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THE STATESBORO EAGLE
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THE EAGLE.
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THE EAGLE
Is published at Statesboro, Bullock coun¬
ty, Georgia, on every Thursday, at one
lar a year. Statesboro is the county site,
and is situated in a fine farming section.
Bullock baa a population of about 10,
000, three-fourths of whom are white
people. It is admitted that it is the best
farming county in Southeast Georgia.
It is solidly Democratic, beiug known as
the “Banner County." The farmers ar
Industrious and enterprising, aud each
year adds to the wealth and population
of the county. ’ ' ‘
Statesboro is connected by
with the C. R. R., at Dover, and a
manent boom has struck our town, and
new era dawns upon our people.
The Eagle is the official organ of tht
the county, and has a large and Sucreas
ing circulation. Its aim is tc aid all
things that tend to the advancement of
the people and the upbuilding of the
county. As an advertising medium,
The Eagle cannot be excelled. The
merchants of Savannah, Augusta and
elsewhere, get trade from the county,
aud the city merchants, ns well as the
county merchants, will find it to the'i
advantage to advertise their business in
the columns of The Eagle.
We keep on hand, for sale at Ion
prices, Justice Court Summons, Execu¬
tions, Blauk Deeds, Mortgages, &c.
Job work of all kinds neatly, beauti
fully and promptly done, at prices thui
will compare with city prices, such as
-Letter ITCids, &c.
finllocii Count; J
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Judge SurERiou Court —James K
Hines.
Solicitor General —Oscar II. Itog
ers.
Stenographer —S. W . Sturgis.
Clerk— -J. E. C. Tillman.
Sheriff— S. J. Williams.
Court convenes the 4th Mondays in
April and October.
Ordinary —A. R. Lanier. Court 1st
Monday in each month.
Tax Collector— Francis Akins.
Tax Receiver —W. B. Akins.
Treasurer —Geo. R. Beasley.
Coroner —D. C. Proctor.
’’County Surveyor —R. II. Cone.
y JUSTICE COURTS.
44th (Sink Hole)—John Rushing, J.
4, Green P. O. Court, 1st Saiutdaya. J.
45th (Club House)—Geo. Trapreil, N.
P., Metter P. O.; John G. Jones,
P v , Metter P. O. Court, 2d Saturdays.
46th (Lockhart)—R. F. Stringer, J.
P., Rocky Fed P. O.; II. At. Lanier, N.
P., Endicott P. O. Court, 1-t Satur¬
days. J.
47th (Briar Patch)—U. AI. Davis, P.,
P., Ivauhoe P. O.; C. A. Sorrier, N.
Areola P. O. Court, 4th Saturdays.
48th (Hagins)--J. G. Chi tty, .T. P.,
Mill Kay P. O.; W. II. AIcLean. N. P.,
SHU Ray P. O. Court. 2d Saturdays.
1209th (Statesboro)—E. C. Aloseley,
.T. P., Statesboro P. O. M. G. Brnnnen,
N. P., Statesboro P. O. Court second
Mondays.
13.23 t'f. nstonV - Madison L infer, J. P.
Bliss P. O.; J. H Soarboro, N, P , Bliss
P. O. Court 1st Fridays.
1340 (Bay)—John Donaldson, J. P.,
Harville P. O.; Samuel Haiville, N. P-,
Harville 1*. O. Court, 3d Saturdays.
Established 1868.
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(Successors to I. Dasher & Co.)
145 Broughton St,
Savannah, Ga
Dry Goods,
Ladies’ and Children’s Gloaks ,
BOYS’ CLOTHING, ETC.
JSf-Mr. J. IT. Hiller and Mr. A. G.
'Waters, now with us, will take pleasure
in serving t!;c'r toiends.
STATESBORO, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1890.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
R. J. Williams, J. A. liliAXNEN,
Swainsboro, Ga. Statesboro,
WILLIAMS & BRANNEN,
Attorneys at
STATESBORO, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts of
Middle Circuit.
C. A. SORRIER
Areola, (jJ-eoi'gfia.
--AGENT FOB-
fire nl Life lira,
FOR THE COUNTIES OF
Bulloch and Tatnall.
RML ESTATE.
Any person who has
LAND TO SELL
And wants to find a purchaser ought to
ADVERTISE!
1 will act as Agent- for the sale of
Lands placed in my hands, and will ad¬
vertise the same, and will charge a Rea
-onuble Per Cent, for selling the same.
|yif no sale is made no expenses are
incurred. Respectfully,
J. A, BRANNEN,
Ga.
