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FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The Stewart syndicate, which pur
chased the entire second issue of $50,
000,000 bonds for which they paid
$58,538,500 and accrued interest, have
bo far received only $40,200,000 of
bonds. The rest are ready for deliv
ers - but have not yet been called for.
Bonds draw interest from the date of
issue, whether delivered or not, and
the treasury bears the expense of the
first delivery to the purchasing party.
Solicitor Reeve, of the treasury de
partment, in regard to the legality of
private parties printing facsimiles of
United States and foreign stamp al
bums, has given an opinion that the
printing of stamp albums must be
stopped and the plates seized and de
stroyed, but recommends that dealers
now"having them be allowed to dispose how
of the stock on* hand. The case,
ever, is not likely to stop here, but
will eventually find its way into the
courts.
The Venezuelan claims commission
held its first meeting at Washington
Friday with a full membership. Senor
Romero, the Mexican minister, pre
sided and a temporary organization
was effected. The United States gov
ernment was represented by Mr. Morse
and the Venezuelan government by
Mr. Phillips. Without transacting
any business the commission adjourned
until Saturday and the members paid
a formal visit to Secretary Gresham,
stated left Washington Saturday en
route to Tokio, or Hiroshima, proba
bly the latter city, where he will join
the Chinese envoys, who go to arrange
terms of peace with Japan. Mr. Fos
ter is accompanied by Mr. Yang Yu,
Chiuese minister, who is said to have
suggested to his government the desir
ability of securing Foster’s services as
counselor to the envoys. Mr. Foster
was advised before leaving of the de
parture of the Chinese envoys, but he
expects to arrive at Tokio or Hiroshima
as early as they. It is said that Japan
will not abate any of her vigor hereto
fore shown in prosecuting the war un
til the terms of peace are concluded.
Guarding Against Disease.
The commissioner of pensions has
issued an order which will prevent
clerks in the pension department from
practicing medicine while off duty,
The order states that if any clerk or
employe of the pension bureau shall
attend patients as a physician or medi
cal advisor it will be regarded as suffi
cient ground for removal from the bu
reau. The danger of bringing conta
gious diseases to the other clerks is too
great, so the commissioner thinks.
Moreover, it is a calling likely to keep
the clerks and employes up at night
and thus unfit tfiem for work during
the day.
Nicaragua Canal Bill’s Chances.
Members of the democratic steering
committee of the senate committee do
not believe that the Nicaragua canal
bill will go through at the present ses
sion, but that in place of it there will
be passed a strong declaration in favor
of the construction of the canal and
government control of it. It is even
possible that in one of the appropria
tion bills provision will be made for
the examination and survey of the ca
nal by an engineer commission, which
will report at the next congress.
Iriends of the canal bill believe that it
will become a law notwithstanding the
opposition that has developed.
Their Back Pay Stopped.
An apparently innocent provision in
the last legislative appropriation bill
set aside the custom of half a century
and provided that salaries of senators
elected or appointed to fill vacancies in
lhe senate,or of senators elected for full
terms subsequent to the commencement
of such term, shall commence on the
date of their election of appointment. It
will be noticed that this limitation
does not apply in the case of members
of the house of representatives who
may be elected or appointed under
exactly this the same conditions. But for
modification of the law senators
to be elected from the states of Wash
ington, Montana and Wyoming would
have received back salaries from the
to beginning of their terms, amounting
a bonus for each of $10,000.
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!S MORGANFIELD A MURDERER?
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Believed to Have Killed a Conductor
in a Hold-up at Cairo, Ill.
laiued According to information just ob
Relieved by the Cincinnati police, it is
^ irginia that Charles Morganfield, the
lhe hold-up train robber, is implicated in
of the train at Cairo, Ill.,
November, 1893. Morganfield is
Row in jail in Cincinnati awaiting the
result of an effort to secure his re
sition ease on habeas corpus, pending requi
litigation. In the Illinois hold
U P the conductor was killed and the
*Ran who fired| the shot was seen.
f om the published description of the
Riurderer, people in that section be
Ieve that Morganfield is the man.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Chattanooga, Tenn., Storage
and Banking Company lias assigned.
The assets and deposits are small.
One of the most disastrous firos that
has visited Toledo, O., for many
months occurred Saturday morning
and resulted in the loss of one life and
did damage to tho amount of over
$500,000.
The dry goods and millinery firm of
J. Lichtenstein A Sons, at New York,
lias failed. The liabilities will proba
iny amount to $450,000, while the as
sets are not expected to realize more
than half that sum.
