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VOL. t.
THE ELECTIONS.
NEW YORK GOES TO FLOWER
AND M’KINLEY GETS OHIO
The Kcturus From Other States--An
Ideal Flection Day.
NEW YORK.
New York, November B.—The elec
tion in New York state today was for
governor, lieuteo mt governor, secretary
of state, comotroller, treasurer, attorn y
gene Val and engineer; for four congress
men to fill vacancies, caused by three
resignation!* ad one death; for eight
justices of the supreme court; for a lull
tenale of thiity-two members and a lull
ssm mbly 01 128 numbers. Jhe present
state ofiicers sire d< mocratic. The con
gr< ssmen last clee ed, in disttic,s where
elections were held today, were:
crats, three; repu Means, ODe. The last
senate consisted of nineteen republicans
and thirtetn demo r t-; the last assem
bly of sixty-eight democrats and sixty
republicans. New York city also voted
for local judges, c roneis and atUrnen.
li iswtll P, Flower was electtd Tues
day t. ''Of- i*:> suicied
Pavia 15, mil. His piurdity is estimated
between 18,000 and 24,000. Fassett did
not carry Elmira, bis own city, Fiower
beating him there by 504 votes. New
York city gave Flowtr 58,()00 plurality
and Brooklyn gave him 14, < 00. Returns
received from districts outside of New
Y< rk and Kings countits indicate that
Fassett was meeting Folgi r’s fate. In
.Lifers >n, Clinton, Essex. Montgomery
and Wyoming e unties, hewaslar behind
the voti s cast for Miller. Flower’s gains
on the decreased vote were ahead of
Hill’s. The lull vote of Hornellsvi le,
which is Faßsett’s senat< rial distiict,
shows a democratic gain of 52. Water
town's 4 wards show a gain of 500 for
Flower. The vote in the city was very
light. Flower will take to the Harlem
river perhaps 75,000 p urality. It is
doubttul if Fassett will bring down more
than 50,000 to meet it. The dem
ocrats are gaining assemblymen in the
state. Sheehan is not doing as well as
Flower, but his election is assured.
Flower carries the republican eighth
district i>y 250.
One thousand and eighty-four districts
outside of New York and Kjngs coun
ties, out of a total of 3,353. give Flower
125,4124; Fassett, 128,775. These dis
tricts in 1888 gave llill 133.615; Miller,
165 611. ’two thousand, two hundred
and six y-niae districts not yet heard
from in 1888 gave Hill 265,463; Miller,
298,583. The list of state senators
elected shows that Tammany carried all
the senatorial districts except the Btn,
which was carried by the republicans,
in the assimby, Tammany demo
crats gaining one district. Tammany
candidates! for the judiciary were elected
hy large majorities and the board of
.aldermen was swept by Tammany hail as
completely as in its candidates for the
assembly. There was but little trouble
experienced in voting by the “new
fangled” method, the instructors being
so careful in their work that even the
most stupid elector might under
stand the big ballot scheme.
OHIO.
i0; ec inn at i, November 3.—The day
has been, in many respects, an ideal
election day. Here in Cincinnati it has
been cloudy, cool and bracing, with fine
flakes of snow toward evening. Every
thii g has been quiet. There has bien an
absence of rioting aud polling place dis
turbances such as have characterized
Cincinnati elections in the past, and all
on account of the new system of
voting. The only tickets are
those in possession of the judges,
and a voter is given one onlv when he
is found duly tegis efed. Conservative
citizen of all parties are loud in their
praises of the new system. From all
over the state come favorable reports
of the workings of the system, repub
licans pra’sing it as well a democrat*,
and that, too, ia spite of the loud an
nouno ments of the r publican organ
that the kangaroo ballot must go. la
test returns give the s ate to McKin
ley by 15,600 plurality.
PENNSYLVANIA.
At midnight returns from tweuty-one
counties, including Allegheny, but i x
elusive of Philadelphia, show a net re
publican gain of 1,648 for Gregg, repub
lican, for auditor geneial, and about the
same for M> rris n, republican, for state
treasurer. Phili delphia county returns
are coming id sloWiy, but ooe-fourth of
the wards being in at this hour. These
indicate, however, that the republicans
will carry the ci'y by ab >ut 20,060, and
that the republic n majority in the entir.
state will be not less turn 40,0t)0. Th*
democrats gaiu in nearly every count
reported, but the republic tUs’ gain
4,260, in Allegheny, offsets tile re-gains
KANSAS.
