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The Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A, G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
vv. L. STORY,
PHYSICIAN ahd BURGEON,
c GroAMoiut, Georgia.
Yf ARK ANTHONY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
BVCAMOUB, GbOBGIA.
• Will be located for the present, at tlm Dod¬
I son House. Patronage respectfully solicited.
T. W. ELLIS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
I Calls promptly at tended to at nil liours.
I respectfully solicit a sliare of the public
pati ouugu 'Office in B. H Cockrell’s sluro.
D u J. F. G Ait ON Fit,
X PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Abhburn, Georgia.
Ca ls answered promptly day or night.
lig’-Special attention to drseusos of women
uud children.
ENTON STRANGE, M, D.
SPECIALIST.
Coudelle, Georgia,
Diseases of women, Strict ires, Nervous
arid all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out iu X to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism without pain patient or detention
from business; and given to iu a vial
of alcohol. Correspondence solicited and
Lest references given. OUice uortu-east cor¬
ner Suwui.ee House.
B. M. FRIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Gkobgia,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties.
A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Asiiburn, Georgia.
Collections and Ejectment suits a Special¬
ty. l-sf’Office, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
\V. FULWOOD,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tipton, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to nil business.
LgTOHiee, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN HAltltlS.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashborn, Georgia.
My prices are low and all work
tlT..u ran total.
* DIRECTORY-
.
ui CITY OF SYCAMORE.
Tayor—A. G. DeLoacb.
W ur'uncitmen—W. B. Dasher, I. L. Murray.
CGluperior „ -V. Cockrell, E. It. Smith, J. P. Fountain,
Courts—First Monday in April
,, r d October. C. C. Smith, Judge, Hawkins-
rile, Ga.
Solicitor General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir¬
vin viile, Gu.
Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby , Ga.
villv, Deputy Ga.; Sheriffs—C. Wm. Vanllouten, L. P roscott, Irwin-
sycamore, Ga.
Monday; County Quarterl, Court — Monthly session, second
In January. April, July session, second Monday
and October. J. B.
Clemenls, Ju'lge, Irwiiiville, Ga.
County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir-
inville, Gn.
County Commissioners’ Court—First Mou-
giy in each month. M. Henderson. Conmiis-
liOrilinuiy’s .mer, Oeilla, Ga.
Court—First Monday in each
j, )iith. Dauiei Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Gu.
A School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru-
U'. Ga.
i ounty Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwiu-
Cillo. Ga.
-Tox Receiver -D. A. Mclnnis, Vic. Ga.
lax Collector—J. W. Faulk, Ruby, Ga.
Surveyor—M. Coroner—Daniel Barnes, Minnie, Ga.
j H ill, Minnie, Ga.
Board ot Education—Jno. Clements Cliair-
giau, Irwiiiville, Ua.; Henry T. Fletcher, Ir-
Tailor, inville, Irwinvile, G>.; L. R. Tucker, Vic, Gu; L. D.
J.illa, Ga. Ga.; S. E. Coleman,
.
’ Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M., Second
fiaturday and ex-offl, in each month. Marcus Luke. N.
. J. F ; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
irwiiiville. Ga. Saturday
, 1421 District G. M. Second iu
'ich month. J. H. McNeose, J. P, Kiss-
Ga. James Roberts, Bailiff, Ocala, Gn.
Dist. G. M., Third Saturday in each
^■l.ff. H"V• Minnie, G- V. Hanley, J. F ; David Troup,
^L^ph-t Gu.
G. M., Third Wednesday in encli
HkO. Baft J. Royal, J. P.. ,Sycamore, G i.;
: P Royal, Bailiff's, Sycamore, Gu.
U M.. D. A. it ly, N. F. & Ex
E DIRECTORY-
• No. 210 F. ik A, M
ntions, "ii'l Saturday. W
L Ross, Secretary.
A. M.—Regular com-
^Hrefore Hk Hnndersoii, the -lib Sunday VV. M.;
^ft, OcilUi, Gu.
