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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1891)
ALLIANCE TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM ALL SECTIONS. Items of Interest to Alliance- men Everywhere. The Nebraska Alliance has grown from 70,000 to 110,000 since last election.— Atchison Patriot. * * The Thedford, (Neb.) Tribune , says: “The people are no longer interested in party for party success or party interested suprem¬ acy, but they are more diretly in that party, without regard to that its name, that is advocating measures material interests. are favorable to their own * * AUisnce mass meetings will be held in North Carolina at the following times and places: Kings Mountain, Wednesday, July 29th: Maxton, Thursday, August 6th; Rocky Mount, Saturday, August 27th. 8th; Charlotte, Wednesday, August of President Polk will be at each these appointments, and Jere Simpson, of Kansas, and other prominent meetings. speakers will take part in the * * * A state convention of the North Da- kato Farmers’ Alliance was held at Grand Forks several days ago. New officers and delegates to the next national con¬ vention were elected, the constitution and by-laws were revised, and resolutions werte adopted declaring for prohibition, control the Ocala platform, government or ownership of main lines of railroads, uniform text books, free coinage and ^he taxation of options. * * * Pacific Union Alliance (San Francisco, Cal.) says: “To break the yoke of the railroad the and let the oppressed Farmers’ go free Alli¬ is great mission of the ance. It proposes to move at once upon the enemy’s works, and it will win. The moment the attention of the people is diverted from the dead and buried issues of a generation ago and centered upon the vital questions of the day, victory will come like an electric flash. * Dublin (Texas) Progress says: “The leading newspapers throughout similar the lights, state, as well as a multitude of are just now discussing the third party movement in chorus. As to what effect this third party, lately organized, will have on national politics we are unable to surmise, but the cause which gave rise to its organization will be fre-h in the minds of the laboring people of this country until the reforms for which they have so long been praying are obtained. ♦ • * The Baltimore American says that the National Farmers’ Alliance will hold their encampment in Maryland,near Baltimore, held and the annual encampment will be there every year certainly for the next five years, and it is probable that the site will be purchased and the encampment located there permanently. This year’s encampment will be held in September. needed About 200 acres of land will be for the encampment, and an auditorium will be erected which will seat 12,000 people. ★ * The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.) says: “Loyal alliancemen everywhere have reason to feel encouraged, especial¬ in ly in Texas. The order is gaining numbers rapidly, and it is, for the first time in its existence, practically a unit upon the demands of the National Alli¬ ance. The membership in every nook and corner of the 9t«te are wide awake, and in many localities men unknown upon the stump or forum are challenging xhe enemies of our order to debate the points at issue. Ere the kalends of Jan¬ uary, 1892, nearly every county will be able to furnish a competent exponent of our principles, who will be able to meet the average political bummer on the hust¬ ings successfully. * * POOR ADVICE. The advice of many political journals attend to farmers to let politics alone and strictly to farming is more a tribute the importance of agriculture than it to its representatives. There is little danger that a majority of good will allow their farming interests to suf¬ fer through devotion to politics. But for many years polities have suffered be¬ cause farmers have not given them while due attention, and farmers find that, they have left politics exclusively to the politicians, their interests suffer with those of the entire community. It is the interest of everybody as well as of farm¬ ers that those who in two-thirds the s ates have a majority of the votes and pay the bulk of taxes, should exercise the influence which rightfully belongs to them in the affairs of state and general governments.— Exchange. + 3$ * THE KANSAS WAY. The Progressive Parmer, (Raleigh) says: “Kansas is maintaining her repu¬ tation as a “hustling” State. We learn from the daily press that over 200 mass m 'clings were held by the people on the 4th of July. In each of the one hundred and six counties of the State held mass meetings. The People’s Party was everywhere enthusiastically endorsed. 