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NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of tbe Day Called from Oar
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT 19 TRAXSPrRIKG THROUGHOUT OHM
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
A New York dispatch says: The
American District messenger boys went
on a strike Tuesday morning.
The steamer Teutonic arrived at New
York Wednesday morning. She ran 525
miles Tuesday. This ia the best day s
run on record.
Anarchists Cauer and Knold were ad¬
mitted to bail in $5,000 each at Pitts¬
burg, Tuesday. The bonds have not yet
been approved.
A New Y’ork dispatch of Tuesday order says:
Judge Larcombe has issued an
continuing H nry E. Howland as receiver
of the Florida Construction Company.
The wall p .per trust was perfected at
New Y’ork Tuesday. Forty leading m m
ufacturers are interested and the value of
the property involved is $ 200 , 000 , 006 .
A cablegram of Wednesday says: Tbe
Swiss government Las received from the
United States an apology for the arrest
by mistake of attache Geng of the Swiss
legislaiion at Washington.
Return of triennial elections held in
provinces of France Monday for mem¬
bers of councils general have been re¬
ceived at Paris from 1,132 districts.
They show a republican gain of 110
seats. •
A New Y’ork dispatch says: In accord¬
ance with the resolution passed at a re¬
cent meeting of the Richmond Terminal
advisory committee, default was made on
the interest of G per cent bonds
which was due Monday.
The deputy and acting comptroller of
the currency on Monday declared the
first dividend of 35 per cent in favor of
the creditors of the First National bank,
of Palatka, Fla., on claims proved,
amounting to $201,550.
Ex-United States Senator Anthony
Kennedy, age! eighty-two years, died at
Annapolis. Md., Sunday morning. health Sena¬
tor Kennedy has been in feeble
for a long time, but the superinducing late
cause was the excessive heat of the
torrid spell.
The thirty-third or upper union mills
in Pittsburg started up non union at 4
o’clock Monday morning. The plate mill
is running, nnd the other department
appear to be in operation. A guard of
police is about the property and no
trouble has occurred, »
A cablegram of Monday from St. Pe¬
tersburg, Russia, states that cholera hris
made its appearance in the prison at
Tomsk, the capital of the government of
that name in West Siberia. Already ten
cases of the disease and eight deaths
have been reported by the prison au¬
thorities.
ited It was reported east-bound, at St. Louis that a lim¬ Big
express, on the
Four, which left that city at 4 o’clock
Monday nfternoon, collided with a freight
train at E iwardsville Junction, III., the
engineer and fireman being killed and a
large number of passengers being injured,
several fatally.
Operations at the Champion iron mines
at Marqu tte, Mich., suspended Monday
morning for an indefinite period and the
entire force of 600 employes discharged.
The suspension is due, it is said, to the
fact that the company 00* unable to mark¬
et its ore, which is or P 'qualify that is
crowded out of the market by cheaper
ore.
A Pittsburg dispatch saya: Joseph
Driver, with three companions, who ar¬
rived at Homestead, Saturday, leftitfiere
Tuesday evening. Driver declares fha^
his reason for leaving was because he
knew there were unionists two esses of smallpox
among the non in the mill. In
this statement his companions bore him
out. They claim the bodies were buried
in the yard. Superintendent Polk denies
the story.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Monday
says: James Hunter, twenty-five years of
age, who fled after forging $105,200, re
turned unexpectedly Sunday from Brazil,
and was arrested. He is broken in health
and his mind is shattered, and he bears
but slight resemblance to the once hon¬
ored head of the extensive mill firm of
James & John Hunter. It is thought he
will never be tried-.
Informations were made at Pittsburg,
Monday afternoon before Aldmerman
Reilly by ex Private lams against Colo¬
nel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streatcr
and Assistant Burgeon Grim, of the Tenth
regiment, for aggravated assault and bat¬
tery. Warrants were issued. The charge
of aggravated assault was for tyiug
lams up by the thumbs and the assault
and battery for ihaving his head.
