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V< I . XVIII.
riiOFESSIOXA L CARDS.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in ‘.he counties comprising
the Flint .ludici.nl Circuit, the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and the United States
District Court.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
0! Georgia and the United States District
Court apr27-lv
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all tike Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collect ions. Will attend all the Courts
At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
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’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gale City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in (he State and Federal Courts.
j.j A. PEEPIjIIM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in ail the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ol the
United States* Special and prompt
tiongiven to Collections, Oct S, tn f
| pi. S*. CAMPBGM.
DENTIST,
McDonough Ga.
Any one desiring work done can he ac
eommodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
\re otherwise made.
WILL SELL DURING MONTH
OCTOBER
EXCURSION TICKETS TO
WORLDS FAIR AT
ONE-HALF RATES
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
EYERY DAY
B. ‘W. WEEHIir,
General Passenger and Ticket Agsnt.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
t t t t t t
WM. BOLLMAHN,
Watches, (: Speclacfo.
Clocks. c .
r / () S. Broad St.
JEWELRY, (:
Silverware. :) Atlanta, Ga.
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PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
| Cleanse* and boautifie* the hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore Gray
| Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cure* scalp dt»ea.e* k hair falling.
CON S U M P TIVEI
Ce ParkfirTo inffer
VA ak Luii':*, Debility, Indigestion, Pain, Take in time. 50 ct*.
loNDERCORNS. The only sure cure for Coma.
i--p» aHpaitL lie. at Druggist*, or 11ISCOX k CO., N. Y.
Indispensable in
Every Good Kitchen.
As every good hou ewi e knows,
the difference between appetiz
ing, delicious cooking and the
opposite kind is largely in deli
cate sauces and palateable gra
vies. Nov/, these require a
strong, delicately flavored stock,
and the best stock is
Liebig Company’s
Extract of Beef
j
r netery, Lawn, Poultry and Rabbit Fencing.
. 13C8ANDS OF MILES IN USE. CATALOGUE
FREE. FREIGHT PAID.
> McMullen woven wire fence cc.
It, 116, US and 120 N. Market St. Chicago, HL
FOR SALE.
Any one desiring a nice
house and lot in McDonough,
cheap, and convenient to de
pot, school and church, can
get it by calling upon the un
dersigned.
G. P. CAMPBELL.
Postell s Elegant Flour.
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
THES GR AT*
STAR STORE,
.J ' KO ! E'FGIA.,
T2rJLiii . j ORE S
i Jaclison Mcrcfui,tilc Co.,
! Proprietors STAR Store, - Jackson, Ga.
His Contribution.
“I suppose,” said the advance
agent, “that you have heard of Jos
eph Brooks, who manages W. H.
Crane. Well, Brooks is forever do
ing things which make people laugh
at him. One time awhile ago there
was a benefit for the Lamb’s club,
and the committee which had the af
fair in charge opened what they
caUed a ‘contribution hook.’ This
was circulated among the people in
the profession, and those who wished
to give anything wrote their names
in the book and the article or sum of
money contributed. Somebody, his
tory does not record his name, wrote,
‘I contribute one magnum.’
“The next person who got the
book was Brooks. He looked the
contributions over, and that mag
num struck him as a pretty tart
thing. So he wrote: ‘I also contrib
ute one magnum. W. H. Crane,
under the management of Joseph
Brooks.’ A member of the club saw
the inscription, and meeting Brooks
said, ‘Hello, Joe; I see you and
Crane have contributed a magnum
for the benefit.’
“ ‘Yes,’ said Brooks, ‘I intend to
give a magnum if there is one to be
shot in this part of the country.’ He
had an idea that a magnum was a
sort of fowl evidently, and until this
day he does not know why the
Lambs guy him about that contribu
tion.”—Buffalo Express.
Horse bread is still made in some
parts of Sweden, the Tyrol and Switz
erland. When the driver reaches an
inn, before indulging himself, he
buys for his horse a broad, flat cake
or scone of oatmeal.
The trichinae found in infected
pork are sometimes so numerous
that 80,000 have been found to the
cubic inch.