,CTO«Y.
UT.
luuday night.
night.
itor.
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abonnd.”
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., JUNE 29, 1891.
CURRENT EVENTS
Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the
Cream of the General News.
Win. Walter Phelps died at Patter¬
son, N. J., at 1:15 last Sunday morn-
ing.
Tho university of Tennessee, al
Knoxville, lias passed its 100th anni¬
versary.
Geo. P. Wotmorchas been elected
United States senator from Rhode
Island.
The union stock yards at Bennings,
D. C., near Washington, were burned.
Loss $125,000.
About 20,000 people have died of
tho plague at Hong Kong, China, anil
about 80,000 have fled from the city
Two children of Win. Buvick, a
farmer of Henrietta, N. Y., were killed
by a Lehigh Valley (rain ut Chapel
Crossing Saturday night.
A fire at Panama destroyed more
than 100 iiouses. Estimates of tho loss
vary from one and a quarter to one
and a half million dollars.
The United States steamer, Mohican,
flagship of the Behring sea squadron,
in a five day’s cruse around Kodiak
island, captured two poaching schoon¬
ers, both from Seattle, equipped for
catching seals,
The California orange crop is re¬
ported short on account of late frost.
The total product of southern Califor¬
nia is estimated at 40,000 car loads,
which is said to he 20 per cent below
the yield of last season.
Thomas J. Carney, of Pineville,
Tenn., was supervising the removal
of a large block of stone from a car,
when the derrick ropes broke and ihe
huge mass fell upou him. Death was
iustanteous.
Governor ,, Stone, ... of , Mississippi, ....... has
granted a full pardon to ex-state treas-
urer, Wm. L. Hemming way. ihe
application for ins pardon was signed
by thousands of prominent citizens all
over the state.
The convention of miners at Terre
Haute, Ind,, after sitting with closed
do<?rs from 10:30, a, m. until late al
night, decided by an almost unani¬
mous vote to remain out until they
can liavo work at 70 cents per ton.
W. G. Smith, who worked tho
Jackson, Tenn. banking company last
week on a forged check for $225, lias
had his day in,court, where he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to the peni¬
tentiary escaped. for three years. His pal
Benjamin C, Refers, assistant treas¬
urer of the New Central Coal compa¬
ny of Maryland, whose principal office
is in New York City, has deserted his
wife and children and decamped wit*h
a pretty “school marm” and $6000 of
the company’s money.
AVlien the roll of tho miners was
called on the day after the explosion
and fire in the mines at Korwiu, in
Austrian Silesia, last week, 204 failed
to answer. Of these 100 were mar¬
ried men, 400 children wero made or¬
phans by tiro terrible disaster.
Three white men, Tom Moore, Eu¬
gene Folks and Thomas Westmoreland
and three indians, Emerson Allen,
Cephas W. Wright and Thomas Wade,
have been convicted of murder and
sentenced by the federal court in ses¬
sion at Paris, Texas, to bo hung on
September 28th.
Mose Prowett, a mail carrier on the
route north'from Poplar Grove, Ark.,
had a quarrel witli a stave man about
the right of way, which ended with
the stave man’s shooting Prewett,
What a stave man is, and whether liie
shot was fatal or not, the press dis¬
patch leaves to tire guess of the reader.
One Hermon F, Wilkie was arrested
a few days ago at Columbus, Miss.,
on a telegram from Indiana. An
officer of that state, who came to take
tho prisoner back, reports that Wilkie
was a lawyer, justice of the peace,
parson, forger, embezzler and all
around confidence man. It is said
that his forgeries amount to $50,000,
The .p, Corean n legation , .. at . Washington, ,, r . . .
has received the following cablegram
from he Corca.i royal palace at
beaoul “Rebels suppressed soon after
m ; lV ;Vr Ad ,mraI k kcn ; ett and
Jus United n btatos steamer, ( who pro-
tooted both sides. All people in my
country are now peaceful and happy
Thank all the United States people.”
