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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, U. S. A.
GriiUu l» th* Mt and mart promMng little
jty in the N./Jfch. It* record lor the past
O \ e a butiine** statement and not it hyper-
olicftl descrii Mhn :
During During tuai that tint* u»* It has built and put luto
y p.t .nc^eini operation njioo.ooo retfrm
^ory and with thi* year started the wheel*
U buT P °u W large iron and bra*, lonndry,
: broim opened upthsHteert I M*d fact granite
factory, ha*
aatTTj in the United State*, and now
our large oil will, in more or lea* advanced
.tage.nl cun.traction, with an aggre^to at»-
t lioriied capital of over half a million dollars.
!£SS^%55RU4?£-
| lrt » aeesred another railroad ninety miles long.
„„«1 while locate*! on the greatest system in
l-i« Sooth, the Central, ha* gecnred connec-
ilon with it* important, rival, the P&lfTT East Ten-
utm m nr#***! *«}***' with Chat¬
.d direct independent connwtiou
tanooga and the Went, and will brep* gtOUad
aafewday* for a fourth road, connecting
witli a fourth iudepeedenteretem.
#it!i it* Hr* white aujl foureolore.1 church-
M) it bu rmiently completed a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It ha* increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth, ft has attracted
around its borders fruit grower* from nearly
„*ry State in the Union, until it in now sur¬
rounded oh nearly efery side by otdhard.
aud vineyard*. It has put up the largest
, raft evaporators in the State. It is thdbome
el the grape audit* wine malflugcapacity has
double.I every year. It has successfully in¬
augurate.) a system of public schools, with a
.eveu years curriculum, second to non*.
Tiii* »* part ol the record of a half decade
and simply show* the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the Onest climate, summer and
<* ffltth UtWeotiity stated KpiAui e*un-
shore win* ilite sea level. By the census of 1890, it
at afow'estimate between 8 000 and
7,090 people, and they are all of the right
.ort-Wide-awake, up to the time*, ready to
welcome stranger* and anxious to secure de-
.irabfs settlwrf, who will not h, any less wel-
com. if they bring money to help buiW up the
,.wn. Tilers is about only one thing We
*«<d badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
W* have several small ones, but their aceom
modatious are entirely too limited for our
usine *, pteasure and health seeking guests.
II you see anybody that want* a good loca¬
te,u for a hotel iu the South, just mention
Grifflu.
Griffin i* the place where the Gbiffim Nkws
s published—daily and weekly-thobedfcnmvs-
paper in the Empire State ol Georgia. Please
.ucloss stamp* in sending lor sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet <d GrifflfM -
Thi. brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have tobe ehanged in a tew month*
o embrace new enterprise* commenced and
oropkUtl.
1 1 •"~ ~
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTOR*-
henhy c. pfeples,
attorney at law
« HAMPTON, OHOBOlA.
ser+i
■g
attorney at law,
UKirFIN, OBOMUU.
08,*, 81 mil Street, Up Stairs.^over 3Gb
TH03. K MILLS,
ATTGRN^Yl tVT L A W> *
Will practice in tb* State and Federal
Court*. Oae. over Georg* t Harthett’s
corner. * nov2tf
John tmwtr. HOST. T. DANIEL.
STEWART i DANIEL
ATTOME IS AT LAW,
wm I practice In the State and Federal
• arte. • julylUdtt
MtLKHn & BAR LAND,
oaiflCw DENTISTS,
iMf.-
D. L PARMER,
At TORN ET AT LAW,
wpoDurhr, pebaau.
Will Pprompt attention gives to all business
burineeecall* practice in all the Court*, and where
ver ;
Hdlt«y V/anted for the
Araik Plantation.
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Good —^
sSfib*
.
,
President Harrison Departs from
Boston. ;
Ho Jp Given an Enthusiastic
^ l Reception While There.
