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"iAfiCe’B M-1QQU. CUeeB CJOA/jETTES At «fl tom** forgo.-
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U S. A.
Griffin is the best and most promising little
itytnthe, th. Its record for‘the past
half decade, its many new enterprises in oper-
.....lug and contemplated, prove this
i statement and not a hyper-
' Daring'thattimeit has built and put. into
moat anccesafal operation a $100,000 cotton
a fertilizer factory, an immense ice and bot-
tiiug works, a sash and blind factory a
*■---'-Ttory. opened np the finest granite
the United States, and now has
^..pjtflteills in more or less advanced
stages of conatmction, with an aggregate au¬
thorized capital ol over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the finest system of electric
ghting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for t« or arter* lor street railways. It
baa secured another railroad ninety miles long.
pud white located on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec¬
tion with its important rival, the East Ten¬
nessee. Virginia and Georgia. If has obtnin-
d dir.*.:iindependent enaction with Chat
tiwooga and the West. d willbreak gronn
ns few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With its five whits and fourcolored church
ss,tth*ui«Wfir oampleted a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. Ithas increased itspop-
olution by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers fram nearly
•very State in the Union, until it is now sur-
lM „»<irty every side by oreharde
It has put np the largest
ruit rmt evaporators evaporr in theHtate. Itisthehome
zssz andits winemakingeapacity has
every year. It has successfully in
angnrated a system of public schools, with a
seven years years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
■ ami Simply shows the progress of an alreudy
admirable city with the natural advantages
~*- a
Uiitth is the county seat of Spalding roun¬
ded in west Middle Georgia, with a
',fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
wtt level. By the census of 1890, it
ve ftt alow estimate between C 000 and
I people, and they are all of the right
awake, np to the times, ready to
■ strangers and anxious to secure de-
settlers, who will not be any less wel
- v ~r bring money to help build up the
to abont only one thing we
By Justnow, and that is a big hote 1
I small ones, but their accom
modations are entirely too limited for our
J urine s, pleasure and health seekig nguests
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
SsMRMWRs. Griffin
p s-
n is the place where the Griffin News
islied—daily and weekly— the best news¬
paper in the EmpireState ol Georgia. Please
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
stive pamphlet of Griffin,
..............,en f sketch is written April / 12th, 1H89,
II have to be changed -----. i a f ew months
■ new ew enterprises commenced and
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HAKVEST If-ME
(—AT—)
L. L. BENSON’S.
{Bargain Show,
b prices low,
t dear.
' honest hands.
11 see,
vith silken bands,
The Rainbow sheds its colors here
r. hght and shade,
And leaves ripe as the aut
In tints that never lade.
And Turned feathers into frpmthe Juno fans. Peacock bowers.
« ol Lace, Felt and Straw.
nPW '
you heaps* ev« eaw
t too.
Then come onto onr harvest show.
Where you may reap what we shall sow,
That we may reap our part.
THE
Ml lire MSIHAME 1 ( 1 ,
, OP NEW YORK.:
000, „tW**lito«lin Paid members 1843. since Aseets organization aver'$126,00<
on ver
$272,000,000. -------- - Paid - members iberginj----- in 1888, $l!»* L5,-
727,550. This da company c ompany is to the the the tt largest in
d the advantages tages it it ofiers to be
Wtt heapest SONS. and Agts. best .
]S 0 P TURNIP SEED!
t WwteGes, bough it direct from
I OILS at the k>w-
pwx,
RAGE ISSUES
Disniksiql by Colored Baptists at
Chattanooga.
Some of the Speeches Causes
Great Excitement.
View* oT Preacher.* on the Treatment of
Their Race tn the South—If the Negro
Expect* to Stay In the Cotton Helt He
' Must Organize for lVotr-ctli»:i, ami Strike
«
Back When Necessary.
Chattanooga, Term., Oct. 23.—At
the meeting of the colored Baptists
here, Sunday, to discuss race issues,
Over 1,000 were present; Some of the
speeches have caused great excitement.
Dr. Scott, it prominent Methodist, of¬
fered the following prayer:
"We know, Lori, when we have
called upon Thee, that Thou hast.been
with us After twenty-five years Got!
hath our people, and we ask Thee
to guide ns in their present emergency.
Tho.s hast led an.l strengthened us in
times pa t. but now, <>! God, (lod, a a power
hit iing us dow n, and w e pray Thee
1 ..... ...in wilt laige H p helpers. Many
of us are even worse oft' than we were
before the war. Thou knowest how our
people have been murdered. Oh, wilt
Thou conquer for us. for Thou art the
same Savior that Thou were before?
