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VOL. I.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming 1 an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Crenshaw & Bros., wholesale liquor
dealers, Richmond. Va., made an assign
ment Monday.
In an election Monday at High Point,
N. C., for the sale of liquor, “local op
tion” was carried.
At Williamsburg, Ky,, Saturday, Sid
ney Lewis, son of Judge Wilson Lewis,
of Harlan county, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the murder of
his father in February last.
E. S. Terry, a prominent dry goods
merchant of Fayetteville, Tcnn., made
an assignment Saturday. Liabilities,
$20,000; assets, $23,000. Inability to
make collections is given as the cause. •
Fred L. Smith’s planing mill and lum
ber yard at Clarksville, Tenn., were
burned early Friday morning, with sev
eral cottages. The total loss was $30,-
000, with insurance of only $7,000.
A Tallahassee dispatch of Saturday
says: The bill makiug the anniversary
of the birth of Jefferson Davis a legal
holiday has become a law. After the
bill was passed the legislature adjourned
sine die.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Sheriff
Morris’ wife was feeding the prisoners in
the Blount county jail Sunday at dinner,
when one of them knocked her down and
all but one of them made good their
escape over her prostrate body. The one
who remained is charged with murder.
The Shelby, N. C., Improvement,
Company, on Friday, closed a contract
with Garrett’s Hydraulic Motor Company,
of Union, S. C., to bring sulphur water
from a famous spring to the courthouse
square in Sbelby, water to be flowing in
town by the 15th of July. Work com
mences at once.
A Nashville telegram says: The corner
stone of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home
was laid at the Hermitage Saturday, un
der the auspices of Frank Cheatham Biv
ouac and Phoenix Masonic lodge.
Speeches were made by. Congressman
Washington, Attorney General Pickle,
Hon. S. F. Wilson and others.
At New Orleans, Monday, Bernard
Glandia, accused of offering a SSOO bribe
to Henry B. Atwood, tales juror in the
Ilenncssy case, was found guilty. The
penalty for attempting to bribe a petit
juror is a fine of not exceeding SI,OOO
and imprisonment in the penitentiary for
a period not exceeding one year.
Argument was concluded in the case
of the State versus the Coosaw Mining
Company, before Chief Justice Fuller, at
Charleston Saturday. r lhe decision was
reserved. Suit was brought by the state
to forfeit the charter of the Coosaw r com
pany and to declare its territory in which
it claims the exclusive right to mine
phosphate open to all.
Representatives of Kentucky jeans
manufacturers, which operates -3,200
looms in Nashville, Evansville and other
southern cities, met at Louisville, Fri
day, and determined to run only two
thirds time for the next fifteen weeks.
Ibis will reduce the output 50,000 pieces,
valued at $60,000. The unsatisfactory
condition is given as a reason.
The most disastrous hail storm that
ever visited that section passed over
Fforence, S. C., Saturday night. Re
ports from the country indicate that a
strip at least twenty miles in length and
averaging four in width was swept as
clean as if by a cyclone. Roofs of houses
•were torn off and broken, and shutters
and windows dashed to flinders; branches
were torn from trees, and growing crops
beaten into the ground.
A horrible casualty occurred at the
Chattanooga blast furnace at Chattanooga
Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock. While
four colored men were tamping a dyna
mite blast the charge exploded, killing
and horribly mangling three men and
wounding a fourth. The timber and ma
chinery in the furnace plant were
hurled about promiscuously* The ex
plosion was heard througout the city,
and occasioned grest excitement.
In the United States court at Charles
ton, S. C., Friday, Judge Bond signed a
decree authorizing D. 11. Chamberlain
receiver of the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago, railroad, to purchase the
entire equipment of that road, consisting
of thirteen locomotives, fifteen coaches
and 286 freight cars, for $221,514. That
amount is due the Massachusetts and
Southern Construction Company on the
original purchase.
