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ORIKFIX. GEUBQ IA, U 8. A.
Oriffln is the beat and sort promising little
i ty in the th. It* record for tha past
half decade, its many new enterprises in oper¬
ation, building and contemplated, prove this
o be a business statement and not a hyper-
olical description.
Daring; that time it has built and pat into
■tost snccessfnl operation a $100,000 cotton
actor? and with this year started the wheels
of a second of morn than twice that capital.
It has pat up a large iron and brass foundry,
a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬
tling works, a sash and Mind factory a
broom factory, opened np the finest granite
qunrry in the United States, and now has
oar large oil mills fas more or less advanced
•tagssof construction, with an aggregate an
thorixed capital of over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the teeet system of riectrie
ghtiag that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for two arters for street railways. It
h ss eecured another railroad ninety miles long,
and white located on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec¬
tion with its importanfe’i < ■ the Bast Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Geor»• • It tens obtain-
d'direct Independent com < < lien with Chat
taaouga and the West, <i . iDbreah gronn
aa tew days for a fourth mud, connecting
with a fourth independent s r stem.
Wit* its five white and four colored church
re, it has reesatiy completed a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased it* pop-
nlatioa by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around He borders fruit growers from nearly
every State fa the Union, until it fa now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
and vineyards. It fate pat np the largest
ruit evaporators fa the Mate. It te the home
of the grape and its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully fa
sngurated a system of public schools, with a
seven years curriculum', second to none.
This te port of the record of n half decade
and simply shows the progress of aa already
admirable city with the natural advantages
of having tbs Onset dimats, summer and,
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun“
ty.fffcuated in went Middle Georgia, with a
ealthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort- wide-awake, np to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be nay tees wel
come t they bring money to help build np the
wn. There te about only one thing we
need badly Just now, and that is a big hotel
We have several small ones, bat their acco m
modatioas me entirely too limited for our
urine s, pleasure and health aaekig ngnests
f you see anybody that wants a good loeaj
tion for a hotel fa the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin te the place where the Gurn* News
« published—dafiy and weekly—the beet news¬
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
ndoee stamps fa sending for sample copies
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
~ This brief sketch I* written Aprft 19th, 1889,
and will have to be changed fa n few month
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
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PROFESSIONAL DIBECT0BY7
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BtMPTOK, UZOSoL.
Practices fa all the 8tate and Federal
omrte. octildftwly '
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JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
mm, o bosom.
Office, SI Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H.
W fate's Clotkhu' Store. mar32d*wly
mOS. R. MILLS, ,
ATTORNEY T AT LAW,
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Will practice fa the State and Federal
Conrta Office over George A Hartnett’s
corner. novfitf
HN D. STBWAS T. BOAT. T. I'jm.
STEWART k DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over Georgs A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice fa the Stats and Federal
rtr. inlyl9dtf
CLEVELAND k GARLAND,
* DENTISTS,
GRIFFIN. • : : GEORGIA.
tat bases with
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DOWN WITH THE BHIDOE.
TrnriUe l ti«;e of » Freight Train—FI t»
j, Urea Saertflw*.
Hali.ktsville. Tex., Jan. T. +• A
freight train of twenty-six cars, with
engiue ana caboose, crashed through
the i ridge on the Aransas Pass road,
aero s t ,e Lavsc, a river one mile be¬
low here. A terrific wind storm, ac¬
companied by thunder and lightning,
was raging, and the river had raised
twenty-eight fe.t. As correctly aa can
be.ascertalncd at present five men have
Leen killed and several injured. Burke, drifted ,
The dead are George R.
seven mil s down scream and lodged badly in
the lop < it' a tree. died His leg the was shock of
crushed and i e from
the amputation. - Ferrier, con¬
ductor. James Lynch, rear brakemaa.
A barke. per from Yoakum, Tex., and
a tod of 17 from Chicago, who were
steal in ; a ride in a box car. ,*»
The injured are: Edward Palmer, en
giiu-er, s veto cut extending from his
left eye to the baek of his head. B. B.
Todd, fireman, an arm and his jaw
broken.
A trackman and two negroes, names
unknown, were rescued at 10 o'clock,
after having remained in tree tops in
midstream a mile below the disaster all
night. of the is
The entire contents can a
total loss. The' caboose was found two
miles below town.
THE EMIGRATION QUESTION.
