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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, IT 8. A.
(jrifflu in tli* l*w»t and most promistag Uttto
jtr in the South. It* record for the past
hail d*ea*»i it# many »«* enterprise* hi oper-
atiott, building aud contemplated, prove this
biuiuecH Btateuieut, nnd not a hyper-
olical description. into
During that time it han built and put
most mieeeasful operation a #100,000 cotton
aetory and with this year started the wheel*
u f a second ot more than twice that capital,
jt, ha* put up a large iron and brass fonndry.
fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬
n Mind factory,
tling works, a sash nnl a
broom lactory, opened up the finest granite
quarry in tlio United States, and now has
our large oil mills in more or lees advanced
stages ot construction, with an aggregate au¬
thorised capital of over half a million dollars.
:asav"jxsz!£t for street railway*. It
plied for tso charter*
ha* secured another railroad ninet y mile* long,
and while located on th* greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec¬
tion with it# Important rival, the Bast Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Georgia. Itbas obtain¬
ed direct independent connection with Chat
tauooga and the West, and will break ground
li a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth ffv< independent system.
With its white and fourcoiored church¬
es, it has recently completed a #10,000 new
Presbyterian church, It has increased itepop-
nlatios by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from neariy
.re state fate* Usfan, until it la now sur¬
rounded on neariy every side by orchards
and vineyards. It has put up the largest
iruit evaporators in the State. It is thehome
of the grape and its winemakingcapacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply Show* the progress of an already
admirable city with th# natural advantages
of having th« finest, climate, summer and
winter, fa the **rid.
Griffin is the county sent of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above #eMHfaf- fM* temm o1 1890. it
will have at alow estimate between 0 000 and
7,00<J people, and they ore all of the right
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome-strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come if they bring money to help build up the
own. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their accom.;
laudations are entirely too limited for our
nsine if pleasure aud health seeking guests.
II you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin it the place where the (1 sir fix News
* published—daily and weekly—the best news¬
paper-fa the EmpireSfcate of Georgia. Please
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and desoriptire pamphlet of Grifflnd
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and wlU have to be changed in a few months
o embrace uew enterprises commenced and
omjpilsd.
1'KOFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HE*KY C. PEEPLES,
attorney at law,
dfctTON, OKORgIa.
isSmEST 1
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nairriN, okokuia.
Office. 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J H.
White’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly
rHOS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office over George A Hartnett’s
corner. nov2tf
JOHN D STKWABT. BOBT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
arts. julylftdtf
CLEVELAND it GARLAND,
DENTISTS,
GRIFFIN, i : : : GEORGIA.
D. L PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
wonnnrnv, skobou.
Will Pprompt practice attention in all th* given Courts, to ail and business where
▼er business calls.
<•* Collections a specialty.
HOTEL CUJBTIS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Under New Management.
i. G. DANIEL, Prop'r.
•f I >ters meet all trains.
preferred $75toS250*^T”S-ir» who ternish horse and giv
their whole can a
time to the business. Spare mo
**®te may be profitably employed also.
*•» vacancies fa towns and cities. B. F
JOHNSON A GO., 1009 Main St., Richmond
N B —Please state age and business expert
Never mind about sending stamp lot
GlUFFIN, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 4. IS89,
WITHOUT A CAUSE
Negro Excursionists Fired on By
White Ruffians,
After Which a Church la
Burned and Houses Robbed.
Several Persons Injured—Gould.boro, a
Suburb of New Orleans, the Beene of Abe
Outrage—Threatened Uprising of Ne¬
gros. la Doth West Virginia and Missis¬
sippi—Bloodshed Probable.
New Orleans, Sopi 8. —About 8
o’clock Sunday morning a lot of ruf¬
fians from Gretna and Gouldsboro, two
suburbs of New Orleans on the opposite
side of the river, attacked 500 oolored
men, women and children who were just
leaving an exonrsion train that had re¬
turned from the state capital, Baton
Rouge. The excursion was largely made
tip o it women and children. The
excursion was given by the Bap¬
tist churches of Algiers, Gretna
end Gouldsboro, and the people who
took part in it were all of an orderly
and law-biding character, most of them
being church members.
About ten minutes after the arrival of
the train, and when a little more than
half the excursionists had disembarked,
between twenty-five and fifty white
men, armed with Winchester rifles,
double-barreled shotguns and revolvers
opened fire on the retreating crowd.
