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About Bulloch times. (Statesboro, Ga.) 1893-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1893)
THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Canaensed , from Our n Most - IDI^RcMI t ii TetapMC AdYiCSS a Jm... And Presented in Pointed and Iteada* hie Paragraphs. Wagon wheel manufacturers are about to form a trust. The big mill strike at Olneyville and Central Falls, R. I., has collapsed. The men submitted to the cut in wages. John J. Vail, cashier of the late Commercial bank, of Brooklyn, N. Y., lias been arrested on a charge of per¬ jury. S. H. Hart, who was president of the State bank, of Buckley, Wash., has been arrested, charged with embez¬ zling $30,000 of the funds of that bank. He is said to have swindled ex Postmaeter-General Wanamaker out of considerable money. At St. Paul, Minn., Friday, Judge Kelly sentenced Flenry, the $5,000 bank robber, to ten years in the pen¬ itentiary, and his accomplice, Meiggs, to eight years, The other cases come on for trial next week and it is believ¬ ed the others will plead guilty. A New York dispatch of Thursday says: Dr. Henry C. F. Meyer will have to be tried ugain for the poison¬ ing of Gustave Baum. The report of the insanity experts on the condition of the Juror Low, whose mind became deranged, is that the juror will not be able to officiate again. The ease will come up again at the January term of court. F. J. Pinton, a stock man, of Pecos county, arrived at San Antonio, Tex., Thursday, bringing news of the mur¬ der of an American named Frank Gor¬ don, of Chicago, by Mexican robbers on the Rio Grande, a few miles south of Mr. Pinton’s ranch. Mr. Gordon was a young man and arrived in Pecos county about three weeks ago on a hunting expedition for the benefit of his health. A large body of water that was im¬ prisoned in the old abandoned colliery, which was worked by the Harpers iu Black valley, near Minersville, Pa., thirty years ago, broke into the Oak Hill colliery at the Delaware, one mile northeast of Minersville Wednesday night about 8 o’clock and three men, who were at work in the gangway, were drowned. Thirteen others were at work in the gangway at the time, but they were alarmed in time to es¬ cape. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and St. Louis and San Francisco rail¬ roads and branches, comprising the Santa Ye system proper, have been the hands of three receivers, being made by United Ireuit Court at Little Rock, Ark,, Saturday morning. The appli¬ cation was made by the Union Trust Company, of New York, trustees for the bondholders of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Mercan¬ tile Trust Company, of New York, trustees for the bondholders of the St. Louis and San Francisco. The Masonic temple, at Adrian, Mich., built in 1865, at a cost of $35, 000, was burned at an early hour Thursday morning. It was occupied by all the Masonic lodges in the city, who retained the third and fourth floors, the second being occupied by the Lenawee County Savings bank, the United States Express company and McConnell’s dry goods house. The latter loses $30,000, with an in suranee of $18,000. The building was insured for $20,000. Other losses will increase the aggregate considerably. A special ™o.at ^ «rSo, Missouri, Kansas City and Texas train, No. 3. A switch was opened and the train ran upon the siding. alarmed the engineer, and, knowing there was a spring switch at the other end of the siding, he applied full steam and rau through. Finding they ■were foiled, the robbers, four in num¬ ber. opened fire with their guns. The fireman, Charles Milne, was shot in the face and his jaw torn off, the wound being a serious one. The rob bers then mounted their horses and rode away. Officers are in pursuit. The federal grand jnry finished its investigation of the Indianapolis bank failure Thursday and returned seven indictments. They are against Theo. J. Haughey, president of the Indian¬ apolis National bank; E. E. Rex ford, cashier of the bank; B. F. Pierce, a director of the bank; Schuyler C. Haughey, president of In¬ dianapolis Glue Company and the Indianapolis Curled Hair works; Fran¬ cis A. Coffin, president of the Indian¬ apolis Cabinet Company; Percival B. Coffin secretary of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company, and