'I he demand for speakers could not be supplied—many of the speakers were forced to be at two or three mieting dur¬ ing the day. The feature of ail the con¬ gressional meetings were huge banners telling the three crisis in the nation’s history. The first was in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was made, the second the abolition of cbattle slav¬ ery, the third would be in 1892, the abo¬ lition of industrial slavery through the •—■ Peoples party. When tbe people oi Kansas move they move all together ar*d with all their might. * * * * Dr, Maeune was interviewed by the Atlanta Constitution a few days ago. of anu the being questioned as to his opinion third party Farmers’ replied: Alliance will never “The party. enter a third party or any other It is a band of people organized seeking for pro¬ to tection, not politics. It is fight injustice done those who belong tb it, and all wanted is justice. Now if justice cannot be gotten with either the republican or democratic party in rule, a member of the alliance will simply justice. vote for those who will giYe him Every member of the alliance may be¬ lieve in the Ocala platform, and vote for men who believe with him, but that’s an individual matter. It isn’t the Farmers’ Alliance. The alliance is composed of democrats, republicans and other people all fighting for democratic justice. If every member votes the ticket, it doesn’t mean that the Alliance has joined itself to that party. A man can be an allianceman and belong to any political party he wants to. If every member of the alliance joins a third party, he does it as an individual seeking justice for himself and his fellow-men. I believe that the time is rapidly coming when all the alliancemen will stand square on the Ocala platform, and if no party gives them this or something better they will leave any party for it. If the members vote with a new party it will merely be a method of obtaining an ob¬ ject, that object being justice.” * * house of representatives at Atlanta, Ga., by Hon. Thos. Watson: “We want these unjust laws, by which one set of men get rich at the expense of another, removed, and we are deter- mined to have them removed. Why W6 wan-t them removed is laid down in the Ocala platform, and then it contains the principles of tbe land-loan bill, which is to loan the money of the government to the farmer just as it loans to the banker, giving him an equal chance iu the race, and enrich those who indeed bring pros¬ perity. They talk to me about overpro- duction; that the people have too much land, and all that. Why, fellow citizens, you cannot open a newspaper any day without your eye falling upon pitiable ac- counts of houseless poor, and starving poor, and these rich protected bund man- ufacturers keeping an armed of hired Pinkerton men to shoot down these poor creatures, who have a very natural resentment against the foreign scabs who are im- ported to take their places. The Scotch- maa cannot compete with the protected manufacturer the Frenchman cannot compete with him Why ? Because they hare put on a protect.vetar.fl workman??) How to.protect doc. he American be manufacturer do it? By importing these miserable wretche. from Europe and consigning them to the most revolt- ing slavery. That is cunning, and you farmers are told that you must not go into politics to right this gigantic evil. * * * We must demand our rights in a way to let these people know that we want them, and we want them bad. IT EXCITED CURIOSITY. How the Building* of a Wall Engendered Trouble. A Dallas, Tex., dispatch of Saturday says: Last fall the commissioner’s court of Dallas county contracted with 8. L. James to build the new courthouse at a cost of $366,100, James built a wall around the premises, which caused so much suspicion on the part of the inhab- itants of the countv that one of the county commissione.s has been badly beaten, and the policeman in charge was almost fatally shot, the trouble iu each instance growing out of morbid curiosity, Matters came to such a crisis recently that James, the contractor, turned over the job to the commissioners less 15 per cent of the whole contract retained bv " the countv. WHISKY SEIZURES. Prominent St. Louis Liquor Dealing Firms Raided. A St. Louis dispatch of Friday says: Revenue officers sent on from Washing¬ ton have made extensive^ seizures of whisky belonging to the Nelson Distill- ing Company Tausches & Co., A. Sc iarff, Jotin Bordenhefraer and about a dozen other well known liquor houses. The grounds upon which the seizures were made, as reported from the office o I mted States revenue collector, are the changing and defacing of government whisky brands and marks upon barrels of sold to retail customers and a discrepancy in the proof whisky after its proof had the been stamped and certified to bv ' government A MANIAC MOTHER Kills Her Three Children and Suicides. Tom Lockridge, a prosperous youDg farmer living near SpriDg Hill, Tenn., made a horrible discovery when he re- turned from church at 1 o’clock Sunday, finding his wife and three little children lying side by side each with a ghast’y hole torn in the breast by a shot gun. Mrs. Lockridge had written a loDg letter, bidding her husband farewell, assigning bad health as the cause for her crime. She had then pulled the clothing of each child up over its shoulders and dischar- ged a shotgun against its breast. Tbe three children were aged four yeass,three years, and four months. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. There is great excitement about El- lensburg, Wash., over the discovery of gold. A Cuban steamer fr< m New York Wednesday took $325,000 in Spanish gold to Havana. A sailing yacht, containing seven per¬ sons, capsized off Victoria, B. C., Mon¬ day. Six were drowned. The London council of arts, on Mon¬ day, received the Chicago world’s fair delegates—Butterworih, Handy and Bullock. Monday’s dispatches say: The strike of railroad employes in Paris has col¬ lapsed. Most of the men have already resumed work. The firm of Thompson, Stewart & Co., dealers in millinery goods, at Cincinnati, O., made an assignment Monday to Thomas McIntyre. The assets are $50,- 000; liabilities, $70,000. Ex Queen Natalie, of Servia, has en- tered suit against her husband, ex-king Milan, in the courts of Pans, for $3,000,- 000 francs, which she claims as a portion other personal fortune. Postmaster General Wanamaker, on Monday, issued an order assigning to duty the new fourth assistant postmaster the general, Rathbone, and rec-stiag work of the entl ™ department, Architect Bell, superintendent of the construction of government buildings, Las received an appointment placing fed- him in charge of the construction of the era ^ s fair exhibit building, The new American steel steamer Charles W. Wetmore, arrived at Liverpool Tues- day from Duluth, Minn., with a cargo of 95,000 bushels of grain, the first grain cargo shipped from a lake port direct to Liverpool, The funeral of General Benjamin Kelley, of West Virginia, who organized the first loyal southern regiment of the w ar, took place at Washington, D. C., Sunday, with imposing ceremonies. His remains were interred at Arlington ceme- tery, beside General Crook, The S £ ree j. car strike at Toledo, O., was se ttled Sunday morning. All con- ffuctors and motormen are to receive $1.80 per day, of twelve hours; drivers 0 f ij 0r g e vats, $1.60 The men struck for $ 2 instead of $1.55 and $1.45, hence ^he settlement is a compromise, A „ York dispatch £ says: {, The f g,, { Q * * cdi ra who ave bee n , J fo MWna days on „ plea sure J * ter thcir aD » ual meeting 2*30 in At- ■ , for llomc on th e train » .fternoon. Some of the of party m r , t Wa8hingt<m 6 for „ day J so. The village of Roundhead, in Hardin county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire Sat¬ urday morning. A large wheel factory was struck by lightning, and the whole village nearly destroyed. No particulars have been received as yet. The town is inland. The loss is estimated at $500,000. A cablegram of Sunday from Lisbon states that the scarcity of coin in Portu¬ gal is severely felt. Commercial houses both at Lisbon and in Oporto are accept¬ ing 2,500 reis notes, which they take at a heavy discount. The premium on sovereigns is now 13 per cent. The plate mills of the Springfield burned Iron Company at Springfield, Ill., Sunday morning. It was leased to the Carbon Iron Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and used in making steel plates for armed cruisers being constructed by the government at San Francisco, A cablegram of Friday says: The city of Santiago,* Chile, has just been visited with the severest fire ever known in South America, the loss being esti- mated at more than two million dollars, The British legation was completely consumed, including all of the archives and personal property of the minister. The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed Monday morning. First The failure w*as due to the failure of the National bank, which was taken charge of by a bank examiner last Thursday. Liabilities are $35,000; assets $65,000. The bank was organized under the state law. A boiler in the planing and shingle miU of E G Per kin 9 , at Lake View, a v jn a g = e fifty J miles west of Saginaw, Mich expl oded Tuesday* afternoon, kill- ■ E G. Perkins, Robert Gregory and Eddifa (the * atter three years o]d) and in _ j J ur i n * g Charles Becher and three others. The mill was completely wrecked. The Higganan Manufacturing Corn- P ai W °f Middletown, Conn, made an assignment Mondayto ex-Goyernor P. £ Loensberry and Clement S. Hubbard, The C0IU P aQ y manufactured farming im¬ plements. State Senator George M. Clark is president, and Clinton B. Davis, chairman of the democratic state eom- mittx'e, secretary ahd treasurer, A St. Louis dispstch of Sunday says: The attorney general of Texas is pre- paring to bring suit aga inst the 'lexas a °d Pacific railway and Messrs. Charles Canola, Simon Drake and William Strauss, of New lork, for the recovery of 700,000 acres of land. He has sent to Jeff Davis county the first papers look- log to the cancellation of the patent. On Saturday night the village of Saw¬ yersville, Osceola county, Michigan, consisting of thirty houses, one general store, one large sawmill, a shiogle mill and.lumber yard, all owned by