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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, U S. A.
Griffin t* the best and most promising little
it;in the th. Its record for the 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 pnt Into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
actory and with this year started the wheels
of a second of more than twice that capital.
It has pnt np a large iron and brass fonndry,
a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬
tling works, a sash and Wind factory a
broom factory, opened np the finest granite
quarry In the United States, and now has
onr large oil mills in more or less advanced
stages of-construetion, with an aggregate an
tborized capital of over half amilhon dollars.
It is patting np the finest system of electric
ghting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for ts o aiders for street railways. It
has second another railroad ninety miles long,
and while located on the greatest system in
the Sooth. thn Central, has second connec¬
tion with its important.-i ■ the East Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Geor - ; Ithasobtain-
d direct independent co:ilion with Chat
tnnooga and the West, d e u*break groan
no few days fora fourth ,ond, connecting
with a fourth independent evstem.
With its five white and four colored church
**, it has recently completed a $10,000 new
I’resbyterian church. It has 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 is now snr-
roundSfi OB ft*arty«v*fy side by orchards
and vineyards. It has put np the largest
rnit evaporators in the State. It is the home
of the grape and its wine makingeapacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in
angnrated 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.
tiriffiu is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
e<hy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above boa level. By the census ol 1800, it
will have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all ol the right
sort--wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel
come If they bring money to help build up the
wn. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel
Wt have several small ones, but their acco-m
modatious are entirely too limited for onr
urine s, pleasure and health seekig nguests
f yon see anybody that wants a good loca
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the G biffin News
■ published—daily and weekly—the beet news¬
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
ndose stamps In sending for sample copies
•ad descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
This brief sketchis written April 13th, 1880,
and will have to he changed in a few month
.
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
ompleted.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
HENKY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SUIPTOK, GZORoU.
Practices in mil the State and Federal
onrts. octOdtwly
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
QBIFFIN, GKOBQIA.
White's Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H.
Clothinn Store. mar22d&wly
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THOS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and'Federal.
Courts. Office over George A Hartnett’s
corner. uov2t(
*s D STKWAR I. ROBT. *. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS} AT LAW,
Oyer George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Win practice in the State and Federal
iulyl&dtf
CLEVELAND A GARLAND,
DVWTfSTS,
GRIFFIN. ! t : I GEORGIA.
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KNIFF1-PURCELL.
Both Behind the Bars of Tren¬
ton Jail.
HELD ON A CHARGE OF MURDER.
gome of the Testimony Tl»*t L«<1 to
This Last Act Jo tlio Great Domestic
Trageil;—Ur Patterson Describes tlie
First AI lexer! Burglary as a I airy Tale.
Trenton, Jau. 10.—Dr. I'niffin and
Miss Purceli were arrested yesterday
afternoon, chain'd wi h the murder of
Mrs. I'niflin. 'i’bay declined-to make
any staVir.^nr >.»•.: were committed to
jail to aw;.it th, action of the grand
jury.__. ' "
By 10 o'clock yesterday morning
every seal .n the aifivalj big court room lining was
taken r.ud now were
thwnso.vc-. along t.c.vypll. little 'oronerBower
Then live voice of 1
was heard, *‘->11 wiwv.sses in this case
please retire from the room,” and the
inquest w-.is forma'll • begun. The roll
of jurors was co ded.
P . c -•>•> Testifies.
After tli- jury had been sworn Dr.
Albert R. l*,Tt* :soii, the druggist, was
called to th. s ,»d. “I am a druggist,”
he said, ‘ and live at 2J6 Mercer street.
I last saw Mr.-. Knittin alive on Thurs¬
day morning, when she bade Dr.
Knitbn good-by in my about store. 10 o’clock. That
night i left my store
I was standing outside the store a few
minutes 1 e ore that hour when I heard
Mrs. Khi.i n come in the back way and
ask my wi-.e where I was. When I re¬
entered the store i learned that Mrs.
Kniftin had a Quarter myself) changed. the boy I do
hot open the store does
that. He opened the place When about I 6:45
on Friday morning. I found old came Mrs.
half an hour latter,
Miller, the charwoman, and Wilson
Kymond, the doctor’s office boy, wait-
ring in the store. I asked them what
they were waiting for and they said
they could not get in the house. I told
the boy to go to Dr. Shannon’s. house
and get the key. Even when the front
door was opened neither he nor Mrs.
Miller would go up stairs to Kniffin’s
rooms. Then L told them to go after
Dr. Shannon. I went with Chief Mc-
Chesney when he came to investigate.