A. S. Reed, treasurer of the Indianapolis Cabinet ^ Company, A Louisville dispatch of Thursday saga: Late developements in the Kentucky Malting Company’s affairs, which recently failed, show a bad state of affairs. The liabilities are about $500,000. In addition to this Presi¬ dent Herman’s private indebtedness amounts to about $150,000 most of bis keeping, under the impression that it was safer with him than in a bank. , To meet his private indebtedness there ! is no available assets, and creditors W M lose everything. The total assets of the firm will not be more than $160, at the most. THROUGH RAGING FLAMES A Number of Women Narrowly Escape the Jaws of Death A cable dispatch from London says: The building occupied by Hoovey & Sous, drapers, in Sheffield, caught fire Thursday morning. Sixty of the as¬ sistants of the firm were rescued with difficulty. Five fire escapes were used to take them from the building. The efforts of the firemen to confine the fire in the building in which it origin¬ ated were fruitless and toe flames spread until five other buildings were burning. of Hovey k Sons slept The assistants in the building. They were not aroused until the fire had gained considerable headway. Then a scene of panic fol¬ ‘ Many the girls would have lowed. of plunged from the windows had it not been for their cooler-headed compan¬ ions, who held them hack. A number of them escaped in their night dresses. They found the passage 1* ading to the street a mass of flames. Without hes¬ itation they plunged through the fire and reached the street more or less in¬ jured. Some had their hair and eye¬ brows burned off and their faces, arms and legs Jsadly scorched. They were attended physicians and those who were not so badly hurt cared for by people in the vicinity. Others were removed to the hospital. Those who were rescued by means of fire escapes were not injured. An immense crowd stood by and watched the fire. The conflagration was the worst that has visited Sheffield in many years. The building occupied by Hovey k Sons and two other build¬ ings were completely destroyed. Three other buildings, one of which was oc¬ cupied by Mr. Horner, denier in paint¬ ings and other art works, were gutted. Many buildings in the vicinity were badly damaged. LOOKS BAD FOR HOWARD. More Sensational Testimony in the Now Celebrated Case. A Jackson, Tenn., special says: The government exploded a bomb in the camp of Howard, alias Moore, Ross and Leger, the claim agency swindler, Friday. Unknown to the defendant, Frederick Stewart Brown, of London, England, was put upon the stand to tell all about the Moore end of the line in London. The witness had clerked for Felix Howard £> In gersol road, Sliepnerds Bush, London, and it was his hand that penned 3,000 of the famous William Lord Moore letters. The clerk was employed by Felix Howard, who gave him forms from which to copy the swindling let¬ ters and directed him to sign the name of Wiliam Lord Moore to them. When the young man appeared on the stand the face of the defendant was a picture of utter despair, but it was only for a moment and with his ac customed audacity he calmly waited to ’meet the damaging charges. The witness told of his experience with the defendant while in his employ and how when Howard alias Moore, left London, he was employed to take his house and receive his mail and for ward it to another address in the city, This was after the detectives had bro ken into his business. The witness was handed a package of several hundred of Moore’s letters, which he readily identified. The witness was cross-ex £ “ tho two mco ™ narrowlj avt r e ‘ • HOWARD’S WITNESSES Give Testimony Alleging an Alibi for the Defendant. In the Howard trial at Jackson, Tenn., Thursday, the defendant con¬ tinued to introduce testimony and several witnesses representing the best people of the city swore that the defendant was in Jackson on August 16, 1891, the very day that certain ones of the Boss and Leger letters were written from New York. The letters were then read and the parties again tes¬ tified that Howard was in Jackson, not only on that day, but other dates of that summer aud fall when the gov¬ ernment averred he was in New York sending out the seductive letters all over the country. Through all of this investigation