_
?4^r££sx IM Eaters—BecepUon* <f Xkoasaad* or KUewhere. Admiring
Boston, Aug. 9. —President Horriaon
prose touch refreshed Thursday morn-
log. At 7 o'clock state breakfast was
fcerved in the ebofiy room of theVen-
,e party in addiMon to the presi-
it awing Brackett, eoi Ijt. Gen. ”Aoting Dalton, Gov- 8eo-
erpor
fetary Window, Secretary Proctor,
Wpyor Secretary Hart, Wi alter Blaine, Mansfield. Private
i ai)d Col
the station, rode up. Oarriages then
drew up and the president made his ap¬
pearance. He was greeted with hearty
ehears Wthe party left the hotel
The streets oh the route to the depot
were the chief thronged executive. with people Several who thousand cheered
ws&svSSsLisas. people were in waiting at the station
npn mt ^ .......*
esa
with the speech lieutenant and staff.
The train, whioh consisted governor of three
moved of the depot amid the boom ears,
out the
of crowd oajmon at o'clock. and cheering of the
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the standing!, tracks, cheering in hand, the president, the platform who,
hat acknowledgements on
of bis car, bowed his
stituting lounged a sbft in traveling Ms choir, hat for took his silk
one, and made himself up a
newspaper comfortable, but spared time generally which
in
to meet many members of his Cavalry
party, The and first to great say a pleasant demonstration word to after all
tfre departure from Boston wm made at
South Lawrence, where the speoial
Stopped for the first tima There the an
enormous crowd in and around
sfrSdsriirind oheered as the train came to a
jSE& and a tu salute was fired.
of train New at Hampshire, tins point and When staff
i a
he police had made a clear space of a
foot formally or two Mayor Mack the occupied it and
welcomed president to
Lawrence, and introducing extending him cordial greeting
to the people.
The president crowd-oheered orowd-eheered bowfed and and Ins response,
Again of ‘‘Long the the live the president,” with with cheers cries cries
lor him and his cabinet music by the
band and hu * by the people, the
train boarded moved < u»i«lBOTS
addition who
to 0 and staff,
were: Nut®
ml . State
Thomson a the Maine side
EnL to £S:
aor’s _ staff and hd there Boottbjr,
was
Gen. Sprague'welcomed’the president
At North Berwick Congressman Reed
pojsMent Drouardlhe shook by the residents hand. ^nd At Old
EfSiSWteiSSSS? summer per-
tion. ‘
_
Mr,. Harrison at Nantucket. *
Beniamin Nantucket, Mass., wife Aug. 9.—Mrs.
dent Harrison, herp Thursday of the presi¬
arrived morning,
s."ras. to 5»33A«
Lord, who is : *3*«*S*V-
sogah
daw SpreckoU Said to E* BMponslble
tor IHyEkUttra.
New York, Aug 9.-A Tribune spe¬
cial from San Pyancieoo says private let¬
ters received there show that Olans
Bpreckels was responsible for the leeent
With several millions asked Mm what
"lpSe?ek»5®that were the chances for cornering* the sugar
itoouldnotbe
fifEsr. done so long as he controlled large cane
nia Upon this infdrmaKon the bank¬
ers declined to advance money, and the
peal Madgeburg to the American syndicate Sugar was forced trust to and ap¬
thus the details of the scheme to de¬
fraud the revenue by artificial coloring
was exposed.
Ptuli in the Badger Mate.
Mokboe, prevails Wis., Aug. Albany, 9.—Great this ex¬
citement at coun¬
ty, on the Sugar river, over found the in finding
<
, from a
, and a
)lastM(
i that men, women
and children are i sing the river in
•catch of clams.
“S«aealer" Comp
y'i t, Aug. A-
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G1UFFIN. GEORGIA. SATUUDAK MORN G. AUGUST 10. I»8P.
