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THE FINAL VOTE WAS THIRTY-
EIGHT TO TWENTY-EIGHT.
POPULISTS HELD OFF FROM VOTING.
McEnery the Only Democrat to Vote
For the Bill—Measure Will Now
Go to Conference.
The tariff bill passed the senate
Wednesday afternoon, the vote being
38 to 28.
This large majority of ten votes
was due to the action of some of the
populists and silver republicans in
withholding their votes. But one
democrat voted for the bill, McEnery,
of Louisiana. There was nothing
dramatic about the final vote. Just
before it was taken there were some
interesting explanations by individual
. senators as to their position. Every¬
body was anxious for a vote and every¬
body seemed glad when the vote was
announced and the end of the senate
struggle reached.
Speaker Beed, Chairman Dingley
and many of the members of the house
of representatives were in the rear,
while every seat iu the galleries save
those reserved for foreign representa¬
tives was occupied.
The early part of the day was spent
on amendments of comparatively minor
importance', the debate branching into
financial and anti-trust channels. By
4 o’clock the senators began manifest¬
ing their impatience by calls of “vote,”
and soon thereafter the last amend¬
ment was disposed of and the final
vote began.
There were many interruptions as
pairs were arranged, and then at 4:45
-o’clock the vice-president arose and
annonneed the passage of the bill—
yeas, 38; nays, 28
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas.....Allison. Baker, Burrows, Carter,
Clark, Cnllum, Davis, Deboe. Elkins. Fair¬
banks, Foraker, Gallinger, Hale, Hanna,
Hawley, Jones of Nevada, Lodge, McBride,
’McEnery, McMillan, Mantle, Mason, Mor¬
rill. Nelson. Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Con¬
necticut, Platt of New York, rritehard.
Pro*’tor, Quay, Sewell, Shorn). Spooner,
■Warren, Wellington, Wetmote and Wilson—
3-.
Nays—Bacon, Bate, Berry, CafTery, Can¬
non, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner.
Gray, Harris of Kansas, .Tones of Arkansas,
Kenney. Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills,
Mitchell. Morgan, Pasco. Pettus, Rawlins.
Boaeh, Turner, Turpie, Vest, Walthall and
White—28.
The following pairs were announced.
The first named would have voted for
the bill and the last named against:
Aldrich and Murphy, Chandler and
McLaurin, Frye and Gorman, Gear
and Smith, Hansbrough and Daniel,
Hoar and Harris of Tennessee, Tburs
ton and Tillman, Wolcott and George.
An analysis of the final vote shows
that the affirmative was cast by thirty-
five republicans, two silver republi¬
cans, Jones, of Nevada, and Mantle,
and one democrat, McEnery, total
thirty-eight. by
The negative vo’e was cast twen-
|ty-five democrats, two populists, Har¬
iris, of Kansas, and Turner, and one
silver republican, Cannon, total twen¬
ty-eight. paired for
Eight republicans were
the bill and eight democrats against
it. The senators present and not vot¬
ing were: Populists five, viz: Allen,
Butler, Heitfeld, Kyle and Stewart.
Silver republicans two, viz: Teller and
Pettigrew. bill
Following the passing of the a
resolution was agreed to asking the
house for a conference, and Senators
Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of Connecticut;
Burrows, Jones,of Nevada; Vest, Jones,
of Arkansas, and White were named
as conferees on the part of the senate.
Story of the Debate.
The tariff debate began on May 25th,
on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of
the finance committee, mado the open¬
ing statement on the bill.
The actual consideration of the bill
began the next day, May 26th, when
schedule A, relating to chemicals, was
taken up. The debate was continuous
since that time,covering six weeks and
one day.
Mr. Aldrich’s illness took him from
the chamber after the first day, and
the bill was then in the immediate
charge of Mr. Ailison. The opposi¬
tion has been directed in the main by
Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and Mr, Vest,
while Senators White, Caffery, Gray
and Allen have frequently figured in
the debate.
HOSPITAL FOR ASHEVILLE.
