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THE CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOL. XI.
The attempt to grow tobacco in Bng
, d has resulted about m disastrously
8n cotton did.
l5 tb« attempt to grow
ETaiscr William is much interested In
val affairs, and it is believed that Ger
B9 hereafter much more at
any will pay
ention to her navy.
Greystone, Mr. Tilden’s expensive
Hudson river residence, has been in the
narket for two years, with no buyer.
[ cost him $25,000 a year to keep it up,
t willing to follow
ln d no one has been
luit.
Seventy-five miles an hour—or a mile
nforiy-eight seconds—is the astounding
te 0 [ speed which has just been at- j
■ned bv the “West Coast Express,” of
81 London ! and r v..a«»«!orn Northwester Dailwnv y, !
he English the ,
„ a Its triD * from the to ,
edteh metropolis. ,.
* 8 !
The roaring gas well back of Canons
burg, Penn., is said to have the greatest
registered pressure of any in the world.
The gas looks like a solid piece of blue
steel for some distance after it comes out
Df the pipe. Solid masonry twelve feet
thick surrounds the well to hold the cap
D n. When in drilling the gas was struck,
fools and ropes weighing though 5000 they pounds
were thrown out as were
feathers. ____________
Pftb’e Island, which lies in the direct
hath of all transatlantic shipping bound
[o New York, is rap'dly being washed
sway. The branch hydrographic offices
[n that city and Philadelphia have just
been served with notice by tbe British
government that one of the lighthouses
has been undermined, and must be taken
[own and removed to a site further in¬
land. At present the sea threatens to
peraol sh the light and the tower.
| A practical test of fire-proof, patent
Stiffened wire lathing, was given recent
yin Philadelphia. A brick building
wenty feet souare was erected of two
Divisions, in one the common wood lath
ng such as is generally used, in the
ptherwas the stiffened wire lathing with
bast iron ribs. At 3:05 in the afternoon
the fires were started, and in eight
minutes the plaster, and wood lathing
Dropped and were consumed. At 4:5 5,
when the visitors left the grounds, the
Ere in the wire lathing apartment was
pill bon burning, with no signs of consump
of the plaster or lathing.
Mrs. Diaz, wife of , the ,, President r, • 1 i of «
Mexico, has labored for years, accord
tg to a the v hew York Graphi-, , . to ,
imcliorate the condition of the poorer
jass , ot . , her bhe has established
sex.
arious institutions for the employment
f poor women and girls, and has
:opularized work which, until she bc
ameits protecting patroness, was looked
!pon as unbecoming and contrary to
stablished customs. Under her patron
ge these institutions have become
lourishing and afford respectable employ¬
ment to hundreds of her sex. She is ever
tidying some new scheme for the
dvancement of the poorer classes, and
Ier name will be a future household
f °rd associated with benevolence and
dndness.
Jvery HKesbarre, curious Penn. case One is reported of the young from
™mcu employed at the silk mills of that
wn was taken with an epileptic fit.
fell .0 <h, floor, „d ,he' other girl,
> xierea around and became most!
‘krmed aa d excited. Suddenly one of
hem gave a wild shriek and fell over in
'lolcnt hysterics. Tile excitement in
teased, and in a minute minute or or so so another another
oan h, _ ____ "Oman was seized with hysteria.
Qe girls were now almost almost wild wild w.tb w th
ervmiser^-* 3 excitement, , and one after another
cues and struggles as they lay
bi »» th, floor combioed to m.k.
scene an extraordinary and alarming
ae - Sixteen of th„ h g,rb thus ,,
rated WCre P ro3 ’
-Medical in , aid summoned, and
was
t,rrls wei '- revived and sent home.
' ^ T - ^ an Dorston estimates, in
ii e o,- American, that
sii there are one
! ? D cars the United States, the
„ -®up!ers
of which must be changed if
standard of ' the Master Car Builders’
i6 generally adopted. He
-vouid :h make e 08 ^^ the entire ^ 8 ‘ 5 ° expense * Car ’ of wh; the ‘ eh
Sn *'^00,000. .