A PIKA FOR THB SOUTH ;
a m ' l l >■« I ■ “ “*■
Why Should It Mot Make 1 IM o* Welt a*
Coarea Cottea 6
factarers' for Bai/tcmohe, the manufacture Record Aug. 9.— nu of the be rp finer
wades of ootton goods in the
south. It is in reoeipt of a large
number of letters urging the importanoe aid
of this steamship and calling lines for government be able to
for so as to
place their goods on South Americ a n
markets. It is argued that if the south
can manufacture the coarser ootton
goods, scale which there thoy is are doing on a why large It
now, no reason
should Reobril not make also the gives finer grades. table giving
The » mills,
the total number of cotton spin-
thus showing tfre growth of Gotten man¬
ufactures in nine years, as follows:
jeiiMH States. Mills. Spindle*. WMl Rooms.
n
...... 1 «.««
1.400
Georgia u
Kentucky........ « 45,810
XoatslanS........ 5 ■■AM**.
Maryland........a 175,848
M|s*l*stppl.. U S.t.*J8
North Carolina. .Ill #9,887
Booth Carolina.. 41 417.780
Tennessee----.... 81 188.884
Texas........... 8 50,886
Virginia.......... It 00,880
Total ,.B65 *,036.r68 457,001
SST" Against and H838 looms on May 91,
TH E JAPANE SE-
Xfcay Have Made Wonderful Progress
Within the Last Few Kean.
St. Louis, Aug. 9.—Richard B. Hub-
bard, ex-govemor of Texas and late
minister to Japan, passed through the
oily Wednesday. t*2 find dm Japanese,”
he eays, "a wonderful, in fact, a rnarvel-
oim jfeople. They have, made greater
strides in finance, education the and general of
prosperity than have nations eon.
unentel Europe in as m«ay fihe years. Their
army and navy their are soldiers greatly and superior sailor*
of ours, and
votion, and to thatTattribute tee splen¬ tee
did teeatment accorded me. When
negotiations nated were opened which whioh is swatting culmi¬
in tee treaty I informed tee
tee action of congress, Mid
ror iitened that republio I represented which a had great no in-
in the boundaries of Siberia or
India, or any of those questions of greed
which are shaking tee thrones of Eu¬
rope. The emperor saw at onoe the
foroe of my argument and it advanced
our ossa six months on tee docket
"Mr. Blaine assured teat me, the through prorisions Mr.
Swift my successor, with tee approval of
of tee treaty met
Mr. Harrison and himself. from Tptoo I,have inform¬ just
received ing that a cablegram the treaty had been rafr-
me and if
ese government it it will greatly
__ trade ratuy with the empire. ”
our
A LONG RAC E.
Bow Isbporiere Bring Tea from China to
the New Fork Market.
New York, Aug. 9. —Packed with tea
from stem to stem, from keels onto
main deck, tee big 8,000-ton Glen line
steel steamship Glen Shiel, one of tee
fastest China vessels available afloat arrived arrived here 1
Wednesday. All spaoe was
taken up. In all there ware 5,250 tons, t
or from Yo-
kohama , steamed about 14,000 nautical nautical
miles, dr and more she than accomplished half way around the dis¬ the
earth, fifty-nine days.
tance in rival
China tea ships now have a in
the railroad. Several China importers to San are
bringing tea and from rail to ports New York.
Francisco then by
The steamers have for a long time held
their own and got hare Ahead of the tea
trains, and the but Water lately route the trains is lofting are leading, ground.
Aerially. ;h The tea fact pioked is teat in
L and tee
Bash* DM Vet Voafw*
9.—Reports Wednesday were night sent to
[ ■kA had made a full
to supportteisstate-
Sir
Mysterious Movement*
Birmingham, Ala., Aug, Ala., A
gross of Sumter county, ^plotting ----
derdale GO the county, UUUUVJi Miss., MUW) are
st whitea For
’ all of thei i negroes have been hold-
iteituus During tring meetings tease - meetings in remote senti¬
nels places. pnt out, and white is
are ?o approach. approach. jno They hrive man also
allowed
organised armed drilling military night eompanies The
White and have have been b at
__te people peo are* arming themselves,
and are ready for any outbreak that may
occur.
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Odd Fellow* Shot hr * Brother.
