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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
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DETOTED TO THE M1X1X0, AQUICULTURAL ANT)
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
TERMS: One Dollar Per Year,
VOL. IV.
CLEVELAND, WHITE
COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 189. r >.
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Noa. 11 and 12, Pullman Sleeping Car between
Richmond, Danville and Giceiuboru.
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TWENTY-NINE DEAD.
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the Flamoa.
Twenty nine miners Just their lives
Friday in the NoS-ou mine, entry 10,
n«*nr Duytou, T *nn„ by an explosion
of firedamp The explosion vf ;iH 8110*
ceeded by a torriflo crush, which indi
cated that the roof of the passage
through which the men had entere l
had fallen in. No avenu i of escapo
was left, and there is no poH
nihility that any of them will
bo found alive. The mine is the
property of the Dayton Coal and Iron
Company, three miles from the town
of Day too, and ih reached by a spur
track. The men, both white and col
ored, including several hoys, entered
the mine to go to work at 7 o’clock,
but nothing of the awful catastrophe
was known until a few hours afterward
when the drivers into entry 10 found
their way blocked by a solid wall of
coal itud slate.
It is known that the following named
persons were in the mine: Torn Haw
kins, John Leech, Lon Ferguson, Rob
ert Hamilton, Jack Ivost< r, William
Henderson, John Westfield, John Mu
sis, Josh Dennett, William Alexan
der, W. J. Miller, W. II. Da
vis, Theodore Lane, William Lane,
Laney Walker, Charles Wa»hbu;:u,
Cyrus Alexander, John Able, Will
Brotherton, Jim Johiihon, Klder Mor
gan, Will Baddy. *
The explosion occurred in entry No.
10, the men in entries 1, 2, 7 and 9
escaping, with tin exception of Tom
Hawkins, who breathed the fatal air
before he could get away.
The latest details and a corrected
account sny thufc a wny has been
broken through the debris in the
passage of entry 10, and the black
ened corpses carried out, when the
work of identification began.
The number of victims now reached
is twenty-nine. Life bad long been
extinct iu nil.
1 Asks Congress for Prompt
Sustaining Our Credit.
The news that there had been a big
slum]) in Blocks in both New Yittk and
London and that the gold withdrawals
for export Friday would approximate
Si,000,000 and possibly more, created
Homo thing ol a sensation among the
treasury officials. At about noon, As
sistant Secretary Curtis had a conver
sation with New York parties over the
long dint nice telephone,and at its con
clusion hurriedly left the department
for the White House, where tho cabi
net was in session. He was shown
into tho president’s room, where he
was joined immediately by So r* tary
Carlisle. The substance of Mr. Curtis’
information w is laid before tho presi
dent and the cabinet.
Those present besides tho president
were Secrotary Olney, Secretary Car
lisle, Attorney General Harmon, Post
master General Wilson and Secretary
Morton, The absentees were Secre
tary Lamont, who is in New York ;
Secretary Herbert, who was in a rail-
! road train between New York and
Washington, and Secretary Iloke
Smith, who was detained at home by
j the dangerous illness of his little
daughter. Reports of the serious oon
j ditiou of affairs in Wall street lmd
I been coming for an hour and after the
cabinet nsaembled these were sent as
fast aH received to the treasury officials,
who dispatched the information to
Secretary Carlisle at tho white house.
R. fore tho session had lasted two
hours a decision had been reached to
send to congress tho messago trans
mitted later. At 1 :30 o’clock it was
decided by tho officials to take a recess
in order to give tho president an op
portunity to draft tho nun-age.
Mr. Cleveland set to work in pre
paring tho document and probably had
all his ideas in presentable shape when
bis official associates returned an hour
later. By this time it had become
known that the gold withdrawals
amounted to S3, *100,000, bringing
down tho gold reset ye to $G9.288,000,
vt ry nearly to the figure which was
reached at the time of tho first bond
issue in February, 1891.
it was 4 :10 o’clock when tho cabinet
meeting adjourned. Twenty minutes
boforo that Umu Mr. P. L. Prndcn,
assistant secretary to the president,
had started from the while houso with
a copy of tho message, to bo delivered
to the senate.
