raised to defeat tho
measure.
With regard to that portion of tho
article which refers to tlio liquor men
haviug before been put to oousiderablo
expoiiso to defeat, a similar bill, Mr.
Biekart said it was simply addressed
to the trade aud intended only to stir
thorn up. IIo did not really know of
any money having been used for such
a purpose; it was more hearsay and
ho did not remember where ho had
in ord it.
It wnH thou decided in view of Mr.
Christian's testimony to subpoona Mr.
W. 1>. Hill, of Macon, who was Mr
Christian's authority for tho statement
that $800 had beon raised by tbo
liquor men in Macon for a corruption
fund. A number of other mou have
been summoned to appear before the
eonunitWic. Among them nro Captain
F. M. Potts, of Atlanta, and Mr. Al
bert Sicincr, general rnaungor of tlio
Atlanta , brewery. These gentlemen.
tll.be ij " -
Mr. lHff ' iTns nskedi ft?' SnVonil sum
mons, to be served upon Macon liquor
men. ,
It seems that tho prohibitionists ul-
so -have irfitud. This fact do.yeItjped
in Friday, ntoyuing’fi session ■ of the
house investigating committee. It
was made up for purely legitimate pur
poses and is intended to promote the
cause of prohibition by sending out
litorature aud defraying expenses of
delegates to tho legislature to advo
cate the Bush bill. 'J bo committee
wont far into tho matter of investiga
tion at the morning’s session, ami ex
amined a number of witnesses. Mr.
Walter B. Hill, of Macon, waspresent,
also Messrs. R. II. Plant, Ham A11-
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSS 11 1
BRIEF
OF WASHINGTON
PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of tlio Chiefs and Heads of tho
Various Departments.
Monday's statement of tho condition
of tho treasury shows: Available onsh
balance, $177,020,671; gold roBorvo,
$0,0,631.589.
Tho llfty-fourth congress will con
vene within two weeks. At the Capi
tol preparations have already been
made for tlio reception of tho now
body of lawmakers, and an interest
ing ROBsion is anticipated.
Secretary Curlisle is devoting nearly
all his time now to the preparation of
his annual report. He visits tho
treasury every day, but remains only
a short time. Ho is doing bis work at
homo whore he is uot mbjeot to inter
ruption.
Seerotary Olnoy has received an in
timation of tho willingncHR of Franco
to releaso John L. Waller from prison
as an act of graoiousness to tho United
States, but as nn acceptance of this
might prevent this government from
subsequently demanding an indemnity
for his imprisonment, a condition
which Waller, it is understood, does
not agree to, tho prospects are that
(odious diplomatic negotiations nro
tho last recourse.
It is rumored that tho treasury de
partment has communicated with Now
York bankers with a view to making
an arrangement for the restoration of
tho gold resorvo. The proposition is
that when tho resorvorJaUs to $75,000,-
000 tho hanks shall furnish $JJ6,000,-
000 in gold,for which they will receive
4 per cent bonds oil iv ft per cent basis.
The idea is regarded with favor by tho
banks as they would rather supply
gold than oxporionco another ffnanciul
disturbance.
In tho courso of a thoughtful report
upon labor aud wages in China,United
States Consul General Jornignn strong
ly urges the merchants of America to
bo ready to seizo upon tho splendid
opportunities for trado that are suro
to follow the approaching awakening
of China, He shown how at- presont
tho trade balance is heavily Against us
in the caso of both Jupnu and Chinn,
in the former tho balnutjie last year bo
ing <519,009,000 aud ih Vi
000,090,. while Great’
thousniil more miles 1
aoces in
amount of loss sustained upon tho J mayor ^ and A.^GJbian, of^thosamo
property insured by them; provided,
paid amount of loss does not exceed
tho amount of insurance expressed in
the policy, and that all stipulations iu
of her husband. The bill finally
passed by a vote of 08 to 29.
