he conyers weekly
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fffll PROGRESS,
;
nV oy ^msix south. VAnlov * \
loysor the ; t
Mktr Inter
*“ a K»ilro*‘ l, E,<% j
ii* N( „ >
will be Hirilt at La- j
f sftor .'
.
will build an $8,000 i
^svilk }Siae8 Fla. is to
pick l . la udle factory ' ;
‘' '““u^gprings. nil others will build a j
Ark.
" owning man
0> *Se?HillfGa. . build i
“IwMsrvville heen formed to a ;
Tenn.
# i'* cotton compress j
■Sookhaven, mit 111 " Miss \
las been formet to ° build ‘ i
(i at Selma, Ala.
factory will start
and others a
keoson at, Wilmington, N.
(ter factory
companvhas been formed to
nee ■ "mill at New Orleans,
rge
, |
P *ndJ. W H. Copetauu Poiel niul'alAt » a rsb a 11
resbyterians oi • c Sweetwa , , ei,
II build a church to cost $9,- ;
[as legislature has appropriated Austin,
build an asylum at
,
L [street bank building will be erected
at Anniston Ala., by D.
iDtine.
bits will build a fine church at
L f 1 , J. M. Daly can give par
Henson. uf Chattanooga, it is
will build a furniture factory at
Tenn.
Bentz will erect a stamp mill
in£ machinery at Bear Ark , at
$10,000.
uk A Pacific Railroad Co. will
wild house aud repair shops at
tin, La.
& Co. are erecting brick works
anooga, Tenn., and have pur
udffltery.
tistt,La., Land Improvement
ten organized with a capital
tuci, of Charleston, anil e thers,
lie starting a canning factory at
teant, S. C.
sigh Street Railway Co. will,
build a short street car line at
City, N. C.
■Avery ft A Sons are building a
addition to their large plow
■ Louisville, Ky.
fen manufacturing company, of
11., j have decided to move their
Little Rock Ark.
ICOO company has been organized
[Worth pring Texas wheels, to erect works for
car
plights lanufacturing of Labor Co, has Co-operative been incor
| at Covington, Ky.
Georgia Iron and North Carolina Man
and Marble Co. has been in
ted at Nashville, Tenn.
Little Rock & Ft, Smith Railroad
to be extended from Van Buren,
iFort Gibson, Ind., T.
ktuSina Iron Co., of Pittsburgh,
"Engs erecting machinery to develop
Fork Mountain, N. C.
i Shoals, S. C., Manufactur
care for purchased considerable new
®r? their cotton factory.
Fort Negley M. E. Church, at
ij w°ga, Tenn,, will erect a new
at a cost of about $20,000.
Deeatur Ala., Land, Furnace &
11 of Co., are negotiating for the
Central a rolling mill at that pi ace.
Railroad & Banking Co.
wt another cotton compress at
bus, Ga.. to coat about $65,000.
loos Bros, and others have pur-
160 acres of marble lands 8 miles
lexas, and will open quar_
F»apa Hotel Co., capital stock
"■ Has been organized to build
* Tampa Fl a
a . to cost about $150,
Nany lias incorporated at Greens
[ t'iI ma nuf »cture and sell to
lhw *
L Paid-up . capital stock is
f'berokee Iron Co., of Cedartown,
11 jest,president,will furnace, with build an ad
sib. a capacity of 100
!PisnT.» U Davis aud brothers
tev aS ’ haTe 0I- ganized » stock
P'i I* ereCt lei' factory
* P ow, at
®»*»ss<* Railroad ! !
build — Go. has been
, a railroad from Chat- I
fin?. t0 th « North Carolina
£>0,000 organized with a
daj—. i “ to establish a
E'iK * nd creamer y oear Bir
■ ^
of Lynchburg, Va.,
■wit* l f^V h f Te organized a com
!» st °ck of $500,000 to
■ksstoa * Dd cord *ge factory
H «* tin g aud Rlum
T *»t ^ -"bartered at Nash
^ mBchlne » to light
CONYERS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887.
