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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—J. F. Carmichael.
Sherifl —J. O. Beauchamp,
jb J. W. Crawford.
Surveyor —B. J. Jinks.
Treasurer—T. L. Williams.
laX LolleClor —T. J. Cole,
lax iiectivtjr--(J. It Carter.
Coroner —Simon ilaruy.
Citik Superior Court*--Joe Jolly ; j
court 3rd Mondays m Peoruaty i
anti August. *
Koau Commissioners —015 G, M.
J. L, Barkley, H. G. Asbury, T. O,
Woouward ; (>l3 G. M., ,1, M. Ball,
J. E. Hale, j. W, Fletcher; 609 G.
M., J. W. Minter, J. L, Bye, S. K.
Smith ; 014 G. M., J. W. Holoway,
J. H. Cole, J. Van Wright; 552 G.
M., D. B, Moore. K. M. llarper, F.
M. Maddox; 012 G. M. f W. O.
Crawley, Cornelius McCluare, T.
H. Nolan; 610 i, M., T. P. Bell,
K. M. Fletcner, J. G. Cold well; 010
G. M., J. H. Maddox, J. J. Wilson,
J. C. Barnes.
Board ot Eduoation--W. M, Mal
let, A. G. Hitchens, J. T. Goodman,
D. N. Carmichael, J. M. McMichael.
E. E. Bound C, S. 0. Olhce in
court house.
Jury Commissioners'—H. N. By*
ars, T. L. Williams, W. B. Dozier,
B. J.Ball, T. B. Bell, AlexAtkin*
son.
Justices Court—6ls Dist., H. A,
Woodward, J. B.; J. G, Kimbell.
N. B.
013 Dist. H. L. Brown, j, B.; H.
C. ihnxtot), IS, B,
005) Hist., W. A. Waldrup, J. P.;
Steve Moo e. JN. B.
552 Diet, lames Jolly, J. B.; J
M. Maudox IS, B.
012 Dist., Howard Ham, J. P.; F.
Z. Curry , N. B.
610 Disc, T. J. Collins, J. P.; T.
B. Bell, JN. B.
610 JJist., O. B. Knowles, J, B.;
J. B. Barnet, N. B.
014 Dist., A. H. Ogleiree, J. P.;
V\ . F. Douglas, JN. B.
city directory.
Mayor E. E. Pound.
Council men—T. J. Lane, J. \V r . Car*
uiichael, B. P. Bailey’, T. M. Furlow.
CiIURCUES.
Methodist —Rev. T. W. Bell, pastor.
Services every bunday at 11 a.m., 7
p.in. Prayer meeting every Wednes
day night.
Baptist -Rev. G. W. Gardner, pas
tor. Services every rtuuday at 11 a.
hi. and 7 p.m. Prayer meeting every
Thursday nig lit.
I'resoyteriau—Rev. Mr. Pharr, pas
tor. Services every 3rd Sunday at
11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and every let
Sunday at 7 p.m.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
F. & A. M. —Chapter meets 2nd and
4th Monday nights. Blue Lodge, Ist
and 3rd M uiday nights.
Redmen—2nd and 4th Tuesday
nights in eacli month.
PKOmSIOIHAL CARDS,
W W. Anderson. Frank Z. Curry.
ANDERSON & CURRY.
VllO 11-11:\ S AT I,AAV.
Negotiates loans on real estate. Office
up stairs over the Yellow store, Jackson,
Georgia.
M. M. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in court house, Jackson, Georgia.
M. V. M KIBBEN,
Attorney at Law,
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Dr.O H. Cantrell.
DENTIST,
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
CLEVELAND HOUSE.
JACKSON, - - - GA.
The only br*ck Hotel between Atlan
ta and Macon. Board $2 00 per day.
Miss Jennie Wallace Pi op.
decl4-12m
DEMPSEY HOUSE.
SOUTHEAST CORNER PUBLIC
SQUARE, JACKSON, GA.
Strictly first-class in all respects.
Give it a trial when you come to Jack
son. Terms moderate. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
.HRS. A. 18. JESTER* Prop.
dec!4-3m
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
E VER Y THING NEW
AEDFIRST- CLA SS.
Conveniently Located.
i Free Sack to Depot,
C. R. Gresham, Propriety f.
THE JACKSOI IHfillS.
WAYESCOYERDEATH
Puoblo, Colorado, Swept by a
Mighty and Fatal Flood.
THE LOSS OF LIFE INCALCULABLE.
Ki-lng Kivem Kush Upon the City, Carrying
Buildings and Human Occupants
Ou to Death and
Destruction.