He tried the back door on the ground
floor and it opened.”
A Fttsilado at QueUinut.
Here the witness received a fusilade
of question! directed at him by the
jury. All of them were trivial. The
witness said that when he went back
the second time lie noticed the bed in
the the door alcove which had been led pushed from away the from hall.
in
Mrs. Miller also came up and her shawl
was placed around Miss Purcell, who
sat upon a chair until Dr. Shepherd ar¬
rived. Mr. Patterson further testified
that the relations between Mr. aud Mrs.
Kniffen were pleasant. Miss Purcell He had heard
Mrs. Knittin and quarrel¬
ing once. When he entered the room
in the morning there seemed to be no
evidences of a struggle. said he the first
The wi .ness was to
notify the police by telephone of the
occurrence.
The story of the burglary of Nov. b0
was gone over by the witness. Nothing
new was elicited, except perhaps as re¬
garded tire impression it of the witness.
At first he thought a general burglary,
.but so many persons ridiculed it and
thought Miss Purcell must have had a
nightmare that something he finally began to think
that it was of a fairy tale
himself. ~ ■-■-^ssr^r
Amid a buzz of busy tongues the wit¬
ness was dismissed.
August ilpeti'A Testimony.
August Reid, secretary and treasurer
of the water board, was called to the
chair. He is the man Dr. Shannon
beckoned to on the morning of the mur¬
der. When he went into the vestibule
at Dr. Shannon's request he was told
that some one had been in the house,
and was asked to go up and look. Shan¬
non went np first. The testimony of
this witness corroborated for the most
part the testimony of Druggist Patterson.
‘‘When Dr. Shannon and myself
reached the second floor.” continued the
witness, “we saw a ounch of keys lying
an the floor. Shannon said he did not
recognize them. When we reached the
room on the third floor we saw Miss
Purcell lying on the floor. A handker¬
chief was on the floor and her face was
resting upon it. I did not examine the
handkerchief. Mrs. Miller, the scrub
woman, came up. I took her shawl and
put it about Miss Purcell. Then Dr.
Shannon went to the bed where Mis.
Kniffin lay. I believe he said that Mrs.
Knifiin was dead. Then I told him if
he would take care-of Miss Purcell I
would go for a doctor. As I passed out
I saw the face of the dead woman. 1
think the eyea were open. The bed
looked a3 if it had been pushed around, round,
and the door leading to, the hall was, v I
think, Shepherd. slightly made ajar. 1 went for ar D r .
lie an examination ition of
the body, said life was extinct and ad¬
vised that the county physician be noti-
L>r. Shannon** TenUiuoay*
Dr. Shannon, Kniffin’s partner, was
put on the stand. He had known Knif¬
fin since May, 1881. On the morning of
Friday boy, called last Wilson the boarding Rymond, the .office
at house where
he'lives and asked for the key to the
place. • Later the boy returned and said
he was afraid to go m the house. Then
Shannon went himself. He corroborated
the stories of Dr. Patterson and Mr.
Reid, about how he beckoned to the
latter after first having made a trip to
the second floor. In the front room of
the third story he saw* floor, tilings and all scat¬
tered about over the also saw
Miss Purcell lying on the floor.
He picked her up. She moaned and
struggled. “I asked her if she knew
me,” said the witness, “but she con¬
tinued to struggle. The first words she
said were: where ‘Oh, my” Mrs. Kniffen The bed clothes
in the bed lay were
rumpled struggle. and I assisted there were Miss evidences Purcell to of her a
room. She said nothing about burglars
and made no reference as to how she
got to the window.” The result of the
The inquest yesterday practically was unsatisfactory. took the
jurymen the coroner’s hands and persisted case
out or
in asking questions which, with few ex¬
ceptions, were rambling.
Church and State
Rio Janeiro. Jan. 10.
jnent has issued a decree ,
the separation of church and state,
guaranteeing ' religious equality and
oontinuing the life stipends granted
under the monarchy.
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY II 18 P 0 .
SPORTS TAKEN IN.
Hard las and Others l oneurned la tba
Sullivan-Kllralti Fight Arrested.
New Yobs, Jan. 10.—William E.
Harding, of The Police Gaxettee, was
arrested yererday at The Gazette office.
Mike Clearv and Mike Donovan were
notified and gave themselves up at police
headquarters. wanted oh The uisitfcsa three from men Governor were
a re
$500 bail each to appear for examina¬
tion Hill a week from the Saturday. requisition Governor
has signed papers.
