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The Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CRA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA.
F-nton-d «' *fic jinotofflen OrawToidrille,
Ocnig (i, »- M"i:"n'l^*l*»» •( *') nisttcr.
a -a-—**■ - «*-»
robbery is reported from Idaho. A man
ascertained that the express company
was liable for loss of money from rob
bery, whereupon b*: sent a package pur¬
porting to contain $12,000, and at a con
▼enient snot attacked the coach with a
—■"" i,h «*•
He then came to town to enter suit
against the express company, only to find
his trick had been found out, and that
he had stepped into a trap.
The climate of New Zealand is about
as different from ours as an April shower
from an October breeze, and yet the colo¬
nists are having an experience which in
North America was unhesitatingly as
cribed to climatic influences. In nine
out of ten cases their boys outgrow their
fathers. A squat little emigrant takes to
farming, succeeds, gets married, and is
soon surrounded by a bevy of six-footers.
Several recent travellers agree that tha
agricultural fairs of Dunedin assemble an
astonishing numli i of oi unprofessional unproicssionai
crianf s. corduroy-clad aons of Anak, bl
nrilish Showman ' would
glad to e ngage. _
Chickens are valuable outside the
qm lion of r eggs and )U ilesli. .1 A A f full il gro row,, t
hen will yield from two and one-half
ounces to four and one-lialf ounces of
feathers and down. The feathers _servc
for bonnet decorations, the ornamenta¬
tion of military shakos, and for dusters.
The average sized feathers arc used for
hnd« nnd bolsters the down for niilows ‘
But tho latter classes are not held in as
much esteem as the same from geese and
ducks. When tho feathers nro plucked
they arc placed for a short time in a
hiker’s oven, after the bread has been
withdrawn, to kill the insect germs be¬
fore they are sent to market.
There is a flourishing escort supply
agency in London, the object of which
is to supply escorts to Indies who visit
London or who reside in London but
, have no male . friends , . . upon whose . time ..
nnd courtesy J they can mako sufficient
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claim. Prices are according to tho
quality of the escort supplied, Tiio
younger sons of peers come as high ns
$25 a day or $5 an hour, while coinmon
er articles can bo lmd at much lower
f fli/in g ! - Tin* ' < if .i ts are nre dressed aressea bv Dy a a
fa-duoiml'M'tailor, . and , nre guaranteed to
bo very Chesterfields in mailers, Hero
is an answer to the well-worn question of
the , London press. What shall wc do
with our hoys?
Two J patents have been issued to Alex
undu Bell, „ C. ,, A. . B« .... 11 anti , „ 8 ... luinltr . ,
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/or reproducing sounds from phonograph
records and transmitting nnd recording
■ounds by radiant energy. The invention
is an improvement of tho phonograph,
and the new instrument is called a
“graphophone." The vocal sounds nro
received by means of a transmitter similar
to that of the telephone and are recorded
upon a cylinder of wax, whence they nro
reproduced with complete accuracy. No
electricity is employed, tho means being
mechanical throughout. The invention
is attracting a great deul of attention on
account of remarkable power of reproduc¬
ing human speech.
In the roar 1800 t!ie world’s output of
pig iron was 785,000 tons. Lad year
tho yield was 20,000,000 tons. Thi:
* . |«.i.l«.'t.on Ml.
m
a marvelous story of the growth of manu¬
factures. British statistics gathered by
tho Iron Trad* Review show that in 1800
Great Britain produced 24 per cent, of
the |i,g iron of the world; ... 1850 the
production was about doubled iu its
relative proportion; it attained its maxi
mum nun. I.ronortinn Proportion in in is—when IS.. ,when thnt that conn- e mn
try yielded a little over 53 per cent, of
the total; and while it has fluctuated ;
since, it was in 1881 about 88 per cent.
The United States has been pushing ‘
toward the front as an iron producer,the
yield the total. in 1885 reaching 21 per cent, of
Not many newspaper readers will be
prepared to believe that among the great¬
est land-owners in the United States are
the Duke of Sutherland, Duke of Hamil
ton. Earl Duuraven and Marquis ot
Tweed dale, the lost of whom is said to
own a tract exceeding 2,300 square
miles. The largest landowner in Great
Britain does not own so much as that
one man, whose English holdings are
only sixty-seven square miles in extent.