Fire broke out Friday morning in
Lawler’s Hotel, at Waterbury, Conn.,
which was totally destroyed. The
Platt block, the finest in the city, ad
joining the hotel, was completely gut
ted. Loss, $75,000,
At a meeting held in Brooklyn by
the members of of the Brooklyn taber
nacle, it was decided to reorganize un
der a new name. Dr. Talmadge was
not present. A place for holding ser
vices will be discussed at a later meet
ing.
Samuel Harts and Oscar Weinberg,
wanted in Chicago, and Pittsburg to
answer the charges of swindling mer
chants by soliciting advertisements for
a St. Louis directory, have been ar
rested at Jersey City, N. J., and held
in $7,500 bail.
Saturday near Middlesboro, Ky.,
two children of John and Sarah Tim
mons were burned to death. The par
ents had gone to a neighborhood gro
cery, leaving the children at home.
Both were burned to a crisp when their
parents returned.
Saturday night twenty-five employes
of the G. H. Hammond Packing com
pany’s canning works at Hammond,
Ind., were laid off. The remaining
employes were notified that eight
hours would constitute a day s wort,
M ?. n who wer « ™ cel ™ g $1 ™ a
7* 11 n °7 earn * ir B > who
formerly earned 45 cents per day can
earn but 36 cents.
At Nashville, Tenn., Friday, United
States Circuit Judge H. H. Lurton
appointed Captain John W. Childress
special commissioner to sell the secur
ities behind the Cincinnati extension
gold mortgage bonds, recently fore
closed because of default in interest
by the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railway. This is the appoint
ment which was declined by General
Turney because he opposed mixing
other duties with that of governor.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
^as placed its plant at the disposal of
the women of Memphis who will edit
the paper for one issue and receive the
revenue accruing therefrom for tho
purpose of starting a fund to build a
woman’s temple in that city similar to
the \Y omau s Christian Temperance
Union building of Chicago, lhe edi
tion will a 2 >pear on St. \ alentine s
day, February 14th. Ladies will con
trol every department from editor-in
chief to office boy.
JACKSONTILLE STATISTICS.
Interesting Figures Regarding Traffic,
Marriages, Births and Deaths.
Some of the official statistics of
Jacksonville for the year 1894 are of
special interest. There were shipped
from that port during the twelve
months ended Monday night 92,542,-
335 feet of Florida pine lumber, of
which about 64,000 feet went to do
mestic and 8,000,000 to foreign ports.
There were also 1,808,000 cypress, ex
i elusive of crossties, shipped to coast
wise ports. This output of lumber
was by water, the railroad shipments
being also very large. During the
same period 907,277 boxes of oranges
were shipped from the port to do
mestic points. The fire department
was called out 143 times during the
year, 112 of the fires being inside the
fire limits and thirty-one outside. The
loss by fire was very light.
During 1894 there were 464 mar
riage licenses issued in the county, 157
to white couples and 307 to colored.
In the city there were 602 births, of
which 233 were whites and 369 colored.
The deaths in the city were 597, only
nine short of the number of births,
the division being 234 whites and 359
colored. Thirty-eight of these deatbs
were from violence or accidents, and
seventy of them were of non-resi
dents. With a normal population of
27,000 this makes tho death rate only
a fraction over 2 per cent, or about
twenty to the thousand.
Ex-Seuator Fair Dead.
Ex-Senator James F. Fair, the bo
nanza millionaire, died at San Fran
cisco Friday night. The cause of his
death was diabetes and Bright’s dis
ease. He leaves a|fortune estimated of his at
$40,000,000 and by the terms
j telegraphic will, made some two
months ago, this vast sum, it is stated,
will be equally divided between his
three surviving children, Mrs. Her
man Odrichs, of New York; Miss Air
ginia, now studying with her sister in
New York, and Charles L. Fair,of San
Francisco,
Suspended Payment.
The Commercial bank, a private in
stitution at Spokane, Wash., with a
capital of $50,000, has suspended pay
ment. It had but few depositors.
COUNTY NEWS.
FREEZE IN FLORIDA.
THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE
STATE FROZEN STIFF.
Jacksonville Reports tho Coldest
Weather on Record Since 1835.
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Florida has been hit hard again,
The cold of Friday night was general
ft u over the state, with the exception
Q f Key West, where the temperature
dropped to.44 degress. But the aver
age readings of the thermometer for
the period from midnight to sunrise
Saturday morning and for the whole
area of the state were below 19 degrees
above zero. The lowest record re
ported was iu Jacksonville where at 6
o’clock a. iu. tho mercury registered
14 degrees above zero. This is one
degree colder than during the freeze
of January 10 to 13, 1886, and the
coldest on record since 1835.
