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The Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. G. D-LOACP, Elinor and Proprietor.
POATP VV/i* UllliOO RTtN^sTOY 11/11 AXJi A T* I
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WHAT THE NATIONS’ LAW-MA¬
KERS ARE DOING. j :
The Proceedings of Hoth Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
THE SENATE.
i . , „ , .
.President C eye anc an ecreury
4U is e oame in ol PJ ‘J’
1110 °. ^ !
1 6 ! 1 *«• _ ou i a1ln „k„j aor! „ n , n
a reso l u f ion o ® ^ Iiv
Senator Hill, declaring to
policy of the government to establish
a safe system o a 1 “ m * J ..
maintain gold ana snve p y,
and upon a su s l u e -or i, o t,ie( y
enator er “ alb ^asserts
tllat
the United States.” Mr. Hill made
an earnest and impassioned speech in
support of his resolution, stating that it
was of supreme importance at this hour
that congress should inform the coun-
ry and the world that the policy of the
United States was not to maintain the
single gold standard or the single sil-
ver standard, but the double standard
and that (if parity oould not always be
maintained) the obligations of the gov-
ernment would be paid in the best
money in use. His speech was replied
to by Senator Wolcott, by whom it
was described as “threshing old straw,”
inasmuch as the house had disposed
of the subject of the issue or endorse-
of gold bonds. He spoke of Mr. Hill
as a bimetallist on a gold basis, and
spoke of the president’s bond contract
with the syndicate as “the most dis-
astrous occurrence of this generation,”
and as a “most wanton, criminal a id
deliberate attack upon tho credit of
the country.” More of the same kind
of denunciation was indulged in by
Mr Lodge, the syndicate agreement
being characterized bv him as the
“blankest contract ever made by the
government.” Senator Teller went
still further in the same dirsc-
tion, saying that it was “the
first time in the history of the country
that the people had a right to charge
absolutely a lack of honesty on the
part of an administration in dealing
with its financial affairs.” The debate
not only occupied the two hours al-
~TOWBU ror - morning" business, im-t .vaa
carried on while the agricultural ap-
propriation bill was ostensibly before
the senate. The two resolutions, hav-
ing had their full time under the
rules, were placed on the calendar,
and for the remainder of the day some
attention was given to the agricultural
bill. The cattle and meat inspection
amendments were agreed to, with the
understanding that it might be modi-
tied in conference, and the other
amendments went over without action
till Monday.
Monday’s session of the senate was
interesting from start to finish. Early
in the day the resolution offered Sat¬
urday by Mr. Stewart, declaring that
there was no authority in law for the
purchase of gold coin in preference to
other coin, was laid before the senate,
and Mr. Gray took advantage of it to
reply to the attacks made last Satur¬
day upon the president of the United
States in connection with the contract
for the purchase of gold by the issue
of 4 per cent, thirty-year bonds. Mr.
Sherman made a strong argument to
prove that all bonds payable in coin
must be paid in coin of the
highest value. After further discussion
the resolution went over without ac¬
tion, and the consideration of the ag¬
ricultural appropriation bill was re¬
sumed. On motion of Mr. Lodge an
appropriation of *40,000 was voted to
aid in the extermination of the gypsy
moth in Massachusetts. Mr. Allen
moved to insert an item of *300,000
for for the
drouth sufferers throughout tho coun¬
try, particularly in the northwest. Af¬
ter a long discussion in which sugges¬
tions were made to make the nppropri-
tion apply also to sufferers from fire in
the forest regions, and from frost in
Florida, the amendment was excluded.
The bill was then reported to the sen¬
ate, where a vote was taken on the
gypsy moth amendment, and it was
agreed to. The bill was then passed.
It appropriates *3,292,550. Mr. Jones,
of Arkansas, at 5:50 o’clock p. m.,
moved to take up the bill reported by
him on the 12th of February, from
the finance committee, providing for
the issue of bonds and coinage of sil¬
ver, and for other purposes. Mr. Hale
said that the motion, if carried, would
displace the bankruptcy hills and he
moved that the senate adjourn. Mr.
