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VOLUME 19
GRIFFIN- '
, points Georgia.
Middle
§C V tbe county situated ssot of in Spalding the centre
an d j» o
Portion of the of *reat it* Empire wonderful State
where ail
m eet and are carried
£t€#t HU0CC8*, and it thus able to of
»to all Clown* seeking a
ggsz snz
^k li ** : .W^md *. point in importance capital on of
between the
Centrii ra datant, and its
tote, forty mn« #n
seai-ort, a5fl jgS. Wegt b W4ky
Liu); the principal railroad, city on the
I gjjuKi and Gulf one
T fJJL,, gTL,,. built largely through its own
and soon to be extended to
id the systems of the Northaeet
direct connection with the great East
t0X> Virginia and Georgia railroad By
„aother road graded and soon to be
11 bringing in trade and carrying out
[%td Manufactures. record tor the past half
arils’* cities
pror«sitone of the most progressive
b«South.
Itta* built two large cotton
.jj iwT^T $250,000, and shipping
„ffC the world.
It hsi put ap a large iron and brass
ds fertilizer factory, a cotton seed oil
jjjj^ | gash ftnd blind f&cfcory, ftn ice fsetory,
tfging works, a broom factory, a mattress
sjtory, and various smaller enterprises.
It has put in an electric light plant by
[ .g|dkth*«trnets are brilliantly lighted,
it be* opened up the finest and largest
granite quarry in the State, for building,
bsBsding and macadamising purposes.
It has secured a cotton compress with a
(Sbspscity for its large and increasing re
nipt* of this Southern taple.
It has established a system of graded pnb
erboois, with a seven years curriculum,
.eeoad to none.
It has organized two new banks, making a
| tsta! ol four, with combined resources of
> bail s million dollars.
it has built two handsome new churches,
j Baking a total of ten.
It has buUt^several handsome business
| blocks and many beautiful alone residences, being the
- record of 1880 over
| 1156,000.
It has attracted aronib' its borders fruit
[frewers from nearly every State in the Union
I lad Canada, until it is surrounded on every
|iii by oehards and vineyards, and has be-
) the largest and best fruit section in the
[guts, a single car load the of its peaches netting
6 in the height of season.
' lthsif
doubled its wine making capacity
■ikhgby both French and German methods
It has been exempt from cyclones, floods
lad spidimicis, and by reason of its topo-
i trsphy will never be subject to them.
With all these and other evidences ol a
fennel growing town, with a healthful and
dMsanl dimate summer and winter, a
tospitable and cnltnred people and a soi
1 capable of producing any product of the tern.
I perate or semi-tropic zone, Griffin offers
every inducement and a hearty we me to
aew citizens.
—Griffin has one pressing need, and that is a
[ ’«ew fl00,000hotel to accommodate tran-
risnt visitors and guests who would make it
nsort rammer and winter.
Send stamp for sample copy of the N*ws
4KD Ron and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin
Parties who wish to Rent or Buy Stores,
Ibava'tgot Dwelling houses, Vacantlote and Farms, demand. and
enough to meet the
Urns no have any of the above to rent or
•eh weffid find it to their interest to consult
•e before disposing of them on or before
•pt. fiwsas* 1st. I have only a few places left and
Shsmons bargains house and in every lot, one 7 of them. and 12
rooms
•me land in edge city limits.
100 acres land in edge city limits.
wa u f< inside ** **
53 »* <f if »i «
* “ 7 room honse, Hill street.
{H 8W “ 7 5 •• - “ “ Foplar Taylor street. “
•
m “ Vscant, Taylor street.
Stephenson place, 8th street.
2 miles, best fruit farm in
1 acres 2 miles Good fruit farm.
from city.
“ , good
■SBXS.
80 “5 “ Large, fine vineyard.
^ “ 7 rooine^Jorae^r place, near Hill
1 “ 7 Mi s. Crocker’s Poplar
- Abo 15 to 20 house and lots and land
the town of Hampton on C. It. R. can
bought Md 33 low, and only 10 miles from Griffin
from Atlanta.
R A. CUNNINGHAM,
Beal Estate Agent.
FUSION ALLIANCE!
—o—
The Mark Down Festival.
I M Tipis kpd For %
*iff»tovely »i?*?sonnete, flowers ever bloom;
tips toqnes and hats abo
**“ Mere and waving plun 1
the lowest price is found.
fits. L.L. BENSON.
