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up,
Capes! Cloaks! The
Tore total
loss is about $30,000. Two negroes
were injured.
A Rate War.
Atlanta, Oct, 30.— A war has been
opened between the street railways and
the Southern to the exposition. Both
the electric and the steam roads started
off charging 10 cents. Then the electrie
cut to 5 cents for -school children. The
Southern cut to 5 cents fflb all children.
Next the electric lines carried all chil¬
dren free for a day. Now both systems
announce a S cent fare for every one on
Thursday. There is a prospect for even
cheaper fares.
Grain and Trade Congress Abandoned.
Atlanta, Oct. £6.—The South and
West Grain and Trade congress which
was called for Friday has b?en aban¬
doned. Daring the past week the ex¬
position officials have boen notified that
many delegates could not come and
for this reason the congress was aban¬
doned. This congress was called at
Mobile during last year at a meeting
of southern grain men who desired to
meet the grain men of the west.
Found Dcatl on Top of a Car.
Cabtebsville, Ga.,Oct. 29.—Robert L.
Smith of Buffalo, N. Y., supposed to be
a railway train man, was found dead on
top of the vestibule train here with his
skull and one shoulder fractured. He is
supposed to have been beating his way
to Atlanta. The remains are in charge
of a local undertaker.
The Deela Hecorrie.l.
Savannah, Oct. 26.—Deeds of trans¬
fer of the property of the Central
Savannah and Western railways to pur¬
chasers representing the reorganization
Committee have just been recorded in
various counties through which they
pass and in which the properties are
situated.
C >nvioU<] of Murder.
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 25.—A negro
by the name of Bally Tagau was con¬
victed here in the superior court for the
murder of Mr. Randolph Horn about
one year ago. The jury Mr. made Horn a recoat
msndation to mercy. was a
country storekeeper, and was shot down
at night while in his store.
Buffalo Bill's Opening.
Atlanta, Oct. 29. —The latest attrac
tion to the exposition is Buffalo Bill’s
wild west show,, which opened to a
larger attendance than the fi’ it day of
its phenomenal engagement at the
World’s Fair.
Regarded as Very Important.
Washington, Oct. 30. —The interstate
eommerce commission regards , the case
of the commission against Theodore F.
Brown of Pittsburg, advanced Monday
by the supreme court, as of vital
importance in the administration of the
interstate of commerce law, of especially large rail¬ in
view recent reports a
road has pooling agreement, and therefor*
requested ex-Senator the Edmunds attorney general special to
employ the The As has
attorney in case. request
been complied with.
yneen LH Heard From.
London, Oct. 30.— It is reported that
ax-Queen Liloukalaui has bought two
estates in Austria, iu which country ehe
expects to arrive in the autumn of 1896,
alter a loug stay in •
and D,,u! * s< “'
m- Oct. 20. —Mrs Zelda
1 han’apolis,
Wallace, through her attorneys,
has filed a suit against the Terre Haute
and Indianapolis Railroad company for
damages to the amount of $50,000. Mrs.
Wallace was a passenger on the Van
dalia train that was wrecked near
CoatesviUe on Jan. 29, last. Three
people she were has killed. suffered Mrs. Wallace avers
that concussion of the
spine; and that she will never be able
to recover the u;e of her body; that she
will have to give np her avocation, that
of an opera singer, which was worth
$10,000 a year.
Japan’s Topii!.'ion.
Washington, Oct. 26.—The popula¬
tion of Japan,, according to an estimate
sent to the department of state by Con¬
sul General Mclvor, is 45,000,000, al¬
lowing 3,000,000 for the newly acquir¬
ed territory of Formosa. Japan has
records of her population going back to
the year 610, when the number was 4,
988,812. This report also calls atten¬
tion to tho fact that in point of area,
Japan, since the Formosa acquisition,
takes rank next below Spain and stands
about even with Sweden.
The Weekly Hank Statement.
New York, Oct. 26—The weekly
statement of the associated banks
shows the following changes: Reserve,
increase, $1,309,525; loans, decrease,
$1,827,600; specie, increase, $1,299,800;
legal tenders, decrease, $309,000; de¬
posits, decre ise, $1,270,900; circulation,
decrease, $80,800. The banks now hold
$16,639,700 in excess of the require¬
A Wild Rush of Squatters.
