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The Irwin County News.
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Official Orgran of Irwin County.
A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
■yy l. story,
PHYSICIAN abd BURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
•J^JAIlK ANTHONY.
PHYSICIAN abd BURGEON,
Sycamore, Gjjoroia.
Will be loc 'ted for the present at the Dod¬
son House. Patrounge respectfully sol cited.
T. 4V, ELMS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
Calls promptly attended to at alt hours.
I respectfully solicit a share of Ihe public
patronage Office in B. H Cockreil’s store.
jQU. J. K GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Cad» answered promptly day or night.
t33P"Spociai attention to diseases of women
Lmd children.
jgKNTON STRANGM, M. D.
SPECIALIST.
CORDEW.it, Georgia,
Diseases of women, Strict ires. Nervous
and all priva o diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out iu - to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism without pain or detention
from business; aud given to patient in a vial
of alcohol. Correspondence solicited and
best references given. Office north-east cor¬
ner Suwanee Ho n- ■
B. M. FRIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Georgia.
Practices in tbe State and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties.
yy A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Collections and Ejectment suits n Special¬
ty, g3grOffice, Room No. 4, Betts Buililing.
W. FUliVVOOD,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tutor, Georgi . s
Prompt attention given to all business.
fgf'OHiee, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN H Altlii
SHOEMAKER,
Ashburn, Georgia,
My prices .are low and all work strictly
OrUMTHrifoed.
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DIRECTORY-
CITY OF SYCAMORE.
Mayor—A G. DcLoach.
Counoilmen—W. B. Hasher. X. L. Murray.
Si. W. Cockrell. E. It. Smith, J, P. Fountain,
Superior Courts—First C. Monday Judge, in April
«nd October. C. Smith, Hawkins-
Ville, Ga.
Solicitor General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Pautk, Ir-
Win ville. Ua.
Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby. Ga
ville, . Deputy Ga.; Sheriffs—C. VanHouten, L. Prescott, Irwin-
Wm. Sycamore, Go.
Monday; County Quarterl Court — Monthly second session, Monday second
session,
in January, April. July and October. J. B.
Clements, Judge, Irwinn'lle, Ua.
County Gn. Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir-
Tvinville,
County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬
day iu each month. M. Henderson. Commis¬
sioner, Ordinary’ll Ocilla. Ga.
Court—First Monday in each
month. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga.
School Commissioner-J. Y. Fietcher, Ru
by. Ga.
County Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin-
ville. Ga.
Tax Receiver -D. A. Melnnis, \ ic Ga. %
Tax Collector—J. W. F.mlk, Ruby, Ga.
Purveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Gn,
Coroner—Daniel Hall, Minnie, Ga.
Board of Education—Jno. Clements Chair¬
man, Irvvinville, Ga.; Homy T. Fletcher, Ir-
Winvilie, Taylor, Irwinvil Ga.; L R. Tucker, 8. Vic, Go; I,. P.
Ocallu, Oh, e, Ga.; E. Coleman,
Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M, Second
Saturday and in each month. Marcus Luke, N.
P. ex-ofa, J, it; Wm, Rogers, Bailiff,
L-w.lnvdle. Ua. Saturday in
1421 District G. M. Second
each month. J. H. McNeese, J. P, Kisss-
mee, Ga. James Roberts, Bailiff, Ocala, Gi.
1388 Dist. u. M., Third Saturday in each
raont Bailiff, Minnie, n. V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup,
Ga.
98H Iji l G. M., Third Wednesday in eneb
mouth. (J. L Royal, J, P., Sycamore, Gn. \
A. Jones & P. Royal, Builiffs, Sycamore, Ga.
982 Dist. G M.. D. A. Ray, N. P. & Ex-
offlcio J. P., Sycamore, Ga.
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LODGE DIRECTORY-
Svc inni ,., U. nlv... f\o. 210 IL & A- M
Regain,- communications, -'th! Saturday. W
Story, W. M.; A. D. Ross, Secretary.
Oeill.i Lodge, V. & A. M.—Regular corn-
imuucuiioii i uurs luy before the 4lh Sunday M.;
in each month. J. A. J, Heuderson, W.