Pueblo, Colo., May 31.—A storm
which has been raging in this vicinity
for the past two days broke in all its
fury during the night causing the Ar
kansas and Fountain River, whose
junction is in this city to burst over
their levees and Hood the whole lower
portion of the town. The fire whistle
was blown to call out the police and
fire department also the volunteers to
assist In rescuing some three hundred
families who were hemmed in the
“grove” or bottoms.
The work proceeded as rapidly as
was possible. The men in their work
were greatly hampered by the rising
water. An alarm was sounded at 10
o’clock last night calling the rescuers
from the bottoms. The levees had
broken above the city and there was
great danger of the people being
drowned. High wagons and boats
were used in getting the unfortunates
to the high ground. When the second
alarm was sounded the work of saving
property was abandoned. At 11 o’clock
the city was in total darkness. The
water six feet deep coming down
Court street. This is the resident por
tion of the city.
The Journal building is under water
and the printers fled to save their lives.
It is almost certain that a number of
people have been drowned.
11:30 v. m.— The flood is increasing at
the rate of six feet an hour. Over one
hundred dwellings have been swept
away. The business portion of the
city is entirely cut off from communi
cation with the south and east side.
1:30 a. m. —No abatement. Rain has
commenced again, A police patrol
wagon with ten men standing
on the seat, stuck in the mud, only the
horses heads being visible above the
water, can be seen from the office
of the United T’ress. The position of
the wagon is oiTa eol-ner with the wa
ter running at a tremendous rate. The
position of the men is perilous.
Later —Telegraphic communication
cut off. The Journal building is going.
FLOODS ELSEWHERE.
Vancouver, B. U, Visited by a Rise of Water
Unequalled in her Territory.
Vancouver, B. C., May. 31 —The
overflow of the Frazer River is causing
great destruction and loss of life. The
vallies have been submerged, houses of
ranchers have been swept away and
fields lay in waste. Many herds of cat
tle and flocks of sheep have been drown
ed, Whole villages on the banks of
the stream are flowing. So far, seven
lives are known to have been lost.
Langley, a little boy fell from the
Langley Hotel and was swept away by
the flood. The whole of the Langley
prairie is now under water and the is
land on which the Indian reservation
is situated is entirely under water.
The dead bodies of three men and a lit
tle girl were found on Ilatzic Prairie
tangled among floating trees. Many
other bodies are reported as having
been seen in the stream in other locali
ties, but so terrible was the current
that no attempt at rescue could be
made. At Morris, steamers are sailing
in water where a week ago were farms.
Farmers, fearing to remain longer, are
taking passage on steamers and bring
ing their families here.
The towns of Chillawack, Harrison
and Centerville, have been almost en
tirely inundated, and was with diffi
culty that the inhabitants have escaped
with their lives.
The damage done to the Canadian
Pacific Railroad tracks is very serious,
all along the line. At Ilatzic, the dik
ing has entirely given w’ay and six
hundred yards of road have been des
troyed. At Necomen, the whole town
is under water. Traffic over the rail
road is entirely stopped, no train hav
ing arrived from the east since May 23.
No mails have been received or sent.
At Ilatzic and Griffin six hundred men
are endeavoring to repair the tracks.
At places, it is proposed to throw haw
sers across the chasms and iu this way
transfer the mails to the opposite side.
Every farmer and rancher at Hatz ic
prairie is ruined. The latest report
says that the Matzqui Dike has caved
in and the country is all flooded. Re
ports from Mission City cannot be ob
tained for the wires are down. The
Mission Railroad bridge, one of the*
road is expected to go.
Blockade on Account of Floods.
Seattle, Wash., May 31. —The Puget
Sound region is almost cut off from ev
ery communication with the east. T.he
Canadian Pacilie, Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and l nion Pacific
Roads are all blockaded on account of
the floods. On the first named road,
the waters on the Frazer River are
higher than they have been for twenty
ve'ars past. In the immediate vicinity
uf the city the high waters are rapidly
receding and no further damage is ex
ted.
NEWS ITEMS BY WIRE.
The post office at Mechanic Falls,
Me., was broken into Wednesday night
and 31,000 stolen.
The Illinois State Republican League
will meet at Springfield September 5,
instead of August 9.
A trolley car on the Lynn and Boston
line was struck by a Boston and Maine
train and thrown twenty feet.
The schooner Alta, stone laden, for
New York from Wallace, ran ashore on
Pietou Island, N. S., and may prove a
total loss.
