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Griffin, Ga.
Griflin is tlie liveliest, pluokiost, most pro¬
gressive town in Georgia. This i« no hjper-
bollcal description, as the record of the last
lire years will show.
puling that time it has built and put into
m ost successful operation a $100,000 cotton
factory and is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has pnt up a
la ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬
tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
SHi h and blind factory, a broom factory
opened op the finest granite quarry in the
United Stateami has many other enter¬
prises in onteuiplatiou. It has secured
another uilroad niaety miles long, and while
locateu on the greatest system in the South,
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia
and Georgia. It hag just secured direct inde-
pendcst connection with Chattanooga and
the Wi st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing hero and working
to its ultimate completion. With
its five white and three colored
churches, it is now building a $10,000 new
Pre’byteriau churoh. It has increased its
population by nearly one fifth. It has at¬
tracted around its borders fruit growers from
nearly every State iu the Union, until it is
now surrounded on nearly every side by or¬
chards and vineyards. It is the home of the
grape and its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
inaugurated a system of public schools, with
, se ven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Grilfin is the county scat of Spalding
county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150
feet above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
weieome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel-
cerns if they bring money to help build np
the town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
W« have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for onr
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
Tf you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffin
News is published—daily and weekly—the
nest newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketoh.will answer July 1st
1888. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with the times.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
11 urnpt attention given to all business
Will practice in ail the Courts, and where
ever business calls.
fcef” Collections a specialty. aprGdly
HEADQUARTERS
Leak's Collecting and Protective
Agency of Georgia.
GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA.
S. G. LEAK, Manager.
Send your claims to S. G. Leak and
correspond Cleveland only with Resident him at headquarters. Attorneys for
& Beck,
Griffin. may9d&w8m
HENRY C.. PEEPLES,
A T T O R N'E Y AT LA W
HAMPTON, GEORGIA,
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. octOdAwly
JNO. J. HUNT,
A T T O R N E Y AT LA W
GRIFFIN’, GEORGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
White’s Clothing Store. ra ar22d& wl y
I>. blSMUKE. N. M. COLLINS
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
office,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-difcwtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTORNET AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s
oirner. nov2-tf.
23KS P. STEWART. BOBT. T. DANIEL
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George <fe Hartnett's, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
-ourts, ianl.
C. S. WRIGHT,
watchmaker and jeweler
GRIFFIN, GA.
Hill Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White
<fc Co.’s.
PraMicIyEyeWIitt
-AND-
headquarters for flat shoals
CORN WHISKY.
Also, all kinds of Wines, Liquors
*nd Cigarasuch as are kept in a first
class establishment. Everybody is
invited to call and see me at No. 4d,
West side Hill street,
Os2ld&w3m JOHN ISON.
GHASTLY 1CHAB0DS.
Fifty-Seven Corpses Ride Into
Wilkesbarre.
MORE PARTICULARS OF |THE
LEHIGH HORROR
Unnatural Reticence of the Road Officials—
Anguish «f Countless Families—Ten
are Still Unidentified—Tho
List Not Yet Finished
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct, 12.— [Special.]
The death list of the frightful accident
of Wednesday night promises still to
go on growing.
No pen can scarcely do justice to the
scene of death, desolation and distress
witnessed here to-day.
After the first and greatest excite¬
ment had passed away, everybody was
not slow to condemn tlie cruel silence of
the railway company officials, who, while
agonized husbands, wives and mothers
clung clared around their slightest words, de¬
At 3:30 they knew nothing.
a. m. a report was in circula¬
tion that arrangements had been made
for the receipt of a large number of
wounded at the hospital. The rumor
was soon confirmed. The officials were
expecting twenty-five of the victims.
With such a list of wounded coming
in this direction, the public pulse stood
still over horrible possibilities, and thou¬
sands of fainting hearts quivered in
dread. Manv persons wanted to go to
the scene of the disaster, and endeavored
to charter a locomotive. Rev. Father
Moylan, of Scranton, offered to pay cash
for any expense in that direction, but
the favor could not be obtained, owing
to the absence of Superintendent Mitch¬
ell Many at tlie wreck.
persons, after waiting during
the long, weary hours, from ten to three
in the morning, took the south-bound
-train which passed here at 3:10, and
went to the scene of the appalling dis¬
aster.