Tha Treasury Department, It I* SnU,
Will Assume Centre!.
Washington, Jan. 7.—It fa safe to
predict that Secretary Windom will re¬
scind* toe existing contract with the emi¬
gration commissioners of New York
state. Solicitor of the Treasury Hep¬
burn, who was detailed by the secretary
to investigate the practical workings of
the existing system of supervision of
emigration, has submitted an exhaus¬
tive report on the subject, in which it is
understood he takes strong and ground advisee
against the present system
its abrogation. has been before the secret¬
This report
ary for some time,and a prominent official
>f the department, who is in a position
to that know, the secretary said that it would was very rescind probable the
present contract on the strength of
Solicitor Hepburn’s report, and the
treasury department would take active
toarge of the emigration question itself.
A Missouri Episode.
Springfield, Mo., Jan. 7.—A street
Sght occurred here in which two men
were shot and letter fatally wounded. walking John
Hayes, a currier, waa
down the main street with his cousin,
Mike Hayes, when they met two
negroes, named Robbins and Anderson.
The Hayen boys ru s hed p e »t th e n sg ro s*
oughly, and the latter retaliated by
ushiug them off the sidewalk. Mike
iayes then drew his revolver and fired
three times at the negroes. Two of the
balls took effect, one p a ssin g through the
the body of the negro Robbins and
other penetrating the left side of John
Hayes. Both men were fatally wounded.
Mike Hayes was drunk at the time of
the shooting. He was arrested.
Mate for Ton Stool VoomIs.
Duluth, Minn., Jan. 7.—One of the
hugest contracts for steel ship plate
ever made in this country was oon-
ciuded here by Capt Alexander Mo-
Dougal, for the American Steel Barge
company, with a representative of An¬
drew Carnegie. The contract calls for
about 6,000 tone of steel plate, valued at
$800,000. It will furnish plates enough
for seven vessels. An option was given
to Capt. McDougal vessels, for making steel enough the whole for
three more
order about 7,800 tons, and calling for
an expenditure of about $460,000. All
these vessels will be built here this year,
and their aggregate tonnage will be
over 80,000.__
Sullivan Will «IgUt N* Mom.
New Yore, Jan. 7.— John L. Sullivan
has made up his mind to retire from Ufa
ring fatter one more battle. He has
been considering this move since he
came to this city three weeks ago and
now he is determined to seek a new
field. He tays be will never fight with
bare knuckles risk again, of violating as ne does tow. not care If,
to run the
however, the California Athletic club
will offer sufficient inducement* he will
meet Jack-on, the Australian, with
gloves. Then he will quit toe btishteae.
Split His Hoad Open.
Wabash, Ind.. Jan. 7. —William
Weaver, a farmer, aged about 80 years,
was instantly killed while catting tim¬
ber in Paw Paw which township, Weaver this county. felling
A large tree against another was tree in its
crashed drawn
descent, and the limbs were back
and then rebounded. The rebound of a
;ht Weaver in the fore-
his skull from
oozed.—Ha sranwly
____ the He leaves
breathed after btovf. a
wife and three children. <
fits HallUfiintUon. : . t ,
Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 7.—John Smith,
a been confectioner removed of to this the city, State has Insane just
asylum at > larrfaburg, hfa hallucination
being that lie has discovered an infalli¬
ble remedy for the “grip.” He had
made a mysterious nostrum the which, he
claimed, would cure wont case,
and he was preparing circulars to send
all over the country.
The Heaviest Suns la Twoety-flv# Yean
Ogden, Utah, Jan. 7.—It has been
snowing here for three day a There fa
more snow m the Wasatch and Sierre
ranges than for ton years. In the moun¬
tains the snow fa ten and fifteen feet
deep. In this valley there has been
more snow than for twenty-five years.
The storm extends all along the lorn of
the Central Pacific to California.
Inseelljr ss4 Manta* .
Lewiston, Me., Jan
Williams, residing ill several on day*.
who has been «
insane. Offieara tried to take Urn into
custody, but he escaped with from (hem, ran
into the house, and an ax laid
open the head of his wife, killing fagg
instantly. McWilliams finally cap.
TJ, > ad - ladostrlsl £ • — —: Town. , .
To Fug aa
PBjdmont,' Ala., J*a. 7.—Several Del-
hour to m the l egjnn ng of the sale.
