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VHV AlfkddBakkr Wm. B. Yocno, President. Cashier. AUGUSTA SAYINGS BANK, 811 BROAD STREET, AtraVSTA, GKEOSa-X-a.. Transacts a general banking business; com- : meieial paper di-counted and loans made n approved collateral. I .-sues certificates of deposits payable on demand, drawing interest if left three months or longer. Interest paid on saving accounts. [THE PLANTERS LOAN an! SAVINGS BANK Organized 1S7D. Capital Paid ix $ 100,000 Volume 14. lehl8,’S):i—bv Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, August 10, 1895. Number 16 | Counting Room in National Dank Building : Oldest Savings Bank in Eastern Georgia. I Interest Paid on Deposits and Compounded ! every six Months. j Letters of Credit and Exchange Sold on j ail parts of the World. | mayll,'95—by IT IS BABB IN IOWA. ALABAMA MINERS STRIKE. He is Nominated’ for Governor by Acclamation. DIVIDED ON THE SILVER QUESTION. The Ticket Is Completed, and the Finan cial Policy of the National Plat form is Endorsed—The Plat form Adopted. MAKSiTATATmvy, la., Aug-. 8.—The Democratic Convention of the state was held here yesterday, there being- a very large attendance. The convention was called to order in the Odeon opera house by Chairman Howard. The body contained 1,070 delegates, every- county being- fully represented. Judge Nathaniel French, of Davenport, was made temporary chairman and addressed thc-convention. After speaking- on state issues, mainly the local option law, Mr. French took up the currency question, and debated it from the gold standpoint. The following platform was adopted: The democratic party of Iowa in convention assembled, reaffirms the national platform ot the party adopted in Chicago in 1892and points with satisfaction to the evidences of the wis dom of that convention of the results accom plished according to its promises, to the evi dences of returning prosperity, the restoration of wages and the re-establishment of industry upon a prosperous basis—conditions which have i....orted congratulations from even the republicans of Iowa. We declare the rescue of the finances of the country from the baleful effects of the Sherman law, the repeal of the un-Amcrican federal election law and the up rooting of Mclvinleyism to be works worthy of the history and prestige of the great demo cratic party, and of a courageous democratic administration. We reaffirm the following portion of the seventh blank of the last national democratic convention: “Wc hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and ex changeable value, or bo adjusted by such safe guards of legalization" as shall insure the main- tenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the market and in the payment of debts, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin.” We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most de fenceless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency. We condemn the cowardice and trickery of the republican party of Iowa in failing to meet in its last state platform, any of the issues im portant and vital to the interests of our state and we ask upon it the sober judgment of an intelligent people. We believe that the mulct law fails to meet the requirements of a good excise statue. It is unfair as between communities and imposes hardships upon property owners, and it com promises the honor of the state in declaring the sale of liquors a crime and condoning the onense for a money consideration, We repeat our demand of the past live years fora local opition high license law, and on behalf of the commercial interests of our state we favor a law permitting the manufacture of liquors, thus affording a market for the products of the farm and labor of the state and. saving to our people The enormous sums now expended in other states. We favor the election of United St.ites sena tors by direct vote of the people. We favor just and liberal pensions to all de serving veterans. We reiterate our unflinching opposition to all monopolies and trusts and call for enact ments which will abolish combines vf all kinds. We demand that our state institutions be governed by a single non-partisan board of control, which can intelligently comprehend their relative wants and economically and justly apportion among the whole that which their just requirements demand. We favor the speedy completion of the Hen nepin canal and the deepening of the water ways from the Great Lakes to the ocean, so as to enable ocean vessels to pass through. Judge W. F. Babb, of Mount Pleas ant, a sound money man, was nomina ted for governor by acclamation on motion of Ex-Congressman "Walter I. Ilayos, of Clinton. In the same man ner the nomination for lieutenant gov ernor went to S. L. Bestow, of Chari ton, who has been lieutenant governor and is an advocate of free silver. He was the candidate of the free silver men for the permanent