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■ginia, Minn.",
W Mo. War—
Pm. M. Camp
ie first lieuten
HEingtou special says: On the
of a gentleman who enjoys
H>onal confidence of tho presi
K* fully ns nny one living, tho
^H? ^Hlnt without is made financial that if congress legislation ad
the lines suggested by Mr.
Heland, be will call a special ses
h and force the issue upon the
■ntry as being one question of par
■innt importance.
Representative Livingston, of Geor
.h, who recently received an invita
on from some of the leading citizens
F Caracas to visit Venezula, when the
itional congress assembles next
ontb, has decided to accept the invi
tion. He says that his public duties
m be so arranged that he can leave
tashington for a period of three weeks
i March. It is his purpose, there
fre, to sail for La Guayara on the
jth of March.
kced Representative Livingston intro
in the house Friday and asked
p the immediate consideration of a
ul authorizing the rental in Atlanta,
k.,of lates abnilding to be used asa United
jail. Mr. Pearson of North
Irolina objected to the consideration
Id charged Mr. Livingston with eu
lavoring Inthern to prompt the location of a
fedal prison. Mr. Living
bn denied this and declared that the
Irpose lie of the bill was merely to pro
a jail for United States prisoners
evicted of minor offenses. Notwith
Inding I this Mr. PeareOn insisted qpon
objection and the bill was referred
■judiciary committee.
| Pacific Road Inquiry,
the hearing on the refunding of the
ftific railroads’ debt by the senate
fcmittee on Pacific railroads was re
Red Tuesday. Senator Morgan
■tinued his inquiries concerning the
Btruction of the papers of the finance
K contract committees, the exami
Rons resulting in some very sharp
H^es between Mr. Morgan and Mr.
Mr. Morgan intimated
HMeved the papers were
■H^^Kinlivoiua! Bfcurpose of destroying
^Llmt liability of
Mr. Huntington
■had been destroyed
j^Hess ^Railing for out which a room the
H^ organized was
^Bime of Peace.
MB the house ua
Y session four
ig the raval
BIHBBumber [lid not of defi
/ts bat
that should
Hfied ^Known that tho some
upon ue
MBtfiil if that number
H^eeil upon, at least
^Rpedo provided for. The
boats it was de
Hra depend considerably upon
concerning the construc
battiesbips. That is to say if
are determined upon
number of torpedo boats shall be
accordingly.
Imminent la Nicaraugun,
to news received at Wash
from San Juan del Norte, Nica
an uprising is again imminent
It country. Newspapers have
M)ressed J but reports brought to
^kpy Hu the passengers effect that from the the city in- of
Hklpred itself in favof of
Mkresident Zelaya, and de
^■resignation. ^Rlers himself
Hlown strong
the movement,
Hurt to the coneerva
Hrdly j^ldischarged government of
all cit
^kis Htlio service surrender and de- of
^^^wion. ■assistance He is cn
IX-
SYCAMORE. IRWIN COUNTY. (IA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28.1896.
been paid into the treasury and the
national bank depositories. Up to
Monday 805,000,000 of the new bonds
had been d< livered
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports of industrial and business
conditions in all parts of the southern
states for the past week indicate that
the cotton industry is attracting much
attention. The cotton in the hands
of . planters . is rapidly being marketed
as planting time draws near. It is
now generally conceded that the cot
ton area will be considerable larger
than that of last year, and a very
heavy crop will be made if the season
is not unfavorable. Southern cotton
mills continue to be actively employ
ed. There is some complaint as to
low prices for cotton goods, the mar
ket for finished goods not having ad
vanced in proportion to that of the
raw material. The new textile mills
in the southern states for the past
week are reported as follows: A cot
ton mill at McColl, S. C., to have
$150,000 capital; a 5,000 spindles mill
at Jackson, Ga., one with 100 looms
at Newport, Tenn.; one at Waxhaw.
S. 0., and knitting mills at Laurin
burg, S. O., and Bowie, Tex.
