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he Jones County News
M. 0. GREENE. PUBLISHER.
SUCH DECLARATION COMES FROM
PREMIER SAGASTA.
SPANIARDS TIRED OF THE STRIFE.
Now Asks That tho United States Come
Forward and Uso Its
Good Offices.
A special to the Chicago Tribune
from Washington says Spain is con¬
sidering a formal request to tho United
States to use its good offices to stop
the fighting in Cuba.
Intimations have been received at
the state department that tho Sagasta
government had become convinced
that tho only way to save Cuba was to
accept the often proffered good offices
of tlie United States. Canovas re¬
peatedly land replied to President Cleve¬
declining these good offices, and
Sagasta did the came last November.
Now the prime minister has become
completely disheartened oxer the evi¬
dent failure of autonomy.
All efforts of Spain to bribo tho sub¬
ordinates of Gomez to surrender on
the basis of home rule have proven
futile. Blauco has completely failed
iu his efforts to open up communica¬
tion with the insurgents, and Pando
has likewise been defeated in the field.
The Spanish minister noxv feels that
the only thing left is to accept the
good offices of Uncle Sam in spite of
the humiliation involved. They hesi¬
tate only because they feci that pub¬
lic announcement of this fact would
result in a revolution iu Spain.
Secret negotiations xvith the state
department arc now actually in prog¬
ress. The Spanish government has
lost the confidence of tho loyalists in
Cuba, and it recognizes the fact that
the island itself is lost entirely unless
this country will, at this late day,
negotiate w ith the insurgents for some
basis of peace.
The Spanish propose that tho United
States should propose to the insur¬
gents an actual armistice ponding ne¬
gotiations for peace on the basis of
American guarantees of the integrity
of home rule, or even of independence
on a money consideration.
While no such formal proposition
lias been made by Minister Do Lome,
the state department lias been given
to understand that only the fear of
revolution in Spain stands in the xvay
noxv of accepting the friendly offices
of the United States, which have been
rejected so often. It has been even
in ijnated that if this country sees fit
on its motion to open up communica¬
tion with the insurgents, Spain will
not throw' any obstacles iu the xvay.
Any such move would be a practical
recognition of the insurgents as be¬
lligerents, but things have readied such
a crisis in Cuba that even this con¬
tingency must lio faced.
It is understood that the Cuban re¬
public xx ill Insist ou formal recognition
before undertaking any negotiations
xvith the United States, claiming that
it cannot treat xvith a power xvliich re¬
gards it only as an organized conspir¬
acy of riot and piracy. Tho situation
is critical in Cuba, and the frequent
visits of the Spanish minister to the
state department are a sufficient indi¬
cation that the Spanish empire in Cuba
is almost at an end.
Officials in Washington are inclined
to the belief that tho public announce¬
ment of tho acceptance of this coun¬
try as mediator xvill result in instant
revolution in Spain, but they admit it
is the last hope, and is being serously
considered.
REDUCTIONS ALL AROUND.
Rhode Island Cotton Mills Decide to
Post Notices.
A dispatch from Pawtucket, R. I.,
says: Thursday the directors of the
Valley Falls Company, at Albion, and
tlio Albion Company, at Valley Falls,
ihc two remaining companies in the
Blackstone valley which had not an-
uuounceil a reduction of wages, decided
to post notices to that effect.
Reports xvero received from mills in
Arctic, Riverpoint, Qniilniek, Pontiac,
Natick and other Pawtucket and Black-
stone valley villages, and without ex¬
ception they favored resisting the pro¬
posed reduction. Tho various mills
above mentioned employ about 12,000
people and operate 425,000 spindles.
WHIPPED TO DEATH BY MOB.
South Carolina Tenant Deceives a Fatal
Thrashing at Clinton.
A meager account of the xvliipping
to death of Dave Hunter, a negro, by
a party of farmers, at Clinton, S. C.,
has been received. Tho man had been
a tenant on a farm in the neighbor¬
hood and had violated his contract by
secretly moving off tlie place. Later
he xvas caught hy a parly of men, tied
and given a terrible whipping, from
the effects of xvliich lie died. It is be-
liex’ed the man gave the names of his
assailants to the authorities before
dying.
THE OLD MAN COMFORTED.
G neral Clay’s Child Wife Visits Her
Aged “Hubby.”