The negroes were pauic-atrioken, as the
attack was wholly unexpected, and fled
in eve.y direction. Elder Fleming, a
Baptist minister, ooloj o 1, his wife, Mary
Fleming, and several small children
were about midway between the excur¬
sion train and the street cars when the
hoodlums opened fire.
Mtuinter** iYti* .Shot.
In the gene nil scramble which fol-
lowed the children broke away from
their parents, and leaving the street ran
out upon the commons. Their parents
followed, and just as the mother, Mrs.
Fleming, was stooping to catch one ot
them, a rifle bullet struck her in the
shoulder; she fell, crying, “1 am shot”
Elder Fleming tried to raise her to her
feet and bleeding but as she profusely, was evidently he hard unable hit,
was
to do so. around The bullets them, and were fearing falling that like
hail all
she might be struck again he rolled her
into the turnpike ditch and made the
children lie down close beside her.
Presently the fire of the assailants was
turned wlien upon the another preacher portion dragged of the his
crow A oooupied
wife to the nearest house, by
colored people, and hurried away to
Algiers, about two miles oft, in search
of a doctor. Dr. Brown was sent to the
scene of the affray, but was met on the
outskirts of Gouldsboro by a picket
guard of three armed men. On learn¬
ing that asked he him was going whether to it see a patient, white
orblaokone. they On learning was that a it
was
a oolored woman mid Mrs. they Fleming refused to allow left
him to pass, was
to suffer without medical assistance un¬
til about 8 o’clock, when thernfilaas
having dispersed, her friends were en¬
abled to take her down to Algiers. She
now lies in a very critical condition,
and it is doubtful if she can recover.
Other. Wounded.
wounded in the nose.
Church llur..«Kl nnd House. Bobbed.
After driving the negroes off the
scene, the white men burned the oolored
Baptist church at Gouldsboro, and went
around about the houses of the oolored
residents, robbing them of money, jew-
elry, tobacco and which any they other could portable lay
property then- hands. upon Many of the colored fami¬
lies are leaving Gouldsboro and coming
over here for safety.
A RISING IN M ISSISSIPPI.
Negro*. Reported Assembled Bent on Ex-
terminating Whites.
Grenada, Misa, Sept. 8.—A telegram
was received here Sunday morning say¬
ing that negroes were massing near
Shell Mound, Leflore county, Miss,,
aqd that a conflict between the whites
and called blacks for, was the expected. outnumbered Help was
whites as six negroes A volunteer
the to one. com¬
pany of about forty men was raised here
in an hour or two, and left here on the
13:15 train for the scene of the trouble,
nnder the command of the Hon J. 0.
Longstreet. A dispatch received here from J,
was
C. Longstreet and G. L. Townes asks
us to send all available men through the
the county at once. By order of
governor, the Winona Rifles, accompa¬
nied by several citizens, left on a spe¬
wood, cial train from at which 3 p. m. they Sunday will go for to Green¬ Shell
Monnd to aid in suppressing the trouble
reported to exist between the negroes
also there.
Shell Mound, where the tronble is
feared, is ten miles in the country and
it may be sometime before reliable news
can be received._
N* Word From the Governor.
Jackson, heard Miss., from Sept Governor 3.—Nothing Lowry, has
yet been
who left here with troops to quell the
threatened race tronble m Leflore ooun-
ty. Winter City, where it is alleged
that the armed mites negroes from ore congregated, telegraphic
facilities. is thirty-five
Oliver CromWell, riot, the alleged arrived negro here
leader of the negro
left Greenwood. He was ordered to
leave for soliciting the trade of the
Farmers’ at~Durant, Alliance for taking co-operative the trade
store thus
away from Leflore county merchants.
Cromwell is said to have oeoe led a
gang of horse t hieves.
The Cause of th* Trouble.
““sr3 £r«;
ef Two the Farmers' opened AlUauoe organization. styling
negroes Stores,
them “AUianoe objected stores. ” To with this deter¬ the
whites openly and
mination.
The Both negroes declined to yield an
inch. are arriving and oolleotiug
forces, ahd hostilities are imminent
Onlarina Arias.
by A telegram hardware was Arm received from here Oakland. Sunday
a
Miss., ordering about sixty miles south of here,
ten Winchester rifles.
