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VOT, VI. NO. 16.
r AN EFFORT AT EVICTION RESULTS
IN UTTER FAILURE.
STONES AND CLUBS FREELY USED
Miners Won the Bay and the Officers
Were Forced to Leave.
Women In the Fray.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The
efforts to evict the striking miners of
the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Com¬
pany at Orangeville, one and a half
( ■pwiles from Gastonville, resulted in a
riot Monday.
When the news was received that
the evictions were to bo attempted, tho
whole vicinity about Finleyville, Gas
tonville and Orangeville became wildly
excited.
About 7 o’clock Sunday night, dep¬
uties from Washington, Pa , in charge
of Deputy Joseph Hemphill, reached
Finleyville, where they were met by
a large crowd of strikers and their
friends. Each deputy was armed with
a Winchester rifle and a revolver, but
in spite of this the strikers, headed by
one hundred Polish women, closed in
on them, and the deputies received
rough treatment. They were grad¬
ually Gastonville, forced back aud finally retreated
to where they were fol¬
lowed by a crowd of about two hundred
men and women.
At 7 o’clock Monday morning the
trouble reached a climax when the
deputies sallied out from their besieged
quarters and started to march to
Orangeville. Each one carried his
Winchester in his hands and his re¬
volver was exposed, hut those had no
terrors for tho besiegors. Headed by
the same women the strikers rushed
on the deputies with stones, clubs and
pickhandlos and the blows fell thick
and fast.
One of the women wrested a rifle
from a deputy’s hands and struck him
on the head with it, inflicting a serious
injury.
By this time 1,000 men, women and
children had joined the crowd. They
came from Venetin, Snowden,Calamity
and Oonleyville. The deputies slowly
made their way to Orangeville, taking
all the above insults and injuries, but
never firing a shot. There they took
refuge in a vacant house, closely fol¬
lowed building by and a moli threatened who surrounded to burn it. the
Finally one of the strikers approach¬
ed the house with a flag of truce anil a
conference was held. The deputies
were ordered to leave town and after
a short parly, (locidod to do so. They
emerged from the house and walking
between the open ranks of strikers,
started for Gastonville.
Almost, every man in the posse was
cut, and bleeding, and several were
seriously hurt. One had his right
hand almost severed by a sharp stone.
As the defeated deputies ran tho
gauntlet they were greeted with hisses,
curses and ridicule. Tho strikers then
closed behind them aud marched them
to the station, where they took the train
for Washington.
After their departure the mob dis¬
persed and everything became quiet.
The officials of the company say no
further attempt will be made to evict
tho miners for the present.
* FACILITIES OF THE SOUTH
*
For Making Armor Plate Will Be Pre
aented to Committee.
General Manager A. M. Shook, of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Company; Congressman Gaines, of
Nashville; Congressman Enderwood,
of Alabama, and Congressman Living¬
ston, of Georgia, will _go before the
naval armory plate committee in a few
days to urge the examination of the
armor plate-making facilities of the
south.
Colonel Shook in an interview said
that his company stands ready to de¬
liver steel plate at an Atlantic seaboard
port at a less cost than can be done by
any company in the United States.
He also said the iron made by his
company was well adapted to making
armor plate, for Carnegie uses it as a
mixture in manufacturing plates.
Colonel Shook claimed that the ca¬
pacity of the blast furnaces at Bir¬
mingham, Ala., is more than sufficient
to supply all demands for plate.
( ANDREWS STANDS FIRM.
Y Insist, on the Acceptance of His Res¬
ignation.
It is unofficially announced that Dr.
Andrews .will insist upon the accept¬
ance of his resignation from the presi¬
dency of-Brown university.
This decision was arrived at after a
conference Monday afternoon between
Dr. Andrews and the advisory and the
executive committee of the corpora¬
tion. His connection with the Cos¬
mopolitan university, it is thought,
will take up too much time to permit
of his devoting his attention to both
universities.
His decision is in spite of a letter
received by him from the faculty Peg¬
ging him to remain.