Tho following new bills were intro
duced in the houso Thursday: A bill
asking for the appropriation of
$25,000 to tho Georgia Memorial Hoard
for tho purpose of marking by monu
ments the spots occupied by Georgia
troops at Ghiekninnugu; To require
county treasurers to muko reports to
county commissioners when required
to do so. Also a bill to provide for
tho confinement of certain felons in
tho discretion of tho court in the
conuty chaingangs. Tlio following
bills were passed: Hill to create a
purk aud treo commission for the city
of Savannah; A senate resolu
tion appointing a committee of
two from tbe senato aud three
from tbe house to investigate tho com
panies who are iu arrears to the state
for the lens* of convicts; To extend
for sanitary purposes the jurisdiction
of the mayor and aldermen of Savan
nah ; To authorize policemen of the
city of Savannah to make arrests with
in two miles from the corporate limits
of the city; To abolish the county
court of coffee county; To fix the time
of election of the clerk and sheriff of
the city court of Savanuab; To create
a board of education for the town of
Lithonia; To ehango tho time for
holding the spring term of tho Daw
son superior court.
Representative Rranan’s bill to fix
salaries for Fulton county officers and
to abolish the fee system which now
prevails, hns been defeated in the com
mittee room. It has been under the
consideration of the committee on
county and county matters, and was
reported back to the house unfavora
bly by that committee on Friday. It
is understood that the opinion wns
unanimous in the committee that the
bill was in its makeup unconstitution
al, and the committee’s report was in
accordance with this view. All of the
county officers, the parties most con
cerned, appeared before the committee
and opposed the measure. Despite the
efforts of its advocates, the hill re
ceived a unanimously unfavorable re
port. Mr. Branan says he will intro
duce another similar bill and ask that
it be referred to the judiciary commit
tee. The judiciary committee report-
rd favorablv to the house a
bill by Mr. Giles
which provides f-
null aud void ; provided, that in cases
of losses on stocks of goods and mer
chandise and other species of personal
property changiugin specifies aud quan
tity by the usual customs of trade, only
the actual value of tho proporty at the
time of loss may he recovered. Other
bills passed wero as follows: Bill to
amend section 4625 of the code, rela
ting to obstructing fish ways with
darns; To define the rights aud privi
leges of foreign guardians and trus
tees. Senator Sbepperd introduced a
bill to amend, revise and consolidate
ihe military laws of the state, and to
declare what military laws are of force.
This bill is aimed at independent com
panies, aud if passed will disband s'uch
companies as the Gate City Guard, or
forco them to enlist.
Soon after the senate met Friday, it
adjourned to the hall of the house of
representatives to assist in tho recep
tion of the visiting governors. Upon
reassembling a number of bills wero
read the second time, and the follow
ing bills passed: A bill by Senator
Tatum, taking Cherokee county from
the Cherokee circuit and putting it iu
the Rome Circuit; Houso bill of Mr.
McDaniel to repeal the act of 1883 in
corporating the town of Morganton,
Fannin county; Bill by Mr. Longley
uinonding the charter of Dalton.
Senator Mercer introduced a bill to
prescribe how elections Hhall bo held
in counties on the fence question,
when previous elections had been
held on the subject. The senate ad
journed until Monday at 10 o’clock.
The senate was not in session Satur
day and on account of the largo num
ber of absentees there was no business
of importance transacted in the house
during the short morning session. The
session was principally devoted to read
ing bills for a second time while a few
new measure s wore introduced, among
which wt re the following: To amend
an act authorizing the town of Wash
ington to issue bouda; To change the
time for holding tho Uulaski superior
court; To authorize, in counties of
60,000 inhabitants, 1 he payment by the
county for dockets of justices of tho
pence; To fix compensation for elec
tion clerks iu Pieice county; To pre
vent the sacrifice of real proper
ty at legal sales by providing
fur the appraisement of the same and
ity. Captain I). Purse*, of Savannah,
was there and likewise Captain F. M.
Potts, of Atlanta. In answer to ques
tions Mr. Hill acknowledged that his
aide has raised a fund to promote tho
interests of the Bush bill. It’s intend
ed use was entirely legitimate and lie
did not think-the fund was ever large
enough to pay for sending out prohi
bition literature. Ho named the cus
todian of this fund, Rev. A. J. Hughes,
of Lexington, Georgia. Mr. Hughes
will he summoned before tho commit
tee and asked to tell the amount of the
fund and the exact sources of expendi
ture.
