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VOL. XI.
Statistics show that there are 132,000
churches, 92,000 ministers, and 19,000,
000 members in the United States.
Leading British military authorities say
that England’s war resources are not
sufficient to withstand attack from for¬
eign foes .
The Dakota farmers who have survived
the blizzard are happy in the thought
that the moisture from the heavy snow
fall will give the early wheat a good
start.
Mr. Froude, the English historian, in
a recent work asserts that the retrogres¬
sion of Jamaica and other British pos¬
sessions in the West Indies has been so
rapid that the Government is seriously
asked to govern these places by commis¬
sion.
A scientist claims that the bituminous
coal field known as the Pittsburg is
practically inexhaustible, according to
the exploration. There are 10,009,000
bushels of coal in tho barges at Pittsburg
awaiting transportation as soon as the
rivers are navigable to the south and
westward.
Game Warden Collins, of Connecticut,
comes to the defence of owls and hawks
by saying that the examination of over
200 specimens of these birds by miscro
scepists proves that they live on small
birds, frogs, snakes, mice and grasshop¬
pers. The “small birds” are mostly
sparrows, and very few game birds are
eaten.
Francis La Flesehe, of the Omaha
tribe, who is employed in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs at Washington, is the
brother of Inshta Theamba, and is three
fourths, not full-blood or even half
breed, Indian. La Flesehe was edu¬
cated at the mission school of an Indiau
agency in Nebraska, and was appointed
by Secretary Kirkwood to a p’.aco in the
Indian Bureau. He has made an efficient
clerk. On several occasions he has acted
as interpreter between his people and
government officers, and has also been
sent on several missions tb his tribe.
An example of deterioration jn values
is shown in the sale of the Great East¬
ern for less than $100, COO. The origin
nal cost of the vessel was three and a
half million dollars, but she was a gigan¬
tic failure from the start. The building
of this ship, however, was of value in
demonstrating that there was a limit in
steamships in the direction of size. She
has been of use also in the laying of the
Atlantic cables. While those who in¬
vested their money in building this ship
lost heavily in the venture, they can
console themselves with the fact that
their loss was not altogether in vain.
Authentic estimates of the peace effect
tives stationed in the frontier provinces
of Austria, Russia and Germany show
that Russia has 315,500 men, with 689
field-guns; Austria, 38,000 men, with
ICO field-guns; and Germany 98,200
men and 338 field-guns. A comparison
of the military situation on the Russian
side of the frontier with that on the
German side, taking the forces within
territories of about equal area, shows
that the Russians within 119,311 square
kilometers have 128,275 men, 24,19S
horses and 2,711 guns of all kinds, while
the Germans, within 119,456 square
kilometers, have only 81,714 men,
11,520 horses and 238 guns.
The city of Mexico is madly devoting
itself to gorgeous spectacles, in which
the central attraction is bull-fighting.
Sunday is the chief festival day for this
sort of thing, and half a dozen “rings”
attract multitudes. Saleri, a Spanish
bull-fighter, noted in his own country
for daring deeds, was imported by Mex¬
ican enterprise to add zest to the Sab¬
bath circuses. He was “famous” chiefly
for that particularly reckless accomplish¬
ment which consists in infuriating the
wild beast and then evading its onslaught
by nimbly leaping over its head. His
first experiment at an introduction cf
this into the Mexican Sabbath programme
resulted in his beiug gored to death.
Another important staple has been
placed at the mercy of one of the pow¬
erful associations of capitalists known as
“trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re¬
cently organized on the principle of the
Rubber Trust, includes twelve of the
nineteen large refineries in the United
States—seven in New York, four in Bos¬
ton, and one in St. Louis. Each refin¬
ery has put its entire capital stock into
the Trust, taking certificates in payment,
and the organization controls millions
°f capital. The purpose is the “regula
t:on” of the production and price of
? ngar. Whenever production is too great
for the demand, or whenever there is a
scarcity of raw sugar, certain of the re¬
fineries must shut down, and not start
again until the market improves.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1888.