A Whitehall, Ky., dispatch says:
Little Dora, the child xvife of Gen.
Cassius M. Clay, the eccentric old
Kentuckian, has returned from a visit
to her husband at Valley View.
She xvent to see the general because
he had sent for her to come and cheer
h ; m. He had been sick and needed
her comforting little hand to stroke
his silvery locks and smooth his wrin¬
kled eyelids into sleep.
CURRENCY HILL INTRODUCER.
ls Frnmeil to Curry Out Finn of Mone¬
tary Coiivinlnalon.
Representative Overstreet, of Indi¬
ana, introduced in the house Thurs¬
day a comprehensive bill for carrying
out the plan of tho monetary commis¬
sion for the reform of the currency.
The bill was reforred by Speaker Reed
to the committee on banking, and
Chairman Walker has arranged to give
an early hearing to Sonator Edmunds,
tho chairman of tho commission, and
perhaps to other members.
The bill contains forty-seven sec¬
tions, and embodies in legislative form
every feature of the recommendations
of the commission. The earlier por¬
tion, relating to tho maintenance of
the gold standard, the creation of the
bureau of issue and redemption, and
the gradual retirement of tho legal
tender notes, are embodied iu the bill
in nlmost the same language as in the
report. The banking features are
more elaborate and carefully define
the character of notes issued upon as¬
sets, and the manner of redeeming the
notes of failed banks.
The friends and onemies of the civil
service law exchanged broadsides in
tho bouse at Thursday’s session. The
heaviest guns on each side were
brought into action. Mr. Grosveuor,
of Ohio, and Mr. Johnson, of Indiana,
each made exhaustive speeches and
kept their respective sides in a con¬
stant furor.
Mr. Grosvenor’s description of the
habits of the "cuckoo” teemed with
wit and kept the house iu a roar. Mr.
Grosveuor iu roplying to the charge
male against himself and his col¬
leagues that they were betraying the
republican party, adverted to what he
called the list of traitors among the
high priests of civil service reform, at
the head of which lie placed George
William Curtis, who abandoned the
republican party to show that the
present position occupied by tho ma¬
jority of the houso was not inconsis¬
tent with these declarations.
While the senate was in session two
hours Thursday practically no busi¬
ness was transacted beyond the pas¬
sage of a few bills.
Among the measures which received
favorable consideration were the bills
providing for a congress of tho repre¬
sentatives of the Indian tribes of the
United States to be held at Omaha
during the progress of the interna¬
tional exposition this year; bills pro¬
viding for the erection of public build¬
ings at Fergus Falls, Minn., and New¬
port News, Va., and a measure to
protect the name and insignia of the
Red Cross Society.
SLEW WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
After the Tragedy Captain Carter Shoots
Himself.
Tlie most horrible and shocking
crime which Greenville, Tenn., has
ever seen xvas (lie extermination of
the entire family of Captain A. W.
Carter, an ex-federal officer, Wednes¬
day night, tlie hour not being known.
Captain Carter, while temporarily
insane, brained his aged xvife xvith an
axe and thou xvith tho same weapon
inflicted wounds upon his (laughter,
xvliich caused her death later. After
committing this terrible deed, Captain
Carter,with an old revolver, shot him¬
self.
Tho only other inmate of tho house
xvas Walter Gass, aged fourteen years.
Tlie boy xi-as asleep up stairs, but
.about 3 o’clock Thursday morning xvas
awakened by groans anil upon inves¬
tigation found the terrible state of
affairs as above related.
Captain Carter’s mind has for the
past three years been unbalanced,
caused by the death of a daughter.
He xvas considered one of tho best
citizens of Greene county.
At the time of his death he was
commander of Burnside post No. 8,
G. A K. Ho xvas captain of a com¬
pany of cavalry in tho First Tennessee
volunteers.
TAYLOR FOR SENATE.
Tennessee’s Governor Orestes Sensation
By Entering ltsee.
A special to tho Knoxville Tribune
says tliat Governor Robert L. Taylor
xvill enter the fight for senator against
Messrs. McMillin and Turley. Tlio
Taylor forces held a meeting Thursday
night but refused to divulge their
plans.
This caused Turley and McMillin
leaders to hold n joint consultation
and it is believed that they xvill coin-
bine against Taylor. Senator Turley’s
friends denounce Taylor for entering
the race.
