Newspaper Page Text
t)e Griffin V T Haily . A Hews. ft ft
i .M t: it
Griffin,
_ ___£_____
Griffin is tliveliest, pluckiest, most pro
gressive tow 11 in Georgia. This is no bjrpcr
olloai descri tion, as the record of the last
lire years will show.
During thst time it Inis built a :d put into
moat successful operation a 1100,000 cotton
factory auJ is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has pnt up a
large iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fae-
ory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
sash and blind factory, a broom factory
epened up the finest granite quarry in the
United State*, and has many other enter¬
prises in on temptation. It has scoured
another uilrond niaety miles long, and while
ooatcu on the greatest system in the
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Tennsasee, Virginia
and Georgia. It has just secured direct inde-
penileat connection with Chattanooga and
tke W, st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
. to its ultima'c completion. With
Its five white and three colored
ohurches, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its
population by nearly one fifth. It has at¬
tracted around its borders fruit growers from
nearly every State in tliq Union, until it is
now surrounded ou nearly every side by or-
chuids.and vineyard. It is the home of the
grape find its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
inaugurated a system of publioschools, witL
a seven years curriculum, second to aone.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of au already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer aud
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding
county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile aud 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
weieouie strangers and anxious to secure de
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel
com# if they bring money to help build up
the town. There is about only one thing we
ueed badly just now, and that is a big hotel
We have several 6mall ones, but their aocom-
modations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure aud health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Gums
Mews is published—daily and weekly—the
nasi newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
far sample copies.
This bnet snatch will answer July 1st
1888. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
ehanged to keep up with the limes.
PHUhtScsiUDiAL DIHtCfUK
HENRY C. PEEPLEs,
A T T O It N lb V A i L A W
HAMPTON, UJtOUGlA.
FracticeA in nJ! tne State ami Federal
t!ouri*. octWAwly
JNO. J. HUNT,
A C l O It N E Y A 1 L A W
OttIFFIN, GBoKlilA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. Hj
White's Clothing Store. 'uariJSdifcwlv
D. LHSMIKK. N.M.OOL.LIN8
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYEUS,
GIUFFIN, ga.
u.tioe,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-difcwtf
THGS. R. MILLS,
ttornet at law
GRIFFIN, GA.
fjA'iii practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office, over George Jr Hartnetts
, novt'-tf
1 BN n. STKWAKT. SORT. T. DAN IRC
STEWART & DANIEL.
ATTORNEYS A! LAW,
Over George & Hartnett’s, GrilLn, Ga.
Will practice in the State end Ferteru
ourts. iap 1
D. L. PARMER,
YTf ORNEY AT LAW
WOODBCBY, : : GEORGIA.
»i ompt attentiom given to all business
Will practice in all the Courts, and where
ever business business calls. calls. aprCdly
Eg" 1 ColUctions a specialty. . ..
Pure Mncly lye WBies
-AND-
HEADQUARTERS FOR FLAT SHOALS
CORN WHISKY.
Also, all kinds of Wines, Liquors
and Cigars such as are kept in a first
class establishment. Everybody is
nvited to call and see me at No.
West side Hill street.
«21d&w3m JOHN ISON.
New Felts
JUST RECEIVED!) AT
MBS. M. L.
Millinery Store.
Clark twIMtag. Comer ofJHill
Broadway.
i btiihalofthkdead
Biniiingiiam's Citizens Subside and
Follow their Lifeless Comrades.
FULL RESUME OF THE FRIGHT¬
FUL SCENES.
Account of the Attempt to Break the .luil
—The .Sheriff and Murderer in Dan¬
ger of their Liven—Advised
to Leave the City.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 10.--[Spe
eial. ]—The events of the past forty-eight
hours are known to the whole world.
It was announced by you on Sunday
morning that the body of Mrs. Hawes
had been found, aud that Hawes would
probably be lynched by the people o!
this city.
Saturday night a mob attacked the
jail, the guards opened lire, nine people
were killed and a number of others wort
hurt.
The .sheriff, who defended Hawes al
such.fearful cost, is now in “jail charged
with murder.
The full details of everything that hat
transpired since the body of Mrs llawe
was found, appear below :
Detective Kiernan lias contended fron
the lirat that the lake at Lakeview should
be drained. Its close proximity to th«
Hawes residence, he thought, was sugges
tive of a probable place of burial. Satur
day morning he got permission from Cor
oner Babbitt to drag the lake, and he and
two of his men worked from 8 until 11
o’clock with nets and hooks, but without
effect. At 11 o’clock Detective Robbins
also came out with a squad of searchers.
He had. in a conversation with K. R.
