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About The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1894)
THE NEWS IN GENERAL. CoMcral from Our Most Important Telegraphic Aflyices And Presented in Pointed and Reada¬ ble Paragraphs. The Wheeler & Wilson factory at Bridgeport, Conn., closed Thursday nigj^t for two weeks. The Empire Woolen mill at Clay ville, N. Y., has shut down indefinite¬ ly. About three hundred men are affected. The monitor Miantonomah left New York under sealed orders for Fortress Monroe Thursday. Her destination ! is believed to be Rio de Janeiro. General John Echols and St. John Boyle have been appointed receivers of the Chesapeake, Ohio and South¬ western Railroad Company. One thousand bales of cotton were burned in a warehouse in Liverpool Friday. The warehouse ' was exten¬ sively damaged.' The loss amounts to $410,000. The failure of H. R. Snyder was an¬ nounced-at the* Consolidated exchange at New York, Thursday. One hundred shares of Chicago gas were sold out for his account. The New York and Northern rail¬ road was sold at auction Thursday to J. Pierrepont Morgan, representing the New York Central Railroad Com¬ pany, for $ 1 , 000 , 000 . Captain J. C. Ainsworth, an 1849 pioneer of California and Oregon and three times a millionaire, died at his home in Oakland, Cal., Saturday af¬ ternoon. He was seventy-one years old. The entire plant of the Carnegie steel works resumed work Monday. Notices were posted previously of a reduction of cents an hour in the wages of machinists and 2 cents an hour for laborers. The Red Star steamship Rhineland arrived at New York late Saturday night, after a fourteen days’ voyage from Antwerp, having on board ten of her crew injured by being thrown around the decks during the gales which pounded the ship for eleven days. Lawrenceville, Ill., was practically wiped out by fire Wednesday. Among the buildings burned were Lave & Boyd’s clothing store, T. C. Watts, grocery; T. Reverts, general store, and Buchanan’s general store. A num¬ ber of other buildings were burned. 'The loss will run up well into the thousands. Statistics compiled by the Boies -City, Iowa, National bank show the value of the three principal metals produced in Idaho during 1893 as fol¬ lows: Gold, $1,645,000; silver, $1,502,000; lead, $775,000. Total, $3,922,000. This shows a total de crease of over three million dollars as compared with last year. JudgeTuthill, of Chicago, received a letter Saturday apparently written by a crank in which the writer says the murderer of Dr. Cronin is now buried beneath the sod of Iowa, and that he, the writer, has known the true story of the crime for years but he has been afraid to tell it. The letter is dated Chillicothe ‘ and signed Sig monds. A New York dispatch of Saturday says: Receiver Hugh J. Grant, of the St. Nicholas bank, will wind up the affairs of that defunct institution with all possible economy. He will close up the bank and engage a room in the building of the Central Trust Compa¬ ny, where the $800,000 cash assets of the bank are deposited. An Albany, N. Y. special of Friday says: State Treasurer-Elect Colvin has appointed Charles'W. Anderson, a colored man of New York city, as his private secretary. Anderson is a well known republican and did active work during the recent Btate campaign. He is a graduate of Yale and was recom¬ mended for the position by some of the most prominent republicans of the state. A Topeka special of Thursday says: The sheriffs of Kansas, at their state meeting, which they say they attended as peace officers, not as politicians, were unanimous in condemning the governor’s tramp circular. The sher¬ iffs generally ^grep that the governor’s letter to the * police boards ordering leniency, has given great license to tramps and has increased hold-ups and robberies. A dispatch of Saturday from Texar¬ kana, Ark., says: A few days ago a package containing $500 in currency was delivered by the Texarkana Oil Company to the local Pacific Express Company’s office, consigned to W. M. Freeman, at Ashdown, was lost either in transit, or at the office here. In¬ vestigation has resulted in the arrest of F. C. Davis, .assistant cashier of the Texarkana office. The year 1893, remarkable for gold discoveries, ends with a find in Cripple Creek, Col., camp that may beat the tecord. In the Camilla mine, between Raven and Guvot Hills at a depth of tb’rty-three feet, a vein of Eight quartz was struok a few days ago. samples from