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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAI 22, 1891.
THE DEED OF A DEVIL.
shocking crimeof ablack brute
NEAR FORT VALLEY.
I,e point of k pistol amt Almoitt In the
•'.M'lice of Hop Husband a Lady I* Hru
II v out raged—Armed Mon Pursue the
*ck Fiend.
NOT MUCH FOR GEORGIA
THE DIRECT TAX MONEY WHICH IS
TO BE REFUNDED
j\,i:i Valley, Ga., May 19.-[Spe-
.j ;l l Yesterday afternoon, on the
'nutation of C. B Howard, eight miles
north of Fort Valley, Henry Jordan, a
j 1;: iit mulatto negro, twenty-two years
old, live feet ten inches in height and
weighing about 140 pounds, committed
rape on Mrs. Jarrell, the newly made
w j fe 0 f one of Mr. Howard’s white
tenants.
.Iordan was also an employee on the
place and knew that Mrs. Jarrell was
alone.
,dug to the house he put a large
knife against her throat and told her
that if she screamed he would kill her.
This badly frightened Mrs. Jarrell, as
she was alone, and the hellish brute
carried out his design while Mr. Jarrell
was only about 300 yards from the house
at work in his farm.
On leaving, Jordan told Mrs. Jarrell
that if she told what had happened he
would return and kill her, but if she
would keep it to herself he would retur
Saturday and bring her live dollars.
Mrs. Jarrell watched the villian until
he was out of sight and then made haste
to the Held to inform her husband of
what had happened, but when she got
in sight of him she fell to the ground ex
hausted.
Her husband saw her fall and hastened
to her, but found her unconscious. He
carried her to the house, and as soon as
she " as restored to consciousness she
told of the crime that had been commit
ted.
The alarm was given, and in less time
than it takes to tell it, a body of deter
mined men were in pursuit of the black
demon.
Runners were sent in every direction,
and the crime soon becamo known
throughout the vicinity.
About two hours after the alarm was
given Jordan was approached by three
unarmed white trackmen on the A. &
V. railroad, who attempted to arrest
him. but refrained when Jordan pre
sented his dangerous knife and pistol,
holding them at bay until ho backed off
through the woods and went out of sight.
The men are generally condemned for
not making more strenuous eiTorts to
capture the brute.
All night long about one hundred of
Crawford county’s most determined citi
zens wero searching the whole country
for the villian.
This morning a dozen men, heavily
armed, rode into Fort Valley and divid
ed, going in different directions until
every road coming into town was
guarded.
A party has also gone to Macon, where
Jordan is well acquainted, hoping to
catch him as ho comes into town.
Saw mills have shut down, farmers
have suspended work and merchants
have closed their stores to join in the
pursuit, and every pursuer with whom I
have talked swear that if Jordan is
caught that he will never cost the tax
payers of Crawford county one cent but
will be dispatched to a new world with
out ceremony, as the laws of the land
are entirely too slow in being executed
by the courts.
Several men from this city have joined
in the search for Jordan and nothing
will be left utidono to catch him.
Early this morning Mrs. Jarrell was in
a very precarious condition, which fact
excited the men to double their energy
•n the pursuit.
Considerable excitement prevails in
thi> section at this hour and which grows
intenser every minute, so eager are the
oph* to get the latest nows of the
Goes Almost Wholly to Northern States—
New York Get* *1,000,000 While Georgia
Gets Only #H?,ooo-Short History of the
Onesided Republican Bill.
I here seems to bo little doubt but that
Jordan w ill be caught very soon,and suf-
r the penalty of his crimo at the hands
a eool ? determined crowd of Geor-
1 * best law,abiding citizens.
Atlanta, May 19.—[Special.]—Mr.
W. J. Speer,of the state treasury depart
ment, is now in Washington looking af
ter a matter that will interest a number
of Georgians.