TS$ .
Has doubled the uumber'of its subscri¬
bers during the past year, and hopes be¬
fore the etsd of the present year to
SEND IT TO EVERT HOME
111 THIS COUNTY!
The advertising patronage in tbe past
has been very good, and we know that
Advertising p ayS !
you want to reach the people, the
way is to ADVERTISE.
moMiiii
L W. PERDUE, A. M„ Principal.
Spring Term Opens January 13.
All the Branches taught and Students
prepared for College. but
Government positive, kind.
The instiuctijn in the Collegiate De¬
partment largely by lectures and demon¬
stration. Students required to take notes
at recitations.
TUITION:
$2, $3 and $4 per month, according to
grade. Pupils charged entering
from time of
to end of term.
The Aftusic Department
Will ho kept up to the highest standard.
Address, L. W. PERDUE, Prim,
Excelsior. Ga.
OR,
W. F. Brew ton.
Pres. Board Trustees.
BIG BLAZE IN CHICAGO.
FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS LOSS.
The large brick and stone building at
the corner of Adams and Market streets,
owned by the city dry goods house of J.
V. Farwell&Co., at Chicago, caught tire
early Thursday morning, and before
the flames could be subdued the
southern half of it was gutted.
A careful estimate of the loss, made aftei
the fire was under control, places the total
damages at $475,000, of which Mr. Work
loses $325,000, Taylor Bros. $50,000, and
Farwell & Co., on buildings, $100,000.
One life will probably be lost, and several
firemen were seriously injured.
Vegetables and Their Properties.
According to the diuretic, Medical Reconi, and as¬
paragus is a strong forms
part of the cure for rheumatic persons
at health resorts. Sorrel is cooling, and
forms part of the soup which the French
order contain after a tiring of journey. and Carrots
a quantity people, sugar, while so others are
avoided by some
think them indigestible, but it is only
the yellow core that in difficult of diges¬
tion—the outer layer being quite tender.
The onion is rich in alkaline elements,
which counteract rheumatic gout. It
slowly stowed in weak broth, and eaten
with ii little Nepaul popper, it is an ad¬
mirable article habits. of diet The stalks for patients cauli¬ of
sedentary value, but of
flower have the same are so
ill-boiled and unpalatable that few per¬
sons would make part of their meal to
consist of so uninviting an article. Tur¬
nips, in the same way, are often thought
to be indigestible, but tho faultlies with
the cook quite as much as with the root.
The lettuce has a slight narcotic action,
and, when properly cooked, is easy of
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Among the hills introduced for refer¬
ence, on Tuesday, was one by Mr. Pierce
to create an agricultural commission to in¬
vestigate the the present depressed condition
of agricultural interests of the country.
Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to pre¬
scribe in part the manner of the election
of members of congress, and it was re¬
ferred to the committee on privileges and
elections. It provide^ that in all states
of the United shall be States for the representatives districts to
congress now
prescribed hv law, until an apportionment
of representatives shall be made by con
gross according to the census to be taken
in 1890. The object of the bill is to pre¬
vent gerrymandering in the states. The
bill appropriating $100,000 for a public
The building at Burlington, la., was passed. of
senate resumed consideration
the bill to provide a temporary government
for the territory of Oklahoma. The
Blair educational bill was then taken up
and Mr. Blair continued his opening
speech in support of that measure, With
out concluding, Air. Blair yielded business, to a
motion to proceed to executive
and after a session for that purpose, the
senate adjourned.
The house met Wednesday morning in
continuation of Tuesday’s session. De¬
bate on the proposed code of rules was
continued. Mr. Alorse, of Alassachusetts,
in the course of a defense of the proposed
code said: “The business men of the
country tion, and arc that demanding “do business policy" legisla¬ of
the nothing
congress for the last ten years shall
change, and how shall you change it
without amending the rules that bind the
body, hand and foot ?"
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Sher¬
man called up the concurrent resolution
heretofore reported by him from the com¬
mittee on foreign relations, United congratulating
the people of the States of Brazil
on their adoption of a republican form ol
government. The resolution is in these
words: “That the United States of Amer¬
ica congratulates the people of Brazil on
their just and peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of self
government, based on the free consent of
the governed, and on their recent adoption
of a republican form passed of government."
The resolution was unanimously.
