The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190?, January 19, 1894, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextOUR LATEST DISPATCHES. Bib Happenings of a Day dironiclsd .... in ' Bnef ana Concise Paragraph And Containing the Gist of the News From All Parts of the World. The Evanston, Wyo., Athletic Club offers a purse of $75,000 in sheep for the Corbett-^Mitchell fight. The club guarantees non-interference and refers to Senator Beckwith’s bank. Judge H. S. K. Morrison, of the circuit court of Scott county, Virginia, has appointed Stuart F. Lindsay re¬ ceiver of the Bristol, Va., News Pub¬ lishing Company. Lindsay gave bond and took charge Monday. Monday morning the boiler of Un¬ derwood & Thomas’ sawmill, in Moore county, N. C., exploded. Dun¬ can Hill, fireman, was blown a long distance and killed. N. D. Underwood was severely scalded and another man was badly hurt. It is stated that the Etna iron works at Tecumseh, Ala., will be blown in on February 1st. The Langdon ore mines have already resumed work after more than a year of idleness, and the busi¬ ness men of Tecumseh are beginning to become reassured. The engine of a train on the Cleve¬ land, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad exploded near Win¬ chester, Ind., Monday morning. Fire¬ man Rankin was killed. Brakeman Doty was badly scalded and Engineer Mullen severely injured. The Omlanda secret society trial began at Prague, Austria, Monday. There are 77 prisoners, including newspaper men,printers,clerks and ar¬ tisans, charged with belonging to a dangerous secret society, with high treason, insulting the emperor, and with rioting. A Chicago special says: Harry Hill is once more in the hands of .the Chi¬ cago police. The capture was made Monday afternoon. Several days ago the police department received a cir¬ cular from the Atlanta police office, offering a reward of $50 for Hill’s ar¬ rest, and stating that he was wanted there on several charges, including forgery. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: Judge Seymour, of the United States circuit court for this district, has de¬ cided that married women are liable for their assessment on their stock in banks which are insolvent. Women who held stock in the wrecked First National bank, of Wilmingten, refused to pay an assessment made by the comp¬ troller of the currency. There was a meeting of a citizens’ committee at Raleigh, N. C., Monday, to prepare for a visit from Governor Flower and a number of other promi¬ nent New Yorkers, escorted by the Atbany Burgesses corps, February 2d. The party will remain there a day and will of course be handsomely enter¬ tained. They will be on their way to the New Orleans mardi gras. The eighty horse-power boiler of Lukens & Reifsnyder’s large lumber mills at Sumter, S. C., exploded Mon¬ day. John Kennedy was severely in¬ jured by flying brick and may die. Two negroes were also injured. The mill was wrecked. Bricks were scat¬ tered for 300 yards. Some went through the freight cars standing on the track near by like cannon balls. A Memphis dispatch of Monday says: The negroes in this section of the south, principally those in Arkan¬ sas, have contracted the emigration fever again, and there is an exodus of black men to Africa. Reports from Marianna, Ark., are to the effect that all the negroes in that neighborhood are sacrificing what little property they have with the intention of going to the dark continent. The statement issued by the Nash¬ ville, Chatsanooga and St. Louis Rail¬ road Company Monday shows that during December the gross earnings were $77,000, net earning $162,000 and surplus $40,000. The surplus is only $10,000 less than for the same month last year. The surplus for the past six months is $259,000 and only $65,000 less than for the same for six months of the year before, The October report of the earnings of the railroads in South Carolina is¬ sued at Columbia Monday shows a net decrease of $52,000 as compared with the same per cent last year, The comparative decrease for the four months ending October 31, 1893, is $96,000. The Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line shows a decrease of $20,754; the Georgia, Carolina and Northern an increase of $17,778. A San Francisco special says: A frightful railroad accident occurred Sunday night at Austin creek bridge, on the North Pacific railroad. An engine with eight men on board was crossing a bridge, when the structure gave way and the engine crashed down a distance of forty feet into a stream be¬ low. All the men were drowned except the conductor. The dead are: Frank Hartsabin, Engineer Briggs, Fireman Coster, Rice Bremner and Tom Gould. < George M. Bogue, one of the most 1 prominent business men of Chicago, has been accused of the misappropria- tion of