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jSl mMm i* l*. a 3ST «*■ ^ "n » ....... V + STJ3ST I, GEORGIA, U. S. A. ... t and moat,promising little u Its record for the past h many new enterprise in oper- l contemplated, prove this » a business statement and not a hyper- ription. t time it has built and put into 111 operation a f100,000 cotton j and with thin year started the wheels eo.ud of more than twice that capital. , put ojfVlargv iron and brass foundry, »rfactory, an immense iceandbot- : works, a sash and blind factory, a i factory, opened up the finest granite f in the United States, and now has ge oil mills in more or less advanced i construction, with an aggregate au- d capital of over. 1 / that can be procured, and has ap- idfor two charters for street railways. It j, secured another railroad ninety miles long, d wtnle located on the greatest system in Sooth, the Central, has secured connec- i with its important rival, the EastTen- ^ee, Virginia and Georgia. It ha^obtaiu- i direct independent connection with Chat- .auooga and the West, and will break ground |u a few days fora fourth road, connecting with a fourth independent system. ’ Witifits five white and fonrcolored churc.h- t> it has recently church." completed a $10,000 hew bytsrian It has increased its pop- on by nearly one fifth. It has attracted nditsbortlersfruit growers from nearly r Statc in the Union, until it is now sur- ded on nearly every side by orchards 1 vineyards. It has put up the largest _it evaporators in the State. It is thehome rf the grape audits wine making capacity has loebiol every year. It has successfully in- ubed a system of public, schools, with a __a || years curriculudirfecond to none. This is part of the record of a halt decade 1 simply Shows the progress of on already mirable city, with the natural advantages ! of having the finest climate, summer find | winter, in the world, . I:ty, Oriffln is the county seat of Spalding eonn- situated in west Middle Georgia, with a healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet t above sea level. By the census of 1890, it J|; | will have at alow estimate between all of 6 the 000 right and T,000 people, and they ore I % sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to welcome strangers and aBxioua to secure de- sirable settlers, who wUl not be any less wel¬ come ifthey bring money to help build up the g; I ■ town. There Is about only , one thing we need badly just now, and that is a big hotel. P'- 1 We have several small ones, but their accom- modations are entirely too limited for our ! business, pleasure and health seeking guests, g If you see anybody that wonts a good loca- tion for a hotel in the South, just mention Griffin ' - * si ! Griffin is the place where the Gnirris News s published—daily and weekly—the best news¬ paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please .enclose stamps in sending for sample copies, ■ and descriptive pamphlet of Griffln.1 This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889, and will have to be changed in a few months to embrace new enterprises commenced and completed. • PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENRY C. PEEPLES, attorney at law, HAMPTON, UEOBClA. PtactiwK in all the State and Federal onrte. ortMdwly JOHN J. HUNT,. ATTORNEY AT LAW,' I * qkifpin, obosgia. Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H. White’s Clothing Store. mar22d*wly THOS. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, will practice in the State and Federal Courts/ Office over Georgd & Hartnett’s corner. novatf JOHN B, STKWAET. ^ BOBT. T. DANIEL. 'STEWART & DANIEL ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George * Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. WUl practice in the State and federal Courts. jnlylfidtf “ D. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT 'LAW GEORGIA. j Pprompt attention given to all and business! where Will practice in all the Courts, ever business calls. «*■ Collections a specialty. HOTEL CUJRTI8 I *' oeiffw, Georgia. Under New Management. S. G. DANIEL, Prop'r. : , :-4- 1 1 tan meet all train*. LOOK! *nl:Til Willin' ^ ,-r..... -^0$ ’ "ii■ - in 13- miles of city, ly 1 mill KSasBtf i cotton, to feed them. A bargain will be given in this 1 ' « * “ fruits. •* ,r «* “ t .. .