Pink Bluff, Ark., Aug. 9.— About
midnight Tuesday of the colored night, Odd John Fellows' Wilson,
a member
lodge, shot George Johnson, Lee Bay
ana Alex. Thomas, fellow members of
tee wounded lodge. and Johnson maydia is moat The difficulty seriously
arose edfor over Wilson
a term of
a brother member
pf stol
_
Lynek low N ee d ed.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 9.—It is re¬
optima ported from called Covington McNeill county few nights that near
a to house ago
three young men went a occu¬
pied by outraged a widow tb* and two and grown defrayed daugh¬
ter*. women
.1
Cordiality ■Ify
l
Captures
He and thu ) Prince or WaJEB
How on a Footing.
Morell Maekensle'* Work to Be Fab-
llelied Outside of Germany-Partin'.
HnnltU Broke u—Othe r ferelf., N.WA
I AMmmmtt J&M
S ‘ load
He shakes <
a cAndidate for offli ,
a fesponse to
ut»^ w ***»Ttr . flw Ipi
met of the German cuirassiers.
Wednesday, when he reviewed tee army
of 25,000 on Romping Downs, hswto
every inch a king. A detaohmeut of
lop over the first of the fox hills, the
scene at Tuesday’s maneavera
The mimic battle was a great suooess,
and the emperor enjoyed » hugely. It
valley, and only tee umpires could tell
how badly the invaders had been
whipped, their as they fell book The Iteedily upon the
In trenohments. review m
afternoon was quite a spectacle. There
were throngs of spectators etanding and
in vehicles, making two Baes a mile
long and 600 yards apart. The em¬
peror, on horsebaok, a little in advance
of tee rest, rode for two hours down tee
line of the arnrir of £5,000 men andre
oeived merited' applause for brilliant
riding. *
__
William and Writ*
-London, Aug. At adiunergiven Prince
Tuesday evening at Oowes Wuham by the both
of made Wales speeches to Emperor redolent of and
brotherly love The priaoe peace spoke in
general term* of tee hone* of tee visit
and the emperor said he was gratified fleet, at
having whichheconsidered witnessed tee review the finest «the in the
world. Germany and if the had British an army nation equal had to
her wants, would
a fleet equal to its requirements it
be regarded by it Europe factor fear generally tee mamto- as a
also spoke in terms of
" * fleet
......reviewed Wednesday. 20,000 The
troops at Aldershot owing slight
Priaoe Prince of of Walee, Wales, owing to to a a « ia-
in the
evening to Osborne, where the queen
gave a farewell benquet, at which the
members of staff the royal present family and the
emperor’s were reviewed
of 'Thursday the German the queen squadron within the men the
grounds the of Osborne hoarded nouse. In the tee German even¬
ing imperial yacht emperor Hohenzollo
em.
Wiled tor Horn..
London, left Engla Aug. nd 9.—Emperor retur Germany. William
has to n to
May Save Her. If » Fact.
London, Aug. 9.—There is i rumor
that Mr*. Maybriok is pregnant If
this is so it would rove her from tee
noose, but tee report is not believed.
When makes a woman under death sentence
such claims she is plnoed in the
hands of a jury of twelve matrons. If
their verdict is that tee woman is with
child, she is respited, which Otherwise means she im¬
fogured prisonment for nfa is
The verdict of guilty against Mrs.
Maybriok proved in London. seems not to The bo charge generally of ap¬ the
judge is denounced. Thousands await¬
ed his departure from tee court and
The howled hooting with rage incessant when he and appeared. there
was
were frequent cries of “shame.” The
carriage, crowd threatened but the police to attack interfered tee judge's The
feeling being over taken tiie to result is intense. the execution, Steps
axe further medical evidence stay having been
scoured.
Mora Suspicion*.
btiSk Tvhose York, Aug. convicted 9.—James of May- his
murder in til was insured in a
New York life for fi25,000, of
i wife. The re-
81* Horvll Mackenzie's Book.