a lumber company, was totally destroyed by .fire, The loss is between two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and three hundred thouscDd dollars, partially covered by iusurance. The entire plant of the Pennsylvania Steel company, at Steelton, Pa. was shut down Tuesday, owing to a dispute with the amalgamated association. taken This action, it is said, was after the company discovered that there would not be sufficient men to continue operations. Almost 4,000 men are thus made idle. The outcome of the struggle is proble¬ matical. An express car of the Pacific Express company, which left Texarkana, Ark., attached to a southbound Texas Pacific passenger train Thursday evening, was boarded as it was leaving the local yards and robbed, Messenger Ryan being held up at the point have of a been revolver. engaged Only in one the man seems to robbery. Only a small amount of money and valuables w-ere secured. A London cablegram says: The court, on Monday, gave judgment asainst Mcs. Maybrick in the suit for $10,000 insur¬ ance on her husband’s life, The court said she could not recover, as her hus- band’s death was caused by poison, for whose benefit the action was brought. She is the American woman whose trial excited w-idespread inteiest and resulted in conviction and life imprisonment. Letters just, received at San Francisco from Hong jtf Kong, China, say KyrleBel- j ew and rs j ames Brown Potter were married io that city j„ gt before the gteamer Beigie sailed for San Francisco. A telegram came to M rs. Potter saying her husband had secured a divorce, and s h e once married the actor. They made big money in Australia, but lost it a p j n china, where they have been even reduced to playing with amateurs. Advices received Tuesday from Chile, via Buepos Ayres, state that President Balmaceda has had shot, at Valparaiso, Richard Cumming, the son of an Eng¬ lishman, who was bora in Chile. The prisons are filled with sufferers, without respect to age, class, or sex. Two hun¬ dred persons are imprisoned in Valparai¬ so. No security is afforded to foreigners. Judges are removed unless they are friends to Balmaceda. Lynn, Mass., had another disastrous fire Friday night. It is thought $300,000 will be the amount when all the losses are known. The third story of Blake’s brick block, corner of Union and Mul¬ berry streets, and a five-story brick block adjoining, owned by Strout Bros., were burned completely. A five-story brick block, owned by B. W. Currier, caught fire, but was only partly destroyed. A cable dispatch of Tuesday from Ciaro, Egypt, says: The spread of cholera is in¬ creasing at Mecca. There were 140 deaths Saturday and 380 Sunday last. The deaths occurred chiefly among Turkish pilgrims. The lchedive has issued in¬ structions that rigorous measures shall be taken to prevent the introduction of the disease into Egypt. A remarkable feat¬ ure of the epidemic is the fact that not one Egyptian has yet been attacked by the cholera. An appeal w-as entered in the United States circuit court at New York, Satur¬ day, by E. T. Mason & Co., protesting against the imposition of the duty of 14 cents per square foot and 20 per cent ad- valorem on jute carpetings imported by them. They claim that the McKinley act under which the duty was imposed is unconstitutional, in that the bill was not passed in the manner and form provided for in the constitution, and was not signed by the president. A Pittsburgh, pounds Pa., nitroglycerine, dispatch says: which Two hundred of S. J. Bigley, a torpedy man, was taking to Mount Morris oil field in a two-horse wagon, exploded near Washington, Pa., Friday morning, blowing and Bigley to atom®, killing the horses wrecking the dwelling of Lee Minton and M irk Hughes, Sr. The concussion shook every house in Washington, and caused great excitement. A singular feature of the explosion is that, although there were a number of people in the vicinity at the time, all escaped with slight inju¬ and ries. Bigley was forty years of age, married. A FIEND INCARNATE. Horrible Murder of a Young Lady by a Rejected Suitor. A dispatch from Hanover, N. H., says: As Miss Cristie Warden, accompanied by her mother, her sister, Fannie, and Louise Goode 1 , w as returning on foot to their home, located one mile from the village, at a late hour Saturday night, Frank Almy, about thirty years of age. jumped into the road in front of them, and seiz¬ ing Christie by the arm, said: “I want you!” The mother and sbter attempted to defend her. Almy fired at them, but missed. They ran for assistance. Tbeu Almy dragged hisv.ctim into the bushes from the road and shot’her twice through the head, one shot tearing out her left eye. When help arrived, * the girl was dead, and her t>ody was stripped of nearly every article of clothing. Almy had tied. Miss Warden was a beautiful and most estimable young woman about twenty- five years old, a graduate of the state normal school, and a popular teacher. Almy was a former employeof her father, and his attention to Miss