Hie delay in making the arrests has
been so long that the witnesses and
backers of the fight bad become oonfl-
detrt and the arrests came upon them
aa a surprise. *
-Shortly before Justice ITonrair closed
court Defective McNau”l\t.>n appeared
with Pr. lessor William .Muldoon, John
L. Sullivan’s trainer. .. r. «Iuldqon had
been arrested at the Vanderbilt black hotel,
where he has been nursing a eye
which he received from Evan Lewis,
• the hiiadelphia Strangler,” last while wrestling He in
i Saturday. was
paroled until today. Jt is rumored that
the requisition also calls for the arrest
of Lewis B. Allen and others who took
a prominent part in arranging the de¬
tails of the Sulli van-Ki train tight.
It is rumored that the requisition
also calls for the arrest of Lewis B.
Frank /’ lien, Charlie Johnson, and others James who Wakely, took
Stevenson
a prominent part in arranging the de¬
tails of the fight.
HUNTING FOR SENATORR
The Montana Sergeant-at-Arm* Hu a
JJIg Job on Hand.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 10.—When the
senate met yesterday none of the Dem¬
ocratic senators were present. A cat!
of the house was ordered and the ser-
geant-at-arms sent out in search of the
absent members. Parberry was found,
but he refused to come, stating that
there Inasmuch was no Governor authority Toole for taking signed him. the
as
certificates of Clark and Maginnis, thus
recognizing fiance is regarded the organization, serious. Secretary this de¬
as
of State f.otwitt will not sign the certi¬
ficates of the Democratic senators-elect
at any hazard. Lieutenant Governor
Richards has ordered the serg- ant-at-
a bar ms of to the bring the absentees if he has before the in¬
senat®. even to
voke aid from the ci vil authorities. The
latter is now out trying tet inforce the
order. Governor Toole has recognised
the organization of the senate by send¬
ing in his message.
Ex-Senator Lapl.atn Dead.
Canandaigua, N. Y., Jan. 10—Hon.
Eldridge Gerry Canandaigua I apham died at his
residence on the lake shore
yesterday at 3:80 p. m. Mr. Lapham
was He bom first in Farmington, elected Oct. Congress 18, ;814. in
was to
1874. He was a member of the state
constitutional convention of 1867. He
was re-elected to congress in 1876, 1878
and 1880, and was elected United States
senator for the term ending in 1886 to
fill a vacancy caused by the resignation
of Senator Roscoe Conkling. He leaves
a widow and several children.
An U-Year-OI<l Suicide.
year-old San Francisco, Clement Flint Jan. 10.—Eleven-
ran away from
home Tuesday and was gone all night.
His father found him on the street yes¬
terday though and the called father to promised him. The boy ran,
not to harm
him. The little fellow entered a hall¬
way and,before Mr. Flint could reach him
shot himself dead. No cause is kno vn
for the act. Clement had always been
a good boy and was well treated.
The Cur Will Investigate.
St. hints Petersburg, Jan. 10.— Acting
upon received from Germany the
czar has instituted inquiry to the end
of ascertaining the .truth in regard to
He the has recent just shooting learned of the exiles details in Siberia.
of the
affair, and ordered the culprits to be
tried will be immediately. punished. It is expected they
severely
Tbe Empress’ Lut Farewell.
Berlin, Jan. 10,—The last words of
the dowager empress were addressed to
'Chaplain tbougl bough Kogel, hardly whom Bhe bad fate-
well, she seemed to think
she was dying, While she retained
consciousness to the last she only mutely
recognized her friends thereafter.
Ohio’* Lieutenant Governor.
Columbus, a, Jan. 10—The two
houses of the legislature in joint con¬
vention canvassed the vote for the state
yfficers, and the acting president of the
wnate declared Hon. E. T. Lampoon,
by Republican, twenty-three elected plurality. lieutenant governor
Destroyed by Flouting OH.
London, Jan. 10.— A ship loaded with
petroleum The burning caught oil escaped fire at from Sunderland. the ship,
aud, boating on the tideway, set fire to
three other vessels. Great damage was
iona by the fire. A fireman feU, ©> aver-
board and was drowned.
Celebrating Jack ton Day.
Mobile, celebrated Ala., Jan. 10.—Jackson day
was here last night by a
brilliant street display of the Order of
Druids. There were seven floats, Il¬
lustrating episodes ball in the the Princess history of- the
country. A at theatre
followed.___
Confirmed by tbe Senate.
has Washington, confirmed Jan. 10.—The senate
the nomination of J. B,
Delile, of Texas, to be oonsul at Bristol,
and O. Luckenback as pos tma ster at
Bethlehem, Pa.
