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THE CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOL. XI.
The largest amount of land held in the
United States by an alien corporation is
that owned by the Holland Company in
New Mexico. It embraces 4,500,000
acres.
The hardwood production of thecoun
try in 1887 was 25 per cent, greater than
in 1886. The hardwood trees of the
United States are being rapidly ex
hausted.
A soap mine has been discovered neat
Pine Ridge, Wyoming. At all events,
if it isn’t soap it’s something that resem¬
bles it very closely, being yellow in
color, and capable of making a good
lather and removing grease from hands
and clothing. The supply seems to be
unlimited._
California is proud of her record for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail¬
road were laid, the assessed value of
property increased $132,000,000, the
xvine and brandy product was large,
50,500,000 pounds of canned goods and
35,000,000 of green fruit were shipped,
and there never was such a year for
tourists. __________________
An effort to suppress bull-fighting has
been made in Mexico. An attempt to
make the powers of Europe disarm would
be as likely to win success, sarcastic ally
observes the New York World. Take
bull-fighting from Mexico aud there
would he nothing left save a little
pulque, some red pepper and the halls of
the Montezumas.
The number of women in the French
capital who use tobacco is somewhat on
the increase, for there are three or lour
establishments in the city of pleasure
devoted exclusively to the manufacture
of ladies’ cigarettes—and they do, it is
said, a roaring trade. An inquisitive
journalist, however, has ascertained that
the cigarettes solely made for the ladies
contain a soupevn of opium, which is de¬
cidedly a bad thing for the health and
nerves of those who use them, and
who thus may be said to doubly narco¬
tize themselves.
The Philadelphia Times says it “has
been authorized to invite free suggestions
from the multitude as to the best public
use that could be made of a gift of $50,
000. The authority comes from a gen
t eman of large fortune and large philan¬
thropy, and it is his sincere desire to re¬
ceive intelligent suggestions to guide him
in applj'ing that sum in any line of pub¬
lic charity or beneficence to produce the
best results to society. The mouey is
ready, and will be given as soon as it
shall be made clear how* it can be made
productive of the greatest good. It is
not intended that individual or family
suffering should be embraced iu the list
of causes presented.”
Speaking of Mrs. Cleveland, a Wash¬
ington correspondent says: “Her resi¬
dence of a year and a half in Washington
has not taken the edge off the curiosity
of the people living right here at the
capital. When she goes shopping the
clerks and customers at any store she
may visit drop everything to look and
listen. When she takes a seat in a box
at the theater the performers lose half
the attention of the audience, and when
she gives a reception at the White House
the men and women pass in line before
her and then eagerly rush around to tlie
corridor, where on tiptoe there is some
chance of catching another glimpse of
the fascinating hostess.”
“Australia,” says the New York Times,
' has received a set-back by the refusal
of the mother country to join her in the
: plan of contributing $25,000 each for an
| Antarctic expedition. But the objection
madeby the British Government, namely,
the amount proposed is too small to
J® , ,° f ^ iS t0 CUre
U Very eaSy ° ne ’
1 •; ustraha wishes. Still, it is not im
probable that any increase in the sum
devoted to such an expedition would be
so much additional money thrown away.