Ho did not go to Washington for this
purpose, but ho volunteered to look in
to the matter for Governor Northen
while he was in the national capital.
He is to gather for the governor some
information in regard to the direct tax
which is to be paid the state from the
United States treasury.
The direct tax was levied by the gov
ernment during, and just after the war,
and was a special tax to raise money to
defray the expenses of the war and the
reconstruction period just after the
war.
Each state was assessed by the gov
ernment according to its wealth aud
other considerations.
Georgia was assessed $342,000, but
only $87,000 was paid in by her citizens.
A great many, and in fact nearly all
of the states paid large amounts, run
ning up into the millions, while the
amounts paid by the Southern states
wero very small, in fact it was but a
“drop in the bucket’’ as compared with
the amounts paid by the Northern states.
Just after the war, in addition to this
direct tax the government imposed a di
rect tax on every pound of cotton sold in
the union.
The South, of course, paid the burden
of this, and tho North had noue of it to
pay.
Georgia paid into this fund about eight
million dollars.
One of the slabsidcd sectional meas
ures enacted by the last brilliant gather
ing of republicans, revolving like satel-
ites around the person of Reed, tho ty
rant, was to refund the direct tax, not to
tho North alone—oh, no, that would
have been a sectional movement, while
the big hearted men wanted to benefit
every part of this great nation alike.
Many of the southern members, in
order to test tho patriotism, introduced
an amendment which was that the gov
ernment, while refunding this war tax,
should also refund the cottou tax, which
was also a war tax. The republicans
would not hear to this, but passed the
bill without the amendment.
New York, it is stated, gets upward of
$4,000,000 from the treasury of the na
tion, if it«an be found after the billion
dollar congress has been raking the bot
tom with a line-tooth comb, searching
for silver five cent pieces.
Georgia gets $87,000 of the money.
The other northern states compare
about as favorably with the other south
ern states as tho two above mentioned
states.
If the cotton tax had been refunded
Georgia would have received from this
source about eight million dollars.
The money coming to Georgia goes
back to these who paid it, or their heirs,
and is to be held in trust for them by
the governor. It is to be paid to him
upon tho passage of a joint resolution
by tho state legislature.
Mr. Speer is gathering information to
be used by the governor in bringing the
matter to tho attention of tho legisla
ture at the summer session.
The legislature will probably appoint
man to go on to Washington to make
out a list of the names of all to whom
Homo of this money is coming, and from
his list Governor Northen will check
it out.
It goes to twolvo thousand people,
which would give an average of $7.23 to
each one. Some of them, however, are
entitled to only a few cents, while one
or two run up to the thousands.
North Carolina already has a force of
men at work in Washington making out
list of those who are entitled to money
coming to that state.
LEAPING FOREST FIRES
MORE VILLAGES LiCKEO UP AND
MANY LIVES LOST.
Only One* half of the Inhabitant* of Walk
ervllle, Midi, Are Known to be Safe-
More VII la ecu Are Reduced to Ashes—
Other 1’laees Still Cut off.*
Rath.
Death Than Dishonor.
ottk, N. C., May 19.—Near
r K» Franklin county, yesterday,
woman, aged 24 years, commit*
was of a poor but good family and
‘Utfaged to a young man of the
>'»ihood. Ilo betrayed her under
SL ‘of marriage.
Hate for the marriage was twice
hut he failed to appear. Her par-
nN tho young man taken to Louis*
-Hid he was held to appear at court.
,u| i»g the absence of her parents, tho
Kiri took poison and was found
' "Et-n they returned.
ti
The Cottage Not Sold.
^ i u \ okk, May 19.—A special to the
border from Washington says: The
M< fident authorizes a denial of tho state-
r made in a local paper that he and
( ^ l> ' ,I; irrison had sold the cottage at
c ** le Ma >’ P°int. He says that, on the
*Dai\ tllCV OYneef t/* .navnl n nn*.+ r\f
, tlicy expect to upend a part of
; s '»mnor there.
