Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS ■P'_ WEEKLY
volume X.
S0UTHERH PROGRESS.
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Kewery is to be started at Florence,
fv, taiu Head Railroad Go. will
im Knoxville,
ild . dummy railroad at
* Light Economizer
fie Atlan ulanta Gas been in
stock $100,000, , has been
cap M
,
ponited. Birmingham, Ala., ^ atei 'oo°000 ,
|te reservoir with 1,000,000
U build a
Bors capacity- Railroad Go.
rkGeorgia Paeihe are
sfe' a branch road from Binning
ilia • in Bessemer. Sheffield,
, doing business at
' ))(w living m tents, and some
■ it adjoining town of Tuscambia.
[A C< has been formed to build a
lit; nil " ’lorence Ala. A site has
n \:dC‘ nd work will soon begin,
Jlfinetta - & North Georgia Rail
]11 , „ +v , • tnihe
- extend Knox- Knox
-Waugc, and it to
I- Jn- has received . , the ,
,t McCarroll con
Liobuild apier for the C. l . S It gov- will
fcment at Charleston, S.
fet $33,000.
|The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. will
L«*,A. ld a union depot and machine shops
. bridge “Cross
p:.r Lincev Kt Ga and M will „i» g if .heir it is S satisfac
tut a iZt w h a f
tout 30 ou,uuu 000 daily aany.
nSlh 0 % N C US h a Je a bu Rirad S
J ns
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mimber of furnaces will . be ... built
A
ping 1887 and 1888. A number
(lild mpanies have lately been organized to
furnaces in Southwest Virginia.
|Tie East Alabama Railroad Co. have
Jciwsed fe)to$400,000, their capital stock from $2000,
and have let the con
■act to grade the extension of their road
■ Roanoke, li miles.
111 . Stevens, a large builder and con
■aetor of Birmingham, Ala., has secured
rand at Choccolocco, 8 miles from An
■to on the Georgia Pacific railroad for
iii'ce brick plant.
■Be Armour Packing Co., of Chicago,
■resigned 6 a contract with the Selma.’
1., ., Land, Improvement & Furnace
[on and work will commence immediate
(•tor a large packing " concern and refrig
there.
tried The Clinch Valley Railroad Co., re
ed as inaugurated, has been ornan
with Joseph I. Doran, of Philadel
da, Pa., as president. The object of
* company is to build the extension of
e Norfolk & Western Railroad from
abam, Tazewell county, to a connec
•a of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
id, now being extended eastward from
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
pAJfS NATIONAL OF INTEREST FROM OUR
CAPITAL.
Ibm I. H.lng Done by the Heads el Oai
I Unmimcnt-The Week’* Review.
I [The grant relics.
Grant relics, which have been for
IL mont ks safely guarded in one of
P .
L riTate rooms of the national museum
r r bal !”some b P laced on public exhibition.
U, ‘ 8 tlc \ Prom plush-lined eases, filled
L u j F the es the collection, were
ln main entrance. The arti
les „ are , great intrinsic value.
1 .,, * ■?’ atei »tate commerce commission is
fciiwif F Pally m Georgia Their and labors Alabama. will be prin
fames H. Marr, chief clerk to the first
r at postmaster-general, died re
Bad De lived until June he
f ' u , Lavs been
Bfty-six in continuous public
| lct year*.
tn.” P 5 i retar y Thompson has ap-
4‘- 4 Benjamin sanitary inspector, F. Shattel, Sa- of
’ at
- .ntine station, Georgia,
c m four hundred pensions have
.' ated ,llld er the Mexican service
January 29th. About 15,000 Mex
P nsion haV ® been received at the
effl ' ce dtle president has issued
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ap t0t i t - 0n “■Pawling discriminating
(i’Uie,
;1 * United 8ff0rded 40 Ve8SeU ° f
( ommKJnn haVe b eeQ made a 8 ainst Tax
.Yew 7 r, o , eman “d Donnelly, of
YnrV kC ~ a
]’omtio f0r favorin 8 great cor
ng The sworn returns of the
' or Poratinn« a- dlSclose
, the existence of
J* as
nefl* P«T. a “d Coleman and Don
’lit board ’7 f , In led concert as a majority of
meafe T t0 ^ke lawful assess
kailroad ‘kwed Cn ,l Case 7 of Urn the f Hudson the River
''tatevf-r $9 os? \° Ko assessment company
$53,000 Vii »Xr dm „47 v 7 de Se - wil1 The disclosed case w. h.