Hawes in the jail the night previous,
ascertained that the prisoner had spent
Sunday at Lakeview, and found out whe
was with him at the lake. He then saw
the gentleman who spent the day there
with Mr. Hawes, and asked what the
subject of their conversation between he
and the prisoner had been. The gentle¬
man told the officer tnat he and Hawes
had talked about the depth of the water
in the lake and the departure of the pris¬
oner’s family to Atlanta. Mr. Robbins
helpers took thisjas a strong clue, and with his
went out to the lake as above
recited. Mr. Kiernan concluding that
it would be useless for both his and Mr.
Robbins’men to drag the lake, turned
his attention to something else. Foi
about two and a half hours the detective
and His trusty helpers pulled their hooka
about in the bottom of the lake without
making any discoveries. About 12:30.
however, a nook which was being pulled
in a boat occupied by Mr. Jack Knight
and a Mr. Beaver, the latter being a con¬
ductor on one of the railroads running
into the city, struck something on the
bottom, and the two men promptly
brought it to the surface. It proved to
be a woman's liody—that of Mrs. R R.
Hawes. It was found near the south¬
ern end of the little artificial island and
about twenty yards from eighteen the boat feet house.
The water is about in
depth at the place and is far from trans¬
parent. To the body was attached over
fifty pounds of railroad iron, which
served to keep it on the bottom of the
lake. The gentlemen pulled the their boat hor¬ and
ror-inspiring rowed the passenger shore, into where they
to western
placed her on the bank in front of the
pavillion. had been disfigured by
The remains
drawn the water most horribly. and had been The skin bleached was
in wrinkles
a sickening white by the water. The
fifty-pound weight was tied with a cur¬
tain cord around the woman's neck, an¬
other around her waist, and still others
to her feet. She was dressed in a calico
or muslin wrapper on the ord* r of a
mother hubbard. She had been laid on
the hank with her face turned upward, and
when her head was back a ghastly
wound was discovered on the of it.
The kull was crushed and the water
had washed the hair from the injured
part, having it a sickening sight to be-
hold.
A large crowd gathered, and hundreds
of people from city the added neighborhood its and
from the were to num-
-bers. The right of the woman served to
exasperate the crowd, and many expres¬
sions advi eating re . enge for her death
were heard, finally, the undertaker’s
wagon droie up and the coroner had the
remains home away. An anxious crowd
followed the wagon as it left the lake.
About an iiour before the body of Mrs.
Hawes was found in the lake. Messrs.
Phil Giion and John Olmstead made a
discovery which is v no means unim¬
portant." the premise- They were which se.irehing the Hawes the house fam¬
and
ily had occupied. One of them crawled
under the building and there found a
pile of fresh ashes. Scattering the pile,
the gentlemen found that it had as a
base a bundle of clothes. He brought
them oat and examined them. They
were bloody, and about the size and
style of those worn by little Irene. It
was thought, also, that the little girl was
naked when her body was thrown into
the lake, if it was thrown in at all. Had
she had anv clothes on and been on the
bottom of the lake at Lakeview. the
draggors believe they would have hook¬
ed her el thing, aa evi ri inch of the Un-
tom has ins'll scratched. It is stall'd
furthermore thatsev r.il limes during
the day the hooks had caught in but a cer¬
tain locality some heavy object, that
the weight"of it had the torn hooks the each substance time.
of the object from
Possibly it is Irene's soft flesh that gives
wav to tile weight of the heavy irons
which holds Her to the bottom, when the
sharp hooks pierce her tender body
The officers who visited the Hawes cot?
tage Fridav evening were convinced be¬
yond doubt that the woman and the
other child had been murdered.
For several davs Sheriff Smith has
deemed it prudent to keep a watch over
the jail, and both day and night since
th# finding of damaging evidence against
Hawes the alley entrance to the jail has
been guarded by two sentinels, who
would allow only newspaper reporters
and city and county officials admittance
Saturda*. however, it was deemed pru-
dent to strengthen the guard and on
each corner of the jail block were and sta¬
tioned four or five special officers
policemen, who would let bo one peas
down TwentT tirs* street, except on the
w«at «de and even then they Wtacths were not
>Bmi rid te stop Oa»«*»
iRIFFLN. (GEORGIA. TUESDaIP MORNING, DECEMBER ”• iHSB.
ter rices al-o patrolled Twent first
street let ween Th rd and Fourth ve¬
nue*. and they kept the curious sight¬
seers intent moving charge on. There was no e\idvnt
to the jail, but idle curios¬
ity prompted thousands to visit the local¬
ity, caught hoping that a glimpse might be
of the man charged with the
blackest crime ever committed in Jeffer¬
son county, and perhaps the most re¬
volting in the criminal records of Al¬
abama.
At ten o'clock Saturday night the mob
lynching was organized for attacking the jail and
llawes.