See Ilie Wurl<r» l’siir lor Fifteen
fcnlN.
Upon receipt of your address and fUtecn
cents in postage stamps, we will mail yon
prepaid our Souvenib ok the World’s
Columbian Exposition the regular price is
Fifty cents, hilt as we want you to have one,
we make the p'icc nominal. You will find
it a work of art and a thing to be prized.
It contains full page views of the great
buildings, with descriptions of same, and is
executed in highest style of art. If not sat
isfied with it. after you get it, we will
refund the stamps and let you keep the
book. Address, H. E. Bucklen a Co., Chi
cago, 111.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyspepsia.
THE *
STAR
STORE
Bach Day Brings New Custo .. -a.a!
Bach Day Brings N ew Trade!
Every Train Bri gs New Good!
People are now visiting
Jackson who were never here
before. As soon as they teach
the edge of town they begin
to enquire the way to THE
STAR STORE. They buy
their goods ot us. They load
their wagons and buggies ; •••
they go home telling their
neighbor —and so the good
work goes on from day to day.
CLOAKS! CLOAKS ! !
Big stock of Cloaks just re
ceived from a lriend, who
bought them in a bL r bank
rupt stock at Sheri id's sale.
We can surprise you in Cloaks.
A great many customers
visited our store last week
and failed to get waited on.
This we regret, but will try
and be better prepared in fu
ture, by putting on an extra
force of Clerks.
Come Direct To THE STAR STORE.
(JpjTGood Hitching Posts In Font.
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STAR
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McDonough, ga., Friday, November 3,18*m.
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STORE
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Pure Oxygen.
A number of processes for the man
ufacture of pure oxygen from air
have appeared recently, all following
in a general way the suggestions of
the well known “Brin” process. Herr
G. Kassner, in The Chemiker Zei
tung, claims a superiority for a salt
of calcium, the calcium plumbate,
Ca 3 Pho4, his process being briefly
as follows: The plumbate in spongy
porous pieces is exposed to the action
of moist furnace gases which have
previously been well washed. Car
bonic acid is absorbed by the calcium
salt with decomposition, forming cal
cium carbonate and free peroxide of
lead.
This decomposition is unaccompa
nied by a change of form. The result
ing mass is transferred to a strong
retort heated to redness. Oxygen is
disengaged and the evolution facili
tated by a stream of superheated
steam. Finally carbonic acid is given
off, and in the last stages this is pure.
In the intermediate stage the gases
are passed over calcium plumbate
and the carbonic acid there absorbed,
leaving the oxygen pure.—Science.
Lost ami Found.
A man in this city recently found
a $5 goldpiece in a store, and a clerk
endeavored to persuade him to turn
it over to the proprietor. The man
refused to do so, and the floorwalker
showed him a rule of the establish
ment relating to lost property. The
man still refused, claiming that the
proprietors of the store might make
for their employees what regulations
they pleased with regard to lost prop
erty, but that such rules could not be
made binding on the public. Ab
stractly he was right. Property that
has been lost belongs to the finder
until the owner appears and proves
his ownership. It does not matter
so far as the merits of the case are
concerned whether the property be
found in a store, in the street or in
the desert. The finder has a right to
it that precludes all claim but that of
the proved owner.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
What’s In a Name.
“Maybe I have an ugly color, as
you say,” said the Carrot to the
Beet, “but when I am gone I hope
some one may say a good word for
me. It seems to me a dead oarrot
has a better chance for respect than
a dead beet ”
And the beet turned even redder in
the face and had nothing more to
say.—Philadelphia Times.
THE SOUTHERN NEWS.
Daily Happenings of Interest Re -
ported During the Week
FfiOM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
Condemn'd a. Much as Possible to Give tlie
Sense, and I*reparcd especially for
Readers Who Are In a
Rush of Rueinesa.
Macon, Oct. 30. —Mack Lucius, a well
known motorman of the Metropolitan
company, walked into the police station
and surrendered himself As the slayer of
Preacher Everett, a negro, Saturday
night. He said he, wiafi. a companion,
were going up the streetwhen the negro
offered an insult, and words followed.