about $75,000 of the funds of the Presbyterian hospital, of which in¬ stitution he was president. Mr. Bogue admits that there is some entangle ment with the hospital, but says any discrepancies will be made up imme diately. Last summer he made a as¬ signment and withdrew from the big real estate firm of Bogue & Co., and it is said that the misplacing of the hos¬ pital funds was the result of his finan¬ cial embarrassments. Mayor Ochs, of Chattanooga, has issued an official call for a citizens’ meeting to take public action regard¬ ing the holding of a tri-state fair in that city. The fair association has been organized on a working basis, and has gained recognition from the city council. It is designed to hold annually recurring fairs on a large scale for the display of the arts and products, mineral and agricultural, of the sisterhood of states, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, forming the foothill region of the great Blue Ridge mountain system. Representative Bailey, of Texas, in¬ troduced the following resolution in the house Monday; “Resolved, That it is the sense of the house of repre¬ sentatives that the secretary of the treasury has no authority under exist¬ ing law to issue and sell the bonds of the United States, except such as is conferred upon him by the act ap¬ proved January 14, 1875, entitled: ‘An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments and that the money derived from the sale of bonds issued under that act cannot be lawfully ap¬ plied to any purposes except those specified therein. 5 ” The resolution was referedtothe judiciary committee. DOLE A BLUSTERER. He Makes a Defiant Reply to Min* ister Willis’ Demands. The steamer Wavirmoo, which ar¬ rived at Victoria, B. C., Monday night, brought advices from Honolulu under date of January 1st. On the 10th of December, Minister Willis de¬ manded of the provisional government that it surrender to the queen. Pres¬ ident Dole replied, refusing to consider this demand. The government is keeping the answer of Dole to Willis’ demands secret until it shall have had time to reach the president. The fol¬ lowing summary, however, has been obtained from good authority: Dole begins by noting that this is the first official communication this government has had intimating in any way the policy of President Cleveland toward Hawaii. By no action of this government has any matter connected with the late revolution been submit¬ ted to the authority of the United States. This is carefully argued. No intimation has ever been made to the provisional government of anything having been done or considered in the premises until the alleged conclusion of the president now presented by Minister Willis. An exhaustive re¬ sume is given of the series of political struggles leading up to the revolution, including the acts of Kalakauka before 1887, and his obstructing and dictating legislation by filling the legislature with officeholders. Senhor Mendon, the Brazilian min¬ ister at Washington, has no informa¬ tion which would bear out the dispatch received in Paris from Rio de Janeiro that President Peixoto has resigned. The departments are also without in¬ formation respecting the Paris report that Peixoto has resigned. MUST PAY THE LOSS, Am Important Insurance Bill Passes the Mississippi Senate. A Jackson, Miss., special says: The senate passed a bill Friday, introduced by Senator Critz, providing that in a case of suit upon an insurance policy for damage by fire the insurance com¬ pany shall not deny that the property was worth the valuation upon which the insurance was calculated. In case the policy contains a three-quarter clause the company shall not deny that the amount of insurance is not three fourths the valuation. In case of total loss the measure of damage shall be the amount for which the building is insured, with no peduction from de¬ preciation. In case of partial loss the measure of damage shall be the full amount of loss, but not to exceed the amount of the policy. In case a for¬ eign insurance company fails to pay a judgement in favor of a policy holder in thirty days, or to appeal from said judgement, giving a supersedeas bond within that time, said company cannot thereafter do any business or enforce any contract in this state. A Leather Medal. A Denver, Col., special of Thursday says: Governor Waite has received this dispatch from Senator Stewart: “I believe, as a matter of law, a state may make foreign coin a legal tender, according to the pure metal of stan¬ dard value, and that a Mexican dollar might be made a legal tender for its face value.” Governor .Waite has also received by mail a4eather medal of the exact size of a silver dollar. On one side was this inscription: “To his ex¬ cellency, David Waite, in token of the citizens of Colorado for