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The Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
G. A. D LOACH, Editor and Proirietor.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THK NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The treasury department sent two
special agents to LynehbDrg, Va.,
Tuesday to transfer th> internal rev-
euue office to Fitzhugu Lee, the new
collector.
Secretary Herbert has decided not
to attend the Kiel oanal celebration on
June lfitb, notwithstanding the spe¬
cial invitation which, it is understood,
was extended to him by the German
government.
Secretary Lamont has made the fol¬
lowing assignment of officers recently
promoted: General Buger, to special
duty at Washington; General Merritt,
from St. Paul to Chicago; General
Brooke, from Omaha to St. Paul;
General Wheaton, from San Antonio
to Denver; General BUbs to San An¬
tonio; General Coppinger to Omaha.
The Nicaraguan incident, growing
out of the British occupation of Corin¬
to, was practically and happily settled
Thursday, seemingly, through the good
offices of the Salvadorean ministers of
Great Britain and France, who arrived
in London from Paris and had an in¬
terview with Lord Kimberly, the Brit¬
ish foreign secretary.
The treasury'receipts for April were
only $24,247,000, or about $8,704,000
less than the expenditures. The deficit
for the fiscal year to date is officially
stated at $45,247,000. During the
month the gold reserve increased
$650,000, standing at $94,289,000.
The amount of the United States notes
and treasury notes exchanged for gold
during April amounted to $989,000.
The world of society in Washington
was enlivened Tuesday by the mar¬
riage of Julia M. Murphy, the daugh¬
ter of United States Senator Murphy,
to Hugh J. Grant, ex-mayor of , v ~w
York. The ceremony was performed
at the residence of Mr, and Mrs. Mur¬
phy, Seventeenth and K streets. The
marriage ceremony was performed by
Archbishop -Corrigan, of New York.
According to tmeuf‘(by statistics furnished
the staid 3epai : 'Stuttgart, United States
Consul Johnson, at there
has been a remarkable decrease in tho
emigration from Wurtemburg, Ger¬
many, during the past five years, par¬
ticularly to the United States. In
1891 the total emigration was 5,629
persons and in 1894 the number fell
to 2,541, the decrease being almost
wholly in the emigration to the United
States.
A tabulated statement first publish¬
ed by the marine hospital bureau gives
the number of deaths from smallpox,
which occurred in each state aDd terri¬
tory of the union during the year 1894,
aa well as the number of cases. The
deaths were as follows: Arizona, 1;
Arkansas, 24; California, 2; Connecti¬
cut, 17; District of Columbia, 6; Il¬
linois, 877; Indiana, 10; Kansas, 7;
Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 1; Maine, 1;
Massachusetts, 23; Michigan, 84; Min¬
nesota, 4; Missouri, 2; New Jorsey,
12; New York, 337; Ohio, 3; Penn¬
sylvania, 34; Rhode Island, 3; Ten¬
nessee, 1; Wisconsin, 253. In several
states the disease has been more viru¬
lent since the begihning of the present
year than it was before.
The colored commisssioners for tho
District of Columbia to the Cotton
States and International exposition at
Atlanta met Wednesday night. Ways
and means for making the negro ex¬
hibit from the district were discussed.
Sub-committees were appointed to as¬
sist in the exhibit and forwarding the
exhibit to Atlanta. Special Agent
Johnson reported that the auxiliary
committee of women would hold a
meeting at an early date. It was
agreed that a general appeal should be
made to the colored people of the dis-
trict to contribute financially to the
success of the exhibit, and a lotter was
prepared to be sent to all tho colored
pastors and others of prominence in
tho district asking their co-operation.
The Treasury Statement.
The detailed monthly treasury state¬
ment of receipts and expenditures was
issued at Washington Wednesday. Tho
receipts for April were $24,247,836
against $22,692,364 in April, 1894.
The expenditures for April were $32,-
990,676 against $32,072,836 in April,
1894. The receipts for the ten months
of the current year are $5,000,000
greater than for the corresponding ten
months of last year, and the expendi¬
tures are $6,000,000 less for the same
time. Customs receipts have increased
$7,000,000 over last year. Pension
\payments have months increased of 1894, $1,000,000 and in-
over the ten
terest payments on the public debt
have increased $2,000,000 over the
same period. This is because of the
new bond issue, aggregating $162,-
400,000.
Important Railroad Decis n.