After some time spent in talk and list¬
ening to those who were urging modern
tion and the observance of law and or¬
der, the crowd advanced on the jail. At
the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-
first street they were met by a guard of
special time, and officers. Mayor Here Thompson they paused urged for the a
men nothing to disperse to their homes and do
the crowd rash. behind They seemed to listen, but
warned hack pressed on, but were
al others. by Sheriff Smith and sever¬
Inside the jail preparations for meet¬
ing and repulsing the mob had been
completed.
At 11 o'clock the shouts of the ap¬
proaching crowd could bo plainly heard.
The shouts grew closer and louder still,
and the officers on the inside lingered
their guns and began making prepara¬
tion for the inevitable.
A mass of men appeared in the en¬
trance to the alley, and m a loud voice
Sheriff Smith ordered them out of the
alley at the | eril if their lives. distinguish It was
very dark and impossible to
the exact place the men at the entrance
to the alley were located. Some were
evidently on the opposite side of the
street.
Again the mass of human flesh ap¬
peared ia t lie-entrance to the allev !
"I aui going to shoot at three ' called ■
out the sheriff.
"One."
"Two."
"Three.
But the sheriff nor his men did not
£re then.
“1 u ill lire at five,’ again announced
the sheriff. Mr, Smith was very much
excited Tiie officers could see the forms
of the m •(! crooj ing up the alley toward
the jail. Again the sharp voice of the
sheriff called oat "one," “two," etc.,
and when live had beep reached, lie
ca!hd out. "fir- 1 !"
A perfect fusilade followed. An Age-
Heralil hitnself reporter was in the jail and saw
for that all the tiring was not
done by the officers. More than one
bullet whistled into the office of the jail.
The officers from their various positions
of ambush fired volley after volley into
the crowd, and the screams of the
wounded could be heard between the
volleys. The action was sharp and de¬
cisive,"but m a few minutes peace reign¬
ed. The officers who were located on
office the steps the of building the jail retired barricaded into the
of and the
door after the preliminary rounds had
been fired. TI;e door was not opened
until after the firing was over.
Inside the jail, after the battle of the
Pulleis I,-i.l Gw>.. it rtiis icpeuov
that twenty wounded. men had been picked up
dead or
The wholesale slaughter made in de¬
fense of the jail caused wild excitement.
Sheriff Smith has been arrested and
jailed. Detective Pruitt has also Iieen
jailed. Birmingham is in the hands of the
military. Twelve companies are iu
guard under command of Colonel Jones.
A company of cavalry and a Gatling
gun constitute the force to be used in
defending the jail and in preserving
order.
In a pul lished announcement Colonel
Jones warns the people that the laws
will he enfor. ed.
I*owtma*tvr Throckmorton lturied.
The funeral of Postmaster Throckmor¬
ton took place at I! o'clock p. m.. and
elaborate preparations were made. It
was the grandest affair ever solemnized
in Birmingham. He was an honorary
member of three companies and captain
of the Light Artillery, and belonged to
many secret orders.
Sheriff Smith and several of his guards
of Saturday night are still in jail. All
papers, while deeply deploring Sheriff Smith the terri¬ and
ble tragedy, defend
plead for the return of reason.
Telegrams have been sent to Governor
Seay by prominent citizens through Col.
Jones, asking permission to take Sheriff
Smith and murderer Hawes to Mont¬
gomery. immediately, If he giants this, they will be
taken and most of the mil-
itarv will accompany tham.
Not in the liutchinkon Squeeze.
Chicago, Dec. 10.—Mrs. Bates, the
mother of Frank Bates—whose name
has been connected with a rumor to the
effect that “Old Hutch" was loser to the
extent of $20,0W through the transac¬
tions and subse p out flight of one of his
brokers -asserts that there is no truth
in the report. Her son, she says, is in
New York city, having gone east a week
ago, on the advice of a physician, for a
short rest. She has telegraphed for him
to come liame. Mrs. Bates says the
rumors w ere started by an enemy of her
son
I'reillc-ted th. Tim* of His Death.
Tiffin. Ohio. Dec. 10.—Adelburt Wil¬
liams. aged 16, son of Seachins Williams,
of Fowler, was apparently in good health
Tuesday, when he suddenly announced
that he would die at midnight His pa¬
rents 1 tughed at him, but later on he
began to sink, and they sent for a minis¬
ter. The bey died fifteen minutes after
12 o'clock.
Think# Tawott U Ragged-
Chicago. Fee. 5.—A. J. Stone, agent
of the Snell estate, says he has received
advices that Tascott, the murderer of
millionaire Snell, has been arrested. He
declines to state when or where, but
savs the officer who made th-- arrest
knows Tascott, and he (Stone; is xtronglv
of opinion that the elusive Willie is at
last bagged.__
Nye and RJ!«y Leuiartlte.
j Locisviu-E.Ky., Dec. 10.—-[Special j
Bill Nye. the humorist and journalist
j and James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosiej
! poet, who arrived in the city last night eTub
are to-day the gueets of the Press
; They will given joint entertainment a
I.iderkranz hall
j Main.'. Total Vote.