chairmanship. The nomination for railroad commis sioner went to Colonel George Jenkins, of Dubuque, and for state superinten dent to L. B. Parshall, of Maquoketa There were two candidates for supreme judge and a ballot was required. C. Harper, ex-state senator of Burlington was nominated defeating E. E. Hasner, of Independence. The sense of the delegates was twice taken on the silver question, the party in this state is squarely on record as opposed to free coinage at the ratio of 10 to 1. The first test was indirect, the free coinage men and the opposition having candidates for permanent chair man. J. II. Shields, of Dubuque, a champion of sound money-, was chosen by a vote of 051 to 4L7. Later, when a direct proposition was made to substi tute a free silver plank for the reaffir mation of the national financial plank of 1892 contained in the platform as it came from the committee on resolu tions, the silver men again met defeat by a vote of 651 to 420. Judge Babb was introduced and made a conservative address. lie asserted that a party platform was no place for legislative detail, and that such was coinage ratios. He declared himself a bimetallist and he thought most demo crats were. He endorsed the platform adopted and said that to congress, should he left the work of providing for the coinage of both gold and silver. Judge W. F. Babb, nominated for governor, is a natiye of Iowa. lie was born in DesMoines county, forty-five years ago. He entered Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant, and in 1862 entered and served two y'ears in the Union army. Returning he finished his university course, studied law and settled down to practice his profession in Mount Pleasant, where he lias since resided, lie has been successful at the bar, and has twice been elected to the bench in a district strongly republican, largely because of his personal popu larity. He is in demand as a lecturer. He is widely known in Iowa through his work in connection with the Meth odist church. There are Troubles ».t Several Mines nnd They go Oct. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 8.—Three hundred white miners employed by the Sloss Iron & Steel Company at Brook- side, Cardiff and Brazil niiues went out on a strike yesterday. The trouble is not about wages, but other matters. The miners contend that a committee of miners was appointed some time ago i to call upon Superintendent Culver- house and refused the appointment of a check weighman, and that thereupon Culverhouse discharged two members of the committee from the company’s employ. On Sunday a mass meeting was held near Cardiff by the miners and it was decided to renew the request for the check weighman, ask pay for “dead work” in the mines and also request the reinstatement of the miners’ com mitteemen. Another committee with these requests called on Superintendent I Culverhouse, and it is said he received them courteously, promising to rein state the discharged men. However, yesterday it is said when the discharged j men started to work this privilege was ! denied to them, as well as to the new committeemen. The miners met at Brookside also decided to strike. This they did yes terday. All is quiet, hut no white men I are at work at Brookside, Cardiff or Brazil. The negro miners are still at work and are not concerned. Just wT.at the outcome of the strike will be cannot be foretold. Nearly one hundred negro furnace laborers imported by the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Company to work ! in this city struck because of a refusal i by the company to grant them an in- | crease of 25 cents per day in wages. ] Convicts will he put in their places and deputy sheriffs have been sent to the scene, where a number of the strikers i were loafing, but no trouble has yet oc- | curred. The officers say they will have ! no trouble in getting labor at former | prices, §1 per day. THE RACE WAR. ALABAMA EM BALM ERS. They Meet at Blount l’ermanent <>! Birmingham, Ala., print's and Form sanitation. Aug. 8.—At ! meeting of the state hoard of embalm- ers held at Blount Springs yesterday, thirty-seven applicants, were licensed to practice the art of embalming. The embalmersand funeral directors association of Alabama was organized with the following officars: L. W. Ivold, of Ozark, president; T. S. Bagby, of Oxford, vice president; J. D. Brislin, of | Selma, secretary; A. YV. Woodliff, of S Gadsden, treasurer, and P. B. Dixon, ! of Mobile, representative to the National Association which meets in j Atlanta, Ga., October 3. i The association unanimously endor- I sed the governor in his appointment of | the board of examiners, they being | men well qualified To fill the position | on said hoard. After transacting rou tine business, the association adjourned to meet in Montgomery at the call of the president. Brunswick 1’aper Suspends. Brunswick. Ga., Aug. 8.