Joseph Sehweiber, of Egg Harbor,
N. J., left for New York Wednesday in
search of his - x teen-year-old daugh
ter, who is beho ved to have eloped.
JACKSON. GA. THURSDAY, MAY 31.1894.
OPENING AT MORRIS PARK.
Twenty Five Thnasmi l People Watch The
Kueefl.
Morris Park Rac k Track, May 3b
This was the opening day at the track
here and fully 25,000 persons took ad
vantage of the clear and a trifle cooler
weather to witness the races. The
track was in excellent condition and
everything about the grounds was in
perfect order. Among the interesting
events on the brilliant programme wefe
the Cherry Diamond handicap and the
Juvenile stakes. In the former race,
Dr. Rice, the favorite started out well
and was only once headed for a few
jumps by Count. The straggle for the
place between Restraint and Count was
fierce, but the former secured it by the
scant head. The race for the Juvenile
stakes was onesided throughout, Prince
of llonaco, haviug been the taskmaker
from flag falls to finish. Keenan, who
was made the favorite, was unable to
get near the leaders until it was too
late.
Brighton Beach Turf.
Brighton Beach Race Track, May
HI. —Fully ten thousand persons took
advantage of the holiday and attended
the races here yesterday. The grand
stand was uncomfortably crowded, and
it was almost impossible to get into the
betting ring. The track was in excel
lent condition, and, as the card was
first class, good sport was indulged in.
The weather was perfect. This was
not one of Briglitons regular days. The
regular meeting does not begin until
July 4th. Despite the warning of the
jockey club, one, two, three books were
made, but this was due to a misunder
standing at last Monday's meeting of
the club. At the regular meeting no
such books will be allowed.
ATTACKING THE TRAINS.
Desperate Strikers Kdsort to Desperate
Acts in Ohio.
Columbus, 0., May 3b —A special
fro r Glouster states that striking mi
ners stopped a Toledo & Ohio Central
coal train loaded with West Virginia
coal yesterday and detained it. This
morning- another train was stopped
there. The railway company appealed
to Sheriff M. M. Riley to prevent this
interference, but owing to the grea
number of strikers, he decided to in
voke military aid. There has been no
conflict yet. Glouster is in the n "th
em part of Athens county, at the _ unc
tion of the Kanawha and Michigan and
the Teledo an 1 Ohio Central railroads.
It is in the heart of the Hocking valley
mining region, aud the thousands of
striking miners there have become
desperate at seeing train load after
train load of West Virginia coal go
through to the northwest market.
More Trains Attacked.
Massillon, 0., May 31. —A party of
250 miners attacked three W heeling
and Lake Erie trains laden with West
Virginia coal as they passed through
Herrodsville yesterday. The windows
in the engine and cabooses were brok
en with stones and several trainmen
were injured.
PAPERS DENOUNCE WAITE.
The Governor of Colorado Confering With
strikers, to Whom he is Partial.
Denver, May 3b —Governor Waite last
night left Denver secretly on the Rio
Grande Road and arrived at Victor this
morning where he is having a confer
ence with the strikers. The nature of
it has not yet developed. The governor
says he goes to Cripple Creek as a knight
of labor, to talk with his fellow knights
No more war therefore, has been made.
The strikers have warned the people
they dislike to leave the town of Crip
ple Creek. Deputy Sheriffs are still
encamped at Divide and are being re
inforced. It is not thought that Waites
presence will stay a battle there, which
seems inevitable, and the general be
lief is that trouble will occur as soon as
the governor leaves. The people of
Colorado Springs and Denver are high
ly incensed at the governor and his
partiality to the strikers and the press
is unanimous in condemnation of his
acts, even the populist papers pointing
out the errors. The Rocky Moun
tain News denounces Waite.
NEGRO COLONY IN MEXICO.
Two and a Half Million Acres of Land Pur
chased for That Purpose.
San Antonio, Texas May 31.— The
Mexican coffee-cotton colonization
company of this city has closed a deal
with Ex-Governor Gonzales, of the
state of Chihuahua. Mexico, for the
purchase of two million, five hundred
th usand acres of land situated in the
states of Coahuila and Chihauhua. The
cash consideration is over one million
dollars. This immense tract of land
borders one hundred and twenty-five
miles of the Rio Grande river and con
tains some of the richest valley land in
the Republic of Mexico. It also con
tains an extensive deposit of anthracite
coal and undeveloped mineral proper
ties. The nearest point of the track
to a railroad is forty miles. W. H. El
lis, of this city, has contracted with the
purchasers of the land to colonize ten
thousand negroes upon one section
of it.