A ease involving an important ques¬
tion of the application of railroad rates
has been decided by the United States
supreme court in an opinion rendered
by Mr. Justice Brewer, It came di-
reot to the supremo court on a writ of
Qitoz from the oourt of Milam oount.v
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SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY a, 1895.
Texas, and in itself was not important,
but settling the principlo at stake
made it notable. It was the ease of
tho Gulf, Colorado and Hanta Fe Rail-
roud company versus Hiffioy &. Lewis.
Disposing of the case, Justice Brewer
said that a statute of Texas requiring
railroad companies to deliver freight
at the price named in the bill of lad¬
ing, under penalty of damages pre¬
scribed in the law, was inapplicable to
interstate shipment, sinoe the passage
of the interstate commerce law, whioh
forbid railroad companies to charge,
colleot or reoeivo for freight on such
shipments any otkor, either greater or
less, sum than that named in the tar¬
iffs which they were required tp pub¬
lish. Tho state statute can apply only
to shipments wholly within the state.
The judgment of the county court
was reversed and the case remanded
for further proceedings in conformity
to the application.
Public Debt Increasing.
The debt statement issued Wednes¬
day afternoon shows a net increase in
tho public debt loss cash in the treas¬
ury during April of $9,109,857. The
interest-bearing debt increased
$2,349,950; the non-interest-bearing
debt decreased $339,437, and the cash
in tho treasury decreased $7,099,345.
Tho balances of the several classes of
debt at the close of business April 30th
were:
Interest bearing debt, $716,202,910.
Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity, $1,754,660.
Debt bearing no interest, $380,701,-
249.
Total, $1,098,657,819.
The certificates and treasury notes
offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury outstanding at the end of
the month were $566,688,624, a de¬
crease of $1,255,818.
The total cash in the treasury was
$787,442,335. 191,247,645.
The gold reserve was
Net cash balances, $89,570,772.
In tho month there was an increase
in gold coin and bars of $511,657, the
total at the close being $139,998,153.
Of silver there was an increase of
$553,695. Of the surplus there was
in national bank depositories $16,797,-
027, against $16,224,166 at the end of
tho preceding month.
A SLICK FORGER.
The Novel Scheme Of a Real Estate
... - MoaVr W wins.. Casn.
Astounding developments have re¬
sulted at Greenille, S. C. ( by the ar¬
rest of 8. C. Dickson on three war¬
rants charging him with forgery. The
warrants were sworn out by George
A. Norwood, president of the Green¬
ville Savings bank. Dickson is the
leading real estate dealer of the city
and has been doing a large business.
It is learned that for twenty years
he has been carrying on an elaborate
system of forgeries, his forgeries being
confined to the character of papers
used in the real estate business. He
would make deeds to himself of imag¬
inary lands as well as of real tracts,
signing fictitious names to the same.
He then used them aB securities in
borrowing money. He forged mort¬
gages on real estate to secure forged
notes payable to himself and deposited
theso with bankers and money lenders
as security for loans.
The number of forged and falsa
deeds will never b6 known, as he
kited, taking up old forgeries with
new ones, using new names and new
lands for each transaction, When
pressed by the holders of his paper he
could always produce new deeds and
new mortgages to renew the old. The
losses of holders of his forged papers
will amount to from $12,000 to $20,000,
TENNESSEE’S CONTEST.
Committee on (governor’s Election
Make Their Report.
A Nashville special says: In re¬
spouse to a call issued by Speaker Pil-
low, of the senate, the house and sen-
ate met in joint convention at 11
o’clock Tuesday morning to consider
the report of the committee on the
governor’s election. The convention
adopted a rule limiting debate by
members to six hours on each side.
The majority report was read and a
portion of the minority report. The
latter reiterates tile opinion that the
retroactive contest law is unconstitu¬
tional; alleges thtt Tnrney made no
charge of fraud, bit. bases his contest
on the technicality that polltax re¬
ceipts were not exlibited. The corn-
mittee’s rulings on the pleadings are
denounced as unfair, and it is
alleged that had all of Evans’s
charges been nvestigated he
would have had 8,000 plurality.
The poll tax is dechred to be uncon¬
stitutional. Turney simply charged
that poll tax receipts had not been ex¬
hibited. Evans offend to prove that
they had, in fact been paid. It is al¬
leged that Turney’s whole case stands
on technical violations of law; that
petrated st*Evl^bywffich } Tur-
ney J was benefited.
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The Limit W*s 'Ijco Small.
