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A CYCLONE IN TEXAS.
SEVERAL PERSONS LOSE THEIR
LIVES, OIHERS HiJURSD.
The Terrib e Tale of Death ami Destruction
from tlie Wind nt Longview—Huil
xtones as Large »s G< o»-3 liggs.
Longview. Tex., March 18—A cyclone
swept over this place at 1 o’clock this morn
ing, accompanied by hail stones of im
mense size. The greatest fury was six
miles east of here, where it struck the large
country home of John Cain, lately occu
pied by a large family of negroes. The
house was in an ancient grove of oaks,
twenty in number. Every one of them were
torn up and piled up in terrible confusion,
with dead fowls, dogs and cows, and live
dead and eight badly wounded negroes.
The svilletl and jnjureu.
Old mull Alexander Lester was found fif
ty yards away entirely nude and dead.
Ilis old v>;fe, Sarah, was pinned under a
tree, mangled and dead.
Ale:;a;ider Lester, Jr., was mangled and
Lester, nine years old, was found
near a tree without a mark of violence,
dead. .
Jasper Coilins was pinned under a la.g
oak snugly covered in bed, with his head
crush -i limbs broken, and dead.
From beside him crawled painfully out
his y< ung wile, M dlie Collins, with an ugly
hole in me center of her forehead, sue w.n
, Sissy Lester, an infant, was found In a
fallen tree top, with legs and arms crushed,
Johnson, a visitor at the house, was
bruised from head to foot, but no bones
broken; will recover. ,
Frank Dizer, also visiting, leg broken be
low the knee; may recover.
Dock Simmons, who was in bed with
Alexander’ Lester, Jr., had his head bruised
and will die. „ . ~,, □
Odessa Lester, four years of age. leg ai d
both arms broken; will die. She was found
many yards away in the field.
.-Lilmr l.ester. six years old, leg broken
in tw • places, ab. ve ind be! >w ’he kn< ■ .
" Willie Lester, five years old, K * igh ‘ ly
6avs he woKe up a long ways irom home
in a field and suffered from hail and fain.
lr l- y '
' ■ ■ ■ ' a “
house belonging to L.
side by tlm “ ’ -Ln ;iil
; he al ,Y t Or hobbled
the rain bemoaning tiie late of tin. re “‘
tv- and Lw.ms imif a white
but with
■■ U1 bruises, all
escaped death.
V < '51313111** <»• «.<•<».
John Buffett’s wagon near by was blown
away and much ol ‘S s f two
V( 1 The grunery *1 .\ivk
miles east, was unroofed. lb” ll ‘ ,use . " f .
“hie Jones, colored. w.c wivelwd and
her four-vi ar-eld ,1a..'1.t -r, Lorma, was
! writ
' • nj
, ~., i,, ,■ on ounces, while others round
‘. '1 -to ..'cl-- ’■ a. today, after a
iw-o rw tied - ..rm w-atn-r. were larger
, goo-o ege. Two Os these missiles
p-v-sed tiirou-h lie roof of E. Th -rn
tim's r . . ide making a hole like a can
non d) hd< fowls roosting m tin ti. -
were killed by the Imi.- "-- . <’’’W -
inc I, w.-nn was ki'ied and stock
About three hundred window lights
: nces and fruit
~ ted for miles ar >und.
well the
STORM ON THE <-l ! 'l\
■Wires Were Cut Down and i’artieu
... s Cannot be Obi :s i ned.
New < ns, March 20.-2 a.f i (Sp< < lai.
A .- -.-r- si- -m strrn.. .> .' . .iy .unignt. .1
' t wires -.... -r rme turn ai .
it is :■ ared that gr< :it damagi has o--.-n i-mo
aioli; the • oast and lor seine di.-ta i < m
land. It is impossible to get details before
' storms in the W e«t.
MeumiiF. T< : m. Man 1 Rain in a per
fect -I. i.: im . ill- i ml ill; it. m eompa-
■ - . ’ ■ . T '. z! 1
lion. 1 - v. ii.cit h;i •x - uri . ti ic-,ia.pu
throughout Texas ■ mi i-oui.-;/ u.i. ao bUi u
tem] h ' - • in y earb.