Lynched n Bay Murderer.
Bayou Sara, La., Jao. 10.—A body
>f masked men took Henry Ward, the
negro boy him murderer, from tbs jail and
handed to a tree in the «mrt house
-—- ■
Hundred* Drowned In China.
□estroyea, ana oiner great SSI damage ■ b0 "‘ wao
done.
Might Skater* Drowned.
drowned Bkkun, Jan, 10.—Eight persons were
at Lubeck yesterday by breaks
ins through the icp while skating,
Manley’* Journey to good
vithHenry Jan, M. 10.—Th* steamer Katona. touched
yesterday Stanley and onboard,
oere proceeded for Suez.
Eighteen Tbeorand Striker*.
Charleroi Brussels, -Jan t l0,- t Tbe strikers
now number nearly 18,000.
.
THOSE PAUPER HESS
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Free Bom American Hens Can¬
not Compete with Them,
30 BAYS A PEHESYLVAFLA FARMER
Be Propo*** a Duty «r Five Cent* a
Dozen for Kggz, and Alio Alin a Pro¬
tection for Cabbage—Other Agrlca tural
Internet* Urging Congressional Aid—A
About Stlcott.
Ashington, Jan. 10.—V. E. Piolett,
\ farmer of Pennsylvania, addressed
the ways and means committee yester¬
day on the repeal of the tobacco
tax. The American farmer, he said,
wanted a duty imposed on all agricul¬
tural products imported equal to the
difference in cost of labor, and if this
congress did not do this the farmers, he
said, wofild get one that would. He
also wanton a duty placed on hides
equa ual to the duty phtced on leather:
Also stated a duty that on eggs and think cabbage, hens and
he he did not our
npelje.i to lay a.-.ainst the
,uper of hens 5 or Europe. dozen He proposed a
uty U. Fenner, cents per Utica, on N. eggs. Y., ad¬
K. of
dressed the committee in favor of a
high tobacco. protective duty on all imported
he George wanted T. Stagg, be relieved of Kentucky, giving said
to from
enormous whisky bonds and favored
giving an annual bond, and doing
away with the monthly bonds. The
amount of the bond also, he said, should
be MfrYansickle, reduced. . .____ l*. t *-
' of Hamburg, N. J., of
argued milk in favor of placing sugar for
on the dutiable list. He asked
a Flora, duty of chemist I0 to l2 cents per pound. of Max Mr,
a in the factory
Vansickle, told the uses to which the
sugar of milk was put.
Talking fay the Kioe Indnetry.
John Screven, of Savannah, Ga., ad¬
dressed the committee on behalf of the
Rice association oi that state. He said
that the rice industry needed all the
protection the emancipation congress of could slaves give, the rice for raiser since
had to compete with the cheap labor
abroad.
Mr. Screven was followed by F. G.
J. Ernest B. Bissell, and E. Dupre, of Charleston, of New and Orleans, Con¬
gressman Lansing, higher of New York, rice. all Mr. of
whom urged a duty on
Lansing and also asked increased to have the duty on
beans peas from 30 cents
to 40 cents per bushel, and an increase
on barley from 10 cents to 20 cents per
bushel, and on hay to $1 per ton.
J. C. Brown, of Pennsylvania, ad¬
dressed the committee in favor of pro¬
tecting the agricultural industry.
Franklin Dye, secretary of the state
agricultural spoke general board agriculture, of New Jersey, and asked also
on
for protection.
B. Landreth, a seed grower, asked to
have this industry protected. He asked
for a duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem on
all kinds of seeds.
WHERE IS SiLCOTT?
A Theory That He Has Secreted Hltp-
self In the Dismal Swamp.
Washington. Jan. 10.—A late and
curious theory as to the hiding place of
Embezzler Silcott Is that he has buried
himself in the recesses of the Dismal
swamp of Virginia. This odd theory
originated from tire fact that shortly be¬
fore he disappeared with the congress-
tnen’s salary Silcott returned from a
hunting trip in the Dismal swamp,
bringing back with him a fine bag of
duck, geese and quail. Talking of his
experiences in the swamp, Silcott said
if any one wanted to get where even
the power of the United States govern¬
ment couldn’t reach, him. all he had to
search for Silcott of seveul days’ dura¬
tion told that through New answering York state. He was
a man the embez¬
zler’s description had been in Rochester
and was there joined by a woman, but
when Leedom showed the Rochester
officials photographs of Silcott they de¬
clared the man they had been shadow¬
ing was quite a different person.