Still Another Conflict In Mississippi.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept 8.—A tele¬
gram was received here Sunday by a
hardware firm from Oakland, Miss.,
about sixty miles south of here. The
order was for ten Winchester rifles. The
difficulty between the races, it appears,
IN WE ST VI RGINIA.
A Threatened Uprising in X.» County.
White, and Blacks A rating.
Whmiiso, W. Va., Sept 3. —There
is a good deal of anxiety over the newB
of the threatened raoe war in the New
river valley, Fayette county. Informa¬
tion from the scene of the threatened
trouble is meager, but is of sueh a na¬
ture as to rive rise to fears that a serious
breach of the peace will occur.
The trouble seems to have had its origin
Friday evening, r when a negro went
of ~
ire
of employes. futile, and All efforts of the to clerks, pacify after him
were one
receiving a blow from the club, killing drew a
revolver and shot the negro, him
instantly. Echo is the center of considerable
a
oolored population, and Sunday Charleston night
information was received at
that a mob of negroes had collected
New river, ana that a concerted
slauglit on the whites was in coni itempla-
tion. Orders were also received
Charleston hardware stores for
Winchester rifles available, and consid¬
erable shipments of these arms were
made. Citizens of Charleston were also
gathering arms, and it was apprehended
file military would be ordered out
THE M EMPHIS DI STRICT.
Hill, Fontaine A Company’s Regular
Monthly Crop fispsit.
Memphis, Sept 8.—The regular
monthly crop report for the Memphis
district published by Hill, Fontaine A
Company, There says: material improvement to be
is a
noted in the condition of the ootton
crop as compared with test month. The
weather during August in the main has
been most favorable, and there has been
a wonderful oome-out thirty days. of the The plant dur¬
ing the past to warm
and sunshine the has plant caused is retaining it grow its rapidly,
and bolls remarkably well. Chops squares
are
generally reported with in that good exception, Condition, in
but late, ana,
much better condition than last year.
There is some oomplaiut of rust and
blight, from these but no serious injury The principal reported
causes.
danger that now threatens the crop is
worms. having They made are their generally reported but
as date only appearance, of
up to twenty our corre¬
spondents their report The serious full damage of their from
ravages. extent
depredations until about will the not 15th be of made September, manifest
when the second crop of these pests will
make dp their anticipate appearance. serious As a injury, rule plant¬ and
ers not
are well prepared with paris green and
other poisons to check their devasta-
aphis the district is fully two weeks late,
and favorable outlook of the present
may be changed by unseasonable
weather.
Arkansas and has the from most that glowing state pros¬
pects almost universally reports brilliant. Tennessee are
crops are not in such flourishing condi¬
tion. some few sections having suffered
from a drouth.
til Piaking about Sept will not become and general early frost un¬
30, an
The would do serious is safe damage and the to the yield crop.
oorn crop ex¬
ceeds any previous year. This is most
gratifying, and Memphis district will
nave a surplus of this crop to dispose of.
OVER H ORSESHOE ~FALLS.
Carlisle D. Graham Successfully Goes Oyer
In a Barrcl-Slmpcl Contrivance.
NiagaraFalls, Sept 3.— CttNMeD.
Graham made a successful plunge over
Niagara Falls, Sunday morning. The
trip was made in a Chinese llocust wood
barrel, the 4$ feet long, and 22 inches the in bottom. diame>
ter at top, la at
The barrel weighs 150 that pounds. supported Inside the
were canvas strain
foolhardy “I man. be tempting God’s provi-
may said mitered, “but it
denoe,’’ ambition he as he life do this.
is the of my to
I’m satisfied to die if it be necessary.
Good-by, boys. ” The barrel-boat start¬
ed on its journey. The red top of th#
barrel oould be seen most of the way,
but occasionally a drab streak showed
how fast the craft was spinning around
as it neared the cataract, 200 feet from
the Canadian side.
Just twenty-five minutes after he was
set adrift the barrel swept over the falls,
but did prevented not shoot out as expected. fall,
This a shook of a 200-foot
In one and one-half minutes it bobbed
up ashore. and the Graham boat was lassoed limp and polled
was as as a rag,
but was oonsoious, and apparently suf¬ de¬
fered scribes no himself serious being injury. stupefied Graham be
as as
passed over. “It was simply awful” he
said. “I shall never tty it again. ’ ’
Brutal Outrage la Alabama.