Tt was very shortly boforo 4:30
o’clook that the message was read. It
dealt directly with tho financial situ
ation :
To the Congress---In my last annual
message tho evils of our present finan
cial system were plainly pointed out,
and the causes ami moans of the deple
tion of the government were explained.
It was therein stated that after all tho
« fiforts that had been made by tho ex
ecutive branch of the government to
protect our gold reservo by the issu
ance of bonds amounting to more than
§192,000,000,such reserve then amount
ed to but little more than $79,009,000;
that about $10,000,000 had be on drawn
from such reserve during the month
next previous to the date of that mes
sage, and that quite large withdrawals
for shipm- nt in the immediate future
were predicted.
“The contingency then feared has
reached ns, and tho withdrawal of
gold sinco the communication referred
to and others that appear inevitable,
threaten such a depletion in our gov
ernment gold reserve uh brings ns face
to face with the necessity of further
action f"r its protection. This condi
tion is intensifie d by tho prevalence in
certain quarters of sudden ami unusu
al apprehension and timidity in busi
ness circles,
“We are in tho midst of another
season of perplexity caused by dung* r-
ous and fatuous financial operat
These may bo expected to recur with
certainty as long as there is no amend
ment in our financial system. If in
this particular instance our predica
ment is nt all influenced by a recent
insistence upon the position wo should
occnpy in our relation to certain
apprehensive among our people
that tho resources of this gov
ernment and a scrupulous re
gard for lionost dealing afford a
sure guarantee of unquestioned safety
and soundness, but to reassure the
world that with these factors and tho
patriotism of our citizens, tho ability
and determination of our nation to
meet in any oiroumstnno *s every obli
gation it incurs do not admit of quo*
tiou.
“I aek at the hands of the congress
such prompt aid as it alone has tho
power to give to prevent in a time of
tear and apprehension uuy siorifioe of
the people’s interests and tho public
unds or the impairment of our publio
credit in an effort by executive action
to relievo tho dangers of tho present
emergency. "Ghtovieu Cleveland.”
Phosphate Company Receiver.
Judge Andrews, of the New York
supreme court, has appointed Kaufman
S.mon receiver for the Excelsior IVd-
b!e Phosphate Company at No. 63
Williams street, aud at Excelsior Park,
Polk county, Fla., on tho application
of Richard Arnold, a stockholder.
Gov. Foster Renominated.
A special from Shreveport, La.,
soys: Notwithstanding all the talk of
opposition the democratic state con
vention renominated Governor Mur
phy J. Foster. No other name waif
placed in nomination.
PANNICKY FEELING
CAPITAL NOTES.
YORK EXCHANGE
FLURRIED.
London Does Some Heavy Unloading.
Stocks Hard lilt.
Friday was tho stormiest day Now
York hnH known for a long time. The
stock market has been wildly excited
all during the day. The break away
came to- most people in the street ns a
total surprise, nothing being in sight
over night to portend any extraordi
nary developments.
Before tho opening, however, mat
ters began to assumo a questionable
shape in the judgment of Wall street
veterans. Tho first quotations re
ceived for American securities from
London created a sensation and pro-
pared the bankers and brokers for a
stormy day.
The prices recorded showed declines
exlending to 5 per cent, nml tho Lon
don market was reported decidedly
“lagged.”
Each tucoessivo cablo indicated still
lower figures, and it was finally re
ported that many “jobbers” on the
London Stock Exchange had refused
to accept orders.
This unfavorable nows was coinci
dent with preparations by tho gold
shipping houses for Saturday’s exports
to Europe. The initial trading was
highly sensational, ns declines wore
mado nil along the line extending to 4 J
per cent. Like tho London selling,
the bulk of the sales represented liqui
dation. A momentary rally occurred
’Around 10:15 o’clock of J to 1$ per
cent, but blocks of investment and
speculative stocks were soon thrown
overboard and the market took a fresh
plunge downward.
Gilt edged investment securities
went around nt hnndsomo bargains.
Before midday, breaks extending to
15$ per cent in lead preferred, had
been made.
(’all Money Goes Higher.
