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(fRIFFIN, GEOEGIA, U S. A.
—?—
Griffin in the beet and most promising little
i ty in the th. Its record for the past
hall deeade, its many new enterprises in oper¬
ation, building and contemplated, prove this
0 be a business statement and uot a hyper-
olical description.
During that time it has built and put into
most successful operation a FIDO,000 cotton
actory and with this year started the wheels
of s seeoud of more than twice that capital.
It has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬
tling worts, a sash uni blind factory a
broom factory, opened up the finest granite
quurry in the United States, and now has
our large oil mills in more or less advanced
stages of construction, with an aggregate au
tborized capital of over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the finest system of electric
gliting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for two arters for street railways. It
has secured another railroad ninety miles long.
and while located on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec¬
tion with its important rival, the East Ten-
uetsee, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
d direct independent connection with Cha t
tnnooga and the West, d will break groun
n a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With its five white and four colored church
jt has recently aompioted a *10,000 *>•—
- Pieebj rt wi an chwrch. it hoe increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it ia now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
and vineyards. It has put up the largest
ruit evaporators in the State. It is the home
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 shows the progress of an already
admirable city with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
ealthy,fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above ecu level. By the census of 1890, it
will hove at a low estimate between 0 000 and
7,000 people, and they are 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 buili up the
wn. 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
modations are entirely too limited for our
usine g, pleasure and health seekig nguests
1 you see anybody that wants a good local
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffin News
m published—daily and weekly—the best news¬
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
ndo»# stamps in sending for sample copies
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to he changed in a lew month
o am braes new enterprises commenced and
ompteted.
KEW YOBIilTHETEMPLL
VELVET AND PLUSH
Velvet iUftbons,
Velvet Baby Caps.
Call and see the new arrivals from New
fork. Especially the
Black Silk Velvet at #1,25 and upwards.
Colored Silk Velvet 75c.
Cardinal Plush, extra width @ #1
-ALSO,-
New lot Velvet Baby Caps at #1 and upwards.
Handsome Buching at 10c. to 50c.
-{ORDERS.}-
W* keep constantly on hand a large and
varied stock of elegant trimmings for t he se¬
lection of patrons and orders are promptly
executed by accomplished artiste.
MRS. L. L. BENSON’S Art Temple.
No. 20 HILL STREET.
Merchants and Planters
BANE,
Griffin, Georgia.
Capital, : : : : *100,000
Organised July 1, 1889.
Prompt attention to all business intrusted
to us. Accounts solicited from bnnks. firms
and individuals.
Piwiident—J. D. BOYD.
Vice President—8. GBANTLAND
Cartier—D, Asst Cashier—J D. PEDEN.
C. BROOKS. Kincaid, 8
Grant! Dwwtobs—J, D. D. Boyd, N, W. TV .1 Ore H. H
Bass. R. and, H. Peden. octfidAwSm wry,
P. 8t rick land.
Ity GriFpfn
The New Distemper Prevails
Throughout the Land.
EXTENDING its grip westward.
Chicago Ha, Juat fH „ 8ht U ( . olumW
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Politico.,. Sneezhij. Comparative Im¬
munity or Cleveland and Cincinnati,
lucre*-*!njt In B,„ton-l>artl« ul « rl ,
vern in New York and Vicinity.
New York, Dec. 29. The number of
persons in New York and Brooklyn
suffering from influenza is very large
and constantly increasing. In most
cases the patient is subjected to severe
muscular pains, catarrh, great debility,
etc., with numerous concomitant dis¬
comforts varying , , different cases
some the bowels cases and running into affections of
others to those of the
lungs.
While no instance of death due
directy to tullu nz.t h.is been reported,
tiie number o! < • tii-» from pneumonia
has so increased as to indicate some
Connection in'tw.-e-.i th • epidemic of so
call'd in Ufi'Ai >i d pneumonia. For
the post o.m* w eks the number of
death* iium pneumonia lias tieen re-
speUivcly as follows: 5,, 7i, 77, 7.5, 72,
CO, 8,, ej, | Ui . j figures are for
the week en :nig 21. The
figures for the we. .. ending today will
probably be over H i).
Its J.tlacm c it idenpread.
There is hardly a business house or an
office down town whose force of clerks
lias not been shortened more or less by
“la grippe.’ Quite a number of police¬
men and firemen are laid up.
Hie same state o allairs exists in
Brooklyn boards x_>t and all Jersey three tty. The health
cities claim that
there is no danger from the epidemic.
Winn reminded that t le disease is tak¬
ing on a more serious form in Europe
they point to the lightness of the attacks
here and say the malady could grow
much worse without becoming danger¬
ous to life.
