About The Fayetteville news. (Fayetteville, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1889)
GENERAL NEWS. 'CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. S*WB FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRUMS, JIBES, AMD HAITKNINGS OF INTEREST. * 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. sqj isao .Cji.KUip •jsrojn stq ajni Appa •qvaddj ipusil pse; v ijuCSuniu Aq knuo.ioj sprains pojijnimoj 'utis.q ‘XnsqSojfv u ! lrHm Stino-f iLueuii-iMJA v v.aji r RvmiAi . 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.