Hale’s motion was voted on by yeas
and nays and was rejected—yeas, 17;
nays, 36. As the vote was regarded
as somewhat of test on the silver bill
there was much excitement over the
result. As soon as it was announced
a motion to proceed to the considera¬
tion of the Indian appropriation bill
was interposed by Mr. Call. A pre¬
liminary dispute arose as to whether
Mr. Call’s motion took precedence of
Mr. Jones’ and the vice president held
that, under the rule, whioh given pre¬
cedence to appropriation bills, Mr.
Call’s motion had first to be voted
on by yeas and nays and was
defeated—-yeas, 26; nays, 30. The
yote waa then taken on Mr, Jones’
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, UA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1895.
motion to take up the silver bill, which
was carried—yeas, 30; nays, 27. The
bill was then laid before the senate and
read. Mr. .Tones, of Arkansas, asked
for some hour Tuesday to be agreed i
upon when the vote should be taken j
on the passage of the bill. Several !
senators suggested that it be taken j
immediately, but there was objection, j
Mr. Jones finally moved an adjourn- ;
ment, at the same time stating that he j
would ask the senate to remain in ses- .
sion taken Tuesday the until bill and the amendments. final vote is j
on ;
His motion prevailed and the senate at
6:30 o’clock p. m. adjourned.
There was a large attendance on the
^ oor * be senate Tuesday and the
galleries were well tilled, in anticipa-
tion of a struggle, bill, and perhaps a vote
OI1 the ^iver which had been
adroitly forced to the lront as the un-
f^ n i B i ie j business. There was hardly
ftn a k sen t ee on the democratic side, j
indicating the anxiety of the different
spending contest. A report from
*he secretary of the treasury was
read m res P° n8e to th * resolution
. the need . of legislation
‘>° n <’ennng
to meet the deficiencies The secre-
taryBtated that an available balance of
^^’^’ f >0°.000 g° 00 ? ll 1 t eX reserve ° lu81Y ® is on ° f , hand. OVe * Mr.
Black b « r ?’ de “ ocrat > of Kentuck J’
reported t from the conference commit-
;f e ° n t le diplomatic and consular bill
'ba t an agreeaut cad been reached on
? Rems except the SoOO.OOO tor
be . the Hawaiian cable. I he
S lnnln g
repprt was continued and a further
co ™ blo . n f eri ltem ' nce Erected Mr Jon on ®B; the m charge Hawaiian of
the . bdl ; lt K ot ' on bls feet y lth »
>
^Hnest that the senate proceed with
h e re(? " lar .' v ^ lc h was the silver
bllb . . Mr Hill objected . to displacing
. business. Then, said Mr.
morning
’ Tones > ‘ ,][ wl11 me™ to take it up at
once - It ' vas apparent that a vote
was imminent. Thereupon Mr. Voor-
bees . democrat, of Indiana, arose and
presented the credentials of Mr. Wil-
son > the uew senator from Washing-
ton » ftud he was sworn in. Mr. Jones
yielded further for the resolution of
Mr - Gorman, which was agreed to, for
senate sessions beginning at 11 o’clock
on and after Wednesday. Mr. Jones
now presented his motion to
ll P silver bill. Great
interest was shown while the
yea and nay vote was being taken,
^ be motion prevailed 36 to 27.
Then the tug of war was on. The bill
was read in full. In the opening
skirmish, Mr. Jones said the friends
° f bill were willing to put the mat¬
ter to a test now, without a word of
debate. If the opponents of the bill
saw fit to resist, and to discuss it, of
course its friends could not help it;
b ut they had to make an earnest effort
to get a vote. Mr. Jones added that
he did not propose to jeopardizs
ful J appropriation bill. There was
plenty of time to pass them all. It
was apparent, however, that no vote
could be taken at once, nor at any
time that could be definitely stateef;
so Mr. Jones said he had only to re¬
quest that the debate would proceed
might as rapidly as possible and that the vote
be had at the earliest possible
hour.