SHOT-GUN QUARANTINE
May Be Oraaniied By Texan. Through
the Report, of Yellow Fever.
State Health Officer Swearingen,
s'a’ioned at Austin, Tex., has issued
an iron-clad quarantine against Ocean
Springs, Miss., and all other points
now affected or likely to be affected by
yellow fever. It will go into immedi
ate effect and last indefinitely. Reports
from the gulf coast are to the effect
tkat the inhabitants are badly fright
ened at the prospects of yellow fever,
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TWO GAS EXPLOSIONS
In Which Six Live. Are Lost and Twenty
Five People Seriously Hurt.
Two frightful explosions of natural
gas occurred in Broad Ripple, a sub¬
urb six miles north of Indiapolis, Sat¬
urday. Six persons were burned to
death and thirty people are lying in
tho homes of neighbors burned, scarred
and with broken bones. Four build¬
ings occupying a block of the town are
in ruins.
Of the six dead nothing but charred
and Idackene nones remain. Two of
the dead ar. fill unidentified, there
being no we f identification except
by listing t "/ho remain,
The bnsino part of the town took
fire and the largest buildings were de¬
stroyed. The city of Indianapolis
■was called on for help and sent engines
and doctors.
The first explosion occurred in a
drug store from an unknown cause.
Five men were working there and the
building was set on fire. Across the
street was the Odd Fellows’ hall, un¬
derneath which was a grocery store.
Seeing that the fire was sprealing,
twenty men were removing the stock
of groceries, when a crushing explo¬
sion occurred in the store. The walls
were blown out and the upper floor
fell in on the men.
The fire spread from the Odd Fel¬
lows’ hall and the drug store, leaving
ruins in every direction. Five build¬
ings were on fire at once, and were
doomed before help could bo attempt
ed.
BRYAN ON PROSPERITY.
Ho Says Politics Has Nothing To Bo With
the Bettor Times.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch prints
a letter from W. J. Bryan, the first
utterance after three months of travel
and observation during the return of
prosperity. Among other things he
says: because
“Wheat has risen the for¬
eign crop has been exceedingly short,
“The fact that silver and wheat
have parted company will cause no
dismay to those who understand that
the law of supply aud demand regu¬
lates the price of both.
“Nothing can better disclose tho
weakness of the republican position
than the joy manifested by tho repub¬
licans over events for which their ad¬
ministration and their polities are in
no wise responsible.
“If the republicans dosire to claim
credit for the high price of wheat they
must assume the responsibility for the
famine in India.
“A great rise in price should be fol¬
lowed by a rise of wages. ”
Mr. Bryan says that tho joy over
the increase of money from wheat is
evident that we have too little money;
that if the farmers are benefitted by
the rise in one of their prodnets, how
much better would it be if the rise
was universal; that the price of wheat
will fall when the foreign demand be¬
comes normal, aud that the present
spasmodic rise will aid rather than in¬
jure the cause of bimetallism.
BAD FOR LUETOERT.
Damaging Testimony Against Chicago
Stiu$ag:c Maker*
Saturday was a bad day for the de¬
fense in the Luet.gert murder trial at
Chicago, wherein Luetgert is charged
with the murder of liis wife.
The strongest evidence which has
yet been given against him was
brought out, and some of it was dam¬
aging.
The witness who gave the strongest
evidence against the sausage maker
was Mrs. Christian Feldt., a widow,
with whom the prosecution alleges
Luetgert was infatuated, and to whom
it is claimed he has written a number
of love letters since he has been con¬
fined in jail. Mrs. Fefdt said that on
various occasions Luetgert said to her
that he did not care for his wife, and
once said that he thought more of the
domestic in the house than of Mrs.
Luetgert.
He also said that lie had many quar¬
rels with his wife, and when Mrs.
Feldt asked him why he did not seoure
a divorce, he said that as soon as his
financial troubles wero over, he would
settle with her. He repeated this sev¬
eral times, aud called his wife a car¬
cass” aud other names.
Money May Siteeeed George.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
Governor McLanrin may not name
a successor to Senator George for
some weeks, but when he does it
seems sure that he will appoint Sena¬
tor-elect Money.