)ref l&ced-J° , U * i1er8 Supposing the
) ~ _W k ic k musfc be < t is_
jD „° ljave eo-t $15 per car, or
for the crlak equipment,
Action of car
he lJ- T . Wr8cij9 *the from broken links,
r om an< death rate
h* re ® s ' ac * c and going between
i c
oq annn !n y pl f ^ and replace the links,
* more, $22
k ff) 00 o • or v
*«'l ^ thinks theauto
idedi, ?“ pler mil5t regarded as de
'■ k* cheapest.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1888.
FROM FAR AND NEAR,
MATTERS OR MOMENT IN VARI¬
OUS QUARTER, > OF THE GLOBE.
Terrillc Battle Between Tramps and Mexi¬
cans of Colorado.
A terrible battle in a Denver and Rio
Grande box-car between tramps, resulting
in tbe killing of three Mexicans, together
with the capture of Billy Cornelius, known
as “Billy the Kid,” who heads a notorious
band of horse thieves, made up Colorado’s
calendar a few days since,
i Three Mexicans, Selidon Vijil, J. A An
noya and Joan A. Arelland, and a half a
dozen tramps boarded a box-car at Pueblo,
Col., and afterward Vijil wr; -uscovered
dying in the car, shot through the bowels,
and the other two were found dead twenty
five feet *>part near a bridge, Anuoya being
shot in the buck with a forty-five calibre and
Arelland clubbed on the head until dead,
the When que.-t oiled as to the cause friends Vijil said had
toys had done it He and his said. Before
a light and were whipped, he
telling It more he died. Mexicans and the
seems that the three
other tramps quarre ed, drew their weapons,
and one of the bloodiest battles in the West
was fought. It was a terrible encounter be¬
tween nearly a dozen men huddled in a box,
stealing their way and fighting in riddled the night
time. The inside of the car was with
bullets.
Further developments may show that other
lives were lost and the bodies concea'ed.
Since last Friday thirty-two men have
been chasing “Billy the Kid,” a noted des¬
perado, rivaling in some respects his name¬
sake. At the head of desperate men he has
been terrorizing Southeastern Colorado and
is supposed to have participated in some of
the terrible crimes in Oklahoma, the neutral
land strip, and the Pan Handle country.
A large and well-chosan posse of men have
been hot on his trail for several days, and
last Friday came upon the desperado in the
night-time. Billy was too quick for them,
and, mounting a magnificent horse, started
on a wild, mad dash over the plains and es¬
caped. three days later he captured
Two or was
by a farmer, who was passing a ranch known
to be vacant. Seeing a light, he looked in
and recognized “Billy the Kid,” cooking his
Tho desperado had sworn that he would
never be taken alive, but the farmer entered
the cabin, covered Billy with a double-barrel
shotgun, and he threw up his hands. He is
now in jail in Trinidad, Col.
Headlong to Heath.
A thrilling and appalling spectacle was
witnessed in connection with a balloon as¬
cension at the Ottawa (Canada) Industrial
Exhibition. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon
a balloon which was in process of inflation
was surrounded by a number of young men.
Suddenly a cry of horror was raised as it
broke from its moorings and shot into
the air carrying with it a young man
named Thomas Wensley, who had been care¬
lessly holding on by a small rope attached to
the balloon. Higher and higher by he his sped hands in
his fatal flight, simply view clinging thousands of
and suspended in full of
spectators, his aged father being one of the
number, but fortunately unaware that his
only son was tbe object of his gaze.
When about one thousand feet from the
ground he made a desperate his struggle but as
though endeavoring to retain grasp,
the effort was vain and poor Wensley fell
headlong to the earth. It was noticed that
! when be had descended apparently about a
hundred feet his body turned and contorted
as if in a dying struggle, after which lus de
scent was like that of a lifeless mass.
The grief stricken father is almost wild
w ith frenzy. He cannot bo restrained from
walking the streets as he gives vent to his
feelings over the result of the dreadful spec¬
tacle which he witnessed with apparent com
posure. Wensley was about twenty-three
years of age.
Killed Himself on His Wedtti. e-Day.
Three hours before the time set for the
wedding of Wi liam B. Van Derwort, a son
of ex-Judge Van Derwort, of Chaumont, St.
Lawrence County, N. Y., to Miss Frankie
C. Matteson, of Sandy Creek, he sent
a bullet from a revolver through
his heart and expired instantly. sensation
The tragedy has caused a profound Creek, where it
in the little village of Sandy twenty
was enacted. The deceased was only and
two years of age, a college graduate Chau- a
law student in his father’s office in
mont. contracted debt at
Van Derwort had a
Sargent’s store in the village and on the wed
Derwort started out of town on foot. An oifi
^ ^d'but before Mdmak”
an arrest the young man drew a recover
fQ*SFSS£S!i * tSUSS and
husband had done, was prostrated al
j m03t driven insane '
Destructive Prairie Fires in Dakota.