< „ .. > - and vacant fotc too numerous to to sell .wUl dowel! lev- CRONIN’S M11H The Chicago Mystery More Mys¬ terious than Ever. The Cause of Death nor Shown By the Post-Mortem. . * That tlie Doctor was Murdered There Is No Longer Boom fie* Doubt—Who Did It and How W« It Done—The Bogus Dispatches from Canada—A Keporter Makes a Discovery in the Cateb -Basin. Chicago, May 25.-The Cronin case will.go down jm the annuals of crime as one of the most mysterious that has ever puzzled the ttie wit of the’ detectives or fas- ciliated imagination of the morbid. Each new discovery of supposed links in the chain of circumstantial evidence but complicates the .difficulty of solution and serves to disprove all tenable theories to explain the murder thus far advanced. That I>r. Cronin was murdered there is no longer any room tor doubt Scores of his friends have identified his body. The fact has been definitely Bettled skufi by tile physicians that the victim’s was not fractured nor cloven, despite the dozeu scalp wounds upon it It is cer¬ tain also that he was not strangled. What Killed Him? doctors y made, and kept half a dozen at work, nearly three hours.. The skull was cut open and the brain removed. After physicians the scalp had been taken off the discovered-that the bones composing the skull had scarcely the sliarp been instrument, marked by which the blows it, of was There thought caused sign the of congestion doctor’^ death. about was no tile brain, but the lungs *aud pulmonary cavity were filled with blood. The phy¬ sicians said tlfat this might have result¬ ed from the fact that Cronin’s body was placed basin. A head cut downward one-half inch in the deep catch was found upon the neck, and several bruises upon the lower limbs. death The theory easily that exploded. he was The choked doctors to was found no signs of suffocation, and disr covered no bruises about the neck such as would result from strangling a man with a towel windpipe or rope. The passage through the was unobstructed. Great Complin s attorney, bein „efinita, soldi —-----.... —... information the police have, we are con¬ vinced that there was a greataxmspiracy. track Bight of at this moment whom officers knew, arc almost on the a man we beyond a doubt, was a principal in the crime. In twenty-four hours I ho believe be will be behind then the whole hellish come out" Woodruff Talks. “I can clear the trunk mystery up in forty-eight hours;” himself, said Woodruff, or Black, as he calls "and when I do that I clear up the Cronin mystery. The two or identical.” Why do you soy that?” asked the re¬ porter. “Because I know it I won’t give but I know it X’ll admit that my reasons, have thus far I know more than I told of this whole business. ’ ’ Col W. P. Bend, a friend of Dr. Cro¬ nin’s, says: the who "If we can fix on persons have attempted to cover up this murder by liogas will dispatches have much and trouble other in finding means, we not the instigators of the murder, it not the perpetrators themselves. In fact any persons throwing who have been implicated in. the .officers off the right track in this manner are, in the view of the criminal punishable law, accessories after the fact, and as such.” A New My*tery. William B. Hotchkiss, a reporter for the Inter Ocean, found the suburban po¬ lice had neglected to search the catch- basin removing where Cronin’s the body was found after The corpse. the newspaper man decided to under¬ take work. In the bottom of the sewer basin, concealed in the water, was tne one wiucu was wrapped auuui orou- in’s head. human Further finger. groping The brought member up a single decomposed, and if impossible was was to tell whether it was that of a mail or woman. Woodruff told a strange story of a woman’s body in the bloody trunk. had The woman’s cut body, into small Woodruff pieces, said, and been up the finding of possible the finger corroboration is pretty gen¬ of erally taken as the prisoner’s story. It is certain that the finger is not from Dr, Cronin’s hands. Was* Croat* <* Canada? Charley Long, the young man who claims he saw and interviewed Cronin in Toronto, was asked last night in that city what hi thought of the matter sinoe the finding Tiave of the had doctor’s three years’inti¬ body. He claims- to a have conversed macy with Cronin and to witii him. His