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|g about the Metropolis of
ylWtdle Georgia.*
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*’ n great Empire State of
VSt pert* 011 of the
l^gouth, all of ^8 wonderful and
* here ieetand carried on
are
and is thus able to of
' ’' ;a home
These are the rea¬
lms _______ about , doubled
pet"*'®* noon " since the last census,
is 10 increasing railroad faeili-
,
, jnt in importance on the
tiw. the 8« on the capital of the
’entral ralll ^ ^een principal
1 lj j a> jjgtflirt> and its
''TnJmnoogo. away; an independent
and the West by way of
°° t0 Qriffin and, North Alabama
ni'« principal city on the Georgia
5 •Zlong, Rl j’ nn,l Gulf railroad, one hundred
built largely through its o wn en-
*2“ Jl and soon to be extended the Northaest to Athens
the systems of
connection with the great East Ten
gffigj * Virginia graded and Georgia and railroad to be system; built;
other road soon
,|( Marins in trade and carrying out goods
8 .
griffin's record for the past - half ‘f decade
Bfoyfisitoao of f.. the most progressive cities >»
—- - - . —
built two large cotton factories,
and shipping goods
'
the world. i .
l%fo* Ri put up a factory, large iron and cotton brass seed foun- oil
a fertilizer a
pfen*. gash and blind factory, an ice mattress factory,
.jtling works, a broom factory, a
• actory, and various smaller enterprises.
It has put in an electric light plant by
which the streets are brilliantly lighted.
ft has opened up the finest and largest
panite quarry iu the State, for building,
ballasting and macadamizing purposes.
H has secured a cotton compress with a
*# rapacity for its large and increasing re
jfeipts of this Southern taple.
It has established a system of graded pub
' schools, with a seven years curriculum,
'■seond to none.
It has organized two new banks, making a
total of four, with combined resources of
half a million dollars.
fe It has built two handsome new churches,
- making a total of ten.
It has built several bandsomo business
Mocks and many beautiful residences, the
building record of 1889 alone being over
f150,000. borders fruit
It has attracted around its
jrowcFB tram nearly every State in the Union
Canada, until it is surrounded on every
|,io by ochards and vineyards, and has be-
one the largest and best fruit section in the
.
Sate, a “Single car load of its peaches netting
#1,280 in the height of the season.
It has doubled its v/ino making capacity
m&kingby both French and German methods
It has been exempt from cyclones, floods
ud epidemicis, and by reason of its topo¬
graphy will never be subject to them.
With nil these and other evidences of a
ive and growing town, with a healthful and
.feasant climate summer and winter, a
lospitahle and cultured people and a soi
~ capable of producing any product of the tem¬
perate or semi-tropic zone, Griflli: offers
inducement and a hearty we me to
new citizens. ----
Griffin has one pressing need, and that is a
new |100,000 hotel to accommodate tran-
wnt visitors and guests who would make it
* resort summer and winter.
Send ztamp for sample copy of the News
mdSun and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin
Parties who winh toltent or Buy Stores,
I Swelling havn’t tioune*i, Vacant lots ami Farms, demand. and
Those who got have enough of to meet above the to rent
any the or
sell would find it to their interest to consult
ne before disposing of them on or before
3ept. 1st. I have only a few places left and
item arc barg ains in e very one of them.
Salmons house and lot, 7 rooms and 12
acres land iu edge city limitsT
,100 acres land in edge city limits. _
13 ** i ns ide “ “
7 room house, Hill street.
' 2% 5 r» " .. « “ FopiarStre Boplar Street:
214 7 " “ Taylor “
1 “ Vacant, Taylor street.
% “ Stephenson place, 8th street.
267 “ 2 miles, Lest iruit farm in the
State, 130 on C. R. R. ,. J
acres 2 miles Good fruit farm.
700 “ 5 “ from city.
1200 “ 14 “ “ “ good improve-
meats.
®P Vi “ 7 5 rooms, “ Large, Jossey fine place, vineyard. HiMst.
