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A WAR SCARE.
REPORT THAT OBNEY HAS SENT
AN ULTIMATUM
Ami that England Must Fighter Back
down.
Washington enjoyed a genuine war
scare Saturday as a result of a sensa
tional story printed in the Washington
Post, to the effect that the apministra
tion had practically delivered an nlti
rmBiun to the British government
which left that goverament no alter
native except to hack down or fight.
According to the Post, which some
times gets some very valuable inside
information, the administration has
taken a stalwart American posi
tion relative to Venezuela. Until
quite recently the administration was,
to say the least, unfortunate in the ex
ecution of its foreign policy. Its atti
tude toward Hawaii when its minister
secretly conspired with a dissolute and
profligate queen to restore her to a
disgraced throne, naturally failed to
strike a responsive chord in the hearts
of a people whose ancestors had re¬
volted against the tyranny of George
Ilf.
The affair at Corinto was another
chapter which the American people
read with a burning sense of indigna
tion.
For the present purposes of the au
vanceministration thesituation inYVen
ezuela is most opportune. It is hard
lynecessary to repeat that in that small
and practically defenfeless republic
Great Britain Las continued to ad
tho boundary line of British Guiana
until less than one-half of Voneznela
now remains as undisputed territory.
Not long ago the Venezuelan gov¬
ernment granted to American capital
ists a most valuable concession to de¬
velop a vast tract of land rich in min¬
erals and hard woods. Upon these
commercial treasures England) al¬
ready cast her envious eye. She had,
in fact, already set liter foot upon the
soil. Her counter claim to the terri
tery as against the grant issued by
Venezuela brought affairs to a crisis.
It afforded this government the oppor¬
tunity of sounding a note of defiance
in the ears of England—a note as start¬
ling in its suddenness and significance
as was the certain rattle of musketry
on the Lexington road one fine morn¬
ing in 1775. This is not overstating
the case.
Secretary Oluoy’a note to Lord
Halisbury lias not yet been made pub¬
lic, but when its ringing sentences be¬
come known, as they will in due time,
it is said they will arouse an echo in
every patriotic heart. Despite the de¬
nials which have been diplomatically
made, there is no doubt that Lord
Balisliury baa protested that the United
States is carrying the principle of the
Monroe doctrine to an extout hitherto
undreamed of. There is ground for
such a protest. Mr. Olnoy has placed
England in a position where she must
either abandon her claim or sustain it
with a show of force. There is no
alternative.
It can be positively asserted that the
administration is sublimely indifferent
to the course which Great Britain in¬
tends to pursue. There would be glory
enough, of course, if as the sequence
to the firm position the United States
has asserted England should quietly
yield and recognize the dominant
power upon the western hemisphere.
But if, on the other hand, England
proposes to loave the question to the
arbitrament of war, then the adminis¬
tration will bo ready to meet the issue.
It is for this that tho work upon the
ships is being hastened iii all the navy
yards, that armor is being forged and
guns completed with unusual rapidity.
More than this, there will lie, in due
oonrso of time, an array of American
war vessels under the shadow of the
Venezuelan coast* ostensibly maneu
vering, but in reality emphasizing by
their presence the new, stalwart policy
of the administration.
TROOPS FIRE ON A MOB.
Would-be Lynchers Stopped by Bul¬
lets—Two Men Killed.
In an attempt early Sunday morn¬
ing to avenge the murder of August
Schultz, the oity marshal of Tiffin,
O., who was shot down in cold blood
by Leander J. Martin, alias Williams,
a farmer of Hopewell township, a few
days ago, two more victims were added
to the trigie nffair. At 1:30 o’clock a
mob of 150 infuriated men, many of
whom were under the influence of
liquor, attacked the jail iu au effort to
secure Martin and hang him. A volley
from a half dozen Winchesters met
them aud two of the mob were killed.
At daylight crowds began to gather
in the vicinity of the jail and Sheriff
Vau Nest, fearing further troubie,
called out company C, of the Sixteenth
regimeut, Ohio national guards, to
maintain order.