The four are reported to own in excess of
23,000 square miles of our territory,
equal to the area of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Jersey anil
Deleware, nearly half of the original
thirteen colonie This is an almost in
credible story, hut it is declared to l»e
strictly tme. T c immense tracts lie
west of the M - s-ippi, and are mainly
wild lands; but their vast extent stag
gen belief, and iy alarm «.me of our
Anglophobic will doubtless inhabitants. profitable Tne invest
ment prove to
the noblemen, whoso sole object in buy
’ing was presumably speculative.
BY THE STORM. '
IHDIANOLA, TEXAS, COMPLETE¬
LY SUIlMEZiGED.
Terrible De»tlt»Uo» Aesoo* the WbMe*
Bed NeirtM'Dair IIeB»e» We.hrd
Away and Maay llrt* Lwt,
p r om The mo.,, cmbm -t —
about storm which occured on Satur
dav. During the height of the storm
the signal office was blown down, carry
sgta whom were lost. I ne nre Drone out
among the ruins, which extended for
An hfith flflfR of the street dea
troying thirteen houses, among which
wire j> if. jj a. Kenan’s lairre dry goods 6 UU,J1
store and Dr. Leads’s extensive druges
tablishmenL Dr. Lewis was in the
butwt
BU | )fte quenUy yesterday. drowned, So far his body be learned being
as can
the following is a complete list of the
lives of the white people lost:
Captain I. A. Itoed, signal officer.
Dr. Crooker, Dr. H. Itoscncrana, cA
Elgin, Ill#.; formerly resident of L»di
unola.
Mrs. Hodges and two children, of Dr.
Hodges’ family, of Cuero.
Mrs. Henry Sheppard,
Mrs*
Mr| Luther, of
C()rpug christL
Dr. Damsheads.
A German unknown
Beside tne aoovc, the DOdiesoi ton
colored persons have been found. The
body of Dr. Crooker, the twenty-second
victim, was found Monday. Foul
miles ,,dies of Of the uie track irar.K is is washed wasnea away away,
n iiacrjDg it impossible ior trains tc
'U-proach Indianola. There is much
destitution there among the poor classes,
who have lost everything they possessed,
The depth of the water is reported as
gnat as it was Indianola during the great storm of
1^75 when lost nearly two
hundred of her citizens, who were swept
away. Friday the flood of water over
the doomed town was so rapid apprehensions that with
in two liaurs after the first
wero felt , ,, every ____________. street was submerged ,,,,, ......,
many feet.
The lower end of the peninsula i* com
pletely washed away. The storm came
in the shape of a hurricane. The waters
of , ,, the gulf rose .........i up and in • three _____ hours ,....... ,i.„ the
whole peninsula on which indianola is
situated was under ten feet of water,
The total loss, as far as now known, to
Texas from the gulf storm, is as follows:
Human lives lost, 38; loss to crops, $1,
000,000; lose to city and town property,
#!{,400,000; ' loss to shipping and harbor
improvements, ■ , «nno $. 100 nna 000
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THE LOSS IN SAN ANTONIO.
Tho damage to this city by the terrific
<. V chmc of Friday is estimated at $3,500, -
000. No loss of life has been already reported, in
,ini1 ,. n(1 tll0 l n ® work WH ' 1 ^if,*, 0 f reparation ", is 1"
l ,ro K „ ' h u ' ^ren f
reports that . tho )t cotton cotton crop
conic pn was was
seriously injured. tie IT)e plant was broker, the
down and staple beaten out by
rain ami Mown away. Passengers Vvill. on the
A-™- P- ™'«J. from to
FloresVllle, report great ravages by the
storm at both points. At Beville many
hmihcsm i„„ K ™ i n tho the course course nf of construction construction wen* wm c
demolished and old Ones were unroofed
01 otherwise Injured. Two churches at
Florcsville were completely ruined, while
several stores and (fwellings aged fouplc, were in dam
piously. An at
tempting to cross a swollen stream in a
wagon, a quarter of a mile from Flores
v ilU* 1Z were swept J 1 down tho stream and
tiic n woman was ,.. owne .
FREE AT LAST.
Tvdiior 1 uiilnn Krlrnied by ih© Mexican
(•orn nnirnt.
At 11.30 on Monday morning, Cutting
was taken once more before Judge Cas
trmla’s court, when the official minutes
oi the Chihuahua supreme court, which
lmd nmvrd tMs moniing were
to him, winch recited the decree, releas
in. him from further custody The dc
( iMuii of court is based entirely upon the
fai l that Medina, the offended party, hud
waived his right to civil suit for dam
ages, lie court holding that this ended
’ n ■ ’
, . \s , long as , 1 sin not , lurtner , detained . . ,
a prisoner, 1 accept liberty, and I request
that a eopv of the decree of the supreme
‘‘‘,urt>* 1 U tU given 00,111 me for my «‘t.*a future use.” do, _
| ! ', ° ‘ <"'^ to m
hpamsh. Ju»lgf ( nst(»na<hi sent a copy
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hack word that lie, in person, would give
(hitting his liberty, accompanied with
some wholesome advice.
