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VOL. l.
The Indiana Alliance farmers want to
borrow $150,000,000 from the Govern
ment.
An English social economist declares
that old age is a more important element
among the cases of pauperism than
either thriftlessness or drink.
Few people are aware, avers the New
York Press, that the Government de
partments have trained editors employed
to edit all Government reports.
For the last six years the world has
not produced as much breadstuffs as it
has consumed. There must have been
asurplus of 500,000,000 bushels stored
as a reserve.
Lawyers still predominate in Congress,
as, adds the Chicago Herald, probably
they always will. There are 212 mem
bers of the present session who have at
one time or another practiced law; while
lixty-five are farmers.
Among the departures approved by
;he United States Board of Geographical
Names arc the avoidance of possessive
names, the dropping of the final “h” in
the'termination “burgh” and the abbre
viation of “borough” to “boro.”
The Swine Breeders’ Association of Il
linois protests against the opening of the
Columbian Exhibition on Sundays be
cause the pigs requiie repose one day
in the week “in order that they may ap
pear at their best on the remaining sis
days.”
Uncle Sam has an army of 150,000
people in his employ. More than thirty
per cent, of these have been added to
the service during the last decade.
Their salaries range from paid
the President to the $1.50 a year some
postmasters receive.
The Wellington (Kan.) Voice is re
sponsible for the story that a Cowley
County farmer raised a field of popcorn
and stored it in a barn. The barn took
fire and the corn began to pop and filled
a ten acre field. An old mare in a neigh
boring pasture had defective eyesight,
saw the corn, thought it was snow, and
lay down and froze to death.
The Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette draws
this parallel: “Dias left the Texas side
of the Rio Grande River one night with a
few men and guns. He got to the
mountains and soon controlled the des
tiny of Mexico. He has made a fine
executive officer, but knowing how it
wa9 done, he wants Uncle Sam to keep a
dose watch on Garza. It doesn’t require
much to start a revolution among starv
ing people. This little speck may grow
large rapidly.”
The size of Australia is not generally
appreciated, remarks the Mew Orleans
Picayune. The seven colonies occupy a
territory greater than that of the United
States, excluding Alaska. New South
Wales alone is as large as the thirteen
original States. Tasmania, the Rhode
Island of Australia, is as large as that
State, with New Jersey, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts added; Victoria, the
smallest colony of the continent, is equal
in size to Great Britain.
Professor William Crookes, presiding
at the third annual dinner of the Insti
tution of Electrical Engineers, presented
the great task and possibility of science
in these words: “It has been computed
that in a single cijbic foot of the ether,
which filled all space, there were locked
up ten thousand foot-tons of energy
which had hitherto escaped notice. To
unlock this boundless store and subdue
it to the service of man, is a task which
awaits the electrician of the future. The
latest researches give well founded hopes
that the vast store-house of power is not
hopelessly inaccessible.”
Says the New York Witness: “The
Alliauce lodges of the South arc endeav
oring to arrange for a reduction of the
acreage devoted to cotton raising, to
prevent the market being glutted with
'that article next year, as it is now. It
is a well-meant undertaking, but can
scarcely succeed as long as there is any
margin at all in raising cotton. Wnen it
comes to business, most men will consult
their own interests, and will go into
whatever line of business promises the
best returns. Over-production of cotton
will correct itself, just as the over-pro
duction of any other article of merchan
dise does, by making the business un
profitable, and therefore unpopular-”
State of iafie
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine of Both Houses Briefly
Outlined.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday.— ln the house, Wednes
day, Mr. Rusk, of Matyland, from the
committee on accounts, reported a reso
lution for the appointment of two addi
tional messengers for service in the
house. After considerable discussion,
in which much opposition was mani
fested, the resolution was adopted—yeas,
133; nays, 36.
Thursday. —ln the house Thursday
Mr. Buchanan, of Virginia, from the
committee on judiciary, reported a bill to
regulate the manner in which property
shall be sold under orders and decrees of
United States courts. Mr. Culberson,
from the same committee, reported a bill
to limit the jurisdiction of United States
circuit and district courts.