Will Increase Their Wages,
l’he proprietors of the foundries at
Lawrence, Mass., have agreed to grant
the request of the local iron aud brass
molders for an increase in wages, in¬
cluding the establishment of $2.50 as
tha maximum day’s pay, the abolition
of piece work and recognition of the
union.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Fast Week.
The reports as to industrial condi
tions all over the south, received for
the past week, show that temporary
changes in prices do not have any de¬
cided effect on the volume of business
which steadily increases, Iron is not
in as active demand as a month ago,
but deliveries on contracts keep the
stock from accumulating in the yards,
and inquiries show that a very large
trade is not yet supplied. Pipe makers
and structural iron manufactures re
port a heavy business at firm prices.
Lumber men report encouragingly as
to the situation from their standpoint,
and quote higher prices and activity
in making shipments, which in some
places is greater than the ability of
the railroads to bupply the cars,
A good deal of attention has
been attracted to southern textile
mills by visits from many of the lar
gest cotton mill operators in the
Northeastern States, who have been
ft t the Atlanla meeting of the North
eastern Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso
ciation. Mills in operation have been
worked to their full capacity, and
more are in active work than at any
previous time. Some complaint is
made that the margin of profits is so
narrow, but as a whole, the southern
cotton mill men are doing well, and
ne w mills continue to be organized,
Fluctuations in the cotton market do
not materially affect the manufactur
erB 0 r growers, as purchases are saado
B t prices which gives a profit to man¬
ufacturers, and cotton growers have
all sold at a fair profit this year.
Among the new industries established
or incorporated during the past week,
is the People’s Cotton Factory, Mont¬
gomery, Ala., capital $200,000; Broad
River Cotton Mills, of Columbia, S.
C., with $150,000 capital, mills at An¬
niston, and Dadeville, Ala., and
Lithonia, Ga., and a knitting mill at
Valdosta, Ga.
There is also reported the charter
at Moundsville, W. Va., of the Moumls
ville Sand Co., capital $500,000; the
Hunter Automatic Co., of Hunting
ton, W. Va., with $200,000 capital and
the Josserand Lumber Co., of Josse
rand, Texas, with $100,000 capital.
The Central Peninsular Mining &
Muck Co., capital $50,000, has been
incorporated at Inverness, Fla., a
$30,000 cotton oil mill is to be built
at Denton, Texas, and the Beary
Manufacturing Co., capital $25,000
has been chartered at Roanoke, Va.
An electric lighting company is re¬
ported at Lafayette, La., a fertilizer
factory at Valdosta, Ga., flouring
mills at Danville, Kv., and Graysville,
Va., and foundries and machine shops
at Palatka, Fla., Greensboro, N. C.,
and Huutington, W. Va. A large soap
factory is to be built at Louisville,
Ky,, and woodworking plants at Way
cross, Ga., Moss Point, Miss., Char¬
lotte, N. C., Ethridge, Tenn., and
Frost, Texas.
The enlargements for the week in¬
clude a $25,000 addition to a brewery
at Houston, Texas, a $50,000 addition
to a cotton mill at Charlotte, N. C., a
tannery at Sanford, Fla., and flouring
mills at Kline, W. Va. Among the
new buildings are a $.>0,000 bank
building at Georgetown, Ky., and one
to cost $17,000 at Newport News, Va.,
a $12,000 church at Macon, Ga,, u
$200,000 hoted building at Macon,Ga,,
a large office building at Louisville,
Ky.,and a $22,000 warehouse at Ports¬
mouth, Va.
SPENCER AT SAVANNAH.
Making Preparations for Transferring
the Central to New Owners.
President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern railway, arrived in Savannah
Tuesday night to confer with Receiver
Comer with regard to the transfer of
the Central railroad system to its new
owners. The transfer will take place,
according to the order of the conrt, at
12 o’clook on the night of Oc
tober 31st. The necessary circulars
will be issued in accordance with
that order. The receivers will issue
a circular announcing the transfer and
stating that they have discharged every
person in their employ, aud the new
company will issue a circular announc¬
ing that it has taken charge of tho
property and re-employing everybody
that the receivers discharge.
RIOT AMONG NEGROES.
Two Participants Were Killed and a
Number Injured.