(’iitting said: “Well, l can’t under
stand what all this lias to do with my
card i,. the K1 Paso Herald, for which 1
was solely arrested for four week inter
• catod, and was being tried at the time
,n > go' eriiment made a demand for my
ilm „,,|ia.e release. -
„ is s;li d „„ ,hc other side of the river
that the Mexican constitution, prohibit
mg the residence of agitators and other
dangerous characters in the republic, will
he enforced against Cutting.
THE RASURES CASE.
A. lnve.tl*M!lnii shims II to llnve ftr«*n
n llruinl .Murder .I nn American ( itlzrn
Colonel John A. Baker. i\ il prominent
ow ii. iv,..«
Austin, Texas, saying he has been mves
tigating in Mexico and Eagle Pass tho
insures murder bv reque-t of tlu* mother
and widow of the unfortunate man. Offi
cial search was made for charges against
Kasures and none could he found." Be
fore he was shot his murderer said:
“This is the same spot where von ar
rested and disarmed them," alluding to
the Mexicans; “do you remember it.'
1 don’t think, however, this changes the
manded question, as he was kidnapped, and de
a trial a- a citizen of Texas, and
a.« such entitled to her protection, and
through her to the protection of the
• nited State- l shall put in a claim for
widow $100,000 and damage- heirs in tne murdered name of the
of the Has
urvs
Governor Ireland authorized the fol
lowing reply:
“If he heirs or familv were murderf living in
T exas at the date of ’the the ■
damages Tex^wili is tLvfno proper and hesitation the governor of 1
ta tadora
ing it.”
iHARCBISTS CONVICTED.
Sim TO HA\G AND OUR FOR
THE PEKITESTIART.
t ceae« Inside and OnteMe th.Ce.rt Ho.., !
—What the Zeituna says of the V« . ’
diet-To Appeal the Decision
" h f y
w a " J,r rou Js > 1
>'«t ...... the tnal. g. She was given • seat be
a
<>*traordin»rv „ vr ,L,it ti,,,
, or n imh., , K . t ui course, *; is • not
k^rnn, but the accorded the fcmaW
““rdmt was deemed significant.
The court was called to order at 9:54
The prisoners were not observable to the
eyes of but very few in the court room.
They presented about the usual appear
i,nee *li thoiLfh Snies and Fischer tlsc et looked l0 “ k Jr
deathly i pafe. i The jury • arnved . j 9
There was an impressive silence as they
filed in. When the jury appeared, Judge
ti,try enjoined absolute si'encc w~. There
"" the judge ■ -sup? and clerk, “»*«• when the verdict
was read as follows:
We Snicl tint jury, find the defendant* \u
gust ecus spies, Michael Mtchacl Schwab bchwab, Samue*
r leluen, Albert K. 1 arsons, Adolph
Fiseher, George Engle and Louis Lingg
guilty of murder as charged in the indict
ment and fix the penalty at death.
We \v e find nna tne the defendant ueitnaani Oscar uscar W VV. TCeebc JNeelx.
guilty of murder in the manner and form
as charged in the indictment, and fix the
j pena ] ty / ^ imprisonment in the peniten ‘
,/ r fifteen veara ^
Captain . • Black asked st< that that the i„ be
_ jury
P°! led - The jurymen answered with firm
voices
,
a motion for new trial.
J make Captain motion Black for said new he would trial. desire to
a a
Slate’s Attorney Grinnell said it would
he during impossible to dispose of the motion
the present term, but by agree
ment, the motion could be argued at the
September term. This was agreed to by
the defense. The court let the motior
he entered and continued until f next term.
i he ue-endants , , , . were taken hack , to . jail, . ..
The court then arose and addressed the
jury as follows:
Gentlemen of the jury: You have
finished this long f and very J arduous .? trial,
which , • . has i required „ . , a very considerable ,,
sacrifice of time and some hardships. 1
hope that everything has been done that
could possibly be done to make these
sacrifices and hardships as mild as might
he permitted. It does not become me to
say anything in regard to the case that
you J have tried or the verdict you have -
rendered, hut men _ compulsorily __ serving
as jurors, as you have done, deserves some
recognition of the service you have per
j ^’ J I ^ d ^ eside t |‘ e mca & re compensation
,. The n forenlan , of the . sald: ,,
‘ J ury
The jui-y have deputed to meet
only the agreeable duty i that it is oui
prov __. ince^to perform, and that is to thank ,
court a ' ld co “ n8el for the defense and
the prosecution for your kindly care to
t,, “ n £"“ ! b 'V, Cit « ol
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The court responded , very briefly. , .