New Or!- -ms, ha . March 20.- A very
heavy ;m . ■ i< d througliout . the
poultem portion ot lm- stat" hr-: night,
m .. ’ - ot N--w < irleans. Ad
vices from the Country today are to the effect
i■ : .. us <la:nage ua - don", and no
lives are reported lost. The big toxas aid
Facitic • valors at ■ ■ .■ -• "■ 1 -.-- ! ■ ■' ■ j
lw th,, e;., . . a; .; o’ebu k ibis morning and
badh u I. The emiM yors and val
uable maclii . .-ry were wrecked. Ihe loss is
"Voiron. T,a., March 20 - A strong wind,
con from tin orthw- st, vest- may t ven-
. . .. ■ ' lv. Ilinand
stor-s in tills eitj. No i .vvs were lost, but
SC injure.:.
I’urvi -. ..- i- .. March 20.- At 5 o clock a. m.,
o ■ <! ■ I’l .... d ilirougtl Illis
s <B .. a irn-ugh a gr. at d.-al of
, . :. and th< roails ob-
-1 no ’i\es have Jet been
reported lost.
EIGHT IXII nits OF RAIX.
The Da> :hire Done by High XX-iter in
C-. U ssissi: pi xnlley.
Memphis. March 20.—The damage to prop
ert the .X pi ■ by stoims ana
. during r . ■ ! "i hours 1 s
i- ■ ■■ - < - u. . i bi n wash-
'■ ■ ' -. arm'd .■•- '■ ■ " 1
w n .... ..<■ < v T> pros: >- A
lor an wu- and liigidy favorable .-.-o.i
lor larm.-i and plant- s was ant. ipaKU.
■■ . ... two .■ th< eipitatioii at
M--. i,nU rea :iu.d about eight inches, taele
. ■ -.j :'.-. .. . /A-'AA-
wasnouts Two miles ot the tra. «. ol ilie
Cue.-.lj-.-riki-, I 'mo and Southwestern railroad
n \. ''. . M . The's r
and Southw sl. rn and th- Teiinc.-s, Miu
land. each report: wm . >ut w the
iracki - : ier ai ged 1 r se> -
j'. \ i-i .-.’as ii ccmpanied
by hgh winds an umi ig< w:o ie
In that .-lai - than iti Tviiu..-.see. A dispatch
(from Ib-lena, Ark., say - that a cyclone
Un roofing hoc.-, -, uprooting tri-.-s, blowing
uowa 1 eaves sp:inn-in , telephone poles
a 1 d ing otner mimage. The roofs were
bi ovn oil t vo s ot- s.
li. r E.iipor: .. .. g. >ds; the Ridgi City
C’;:lb : in -. tus i.ii:.. were inolirii-ed.
Two -e Zeili- r --i.-ipicy. . c-vaped iieai.il al
most by a miraeie.
Tn- i . ■■ :i sustained slight
tiaui;i:,< i.. in Hying t.rubers.
. - .■ 1 innu
i. . ■ w re blown down.
A row of . • . ro - irmln . io-.: ■ ,1 on the
lev : ■ -th- ; . pi -o-iepot was
■ . t - ■ : . . ■■...•
prevai . . .. men w> were cut
off fr »m tin ir hom. .- by the fury of the
' ■ ■ • ~ ■ - .- arm-it there was
no loss ■ ' lite in the - ity.
T a t:-w >:- - ■ :th of Helena
r great • . ~ seemed
to ha'..- : mor. lunor.s down the river
than if- -ity.
A dis;.:. - i from Cliatt .inooga, Tenn., says
Highest of a’l in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
. I ilakiiM
lx is Powder
AKOWTBY WKS
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 27,1894.
the tail of a cyclone struck that place this
afternoon and wrecked a number of build
ings. The wind was followed by a terrific
rain and hail storm which flooded the
streets and and smashed windows and sky
lights. I the vicinity of Poplar Grove
and Marvel, Ari--., the cyclone w'recked a
dozen or more farmhouses.
