Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. By JX<>. it, i./ / ,\ 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 >. NO. r>2. f. 1 . 1 1 ■* * 1 a mi\ri7 iinuunii m PIEDMONT AIR LINE. CONDENSED 8C1IEDI I E OF I'AFSEN MOKE BONDS. KKKSIDKM’ CLKVKLAN1) ISSUKS TilK CALL. Norflilmuii.l m Vn '"1- No. Is No.: 19 Od hi r (1. IS*).-,. 1*1 ,111ml. jOftlly h>im H,,ily Lv. 4* lUntii < T 0 m|U i:,p 7 f0n i -VJp 4 00p A llxliu: K. T " llufniil l (M, jlj Ull HfitM 5 H5p 6 - I 5 PUR •• i.mIdu Mile.. " Lulu 1 2 oinj im in' J 'j.'iti 111 < m! 7 1 p Ml"!’ 0 3'Jp in -jii., •; Mi. Airy. .. h il 7 S5p ” tti’Slii.luMur. | :* r.u. [ i j j7|.| » nm - *'*T Mip " * nut,it 1 J‘.| i GUi 1 2i)|. tup y 5 ip " Urtrmillr . . r >.;oi u.,| 2 0 lh|. til>H :;2.|. «:u. 11 i* !U *3p " Murks urjf. || K iir’k Mi 12 •/;» •} O’T lu ;>up Ar. ) li.trl« tto Ar. Dmivillo i- j D'i'ln «p ~ i 00: Ar. Kit litnon.l (V t'a 0 topi OU li S.Yi* Ar. WusMngioi,. “ But m , l*U K t; gm! ‘Hop! 11 l.Nft 1 17p “ 1 l.i’u.L l» t.:a :i i - p “ Now York ... 5-0.1 C20.I «*'3p , K V...M no.i; Vo. ill Ili.il, i 1.11 > “"'O' I,.,,;, Lv N. Y. P K 11 ... 1 * Li 11 .1*1 r .ll il oca “ i'hilmlt'liihiii ’* 1M ini'.r.*.... \V| •' •or u }•-•*! 10 «l| 111 I;*. 1 up ■1 l.*p I :rjp # * UUhmoiitl. . -4C0. jt-*fKS,. 2 no. | 7.S5P '* Danville. ... r, rt,, n ti p " < hurioUe . “ (iastoui t ... » :^njlu oopii- 2 p Il :»’. p, IWI|» .*.?* " Kind's Ml •• Hint Asburs •• (Jit IVi leva “ BpanuitMirg. j j, SO' "......'|iiii*| zip I'J 1 .-illi 1 1 ! !!!!"! V:;7o “ Central i ir.p| j ay, ; :> to, 7 10a •' Seneca •• NeMiniiiBter m , •• Mt. Airy. (i: ;< *J 12a " Cornel u *• Lula ~ till. * l.'| n V> " 1 1 “ r.nf r.| -- -0|-| ttil)a| « - aj 7 IS, 0 la Ar alumni T. '4"oJ'«-si V] I S £ l Y-oa 1 v At 111« f 1 | •t.Ytii! f.'.'Ou! *.l :io'| 1 h :Vi | 0 2*’ft “A” a. in. “1»” p m. • M ' noon. N” n gin. No*. 87 IIlot T.s- Wnnri.Kton ni'il omtiN .•stern ViMii.ultU l.iin e*i nmH uh rut i eej • >» between New Yo k nml New Qrlenr f. via Wash Iiwtou. Atlanta ..ml Moi tween Now Vn k .111.1 Mo Aliuutuand Itlrmii ylmi. HKi.niriy, him] hIso be- nplii*. \ in \\ a hlngton, i. Dining Cure. No* to and :0 Cnited suite* Sum Mnll, Pullman Keeping Car* between Atlanta, New Orlcaim ami New York. Nos. Ill and 82, Exposition Flyer, Through Pull man Sleepers Ua«t'«u Now Yoi k nml Alnnta via Wiihlilngiou. On Tuesdays ami Ihuodiiy* cun- noetion Will be n inlafioni Hlehinnnd wilh No. ill. ami on thcfo da ton i'ulinmu Hit epliig ( 'ar will be o|.crated bctivien Hioltiuoml and Atlanta. On WednoFdm* ami Satttr Uiy> connection from At lanta to Richmond with through sleeping-cal will be to leave Atlanta by Am in No. IK. Noa. 11 and 12, Pullman Sleeping Car between Richmond, Danville and Giceiuboru. TV. A. TURK, B. II. HARDWICK. Ocn'l Paw. Afi't, Abs'I Gcn'l Pas*. Ag’t, * TVasiiinoion, D. C. Atlanta, Ua, Y H. GREEN, Gcn’l Slip! , Washington, D C. M. CULP, Trafllo M’g'f, Vamunotom, Li. (f TWENTY-NINE DEAD. ANOIJIKR MINK HORROR NKAH I>AY I’ON, TKNN. Tvvenfy-N’luo Mpii Loan Their 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.