The prisoners ^i had filed out during
thig inte m und cr the guidance of baliffiT
jj rg \ g c jjwah V wife of one of the oris
on ® r ® faln • ted ■ 1 when she * heard ■% , the verdict, v
Arbctcr-Zeitung says of the ver
which is conveyed veved in fn the^ah^ the above S head
l ‘ ncs was communicated by Mr. Osborn,
foreman of the jury, to Judge Gary.
‘Spotters,’ which mingled among the
crowd in the street broke J.* into a hurrah
when the annonnenment e, ? e was w “ “
. . , . ,
thc judge became quite pale. Not even
he nimseJf had expected it. Jilr. Grin
nell awaited it openly—presumably he
hud liis reasons for so doing. Marshal
Field and men of his stripe have much—
unlimited money. What do people say
to We verdict? It considers it impossible".
also could not believe the first news
till it was confirmed later.
Captain Black at once moved for a new j
trial. Mr. Grinnell did not object, and
j i Judge September'term. Gary will hear Should the motion he refuse at the it,
then there remains nothing but appeal.
jzzzssr ' •, n 11 * a J. m ”““ ci,cd •"
I he excitement . of the crowd front
in
of the court house was something intense
while tin* verdict was jokin/and bento awaited laugh'
There u s none of the !
| peg that w heard on any other occasion
th:*t bn-.i- the mob to a stand without
ccoMio, rf .
convicted criminal. Each man seemed to
beholding his breath. Such convcrsa
lions as w ere held were m a low tone and
related solely to one topic, probably the
conviction of the eight prisoners who !
w, „ waiting for the hour which was to
mean life or death to them. There was a
cordon of police stretched along the side
walk in front of the outer stairs of -tiie
building. A dozen blue coats mingled
u ill. the crowds, and more stood guard
over the little gate in the alley that leads
to the jail yard. Detectives and police
nun iu citizens’ clothes were everywhere
to he seen. There was also a regular
gu.ndat .n 1,1 the the street stieet ..ntrnnee entrance nf of tho the to.iid build
mg. and a deputy sheriff ami two officers
were stationed on the iron stairway 7 lead -
ing to the court room. ,
When the verdict was announced to
t j ie « s i noonle 7 Sd°s&Js£s outside rhppr afti»r '
t j me ’
smctDE OF AN artist.
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A Waldo Guest, of Baltimore, . at ar
tist, entered a saloon on Baltimore strtet
and, after taking a drink, sat down. |5ut
in a few minutes fell to the floor. lie
was taken to the hospital, where he
died. A note in his pocket asked that
his death might be telegraphed Mich.. to Ida
father, Albert Guest. Dexter, and
evidence of him having taken laudanum
with suicidal intent. He formerly lived
in Chicago, and has of late been much
depressed because of his wife’s intemjaer- :
ate habits.
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KWTOY SHC W1CK IN MEXICO.
np.J Envoy Sedgwick arrived Fridwr » at !
EL Toi wilh went AfS^ across the C^Yb^ rivr'r
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Mexico.
QUICK RETRIBUTION,.
A FEEEIXG BURGLAR 'AXLES HIS
PURSUER.
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<«Ft-rrd and Hanard Within Two Born
After Hi* Victim’* Death.
A terrible tragedy was enacted the other
sssar.ts Rodents
and Mississippi Railroad. of the
place were startled about one o’clock in the
sri-msrr, by crie3 for , heIp . Dr . W. C. But
rrss
He was soon joined by others, who, on ar
riving near the point from which the cries
^ "t ™ ea 26 S ’
failed to recognize either. h
As they approached one man drew a knife
and plunged it into the other, after which he
fled. The crowd passed the fallen man and
pursue ! the murderer. Alter a short race,
and firing several shots, he was brought to
bay in the grass near the railroad culvert.
Keturniug u, where the fallen man T. lay they
discovered it was Mr. John Davis, a
highly respectable citizen, and agent of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
fiches fjnssJi rZijstjsst
long in the muscle of the right arm,
which had severed thfe main artery; a cut in
the neck under the jaw.anda bruise on the
forehead as it he had been struck by a rock.