4 Xable over
"Was u Pon $ 8 000 heads, the assess
, , 000 .
Busi
ss5*;Ss.*cStsasst befom. t0la 191, a g* inst 199 the
CONYERS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4. 1887.
i RAILROAD robbery.
A RED EIGHT DISPLAYED AND
THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Only About 2,000 Stolen-Entente ol ilt«
Villain*.
Tucson A special at the San Francisco, Cal., from
says western bound express,
due there at 10:30 p. m. recently, was
stopped and robbed at Papago station,
eighteen miles east of there, about 9:30
o’clock. The number of men engaged
m tire robbery ^ is variously ^ estimated
^ fiye to ineei .
when anproachino-Pana<ro ^utenf ^tSp.’ was signalled “slowed
by a red to ^ He
down and M h(j the lidlt he
noticed obstructions on the track, so
placed, that in case he failed to stop, the
engine WO uld spread the rail and derail
itself. Immediately on stopping, a doz
en or more shots were fired into the ex
press ear and a man with a pistol in each
hand boarded the locomotive and com
manded Harper not to get down.
The other robbers had, in the mean
time, been prving open the express, and
f f in S to °P“ ‘hey placed a stick
ot giant powder under it and compelled
he Harper ^ ^ to light the ^ fuse ^ attached. This
^ ^ ^ ^
being blown and up the messenger opened
t ) le car c le robbers took possession.
^fter extinguishing the fuse they then
took charge of the car, uncoupled the
engine, baggage and express from the
mainder of the train, and made Harper
get feeg.hs. on the WW engine ami d.L pull ahead two
Kdt»..efrsr,r,fT^ H.rp.r ™
g they ‘'killed” and
son. Here the engine
left it. They only got about $ 2 , 000 .
The express c messenger f saved $5 000 in
,, , The reh rail-'
bers are believed to be discharged
Fort road employes. Thirty-five soldiers from
Lowell are scouring the country, in
conjunction with Indian trailers from
Yuma.
„ mTEL lUNa 1 JI 11.
The w«»tl«*hou»e Air Brake Iaveatteo
claimed br a Poor Maa.
Theodore Munger who lives in Detroit.
Mich., is a tail, rather powerful-looking trimmed
rather man, wearing a full gray dressed beard, in
close, usually gray
cloth, and wears cowhide boots. Mr.
Munger has been a resident of Detroit for
ten years or more, but until recently has
attracted no attention. He now comes
forward with the claim of having been air
the inventor of the Westinghouse
brake, from which invention he says he
never realized a dollar. He claims that
he invented this valuable improvement
about eighteen years ago, at the time an
attempt was made to produce the result
steam on passenger car brakes.
Being in poor health at the time he says
^ revealed at the steam his invention brakes, who to those have work
ln g since
taken advantage of it to deprive him of
P ecuniar y an .^ other benefits. Mr. Mun
g er rationally about this invention
ancl ^ act ? his claina in the most cir
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THE G. 0. M. SHAKES HANDS
Willi lliiflalo Bill’s Wotern Wild Indians.
Mr. Gladstone and his wife recently
paid a visit to the grounds of the Amer¬
ican exhibition and camp of the Wild
West show, in London, Eng. A special
performance was given for their enter¬
tainment, and they were much impress¬
ed by the aborigines. Mr. Gladstone sat
and looked on with all evidence of child¬
like delight. After the performance was
over he was introduced to * ‘Red Shirt,”
one of the Indians, Mr. Gladstone spoke
to him at length, and asked him whether
he noticed any difference between Eng¬
lish and Americans, or if he regarded
them as brothers. “Red Shirt” replied
that he didn’t notice much about the
brotherhood. Fifteen hundred work¬
men employed at the exhibition grounds rule.”