We lmve been .too slow, and have let
this thing go murdered, until so many of us leave people it
have been lint we
all in Thy hands. We are so weak, but
want strength from Thee. We pray
for our enemies and for those who op¬
press ns. We pray that our people may
never hereafter send any one to con¬
gress who will assist to oppress us.
Lord help Sessions ns, ” made and
L. S. )). a prayer
an address. He said, “We come to Thee
with bowed heads and sorrowful hearts
God, to otii-r prayer clouds,gather and supplication. thickly and Oh,
the are
black with signs of woe. From the white
cotton fields of the south comes a wail of
woe, terror and despair. The hangman’s
rope, the deadly bullet and red-handed
murderer spare'ueither tottering people, age nor the
maiden’s fears. Our on
slightest pretense, often without pro¬
vocation. are lulled and butchered with¬
out mercy. Every glade holds its secret,
the hills crouch with dread, the moun¬
tains hold up dumb lips of entreaty. Oh,
God of eternal justice, what untold
crimes ore perpetrated against a weak,
defenseless people ! l'es, we know that
Thine eye hath seen through and Thy human hand will
pity. Go l works agen¬
cies, and sorrowfnl hearts to-dav ory out
to him.
"We believe that question finds an
answer in the letter of William E. Mat¬
thews to John M. Langston, league urging of colored him
to take steps to form a
Americans on this continent, Some of
those who have been the most devoted
to the interests of their race think the
time is ripe for such an that organization. all
Let us unite ourselves, may
have the wisdom and advice of our best
brain, that we may have the moral
power of our best men. Such a union
would give ns strength and courage. ’ ’
Rev. G. D. Olden, the most promi¬ the
nent south negro delivered preacher in telling this part speech, of in
a
which he decried anything said: looking ‘If the to col¬ a
race conflict. He ‘
ored man in the south is to be anything
at all, ho must make something of him¬
self. He must cease to be a
and living off others, and when wo do it
we will extort from our enemies’ preju¬
diced black lips the highest added, praise." Rad less If the do
man, iie to
with politics and more to do with edu¬
cation and money, ho would be an inde¬
pendent race and as good as any one
else.
AUvUed to Strike Hack.
Washington, Oot. 23 .—The Rev. W.
B. Johnson, colored, of the Second Bap¬
tist Sunday church, in which preached he likened a sermon the here
lies
to Samson, and told the members of I
race to secure homes in the south and
west and prepare to stay in thorn, even
if every inch of land must be defended
with Winchester rifles,
he negr
organization from the Socialist and the
Irishman, and twenty years from now
would not be the docile being of to-day.
“The negro, ” he concluded, "has been
building It is for build the whites himself. long enough. He
time to for can¬
not be exterminated or intimidated. He
is the blood and bone of the nation, and
if undisturbed will do no harm, but if
civilisation’, stirred may grasp like the pillars of of old, our
and Sampson
in his death pulled down the temple of
libeity. The IV. Lee, also color¬
Rev. (G orge
ed, of .he Fifth Baptist church,
preached on ' Southern Outrages,’’ and
advised the negroes to strike back when
ftssant.ed. or their wives and daughter^
wronged and insulted. The civil rights
bill, he said, had always proved a fail¬
ure, and the only thing the negro got
from either party was promises at elec¬
tion time, it was useless to seek re¬
dress from congress, for two-thirds of
them were sinners nnd the other third
drunkards.
The colored pastors of Chicago also
preached the sermons, Almighty and prayed relieve for the the
power of to
colored people of the south from op¬
pression and wrong. Sunday was the
day set apart by the recent Indianapolis convention
of colored clergymen at
for of the prayer and supplication in on the behalf south: of
A dispatch suffering from negroes St. Louis similar
conducted in says the
services were colored
churches there.
National League of Colored Men,
Chicago, Oct. z3.—John G. Jones, a
lawyer, of this city, who many years
cd men in different parts of the United
States have agreed to call a oonferenoe
of the lea.ling men of their race from
every state and territory in the Union,
to meet in Chicago next June for the
purpose > of of formi forming a National league.
This movement, , he says, is not a work
of men of their race whose aim and am¬
bition is to hold office, but is for the
protection and elevation of the entire
race in th e United States.
Presbyterian Review to Stupeod.
I
GIUFFIN GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER *24.1880.