Dr Butler endeavored to save his life, but
Be had passed beyond human aid, having the
bled to death. Mrs. Carrie King was
first person to reach the victim, and his last
words were: “Carrie, X am dying. That man
mar d 0
Alter securing the murderer the crowd
brought him back to where his victim lay
and asked him if he had killed that man. He
answered “No. ’ The shirt sleeve from the
left arm of the murderer was missing and
pari'eswent out tosearch forit Theyrvere blood.
successful, and he it was be soaked captured in he bad
After finding off and would it ihey also
torn it cast away,
found Mr. Davis s clothes in the stock pen,
with his gold watch in the vest pocket
townthi^'l^wreme^mmtv 0 ''amvedonthe
scene and took ehanre of the nrisoner When
searching him they found a fine burglar saw, of
spectacles and cases, two combe,,a pair
rubber shoes, a casekmfe without any stains
other ^ticlel It'^'llaraXtha^hie had
teen lingering around the depot and had
asked several suspicious questions.
When Mrs. Davis heard of the arrest she
desired that she might see the man. He was
taken to the residence, and she said:
“Wicked wretch! you are tho man who
kiiled my husband!” She then said: “That
man entered our bedroom, which is in the
first floor, fften through 0US h the front door. He W tried
to secure tho money under frigiitenod my pillow and
awakened me. 1 was too to cry
out; yet, Beeing me awake, he took Mr.
^i^ttte'iTpursuff Tawote^M?Xws^who'fm- ofhlS Th°X
the lost time I saw him alive.’’
The prisoner’s shoes were found in front, of
the Davis House, and he acknowledged that
they were his. He was then taken back to
where the victim lay, when a party of six or
eight masked men appears l and took him in
charge ^^^““^^sta^ce.^The^took j
Crim , 8 store on Main street. When asked
what his name was he said William Dunn,
of Cincinnati, Oliio. and that he was fifty -
four years old. He was asked if he had auy
thing else to say and answered “No.” A
r0 Do was quickly thrown over a limb and
the murderer was swung into mid air at 3
o’clock |
The hodv was cut down and a Coroner sin- ;
S“«,Sb, The verdict read: “Came to
to. 1 „, 1 , o, p.n,„ ookoowo.
coffin Ifo was ami placed the remains in a rude imitation buried in rosewood field, |
were a
Whilereturnin? from the scene on the pas
senger trftia L. P. Stephens, son of the Couu
ty Clerk, and O. P. Fierce, both of this place
became involved in a quarrel. knuckles, Stephens
struck Pierce with a pair of brass
and Fierce drew a knife, stabbing Stephens
wounV 1 ' & “ eU ' ' °
wounas -
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unoipiT fflUDU/Hli flllB jlin nRJMSTir BfifllHllllto
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I In _ Paris . theatr6 the ushers ,, Ud .
’ a are
Rehenyi is playing his violin in Hindustani
William W. Astor is reported to be
writing a play.
a. grandda.uohter ot Charles Dickens
ha-i gone on the stage.
Mrs. Scott-Siddoxs will mako a profes
lional tour in this country during tkecoming
season -
i.f Sica'^tte laSr
. V nrf cirtdiw Richi‘;-i,
He rr one of the actors of the
Vienna Opera House, still appears in panto,
mime at the age of eighty.
“Will” Carlkton, the author of “Betsy
•® d 1 tout,” is going to lecture and read to
sli? , h.“ ib.rid.,*...
married girl in the Quaker City Nheisworth
$ 5 ,OOO.OJO and is young and attractive.
Mme. Minnie Hack is going to return to
this country next month, and during the
coming season will be heard in concerts and
P
It is cj.-teed that Mr Gillette's new play,
n i«v
written.
Jenny Lind’s daughter, who is said to
possess a fine voice, though not as marvelous
as that of her mother, is going to visit this
D^Bo” • Se^phta. * 1 th v
Lr a drama to be presented re this season, deal
tag Emperor with of a chapter in the life ot the great
the French.
Miss Margaret Mather has made th,
g^est success of her-career m Sanliw
ideaV' a^d the criticj pronounce her the
legitimate successor of Miss Neilson.
Miss Louts Parker, a young American
singer and a pupil of Mine, de la Grange of
Paris, ’ has been engaged ^,.' > by Colonel McCaulI
for hi s opera trou knd she was educated for
the Italian stage, is said to possess 1 an ex
quisite voice.