Lieutenant Colonel Streatcr was ar¬
rested at his home in Washington, Pa.,
Tuesday afterno n on charges of aggra¬
vated assault and battery and assault and
battery preferred by Private lams. Col¬
onel Streater went before a justice and
waived hearing for an appearance at the
September term of court ia Pittsburg.
He cave bail in $500 on each charge and
was released. Colonel Hawkins was not
arrested, as he is still on duty at Home¬
stead.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
The strike in the building trades, which
began by the union men quitting work
on the new criminal court building, where
the Jackson Architectural Iron Company
employed non-union men, has assumed
alarming proportions. In retaliation for
this strike the Iron League, to which or¬
ganization the Jackson company belong¬
ed, locked out all iron workers. Then
walking delegates ordered strikes
throughout tbe building trades.
The usual monthly statement Tuesday.' prepared
by the treasury was issued The
figures are as follows: Aggregate cash in
the treasury, $783,079,280; net cash bal¬
ance, $27,050,286; increase during the
month, $357,909; decrease of interest
and non-interest bearing debt,
$398,905; decrease of certificates and
treasury nipes and outstanding, $569,051;
total certificates treasury notes out¬
standing, $619,675,803, offset by an
equal am tint of cash in the treasure; net
debts, $907,378,935.
Telegrams of Monday from Spokaue,
Wash., state that Indians on the Colville
reservation threaten an outbreak. The
Indians are greatly incensed at the fail¬
ure of the au horities to eject prospect
tor*, and even those who have heretofote
have been peaceably dispose 1, seem (
have caught tt.e infection Com other
and all are armed. The removal of ai
intruders would set le the trouble, am.
Indian Ageut Cole has received offici i
notification that troops will be placed at
bis disposal for this purpose.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dull & Co.’s Report of Business for the
last T> , ... Meek. .
.
R. G. Dun & Co. s weekly review _ of
trade says: The extreme hot weather
for tbe entire week has checked many
kinds of business, but h;s not prevented
considerable excess in the volume of
trade over that of last year. At the same
time the weather has been extremely fa
vorable for growing crops, except in the
limited districts where damage lias been
d uT„„k J ?
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.JKSSiSBiLtLSSUg'
but there are distinct signs of a favorable
settlement. ' Finished products of iron
and steel are strongei—$3 to $5 higher,
but great demora izatien is expected in
pig iron unless m ire of the consuming
works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron
nre very active, und the manufacturers of
plate and structural iron have more orders
taan they can well handle, btit no im
provement is seen in rails. •
Boot and shoe shops are running full
of business, and shipments exceed )ast
year's every week; being for the year,
thus far, 2,056,000 cases, against 1,967,
000 to date last year. The shipments of
hides from Chicago have been 110,000,
000, against 97,000,000 pounds last year,
At Baltimore the hot, weather retards
much trade, though in dr\ goods and
boot 3 and shoe? and furnishing gods it
exceeds laVt ; 'year's. At Pittsburg‘the
products of steel and iron grow stronger.,
A little improvementappears, ’ at Memphis
u»<i-Little-Rdck.'
Trade is dull at New Orleans, though
•the prospects are bright there, and at
Savannah the receipts of cotton are light
and the eiyiorts aie slightly more than
last stock’for year, but the sales bf plantation
the we< k exceeds the sales of
tangible and .visible cotton about ten to
one, aggregating 7,000,000 bales. •
The busine s failures occuning
throughout the country during the last
week, as reported to R. G Dun & Co.,
number for the United State s 171.
THEY WANT REVENGE.
The Pinkertons Swearing Out War¬
rants Against the Strikers.
A dispatch of Monday from Pittsbuyg
states that those who participated ip the
disgraceful Homestead k after
scenes at '
the surrender of the Pinkertons, on July
0th, will be prosecuted for aggravated
assault a fid battery, highway robbery,
and larceny, misdemeanors. pocket-picking and other crimes
The work of secur
ing the necessary eyufencc, ; a : convict
,those Pinkertons engaged and ift robbery the assaults on the
of the surren
dered men has been gbing on for some
tune, and H is now so far advanced that
informations will be made in a few
days and the implicated persons will
>o arrested. Among them Hre
several women, who were par
ncularly aggressive during the tune the
Pinkerton men ran the gauntlet and after
it In taking the property of the men and
hiding it. Assault and battery and re
against ceiving stolen worned. goods .will be charged
these The Pinkerton
agency will take part in these prosecu¬
tions, and now have in Pittsburg a lot of
th'eir men who were assaulted and from
whom ...... property „ stolen. . . The attorney
for the _was informa
prosecution is preparing
tipn in these cases, and as soon as they
are completed warrants will be issued.