Millionaire Vanderbilt Will Erect One
For Treatment of Indigent Sick.
Asheville, N. C., is to have a mam¬
moth hospital. The institution is to
be erected and maintained by the
Biltmore millionaire, George W. Van¬
derbilt, and is intended for patients
who are unable to pay for treatment.
All kinds of diseases will be treated,
especially tuberculosis, and ailments
that are contagious. A corps of ex¬
pert physicians will be in charge, and
every convenience and comfort possi¬
ble for such an institution will be in¬
stalled. Mr. Vanderbilt will begin the
project with an outlay of $100,000.
BEER TRUST PROBABLE.
Twenty-Six Breweries in Detroit Contem¬
plate Going Into One Syndicate.
It is reported that the proprietors of
the twenty-six breweries in Detroit
are planning to sell out to a syndicate
■composed chiefly of English capital¬
ists. Nearly all the brewers have
signed an agreement for the above
purpose. The result of the combina-
tion will be a rise in the price of beer
from $4 and $5 to $6 per barrel.
CYCLONE KILLS FOURTEEN.
House* Demolished and Kttilroad Trains
Wrecked By Wind In Minnesota.
been'killed inThe^yelone °and ‘cloud-
bursts in Minnesota Wednesday. The
storm was general and it is impossible
to estimate the amount of damage with
.u«rot^2'a;»3, ,0 Z
the worst that ever struck the state.
The list of dead at Gloinvood, so far
as known, is as follows: Toleff Lavan,
Samuel Morrow, Mis. Samuel Morrow,
Winnie Morrow and Oswald McGow-
an. Others were fatally hurt.
Trainmen say that a number of
houses were blown from the founda-
tions by their storm, and undoubtedly
more lives are lost..
Railroad traffic is paralyzed because
of the heavy fall of raiu. The rain
came so suddenly and so fiercely in
some places that many trains ran into
washouts before they had any. intima¬
tion of danger.
A bad wreck on the Great Northern
is reported about eight miles west of
St. Cloud, twenty freight cars being
ditched. Charles Washburn was in-
stantly killed and W. H. Pepper, the
engineer of the train, was seriously
injured.
A freight traiu on the Chicago, Mil-
waukee and St.Paul road was wrecked
near Faribault and two of the crew
were killed. Crops have been damaged
to an irreparable extent, and a large
amount of live stock was killed. Re¬
ports of washouts, floods and cyclones
are being received hourly. Every rail¬
road in the state has some damage to
the tracks and rolling stock. It is hard
to even approximate the loss, but con¬
sidering other damage it will probably
exceed $1,000,000.
TRANSFEREI) TO GOVERNMENT.
Monong’aheln River Is Now Open for Na¬
tional Commerce.
The formal transfer of the property
of the Mouongahela Navigation com¬
pany to the United States government
was made at Pittsburg Wednesday aft¬
ernoon. The Monongahela river is
now free to the commerce of the na¬
tion.
The transfer was made to Assistant
Secretary of War Micklejoan, who de¬
livered the warrant drawn on the
United States treasury for the amount
awarded $3,601,615.56, to President
Donnell, of the Navigation company.
The freeing of the river mean.' a sav¬
ing of $225,000 annually to the coal
operators.
The transfer will release nearly
10,000,000 bushels of coal which has
been beld in the pools by the opera¬
tors to save lockage tolls. This coal
will be carried down to Pittsburg at
once.
TIIORNE MAKES CONFESSION.
He and Mrs.Nack Made Way With William
Guldensuppe.
A New York dispatch states that
the positive identification of the man
arrested Tuesday night as Martin
Thorne, the alleged confederate in the
murder and dismemberment of the
body of William Guldensuppe, was
made Wednesday.
Acting Inspector O’Brien says that
be has in his possession a full confes-
sion from Thorne admitting that he •
had murdered Guldensuppe and giving
all the detaiis of the crime.
Mrs. Augusta Naek, who is held as
an accomplice in the murder, is in
prison under a charge of murder and
with a complete chain of circumstan¬
tial evidence woven about her. The
detectives claim that there will be no
trouble in convicting both parties.