THE NEW PLAGUE.
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Influenza Has Become a Hatter
of Serious Concern.
THE PHEDMOm II IEW YOfflL
Its Remarkable (aerease I* Directly
Traceable to the Prevailing Scourge.
■ Reports from Other Section* Show Ap¬
palling Plgnrae—The Empress Angneta
Said to lie Dying of the Disease.
New York, Jan. 7.—The record of
deaths for the past week exhibits a
frightful increase of mortality from
pneumonia, bronchitis, phthisis and
heart diseases, as well as from influenza.
This record fa as follows;
Week Week Av. for
End’g End’s Pasts
Cause of Heath, etc. Jan. 4. Dec. 38. Year’.
Smallpox............ 0 0 4
Measles.............. 7 7 $
Scarlet fever...,...; 11 8 *3
Diphtheria.......... 81 88 . 48
.iWm it far s s riEh .. . - u ..... * 8 io *
Typhoid fever...... t
Typhus fever........ 0 0 4
Malarial fever...... 4 8 4
Cerebrospn Diari hoeul diseases. men's.. M t 18 4 Jjjrm U
Diarrhoea! (un. ys.) 18 IS 7
Heart diseases...... 65 4# fa
Croup........ 10 7 87
Bronchitis.......... 88 HI Ct
Pneumonia........ MB 188 188
Phthisis .......... 1*7 181 108
Bright* 4 nephritis 87 48 48
Violence.....40 38, 8*
Influenza. ......... I* —
Total deaths........ UOB 78* 7*0
Death rate.......... 8841 *4.85 25.74
Deaths under 1 ft- 188 144 188
Deaths under 5 yrs. 311 840 883
Deaths in iustltu'a *48 157 154
Deaths in tent-rate, 781 488
Estimated population Dec. *8..........1,8*4,848
Estimated istpnlnlion Jan. 4 .........1,5*5,549
It is thus seen that more than 89 out
of every 1 ,C00 people in New York city
perished lust week, deaths making exceeding a grand 1,900, to¬
tal of registered preceding week. The
against 782 in the
average number :or the week corre¬
sponding to ia,t during a series of years
fa complication 190. The epidemic, has in with its days various made
i, seven
a clean sweep on its own account alone
of about the 310 people. above table prepared
Since was
9 additional reported deaths from the “la grippe" Most
have been to coroner.
of the cases in the occurred in house cheap district, lodging
houses or tenement
l anmoBb'i Ravages.
But the most deadly contributor to
these figures is insidious pneumonia.
The death rate from this malady alone
increased fast week more than 110 per
cent, in New York. No epidemic of
Asiatic cholera could be more destruc¬
tive in the speedily metropolis. to Unless the stnos- some
occurs
and weather conditions which
rroqght this havoc so quietly in
our midst toe situation will soon become,
if not already, more fearful than to a
yellow fever epidemic or in a Bagdad
plague. Brooklyn, too, has experienced the
fatal effects of the epidemic in on
storming degree. There were 108 deaths
there from pneumonia during the week,
against 49 deaths from the same disease
during the preceding week.
A Physician llaoomes Insane.
Mr. Paul Hoffman, one of the best
known educators in assistant this city, superinten¬ and for
seven dent of years public past schools, wm taken to
fBelievue ' for four hospital five insane. days from He had an been at-
or
of influenza in an aggravated form,
and he became insane in consequence.
Jacket, a book canvasser,
victim of “to grippe,” ended
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^sufferings by shooting himself Sat-
fay evening. Monday complaint, he was token and
down with the Russian
since tjben was totally home, unfit using for all work. toe
He remained at
remedies recommended by friends, but
without avail. He spent most of New
Year’s day writing letters to relatives'
and friends, which ho mailed Saturday
morning. The gist, o.’ the letters was
that he despaired of getting well, that
his head was splitting open, and that he
intended to kill himself.
The sick list in the police During department week
contains 363 names. tost
ten policemen died of the prevailing
Diague.
In Other fiusa
Reports from other sections show an
alarming increase. Henry D. Winkle,
a prominent banker of t harlestown, W.
Va., first died of “to in that grippe." It was the
fatal case city.