Y* “ 5 near
J. L !' Goulding Mis.Crocker’s “ « “
Also ii 15 to 20 house and lots Poplarst.
toe town of Hnmpton and land in
bought low, on C. R. R. can be
and only 10 miles from Griffin
and 33 Irom Atlanta.
G. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Real Estate Agent.
FASION ALLIANCE!
The Mark Down Festival
"■Be lovely bonnet*, flowers ever bloom;
«Bnbbons. toques and hats abn
abu where the tips and wavingplun
lowest price is found.
MRS. L.L. BENSON.
20 HILL STREET,
•ajlOdAwtf
Jn! W _y*K TT , KP >n. ~. 8alary AN ACTIVE *75 to MAN *100, for to each lo-
ewrta successful N. T. Company
J&ypjmtioi), (credit well rated)
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The Chief of the Engineers Re*
plies to. Powderly.
Why His Men Did Not Assist the
Striking Knights.
He Advised Them Not to Par¬
ticipate in the Fight
On the Ground That It IVa. Not Their
Flglit—Powderly Accused of Falsehood.
The Knights* Straggle Will B© s Long
and Bitter One—Central Officials Not
Losing Any Sleep Over the Threatened
Tle-TJp—Other Labor Troubles. "
• > .-*•
ARTHUR REPLI ES T O POWDERLY.
A L etter In Which the Chief Pays Hls
Compliments to the Knights.
New' York, Aug. 80.—The letter
given below whs written by P. M.
Arthur, chief engineer of the Grand
International Brotherhood of Locomo¬
tive Third Engineers, elevated to an engineer on letter the
avenue road. The
is in response to a letter on the subject
of the New York Central striko, and is
the first utterance of Mr. Arthur, which
fully Central denies his and position toward Knights the of
strikers the
Labor. The letter is given herewith in
Cleveland, O., Aug. 25.
R. H. Hollman:
Dear Sin and Brother—Y our letter of
the 23d iust., with Mr. Powderly’s letter
and other clippings from the New York
papers inclosed, is received and contents
carefully perused. In reply will say that
I have not received any letter from Mr.
Powderly. He claims to have written me
a private letter on the trouble, and wants
mo to define my position. If he considers
his letter that appeared in the newspapers
a private one, I don’t, nor will I answer
letters that reach me in that way.
It is unnecessary for Mr. Powderly or
any one .else to ask me to define tho posi¬
tion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in the present trouble on the
New York Central and Hudson [River
road. The policy of \the Brotherhood is
wall known to him and tho public, as it
has Leon repeatedly explained from the
public platform and published in the
newspapers. time X telegraphed
He says, “Some ago
him (meaning me) that I would meet him
in Cleveland, and when I arrived there I
could not find him high or low. I learned
that the telegram had been received by
by him, but my efforts to locate him were
fruitless.”
Now, tho facts in the case, as near as I
can recollect, are these: Some four years
ago I received a telegram from Powderly
requesting me to meet him at the Union
depot in Cleveland on the arrival of a cer-
trdln on the Lake Shore road. Owing to
my absence from the office I did got re¬
ceive the moesago until after informed the depart¬
ure of the train, and so him by
letter, addressing It to him at Scranton.
I do not believe he stopped over and
looked for me. If he had, he would have
had £0 difficulty in finding me at my of¬
fice, or at my home, as I am always at one
or the other when in Cleveland. He tells
a willful falsehood when he say* other
leaders havo been unable to find me when
they tried to do so. tries find I
Any man who to me when
am in Cleveland can do so with very little
effort, and no man, whether a leader or a
private In the ranks of labor, ever came to
my office that he was not treated courte¬
ously. with the
While I differ men as to best
method to be employed to secure certain
ends, I have always been liberal enough
to concede to every man the same rights
and privileges I ask to myself. When the
present trouble on the New York Central
first occurred I advised the engineers to
abstain from all participation in it, and to
attend strictly to their own business. I
gave the same advice when tho strike oc¬
curred on the Gould system a few years
ago. M> advice to tho Brotherhood of
Engineers, when men employed in other
branches of railroad service have been on
a strike, was to mind their own business
and not do anything, that did not properly
belong to them as engineers. I think Can Mr.