Heavy >• <»tv Ont West.
Omaha, March 22.—Reports from Wy
oming, South Dakota and Nebraska indi
cate a. tremendous fall of snow, blocking
railroad cuts and delaying railroad traffic
everywliere. At Speerfish, S. D., the ther
mometer is 12 degress above zero, with -
colder weather in prospect. The Union
Pacific is in very good condition, but the
r.urlington is badly hampered. West Os
Pine Bluffs there is six feet of snow.
LET THEM ALL COME.
Railroads at W-.rk to Bring linigranta to
Um Sonib.
All of the great trunk lines that lead into
the south are taking up the great work of
building up tlie dilapidated plantations of
i the southern states by bringing emigrants
■ to them.
Much has been written in The Constitution
already about the general tendency to en
courage immigration by the roads that
enter this section of the country. The work
is taking on new interest every day. One
or two roads undertook it first as an exper
iment to settle the question that con
fronts them, what of the future. Never did
this question appeal with such telling effect
io the mind of the railroad manipulators in
the south as it lias done within the past
twelve months when earnings have fallen
to such undreamed of depths.
The hard times that have oppressed tlie
railway interests of the whole country
have borne heavy, indeed, upon the lines of
the south. The only remedy is to build up
the country through which those lines run,
; it begins to appear.
I Thus tlie great movement to encourage
homeseekers to came south has been entered
by all the great trunk lines of this sec
tion.
Mr. McGinnis, the well-known commis
sioner of the Illinois Central, was talking
the other day about the movement. He said
that it is the purpose of his road to push
this as far as it can be pushed and at
once. His road has agents all over the
northwest looking up excursionists to come
to the south. More than this, the Illinois
Central has lately sent men to Europe to
set forth tlie advantages of this section of
the country as a place to find a home, and
the report comes from these agents that
several shiploads of passengers will soon
be land.-d on the American shore of good
honest people to come here to the south and
make their hom.-s for the rest of their lives.
It is said that they are of the best class of
foreign: is, hard working people, well edu
cated people—people, in fine, who will make
goo-1 citizens.
"When our work is done,’’ said he, “we
will see every man his own landlord, and by
tiie way, these foreigners are apt to steer
clear of that condition, so prevalent in the
south, of being land poor. They want no
more land than they can cultivate with tlie
aid of their families, say forty acres. In
fact some of them buy no more than twen
ty. ’I hey mai;-. U p the greatest population
lor agricultural districts possible to imagine.
have niad,; l!ie northwest what it is.
\V ncn the movement is once fairly started
there will be no stopping the rush of im
migratiom Northern people all move in
bodies. hen one comes all come.”
< olonel C. I*. Atmore, the general passen
ger agent of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, is promoting emigration to the
south with great vigor. He says the road
has several agents in the northwest and in
Europe, who are sen-ling families down rap
idly. it is the intention of the road to put
between 200 and 300 families on its line be
tween Paris ami .Memphis.
'lhe Louisville and Nashville is now run
ning homeseekers’ excursions from points
at a rate of one fam for the round trip,
with a view to encouraging the movement.
It owns many thousand acres of land be
tween New Orleans and Flamaton, Ala.,
and also I- tween Pensacola and River Junc
tion. On the Nashville, Sheffield and Flor
ence branch there is a Norwegian colony
of about 200 familes.
HI SIXESS OF THE SOI TH.
Revtevv «>f Ti:e M:i nu fact urei-s* Hecnrd
lor tiie Past Week.
Baltimore, Md., March 22.—The Manufac
turers’ Record, in reviewing the business
of the south for the week, rays: "Reports
irom all parts of the south indicate that
the general business outlook is very prom
ising, though the volume of trade does
not yet show any very large increase. But,
if judged by tlie southward trend of capital
and immigration, and by the evident in
crease in the organization of new enter
prises, the south is entering upon the most
solidly prosperous era ot its history. The
ii.iiiugratiun movement espt chilly is one of
the most noticeable signs of the times, and
li-rongn-jut the north and west the desire
to move south seems to be assuming pro
portions of national importance.