THE HOUSE.
The house met at 11 o’clock Friday.
A bill was passed by unanimous con¬
sent for an additional judge in the
ninth Pacific slope district. Mr.
Beltzhoover, of Pennsylvania, chair¬
man of the committee on war claims,
attempted to claim the day under the
rule for the consideration of bills on
the private calendar, but he was an¬
tagonized by Mr. Talbott, of tbe naval
committee, who desired to call up the
naval appropriation bill. Mr. Beltz¬
hoover finally gave way and the house
went into committee of the whole, Mr.
O’Neill, democrat, of Massachusetts,
in the chair, on the naval appropria¬
tion bill. Tho bill carries *1,807,023
and contains provisions for three new
battle ships and twelve torpedo boats.
Chairman SayreB, of the appropriation
committee, opened the debate and it
was evident at once that he intended to
fight vigorously against the proposed
increase of the
General debate on the naval appro¬
priation bill was closed in the house
Saturday. Mr. Washington, demo¬
crat, was the only opponent of the in¬
crease of the new navy proposed in
the bill, and this fact caused Mr. Ad¬
ams, republican, of Pennsylvania, to
express surprise that one of that name
should be heard uttering such senti¬
ments on the floor of the house.
Among the miscellaneous business tran¬
sacted was the passage of the following
bills: Declaring it to be the sense of con¬
gress that Great Britain and Venezue¬
la should settle by friendly arbitra¬
tion the Guiana boundary dispute
which had been in existence since
1837. Directing the secretrry of the
interior to sell isolated and fractional
tracts of public lands of less than a
quarter section at a minimum price of
*1.25 an acre. The general difficienoy
bill for the year ending June 30,1895,
and for previous years—the last of tbe
general appropriation bills—was re¬
ported and pjaoed on the calendar.
The postoftice appropriation bill for
the year ending June 30, 1895, was
placed in conference with Messrs.
Henderson, democrat, of North Caro¬
lina; Dunphy, democrat, of New
York, and Loud, republican, of Cali-
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
rornia, bb managers on the part of tho
house. The hour for the special or-
der having arrived, the house listened
to eulogies upon the life and services
of the late Senator Colquitt, of Geor-
gia i by Messrs. Turner, of Georgia;
Blair, of New Hampshire; Lawson, of
Georgia; Tate, of Georgia; Living-
gton, of Georgia; Wheeler, of Ala-
bama; Harrison, of Alabama; Grosve-
nor, of Ohio, and Maddox, of Georgia.
At the conclusion of these, and as a
further mark of' respect, the house,
at 3:05 o’clock, adjourned until Mon-
day at noon.
In the house, Tuesday, the senate
amendments to the house bill to au-
thorize the Oklahoma Central railroad
to construct a railroad through Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territories were agreed
to. The consideration of the naval ap-
propriation bill was then resumed, the
pending question being the decision of
the chair (Mr. O’Neill, of Massachu-
setts), on the point of order raised by
authorizing the secretary of the navy
to enhst m his discretion 2,000 addi-
tiona_ seamen l with which to mauThc
new ships The chairman (Mr 0 Neill)
announced his decision overruling the
Pomtof fr ° m the XSion/ff decls lon of th7ohai the chai ' “ PP
COTTON AND FERTILIZERS.