BIRMINGHAM ASKS HELP.
Government Galled Upon to Anulut In
Stamping Out Smallpox.
A Washington special says: Surgeon
General Wyman lias detailed Past As¬
sistant Surgeon Magruder to proceed
to Birmingham, Ain., and take charge
of the work of stamping out smallpox.
This step is taken at Hie request of
the people of Birmingham, xvho have,
through the local'authorities and Con¬
gressman Underwood, asked for the
aid of the marine hospital service.
Birmingham xvill bear all local ex¬
penses, but the need of experienced
nurses and inspectors is so great that
the federal authorities have been ask¬
ed to help.
COTTON MILLS SOLD.
Southern Bank at Savannah Buy* Under
a Court Judgment.
The Savannah, Ga., cotton mills,
capitalized at $100,000, were sold
Tuesday under a judgment in the city
court in favor of the Southern bank
amounting to $3(5,000. There was lit¬
tle bidding on the property, which was
finally knocked down to the bank for
$30,000, or $6,000 less than the amount
of its judgment.
GRAY. JONES CO..GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 1898.
MEMBERS SEEMED GLAD THAT
HOLIDAYS ARE OVER.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW DISCUSSED.
Senator Davis Gives Notice That lie WtUl
Call Up Hawaiian Annexation Um‘ 8 -
tion to Be Disposed Of.
Congress reassembled Wednesday
and ox’erybody seemed glad that the
holidays xvere over and that they could
again have a ehuuoe to go to xvork. A
number of members xvlio had not been
in their seats previous to the recess
appeared for tho first time and xvere
warmly welcomed.
The floor of the houso presented ail
animated appearance. It looked for
nil the world like the opening of a noxv
session of congress. Only the cere¬
monies were missing.
Without any preliminary business,
the house went into committee of the
xvliolo to resume consideration of the
legislative, executive ami judicial ap¬
propriation bill. All the features of
the bill had been disposed of except
the appropriation for the civil service
commission upon xvliich, by previous
arrangement, there xvas to be nil in¬
definite general debate.
In tlio senate Mr. Davis, chairman
of tho committee on foreign relations,
gnve notice that he xvould call up tho
Haxvaiinn annexation treaty in exeeu-
tix r e session on Monday, and ask tlio
senate to consider it each day there¬
after until tho treaty should lie dis
posed of.
The expected debate on the money
question did not materialize, but the
first step toward it xvas taken by Sen¬
ator Teller in the introduction of his
resolution declaring that all bonds of
the United States under the funding
act are payable, principal and interest,
at the option of the government of
the United States, in standard silver
dollars, and that such payment is not
in violation of tlio public faith or in
derogation of the rights of tlio public
creditors.
This xvas, at Senator Teller’s sug¬
gestion, sent to the committee on fi¬
nance. It xx-ill lie reported back some
day soon, and then Some the fun xvill open
up in earnest. republican sen¬
ators xvlio lmx’o been declaring their
friendship for silver xvill then be given
an opportunity of showing xvlicre they
do stand.
Presidential Appointments.
The president sent a large batch of
appointments to the senate Wednes¬
day, among them the following: Owou
L. Smith, of North Carolina, minister
resident and consul general of tlio
United States to Liberia; James G.
Stowe, of Missouri, consul general of
tlio United States at Capo Town, Cape
of Good Hope; Herbert G. Squies, of
New York, secretary of tlio legation of
tlio United States at Belling, China.
To lie consuls of the United States—
Adolph F. Frankenthal, of Massachu¬
setts, nt Berne, Switzerland; Neat Mc¬
Millan, of Michigan, at Port Sarnia,
Ont.; James M. Ayres, of Ohio, at
Rosario, Argentine Republic; John H.
Grout, Jr., of Massachusetts, nt Malta;
Edmon 7j. Brodoxvski, of Illinois, now
consul at Breslau, Germany, at Furth,
Bnvariar Charles W. Kidman, of Ken¬
tucky, consul at Furth, Bavaria, at
Breslau, Germany.
CHINA CEDES KIAO.CHOU.
An Indefinite Lease Is Given the German
Government.