The number of foreign immigrants
booked for passage by the ocean line
steamers this season is reported to be
60 per cent less than at tho same time
last year, and by tho official records
the number entering at New York
during ihe past three months was
17,767 less than the number of arriv¬
als in the corresponding period of
year.
ho Russian goverment, alarmed
he supposed discovery of prepara-
fcky ^dence, tlie Caucasians view to of strike the dis- for
and in
,
Mon prevalent among the peas- ]
|Hntho ■d that difficulty region of has transport- decided I
^immediately the principal a Caucasian railway j
'
n Thomas M. Bayne,
fchot himself through
Kred instantly last
Saturday morning, at Washington,
1>. C. A physician, who was called,
expressed iho opinion ‘.hat a hem-
niorrluigo from the lungs wliicli had
occurred during tlie previous night
while lie slept had so frightened Mr.
Iiayne that lie was demented.
Two freight trains near Mount
Olive, HI,, one on the Wabash rail¬
road and one oil the Mobilo & Ohio,
wore held up, by alledgcd coal mine
strikers and a number of cars loaded
with vegetables and provisions were
looted. Three detectives wore in flic
caboose of tho Wabash train ejnoy-
lug “Tired nature’s sweet rc-hi i'” 1 ,
balmy sleep,” while the. looters looted.
Later reports from Panama concern-
ing the dire calamity which befell that
city last Wednesday anil Wednesday
night show it to have been one of the
most destructive fires of recent years.
It began in,lhe afternoon and continued
nine hours. Three hundred buildings
in the most populous part of the city
were destroyed, the loss in property
npproxinating $3,000,090, with only
about $200,000 insurance. The worst
feature is t hat 5000 people are render¬
ed homeless,
A fast freight train on the Louis¬
ville, Evansville & St. Louis consoli¬
dated railway was forcibly seized at
Fairfield, III,, by a baud of fifty men
calling themselves Coxoyites. The
train was enronte to Louisville, and
the men wanted to bo taken there.
The road being in the hands of receiv¬
ers, appointed by a federal court,
Judge Allen of that court has issued
au order empowering United States
Marshal Brinton to take all necessary
steps to rescue the train.
The Central Stock Yards and Transit
company’s big abattoir at the foot of
6t * , sticut ^ , eise , Yl!,
i 1 ’ T building, 2
u two story wooden 240 x <
fcet > six freight cars, a refrigeratory
and a coal barge, with nearly all their
stents, was destroyed by fire last
Sat urday evening. About 200 dressed
, ° all d 3,000 dressed beeves were
bu ncd Qne man is missing. Sf Near¬
i 6,000 sheep and a score cattle
perished in the building. Flight hun¬
dred men were thrown out of work.
The loss is estimated at $2,500,000,
believed to be fully covered by insur¬
ance.
Will Roper, who mysteriously dis¬
appeared from his homo near Dalton,
Ga., a week ago, was found at the
bottom of an old copper pit on Cohut-
ta mountain, two miles from home.
Ho says he was seized near his home
last Monday by five masked men,
who gagged and carried him off. After
brutally whipping him they withdrew
a little way and shot at him. Two
ballets hit him. They then threw
him into the pit, which is CO feet deep.
He suslained life for a week by chew¬
ing roots found in the shaft. United
Slates district attorney Janies has gone
to Dalton to take the ante-mortem
statement of Roper, who is expected
to die from his injuries. He is a wit¬
ness in several internal revenue and
white cap cases.
On a recent night, about the hour of
nine o’clock, a vacant residence in the
upper end of tho city of Monroe, La.,
was discovered on lire. Scarcely had
this tire been extinguished when an¬
other vacant residence in the lower part
of the city was seen burning. Biood
hounds were brought to the place at
ouce. They immediately struck a
trail and followed it by circuitous
route to the house of J. H. Day, a
while man, who was under suspicion
of having done such work before.