In exposed places in the city ice
formed to a thickness of four inches,
In houses all water was covered with a
thin coating of ice, where not pro
tected by fire. Water pipes burst,
clocks stopped and oranges on the
trees were frozen solid. It is the pre
vailing opinion that they have been
damaged seriously throughout the
state, though the old trees are thought,
except in extremely exposed sections,
to be uninjured.
About 2,500,000 boxes are estimated
by the Florida fruit exchange to have
been on the trees. This is a heavy
loss to the growers and naturally
causes much misgivings, long faces
and low spirits. Possibly 600,000
boxes of this fruit may he saved and
marketed, and if so it will probably
bring prices which will net the grow
ers iu the neighborhood of $5 per box,
where they are now contented with an
average of $1.
Ilundreds of young orange groves,
from one to five years old, are doubt
less ruined completely, frozen down to
the ground, while the winter crops of
tomatoes, beaus, peas, cabbages and
other vegetables are utterly destroyed,
Altogether, a conservative estimate
places the total loss to Florida agri
calturists at fully $2,500,000.
FORTY-ONE KILLED.
Awful Fate of a Christinas Party in
Oregon.
At Silver Lake, Lake county, Ore
gon, Christmas eve,while a large party
was attending a Christmas tree, a lamp
exploded, causing a fire, in which for
ty-one persons were burned to death
and fifteen injured. The gathering
had assembled at a hall above Christ
man Bro.’s store and consisted of
children who, with their parents and
relatives, were having a grand time,
enjoying what Santa Claus had hi ought
them, little dreaming that many of
them would never leave tho building
alive. The Lakeview Examiner says:
“Some one attempted to get where
he could see and hear better by jump
ing upon a bonch in the middle of tho
hall. In doing so his head struck a
lamp hanging from tho ceiling, caus
ing the oil to run out, which immedi
ately caught fire.
“People were compelled to go
through the flames in order to reach
the door and frantically rushed to
their doom. Five of the injured will
likely die. The building was a two
story structure, including the post
office, and the entire stock of goods of
Christman Bros, was consumed.”
Silver Lake is over a hundred miles
from Klamath Falls, and a Btage with
Lakeview papers brought the news to
the latter place.
A LABOR DEMONSTRATION.
Shoe Workers Determined to Break
Up the Contract System.
Haverhill, Mass., witnessed a big
labor demonstration Monday forenoon.
A procession of shoe workers, num
bering four thousand, marched to
Chick Bros, and to Spaulding –
Swett’s shoe factories. At Chick
Bros.’ factory nearly all women stitch
ers, numbering about 125, including
those who work in Barrow – Cald
well’s shoe stiching rooms, in an ad
joining building, left their work and
came out. About one hundred men
including all the lasters, also came
out. About 150 employes quit work
at Spaulding – Swett’s factory. Upon
the return of the marchers a mads
meeting was held in the city hall. The
shoe workers say they are determined
to break up the contract system and
also to secure the adoption of new
price lists.
To Build in Georgia.
A special from Lowell, Mass., says:
It is announced that tho stock of the
Whittier Company mills is to be in
creased from $75,000 to $300,000, and
that a new mill of brick, three stories
high, will be built in Georgia. lhe
same grade of goods will be manufac
tured as in Lowell.
A Steamboat Burned.
The steamboat George W. Sentell
was burned to the waters’ edge Friday
night at New Orleans. She was laid
up at the wharf during the holidays.
The loss is $8,500, covered by insur
ance.
TRADE TUriCS.
R. O. I>iin – Co.’s Review of Trade for
tho Past Week.
R. G. Dnn A Co.’s review of trade
for the past week says:
“Commercial failures in I HO I, al
ready reported to us, number 14,292,
against 15,242 last year, with liabili
ties of $160,248,404, against $346,779,-
889 last year. Next week the final re
port for 1894 will probably show about
400 moTo failures. From theso ae
counts banks and bankers, financial
and transportation companies are ex
eluded. Manufacturing failures nl
ready number 2,756, against 0,452 last
year, but liabilities are only $64,491,
297, against$176,982,091 last year. The
trading failures already number 11,-
314. against 11,.512 last year, but the
liabilities aro only $86,899,057, against
$130,062,833 last year, The state
ment by sections shows a decrease of
about two-thirds in defaulted lialiili
ties in the middle and central north
ern states, one-half in the west and
southwest and a third in other sections,
“The revision of prices for cotton
goods has been the controlling feature
since the great auction, and wide
sheetings have been marked down
about ten per cent, while changes all
along the line are expected. It 1 b no
longer disputed that the consuming
demand has fallen below expectations,
and below the production which the
mills kept up in the hope of increased
consumption. Very little has been
done in woolen goods, all waiting for
developments after January 1st, when
new duties take effect.
