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The Irwin o o a 2 H CD ► •
Official Organ of Irwin County.
I, fi. D.LOACH, Elitoraol Proprietor.
THE 54111 CONGRESS.
ROUTINE OK HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
ininary of Bills and Resolutions
Presented and Acted Upon.
THE HOUSE.
In the house, Tuesday, a report
from tbe committee on judiciary was
made by Mr. Henderson, of Iowa,
calling upon the attorney-general for
information as to what steps, if any,
he has taken to enforce the laws of the
United States against trusts, combina¬
tions and conspiracies and what fur¬
ther legislation if any, is needed, in
bis opinion, to protect the people
against the same. He explained that
this was a substitute for a resolution
introduced by Mr. Hubbard, of Mis¬
souri, asking the attorney-general
why he had not enforced the anti¬
trust law, which assumed a state of
affairs concerning which the commit¬
tee had no evidence, so it had unan¬
imously agreed upon the substitute.
The resolution was adopted. The
house at 1:25 p. m. adjourned until
Wednesday.
The annexation of Hawaiian islands
was broached in the house Wednesday
by Mr. Spalding, of Michigan, in the
form of a resolution. The resolution
provided that the Sandwich islands be
erected into a new state to be called
the state of Hawaii with a republican
form of government, to be adopted by
the people, through deputies in con¬
vention, with the consent of the exist¬
ing government.
Conditions were imposed that ques¬
tions of boundary or complications
with other governments be transmitted
to the president to be laid before con¬
gress for its final action before January
1, 1898; that all property pertaining
to the public defense be ceded to the
United States, but the state retain all
other property and the United States
to be liable for none of its debts.
The resolution proposes as an alter¬
native that Hawaii may be admitted
as a state by treaties between the two
governments, with one representative
in congress and proposes ait appro - - |
priation of $100,000 for making the
treaties. The resolution was read by
nnanimous consent and referred to the
committee on foreign affairs.
Upon his request Mr. Harrison, of
Alabama, was relieved from service on
the elections committee No. 2 because
his seat is contested, and Mr. Bailey, !
of Texas, was appointed in his stead. j I
Mr. Henderson, Iowa, stated that the
, committee on rules would not be able |
to report until Thursday, and at 12:45
the house adjourned.
In the house, Thursday, Mr. Liv¬
ingston, of Georgia, offered the fol¬
lowing resolution:
“Be it resolved by the house of rep¬
resentatives, the senate concurring,
that the president of the United States
is hereby requested to forthwith as¬
certain whether Great Britain is ad¬
vancing her outposts on the territory
in dispute between her colony of Brit¬
ish Guiana and the republic of Vene¬
zuela, or is reinforcing posts hereto¬
fore established with troqps, polioe or
ordnance, and should the president
become cognizant of the fact that
British military or police force is ad¬
vancing to invade or reinforce, or
since the seventeenth day of Decem¬
ber last has invaded or reinforced
posts formerly occupied within said
disputed territory, he demand soldiers the im¬
mediate withdrawal of said
aud the reduction of the police force
in said territory to not a greater num¬
ber than were occupying the British
outposts on the aforesaid 17th of De¬
cember, 1895.”
December 17th is the date upon
which the president sent his Venezue¬
lan message to the house. Mr. Living¬
ston asked for unanimous consent to
make a brief explanation oj the resolu¬
tion, resolution but Mr. Boutelle referred objected (the commit¬ and the
was to
tee on foreign affairs. Mr. Henderson,
republican, Iowa, gave notice that the
report of the committee on rinles of the
1 hbuse would be called up Frsdav, and
I at 12:20 the house adjourned. \
In the house Friday, Mr. T |wney,
I republican, Minnesota, offered a reso-
I lution relating to pension claims!. It
I lecited that it was frequently charged
I by pensioners and applicants thatUfMj
1 medical division of the pension rejH bufl
I failed to properly regard the
I and findings in pension claims ifl
I by various boards of the United StXI
I examining surgeons and declared tfl
I it was due to the officials of the p^fl 1
I I partments, to pensioners and the
lie that the truth or falsity of
I charges be made known. It callifl S
■ upon the secretary of the interior
I furnish copies of the reports and find*
I I iugs by boards of examining surgeons^ fiftjB
irrespective of locality in the first
■ claims for original invalid pensions*
B I rejected on medical grounds after No- 1 I
I vetnber 1, 1891, after September 1,
I 1893, and Ootober 1, 1895. An ob-
jeotion to its consideration was made
■ I by Mr. McClellan, democrat, New
I York.
