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VOL. VII.
EASTERN MEN
INVEST IlVTI/rr'r CASH r A ru
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III Big Properties Located III State
of Alabama.
GREAT BOOM FOR THE SOUTH
Prominent Capitalists Show Their
Faith In This Section in
Substantial Way.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
Messrs. John E. Searles and Abram
S. Hewitt, of New York, and some of
their' leading New York and Boston
associates, the International Trust
company, of Baltimore; Messrs. Mid-
dendorf, Oliver & Son, of Baltimore;
John L. Williams Sc Sons, of Rich¬
mond, and others, have just succeeded
in arranging one of the most impor¬
tant coal and iron consolidations ever
effected in tie south. A syndicate
with a capital stock of 85,000,000 has
been organized, all of which has been
underwritten, and. has purchased the
Clifton Iron company, one of the
most noted iron properties of Alaba¬
ma, owning 30,000 acres of land and
two furnaces.
The Standard Coal Company, a reg¬
ular dividend-paying property, own¬
ing 32,000 acres of coal land.
The Mary Pratt furnace in Birming¬
ham. - *
The Gate City properties adjacent
to Birmingham—which wero purchas¬
ed some months ago by Baltimore and
Richmond interests—and the Gadsden,
Ala., furnace and large ore properties
in connection therewith.
The consolidated properties will
cover about 70,000 acres of land, four
furnaces and several coke ovens. Be-
pairs on some of the furnaces, the
building of four or five hundred coke
ovens and the trebling of the coal out¬
put are now under way, and will be
completed within about four months,
when the company will have an aggre¬
gate iron capacity of 180,000 tons of pig
per year and a daily output of
oyer 2,000 tons of coal.
These properties have been exam¬
ined by some of the ablest experts in
the country, including Ricketts &
Banks, of New York; .T. P. Witberow,
of Pittsburg, and Nicholas S. Hill, Jr.,
of Hill & Howard, Baltimore. Ail re¬
ports* indicate thatthese are among
tbe most valuable coal and iron proi>-
ertios in the south and it is believed
WiU haV6 I’ 10 be8t
combination of brown ore and red i ore
and high-grade coking of any cbmpa-
ny in Alabama, and with its furnaces
located at the most available points
for the cheapest production of high
grade iron, will be able to make iron
r.t a profit even should prices ever re¬
turn to the Jow figures prevailing two
or three years ago.
T. G. Bush, president of the Clifton
Iron Company one of the ablest and
.uost noted iron men of Alabama, wi'l
be president of the consolidated com-
5 >«ny, and F. M. Jackson, general
manager of the Standard Coal Com-
psny, who has operated that property
for the last ten years, will have gener-
«1 charge of its coke and coal interests.
The options on some of these proper-
ties were secured eight or ten months
ago before the present activity in iron
commenced and could not possibly be
duplicated at present.
The properties will be paid for in
full. All improvements and enlarge-
incuts of operations of mining coke
and iron making have been provided
for and the new company will start
without any indebtedness of any kind,
as no bonds are to be issued, and with
ample cash working capital. Messrs.
Joshua Levering and Richard H. Ed-
monds are in Alabama representing
the International Trust Company in
arranging for the transfer of these
properties. Abram H. Hewitt, one of
ue most noted iron men of tho world,
who has long been identified with
somo Alabama interests, will be a
director in the company, as will John
E. Hearles. This is one of the first
fruits of the trip made by Mr. Searles
last winter in company with Richard
H. Edmonds, of Baltimore, in the
study of the resources of the south.
MAYOR ASSASSINATED.
Disappointeel Office Seeker Kills Chief
Execulive of Mutdcegon, Mich.
At Muskegon, James' Mich., Thursday,
Mayor Balbirnie was assassi--
mated by J. AV. Tnyer, a disappointed
office seeker. Tayer shot the mayor
wbile the latter was standing in-the
doorway of his store. The hall enter-
ed his left breast above the nipple,
and he expired in fifteen minutes,
Tayer swallowed some carbolic acid
and then turned th 9 revolver upon
himself and fired. The ball entered
his left breast, producing death.
HEAVY RAINS IN TEXAS.
A Number of Lives Lost And Property
Damage Is Enormous.
