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VOL XXIII
“FLAJIBKAI.”
!
Owing to the low price of cotton and
the presence of hard times we will stand
the thoroughbred horse, ‘'Flambeau,”
► during 1895 at the low price of fls to
guarantee a foal! Now is your time to
raise good stock while you have a chance
fiom such horses as “Flambeau,” at the
low price quoted. His colts can be seen
at Jackson, Griffin, and other places and
they show for themselves. 11 is home is
at Jackson, but will stand at the follow
ing places: Jackson, Griffin, Indian
Spring, Monticello, McDonough and
other places that will give us enough
work to authorize our doing so.
Thompson & Tokbkt,
j tu2s-2m Jackson, Ga.
“Orange Blossom” is a painless cure
tor all disease* peculiar to women.
Sold by W L. Carmichael.
I burned my entire slock of
old seed last, fall, and conse
quently I have nothing but the
best New Seed.
janlS*4t W. L. Carmichael.
Hard times make burglars.
Don’t he foolish and hide your
money. Deposit it in Jackson
Banking Cos. Can draw it out at
any time. No charge for keep
ing it sately. Absolute security
guaranteed. janlß-4t
■Burglaries are now frequent.
your money where burglars
steal it. Jackson Bank-
HKlk Cos. offers superior induce-
as to safety and security.
■ charges for taking care of
money. You can draw it
at any time. Will allow in-
Best on specitied time deposits
IPI special contract. janlß-4t
NOTICE
BPTo my numerous customers
Bhd friends: Don’t buy your
HKiano, Acid or Cotton Seed Meal
Hpitil you see me, as I am in the
Karket with my accustomed sup
■ly of the most pQ\ulars brands,
■which have given such universal
Ipa'isfaction If possible lam
■preparing to meet vour views in
Fgoods and piices. My guano, as
in the past, will be delivered
from my guano house at the
Jackson Carriage Factory; so
p ease don’t fail to call on me,
examine my goods, get my
price-, and make your selection
from the largest assortment of
the most popular brands of
goods offered in this market. It
is by long experience in the bus
iness, and- from information
gained each ear from numerous
farmers that I know which brands
of guanos to stick to and which
pays my customers best.
Respectfully,
jan‘2stf J. R. Carmichael.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. W. Anderson. Frank Z. Curry.
ANDERSON Sc CURRY *
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Negotiates loans on real estate.
Office up stairs over the Yellow Store,
Jaekson, Georgia.
M. M. MILLS,
Attorney at Law.
Office in Court House, Jackson, Ga.
M V. McKIBBEN,
Attorney at Law,
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
Everything' Sow and First -Class.
Conveniently Located.
Free Hack to Depot.
C. W. BUCHANAN. Prop’r
Dr. 0. H. Cantrell,
DEXTTXST.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
J. D. Watkins,
at Law.
Business Promptly Attended to.
in Watkins Hall,
JACKSON, GA.
THE BLOODY Sill.KE
Linemen Join the Motormen and
Quit Their Jobs.
MORE BLOODSHED THE CONSEQUENCE.
Lines More Opened L’p Out Violence Not
Abated—The Situation Grows More
Complicated—Story of the
Lay’s Rioting.
Brooklyn, January 24. —Strike vio
lence continues in all its force, and an
other man, shot by the militia last
night, breathed his last this morning.
The roads are more opened up than
heretofore and the presidents believe
that a hopeful sign of their success,
however the men are still determined
and the majority of them are undaunt
ed by the thousands of militia on the
scene.
Blood was shed in starting cars on
the Hicks street line of the Atlantic
Avenue system yesterday afternoon.
Preparations were made to open the
line shortly after noon. The Thir
teenth regiment, Colonel Austin iu
command and Majors Cochran and Lus
com were in charge of the two bat
talions. They were ordered to protect
the route of the Hicks street cars. This
regiment is the one which saw service
in the Buffalo riots and it will stand no
nonsense. The first car was started
from the Butler street stables at 2:26 p.
m. It was car No. 156. On the front
platform was a special policeman and
on the rear Officer Seward was on duty.
The second battalion got a hot recep
tion in the region about Hicks and Har
rison streets.
Militia Taunted and Ridiculed.
Stones, bottles and other missiles
were thrown at them from windows.