The production of iron continues
large and is somewhat in excess of the
immediate wants of the trade. No
change in prices is reported, but there
is a somewhat uneasy feeling, and buy
ers are cautious. The coal operators
are doing a very large business at un
changed prices. The southern lum
ber manufacturers are doing a larger
amount of business each week. The
spring outlook for southern lumber,
especially in the export demand, is
very encouraging. Among important
new wood-working plants organized or
established during the week are: The
Michigan Lumber and Manufacturing
Company, capital $30,000, to operate
a sash and door factory at Jackson
ville, Fla.; a $10,000 furniture factory
at Rome, Ga., and other wood-working
plants at Palatka, Fla., Savannah and
West Point, Ga., Greenup and Mid
dlesborongb, Ky.; Lake Province, La.,
Enterprise, Miss., Louisburg, N. O.,
and Nassawadox, Ya.
There is also reported brick mills at
Louisburg, N. C., a cannery at Floral
Gity, Fla., a $10,000 electrical plant at
Nacogdoches, Tex., and others at*Hot
Springs, Ark., Lexington and Law
rencebnrg, Ky., and Union, S. G.
Flouring mills are reported at Akers
ville, Ky., and Fair View, N. O., ice
factories at Plaquemine, La., and
High Point, N. C.j a manganese fur
nace at Caitersville, Ga., and salt
works at Knoxville, Tenn. Water
works are to be built at Union, S. G.
The brass and iron foundry at New
port News, Va., is to be enlarged, and
cotton mills at Anderson, S. C., will be
increased in capital from $250,000
to $500,000. The new buildings of
the week include a $50,000 business
house at Atlanta, Ga., a 5-story busi
ness block, also in Atlanta, churches
at Water Valley, Miss., and Wilming
ton, N. C., a college at London, Ky.,
residences at Chattanooga, Tenn., and
a school building at Tennille, Ga.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.}
GUNNING FOR DUCKS.
The President Has Another Outing at
Quantlco.
The lighthouse tender Maple, with
President Cleveland and party on
board, arrived off Quantico, Va.,
about 3 :20 o’clock Monday morniDg,
and at once proceeded down the river
and anchored at 4 o’clock in front of
the small station of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg known and Potomac railroad,
as Widewater.
The water is very wide at that point
and the little station is situated in a
cove which makes it the best place for
the steamer to anchor.
The president was accompanied by
Commander Lamberton, Dr. O’Reily
and Attorney General Harmon. The
party came down on the invitation of
Colonel W’thers Walters to enjoy the
duck shooting from his blinds.
The oolonei and one of hiB guests,
Colonel Wright Rives, of the United
States army, went on board of the
president’s boat soon after the anchor
was dropped. Arrangements were
soon completed and by daylight the
president and his friends were in the
blinds. The decoys were at once set
and two men stationed on shore with
1 small boat to pick he ducks
a I up as
they were brought down.
STEAMER BERMUDA SEIZED.
■be Filbustering Vessel Captured
■L Off New York.
Hfork special says: The iron
BMuln, flying the British
m a n d seized by the
HfctV island late
:nder the
e. The
she had
htionists
Insterer.
fconduy iLiberty
Hs pre
■y to
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
F1TZ WHIPS MAHER.
THE FIGHT BASTED LESS THAN
ONE ROUND.
Lanky Bob Now Holds the World’s
Heavyweight Championship.
A special from Langtry, Texas, says:
It took Robert Fitzsimmons just
uinety . fiv6 geC onds Friday afternoon
Peter Maher and become the
h eaV y.weight champion of the world,
, Xhe figbt took plaC0 in tho bottoms
ot the Rio Grande river on the Mexi
0an side> a mUe and a half distant
from Langtry.
To his friends it was evident that
the Irish lad was not in it from the
start. Before the round had pro
greBsed thirty seconds, Maher attempt
ed a foul and was warned by the
referee. Fitzsimmon’s coup was in
the f orm 0 f one 0 f bis famous upper
books with which he knocked out Hall
and broke the nose of Jack Steizner,
bis trainer.
Maher made a gallant effort to get
upon his feet when time was called,
but after getting half way to a recum
bent position fell back and still had
h is head on the floor when the count
wa8 called, which gave the decision to
the Oornishman.