**ri0d*wti 20 HILL MTREET.
-AN ACTIVE MAN for each
l , Salary $75 to ffilOO, to lo-
___ a successful N Y. Company
asppte etc., to Dry Goods, dotting,
SairarylMW, consumers at cost
><**> to enroll
BOW curdled, $100,000
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ts
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APPALLINGDISASTER
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Laid Waste by
1 Whirlwind.
DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
—
Many Buildings Completely Demol¬
ished and Hundreds of Houses
UnroolV-d — A Large Number of
Coal Breakers Wrecked—-Twenty-
seven Men Entombed — Reports
from Surrounding Towns — The
Death Roll.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. , Aug. 21.—One of
the t* 16 worst worst cyclones cyclones ever ever experienced experienced in in
this vicinity came up6n thin Mty about
5 o’clock yesterday- afternoon. It came
from up the river. The sky was black
as night and the wind blew with great
velocity. *
Trees were blown down and hundreds
of houses were unroofed, and many
houses said completely people demolished. It is
that several were killed, but
up to this time the number cannot be
learned. In different parts of the city
the havoc made by the cyclone is fear¬
ful, many districts being laid in min,
and there are a number of people home¬
less. The loss will reach hundreds of
thousands of dollars. ,
electric'' Every wire light in and the city, telegraph,
blown down. Trains and telephone, engines which were
were wrecked. at the The depot were blown blocked over with and
streets are
fallen trees and buildings.
Some of the Fatalities.
Four men are known to have been
killed in the Hazard Wire Rope works,
and the total number killed in the city
so Three far is reported wel-e as twelve. killed by the fall¬
miners
ing in of a house on Scott street. The
miners had returned from work but a
short time when the building col¬
lapsed A colored and buried girl them killed in the rums. falling
building South was Main by a
on street.
• A man and two horses were killed by
the falling of lumber at Kytle’s planing
mill.
Two men were killed by the fall of a
portion Another of Stegmaier’s killed brewery. in S. L. Brown’s
Was
brick building, demolished. on East Market street,
which was
Reports thus far received indicate the
death of fifteen or sixteen others. Fully
200 wrecked. buildings are wholly or partially
One hundred tin roofs have been teie-
graphed ~ for f and building of
mechanics
all Kinds can < find employment.
The Murray shaft fan house was
blown down and the fan stopped. There
are twenty-seven men in the mine, but
it is hoped they can be got out safely.
Report* from Other Place*.
At f JSC jj. nr. mjKWWWuie three TrOUl miles ougtu from
Notch, a mining destruction town to property is
here, that the
terrible and that fifteen persons were
killed.
Coal breakers in all directions have
been more or less damaged miles at Parsons here,
and Mill Creek, four from
and ten men are reported to have been
killed. All communication -is cut off
and the telegraph wires are down in all
directions.
The Killed.
The names of the killed so far as
known are:
John Fritz, a laborer in the spool mill at
Hazard works; taken from the.debris horri¬
bly mangled. buried
Evi Martin, a baker, beneath a
falling smoke stack. His two horses were also
killed.
Burrell Benilenmyer, salesman for Hartlee
6 Co., grocers; Instantly killed by falling tlm-
ber.
Peter KUlenmeyer. skull crushed by the
falling In of Fred Jaoob’s hotel.
Samuel Rouse, killed by falling timber.
He was a maebinest at the Hazard works.
Joseph Kern, a milkman, was blown from
his wagon and was found 2J0 yards away ly¬
ing on the Lehigh Valley railroad with his
head crushed.
Adam Frantz, of the firm of Jones & Frantz,
was struck by flying timber and has since
died.
George Hamilton, an employe of Steg-
mair’s brewery.
Mamie Thompson, aged 6 years, blown
against a honse and Instantly killed.
John Kleinkanlf.
A Hungarian, name unknown,
Injured.
Berlin 0a53ern5rS, bead and limbs
crushed; cannot recover.
Max Cramer, fatally injured by a falling
walL
Jesse Houser, legs brokeu and internal In-
jH ffaffi. ......... 2 __-___ Harwood, blown _
Miss Mary fifty feet away
while alighting from a carriage; seriously
hurt. ~ :
Albert Smith, paper hanger, rib broken,
bead Injured.
Jacob Falk, butcher, arm dislocated. broken,
Jacob Bergold, butcher, ribs head
bruised.
Ambrose Constance, liquor dealer, ribs
broken, injured internally.
Clearing; Away the Debris.
The mayor has requested the Ninth
regiment of militia to aid in the police
all supervision idle workmen of the city. He also requests
to report to him for
employment from the in clearing away the debris
street.
Mrs. Dunbar Reburied.