A sinister feature was an ndvnnco in
rates for call money to seventy-five
per cent, reflecting tiie calling in of
loans. In tho time specified three
failures were reported on tho Now
York stock exchange, and one on the
Consolidated exchange.
The railway and miscellaneous bond
market watt alno demoralized, declines
ranging up to 16 per cent. It was ru
mored that a single house had dumped
$400,000 of foreign bonds on tho mar
ket. Wisconsin Central Trust receipts
scored the extreme Iofh, aud in tho
leading speculatives tho recessions
extended to 111 per cent., iu Kansas
and T» xus seconds, to 47$.
Around 12:30 p. in. tho selling
pressure abated and recoveries were
made in the stock market from th
lowest extending to 3 por cent. Bonds
were relatively active.
At 1:30 o’clock a rally was in prog
ms. Tho upward movement wm
stemmed around on loug realizing
sales, iu which a liberal part of tho
gains were lost.
There were frequent sales of bonds
and stocks for the nccouut of the firms
that failed. Fifty-thousaud-dollar sil
ver certificates were sold at 601.
At 2 p. in. speculation was irregular.
Call money was 10 per cent. Boon
after 2 o’clock a rallying tendency do
veloped iu the stock market, and it:
tho next half hour recoveries from tho
lowest were established, extending to
.11 per cent in lead preferred. The
question* concerning our foreign po . | rillly „. |lH |, y n | ir ,.ak from HO
cy, this furnishes a signal nml impn s- i
Hivo warning tl.ut r v«n tho patriotic
sentiment of our people in not nu ale-
HOSSIP OP"
nuns ie
WASHINGTON
•AltAtilt.VlMIS.
Doings of the ( blot* nml Bonds of tlio
Various l)ri,urtnu-uts.
per cent to the lop figure for cull
money—to (i percent. Near the close
I lie rate jumped again to 50 per cent
nml the stock market bcoarne irregular
and so closed.
quote substitute for u souml financial
policy.
“Of course there can he no douht in j
any thoughtful mind in the completo issue OF BONDS DKCIDKI) UPON.
solvency of our nation, nor can there '
he any just apprehension that tho ■ A Conference at the White House Sun-
Amoriean peoplo will be satisfied with ! day.
less than nn honest payment of onr | a Hun special from Boston, Mass.,
publio obligations in tho recognized | gays:
money of the world. We should not . “The Globe’s Washington corre-
i.verlook tho fact, however, that spondent sent tho following Sunday
aroused fear is unreasoning and must • night: Another issuo of bonds will bo
be taken into account in all efforts to j made. This is tho result of a coufer-
nvert publio loss nnd the sacrifice of ; eucu at tho white house Sunday after-
otir people's interests. . noon between tho president, Secretary
“Tho real nnd sensible cure for our ; Olney, Secretary Carlisle, Secretary
recurring troubles can only bo efieted Lemont and Attorney General Harmon,
by a completo change in our financial “During tho pHBt forty-eight hours
scheme. Ponding that, tho executive the president, through his friends, has
branch of the government will uot re- been carefully feeling the pulso of
lax iIk efforts or abandon its determin- congress to ascertain whether tho leg
ation to use every means within its jsintive department would comply with
reach to maintain before the world tho request contained in his special
American credit, nor will there be any message of Friday, and without delay
hesitation in exhibiting its confidence take steps to properly protect the
■n the resources of oar oountry and tho treasury by the passage of adequate
constant patriotism of our peoplo. In financial legislation,
view, however, of the peculiar situa- i “The utmost secrecy in regard to
tiou dow confronting hr, I have vin- th 0 ntw | )0 nd issno has been maintain-
tnred to herein express the earnest u d, nnd at the present time probably
hope that the congress in default of uo t a dozen porsons, including tho
the inauguration of a better system of members of the cabinet, know of tho
finance will not take a recess from its conference or tho important decision
nbors before it lias by legislative in- which was reached at tho meeting of
actmint or declaration done tome- the president nnd a few of his advis-
thing not only to remind those ers.”
Saturday nftoruippn Speaker Herd
announced tho eonwifttecs of (lie house
of ropresmitalivos.