Not a single person escaped from the
rear car. The second was crowded with
maimed and bleeding bodies, and the
third car had but few passengers who
escaped stricken uninjured. But the terror-
passengers of both trains made
their way out of tlie cars, and on going to
the telescoped engine and cars where
tlie full horror of the terrible disaster
dawned upon them. The shattered en¬
gine was pouring forth streams of scald¬
ing steam and water, which hid from
their eyes the fullest measure of the
horrible scene, while its hissing sounds
deadened the shrieks and groans of those
imprisoned in the wreck. Ghastly white
faces peered into the windows to be
greeted by faces pinioned far more in ghastly. Some
of the dead sat seats erect,
as in life, staring open-eyed, as if aware
of the horrible surroundings.
Last night the funeral train arrived in
Wilkesbarre, bearing fifty-seven dead
bodies. They had been partially pre¬
pared placed for burial, the Backs and lay upon the boards
upon of seats in
three passenger couches. It was an aw¬
ful sight indeed, to look through the
long coaches at white the cloth. dead bodies, each the
covered with Here
form of a boy of twelve, and beside it
the stalwart man. As the train drew up
to Wilkesbarre depot, it took a dozen po¬
licemen to keep back the frantic crowd
of friends and relatives who had come
from Scranton and Pleasant Valley to
to meet their dead.
There are ten bodies still unidentified
It is impossible to tell the number of the
wounded. Twenty-five were brought
bore to the hospital.
Found Dead in the Woods.
Germantown, O., Oct. 12. —GeorgeS.
Gebliart, a wealthy and influential farm¬
er of this thownship, went into his wood,
to look after some timber his yesterdays
and, not returning, family, him dead upon in
searching for him. found
the woods. When found his body was
still warm.
Work of Congress.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 12. — In
the senate tlie house bill appropriating
$50,000 to carry out the provisions of the
Chinese exclusion act passed.
Mr. Mitchell addressed the senate at
length on tlie bill to reduce letter post¬
age to one cent per ounce. When he
concluded Mr. Cullom took the floor and
spoke on the tariff question.
Millionaire Flood Dying.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 12.—A ca¬
blegram has been received from young
James L. Flood announcing that his
father, James C. Flood, the ‘ Bonanza
King,” is dying of Bright’s disease at
Carlsbadt. The physicians say that lie
cannot live more than another day.
An Editor Swallows Laudanum.
Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 12.— Georgo
E. Leavenworth, city editor of the News,
Committed suicide by swallowing lauda¬
num. He was only twenty-eight years by
old. He was driven to despondency
llnesss.
WIRED BREVITIES.
Over $400,000,000 are invested in Illi¬
nois in mortgages.
The senate has passed-the bill donating
$8,475 to the widow of Chief Justice
Waitte.
Senator Gorman points Cleveland out the will reasons be
why, in his opinion,
re-elected.
All the Sioux chiefs have gone to
Washington to confer in regard to the
proposed treaty.
Blaine spoke at Goshen, Ind.. yester¬
day, and proceeded to Indianapolis, ar¬
riving there at 11: o’clock.
H. C. Hotchkise, a West Haven, Conn.,
hardware merchant, has been arrested,
charged with forgeries of $20,000.
By the falling of an improvised Wednesday plat¬ 500
form at Quincy, 111.,
people were injured, half of them seri¬
ously. reported the in¬
Hale's committee on It is
vestigation into the civil service. a
campaign document of fifty pages.
The requirements of the sinking fund
f,»- the .last year have been made, and
the treasurer is not bonds. particular about pur¬
chasing any more arrived
The steamship Queen, which
at New York yesterday from England,
collided with a schooner Friday morn¬
ing and sunk her. Twentyone men were
drowned.
GRIFFIN. GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 13, 1888.
Frederick's Widow’. EnglUh Visit.
London, Oct. 12—[Special. ]—Empress
Victoria is expected to arrive in Eng¬
land early next month. She will be the
guest of the prince and princess at
Wales at Sandringham during the first
ten days of her majesty stay in this country, af¬
ter which her will proceed hi
visit the Queen at Windsor, where she
is expected to be November 21st, which
will be her forty-eighth birthday. A
large sum which emperor Frederick re¬
ceived by bequest from his father he
has left by will to his wife, and it has
been invested in England. A portion of
this money is the absolute property of
the empress, and sho has the remainder
for life, ivitn power of appointment
among her younger children.
STRIKERS [RIOTING-
Rxciting Experiences of the Police and Mob
—Gen. Palmer's Arrival.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 12.— [Special.]— 1 The
great street car strike still continues.