Powderly say the samel not.
Whenever tho engineers have been on a
strike we never asked any other labor or¬
ganization to assist us.
It is true that some members of the or¬
der during the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy strike importuned the switchmen
to quit, but they did it on their own re¬
sponsibility, not by the authority of t he
organization. Consequently I hold that
we are perfectly justified in maintaining
strictly a neutral position when others
are engaged in a eon fiict with their em¬
ployers. __________
Mr. Powderly accuses’ members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer* of
taking tho places of the striking firemen.
If that U true the division of which they
are members will deal with them. It is
not within the province of my authority
to deal with individual members. I won¬
der if Mr. Powderly had the knights ex¬
pelled who took the places of our men on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
Yours fraternally, P. M. Arthur,
Grand Chief Engineer.
WILL BE LO NG AND BITTER.
What is Said About the Central Strike by
the Organ of the Knlfh It
Philadelphia, Ang. 80.— In an edi¬
torial on the New York Central strike
which appeared this week in The
Journal of Labor, is the distinctly following; chal¬
“The company has
lenged the right mutual of workingmen protection and to for or¬
ganize for the condition. Mr.
the bettering of their
Webb has neither the courage nor the
manliness to openly avow this. He takes
refuge in the old time-worn subterfuge.
men were discharged for good and suffi¬
cient reasons—ana if such be the fact
the company cannot but be in possession
of the proof—he would be willing to
lose the millions of dollars the strike nas
already cost the company, and the many is
more millions it wul cost before it
settled, tion rather than agree to an arbitra¬ quick¬
ly or investigation which would
and triumphantly vindicate hisposi-
tion? ... It is because Mr. Webb
knows that the statement he is paid to
make is probably false, and that he
dreads investigation, and it is because
opinion the people is recognized very generally this that with public us.
: all things
is possible;
GUFFIN GEORGIA SlTURDAl MORNING, AUGUST 30. 1890
agates* Vanderbilt it nolhiug who It x.rilio. It opinion was a
damned;’ it is said, ‘Public
be now the turn of pub¬
lic opinion to damn the Vanderbilts.
. . . The decision of the grand coun¬
cil of the Federation of Railway Em¬
ployes is most gratifying, and in
marked contrast with the pusillani¬
mous conduct of ths members of the
Brotherhood nLoied. oaths of road. Railway Engineers em-
.... The board
believes order that If the members of the
duty remain in upholding true, and if general they do their
the officers,
the order 1 is fully able, alone and un¬
aided, to bring this contest to a success¬
ful termination. They do not conceal
from themselves—they have no desire
to conceal from the order—that the
long struggle and will, bitter iu one." all probability, be a
CENTRA L OF FICIALS
Laughing at th« Effort of Powderly to
Tie-Up the Bond.
New York, Aug. 80.—The Knights of
Labor have played their last card
against the New York Central. All
they can do is to await the result. The
railroad officials state that they are
laughing at the efforts of Mr. Powderly
to tie-up the road, and say they are
managing their business better than
ever, the strikers. notwithstanding the shouting of
No Compromise,
Secretary John Hayes, of the execu¬
tive board, announced his plan of cam¬
paign tend to extend the reporters: the strike “We beyond do not the in¬
to
New York Central road for some time
yet,” said Mr. few Hayes. days will “All be our energies
for the next devoted to
tying up the Central. War has been de¬
clared and there is no compromise. I
think we have cripple^ the road pretty
badly already, and it will not take
much more work on our part to tie it
“How many more men can Hayes you call
out on the Central?” Mr. was
asked.
“Very few more, I must admit. Most
There of our xuen came out on the first call.
are some men, however, who are
working tributary in out of roads, the way whom places, and
on the we can
take out. When they stop work I think
we can say the Central is effectively
tied up.