—The Daily Register has suspended publication, be ing heavily in debt and unable to meet bills. Dr, Price’s cream Baking Powder Most Perfect Made. REAR ADMIRAL STRICKEN. The Venerable Daniel Anunen Attacked l>y Vertigo in Washington. Washington, Aug. S.—Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, retired, while on a vis it to the nay'y department yesterday morning, was prostrated by an attack of vertigo, superinduced by the exces sive heat. lie was treated temporarily by Surgeon-General Wyman in his of fice and then sent to his home at Am- mendale, Aid., accompanied by Assis tant Surgeon Guest. The attack is be lieved to be serious in view of the advanced age of the admiral. DIED ON HIS WIFE’S GRAVE. A. K. \V. Weller, ii Cleveland Merchant. Thus Commits Suicide. Cleveland, O., Aug. S.—A. E. W. Weller, a well-known commission mer chant at 153 Merchant street, went to Lake View cemetery yesterday, and lying down on his wife’s grave, shot himself through the heart, dying al most immediately afterwards. Mrs. Weller died about a month ago and the husband has been despondent ever since. This fact, coupled with some business trouble, is supposed to have led to the suicide. LITTLE IS THE NOMINEE. lie Had No Opposition In the Kace—Judge ( ozort Honored. Columbus, Ga., Aug. S.-—At noon yes terday the county democratic executive committee consolidated the returns of yesterday’s primary and found 396 votes cast, all for John D. Little, who was declared the nominee. Judge A. W. Cozart was elected a member of the fourth district democratic executive committee, from Muscogee. Kenneth Bazemore had the good fnitune to receive a smail bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoee Remedy when three members of his family were sick with dysentery. This one (small bottie cured them all and he had some left which he gave to Geo. \V. Baker, a prominent merchant of the place, Lewiston, X. C., and it cured him of the same complaint. When troubled with dysentery, diarrhoea, colic or cholera morbus, give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the result. The praise that ^naturally follows its introduction and use has made it very popular. 25c and 50c bottles for sale by L R Ford, drug gist, Waynesboro, Ga, FIVE BURNED TO DEATH, Hlx Went Home Drunk and Accidentally Set His House on Fire. WiiiTESUURG, Ivy., Aug. 8.—News reached here from Big Stone Gap, Va., of the burning of Eli Hix and four children. Ilix had come home drunk and built a fire in the kitchen, which in some way set the house on fire in the night. Mrs. Ilix rescued one of iier five children. Hix was fatally burned. Children Cry for. Pitcher's Castor^ AU Is Quiet but Threatening at the Spring: Valley Mines. Princeton, 111., Aug. 8.—There has been no violence at Spring Valley other than the Italians preventing the coal company from operating their mines. As a result the streets are still crowded with miners, meetings mostly secret, are being held in various parts of the city, and the situation is being discuss ed on the street coiners. Sheriff Atherton of this city, left Princeton at 10 o’clock in the morning for Spring Valley with armed deputy sheriffs. The deputies are well armed and if any Italians or any one else commits depre dations or violates the law in their presence and refuse to desist they will open fire at once. The reports of out rages committed along the railroad yes terday on the fleeing women and child ren are fully confirmed. War Declared off, and Work Is Resumed. Princeton, 111., Aug. 8.—The war on negroes by the Italians of Spring Val ley has later been declared off. The Spring Valley Coal Company will he permitted to resume operation and the negroes to return to their homes. This AN ELECTRIC AGE, THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH. Is Truly Indicated by the Combi nation of Two Companies. REVOLUTION IN RAILWAY LOCOMOTION The Westinghome and the Baldwin Com panies Unite in Realisation of Elec tricity, in a Great Measure, Supplanting Steam. Philadelphia, Aug. 8.-—An impor tant combination was announced today between the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh and the Baldwin Locomotive Works of this city. The combination is solely one of interests and not of capital. Each company will retain its own iden tity and carry on its own lines of work except in the construction of locomo tives. The articles_of agreement were offi cially ratified yesterday by Burnham, Williams & Co., comprising the Bald- Hot.. Hoke Smith Says it to the Fiai*« fol Young, or Old Men. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 3.—lion. Iloko Smith,-secretary of the interior, in an interview with the Manufacturer’s Record in regard to the business out look of the South, based on investiga tion during his recent trip say's: CHOP CONDITIONS. Unusually I ne Yield of Corn in the Southern States. Washington, Aug. 1.