Circumstantial evidence pointing con¬
clusively to him as tho incendiary, ho
was taken to jail. Later in the night
he was taken thence and hanged by a
mob. Tho people have beeu made
desperate by tho frequency of incen¬
diary tires of late.
The constitution drafted by the ex¬
ecutive council of iiawaii for the
“Republic of Hawaii” provides that
voters must be able to read, write and
I 6peak the English or Iiawaii language
fluently. A property qualification of
$3,000 wilh an income of not less than
$900 per annum is prescribed for those
who vote for senators, while the seu-
at0 r must own property in the repub-
lic W0l . th $6)00 0, and have an income
of $1800 . A representative must own
$i )0 00, with an income of $600. It
Will be seen that if the foregoing state-
ment wllich was 8ont out bv tlie
United States Press correspondent ‘ al
Uailolala ^ is correct , a citiz eil who cal)
uot vote ora 80na tor may be arepre-
sentative in the lower house of the
Hawaiian congress. In other words
this constitution makes the qualiflca-
tions of a senatorial elector higher
than those of a member of tho house
0 f representatives,
A party of 110 young people between
the ages of 15 and 30, of the islo of
|Achill, took passage on a one masted
fishing boat, of 15 tons. They wero to
| a nd at Westport, intending to leave
that place next day for England where
they were going to work in the har-
vest. When about a mile from West-
port and in view of hundreds of peo-
p[ e G11 t| )e sliore a tremendous gust of
wind struck the boat and ehe was in-
slantly capsized. Boats hurried to
i| le assistance of tho unfortunate pas¬
sengers, One boat reached them in
seven minutes after tho catastrophe,
and saved 75 of the 110 passengers.
Thirty-five were drowned, fifteen of
whom were girls and women botwten
tlio ages of 15 and 25, and three were
boys under 20. The rescued, dead and
living, were transferal to Iho dock of
the steamer Elm which reached the
scene in about 15 minutes, having sent
her boats ahead.
TKI.KUItAlMlHI I'lCtHS.
George Scott, was shot in the face
at a party Saturday night by his broth¬
er-in-law, whose name is Ledford, and
mortally wounded. Ledford was ar¬
rested.
Tho Wilmington cotton mills, N. C.,
are closed, the operators having de¬
clined to accept a reduced scale of
wages ordered by the directors. The
mills had boon running full time.
A recent census of Chattanooga,
Tonri., taken for a new city directory,
gives that city, including suburbs, a
population of 46,353, a falling off of
8,426, as compared with tho census
taken for the directory of 1892.
The house committee on military
affairs lias ordered favorably reported
a bill appropriating $150,090 to ena¬
ble the secretary of war to began the
construction of a national military
park at tho battle field of Shiloh,
In a difficulty at a dance at Colum¬
bus, Ga , between Hose Anderson,
Will Allen and Frank Johnson, ne¬
groes, Johnson held Anderson while
Allen beat him over the head with a
stick so severely that death resulted.
Allen is in jail.
A negro man and wifo living just
out of the city limits, Atlanta, Ga.,
was aroused from sleep to find their
house in flames. They had just time
to got out with three of their live chil¬
dren, leaving a two-year-old boy and
a 10-months-oid babe to perish in the
flames.
Trottle Key, who lived 12 miles east
of Ennis, Texas, was called to ills
door at night and shot recently. Ilis
wife, Diza Key, was shot and killed
ill a wagon last Christmas by Ed
Brown who is in jail at Waxchathie,
waiting trial.