Between 1,800 and 1,500 persons as-
sembled in the house galleries Wednesday
evening to listen to arguments upon the
proposed code of rules, and had the
pleasure of looking down upon about
thirty representatives: Messrs. Manseur
of Missouri, Lane of Illinois, Rogers of
Arkansas, Indiana, Springer of Illinois, Brookshire
of and Shively of Indiana, Wike ol
Illinois Pierce of Tennessee, de
nouced the rulings of the speaker, while
they were defended by Messrs. Moore of
New Hampshire, Duncell of Minnesota,
Honk of Tennessee and J. D. Taylor of
Ohio.
As usual, on Thux-sday, the' Democrats
objected to the approval of the journal;
as usual, a roll-call was needed; as usual,
the Democrats refrained from voting,and
as usual, the speaker counted a quorum,
and declared the journal approved, by a
vote yeas 141, nays 1. Consideration of
the code of rules was then proceeded
with.
notes.
The senate on Thursday confirmed the
nomination of Blanche K. Bruce to be re¬
corder of deeds for the District of Co¬
lumbia.
It was not Atlanta’s colored lawyer, C.
II. Astwood, J. Taylor, ex-minister as was reported, Hayti, but II. C.
C. to’ who
created the sensation at the Riggs House
Alonday evening.
All members were present at the cabinet
meeting Tuesday, including Secretaries
Blaine and Tracy, This is the first tinu
there lias been a full attendance in several
weeks.
At a secret caucus of the republican
members of the senate committee onpriv
ileges and elections Thursday afternoon,
it was decided to seat the two republican
senators from Montana.
Senator Blair has been consuming tht
time of educational the senate for four days speaking
on his bill, He has tired the
senators out and the chances of the bill
passing are waning every day. Indeed,
the opponents of the bill are working
vigorously to defeat it.
A bill introduced by Senator Edmunds
Tuesday to provide a public school system
fof Utah is a most elaborate and compre¬
hensive measure and with great minute¬
ness provides the about all the school legislation affairs nec¬ in
essary for conduct of
the Territory. One of the objects of the
bill is to diminish Mormon influence.
The secretary of the treasury, on
Wednesday, issued a second call on tin
national bank depositories for a reduction
of public balances held by them, to be
paid call is on for or about before the March 1, 1890. The the
same amount as
first call, except that banks having asked hut
small amounts to transfer have been
for the full amount hi order to close out
the transaction.
The house committee on patents Thurs¬
day, by unanimous vote, instructed Mr.
Simonds, chairman of the sub-committee,
to make a favorable report on the housi
bill, 3914, known as the international
copyright bill. The bill allows foreign
United nit hors to take out the a copyright footing in the is
States upon same as
allowed American authors, provided the
type-setting, printing and binding is done
wholly in the United States.
contained On Saturday small last pine Senator wrapped Ingalls’ box, mail
a four
inches long, two inches wide and a little
trict: Joseph Ounsley, third district.
Georgia—Christopher C. Haley, first dis¬
trict ; Joseph II. Thibadeau. third dis¬
trict; Marion Bethuue, fourth district;
Isaac Bcckct, fifth district; William A.
Harris, sixth district.
The senate, nominations: on Tuesday, confirmed the
follow ing Robert Adams,
Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraor¬
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the
core than an inch thick. On being
»pened the box was found to contain one
of the Union Metallic Company’s “Star"
cartridges, in black ink: with “Election the following for inscription old cuff
for Ingalls, from Jackson, pills Miss. Come
or
ludsee us, Old Nutgalls.”
'V|ie President, on Wednesday, nomi
tiattrd to be census supervisors: Vir
ilifis—Frank Ahiiama—Jack W. Winston, third district.
R. Wilson, fourtl? dis
trick. South Carolina—Samuel J. Poinicr,
lirsf district; Pelevan Yates, second dis
trict; F. W, Mactieker, fourth district,
Mississippi—Edward Aldrich, first dis
United States of Brazil, now credited to
the empire of Brazil. To he United States
attorneys: Samuel AY. Hawkins, for
the western district of Tennes¬
see ; Hugh B. Lindsay, for the eastern
district of Tennessee; John Rubin, for the
middle district of Tennessee. To he
United States marshals: J. G. Watts, for
the western district of Virginia. Post¬
masters: C. L. Pritchard, Elizabeth at Front Royal,
Va.; C. Guirkin, at City, X. C.
The senate has confirmed R. O. Bush,
collector of customs Marshals—A. at Charleston, 8. C.
United niithcru States district of Georgia; E. B. Buck, W.