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South Carolina Farmers Vote to Re-
duce the Acreage.
a convention of alliancemen and
f armers called by President Evans to
oonBider the fertilizer and cotton
acreage questions, met in the hall of
Hie house of representatives at Colum-
bia, S. C., Wednesday night. It in-
eluded about fifty representative plant-
ers from all sections of the state. Con-
gressman-elect J. William Stokes intro-
duced a series of resolutions suggesting
that farmers purchase commercial fer-
tilizers upon a contract to pay for
them in cotton currency on November
1st. For acid phosphate, 175 pounds
in middling cotton, or *10 in money
ner noundTor ton was smrffpsted • for kainit
190 pounds or *11, *11 and and for tor ammonia- ammonia
ted fertilizers 300 pounds or *17
these prices to be for the goods free
on board in Charleston. Freight, if
prepaid by sender, is to be paid in
cotton at 5 cents.
It was resolved, also, that planters
use as little commercial fertilizer as
possible, and several speeohes were
made favoring its total disuse. With
regard to the cotton acreage, it was
resolved that it be cut down to the
point at which cotton may be produced
strictly aB a surplus crop and without
interfering with the productions of
bread uieau and auumeai meat ana and oiner other supplies supplies
necessary to sustain farming opera-
tions. A resolution favoring a hori-
zontal reduction of 33 per oent, after
debate, was lost.
The railroads were asked to reduce
the freights on fertilizers 20 per cent,
adTr“T ?he action^ o Ct of^ t^™ convention Ld S
theoonvenHo?Adjourned the
1 wm^ 15 pm
It declared in the convention that
the ts me^lvadvisorvana suggestions were to be consider.H
present^ notbndmg
uponthose strongsentimTnt in InalithespeecW ot^
a a strong sentiment in favor favor ot reducing reducing
the acreage was manifested.
S. A. L. BOYCOTTED
By the Southern Railway and Steam¬
ship Association.
Notice of boycott has been served
upon the Seaboard Air-Line by the
Southern Railway and Steamship As¬
sociation. The Seaboard Air-Line was
not a member of the association, but
on account of alleged irregularities
Commissioner Stahlman has served no¬
tice to members of the executive board
and the rate committee of a withdraw¬
al of prorating arrangement and the
application of local rates on traffic to
and from the Seaboard Air-Line, in¬
cluding the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern railroad.
The boycott, involving, as it does
so large a mileage as the Seaboard’s,
is one of the most important efforts of
the kind ever undertaken by the com¬
missioner.
In fact the legality of a boycott of
an association like the Southern Rail¬
way and Steamship association has not
yet been finally tested, in all cases
some kind of settlement having been
reached before the courts were ap¬
pealed to,
PHILADELPHIA’S ELECTION
Results in a Great Victory for the Re¬
publicans.
Philadelphia maintained its reputa¬
tion for stalwart republicanism in a
city election Tuesday and elected the
candidates of the republican party by
a majority of from 45,000 to 55,000.
The eleotion was for mayor, receiver
of taxes, councilmen, police magis
trates and school directors.
The candidates of the republican
party for mayor and receiver of taxes
were City Solicitor Charles J. YVar-
wick and Charles J. Robey respective-'
ly. Ex-Governor Pattison and Col.
Sylvester Bonnafone, Jr., were the
candidates of the democratic party for
the same offices.
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In Favor of Female Suffrage.
The committee on woman’s suffrage
of the Massachusetts legislature has
decided to report 8 to 3 in favor of
municipal suffrage for women.
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CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
,,appcni " KH of General Interest
Georgia Readers.
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Valdosta will soon have a well pat-
ronized and complete telephone ex-
change.
* * *
Nearly all the farmers living ... e
in
vicinity of Montezuma will pan
many acres m watermelons this year,
• * •
The committee on agriculture of
the North Carolina legislature have
favorably reported the bill making a
*20,000 appropriation for an exhibit
* * *
Secretary Lamont in a recent report
to congress says Georgia has 264,021
available fighting men. The secre-
tary should have added that one fight-
ing Georgian can whip six ordinary
men .-Exchange.
* * *
There aTe now forty-two widows of
confederate soldiers in Hart county,
entitled to pensions. The ordinary has
received checks for the amounts for
these pensioners, and they are now
ready for distribution,
Suits against the Augusta Railway
Company, YV. E. Moore and R. J.
