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tateraent and not a hypsr-
e It has built and put into
deration a *100,000 cotton
his year started the wheels
re than twice that capital,
rge iron and brae* foundry,
pened nptheflneit granite
ited State*, and now ha*
iSWffSBSKf
uttiug np the ilne*t est system system of of electric electnc
ig that can be procured, and has ap-
or ts o charters for street railways. It
sored another railroad ninety mileslong,
Idle located on the greatest system in
nth, the Central, has secured connee-
ith it* important rival, the East Ten-
, Virginia andtieorgia. It has obtain-
*d direct independent connection with Chat-
I I tanooga and the West, and win break ground
H in a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With its fire white and fourcolored church-
ulatioa by nearly one fifth. Hf has attracted
■ItrouBd its borders trait growers from nearly
JBSfeiy State in the Unftra, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
■ and vineyards. It has put up the largest
fruit evaporators is the State. It is the home
? of the grape and its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
! seven years currienlum, second to none.
; This to part of the record of a half decade
f I and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with th* natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the worid.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Biddle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
abov* sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
•orb-wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anzions to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come if,they bring money to help build up the
V wn. There is about duly one thing we
need badly fust now, and that is a big hotel.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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HAMPTON, GEORGIA.
Prattlers in all the State and^Fedwal
JQHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY A TCA'W,
0BIFFIN, UEOBQU.
IH0S. R. MILLS, •
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WUl prastice in the State and Federal
Coarts. Office over George ft Hartnetts
corner. novStf
JOSS D STEWABT. BOUT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George ft Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
-f. on its. julyl9dtf
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CLEVELAND & GARLAND,
DENTI8T8,
IIFFIN, : . : GEORGIA.
* D. L PARMER,
attorney at law,
WOODBVBY, OEOBOIA. .
Pprompt attention given to all business
Will practice in all ths Courts, and where
Conations a specialty.___
Work Being Rapidly Pushed in
the Conemaugh Valley.
.A Brighter Day Dawns on tha
Stricken Towns.
PENNSYLVANIA’S GOVERNOR
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To Assume Charge, of Affairs at
Johnstown in a Day or Two.
THF STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA TO
CLEAR AWAY THE'DEBRIS.
JOHNSTOWN BBT ORB THE FLOOD.
necessary money for clearing the wreck
oould be raised by the state; that there
were 200 men who would become re¬
sponsible for $5,000 each; that he would
give his bond to the state treasurer ‘for
$1,000,000 with those 200 men as bonds¬
men, and the state treasurer would then
pay out the $1,000,000 for the necessary
work. *
withdrawn When the from legislature the treasury met the could money be
appropriated. He said that the money
already subscribed should be used and en¬
tirely for the relief of the sufferers,
the money from the state treasurer be
used for restoring the vicinity to its con¬
dition before the flood. All debt already
WORK OF FLOOD IS CSNTBK OF OlXl.
contracted for the removal of debris
should be paid, but all money
paid out for this purpose from
the relief fund shall be refunded, relief so
that every oent,subscribed for the
> of the stricken people shall be used for
that purpose alone. The governor has
$250,000 in his hands now for the relief
fund.
Plenty of Food. * '
The story published Sunday to the
effect that the citizens of Wood vale were
living on horse flesh eut from the dead
carcasses lying along the shores of the
Conemaugh indignation river, has created the a perfect people
furor of among
throughout the valley. Tne statement
is positively denied. There is an abun¬
dance of supplies for all present want,
and a large number of loaded cars are
nckrat hand.
Suicide of a Militiaman.
Sunday afternoon Private William
Toung, of Company committed 0, Fourteenth suicide regi¬
ment, N. G. P., head in
his tent by shooting himself in the
with a rifle. He was a farm laborer,
and resident of Tom’s Run, near Mans¬
field, Pa He - had been siok for several
dava but nothing in his manner indi¬
cated that he contemplated taMng his
life. fe. He He was was 29 29 years years of of age, age, and ana leaves leaves
v idow and two chil&en.
There have now been over 21,000 reg- life
ituitions, and the maximum loss of
i now not placed at over 8,000 persons.
