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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1892)
smm I I d ^ , w / Count!) ijcralft. A I .1111! d % 1§ H 1 r * :, YOL. II. THE WIDE GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC ANI CABLE CULLINGS , Of Brief Items of Interest Fro^f Various Sources. Cab drivers of Pans went on a st / jkf Monday. A stage coach was hold up by rotydefc near the Idaho line in Montana Monday night and they secured about six thous¬ and dollars worth of jewelry. j Tbe director of the mint will inaugu¬ rate the new year by the issue of new silver coins—half dollar, quarters and dimes, having the new designs. General Montgomery C. Jleigf, of the United States engineer corps (retired), died Saturday morning of grip at his residence iu Washington, D. C. The Mark Lane Fxpress, in its review of the British grain trade, says the mean rahie of \ rices during December was 5 pence below that of November. A fire, accredited to spontaneous com¬ bustion, occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday evening, destroying the four- story grain elevator of Francis G. Pinto «£ Sons, and causing loss of $100,000. * a The great barrel «orks of the Standard Constable Hook, N. J., were burned down Tnursday and the loss is estimated at $500,000. The fire started in the Reading room of the barrel works. Charles Heft, of B. Freemansburg, Pa died Friday of strangulated hernia oi aggravated hiccoughing, aged 76. Hi hiccoughed eleven days. The case is an extraordinary one and attracted much attention among medical men. The president, on Saturday issued * proclamation promulgating a reciprocity treaty with Salvador. It gqes into effec/ Febiuarv l>t next.* It is similar in it* main provision to those heretofore enter- ed into with other Central America* states and West Indian island. Mena Dispatches of Monday Stonesboro. state that dipl Pa. is epidemic at afflicted,*anc Wc Twentv-thne families are disease is spreading so rapidly tha pe ki physicians are hardly able to cop< Unlent, h it I he form of the disease is most and a number of deaths hare A ( Wording ' to dispatches the „ United . , state cruiser Charleston entered the har- a San D ego, Cal., Friday. She came q-ect from Honolulu to San Diego, and ditrjQt cal 1 at Acapulco as expected. She wi take the ammunition held, for her by ie cruiser San Francisco, and then w.l wa i t j or further orders from At 2 Monday morning fire broke out m tli - Height restaurant under the Waverly hoi 2 62 Clark street, Chicago. The hotel wa ltonce filled with, smoke and the occu^g rU9hed into the hall¬ ways, and atttp( ed reac jj lower As a -lit, two persons weie killed, badly one fa*hurt inju| • and four others quite bly The of two Ohio house^ mk g enera i assem o’clock, Monday Columbus at II by and organ i wd electing Senate* prebidfe^ L Lampson, of Ashtabula, ro ^ em 0 f the sen¬ ate, of Huron, and Represent^ speaker a Lay i iDi lh(J houge> The regular caucus norm* for minor poai . tions were also electct General Ebenezer b^ ue died ftt the Masonic Monday. home He In Grani* om/ id Mich>> was rom i nent in Masonic circles and was t High Priest of the grand chapter, R rch Masons and Ulustious Past GrY Master of the Masbns. Grand Misfortune Council, redti Roj^ and Select affluence to comparative po\l 1 him from A New York dispatch of & ay says: ‘ For some time past threat! letters have been received by the G family, i which were evidently writtenV evitl i well- German writer U well acquanted with Jay Gould’s ca \ The letters arc dated as far back as \ and incidents connected o partnership between Gould and JUX . and their government of the »oad. A Philadelphia dispatch says A supreme court of Pennsylvania, on iA \ day, decided that a saloon keeper injuries\ ble for damages in case of ceivtd from the sale of to intoxicated persons The the court was rendered in the suit \ Caroline Davis Felix a saloon keeper, appealing from pte- 8 court ot Allegheny damages for her husband s A London cablegram says: A believed to be the Red Star liner Nora- which sailed from Antwerp Satur- for New York, rpn down the British bark Child well, of! Wielingen lightship and cut her to hir pieces. Ihe bark sank fifteen of crew Were drowned. OBERTA, CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1892. whe steamer continued on her voyaga (without