Walker, middle and southern districts of
Alabama: John C. Slocum, surveyor-gen
JQ! of Florida. Postmasters-—Alabama
-TB. Cornish, Demopolis; C. AY. Childs,
mrion; 11. Perdue, Greenville. Florida
F|rnaudina. —AT. II. Harden, Bartow; O. S. Oakes,
sippi—J. Supervisors Census—Mi>sis- district.
AV. Chandler, second
Florida—J. AV. Tompkins, second dis
trirt. Tennessee—AA'. C. Hunt, first
district.
OOTTON STATISTICS.
SINE-TENTH OF THE COTTON HAS LEFT
PLANTATIONS.
Cotton returns of the department
agriculture for February gives local
mates of the proportion of the crop
has left the plantation. The
tion make 90.4 per cent, leaving 9.6
cent, to still go forward. About
tenths of the crop lias, therefore,
reported in sight, or in small stocks
in the hands of country merchants,
or in transit. The state averages are as
follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina 89,
South Carolina 90, Georgia 90, Florida
98, Alabama 90, Mississippi 91, Louisiana
89, Texas 93, Arkansas 90, Tennessee 87.
The average date of the close of picking
is about the same as last year in Georgia,
Mississippi, is earlier Louisiana and Tennessee, and
in the Carolines, Florida and
Arkansas and later in Alabama and Texas.
The average of county dates is December
The 12, ranging from November to January.
has proportion found difficult of seed sold to oil mills
been to estimate,but is
apparently not much over twenty-five pei
cent, of the crop, possibly between 900,
000 and 1,000,000 tons. The largest pro¬
portion reported is in Louisiana, followed
by Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi,
Alabama and the Carolinas. The average
state Carolinas prices, as consolidated, are: The
aud Georgia, 18 cents per bush¬
and el; Tennessee, Mississippi, 17; Florida, Louisiana, 1(1; Alabama
15; 14; Texas
aud Arkansas, 1 3. Returns of quality are
Carolina, very high, except in in Virginia and North
and Tennessee and Arkansas.
It is superior in all states of the gulf coast.
The per centage of lint from seed cotton
is as follows: Virginia, 39; North Caro¬
lina, 31.5; South Carolina, 33.7; Georgia,
32.2; Florida, 32.8; Alabama, 88.5; Mis¬
sissippi, 32.3; Louisiana, 33.5; Texas,
32.4; Arkansas, 82.3; Tennessee, 32.
The damage by insects was the greatest ir
Arkansas and Texas. In Florida, Alaba¬
ma, Carolina Mississippi, it general, Tennessee and North
was hut less severe.
Georgiu and South Carolina suffered less.
The loss from the boll worm was in Geor¬
gia, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas greatei
than that from tne
THE MORMONS DEFEATED.
I4LT LAKE CITY IS NOW UNDER CONTROL
V OF GENTILES.
■A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
concerning the election there, says: Ev¬
sumed erything is now quiet. Business has re¬
its normal condition, and were it
not for the decorations upon the houses
of the Gentiles, there would be no indi¬
cation of the great political battle wlucb
closed Tuesday night. Official returns
give George A. Scott, Gentile, for mayor,
a majority of 809; Louis II. Yams, Gen¬
tile, for recorder, 539; J. B, Walton,
Gentile, for treasurer, 659; E. R. Clute,
Gentile, for assessor, 466; J. M. Young,
Gentile, for marshal,773. The remainder
of the general ticket, including fifteen
councilman was elected by majorities
them ranging from 300 to municipal 400. This gives
control of the council
for the first time m the history of the
city. defeat, Mormon organs while they concede
tlrir specifically charge that it
was accomplished character, by frauds of the most de¬
flagrant and these they
scribe in detail. There is no suggestion,
of but
A PLUCKY WOMAN.
During the third act of tho Academy opera of
“The Rose of Castile” at the of
Music in Richmond, Va., while Emma
Abbott was raised singing a solo, an alarm of
fire was in the crowded house,
cause! by the fumes of burning paper.
Miss Ablwtt continued her song, however,
during the consternation that ensued.
The alarm soon subsided and the opera
proceeded.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTJX0 NEWS FROM
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENKRAt PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARB HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S and dixon’s link.
A general strike is threatened in the
Alabama mining region.
The twenty-sixth Bundes Haengerfest at
New Orleans, La., was opened with great
eclat Thursday night.