A special from Houston, Texas,
says: The remarkably heavy rains of
the pa s t four days in Texas have done
damage which will amonnt to hnn-
dreds thousands o. dollars. Rail-
road traffic is suspended in south
Texas because cf the numerous wash¬
outs, a 1 many bridges are gone.
The: is no accurate news regarding
lose , of t-utnan _ ... life, ..... but it reliably ....
is
stated '-■ut one family of six peopie
P en *' - 1 - -
a
m -t -y ^ _ & i 1 mamt.
v
A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
I Tw0 Members of u Dead-Great
1 E “ l, ^, ,n u *" k5
0ll .
! A special from Toccoa, Ga., says:
j Tho whole of the northern part of
Banks county and southern Franklin
havo been thrown into a frenzy of
excitement by the mysterious death
of two children of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Andrews, and the serious illness of
seven other members of the family.
Mr. Andrews is a renter, living on
the farm of Mr. Mack F. Arrin, in
Banks county, sixteen miles from
Toccoa and twelve miles from any
railway station. ,
Mr. Andrews has nine children, the
oldest being eighteen and the young-
est three years. Tuesday afternoon
Clifton, a son of twelve years of age,
and Harry, another of fourteen, wtro
tiiken suddenly ill. They appeared to
be in the throes of death. A physi¬
cian was summoned hurriedly and
during the whole night worked heroi¬
cally to save the lives of the two child¬
ren, but to no avail. Both died early
Wednesday morning. They wero in
terrible agony of suffering for some
time before death with lockjaw.
During the night other members of
the family became ill Aud before
morning only two, a little boy and a
little girl, were well enough to attend
the rest. Later during the day the
farm mule and milch cow appeared to
Vie suffering intensely.
Excitement runs high and many
people have openly charged foul play,
and some have gone so far as to charge
that the family was poisoned by some
enemy, and the names of two or throe
persons have been mentioned in that
connection, but tlTere has been no evi¬
dence deduced which tends to Orirni-
nate any special person.
That there is a mystery surround¬
ing the illness and death in his family
there is no doubt, but no one has
offered a plausible solatia The
physician did not feel justifii' under
the circumstances, in holding a post¬
mortem examination, but is not satis¬
fied in his own mind as to the cause
of the death of the two children and
the illness of the other members of
the family. It is believed by many,
however, that a wholesale attempt at
poisoning has been made.
HOWLING MOB IN BRUSSELS.
Belgium's Capital (lie Scene of Disgraceful
Acts of Kevolutloni&tah
A special dispatch from Brussels,
Belgium says that the storm of verbos-
ity was renewed in the chamber of
deputies Thursday. The socialists
hurled anathemas at M. J. Van l’eere-
, bmm, who * endeavored i , to , explain , . the ,,
actl0u tak ,f b ? th f. P ohce °. n W f. d ”f 8 -
,U ?’ and ,hG 80clftll8ts Persistently . in-
terrupted and insulted the premier,re-
proaching him with being responsible
for the conflict between the people and
the police. Although a vote censur¬
ing the government was rejected by a
vote of 87 to 31 and the tumult in the
ebamber , , was so great . that ,, , the prest-
d ?”* * U9 P en(1ed \ be “ Mln * The 8 ?‘
c laIl8 ‘ 8 th8n led n Peering c r°wd,
8ho , u,lu £. . la republique! to the
P“rk, , where a conflict with gendarmes
OCG,lr ,' e( •
0rderB WGre *f . ued P^lbltmg
* t ™ et ns8e “ b V e8 Thursday night, but
* th « <’on<dusion of a great meeting n
the tc T* bal1 ‘ h “ dB attempted to
f rosa tl f Grande Place^ in winch the
charged ‘? w “ J ,,I with L “T drawn 1 "’ swords, lhe f? eudar and ™ the eB
crowd retaliated with stones.
Shots wero fired on both sides.