President Yerkes said to-day: “There
has been no further attempt at a settle¬
ment. As to the result of the whole
affair, I know only this: that the compa¬
ny will not give in. I concede nothing
now, and will withdraw all offers made
in the conference at the mayor’s office.
The company will not be ruled by a mob
nor be by our employes. No business can
run that way. If we are not able to
run, we will lie idle.”
Mayor Roche this afternoon sent a
messenger to the West Side carmen’s
headquarters, headed asking that a committee
the striker's by Mr. association, Coyne, the president of
call at the city
hall. Almost at the exact moment, two
of Mr. Yerkes’ sub-officials were firing
into a crowd of strikers at Western ave¬
nue, Coyne, with three other strikers,
accompanied the by an alderman, entered
mayor’s office. The doors were im¬
mediately closed. While tlie conference
policemen was going on, under Captain Lieutenants Aldrich, with 150
Shea and
Raer, had their exciting experience with
the mob. Tlie news of the second
riot arrived at the city hall about
the time that a messenger was being
North dispatched strikers for representatives of the
Side to come to the may¬
or’s office. There were seven men in the
second committee under the lead of Mas¬
ter Workman Christie. After a confer¬
ence departed. lasting in all six hours the commit¬
tee It was understood they
made certain concessions based on con¬
associations tingencies probably the approval of their
and the acceptance of Pres¬
ident Yerkes. Steps were taken to con¬
vene an immediate general meeting of
the strikers.
“Is there any prospect of a settlement
before night? ” was asked of President
Luke Coyne, as he was leaving the may¬
or's office.
“I would not like to say that there is.”
was his reply.
General Palmer and tlie Strike.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 12.—Special—Gen.
John M. Palmer, democratic candidate
for governor, has arrived in the city and
will make several speeches.
General Palmer has at all times and
places opposition during the the canvass announced his
to employment of so-call¬
ed public private functions police when agencies strike to perform is pend¬
a
ing. The immediate wholesale employ¬
ment of private police by President
Yerkes at the very beginning of tho
strike, and their discharge by him when
it was found that the mayor, in this in¬
stance, forbade their use on the streets,
has made the subject of “Pinkertonism”
a cited peculiarly political delicate meeting one in now Chicago. for an It ex¬ is
understood that Gen. Palmer's party
managers and expressed adroit they fear consider to-day that, him,
discreet as
wliat he might say would be made to
appear discussed as inciting violence. Another
matter is the fact that the con¬
gregation of large bodies of men in times
of public disorder is generally regarded
as perilous in the extreme. The certain¬
ty of a great crowd at the meeting em¬
phasizes this phase being of watched the situation, and
the results are for eagerly.
May Extend to Eastern Cities.
Chicago, Oct. 12.—George A. Schil¬
ling, master workman of district assem
bly 24, of Chicago, has received a letter
from James George, district master work¬
man of district assembly 226, which
comprises York, the Philadelphia street car and employes Pittsburg of
New
to the effect that if the strike in Chicago
is not settled satisfactorily within the
next four days, the employes of the
Yerkes syndicate York in will Pittsburg, lie called Philadel¬
phia and New out.
.Jealousy at a Beauty Show.
London, Oct. 12.—There was a terrific
scene at Spa when the prizes for tho
beauty competion were candidates awarded. Sev¬
eral of the unsuccessful dash¬
ed the splendid bouquets which had been
given to them on the floor, uttered clam¬
orous protests and attempted to go for
both judges and winners. One enraged
nymph spat in the face of the winner of
the first prize, and rushed at her with
the loudly expressed bnt intention forcibly restrained of tearing
her eyes out, was
by the spectators. Two others attacked
the winners of the second and third
prizes, and the long hair of the latter
was pulled so vigorously by the defeated
competitors that she howled with an¬
guish. It was the ultimately aid found necessa¬
ry to invoke of the police au¬
thorities.
Dr. Pepper’s Generosity.
Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 12.— In reply
to the request of Colonel Michael ael V.
Sheridan for a bill for his professional
services to the late General Philip H.
Sheridan. Dr. Wm. Pepper, of thi3 city,
under date of October 3, wrote to the
colonel as follows:
“I am in receipt of your forward note of Sep¬
tember 28, requesting for professional me to you
my account services
rendered in consultation to the late Gen¬
eral Sheridan. You must permit me to
say that I desire these services to be re¬
garded and only as an obligation expression of that
deep lasting all others, owed which him.” I, in
common with to
Wiuter is at Hand.