Fred Newark, Aug. 21.— The "body of Mrs.
its lonely Dunbar, which in was garde dug up from the
its lonely grave grave the en on
deserted farm at Connecticut Farms, in
Union county, where it had been buried
by her husband, was Newark. reinterred The in Fair¬
mont cemetery, in cere¬
monies were simple and lasted but a few
a few minutes. No traces of violence
were found._
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting.
Ocean Grove, N. J., Aug. 21.— The
annual camp meeting of the Methodists
began here. yesterday. Thousands of people
are crowded with Every train that comes and in chil¬ is
men, women
dren, all of whom are coming for the
: morning.
Scott Declined the Nomination.
Erie, Pa,, Aug. 21.—At the Demo¬
cratic convention in the Twenty-sixth
district A. L. Tilden was nominated for
congress. Hon. W. L. Scott was the
first choice of the convention, but de¬
clined the nomination.
A Fatal Collision.
Helena, Mont., Aug. W. 21.—Miss Pot-
ter, daughtei ‘ ter of J. Potter, Lans-
. of
mg, Mich., was killed and several
others injured by a collision between a
west bound passenger train and a freight
train at Garrison.
GRIFFIN GEORGIA FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 22 1890
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TRUE. KNIGHTS OF LABOR
Will Fight th« Central mid Hudson River
Rand to the BltnrVud.
New York. Aug. 21— General Master
Workman Powderly has decided to issue
an appeal employ to all the true Central. Knights Hudson of Labor River in
the of
railroad, and upon Vanderbilt connect¬
ing lint*. He will state the causes for
tho strike and the efforts made to obtain
an agreeable settlement of the difficul¬
ties, and notify each and every member
of the intention of (he executive board
of the Knight* of Lubor to prosecute the
fight River against Railroad the Central to and the Hudson bitter
end. Oi&nd Master company has called
meeting Sergeant council of the
a of the supreme
Federation of Railway Employees for
Saturday, August 23d, in Terre Haute,
ind., in connection with the stirring
•TBffirttStBla. Mr. Toucey, at his Devlin office, for waited the
upon
purpose of endeavoring to bring about a
settlement of the trouble. Toucey abso¬
lutely refused to entertain any proposi¬
tion investigation burking toward arbitration, that or led an
of the causes to
the discharge of the men.
Mr. Powderly now says, “the execu¬
tive board says to the Knights of Labor,
and the public, that the position finally
assumed by the company makes it nec¬
essary for them to vindicate the right the of
lalior to organize by prosecuting
strike to tire bitter end.”
THE FORCE BILL DYING.
Republicans Charging Each Other with
the Crime.
Washington, Aug. 21.—The discus¬
sion among Republicans has, at last, de¬
veloped bill about into an dead, admission and, indeed, that the they force
is are
charged with quarreling with each other
as to who did the killing. There are three
factions in the tragedy, and it is hard to
tell just bow they will pacify matters._
There are men who want the force bill
passed, but they don't want the rules
changed There to do it. This is the Edmunds the
wing. adopted are those who want force
gag rules and the tariff and
bills passed. This is the Hoar faction.
And lastly, the there conclusion are men who rules have
arrived at that gag
can the tariff not be bill, adopted, and in willing order to bury pass
force bill! they are the to lead¬
the These men are
ers, and they are Brother Quay’s faction.
Burnt to Death with Powder,
Cartersville, Ga., Aug. 21.—A gen¬
tleman brings information from the up¬
per part of this county, of the fatal burn¬
ing, by powder, of two boys of Mr. Wm.
Byers. The oldest txfy was standing by
a stove with an open can of blasting
powder under his arm. He was dropping
it on the stove to see it blaze ana pop.
His mother warned him of his foolish¬
ness, but he would not mind her. He
called a younger brother, and then drop-,
ped the several der grains his at hand once, and which also ignited that in
Mrfflfc; pow S m k
f
from the oldest boy’s breast, hands and
arms, and the youngest one expected was terribly die.
burned. Both boys are to
S.veral Men Seriously Hurt.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 21.—A car
jumped the track in yards of the Louis¬
ville and Nashville road, and four switch¬
men, who were standing on top of the
car, were thrown with tremendous force
against some cars which were standini ding
Win
Beavers was instanly killed, and the
other three badly injured. W. H. Mo-
thershird had an be arm so badly and mangled also
that it had to amputated,
sustained severe bruises. It is thought
he will die. J. B. Lewis had a shoulder
mashed, and also sustained very severe
bruises. He is dangerously hurt. E. P.
Dickson was badly hurt, but no bones
are broken.
Life in the Old Men Vet.