London, Aug. ft—The 9.—The Get German em-
peror will probably not be as much
pleased as tee soandal-mongars with the
‘iport which is ■given ■TtWWfcS given ourren currency teat a
in whishiBw^^^te
being circulated as extraota erf the future
volumes. The book, it is confidently
stated, will be printed in Belgium or in
where the wrath of the Ger-
cannot reach tho publish-
undoubtedly bos given have his a large word
sale, as B Sir Sir _----- Morell ’ shall be
* * not
of tee
Empress Frederic k.
OteKtai Ok, K*| Ther ook’SEoe*.
London, Aug. Much alarm hav
ing been oreat urea toil among g of prospective for
the rumors racing
between the new fast
»mer*, the manager* of
several lines are oat in an emphatic de-
nial made that any extraordinary speed. They rilwts insist will
be to secure their * will
that tee safety of ve sl-
Thisis
it is w#U
takes place
C
'
going on for six months, and the notes
Save ^SHHIIIIHipktecn been extensively circulated A
arrested.
.....„ kr.ictor, wlm Is irn-
i tite toegsries, has eeoapetl.
Boulaugi-t** Sentenov* CouHrmo*!.
Paris. Aug. 9.—The appeal oomt lias
eonflnned Deroulede the smtenoes imposed upon riot¬
M. and M. Lagucrro for
ing at Angoulomo. The oourW also in-
ereased the amount of M. Deroulede's
fine by 695 fra ncs. E
Faruell Out of Hernlth.
} health London. is broken. Aug. His 9.—Mr. physicians Parnell's have
advised him to go to the south of France
and remain the re until ne xt summer.
Ovation te Pastear.
Paris, Aug. 9.— Two thousand stu¬
dent* assembled before the roridenoe of
Iff Pasteur, Wednesday, and gave him
an ovation.
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Foreign Note*.
Mr, Gladstone will vlrit the Paris exhibi¬
tion.
The International w»w| law nnngrsss has
^ A Al—Itofcaih #Fmw W* oeeoa fWiullB .Tninn f fW* v * ii • M V | Miilfi TO V w Ute ses
arrival there of on Italian torpedo boat end
U Russian corvette.
Princes* Anlstaca, daughter of the Priace
q£ Oeorga Montenegro, hfil boon botrotbod to Dole
of LdUohtdObor^
Cspi nm. Bujao, formerly a member of Gen.
Boulanger’s the . foreign fffjff sfa - office, ■ ■ hu hu been been ... ■ arrested
to Wfl JHHR| am on
the charge of being b _ a German spy.
The high court of the Order of Forruters
assembled at Bournemouth, hu granted the
demand of toe loyal courts of Amerloa to
establish a subsidiary high court in that
been presented the ride enough of toe |||HR seauwd to
on
make her cose one for toe earnest considera¬
tion of toe home office.
The German bicyclists ore jubilant at toe
victory of their champion, August Lehr,
over the first riders in England on their own
ground. The Berlin papers now Claim for
him toe title of chrnni irapion of toe world.
is a member of toe ' Berths Berlin 1 Bioyole Hub.
The young and talented opera eiuger of
Berlin, Catherine Micbolsann, while or a
visit to Vienna last wtek committed suicide
by shooting herself with a pistol She was
33 yean of eg* and renowned tor bar beauty
u well u for her talonU No cause for the
"SrjTTt- *. re— .ere,
daughter of PrinooNicholas, of Montenegro,
to the Griuid Dries Petor, nephew of toe
cur, *u solemnized in the chapel of toe
Peterbof palooe Wednesday. The imperial
family and all the ministers of state and for¬
eign diplomatic representatives attended the
ceremony.
A congress of toe barbers of toe German
empire hu just concluded a week's session
te Posen. Delegates were present from 1,681
towns and cities of Germany, representing
nearly 30,000 barbers. A minimum price for
sbevteg, and no more hair cutting on Sun¬
day* are among the mare important edicts
of this trust
«• NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation a( lakrutfsi tteini on
Various Subjaots.