■ Mr. O’Dell, republican, New York,
offered a resolution to direct the com-
■mittee on banking and currency to re-.
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 11, 18%.
port an amendment to the general
banking laws giving power to banking
associations to invest not to exceed 50
per oent. of their lawful reserves in
bonds of the United States to be
hereafter issued under the acts of Juno
14, 1875, and May 31, 1878. Objec¬
tions wore made to Mr. O’Dell’s reso¬
lution and it was referred to the com¬
mittee. Then the ohanges in the
house rules recommended by the com'
mittee on rules were reported by Mr.
Henderson, republican, Iowa, and
were debated section by section. Mr.
De Armond, democrat, Missouri, of¬
fered an amendment providing for de¬
duction from members’ pay for ab¬
sences not due to sickness, or sickness
in the family. The amendment was
lost by a vote of 39 to 182.
THE SENATE.
All signs pointed to a very stormy
session of the senate Tuesday. Mr.
Vest was down for a speech and there
was a prospect of a very lively skir¬
mish over the bond question and the
report of the finance committee. Mr.
Jones, democrat, Arkansas, reported
from the finance committee the free
silver substitute for the house bond
bill and gave notice that he would call
it up Wednesday and ask the senate to
consider it. Mr. Morrill, republican,
Vermont,chairman of the finanoe com¬
mittee, notified the senate that the
substitute was opposed by every re-
Duhlican member of the committee.
The bill wept on the calendar. Mr.
Elkins, republican, West Virginia, of¬
fered a resolution which was referred
to the finance committee, providing
that hereafter any contemplated issue
of bonds should be first advertised for
at least twenty days, and that such
bonds shall be sold to the highest bid¬
der.
At 2 o’clock Mr. Vest took the floor
to discuss the resolution introduced
by Mr. Sherman several days ago. He
said that the last congress passed a bill
which carried ample revenue for the
government and a small surplus be¬
sides. The supreme court had strip¬
ped the measure of $50,000,000 of rev¬
enue by a decision which was a sur¬
prise to nearly every intelligent law¬
yer on the floor. While discussing
the deoision of the court, he would ob¬
serve the comity between co-ordinate
branches of the government, but he
■■would say that the income tax deoision
was one of the most remarkable that
had ever been delivered, and was so
considered by a majority of the peo¬
ple of the country, including able law¬
yers everywhere.
Mr. Walcott, of Colorado, who has
been absent in Europe for months, was
present in the senate Wednesday and
took the prescribed oath. He was
very warmly received by his associates
on both sides of the chamber. Mr.
Hale from the committee on naval af¬
fairs, reported back favorably a bill
authorizing the secretary of the navy
to increase the number of enlisted
men in the navy. He directed atten¬
tion to the importance of the bill and
gave notice that he would call it up at
an early day.
Mr. Butler, of North Carolina, of¬
fered two amendments to the free
coinage substitute for the honse bond
bill. The first prohibited the sale of
interest-bearing bonds without the
express consent of congress, and the
second made it mandatory on the sec¬
retary of the treasury to redeem
greenbacks in treasury notes or silver
as long as the market price of 412$
grains of silver was lower than that of
29^ grains of gold.