NOTED CRIMINAL CAUGHT.
O’Hara Enjoyed Six Years of Freedom
After Breaking Jail.
Eugene O’Hara, alias Joe Bates,
alias James Brown, forty-two years
old, burglar, highwayman and des¬
perado and probably murderer, xvho
cut his way ont of Jefferson Market
prison at New York six years ago, and
who has been hunted ever since, was
recaptured Sunday by detectives.
After his escape O’Hara, with an¬
other fugitive from justice, Joe Stran
ahan, made his way to Colon, from
which place they later proceeded to
Europe, where they committed a series
of housebreaks and other serious
crimes.
PIANO WORKS BURN.
Big Fire at McKeesport, Pennsylvania,
Causes Heavy Loss.
The mammoth manufacturing plant
j u Mendelssohn park, near Keesport,
Pa., containing the Mendelssohn Tiano
corks, Barekoff Organ works, Dickson
Wood works, was burned to the ground
Monday at an early hour, entailing a
i 0!! g 0 f $65,000.
jt is supposed that the building was
8e t 0 n fire. The organ factory, in
which the blaze started, was idle dnr
j n g the past two weeks pending the
settlement of litigation.
STATESBORO, GA., F PTEMBER 10,181)7.
ns til«i
BODIES RECOVERED IN A TERRI
BLY MUTILATED CONDITION.
CAUSED BY COAL DUST EXPLOSION
The Death List May Reach a Score—Res¬
cuing Parties Organised to
Search the Wreckage.
At 6 o’clock Friday evening a terri¬
ble explosion of coal dust occurred in
tho old Sunshine mine, owned by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
twelve miles from Glenwood, Col.
Latest advices state that twelve bod¬
ies have been recovered, and so great is
the excitement that it cannot be learned
whether there are any more in the
mine or not.
Rescuing parties were organized at
once and began an exploration of the
mine, while great crowds surround¬
ed the entrance.
The bodies taken out were in a hor¬
ribly mutilated condition.
Following is a list of names of those
killed, so far as known: Antoine Mar
taltono, George Dannon, Louis llaki,
Joe Martini, Joe Casa Graudi, John
Jenneni, Antoine Eppice, Theodore
Potosi, John Andriani, Emil Amlriani,
Francis McCloud.
FLORIDA’S PROPOSED CANAL.
Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed
In New York City.
A Now York dispatch states that ar¬
ticles have been filed with County
Clerk l’urroy for the incorporation of
the Florida Trans-Peninsular Ship Ca¬
nal Company. The chief incorpora¬
tors aro Robert M. Caffal, Freeman
H. Baldwin, II. Bolet Peraza, consul
general for tho Greater Republic of
Central America in this country; Thos.
F. Cromwell and Francis P. Fleming.
The capital is $75,000,000.
The projectors have in mind the
building of a ship canal and railway
to connect the Atlantic with the gulf.
Tho new canal will be of sufficient
capacity for the passage of ocean go¬
ing vessels. Consul General Peroza,
in speaking of the project, said:
“The new canal will be of great ad¬
vantage in defense of country in case
of an international war, as well as be¬
ing a great commercial benefit in oase
of peace. It will shorten the time for
vessels going to Texas or Mexico by
three days. Tho waters around the
southern coast of Florida are very
treacherous, owing to the numerous
currents. All this danger will be done
away with.
“We expect that 15,000,000 tons of
freight will pass through the canal
each year, and even light tolls on this
will make the enterprise pay. We
have applied for the charter, and will
probably get it next month, As 80011
as it is issued we will begin work.
“Mr. Caffal, our civil engineer, has
already surveyed the ground, and all
arrangements have been made to push
the work.”
The consul general further said that
the harbor of St. Augustine would be
the eastern entrance to the new canal.
The width of the waterway' will be 200
feet through its entire length, and it
will be deep enough to allow the largest
ship to pass through; It will proba¬
bly be about five years before the canal
is finished.
PEARLS IN ARKANSAS.