The Reichsanzeigar (Berlin) an¬
nounces that, according to a telegram
received from Peking, an understand¬
ing lias been reached betxveon Ger¬
many and China regarding iho cession
of Kiao-Cliou bay to tho former. Tlie
arrangement, it is added, is substan¬
tially as follows: cession
It is intonded by tlie to ren¬
der possible for Germany the fulfill-
ment of her just wish for the posses¬
sion, in tlio sumo way as other poxvers,
of a base for trade and navigation in
Chinese xvaters.
The cession of Kiao Chou hay to
Germany takes the form of a leaBo for
an indefinite time. Germany is at
liberty to erect ou tlio ceded territory
all tlie necessary buildings and estab¬
lishments and to take tlie measures
required for their protection.
DIG TOBACCO FACTORY
To Be Erected In Louisville By u Liver¬
pool Syndicate.
A Liverpool syndicate is making ar¬
rangements to build an immense
tobacco manufactory in Louisville,
Ky. The plans arc noxv being drawn
by a xvell-knoxvn architect and xvork
will begin as soon us weather permits.
Tho syndicate proposos to handle a
great deal of tobacco. For some time
past tlie company lias been doing a
little rehandling business in the city,
but concluded to go into tlie manu¬
facture of tobacco for tho Liverpool
market on an extensive scale, it is
stated that about 700 men xvill be em¬
ployed at the factory.
KNIGHTS RAISE BOYCOTT.
Strike In Jellico Goal Region SatiMfue
torily Settled.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says:
Assembly Knights of Labor No. 5,
embracing the entire mining region,
has just raised tho boycott on tlie coal
of the 20 mines in tlie Jellico region
that has been on for several months.
This action was iaken for sex'eral
months. This action was taken tie-
cause the Jellico strike, invo/'iug
3,000 men, has been settled.
CHARGES AGAINST HANNA.
Cram! Jury to Invoxtlgnto Allegeil At-
tempt at llrltwry.
The Evening Press of Columbus,
O., in a special edition issued Wednes¬
day evening, states that Charles W.
Voorliees, state’s attorney, has re¬
ferred to the grand jury which lias
just opened a regular session, certain
statements that have come to him
tending A. to show that Columbus Senator Marietta
Hanna, now in manag¬
ing his light for election to the senate,
lias attempted to improperly influence
a number of members of the legisla¬
ture.
Tile principal ground for the action
of the state’s attorney is iiuid to bo
the published statements of Mrs.
Griffith, wife of Representative J. E.
Griffith, of Union county, in regard to
tho kidnaping of her husband and
herself from tho Southern hotel by
agents of Senator Ilanna lust Sunday
night. The substance of her state¬
ment, is that Senator Hanna, after
asking her to use her iutlucuce with
her husband to induce him to vote for
Mr. Hanna for United States senator,
told her that it would be worth us
much to her husband to do this as ho
would make in ten years.
Mrs. Griffith said that as her 1ms-
bund made about $2,000 per annum,
she understood that he would Sector get
about $20,000 for voting for
Hanna. Two other members of he
legislature are expected to givo evi¬
dence on this point to the grand jury.
They are George Spell mire, of Cincin¬
nati, and Chris Mentor, of Hamilton
county. They are members of tho
house.
TO RESIST REDUCTION.
New Bedford Spinners Vote Against Ac¬
ceptance of Cut..
The spinners’ union at Now Bed¬
ford, Mush., at a meeting Wednesday
night unanimously voted to resist by a
strike the proposed reduction of wages.
The union members of the city num¬
ber 450 steady spinners, 1,000 sparo
spinners and 150 iloffcrs. Tho meet¬
ing xvas attended by both spinners and
doffers.
Tho general sentiment xvas expressed
that the xveuvors and card and picker
room associations xvonld strike, any
xvay, and it was not necessary to wait
to find out xvliat action the other
unions xvonld take.
The informal ballot, favoring a strike
xvas not made formal, as it xvas decided j
to xvait a few days to see if a xvay tv
effecting a settlement xvas possible.
Committees on conference xvith tlie
managers and xvith committees from
tho other labor unions in the city in
case of a strike to arrange for the man¬
agement xvere appointed. spinners’union, Secretary
Russ, of tlie local will
call a meeting of the executive council
of tho national union to ho held
in Boston, xvhen the question of sanc¬
tioning a strike hy the sppinners iu
New Bedford xvill lie settled.
FLORIDA’S LATEST FREEZE.