GOT A CON SULSHIP
We Will bn Represented »t Throe Rivers,
Caa , by Colonel Nir?»•*}»* Smith.
Washington, Oct. 23 . —The president
has appointed Nicholas Smith, of New
v." York, to be consul
at Three Rivers,
Can. Col. Nich¬
olas Smith, once
known as the
handsomest man
in America, and
said to have been
described by
Queen Victoria as
“beautiful,’’ is
also noted as the
husband of Ida
Greely, Horace daughter Greely,
con Nicholas kmith. of
He has attended many weddings as best
man, notably that of Mr. Ovington, of
Brooklyn, three years ago, out of which
a suit grew for the colonel's expenses.
SWITCHMEN WANT MORE WAGES.
Louisville and Nashville Tracks mocked
at Kvansvl la.
Evansville, Ind., Oot. 23. — At S
o’clock Monday afternoon the yard
switchmen of the Louisville and Nash¬
ville, at this point, who have been get¬
ting twenty cents an hour, demandeo
twenty-live and twenty-seven cents for
day men, and twentriseven and twenty-
nine for day men. Previous freight to quit¬
ting thev bunched all the cars
on the union track and then removed
the coupling pins. Nearly 3(5,000 feet
of track is covered with cars unable to
be taken out. There they are twenty-nine claim that
men in the strike, and will
the men on the entire system go
out, and that the Mackey and other sys¬
tems will join them. The officials were
given no notice and applied wore caught for police at a
disadvantage. They Reissing and
assistance, and Oapt. a
detachment of men were sent to the
yards. There were many threats, but
no violence. The men say they will
not let a train leave until their de¬
mands are granted, and trouble is
feared.
Kighteen More Out.
Chicago, Oct. 23. - Eighteen switch¬
men, the entire night force of the Wis¬
consin Central railroad in the city,
struck Monday night at 8 o’clock. Po¬
lice protection was asked, and Lieut.
Crook. Sergt. Fox and twenty yards. patrol¬ There
men went trouble, on duty however. at ttte The oi
was no cause
the strike is the discharge of a union
man. It is declared by the switchmen
that if the matter is not settled at once
that the day switchmen and brakemen
will strike.
NEW OIL FI-LD
Struck Xear 'I.runl -.gton, Marion County,
AV. y.i—Great Kxcitemeni,
Wheeling. Oct. 23.—The oil excite¬
ment in the new field near Mannington,
Marion county, is intense. The reports
first sfent out. regarding well the coming barrels in
of the Jackson at 1,000 a
day, while somewhat The exaggerated, well did have
some foundation. come
in strong, but is now plugged, awaiting
the arrival of machinery and tanks, and
its capacity lias not yet been thoroughly
tested.
The town is crowded with oil men
from all parts of the country, and prop¬
erty is changing hands at fabulous
prices. Thousands of acres of land
have been leased, and those who were
drilling commenced opt
before the are
now realizing handsomely by- sell¬
ing their options. The Standard
Oil company controls a large num¬
ber of leases in this territory. The
oil oil at was was depth leptl struck struck of in in 2,000 the the feet, “Big "Big Inju"” Injun' lie lalf sand mile
a a
from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, railroad.
and demonstrates that the town of
Mannington is about the center of the
belt which runs from the Pennsylvania
oil fields to the Parkersburg district.
COTTON B GGING.
Jfc will Iieigu Supreme AllJantia Day at
tlio Piedmont Kxposition,
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23. Cotton bag¬
ging will rule supreme on Alliance day
at the Piedmont exposition. President
Evan Jones, of the combination alli¬
ances of the southern and western
states, and Secretary Rusk will _ make
addresses. Two young alliance couples
will bo married on the stand, in the'
presence of 50.000 will people. perform the
Gov. Gordon cere¬
mony. assisted by two ministers. Henry
W. Grady will give away the brides.
Both brides and grooms will be dressed
in white cotton bagging. They will be
escorted to the grounds (n carriages cov¬
ered with cotton bagging, and will be
married under a canopy of cotton bag-
^ifie aeronaut, who makes a parachute
leap, will use a parachute i^ade of cot¬
ton bagging. The badges of the day
will be cotton bagging.
The Opinion of Lx pert*.