One of the most destructive prairie fires
that ever visited Dakota has just occurred.
AU q£ the westera part of Lamoure
county and much of the southern
and western part of Stutsman county, fire were
burned0 ver. Instances of where ran
fas*or than horses and wagon are narrated.
extinguished in some places but was still
prairie from Lamoure to within a few miles
of Jamestown, fifty miles, was all ablaze,
They could see the burning barns, dwellings
and grain-stacks from the car windows.
Kebels Repulsed.
Tbe rebels made an attack upon the water
fort at Suakim. They were repulsed with
severe loss by the heavy artillery fire of the
British. One British gunner was killed. The
gunboats continued firing into the rebel
camp. Deserters report that there is much
sickness in the camp. Cholera has broken
out in Khartoum.
His Method.
“The great row that is being made
about the immigrants difficulty of is keeping absurd, out un¬
desirable very you
know,” said the young man at the club
to his admiring friend. “Formy part,”
he continued, “lam sure that nothing
would be easier*than to detect improper
foreigners at Castle Garden.”
“How would you do it?” inquired his
companion. “Why, I would exclude mother’s
every did
son of them whose clothes not fit.—.
Chicago News.
A welt known London firm of refreshment
contractors recently advertised for 4,000 ad¬
ditional waiters, and 10,000 applications of the candi¬ were
received in response, the whole
date* claiming to hare had experience.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States. i
■
Patrick Tracey, baggage master at
Hyde killed Park, Mass., was struck and instantly
the by a train while attempting to save
life of Mrs. Young, aged sixty nine, of
had SbaroD, who bad fallen upon the track. He
the partially succeeded in pulling her from
track when he was struck by the engine.
Mrs. Young’s left fo it was cut off, and her
left arm broken, and she was fatally injured.
The Delaware Republican Convention at
Dover nominated Henry Dupont, Joseph R.
Whittaker and Joshua Marvel for Presi¬
dential electors, and Charles H. Treat for
Congre s. The resolutions indorse the Chica¬
go platform.
William Warren, the veteran actor,
died at his home in Boston. He was seventy
years old. and had been one of the foremost
comedians on the American stage for over
fifty years.
The President has signed the Fortification
and Army bills, and approved the act for the
construction of a revenue cutter for New
berne, N. C.
Miss Mathilda Rot and Jules Grang
lande were drowned in North River, New
York city, by the capsizing of a row-boat in
which they were taking a pleasure sail.
A fire in Henry Alias’s brewery, New
York city, did about $.05,000 damage.
Congressman McAdoo has been renomi¬
nated'for that position by the Democrats of
Hudson county, New Jersey.
Milton Weston, the Chicago millionaire,
sentenced four years ago to ten years impris¬ for
onment in the Pennsylvania penitentiary
contributory murder, has been pardoned.
Charles Dodge, cashier ofShipmm. Bar
low, I.at-ocque & Choate, the New York law
firm, St has committed suicide at his home in
ipleton, Staten Island. His death follow¬
ing so closely on the exposure of Bedell’s
forgeries, the firm, who recently stole inquiries $264,008 regard¬ from
same led to many
ing his books, which were found to be rrect.
South and West.
C. H\ Crosswaitiie, a miner at Ouray,
Cal., shot latter and killed had Johnson, given his partner, the be¬
cause the some strangers
privilege of entering Cio.nS wait he’s cabin.
Captain Richard Dawson one of the
best known navigators on the lakes, com¬
mitted suicide at Toledo, Ohio, by hanging
Mrs. Mary Pecongo, widow of Charles
Pecongo, the last chief of the Miami Indians,
has died at the Indian Reservation, northeast
of Marion, lnd., aged sixty years.
James Stellep. was instantly killed,
Dorsey Miller mortally wounded, and
two others slightly hurt in a fight with
Arthur Moore a few mdes from Berkeley
Springs, W. Va.
Jackson Hunter' of Muneie, lnd., called
upon his tenant named Fleming and ordered
him to vacate. They engaged in a quarrel,
and Fleming struck Hunter with an axe.