ACwasta, Me.. Dec. 10,—The official
I vote of the slat.- of Maitu. is. Harrison j
T3.7W; Cleveland. *1,481; Fiak. 2,6#l
Streeter 1,344. scattering, 18: total rote
, 118.188 Harriot* »jtarality 33,488
j
TIIE CABD1KALATE.
-14-.....
Who Will Receive the Hijfli Honor
at the Consistory ?
EMINENT AMERICAN PRELATES
WHO ARE NAMED
-- m a w ...... - —
m
Pottcn» unit I>nU«*» of n f'arditial — An
Office SomeOmo# l*referrctl lo That
of 1‘opf—Hlfh CTmracter of
the Am«rte»)i lftonm*h>-
Nrw York, Dec 10. —(Special, j
Next to the jiOsitioii of pope that
of cardinal is the highest to whirl)
any < atholic clergyman can asp>re.
It ha- at limes indeed, been
more sought than that of the head
of (he church, for the reason that tnunv
jK>pes have been absolutely ruled by the
cardinals, while the cardinals, as a rule,
are not ruled by the pope a ay more than
they choose to he.
There are at present a number of va.
cant seats in the College of Cardinals.
The occupants of route of theur have,
however, been practically selected in ad¬
vance. The majqr doiuo of the pope, an
Italian, is to have the rod hat. France
is to hat e u cardinal, the candidate of
President Carnot. Germany nr will have
one who will l>e friendly with the young
Emperor William, aud Austria stria will
secure the appointment of one who will
be in accord with the reigning honse oi
the Hajwsburgs. Rome According America to is the have best
advices from to
at least one and probably three of the
new appointments, and the candidates
for these vacant seats in the College of
Cardinals are numerous. There is a tra¬
dition in the Catholic church thut one of
the jropes was called to Rome to rule
from hts cell in au African desert; hence
every American archbishop anil bishop
has some reason to expect elevation.
But simple monks are not railed to the
papal chair any more, and among all
the aspirants for the coveted red hat
there are just about a dozen who iiave
any chance of success, and among these
tiie new cardinals will found. These
arc
Ar libishop John J Williams, of Bos-
t. n.
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of Chi¬
cago. Henry Elder,
Cincinnati. Archbishop William of
New Archbishop Y’ork. Michael A. Corrigan, of
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan, of
Philadelphia. Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan. of
San Francisco.
Bishop Thomas John Loughlin, of Brooklyn.
Kill. Bishop C. Becker, of Charles
Bishop Richard Uilniour, of Clave
land. . -
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald, of Little
Rock, Ark.
Bishop John L. Spaulding, of Peoria,
Ills.
Bishop John Ireland, of St. Paul.
Bishop John J. Keane, of Washington.
D. (
These are the leading Catholic church¬
men of America.
the Archbishop senior archbishop Williams, of of the Boston, American is
church, lie. was created Archbishop made of
Boston in 1875. when Boston was
an archdiocese. He is well along in
years now, but is sturdy witliai. He is
not an orator, but is one of the best in¬
formed canon lawyers in the church.
He is consulted in almost every church
quarr I that takes lilaee. Among others
he was called in when the Dr. MeOlynn
episode occurred, and it is stdl -aid that
if ids advice had iieen heeded the subse
queiit quarrel might have been avoided.
It is said that cardinal Archbishop Williams but
could have been years ago.
that He lie said lias never be first sought in line the for position.
is to promo¬
tion now.
Archbishop Michael Corrigan, of New
York, is at the head of the greatest
archdiocese in America. It is claimed
that there are 100,000 Catholics in New
York state. He is rather tall, slight of
figure, and has a face that does not indi¬
cate great ability. He wears eye¬
glasses. is retiring, talks only when
it is necessary, and is no orator, for he
can lie heard only within a radius of
about appointing’ twenty feet. Altogether he him is dis¬ for
to one who meets
the first time. But he is the most suc¬
cessful member of the American hier¬
archy. He is a young man. com¬
paratively -(leaking, the son of a small
merchant in Newark. N. J., and
since he succeeded Cardinal McClos-
dey has become as popular with the
Protestants of New York as with the
Catholics. How he has done it no one
seems to know. His friends say he has
used tact, decision and discretion. Others
say he has succeeded because of bis pure-
ly negative qualities. It is also said that
be-is to be named cardinal as a reward
for his course in the HcGlynn episode,
while others say he will not be named
for Archbishop precisely the Patrick same reason. John Ryan, of
Philadelphia, was called from St. Louis
to succeed the late Archbishop excellence of Wood.
He is the orator par the
Catholic church, and is looked upon as a
prodigy at Rome, where Americans are
none too popular. He is a splendid look¬
ing man. Iieing at least six feet in height
and well proportionately Imilt, with a big
head thatched with red hair. He
was the orator on the < ccasion when the
red hat was conferred on Cardinal Gib¬
bons. where one of his witty admirers
says he need never ask for the red hat
while he kept his handsome red head.
