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TRY AN Alj. IN THE TIMES!
A Bto Ad. Will
Sell Your Goods:
It attracts new customers and liolds
the old ones. People will forget you
and your goods if you don’t constantly
“jog their memory.”
A Little Ad. Will
Bring back your stray animal,
find a purchaser for your house and lot,
horse and buggy, or anything else.
TRY AN AD. IN THE
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Nows of the Week Gathered
From All Parts of the State.
INTERESTING, IMPORTANT ITEMS.
Governor Atkinson Increases the Reward
Ottered For the Capture of the Zeigler
lioys, Who Murdered the Sheriff of
Screven County Some Time Ago—Colo¬
nists Coming to Ware County, Etij,
Albany, Ga., Jan. ft—Thomas H.
Reynolds shot and killed George Cox in
this city, the result of Cox’,-) attention
to Reynold’s wife, which Reynolds re¬
sented by shooting Cox twice, at close
range, with a double-barrel shotgun.
Reynolds and his wife have not been
living together for some time. Cox was
a timber man engaged in rafting on the
Flint. His home was in Atlanta, where
his mother lives, and he has a brother
in Americas.
Mrs. Reynolds said that her husband
tried to break into her house iimnedi
ttely after he had shot Cox, and that it
was her cries that frightened him away.
She claims that Reynolds was that insanely she had
jealous, without cause, and
separated from him because of his brut¬
al treatment. She denies any improper
intercourse with Cox, and says lie had
boarded with them before she had sepa¬
rated from Reynolds, and that lie was
kind to her and her children, and that
she regarded him only in the light of a
good friend.
REWARD INCREASED.
The Governor Now Otters One Thousand
l)o 11 arts For the Capture of the Zeigrlers.
Atlanta, Dec. 81.—Governor Atkin¬
son has increased his offer of reward
for the capture of Oorrie and Solomon
Zeigler to $50!) each. They are hiding
about their home iu Screven county,
and are simply defying airest. The
governor, believing it was the duty of
the county officials to capture them
without any further inducement, at
first made the reward very light, offer¬
ing $50 each. Later ho increased that
to $250 each, and still the Zeiglers were
not caught.
It will be remembered they killed the
sheriff of Screven county, avenging the
death of their father. Some time ago
the new sheriff summoned a posse and
went to their home, but a search of the
house revealed that they were not at
that time in it. It is generally believed
that they knew of the coining of the
officers.
Many Colonists Coming.
Waycross, Ga., Dec. 30.—Mr. G. W.
Shults, the organizer and president of
the-Elwood park colony in this county,
writes from Columbus, O., that lie will
arrive with the first excursion of several
hundred Ohio colonists about the middle
of January. Mr. Shults says that the
colony, which will consist of nearly
10,000 good farmers, fruit growers, mer¬
chants, mechanics and various other oc¬
cupations, is being organized by means
of attractive circulars descriptive of
Ware comity and containing full par¬
ticulars of t-lie aim and objects of the
colony. Ehvood park is the site for tho
colony city, which is situated seven
miles west of Waycross on the Alabama
Midland division of the Plant system.
Killed Without Warning.
Waycross, Ga., Dec. 27.—George
McDonald, a son of Representative W.
A. McDonald, of Ware county was mur¬
dered at Parkouta, Coffee county, Ga.,
at a turpentine still McDonald operated by Frank
L. Sweat. Mr. was in charge
during the absence of Mr. Sweat, and
at night he heard the negroes rowing
and went out to quiet them. The still¬
er, Bill McDonald, was in the melee with
the negroes. Mr. McDonald requested
him to let the negroes alone, as he did
not want any disturbance during Mr.
Sweat’s absence. Bill McDonald drew
his pistol and without a word of warn¬
ing shot McDonald through the heart,
killing him instantly. The murderer
then stole a horse and escaped
Committed Murder and Escaped.
Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 28. —At the
residence of Janies Miller, seven miles
from Waynesville, Henry Manning, a
rather unworthy character, cut Mnm
ford Harrison, a worthy countryman,
the effects of which caused Harrison’s
death. Manning Johu Pensell, was assisted in the
cutting by who held Har¬
rison during the cutting. All the par¬
ties to tho affair are white and tho fight
was .over some trivial matter. No ar¬
rests were made, and when Harrison
died the mnrderers stole the team of
Jake Davis and left for parts unknown.
Badly Wanted III Georgia.
Tallah.V3.see, Fla,, Dec. 26.— Sheriff
Pearce of this county has captured Cae¬
sar Smith, a negro wanted for murder
at Camilla, Ga., where he killed another
iiegro in 1893 over a game of cards.
Smith was arrested at Apalachicola,
Fla., where he is known as u gambler,
and a bad negro generally. He is here
awaiting the preparation of papers for
extradition to Georgia.