Vegettil>lfi$ In Homo Loculi ties Killed.
Damage Otherwise Slight.
Reports received at Washington
from tho weather bureau officials in
Florida indicate that the freeze of
January 2 and 3, 1898, xvliile doing
considerable damage, did not approach
in severity or destructiveness the
freezes in the winter of 1894 and 1895.
As to tlio effects of tho recent freeze,
the weatlior bureau at Jacksonville,
reports hy telegraph as follows:
“Available information indicate
damage to greater portion of vegeta¬
bles north and south central portions,
where not protected. Pine apples
damaged to considerable extent. Citrus
tress not seriously affected through
fruit belt excepting tender sprouts.”
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
Convenes In Jackson, ami Is Confronted
with Varlo’iH Frohleing*
A Jackson, Miss., special says: Tho
legislature is in session. There are
no limits or bounds to tlio situation.
Nobody seems to know wliat will or
will not bo done.
The governor’s message ignores the
capitol question, favors tlie purchase
of a prison farm in the delta, jumps
on corporations with both feet, blames
tlie Marine Hospital service for the in¬
troduction of yelloxv feTer, advocates
an elective judiciary, wants United
States senators elected by tlio people
and favors the stopping of the running
of trains on Sunday, especially freight
trains. Tho state’s deficit is detailed
at length. He wants convicted xvife-
benters disfranchised.
GAMBLERS FIGHT DUEL.
One Dead and Two Other* In IIoMpital
Fatally Wounded.
"K,d Murphy ,, , a noted . , Chicago
gamiller of the shell worker variety,
was shot dead and I rank, alias Dickey,
Dean and Marti,, Donahue were shot,
probably fatally during a quarrel in a
Clueago saloon Wednesday night. The
affair is said to be tho result of a feud
of months’ standing. Dean and Don¬
ahue are at tho Alexian Brothers hos¬
pital. Neither is expected to live.
According to one of the men arrested
in the saloon at the time of the shoot-
ing. Donahue , killed Murphy in . ,,
defense and Dean xvas shot while act-
ing as peacemaker.
LOCAL MANAGER LEVANTS.
Grain and Stock Exchange of Richmond,
ind., in Trouble.
The Richmond, Ind., grain and stock
exchange, controlled by Odell & Co.,
of Cincinnati, is in trouble. Hibbard,
the local manager, is absent, and lie-
hind over $800 in his accounts with
iiis employers, xvbile local investors
are pressing claims for $2,000, which
Odeil V Co. refused to pay until Hib-
bxrd makes good his deficit,
CONDEMNED MAN WAS COOL AND
COLLECTED TO THE LAST.
DIED DECLARING HIS INNOCENCE.
Spoke From the Scaffold Without Ffthlhlt*
ing a Tremor of Fear -Forgives
II ih Persecutors.
.Theodore Durraut died on tho gal-
lows in the California state puuotun-
tiary at San Quentin Friday morning,
for the murder of Blanche Lament
and Minnie Williams.
At 10:37 Durraut ascended tho scaf¬
fold calmly, following Father Lagan,
xvlio administered to his spiritual wants,
lie having been baptized into tlio (hitli
olio faith earlier in the day.
When tile rope xvas placed about the
condemned man’s neck Durraut asked
to lie allowed to speak. His request,
xvas granted, and xvith his foot oil the
trap, Hie cord about his throat tied
fast to tlio crossbeam, ho said:
“I desire to say that although I am
an innocent man, innocent of every
crime that has been charged against
me, I boar no animosity towards those
xvlio have persecuted me, not even the
press of Sail Francisco, xvliich hound¬
ed me to the grave. If any man thinks
i am going to spring a sensation, I am
not, except it is a sensation that. I am
an innocent man, brought to the grave
by m y persecutors. But I forgive
them.
"They xvill get their justice from the
great God xvlio is master of iim all, and
there I also expect to get justice Hint
is tlie justice of an innocent mail.
“Whether or not the perpetrators of
Hie crime of xvliich I am charged arc
discovered, it xvill make no difference
to me noxv; but I say ttiis day will be
a shame to the great state of Califor¬
nia. I forgive everybody xvlio luis
persecuted me, an innocent man,
whoso hands have never la on stained
xvith blood, and I go to meet my God
with forgiveness for all men.”