Christie had been repulsed. Tbe town of Hanover fliers $500 reward, and Miss Warden’s father offers $500 for the murderer. Laborers Killed. There was a bad wreck on the Chicago and Erie railroad, at a station five miles e»»st of Kenton, O., Friday. Swift’s re¬ frigerator meat train east, runping special, ran into a work train, pulling into a siding, killing nine* laborers and injuring many others. * Both locomotives with tin or twelve cars were totally dtmolished. THE WAR IS ON! MINERS CAPTURE BOTH SOL- DIERS AND CONVICTS. The Situation Assuming a Se- rious Phase. A Knoxville telegram says- Thp • at Briceville about"? r o’clock, came when the miners Monday sympathizers and a crowd count? r frt m the contiguous surrounded the camp of the state mill/ and captured the troops and ““ a marched them off g nv to the depot *-3 them train and shipped ’ on a Knoxville. to The camp was on a little knoll in hollow, and surrounded on all sides by mountains. The miners . and thtir frieods, to the number of twelve or Hf teen hundred, were divided into f ou " equal squads, and approached on the- four sides of the square which the cam flag was of formed truce, in. and The sent miners in sent up! the officers in command. a The committee to notified the officers that they had committe eorrl • to take the convicts; “Peaceably, if p, Jfsi ble—by force, if ” " . necessary.” THE BOYS SURRENDER. The officers parleyed awhile, and %» agreed to surrender. The troops were! allowed to keep their arms and amrauniJ tion, and then the troops and convicts' w r ere marched to the train. There thev were loaded in box cars, or whatever could be had. and the entire lot were sent to the city. The troops to the num¬ ber of 107, all told, went to the armor? of the Knoxville Rifles, where they now remain awaiting the orders of the * gover-i nor. The miners made them promise not to return to Coal Creek. The convicts were taken to the jail, locked up and fed. An imrpense crowd met the troops at the depot. They were freely cheered as they marched through the streets. The! meti had been on duty nearly five days in* the] in the rain, and had seen but little way of provisions, and but little equip¬ ment. Their faces were bronzed, but they presented a soldierly appearance as they marched up the street. The city is now- intensely excited. The leaders of nil political The parties mob say the law must bo upheld. celebrated its victory by cheering, carousing and shooting, ANOTHER MOVE BY THE MINERS. Immediately after the release of the convicts at Briceville mines and the troops and convicts had been placed on the train, the mob wont to the mines of! the Knoxville Iron Company, surrounded the stockade and captured the 125 con also] ! viets there, wdth the guards. They were shipped away to Knoxville. THE NEWS IN NASHVILLE. A Nashville dispatch sav3t Monday’s! developments in the mining troubles at! Briceville have caused all the immediately available military in the state to be called! out by Governor Buchanan, and not less than fourteen companies of the national guard, well armed and equipped, special are scurrying toward the sceue by trains. A HALT ORDERED. A later telegram says: Governor Buch¬ anan has ordered the militia to wait at; Knoxville, pending further instructions.! This is done because he desires to hare Attorney General Pickel’s opinion as inde¬ to his authority to quell the troubles pendent of the Anderson county offi¬ cials. PEFFER AT THE HEAD. In Case the People’s Party Puts Out a Ticket. A Topeka dispatch s'avs: The ramci that Senator Peffer was figuring for the nomination for president by the Tuesday. peoples party in 1892, was confirmed The people’s party organ in Kansas raises his name, and in an editorial states tba as Kansas took the initiatory steps in the new movements she _ was entitled to the honor. I t 4 it was known that Senator Peffer desire the nomination, the jirefereuce among tM alliancemen seemed to be for Preside® Polk, of North Carolina, Senator Pei-! fer’s friends say that the man who waa big euough to beat John J. Inga Is is J -s enough for a presidential candidate. A FAMILY CREMATED. Their Remanis Found in 7: ‘ e Ruins of Their Home. A telegram from Clay City, !!'•• Monday morning all that remain ail# Robert James’ family, living three ee.st of here, was found evidently in the 1 S.2 the house, which was during the night. The family of the husband, wife, son ami < •- a tbit and a grandchild. It is thoughi ^ either father had nun y ‘ the son or ana family, set fire to the house mitted suicide. The son vraa al .thfl to liquor and had threatened 0 . £tJ family, and the husband was s fits of insanity. IT IS CAMPBELL* Democratic Nominee For GovH ernor of Ohio. A Cincinnati dispatch say 8 * rBOf / won the nomination for lfcover* Wednesday m a , va ^gblej Cleveland, complete at.i ^jnerH It was the most , the most influential democr the west unfavorable to B ' ined #" of bitter and 2. rm ex¬ influence a nominated t j, e f^, position, he was 0 ballot by a vote of 508 m a