Gapt. Rufus P. btamels, a leading
Grand Army man of brought Concord, N. H.,
died of pneumonia on by the
prevailing New Haven, epidemic. Conu., reports 6,000
cases. Three deaths are reported. They
were Mary Mias E. Tiernon, Emily L. aged Whiting, months, aged 43;
9 and
Michael number Kelly, aged deaths 2.*, Boston
The of in last
week reached this probably unequalled
number of 397, of which 40 per cent,
are due to acute tong trouble and are
traceable in a greet part to the prevail¬
ing In “la grippe,”
New Brunswick, N. J., there ate
about i,000 caaes of “la grippe.” Father
Burns, City Attorney Weigel and
Prosecutor Rice are confined to their
beds with the disease.
Chicago reports 40,000 cases. A
hundred policemen are on the sick list.
The Plazas Abroad.
London, Jan. 6.—The influenza con¬
tinues its ravages in Europe, abating in
some quarters and increasing in others.
cities A malignant the continent type has appeared and in in London, many
on
which is causing widespread alarm. The
Daily News now admits that the epi¬
demic is not a mere scare. It says;
“The plague is upon us and in the most
dangerous form.”
Berlin, Jan. 6.—The aged Empress
Augusta, widow of Emperor William I,
fa very ill of the influenza epidemic.
Bulletins issued say, she has fever and
symptoms of acute bronchitis have
appeared. The court is alarmed at her
condition. The Princess Bismarck, too,
has the disease in bad form, as has
Councillor occurring. Yon Kotterburg. Many
doaths aze 6.—The
Dcblin, Jan. Rev. Mr. Perry,
the eminent astronomer, died Saturday.
His death was hastened, prowling if disease. not actually
earned, by the
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Burned te Death In Their Cabin.
Paducah, Ky., Jan. 7.—Four Beebe’s loggers
-ere burned to death ia camp,
up the Tennessee river, seventy-five cabin
milaa from Paducah, by their
fire. Two of them were brothers
Dyer, and the others Colton and
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA WJ T MORNING, JANUARY 8 1890.
TftENTOFSMYSTERY
The Remarkable Murder Causes
Much Discussion.
THE POLICE ARE NONPLUSSED;
fens Peculiar Features ef the CM*
- Which Make Mystrrj Mare Mysterious.
The Public Prosecutor Instructs the
Eltnltlsk Physician* Not to Talk of
Their Dlteorcr ies Queer Tactics for
Burglars.
- Trrnton, Jan. T.--A pall of mystery
envelops theKnlffinnmrder ease. Ex¬
citement and interest have
steadily since murdered Mrs. Kniffin
Was discovered in her bed in her hus¬
band’s home until publio feeling
reached a point rarely if ever before
attained in this old town. No progress
has been made towards the solution of
the occurrence. The police are at a loss
what to do, and white putting on as
serious faces as the importance of this
most foul murder warrants have practi¬
cally arrests made have no headway at ail and no
been made.
Miss Emma Purcell, the pretty type¬
writer who was found lying on
floor not many feet from toe dead body
of her murdered cousin, is still at the
Kniffin house and has fully recovered.
The ia the only person whose move¬
ments have been restricted to any ex¬
tent. A tall policeman stands guard in
front of the residence of Dr. Kniffin,
and he has been instructed not to allow
Miss Purcell to leave the house.
It is now stated that Him Purcell waa
not very sick when she was found, as
she walked to toe place where the bed
was situated in the large front room.
Mysterious Officials.
The officials in charge of the case are
about as mysterious as the matter they
have in hand, and seem to be afraid to
open their mouths. It was expected
that after the autopsy there would be
more has instructed to tell, but Prosecutor who Stockton
the surgeons made
the examination not to divulge what
discovered.
who unty Physician hartes B. Leavitt,
made
tion, was
man, of this city,
the coroner’s jury were alio present.
The doctors made a most thorough
examination, but failed to discover evi¬
dence of any other violence than the nee
of chloroform, mid found toe system of
Mrs. Kniffin in an otherwise healthy
condition.
What Druggist Psttmn Says.
Druggist the Patterson, tout floor who Of keeps a drug
store on the Kniffin
building, family, said and that who there is friendly with window the
was a
enter the the hallway occupied and thus get up stairs
to rooms He said he thought by the toe two
ought- women. to give attention police the
more to
theory of burglary.