Westinghonse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company have been dropped,
These suits were brought on alleged
violations of the patents hold by the
last named company.
AnntVi.r t«lonSmi«pnmniinT is about
to be ^ organized Xbe at Augusta aTthe “The tele-
Dh Pnones e to De used useu are we Columbian ouiuuiu u
’ ph ° ne8 ’ " hich work automatically.
Bach subscriber will be able to make
his own connection. The new’phones
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The Association of Editors of the
Weekly Press of the State have de-
termined to memoralize the legisla-
lature, asking that a law be passed
naming the judges of the superior
court of every county as the one to
pass upon the matter of the county’s
printing. Every member of the asso-
ciation will work for the passago of
the bill.
* * *
a party of national guardsmen left
Jersy City, N. J., last Tuesday for
Savannah in a special car attached to
the Florida express on the Pennsylva-
n ia railroad. The party includes the
state rifle team, which will compete
Wit Ge0 gift A CraCk ettm °h WaSh -
^redeteated lngl i S p by the New J Tn \ Jersey 80utheru marks- f rs
T » f epte “ ber - at Sea ®' r ’ a
the interstate rifle match. They wan
“ff, 68 */ marksmanship and
T NeW ^ ““ ° Py
them * ^
* * * * * *
Another contest cag6 hftg been get _
tied by the house committee in session
at Atlanta and the final decision was
in favor of the populist contestees.
Although the committee is strongly
democratic, its actions have demon-
strated that in its consideration of the
various cases which have come before
it, the question of politics has not en-
tered. The members of the committee
have been actuated only by a desire
to arrive at exactly what they think is
the right, and it is a notable fact that
on no single question have party lines
been drawn.
The question of delay in the matter
of filing the bonds of the tax codec-
tors and receivers in the forty coun-
ties, heretofore noted, and the proba-
bility of calling special elections in
the various counties has been sub-
mitted by the governor to the attorney
general. After a conference it Iibb
been decided to allow precedent in
such cases to govern in these. There-
fore no such office whose incumbent
has been direlict in filing his bond
within the limit of forty days specified
by law, will be declared vacant and a
special election ordered unless the case
is an exceedingly aggravated one.
Organization has been perfected re-
cently for three concerns in Y aldosta
involving a half million dollars of cap-
ltal. Probably the largest of them is
the Georgia and Florida Round Tim¬
ber company, a charter for which was
granted and the organization perfect¬
ed. The authorized capital stock of
the concern is *500,000, and over
*100,000 has already been paid in.
The company will deal in round tim¬
bered lands, and will be a great factor
in developing a large area of undevel¬
oped land through this section. They
have purchased within the last few
weeks 271,000 acres of timber lands in
Georgia and Florida.
What About the Central.
There is much interest felt in the
rumors that come from New York with
reference to the Central’s destiny. It
was announced the other day that tho
plan of reorganization of the Central
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ha<1 fallen through, or else that it
would probably hang tire for a good
long while to come, and this lias
caused some alarm and concern among
the holders here of Southwestern
stock. They want to know what is to
become of the Southwestern in the
shnftie, and since tho courts have
granted permission to the Southwest¬
ern to expend thousands of dollurs in
repairing track, many of the stock-
holders are asking what does it sig-
nify. Some of themsayiftheSouth-
ern has the money to spend this way
and there is to be no redemption by
the Central, in oase of the failure at
reorganization, why should not the
Southwestern be holding its money to
meet obligations which hang over it
threateningly’ 6>
Danger of Too Many Melons.
