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VOLUME. 19
GRIFFIN.
| W points About the Metropolis
I Middle Georgia.
griffin is tbe county seat of Spalding Coun-
: , georgia, and fs situated in tbe centre of
tb( beet portion of the great Empire State of
gggonth, where all of its wonderful and
,*ried industries meet and are carried
»itb greatest success, and is thus able to of-
, r inducements to all classes seeking a home
»nd a profitable career. These are the *rea-
•oas for a growth that has about don bled
t« population since the last census.
It has ample and increasing railroad facili-
1 a; the second point in importance on the
ntral railroad between the capital ol the
ate, forty mfies distant, and its principal
( »avannah, Griffin and North Alabama
oad; the principal city on the Georgia
ud and Gulf railroad, one hundred
ilong, built largely through its own en-
fltrpriee, and systems soon to be of extended the Northeast to Athens
tad the
direct connection with the great East Ten-
ocasee, Virginia and Georgia railroad system;
^bringing ther road graded and soon to be built;
in trade and carrying out goods
and manufactures. the past half decade
Griffin’s reeord for
prorss it one of the most progressive cities in
the South.
It has built two large cotton factories,
^presenting $250,000, and shipping goods
,9 over the world.
ft has put up a large iron and brass foun-
w a fertiliser lactory, a cotton seed oil
riffil a sash and blind broom factory, factory, an ice mattress factory,
Settling works, a a
jartory, and various smaller enterprises.
It has put in an electric light plant by
skicfc the streets are brilliantly lighted.
It has opened up the finest and largest
granite quarry in the State, for building,
blasting and macadamizing purposes.
(t has secured a cotton compress with a
id capacity for it* large and increasing re¬
ceipts of this Southern staple.
It has established a system of -raded pub¬
lic schools, with a seven years curriculum,
scold to non*.
It has organized two new banks, making a
total of four, with combined resources of
taU a million dollars.
It has built two handsome new churches,
mating a total ol ten.
It has built several handsome business
Mocks and many beautiful residences, tbe
building record of 1889 alone being oi
$150,000.
It has attracted around its borders fruit
graven from nearly every State in the Union
eadCanada, until it is surrounded on every
side by orchards and vineyards, and has be¬
come tbs largest and best fruit section in the
Stale, a singte ear load of its peaches mtting
$1480 in the height of the season.
ft has doubled its wine making capacity,
asking by both French and German methods.
It has been exempt from cyclones, flood s
and epidemicie, and by reason of its topo¬
graphy wiD never he subject to them.
With all these and other evidences of a
jive and growing town, with a healthful and
pleasant climate summer and winter, a
hospitable and cultured people and a soil
Capable of producing any product of tbe tem -
perate or semi-tropic zone, Griffin offers
every inducement and a hearty welcome to
Mt citizens.
Griffin has one pressing need, and that is a
mv$ 100,000hotel to accommodate tran-
rient visitors and guests who would make it
a resort summer and winter.
Seed stamp for sample copy of the News
a» Boh and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
For Sale and to Rent.
9 room honao and 30 acres land ,with fish
fond «• on It and good orcard.
ffivlnak vacant lota, with wide streets, in beau-
and hickory grove, on Hill street, in
Aaad 54 mile desired. of passenger depot. Time wil
fogivea if This property
DLL NOBLE IH YALDE
to Bext three years.
ThcJ. If. Urawner 7 room house and 2
tots land. «Iso. 4 acres and 18 new double
room houses. Will give a bargain in this
•ad is a good paying investment.
_5$S*i** ' inside becut city, into Hin lots woods. and sold Beautiful inside
in np
Bths for over doable present price,
ones house and 10 acres land. A
and valuable place,
house and 4 acres, Hill St.
b houses and lot, 2V4 acres
„ wo divided if necessary.
•*v«d , other and nice building lots on Hill, Pop-
slstore houses portions FOB SALE. of the dty and Bever-
fwaoas having lands and bouses to sell or
*•* wul be attended to promptly.
6. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Beal Estate Agent.
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ABRiiWmiCIORl
The Right to Send Liquor Into
Prohibition States,
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THE SUPREME COURT C07HTRM8 IT
An Important Decision Overruling
tho Supreme Court of Iowa—.Jus¬
tices Gray, Harlan and Brewer
Dissent and Uphold t he Prohibition
Daws.
Washington, April 80.— The United
States supreme court rendered an opin¬
ion adverse to the constitutionality of
state laws in prohibition states, provid¬
ing toi- Vile eefaeatm of liquor brought
from other states.. Such laws, it is held
are interferences with interstate com¬
merce.