Specitil reports irom New Eim’.tnd show
more disposition than ever betiw to invest
in southern cotton mills, and a manufacturer
ol that section tells The Manufacturers’
-te 'ord that a number ol large mills wiil
be built in the south by New England peo
ple. Among tin- more important industrial
enterprises reported for the week tire a
<■■ mp.-nv capitalized at $6,0W.000 to build a
town amt develop shipping facilities on
| I’atuX’jnt river, Alarji.-nd; a slou,i.jii com
| pany organized to ship barites from Blaeks
> burg, ,s. to Baltimore, where a huge
: iwinuiacturin;; plant will be estab, isimu; a
IT'iu.oM company to establish an artificial
- I’iant I Lialtimore, in c with
■ " I; •’"■■■ project; a lumber mill and a
shoe : t-.ry in Maryland; a $500,000 toba.-eo
cm ipe.iiy, a shoe factory a -d a canning
1,1 t.rgima; a 3:100,000 natural gas
■ A !, od a tannery in West Virginia;
“ ■ 1 '.‘''"-i ..nnli’ f exporting combination a
• 1 -". ion mill company, a $50,000 'oil
■ ■ ; > ra 1 cotton gins in
: on el-’”tr.e power plant, saw mill
quarry an I canning fa' tory in Georgia -de’
■ nufaetm rs’ R- cord has compiled
Irom the census bulletin just issued ‘ the
■ s': iistr-. of manuf.'o-turers of the south in
! ISW. as ' omparo I with Isse. which shows an
■ i - in capital f r( ,m $257,211.5(1: in ISSO
to 005.517 in ISOO. and an increase in tlie
f produets from $-!.".7,451,777 | n isso to
- $917.559.0r, in p-i-o. The number of hands
imern.’d from 305,-!fi7 to 5.88.528, and the
1 ■ l_ of their wages from $75,917,471 to
'■"22 ’IS.7-I‘s. Adding to the value of manu
. f.K-iured products, the value of mining
' p:odi. ts, and the total for the south in 1890
‘ or more than two and a
: hall times as mu-h as the average value
1 ol the south’s cotton crops.
XI hat Bradsfreet’s Says.
NEW Yt'HK, 'March 22.—Bradstreet’s
March 21th will say: Increased observance
of C 1011 Friday in business circles serves to
■■• k the volume of trade. Notwithstand-
■ ing tiier-' being practically one less bus
iness day this week than last, continued
spring like weather has further stimulated
sales of staples at nearly al!
11. larger cities in the eastern,
middle and some of the western
states. Comparatively fewer S 'Uthern dis-
I tribuiing centers r< ported large gains.
! Arming the the more conspicuous staple pro-
I -lu-'.s Prices have advanced fo»’ riec. cotton
: and Indian corn, decreased ava lable str: piie s
b-ing primarily responsible, tioifee anu
i 1-al tobacco remain stong at practically
■ uneliangtd figures and lower ranges of
1 value have been reached by several vari
! eties - f iron and of steel; by live cattle
: anil live hogs at western markets; by both
1 raw and refined sugar; by wheat, oats and
by mess pork.
SAM SMALL AT HOME.
HE GIVES OKLAHOMA'TERRITORY A
GREAT SENI> OEE.
«i
People Want More Money-r The Gentleman
States that he is Not aCandidate for
any Office, Being tV>o Busy.
Rev. Sam Small returned Tuesday night
from a four months’ tour in the west and a
sojourn in Oklahoma City, where he has
the control of the leading.democratic jour
nal of the territory, The Daily Oklahomian.
Mr. Small looks in the best of health and
was greeted warmly by Ins host of friends,
who are unwilling to see him abandon Geor
gia too long at a time, in an interview
yesterday he spoke freely and interestingly
of the status of affairs tn the far west.