Archbishop Ryan did not exjiect to be
cardinal just yet, but is said to have a
fair chance to become one just the same.
Next to Archbishop Williams, those on
the inside pick out as one of the coming
cardinals Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan,
of which Chicago. He insisted represent- that the west,
has long it was enti¬
tled to a cardinal, and which is in line
for the honor this time. If appointed,
Archbishop Feehan will be worth seeing
when arrayed in his cardinal robes, for
he stands some six feet in height and is
built like an athlete. On the occasion of
his la-t visit to Rome, himself and Arch¬
bishop Ryan surprised the of more puny
Halian kistnpe by reason their stature
and strength. Archbishop Feehan was
at once nicknamed “Le Sauvage Irtand-
ese." and his friends Mill call him the
"Irish Savage " But he has brain as well
as brawn, and in the west is looked upon
as the coming mao Henry
\rph bishop Elder of U»ctn
aati. can he ecsmm# ee % casddstf
tci lie cstuinalat only l>,-
fa * . li lt In' i» a v«-te an a • ‘i i , .
unci •«-.!. d to the arvhhMu, r. <•< >
i-inn iti when it was in a deplotaid-- .-u.n-
owing in the misfortune- of ,h in
Archbishop Purcell, since and in there the atclniio have >>
disseiisioli ever .•
owing to unable ilic fad that the the no 'ulu-hop ihai
ha- l*vii to pav monev
Aid! bishop Puree 1 ! lo 1 Blit nil
bishop Kidd is popular, and B e i.>«io
fact that he is an archbishop will lead to
a consideration of lii-nu iil-at «.’• >in--.
Archbishop Francisco, Patr.ek i- candidate \V. Riordan, b. of of
San a cause
bis He title, transferred but can -careelv from 'hicago be appointed.
was < to 'suc¬
ceed Archbishop Aleuiany, who r -itnod
to retire to a monastery in Sian He
is still young, but has pronounced ability.
Among the bishops named n' ove are
some remarkable men.
Bishop John J. Keane some time ago
resigned tiie president bishopric of the Richmond. Yu .
to become of new Ameri¬
can college in course of erection at Wash¬
ington He is a practiced orator, an f i-
«aid to lie not graduated only the most bri bant
student ever from the Sul
pician college at Baltimore, but also the
ablest member of the American bier
are It v He is now in Rome. He i-inueh
admired by Leo XIIrand something may
come of his visit.
Bishop Spaulding, He of Peoria, is a very
brilliant man is young and i- in
tensely American rontributora He is one of the most
frequent to the North
American Review. He lias ‘advanced
ideas on most things, is in some respects
a radical, and is. perhaps, the only Cath¬
olic bishop who favors female suffrage.
Bishop Edward Fitzgeiald. Ireland, of of Little
Rook, and Bishop St. Paul,
are mnrh alike Both are identified with
the temperance organizations of the
country, both favor the colonization of
Catholics in the west, and both are ora¬
tors and able men. Bishop Fitzgerald
enjoys the distinction of I cing the only
Bishop American Mc.Quaid. bishop with the exception of
of Rochester, who
voted papal against infallibility the adoption in of the dogma
of the great ecumen¬
ical council held in Rome in 1869 '70.
Bishop Becker is said to lie one of the
best linguists in America, and is said to
have been the originator of the idea of
the National i atholic university. Bishop
Loughlin. of Brooklyn, has the reputa¬
tion of having built more eliun hes than
any bishop in America. Bishop Uil¬
niour. a 8cot< liman, is rated as the
strictest disciplinarian in the church in
America.
From among these men who dominate
the Catholic church in this country
Rome will make its choice of a cardinal.
There are other candidates, of course,
but they are candidates only in name.
It iirny In*, however, that the German
Catholics, who now number 2,009,< 00 in
America, will gel a cardinal of their
own, which they claim they are enti¬
tled to.
As a matter of fact a bishop in hix dio¬
cese is as powerful as any cardinal. The
red hut carries with it much honor and
a vote as to who shall be pope, but that
is about all.
Here in America the election of a car
,, --l » 44- - * —*--•* WVVXUUVMI.
But it has no political significance. (’ar-
dinal Met loskcy and, succeeding him,
Cardinal Oibism-. have proved them¬
selves such thorough Americans as to
cause Protest mis a - well as < 'atholics to
take a very considerable interest in the
election of a new cardinal. But whether
one or three of th ■ men named aliove
enter the Co.lege of Cardinals remains
to lie seen.
1 l.trF.VTFt) Mt-~.ltHI >1 KMT.
Th* Presidewt H ili Mmil t !»«• ,!«•%{* A Ih>U|
His ( I viI Hrn i< •• IttToMi) •»iN*n<*e.