The or. so in which the decision was
made was that of Leisy against Hardin,
la., which was seized in the orig iriginal ial,
packages having by Hardin, a state officia as
heen sent there in violation of
the Iowa law. The supreme court of
Iowa held that the law under which this
official acted was valid, bnt the supreme
court Justices yesterday Gray, Harlan reversed and that decision.
Brewer dis¬
sented from the opinion of the majority
of the court.
License Cases Cited.
The opinion cites a number of cases
bearing others upon the interstate commerce;
among license cases, where
laws Hampshire passed and by Massachusetts, Island Neve
Rhode in refer¬
ence to the sale of spiritous liquors came
under remew in the court and were sus¬
tained, although the members of the
court who participated in the decisions
did not concur in any common ground
upon Chief which to rest them, in which
Justice Taney is quoted as holding
that spirits and distilled liquors are
universally admitted to he subjects of
ownership and property and therefore
subjects like of other exchange, commodity barter in and which traffic
right any that a
of property exists; congress,
under its general power to regulate
commerce with foreign nations, may
prescribe what merchandise shall be ad¬
mitted and what excluded. But, inas¬
much as the laws of congress authorized
the importation of ardent spirit*, no
state duction. has a right to prohibit their intro¬
Conflict with Interstate Commerce.
cisions After bearing referring to these license and laws, other the de¬
on state
court in its opinion says:
Those decisions rest upon the undoubted
right of the states of the Union to control
their purely internal affairs, in doing which
they exerolse powers not surrendered to the
national government; bnt whenever the law
of the stats amounts essentially to regulation
of oommeroe with foreign nations or among
. the states, as it does when it inhibits, directly
or Indirectly, th receipt of an imported com¬
modity, or its disposition before It has ceased
to become'an nrtlole of trade between one
state and another, or another country and
thin, it comes In conflict with a power, which
In this particular has been exclusively vested
ih the general government, and is therefore
void.
The plaintiffs, oitixens of Illinois, had the
right to Import their beer Into Iowa and had
the right to sell it, by which act alone it be¬
come mingled in the common mass of prop¬
erty within the state. Up to that point and
time in the absenee of congressional permis¬
sion to do fo the state had no power to inter¬
fere by leisure or any otner action in pro¬
hibition of Importation and sale by the non¬
resident importer. -
Articles which congress recognizes as sub¬
jects of interstate commerce, may be con¬
trolled by state laws amounting to regula¬
tions, while they retain that character; bnt
to ooncede to a state the power to exclude
such articles without congressional permis¬
sion is to concede to a majority of the people
of a state represented in the state legislature
the power to regulate commercial Intercourse
between the states.
The Dissenting Opinion.
Justices Gray, Harlan and Brewer, in
summing up tbe reasons which wine satisfy
them that tne judgment of the supreme
court of Iowa should be affirmed, say:
The power of regulati ng or prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
belongs as a branch of tbe polios power to the
legislatures of the several states and can be
judicially and effectively exercised by them
alone according to their views of public
policy and local needs, and cannot practically,
if It can constitutionally, be wielded by con¬
gress as part of a national and uniform
system.
The Iowa prohibitory laws were enacted by
the legislature In the exercise of its un-
doubtd power to protect Its inhabitants
against the evils, physical, moral and social,
attending the free CM of intoxicating liquors.
They are not aimed at interstate commerce,
have no relation to the movement of
goods from one state to another, but operate
only on intoxicating liquors within the limit
of the states; they include such liquors with¬
out discrimination, and do not even mention
where the. ar^made or whence they came.
Dlrehil Consequences.
of a state re¬
sile of in¬
toxicating liquors within its territory
are to to held inoperative and void ns
applied appuea to to liquors uquors and sold sent sent ” ' by or or brought ■* urougnt the importer from iron
another state - --•’ire
in original packages, the consequence consequenc
must be that an inhabitant bitant of of any any stat state
may under the pretext of interstate
commerce, and without license or su¬
pervision liquor of any into, public and sell authority, in cany ail
or send any or
of the other states, despite subject any legisla¬ and
tion of those states on the
although hto own state should to the
only one Which had not enacted similar
laws.
Another Important Case.
the case of
ile of the
BW ic ui uuvu-buu, . w.. beer validity in
of the Michigan law taxing the
original package, manufactured in Wis¬
consin and sold in Michigan. The court
denies the power of a state to exclude
directly interstate or commerce indirectly by the the subjects imposition of
ji burdens thereon congressional to regnlate snch
commerce without per¬
mission.