his able decis¬ ion to act in opposition to their wishes and best interests. ” On the other side Were the words: “Colorado 57 cents. Mexico 1” TIE NEWS IN GENERAL. Confleiisefl from Our lost Important Telegrapliic Advices And Presented in Pointed and Reada* - ble Paragraphs. M. Dupuy was, on Thursday, elected president of the French chamber of deputies by a vote of 297 to 67. The widow of William Makepeace Thackeray died Thursday morning at her residence at Leigh, Lancashire, England, aged seventy-five years. A Guatemala special of Thursday to the New York World says reports of the retreat of the Hondurian rebels and their Nicaraguan allies are con¬ firmed. The losses were 200 killed and wounded. The rebels are destroy¬ ing property as they go. Early Saturday morning a heavy wind storm occurred in Portland, Ore., and vicinity, the wind reaching a ve¬ locity of fifty miles per hour. A num by of chimneys and signs were blown down and window glasses w,ere broken, though, no serious damage resulted. A dispatch received at Paris Thurs¬ day by the Braziliau minister from Rio de Janeiro, formally contradicts the report originally printed in the newspapers of that city to the effect that President Peixote had resigned. The dispatch received by the Brazilian minister adds that the government of Brazil is solidly established. A cable dispatch of Thursday from Paris says: Yaillant has weakened and it is now announced that he has thought better of his decision not to make an appeal against his sentence to the court of cessation, and according¬ ly, he is understood to have signed the necessary document. But, it is added, he still refuses to petition President Carnot for a commutation of his sen¬ tence. At 9 :45 o’clock Thursday night the south end of the Southern hotel build¬ ing at Chattanooga, Tenn., was dis¬ covered to be on fire and the wholesale house of the Peeple’g Grocery Compa¬ ny was completely gutted of its stock before the flames could be checked. Guests of the hotel who had retired scaled the fire escapes in all degrees of dishabille. The loss on the grocery stock is near $40,000, and on the building probably $30,000. Later dispatches have been received at Massowah from Kassawalla confirm¬ ing the previous accounts of the battle recently fought between the Italian troops and the Dervishes. It is now stated that the latter left 4,000 dead upon the field, and that in addition the leaders of the Dervishes—Hamed Ali—and all his emirs were killed. The Dervishes are said to be much discouraged at their defeat, and serious dissensions are reported to exist among their chiefs. Details of the massacre of Captain Wilson’s party by the Matabels were received at Capetown, Africa, Satur¬ day. The news which came from Bu luaway shows that Captain Wilson and his men made a hard fight and died gallantly fighting to the last, It is stated that Wilson’s force, outside of a few natives, numbered only thirty-four British troops, and the number of Matabeles, which surrounded them, is variously estimated from one to four thousand. A Denver special of Thursday says: The senate special committee, to whom was referred the governor’s message, have agreed upon their report. They declare there is no occasion for hold¬ ing an extra session aud recommend an adjournment. Upon the governor’s Mexican dollar scheme they say they are obliged to recognize the sovereign authority of the government in all matters of coinage and that the sug¬ gestions of Governor Waite are not practicable, A committee of Santa Fe railroad employes from La Junta, Colo., in¬ formed Governor Waite that the en¬ gineers, conductors, brakemen, switch¬ men and trackmen of all grades on the western division of the road, have re¬ ceived no salary since last October, and many of the men and their fami¬ lies are on the verge of starvation. Salaries for November and December, they say have been promised at dif¬ ferent times, but in every instance, the pay car failed to come. A most surprising verdict was giv¬ en in the United States court at Knox¬ ville, Tenn., Thursday, when Cleo Berry, one of the most famous crimi¬ nals in Hawkins county, failed of conviction. Kerry is past titty years of age, and was indicted for counter¬ feiting. The neighborhood in which he lived was flooded with bogus half dollars and dollars, the manufacture of them was traced to him and uten¬ sils necessary to their manufacture were found in his house. A dispatch from Buffalo, N. Y.,says: Edwin M. Field, son of the late Cyrus W. Field, was released from the in¬ sane asylum Thursday and was taken to New York to stand trial for ruining his stock firm by forging stock certifi¬ cates and engaging in fraudulent finan¬ ciering. He was arrested, adjudged insane and sent to the asylum for treat¬ ment under order of the supreme