Mr. Patterson and other friends of the
family lived most say Dr. happily Kniffin together. and his wife
boy and girl together in Trenton, They
were
and when they got married the dentist
had no money to speak of. But he wss
of a frugal mind, and when his growing
business gave him a good inoome he
saved a goodly portion thereof and in¬
vested it in real estate, including the
building home. He where he bad his office and
was very much interested
in fast horses, keeping several at Broad-
wav, in Warren oounty, where his
wife’s parents live. It was partly to see
about a horse and partly to recruit him¬
self bom an attack of the “grip,” these
friends said, that he went to Broadway
on Concerning Thursday. Mias Purcell they
declared
her to be a hard working, amiable
young woman, who was on the beet of
terms with Mrs. Kniffin. They scouted
the idea that she had any undue par¬
tiality wish for the dentist, or- any reason to
harm to his wife, and declared the
police to be on toe wrong scent entirely.
Referring to Miss Unreell'a Story.
The bed wherein the two women lay
was in what was formerly a hall bed¬
room, but has now been made an alcove.
There are but two entrances to it from
the toe hall, other one by the by door the of regular the main door bed¬ and
room. Against the former, Miss Purcell
says, the head of the bed was placed for
a barricade. Against the other door
and was it wedged a cane locked. and a pile of books,
was also
Mr*. Kniffin lay on the left hand or
inside of toe bed an l she on the right
near the arch leading to the main bed-
roo m. The door at^the ^head oMtheir
inch before touching it- Miss
says reached that the the third two floor burglars, and found when they both
doors barricaded, which suddenly the bed pried lay open
the one against * just
sufficiently sufficiently with difficulty. fog ITor a a man h This to squeeze what warned
was
them or trouble, T ------ Miss ~ Puroeli to
cry out and send her shrieking across
the dow big overlooking room toward the street. the furthest Before win¬ she
reached it, however—ia fact, when she
was just in front of it—a hand was laid
on the back of her head and another on
her throat, and she was hurled choking
to the floor. Then the chloroform
soaked cloth was applied and she be¬
came unconscious.
Slngaier Proceeding* far Darglen.
Meanwhile the other burglar was
attending to Mrs. Kniffin. He had to
reach a long ways across the bed to her,
or else go under or around it And she
apparently had she forgotten bad to use the
seven-shooter beneath the
pillow, Now this or even to fa reach rather for it interesting.
It fa first story in tAjminal history
the time
that burglars have been Known to kill
white breaking in rather than out of a
house, that and it is certainly invited the first time by
they have waking discovery
deliberately tiie house the violent np toe women above of
in manner
recorded. ,
Some Peculiar Feature*.
found The alleged in front burglar bedroom tools have that been were
the
shown to consist of a hammer sad a
hatchet, which were taken from a chest
of (Mai# in '
Entered through w$#
was lying on to* floor
There were no marks of nippers such as
burglars use on the key and no marks
of a forcible entry on
One of die peculiar that femmes far of the be
easels the fact so as can
ascertained ...fas Purcell did not suffer
at all from nausea, which fa the usual
effects of chloroform poisoning.
The coroner s jury fa now in session.
OLD WORLD NEWS.
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Lord Bandolph Churchill on the
EightHour Question.
LABOR MEN WHO FEAR THE PLAN,
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Th#r Thar Thlak Think It It High High. Re.alt Result la la a a Be- Re¬
<1 daction net Ina mi of Pay—'Serial . Ge..Im11«*• 1st Unmts Burn* la«M Says
Tha Tories Will Concede All th* De¬
mand* ef His Party—Other Foreign
Near* Hates mi Intorael.
London, Jan. 7.—Hie continued and
ever growing popularity of tho Prince
of Wales is evidenced by the variety
and eminence of the visitors who have
recently accepted his hospitality at
Sandringham. Among others enter¬
tained by the prince last week were Sr
Charles Fowler and Russell, Arnold Morely, Henry of
other liberal members
parliament. prominent Gladstonians It so happened arrived that just these
as
an equally prominent party of their
James. The unique position of the
prince monizer as is a social, without and political har- in¬
not value as an
fluence in public affairs.
ChereUti as a Rebar Agitator.