Cincinnati, Oct. 23.—At the coroner’s
inquest over the victims of the incline
plane accident the official expert cngin-,
eers, Messrs. Fehrenbatch and Korb,
presented an elaborate report of their
examination plane. of the The machinery, gist etc., at
the incline of their re¬
port was that the primary cause of the
accident was that a small bit of iron, not
more than half inch an wide, inch became long and detached a quar¬
ter of an
from part of the steam-pipe, and at the
fatal moment was blown by the steam
into the cut-off valve, rendering it im¬
possible for that valve to be closed hy
{he dering pilot of impossible the lever, apd Pilot thereby Gable ren¬
it for to
control the motion of the car,
Lawless Night Rider*.
Corydon, Ind., Oot. 23.—A band oi
night riders from Perry county has been
adjoining aommittiug county many of depredations Crawford lately. in the
They burn houses and barns, kill stopk,
and threaten the citizens with violence.
No reason is given for their actions^and
it appears that the work is done for pure
oussedness only. There are thirteen of
the outlaws and they wear masks and go
heavily armed. The people officers of of Crawford the law
have appealed to the
for protection.
Bat On. Jorrman Lacking.
Ghicaoo, Oct. 23.—The efforts to se¬
cure a jury yesterday. in the Cronin Eighteen case veniremen were re¬
sumed
were examined, twelve excused tor
cause, the state, three two challenged by defense peremptorily and onh by
the
under consideration by the state w‘
the court adjourned. Tire defense
state left. twenty-five But par-
juryF one man
to complete the ,,
SLAVE TRADING.
Human Chattels Sold in the
Streets of Zanzibar
With Scarcely an Attempt at
Concealment,
I *
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Arab* Carry *>a ” Traffic, biM it Is
Claintfd farnbtiMl with
Caplt»! »>y » RU4i F rm of Aiuerlran
graders — Op ;:t.n*c of the Autumnal
Session oT the ftf--Forti jn.
London. Qot. 2ft, -Letters frpm Zan¬
zibar,' received at the office of the anti-
slavery society here, report that the
buying amt selling of human chattels in
the street* of that city is being earned
on with scarcely an attempt at conceal¬
ment. Weekly slaves markets boldly , aye held at
which the are offered to
the gaze of intending buyers, and in
the price
bought. The women ore not usually-
ticketed in this way, but are sold for
what they will fetch, the each, ordinary price
being from £(i to i; 10 if they are
young. The merchants wdio this trafic
all Arabs, but carry on be well
ire it appears to
understood in Zanzibar that a rich firm
of traders, every member of which bails
from England, furnish all the capital to
conduct the business, aud that by far
complete is ugliest their influence to that
no com¬
plaint receives the slightest attention.
To illustrate the openness with which
the trattio is carried on .it is pointed out
placard The let
upon the’
ters complain that differeii the apresentatives
in Zanzibar of the >nt European
governments appear to take no interest
whatever in these matters.
Opening of tile Ifemlieing.
Bimslin, Oct. 2 3. The autumn session
of Tuesday. the reiohstag The imperial was formally speech opened de¬
was
livered by Herr Von Boetticher, im¬
perial minister of the interior and vice
president of the Russian council, who
said that the session, as had those in
the past, would be directed toward the
security of peace at home and abroad.
The consolidation co-operation of the of the defensive reichstag in the of
the Fa herland would be again powers claimed,
in order to further and its develop readiness the for efficiency action
of the army,
will thereby impart to the efforts of the
empex-or and his allies for the preserva¬
tion of pence the weight winch is their
due in the council of nations.
A bill will amending be presented the military by the law gov¬ of
ernment
May 2, 1874, It will provide for a fresh
distribution of the army, aud is intend¬
ed of to organization readjust the existing which irregularities have arisen
and through the displacement strengthening of the army
the of troops from
time to time. From this cause and a
power" corresponding arises the expansion additional of the expendi¬ naval
ture set forth in the budget submitted The finan¬
cial statement to be presents
a not inconsiderable increase in its ma-
trioular contributions of the several
states to the army as compared with
those of the current financial year. It
will not, handed however, the Federal greatly exceed from the
sums to states
the imperial revenue. A new- Socialist
introduced. bill and a new banking bill will also be
The speech recounts late events in
east Africa, and says that the Zanzibar
sultan has issued decrees promising the
abolition of slavery. To relieve the for¬
eign office of colonial a great and increasing will mass
of work a department be
created.
The hopes expressed by the empe xeror
on Nov. 22, 1888, that neace would be
sustained have not onlv bee realized,
but have been strengthened regards
the future, owing to to the the personal persi rela¬
tions which the Emperor na ha s i ! since cul¬
tivated with the rulers of friendly and
allied powers, the thereby felt helping abroad to in
strengthen confidence
the honest love of peace animating the
policy belief of that Germany the and of jnstifiying Europe, based the
the existing peace will, God help¬
on treaties
ing, 1 >e maintained in 1 3110.