cheered for “Gladstone and home
Mr. Gladstone and his wife repeatedly Mr.Glad
bowed in answer to salutations.
stone was entertained at lunch by the
manager of the exhibition, Col. Rus
sell, of Boston, presided.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE,
Illustrated In a Terribly Praetleal Way
Owen Griffin and Martin Wilds, a
couple of young married men, of Way
cross, Ga., received by express a jug of
whisky from Savannah, and started
down the Brunswick and Western rail¬
road for home, carrying the “little brown
jug” under their arm. They soon be
came tired and Griffin lay down by the
roadside, while Wilds occupied the entire
track, using one of the rails for a pillow.
They fell asleep, and a train came along,
and as it was then about 10 o’clock it
was very dark, and the engineer, him, not
seeing the sleeping his man, head ran from over his body
entirely severing body for distance,
and dragging the some
totally demolishing it to an unrecogniza¬
ble shape, scattering part of it for fifty
yards along the rail.
A MINISTERS CRIME.
Rev. A. M. Morrison who stole a horse and
buggy near Baltimore, Md., was arrested
in Brockton, Mass. He was returned to
Baltimore. Conviction followed, and he
was sentenced to seven years in the peni¬
tentiary with hard labor. Mr. Morrison
was formerly a Methodist minister and
was at one time well known in New Eng¬
land. Liquor was the cause of his down¬
fall, his last pulpit having been in Wil¬
liamsburg. Ky. Last year he suffered
imprisonment for forgery.
PERSONAL.
Patti taxed New York $80,000 for |
six concerts.
Rev, J. W. Lef, Will preach the com
mencement sermon also at Hiwassee College, annual
Tenn., and Will deliver the
address.
The popular fund for Mrs. j. A. thousand Logan
has been closed. One hundred
dollars was asked and $67,000 was given,
Ho liU „ s q ('ox Diveisiofs is writing abookwhich Diplo
he ball “The of a
taat Y It will deal with his brief experi
P ence „ee in in Turkey. Tnrkev
Hev. George While, who was rector o {
Tenn. ^ alvary from Epls 1858 “P al to , uhur 1876, ® b ’ died^entlv died recently :
m the 8 oth year of his age.
J. C. Latham, of Latham, Alexander
& Go., New York, has erected a beauti
f ul monument of Scotch granite at Hop
kinsville, Kentucky, in honor of t e
Confederate dead who are at rest there,
At the great anti-coercion meeting in
Hyde Park, London, Eng., a huge coffin,
bearing Mr. Balfour’s name, was paraded Sex
about and finally set up behind Air.
ton as a sounding board during his ad
dress,
mAey Anderson the actress has de
talent recently that
her friends are urging her to introduce
mus i c j n to some of her well-known roles,
while some even advise the operatic
gfa^e. f •
' U „ T nr ,, v w v , 0 v.„ d c ] iaro - e of
• denartmpnt tjthe UnLd of the r-ulwav
States court
C’itaiiles Kohler, who died ,. , recently ,,
. Francisco, went to California ,n
1852 as a musician, and in 1854 founded
the wine industry of that State which
bafito “ annual consumption of
7,000,000 pounds of grapes.
Vienna has decided to erect a bronze
statue to Joseph Haydn, the execution
0 f which has been intrusted to the Aus
trian sculptor, Natter. It will be un
covered oa t j ie 3 i st 0 f May, the seventy
eighth anniversary of the composer’s
death.
During the reign of Queen Victoria,
there have been erected 6,500 buildings
f° r worship in the Church of England, as
against 3,000 by all other religious com
munications put together. Seven new and
dioceses have been founded at home,
sixty-two in the colonies,
Te Hen Hen has presented to public the
New Zealand government for a
park the “wonderland” of that country,
including the volcano Tongariro, the ex
tinct volcano Ruapehu, Mount Ngarua
hoe, and the hot-lake district. Te Hen
Hen is a great chief of the Ngatutaw
baretoa Maories.