At tbe conclusion of the morning
hour, Mr. Sherman, moved that the
senate adjourn. He said that an early
adjournment would facilitate the
work of the senate (it being under¬
stood that the republicans desired to
hold a caucus.) Mr. Stewart, of Neva¬
da, requested Mr. Sherman to with¬
draw his motion to give him an op¬
portunity to make some remarks on
the financial question, but the Ohio
senator declined to yield. According¬
ly at 12:50 o’clock the senate adjourn¬
ed until Thursday.
Mr. Frye introduced a bill in the
senate Thursday to reconvene the del¬
egates to the international maritime
conference of 1889. In presenting
some petitions from Norfolk, Va., in
favor of liberal appropriations for sea
coast defenses, Mr. Daniels called at¬
tention to the alarm which manifestly
existed in the minds of the people
along the sea coast in view of the ru¬
mors of war. He thought their appre¬
hensions of bombardment were exag¬
gerated, but expressed the belief that
HUr Hartifled sea coast cities should be adequate--
to meet any emergency.
Huker, republican, Kansas, offer-
■Wollowing MKpression resolution, onunci-
of the Monroe doe-
I, That the United States
kas ■>wer, an Unfriendly act for
without our con-
Hreaty, territorial purchase or o Hi¬
nd its limits
jHemisphere Hn continents, on either
or over
BKmtry ^knds deems adjacent tbere-
Hyatiou. necessary
And the Unit-
Ms He the right to be the
necessity for the
■ their national en-
e herein enunci-
gp ■eeessity law of self-pre-
adheres
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
in and belongs to every civilized na¬
tion as a sovereign and inalienable
right, and principle is attested by
Washington’s farewell addref ^ and
President Monroe’s every meat.'able
message of December 2d, 1823.”
Mr. Baker made a brief speech in ad¬
vocacy of the resolution. In conclu¬
sion he said that while the countries
of Europe were arranging their poli¬
cies and doctrines, it was right and
proper that we should declare to the
world the policy which we advanced
and proposed to maintain for the fu¬
ture peace and preservation inviolate
of the western hemisphere.
Mr. Call, democrat, Florida, took
occasion before the resolution was re¬
ferred to the foreign relations com¬
mittee, to call attention to the war
which the Cubans were so gallantly
and successfully waging for independ¬
ence, and expressed the hope that the
committee on foreign relations would
report a resolution for the recognition
of the Cuban belligerents.
When the morniDg business had
been disposed of there was a clash as
to the order of v>rocednre. Mr. Stew¬
art, of .Nevada, insisted upon address¬
ing the senate on the Elkins resolution
prohibiting the sale of bonds except
after advertisement to the highest bid¬
der. Mr. Jones, democrat, Arkansas,
in charge of the free coinage substitute
to the house bond bill, wanted to pro¬
ceed with the consideration of that bill
according to the notice previously
given, but as Mr. Stewart insisted Mr.
Jones was compelled to yield. Mr.
Stewart in his remarks advocated the
passage of the Elkins resolution as
amended by Mr. Butler, of North
Carolina, prohibiting the sale of any
bonds in the future except with the
express consent of congress.
During the morning hours in the
senate Friday, on motion of Mr. Voor-
hees, democrat, Indiana, a resolution
was adopted appropriating $250 for
the purchase of a portrait of the late
Allen G. Thurman. Mr. Pritchard,
republican, North Carolina, called up
the amendments he offered to the rev¬
enue bill to increase the duties on cer¬
tain kinds of clay, marble, iron ore,
timber, live stock, cereals, fruits,
wool and coal for the purpose of ad¬
dressing the senate thereon. He fa¬
vored the re-enactment of the McKin¬
ley law and the free coinage of silver.
He denounced the southern, demo¬
crats for their recreancy to their own
section. Their tariff laws had brought
unexampled prosperity to New Eng¬
land manufacturers and bankruptcy
and ruin to the farmers and producers
of the south.