Four Dead: Si* Badly IiJ ired,
Atlanta, Dec. 27.—Engineer Wood,
Fireman Shell and Train Hand Doyle,
all of /Atlanta, and Fireman Wood a
negro of Birmingham, seriously were killed a Ml
six others injured in a wre.’k
on the Georgia Pacific division of the
Southern railway, near Chattahoochee.
Thrown From Mer Baggy ar„d Killed.
: QCitman, Ga., Dec! 27.—Mrs. Henri¬
etta Davis, who lived about six miles
south of here, aud her daughter, Mrs.
Blalock, were thrown from their bag¬
gy by a runaway horse and Mrs. Davis
struck on her head, the shock breaking
her neck. She died instantly.
A Killing Near Calhoun.
Calhoun, Ga., Dec. 28.—Dan Samples
was shot in the breast by Bnd McCue,
at the village of Fairmount, from the
effects of which he died iu 30 minutes.
The killing was the result of a drunken
tow.
Vol. IV.
FORMALLY OPENED.
Vanderbilt’* Handsome Home Near Ashe¬
ville—A Christmas Tree.
Asheville, N. C., Dec. 26.—George
W. Vanderbilt, the youngest male mem
ber of the great New York family of
millionaires, has formally opened his
country home noar Asheville. All im
mediate members of the Vanderbilt,
family uow in this country were them pres
ent at “Biltmore Horse.” Among
were: Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt,
mother of the owner of Biltmore; Mrs.
Bromley, his aunt, Mrs. Kissam, Miss
Kissam, Mr. and Mrs. F. W r . Vander¬
bilt, Mr. and Mrs. Seward Webb and
their daughter and son, Cornelius Van¬
derbilt and family, W. JS.'Vanderbilt,
W. D. Sloaue and family and t thers.
All of these persons have come in
their private ears and brought with
them ail army of servants. For two
weeks past G' W. Vanderbilt has per¬
sonally directed a corps of carvers, join¬
ers, decorators and florists in giving the
finishing touches to tho great mansion,
and it doubtless stands in connection
with its surrounding park and outlying
hunting and fishing preserves, the most
valuable.as well as the most extensive
private property in Ameririi. The house
tract contains 8,000 acres*upon already which been
75 miles of driveways have
constructed, while the hunting which pre¬
serves embrace 87,000 acres, in
is included Mount Pisgah, olio of tho
most prominent peaks on Asheville
plateau, which boasts the highest point
east of tho Rocky mountains.
At 11 o'clock a Christmas tree was
given all the employes on the estate,
numbering between 300 and 500. Bar¬
rels of mistletoe and wagon loads of
holly and carloads of packages were pnt
into this feature, and the banquet hall
was crowded with eager, happy faces
for more than two hours.
After the Christmas tree a bountiful
dinner was spread.
JAILBIRDS CAPTURED,
Three of the Men Who Escaped From the
Frison at Louisville.
Louisville, Dec. 27.—Lee, Rider and
Linn, three of the most desperate of the
jailbreakers, were arrested at Lagrange,
Ky., 30 miles from here, by Detective
Latt Hitt of the Louisville and Nash¬
ville Railroad company after a desperate
resistance.
The Louisville and Nashville detect¬
ives were on the lookout for the escaped
jailbirds, and Hitt was watching the
Lagrange neighborhood for them. He
hoard of three men lying around the
vicinity of Lagrange, disguised himself
as a tramp and got in with the men and
found that they wanted to get away. seal
He proposed that they break a car
aud get away in a freight car. They
agreed and managed to get into a car.
Once inside. Hitt tried to take them,
bnt they whipped him aud took away
his pistol and threw him out of the car.
The three men ran out tho railroad
track. Hitt organized a posse, which
captured the men about a mile from La¬
grange. Ho brought them back and
pnt them in the Oldham county jail.
Corporal John Schneider of this city,
who went to Lagrange with the idea of
hearing of the fugitives there, identified
all three of the men.
The prisoners wall bo brought here
from Lagrange on the noon train and
placed iu the comity jail, from which
they escaped on last Wednesday night.
ASTOR TO WED.
It Is Said William Waldorf Will Marry
Lady RaudolpU Churchill,
New York, Dec. 27. —On good au¬
thority it is announced that an engage¬
ment of marriage has been made be¬
tween William Waldorf Astor and Lady
Randolph Churchill. It is said that the
wedding will in all probability celebrated be iu a
quiet affair, and will be
London next autumn.
A report that these eminent repre¬
sentatives of American society abroad
would come to this city to be married,
is denied by an intimate friend of the
the Astor family. This gentleman has given sain:
“William Waldorf Astor
np all idea of ever again making his
home in America. He dislikes this
country and has few ties to bring him
here.