M bile discoveries within the Arctic circle
have been pushed to a distance of only
a little more than six and a half degrees
from the pole, the furthest advance in
the Antarctic region is still nearly twelve
degrees from the South pole. Practically,
nothing of importance has been discovered
in that direction for nearly half a cen¬
tury, or since the triple successes achieved
between 1840 aud 1843 by Sir James
Loss, our American Wilkes, anti the
French Dumont d’Urville. Ice and snow
ing perpetually cover latitudes correspond¬
to those in which at the north flour
i-hing vegetation, many quadrupeds,
and even permanent populations are
found. To suppose that any commercial
advantage c-ould come of another at¬
tempt to penetrate these prodigious ice
barriers is preposterous, and there :s only
a slender chance of deriving scientific
knowledge of importance from the
quest,”
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH I), 1888.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
interesting dots about our
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
C'ossip About t|,c White House—Army and
Nii vy Matters-Our Relations With Oilier
Countries ami Nations.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate the resolution reported
oy Mr. Sherman requesting the Presi¬
dent to negotiate a treaty with the em¬
peror of China, to contain a provision
that no Chinese laborer shall enter the
United States, was taken up, discussed
and adopted. The pension bill was taken
amendment up, the pending question being on the
offered by Mr. Wilson, of
Iowa, to add the words “from infirmities
of age. Air. Beck said that he under
stood the meaning of the amendment to
be that every one who served in the late
War or in the war with Mexico,on in any
Indian war, and who was suffering under
the “infirmities of age” would be entitled
to tion a pension of $12 a month.... On mo¬
of Mr. Dargan, of South Carolina,
the House passed the Senate bill author¬
izing- the Secretary of W ar to transfer to
the trustees of Porter academy, of Char¬
leston, S. C., certain property belonging
to the government and formerly used as
an arsenal. Mr. Belmont called up the
joint resolution authorizing the President
to arrange a conference to be held in
Washington, in 1889, for the purpose of
promoting arbitration and encouraging
the principal commercial relations be¬
tween Central the United States republics the of
and South America and em¬
pire of Brazil. Nobody opposed it and
it was adopted.
In the Senate several petitions and re
monstrancei revision of the were presented tariff against legis¬ any
present or industries any
lation tending to cripple the
of the country. The dependent pension of
bill was then taken up. Mr. Wilson,
Iowa, moved an amendment to insert the
words “from infirmities of age,” so as to
pension ail ex-soldiers suffering “from
infirmities of age,” or from mental or
physical disability. In tin* debate which
took place ou the amendment, Mr. Plumb
delivered an eloquent eulogy ou the army,
referring particularly to the fact that
when the War closed, the army could
nave placed one of its leaders at the head
of the government and could have dic¬
tated its own terms, hut had asked noth¬
ing except to be permitted to disband
and return to peaceful pursuits. Mr.
Test delivered a long speech saying soldiers that
v\f the 2,800,090 men enrolled as
during the four years of the War, there
were application from 1,200,000 for pen¬
sions on account of disability. Such
military execution, he .said, hud never
been known in the history of the whole
world. The Confederates had thought
that they had poor powder aud ordinance
stores aud yet making due allowance, for
the effect of climate in producing disa¬
bility, it would appear that one Confed¬
erate soldier, half-clothed and half-fed,
mid disabled three adversaries.... lu the
House, Mr. Holman, of Indiana, from
the committee ou public lands, reported
a bill to secure to actual settlers the pub¬
lic lauds adapted to agriculture, do¬
and to protect forests on the recommitted. public
main. Ordered printed and
Mr. Dockery called up and the House
passed, the bill relating to postal crimes.
It provides for the tine and imprisonment
of any person who gives false evidence as
to the character of any publication admission for
the purpose of securing its and to
the mails as second-class matter, for
the punishment of persons forging and or
fraudulently changing money orders
postal notes. Eulogies upon late Repre¬
sentative Moffat, of Michigan, were then
pronounced, and the House adjourned.
GOSSIP.
An order was issued for the diseontinu
ante of a number of signal service sta¬
tions. Pensacola, Fla., is the only one
discontinued iu the South.
Tlie President ha3 directed that the
new military post at Highwood, and designated near
Chicago, Ill., be known
as Fort Sheridan, iuhonorof Lieut.-Gen.
S1 g‘f“ ary of tte Interior office Vilas employed has re
organ i ze d the force of his
on the laud appeal cases, with a view to
greater efficiency. The office is at pres
ent 1,900 cases behind,
^ishinjtou
^ ^ purpose of :iS king Congress to
pass l a bill granting an indefinite exten
Qn of , h( . bonded period,
The Senate has confirmed the nomina¬
tions of T. J. Moreno, United States
Marshal for the Southern district of Flori¬
da; Commodore Gherardi to be rear
admiral, aud a large number of naval and
military promotions; and Ella Lewis, to
be postmaster at Gallatin, Tenn.