Governor Winans, of Michigan, Mon
day afternoon issued a. proclamation
calling a special session of the state leg
islature to meet Friday August 5, at
noon for the purpose of rearranging the
senate district and apportioning anew
the representatives among the counties
and districts and for the. transaction of
such other business as may be laid before
it.
OIL ON FIRE.
Lightning Sets Fire to Tanks In the
Pennsylvania Oil Fields.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs
day says: During the prevalence of the
thunder storm which swept over the
southwestern oil field Wednesday after
noon, lightning struck tank No. 17 of
the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line
company, six miles from Washington.
The tank contained 37,000 barrels of oil,
and when it burst the burning fluid
spread to twenty tanks in the vicinity
and so*jb yete tvfiTft. The heat was so
__ approach
intense that trains could not
within an eighth of a mile of the scene.
The loss’s not known, but it is thought
to be very heavy.
ALABAMA ELECTION
The State is Claimed for Jones by a
Majority of 20,000.
CAPTAIN KOLB ALSO CLAIMS THAT HE
HAS CARRIED THE STATE BY NOT
LESS THAN THIRTY THOUSAND.
A special of Wednesday from Mont
gomery says: Ihe returns coming in to
night from the election of Monday tend
to place the majority for Governor Jones
at 20,000 or below, though the state ex
ecutive committee still claims that there
is no reason to show that the majority
will fall below 30,000. Official and un
official returns ieceived up to 8 o’clock
Wednesday night show that twenty-six
counties give Jones majorities aggregat- counties
ing 33,734; twenty-six other
give Kolb majotitits aggregating 18,—
i- 34 ; leaving an apparent Det ma
joriiy of 15,700 for Jones. Thisefig
ures are subject to possible changes on
the official count of returns which will
take place next Sa'urday in every county
in the state. t welve counties are yet to
report; but it i. Minuted that their
majorities will not affect the result one
way or the other more than 5,000. The
legislature is claimed by the state execu—
tive committee, and Ko.b’s people also
c i aim it) an d contend that many mem
b- rs elected in Jones counties are Kolb’s
fr j en(Js an d alliuncemen, while they
claim every man in counties which they
have carried. It will take a close can
vass to settle this matter.
captain kolb talks.
Captain Rcubau F. EU.,, alliance can
XSS-vSr'S confident of election and that I have
my
carried the white vote of the state by not
less than 30,000 majority. I hold that
the small majority which my opponent
and his followers claim is based on a
fraudulent and stuffed vote in the black
belt counties of the state. I claim that on
a fair and honest count of the vote as it
was really cast-in the black belt counties
of Montgomery, Dallas, AVilcox, Marengo,
Lowndes, Macon, Luliock and Bar
bour these counties would give me a ma
jority of over 20,000, and with a fair and
honest count in the whole state my ma
jority would be 40,000. The democratic
party of the state bf Alabama is essen
tially the party of the white men of the
statt;.., The returns show that I have
carried a vast majority of the white vote
of the state. I do not propose to sub
mit-to-a fraudulent 64uat, nor do my
friends propose to submit to it. My white
followers represent two-thirds of the
democracy of the slate of Alabama. I
cannot believe that the minority of the
democratic party of the state, represent
e d by Governor Jones and liis followers
can afford to longer antug q nize„.ugJ.’
a telegram to Georgia.