The late Mrs. Catherine Van llenssel
of Mobile, Ala., was the last
survivhlg daughter of Gen. Philip
Schuyler. Left an orphan in childhood,
s j ie wag a( j 0 pt e d by her aunt, Mrs. Alex
under Hamilton, and after the fatal Ham
nton-Burr duel she went to live with her
unc ] e the Patroon Stephen Rensselaer.
Canok I.i ddon. rcptyin g to Edinburgh some com
ments on his refusal of the
bishopric, writes: “I can sincerely say
that my motive in declining the led See of
Edinburgh was that which has me
before now to decline higher English
preferment than I hold at present, name¬
ly, the belief that I could serve God and
His church better by declining it.”
John Ruskin is not a friend to the bi¬
cycle. He says: “To walk, to run, to
leap and to dance are the virtues of the
human body, and neither to stride on
stilts, wriggle on wheels or dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of the
human mind with the body will ever
supersede the appointed God’s way of
slow walking and hard working.
Rev. D. H. Webster, who is now a
preacher in Illinois, is the author of the
famous song, “Lorena.” It was sung
everywhere on its appearance fifteen
years ago. Its origin lay in the rejection of
by Miss Blockson, of Zanesville, Ohio,
Webster’s addresses. Miss Blockson
afterward married Judge Johnson, bench who
lately resigned from the supreme
of Ohio owing to incurable ill-health.
VIOLATED ORDERS.
Btre Men Sent to Deatb By a TraUmae.
A west bound train, pushing a flat car
loaded with laborers, was going around
the curve leading to a trestle at, a good
rate of speed on the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacific railway, when it
ran into an engine which was running
east, backing up. The flat car passed light
half way through the tender of the
engine and the other end crushed up
against the pilot of the west-bound train,
on which were two men. The unfortu¬
nate men were crushed to a pulp. Five
men were killed outright, and one Las
since died. The injured number eight
men. The scene of the accident, as de¬
scribed by those present, beggars de¬
scription. Blood is scattered in every
direction, and the neighboring rocks
bear evidence of a fearful carnage. The
accident was the fault of one of the
train’s crew neglecting to flag, as per
orders.
LIVELY BILL FIGHTING.
The City of Mexico is enjoying the
novelty of bull-fighting at night, the
arena being brilliantly illuminated with
electric lights. The illumination put the
bulls in a fury, and the first bull, made
frantic, rushed at the picadors and in a
minute was master of the arena, having
killed one horse and gored two others.
The net result of the first night was four
horses killed, several torn and crippled several ;
two matadors nearly killed and
picadors disabled.
RICH FIND.
DISCOVERT OF RICH UNUSED
GOLD MINES IN MEXICO.
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In * Chnpel »Iaps are Found which Giro
* Clew.
Special dispatches discovery from the erf City two of of
Mexico announce the
the lost seven bonanza mines by an Amer
ican party of prospectors. Humbolat and
Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth
obtained lards. They from were these mmes worked by up the to Span^ the
middle of last century. In 1776, the In
d j ana awe pt over northern Mexico and
destro jed Chihuahua and all the miners
were driven out The Indian8 held con
trol of the country so long that records
were lost. Recently, Lieutenant Kepper, Glenn,
formerly of the U. S. army,W. K.
0 f Illinois, Capt. Allen and J. McIntyre,
0 f Chicago, went out on a surveying cx
pedition in the interest of a land com
pany, and in an old chapel found maps
and other data. Dividing into four small
parties a thorough search was begun,
McIntyre’s party located what is thought
to be the ^Pga silver mine It m in
tne midst or tnousauas oi ruineu uunu
in g 8 . amon 8 ' iar R e churches and forts.
Within four miles are 420 workings
of ol< 3 Spanish furnaces and tons o
s t a g- 4 few days ater the Bowers par y
reported the discovery of the Guayanopa
m the heart of the Sierra Madre mouii
tains Arou ° d it are the ruins of 118
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arastras - Advices from other points cou¬
firm the rumor and state tbat
J 'S.Tm
h
mining centres prevails.
WILLING TO MAERY ALL.
He Claimed to Have 100 Wlveo.