Ed Johnson and Jim Butts, murderers
of Captain Miller, who was killed last
October, Thursday. were hanged at Perry, Ga., on
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is in
Charlotte, the N. (7 He is there to examine
mineral lands of that section, and say*
he may invest in some mine.
chant Benjamin F. Lendhart, a general mer¬
doing business at Lowell, Gaston
county, N. (’., made an assignment Wed¬
nesday to Alfred Andrew's. Liabilities
about $8,000; assets $3,000.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says
that the bill to incorporate the Pan
American Railway and Navigation Com¬
and pany passed the legislature Wednesday,
went to the governor without amend¬
ment.
The Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Com¬
merce held its first annual banquet on
Thursday night. Among the guests were
many made prominent northern men. Speeches
were in the discussion of the South's
interests and progress.
There is a strong movement to have
the study of agriculture introduced into
the public schools of the rural districts of
the South. Hon. 1*. J. Berekmans, of
Augusta, Ga., and Hon. Daniel Dennett,
of Mississippi, are pushing the matter be¬
fore the public.
President E. T. Barnes, of the Alliance
Peanut Union, who resides at Newsom’s,
in Southampton county, A'a., announce!
officially that the union has resolved that
the minimum prices of farmers’ stock
of cleaned peanuts shall be Of cents pel
pound.
The directors ol' the Tampa, Florida,
Branch Alliance exchange met recently
in that city to transact important busi¬
ness, and a general invitation was ex¬
tended to all the stib-Alliauces in that
county to be present and discuss matters
pertaining to the welfare of the order.
Citizens of Mobile, Ala., on AVedties
flay, completed a quarter million dol¬
lar subscription to the preferred stock of
the railroad, Mobile, Jackson aiul Kansas City
the amount needed to secure the
building of the road from Mobile to
Jackson, Miss., in one year from date.
Durham Wednesday night N. all the prisoners in
county, C., jail made their
escape. broken, During and the key night, a rear window
was a was handed in tied
to a long pole. The key fitted the door
>f the cells. The combination lock was
unlocked and the prisoners released them¬
selves.
A dispatch of Wednesday, from Pied¬
mont, Ala., says: A great crowd is here
from many states. The sales of lots came
to $125,000. In addition to the works
heretofore announced, a hundred ton
furnace is secured. Main street lots were
sold up to $125 a front foot.
President E. T. Stockhouse, of tbe
South Carolina State Alliance, has been to
Charleston to organize a sub-Alliance in
that county, and now there is only one
county in the state, Beaufort, that has no
A Uiance. The total membership now
amounts to over 30,000, with a steady in¬
crease every month.
The trustees of the State Baptist Fe¬
male ballot university, on Wednesday, decided
by to locate it at Raleigh, N. C.
Durham had offered $50,000 and a site
for the college; Oxford offered $80,000
and a site; Raleigh offered $25,000 and
isite; Greensboro offered $10,000 and a
site.
The Willingham Lumber company, of
Chattanooga, served Tenn., was, on Thursday,
with liability processes praying for a re¬
ceiver. The will exceed $100,
900. The assets are m>t yet known. The
company became embarrassed by endors¬
ing for the elevator company which failed
some months ago.
A convention of southern ice manufac¬
turers, invested representing capital, three million dollars
:>f was held at Cliatta
oooga on Thursday, mid an ice manufac¬
turers' exchange was formed. Officers—
president, vice-president, W. J. Rushton, Birmingham,
Ala.; G. \V. Beiz, Chatta
oooga; secretary, Abe Ellis, Macon, Ga.;
treasurer. Louis P. Hart, New Orleans.
A shipping rate of $6 was fixed.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: All efforts to settle the strike at
the Birmingham VVeib, rolling mill have failed.
President of the Amalgamated
Association, returned to Pittsburg
Wednesday, his mission having been
fruitless. The company refuses to rec¬
ognize the association in any way, and
the men refuse to give up their plan to
organize a local long lodge. and The bitter light now
promises to be a one.
A south bound special railroad, train, on colli¬ the
Alabama Great Southern
ded with a north bound passenger south train,
on Wednesday, forty miles of Bir¬
mingham, Ala. Engineer Ed killed Doolittle,
of the passenger train, was in¬
stantly. Several passengers were severely
bruised, but composed none seriously sleepers injured. The
special with was singing of societies filled
German en route
from Chicago and Cincinnati to the
saugerfest at New Orleans.
Advices from California brougbtthe news
that in the Sierras the snow was seventeen
feet deep on the level, and in many places it
had drifted to a depth of thirty fee t. At
points entirely along the railroads the telegraph poles
were out of sight.
NO. 36
THREATENED TROUBLE.
