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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. --- 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. ►- •- 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.