the defendant is very demonstrative when he imagines he can score a point. It is understood that the defendant has some twenty five witnessi s to introduce and the gov¬ ernment is by no means easy, since it is impossible to tell what line he will advance upon. A Postmaster Arrested. In the United States court at Jack¬ sonville, Fla., Thursday, Postmaster W. H. Merrill was arraigned before Commissioner Walter on the charge of embezzling funds of the government to a large amount. The case was work¬ ed up by Postoffice Inspector Fred D. Peer, who discovered some time ago a shortage in Merrill’s money order ao counts. ODR LATEST DISPATCHES. Tie Hajpi® ol a Day Giroiiiclel in Erief a;i Cghd.ss Parasrapls And Containing the Gist of the New* From All Parts of the World. Twenty-seven new cases and twenty four deaths from cholera are reported at St. Petersburg, Rusbia. A very perceptible shock of earth¬ quake was felt at Bradford, Pa., at 1:35 Sunday afternoon. Several fam¬ ilies fled from their housea, thinking a terrible calamity had happened. Bank Commissioner Bridenthal has closed the bank of Greensburg, Kan¬ sas. The commissioner says the bank owes about $68,000, that it has a quan¬ tity of worthless paper and that in his opinion, it will not pay more than 65 cents on the dollar. Receiver “Wilson, of the Santa Fe, arrived in Topeka at noon Monday. He said the receivers would appoint D. B. Robinson, first vice president, the agent of the receivers, to have full charge of the active operation of the entire system. The Southern club, of Birmingham, Ala., held its annual election of offi¬ cers Monday night. John W. Mc¬ Queen was re-elected president, Ear¬ nest A. Defuniak was elected vice pn sklent aud Frank Foster, secretary and treasurer. Fire Monday morning destroyed the stables on the Keystone stock farm, near Kittanuiug, Pa., owned by Bow¬ ser brothers, of Manor township. Twenty-two horses were ciemaied, some of which were the finest stock in Pennsylvania. The anarchist laboratory, which was discovered at Vallvidrera, a village near Barcelona, Spain, was situated in a large cave at the bottom of a ravine. The opening of the cave was concealed by brushwood and boulders. A num¬ ber of charged bombs were seized in this eave. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsyl¬ vania, accompanied by his wife and daughter and a party of five other ladies and gentlemen, arrived in Jack¬ sonville, Fla., Monday and took rooms at the Windsor hotel. MacVeagh will remain in Florida about two weeks and will start for Rome about February 1st. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: Of the 200 veteran soldiers, who were poisoned by eating putrid meaj pnriual eon tained in pies recently at the banquet $ae held in t)ae winter palace of soldiers, decorated with the cross tff St. Andrew and St. George, 160 are six still in a serious condition and thirty have died. A special from Wildwood, Fla., says: A difficulty between a white and a ne¬ gro Christmas morning culminated in a riot in which two white men were shot by negroes—one seriously, the other slightly. The negroes congre¬ gated some distance from the town and the white men were shot from ambush. The names of the wounded men could not be learned. A Jackson, Tenn., special says: Court convened in the Howard trial promptly at 8:30 o’clock Monday morning, and only eleven jurors were in the box. The juror who had been ill nearly through the entire trial was present, but Mr. Terrell, another ju¬ ror, was represented by his physician, day who said that he must spend the in quiet, and consequently court im¬ mediately adjourned until Tuesday morning. Fire broke out Sunday morning in the store of Alex McKinzie k Co., fancy groceries and liquors at Mont¬ gomery, Ala,, aud that store was com¬ pletely gutted—loss about $10,000, covered by insurance. Over McKin zie’s store was occupied by the Excel¬ sior Printing Company, whose plant was completely destroyed—loss about $10,000, insurance $4,000. The plant of The Alabama Baptist in the adjoin¬ ing building was also destroyed. WILL FIGHT FOR SILVER. Business Men of Colorado Adopt Reso¬ lutions on That Line. Six hundred delegates, representing nearly every municipality in the state, attended the business men’s conven¬ tion in Denver, Col., Thursday. Gov¬ ernor