New York. Oct. 12.—[Special.]— Six
inches of snow fell yesterday in Montreal,
Quebeb, and snow, with a westerly gale,
made it unpleasant for the people of
Richmond, in the same province. heavy
In St. Johnsbury, and Vt., a snow H.,
storm prevailed, in Hanover, N.
two inches of snow fell. In Newport,
R. I., there was also a slight snow storm.
DIMINISHED LOAVES
Sorry Crust of the Poor
Grows Smaller.
GROWING OVER
THE BIG DEAL
Mr. Powderly Thinks—The Miller*
Kttixe PrJi es and tho Baker* Follow
Suit—A Mas* Mooting: of tho
Poor to be Hold.
New York, Oct. 12.— [Special.]— A
mass meeting of laboring people is to be
held in this city on Sunday to enter pro¬
test against die recent gambling in tho
necessaries of life. The whole city is
stirred with indignation. Political econ¬
omists have gravely heM informal dis
eussions on the growing evil, and hu¬
manitarians are shocked beyond belief.
The citizens are just waking up to what
the broker Hutchinson’s wheat deal
means.
The boss bakers are going to discuss
“Old Hutch" and the rise in flour at a
meeting of the Boss Bakers’ Society that
has been specially called for Sunday at
10 a. m., in the hall in Fifteenth street,
between Second and Third avenues.
President Moll says that tlie bosses are
ling in the disgusted with the wheat gamb¬
west.
“Broker Williams was a fool to kill
only himself because his firm was forced
to suspend Mr. through ‘Old Hutch's’ cor¬
ner,' Moll said. “He ought to have
gone on to Chicago wouldn't and killed ‘Old
Hutch’ first. It have cost much
for traveling expenses, and would have
a good deal of satisfaction.”
London, Oct. 11.—At a meeting of the
Corn Millers’ Association, at Leeds, the
price of flour was advanced Is. 6d. within per
18 stone, making a rise of 8s. 6d.
eight American weeks. The enhanced values of
and the poor quality of Eng-
glish wheats caused the advance.
Hard Linn* for (he Poor.
New York, Oct. 12.— Special.—The
of “Old Hutch's” Chicago corner
in wheat was felt by the working peo¬
ple and tenement dwellers of this city
on Monday when they went to the bak¬
ers to buy the usual five cent loaf for
breakfast. They found that the loaf had
dwindled in size from twenty ounces to
seventeen ounces. There was a corres
ponding decrease iu tho size of tarts and
pastry and pies. It was not until yes¬
terday, really though, that the tenement dwell¬
ers got excited about the changed
weight of the loaves and the cheap tarts.
They were to be seen in east-side baker¬
ies in the morning bitterly complaining.
The small bakers told them that the
change was due to the rise in wheat
caused bv the Chicago “corner.”
The bakers themselves didn't find out
about the rise in prices until they went
to the mills to get fresh supplies. Fourth
ward bakers said that when they asked
for flour such as is ordinarily used in
five cent bread in this quarter, they
were told that the price had risen to
$7.50 a barrel. The same flour sold in
September said at $5.25. The mill proprie¬
tors they couldn't sell at the old
prices. Conrad Moll, the
Bakers’ Association, president whose bakery of the Boss
is at
Broome and Forsyth streets, was one of
those who went to the mills yesterday.
He said he had to pay $8.50 for flour of
the same $4.40. quality He that he got in Septem¬
ber for put seventeen ounces
in his five-cent loaves instead of twenty.
“People are intensely excited about
the change,” said Mr. Moll yesterday af¬
ternoon, and the proprietors of the little
baker shops in the crowded tenement
districts are even wilder in their talk
than their customers. They do not carry
a large supply of flour, as the bigger
dealers are able to do, and they are, con¬
sequently, in badly caught is by the sudden
increase price. It a fact that some
of them have had to cut short their sup¬
ply abruptly for want of ready money
to buy the flour at increased prices, and
their customers have had to go else¬
where for bread because of the decreased
supply at their regular bakeries. The
small dealers can’t stand that sort of
thing, you know, for the competition districts for
custom in the tenement is too
keen to allow any one to be caught with
short supplies.”
Powderly’s Denunciation.