Lord Rudolph the right eighi Churchill's hour question second is let- at¬
«er on
tracting quite " good food deal des of
a
and the is different regarded H. sections m a ■|ety< variety of of politicians. . ways by
The ministers generally regard it as a
rather wild bad for popularity and
power; but in Tory circles of lees re¬
sponsibility the tetter is otherwise in¬
terrupted. In London the conditions of
labor" are essentially Jl^ ^different different tom from
those which in 1 any any iSteherafor
ef the north. It is not mt the rale here for
men to work in conjunction with great
investments in machinery. t
from This powerful lessens the capitalists amount of be opposition
to encoun¬
tered cities here, in as compared regard with the eight most Eng¬ hour
lish to
counting Lord Rudolph this fact in hfa at-
on
to commit the Conservative i
labor ____ s question, in London which to a position will give on them
the support of many followers of the
Socialist, John Rums, and take tha
wind out of the sailn of the advanced
Liberals.
Workmen Who Oppose It.
On the other hand, however, there fa
quite class who a strong afraid party in the the eight working hour
are of
system, because (hey fear it will involve
reduction in pay or abolition of over¬
time. found who Pitifully working enough, men own ha of
are an average
week, yet * ^
disinterested and learned political
economists are bv no means aicreed as
law to what would effect have a compulsory eigh At thour all
events Mr. John upon Burns wages. has within
a
few days intimated to the liberal
cede leaders all that the the Tories Socilaists are ready demand to con¬
that on
this point. _
“Noble” Absconder*.
London, Jan. 7.—Another sensational
episode in the Cleveland street scandal
fa about to burst upon the implicated, public.
Twenty-two ot them of the noblemen, men have fled
some
Scotland England. Yard It is has said finished that by the of time the
none
Cleveland street habitues will be left in
Great Britain. The polioe know all
about the oase, and have the names,
description The total number and identity of absconder* of the offenders. fa sixty.
William Urges Warlike Stadia*.
Berlin, Jan. 7.—The Borsen Courier
says that at the New Year's reception
IU tt WUVUUlb SUUA3 Ul UlO UlgUOO* BIMI
most efficient preparation. They should
study all the new inventions and im¬
provements in the science of warfare,
such as smokeless powder, etc.
They Want Shorter Hour*.
London, Jan. 7.—A vote has been
taken by the employes of Scotch rail-
way lines on the Ye ten hour r quee
The result fa that a ma, joritv ' of the men
are opposed to a strike, and in favor of
a conference with the managers, with a
view periods to relief from excessively long
of work.
The Turks Booted.
^ Lond on, Job . 7.—-A dvic e* from Crete
report that another encounter has taken
place between toe insurgents and the
Turkish troops, the latter being routed
with considerable lose of life. The
ammunition of the troops was aban¬
doned and fell into the Bands of the
enemy. _____
Mr George Upton Dead.
London, Jan. 7.— Sr George Freder¬
ick Upton. K. C. R, Tempi Viscount in tiie Temple- Irish
toW$, peerage, and Baron ston
general in toe army and col¬
onel or the Second Life guards, died yes¬
terday at San Romeo, aged 87 yean.
T# Command tbo Forces la Ireland.
London, Jan. 7.— It to said that Mai.
Gen. Sir George Byng Harman, K. C.
B., will succeed Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weim&r m command of her majesty’s
forces in Ireland.
The American Squadron.
Gibraltar, Jan. 7.-The American
squadron of evolution has returned here
from Tangi ew,
Amor lean Association.
Rochester. N. Y., Jan. 7.—The di¬
rectors of the American Baseball asso¬
ciation met here at 10 a. m. Represen¬
tatives are present from St. Louis, Phil¬
adelphia, Louisville, Columbus, Baltimore, Toledo.
H. Whittaker, Syracuse the and Rochester. W.
of Athletic club, said
to a United Press reporter that the most
important from deciding business the composition to be done, of the aside
as¬
sociation, would be the discussion of the
doable business or will single probably umpire system. The
be finished this
afternoon. _•
_
Nearly Wiped Out by Flame.
Spokane Falls, Wash., Jan. 7.—Fire
broke out in a laundry in the town of
and Wart burned dor, in three the Cam- d’Alene mines,
and a half hours. No
water was available, >4“i the 4*110 water “ itWTI supply BUjlUIJ'
of being the frozen town, up. The The “'£i£LS'7SS.* greater portion I
was d
teas of shout $90,000. «
THE NATION’* 1 AWMAKSR3
A llrNif FoMratt of «» v«*»*t« |o
R*th iinn«$ifa »r ro$t?«fHia.