A handsomely dressed young man
boarded an elevated train in New York
recently. As soon as it pulled out from
the station he began wandering from car
to car, looking at every lady with such
close scrutiny that some of them became
incensed and complained to the guards. turned
W hen he reached the last car he
and was about to return, when and a guard
told him him he was drunk, if he
did not sit down and behave he would be
put off at the next station, The young
man sat down, but as soon as the con¬
ductor left the car he arose and addressed
the crowd, saying: accused of being
“That man has me
drunk and I wish to deny the allegation.
I am a member of the church and a teeto¬
taller. I neither smoke nor chew. I have
but one weakness, and that is an inor¬
dinate for the beautiful. I consider wo
men the most beautiful things on earth.
I adore them all and would like to marry
them all. If there is any lady in the car
who will have me I will get off at the
next station and make her my wife.”
By the time the young man had finish¬
ed the people in the car had concluded
he was crazy and a general rush was
made for the forward cars. On being
questioned he said his name was Wallace
and he lived in West Thirty-fourtb
street. He claimed he had 100 wives
and was getting new ones every day. An
officer took him home.
FIGHTING POVERTY.
What Henry Georce and Rev. Dr. McGlynn
are Doing.
The anti-Poverty society, of which
Rev. Dr. McGlynn is president and Henry
George vice-president, held their first
public meeting at Chickering hall, New
York. The hall was packed to overflow
ing, and on the platform were a large
number of leaders of the united Labor
party. The exercises opened with sing
ing by a chorus of fifty voices led by
Miss Mullier. Henry George presided,
and Dr. McGlynn, in addressing the vast
audience, said: “I am intensely con
scious that we stand here to-night on a
historic platform. The founders of this
society, in vears to come, will look back
upon to-night’s meeting with pleasure,
It is said a priest of Christ should not
stand here to speak of a cause which pro
poses to abolish this horrid crime of pov
erty, which is the injustice of man, in
violation of the laws of God I would
be recreant to my sacred priesthood which if I
should falter to speak the word I
am commanded by my Lord and Master
to speak.’ At the close of the services
an anthem was sung by the choir and
audience. The society proposes to hold
a meeting every Sunday night.
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Henry George’s Standard recently said:
“Arehbishop Corrigan, who, as bishop of
New York, presumed by secret circular
to instruct Catholic citizens how they
should vote, represents that wing of
Catholics who are to make the church in
this country a political machine, while
what Dr. McGlynn stands for is the
political independence of the clergy and
laity.” The paper also informs its
ers that the archbishop of the diocese gets
a salary of $40,000 a year for his own
use. A headline in the Standard asks:
“ What does the archbishop do with his
$40,000?” It is reported in Catholic cir
C l e ^tW d re^lle eP «omeeTha?the defining' :i forth‘
coming statement towarl Archbishop
Corrigan’s attitude the Catholic
Herald, and describing £sferr; his stand on the
phase
minds ofCatholics, will contain passages
of a startling 5 nature.
Seventy yachts have been entered fti¬
the Jubilee race in London, Eng., and
it is probable that more will be added to
the list of competitors before the entries
close on June 7th..
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Eastman, Ga., is stirred to its inner¬
most depths by a religious revival.
In a few months, the copper mines in
Paulding county Ga., will furnish em¬
ployment to about 800 hands.
Dennis Maher was shot and killed in
New Orleans, La., recently by his son-in
law, Richard Creely. Family trouble is
assigned as the cause of the crime.
John B. Bright, a young commission
merchant, left Birmingham, Ala., leav¬
ing, it is alleged, about $ 2,000 of indebt¬
edness. He came from Atlanta, and by
his pleasant address made many friends,
and was a favorite in society circles.
The question of using the organ in the
Methodist church at Sparta, Ga., was
carried before the quarterly conference
by appeal, but the presiding elder decid¬
ed that he had no jurisdiction in the
matter, so that instrument will be here¬
after used in the regular church services.
The wine dealers of Milledgeville, Ga., the
have relented and Friday night bibbers was
last night that the wine were
permitted to cut the dust from their
throats with the ardent. The wine men
have done no business at all since the
prohibition committee began their war
against them.