Hunter then fired at Fleming, but missed
him and killed his own son.
A colored man named Pinckney beat Shell,
living in Anderson county, S. C., his
two-year-old stepchild so cruelly that it died
fifteen minutes later.
Louis Davis, a large land proprietor, whe
murdered David Miller, a neighbor, last
January, was taken from jail at Steelesville,
Mo., and lynched.
Victor Sebree, a United States Revenue
officer shot and killed Catrino E. Garza, a
Mexican editor, at Rio Grande City, Texas.
He was placed in jail and the Mexicans at¬
tempted to lynch him. The sheriff placed
him under the protection of the United State!
garrison at Fort Ringgold and Governor
Ross sent several troops of Rangers to quell
the disturbance.
Antony Carney, committed of Chicago, suicide fatally shot
his wife and then whil<
drunk.
Mrs. Eva Gately, a widow, with her twe
children, was killed by a train at Versailles
Ky.
The “Lone Highwayman,” who to traveler! has fol
the last two years been a terror
in the vicinity of Kerrville, Texas, has been
killed. He was shot with a needle the gun head bj
Mrs. Lizzie Hay, Sabinal, at her Bandera home on County.
waters of Rio
The Georgia cotton crop has been damaged
nineteen per cent, and the corn crop thirteen
per cent.
Town Marshal Woolwine, of Jellieo, Lyons,
Tenn., attempted to arrest William
Both drew revolvers and fired and both were
instantly killed. E. A. De.funian. a third
party, was fatally injured.
Loveza Amador, captain of the Contras
Guards of Mexico, and Granciuna Cantu, a
State ranger, settled a long standing diffi¬
culty at San Felipe de Sabinas, killed. Texas, by a
pistol fight, in which both were
H. S. Ives and George H. Stayner, the fa¬
mous Wall street operators in railway se¬
curities, were acquitted of embezzlement and
larceny at Cincinnati,
WasbinfftotL
The President has nominated J. G. Park
hurst, of Michigan, to be Minister to Bel¬
gium, Walter C. Newberrv W. postmaster to be at
Chicago, and Captain II- Lawton
Inspector-General of the Army.
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom have
left Washington for a short stay at Saranac
Inn in the Adii-ondac.cs. They were accom¬ had
panied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, who
been a guest for some days at Oak View.
President Cleveland and Private Sec¬
retary Lamont spent Saturday and Sunday
with Editor Sing -rly, of tbe Philadelphia
Record, at his farm near Gwynedd, Penn.,
returning to Washington on Monday.
President Cleveland has vetoed House
bill 8310. providing for the disposal of a part
of Fort Wallace military reservation to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company at the rate
of $30 per acre.
The Treasury Department sent to Con¬
gress an estim ite of $9000 to pay the messeu
gers bringing the Presidential electoral
to the Capital. They receive mileage of
twenty-five cents for one way. The messen¬
ger from Annapolis receives the smallest
amount, $10.50. and the one from Salem,
Oregon, the largest, $988.
Up to late date the total number of yellow
fever cases at Jacksonville, Fla., was 2134:
total deaths, 221,
The Senate has passed a bill widow granting of Gen¬ a
pension of $3500 a year to the
eral Philip H. Sheridan.
Foreign.
Calvert Brother, woolen factore d
The firm bough" John on credit Calvert and has sold’ absconded, for cash
at a sacrifice.
Hundreds of lives have been lost by flood.*
in Spain. murder of has
Another horrible and, a woman similar
occurred at Gotheshead, Eng tc
the four preceding brutal murders ot women
in the White Chapel district of Eondon.
di The has publication a g of Emperor i-r^erickf ,
° U ^e n m
Five P prominent merchants of Brockville
Canada, were drowned at that place by thf
sinking of a sailing yacht in raidchacneL
Seventeen peasants were senienc>d to bs
hanged in Russia for the killing of thr0f
policemen.
Th’. remains of General Bazaine were in¬
terred in the San Justo Cemetery, Madrid,
of Spain. the deceased The funeral and was few attended friends. by the sons
a
A EUNUCH in the Sultan’s palace at Con¬
The stantinople chief eunuch was hanged and eight for killing other a comrade. eunuchs
have been exiled for having neglected their
duties.