“We will not call out men on other
roads who handle New York Central
freight because we might clash with the
laws of this and other states. But we
will allow the local assemblies to call
them ecutive out, Donrd, and then of we (I mean will indorse the ex¬
action. I course)
their think we can bring the
freight traffic to a standstill, notwith¬
standing the declarations of Webb and
Voorhees. Why, only two freight
trains of thirty cars left New York
Wednesday."
Freight Yards Crowded.
At Albany road Wednesday the the Central Boston that and
Albany delivering informed
they were yard too many from cars to
it, The at Karner, a per¬
sonal inspection, appears ft to- be much
more crowded than was a week ago.
The been Pinkerton reduced force one-third. at West There Albany
has are
250 of these men there now.
Delaware Superintendent and Hudson, Hammond, the of full the
of says
force thir ten at Schenectady
are ______ still out, , the Central strik¬
ers said that the men would not go back
at the earliest He until added Mr. that Depew Mr. had Depew re¬
turned.
would undoubtedly striking knights. receive a committee
from the
Strikers Ask Reinstatement.
At Buffalo the strike situation, on the
surface, eral of appears striking to be switchmen unchanged. applied Sev¬
the
to Wednesday. the superintendent A considerable for reinstatement number of
men who went to Buffalo to take the
strikers’ fering places the are results in the of hospital accidents. suf¬
from
Several had their arms caught between
the bhmpers and smashed, and others
ate minus fingers.
CHICAGO STOCK YARDS.
Switching Association Dissolves—More
Men M en at the Yards Qalt.
Chicago, Aug. 30.—The Stockyards
Switching association has been dis¬
solved. The general managers of all
roads entering Chicago gradually have so decided.
They claim until the they men became insolent gained
power and
undisciplined. rid of They them. are, therefore,
glad At to 1 get o’clock Wednesday afternoon
thirteen engines handling were at work in the
stock yards about all the goods
that engines the .shippers' working cared to move. The
belong to the
St. Wayne, Paul, Northwestern, Baltimore and Milwaukee Ohio, Illinois and
Cea&al, Lake Panhandle, Michigan Central
and Shore. In many instances the
engines the are SeVerAl being manned by the offi¬
cials of roads.
Chairman Reed, of the striker*’ griev-
doing made business proposition to the stockyards back have
a to us to go to
work under the old scale of wages, and
for all overtime work to receive night
wages.” This is denied by the
statement rail¬
road officials, who elkim that they have
made no such Proposition, but that they
believe that the switchmen would be
quite willing to receive one of the char¬
acter mentioned.
Wednesday Ohio an Railroad engine of the Balti¬
more and company came
into the and, yard* while to remove some connections, loaded
cars, the Baltimore and making switchmen quit
Ohio
work and abandoned the yards.
Must Fight It Out Alone.
Four hundred switchmen met in mass
meeting to at Bricklayers' hall Wednesday
night discuss the strike situation.
Tlte meeting was called by the Switch¬
men’s association. After a long and
stormy session it was decided that the
few men who entered upon the strike
must fight it drag out by themselves with and not
attempt to down them the
other railroad employes of the city. The
strikers but there appealed strongly majority for support,
taking their was fight. a big against
np
Not in Sympathy*
That the supreme council of the
Switchmen's association is not in sym¬
pathy urated, with Grand many Organizer of the strikes Hall's inaug¬
com¬
ments at the meeting on the Chicago
and Alton affair show plainly. He
said: -
“The strike was begin without cause,
and even were the men members of our
order, settled such by the a strike would bo quickly
men being ordered back
to work. We are not making wm on
member *ny man of simply order; because neither he because is not a
our
he was about to resume his old position.
This strike on the Chicago and Alton
would never have occurred had the
management li sten ed to^na at the time
only ut worit in the them, yards and the half, associa¬
tion could centred yea
nine-tenths, of the present strike would
be sveated. “In order the that a strike
may be proclaimed through grievance muclTred of the
men handling must go the gravest as bills tape by
United hs senate.” passed
Hie States
Lake Shor, Swltohiuen Strike.