it were assayed, and showed an average of $768 to the ton. The vein is at least thirty inches wide, and there are 1,000 feet of it in the Camilla. Claude Sheppard and Hence D. Ed rick, alias Frank Nash, sentenced from Lowndes county, Mississippi, last No¬ vember for burglary, were extradited Saturday on a requisition from the governor of Kansas. They were tried and convicted under the names of Hall and Green. They are wanted in.Kan¬ sas for train robbing, at Mound Land¬ ing, last September, where it is al¬ leged they killed an express messenger. A dispatch of Saturday frem Omaha, Neb., says: Oscar Spate to day filed a petition for divorce from his wife, Honroah Spate, on the ground that the person to whom he had been joined in wedlock was a man. The Spatses were married in Chicago, March 17, 1887. Thgy have not been residents of that city for a number of years. As soon as Spate discovered the true condition of affairs, he left his wife and came to Omaha, where he has since resided. Cable advices from Capetown, Africa, state that no further news has been re¬ ceived regarding the reported massa¬ cre of Wilson's and Barrow’s detachments. There is no doubt that when Major Forbes left the Shangani river Captain Wilson and his party were very hard pressed. But rein¬ forcements have been sent to him, and it is'hoped that the two forces have effected a junction and that they will soon be in communication with, their base of operations. A dispatch of Thursday from Tif¬ fin, O.", says: A few weeks ago, after ex-Governor Charles Foster had com¬ pleted his negotiations to secure the funds, arrangements were made with the creditors’ committee to settl • at 50 cents on the dollar, but since that time J. B. Gormley, assigneee, says that errors have been discovered in the work of the appraisers, wl ich up¬ set the whole arrangement and which will require Mr. Foster to raise a much larger sum than he was led to believe would be required. At 4 o’clock Thursday morning bur¬ glars attempted to blow open the vault of the Eustman bank, at Montfort, Wis. The doors refused to open and the explosion awakened a boarder in a hotel next door, who quietly gave the alarm. An armed posse attacked the robbers and chased them a mile be¬ yond the town, a fusilade being kept up by both pursuers and pursued. One of the robbers was wounded and captured. He said he and his compan¬ ions were from Waterloo, la. The others, it is thought, will also be bo caught. Saturday afternoon the pumping station of the Indiana Natural Gas Company pipe line at East Chicago was blown up and will probably result in the death of at least eight persons. While workmen were in the station en¬ gaged in repairing a leak in the pipe, the escaping gas took fire from a lan tern, which they knocked over, and in a moment an explosion took place, which tore the iron building to pieces aud threw the workmen in every direc¬ tion, some of whom were thrown fifty feet from the building and horribly burned. Intense excitement was occasioned in the section south of Washington, Pa., about 8 o’clock Friday night, by a shock which caused houses to trem¬ ble as far southwest as Sparta, ten miles distant. Responsible persons saw a bright light descend and disap¬ pear in the south, while at the same time, the surroundings were made al¬ most as light as day. The general opinion is that a meteor had fallen. •The shock was felt very plainly at Washington. It created much unea¬ siness among the farmers, and many of them visited the city to make in¬ quiry. A Baltimore dispatch of Sunday says: Beginning with New Year’s Day 400 men, heretofore employed by the Maryland Steel Company, at Spar¬ row’s Point, will be out of work for an indefinite period. These men who have been discharged, comprise the entire working force of the Bessemer steel and rail mills, and the action of Receiver Wood, in ordering .the dis¬ charge, has caused the greatest sur¬ prise, as both mills have been recently ruuning night and day on orders. It is feared that the discharge will result in much suffering, as most of the men have families dependent upon them. Perished With Her Children. Thomas Ransdall, a well-to-do farm¬ er living near Bohon, Ky., awoke early Thursday morning to find his house in flames. He jumped out of bed, carry¬ ing his baby with him, at the same time calling to his wife to wake their three children, who were sleeping up¬ stairs. She went to follow his in¬ structions, but the house collapsed and she and