Boston. Mass., Dec. 10.— [H|iecial.|—
A Washington dispatch to the Herald
says: Gen. Grosvener, a typical Ohio
partisan thought it very funny to ask
in the house when the president's mess¬
age was being parceled that out among the
committees where portion referring
to civil service reform had been sent.
* All tbi- merriment is a trifle prema¬
ture. The president of civil withheld service bis review
of the progress reform
under this administration so as to give
it greater effectiveness by sending it in
with the annual report of the civil ser¬
vice commission next month. His mess¬
age will handle the spoilsmen without
gloves.
Th. New 0|>.rjk "America.’*
PHli-iDEi-PittA. Dei. 10.— [Special.j—
The new comic opera "America” will be
produced to-night at the Academy of
Music by the Columbia Opera company.
The king of the Samoan island figures
conspicuously in the opera as King Mo¬
nopoly, and the Samoan scene is reported
to i»e unusually amusing. The costumes
for this scene are being made from se¬
lected photographs who loaned appointed by Hon. Geo.
R. Bates, was commis¬
sioner to Samoa by President Cleveland
to investigate the unhappy condition of
affairs lately existing on those islands.
The idea of the manners and cu-torr.s of
the natives was obtained, it is under¬
stood. from Sir John B. Thurston, who
was recently appointed Fiji by islands Queen Vic¬
toria as governor of the
An Illiuoi* Mirage.
Bloomington. III., Dec. 10.—A mirage,
a phenomenon rarely witnessed in Illi¬
nois. is repiorteJ from Wapella. DeWitt
county, n.-ar this city. Early this morn¬
ing the town of Midland City, 12 miles
west Wapella of Wapella. people, was apparently plainly elevated seen by
the
far above the the Illinois intervening Midland railraid objects. A
train on was
derful a<*en approaching sight laste 1 the depot time, The and won¬
some ex¬
cited the liveliest wonder.
In Memory of W**!*).
New York, Dec. 10. — [Spxx-ial.j—
Many of the churches of the city last
night held memorial services in honor of
Charles Wesley, one of the most emi
nent poets and hymniats. who died one
hundred year, ago As the present vear
marks the hundredth anniversary of his
death, a committee has been formed to
make the memorial celebration univer¬
sal
T*»trd by llarnum'n Eltpiiauu.
Bridoepokt, Conn., Dec. 10.—Fifteen
of Barnum s elephants, representing a
weight of sixty tons, were inarched over
the new iron bridge acroas the harbor
this morning, a test which the bridge
stood successfully. A city steam roller,
weighing elephants. M*venteen tons, was seat crowd ahead
Of the An immense
wttaeesed t he «x|>erimat.
■ mill OLD TIM.
Tin? Dm hf'.d's Orchids Were Too
Very Expensive.
THE PRINCE OF WALES CAHN T
BEAH PENURY.
Hut H«f « Fmicj ii«*in# Coiik ufthl
With i# ’ vtiitfl"— I.flulj Mottttw
1 bought 8,04)0 1*0111x1 A Too
Much—S»‘n«»Honal Suit
I sin i nix Iks-. 10. [Kperiat.) - The
I hike <ff Murlisirough has again aji-
Iwared in court, but this time only a
witness, and in a case, too, which did
not reveal a scandal. He was sum¬
moned !<» give testimony for the Duchess
of Montrose in a suit brought against
her by an on bid-grower of Mt. All-ana,
named Sanders, to recover i'y.GVi. Hts
evidence did not prevent the jury giving
a verdict for the amount claimed.
It s emsthat in June of last year the
duchess w anted to etulicllish her place.
Softon Izidge, ’Newmarket, by going in
for orchid culture. The Duke of Marl-
Iximugh -introduced Sanders to her.
Sanders' version of the bargain is that
he agreed to supply One thousand orchids
for 417.2TO, to fill two houses. Tiie order
was given in June, and her Gractt
wanted to have a display of them by
the Newmarket week in July, when
the Prince of Wales was to visit her.
She found them simply delightful, hut
there was too much white for her taste
and she authorized Sanders to supply
more of another color to coat £1.000.
This additional order and the cost of
constructing a rookery brought Handers’
hill up to £8,650. This the ditches* re¬
fined to pay as she considered it an over¬
charge. The order w a< for one thousand
orchids, and these she claimed should
have contain d more color . The duchess
went into th witness liox aud denied
that slu- had given the plaintiff an order
for a thousand orchids, or that an order
was given the thousand for another consignment,
after had been supplied,
because the Prince of Wales wan going
to dine with her.
It mortified is reported the that revelation the Prince of Wales
is at in court, at
the his vulgal display and ma le by the duchess
on account that in- has resolved
not to accept invitations from her in
the future.