offering assistance. The Great ^Eastern cued the Compauv’s captain and steamer remainder Ipswich, of res¬ the crew, who were fonud clinging to the only remaining masts. A telegram of Monday from the city of Mexico says: The latest news from the state of Durango is very sad. Though the government is trying to conceal the facts, and giving out contrary accounts, it is well known that the stories hitherto received were not exaggerated, and that many people are said suffering from starva¬ tion, and it is that if the govern¬ ment continues deaf to the cry of the sufferers, a rising of the people may be expected. To use the words of a man of influence among the common people, “I prefer to die fighting, rather than from hunger.” NEW DIRECTORS Who will Manage the Georgia Cen¬ tral Railroad. The stockholders of the Central rail¬ road of Georgia held a meeting in S*- vannah Monday and elected a new board of directors. General Henry R. Jack- son and General G. M. Sorrell take the places on the Central railroad direc¬ tory made vacmt by the retirement of Pat and John C. Calhoun. Mr. G. .T. Mills was elected to succeed Mr. S. M. Inman, who tendered his resignation be¬ cause of press of business. General E. P. Alexander was re-elected president, The meeting was further enlivened by an attempt of the minority stockholders to enjoin the election of the new board. Out of this attempt future sensations are expected, gosdpgrowing From New York comes out of tha situation, but developments were in a state of expectancy. The one fact is prominent, however, and that is that Brice and Thomas are in the saddle! '1 he board selected is Alexander, composed as J. foj- Iv lows: General E. P. Garnett, Abraham Vetsburg, Joseph Hull, Gen. Henry K. Jackson. George J. Mills, General G. M. Sorrell. C. H. Pain¬ i z y> H. T, Inman, L: P. Howell, U. B. Harrold, James Sv.ann, J. C. Mabcn. The board is regarded as a very fine , body ol businessmen. It is a board of menwhoare above suspicion. No - erne »■?“■« e thc raa J on > 0 thmkjor ^ instant to aD f underhand dealings , , or Central an - thing calculated , to rajurt tbe railroad or the interests of thc minority stockholders. The new board gives great satisfaction to all interested parties, secretary , s statement. After the adjournment of the meeting" Secretary A. J. Raub gave out the fol¬ lowing for publication: election of ihe Central rail¬ The annual to-day. Nine road of Georgia was held members of the old board were re-elect¬ ed Four vacancies which have occurred . and otherwise, by death, resignatiou election of J. C. Maben, were filled by ihe of New York, and General G. M. Sor¬ rell, General H. R Jackson and Mr. G. J. Mills, all of Savannah. The lust two gentlemen are tbe largest stockholders of the Central road in the state of Georgia. The directors of the Richmond Terminal company have acted in this, case in the same way that they will act in the Rich¬ mond and Danville election to-morrow, and in the elections of boards of the smaller leased roads. That is, all boards of directors now elected are to hold office only until the stockholders’ committee <>f representition, of which Mr. Olcott is chairmra. shall submit its plan and the stockholders vote upon it. FR0LICKS0ME COWBOYS Create Constematiou on Board „ . a Pas- n _ sengor Train. Half a dozen cowboys took possession of a south-bound passenger train on International and Great Northern rail- road, forty miles north of Kan Antonio, Tex., Monday night. They boarded the train at Buda station and their first act was to force a Chicago drummar off the moving train because he wore a red era- vat and a high silk hat. They then (ton- tinued their depredations by making a number of young ladies in the Pullman car sing for them. They enforced all their demands with drawn pistols, ihej ruled the train for twenty miles, when they stepped off at a way station. THE BOOMING SOUTH. gratifying Showing for the Past Twelve Months. • Tradesman in its late annual le- - ^ tries inCor p 0 rated ^ weie o ’ 341 " f or Tradesman sa>s 0 22 fo lg88> The south*rn made by the ^ ^ r gt twelve months is general especi- A ^STrade f i n view of the and the stringency of t THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. The Central railroad shops in Augusta, Ga., have been reopened. The Georgia encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Au¬ gusta instead of Tallapoosa. The liquor question is raging in Char¬ lotte, N. C. Monday night, however, tho council granted licenses under certain restrictions. A dispatch of Saturday from Denver, verdict Col., says: The jury returned a of gui ty of murder iu the first degree agninst \iarnaby Dr. Graves for the murder of Mrs by poisoned whisky. A telegram of Sunday from Apalachi¬ cola, Fla., says: The schooner Dexter Clarke, which went ashore on Flag Island shoals last Thursday, has gone to pieces and will be a total wreck. No lives were lost. A Danville, Vh., dispatch of Thursday rays: Sales of leaf tobacco for the year 1891, 38,600,000 pounds, as against 25,- 000,000 for the previous year. The out¬ put of manufactured tobacco for the year was about ten million pounds. All the motormen and conductors in thc employ of the Birmingham, Ala., railway and electric companies struck Monday for 15 cents per hour instead of 12. The demand has been refused by the companies. Much excitement pre¬ vails. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: and Richard Lewis, master of equity judge of probate of Oconee county, com¬ mitted suicide in his office at Walballa, Monday, by shooting himself through the heart with a pistol. Judge Lewis has held the two offices above mentioned for many years, and was one of the most popular men in the county. A New Orleans dispatch aged says: thirty, An¬ thony B. Silba, a laborer, was 1 Tightened to death Friday evening. He was a witness to a stabbing affray when a policeman arrived on the scene and ar- risted hiru by mistake as one of the par¬ ticipants. The man became so flight ened that he fell in a fit and died ten minutes later. ' A disDatcb of Monday from Laredo, Texas, says: It is stated that the Mexican revolutionist, Gftrza, is sur¬ rounded in the chapptrel in the extreme northwestern corner of Zapata county by United States troops and Rangers, and that it is alnmst impos-ibie for him to escape either to thc westward or in the direction of Mexico. The tobacco dealers of Albany, Ga., are loudly kicking because the city has placed a tax of $5 on retailers and $20 on wholesalers of tobacco, and they will petition to repeal the tax. The tax was placed on tobac< o dealers as the iuternal revenue tax on tobacco was off, and the council considered that the city was en¬ titled to some revenue from that source. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: A mass meeting of the Ware County Farm¬ ers’ Alliance, which has nearly three thousand members, was held Tuesday. The chief question considered was the re¬ duction of the acreage in cotton. Reso¬ lutions were rffered urging that the acreage be reduced 15 per cent, and that the proportion be added to the acreage in food crops. A St. Louis dispatch says: Adelbert Sly, the alleged Glendale train robber, was, on Saturday, identified as having connection with the now famous roblierv ^ t j ie f urD iture men who sold the furni- ture 0 f a g wan avenue house wherein detectives found clues by which the gang thieves were traced. He was also identified by Express Messenger Mulren- nan an d the engineer and fireman of the train robbed. ^ dispatch of Sunday from Denver, says: Deputy Sheriffs Sheans and -yyiigon -who conveyed Dr. Graves from ? the cell, state that tfae court h<,use to cn t he way he made a confession, and said that j) an j e i r. Ballon was the instigator thc cr j me Judge Furman emphuti- made call denied, that Dr. Graves had a con f eg ^i on to the deputy sheriffs. Dr. Graves refused to say anything in regard to the rnntter, excepting that he is en¬ tirely innocent and desires to be left un¬ disturbed in his cell at the jail. bi ldeaUn ine i andsi n the South ha g just been consummated at Houston, T exal ' The Boston of Land Company lan is at has fC pur- an chased 80.175 acres pine andooens up a market for lumb er in Chicago, Santa Fa Kan^s wiateonecoa.ua- City aai^t. Lou is, asthe ous line. _ A solution of bfeWonda of mwairjr is ?b o a t the test matena. for taking in.ehbW out of to—. TRADE REVIEW Report of Dunn & Co. for the Last Week of the Year. Business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days as reported to It. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 807 and Canada 22, or u total of 829, compared With 392 last week and 335 the week previous, For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 348. The old year has closed with a little more than the usual dullness in general trade, but reports as to the volume of the holiday trude are mainly satisfactory. At Chicago it was the heaviest ever known; at St. Louis it was unusally large and in jewelry the biggest known,but at Phila¬ delphia and New Orleans it was not quite up to expectations, and at Little Rock unsatisfactory. Quiet in other trades at this season is not a bad sign, and nearly all reports add that the prospects for the coming year are considered unusually bright. effect of low priced cotton. Exceptions are to be found in the south, where the unusually low price of cotton and the accumulation of extraor- dinary stocks cause depression in trade and stringency in the money maikets, but at New Orleans the money market is easier, though still there is a strong de- mand there, and at Richmond and So- vannab, It is plain that the south is one obstacle to general of progress at bciug present, the the overproduction Receipts cotton longer cause. at ports are do no equal to last year’s, and yet not fall off as much as expected, while the accu- latiou of stocks has become a heavy financial burden, and the price has dropped three-sixteenths during the past week to 7|c for midling uplands at New York. THE PROVISION MARKET. The sugar movement is large at New Orleans, with prices improving, and the movement of rice steady, and tobacco is fairly sustained in the northern market, but the southern trade depeuds so largely upon cotton that a serious deproi-siou necessarily follows the lowest price fcr many years, lt must be added that the greatly increased production of iron has made it very low, and thus strained the resources of many new and costly works at thesou'h, while the bottom has gone out of many sptculations in real esate. On the other hand, the wtst is peculiarly favored by an enormous foreign demand for crops, which would otherwise be de¬ pressed because the li.rgcst ever known. Wheat comes forward as rapidly as th<* crowded conditions of the railroads will permit, and experts, though reduct a hist year, are very large again thi- week, and for six months have exceeded 120 , 000,000 bushels, flour included, whereas the greatest movement ever known in the last half of any previous price year has was declined 115,- 000,000, in 1879. The nearly 1 per cent during the last week; corn and oats -}, but prices are highly satisfactory to western farmers. Pork products are a shade lower ; cof¬ fee nearly a cent lower: oil five-eighths lower, and the prices of all commodities average more than one-half of 1 per cent lower for the week. The money markets continue well sup¬ plied and undisturbed, and the treasury □as again paid out more than $ 1 , 000,000 in excess of its receipts for the week. CONVICTS AND SOLDIERS Are Now on Hand and Ready for Busi¬ ness at Coal Creek. One hundred and twenty convicts wert take a through Knoxville, Saturday morn- lug to Coal Creek. They were under the care of thirty six guards. The train was run rapidly to Coal Creek and to the mines of the Knoxville Iron Company. stockade The convicts were safe in the before the miners knew they were com¬ ing. They are there now under the com¬ bined care of thirty-six guards and ninety troops. night A telegram from quiet 8 o’cl- ck. No reports all at miners in that region were at work Satur¬ day. The iniucrs living near the stock¬ ade moved their families during the day. This is iooki d upon as omioous. The miners at Jeilico and neighboring Ken¬ tucky poinis quit work also. They are evidently discussing the situation. The¬ ir ops have be^q busy in making their tents comfortable and in fortifying their p sition. THE NEW SMYRNA TRAGEDY. The Negro Jenkins Re-arrested Charged with the Commission of the Deed. The following dispatih from Captain W. C. Cooper, a Pinkerton detective at work on the New Smyrna murder case, was received by the Associated Press agent at Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, ■ ‘‘At 10 o’clock this morning I arrested Irviog Jenkins for the murder of the family in tht* Paekwood hous aud have produced evidence suffi cient to have him commi'ted to the county jail of DeLand.” NO. 50. A RAILROAD FLURRY. The Retirement of the Calhouns from the Central’s Directory. A New York dispatch of Sunday says: The retirement of the Calhouns from tbe Richmond Terminal on Saturday was the sensation of the day. Pat Calhoun’s letter, in which be declared that a scheme was on foot to wreck and ruin the Cen¬ tral railroad of Georgia, was so spicy that it broke through all Sunday reserve, and groups of business men discussed it with interest. 