Th ree F G f 80nB were -Wounded, , , and , a
P° , ! ce oJRcer wu severely stabbed
Wlth a "boemaker s knife,
The rioters, on being dispersed, as¬
sembled at another point. A large
crowd gathered in the Rue Royale,
. f ann . S U P the ,, paving . stones and , using
them as m,8SlleB - Tinally the civic
G uard was ordered out to relieve the
P ohce ;, De*I»to these attempts to sup-
P r ® 88 the disturbances, rioting contin¬
ued to a la to hour, many persons be-
injured. , A feature was the gen-
eral tearing up of paving: stones to be
, hurled at th ® P ohce and H n “ rds f
-
tramway conductor received two bul-
et wounds,
Ultimately the troops were called
and thirty-five arrests were made,
many of those taken in custody being
in possession of rival vers.
LYNCHERS CONVICTED.
Six Sent to Penitentiary For Hanging
Lawbreaker In Virginia.
In the county court of Patrick coun-
Va., Haturday, C. J. Thompson,L.
*>. McMillan, Madison Montgomery,
'^ r -: R* R Montgomery, Robert Mont-
gomery and AV. M. Branch, all white,
were convicted of murder m the scc-
ond degree in lynching Lee Puckett,
white for attempted criminal assault
on a young lady.
Puckett was a discharged lunatic,
Thompson was given six years and
the others five years each.
r Tlie „, jury was out only thirty nun-
utes. This is said to be the first ease
of its kind in A lrgima.
PREPARING FOR BATTLE.
Opposing Forcos In Philippine* Making
Ready For Collision.
A Manila dispatch says: A collision
between the two armies at Han Fer-
nando seems inevitable soon. The
insurgents are all active all around
the town and can be seen w orking in
the trenches to strengthen their posi-
tion. Day and night forces are at
work , It ig eetirolted that 3(0 00 m«n
were seen marching in the road north
ef the town Friday.
ASITBURN, (* A , SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1ST).
STEAMER SINKS;
NINE ARE LOST
Disaster Result of a Violent Storm
On Lake Erie.
FOUR OF THE CREW RESCUED
Captain, Wife and Son Among
the Drowned—Others Were
Seamen and a Passenger.
A Chicago dispatch says: The
steamer Margaret Olwill, owned by
M. P. Smith, of Cleveland, went down
in the storm off Loraiu, Lake Erie,
last Wednesday night. Nine people
wore lost, including Captain John
Brown, his wife and Sbn Amt Miss
Baldwin, a passenger. The Olwill, of
551 tons, was bound from Kelley’s Is¬
land to Cleveland with limestone, her
cargo shifting in the heavy sea, send¬
ing her down by the stern. Those
who went down with the vessol were:
Captain John Brown, wife and
child, of Cleveland.
First Engineer Alex McOlay, of
Cleveland.
Second Engineer Rudolph Shinski,
St. Clair, Mich,
Fiist Mate John Smith, Cleveland.
Wheelsmau George Heffron,. Cleve¬
land-.
Watchman Frank Ilipp, of Kelley’s
Island.
Mrs. Cora A. Hitchcock, a passeu-
g or-
The Olwill left Kelley’s Island at G
o’clock Wednesday night hound for
Cleveland with a cargo of stone. Them
was little or no wind blowing ttml ev¬
erything was fftvorabio for a pleasant
rtln. At 8 o’clock the wind began to
blow from the northwest and the little
boat with a thousand tons oapacity be¬
gan to go at a lively clip.
At 10 o’clock the gale commenced
in earnest and the wind blew at the
rate of fifty miles an hour. Suddenly
the gale turned to the northeast. Cap¬
tain Brown found that the boat was
making littlo headway; lb and bonclitdod
thfe only thing do was to turn back
and go with the storm. According to
the story of Coyle it was 2 o’clock
when the captain gave orders to turn
back. The vessel hud turned half way
round when the rudder chain parted,
and in an instant the boat was at the
mercy of the storm.
She was caught between two waves
and as she was borne nldhg the top of
one of them she rolled over oh oho
side. The cabins were torn loose, and
floated on the water while the rest of
the ship went to the bottom. Coyle
caught hold of a part of the after cabin
and climbed upon it. Heffron was
clinging to a part of the same cabin.
Captain Willoughby, of the steamer
State of Ohio, sighted the wreckago
about 5:15 in the morning directly in
the course from Cleveland to Toledo.
The big steamer life-saving immediately put ml into
service her crew, a after
sailing around the Wreckage for an
hour and a half, Coyle was rescued.