Philadelphia, Oct. 12.—General Mas¬
ter Workman Powderly of the knights
of labor, writing on the Chicago wheat
trouble in this week's Journal of United
Labor, says:
“Congress is in session quarreling over
a tariff bill to regulate the prices of com¬
modities that come to our shores in
ships, and Hutchinson is raising the
price of that which is native to the coun¬
try and which every workingman is
more in need of, but no steps are taken
by congress to put an end to Hutchinson
and his methods.
“Write to the president of the United
States to send a message to congress de¬
manding that these institutions that
gamble in food be abolished, that trusts
be abolished. Then write to your pres¬
ent congressmen and senators in Wash¬
ington and ask that they at once take
notice of this crying evil and legislate it
out of existence. Go to those who are
candidates for congress and exact
pledges frdm them to abolish these insti¬
tutions, in case the present session does
not do it.
“The present congress lias spent nearly
a year in skirmishing for points on
which to carry the next election, while
the interests of the people are going to
the dogs. It is time to put a stop to it,
and the workingmen of the United
States should speak out in thunder tones
to them on this great issue.”
Dr. .Jekyll-tor. Hyde In Whitechapel.
London, Oct. 12.—The latest theory of
the police on the subject of the White¬
chapel murders—and one in favor of
which they have abandoned all others—
is a most startling one. It is an alleged
case in real life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde. The police claim to have a par
ticular individual in view, and to possess
corroborative evidence in support of their
theory. He has been repeatedly tracked
and traced, and is a well known and
wealthy fashionable resident of Grosvenor Square,
the most quarter of London.
A sensation of immense magnitude is
expected in connection with the matter.
v„
gimp Knox, of this city, and Guisseppe
Cartisi, Count ~ di Montercole, of Italy,
were married at the city hall at high
noon marriage to-day by Mayor McCallin. Later
the Trinity ctremony was again per¬
formed at Maxwell, Episcopal church by
Rev. Samuel and at St. Paul's
cathedral by Bishop Phelan. The first
or civil marriage was to satisfy tho re¬
quirement of Italian law, while the cer¬
emonies deemed essential at Trinity by and tho St. individual Paul's were reli¬
gious preferences of the contracting par¬
ties.
The newly married couple left for
New York on the. 9 o.’cIock train to¬
night, and will sail for Havre on the
steamer La Normandy next Saturday.
Arriving at Havre, they will proceed at
once to Italy, The where bride they will the make
their home. was daugh¬
ter of W. W. Knox, deceased, a promi¬
nent. and atone time very wealthy citi¬
zen.
MORSE AND COX.
Rising Sun Morse and Sunset Co* Would
Make a Pair.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 12.—Elijah A.
Morse has been at last nominated by the
republicans D. Long in the for congress second district, to succeed aftor John
one
of the most disgraceful campaign ever
known in Massachusetts. Morse is a
millionaire twice over. Dr. Frederick
L. Burden, his opponent, is n poor man,
and committee. ex-chairman When of Morse tho republican iblica announced state
was
as a candidate, everybody looked for a
hoodie campaign, for and month the air about has been
full of rumors a tlie
purchase Taunton, of delegates. delegate In the charged conven¬
tion at a the
Morse managsrs certain with offering delegates money
for the votes of who
were instructed to so mark their ballots
as to show that the goods were delivered.
Another delegate arose and said that $60
had been he paid could for the vote of one man
whom name. The Burden man¬
agers, on the other hand, were accused
or who offering had charge even larger the millionair’s sums than those
of cam¬
paign. Morse was nominated with 21
votes to spare. He is a man of no par¬
ticular rich, and ability. he is known Stove polish throughout made New him
England will as,“Rising be Sun Morse.” If elect¬
ed, this a chance for congressional
humorists to compare him with bis col¬
league "Sunset” Cox.
The Gallant Floridan Democrat.
Jacksonville, in all Fla., Florida Oct. has 12.—Perhaps been
no one man more
severely Frank afflicted by the epidemic than
Captain candidate P. Fleming, the demo¬
cratic for goverrior, at present
making his a thorough canvass of the state.
First young nephew, Fleming,died
of the fever, then his half brother and
law partner, Louis I. Fleming. Next,
his Whitner, relative another and a friend, of his L’EngTe. law Judge
followed these. On Tuesday last partners,
of week
his law partner and lifelong friend, Col.