D. W. M. Whitley, Kec’y, Ociilu, Ga.
CHUdCH DIRECTORY-
sycamore circuit.
Sycamore—2nd Sunday and Sunday night
Cycfometa—Fourth Sunday.
Dakota- Third Sunday.
Ashburne—1st Sunday and Sunday night.
T. D. STRONG, Pastor.
UNION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST.
Brushey Creek—4 h Sunday and Saturday
before.
Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Situr-
day Hopewell—lat betore. Saturday
Salem—3rd Sunday & Saiurday before. before.
Eld. Sunday H. and Harden, Pastor.
W,
Little River—3rd Sunday and Saturday
betore.
Turner's Meeting House—2nd Sunday and
Saturday Oaky Gmve—4th before and Saturday
before Sunday
Emaua—Ut Bundayand James Saiurday Gibbs, Pastor. before
Els.
.NOTICE.
Parties will are warned that no of hunting land Nos. or fish¬
ing l,., .Uowod on lot* 18,
1*. 17. 16. 13 and 44, in 3rd district of Irwin
county. Wiley Elexchuus.
“In Union. Htrength and Prosperity Abound.”
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA M JUNE I, 1894.
CURRENT EVENTS
Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream of the General News.
The floods in the Susqnohannah ami
its branches are reported to be siowly
subsiding.
Ed Alvarez shot and killed Sain
Milliard at the latter’s home near
Starke, Fla.
The general conference of the col¬
ored M. E. church will meet next year
at Charleston, S. C.
Gus Gudger, a negro, shot and killed
Matthew Hardeman at the base ball
ground at Dalton, Ga,, last week.
A barn was struck by lightning at
Sebru, Ky., and burned with 11 mules
and a large supply of corn and hay.
The mercury fell at Chattanooga on
Sunday to 30 degrees, and there was
more snow ou Lookout and Welder’s
ridge.
At Union City, Tcnn., George Carr,
crushed the skull of Have Doan, wit h
a four pound weight. Both the men
are barbers. '
A . dispatch .. from. . Dennison, _ . Texas, rrl
says: “Nothing like the weather of
the past 24 hours has been experienced
here for 20 years.
Ten prisoners broke ontjof jailjat _ Ra-
leigli, N. C., and got away, including
Orange Page, who was under sentence
of deatli for minder,
The residents in south and east
Minneapolis, on the flats, have been
driven from their houses by the rising
waters of the Mississippi. *
Geo. S. Lemon and Geo. Avery, of
Louisville, Ky., met in a duel at Falls,
a suburb of Jeffersonville, Ind., and
Lernon received a ballot in his thigh,
t,, The , body , of , James . . Lamman, a son
of Pevton Lowman of Gilmer county,
Ga., was found lying dead in the pub-
lie road. He had been stabbed to
dea(b
The officials of the Ramsey Coke
company ^ of - rT Umontowu, . Pa., »; an-
nounce that every foreign m heir
employ will bo discharged and their
places tilled will, negroes.
C. H. J» Taylor, a negro, of Kan- ^
sas, appointed Recorder of deeds iu
the District of Columbia, through the
influence of Senator Martin of Kansas,
has been eonhrmed by the senate by a
° 0 ° '
Mr. Benedict, . public . printer at the
national capitol, discharged 500 prin-
ters from the government offices last
Saturday. He says he will further
reduce the force by discharging 500
more by the first of July.
The hotel and many other buildings
of West End, a suburb of New Or-
leans, and one of the most attractive
and widely known resorts in the south
was burned last Wednesday morning,
Loss $50,000, largely insured.
The British steamship, Akaba, clear-
ed at the custom house at Pensacola,
l< la. with a cargo of 2,021,000 superti-
cial feet of lumber aud timber, for
London, England—the largest
cargo of the kind that ever left a gulf
poi-t.
The road connecting the city of
Savannah with Tybee beach, which
was entirely destroyed by the storm
which swept the Atlantic coast lust
siunmer, lias been rebuilt and is run-
niug four trains daily to that famous
resort.
The Manchester, England, ship ca-
nal lias been formally opened by the
Queen. Seven miles of streets were
lined with stands on the occasion, and
tho principle streets and squares were
closed to vehicles from 8;30 p. m, tili
midnight.