Thursday’s statement of tho condi
tion of the treasury shows:,’ Available
cash balance $1S5,G61,030; gold re-
rervu $72,505,5:10.*
Immediately after tho house ad
journed SnturduyAoaUs were issued
Tor the meeting oT several of tho more
important oommitftios in order that
the transaction of business might be
begun nt the oarlioA.possible moment.
Mr. Dingley had the ways and means
oommitter assembh dffor organization.
This was fitterted by reappointing tho
present clerks, who will hold ovet
until January lstjJI Then tho com
miltco adjourned to meet Monday.
Tho senate .committee on foreign
relations was iu session Wednesday
and derided to sit during tho holiday
recess for the eonsidoralion of tho
Venezuelan question in its entirety.
It is their intention to take tho ques
tion up in all its phases, and to that
end they will have before them all
the reports and other documents
hearing upon the subject. Tho result
of tliiH inquiry, iu all probability, will
bo a resolution defining tho position
of tho United States on the Venezue
lan dispute, coupled wilh a declara
tion of the Monroe doetrino.
A meeting at tho stale department,
Thursday, bctwcotf^Pforolary Olney
nnd tho ministers tmtlio United Slates,
ol Venezuela, Mexion and Brnzil, is
understood to ltavoij involved impor
tant oonsidnrntions nffeoting our South
nnd Central American relations. Al
though tho matter has not yet taken
definite official form, there is renson
to believe that all of the ropnblios of
South and Central America will coin
momenta officially to tho United
States their hearty approval of the
enunciatiou of tho Monroe doctrine
tnudo by tho 1’resideBt and Mr.Olney.
Tired of Low Tariff.
Messrs. Henry and Hill, two repub
lican members of tho house, who rep-
resent tho tobaooo groking sections of
Connecticut,.... are nulJiBjity for .'he
Ztbtoiflom itmt' groat' importations of
Sumatra leaf tobacco for cigar wrap
pers and fillers has practically de
al royrd the tobacco crop,of that state.
With a view lo prot{ Aug the inter
cats of their constituents, Mr. Hill has
introduced a bill to restore the Mc
Kinley rules on tolmlco, while Mr.
Henry lias introduced another meas
ure fixing the rate on importations of
tobaooo at tho following figures: Jjoaf
tobacco for cigar swappers, not
stemmed,$‘d.25 per pouijd; if stemmed,
$2.75 per pound. All other tobacco
in lenf not stemmed, 50 cents por
pound ; if stemmed, 75 cents per
pound. All tobaooo not especially
provided fer, 51) oents per pound. Oi
gars, eigaretlus and cheroots, $-1.50
por pound and 25 per cent ad valorem.
'1 lie Trouble In Turkey.
Tho president, ’Ihltrsdny, made re
spouse to the senate resolution of De
cember Ith, calling for information
received bv tho state department re
specting nfTiiirs in Turkey. The re
sponse is iu the slmpo of a report by
Secretary Olney, summarizing, but
not including tho official correspond
ence, and beginning with llio massa
ores al Moo-h, in Aiiunst,’ 1H!)4. In
substaueo the secretary's report re
counts all that lias been done to pro
tect American citizens against the
rioters; shows lint wliilo their prop
erty 1ms suffered in two instances,they
have not been injured in person;
quotes Minister Terrell as estimating
the number of Americans killed al
11(1,000, and after citing several cases
wherein naturalized Americans have
boon oppressively treated, states that
proper stops havo been taken to se
cure indemnity in all eases, aud to
protect naturalized citizens in their
treaty rights.
The Scheme of Belief.
The following is stated on tho best
authority to I>u Ihe plan of relief
which will lie discussed by tho wnyR
and means committee during the
Christmas recess:
The programme which tho republi
can leaders of the houso havo now
tentatively in mind iH to temporarily
provide from $25,000,000 to $43,000,-
000 moro revenue by somo brief
amendment of the tariff, not involving
general tariff revision, tlicso amend
ments to expire at tho end of thirty
months; to give tho secretary of tho
treasury authority to issue a 3 por
cent, bond us a popular coin to main
tain tho coin redemption fund and for
no other purpose, with a proviso that
tho redeemed greenbacks shall not*bo
used to meet currout expenses, but bo
retained so long as necessury an part of
the redemption fund; to authorize
national banks to issuo circulating
notes to the par of the bonds deposited
as aeenrity and to reduoo tho tax on
national bank circulation, and to au
thorize tho issue of certificates of in
debtedness to meet a temporary defi
ciency or tho revonno until the revo
nuo can bo provided.