As to the existence of three cases of
claim typhus that fever in the city, the officials
there is some doubt about
the diagnosis in these cases, and assert
that at any rate the measures taken to
isolate the patients would prevent any
spread of this deadly disease.
Chicago f utf-hos It.
Chicago, Dec. 29.—The Russian in-
fiuenza is said to have readied this city.
Dr. T. O. Summers, a physician and
surgeon epidemics who the has disease jrassed through two
of in Russia, re¬
ports that since last Monday he had fif¬
teen cases for treatment. He predicts
that in a week the disease will prevail
in all sections of the city. Dr. Mont-
gumciy, ui me neaitn office, said mat.
several cases of supposed influenza had
come under his notice but he was not
prepared to state that they were the
genuine type of Russian influenza, al¬
though the symptoms were similar to
those of the imported article.
Ohio rolltlcian* Affet-tetl.
Columbus, O. , Dec, J').—There
BCores of ( ases of influenza in this eity,
tym^‘ epidemic The will healffi not malignant
epidenne form here will and not those assume assume suffering a a from it
go about their business as usual. It
prevails mostly among children and
young folks, though some of the state
politicians assembled for the senatorial
fight are sneezing to kill, and make the
corridors: of the hotels resound with the
current “la grippe.'
Treated as Epizootic in Dm ah*.
Omaha, Dec. 29.—“La grippe,
Russian influenza, is prevailing estimated hei e that in
epidemic fully two-thirds form. of the peopi ie suffer-
are
ing from it at the present time. It is in
mild form, few of those attacked being
confined to their beds if medical treat¬
ment is promptly given. There have
been no deaths, Physicians look upon
it as a developed stage of epizootic and
successfully treat it from that diagnosis.
Ob the Iucreaze in Boston.
Boston, Dec. 29.— The influenza is on
the increase here. It is safe to say that
over one-tenth of the population is af¬
fected by it. The symptoms are more
like tho.e of dengue lever than like
those of the common influenza. Affec¬
tions of the lungs are a s > more numer¬
ous than in .a!, out physicians do not
consider the situation alarming.
Not the Genuine Sneeze in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Dec. 29.— No cases of
genuine influenza have as yet been re-
porteil here. This unseasonable weather
offers unusual chances for taking cold,
and many persons have not let the op
portuuity pass them unutilized. There
are many cases of sore throat and severe
colds, but the “ia grippe' 1 has not
reached us yet.__
Very Little in Louisville.
Louisville, Dec. 29.—President Galt,
of the board of health, states that there
ia no epidemic of influenza here at
present. Dr. Clinton Kelly and other
leading ,7: practioners state that alleged
eases ussian influenza have yielded
■
readily to treatment, and if the disease
exists at all as an epidemic it is of a very
mild type.
only u l ew Inara ill Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Dec. influenza 29.—A fe^Asolated reported
coses of genuine yet epidemic are has
in this city, but as no who
' mminent physicians
resulted. through i similar plagues ex¬
have been reach here in iil its
pect “la grippe to
violence betore another month has
passei 1.
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Negrora N»t So-ceptiblc.
Norfolk, Ya.. Dec. 29. - Norfolk has
Russian influenzqjfo a mild form and it
is estimated that there are as many as
200 eases of it in the city. Most of those
who have contracted the disease move
in the best circles. The negroes seem
to be entirely free from the epidemic.
1hey Think Thojr llavo It.
Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 29.—Physi¬
cians report a number of cases, the
ymptoms of which resemble those des¬
cribing the influenza. No obstinate
qoges have vot developed however.
They F atter TI.emaiirM.
Minneapolis. Dec. 29.-No well de¬
veloped cases trf influenza have yet been
reported- The air is too dry.
Not Eplalandv in CloveUad-
Cleveland, Dec. 29.-There is little
influenza in this city. A few
r n o
isolated cases that are perhaps genuine
have been reported and they are con¬
fined to travelers. There is nothing
like an epidemic nor any indications of
one.
Senator Ingalls a Victim.
Atchison, Kan., Dec. z9.‘—The first
mmr known in this section to be seized
with the Russian influenza is Senator
John J. Ingalls. He was taken with a
cold and aches and pains Thursday
night and yesterday was stiff and sore
and sneezing all day. He had an en¬
gagement to deliver au address before
the State Teachers' association at To-
pvka, but his condition, although not
serious, leave was such as u >t to permit him
to haute with safety. He is in
bed and still sneezing, but he expects to
leave for W» bin- toil with his family
Sunday evening.
dmuMKup.imi ,.f (Jul.,l,e it# UloUmnn.l.
has Richmond, Va.. Dec. 29.—Influenza
not made its apis-arance in this
city to to any lie appreciable extent There
seenis an cnileintc of colds, run¬
ning feeling from from the the eyes an l considerable bad
erf cu of such attacks,
hut only one case of s--rious illness has
yet been repotte i from the cause.