“The market for iron and steel is
waiting, but the reduction in wages at
the Edgar Thompson works, averaging
15 per cent, plainly indicates the same
difficulty which is seen iu other quar
ters, that the demand in consumption
does not answer to the increase in the
production of pig iron.
“Money is still flowing into New
York City in a steady stream, and ex
ports of gold for the week are expect
ed to be about $2,500,000. The dis
solution of the bond syndicate, owing
to the pending currency bill, has de
stroyed the market for bonds, is the
most important event in financial cir
cles, and it is liable to have results of
some consequence, For commercial
loans, the demann has slightly increas
ed, though only as might be expected
at this season.
“Failures in three weeks of Decem
ber show liabilities of $10,651,937, of
which $3,569,760 were manufacturing,
and $6,751,419 of trading concerns.
Failures for the week have been 350 in
the United States, against 511 last
year, and 41 in Canada, against 41 last
year.”
FLAGLER IS NO.T WORRIED
And Says the Texas Authorities Can
Capture Him at Pleasure.
Henry M. Flagler does not Beem at
all disturbed over the action of Gov
ernor Mitchell, of Florida, in declar
ing his intention to recognize a requi
sition of the governor of Texas for
the surrender of Flagler to the Texas
authorities. Just at present Mr. Flag
ler is in New York. He was in Flor
ida about two weeks ago, and says he
intends to return there this month.
In an interview Mr. Flagler declares
that he will be in a position to be cap
tured by the Texas authorities about
Jan. 20th, when he expects to return to
Florida and remain for the winter with
his fami’y. Governor Mitchell, Flagler
said, is a lawyer, and he cannot un
derstand why Florida’s chief executive
should have pursued a course different
from that of the governors of New
York and Missouri. It was well known I
to Texas officials that he was in Florida
a couple of weeks ago and the tardy
action of Governor Hogg, Flagler said,
indicated to his mind that the anxiety
for his arrest was not very great. He
denied that he was a fugitive from the
justice of Texas, as he has never been
in the state.
AFTER THE PREACHERS.
Outcome of a Moral War Waged in
Saginaw, Mich.
The moral war which has been on at
Saginaw, Mich., for some time has
taken another turn. Mayor Mershon
had a capias issued from tho circuit
court for the arrest of Rev. William
Knight, pastor of the Congregational
church, who has been most vigorous
in bis accusations against the city of
ficials. Damages of $5,000 for libel
are asked for. The writ is returnable
January 14th. The mayor takes this
action so os to make the Ministerial
Association produce evidence to sub
stantiate the charges recently made.
CARNEGIE CUTS WAGE#
And the Employe* of the Iron King
Have to Accept.
The new wage scale for the Carnegie
steel works, at Homestead, have been
posted in several departments \>f the
works and discloses an average reduc
tion of 15 per cent in the entire mill.
The high-priced men suffer a reduc
tion of 35 per cent. Besides this, the
services of a number of high-priced
men are dispensed with. The rents
on company houses were materially
reduced. There was some dissatisfac
tion, but despite the grumbling the
scale will be accepted as presented.
\M\Ti:iCS BLASTS.
THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHIVERS
FROM A BLIZZARD’S BREATH.
Snow,' lee. Wind or Rain Reported
from AM Points of the Compass.
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A Washington special nays: From %
weather bureau view, the chief char
i actor of Thursday's storm was the ra
pidity of its development and move
j meut, this result being largely due to
| a barometric pressure in Montaua of
i 31.2 inches, the highest recorded by
the weather bureau,
It was clear in the vicinity of Wash
ington during morning, and by night
time the storm had moved iuto Maine,
leaving snow and slush behind.
Raiu or snow fell generally east of
tho Mississippi, while from west of
that river cold weather and high winds
prevailed. the cold weath
Bismarck, N. D., led
er stations at 24 below, and it was 18
below at many points in the far north
west. Storm signals were displayed
all along the Atlautic and Gulf coasts,
Damage to shipping i8 feaied, as the
wind’s velocity ranged from 40 to 70
miles an hour.