GERMANY’S RULER.
IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH,
Frederick proclaimed.
The New Emperor on German Soil Again
Itellcions Services Over the Remain, of
the late Emperor William.
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Frederick William Nicholas Charles,
now Frederick III, is the eldest son o!
the late Emperor, and is in Us 57th year,
having been born at Potsdam on Ootoboi
18, 1830. He married Victoria Adelaide,
princess royal of Great Britain, on Jan¬
uary 95, IMS, and they have seven chil¬
dren, of whom Prince William, who has
ligured so conspicuously during his fath¬
er’s illness, is the eldest, there being two
younger sons and four daughters. The
new emperor has had a brilliant oareer,
and is one of the strongest and most pop¬
ular men in Germany. It seems like the
veriest irony of fate that the imperial when
crown should descend to him only
Death stands ready with outstretched
hand to pluok it from his brow.
Emperor Frederick III drove to the
station at Victoria San Remo, accompanied special train by
Empress to take a
in waiting to oonvey him to Berlin. The
largest crowd ever seen in Sm Remo
gathered to witness his departure. The
new emperor was enthusiastically cheered
by the crowd, and he repeatedly bowed
his acknowledgments of their greetings. ail
Emperor Frederick entered the i way
cars without assistance, and then turned
and assisted Empress Victoria to enter.
The municipal authorities and a number
of civillians were on the platform. King
Humbert traveled from Rome to San
Pier d’Arena to meet Emperor Frederick.
When the train reached the station, King
Humbert entered the coach occupied The by
the emperor and embraced him.
scene at their meeting was a touching
one. The emperor was voiceless owing
to his disease, but he wrote many notes,
in one of which he thanked the Italian
parliament for the honor and respect it
had paid his father and himself. The
Empress Victoria translated to King
Humbert the signs made by the emperor
and conversed with the king in French.
The emperor was suffering from fatigue,
but otherwise was in his normal condi¬
tion. His throat was closely muffled, and
he wore a hooded cap and heavy surtout. rulers
The silent parting between the two
was affecting. Accounts concerning the
meeting between Emperor Frederick and
King Humbert at San Pier d’Arena rep¬
resent King Humbert as being stricken
by the ghastly aspect of the emperor.
After the departure of the imperial train,
King Humbert covered his face with his
handkerchief, and said several times:
“He is ill, ah, very ill.”
All the membeis of the ministry left
Berlin by a special train to meet Em¬
peror Frederick as he returned from San
Remo. Ihe special train conveying the
emperor and empress arrived at Munich.
Their mujesties met with a sympathetic
reception at the station. The train ar
r.ved at the West End station, nearChar
lottenburg, at midnight. Close to the
rails a tent-shaped pavilion, hung with
black cloth, had been erected, through
which his majesty, on alighting from the
train, passed direct to his carriage, which
eonveyed him to the Chariottenburg
ichloss. The carriages on their way to
ihe castle were preceded by a detachment
;>f the guard corps. A company of the
Second regiment of the guards marched
Into Charlottenburg, to mount guard at
various points. services held the
The funeral were over
remains of Emperor William in the mor¬
tuary chamber in the palace. The cham¬
ber was profusely decorated with flowers.
The Dowager Empress Augusta, the
grand duke and grand duchess of Baden,
the crown prince and the crown princess
of Sweden, and other royal body personages the
attended the services. The of
emperor lay in the same position which
the monarch occupied when he expired.
A crucifix lay on his breast and an ivory
cross was in his right hand. Chaplain the
Voegel, in his sermon, alluded to
moment when the Empress Augusta held
the hand of her dying consort. After the
service, the late emperor’s aide-de-camps,
Lieutenant-General Von Lehndorff and
Lieutenant-General Von Waldersee,acted
as guards of honor at the dead monarch’s
couch. The dead emperor’s body was
removed to the cathedral at a late hour,
after Emperor Frederick had viewed it.