Sibley, la, Oct. 26.—The recent
cision of the supreme court in the
of the Sioux City and St. Paul
company versus the United States
volving title to certain lands in
en, Dickinson, Plymouth and
bury counties, has caused a wild
of squatters from Sibley and Spirit
Lake to lands in Dickinson counties un¬
settled. ,
Tin Frwncli-Madug; isc »r Treaty.
Paris, Oct 26.—The treaty between
Fi ance and Madagascar has boen pub
lished. In brief the queen accepts the
protectorate of France, the latter repre
gents Madagascar in all foreign rela
tions, questions hands concerning of foreigners
will be in the the trench resi¬
dent genera! and the republic under,
takes to defend Madagascar against all
dangers,
Arr,*ted on Suspicion
Yokohama, Oot. £6 — According to
dispatches from native sources, General
Miura, the former Japinese minister
to Corea, jj'd other Japanese officials
who left Seoul under escort after the
murder of the queen, it bring su-pacted
that they were concerned in the trage
were arre sted upon their arrival at
Ujiui.
Sir*. East!* Dead.
Paris, Oet 26.—Mrs. Juntos B, Eus
tis, wife of United States Ambassador
Eustis, died suddenly at Rotoith, Ire¬
land of heart failure. She ha 1 been ilj
for only a few days. Mr. Enstis re¬
ceived the unexpected news at the em¬
bassy and he left immediately for the
deathbed. «
A moody ri,ht u-port.d.
Cettinjs, Montenegro, Oct. 26.—A
bloody fight b.-twe:u Mohammedans
aad Catholics has taken place at Scuta
ri. Aibauia. Many are killed on both
»toa»-
- jure. Alice Pierce of 1 aoo a"T,
street. She had known him through On
his buying cigars at her store.
cross examination, .she said Pietzel was
not a man of cheerful disposition.
O. La Forest Perry, assistant to the
president of the Fidelity Mutual Life
association, wns then called. This is
the company that was swindled out of
the $10,000 for which Pietzel’s life was
insured, and it was Perry who began
the investigation into identified the gigantic policy con¬
spiracy. He first the
issued in which Carrie E. Pietzel, the
widow, is the beneficiary. It is dated
Nov. 9, 1893.
DISCREDITED IN LONDON.
The Ili-port That China Ha* Granted No
Concessions to Itussia.
London, Oct. 81.— The newspapers
are not inclined to accept as correct the
official^ denial from the foreign office of
the accuracy of The Times and Globe
dispatches telling of the important con¬
cessions said to have been obtained by
Russia from China,
The Globe, relative to the foreign of¬
fice than statement, ambiguous says: official “Something disclaimer more Is
needed to make ns disbelieve the state¬
ments which not which only reach in us on good
authority, but are consonance
with the' known aim of Russian diplo¬
macy in the far east.”
The Westminster Gazette hints that
Japan and Russia understand one an¬
other and that Great Britain ought adding: to
prepare for startling has news, succeeded
"Russia is trying to, On or the side of Japan, in
squaring that Jttf>an. she is still allianoe free, it is
seeing improbable that there statesmen
not Tokfo would are
at who he ready to listen
and consider such proposals if Russians
approached discreetly for a Russo-Japa¬ it
nese secret treaty. What a Coup
would he 1”
Over £8,000,000 will be transferred to
the Japanese by the Bank Chinese of England in¬
as the first payment of the
demnity. It is thought probable will be used that
£8,000,000 of this amount
immediately to pay debts which have
been incurred for ships and balance war mate¬ will
rial. It is expected that payment the for
be wanted soon in more
ships and munitions, which are already
ordered.
It is not considered of likely the bank, that any bnt
gold will he taken ont
it is thought possible that some silver. gold
will be used for the purchase of
Horseless Vehicle Contest.
Chicago, Oct 31. — The contest of
horseless vehicles began on the Wash¬
ington park race course, where for three
days steam, carnages oil, propelled air will by undergo electricity, testa
gas or final of Satur¬
preparatory to the race
day. Over 100 vehicles have entered for
the final race and the applications show
that intense and widespread interest has
been excited in the contest,
Tbe Raisin Crop Short,
Fresno, Cal., Oct. 31.—The conclus¬
ion has been reached here from data
the gathered during the past few days that
raisin crop will be materially short
in comparison with last year’s output.