The same rule, it to held, which ap-
p lies to the sugar of Louisiana, the cot¬
ton of South Carolina, the wines of
California and Hie tobacco applies of Maryland all
and Connecticut to com¬
modities ^_ in which __ ( a “te right of traffic ex-
" by he laws of
___, decisions congress, of
the of courts and the usages
the commercial world should apply in
this case. The decision of the state
court of Michigan deciding this that also Lyng
was liable to tax is in case re¬
versed. and , „ Brewer dis¬
Justices Gray, Harlan
sented from the opinion of the court on
the Har.ujicSee. ssiac grounds suited in tae Letojfe
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 1 1890.
THE ROBERT E. LEE STATUE
Considered by Those who have Seen it, a
Grand Masterpiece.
* Hew York, April 3d. —The bronze
equestrian the work statue of well Gen. known Robert Parisian E. Lee,
of tho
sculptor—Antonia rived • M. Mercie —has rfr-
here oh the steamship Otkalo.
The statue will to shipped at once to
Richmond, veiled with Va., where it will be un¬
the 36th of May. appropriate All the ceremonies form¬ on
custom
alities about the admission of the statue
free ed, of duty have been amicably adjust¬
And there will to no delay in ship¬
ping The it to its destination. exhibition in
statue lias bet n on
Paris, for months, where it won the ad¬
miration of thousands of Americana.
Lee is represented in the full uniform of
hto rank, seated upon a horse. It
been considered by those who saw it,
high, afterpiece. It is about twenty-one
twenty-three feet across, and
weigh about eight tone.
The statue is consigned to the order
Governor McKinney, of Virginia,
will, through his representatives, make
day. ready for its unveiling on the designated
It is estimated that the statue will
cost The $17,000.
Confederate Veteran camp, of New
York, an organization composed of men
who served ed In m the the army army and an navy of the
Confederate states, held a specii ial meet-
ing —e, pitted at the „„„ „„„ New York hotel uutci, el, w ami ai .v. cora- wt „-
arrangements to go to
to attend th e uni eiling.
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Ha Wonl.i Hare Her.
Albany, jeers je Ga,, April 30. —Love lauglis
at and harshness, as weU as locks
and other t methods of stern parents to
long “keep the young gal at home.” For a
time Boysey Bailey, a young rail¬
road man possessed of considerable Al¬
bany Miss property, has been smitten with
Alice, daughter of Mrs. Minchen,
who resided with her mother at their
farm in Lee. For some reason the young
lady’s mother opposed the match, ana
was deaf to all appeals. Young Bailey
grew tired of waiting, and stole his bride
away from the parental roof, and hast¬
ened to Squire Avery, who soon made
them husband and wife. Thus their lit¬
tle romance ended happily for all except
the mother-in-law.
Burning of a Steamer and Lon of Life.
the Jacksonville, Fla., April 80.—One of
beet known steamers on St. John’s
river, the H. B. Plant, burned to the
water’s edge, in the middle of Lake
Beresford, 108 miles from Jacksoi.. die,
while on her way to Sanford. Tliree
lives were lost, all colored. The origin
of the fire, it is said, was caused by the
watchman in filling a lamp, when the oil
ran over and ignited from the wick, and
in the effort to put. out. the flames a five
gallon can of oil was turned over, which
carried the flames all along the floor into
the freight department, and was soon
beyond control. The steamer was valued
at $40,000, and was owned by the Plant
Investment company.
A Whole Bloch Burned.
(JtSKNViLLE, S. C.\ April 80.—An en¬
tire block of buildings in the town of
Seneca has been burned. -The fire, it is
and thought, sodh originated in (he post office,
the fire was beyond control,
and the block of buildings was soon
destroyed. scorched, The Keowell hotel was badly
and barely escaped. It was
the most disastrous fire Seneca has eVer
known. The losses are about $9,000 ; in¬
surance about $4,000.
Charged with Purloining Goods.
LaGraNGe, Ga., April 30. —Some ex¬
citement was created here by Pat Hutch¬
inson, of Hutchinson Hi-os., shooting at
E. Wilson, of Heard county. Wilson
had purloined goods from Hutchinson’s
store, and when charged with the offense,
used most abusive language. Hutchinson
fired tliree shots at him, but noneof them
took effect. Marshal Hackney, who was
on the other tide of the street, received
a flesh wound in the abdomen. Hutch¬
inson belongs to one of our best families.
Wilson has a bad reputation.
Boiler Baplosion. *
Valdosta, Ga., April 30.—The engine
on J. J. Wall’8 tram road at Haines, six
miles east of this place, on the Savannah,
Florida, and Western railroad, wa» fern
into scrap iron by the boiler bursting.
