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GENERAL NEWS.
'CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
S*WB FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRUMS,
JIBES, AMD HAITKNINGS OF INTEREST.
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Snow began falling on Mount Wash
ington, N. H., Thursday morning.
Twenty students have been arrested.at
Baeff, Russia, on the charge of being
nihilists.
Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been
seriously ill for some time, died at Lon
don, England, on Monday.
The man-of-war, Ossipce, sailed from
Boston, Monday, for Hayti with Fred
erick Douglass, the new minister.
[ The reports from the rliine wine grow
ing districts of Germany, indicate that
,this year’s vintage will be tlie -best of the
'century.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn,,.Thursday
-morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Indiana supreme court has de
cided that bicyclists cannot be made
liable for damages resulting from horses
becoming frightened at their wheels.
Mrs. Hiram Snell, of Malad, Idaho, has
given birth to six lets, three boys and
three girls. They weigh eight pounds
altogether. All are bright and hearty,
and promise to live.
All employes at the Bellnir, Ohio,steel
works, 400 in number, struck Thursday
evening because of the refusal of three
brothers named Dewnlson to join the
Amalgamated association, and the man
agement’s refusal to discharge 1hem.
The state inspector of New Jersey, on
Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at
Flei&chminn’s distillery, at Millstone,
Somerset county, and twelve head on
adjoining farms, that were afflicted with
pleuro-pneuinonia.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The stevedores employed on the East In-
• dia dock have again gone on strike.
They claim tbnt the companies arc not
.engaging tlie old bunds as they agreed to
j&f do when the strike was settled.
. The poljce commissioners of Kansas
'*■ City have ordered the. chief of police
to suppress the Salvation Army ift that
city. The order was issued on account
of the numerous cases of peace disturb
ance at the army’s headquarters.
F. L. Jordan has been appointed su-
4, perintendent of the bureau of engraving
and printing. Jordan has been a plate
printer in the bureau for thirteen years,
and was active in the movement, which
( resulted in the discontinuance of steam
presset.
The secretary of war has decided to
accept the offer of the Indian Bights’
„ association to purchase a tract of land in
I . North Carolina for Geroninro’s band of
■L Indians now confined at Mt, Vernon
barracks, and to establish them there in
more civilized mode of life.
Seely Hopkins, a citizen of Phillips-
burg. Pa., on Sunday, shot and killed
both his wife and mother-in-law, and
then tried to kill himself, but fuiled.
Hopkins has engaged in numerous quar
rels with his wife during the past two or
three months, which culminated in the
murders.
The mammoth publishing house of
Bclford, Clark & Co., of Chicago, which
has the largest establishment in the city
and branches in New York and San
Francisco, went to the wall Monday, and
was taken in charge by the sheriff. Tho
assets of the linn nre supposed to bo
about $350,000, and liabilities about
$400,000.
In the case of Henry F. Birber, of St.
Paul, Minn., arrested for selling meat
from cattle not inspected on hoof, Judge
Nelson, on Monday, rendered a decision
^ that the law is unconstitutional, as it iu-
* terfercs with commerce between the
states. The prisoner was ordered dis
charged. Notice of appeal to the su
preme court was given.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there remains in
the treasury but $83", 821 standard silver
dollars that are not represented by silver
certificates in circulation out of a total
coinage of standard silver dollars to date
of $339,293,650. This balanco is about
A $10,000,000 less than it was a month ago,
T and about 485,000,000 less than it was
July 1st, 1880.
< At a meeting of the directors of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad .com
pany at New York on Monday, it was
resolved to issue thirteon million dollars
t of new stock, the proceeds to bo used to
retire $9,402,000 collateral trust six per
cent, bonds at 110. A special meeting
of stockholders will be held in Louisville
to ratify tho action of the directors on
October 1st.
A cable message has been received at
the department of state from Consul Al-
fk len, at King.t nr, Jamaica, saying that a
riot occurred at Navassa, an island in the
Caribbean sea. in which a number of
Americans were killed. Consul Alien
says, that at his request, a British war
ship had left Jamaica for the scene, im
mediately upon receipt of the news ol
the trouble. Navassa is under no partic
ular jurisdiction, but is regarded as
under tho protection of the United
States.