Gipls Muiblfer-ifl an«l Mufcil ited.
Munich, Oct. 23. -- Mnnioh has a
Jack the Ripper mystery quite as
profound os that murdered of Whitechapel. the Two
girls were found in streets
here early Monday morning and their
bodies mutilated in a manner to lead to
the suspicion that the London fiend had
started on his travels. Great excite¬
ment prevails in Munich.
Will Burnt a Tow-I l,SI»a Feut Hieh.
London, Oot. 23.—A company lias
been formed here for the purpose of
erecting a tower in London on the Eiffel
plan. The tower is to be 1,250 feet high.
Five hundred pounds is offered as a
prize for the best design for for for the pro-
posed tower, [and £240 the the second
best design. ’ The competition isopen
:
to the world.
Wants to Be R Private Citizen.
Vienna, Oct. 23. — Archduke John
Salvator, of the Austrian in i-----' imperial xl * House ”
of Hapsb'.irgli, has pub) ublicly expressed
the desire to resign all | hi* hi titles ...... and ap¬
pointments and hereafter live the life of
a private citizen.
Seven Thouutnl Deathf from Cholera.
London, Oot. 23.— The cholera is still
raging in the valleys of the Tigris and
Euphrates. During the- past three
months there have been 7,000 deaths
from the disease.
Grand Duke Nicholas Dying,
St. Petersburg, Oot. 2 3.— Grand
Duke Nicholas, uncle of the czar, is
dying from a cancerous affection of the
ear.
La Salle Minrr* Resume.
LaSalle, 111.. Oct. the 23—After nearly
six months of idleness miners here
have settled their differences with the
operators and w-ork has been resumed,
The basis of settlement tr*s twelve and
ope-half cents per ton few mining and
*1.75 perd ay for driver*,
-.non- It Mir hi
East Taw as, covered Mich., Oct 33. —Tim
ground here is with *nc>w. A
heavy northeaster is blowing cm
PERILS 0~ THE SEA.
Gr«at HitlTeriiiij; Kxpt!’ by th« Crmw
o* tht» 5)»r «m »ot*.
Philadelphia, Oot. 33. The seven
survivors of the ill-fated steamer Eavn-
moor, which foundered at sea, tt, Sept.
5. in a cyclone, 300 miles off Turk’s
island while tl'llilit bound llAH from Baltimore to
Rio Janeiro, lias arrived here from New
York, whither they were brought by the
steamer tell Santiago of Iro suffering. n Nassau. They
The a story Earn great struck
Sept. 4, moor which iuoi eased « terrific gale
an the following in farce,
ind at 11 :!50 a. in. day the
vessel gave a lurch and foundered. As
the steamer sank the ;>ort life boat float¬
ed off from the ship between the funnel
aud the main mast, aud the men clung
to the boat and scrambled in, the sec¬
ond officer, second and third engineers,
four sailors, three firemen and the cook.
An effort was made to save the rest of
the crew, and a drag was made of the
painter, but the boat was blown away
and the oars wrested from the hands of
the men so that no more could be saved.
The cry of the drowning men as they
wore dashed about by tlie mountainous
waves were heard by the men in the
boat, but they could not be reached and
had to be abandoned to their fate. It
them. was impossible to put the boat back for
It been was an provisioned oversight that in anticipation the boats had
not of
the calamity, as it would have saved the
terrible sufferings of the survivors, For
tunately the boat drifted into the gulf
stream aud the air was warm, but this
increased the intensity of their thirst.
“The horrors of hunger on the second
day vivors, became "and awful, it increased ’ ’ said one of the sur¬
as time wore
on. in We gulf managed to which pick np sea weed lit¬
the stream, gave us a
tle nutriment, and on the third day a
Dyii ‘ “ — ----- 1 - i ---- r ~
mec
mar ________
a sea bat and sucked its blood and then
ate its flesh after it had dried in the
sun. The first man to die was a sea¬
man named William Robinson, of Bal¬
timore, and the second was the third
engineer. Thomas Hunt, of Philadel¬
asleep phia. One night while fireman we were all
except a German named
Plagg, became who insane was on watch, jumped he overboard. suddenly
and
We were too weak to save him. We were
without a compass, and steered by the
sun by day and stars by night. Eleven
vessels passed certain, us, one, a British bark,
we are saw us and deliberately
left us to our fate. When 300 miles on
schooner. Hntteras we I were picked describe up words by a
cannot in
our joy at the sight of this deliverance.