When Mr. Pritchard had finished,
Mr. Hill, democrat, New York, chided
the former for the inconsistency of
his state. North Carolina, he said,
occupied a peculiar situation in con¬
gress, and he did not see how her peo¬
ple could be gratified. ■ Some time ago
the same legislature in North Carolina
had elected two senatois by the same
combination. A few days ago one of
them (Mr. Butler) had denounced the
democratic party for being false to its
pledges of tariff reform. Today the
other end of the combination told tbe
senate that he favored the re-enact¬
ment of the McKinley law.
Mr. White, democrat, California,
consumed the remainder of the time
before the expiration of the morning
hour with a speech in favor of some
practical modifications of the senate
_rules. He did not mince words in his
characterization of the rules and the
“ancient fictions” they perpetuated.
The great evil which he especially in¬
veighed against was that which per
mitted interminable debate on any
question and placed it in the power of
a single senator to hold the senate at
his mercy so long. Tbe senate then
adjourned until Monday.
THE FAVOR ARBITRATION.
Leaders of the Moveriient Hold a
Meeting in London.
The Westminster Gazette says a
movement is on foot in London to put
into effect the suggestion alleged to
have been made by Justice Harlan, of
the supreme court of the United
States, that differences between Great
Britain and the United States be set¬
tled by a commission composed of an
equal number of judges of her maj¬
esty’s high court of justice and the
supreme court of the United States.
Already the private meeting of Eng¬
lishmen and Americans has been held
to consider what further action shall
be taken. The disclosures made in
The Chroniele’s Washington dispatches
concerning the Venezuelan dispute
have encouraged the leaders in this
movement to publish their proposals,
which amount to the advocacy of the
establishment of a permanent court of
arbitration.
LOUISIANA POPULISTS MEET.
Judge A. A. Gunby Was Nominated
for Governor.
The populists of Louisiana met in
convention at Alexandria Wednesday.
There were about 200 delegates in at¬
tendance, and they came principally
from the territory contiguous to Bap-
ides parish, which is the center of the
populist strength in the state. A cau¬
cus was held, beginning at 10 o’clock
and lasting until nearly noon. The
convention organized at 8 o’clock p.
m., and after nominating Judge A. A.
Giinby, of New Orleans, for lieutenant
governor, adjourned until Thursday.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
Brunswick is infested with tramps.
There were attracted there by mild
climate and fertile soil.
J. A. D. McClellan, a prosperous
farmer of Mitchell county, has sold
out his property and left for Vene¬
zuela.
» * *
Application has been made to Hon.
A. D. Candler, secretary of state, for
a charter for the West Point state
bank.
Towns county veterans and the wid¬
ows of veterans got $3,330 out of the
fund appropriated for pensions by the
state of Georgia.
« * *
M. H. Shepard, of Athens, had on
his table new year’s day, fresh green
corn, beans, tomatoes, beets and okra,
all from his own raising.
* * *
Within the next two weeks the Cen¬
tral bank of Macon will pay out in
Macon not less than $175,000 in divi¬
dends to holders of various securities.
A farmer in Coweta county has for
sale 3,000 bushels of seed oats raised
by him last year. He buys no grain
and doesn’t keep his smoke house in
the west.
# * *
The supreme court reports will here¬
after be printed at a cost to the state
of two dollars per volume, instead of
three dollars, which has been paid for
a number of years.
The city fathers of Valdosta have
begun work setting out shade trees
over the city, and will continue it un¬
til the first of March. They calculate
on planting from 500 to 1,000 live and
water oaks in that time.
A northerner is looking for a loca¬
tion in Georgia to start a newspaper.
Any parties knowing of a good place
for such an enterprise might send
word to the Business League, Wash¬
ington, Ga.
* * *
The members of the Harmony Grove
Baptist church have decided to build
a $10,000 church instead of a $6,000
building as was first decided upon.