theory is that returned after his visit to Toronto, Cronin Go Chicago and was mfirdered He tells interview. a very plausible story of the alleged An Empty Cottaffb Cut* a Figaro. It was discovered Thursday that a cottage near the residence of Patrick O’Sullivan, the ice man, was rented a little less than two months ago by un¬ known parties, who paid one month’s rent in advance, but never, so far as they ly Irish _ workingmen, __saa«a going to work for Mr* fcmlli- van" ___were improbable that the cot¬ It is not assassins of Dr. tage was hired by the Cronin* n*d he was decoyed body to it, taken mur¬ dered there and then the away in th edarank, , Th« Van tic Disabled, boom. She heading was steering New north Yor k. by west, probably for . Taro Children Drowned. Fort Atkinson, Wis., two children May 25-— of lav evening GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. SI MORNING, MAY 26 . 188 <>. MATTHEWS’ SUCCESSOR. Attorney General Miller Vrtll Very Likely Be (he Man. - Washington, May 26.-*-It is now re¬ garded as almost certain that Attorney General Miller will be appointed to suc¬ ceed Justice Matthews. The announce¬ ment is expected shortly, and the delay is said to arise frofti the difficulty of de¬ ciding upon a new head for the depart¬ ment of justice The matter has pro¬ gressed so far that New York has soented the vacanc y and is after it hot foot >r’- PENSION CASES. Three Important One* Decided In Favor of the Claimant*. Washington, May 25.-—Assistant Sec¬ retary Bussey has rendered a deration in the pension claim of William ___ _—, Powell, late of Company!), F< -seventh Penn- his application, volunteers, alleges ■■■■■■■■I that on Jan. 9, 1869, while in camp atCad waloder^ Phil¬ out adelphia, and paid" Pa,, he waiting walking to bo in mustered the bar¬ was racks, when a corporal of his company threw which struck at him him a five-gallon the left demijohn, leg under on theknee, whioh inflicting a severe wound, from he has never recovered* The claim was originally rejected on the grounds that the injury was. received after the applicant's discharge from the service, and that if in service the injury had no connection with his military duty, and hence was not pensionable. From this latter view the assistant sec¬ retary dissents, and directs that if,, upon further examination, it is found that ihe service claimant's did not actual separation until after from he the in¬ oocur curred tiie disability, though his dis- Tuttle, widow of Josiafa Tuttle, late of Company and B, John Sixty-fourth Cex, late of Ohio Company volun¬ teers, Fifty-ninth Ohio volunteers. C, In the former case the question involved was one of fact. In the case of Cox the records show that while running the claimant ’ Following ing heavi „ the decision HI . . man case, pension Was granted. THE SECU RITIES AG a NO GOOD. ErtMtu* Wiman Advlass Electrical Com- panie* to Form a Syndicate, New Yoke, May 25.—Erastas Thursday Wiman talked to the Electric club night about electrical possibilities as vieWed by a business man. He advised the electrical companies to form a syndi¬ cate rather than spend their time in the courts. ■ “I went into a bank the other day to get a little money, ” continued Mr. Wi¬ man, “and they asked me for my secu- "les. I offered electrical^ securities, ■(■I .■■©■■■ppiffii lasp'to), wrong,, and there is such strong competition, 'and, moreover, yon *---— never can tell when when another another new ~ “—■ mayor is com¬ ing along with an an ax ax to cut down your poles.’ “Competition has been described as the life of trade, but it is the death of profit. characterized Speaking The of the Little Western Wizard Union of he Wall Street, ’ as the Old Man of the Sea, who sat upon its back and straddled its neck witii his legs. ’ God help any poor devil exclaimed. who suggests any improvements, he Mr. Wiman ’s address was full of wit and interest, and a’ vote of thanks was given him wit h a will. _ Weald Be a Mighty Combine. Chicago, May 25.—A bit of last year’s gossip, concerning a prospective alliance pf the the Chicago, Chicago Milwaukee and Northwestern and St. Paul and roads,, has been revived. The story goes that the Vanderbilts, who now con¬ trol the Northwestern, will St. secure a con- trolling interest in the Paul com¬ pany, and, without consolidating the two systems, will so unite their power and influence as to make them joint masters of the Northwestern situation, an that this rumor appears to be mace widely credited now than when it first came to light______ IUTestlfrotliijf Ancient Mound*. Waterloo, Iowa, May 25.