Tho official report of the trial board oi
the new ciuiser Charleston, was received
at the navy department from' San Fran
cisco on Monday. Reports show the
maximum horse power developed to bt
6,810, while the average power was con
siderably less, making a deficiency under
the contract requirement calling foi
about $20,000 penalty. In other re
spects, the vessel was-up to the required
standard. No action has -as yet been
taken upon tlie report, but the vessel
will undoubtedly be accepted.
It is reported from Denver. Col , that J.
P. Williams, receiving teller of the First
National bank, is a defaulter to the ex
tent of 38,000. The first of last week
Williams was granted a vacation, and
took his family to the mountains. The
next day lie returned, and gave ns nr. ex
cuse that he had come back for some
clothing which they had forgotten. Sat
urday the bank officials received a letter
from Mrs. Williams asking where hei
husband was. Tliey became suspicious,
and an investigation-of the books was or
dered, which revealed a deficit of $8,000.
A letter written by cx-Father Butler tc
Bishop Wigger, craving forgiveness foi
his mistake and importuning the bishop
to relegate him to a place of confinement
to do penance for his blunder, was read
from the altars of all the Roman Catho
lic churches in the dioceses of Newark,
N. J., on Sunday. About four years
ago, Father Butler, then assistant priest
at St. Bridgett’s church iu that city,
eloped with Miss Marv Brady. They
were married by a Protestant clergyman
at Reading, Pa., and were subsequently
parted, and Father Butler now wants to
be reinstated.
A LAUNCH BLOWS UP.
SAD FATE OF A YACHTING PARTY OF NINE
FEOPLE ON THE LAKES.
It is believed, at Cleveland, Ohio, that
the steam .launch “Leo,” which left Lo-
raine, twenty-six miles west of there
Sunday aJlcmoon, was blown up about
three o , 6lock™M#nday mo riling." Yhrde
bodies have been recovered, and several
hundred men and boys arc hunting for
the other six. Thursday morning the
body of Fred Pelow was discovered float
ing iu a private break-water, a few miles
,west of Cleveland. His lace was burned
and bruised, and his watch had stopped
at 3:13. The watches on the other two
bodies bad also stopped at about that
hour. There were foity gallons of naptha
in the hold of the Leo, which was to be
used as fuel.
CHICAGO WANTS IT.
THE CITY MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO
SECURE THE WORLD’S FAIR.
Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1892,
and wants it badly, and she is doing
more than New York and all other cities
combined to get the fair. The city has
secured subscriptions to the original
amount she proposed to raise, say
$5,000,000; but her people have decided
to make the subscription $10,000,000.
It is published that Mr. Field, the dry
goods prince of Chicago, has added
$100,000 to the subscription in the past
few days, and prior to this the Pullmans
had subscribed $100.000.
SPREADING RAILS
CAUSE TIIE WRECK OF A PASSENGER
THAIN KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE.
An east bound St. Louis and San Fran
cisco passenger train was derailed real
Leon, Butler county, Kan., on Thursday,
by the spreading of rails. Three passen-
ger coaches rolled down a fifteen-foot
embankment. R. M. Bemis was instantly
killed; Isaac Dean and Mrs. Matseka,
both of Wichita, were fatally crushed by
the weight of the car. Mrs. John Mitch
ell, of Fort Smith, Ark., had one arm
and one log broken. Mrs. R. A. Hodges,
of Arkansas City, had an arm and seve
ral ribs broken, and may die. R. L.
Lathvop, of Kansas City, had his right
leg broken in two places and received in
ternal injuries. About ten more were
slightly injured.
DEARLY BOUQ-HT SPORT.
PARTICIPANTS IN A PRIZE FIOnT HELD FOI1
MURDElt IN TIIE SECOND DEGREE.
The principal in the recent fatal prize
fight in Aliearu’s saloon, in St. Louis,
Mo., in which young Jackson was killed,
will have to pay dearly for their sport.
Charley Daly, Dan Daly, Joseph A.