court two years ago. He is under many indictments and his hail aggre¬ gates $400,000. His crookedness ruin¬ ed his millionaire father, who died shortly afterwards of a broken heart. A judgment for $17,813,610 was filed Saturday in the county clerk’s office, New York, against the Rich¬ mond West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse company in favor of Charles H. Carter, George Sherman and Anthony J. Thomas. The amount represents a principal of 5,453 6 per cent gold trust bonds and 10,596 5 per cent consolidated first mortgage col latral gold trust bonds, in the aggre¬ gate $16,049,000, together with the in¬ terest from September 1, 1892,amount¬ ing to $1,820,264, on which there was paid on the company’s account $55,799. Samuel H. Mather, one of the old¬ est bankers of Cleveland, O., died Saturday morning after a brief illness, aged fifty years. In 1849 Mr. Mather organized a society for savings. The bank was started in a room twenty feet square, which was also occupied by an insurance company and the as¬ sets were locked up each night in a tin box. The society now has deposits aggregating $23,000,000, with a sur¬ plus of $1,700,000 and undivided prof¬ its of $1,000,000. Mr. Mather was first secretary and treasurer and in 1883 he was elected president, which office he held at the time of his death. Butt, Young & Co., wholesale hat dealers at Knoxville, Tenn., filed deeds *bf trust to secure creditors to the amount of sixty thousand dollars Mon¬ day. Their assets are enormous, but are not given. Later in the day Moses Greer, Jr., & Co., a leading jewelry firm of the city, were compelled to file deeds of trust covering their enormous stock, on account of the assignment of Butt, Young & Co., wholesale hat dealers. W. H. Greer was named as trustee. These are the two first as¬ signments of any consequence that have occurred in Knoxville for several months during the late financial strin¬ gency. The Pacific Mail steamship, City of Pekin which arrived at San Francisco Tuesday brought details from Ningpo, China, of one of thefnost terrible fires on record, which occurred in the big temple in that city, December 8th and caused the death of nearly three hun¬ dred women and children. The an¬ nual theatrical performance in honor of the gods was being given in the temple. A boy threw a lighted cigarette into a heap of straw which blazed up, and the burning staircase prevented the people getting out. There was a gen¬ eral rush to escape. Some were tram¬ pled tt> death, others jumped out of the windows and were either killed or so badly injured that they were unable to escape the flames and so perished. A CAUSTIC REPLY Of the Duval Club to Attorney-General Lamar of Florida. The statement published in the Chi¬ cago Inter-Ocean by Florida’s Attor¬ ney General to the effect that the Oor bett-Mitchell contest could not possi¬ bly be “pulled off” within the borders of his state has elicited a caustic reply from the president of the Duval Ath¬ letic Club. The Attorney General’s positive edict against the fight is mot by as positive a statement from the club that the contest will occur, and occur in Florida at that. Here is what the club says in reply to the At¬ General: “Attorney General Lama?;, speaking for himself and the governor, having declared in a letter to the Inter-Ocean of Chicago that the Corbett-Mitchell contest will not take place in Florida, it is proper that we inform the public that neither the attorney general nor the governor possesses any judicial power and to add that the state’s offi¬ cers, acting under tbe direction of the have refused to allow any judicial determination by the courts of the law which it is claimed the contest will violate, and to that end have caused the prosecution originated for the purpose of testing the law to be dismissed; and further, that the exec¬ utive of the state, possessing the con¬ stitutional prerogative of askiug the opinion of the highest judicial tribunal of the state as to the construction of the statute, has declined to do so. The public is hereby assured that the contest will take place as advertised; that no plans have been formed or steps taken, and none will be, by either the governor or the attorney general, to stop the contest, and tick¬ ets can be bought with the confidence that it will take place under the con¬ tract as signed. “Henry Mason, President, “For the Duval Athletic Club. ” Can Marry at Fourteen. In the superior court at Raleigh, N. C., Friday Judge Hoke ordered a ver¬ dict of “not guilty” in a case where a man was indicted for obtaining ji mar riage license for a girl 15 years old. The court decides that it is not a punisha ble offense to obtain a license for a girl over fourteen, that being designated as the age at which they may marry. This decis ion attracts