—The weather bureau in its report of crop conditions for the week ending with July says: Drouth continues in western Ohio and is effecting crops unfavorably in portions of PannsyTvania, South Caro- “I have never seen the South look so j; na Georgia, southern Texas, Kansas prosperous, especially Georgia. Hard anf j Nebraska. In southern Michigan times are rapidly becoming extinct.and j d rou th has been relieved, but in the I belive that the Southern states are northern part of the state the rainfall moving on to the most prosperous b as been insufficient. win Locomotive Works, and the dirce- action was taken by a mass meeting of i tors of the Wcstiughouse Company will white miners which assembled in the ! act today. The announcemant of the public square. About five hundred j consolidation, which affects united miners were present, the largest part j capitals of §2,000,000, was made by the of whom were English-speaking. In-j members of the firm of Buruham, Wil- terpreters were present for the Italians and French. A resolution was offered to the effect that the miners of Spring Valley would recognize the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States which guarantees to every person equal liberties without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude, and that the miners of Spring Valley would pledge their earnest support to all of ficers in the enforcement of the law. After being interpreted the resolu tion was put to a vote and was declared carried by an overwhelming majority. I About fifty Italians voted in the nega- I tive. A committee was appointed to j wait upon Manager S. II. Balzell of the j coal company to inform him of the j action of the meeting and to report that miners were ready and anxious to re turn to work in the mines. A CORNER ON ORANGES. A Boston Firm Buys in the West India Crop for Three Years. Jacksonville, Fla. Aug. 8.—The British steamer Jason, Captain Frazier, will sail from here today for Jamaica, carrying a cargo of orange box mate rial and also many expert orange pickers and packers. These orange pickers and packers are the employes of Williams & Hubbard, of the Boston Fruit Company, whfbh has cornered the Jamaica orange crop 1 world, for three 3-ears to come, or until they expeet that the Florida trees will be in bearing condition again and knock out trust prices. A shrewd piece of busi- liatns & Co., who said: We have long been thinking that the Baldwin Locomotive Works should take a prominent position in the man ufacture of electrical engines, but we found the electrical field so well cover ed by patents that an outsider must work under great disadvantage. The negotiations between the two compa nies to overcome this difficulty have been going on for more than two months, and we are now ready to join and undertake any contracts for loco motives run by the electrical power. David Leonard Barnes, a railroad en gineer expert of Chicago, lias been se lected as the joint superintendent of the companies to overlook tiie construc tion of these locomotives. No immediate extension of the Bald win plant is contemplated as a result of the deal. The combination will mean, however, the eiuploymeat of a considerable number of men, both here and in I’ittsburgh. The Baldwin works have already experimented in the con struction of electrical engines. One was built recently for Henry Villard of the North American Company, and a number of small trucks have been built for elevated railroad use. A revolution in the matter of railway locomotion is confidently expected. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, which are the largest of their kind in the laving a capacity of 1,009 loco motives a 3 r ear, were founded by Mat thias W. Baldwin in 1831. The first building on the present site was built in 1835, and the plant has gradual13- in creased until now covers fourteen acres epoch in their history. Georgia far mers will make this year better corn crops and raise more meat than ever before. It is safe to say- that the food supply of that state if properly distri buted will be sufficient for two years consumption. “Cotton is sufficiently- advanced to in sure? a good eron, and while Texas is behind probably in production, Georgia and the adjoining states will furnish an average yield - ” The secretary is enthusiastic over the signs of prosperity' among the fruit growers of Georgia. “More peaches.” he said, “have been raised and market ed than ever in the history of the state. They are large and juicy', and in the eastern markets have almost en tirely' supplied California peacheS. The watermelon crop, too, was a tremend ous one. and in most parts of the state a profitable one. Grape growing is also making rapid progress.” Secretary Smith says he believes that the industrial boom in the south which was temporarily set hack by the late panic, is on again. Cotton manufac turing was never more successful in the south than it is today, and all through the cotton belt new mills