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GENERAL NEWS
Current Events of the Day Epi¬
tomized.
NEGRO POSTMASTER SHOT.
Turkey and Greece to Sign a Treaty of
Peace—Two Texans Shoot and Kill
Each Other—Statue to Canovas to be
Erected by Spain.
Frank Lockridge accidentally shot
ind killed himsalf at Spring Hill, Ten
lessee.
Professor Andrews has withdrawn
>is resignation as president of Brown
bniversity.
General Ignacio Andrade will suc¬
ceed General Crespo as president of
the Venezuelan republic.
Captain Thomas McDermott has
Seen nominated by the Republicans
[or mayor of Chattanooga.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
iVisconsin Central Friday, resulting in
ihe death o-f five persons.
J. H. Loftin, the negro postmaster
it Hogansville, Ga., was shot Wednes
Say night by unknown parties.
Gaines & Fuller’s cotton gin, corn
mill, flour mill and planing mill were
burned last week, with a loss of $1,003.
The National Road Parliament met
in Nashville Friday, and selected
Dkrnaba as the next place of meeting.
LUlie Texas Young, IS years of age,
was found murdered near Salem, Va.
Robert Foulz lias been arrested for
the erime.
Paul de Pierre, formerly vice-consul
nf the French republic at New Or¬
leans, killed himself by inhaling Illu¬
minating gafe.
C. S. Preston, a Kansas City drum¬
mer, was fined heavily last week at
Brunswick, Ga., for refusiug to show
bis health certificate.
The coal miners’ strike, as far as
the Pittsburg district is concerned, is
off, and the 22,000 diggers will resume
work at the 05 cent rate.
A small pox patient, a negro boy,
was placed in the past house at Co¬
lumbus, Ga., Friday. This is the only
ease of this disease in this locality.
A statue *o Spain’s murdered pre¬
mia*, da novas'deWChaffllo, Is to b4’ket
Bp In Madrid, the municipal authori¬
ties of that city having just unani¬
mously decided to thus honor his
(memory.
The long overdue steamer Excelsior,
which left St. Michaels, Alaska, for
Ban Francisco port six weeks ago, but
was compelled to put back to Unalas
fca for repairs, arrived Thursday with
Sixty-three passengers and about one
million dollars in gold.
It is understood the federal adminis¬
tration will take steps looking to the
apprehension and punishment of the
assailant of Loftin, the colored post¬
master at Hogansville, Ga., who was
shot on Tuesday.
Georgia Republicans say teat it is
pretty well settled that Gen. Long
street will be appointed railroad com¬
missioner to succeed General Hamp¬
ton some time next month; at any
rate, by the 1st of November. ,
The imperial government of Austria
will demand full satisfaction for inju¬
ries Austro-Hungarian subjects at
Latimer and the severe punishment of
se who are culpable in that affair,
According to the sentence of American
tribunals.
Hr. x. T$. Carter, of Kaufman, Tex.f
ind Charles P. Russell, of Abbott, twd
of th£ most Jind prominent men of that sec¬ lifts
tion, who hitherto been fris
and "business associates, shot and
killed each other at Abbott last Thufs
dar.
The Neu. l*ie Presse says it is
ported in official circles that the
tan of Turkey and the council of min¬
isters of the Ottoman Empire hare
accepted the conditions of peace with
Greece as arranged by the ambassa¬
dors of the powers, and that it Is ex¬
pected the preliminaries of the treaty
will be signed on Friday next.
The government at Madrid has re¬
ceived a cablegram from Captain-Gen¬
eral Weylr-r, in the course of which he
says that his plan of campaign is to
complete the'pacification of the west
end of the island of Cuba before C9«n
xnenci 'g .operations in the east.
Alton B. Parker was unanimoosiy
nominated by the New York Demo¬
cratic State committee for chief jus¬
tice of the Court of Appeals. The
committee adjourned sine die without
taking any action in regard to the Chi¬
cago platform.
Atlanta doors have been thrown
open to yellow fever refugees.
