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The Fayetteville News. VOL. 2. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1889. NO. 10. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIO US, AND EXCITING EVENTS. ketts moM EYEnrvvniM—accidents, steikxJ, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. '// An extensive strike of dock .laborer! has begun at Rotterdam, Holland. Landore steol works, at Swansea, Eng* land, have been destroyed by fire. Five persons were drowned Friday in pond near Fall River, by the capsizing of a boat. The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con taining the dragon throne/ has been de stroyed by fire. The recent fire in the temple of heaven, in China, was of incendiary origin. Sev eral arrests have been made. ; A number of branches of the National league in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, Irelaud, have been suppressed. A boiler explosion occurred at a saw mill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and John Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross, David Ross and David Baker were killed. K The firm of Gibson, Parish & Co., of il Chicago, Ill., was forced to apply for a 'ecciver on account of the embezzlement f $89,000 by Harry F. Clifford, theii ook keeper. A dispatch from Marion, Ind., says that the prevalence of dipththeria.theje has caused such alarm that the public schools were ordered to be closed Tues- | day for one week. About a dozen deaths have occurred. Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at ■’ Manitee, Mich.,- Wednesday afternoon, destroyed over a million feet of lumber and three hundred feet of flocks and tramways. The loss is estimated at *125,000. General Samuel D. Sturgis, U. S. A., died at lifs home in St. Paul, Mian., on Sunday. He graduated from West Point, in 1840;. along with George B. McClellan, Stonewall Jackson,Stonemau, PickeLt and many other famous soldiers. On ThW1rsdlfy^t#f&rni8g»' {femes f broke but in Emery’s big soap factory/at Tvey Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the control of the department. The large buildings were completely gutted, and it is estimated that the loss will bo in the neighborhood of $125,000. A boiler used in a quarry at Wrights- ville, Pa., exploded with terrific force Saturday. Mrs. Lemiel Barnes was killed instantly. Her head was blown from her body. Her husband had liis skull fractured nnd cannot live. A small rbuilding was blown to atoms, ' Shipping circles at Baltimore were somewhat disturbed on Monday, at a ’ yellow fever flag displayed on the British ' v Reamer Recta, Captain Lowe, which ar- iVed in ballast from St. Lucia, West . dies, to load for London. She is at uarantine with three seamen sick. Action has been commenced by Attor ney General Tabor against the assembly ceiling contractor, John Scaitli,. in the supreme court of Oneida county, New York, to recover $250,508. Thu Albany county shcrill on Monday arrested Snaith, who gave bail in $50,000. A cable dispatch from London says: The deficiency in cotton stock strength ens the corner which has now assumed a serious aspect. It is reported that the chief operator in the corner has made ( arrangements to send the bulk of cotton * tendered him to Havre, and thus starvb the Liverpool market, s At a meeting of the creditois of Gib son, Parish <fc Co., of Chicago, Parish stated that Clifford, the ab.-conding book-keeper of the firm had carried oil between $40,000 and $100,000 of the firm’s assets, and he was inclined to think the latter figure nearer the correct one thau^he former. Leon Lconnrdi, Italian private banker, at 41 Park street, New York, disap peared on Monday, lcaviug his clients in the lurch. They were principally of the laboring class. Nothing was left in the bank except the safe and all the furni ture of Lcouardi's residence, was sold. His depositors number 800 or 900. Early Thursday morning, Laflin & Rand’s powder mills, at Crcssou, three inilfc 0 ibelow Pottsville, Pa., blew up. The explosion was terriflic in force. Three workmen were killed and a num- cr^of other workmen injured. Nearly 11 the window glass in Cresson was battered, nnd the concussion was- sensi- ly felt in Pottsville. J(, K. Tallier, leader of the gang who bbed the train on the Sonora railroad, icar Nogales, Ariz.