Physicians are n it kept particularly
busy from the disease t»ut druggists re¬
port that they sell more quinine than
they have ever known before in the
sa no time.
'-any V.minis in Worcester.
gri[)j»e" Worcester, Mass., Dec. 29. — “La
has many victims in this city.
One large di v gnodi store lias thirty
clerks on the sick list. Nearly every
large concern reports its prevalence
among their employes. As a general
thing tin- attacks are not severe, but
one patients physician says that among his
are several who are almost com¬
pletely prostrated.
Hulthuoie Doubtful About It.
Baltimore, Dec. 23.—Several cases of
influenza have been reported in Balti¬
there more during the j>ast few days, but
is no certainty as to their being
real genuine grip. About thirty post-
office employes are laid up with the
trouble. None however, are seriously
ill. The symptoms are heavy cold,
cough, pain in back and limbs and gen¬
eral lassitude.
Haril ( oat mill Imagination in nuUato.
Buffalo. N. Y.. Dec. 2 . 1 .—There are
several cases here of what is considered
by the sufferers to lie Russian influenza,
but the doctors without exception diag¬
nose it as a combination of hard cold
and imagination. The serious form of
“la grippe" has not yet reached here.
Influenza In Zanesville.
fluenza Zanesville, O.. Dec. 29.—The in¬
has prevail' d here to a slight
extent for a week, but in a very mild
form. The most serious cases only
serve to cause patients to stop work two
or three weeks. The distressing after
effects have not been experienced.
A Goml Grip In Albany.
Albany, Dec. 29.—“La grippe” has
taken a good beginning grip in Albany • and alarmed. some k
people are however, to get light.
The attacks, are very
In one dry goods store fully twenty em¬
ployes arc at home sick witli the dis¬
ease.
N«»t Yt»i tpprnrml Mllwaukee.
Milwai kE'a, Dec. 29.- -As yet influ-
h J“ llot m *f u its aPP^arance in this
,
favorable to tbe disease, lie ing in the
immediate vicinity of the lake where
all troubles of this nature are very acute.
It C»o**tn n Thentre.
Boston, Dec. 29. —Owing to the ill¬
ness of two members of the Sothern
company from influenza the perform¬
ance at the Hollis Street theatre was
abandoned last night, money being
refunded to ticket holders.
Evansville Too Dry for IL
Evansville, Ind., Dec. 29.—Dr. U.
M. Young and other leading physicians
of tiiis city state that as yet there is no
signs of an epidemic of influenza in this
section. The air is dry and not favor¬
able to the disease.
Utica Has Cold in the fiend.
Utica, N. Y., Dec. 29 — In Utica and
vicinity there are quite a number of
cases of cold in the head without cough
as is usual at this season of the year.
If the disease exists here at all it is in a
mild form.
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Itochester ha« Lot# of It.
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 29.—There is
a great deal of influenza in this city. It
is not of a severe type, but extremely
anni eying. i’hysicians though kept busy
are handling it with success.
Duluth Won’t Hove It.
DkULUTH, Minn., Dec. 29.—There is no
case of Influenza known in Duluth. The
atmosphere of Lake Superior is too pure
to admit of its existence.
Ail Ur 11 at Payton.
Dayton, O.. Dec. 29.—As yetnocases
of influenza have been reported to the
board of health.
The |*re»ideut’» Duck Shooting Party.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 29.—The presi¬
dential duck shooting party after visit¬
ing the old Harrison homestead at
Lower Brandon, sixty miles up the
Jamfo river, returned to Claremont, a
few miles below. There tbe party left
Commodore Bateman's yacht and pro¬
ceeded in carriages to Waverly, on the
Norfolk and Western railroad. Early
this morning the party left Waverly by
way ot Richmond for Washington.
Nprang Before a Trmln-
Elizabeth, N. J., Dec. 29.—A well
dressed man, aoout 80 years old, delib¬
erately sprang in front of an east bound
Lehigu V alley passenger trsin at South
Elizabeth and was killed. He wore
blue trousers, a “corkscrew" coat and
waistcoat and a light overcoat. Noth¬
ing was found in his clothing to iden¬
tify him.
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A Grc»t CittSn.
WiLKESBAKRE, Pa., Dec. 29. — A
cavern of large proportions occurred at
Plains, a suourb, yesterday afternoon.
Without warning the surface of the
earth settled and tier.jr great holes deep. appeared, St.
some of them feet
Leo's Catholic church was several damaged, as
was tbe parsonage and other
buildings. _______
Pr«M ricM te a Purler.