A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday says:
William E. Minchin is a fugitive from
justice. For six years he has held a po
sition with the American National bank
of Nashville, and up to May 25th was in
dividual bookkeeper. On that date he
resigned and left the city with his wife,os
tensibly to take an extended eastern
tour. Nothing has since been heard
from him, but it has leaked out that he
was a defaulter, as an investigation of his
books shows, to the amount of nearly
$17,000.
The executive committee of the Vir
ginia Historical society, at a meeting
held at Richmond Saturday night, elected
the following officers: President, Hon.
William Wirt Henry; vice president,
A. H. 11. Stuart, deceased; first vice
president, Jlon. J. L. McCurry; second
vice president, Col. Archer Anderson,
member of the executive committee;
Robert M. Hughes and Dr. Bennett
Wood Green. A number of new members
were chosen and many gifts of historical
value were received.
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A decision in the first case In ought un
der the anti-trust law, which was passed
by the last congress was tiled at Nash
ville, Tenn., Saturday by United States
District Judge D. M. Key, being in the
ease of the United States vs. the Jellico
Mountain Coal and Coke company, and
others. This was a petition filed by
Unsted States District Attorney Ruhm
to enjoin the Nashville Coal Exchange
from operating under its agreement. All
of the Nashville coal dealers entered into
an agreement with certain Kentucky and
Tennessee mine owners for the declared
purpose of establishing and maintaining
the prices of coal.
BUSINESS OUTOOK.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dunn & Cos., weekly review of
trade says: While hesitation in business
has not ceased, and decided activity is
hardly to be expected now until after the
close of the fiscal year, it continues to be
a matter of surprise and congratulation
that the money markets and trade have
been so well sustained in spite of the
heavy exports of gold. As has been an
ticipated, exports don’t cease, though
the Bank of England has reduced its
rate, indicating that no further emergency
is apprehended there, and leading finan
ciers have predicted that the gold move
ment would cease. Exports of products
are indeed larger than a year ago, with
not much difference in imports, but the
excess of imports, was very large at
this time last year. Some sales of
stock- on foreign account also appear,
and it is hardly to be expected that
the outgo of gold will entirely cease
until a heavy crop movement begins. The
New York money market has been easy,
rates on call dropping from 3£ to 3 per
cent., with heavy receipts from the in
terior.
HEPOBTS FBOM OTHER CITIES.
Reports show that money is tighter at
St. Louis, tight at Nashville, firmer at
New Orleans and Pittsburg, in hardly
adequate supply at Cleveland, not strin
gent but affected by distrust on account
of city finances at Philadelphia; firmer at
Boston, in good demand in Chicago and
Milwaukee, but with a supply for all
legitimate needs, and easy at all other
points reporting. Trade is not very ac
tive, but almost everywhere hopeful.
The exposures df official and banking
misconduct at Philadelphia tend to make
business inactive and no life is seen in
iron. Wool is dull, though some con
cessions are made by western holders.
At Pittsbmrg a rise in iron is prevented by
the reopening of some Mahoning and
Shenango furnaces and the preparations
of others. Window glass is fairly active,
but flint is dull. In the northwest con
tinuous rains have made prospects unsur
passed. Throughout the west and south
tine crop prospects give encouragement,
almost the only complaint now coming
from New Orleans of drought in adjoin
ing regions. At Nashville a heavy dry
goods failure causes some depression, and
there is no improvement at Memphis.
New Orlears reports trade dull, cotton in
fair demand, sugar acrive; mola'ses and
rice quiet and lower. At Savannah trade
improves and at Jacksonville is quite
steady.
THE IRON MARKET.
In the great industries there is a better
demand for iron, but as yet without
change in prices. Sales of some cotton
goods are recorded at the lowest prices
ever made. Wool moves slowly but
yielding at the west gives a better pros
ptet. In brendstuffs the decline con
tinues. In general, the approach of the
harvest, which is expected to be most
bountiful, has its natural effect on pri
ces, and trade is but little embarrassed
by speculative movements.
Failures of the week nomber 211; for
the corresponding week of last year the
figure was 179.
THE BRIGGS CASE.