Joseph Barberie, son of Hon. J. C.
Barberie, George Edward, and Lawrence
McHugh, an orphan lad, were drowned off
Dalhousie, New Brunswick, by the upsetting
of their boat.
A conflict arose between German resi¬
dents and coast tribes at Bagomoyo, Zanzi¬
bar, Africa. The German Admiral landed
with a force from the Leipsie to assist the
Germans, and killed 150 men without suffer¬
ing a single casualty.
A force under Colonel Grauam has totally
defeated the insurgent Thibetans at Jelopha
Pass, capturing their camp. Four hundred
Thibetans were killed or wounded. Colonel
Bromhe.-d lost his right arm and nine Sepoys
were wounded. Colonel Graham is advanc¬
ing into Thibetan territory.
The most malignant type of typhoid fever
is prevalent at Kingston, Canada. One hun¬
dred and forty persons are reported to be
prostrated with the disease.
Three small boys were playing “killing
pigs” at Cowbay, Nova Scotia. A six-yoar- the vil¬
old son of Mrs. Anderson, who keeps
lage bote!, was bound hand and foot by his
two little companions, who then cut h.s
throat with an old rusty knife, from the ef¬
fects of which he died.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Bismarck has a mania for getting weighed
frequently.
Evangelist Moody will spend the winter
in California.
Thomas A. Edison is studying the problem
of aerial navigation.
The Kings of Cambodia and Assam will
visit Paris next year.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is said to be
meditatiu - a journey to England.
It is rumored that Bismarck will follow
Von Moltke’s example and resign.
The Prince of Wales has accepted an invi¬
tation to visit the Czar of Russia.
Andrew Carnegie came to the United
States in IS 15, when he was 10 years old.
Emperor Willi am, of Germany, receives
almost daily letters threatening his life.
Count Albin Csaky has been appointed Hun¬
to succeed the late Herr Trefort in the
garian Ministry.
Colonel Markham, an English line. hunter,
has a good record in the tiger He has
killed seventy-two.
The oldest voter in the United States this
year is a Texas man, Richard Kid<" who was
born 115 years ago.
The Russian Grand Dukes Sergius and
Paul have been received and entertained by
the Suitan at Stamboul.
The tallest man in Congress is Stewart, of
Texas, while Bowers, of Georgia, is the lean¬
est. Senator Ingalls is the thinnest.
Chicago gave Chief Justice Melville C.
Fuller a notable banquet and reception on
the eve of his departure for Washington.
Senator Sawyer will be seventy-seven
years old when his present term expires and
he says he will then retire from public life.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham has returned
to Chicago. He says that, as he is on the
Bench, he will not take any part in the cam¬
paign.
Secretary of the Treasury Fair*
child’s grandfather was the printer and
publisher i; of a newspaper. His father was a
awyer.
Prince George, of Greece has been be¬
trothed to Princess Marguerite,second daugh¬
ter of the Due de Chatres and a wealthy
heiress.
The Empress of Austria is said to own
twenty pet horses and twice as m iny dogs,
after whose proper entertainment sue per¬
sonally sees every day.
Viscount Cranbrook, one of tea oldest
members of the present British cabinet,
prides himself on never having, through his
long life, read a novel.
Further discussion upon Mr. Gladstone
reveals the fact that he was flogged only school once
at Eton, for refusing to trouble. give away a
fellow who had got into
Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse,
is a confirmed invalid, being a patient in St.
Thomas’s hospital, Londou. She has never
recovered from the injury to her spine re¬
ceived during the Crimea.
General Russell A. Alger, of Michi¬
gan, is worth $10,009,000. His money is in¬
vested in pine and mineral land, a railroad
and a bank. All of his fortune has been
made within fifteen years.
Belva Lockwood has been married
twice. She is ft’so a graduate of two col¬
leges. She has both experience and accom¬
plishment, and yet her candidacy for the
Presidency can be looked upon onjy as a
joke.
Frank Dempster Sherman, the poet, has
a great fondness for the higher mathematics,
particularly for calculus. He is at present
preparing for the press a text-book on cal¬
culus, while at the same time revising his
poems for publication.
Wilson Waddingham, of Savin Rock,
Conn., is said to be the largest land-holder in
the United States. He is believed to own
over 2.000,000 acres of graz ng land in New
Mexico and elsewhere, and he has also made
lr rge investments in real estate in Western
cities.