His last xvords, which lie shouted
just as the drop fell, xvere: “J am in¬
nocent.”
Ilis dnntli appeared ' to lie painless.
After the drop foil Durrani did not
struggle. In fifteen minutes lie was
cut down, the neck being broken by
the fall.
There was no scone at the gallows.
All's. Durraut did not witness tlio exe¬
cution. She remained in a room in
the lower part of the prison and
showed unmistakable signs of grief
tempered xvith a dogged desire to
create (lie impression that she was too
proud to xveep. protesting the last
Durraut died to
iiis innocence of the murder of Blanche
Lament and Minnie Williams, lie
maintained to the very eml the same
marvelous composure and nerve xvliich
characterized him throughout his long
imprisonment and many trials, and
demonstrated that ho was indeed tho
criminui of tlie century.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
Governor Taylor Hays lie Will Not Filler
Senatorial Knee.
A Nashville special says: Avowed
candidates for senator have been un¬
easy ns to Governor Taylor’s inten¬
tions, but he lias, after numerous
conferences, given out this statement:
“Circumstances forbid my entering tlio
senatorial contest. I Imvo no explanation
to offer, no comments to make.”
The circumstances to which Gov¬
ernor Taylor refers consist of Senator
Turley’s refusal to xvi tint raw. It, de¬
veloped that, Governor Taylor had
sent a note to Senator Turley saying
it was apparent Senator Turley could
not xvin and if ho would withdraw arid
transfer his strength to Taylor lie
(Taylor) could beat McMillin.
NEGROES LYNCH NEGROES.
Kemp Go ii nly M i**iM*ippf, Colored Feoplo
Gel, In Their Work.
Jim Watts and Sum Dole, negroes
of Neshoba county, Miss., xvore lynch¬
ed in Pea Ridge, Kemper county, a
fexv days ago. Cole Pea Ridge
Watts and went to
io xisit relatives and became loouttcn-
(ive to their landsman's wives. The
lynchers are said to bo negroes.
DEMOCRATS WERE OBEDIENT.
Lower House of Maryland Legl*lnturo
II.’ih Organized.
Tho republican members of the low-
{ , r bollH(! of tll(1 Maryland legislature
ufter lnore than two months of "deals”
, .. llliH( , s " flii | (; ,i to agree upon a
k<!r f()1 . tll( , U(mH(t of delegates and
twf . lvu of their number, assist-
fi(| ,, v fl)rty oIII . rats, elected
Jj0IliK Bchufer, of Baltimore city, to
tho position of presiding officer.
All phases and factions of democ¬
racy are represented in the minority,
yet when tlie time came there xvas not
a waver in their ranks—each member
f]j( , aH )j( . wllH directed and cast his
8(!l . ret , Jttl i„ t f„, republican,
DEAD IN HIS CAB.
Engineer Dip.* Believed to Have Been
M u rdered.
Sylvester If. Gipe, a Panhandle on
gineer, in charge of a switch engine,
xvas found dead in iiis eab in tlie yards
at Indianapolis Friday morning,
j Gipe’s head was badly cut and there
was a gash across his throat. His
chest was braised,
The coroner thinks Gipe might have
i been struck by a passing train, but tlie
j road officials sry he xvas murdered.
VOL. IV. NO. 3.
Hit I DUE SPAN COLLAI'LEB
ru»«r!i K er Cur l'lungc* Through.
M li noulmi. Kminpr.:
Tho passengers of the fast mail
loft Atlanta, (hi., over the West
road Sunday morning nt, 5:25
hud u shaking up twenty -0110
eimt of Montgomery Sunday al¬
eruoon.
Conductor Henry M. Law, of Atlan-
u, Flagman Dully and live passengers
painfully hurt, and nineteen pas¬
wove slightly injured. Fortu¬
nately lie one was fatally injured.
All went well until Onpilintohie creek
reached. As tho train was cross¬
the bridge there one of the spans
fell, carrying a coach with it to tho
ground, twelve i r fourteen feet, below.
Tho engine and tender ran 400 feet
jumped the track. Tho Pullman,
which was next to the tender, left the
(rack and the forward end struck the
side of the bridge and stopped. Tho
behind the Pullman also re¬
mained on the bridge.
The engineer ami fireman were not
injured at all.