The corner stone of a monument to
be erected under the auspices of the La-
dies’ Monumental association of Nortli
Carolina, iu memory of the Confedor-
ate dead, was laid with imposing cer-
emonies, at the capital of that state
last Tuetday.
The flood at Williamsport, Pa , lasj
week reached the height of thirty-one
feet above low water mark, one foot
higher than the disastrous flood of
1889. There was eight feet of city water
in the business portion of the at
1 p. m, on Sunday,
George W. Smith, was found dead
in his bed at his home near Hickory
Withe, Tenn. He was a quiet christ-
tian gentleman, 84 years ofd. On Ihe
day da'v before his death he plowed al-
aud was cheerful aud apparently
rnJ nn rptiriuo-at 7 niu-hf
The „ British , u stcamei, w-„- Billingham, ,
* ing al 4300 tons le of f D phospate, n Udl "?’ f“n for Copenha- Ca ‘I7"
gen. She drew 20 feet and 8 iuches
of water and wont over the bar with-
out touching. Ihe is the deepest
laden vessel that has ever passed over
the bar.
Frank Beil, a traveler, while in the
town of Barberton, O., foolishly ex-
hibiied in sevoral places a largo mm-
ber of bills. At night lie was set up-
on ina lonely place, beaten into iuseu-
sibility and robbed of nearly $1000.
Five men were arrested, charged with
tho crime.
The boiler of a mill a few miles
east of De Funink, Flu., exploded,
It shot up through the roof and foil
200 vards away. The mill was
wrecked, J H Davis tbe fireiuau. was
killed and John Cody, a mill hand,
probably hurt fatally, Several others
were injured.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to the house of representatives a
recommendation that $35,000 bo ap¬
propriated for a new light house at
Ciinmleleur, La., the old structure
having been so badly damaged by a
storm in (Jctobrr that he deems it un-
wise to repair it,
According to the report of the dis¬
trict fire chief, after a pell of the
bitrnl district in Boston, on the fire of
last Tuesday, 137 buildings were to¬
tally destroyed, 20 partly burned,
487 families burned out and about
2,300 persons made homeless, The
financial loss was about $500,000.
George Gliarest, a professional wire
walker, attempted to carry his wife
on a steel cable strechcd across the
public square at Shelby vilie, Tenn.
The cable snapped and they fell to the
steeet 35 feet below, Charest’s hip
was broken and bis wife, is expected
to die from injuries received in the
terrible fall.
MusLdhan, T .... daughter ... of ... General
B- Hood > who u P on <h° death of
her father twenty years ago, was, wi til
her twin sister, adopted by Mr. and
Mrg Thatcher M. Adams, whose
uame gbc uow bears, is to be married
to Mr. William Stone Post. The wed-
ding announced to take place in Trin-
ity church, Lenox, a suburb of Balti-
more, Md., on June 14th.
a. detective named Webber, was
killed and deputy sheriff Smith seri-
ously injured in a riot at Forest City,
Ark., growing out of the arrest of
prominent citizens of St. Francis
county on the charge of whitecapping
upon evidence supplied by Webber,
Frank Gorman, a merchant of Pales-
tine, is charged with shooting the de-
tcctive and has been arrested.
^ Boulder .Creek, Cal., a man
named Azoff approached the station
agent and ordered him to throw up bis
hands. He did so. Detective Len
Harris, of the Southern Pacific secret
eamce, ^ who had previous lnrorma-
liou the ro , jb e l y wonld be at -
, ted 8tepped 0llt of a rO0ln and
A«.ffl|to surrender. Instead of
d Wng so the robber quickly fired,
shooting Harris in the stomach,' ami
made’offl The wound in all proba¬
biffty is fatal 4
^ main bllild{ng ? of cienMOn Cbi-
|ege> t|)e South Cai oJina agr i cu | tuia |
aud mechahical school, has been de-
strayed by fire. It was a handsome
three story brick structure, and the
fl t e having begun in the third story,
much of the college property was
saved. The site of the college, two
miles from Calhoun, was the birth
place of John C. Calhoun and was
devised to the state by his son-in-law,
Thos. G. Cleuison. The loss is esti-
mated at $80,000, with about $20,000
insurance.