the three children perished. Fifteen Drowned. Advices from Melbourne, Australia, state that fifteen lives were lost through the wreck of the steamer Alert, from Port Albert to Melbourne, which went ashore off Jubilee Point dur ing the terriffic gale which swept over Port Philip Thursday night. On j y one per0OIl on board ih > wrecked Btenmer waa fcavod OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. The Happenings oi a Day Chronicle! in Erie! and Cone.se Paragraphs And Containing the Gist of the New* From All Parts of the World. Two men were fairly cooked alive in a terrible boiler explosion that oc¬ curred at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning in the roundhouse of the Cincinnati Southern railway at Chattanooga. The suit of the Catholic Knights of America against H. M. Clift, John Cumming, J. H. Light, C. C. Howard and J. T. Williams, the five local bonds¬ men of the defaulting treasurer, M. J. O’Brien, was taken up in the United States court at Chattanooga, Tuesday. There was a very able legal array on both sides. Two men attempted to hold up an electric car at Denver, Col., Tuesday night. One of them smashed the headlight and then made a dash for the motorman, who drew a revolver and fired at him. The motorman quickly turned on the full current and both robbers were left behind. There were only four passengers in the car. A Nashville special says: The de¬ mand of the employes of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Lous railway for a restoration of wages to where they were before the 10 per cent cut last September will not be pushed just now. This was decided at a confer ence Tuesday between representatives dL ?Vb a n^L S ‘ ° rSa ° nSand One hundred populists, of Missouri, . representing each congressional dis trict in the state, assembled in con vention at Kansas City, Tuesday. W O Atkinson of Butler, was elected chairman and J. W. Long, ot Warrens burg, secretary. A committee was ap pointed to report a plan of campaign to carry the state tor the populist party at the next election. The Globe theatre at Boston, Mass., was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. This is the second time that the Globe has been visited by fire, the first time being on Decoration Day, 1873. During the whole conflagration not an accident was reported. The total loss will undoubtedly be nearly a million dollars. All the property is well insured. The boiler of the locomotive pulling the through freight into St. Louis ex ploded near Higginson, Ark., early Tuesday morning. The train consisted of thirty-five cars, fourteen of which were loaded with cattle. About twen ty cars were wrecked and a great num her of cattle killed. Head Brakeman Ross was instantly killed, the fireman fatally and the engineer seriously in jured. At a meeting of citizens at Hinsdale county Col., Tuesday, resolutions were adopted instructing their representa tives in the general assembly to bring impeachment charges against Gover nor Waite and then work for an im mediate adjournment of the extra ses sion. This is brought about by the governor’s determination to call the legislature together and his recent row with the warden of the penitentiary. A Savannah fecial of Tuesday Justice Jackson by the receivers of the Central railroad to order Receivers Comer and Lowry, of the Savannah and Western, to issue receivers’ certif icates to the amount of $701,000 to re imburse the Central railroad for mon ey spent on the Savannah and Western out of the Central railroad’s general fund. This include, .deficit in the regular course of operations The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Central railroad was held at Savannah Tuesday. Only 7,999 shares were polled, and the vote was ,o.id for the present board of director. ?hSrVe5hn“g, C rj r : SSSf Jo! seph Hull, H. R. Jackson, Savannah ; C. H. Phinizy, Augusta; E. P. Howell, Atlanta; U. B. Harz-old, Americus; S. R. Jacques, Macon; James Swann, New York; J. B. Holst, Columbus; W. S. Tison and L. T. Turner, Savannah, A Jackson, Tenn., special of Tuesday says: When court adjourned Satur day night Dr. Howard had not finish been’speaking Simt ten la toSf "He^umed oueSi kh co“t=y‘ morning ik. ^ 0 He finfshel nf SET2 SSZrtZlX for speaking so long, but said he had a great deal involved, his liberty and all worth living for, and declared that the proof in the case clearly establish ecl *^ in “°® ence ' O Neal s Grand opera house at Char leston, S. C., was burned luesday. The building was discovered to be on fire about 2 :30 o’clock. The fire en gines were quickly on the spot. The water was not in the mains and infif teen minutes the vast structure was completely enveloped in flames. In one hour nothing but walls were left standing. The building was'the prop South' C«!rolinf 1C I lm a ios 8 °ou fcy the | j h,aiding the scenery will and ho properties abont $40,000 about oml * 10 on ,. 