—Professor Webster, the of Charles City, who investi¬ gated ancient mounds near that place a few weeks ago, has just finished opening five mounds near Bradford, in Chickasaw county. He found in them thirteen fairly well preserved skeletons. The skulls ,of all of them proved the same characteristics of low development that were shown by the skeletons found near Eloyd. Webster From is of his the investigation opinion that Professor there was Cedar quite Valley a population in prehistoric in the Upper Gone Ont of Blast. Buohtel, depression O., May in 25.—Owing the iron market, to the recent and in view of the vast amount of iron now in stock at their various furnaces in the valley, the Columbus Columbus and a Hock- ing Coal and Iron n company company ’ Thursday shut down their their Wiona Wiona and and Butchtel furnaces fjimaces indefinitely. indefinitely. New Stmighterille, This This 1 leaves and the tite Bessie, Bessie, at a Greendale. the only furnaces Hattie, Hattie, at at Greendale, in the valley. tne only Four hun- now in blast dred men are thrown out of employ- ment. ' , _ Blighting Frost In Northern Ohio. New New Yoke, YORK, May May Findlay, Findlay, 25.—A 25.—A £>., O., speoial sp< The _ke Herald Herald from from r says: s „ blighting blighting and frost frost is prevails prevails doing in great this part deal of of the state, a damage to field and garden crops and severely injuring naif the inch fruit, in • Ice thickness from a quarter to a formed in water ppolft and it is feared that the growing com and wheat cannot , Quieting Lown nt Foreit City. Little Bock, returned Ark, May 25.—Gov¬ ernor Eagle has from Forest City. In his. opinion there will bn no who was asked to rf.Su citisens, is here. not resign. _ Sawed in two. day Font morning, Wayne, at the Ind., Douglass May 25.—Thurs¬ saw near Angola, north of here, Great Damn i)one In the Lav- tert District. Several Per Drowned Killed 1 1 Lightning. Bridge* Wanked < t and Crop* Damaged, What li the 3 or the Petty Dl»- -A Pan-Servian Flo# In Bounin «r*» Trial Po*t- poned Until London; Ma; severe thunder- storm in the lx, district in Gar- many has done _ icda&fig^ tocropft, and occasioned loss of life. Nine lighl per- sons were drowned or kflled by ning. The railway bridge at Gossnitz was destroyed, and all the rivers in the vicinity have risen to an Manning height. th Tstr ikes. Thonsands of Miner* Quit Work -In An»- trla—Other Labor ’Amuhlpt. Vienna, May 25.—Ten thousand miners at Saar have struck. The Prague tramway lines are at a standstill owing to the strike of the drivers. The'miners in the Kladno district in Bohemia are out on a strike. The strikers number 1,100. The movement is extending. __ • The Dortmund Miner*. Beblin. May 25.—Ai a meeting Thlum- day 'held by the Dortmund miners, who recently resumed work, it was decided to abide by the protocol made at Berlin with the mine masters and not to notice the later concordat made at Essen. imposed The Belgian duty chamber of 140 of francs deputies kilo¬ has a a gramme, on sacoharine. Women Qnlt Work. in Bomb, the rice May fields 25.- at The Medicina women employed PUP e are on a . . strike. They have pilaged a number of bakers’ derad to shops, the Troops i he have been or- scene. IV hat Do Th*y London, May 25.-^Whether the disturbance in wi' that of Europe portended are the .,,PP|Pi P. i valves that relieve the overstrained situ¬ ation, time only oan tell. It is certain that the the optimists of affairs loudly of all nations proclaim desire that men justify peace, and nothing continued has anxiety. happened The to committee any appointed at Berlin, how- ever, ', to report upon the alleged tion of German merchants at tl the Baltio At Rega, Bevel and other places where the bulk of the trade was fn Ger¬ man hands, instances they have to close been their compelled estab- in some ments or conduct them through-Russian managers. Berlin the • To Russian the representation authorities, from far so from of promising aftaits and to ameliorate giving the present of state assurance the future immunity of German traders from Russian aggression, hinted that the migration of the aforesaid merchants would government not he and displeasing people, and to treated the czar’s the question the as one of to damages be settled fully parties by proved payment to have been to This is small consolation to those wrong.. Germans who by the shrewdnesuiond monopoly of the industry puMo had trade nearly and now see it wrested from them; but it is not a cause for war, and the court of views Berlin of is the not atter. likely to take extreme m Dr. MacKenxle WUl Sue. physician London, to May the late 25.