After a lengths discission, the Ten-
nessee senate, W a vote, of 14 ayes to
17 nays, rejee 4 -' 11 the Jeffries fee bill,
limiting the.*®? °* state and ooun-
ty officials/Md'by powerful fees lobby to $3,000 per
annum. A of county
oflicia 1 £mv9 been working against tho
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
DURRANT TALKS.
HE PUTS IN THE USUAL PLEA OF
INNOCENCE.
Says He Sleeps Well Because HU Con.
soience Is Clear.
A San Francisco special says: For
the first time since the charge of mur¬
dering Miss Marian Williams in Eman¬
uel Baptist church of this city, was
formaly made against W. H. T. Dur-
rant, the priBioner has consented to
talk. He spoke first of the Lamont
case, saying:
“Poor Blanche, I am accused of
strangling her and then remaining un¬
moved at the details of the most horri¬
ble crime in history. No one will ever
know the sorrow I feel, and no one
can begin to oomprehend my thoughts,
even were I to tell all the anguish her
terrible fate has caused me. I eould
not have murdered the girl, I liked
her too well. Not better than any one
else in the world, but I respected and
admired her and we were good friends.
“Judging by newspaper communi¬
cations, I am looked upon as a cold¬
blooded, diabolical monster. I am
painted as a devil in human shape,
and very little is said in favor of
the possibility of any other person
having killed those two girls, but
when my trial is over, the world will
know that I am innocent.
“My composure and self oontrol
since my arrest ore held against me,
but no person will ever know the ter¬
rible ordeal I am undergoing. It is
said that I use opiates to induoe sleep.
That is a lie. I am able to sleep well
because my conscience is clear of all
crime. I am not of a nervous temper¬
ament, and have always been able to
keep cool.”
HE ACCUSES THE POIiIOE.
He accuses tho police of working
solely from the premise that he was
guilty of the crime and ignoring all
other clews.
Bocause of Durrant’s placid de¬
meanor under fearful accusations, his
sound sleep and regular eating at a
season so trying to nerves, Durrant
makes a study of interest to the physi¬
ologist^ J£ tiroes bis flippancy seems
strangely out of harmony with his
present position.
SHOT THE ENGINEER.
Fatal Result of an Attempted Hold-
Up in Illinois.
A St. Louis and Chicago train was
held up by three robbers half a mile
north of Carlinville, Ill., Wednesday
night. Throe men boarded the loco¬
motive and ordered the engineer,
Frank Holmes, to hold up his hands.
He refused and was shot and instantly
killed. Three shots were fired. All
throe robbers wore caught and jailed
at Carlinville. The one who shot
Holmes was captured by a mail clerk
as ho was getting off the oab. No one
else was hurt. The fireman escaped
injury and ran the train back to Car¬
linville. It is not known whether rob¬
bery was intended or not. Engineer
Holmes, when going south the day be :
fore from Carlinville, compelled some
tramps to get off the train and it is
thought some of these men are his
murdorers. Officials of the Alton road
deny emphatically that there was any
attempt to hold up the train at Carlin¬
ville. The shooting, they say, was
done by tramps.
StfMPATHlZING WITH CUBA.
The New York General Assembly Pass
Resolutions to that Effect.
The following resolution was intro¬
duced in the New York general assem¬
bly Thursday and was adopted:
"Whereas, The Cubans are engaged
in a struggle to throw off the yoke of
Spain and establish their national in¬
dependence ; and, whereas, it is feared
that Spanish soldiers may repeat the
barbarous atrocities whioh character¬
ized the war of 1868,
“Resolved, By the senate and as¬
sembly of the state of New York that
we extend to the patriots of Cuba our
sinoero sympathy in their fight for
liberty, and
“Resolved, That we respootfully but
urgently request tho president of the
United States to take proper steps to
insure to the oitizens and the soldiers
of Cuba the rights of belligerents
under the rules of modern warfare;
and,
“Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions, duly attested, be forwarded
to the president of the United States
and to the secretary of the department
of state.”
War Ships Ordered to Nicaragua.
United State® steamship Raleigh has
been ordered to leave Admiral Meade’s
squadron at Key West, and sail for
Greytown, the eastern end Of the Ni-
caraguan canal. The Montgomery also
has been ordered from Mobile to Grey-
town and to tako the Nicaraguan canal
commission there. The Alert has been
ordered from Panama to San Juan del
Sur. This will make two United States
vessels on the eastern coast and one on
the western coast of Nicaragua,
V
WANT HIGH It It WAGES.