“Of his reputed engagement with
Lady Churchill, I can only say that Mr.
Astor has kept his own counsel and if
he contemplates marriage he has told
no one. He admires Lady Churchill
very much, aud should they marry, it
would increase the London.” popularity of the
American colony in
DEATH OF A BISHOP.
Acgigius Jungcr Expires Suddenly of Dia¬
betes at Vancouver.
Portland, Or., Dec. 27.—Aegigins
Junger, D. D., bishop of Nisqually,
comprising the state of Washington
and part of Oregon, died at Vancouver,
Wash., of diabetes. His death was un¬
expected, though he had been in poor
health for some time.
He was 62 years of age, and was horn
near Aix-la-Chappelle, United iu Germany. in
He came to the States 1862
and was stationed at Walla Walla,
Wash., as a made missionary priest. of In
1864 he was pastor the ca¬
thedral of St. James, at Vancouver.
He was elevated to tho bishopric iu
1879, winch position he held until his
death.
In Conflict With Interstate Commerce Law
Washington, Dec. 27. — Chairman
Morrison of the interstate commerce
commission has sent to the senate a
copy of the articles of organization of
the Railroad Joint Traffic asssoeiation
and also a copy of a letter which the
commission has sent to the attorney
general. general the Iu commission the letter to ihe the attorney
say agree¬
ment is iu conflict with the interstate
commerce law and request him to di¬
rect tho United States district attorney
for the southern district of Nnv York
to institute proceedings by injunction
or otherwise to prevent its being carried
into effect.
Given Up as Lost,
Philadelphia, Dec. 27. —The schoon¬
er Edna M. Champion, which sailed
from this port on Oct. 12, for Port Tam¬
pa, Fla.', with a cargo of coal -and has
not since been heard from, has been
given up as lost by her owners. Cham¬
pion & Magee cf this city. The ship
had a crew consisting of Captain Frank
Somers and nine men. The vessel afid
pargo wore worth $45,000.
BULLOCH TIMES.
Statesboro, Bulloeli County. Georgia, Thursday, Jan. 2,189i‘.
PANIC IN A THEATER.
r^. ut; -S OV en Persons Lose Tl.elr I.ivee la
s Fire at Ualtiiuore.
Baltimore, Dec. 28.—Tho horror at
the Front street theater is increased
rather than diminished by the day’s de
velopiT.enis. The list of identified dead
has grown to 27, and two or three more
who desperately are lying injured m the city that hospitals their are
so names
may serve to swell the death roll ere
another night has passed. and friends of
Hundreds of relatives
the dead and injured have visited the
city hospitals anxiously inquiring for
their loved ones.
While the physicians wore adminis¬
tering to the injured, tho crowd at¬
tempted to get into tho hospital, bnt
patrolmen kept them hack.
Cause of the Catastrophe.
The United Oriental Opera aud Dra¬
matic company of Boston was billed to
present the Jewish opera, “Alexander,”
and the theater was filled with a motley
throng. About 2,500 persons were iu
the house.
A strong odor of gas was noticed in
the second gallery of the theater and
one of the attaches of the placo was
seen hunting for the leak with a light¬
ed torch. Suddenly a jet of flame flash¬
ed out as the torch came iucoutact with
the punctured gaspipe. heard in the
Cries of “fire” were up¬
per galleries, aud in an instant the ex¬
citement became intense. Some one
rushed to the gas meter aud turned off
the supply, plunging the main body of
the honge into dnskness. The stage
jets alone remained lighted, being fed
through another meter. excitement
Instead of allaying the from the
caused by the Sheet of flame
leaking pipe the turning off of the gas
and adafb consequent diu-kuess only served to
the confusion.
The audience arose eii masse aud made
a mad rush for the exits. The actors
ran down to the footlights and shouted,
“Sit down, there’s no danger,” bnt the
excited throng paid no heed to the ad¬
vice.
The gas was quickly turned on at the
meter and as the theater again became of
illuminated an indescribable scene
horror was presented. crazed by
Men, women aud children,
fear, were fighting and struggling iu
the aisles and oil the stairways iu their
efforts to reach the open air.
• The actors, oil the.stage and a few cool
headed auditors added to the turmoil by
shouting their commands to “sit down.”
Strong men in the rear of the panic
stricken mob climbed upon the should¬
ers of those in front, crushing the
weaker men, women and .little children
to the floor to be trampled to death by
those still further in the rear.
For several minutes the wild fight
continued. Then a few policemen forced
a passageway to the main entrance and
began dragging forth those who were
jammed in tho doors.
A rushing stream of humanity flowed
out on Front street until all those who
were able to move reached the open air.
A harry call for policemen had brought
a large squad to the theater by this
time, and a fire alarm had also been sent
in, bringing some engines on the scene.