“What of Oklahoma?” iie was asked.
"Oklahoma Territory, in the main portion
of it, is about the finest area of land in the
great west. Its agricultural fertility is as
great as that of any virgin land ever
brought under settlement’ in the Unite-1
States and the variety of its already proven
products runs from the finest of hard
wheat to the best of cotton. Oklahoma,
only five years old next month, took seven
first premiums on agricultural products at
the world’s fair, and also the first premium
over the world for Hour made from soft)
wheat. The land is rolling prairie with
some wooded sections along the rivers, and
is settled by a population that shows every
promise of permanency and progressive
thrift. Os course there are many adven
turers and speculators in a new country
such as Oklahoma, especially in the newly
settled Cherokee strip portion, but these
seldom hold on long; they drop off in time
from exhaustion of their speculative re
sources and move on to fresher fields of
soonerism. But the prospect before Okla
homa is for a state that will be one of the
most eligible, prosperous and productive in
the southwest. She will be a southern and
democratic state in sentiment, provided she
is early accorded statehood and home rule
by a democratic administration.”
"What is the prospect tor statehood just
now ?”
“We can hardly tell. There are two
statehood bills now before the committee
of the house and it is hoped that one of
them may get through this congress. But
we know there are serious obstructions in
the way of statehood. On*the one hand
the Indian Territory people object to being
joined in statehood with Oklahoma, and on
the other hand it is reported that the presi
dent does not want the four western terri
tories given statehood, on the ground that
they will return silver men to the senate.
The bulk of the people in Oklahoma, how
ever, want statehood for the reason that
territorial government has shown itself in
adequate, unpatriotic and opposed by its
very constitution to the best development
of popular interests. Home rule is needed
and demanded, and she people out there,
with the Chicago platform before them,
think a democratic congress cannot con
sistently refuse mat boon to them much
longer. So we hope daily to hear that Gen
eral Wheeler, who is a southern home rule
democrat, has brought in a bill to admit
Oklahoma at this session of congress.”
"How is the territory governed now?”
“By officials appointed by a governor
who is appointed by the president. The
present governor is a democrat. Governor
Renfrow, formerly of North Carolina, and
latterly in the dentistry trade in Arkansas,
ile is a good man himself, personally, but
has had no administrative experience, and
his selection for the office is one of the
mysteries of the national -.dministratlon.
He has a very bad advisor in Receiver
Ross, of the Oklahoma City land office,
who is a small bore politician, opposed to
statehood and anxiou to keep up terri
torial conditions so long as he can boss the
national and territorial appointments. The
consequence is that, unless either the pres
ent administration out thers is reform- 1
speedily or statehood and me rule is
granted, the ' ocratic pa ’it. fail to
sec'ure th-. .. ..il of the .:u 'ihe
terr.tory will fall into repub ~n hands at
the first opportunity.” ’
■Are there many immigrants coming into
the territory?”
“Yes. There are daily arrivals of men of
menus, character and enterprise. When
land titles and values out there become
more settled the rush to Oklahoma of valu
able citizens will be unprecedented, I am
sure. Oklahoma City has upwards of 10,-
000 people now and her population is grow
ing every week. The opportunities for men
of means and industry out there are im-
“You have some Georgians out there to
keep company with? ’
“Oh. yes, there are a number of Georgia
men in Oklahoma. There is Amos Fitts,
of the town site board at Perry—he is cor
respondent for my paper—and all the old
compositors of ahe Constitution will re
member his famous Greeley-rlvaling chi
rography and sympathize with my force of
printers. Amos is one of the leading lights
of the phenomenal city of Perry and is
greatly esteemed, as he deserves to be.
At Guthrie you can find Will Searcy, of
Griffin, in the register’s office, anil he is
now a candidate for the register’s place,
made vacant by the death of Register
Lindsay. Senator Louis Davis, of Toccoa,
is registered at Perry, and Patterson, of
Macon, is registered at Efiid. Then 1 meet
Colonel Tom Olive, of 'Olive bill’ fame in
Georgia, who is a special agent of the in
ter.or department. Yes, you can met
Georgians at almost every turn out there
md 1 have a bushel of letters from other
Georgians wiio are seemingly anxious to go
there.”