When the train of sports ’ arrived
f rom R 1 p aso „t 2 :30, there was no ev
idence that anything unusual was about
to occur. The excursionists from
Eagle Pass and other points had been
belated and only some fifty residents
of the country about had gathered.
One oompany of Texas rangers guard
ed the depot, while the remainder
went down to the bottoms on the
Texas side, but not the slightest effort
was made to interfere with the sports
in any of their movements.
When the word to move had been
given the visitors speedily found that,
although they had been on the road
for over sixteen hours and journeyed
four hundred miles, the hardest part
of the entertainment was yet to come.
Following guides in straggling pro
cession, they went across the prairie
for a distance of five hundred yards
and then commenced a precipitous
descent of a seldom-used wagon road
that went in a circuitous way to the
R j 0 Grande.
Then there was a tramp of five hun
dred yards more through sand and
mud full ankle deep to the point where
the seventy-five-foot pontoon bridge
had been stretched across the Rio
Grande river, which, swollen by re
cent rains, had been changed from a
slaggish stream to a roaring torrent.
Once across, the sports were on the
bottoms of the Mexican side, and the
canvas that inclosed the ring was to be
seen in the distance.
Five minutes more brought the per
spiring and footsore predestrians to
the entrance stiles where Bat Mas
terson and Joe Vendig examined the
pasteboard tickets and passed the
holders.
A more ideal spot for such an event
conld hardly have been selected.
The circus canvas inclosing the bat
tle ground was two hundred feet in
circumference and sixteen feet in
height. The ring was composed of
white pine covered with white duck
and had an elevation of four feet.
Fitzsimmons and Maher, with their
attendants, in the front rank of the
procession, walked down but a few
yards apart, both reaching the en
closure in a profuse state of perspira
tion. They were taken to their tents
and rubbed down.
At 3 o’clock, when Referee Siler
announced that all was ready, 182
people were at the ringside, the re
mainder of the visiting party, with
the local contingent, having decided
that a view from the Texas hills was
preferable to the expenditure of $20
for a ticket.
In response to Siler’s call, Julian
asked for ten minutes’ delay.
Quinn consented and it was readily
granted.
In the Ring.
At 3:15 Fitzsimmons, in a flannel
robe, emerged from his quarters, and
bounding up the steps of the ring, se
lected as his corner the point to the
west, with his back to the Mexican
mountains.
Maher appeared a minute later and
took his chair in the opposite corner,
faoing the Mexican side and his back
to the spectators on the Texas hill.
Maher had in his corner Jim Hall,
Buck Connelly, Peter Lowrey, Jaok
Quinn and Peter Byrnes, while Parson
Davies acted as his time keeper.
Fitzsimmons had behind him Martin
Julian, Jack Everhardt, Jack Stelze
ner and Jack McCoy, while Burt
Sneed, of New Orleans, acted as time
keeper.
The five-ounoe gloves were pro
duced from the boxes and fitted.
The men were about to strip their
overcoats when Julian called George
Siler to the center of the ring and the
two conversed quietly for a couple of
minutes. At its conclusion Siler de
manded in stentorian tones:
“Is Mr. O’Rourke here?”
“I am,” responded the Bostonian,
whose head barely came up to the
level of the riDg floor.
“Have yon the purse money?” Siler
demanded.
“It is here,” said O’Rourke, as he
produced his wallet and waved two
checks in the air.
After an exciting parley as to wheth
er the checks would be accepted in lieu
of cash, several of the spectators cried:
“Go on with the fight.”
Julian retorted that the crowd had
better keep their mouths shut, as he
did not intend to stand any dictation
from outsiders and serious trouble
seemed imminent, when like a tiger
the Oornishman leaped to his feet and
made a bound to the center of the
ring, and his face inflamed with pas
sion, fairly shrieked:' I
“We’ll take the checks. give in
to every bloody thing they want. Do
you understand ? We give into this
even if we don’t get it.”
The crowd breathed more freely and
a rousing cheer was given for Fitzsim
mons.
