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THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
CoMenssl from Our fist IiporM
TelepnAic Aims
And Presented in Pointed aud Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
Coal shipments from Pittsburg, Pa.,
to the south and west Saturday aggre¬
gated 6,000,000 bushels.
The bolt and nut works of J. H.
Sternberg & Son, of Reading, Pa.,
began working on full time Monday.
Over 400 men will be benefited.
A committee of Spanish manufactur¬
ers have arrived in Madyid, Spain, in
order to protest against the commer¬
cial treaty with Germany.
The Paris police, on Friday last, ar¬
rested three friends of Vaillant, the
chamber of deputies bomb thrower.
Eight other anarchists were also ar¬
rested.
A dispatch of Sunday from San
Francisco announces that A. D. Jones,
consul general at Shanghai, China,
died on a steamer at sea on the 9th in¬
stant.
The conference of leading silver
men of the country, called by the Bi¬
metallic League to devise ways and
means to continue the fight for free
silver coinage, opened at Washington
Friday morning at the headquarters of
the Bimetallic League.
According to Friday’s advices the
ravages of influenza in Vienna are in¬
creasing. There is scarcely a family
that is entirely free from the disease.
The hospitals are crowded with suffer¬
ers and many of the regiments are af¬
fected. Diphtheria also prevails.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
Paris says: Mr. James Gordon Bennett
has returned to the city after two
months’ absence, during which he has
passed considerable time in the Riv¬
iera. Mr. Bennett has completely re¬
covered from his accident, which will
leave no serious effects.
The bark Trafalgar arrived at Mel¬
bourne, Australia, Sunday from Bata¬
via, after a fearful voyage lasting for¬
ty-eight days. During the passage the
captain of the Trafalgar, two passen¬
gers and three seamen died of fever.
Several other seamen were prostrated
by the same disease. A youth only
eighteen years of age navigated the
steamer after the death of the captain
and other officers.
A Si. Petersburg special of Sunday
says: At the annual banquet at the
winter palace of the soldiers decorat¬
ed with the cross of St. Andrew and
St. George, last Monday, forty of the
guests are said to have partaken of a
meat pie which was in a putrid state.
The result is that fifteen of them have
since died of cholera and the others
were very sick for several days after¬
wards.
Vaillant, the French bomb thrower,
was, about fifteen months ago, for
three months a sojourner in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. He taught the French
language aud by this means made a
scanty living. He kept to himself and
was not well known except to the French ;
residents. He left quietly and was
not heard of until his arrest in Paris, i
He was a tanner by trade and well in¬
formed and a good speaker. i
The West Brownsville express, on
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston i
railroad, was wrecked Friday morning i
at Bamford station, forty-five miles
from Pittsburg, Pa. It is reported
that twenty to thirty persons were in¬
jured, none fatally. The entire train,
engine, baggage car and three coaches
were thrown from the track by a large i
stone which fell from the hillside aud
upon the rails immediately in front of
the train, which was running at a high
rate of speed, and it could not be even
checked.
Five people were killed and six in¬
jured by a disaster on the Western
New York and Pennsylvania railroad,
three miles east of Dunkirk, N. Y.,
Friday night. The train went through
a trestle that spans Herrick’s creek.
The creek is a harmless little stream,
but owing to heavy rains rose rapidly,
aud the flood of angry waters washed
out the supports of the trestle and
when the ill-fated train dashed on the
structure, running at a speed of forty
miles xier hour, the trestle gave way
aud the cars were crashed into the
gorge.
South Buffalo, N. Y., has been vis¬
ited by a disastrous flood. A large
section of that part of the city has
been covered with water to the depth
of several feet. It is estimated that
1,000 people have been driven from
their homes on account of the flood.
The flood district extends from the in¬
tersection of Elk and Seneca streets
westward to the Lehigh Valley bridge,
a distance of a mile and a half. And
thence southward about two miles. A
total area of five square miles is under
water and the money loss will be very
heavy.
The delegates of the American Fed
oration of Labor in session at Chicago
Thursday refused to take action on a
communication touching on the ques
tidn of the tariff. The matter came up
in the form of a communication from
the pluBh workers of Bridgeport,which
declared that after the passage of the
McKinley bill, their wages had been
reduced and that their employes
threatened further reduction iu the
event of the passage of the Wilson bill.