Heffron was thrown a line, hut he was
too weak to hold it, and went down in
the presence of a large crowd on board
the steamer. Several attempts were
made to get the yawl boat in the wa¬
ter, but the sea was still running high
and the work was extremely perilous.
Heffron’s death was a pathetic one.
As he grabbed the rope, encouraged
by the crowd, ho made a superhuman
effort to put the rope around his body,
but he was too weak and fell exhaust¬
ed into the waves.
Three Men Picked Up.
A dispatch from Cleveland, 0.,snys:
Smith, McRae and Shinski wero res¬
cued by members of tho crow of tho
steamer Sacramento and taken into
Lorain by the tug Cascade. The res¬
cued members of the crew were found
floating on the surfaco of Lake Erie
clinging to bits of wreckage. Their
rescue was attended by exhibitions of
extreme heroism, for a heavy sea was
still running when they were picked
up.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL DIES.
Well Known Officer In the Service of the
South PASftea Away.
General Delaware Kemper, consul
to Amoye, China, under the first
Cleveland administration, died at his
home in Alexandria, Va., Friday.
General Kernper was a distinguished
soldier in tho Confederate army during
tho civil war and was wounded in the
second battle of Manassas, and was
subsequently in command of the Con¬
federate forces in Charleston. He was
a prominent member of the Confeder-
ate Veteran’s Association, and up to a
ar ag0 waH in cba of Xhe A , exan .
dria Timeg _
NEW TRANSPORT CHARTERED.
Vefiel Will Be Engaged In Conveying
Troop* to Philippine*.
The war department Haturday char¬
tered the steamer Tartar, now at Van¬
couver, B. C., to be used as a trans¬
port between Han Francisco and Ma¬
nila. Hbe is very large, capable of
carrying will 1,500 men. It is expected
that she be at Han Francisco in
five Manila or six by days and 20th, he perhaps ready to sail
for the carry¬
ing the Nineteenth infantry.
jF.XILE LANDS AT QUIDORON UN¬
DER HEAVY GUARD.
EXCITEMENT OF MODERATE ORDER
Thv Noted Prisoner is Placed In Confine*
mont nt Itenties to Await the
ItcVUion Trial.
A enble dispatch from Rennes,
France, states tl t Captain Dreyfus
landed at Quiborou Friday and was
conveyed by train to Bruz. There he
entered a landau, accompanied by the
chief of iletedtilUJS ftinl the prefect in
tho afternoon and Was driven to Ren¬
nes, where twenty-five gendarmes
waited his entrance into the town.
Ten of the gendarmes entered a wag¬
on aud followed tho carriage. The
rest followed oil foot. The party ar
lived at tho prison without inoideut.
A largo crowd assembled and witness¬
ed tho Arrival in silence and without
manifestation.
The authorities had arranged a se-
otet landing At the little village of
Moulin Blanc, about four miles from
Brest, but the vigilaneo of the news¬
paper men led to a ehnnge in the ar¬
rangements and Dreyfus was disem¬
barked at Quiborou, in Brilanny, near
L’Orient, where the telegraph office
closes at 9 p. m,, thus rendering it
impossible fact arrival. to telegraph to Rennes the
of his
It is also said that tho government
had advices, frorti ’ Azores, when the
Sfax passed Faj'al, that the health of
Dreyfus was precarious. This is held
in some quarters to explain the anx¬
iety to prevent the public seeing him.
The Parisian public is rather listless
about his arrival, and thero was no
excitement at Rennes, although tho
railway station there was full of re¬
porters awaiting tho coming of tho
famous prisoner,
COLORED MINERS AMBUSHED.
A Train Load Is Fired Upon Ily Large
Party of Striker*.
A special from Marion, III., says:
Friday, as the train on tho Illinois
Central, carrying a coachload of ne¬
groes from Pana to Brush’s mines,one
mile north of Cnrtersville, stopped nt
the Fredonia mine, tlireo miles north¬
west of CartetsVille, a largo number
of striking union Aimers ojioned (ire
on the negroes, killing one woman
and M ounding about twenty otliorH.
Before the bloody work could bo
carried further, the trniiy pulled out
for Johnston City.
The miners numbered fifty, and
were armed with rifles, and wero hid¬
den in grass behind the country de¬
pot. When the train stopped, the
platform leader, who wAs An Italian, got on the
And commanded tho negroes to
get out. Conductor Bryan interferred,
but was stopped by a revolver in his
face. The train began to move, and
tho miners poured in a withering fire.