The passengers iu tho Pullman and
coach which remained ou tho bridge
wero jolted but were not hurt to any
extent.
The occupants of the coach which
went down with tho span were, of
course, thrown around and a number
of them were bruised on the head and
shoulders.
Two hours after the accident a
wreck train with surgeons reached the
scene from Montgomery. The sur¬
geons quickly attended to the injured
and arranged for their removal to
Montgomery. combination
The bridge was a in¬
bridge, wood and iron. It was
spected a year ago by Mr. Edwin
Thatcher, the bridge expert, of De¬
troit, and was rebuilt by the Louis¬
ville It on Bridge Company according
to Mr. Thatcher's specifications.
MOD CREMATES INDIAN'S.
Two Seminole Fiend* Meet. 11 Horrible
Fate In Oklahoma.
A special from Fort Smith, Ark.,
says: Justice in a more horrible form
than that meted out. to Henry Smith,
at I ’mis, Tex., xvas administered hy a
mol) on the Oklahoma border Friday
night to J. Markus MeGeisey and
l’ltlinoi' Simpson, two Seminole In¬
dians.
They xvere charged with murder,
their victim being Mrs. Janies Sim¬
mons, a respectable farmer’s wife, liv¬
ing in Oklahoma
The crime was a most revolting one
anil the criminals xvero punished in a
most revolting manner. assaulted and
Airs. Simmons xvas
murdered, her body being horribly
mutilated.
Nearly tho entire populace turned
out to limit down and punish the
guilty parties. Tlie trail led the posse
to the home of MeGeisey, near Maud,
a small town in tho Seminole nation,
xvhere MeGeisey and Simpson xvere
arrested.
After securing their prisoners, the
mob sot fire to McGeisey’s house and
burn and did not leave until they saw
all of Iiis earthly possessions reduced
io ashes.
Tlio prisoners wore carried back
across the line into Oklahoma Terri¬
tory anil near the scene of their crime
xvere executed hy Judge Lynch’s order
iu the most horrible manner that
human minds and hands could devise.
They were burned at the stake.
The Indians met their doom xvith tlio
usual stoicism of their race. After
life xvas extinct the mob allowed tlio
fires to die down and then hurriedly
dispersed. made of the fact that
No secret xvas
tlio Indians had been burned to death.
Saturday morning their charred bod¬
ies, burned beyond recognition, were
found in tlie ashes of their funeral
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PREPARING FOR STRIKE.
Now Bedford Got toil Operative* Are Lay •
In# In Hupplle*.
A dispatch from New Bedford,
Muss., says: Saturday was pay day
among the majority of the operatives
in tlie mills where a strike is probable.
After the operatives received their
money they proceeded to lay in a good
stock of provisions. Many weavers their
had barrels of flour rolled into
kitchens.
Tlie majority of tho operatives think
a strike is sure to ho begun and all
that was talked of at tlie north and
south ends of tlie city was tho prob¬
able strike.
DASHED DOWN INCLINE.
Accident on Lookout Mountain Bond In
Whir'll Several are Hurt.
A work train on the Chattanooga
and Lookout Mountain standard guage
railroad was wrecked on the mountain
side about 10 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing. The conductor and six negro
workmen were badly hut not fatally
injured.
The train, which consisted of a loco¬
motive and two cars of lumber, xvus
moving down the mountain at a sloiv
rate of speed xvhen the brake chain on
the first car suddenly snapped. The
second car was unprovided with a
brake chain, and the whole weight was
thrown on the engine, which dashed
down tlie mountain side.
To Ask For Advance.
Tlie Ohio miners’ convention at Co¬
lumbus, ()., Saturday decided to ask
for an advance of 10 cents per ton
when the contract for next year is
made.
More Counterfeits Discovered.
Two more counterfeit $100 certifi¬
cates turned up at Philadelphia Satur¬
day, one ut the sub-treasury and the
other at the Fourth Street National
bank.
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CREW AND DEBRIS OF VESSELS
SCATTERED PROMISCUOUSLY.
FOUR MEN ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT.
Two are Missing and Seven are More or
JLess Seriously Hurt— Head ISodlfc*
Float In the Stream.
Tim towboat Percy Kelsey blew up
while going down the Ohio river, near
Glenfield, Pa., about 11 o’clock Satur¬
day morning, and ao far as is known
six or eight, of the crow wero killed
and at least four others were injured.