MORE TROUBLE FOR BEEESFORD.
Fitzgerald Authorities Ask For "Me
Lud*s M Arrest.
Sidney Lascelles, whose meteoric
financial career startled the sober-
minded citizens of Fitzgerald, Ga., is
again in trouble, it will seem.
A number of telegrams were sent to
Savannah Wednesday asking that Las¬
celles be arrested and held until an
officer from Fitzgerald could arrive.
The telegrams were placed in the
hands of the Savannah detectives, but
Lascelles could not be found after a
search of the city.
Several days ago Lascelles left Fitz¬
gerald, going to Savannah. The war¬
rant issued charges him with cheating
and swindling. IIe is wanted badly
in Fitzgerald, and if he is located, he
will be carried back to his home to
face the charges which have been pre¬
ferred against him in his absence.
RUSSIAN CROPS RUINED.
Excessive Rainfall Has Nearly Destroyed
Ilay and Beets.
The London Daily Mail’s corre¬
spondent at St. Petersburg says: The
harvest prospects in Central and South
Russia are growing worse and worse.
Continuous rains are destroying the
hay crops, while the exceptionally
poor beet crop in Podolien has prac¬
tically ruined the sugar industry.
The crops in some of the Baltic
provinces also have suffered heavily
from rains, and a significant sign of
the gravity of the situation is the fact
that an unusually severe censorship is
exercised over news concerning it.
SENATOR HARRIS SERIOUSLY ILL.
Too Weak To Be Removed to the Tennes¬
see Mountains, As Proposed,
A Washington special says : The
condition of Senator Harris is preca¬
rious. During the heat of Wednes¬
day afternoon there were fears that iii
his debilitated condition he would not
rally again, but as the atmosphere be¬
came cooler towards night the senator
regained partly what he had lost
during the day. His proposed removal
to mountain resort has been dismissed.
RECORD OF GREATEST OF WAGE
STREGGLF.S FOR A WEEK,
| THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE IDLE.
•
Miners Are Jubilant Over the Situation
So Far— Success Depends on West
Virginia Diggers.
Sunday marked the beginning of
the second week of the coal miners’
atrike ftnd ftlready it giveB j )romi se of
. bein . of . the reatest . . strug-
g one S wage
gles in the history of this country,
The coal operators in the Pittsburg
district and the miners themselves little
dreamed that within one short
week such an era of general auspen-
sion could be wrought as now exists in
the bituminous mining industry,
Then the mouth of the many coal
pits throughout the Mouongahela,
Youghioheny, Allegheny and Peters
Creek valleys, and the valleys of
Tom’s and Miller’s Run were open
and turning out thousands and thous-
ands of tons of the best coal that en-
ters into the competitive markets of
the world,
Now, all is changed. The vast cav¬
erns are like so many graveyards. On
the hillsides basking in the shade
there is an army of 18,000 men, who
are anxiously waiting for more to join
the troops of idlers. On nearly every
railroad track leading to the mines
there stand empty cars; apparently
auxious to be loaded that their burdens
may be carried to the ports along the
lakes.
The success that has attended the
movement has greatly elated the
miners and during the next few days
every effort will be made to bring out
the men in the few mines that are still
working. This will be a difficult task,
but they express confidence in fheir
ability to make the suspension com¬
plete.
From the best information obtaina-
ble the Pittsburg operators are in no
hurry to have the difficulty adjusted,
so many of them having stocks on
railroad sidings which they hold for
an advance. Much of this was disposed
of Saturday at a good profit. One
prominent operator said that it would
take another week to determine the
exact state of the markets, and by that
time a general cleaning up will have
taken place. All interested will
ready to begin business on a new
and probably at a higher price.
“This whole thing will result in a
compromise,” said another prominent
operator. “The operators are in a
position to stand it for some time and
I believe the miners are in aborff the
same condition. It looks as if busi¬
ness will brighten up and in that
event the operators will be able to get
better prices and the condition of bus¬
iness and the condition of the miners
will be simultaneously improved.”
