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Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop'r.
PROFESSIONAL CAROS.
■yy is HToity,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
jyjAHl ANTHONY.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Gbobqia.
Will be looted for tho present at tho Dod-
Bon House. Patronage respectfully sol.cited.
T. W. KLLIS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Gbobqia.
Calls promptly attended lo at nil hours.
1 respectfully solicit a Rhare of the public
patronage Office iu 15. H Cockrell’s stole.
JJU. J. b\ GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Asbburn, Georgia.
Cailt! answered promptly day or night.
ti?~Sjieciul attention to discuses of women
and childiwa.
. 1QENXON STKANGE, M. D.
V CORDELLE, SPECIALIST. GEOBQIA,
Diseases of women, Strictures, Nervous
nnd all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism without pain or detention
from bu-iuess; and given to patient in a vial
ofi 'Icoliol. Correspondence solicited and
IxL references given. Otlice uortU-east cor¬
ner Huw.meo House.
B. M. FHIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Gkoegia.
Practices in tbu £5tutu and Federal Courts.
Real Estate uml Criminal Law Specialties.
w. A. AARON,
LAWYER,
oAsdburn, Georgia.
Collections and Ejectment suits a Special¬
ty* Room No. 4, Betts Building.
VV. FULWOOD,
LAIV, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tifton, Gkokgi
Prompt attention given to all business.
IsgyQttiee, Love Building, Room No. 1.
J OAIN HARRIS.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashbubn, Georgia,
My prices are loiv aud ail work
Guaranteed.
DIRECTORY.
CITY OF 8YCAMOKE.
Mayor—A G. DeLoaeb.
Councilman—W. B. Dasher, I. L. Murray.
HI. AV. Cockrell, E. R. Smith, J. P. Fountain,
Superior Courts—First Monday in April
ond October. C. C. Smith, Judge, Hawkins-
ville, Solicitor Gn. General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir¬
winville, Ga.
Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
Deputy Sheriffs—C. L. Prescott, Irwin-
ville, Ga.; Wm. VanHouten, Monthly session, Kycamore, second Ga.
Monday; County Quarterly Court — session, second Monday
In January, April, July and October. J. B.
Clements, Judge, Irwinville, Ga.
County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir-
Winville, Ga.
County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬
day iu each month. M. Henderson. Commis¬
sioner, Oeilla, Ga.
Ordinary's Court—First. Ordinary, Monday Vic, in each
mouth. Daniel Tucker, Ga.
School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru¬
by. Ga. Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin-
County
Tnx Receiver -I). A. Mclnnis, Vic.'Ga.
Tax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
Surveyor— M. Barnes, Minnie, Ga.
Coroner—Daniel Hall, Miunie, Ga.
Board of Education—Jno. Clements Chair¬
man, Irwinville, Ga.; Henry T. Fletcher, Ir- l3.
winvilie, Ga.; L. It. Tucker, Vic, Ga.; L.
Taylor, Irwinville, Ga.; S. E. Coleman,
Ooalla, Justico Ga. Dist. G. M., Second
Courts—901
, Saturday in each mouth. Marcus Luke, N.
| and ex-ofii. J. P.; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
. JS^Distrirt" G. M. McNeese, Second J. Saturday F., Kissi- in
each month. J. H. Ocala, Ga.
inee, Ga. James Roberts, Bai'iif,
1388 Dist. U. M., Third Saturday in each
moritii. it. V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup,
Bailiff, Minnie, Ga.
983 Dist G. M., Third AYednesday in each
month. C. L ltuyal, J. P.. Sycamore, Ga.;
A. Jones & P Royal, Builiffs, Syoumoro, Ga.
982 Dist. G M.. D. A. Ray, iN. P. & Ex-
officio J. P,, H ycamore, Ga.
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LODGE DIRECTORY-
Svcanvuv I.ndo'M. No. 210 F. & A M
Regular communications, "nd Saturday. AV
Story, AY. M.: A. D. Ross, Secretary.