— Emperor Dr. MocKenzia, Frederick, is about to bring a suit against The London Times and Mr. Steinkopff, pro¬ prietor of The St. James Gazette, for publishing.a letter written by Mr. Stein- kopff, in which he accused. Dr. Mac- Kenzieof conspiracy While treating tluw emperor. ' The Greenland Expedition. Copenhagen, headed Dr. May Nansen, 25 —The which expedi¬ tion by left for the Arctic regions in May, 1888, and has just returned, made- an exhaustive exploration of Greenland. The greatest height above the level sea by the party was comparati 10,000 feet. vely Their ntfnl explorations were uneve , King Humbert’* Day. King Berlin, Humbert May 25.—The received emperor the Potsdam and garrison took of luncheon Thursday, and state. afterward They then par¬ in yacht, went to and Chorlottenburg drove thence in to the Berlin. royal King Humbert dined at the Italian am- :....... Retetutag Member* Call. members Berlin, of May the 25.—A reichstag delegation visited of King tiie Humbert luncheon. and were The king’s entertained visit has byfim been at characterized by a series attention of friendly all greetings and generous on YU* Samoan Conference. . Berlin, May 25 —ffhe. Post aays that two more sittings will oonolude the Sa¬ moan conference, and that the negotia- tibns throughout the proceedings have been pleasant a ll around. Alsatian* Charged With Treason. Paris, May 25.— The Nineteenth cen¬ tury says that a number of Frenchmen have been arrested by the German au¬ thorities at Soultzmatt, Alsace, on a charge of treas on? ' | Minister Wiwlibnm ot Borne. Berlin, May 25.— Mr. John D. Wash- bora, the new American minister to Switzerland, has presented his creden¬ tials to Preside nt Hamme r. . A Servian Plot Discovered. Paris, May 25.—The trial of P ern . Boulanger AngSsti has been postponed __ _ , . Settler* Ordered to Leare. Pierre, Dak, May 35.- & (ho Bajrtlm Cmwtt, Boston, May 25.— A speoial to The Herald from Washington says: The Boston and Ossipee will sail in a few days for the Haytian coast, and the Boston will cany out three, at perlmps »« Hiwi Wire om Gen. Lair ■PHPH. ..M Packard okard oharged arc the by only the state pnes department now settled to on, the revolution ascertain the merits of emment which will and can maintain peaoe and order. As an incident of their work, these Domingo there is mpiPiPPPPL^, that, Now ,,. UB that ...«..PP,, to have „ purpose. we are a navy, coaling stations become of ex- treme West Indies importance, and in particularly tile Pacific in the ooean. We have now only one important Honolulu; coal¬ ing station in the Paciflo—at Mole itJ Nicholas, in the northern by pm&oi who ■3IPH know the _ _ Haytian is mentioned ^ ___ harbors i!vr “aa those ^ the best point for a United States coaling station, ion. It is the same ! harbor which was' r flamed ^ in the false report of a the Frein rich treaty the other to the day French as being gov- ingMPut notioe that the it hT^tuated end of Chiba. at a^^tet look- on to accept the advice and meditation of since before a Port-au-Prince Port-au will have m itself been ssrsafiii kept close secret ©yarts in the state department, a very the Haytian minister oven here, entire Mr. ign Preston, of having it. been kept in orance ELECT RICAL PE ATHa The Manner la Which New York Will Hereafter Execute Her Murderers. New Yobk, May 25.