Conductor Bryan yelled to the negroes
to throw themselves on the floor. All
escaped serious wounds save tho wo¬
man, who was killed instantly.
When the train reached a point one
mile north of Brush's mine the negroes
were unloaded and marched across the
cOniltry to their destination. It is
said that a majority of the rioters were
negroes, whom Brush brought from
the south about a year ago, and havo
since joined the union.
There is great excitement in the
neighborhood of the Brush mine, and
a battle between the working negroes,
who are well armed, and the strikers,
who arc on the ground ready for a
fight, may he precipitated ut any mo¬
ment. Superintendent Brush wired
for Sheriff Gray immediately after tho
riot, and asked for protection. The
sheriff went at once to the scone, but
he took no deputies with him. Ho
had no guns to arm them.
NEW YELLOW FEVER REMEDY.
T<Jst of Horimn to lie Made In the South¬
ern Slates.
The New York Herald has presented
three hundred bottles of snmarelli
serium for yellow fever to the Louis¬
iana state board of health. Experi¬
ments of particular interest and value
to southern cities will ho conducted
this summer to test the value of
serium as a preventive and enre in
ease yellow fever appears.
FILIPINOS WANT PROTECTORATE.
Commlanloner £tehurmann Return* lo Ma¬
nila From Tour of Inland*.
A Manila special sayK: Professor J.
O. Bchurmann, of the United Htales
advisory commission for the Philip¬
pines. returned to Manila Sunday
from a throe weeks’tour of the south¬
ern islands. He takes an entirely hope¬
ful view of the generul conditions
there. The intelligent and substan¬
tial citizens desire an American pro¬
tectorate. The masses are awaiting
the settlement of the war in the island
of Luzon before declaring themselves.
They are chiefly anxious to be undis¬
turbed.
TIN PLATE MILLS TO (LOSE.
Fifty Thousand Men Will lie Kfferfed liy
Fall lira To AOn Wage Kualc.
A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
As a result of the failure to settle the
tin pinto wage scale at the Chicago
conference all the tin plate mills in
the country are preparing to close
down and thero will be a general sus¬
pension. Nearly 50,000 will be thrown
men
out of employment by the shut down.
BOY MURDERER
SLAYS THREE
Killed Father, Mother and Sister
In Cold Blood.
A0C1HVHAI A liFMON AT AUC AtlF OF THIRTFFN I "ID* ■ LLli.
-—
Patlier Was Uirst Victim—I nter
on the Boy Used Deadly Knife
on Mother and Sister.
Nows of a terrible tragedy reached
Alliens, Ala., from tho interior of the
county, remote from telephone and
telegraph connections. A few months
Since rt thirteen-year-old lad by tho
liamo of Thomas, Wliilo following his
father frttin the woods with a loaded
gitn tin his shoulder; shot his fathor
in the back, death resulting almost in-
stantly. The father was not able to
tbil lloW, it happened and tho boy
claimed that it wrts mi accident, but
was not believed by tho neighbor/!.
Tho facts wero laid before the grand
jury, but the jury besitnted to indict
the boy from tho testimony, it appear¬
ing that tho state could not convict.
Tho neighbors were so wrought up
over the matter tlint, the widow and
her children had to Itliivo from that
neighborhood. Since that time the
boy, it Seems, has ruled the home,
woritliig Wlieii ho chose. The older
sister, n rather pfepossessiilg young
woman just entering womanhood, had
the largest share of the farm work to
do to protect the widow and littlo ones
from want.
Last Friday ovening she insisted
that the boy take his share of tho
work and so persistent was she that
tho hoy flew into il rage and drawing
a kecll feuifo flow at Iter, slashing her
fearfully, severing llet hrettst wide
open and otherwise gashing her to
such an extent that she died in a short
while. The aged mother rushed to
the girl’s assistance and the lad turn¬
ed on her. With a demon’s fury ho
slashed her with terrible effect. The
first cut disemboweled her. Hhe fell
and died before aid could bo summon-
ed.