-, a year ago last May, and who killed Conductor Atkinson and Fireman Forbes, and who was subse quently convicted of the crime and sen tenced to death, was shot early Monday morning by Mexican authorities at Gu- avanra. The* tin plate and sheet iron workers of Boston, Muss., and vicinity, liuvo de cided to leave.tho Knights of Labor and organize an independent union. The immediate cause of withdrawal is said to be the support given by district assembly 3Q and general offices to the cigarmakers’ lqcal assembly. A mass meeting will be held Tuesday to act upon the question of applying for membership in the amalga mated., building trades council. DISCUSSING THE TARE. SOME RESOLUTIONS OP VAST IMPORTANCE TO COTTON GROWERS. The National Cotton committee and the Tare committee of the National Al liance held a secret session at Atlanta, Ga., Monday night. It is rumored that the joint committees are preparing some instructions which will be wide-reaching in their effect. These are instructions to fell the primaries, wheels und unions, ad vising nnd instructing them to hold meetings and . petition the governors of each of the cotton states to call the leg islatures in extra session to suspend the processes of the courts for the collection of debts for. six months, The object of this action, they say, is “to thwart and prevent the robbery planned and deter mined against them.’’ The tare question was discussed.bv the committee, and af ter a careful consideration the following resolutions were adopted: “Whereas, The association of the American Cotton exchnnge met in New Orleans on the 11th instant, and in conjunction with the va rious commissioners of agriculture and representatives of the farming interests, did recommend that cotton be sold by net weight as a solution oi tho tare question; And Whereas, The action taken by the New Orleans Cotton ex change in favor of assisting the farmers to get paid for the 8 pounds more cotton that each cotton-wrapped bale contains than the jute-covered bale is highly appreci ated by the committee, and the determi nation of said exchange to continue to contend for the cause, in spite of the fact that many leading exchanges had de serted it, is especially commendable, and will be co-operated in by the interests we represent; and, Whereas, The justice and equity of the farmer’s claim on the tare question is bssed on the one fact, whjph stands boldly out undisputed and indispupTble, that, every cotton-wrapped bale actually contains eight pounds more of lint cotton than it would if covered with jute; therefore, it is hereby Re solved, That the action had by tho Shreveport Cotton exchange be adopted in the present emergency, nnd every far mer is hereby instructed when offering for sale cotton wrapped in cot ton bagging, to demand payment for eight pounds more cotton than the act ual gross weight of such bale. Resolved second; That this action is intended to supercede and take the place of all pre vious action and instructions in regard to the tare question. In no case shall a bale of cotton be sold subject to a dock of sixteen pounds for cotton bagging, or twenty-four pounds for jute bagging as agreed upon in New Orleans, unless the cotton be sold at a half cent per pound in advance of the current price at that time nnd place. R. J. Sledge, Chairman, Texas; M. L. Donaldson, South Carolina; W. J. Northen, Georgia; R. F. Kolb, Alabama; W. L. Lacey, Mississippi; A. T. Hatcher, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson, Florida; S.-B. Alexander, North Caro lina; B. 51. Hord, Tennessee; L. P. Fcatherstone, Arkansas. ORDERED TO STRIKE. BOOKISH PROCEEDINGS OK A BIUXLAYERS’ r.-.j,, L'NION—TROUBLE EXPECTED. Between three and four hundred men were thrown out of employment at by a strikesOTdered by the Bricklayers’ union, at New York, an Monday. Some of the contractors have beeu using brick and cement made by Peck, Martin & Co. Peck, Martin & Co., employ at theii works, four uou-uuiou men, (colored teamsters,) and it was to compel the dis charge of these men that the strike was ordered. Some of the contractors arc placed in a bad position, ns they are un der time contracts, and also under con tracts to use bricks of Peck, Martin & Co.’s make. The workmen all side with the contractors and are loud in their de nunciation of the union nnd walking delegates. There is a prospect of a long lockout. BLACK BART FREE. TIIE NOTORIOUS TRAIN RORRER BREAKS JAIL AND ESCAPES. A dispatch from Bessemer, Mich., says: The Gogebic stage robber, Rei- mund Holzhny, otherwise known as “Black Bart,” together with several other prisoners, made his escape from tho county jail here Friday morning. He was brought here from Republic, where ho was nrrestod some days ago for hold ing up a Gogebic stage and murdering one of its