The Louisville Coui-ler Journal says the
Bcottuboro man Is not Tate.
Five women have been appointed to the
Chicago sanitary police force.
Gilbert W. Beudorsou, well known news¬
paper man of Cleveland, i* dead.
Jesse James’ moth )r siys there is no truth
in the rumor that he is still alive.
Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers is hold¬
ing its annual session a; Cambridge.
Fort Wayne, Inil, is out tlOQ.OOb worth of
business block as a tribute to the fire fiend.
Two tramps were kitted in a ooliUon near
Whitefay , lad. Twelve freight cars were
Jeff. Davis’ book, “The Rise and Fall o t
the Southern Confederacy,” is a failure
financially.
Belle Hamlin defeated Harry Wilkes two
straight heat* trotting at Buffalo, Thursday.
Time, 2:15, 2:1 1%.
Herman B. Falk, a wealthy Chicagoan,
was asphyxiated by go* t» blch escaped from
burner* partially un-itvd on.
Toledo ha* struck n monster gas well,
which will ha a powerful aid iu her fight
with the Standard O.l company.
Alex Heincko was drowned in the Olen-
tangy near Columbia, 0., Welnosday. This
Is toe sixteenth at tbu: poiut thi* season.
Auditor Ben ham, of Warren county, has
decorated George W. Smith, of toe Lebanon
Gaaette, with the tasiguiu of chief deputy.
Catholic Total Abstinence association In
oonrentiou give* a shining eumple for the
benefit of toe moist populace ol Cleveland.
Indianapolis expects to take in
strangers on the occasion of the laying
the corner stone of the soldiers’ monument,
Aug. 22.
Thousands were unable to gain
to Faneuil hall, in. Bos on, Wednesday,
the occasion of the public reception to
ident Harrieon.
Twenty-eight Doited States soldiers de¬
serted from toe borracki on David’s Island
H. Y., on Monday right. They were all pri¬
vates, enlisted for the regular term.
Richard Lightnee and John Smith
badly honied by the explosion of
while rebate making rockets and flower-pots for
STK*' display
The State Farmers’ Ailiauoe of Alabama,
now in session at Auburn, reiterate# its de-
termsnatton to use eotton bagging tor wrap¬
ping ootton, and will under no droutn-
stanees use jute.
The high court of toe Order of Forester*
assembled at Bournemouth, England, ha*
granted the demand of the loyal courts of
America to establish a subsidiary high court
in that country.
The Ohio attorney general has decided
that established gas companies cannot add
electric lighting to their charters, although
new companies dealing in both gas and elec¬
tric lights may he organised.
Two white boy toughs, Jesse McCray, 15,
and Charles Rush, IS, are bound over to the
grand jury to answer to toe eharge of a
murderous assault upon OBvtr Thomas, a
colored child, at Middletown, Q.
Kittson county, Minn., wm Wednesday
▼irited by a sever# too utter rod Ughtring
and bail storm, doing imm sroa damage
wheat fislda Over 300 lights in Halloek
were broken. No lorn of life reported.
A naphtha yacht was blown to ptecss at
Buffalo by an explosion and four parson*
were killed aod two seriously injured. Ike
kilted are Johi) Ragenst s ta and three ehto
dree of the owner of the yacht, I* &
Oi ke ' "
c o r . . .
The steamship Montreal, of toe Dominion
fine, wfeteh teft Montreal July 31. for tel* Liver¬
pool, is totally wrecked on Belle
AFFIDAVITS
---, ,VV>
Taken from the Crew of the Healer
Black Diamond
Before the Men Were Paid Off
by Her Owner.
They VflB He U*od ta Conaeetton With a
Claim Again It the United State* (tavern-
men I tor Damages—Did 14aatea»»t Tat-
tl* Obey Uncle Hans’s Order* In Farcing
the Strang Host
Victoria, B. 0., Aug. 9.-A- Erauk
naid off tiie Diamond’* crew Wednes¬
day. Before doing so lie took affida¬
vit* from tliu men oonoeruing their
knowledge of the aeisura All tee affi¬
davits substantiate the facte already offidr.
telegraphed concerning the
These affidavit* will be tued by Frank
iu oonneotiou with lua claim against the
United States government for damages.