The shortage is variously estimated at
from 250 to 1,000 acres. forward Up from to Oct. 20
20 cars have gone this dis¬
trict, and shipments have practically
ceased since that date.
O’Dell to Retire.
Chicago, Oct. 81.—J. J. P. O’Dell,
president of the Union National bank of
S'lTwath ho wdl{ C retinf on'Van. fi'and
will probably take a long vacation in
Europe. He lias American just finished Bankers’ a term as
president of the ae>
the
by Can!1 ’jSTm>w controlled
t Cuba will soon
'Tiof five vessels un
from Brazil and
admits that an eff
hi float"ah issue of ’ $*,000,000 of Cuban
bonds.
WILL HAVE A HOME.'
tVcst Virginia Confederate Veteran* to Be
Cared For.
Morgantown, W. Va., Oct. 29.—The
different camps of confwlenite veterans
in the state are in receipt of a proposi¬
tion of the Stonewall camp of Charles¬
ton looking toward the purchase of a
$17,000 hotel, owned by the Kanawha
Boom company, to be used as a home
for destitute ex-confederate soldiers.
Because of the collapse of the boom the
building, it is said, can be now bought
for a lower figure.
West Virginia which is now the only south- home
era state has not provided a
for her ex-confederate soldiers, The
camps of the, state have for some time
been home, devising and it probable means to that build the such a
is propo¬
sition of the Stonewall camp will be ac¬
cepted.
A. K. Ward In Honduras.
Puerto Cortez, Oct. 28. — A. K.
Ward, alias A. W. Kenneth, the alleged
Memphis, Tenn., forger, arrived here on
the Royal Mail line stamper Wednesday Breakwater
from New Orleans, morn¬
ing, accompanied by his wife. A Pink¬
erton detective boarded the Breakwater
at Fort Livingston, Ward. Guatemala, and is
now Tegucigalpa shadowing The authorities
at have been notified, bnt
no reply has been received from them.
Eaten by Wild Huff*.
Versailles, O., Oct. 28.—William II
gen, nearly , it> years old, was found „ , dead , ,
In the woods by his children, surround
ed by ravenous wild hogs that were de
vouring the remain*. He had wandered
from stricken homo. with It is heart thought disease the old man
was and the
animals found the body.
St. Louis Wants the Convention.
St. Louis,O ct. 28.—The business men’s
league of this city appointed a commit¬
tee to canvass for a guarantee fund of
$80,000 to secure the Republican national
convention! St. Louis in 1896. Assur¬
ances of support- of were read from several
members tlio national committee.
Short In His Accounts.
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 28.— A. W.
Shaw, bookkeeper for Shafer & Braden,
merchants of this city, is missing, and
his books show him to he short in his
accounts $8,000 and $10,000. High liv¬
ing and hard drinking is said to be the
cause of his downfall.
Cnptin sail Crew Arrive.
Boston, Oct 24.—Captain GaskiU,
his wife and the crew of tha steamer
City of St. Augustine arrived here ou
the steamer City of Macon, having
been picked up by the latter after leav¬
ing the burniug St Augustine.
Fatally Cot HU Neighbor.
Flemingsbubg, Ky., Oct. 28.—Word
has been received here that Beck Ow
ens, a farmer of near Mt. Carmel, cut
and fatally The wounded John the Graves, result a
of neighbor. old quarrel. cutting was
an
Noted ri.toitt Demi.
Manchesteb, Oot. 85. — Charle*
Halle, tha noted pianist, is dead at the
'
•go of 77 rears. {, n jr
E3Jll of Josseraml, v iSH£; Tex., with #100,
company capital. The Central Peninsular
000 Muck capital,
Mining mid company,
000, has been chartered at Roanoke, Va.
An eloctrio lighting company is factory
at Lafayette, La., a fertilizer
Valdosta, Gn., flouring mills at Dan
ville, foundries Ky stud. , and machine Graysyille, shops at Va., 1 sihttlia, and
Fla., Greensboro, N. C„ mid Hunting
ton, W. Va. A large soap factory wood¬ is to
bo built at Louisville, Ky., and Mors
working plants Charlotte, at, Wayerors, Gn.,
P oint, Miss., N C., Ethridge,
Tenn., and Frost, Tex.