The cmnmuuicat on was laid on the
table and the delegates fought shy of
any discussion on the subject.
A business block at Buffalo, N. Y.,
known as the Arcade, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning, and Robin¬
son’s Music theater and Shea’s concert
hall, the latter the finest building be¬
tween New York and Chicago, are in
ruins. The fireman of the building is
missing and it is supposed he perished
in the flames. The flames also de¬
stroyed the Verta Imildiug, occupied
by Faxen, Williams & Faxen, whole¬
sale grocers. The building was valued
at $200,000. They were insured for
about $5,000 and the loss in their
goods exceeds that amount. The to¬
tal loss by the tire is placed at $1,500,
000 .
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AUGUSTA’S GALA DAY.
Thirty Thousand Exposition Visitors
Greet the Vice-President and Party.
Orators from the west, the north and
the south, on the same platform, ex¬
pressing the same sentiment of undy¬
ing loyalty to the Union; uttering words
of encouragement for the upbuilding
of the nation. Such was the sight
that greeted 30,000 visitors at the Au¬
gusta, Ga., exposition Tuesday. That
the war is ended, so far as the south is
concerned, no one who witnessed the
scenes could doubt. “Yankee Doodle”
awakened a yell of enthusiasm that could
only be compared to that which greet¬
ed the fond strains of “Dixie,” and
when President Walsh, in introducing
Mr. Springer as coming from Illinois,
a state which has given to the people
aud the nation an illustrious name—
the name of Abraham Lincoln—there
was a hurst of applause that would
have put many a northern audience on
its mettle to have surpassed.
Again was there a great wave of ap¬
plause, expressing the people’s approv ¬
al, when Mr. Walsh declared that the
time has Cume when, however much
we may rejoice in our own state and in
our own section, we must exalt our¬
selves by the highest patriotism and
rejoict «h the common heritage of such
men as Lincoln and Davis, Lee and
Grant, Sherman and Stonewall Jack
son.
Such was the feeling that prevailed
on th« occasion of the visit of Vice
President Stevenson, Secretaries Her¬
bert and Smith, and Congressmen
Springer of Illinois, and Sperry of
Connecticut, to the exposition. Never
did men experience more generously
and warmly the far-famed hospitality
of the southern people than did these
distinguished guests of Augusta.
LOOKS BAD FOR HOWARD.
More Sensational Testimony in the Now
Celebrated Case.
A Jackson, Tenn., special says:
The government exploded a bomb in
the camp of Howard, alias Moore,
Ross and Leger, the claim agency
swindler, Friday. Unknown to the
defendant, Frederick Stewart Brown,
of London, England, was put upon the
stand to tell all about the Moore end
of the line in London. The witness
had clerked for Felix Howard at 5 In
gersol road, Shepherds Bush. London,
and it was his hand that penned 3,000
of the famous William Lord Moore
letters. The clerk was employed by
Felix Howard, who gave him forms
from which to copy the swindling let¬
ters and directed him to sign the name
of William Lord Moore to them.
When the young man appeared on the
stand the face of the defendant was a
picture of utter despair, but it was
only for a moment, and with his ac¬
customed audacity he calmly waited to
meet the damaging charges.
The witness told of his experience
with the defendant while in his employ
and how, when Howard, alias Moore,
left London, he was employed to take
his house and receive his mail and for¬
ward it to another address in the city.
This was after the detectives had bro¬
ken into his business. The witness was
handed a package of several hundred
of Moore’s letters, which he readily
identified. The witness was cross-ex¬
amined by the defendant himself and
it was most rigid. At one time a set
to between the two men was narrowly
averted.
PRENDERGAST WAS AGITATED
While the Story of His Terrible Crime
Was Being Told.
A Chicago dispatch says: Assistant
States Attorney opened the trial of
Prendergast Wednesday with an ad¬
dress to the jury, in which he outlined
the plan of the prosecution. Mr.
Todd paid a tribute to Mayor Harri¬
son and referred to tbe similarity of
his assassination and that of Lincoln
and Garfitld. Attorney Wade will
open the case for the defense.
Mr. Todd said that the prisoner’s
actions at the time of the murder in¬
dicated that be was sane. The attor
ne y called particular attention to the
assassin’s well developed sense of pres
ervation as evidence, by the way he
cared for his personal safety during
and a ter the shouting. As Mr. Todd
told the story of the shooting Pren
dergast turned pale and shrank into
bis chair with ill-concealed agitation.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Gmcnnrat ani im of
tte D.partaits DisaM
Not As of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple aud Their General Welfare.