They were taunted and ridiculed by
people who stood on the door steps, and
in at least one instance a revolver was
pointed at them from a window. The
first car itself was not attacked,at least
so its occupants say.
The militiamen themselves were the
targets. Finally they ordered that all
windows be closed and the sidewalks
and doorways cleared. The people in
the windows did not obey.
There was a crack of a rifle and a
piece of brownstone was chipped from
a house front at the side of the window.
The window was closed. People across
the way leaned over the heads of the
troops and threw missies at them. 'I he
rifles cracked and bullets whizzed past
several heads.
At 439 Hicks street they arrested
John Meade, who pointed a loaded re
volver out of a window at Corporal Platt
of company I. Just beyond this
house over Pollard’s saloon, No. 41-i
Hicks street, a man was seen on the
roof. The order was given "stand
hack there.”
Shots Fired, M<n Killed.
Almost simultaneously several shots
were fired and the man dropped. He
was a roofer by the name of Thomas
Carney. A bullet entered his right
thigh and passed upward through tilt
groin and abdomen. He was removed
to the Long Island college hospital, and
the coroner sent for to take his ante
mortem statement.
There were iu all about forty shots.
Carney was the ouly man shot. The
car proceeded without interruption af
ter that.
The people of Hicks street had learn
ed their lesson. Windows were kept
closed and doorways deserted. The
cars passed through the street and re
turned to the stables without injury.
The firing of the troops caused a
reign of terror in the vicinity.
Early in the day troop A., New York
city’s swell cavalrymen, charge 1 with
drawn sabres to disperse a mob which
was stoning a gang of non-union men
repairing tracks. In other instances
troops fired at windows from which
stones were thrown at them, and used
their bayonets to disperse crowds.
Wire cutting, obstructing tracks, and
bombarding cars was continued in spite
of the presence of the troops.
Linemen Join the Motormen.
The linemen and electrical workmen
after much deliberation decided to
strike out of sympathy for the conduc
tors and motormen. Their action will
increase the troubles of the presidents
of the trolly lines.
A stone was thrown from the eleva
ted railroad structure on Broadway
near Aberdeen street about 7 o'clock
last night which struck a car on its
way to East New York with sueh force
as to pass completely through the bon
net of the car. It narrowly missed the
motor man.
At 7 o’cloek last night Corporal Doyle
of company B.,Seventh regiment, while
on duty at the Knickerbocker avenue
station of the Union Elevated railroad,
told some men who came down the ele
vated steps to move on. They refused.
Doyle struck one on his shoulder with
his clubbed musket. lie smashed the
musket and knocke.l the man down.
He also jabbed his yonet into an
other man deep enough to draw blood.
Both men were taken away by their
friends.
The linemen who held a meeting at
Odd Fellows hall on Palmetto street
late last night went on strike this j
morning and declared that any man
who repairs a broken trolley wire to
day is out of the union.
RAILROAD SALARY REDUCTION
The Florida, t'eutrai an i Peninsular Will
Uriug It Down Ini Per ( ent.
Jacksonville. Fla., January 24.—0n
February Ist. salaries of all employes of'
the Florida. Central and Peninsular
railroad will be reduce i ten per cent.
The reason given for the eut is the fall
ing off in earnings due to the destruc
tion of the orange crop by the frost.
Some of the train aen threaten to
strike.
Weather Forecast.
Washihgto :. January 24.—For Geor
gia, fair, warmer, south winds. For
Alabama, rain, southerly winds. 1
JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1895.
THE SUIT AGAINST THE PILOT.
Rev. Sam small Mgnriug in Law a? Well
as Polities in Virginia.
Norfolk. Ya., January 24. —Suit has
been entered in the circuit court of this
city by lion. .John E. Massey, superin
tendent of education of Virginia,
against the Norfolk Pilot, a prohibition
newspaper. Samuel W. Small, editor,
the directors of the company, and R. E.
Bird, a lawyer of Winchester, Ya.. for
libel. The sum named is fifty thous
and dollars. This suit is the result of
the charge made by the Pilot that Mr.
Massey was bribed by the American
Book company to secure that company’s
contracts with the state of Virginia for
furnishing books to the public school
children. Leading counsel for Mr.