Proceedings tu < (ingress.
Washington, Jan. 10.—In the fenato yeeter-
lay Mr. Vooihees called up his resolution re¬
citing the newspaper report that Mr. Cham¬
bers, the United States district attorney at
Indianapolis, had interfered in his official
capacity to prevent the arrest of W. W. Dud¬
ley, on a charge of feloniously violating the
election laws of Indiana at the last presiden¬
tial election,and directing the attorney gen¬
eral to report what instructions the depart¬
ment of justice had issued to Chambers on
the subject.
Mr. Edmunds offered a substitute as follows:
•“That the attorney gem l .i: ie and hereby is
Instructed ib Inform the s enate what Instate,
tibifi, if aiiyj fkerilepnrt m;: n at justice has
riven to 8. N. Chambers, district attorney for
the-district of Indiana, on the subject of the
arrest of W. W. Dudley, or his exemption
from arrest; and by what authority of law
any such instructions have been given; and
that copies of all such correspondence he
transmitted to the senate.”
Tlie session was taken up in au acrimonious
iiseussion of the subject between Messrs.
Voorhees and Edmunds. Mr. Edmunds’ sub¬
stitute was finally carried by a vote of 31 to
’A, and the senate adjourned,
The proceedings of the house were almost
wholly devoted to consideiation of District pf
Columbia appropriation bill, which was
passed.
The speaker laid before the house, for refer*
:nce, a fetter from the secretary of war in¬
closing a petition from certain non-eommifr
iioned officers, praying for an increase of pay;
»lso a letter from the secretary of the treas¬
ury recommending that the estimated appro,
priatton of $4K),000 for the public building at
Ban 1 rancisco be made in a deficiency bill.
The house then went into committee of the
whole on the District of Columbia appropria¬
tion bill.
The house passed the bill, and at 4:30 ad-
lourned until Friday.
Tbe Maryland Senutorshlp.
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 10.—There will
be a caucus pf Democratic members at
the general candidate assembly to-night to nomi¬
nate a for a successor to
United States Senator E. K. Wilson,
whose term expires March 8, inOQ.
senator Wilson's path to a seoond term
is pated clear, and accJ*mfftion. he wiii probably be r*aqmh
by
’, Peter** Pore*.
Rome, Jrh. 10.-The contributions of
Peter’s ponce to the pope tor the year
188J were 120,000 lire le s titan during
3hurch the preceding during rear. 1869 amounted The legacies to the
lire. to 4,000,-
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DEMAND TOR HV.KRSE&. .1
YKE
New York Umlerialter* Ml 1 Compelled
l«> Delay l-nnitral*.
New Yor<c. Jan. 10.—When the fig¬
ures cams in at noon yesterday the doc¬
tors of the health board acknowledged
that they were alarmed. When Dr.
Nagle scanned the death certificates he
found that two deaths, both of men
over 40 year* of age, were due directly
to tire “grip;” 14 to the “grip” com¬
plicated with other complaints—one
of the victims being a child; 87 to bron¬
chitis; 0 to pneumonia, caused or ag¬
gravated by the “grip,” and 44 to con¬
sumption. The other U2 deaths were
due to the various complaints which
usually figure in the daily records. The
death list from “la grippe” and its al¬
lies was 50 per cent, greater ttian at any
time since the malady reached our
shores.
The undertakers are worked to the
extent of their facilities, and many ad¬
burials vertised are hour still because delayed the beyond demand the for
of
hearses.
condition, The police although force is still in of a crippled the
many con¬
valescent officers, are returning the to duty. force
The total number of deaths in
since the epidemic began is fourteen.
Two occurred Tuesday. Patrolmen An¬
drew day after Geddes, short died of illness. pneumonia The number yester¬
a
of officers who reported themselves un
fit The for duty drug yesterday trade was 890. notices
have sent out
that they have more orders for anti-
Dvrine than they can fill in a month.
le drug is made in Hesse Darmstadt, the
Germany, about two and has been It is on product market| of
coal and years. is evolved a by
tar, a secret
process. _ ..
NOBILIT Y SL UGGED.”
Charlie Mitchell Tape “Mylord” Mande-
vllle In the Face. ---------
London, Jan 10.—At a meeting of
the Pelican club several hours were
spent in an investigation of the fight at
Bruges, Vezey, the referee, was exam¬
ined, as were also Abington (Baird) Lord
Mandeville and others. Millionaire
Baird was exonerated.