The will of the late W. W. Corcoran
was offered for probate. The. greater
portion of tlie estate, which is valued at
$3,000,000, is bequeathed to his three
grand-children. fs The sum of $1,000,000
left to the Corcoran art gallery, the
will stating that a million and a half had
already been given to the institution;and
$50,000 to the Louise Home, a half mil¬
lion having already been devoted to it.
In the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, considerable attention is de¬
voted !o the subject of farm animals in
the various states. The State agent in
South Carolina reports that live stock are
in a normal condition, aud there is a
marked improvement in their care and
keep. In North Carolina stock-raising is
beginning to attract the attention ot
progressive farmers, and the result has
been the importation of some tine stock,
The cattle, horses and mules are better
fed and housed than formerly. InGeor
gia there is a tendency to increased care
in the breeding and general care of stock
of all kinds. Owing to the effect of the
adoption of what is known as the local
option stock law, there has been an abso¬
lute reduction of the number of cattle,
but complementary to this result the
value has been increased.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Factorlen. Cotton Mills. Fertilizer Works,
Car stoops. Public lluildiiig m Etc.
A company is being formed to start a
cotton factory at Evergreen, Ala .. W.
T. Conn & Co. contemplate starting a
cracker factory at Milleilgeville, Ga ...
C. C. Slieppersou will start the manufac¬
ture of clothing at Columbus, Ga ..
Philip Dohu & Sons will erect a new fur¬
niture factory at Macon, Ga ...W. 8.
Walker contemplates establishing a soap
factory at Jacksonville, Fla ...There are
prospects of a shoe factory being started
at Lynchburg, Va .. .Efforts are being
made to start a canning factory at Char¬
leston, W. Va... There is talk of a com¬
pany being formed to start a fertilizer
factory at Raleigh, N. U-----Efforts are
being made to organize a cotton mill
company at Greensboro, N. C....Tt is
reported that a clothes pin factory will
be started by Couch & Allen, at Keyser,
N. C... .The Bessemer, Alabama, Cotton
Manufacturing Company, capital stock
$200,000, has been incorporated to build
a factory... Isaac Stephenson, of Wis¬
consin, and others, have lands purchased in Louisi- 50,
000 acres of pine timber
ana It is rumored that the spoke and
...
handle factory at Calera, Ala., will prob¬
ably be moved to Anniston ... .It is re¬
ported that C. E Price, aud others, con¬
template erecting an ice factory at Talla¬
poosa, Ga.... It is reported that H. W.
Wadleigli, of Boston, Mass., is Gadsden, negotiat¬
ing to establish a tannery at
Ala ... .T. S. & F. A. C'rapp, of LaFay
ette, Ind., will move their saw mill and
sash, door aud blind factory to Talla¬
poosa, Ga.... A building to cost $25,000
is to be erected for the Macon, Ga., public
library, and work is to be started at once.
....3.' W. Moon, of Muskegon, Mich,,
will start a factory to manufacture
ice chests at Fort Smith, Ark.... It is
reported that the Chattanooga Scale
Company, of Chattanooga, Teun., are ne¬
gotiating to move their works to Carters
ville, Ga. . TheDe Fuuiak Springs, lurnifure Fla.,
Lumber Company are adding a Olds A
factory to their mills... .N. G.
Sons, of Fort Wavue, Ind., are and contem¬ hau
plating starting a branch spoke
die factory at Charleston, V . Va .. The
real estate agency is raising money with
the ultimate view of starting some kind
of a factory at Fayetteville, N. O....W.
C. Scott, and others, have chartered the
Mutual Loan and Trust Company, capital
stock $50,000, to deal in and improve
lauds about Birmingham, Ala.. . .Eighty
thousand acres of pine timber lands in
Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, have
been purchased bv A. G. \ an bchaick, of
Chicago, III., and associates... .The Mari¬
etta & North Georgia Railroad Company
contemplate building a branch road from
Marietta to the Georgia Pad fie Railroad
at Austell... .The Waco and Brazos Rail¬
way Company, capital stock $1,000,000,
has been chartered to build a railroad
from Waco, Texas, to Cameron... . W. J.