The triple murderer then alone with
tho smaller children with no one to
prevent gathered such thiligH ns lie
needed and fled before the frightened neighbors
could he summoned by the
and terror-stricken children.
M0NTGMERY FOLSOM DEAD.
Wns One of tlio Most Versatile Nowsim-
i,er s " l " l,
Montgomery M. Folsom, one (,f the
host known tlewspapCr men in the
soutli, died suddenly at his residence
in Atlanta, (la., Sunday morning, after
an illness of only a few hours. /
Saturday morning Mr. Folsom was
apparently in his usual good health,
and left his home in unusual good
snrits. Ho returned homo about 1
o'clock in the afternoon and complain¬
ed of feeling bad. At 8 o'clock he had
ft violent sinking spell and was soon
Unconscious. He remained in that
Condition until death relieved him.
The immediate Cause of his demiso
was apoplexy, superinduced by an af¬
fection of the heart, from which ho
had been a sufferer for tho past two
Montgomery ATorgnn ,, Folsom was
one of the most brilliant and prolific
writers in the south, and h.s literary
productions were widely read and
copied. He wrote prose aud poetiy
with equal facility, and his acquaint-
aneo with men and affairs was ex on-
slvo. He was an indefatigable worker,
and one of tho most productive survived news¬
paper men in Atlanta. He is
by a wife and five children,
• PUBLIC DEBT AWAY Ul*.
Statement tliveii Out Shows I'licnr,*), To Be
Over » Million Dollar*.
A Washington dispatch says: Tho
statement of the public debt at the
close of the fiscal year 18!l9 shows that
tho debt, less cash in tho treasury,
amounted to $1,155,320, which is
a decrease as compared with June,
18118, of $13,571,172. This decrease
Is accounted for by a corresponding
increase in the cash on hand.
INFECTED WITH PLAGUE.
Bodies of Two lieuil Ulilnainen Unreal
litibonlc Kiicdlll.
A Han Francisco dispatch says: Dr. of
Babata, bacteriologist for tho board
health, has returned a report of his
examinations of tho glands of the two
Japaneso who were drowned while
tiying to escape from the steamer Nin-
pon Marn, now held in quarantine on
account of three suspicion!! deaths
which occurred on the vessel on her
trip from China and Japan to tho Han
Francisco port via Honolulu.
Dr. Babata found the baccilli to bo
those of the bubonio plague and, to
make his determination doubly sure,
will propagate their growth.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET.
Members of National V II 11 vr
To Annem bl« In <;IiIo«ko.
A call for a meeting of the demo¬
cratic national committee, to he held
July 20th, at the Sherman house, Chi- |
eago, was issued Sunday by former j
Governor Stone, of Missouri, and Act-
ing Secretary Johnson, of Kansas,
representing the committee.
The call was issued in accordance
with the decision of the recent confer- 1 ,
once held in 8t. Louis,
MltlS. DREYFUS SEEN HUSBAND
Mcrllnillll rrluon Ws» n !l Iglilv llrnmntlo
nod AtTrclin* Oiio.
A dispatch from Rennes, France,
says: L’Orient Drcyftls Redon. arrived at. Tho G a. priaonor m: via
and
appeared to he in good health. Ho
was at ouco plaoed in prison.
The governor of tho prison sent
Ahne. Dreyfus the news of the arrival
of her husband and she immediately
went to the governor and asked per-
miKsion to hpo the prlsOYiCV. Leave
being granted, the faithful wife filter-
od tlu ’ unobserved ana
wns conducted to oeU No. 830, aceom-
pan led by Mine. Havlet.
The meeting between tho long-parted
husband and wife can be better ining-
iued than described. Naturally it was
most touching. Both Dreyfus and his
wife were deeply affected. In each They other’s re¬
mained long clasped intermingling
arms, tears and smiles
with tender endearments.
Mine. Dreyfus issued from tho pris¬
on in a state of collapse. Hho found
her husband much aged with heard
and half whitened and body shrunken
and stooped. She said Dreyfus know
nothing of the events of the past two
years.
MINF.RS BURN TOWN.
Union St,'ii Worn Itrlvon Out—A«l Vt'.Vs
For Revengo.