Directors of Theological Semi
nary Pass Resolutions.
A New York dispatch says: The di
rectors of the Union Theological semi
nary have met and have declared their
position on the question of the right of
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church to veto the transfer of Professor
Charles A. Briggs from the chair of He
brew to the chair of Biblical theology.
The resolution passed at their meeting
held Friday afternoon is as follows:
Resolved, That the board of directors,
after having taken legal advice and after
due consideration, see no reason to change
their views on the subject of transfer of
Dr. Briggs, and feel bound in the dis
charge of their duties under the charter
and constitution of the seminary to ad
here to the same.
The intent of the vote passed by the
general assembly at its recent sessions in
Detroit was that Dr. Briggs should cease
to be professor in the Union seminary.
The effect of the resolution given above
ip it that is the judgment of the directors
that the vote was a usurpation of powers
never given, or intended to be given,
to the general assembly, and that since
the vote was illegal, the appointment
stands, and Dr. Briggs will continue as
professor during the coming year, as
during the past seventeen years. The
meeting of the board of directors was
very full, only three members being ab
sent out of the full board of twenty-six.
The vote by which the resolution was
adopted was practically unanimous, one
vote Only being cast in opposition.
Third Party Convention.
A Milwaukee dispatch says: Robert
Schilling, secretary of the new people’s
party, on Thursday, issued a call for a
convention of the party to be held at St.
Louis, June 13th, to arrange a plan of
action for the coming campaign.
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1891.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The Illinois senate, on Friday, killed
the bill making eight hours a day’s work.
Seven thousand shipworkers a'. Clyde
Bank, Scotland, are on a strike against
a reduction of 5 per cent, in their wages.
A camblegram of Monday from Rome,
Italy, says: The pope has issued an or
der deciding that all employes of the
financial department of the Vatican be
discharged.
A fire did damage to the extent of
$250,000 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday.
Moiloch’s glassware house and the estab
lishments of Willis Si Neison, ribbon
manufacturers, were destroyed.
The postoffice department, on Saturdaj',
completed the readjustment of the sala
ries of first-class postmasters for the next
fiscal year, beginning July Ist. They
are based on the gross receipts.
A London cablegram of Saturday says:
Mr. Gladstone’s letter on the Hebrew
question is obliterated from all papers
containing it which arrive in Russian ter
ritory. Enveloped copies of the letter
have, however, been smuggled into the
country.
Contracts were let Friday at Chicago
for the construction of the electricity
buildings at the world’s fair. Thai prin
cipal contract, that for carpenter and
iron work, went to Arthur Johnson &
Bro., of Omaha, for $104,444. Chieago
builders secured the remainder.
A cablegram from Santiago, Chili,
states that the British legation was de
stroyed by fire Saturday. The British
minister, J. G. Kennedy, and wife nar
rowly escaped death. The building oc
cupied by the German legation was also
damaged and many others destroyed,
Bishop Knight, of the Episcopal dio
cese of Milwaukee, Wis., died Monday
afternoon. He was attacked- with the
grip several weeks ago, and on Friday
suffered a stroke of paralysis, which
hastened his end. The deceased was
sixty years of age.
Several offers for the extension of the
4J per cent bonds were received at the
treasury department Tuesday morning.
One was of $600,000 at the rate of 2 per
cent. This came from a private citizen.
Others were nt any rate the department
decides on. They were all from western
banks.
A dispatch from Washington, Ind.,
says: After a six weeks’ strike, 600
miners of the Cable Coal Company re
sumed work Friday, the difficulty having
been adjusted by arditratiou. A feature
of the agreement upon which the men
return to work is that no miner shall be
discharged except for good cause, sub
ject to investigation.
A dispatch of Friday from Peoria, 111.,
says: The severe electrical storms during
the last two days have done much dam
age. The waterworks pumping station
was struck by lightning and two men at
work on it seriously injured. One was
totally blinded. A dispatch from Mar
tinsville, Ind., says two people were
killed by the tornado in Johnson county.