Till; PANAMA CANAL
Amerti-Nii t'M|>llatl.l. tVlil K-'ini.li It lu Two
VKUIt. ,
Anew r Otoe. nee. iu. — JTterewa tfltong
prtM|NN't now that the ago ay over the
Panama canal w ill soon be at an end,
and tliat that great inter-oceanic w ater
channel will lie completed.
\ syndicate lias ts-en formed in this
city by well know n capitalists, who have
arranged to put In ls-tween $50,000,000
875,000,000 to finish the entire work.
It is exjwcted this will take only two
years.
Tin - indicate has Ixyn formed through
tiie evitionsof Janies D. la-ary. already
famous in this city for his exploits with
his Nova Scotian rafts of log*. The
The mcmix rs of the syndicate are Mor¬
ton Bliss <V Company, Eugene Kelly
and others, who are already interested
in tie- American Dredging company.
This latter company has a $17,000,000
contract fur dredging tie* Colon end of
the canal, and has |x-rformed $12,000,000
worth of work on the contract. The
president and the of that company is II. B. Bla-
vin. treasurer is Eugene Kelly.
The new syndicate has made its prop¬
osition to the Panama Canal'company,
ami it has been accepted. The matter
w ill conn up in i’arir for ratification on
the lith. when it is expected that the
contract will tx- finalL completed. The
French government has informally ap¬
proved of the agreement.
IT MAT NOT l*AS8.
lit publican*. V.j$itl to ThKo
U on» f»> tlx* Senate Hill.
Washington. Dec. 10 - The fate of
the senate tariff I ill is uri'-ertaiii, even
if the democrats houl! not oppose it.
Tiie western republican senators are
very uiu-h dissatisfied with it. and
Plumb will attack it on some of its pro¬
visions. which will Is: followed hv other
attacks on other schedules.
But the manufacturers, to pieaxe
whom it was made, and made in many
parts have most taken incongruous alarm and contradic¬
tory, and are prepar¬
ing to resist all change*. T he bill was
tiie party's promise to them on which
they gave their money and exerted their
influence over their work people. They
declare it is bad faith and an intolerable
swindle, which they will not bear if
changes are made.
if some western republican senators,
therefore, insist - n modifications and
lowi r rates., and by their votes secure
these—which in so close a senate can tie
done by three or four votes—Then some
eastern senators will be moved bv their
manufactur ng friend* to defeat the bill
as a whole, or mor probably'to recom¬
mit it and thus kill it. for thi* ses ion at
least That is the condition of tilings at
pre-eni
New York’* Ctti~m.nl of Suicide*.
New York, Iks-. 10.—[Special.J— The
epidemic of suicide* here still continues.
At it) o'clock this morning Broaderick
Eng-1, ided aged bv taking 52. in a dose fit of of desponepey, poison.
sue a
David Blake, who swallowed a dose of
niuriitic a- id, died this morning.
Elizabeth Clayton, aged 60, was found
dead in her room, having been suffocated
by gas
Gotham'* I'lntarch'a Hall.
New York. Dec. 10.—[Special.]—The
first ball of ti e Patriarchs this season
was a grand affair. As usual, extensive
arrangements had been made for the af-
fair, and many distinguished i eople
were present
Tlw farmers of Slwlh- county, lllinais,
have funned a co-operative league, open¬
ed a store, and will buy their own goods
at wholeeeV and own $f»
NUMBER 244
SAWED OFF SHORT.
i».» V. , W I Moil
see* T.t.graaes CnrltlM to
G.« Hasty Mv uittr. g ?
b- himself .u Bi .d- nburgh Kenton. auccnwfutly stra* !
• i-ii at O. * ’
i, l .!t£ft*!#£JW!" k ''........
ido’s nf*w archbbihOp is Rev. Don-
; Id M< Donald, of Harbor Grace, N, IL
Elite.i merchants s re
against charged the there, excewlve rates of
Tie* merchant marine and
it- Alaska - will investigate alleged ,
rag- * m
Tee Miners* Progressive I nto* eket-st
officers and selected ected Columbus Columbus a* a* Mm
firadquamrif. ^ ,„z ,
. jsj'.jags- ■was- fcttc -
I„n.,. .wwua*
gi' ia. 1 riduy.
on January be 7th, republican the Indiana for sup*--- the
court will
time in eighteen years.
John and SnJlivan sued his has challenge dej-otited$6,000 for fight for-
felt. I a
to a finish with Jake Kilrata.
At Memphis, Tenn.. hrederick
a car railroad, repairer employed crushed by the defith Kantte by
City was to
I ho care.
Den iron, < »hlo. saloon keeper* are pre-
paring has declared to open the up. local The option drcuft ordis twsrt
has
in that state invalid. : ; ia
Webb C. Willison, while
the new city building at SprlJ)
fell seventy feet to the grottn
instantly killed.
farmer, Band died Sears, of a hydrophobia Hound Hollow, frank K} the - -
■ He- i* of a lute j- cec.ed by a deg twen-
tv-five vears ago.