From all the information obtainable
^ t th«r« of too
melons auain this vear Ouite
and Crawford will increase the acreage
in melons this year over last. There
is also a mlmber of others who will
plant liberally this year. It would be
wise in growers to plant some, but
not so many as to make them unpro-
fitable to all. Unless there is quite au
improvement in general conditions,
the laboring classes in the United
States will not be able to buy as many
melons as they did last year. Men out
of employment cannot buy bread now,
and if there is not n change before
melons get on the market we can’t see
where the buyers of melons are to
come from. Then again, if there
should be a full crop of peaches it will
have the usual effect of depressing the
prioe of melons. It may pay to think
of these things and not plant too much
of either cotton or melons.
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The Most Damaging Evidence Is Con-
tained in Her Dairy.
Advices from Honolulu state that
Lihoukalam Domims, ex-queen of
Hawaii, was arraigned for trial on the
i« rnnrpsented bv
Paul Neumann. The first day was friL
tered away by the argument of counsel,
, nhiectpd to tho court at everv
. ‘ tt- nb ip P tions were overruled
- a j,,stance After the charge for°a
, ,, matter went over
- When the ease was again called
the denosed P ciueen refused to nlead so
, » examining , u :n T waB entered The
n f “ witnesses was gone
’ b ev j dence secured
t to prove t to an immirtial impart observer that
she was aware the rebellion was to be ,
started
her personal diakt.
The most damaging evidence that is
t 0 be brought against her will be her
personal diary which was found in hor
residence after her arrest. Whether
thi8 i8 mtroduced and made public at
ber trial depends very much on the
course pursued by ber counsel in de-
fending her case. The ex-queen re-
corded her thoughts desires and im-
pre ssions very freely in her diary
Amon « the entries made during last
9ummer was one statl " g:
ter called today , and delivered Presi-
dent C i eveIand . 8 pre8ent to me.’’ What
this present was is not stated.
Up to the time of the return of the
special commission which wenti to
Washington to interview President
Cleveland, the ex-queen records her-
self as favoring a waiting policy, con-
fident that the American administra-
tion would interfere in her behalf,
After President Cleveland’s answer to
the . . she became more ag-
commission
gressive, and began to listen with
growing favor to those urging an up-
prising on the part of the natives.
RUDOLPH SPRE0KLE8 URGED WAR.
Rudolph Spreckles called to see her
often and is represented as advising
her to fight it out. She did not agree
with him, until during his last stay in
Honolulu, he indicated that she could
get plenty of money in San Francisco !
to buy arms and carry out a successful
rebellion. He is also represented as a
willing agent of her ladyship. The
last entry on the diary was made De- i
cember 28, 1894, and closed with:
“Signed eleven commissions today.” i
There was the commissions for the offi-
cers of the new government referred
to in the testimony of her private s55-
retary. The documents have been
concealed or destroyed, and her attor-
ney has endeavored to prove that they j
never existed. !
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CONVENTION rnvvt’\Tinv OF oie WOMB woven .
Xriennia , 9ession of t h e National Con-
on in Washington.
The formal opening of the second
triennial session of the National Coun-
cil of the YVomen of the United States
began at Washington, D. C., Monday.
Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall, its presi-
dent, called the meeting to order.
The council is a representative body,
composed of delegates from all the
various associations of women through-
out the country. Among the twenty
associations reprerented are the
woman suffragists; the W. C. T. U.,
Universal Peace Union, various social
releif and missionary societies, the
women draughtsmen, women stenog-
raphers, National Council of Jewish
YVomen, American Anti-vivisection
Society, and various local councils of
women. \
1.00 A Year.
OATHS VETOED IT.
ALABAMA’S RAILROAD LITIGA-
TION HILL FAILS,
And the Matter Will Now Have to be
Settled in the Courts.
A Montgomery special says: The
house of representatives promptly de-
dined to pass the bill involving the
litigation over the ownership of the
Alabama Great Southern over the gov-
ernor’s veto. The matter will have to
be settled in the courts, where a suit is
now pending between the two contest¬
ants, the Southern and the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton.