Kansas City, Mo.^November 3.—Dis
patches reccivid from all parts of Kun*-a
where elections are being In Id to-day
show that an orderly and ciosely contest
ed election is in progre-s. Ptrhips
never in the List ry of the state has tin
situation been more complicated. Tin
republicans are thoroughly aroused an
fighting the people’s p rty hard. Wbil
there are no state ofiicers to be el cted,
yet injudicial districts and counties party
lines are closely dt fined, and the fight
is waged on the general principles of tin
people’s party and republican doctrines.
The democrats have no hope of success
except wh- re* they have fused with tb
people's party, and the contest with them
is more fi r organization thau office.
COLORADO.
The weather was warm and cloudy,
and the election was, beyond all question,
the moat peaceful ever held in Denver.
State of tlaiY
Considering the fact th*t this is an oil
year, and that the Australian sys'em
which went into effect had disfranchised
colonies, yet the vote cast was a surpns
ingly heavy one. There were five tickets
in the field—democratic, republican,
prohibition, people's parry aud people’.*
non-paitisan party, the two first polling
a vote, the other three having little
show. No stijte officers were voted for
excej t chief justice of the supreme court*
and but little scratching was done, and
that entirely among names for local of
ficers.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, November 3 . — Returns from
the polls in the city proper this morning
givo but little indication of the large in
crease reported in the registration. All
points report the pol ing to be 6teadilv
going on, without any unusual excite
ment or manifestation of inteiest. The
various election officers state that the
voting this year is being done much
m- re oideriy and with greater rapidity
than last year, tho *ing that the citizens
have become accustomed to the techni
calities of the Australian system. Every
where the best of order is being pre
served.
Midnight-—Ninety-nine towns and New
H dford city give Allen 21*128, Russell
16,924. The saure towns last year gave
Brackett 18 234. Russe 1 14.682, net re
publican gain 651. Russell has over 13,-
000 plurality in Boston. *
new jersey. t
Trenton, N. J., November 3. —Dem-
ocrats will have a major ty in both
branches of the legislature. At political
headquarters of the democra a in this
city the claim is made that democratic
senators have been e lected in Hudson,
Hunterdon, Middlesex and Sussex coun
ties. The democrats also claim to have
elected forty assemblymen in the s'a e.
Returns up to 1 o’clock this morning
indicat • the election of the democratic
senatorial ticket in New Jersey, and 41
out of 60 as-emblymen. This will give
the democrats a majority of 33 on joint
ballot, probibly the 1 rgest mujority evgr
held by either psrty in the legislature. ,
Cadan, democrat, w*s defeated for the
assembly in Hunterd 'u. Martin, demo
crat, was elected to the senate iu the
same county by 500 votes.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, November 3. —Election
day beiog a legal holiday, the banks,
exchanges, maikets and municipal and
state government offices are closed. Many
•whole-ale establishments and' retail
houses are also closed. The city wears
quite a holiday appearance. T)Qe . (dec*'
tioD proceeded zealously and iprietijSij
Returns thus far (12:30 a. m.)‘ are very
incomplete, but are suffiment to ahow
that the entire democrat!! jState ticket
aud county tickets are elected by Ts*-
creased majorities over the vote of two
years ago. The democrats will ’have a
majority in the state senate-arKl the house
of uelegates, making sure the re-election
cf Senator Gorman, aud of a democratic
United States senator in the place of
Wilson, deceased.
IOWA.
Deb Moines, la., November B.—The'
most exciting state election in the his
tory of lowa has closed. Both sides have
remained very confident throughout the
contest. In Des Moines the democrats
commenced firing cannon before a Eingle
precinct had finished balloting. The re
publicans were not as dt monstrative, but
just as confident of victory. It is con
ceded the election will be ch se. The
most rematkable things is the increase of
the vote over last year and two yeais ago.
All repor.s received indicate tne heaviest
vote ever cast in the state. The weather
has been disagreeable in many parts of
the state, but it has probably not dim
inished the vote. Latest returns indicate
that Boies’s majority will be about 2,500.
NEBRASKA.