Lyman 150 yards Davis, against the engineer, house was thrown
a and instantly
killed. George Thomas, the fireman,
was badly scalded, but not fatally hurt.
Robbery and Murder.
south Valdosta, of here, Ga., Jasper, April 30.—ThMymiles the
at on Georgia
Southern aud BUU Florida * lu< * ivtKlj road, two vwU Ucgl negroes (JUS
entered the e de] depot ' and ’ called ■• - for - a ticket.
While Mr. Haley Frink, the night tele¬
graph operator, was shot preparing him the ticket
one of the negroes through, and
then they robbed the office and fled, but
one of the negroes has been captured ana
the other one to being hotly pursued.
Young He only Frink 16 is in a old dying'condition.
was years and very popu¬
lar. Pnmor has it that a.lynching is
probable.
Red River on a Boom.
Paris’, Texas, April 30.— Reports just
received from Red river are to the effect
that it is higher than it has heen in forty
years. There was thirty-four feet of
water at Arthur City. Several houses
are reported the to have of been swept away,
and occupants others had to move
out in boats. It to impossible to estimate
the loss, but it to great.
W sdley Carpenters Strike.
Wadley, Ga., April 30.—There to a
strike here among the carpenters. They
want more pay, or the eight hour system.
. A NEW LEASE OF LIFE.
Writ of H«lwa» Crt pus Saves the Life of
Kemwlei.
Auburn, N. \ ., April 30.— Kemrnler,
the wife murderer, has a new lease of
life. Roger M. Sherman, of New York
city, brought a writ of habeas corpus,
Which stopped the the whole proceeding and
preparation It is for not known execution who employed by elec¬
tricity. Sherman counsel for Kemrnler.
Mr. os
The application for a habeas corpus sets
up the claim that the state law providing
for the execution of criminals by elec¬
tricity is ill conflict with the constitution
of the United States, in that the punish¬
ment imposed and that thereby thereby to cruel and unu¬
the privileges the srJJ state
and inrmtenitiea
Kemrnler to be exempt from crtie’
unusual punishment for crime.
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POISON FOR CORNS,
The Purpose for Which Mrs. Van-
degrift Bought Oroton Oil.
HER TRIAL BEGUN AT MT. EO10.
The Prosecutors Allege That the
Antidote for Corns S) rayed Into
Her Son’s Burtniu-S. — The Physi¬
cian’s Testimony—A Welding end
a European Trip fa Lujed.
Mt. Holly, N. J-, April 80.—The
Vandegrift trial was taken up and prom¬
isee to be the moot sensational of any
that have been held In the old court
worn 01 ? 1 for years. TJic Jjaffc train from
Burlington brought a graft many wit¬
nesses and spectators. Tfle interest in
the case exceeds that talced in the Peak
murder trial, owing in a great measure
to the. previous history flf the woman
now on trial.
The court room was crowded when
the defendant came in and took her
seat, She wore a jaunty Mack bonnet,
diamond ornaments Is and a Connemara
cloak that enveloped form com-
due °robablv ^to t$raournin paleness of
the the prison, prison , she she looked looked w«8l and carried
herself with an air of confidence that
seemed proof against adverse surround¬
ings.
Just hack of her, among the audience,
sat her son, Frank C. Norman, whom
she to charged with attempting to kill in
order to secure the in-iranee of $12,000
on his life. Notwithstanding this at¬
tempt upon his life, Norman will not
take mother. part in His the lipe prosecution against sealed his
hare been so
far, and he says he will not utter a word
unless the the prosecution compel® him to
take stand.
The Prosecution Opens.
secured After considerable-trouble and the a pleas, jury was E.
prosecutor of
P. of which Bndd, began objected hto opening, to irrelevant a portion
was as
by the defendant’s counsel. In the
opening Mr. Budd stated the facts
which the state would present, and
asked. upon which They a verdict would of stow guilty that would be
on a
dozen different occasions’the defendant
had made a number of false statements
concerning tho affair, am md that tl she had
admitted large having appeared purchased between croton Nor- oil.
A sore
man’s shoulder blades during his illness
caused by an external ’ application of
croton oil.
The defendant told a number of per¬
sons that her son was suffering with
typhoid fever and bowel consumption.
The patient begged to be removed from
hto mother’s house, bnt she refused to
give her consent tt> this arrangement.
It would also be shown, he chari urged,
that she of forged Philadelphia, the name of John Kins-
lew, , 'to ____ a note with
which she secured funds to pay the
premium on her son’s life insurance.
Dr. Hall on the Stand.
The first witness examined was Dr.