are being erected and old mills are being en larged. Much of this is being done by home capital although a number of New England people are making large in vestments in eottou manufacturing companies in the south. In the iron district of Alabama, a number of new furnaces have recently' gone into blast, and the workmen in that section are now fully employed, and many of them at increased wages. All over the south the demand for labor is constantly' in creasing and at good prices. Condi tions were never better for a return of prosperity unexampled in the history of that section. "If our people continue in their present conservative way,much of the flow of eastern capital which has hitherto travelled elsewhere, will come to us. “The place for a young man, an old man, a rich man or a poor man, willing to work aDd anxions to improve his fortune," concluded the secretary, “is in the South.” The general outlook for corn is ex cellent. although unfavorable reports TUB RACE IS IV OB —over to good health and rendered impervious to disease when the blood is pure and the liver active. For the liver is the sentinel which per- eived from portions of Nebraska j mits or forbids the germs of disease and Kansas, and it is reported as late in North Dakota. In Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, it is making rapid to enter the circulation of the blood. You ought to be germ-proof against Grip, Malaria, or Consump- growth, and earing. In Iowa the best £( or . y OU -will be—if you take Dr, ; 7 . _ . WANT MRS. NOBLES TO HANG. ritiz •ns of Twiggs Unanimously Oppose Commutation ot Her Sentence. ness was done by' this concern. The monied men of the firm and a business of ground. The capital of the firm, man thoroughly alive to every' point of I which is not incorporated, is generally vantage, hurried over to Jamaica imme-j placed ,at §10,000,900. The Westing- diatelv after the Florida freeze and se- ! house Electric & Manufacturing Corn- cured leases of'a large number of bear- j pany is incorporated with a capital of mg orange groves. These leases were obtained for a period of three years. The boxes on the Jason are his, and will be used in which to pack the first part of the crop, which will be ready for shipment in September. The beauty of the orange groves in Jatniaca is that they' bear two crops a year, one in Sep tember and the other in March. They do not bear as prolificly' at a time as the orange trees in Florida do, but in a year produce fully' »as many oranges. There is now on board the Jason enough material to manufacture into fifty thousand boxes. As soon as these are filled the Jason will come back for more. She will probably' bring hack on her return voyage the first shipment of Jamaica oranges which, on account of their earliness, ought to command fancy prices. 510,000,000. 'The onlv formidable rival to the Westinghouse Company in the electri cal world is the General Electric Com pany of New York. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company', the Union Switch Company, and a number of small cor porations are under the control of the parent company. Each one has its own province, but by the agreement with the Baldwin Works each will do all it can to perfect and increase the business of manufacturing electrical locomo tives. Danville, Ga., Aug. 8.—At a mass meeting of Twiggs county' citizens held yesterday, unanimous action was taken opposing the commutation of Mrs. No bles’ sentence. Strong resolutions were passed protesting against the ex ercise of executive clemency in her case. Some of the best citizens of the com munity' were present and made speeches. Public sentiment is very strung on the subject, and is intended to counteract the petitions and expres sions in the woman's behalf. JEALOUS OVER THE BELL. WOMEN ARE DUELISTS. Senator Marion Butler Wishes it to Travel Over North Carolina Soil. Charlotte, N. C., Aug. S.—United States Senator Marion Butler in a com munication to the Observer, regrets that the Liberty Bell should he sent around by Tennessee on its way to the Atlanta Exposition and not pass through North Carolina, a state in which the first battle of the revolution, Moore’s Creek, &qd one of the last de cisive ones, Guilford Courthouse, were fought. Quilford Courthouse is a few miles from GrefiDSboro-and the bell, if era portion of this city, W. L. Ingram sent through 'North Carolina would-] shot and instantly killed John I-Vwell, who wag already a married man with a family, ran away with and married In gram’s daughter, claiming’ that he a divorce from his wife. ' It is Fewell had said if Ingram- ever men- pass there as it would Charlotte, where the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence was signed, May' 20, 1S75, and also King’s Mountain in sight of the place where Ferguson was defeated. Senator Butler mentions these facts and urges that the bell’s itinerary be changed so that it shall pass through this state. A FATHER DROWNED While Trying to Have His Daughter From a Waterv Grave. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 8.—Mr. Thomas Moberly, of Richmond, Kentucky', was drowned at Virginia Beach about noon yesterday while endeavoring to save his daughter who went beyond her depth while bathing, being unable to swim, he drowned before reaching his daughter. The young lady- was saved by- Mr. Greenwood, of Norfolk. My boy was taken with a disease resembling bloody fiux. The first thing I thought of was Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrho? Remedy. Two doses of it settled the matter and cured him sound and well. I heartily recommend this remedy to all persons suffering fram a like complaint. I will answer any inquiries regarding it when stamp is inclosed. 1 refer to any county official as to my' reliability. Wm. Roach, J. P., Primroy, Camp bell Co, Tenn. For sale by L R. Ford, druggist, Waynesboro, Ga. Itch on humanJtmange on Horses, dogs and all stock, cured in 30 minutes by Wool- ford’s Sanitary Lotion. This never fails Sold by Whitehead *fc Co., druggist, Way uesboro, Ga. Bloody Buttle at Clarksville, Tenn., Be tween Two of Them. Clarksville, Tenn., Aug. 8.—Two women fought a bloody' battle early yesterday in the darkness in South Clarksville, and one of them. Eliza Hale, is thought to be fatally wounded, being almost hacked to pieces Kitty Wisdom charged the Hale women with being intimate with her husband,broke open the door of her room with an axe, and then attacked the Hale woman with the weapon, cutting several gashes in her face, neck and arms. crop ever grown in that state is prom ised. In the southern states an unusu ally' fine crop is now practically assured. The condition of cotton is probably less favorable than last week. In Lou isiana and the lowlands of Arkansas, there has been too much rain and the crop continues grassy in Mississippi. In Texas it is of irregular size and from one to three weeks late, and com plaints of shedding are received from the Caroiinas, Florida and Louisiana. Harvesting of spring wheat is advan cing in South Dakota and Minnesota, and will begin in North Dakota this week. Tobacco is not doing well in Ohio, but in Wisconsin, Maryland and Kentucky it is growing finely, the out look in Maryland being exceptionally favorable; in Virginia the general con ditiou is promising. TESTED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Ad a Result of Their Over Promptness Two May Die, Another Injured. Camden, N. J., Aug. 1.—After a lengthy meeting last night the Camden fire commissioners walked down to Sixth and Royden streets and turned in an experimental alarm from the box located there. They wanted to test the promptness of the department. Com panies numbers 1 and 2 responded to the alarm at break-neck speed. The hose cart from No. 1 company turned wildly from Broadway into Royden street and its momentum sent it careen ing completely' over. Two men were buried under it. They were Assistant Chief Samuel Busine and Wilkin Brom ley', the driver. A third rider, hose- man William B. Jones was thrown clear and escaped serious injury. The other two men were hauled out and sent to their homes in a patrol wagon. Both are so badly injured that they may die. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. When your flesh is reduced below a healthy standard, when you are troubled with pimples and boils, or if you have dizzy, weak and sleep less spells — it’s best to heed the warning. Build up your strength, purify the blood, and set all the organs of the body into activity, by taking the “ Discovery ” It’s guaranteed to benefit or cure all the diseases re sulting from impure blood or in active liver, or the money paid is refunded. For a perfect and perma nent cure of Catarrh, take Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Its proprietors offer $500 reward for an incurable case of Ca tarrh in the Head. Costs only 50 cents. INSURGENTS DEFEATED. paniarris THEY FOUGHT IN TEXAS. JOHN FEWELL KILLED. He Married His Slayer’s D.iu^Iiter While Havin'; a Wife. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 8.—A special to the Morning News from B iinbridge, Ga., say's: Yesterday in the southeast- tioned the matter to him again he would kill him. Ingram says nothing except that it was in self defense. They Increase Wages. Bellmonte, Penn., Aug. 8.—The miners and furnace men of the Valen tine Company of this place, have been given a voluntary- increase in wages of ten cents per day'. The order effects four hundred men, and it is expected that another advance of a like amount will shortly he made. The company has orders ahead for nearly a year’s work. The Pencil Factory. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 8.