After the meeting there was a general
adjournment to the Trocadero Variety
theatre, among those going over being
Abington, Lord Mandeville, Pony
Moore, Bates, Charley Mitchell, Jem Carney,
Charles Bob Habbysm, and other
leading lights of the sporting world.
Suddenly cleverly Mitchell attacked Abington,
who, by blow. duL-king, avoided the
pugilist’s and sparred He then Mitchell, took off his
coat up to when
the latter, Lord suddenly Mandeville turning around,
struck square in the
face. Baidock and others interfered.
Mitchell and his father-in-law, Pony
Moore, then quitted the scene, but were
mobbed by the crowd that hod assem¬
bled outside the Trocadero, Fortunately
for them the police were on hand and
conducted fliem to a place of safety.
mittee At a of subsequent the resigned meeting the body com¬ in
club m a
consequence of the refusal to approve
the report of the committee on the
Smith Shu in fight, exonerating Abing¬
ton (Baird) and Fleming from any con¬
nection with the ruffianism in behalf of
Smith. „
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Crash!d Into a Shapeless Mae *.
Cincinnati, Jan. 16.—At 7 a m. a
locomotive was backing up trom Wilder
and station Nashville to Newport railroad. on the Louisville
When passing
Finchtown, the rails spread and the en¬
gine left the track, forcing the tender
against an eight foot embankment
Clarence Mefford, aged 23, a night clerk
at the Wilder round house, was caught
between the tender and engine and
crushed into a shapeless mass. En¬
gineer Charles Flagg was badly cut
abont the head. Fiseman G. Colopy
was seriously hurt about the head ana
A Dock Shooter Killed.
Canandaigua, N. Y., Jan. 10.—Two
young lads, well known in this village,
named Frederick Freer and William
Blanchard, went dnek shooting yester¬
day at the foot of Canandaigua lake,
ana Freer, who was in front, kneeled
down to get a shot at some ducks, when
Blanchard came up dragging his gun
along discharged at full cock. by Suddenly the weapon
was and the charge catching entered on to Freer’a some¬
head thing, just behind the
ear. Freer stag¬ fell
gered along a short distance and
Bat One of the Governors Attended.
New York, Jan. 10.—The Business
Mens’ Democratic club tendered a ban¬
quet at the Hoffman bouse last night to
Qovemotorelect Ohio; McKinney, Boies, qf Iowa: Camp¬
bell, of of Virginia; Toole,
Abbert, of New Jersey, and of
Montana The dinner was also in cele¬
bration of the battle of New Orleans.
Qovernor-elect Abbett was the only one
af those named above who found it pos¬
sible to attend. The others sent regrets,
as did also Governor Hill...
Ex-Governor Woods Dead,
Portland,O re., Jan. 10.—Ex-Governor
George L. Woods died yesterday after a
long and painful illness. He was elected
governor of Oregon in 1866, and in 1871
was President appointed Grant, governor of 1875 Utah by
living the Since Pacific he has
been on coast prac¬
ticing law,__
1 be Weather.
Fair weather; high northwesterly
winds, slight changes in temperature.
sii .CxETS OF NEWS.
Dispatches increase from Boston of “la tell grippe” of the
throughout Harming New England.
Dliio Frank legislature Knapp, whose the member serious of illness the
bas been reported, is dead.
Gardner, who has been detained by
the emigration commissioners at New
York, on “suspicion” freed, with of his being fanply, a pauper, the
aas been
joard reversing its decision.
Congressman has been FiRnk confined Lawler, his of Chi-
lagq. who to home
ay “la grippe,” has recovered and left
for Washington,
The condition of Ji udge Keeley,
feared Philadelphia, that the is will increasing critical, weight and it of is
years and infirmities have so weakened
die veteran that he can hardly rally.
Jackson dav was celebrated in many
jities. At Chicago Judge Benjamin
Patten, administration, the only survivor of the Jack-
ion spoke.
GUTTED BY 5^0
Western Union
Loul. Flr#.l b,
ST. Louih, Jan.
burbling, at
is in ruins, its walls v are
but the inside is
A network of wires
into tire building by i
that tops its five stories,
morning a wire leading to the basement
of tiie building came in contact with a
sasjLW The, fire, demen mad* ” d “ jjj
t
„
-successful work, and
not risk their lives in cutting them un¬
til the electric light wire currents were
turned off. About ten streams of
water were poured into the building for*'
more than an hour before the fire was
under control.