The work will begin in the early
spring and be pushed to an immediate
completion.
* * *
It is authentically announced that
the Plant System will commence the
erection in the near future of a $15,000
hospital in Wayoross. The establish¬
ing of this hospital at Waycross has
long been talked of, and it now seems
that it is to be carried into effect.
It is probable that a movement to
secure funds for the erection of an
annex to the Lucy Cobb Institute
will be started early in the spring.
That such a building is needed is not
questioned, and the ladies will be de¬
termined in their undertaking if suoh
a step is decided upon.
* * *
It is reported that tbe headquarters
of the Georgia and Alabama railroad
will soon be removed to Savannah.
Major Cecil Gabbett is in charge of
the road as vice-president and general
manager, and has had surveys made
for extending the road into Savannah
from Lyons direct, and also from Mel-
drim to Savannah.
President Herbert Murphy, of the
Bank of Waycross, has bought the
Hilliacd-Olough property, situated in
and north of Waycross, about 1,700
aores, for $17,000. Captain Hilliard,
of Densmore, Florida, owned the
timber, and Mr. Clough, of Waycross,
the land. Murphy has sold a half in¬
terest to Sessoms & Bullard. He will
invite J. O. Curry to settle his Illinois
cololly on the property. The land will
be laid op’ in small farms and put on
the ma( . Murphy will build a
beautiful park on the property near
the city.
* * *
Judge Walter T. Turnbull, of tho
Borne circuit, has resigned. His letter
of resignation was sent to the gover¬
nor a few days ago. It was in the na¬
ture of a complete surprise to the bar.
He has presided for only two years
and his decisions have been universally
sustained by tho supreme court and
noted for their clearness and profound
thought. He ably presided over the
Floyd county city court for four years
and it was here his ability to deal with
most difficult legal questions was dem¬
onstrated. The bar aud people part
with him very reluotantly.
* * *
The Ohio colony, Major O. S. Hayes,
manager, is attracting farmers and
capitalists from every section of the
country. A syndicate of capitalist!
will soon organize a bank, erect 8
2,500 spindle factory and build a large
VOL. VI. NO. 41
factory for the manufacture of agri¬
cultural implements. Forty farms
have already been sold at Htatham.
The capitalists are from Massachusetts
and the farmers from Ohio and other
states east and west, 'titatham is a
station on the S. A. L. railroad and
the lands in this section are very fer¬
tile and easy of cultivation.
The Athens Banner states that the
State College of Agriculture aud Me¬
chanic Arts is to have a new farm to
be used in connection with the agri¬
cultural department. Prof. James B.
Hunnicutt, who occupies the chair of
agriculture, has been authorized to
sell or exchange the farm now owned
by the svate college and to secure one
better fitted for the purposes. The
college now has a farm of fifty-two
acres at Bock College, but it is too
small a tract of land and not thor¬
oughly ndapted to the uses of an ex¬
perimental farm. So Prof. Hunnicutt
will try to secure near the city a tract
of land containing about two hundred
acres, both upland and bottom land,
with plenty of water on it.
A New Cotton Mill.
The Whittier cotton mills, on the
Chattahoochee river, a half mile from
the plant of the Chattahoochee Brick
Company, were put in operation a few
days ago. Miss Helen A. Whittier,
president of the company that owns
the mill, pressed an electric button
and put the spindles in operation and
opened up another great indnstry for
the south, and gave employment to
between three and four hundred peo¬
ple. The mills will continue in oper¬
ation during all the working days of
the year, and will add much to the
manufacturing business of this section,
and will give a meauB of living to a
small army of people. The construc¬
tion.of the mill was begun last spring
and was finished a few days ago. The
total cost of the mill was $200,000. It
lias 10,000 spindles, and is one of the
finest equipped cotton mills in the
country. It has been supplied with
machinery of the latest improvement
and manufacture, and is said to be un¬
excelled, as far as the machinery de¬
partment is concerned.