Friday. —ln the house, Friday, Outh
waite, of Ohio, a<-ked unanimous consent
to withdraw the demand for yeas, and on
motion to limit debate on the last para
graph of the military academy bill to
one minute and to move to fix limit to
twenty minutes, was agreed to, and the
house went into a committee of the whole
upon the bill. Crosby, of Massachu
setts, a member of the military
committee, defended the bill of the
committee. He said he had been anxious
to be economical, and had cut off appro
priations which at any other time it
would have been wise ttymake. Wheeler,
of Alabama, on behalf of the committee,
withdrew his motion to strike out the
appropriation of $15,000 for improving
the drainage of barracks for enlisted men,
but it was immediately renewed by Hol
man, of Indiana, and carried by a vote of
108 to 50. The committe then rose and
reported the bill to the house.
Saturday.— ln the house Sa’urday the
speaker announced the appointment of
the following committee to investigate
the pension office: Messrs. Wheeler,
Michigan; Little, New York; Dungan,
Ohio; Lind, Minnesota, and Brosius.
Pennsylvania. On motion of’ Mr. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, the resolution was
taken up directing the committee on man
ufactures to investigate the so-called
“sweating” system of tenement labor.
The committee is given authority to send
sub-committees to various cities in car
rying on thelnquiry. Oh motion of Mr.
Chipman, of Michigan, an amendment
was adopted directing the committee to
inquire how much increase the McKinley
act has caused in the wages of workmen
employed in industries protected by the
terms of that act. The resolution was
adopted. In the morning hour the house
resumed consideration of the bill for the
better control of and to promote the
safety of national banks. The biil
was passed. Mr. Peel, of Ar
kansas, from the committee on In
dian affairs, reported the Indian appro
priation bill, and it was referred to the
committee of the whole. On motion cf
Mr. Outhwaite, a bill was passed author
izing the board of managers of the na
tional soldiers’ home to appoint their
officers from soldiers who served in the
late war, without regard to rank. The
house then proceeded to the considera -
tion of the house calendar, the first bill
being that amending the internal revenue
laws by abolishing the minimum punish
ment for violation thereof. It was passed
without division, and the house ad
journed.
the senate.
Thursday. —ln the senate, Thursday,
Mr. Call offered a resolution for investi
gation as to the alleged efforts of railway
and other corporations to control the
election of senators in the Florida legis
lature. He asked that the tesolution be
laid on the table, and said that he would
submit some observations upon it at an
early day. He also offered a resolution
instructing the committee on public lands
to report a bill for the opening to settle
ment, under the land laws, certain reser
vations in Florida. This he also asked
to have laid on the table. The senate
adjourned until Monday.
Monday —ln the senate, Monday, Mr.
Gibson, of Louisiana, from the commit
tee on commerce, reported a bill appro
priating $15,000,000 for the improvement
of the Misissippi river, and it was
placed on the calendar. Ten millions of
the amount is for the river from the head
of the passes, near its mouth, to the
mouth of the Ohio river (not more than
two millions to be expended in any year)
and five millions is for the river from the
mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the
Illinois.
NOTES.
Speaker Crisp was too unwell to pre
side over the house Monday morning.
Mr. McMillan presided.
The senate on Thursday, confirmed the
nominatipn of William M. Grinnell, of
New York, to be third assistant secre
tary of state.
The house committee on coinage, on
Wednesday, by a vote of 8 to 5, reported
a free coinage bill to the house. The
provisions of the bill are just as has
already been stated.
The resolution to investigate the pen
sion office passed the house Thursday,
and a special committee of five will be
appointed by the speaker to investigate
and report upon the manner in which this
office has been conducted.
The president, on Thursday, nominated
Joseph McKenna, of California, United
States circuit judge for the ninth judicial
circuit, and Rowland B. Mahoney, of
New York, envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to Ecuador.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1832.
On Monday the house committee on
the election of president and vice-presi
dent and representatives in congress
agreed to report the bill leaving the
election of senators to the people and
conferring the exclusive power on the
state legislatures to fix the time, place
and manner of holding such election.
The free wool bill will be reported from
the ways and means committee early
next week, and its consideration, per
haps, commenced in the house on the
week following. This bill alone will
probably consume three weeks or more o f
the time of congress, ior nearly every
member will desire to make a general
tariff speech upon it.