much attention. The courts have hitherto held that consent of parents must be obtained where the girl is under eighteen. There was no appeal. SOUTHERN HEWS ITEMS. Be Drift of Her Progress and Pros¬ perity Briefly Noted. Happenings of Interest Portrayed in Pitliy Paragraphs. The directors of the Nashville, Chat¬ tanooga and St. Louis railway on Sat¬ urday, declared the usual quarterly dividend of 1} per cent. Colonel Alexander Horton, the Tex¬ as patriot, died at his home, two milea from San Augustine, Texas, Sunday. He was first aid to General Sam Hous¬ ton. At the regular meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Gunters ville, Ala., they declared a 4 per cent, dividend and carried a good sum to the reserve fund. In the clerk’s office of Bibb superior court a petition for the appointment of a co-receiver for the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad has been filed by attorneys for the Mercantile Trust and Deposit company of Baltimore. A Nashville special of Thursday says: The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad has a strike on its hands similar to that on the Hender¬ son division of the Louisville and Nashville a few weeks ago, in that it is unauthorized. A Savannah specialsays: Receiver Comer said Thursday that he had not sold the $40,000 receiver’s certificates of the Savannah and Atlantic railroad in New York, but he declined to talk further about them until he had made his report to the bondholders. Under these circumstances, it seems that the rebuilding of the road will not begin soon. The outlook at Ashland, Ky., is en¬ couraging. Thursday the blast furnace of the Norton Iron works, resumed with the puddling department to fol¬ low and the nails already on. It has been nearly seven years since the en¬ tire plant was last in operation. The run will last at least six months, and about six hundred men will be given steady employment. The Chatham Furniture Company, at Savannah, Ga., made an assignment Saturday. The affairs of the company have been in a bad way for some time. It has had out a number of small ac¬ counts, which it has been unable to collect. Many of the debts cannot be counted as assets, as they will be prac¬ tical losses. Including these accounts the total assets of the corporation are something over $41,200, while the lia¬ bilities are $21,019.76. At a meeting of the stockholders at Chattanooga the entire paid-up stock of the Chattanooga Steamboat Com¬ pany was transferred, without pecuni¬ ary consideration, to six share-holders. The steamer City of Chattanooga and her barges will be brought from River¬ ton, Ala., and put into commission at once. This company was organized two years ago, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, by 100 business men, who subscribed $1,000 each. At a recent meeting of the southern chapter of the American Institute of , Architects at Augusta, Ga., the follow¬ ing officers were elected: President, M. J. Dimmeck, Richmond, Va.; vice president, Thomas H. Morgan, Atlanta, Ga.; secretary and treasurer, W. P. Tinsley, Lynchburg, Va.; directors, C. C. Burke, Memphis; L. F. Goodrich Augusta; W. T. Walker, Montgomery; C. C. Wilson, Roanoke; Theo. H. Abrams, Charleston. Memphis, Tenn., was selected as the next place of meet¬ ing. A Raleigh, N. C., special of Satur¬ day says: Superintendent Leazar, of the penitentiary, says that the prod¬ ucts of the five state farms this season, were 1,100 large bales of cotton, 50, 000 bushels of corn, 12,500 bushels of peanuts and 3,000 bushels of wheat. Freshets caused heavy losses of some crops. Superintendent Leazer asserts that there is no better way of employ¬ ing negro convicts than on a farm. He will later examine carefully the immense tracts of state lands near Core creek to ascertain their availabil¬ ity for farming. The smallpox scare is not abating at Nashville, Tenn., according to dis¬ patches of Sunday. Many of the phy¬ sicians appointed to vaccinate the peo pie of the various wards were at work Sunday and accomplished much to¬ wards getting their part of the work done. The cases pesthonse in the together city were-re¬ with moved to the seven suspects. There have been no new cases reported, but there are fears that some of those who have been ex¬ posed to the disease may break out at any time, as it has been impossible to find out all who have been exposed to the infection. Railroads Withdraw. A Memphis . dispatch says: The Ches apeake and Southwestern railroad withdrew from the Memphis Passenger Association Thursday night. The rea sons assigned were that the other roads had violated the agreement by selling tickets to northern and eastern points at out rates through scalpers, to the detriment of the Chesapeake s business, I This means a break up of the associa * tion aud rate war.