Richmond, Va., Aug, 21.—Ex-presi¬
dent of the supreme court of appeal,
Judge Joseph Christian, was married in
Centre county, Pennsylvania, to Mrs.
Afina Reynolds. White They Sulphur will spend springs. their
honeymoon been at announced that Hon. John
It lias
E. Massey, superintendent the of public in¬
struction for state, and ex-lieutenant
governor, is to be married early in the fall
to a member of a prominent Alabama
family. Both of these gentlemen are
nearing three score and ten.
An Officer Shoots a Negro Man.
Greenville, Ga., Aug. 21.—L. A. Ed-,
wards shot and killed John Foster, col-
ored, near Oakland, Edwards ten mites east of
this place. had a warrant for
Foster and was endeavoring to arrest
him. The negro resisted arrest, and
drawing his pistol, said: “Yon will have
to kill me first.” Edwards then shot
Foster through the head with a shotgun.
Hie negro died in a short time. Ed¬
wards surrendered himself to the author¬
ities. The negro bears the name of a
lawless, dangerous character.
Rico la Ripening Early.
Raleigh, ^ N. C., Aug. 21. —From the
reports received at the agricultural de¬
partment, it is learned that the rice crop
is ripening which early just in this sate. The har¬
vest, has begun, is two weeks
earlier than ever before. The crop is re¬
ported as being large and very fine. It
is a great advantage to harvest the crop
this early, as it is m advance of the rice
birds, which are a great pest, and also
ahead of equinoxial storms, which do
great injury to the crop.
Playing Havoc with Green Crops.
Adairbville, Ga., Aug. 21.— Farmers
in Oothcalooga valley are now contend¬
ing with legions of grasshoppers. They
and are other playing liavoc with clover, fodder
green crops. It is said that
the shuck has been eaten from the ears
of corn in some places. The damage
they far, are they going is great, extended but fortunately,
so are not over a very
large territory.
He la Flensed with the Sentence.
Montgomery. Ala., Aug. 21.—Willie
Lewis, a 19-year-old negro, has just been
sentenced to imprisonment for life for
thu murder of his grandmother. He
struck the old woman with an ax, last
January, effect while she was asleep in bed,
from the of which she died in a
few days. He was satisfied with the
sentence. He expected to be hung for
the crime.__
Murdered His Sister-In-Law.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug 21.—Aleck
Allen, a negro fiend, is In jail here to
answer for an assault and murder of his
sister-in-law. Some days ago he com¬
mitted an assault upon the 12-year-old
sister of his wife, ana the girl died from
the effects of it. Upon the finding of
the coroner’s jury, be was airqffied.
STEAMEDTO DEATH.
Frightful Results of an Old Colony
Railroad Aeeident.
SIXTEEN KILLED; IN J DEED.
An Engine Jumps the Track and a
Passenger Coach Falls on Top of
It—The Wreck Takes Fire and the
Imprisoned Passengers Are Terri¬
bly Tortured—TheWreck Attrib¬
uted to a Bad Curve.
Boston, Aug. 21.—A terrible acci-
dent occurred on the’Old Colony rail-
road yesterday afternoon. The train,
which was the Vineyard,- express due in
Boston at 1:10 p. m., and eonsisting of
five or six parlor care, whe* within 100
feet on the other side of President’s
bridge and running at the rate of forty
miles an hour, jumped the track, the
engine immediately toppling over and
the first passenger coach on the top of
it. The engine set fire to the train. The
passengers were for for the most part in¬
frightfully lured by escaping scalded. steam, many being
The Victims.
The following were dead when taken
from the wreck: Mrs. Qrcutt Allen,
Philadelphia; Louisville, Mrs. Mary F. G. Fennelly,
aged 70, Ky.; J. Johnson,
Montpelier, Boston, fireman Vt.; of John Ryan, and South four
and train, children,
women, two men two one
a boy of 14. unidentified. Total, 12.
The following died during the after¬
noon Hartford, and evening: Conn.; daughter Mrs. A. C. Wells, H. L.
a of
Welch, tt «u>, of uj. Waterville, daaghtfrmof ,,vuuo. Conn.; i Alice and .uu
C atherine. Mrs. Oscar Fen-
neUy, The of following Louisville, are Ky. critically injured:
Mrs. scalded Oscar Fennelly, her whole of Louisville, C. Ky., M.
Copp, Cleveland, over O., ” body. *
body; Bailey, not of expected Dorchesi
prietor of The Boston He
race and hands.
A Graphic Description.
A Herald reporter who was on the
train says:
The side, engine plunging jumped the track on the
west into the steep bank
adjoining the Adams estate. Nine cars
attached to the engine plunged after it.