occupants, Mr. Fleishbeiu, of Illinois. Tho sheriff has called a posse to pursue the fugitive. Citizens nre much excited, and are turning out in lame numbers to ioiu in the mm huut. SOUTHERN SEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA- RIO US POINTS IN TEE SOUTE A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 13 OOINO ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SQUTHEBN STATES. Ex-Confederate General D. II. Hill died iu Charlotte, N. C., en Tuesday. Every gambling house in Mem phis, Tenn., was closed Wednesday night on warrants issued by the judge of the criminal court. The Atlantic nnd Danville railroad was formaly opened Monday’‘between Dan ville, Va., and Mi If bn, N. O., by an excursion, of business men. Fifteen milqs of track have been laid on the Columbus Southern railroad. The work is being pushed with great rapidi ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta, Ga., in a fow days. One of the largest charters ever granted to any corporation in the south, was granted by the superior court of Georgia, by which the Southern Home Building and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga., was incorporated, with authority to do business in Georgia or any other state. The authorized capital stock is $20,000,- 000. The statement is now made at -New Orleans upon what appears to be good authority, that irregularities have been discovered in what is known as the “baby” bonds, commencing at numbei 102,000. Nearly all of the “baby” bonds above 102,000 are fraudulent. The de falcation- already in sight will reach more than 1,200,000. An executive reward of two hundred dollars was offered by Governor Taylor, of North Carolina, for the apprehension of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Carthy, who stands charged with the murder of Wal ter Chatham, in Horiy county. A re ward of one hundred dollars was offered for John Cox, a negro, who is charged with having committed mtirder in Jones county. . The Chattanooga, Tenn., Crimes, pub lished reports from seventy-five of ninety- six counties comprising the state of Ten nessee showing an increase of value of real and personal property of twenty-six million dollars over assessment of 1888, and an increase of one hundred million over the assessment of 1880. An increase of one hundred million dollars in taxa- bles in three years is unprecedented in any state in the union. The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida met at Jacksonville on Wednesday. The principal object of the meeting was to make Jacksonville a wholesale market for Florida raised cotton, the building of a cotton warehouse there, and the start ing of fruit and vegetable nnd canning factories. Incidental to these is the building of a cotton factory by Jackson ville capital, a company being already organized with $10,000 subscribed. The Mayo Bridge & improvement com pany was chartered in the circuit court at Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The objects are to run a toll bridge between Richmond and Manchester and other points over the James River and else where. Also to construct steam, elec trical, horse and other railways, to erect buildings, mills, etc., to furnish gas and electric light, to utilize water power, etc. The capital stock is to be from $50,000 to $100,000. It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that spirits of tu:pentine has dropped off in the last few days. Buyers are a little hopeful at the decline, but sellers smile and talk of the matter at 50c. October have sold at 44c and 40c. Just now there is considerable stock on hand, 12,- 800 casks, 3,000 more than on the same day last year. The receipts to date arc 123,000, which is 17,( 00 more than the receipts during the corresponding period last year. Monday closed the Danville Va., to bacco year. The sales of leaf tobacco on the warehouse floors for the year were 28,- 803,303 pounds, a decrease from last year's sales of two and a half millions. The average price was $8.75 per hundred. The decrease iu the sales was due to a short crop. The sales of the manufac tured product since January were §5,807,000 pounds, an increase over the same time lust year of nearly two million pounds. DARING ROBBERIES. A BRIDAL COUPLE KILLED. AMBUSHED WHILE RETURNING FROM THEIR WEDDING TRIP. On Big Heart creek, Lincoln county, W. Va., Al Brumfield and his newly married wife were returning homo after a brief wedding trip, when they were ambushed by a man who shot them both. Mrs. Brumfield died in a few hours. Brumfield is dying. Ho