The silver bill reported from the coin
age committee several days ago, will
probably bes detracked for .the present,
in favor of the wool bill, which comes
up in the house soon. However, just a9
soon as ihe wool bill is out of the way,
unless in appropriation bill happens to
come in, the silver que-tion will be taken
nr*, discussed and vot'd upon l*v the
House. Nearly every man on the iloor
desires to be heard upon this question,
and like the tariff, it will consume much
time.
The minority report of the house coin
age committee on the Bianu free coinage
bill was made public Monday. It is
signed by M ssrs. Tracy, of New York ;
Abner Taylor, of Illinois; Char es W.
Stone, of Pennsylvania; Williams, of
Massachusetts, and Johnson, of North
Dakota. The report says the bill report
ed hy the majority of the committee be
gins with a provision that the “unit of
value in the United States shall be two
units, one the standard silver dollar,
worth 70 cent", and the other the gold
dollar, worth 100 cents.
The house committee on agriculture
has devoted several days to hearings on
the bill to prevent dealings in options and
futures. Boards of trade and cotton and
produce exchanges of all the leading
cities have had delegaiions at Washing
ton arguing before the committee against
the bill. While the present bill
by Mr. Hatch is a very imperfect meas
ure, still the majority of the committee
favor a bill of some sort that will ac
complish the desired object, and the
chances are a bill of this kind will be re
ported within a few weeks.
The senate committee on agriculture,
Friday, considered the resolution of Sen
ator George relative to the appointment
of a committee to inquire into thi cause
of the low oricc ot cotton and the • to
pressed condition of agrioiflture A r *
cotton-raising states, a‘nd "agreed to re
port back to the senate an amendment in
the Dature of a substitute authorizing the
committee to make a general investiga
tion for the purpose of ascertaining the
present condition of agriculture in the
United States, the present prices of agri
cultural products, snd if any of
which prices are depressed, the cause of
such depression and remedies therefor.
IN RYAN’S BEHALF
A Circular is Sent to All Sub-Alliances
iu Georgia.
The latest development in the Ryan
case is a movement to interest the farm
ers of Georgia in his behalf. A call has
made on the Farmer’s Alliance of the
stale to enter tUeir protest against the
imprisonment of Stephen A. Ryan, and
at the same time sigu a
the governor to interfere in
behalf. Mr. Larry Gantto, < *Pror edkor
of the Southern A1 is uhe
mover in the he has prepared
the following Rioted circular:
To The Alliance of Georgia. 1
Watkinsvjlle, Ga., Feb. 2. \
There now languishes in the Fulton
county jail, Mr. Stephen A. Ryan, a
young man whose only crime is that he
has not the means to pay the debt de
manded by the courts. Air. Ryan is a
victim of that barbarous and brutal law
—we thought wiped from the statute
books of the state of Georgia—imprison
ment for debt. His fate to-day may be
your fate to-morrow. Steve Ryau is the
first martyr, but unless the people rise in
their majesty and place the brand of con
demnation npon the ruling of our courts
of law, a felon’s cell awuits every debtor
in Georgia.
Now, I call upon every free-born Geor
gian, who is opposed to the re-enact
ment of this outrageous law, to at once
sign and send a petition to Governor
Northen expressing their condemnation
of this ruling by our courts, and asking
that he at once release Mr. Ryan from
prison, as our governor is the ouly power
that can now save him. Lose no time,
brethren, in signing your petitions. For
ward them to me at Watkinsville,
Ga., and they will be promptly
presented. Remember that you are not
doing this for Steve Rvan, but to rebuke
a dreadful precedent that is forging fet
ters for the thousands of poor debtors in
Georgia for whom our jails are gaping,
unless they get relief. Act promptly, for
the petitions should be in by the first of
Match. Call your alliance together and
get to the petition every signature you
can. Yours fraternally,
T. L. Gantt.
There are 2,340 sub-Alliances in Geor
gia. and Mr. Gantt believes that the pe
titions will averase forty names from
each Alliance. This will give a list of
one hundred thousand fanners who will
make an appeal to Gov. Northen in Mr.
Ryan’s behalf.
SARA IS CRAZY.