Fitzsimmons had a navy-blue breach
cloth, with a belt of stars and strips.
His legs were bare and his shoes of the
standard running shape. Maher wore
short legged black pants with a green
belt.
From the moment the men had en
tered the ropes, it was apparent that
Maher was nervous and ill at ease.
Fitzsimmons eyed him with a sarcastic
smile and his breast heaved like that
of an animal ready to bound for its
prey.
At 4:25 o’clock when Referee Siler
called both men to the center of the
ring to give instructions, the specta
tors eDjoyed the first opportunity of
seeing them face to face. Fitzsim
mons presented a better appearance
than at any of his previous en
counters. His flesh seemed to be hard
and pink and the veins stood out like
whip cords.
Maher, on the contrary, appeared
somewhat flabby, while his movements
on his feet lacked the agility that
characterized those of Fitzsimmons.
They Clinch.
Time was called at 4.25 o’clock and
the spectators pressed to the ropes.
Fitzsimmons opened the fight, lead
ing with his left, Maher backed to
ward his corner, Fitzsimmons landed
with his right and a clinch followed.
Maher struck Fitzsimmons with his
right hand, while they were clinched
and Referee Siler warned him that if
he did so again he would give the fight
to Fitzsimmons. After a break away,
Maher landed his lef. on Fitzsimmons’s
neck. Close in-fighting followed and
Maher succeedod in landing his
left on Fitzsimmons’s upper lip,
drawing blood. Fitzsimmons landed
his left on Maher and fol
lowed with a right. A clinch fol
lowed, Maher feinted, and Fitzsim
mons led with his right but fell short.
A mix up came in which Maher landed
both right and left on either Bide of
Fitzsimmon’s head. Maher led with
his left and another clinch followed.
Fitsimmons seemed a bit bothered and
broke ground on Maher’s leads, Maher
following him up leading with his left,
when Fitzsimmons stopped, and swing
ing his right, landed full on the point
of Maher’s chin.
Maher Was Knocked Out.
Maher measured his length on the
floor, his head striking the canvas with
great force. He vainly attempted to
rise, but could not do more than raise
his head. His second called on him to
get up, but he failed to respond and
sank back to the canvased floor. The
tenth second was counted, Maher was
declared out and Fitzsimmons an
nounced the victor after one minute
and thirty-five seconds’ rather lively
fighting.
Fitzsimmon’s admirers cheered him
to the echo, and Maher’s seconds car
ried the defeated Irishman to his
corner.
It was several minutes before he re
alized what had happened to him and
Fitzsimmons walked over to his cor
ner and shook him by tho hand.
Fitzsimmons also shook hands with
Quinn and the seconds of Maher’s
corner.
Barring the slight bleeding at tHe
nostrils occasioned by the left-hand
jab of Maher’s, the Oornishman show
ed no marks of injury. Maher showed
no sign of punishment except a slight
break in the skin, just above the point
of the chin, on the left, where Fitz
simmon’s stroke had fanded.
Julian’s Announcement.
When the cheering of the people
around the ropes and the waving of
handkerchiefs by those npon the
mountain summit had in a measure
subsided and Fitzsimmons had tired
of bowing hia appreciation, Julian
took the center of the ring and clear
ing his throat, made the following an
nouncement itfith theatrical effect:
“Gentlemen—Mr. Fitzsimmons has
worked himself up from the bottom of
the ladder and by the decision of the
referee is now champion of the world.
He is ready to defend the title against
all comers, at any time and place. No
man is barred, and all comers will re
ceive recognition. ”
rnrbett i« Readv ’
A Chicago special says: Corbett ... an
nonneed the result of the Fitzsimmons
Mayer fight from the stage of the
theater where he is playing ana at the
eametime made a public challenge to
Fitzsimmons for a fight. He handed
$1,000 in bills to Will J. Davis, the
theatrial manager, as a forfeit.
It there is anything meaner than a
hypocrite, it is not on this earth.
VOL. VII. NO. 1.
THROUGH A hH *
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap'
penings From Day to Day.