A special from Carbonnle III., says:
Union City, a small town built and <>«-
copied by union minors wbh burned at
midnight Haturday night, after a bat¬
tle betwoen the union men rttid fired hrnport-
ed negro miners who wore upon
at Fro.donia Saturday,
Hocking rovenge for tho killing, of
a woman mid the wounding of twenty
moil in their party, the negroes raided
Union City at midnight, They open¬
ed life ofi the homes of the union men.
The lasted latter promptly replied. miners The bat¬
tle until tlio union w«re
driven from their lionios and took ro-
fu K o in a clump of timber cIopo to the
village. The non-union men at «>noo
applied the torch and tho villiago was
destroyed. advanced the
The liegros then on
woods whore tho union miners wore
concealed, and until daylight a fusi-
lado was kept Up between the factions.
more Homestead trouble.
Ilnldii S1i,ii Ili'iiinnU Kid lists **itii,iit. Hinl
<> 111 cl id m liciii.c To Coni ||1.;
A Pittsburg dispatch says: Thero
now seems to bo no doubt that there
will be an extensive strike at the big
Homestead plant of the Carnegie Hleel
Company. The question at issue is
practically the same an In 1892—recog¬
nition by the company of flic Amalga¬
mated Association. The men seem
determined to stand by their union,
while the Company has announced that
no amalgamated association men can
ho employed in its plant. precipi-
The present trouble was
( n tcd Fridry when a committee of
thirteen went to Superintendent Co-
,.,,y ( 0 demand tho reinstatement of
Dftcen union men who had been dis-
charged.
Mr. Corey and President O. M.
Schwab not only discharged them, but
informed them that they could not
even go back into tho mill to get their
dinner buckets.
HAPI’Y MINERS THESE.
An Adviimm of Two and a Half Cent* a
Ton fu Aliibrifinii In (Ariintfid.
A Birmingham special sb/h: Fol¬
lowing in the footsteps of signing a
contract with the miners for coal min¬
ing for a year, commencing July 1st,
tho Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. and
tlio Hloss Iron and Steel Co. Haturday
morning announced an advance of 2}
,. on t H . )01 . ton on mining. This brings
t)l(( mluurH . waf?eB np t o 62* cents per
ton> , )le highest price that has pre-
vnj , 0() for y( . ars T | 10 company ex-
. ir „ HB0( i „ desire that ns little time as
Umt in lUo celebration of
the ^..Hh of July,
GOVERNOR ( ALLS TROOPS
To (JiKill ili« Trouble MinorM ut
C'Artfiravlllpf III.
Acting Governor Warder of Illinois
Saturday evening ordered tho compa-
panies of the Fourth infantry Illinois
National Guard, located at Carbomlalo
and Alt. Vernon, to proceed to Cnr-
torsvillo nt, once and presorvo the
peace. This action was taken upon
representations from the sheriff and
prominent citizens of that section of
tho country, who telegraphed tho act¬
ing governor that tho sheriff was pow¬
erless to keep the peace and that tho
troous were necessary.
MRS. SOUTH WORTH DEAD.
Well Known Authored* Away After
fir i«f III flf‘NM.
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Houthworth,
the authoress, died at her residence in
Washington Friday night, after an ill-
ness of several weeks. About a month
ago Airs. Houthworth was prostrated
t,y the heat and the infirmity of nd-
vanced age, she being in her sevonty-
ninth year, rendering her unable to
recuperate from tho attack.
Hho lived for many years a retired
life in a picturesque mansion of the
old-fashioned type, located on a hill
in west Washington, overlooking the
hills of Virginia.
NEW ARTICLES FILED.
Bjr American Fanama Canal Company In
Now Jorfey.
The American Isthmus Ship Canal
Company filed at Trenton, N. J., Fri-
day, urticles of incorporation, leaving
out that part of the orginal papers in
reference to the increase of the capital
stock, which met witli the disapproval
of tha attorney general and which
were turned down,
The authorized oapital stook in the
paper* filed is placed at $30,000.
NO. 48.
COL. BRYAN
IN GEORGIA
Nebraskan Receives a Great Re*
ccption at Barnesville.
ADDRESSES THREE THOUSAND.
Afterwards He Is Banqueted By
the Young Men’s Deiv’ocratic
League In Atlanta.