The dead emperor’s will directs that he
be buried in full uniform with all his
decorations upon him. At the autopsy
the physicians discovered distinct traces
of calculus.
The Cologne GtuetU states that the czar
of Russia will attend the funeral of the
smperorin person. The whole Russian
army, by special order of the czar, will
wear mourning for four weeks. On the
day of the funeral the whole army will
wear full mourning, and the use of bugles
will be prohibited. The St. Petersburg
newspapers agreed in expressing a wish
that Emperor Frederick continue the
friendly policy of the deceased emperor
toward Russia.
Emperor Frederick, in his reply to
President Carnot, alludes especially to
die marks of sympathy shown him by the
numerous French visitors at San Remo,
and expresses the hope that the relations
between France and Germany may soon
be friendly. This response was sent
direct from the emperor without consult¬
ing with Bismarck. The regent of Ba¬
varia has received this message from Em¬
peror Frederick: ‘ ‘In this moment of
my deepest sorrow, I trust to your friend¬
ship to assist me and relieve the heavy
cares now devolving upon me. ” T c this
Prince Luitliold responded: 1 am
deeply moved by your touching telegram.
[ hasten to express my heartfelt sympathy
with an assurance of continuance of our
faithful friendship. ”
RUSTING WHEELS.
The striki ot Eocomo&ivo Engineers Ex¬
tending Over the West.
The Burlington and Northern Railroad
strike is on, having started at Minneapo¬
lis, Minn. The rotid’s freight business
was very large before the Chicago , Bur
lingtou and Quincy strike, but it is now
nothing more than local. Chief Arthur
stated unreservedly (to use Arthur’s ex¬
actness,) there was “serious danger that
the strike of the engineers and firemen
would now spread widely. It is impos¬
sible to appease our railroad men,”hesaid, “when
they know that companies all
over the country are giving aid to the
Burlington. We are continually in re¬
ceipt of telegrams showing- that the com¬
panies arc rendering this assistance, and
it is not in my power, or the powey of
any other man, to restrain them, unless
such things are stopped.” other The roads Burling¬
ton strike is involving at the
stockyards. Five Lake Shore engineers
refused to take a train of Burlington cars
from Englewood declaring to Sixteenth they would struct, quit in
Minneapolis, would haul anything bearing
before they
the “Q” label. A Wabash switchman
refused to receive Burlington cars, which
were brought to the yards at Root street.
The switchmen employed by the Union
Stockyards and Transit Company, which
has charge of all switching at the yards,
also decided that they would handle no
Burlington cars. The full support of the
entire Brothorhood of Locomotive En¬
gineers and Firemen has been pledged roads to
their members on any and all
throughout the United States, who deem
it necessary to strike, and formally de¬
cide to do'so, the in order Chicago, to Burlington uphold then- &
brethren on
Quincy Railroad. So far as heard from
not a single road upon which the Chica¬
go, Burlington & Quincy has made the
demand to handle their freight had re¬
sponded favorable The Wabash refused
point blank. The St. Paul declined, and
heavy train, switched on to its tracks
from the Burlington’s tracks, at Western
avenue, for transportation over the Chi¬
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad,
was hauled back. Other western roads
to whom the formal request was
sent, have either refused or are pre
pared to reject freight when offered. J* .
“We would rather have a lawsuit than a
strike,” said General Agent W. S. Nine
lin of the Minnesota & Northwest
road, and Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas
City. The strike threatens to extend to
the engineers aod firemen in the Denver
& Rio “Grande Railroad’s freight several yards.
It was learned that
loads of freight consigned Grande for by
the Burlington to Rio
transfer to the West, arrived in the
yards. Orders were issued to have the
cars switched, but the engineer on the
switch engine refused to touch them.
Another engine was sent after them with
the same result. The cars were aban¬
doned, and the men say they will quit
before they move them, Indications are
that a strike on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf system is inevitable. The
Gulf road has announced its willingness
to handle freight, and unless it reeonsid
ers this determination the men will suve
ly go out.