“Skipper Crunslile.”
It cannot always be to d by the looks
of a word bow it should be pronounced. whose
In England, for ohn example, is a addressed man
name is Si. . always as
Mr. Sinjun. A newspaper correspondent
tells a Marblehead (Mass.) story bearing
upon tlie same point. the at Salem,
A ca-e was on in court
in which great interest was taken by the
fishermen The clerk called the first
witness: “Captain Edward Crownin*
shield, come into court”—no response.
The summons was repeated with like
I j re-ult, and the bronzed and weather
beaten old tars began to look around
j withinterest old an0 the curiosity. front seat One espe- stout
, veteran on was
ciaily curioii8, ana watched the creen
bai e closely to see who this distin
guished individual was.
The clerk intimated to the court that
til e witness was evidently not present, and
j )U , i us tice knew the locality its
inhabitants better than the scribe.
“Let me try,Mr. Cierk,” he said, with
a snriie, and called “Skipper Crunshle.”
“Here,” responded the ancient in the
front scat, who had apparently been ex
p?ct : ng the advent of some distinguished
naviil o Leer, and failed to recognize
himself under the high-sounding title,
NEWSY GLEANINGS
London is to have an electric railway.
Carl Schurz is still »t Kiel, Germany.
The crops in France exceed all expecta¬
tions.
The rye crop of Europe is considerably
short.
Mormons are flocking into Wyoming in
great numbers.
Thirty million trees have been planted in
Kansas this year.
Inventor Edison says he has found a sure
cure for yellow fever.
The honey crop of the country is below
the average this season.
A canal will soon be built between the
Black and Caspian Seas.
| (A Chinaman is refused naturalization
papers by a St. Louis Judge.
The Czar and Czarina have declined to re¬
ceive Queen Natalie of Servia.
Heavy losses have occurred to cranberry
growers from the severe frosts.
An eagle carries off the six-year-old child
of a Kansas farmer and devours it.
An electric bolt killed four people of one
family in Cosala, Mexico, recently.
Bunco men in Pittsburg swindle an aged
and respectable citizen out of $10,080.
In Kansas drought has caused a severe de
cline in the condition of the corn crop,
p The King of Siam has donated to the Bap
tist mission at Bangkok the sum of $2 10 , 000 .
Three carriages and five cabs formed the
funeral train of ex-Marshal Bazaine at
Madrid.
The prospect appears to be that the onion
crop of the country will fully equal the large
crop of 1886.
The amount of loss to creditors in England
and Wales through bankruptcy last year was
$35,574,575.
The King of Greece, accompanied German Kaiser by tlje
Duke of ISparta, visited the
at Potsdam.
A provisional Government has been es¬
tablished in Hayti. Order is restored and
business is brisk.
Robert Somerville, of New York, was
torn and trampled to death by cattle on a
Western ranch.
About 1672 regular passenger trains enter
and leave the depots of New York City
every twenty-four hours.
The German Government wants to build
more men-of-war, and is going to ask the
Reichstag for money to do it.
The Swiss Government will ask the Swiss.
Parliament for a credit of $5,000,000 to sup¬
ply the army with improved rifles.
The Cotton Spinners’ Association, at Man¬
chester, England, decides to run on short
time to defeat the speculative ring.
Returns for 1888 show that British live
stock has decreased 4.8 per cent, 1886. compared
with 1887 and 7.8 compared with
The Sultan of Turkey has obtained a loan
of $5,000,000 at seven per cent, from the
Deutsche Bank to build a new railroad.
Three hundred Indians at the Lower
Brule agency have signed the settlement treaty to open
a part of the reservation to
Baldwin, the balloonist, leaped from his
balloon with a parachute at the height of
6000 feet, in London. He fell in safety.
The German Government is going to make
an official inquiry into the publication of
alleged extracts from the late Emperor
Frederick’s diary.
The opening of the Augusta (Ga.) National
Exposition has been postponed from October
10th to November 8th, and to close December
15th.
It is stated that the United States authori¬
ties will compel the Brooklyn Bridge to
abolish its electric lights because they inter¬
fere with the safe navigation of the East
River.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate Proceedings.