The Iberia Opera House Co, capital
stock $20,000, has been organized at
New Iberia, La., and will soon begin er
ecting an opera house.
The Brazoria Land & Cattle Co , of St.
Louis, abattoir Mo., are arranging to establish a
large on Dickinson Bayou, 16
miles from Galveston Texas.
The Palatka & Northwestern Railway
q 0 ., has been formed to build a railroad
from Palatka Fla., to a point in Gadsden
county, with several branches.
is reported that the development the Pepper Mining
Co. will resume of llieir
mica mines in Stokes county and open
coal mines near Stokesburg, N. C.
The Portsmouth, Va., water works
have been purchased by Charles D. Ward,
of Jersey City, N, J., for $81,150, who
will complete the building of the works.
It is reported that the Notasulga Gran
Ue Co., capital stock $500,000, will be
organized by Birmingham parties to de¬
velo P granite quarries at Nostasulga. Ala.
The Fort Worth Texas Machine &
Boiler Works will build new works at a
cost of about $100,000. Plans have been
prepared and work will shortly begin.
The Lttele Rock Automatic Refrigera¬
ting Co., capital stock $75,000, has been
organized at Little Rock, Ark., by Logan
H. Roots and others.
The Little Rock & Texas Railroad Co.,
capital stock $5,000,000, has been incor
porated at Little Rock, Ark., to build a
ra j] roa( j f rom Little Rock to Hackett
cif .
N. K. Mead and associates of Cincin¬
nati, O., have organized a $50,000 stock
company to build a saw and planing mill
and a sash, door and blind factory at De¬
catur Ala.
Chattanooga, Tenn., will decide by
popular vote on April 21 whether or not
to issue the $500,000 of authorized bonds for public the
improvements recently by
State legislature.
The Athens Mining <6 Manufacturing
Co., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized at of Athens, land and Term., and secured spend
1,000 acres proposes to
$500,000 in building three large cotton
mills, a large woolen mill, water works,
a $40^0 hotel, aud a $10,000 school
building.
Messrs. Alfred Tyler and and Samuel others have No¬
ble, of Anniston, Ala.,
purchased the entire property of the Ca
haba Coal Mining Co., for about $1,000,
000, and, in addition, 15,000 acres of
coal and iron lands, They will spend
about $1,000,000 in developing the prop¬
erties, will opening be built new mines, supply etc. the 500 coke
ovens to two new
furnaces at Anniston with coke.
THE TEXAN DROUTH.
The Fearful Drouth Continue* with Little
Prospect ot Rain.
The drouth now extends from the far
western grazing lands across the state for
a distance of 800 miles, to the pine re¬
gions bordering ou Louisiana, but de¬
creases in severity as it approaches the
pineries, from which section complaints rains
are of recent date. The general
which usually set in at the full of the
moon, are wanting, and the cool, dry
winds of the past fortnight continue to
prevail except in the district immediately
west and southwest of San Antonio, em¬
bracing Medina, Bandera, Uvalde, Frio
and Itascosa counties, where moderate
rains dispatches fell yesterday, but not vicinity. enough, This say
the from that
is one of the grazing sections of the state,
where stock was dying.
Between San Antonio and the coast,
embracing such fertile counties as Guad
aloupe, Gonzales, Lavace, Colorado,
Caldwell, Bastrop and a dozen others,
the drouth has assumed a serious aspect,
putting an embargo upon all agricultural chief
development, especially cotton, the
product of this section. One correspond¬
ent describes roadways throughout this
belt as covered to a depth of several barren
inches with dust. The fields are
even of weeds, while strings of cattle al¬
most too poor to stand up, are traveling
constantly in search of grass and water.
In Central Texas, embracing about
thirty counties surrounding Waco, Corsi¬
cana and Burnet, the situation is scarcely
less promising, all reports agreeing that
nothing but very early and plentiful rains
will avert serious damage or failure of
the crops.