The effect of the strike is being
manifested in the price of coal. An
increase of 60 cents a ton was shown
when an application was made for con-
tracts and a number of Pittsburg op-
erators, not being able to work their
own mines, are seeking to buy coal in
the West Virginia field in order to
reap the advantage of the advance,
Thore has been no intimation of
lawlessness as yet in the region, but
Sheriff Lowrey, of Allegheny county,
has anticipated any trouble by swearing
in 500 deputies. The miners say there
will be no overt acts.
No openly aggressive work was done
Saturday by either side, but the mi¬
ners’ officials held a secret meeting, at
which it is believed « vigorous cam¬
paign agaiust the New York and
Cleveland gas coal miners, which will
be inaugurated at once, was decided
upon. The operators apparently are
doing little and are saying less. How¬
ever, their confidence of defeating the
miners has not abated in the least.
DEMAND FROM AMBASSADORS.
Turkish Government Is Asked to Not Ob¬
struct Peace Negotiations.
Acting upon instructions received
from their respective governments,the
ambassadors of the powers at Constan¬
tinople presented a collective note to
the Turkish government Friday de¬
manding a cessation of the obstruction
of the peace negotiations.
A SUNDAY SESSION
Held By Conferee* of Home and Senate on
Tariff Bill.
A Washington dispatch says: The
conferees on the tariff - bill held a four-
hour session Sunday. The anxiety to
reach a complete agreement as early
as possible induced them to meet on
the Sabbath and at present both the
house and senate conferees appeared
satisfied with the progress that has
been made.
Several hundred of the minor amend¬
ments have been agreed upon. Many
of them were chauges of phraseology
and on a large majority of these the
house conferees naturally have
yielded.
COMPETITOR PRISONERS
To Be Brought to Trial In Havana at an
Early Date.
The state department at Washing¬
ton has been informed that the cases
against Competitor prisoners will be
brought to an issue at Havana within
a very Bhort time.
It is expected that the cases of the
Americans, Melton and Leavitt, will
be separated from the others and they
will be leniently dealt with the Span¬
ish antborities.
SENATE HONORS HARRIS.
Body Adjourns Out of Respect To the Bead
Senator.
I The Renote met Friday under the
Sertofnarr’i^TTenneRsee 0 , thohad
been one of the conspicuous iigures in
the upper house of congress for over
twenty years. The desk he occupied
so long was not draped, as the senate
had as yet no official knowledge of his
demise.
Rev. Johnston, the chaplain of the
senate, in his invocation, referred
feelingly to the loss the senate had
sustained and spoke of his “rugged
honesty, his unswerving attachment
to his political principles, his opposi¬
tion to all he considered wrong, his
devotion to his state and his service to
the nation.”
After the journal had been read,
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, made the
announcement of the death of his col¬
league. In doing so he paid a high
tribute to the memory of the distin¬
guished dead. He spoke of the con¬
spicuous part he had played in his
state and in the nation during his
long and eventful career.
He was the last of the great war
governors, north and south, said Sen¬
ator Bate, who presided over the des¬
tinies of sovereign states during the
stirring struggle between the states.
Mr. Bate then offered the usual reso¬
lutions which provided for a funeral
in the senate Saturday, to which the
house was invited, and for a commit-
tee of nine senators to accompany the
remains to Tennessee for interment.
Mr. Cockerell, of Missouri, offered
a supplemental resolution extending
an invitation to the president, mem¬
bers of the cabinet, members of the
supreme court, the diplomatic corps,
the major'general of the army and the
admiral of the navy to attend the
obsequies.
Then, at 12:15, on motion of Mr.
Bate, as a further mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, thp sen-
ate adjourned.
MANY DRIVEN TO DEATH
By the Sizzling; Heat In Crowded Chicago,
St. Louis and Cincinnati.