We were so weak that we had to be
lifted upon the vessel’s deck, and one
of our men, Ed. Johnson, a Norwegian,
fell overboard and was drowned. ’’
The Earmoov was largely owned in
Philadelphia. following
The is a list of those who
were lost: Richard J. Grey, master;
A. Painter, first mate; H. Soulas, first
engineer; Stephen Pony, W. steward- Duminer, all boatswain; Phila¬
of
Robert delphia: Johnson, James Carl Durand, J. Jurkeisen, mess boy; Ed-
ward Johnson, William Robinson,
Janies Ohvsiatude, Maas, Amedee Leagenore,
Heinrich A. Flagg, James Sin¬
clair aud Herman Tonges, all of Balti¬
more.
Those who were saved are: H. Stone,
second mate, and Thomas Metorvm,
second William engineer, Wright, cook, of Philadelphia; William Davis, and
Ludwig Leder. Carl Crane nnd A. Fos¬
ter, of Baltimore.
AN APPEAL FOR AID
For the Destitute Settler* 1„ the North-
w.-tler i -tutes.
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 23. —The suf¬
fering among the settlers of north¬
western Minnesota aud western Dakota
has become so widespread that it lias
lieen decided to appeal to the principal
cities of the Union for ai ’. The cham¬
ber of commerce of St. Paul has opened
a subscription list. The churches will
take up a special contribution on Sun¬
day, Nov. 3.
Ramsey county. N Dak., has a popu¬
lation of 7,000. Of those, about (i.Oi'O
are farmers. The frosts of last vear cut
off the crops gene. ally, and the farmers
were for seed, obliged to mortgage clothing, their farms
them provisions, through etc., to
carry last winter, and
this spring stock, machinery, etc., were
mortgaged for seed. There lias been a
continual drouth the entire season, and
the crops have been almost ail entire
failure.
lit Nelson and Walsh oouties there is
also great destitution. The district in
South Dakota embraced within Miner,
Lake, Sanborn and Beadle counties is
in like condition, but it is surrounded
by Falls, populous Yankton, towns and Huron, cities, Watertown, like Sioux
Pierre, etc., and it is thought that suffi¬
cient relief can be realized to take care
of the people for the present.
The *ti i so »t Key
Key West, Fla,, Oot. 23.-The Span¬
ish gunboat J orgo J nan, sent by the
Havana authorities at the request of
the Spanish Monday consul at this place, arrived
here to transport the Cnban
eigarmakers strike, and Havana.' their families, who are
on to A merchant
steamer, chartered by the Working¬
men's union of Havana, also left that
the port Monday mission. morning The for strike, this place on
same ordered week which
was last by the cigar-
makers, has permeated every branch of
the business and lias been delarel gen¬
eral. Several hundred are expected to
leave.
Forest Fire* | i Michigan.
Portland, Mich., Oct. 23. —Forest
fires are Portland, resulting Sibewa disastrously and for farm¬
ers in Westphalia
townships, Jonia . ounty. A widow
named Spencer lost her house and farm
buildings burned Sunday in Sibewa. Qross-
ways have ont on the highways
fighting west of Westphalia, the and fanners are
flames night and day.
Valuable timber in Sibewa swamp has
been destr oyed .
Walking Bos* Murdered.
Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 23.—Sandy
Condon, the Knoxville a popular Southern young railroad, walking boss
on now
in course of construction, was shot and
caught, wi one up in quick order.
Left the Knight*.
New Yore. Oot 28.-By January
every union plumber, steam and ga»
fitter and their helpers wi{l dron litor their
connection with the Knights of
and form a «ew. organization. This
means a lose of 10,000 mechanios to the
order.
OKLUp!
Yury Voting Child, But Ei-
cmiiiinly Large for Her Age.
Population Now Estimated at
One Hundred Thousand.
Of Which fiititin'll) Hu - 15,WHI Htul Okla¬
homa City 0.000—The Abont
Poor Lands Without Foundation—Reno
Even tn ally to Be the Principal Towrn of
the Territory—Its Poetics.