The dwelling of Samuel P. Myers, a
prominent farmer of Summit township,
near Meyersdale, Pa., burned to the
ground Friday night, and two children,
Clara and Missouri, aged nine and twelve
years respectively, were roasted alive.
The fire spread so rapidly that nine other
occupants barely escaped in their night
clothes. Three men and one woman
were compelled to jump from a second
story window.
In the United States district court at
Springfield, 111., Saturday, the Rev. Jerry
Holmes of Stonefort, Saline county, was
tried and convicted of counterfeiting and
sentenced to three years in the peniten
tiary. Rev George Vuncil, of Duquoin,
plead guilty to the same charge and was
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
The preacher counterfeiters are a strange
backwoods pair, whose arrest a fortnight
ago caused so much comment.
The American Nurserymen’s associa
tion, in session at Minneapolis, Minn.,
unanimously voted Friday to hold its
next annual meeting in Atlanta. The
association is composed of over 400 of
the most experienced fruit men in the
country, and every state in the union is
represented in its membership. The
next meeting will be the first ever held
in the south. J. Van Lindley, of North
Carolina was elected president.
The anarchists attempted to make a
demonstration Sunday afternoon in front
of the Mont Martre basilica. They as
sembled for the purpose of laying votive
wreaths on the spot where the Varlin
communists were shot in 1871. The po
lice stopped the paradera and tried to
take tne wreaths. The ensuing tumult
alarmed the worshipers within its oasiti
ch, and the services were sispended
until quiet outside was restored. The
police succeeded in dispersing the anar
chists, six of whom were arrested.
A cablegram from London savs:
Hardly a single omnibus of the 875
vehicles belonging to the London Gen
eral Omnibus Company was running
Monday, and it is estimated that about
5,000 men and 10,000 horses are thrown
into a state of idleness through the strike
which commenced Sunday. The amount
of inconvenience which working men
and business men of the city are thus
put to can be readily imagined, when it
is understood that tens of thousands of
people depend upon the omnibuses to
couvey them to their work.
WANAMAKER SUBPOENAED
To Testify in the Keystone Bank
Muddle.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Saturday,
say: Postmaster General Wanamaker
has been asked to appear before the com
mittee of the councils investigating the
affairs of City Treasurer Bardsley and his
connection with the wrecked Keystone
National bank. The committee conferred
with Mayor Stuart and the result of the
conference was the writing and delivery
of a letter to the postmaster general ask
ing him to appear before the committee at
his earliest convenience and testify as to
his knowledge of the Keystone bank
affairs. Auditor General McCamant and
John and James Dobson, the bondsmen
and assignees of Bardsley, have also been
subpoenaed.
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.
A dispatch of Tuesday says: Long be
fore the hour set for the meeting of the
sub-committee of councils that is investi
gating the affairs of ex-City Treasurer
Bardsley, the select councils chamber in
which these meetings are held was
crowded to its utmost capacity. Inter
est in the proceedings of the committee
had been intensified by the promise of
still more startling developments in con
nection with the looted bank and by the
fact that Postmaster General Wanamaker
had signified hi 9 willingness to appear
before the committee, and to testify to
all the knowledge he had in reference to
the bank’s management. When he came
he at once proceeded to business by
stating that he, as a taxpayer, had the
greatest interest in unraveling the affairs
of the Keystone bank. He stated that
he had prepared and proposed to read a
statement in answer to all allega
tions that have connected his name with
the Keystone bank which was at the
same time a full and complete statement
of all his transactions with the bank. As
the Postmaster-General had said, the pa
per was a categorical denial of every alle
gation that has been brought against him,
emphatic and without equivocation.
When Mr. Wanamaker had finished, his
many friends in the room and among the
committee, pressed forward and shook
him cordially bv the hand.
MORE BILLS OF INDICTMENT.
The grand jury, Monday afternoon,
found eighteen bills of indictment against
ex-City Treasurer John Bardsley, charg
ing him with appropriating to his own
use city and state funds. Bardsley is
now in prison in default of $50,000 bail
to answer the charge of embezzlement of
$39,000. Eighteen bibs of indictment
were found number of specific
chargers under three separate heads of
“money loaned by a public officer,” “de
riving gain from the deposit of public
money,” and “converting public money
to his own use by investment.”