Massey are Alfred I*. Toom, and Judge
John Neeley, of Norfolk. The notice
of suit was filed yesterday afternoon
and the process made returnable to
first rules in February.
The charges made by the Pilot affect
Governor O’For rail and the Hon. R.
Taylor Scott, attorney g -nerai of the
state, who are with Mr. Massey, on the
board of education, which gives out the
contract. The trial of the case, which
promises to he a celebrated one, will be
. watched hv the people of Virginia and
of the entire country with great, inter
est.
THE MANUFACTURERS MEET.
National Convention Organized—Southern
ers in Attendance.
Cincinnati, 0., January 24. The
manufacturers national convention
adopted a statement of principles as
the basis of permanent organization
yesterday.
The convention organized permanent
ly with the following officers : Chair
man. Thomas T. Egan, of Ohio. Vice-
Chairmen. William S. Dunning, of New
York; E. P. Wilson, of Ohio; secretary
and fifteen vice-presidents, among them
J. F. Hanson, of Macon. Ga.; John B.
Moore, Alabama : A. J. Moore Florida,
and M. V. Tuttle. Tennessee. On the
committee on constitution and by-laws
is T. H. Martin, of Atlanta. A good
part of the time yesterday was con
sumed in speeches by ex-Senator War
ner Miller, of New York, on the subject
of the Nicaragua canal, and by M. E.
Ingalls, president of the Big Four rail
way. who spoke on our relations to
South America.
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS CALLED.
Financial Legislation to he the Subject.
Views Taken.
Washington, January 24.— The re
publicans of the senate have issued a
call for a party caucus to he held to
morrow morning at 10 o’clock in the
room of Mr. Sherman. One of the chief
matters to he considered will be the po
sition to be assumed on financial legis
lation. Tnere has been a canvass of
the situation and I*: is said the can-..us
will endorse the views individual sena
tors have expressed—that there is no
time during this session for any elabor
ate revision of the currency. They will
agree, if the deficit in the treasury re
quires an issue of bonds, to vote for
such a proposition, but on condition it
carries no other currency legislation.
MEET THE FREIGHT REDUCTION.
Railroads in the South Atlantic States
Meet the North anti West.
Jacksonville. Fla.. January 24. —At
a meeting yesterday in this city of the
representatives of about ten of the rail
roads in the South Atlantic states, a
resolution was passed recommending
that the lines in that territory meet
the reduction in freight ear mileage re
cently made by the trunk lines in the
north and west. The rate adopted by
the latter lines and recommended at
yesterday’s meeting is six mills per car
for each mile handled, the old rate hav
ing been %of a cent. It will require a
full meeting of the South Atlantic lines
to ratify this action.
HON. H. A. HERBERT, ORATOR.
Annual Banquet of the New York Board
of Trade,
New York. January 24. —The annual
banquet of the New York board of
trade and transportation was held last
night at Delmonico’s. About two hun
dred guests sat down to dinner, and
the menu was a most elaborate one.
The Hon. Darwin R. James, president
of the New York board of trade and
transportation, presided. Hon. H. A.
Herbert, secretary of the navy, was
the principal after dinner orator,
taking for his subject "The navy as
related to trade and transportation.”
JACKSON WILL NOT ACCEPT.
Corbett Proposes That in Which the Negro
Fails to Agree.
London, January 24. —Dick Burge re
ceived yesterday a letter from James J.
Corbett concerning the proposed Cor
bett-Jaekson prize fight. Corbett wrote
that he would meet Jackson for £5.000
a side, at the National sporting club,
six weeks after his fight with Fitz
simmons, which will take place in De
cember. When told of the contents of
the letter. Jaekson declared he was
willing to fight at an}' time in the next
four months, but would not wait a week
longer.
THREE MEN BURNED TO DEATH
Another Brooklyn Horror in Addition to
the Bloody Strike.
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 24. —At
0:45 last evening, fire occurred on the
top floor of the four-story brick build
ing, No. 11 and 13 Sehenck street,
owned and occupied by Frederick Len
hardt as a morocco factory. Three
men were burned to death. They were
employes of the concern. Their bodies
were found on the top floor and were
almost unreeognizible. Two other
men were probably fatally burned.
Loss £7.000.
Young Florida Business Man Suicides.