Griffin aud W. O. Temple, of Elizabeth
City, and M. J. Sawyer, of Camden, have
organized the North Carolina Pine Lum¬
ber Company to deal in and develop tim¬
ber lands.
FORTUNE WIPED OUT.
The furniture factory of Potter A
Stynnis, at Forty-second street and Lex¬
ington avenue, in New York, caught fire
and was destroyed, with other buildings
adjoining. The losses approach arrived a million they
dollars. When the firemen
saw wlmt a formidable fire they had to
cope with, and Second Assistant Chief
McCabe, without a moment’s hesitation,
sent out tlie ‘ three sixes” alarm, bring¬
ing to the scene twenty-one engine com¬
panies, eight hook and ladder companies
and a water tower. It took the firemen
three hours to get the fire under control.
Of the entire block bounded by Third
aud Lexington avennes, Forty-first aud
Forty-second streets, there remains stand¬
ing only a short row of houses on Third
avenue.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The colored university of Alabama, re¬
cently located in Montgomery, received
un adverse decision recently from (he
Supreme Court. The last General Assem¬
bly passed an act in February, 1887, ap¬
propriating $10,000 for the purpose’ of
erecting the university, unu also the sum
of $7,500 annually for the support and
maintenance of the institution, the money
to be taken from that part of the general
school fund set apart for the education of
negroes. Last Summer, XV. E. Ellsbury
and others, as citizens and tax-payers,
filed a bill in the city court praying for
an injunction against the governor, state
treasurer and board of trustees, to enjoin
them from using the money appropriated.
WHAT CAUGHT HIM.
Third-class Fireman Hammond, who is
running an engine on the western divis¬
ion of the Hannibal A St. Joe, stated he
was $400 in debt and must work. Tlie
Brotherhood of Engineers’ committee
offered him the amount of his indebted¬
ness and three months’ pay if he would
quit. lie was inclined to accept the
proposition, but when the superintendent
offered him $1,000 and a life-time job he
took the engine.
“HELD UP !*’
An espregs train on the St. Louis, Ar
j-ansas A Texas Railroad was made the
^ject of an attempted robbery smashed at in King- the
j ant j y r k *p} le robbers
1;jors and „ ot awa y with $20,000.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
ROILF.D DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGL Y STA TED.
Accidents on I.aml and on Sea— New Enter
prises—Suicides—Religious, Temperance
aud Social .Rutters.
Plans are ou foot for a city hospital in
Athens Ga.
Shrevenort Eighteen persons escaped from the
^ la sail '
George W. Barber, of Milwaukee, \V)s.,
has bought a large tract ot Bartow lands
in Georgia.
The thermometer at Lynchburg, Va.,
recently registered coldest eight degrees above
zero—the of the winter.
The monument to the memory of the
late Bishop Pierce will lie erected in
Sparta on the 1st of next September.
George S. Haines, brother of Col. H.
tendent S. Haines, has been appointed superin¬ Western
of the Brunswick &
Railroad.
The ninth annual commencement of
the Southern Aledioal College took place
in Atlanta, Ga., in the presence of an
immense crowd.
Peter McCartney, a veteran counter¬
feiter, has been arrested in New Orleans,
La., for passing one dollar silver certifi¬
cates altered to fifties.
Norman Lawshe, a son of Col. Peter
Lawshe, formerly of Gainesville, Ga.,
committed suicide iu Atlanta, by shoot¬
rifle. ing himself in the head with a parlor
Dr. W. II. Tutt, who has recently re¬
turned to Augusta, Gu., ami is building a
handsome dwelling, offered to put his
valuable residence site iu as $15,000 in
stock of a Summerville hotel company.
Sales of leaf tobacco in Danville, Va.,
for February, amounted to 410,000
pounds. Total for five months was 14, -
800,000 pounds, than for or nearly 6,000,000 time last
pounds more the same
year.
The Georgia Alidland announces 1 a re¬
duction of rates between Columbus, Ga ,
and Atlanta to $2.90. This is about one
dollar less than the present rate, and
means a war between the Georgia Slid
land and the Central system.