Oeilla Lodge, F. & A. M.—Regular 4lh Sunday com-
tuuuicalLon Thursday before the
iu each month. J. A. J, Henderson, Ga. W. M.;
D. AV. M. AA'hitley, Beo’y, Oeilla,
CHURCH DIRECTORY-
SYCAMoaiC CIRCUIT.
Sycamore— 2nd Sunday and Sunday night.
Cyclometa—Fourth Sunday.
Dakota--Third Sunday.
Ashburue—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-
Salem—3rd Hopewell—1st Sunday Sunday & Saturday Saturday before, before.
and
ISld. Ay. H. Harden, Pastor.
Little River—3rd Sunday and Saturday
before.
Saturday Turner's before Meeting House—2nd Sunday and
Oaltj* Grove—itih Sunday aud Saturday
before
Emeus—1st Sunday and Saturday Pastor. before
Eld, James Gibbs,
NOTICE.
Parties are warned tU.it,no hunting N"S or fill¬
ing will he' Unwed on lots of laud 15,
ii, 17. 13, 19 uta 3rd district of L em
wornix. 1EI va E u wasmt
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 1891.
CURRKMT EVENTS
Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving tho
Cream of the General News.
One hundred and fifty Pullman
strikers have returned to work.
The National Tubo works strike,
McKeeeport, Pa., has been declared
oil.
Tho Illinois state troops, except
3,000 in Chicago, have all been order-
ed home.
The house committee on military
allairs has prepared a bill to establish
a soldiers’ home near Knoxville, Tonii.
Tho senate committee on Territo¬
ries lias decided to recommend the ad¬
mission of Arizona and New Mexico
as states.
At a meeting of the local Trades
and Labor Assembly, of Chicago, the
name of president Cleveland was jeered
and hissed.
The United States mints at Phila¬
delphia, New Orleans and San Fran¬
cisco have received orders to resume
tlie coinage of standard silver dollars,
Monroo, La., lias had a $40,000 lire.
It occurred in the business center of
the town and destroyed, among otliot
buildings, Garretson’s opera house and
hotel.
The safe of tho Mobile & Ohio rail¬
road company at Brookville, Miss • >
was cracked and a large sum of money
taken out. Detectives have been sent
to investigate.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis railroad shops at Kansas
City, Mo., closed on account of the
strike, have bc3ii re-opened, employ¬
ing 500 men.
The miners’strike at Bevier, Mo.,
lias been declared oil and work will
be resumed in all mines in ihat dis¬
trict except two, which will not ope;
until September.
The grand jury at Meridian, Miss.,
has returned two bills of indictment
for arson against W. C. Schamber,
proprietor of the Queen and Crescent
hotel iu that city.
A supply of commissary stores suf¬
ficient for 30 days has been sent to
the naval forces ou duty at Oakland,
Cal,, and they will remain there an
indelinate period.
Advices from Seoul have been re¬
ceived to the etloot that tho Japaueso
commander is concentrating forces to
attack the Chinese and Coreans en¬
trenched outside the city.
The strike among the potters al
East Liverpool, O., has been declared
off; tho men accepting the wage scale
of the Trenton, N. «J., compromise—
12 1-2 per cent reduction.
A house owned by the Frick coke
company at Leisenring, Pa. was
blown up by dynamite, A deeertei
from the strikers, who was sleeping in
tho house escaped uninjured.
St. Louis reports a slight earth-
tremor observed at 7:10 Wednesday
morning, and three distinct shocks
were felt at Memphis about 0;30,
with vibrations from north to south.
Seventy-five masked men overpow¬
ered the guards and burned the Hock
Island bridge at Wankomies, O. T.
The soldiers at Hound Pond were firod
on. The situation calls for more mil¬
itary force.
The British bark William Lelchur
was wrecked off Cape St. James on
Provost Island 600 miles from Singa 1
poro. Her crew, consisting of four
Englishman and eight Chinese, were
ail lost.
The chief of police of Pensacola,
Fia., has been notified of the arrest at
Mobile, Aia., of I lie white man, John
Bobbins, who is charged Avith at¬
tempting (o outrage tho young lady,
Miss Hartsoog.