A New Oyster Company.
Ill xsvri, K, Ga., May 10,-The Bruns-
i, c °y»ter company was organized
uir, M lght ’ ani * at an early day, be-
> ie erection of a factory, Bruns-
a \ !** at Present two oyster factories,
ie industry promises to bo tho
important ^ profitable on thl.
Shot Dead by the Gu trd.
Birmingham, Ala., May 19.—At the
Pratt mines prison, at midnight last
night, Guard Cary Nelson shot and in
stantly killed Clayton Loyd, a white
convict, while the latter was attempting
to break prison in order to effect his es
cape. Loyd poisoned his wife and five
children in Dale couuty, Ala., a year
ago. Two of the children died.
Li'dingtox, Mich., May 14.—Some of
tho residents of Walkerville, which was
destroyed by forest fires, arrived here
yesterday. They had only their clothes,
and were exhausted with hard work In
trying to save their villago.
They say it is impossible to tell how
many of the inhabitants escaped alive,
but they fear that many diod in tho
woods where they tied for safety. The
village had 800 inhabitants, and no one
knows where more than half this num
ber is at present.
Rumors of a large loss of life in other
points come in, but verification Is im
possible. This entire county will be
swept unless rain comes to-day.
Fields Station, with its four saw mills
and general store, is no more, and the
300 people who lived there are to-day
without home or roof to cover their
heads. Otia, or Dingman, as it is known
to the postal authorities, is a collection
of smoking ruins, and the 200 people
who called the place home are standing
around in despair.
Park City, iu Lincoln township, went
out in fire and smoko yesterday morn
ing. Nothing is left of the cluster of
small houses that marked the place.
Lilly Station is hardly worth the name
of station, as only the small hotel and
and smaller railroad station are left to
mark the town site.
Freight cars without number were
burned and logging trains melted into
ashes on the tracks where they stood.
Cook’s station and Barton, both In
the line of the fire, have not been heard
from, and are supposed to be destroyed.
West Troy, a few miles north of Otia,
has been environed by tiro since early
yesterday morning, and is supposed to
be in ashes.
Reports from Cadillac, Wexford coun
ty, say that the inhabitants of all the
villages in the county have been out
fighting fire for tho past three days,
aud many of the smaller places are wiped
off the face of the earth.
Where Nivarna and Fremont, on the
Flint and Pere Marquette Road once
stood, there is nothing now but piles of
ashes. The village of Lake has not been
beard from since its last appeal for help.
The fire is sweeping through the woods
near Red Cloud, Newaygo county, while
more than 100 miles across tho state the
little hamlet of Taft is in a gulf of
flames.
Monton, in Wexford county, above
Cardillac, is cut off from communication
with the outside world. The latest news
from Traverse City is to the effect that
the entire population Is out fighting fire.
Millions upon millions of logs are burn
ing all over the centre of the state.
SWEPT BY THE FLAMES.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT JACKSONVILLE
YESTERDAY MORNING.
An Kntlre Itlock I* Destroyed, Entailing a
Los* of Half a Million Dollar*—'The Tost*
office and a Handed Warehouse Hum—In
surance Less than Half the Lo***
A FATAL COLLISION
In Which Three Men Are Killed and Al
most Cremated.
Birmingham, Ala., May 18.—[Spe
cial]—At Phelan’s Ala., fifty-two miles
north of Birmingham, on the Louisvillo
and Nashvillo railroad, at 3 o’clock this
morning, one south-bound freight rau
into the rear of another.
Brakeman J. M. Castello, formerly of
New Orleans, was killed and his body
burned in tho wreck.
Fireman Lester Brown was fatally
hurt and died soon afterward.
Engineer Edmunds was probably fa
tally injured.
Three oil cars next to tho engine took
fire and the wreck was burned.
Both dead men were young and un
married.