The crowning event, in tho life of
tlio littlo city of Barnesville, Ga.,—
I’iko county's metropolis—was Tues¬
day’s celebration of the nation's birth¬
day, bringing ns it did that great trib-
une of tho people, William J. Bryan.
In honor of llio peerless leader of tho
democratic party, there was a vast out¬
pouring of the people. at¬
And Barnesville put on her gala
tire in honor of the occasion. It was
an event in her life -the great event—
and she knew it. Thero profusion ot
tings and hunting, every building in
the ImsiuCsa portion of the city play¬
ing n pal t ill producing the general
decorative effect until it all seemed a
mass of the red, white and blue that
stnnds lor the republic.
DiliFMnt of IiilBrost,.
The chief point of interest was, of
course, the magnificent auditorium,
where wero held tho exercises of the
day. Colonel Bryan was tho guest of
Barnesville on tho invitation of tho
chautauqua association and there was,
of course, an admission charged to
tho auditorium; but long before the
hour sot for the cxorcisos tliut im-
mense hull was crowded to its limit.
It, is an immense magnificent.’’aiulitori- lmll, sealing easily
3,000 people; a cities size
uni, such as few of any can
boast.
The arrival of Colonel Bryan was
the occasion of great demonstration
of enthusiasm, lmlli within the build¬
ing and without.
“The Principles of tlio Declaration
of Independence as They Apply to the
Conditions of Today” -that might bo
tho title of Colonel Bryan’s speech, if
it had a title. As a matter of fact, it
was on extemporaneous talk and there¬
fore had no title; but if was that im¬
mortal document brought down to
date, its meaning in tho light of tho
present issues.
DnmjiHituil at Atlanta.
The banquet given by Young Men.s
Democratic League of Atlanta to Hon.
AV'illinm J. Bryan, at tho Kimball
house Tuesday night, was in everyway logi¬
a glittering siucess. Eloquence, and
cal argument, good fellowship
spontaneity ruled the occasion, and it
was altogether one to be long remem¬
bered.
The guests, among whom were some
of the most distingiislicd men in every
walk of life, assembled in tlio dining
hall at H o’clock, where a delightful
spread was waiting them. Covers wero
laid for eighty, anil tho tables, which
wero tastefully decorated with center
pieces of earnntioUB and maiden hair
ferns, were arranged in the shape of a
horseshoe.
During the interval of eating, a
stringed hand at the end of tho room
played a number of popular tunes,
which were greeted with enthusiastic
applause. Among iheso was “La Pa-
ioma,” which Air. Bryan expressed i»
great fondness for, and asked that it.
bo played again. During the several
courHOH AL. Bryan chatted with his
friends in on easy and graceful man¬
ner, but did not once refer to matters
of deep import. served, speak¬
Coffee and cigars the
ing began. Naturally tho speech of
Mr. Bryan was tlio chief event of tho
evening. It was a dispassionate argu¬
ment for the continuance of the demo¬
cratic principles embodied in the Chi¬
cago platform, an arraignment of tho
policy of imperialism, trusts and the
present money standard, and through¬
out was listened to with rapt atten¬
tiveness. He spoke for probably half
an hour, and during tlio course of hm
remarks was frequently interrupted
with the most enthusiastic remarks.
Other speeches were made by well-
known Atlaptians and all were received
with enthusiasm.
NATIVE POSTAL CLERKS
Will He Kin ployed In t’erto ICJuan And
Cuban* Office*.
Acting Postmaster General Heath
states that no more appointments
would ho made of Americans to tho
postal service in the Philippines, Porto
Rico or Cuba.
“Wo are now making every effort to
reduce the expenses of tho mail ser¬
vice in those countries,” said Mr.
Heath, “and with that in view the
postmaster general has cabled the re¬
call of all Americans sent to Porto
Rico on detail from the various
branches of the postal service in this
country, and it is likely that a num¬
ber of Americans will be withdrawn.”
MUST KEEP MOVING.
Negroes Will Not Bo Allowed to Stop
In l’am*t Illinol*.
A company of negro miners who
formerly worked in the Pana mines
arrived in that town on the Illinois
Centr.J Monday afternoon, but were
ordered to leave the stated, town that immediately. they had
- The negroes
escaped during a riot at the Brush
mines near Carterville, it is
reported, all is the black# treating/ w” ioh Pus,* will
be given &