“How are the people talking, politically,
in the west?”
“Weil, they are talking briskly and yet
so vaguely that one finds it hard to say
what is the general trend of opinion out
there. On the currency question the people
are all demanding financial legislation that
will enlarge the volume of money in this
country. They are almost somi for the re
demption of the democratic pledges of 1892
and understand those pledges to mean as
fair treatment to silver as to gold. But
since the repeal of the Sherman bill, tiie
$50,000,000 bona issue ano the silence cf th*
president on the seigniorage coining propo
sition the people are wholly at sea as to
what the policy of the party is to be—so
they ease their ignorance by cussing the
goldbugs and crying for more money! In
Kansas and Colorado the public temper
is growing decidedly anti-democratic, popu
listic, or anarchistic, as you please. But
in Texas there is a successful movement
for harmony as to state affairs and an
agreement to relegate national issues to
the exigencies of the future. Both south
west and northwest mere are freely ex
pressed fears that the financial question
will turn the scale in the fall elections
and return a republican house of repre
sentatives. But if the seigniorage bill is
signed that dread wiil pass away and re
newed energy will characterize the demo
cratic campaigns out there.”
“How about that report that you would
locate in Oklahoma and aspire to u seat in
the United States senate?”
“Pshaw! That is an invention of the
enemy. No such thought has ever nested
in my brain. I am out of all politics as a
candidate for any office. 1 am too busy
with my lecturing, preaching and editorial
work to think of or care for office.”
Mr. Small leaves for a ten days’ trip to
Washington city this afternoon.
Petitions fora I'roliibition Election.
Jackson, Miss., March 21.—(Special.)—A
publication, signed by Bishop Galloway,
Drs. Hunter and Sproles, C. H. Alexander,
W. L. Nugent and other prominent prohi
bitionists of Jackson, ha,s been issued to
the friends of prohibition in Hinds county,
asking for a local option election to deter
mine whether the liquor jfaffic in this coun
ty shall be any longer allowed. Petitions are
now being circulated for signers. It takes
a petition of one-third of the qualified elec
tors before the board of supervisors can
order such election.
Governor Stone today made the following
a ar ■ Turkey red on cotton
W Sfl HB wr O a m that won’t freeze, boll
S V O K■ I or wash out. No other
, “ will doit. Package to
MXISXtIIvOC color2lbs.,by mail. 10
<3 kJ? Q H 8 I B IVb Bi w w cts.: fi, any color—for
wool or cotton. 40e. Bic pay Writequick. Mm.
Cion l/ii»paper. FRENCH DYE CO.Va3sar.Mloh
Mi' ll ion i il‘*
appointments: P. S. Hall, constable of cls
trict No. 2, Leak county, and W. J. Bushy,
district 5, Chickasaw county.
NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY
Os the Birthday of the Apostle of Prohibi
tion Celebrated.
The ninetieth anniversary of the birthday
of General Neal Dow was celebrated Wednes
day in many of the principal cities of
the United States. In the city of New
York the anniversary was celebrated by a
national convention of temperance socie
ties, at which General Dow himself nl ad e
an address, in the west Mrs. Frances 11-
lard had charge of the celebrations, white
away out 111 Oklahoma the Lev. uain
W. Small arranged for a territorial mass
meeting to honor the great ret ° rnl ®*’
Aiessrs. Samuel Dickie and John P. nt.
John, both leaders in the prohibition move
ment, took part in the western meetings.