At Sacramento, Cal., over 400 men
reported for work in the shops. Mati^
of the old employees were given theit
former positions. They filed into tM
yards under the protection of a strong
military escort.
Small pox is said lo have broket
out at Mountain Grove, Wriglv
county, Mo. Eight cases have beeit
reported prevails in aud the community. much other Numberi slcknesj
of people have fled to other towns.
I At Burney’s station Ind., on tin
big Four railroad, eitgheen miles east
of Columbus, six masked men tied
George Herron, a seller of whiskej
toy the quart, to a telegraph pole and
gave him 53 laskes with beecl)
switches.
The plant of ilie Columbia Iron
Works company, builders of the work
ships Detroit and Montgomery, has
been damaged to the extent of $80,000
by fire. File pattern shop, in which
the plans of the ships were kept, was
destroyed.
^ s 'VegO, N. Y., rioting long-
shoremen entered the houses of James
Sexsmith and Isaac Densinore, non-
union tneu, during the night and
brutally assaulted them. * Sexsmith’s
wife came to his assistance and was
beaten also,
Joe Flatt, a quiet and peaceable
man living near Marion, La., wat
decoyed from his house and killed.
His father-in-law was seriously
wounded by the same parties, The
sheriff, with a posse, is after the mur¬
derers, who are known.
A Honolulu mail tins been received
at Arkland, New Zealand, bearing
news of tho proclamation on the
fourth of July of the republic of Ha¬
waii with Sanford II. Dole as presi¬
dent. Many inhabitants had taken
the oath of allegiance to the new gov¬
ernment.
J. 8. Cochran and A. II. Sayre pres-
Went and treasurer of the first national
bank at Del Norte, Cal., having been
convicted in the United States district
court of making false reports to the
comptroller of the eu rreacy, have been
sentenced by Judge Hallett to five
Years impri8onm«nt at. .iniifit. tii
Orders have beeiJissued for the re-
moval of tho United Slates forces
from Chicago. It is thought that tho
slate militia and city police will be
able to preserve order. The federal
forces go to Fort Sheridan, whero
they will constitute a reserve force
vvilhin easy call in case of an cmer-
’ey-
Cl.'cago has tiad another big blaze.
The Wholesale market of Nelson, Mor-
ris & bo. was burned, and with it
$50,000 worth of meats and property.
There is no doubt I hat the fire was
incendiary. When a batallion of ma-
litia reached the scene great crowds on
the street were cheering at tho burst
of fire through tho plate glass front.
Three men were instantly killed and
three seriously hurt by the breaking
of an elevator drum at a brewery in
New York city. The men were on a
large grain elevator, 10 feet square,
loaded with kegs, and had started
from the Gth floor, when the drum
broke and they went down to
the collar with a crash.
At Louisvillo, Ky., John Asch-
backer was abusing his wife, when
his daughter, Mrs. T. F. Meagher,
aged 32, shot him through the heart.
He died instantly. He had beaten his
wife and kicked her unmercifully,
and she is reported to be dying. Mrs.
Meagher drove witli her husband to
Ihe jail and surrendered to the author¬
ities.
A small crowd of rioters attempted
to stop a freight train in the Grand
Trunk yards in Chicago, and attacked
officer Linclgren, who interfered, with
Stones and coupling pins. He fell,
bruised in a dozen places, bnt regained
liis feet and fired, wounding Alexander
Hurt perhaps fatally, and a striker
named Donnigau, slightly, Only one
rioter was arrested.
Washington E. Irving, ainephew of
the famous author, was supposed to
have died at Escandido and Ids funeral
was held. After friends had passed
tho casket at the close of the services,
a knocking was heard from within
and, the lid having been hastily re¬
moved, Irving rose up. He was in a
dazed condition but soon regained his
Benses fully and was conveyed to In-
home.,
People desirous of visiting Texas
will bo glad to note that the Queen &
Crescent Iloute propose to sett round
trip tickets to alt points in that state
at the rate of one fare for tho round
trip, on July 24th, 25th and 26th.,
with stop-over privilege at points
west of the Mississippi river. J. ii
McGregor, T. P. A., 2005 1st avenue,
Birmingham, Ala., or A. J. Lyttle,
1). P. A., Chattanooga, Tenn., will
give further information if requested.