Twenty-seven switchmen in the em¬
ploy of the Lake Shore road went out
oil a strike Wednesday concerned night, the and traffic so far
of as the Chicago road was at standstill. The'
was a
trouble grows out of a strike of tne
switchmen at the stock yards, although
the Lake Shore men have not quit work
in order to help out the stock yards
crowd. They have tied up the road be¬
cause ployee the who management discharged haul em¬
refused to cars from
the the district idle within is the yards. the jurisdiction of
men
In’the 1 .. s. * M. *. Tarda
Out of twenty-three engines the that
should have been working in Lake
Thursday Shore and Michigan three Southern yard The
only are at work.
passenger trains were all running on
time. About sixty switchmen belong-
Amsden who was present, explained to
the men the circumstances under which
the night asked force struck Wednesday intended night,
and them whether they
to stand by the company or tne strikers.
cided Thirty-four side of the with sixty'men strikers. present Two de¬
to the “Packing-
engines were do the then sent needed to there, and
town” to work
the remaining engine is at work in the
Lake Shore yard3.
Chicago and Alton Strike.
The strike of switchmen pn the Chi¬
cago and Alton continues. General
Manager Chappel is determined to fight
it It out, out, and and switch-yards switch-yards to to this this end end wont wont morning, morning, personally personally and and
into into the tho this this
proceeded turning to earn hir $10,000. and coupling a year
salary by switches
cars.
Wednesday morning the firemen and
engineers decided not to go out in sup¬
port of the switchmen, as it had been
intimated thev might do. The firemen
were especially anxious to go out, but
wiser counsel prevailed, even the strik¬
ing switchmen themselves being opposed
to such a move. Later in the day a
number of non-union switchmen were
secured, protection. and set to work under police
AT ST. LOUIS.
All Bosdi Receiving and Shipping
Freight aa Usual—Uneasiness.
St. Louis, Aug. 80.—As yet the strike
of the Chicago switchmen has not
reached this city, and, with the excep¬
tion of the Chicago and Alton, all roads
are usual. receiving But there and shipping freight as
fact that feeling is of no uneasiness disguising the
a per¬
vades railroad circles on bath sides of
the river, said while the strike i» not ex¬
pected yet, it it would create no surprise
should take place. The battle being
waged in the east on the New York
Central has aroused much bitterness and
vriiat the outcome will be no man can
foresee.
_
Frictions Postponed.
New Herald York, from Aug. 80.—A special to
The Braddock, Pa., says:
The proposed eviction of the miners
who are on strike against the Pennsyl¬
vania Gas Coal Wednesday, company, which was to
have begun has been post¬
poned because the people of are iust recov¬
ering from an epidemic typhoid fever.
TheTJnited Mint Workers’ association
had eviction^but^the^sheri^ eri
too risk for thought stricken the e|-
gosure y e
In the Pittsburg Tanneries.
New.York, Aug. 80.— The general Herald’*
of Pittsburg the workers *pecial says: A strike
in the tanneries is immi¬
nent. They An demand an advance of 10
per cent. allowed increase of 5 per cent,
was the by the employers demanding a week
ago, but men refused,
10 per cent. The indications are that
this advance will not be complied with.
MINERS’ STRIKE PROBABLE,
As tho Prodneort nr* Declining to Sign
_ lb® New Scale.
Altoona, Pa., Ang. 80.—The joint
conference of the Mine Workers’ asso¬
ciation of America, representing 19,000
miners in Blair, Cambria, Clearfield,
Center, bon, counties, Huntington. and the Jefferson operator* and Car¬
con¬
trolling adjourned the without same, held here Wednesday, The
result, opera¬
tors claim that the proposed scale is un¬
reasonable, and that they could not ac¬
cept without lose. The miner* are firm
and a general Another strike may b« will the be final re¬
sult. meeting held
Promoters of Fond* Indicted.