BOLD SWINDLE.
J. H. Bond, Mrs. Julia Bond, J. O.
Bond, Dr. L. M. Shafer and his son, R.
E. L. Shafer, with other.-, were arrested
in Charleston, S. C., upon the charge of
defrauding the supreme council of the
Royal Templars of Temperance out of
$20,000, by the feigning death of John
O. Bond, who i3 really alive. Mrs. Bond
and John O. Bond were discharged from
custody upon swearing that their names
on all of the papers are forgeries. and Dr.
Shafer and son, J. A. Robinson, J.
A. Robinson, Jr., were also arrested on
the charge of defrauding the same or¬
ganization out of $20,000 by certifying
to the death of the fictitious John R.
Lyman. ______
He Never Lost.
“On your way to Monte Carlo, sir, that
delightful and exclusive home for all
gamblers?” is exactly where I going.”
“That am
“And you will play just a little, I
suppose?” “I do nothing else, sir. It is busi¬
my
ness.”
“Heavens, you don’t mean to say you
make a business of it?”
“Yes, sir. Twice a day regularly, and
I never by any chance lose.”
“In that case I must big you will ex¬
plain your ‘system to me.”
“Certainly, wiih pleasure. I j lay the
violin.”— Truth.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS
Cotaip About the White Hame-Army mid
Navy Matters—Our Relations With Other
Countries and Nations.
CQN6RES3ION,U,.
bill In the House the dependent pension and
was received the from the Senate, re¬
ferred to committee on invalid pen¬
sions. The day’s business was of no in¬
terest to the general character—committee reader, being en¬
tirely of a routine
reports, and the discussion of a bill grant¬
ing lands in severalty to same western
Indians, but no vote was reached. '
Among the petitions and memorials'
presented and referred in the Senate, thirty- was
one with 102,000 signatures from
three states and territories, against the
admission of Utah as a state, so long as
its people are under the control of the
Mormon priesthood. The pension bill
was then taken up, the question still be¬
ing upon the amendment of itr. Wilson,
.Hiding the words, “the infirmities of
age. ” The amendment was voted down,
the amendment to include Mexican vete¬
rans was rejected and the bill passed 4 4
to 10... .In tire House, Mr. Tillman, ol
South Oarolina, asked unanimous con¬
sent for the immediate consideration ol
the bill appropriating $10,000 for the
purchase of certain swords Shields. belonging The to
the widow of Gen. James
ball was passed, but not without a good
deal of discussion arising out of the state¬
ment by Mr. Steele, of Indiana, that he
had seen a newspaper paragraph question to the
effect that there was some as to
the ownership of the swords. Mr. Till¬
man declared that there was no such
question, and the entire Missouri delega¬
tion give the assurance that the swords
were in the undisputed possession of the
Shields family. Mr. Raynor, from the
committee on commerce, reported the
bill tb establish a postal telegraph. hill Mr.
Blount said the subject of ihe was
one over which the committee on post
offices and post roads had jurisdiction,
and he reserved the right at the proper
time to raise the question whether the
committee on commerce had jurisdic¬
tion over the subject of posial telegra¬
phy.
oossir.
The report submitted by Senator Cock¬
rell from a special committee which ha*
been studying the methods of transact¬
ing government business in the executive
department, is a volume of 2,083 printed
pages, in addition to voluminous appen¬
dices. The committee devoted a year to
the work. Some of the examples of offi¬
cial circumlocution read as though they
might have originated in the brain of an
extravagant humorist.
The Senate Committee the on bill Agriculture to protect
resumed its hearing on
the manufacture and sale of pure lard.
Prof. Shaj'pkass, of Boston, appeared, proceeded and
at the request of Mr. Wilson,
to compound an article out of twenty per
cent of stearine, twenty-five per cent of
cotton seed oil, forty per cent of pure lard
and ten per cent of dead hogs’ show grease. that
The experiment was made to
refined lard manufacturers might Use the
grease of smothered and diseased hogs in
the manufacture of the compound.