180th Day.— The conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed of
to. ,. A bill regulating the the presentation President of
bills and joint resolutions to
the United States, after a brief discussion,
was referred.... Mr. Edmunds Utah presented State a
petition against dishonored admitting as the a field of
and placing a star on
blue.... The House bill to create without a Depart¬ the
ment of Agriculture was passed Mr. Chandler
Weather Bureau section....
introduced a bill to pay $50 to the Congo
Emigration Company for each colored man
who desires to emigrate to any free State of
Africa. Deficiency Ap¬
18 1st Day.— The General the
propriation bill was passed. Among
amendments was one appropriating $8745 to
pay to the widow of the late Chief *1 ustice
Waite the balance of bis year’s salary.... $10,000
A bill was passed of appropriating the monument
for memorating the completion the surrender of Burgoyne com¬ at
Saratoga, N. Y.... A bill was introduced to
prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers
..Mr. Call introduced a bill directing tlie
. Commission of
President to appoint a seven
physicians of the different schools of. medi¬
cine as far as practicable who shall observe
and view and make a report of all the facts
on the yellow fever in Jacksonville so far as
practicable. Day.— Mr. Edmunds introduced ... a
18'2d the special
resolution to bring out corre
spondence relating to the Chinese Restnc
tion bill.... The Senate went into Executive
session to discuss tbe condition of the Chinese
treaty and the relations of tbe two Govern¬
ments.. .Mr. Sherman’s resolution for an in¬
. relations between
quiry into the state of the
tbe United States and Great Britain and
Canada was taken up, anil Mr. Morgan dis¬
cussed it.... Tbe joint resolution to continue
the provisions of existing law providing for
the expenditures of the Government up to
and including October 10 was parsed.... AIL
the private pension bills on the calendar, 114
in number, were passed in forty-five minutes,
including the bill granting a pension to the
widow of General Sheridan.
183d Day.—M r. Danie’s continued the De¬
bate on the President s n.es-ago.....The Sen¬
ate passed the bill approving tbe new fine of
demarcation between the waters of Rhode
Island and Connecticut.
House Proceedings.
219th Day.—I n the House Mr. Morrow
Sir^"ribe n fe^t
rolled bills... .The conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was the agreed Lon
to, but no decision was reached on
gressional Library Building feature. A fur
tber conference was ordered.... A resolution
extending appropriations for certain Govern
ment bureaus till October 15 was resolution passed.... to
Mr. Crain again called up his
suppress trusts, and the measure was dis
cussed but no action token. f™. for
220th Day.—T ho House passed the bills
a commission to attend the Geodetic Con
ference at Brussels, and also to encourage en
listment in the navy.... The joint resolution
to provide for an international commission
to determine Mexican boundary the questions
was passed.... Academy The bill to regulate, considered, course and
at the Naval providing was after March
an amendment that
4, 1889, the minimum age for the admission
of a cadet to tbe academy shall be sixteen
years, and the maximum twenty-on* years,
*u adootod..
NO. 32.
LABOR NOTES. .
Three million women in the United State*
work for money.
There are only three crutch factories In
the United States.
The File-Makers’ Union has added a sick
benefit fund to its other financial advantages.
Mr. A. I. Root gives employment to 150
hands about his bee establishment in Chicago.
There are about 25,000 persons engaged
in the manufacture of cigars in New York
City.
Twelve suits have been brought against*
Boston mar ole firm for importing contract
labor
The Brotherhoftd of Locomotive Firemen
have deculed to amalgamate with tue
Knights of Labor.
On tiie pay roils of the Pennsylvania system
of railways there are constantly the name*
of 50,050 employes.
There are -500 persons employed making by the in¬
131 firms engaged in the wagon
dustry in Philadelphia.
Cuban troops are under arms to suppresi
an expected riot among the 25,001 striking
Cigannakers in Havana.
The baskets for peaches are made in
Laurel, Del., and the workmen and work
women get eighty cents a hundred.
Chess for the working classes is a now
experiment of the English chess players, and
it is meeting with cousiderab e success.
The National Federation of Miners and
Mine Laborers contemplate putting the nine
hour system into effect at an early date.
The tanning of lipa constrictor sk,ns form*
a branch of in, I us try. in Hamburg* N. J.
They are made into pocketbooks principally.
The labor societies of Pittsburg have raised
oyer $2508 for the njonum nt to be erected in
memory of Thomas Armstrong, a noted labor
leader.