Commissioner . . Lyman, of the c;vil .
service commission, has resigned as
president of the commission but not
as commissioner, and has been suc¬
ceeded in the presidency by Commis
sioner Proctor.
The secretary of the interior h*is or¬
dered the removal of John C. Carly,
register of the general land office at.
Prescott, Arizona, and of Receivers of
Public Moneys Nehemiah Davis, at
Fargo, N. D.; M. W. Gibbs, at Little
Rock, Ark., and Edmond W. Eakiu,
at Pierre, S. D.
The Georgians in Washington,to the
number of 100, met at the Metropoli¬
tan hotel Saturday night and organ¬
ized “The Georgia Society of Wash¬
ington.” They will have regular club
rooms with all the conveniences of the
modern clubs. Their rooms will be on
Pennsylvania avenue. It is entirely a
social club. Speaker Crisp, Secretary
Smith and all the Georgia congressmen
are members.
Ly Wing Yow, Chinese consul gen¬
eral at San Francisco, has been sum¬
moned to Washington to confer with
the Chinese minister regarding a new
treaty soon to be submitted by China
to the United States. He departed for
Washington Saturday night. He would
say only when interviewed that the
present treaty is far from satifactory
and that the Chinese have not settled
on the terms of the treaty which they
intend to propose as a substitute.
For one thing, however, the Chinese
government will not oppose the new
registration law.
SYNOPSIS OP THE MESSAGE ON HAWAII.
The message of the President, six
thousand words in length, as presented
and read in the St nate Monday, gives
the history of events in Hawaii in
conformity with the facts as reported
by Mr. Blount) and commits future
dealing with the question to the ex¬
tended powers and wide discretion of
congress. Hesays: “By act of war,'com¬
mitted with the participation of the di¬
plomatic representative of the United
States, and w.thout authority of con¬
gress, the government of a feeble but
friendly people has been overthrown.
The provisional government has not as¬
sumed a republican or other constitu¬
tional form, but has remained a mere
executive council or oligarchy, set up
without the assent of the people. It
has nut sought to find a permanent
basis or popular support, and has
given no evidence of intention to do
so. Indeed, the representatives of
that government assert that the peo¬
ple of Hawaii are unfit for popular
government and can be lust ruled by
arbitrary or despotic power.” The
president says he Lad hoped, “in view
of the fact that both the queen and the
provisional government had at onetime
acquiesced in the reference of the en¬
tire case to the United States govern¬
ment, and considering the further fact
that the provisional government, by its
own declared limitations, was only to
exist until the terms of the union with
the United States have been negotiated
and agreed npoh; that, after giving
assurance to the members of that gov¬
ernment that such a union could not
be consummated, he might have been
able to compass a peaceful adjustment
of the difficulty.”
“Not unmindful of the perplexities
of the situation and of the limitation
of my power,” says the president, “I
instructed Minister Willis to advise
the queen and her supporters of my
desire to aid in the restoration of the
status qxisting before the lawless laud¬
ing of the United States forces at
Honolulu on the 16th of January.”
He says that he desired that such
restoration should be effected on terms
providing for clemency as well as jus¬
tice to all parties concerned. The con¬
ditions suggested were amnesty to all
those who had in any way partiepated
iu getting up the provisional govern¬
ment and recognition of all its bona
title acts and obligations.
These conditions have not proved
acceptable to the queen, although she
has been informed that they will be
insisted upon, aud that, unless acced¬
ed to, the efforts of the president to
aid in the restoration of her govern¬
ment will cease.
The president says that he has not
yet learned that the queen has yielded
her acquiescence, and this has delayed
his efforts to bring about a settlement.
He adds that the unfortunate public
misrepresentations of the situation and
exaggerated statements of the senti¬
ments of our people have obviously
hindered the prospects of successful
executive meditation. He, therefore,
submits the correspondence and in¬
structions to congress aud closts by
saying: this
“In commending subject to the
extended powers and wide discretion
of congress* I desire to add the assur¬
ance that I shall he much gratified to
co-operate in any legis ative plan
which may be devised for the solution
of the problem before us, which is
consistent morality.” with American honor, integ¬ !
rity and
‘ The me-sage consists of two printed '
documents anti one in writing. An im- ]
‘ n m
ot ™t
instructions issued to Minister Willis
under date of December 3.