Omaha, Neb., November 3 —The elec
tion is progressing Vtgjplowly, owing to
the Australian system, which is being
used for the first time. There are 119
candidates to vote for in this city ou the
state, county and municipal tickets, and
it requires fiom six to eight minutes for
voters to prepare their ballots. Asa
consequence, the vote will be very light.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va., November 3.—While
the weather has been favorable for the
election, indications are that a small vote
was polled iu this state to-day for mem
beis of the legislature. But imager re
turns have been received, all of which
are favorable to the democrats The
cities of Richmond, Danville, Peters
burg, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Fred
ericksburg elect democrats witnout op
position.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
At midnight the election of Jolley, re
publican, to congress, in South Dakota
is conceded and it becomes simply a
question of plurality. Avery light vote
was cost, threshing being of greater
interest.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, November 3.—Frank
Brown, democratic emdidate for gover
nor, has a majority of between 15,000,
and 20,000, as figured out at democratic
headquarters. The regular domocracy
claim to have elected their entire Balti
more city ticket by an average of 5,000
majority.
MICHIGAN.
E*timates based on the returns so far re
ceived give the republicans a sweeping
victory at Grand Rapids. Belknap, re
pub ican candidate for the filth congre**-
siond district, will be returned by 1,200
to 1,500 majority.
Returns are slow, but present indica
tions are that the republicans will elect
their Detroit citv ticket by a large ma
jority. Mayor Pingiee, republican can
didate, will run considerably ahead of
thereat of the ticket. The republicans
trill also jelact 16 out of 16 aldermen
TRENTON, GA. FRIDA Y . NOV EMBER 6,1891.
CONVICTS FREED.
THE MINERS GET IN THEIR
WORK AT BRICEVILLE
By Swooping Down Upon the Stock
ade and Liberating the Occupants.
A Knoxville', Tenn., dispatch sivs;,
At an early hour Friday night an attempt
was made to get through a business mes
sage to Briceviile. There w s no re
sponse to the telegraphic signal. Th< n
tne next station, and the nex< was tried,
until at last (Jliuton responded. The
operator there was asked what was the
matter. He looked out in the direction
of Bticeville. and at once replied: “I -ee
a great light, as of an immense tire, re
fli cted in ihe sky. The wire to Brice
ville is cut, and I can’t call it up.”
At once the suspicion arose, a moment
later to be strengthened into conviction
—the miners had cut the wires and taken
possession. Intense excitement, pn vail
ed. A telegram from Clinton read:
“Three thousand mi'.ers bad gathered
around among the hills during the day.
As darkness came on they g>.inhered in
little parties, these parties joining each
ether, until four parties were formed.
As by a preconcerted signal they closed
in upon the camp.
They were halted by a guard, but he
was quickly silenced by the command:
“There are 3 000 of us here. We have
come for business. Call out your boss at
once and let us settle this affair.” By,
this time there were a numbtr of the of
ficers of the camp on hand. They were
disposed to resist. The discharge of a
thousand shots in the air convinced t em
that the call was ser ou*. The messen
ger blew a policeman’s whistle, and, in a
minute, coming in at a double quick,
tneie were in sight hundreds of brawny,
determined-looking men. Not a w rd
did they say, but they had their Wirt*
Chester r fles in readiness. R-luctantlv
the officers stepped out of the way. ,
The liberators came from every direc
tion, and, a-sembled in force, marched
on the stockade. Their first act was ip
blow up the magazine* the uprigh s of
the stockade were km eked off. Then
began a scene which beggais descrip
tion. The 150 c&jjjt'itjts, who had been
d by the iiforat’ were terrorized.’
'Tfliy were screaminW ! %r mercy, fearing"
that the mob intendedij|ft kill them, The
Coiners closed in wiYhitr*a circle of abouf
pile hundred ffcetJ|oJn the st.ockadC.
•ileiail was sjxu stL< and the work .of
th&M>acKi.jrsf began. As fast asf
f-thky Weie freed they were told, iu no flu
certain hu gtiage, to get out, and it is
needless tb they skipped out with
alacrity. Tfi'ere wpa a large qu unity of
cjtizeus f clothes hear by, which many of
jJfhcm donned. When the last Prisoner
*Was free the torch was applied to the
stockade, which, with-tbe exception of
the nonh wall and the rifle pit, was re
duced to ashes. Ten eight room houses
and a large dining hall inside of the en
closure went iD the general cm flagration.