A sensation has been caused at Ber¬
lin and elsewhere by a statement that
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, son
of the late Archduke Kagl Ludwig
and Princess Anneuceta, daughter of
the late King Ferdinand II of Naples,
hei* presumptive of the throne of
Austria-Hungary, was married in Lon¬
don last week to a middle class lady
from Kohlscheidt, near Aix-la-Cha
pelle. The name of the lady is not
given.
IV. En-trekin, a respectable farmer of
Marshall county, Alabama, has fallen
a victim to the rigid Internal revenue
laws. He made application for a li¬
cense for an apple brandy still recent¬
ly, and while waiting for the arrival
of the license, and until other forms
could be observed, he made a tow
quarts of brandy for lp»me use. Rev
enue officers arrested him for illicit
distilling. On fhis charge he was
tried before a commissioner and bound
over to the grand jury.
PRESIDENT DIAZ ASSAULTED.
Ignacio Anulfo Strikes the Oresident as
He Was Riding In a Procession.
Ignacio Anulfo, a violent character,
assaulted President Diaz of Mexico on
Thursday during the military proces¬
sion. The man was felled by a com¬
panion of the president, aud was im¬
mediately taken into custody by the
authorities. The attack was made
while the president was riding at the
head of a procession celebrating Inde¬
pendence Day. As the president nmv
ed the Alameda, there was a disturb¬
ance in the crowd on the sidewalk,
and a well built, muscular man, with
flowing black hair and mustache,
forced his way past the gendarmes
and soldiers, and jumped between- the
president aud General Pradillo, and
the chief of staff, Monasterio. and
dealt a blow at the back of the presi¬
dent's neck. The violence of the blow
was diminished by the fact that be
was crowded between the president
and the officers immediately following
him. The president turned round and
caught sight of his assailant, and j/y
suiued his march with admirable cool¬
ness.
Meantime, Chief of Staff Monasterio
bit the man with a cane, who, turn¬
ing, seized it and broke It General
Pradillo then hit him a powerful blow
In the neck, felling him. The gen¬
darmes rushed forward, and some of
the mounted officers and police seized,
and pinioned him. He was taken iDCo
a side street and led away, the people
shouting: “Give him to us! We will
hang him!” But the gfadar-ffies-suc¬
ceeded in keeping their prisoner, be¬
ing reinforced by cavalrymen, tha
great crowd shouting and running be¬
hind
Some think the assailant merely
made the assault for the sake of gain¬
ing notoriety, having read ihe ac-i
counts of the assassination of Cano
vas.
Later advices state that Diaz's as¬
sailant was lynched.
WILL BE GREEN AGAIN.
Green will again be the color of the
postage stamps. Chief Johnson, of the
bureau of engraving and printing, rec¬
ommends the change on two grounds.
He says green is more suitable for
government documents, and not so
glaring and vivid. It Is also cheaper,
and will result in a saving of between
$8,000 and $10,000 a year, a sum Sec¬
retary Gage deems sufficient to take
into consideration. The secretary of
the treasury and the postmaster-gen¬
eral have approved the recommenda¬
tion, and the green two-cent stamps
will soon make their appearance.'
SAGASTA TALKS.
? «enor Sagasta, the Spanish Liberal
leader, in an interview on the subject
of the Cuban insurrection, says the up
ris'ng, instead of dying out, is spread¬
ing considerably. Sagasta says the
situation in the Philippine Islands i»
serious. He also asserts that the Car
list propaganda in Spain cannot be
viewed with indifference, and express
es the belief that reconciliation be
tween tbe political parties In Spain is
impossible so long as the Conserva
fives are in power, and in conclusion
Sagasta says: "In my opinion the
Cortes will not meet, but If they do
meet their existence is ephemeral.’’
AMERICAN PARTY IN TEXAS.
Col. E. H. Sellers, of Detroit, Mich.,
the organizer of the American party,
has been carrying on correspondence
with several Texans who are dissatis¬
fied with the old parties, and lias now
worked up such interest in the new
party that a State convention will bs
called to meet in Dallas during tbo
fair to effect a State organization and
make preparations to extend the or
ganlzatlon down through district,
county and precinct. Those who hav4
taken hold of the new party comg
mainly from the ranks of ihe popu¬
lists
SATISFACTORY
Are the Export and Import Figures
as Reported by Br. <(streets'.