New York, Dec. 2#.— G*or fc e Dixon,
the young colored I-txex frank Button
and Eugene Hornfc*vker, of Harlem,
fought in the parlor of i a wealthy last night sport¬
ing man's country r» tence the
Dixon knocking out ‘ - ornbacker at
end of the second round.
The Euro^Mip Pr on the Anglo-
Purta£$&* D ffioulty.
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BEORETABY BLAINE TAKES A HAHD
Humor TUat if.- Will Protect Col.
McMiiiJn't in I he Helagou
Kir lielieur “• stgoltlcitue* ot Our
Squnalrim’. P rm*r<u-» in the Teg 111 .
British Ship* fiwul.iloil. nt (iibraltcr.
London, Um-aa '.—The continental
press, including jjffe <h* semi-official and
official organs, evidence of being
more {MeturUd yVcr the Anglo-Portu-
gueso dispute than any one of the jour¬
nals of tire disputing countries, though
in their expression# there is no intima¬
tion that it inay be deemed advisable
for any of the powers to interfere in the
matter.
The Russian jn'ess are inclined to take
the part of Portugal in discussing the
merits of the qua r.*i and are unani¬
mous in the dectarauon that England
has no right to expo :j.hv r [ tne tne sympat sympathy of
her .
continental nuigitii ngUiiora in her present
difficulty, has always since t|e. jer own African selfish, policy
ireen and still is ag¬
gressive and bluh lermg. In tne pres¬
ent instance Porta;,al has merely done
what England lias been Going for years
and m getting a dose of her own medi¬
cine sh‘ shows fo the perversity of the
child in refusing take it.
The German press as a rule seem no
more disposed to side with England
than are their Russian contemporaries.
The Cologne Gazette takes substantially
the same ground as that taken by the
St. Petersburg papers in imputing to
England a policy of selfish indignant greed in
Africa which raises her
wrath at the alleged iucroachments of
Portugal to the heighth of absurdity.
t iiclf sshi'i Fo.'r. r ill the Flo.
New York, Doc. —The Evening
Sun publishes a long and somewhat
sensational statemi'ii ia regard to pos¬
sible difficulties between tiiis country
and Portugal. The substance of it is
that Mrs. McMttrdo, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
widow of the liite Cad. McMurdo, an
American citizen wito organized Delagoa an
Englisli syndicate an.t built the
Bay railroad in ALicnn territory now
claimed by Portugal, recently waited
upon Secretary Blaine, accompanied by
a western New York cong, essinan as
friend ami counsel, and submitted to
tbe secretary convincing proofs that the
property rights of Col. McMurdo were
being The disregarded by invited Portugal. explanations
secretary but
from the Portuguese government,
received no satisfactory response, of
whereupon he sent the squadron evo-
co-operate burv that the with Unite.1 Great H Britain ates is icady in forc¬ to
ing Portugal to resii'-ct the rights of
foreigners in the t< rritory referred to.
Lord Salisbury at tbe same tune or¬
dered four British men-of-war from
Malta 1 1 Lisbon.
Gunboat- at Gibraltar.
London, Dec. 26.--The British Medi-
teraneau squadron, ptepired for action,
has been ordere 1 to itn iezvous at Gib-
ralter in readiness io proceed to Lisbon
at a moment's note . he Teemeraire
has arrived at t.i ralter and Collossus
and Benbow left i t for that place.
The original plan f a- • milling the fleet
in the Tagus that was aiuinoiied. because tliere it
was feared tie r presence
would interfere with t ie progress of ne¬
gotiations I etween Englaml and Por¬
tugal looking to n peaceful settlement
of the difficulty.
A SureeMfoi torpedo Boat.
London, Dec. 29.—Naval circles, are
vt ry much distur >e<l at the reports of
the successful trial of Lieut. Feral's tor¬
pedo boat in the Bay of Cadiz, the mar¬
velous working of the vessel having
especially grave significance England's in view
of the presenceofanumlier ships in of
best war Portuguese waters.
Submerged to the depth knots of forty ltour feet
the boat easily made six an of
and answered the re jiiiremeuts her
guiding apparatus as readily as though
she were floating on the surface.
Burin K»41y .A (flirted.
Paris, Dec. 29.—Tlie health depart¬
ment repoits that on Christmas day 318 all
deaths occurred in the city from
causes. The average mortality for the
corresponding day for several popula¬ years
past is 20 1. One-thir i of the
tion of Parts i. afflicted with influenza.
The editor of The Moniteur Eversal and
the soldiers died from the disease at
Versailles.
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tut Her Children* Throat*.