000 , all of which is covered by insur¬ ance. A Washington special of Wednesday says: Assistant Superintendent Wil¬ liam Hill, of the free delivery service, postoffiee department, who has been designated by the United States court of claims as commissioner to examine into the overtime claims of letter carriers, will enter upon his new duties on the 5th of next month. He will retain his present position and will get an additional salary of $ 2,000 per annum. His duty will occupy him at least a year, during which time he will visit all the large cities east of the Mississippi river. A Raleigh, N. C., special of Tuesday says: Some years ago it was stated that the governor proposed to locate the Apache Indians now at Mt."Vernon, Ala., somewhere in western N. C. It appears that this plan is again in con templation, as Captain Witherspoon, who has been for quite a long time in charge of these Indians, has just had a conference with Agent Potter, at the Cherokee reservation in this state, re garding the removal question. There was objection several years ago, but it is not known whether there is now any. Thirty-six of the North Carolina Cher okees have been sent to the Indian Bchool at Carlisle, Pa. The Cherokees hold in their own right a vast tract of land in the state. UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE FIGHT. Govenor Mitchell of Florida Keeping „ the Sports in Doubt. A Jacksonville special of Saturday SftJ 8: T PnZ hght f ituati on - n unchanged. , No ^ aai ? S P ractlCi4 fresh deliverance 1 has come from ernor Mitchell, but his alleged accusa tion that the Duval countiy authorities were m collusion with the promoters of the contest, has been a fruitful theme for discussion ia judicial and sporting circles. Of course the judicial au thorities deny that they are in oollu sion with the Duval Athletic Club m its efforts to pull off the contest, and they a ^ e jumping on the govenor for what they ca ^ wan t° n attack on the ju governor s statement that he will regard no decision as to the law m reference to prize fights, save that of the supreme court has also caused much bitter comment from the officials of the lower courts. The opin *°u is that the arrest of Corbett and Mitchell was part of a well laid scheme tc >^ a judgement on the Fior ld ? law m reference to fights. What effect Governor Mitchell s prompt de nuneiatiofl of the alleged Bcheme will uave, remains to be seen. the haw and order. A dispatch from New Haven, Conn., gays: Rev. Clarence Greeley, of Mount Carmel Center, general agent of the International Law and Order Leauge, srys that the league will do all in its power to stop the Corbett-Mitchell fight. Mr. Greely has corresponded with Governor Mitchell, of Tallahas see, and Mayor Fletcher, of Jackson viile, Fla., and has appointed W. H. Cowles, of the international league, to assist in seein r that the law of the state of Florida, relating to prizefighting, is carried out to the letter. ~-- ATLANTA’S GREAT SCHEME. She Proposes to Hold 0 Cotton States Exposition Next, Year. At a meeting of three hundred of the most prominent business men of At lanta, Ga., it was unanimously decided to begin at once on the cotton states and sub-tropical exposition, which will be ready for tL opening meeting about one year from now. most representative ever held in At lanta, and the citizens pledged them selves for any amount necessary to make the exposition the most complete ever undertaken by the south. Mr. S, H. Inman the head of the great cot ehosen’chairman. Th“ ex ptifion ^ cover displays not only of the re sources of the South Atlantic and Gull States, but will have special reference to Mexico, Cuba. Jamaica and the Ba hama islands, with all of which close trade relations are expected on the re adjustment of the tariff Permanent “^inent details wiS be yea/tlu ^edWely. Atlanta aud for the next ®*y °« will give itself mire Jotd^f^ o'f — a ---- MITCHELL IN FLORIDA. He is Welcomed by a Great Crowd in Jacksonville, Charley Mitchell „ and , , his . party . reached JacksoimlfeWednesday morn