Marshal Ilyau of East Point, Ga.,
had arrested two negroes and was
taking them to tho station
house, when one of them suddenly
turned and shot him. The ball hit
him fairly in ihe breast, but luckily
glanced on a rib and followed it round
his chest. Before the negro could lire
a second lime the marshal shot him
through the heart. The other priso¬
ner bolted, but after a i uu of a hun¬
dred yards was brought to a stop by s
Bhot in the leg.
Three hundred men are engaged in
work preparatory to starting up tho
Pullman machinery. The applications
of 325 more who desire to return to
work have been received in the com¬
pany’s office. On Thursday, while
100 workmen who were on their way
to Pullman, they were stopped by tho
strikers and a fight ensued, whick
resulted iu an agreement on the pari
of the new men to go home. Later
they reached Pullman by anothei
route, and wont to work.
The ware house and stables of Geo.
VV. Knox expressjcoinpauy, occupying
more than a fourth of a block at 2nd
aud B. streets, northwest, Washing¬
ton, D. C-, were burned. Two hun¬
dred and live horses perished in the
flames. The Adams express company’s
stables were almost entirely consumed
but the horses vvere saved. Ten othet
houses were burned. i’hroe firemen
were killed by falling walls and four
luiured. One of Knox’s stablemen
was severely hurt. Loss $500,000.
Two hundred citizens of Pond
Creek, O. T., haze been arrested for
train wrecking. Their lookouts posted
an tho house tops reported the ap¬
proach of tweuty soldiers from Pond
L’reek station. Seizing their Winches¬
ters the citizens fell into line in high
(flee, prepared to defy the littlo squad
»f soldiers, Suddenly two companies
af federal troops swarmed off of a
(rain that had just arrived. This lit¬
tle circumstance modified the defiance
Mau-oof the proceedings. In fact the
brave goo surrendered at discretion.
At Nashville, Tena., Oliver Neely, ,
colored, applied lo J. A. Thomas,
ticket agent at the union depot Tor a
ticket for himself and a half fare
ticket for his child. Tho latter was
refused on the ground that tho child
was not entitled to a half fare on ae-
eount of her age. Hot words ensued.
Neely became very abusive and
whe “ lle niadc a suspicious move to-
P u ’ ,ls ‘“l 1 P oc f et ll }° »JU‘ut seued
P’ 1U J 0 vtl ,ll ! ( 8 10 t 11U 1 nl '
•nlhcUng . , a pa.ulul . . but not
‘‘“ugerons wound. Mr I bomas was
ki i es u jxiu
No A. It. U. Mon Wanted.
The Mobile and Ohio ltail way Coni'
pany issued order last Sunday that all
members of the American Railway
Union in its employ would be imme-
dialely dismissed. This atlects several
| bundled men on the Jackson ami St.
i Uouis division. About ten men in tho
shops of the company in this city were
discharged. The order issued by the
company says that the men will he
taken back as soon as they’ receive
withdrawal cards from tho union. A
number have already applied for with-
drawal, but there are a great many on
the St. Louis division that say they
will remain in the union. Trouble , is
expected.
A Fight at Last.
Advices from Seoul, Island of Corea,
Slate that a battle lias been fought
there between Corcan and Japanese
i troops, iu which tho Coreans were
defeated with considerable loss. The
Corcan troops, together with some
Chinese, soldiers, made an attack upon
Ihe Japanese garrison and attempted
to take the Japanese positiou by storm,
A. sharp fight ensued. The Japanese
fire was more than the attacking party
muld stand and they were compelled
lo retire. The assault upon the Jap-
Diese garrison was made on the insti-
patiou of the Chinese residents at
Beoul.
Explosion of Natural Gas.