Louisville, Aug. 80.—A letter from
Hazard, Ky., where court is in session
under protection of twenty-five the troops, dated
Ang. gaged 2o, says the Frenoh-Evereole that feud men have en¬
in
been indicted for murder and acces¬
sory, and many of them arrested. The
grand grand jury jury was was reluctant reluctant to to bring bnng in in
the the indictments, indictments, but but were were called called up up in in
court by the prosecuting attornev, duty, who
told them they must do their or
he would discharge them and call an¬
other jury. Judge Lilly added to this
the statement that if they sought to pro¬
tect the law-breakers he would refuse to
sign their warrants for pay.
Train Wrecked by Quicksand*.
Plattsbcrg, occurred N. Y., Aug. 80.—A seri¬
ous accident on the Delaware
and Hudson road, about three miles
south of Port Huron Wednesday of track after¬
noon. About 250 feet sank to
the depth of fifty feet and moved into
the lake [Champlain] the same distance.
A freight tram ran into the sink hole
and was badly wrecked. Both legs of
Engineer Alfred Stafford were broken,
ana Conductor Best and Brakeman Mc-
Arrell were badly hurt. All trains are
delayed. It will'take several days to re¬
pair ’the road-bed, which was built on
quicksand.
CONGRESS.
Two Hundred and Fifth Day.
In the senate—The resolution to prohibit
the sale of liquors in the senate wing
was referred to the committee on rules.
The tariff bill was taken np and debated
until adjournment.
In tho house—Filibustering was con¬
tinued on the compound Uurd bill.
There wa* a disgraceful Interchange
of epithets; resulting, finally, in a
fist fight on the floor, causing great
excitement, Without action the house
Used in the White House By
the Present Administration.
The Dryest Administration
Since That of Hayes,
National Woman's Christian Temper¬
ance union, recently addressed a letter
to Mrs. Lydia H. Tilton, president of
the District of Columbia io branch of the
union, facts. asking her furnish the bottom
Mrs. Tilton has replie that “while it
is true that wine has b«
state dinners by the
of tration, Hayes, and it by every oi
official is also true
tion furnished homes wine, during and 1____
furnished, even wh<
the example of the
sons, Proctors, Wanamakers, Hustons, Hepburns, Windoms, h
Dc
tors, have Fosters, Morgans influence. and many
of a the restraining selected by So
any men advisers Pr<
Harrison as his ever take wine.
Blaine dent is now a total abstainer. Presi¬
Harrison does not take wine Harrison at any
of the receptions, and Mrs.
never under any circumstances any¬
where takes wine. Never since the day*
of taken Mr*. at Hayes public has official so little wine been
receptions In
ministration, Washington as during the present ad-
rulings In the National house, and closes
by approving tne administration of Gov¬
ernor ernor Campbell. Campbell.
The Ticket.
Hon. county, Thaddeus E. Qron Pick*-
way state >r *ecrft~
tary of
Hon.
county. pi i old Green
Were
the sun
layed b changes, bat resulted ll in
•ge B. Okey by 498
to 829 1-2 for Greel- >n.
Leopold Kiefer, erf Miami county, re-
oeireathe nomination n foOnetober of
board of public McNamara amara's works, "»•», twrttiii* receb _ Samp- 419
votes to John s 3M 281.
son Hon. received C. S. 4 Brice and Haggerty Haggerty called 2} 21.
was 1 to the
stand and made a few remarks the iudicst-
ing his appreciation of reception i
triumph of the party in Noveteber.
convention thefi adjourned.
VENEZUELAN CLAjM COMMISSION.
Their Labors All Com*let«d and Beady
tor Adjoarnraybt.