Birmingham, Ate., Sept 3.— Mrs.
Lizzie Harrington, a highly delicate respectable
white woman, who is in health,
was outraged by oolored at Fort Payne who awakened Friday-
her night from a her sleep man, and threatened to
kill her if she made an outcry. She was
unable to defend herself, and after com¬
mitting the crime the sooundrcl escaped.
Fort town Payne in DeKalb is the county. new New England
fawysr Murdered.
Princeton, Ind.S jpt 3. — D. Doughty,
a prominent attorney, of Oakland City,
in this oonnty, was Sunday struck on
the head and lulled by Korn McKinny.
The wife of McKinny had left him and
employed Doughty went Doughty to to home secure a business divorce.
nor on
connected with the suit where MoKin-
ny found andjrtt adMd ^hia- ^ McKinny
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the Order for a General Strike
Throughout London.
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The Situation Practically Un¬
changed as Yet
Mansur Masting Mrld In Hrd* Park Sun¬
day—Sympathy far th* Strikers—The
Economist's Frsdfatten—Serrla Not Pre¬
paring to* War— Boulanger to Submit to
Anuat—Other Foreign News,
London, Sept 8.—The order for a
general shrike of all laborers Monday of every
kind throughout the ffity was
withdrawn Sunday. unchanged,
The strike situation is
neither ride has made any further move
toward a settlement The stevedores
complain that they have not received
their share of the relief fund. The
Strikers ore thousand generally firm. struck Monday
Three tailors
and are parading the streets.
Meeting In Hyde park.
pork The Sunday great meeting of large strikers for in Hyde
was too even ap¬
proximate enumeration. Guesses vary
from 50,000 to 200,000. The striking
feature was its good order. The fact is
the sympathies of Loudon are with , the
strikers, suffering and although large numbers there is of great the
among
ill-feeling against any one but the dock
companies.
General Sympathy.
In his sermon at York sympathy Sunday for Cauon the
strikers, Fleming (tenon expressed Lyddon, of St Paul’s,
has subscribed to the relief fund, and
Cardinal Manning invited Bums, the
leader, congratulated to call him upon him the Sunday general and
behavior. Throughout upon the
good try meetings are being held giving coun¬ ex¬
pression to this general sympathy. This
and the relief consequent upon it has
thus far kept the masses of strikers
peaceably disposed.
May Lead to a labor Revolution.
Meanwhile demand the is movement becoming spreads and
throughout the England for general of
an increase
wagee and an eight-hour day, so that
the prediction is made that the present
strike is likely to lead to a great labor
revolution.
Funds to* the Strikers Increasing.
Sunday evening Bums said the usual
procession would be abandoned Mon¬
day, aud the day would be devoted to
real work at the dock gates. A house-
to-house visitation and for contribution subscriptions boxes is
at the nrtblio dockers houses. The
position of The was
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getting stronger relief every stations day, and in there full
were now seven
agencies. working order exclusive of voluntary
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A Split Among the Strikers.
The dock companies are bettor satis¬
fied with the aspeot of affairs. They
have an increased number of men at
work composed of strikers who have re¬
sumed their old places and new men.
It is said that there is a split among
the strikers and that a small committee
has donment been appoiute.1 the strike. looking to the aban¬
of
The Rochester coal whippere and
bargemen visited a large number of ves¬
sels in the River Medway Monday, and
forcibly thereon to compelled operations. the men at work
cease
A Newspaper’s Prediction.
The Economist predicts a disastrous
result for the strikers if they obtain the
sixpence rate with the four-hour mini¬
mum. It says: “The number of men
seeking work at the .docks will largely
increase. The companies will employ-
more themselves permanent workmen and avail
of fewer casual employes.
Only a few Will be benefited. The lot
of the many will lie harder than ever.
The tew of the survival of the fittest
will wide-reaching be exemplified by the strike, of which the
will unprecedented consequences London’s his¬
be in
tory."
_
Commemorating Sedan.
Bermn, Sept Sedan 3. —The,, anniversary of
the battle of was observed here
by a public meeting and a grand pyro-
on the anniversary, observes that peace
has but been that the prolonged of beyond armed expectation, is
cost an peace
enormous. Other papers review the his¬
tory of Germany since the Franeo-
Frussian war.