The cause of the accident was that the
second train approached the station too
fast, where tho first was getting water at
a station. It happened on a steep down
grade. The loss is very heavy.
Later.—Engineer D. Edmunds died at
10:30 o’clock. This makes three dead.
Eighteen cars loaded with merchan
dise wero burned.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 19.—[Spe
cial.]—Fire last night gutted the south
side ofBay street, from Market to Now-
nan.
Only one two-story building is left
standing, at the corner of Bay and New-
nan.
The fire was first discovered in tho
third story of the Mohawk block, corner
of Market street, and in a few moments
the entire interior was one mass of
ilames.
It contained the postofiico on the first
floor, lawyers’ offices on the second and
lodge rooms on tho third.
Tho firo caught in the adjoining build
ings and was so fierce that the firemen
could do little in the way of controlling
it, except to save the property across the
street.
By 3:30 a. m. the entire block was one
mass of ruins.
The losses are: Postofiico, fixtures,
(all malls saved); tho Mohawk block,
owned by the Shoemaker estate of Cin
cinnati, loss, $100,000, insured for $35,-
000; Masonic lodge, $2,000; G. A. IL,
$1,000; Cockrell & Son, lawyers, $3,000.
The United States court lost all its pa
pers and pictures. Phillip Waiter, clerk,
lost $1,200 personally.
Church, Anderson & Co., wholesale
commission men, lost $3,000; insured for
$1,200.
Tho Drew Hardware compauy, $00,000;
insured for $30,000.
Hamilton Disston saw stores, $13,000.
Santo building, $10,000; insured for
$5,000.
John Clark, Son & Co.’s new brick
block, $33,000; insured for $12,000.
The same firm lost $3,000 by fire and
water on their grocory and liquor
stock.
In this block was the United States
bonded warehouse, where there was 230
bales of tobacco belonging to the El
Lobo and El Modelo cigar manufactur
ing companies, valued at $200,000.
At3.30 the fire was stayed. But for
tho heroic efforts of the firemon and a
light rain that fell in the afternoon,
many residences would have been fired,
as scores of roofs were on fire, and men,
women and children fought tho firo for
hours.
Tho total loss, some say, is $430,000,
with $243,000 insurance.
PURSUIT OF THE IT AT A.
THE FLEET CHILIAN VESSEL feSCAPES
THE CHARLESTON.
And Peril.).. Br. This Is Safe From Cap-
lure—Alaistn* of Anierlcim Men-of-W.r
ut l<iuei|ue—The Charleston to Continue
the Pursuit.
KDISON'8 CONJl’RV.
Wonder. Which He 11 u In Store for Musi
cian. nnd Sportm.
III. Trial Postponed.
Chattanooga, May 10.—Tho case of
Judge Warder, charged with the mur
der of his son-in-law, just four months
ago. to-day, was called this morning In
the circuit court. After some argument
the caso was continued until tho Sep
tember term. The bond was fixed at
$10,000.
Great Fire in Muskegon-
Muskegon, Midi., May 18.—Firo de
stroyed thirty business and residence
blocks in this city late this afternoon
and evening, including the court house
and two ckurohes. The loss was about
one million dollars, and the insurance
less than four hundred thousand.
Glovsr Flaying Crasy.
Cannes vii.r.K, Ga., May 19.—[Special.]
—Dr. Glover has become attached to the
Carnqsvillo Jail since the shackela have
been placed around his ankle. Be is now
trying to play the crazy racket, but haa
not practiced enough to eucceed very
well.
The Situation Unchanged.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 18.—The
privileges of tho house have been with
drawn from tlio reporter for the Pensa
cola News.
There are no developments In the
senatorial contest. All nro looking
anxiously to the caucus to-night.
Tho report of the Indian war claims
committee, it is thought, will affect the
senatorial contest. Both sides are ex
pecting something interesting.
Tho legislature is wasting no time. A
number of important bills have been In
troduced to-day and sovcral passed.