Several distinct explosions of nat.
ural gas occurred in a natural gas
well just north of Coffeyville, Kansas,
last Tuesday morning about 2 o’clock,
The whole town was illuminated, the
earth trembled and a shower of rooks,
continuing several minutes, rattled
down on Ihe houses, some of them
crashing through the roofs. An areo
of 80 acres around the well was torn
np, toppling over-houses and barns,
moving huge boulders from their beds
and leaving holes from 15 to 30 feet
deco. The people for many miles
around were terrified by the strange
phenomena.
After Nineteen Years.
The dishonesty of an employe ot
Ihe Bank of. California has just been
discovered after he had been in tho
iorvice of the bank, in a confidential
'apacity, 19 years. About a month
i.„o Mr. Nl ell vi lie, correspondence
clerk in tho bank, disappeared, An
investigation disclosed a shortage in
his accounts and lie was followed and
brought back, lie has made a con¬
fession by which it appears that ho
has been stealing from the bank £ot
18 years, during which time he has
disposed of $35,000 of the bank’s
money. Ho was quite prominent as »
society and club man.
Minister to Russia.
Clifton It. Breckenridge, of Arkan¬
sas, has been nominated by the presi¬
dent to be minister to llussia, to
jueceed Andrew I). White. Mr.
Breckenridge has represented the 2nd
district ot Arkansas twelve years, and
has been a consistent tariff reformer.
In Ihe extra session hist summer he
favored die repeal of (he purchase
clause of the silver coinage act. It is
believed that this led to lvia defeat for
renomination to congress. This is an
itsit anec ot t ie folly of retiring an i
able and faithful public servant on I
account of a difference of opinion in
regard lo a single issue, and ihat of
minor importance as compared to
some others.
A Brief Proclamation.
Jamaicans and natives have expelled
ihe Nicarauguaus from Blttefields,
Hie conflict was short and sharp, and
the proclamation of the Mosquito
thief on assuming the government
vas equally brief. It is as follows:
' FllOCLA RATION.
Mosquito Reservation, Bluefields,
fitly 6. 1894. - I, Robert lleury Clar¬
ence, hereditary chief of Mosquito,
fere by proclaim that I have assumed
toy rightful authority as chief of Mos-
ind juito, loyal and residents I call upon all law abiding
•ty and to obey my author-
that of my officers.
Robbkt Henuy Clarence.
_C hief of Mos quito
A Bail Man Ivillctl.
Aaron Hammond, colored, chief of
a gang of barn-burners, and who stood
confessed to have burned the barn of
Chase Bros., at Huntsville, was killed
by Chief Davis, while resisting arrest.
When ordered to surrender, lie made j
at Hie officer with a pruning knife, I
when he shot and killed. 1
was
Tom Stone and John Hammond,
two other members of the alleged
gang, wore jailed.
A Town Laid Low by Fire.
The entire business portion of Che- !
uoa, Ill., east of the Anon tracks and
south of the Toledo, Peoria aud West-
ern, Ims been wiped out by fire, with i
a loss of $100,000,
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
VOL. V. NO. 12.
AT THE CAPITOL.
A Synopsis of What is Being Said and
Done at Washington from Day to Day.
One Hundred and Eighty Six*b
n
I llouSE ._ Tho 8 , )eaUe , anil0unc0(J
the regular - order to ho a voto on the
, Joint io]ulioi| providing foi tho elcc
. .
^ >
o£ seuiUor8 by t|l(J As (hi3
| involves a change of the ^constitution a
vote of two thirds iu its favor was
necessary to its passage. The yeas
and nays were demanded and the re¬
suit was 1J7 yeas, and 49 nays, and
j the resolution was passed—
1 The house declined to concur the
senate amendments to the Indian appio
| priutious and asked u conference. The
bill providing for tho reappointment,
j as fast as vacancies occur, of railway
j postal clerks dismissed when tho postal
j service law, was taken put under •Without the civil servico action
was up.
ou it the house, at 3:90 adjourned
unlij Monday,
The senate held no session today,
One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh
Day.
Senate. —Upon I he expiration of
the routine business, Senator Voorhces
called up the conference report on the
tariff. A warm debate, led by Mr.