London, Dec, 29, — At Eastbourne
Mrs. Taylor, a widow with two daugh¬ and
ters, drank herself into a frenzy
cut the throats of the two girls white
they were shaping. After committing
the terrible crime the woman ran into
the street brandishing t e razor reeking
with the blood of her cuildren and was
caught and disarmed with great diffi¬
culty. ___
A Workmen’* Eichang*.
London, Dec. 29. r-A workmen’s ex¬
change has been opened in Leipsic, the
object of which is to give general and ait vice
and information to workingmen to
arbitrate disputes between employes
and employers.
I pure in M»kololoIan<i.
Lisbon, Dec. 29.—The government
has received a dispatch stating thoroughly that
Makolololaiul has become
peaceful: The United States ship Chi¬
cago was inspected by Senhor Garcia.
L«*ft Ba*%m 07 a.
Zanzibar. Dec. 29.—The Egyptian
steamer Mansouvah she left will Bagam proceed <yo for to
Mombassa, whence
Cairo via Suez. Lieut. Stairs and some
of Emin Pasha's troops art on board.
latetnc'l lo Slavln an d Jat kson.
London, Dec. 29.—The Pelican club
will offer a purse of £1.00b as an induce¬
ment to Slavin and Jack-on to contest
ia a glove fight in the tdub rooms.
Fmtti Has s p *♦'• ,
Zanzibar, Dec. 29.—Emin Pasha has
had a relapae. There is secondary
hemorrhage from the ear and great
anxiety is felt.
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>'■>« tmpr »onfid f-»r ( rn#lty.
London. Dec. 29.—Three nuns of the
order of St. 1 rancis have been impris¬
oned at Munich for cruelty to their
pupils.
i **» ;! - Me t« »«<-«»«.
, ifchey /
Teknton, Dec 29.--He New
council ot education, compoeed ot the
leading educatol s of the state, elected
the following officers: PreeMeut, Dr.
J. Murray Butler, of Patemm; vice
president, Stqrerlnten lent Jacobeon, of
New Brunswick: ts-retary, G. O. F
Taylor, of I ewar:;: treasurer, Normnl Profes¬
sor J. M. Gmr. oi tire Ftate
school.
The council adopt 'd a resolution,
which which was was Teachers' *iib*,',,uentiy Kitl>s.-,,uentiy endorsed endorsed instruct- by by
the State a eolation,
i----- —liiiutuee to pr pn *■-*“---'■
unto i*«ii So. ...
Senator Wet t •. i»st winter, but
failed to fa**, calling for tire appoint
merit of tne state board of education by
the governor in-tea t of by tire te joint
leeting nod purel.. on a nonq partisan
basts anil for terms of seven years, but
one member to go out of office every
two years.
EVA HAMILTON ANSWERS.
she Will Not Allow IUy to Clot • Di¬
vorce by Dthsll
New York, Dec. 29.— Mrs. Evaiine
L. Hamilton has filed her answer to
I.obert Ray Hamilton's complaint in a
suit for an annulment for their mar¬
riage. The answer is a general denial
for most of the assertions in the com¬
plaint. tie never told her of hia inten¬
tion to have their marriage annulled
and asserts that sire had not been mar¬
ried prior to the time she married Ham¬
ilton.
As a separate d be we sire says that
she and her liusba.id have maintained
the relations of m ot and wife for the
past four years and that he caused her
to be recogni ed and treated as his wife
by the public up to the time of the com¬
mencement ot his »nit.
The verification of tire answer was
taken by A. Judsou Rice, a master in
chancery of New Jersey.
i>«»m 1 «•«!ro’* Plot.
Wakhinuton, D. U. , Dec. 29.—Dr.
Valeute, the Brazilian minister here,
has received a dispatch from Rio Janeiro
concerning the in depriving action of tire Dom provisional Pedro of
government immediately
the annuity allowed him
after his deposition, the dispatch provisional states
that a plot to overthrow tire
government was tit t overed and Dom
Pedro was implicated in it. The belief
that the it' pored emperor was plotting
against the new government the provi¬
sional r. let’s evoked the decree grant¬
ing him an annuity.
at » Cremation.
Baltimore,D.jc. 29.—Henry Lohmann,
aged Turner 70 and years, free thinker, a prominent dted German Christ
on
Vorwayrts hall was delivered by Mr. A.
Schmidt, superintendent of Zion Harmonic school.
At the crematorium the
Singing society sna a wind of music
were in attendance.
Huh Awlioro in u Giilr.
Halifa::, Dec. 29. -TheschoonerLen-
nie from Antagouish for Sparmouth Digby
tit niola-.se: ran ashore below
Cut during a strong westerly gale. The
ae! and cargo are a to.al toss. Capt,
( haries Porter and v.. Hutchinson, a
sailor, were drowned.