The first three—baggage,a Pullman and
a but smoking the fourth car—went past the engine,
collided with the car, a passenger and coach,
filled with engine was in¬
stantly remained esc aping s team . The
next five cars on the track,
but the occupants were badly shaken up.
The ill fated passenger car was
wrecked. It contained seventy-five pas¬
sengers, men, women and children. The
window s on the eas t ride w«rp j 4Lfikaa&
capiUg Scenes of Horror.
The scenes about the car were of the
wildest description. Strong hearted
fainted as the steamed bodies of a dozen
women and children were being taken
from the ruins. Some of the occupants,
gifted with presence of mind, broke
through the windows and escaped with
slight wounds. Where the engine and
the car collided were several women
wad children steamed to death, while
some were badly mangled. department all
The Quincy nre and
the surgeons in the city were sum¬
moned to the spot and the lawns on
each side of the railroad were covered
with killed and injured. Heroic efforts
were made by the train hands and pas¬
sengers to rescue some of the pas¬
sengers, and they succeeded in remov-
twenty or more who were only
;htly injured. 391 the
here were passengers on
train, 100 being from Brockton.
Fireman life, Ryan, in attempting to save
his was caught between the passen¬
ger car and engine and killed. Engi¬
neer Bullick, who jumped from his en¬
gine, but not until he nad done all that
injured was possible about to the avoid back the and wreck, badly was
scalded. Conductor Steadman and one
of the brakemen sustained severe
bruises about the face and hands.
Reasons for the Accident.
The only reason is given bad for the acci¬
dent is that it a very curve near
the accident, presidential and bridge, tile scene with of the the
to this, together
fact that is attributed the road the was undergoing the re¬
pairs, cident. cause of ac¬
In the fourth car William Ferrell, a
.carpenter and house builder at No. 17
Harvard place, was a passenger. It was
there 1 major portion of the cas¬
ualties occurred and nearly if not all of
those who lost their lives were caught
by beams and scalded to death. He
save:
swept like lightning right
onto the of broken it with "engine, terrific and shock. was forced We
on seemed top snatched i right a i from the earth
tup Wnea-the- i de¬
fifty scended feet in tha the air. engine it had twirled car
on
over and the wounded passengers were
thrown ruthlessly about. As the car
struck on its side solidly, the bottom of
it was torn away, and thus an opportu¬
nity “That was given the us to get thing out. that saved
life and was those only of forty-or fifty other
my Thirty seconds after the
passengers. struck I given $1,000 for
car would have
a drink I of thought any kind, should from suffocate. whisky to
water. I
The Death Dealing Steam.
“The death dealing steam entered the
car in dense clouds from the locomotive
beneath us, filling every crevice and al¬
most suffocating those whom it did not
burn to death. It caused all the deaths
that occurred. Ten women were gasp¬
ing about me as I tried and- to shriek, and
the a8 they became weaker I weaker as
steam filled their lungs could see
them push their hands or feet through
the torn windows trying in vain to get
a breath of fresh air. I don’t know how
many I saw die before me. I saw eight
or ten at the moment, but now I don’t
think there was more than six or seven.
“There were forty or fifty passengers
in the car, and nearly all were wounded
more or less. I don’t consider hardly myself in¬
jured there badly .although I can walk,
and were perhaps ten or fifteen
like me, but the rest, perhmjs twenty-
five I altogether, them were seriously crying injured.
saw in the cars out far
help and L did all I could. I saw the
flesh burned from men and women as
the cursed steam enveloped shrieking them and I
saw death men struggles groaning and the scalding in fumes their
as
became hotter and denser.
the “I bottom hardly of know the how burnt I escaped. it When lefts
car out
hole just large enough for my head
directly ;y reached over o my head, and the edges I don’t of
that that I 1 re in some way,
sp knowhow. lmo> and looked through Then I polled opening. myself All up
the
about was wreck and ruth. The pas¬
sengers from the other cars were not to
be seen, railroad but over on a fence bordering
the track were ten or twenty
men, it seemed to me 100, watching the
scene and of ruin and powerless from fright
astonishment to help us.
“1 screamed, shouted and swore at
them, but they I would not move, and
the more cursed the more helpless
became. These men—I hate to
calf them that—saw me rise from my
perilous board#.,of position, tile bottom saw me with tear all at the
might, pall helpless my
saw me women
from Ike steaming car, saw me caught
beneath a bar of iron and unable to re¬
lease refused myself to aid or to aid others, and they
me.
“Fools or Cowards."
“I don’t know whether they were
fools or cowards, but they received a
sound and thorough cursing from me.