claims to have recognized his assassin, but refuses to say who it was. It is believed that a former suitor of Mrs. Brumfield, who failed to win her. is the murderer. TRAINS “HELD up” BV HIGHWAYMEN AT THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS. The Mobile and Ohio south bound pas senger train was held up Wednesday morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss., a station seventy miles north of Mobile. Just before the train left'Buck- atunna, two men mounted behipd the tender of the train, and climbing over, covered the engineer and firemen with their revolvers, and ordered them to pull out, and to stop at a bridge two miles below Buckatunna, and to place the train so that the express and mail car should be on the further Bide of the bridge from the rest of the train, the bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. The engineer put tho train just where the robbers wanted it. When they reached the place, a third robber ap peared. These three men made the engineer and fireman go with them to the express car, and the messenger was made to open the door and dump the contents of the safe into a canvass sack, but noticing that he was not closely watched, he shoved some of the money aside, so that about a thousand dollars was hidden, the robbers getting $2,700. All this money belonged to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad company. Alongside the express car door was a pile of $70,000 government money en route to Florida which the robbers failed to no tice. After securing their booty the train was ordered to pull out at once, which it did, and the robbers disap peared. The Mobile & Ohio road offers $1,000 reward for the arrest and convic tion of the robbers. --?T. . -*wcr- . STtLL ANOTHER. At a late hour Wednesday night, fu the north bound Santa Fe train was pull ing out of Crowley, ten miles south of Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded the train and two others jumped on the locomotive. The two on the engine placed pistols to the heads of the engin eer and fireman and told them to stop, One of the men then got into the express car and ordered the messenger to show them the money. He pointed to three bags of Mexican silver. One of the men ripped open a sack and shoveled tho sil ver out of the door, while the other one threw, out the other 'sacks. They took two packages said to contain ’$5,000 each, but overlooked three or four pack ages for Fort Worth. The engineer was then, made to move on. RAILROAD ACCID E NT. A COLLISION IN Wmcn FOUR FEOPLE ARE KILLED AND TWENTY BADLY INJURED. WASHINGTON, D. C. MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDKNl AND EIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTI REST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The St. Louis express which left Al bany, N. Y., Friday night, met with a bad accident about two miles east of Palatine Bridge at about midnight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The rear brakeman was sent back to signal the second section, but for some reason failed to perform his duty. As a consequence, the second section telescoped into the first section, which was made up of the baggage, mail, ex press and three passenger cars, packed with people, and a Wagner sleeper on the end. Four dead bodies have been taken out of the sleep er, and twenty others who were in the sleeper were seriously injured. ST. LOUIS IN THE RING. EFFORTS MADE TO HAVE THE WORLD’S FAIR IN THE METROPOLIS OF MISSOURI. A well attended meeting of prominent officials of roads centering at St. Louis, Mo., revealed the fact that great interest is being taken by them in the World’s Fair and that active efforts will be made by them to have it held in that city. An assessment of $1,000,000 on the rail roads will be promptly subscribed and in all likelihood that sum will be exceeded by them. A meeting of newspaper pro prietors also brought out subscriptions largely in excess of the sum assessed upon them. The individual subscriptions of the duily papers are: Globe-Democrat-, $20,000; Republic, $20,000; Post-Dis patch. $15,00u; Star, $5,000; Chronicle, $2,000. ^ NEWS FROM MEXICO. It is estimated at the treasury depart ment tl at there Las b:-cn a decrease ol $13,500,000 in the public debt since the first of September. The board of the navy yard, the com mandant, appointed to investigate the navy purchasing system, has adjourned after deciding that the present system is efficient aud only miner changes in the direction of reducing the number of vouchers checks, etc., can be