Murphy, a sporting editor, and a numbei
Df others aro held as accessories to mur
der in tho sccoud degree, with which
Abeam is charged. 'Hie punishment is
not less than ten years in tho peniten
tiary for principals and accessories.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA-
R10 US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IHtPOKTANCE IN TIIE SOUTHERN STATES.
Macon, Ga., had a $100,000 fire on
Wednesday night.
A party of gentlemen from Jackson
ville and St. Augustine, Fla., will make
a tour of inspection through the Indian
river country, which rumor says may re
sult in railroad and canal enterprises.
At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday
night, eight prisoners, by means of t
handspike, removed a log of the jail
wall and made their escape. Two oi
three men charged with murder wert
among the lot.
Counterfeit silver half dolluts, date ol
1877, are in circulation in Dalton, Ga.
The counterfeit is easily detected, how-
aver, as the coin is very much lightei
than the genuine, and has a dull, lcady
color, while the milling is poor and the
figures are badly impressed.
The board of state institutions at Jack
sonville, Fla., on Monday, awarded the
contract for state printing iu classes B
ind C to the Times-Union-, in cluss A, tc
v. W. Dacostu. Since the state printing
bus by law been let out to the lowest
Didder the competition for it has been
?cry sharp.
Thursday, near Purccllville, Yn., £
party of five persons were lording a
swollen stream in a wagon when two
young ladies, Miss Susie Cater, ol
Georgetown, and Miss Ella Atwell, of
Alexandria, became Heightened and
jumped from the wagon into the stream
and both drowned.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in tho south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
wus incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
The Auburn Agricultural and Mechan
ical college at Auburn, Ala., also known
ns the Alabama and Polytechuical insti
tute, will- soon, take ptugession. of it*
(splendid- new building, cwasS’Octcd at s
cost of $75,000. It is pronounced one of
the most elegant college buildings ia the
South.
John B. Mcllvane & Son, consisting
of John B. Mdlvanc’s estate and J.
Bank Mcllvane, of Louisville, Ky., as
signed Saturday for the benefit t credi
tors. 'llie firm has been incxbieiicu
there in the whiskey business for twenty-
five years. They are surety for Wattiugly
& Sons for $103,000. They cau pay about
sixty-five cents on the dollar.
Tho merchants and cotton exchanges
of Memphis, Tcnn., arc receiving daily
protests against the adoption of the rec
ommendation of tlie cotton convention
recently held in New Orleans to tare
cotton wrapped in jute twenty-foui
pounds, and that in bagging sixteen
pounds. Indications are that the rule
will not be adopted by the Memphis ex
change,
Frank M. Smith, general agent for the
Siutheru Mutual I3cnelit association, oi
Knoxville, Tcnn., has gone, leaving be
hind him a number of unpaid bills, in
cluding $200 to various hotels for board.
He sold his agency for $200. Smith also
formed a building and loan association,
by which ho secured $200. Nothing has
been heard from him so far.
Anderson Ward, of North Carolina, liv
ing near Edenton, was found dead in his
bed on Sundny morning with his throat
cut from ear to car. The wife of the
deceased, two grown daughters, two
young daughters and a son eleven years
of age were sleeping in the room in which
the tragedy occurred, and yet not one of
them could give any satisfactory expla
nation, as they were all sound asleep.
The Southern Freight association,
which includes all prominent Southern
lines, went to pieces at St. Louis, Mo., on
Thursday, and will probably never meet
again as an association. The Cairo Short
Line gave notice of withdrawal, and
other lines showed no desire to keep up
the organization. The association fixed
Southern freight rates, and from this on
a go-as-you-please policy will probably be
pursued by all lines.
The new dry dock just completed at
tho Norfolk, Vn., navy yard, was for
mally opened Thursday morning, iu the
presenco of a large gatliering 4 among the
number being j remittent representatives
of the army, navy, and business men of
New York aud other cities. Among the
naval officers preseut, were Hear Admi
ral Joucit nrd Commodore White, chief
of the bureau of yards and docks, navy
department.
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AN OKLAHOMA RIOT.
AN ATTEMPT TO HOLD AN ELECTION
SQUELCHED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS.