I got out the car a# best I could and did
what 1 was able to do in assisting
others."
The
was
perintendent station department send
every in the could to
all physicians that be obtained to
the scene of the accident. By the aid
of the police signal system, call the and patrol in
men were notified of the a
short sent time to the abont twenty-five of the accident, doctors
were scene
fully equipped for any emergency.
WEBB DOES THE TALKING
He Compliments the Firemen In a
Talk with Their Chief.
New York, Aug. 21.— Vice President
Webb, of the Central, and Chief Sar-
gent, of the Firemen’s Brotherhood, had
auiutervieWr Mr. Webb did most of
the talking. He complimented the
men on their fidelity, but Mr. Sargent
was non-committal.
Vice President Webb and Superin¬
tendent Voorhis spent the night at the
Grand Central depot awaiting develop¬
ments.
The conference ended about 11 p. m.
No conclusion was reached and another
Hayes, meeting will be held. Messrs. Powderly,
Howard Holland, Wright. Sweeny, Sar¬
gent, and Wilkinson were the
conferrees.
Mr. Sargent denies that the men have
returned to work at Buffalo.
sion Though as stated no definite conclu¬
was reached at the conference, the
remarks and demeanor of the conferrees
gcneral creates an strik impression t he Van that derbil the t mooted
favored e and on likely be ordered. system
was to
Unchanged at Buffalo.
Buffalo, Aug. 21.—A sensational re¬
port the New was York published that the strike on
Central railroad had been
row* fiadTx-en'ofdered to take*the sink¬
ers back. Later it was learned that this
was unfounded. The situation is un¬
changed.
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Labor Men at Loggerheads.
Newark, N. J., Aug. 21.—The
Jersey Unions Fede is iu ration of Trades and here.
annual session A
bitter feeling was exhibited by the fede¬
ration and culminated against the in the Knights adoption of of Labor,
a re¬
port by which delegates of three Knights
of Labor assemblies in Paterson and
Oxford were excluded from the con¬
gress. It was claimed, in debate, that
the themselves, Knights of Labor were not the masters
or but castoffs of trades
unions. Officers were elected for the
ensuing being year, Samuel president. Meller, of The Tren¬
ton, delegates chosen n presi> ex¬
polled iled delegates left left the th< hall, making
threats against the federation.
The World's Fair Site.
Pittsburg, city, Aug. 21.—Col. Andrews
of this an emrineer of note, sent
representative promise, if to Chicago with extricate plans
city from the adopted, world's to fair dilemma.
plans have been carefully surveyed, and
embody 150 acres of land and in Chicago. 100 acres
of water on the lake front
The engineer promises a larger and bet¬
ter area with these figures than can pos¬
sibly be made otherwise. He puts
cost at bond $7,500,000, and will put up at any
time a of $500,000 to $1,000,000 if
his plans are agreed to.
The Grant Monument.
New York, Aug. 21.—The
Monument association executive com¬
mittee adopted an address to the
setting forth that they will take no part
in any discussion as to a removal
Gen. Grant’s body from New York.
The fund amounts to $150,000. It
proposed havmg a finished to build appearance with this a and structure to add
to the monument as the funds increase.
Her “Dress" Caught’ FlrCT
Asbury Park. N. J., Aug. 21.— 1
wife of Dr. D. Miller Barr, proprietor
the Hygienic terribly burned, institute, at Ocean Grove,
was her dress
fire from a gas jet. Mrs. Turner,
cook tinguish at the the institute, and attempted also to ex¬
flames was
burned.
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The Weather.
Showers; cooler; northwesterly winds.
NUGGETS OF NEWS.
A very light snow fell In Denver.
The potato blight in Ireland ia extending
several districts in Leitrim and Mayo.
Fire destroyed the Mt. Atbos monastery,
in Bulgaria, and twelve monks peri&ed.
AMontevidto dispatch says that the
uation in financial affairs in that city
worse.
The mail service between San Francisco
Melbourne will probably be discontinued in
November.
The total coal tonnage of the Beading rail¬
road last week was US.*44.08 tons, a deertytse
of 81.841.17 from the record of the correspond¬
ing week last year.
Six Philadelphia barbers were fined by
Magistrate Clement for “performing worldly
work on Sunday.”
The pope has prepared a rescript for the in¬
ternational social eoagrees, to be held in Bel¬
gium in September.
An American dramatic agent is suing
Gaonod for breach of contract to conduct
sixty concerts in America tor IfiOOJUO francs.
Margaret Solomon, better known as Mother
Solomon, the last of the tribe of Wyandotte
Indians, died at her borne near Sandusky, O.