Jacksonville, Fla., January 24. —
Arthur Pardee, bookkeeper of the
Florida Hardware company, suicided
by shooting himself through the head
in room 14 at Battelini’s hotel at 1:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. No cause
is assigned save that young Pardee had
been drinking heavily.
TRIBUTE TO CARTER
Eloquent Eulogy Pronounced in
the Hawaiian Debate.
DEBATE UPON THE SEAL QUESTION.
Two Financial Bills Offered in the Senate
and Consigned to the Fate of Them
All—The Finance Commit e.
Other Aiatters.
Washington, January 24. —Among
the executive communications Said be
fore the house yesterday was ;i letter
from the secretary of the tr usury in
answer to the resolution of inquiry in
troduced some days ago by .fir. Ding
ley, republican of Maine, re iting to
the condition and prospects of the
Behring Sea seal herd.
Mr. Dingley introduced a bi’i author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
forthwith kill and secure t * skins of
the whole Alaskan herd of the seal
islands, sell the same from time to time
and convert the proceeds into the treas
ury. The second section authorizes the
president to suspend the ex eution of
the act whenever Great Britain shall
unite with this country in regulations
that will, in his judgment, protect the
Alaskan seal herd’s.
The bill and Secretary Carlisle’s let
ter was refened to the committee on
ways and means.
The sundry civil appropriation hill
was taken up in committee of the
whole. At the earliest possible moment
Mr.Pickier, republican of South Dakota,
got the floor and delivered an eloquent
tribute to the memory of t 'harles L.
Carter, late annexationist commissioner
to the United States, who was killed in
the recent rebellious uprising in Ha
waii, which was received with ap
plause. After considering forty-five of
the iO4 pages of the bill, the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
Bay in the Senate
In the senate Senator lial.- gave no
tice of an amendment to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill appro
priating $500,000 toward the construc
tion of a telegraph cable between the
United States and the Hawaiian Is
lands ; and said that the recent events
showed that the time had mine when
the United States ought to have close,
near, quick, communication with those
islands.
Two financial bills were introduced
which were, after remarks by their au
thors, referred to the finance commit
tee. The first was by Senator Smith,
democrat of New Jersey, its title being
“To provide for the appointment of a
non-partisan monetary commission, and
to provide means for temporary defi
ciencies in the revenue ’ 'l’i second
part ot the title ret era' to a proposed
issue of * United Sta tes three per cent,
bonds purchasable and payable in gold
coin, to an amount not exceeding $500,-
000,000. The title of Senator Jones’ bill
was “To provide for the issue of bonds,
the coinage of silver, and for other
purposes.”
Senator Patton, of Michigan, who
held his seat in the senate under ap
pointment of the governor, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Stockbridge, ceased yesterday to be a
senator, and Senator Burrows took the
oath of office in his stead —having pre
viously resigned his seat in the house
of representatives
The Nicaraguan canal bill was taken
up and Senator Turpie, democrat, of
Indiana, made a characteristically
sharp and bitter speech in opposition.
At the close of Senator Turpie’s speech
the bill went over and the senate, after
a short executive session, adjourned.
DISPENSARY SPY FIRED UPON.
He Accepted, in Disguise, Hospitality from
Those He Reported.
Hartsville, S. C., January 24.—Last
night a man named Jenkins, who has
been passing as a tombstone vender,
but was really a state dispensary spy
and who had reported several persons
whose hospitality he has enjoyed, for
violation of the dispensary law, was
fired at by unknown parties through a
window of his bed-room. The bullet
took effect in his neck. The wound is
not serious.
THE INCITERS OF DISORDER.
To Be Punished to the Full Extent of the
Law in Germany.
Berlin. January 24.—The reichstag
committee yesterday unanimously
adopted the paragraph of the anti-revo
lution bill punishing incitements to dis
order. but by a vote of 14 to 12, rejected
the section providing that although in
citements to disorder shall not lead to
any breach of the peace the inciters
shall nevertheless be liable to a fine of
600 marks and imprisonment for one
year.
Strict Search for Socialist Literature.
Berlin, January 24. —The Lokal An
zeig’er says that at a fixed hour yester
day a strict search for Socialist litera
ture was made of all the military bar
racks throughout the German Empire.
The search, it is believed, resulted in
the finding of nothing of a dangerous
character.