Governor Atkinson has reappointed
fudge W. T. Sheffield to the judgeship
of the county court of Miller county.
* * *
The governor has designated the
Exchange Bank of Albany and the
Bank of Waycross as state deposito
ries.
Georgia is making a magnificent bid
for immigration, and in all probabili
ty will have a hundred thousand new
settlers before the year is over.
The state normal school opened its
second session at Bock college with
flattering prospects. Teachers from
all sections were in attendance. The
new dormitory will soon be built. The
plans have about been agreed upon
and the bids of the contractors will be
in in a few days. The normal school
will have a hard time accommodating
those seeking admission until the new
dormitory is completed.
* * «
Colonel James M. Smith, of -Ogle
thorpe, is one of Georgia’s most won
derful farmers. He has just sold the
last of his crop of cotton, which aggre
gated 2,200 bales, for last year. In
addition to this crop he made all the
corn, wheat, rye, oats, potatoes, bar
ley, syrup, meat, butter, cheese, chick
ense.ggs and all home products needed
ou his farm to say nothing of immense
quantities sold throughout Georgia.
The Waycross shoe faotory plant is
being placed in its new quarters in the
opera house block, having beeD re
moved from Brunswick. Manager
Wilson and the stockholders held a
meeting, and as a result the work of
getting the factory ready for operation
will be pushed rapidly. All the oper
atives from Brunswick are on hand,
and in a short time the faotory will be
running.
A New York dispatch states that an
injunction in favor of the Knicker
bocker Trust company of that city,
restraining Newman Erb, Henry A. V.
Post, Henry K. McHarg, Thos. Car
michael and the Atlanta, Knoxville and
Northern Railway Constructing com
pany from assigning or pledging their
rights in the property of the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad company,
has been granted by Justice Miles
Beach in the supreme court.
The southern branch of the Massa
chusetts mills at Lindale have been
completed and turned over to the su
perintendent, Headden, Mr. who Lovering, built by main con
tractor the
buildings, and Messrs. Walton & Wag
ner, who had the contract for the con
struction of the waterworks. After a
thoro ugh Inspection Mr. Lovering ex
pressed himself as perfecily satisfied
with the work and accepted the build
ings and waterworks as complete and
ready for me.
* * *
Fire insurance agents in Macon and
elsewhere are awaiting with consider
able interest the report of the city
council’s special committee appointed
under a resolution to investigate the
proposed increase in insurance rates
of 15 cents per $100 of property in the
city of Macon. This increased rate
has been caused by the action of the
city council in raising the annual li
cense of each insurance oompany doing
business in Maoon from $50 to $100.
Prominent insurance men say that the
business of the insurance companies
in the city does not justify an increase
in the license.
“Parson” B. F. Smith, the Coal
City convict who testified before the
convict investigation high court at
Atlanta, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Atkinson. Smith’s pardon was
a surprise to him, he says. He is
deeply grateful to the governor and
furnished the press with a public card
expressing his thanks to Governor At
kinson for his liberty. Smith was
convicted in the superior court of
Chatham county in the fall of 1893.
He was charged with larceny from the
house. His sentence was five years
and he was transferred to the Dade
coal mines, where he remained until
brought to Atlanta to testify against
the lessees of that camp.
• • *
A mass meeting of representative
labor men was held in Atlanta to pro
test against the estalishment of a Pink
erton elective agency in the city. Reso
lutions were adopted condemning the
action of the police commissioners in
ap ^ p rov i n g the licensing of the detec
and ded>re the license sWd be
revoked _ The resolutions also con
c | emn ««th e efforts being made to en
* U p 0 n our public government a
m of ()ffi eiai intermeddling, noto
r j ong i y corrupt and demoralizing, and
calculated to foment trouble here (as
it has wherever established), strife
and discord that may lead to open
1.00 A Tew.
0
of onr people that are now friend
and at peace.”