The Associated Press office was sit¬
uated on the second floor of the build-
escapes, all reached the
building Following and is estimate i ll [ occupants of the
Western Union Telcgi many. I3R1B0:
Dally- Printing ,
company, *15,000; oiu.uuu; Allen Alien *z A
Sinter, cigarettes. $5,009; Bradley Printing
*nd Roll Paper company. $4,009; M. A. D*J-
foren, cigars and tobacco. $3,000; Charles
Schuler, restaurant. *1.000: Stephen Uidgeley,
swner of building, *15,000.
Adjoining buildings were badly damaged
by smoke and water.
Building Oat.
monthly Lancaster, Pa, Jan. 10.—At the
County Agricultural meeting of the Lancaster
and Horticultural
rted that the
manyjn-
peaches and cherries' are ______8
forward, mild and the member*
weather keeps up a week or ten
lays longer there would be no fruit
next summer. A sudden change would
kill all the buds, and even now ’
in such a condition that a
perature would be fatal.
A llrakeman Killed.
Ashland, Pa., Jan. 10.—Another fa¬
tality occurred resulting in at the foot of Gordon
Plane, the instant death of
i brakeman named David Blanker. He
was in the act of coupling cars when he
was caught and crushed between the engine and
to death. Blanker
was Philadelphia employed and as Readin, a
the pest twenty-three
considered one of the
on the road. He was a !
and leaves a wife and five
Allentown Crooks Caged.
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 10.—1
tStAASSSOA merchants at Coopersburg and then
to Wilk Wilkes barre,
pleaded and guilty
court, was
months. William
McGuire, who broke a
Lichtenstine’s store, in
stole a lot of
for a year.
DITMAN
0. 0. Campbell Says He Saw tbe
Kissing Banker.
18 WILLIRQ TO MARE AFFIDAVIT.
It Wo* at the Dread street Station ta
Philadelphia—Mr. Campbell Bays He
Is Positive a* to the Identity—He Hod
Known Him Intlmetely for Tears.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10.—Joseph (J.
Ditman, the missing ex-president of the
Quaker City National hank, was seen In
‘his city Tuesday night by a man who
knows him so well that a mistake as to
identity is well nigh impossible.
C. C. Campbell, an employe of the
Williams Paper company, was at the
Broad Street station- about 8:20. The
The gates had not l*en opened for his
train, and he walked to the southern
gate of tU* platform to watch the ar¬
rival of a New York train, expecting to
tee some one he knew. He gazed
through the railings One at tho particular approaching at¬
passengers. man in
tracted his attention. He was dressed
in a heavy black overcoat and wore a
Derby his hat which was pulled down close
to eyes.
As the person look came tire nearer faoe, Campbell although
got a goca at
the head was bent well forward.
“It Iz Ditman.”
“It is Ditman!” was Campbell’s im¬
mediate conviction, and he walked
quickly to the gate so as to get a still
closer look at the man. The face was
closely shaven—that is, if It was Dit¬
man, the mustache was off—but the
features were the same, and the absence
of the mustache could not disguise ifi
them, Campbell Suspicion mind became that the a certainty who
s man
walked with bent quickly bead and and watchful nervously past him,
whose disappearance eyes, such was
the man was
a mvstery. middle aged of medium
A woman
height, clothed in a brown dress and
cloak, and wearing a black hat, stepped
up to Ditman and thrust a tetter
into his hand. Neither spoke. Ditman
did not even raise his hat. He hastily
tore the it—apparently tetter open, satisfying glanced himself rapidly
over
as to the signature alone—and then put
it in his pocket. The woman retreated
into the waiting room, and the man
walked quickly down the stops and die-
appeared. Campbell thunderstruck. There
was
was not a doubt in his mind but that he
had well. seen He Ditman did alive know and what apparently do for
not to
a few moments. Then the idea of fol¬
lowing tbe man occurred to him. He
ran down the ateps, but in no direction
was Ditman to be A search
through the waiting rooms afterwards
revealed no trace of the woman.
Willing to Swear ta It.
“I have known Joe Ditman for years,”
said Mr. Campbell to a reporter, “and I
ready could not possibly that be the mistaken. I I am
to swear man saw was
him. His mustache was never a heavy
one; its absence could not deceive me.
He looked a trifle paler and thinner, bat
beyond that his general appearance was
precisely what it was before be disap¬
peared.” “There is doubt in mind
no your as to
the man being Ditman?”
“Not a particle. I used to see him
every day for years. We were next
door to each other. 1 am just as confi¬
dent that that man was Joe Ditman as I
am that I am talking to you.”
the slightest question appear man’s
as to the
Sliver Mine In Northumberland.