Cantaiu Kolb Georgia—telegrams has received ^'npmber of
telegrams from con
.gratulatory aiffi telegrams of inquiry—
an( i i n his reply to one of these from the
Southern Affiance Farmer, at Atlanta,
Captain Kolb sent the following 1892‘-South- ■
Montgomery, Meance Ala., August 3, Ga. My
cm ,Farmer, Atlanta, will : exceed ma
jority of the white vote in the state
thirty thousand. The 15,000 majority claimed
by Governor Join s is based on a fraudulent
count in the black counties. With an honest
count of the votes as cast in Montgomery', Bul¬
lock. Macoiq Lowndes, Dallas, AVilcox, Perry
and other black .counties, my majority will not
bjj.legs than 40,000. , It. F. Kolb.
A
s COLUMBUS DAY*
j
Great Interest Taken in the Approach
ing Celebration.
The approachi ^ celebration of Colum
bus Americrii Da by the 13,000,000 pupils in
public schools is attracting
gcneral attention. From £ prominent ed -
ucat from eminent sta smen in hi h
^ laces and from the humblest citizens
me wordg of commendation . R appeals Ju.
to all cla98es and conditlon8 bec e it
touches the institution which is closest to
the % ^ j mo8t representative \ of the
^ fullegt of for the future .
8eye ral thousand American newspapers
hftV0 championed the movement. A
bill recently passed congress authorizing
and instructing President Harrison to is¬
sue a proclamation making ColumbusDay,
October 21st, a general holiday, and rec¬
ommending to the people, a fitting ob
servance of this 400th anniversary of
in America>g school discovery,in J ; all their idealities;
their hou g g and other
of as , em51 Speaker ^ Crip, when asked
a few dav9 ag0( what do you - think' of
the movement for a national celebration
of Oolumbus Da J „ replied F : .* The idea
of ivi the fe Deral c elebrati on of Co
lumbug D in to tfae handg of the Dublic
schools impresses r me very J favorably’. J The
public school is certainly the most char¬
acteristic product of the 400 years of
American life. The public school stands
for the spirit of enlightenment which has
been the mark of life in this country.
The public school may have its defects,
but take it all in all, . it is a superb
thing.
Third Party in Michigan.
Five hundred delegates were present
at the people's party convention which
assembled at J ickscn Michigan, Tuesday,
The platform of the Omaha convention
was adopted and a motion to incorporate
prohibition plank was made amid
great disorder. The following ticket
wa3 nominated: Governor, John AY.
Ewing, a farmer of Grand Lodge; lieu
tenant governor, Louis (Alich.) I ;de
pendent; treasurer, Joseph, state, Frank
M. A T andercock, editor, of S'. Louis
.
j (Mich.) Independent; treasurer, Joseph
W. Welton, of Kentucky, country aud
general.Uliut Peek, of Laaer county.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES,
Executive and Campaign, as Announced
by Chairman Harrity.
After several nays’ deliberation and
conference with Calvin S. Brice, AVilliam
C. Whitney and Gov. James E. Camp¬
bell, Chairman Harrity, of the demo¬
cratic national committee, announced,
Friday afternoon, the national executive
and campaign committees. They are as
follows:
Executive Committee—M. F. Tarpev,
California; Charles S. Thomas, Colorada;
Carles French, Connecticut; Samuel Pas
coe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; J.
J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles W. Blair,
Kansas; Thomas W. Sherley, Kentucky;
. . . „
James Jeffr.e-, Louisiana; . Arthur . Sew
all, Maine;. Arthur P. jorman,. Mary
land; Daniel J. Campas, Michigan;
Michael Dore, Minnesota; . Charles L.
Ho wry^ Mississippi; John G. Pra
ther, Missouri; Alvah W. SuDoway, New
Hampshire; Miles Ross ; New Jersey;
William F. Sheehan, New York; M.
W. Ransom, North Carolina; Calvin S.
Brice, Ohio; Samu&i R. Hovey, Rhode
Llaud; Holmes Cummings, B. lennessee; Smalley,
C. T. Iloit, lexas; Bradley
Vermont; Basil B. Gordon, Virginia;
William F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, Sheerin,
chairman ex-officio; S. P. sec
retary ex-omuo. the
The following compose ice, Ohio; campaign
committee: Calvin S. B A.