George Ayers and Henry Lindsay quar¬
relled about an indebtedness of $5, at
Bowling Green, Mo., recently, and the
latter was killed. Lindsay was on horse
back when the quarrel began,^ and as he
dismounted Ayers seized him by the
throat and quickly drew a knife across
it, cutting it from ear to ear.
Two wife beaters were arrested in Ma¬
con, Ga., recently. The first was Theo¬
dore DeLouis, from sunny France, who
whipped his wife terribly, and the sec
ond was Thomas Reid, a colored citizen,
who used his authority to an excess. He
beat his wife unmercifully, and was
caught and caged along with his white
brother.
A negro teamster, named Lem track Cole,
while driving across the railroad
in the suburbs of Birmingham, Ala., was
struck by a backing freight train and in¬
stantly killed.
Clark Horn, a well known and popular
young man of Chattanooga, Tenn., while
out speeding a spirited horse in kicked a gig,
was thrown out of the vehicle and
on the head by the horse, receiving in¬
juries from which he will die.
A few nights ago at a church in Sandy
BottomGa, May Whitehead an Henry Clay
a colored man got into a dispute about
Henry spitting on the floor, and Clay
said something that did not set well with
Whitehead, who struck Clay in the
mouth.
Three children were burned to death
in a farm house near Wright, the Texas. house
Their mother locked them up iu
to make a call at a neighbor’s and in her
absence the house was burned down.
The name of the unfortunate family is
Welch.
Cicero Darby, who was confined in jail
at Macon, Ga., and was sentenced to a
life-long imprisonment, swallowed eight
ounces of opiates and died in conse¬
quence. He left a long letter, claiming
to be innocent of the crime for which he
was sentenced to prison.
Judge Jenkins, the new judge of the
Ocmulgee, Ga., circuit, is enforcing the
liquor laws with rigid impartiality. He
fined the ordinary of the county, W. C.
D. Carlisle $100 and R. R. Gordon, of
Toombsboro, $500, for violations of the
law.
4 named Elmore, of . Uh- T11 .
7 <>unfr man,
who has been m Chattanooga,
J enn -> for a ? v / ral "’ eeks past, Poking
for work, , fell , from a Cincinnati Southern
at Tenn. The wheels of
the traln P assed oyer his e g 8 aud rl P ht
arm, severing them completely from the
body.
While two of Jas. R. Ellis’ children
were playing in the yard at his home,
three miles from Griffin, Ga., they were
struck by lightning. One of them, a boy
about four years old, was instantly killed.
The other, a girl about five years old,
was stunned by the shock but soon re
covered, and is now out of danger.
A D Clinard,whos uddenly disappeared
f rom Rome, Ga,, has committed suicide.
Mr c]inard wag about fifty years 0 i d .
j[ e k e p{ a hotel in Athens, then removed
to Caye Spring, and afterwards to Rome,
where until recently he kept the Central
hotel. Hewas financially embarrassed, and
had threatened to commit suicide in
der that his family might receive ten
thousand dollars life insurance.
Mayor Price, of Macon, Ga., in re
spouse to the complaint of a number of
merchants, forbade the Salvation
holding open air concerts. He gave them
permission to parade, but as the mer
chants entered such earnest protest
against their stopping to sing and play
in front of their business places, he told
them to return to their barracks, which
they did.
RAILROADPASSES niTinnin -da ccuo
Can Be GrBnt , d to 8Ute „ of ch „ Uy .
T , _ . fbatVadwai .. . . wmnlnies . ..
determine for themsdves what shall
1>e their P olicy > granting favors to
persons engaged m religious works. The
8tatu e in P 1 ^ 1 terms aI1 " ws t ,e
^‘‘impartial lmhlht v ™ u d HriSe rule, ’ and no “° question railroad of com- its
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pany could have occasion to fear penal¬
ties
The board of examiners of locomotive
engineers met at Montgomery, Ala., and
organized by election of J. M. Carr,
chairman, and P. J. Caldwell, secretary.
NUMBER 10.
LATEST NEWS.
A scaLTold at Monticollo, Ill., was thrown
to the ground by the antics of a calf, one of
the four men upon it being killed and one fa
tally injured. Hayward
Three brothers named were
drowned in Chesapeake Bay by tb» capsizing
of their boat.