Washington, claims Aof. 80.—The Vene¬
zuelan commission, which has
been in session for some months in this
city, has completed its labors and will
formally adjourn sine die, next Tuet-
day. The work -—-- of this ____
principally commission the has been
to review work of tne
mixed commission which sat at Caracas
in 1658 to adjudicate the claims of citi¬
zens of the United States. The debt of
Venezuela on the basis of the awards of
1868, with interest at 5 per cent, would
now amount the to about $2,450,000, de¬
zuela ducting this 15 award. per cent, paid by Vene¬
on
The original commission claims. awarded in
all twenty-four The preseuj
commission made substantial awards to
but eight of these and nominal award*
in tour others, amounting in all to but
$490,000. for $54,000 They which also awarded not presented a claim be¬
was
fore the original commission, and one
for declined $393,000, to cohsider which the [for first want commission of juris¬
diction.
The total amount of the awards made
is but 980,000, and the issue Will doubt¬
less be very satisfactory to the Vene-
zuelean government, as it will also to
the claimants who were fortunate to se¬
cure awards, for it is understood that
Venezuela will at an early data settle
the reduced awards in full. The com¬
mission making the awards is composed
of John Little, of Ohio: J. V. L. Find¬
lay, of Baltimore, and Joseph E.
Andrade, of Venezuela.
The bouse passed the lard bill by a rot*
of 136 to 81.
The Louisville school of pharmacy for
women, begin* Sept. 3d.
Michigan Republicans nominated James
M. Turner, of Lansing, for governor on the
first ballot.
John White, just 30 summers, and Julia
Dutton, sweet 70, were married at New
Philadelphia, a
William T. Lewi*, running for congress t
In the Thirteenth ciatrict of Ohio, resides
in the Ninth district.
THE CHECK WAS FORGED,
He brmMiUd Hi** Ha wm Kent Here to
Mettle a Strike,
UlRMUtuiiAM. Ala., Aug. 29.—The Ala¬
bama bank National liank received from a
at 8t. Paul a check P. for W9,<W0, to
which of the Central the nanus tif J. bank, Mudd, of {>r«ddeat this city,
had been Savings The check
ble to J. forged. Meyers, who had cashed watt paya¬ it at
the St. Paul V«u;k. The bonk tberewas
wired that the check was a forgery, and
later a telegram was received from a
Pinkerton detective asking if Meyers was
wanted in Birmingham.
Some time during last February Mey¬
ers and came announced UT this that city h« from represented Cincinnati, the
stockholders of the Birmingham Rolling
Mill company, which and had been sent to set¬
tle a strike was on at that time.
But the strike was settled without him.
He afterward engaged in several small
transactions which gave him a rather
bad reputation. He then borrowed some
money and left the city, leaving a large
board bill unpaid at a lending hotel. It
HIS SON'S CONDUCT,
Troy, Ala., Aug. 29.—Mr. W. R, May-
eon, a carpenter, was found dead on a
lumber pile here. He had off his shoes,
which were lying near him, and by Ilia
side was a two ounce bottle, about one-
third full of laudanum, lie riad been on
a spree for several days, and during the
time told some of his friends that he was
in trouble, and declared that he would
kill himself and get out of it. A letter
which was found in his pocket showed
that he has a son who was in the employ
of the Pensacola, Fla., that gas company, and It
who is a defaulter to company.
was shown, in remarkably the letter, that theccm- the
pany had been lenient to
young man, allowing him to make good
his deficit He by did paying make in monthly the install¬
ments. promptly, and the not payments his
company wrote to
father concerning the matter. It seems
to be the opinion tliat the father was
and determined to commit suicide.
Till* Does Not Apply to tbs South.
Springfield, Mass., Aug. 29.—There
seems to be short crop report* from every
part of the globe, except the south, and
a local paper thus comments on the out¬
look : “It is rare that crop failures are
so many wheat and general ns now reported.
The yield is much below the av¬
short probably in the be harvested. and Potatoes almost total ero
west, an
failure in Ireland ; the peach cron is a
failure, and the apple crop nearly so,
and garden fruits and vegetables, partic¬
ularly drouth in and the other west, cause*.” have .suffered from
The Alabama Alliance au Cotton.