Washington, Jan. 7.— .t will take
congress almost the whole of the com
ing week to get down to bu -iness again.
The eenate will take up the current of
affairs non quietly and more naturally
than the house. There may be a re¬
sumption of the Bra iliau discussion.
A quantity of executive business will
doubtless be disposed of and a day will
be fixed, probably in the .near future,
for a discussion of tli_- r.^ce question be¬
tween Senators Butter an,
effort will be made at an
put tablishing through both form houses
Oklahoma. a of govern*
On toe house side of the
ways and means committee will con¬
tinue its hearings on the tariff, and the
bulk of interest will attach to them.
Very wee*, little except will to organize be done the during commit¬ the
adjournment, tees appointed just prior to the begin
discussion ef the and report possibly of the to commit¬ the
tee on rules. Some fear is expressed on
the Democratic aide that an effort will
be made to dispose of the contested
election cases on a partisan basis be¬
fore the rulee are adopted. The com¬
mittee on rules is not ready to make a
repent, and may not be ready this week.
The debate on the rules will probably
be protracted.
TO REOR GANIZE CAMP 80.
An Attempt Mads to Imsm tha Bm
of tha Organization.
Chicago, Jan. 7.—An attempt was
made to get possession of the books of
the books ot the famous Camp No. 20,
Clan-na-Gael, but the state’s attorney
would not let them go out of hia posses¬
sion, bring fearful that the ulterior
object that of in this the move was of to destroy trial them,
*o event a new they
could not be used as evidence.
The demand tor the books was made
by John Judge F. O’Connor, Longenecker secretary of the
camp. refused to
give them McConnell. up without The an order from
however, J udge is confident Judge state's attorney,
McConnell
will take hfe v ie w of U and la fn w the
order as long as the case remains
pen It ding .
fa underssood that O’Connor's ob¬
ject ^nothing tees than to reorganize
Camp 20 very largely on the old basis,
and as far as possible with the old
membership. John F. Beggs, It the fa ex-senior also stated that
and ex-defendant in the Cronin guardian trial,
who is now out of the city, will take
charge his of old the office reorganization when he and re¬
sume returns.
Monto Moo Anrootod.
Philadelphia, Jan. gained 7.—Frank, oonsldera- alias
“Baddy” btefaotoriety Herald, in the who
knocking out Mike pas* Coaly, as a pugilist “Ithaca by
the
Giant.” and who stood up tor seventeen
seconds before John L. Sullivan,
arres rmtmi * in * Mtk p —j i ii—
notorious confidence man, charged
with ‘- 1 - swindling. —— ***-■—---------- They were captured *
by Gant. R. ti. C. cTHi dwell and Special Of-
fleer Barn l.art, of the Reading railroad,
who took them before Magistrate
Thompson, charged the Reading with swindling
passengers on railroad be¬
tween this city and New York by the
three card monte game.
W "t£.
conductors, IbRVOH, 111* brakemen . Jan. 7 . .tnking
and switching
crews of tiie Peoria, Decatur and Evans¬
ville railway, who went out in sympa¬
thy with their fellow employes on the
Indiana lines, concluded yesterday to
resume work. The fint train moved in
thirty-five for Peoria. hours The was started this at 9 line o’clock had
men on
no advised grievance quit and considered it ill-
to their {daces.
Strtekea with Paralysis.
erbocker, Chicago, judge Jan. 7.—Joshua C. Knick¬
of the probate court of
Cook county, was stricken with par¬
alysis Saturday afternoon and sank into
unconsciousness early afterwards. He
lingered he passed until yesterday morning, when
away.
Suadsj Gambian Arrested.
gambling Chicago, Jan. the 7.—George in Hanking ’
house, largest the west,
at No. 134 South Clark street, and John
Condon's house, at No. 14 Quincy street,
were raided early Sunday morning, and
nearly hazard 100 arrested. devotees of roulette, faro and
___________A Jot Ilea's Salelda.
Frederick City, Md., Jan. 7,—W. L.
Wilson, of a prominent and prosperous
citizen this county, and for many
years suicide justice by shooting of the himself peace, in committed heart
the
He was 36 yean of age.
Death of a Baltimore Newspaper Mao.
Jan. 7.—Joseph J. Roche,
died bnsjneas l —|r yesterday manager of c« consumption. Tha He
was ; 88 yean of age and unmarried.