At the lower end of the Coai Cheek
stockade the office building was burned
and the guard “shacks” demolished.
• The interior of the convicts’ dining
hali, sleeping room, ho-pital ward and
kitchen were filled with broken furni
ture, shattered glass and queensware.
The store of the warden, Jack Cbumley,
was rifled, and about fifteen hundred
dollars’ worth of goods taken and de
stroyed.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,
The citizens in Bricveille began to hear
squads of men passing through the place
on their way to the stockades between
eight and nine o’clock Friday night.
This was kept up for nearly an hour. It
was about 9:30 o’clock when 20 ) men
descended W alden’s ridge, approaching
the stockade from the east. They called
ppon Warden Cross to deliver them the
keys of the prison, While this was go
ing on, the magazine was blown cp, and
the stockade surrounded by 3,500 men.
Cross gave up the keys, and when the
141 vonvicts were released, they assisted
in burning and destroying tbe property.
TO THE CHUMLEY MINE.
The attacks g party then moved on
the Chumley or Coal Creek stockade, and
a halt was made near there. Twenty
five men were Bent forward to demand
the surrender of the convict*. The men
kept up continuous volleys from their
Winchesters. Only one guard xvas on
duty, and hs lost no time in obeying.
The convjcts wi re told to go, and many
ol them, as at Briceviile, were given citi
zen’s clothes. When the convicts were
liberated they plundered Chumley’s store
and destroyed the s'oekade furniiure.
The office building was accidently set in
fire by the overtu ning of a stove. The
m' b then descended to 'he valley, where
they set off several dynamite bombs, and
fired a small cannon they had with them.
Jhe racket occasioned by these dis
charges, together with the explosion of
the ammunition stored at the Briceviile
stockade, which the fire touched off*
crea’ed tbe impression among noti par
ticipants that a small warwes in piogres*.
This, however, was not the case, as there
was not a sing e shot fired at any man or
ary personal violence.
THE CONVICTS IN GANGS,
Saturday found the woods and fields
and railroad track* around the two s bek
ades g nerously strewn with the stripeef
suits of the released convicts. Convicts
in gangs of tens and twenties were wan
dering all over the surrounding country.
Sheriff Rutherford and deputies, of
Anderson couutv, were busy all day
S .tur lav recapturing convicts, and the
sheriff wired Governor Buchman that his
jail was about full.
Tiie pri sident of the Tennessee Cos and
and Mining Company, whose stockadi*.
was the first at'ncked, w*s a*ked what
he proposed to do. He says matters were
ia such shape at pieseut he could give nr
definite information, but he thought li*
would hold the state to its contract. The
ixcitement has considerably abated.
A Nashville dispatch say*: Governor
Buchanan aud thesta'e board of prison
inspectors held art* informal conference
ill dav Saturday considering the Brice
*dile outbreak, but arrived at no decis
ion as to what to do. The problem is a
knotty one. Adjutant (ieuerd Nurnian
•ays of the affair: “Th& convicts have
been released and are ’scattered to the
four wind*, and the mob has dispersed
t<> their homes. Of cou se, we want lo
vindicate tbe law, but the question is
b.nv to s o about it*. The improbsbiF'y
of securing a conviction of any of tbe
leaders will not be taken into considera
tion. The law passed by the general as
sembly, at : its recent extra
session, on the subject of
interfering with convicts, is in sub
stance this: That pe sons interfering
with .r releasing convicts in jails, pris
on*, mines or eisewhire. shall be guil y
of a felonv, punishable by imprisonmeui
in the penitentiary, the principals for not
less than fhree nor more than seven years,
and the accessories for not less than thr>-e
nor more than five years. About all tha*
can be done is 10 prosecute the leaders
of the mob under this statute, but even
this would have no result, as nobody
conru oe Touna to testily against them,
and there is s\mpathy all over the state
with the mipers in their determination to
resist an odious law.”
THE DOORS CLOSED.
Maverick National Bank at Boston
Fails for Two Millions.