A REI?N OF TERROR.
Citizens of Port au Prince Massa
cred by Soldiers.
The steamer Orange Nassau, which ar
rived at New York Tuesday from Port au
Prince, brings the first definite news of
the late insurrection in Hayti. The up
rising was of a serious character, Jand fora
time threatened important consequences,
but the government repressed the rebel
lion by prompt and stern measures. The
insurrectionists stormed the prison at
Port au Prince, and a number of prison
ers were released, when the military ap
peared on the scene and captured the
whole party.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
For the last two or three weeks there
have been rumors that a revolution
against President Hypolite was immi
nent at Port ail Prince, the* capital, and
these having reached the ears of the chief
executive, he caused the arrest of about
eighty suspected persons, and put them
in irons in prison. Among the suspected
was General Sully, who, hearing he was
“wanted,” hid himself. Failing to se
cure the general himself, his wife was
taken instead, and thrown into
prison. Corpus Christi, Thursday,
May 28th, was the national holi
day and it was reported that on
that date Hyppolite. in order to effectu
ally terrify the populace, had ordered a
Gatling gun to be taken down to the
prison and the eighty prisoners to he
summarily executed. The friends of the
prisoners, among whom was General
Sully, met in council, and while the
president was in the cathedral, they
forced open the prison doors and freed
all the prisoners, about 250 in all. Then,
by order of the president, began a series
of assassinations, perhaps unequaled in
the annals of civilization, and to
which the massacre of St. Bar
tholomew sinks into insignificance.
It is impossible to enumerate in detail all
the murders that have been perpetrated
under the color of law. It is estimated
that from May 28th to May 31st at least
fifty persons have been put to death, and
the figures are placed as high as 100. No
one can say how long this 6tate of affairs
will la9t, or what the result wiii be, nor
can any one who has not been an - eye
witness of the scenes of horror enacted,
have any idea of the terrified condition
of the people of Port au Prince.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
Appointed to Investigate the
Conduct of Rev. Newton.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
gays: It is stated upon pretty good
authority that the commission of inquiry
to investigate the charges of uncanonical
conduct brought against Rev. Heber
Newton, the rector of All Fouls church,
have been appointed by Bishop Potter,
and will cousist of Rev. Dr. Shipman,
of Christ church. Rev. Dr. Peters, of St.
Michael’s, Bloomingdale, and Rev. Mr.
I Butler, of the Church of Epiphany.
T ’ \RTHQUAKES IN ITALY.
Whole Towns Collapse—Several
People Killed.
A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says:
The cities of Verona and Mantua were
shaken by an earthquake Sunday. Many
houses were damaged. An invalid lady
was so badly frighieued by the shock
that she died. Lombardy, Venetia and
part of Tuscany were visited in the early
morning by repeated shocks. The worst
shocks occurring about 2 o’clock. Shocks
were also felt in Venice and Milan. The
center of the disturbance was at Verona.
A subterranean noise was heard like the
roar of artillery, which was followed by
three strong shocks. The inhabitants
rushed into the streets in terror. At
Marcenigo three persons were killed, and
at Badia, Calavena, seventeen were badly
injured by falling houses and chimneys.
A later dispttch from Rome says: Ad
vices from Badia, Calsvania and Treg
nanzo, two of the towns in northern
Italy visited by the earthquakes Sunday,
show that the inhabitants were terror
stricken and have taken to the fields for
safety. The authorities have, as far as
pos-ible, sought to alleviate distress
among the people and have furnished a
large number of tents to shelter those
who have fled from their homes. The
subterranean rumblings continue and
occasionally slighter shocks than
those of Sunday are felt. The people
are in dread of momentarily seeing
the earth open and swallow them.