Gorman of Maryland, ensued, and
was followed by the presiding officer’s
announcement that the next order of
business was the consideration of the
resolution to recede from the senate’s
position point Mr. on Cockrell, coal and Missouri, ore. At inter¬ this
of
posed a motion to proceed to executive
business. The motion prevailed and,
at 3:38, the senate adjourned until
to-morrow.
House. —No business was transacted
iu the house to-day.
One Hundred and Eighty-Eitght
Day.
Senate. —At 12:30 consideration of
the tarill conference was resumed and
^ir. Hill spoke in the defense of tlie
president, advocating a recession from
tlie senate’s position on coal and ore,
Mr. Caffrey followed with a motion
h> instruct the conferees to insert a
provision to pay producers of sugar,
far the year 1894, a bounty of 9-10 of
i cent a pound. He also spoke in
defense of tlie president’s letter to Mr.
Wilson. Without closing his speech
he gave way to a motion to adjourn,
which was agreed lo.
House,— Fourteen bills from the
committee on public lands were passed.
One of these was to settle claims be¬
tween the United Slates and the state
of Arkansas, and another provides for
the separation of the mineral lands in
the Northern Pacific grant in Idaho
and Montano, and granting patents to
settlers,—The hill relating to the re- I
employment of railway postal clerks i j
was passed.—Mr. Tabor of South
Carolina introduced a resolution pro- j .
viding for die free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, and requesting tho
committee on hanking aud currency to
report hack to the house some one or
all of the Litis before it looking to a
change jin the monetary system.—At
4:40 the house adjourned.
One Hundred and Eighty Ninth
Day.
Senate. —Ten bills were taken from
the calendar and passed during the
morning hour.—The conference report
on the legislative, judicial and execu¬
tive appropriations was agreed to, and
a resolution was offered, and went
over, calling for copies of all tele¬
grams and correspondence of the de¬
partment of justice with the represen-
tutiyes of railroad companies and with
the district attorney al Chicago on the
subject of the recoin industrial troubles
in Ihat city.—The debate on the tarifl
conference Avas resumed and continued
until 2:30, when the senate held an
executive session and, at 3:20, ad
(ourned.
House. —Three bills were passed
amending the pension act of 1890, so
as to provide for widows and orphans
of soldiers who died or were killed in
the discharge of duty and therefore
did not receive discharges from tho
service; authorizing fourth class post¬
masters to administer oaths to pension¬
ers, and extending during the term of
their natural lives pensions granted to
insane, idiotic or otherwise perma¬
nently helpless orphan children of
soldiers.—A senate bill granting a
pension of $100 a month to the widow
of Gen. John M. Corse was passed.—
The conference report on the legist a J
tive, executive and judicial appropria¬
tions was agreed to. Tho appropvia-
tions can . iet i by ( hc bill aro $557,507
less tlmu those for the year ending
June 80. -Adjourned.
,,Jn0 Hundred and Ninetieth i>ay
Senate. —The conference report
on the fortification appropria-
tions was agreed to, and that
on the army bill went over.—
The resolution calling for the official
correspondence relating to tho Indus-
trial troubles at Chicago, was agreed
lo__At 2 p. m. the message from the
house asking further conference od
tlie tariff uill was laid before the sen-
ate. Mr. Quay withdrew his motion
to amend ilie pending motions so as to
put sugar on the free. list. Mr. Vilai
addressed tho senate in a two hour?
speech at tho conclusion of which ha
withdrew his motion lo strike out the
ilillerenlial duty of 1-8 of a cent e
pound on refined sugar. Mr. Stowart,
of Nevada, spoke and at the close ot
the debate Mr. Hilt’s motion to pul
Iron ore and coal on the free list wa?
put and lost by 65 nays to 0 yeas, the
vote being taken first on iron ore, and
then ou coal. Mr. Callrey withdrow
liis motion to provide for a bounty oe
sugar for tho present year, The
senate being then about lo vole on the
motion to agree to further conference.