Two points hiving special bearing
upon the situation in Hawaii are set
forth. Minister Willis is instructed
to say to the queen that the conditions
relative to the amnesty must be acqui
egced iu by her or he will do doing,
If the queen should ask what the
United States will do in way of re
storing her to p ower and maintaining
her upon her throne, the minister is
directe 1 to reply that the president
will not authorize the use of the Unit
ed States troops either to restore her
or maintain her upon her throne.
Minister Willis was told to inform
the queen that use of troops could
only be authorized by act of congress.
Minister Willis is then directed to
tell tha provisional government, should
they ask the same question, that the
president will do all that he can, under
executive authority, to restore the
queen.
The distinction noted between these
two answers to the same question is
the the absence of the very important
matter of detail as to what the presi¬
dent can do and will do under the term
“executive authority.”
TRADE TOPICS.
Duu & Co.’s Review of Business for
Hie Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of
trade says: It is proof of the enor¬
mous vitality of the country that while
mills are stopping in every direction
and the army of unemployed is larger
than it has been for mauy years, other
mills are constantly starting up to an¬
swer the demand, which a year of un¬
precedented disaster has only
stimulated. . Trade still waits as
much as it can, and yet the vol¬
ume of business on a mere hand
to-mouth basis is such as would have
been called large a few years ago. The
fierce struggle of the Pittsburg region
for business drives prices to the lowest
point ever known—$11 for Bessemer
iron and $16.75 for steel billets—and
takes away nearly all new work from
the east and west, where depression
increases.
Wheat receipts at the west have
been 3,291,872 bushels, against 5,548,
913 the same week last year, and At¬
lantic exporte only 596,704, against
1,879,378 laBt year, and stocks in
sight increased rapidly, but prices de¬
clined 1 cent with sales of only 4,690,
000 bushels here. Corn receipts were
very large—3,463,620 bushels, against
2,231,390 last year, and exports were
fully maintained, the price yielding §
cent.
Pork packing at the west exceed
last year’s, and prices droop in spite
of reports and though hogs are prov¬
ing of poor quality. The sugar crop
of Cuba is estimated at 1,000,000 tons,
but prices, as yet, are but fairly
steady. Cotton receipts have been
very heavy, 71,000 bales larger than
for the same week last year, with re¬
ceipts only 120,000 larger, and takings
of northern spinners decreased, but
prices advanced 3-16 of a cent.
Fa lures are numerous and large;
339 in the United States for the week,
against 279 last week, and 40 in Can¬
ada, against 25 last week, but a worse
feature is their importance. The list
of the week includes seven banks—
with one of the oldest private banks—
for $500,000; an agricultural ma¬
chinery establishment for $1,000,000,
and an increase of stocks of $500,000;
a heavy tobacco dealer for $500,000; a
lumber concern for $150,000, and a dry
goods concern for $150,000—making
$2,500,000 for our failures. Estimated
liabilities of the firms failing in the
first week of December were $2,761,-
409, against $3,285,676 the previous
week, including $2,600,000 of trading
and $1,700,000 of manufacturing con¬
cerns.
Swilzerland’s New President.
A New York special of Sunday says:
M. Frey, formerly Swiss minister to
the United States, has been elected
president of the Swiss confederation,
and has had a romantic career. Colonel
Frey is a native of Switzerland, but is
well known in the United States. Af¬
ter a military educational course, he
sought practical experience iu the line
of agricultural science in Germany,
extending his observations and studies
in that line to America,where in 1861,
when the civil war broke out, he w^ts
found practically engaged as a farm
hand in Illinois, familiarizing himself
with the agricultural methods. He en¬
listed early in 1861 at Chicago as a
sergeant iu a company of the Twenty
fourth Illinois. He was promoted sev¬
eral times for gallantry.
Populists Put Up a Candidate.
The populist members of the general
assembly of Virginia, in caucus, have
nominated Major Mann Page for
United States senator to oppose Hon.
Thomas S. Martin, recently put up by
the democrats. Major Page is a mem¬
ber of the executive committee of the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Indus¬
trial Union. He is also grandmaster
of the Masons in Virginia.
OUB LATEST DISPATCHES.