Rivers Lined With Peoplo Kngagea In
Hunting the Little Treasures.
A special from Relena states that
the pearl hunting industry, which has
been exciting tho whole country, is
spreading all over that end of the
state. The St. Francis river, from the
mouth of the river to Jeffersonville, is
lined with white people and negroes,
all engaged in unearthing and prying
open the richly laden mussel shells.
One mar. exhibited a small bottle of
them taken from Phillips bayou, a
tributary of the St. Francis. They
are darker than the ordinary pearls of
commerce, but are handsomer shaped
aud of good size. AH the chain of
lakes in the, hitherto impenetrable St.
Francis river bottoms are full of these
pearl-bearing mussels, and should
they prove to be valuable the whole
country will presently be engaged in
the business to the detriment of crop
gathering.
8TEAMER RUN INTO.
The '‘Gate City” Struck by Unknown Ves¬
sel and Her Starboard Stove In.
A New York dispatch says: The
Ocean Steamship Company’s steamer
Gate City was. run into at 2 o’clock
Friday morning off Egg Harbor light
by a large vessel, the identity of which
is not known.
The Gate City’s, starboard side was
stove in just above the waterline and
abaft the engine, a- large section of the
deckhouse also being broken. The
st tamer left Savannah for New York
on August 31st with twenty-one pas¬
sengers.
In the confusion following the col¬
lision the other craft drew off without
having been made out distinctly.
VEST MAKERS STRIKE.
Five Thousand of Them Demand An In
Crease of Wages.
At New York, Friday, vestmakers to
the number of 5,000 went on strike for
higher wages. The strikers are affili¬
ated w ith the Hebrew Trades and So¬
cialistic Labor Alliance of the city aud
vicinity. '
Half of the strikers are women.
The demand is for an advance of twen¬
ty to twenty-five per cent in wages.
TOR FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
Louisiana State Board Announce* Ap¬
pearance of Breaded Scourge.
The Louisiana state board of health
kept faith with its sister bodied of the
south and the rest of the country Mon¬
day afternoon when it made oflicial
announcement, as the result of a
careful autopsy, that Raoul Gelpi,
thirteen years old, had died of yellow
fover in New Orleans.
Gelpi was the son of prominent peo¬
ple and had been spending some time
at Ocean Springs, where he was taken
dow n with fever and from thence car¬
ried to his home in New Orleans.
Soon after arriving, despite the best
medical attention,he dieilj Dr.Theard,
the physician in charge, immediately
reported to the board of health aud
expressed the opinion that death was
due to yellow fever.
Monday afternoon an autopsy proved
that Dr. Tbcard’s idea of yellow fever
was correct. Steps were promptly
taken to prevent a possible spread of
the disease.
the As doctors this-case expressed w^t^ne confidence of importance, that
they would be able to check the spread
of the disease. ... «
The death of young Gelpi naturally
caused no little excitement in the city.
Physicians, however, expressed no ap¬
prehension and state their belief that
it was quite possible to arrest the
spread of the fever.
The board during the day had or¬
dered a rigid quarantine against, all
points on the gulf coast and had taken
every precaution to guard means of
communication against the entrance to
the city from any persons from Ocean
Springs, Biloxi or other places on the'
south, where it was thought the fever
might reach.
During the day the bulletin boards
had been thronged nbonf, the board of
health office besieged and the Western
Union wires freighted with messages
to and from the various coast resorts.
In the meantime, however, reassur¬
ing telegrams arrived from Ocean
Springs that the Mississippi board of
health had taken -every precaution
possible to circumscribe the limits of
the epidemic and prevent its commu¬
nication to the outside world.
“We have no fear,” said Dr. Whlmft
ley, acting president of the board of
health, “that the fever will spread in
New Orleans. The board of health is
prepared to spend a million dollars to
stamp it out and we see no reason to
feel alarmed. People ought not
get frightened. This one case was
takeh charge of in time and such
scientific fumigation has been applied
as to warrant the hope that we shall
promptly and eifectir'^^p.p laments out the
"We have made aph to
physician issue a circular Jo t'alueVpracticing
in New
ing him promptly to report to the board
of health every suspicions case of
fever.