Roy H elweg and Frank Mtyklaugfa,
aged ten drowned and eight while skating yean raepsAieely. the rtvrir
were on
at Owatonna, Wis. •
John W IWd. a painter of Ofitumbu*.
Ga.. who lias U-en at Asharjty*, N. C,
sometime wan knocked insfiuitjy f rota a treefte
at Black mountain and kJied, z
The member* of the Ohio National
dors Guard of have been assigned and naval to the depart¬ corri-
tin* » nr, state
ments in Washington for inauguration
h<wl<|uiuu<r».
Iml., Win. while Mearnelman, living near Peru,
hmb» telling and a tree had waa caught and
among the aa arm
••• - - ml nbs broken, while he was badly
bruized all over his body.
Cammcrc) LIvar was hung st Edinburg,
Texas, for the murder of Theodore
Marks Livar Livar shot and him two And otbe» then waylaid hts
Mark*. cut
Uric up and burned it.
erA MroBfe involved in a’
the la! t r’s buckshot house,-utd the f ra— e f t—__
a 1> ail of iu the breast and died
immediately.
In the (x-erlesa oil refinery at Fhidtay.
O.. William 1 .ightfo.it descended into a
still and w as overcome by gas. Ephraim
Weirich followed to help him and fared
the same. Phil. O’Connell went third
and succeeded almost losing'his in saving Weirich life In only,
and own tftte
attempt.
Mahlou Wood, of Monticello, Ind.,
who conspired with in Haiuuel and Robinaon afterwards to
put wooden i»-gs corn
find them m Samuel McMullen's man¬
ger, in order to blackmail him out of
projierty, is condemned to utilim his
l»-gging practice one year in the peni¬
tential -Ik e -bop. ex- "
Frank Robinson, colored, was arretted
for oontz | Laying at Iziuisville, Kf. He
jumptsl th*- from otficers. otlicers. a third-story and and window pk ked^ tQ
escape t ne wss was up
frightfully crusheii and cut.
the way to the hospital .—,— lie -gained regained oouts,-: oon-
sciouanesM • i m and escaped. 1 jumped from the patrol
wagon an
A CONFESSION.
TIi. ■'.n-nlioiml Storjr of Crlmtt T*itl tgf
s Ilyins Man.
Kalamazoo? Mich..Dee. to.—William
Radiger, of this city, has just mode pub-
lie t in- -ee national confession of a dying
man. lb-inrich Schance,a bridge builder :
of Chicago, made to Radiger in this city
last May. fk-hanc-e’sconfession in sub¬
stance i* as follows:
■ In 18*4 my partner. Schultz, and my-
self rented u barn in Cot vert, Prussia,
and to throw off suspicion we net fire to
\ strong wind was Mii* io|L
and on o- our sorrow, on*- hundred
hou«e- «n*t stores were m I’a ces. -I*
The village s:i‘ovine V a* s sz til ! hurmsl l night to ihv h gc*««*d^ ritAhr*'
was
many mothers .*unt children jwris mg in
the flam - As tit- | eopk- gathered at
the t<xik fir-we stcaii stole- for away. America 1 immediateiy and to
a or came
Chicago, aud hav - ! e-B hire ever ainoe.
My I partner He remained, was a braver and criminal still living than
is
there."
DAILY MARKET REPDATi
a - ■
IttVScUU.V ..-I ■« * 1 - SSttUO* * OK!-*--!#?. -
,vn_**T*. Gs., U- -Mamr Xk
Ops-ntnr N't-**- .1 l • .*■.. wi*. , zoo (it
(Un-sm
D»s*mber '{*0, ovniojf C.otttc. i
■j * • * A »- 4
Januarj ')«!$..... 9:a5
fsl.ruttrv ... *.78
Mac- fi v ■*» £ j?......
»■* ..... » » *
«»> . lo-.e* ic.ff.•
Jtin. Jmy Mn:>8?l-) iO.Zt ts to i.vur* r;
Wttt !U mkM Jtt
Augnc. losnien M-mtx >a»
K. ■[.:-« i cs-i 9 kit » *»
t s c her
Nov* aux-r Or * • ,- 4S .....
Closed *» *ad> sUim. «.JW. tgaiM MIX'”
aung* 90S.45*?, s w receipt* * 90 #; exports hSMM:
Mock
j Mfirkct.
f ht« taco
1 t 'MiCAQO.ia.tt inyvni tit Ml
i m..... »
W~D«lt
lste.ni Per
January tot
8»l ■ >. .105
Corn. January December .......JaH!
May ....
^
Devwmiwf
it??*** 7 14JS IS-.-J • * - ■.. « *.»* «nmHh|
i . AT
'■S*-s*#»