P. Gorman, Maryland; William F. Sbee
han, New York; B. B. Smaller, Ver
mont; M. AV. Ransom, North Carolina;
B. T. Cable, Illinois; E. C. AV all, AVis
consin; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts;
W. F. Harrity, Pennsylvania.
SHE IS INSANE.
«° 9*r tt. the nice Mitchell
Murder Case.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says:
large crowd was in attendance at the
criminal court Saturday, it being an
aounced that Judge DtiBose would de
liver the charge to the jury in the famous
,\.Hce Mitchell case, murderess of Freda
Ward. The defendant appeare 1 calm
, lD( j collected during the reading of the
charge, the time occupied in its delivery
being fifteen minutes; the question of
sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the
time of the trial being the only question
considered. The jury retired at 9:30
and at 9:50 o’clock filed into the court
room with the following verdict:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
Alice Mitchell, insane, and believe it
would endanger the safety of the com
mu pity to set her at Liberty.”
• Alice Mitchell was then remanded to
the custody of tbe sheriff, and will be
ordered placed in an insane asylum.
Should she be released as sane at any
time the she, can then be placed she upon trial on _
charge of murder, as was only
tried as to he.r mental soundness or un
soundness at the time of her trial, the
question aa to her mental condition at the
time of the cqmmission of the homicide
not being touched upon during her trial,
now Concluded. •
When the verdict was read by the clerk
* f aint smile spread over the defendants’
features as if she had been confident of
W trial. 0 '# She verdict taken , throughout to jail, gavly the entire chat
was
ting as she went, and will be sent thence
' to of the state insane asylums,
one
CONDEMNING THE PINKERTONS
Railroad Men Pass Resolutions Against
Their Employment.
Sunday seven of the orders of railroad
employes of New Y oik, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and Delaware met at AVilkes
bkrre, l’a., in general and convention to dis¬
cuss the benefit advisability of com¬
ing under one head a The societies are
the Railroad Conductors, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Switchers’ Mu¬
tual Aid Society, Brotherhood of Rail¬
road Trainmen, Order of Railroad Te¬
legraphers and ladies’ auxiliary. In the
afternoon a mass meeting was held at¬
tended by 5,000 non-brotherhood men.
Addre-ses were made by prominent mem¬
bers of the various branches.
Grand Master AYorkraan of the Knights
of ously L^tpff the T. V. Powderly spoke vigor¬
of outrages of the Pinkertons
at Homestead and submitted the follow¬
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted: interfer¬
Resolved, That xve regard the
ence of the Pinkertons in the labor trou
blt s as unpat r iot,ic and un-American. AYe
have confidence in the power of the law
to keep the peace' and, therefore, demand
the abolit’on by law of the practice of
throwing standing armies of irresponsible
men niouud mills and factories and upon
our railroads in times of labor disputes.
DISASTROUS HAIL STORM.
Crops Totally Destroyed—-Losses Esti¬
mated at $200,000.
Wednesday terrible hail and wind
storms swept over the town of Farming
ton, Minn., and an area of country twen¬
ty miles east and west by two miles north
and south. Hailstones the size of hick¬
ory nuts and hen’s eggs fell, covering the
ground six inches deep, tearing awnings
and signs dowo, splitting the latter into
ribbons, and glass suffered in proportion.
Trees were stripped of their foliage and
many totally stripped of branches, while
the roofs of small outbuildings were bat¬
tered in. The loss to crops is absolute,
the corn, wheat and oats being cut down.
The storm covered an area of fifteen
miles square in Rice, Dakota and Good
hue counties, and extending to the Mis¬
sissippi river, thirty miles. A liberal
estimate places the'acreage absolutely
destroyed at ten thousand and the loss at
$ 200 , 000 .