Five men entered the First National
bank of Longview, Texas, at three
o’clock in the afternoon, and ordering
the president and cashier to hold up
their hands, robbed tiie bank of $2,500.
Several officers and citizens intercepted
th■* robbers and a fight ensued, in
which two citizens, Geo. Buckingham
and J. W. McQueen, were killed, and
Marshlial Muckelroy badly wounded,
One of the robbers, a small dark com-
plecled man, was killed. The others es-
caped, taking bis horse and gun, A
large posse went in pursuit,
it j s ostimated that half a million
dollars will scarcely cover the damages
resulting front the storm in Minnesota
and Wisconsin last Tuesday. The
down pour of rain was phenominal
and tho rise in <he waters was so rapid
dams were broken, many bridges car-
ried away and much property destroy-
ed. Two persons were killed by light-
t'i'ig, a woman and two children were
drowned in the Engalle river near
bpring Valley, Wis., and two men
near Mindon, Minn, Railway traffic
i7 as suspended by the loss ofbriges.
A number of Nashville, fireman
were poisoned at their headquarters in
that city. Returning from dinner
they drank freely of ice water, which
was kept at tho rear of the engine
house, and were seized with intense
pain and nausea. Thinking the cause
was in something they had eaten at
dinner, they sought relief in vomiting
«"d drank more. It happened that sev
e ' al cltlzuus ™, me and dl ' a " k °, f th ®
tke water ' T *V at °® ce developed
the same symptoms. Physicians were
called and most of the victims were
partially relieved, but some were car-
ried home in critical condition. An
ana iygi„ 0 f the water showed the pres-
cnee of a considerable quanity of ar-
geinc . It is Slipp0se d to have been
p | aced in the water while the men
W ere at dinner.
-— > —
>rt.e sheriff Makes .v G.»od shot.
Sheriff Isaac Roussard of Lafayette,
La., shot and killed Henry Jones, a
negro ravisher, who had been wunted
for a month. The fiend met a little
7-year-old girl and her little brother
in the road, and seizing her carried
her off aud accomplished his purpose.
The sheriff went to the salt mines,
Hearing he was there, and in an at-
tempt to arrest him, was met by a des-
perate resistance. The sheriff, during
the trouble, shot the negro through
(he head with a Winchester,
AT THE CAPITOL,
Synopsis of What it Being Saio ant
Done at Washington from Day to Day,
One Hundred and Thirty-Second !>ny.
Sevate —In (he senate the resolutions
meet dailyjat 10 and take up thetaritl
at 1:30 was agreed to. Thereinain-
of scliednlo A—chemicals,oils and
paints were acted on, and all of
B—earths, earthenware and
When the next schedule
reached,—metals aud manufac¬
of iron and steel, tho bill went
for the day and the senate at
adjourned.
House —In the house a resolution to
tiie committee on railways and
a clerk was agreed to. The
and judicial appropriation
bill was then taken up iu committee
ihe whole. General debate on the
was closed at 5 o’clock. The
house voted lo adjourn over Saturday,
and took a recess unlit 8 o’clock to
consider private pension and relief
bills.
One Hundred find Thirty-Third Day.
Iu the senate at 11:20 the tariff bill
was taken up and Mr. Gallinger de¬
livered the third part of his speech
against it. Several items of the glass
and china schedule were acted upon
and the bill went over.—The rest of
the session was taken up with bills on
the calendar, of which over a dozen
were passed, me more important being
the bill for the suppression of the lot.
tery traffic, the bill making additional
regulations for the protection of tho
seals, and a bill for the relief of rela.
tives of the seamen who were lost in
the effort to save the crew of the Mag¬
gie E. Wells.—A resolution authoriz¬
ing the employment of a stenographer
ami such other expenses as it may
deem necessary by the sugar trust in¬
vestigating committee, was agreed to,
and the senate adjourned until Mon¬
day.
line Hundred and Tliirty-Voilrlh l)ar.