The three greatest tenors in tho world,
Gayarre, fouud Masmi aud Iamagao, are generally at
*° be in Spain. An engage nent
° ne at aay ot 1110 g
Italian theatres ^
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THU fisheries oi estion
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Lord Iddsleigh, foreign secretarv. has
written to the International Arbitration
association, saying he concurs in the be
lief of his predecessor. Lord Roseberry,
that the moment is inopportune tore
ceive a deputation to discuss the subject
of opening negotiations with the United
State# for the establishment of an Anglo
American tribunal, whose duties shall be
to consider international questions,
Lord Iddsleigh savs that the fishery
question tion which the arbitration associa
refers to, is at present a subject of
diplomatic the thar negotiations, and expresses
hope results mat be favorable.
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."'ll 1 ^ ° fJ# P“ were °P ene 1
t 0 he chr, - tlaa nations of the world
tlww «« only eleven intoxic.tino
drinks °
Z are moie t k.mum T >ban t two v hundred, :1 D0W there ,
ESSE BALL BOTES.
Easemea White, of Detroit, leads the League third
in batting.
The New-Yorks say Sliaw, of Washington,
has wonderful curves.
D»nrr, of the St. Louis League nine, has
made seven home runs tnis season.
It is said to be a fact that not a home run
long-distance thrower in the profession.
Each of the Boston pitchers has disposed
of an opposing nine tor one h,t this season.
Nearly 30,000 people saw the last three
Jew-York Grounds. and Detroit games at the Polo
Lv the last three games with the Brooklyn
the Louisvilles made fifty-eight runs and
fifty-eight h.ts.
Hines, of the Washingtons, scored all the
runs made by his nine in the last three PhUa
delphia games.
Connor, of the New Yorks, has had the
unusually large number of forty-four assists
at first base this season.
A foul ball knocked into a crowd of men
at Topeka hit a negro in the eye with sucb
force that his eyesignt was destroyed.
S jo. ss’js S ruT. ttjsssuiat ^Tby hTclub
the y '
1 “® . ewaik club has been fined $J00 by
the Eastern League tor being the aggressor
m a quarrel with the Waterburys about an
umpire.
Hart, of the Athletics, and Hudson, of th
St Louis Browns, are the youngest pitchers
in the American Association, neither being
y ears of a„e,
Johnson, the professional runner, sars
that Sunday, of the Chicago club, gave him
one of the hardest races in liis life. He says
that little Sunday can run 100 yards in 10 1-5
seconds.
Is the League Richardson, of Detroit, and
Hines, of Washington, Wise, have made the most
bome runs, of Boston, the most three
baggers and Anson, of Chicago, and Brouth
e rs, of Detroit ’ the greatest S number of dou
b les
What a thrilling struggle the Baltimore
anit Metropolitan clubs are having for the
n^notveMake ^ iD " a^hand. 4 4
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Curious coincidences exist in the New
York Chicago series thus far played. The
New-Yorks have won six games and one was
a t e. La h club has made sixty-six runs,
earned twenty-nine and made 111 errors.
The hits stand in New-York’s favor—113
with a total of 155, to 103 with a total of 153.
Dan Leary, the well-known hall player,
said two years ago that the day would come
whe ; a .30,coospectutors would see .gameat
onetime. Dan tmnks that baseball .- still
in its imancy, and that if it grows if the
next ten years as it has in the past ten, noth
ing will be thought of a crowd of 50,000
watching a game,
C lEp 1 tollto^tow^oui “““ s ’ ^
jfew Ytorks...... Batting. Fielding.
Bostons.......... ■vf< 5
rhi. n„ti.nf QD-ns CO 4
ro Citys' C3 1
Kan as i.ias..... tC 6
p hilade i p t- 2
WashTngtons If? 8
CO 7
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Gold is at a premium of 34X in Buenos
Ayres.
Shipmasters complain of the lack of able
bodied seamen.
Owing to recent rainy weather in Russia,
grain is rotting in the fields.
Frozen watermelon for breakfast is a new
aprony in fashionable gastronomy.
There are 183 organized gold and silver
mining companies tothe Black Hills.
In a museum in an Arizona town avepre
served the heads of seventeen Apaches.
The customs duty on one picture recently
brought to New York oy Hermann Schaus
was * i3,4S0. |
Colored men propose to raise $1,000,000
to erect monuments in Washington to the
benefactors of their race.