J. J. Daniel.
In introducing Captain Fleming to an
audience in Bartow a night or two ago,
Judge Hanson said, “Tins gallant repre¬
sentative of Florida, democratic, from
the been opening assailed hour by of the campaign, has
such trials as has never
confronted a candidate in this state, yet
he has carried our banner aloft, and his
physical bereavements and mental sufferings, the sad
which have darkened his
home, have enlisted everywhere heart¬
felt sympathies for his gallant and heroic
efforts. If elected, and nothing but
death can forestall that event, the same
iron nerve, the same power of endur
ance and his unconquerable determina¬
tion will make his administration an era
in Florida, as history to be remembered
for all time to come.
Latu Fever New*.
Jacksonvlle, Fla., Oct. 12. Iaist
night the long-looked-for frost came
near, but not quite enough. The tem
perature fell to 56 degrees, and this morn¬
ing it is clear and bracing.
Cupid Valkenburg, is still “on deck.” Miss Daisy
Van second daughter of tlie
Schoonmaker late Judge Van Valkenburg, married and Alfred
were at South
Jacksonville.
Two of the telegraph hoys have re¬
lapses, Turner and O'Driscoll. T. T.
Stockton is doing well. All the other
sick are reported m fair condition.
Twenty-three cases up to noon, but no
deaths.
Reports are coming in of the damage
by Wednesday the night's storm, especially
among camps.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West railway has resumed its freigiit
service into south and east Florida via
Lavilla.
The quarantine restrictions have near¬
ly all been withdrawn on the Jackson
ville, St. Augustine and Halifax river
railway.
Child Burned with Paper.
Tipton, Ind., Oct 12.—The infant
child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wright came
near meeting with a horrible death to
day. A number of small children were
playing the around her a smoke-house, and one
of nu in placed the little fellow in
a box filled with paper. From unknown
cause the paper caught fire, and before
assistance arrived the child was nearly
dead. The clothes were burned from the
body, and its face, hands and neck were
frightfully burned.
Bonihurtled by Highwaymeu.
Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 12.—A few
evenings land township, since, Amos Silcox, of Hart-
was attacked by three
highwaymen, who dragged him from his
powerful buggy and attempted to rob him. Being
and quick, he knocked them
down and escaped, hut they followed
him which home he and opened a lively fusilade,
to and shot-gun, responded with them a revolver
could driving off. No
clew he found, although the mat¬
ter was kept quiet until to-day. |
Fell from a Trestle. | i
Wellsville, Ohio, Oct. 12. — Last
night Fort while three men were crossing the
high Wayne trestle over Crow's
Run, near Beaver, one of them named
Louis Stevens, fell through the timbers
to the lied of the creek, fifty feet below,
and was instantly killed. Stevens was a
stranger in the vicinity. From letters
found on his person it was ascertained
he had friends living in Philadelphia.
Jackson Overjoyed.
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 12. —Special.—
There is great rejoicing here over tho
raising of the yellow fever quarantine.
Cannons have been fired and bonfires
lighted, place. and a general barbecue has tak¬
en The yellow fiend alone is sad.
THE CHIEFSGATHER
Democratic Executive Commit¬
tee Meeting.
BLAINE ADDRESSES THE TRAD-
ING CRAFT
Grover and llenjy Write on the Y. M. C. A.
Work —* IKarrinon on the Stump—
General Campaign Item*—
Mayor Hewitt* Etc.
New York, Oct. 12.—The executive
committee of the democratic national
committee has just held a meeting, A
quorum of tlie committee was in town,
and it was deemed best to lose no time
in consultation so aa to postjione the re¬
turn of the committeemen to their re¬
spective states.
The m cm Iters present were: Hon Wm,
H, Bnrnum, of Connecticut, cliairman;
S. P. Sheerin, E. of Indiana, secretary: Ed¬
ward Dickinson,of Now York, assist¬
ant secretary; John II. Estill, of Geor¬
gia; J. J. Richardson, of Iowa; O. M.
Barnes, of Michigan; Herman Oelrich, of
New York; Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio,
chairman of the campaign committee;
Samuel R. Hovey, 'ey, of of Rhode Rh Island; Jno,
S. Bar I tour, of Virginia; ' -gir John L. Mitch-
ell, of Wisconsin; Wm. Dickson, of the
District of Columbia; Dr. S. F. Neely,
proxy for G. W. Blair, of Kansas; Miles
Ross, of New Jersey, and Captain Wm.