Cincinnati, Oct 23. W. T. Burkans
has just returned from Oklahoma, where
he has well spent the several territory. months, On going lming
interviewed pretty over by Post reporter b« said;
a
“The Ntories you hear from Oklahoma
being a barren country come from dis¬
appointed territory and people who succeeded have gone.to in getting the
not
all they expected. The fact is. it is a
rich prairie country. I never saw
better land. It is not the red soil that
you find in Kansas, but part of it is a
gray sandy loam, very like Miami valley
laud. •
“Idon’t knowhow much land lias been
broken for fall planting, but it is a large
area. The stories about drouth are
false. There has been as mueh rain
there this season as any country needs.
Besides, the Nhawnees on the west, and
the Cherokees north, and the Creeks
raise and others splendid on all sides of it regularly
“You know crops. it only opened
last April, when was the free-for-all np
race
took place. Weil, the population is
now estimated at 100,000, ana it has sev¬
eral good sized towns. Guthrie has a
population 9,000. They of 15,000 both and the Oklahoma railroad
are on
line from Texas, which brings np the
lumber out of which the houses are
chiefly built. But in Gnthrie are sev¬
eral first-class houses of stone and brick
already. “There other towns: Kingfisher
are
with 5,000 people, Reno 3,000, and
other country towns, such as Harrison
with 1,200 people. The laud offices are
at Guthrie and Kingfisher. Reno is
about five miles from Fort Reno, to
which the cool road from Indian Terri-
^ Coal is the fuel, and there
• plenty of it not far
1 “Mv opinion is that away. is event¬
be Reno
because ually to it the will big be town of the territory,
on he and St. Louis ana
San Francisco railroad also on the
main line of the road from Chicago
through to Mexico. Both of these roads
are “Yes, being it built. will Be state, and
soon a new
,—, .-------, rthe reason
are from
from Michigan and
other northern states. There is no ”
GWEN T IME TO P REPARE. -
Curium Facta In Connection With a Re¬
cent South Carolina Lynching.
Columbia, S. C., Oot, 23.™ Some very
curious facts in conpeotion with the re¬
cent lynching of young Robert Berrier
for the murder of his mother-in-law
near Lexington, N. C., have just come
to light, A pally who witnessed the
hanging says Berrier was taken from
the jail ut 7:30 o’clock and immediately
earned to the outskirts of the town,
under a large oak tree. Here tile mob
stopped and asked the prisoner if he
was be if ready he would to die. Berrier his wife said he would
meet and babe
in heaven. The mob then informed him
that lie would be allowed time to pre¬
pare for death.
About this tune a drummer, who was
in town, came upon the scene and
asked to be allowed to pray with the
condemned man. His request was
granted, uieu. and anu he ne knelt Knelt down down by by the the side side
Berrier and prayed very fervently
t God would save his soul. During
tlio prayer many hearty “amens’’ ana
such responses as “Lord grant it”
“Jesus receive his spirit” etc., went np
from the mob. For more than three
hours praying and religious services
were conducted. A few minutes before will¬
midnight ingness Berrier die. expressed his
to He was then placed on
a horse with a rope about his neok, and
then as an appropriate hymn was raised
the horse was led from under him and
the body left dangling ih the air.
El llio Re> Sdiitumly 111.
New York, Oct. 23. —El Rio Rey, the
sensational two-year oid, and the speed¬
iest youngster of his day. is seriously ill
at the track of the New York Jockey
club at Westeliester. The great colt has
been cared for like an infant or a queen,
but it is probable that he will be a dead
horse before many days. Early last
week he had a slight attack of influenza;
the colt was watched carefully, but, de¬
spite developed the best veterinary aid, the disease
into pneumonia, and yester¬
did day even hi* most sanguine attendants
he not not expect able to to pall stand him through, his feet. for
was on
Mine* Caving In.
Negaunce, Mich., Oct 23.— Saturday Buii-
the South
and the move-
also affected. Several le Queen mine of
was acres
ground have sunk from ten to one hun¬
tinues. dred feet, Small and the mine movements buildings, still railroad con¬
tracks aud trees are engulfed. All the
mines have quit work underground.
The extent of the damage cannot be
estimated till the caving in stops, and
continuance notliing can now bo done to prevent the
of it, but the loss will be
very heavy.
KUle.l Hhilfl stealing.
Creighton, Neb., Oct. 23.—A farmer
named Joe Kibbe was found dead in
the granary o' a man named Jerome
Sharp, living fifteen miles west of here,
Monday neighbors. morning. Kibbe and Sharp
were No idither particulars
are known. Kibbe had been shot
through Sharp killed the head, him. aud it is supposed
of vigilance committee, Slurp was which the leader had
a
been formed to stop the large amount
of the stealing neighborhood which had been going on in
for a good while.