The damage done at these two places
is much greater than was indicated in
the first reports. The towns were prac
tically destroyed by the severity of the
shocks. The commission, appointed by
the authorities to examine houses which
were not thrown down by the undulations
of the earth, have made hasty examina
tions and they report that three-quarters
of the houses are in such a condition that
public safety demands that they be pulled
down entirely. Large bodies of troops
have been dispatched to these places to
assist the authorities in clearing the streets
of debris in tearing down dangerous
houses and to render such other assist
ance ns they may be called upon to give.
VESUVIUS HEARD FROM.
A cablegram of Monday from Naples
says: A large stream of lava is issuing
from the new crater of Mt. Vesuvius at
the base of the central cone. Signor Pal
mieri, director of the observatory, states
that the flow is directly connected with
Sunday's earthquake in Lombardy, and
that seismic disturbances generally stop
when an eruption commences. He does
not consider the lava stream dangerous.
rN NEW JERSEY.
A dispatch from New Brunswick, N.
Y., says that a distinct shock of earth
quake, from southeast to northwest, ac
companied by a rumbling noise, was felt
there at 11 o’clock Sunday, morning.
CLOSING UP.
Work in the Census Office Near
ing Completion.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: The clerical force in the census
office within the next seven weeks will
probably be reduced about 1,600, in ad
dition to 200 reductions in salaries which
will be made within the present month.
This reduction in force is due to the fact
that work in nearly every division of the
ceosus office is rapidly drawing to a close.
There are twenty-five divisions in the
bureau, with a combined clerical force
of 3,058. Of this number 1,046 were
employed in the population division end
thcso will be retained until Juiy 31st,
when the services of at least 900 clerks
will be dispensed with. Four
weeks later this force will be fur
ther reduced to about 400. The next
important branch of census work
is the division of farms, homes and
mortgages. There 537 persons employed
on this work which will very likely be
completed by September 15th next, when
the clerical force will be reduced to 200.
Under the present appropriation, work
can then be carried forward until April
1, 1893, but it will be necessary for con
gress to makan additional appropriation
to complete this branch of the work.
The population division, farms and
mortgage and printing divisions, and
administration division comprise 2,274 of
the present force of 3,058. The re
mainder of the force comprises 2,274 of
special work of the census, and it is
staetd that this work is sufficiently ad
vanced to admit of decided reductions.
Six minor divisions have already been
abolished, and five others have about com
pleted their work. In regard to the
condition of work of the census it is
stated that none of the statistical in
quiries will have to be abandoned. The
aggregate population of the country by
minor civil divisions will have been
completed, printed and bound in pre
liminary form by August Ist, next. By
that time it is expected 500 pages of the
volume of the compend um will be ready
for the printer. By December or Janu
ary next it is believed that the volume of
the compendium relating to population
will be printed and ready for distribu
tion. It is expected that all special work,
with the exception of vital statistics,
agriculture and manufactures, will be
completed and ready for the printer by
the close of the year.
A DEAD PREMIER.
Sir John McDonald, Premier ol
Canada, Dies.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Ont., says:
Sir John McDonald died at 10:15 o’clock
Saturday, surrounded by his entire
household. All the churoh bells w ere
tolled and thousands of citizens expressed
deep regret at the premier’s demise. In
terment will take place at Kinston, Ont,,
where the premier’s first wife and his
fahter are buried.
NEW DESIGNS
Wiii Be Placed on Our Dollars,
Quarters and Dimes.
“Buzzard silver dollars will soon be a
thing of the past,” said Director Leech of
the United States mint, Thursday, “and
one of the principal reasons for soliciting
new designs for United States coins was
to bring about a change in the silver
money now used There are now piled
up in my offices hundreds of suggestions
in plaster and on paper for new devices,
and these will now be opened by a com
mittee of artists and an appropriate design
chosen for the backs and fronts of the
silver dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar
and dime. No change will be made
in the designs or devices on the
gold coins consisting of the double eagle
or S2O gold piece, eagle, half and quarter
eagle, which are $lO, $5 and $2.50 re
spectively. Nor in the nickel five-cent
piece and the one cent copper piece.