W. E. Hall, of Burlington, who was at¬
tending plete history physician, of the and who from gave the a com¬ first
case
time he was called in. The patient was
greatly burning prostrated hto and suffering with
accompanied pains in throat and stomach,
This by excessive vomiting and
purging. nearly weeks, condition existed and then for
two with now a
day’s The respite.
medicine prescribed was not
given her by she the said. defendant for reasons admitted of
own, She then
having purchased She croton expressed oil to put on a
corn on her ioe. sorrow
at her son’s illness, as she said she ex¬
pected to be married on the 1st of June
and take a trip to Europe, but this
would compel a postponement.
THURSDAY’S BATTLE GROUND
The Cities Where Shorter Hours
Will Be Demanded on May 1.
Philadelphia, April 30.—The eyes of
the nation, or at least that portion of it
that takes any interest in trade move¬
ments, are turned toward next Thurs¬
day, May 1. Upon that day there will
be a general movement in no less than
eighty-six cities in the United-States for
shorter hours and in twenty-four of the
leading citiee demands will be made
that eight hours will constitute a day’s
wofk.
The cities in which demands for eight
hours will to made on Max' X are: De¬
troit, fordsville, Boston, Ind.; Winona, Portland, Minn.; Oreg.; Craw- San
Francisco, Louisville, Knoxville, Pittsburg. Tenn.: Oakland, Worcester, Cal.;
Mass.; Jeannette, Pa.; Seattle, Wash.;
Whatcom, Wash.; East Springfield, St. Louis, Dto;
New New Albany, York, Almeda. Ind.; Cal.; San Jose, His.;
Cal.; Omaha, and Duluth. Bridgeport, Minn.; O, Dor¬
chester, Pa., will
The nine hour day be inaugur¬
ated in Bayonne, Youngstown, N. J.; Toronto, O., O,; El¬
Lafayette, N. Y.; In Binghamton, A.; N. Y.; Fort
mira, Lancaster, Pa.; Salem,
Wayne, Ind.;
Mass.; Poughkeepsie, Rochester, N. N. Y.; Y.; Olean, New
Haven, Pa.; Spring*, Colo.; Lincoln,
N. Y.; Colorado
Neb.; Wa ’ashington, Asheville, Pa.; Lowell, Mass.;
Ottawa, .... Canada; i N, C,; Port¬
land, Me.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Pa.; Auburn,
N, Y.; Punxsutawney, New
Rochelle, N. Y.; St. Joseph, Mo.; New
Cumberland, W. Va.; Taunton, Maas.;
Salt Lake City, Kearney, N. Neb.; Vicksburg, Cleve¬
land, O.; Yonkers, Y.;
Schenectady, Miss, (with eight N. Y,; hours St, " * Saturdays); ~
Montreal; ly, Leoi minster, Maas.; Scotfe ittdale,
Pa.; fulo, Winnipeg: N. (mill Syracuse, and N. Y.; ; Buf-
Y. raen), Bradford,
Pa.
delphia The unions in Wheeling advance and of Phila¬ per¬
ask for an 30
cent.
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An Old Man’s Victim.
Haverhill. Mass.. April 80.—The
Wee body of the young Sunday woman found in
ton's pond has been identi¬
fied as that of Theresa Huxford, alias
Annie Turner, aged 19 years. She came
here some months ago with an old man
named Turner, who is said to belong in
Skaneatelae, N. Y. She had been heard
_ insane
an
coroner to
making ; no investigation.
. ---- Man Killed, u., e « * A ■
A Dear
Duluth, Minn.. April SO.—JohnCoke-
% qrttorn , an aged Pseffic workman, bridge was between killed on this the
and- and did Sujierior. hear He the was slightly
not warning
whistle. *
ACTORS in a smashup.
They Re *lve Contusions and a Free
“Ad”—Miss Knox Killed.
Stauston, Va., April 30.—A fearful
railroad wreck occurred at the Staunton,
Chesapeake and Ohio station. The
vestibule train was two lumr-i late.
About 3 o'clock it came whirl) ag on at a
speed of seventy miles an hour, the en¬
gine buying the appearance of a sheet of
fire.
A number of persons were on the sta¬
tion platform and had barely time to es¬
cape. As the tr-.siu reached the passen¬
ger station the fear sleeper careened,
striking the the iron platform eiul covering, demolishing tearing the
away whole platform posts It struck the
strnciare.
eastern the station, luggage a house brick fifty rods building, from
new
in its front and wrecking the building.
The rear sleeper then jumped the tract
and turned over on its side, a few feet
from the track, shattering the car into
numberless pieces.