—The time for the delivery chines of the electrical hand. The execution-ma¬ life-takers. I is near at three in number, will coat $3,750 each. . Two handled volts are enough to kill a man, bat 1,000 volte will be used. To send a stronger current through 1 a man would make charcoal of his body. Under the new law the criminal will firsj, mtrnim know the day mid hour of his exe- be metal plates covered sponges which form one electrode, and a ssstsjshffjsfdtfe dynamo will be then connected with the electrodes at the head and feet, the sheriff will touch a button and in one hundred and fiftieth part of a second the criminal is de«d. the body all the muscles become the limbs will be convulsed and groans will be heanl While these manifesta¬ tions the will part not of the be criminal accompanied it % pain hu¬ on seems mane to avoid even the appearance of torture, so the current is kept rabdutfive up until the muscles relax, this taking ' i seconds. Then the cap and si shoes have only ready to foi for he * burial. f removed. * and the th body is A REMARKABLE^ EVENT. Three Brother* Celebrate'Theit- Golden Wedding at SeetUviUe, Kjr. * remarkable Scottsville, Ky., nf May its kind 25.—The whichever most event tfie matory 01 the worla, took place cere y. triple golden wedding. was s ZToJS/ZX a tad t there father in and r»ru HHIIHpi|HHffiiffiMN#w are pan SMBI ren, smne of whom ate among the veiy best knewm andlfespecteble and all among tiie most up- right tucky. T. A. Staid teres people Louisville. in Ken¬ in The event celebrated was the golden wedding of the thtee couples at the old homestead in Allen county, where S. J. " ’ still resides. There was i an im- crowd. to participate Of people in at the the ie remarka- family lg ’ occurre nce, 0o DoomF t (M It* the .Washington. clerk’s office May of the 25-—It United is stated at States supreme court that there has been no court in any caw in t Shields against the _ sflectal to dispatch company at mentioned in » St Paul from Tacoma, fuxther Wash., a paper. It is stated that no such case is on the docket. Fooled Him With quinine. Indianapolis, May 25.—Thursday who him WSfSS morphine and he took the latter, gave intent on i ate resistanoe on his part. Killed In a Duel. Brownsville/Madison BraMNOKUL Ala., May 25.—Near James Roundtree and oounty, G« Thursday, fought a duel with pistols, feote«»tidshot, ai Man and Toon . Tceoola. the HL, May 25 - tar and team he was instantiv kiBed « “ ‘ ‘ OTOTtagathisi Currant Even With Thl* Amount May Be a Deficiency. BIslae W*at* ProtoottonUta i lb* Cemail ship Wh*rs C, E*l*t tor Culleotlnc onA » Commercial StatUtle*— Mere ’ mUto».BnlIL _ : ■ pose to meet :e”K aary to meet the d and it may be that there will be a defi¬ ciency. but it is said at the pension of¬ fice (hat there is no truth in the state¬ ment that #105,000,000 will be ex¬ pended for qpmdons during the fiscal SSrSB&SVK? trusted with the duty of seeing ttttnsvs&ew-di SKfij? next month. It is thought that tl when tne appropriation for the 3 fiscal said year that will become of available, ! it is some the run out before that time. Mr, Bell says that the * for the next fiscal year, , too small andsthere will bo a prevent pr9!S,S9! a < tion was made, was, as it still is, con¬ stantly issatraaputBS; increasing,- so that it is evident W ashingtoh, ; reasons ons thefistof given for wnsatar^cJ ingthe Blaine wants coi the posts where ini collecting statistics. and The - terest of the ways and means < of the next : house for 0r J the of the proteotten sff”^s ? 1890. juts The an Ge mr^ e minister from Kentucky” to Denmark was Gem “ When i His residence al and he is now a _ publicly for that Foster, of Indiai ieo, Russia Mid greater Success in ««* witii the high tariff at hi* views are much .nearer to ti lisle than those of McKinley. I broken With his party on the hnthm symp athies are with terif A third inetmrn it the Hovey, ed lost tall now governor the high of ! on tni hie party. He spent some' Peru as the Amerioan and since that time has tariff. His views are well known i his friends. Men like Jarrett are 1 man-Foster-Hovey stamp,; , WVtt Have » »a*jr Not. partment Washington, has completed May 85,—The andv i issue advertis sals for the S'’®. limit or eont axed ....... ^rtng Ph ilad ttasir el p hia, May Qlney Gilbert, arrested 14. Thursday and Ohs 15, were < from Mr. John M. ~ City. revolver Each and was baggage 2,000 rounds contained of a fishing the -mraphernalia paraphernalia tackle, bade of ball men. New York dasla^onwas! Frert ta wabasb County, Tadlaa*.' JWasash, In d., May r “ to the 1 fell in county. Vc« " Mh ° Portland, o . JToa b2r Meant, ttotaoer ~ • MS t PiwyfilMgffiyss r.' .Tv'--' ta haul XrQmt hrid i