made with out detriment to the service. The secretary of the navy decided Friday to revoke orders commanding the Ossipce to convey Minister Douglass from Norfolk to Hayti, it having been repre sented that the Ossipee’s boilers are not in condition to make steam. The Ker- sarge, now at New York, has been or dered to perform this service. Governor Fowle, of Nerth Carolina, in reply to the letter from the secretary of war, suggesting the removal of the In dians at Mount Vernon barracks to thi mountain sections of North Carolina, ex presses disapproval of the proposition, as that section is in process of rapid settle ment by the whites, aud suggests that the Indians be located on the abandoned lands of Vermont. The secretary of agriculture, Rusk, has returned to Washington after an inspec* tion of mills for the manufacture of su gar from sorghum cane by the new dilu tion process, winch was lately subsidized* by cuHgi'efl by an appropriation of $80,000, to encourage experiments in the new industry which now has about a dozeu establishments in the United States. Secretary Rusk reports that tho process looks like it will be a failure, and unless some improvements are made he is very doubtful about the profit of making sugar from sorghum cane. The Postal and Cable Telegraph com pany will open offices simultaneously all over the south on Thursday. The com- pany is ten years old, and has fifteen or twenty thousand miles of wire, reaching from Portland, Me., to California. It has forty or fifty lines from New York to Chicago and has invested altogether $12- 000,000. It is owned by McKay, the-' California bonanza millionare. whose wealth is estimated at thirty millions. The other leading stockholder is James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has issued an order abolishing the postofiice at Luverney, Ala. A colored man was recently appointed postmaster, and the citizens, it is said, showed their appre ciation of him by boycotting h m in every way, and finally iu burning down the old building which he had succeeded, with great difficulty, in securing for a postofiice. In view of these facts, Mr. Wanamaker decided that the 500 inhabi tants of the place could go three miles for mail and do without a postofiice for a time. The president on Saturday appointed the following named postmasters: Charles C. She its, at Deca’.ur, Ala., vice L. II. Grubbs, commission expire t; Fe lix G. Lambreth, Florence, Ala., vice Bessie McCallister, resigned; Columbus, Browning, at Da.ton, Ga., vice Jefferson T. Whitman, removed; JosephP. Smith, at Thomasviile, Ga., vice 11. 31. Sapp, resigned; Thomas W. Hicks, at Hender son, N. C,, vice R. B. Henderson, re moved; Mts. Ada Hunter, at Kingston, N. C., vice W. J. Barrett, removed; Samuel II. Vkk, at Wilson, N. C., vice N. M. Gay, removed; D. J. Taylor, at Pocahontas, Va., vice J. L. Deaton, re moved; John II. Blunt, at Ashland, Va.. office having become presidential; Am brose H. Lindsay, at Portsmouth, Va., vice W. A. Fiske^ removed. A BIG SALE. COAL AND inON LANDS IN DADE COUNTY, GA., SOLD TO ENGLISHMEN. VISITED BY TERRIBLE STORMS—CROTS RUINED—MUCH SUFFERING. A dispatch from Mexico says: The mum force of the storm that visited Ba- jio country within the past few days has abated, although iu its track desolation is apparent on ail sides. Tho second crop of corn, which was very large, is a par tial loss. This will entail great suffering among the laboring classes. Trains on the Mexican railroad are again running regularly. The town of Cclaya still re mains inundated. Inhabitants living in tho lower streets have beeu removed to the old San Franciscan convent for safe ty. Fields iu the vicinity of Leon are all un ler water. It is estimated that the loss of crops in Bajio country will be over $500,000. A trade with New England parties for 16,000 acres of coal and iron land and a town site, at a point on the Alabama Great Southern railroad iu Dade county, Ga., known as Morrison’s, fourteen miles from Chattanooga, Term., was closed on Thursday. $50,009 of the money was paid down, and the papers were filed through tie Chattanooga National bank. The purchasers have applied, for a char ter of incorporation for a compauy to be known as the New England Land, Coal, Iron and Manufacturing company,of Dade county, Ga., and they will organize just as soon as the Georgia legislature shall grant their righta. william J. fry. a weu-sr.own young man in Allegheny, Ponn., committed suicide recently by plunging a lead [xmcil repeat edly into his breast directly over the heart.