Orren Page, the negro murderer,
under sentence of death, who with
others, broke jail at Raleigh, N. C.,
some weeks ago, went into a barber¬
shop at Jarnesvilie, which is 200 miles
east of ltaleigh, to get shaved. The
barber in shaving him recognized
Page and, being also a constable, ar¬
rested him.
ltev. John Stout, of Society Hill,
S. C., died at Dallas, Texas, last Sun¬
day. Mr. Stout was a native of Ala¬
bama. He entered the baptist minis¬
try in early manhood, lived in Mont¬
gomery some years and then in We-
Uimpka. In 1866 lie emigrated to
South Carolina, where lie became fa¬
mous in the ministry. While attend¬
ing the baptist convention at Dallas,
he was stricken down with dysentery
which ended in his death at the age of
lifty-two. His remains, accompanied
by his widow and nephew, passed
through Montgomery last Tuesday
night enronte for Society Hill, the
place of his last pastorate.
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Another Disaster,
A dispatch boil Vienna, Austria,
says: The Karwin mining district,
where the fatal explosion occurred
last week, is now threatened with
floods. Most; of tho streams have
risen 12 feet. The bridges are impas¬
sable and the lints along the banks
have been deserted. The people are
Jo badly frightened that scores of fam¬
ilies living in tho lowlands have left
their homes for higher grounds. Few
lives have been lost. Rail ways bord-
dering the Karwin district have ceased
running trains. Floods are also re¬
And ported Silesia. from many parts of Galicia
The Waar valley from
Frenczin to Pressburg is a lake.
Towns and villiagos have been destroy-
sd and many cattle have beeu drown¬
ed. Tho rivers are choked with car¬
casses of horses and cows, with drift¬
wood and furniture and ruins of huts.
Property worth millions of florins has
been destroyed.
“Bread or Work.”
In Buffalo, N. Y., 1000 Poles march¬
ed in two columns, one to the mayor’s
office, the oilier to the poor office, and
demanded bread or work, declaring
that their children are starving. An
allegded anarchist attempted to make
a speech but was prevented by the
police. The police charged the mob
and dispersed it. Many threats of
violence were heard. The men say
they wiil return to their own country
if transportation is given them.
Murder and Robbery.
J. P. Alderman, depot and express
agent at Mandeville on the Charleston,
Sumter & Northern road, S. C., was
found lying on tho truck with his
skull crushed in. He was last seen
alive the night before at 10 o’clock,
The body when found was clad in a
different suit from the one ho was last
seen in. The depot doors were found
to have been broken open, hut nothing
was missing except the murdered
uuui’s watch.
Forty-llvo Drowned
A dispatch from Samar, Ihe capital
of the Russian government of Samara,
says a ferry boat sunk with a party of
young people returning from a fete
uu the river Jek uud forty-live were
drowned-
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
AT THE CAPITOL.
A Synopsis of What is Being Said and
Gone at Washington from Day to Day
One Hundred and Fifty Sixth Day
Senate,— No action resulted from
lire talk on the wool schedule in I lie
senate to-day. —A bill to provide and for
.he expenses of printing, some
other expenses was passsed; and short
executive session, and then, at 0:80,
adjournment.
House.—A resolution from the
committee on rules was reported di¬
recting the immediate consideration
of ilie Indian appropriation bill, be¬
ginning with page 51, under the five
minute rule, until 3:80, when the pre¬
vious question shall be considered as
ordered on all pending amendments
and on the passage of iho bill, The
resolution was adapted, but at 5
o’clock the reading of the bin .had not
been concluded and a recess until 8
was taken, the evening to be devoh,J
to private bills.
One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Day
Senate. —Senate bill to release the
secureties of Ozias Morgan, land of-
iico receiver at Tallahassee, Flu., from
18 6 to 1870, was passed.—The wool
schedule of the tariff hill was taken
up and finished. The silk schedule
was disposed of except the two para¬
graphs, spun silk ami silk velvets,
which wore reserved until Monday,
and, at 5 p. in. the senate adjourned.
House.— Proceeding under the livo
minute rule, passed the Indian appro¬
priation bill, A number of unimport¬
ant amendments were agreed to in tlm
course of the debate. An amendment
directing the secretary of the interior
to detail a special agent to negotiate
with the Shoshone and Arrapahoe
Indians for the purchase of part of
the Shoshone reservation iu Washing¬
ton, was agreed to. That part of the
bill directing the transfer of the In¬
dian warehouse and purchasing agency
from New York to Chicago was
stricken out. Tho final vote on the
bill as amended was, ayes 15,
bays 33.