Waite, who was present by invi¬ tation, promised to give careful which con¬ the sideration to any reasons convention might advanee against calling the legislature in special ses¬ sion as proposed favor,” by he him. said, “of fight¬ “I am in ing for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, not all the summer, but till hell freezes over.” Resolutions were adopted denying that there existed sufficient reason for calling an extra session of the legisla¬ ture and declaring such a course would do the state more harm than good. The resolutions also recited that Colo¬ rado had almost entirely recovered from the panic and while the state had been grievously wounded by the de¬ monetization of silver, her other re¬ sources, such as gold, coal and agrionl tnre were developing wonderfully. The Lighthouse Heroine. Miss Ida Lewie, heroine and life saver, was born in Newport. R. I., in 1841. Her father, Captain Hosea Lewds, was keeper of the Lime Rock lighthouse in the Newport harbor* and she became in early youth a skilled swimmer aud oarsman. Much of her time was spent in the boat, which was the only means of communication be¬ tween the lighthouse and the mainland. Her free outdoor life gave her great strength and powers of endurance, and she was at homo on the water, in calm or storm. Her tirst notable deed life-saving was in 1859, when she rescued four men, whose boat had capsized in the harbor. Since that event she has saved many lives. Her fame as a heroine grew, and thousands s'rf', i ■ ^ y , * T a 0 4 Wl II iV sMfli ■> y Sr t iJL k&rX \i l Y i ■ ‘V IDA LEWIS. of visitors thronged her humble home to make her acquaintance. Captain Lewis became a paralytic, 8f aud Ida was made custodian for life the Lime Rock lighthouse. The appointment was conferred upon her iu 1879 by General Sherman, who paid her a signal compliment for her bravery. In July, 1880, the Secretary of the Treasury, William Wiudom, awarded the gold life-saving medal to her, and she is the only woman in America who has received that tribute. Besides these, she has re ceived three silver medals, one from the State of B^ode Island, one from the Humane Society of Massachusetts, and a third from the New YorkliLife Saving Association. In the Custom House, in Newport, in 1869, before hundreds of its citizens, Miss Lewis received from General Grant the life¬ boat Rescue, which she now has. It was a gift from the people of the city in recognition of her acts of bravery. For it James Fisk, Jr., ordered a boat¬ house built. Mr. Fisk sent the hero¬ ine a silk flag, painted by Mrs. Mc¬ Farland, of New York. After being made a member of Sorosis, Miss Lewis received from that body a brooch. It is a large gold S, with a band of blue enamel. Across it is the name of the club in Greek letters, and engraved on the main part of the pin, “Sorosis to Ida Lewis, the heroine. ” From the two soldiers from the fort, whom she rescued, she received a gold watch, and from the officers and men a silver tea¬ pot worth $150. Presents of all sorts, from large sums of money to oatmeal and maple sugar, have flowed in to her from all parts of the country. She retains and is known by her maiden name, but she was married in 1870 to William H. Wilson, of Black Rock, Conn.—Picayune. A Big Price Upon His Head. A reward of $10,000 has been offered for the capture of Apache Kid, the In dian who deserted from a company of scouts to murder and pillage in the Southwest. r. * " r A > Sr Ac rjm i 1 m i \ the “kid.” Kid is a full-blooded Apache, rather undersized, but wiry and strong and quite intelligent. In the campaign against Geronimo he was a sergeant of scouts. He is a dead shot at short range, skilled in all the arts of the savage warrior, with enough knowl¬ edge of the ways of troopers to enable him to keep out of their reach. It is estimated that the richest oi uvilized peoples is the English, with $1236 per capita. In France the average is said to be $1102, in the United States $1029, while by the sale of their lands to the United States Government some of the Indian tribes are worth from $5000 to $10,000 per capita, man, woman and child. before THE da! -’1 Jnfore the daybreak shines & That in the day's fuh glory lafe Hotel!. Too fiercely bright is the great lilr=' That her pale-gleaming lamp upofe Belcra the daybreak sings