The Government has been informed that
many Indians in the vicinity of Yuma, Ari¬
zona, have died lately of measles.
A coming bulletin of the Agricultural
Department will give full and explicit
directions how to tell the difference between
genuine butter and oleomargarine. has adopted
The Nova Scotia Legislature
reso l u tione against coercion in Ireland.
An ^,-ty of prospectors have
discovered t wo of the seven silver mines in
Mexico worked by the Spaniards over a
hundred years ago. The whereabouts of
these mines has been a mystery for many
years. speech at dinner
Mr. Gladstone, in a a
given by Labor members of Parliament, de¬
clared his entire disbelief in the accusation
made by the London Times that Parnell had
written a letter expressing approval of the
Phoenix Park murders.
Two sharp shocks of earthquake were
felt at Spokane Falls, W. T., recently.
The vibrations were from the north to
the south.
The French journals are soliciting do¬
nations of one franc each toward the
purchase of a diamond cross for Schnac
beles, recently released by the Germans.
Eleven members of the Gautsch family
head the subscription list.
The governor of the Sooloo Islands
and a force of 900 Europeans and native
troops, aided by Spanish ships, attacked
several thousand native rebels at Maig
bug, and took many prisoners and a large
number of guns. Maigbug was burned
after being looted, There were heavy
losses on both sides. The native chiefs
have fully submitted.
An analysis of the returns for the re¬
cent elections of members of the German
Reichstag, issued by the bureau of statis¬
tics, shows that the candidates compris¬
ing the government majority obtained a
total of 3,617,316 votes, whereas the
minority polled 3,910,285 votes, The
majority owe their position to the un¬
equal distribution of the electoral areas.
The Wabash railway roundhouse, at
Deamoines, la., containing fourteen en¬
gine!, waa burned recently.
Hra. Hetty Green, a forty million
dollar New York widow, is going to buy
the Baltimore Ohio railway.
Being refused a ten per cent, advance
in wages, about 1,000 window-glaaa
workers have quit work at Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Gill, Michael Bohannan, Harry
Morrison, Daniel Finn and Eben Frances
were killed at Tunnel colliery at Ashland,
Pa., by a fall of coal.
The speculators who bought up trade
dollars made over a million dollars profit.
About $5,250,000 of this depreciated cur¬
rency has been redeemed at par.
A Central American confederacy with
a firm constitutional basis has been
formed. The treaty of peace and friend¬
ship which has just been made public,
will probably promote the welfare of all
the Central American republics.
Fred Reeves, one of the militiamen
guarding the reservoir and state property
in Paulding county, Ohio, where the cit
- old
have partially destroyed , ,
canal reservoir, accidentally shot ana
viPed himself while on guard duty,
; Mr. Gladstone, in ... his speech at - t th the .
| dinner given by the labor members ol
Parliament, in London, Eng., declared
his entire disbelief in the accusations
: made against the Irish leaders of being
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1 concerned in the Phoenix park massacre.
j Customs officers throughout Great
j Britain and Ireland have received string
v „. e i 8 arriving
from America, . China and , the^easttne
j government having been warned that ex
plosives have been sent from Ban Fran
cisco to porta in the east to be transhipped
j to England.
j The cases of a number of druggists and
j merchants charged with keeping open
their places of business, on Sunday, came
P . ... • w aq v,inrrton ’ D C. Judge
Sruffi- on authority of , Webster ,.-nm:-- s Dictmn
held the words “Sabbath” and Burn¬
day, ” to 5e synonymous, A fine of
^ doH or thirty days iu the
wnrlr workhouse, v nlia . was j imposed mDO sed in in each eacn case. cmae.
J H Burni of Mansfield, BL, a fann
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er, employed three men to paint a bam.
They stood on a bracket scaffold twenty
feet from the ground. A calf running at
^***£^ large with a rope around its neck man
supports of the scaffold, pulling the pasts
away, and two of the men were killed by
the fall.
The Italian troops attempted but a few the
days ago to capture Karen, whipped
Abyssinians gave battle and
them badiv.