A special from Oklahoma to the Kansas
City Times says: “Saturday was one of
the most exciting days in the history of
the city. About six weeks ago a faction
of citizens, after failing to induce the
council to call for a convention for the
purpose of framing an amended charter,
framed one themselves and called an
election for the- people to vote on it. A*
it provided for tlie immediate ousting of
the pieseut city government, United
States troops, under authority of General
Merritt, prevented the election. The
original charter faction called an election
on their charter for Saturday, again
without the consent of the mayor and
council. General Merritt again sent or
ders to Colonel Snyder to prevent the
election, and Captain Stiles, iu command
of the troops, carried out these orders at
the point of the bayonet. The polls
were opened, and a large crowd assem
bled. A number of persons endeavored
to vote, when Captatu Stiles threw his
company across the street and gave the
command to charge. The company en
countered no opposition to their prog
ress. The leaders of the Charter faction
then rushed to another place and declari d
the polls opened again. Captain Stiles
repeated his charge, and again cleared
the street. This operation was repeated
at other wards where the faction at
tempted to vote, but were routed each
time by the troops. The leaders of the
charter faction, after consulting with
Captain Stiles, then advised the crowd
to disperse. The advice was followed
and the excitement subsided. Nine of
the leaders were afterwards arrested on
the charge of conspiracy against the au
thority of the United States and city
governments.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
HIE MACHINERY FAILS, AND AN ELECTRIC
CAR DASHES DSWN TILE MOUNTAIN.
An accident occurred Friday morning
on the electric railroad running from
the foot to the top of Mission
Ridge at . Chattanooga, Tenn.
The car had nearly reached the top of the
very steep track, when the machinery
failed, aud th4 car started- dowrf the
mountain at great speed. The motor
man tried to stop the car with the brakes,
but failing in this, the conductor shouted
to the passengers to jump from the car.
The car contained fifty people, all of
whom were visitors to the re-union of
the Army of the Cumberland, one half
the party being-ladies. Then there was
a scene of wild excitement and the panic
seizipg all on board, they began leaping
rapidly down the mountain side. Five
or six persons who remained on
the car were uninjured, as when
the load was partially removed from the
car it stopped before reaching the foot
of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of
Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the car,
received injuries from which she died.
Win. Minford, of Casey, Illinois, in
jumping from the ear, struck iu a mass
of barbed wire and was badly cut. About
a dozen others were terribly injured,
and it is feared that some of them will
die.
CHATTANOOGA’S WELCOME
TO THE VETERANS OF THE ARMY OF THE
CUMBERLAND—A GALA DAY.
The veterans of the army of the Cum
berland met in Chattanooga, Tonu.,
on Wednesday. The exercises of th*
day were ushered in with a grand parade.
Old confederate and federal soldiers
marched in line, headed by brass
bauds, and a magnificent display of fire
works greeted them on all streets. Aftei
the parade, the old soldiers were ad
dressed at a mammoth puvillion, with a
capacity of 3,000, by Major Henry Mc-
Michai-1, of Philadelphia, who spoke
most eloquently of the great re-union of
hearts of both the north and the south,
and dwelling in glorious terms on the
changes wrought in Chattanooga and
the historic battlefields around, since the
gloomy days of 1863-5. The address
was full of patriotic sentiments, and
was responded to by 1,000 voices in
hearty accord. Never before has thero
been such a hearty reunion of old sol
diers of both armies.
FOURTEEN CENTS.
A GOOD TIME FOR FARMERS TO HOLD
THEIR COTTON.
The London Times to:respondent at
Preston says: ‘ There is a prospect that
American cotton may yet ti ueh seven
pence a pound, aud that a fortnight’s
stoppage iu October will be secured to
punish tho i.iverpool ring. One hundred
thousand spindles and many thousand
looms are stopped in North and East
Lancashire, amt notices have been given
of more extensive stoppages.”