Tho boat was commanded by Cap¬
tain Leslie Jones, of Showdown, Pa.,
and the crew was made up of two
pilots, two engineers, two mates, two
firemen, a chambermaid, cook and the
deck hands, in ail uliout twelve per¬
sons.
The Kelsey left Pittsenrg about R
o’clock for Cincinnati, with a tow oon-
sisting of seven barges and two flats
of coal, and everything was apparent¬
ly all right till the explosion literally took
place, when the boat xvas
blown to pieces and the tow scattered
and lost. Tho hull sank almost im¬
mediately and the shattered portions
of tho upper works floated down tho
river and covered tlie xvater in tho
vicinity of the xvreck.
The explosion xvas most terrific and
xvus heard for miles. Hundreds of
persons ran to the river upon hearing
tlio noise and an axvful sight met their
gaze, Bodies xvere flouting down the
river and the debris was scattered far
und wide, but no live person xvas seen.
A foxv minutes later Captain Jones alive,
and three others were picked body up floated
badly injured, and one
nshore near Neville island. The in¬
jured xvero removed to Captain Crowe’s
residence, oil Neville island, where
everything possible was done to alle¬
viate ttioir sufferings. blown
The body of the fireman was
ashore, near xvhere the accident oc¬
curred. Only three of tlie oroxv escaped
uninjured. xvluit caused the
It is not known ex¬
plosion. Tlie boat's boilers xvore re¬
cently tested and found to lie in good
condition, and the boat was conridereil
one of the best and stanchest ou the
river. The boat was valued at $25,000.
SOUTHERN FILES ANSWER.
Denies That It Owns Any of Central Hull-
road's Stork.
The Southern Railway Company
filed its answer Saturday to the bill
brought by the Dunlap Hardware
Company and other business firms
and citizens of Macon, Gn., to break
up the alleged combinations of the
Southern Railway Company with oilier
railroads in Georgia. United
The hill is pending in tlio
States circuit court., Macon, and tlie
defendants xvere allowed sixty days
from November 10th in which to file
the answer. denies
In its answer the Southern
that it owns or controls the Central of
Georgia. It shows where that com¬
pany xvas reorganized and where the
comment stock is now held by the re¬
organization oommitteo of the old
Richmond Terminal.
The Southern says it lias never had
any control or arrangement for tho
control of the Central, xvliich is an in¬
dependent. Southern company. admits that it has
The &
stock in the Georgia Southern
Florida, but it is minority stock.
A SHORT SESSION.
Kouho Members Fiiy Tribute to tlie Into
Itepresentiitl ye Wright.
The house devoted two hours of Sat¬
urday's session to tho civil service de¬
bate, during which Messrs. Corliss,
republican, of Michigan; Hepburn,
republican, of Iowa, and Clarke, re¬
publican, of New Hampshire, address¬
ed the house in opposition to the law
as it now stands.
The remainder of the session was
consumed by tlio friends of tho late
Representative Wright, of Massachu¬
setts,in eulogy of iiis memory. Among
those xvlio paid tribute to their deceas¬
ed colleague were Muhsis. Lawrence,
Walker, McCall, Knox anil Gillette,
republicans, of Massachusetts, and
Northway, republican, of Ohio, and
Bwauson, democrat, of Virginia.
NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATES.
Tlie Anniversary of Jackson's Great Vic¬
tory Fittingly Ob.ervod.
The anniversary of the battle of
Nexv Orleans xvas more generally cele¬
brated in that city Saturday than at
any time since the xvar.
Governor Foster and Iiis staff re¬
viewed a military parade, the entire
First brigade and naval reserves, the
cavalry troop and the Washington ar¬
tillery being in lino. The daughters
of 1.776 and 1812 conducted the usual
ceremonies at the unfinished monu¬
ment on Ohalmette field. It xvas a
state holiday, banks xrero closed and
business largely suspended.
PILOT BOAT LIBELED.
Homers N. Smith Is Charged With handing
Two Expeditions Iu Citbn.
The steam pilot boat Somers N.
Smith, xvliich xvas seized at Mobile,
Ala., a few days ago as per instructions
of the secretary of tho treasury, was
libled in the United States circuit
court Saturday for conveying men,
arms, ammunitions and provisions to
the insurgents in Cuba.