Telephone* in I rance.
Paris, Sept 8.—The government took
formal possession Sunday of the tele¬
phone station, in accordance with the
law recently passed.
The com
France Declines.
Paris, Sept 3.—The French govern¬
ment has declined to accede to the re¬
quest of the people of the New Hebrides
for annexation of the islands by France.
The refusal is based on the ground that
her France does not with wish England to infringe relative upon
oonvention to
New Hebrides.
Servla’s Explanation.
Sofia, Sept 3 .—The Servian charge
d’ affaires here has assured the govern¬
ment Servia. Of He the explains peaceful that intentions the Servian of
military authorities and are that merely organiz¬ warlike
ing the reserves, no
action is contemplated.
Newspaper* Supp r e s sed.
London, Sept 3.— The Turkish gov¬
ernment has issued a decree forbidding
the entry into the Ottoman Dominion,
or the circulation of four English news¬
papers, which recently published criti-
of
Armenia.
Bewlonger to Sonoader.
Paris, Sept 8.— La SIX Sieole
cided announces submit that Gen. to arrest Boulanger the week has de¬
to pre¬
ceding the elections, in order to avoid
seizure before his arrival in Paris.
Female Aeroaaut’* Experience.
her balloon with a parachute lightning the woman
from got caught which she by hung a suspended conductor, by
one
arm far above the ground. There was
a great crowd of spectators, and the ex-
oitement was intense. Ladders were
their brought aid as tho quickly daring as possible, made and by
aeronaut a
safe descent
The British In East Africa.
Zanzibar Zanzibar, Sept 3.—The Sultan of
has signed a concession giving
to the British East Africa company the
Lomu island and the Benagir coast line
from Kipini northward; including
Ki^^Baraway, Masha, Makdeaohou
HEN RY C. FR ICK.
His Bis* From Porertjr to Wealth—Owns
8,000 Coke Ovens.
Pittsburg, Sept 8.—Twenty year*
ago Henry Olay Frick was a poor book¬
keeper in a flouring mill and distillery
he at Braodford, is the Fayette county. To-day
regions. king He of the Connellsville the ooke
deserves title, because
the H. G. Frick Coke company owns
8,000 of tile 13,000 ovens in the terri-
By the recent purchase of the plants
of the S. M. Schoonmaok company and
Moore & Company, Mr. Frick will be
enabled to control the ooke market of
America and make his own prices. He
will turn out over five times the amount
of ooke that will be turned out by the
MoOlure company, which is now the
second largest ooncern in the region.
The purchase of the |wo big plants
referred to occurred last week Young
Frick had not long been employed at
Bradford until he took a
in some valuable coal l property near the
town. The panic of 1873 l: left many a
large _ firm in a corner. ■■■ % By the tl aid of
friends, Judge Thomas chief among whom Pittsburg was ex-
banker, Mr. Frick Mellon, the enabled
was to
branch out, and from that time ou he
kept building and buying ovens.
When he could not buy he leased.
Old men said he was making a fool of
himself. The boom in coke came, and
those who hod prophesied his rain can
see him any day, still young, only 40, the
king of the coke trade. The Cionnellft- the
ville region is a wonderful feeder to
industrial interests of the world. la re¬
lation the following: thereto a Pittsburg writer penned
made “Suppose we fork last together the coke
the Connellsville during the region, twelve the months popular in
name for the Black strip country
about forty miles long by three miles
wide, which lies northeast and south¬
west across West Moreland oounty and
part hitch of them Fayette. together Load in it on continuous oars and
a
train, start the train going at the rate of
twelve miles an hour, wnioh is about a
fair average for freight trains, and run it
day to cool and hot nigbt boxes without, the a
or
ening track and on stiff grades. the train 8i roll by day
watch
night after day, listen hour after the clank, hour. clank Night of after the
to
hour wheels over 18,000 the jointed tons of rails, coke as whirled every
sees
pastyou. “Toward the morning of the ninth
day the signal lamp* on the lost oar will
mark the ond of the train and you will
begin to have a dreamy sort of notion of
is the blazing magnitude and of smoking the ooke industry within that two
hours' -ride of “Pittsburg. The head¬
light of the train will be 2,400 miles
away." This writtcu several years ago,
was
and the coke trade is a good deal larger
now.