Amalgamated Steel Workers to Hold
an Important Meeting.
The annual convention of the Amal¬
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers will be held in Cleveland,
Ohio, in two weeks, and it will be the
most important session since 1892.
Tflc organization is stronger now than
at that time and it covers a larger ter¬
ritory. This year the great question,
as usual, will he a revision of the
wage scale, so as to secure a restora¬
tion of the wageB lost during the bus¬
iness depression.
Since the summer of 1893 the wages
of the iron and stoel workers have been
going down. The puddling rata fell
from $5.50 to $4 per ton, and even that
rata has been cut in many places, nota¬
bly in Pittsburg, Pa. The voluntary
reduction of ten per cent in the ton¬
nage rates for finishers was followed
last year by a further reduction of 10
per cent and in the Youngstown dis¬
trict the finishers took another reduc¬
tion of 10 per cent. The plate work¬
ers compromised with a reduction of
12$ and 15 per cent, one-half of what
was demanded by the manufacturers.
This demand for a wage restoration
will likely cover all departments of
mill work with the possible exception
of the tinplate branch.
GOV. BROWN UNCONSOL ABLE.
He Is Crushed Over the Shameful
Death of Ills Son.
A special from Frankfort, Ky., says
that the state offices on the public
square in that city were all closed
Thursday morning and crape sus¬
pended from the entrance doors. The
desk occupied by Archie Brown is
closed, and the papers and pictures of
his little girl at different ages remain
exactly as be left them. It is said that
Governor Brown will not now enter
the senatorial raoe. He is terribly
distressed over his son’s tragic and
shameful death. Many close friends
have called and tendered their sym-
thy.
Intimate friends of Governor Brown
say that the. governor is .so heart¬
broken over the disgrace attached to
the death of his son that, in all prob¬
ability, he will resign the office of
governor and retire to private life.
The governor is overwhelmed with
grief and denies himself to all callers.
WIND’S DEADLY WORK.
Ton People Killed by a Cyclone In
Kansas.
Wreck and ruin and loss of life were
crowded into a brief space of time by
a cyclone in the farming district twen¬
ty miles east of Hutchinson, Kansas,
Wednesday afternoon. Ten lives were
crushed out. About 4:30 o’clock the
cloud was seen to approach Patterson,
a small station on the ’Frisco ioad,
about six miles from Burton. Those
who saw it say it resembled a great
mass of flying smoke and dust from a
prairie fire. The air was as hot as if
it came from a furnuce and filled with
electricity. The storm struck about a
mile south of Patterson and for six¬
teen miles in a northwesterly direction
left death and ruin in a path 100 yards
to a quarter of a mile in width. Ten
persons were killed and many others
injured.
JAPANESE DEFY RUSSIA.
They Strenuously Object to the Czar’s
Dictation.
The London Times prints the fol¬
lowing from Kobe under date of April
24th:
“There are unmistakable evidences
of a serious crisis in the relations be¬
tween Japan and Russia. The vernac¬
ular press is forbidden to refer thereto.
Four Tokio newspapers have been sus-
pended for reporting that a secret
council of ministers had been held.
Others have had references to the
crisis defaced the censor.
“According to information from
a trustworthy source in Hiroshima the
ministry have adopted a resolute atti¬
tude toward Russian diotation. Th<
ministry deny Russia’s right to intro¬
duce and even meditate open defiance;
claiming that Russia’s forces in th-
east are not powerful enough to en
foroe that country’s demands.”
DOCTOR KEELEY’S SECRET.
He Must Make Known the Ingredients
of His Gold Cure.
Jttdge Myers, of the federal court,
at Leavenworth, Kas., in granting the
petition of W. F. Johnson, of Topeka,
who sued Dr. Leslie E. Keeley for
$100;000 damages, rules that Dr. Koe-
ley must make known tho ingredients
of his bichloride of gold compound.
The court holds that the compound is
not a proprietary right, nor a trade se¬
cret, being also unprotected by a pat¬
ent, and has been in use more than
two years; in fact, that there is noth¬
ing to prevent Dr. Keeley testifying.
Johnson alleges that he was m^de a
physical wreck by the gold treatment.
Will Advance Wages Five Per Cent.
General E. S. Boss, resident agent
of the Williamantio (Conn.) Linen
Company, has reoeived instructions
from General Barbour, treasurer of
the company, that commencing Mon¬
day, April 15th, a general advance, of
5 per cent in the wages of employes
would take place.