POWDERLY CANNOT VOTE
In the General Assembly of tho
Knights of Labor.
In tbo general assembly of tho
Knights of Labor in session at Wash
ington tho proposition to reduce the
per capita tax from 2 cents per month
to 1 cent was defeated, the drift of tho
argument going to show the organiza
tion needed tho money thus derived
for tho institution of now assemblies
and tho propagation of the general
work of the order. It was also thought
that this tax was not so heavy but
that it could bo borne cusily by the
members until tlio organization whs on
a firmer footing.
The constitution wbh amended so as
to take from the past general master
woikman Ihe right to vote in the gen
eral assembly, but permitting him to
retain his seat ai an advisory member,
with authority to 1 urtieipate in all de
bates. Mr. Powderly, although now
under suspension, is the official thus
deprived of the vote in question. He
is not present nnd it wns expressly
stuted that no feeling of animosity to
ward Mr. Powderly actuated the as
sembly. The new iulo will apply in
the same manner to Mr. Sovereign
when he rotircsone year hence. It was
caid that if a past master workman hud
the proper stunding in his own juris
diction his district would send him as
nn accredited deb gate and tho present
provision of the constitution was for
that reason unnecessary.
tho Columbia river, Galveston and
Puget Bound. Iu addition projects
for tho sub-marine defonso of various
places have beon prepared or revised
and nearly all have received tho ap
proval of tho secretary of war.
IIo submits in detail his estimates
for river and harbor improvements.
Among them nro the following: James
river, Virginia, $150,000; Potomac
per, $150,000; (with this estimato
men a recommendation that the
Long bridge bo rebuilt, an at present
an ieo gorge would overflow the city
and do great, damage; also that tho re
claimed lands on tho flats shall bo re
served for park purposes and not given
to commercial uses.) York river, Vir
ginia, $20,000; Cape Fear river,below
Wilmington, N. $105,000; Winyaw
bay, South Carolina,$200,000; Charles
ton harbor, $100,000; Santoo rivor,
South Carolina, $60,000; Savannah
river, $17,000; Darien harbor, Geor
gia, $25,000; Key West harbor, $125,-
000; Charlotte harbor, Florida, $20,-
000; Chattahoochee river, $20,000;
Pensacola harbor, $500,000; Alabama
river, $50,000; Coosa river, between
Rome audTeunessee river bridge,$187,-
000, between Wotumpka and the same
bridge, $312,000; Mobilo harbor,
$150,000; lllnok Warrior river, $100,-
000; Warrior and Totubigbco, in Ala
bama and Mississippi, $06,000; Tom-
bighoe up to Demopolis, $97,000, be
low Demopolis, $90,000; Bayou La
fourche, Louisiana, $25,000; Bayou
Pluquemino, $150,000 ; Calcaciou river,
$100,000; Sabino Pass, Texas, $275,-
000; Galveston harbor, $1,600,000;
Galveston idnp’ohai.ncl, $100,000; Buf
falo Bayou, $15,000; Rod river, Lou
isiana and Arkansas, $25,000; Ouachi
ta and Blaok rivers, $50,000; Yazoo
liver, $25,000; Yazoo harbor, Vicks
burg, $225,000; Arkansas rivor, $100,-
000; White river, $20,000; Cumber
land rivor, below Nashville, $150,000;
nbovo Nashville, $450,000; Tennessee
river, $485,000.
TER JURY CHARGED.
Shoemaker, One of Holmes' Attor
neys, I11 Serious Trouble.
The argumout for a new trial in the
continued murder ease of Holmes was
heard at Philadelphia Monday morn
ing in the criminal court before Judgo
Aynold, who tried tho case, Judgo
Wilsoimnd Judgo Thayer, , as presid
ing judgo of the court. Like all (he
phases of this singular case thitr ordi
narily routine prooedure furnished u
FOURTEEN KILLED.