Threaten to Strike for Higher Wages.
Mascoutah, 111., January 24. —Two
thousand miners employed in the coal
mines at St. Clair county are threaten
ing to go on strike for a higher scale of
wages, as the seale, it is said, is not
equal to that paid in Central and
Northern Illinois.
CoSone! Long Returned to Parliament.
London, January 24. — The parlia
mentary election in the south or Eve
sham division of Worcestershire yester
day re I ted in the return of Colonel
Long, conservative, by a vote of 4,760
to 3,555 for Mr. F. Impey, liberal.
Continued I lness of General Bethune.
Washington, January 24. —General
James N. Bethune. former owner of
Blind Tom and ex-solicitor general of
Georgia, continues very ill at the home
of his son. James A. Bethune, No. 818
D sti-eet northeast.
THE FEMALE FORGER GOES UP.
Two years for Mrs. Hicken, the Fatuous
Woman Criminal,
Atlanta, January 24. —Mrs. M. E.
Hicken, alias Mrs. R. M. White, alias
Mrs. George Hunter, alias Mrs Anna
Lyons, was found guilty of forgery
shortly after 12 o’clock yesterday, and
Judge Richard 11. Clark sentenced her
to two years in the penitentiary. When
sentence was passed on the woman she
fainted and remained in a fainting con
dition after she was taken out of the
courthouse.
This case has created a great deal of
interest in mercantile circles through
out the south, as Mrs. Hicken has been
very successful iu having cheeks cashed
by merchants in different cities.
CRIMINAL COURT SENSATION.
Young Baltimore Forger Withdrew a Plea
of “Not Guilty” While on Trial.
Baltimore, January 24. —There was
a sensation in the criminal court yester
day afternoon when Horace Baker
alias George Sage, arraigned for the
forgery of checks by which he secured
$3,100 from the Harford National bank of
Belairlost May, withdrew his plea of not
guilty and pleaded guilty to the charge.
The spectators eoulJ not help giving
vent to their feeling's when the forger
acknowledged his guilt. It was one of
the shortest and most sensational trials
conducted recently in the criminal
court. Sentence was suspended and
Sage was sent back to jail.
CASIMIR - PERIER’S TROUBLES.
Divorce Imminent Between the Ex-Presi
dent and His Wife.
New York, January 24. —A Paris
special to the New York Sun indicates
that a domest \ dissension was a prime
factor in causin '' the resignation of the
presidencj 7 by Casimir-Perier and that
a divorce suit between the ex-president
and his wife is imminent. The dis
patch concludes with this paragraph:
“It is not necessary at the present mo
ment to do more than note the fact
that on leaving the Elysee the ex-pres
ident went to his former private resi
dence in the Rue Nitot while his wife
went to the home of her sister in the
Avenue Montaigne.
MINERS WANTED IN MICHIGAN.
Agents Offer Ohio Men 85 Cents Per Ton
and Steady Work.
Hamden, 0., January 24. —Agents
from the new Michigan coal fields ap
peared at Wellston, 0., yesterday, and
offered miners here 85 cents per ton for
mining their coal nd steady work the
year round. The miners sent a com
mittee to make an investigation of the
new coal fields. If the report is favor
able the greater portion of the Ohio
miners, it is predicted, will emigrate at
once to the Michigan coal fields.
PROHIBITION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
The State Senate Will In all Probabdiiy
Pass the Re-Submission Bill.
Pierre, S. D., January 24. —The sen
ate temperance committee has reported
favorably the re-submission bill, the
committee standing 7 to 2. The re
port comes up in the senate today, and
the first great fight of the season will
take place. Both sides claim the vic
tory, but there is very little question
that the bill will pass by a vote of 24 to
19.
Two Cups Ordered for the Vigilant.
Queenstown, Ireland, January 2-4.
Messrs. George and Howard Gould hav
ing asked for two cups instead of the
£IOO which the Vigilant won in the
Queenstown races last July, the cups
were ordered and arrived here yester
day. They will be engraved and then
shipped to New Ytork next week. The
cups will have antique Irish harps for
handles, and upon their bodies will be
engraved appropriate j*acht racing
scenes.
Blizzard In Western New York.