Sunt -Ione.' Hot Shots.
Chattanooga, May 18.—A meeting
for mon only was held In the tabernacle
yesterday afternoon. It waB the great
est religions gathering ever held here.
Itev. Sam Jones fired some of his hot
test shots, and preached for one hour
and a half. The heat was so great that
he pulled off his coat and preached In
his ahlrt sleeves.
Bin Firo In Jolla t.
Joliet, III., Kay 18—The barbed
wire plant of the Joliet Enterprise Com
pany was burned at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. Three thousand men are thus
thrown out of employment. Lou $250,-
000. Insurance 165,00a
iBBSst - % -
Chicago, May 14.—Thomas A. Edison
arrived here to-day. When askod if he
had an electric novelty in store for the
Columbian exposition, he said:
“I have a thingin view, but tho details
are yet somowliat hazy. My Intention
Is to have n happy combination of
photography and electricity, that
man can sit in hie own parlor
and sco depicted on a ourtaln tho forms
of tho playors in opera on a distant
stage and hoar tho voices of tho singers.
When the system is perfected, which
will be in time for the fair, oacli little
muscle of tho singer’s(aco will be seen
to work, every color of his attire will be
exactly reproduced, and the strido and
positions will bo natural and will vary
as do those of the porson himself.
“To tlio sporting fraternity I will state
that ere long this system can bo applied
to prize fights. Tho wholo scene, with
the noise of tho blows, talk, otc., will be
truthfully transferred. Arrangements
can bo made to send viows of the mill
a la stock and raco ticker. .
Is Tills Loyd's Murderer.
Atlanta May 19.—[Special.]—Wil
liam Andrews, alias Tom Harden, a ne
gro, is now locked up at tho station
house on suspicion. Ho was arrested by
Captain Wright and Officer McCalla.
If he proves to bo the negro that the
officers arrested him for they get a very
neat reward for their trouble in arrest
ing him.
On the 9th of May hist one Tom Har
der killed II D. Loyd, in Seville, and
then made his escape and since lias been
at large.
Mayor R. E. Kelly, of Sovllle, had a
circular printed offering $400 reward for
the arrest of Ilardeu, aud giving a full
description of him.
Captaiu Wright and Olliccr McCalla
arrested tho man now locked up at the
station house, and are holding 1dm as a
suspect. If he proves to bo the right
man he will be delivered to tho officials
of Seville and the arresting officers will
receive their reward of $400.
Washington, May 18.—Lively inter
est in tho Chilian affair was again ex
cited to-day at tho Navy department,
when nows was received that the
Charleston had put into Acapulco.
The news re<iched the state depart
ment from tho United States consul at
Acapulco and was immediately commu
nicated to Secretary Tracy. It was then
in order to expect a dispatch from
Capt. Remey, commander of jtho
Charleston, but up to a late hour noth
ing had been received.
Secretary Tracy said that he under
stood from tho Acapulco dispatch that
tho Charleston had stopped in order to
Like on coal. Her trip from San Fran
cisco was made in unusually fast time.
With all the delays caused by hor oc
casional veering from her course to
speak passing vessels, she made an av
erage of sixteeu knots an hour.
In reply to a further question as to
the position of tho remaining vessels on
the Pacific coast, the secretary said that
tho department was in communication
with Admiral Brown at Iquiquo. The
Baltimore and San Francisco are already
there, while the Pensacola is expected
there any hour What instructions had
been sent the officers Mr. Tracy did not
reveal.
Tho assembling of so many United
States cruisers at Iquique is not believed
to be for tho purpose of capturing the
fugitive Itata. The whole or nearly the
whole of the insurgents’ lleet is in that
harbor, and In tho event of more trouble
between tho Balmacedan forco and tho
rebels the interests of tho American
residents in that port will need protec
tion.