Tbe Maverick nauond b uik at Boston,
Mass., closed its doors Monday. Tbe
losses are es imated at upwards of two
m.llion dollars, which wipe* out the re
ported surp us and undivided profits of
$1,000,000, the capital of $400,000 and
>ll of tbe 100 per cent assessment that
the shareholders may be called upon to
contribute. But as nearly a majority of
tbe shares were owned by President Pot
ter, some of which he hid pledged with
a s ivings bunk, etc., it is doubtful if the
lull assessments can be collected. De
positors, however, should lose ouly a
fraction of their deposits. The irregu
larities oT the Maveiick bank extend
back over a period of more than two
years. Tbe associated banks relieve i
thedep sitors t > some extent bv advanc
. ing on their claim*, which ac io i, it is
Said, will avert any disastrous effects
• President Potter made an assignment
jof his iudivilual estate to Postmas er
Tuomas V.*Hart and Henry D H)de. It
Westimated that the- properly cost him
$150,00t). He has, a very E avy
life insurance, the aggregate amount ot
which is said to be in the neighborhood
of five hundred thou-and dollars. Outside
of his Cdhass t propeity, im bonds nud
his pictures, it is not known that P tter
has any property iu auction to his in
vestments and speculative Becur*|ie9.
The Boston bauks have voted to i./sesa
theooseives 3 per cent, of the amount of
their loans. This will raise about f >ur
million dollars for the loan to the
Maverick bank depositors.
POTTER ARRESTED.
A later dispatch says: Asa I*. Potter,
president, and Colonel Jonas H. Frencu
and Thomas Dana, and rectors of the
Maverick National bank, were arrested
by the United States mar.-bal Monday
night. The warrants, it is understood,
charge them with embezzlement and
violation of the Un.ted States banking
laws, which foibid loans by a nation J
bank to any single individual amounting
to more than 10 per cent of its capital
stock. It is said Potter owes the bank
$1,200,000, French SBOO,OOO, and Dma
$400,000. The Boston and Maine rail
way had $400,000 on deposit at the time
of the failure.
FRIDAY’S FIRE RECORD.
Destructive Work of the Flames at
Yarious Points.
A Nashville dispatch says: About 8
o’clock Friday morning fire broke out in
tne Nashville G s Company’s four-story
building. Ihe third and fourth fl .or*,
used for offices aid sleeping, were burned
out. and the r stof tbe budding drenched
with water. The loss will probably reach
$35,000.
Dispatches say that the business portion
of the town of Loda, 111., has been de
stroyed by fire.
The town of Newberry. Ind., suffered
severely by fire. Nearly the entire busi
ness portion of the town wa9 destroyed,
besides a score of dwellings.
The Turnbuckle factory af Brazil, Ind.,
whs entirely destroyed by fire during ihe
morning. Loss, s4o,<>oo; insurance
about one-fourth. Fifty hands are
thrown out of employment. The factory
is owned and operated by the Brazil
Steel and Iron Compnny.
Clinton, Hun erdon county, N. J.,
was visited by a destructive tire Friday
night. Nineteen buildings, including
jociety halls, -tore h uses and dwe lings,
were 1 u ned. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO.
The drying kilus of the Frauklin Lum
ber Companv in Sou'h mpt‘>n county,
V., were destroyed by fire. Loss about
SB,OOO. Pirtiallv insured
COLD ON THE CONTINENT.
The Season Opens Early and is Until*
ually Severe.
A Loudon cablegram of Monday says:
Ihe winter season is commencing in
Europe with unusual severity. England
his already been vis ted by sharp frosts,
and a di-pitch frdm Hamburg announces
that there has been a heavy snowfall and
the themometer is 7 degrees below freez
ing. Advices from Greece state that
torrents of r.in hive fallen through
ut that -country, and that there Lave
been heavy snowfal s in the mountain
and itricts, which are unprecedented at
this period of the year.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The trial of Woodruff, ex-state treasu
rer of A i kansas, began at Little Rock
Thursday.
The porte is enforcing the recent de
cree prohibiting Jewish families from en
tering Turkey.
Work on the Mantagua canal has been
abandoneEstimated cost to Guate
mala, SIOO,OOO.
A Loudon cablegram says: In the
court of appeals the Maybrick case was
commenced Monday.
Dispatches of Sunday say that destruc
tive prairie fires are sweeping the coun
try between Monon, 111,, and Chicago.
About eight thousand miners in Staf
fordshire and Worcestershire have struck
against a reduciion of 10 per cent in
wages.
Simonson & Weiss, cloak manufactur
ers at Green and Canal streets, New York,
failed Saturday. Liabilities estimated at
SIBO,OOO. Tbe firm began business in
1870.