The wagon aud oxen that were confis¬
cated by United States officers a lew
days since at Anniston, Ala., with a keg the
of illicit whiskey, were stolen from
stables of S. Kelly by unkuowu parties
and gotten safely away with.
A convention is in session iu Atlanta,
Ga., to effect a permanent union of some
fifty Congregational Methodist churches,
several Free Protestant Methodist
churches, with the Congregational
churches of Atlanta, is one that will at¬
tract attention throughout the South.
The Georgia railroad commission, at its
meeting, Issued a circular which will
have the effect of bringing the cent into
general circulation throughout the state,
for after (he first day of May all railroads
will collect exact mileage for passenger
fares, thus creating a demand for the
cent.
discussing The Presbyterians of themselves Atlanta, Ga., various are
among
plans for establishing in. that city a Pres¬
byterian college. The idea seems to be
to establish at Atlanta u Presbyterian
university of the South of such high
character as to attract patronage from
other states.
Revenue Agent A. H. Chapman, aud
Deputy Collector deputies, Colquitt, made assisted raid by iu
two Alabama a
Franklin and Monroe counties, Alabama.
They seized six large distilleries, with
six stills and fixtures, and destroyed 102
fermenting tubs, aud 11,000 gallons of
beer and other tilings.
Dr. John J. Davit, once a citizen ol
Carrollton, Gu.. having practiced with medi¬
cine there a number of years ago Dr.
W. W. Fitts, was accidentally killed iu
Cass county, Texas, where he has been
living for a number of years. He was
out hunting, and while getting over u
fence he fell, his gun was discharged, the
contents lodging in his head.
The dynamite factory of the Dixie
Powder Company, located five miles from
Chattanooga. Tenu., was the scene of an
explosion, which resulted in serious in¬
jury to George M. Perry, 1he superin¬
tendent and one of the proprietors. Per¬
ry was soldering in a tin funnel used in
tin cartridges, when the red-hot iron
come in contact with a small quantity of
nitro glycerine, causing it to explode.
F\ A. Brynner, a drummer represent¬
ing the Celluloid Novelty company, of
New York, w as found in room 13 of the
Planters’ hotel, at Augusta, Ga., with
brains and blood over his face, the pillow
ami the sheets, and a Smith A Wesson
pistol in his hand. Blood was congealed, occurred
show ing that the shooting had
during the night. The coroner fouud
$15, a silver watch and a diamond scarf
pin on the dead body, but no due to the
cause of Bynner's mysterious death.
Some excitement was reported at New¬
berry, S. C., on account of the presence
of R. A. William, representing himself
as the traveling agent of the Memphis A
Little Rock Railway, His mission was
to get negro emigrants for Arkansas and
take them over his line. He went about
bis work rather mysteriously,and who excited bit¬
the ill-will of the farmers, are
terly opposed to any negroes being taken
away. He left the place, taking about a
dozen negroes with him.
A terrible burning occurred near Dean’s
crossing, near Greenville, S. C. Robert
Perry aud bis wife, two colored people,
and their children, left their homes to
visit ‘William Williams, a house neighbor.
After beiug at Williams’s for a
short time the children, accompanied by
Joe Williams, went home to build a lire.
After a short time an alarm of fire was
given. Perry am] his wife ran to their
home and found only the burning em
hers aud the charred remains ot' the chd
drew.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Work on Kissimee’s new Episcopal
Church will be beguusoon... ,M. Willis,
of Maine, has purchased the R. M. Miller
place at Altoona . C. II. Board, of
Aroadia, thinks of starting a hack line to
run from that place to Fort Myers
Work is to be resumed ami pushed tight
ulong on the Florida Midland Railroad
tjll Kissimee is reached... .D. M. Berlin,
of Orlando, has assigned to L. M. Auld,
of that place, with assets of $1,250, and
liabilities of $850... It is generally con¬
ceded that there are more orange blooms
on the trees in Polk county now than
there has been in a great many years be¬
fore .... J. 1). Brownlie, of San Diego,
Cal., is at Panasolfkee purchasing orange
trees for parlies in California The re¬
cent rains have filled the creeks and
branches in Gadsden county with water,
and some of them have been impassable.