* * *
Receiver Lane, of the Wheelright
oompany, at Brunswick, has appointed
Messrs. Crovatt & Whitfield hi* attor
neys, and an effort will probably be
made to have the Fernandina affairs of
the concern transferred to the oare of
Receiver Lane, under direction of the
United States court. Such a move
ment will be in the direotion of econ
omy, and it is thought Judge Speer
will uct iuvorably on mat line. News
comes from New York that the mem
bers of the defnnct concern have re
entered the lumber business under the
style of the Pitch Pine Oompany, of
New York, with William P. Wheel
right ns president, and Charles R.
Hewitt as vice president. It has not
yet been announced whether they will
open offices in Georgia or Florida,
AVorking for Georgia Rivers.
A Washington special says: Sev
eral Georgia rivers and harbors were
discussed by the bouse committee in
oharge of these affairs Thursday morn
ing. Representative Crisp appeared
with a committee consisting of Mayor
Hay and Messrs. Willis and Whitfield,
of Hawkinsville, in behalf of Oomul
gee and Oconee rivers.
Captain O. M. Carters and Repre
sentative Black spoke for the Savan
nah river at points above Savannah,
and Representative Turner, aided by
Captain Carter, presented the claims
of Brunswick harbor and points adja
cent to it in his district.
Alex Carr Declared Insane.
Alex Carr, the man who shot down
Captain H. O. King in Atlanta about
eighteen mouths ago, has been in the
hands of medical experts, and nearly
nil the tests of sanity known to medi
cal science were applied to him. This
committee of doctors arrived at the
decision that Carr is insane and filed
i report with the governor to that ef
fect. One of the physicians, however,
lissents from the opinion of his col
eagues. He admits, nevertheless, the
-existence of a reasonable doubt of
Jarr’s sanity at the present time.
A short time after the presentation
of the physicians’ report, the petition
asking for a commutation of Carr’s
sentence to life imprisonment was sub
mitted to the governor.
The presentation of the papers
marks two of the three last steps in
Carr’s behalf in the now celebrated
The governor’s action in the
uatter will close the case. Unless he
ommutes the sentence Carr will be
tiangod. the physician
Dr. J. B. Baird is
who dissents from the opinion of the
xperts, his colleagues. He says that
1 1 is possible for a man to feign insan
ity of the type attributed to Carr.
Tie says that dementia is the easiest
form of insanity to feign.
Dr. Baird says that in his deliberate
judgment no feature of Carr’s case is
beyond the reach of voluntary as
-umption. He says that in the case
■lefore the commission he cannot ad
mit the doctrine of hereditary taint;
neither can he accept the plea of strong
personal predisposition as an element
in the decision.
NO PARDON FOR REDWINE.
President Cleveland Denies the Appli
cation .
A Washington special says: The
president has denied the application
for pardon in the case of Lewis Red
wine, sentenced in Georgia to six
years imprisonment in the Ohio pen
itentiary for embezzling funds of the
Gate City National bank.
The president in his indorsement
upon the application says: “The sen
tence imposed in this case was Dot a
severe one and I can see nothing aris
ing from the facts connected with the
crime that entitles the convict to clem
ency. The representations concern
ing his health do'not in my - opinion
justify his release at this time.”
President Cleveland’s denial of
Lewis R jdwine’s pardon was based on
the representation that hia health was
not as seriously affected as was at first
supposed. pardon
The president has refused a
in the case of F. M. O. Holston, sen
tenced in Oregon to ten years hard la
bor for forgery. The president in his
indorsement says:
“I am decidedly in favor of the
strictest punishment of persons guilty
of the crime for which this prisoner is
now suffering imprisonment. An of
fense involving forgery, swindling a
poor and needy veteran soldier and a
prostitution of the benevolent inten
tions of the government as embodied
in its pension laws, does not in the
slightest degree move me to olem
enoy.”
GOLD RESERVE $104,000,000.
Tor the First Time Since September 7
It Passes $100,000,000.
For the first time since September
7, 1895, the gold reserve passed the
$100,000,000 point last Friday, the
exact figures being $105,092,843.
After deducting Thursday’s withdraw
als the true amount would be approxi
mately $104,000,000. The total amount
of gold so far received and reported
on account of bond purchases is $65,*