The employes of the June Manufactur
ing Company, at Belvidere, 111., went out
on a strise Friday because of tbe dis
chargeof five men who had been agitat
ing a strike.
Patrick McDermott, McCarthyite can
didate, has been elected without opposi
tion to the seat in the house of commons
for no th Kilkenney, left vacant by the
death of Sir John Hennessey.
A London cablegram says: Owing to
the fact that the employe* of two firms of
bootmakers are sinking, all London
bootmakers have agreed to declare a
lock-out. Five thousand bootmakers
were locked out Monday and 20,000 will
ultimately be treated in the same man
ner.
A cablegram of Monday from Constan
tinople reports that ravages of cholera in
Damascus show an alarming increase.
The record for the week past shows tBO
cases and ninety deaths. Owing to the
prevalence of cholera, Hodeida is in
neailv as bad a situation as Damascus,
but at Aleppo the plague has subsided.
Tfie bark Liberia sailed from New
York Saturday morning with ti\tj-%x
negro coloni*ts for Liberia. Only thir
ty-three of them are adults. They go
under the auspices of the American
Colonization Snciety, which defiays ex
penses of passage and of maintenance
for several months after they reach their
destination.
A Chicago dispatch of Friday says:
The chief of constructin of the world’s
fair has ordered the contractors to double
the force of men now employed on the
buildings. 'The chief of construction
made the order imperative, and said they
would have to work two shifts of men
eight hours each day, or make sixteen
hours constitute a day’s work.
The debt statement, issued from Wash
ing Monday, shows that the interest and
non-interest-bearing debt decreased dur
ing October $4,025,527, this being brought
ai out by a reduction of $2,918 060 iu
debt on bonds, the interest on which has
ceased, and $1,109,467 in the debt bear
ing no interest. The interest-bearing
debt has actually increased $2,000. The
total interest bearing debt outstanding is
$585,026,720.
A dispatch of Friday from Guay mas,
Mex., says: Information has reached
this city of the burning of the Mexican
village Santa Rosa and the massacre of
several of its inhabitants by Nanbui In
dians on the night of Monday, October
19th. Santa R >sa Is an interior village
with a population of 600 people living in
thatched huts. The Indians came down
from tfie mountains and suddenly fired
the village and k’lled several Mexicans
wh > failed to escape.
Fire broke out in Lorillard’s tobacco
factory at Jersey City, N. J., Monday
morning, on the top floor of thcold brick
building used as a drying room for to
bacco in the first process of manufacture.
Fif y thousand pounds of tobacco were
stort and there. It was worth slo,oQo, and
wa* totally destroyed. The damage by
the fiie to that floor was SIO,OOO, and the
and mage to the building and tbe fl>ors
below was $25 000. The loss was en
tirely covered by insur nee.
CHILE REPLIES
And Refuses to Shoulder tbe Responsi
bility in the Recent Embrogollo.
A calegram of Wednesday from San
tig'says: The Chilean government has
replied to Minister Egan’s demand for an
explanation ot the recent attack u| on
American sailors. The reply is couched
in very strong language and it is under
stood that it amounts to a refusal to accept
the responsibility for the affair. The
state department at Washington has been
notified. Minister Egan, Commander
Schley and Consul McCrary are consult
ing together, and it is thought that de
cisive action wid be takeu soon. The
state department’s orders in reference to
the matter are very strong.
HO FROTECTION OFFERED.
The intendente of Valparaiso has re
fused to guarantee the safety of market
boats c oming to that city early in the
morning from the United States warship
B iitimore, or the safety of the officers of
that vessel coming ashore at night
There is practically a boycott on the Bal
timore. No American sailors are allowed
ashore. Great excitement, has been
cau*ed at Santiago by the report that the
Chilian legation in Washington has been
attacked.
NO 28
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Corrects Published Misstatements Bo*
garding its Affairs.
The New Y rk Journal of Commerce
whose editor, Mr. Stoue, is president oj
the New York Associated Press, print!
the following editorial io regard to mis
statements which have been going the
rounds of the pr. ss concerning changei
in that organization:
“We do not suppose that the editors
and their corresoude'its, who so grossly
misrepresent the affairs of the Asso
ciate! Press, intend to tell anything but
the truth, but they are wholly misin
formed, often by parties interested in
spreading error, as to the facts, and are
thus led into publication of the missiate
ments so widely circulated concerning
this theme. We have before us a long
ttleuraph dispatch from Washington,
printed in the Inter-Ocean of Chicago,
in which there is hardly a word of truth.