One Hundred ami Fifty-Eighth Day
Senate— The lariti' bill was taken
up and the two paragraphs of
thc silk schedule, laid over
yesterday, were again put off
until to-morrow. Schedule M,
pulp, paper, and books, and schedule
N, Sundries, were disposed of and the
free list having been reached the seu-
ate, at 6:15, adjourned. The duty on
coal, which is in the Sundries schedule,
was put at 40 cents a ton.
House. —Tlie senate bill to author¬
ize railroad companies to issue 5000
mile mileage tickets, interchangeable,
and to carry an excess of baggage
thereon, was passsd. (This bill is in
the interest of commercial travelers,
and passed by request of the National
Commercial Traveler’s association.)—
Mr. Hatch’s anti-option bill was taken
up and discussed until 5:10, when tb»
house adjourned.
One Hundred and Fif<y-Ninlh Day.
Senate— A number of paragraphs
in schedules of ihe lariti which have
been acted on were recurred to this
morning and amended. Tho free list
was then taken up and considered un¬
til tlie item of salt—paragraph 608—
was reached. The senate then hold an
executive session, after which, at 6:15,
it adjourned. embracing beef, mut¬
The paragraph stricken from
ton, pork and bacon was made dutia¬
the free list and they were
ble at 20 per cent.—The coal paragraph
was amended by striking out “bituini-
ous aud shale” and making the para¬
graph read “anthracite coal and coal
stores of American vessels, but none
shall be unloaded.”—Iron ore was
struck from (lie list and made dutia¬
ble.—Quicksilver was also struck
and made dutiable.—Books,
engravings, photographs, bound or
unbound, etchings, maps and charts
that shall have been printed more than
20 years at the date of importation, scientific
all hydrographic charts and
hooks and periodicals remain on the
free list, as do paintings and statuary.
House.—I n the house tho session
to-day was spent in debating the anti-
option bill, and at 4:45 the house ad¬
journed.
°' xo Sixtieth Day.
Senate. The senate bill to prevent
the carrying of qhscene literature and ar
tlclcs designed for indecent and lmmor
use frouc one state into another, bj
of express, fybe /tvas passed-—Consideration lariti mil
the list of the was
proceeded with and finished, ihe in-
c°me ,| a x paragraph was administrative postponed un¬
til torhmorrow. The
section of the bill was stricken out,
anclj At 4:il5, the senate adjouined- anti-op-
IIousn.—I n the house the agreed
th^t tiofo bill was resumed, it was tho
a vole shall be taken after
moa ning hour on Friday on ihe bill
aiVd pending amendments,—debate to
cjmse tomorrow. Tlie debate then
Proceeded and occupied Ihe house uu-
5il the hour of adjournment.
VOL. V. NO. 7.
Olio llunili'ril anil Sixty Fits! Day.
Senate —A bill In define tlm limits of
tlic three judicial districts of Alabama
ivus ]i.isscd. The tarillbill was resumed,
t lie [lending question being I In: income
lax Hill, of New York, Higgins, of
Deleware and Iioar, of Massachu¬
setts, (three H’s) spoke in opposition
to the tax. The first committee
amendment was agree.I to. It pro-
vitles that the income tax provisions
shall ceaso to be operative on January
1st, 1900.—Two reports, both relating
to (bo refusal of witnesses to answer
questions, wore received front the
special sugar trust investigating com¬
mittee. A short executive sossion was
hold anil, at 5:10, the senate ail-
ourne.l.
House.- After tlie transaction of
some unimportant business I lie auii-op-
tiou lull was resumed and ilie day was
occU[ ied in its consideration, except the
lime taken by Mr. Pence, populist, of
Colorado, adjourned in a speech on silver. The
liou.se at 5: to, p. ni.