The President sent to the Senate, a mes¬
sage in reply to the resolution requesting
him to negotiate with the Emperor of
China a treaty containing aprovision that
no Chinese labor shall enter the United
States. The President says, such nego¬
tiation was commenced some months ago,
abd its progress has been communicated
to such members of the Senate as sought
in ormatkm upon the subject, and he now
deems himself justified in expressing the
hope and expectation that the treaty will
soon be concluded concerning the immi¬
gration of Chinese laborers which will
meet the wants of the people.
The following Georgians have made
claims on the Government for supplies
furnished or property destroyed during
the late War: Leroy Napier, $20,000;
heirs of Nedhatn Ballard, of Georgia, $200:
Samuel Wood, of Chattooga county, $508:
William White, $576.90; also $107.06 to
George R. Ward, of Floyd county; $597,-
50 to Alexander Vaugn, of DeKalt
county, for same; $622.50 to John Smith,
of Chattooga county; $1,891.50to Henry
A. Sims, of Chattooga county; $240.50
to William P. Ramsey, of Walker county;
$1,305 to David R. Ramsey, of Chattooga
county ; $712 to Perry W. Partain, of
Paulding county; $2,915.50 to James M.
Foster, of Paulding county; and $770 to
Abner Worthy, of Chattooga county;
John G. Whitehead, administrator of
John G. Whitehead, of Rome, $2,158;
Sam Allison, executor of William P. Al¬
lison, of Walker county, $2,321; Luther
Walter, of Floyd county. $502.
OVERWORK.
The sexton of a church at Castleton, N.
y near Albany, discovered in the cellar
Charles Downing, teller of Castleton
National Bank, who has been missing for
several w T eeks. He has been wandering offered
about demented, and a reward was
for information of his. whereabouts. He
died shortly after being discovered.
There was a pistol wound in his left
temple, and the weapon was found in the
cellar. His accounts are all straight. He
was rendered msane by overwork.
POPE LEO SICK.
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The Pope has been slightly indisposed
for some days. No serious symptoms
have manifested themselves, but a cer
tain degree of apprehension and exists lassitude in con
^deration of his age the
ciiused by exertions festivities. he was subjected to
during the jubilee
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWS FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTER ESTINGL Y STA TED.
Accidents on l.and and on Sea- New Enter
prises-Snicides- - Religious, Temperance
and Social Matters.
Col. E. B. Cash died at his home in
Dliestarfield county, S. C., of apoplexy.
His death was announced some days ago,
out he rallied and lived on for some time.
One of the out-buildings of the Wil¬
liamson County. Tenn., poor-house and Dora was
ourned, and William Johnson
Shannon, colored inmates, perished in the
flames.
The bridge over the Peedee river on
the Wilnington, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad has been rebuilt, and trains by
way of the Atlantic Coast line have re¬
sumed regular schedules on that road.
Thomas C. O’Neal, of Rutland, Vt.,
employed at the marble works in Mari¬
etta, Ga., while under the influence of liq- of
uor waudered on to the railroad track
the W. & A. Railroad and was killed.
Messrs. Isaac Leisy and D. S. White
head, of Cleveland, Ohio, are in Augusta,
Ga., prospeoting for a big brewery, Mr.
Leisy is the president of the largest
brewery company in Cleveland, uud he
wants a Southern annex.
The steamer Waurita was launched at
Pnlatka, Fla. She will leave for Day
ton ia, down the St. John’s to its mouth,
theneo towed down the coast to Mous
juito inlet and the entrance to Halifax
”iver. She will run between Daytouia
md Rockledge in connection with the
5t. John’s and Halifax (the White) rail
"oad.
Four days ago, the wife of Aleck
Johnson,a farmer, in Sumter county, S. C.,
gave birth to a child, and it was but sup¬ the
posed that it was the only one, tho
following day Mrs. Johnson became
mother of a second baby, and two days
after, still another. The three babies
were in a healthy condition, and they
and their mother are all doing well.