People have become tired of seeing the
small-headed, big-bodiod female figure
which is seated on a cotton bale on the
silver coins of the United States, and a
radical change in the designs for these
pieces of money will be effected and as
early as possible. On the present silver
dollars that big-headed female is an
eyesore, and she will have to go and
be superseded by a more tasteful and
appropriate emblem. On the silver quar
ters the inscription ‘ln God we trust’ is
too small to be deciphered easily in the
scrolls above the eagle, and it will meet
with the same fate that has been assigned
to the female sitting on the cotton bale.
This also applies to the silver half dollar
and to the face of the ten cent piece. On
the obverse side, however, of the latter
coin tnere will probably be placed merely
the w r ords, ‘one dime,’ the same as is now
done on the nickles which are stamped
‘V cents.’”
HORRORS OF THE RAIL.
Death and Disaster Result from
Railroad Wrecks.
•
A dispatch from Parsons, Kansas, says:
The most disa9irous wreck that ever
occurred on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas took place Tuesday between Sa
vannah and Frink. Three men were
burned to a crisp and six injured, some
of them, it is thought, fatally. Two
engines were totally demolished, and the
wreck took fire and thiity cars burned.
The cause of the wreck was that two
freight trains were ordered to pass at
Frink. One of them arrived at the sta
tion ahead of the other, and the engineer
seeing a train on a sidetrack, supposed it
was the train he had orders to pass, and
did not stop for ordeis.
STILL ANOTHER.
A St. Joseph, Mo., dispatch says: A
serious wreck occurred on the Burling
ton and Missouri railroad directly across
the river from the water works pump
house early Tuesday morning. Just as a
passenger train was passing under the
bluff at that point an immense mass of
dirt and rock came crashing down the j
steep bank, striking the locomotive and
mail car, knocking them off the track
and completely wrecking both. The en
gineer and fireman were both seriously
injured. The engineer is thought to be
fatally hurt. The reservoirs of the water
works company, which are directly above '
the landslide, are in great danger of col- j
lapsing.
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AN OUTBREAK THREATENED.
Plans on Foot to Overthrow the
Guatemalan Government.
A dispatah of Saturday from the City i
of Mexico says that advices have been]
received from the city of Guatemala to ]
the effect that secret meetings are being
held in Atlas, or upper districts of Guat- j
emala, at which revolutionary plans are I
being formulated for the overthrow of j
the Barriilos government. These meet- j
ings are attended by some of the most 1
prominent residents, and speeches are j
made urging separation. Some of the j
small garrisons at various towns are!
ready to join the separationists, and
many rich coffee planters are ready to 5
secede and furnish money to erect anew 1
republic. The people openly declare j
they will no longer endure Barriilos’ \
despotism and an early outbreak is ex- 1
pected.
MISTAKEN FOR A THIEF.
A Prominent Lawyer Killed by
His Son-in-Law.
A dispitch from Gadsden, Ala., says:
Monday night Colonel R. H. Abercrom
bie was out walking in his garden. Bur
glars have been pretty bad in the neigh
borhood recently and his son-in-law, Dr.
D. H. Baker, was on the lookout for
them. The night was dark and some ac
tion of the colonel's caused him to sus
pect that he was a burglar, and without
waiting for developments he fired with a
shotgun and instantly killed him.
Colonel Abercrombie was one of the
prominent men in Alabama. He was
a colonel in the late war and bore a con
spicuous part in Alabama politics. He
moved to Gadsden in 1887, Colonel
Abercrombie was a well-known lawyer
and politician. Dr. Baker married his
only daughter, with whom the de
ceased and his wife lived.
Tobacco Factory Burns.
Fire broke out Tuesday morning in the
plug department of the large brick to
bacco factory of R. B. Mayo & Bro., at
Richmond, Va. By hard work the fire
men succeeded in confining the fire to
this building, which is five stories high..
The contents of all the floors, save that
of the first, which contained manufac
tured goods, were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at $75,000; fully inau'ed.
NO. 7.