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About The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1893)
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 . .____ 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.