OUR NEW CHINESE MINISTER.
His Wife wiu Be the Flr.t tody ot High
Conte to heave the Kingdom.
Washington, Sept 3. —The Chinese
minister, with several members of the
legation, will remain in the Catskills for
a week or two before returniSg to Wash¬
ington, when they will at once begin
preparations native for tUoir departure the for
their land. The successor to
present minister has been appointed*
but the oablogram announcing the date
of his departure for America has not yet
been received at the legation,
The minister will be aoeompauied by
his wife and family, which will be the
first instanoe wherein a woman of high
caste has been permitted to accompany
her husband outside the celestial king¬
dom. The strict surveillance which fa
there exercised over wives will be fol¬
lowed arrival in this case, the for imipediately minister upon
the of new with his
family they will drive in a closed car¬
riage will be to the legation, installed where in the rnadame suite
at once
of apartments assigned for her occu¬
pancy. With exception, when tho
one mem¬
bers of the new legation will be form-
ally household presented to tho after mistress of the
a few days her arrival,
she will not at anytime The see minister visitors or will be
seen take his by wife company. to dine occasionally, when
her health demands such exercise; bat
instead of permitting her to take part in
social duties, the legation will be con¬
ducted in all respects as a bachelor es¬
tablishment
The present minister will be aooom-
panied upon his return to Ghina with by the
members of his legation, who, the
exception of Dr. Yow and one other, are
all married. Mr. Shu, who is now in
Bangor visitir - J
hurst, has beei
years, during..... his wife and child.
once seen
Killed by Burglars.
Birmingham, Ala, Sept 8.—At Mont-
wallo light Friday in his night ancle’s 'John Lawrence and wont saw to
a store, inside, and
see opened about it him Burglars with pistols. were He fired
on
three timea^but wfi-e when all was over the
burglars gone the and heart Lawrenoe One lay
dead, has been shot through arrested charged with man the
Lovesick Malden Suicide*.
N*w York, Sept 3.—Elizabeth
Proira, a young girl residing with her
parents i at 2109 First avenue, committed
because suicide Sunday her father, by taking who is paris Italian green,
an
banker, with Italian prevented contractor. her from eloping
an
Why He Bunged Himself.
Newark, N, J.. Sept 3.—William
Terhnne, a butcher, hanged himself
with a halter strap because another man
had been adjudged a better sheep killer
IS.
Hrittoh Columbian* Protest
Against the Selmres
Made By the Revenue Cutter
Rush In ** bring Sea.
Sparches Mode- By Hut-Handed Mem¬
ber* of the Dominion Parliament—Why
1* No Action Taken f-BMetittSM
Adopted Which WUl Be Forwarded to
Both tho Dominion nod British Govern-
ment.
iastio and largely attended public meet¬
ing was held here Sunday night to take
action on the reoent seizures by the
United States revenue cutter Rush of
British-Gauadian Si vessels in Behring sea.
Premier the Province Robson ooou¬
pied a seat on the speakers’ platform,
and with him were many prominent
men in the neighboring cities.
Mr. Beker’a Views.
Mayor Grant presided and introduced who
Mr. F'ker, member of parliament,
said: “These seizures ooncern not only
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but
matter people notonly of the E JHH
hearte well, since ... the flag s
our ae we
have been taught to reepeet from earli-
>y, has been ruthlessly and
government without hae interferences . .....I _____
seizures wad that
a solution seems far off.
“Behring sea is 700 miles long and
900 miles wide, and it is outrageous that
any government be permitted should, without remon¬
strance, ownership to arrogate and to
itself and exercise ex¬
clusive jurisdiction o»er such an extent
of open sea. The object of this meeting
is,to seizures secure will be the stopped; assurance that that Britons these
as
we can depend on the old tolsmnSfad flag for pro¬
tection; tor losses that the we shall be
seizures, in and that past the by right reason of ot these
our vw
applause.]