The excitement iu the street was
almost as great as in the theater as rel¬
atives began searching for those from
whom they had become separated dur¬
ing the mad rush. Fathers and moth¬
ers rushed about looking for their chil¬
dren and a( tempted to re-enter the the¬
ater in their search for missing ones.
The crowd grow so great that the po¬
lice, fearing a riot, ordered the lire en¬
gine hose to be turned on and in that
way tile struggling mass was driven
back from tho theater entrance.
TOWBOAT RAN AGROUND.
One Man Killed, Another Serlomly Hurt
and the Channel Blockaded.
Pittsburg, Dec. 30. — The towboat
Harry Brown, while en route to the
south with a large fleet of coal, ran
aground at Glass House Riffle, Bruu
not’s island, at 4 a. m. The pilot at¬
tempted to back into deeper water to
release the fleet, when a heavy cable
parted, the ends striking Jonathan
Wood aud a deckhand known as
“Whitney.” The latter was instantly
killed and Wood was seriously, but not
fatally injured. contain¬
Two coallioats aud one barge
ing 60,000 bushels of coal are at the bot¬
tom of the river as a result of the acci¬
dent, and the channel is blockaded.
The sunken boats will be blown out
with dynamite by the government. The
loss will be very heavy.
JUSTICE BREWER NAMED.
One of the Men Who Will Investigate the
Venezuelan Boundary Line.
Washington, Dec. 30.—Justice Brew¬
er of the supreme court lias been ten¬
dered and has accepted a place on the
Venezuelan commission.
|Slevated Railway Trains Collide.
Chicago, Dec. 80. —A collision occur¬
red at the Lawndale avenue terminus
of the Metropolican Elevated railway,
Resulting iu the partial derailment of
less one of the trains and following injuring more or
seriously the John persons:
Joseph Ashire, motormau; Trus
dale, conductor; Otto Weiskopet, police
pffleer. ______
Rev. Cook Panel Through Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 30.—Rev. Joseph Cook
has reached this city on his way home
j;o Boston. Since his arrival in this
country from the Orient last week, and
his denial of tho exaggerated reports of
his illness, ho has been making his way
by easy stages over the continent. He
left for the east during the afternoon.
Thirty Drowned In a Colli.ion,
Algiers, Dec. 26. —The British steam¬
er Bellerophont has been iu collision
with and has sunk the French steamer
Emile-Heloise at the entrance of the
harbor. Thirty passengers of the Emile
Heloise, including 25 natives, were
drowned.
Three Killed In an Explosion,
Hazleton, Pa., Dec. 27.—By an ex¬
plosion of powder at Milnesville An¬
drew Lawrence, Bart Sormey aud Wil¬
liam Girard were instantly killed.
The Bond Bill Parsed.
Washington, Dec. *8. —The first sec¬
tion of the bond bill passed the house by
a vote of 169 to 186, and the second sec¬
tion passed without a division.
LIVES® liilGER
Wholesale Massacre of Chris¬
tians Momentarily Expected.
BRIGANDS PLUNDERING VILLAGES
A Letter Received From Turkey Telling
of the Recent Slaughter or Helpless Per
.on, and Reciting the Present Condition
of Aft-air*—An Attack on the American
Mission School Girls.
San Francisco, k 31.—A member
of the Armenian co jfflw * in this city has
received a letter in a friend in
Adana, telling of the latest massacre in
the province of Cilecia, The writer was
an eyewitness to many of the scenes
dAKPviliAn
The letter is dated Nov, 24.
“Tho present condition of our city,”
ho says, “is one of great danger. Whole¬
sale massacres of Christians are expected
at any time. A company of brigands, al¬
numbering from 1,000 to 1,500, has
ready plundered and burned all the Ar¬
menian villages between here and Alep¬
po, a distance of 200 miles. No
be given of tho number of youths and
who are captured in these villages
outraged.
Bloodttlli sty Marauders Encouraged.
“The local officers, who are supposed ,
to protect the people, encourage these
destructive and bloodflfirsty marauders,
The other day a number of these mu
renders made an attaok on Misis, nine
miles from Adana. They plundered > he
village, tore down the Churches, wound
ed a great number and mercilessly beat
the defenseless priest, who attempted
to rescue his wife SfMn the grasp of
these “Many outrageous of villswps. Eminent ’ are
our men
thrown into dungeons withoutthe pre
tense of an accusation against them,
Theyarelefi to hung#; and thirst, and
are tortured in the iqgst indescribable
manner imaginable. Mur vali (the gov
ernor) always instigates the Mussul
mans against the Christians.
Afraid to Leave TUch* Homes.