Ol.LEY OAR (JOES THROUGH
AN Ol’ICN DRAW BRIDGE.
of Houston, j ullowiug the defendant to redeem tho
the firidiDg ,amc under certain circumstance.. J.
R I-Inn Cashier Absconds.
'1 he cu liicr of the Hocieto Generate
bank lit Brussels, Belgium, has ab
sconded, leaving a deficit in his ac
counts of 2,500,000 francs. When it
was discovered that he waH missing a
warrant was is-ued for his arrest. It
is supposed that his defalcation w
caused by speculation in gold mines.
Fourteen or the I-assengors Dead,
While Only Ono Wns Readied.
A frightful accident, by wliioh four
teen people lost thoir lives, ocourrcd
at Cleveland, O., Saturday ovoning.
Owing to tlio criminal and still unex
plainable onrolessiioss of a Btrect car
ronduotor, a cur well filled with poo-
plo took an awful pbingo of ouo hun
dred and twenty foot from the draw of
the Central viaduet into tlio dark wa
ters of tho Cuyahoga river.
Tho accident occurred at 7:25 o'clock
p. in. Tho Central viaduct is a long
stono nnd iron structure whioh crosses
the Valley railroad aud tlio Cuyahoga
river, and oonneota Jennings avenue
on tlio south side with Central nvonuo
on the east. Tho bridge in ono hun
dred uud twonty feet nbovo tlio river.
Tho draw was open for a tug draw
ing a schooner, which wns about to
pass beneath tho bridge. As usual, the
gates were cloBod on both sides of tho
draw and danger lights were displayed
to guard against an ac.oideut. An oleo-
trio ear wns seen coming nlong tho
cnHt townrd tho smith side, but Cap
tain Clmrh’H Brennan, who has chargo
of tho bridge, had no thought of dan
ger, nn tho ununi preeautionn had been
observed. Tho car wan ono of tlio Ce
dar and Jonuingn avonno branch of tlio
big Consolidated line, nud lmd flftoen
pnsnoiigorn, a oonduotor and motormnu
aboard. At what is known an tho “de
railing switch,” some two hundred
feet from tho draw, the oonduotor me
chanically alighted, nn is the wont of
all conductors nt thin point, to neo if
all wan right. Tho oar oamo to a stand
still and tho motormnn waited for or
ders.
Tho conductor, for nomo unaoeount
bio reason, failed to see tho rod signal
of danger or tho closed gates, or per
haps custom rnado him careless, and
ho siguulod to the motormnn, John
ltogeis, to como ahead. Tho motor
mnu turned on the electric current,the
oonduotor jumped nhonrd the car, nud
nt considerable speed the vehiolo near
ed tlio deathtrap.
Why tho motormnn did not sco ti o
danger lights or the eloBad gates tor -
or than he did will ulwayB remain a
Jim tnat remnjps tUaL L.
Monroe ifh'eV’rilie Resolutions
From hints thrown out liy- leaders
of Both political parties at the capital,
strong probabilities seem to exist that
two important joint resolutions will bo
ofljred immediately nfter the assem
bling of the fifty-fourth ooqgress. Tho
first will be,an affirmation of tho prin
ciples embodied in the Monroe doe-
trim-, expressing iu plain and vigor
ous language the sympathy of tho
American people with the government
of Venezuela in its boundary dispute
with Great Britain. Tho seoeud, a
joint resolution, which in being pre-
pnred with much care, provides for
tho annexation of the Hawaiian islands
to tho United .States under a territo
rial form of government.
Crisp In nil Old Koto.
Ex-Hpe-niter Crisp looms up ns tho
nnfural leader of the democratic mi
nority in the near approaching flfty-
fonrtli congress. He will receive the
complimentary nomination for speuk-
r without opposition. That in itHolf
will ho a formal designation iih leadei
f tlio minority. Although tho demo
crats in tho houso cannot expect to cut
much of a figure in thn framing of
legislation during the coming oongress,
they may ho able, by uniting
thoir forces, to make consider
able trouble for the over-confident
and too ambitious majority. As
a lender of tlio minority in the 51st
eongress Air. Crisp won most of his
national honors, and lie may lie able
to win the Georgia nenutorship from
the largo field of aspirants for that po
sition if he plays his cards well. It
is poisiblo that Mr. Reed may seek to
retaliate upon Mr. Crisp for tho Int-
ter'H attempt to discipline 1 ho “Big
Fellow from Alaine” in tho last con
gress. If the old warfare between
Reed and Crisp is revived, with Reed
n the chair and Crisp on the floor,
some iuteri ating history may lie made.