Vacancies Killed.
Tbo republicans of tho senate, in
caucus Tuesday afternoon, adopted tho
report ol tho committee appointed to
fill tho vacancies iu tho senuto. There
was not a dissenting voto.
There uro sixty committees iu the
senate. Of these forty-three havo boon
given to republicans, six to populists
and eleven to democrats. Each
vacancy was filled, sevon places being
assigned to somo senators, and six to
komo othors, with tho understanding
that should Ulnh send two republic in
senators and should a republican be
admitted from Delaware, jdaoes oottld
then lie made for these senators by
resignation on tho part of senators
having an exoofs of assignments.
The committee agreed on every ev
ery matter that oinno boforo it but on
the proposition, to-wit: To change
ttie name of the select committee to
inquire into all claims of citizens of
the United States against the govern
ment of Nicaragua to “select commit
leo on tho Nicaraguan canal and to
inquire into claims of citizens of tin
Da '. .| States against the governin'"•
ot Nicaragua." They also proposod
lo iucro iso tho committee fl-om five to
seven aud give Ihe minority tho chair
manship aud the republicans four
members.
The Monroe Doctrine.
The following is tho full text of
President Monroe’s uttornnoo which
is known sh “tho Monroe doctrine.”
“Wo owe it, therefore, to candor
and to tho nmioahlo relations existing
between thu United States and tlioso
powers, to declare that wo should con
sider any attempt on their part to ex
tend their system of any portion of
this hemisphere as dangerous to our
penoo and safety. With tho ex
sting colonies or dopouduuoies of
any European power, wo have
not interfered, nml ahull not interfere.
But with the governments who havo
declared llieir independence and main
tained it, aud whose independence wo
have, on great consideration nnd on
just principles, acknowledged, we could
uotviow any interposition for the pur
pose of oppressing then), or controll
ing in any other manner their destiny,
by any European power, in any light
than as the manifestation of an
unfriendly disposition toward tho
United States. But in regard to
these contingents, ciroumstalloeH are
eminently and conspicuously different.
It is ini possible that tho allied powers
should extend their political system to
any portion of either continent with
out endangering our penoo and happi
ness; nor can any one beliovo that our
Southern brethren, if left to them
selves, would adopt it of thoir own ac
cord. It is equally impossible, there
fore, that wo should behold such in
terposition, in any form, with iudif-
fereuoo.”—Message ot December 2,
1823.
FOUItTERN KILTED.
Oil Explosion nt Son Onuses Konrfut
Loss ot IJfo.
ED IN AN EXCLUSION.
During ft heavy gftle Inst Sunday FORTY 51INKKS INSTANTLY KILL*
morning, 319 miles off Cspe May, N. |
J., tho German ship Athens, Captain j
Hank, which left New York December
10th for I.ondou wilh n cargo of naph
tha, took fire, and wliilo tho crew were
being transferred to tho British ship
Tsfna, from Marabelle for Philadel
phia, the oil exploded, blowing tho
Athens out of the water.
Tho oaptaiu and tliirtoon of the crew
woro cither killed by the i xplo-i in or
drowned. Tile first and second mates
aud four of thu crew had been trans
ferred to tho Tafua before tlni cxplo
sion took place and were saved.
The disaster took place in longti-
tudo 86:40 north aud latitude 63:50
west, amt when the THfiiB loft the
plane the wreckage from tho sli p was
drifting southeast.
NO POLITICS IN IT.
The American Federation of Labor
Alljou.ns Slue* Did.
Tho Amerioun Federation of Labor
Tuesday continued to boyoott tho pro-
loot of the American Tolmooo Compa
ny. Thu brewer workers caused tho
rcuffinuation of tho boyoott against
thu St. Louis English syndicate beer
and the New York pool beer. Tho
boycott levied on Uackolt, Curlntrt &
Co. was raise d. The matter of a boy
oott on tho breweries of Engal <t Baltz,
at Philadelphia, wne referred to the
ixi entivo committee.