The enlargements for the week in¬
clude a $25,000 addition to a brewery at
Houston, Tex.; a $60,000 addition to a
cotton mill at Charlotte, N. C.; a tanne¬
ry at Sanford, Fla., and flouring mills
at Kliue, W.Va.
Among the new buildings are a $30,- Ky.,
000 bank building at Georgetown,
and one to cost $17,000 church at Newport Macon, Gn.; News,
Va.; a $12,000 at Gn.; a
$200,000 hotel building at Macon, Ky., ft
largo office building at Louisville, Portsmouth,
and a $22,000 warehouse at
Va.
DOLPH’S VIEWS.
lie Says the United .States Should Adhere
to fcli© Monroe Doctrine.
Portland, Or,, Oct.
J. N. Dolph, who was for several
a prominent member of the foreign rela¬
tions committee of tho United States
senate, in an address delivered at the
Channing elnb on the foroigh policy of
the United States, said of the Venezue¬
lan question:
“There are bnt two courses for the
United States to pursue, one of which
is to abandon the Monrce doctrine and
to no longer protest against domination European
aggression, mouarcliial on
this hemisphere, and submit to the hu.
miliatiou such a course would bring
up°n ns. The ether is to enforce our
P°W<T concerning affairs* on tins oouti
uent by protest, and, if necessary, by
intervention and the ultimate arbitra¬
tion of the sword.
“We should also extend to Cuba the
Monroe doctrine, and take the islaud
under the protection of the American
flag if necessary.”
The Washington Monument.
WaKKFI~LD, Va., Oct. 29.—Mr. W. J.
-Crawford of Buffalo, N. Y.,
for the erection of a monument to mark
the birthplace dedicatory of Washington at this
place, says the exercises will
probably be held in June. The monu¬
ment is"expected to be in position uext
February.
Hundred Thousand Dollar Embezzler.
San Francisco, Oct. 29.— A Tacoma
dispatch to The Chronicle says that cx
City Treasurer Boggs, who held office
from 1890 to 1894, is an embezzler to the
extent of $109,000, and that the sheriff
10 J‘^som-ille, Or., to
Died of Cancer.
New York, Oct. 29.—Edward Hart,
formerly one of the editorial writers of
the San Francisco Examiner,cis dead at
the Pasteur institute in this city. He
has been there for some mouths nuder
treatment for cancer.
Vail A leu Arrested,
Newport, R. I., Oct. 29. —James J.
Yuu Alen lias been arrested ou a writ
charging alienation of wife’s affections.
sworn out by Colouel S. P. Colt, and baa
given $20,000
-
? 5s3l!sS^ anybody tha
honest. If can prove But
holiest, I will be glad to be for it.
he must prove it by some better argu*
mmmtmss#S#Z
years ago, for even 1f that idiotic state
ment were true it would bo no reason
why yon and I should conspire to rob a
nmeh larger number of equally innocent
p eO p] 0 today.—George L. Douglusa in
ir..na(to Kansas City cj Star. f
lied Hiding Hood lip to Date.
"But, grandma, what long, stiff ears
you have got?”
“The better to hear what yon say, my
darling,” said tho wolf, and his eyes
glared greener than ever.
"What large green eyes you have got,
grandma 1” said little Red Riding Hood,
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so frightened she knew not what to
say. with,
“The better to see you my
child, ”• chuckled the wolf, showing his
ugly teeth.
"Grandma, what a large month, and,
oh, what big teeth you have got!”
“Ah, ah, ah, the better to tear yon to
pieces and eat you with, ’’ said the wolf,
throwing off his disguise.
The Song of Silver.
Osiris and Zeus and Odin, all gods of the land
and the sea,
And Pan, so beloved of the ancients, could not
"hold a candle” to me,
For I am acclaimed for vast worship in spite
of my plebeian birth, I
With tho scepter I lift for your homage pro¬
pose to encircle the earth.
Is not Mexico blessed by my banner, and
China my prophetess too?
Is there ever a luetjt) of white rupees held
back from tho heathen Hindoo?