Professor Patterson, of San Francisco,
wants $ It 12,000 ISO with which long. to complete his air
Bhip. is feet
The Treasury Department at Washington
recently received the $300 in cash from Paris as
a contribution to Conscience Fund
I Seven tramps were recently taken forcibly
the” iriS League, floggte’a/d ^fi.nt-vrinn set^!
ma,“trine T.,r Phi™or, 8 n „ i ,
ha ve resolved to tost the constitu
tionality of the Oleomargarine Act passed
by Congress.
The English War Department has sue
cepdedin makinga caunonwhich cost S1,00J
MoREjthan two per cent, ofall the privatos
in the Russian army wore punished by
court-martial last year. Atnongthe offenoes
were5,000robberies.
trich farm fifty pounds of feathers were ob
tained, SJ&. worth $1(50 per ponnd, or $8.00J for
-
MINNEAPOLIS’ w EXPOSITION
>!rS ,l1 ' 1 "" Slta ' l ‘‘ 1 ,ael,i,, e r - T . in - Io *
ti o,"p • , MiXipoh" f * E ,,
' r amid
gn at tnthus.a. ? m. A procession xva.
made up 0 officers of the exposition,
speakers of the occasion municipal oft
u “ ‘tTfffrom^ort^nMH^and
iniae - .ml marched bedthrough through th^Drif- the prm
cipal streets, which were handsomely
, 1 , (mated ' 1ml Business nTrJevinced houses were closed,
and ’. lu general interest evinced on on the the
«v,*as.on w^s only paralleled by the \,llarh build
da\ in 18c3. I h e exercises at
ing were opened with a governor s salute
furnished by Mexican 7hc rSTfir band of fifty
a.
pieces, a military band from Fort Snell
ing and a local orchestra. Prayer was
offered by Bishop Ireland, after which
the mayor tendered the hospitality of the
city to visitors and guests of the exposi
tian.
Hon. W. D. Washburn, president, _
read a teleg ram to President Cleveland,
stating that the board of directors of the
exposition, now ready to open, desired
Mrs. Cleveland to set the machinery in
motion. Ex-Governor C. K. Davis,
then delivered an oration. At the con
elusion of the address, telegraphic the building con
nection was made between
and the Minneapolis throughout office of the West
ern Union, then
Cleveland and New York citv with upper
Sarranac lake and at 4:30, responding to
the pressure of the lady’s finger, many
hundred miles away, the machinery sud
den It awoke into life, the great steam
whistle blew deafinglv. everybody
Peered and the exposition was o,*ned.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND .IIIDDI.E F STATES. STATES
A ntAlX boat containing five Swedes up
A
Yo Tthe oth ? r night do
stroyed the plant of the Brush Electric Light
company, causing a loss of about $130,000
boy, alleged to be one of the iictims poisoned
by Mrs. Robinson, of Somerville, Mass., has
be«n exhumed ana examined bv chemical ex
P*** Signs of poison were discovered.
Mayor Grace, of New York, has removed
RoUia M. Squire from the position of Com
misslener of Public Works, subject to the ap
, proval of Governor HilL
Developiodits in the case of Gray, the
defaulting porations, Treasurer show that of he two squandered Boston mill cor- the
i stolen his wife’s
! money, together with yachts, for
tun8 > on 4116 support of a fleet of
i Delaware Democrats at their State Con¬
vent ion in Wilmington nominated ex-Con-
1 S5» B. Pennington, a lawyer, for Congress,
The lifeless body of Gray, the defaulting
Boston Treasurer, Mifton, was found on the 18th in
the woods at Mass. He had driven
int0 Uie woods and then shot himself. Ex
amiaation of the books of the two corpora
tions discloses a deficit of about $600,000,
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Con
ven tion, held Black in Harrisburg, Governor nominated
Cbauncey E. for on the
first ballot, he receiving 193 votes to 130 for
Ex-Senator Wallace, twelve for McCormick,
and one for Deehert. The ticket was com
pleted by the nomination of Robert B. Rick
etts for Lieutenant-Governor, Maxwell Ste
venson Africa for Congressman-at-Large, Internal Affairs, J. and S.
for Secretary of
W. J. Brennan for Auditor-General, The
platform endorses Cleveland's administra
tion; favors a just and fair revision of the
revenue laws, and expresses sympathy with
the cause of labor.
^ A *i T of a train went through .... a bridge
S kilTed^a tot‘Sow third Two Sfroad employ^
were was other probably fatally to
jured, “^ lyhurt and five or six persons were
-
Treasurer o Samtet. G. Snelltnq, of the
Lowell Bleachery, has been arrested m Boston
ge wi a ^ ca .on o , .