General Neal Dow. the apostle 01 pro
hibition, and the most uncompron.isrrig <1
poser of strong drink, even
used, was born in Portland, Mt., mb. Y
years ago. He is the author ot the J u sUy
celebrated Maine law, winch f
sale of intoxicating drinks in the state
Maine under severe penalties. Inis law,
of which General Dow is the father, nas
been in operation since 18M. Geneial Dow
acquired his title by reason 01 being
placed In command of a “ruaue
of volunteers during the h jte We.
between the states. He was taken a p .
oner at or near Fort Hudson, m ’
more temperate in the cause ot his Ki bev y
than some of his enthusiastic followers, lo
use his own words: . „u VP
"I am sure that I should not be a five
and well today, if I had been * d *.
or even one of those regulaa or irreguia
tipplers known as moderate - Y '
ther lived to be »inety-ilve and he « as a tern
ber a of T a very° devout Qmtker community.
A!', »» ’j"
1 owe my lol ‘kd vil . y ' lul | tt,. I St? 1 ] I 'nossess n ’-
heritance as Ymm'ullyXiowii tliat G
I “v ‘began againM Hie and
keeperYs'suid to have d f£e n<ieu hnn on a eei
taii; occasion, when he deviated •* . he
only on the immediate saloon keepe
v cinity, but agamst iwnsky m g.’ae.al m
•ill n-u-ts of the country. He H.iH t" e“
eSFHVX: ffi|
ti dp 11 has been in force and eitect.
As stated, prohibition in Maine is due ,
to the single remark of one saloon he-eP 1.
of
situation to the owner ant
o t me. ;
1 care- 1 about what becomes of the fellows ■
U, "B« d h?uvem"vou shall care!” Mr. Dow
V'„ ,1 hrmMe" his list uown upon the |
>' xc . la ‘ r*i, thimm. I shall see that neither ,•
you or any other scoundrel has the light .
to keep a i.lace like this!” he ,
the'end m-eompfened. General Dow did nut
cease to wage war seven ua.. -1 n *- -
for the cause which he eon:-id(.i e I tin i
b e--t of all He was then m the bloom
<,i manhooil. His body was
i.rous He took the stump and
became one of the eloquent orators ot the
ante bellum period. i,.,nitu H's
General Dow is still in good healta. His
shoulders are as square as those of the
soldier on dress pa.adc. -
without ditheulty. His Imn ®till -m.-,
in lung wisps, which are now su m l>. t
like his flowing side whiskers. .-,i--g
Homan nose well sets oft a '
name. There is no nailing when In sp. .tks,
ami ihe grasp of his hand is asjirm as it he
w t 1■ ■ bui lii ty. His mind is cj ui <■ id !.»->
i yes brigh l and piercing, lie lakes great
delight in conversation.
2'Lverv Mini ICcud lliih.
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Mr. Lliomus Barnes. .Marshall. Mieh
A NEURO CON V i-IN 11ON
Called to Meet at, Moi.tgomery—The Object :
of the e onvenrom-
Birmingham, Ala., March 19.—|
Another negro state convention has been
called. This one will meet in Montgomery ,
on April 2fth and 25th. Rev. H. b.
of this city, pastor of bt. James eoloi<_d
Methodist Episcopal church and editor o
the negro American Dress, is at tlie Lead
01 this movement. Referring to it he says
the convention will be the most sigma- ■
cant in bringing about harmony between ,
the races and in producing substantia
benefits for ihe negro, ever held. 1
Tiie call which he has sent out reads as 1
follows:
“As the year 1894 will be a pivotal jear .
in the history and development of the race, .
it is well that those into whose hands the
leadership of the race lias been committed ;
should be in thorough understanding ami
complete harmony. Various tilings tend to ■
aggravate the already strained relations ,
now existing between the .-aces m the ;
south. The forces of those who are not (
our friends stand united while we, the
victims of an almost relentless opposi- i
tion, stand divided into petty clans, under ,
fib: guidance of unwise and unpatriotic ■
men.
“The negro is the victim of his own .
lethargy. Tlie needs of the hour call to ,
him to’ ‘awake and arise.’ but lulled by
the false sense of a seeming security, he |
sleeps on. The conditions which confront
him are more and more critical. Legis- 1
lation is little by little making him the i
Victim and not the ward of the law j
Lynchings are growing more common, in
dustrial activity ami thriftiness are wan- !
ing in consequelice thereof; opportunity
for race development is more and more '
limited, and a threatened deportation eon- ;
fronts him. Amid it all is a general si- i
len-e, save the rantings of the politician
with the iron jaw. He springs forth in
quest of boodle at each recurring cam- I
paign.