BUSINESS STILL INCREASES.
A Small Decline in Wheat—The Iron Indus.
(
try Shows Increasing Demand—-Yeilow
Fever Affecting Distrib itian of Mer¬
chandise In the South.
Bradstreebs review of trade says:
Notwithstanding the unreasonably
warm weather and the t ppearance of
yellow fever in several gulf States,
checking locally the db tribution of
merchandise, business tb roughout the
country’ has increased m ire than an
ticipated. The center of improveinont
is Chicago, which furnis bed the most
favorable trade report sn five years.
Advices from Kansas Cl; y. Omaha, St.
Paul and St. LouIS also j effect activity
in demand among jobbers and whole
salers. There is a tompiirary stimulus
to business at Savannah owing to the
withdrawal of competition from mer
chants at towns out off by the fevei
quarantine. Chattanooga, Memphis,
Atlanta, Augusta, Galvtston and even
St. Louis anticipate a temporary fall
lng off In business owing to the Inter
ruption to traffic in tijfe gulf States
and adjoining territory. I The pract'cal
settlement of the bitjuminous coal
strike, a further rising protects, (fide of demand
for Iron and steel the with
drawal from the market of some man
ufacturers of woolen manufacturers gjoods, activity
generally among oi
woolens, extraordinary large bank
clearings and reports i;hat mercantile
collections have improved, constitute
tire features of the week.
Wheat exports are very large and
,wtth one exception (that of the second
week of September, 1891) are the
heaviest on record. The total ship
ments thiis week (flmir Included as
wheat) aggregate 0,379.418 bushels
against 5,461,500 bushels last week,
3,560,326 bushels last year, 2,538,088
bushels in the corresponding week iD
1895, 3,537,283 bushels in 1894, 4,727,
920 bushels in 1893, and 6,974,000
bushels, the heaviest on record, in the
like week of 1891.
Corn exiiorts are 1,009,000 bushels
sm aller th an last ye elf. They
gate $3,901,000 bushels, aud compare
with 2,394,000 bushels Hast year, 1,605,
000 bushels In 1895, 14)5,000 bushels in
1894 and 1,195.555 buajhels In 1893.
There are 109 business failures re
ported throughout the United States
this week, compared twith 175 last
week, 195 in the week a year ago, 218
two years ago, a lik^ number thriee
years ago and as compared with 346
in the second week of Septum Ivor,
1893.
There are 30 business failures re
ported from the Canadian Dominion
this week, against 39i last week and
1 i 41 In 1890 each and of 1895. the corresponding weeks
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KILLED HIS FATlIfER-1N-LAW.
Dave Roberts shot ) tj d killed his
father-in-law, Osborne nofln C| asey, western at his
own home, in the part
of Bartow county, Ga., l>-7 Thursday,
The two men lived n ear each other,
Roberts had been abu sing and mis
treating his wife, who tied to her fa
ther for protection. Roberts followed
her, aud the old man met him at the
door, remonstrated wl Ih him kindly
and asked him to go a way, hut made
no demonstration. Ro PurtH pulled a
pistol and deliberately shot the old
man, who fell dead acre iss the veranda,
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SEND A WARSHIP.
Upon advices from ,'onsul Pringle,
at Guatemala City, to ■Xic effect that
the revolutionists eoastlof baveBthe town of
Ocas, on the west Guatemala,
the state department Has called upon
the navy department t» send a war
a hij> there to watch ov< r American in
terests, ami the Alert, ft Mare Island,
has been ordered to 'ihe scene 0 t
trouble.
MINERS LEAVING J ELLICO DIS
S’RICT.
, mi*en» In the Jei
An exodus of tbe
lico coal district has bn n inaugurated,
It no w seems that they are equally as
anxious to get away from their old
environment as the yell ow fever refu
gees are to forsake the South.
Twenty miners and their families
reached Knoxville Thu •sday find left
in tbe afternoon for (-alter county,
Alabama, where they w 111 enter a new
coal mine recently oj x-ned. This is
near Birmingham, and the coal mined
there will be markets 4 at Birming
ham.