In northern and northwestern Texas
the drouth is not as severely felt as in the
other sections, but complaints are increas¬
ing daily. A slight sprinkle of rain fell
during the week in Mitchell county, along road,
the line of the Texas and Pacific
but no report of rainfall in the Pan Han¬
dle district has been received. One result
of the drouth is the notable scarcity of
early vegetables at the principal becoming points.
Anxiety over the situation is
greater every day. The wholesale houses
are calling their drummers off the road,
as the country merchants refuse to buy
during the uncertainty of the crop out
look.
A TEXAS BATTUE.
A special from San Augustine, in East
Texaa, near the Louisiana line, says a
terrible fight occurred Friday morning Sabine
ten miles below Captain Hemphill, Scott in and hig
county, between
little company of state rangers on one
aide and old Willis Connor and his sons
on the other. Three of the Connor fam¬
ily and one ranger were instantly killed,
and Captain Scott and another of his
men were badly, if not fatally, wounded.
One of the Connor boys escaped, but the
rangers are in hot pursuit. The Connors
brought on the fight by firing from hunt¬ am
buah upon the rangers* who were
ing timber thieves. A doctor has been
sent for by the rangers to attend the
wounded.
A NOTED ACTOR DEAD.
Jehu T. Raymond llies in Evansville, 1*4,—
Fils Wile Prostrated,
the Evansville, Ind.— John T. Raymond,
celebrated actor, died here at a
quarter rived to one Sunday morning. He ar¬
here from the south Friday after
der, noon, quite ill from an intestinal disor
About complicated midnight with heart disease.
menced failing Saturday night he com
conscious. rapidly, and became un
He was attended by the mem
bers of his company, who were grief
stricken over the sad occurrence. Mr.
Raymoud’s familv " live in New York and
are not here.
John T. Raymond was billed to appear
at the opera house here last Friday from
Hopkinsville, Ky., where he appeared on
Thursday night. The previous night he
appeared in Nashville, Tenn. Although
uot at all well, suffering from a severe
cold, he kept up, and it was not until 4
o'clock in the afternoon of Friday that*
lie consented at the urgent request of
physicians here, not to appear that night,
He was in bed from that time until the
time of his death. Friday afternoon he
days. slept a little for the first time in several
Drs. Caudel and Herr, who wait
ed upon him, say that lie was in a dying
condition when he arrived here. The
immediate cause of his death was heart
disease, complicated with severe cold,
nervous prostration and congestion of
the stomach and bowels.
A dispatch from a friend of Mrs. Ray
niond, in New York, t o Mr. Walter J.
Lamb, Mr. Raymond’s manager, stated
that lbs. Raymond was so prostrated she by
the news of her husband’s death that
was unable to give any directions, so it
was decided to take the remains to New
York.
AUGUST SPIES DISAPPOINTED.
He Fail* to Elicit the Support of the Tnr
ncr’s Association.
Chicago HI.,—A bitter set back was
given to the friends of August Spies,
who have been endeavoring to enlist the
moral support of the Turners here for him,
and his condemned friends, but the anar¬
chist sympathizers refuse to acknowledge
themselves defeated, and declare that
they will carry their efforts before the
highest authority in the order, and make
the issue a national one among the Tur¬
ners. Spies was a Turner and a promi¬
nent one before his incarceration. After
the death sentence was pronounced friend
against him and his companions, and a the
of Spies, Chairman John Gloy
members of the Turners’ executive board
of this district, issued a circular to all
the subordinate Turning societies in this
vicinity, requesting them to notify the
board whether they favored the adoption
of a resolution declaring the verdict
against the anarchists to be unjust, and
asking for a new trial. The result was a
storm of protests against the action of the
board. To-day the district convention
of the Turners was held for the purpose
of deciding upon the question of executive impeach¬
ing and depositing the district
board, aud especially John Gloy, chair¬
man, for over-stepping their authority
and disgracing their office. Seventy-seven
delegates were present, including society repre¬
sentatives from every I urner
within a radius of fifty miles resolution of Chicago.
After a stormy discussion, a to
depose the executive board was carried
by a vote of 42 to 35.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Ik> Frightful Dentil of Twn RaUrwtAMra
In Tnnnennen.