A sleeping ear on the limited express
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
was ditched near Fort Payne, Ala., and
badly damaged, involving a loss of sev
eral thousand dollars. The trucks struck
a broken rail while the train was running and
at the rate of forty miles an hour,
the coach was turned entirely over. 8.
L. Waldridge, of Lexington, Ky., and
C. A. French, of New Orleans, La., were
badly hurt.
At Scotland Neck, N. C., there was an
explosion of a boiler in Gardner & Has¬
sell's machine shop. There were only
two men in the shop, Henderson Purse,
fireman, and John Scott, both colored.
Purse had his leg broken, and will prob¬
ably die. Scott was badly scalded. Tim
boiler wa 9 blown nearly out of sight. It
fell back and crushed through the roof
of the shop and lodged on the second
floor.
The United States Rolling Stock Com¬
pany have taken charge of tho works af
Anniston, Ala., and have orders already
for more than fifteen hundred cars to be
made as soon as possible. Twenty-five
per cent, of the Anniston subscription Hege- ol
$150,000 was paid over, and Mr.
nosch, the president of the company,
stated at the meeting that he had per¬
fected arrangements for another indus¬
trial enterprise to be run in connection
with their present immense plant, to work
about five hundred additional hands.
A collision occurred at the junction of
the Laurens & Newberry and the Port
Royal & Western Carolina Railroads at
Laurens, S. C., between an engine of the
way-freight, running from Laurens to
Newberry, and an engine of the Green¬
ville Railroad. Engineer W. H. Ham¬
mond, of the Laurens & Newberry freight, started
had just arrived at the depot and
out to shift his tram. Just as Ham¬
mond’s engine was crossing the Green¬
ville track the Greenville engine struck it
a fearful blow, which demolished both
engines.
Will Bendley, a minor, was run over
and killed by a train on the Kansas City
Railroad, near Birmingham, Alu.
Bendley and John Terry, a young man
from the same county, wero walking
along the track of the Pratt mines rail¬
road, where it runs parallel with the
Kansas City road. They heard the train
approaching from around a curve, and
thinking it was on the Pratt mines road,
they stepped over to the other track,
twenty paces in front of the engine.
Bendley was instantly killed and Terry
was badly injured.
At Berry, five mi.es from Reidsville,
N. C., the dwelling house of C. W.
Mobley and his granary and stables were
fired, and he lost in the fire all his mules,
wheat and fodder and corn, wagons,
carriages and threshers. The plan of the
incendiaries evidently was to plunder night his
store near the house. The same
three stores in Reidsville were robbed.
Logan Fuqua, a white man who is Mob
ley’s miller has been arrested for the
burning, and is in jiul at Ventworth.
At the granary is a piece of fallow land
that had just'been turned over. fallow Fresh land,
tracks were found over the
and it is alleged they fit the tracks of
Fuqua’s shoes. Arson in North Carolina
j s a capital crime.
BAD LOT.
The police of Norfolk, Va., counterfeiters, captured
a gang of five Italian
named Joseph Laffiori, Pietro Dauorfoi,
George Cataboni, Filip Brocolo and Bra
gios Marois, alias Petro Lanio. These
have flooded Norfolk with counter
feit silver dollars. They ha none of
the spurious coin in their poss- ssion when
arrested, but have been identified as hav
ing passed it. Similar gangs are work
ing in different portions of the South.
NO. 3.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
iVHat is RniJi* on North, East and West
ami Acro»s the Water-The Coming En
ropenii Storm.
The New York wheat market has been
lifted 2 cents by the foreign news, but
with the result of completely arresting
the export demand.
The employes of the Pan-Handle shops
at Dennison, O., were treated to a sur¬
prise when 111 of them were presented
with tickets of indefinite suspension.
The British bark Lonews, from Laun¬
ceston, Australia, for London, wrecked England,
with a cargo of wool, was near
Weymouth. The captain and eleven of
his crew were drowned.