A GREAT STRIKE EMINENT IN THE ALA¬
BAMA MINING REGIONS.
Dispatches to the Tradesman, of Chat¬
ing tanooga, Tenn., from the Alabama min¬
is threatened regions indicate that a general strike
volving thousands throughout the miners state, in¬
of coal and
causing close fifteen or twenty blast furnaces
to down. Tradesman representa¬
tives have closely investigated the situa
tiod, and state that the strike inaugurated
n few days ago, when 500 miners of the
Debardelebcn company qut work threat
ens to be the commencement of a gen¬
eral strike. The Debardeleben miners
declined quit work because the company
to accede to tehir demands.
First, that they be furnished posts, ties
and rails. Second, that no boy under
seventeen years of age be permitted to
work in the mines. Third, that a com¬
mittee be permitted to regulate working
hours in each mine. Miners have referred
the matter to a committee of the Knights
of Labor, and await their decision.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WOULD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Another ballot for speaker was taken in
the Iowa legislature Monday without re¬
sult.
The first session of the fourth annual
meeting of American in newspaper Wednesday. publish¬
ers, was opened New York
The men indicted for attempting to
bribe the Cronin jurors pleaded guilty on
Wednesday. passed. Sentence hat not yet been
The Paris Rouviev announces that the
total government revenue for 1889 was
$031,400,000. $914,300,000, and total expenditures,
The Philadelphia and Reading compa¬
ny's North Ashland, Pa., colliery, shut
down indefinitely Tuesday, throwing five
hundred men and boys out of employ¬
ment.
Emperor AYilliam, of Germany, has
caused an order to he issued prohibiting
the exhibition of portraits of himself, his
ancestors, or any of his family without
his sanction first being obtained, His
pictures were being put up with cigarettes.
A dispatch from Pitsburg, Pa., says:
tive Thursday morning the boiler of a locomo¬
exploded and Yougbiogbeny on the Pittsburg, railroad, McKees
miles port thirty
south of there, killing one man and
injuring four others, one of whom has
since died.
A dispatch from Toddcn, North Dako¬
credited ta, says: Between 800 and 1,000 Indians,
to Devil’s Lake agency, arc whol¬
ly destitute of cnothing, Unless and in the lust
stages of starvation. furnished
with food, clothing and medicine at once,
the Indians will die like dogs.
At New York, Tuesday. Judge O’Brien
handed down his decision in the celebra¬
ted sugar trust case. He decided in sub¬
stance, that the company should be allowed
to continue its business, but continues the
injunction restraining the trust from
transferring other its property, interfere or doing with any
acts that might the
rights of the plaintiff.
A committee of the Canton Oyster ex¬
change, of Baltimore, was before the
committee of the legislature Wednesday,
having care of the Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries. The oyster men favor the
passage of a law which will stop the
catching April of oysters, for any purpose, after
1st. Baltimore and neighboring
towns are becoming alarmed about the
possible loss of their oyster crop and
trade.
At a session of the American News¬
paper Publishers’ Association in New
York, Thursday, the following resolution
was introduced: “That the American
Newspaper hearty Publishers’ Association is in
being sympathy with the efforts now
made by American authors to ob¬
tain from congress fuller security for lit¬
erary property, and we believe the pro¬
posed international copyright bill to be in
the interest of the national honor and wel¬
fare."
THE TICKET AGENTS.
MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIA¬
TION IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
Tiie International Association of Rail¬
road Ticket agents held its second annual
session in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednes¬
day. Two hundred and sixty delegate!
were present, with about 100 ladies who
accompany them. They come from every
state in the union and from Canada and
Mexico. The officers of the association
are: Mr. Brown, ticket agent Atlanta,
Ga., president; station, M. Cleveland, G. Carroll, Ohio, union
passenger and W. Venneman, union secra¬
tary, T. station,
Evansville, Ind., treasurer. The associa¬
tion derided to hold its next annual meet¬
ing at Denver.
INDIGNANT FRENCHMEN.
THE MANITOBA LEGISLATURE ABOLISHES
* OFFICIAL USE OF FRENCH LANGUAGE.
A special from Winnepeg, Manitoba,
says the Manitoba legislature on Thursday of
decided to abolish the official use the
Freucli language in the country by a vote
of 26 to 10. The French speaking people
are very indignant over this action and
serious trouble is carries feared, particularly his it
Premier Greenway out propo¬
sition to abolish Roman Catholics separate
schools. The Catholics are loud in their
threats against the government.