The negro pullet! a large butcher
knife and advanced rapidly on Imcius.
when the latter, to protect himself, fired
two shots, causing immediate death.
Lucius is in jail. Only one of the, com
panions of Lucius witnessed the killing.
There is not ono word from George
Holmes, the popular police lieutenant,
yet. He has either met foul play, his
friends say, or is in Oklahoma to escape
domestic trouble at home. His friends
are very anxious about him.
Carnesville, tta., Oct. 31. —Fountain
Martin shot and seriously hurt Perry
Looper three miles east of Carnesville,
at Looper’s home. The first of the trou
ble originated the night before at a
dance, at which Looper claims Martin
insulted his daughter. Both were drink
ing and reports are conflicting as to
whether or not Martin was justifiable.
Martin made his escape. Both are
white. Martin is single. Physicians
think Looper’s chances are favorable for
recovery.
John Teasley shot Wi3 Price one mile
north of Carnesville. The trouble start
ed from a game of c:rds, there being
money at stake. Price's wound is seri
ous, but probably not fatal. Both are
negroes. Teasley is at large.
Raleigh, Oct. 30.—Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Miller has issued an
order that all whisky 4ii#llerieß shall
pay tax on three gallons of whisky for
each bushel of corn
claimed by the distillers that .they can
not make so much whisky pi M of one
bushel, and that only UteaiqAlistiHerios
can do so. Nearly all North Carolina
distilleries are very small. 1f *
Officers of the Distillers’ flsK)cf&{ion
will send a deputation**!) cal} pu Omn
missioner Miller and lay thajuaiiter be
fore him, and will clax» thfb«nost dis
tilleries cannot make jfefef tuffi gallons
to the bushel. It is thought illicit dis
tilling will receive an bipetus.
Knoxville, Oot r *L:Ap» Jockey was
killed and another frigStraliy mangled
in an accident on the Southside racetrack
here. The horse ridden by Jce Bums, a
well known jockey in the south, fell,
throwing Bums over the horse’s head.
Another horse, ridden by Boyd McDan
nel, was close up, and he fell over the
other horse. Both horses, in trying to
regain their feet; trampled on Burns, in
flicting fatal injuries. McDannel may
recover. The horse ridden by Bums
was so badly injured that it was neces
sary to shoot him.
Richmond, Oct. 28.—J. Milton Wal
dren, colored, was arrested, charged
with forging a check on the Citizens’
bank of Richmond, purporting to have
been drawn by Postmaster Otis 11. Rus
sell, for the sum of sl2. Wahlren claims
that he is connected with Postoffice In
spector Arrington’s office in Washing
ton. A number of keys belonging to
the mail bags wore found in his posses
sion. Waldren is also said to be a fugi
tive from Atlanta, where he is alleged
to have shot a policeman more than a
year ago.
Villa Rica, Ga., Oct. 31. —Jim Coop
er shot Charley Piron through the body
killing him almost instantly. The ball
entered just lielow the ribs and come ont
at the small of the back. All the par
ties who saw it aie n groes, but they say
the shooting was without provocation.
The shooting took place near the negro
church, beyond the old town, on the line
of Douglas county, but on the Carroll
side. Piron died in Douglas county.
Cooper made his escape. The negroes
let him get away after disarming him.
Raleigh, Oct. 28.— John Burman is a
merchant at Whitakers. Three years
ago he married in this state and applied
himself to business. A few weeks ago
a woman made her appearance, and
claimed that she was Burman’s real
wife. The case went into the courts,
and it was proved that the story of wife
No. 1, who came from Europe, was true,
and Burman was convicted of adultery
and sentenced to a term in jail.
Savannah, Oct. 30.—A negro, about
18 years of age, who was employed at
the residence of Mrs. Sarah C. Walden,
cleaning a staircase, coolly walked up
into Mrs. Walden’s room and with a
kney that he had mysteriously obtained,
opened her jewelry cabinet and took a
vuluable gold watch, about S3OO worth
of diamonds and S2OO in money. The
thief then slipped out of the house and
made good his escape.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 28.—Upon appli
cation of the Southern Jellico Coal com
pany, of Tennessee, Judge H. C. Roney
has appointed A. K. Miller and John J.