To Lease the S. & W. Road.
At the annual election of the Augusta
and Savannah railroad the following
directors Were elected : General Law-
ton, George S. Owens, Frank H. Mill¬
er, William W. Thomas, Joseph D.
Weed, Frank S. Lathrop, Henry H.
Hull. General Lawton was re-elected
president.
The Augusta and Savannah railroad,
since the reorganization of the Central
of Georgia, has been re-leased by the
Central for 101 years at 5 per cent per
annum.
Joseph Williams, of Bichmond, the
president of the Georgia and Alabama
railroad, formerly the Savannah, Amer¬
icus and Montgomery, treasurer; J.
Wilcox Brown, of Baltimore, attorney.
Leopold Wallach, of New York, and
the operating department of the road,
have been in conference with Presi¬
dent Comer, of the Central of Georgia,
relative to the leasing of the Savannah
and Western by the Georgia and Ala¬
bama. The general impression is that
tbe conference will result in either a
sale or a lease of the property.
THE GIRLS’ COLLEGE.
Trustees Hold a Most Harmonious
Meeting In MHledgeville.
The trustees of the Georgia Normal
and Industrial College for girls held
an enthusiastic meeting in Milledge-
ville, the main purpose of which was
to make preliminary arrangements for
the erection of the new dormitory to
accommodate the increasing patronage
of the school.
Those present Were Governor W. Y.
Atkinson, Senator Pat Walsh, Hon. F.
G. DuBignon, Hon. Mr. Walker of
Putnam, and Messrs. Lamar and New¬
ell, of MHledgeville.
The new bnilding will cost about
$25,000 and will be erected on the east
side of the school building, which will
put it nearly in the center of the mag¬
nificent twenty-two acre lot, and when
completed will be one of the most
beautiful in the south. This building
will accommodate about 200 pupils,
while the old dormitory, annex tp tho
old executive mansion, only has room
for 120.
These two dormitories will not near¬
ly accommodate all the young ladies
who wish to attend, as students are be¬
ing turned away for lack of dormitory
facilities. Messrs. Bruce & Morgau,
architects, of Atlanta, have been se¬
lected to submit plans for the new
building..
The board passed enthusiastic reso¬
lutions of thanks to Mr. J. A. Filoher,
of California, for bis valuable dona¬
tion of the California universal exhibit
recently displayed at the Atlanta ex¬
position. adjournment tho teachers
After
dined with Dr. Chappell at the man-
uon, when an elegant menu was served
by students of the cooking department
of the college. This college is in a
most prosperous condition and is just¬
ly Georgia’s pride. .
Minnesota. Ex-Governor Dead.
Ex-Governor W. E. Marshall, of
Vtinnesota, died Wednesday night at
Pasadena, Cal., where he went about
two years ago for his health.
1.00 A Tear.
GROWTH OK THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Cast Week.
The reports as to southern industrial
and business conditions for the past
week show that mercantile business
continues to be quiet. Jobbers report
that sales are increasing since the
usual settlements at the beginning of
the year have been made. Collections
are good, but buyers are very careful
in increasing their purchases. In the
cotton growing sections the times are
easy, and a good deal of cotton re-
mams ntisold, as growers look for a re¬
turn of higher prices. There is some
improvement in the lumber trade,
and exports from Texas and
other Gulf ports are growing
larger. Atlantic coast and inte¬
rior point lumber manufacturers are
selling a good deal of lumber, but say
that existing prices are too low to give
them a fair profit. At this time of the
year a large trade is not looked for.