McClelland, secretary of the campaign
committee, representing Congressman
W. L. Scott.
The work of the committee was con¬
fined to the necessary reports of the con¬
dition of the canvass in the various
states, the examination of expenditures
and arrangement for raising the funds
necessary to complete the work of the
campaign. This
expenditures is no light task, in headquarters. view of the
of republican
The management of the affairs of the
campaign and his committee by highly Colonel Brice
associates, was compli¬
mented by Chairman Barnum and nis
colleagues. Secretary has Sheerin, of tho
national committee, returned to In¬
diana, but before leaving lie expressed
his confidence that his state was sure for
Cleveland, Thurman and Matson.
Cleveland and Harrison*. View*.
Buffalo, N. Y., October 12.—Presi¬
dent Wm. H. Gratwlck, of the Young
Men’s Christian association, recently
wrote to the two candidates for presi¬
dent asking their views regarding the
work of the society, with special refer¬
ence to the thirty-sixth anniversary of
tho Buffalo branch. President Cleveland
wrote;
Dear Sir —1 gladly comply with vour
request, and tender the expression of my
appreciation of tho beneficent mission of
the Y. of land. M. C. We A., multiplying busy through¬
out are a nation. The
people impetuous rush casual and enterprise of our
to a observer would seem
to fostering yield no place to the consideration and
of the influences which radiate
from these institutions. But to those
who know how well our daily life is
grounded upon Christian principles, it is
aanatter of no surprise that Young Men's
Christian Associations challenge our at¬
tention and care. It soems to me that
nothing is more essential to our contin¬
ued welfare and prosperity as a people
than the preservation of our faith in the
usefulness of such organizations. Yours,
very Mr. truly. Grover Cleveland.
Harrison’s letter is as follows:
My Dear Sir—Your letter of Septem-
8th lias been received, and I think I
should adhere to my former determina¬
tion. If there were any occasion for an
expression cheerfully upon and the subject, it would be
make heartily given; but to
an occasion does not seem to me to
be appropriate. The organization is too
well known to need any such support or
advertisement. Such a letter would ap¬
pear to lie rather in aid of myself than
the organization, and I have too much
respect for it to seem to use it in that
way. Very truly yours, Harrison.
Bf.nj.
The former determination, Mr. Grat-
wick says, was that Mr. Harrison was
sensitive about writing anything that
might be construed as being political.
Governor Gray lu Illinois.
Springfield, 111., Oct. 12.— The great
state rally of the democrats of Illinois
took 25 place people here, from and all was attended hr
,000 over central Illi¬
nois. The trains were loaded with en¬
thusiastic democrats. At 11 a. m., there
was a grand farmers’ parade, which was
an immense affair, and was reviewed by
thousands of people. At 2 p. m. the
chairman. great meeting was called to order He by the
Hon J. W. Patton. in¬
troduced Governor Isaac P. Gray, of In¬
diana, who was received with cheers.
The governor was in a happy mood, and
made a grand speech to the great crowd
that pressed around him. His subject
was the tariff He was often lofidly ap¬
plauded during the delivery of his ad¬
dress.
He was followed by Hon. A. J. Hun¬
ter, of Paris, III., who made a telling
speech. springer, At congressman the close, the of Hon. the Wm. 14th dis¬ M.
trict, was called for, and was received
with great cheering He said he was
thankful to them for such a welcome
greeting. This has
been a great day for the de¬
mocrats of central Illinois, arid great en¬
thusiasm was shown for General John
M Palmer, whom the democrats of Illi¬
nois expect to elect governor in Novem¬
ber next.
Mayor Hewitt Obdurate.
New York, Oct. 12.—(Special.J-Sher-
iff Hugh J. Grant, the Tammany candi-
date form ay or, sent a card to the news-
papers withdraw announcing from his willingness to
the fight with his oppo¬
candidate. nent, Mayor Hewitt, iti favor of a union
This, it is .said, the mayor
refuses to do. the county democracy hav¬
ing anticipated such a' move. All day
long his honor has been besieged bv
newspaper men and politicians, and the
outcome is vague A reply will no doubt
be itdited Monday.
Morrison on the Stump.
St. Louis, Mo.. Oct., 12.—Colonel Wil¬
liam R. Morris on made his first speech
of the present campaign at East Caron-
delet last night, addressing a large num¬
ber of citizens of East Carondelet, East
St. Louis and 8t. Louis,
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NUMBER 195
Illalne Talk* to Drammers.
Goshen, Ind., Oct. 12.—After the X
call publican from meeting Mr. Blaine recelvi odl
some two hundred and
commercial travelers who had gathered
in from neighboring town* to participate I
in the proceedings. Speaking to them.