COTTON CROP BULLETIN.
Only One or Two States Report an
Average Crop.
This week's cotton region climate
and crop bulletin issued Friday at New
Orleans, under the authority of the
secretary of agriculture, Is a heavy
blow to the estimates of big cotton
crops.
The report covers tne entire cotton
belt, including Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Ala
bamn, Florida, Tennessee and the two
Carolina^, The bulletin Is a oompo
site of thousands ot reliable reports
from every militia district of every
county in the whole cotton belt, anil
no-better Insight into the condition of
the crop could be gained than through
this report.
During the past week there has been
practically no rain in the South, and
where the rains fell they caused dam
age instead of doing good. Only one
or two States report an average condl
tion of the cotton crop.
The report, as it relates to the cot¬
ton crop, when summarized is as fol¬
lows:
Louisiana—About half of crop open
and one-fourth picked. Yield will
equal last year's, which was a. small
yield. Considerable deterioration in
the southeast and a larger yield in the
northwest.
Georgia—Cotton has failed conslde. -
ably, and is shedding so rapidly tha!
there is practically no top crop. It
Is opening prematurely, and nearly the
entire crop is open. The average yield
for the State will be three-fourths ol
a fair average crop,
Alabama—Cotton is poor, and rust
and rot is general. Yield will be far
below an average, and staple is grad
lug low. Cotton opening prematurely,
Texas—Rain damaged crop some by
washing out open bolls, Late crop
ami top cotton being considerably
damaged by rust, caterpillars, boll
I worms, sharp shooters and boll wee
vils in southern and central portions
and much of top crop In northern por
tlons too young to mature before frost
With average conditions the yield wil
be below the average,
| Arkansas—Cotton has continued tc
deteriorate rapidly through shedding
{in ,i premature opening. Crop gener
ttlI y TCry , )ot)r; now too late for rain ’t(
do any g0 od.
Miss’sslppl—Cotton reports show
tailing off In condition. Bolls opening
prematurely; shedding, rust aud vo'
injurious in many sections,
Florida—But little top crop of cot
ion. Prospect of average yield,
1
Tennessee—Cotton crop much short
eued by drouth and most of top croj
lost by shedding. Bolls opening rap
idly- and prematurely.
North Carolina—Reports are unani
mous 1 liat cotton is being Irreparably
Injured; squares, blooms and leaves
falling, half-grown bolls cracking and
dropping off; top crop nearly complete
failure; premature opening Increasing
und probable yield materially dlmin
ish’ed.
South Carolina Continued decline ii
condition of cotton crop; plant uppn
reutly dead and young bolls shedding
This Is the most discouraging bulb
tin that has been issued by the United
States weather bureau for this year
It means a great reduction in the cot
ton crop, and will he a big surprise tc
those who have been making estimate/
of a ten-million bale crop.
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THOUSANDS RESUME WORK.
strike Cost the I’eople of the Pittsburg
District $7,(XX),000.
j After nearly three months' Idleness,
between 15,000 and 18,000 coal miners
In the Pittsburg district returned to
work Thursday in accordance )]
the action taken at Wednesday's con¬
vention, authorizing the men to re
sume work In all mines complying
with the provisions of the scale of 05
cents adopted at CoJombus. The ro¬
mainder of the 23,000 miners of the
district will be at work before the end
of llie week. It Is cat!molted that, the
K,n ke, which tasted sixty-five work
‘ \ ,yH \ t ‘ 0 ® t ,ilr " r the Pittsburg
Of ‘jlutrlct tills from $5,000,000 Ihe to $7,000,000.
amount miners lost about
$2,250,000 in wages.
TEXAS ELECTION RETURNS.
The governor and secretary of state
finlshed '•><* ‘'"'"it of the vote on the
1;lt " proposed amendments to the eon
stitution Friday morning, the time pre
xc-rlbed for waiting for tbe returns
having expired. The total vote Is as
follows:
For Irrigation amendment, 20,245;
against Irrigation amendment, 55,882.
For railroad bond amendment, 14,-
237; against railroad bond amend¬
ment 09,579.