There were a number of passengers in
the sleeper, among them the Pearl of
Pekin troupe, on their way from Cin¬
cinnati to New York, unconscious of im¬
pending One danger. killed,
person was Miss Myrtle
Knox, of Kansas City, one of the opera
troupe. One She was fearfully mangled.
left leg was cut off below and the knee, her
arm was broken, right shoulder
dislocated. A piece of wood was buried
in her thigh, cutting an artery, causing
death from bleeding in a few moments
and before surgical aid could to sum¬
moned.
dangerously. Eight others All were of injured, injured but belong none
the the
to Pearl of Pekin troupe except one.
There were six coaches, two of which
were those sleepers. in the No one sleeper. waa injured ex¬
cept rear
To Settlo the Chicago Strike.
Chicago, April 80. —There is now t
prospect that the carpenters’ strike wih
soon be settled. The arbitration com¬
mittee of the carpenters’ council and
the Boss Carpenters’ association witi
four of the citizens’ committee met at
the Iroquois club rooms. The situation
tions was thoroughly issue discussed. reviewed At and the ques¬ of
at the close
the conference the two committees
most interested decided that the existing
differences could to easily settled by
arbitration and agreed to recommend
such a plan of settlement to their re¬
spective If associations.
the present plans of the two arbi¬
tration committees are sanctioned by
their organization they will meet on
strike, Thursday and for it is the probable final settlement of the
that the greater
part of the striking carpenters win be at
work next Monday.
Illinois Mine Workers.
Chicago, April 80. —The conference
of Illinois mine operators and mine
workers was not productive of imme¬
diate results and the lone of the utter¬
ances does not promise well for thy near
future. The generally expressed opinion
of the operators present was that com¬
peting operators from the middle and
southern portions of Illinois and from
Indiana would not join the conference
and without such co-operation it would
would be useless to expect representa¬
tives of non torn Illinois miners to agree
upon any advance over last year’s prices.
Charged with Robbing the Malls v
Buffalo. April 30.—W. W. Ali
superintendent of mails in
postottice, robbing was mails. arrested charged wit Aat
the It to supposed x
he has been connected with the robberies
that have made the Buffalo office no¬
torious throughout the land. He is an
expert mail man and lias been in the
service twenty-five years.
Ten Hours for Bakers.
Buffalo, April 30.—On Thursday, ac¬
cording to their announcement, the
union bakers of this city will go out on
strike for a ten hour working any. The
result of the strike, it is thought, if one
takes place, will rest principally with
.Smith, Falke & Co., as their bakery
gives employment to more men tnan
any other in the city.
A Russian Traitor Shot.
London, April 30.—A dispatch from
Vienna to the Chronicle says that
Schmidt, who sold the plans of the Rus¬
sian fortifications of Cronstadt, obtain¬
ing less than $1,000 therefor, was se-
cretlv shot in the fortress of St. Peter
and St. Paul and that the newspapers
were forbidden by the government to
make any mention of the matter.
The Haverhill Trouble Continues.
Haverhill, Mass., April 30.—The
trouble between the Knights of Labor
and the International Union in Chick’s,
shoe factory still continues. Members
of the International union are rapidly
taking theplace The latter of the discharged night
cutters. are endeavoring to
dissuade out of town men going to
work,
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He Wanted a Helpmeet,
Wilkesbarkk, Ps.. April 80.—McDon¬
ald Shoemaker, has just married a poor
girl heiress after breaking an engagement with
an He is wealthy, bnt afraid of
reverses, and wants a wife who will be
of assistance in poverty. The family is
an aristocratic one, and the protests
against the match are very vigorous.
Duluth hookers fltrlkf,
Duluth, April 80.—About 3 00 laborers
on the ore docks at West Superior struck
for higher wages. They are now receiv¬
ing 40 cents and demand 30 cents.
Death of a Maryland Judge,
Judge Westminister, Md., April 30.—Hon.
E. Smith, associate justice of the
Fifth judicial circuit of Mary] land, died
at his residence here.
Buffalo Street Car lilnes Sold.
Buff am. N. Y., April 30.—The Even¬
ing News announces that all the Buffalo
street car lines have been sold to the
Weidncr-Elkins syndicate,
Struck, Against Reduced Wages.
Hamilton. Out., April 30,—The
•weavers of the Ontario and Hamilton
Cotfem companies struck against the ten
per cent, cut in wagtA.
Bond Purchases.
Washington, April to.—The treamiry
dcpai-tmeut bonde purchased §180,000 4j per
cent, bonds at 103} and 8340,400 4 per
cent, at 122. . > ’
Treasurer Archer Inflicted.
Bxfnxasz, April to.— Ex-State Treas¬
urer Art hur V.13 pro-fen.-d by the graud
jury tore on a charge a£ embezzling
$llt 300 of stale fuutis.