Cohen receivers of the Augusta glass
works. The amount of indebtedness
stated in the application is from $50,000
to SBO,OOO. There is about 2,000 labor
liens against the factory.
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 31.—The Moss
Rose saloon was burned here and T. M.
Brown and his son, W. 11. Brown, who
occupied lodgings over the saloon, were
cremated. News has been received here
of the destruction by fire of a large jior
tion of the business section of the town
of Kyle.
Madison, Ga., Oct. 27.—Ike Williams,
the condemned murderer, spent the night
in praying and singing hymns. Tlnee
preachers were with him all the morn
ing. About 3,000 negroes were crowded
THE i
about the jail, hoping to get iv chance to
see inside, but they were disappointed,
as the Home Guards were called out and
pickets placed aliout the outside fence,
m the yard and in the jail.
The trap was sprung at exactly 12
12 o’clock, and the soul of the negro, Ike
Williams, sped to his Maker.
Louisville, Oct. 20.— District Attor
ney Jolley, in the United States court,
asserted that he was prepared to prove
that of over $30,000 collected by Collec
tor Scott and Deputy Collectors Shaw
and Riley, for campaign purposes, they
could not satisfactorily account for but
SIO,OOO. He charged that tlioy had
planned deliberately to obtain money
from the government employees under
them not for political purposes, hut for
their own private ends.
Charleston, Oct. 31. —Information
lias just been received here of a fatal
accident which occurred on the South
Carolina railroad at 7:80 o’clock. The
accident occurred at Ridgeville, a small
town about 15-miles from here. Through
freight No. 83, for Augusta, ran over a
a cow, ami the entire train of 11 cars
was derailed. Engineer John Whaley,
of this city, was killed, and the fireman
was badly hurt,
Birmingham, Ala., Oot. 2(l.—The gin
house of E. A. Cnlpepper and 10 bales of
cotton were burned near Camden. The
stables and barns of Joseph Strother and
W. R. Alford, in Wilcox county, have
been burned. All were incendiary tires.
William Randolph has been arrested as
one of the parties connected with the
barn burning. The total loss is about
$9,000. It is alleged to be the work of
White Caps.
Charleston, Oct. 2(l.—Gray Buffalo
Robe, an Indian squaw connected with
Pawnee Bill’s historic wild west show,
favo birth to a papoose on the train.
'lie child was named Carolina in honor
of Miss May Lillio, Pawnee Bill’s wife,
and the state of her birth. The mother
rode in a race tun hours after the child
was born. The mother is Telling Stur’s
wife, and a daughter of Sitting Bull.
CofiuMBUS, Miss., Oct. 26.—Three of
the burglars who entered a storo in this
city on Monday night have been arrested
at Fayette Courthouse, Ala. They board-,
ed a Georgia Paid tic train at Fayette
and were arrested by a detective. When
arrested they had -in their possession
most of the stolen property and about
S3OO in cash. A fine sot of burglars’
tools were taken from them.
Conway, Ark., Oct. 28.—1 tis an
nounced here that a shortage of $15,000
has been discovered in the accounts of
J. V. Mitchell, county Clerk of Faulk
ner county. Mitchell has held the i>osi
tion of county dork for the past 12 years.
'He was the administrator of several es
tates and guardian for a number of mi
nors. Ho is at present visiting relatives
in South Carolina.
Galveston, Oct. 28.—The News says:
Replies from I,£N} ginners, covering ti e
entire state, show that up to Oct. 15
there had been 80 per cent less cotton
ginned than last year up to the same
date, and that tho estimate to be ginned
after Oct. 15 to the end of the season
would be 29 1-2 per cent less than last
last year.
Augusta, Ga., Oct., 28.— John Bruce,
anegro, was assassinated at Bertt island,
six miles below Augusta, over the river.