Dunkirk, N. Y., January 24.—Early
yesterday this section was visited
by a genuine blizzard. The mercury
has fallen nearly thirty degrees. A
heavy snow fall is being piled up by
the wind, and business is at a standstill
The railroads are experiencing much
inconvenience. At Lockport the wind
reached a velocity of forty miles an
hour.
Steel Companies to Settle.
Philadelphia, Pa., January 24. —It
was announced at the office of the
Pennsylvania Steel company yesterday
that the affairs of that concern and of
the Maryland Steel company, which
are in the hands of a reorganization
committee are in a fair way for settle
ment in the near future.
Resignation of the Argentina Cabinet.
Washington, January 24. —Minister
Buchanan at Buenos A vres cabled the
state department confirming news here
tofore published that the Argentine
cabinet had resigned, that President
Pena has resigned and that Vice Presi
dent Uriburu has assumed the uresi
dency.
Comparison of Cotton Movements.
New Orleans, Januai y 24. —New Or
leans cotton exchange statement: Sem
i-weekly movement at thirteen leading
interior towns: Receipts this year <32,-
975 bales; last year 45,042 bales; ship
ments this year 64,933; last year 43.127;
stocks this year 415,718; last year 341,-
732.
Heavy Gold Exports for Saturday.
New York. January 24.—There has
been three million dollars in gold with
drawn from the sub-treasury for export
on Saturday and the total amount to be
shipped on that day will not be less
than $7,000,000.
To Use the Myers Voting Machine.
Saratoga. N. Y.. January 24.—The
town board of Moreau has voted to pur
chase a Myers ballot machine, to be
used in voting at the March town meet
ing. It will be the first used in Sara
toga county.
President Cleveland Approves the Act.
Washington, January 24.—The pres
ident has approved the joint resolution
authorizing foreign exhibitors at the
the Atlanta exhibition to bring in for
eign laborers to prepare their exhibits.
COD SAVE THE MARK
Tillman’s Reference to His Most
Popular Appellation.
A NEW NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY.
Talks of the Importance of Sacli a Move,
and Declares South Carolina Ready
to Join the Army of Emanci
pation-Correspondence.
Columbia, S. C., January 24.—The
State publishes today the following let
ter, written by Ex-Governor and Sena
tor-elect Benjamin R. Tillman, the
“Moses" of the South Carolina farmers
movement of IS9O, to Thomas F. Byron,
the editor of the Des Moines, lowa,
Farmers’ Tribune, looking to the or
ganization of a National reform move
ment and anew National political
party in the United States, formed by
an alliance with the south and west.
Byron has characterized Tillman as the
Cromwell of the south ;
Your valued favor of the 3d, with marked
copy of your paper, have been received and
read with interest. Thanks for your kind
words about myself. lam called a "populist”
by the republicans and by the Cleveland demo
crats—God save the mark.
Both of these names are beginning to stink
in the nostrils of good men. Beginning? Alas,
they are a by-word and a hissing to the demo
crats who believe with Jefferson and Jackson,
and the republicans who followed Lincoln. 1
see no hope of relief or of saving our institu
tions, unless the farmers of the south quit
voting the democratic ticket and the farmers
of the west quit voting the republican ticket.
We should get together and let no names
divide us. Populists have too many cranks
among them and want to do too much. We
cannot enlist the conservative masses unless
we appeal to reason and common sense: and
the more reforms we demand the fewer we will
obtain. Plutocracy is drunk with power and
the success it has had in amalgamating repub
licans and so-called democrats under the lead
of Sherman and Cleveland. The tops will be
screwed down tighter and after a while some
thing will explode.
South Carolina is ready with baggage packed
to join the army of emancipation—the emanci
pation of the masses of white men from the
slavery of corporations, trusts and monopolies.
The name "democrat” no longer conjures
here. The name is dear for its memories, not
its present associations. Anew party name
seems necessary, and all we ask is an adher
ence to the principles of old-time democracy ;
“equal rights, equal opportunities, equal bur
dens. America for Americans, an asylum for
the honest industrious home-seeker, but a ter
ror to anarchists and law-breakers—the rich
as well as the poor. Free coinage of gold and
silver, and no paper money except legal tender
greenbacks. A tariff that will enable our man
facturers to supply the home market without
becoming millionaires at the expense of the
farmers; a tariff that will give work to all who
wish it. A financial system that will give a
fair price to the farmer for every bushel of
grain and every pound of meat.” This is plat
form enough, and any more will confuse and
divide us on these essentials.