Senate. —At 10:30 the tariff was
taken up and the day was spent in
discussing iron. The amendment of¬
fered by Mr. Peffer to put it on the
free list was lost, only four senators
voting for it. An amendment increas¬
ing the duty to 60 cents per ton was
pending at the hour ef adjournment.
House.-- The legislative and judi¬
cial appropriation bill was resumed in
committee of the whole under the five
minute rule. Mr. Boatner withdrew
ins amendment providing for granting
leaves of absence without forfeiture
of pay, and Mr. Hayes, of Iowa, pro¬
posed an amendment declaring that
section 40 of the revised statutes had
been repealed. Adopted. (This
amendment is tbe same in effect as
that withdrawn by Mr. Hayes,)--Mr. for
Boatner’s amendment providing
the deduction of pay of absentees
except on account of sickness of them¬
selves or families, was ruled out on n
point of order. At 5:05, having dis¬
posed of fifteen pages of the bill, tbo
committee rose aud the house ad¬
journed.
t)nc Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Day*
Senate. —In the senate Mr. Walsh
of Georgia introduced as a substitute
for the bill heretofore offered by him
relating to thu robbery of mail trains,
an amended bill, which, after a second
reading, was refers ed to tiie commit,
leefeni postoffices and post roads. Al
10:30 tbe tariff bill was taken up.
The amendment making the duty on
iron ore 40 cents per ton was agreed
to. Other items of ihe bill, up to No.
116, were acted on and il e senate af
ter an executive session, adjourned.
House.—A substitute for Mr. Dim.
phy’s .J joint resolution was reported
tl m lbe committee on rules. It pro¬
v j des f or an investigation of the al.
leged armor plate frauds bv the house
naval committee. Mr. Stone of Ken-
lucky proposed an amendment direct-
ing the committee to inquire into the
cost of armor plate. He wanted the
country lo know why the government
pays $800 per ton for steel
plate, while railroad companies can
buy steel rails at $27 per ton. The
resolution as amended was agreed to,
Tho legislative, executive and judi-
cial appropriation was taken up is
committee of the whole. When the
paragraph relating to the civil service
commission was reached, Mr. Euloe
of Tennessee, moved to strike out th.
paragraph carrying appropriations foi
salaries of the commissioners and
clerks, amounting to $33,940. Othei
amendments were proposed. Aftei
three hours debate Mr. Enloe’s amend¬
ment was agreed to by »
yea and nuv vote oi
109 to 71. Mr. Dinglv of Maim
gave notice that in the house he would
demand a separate yea and nay vot<
on the amendment. The cornmittei
then rose, and at 5 :05 the house ad.
journed.
a-u Thirty-sixth nay.
b f, NA ^ K '. A leso bition was offered |
Mr Kyle, of South Dakot a; , declar- ,
it as the sense of the senate|that the
of the United Statesi shall
»ot use force to restore to the throne
6p08ea U e e „ of tbe Sandwich
D 11 8 > °| 01 hepuiposso e» toy-
'■ 1 exl * '“g govemtnon , iat 10
^ ona governmen having feSQB
•July recognized, the highest national
interests are that i* shall pursue its
own line of policy, and that interven¬
tion in the poiiiical affairs of those
Islands by other governments will be
regarded as unfriendly to the United
States. Tho resolution went over,—
The tariff bill was taken up. Para¬
graph 117 was amended by fixing tbe
duty on railway bars, of iron or steel.
T rails t and punched iron or steel
Hat rails, at 7-20 of a cent per pound,
which is $7.84 per ton, the present
duty being $14.44 per ton. Mr. Gor¬
man, of Maryland, addressed the
sena te, occunvinrr an hr*ivi» ______ ‘'essys.
Aldrich and Teller replied briefly tariff and bill
the latter moved to lay the
on the table; ayes 128, nays 38; lost.
—Pending consideration of paragraph
121, the hour of 5:30 arrived and the
senate held a 30 minutes executive ses¬
sion and then adjourned.—Of a total
of 225 pages of the bill, 200 remain
jo be considered.
House —The legislative appropria¬
tion bill was resumed in committee of
the whole.—The paragraph trans¬
ferring to the civil service commission
control of the clerks detailed for
work therein, was stricken out.