Mr. Blame said there was no ciaw or
men who ought to better understand tho
beneficent effects of protection than com¬
mercial travelers, who in the line of their
business traveled from one state to UP
other, coming in contact with the com¬
mercial lines of the country. Bald he;
“There is probably not one of you who
is not engaged in selling some American
product, when and there I trust will the be time will soon
coine not one man on
the road dealing in anything except tho
products of the United States.”
Nath villa'* Political Celebration.
Nashville, Term., Get. 12.— Special.
Greater preparations are being made tot
the grand celebration of the Davidson
county's democracy than have ever been
made Ixdore for a political rally here.
The date named by .the committee is
Friday, October 19, but whether all ar¬
rangements can be completed by then is
a matter of some doubt.
Among the prominent democrats in¬
vited are Hon. John G. Carlisle and Sen¬
ator Joe Blackburn. Excursion trains
are to bo run.
Chained th* fxwaaoUn.
Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 12.—At ten
o’clock this morning as the local freight
train on the C. H. V. and T. railroad,
going south arrived in this city, Sheriff
Price, on an exaction took possession of
it and chained the locomotive to thd
track with a lock and ctvain, which was
there held until released by the railroad
furnishing the bond required. This at¬
tachment was made at the instance of
Luke Welsh, of this city, to whom the
court of judgment common pleas' $1,500 sometime against ago
gave a of the
road. Tlie case is now in the district
court.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The celebrated case of D. S. Froti Uing-
ham vs. the Adams Express Com pan; ft
lias been appealed to the supreme
of the United States by the Express
pany, on a writ of error. '
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, I ha*
decided to spend the entire winter oh
the Pacific coast, and will commence a
series of evangelistic meetings in San
Francisco on the first of January.
While returning from a republican
meeting Warren, Indiana, at Wiley’s Joseph school Cloud, house, near
a young m2
married man, was thrown from
horse and his neck was broken.
A daughter of Willidm Bradle,
Greencastle, Ind., took a dose of “ft
on Rats” hist Saturday, and died
afterward. Whether it wa* a mistake
or suicide is not known.
The most rigid search fails to flpd a
uate, trace J. of D. the Steele, missing who Mining mysteriously School grad¬ i
appeared from Champion, Mich,
owes The nothing, Lutheran and Synod foul of play Sort is susj
apa met at North Manchester, Ind.
D. F. Kin, of Albion, president of
synod, preached the opening ___
BundayC seraow.
The sessions will continue over
W. R. Rowbin, a brak
Louisville and Nashville
from rie, Ky., a moving and had freight his train left leg terribly ,
crushed, and died in great suffering. He
was sixteen years of age.
An order of the court upon Public Ad¬
ministrator Vinett, requiring the pay¬
ment of $30,000 to the estate of Kate
Townsend, of New Orleans, has devel-
due the Townsend estate. Villere now
holds the position of criminal sheriff o t
the- parish of Orleans.
Queer Weather Telegram*.
“Rattletraps, pigs’ toils and porcu¬
pines’’ was the telegraph river report
received by the signal office from We*ton
this morning. Obviously, that mean*
that the Monongahela was rising there,
that there had been nearly a seven-foot
gain during the day, that the rainfall was
0.58 inch, and that the wind was from
the northwest. “Coal scuttles, flour bln*
and fire balloons” was the message from
Morganton. Naturally that meant a rising
river, 5 feet 6 inches of a change, 0.85
inch of rainfall, and a northerly wind.
The signal service does all its reporting
in cipher. All river messages are re¬
ceived in the above kind of language.
It is a laughable thing to have to call at
the office at an early hour on bnsinsaa and
hear the jargon that is being called out
frdm the telegretm. The oddest words fa
the language seem to have been selected
to form the cipher. The use of a cipher
at all is characteristic of the difference in
the management of a government depart¬
ment and a private concern. It is difficult
for an ordinary miml to see any need for
’t. The only conceivable theory it can be
justified on is that the department was at
one time a branch of the military aerrte*
and that therefore the fiction should be
kept up that some mysterious enemy wa*
in the country whom it was needful to
delude. Many people will be apt to think
that, with all due respect to the depart¬
ment, it could not delude an enemy won*
than by furnishing him with some of the
predictions that are daily famished to the
innocent public.—Pittsburg Press,
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Lard.—C hoice leaf, tiercesfXS ; do tuiMft&rf:
do cans. 12: FuirliaukB, tierces 10J4; tab* 1C
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