“No one dares venture out on the
street after 6 o’clock in the evening. fe¬
Even in the daytime church ao ClirisHaii' school,
male dares to attend or
because of the bands of Tnrks who are
about the streets to capture these Chris
tiau women, I t
“The other day the Turks made an
attack on the America* mission school
girls on tlieir way from church to their
sehoolhonse. Thev beat and wounded
the superintendent’s servant because he
tried to defend the poor, terror stricken
girls. The danger became so great that
the superintendent sought refuge iu
Mersine. It seems that (here is no-pro
tection from any some#whatever, even
tlio English consul being indifferent to
the atrocities commit toil.
Bu*iue.3 at a Standstill.
“Business is all* stopped, for the
Christian business men do not dare to
open tlieir store for fear of plunder.
The farmers are robbed of their stock
and tlieir homes are pillaged and fired.
“It is the season to sow, but there is
no seed, no cattle and will no be oxen to little plow,
consequently there In addition very all or
no crop next year. to
the adversities described, a groat fam¬
ine is expected.” close home for
This news comes to
Americans, for near Adana is located
the St. Paul's mission, under Superin¬
tendent Christie, and a corps of A meri
cau missionaries. These Christian
workers have had to fly to Morsinc aud
place themselves under the protection
of the American naval squadron repre¬
sented by the cruiser San Francisco aud
the gunboat Marblehead.
ONE HUNDRED KILLED.
Story of the Massacre at Marsovaa Told
by an Eyewitness.
*• r*- ">*■ The par,,,,, rf
Miss Frances G. Cage, principal of the
American Girls’High school at Marso
van, Tmtoy, iu Asia, and formerly a
teacher iu the public three schools letters at from St.
Paul, liavo received
her since the date of the massacre, Nov.
15. Writing under date of Nov. 23,
day, a massacre began m this city in
which about 100 were killed (perhaps
more, "but so many we know ) aud in the
Armenian qtuirter of the market afflont
800 shops with goods valued at 35,000
lire, were nfled.
“Monday we sent a later telegram to
Constantinople, which and we which asked to have
repeated to Boston we sup
pose will be published m the papers, and
we hope written to you. This said that
we are all safe under the protection of
the local government.
FIREDAMP EXPLODED.
Dee. »I.-A» WploMon «(
firedamp occurred in a colliery at Wal
deubnrg, Prussian Silesia, four miles
southwest of this city, iu which 30 per
sous are known to have been killed or
*%£££$£ tan
mine The work of recovering the
bodies of the others is progressing, and
everything possible is being done for the
STEAMER SUNK. *
The James G. Blaine Goes Down In Ten
Feet of Water—Passengers Rescued.
Masontown, Pa.. Dec. 81. —The
steamer James G. Blaine was sunk at
Hatfield’s landing, near Mason town, in
ten feet of water. She struck a snag in
leaving the landing. All the pnsseu
SSeTS^SfbSWeen‘^ttsb^mid korgautown, W. Va., the Mououga
on
hela river. She was valued at about
$15 000.
Corea’s King Fears Assassination.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 30.—A dispatch
to the <*Novoe Vremya from Vladivo
stock says that the situation of affaire
SS^andheTZtoat gassinateci, The dippteh acids that hi
a
maiesty is missionaries* guarded every night by the
American
CANADA WOULD BE LOYAL.
Would Stand b> the IIriU-4li Flag In
Case of War -A Caim.Lii’i TalTl.
Kansas City, Dec. 28.—Tho Journal
an interview with Hon. James
member of the Canadian
for Wellington, Out., who
is visiting Kansas City, on tho war
seare. He says:
“I regret to find the general feeling of
bitterness toward everything English in
tins country. There is no such feeling
toward America, for only tlu most
friendly feeling exists toward this eouu
try. Wo are two peoples, with a com
mou ancestry, why should we fight each
other? As tar as Cauada is concerned,
Diere is no feeling generally in favor of
annexation to tho United States. In
the event of trouble, Canada maybe
depeudod on as thoroughly loyal.
wCauada has no reason for -wanting
to be annexed. Wo enjoy all tho liber
ties of a self governing people; we con
tribute nothing only the to salary England’s revenues;
we pay of the governor
general, which is $50,000 per annum,
in return, of England’s wa get the all powerful pro
tection army and navy.
“We want to trade with yon; we
want reciprocity. The new tariff act
just passed by the lionso will, if it he
comes prisals a law, the undoubtedly shape of retaliatory provoke dn re
in
ties on logs. The bill restores the 00
lumber, per centum but KcKmley Canada will duty probably oil sawed
put
an export duty on logs,”
Mr. McMudon is of the opinion that
war between the two countries would
be disastrous to the mutual interests of
the two countries.
England, ho said, has investments in
this country tljat draw $500,000 interest
every day of the year. War would bo
a terrible thing for both parties, and it
is a mooted question which would suffer
the more.