A special to Atlanta Constitution says:
The details of a most terrible wreck on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad, has
which occurred late Friday night,
just been learned. Two freights station came
in collision near Pocahontas, a
near Corinth, owing to a misunderstand¬
ing of orders by Engineer Kohl, of the
east bound freight. His orders were to
pass the west bound freight at Winne
soga, but not finding the train there he
concluded to make Pocahontas, and set
off at a wild speed to make that station.
He had not gone over one mile when he
encountered the Westbound freight, and
a frightful wreck was the consequence.
On Engineer Kohl’s train was a car
loaded with turpentine, and when the
cars came together the turpentine was
ignited, and the accident having occur¬
red in a remote spot from water, the en¬
tire train was consumed. After the fire
had burned out search was made for the
unfortunate Kohl and his fireman, and
the charred remains of Kohl, almost en¬
tirely burned to ashes, were found in the
debris of the engine, and not a vestige of
the fireman could be found, his body
having been entirely consumed. No
other trainmen were hurt. The wreck
was dared and the trains went through
Sunday.
.4 UrUTAI, MURDER
Hopkinsville, Ky.,—A railroad con¬
tractor from Cerulean boarding Springs reports house a
horrible murder at a on
the Indiana, Alabama and Texas railway,
about a mile distant from the Tompkins, springs.
Two laborers, Purdy and
roomed cries together upstairs. help and loud One noises night
recently for
were heard iu the room. Persons enter
ing found Tompkins alone. He talked
wildly and said somebody tried to cut
his throat. An examination showed only
some trifling scratches, and further
search showed Purdy covered up in his
bed with his skull beaten in. Tompkins
could give no coherent account, and de
nied all knowledge of the deed. Purdy
was known to have a large sum of money
in cash and postal order*. Suspicion
was directed to Tompkins, who was
searched and the money found on his
nerson He was placed under arrest. A
large number of railroad laborers prevented gatk
ered. and with difficulty were
froni lynching him.
FIVE HEN HANGED.
A WHOLESALE LYNCHING. IN
TORKVILLE, S. C.
* M«l> Takes from the Jail Five Men Ae
*«ued of Murder aud Han« them
a to Tee *'
Most eyery body is . more or less famil
. the story of the brutal murder
lar
on the 30th of last November of little
Johnnie Lee Good, near Yorkviile 8. C ,
and the subsequent arrests made and con
This developed, horrible murder had fatal
most a
termination on last Tuesday in the lynch
the prisoners arrested as
prinfiipals and accomplices, The story
Gi® lynching is told fully in the fol
lowing special from Yorkviile: In per
Te c t. security Yorkviile retired Monday
little expecting to awake up next
morning and find five dead bodies dang
ling fromthelimbs oftrees,aimostwith- The chose
in the corporate limits. men
f° r tile time of their work the early
morning, and at half past four, the sher
iff, who is also jailer, was awakened by a
noise at the door. He rushed up to the
crowd in his night dress and on refusing
to surrender the keys, his visitors pro
ceeded to the third floor and commenced
on the same door that had partly yielded
to similar treatment only a few weeks
before.
The sheriff _ was powerless to offer re
sistance _ and endeavored to attract atten
tion to the jail by the rapid This and had succes- the
s ive firing of his gun.
effect to bring to the scene a few persons,
but by the time they arrived the lynch
ing party had gained entrance, secured
the men they wanted and left. The
wooden door, before alluded to, was
opened by cutting out the large plate
lock with an ax. The padlocks securing
the doors subsequently were broken, but
these were replaced by new ones and the
cells were left comparatively safely
locked.
Five prisoners were wanted, it seems,
instead of six, as on one former occasion,
and those taken were Giles Good, Bailey
Dowdle, Prindley Thomson, Dan Rob¬
erts, and Mose Lipscomb. Their identity
was insured by means of a dark lantern,
with which the party was provided. resistance, As
Jar as can be known no or
even outcry, was made by any of the
doomed men. The spot selected for the
execution of the deed, was a knoll on the
road leading northwest from the jail and
only a short distance from the stone,
marking the first mile from the court¬
house.