Arr«sitc| f » '1 ui |*r*»ctlco.
Pittsfield. Mass.. Dec. 29. — Mrs.
Hattie Marshall was arrested on a
charge of as iitiu , in the fatal mal¬
practice upon Mrs, . colt for which Dr.
Richards is in jail awaiting l i 1. Sire
was tinaoie to procure bail ..nd was
locked up.
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Itiiruatl.
New York, Dec. 29.—A fire last
night in the Everett building, at dam¬ Ann
ana Nas.au streets, ca .sed Stei.OOU
age, distriouted among u liunu.er of of¬
fice tenants. Heveial firemen were
burned I>y “back c; night" flames.
\ N»t! or » *..t« KkpJnftio i.
Jamk . T.iwn, N. Y.. Iks-, flu - A
gas explosion occurred in tire Bush
block at about .0 o'clock last night
damaging tire Lum.tng to the extent of
$150 atm seriously hunting Hattie Baker,
an inmate ot tire place.
At antu lire king 'latch.
Atlanta. Oh., Dec. 29.-The fifty
hour walking match ended last night.
Luca*, ot chihnl'lphi. 1 , won easily.
Score: 'Luc. a. - lximies. Prater, of At¬
lanta, 214; Barker, of Smyrna, U0.
\ IO Vl?» r «0 I r f.
Clkvi.LaND, Dec. 2 ).—OttoSmith, the
16-year o! i buy on trial tor tire murder
of Maggie Thompson, a in girt the of first 8, was de¬
found guilty of murder
gree. _ _____
A Duasr K l, Itiu,seif.
Savannah, ' a. IJec. 29. -John J.
Gibbs, of Bovt . -nasi,, hunting accidentally
killed himself wade in
fort county, S. V.
I ■lurr te ill Haag.
Concord. N. H., Dec. 29.—A Palmer, jtardon
has lreett rcluaed iamc*
derer of Henry Whitehowse, and he will
be hanged Jan. l(i.
) i jtlfitll i in LUImmi.
Lisbon, Dec. 29. -Two tiwuaand itave
the influeii -a. including the qu*-en and
Senhor Gomez, the foreign minister.
1 i.e \\ «-»•; ,
Warmer: fair; southerly winds.
NC GET. Of NEW A
Contributions to tire conscience!
of $625 from Philadelphia received and
from New York were at
treasury department,
Joseph G. Fox. chief professor ia
civil engineering department of
ette college, died siidd. aiy of
aged 56 year*.
Jot in Hoos. of Harlem, His., was
saulted and robbed of JJ.tBO and
thrown into the rivet. His
are not known.
Charles IL Hockley, who gave Muskegon,
000 for a public horary in
has just given $15,Law for a
monument ibere, tire city to furnish
site.
A petition, circulated through
homa and signed by .VXi,090
asks congress for the speedy
ment of a territorial go vrnmant
The senate oommi.fc- on patents
have a bearing on the .-c.eject of inter¬
national copyright on Jaa. 9.
l! * n«-T (
t<r I
N :w Yobs, tier. •JL -.jt, G. Dun A
weekly rev* w of Ir.t ie says: A
jkiu re in bitJnem B • aaul a! fir end of
the v«*ar tm th's ye 1 r nnaeaaonatde
weather, and notch fwa-wnirc for m ney
at the east make th 1 duiine-a border on
depremkm.
White pmupate for tire future are
generally regn. I with great co:ifi-
deui.e the pres< n »t.< e of trade is wot
truiie sati.f i ’tor. and in some quarters
tile <relay Of e tW ion. causes fear of
commercial <ukmu r.is.m.nw. This fat
more p,t ti -ula iv n ;ice dite to tire
eiotbtng a.iti t uraithin ; tradm at iffttia-
oetfilnn CteVelai iland. 1 an — * 1 ........... in Detroit many lines and of bn 1 *’■' ilwanke*. il anno s *• at
good dull ull trade But
and 1 the shoe quiet.
western point* with scarcely an except¬
ion, the open weather and bud condition
of country roads are noticed as cause*
of unusual slow code tiona
t ouiplsln's f Ueatbsr.
In other respects the reports of trade
are business generally been satisfactory. large nearly The holiday
has at every
point The reporting. weak of the situation
those trades which points most affected are by
are
too successive mild winters. The an¬
thracite coal trade is stagnant in the ab¬
sence of demand, and the situation is
almost without precedent. More than
half of the Reading coal mines have
closed, throwing 8,0 it) miners out of
work, and it is stated that 20,690 miners
The are bituminous working on coal three-quarters trade is active time.
more
but lacking cars.