There is no change in the condition of
the iron and coal industries. The
Southern iron furnaces are being op¬
erated to their full capacities, and
stocks do not seem to accumulate. It
is understood that many orders are
as yet unfilled that were received dur¬
ing the fall. Coal operators are busy,
and are selling more coal than ever
before. The opening of new markets
and lessened competition has given
the Southern coal operators an oppor¬
tunity to increase their sales, which
has been fully cared for. Cotton mills
increase in number from week to week,
as new concerns previously announced
as in process of building are put in
operation. The new cotton mills for
the week, as resorted to The Trades¬
man, are to be located at Selma, Ala.,
Americus, Ga., and Aiken, S. C., and
a hosiery mill at Opelika, Ala.
The following new industries were
established or organized in the south¬
ern states during the week: The Pied¬
mont Gold Belt Chartered company,
at Bichmond, Va., capital $2,000,000,
to operate gold mines; car wheel
works, with $100,000 capital, at Bir¬
mingham, Ala. ; the Tom Padgitt Har¬
ness and Saddlery Manufacturing com¬
pany, of Wnco, Tex., capital $100,000,
and the Yorkville Gold Mining com¬
pany, of Atlanta, Ga., capital $50,000,
to carry on raining operations in Paul¬
ding couuty. The 0. Jagke company,
capital $50,000, has been chartered at
Galveston, Tex., to manufacture musi¬
cal instruments; the Georgia Soap
company, capital $25,000, chartered
at Atlanta, Ga., and the Fayetteville
Ice Manufacturing and Cold Storage
company, at Fayetteville, Ark. The
Ohio Door company has been organ¬
ized at Covington, Ky., capital $25,-
000 ; the Fort Smith Construction and
Improvement company, capital $20,-
000, at Fort Smith, Ark.; a $12,000
cotton oil mill at Gaffuey, S. C.; a
$10,000 lumber company at Galveston,
Tex., and a $10,000 mining company
at Easley, S. C.
There is also reported the establish¬
ment of bicycle works at Alexandria,
Ya. ; the opening of new coal mines at
Ashland, Ivy., and prospective ma¬
chinery works, with $250,000 capital,
at Atlanta, Ga. Plow works are to be
established at Birmingham, Ala., a
pumpi factory at Memphis, Tenn., a
tobacco factory at Little Bock, Ark.,
cotton gins at Noodsville, Miss., and
Buckner, Tex., and an electrical plant
at Branchville, S. C. The new wood¬
working plants of the week are at
Blakely, Macon and Moultrie, Ga.,
Jackson, Ky., and Hillsbero, N. O.
Among enlargements are an ice mak¬
ing plant at Greenville, Tenn., a plan¬
ing mill at White Post, Ky., coke ov¬
ens at Big Stone Gap, Va., and creo-
soting works at New Orleans, La.
The new buildings of the week in¬
clude a $25,000 church building at Au¬
gusta, Ga., a six-story office building
at Louisville, Ky., a $40,000 opera
house at Lexington, Ky., a $5,000 res¬
idence at Chattanooga, Tenn., and
nineteen residences and two store
buildings at West Palm Beach, Fla.
—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
SYNDICATE DISSOLVING.
Report that Several Big Banks Have
Decided to Withdraw.
There is a rumor that the Morgan
bond syndicate has been shaken by the
withdrawal from it of the Chemical
National Bank. It is understood that
the amount of the bank’s subscriptiou
was $3,000,000. It is reported that
the City National and possibly the
United States Trust company and the
Hanover National Bank will follow.
It is reported that the amount of
gold deposited by Hardy and Harman
at the sub-treasury for examination np
to date has reached $1,000,000 to
$1,250,000.
MANY LIVES LOST.
feismic Disturbances Cause Much
Damage in Persia.
Two severe earthquakes, causing the ■
loss of 1,100 lives, have ocourredin the
Khalhal district, Persia. The first
shook was very severe. It completely
destroyed the village of Zenzabad and
partly destroyed other villages. Three
days afterward there was another and .
severe shock, which destroyed the
i small town of Goi and did great dam-
! age in many of the villages in the dis-
j trict aforesaid. Eight hundred Large per-
j sons were killed in Goi alone.
numbers of cattle and Bheep