Serious trouble is evidently anticipat
ed, which in importance overshadows
tho taking of the little transport. This,
it Is currently believed, is the secret of
the recent movements of the Baltimore,
Pensacola and San Francisco. In the
meantime, as soon as the Charleston has
replenished her coal bunkers she will
start in pursuit of her gamo. What
course she will take is problematical
A rumor was current to-day in naval
circles that the Esmeralda, now also at
tho port of Ac<apulco, presumably to
take coal, bad been refused that privi
lege by tho Mexican authorities. When
asked about the report, Secretary Tracy
said nothing had been received at the
stato or navy department confirming
the story.
There is still hope that tho Itata will
bo compelled to reveal herself within
tho next day or two. While she is a
merchant vessel and docs not use as
much fuel as a man-of-war, still with all
possible economy, her supply of coal
must soon bo exhausted and slio will bo
compelled to put into port.
WILL NO r BE REMOVED.
THE GENERAL OFFICES OF THE S. A.
& M. TO REMAIN IN AMERICUS.
The Prevailing Rumor that the Office# and
Shops Would go to Montgomery Official
ly Denied—Substantial Improvements to
be Made Here.
Fire In a Hotel.
Cif attanoooa, Tonn., May 18.—Fire
broke out in a storeroom under the
Southern hotel at 8 o’clock this morning.
The store was occupied by an oil,
print and wall paper firm. Tho fire
originated In tho cellar, where the stock
of oils was stored. It was in a blaze
whop discovered, and the origin Is a
mystery.
The fire department quickly respond
ed and saved tho building. The dam
age dono amounts to $3,000. Tho effici
ency of the fire department prevented a
big conflagration. Many guests re
moved their effects from the building.
Several Thousand Short.
LouisV'II.le, Ky,, May 18.—Duke Al
phonse de Thierry, book-keeper of the
Conrad Tanning Company, left the city,
and it is said several thousand dollars
behind in his accounts. It Is said that
he confessed his guilt to his employer.
He is about forty-two years old, and it
claimed, belongs to the do Thierry fam
ily, which made the long fight against
the Venetian government for a fortune
of a hundred millions. He spoke French,
Spanish, German sind English.
A Convict Pardoned.
Atlanta, May 18.—Governor Northen
tills morning pardoned William Chafflll,
sent up from Ch tliam in 1888 for eight
years for perjury, on tho petition of the
judge ami tho solicitor-general, who
both wrote that Ids sentence was unduly
severe, sinco certain facts unknown at
tho trial camo to light.
American Interest. Endangered.
New York, May 18.—A special to the
Herald from Washington says: A hint
was accidentally dropped by a high na
val official yesterday that our efforts to
capture the Itata have embittered the
insurgents toward us, and that Ameri
can interest* at Iquique, Ihe Insurgent*’
headquarter*, are consequently In dan
ger. Thll account* for the hasty mo
bilization of the American fleet at that
harbor.
Hundreds of visiting soldiers are in the
city.
A Fine Showing.
Cordkle, May 18.—Tho first annual
statement of the Homo Mutual building
and loan association has been publish
cd. The statement shows a clear proflt
of 20 per cent, to the stockholders and a
very gratifying growth of business.
Still Hunting.
Acapulco, May 18.—The Charleston
filled her bunkers and left last night in
search of the Itata, taking n southerly
course. It la generally believed that the
Esmeralda communicated Friday night
with tho Itata on the outside.
Charlotte's Electric Cars.
Charlotte, N. C., May 10.—Char-
Negro Drill in Augn.ta. lotto’s electric street cars moved off yes-
Al.mulU, Iknud ftrenjtd
of tlio cars witli loud cheers and enthu
siastic demonstrations.
Will tlio goneral offices of the S. A. A
M. railroad be transferred to Montgom
ery upon tlio completion of the line to
that city?
This question has been considerably
discussed during the post few days, and
not a little alarm was created here by
tlio report.