It ia generally considered that Lieut.
Tuttle acted entirely outside the law in
breaking open the strong box and ink-
of the vessel, The law, it is understood,
erely authorize* ltim to trite a
ihoohet to some American port with all
uffldav^royii
intheact" >ard, said: Can*. “Well, Thomas wb'vi wa've caught asked asked you the the
________________ lieutenant lieutenant refused for hi* to instructions. teow W n%S any, ___n| The and
said: "You are a set the
thieves.” He then asked sed for
KpKMflMr' schooner's papers, and upon Capt
-
tbe \ oa Lieut
onboard told him that tee schooner. unless Capt Thomas placed
a crew wa*
aboard the schooner, it would not be
taken to Sitka. To this Lieut Turtle
made no r opty. ...... _ ,.
NAPT HA EXPLO SION.
Boiler •: a Yacht Mi <i*». Kitting Fear
0*4 Injuring Several Seriously.
Bumao, N. Y., Aug. 9.—AtJ o'oldck
Wednesday morning, while tee yacht
Cedar Eidge, owned by Mr. L, L.
Crocker, of East Buffalo, was bring got
ready for a trip down the river, and
just as the engineer bad started tee Are
two explosions occurred on board in
rapid succession. The yacht a* onoe
took fire and burned to the water’s edge.
SL2ST
A carpenter working on the dock was
burned to death by his boat house tak¬
ing fire from the boat
and The>jura*! Mis* MoLean, are ; a fnend, brih ,? r ?°^f badly r
burned, burned. and Engineer Peter Oolmyer,
The exp] lotion was due to naphtha by
which the boiler wm New
Crocker is superintendent of tee
falo, York Central and the Btock three .yards children at East killed Buf¬ be¬
longs to him.
As soon as the explosions were heard,
» boatman named Caleb Tahwna got a
boat, and hurrying alongside, uioked up
Miss McLean, who Homeopathic wm badly hospital. burned.
She was token to olif
She is about 28 who years
The people hurried to the soene
were first attracted by who the sight o# Mr.
Crocker’s little son, stood on tile
yacht’s deck in a dazexfoondition, sur¬
rounded by flames. He seemed unable
to move and when a man named Charles
Schevengol reached a pike pole to him.
the boy didn’t take hold of it, and a mo-
ment tetri’ he fell book into the fire and
was burned to a crisp in full view of the
horrified spectators.
Mr. Schevengel’s face ^ was badly scald-
. . ...» . —
Attention was
Bnlienstrin, old, tiie
carpenter, a man about 559 years
who was clinging to a rafter that ex¬
not tended be reached, out over and the after yacht hanging Ho could few
a
moments cated and he dropped apparently into the became flames suffo¬ be¬
low. He leaves a widow and five small
children. Two other children of Mr.
Crocker Leonard Lemuel, aged also 10 years
and Ethel, aged 9 years, child, Charlotte, perished
in the Dimes. Another
aged 14 years, was blown into the water
whence she was rescued and seat trite
Miss The McLean yacht to tho what hospital. known
was is as a
naptha Launch, the fuel being naptha
It was of fifteen time burden. It is sup¬
posed that some defect in the tank al¬
lowed tiie naptha to leak out and when
fuel tee engineer under the stiuok boiler a match tee loose to light naptha tee
exploded. New The boat York was teat bought s^ing. by It Mr. is
Crocker in
completely bouse. destroyed, as ia also tee boat
family Miss from McLean Detroit was visiting Mr. Crocker the Crocker him¬
self barely escaped with his life He is
almost crazed by id* bereavement Hie
wife has been very ill, and it ia feared
she cannot survive this shock.
The condition of Mis* McLean and
Charlotte Crocker is reported serious,
but not necesrorily fatal.
UNP RECEDENT ED.