“I believe the one result of the inei
dent will be the formation of a coalition
of British colonies throughout the
world.
“I do not look for war unless the Yen
ezueliius commit acts which will com
pel England to protect herself. Then
if this country carries out tho Monroe
doctrine as America interprets if, there
be the most stupendous and disus
trons war of modern times.
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ADVICES FROM ZE1TOUN.
Bombanled the llarmeks—Arme
liians Sentenced to Death.
Constantinople, Deo. _ 28. — Addi- , ,..
advices from Zeitonn have been
public here. It appears that tho
troops only bombarded the bar
... at that place, , these , buddings , , be
occupied by the Armenians. Tho
explosion of the shells set fire to the
barracks and obliged the combatants to
take refuge iu flight. The town of
Zeitonn is said to contain many thon
sands of Armenians who are at the
mercy of the troop3.
Tho dragomans of the embassies of
the powers have again made represent¬
to the porte, iu the efforts being
to save the lives of the Armenians
Zeitonn, and they have been inform¬
that the Turkish commanders have
which have been repeated to
not to molest the iioucombataiits,
or children of Zattonn.
The departure of the Russian Black
squadron from Sebastopol on Dec.
15 for an unknown destination is much
upon here, and has caused
lively speculation as to its ulti¬
mate destination.
Advices received here from Trebi
zondc say that 35 Armenians have been
tried by conrtmariial there, broke for taking in
part in the troubles which out
that city in October last and six of thorn
have been condemned to death.
Tho others of tho accused have been
exiled and 15 of the prisoners have been
sentenced to terms of penal servitude,
varying from five condemned years to imprisonment include
for life. The men
a priest, a lawyer, two merchants, a
CEREAL HARVEST SMALLER
Official Calculations Made and Reported
to the State Department.
Washington, Dec. 88.—Official , oaleu
bitions made hi Russia aud transmitted
Consul General Kaiel at fet. Petersbuig
show that the present year’s harvest of
cerea jg j n the whole world is much sinal
i er than last vear’s, mid in wheat, compared 150,467,- with
the decrease is,
000 bushels, and rye, 126,971,000 bash
e ^ g Other grains turned out better.
In Russia, the harvest was short 53,-
371,733 bushels of wheat, and 88,345,428
bushels of rye. The Russian financial
or „ a ,i therefore commends the holding policy
adopted by RnsSian dealers of
hack their grains to obtain better prices
later on.
The official estimates for next year
i™,S't'
bushels of wheat and 57,297,076 bushels
of rye. She will be able to export 131,
««•*» b f 1of whoat aud 59,529,342
P ns!ieis 01 ^
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JAPANESE PARLIAMENT.
Hj»ee«u ‘Sur'oJwL me war is “«J£T“ tmie.i,
Yokohama, Doc. 28.—The Japanese
parliament was opened with the
spreeb. Hi, ma*,* ,aid ho «
rejoiced at the end of the war witii
China, that older had Veen established
in the island of Formosa and that the
relations between Japan and foreign
powers were more intimate than form
erly. , , ,
£ b a d ‘ a 'long/'auT’ai-duous
‘“m,™*‘ would be introduced he
pa m couclnsiou, to increase the de
f theYmintrv ti ic (nuinry.
Weekir «u..k statement,
New York, Dec. 28.-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, $1,149,125;
100; circulation, decrease. - 5 , 400 . rhe
banks now hold $15,839,675 in excess of
the requirements of the *5 per cent rule,
No. U.
THE SOUTH’S TRADE.
lteview of the InUii-Lital anti UatlnM*
CoutUtiont Lir a Wee';.
Chattanooga, Dec. 2iJ.—The Trades
has received its repa ts of indus
and business conditions in all "tlio
states for the week ending
20. General business ia fairly ac
but dees«K>t settlements inerea e in affairs quantity at
tho usual ,.f
season engage intention. Recent
in the price i cotton attract
little attention. Planters have mar
enough of the or. p to realize
for their immediate needs, and
, holding hack the rest in tho belief.
w i,ich is quite general, that the price is
guro to advance again to asUigh a point
W aii reached in the early pa d of the
sca sou. Textile mills cm. timiote be ac
ufaeiured employed, goods and is steadily the output increasing, of maii
Orders There we plenty is change, and quotations in the coiul'i aye
tinu. no
tion of the plentiful, iron industry. bnt small Large oiies orders
are 110t , are nv
morons, and a good many orders re¬
earlier ip the season are not yet
filled. There are rumors of some irregu
huitv in prices for iron, which, how
ever ; are , 10 t confirmed. Coal miners
ar(! doing a very large business,
Low water in (ho Ohio river has pro
vented tho usually transportation from of much coal of
the coal brought caused the
reg i oM8 o£ that valley, and has a
increase in the demands made in
the southern mines, which are being
worked to their full capacity. Ihieos
drm ami steady, with an advancing
tendency. Lumber mills are running
on somewhat decreased time, but the
lumber operators are looking forward to
an early increase in the demand. whi«i
is not at present, mills equal to branch the full of the ea
parity of the in any
business.