This has been the most spirited con-
test ever known in the Alabama legis-
both houses several times by reason of
amendments being tacked on. It
finally passed both bodies in due form
and went to the governor for his sig-
nature. He vetoed it on account of
its unconstitutional! ty-in thatitd.s-
criminated against alien stockholders
The house by a vote of 5.. to 35
declined to pass the bill over the veto
of the executive and thus settled the
matter finally.
EX-MAYOR GILROY INDICTED.
A Sensation When the Grand Jury’s
Work Was Made Known.
The New York Herald of Saturday
morning says: “The result of the
special grand jury’s work was certain
to be interesting to the public, but the
size of the sensation to be created was
ncd known to anvl )OU except the
prosecuting attorney until yesterday
afternoon when the news leaked out
that the following had been indicted,
“ nd tbat P a P e « were tben beltl « P r f
pared P for submission to the court:
homag F Gil f ormc . r ly mayor of
thft ^,’ . Thomas Williani* F MeAvov nolice
ms P ector r • . wiuwm W w. -ucijaugn McLaugh-
^’u? Williams 01106 'rbr^iLntctor police inspector 11116 Two Two
P obce cap*® 1118 were also indicted, but
their names are kept secret. Although
H ' B inqxjssible to obtain exact infor-
mat * 011 before the indictments leave
tbe bftn ds of tbe grand jury, it was au-
thoritatively announced that the m-
dictment against Gilroy did not relate
to any act ke bad committed while
ma J or ot tbo cit . J> b ^ fc was based oa
tbe ade K ation of ofliclal . misconduet ,
at the time he was commissioner of
P J , natnre “ of 0 the
charge , could , not . be , learned, ,
MINISTER GRAY DIES.
H e Was Our Representative at the
Mexican Capital
A City of Mexico special says f Isaac
‘
p Gra United min 8ter to
Mexico," died at 7:05 o’clock Thursday
evem He had just arrived from
Washington, where he had been cen¬
suiting the state department regarding
t h e pending war between Mexico and
Guatemala The Pullman car con-
ductor f found °u him unconscious wts in his
pon arrival he carried
from the train on a stretcher to the
American hospital, time! where he died
w jt b j n a sbor t
It was rumored about the capitol
that the president will be urged to
appoint Senator Ransom to be minis¬
ter to Mexico to succeed the late Min-
ister Gray. Mr. Ransom’s term of
office ag a senator expires with fliis
oongreg8) and it is said that tbe pre8i _
Jent wou)d be verv glad to teilder him
j.y g appo i n t me nt.
HGmORING PEABODY.
His Centennial Right Royally Cel-
ebrated.
Peabody, Mass., celebrated the cen-
tennial of the birth of tho noted phi-
lanthropist, George Peabody, Monday,
There was bunting everywhere and
flags floated from all the public builjl-
ings, while the decoration of private
residences was general. The school
children in the Peabody Institute lis-
teued to an address by the Rev. J. Vf.
Hunt on “George Peabody.” Iq the
afternoon in the town hall the public
exercises were continued with an ad-
dress by the Hon. Francis M. Appl-e-
ton, an oration by Lieutenant Governor
Walcott, and a poem, “One Hundred
Years,” by the Rev. Minot J. Savage.
At night there was a big banquet at
which distinguished guests from all
parts of the state were present,
NIHILIST PROCLAMATIONS
And Threatning Letters Received by
the Czar of Russia.
The Lokal Anzeiger, a Berlin news-
paper, has this dispatch from St. Pe-
tersburg: “Since making his declara-
tion of absolutism, the czar has re¬
ceived almost daily nihilist proolama-
tions and threatening letters. It is
rumored that a palace official has been
arrested for placing in his majesty’s
study printed pictures of the assassin-
ation of Alexander II. One -picture is
said to have depicted the assassination
of the present czar in the manner in
whioh his grandfather was killed. This
and other similar rumors are circulat¬
ed widely in Russia.” 1