Lusty Italians Put to Work.
Monday morning a detail of the Four-
lenth regiment were sent to Cambria
jty to bring out 200 Italians and com-
ei'tliem rations to go to right work. along, They have but been have
rawing help at the wreck They are
if used to with good guard
ow at work a over
thten. there
At the Ct from area
few female { nerv-
ousprostra
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g££jan,t£{
Dynamite Deed.
Late Sunday the ruins of th
church and three other large
near the Baltimore and Ohio
station, were condemned and
tan ta on the clothing before the work¬
men could handle them.
1 Morgue* Abandoned.
.
and at
>t hare
really usually in held precarious a vast volume condition, of water, and is
a
AtftLlIn liable to give snnn nrnvr way at 4- nm«r any moment This Tl, 1 o
matter should be investigated, for should
a break occur the result would bean-
other appalling disaster. Previous to the
bursting of the dam which caused such
havoo at Johnstown the people were in¬
at formed the of of thfe Volf. danger Let but not they fids laughed be
cry ’ re¬
peated at Geor getown,.”
An Appeal from'bock Haven.
Look Haven, Pa, June 11.—The fol¬
lowing resolution was adopted at a meet¬
ing of citizens with the request that it
be given to fim United Press:
To the people of the United State*.
This city has been devastated by the recent
great flood, and immediate assistance is
needed. Our streets, alleys and homes are
in a frightful condition, and money is needed
at once to save us from an epidemic.
We are receiving a generous supply of
provisions, but Lock Haven alone is not
the only place to be supplied from these.
Many people nearly in the near-by small towns
have lost everything they had and
are dependent We need upon disinfectants os for money and pro¬ and
visions. badly
money with which to hire teams and men
from a distance to help dean out streets and
cellars.
There was not a square inch of land
within the corporate limits of the city proper
that was not submerged, left and when the
water subsided it a layer of mud and
filth, which, under the strong' sun, creates a
stench that is almost unbearable.
The contents of vaults and cesspools are
In our cellars ana our main thoroughfares,
and nothing will save us from a frightful
epidemic unless help comes promptly and
CINCIN NATI’S SA BBATH.
Klghty-One Arrests Made for Violating
tha Owen Sunday Liquor Law.
Cincinnati, June 11.— Eighty-one ar¬
rests for made violating Sunday. the A Owen great Sunday number law of
were
Baloons were closed tight, some accessi¬
ble through back and side doom, and
wherever the law was disobeyed the po¬
lice arrested the offenders on sight, ac¬
cording to their instruotionA
The places that gave the most trouble
to the police were the concert halls.
After a number of arrests had been
made at these places, the proprietors in-
keepers and notified them that if
persisted would in violating be revoked. the, law, 1
licenses
John Lederer, of the Atlantic Gai
was the moqt obstinate, but a*
threat he and all the others gave in
closed up.
Besides the saloonists a number of
theatre managers and exhibitors were
arrested, among L them being William
Fennessy and W. Fletcher, the Spir-
itoalist, of Henok’s. They gave bond
and the lecture was given as advertised.
Geoige Baker, the manager of Harris’
theatre, was also arrested, bed the usual
performance Kissel’s was concert given. haU in the after¬
At
noon there came near being a riot. Two
members of the law and order league and
entered the plaoe, were recognized,
the crowd made a rush far them, and
Lake Billon Says There’s N
capu for (■roidn’it Surdere
ttlS ButaMOttOr of Tim©
receipt of impertajrt informs
Luke Dillon^ Secretary®!* thf''
more weeks have gone by just m
aERiaSuf under fsissrvjass my instructions, Jwr".ir and ^ who 1 £ are ™
alert murderers. and resolved They to apprehend We the
cannot escape.
are employing the most skillful detect-
St
“Wh»t do you think of Patrick Egan's
connection with tbis*ase?"
*T am satisfied with that The he only has no guilty I
connection it way see
$1110,000
was .give
Ui»S AY.tr. TfgUU UAU UOL gAYC Ul» IUUUVJ
to Sullivan, tout that the $100,000 was
stolen from the funds of the United
Brotherhood.