No definite relief in the woolen g« roods
cold business weather can be has expected caused until well prolonged sustained
a
demand and the clothing bunn necessarily ■»# in all
parts of the country mud
depend to a great extent upon the
weather. To a greater or less extent
many other kinds of business are dis¬
absence turbed and sometimes put to strain the by
of the demand incident to
season, and in all quarters the delay of
collections is felt.
Iron Contlmum Hfrnngv
.On flu* MIhmw Wasw! iU-o. iww .
continues to promm. Titough sales of
pig Arm are not Philadelphia, very terge, pric,*s and $19.50 are very
at w
(juoted here for No. 1. Hales of 85,000
tons of steel rails tire rep .rtod with the
price steady at $ -5 vat and £ 16.25 at
Chicago. Bar iron te firm at 2 cems,
and confidence in tire .utufe in all
brandies of the iron an t stesd business
undiminished. A larger demand for
copper has enabled tire syndicate to ad¬
vance lake to 141. with sales of 750,000
pounds; i»ut lea.i is tjn1"t at 8-1.87, and
tin lias been depressed at Londoit by
speculative realiziur, In sjiecdative i>sing quoted markets at 21
cents her*.
there has Isren littte ch t.ige, except in
corn, which has drop << 1 2 cents.
'1 i III M «m. jr 1 r'lnir*.
Tight money continues here anil at
Philadelphia and relaxation te not to Ire
expected until site the January dis¬
bursements. These are expected to
give at November least temporary ease. according
The exports, to
official reports by tbe just unprecedented completed, exceeded of
Siit,65J,7iO, imports and New York sum in lie
at
comber the exports show a decrease of
5.1 percent., while imjiorta increase ‘is
per cent., but even at this rate the ex¬
cess of exports for the whole country
would be over $t®,000,0d0.
Tire treasury te so conducted as to
sustain the money market as far as
practicable, and of $3,200,009 this has week, been
paid I'Ut the out movement in excess of receipt* $70,000,000 casli
from the treasury and the banks to the
west and south stnee Aug. I makes the
present stringency by no means sur¬
prising.
IiitsiiiffiM LMtIurJM
Failures during the last seven days
for the United htxtes 219, for Canada
3:*, total si )compared witti 3i2 last
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 276 failures
in the Unit -l .States ansi 21 in Canada.
,vi»#on|e N«w Year.
Pnu.ADEi.eHiA, Dec. 29. -Yestertlay
tire period marking the ening of'
new Masonic year, tire Right Worsht worshtp-
ful Grand Iresige ige of Free and Accepted
Masons assembled in grand annual com-
munication in the Masonic temple.
Right Worshipful Grand Xaster Clifford
P. MacCalla presiding, with all
grand otficers in their respective stations.
It was an untisually interesting meeting,
inasmuch as then- ware present Most
Worshipful Grand Master t haries H.
Mann, of the graiei lodge of New Jer¬
sey. and Most Wonrtiptul Grand Master
Thomas R. Hhryock. o: tire fraternally grand hslge
of ceived Maryten Grand I. w ire M wer > >J* -J alia, and
who, in by returned inter their acknowl-
turn,
eiigments for the happy greeting.
1 he W«b«: Jte0 a tptkrr..
Woburn, Mass . 29.—The strik¬
ing Knights of I a w»r leather
have issued a statement of their case
tire public. They aue.it the ten mstage
in va ne of mantifiM tar d prolacte dur¬
ing tire year, but assert tiiat this has
ireen fttily 1 alani ed re.luce 1 co t
r w material an * lower Wtiger. They
,-av tire inanufac utie. . refuse 1 to
with tbe men. \ ■:r,:.o v.a necessary.
They express « i bn-tresa toariwtrate the
disputed quest HI I*.
ittpvfi! ih< r«i *»i ttnuam
New Oki f.an> i#ec. •<t — Tlse Tiroes-
Democrat s Lai .-do special say#: In¬
formation i* re a-ived i iettf ’Metuerey,
Mexico, th.it tire ».*Lj ami city tax on
commercuii traveler# will be
Jan. 1. leaving in force only tin- small
federal tax <>l that nature. Tire mer¬
chants of Monterey realize that they in¬
jured themwlve# bv having thi# tax
posed. S
rf :
A Dry Oml< ireatev te*.Uarra-aa ,
New Haves, Dec. 99.—Mrs.
Bretxfekfor, dry goods dialer, i#
cially embarressed. liabilities,
£ SS.iSlW; nominal assets. 5t?,000.
Columbia river. HU
( baric* Austin and Mattbaw B»W, two
colored sailor*, ware instantly killed.