16(1 of a Day CtonMsi it
hlef asd Coae sa Parairrals
'B<1 Containing <lie (list of the New*
From All Parts of the World.
The comptroller of the currency ha*
declared a dividend of 45 *per cent
'^ e dividend) in favor of the
creditors of the Gulf National Bank, of
^ ani P i,^Ta., amounting to $27,849 80
* m c bbms proved, aggregating $246,
Phillip M. Scheig, the defaulting
teller of the Bank of Minneapolis,
Minn., who was brought back from
England to plead guilty, was senten¬
ced Monday morning to seven years
and six months at hard labor in the
state penitentiary.
T he negro exposition was opened a*
Augusta, Ga., Monday, with great cer¬
emony by the negroes of the city and
vicinity. Major J. H. Alexander,
of Augusta, delivered an address.
The speaker of the day was Rev, E.
R. Carter, colored, of Atlanta,
The Howard trial was resumed at
Jackson Tenn. Monday morning. The
prosecution resumed reading letters
•sent out by William Lord Moore, JR,
Ross. Joseph Legar aud G. F. B. How¬
ard, which consumed th<j whole fore¬
noon. The government closed at the
afternoon session and the defense will
now present their side of the case.
The sub-committee of the house
banking and currency committee, liav
charge of the various bills providing
for the repeal of the 10 per cent taxUn
state bank issues, have agreed on a bill
The measure they will submit to the
full committee for consideration pro¬
vides for the conditional repeal of the
10 per cent tax.
The combination freight and passen¬
ger steamer Lucile Borden, of the
Three Rivers Packet company, which
plies the Tennessee river between
Knoxville and Chattanooga, was pas
tially consumed by fire a few miles ho
1 >w the former city Monday. No pas¬
sengers were injured and all the
freight was saved. The steamer man¬
aged to get to the wharf and will he
laid off several weeks for repairs.
The bodies of George Lilly and iBL
Plaiss were taken from the bridge
wreck at Louisville Monday. There
was a gold watch and $300 found ft*
Lilly’s pocket. Chief Engineer Deans,
after a thorough examination, attri¬
butes the wreck to the heavy wind,
which was blowing the day of the acci¬
dent. He is busy formulating a report
which will be forwarded to the com¬
pany. He says there is no doubt that
the bridge will be completed.
A Nashville special says; After
lengthy negotiations which several
times had apparently fallen through.
Comptroller Harris and Attorney
Geueral Pickle have finally secured «u
agreement of settlement with the Ten¬
nessee Coal, Coke and Railroad Com¬
pany that is satisfactory to the state
officials. The company, which lease*
the state penitentiary, had fallen more
than a year behind in the lease money,
and, considering claims and counter
claims, growing out of the mining
troubles, about $.175,000 was involved.
An unusual sensation developed at
Montgomery, Ala., Monday forenoon,
when it was authoritatively announced
that in the neighboring town of Green¬
ville, the old banking firm of Joseph
Steiner & Sons and their several mer¬
chandise firms, known as Steiner Brop.
& Co., and J. M. Steiner & Co., had
made an assignment to E. R. Adams
and Bernard Steiner, of Greenville.
They have been doing business (hr
many years and their father, Joseph
Steiner, accumulaten a little fortune.
He left his banking business in a most
excellent condition to his sons, his stro
cessors. It is believed their assets
will nearly three times cover their lia¬
bilities, which are estimated to be about
$150,000.
LIL IS STILL OUT.
Latest News from Hawaii Is That Site
Has Not Been Restored.
The Austrian steamer Arawa arrived
at Victoria at 8 a. m. Tuesday. She
brings the following news: Queen
Lilioukalani has not been restored and
there has been no trouble in Honolulu.
The Arawa left Honolulu Monday, De¬
cember 4th, and was a fraction over
seven days making the run. From the
arrival of the last reports there has
been but two things of a significant
nature. «The annexationists had a mass
meeting on Saturday, November 25,
and adopted resolutions in effect ap¬
pealing to congress over the addressed
President Cleveland, Secretary Gresh¬
am and Mr. Blount.
For four days preceeding the sail¬
ing of the Arawa, the troops of the
provisional government were busy for¬
tifying the government house, or “The
Castle,” as formerly called The work
was being done with sand-bags princi¬
pally. As the Arawa sailed from t!W
harbor the troops could be seen
from the deck of the steamer busi¬
ly engaged in keeping up breast¬
works.