For school bond amendment, 32,402;
against school bond amendment 42
107.
LYNCHED FIVE.
Citizens of Versailles Deal Sum¬
marily With Criminals.
TIRED OF THE LAW’S DELAY.
A Lawless Gang in Soul hern Indiana, Who
Have Long Followed Their Work of
Depredations, Meet* Vengeance at the
Ham!s of Citizens.
Wednesday was the most exciting
day in tin 1 history of Versailles, Ind.
The bodies of live men, who had been
lynched during t'be night, were found
hanging together to the same tree near
thq.jail in the morning. They were:
Lyle Levi, aged 57; Henry Sebieulter,
aged 23; Clifford Gordon, aged 22;
Bert Andrews, aged 30; William Jen¬
kins, need 27.
For years Southern Indiana has
been afflicted with lawless gangs. Tha
railways and express companies broke
up the depredations of these gongs
along their lines, and latterly they
have preyed upon the citizens. The
citizens have taken the law Into
their own hands In Unit locality be¬
fore, but never to such an extent as
on Wednesday. The lteuo brothers
were lynched together at Seymour,
Ind., thirty years ago, amt (lie Meyer
gang, throb in number, were strung
up together at Stoals, lud., twelve
years ago. There have been numerous
lynchl-ngs of one at a time, but the job
lot of live Wednesday breaks the rcc
ord. That an unusual state of feeling
existed is shown by the determination
of the mob, which led It lo the ferocity
of first killing three of the men in
the jail and then dragging the living
nnd the dead together and hanging
them to the same tree. It Is notable,
too, that no outrage that usually
arouses a mob's vengeance—no murder
—was charged against the victims, but
their death was decreed because of
long and exasperating suffering from
robberies, most of which were accom¬
panied by torture of vie! 1ms. The ex¬
citement of the day was not lessened
by suppressed hints that more object*
of the people’s wrath would be made
to suffer lu the same way.
NEGRO TO
MASTER.
Judson Lyons Is to be a.piiointed
postmaster at Augusta, Ga., says a
special from'Washington. The Presi¬
dent bos decided that be cannot give
the reglstorshlp of the treasury to
Georgia. ,t'
This conclusion wits said to iiavo
been reached at the White House dur¬
ing a conference between the Presi¬
dent and Walter Johnson. It was
during the consideration of the Au¬
gusta case that tbo President said he
would have to provide for Lyons at
Augusta. He intimated that the name
of Lyons had been considered in con¬
nection with the roglsterslilp of tbo
treasury, but after due deliberation he
felt, that Georgia hud received suf¬
ficient recognition in the way of na¬
tional appointments, and therefore
oils would be provided with a local
WEYLER'S WAR ON WOMEN.
A special from Havana, Cuba, say*
that the Spanish sbow\helr authorities do not
hesitate to resentment of
t.he Inhere*t displayed by the wives of
Americans in the ease of Evangeiinn
Cisneros. They have not only shot off
the Cuban mo id from all communica¬
tion with her friends, but they btivo
thrown Into prison for lewd women in
Santa Clara five women who dared to
prepare a. courteous appeal to General
WY-yler for the release of Kvuugelino.
These women are Senora Rosa Pinna.,
Senorltax Carmen and Nlcollsn Gu
Iferres, Wen ora Mienla Ruiz and Senor
ita Consn'clo Avila, Al) of these la
dies belong to the best families in
Santa Clara.
r<7T rt TDi’i.r; A n.TTTD.
Ten More Injured in a Wreck in Mis¬
souri.
A wreck on the Wabash at Keyt.es
villc, Mo., early Thursday morning re¬
sulted in the death of four men. They
are: William Gaines, 8t. Louix, postal
clerk; VV. H. Smith, Moberly, Mo., fire¬
man; William C. Clark, Salisbury,
Mo.; Paul Street, Salisbury, Mo. Ten
people were more or h-s« injured.
The passcng'-r train left St. 1 -ouis at
9 o’clock Wednesday night, Tbs
freight was a minute late at ICeytes
vllle, and was just entering the switch
when the passenger train crashed into
it