Broke the Worm's Boeord.
onds. This beats the best previous
world’s record by 9 seconds.
Harvard Will Mot Bow CoraelL
Boston, Jan. 7.—Harvard has de¬
clined to row Cornell university at New
London in June.
Tho Woathar.
Light showers; clearing daring the
day; warmer; southwesterly winds.
ML.GETS OF NEWS,
It is positively stated by one who
claims to know that Mrs. May brick, tha
convicted prisoner, will soon be par¬
doned. V
At Lebanon, burned Fa., by Joseph F. Miller
was fatally tha explosion of
asoline which he was using in polish-
ig a stove.
A valuable anthracite coal discovery
fa reported at Savanna, Ont.
01 T. V. toe Powdarty Windsor waa hotel, taka* Philadelphia, suddenly
at
and Dr. Coops* ordered that he be at
once sent to hfa home.
The Pottstown, Pa., Um company
raised toe $8.76 iron puddlers’ wagee from
$3.60 to per too.
The executive board of toe Knights
of Labor held two B as tions Saturday at
Philadelphia and t r a M M O ted badness of
great importance of to tile order, bn* no
information ite qbanfitV
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STEADILY FA
Haller Will rroba_^
Washington, Jan. T^Dr. „
physician attending Judge___
ot his patient: “He is a very i
will have to be
watched. I fear that there is ' flaw
a ; m
small chance of his bring at the capitri
this Week.”
.Tiulma Judge 1?alien Kelley Lea has Mek. probably Lt *. been .
the on i
floor of the house for the last time
BMLTCttWS
a Judge Kelley trem has been suffering for
side .™ of the right an irritation on
incessant lower jaw, car
an use of tobacco,
affected parts showing Indication# •
malignant ff&rss tendency caused r“ - ;
t? ~~
age him, however, to undergo a.
operation, but were disposed to“
tave determined to go to pans,
operation of removing Stoi the * “
parte. For > % '
ihl yggSSl’&dS two ?.f arB was recurrence
of the the threatened trou’___________
2S* 1*^ disease had oeen
signs of spring the irritation«
Acuity in reappearance, eating the judo’s" judge’s and with health ( tel
much impa/ral hea hi
came so that
to toe semhore hi the hope of fli
Sbt Here 6 b ** me rtiil mo « _
pior to the Outetmaf receLj but*
mucWtou*ted°bt
A HAP AT THE SOTI.
Nrw York, Jan. I.-The Sun yester¬
day printed a dispatch from Albany,
in which it ws* stated that ex-Prerident
Cleveland had made his ^entrance in
railroad politics in the Husted rapid
of the five <.„______
bill. The attention
called .
•aid; was to these
report. ifetSt VSgPJff- for*
-jyjph*, hjw-jgessri l ' the
;
%^0*prL°Sr2ZLr t
ascertain again, its truth. No, I will say : :
tiiere fa not one word of truth in
the statements made that I am con-
“®J<jed with the Husted rapid transit
Badly Banted bv Mine Gas.
plosion Wilkesbakbr, Pa., Jan. 7.-A serious
occurred fa, fhurtoky“&st the N
- sapion _lymouth. On a
portjon On Saturday ol of the we roof roui Superintendent ot oi the me mine mine Leckey caved eared
and Inside Foreman John Berkhefaer
entered arnri the f ho m mine inn for the 41,* purpose of -Jt
naked making lights, an examination. They carried
and upon going into a
chamber a violent explosion occurred.
Both men were knocked down. Leckey
the chamber.
A Mother’s Anguish.
Williamsport, Pa.. Jan. 7.-A sad
and terrible shooting accident toe*
{dace which at 51! Washington street, k ”
Mrs. Kate Bohart, aged about
Mra, Bohart ■ WUlKlIllj WucR JXUVa SuCUcT,
with fa mother, struck at him
a broom. It hit the hammer of
the gun, and Mrs. Bohart fell to the
floor mortally wounded. A full charge
of buckshot entered her right side. Drs.
frantic with grief over the affair.
Making Sara of Death.
Nrw York, Jan. 8.—Joseph Fried, a
—>— middle-aged <— m German, _* -*•—■—^'gfctoe took h dose of I
—
found
________was a®S
determined suicide. Had the poison
proved himself, ineffectual there he would large have revolver, toot
as was a
with every chamber loaded, clutched in
hfa right hand.
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