Tho reason strong nations deride me and will
not come into my fold,
la hecnmfc tho cantankerous English ‘‘stuck’’
on tho value of gold.
I bate that pernicious intruder of yellow
Mongolian hue,
And “(ho deuce” 1 shall raise when my min¬
ions secure the joint standard of “two ."
We call it a scheme of great promise, for the
people delightfully planned. I
But you’ll notice when onco it is going it is
who will govern the land.
If tho public is anxious to prosper and revel
in dollars galore,
Unless it bo copper and iron, what metal can
multiply more?
It is true the bright leaves of October, if back¬
ed by the government’s ivord.
Might outdo men little—but that would (per¬
haps) bo a xriflo absurd.
I think my apostles have shown what a glo¬
rious queen I should bo
Had they not themselves taken a part in “the
crime cf tho year ’73.“‘
For if congress had sworn to my value and
clung to the cult that was old
I shouldu 't ho kicked now from contracts my
courtiers themselves write in gold.
Let my foes call me “it” if they wish to, like
things that inanimate he,
My lackeys know better and bow to the lus¬
trous, adorable “She.”
I’m not in their eyes merely neuter, a part of
the rocks and the ground,
I’m « 6) n.K yoa mustn't “aisbonor,” a queen
to he coddled and crowned.
-Joel Benton In Harper’. »tekly._
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tests of si hr see
made c<i the
i said thdy inten|
vice them and requested e ship’s the officers police foil author!-'
tie^ the’ to ground arrest them, that by which, going was ashore done the on
clusion Chip amen had violate the Chinese ex¬
act.
police. They Tire were United then sent States to jail by the
shal then took them from deputy jail and mar¬ be¬
fore tlio United States commissioner,
whore the they were charged Only with violating speak
exclusion act. one conld
English, and he showed a rock and allow¬ said
they were not and given their regular only this
ance of rico, were given
kind of salt (showing the rook) for sea¬
soning. the Gloucester He also said City. they They were beaten
on were re¬
turned to jail for violating the exclusion
act, but will bo turned over to the ship
when she is ready to sail.
WILL CELEBRATE. /
Tim Centennial Anniversary of the Foun¬
dation of the Presbyterian Church.
Washington, Oct. 81.—The centen¬
nial anniversary of the foundation of
the First Presbyterian church of Wash¬
ington and of the beginning of Presby¬
terianism in this city will be celebrated
during Nov. the week The First commencing Sunday.
17. Presbyterian is
what is known as the president’s church,
of which Rev. Byron Sunderland is pas¬
tor, and Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage and
Rev. Adels Allen co-pastors.
All persons who in former years have
been connected with the historic church,
either as communicant members or
members of the congregation, but now
not identified with it, are invited to at¬
tend the anniversary exercises, or to
send some communication addressed to
Mr. Theodore F. Sargent, one of the
elders, 322 E. street, Northeast, and also
to send to him their present postofflcO
address.
Killed by a Cable Car.
Chicago, Oct. 31.—G. W. Cole, presi
idont of the Bankers’ and Merchants’
association, was run over and fatally in¬
jured by a North Clark street cable car.'
Mr. Cole stepped into the street to take
a car and did not notice the one bearing
down on him from an opposite direc¬
tion. He failed to get on tho one ha
had intended to take, and was knocked
down by the other. He was dragged
under the wheels and his body was hor¬
ribly mangled. Mr. Cole was taken to
a time. hospital, where he died in very a short
Mtut Wait For Commissions.
Washington, Oct. 31.—As a result of
the recent examinations of enlisted men
and non-commissioned army officers,
who wore presented for pi emotion to the
commissioned grades, out of 21 candi¬
dates 14 were found fit for promotion.
As there are only vacancies in the lien
tenancies at present, all below No. 2 in
the examinations must wait for com¬
missions.
To Embark For Veneruela. <
New York, Oct. 31.—A special to The
Herald from Havana says: The oar
respondent here of an English newspa¬
per has jut received orders from his pa¬
per to embark at once for Venezuela,
m anticipation of the demonstration make
that Great Britain is expected to
at La Guayra to enforce the demands at
her ultimatum.
Receiver Burleigh’s Sailary.
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 81.—General
Hanford has fixed the salary of Receiv
w fits Burleigh of the North Pacific railway
« .t 600 a rear.