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Jn^t alter tho clock struck a boiler in^eorge F. of Merrit’s No. 308 1 eras third just . the alley O , across from the I ■_ ~ w “ -----——---- bouse of H. i I tu 'oob, exploded. i In the rear of the Grubb establish- lent a largo quantity of fireworks line stored and a second explosiou oc- fcurred, followed immediately by a third thr.t lifted tho Grubb building ami dropped it in a mass of wreckage Il“.i mi P , lTi . , general , con- 8ternatK,„ and every window for three M " 0h ' i ‘“ "7 >' ^ R ° h ? /“ gC four blocks n k. away was shattered and 5 the traders stampeded. bodies Up to had 6 o cl been sk recovered, Thursday night five nineteen person, arc missing as far as reported ° 7 P V?’ 'f ll ’ f ' Gl 1 "Jared numbers fitly. lu addition to the list of injured many others were hurt. Following are those known to be dead: Joseph Kuvarick, Frank Niehaus, Al- bort Mellier, Charles Clayl,rook, col- ored ; two bodies, unidentified. The missing are: Chris Ivafger Thomas Ley, Al Mellier, Charles Fricson and nineteen others. The badly injured are: Albert Steinmeier, probably Khraft/ fatally; Will Brondiweder, Chris Horace L. Diort, John Corcoran, Ed- Vance, Ben Taylor, Joseph William Horner. Hugh Joe Corcoran, Albert Schneitz, Stack, Bichard Couleshaw Couleshaw, John Car Ur, Joe Charles Amos. Tho total loss will exceed $100,000; covered by insurance. Tho H. B. Company occupied the ground of 309 North Secoud street, aud Anchor Company the second aud floors. Adjoining the wrecked on the south is the Levison Blythe Printing Gomn^y. 1' GRAY, JONES 00., GA„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. CAPITAL NOTES. GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of the Various Departments. The ninth annual report of the .in¬ terstate commerce commissioners gives an account of the operations of that organization during the past year and makes many recommendations re¬ garding changes in the act creating the commission, which are necessary to make its work effective. The president gave his first state dinner of tho season Thursday night, thus inaugurating the social gayeties of the winter. The dinner, in its offi- cial sense, was a dinner to the mem- bers of the cabinet, but the guests in¬ eluded several others well known in official and social circles. counted „ ^teo-Hungw, \ * on tt as a market can no for it longer American be petroleum £ , „ ccor dmg ajwnburg, to United States OIlen , Murpby who furnishes to the state department n re- port Ji upon £ the recently developed oil elds that country. One well sup. pl ied 1.000 tons of oil in the first twenty-four J hours and another is ejecti J 1 000 bnrre]e „ a f Menn . w hjIe the me o( Kaesian pe roleum is increasing in Germany, Ji where it is sold , or oue qua 1 es8 tba n Ameri- can oi j * advisability A . 1 . tbe cabinet ... of making meeting ,. m Tuesday immediate , the an boud 8a l e of *100.000,000 was Gona}d - erecb The statement was made that an had been perfected to procure the amount in gold on favor- jble b * d terms maua S from ed tho the last syndicate transaction. which dbl8 g.“‘ dl ™ fce ” ot a f f d *° *“ ke which of 4 would percent, net bonds the bond- at a ^rs t^ e y would a fraction bind thenaselves over 3 per to cent., procure but another $100,000,000, most of which Bho A° U ald d tbe ? m alI ® fS fr ed ° m emergency f ^ign sources demand , treatment, Jcdin Karel, United States consul eEeral at St. Petersburg, Russia, has a Report to the state department, whi(dl has eome interest in connection the utterly unsupported rumors Russia having recently tendered r afT Mff? FAIRlriGUKES. What the Atlafta Exposition Did Fin*cially. Whentho cotin exposition gates closed Tuesday light the turnstiles indicated that sin‘e the opening day 1,286,863 people Sad been admitted to the grounds. Of this number there were 817,923 paid admissions, includ¬ ing adults and'chi dren. This statement is according to the report kept in the office of Mr. C. M. Felder, who has been the chief inspec¬ tor of the exposition and who has made the reports of the turnstile read¬ ings to the officials. The total figures include the admis¬ sions at the pass gates, paid admission gates and the wagon gates, through which the soldiers and invited guests have passed. The following is a detail statement of the attendance: Adults, paid admissions..... 738,115 Children, paid admissions... 79,813 Passes...................... 434,935 Wagon gates............... 35,000 According to the best reports ob¬ tainable today the exposition company has realized from the paid admissions, §354,072.95. The percentage received through the concession department is figured at $115,654.32 and this added to the gate receipts make the total receipt from these sources since the exposi¬ tion opened $479,727.27, but there are other sources to hear from. According to the haSs statement-of Mr. S. M. Inman, who handled the fi¬ nancial department o:f the exposition for some time, the total receipts of the exposition company nfill approximate a million and a quartler dollars while the expenditures were not above these figures. Mr. Inman- is thoroughly conversant with the affairs of the expo¬ sition and has mad$ the following statement about its finances-: “We cannot give al detailed state¬ ment of the finances oV the company, but will be able to do ipo in a few days, but the receipts of tbie company will approximate a million and a quarter of dollars. “This only covers t. ae amount han¬ dled by the exposition company, We cannot tell yet ho^,we will dispose of the exposition effifcts, but will adopt plan to dispose them to the advantage. expoaj^nn, This fas been a three dollar but that; has not I bee-; juded by th THE 54TII CONGRESS. ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED, Summary of Bills and Resolutions Presented and Acted Upon. THE HOUSE. The last session of the house for the year 1895, held Tuesday, was a purely formal meeting, lasting but a very few minutes, and an adjournment was tak¬ en until Friday, according to tho un¬ derstanding. The prayer of Chaplain Couden was most impressive. He asked that party contentions might be buried, that the nation might advance with the motto “One flag, one coun¬ try, one God,forever,” and concluded: “With malice toward none, with char¬ ity for all, let our nation stand an ex¬ ample to all the W'orld with justice written on her brow.” Mr. Noonan, the only republican member from Texas, made a correction of the jour¬ nal to show that he had voted for the two revenue bills last week. At 12:15 the house adjourned. The session of the house Friday lasted only five minutes. The chap¬ lain offered prayer, the journal was read and approved, a message was re¬ ceived from the senate and then the house adjourned until Monday. THE SENATE. When the senate met Tuesday Mr. Perkins, of California, asked unani¬ mous consent for the consideration of a resolution directing the committee on finance to report an amendment to th^ house tariff bill laying an addition¬ al duty on raw sugar equal to the other increases of the bill. Mr. Berry, dem¬ ocrat, Arkansas, objected. It was agreed to adjourn over till Friday, Mr. Morrill, republican, Vermont, exjffaining that the finance committee desired to consider the bond and tariff bills on Thursday. Mr. Chandler’s resolution offered Monday directing the committee on naval affairs to investigate the prices paid by the government for armor plate and as to whether any official of the government was interested in pat¬ ent processes, was cabled up. At the suggestion ££^Mto^q^lUii£ of Mr. Gorman, democaat, Marv 2 0 cting an in- senate. Alter tnat possiDiy tne dis¬ cussion of this proposition would be desirable. Mr. Butler said the proposition needed no discussion. The couutry understood it. It had been exhaus¬ tively discussed, until the public judg¬ ment was as certain as that two and two made four. Still, according to Mr. Hill’s request, the measure was temporarily withdrawn. At 1 o’clock Mr. Sherman begaD his speech on the financial question, reading from manu¬ script and receiving close attention. At the conclusion of Mr. Sherman’s remarks Mr. Butler renewed his re¬ quest for the immediate consideration of his bill to prohibit the future sale of bonds except with the consent of con¬ gress. The newspapapers, he said, had told the story of the impending bond issue. Action should be had at once. Mr. Butler asked unanimous consent to put his bill upon its pass¬ age and Mr. Hill, who happened to be in the chair, rather startled the senate by himself interposing an objection. Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, took the floor to reply to Mr. Sherman. He repelled the charge that the Fifty- third congress was in any way respon¬ sible for the present financial crisis. The burden belonged to the Fifty-first congress and Mr. Sherman was partly responsible for the legislation of that congress. The democrats had turned over to the Harrison administration in 1889, $230,000,000. How was it, he asked, if the claim that the McKinley bill had produced sufficient revenue was true, that in 1893, when the dem¬ ocrats again assumed control, all that surplus was gone, consumed and dis¬ sipated? He said the Mr. Elkins next spoke. house bond bill was intended to meet an emergency. There was no reason, he said, why the president and allowed secretary of the treasury should be to sell bonds without advertising, saying that they should not be given a privi¬ lege which would not be granted to in¬ dividuals in ordinary affairs. He criti¬ cized the last bond issue, claiming that the commission was too great. He saw no reason why loans should not be floated at home. Mr. Elkins thought the people were as likely to buy from the government as from a syndicate, and considered the syndi¬ cate superfluous. The president should take the people into his confidence. Hq asked for a vote on his resolution, that the bo advertised, saying en there 'vr'as dan- YOL II. NO; 2. A CALL FOIl BIDS i fi \' f*.* ON AN ISSUE OF $100,000,000 OF FOUR PER CENT BONDS. 777 Secretary Carlisle Actsj lender the President’s Instructions. f V • if At midnight Sunday night Secretary Carlisle prepared the following notice, which was issued Monday : “Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington', -January 6, 1896.—Notice is hereby giy,en that scaled proposals will be received at the office of the secretary of * the-treasury, at Washington, D. C., until 13 o’clock noon, on Wednesday, the 5th day of February, 1896, for tft.e purchase of one hundred million dollars ($100,- 000,000) of United States 4 percent coupon or registered boDclp, in denom¬ inations of fifty dollars ($50) and mul¬ tiples of that sum, as may be desired by bidders. : ; “The right to reject apy -o*jail bids is reserved. . r , y “The bonds will be ‘dated 1 on the 1st day of February, 1895, and be payable in coin thirty years* after Chat date and will bear interest at 4 per centum per annum, payable quarterly, in coin, but all coupons maturing on and before the 1st day of February, 1896, will be detached and purchasers will be required to pay in United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to them and all in¬ terests accrued thereon after the 1st day of February, 1896, up to the time of application for delivery. be “Payment for the bonds the pmst United made at the treasury of States at Washington, D. C., or at the United States subtreasuries at New York, BostoD, Philadelphia. Balti¬ more, Cincinnati, Chicago, wt. Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made at San Francisco with exchange on New York. And all bids mipt state what denominations of bonds are de¬ sired and whether coupon or register¬ ed and at what place they wii^ be paid for. -* f -YJ “Payments may be made by install¬ ments as follows: Twenty per cent utfon receijHjbi’tiotice of acceptance of ods an^foper cent at tB "snd of each | v, ar e a ? L.rwJb uA* 11 aecenWl