Mr. Frier Get* Excited.
said Mr. the Prim-, member of tho parliament,
seizure* wars most out*
rageous that had ever taken plaoe on
high seas, “The Dominion government
has done done all all it it oould, could, but but for for the ** impe- ’
government I can’t say as much. ”
Why,” he asked, was the American
government nopoly doing tiyiug business to bolster under .'up the a mo¬
name
of tiie Alaska Commercial company?
had been seized by France it
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did, tor somebody. it would be Do a pretty consider hot three yean if
you that
Beaconsfield were alive Mid in power it
would have taken tins time to oheelra bring 8 the
matter cries of to T ‘No! a dose?" *.1 No!” raping * * [Load I Loud; and
The general opinion _____ t war
should not tills be character' neressaiy to settle a < Siero
tion of but that
were things One of these a great deal the worse sacrifice than of
war. wss
National honor. The following resolu¬
tion was passed by the meeting and or¬
dered sent to Ottawa and England:
Resolved, That we, the citizen* of Vic¬
toria, protest against th* usurpation of
jurisdiction by the government of the
United States over tbs wattes of Behring
sea, outride ot the universally acknowledged
three-mils limit, and express our indigna¬
tion at fas repeated outrages that th* per¬
sons and property of our faUow-etomns,
lawfully exercising ot their righta on th# high
seas in teat part the globe, are subjected
to by order* of the government of the
United States.
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Tbs London Observer’s Comment.
London, Sept, fi—The Behring Observer,
commenting tion An on American the sea oould ques¬
not buy says: what Russia had company not to sell,
namely, in Behring toe right The of most exelnsive unmeasured, property
sea.
the most unseverable protest against
Russia’s claim to Behring sea wss is¬
sued by President Pieroek administra¬
tion.
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ILUNOi S CORN CROP.
It Wilt Mot Tara Out os Well a* First
Kx peeled.
Springfield, HI., Sept A— Pretty
careful calculations have been made
here within the past twenty-four horns
upon the yield is of oorn in the Illinois this
year. It known that early esti¬
mates will not hold out by a good deal,
and that much in parts of the state the crop
will not exceed half a good aver¬
age. The calculations referred to. how¬
ever, are based upon the following
figures: The of the returned
by the acreage is nearly crop, 7,000,000, rib
lowing by the assessors, assessors, the yield to is amount nearly 7,000,000, to the rib
mean
average of toe peat ten years, twenty
nine and two-tenths bushels an sore, toe
total yield of the state would be 204,400,-
000 bushels, which is just 73,000,000
bushels less than toe Illinois oorn
of last year. Severn Several large farg^oora oorn growers 1 t
here who have 1 ’ ' *
ject very contain tain oritieally i the outside say the foregoing limit of toe fig-
ures
cam crop possibilities for 1888.
Caraegie no Caadldat*.
New York, Sept. &— Andrew Car¬
negie Sunday that said he in reference candidate to the far
statement was a
the presidency Engineers of the institute of Civil
Mid Mining of the United
State* in opposition to Abram S. Hewitt:
“Mr. Hewitt is the man. You You may may cay
inr positively'that I am not a candidate ftflndifkm in
circumstanca I left my party and
voted for Mr. Hewitt for mayor and I
intend to vote for him tor the office in
question. You can rest e s enred that I
will work very hard to shove it
hard to shove it off on me. ’
Naw li
Woodruff;
dfintiftl
the i
It was
tain a
ivflsA(
of toe road. .
AhoseiL ^
it’
to;
forests. It
company^ 0
MS
tta*
pioyei arc
r r
intMhe it® '
t
edi
OI -I v UUUW8, .... « ....... ] j
NAszmu*
found!
Miit~. aaiew*. m
tight at B T I 1
year-old girl asar ffad
JZZSZLt.
Mr*. V. T..
miiHrfttfl tiuwj
labor Day
of the fargsr
adraifem^reweKa
The state
|flg ft on tift
y&nced to Itaildkast
Heart dtieate, a]
or foul play.
The burglars wbo k
ItetejMkJW
day. One of them mi
The clothing of John
tbs glucose works at
was caught in a shaft of
P 1niitoa*—.
Warwick, Oa^a
nfaga A white man i
SSR25S"
hi* knifte drawn. Ha
and shot dakd.
train robber, who bis
Wisconsin and the
BraSstb/S {gun for fhg I m a ft «jc
uraay euYarri istrM-i. moruiug. i stir tfahi had i
fag lynched.
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that bs will return to Wt _______
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th* faerees* of th* ffimnch
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