“We the tnidersigneil, in order to effect
an understanding and to spread a general ,
awakening among our people, do hereby
call a convention of all who are interested
in a manly, conservative course of action
for the' good of the wholtT race, at which '
convention the following subjects will be i
discussed:
“1. The industrial and financial condi- I
tion of the people; how improved.
“2. The power of the unpurchaseable bat- |
lot.
“3. Lynching and outrages.
“1. General causes ail'd remedies for pop- I
ular restlessness.
“5. Emigration.
“G. The common political interests of !
the race in the south.
“A glance at the above will show that 1
we mean not a strictly political conven-
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A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Arrest Has Resisted and tn the Shooting
Three Mere Killed.
Birmingham, Ala., March 21.—(Special.)—
A triple tragedy occurred in Eutaw, Green
county, this afternoon, E. L. Hannegan,
sheriff of that county, attempted to arrest
John Russell and a man named Reid, two
desperate characters, who were wanted by
the authorities of Green county.
The men resisted arrest, and opened fire
on Hannegan, who returned it. Firing was
kept up for several seconds, and when it
ceased, Russell and Reid were lying dead
and the sheriff had received a wound from
which he died tonight.
No other details are known here.
Whiter Should Pay the Fare.
The negro state convention which met
here today to consider the proposition to
emigrate to Africa was attended by about
five hundred delegates.
Every part of the state was represented.
It was evident, from tiie first, that tlie
sentiment was in favor of going back to
Africa. Numerous speeches were made, the
burden of them being that the negroes
favored emigration, but wanted the white
folks to foot the bill. The white man
brought them here from Africa; it is right
that he should send them back, they argue.
Their idea is to go to Africa and establish
a great republic patterned after the United
States. Bishop Turner, of Georgia, is
championing the emigration idea. Resolu
tions advocating the proposition to emi
grate were passed. Some prominent negroes
oppose the movement vigorously. They say
it will not amount to anything, and is a
scheme which certain steamship lines have
launched to make money out of. Three or
four thousand negroes attended the meet
ing tonight.
SWALLOWED THREE GRAINS.
Policemen Clinse n Would-Be Snieide
nnd Doctors Piu>i;» Him Ont.
Knoxville, Tenn., March 19.—(Special.)—Joe
Davis is a well-known young man about
town and the son of a large stock drover
frequently doing business in Atlanta. He
has been employed in a large clothing house,
but lately has been drinking hard. As a
consequence of a sptec he tost his place
today and immediately was seized with
suicidal mania. Friends, hearing of his
talk, immediately notified his father, who
notified all druggists, as he thought, in
town not to sell his son poison. Young Da
vis tried several drug stores, but was re
fused, but finally went to Tea Male's and
secured three grains of morphine. As soon
as the package was banned him, he tore
off the paper and swallowed the whole
package. A drug clerk titrempted to pre
vent him, but received a smashing blow
in the face. Botches, commissioner of pub
lic works, who was in the store, attempted
to interfere, but Davis brolie bv him and
tied down the street. Botches and the
clerk yelled tor police, and two who hap
pened to be near took up the pursuit, and,
after a long chase. Davis was caught and
physician was summoned, who, despite
his struggle, and aid- <1 by polii-emen, suc
cee led in applying a stomach pump. Young
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vorite.
SIX JI MI’ED FROM XVINDOWS
But the Rest of the Children Were
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Chicago, March 21.—The four-story pub
lic school building, in South Evanston,
thirteen miles north of this city, caught
fire irom some mysterious cause shortly
before noon today, ain I was completelv de
stroyed. Six of the panic-strucked pupils,
surrounded by smoke and fire, took tl:e des-
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It A 3 1.1 I I E ACQUITTE D.
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