NICARAGUA RAYS.
A COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT OF
THE PENDING TROUBLE.
She Will Pay If the Troops are With¬
drawn from Corlnto.
The Nicaraguan government has
formally decided to accede to the set¬
tlement of the pending trouble, and
this decision has been communicated
to the authorities at Washington and
London.
According to this proposition, Nicar¬
agua agrees to pay the 16,500 pounds
iu London fifteen days from the time
the Britsh ships leave the harbor of
Corinto.
It now remains for Great Britain to
agree to this condition. The govern¬
ment’s course is regarded as shifting
on Great Britain all further responsi¬
bility for the trouble. The most posi¬
tive assurances of the prompt payment
of the money have been given, so that
there may be no question of uncer¬
tainty on this point.
A SECOND ORDER
Restraining the Boycott Against the
Seaboard Air-Line.
The Seaboard Air-Line railroad has
secured another restraining order from
Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta, Ga. The
order oontains all the conditions that
the injunction prays for, and its grant¬
ing was based upon the bill of excep¬
tions filed with Judge Lumpkin for
the purpose of taking the case to the
supreme court of the United States.
It was required in the restraining or¬
der that the Seaboard Air-Line givo a
bond of $20,000, which was approved
and was filed with the clerk of the su¬
perior court. The principals named
in the bond are the Seaboard Air-Line,
the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
company, the Raleigh and Gaston and
the Georgia, Carolina and Northern.
Captain R. J. Lowry, of Atlanta, is the
security.
The bond for $20,000 is made t6
guarantee indemnity against loss by
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis and the Western and Atlantio
roads. With tho bond approved and
filed it now stands that the Nashville,
Chattanooga and £R. Louis and the
Western and Atlantio roads cannot dis¬
criminate against the Seaboard Air-
Line in any fashion.
In the order of Judge Lumpkin
both the defendant roads are restrained
from refusing to interchange business,
both through and local, with the Sea¬
board Air-Line Belt railroad and its
connecting lines, as favorably and ad¬
vantageously to the belt railroad and
connecting lines as lawfully done by
the Western and Atlantic railroad and
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis, which, as lessee, is restrained
from discriminating as to the same
against the complainants with the
Western and Atlantic Railroad Com¬
pany, and from carrying into effect
the circular exhibit “C.” This circu¬
lar exhibit is the order from the
Southern Steamship and Railway As¬
sociation for a boycott against the Sea¬
board Air-Line on account of certain
alleged irregularities which the Sea¬
board has been of.
The defendant roads are also re¬
strained from refusing to receive and
haul cars of freight on through bills
of lading, whioh may be issued by
other roads beyond the lines (from
which it accepts through shipments
for transportation) to points on or
reached over the Seaboard Air-Line
Belt railroad or its connecting lines
when routed via the Seaboard Air-
Line belt road and connecting line or
lines; or oars or freight brought to de¬
fendants on through bills by the Sea¬
board Air-Line Belt line as favorably
and advantageously as lawfully done
to any other road entering the city of
Atlanta and not at greater charges.
LOW RAILROAD RATES
To a Number of Important Conven¬
tions in the South.
The Southern States Passenger As¬
sociation has issued a circular grant¬
ing excursion rates on the certificate
plan on aooount of a number of im¬
portant meetings. The low rates are
to cover the following events: Geor¬
gia Pharmaceutioal convention, Savan¬
nah, May 20th to 23d, 1895; conven¬
tion to discuss sound currency and
better Stay banking facilities, 1 Memphis,
Tenn., Female 23d; oommenoement 24th at
Wesleyan College, May
to 30th; Southern Summer Bible and
Training School for Women, Rogers-
▼ille, Tenn., June 7th to 17th; Su¬
preme Lodge Knights of Honor, New
York, June 10th to 19th.
THE CASH PUT UP
As a Forfeit In the Match Between
Corbett and Fltz.
J. H. Vendig, the manager of the
Florida Athletic Club, arrived in New
York Monday and at once sent a check
for $5,000 to P. H. Dwyer, to bind the
match between Corbett and Fitzsim¬
mons. The $5,000 in question will
stand as a forfeit and will be divided
between Corbett and Fitzsimmons if
the Florida Athletic Club fails to bring
off the fight at the time and plaee to
be appointed on July 1st.
1.00 A Year.
VOL. VI. NO: to.