Just how or whore tho rumor started
could not bo learned, but that It did
start Is a fact, and the people,* or rather
thoso who talked it, wero not a little ex
ercised about the matter.
Everybody in Amerlcus realize what
advantages accruo to tho city by having
tho company’s headquarters and shops
here, and tho bare thought of having
them carried elsewhere meant a blow to
Amcricus from which it would be in
deed difficult to recover.
But tlioro need not bo the slightest
fear upon that scoro.
Amoricus Is and will ever remain the
general headquarters of the'S. A. A M.
railroad. The general offices are to stay
here, as well os tho machine and car
shops.
Wldlo no importance was attached to
the report by any ono In a position to
know to tho contrary, still, In order to
givo the rumor a denial from an official
source, a reporter called yesterday upon
Capt. H. C. Bagley, general agent of tho
company, and asked If there was any
foundation for such a report.
“You may quote me as saying that
there Is no truth whatever in the rumor,
and that I am at a loss to know just
where such a thing could havo origin
ated."
“And tliore Is no intention, then, upon
the part of the road’s officials to remove
the general offices ?” the reporter asked.
“No, nor has there ever been,” Capt.
Bagloy roplied, “The people of Amerl
cus helped to build the 8. A. A M. road;
it is essentially theirs, and just as far as
wo can do so and do justice to other
towns that lent their aid as well, the
road will bo run in tho interest or Amer
lcus.”
This statomont,coming from the source
which it does, should certainly be suffi
cient to dispel all fears, where any ex
isted, of the removal of the general of
fices from Amerlcus to Montgomery.
It Is true that the road has secured ex
cellent terminal facilities In that city,
much better, perhaps, than it owns
hero, but nevertheless Amerlcus offer*
many advantages that cannot be over
looked in deciding even suoh an impor
tant matter as tho one In question and
the company, therefore, will allow
things to remain as they are.
It Is the intention of the company to
mako many substantial Improvements
here shortly In the way of buildings, etc.,
and will thon have facilities equal to
that of any road in the state. At present
every energy is being bent to complete
tho road to Montgomery, after whieh
'more attention can be dovoted to im
provements along tho line.
If further evidence were needed to re
fute tho rumor as to the removal of the
machine-shops, it may be stated here
that tho contract was let last Saturday
for the erection of another and much
larger round-house at tho foot of Sulli
van street, in this city. Mr. J. J. Smyth,
of the Arm of Coulter A Co., was award
ed this contract, and will begin the work
immediately upon his return from the
north.
This was made necessary from the
fact that the road is expecting a number
of new englnos, both for freight and pas-
songer service, shortly, and as the num
ber already in service Is greater than
can bo properly cared for in the house
now used it was determined to erect a
larger ono os soon as possible.
Work upon the extension has pro
gressed most favorably during the past
few weeks, and with continued fair
weather the road will bo completed to
Montgomery within the next thirty
days. Everything is working favorably
to this end, and already the construction
gang is within two or three miles of the
city, with the iron gang close upon
their heels.
Within a few weoks a through sched
ule will he put on between Montgomery
and Savannah, over 343 miles of the
best road In the south.
Then sco Amerlcus grow as she has
never grown before.
No Strike on the Northwestern.
Chicago, May 18.—Tlioro will be no
general strike on tlio Northwestern sys
tem. Tho Supremo Council of Feder
ated railway employees decided against
the switchmen this evening.
The council recommended that the
switchmen’s officers call upon the rail
way officials with a view to the rein
statement of as many of their old hands
as places could be provided for.
The proceedings of the council were
prolonged and stormy.
Badly Injured.
Milledgeville, Ga., May 18.—Two
negroes were fearfully burned yesterday
evening in an explosion at tho bottling
works of Warren Edwards. Tho burns
were from sulphuric acid, nnd the face
hands and foot of ono of the mon are in
a terrible condition. Even his shoes and
clothing were burned through to the i
skin.
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