The ropes used were ordinary cotton,
which appear to have been used as plow
lines. As soon as it was possible for the
sheriff to do so, he went to the spot of
the execution, taking with him two phy
sicians, but they arrived too late to ren¬
der any assistance to the five limb bodies
they found dangling from the trees, four
from one tree on the east side of the road
and the other from the limb of a stout
oak hard by on the opposite side. Life
was found to be extinct.
The sheriff caused the bodies to be cut
down immediately, and on blankets,
spread upon the ground, laid them side
by side under the branches of the tree on
which the four were hanged. Here the
bodies remained until late in the after¬
noon, when they were removed for burial.
Prindley Thomson’s relatives took
possession of his body, and the body of
Bailey Dowdle was taken possession bodies of
by his father, The other were
buried at the expense of the county.
THE LINES TO CONNECT.
A Cranact Between tbn Ii*«teville & Nn*h
nille ud the Nertolk & Weetern.
Official announcement is made from
Philadelphia that a preliminary contract
has been executed between the Louisville
and Nashville and the Norfolk and Wes¬
tern railroad companies by the terms of
which each comany undertakes promptly
to cause surveys to be made, witha view
to construct an extension of its lines to
a point of connection in Wise county,
Virginia. The extension of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad will be from Cor¬
bin station, on their present Knoxville
branch, through the Cumberland valley
of Kentucky, and the extension of the
Norfolk and Western railroad will be from
Graham station, on their New River di¬
vision, through Clinch valley of Virginia.
The total length of the line to be con¬
structed is about two hundred miles and
as the meeting point will be east of the
Cumberland mountain, in Wise county,
Virginia, each company will have about
one hundred miles to construct, and the
work will be pressed to completion been as
rapidly as possible, Engineers have
engaged lor several months past in loca
tion of the line. The Louisville and
Nashville railroad company has already
thirty-five miles of their portion of it un¬
der contract and to be completed during
the month of August of the present line will year. be
It is expected that the entire
com pleted and connections made within
the next twelve months
ACCIDENT AT STBBti WORKS.
—
At the Edgar Thompson steel ,__, work., .
at Braddock, Pa., about 10 o clock Tues
day morning a heat of steel had been
dumped to a portable mdU, wtotfa*
to pourmg it into mgot nw>lds, ^scattered
liquid metal exploded and
m all directions Fme head prtmen foot were A
frightfully burned from to
coke boy passing to the pit at the tims
was caught by Ithe flesh and 1^ cbttung
burned from hts tody. Two »
is era thought, very seriously. are fatally AH burned. the physicians .^Hoth m
everything Braddock were possible done forTS tor the relief “of or
the sufferers.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
A NnMr of Sin are Suffocated in a Mine
at Savanna, I. T.
A special from Venita, Indian Terri¬
tory, referring to a mine disaster at Sa¬
vanna, says: The body of gas fired must
have been immense, to render flames of
such magnitude. It was followed with
such concussion as to startle every one
for miles around, and people in the im¬
mediate vicinity were severely shocked.
The engine house and lifting works struc¬
ture, over a hundred feet long and two
stories high, was blown into the splinters and by
the current driven out of slope
in a few minutes was enveloped iu flames.
From the character of the building and
being literally saturated with oil, it was
not possible to save anything from the
flames. There were six men in the mine
at the moment of the explosion, which
occurred at ten minutes past one o’clock.
These men were all killed. Their names
are as follows: Miles Jarrett, Dave Jones,
Hugh Dooley, William French. Baines, Charles
Parsons, and Bert The most
distressing part of the accident is the
suffering of thirteen more, who were at¬
tempting, with others, adjoining to reach the fated
men Following through an their mine.
are names: James
Ward, James McGinniss, Fred Rates,
Thomas Noven, Mike Kelley, Thomas
Daniels, George Hill, Pat Glaney, Robert
Miller, Pat Fagan, John Williams, Peter
Renold and William Hudson. The
workings of the two mines run together
far down in the mine but these means of
communication have never been attended
to or the men could have been rescued.