“We have made arrangements to act
promptly in every case, and if, unfor¬
tunately, other cases of yellow fever
shall be brought to our attention, we
shall without delay notify the world
through the Associated Press of the
facts.”
THE JUDGES WILL ACT
And Convict Reform In Georgia Will Soon.
Be Under Way.
The private misdemeanor convict
camp in Georgia will soon be a thing
of the past. The news is corning in
from all parts of the state that the
opening of the fall terms of court has
marked a reform in the treatment of
misdemeanor convicts and that the
judges are active in seeing that their
orders to the court officers are no
longer violated.
The action of Governor Atkinson in
first calling attention to these evils by
making public the report of Special
Commissioner Byrd, and then forward¬
ing the information thus secured to
the superior and county court judges
and the solicitors general of the dis¬
tricts concerned, is rapidly bearing
fruit.
ALTGELD ADDRESSES LABOR MEN.
M-aorernor of Illinois Makes a Speech at
Washington Park.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of
Illinois, addressed an audience of
about one thousand people at Wash¬
ington park on the Delaware river
Monday afternoon. and
His subject was “Municipal
Government Ownership and Govern¬
ment by Injunction.”
The ex-governor was present through
an invitation from the United Labor
League of Philadelphia.
CHANGE IN MONEY ORDERS
Contemplated By the PostofHee Depart
ment Fojr Safety.
A Washington dispatch says: The
postoffice department intends to reor¬
ganize its money order system. The
two recent robberies of government
funds by postmasters has aroused the
department to the weakness of the sys¬
tem.
Hereafter all postofflees and sub¬
stations will be liable to inspection at
the most unexpected times. Every¬
thing must agree or the postmaster
xvill be taken into custody at once.
These examinations will be as unex¬
pected and as carefully made as those
of national banks.
SULTAN AND CZAR CONFER.
Report That a Mutual Arrangement. Has
Been Agreed Upon.
The Constantinople correspondent of
¥he London Standard says he is cred¬
ibly informed that the sultan has been
in direct communication with, the czar
and the correspondence has resulted in
the making of mutual arrangements by
which the sultan agrees never to nse
his influence against Russia in Central
Asia and the czar pledges himself to
unhold Turkish rights in Ear ope.
OFFICIALLY DECLARED TO HE RAG¬
ING AT OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS.
TEN FATALITIES HAVE OCCURRED.
People Hurrying Away and Rigid Quaran¬
tine Is Being KHtabli**ied
Against the Place.
The health officers of Alabama,
Louisiana and Mississippi—Drs. W.
H. Sanders, Of Mobile; S. B. Olli
phaiit, of New Orleans, and H. II.
Harrison, of Jackson—assisted by Mr.
Wisden, of the United States marine
hospital service, and a number of
medical experts from New Orleans,
pronounce as yellow fever an epidemic
which lias prevailed at Ocean Springs,
Miss., for the past six weeks.
The town has a population of about
2,000, which is augmented in the sum¬
mer by numerous visitors to the gulf
coast. It is said that over six hund¬
red enses of fever, from which, up to
last Sunday, ten deaths had resulted,
have occurred since the disease began
six weeks ago.
Among the deaths was that of Dr,
W. H. Remiss, of New Orleans, who
succumbed last Thursday after an ill¬
ness of two days.
Dr. Remiss went to Ocean Springs
to attend the sick, and it is declared
that the day he was stricken he sent
word home that the cases of illness he
had attended wore of a gravely sus¬
picions nature.
Dr. Bemiss’ death first attracted
outside attention to tho disease.
The medical experts mentioned above
arrived at Ocean Springs Sunday noon
and after careful post mortem examin¬
ations upon three subjects who died
Saturday, decided the sickness was
yellow fever.
Upon receipt of a telegram from Dr.
Sanders the board of health of Mobile,
Ala., convened and upon their recom¬
mendation the mayor declared a rigid
quarantine against Ocean Springs.