Ashland, Pa., 'Id Jan. "WiiM 10.-Silver
been HHMM discovered pper ‘ *“ ;
township, James Strauzer, Northumberland John Mintzer
i
Frank Music liavc leased the
mine all minerals or metals ton
the lands. Surface quartz hat
silver. sayed and It yields is about $5 to the
below the surface. expected to grow
Mining Accident* j»t Ashland.
Ashland, Pa., Jan. 10.—Three min¬
ing accidents Madaere occurred seriously yesterday, Will¬
iam was injured at
Lancaster colliery by a full of top rock.
Michael Yualiu was severely squeezed
by juries mine wagons at Nelson shaft; his In¬
may prove fatal. Michael Hall-
nac had his body mangled and received
other injuries at Excelsior colliery.
Ill* Mead Blown Off.
BcranYoN, Pa., Jan. 10.—A portable
plodea boilerjin yesterday Burke Bros.’ 1 blew stone quarry Hungarian ex
an a
laborer's head off. Another ' * la ' ’ borer was
badly hurt,___k
Deserted the Brotherhood.
Columbus, O., catcher Jan. 10.—Jack O’Con¬
nor, the who great signed of the Columbus
team, a B rothe rhood con¬
tract shortly filter the season closed last
year, has signed a Columbus contract
A Useful Invention.
A very useful invention, tending-to
lessen the possibility of accidents in
factories, is now being extensively
adopted in which England. is The breaking
of a glass, adjusted against
the wall of every room in the mills,
will at once stop tbe engine, an
electric current being established
between the room and the
throttle valve ol the engine,shutting
off the steam in an instant. By this
means the engine was Mopped at
one of the mills recently in a few sec¬
onds, and a young girl, whose
clothes had become entangled in an
upright shaft, was released uninju -- J
Death from Aold Uu.
Williams Wilmington, and William Dei., Jan 10.—Joshua
who had been Brown, the colored
men, in employ of
the Walton & Whann Phosphate com¬
pany, died under peculiar circum¬
stances. The two men, with Abraham
Roes, also colored, were engaged in
cleaning out the what phosphate is known works. as an There acid
room at
were two gangs of three each, one of
which could work but five minutes at a
time, owing to the gases in the room.
As the day passed William Rosa and
Brown were taken with violent cough¬
ing and taken a feeling home, of but suffocation. Ross
was Williams and
Brown were able to walk. The two
former continued to g/ow worse and
died. Brown is in a critical condition.
Narze Donnelly Suez for Damages.
New York, Jan. 10.— Mary Ann Don¬
nelly, Eya Hamilton tbe nurse at who Atlantic was stabbed by
last and has since City. been N. J.,
summer, on ex¬
hibition in a Bowery museum, has
brought auit against Eva Hamilton and
Robert Ray Hamilton for $10,000 dam¬
ages alleged of to have been incurred by
reason the assault. Mrs. Donnelly
Maims to have permanently lost the
rtreugth of the leftside of her body, dis-
qualitying her as a nurse and necessi¬
tating constant recourse to medical aid.
Massachusetts' Democracy.
Boston, Jan. 10.—The deposition of
Secretary the Democratic Alger and Treasurer Lewis,
of state committee,
means the virtual overthrow of the old
Demcfcratlc 1 ‘liners,” who have fought
the party battles for years, and the as¬
sumption of oontroi by the younger por¬
tion of the party, including such men
u Joseph and Quincy, Nathan Matthews, George Frei Will¬
iams Jr,, the
tastnamed of whom presided over
the last Democratic state convention,
rhe victorious dements are locally
known toe-kings.”___ as tho “kiSWergarten” and “silk
)
Th* !«ro Confederate Chieftain*.
NEW York, Jan 10.—The Star says
that several members of the Southern
loefety itety of opposed resolutions the adoption by tbeso-
Davis. Thera is eulogistic also of Jeffer-
lon some opposi¬
tion to the holding of a banquet in
toaor of Gen. Lee on the 20th of this
lion th- The dissentients admire tbe
ffiaractere by of Davis and Lee, but are
if raid that so publicly honoring tbe
Confederate chieftains they will loee
Handing siroles. in northern busmen 1 and social
_
Bev. Dennison P. Kinney Dead.
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 10.—The Bar.
Dennison S. Kinney, financial MethodSla- manager
Ena agent of f the the Wesley
lociation of Air. . erica, died here. The
leceased was bora in Dresden 59 yean
»go, and came here from F
Previau; ta this time he bad been
>f several chOrobjs in Ohio