'The Associated Press dispatches of Saturday night, in telling of the incident, stated that, at an informal meeting of the pres¬ ent party in control of the Richmond Terminal, it was rosolred that both Pat and John C. Calhoun should be that dropped their from the Central directory, and Georgia places should be filled by two gentlemen not named. lb was also stated that Pat Calhoun would uo longer be counsel for the system. This, taken in connection with Mr. Calhoun’s letter, - showed that the lines between the two factions were sharply drawn. The charge made by Mr. Oal- Eoun that the Terminal magnates desired a subservient directory on the Central so as to better wreck it, coaiing from a lawyer, was regarded as bold and grave, ^ teue, ** would call for such action as ™ oul<i protect Georgia railroad proper- ties from ruin. What Mr. Calhoun has to say about the ,nal te r i* severely criticised by the ITiom- as-Brice people, and some interesting stories are t°ld in the talk. The legal “ffairs of the great properties cannot be transferred in a day, but as soon as the change can be made tbe law department other of the railways will be placed m bands. A WAR CLOUD. The President and His Cabinet in Coun- cil Over the Chilean Affair. A Washington dispateh soya: The president and his cabinet held a close c oilfe , r*t>ct’ Tuesday morning relative . to the ^. hllean embrogho. Extensive pre- Prions for war are going on at the ordnance made department, while denials are being ttiat any sigurficauce could' be attached to them. Much talk is caused by Minister Egan’s not attending the inauguration of Presi - dent Moutt, but the last indications are that-Egan was not invited. The order has beeu issued for the im¬ mediate shipment of a new twelve-inch gun, which has had one te-t at the prov¬ ing grounds, by fast freight to San Fran- cisc where it is to be placed on board of the Monterey. A shipment of 42,000 pounds of powder and 11 ,(WO six inch shells have also beeu ordered from the League Island navy yard to the same de-tination. In speaking of this Lurried shipment, a naval official said that it was understood to be the intention of the department to send the cruiser now finishing there to Chili. Stiould it be necessary without her armour which, he thought, would be a veiy hu/.irdous proceeding. England is evidently “agging” Chili on, and now it looks like war. Many young military men, hungering for disti ctioo, have already applied for Chilian commissions. WILL BE DEMONETIZED. Vereius Thalers to be Withdrawn From Circulation. A cablegram of Sunday from Berlin says: Arrangements have been completed with Austria-Hungary to demonetize the silver coin known as vereins thalers, a vestige of the old Germnu-Austrian mon¬ etary union. The total amount in circu¬ lation in Germany is 70,000,000 maiks. Germany agrees to withdraw and melt into bars tliaier pieces while to Austria the amount of 50,000,000 marks, will buy up 25,000,000 marks, and to make up for the deterioration will pay Geimany 3,500,000 marks. Operations will ex¬ tend over time years, and the bars will go to the silver market in London. The agreement is certain revive the silver discussion in the reichstag when the thaler bill is presented by the govern ment.__ A SNOW BLOCKADE !■ tbe West Seriously Interferes With Railway Traffic. A dispatch of Wednesday from Albu¬ querque, New Mex co, says: Both the Santa Fe and Atlantic and Pacific roads are troubled with serious snow blockades. No ea*tern maiis have been received here over the Santa Fe for four days. Pas¬ senger trains are blockaded in the Ratur mountains, and in the level stntch of country in the neighborhood of Springer a number of engines are off the track in the blockade. Tbe snow block- ade on the Atlantic and P«ciflr is between Grants ssd Chesves, about one Lusdred miles west of the city. Snow storms iu the mountaius are reported to be some- thing unheard of for severity, and stories great s iffering among villages in the mountains are in circulation.