Tho question of tho federation ink-
ng part in polities was disposed of by
till) adoption of this resolution :
“Kesolved, That this convention
declares that party politics, whether
U'lnoerntiOj republican, socialistic,
populistio or any other, should have no
place iu Ihe federation of lubor.”
This was carried by a voto of 1,400
to 359.
It was rogurdod as a groat blow to
tho socialiatic element.
Bosolutions of sympathy with tho
Cubans and of regret for the death of
Allen G. Thurman woro adopted.
The question of election of two fra
il real delegations to the British trade
congress, to bo bold September 3rd,
1800, wan then tulipn up and resulted
in the selection of John McBride, re
tiring prcH'dunt, and Adolph Straus-
-er, of Buffalo, ox-president of thu
International Cigar Makers’ union.
Alter congratulatory resolutions on
■ li,< proideney of ex-i’residout Mc
Bride had been adopted the conven
tion adjourned sine die.
VENEZUELA.
Something Abnut tho Republic That
lias Created Snell u Stir.
Venezuela is n federal republic and
iuclmlos nn area of 032,897 square
miles embraced betweou 507 deg. and
730 dog. 30m. west longitude nml 1
DANK Qi Us BUSINESS.
Stockholder* of the Empire State
Bank, N. Y., Cease Operations.
Tho Empire Sintu bank, of Now
York, lias retired from business and
will wind up its affairs through the
Astor Place bank, where all deposi
tors will be pnid thoir bnluncos on ap
plication.
TliiB notion of tho retiring bank was
the result of a recent meeting of stock
holders. Tho bauk lias not beou ns
successful ns was expected aud tho
stockholders decided to wind up its
affairs nnd retire from business. It has
long been known iu banking circlcn
that tboro were loo many 1 i tt lo slnto
banks iu the city. These little stato
banks are unable to competo success
fully with Ihe national banks. It is
said Unit more of them are likely to re-
tiro from business shorttv.
SIX STEEL BATTLESHIPS.
Senator Hale Also Wauls Twenty-Five
Torpedo Boats Bnlldrd.
Mr. Ilule introduced iu tho senato
Thursday a Dill authorizing the presi
dent to havo constructed by coutraot,
to the lowest responsible bidder, six
seagoing coast line steel battleships of
about 11,000 tons displacement, de
signed to carry tho heaviest nrmor nml
tho most powerlul ordnance, nnd of
the highest rnto of speod, to cost $1,-
000,000 onoh, and for twonty-ftvo tor
pedo boats, to oost $175,000 oaeh. Not
more than two of tho batlioships, nor
moro than six of the torpedo boats are
to be buijl oq,lho I’apifiu.eouat^iior
more than two of either class built iu
one yard.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Are'Preparing for a tlront Purndo in
New York July Next.
A mooting of tho spocial committee
having in charga tho proposed Confed
erate Veterans’ parade nnd review in
New York on July 4th next, was held
Wednesday afternoon. William P.
Ht. John, president of the Mercantile
National Bank, presided. Tho follow
ing statement was given out:
“Tbo special committee on organi
zation, plan and scope havo met and
rcooived accumulated evidence of thu
iuoronso in tho publio interest. Tho
committee announces that I ho arrange
ments for tho parade nnd review nro
progressing most satisfactorily nud
that promises of support have been re
ceived from all ovo.r tl\o country.”
INSURANCE CONSPIRATORS
Sentenced by tbo Court to 'forms 111
tbo Penlteiu lary.
Tho insnrnnco conspiracy trials at
Trenton, N. 0., havo all ended and
Judge Gruhum pronounced sentences
ou thu men. Has-ell, thu leader oT
the conspiracy, was sent to the jeni-
tontinry for seven years. William
Fisher, colored, gets livn ynara. Dr.
D. T. Dolemar, Huldou Delemar, J. C.
Dulumar nml Levi T. Noe were s-in-
teuoud to servo two years onuli in Cra
ven county jail. All of the defendants
appealed and gave bond. They say
they will curry the case to tho United
States supremo court if necessary.
HAYWARD WAS A DEMON.