Using Railroad Ties for Fuel.
Ellwood City, May 31.—The Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad
company have large gangs of men at
work pulling up old railroad ties which
are now being used for fuel to run both
freight and passenger engines. The
Pittsburg and Western railroad is out
of coal and unable to confiscate anoth
er bushel because of the opposition
developed among extensive coal specu
lators.
Statue of General McNeil Unveiled.
I St. Louis, May 31. —The memorial
day exercises were held here yesterday
under cloudy skies and with cool
weather. The different grand army
post formed in a general parade and
marched to Belle Fontaine cemetery,
where the statue of General McNeil
was unveiled.
Another County For General Evans.
Morgan, Ga., May 31.—At the the
primary to-day Evans carried the coun
, ty by 12 majority.
GREAT COMESS OS
Southern Inter-State Immigra
tion Convention at Augusta.
ALL SOUTHERN STATES REPRESENTED
Governor Northen Welcomes the Delegates
to Georgia—Governor* From Many
States Attend—The Work
Now in Progress.
e
Augusta, Ga.. May 3b—All details of
organization and the order of business
having been finished at the opening
meeting yesterday, the (Southern Inter-
State Immigration Congress begins its
practical work this morning.
Yesterday after the meeting was call
ed to order by President Bryan, of Ten
nessee, Mayor J. 11. Alexander, of Au
gusta, welcomed the congress ou the
part of the city. Mayor
Alexander's speech was full of inter
esting historical facts about Augusta,
the oldest inland city in the south At
lantic States, and the second establish
ed by Oglethorpe. This city before the
day of railroads being the furtherest
inland city with liver navaga ion to
the sea south of Virginia, was the point
of comm unication with the outer world
of all that territory embraced in North
ern Alabama, East Tennessee, Western
North Carolina, North Georgia and
South Carolina. Here all this vast sec
tion came in wagons to trade. He con
tinued:
“This city is mentioned in contemporaneous
history in 1710, live years after the settlement
was planted, as already in a state of great pros*
perity, well equipped for trade, aud conducting
an extensive traffic throughout the vast and
fruitful tributary country.
“It was here that Eli Whitney eondticted his
experimental works and in i790 developed the
cotton gin, one of the most tamo us industrial
inventions of the world, which immediately rev
olutionised the agriculture of this section from
tobacco and indigo to cotton as its staple crop.
In 1791, the whole cotton crop of the south was
38 bales. In li 00 seven years after Whitneys
gin appeared, Georgia alone exported over 7,003
bales.”
Hon. James R, Lamar Speaks.
Following Mayor Alexander, Honor
able Joseph R. Lamar, president of the
Young Men’s Business league of Au
gusta, which secured the convention
for this city, welcomed the congress,
and followed with more valuable, facts
concerning- the Augusta of today. Tak
ing simply the official census figures
for ISSO he showed that Augusta had
increased in the number of manufac
turing establishments in the past de
cade 033 per cent; in capital employ
ment 275 per cent, in labor employed
275 per cent and in wages paid 350 per
cent.
Gov. Northen’s Welcome to Georgia.
Governor Northen wekvjmUd the con
gress on the part of Georgia and gave
a glowing picture of her prog-ress and
thrift. He declared the readiness of
Georgia to welcome industrious imi
grants who came to cast their lot here.
Governor Northen was greeted with
most enthusiastic applause. The
southern people he said were grossly
misunderstood and abused and from
some cause, (he trusted it was from ig
norance) misrepresented in their so
cial and political conditions. lie con
tinued:
This convention should come to the defense
of our civilization and let the world know that
no people among the nations has a prouder re
cord for law and order or a higher or a better
civilization tnan the people we have the honor
to represent. He recc m mended still more lib
eral appropriations for schools and better high
ways. Fnally, there is a spirit abroad in some
sections with which personally I have no sym
pathy. Undue antagonism to corporations is
not only unwise hut it is destructive of the com
mon good. Individuals as such, cannot main
tain a state nor build • section. Corporations
In their corporate capacity are just as essential
to the thrift of a community as the individual
farmers, physicians or any other class of its
people. We cannot afford ruthlessly to destroy
them. We cannot afford to do less than give
them all needed protection and encouragement.
In my honest judgment, this convention cannot
do a better thing than say so far as they have
the power to control the laws of uhe states at
the south shall he such as to protect legitimate
ly invested capital wherever at the south, it
it shall be placed. (Prolonged applause)
Welcome by Senator Walsh.
I Fnited States Senator Patrick Walsh,
whose home is here, welcomed the con
gress and extended them the privileges
of the commercial club of which he is
president.