They were askvp in the foreoMtia of tire
Clan McKenzie ..ml when the bow of the
Oregon struck bar the sharp plate of
iron ran into tire bunk In which tire
Mulor* were lying, i-nttnur tire two men
in half, They were struck ft « the waist fell
and tire upper part each boJy
Into -tire rtvar ami remit. • ■
dmrtM in.ired life, a vmU paasetof the Ore-
gsm, was hut not family. 4«w
The Ore ;on wa* rr.hntng bdi
and ran her bow on the port tide into
tite Oregon’s how tvnapletely and rip¬
ping tip deck* and railing for ab ut
forty feet from the stirn. launediatiffy
after tire collision th • ship began to
oettia and soon sunk in "oar fathoms of
water. AH the ere > wer - safely trans¬
ferred to the Oregon w i brought hack
to tite effv. The t i nt McKenzie i« a
fine iron vomi. ■
THE BRIDGE
«». Man tUtied and
William* tw
WiLLixiiHPOBt, !*»,/ Dec. 1*.—One
•pan of the new bridge over the ri*w at
Market street which had not beta fully
fastened in position went down yester¬
day afternoon when a heavy load of
timber was driven upon U. The team
and four men went down with ft, fall-
mg about thirty feet
William Somers, o m of tire mm em¬
ployed on tire bridge, where home is in
koctreet Irester, " N, Y.» '' Burt
Thompson, Daly and . on, f rank driver driver Cable i‘ of *' tire team; Jdbn fore
an wore mere or
injured, none of tirem fatally. * l'h«
driver was w .raed not to drive MtO»
the bridge, hut disregarded the notice.
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Twa rrelfbt « roeiM.
Pirmt’ 80 , Dec. .9.-In a freight
wreck on the Pa., PeninylvanU yesterday railroad sixteen
near Altoona.
car# were demolished, four enginet
wrecked and fireman Cha*. English
injured, so that he died. The wreck
was the caused by one of two the train* treight parting train*
on mountain,
collided at Moyer, 151., on the »oUthweA
Six branch trainmen of the Pennsylvania mjured, enginetneu radroxd.
were
badly by jumpfngf ^
lietog hurt
* *
Amevleow «eet»*ivat
orttste' 1
tire American
order. '•The origin The following of the j
natural era# in the Trenton 1
Ohio and Indiana,’* by Edj
of Columbus; and “Tertiary region/ oepo#ns or
the Cape Pear river by Wm. B.
Clark, of Baltimore. geologist# A large nuwfor
of prominent were present
Tb* Ora if HoaaUMNSt read*.
Atlanta. raised Ga. . Dee. for *29,-Nearly $9,000
itave been a monument to
Henry W. Gtady and only a few sub-
scription# have been received from out¬
side Atlanta a# yet. Beifotin* that Mr*
Grady’s admirer* in all part# of the
country desire to help to the work, the
monument committee has decided to
hold the lists open for some time*
..............
He Dted «,1 DyUteitkoble.
Die. heir# ‘
erf Danvers, Oilman A, Mass., Kim bail, 2ft,—Tire of Middleton,
000, the amount died of a policy hydrophobia. held by
Kimball, who claims that or such death
The association
is not accidental and tUat it is not
liable for payment on the policy.
The HevMl fare*
Newbukoh, N. Y., Dec. 29.—The
famous Mowatt called suit trefore involving dudge nearly Bar¬
$.WO,000 Poughkeepde. was bat owing to the
nard at appointed
fact that tbe committee to
take teettmony in Mexico, Minnesota
and Iowa were not ready to weeks. report the
ease was adjourned for two
Yleiun*tjr A** to t«t th* Eilttw.
Ashland. Wi»., uv, 20.- Dtrtrfot
Attorney Itosman came into tto pri¬
vate office of Managing : Mi tor Doyle, of
The Daily New*#, fort u«hi and made a
vicious assault upon Imn.^ A l»nd to
hand scuffle en#utvd, but friend# of both
parties interfered and the fight wn#-
stopped. ___ , < ••
Hr* Ia*I<kI r««r*rt* MsSWO,
Halifax, Ti. B.. Dec. 29.—A fire
which fold lasted forty-** hoars in
Canada’s coal shed ha* ^uat been ex¬
tinguished . Tire damage tliere amoun bt ts to in¬ a
considerable sum an i no
surance. ; ■■■■ - -
__
Thd Roman Catholic btsiiopof Havana
appealed to the governor of the island to
close the cemetery which the Baptiste
bad opened in that efir, but the govern¬
ment of Spain has decided that the Bap¬
tiste w ere acting according to the law#
This powder never
b* sold in
low umt.
powders. 0o. '
Towns* v
K«»r iSitie 9*)