When found ho was lying unconscious
in a public road, shot all to pieces. He
was unable to tell who his assassin was,
but John Dicks, a rival, has been arrest
ed on suspicion of being tho murderer.
Charleston, Oct. 2(l.—General W.
L. Prince, a leading lawyer and citi
zen of the Pee Dee section, this state,
died Wednesday at Cheraw. He u -is a
prominent secessionist and stood high as
a criminal lawyer. He was counsel for
Colonel Cash after the celebrated duel
with Shannon.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 28.—Ike John
son, a negro lwy, has been arrested tor
committing an assault on a 5-year old
daughter of a white man named James
Lilly, near Yorkville, 8. 0., and has
been brought to jail hero for safe keep
ing and to prevent lynching.
Spartanburg, 8. C.,Oct. 81.—Charles
P. Barrett has been arrested again on
the charge of forgery in signing tho name
of J. C. Brock to the official bind of the
postmaster at Clifton, 8. C., for <3,000.
He iB hold by the United States authori
ties. but gave bond.
San Angelo, Tex., Oct. 26.—Dr. J. M.
Harris, postmaster of Robert Lee, was
brought to San Angelo by a United States
marshal. He is charged with complicity
in a stage robbery about three weeks
ago while en route from Rois-rt Leo to
Ballinger.
Shreveport, La., Oct. 26.— Near Kriox
Point, Bosier parish, 20 miles above tins
city, two negroes were lynched. Details
are meager, but it is known that the ne
groes were notorious hog thieves.
Austin, Oct. 26.—Judge Rosen burg
has entered a decision declaring the Sun
day closing law unconstitutional. The
saloons will run in full blast Sunday for
tho first time in ten years.
Macon, Oct. 27.—Dr. W. C. Black,
i pastor of tho Mnllxrry Street Methodist
; church, in this city, has accepted p-e
editorial chair of the New Orleans
Christian Advocate.
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 28.—The
1 murder, Henry Spencer, has been con
-1 victed and will hang on Friday, Die. 22.
It will be private.
Roanoke, Vu.. Oct. 27.—Doc Talyo.
was hanged at Wise Courthouse, Vo.,
for the murder of the Malians fand'y
May 17, 1893.
TEN NEW CASES. _
l*lie Yellow Fever Record of a I>a>
Operator’* Funeral.
Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 31.—There are
; 10 new cases reported. Five are white
and five colored.
No deaths resulted from yellow fever.
The death ratio is 7 per cent.
The funeral of Operator W. A. Ennis,
of the Western Union Telegraph compa
ny, occurred at 10 a. m. and was largely
attended. His death seals the life of a
| noble young man.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report.
D Bilking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
CHICAGO’S MAYOR KILLED.
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Called from tlie Dinner Table anti Bhot
Down In Ilia Own House.
Chicago, Oct. 80.— The sudden and
tragic death of Mayor Carter Harrison
Saturday night has caused a sensation
which overshadows the great closing
event of the World's Fair, as well as
casts a dark gloom over the entire sec
tion.
Tlie mayor was at the dinner table at
his house, at the corner of Ashland and
Jackson boulevards. His unmarried
daughter, Sophia, and several servants
were the only olhor persons in the house.
Some yne rang the doorbell. A servant
went to the door. She found a slender,
poorly dressod young man standing on
the doorstep. He said:
“I want to see Mayor Harrison. I
have business with him.”
The man did not sit down, but stood
in the hall while the servant went into
the dining room to tell tlie mayor that
he was wanted. Mr. Harrison, when
the servant notified him that some ono
wished to see him, went at ouce towards
the hall. As ho passed through the
doorway from the dining room, which
opens into the hall, the man stepped for
ward quickly to meet him. The stranger
said:
“Mr. Harrison, 1 have come to see you.
You have made promises to me, and you
have not kept them. I have come to get
satisfaction. I worked hard for you in
your campaign. You promised me an
office and yon have not given it to me.”
The mayor looked surprised. It is not
known whether he recognized the man,
but it is believed lie did. He had a won
derful memory, and knew everyliody in
Chicago who had any connection with
politics. He replied:
“My man, I have not broken my
promise to you. There is nothing for
which I owe you satisfaction.”