Ho Killed Tlirco Otbor Persons Be
sides 511s* dug.
A Minneapolis speoial says: Harry
Ilnyward’s ante mortem statement dio-
BRASS MEN FORM A COMBINE.
However, 'they Say Tlielr Organisa
tion Is Not a Trust.
Tho manufacturers of brass goods of
tho eonntry formed a national organi
zation at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday. A
fore his execution contains his confes
sion of tho Ging murder and also tho
startling information that he commit
ted Ihroo murders before that oriino.
Ilaywurd stntod in his confession that
ho never got into trouble until lie be
gan to gnmblo. This led him to form
tho acqunintanco of the counterfeiters,
with whom ho associated for somo
time.
d»g. 4m. nml 12 deg. 20m. north long- J tilted to a stenographer tho night lie
itudo. On tho southwest it elaims
territory which is also claimed by
Colombia nnd Encador, and on tbo
east is tho land which iH clnimcd both
by Venezuela and Great Britain,which
holds that it is a pnrt of British Gui
ana.
Tho total population of tho republic
Is 2,198,320. The pure wliito popula
tion is estimated to bo only about 1
per cent, of the whole. 'Tho principal
exports are coffee, cocoa, tobacco,
cotton, sugnr, hides nnd nnimnls. Tho
foreign nommereo of llio country is
principally with tho United States,
Germany, France and England. The
chief seaports nro Laguayra, Puerto
Cubollo, Maracaibo, Cimlad Bolivar,
Puerto Sucre, Puerto Guzman Blanco,
La Vela ami Guira. Caracas, tbo capi
tal oity, is nn inland town with a pop
ulation of 70,500 in 1893.
Tho total length of tho railways of
tho republio in 1880 was 144 miles
but since that time several hundred of
miles of now roads hnvoheou bu lt.
Ilurrtblo Disaster at Cumnock, North
Carolina.
There was an explosion of gas in
the Cumnock bituminous coal mine in
Chat Ini in county, North Carolina, forty
miles from Kaluigh Thursday morning.
The regular day force of sixty six
men went in tho mine at 7 o’elook.
Over 50 per cent never came out alive.
| Tlio exact number of the dead iB not
I yet known, but from the best informa
tion it is believed thirty-eight were
killed, allhoui-’h R-min sn- forty-one.
Tho explosion occurred nt 8:45, its
cause not being known nml will not be
until after tho removal of the dead.
Tho fire boss made the muni examin
ation early in Iho morning nnd re
ported the atmoxpbere nil right ns Into
ns 8 o’clock. The mine foreman mado
the same report.
Tho explosiou took away very little
onrtli. Both shafts being freo nud
opon nil Have two men in tho chambers,
except in Chamber No. 1, escaped to
llio shaft. Every minor in chamber
No. 1 o»s killed. Tlioso who escaped
Bay the shock was slight. It is thought
that many deaths resulted from after
damp.
There was a quantity of dynamite iu
the mine, nud this exploded.
Seventeen of the dead men were
piled up at the shaft nt ouo time.
None were sent to the surfnee.
At 7 o’clock p. m., when twelvo mon
entered tho mi no to renew the search,
a hundred others stood around and ro-
fused to enter tlio mine. Superin
tendent Cant pleaded with thorn to ns-
sist in tho reseuo, but only twelve
would go down. Tho heart-stricken
mothers, wives nml children crowded
around tho shaft, uttering pitiful criee
for their dt ad.
The debris killed many of those in
Chamber No. 1. The bodies of tho
seventeen so far rcouvered sre burned
almost boyond recognition. Five
physicians uro attending tho injured,
the clothes of tho latter, iu somo cnscB,
having boon almost entirely burned
off.
They are: John Williams, faoe,
bauds aud arms burned; William
Smith, outs on head aud face, burned;
Dempsey H id soy. eolorecj, bauds, {boo
nnd body litiTlied ; Jack Johnson, ter
ribly burned.