The Grant Monument Association has re
ceived el»ven models of design for the dead
General’s monument. The estimate of the
sculptors range from f50,00t to $90,000.
SOUTH AND tVEST.
The Geddas and Bertrand mining mill, in
Secret Canon, Nev., has been destroyed by
fire; lorn, $j 00 , 000 .
Fifteen thousand pe°P ]0 witnessed, at An¬
napolis, Md., the unveiling of the statue
erected in honor of Baron De Kalb, the Ger¬
man soldier who fought ou the side of lib¬
ernor erty during Lloyd the and Revolutionary staff War. and Gov¬
were present, Sec¬
retary Bayard made a speech.
Three ranchmen were killed and two
wounded Arizona. in a desperate fight with Indians
in
The whole country north of the Missouri
River in the vicinity of Fort Benton, Mon¬
tana, has been burned over by great prairie
fires. Immense damage has been inflicted.
Four persons were killed and one fatally
injured Culver by a storm at Newark. Dakota. Mrs.
by was frightened Chicago. to death the same day
a storm at
Stoiking switchmen at Chicago have at¬
Irek tempted to wreck several passenger and
ht train*. A train of seven oars filled
YTith passenger* narrowly escaped disaster.
General Arthur M. Manigault, a vet
ero of the Mexican war nnd an ex-Confeder
ate officer, died a few days ago on South
Islaad, S. C.
JfflSSSLdt'“nlattorm - n 9 hi ,° £ av ? ? or “Sfaflv’ ?l n ?, te ^ a
white rSS
!
Cleveland.”
ogratoand State Conventions the Greenbackers of the Michigan have Dem- held
been
simultaneously effected, latter at Grand naming Rapids, and a fusion
Governor, the candidates for
Treasurer, Commissioner of the
Land Office and Superintendent of Public In
stomtioo. and the former naming the rest of
the ticket.
The Irish American Land League Conven*
the members of which are Parnell’s
American allies in the effort to obtain home
with aukSmeme att^ndance^° °John
Davitt and Mrs. Parnell were present
at /he San steamer Francisco St from Paul, Oonalaska, which has Alaska, arrived
eTby ttoUnitel^atos^ente cuto
ter Corwtu for violation of tho seal iishiu"
laws in Behring s Sea.
Parnell’s peace policy was sustained at
tp e second day s meeting of the Irish-Ameri
si-asriia
Davitt and the other foreign delegates. Reso
lutions warmly endorsing Parnell’s policy
ka, were adopted. elected John Fitzgerald, of Nebras
was President, receiving 703
elected Vice-President. The financial Tn’anLousfy
state
ment showed that in the pa-,t two j^ears
g^'^tfSglS'ai^SS 55^0111 were still in the hands ot the iieas
Eliza Woods, a colored cook imprisoned
in the jail at Jackson, Teun., on the charge
of causing a white lady’s confinement death by poison, by
was forcilfiy taken from a
rthetead^oman’sfSch
Nebraska Prohibitionists have nominated
H. W. Hardy for Governor,
ffi Four persons £{^dest were oy£l killed theviltag^of in a tornado
w e / r Naw
^ Dakota
WASHINGTON.
.FMsrDEN^CLEVELANDinaaethOtoliow President Cleveland made tho foUow
lng rondacks: appointmonts John T. beto.e Doyle he of lett New tor York, tne aui
to
£ -Secretaryofthe Ehnmger Civil of Service New York, commission, to be
Henry A. Coteffi Cienfuegos,
Lmted States vice
■Acting-Svtoxon * ’ J! r . - Rtonep ot
atfss sent, and sstssnsrAteti is entirely free from contagious
p re
diseases, except a few cases of yellow fever
now under trtetment at the ,Ship Island
quarantine station, off the coast of Louisiana.
Foreign.
aj» a«d and imbecile widow named Lsboi,
living in Paris, has met with a horrible
(jeath. Her son 3 endeavored to obtain ad
mission for her in a madhouse but failed.
T hey d £ < ? P ot 7 anC s K^ifa ram?
. tee
tedbmnedhertodeath,
a strange calamity is reported from Port
Stanley in the Falkland Islands. An im
mense"peat bog, fuel, from suddenly which the broks laboring looseand peo
plecuttheir
werJVwept in iteteu^^Maa^boats and lost. hoiS
away, and two lives were
The highest monohto ... is the . obelisk at
Earnakm Egypt T0w “»
Thoffimes III who reigned - - about l. .5^? 1600
B. C. The whole length is 122 feet, and
its weight 400 tons,