CAMPOS* POLICY
It Causing Many Conservative Cubans
to Join the Insurgents.
A special from Santiago de Cuba
says: Since it has become evident
that General Martinez Campos came
here for war and not for a settlement
of the rebellion by the institution of
reforms in the administration of Cuban
affairs, there have been quiet disap¬
pearances from the city of some well
known men who belonged to good Cu¬
ban families. They had hopes that
Spain would grant home rule or at
loast take a step in that direction upon
the landing of Campos, who had abso¬
lute powers. When they read his pro¬
clamation and saw that he promised no
reforms then until the island was quiet,and
only three those that were passed by the
Cortes months ago and are of lit¬
tle value, they took Winchesters which
they had secreted and in little groups
of a dozen or more went to the inte¬
rior. Forty men left town on the day
after Campos’s arrival and others are
said to be leaving daily. At the clubs,
the cafeB and other places where Cu¬
bans meet here, it is said the good
men are leaving the cities and towns
In the eastern district to join the in¬
surgents, and that Martinez Campos
has not enough soldiers here to put
down the rebellion.
On the other hand, the Spanish
officers from Campos down say the war
will be short lived. They claim that
they have only to push active measures
which have been held back up to this
time and the rebels will surrender or
be killed like sheep in the mountains,
as they have not sufficient arms to go
around and many with rifles have no
ammunition.
MEMPHIS SILVER CONVENTION.
The Central Bimetallic League Per¬
fect an Organization.
The Central Bimetallic League of
Tennessee was perfected at Memphis
Thursday afternoon and a movement
set on foot to call a free silver conven¬
tion to meet in Memphis on June 11th
and 12th. An address has been prepared
that will be circulated throughout the
southern, western and Pacific coast
states, from which it is desired that
delegates shall come. In the preamble
to the resolution fixing- tho date and
call for the conference, the bimetallists
say:
“The enemies of silver have made
extensive arrangements for a conven¬
tion to assemble in this city on the 23d
instant, under the delusive and mis¬
leading pretense to protect and uphold
what they are pleased to determine
sound money. To meet and counter¬
act as far as possible the effect of this
movement, it has been determined im
a public meeting of the advocates of
silver at Memphis, to call a conven¬
tion of representatives from all the
states of the’ Mississippi valley, the
west and the Pacific coast, to formulate
and give direction to the overwhelm¬
ing sentiment which is now declaring
for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. ”
All senators and congressmen from
these states will be invited, In addi-
iion to the calling of the convention
the bimetallists have decided to have
ex-Congresaman Bryan, of Nebraska,
to speak in Memphis on May 24th, the
day following the sound money con¬
vention. He will speak at Jaokson
the preceding evening. The silver ad¬
vocates hope that his speech will have
the effect of counteracting the influ¬
ence of the sound money convention
locally.
BRISTOL CITIZENS PROTEST.
They are Stirred Up Over a Bill Intro¬
duced iu the Legislature.
The citizens of Britaol and Sullivan
county, Tenn., are raising a vigorous
protest over a seemingly harmless bill,
which has been introduced in the Ten¬
nessee senate and house. This bill
provided for the cession of one-half of
Main street in Bristol, Tenn., to the
state of Virginia. On the territory
proposed to be ceded is one rail of the
electric street railway and one-half of
the ties for a distance of one mile and al¬
so lines of gas and water pipes, a por¬
tion of six tracks of the Southern railway
and |a portion of the Bristol &
North Carolina railway. This aot is
another relic of paid the Turney adminis¬ of
tration, which out the sum
$8,490.51 in litigaing with the atate of
Virginia over the line between the two
states, of which this territory about to
be The ceded litigation was the between principal the contention. two
states
has been going on for six years, and
has been decided by the supreme oourt
of the United States in favor of Ten-
nessee. At the outset of this litiga-
tion 600 men wore under arms, and a
bloody and disgraceful riot was nar¬
rowly averted. A man is now under
indiotment both in Virginia and Ten¬
nessee for felonious assault, committed
within the bounds proposed to beoed-
ed by this act that has been intro¬
duced.
Pottery Trust Breaks.
The combination of potter-y manu¬
facturers, known as the Akron-Canton
stoneware agency, which has sold
more than two-thirds of the stoneware
of the United States for the last ten
years, has been broken. The break
came at the regular weekly meeting held of
the thirteen companies Ohio, interested,
in the East Akron, offioe Monday
afternoon.
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