For the past two weeks there has
been a pretty general exodus from
Ocean Springs, caused by the goncral
nature of the epidemic and the ref¬
are quartered in nearly oYery
town and city along the coast.
PRIZES FDR -GEORGIANS.
>*■
Savannah Kiilnmen Win All Honors at
Sea Girt.
3The New Jersoy state and national
rfno associa'tiSii shoots at Sea Girt
came to a close Saturday with Georgia
marksmen winning everything in sight.
The principal matches of tho week,
the Wimbledon cup and tho presi¬
dent’s match, were shot during the
day.
The latter, the first stage of which
began at 11 o’clock, was for the mili¬
tary champoinship of the Uuited
States. The match was divided into
two stages, the first stage at 200 and
300 yards, ten Rhots at each, competi¬
tors to shoot with tho rifle adopted by
the state they represent.
In the shoot-off for the champion¬
ship, Private Battey, of Georgia, won,
scoring 48 points at the 500 yard and
49 points at the 600 yard target?, or
97 points in all.
The Wimbledon cup was won by
Lieutenant C. Wilson, of Georgia,
with a score of 125; Private George
Doyle, of the Seventh regiment, New
York, and Colonel George T. Gann, of
Georgia, tied for second, with a score
of 117. Cann won the enp last year.
Before the shoot wns resumed Sat¬
urday morning the Georgia team re¬
ceived the following telegram from
Governor Atkinson:
“The whole state Is ringing with praise of
Georgia team. Citizens wild with enthu¬
siasm.”
Telegrams from Atlauta and Savan¬
nah citizens were also transmitted.
COTTON'"burn ED.
Over a Thousand Hair* On a Lighter In
New York Destroyed.
Twelve hundred and eighty-nine
bales of compressed cotton, which ar¬
rived in Now York Sunday from the
south by the Morgan line and was to
have been shipped east by the City of
Fall River, were burned on Hje lighter
Mystic alongside the Fall River lino
pier on the North river front.
BUD FULLER INDICTED.
Grand Jury Order. Him Held *„rA..ault . „
I O JrI|lFfl#*F.
B,0 Fuller, the „™,r ,h„ i.
leged to have left his little paralyzed indicted
Add In the woods to die, was
by the Fulton county grand jury at
Atlanta, Monday, for assault with in
tent to murder.
Witnesses from the Jackson hotel
were examined to show Fuller carried
the child there and left with it a day
before it was found in the woods. The
manner in which the child was found
and its helpless condition wore also
brought ont, and there was no hesi¬
tancy about the action taken by the
grand jury.
BOILER EXPLODED.
Two Children Killed and Electric Light
Plant Demolished.
The Morton, III., electric light plant
owned by Byer Bros. & Co., valued at
$14,090, was completely demolished
by the bursting of the boiler from
some unknown cause Sunday evening.
Two girls, aged five and nine years,
were killed outright, and two boys,
aged four and twelve years, seriously
hnrt. They were the children of Mose
Byers.
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not to allow any of bis old .vtgia
friends to see him.
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The corner stone of the new court
house at Hawkinsville was laid with
impressive ceromonies, and in it was
placed a photograph of Jefferson Da
vis, a copy of The Federal Union, pub¬
lished at Miliedgeville, August 16,
1818; a $100 Confederate note and a
copy of The Hawkinsville Dispatch
ami News.
The bill of exceptions in the Flana¬
gan case has not yjt been tiled and
will not for same time, ns the attor
lieys for the defense have several
weeks before they will be hatred by
the statue of limitations. Judge Gbaud
lor bus already signified his intention
to sign it. It will be materially the
same as the motion for a new trial.
The superintendent of the mailing
department of the Atlanta postoffice
has filed his annual statement. It
shows a remarkable increase over tho
year before and says that the people of
Atlanta write no less than 50 millions
of letters every year. Jt is almost an
inconceivable number, but it is true,
and the report shows that tho business
done in the Atlanta postofllce is re¬
markable.