Of the ninety-seven Western Union
wires extending from Washington to
New York, only two were in fair
working order at 10 o’clock a. in.
Signals were displayed on tho Afc
lautie coast from Jacksonville to East
port, and at Chicago, Milwaukee,
Grand Haven, Manistee and Ltiding
ton. The storm which developed iu
the gulf states moved rapidly north
eastward along the Atlantic coast, in
creasing in energy. It was attended
bv snow in the New England and mid
die statos and by rain or snow in the
middle Atlantic and gulf states,
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
1 lie Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
Thft report on the industrial condition of the
South for ilie past week says: The week has
been a quiet one in general business. Iron
manufacturing is improving. With sales ahead,
of considerable summits, the Southern fur
naces intend to advance prices, and will con
tinue to increase their outputs. Lumber man
ufacturers report that business is slowiy and
steadily improving and that stocks a e very
light. Coal production continues to be large,
with no change in pricos. The textile mills
aro busy, and some important additions to
their number are mills, reported. of Chicopee, Mass.,
The Dwight is to
build a $500,000 mill at Alabama City, Ala;
F. W. Poe and associates, and O P. Mills and
others, of Greenville. 8. G., are eaoli to build
4100,000 mills in that city; the Isaetta Mill Co.
is to build a $100,000 cotton and woolen mill
at Augusta, Ga.: a $75,000 cotton Louisville mill will ha
built at Louisville. Ky., by the Mill
Co., and new cotton mills are also reported at
Americas, Ga., Ludlow, Ky., and Concord, N. Cl
There is also reported a $20,000 transporta
tion company at Pensacola. Fla.; the Richmond
Laud Co., capital $100,000, at Augusta, Jacksonville, Ga.,
the Industrial Fertilizer Co , at
Fla., capital $50,000; a $20,000 «lectrical’com
pany at Louisvil e Ky., and a $10,000 wooden
ware company at Manchester, Va. A canning
factory is to be built at Harriman, Tenn.; a
flouring mill at Jonesboro, Ark.; gas work# at
Houston, Tex., and ice works at Fairmont, Va.
Coal and Moltke, mines aro Tenn.; to be opened mines at Gadsden. Knoxville, Ala.,
non near
Tenn., and aluminum mines at Silver Creek,
Ala- An oil mill is to i o built at Corpus (#;a
Christi, Tex.; a sugar mill at Laurens, S.
rice mill at Orlando, Fla.; tin works at Cov
ington. Ky., and woodworking plants at Leigh- Gads
den, Ala.. Jonesboro, Ark-, Jasper, Fla.,
ton and Quitman, Ga., Meridian, Miss., New
bern and Memphis, Tenn., Manchester, Va.,
and Union, W. Va.
Water works arc to be l uilt at Fayetteville
and Jonesboro, Ark., Dawson, Gi.., Hopkins
ville, Ky., Waynebvilie, N. C., and Rock wood,
Tenn. Among ibe new buildings of the weok
are a $100,000 business house a- Louisv lie, Ky.,
and one at Huntsville, Ala., a $25,000 church
at Covington, Ky.. an.l other< at Richmond,
Va., arid Weston, W. Va. • a school building at
Monroe, Va.--Tradesman La., and a li. R. station at Tenn.) Wheeling,
W. (Chattanooga,
A DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Seventeen People Injured and Many
Cars Smashed.
As a resultof a collision between two
passenger trains, at ar Waxahachie,
Texas, seventeen persons were badly
injured. The westbound Texas Cen
tral passenger train was slowly jaishing
over the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway crossing,when the southbound
passenger train on the latter road
crashed into tie rear coach, striking
it squarety in the middle and over
turning it. Passengers and seats were
piled iu a mass in the forward part of
the car. An instant later the car
caught fire from :;u overturned stove,
but was extinguished before any per
son was badly burned.
After a half hour’s hard work the
wounded passengers were gotten ont.
Two persons were found fatally, and
fifteen seriously injured. It seems
almost miraculous that no one was
killed outright as the coach was crush
ed like an egg shell.
Uncle Sam Demands Satisfaction.
A dispatch to the Central News
(London) from Shaughai says the
United States government has in
structed Minister Denby to demand
satisfaction from the Chinese govern
ment foj having violated the promise
given-in regard to the surrender of the
Japanese spies Ht Shanghai.
Ex-Seuator Fair Dead.
Ex-Seuator James F. Fair, the bo
nanza millionaire, died at San Fran
cisco Friday night. The cause of his
death was diabetes and Bright’s dis
ease.