Hr. Dillon sftid that nothing needed
to be more dearly proven to the world
than that the United Brotherhood, as a
society, was in no wise responsible for
the great crime. The crime was
planned by an able villian, and if any of
Hie they instruments serving in the its society doing they thought
were were
deoelved.
Believed to Be Known.
Chicago, June 11.—The police are
very close to the man who murdered Dr.
Cronin. Capt. night Scliuettler admitted this
muph Sunday mid CiiiefHubbard
stantial ,__„___.....___id evidence out which a web will of circum¬
sooner or
later ensnare every principal in the
tragedy. They believe they axe dose on
the heels of the man fiat who hired the
Carlson dottage and the at 117 South
Clark street.
They are also in possession of names
of the Clan-ua-GaeJ men who have been
pointed who found out on Dr. every Cronin side guilty as the of ones the
then false charge sentenced of being him a be British “removed” spy; and for
“ to
~ ‘ ” good of
the have many
names
Some of the sus r _ _ „______„
peared before the coroner's jury as wit¬
~
nesses;
Not Cronin’s Cloths*.
Chicago, June U.— On Saturday the
police had been discovered rescued a from suit of pile clothes that
a of garbage
claimed the suit was that which was
worn by Dr. Cronin. It turns out now
that it was a suit off the body of a
suicide who killed himself some time
«go. ..
THE GOVE RNMENT OF SAMOA
Good Seasons for Believing That Uncle
Sam Don’t Approve of It
Berlin, June 11.— There is good
reason in believing that the Washing¬
ton government does not approve the
agreement which has been assented to
by its representatives here at the Sa¬
moan conference, more especially in re¬
gard to the form in which foreign con¬
trol should be exercised over the
native government of the island, a
farm which acoords to Germany in
an indirect way virtually predominant
influence; therefore the conference will
have to resume committee discussions on
top off at Tuti
l of the Samoan
that may be sen
Berlin, June 11.—A dispatch from
8fc Petersburg to The Cologne Gazette
says that the czar told the shah, and
hotly, too, that if, while in England, he
should make any concessions unfavora¬
ble to Russia, 100,000 Russian soldiers
now oh the frontier would toe made to
march into Persia.
The Pope Greatly Depressed.
Rome, June 11—The pope is much
depressed.' It is reported that he re¬
fuses to see anybody, and that he has
passed three days absorbed in prayer in
his private cha pel.
Another Cable.
lay London, cable from June Oatend 11.—It to is Am proposed erica. to
a
EXPRES S TRAN W RECKED.
The Cars Telescoped and a Boose Demol¬
ished—Hoae Killed Op Fatally Injured.
WnaotSBABBB, Pa, June 11,—The
fast express train on the Lehigh valley
railroad, running between Hazleton and
at Sugar Notch,
rate of thirty-fivi
ears were telespoj .... . . .____
crushed in a frame house which stood
near track. The tenants had nar¬
row escapes. The escape of the passen¬
gers from instant death was miraoulous.
No one was fatally hurl
The following sustained serious in¬
juries: John S. MpGro'rty. deputy
treasurer
of Luzerneoonnty.
Hazleton. Geoijge H. Tro .tman, a lawyer of
John Laugh, principal of the Free-
land Rp.hnnls ‘ ' > , fri sM L:
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>ing ot the to accident sustain tjie roof
Desperate Duel with Knives.
Chattanooga, June 11.— Two broth¬
ers-in-law, Enoch Pettyjohn and Rufc
Massey, engaged in peeling and selling
over some of the details of their bad¬
ness, and as a consequence became en¬
gaged knivesTin in a fight, which ended in a duel
with which each participant
received many and severe cuts, those
inflicted upon Pettyjohn being the
ated wont and probably with 'the fatal The infuri¬ diffi¬
culty men separated were by mutual greatest friends,
' Killed fu • Tornado.
Abkansas Cm, K»%, June 11.—
colored during girls tornado named which Walton, swept were ki
a over
town caught on in Saturday the wreck night. of their They h 1
which was blown down. Many bi
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that there is
that -M- book.” * v (
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