Tho tramp named London who was
arrested in Atlanta some days ago, un¬
der suspicion of being the man who
assaulted Miss Ileathooek and nearly
killed lief mother in Ringgold, was
carried there for identification. The
man was parried to the Ileathcoek
home and Jishered into the presence
of Mrs. Hmthcoek, who, after looking
at him, immediately announced that
ho was not the assailant.
The citizens of North Atlanta nre
determined to get a postoflico. In a
few days a petition will he presented
to the postoffice department asking
that an office be established on Peach¬
tree street, about half way between
the grounds. city The limits petition and the exposition
lias been ready
for some time, but there has been
some delay in selecting upoit a place for
^the office and in agreeing a post¬
master.
Tho latest report from the race for
scftto librarian -is, tho announcement
’that a dark horse has heel selected for
•the (mr place. From the home of Gover
Atkinson in Coweta comes the rn
j® that-lion. Hume
r.ferly state scfiafor lunrex-postmaster appointed
of Newnan, will be by the
governor at the expiration of the term
now held by Captain Milledge. Gov¬
ernor Atkinson and Mr. Brown are
the closest of friends and both have
for years supported the other in the
political field.
Dawson has secured a removal of
discrimination against her in freight
rates, and the railroads have met it ill
a way that will give them more reve¬
nue, with the result of high rates to
Albany. The railroad commission
heard the case and issued an order re¬
quiring the railroads to remove dis¬
crimination and submit the new rates
for approval. This will allow the rail¬
road to equalize on their own plan, so
long as they do not exceod the maxi¬
mum rate. Thus they will equalize
actually on higher average.
The weather bureau has highly eu
couraging crop reports from all over
the state. An a rule nil crops are in
excellent condition aiul tho yield of
cadi is large. With a good crop of
w heat saved and demanding exception¬
ally remunerative prices, and the
bright outlook of crops now in the
field, there seems to be a very decided
wave of prosperity sweeping over the
farmers of Georgia at present. Cotton
is growing well and is now being
picked in good condition, while a
large early corn crop has been saved,
and the late crop bida fair to return
even a greater yield.
The tax rate for Floyd county lias
been raised from $1 to $1.25 per $100
by the county board of commissioners.
It was found necessary to increase the
rate of taxation on account of the in¬
crease of business in the courts. The
unusually large number of felony
cases with their unprecedented hosts
of witnesses have cost the county
thou8ftadg of ,l 0 Hars. Notwithstand
« it 1 *i 11 i .
sion#r8 aro compe ii e<1 to rajso the rate
on ^ reillt j per80na i property 25
Bridges, for embezzlement,
flnd Echol8> for In „ r(ler> entailed an
expense U, little less than $8,000 upon
* , lo * a conut . *’
Colonel Phil G. Bjn-d’s supplemental
report on the condition of the private
misdemeanor convict camps in the
state was completed and filed at the
office of Governor Atkinson last Sat¬
urday. The governor has written a
letter to each of the judges in whose
circuits the law has been violated by
hiring out misdemeanor convicts to
private parties. Sixteen of the 23
superior court circuits are in this con¬
dition, and only seven are within the
law. Seventy of the 137 counties are
included in these circuits, and the
governor will send a similar letter to
the judges of the city and county
courts, where there are such tribunals
in these counties. In addition to this
he is sending copies of these letters to
the solicitors general in each circuit.
BY 1S
the .. above , .fe-tflj/.,.
F0R REACHING KL0N>
'
’ DIKE THIS FALL IS GLOOMY.
A NEW ELDORADO DISCO/eRED;'
Ontario ConMW Into Prominence as^ Pot**
oible Rival of Alaska »» »
Gold Producer.
Advices from Vancouver, B. O.y
State that the steamer Capitano, Cap¬
tain Powers, returned (Sunday morn
ing from Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay.
She brought down one miner from'
j uneau w i 10 i s disgusted with the out
look for getting into the gold flelda
this fall. Her cattle and horses were
landed ssfely, but American custom
officials charged a duty of $80 on each
horse. On the way down the captain
spoke the steamer Bristol anil the
stern wheeler Eugene, which left Vic¬
toria last week at Alert hay.