GEORGIA GETS THE POSITION.
Emmett Wormer Will Succeed to the Chief
Clerkship of the Interior.
Washington, January 24. —Although
the resignation of Chief Clerk Daniels
of the interior department has not yet
been accepted by the secretary of the
interior, there are a number of appli
cations for the position and an equal
number of names rumored as his suc
cessor. It is not probable that a suc
cessor will be appointed for a month,
the custom being - to grant the outgoing
official thirty days leave. Emmett
Wormer, of Georgia, an assistant at
torney for the department, will most
likely succeed Mr. Daniels. Mr Wor
mer will be detailed as acting chief
clerk for the next month, which prac
tically means his appointment to the po
sition.
Mr. Daniels, the outgoing official was
yesterday given an ovation, the heads of
bureaus and clerks called upon him
and expressed their sincere regret at
his severance of his connection with
the department, and the watch force
presented him with a silver set as a
token of their esteem.
YOUNG HOWARD’S BODY FOUND
Decayed Remains of a New Yorker Mur
dered in Florida by a Stranger.
Pensacola, Fla., January 24. —News
has just reached here from Milton, a
town twenty miles from this city, of
the finding of the partially consumed
body of a white man in the slab pile of
Chaffin & Co's, mill at that place. The
body is thought to be that of Joseph
Howard, of Little Falls, N. Y., who
was stopping in Milton for his health.
He disappeared from his hotel some
time ago and was last, seen with an
other stranger whom it is thought
he was murdered. The dead man's
cuffs were marked Jay Hammond, al
though he registered at the hotel as
Joseph Howard.
THE SUGAR TRUST DECISION.
What Senator Sherman Says In Regard to
the Case.
Washington, January 24.—Senator
Sherman says that the decision of the
supreme court in the sugar trust case
does not render the anti-trust law in
operative in any sense, but that, on the
contrarj', the decision recognizes the
force of the law,holding merely that the
case of the sugar trust does not come
within its provisions.
Watery Graves For a Score.
Brexton Harbor. Mich., January 24.
All hope for the safety of the Graham
and Morton screw' steamer Chicosa has
been abandoned here by the finding of
wreckage from the vessel off South Ha
ven. The fate of twenty-six men who
are known to have been aboard when
the steamer left Milwaukee for this
port Monday morning, is almost as
hopeless.
Frominent Alabama Minister Dead.
Birmingham, Ala., January 24. —Rev.
Dr. C. A. Stillman died at h* B home in
Tuskaloosa at 8 o'clock last night. He
was unconscious at the time of his
death. He was pastor of the Presby
terian church in Tuskaloosa and this
was his third pastorate.
The Cotton Market.
New York, January 24. —The Sun's
cotton review says: Cotton advanced 1
to 2 points, but lost this and declined 6
points on January, and 2 to 3 points on
the rest of the list, closing steady with
sales of 120,700 bales.
BOUGHT VOTES WITH CASH.
The Sensational Klection Contest Now on
in Pennsylvania.
Indiana, Pa., January 24.— The pro
ceedings in the Blair-White election
contest yesterday were enlivened by
testimony a degree more sensational
than that heretofore given. A number
of witnesses testified to the usual of
fers made on election day. that if they
would vote for White they could have a
day's pay. Others testified to being of
fered money and whisky for their votes
for White, and a dozen who voted at the
election confessed that their tax re
ceipts were imperfect. The sensation
of the morning came with the evidence
of Walter Myers, of Cherry Hill, who
said that when in town on Saturday
preceding the election. Judge White
promised him $5 for his vote. The
judge told Myers to go to Watt, cashier
of the Deposit bank and get the money.
Watt gave witness four silver dollars.
Judge White is principal owner of the
Deposit bank. Witness said he would
not vote for White if he had not come
down with the money. Witness Nice
wonger overheard the conversation and
corroberated Myers. Other witnesses
stated they had received tenders ot
money in various sums for their vote
for White but had declined.
TOWNS ENVELOPED IN SNOW.
Many California Viiluges Completely limn
dated—Travel Suspended.