A Chicago special says: Of all the
hot days that have made life a burden
since the warm weather of 1897, Fri-
day was the warmest. There were
more deaths of human beings and of
animals and the number of prostra-
tions was greater than upon any other
day of the long hot spell that has hung
over Chicago,
Sixteen people are dead of heat, two
are insane and out of a large number
of prostrations ten cases are critical,
Out in the Bridewell, where seven
prisoners went insane Thursday be-
cause of the heat, others suffered the
same fate Friday. Three men either
strong in the belief that a life of
rectitude secured an eternal abode in
some place less hot than this, or de¬
termined to be packed in ice at any
cost—took their lives. Friday was a
sizzling horror, there was comfort to
be found nowhere—it was the hottest
night Chicago has ever known.
A Cincinnati special announces the
number of heat deaths in that city
Friday as six. Thirty prostrations
were reported, with the usual quota of
serious cases. The maximum heat by
trustworthy thermometers for the day
was 96 at 4 o’clock p. m. It was 81 at
7 o’clock in the morning, and it was
82 at 11 o’clock at night. The num¬
ber of deaths in the last seven days is
sixty.
Seven people died from the heat in
St. Louis Friday.
DYNAMITE’S DEADLY WORK.
Five Negroes Blown to Pieces By a Hidden
Bomb.
While a gang of workmen were mak¬
ing excavations along a line of street
railway at Lexington, Ky., Friday,
one of them struck what appeared to
be a piece of pipe, but which proved
to be a sixty-four-pound dynamite
cartridge.
A fearful explosion followed and
five of the six negroes in the gang
were blown to atoms. The other was
so badly injured that he cannot re¬
cover.
The police are inclined to think the
dynamite was placed there by some
miscreant who had a grudge against
the street car company; others think it
was left there by workmen on the Cin¬
cinnati Southern some years ago when
tney were making excavations for a
road in the same neighborhood.
Windows in the neighborhood were
broken and several buildings slightly
damaged.
DEMANDS INDEMNITY.
Senator Lodge Reports a Very Significant
Resolution.
The senate committee on foreign
relations, through Senator Lodge, re¬
ported a resolution Wednesday author¬
izing the president “to take such
measures as he may deem necessary
to obtain indemnity from the Spanish
government for the wrongs and inju-
ries suffered by August Bolton and
Gustav Richelieu, two naturalized
American citizens, by reason of their
wrongful arrest by Spanish authorities
at Santiago deCuba in the year 1895.”
The resolution further authorizes
the president to “employ such means
or exercise such power as may be nec¬
essary.”
A CAMPAIGN ISSUE
To Bo Made of the Lease of the North
Carolina Railway.
A special from Raleigh, N. C., says:
Governor Russell says the lease of
the North Carolina railway to the
Southern is positively to be made an
issue in the next campaign; that he
does not know whether a plank de¬
claring against it will be in the repub¬
lican platform, but it will be in what
he terms the voters’ platform.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE
SION SAYS RULE IS VIOLATED.
DECLARE RATES ARE EXCESSIVE.
The Case Is Similar to the Celebrated
Social Circle Short Haul Contest.
Its Nature Sweeping.
The interstate commerce commis¬
sion, at Washington Thursday, in an
opinion by Commissioner Prouty, ren¬
dered a decision in the case of Brewer
& Hanletter against the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company, Nash¬
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail¬
way company, Western and Atlantic
Railroad company and Central of
Georgia Railway company.
The commission decides that these
carriers in charging on freights from
Louisville to Cincinnati more for the
shorter distance to Griffin, Ga., than
for the longer distance over the same
line to Macon, Ga., have violated sec¬
tions three and four (the long and
short haul sections) of the interstate
commerce aet.
What the Deeinien Means.
This is another Social Circle case,
and the question deeided is one of
far-reaching importance involving the
relations of small towns to commercial
centers. It is especially interesting
just now because it establishes one of
the propositions laid down by Mr. W.
H. Brewer in his recent application to
the railroad commission of Georgia
for a reduction of 331 per cent on all
freight rates in the state.