Out of the first party attempting to reach
number two, five were lost and are still
in the mine.
A second party of twelve or fifteen
went down. At this writing, eight of
these are reported lost in the mine, over¬
come with fire damp. This makes thir¬
teen already sacrificed to inatteution.
There is no telling what may be further
loss of life in the attempt to rescue the
bodies of those now in the mines, Cut¬
ting is now being lifts driven through into
one of the upper or entries, When
done, it is hoped they will be able to at
least rescue the bodies of the unfortun¬
ates. Fans have been started in No. 2,
by attaching the pipes. boiler of a switch loco¬
motive to steam Everything that
is possible is being done to enable the
men to reach the bottom of the slope.
SUING A NEWSPAPER
Kkiiui I,awyer« Brine 'Suit Against a
Newspaper.
Garden City, Kans.—Six libel suits
were filed in the district court here
Wednesday, claiming, in the aggregate,
$12,000. George A. Kimball and George
H. Reeve, comprising the firm of Kimball
& Reeve; A. Bennett and-Smith,
comprising the firm of Bennett & Smith,
bring a suit for $12,000 against P. J.
Talcott & Barlow, publishers of this a demo¬ place.
cratic weekly published bring at suit against
The same Niles, parties register also of the United
C. F. M.
States land office at this place. The
plaintiffs are all land owners here. They
allege the publishers willfully and malic¬
iously libelled them by the publishing had been de¬ of
an article stating that they United
barred from practicing before, the
States land office when such was not the
case The complaints against Register
Niles allege that he procured the publica¬
tion. Niles is from Findley, O.; Talcott
& Barlow are from Robinson, III.
AN INFURIATED ANARCHIST.
His Strange Attempt to Wreak Vengeance
on a Railroad.
Chicago, Ill.—Dr. W. N. Williams,
of No. 3,262 Vernon avenue, had a nar
row escape Wednesday infuriated evening from
death at the hands of an an¬
archist. He was called to attend a seven
year old son of Frank Moeck, the boy
having been run over by a Thirty-first
street car. Dr. Williams, who is em¬
ployed by the street railway company,
was engaged in amputating the boy’s leg,
when the father, who had heard of the
accident, arrived at home. Moeck was
furious when he saw Dr. Williams,»and
was imbued with the idea that he could
have revenge on the corporation by kill¬
ing the doctor. Seizing a pistol he leveled
it at the doctor, but it failed to explode.
The doctor escaped through a rear win¬
dow, carrying the sash and all with him;
but returned later with two medical men
and finished the amputation, the Moeck hav¬
ing been induced to see necessity of
it by the expostulations of neighbors.
VERMONT SHAKEN.
Burlington, Vt.- Two shocks of
earthquake occurred here Sunday, the
first rather light, at 2:30, and the second
ten minutes later. The second shock
was very heavy, resembling a concussion
from a large gun. followed by a jar of
fifteen seconds duration. The doors and
windows rattled, and those living iu the
third story of the blocks say the building
seemed to sway to and fro. The people
ran into the streets in a explosion panic, many had sup¬
posing that a terrific oc¬
curred near by.
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.
Detroit, Mich.—A special to the Eve¬
ning Journal indicates that the prohibi¬
tion amendment i-. surely defeated by
about 5,000. Gogebcic county, in the
upper peninsular. which has not been in¬
eluded in the Journi'.l's earlier statement,
gives 2,000 majority against the amend¬
ment. The latest returns from the south¬
ern part of the -(aft I ivot prohibition,
but the adverse v«:e in the upper peu
iamilar more than over-comes this.
DUMBER 7.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OCR
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What U Being Done by the Head* of Oh
government—The Week’s Review.
A CABINET MEETING.