The Capitano brings no advices
of importance from the north. The
crush at Dyea and Skaguay is as great
ns ever, aud many disheartened peo¬
ple are daily turning back.
A New Klondike Foilml.
A special dispatch was received
Monday by The Detroit Evening News
from Wawa City, the newly laid out
town in the Michieopocotcn font’ gold cotln
try on Lako Wawa, The embryo
town is i situated in 4m narrow pass,
which leads to J.ttL Wawa from the
landing places ufti the*’V^mre miles of Lake from
the Superior, gold disco’■bries. whiclpis but The six News’ staff
correspomlcntlvrites: Jfolil develop¬
“As to the discoveries
ing into anything like the indications
given, it can ll,. said that quartz has
been found tliL nit assays over $80 a ton.
It is found in one section, but in
different eral thonsainlIacres„ {<SKfes, extending Quartz user lro been
found here Iiontaining frc- gold in
chunks as bjRr' as kernels of wheat,
gold in its pJLro form, tb wb'h chemical does not
have to be frl-e ■subjected fctwjphe rock. a
process to \rs it
“Prospg*-‘ ever day are finding
specimen' • $50 a ton. Prob
ablyjma ; /rs nre today work
ing m the Ti i'ftll." Another party of 25 . •
reached here yesterday afternoon.
jbeen (Several thousand acres have already
claimed, lint there are all kinds
4>f dilutes about priority claims, and
juobtsty^oan tell wlpi will get a patent
{from the government.
“The country where the r ■'Recoveries
* KammeJate
*
are Indians and Hudson bay traders,
.and they are few.”
FRENCH CABLE CAUSES KICK.
May he Out Off at Capo Coll by Government
Authority.
Officials of the state department at
Washington and of the attorney gen¬
eral’s office have been conferring re¬
cently relative to the French cable
which lands at Cape Cod.
The cable was first laid under au¬
thority giveu by the president through
Secretary Evarts iu 1879, and recently
the French company has been replac¬
ing this line w ith a new copper-cabtq.
This met with opposition, and Senator
Frye introduced a bill to prevent the
lauding of cables without the assent of
eongress, while Senator Nelson after¬
wards offered another bill leaving the
question with the president. Neither
bill passed congress. work the
Through the summer on
cable has progressed steadily, and in¬
formation received at Washington 1 in¬
dicates that the last link in thejine
will be completed in mid-ocean in
,
about ten days. the state de¬
The question before
partment and the attorney general has
been as to the right to land the cable
of a foreign company.
BRYAN TO WORKINGMEN.
He Review* ami A(l«lr«$$e* an I ram CM#
Throng at St, Lotii*.
A feature of Labor Day celebration,
in St. Louis was an address of Hon.
W. J. Bryan, at Concordia park. The
biggest crowd ever seen in the park
greeted the speaker. His speech
throughout was enthusiastically ap¬
plauded. Previous to the meeting Mr.
Bryan reviewed a parade of 15,000
laboring men.
REID MURDER TRIAL REGUN.
■
Befendent Is Charged With the Killing of
Halstead, In Macon.
,
The ease of the state of Georgia
against Charles Reid, charged with
the killing of L. W. Halstead in a cir¬
cus tent in Macon, was taken up in the
Bibb county snperior court Monday
before Judge Felton.
Mrs. Reid and Robert Dennington
will be tried on saperate counts after
the case of Charles Reid'is disposed
of. They are charged under the in¬
dictment with .being accessories be¬
fore the fact.
No case of late years has attracted
more attention. Both sides announced
ready when the case was called.
IRELAND’S C ROP SHORT.
In Conaecjiience Tlicre Is a Prospect of
Much Suffering.
Advices state that the failure of the
potato, hay aud corn crops in most of
the districts of Ireland has resulted in
the gloomiest outlook for the winter.
The chairman of the Michael’s town
board of guardians at a meeting held
by that body declared Ireland is on
the verge of a great agricultural crisis,
and that numbers of rsto payers will
be compelled to go to the workhouse.