AUiHLbMiruRN
Watching for the First Experi¬
ment in Electrocution.
THE DOOMED MAH MAKER HIS WILL
The Man Wqo Chopped Up Hto
Wife with an Ax Dispose* or Hto
Blhlg, Testament aud "Digs in
Clover”— The Chair oi’ Death De-
scribed.
Auburn, N. Y., April 30.—The state
prison at Auburn, where Kemrnler has
heen waiting since midnight on Sunday
for his death by electricity, was bnilt in
1816, aud the town grew up around it,
like the homes of tenantry around a
great manor house. It looks more like
a castle than a jail, and its top to sur¬
mounted by a trivial copper figure in
continental uniform, us inappropriate
and os vain as the painted decorations
on an iron safe. The copper soldier was
typical in their today apathetic of the interest people in what of Auburn might
be going on inside the stone walls, over
half which he has stood and kept guard over
a century.
The Whole World Watches.
in their eyes than the postoffice and the
railroad station which itafaces. So they
concernedly went about their though business the today of as un¬ the
as eyes
whole country and of countries across
the sea were not turned on it with mor¬
bid, human all or scientific interest. wonder And
while of these people may at
the delay, very few seem to consider the
effect it may have on the murderer or to
regard him in any other light than the
subject tific interest. of an experiment of great to scien¬
For the execution but
an experiment.
The Process Explained.
And how successful the execution
may Warden be, waa Dnrston demonstrated explained today and when
re¬
hearsed the execution for the benefit of
a few reporters of the United Press.
Among them waa Dr. A. P. South wick,
one of the state commissioners, who ac¬
companied mented them and animals who has and experi¬ has
on over 100
modelled over half a dozen chairs for
use He in execution shown by the electricity. chair which has
was
finally structed been by decided Warden upon, the one con¬
Durston himself,
and of which he to very justly proud.
He thought there was perhaps a super¬
abundance of straps and fastenings, bnt
this to a matter of opinion. "I have
killed in my experiments over a hun¬
dred dims,” said Dr. Southwick, “by
electricity, and bind I them. have never found it
necessary to - ’
Tbe Chair of Death.
| To show how quickly quickly the i action ol
the experiment ... otoSH’ could he Bt arranged in
itors place for hto placed taking in off, the one chair
was
straps and head pieoe were placed over
him. The time was very brief. Tbe
chair itself is a straight backed, large
arm chair with a movable toad rest
fashioned some what on the principle ol
the on a barber or dentist
chair, > top of the chair bock
to a ‘No. 4” through which
_ i attached to the cap and
i on the victim’s head,
'attached in all eight broad leather
to the chair, all of
to be fastened. Two of
them fasten the body; one holds the
electroid; two fasten the arms; one
passes over each wrist and the seventh
fastens the leather mask that fits under
the chin and across the eyes, leaving the
month and nostrils open to permit the
condemned man to breathe for a minute
or so at least before it is over.
Kemmler's WilL
Kemrnler’s most important reoent act
has been the making of his will. He
left tbe pitifully few things he owns to
those whom he has been thrown with in
the prison. Hto Bible went to Daniel
McNaughton, Testament “Bill” hto pious Wemple, keeper, and the
to the other
watchman. He gave the “pigs in
clover,” with which he amuses himself
to Rev. Dr. Houghton, and hto slate to
Mr. Yates, the prison chaplain. To
Mrs. Durston ho gave the pnmer from
which he learned to read under her
stories. teaching and There his little book of Bible
to absolutely nothing
known as to when the electrocution will
take place, but it is popularly sup apposed
that it will occur some time before
Thursday morning.
Miners Want Increased Pajr.
miners Brockwayville, of this Pa., April 80.—The
district have made a de¬
mand for an advance in the price of
mining, to take effect the 1st of May.
The demand has been presented to all
the operators, and the result will be
awaited with interest. Generally the
rate asked for means an advance of S
cents, per ton over the prevailing price
in this section, although in some of the
very low coal the increase will be 10
cents.
Ofllcer Hagncy'* Murderers,
West Chester, Pa., April 80.—Crim¬
inal court opened here, and as the list of
cases to be tried include several un¬
usually large serous ri-angressions of the law
a crowd to in attendance. The
cases of Commonwealth rg. John Tren-
with and Commonwealth vs, Bernard
Mellon are on to-morrow’s list. These
are the men to be tried for the murder
cf Special Officer Patrick Hagney in
Phcenixville on the morning of Feb. 9.
Tbe Scottdale Striker*.