Response to the addresses of welcome
j were made by r Governor McCorkle of
West Virginia, Governor Carr, of North
Carolina and Governor Tillman of
South Carolina. The latter declared it
. was well enough to invite people and
capital from the outside, and all that
came would be welcome: for every dol
lar of outside capital the southern peo
ple must expend ten of their own, if
they were in earnest about desiring to
build up the south.
President Bryan's Address.
I At the conclusion of the addresses of
welcomes and the responses, President
Bryan addressed the congress. He ex
plained the need for immigration in the
southern states by contrasting the pop
ulation per square mile of some of the
states as follows :
Massachusetts 287; Kentucky, which is the
most densely populated of the southern states.
19; Rhode Island 2&1; Texas 8. He showed the
material advance which has taken place in the
! south and called attention to the fact that edu
! rational advantages were keeping pace, the in
; crease having been 100 per cent, in the past de
rade. in aporopriations by soathera states for
this purpose, last year being over sixteen mil
lions. Tne total value of school property in the
south is ten millions; at m er of teachers ‘■4 .
XX); white pupils two and a quarter millions;
aegro pupils one and a quarter millions; pupils
in private schools three hundred thousand; in
paroc liul s.-hools forty tho-sand. He thought
the time was ripe for the immigration move
ment in the south, and telieved that by patriot
ic and united effort on the part of the intelligent
men composing the ongrdss somewise and
. praetu ai plan would be adopted.
At the afternoon ses'ion. permanent
organization wqs affected by the re
election of President M. T. Bryan of
Tennessee, and Secretary B. F. Elliot,
of Florida. It was decided that each
state represented should vote according
to its vote in the electoral college and
each territory have on vote. The cre
dentials committee reported represent
ed in the congress the following states
and territories: Alabama, Arkansas,
Arizona, District of C olumbia, Florida,
U orgia, Kentucky. M<* viand, Missou
ri. Mssissippi, North C arolina, South
Ca'olina, Tennessee, Virginia
NEW ORLEANS NOT LIABLE.
Decision in the Cases Against the City fot
Damages to Property Lost in a Riot.
New Orleans, May 31. —The Italian
cases against the city of New Orleans
for damages resulting from the death
of the Italians in the Parish prison as
sault on March 14. 1891, have been de
cided in the United States court of
appeals. X
By agreement the case of Abbagnetti
was to be a test case in the appellate
court, deciding the results in the other
suits. In the lower court, as will be
remembered, the jury returns a verdict
for the plaintiff in the case of Abbag
netti, allowing $5,000 damages. Ver
dicts were also returned in a number of
other suits ranging from $1,500 to 85,000.
Then the city entered a plea of no
cause of action, which was argued for
three or more days before Judge Par
lange. Judge Parlange decided that
there was no cause for action in a
lengthy but interesting opinion.
The decision of Judge Parlange was
sustained, the court holding that muni
cipal corporations of this state are not
liable for any damage done by mobs or
riotous assemblages, except for dam
age to property. Judge Parlange ren
dered the decision, Judges McCormick
and Locke concurring.
MRS. FITZGERALD ACQUITTED.
The Jury Brings in a Verdict After Six
Minutes of Deliberation.
New York, May 31. —The trial of In
spector McLaughlin’s sister, Catherine
M, Fitzgerald, ended with a verdict of
acquittal after six minutes’ delibera
tion by the jury. Mrs. Fitzgerald
nearly swooned away when the verdict
was announced.
The session of the trial was begun
with Lawyer House’s address to the
jury for the defense. He argued that
she was insane when she fired the fatal
shot. He said that no sane person
would talk indiscriminately about her
intended crime or would fire shot after
shot as Mrs. Fitzgerald did.
Assistant District Attorney Davis
made a short address. Judge Cowing
charged the jury and the verdict of
“Not guilty” was returned in a remark
ably short time. The foreman of the
jury said that they had found Mrs.
Fitgerald insane at the tim& she killed
Mrs Pearsall.
ALABAMA EPISCOPALIANS.
The Diocesean Council in Session at Bir
mingham.
Birmingham. May 31. —Thediocesean
council of the Episcopal ehurch in the
state of Alabama is in session at the
church of Advent, this city.
Services were held in the church yes
terday, in which Revs. Beard, Stickney,
Murray, Smith and Bishop Jackson
participated. The convention sermon
was preached by Rev, W. C. Whitaker,
Christ church, Tuscaloosa. It was a
splendid sermon and enjoyed by all.