We will add a few corrections of the
most important of these untruths. No
paper has withdrawu or given any
notice of its intention to withdraw from
the New York Associ tied Press. The
New York Associated Pr< ss has “not a
large surplus in its treasury,” nor a sur
plus of any kind, Hud there has been no
time when members have bad nothing to
pay for toe r own news service and have
had a large surplus besides. The ex
penses of the association have always
been more thau its income. It is not true
that shnrp dissensions in the assoc ation
have grown out of the election of Col.
Elliott F. Shepard as its president. A
sufficient reply to that charge is that
Colonel Shepard was never chosen or
even nominated for that office. It is not
true that it has been a sor' of 'rartition
that tbe proprietor of the Mail and Ex
press should be president of the associa
tion, or that James Brooks, Cyrus W.
Feld and Col. Elliott F. Shepard have
held this office successively. No one of
these gentU men was ever prop sed for
the office. The editor of the Journal oj
Commerce has held that position for more
than forty years.
A NEW ASSOCIATION
’ " *. —
For the Gathering of News Through*
out the South.
A number of the lending newspaper
men in business in Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
lenmasee met Friday in New York city,
at the Aitor house, and the
>-Southern Associated Pi ess as a business
euterpiise. A large nmount of capital
was subscribed, the association is to
commence at once the gathering of news
throughout the country, and to supply
their reports to newsp pers and news
organizations. It will be a strong asso
ciation. The following named offi
cers were elected: President, Evan P.
Howell, of Atlanta, Ga.; secretary and
manager, Adolph 8. Ochs, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; directors, \V. W. Screws,
of Montgomery, Ala.; J. H. Estili, of
Savanmih, Ga ; George Nicholson, of
New Orleans, La.; J. C. Hemphill, of
Charleston, S. C.; Evan P. Howell, of
Atlanta, Ga.; T. T. Stocktog, of Jack-*
sonville, Fla.; W. P. Pinckard, of
Birmingham, Ala.; Adolph S. Ochs, or
Chattanooga, Tenn.; C. O. B. Cowardin,
of Richmond, Va. There were received
many telegrams from visitors and propri
etors of southern newspapers expressing
approval of the movement and promising
it their support. After arranging de
tails sor the transaction of business tha
meeting adjourned.
“ Harold,"
A novel about to be issued by the
Globe Publishing Company of New York,
is, in point of plot and motive, one of the
most remarkable books of the year. It
contains several minor inaccuracies of
statement, and the style of the book,
taken as a whole, is singularly uneven,
but. in spite of these defects, "Harold” is
likely to create a ripple in literary cir
cles, both here and abroad.
In years past a number of American
writers, foremost among them being
Judge Tourgee, have penned novels deal
ing with the race question. "Harold”
is a book of this order.
Inigo Bright, a believer in the organic
equality of all men, procures an African
negress just previous to her period of
confinement, takes her to England and
brings her offspring up amid personal
luxury and refinement. It is interest
ing to read of the details of Harold’S
bringing up, of his meeting with his
djrst white playmate, of his white ser
vants and of his intellectual and moral
independence. But his awakening to a
sense of the inferiority which accom
panies a black skin naturally ensued.
It comes in all the horror of insult and
degredation when he encounters a Vir
ginian abroad. Harold, thereupon,
throws up his fortune and sails for
America, where he spends several years
in vain endeavor to free himself and his
race from social bondage. He acts the
part of a hero on several occasions, but
becoming gradually embittered by love
affairs and politics turns felon and is
compelled to flee the country. Harold
returns to Africa and barbarism, writes
a bitter letter to the world and the vol
ume closes with a Tennysonian pass
age 5
There the passions, cramped no longer,
shall have scope and breathing space.
I will take some savage woman—she shall
rear my dusky race.
Tiiis tells, in a general way, the story
of " Harold. ” But about the movements
of the black man the author of "Harold”
has spun a delightful web of fancy, and
interspersed his chronicles with deft
human touches, which makes the sad
figure of the chief personage seem all
the more real and probable.
The piece of folk-lore entitled, “Tho
Rtory’ cf Messiah.” appended to one of
the chapters is a gem in its way. “Har
old” is anti-negro in tone.