San Francisco, January 24.—Snow
storms are still raging on the line of
the Central Pacific railroad, between
Sissons and Dunsmuir, with no signs of
abatement. Three hundred men are
employed to clear the track, assisted
by powerful rotary plows, but they
make little or no progress. Another
avalanche lias occurred at Soda Springs,
and the work of clearing the track
there has. for a time, been abandoned.
Napa City is inundated and neither
trains nor boats can reach there. The
towns of Woodland and Tahema are
flooded and trains have stopped run
ning to those places. Yrelca Is cutoff
from the outside world.
ALL VOICES AGAINST PLATT.
Great Mass Meetings Scheduled to Protest
Against Bosslsrn in Legislation.
New York, January 24. The ele
ments that were represented in the
great contest against Tammany hall in
the last election are uniting for an at
tack all along the line against those
w ho threaten to pervert the power with
which they have been invested. The
City Vigilance league, the City club,
the Hood Government clubs, the Ger
man-American Reform union, the Com
mittee of Seventy, the Chamber of
Commerce and the anti-Platt republi
cans have banded together for the pur
pose of holding mass meetings to voice
their sentiment regarding needed legis
lation.
SHOT DEAD BY THE SHERIFF.
Negro Near Darlington, S. C., Resisted Ar
rest and Was Hided.
Darlington, January 24.—1n the
Lydia neighborhood yesterday, Deputy
Sheriff Scarborough attempted to ar
rest Beauregard Murray, a negro, sup
posed to be a relative of Congressman
Muyray, charged with malicious tres
pass. Murray resisted and disarmed
the sheriff, who returned for help.
Backed by a posse, he again attempted
to arrest the negro, w-ho declared he
would not submit and tried to draw the
pistol which he had taken from the
sheriff, whereupon he was shot dead
with a Winchester riflc*<_*
MURDERERS FOR THE CHAIR.
Richard Leach and Thomas Kerrigan to
Die By Electricity in March.
New York, January 24.— When Jus
tice Ingraham opened the court of Oyer
and Terminer _this morning Sheriff
Tamsen and a squad of his deputies
were in attendance to take charge of
Richard Leach and Thomas Kerrigan,
who were to be sentenced to death by
electrocution. Judge Ingraham sen
tenced both men to die during the week
beginning March IS.
NAVY CRUISERS BEING RUSHED
Quick Preparations for Sea On a Secret
But Important Mission.
Vallejo, Cal., January 24.—An or
der has been received from the navy
department to immediately prepare the
cruisers Ranger and Alert for sea, and
the coaling and provisioning of these
vessels is now being rapidly pushed. It
is stated both vessels will put to sea on
Thursday under sealed orders. The
cruiser Boston is also being rushed.
Heavy Cotton Fire in Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 24.-
The sheds and compress of the Tennes
see River Compress company were
burned last night together with 1.200
bales of cotton.
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.
The Minnesota legislature met in joint ses-]
sion at noon Wednesday and elected Governor
Nelson on first ballot for United States Sena
tor.
Shelby M. Cullom was formally elected to
succeed himself in the United States senate at
a joint ballot of the Illinois legislature W ed
nesday.
The Tennessee legislature assembled in joint
session at noon yesterday and elected Hon.
Isham G. Harris, democrat, to succeed himself
in the United States senate.
The two houses of ihe Kansas legislature
met In joint session at noon Wdne-day and
formally elected Lucien Baker United States
senator to succeed John Martin.
The two houses of the California legis'atuie
assembled in joint session at noon yesterday
and formally elected George C. Perkins United
States senator to succeed himself.
The joint meeting of the New Jersey legisla
ture, to ratify the election of General W illiani
J. Sewell as United States senator, was held in
the assembly chamber Wednesday noon.
Dr. Alfred Lee Loomis.professor of the prac
tice of medicine in the medical department of
the University of the city, of New York, and
physician to Bellevue Hospital, died yesterday.
The Lawson power of removal bill has
passed the New York assembly without amend
ment. Under it the mayor has four months
from January 1. to remove the heads or xct
York city departments
At the taking of the joint ballot of the W- >t
Virginia house and senate at noon yesterday
ex-Secretary of War Elkins was elected Im-
Md States senator for West \ trginia. '
cced J. N. Camden, democrotic incumbent.
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