TO* Wire Iasi o» llse PscICe C.>ns»—laser,
sues C tu]>»n!o< ritskr.
San Francisco, Aug. 9 --The recent
fire at Spokane Falk, which involved a
loss to the insurance companies here of
over 92,500,000, has made the condition
of the several local by fire companies this precarious, in os
losses on ooast seven
months of The this-year has of been San unpre¬ Fran¬
cedented. companies receipts
cisco insurance i are are 98.500.- tile
000 for the entire year, [this A1 ready by 9L-
losses and expenses exoet
000,000, and tee lonths of the
year on the ooast of fires an yet to
coma companies -
Last year the insurance
made a profit of *1,500,000, bat this
year, teas tnns far, the losses the amount te to
*9,300,000. Counting * at *1,500,000, expenses tee
the next five
insurance oo to lose *3.-
' be not single
500,000 nd of a tiie
of ‘ year, *
run
, , . ALL BY
Daring Wark at
Mshtoavow*, MtoT;
Wisconsin Central paaaet
Chicago which
robbed Wis., at by 4 o’eloc
a«
wa Fall* and
before.
At the hoar i
of the sleeping
ruanded the <*
ni their 1
A shot or two wa* I
but no one a*«a one
pullcil ten l
committed
train came 1
N” ^
M sleeper tWU mill <lrove i
ol thtt oifir. 'I
scKr’Ttsi and there
porter, He took fr-on
silver watch au
watch ana A
fwdfraiiiti I
;mn however, iui iu. the mosey, In .
man
Wreck or Ike ____
Strait* of HeUe 1*1
Monthrad, Aug. 9.
after leaving Quebec tin
countered a dense fog, w
thick that, it w« imp- st
Father poinLwhirii
wmuenoourt Jand /™
tiie cnguiM we«
ened Dunng tiie the eh< ntj
ana
”?aa 8!u^, .
and reported that water i
ifi torrents. There ’
men on bdarff
SSTc'Sfer:
The offioori and crew,
cool and race
tiemen from 1
then ordered to their
b«»te were lowared
taken ashore, she
abandoned hftlf mi
b truck. She soon 1
her upper spars r
Sff h or te ;_
TWO MILE8 A 5
A Swift Automatic Kteetrle
K*pr«« umt Hall Mai..
Bartimore, Aug. 9. —On » *
circnlai track tee startiing We«‘ s
miles a minute was
maintained for about t
tiiiee ton motor of tee 1
■ ..... wmm
at r
inventor, conducted l,
iin iiiw „*«*»** t*ta
cIog trio
Eaison ^ ^ Dronouncod I
conception the tel
road will be fenced in by 1
these sulated, to keep the off will eattie-a__ be tried „ t
wires
phoning and signaHn g system along tl
In tfifl now passenger f 1
will luvve an upper and lower
the rail of the future, so tee ....
iron people call it—on the wheel i
runs on the upper bearing will!
hold the oars to the track on i
high rate of s peed. ; ,
Ifiiciu Sam lloanding A
Toronto, Ont., Aug. ‘
detie survey party sen m ..;
United States and government to tire d<
deterinine ostabUte \
ings were made and the vaj
magnetic needle was osoer
surveyors with their stores
barked at the mouth of the ’
and Tim proceeded interior departme on their 1
atejEfflk the establishment of the
nothing has as yet been 4
tied. If matters "
are
ranged the party will s
and w-ilf wlnter proceedingby there and bo continne . i.
eraticns n ext year. r ?
Cotton Mi l. IliirnsA.
PROVTDRNOR, It. L, Aug. the
was great excitement at
ootton mill Wednesday the morni
sstfrtssrtejS discovery of fire in attic.
;■
rapidly tliat sevend found tfa
by way ot the stun cut off
forced to jump from t’
they windo ML ws. and Many ia of tiie the
eitement it looked a* i
killed Happily such
and all escaped with
The mill was burn»l, c
about 915 0,000; insurance,
Manic ed SiB
and will
large and riad
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AO. .
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