Another ( as* nf \> low Fever.
Washington, Hamilton, Oot. 23. —Surgeon Gen¬ “
eral of the marine ho *
service, has received a telegram
Dr. Porter, at Key West, report*®
other case ot yellow fever at that.
and that quarantine restrictions have
The -- “**-
N1
THE F LOOD IN *
On^plenfer It 3h«rif i""' i
Lo«t—Or. r SO ,009
San Fkancwxjl L
papers received by the i
gic, from which Hong arrived Koui i
injured that 683 in people the
during the fl ]
Over 1,000 Uv
and 1,000 acre
Japan Mail,
by Incomplete floods du
te
prefectures have
been swept away s
j^.31UU of miles of roads ter
have ..... J-ZZSm raging the i
been in
of this city, .sinoe Sr
meuse amount of
fences, here timber, etc.
rain for six weeks. 3
cisterns suffering are great! giv' ‘
NEWS
Conil.iiutlu of
Various
TV, Sr. Loato exposition i J
emi ’ 7-
success. '
Colored men will meet at
au International league, f
A mob near Memphis ]
...
for forty-two years, is dying. |
Mellville Taylor was killed tey r -
the coal mine* at YouHgfr
Monday.
Dr. William P. Jehn«Hfe o*gl
known surgeons in ]
paralysis,
Wallace, the principal in tl
deal, was refused ateT
Gresham.
death at his borne, i
juries received In a runaway
day.
William E. Kiblett,
section man. living at
killed by a freight train
Monday.
An explosion of gas in aart
at Chattaneoga,
for him, and often
assisted a very clever !
Franklin Patterson, sd
considering whether to stay
young SteubenvUliam-
go to Bolivia as vice <
Leading eastern n
goods h*T6 (BMt *** tl
raise the
si
„
in the temple, nroduch
caused Fisher’s death, -I IL
rest. ' •’ »„,•
James J. West and Ctaark.
have been indicted by the g
fraudulently over-issuing stot
cago Times. Warrants were i
“K te
day found 147 openings by ■
ing applicants could be edml .. ,
The grand jury will give them a cfe
air their knowledge this week. 19
An open switch on the LouisvU’
Nashville road at LmmlaML m
collision between p«». 0 „ BW ,
afternoon. About a dosen p
jured, one or two i
It is proposed to fora «
unions of Kansas, North «u»d So
Iowa and Nebraska into one re
ization. Four other states bav
laws. Nebraska will vote on a
measure next year.
,
Warren .Shipman, n! confined in i
jail at Herkimer, Y„ on a 4
highway robbery made a desperate a
from to sicure liberty sheriff’s Monday morning,
the pistol struck
the wrist and disabled him. , g Sgg*§
The provincial government ba* —-^
uteda large quantity l
goods for the relief of i‘
dorians at Point Esquimaux, on
of St. Lawrence. Five huu
flour were sent by steamer*
Benjamin F. Nunneily’s —
throat cut from ear to ear, was ||<utd fot
ing in the Chicago river
weeks ago he went ou a sprees
Ranks, whose dead body was fished «
the river that night by a bridge tender, j
Edward Hicks, a conductor on the “«od*
road, was killed at Bradley, Wte, oft £h»-
day. Hicks jumped from his caboose jut
as an engine came in collision with it,
the force of the crash threw the cahoosw
out with the required $a.m< >7, which to
missing.
Moses as
attorney of ” licvw •
for forgery. JT'tm f
piece of real estate to him te
I claimed that Matthew* forged a deed
1 veying the property to himself and then bor- : j
rowed upon it. '
The trial of J. Frank CoUozu, tite J
attorney of Minneapolis, June charged
having forged the of John T. terns-
dell for about $227,0t», began inlhe district
court there Monday, betoiw Judge Hook*£ Ml
experts in the United 1 r ffw*a
Mrs. Craig Tolltvar, H
known Kentucky desperado; I
sane. It is thought the killing of her 1
band at Moorhead, Ky„ t>
trouble with her two boy*, to 1,
tew days ago both of the boys threw her
the floor and bent her with chafe ftste.
The citizens of Johnstown, Pa., hare e.
$5,000 to continue the sea rah ter tite 4
James McMilleu, of the Cambria Iron «
ww.-*a
state forces left off wiil w __
once, and continue ns long as ttte, ti
Wre n— i
' to William Grant