Mr. Caruth of Kentucky moved to
strike out the words, “within the
classified service,” in tho item appro¬
priating $20,000 to enable llu secre¬
tary of tho treasury to complete tho
accounts in the offices of the first and
second comptrollers and commission¬
er of customs, which it is proposed
to abolish. The motion was carried,
yeas 30, nays 28, and Mr Ditigly gave
notice that he would call for a yea and
nay vote in the house.—At 5 o’clock
the committee rose and the house ad¬
journed until tomorrow.
One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh nay,
Senate. —The senaie resumed con¬
sideration of the tariff. Tin plate was
left at 1 1-5 cents per pound, as in the
house bill Barbed wire, commonly
used for fencing, was put ou Iho free
list. Paragraph 143 was before the
senate when, at 6 o’clock a motion, bv
Mr. Harris, to adjourn, was carried.
House. —Twenty-live minutes were
devoted to I lie private calendar and
committee reports, and the legislative
approriation was then resumed in
committee of the whole. At 3:50 the
committee rose and reported the bill
to the hon e.' All the amendments on
which separate votes had not been de¬
manded were agreed to. The amend¬
ment declaring that section 40 of the
revised statutes, which provides for
deducting pay of members for time
absent, except in case of sickness,
lias been repealed, was lost: yeas 104,
nays 127.—Tiie amendment striking
out tbe appropriation for the salaries
of the civil service commissioners and
clerks was lost: yeas 80, nays 158.
The amendment striking outlhc pro¬
vision that Hie clerks io be tempora¬
rily employed in bringing up to date
tiie business of the treasury depart¬
ment shall be taken from tiie cla-si-
fled service was lost: yeas 45, nays
127. The bill was ihen passed aud
the house at 5 o’clock adjourned.
THE Us, A J, - . ..IKE,
Hiot anil Itiiule in ill • Pennsylvania Cnnl
ltu trfoi).
The attempt of the Latrobe compa¬
ny to lesume work, was prevented by
a mob of .Slavs and Iialiaiis. They
were armed with clubs, bars of iron
and big steel files.
»* *
At the Liganiere works, a dozen
deputies were confronted by a inob of
260 strikers armed with clubs and re¬
volvers. The deputies were attacked
from the rear and one of them was
struck over (he haed with a club and
had his rifle wrested from him.
* * *
All the works in the coke region of
Uniontown, report an increase of
forces. The strikers are inclined to
go to mining coal, because, ilicy say,
the united mine worker’s union lias
repudiated its promises of assistance.
* * i,
A number of men on their way (o
the Claridge mines were attacked by
50 of the foreign strikers’ wives and
terribly beaten. Three of them badly
injured.
* » *
Six hundred strikers assembled at
(Fayette City, captured a delegation of
Frick workmen and are holding them
at their camp.
* * *
The Marlin Arms Co., of New Ha-
veu, Conn., have received an order
from mine owners for a thousand
rifles to be shipped at once to the
Pennsylvania coke region—making
the fourth order of the kind within a
month.
* * „
About 1800 strikers, most of them
.Hungarians and Slavs, of Yonghio-
h eny mines, attacked Ihe deputies at
' Washington Run last Thursday morit-
|j()g at day break . The deputies, who
were f 0l . t jfi ed behind two box cars,
m « t tbe a ( lac k with a vollev
, licil . winchesters. Tho strikers, after
a few gho(g b ,. oke al)d fle(] _ ]og .
ing eight men killed and more than
score wounded. The men killed
4 u foreigners, mostly llungariaiu.
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
VOL. V. NO. 3.
I. A TEST TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
At Vernon, Texas, a whole block of
buildings was burned, The loss is es¬
timated at $50,000,
A dispatch from Unionto wn, Pa,,
'gays: Many of in the starving strikers condition. and tlieir
families are a
Some are homeless by reason of evic¬
tion from the company’s houses.
Three car loads of negroes engaged
to work for the Rainey (Joke company
have passed through Connelsville, Pa.
A committee of strikers attempted to
board tho cars, but were driven away
by the officers in charge.
Four men were drowned in an at¬
tempt to save tho crew of a schooner
which was drifting helplessly off shore
eight miles north of Port Huron,
Mich. The life-saving crew, from
Sand Beach, subsequently succeeded
in saving the schooner’s men.