At 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon the
council was declared organized. Rev.
R. H. Cobbs, D. D., of Greensboro, was
re-elected Secretary. Assistant Bishop
H, M. Jackson president. The chair
man announced the standing commit
tees.
Rev. Dr. Powers of St. Johns church,
Montgomery, Ala., delivered a power
ful sermon last night. The subject was
“Thy gentlenss hath made me great.
SAD CONDITION OF AFFIARS.
The Pennsylvania Steel Plants Close for
lack of Coke, and Business Suspended.
BRADDoCK,Pa., May 31. —The ship
ment of coke to the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works plant has entirely stopped.
Iso coke was shipped yesterday, for the
first time since the strike began. Fur
nace “A” of the Carnegie plant, mak
ing Manganese which has been opera
ting since the furnaces suspended some
days ago, may close down today. The
miner departments of the works will
have to stop now that the coke supply,
has ceased. Sixty Hungarians who
have been working in the mills here. -
left last night on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, to return to Hungary,
Chinese Immigration to Mexico.
Montgomery, Ala., May 31. A dis
tinguished Chinese merchant named
Kim Wing has reached Mobile en route
from his home in Merida, Mexico, to
Hong Kong, China, where he goes to
get 200,000 of his countrymen to settle
in Mexico. Wing is a wealthy merchant
of Merida, and is a highly educated
man. It was with great difficulty that
he persuaded the Mexican government
to permit him to bring so large a num
ber of his countrymen over at one time.
They are to be employed on coffee and
hemp plantations, which are to be ope
rated by Wing.
Coxey’s Army Reinforced.
Washington, May 31.— Coxey’s rag
ged army of tramps were reinforced by
150 men under “General” Galvin (who
arrived at Coxey camp yesterday)
marched into town and decorated the
monument on Pennsylvania Avenue at
the western end of the capital grounds
with evergreens and wild flowers and
then marched back to camp.
Ohio Troops Called Out.
Cincinn atti, May 31.— Governor Mc-
Kinley, has issued orders calling out
the state troops to go at once to Ath
ens County to quiet the trouble among
the miners. The request from sheriff
Riley, of that county, reached the gov
ernor here and he lost no time in grant
ing it.
Cooler With Showers.
WasHiNGTON, May 31. —Forecast: For
Georgia, showers; cooler in eastern
portions, west winds. For Alabama,
showers, warmer in eastern portion;
variable winds. For Tennessee, show
ers in eastern portion for Thursday,
variable winds.
Congress After a Holiday.
Washington, May 31.—Both branch
es of congress resumed work this morn
ing after a holiday yesterday in accor
dance with President Cleveland’s de
cree. Decoration day was generally
observed.
Many Plants Shut Down.
Erib, Pa.. May 81. —The Erie Forge,
the Nagle Furnaces had several othei
| iron plants shut down yesterday.
LIST OF THE INJURED
Three of Those Wounded in the
Albany Wreck Will Die.
DETAILS OF THE FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
The Injured and the Nature of the Injuries
Train Crowded With People as the
Cars Kolled Down the Steep
Embankment,
Albany, Ga., May SI. —An excursion
train from along- the Columbia, Ala.,
extension of the Central railroad, met
with an accident this morning at 7
o'clock, this side of Holt's station. The
rear car, filled with white people, left
the track on account of the spreading
of the rails, and turned over three times
down a steep embankment. The wound
ed people were brought to Albany and
Bennie's restaurant and sleeping rooms
were converted into a hospital. Four
physicians have been here all the morn
ing. About forty are injured, their
arms aud legs being broken, while oth
ers received cuts and bruises.
Mr. John Smith, of Bluffton, is injur
ed internally, and will probably die.
Mr. Andy Jones, of Edison, is also se
verely injured internally.
The excursion train was going to An
dersonville, the occasion being federal
decoration day.
The wreck lias been expected a long
time, on account of the bad track which
has become famous for ten years owing
to the frequent accidents which have
occurred.
Those fatally injured are: John
Smith, of Bluffton ; Andy Jones, of
Edison, and Mrs. Little, of Hillton, Ga.
None of the others are thought to be
seriously injured. About 1,000 people
were on the train, each coach of which
was crowded almost to suffocation.
The derailed coach rolled down a steep
embankment and it is a miracle that
many were not killed outright as it
contained 100 people, many of whom
were standing at the time of the acci
dent.
The following are those whose inju
ries are serious but not necessarily fa
tal.
C. T. Butler, Arlington, ear torn loose
and shoulder injured.