Roth Recalled,
Hubert S. Chilton nud Dnhiiiy Hun
ter, of the slate department, who were
sont by this government to establish
new consulates at Erzeroum and llnr-
poot ill Armenia, liuvo been recalled
by Heeretary Olnoy, and it is believed
that the project on which they wero
dispatched will bo abandoned. Offi
cials of tho stnte department are ex
ceedingly reticent about the matter,
and will admit nothing furtliur than
that Messrs. Chilton nnd Hunter had
informed the department of their re
turn to Constantinople.
Whether or not they are now cu
route to the United States or have been
directed to come home cannot he ascer
tained. Tt may bo that they nro in
Constantinople making a second en
deavor to secure exequaturs from tho
Turkish government, but there is good
ground for the belief that Mr. Chilton
•it b sst has been ordered hack to
Washington. The practical feature of
'ho mission on which Air. Chilton and
Mr. Hunter wero sent is due to the
I ffieultics which tho Turkish govern
ment placed iu their way.
Estimates for Rivers and Harbors.
The annual report of General Craig-
(lill, chief of engineers, to tho sycro-
•iry of war has been made public,
i'l. board bus prepared projects for
artillery defense of Philadelphia,
'i.'.-y West, Han Diego, ihe month of
Blanche Hnnuigan, Ill Ihe affidavit
the witnoss sworo that she kept aoign'r
storo on Callowhill street, near, the
houso wbero Pletzel was' killed, and
that she knew tlio dead man and that
ho told her that ho intended to com
mit suicide.
District Attorney Graham naked
that tho witness bo cnllod to tlio stand
and Mr. Shoemaker ropliod thatho did
not know where she was. Thun Air.
Graham called a private detective
mimed Hwetzler to the stand. The de
tective testified that Shoemaker,weeks
ago, had written out the affidavit and
given him $20 to pay some ono to
swear to it.
Then Deteotivo Geycr was eallod,
and ho testified that Hwetzler had
shown him tlio affidavit before it was
signed.
The woman wns called to tho stand
who said she wai the “Blanche Ilanni-
gnii” who signed tho affidavit. She
swore she knew nothing about tho
statements in the affidavit. Her name,
instead of being llauiiigan, was Rhea,
and she in the matron in tho fourth
police district. It wns at tho sugges
tion of Detective Geycr that she went
with Hwetzler to Shoemaker and im
personated Blsucho Hnunignn, Shoe
maker gave her $20 and took her be
fore a notary public and she swore to
tlio statement.
Tho astonishing testimony, that
seemed to clearly point to a perjured
affidavit, evidently surprised tho court
and when Shoemaker attempted to
make Homo confused statement, Judgo
Thayer suggested to him that his
greatest safely lay iu silence.
KhoemuUer’s Shame.
Judge Thayer, addressing Mr.Shoe
maker, told him that he had a most
nuplensint duty to perform. Ho said
that Air. Shoemaker having made tho
affidavit ho presented, tho court: had
no alternative but to hold in $100 bail
for subordination of perjury.
Mr. Shoemaker stood pallid anil
nerveleiH while Judge Thayer was
spunking, and when his honor hud fln-
jfchod lie made an innrticulnto effort, to
say something, but his voice choked
and he s.it down silently.
Tho court reserved its decision up
on granting Holmes a new trial, but
that the now trial will be refused from
t lie lino of questioning adopted by tbe
bench is undoubted.
Shoemaker procured bail but refused
to mnke ntiy statement in regard to tho
affidavit.
MUCH IRON CONSUMED. ^
Tlio Production is Not Equal to What,
tlio Trade Demand!.
