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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. NO 5