One of the grounds of that petition
was the allegation that the railroads
were handling freight from Ohio river
points to Macon for less than they
carry it to Griffin.
This is the second important deci¬
sion the interstate commerce commis¬
sion has made on the long and short
haul claim of the interstate commerce
act on a complaint from Georgia. The
decision in the Social Circle case was
affirmed by the United States supreme
court after protracted litigation.
It was a qualified decision, however,
and the result of the new case, which
is likely to go to the conrt of last re¬
sort, will be watched with interest.
The principle is in favor of the small
towns and against lower rates to the
commercial centers and tends to put
all communities on an equality.
The president is now undecided
whether or not to send in any message
for the reason that a number of most
important leaders of the party in the
senate and house have made a strong
representation to him of the inadvis¬
ability of sending a message to con¬
gress while the tariff bill is in confer¬
ence.
WHOLE FAMILY CREMATED.
None Were Able to Escape From Their
Burning Cottage.
A special from Pineville, Ky., says
that Hugh Joeson and family of live,
who live fifteen miles northeast of that
place, were burned to death Tuesday
night, being unable to escape from
their cottage, which was fired over
their heads.
The dead are: Hugh Joeson, the
father; Mary Joeson, his wife; Fanny
Joeson, a daughter, fourteen years
old; Joe Joeson, a son, ten years old;
a daughter, eight years old; Maggie, a
daughter, six years old.
The remains of all six were found
in the debris. The fire was undoubt¬
edly of incendiary origin, and the
Bell county officers are taking steps to
discover the guilty party or parties.
BANQUETED AND DIED. .
Quartet of Pari* Dressmakers End Their
Li yes Together.
A great sensation has been caused
at Paris by the discovery that four
dressmakers have committed suicide
by inhaling charcoal fumes in a flat
wherein they lodged.
The four met in the evening, par¬
took of a sumptuous dinner with wine,
sang and smoked until late and con¬
cluded life with the statement in writ¬
ing, signed by all:
“We die deliberately and without
any regret.”
When the bodies were discovered
the tables and floor were strewn with
cigarettes and cigar ends. On the
center table were letters addressed to
their relatives.
HIGHER WAGES OFFERED.
Attempt Made to Forestall the Advance of
Great Strike.
The Pawnee, Kelley and Westville
companies of the Danville, Ill., dis¬
trict posted notices Saturday of an in¬
crease of 10 cents a ton in the wages
for mining coal.
The object of this is to keep their
men at work and thus break the back¬
bone of the strike. These three com¬
panies are the largest in the Illinois
territory and upon the success of
their move depends much of the sue-
cess of the strike.
REPORT ON C OTTON.
Status of the Staple I* Given Out By the
Government.
The July returns for cotton to the
department of agriculture at Washing¬
ton indicate an average condition of
86, as compared with 83.5 in June, an
increase of 2.5 points. The average
condition for July, 1896, was 91.5.
The averages of the states are as
follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina
10, South Carolina 86, Georgia 85, 8(),
Florida 80, Alabama 85, Louisiana
I’exas 88, Arkansas 88, Tennessee 80,
Missouri 95, Oklahoma Territory 82, Mississippi 93,
31 and the Indian
A GHASTLY FIND.
Dismembered Body of u Woman Found
In a Barrel.
A special from Quitman, Ga., says:
Jacob Wooten and some friends, while
fishing Saturday on Mule creek in the
upper part of the county, discovered a
barrel buried upright in the mud and
containing a human body. *
The body had been cut into blocks
and placed in the barrel, and mud had
been thrown in, filling tfie barrel,
which was then headed and buried.
News of the discovery soon spread
through the neighborhood and hun¬
dreds of people have visitedAie scene
identity and viewed of the the ghastly body and rem^Bfe -tiling The
connected with it are shr®ra ed in
mystery.
The swamp in which the body was
found is a dense jungle, and the spot
where the barrel was unearthed is a
mile or more from any house.
The neighborhood is thinly Quitman. settled
and about fifteen miles from
No one has been missing and none
of those who have come from the
scene can account for the mystery.