The striking miners of Shady mines
Tenn., are in great distress, as indi¬
cated by tiie following appeal sent to
the jlabor organizations of Chatla-
ilooga. “\Y r e struck to restore the 20
per cent reduction, Wo were not
making enough to live on. Many of
us are now destitute and we ask for
meat aud bread.” Assistance was
sent them from Chattanooga.
Seven inen were killed in a collision
between a freight and bridge train in
the Standing Rook tunnel on the New¬
port News & Mississippi Valley rail¬
road last Saturday. J. Crisp, West-
port, Ky.; R. L. Power, Paducah; J.
Candrey, Mayfield; Boss Butter, West
Point; Nick Hill, conductor of bridge
train; John B Dnnoaa, Dulany, Ky.;
and George Whitehead, Paducah.
Advices have been received at the
state department in Washington giv¬
ing additional particulars of the earth¬
quake in Venezuela. It seems that
the greatest damage was done on tho
line of the San Carlos and Merida rail¬
way in the Andes, on which several
stations were thrown down and a
number of valuable bridges destroyed.
In places black water lmviug a fetid
odor was ex polled Jfrom cracks in the
earth. The village of Laugunillos
disappeared, ami a lake now occupies
the sight. The Venezuelan minister
at Washington has been asked to re¬
ceive contributions for the relief of
the sufferers from the great catastro¬
phe.
I’osson by the Flooil.
The total losses at Williamsport,
Pa., as estimated by conservative men,
are $3,000,000. This includes $1,500,-
000 ou logs, $250,000 on sawed lum¬
ber and tbe balance on property
throughout the city. publio
Mayor Elliott lias called a
meeting for tomorrow lo take action
looking to the care of the homeless.
It is estimated that the homes of 10,-
000 people were invaded by the water
and are in such a damp and unhealth-
iul coiiuition as to make them undesir-
ab.e, Railroad traffic is resuming
from the east and west, and within
two days traffic will he almost com¬
plete. At Johnstown, Pa: Penn-
sylvania railroad, $50,000; Wood vale
property, $0,000: pottery of H.
Swank & Son, $3,000; Cambria Iron
company, $10,000; business men and
property owners in Johnstown, $16,-
000; Pennsylvania Traffic company,
$10,000; tiie city, $10,000; McCon-
aug'hey estate, $6,000; other losses,
$10,000.
A Fatal Hirlii.
A most deplorable shooting affair
took place at Dorseyvilie, La., ou the
Texas and Pacific railway. It seems
that a dago and a negro engaged ina
fight in iront of Block & Lebe’s store,
which attracted the atiention ■ f Messrs
Adolph B ock and Jules Lcue, his
brother-in-law. Tiie negro took of¬
fense at something that was said and
went off aud got his gun and returned.
Seeing this, Messrs. Block and Lebe
armed themselves. In the shooting
which followed Messrs Adolph Block
and Jules Lebe and the negro wore
killed outright. Mr. Block is a young
man who caine to this parish from high
Clinton, La., where he is held in
esteem. Mr Lebe is from Texas,
BATTLE AT A PltUUAllY.
Fifty Sitot h Fired and Two Men Are
Killed in Cnliloi-nla.
A battle occurred during the pro¬
gress of a republican primary at the
Dallas school house, about eighteen
miles south of Hanford, California,
which resulted in Jamos McCaffrey
being instantly killed by Wm. Ryan
and James O. Ryan, father of YVm.
Ryan, being mortally wounded. Tho
messenger who brings the news of the
affray says that a dozeu men were in
the battle, and that no less than fifty
shots were fired. Officers and physi¬
cians have gone to the scene of the
tragedy.
The Cold Ware.
Following the great storms which
have devasled so lurge a region of the
northwest came snow and frost.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
the earth lies under three inches ol
8 „ow. At Omaha, >eb.,ioe a quar- and
ter of an inch thick was formed,
vegetable crops in ail exposed sitna- Over
lions were killed by the freeze.
a large gect i 0 n of Indiana the frost cut
I down corn and all tender plants. The
same is uue of tho other states named
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