Eighty Russian Jew* who left Rtueia to es¬
cape persecution wyre among the steerage
passengers on the American line steamer
Lord Gongh, which arrived at her dock in
Philadelphia.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says that the Nor¬
wegian bark Dictator, CapL Jaeger, from En¬
senada, July &, for Ship "
wrecked nt Pootenegra. The
crew were raved.
HOAR’S AMENDMENTS
He Persists in His Fight for the
Eleotions Bill.
PROSPECTS or QUAY’S RESOLUTION
Republican Senators Prefer a Lean
Radical Remedy—Mr. Hoar’s lat¬
est Scheme — Senator Ednmndn*
Surprising Zeal for Reciprocity.
Proceedings in Oougrea*.
Washington, adjourned Aug. 21.—Just before
the senate last evening Mr.
Hoar gave notice of two amendments to
Senator Quay’s resolution providing for
order of business in the senate. The
first is his resolution to provide tor call¬
ing the previous question. The other
amendment is to take the place of Mr.
Hoar's substitute for the Qu.iv resolu¬
tion.
The amendment provides for taking
after up the federal election bill immediately
the tariff Mil is disposed of
and that the Mil shall remain be¬
fore the senate every day for three days
after the reading of the journal to the
exclusion of all other business, and on
the Sept. 4, at 2 o’clock, voting on the
Mil ana pending amendments shall be¬
gin the and shall continue from day to day,
to exclusion of all other business,
until they are finally disposed of.
The Quay Resolution.
Mr. Quay’s resolution provides for a
final vote on the tariff Mu on Saturday,
Aug. 80. If the resolution with Mr.
Hoar’s amendment should be adopted
the election MU would come before the
senate day# allowed Monday, for Sept. general 4, with discussion. only three
There is no likeUhood, however, that
Mr. Hoar's proposition will meet with
the approval or the senate.
The impression among Republican
senators now is that theQuay resolution
wiU be voted down or postponed under
an agreement, which it is thought can
be had among the Republican senators
through conference or caucus
who JJ
sideration
that it would be bad policy to declare
that sentiment by vote of the senate and
they Republicans advocate an agreement between reached the
and Democrats to be
by conference.
Senator Edmunds’ Proposition.
munds’ Washington, Aug. 21. —Senator Ed¬
than reciprocity that has proposition been advanced. is broader
It gives any the president yet immense dis¬
cretionary powers. Such a proposition
will be vigorously opposed in both
houses of congress, because it practically
ratify deprives the the treaty senate stipulations of its authority of the to
executive and deprives the house of its
legislative authority with regard to the
tiie resolution for the reason that Sena¬
tor Edmunds has always been the
greatest stickler for the rights of the
senate of any member of that body, and
it will be remembered that his interpre¬
tation of the constitution in this respect
brought on the long war between Presi¬
dent Cleveland and the senate with re¬
gard to the right of the latter body to
be consulted in making all appoint¬
ments. That he of all men should in
introduce a measure extending the those pow¬
ers of the executive and* limiting
of congress congress was was ise ^ but regarded regarded it with the
Rest s surprise, ur pr carries ct extra
weight for that reason.
Proceedings In Congress.
Washington, Ang. *1.— After postponing
the Quay resolution until the next session,
the eenate proceeded with the tariff debate,
and agreed to the tin plate paragraph, with
the committee amendments.
The house debated the alien land law with¬
out result.
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Scranton Street Car Troubles.
Scranton, Pa., Aug. 3ff—The atreet
car conductors and motor men through¬
out the city have asked for an advance
in their wages, and a strike is threat¬
ened. The men .claim that the highest
wages of they can is earn $40 under the present They
rate wages per month.
want at least $2 per day or 16} cents an
hour, and they say that at present this
is the impossible. officials and A placed committee their petition waited be¬ on
fore them. They were told that their
demands would receive consideration,
and this were week. promised Meanwhile an answer work some will
time
be continued. The men are confident
of anticipate getting some trouble. concessions at least, and
no
Wedding Trip in a Cane Mr. e.
Habrisbcbo, Aug. 21.— Martin
W. Fager, a son of Alderman Fager,
and Miss Gertrude A. Canon were mar¬
ried in the Salem Reformed church.
The groom is a member of the Harris-
of of canoeing. canoeing. spending They They their hit hit upon upon honeymoon the novel
idea of on
the water, shipped and a his day double or two ago Mr.
Fager Wukeebarre. They will canoe that to
travel to
city by rail, and will begin their trip
down the Susquehanna, making fre¬
quent stops at the attractive spots
along the river.