Following so closely upon the fa¬
mous New York mystery of the mur¬
der of Guldensuppe and the cuttM*
up of his body, the excitement
tense. * “
Wooten and his friends fl%t remov-.
ed the head of the barrel; then the
dirt which had formed into a hard
cake, and to their horror beheld a neaU
plait of human hair about two feetJt
belonging length, soft and the black, head and of evide^B yJH
to a
white woman.
Next, taken pieces of all flesh in and fairly clon^^H
were out, a
state of preservation. The fleshM
dried and the skin had a mumiM
appearance. The dress was of
homespun, while there was an
skirt of bleached homespun,
made.
FUNERAL SERVICES IN SE
Conducted Over Kt^ninlng of H«nt. fl
G. Harris.
Impressive funeral services orl
late Senator Isham G. Harris ocofl
in in the the sen ate chamber President at noonSn^M M<^®
presence of
tors and the and members members of of his the oabinjaH housjH
•matic resentatives, members of tlifS®(
corps, justices of the supre
court and officials from all branchy
public life. A
draped The chamber for the occasion. had been The elab^fl
the late senator was heavily boi^f S
crepe.
In the semi-circular area,
diately cer, stood in front the casket, of the resting presidujB
black buried draped in floral pedestals offerings. aml^l
plate was inscribed: Is^^H
“Died July 7, 1897.
Harris. The services Aged seventy-nine brief a*K|| jjH
were
consisting only of prayers Duli^^J
Mr. Johnston, Rev. Dr.
Methodist Episcopal churh|^|
and Chaplain Couden, of the
representatives, the latter pro m
the benediction.
At 12:30 p. m. the ceremony
over and on motion of Senator
of Tennessee, the senate atljourne
AS BAD AS AN EPIDEMIC,
Death Record from Heat Was Thrt? I
Hundred and Fifty for Month.
greater The fierce portion heat of under the country which has^B the^f
erated sweltered in since the localities 1st of July, Saturda^H mod-^H
many weatl^^^l
and predictions from the
bureau at Washington indicate
lower tempeaatures will bring
relief.
The record of prostrations and
resulting from the long heated®
approaches in magnitude
general epidemic. Reports from
sections of the country received
the Associated Press up to nnmberin^B SatnrdajH
night showed prostrations f^H
in the neighborhood of 2,000, with
talities close to 350.
of In deaths addition resulting to this, indirectly there were fromtlH seor^H
intolerable heat, tlio death mtcJH
many fearful of insreaso the large cities previous sliowing^^B Hj
over years.
The central states suffered more
verely than other sections, the Cim-ifl
being most deadly in Chicago. cH
nati and St. Louis. Tn number of
talities 87 deaths; Chicago Cincinnati headed and the suburb^® list, wil|
points reporting 65, and St. Louis
Through the lower south the heat iva®
inteuse, lower than but in tlic the death north. rate is muc^|
NATIONAL HAY ASSOCIATION
Will Meet August 10th With Many Dele
gates Present.
of A the call National for the fourth Hay associatiqn^UHl annual moetidj
Mouongahela house, PittsfB
August 10th, is announced Journal*JH
issues of the Hay Trade
The crop in the state being mil
larger, with probable lighter imped®
than during the past few years, givj
new impetus to the trade. -®
Delegates will be in attendance froil
all parts of the United States and buJ
iness pertaining to the hay trade wil
be fully discussed during the thr<l
days’ session._ I
CHARGED WITH LYNCHING.
Three White Men Are Bound Over I
Birmingham Under 181,000 Bonds. I
After a three days’ preliminary he®
ing before Justice Benners,_ at LH
mingham, Ala., Joe Williams, CM®
Clark and Zack Hollins were kg®® t®
bail in the sum of $1,000 each for
murder of Jim Thomas, colored, d®
Blossbnrg, a week ago. ctuj®
It is alleged these men
Thomas because be to claimed the woods to know and killot^J the^H
who attempted to assault Mrs. Uo®H