a bir l That stills her song at morning’s light. Too lou l for her is the day's star. The woodlands’ thousand-tongued delight.. Ah! great the honor is to shine A light wherein no traveler errs, An 1 rich the prize to rank divine Among the world's loud choristers. But t would be that palei- star, And I^-ou!d be that lonelier bir l. induing of Jove when love’s unhear ! —F. W. Boardi!Ion. IIUMOR OF THE u.nf The maids of old were not necessarily old maidk—- Hallo. Cold weather does’ntseera to nip the society bud.Puck. When a minister is installed there is ■i charge to the people, and paying hi* salary is another one. —Low< 11 Courier. Time is money, they say. Aud if has been noticed that it takes a good deal of money to have a good time. — Truth. A man is much like a razor because you can’t tell how sharp he can be un¬ til hs is completely strapped. —Texas Siftings. “See that man yonder?” “Yes.” ‘ ‘Been in Congress ten years.' “What’s his record?” “Ten Years!"' — Atlanta Constitution. It surely must be safe to sa T . 4 Without the least transgression. That he who “gives himself away” Has lost his s®lf-nossession. —llaymond’s Monthly. “MethinksI scant the morning.air, * remarked the swell collector, as hr trove down Main street at 3 a. m. — Buffalo Courier. Secret societies have charms tha are especially attractive to the mai who likes to make a gaudy display or ais watch-chain. —Puck. He—“Did vou say the furniture was Louis XIV?” She—“Tes. Why?’ He—“The bills suggest the Qeign o: Terror. ”—Beau Monde. “What a big hill I am getting U be!” said the ambitious ridge of dir! near the river. But it wag only * bluff. ”—Chicago Tribady. “I The would notes not he live loved alwaypjhe to fijame -an c> prot A ■, But be wore a cheat tor an' His shoes, just —Waj^iiigton thfJnmr, Stair. Blood may be thicked than wate? but did any one know alglrl who woulo not steal her brother’s <cigar$ to gm !o some one else?—Truth. George — “You would marry the big¬ gest fool in the world if he asked you, wouldn’t you ?” Ethel-'-“Oh, George, this is so sudden. ”—Vogue, * * Tramp—“Madam, I was not always thus.” Madam—“No, It was t y<wir other arm you had in a sling this morning. ”—Detroit Tribune. When you are buying a horse don’t consult a pedestrian, and when you are courting a woman don’t ask advice of a bachelor. —Hawkinsville Dispatch. There is this singularity about pho¬ tographs. A pretty picture is invari¬ ably “the perfect image of her,” whik x poor picture “doesn’t look* a bij like her. ”—Boston Transcript. The Czar cried boldly “give us peace i" The Frenchman cried “of course! ’ Then each one hastened to increase His land and naval force. —C.eveland Plain Dealer Miss Manhattan (maliciously) — ‘ ‘ You must miss the dear old London fogs very much.” Lord Tuffmxtt (loftily) —“I do. But I am partially compen¬ sated by your charming NV-w York mid.”—Vogue. “What is the difference between the ancient Romans and the modern Americans?” “Give it up. ” “The Romans used to urn their dead, while the Americans have to earn their liv¬ ing.”—Texas Siftings. The rain came down in torrents, With a splishy-splashy swasu. And it soused the foolish fellow Who had soaked bis mackintosh —Washington News. “My friend,” said the solemn old gentleman, “to what end has your life work been directed!” “To the head end,” murmured the barber, and then silence fairly poured. It didu’t merely reign.—Indianapolis Journal. Best Schools lor Cook» There are probably 150 schools for sooking in Germany and Austria, the best of wh'ch are at Vienna, Berlin and Leipsic. A man who wishes to be¬ come a chef must begin at the very bottom of the ladder—at peeling pota¬ toes—and work up, round by round, to the top. A course of schooling as strict as that of any polytechnicschool in this cotintry must be followed for four years before the student can get a diploma. Every year competitive ex¬ aminations are given, in which as many as 209 chefs take part. The chef who was employed at the White House by Grover Cleveland during his first term has a gold medal which was presented to him by the Empress Frederick for sxcellency in cooking, a silver medal given by the King of Saxony, a di¬ ploma from the Empress of Austria, and numerous other marks of appro¬ bation and honor won in ' competitive eonteets in cooking.—Chicago Herald,