Union Springs, Ala., Aug. 29.—The
Alliance of the third congressional dis¬
trict of Alabama have adopted tho fol¬
lowing “Resolved, resolution: That
we recommend the
immediate assembling of the national
cotton committee, to perfect plans to
stop the downward tendency of cotton,
ana that Aliicuicemen in every state
withhold their cotton until the market
reacts, as we know that the crop is short
Col. L. L. Polk was telegraphed to call
a The meeting AUianeemen of the national committee.
were enthusiastic in
support of this resolution, and all they
ask is co-operation.
Dastardly Attempt of a Negro.
Milner, Gsl, Aug. 89.—During tho
night Mr. Ware was aroused by screams
from his daughter's room, and hurrying
to the room he saw a negro jump out at
Republican* Nominated.
Ocala, Fla., Aug. 29.—Tlie Republi¬
can central committee met here, and put
tiio following ticket in nomination ; For
comptroller. justice Leroy D. Ball, Tallahassee;
associate of the supreme court,
Jftinfts R. (jlifillfii?. .1 : I v«I io
TWrvr* la the (■>»:<>fllce.
Charlotte. N. a. Aug. 29.—1
office kt Abbott’s creek, Davidson
was robbed. Tne burglars so cot
covered iip their tracks as to a
the French
Prohibit Its In
Minister Com
Such
ssilifr
Reid, In complaining of
ol pork, hinted that the
(night revive the 80 pe
French picture*.
friendship, dufy and policy.
Had Better Withdraw
La Franco advisee the wis
the government of the
think* against that American Franco would, pork, ]
such a course, avoid an eo
the ooet of which
HEALTHY AND VIQOIH
The Heal til of the Psps R*t
Considering HU Age.
from the Vatican, believed to b
trustworthy, report the pope a
and vigorous to a remarkab
considering his advanced age.
“I*.ter-s l«nei."
His holiness, however, see
much worried because of t!
diminution of the “Peter’s pe
tributions. The amount of th<
al the head of the church.
His advisers endeavor to am
the situation on the Hi wry of
erty of the masses rather that
of their diminishing zeal for
fere of the pontiff, but this exp
affords but cold comfort. The
, INDIAN A DEMOC RATS.
Proceeding! of the State Com
The Ticket Cheeen.
Indianapolis, Aug. 39.— Bx-Ch
Gray presided Thursday. at the There Democrat!
convention wer
tqrenty-flve candidates for the
offices to be filled at the Novetnb
ingt and Mil the aenassed election by h
•Over election c
of United State*
people; claims that debt contracted
by Democrats represents needed public
institutions; demands rcappraisement
of property in the state; favors arbitra¬
tion In labor trouble*; declares against
state interference with certain *cnoola,
and demands the abolition of the fee
system and a reduction of salaries.
TU© Ticket.
ated: Hie following was the ticket nomin¬
Secretary ballot. of etote—Clando Matthew*;
second
clamation, Supreme judge—J. A. Mitchell; 1 ac¬
i
Auditor of *1 ate—J. O. Henderson*
first "rat ballot. ballot.
•hot and KiU®d HI* Daughter.
New York, Aug. 30.— A special
the Madison, Son living tram Louisville, says; I
near Brownsville, ]
mooston county, shot and killed hi*
year-old had previously daughter attempted last Saturday, her life,
cause for the deed is known, excel
settled hatred of the girl. Madison I
but is pursued and will probably
lynched when captured.
San Franciboo, Ang. 90.—Advice
the schooner Arago which has are
here from the north, state that the i
nue cutter Rush was at St. Paul’s i*l
Aug. 15. She is sot making any seizi
but ordering the sealers out erf Bah
sea under a threat of seizure. In e
case the sealers have left Behring
When the Arago left Ounalaska ths
win had not arrived.
nr® la a Uraao nun.
the Oskaloosa, fire broke Iowa, Ang. 80.—Do the
races out in gi
stand, pie. which stampede was filled with 10,000
A occurred, but It
nately no one was hurt. About
third of the grand stand was burned