A bloody riot occurred amotig a
crowd of negroes in Bossier Parish,
La., fifteen miles from Shreveport, in
which two were killed and several in¬
jured. A negro implicated in the
killing has been arrested. He stated
that his name was Albert Hicks, and
that he shot one of the negtoes in
self-defense. The shooting occured at
a negro cabin at a plantation near
Houghton, La. Tho cause of the
trouble was a family row which ended
in a general riot iu which pistole were
freely used.
Mrs. Noble’s Case.
A Macon, Ga., special says: The
hearing of argument on the extraor¬
dinary motion for new trials in the
cases of Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles and
Gus Fambles has been postponed to
November 6th. The hearing will take
place at McRae on that date before
Judge Smith.
A WARLIKE MOVE.
_
RUSSIA SENDS FIFTEEN BAT
TLESHIPS TO CHINA.
At the Same Time British Men of
War are Ordered to Formosa.
A dispatch from Shanghai has been
received at London announcing the
departure of a fleet of 15 Russian war
eh j ps from Viadivostock for Chemulpo
and Fusan, Corea, and the London
Times’dispatch from Hone Konc- an
pouncing that Russia has obtained the
rigllt to anchor jier fleet at Port Ar
tbur, and construct railroads on the
Liao Tung peninsula, have both
caused intense excitement in London
official circles as well as in those cir¬
cles having commercial relations with
the far east.
These most important statements are
looked upon generally ns being a sud¬
den re-opening in an unexpected
quarter of the far eastern question
in its widest sense. The Shanghai
dispatch added that the Japanese fleet
in Formosan waters had been recalled,
that several British warships had been
ordered to Corea and that preparations
for a struggle were visible on all sides.
The Hong Kong cable message to
the Times caused that paper to say ed¬
itorially:
“Russia cannot possibly imagine
that the great powers will view with
indifference such a destruction of the.
balance of power, which is almost un¬
paralleled in its audacity. China’s
option to purchase the railways is a
jest almost too cynical to find a place
in any serious diplomatic transaction.
Under the indicated conditions Man
ahuria would practically become a
Russian province, while Pekin would
be within Russia’s grip.’*
It is admitted on all sides that the
situation presented is so grave, that
should the news prove true, it would
make war in which several nations
will take part, more than probable. It
should be added that there is every
reason to believe that the story from
Hong Kong is authentic and ali
sources of information agree that the
powers interested in the far east will
find themselves confronted by a con¬
dition of seriousness which cannot be
over-estimated.
DURRANT’S SEALED STATEMENT
A Revelation to His Attorneys When
They Read It.
The San Franoisco Examiner says
the mysterious statement which Theo¬
dore Durrant addressed to his attor
neys, and over which there has been
so much speculation, was placed in
the hands of the attorneys for the de¬
fense before Mr. Deuprey made his
opening statement to the jury. Every
effort has been made to keep these
facts secret, but they have leaked out
at last and denials are without effect.
In giving his sealed statement to his
attorneys, Durrant made a special
written request that it was not to be
opened until after the trial and then
only after conviction, If the jury
brought in a verdict of acquittal or if
there was a disagreement, then the
document, with seals unbroken, was
to be returned. The attorneys did
not know quite what to do. They
sought the advice of others and finally
determined to open the letter, and did
so, notwithstanding the injunction
which the student had placed upon
them.
What they read was a revelation.
Their client had told them nothing of
what he wrote in his letter. If what
he said were true he should be tho
leading witness ior the state in a case
against a brace of murderers instead
of a man defendiDgbis own life against
tremendous odds. He told his attor¬
neys that he knew the murderers of
Blanche Lament, for there were more
than one. Ho informed his lawyers
that when he ascended to the upper
galleries of Emanuel church ha saw
the last details of a murder. He says
he saw Rev. George Gibson and a
young man, prominent in the affairs
of the church, bending over the body
of Blanche Lament.
How the attorneys accepted this
statement is best judged by their ac¬
tions. They deny that they received
this statement, lorgetting that they
did not keep their own secret. Their
client denies that he sent it, forget¬
ting that he had gone so far in his
original and sensational plan.
OWNED TOO MUCH LAND.