THE deadly h
Tlis Higtest Dean Kate
Twenty T MU
eiR _
TWO HUNDRED AND
in new York
OXE
years. death rate The for number^ a single da?'V 6 he C 4
week was 1 434 v. ea, us f 0I ■
,
tions for the from week beat endino- amL»V that5r l Were Pt N ^
Williams.,„r„ su?1[
week exceeded 600 Onlv f 1
large houses ♦ 0
sugar are in f„i,
ly Havemeyer’s establishment huadrS^
one thousand four
these more than four carriedo&* hundred 1
33 per cent, were
week. The Brooklyn thesefctwt^ su aar ‘
ploys 450 men; Of y i
ty and one hundred enss *i
men, as house. were those i„ tkt H,> 11
sugar
great mortality ix P m UD
Jhe effect of the terrible ^
week in \
past, the city of Pna
was startlingly shown by the 1
port made Saturday by the k 11
health, During the week enrti '
o'clock Saturday, Health Offi 1
issued death v
870 certificates Thi-i
mortality than has 13
ever)
corded by the officers before.
“fof “'II
diphtheria scutged the
cooler in Baltimore,
The weather at Baltimore Saturdw
about-eight degrees cooler on aa anlJ ar«J
than that of Friday, but deaths
trations from heat during thed«ij
Dearly of the protracted as numerous hot as those spell. on The"red anyo3
of the city health commissioner for tlj
week gives the following facta: Tot
number of deaths for the week, 45]
under five years, 224; from sunstrok
51; cholera infantum, 89; convulsion
18. The number of deaths for the j
responding week of 1891 was 207,or2
less than for the week just ended,a
the excess in mortality is attributed!
the health’commissioner to be unpsti
leled heat Here. 'Never before ini
history many deaths t of the during city have the same there perioil bes]
time,
POOR ALICE MITCHELL
While on Her Way to the Asylum Ski
Tears OTer Freda Ward’s Grate,
The last scene in the famous A!
Mitchell case was enacted Mondaywl
the insane murderess was convey^
tbe insane asylum at Bolivar, Te
Before leaving the city, a carriageo
taining the prisoner halted at the Mil
ell residence, where Alice toyed a i
ment with a couple of cats, then thru
ing them away petulently with “Oh, j
can go, I don’t love you any mod
Reaching Freda Ward’s grave in I
wood cemetery, Alice and her fatherd
mother alighted from the carriage. 1
eaid nothing, but evidently was d
strong emotion. Her meditation wasa I
interruptid by the other members of
party. She moved with around wide the op ij
mound and e y ed jt eyes
gome flo ’ whic £ s h e nlaced tuM wi
and then ghe announce d she
to return. i
THE MAFIA AGAIN.
A Strange Letter Received by
of Police of Yew Orleans.
Chief of Police Garter of NewOi
received a letter the Saturday Mafia. from^ Fu..*!
supposed to be
the letter: ChiefofJ p*
New Orleans, July 29.-To
Gai ter: We have in our Possesion forP
Will deliver him in your hands
liberate him for $1,000. WewiU
old clothes, etc., such as we found
son, but bear in mind, by one ba
thonzed by you, hia body wih be ■ ■ w
shot; then sent you for a present, days,
must reach us before twenty furth ■
will have his right ear. For tom (
tion address general delivery, po- ’
cago, St- Louis or New Orleans.
Respectfully, remembered that *• Jadge ' ,<
It will be court i
of the criminal district ,; .
Orleans, mysteriously disapptr
April. He wa 9 old and feeble. “ j
last seen walking along the ^ V
impression of his friends was ■ 1
fallen into the river and was ;
and that i mpression still ^ j
Warrants for Five S un(ll !
A dispatch of Wednesday fro®J
dens, Idaho, states that Gene , (
and Major R mdall have rc ill I"
_
Fort Sherman. The troops , ^
Wardens for an indefinite
United States commissione j
for the arrest of 500 men, “ ffe i
dred of which are yet to "
has been represented and the m P' e P. ld e 1 tbi!
the governor have been designated ^ m f tbe ^
men and that
sin’s knife or bullet
evidence proves the assertion.
Forfeited RailroJd
A San Francisco dispatch *J- f90{i
hundred forfeited and to the fifty Southern th ° us fp Pac aC ific getW -
company were openea fffie
AA’ednesday. Many en
in lister. San Francisco^nd Most of the latter otje ^ ^
tiers. Claims will be maue .
tied within five months.