A serious collision occurred on the
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad,
one of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
lines centering at Atchison. A through
Denver passenger train was standing on
the track at Humboldt, Neb., when a
south-bound local passenger train from
Lincoln, with a Reading engineer in the
cab, dashed into the station at the rate
of ten miles an hour. Fireman W. B.
Hill, of together Lincoln, and jumped suffered as dislocation the engines of
came
the right knee, anti several others were
seriously hurt,
A fire broke out in the Methodist Uni¬
versity at Mitchell, Dakota, from the
combustion of oily rags in the oil room.
There were forty inmates, including the
faculty, students and servants. All but
ten escaped without trouble. Four young
men jugiped from the second story win¬
dows; four others and a professor jumped
from the third story, and another pro¬
fessor descended from the roof by u
clothes line. Horton Richer, of North
ville, Dak., received internal injuries and
died in two hours. Prof. R. H. Taylor’s
skull was fractured, an arm broken and
he was injured internally and w ill proba¬
bly die.
RUN TO EARTH.
A. B. Franklyn, a liquor dealer of
Pueblo, Col., who has been on the look¬
out for Tascott ever since it was an¬
nounced that the murderer of Millionaire
Snell was on route West, called to his
assistance Officer Connors, and after hav¬
ing him sign a paper to give him one
half of the reward, told the officer that
he had discovered Tascott, and wanted
him arrested. Together, the two went to
a lodging house on West Fifth street,
where the supposed murderer was found
slee ping soundly. He was awakened and
han dcuffed and taken to the city jail.
The prisoner somewhat resembles the
description of Tascott sent out by gold the
Chicago detectives, but he has no
filling in his front teeth, and one of his
upper teeth next to the eye-tooth dark for was the
missing. Again he is too
description published, but Franklyn in¬
sisted that the man is disguised and that
he is certainly Tascott.
DYNAMITE.
A frightful disaster, the exact cause of
which will probably never be learned,
occurred in the Cleveland Iron Mine,
Mich., resulting in the instant death of
five men. They were at work blasting
rock, having inserted a piece of gas pipe had
charged with dynamite, 'ihe pipe
just come from the blacksmith’s sufficient shop,
and it is supposed still retained
heat to cause an explosion of the deadly
agent of destruction.... Six tons of dyn¬
amite stored in the house of Oliver
Hampton, about nine miles northwest of
Richmond, Ind., exploded. David
Hampton, his horse, and a dog were
blown to atoms.
LEVANTED.
Charles K. Dickinson, treasurer of two
street railway companies, and disappeared highly con¬
nected, has mysteriously took all his keys
from St. Louis, Mo. He
with him. He is a brother-in-law of
Julius Walsh, president of the Franklin
Avenue and of the Northern Central Rail¬
ways.
disapproval.
Mgr Ducey, a prominent Catholic di¬
vine; pastor of St. Leo’s church, of New
York the most fashionable Catholic
Church in that city, has been suspended
by Archbishop Corrigan, on account of
his friendship for Dr. McGlynn.
GOULD AND SAGE.
In the court of general sessions in New
York, Recorder Smythe reserved his de¬
cision as to whether the Gould-Sage ease
should be again submitted to the grand
jury.
Just the Place.
"Wife—“I found an egg in the coal bin
this morning. That’s a queer place for
a hen to lay in.”
Husband—“Just the place, my dear,
just the place.” the place?”
W.—“Just If hens
jj._“Why, certainly. our t need
berin to lay in coal for us, we won
to'mind how the price goes up.’ —
BoAoh Courier.
Slow Town.
California Man—“Did you ever go to
Goldleaf, near Oakland? Slowesttown 1
I ever saw V*
Real Estate Agent—“What makes you
think so?”
California Man—“Why, I spent a
whole night there last September and
thev only got two mile* of cottages up
between sunset and sunris e."—Burlington
Fret Frets.