Little River has been on a boom, but no
bridges have been Hashed away as yet.
... .The starch plant aud grist mill be¬
longing to C. K. Dutfor, aud located at
Seymour, one of the convict camps,
about ten or twelve miles south
of town, was destroyed by fire.. . .
The Casino at house... Huntington .Charlotto is to be used
as a school Harbor
desires to he incorporated... .The
Sparkman grove near Orangi City yielded
700 boxes of oranges from 200 trees.. . .
The Ocala Banner makes the statement
that u year ago Mr. F, B. Jordan, who
owned quite an extensive nursery and
grove near Ocala, offered the same for
$10,000. He fouud no purchasers.
Snce then he has sold $11,000 worth of
slock, estimates fully $10,000 more in
sight, besides the ten-acre grove, which
is doing splendidly, iftul is not half as
anxious to properly as was a
year ago. . . .Marion s tax collector gives
bond in the a*im of $80,000, and receives
about $700, out of which he pays all the
expenses of hid office, etc... .The Govcr
n* r has appointed Messrs A H. Wilson
im ! .i l, e L ’ "
•
Escambia. S. B. W. Hteveus, q. neai
...
Fellowship, lost two of his horses in one
day recently, both dying In in a short time
after being attacked by unknown dis
ease... .The drill in the Ocala artesian
well has stun k a Hint rock, on which it
can make no impression. Dynamite will
he resorted to. ‘The water basin is about
I-** mDieted. It will hold 200,000 gallons.
.... A New York capitalist is erecting a
fine building 40x00 feet, two stories
high, at Silver Springs Park.
STILL FIRM.
Tlie Kn«int*4*r» ot I lie C. M. A Q Kollrond
Unyiehliutf Proli tole.
Twenty-five engineers from (lie Read¬
ing Railroad arrived at Chicago, Ill., iu
charge of Pinkerton detectives, to tuke
the places of the strikers. Dispatches lines and
from points on the main
branches of the Chicago, Burlington A
Quincy Railroad are all of the same tenor.
They show* that the movement of freight
trains has ceased, no attempt in that
direction being made by the company.
Passenger trains are being rim irregularity. on many
of the lines, hut with great
On some lines men cannot be found to
man the engines, and even passenger
traffic has been blocked. The Brother
hood of Engineers remain firm, and the
men at the throttle were as a rule, shop
hands master mechanics, yardmen and
others of little or no experience. Asa
result the running of trains was attended
with great difficulty. Notices have been
posted at all the leading points notifying
the strikers that unless they apply for
work at once they discharged may from eon
sider themselves There is
the company’s employ. considerable
no report that any num
her have complied with the order.
The great strike on the Chicago, Bur
linoton & Quincy Railroad will be ended
soon according to the latest
C E Perkins president of the road, per
sonally met P. M- Arthur, chief of the
engineers’ Brotherhood, and reached a
partial understanding. When they sepa
rated, it was with mi agreement that they
should come together again, and in a
to a quick and mutually « I”-";, satisfactory rr < on
elusion. The only persons present at the
meeting besides Messrs I erkms ai d Ar
Mr" Mr. PerkinS rerKins zeigzJLifSL s private P“ Secretary Tt L under and a
sss
Burlington road. F y g
Labor from Reading, Fa.
HE VETOED IT.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, has
vetoed the ldcgl option high license bill,
The governor says his objections are pre- di
sented in obedience to constitutional
rection, but with no idea that any reason
which can be urged will have any effect
upon the final passage of the bill The
biR classifies licenses with three grades—
for towns of 3,000 and less population.
between 3,000 and 10,000, and 10,000
and above. The license fees are graded
also -$100, $150 and $250. Prohihi.ion,
he says, interferes with personal liberty,
money is invested and thousands of citi
re ns employed.
NO. 2.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
VVImt U failing- on North, Eait anil W**t
ioi*l Aero** I li ( , W'ntt-r-TUe Coining Eu
rone.in storm.
Snow storms of unusual severity are
prevailing in northern Italy.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at San Francisco.