Mr. Washburn, republican, of Illi*
nois, renewed the motion lo strike ou*
the 1 8 of a cent additional duty or
refined sugars. A point of order wap
raised against it and discussed until
6:15, when the somite adjourned.
ilousn.—Amotion to transfer the
bill to prevent the adulteration of
foods and drugs from tlie committee
uu commerce to the committee ou ag¬
riculture was carried by yeas 126, nays
(0.— The conference report on tho bill
authorizing tho Metropolitan Street
Railroad company to extend its lines
and change, its motive power was
agreed to.—The house went into com¬
mittee of the whole on business from
:he coinmittoo ou interstate and
foreign commerce. 'The liouso
bill to provide for keeping iho life
saving stations on Hie Atlantic and
gulf coasts manned from August 1st
to May 1st. instead of September 1st
to June 1st, was amended so as to in¬
crease ihe salaries of surftnen at
stations kept open for ton mouths
from $00 to $05 a month, and pussed.
—Bills were passed extending the
privileges of the marine hospital ser-
vice to employes of the life saving
service; to transfer the lightship on
Tiiuity shoals, Gulf of Mexico, to the
south puss of tho Mississippi; and to
authorize a wagon and foot bridge
aver the Chattahoochee at or near Co¬
lumbia, Ala.--The conference report
on the fortification appropriations
agreed to, and. at 4:50 the house
adjourned.
The Deadly Electric Wire.
Orville II, Johnson, an 8-year-old
boy of Lancaster, Pa., is lying at the
point of death as the result of picking
up the free end of a broken electric
wire charged with 2,200 volts. The
wire passed over a tree, the end being
just within reach of the boy. When
he caught bold of it he was drawn
from his feet, and swung back aud
forward like a pendulum for fully
five minutes, flames flushing from his
hand ali the while. His screams at-
traded a number of persons, who
secured clubs and knocked the wire
out of his hand. O J. Steigerwnit, a
young mail, also caught hold of thl
wire and was badly burned, but his
Injuries will not prove fatal.
Commissioners Named.
Tho president has announced the
commissioners to investigate the con-
troversios between certain railroads
and their employes connected with tbs
recent strike as follows: Carroll D.
Wright, who is designated by the
statute as one of the commissioners;
John I). Kernan, of New York, and
Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria,
111., selected by the president. Under
Ihe law he was obliged to appoint »
jitizen of Illinois as one of the com-
luissioners. _
Hebrew 1 ‘rayer Book.
The editorial committee appointed
by tne recent conference of the Jewish
Reformed church in America is com¬
posed of ihe Rev. Drs. G. GotthelL
of New York; David Phillipson. of
Cincinnati; Rudolph Grossman, of
New York; Jacob Voortzanger, of
San Francisco, and Derkovvalz, of
Philadelphia. After four days of
labor at Cape May, N. J., they have
finished the revision of the union
prayer book and it is now ready for
the primer. The work has been in
progress for two years._
More Sugar Investigations.
The sugar committee has takon th'
Initial steps looking to the renewal ol
the investigation of charges againsl
senators in which they are alleged to
have made speculation. This was
caused by recent publications in tho
New York papers. Harry Walkei
was summoned, but declined to an¬
swer any questions. He is tho Bams
correspondent who declined to testify
r,t the first investigation aud is tho
only one of the three correspondent!;
who escaped indictment.
AVunis to See It.
The British admiralitv, learning th«
emperor of Germany had expressed
a desire to see the United States
cruiser Chicago, have sent an invita¬
tion to Admiral Bonham to be present of
vvillt tiis flagship on the occasion
the Cowes reggtta, which tlie kaiser
will attend in tlie Imperial Hoheu-
colleru.
Fearful Earthquake*
A dispatch, under (late of last
Thursday, says: An earthquake
&hO‘k split tho earth open at Littll
Chute, Wis., for several hundred feel
yesterday. __ __
Ordered lo Bluefl Ids.
The cruiser Columbia has been or*
dered lo proceed immediately to Blue*
fields, Nicaragua, to protect American
interests in tho disturbed condition of
affairs there.
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