Tne stranger immediately thrust his
hand into his coat pocket and pulled a
88-calibre seven-shot Smith & Wesson
revolver. At the distance of only a lew
paces be leveled it at the mayor and fired
throe shots. One entered the mayor’s
breast, another his stomach and the
third went through his hand.
The mayor fell in the doorway, but
retained consciousness. The butler,who
was in the diningroom, ran forward at
the report of the pistol stmts. The juan
turned iiis pis till upon fTie Tmuer .-VFS7!
fired one shot at him, but miss d. Then
he thrust the pistol hack in his pocket,
rushed down tho hall, out of the door,
down the front stops and disappeared in
the darkness.
The servants and the mayor’s daugh
ter lifted Mr. Harrison up and carried
him into his room and placed him upon
liis bed. Ho was bleeding considerably
awl was extremely weak, but was still
conscious. But ho recognized tho dead
ly nature of his wounds. He said to
those bending over him:
“I have received my death wound.
You cannot do anything for me.”
In 10 minutes half a dozen of tho best
doctors in Chicago were in the house,
but tho mayor’s words woro prophetic.
They could do nothing for him. Ho
spoke two or three times, but exactly 17
minutes after ho was shot ho died.
PrendergAAt Surrender*.
A minute or two after the mayor was
shot tho policeman on tho beat gave the
alarm. About 8:30 o’clock a man, ap
parently about 24 years old, walked into
tho Desplaines street police station. Ser
geant Frank McDonald was nt tho desk.
Another police officer and tlie police tel
egraph operator were in the room.
The man walked deliberately up to
tho desk arid said ungrammatically but
simply to Sergeant McDonald:
“1 am the man. I done it. I done
the shooting. ’
Then he pulled from his pocket the
pistol with which he hail shot Mayor
Harrison and placed it upon tho desk.
Then lie said again:
“I done it. I killed him. That is the
pistol I done it with. I worked for him
in liis last campaign for mayor. 110
promised to appoint me corporation
counsel, and he failed to keep his prom
ise. That is why I shot him.”
The man's appearance and his manner
indicated insanity. Moreover, he was
very weak; in fact he was so weak that
he would have fallen had not the s r
geant pulled up a chair and shoved him
down in it.
“What is your name?” asked Sergant
McDonald.
“Eugene Patrick Prendcrgast,” re
plied the man.
The sergeant asked no more questions,
but locked the man up.
llin Wonderful Career.
The career of Chicago’s most famous
mayor was terminated just when life’s
i cup of happiness seemed filled to the
brim for him. The plaudits of the
: crowds who cheered his every utterance
ut the fair grounds must yet have been
tingling happily in his ears. His wed
ding lay was set for Nov. 7.
O. all the politicians who have come
and gone in the political arena of Hli
i i ois, none was ever more picturesque
I than he. He was the ideal World’s Fair
| mayor, because he was at home with all
nationalities. His versatility did not
confine itself entirely to the matter of
nr.Uonalit.e His cr' -d;, rli mi o
• ciai and political, w.-re mu > or 1
! elastic, so that lie was perfectly at ease
i with members of any denomination.
Carter Harrison was bom in Fayetto
county, Kv., Feb. 23,1825. He received
a classical education, graduating from
Yale college in 1843. He studied law,
but was a farmer in his native county
until 1835, when he wont to Chicago.
He did not immediately enter into act
ive practice at the bar, but was a real
estate owner and operator. He was se
lected as a Cook county commissioner
in 1871 and served until 1874. Ho rep
resented Illinois in the Forty-fourth con-
I gress, being elected as a Democrat. Dur
| ing his first term he was as dumb as an
5 CENTS A COPY
oyster. He was re-elocted, however, to
the Forty-fifth congress, his socond term
expiring Dec. 8, 1877.
From a very poor loginning, when, at
a banquet in Philadelphia, Mr. Harrison
attempted to make a speech to tho toast
“Agriculture the Basis of Commerce,”
and made a narrow escape from igno
minious failure, ho rapidly rose to the
distinction of being the best after dinner
talker, the best campaign speaker and
one of tho most eloquent and convincing
orators in the northwest, and his name
was continually in the public prints.