Thorpe Bought 1,400 Acres and the
Enraged People Burn His Houses.
William Thorpe, a wealthy railroad
contractor, with au office at 45 Broad¬
way, New York, recently purchased
fourteen hundred acres of land in the
lower part of Luzurne county, Pa.
He erected a number of buildings,
planted trees and built fences. Tho
buildings have been destroyed by in¬
cendiaries, the trees torn np, and the
fences destroyed.
Detectives are now at work on the
case. It is alleged that some people
living in the vicinity said after Mr.
Thorpe had made his purchase that
fourteen hundred acres of land was too
much for one man to own.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Electricity seals cans.
No insulator of magnetism is known.
Some of the Japanese soldiers weai
paper clothing.
Eggs are being hatched by electri
city in Germany.
To make one ounce of attar of roses
requires 10,000 roses.
The Agricultural Department’s re
port shows that all milk contains
germs.
Pittsburg manufacturers hope fahs to get
electric power from Niagara be¬
fore long.
It is said that electric lamps rnn by
storage batteries last twice as long as
lamps operated directly from dynamos.
Fremont is the first city of Nebraska
to take advantage of the new law per¬
mitting municipal ownership of elec¬
tric lighting plants.
Quicksilver poured in a glass will
not fill it to the brim, as it forms a
convex surface, and is higher in the
center than at the brim.
England has a lighthouse to every
fourteen miles of coast, Ireland to
every thirty-five and Scotland one to
every thirty-seven miles.
The Hawaiian government has
granted to an American an exclusive
franchise and an annual subsidy of
$40,000 for laying a cable from San
Francisco to Honolulu.
The most powerful telescope now in
use magnifies two thousand diameters.
As the moon is 240,000 miles from the
earth, it is thus, to all intents and
purposes, brought within 120 miles of
our world.
In the recent Chinese war it was
found that vibration caused by the
firing of the heavy guns disarranged
some of the electrical devices on the
warships-and broke the electric wires
used for igniting charges.
A new German veneering material
is composed principally of infusorial
earth and various binding and color¬
ing ingredients spread in layers over
a wooden core. When dry the mass
is cut into sheets or blocks, which re¬
semble figured wood.
Intense cold, as is well known,
burns—if we may use the term—like
heat. If a “drop” of air at a tempera¬
ture of 180 degrees below zero were
placed upon the hand, it would have
the same effect as would the same
quantity of molten steel or lead.
Every one who has had the care of
horses ought to know the pain in¬
flicted by placing a frosted bit in a
horse’s mouth. It burns like hot
iron.
A Lawyer From Boyhood,
There is a story told of the late
Judge Strong’s boyhood, which shows
that from the beginning his mind had
a legal bent. Young Strong, it seems
purloined a piece of cake from the
table spread for some festival occasion.
No one discovered it until the family
and guests were seated at the table,
and then nothing was said, W hen
everyone had gone and the father was
alone with the youthful epicure he
said to him, “Don’t you know, my
son,. that in taking that cake, you
broke one of Gcfcl’s commandments?"
“Question 82," responded the boy,
who had his catechism at his tongue’s
end. “Is any man .vble perfectly to
keep the commandments of God?
Answer 82. No mere man since the
fall is able in this life perfectly to
keep the commandments of God, but
doth daily break them in thought,
word, and deed.” It is not re¬
corded what the reverend father said,
but it must be admitted that the boy
won his first case. —Boston Transcript.
New York’s River Tunnel.
There is a big hole under North
River. Some day it will be a tunnel
connecting New York city an l Hobo¬
ken. No work has been done for four
years, hut the owners of the hole are
now trying to raise money in London
to complete their tunnel before a
bridge can be built over North River.
Only 1,230 feet remain to connect the
two holes bored from either shore,
each of which is now full of water.
This water has simply soaked through
since w ork was abandoned on the death
of the principal backer. So far $3,
000,000 has been poured into the hole
and only $500,000 will be required to
Complete it
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to 4,766,661 ’
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attending pans in wirt/' that
have cholera, salt ka
smallpox ‘
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France has 7,8^2 have^b! u
which more than half
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