Iu the New York Court the complaint
against Gould and Sage have been dis¬
missed.
decided Judge Gildersleeve, of New York, lias
that Dynamiter Mooney must go
to the Utica insane asylum.
The Gloucester, Mass., Council has
passed resolutions protest ing against the
ratification of the fisheries treaty.
Clara Louise Kellogg is suffering
badly, at Fishlrill, N. Y., from bronchi¬
tis, complicated with whooping-cough.
.Surgeons at San Remo now take a
gloomy dition. view of the Crown Prince’s con¬
by him, owing to the depression exhibited
An avalanche in the valley of Morobia,
Switzerland, has killed ten persons and
many cattle and destroyed a large number
of houses.
Five shares of the New York Sun Pub¬
lishing company, par value $1,000 each,
were sold at the New \ r ork real estate ex
change for $3,850 each.
The roof of a nearly completed hotel
at Kansas City collapsed and crushed
through eiaht stories and to the ground. One
workman was killed about a dozen
injured.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court lias de
dared inoperative the law enacted by the
last Legislature, which permitted habit
tial drunkards to be continedinun asylum
not to exceed two
Dispatches from Massowah gays King
John, with Rasslula aud a large army, is
advancing upon the Italians, and that the
advance grard arrived at Osinara to pre¬
pure quarters for Kin" John,
Th Dcmocratic NationaI Convention
having been culled for the same date Conven- upon
which the National Prohibition
tluU . .. 1 d ,• V. •
. f , ^
“ 0 ‘ ,m
P'^ble . that the date ot the latter will
ke changed to a week earlier,
The Venezuelans are expecting at
armed expedition of the British to thi
gold fields of the \ urnari, aud that thej
are preparing to resist the invasion Of
their territory. The richness of the gold
mines in the disputed territory is almost
marvellous.
M. Wilson, son-in-law of ex-Prcsideni
Grew, of Frame, who has been on trial
for complicity in the legion of honoi
decoration scandals, has been convicted.
He was sentenced to two years’imprison¬
ment, to pay a fine of 3,000 francs, anti
to be deprived of his civil lights for five
years, The sentence is generally ap
proved in Franc*.
'I'lie Union Square theatre, with all its
contents, in New York City, was des¬
troyed by tire. The Morton house, ad¬
joining on two sides, was badly damaged, imminent
and the Btar theatre was in
danger for some time, but it received no
damage, except to its interior decorations
from smoke. Five firemen were injured The
by fulling timbers, but not fatally. rehear¬
Henrietta company hail finished a
sal only a few minutes before the fire
broke out.
A Southern Pacific fast train, running
at a high speed, struck the bridge over
the Condo creek, iu Medina county,
eighty miles west of Ban Antonio, Texas,
The structure was apparently further all right, end
but as the engine reached the
the timbers gave way, and the remainder
of the train, consisting of a heavy loaded
freight car and the caboose, went down,
crushing into the creek. The cars fell
fully fifty feet before they struck bottom,
and were shivered into splinters. G. F.
Etheridge, a well known stock man.
was instantly killed as well
as George llardostey, brakeman, the
latter beiug mashed to a pulp. Conduc
tor George Davidson and Brakeman L.
Hall, had their legs brokeo.
A GREEN HAND.
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- tbe Meadola branch
frei „ ht 0I1
jf Burlington A Quincy, at
^ nillU rt mlle sout h „f Fniton
Junction The Milwaukee engine and
mail and express cars were all demolishes
I
ported fatally hurt. The cars were piled
^ over tll( . an( i the telegraph
wires were all broken, Blame for the
accident is laid on the “Q” engineer, a
green hand, who lost control of his eu
cine and did not stop at the crossing.
AT LAST.
Oscar F. Beckwith was hanged at th
court house in Hudson, New Yora, <
the murder of Simon V undercook, at Au
sterlitz, on the 10th of January, 1 •
This case has become celebrated from
fact that the condemned man had been
sentenced to death six •lines. He as
bad two trials and his case has been twice
passed upon by the general tei m of e
governor for executive clemency, which
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