—The walls of the new pencil factory- at Alton Park are up as far as the first lloor and a force of thirty- men are pushing the work as rapidly as possible. The machinery has nearly all been pur chased, and J. C. Wall, Jr., who has se cured the contract, will begin setting it in a few days. Poisoned by Ice Cream. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 8. —E. H. Love and wife, two daughters and one son, and the family- cook, were poisoned by eating ice cream. All are confined to their beds, but are believed to be out of danger. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder Forty Years the Standard. ( apt. Bacon Myrick Dead. Atlanta, Aug. 8.—A special to the Constitution from Amerieus, Ga.. states that Captain Bacon Myrick, editor of Thnes-Reeorder, died there at 1 o’clock this morning. It was lutended as a Test Case for the Texas Officials. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 8.—A 34- round prize fight was pulled off at Roekport. just south of this city last night, before 500 spectators, between Billy Jordan and Fred Rose, pugilists of state reputation. The affair had been widely advertised and was «, feeler to test the attitude of Governor Culberson toward prize fighting. The contest, which was declared a draw was not interfered with, and the Flor ida Athletic Club men are now confi dent that there will be no interference with the Corbett-Fitzsimmons meeting. ROBBED A RAILROAD OFFICE, And, ristol in Hand, Backed out and Made Good His Escape. SuRCis, Mich., Aug 8.—A masked man entered the Grand Rapids «fc Indi ana Railroad depot here last night and demanded that Henry Dobberden. the night operator and A. S. McCormick, hold up their hands. He secured 825 of the company's money' from the oper ator and some money from McCormick and then backed out of the depot with his revolver pointed toward the men and escaped in tke darkness. They Make Three Attacks on the and are Repulsed Kvery Time. Havana. Aug. 1.—A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba says that a band of insurgents made an attack upon Fort Mijiol, between Songo and Poncips last evening and were repulsed A large band of insurgents made an attack upon a small detachment of Spanish troops on the estate of Isabel, in the Guantanamo district. A desperate- tight ensued with the result that the rebels were driven back with heavy' loss. General Lugne reports from Santa Clara that the Spanish column under Col. Carrido met a band of in surgents under the rebel leader Rod riguez yesterday and dispersed them, killing Rodriguez and capturing a quantity of arms, ammunition, etc. OX FIRST BALLOT McL auxin is Nominated for Gov ernor of Mississippi. THE OTHER NOMINEES ON THE TICKET Senator (ieorjjo vras Chairman and Free Silver was the Key Note—The Nomi nation for Attorney-General was Deferred Until Today. ORE TRAIN WRECKED. ISrakeman Injured and a Negro Huricd Under the Cars. Helena, Mont., Aug. 1.—One of the worst wrecks that has taken place for a long time on the Mountain Central occurred to an ore train about, a mile and a half east of Wickner yesterday. A wheel broke on one of the cars just as it struck a small bridge, breaking it and letting thirteen cars drop through. The brakemen were on the top of the cars and jumped when they were going through the bridge. One was badly injured; the others escaped unhurt. A negro who was beating his way, was covered by the wreck and killed. GENERATOR EXPLODES And Kills One'Mnu and Slightly Iajarin Another!' Richmond, Va._ Aug. 8.—By the ex plosion of a soda water generator at Gonnelia Brothers' store, yesterday morning. Peter Marclietto, aged 16 years was so badly injured that he died in ten minutes, and his brother, Louis, aged 33, was slightly hurt. Both the young men were natives of Italy, and nephew and employees of the Con- nellas. Knights of the Maccabees. The state Commander writes us from Lincoln, Neb, as follows: “Af ter trying other medicines for what seemed to be a very obstinate cough in our two children, we tried Dr. King’s New. Discovery and at the end of two days (he cough entirely left them. We will not be without it hereafter,as our experience proves that it cures where all other reme dies fail.”—Signed F. W. Stevens, State Com. Why not give this great medicine a trial, as it is guaranteed and trial bottles are free at Ford & Fulcher’s drug store. Regular size 50c., and $1.00. Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six nours by the “New Great Month American Kidney Cure.” This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, buck and every part of the urinary passages in male «r female. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remeday. Sold by Whitehead & Co., druggists, Waynes boro, Ga. Children Cry for htchof ? s Castoria. 1 —Subscriptions are always cash 11 May I)o as Mncli for You. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irvington, 111., writes that he had a severe kidney trouble for many years, with severe pains in his back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so called kidney cures but without any good result. About a year ago he began the use of Elec tric. Bitters and found relief at once. Electric Bitters is especially adapt ed to cure of all kidney and liver troubles and often gives almost in stant relief. One trial will prove our statement Price only 50c. for large bpttie. At Ford & Fulcher’s drug store.. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 8.—The Missis sippi Democratic State Convention was called to order at 13 o’clock yesterday by Chairman J. B. Boothe, who made an enthusiastic free silver speech, urg ing harmony' in the democratic ranks, and naming Hon. J. C. Longstreet, nephew of the late Senator, as tempor ary' chairman, whose nomination was uuanimous. The convention then ad journed. The convention re-assembled at 3 o’clock, when C. C. Miller, of Lauder dale and Senator George, of Carroll, were placed in nomination for perma nent chairman, resulting: Miller, 131; George, 215. Senator George took his seat among the most terriffic applause. Senator George made a red-hot free silver speech on taking the chair. After the conclusion cf Senator George’s speech, on taking the chair as permanent chairman, a resolution was adopted that no nominating speeches should be made, and ex-Senator A. J. McT .iSurin, of Rankin, was chosen gov ernor by acclamation. lie was'called for vociferously' and responded in a short speech, thanking the convention for the distinguished honor. No man was ever nominated governor of Mis sissippi bv acclamation before. Mr. Mc Laurin,, who is a native of Rankin county, is just 44 vears of age. He first came into notice in 1894 when elected to fill Walthall’s unexpired term in the United States Senate. He cham pioned the cause of free silver, and the first day he took his seat, voted against the confirmation of i'lornblower for the Supreme court bench. His record in the Senate made him thousands of friends at home, and when he an nounced his ambition to be governor, he swept aside all opposition as chaff in a whirl-wind, the tw<-> other aspirants abandoning the race some time since. Other nominations followed in rapid succession, all on the first ballot, as follows: Lieut governor, Col. J. N. Jones, of Wilkinson: secretary of state, J. T. Power, of Hinds; auditor, Col. W D. Holder, of LaFayette; treasurer, II. C. May, of Simpson. Pending the nomination for attorney general, over which there will he a hard struggle, the convention adjourn ed over until today. smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable pby- Sieians, aa the damage they will do is ten fold to the good yon eau., possibly derive from f -ilrm-a-jgho ara tnm- them. Hall’s CatarrUCu reauanu fact u red by F. J. Cheney A Co,. Toledo, jO . contains no Yellowstone lark ana mercury, aBd is taken internally, acting-di rectly upon t"he blood and mucous surfaces o£ the system* In baying Hall’s Catarrh Cure' l>e sure you get the genuine. It is taken in ternally, and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F". J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials fred." A E§F“Sold by druggists, price 75. per botnd*- Ho Faiar at tbt Indians. Salt’Lake City, Utah, Aug- 1.—Ad vices from Salt mering near who passed recently' through Jackson’s Hole indicate that the news of an In dian outbreak have been greatly exag gerated. No special anxiety is felt here over the absent touris s in that locality. I*olice Captain Dead. Nf.w York. Aug. 1.—Police Captain Michael J. Murphy died yesterday from Bright’s disease and dropsy. Captain Murphy was under suspension from the force at the time of his death, having been indicted as a result of the testimony given before the Lexow committee. STULTZ A BAUER PIANO SOLID CONSTRUCTION BRILLIANT TONE, ELASTIC TOUCH, MODERATE PRICE. JB RENNER & SOLOMONS, General Agents, 714 Broadway, AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA —Job printing of every Kind, Be war of Ointments for Catarrh that Con tain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of 1'ruslow Captured. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 8.—R. F. Truslow, the bank wrecker, who es caped from the Huntingdon jail on Sunday, was found today' hiding in a barn near that place, and was returnod to jail. bu mo Col ii l 9 C‘ 'h eff ’ i v;I .U.O., nas so r i. in Chamberlain’s .tin and Diarrhma Rem edy that he warrants every bottle and offers to refund the money to any customer who is not satisfied after using it. Mr. Kelson takes no risk in doing this because the reme dy is a certain cure for the disease for which it was intended and he nows it. It is for sale by L. R. English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints, sweeney. ring bone, stifles, sprans. all swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save £50 by use of one bottle. War ranted the most wonde gul blemish cure ever known. Sold by Whitehead A Co., druggists, Wav nesborp; Ga. *