THE LEGISLATURE,
BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOU33
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to incorporate the Dahlonegtt
and Dawsoaville Railroad company; to
authorize the mayor and couucil of Hil-
ledgeville to issue $50,000 of bonds for
the purpose of building sowers; to
amend the charter of Macon and to au
thorize the issuance of bonds not to ex
ceed $i00,000 for the purpose of con
structing sewers; to incorporate the town
of Abell, in Berrien county: to pre
scribe the manner in which titles shill be
exhibited to the chancellor in applica
tions to enjoin the cutting of turpentine
boxes so as ;o require the filing of an
abstract instead of the original title; t»
incorp irate the town of Hapeville; :o
amend the charter of Atlanta so as to
provide for the assessment of $1 a lineal
foot oa property abutting on ika stream
in which sewers are la d : to confirm the
charter of the Atlantic and N- rthw* st
ern railroad company; to incorporate tire
bank of Dablouegu; to regulate railroads
or other corporations when they sell or
lease their property, to give notice by
posting at their dep its and places oi"
business, and by publication in a public-
gazette, at the places of its residence v
at the cupitol of the state, anil tc. fur
nish written notice to the railroad com
missioners. (This act to apply only to
the sale or lease of the franchise of ibe
corporation); to amend sfetion 4263 in
regard to fifing a pauper affid ivit in car
rying a supercedeasto the supremo court ;
to incorporate the Chattanooga and Na
tion d Park Railroad company: to incor
porate the Georgia Commercial Insur.naer
company; to increase the rights and
powers of the Marietta and No:th Geor
gia railroad. A resolution to purchase
500 copies of Van Epps Index Digest.
To amend section 4"57 of the code; to
amend the act licensing staiionary en
gineers in Fulton county; t . incorporate
the Enterprise Street Railway company;
to repeal an act approved October Oth,
1883, for two weeks’ session of the su
perior court of Marion county; to omi-Dil
item 12 of section 920 of the code; tc
repeal the law prohibiting the sale of li
quors in Smithville, Lee county; to
amend section 3694 of the code of 1882,
regulating the fees of ordinaries; to
-amend section G83 of the code.
A bill to prohibit the carrying ana
handling of seed cotton ia the county of
Meriwether “between sunset in the
evening and sunrise in the morning;’'
to prohibit the sale of seed cotton inMus-
rogee county between August 1st and
December 20th; to donate Madison street,
of Dublin, to the Dublin and Empire
roads; to incorporate the Southern Trav
elers’ association; to authorize the council
of Liucolnton to issue bonds to raise
funds for building an academy; to regu-
'ate the sale of liquor iu Wilkes courtr.
A li’.l to amend the charter of iht
Way cross Air Line railroad company.
House amendments concurred in: to in
corporate the Bank of Dawsonville; tc
prevent stock from running at large in
the 531st district of Clay county; tc
amend the act providing for the taxation
of railroads so as to include street rail
roads, dummy lines and electric rail
roads, among those whose returns sire tc
be made to the comptroller-general. To
amend section 534 of the code relating,
to maimed confederate soldiers,
to provide for the calling of cases in
the superior court' of Hall county:
to prohibit bunting and fishing on the
lands of another iu the county of Tel
fair; to require all railroads to deliver
freight transported cn through bills of
lading; to provide for the time and
mode of perfecting service by publica
tion; to incorporate the Atlanta aad
Alabama Coal and Iron Railway compa
ny; to prohibit putting obstructions in.
the streams in Randolph county; to in
corporate the Oostauaula and Coosawatic
Railway company; to incorporate the
South-western and Georgia railway; to
change the corporate limits of Warcs-
boro, in Ware county; to amend the
charter of the city of Augusta; to amend
the act reducing the compensation oi
county officers of Butts county; to amend
the net creating a city court for Floyd
county so as to increase the salary of the
judge and extend jurisdiction of the
court; to continue iu force the charter
of the Augusta aud Summerville railroad
company; to declare all escapes from the
penitentiary negligent, unless otherwise
shown; to incorporate the Brunswick,
Athens and Northeastern railroad; to
amend an act establishing a board of
countv commissioners for Bibb count jr.
WOMEN TO VOTE.
At Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Friday,
the statehood convention adopted ;-.s a
patt of its constitution tho suffrage
chapter; female citizens are to vote. The
severest qualifications aro tho reqnire-
rnents that all electors shall be able to
read English, shall be full-fledged citi
zens and have had six months’ rota knee
in Wyoming.