Scottd ale,P a., April 80—The strike of
the miners in the Smith ton coal district
is nated still this an, week bnt it by is all likely of to be termi¬
the operators
conceding tbe miners’ demands. The
fact is that all of the operators, save the
agreed Waverly to pay Coal tbe company, rates and have the strikers already
will be ordered bick to work in a couple
of days.
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The Allegheny Valley Suit.
Pittsburg. April to.—Judge Acbeson,
of tbe United States circuit court,
handed down a decision in the case of
the Bondholders vs. The Allegheny
holders Valley Railroad petitioned company. The bond¬
the court to order
a foree'oenro on a mortgage and direct
the sals <>t the road. The court refused
the motion and dismissed the petitiom
Hopper-Mcrev Fight postponed.
Washington. April 30.— Hopper-Meyer
fight postponed until Wednesday night
at Alexandria.
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PENNSYLVANIA Fi
to Organize
Harrisburg, April 80.— .
nearly 8,000,000 farmers,* tklw* said
L. Polk, president at
mere’ Alliance, who
Maj. Gray. of Louisiana,
Washington to consult witi
sylvania farmen and other* relative
the growth of the alliance in i
Those present learned thst the
had made considerable
sylvania, with organizations
six counties, applications
others, and letters of inquiry
At private!
Hon. Ci D. Eldred, <
was the president (the
prepared the first ~
grange vice president, constitution,,__
ofagricuiturofrom member
board A
secretary, Rev. Wilfred I
Lancaster county, well known
a most effective talker on
subjects.
Farmers Alliance were UoJ. ,
Young, large of the of Middletown,
state board of
Henry twist C. of Snavley, Lebanon a j county,
Messrs, Me^Tc^HetoT^ v» f • tic tires r
Enoch Rankle, John I
Hehres, E. O. Hosier sad
inent farmers! in Dauphin
was unanimously agreed “
KSfISSfM.,
of this city, ex-state
fiance in Susquehanna township.
alliances Steps are in being Pennsylvania taken to oi *
in
when a state alliance will he 1
The Trial of Rev. Frttch.
Sinking Spring, Pa., «
Lebanon classto of the
convened in St. John’s
Rev. M. L. Fritch, of
the classto. charges under preferred the first by At
con
two charges embraces of the
count fou
hood. Rev. James B. May,
boro, of presides. th* members There of to classto, a fi but __
once Rev.
Fritch, the jurisdiction accused, to not present. He
denies the of classto on
count of having withdrawn
before the charges had been f
Charter* Granted at ** i
Harrisburg, April
nangoOil company, of
association, Ferry Philadelphia;
060. Street Railv
Montgomery factoring company, of „„
county; capital, I
Private Hearing of Witnesses.
West Chester, April to—Dtotrict Sit
of Attorney the witnesses Baldwin had a privi
for the com
against John Trenwith. A
vritnessee were heard, bnt v
points . „
new were secured to not_____
The hearing took place at the prison,
and pains were taken to keep it as quiet
as possible. , **-
Schuylkill Classto In I
church convened here, to remain .in ses¬
sion several days.
■ Linden Park Races,
Likdkn Park, N. J.. April 30.—Hret race,
Second race, 1 mite—Golden Keel, Uee-
monjr, ft Sam More*. 3. Time, l.gM.
*"* * ’*■ *
8 “-
Fifth race, 11-1* mUes-TrtaUo, 1; Taragon. ***■■"»
ft SUleok, a. Time. 1-M*.
Race % mile-Puzzle, 1; Shotover.ft Zulu.
3. Tim*. 1.31M.
Nashville Races.
Naskvillk, Tenn., April 30.-First race. TU
furlongs—Billy TJnkerton, l; Bltsz, »: Carl¬
ton, 3. Time, 1.43M. ■ .* .
Second race, 4M fnrlonzs-Black Knight, l;
National, ft Consolation, 3, Time, 1.01*.
Third race, I mile—Glockner, fc Buckler, ft
Friendless, 3. Time, Ltsf*.
Fourth race, H uffie-Wa Pickwick, 1; Drift,
ft Laura Doxey, a Time, *&$$.
Fifth race, % mUe-Bltljr Parker, lj Leo
Brl*«l, *; logo, a jWlm-Mamfo Time, l.ui.
Sixth race, Skobele#, IK FoRS*, 1;
Event, ft :i. Tima kOk
..... -fe CONGRESS ,
One Hundred and Sixth D*
No quorum voting It went
without prejudice by request,
private Mils were passed, Incln.Hng the
notorious Wilbur claim. At 8:10 p. m. the
adjourned. the
In the house legislative appropriation
was considered *11 day and late into
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