Among tho new industries establish
ed or incorporated duriug the week itre
the Thomas Gin and Machine works,
Dallas, Tex., capital $20,000'; the Paul
Shean Sanitary Plumbing and Maun
facturing company, Galveston, Tex.,
capital $25,000, and the Consolidated
Water and Electric Light and 'Power
company, Sheffield, Ala,, capital $250,
OilO.
Tlu Ray-Mounts company; chartered - limited,
capital $30,000, has been to
manufacture woodenwaro at New Of
leans, La.; the Junction City Lnmlter
Company, capital Junction,, $34,000, Ark., has been and the in
Corponited Norfolk Electric at Light and Power
com¬
pany, capital $15,000, at Norfolk, Ya.
There are also reported electrical brickworks plant at
at Crowley, La., an
Henderson, Ky., ice factories at Char*
lotto, N. C., and new mines to be open¬
ed at Ashboro, N. C., and Piedmont.
W. Ya. A sewer company has been
chartered at Temple, Tex., an oil com¬
pany at Wheeling, W. Va., Asliville and cotton and
mills are to bo erected at
Bessemer Oityy in North Carolina:., ««d
at Colombia and Spartanburg in South'
Carolina. A knitting mill will lie mill built
at Charleston, S. C., a woolen at
Louisville, Ky., and a tobacco factory
at Pilot mountain, N. O.
Woodworking plants will be estab¬
lished at Adairsville, Ga., and at Har
riman and Middleton, Tenn.
Among the enlargements is an elec¬
trical plant at Alexandria, La., an icc
factory at Nashville, Tenn., iron works
at Fort Worth, Tex., textile plants at
King’s Mountain, N. C,, and Whitney,
S. C., and woodworking plants at Hat¬
tiesburg, Miss., and Pulaski, Tenn.
Tho new buildings include a $35,000
business block at Nashville, Tenn., a
$00,000 hotel at Weston, W. Va., and
school buildings at Jacksonville,
Fla.
THE WAR IN CUBA.
Tiling** Look Very lllnck For Spuniards,
According to n Letter tteceiveil.
New York, Doc. 31,—A letter dated
Dec. t!) has been received at the Cuban
revolutionary headquarters iu this city,
from the agent of the junta iu Santa
Clara. The'letter gave some important
details as to the number of killed and
wounded in recent actions in the island.
It said in part:
“By the file of papers received today
from Havana I see that not even one
half of what has taken place here is
published. From Maltiempo alone 02
wounded have been brought into the
jjf ormiffnnro 40 wounded were brought
i u yesterday and several more from
other “Wo places. communication with
have no
Havana, Cieufuegos, telegraph Magna arid other
cities, as the has been cut and
there are no mails. The only way to
get a letter through is by a special con
rior. Under these circumstances, you
may wall imagiue tho state of cxcite
meut in which we live. Things look
very black for the Spaniards.”
CHINAMEN SMUGGLED.
«*» »«««««. D “
treachery of an officer in the (us
tomhouse two carloads of Chinese from
the Atlanta exposition have slipped
through the fingers of a score of United
*g£ X&Z&SiiS&Si
before "V 1 ” W,"T daylight and were ,,lld s burned d <». m car- d, - v
ringes into the Chinese quarter. How
many there were in the party is not
“"Krill'S
ere( ^ f G information thaM04
v. ere coming- over land to this city, but
the agents of the Chinese claim that
only 43 were spirited into;the district.
In federal official circles the'OpiutjQB
^‘vails that over 100 Chinese es^pU
Arrested For a Fiendish Crime.
Chattanooga, Dec. 2<>. _ — William
Barl ° W ’ » white man 22 years of age,
cil! Sf d wl th ont f 1 ?'
IU ", httl ® L>u ' lua M ?- v „ Furdy, , a white
girt, aged 6 years, who is now m the
hospital, and is expected tTtCc^A to die at any
lynching a^Xry
is not improbable.
e, f. Hutchinson Seriously iu.
enui 0 f the Chicago wheat pit, is scii
onsly, if not criticr ^ ~
his son-in law# &
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DANGEROUS FthAANCIERING.
Free Coinage of Silver Would Bring Chaos
to the Commercial World.