Not until '79, however, when he became
the Democratic candidate for and was
elected mayor, did the partisan press of
tho Windy City begin to vilify him. But
despite the most strenuous opposition he
was elected mayor five times.
Harrison was probably tho host of
Chicago’s long list of mayors as far as
the welfare of tho city was concerned.
He had the wisdom to see that a very
necessary condition of political prefer
ment was a clean political as well as
business record.
In 1880 ho aspired to the mayoralty
again, but the Democratic convention
refused to nominate him, so lie bolted it.
Not a newspaper in Chicago during this
campaign had a good word to say for
him. Ho ran on an independent ticket,
cut tho Democratic veto squarely apart
and a Republican was elected mayor
with less than 2,000 votos to spare over
Harrison, who hail about 500 less than
the regular Democratic nominee. That
election was a lesson to Harrison, and
ho bought a newspaper—The Times.
When the next mayoralty came round,
two years later, lio untamed tho nomina
tion, anil was supported by Tho Times.
The Tribune, Herald, Inter-Ocoan, Post,
News, Record and Journal fought him
bitterly, yet he defeated the combination
by over 20,000 votos.
Hitt Third Courtship.
Carter Harrison was married in 1855
to Sophy Preston. Sho died in Europe
in 1876, In 1882 he married Marguerite
E. Stearns, who died in 1887.
In August last, news of his approach
ing marriage surprised tho Chicagoans,
for he was twico a widower, and it was
generally believed that the tender pas
sion was now doad in his heart. It was
learned that the woman of his choice
was Miss Annie Howard, of New Or
leans, daughter of the late Charles T.
i Howard, who in hi# time was one of the
lottery kings of New Orleans. Howard
died about eight years ago, leaving a
fortune estimated at <120,000,000, of
which Miss Howard's portion was said
to lie <3,000,000. Miss Howard is 29
years old.
CLEVELAND PLEASED.
Tho Presldont Wutchcd Every Htag:« of the
Repeal BUI.
Washington, Oct. 81.—Tho president
was a very interested man in the pro
ceedings of tho sonate during the last
hours of the repeal legislation. He was
advised of every step takeu, and was in
constant communication with the Capi
tol. As fast ns there was a change in
the speakers ho was notified, and as the
vote began to lie taken tho president was
at the other end of the wire connecting
tho White House with the various de
partments. He was notified of the suc
cess of the measure beforo the vote was
recapitulated, and simultaneous with
the announcement of the result from
the vice president’s desk, the wires
ticked off the information to Mr. Cleve
land that the battle was over, and the
day won.
In the Senate.
The resolution containing tho authori
ity of the committee on agriculture to
investigate agricultural depression dur
ing the recess and next session, was
passed.
Mr. Gorman, in ropiy to a querry put
by Mr. Hoar, said he knew of no agree
ment as to tho time of adjournment.
The Chineso exclusion bill was an im
portant matter that had to be disposed
of, and until that was done no one could
say when congress would adjourn.
The conference report on the urgency
of the deficiency hill, presented by Mr.
Cockrell, showed that the confreres
could not agree on the appropriation of
<22,088 to jiay senator’s clerks and per
diem clerks during the recess of the
Fifty-first congress.
This has been repeatedly nasseil by
the senate, and on motion of Mr. Cock
rell tho senate further insisted upon it c
amendment. i
In the House.
At 12:50 Secretary of the Senate Cox
appeared at the main door of the house >
and delivered the silver repeal bill to
Speaker Crisp. <
At 1:30 o'clock Mr. Livingston, of;
Georgia, made a request that the silver j
repeal hill be taken up at once for im-!
mediate consideration.
Mr. Bland and other silver men;
promptly objocted and the bill went over j
under the rules. j
Speaker Crisp expects the house to]
dispose of the silver repeal bill at once, 1
and that congress will adjourn Thurs-J
day or Friday.
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