Emery Declines to Run.
Bradford, Pa., Aug. 21.—Senator
Emery has addressed a letter to the
chairman of the committee of the in¬
dustrial convention that nominated him
for congress declining the nomination.
Mr. Emery states in his letter, “My ac¬
ceptance of the nomination for congress
at this time from any source, however
laudable, would impair the force of my
effort to defeat Delamater, who in my
opinion is is a Mtter corrupt in his man." denunciation Senator
Emery Delamater very and
of Mr. very hopeful for
the election of Pattison.
An Epidemic of Cholera Morbus,
Hellebtown, Pa., Aug. 21.—This
place, which was nearly swept away by
the cholera recent cyclone, now has an epidemic
of morbus. Among the recent
deaths were two children of William
Egolt and Matthew BoWers. Another
child of Mr. Egolf and his mother are
very low. Mrs. John Maoch, whose hus¬
band is deputy clerk of the orphans'
court riously of ill Northampton with the disease. county, is also se¬
A Misplaced Switch.
Poet Henry, N. Y., Ang. 21.—A Del¬
aware and Hudson freight train was de¬
railed near here by a misplaced switch.
The engineer, Frank Carrier, and brake-
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AM ENGINEERING
Completion of a Railroad I
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Aug. 21.—A
sering feat was performed
day. The channel span erf t
noting bridge te
piers.
four miles below
built by the:
connect the
St. Louis and the Pittsburg,Fo
and Chicago railroads so
can be sent around instead of 1
of the bridge.
tmrgea wmcu will drift
and then the enormous
will be dropped USo on the Mem.
banks of the were blaci witi
tatore, ried while excursion steam
and bridge teous^ builders more. were, Civil here e fro
ssa& aisara
Died on Her Wedding Trip.
of Landsdalk, Mary Partis Pa.. Aug. 21.—The f
Alice
deuce of her parents, near
Girard J. Partington, of
who has large mining interests I
country. The happy couple were
£lace^ yesterday afternoon at
Electricians nt Cape May.
Cape May, Aug. 21.—President!
den J. Perry, of Providence, R. 1
livered an address of welcome j
twelfth convention of the Ns
tricM association, which «
the Stockton hotel. Tim usual <
tees were appointed. Professor«
electrical Barrett, of Chicago, read a world's paper C
industries and the
lumbian fair. A committee w
pointed to co-operate with the 1
thorities. A resolution was t
recommending diaector the Professor Barrett i
of electric exhibition «
national show. The convention i
tor a removal of the duties on f
<»PPe«-- _ f ■':***
A Demoralise d Connell.
city what council demoralized of this condition, city Is ‘
her has already been invited to
by president a resolution offered by
of council,
figured fined in the police for
$10 and costs
duct. His name is Michael J.
and he is still under bail to
fight SEE duel._ .
a
In ffianrch of n Husband.
New York, Aug. 21.— Gertrude
60 years old, arrived hero on the
ship clerk Bum from registered Bremen, and the t
who her at
office that sho was searching for a
band. She is only three tee t
inches in height. She claims to
registry wealthy clerk. and exhiMted The $500 said to 1
woman
she had traveled nearly around
world looking for a husband, but thus
far had failed to find a suitable mate.
Festivities at Halifax.
will Halifax, N. S.,Aug.21.~The socially
George be a of busy Wales. week Last eveni for
dined of with a brilliant company as
guest he will Archbishop attend O’Brien. bal l given This by e
mg a
captain of the wuship Conns.'
morrow the Admiralty evening house, a ball at will which be his given nit
ness will be the guest, and on Fra
evening the festivities will
a ball at Sir John Ross's.
A Refuge for Jewish Exiles.
Montreal, Aug. 2L—The Yi onng
Men’s Hebrew Benevolent so ty M
this city have received a letter from
Baron Hirech, i the ■ well known Hebrew
financier and philanthropist of Europe,
enclosing of a farther check for $20,000, aid with the the
promise establishment of home help, in to in
a
receive Jewish immigrants until they
until until they they are able to support them*
selves.
David Christie Murray Still Livns.
New York, Ang. 21.—David Christie
disappeared Murray, the from well public known view novelist, last who No-
vember, and who was supposed to have
lost his mind or have been killed, has
been heard from. He is alive and well
with that other eccentric novelist, Rob¬
ert Louis Stevenson, at the latter *home
in the Samoan islands. .
George Him- niK^rntx.
Richmond, Va.. Aug. 21
Wise, Democrat, was man;
congress.
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WM* •;
POWDER
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