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TH14 A. ANI> M. COLLEGE.
Tho Scholarships Awarded to Mem¬
bers of the Graduating Class.
Ai. meeting of Iho faculty of the
A. and LI College at Auburn, Ala.,
the following members of the graduat¬
ing class wero awarded graduate so’uui-
ursbips in the'depaiimewts named:
J. A. Duncan, in mathematics; R.
C. Conner, in English-; H. G. Wil¬
liams, in chemistry; J. V. Brown, in
English and mathematics; J. P. Slaton,
in engineering and mathematics; C-
G. Green, in biology and botany; O.
E. Green, in physics; VV. W. Moore,
in mechanic arts. L, S. Boyd, Secre¬
tary to President, L. W. Payne was
appointed Assistant Librarian.
These appointments are honors
awarded for excellence in scholarship
ami fitness ;for tho position. The
holders are required to render assist¬
ance when needed and to outer upou a
post-graduate course of study. Each
scholarship is worth $250 a yoar.
Flint SCHOLAUSI1IP3
At the recent meeting of tho Trus¬
tees ten agricultural scholarships were
established for undergraduates, worth
$100 each. Appointments to these
scholarships arc to be made from dif¬
ferent sections of the state by tiro fa¬
culty, and will bo given to meritorious
•young men who may need assistance
to. complete Rieij- collegiate education.
Students prepared to enter auy class
are eligible. The faculty will make
their appointments next September.
COMMON WEARERS SENTENCED.
They Break lo Hun and One Shot,
Though Slightly.
Judge Thomas at Leavenworth, Ks.,
lias sentenced Sanders’ commonweal
army to pay tines varying from divided $20 to
$50 each. The prisoners were
into five batches, each going to a dif¬
ferent county jail. This, it is thought,
will effectually break up the army.
When the news of the verdict of guil¬
ty was convey ed to the common wcalei B
the prisoners made a rush for liberty.
Tlie deputy marshals shot one man,
who crawled into tho brush. Nearly
forty men made their escape. Com¬
pany P, Sixth cavalary, surrounded
lire remaining prisoners and brought
them to Leaven worth for safekeeping
until sentenced to jail.
Order to Resume Rescinded.
President Bradley, of the central
Pennsylvania coal district R. lias sent the
following telegram to J. Hughes,
Altoona, i’a: “Please notify opera¬
tors I had to rescind the order for re¬
sumption of work. A convention is
to be held at Altoona June 25 to de¬
cide definitely about that.” When
asked what result this new move
would be, Hughes said: “They can
go their own own way now. We have
nothing further to do with them.
There wiil be no convention for ns.”
When asked further whether the oper¬
ators would start up, he said: “Yes,
we will start up; we will get men
wherever we can, and pay no atten¬
tion to the union whatever.”
MURDERER KILLED,
Six Convicts Break for Liberty Id
M ississippi.
On the Marcella plantation, near
Jackson, Miss., six or eight of the
most desperate convicts, headed by
Brooks Story, made a dash for liberty.
The guard snapped his guu several
times, which finally wont off, killing
George Nail, sentenced for murder,
Marine Disaster.
The schooner Rose, bound from
Spaniard’s bay to Labrador, having
on board a fishing crew of fifty-five
persons, struck an iceberg during a
dense fog, near Partridge Point, and
sank in ten minutes. Forty-three of
tho crew, including twenty-nino
men, twelve women and two children,
got upon the iceberg and were rescued
by a passing vessel. They saved noth¬
ing but the clothes they wore. The
remainder of the crew wero lost.
Railroad Strop Closed.
The Mount Glair repair shops of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have
shut down, Ihrowning 1000 men out
of work without previous notice. This
action is attributed to the general de¬
pression ami the coal strike. The shut
down is only temporary, however, us
it is expected that work will be re-
«umcd in two or three weeks.