The cabinet, met at 11 o’clock, Thurs¬
day according with the plan for the sum -
__months, mer and remained in session over
three hours. The meeting was devoted
almost entirely to the consideration of
international questions, Canadian the most fisheries, impor¬
tant relating to the
the policy of Great Britian in regard to
the island of Hayti, and the seal fisheries
of Alaska. In regard to the fisheries
question, it is understood that informa¬
tion has been received to the effect that
England sustains the position taken by
Canada, and is in no wise disposed this to
make the concession requested by consid¬
government. The question view was the
ered by the cabinet with a to
advisability of suitable action by the
president under the provisions of the re¬
taliatory act.
The alleged demand of Great Britian
for the possession of Tortugas islands or
payment by the Haytian government of
$1,000,000 in settlement of old claims,
was considered at some length. The
United States have groat interests in
Hayti, commercial and otherwise, and
are deeply concerned in its welfare and
prosperity. Correspondence will be
opened with England on the subject. discussed
Alaska seal fisheries were
with a view' to their reported better protection that in¬
from foreigners. It is
terests are now threatened by wantoD
aud wholesale slaughter of seals on the*
open ocean, It seems that during the
day female seals leave their young, on
the shores of islands in charge of the
males, while they go miles away in
search of food, with which they return
at night. Recently the practice has
sprung up of catching the female seals
while they are in search of food. Their
young perished, as a matter of course,
and the perpetuation of the animals is
endangered. The difficulty ol controll¬
ing this matter arises from the alleged
want of jurisdiction of the government miles
over those waters beyond the three
limit. The question will be again con¬
sidered at a future meeting.
A CIVIL SERVICE DECISION.
The district supreme court, Monday in general, in the
term, rendered a decision
case of Morris 8. Miller against tire civil
service commission, brought before the
court upon a petition of right, in which •
the petitioner complained of acts of the
commission and asked to have the civil
service law declared unconstitutional.
Judge Hagner, who delivered the opin¬
ion, said that the court had given the pe¬
titioner a hearing, but could not grant
the relief prayed for. The application
was, therefore, dismissed. The inter¬
state commerce commissioners are being
flooded with petitioners indications from every they sec¬
tion, and from present
will have their hands full for some time
to come. The following rule of proceed- Ap¬
ure has been promulgated official by action them: by this
plications made shall for he made by petition
commission
which petition shall set forth the facta
on which they are founded, and be ver
rified by the oath of the applicant or
some authoriz ed agent.
the national drill.
The entries for the national drill to be
held the last week in May closed Satur¬
day night. A number of entries not yet
recorded are on their way, and will be
received, having been mailed before the
date of closing. The entries recorded are
distributed as follows among the differ¬
ent branches of the service: Regimental gatlrag
drill 4, battalion 5, artillery 7,
gun 2, infantry* companies 65, school
cadet corps 7, zouave 5, individual drill,
about, 82, rifle practice, about, 98, mili¬
tary bands and drum corps, about, the
The Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues
Atlanta (Ga.) Rifles, the Mobile (Ala.)
Lomax Rifles, and one or two other com¬
panies from the south, who had previous¬
ly entered, have announced their un¬
willingness to enter the contest with ne¬
gro companies and have therefore with¬
drawn, This action the part of these
companies haa caused considerable com¬
ment.
THE NEW WAR VESSELS.
The secretary of (be navy has invited
sealed proposals from ship builders of
the United States for building five new
vessels; the “Newark,” authorized by
the naval appropriation bill of 1885; two
nineteen knot cruisers known as numbers
four and five; ami two 1,700 ton gun¬ and
boats, designated as numbers three
four.
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important enterprise.
Montgomery, Ala.,—A movement was of
inaugurated here Wednesday by one
the wealthiest corporations in the south
to establish car wheel manufacturing
works near Highland park. Home of the
shrewdest business men and capitalists
are concerned in the enterprise, and there
is no doubt of its establishment, with
prospects of great success, as Montgom¬
ery is a grand distributing point.
EFFECT OF THE INTERSTATE UAW.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The Chesapeake
nail works, employing 200 men, and the
Lockhill and Paxton furnace have ceased
operation until the railroad and trans¬
portation companies reach some conclus¬
ion regarding freight rates. Mill owners under
say they cannot continue business
the interstate act as interpretted. Fev
era! hundred men are thrown out ot
employment.