G. TANARUS, Panuel, Hailsburg, Ala., right
shoulder sprained.
JohnT. Norris, Columbia, Ala., three
cuts on the head and left leg and hand
bruised.
Loft Anderson, conductor, liip and
leg bruised,
L. M. Free, Damascus, spinal injur
ies and bruises on shoulder and neck.
J. J. Slappey and Miss Slappy, Ilil
der, cuts and bruises on the face.
A. L. Williams, Columbia, left shoul
der sprained.
Master Frank Tulley. Arlington, cuts
on face and bruises on the back.
L. A. Tulley and Master Julius Tul
ley, Arlington, cuts on the face.
Captain M. Holt, Columbia, Ala., hip
dislocated and face and hands and
arms cut.
G. T. Little, Hilton, spinal injuries
Mrs. TANARUS, E. Tulley, Arlington, face
cut and neck and both arms sprained,
John C. Chancey, Blakely, face cut
and bruised.
Cora Thompson, Columbia, Ala., body
bruised.
William Bradfield, Bluffton, wrist
and both knees sprained.
W. 11. Sparling, Milford, knee sprain
ed etc.
Henry Batts, Damascus body bruised.
J. J. and W, E. Fulton Clay county,
cut and bruised on the head.
E. G. Brown, Bluffton, bruised.
A. F. Sinquefield, Asheville. Ala.,
right arm broken at the wrist and lace
and head cut.
Tiden Watkins, Edison, spinal inju
ries.
J. F. Mills, Edison, deep cut on the
leg.
C. A. Sheppard. Edison, back and
neck badly bruised.
W. T. Hall, Hailesburg, Ala., cuts on
the head and hand.
Miss Emma Rheams, Hilton, gashes
on the hand and painful injuries to the
hip.
ASSAULT UPON HIS DAUGHTER.
Clifton Forge, Virginia, Excited Over The
Deed of a Brutal Father.
Ci.ifton Forge, Va., May 31.— George
Downey, aged about forty, and for
more than a dozen years employed by
the Longdale Iron Company as a stone
and brick mason, being an expert work
man, has been arrested and jailed in
the jail of Allegheny County, charged
with the crime of committing an as
sault upon the person of his daughter,
Elizabeth Downey, aged 18 years. He
is a disagreeable, quarrelsome, cow
ardly character and made his home ex
ceedingly disagreeable. To escape
from her father, Elizabeth Downey ran
off and went to Rock Bridge County.
Her whereabouts was discovered and
Downey went after his daughter.
When within a few miles of home, he
took her from her horse, he being afoot
and committed the crime, threatening
to kill her if she told on him.
Turpins Invention Discussed.
Paris, May 31. —All of this morning's
papers discuss the matter of Turpins
invention which it is alleged the war
office rejected, after w-hieh it was sold
to the german government and the ma
jority agree that it ought to be imme
diately explained. It is necessary that
the public should know whether the
invention was seriously conceived and
of practical value, whether it has been
sold to a foreign government or wheth
er the whole affair was merely an at
tempt to extort money from the French
government.
Servian Cabinet Quits.
Sofia, May 31.— The resignation of
M. Stambuloff's ministry was due en
tirely to personal friction between the
scveraj members. M. Giekcff has de
fined to undertake the reconstruction
>f the cabinet and has advised Prince
erdinand to summon some represen
tive of the opposition fur that our
se. The change in ministry will not
affect the foreign relations of the coun
try
OFFICIAL ORGAN.
NO 22
KILLED IN A WRECK.
Through an Open Switch the 'Wiseonslu
Central dunged.
Marshfield. Wis., May 31.—An acci
dent resulting in the loss of eight lives
and the injury of fifteen to twenty
persons, more or less seriously, occur
ed here at 3:15 a. m, Train No. 26 on
the Wisconsin Central railway went
through an open switch and was com
pletely wrecked. The cars afterward
took tire and were consumed.
Four persons were taken from the
wreck dead and four others are missing,
supposed to have been caught in the
mass of broken timbers and crushed.
Among the dead are the engineer, fire
man and one of the Tweedy brothers.
Killed: James Hubbard, engineer,
of Stevens Point; George Gearheart,
fireman, of Stevens Point; Judgon Big
elow, brakeman, of Stevens Point: Mr.
Russell, civel engineer in the employ of
the company: Aged man and woman,
names unknown, burned in the ruins;
It is said that they were not on the
train at St. Paul.