Enghshman f crowd at °/ ^ the P e< depot ;P le “ et and tllG folloWG( hira to Lia ho teL Ml tchell ™ceiy<!d a score of . newspaper men m his room. He says he weighs J 86 pound, and will not take off much Tbe fr j GIldB of Mitch(dl ^ hbl P re f «• » “ rj THE YEAR’S TRADE. Iin&Co. R port it as lh3 Worst in the Past F.fty Years. Business in a State of Collapse and Many Industries Suffered. Dun & Co.’s mercantile report says: Starting with the largest, trade ever known—mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by high hopes —the year 1893 has proved in certain shrinkage of trade, in commercial dis asters and depression of industries the worst for fifty years. Whether the financial results of the panic of 1837 were relatively more severe the scanty records of that time do not clearly show, The year closes with many products the lowest ever known; with millions of workers seeking in vain for work, and with charity laboring to keep back starvation in all our large cities. All hope the qew year may bring brighter aa y»» but the dying year leaves only a dismal record. Sales of cotton goods are fully a qnarter below the usual quantity. The small advance attempted in boots and shoes a year ago was not sus¬ tained, but with prices a 3 low as ever, the shipments of boots and shoes from Boston are 24 per cent. Ies 3 than last year in December. Not only manufactured goods as a whole, but the most important farm products are so low that farmers find little comfort in official and other re Ll ts . Enormous stocks were bought held with the aid of banks until heavy receipts in the spring caused a ! ollapse of wheat , pork and cotton p P 00 Disastrous j« | failures helped to produce tlie a]ftrm which soon made money im _ possible to get, but even at the worst hour o{ the l)fiaic prfces were scareely . I lower than they are now . What has repeatedly sold here at Chicago at the lowest price ever known and is but 4 > cent abov it Pork fell $7 in e now. an ' ■ hour w hen the speculation burst, but 8 e jj a lower yet today, Cotton was lifted 1 cent with accounts of scarcity i j n September, but has lost most of the g a j n and ee n 8 Delow 8 cents. Thus un reasonable speculation, by preventing sale of surplus products, has prov eda great injury to farmers at a time wben their enforced curtailment of purchases is disastrous to all other in duRtri es. | Clear evidence of the shrinkage in different branches of business is af f orded by answers already received to several thousand circulars, requesting figures of sales during the last half of 1893 and 1892. Iron returns thus far aggregate $40,853,180, against $65,- 520,921 last year, a decrease of 38 per cent. Reports thus far of jewelry show a decrease of 29 per cent. I It is curious that the only trade showing any increase as yet, was groceries, the trade being 1 per cent, larger than the last half of 1892. j ihe records twenty-seven of this years, covered the by agency, num her of failures has only once risen a little above 16,650 in a year. In 1893 the number reported was 16,650, The aggregate of liabilities in all failures reported, has in years risen above *331,422,939. The liabil ities of bank fail nlnepd^in a 1? r vrr ", roads P the bands of re • . f .in 017 033 i 1 As ^ n report* hitherto have I™- been to cludo^ofTailures ^ of tailuies ! notstrictlycmnmer not Bbrxct.y ccmxner &'%££!??££££££, - i 1 liabilit’ies (ai U re B ,Uh of *164,707,449; 18,864 failures in legitimate trade with liabilities of $85,527,896, and 302 0 er M anA • £251 %£*££ . .. . ^‘-ing <s f 0 ,°° 0 ; in legitimate traaiJu o> NOT A MAN ESCAPED. story of the Massacre of Wilson’s Forces by Matabele*. A despatch of Friday to a news agency at London from Capetown states ! that native runners have arrived at Salisbury, bringing confirmation °* r t P ? of .he annihilation by , So ber 8 , and that not a single man of the British force escaped with his life. De Gama Gives Notice. A special of Saturday from Buenos Ayres says: Admiral de Gama, com¬ mander of the insurgent naval force at Rio de Janeiro, has notified the mem¬ bers of the diplomatic corps that he will bombard the city if the new forts fire on his ships. The representatives of the foreign powers have sent a reply to the insurgent admiral saying that lie must give at least forty-eight hours notice before ho commences to shell the city. It is said the rebel admiral will give the notice required if another shot is fired from the new forts upon his vessels.