If substantial advantages were certain
to attend the establishment of the silver
st udard .... 111 th,H country, . the , damage
«
inseparable from making the change
would deter all prudent men from a step
not unlike committing suicide as a
remedy for illness. A gradual . , financial . ,
change might possibly be effected with
out damme g ' hut a sudden and ana radical racn«u
'
change cannot he made without enor¬
mous harm. The free coinage of silver
would banish the gold standard almost
immediately, and the dollar would drop
in a few weeks, or at the most a few
months, to about one-half of its present
value. So sudden a change would bring
tho commercial world into a state of
chaos.
Yet that very change is sought as an
nuspeakablo blessing by the silver men,
to whom the commercial world is an ag¬
gregate of a multitude of debtors and a
small number of creditors. A reduction
of tho money unit would scale down
debts, nul according to these theorists
would afford debtors a happy release
and only injure a small number of men,
who would remain rich after the sums
due them had been cut in two.
Every reflecting business man knows
what a caricature such a picture is. Al¬
most all business is done on a greater or
less basis of credit, and very much of it
could not survive'anything more than a
momentary suspension of credit. Any
financial change, or even threat of it,
which would draw deposits from the
banks would deprive them of the ability
to extend credit and would bring no
small amount of business to an absolute
stop. It is only 2 years since we saw
this thing happen. But in addition to
this the certainty that the value of the
dollar u as to bo at once reduced one
half would dry up every streajn of credit
Who would lend $1,000 to he repaid in
a thousand half dollars? Who would
lend $1,000 on the gold standard to be
repaid iu $1,000 on the silver standard?
Wore such a change in the money unit
imminent there would be a hoarding of
money in every quarter, and loans would
only bo affected on suicidal terms, which
would protect the lender from loss by
tho change.
Were there snch advantages in the
silver standard as its devotees imagine
it js impossible for ns to reach it with¬
out causing a financial panic and a long
prostration of business beyond anything
we have ever experienced, because the
business of the moderr^world cannot be
done without assuming obligations for
the future. Credit is absolutely essen¬
tial, aud it is impossible without a con¬
spicuous degree of steadiness in
monetary unit, tho Common denomi¬
nator of values, the measure of deferred
payments. Changes in prices can be es¬
timated, though even these are some¬
times disastrous. A change in the value
of money from decade to decade, or even
from year to year, within narrow limits
can bo provided against, but a change
of one half or even one-fourtli in the
value of money within a few months,
or perhaps a few weeks, is more than
business can adapt itself to. It means
ruin.—Iron Age.
GOLD STANDARD STRENGTHENED.
Attacks by Sllverltcs Only Serve to Estab¬
lish It More Firmly.
The rabid attacks of the silverites on
our present honest standard of values
have had the effect of establishing more
firmly than ever the use of gold as the
single unit of value. Previous to the
recent free coinage agitation a great
many people who had given the money
question no attention believed in the
possibility of a double standard. And
ns a convenient way of escaping the
study of the question they talked vague¬
ly of “international bimetallism,” or
the adoption of silver as standard money
by all flie nations of the world.
The bold front assumed by the 18 to
1 advocates forced the issue of gold
versus a silver standard upon every citi¬
zen. The result has been that the ad¬
vantages of gold and the disadvantages
of silver are uow known everywhere.
To refute the' silverite arguments for
cheap dollars it was necessary to show
the superiority of gold. This was done
so thoroughly that there is no longer
any attempt to show that silver is the
better standard, and the only plea now
put forward by the free coinage leaders
is their appeal to the men who want 50
cent dollars with which to pay off their
debts.
Every attack on the gold standard,
whether drawn from the experience of
this or of other countries, has complete¬
ly failed. The great majority of the
people who previously held no decided
opinions on the question have become
convinced that gold is better than sil¬
ver, aud they will vote down next year
any parly or candidates who favor de¬
basing the currency. The boasted free
silver propaganda, which was started a
few years ago to convert the country,
has proved a great success. Bnt it is a
success exactly the opposite of what the
silver mine owners expected, for it has
made all those who were formerly in
doubt or indifferent stanch defenders
cf a sound currency based on gold.
Facing Both Ways.
When the Populist press is clamoring
for free silver, it claims that low priced
products are an injury to everybody bnt
the owners of gold, aud that the 16 toi
fiw q u< j] e would help the people by don
b ij ng the price of everything they buy.
Bnt when the sa T P a P ers P oa, e '» de *
UO unce trust? and monopolies, 1 they do;
so on the grcBB a that those combina
tion9 ^ capitol restrict trade ^ pnt
up pripea. Ttoa U» Co al trust ha, begi,
E>s"it raried the £rii of cL 50
cents per ton, Bnt free silver would,
make a ton of coal -met jnst double 1
what it is now. If higher prices in the;
interest of trusts is such a bad thing,
why would they not be *“*
the interests of the siltwc mm