Injured: Henry Chester, Marshfield,
Wisconsin, legs and spine badly injured:
O. IV. Bozley, News agent, Stevcng
Point injured internally; Arthur Tur
nice. Chicago, head cut and otherwise
injured will recover; John Bigelow,
head breakman, of Stevens Point, Wis
consin: Dr, Weitzel (Hidden Wis., hurt
in ernally; Fannie Burtel, Springdale,
Illinois, hand badly cut: William Ry
an Sturgeon, Bay 7, Wis., ribs broken
and head cut; A. E. Twichel, attorney
at law, Minneapolis, head cut.
SUEZ ANNUITIESTO DE LESSEPS.
Tlu Canal Company Takes Care of the Fam
ily of the Famous Founder.
Paris, France, May 31. —The report
of the Suez Canal Company shows that
in 1893 its revenue amounted to 76,579,-
992 francs, and the expenses, including
5 per cent, interest, amounted to 86,-
964,455 francs. This leaves a profit of
about 40,000,000 francs, giving a divi
dend. ;vf 72 francs, which added to the
5 per cent, interest makes 97 francs per
share. %
The report expresses the unanimous
opinion of the directors that the com
pany lias a great duty 7 to fulfill toward
M. Ferdinand de Lessips, the founder
of the enterprise. It is proposed to
vote life annuities, to the members of
M. de Lessep’s family: To his thirteen
children, 60,000 francs, and a simular
sum to Mine, de Lesseps during the
lifetime of her husband; after his death
the latter annuity to be reduced to 40,-
000 francs. The other 20,000 francs are
to be devided among the surviving chil
dren.
In the event of the death of any one
of the children their shares will be di
vided among those living.
The report mentions that M. Gnieh
ard, vice president, has roplaced M. de
Lesseps as actiug president of the com
Pany.
SEVERELY THRASHED.
A Prospective Bridegroom Backslides at
the Eleventh Hour.
Montgomery, Ala., May 31.—Geneva,
Ala., close to the Florida line, is agi
tated over a social sensation. Ed Co
wart, a prominent y 7 oung man, and
Miss Lizzie Lanvvood, a popular belle,
were to have wedded. All arrange-
made, the preacher and the
guests had arrived, the wedding sup
per was spread, hut the bridegroom
was missing.
A delegation was sent after him, but
he declined to come, saying he had
changed his mind. The bridal party
was notified accordingly. The assem
bled gentlemen thereupon provided
themselves with masks, again called
upon the bridegroom, carried him into
the woods, buckled him across a log,
and lashed him unmercifully till the
blood flowed.
MOVING ON THE WORKS.
Steamboat Load of Unarmed Worker s Com
ing Down tlie River.
Pomeroy, 0., May 31. —At 8 a. m. to
day a steamboat load of miners from
the towns above passed down on their
move on Senator Camden’s works at
Spillman, W. Va. They will be rein
forced by land forces. They expect to
face the West Virginia militia there.
The miners are not armed and expect
to accomplish their purpose by persua
sion. With this mine shut down the
Cincinnati and Pomeroy packets will
have to go to the hank, as there is no
other-place to get coal. The miners
propose to camp at the mouth of the
mine until the work is shut down.
ALLEGED MACKEREL POACHING.
American Vessels, It is Said, Hid Their
Names and Captured Canadian Fish.
Halifax, N. S. May 31. —Prospect is
indignant at an occurrence there last
Friday. The coast was teeming with
mackerel, and the citizens claim that a
fleet of American vessels came within
the three-mile limit right up to the
shore and made big hauls.
The crews covered the names of the
vessels with canvas so that the people
in the boats could not ascertain their
names." After making their catch they
escaped.
NEW FREIGHT RATES.
Scale Established by the Southern Railway
Steamship Association.
Atlanta, May 31. —The new rates es
tablished by the recent cuts of the
Southern Railway and Steamship As
sociation have been announced and are
as follows : From Boston, Providence,
New York and Philadelphia, first class,
40 cents per hundred pounds ; second,
34 cents ; third, 30 cents ; fourth, 26
cents ; fifth, 21 cents, sixth, 17 cents.
From Baltimore, first class, 38 cents;
second, 32 cents ; third, 28 cents ; fourth,
24 cents ; fifth, 20 cents ; sixth, 10 cents.
Western Union Not Liable.
' Washington, D. C.,*May 31.—The Su
preme Court has decided that the Wes
tern Union Telegraph Company was not
liable in damages to the sender of a
message in cipher for -errors in trans
mission. The case came up from the
Circuit Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania, wffiere Frank J. Prim
rose sued the telegraph company for
o 100,000 damages for mistakes in send
ing a cipher telegram,