The Iron Trade Review of tho past
week says: When it is considered that
the furnaces of tho country are pro
ducing at the yearly rate of nearly II,-
500,000 tons of pig iron, uud that at
the beginning of tho rnontli tho con
sumption was in excess of this rate,
the inherent strength of tlio situation
becomes apparent in spito of tlio evi
dence of weakness that appears iu tlio
limited business of the past few weeks.
Returns from tho district producing
tho hulk of tho country’s Bessemer
irou shows increasing production, no
stock on hand and continued weakness
iu price, though consumption is at tlio
highest rate yet attained.
l th a speed bortf rtf' M
threw the handle and opplied tho
brakes. •»
Tliroo Mon Jump.
Tho hricjgo captain seeing the np-
pronching ear, sUoulAd like a madman,
but availed nothing. The car was ul ■
ready on tho down grade to tho draw
nnd tho brakes were not nblo to hold
tho oar on tho slippory rails. Tho
motormnu, realizing liis danger, for
sook the preoious cargo ho was haul
ing, and with a wild cry leaped off tho
front platform, ran down tho viaduot
in the direction of Center avenue nud
disappeared in tho darkness.
At tho snnie instant two male pas
sengers jumped off llio roar platform
and escaped death as by a mirnolo.
Tho ear readied the closed iron gates
and in un instant tho crash of snapping
iron and breaking glass was heard.
This alarmed tho conductor, who had
stepped iusido, anil ho was soon to
make a dnhli for tho rear door, but ho
was too late.
The Fatal Plunge.
A second later the ear swayed on
tho edge of thn nwful space, steadied
for an instant, ns though in a frantic
endeavor to maintain its equilibrium
anil toppled over. There was an ago
nizing chorus of screams and iu un in
stant all was quiot.
Tho car struck upon n projection
of piles in tho abntmont beneath tho
draw, then turning aud collapsing it
fell into the dark river below, scatter
ing its passengers in all directions and
breaking tho tow lino between tho tug
and schooner that were passing.
A few suppressed groans wero heard
by tho men who happened to bo on
the docks below. Men from tho
bridge nbovo anil from tho docks who
had witnessed the acoident, culled to
the men on tho tug to pick up tho pee
pie, hut only two passengers, ono man
and ouo woman, were rescued. Tlio
woman, however, died while being re
moved to tho hospital.
Tho news of tho accident spread
rapidly anil iu a few minutes a fire
bout, six ambulances, six dead wagons
and a squad of policemon wero on
hand and tho work of rescuing the
bodies was taken up. Ono by one
they were found and taken to under
taking establishments iu different parts
of tho city.
Tho scenes which were enacted in
Detroit after the Journal ncoident
wero repeated at tho viaduct disaster
and undertakers, like ghouls, woro
struggling for possession of the bodies.
Tlio moment tho accident became
noised about they hurried to the docks
with their dead wagons and engaged
in the unsecmingly wrangle for tlio
corpses.
The motnrman wns found after mid
night. by two detectives and ho insists
that tho reason ho ran was beoauso he
was panic-stricken aud he did not see
tlio gates or the lights until tlio crash
came.
Later.
Up to 0 o’clock Sunday evening the
hndies of fifteen victims of Saturday
night's catastrophe had beon recovered.
This accounts for all but four of the
passengers known to have been on tho
car at the time it made its dreadful
plunge from tho open Central viaduct
down into the Cuyahoga river.
Ax extreme rigor is suro to arm
everything agninst it.
A
Great
Battle
Is to Be Waged Between Now
and 1890
For
Free
Coinage
THE PEOPLE'S MONEY—tlio coinago tt
both gold ami Mirer, without discrlmlna-
lion, winch means tlio free oninaRO of hoi i
as opposed to tho policy of contraction,
which lias been dictated by England uml
adopted in Washington, nnd which levied
tribute on b\cry product of tho farm, on
valuations of all kinds and on all oompens.v
tlona for labor.
THE GREAT ISSUE NOW is tho doubU
standard against tlio single standard—tlio
uso of both gold and silver an standard
money metals against hooping tho currency
of the country on the gold basis.
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