Most, of tho dead nro natives of
North Carolina. One-third are I’onn-
eylvnuinns, seven of whom oxpeoted
to return home Friday. Tlio dead nro:
George Andrews, William Baldwin,
John Obie, John Gunter, Georgo
Monroe and son Thomas, Henry Mor
ris and son, llandolph Wright, Luctnu
Hollings, Counsel Poe, William Mc
Donald nml son, M'olinol Bentley
and son, Edward Frank, McKoy
Ivinson, Mr. Snells, Joo White,
Colonel LouiB White nnd Arthur
White, brothers; Joo Thompson, col
ored; William Jenkins, colored;
Charles Poe; Jerry Lambert nnd Gns-
ton Lambert, colored, nnd brothers;
John Bberaburg; a German, name un
known; Fisher Hoevis, colored; Clny
Harris, colored. All the above savo
one were married aud leave dependent
families, Tlio other dead who woro
single men nro: Walter Heston, ool-
nred; Lewis Skonkle, colored; John
Mclver; Jim Reeve, colored; John
Norwood; four Germans who hud
lately arrived, names unknown.
Heartrending Scenes.
Tho seems at the Cumnock coal
mines Friday morning were heart
rending. The Hr-t lio lies to be broil .lit
up wore placed before the shuddering
aud weeping throng nt 3 o’c'oek.
There were thirty.five of them. Their
appiarauoe was horrible in the ex
treme. Nearly all wore burned black;
seme were bare of clothing, nnd tho
extremities of some, particularly tho
hands, weru nearly burned off.
At 10 o’clock ten more bodies wero
brought up. A morgue wuh impro
vised iu thu engino room, nud thoro
the bodiuH were placed. The throng
of women who wero at tho pit's mouth
Thursday all wild wilh nuxiety, but
wilh some hope of rescue, were all ab-
scut Friday, being at homo wuiliug
for the dead. Tlioy had abandoned
all hope. Thu work of identifying
bodies was slow. In one case three
white men wero positive a body was
that of their brother, but later they
discovered that it was u negro. Tho
coal, company had thu bodies shrouded,
aud will pay ull buriul exjieuses.
To Disqualify Negroes.
In the Virginia house of delegates
Tuesday n ri solution was offered by a
prominent dumocratie leader submit
ting to the voters of the stale tho
question of calling a constitutional
convention, Tho object of tho eon
vention, should it be called, would bo
to adopt provisions disqualifying tlio
negroes by tho Mississippi or some
other plan.
Tlio Mississippi Booming.
From Thursday night to Sunday
night tho Mississippi river at St. Louis
bus risen twenty-two feet, which is
unprecedented in tho same length of
time. Thu boatmen nnd dwellers on
the river bunk were taken unawares
aud tho Iosh is already very great.
Italy Wants the Jub.
Tho Paris Temps newspaper, pub
lishes a dispatch from ltoinu saying
meeting of representatives of the trade Zrilalv has Xred to Z wbiKiS
was held and after discussing tndo ; f ^ difficulties betweonGreatBrit-
oondit.oue, it was decided to commit- j aQ(1 , he Unitod states.' Groat
date for mutual benefit The organize- Brjtoi lbe (lispllt4b add*, has not ro-
ttou is not called a trust by the persons - - r
present. There was a lurge attomlauoo.
plied to the offer.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
Bouses Washed Away and People
Drowned In Indian Territory.
Speeiuls of Saturday from Wagoner,
I. T., stato that tho ruin of two doyu’
duration aud a heavy snow full which
molted, 1ms caused un overflow iu tho
Grand, Verdigris and Arkansas rivi rs
which lias flooded hundreds of fnrtnn
nml foreed thu inhnbituntB to take
refuge iu tho hills.
Homo twenty or thirty houses havo
been swept away aud with contents
are a total loss, leaving hundreds with
out homes or shelter. A woniun was
discovered afloat on a mass of drift
wood, but as there was no bunts to lie
had, sho probably drowned boforo as
sistance could reach her, as tho streum
was a rushing torrent.
Ututi’s Constitution.
Thu constitution fur the state of
Utah, which was submitted to the at
torney general by tho president, has
been examined nud approved by that
officer. Tho president will, on Janu
ary 4, 1890, issuo his proolnmmntiou,
admitting tho territory of Utah as a
stato of tho Union, and the terms of
the stato offloers will begin ou the fol
lowing Monday, Juuunry 6th.