It is slated that the National Union of the
United Brewery workmen, which was or¬
ganized in August, 1880, ha3 already spent
$80,000 in strikes.
Since the organization of the insurance
feature of the Knights of Labor the order
has paid out in benefits over $55,000 to tane
ficiaries of deceased members.
Seventeen trades societies have forward¬
ed to the English Labor Bureau reports show¬
ing an aggregate membership of 180,130, of
which total 7000 wore unemployed.
The Brotherhood dt Locomotive Firemen, local
which was established in 1873, with one
union and nine members, has now 380 divi¬
sions and 18.000 beneficial members.
There were 253,852 manufacturing estab¬
lishments in the United States when the last
census was taken, with a capital employed of $2,^0,-
272,608. The number of men was
2,732,595. box factory
The employes of a Baltimore
struck because the firm put in The nailing machine ma¬
chines during the busy season. boxes
needs four men and can nail 6000 per
day. The average man can nail only 225
boxes per day. •
Messrs. Wyman and Sons, printers and
publishers, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, have
given a pension of $50!) per annum for life to
W. H. Phillips, on his retirement H orn tho
position of case-overseer, which lie has filled
for a number of years.
It is asserted that the American Federa¬
tion of Labor is numerically the strongest
labor organization in the world, even sur¬
passing tne Knights df Labor, Knights having-f.18,000 is offici¬
members, while that of the
ally set down at 535,01)0.
A convention wifi soon be held for the
■
formation of a National Oystermen s Union.
Already eleven local unions have been
formed, and it is intended that the Nat onal
Union shall have a sick benefit fund ”^°w
ing a member $5 a week and a death benefit
fund by which his heirs wifi receive $75.
Asa general thing.shoemakers’ England. profits are An
better in this country than in
American shoemaker can make ut a cost to
himself of sixty-six cents what an English
shoemaker has to pay $1 for, while in mantis
facture of ladies’ Bhoes the expenditure of
twenty-five cents in this country is equiva¬
lent to that of thirty-four cents in Eng.and.
A WOMAN’S RESTAURANT.
it is Run by and for Women, witW
Seats Reserved for Men.
A novel restaurant has been opened ai
Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth Woman’s street Co-opera¬ uu
der the title of the
tive Restaurant. It is run by the
Woman’s New York Club and Co opera
tive Exchange, and according to signs
which appear in the horse cars and else¬
where it is a restaurant run by and women, for
in the interests inirwroBtra of ui women ..mVu,
women. Seats, however, “are reserved
for men.” It was started by a Mrs.
Pike, once a well-to-do woman under
tbe patronage of a number ol wealthy
ladies, among whom is Mrs. Edward W.
Lambert, the wife of the chief examin¬
ing physician of the Equitable Idle As¬
surance Society. Mrs. Pike is a woman
of enterprise and energy. She conoeived
tbe idea that a restaurant run by went the
cooperative plan ought to pay, and
ahead to prove it. She applied surface to the
directors of the Sixth avenue
railroad for the rental of a large store the on
the east s de of tbe avenue next to
corner of Fifty-ninth street, and when
she had explained the objept for which it
was to be used they let her have it for
one-third of its real value. Then she
Lad it fitted up. Although it lias been
running only six weeks, the success of
her scheme has been demonstrated* and
it is already self-supporting. the Exchange to
One of the ideas of is
furnish employment for worthy $1 poor
women at home. By member, paying and any
woman may become a t-na
can cook at home some of the things sold
, . ., re8 taurant. All sorts of foodsJ
entilers, cakes, and bread, art
already supplied in this mannen Mrs.
pik e said that the only obstacle enco ob
ere j B0 for has been the difficulty of
ta £ rl i n(? good b waitresses. A table a note
breakt.isc ,” ana ^ dinner ainne at thirty cents ha*
been started “ n “ ,1* patronized, *
many men availing themseivesoi , the in re-
6e rved feats. the , Exchange t will
berehip in ^
A mein other privt
eventnullv eventaau>iuci include many j restaurant
leges. The floor above sale tue ofrtl ' t;
fo to be devoted to the
articles an( J there will also be a library
. . V roomB Mrs. Pike hopes to be
. eventually for the
able to start , a faotor foctwye y j ^
| manufacture of vane plan, and bas been j
; goods on tne same several leading
; encoura ged to do so by T. Sun,
- j the city.—A.
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