A Woman Who has Gained Considerable
Notoriety.
A San Francisco dispatch of Monday
says: Mrs. Sara Althea Terry, widow of
Judge Terry, and, previous to her mar
riage to Terry, of Sharon divorce suit
notoriety, has become violently insane.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Work on the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa
and Memphis railroad will be resumed at
once uud the road completed to Tusca
loosa, Ala.
The Farley National bank, at Mont
gomery, Ala., which suspended payment
the 21st of last August, has resumed
business Monday.
Governor Holt, of North Carolina, on
Friday, offered a reward of S2OO for R.
L. Askew, a white man, who murdered
Charles Hardy, also white.
Near Summerville, Ala., Friday, Tom
Tramick, a sixteen-year-old white boy,
shot and killed two negroes who had
offended bis younger brother.
Lincoln’s birthday was celebrated Fri
day at Coal Creek, Tenn., and speeches
made by labor leaders, threatening the
troops if a free miner was killed.
A dispatch of Friday from Forrest City,
N. C., states that C. C. Tate, postmas
ter in that city, has confessed that he
took $1,200 of government funds.
The debt bill was reported by the joint
finance committee to both branches of
the Virginia legislature Saturday, and
was made the special order in the house
for Mondav.
Ihe grand jury has found true bills
against N. S. White and J. W. Theus,
president and cashier of the defunct
bank of Madison, Tenn., which suspended
September, 1890.
Greenville, S. C., has granted $75,000
ror a system of sewerage. The council,
at a meeting Friday night, resolved to
advertise at once for bids for construc
tion and material to be in by March 14th.
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina,
has refused to grant a requisition from
the governor of Georgia for Louis A.
Mellichamp, an Aiken merchant, for fail
ing to pay for goods purchased from an
Augusta merchant.
The republican state executive com
mittee of Tennessee has issued a call for
a state convention to assemble at Nash
ville, May 4th, to select delegates to the
Minneapolis convention and to nominate
a candidate for governor.
At s meeting• Greenville, r'isa.,
Friday, of the creditors of the Bank of
Greenville, which failed recently for a
million dollars, a settlement was affected
whereby the creditors accepted no’es for
their claims, payable in one and three
years, and bearing interest at 6 per cent,
from January 1, 1892. £
Saturday ala station on hf':
North Carolina railroad, a miles west
of Asheville, three children were playing
on the track in froni of an approaching
freight traitA Th£!r mother ran out to
rescue them and the mother and one
child were ground to pieces. The other
two children were maimed.
E. M. Lewis,Oxanna, Ala., made an as
signment Thursday for the benefit of his
erectors. His as s ets are about forty i
thousand dollars, with liabilities amount
ing to $12,000. His property consists of
the Midway Machine Company, the Ox-
and the Oxanna nail works.
The tightness of the money market was
the cause.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The capitol
is draped in mourning and was closed all
day as a mark of respect to ex-Governor
Scales, whose funeral was held at Greens
boro Thursday morning. Flags were
half-masted. Governor Holt attended
the funeral. There was a large attend
ance of other prominent men from vari
ous parts of the state.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch says:
On Friday M. J. O’Brien, late supreme
treasurer of the Catholic Knights of
America, was indicted for purloining
$75,000 from that order and several
smaller amounts from various orphans.
The sensation of the day is the sworn
statement of an attorney that O’Brien is
concealed in Dade county, Georgia. The
information was furnished by O’Brien’s
bookkeeper.
A special of Friday from San Antonio,
Texas, says: There is a prospect of re
currence of trouble of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass railroad. The men
say in extenuation of their action that
some old employes who were reinstated
when the late-strike cessed had been dis
mously endorsing the bill, and will also
request the membtts of congress from the
state of Georgia tavote for the bill.
The secretary ..of the treasury on Thurs
day appointed George H. Thobe, of
Covington, Kyi, an inspector under that
department for duty in connection with
the immigratior. service. In 1886, Mr.
Thobe, who is a member of the Wood
carvers’ Union and of the Knights of
Labor, was the workingman’s candidate
for congress in the fifth congressional
district of Kentucky against John G.
Carlisle, and cluimed the election, but
his contest for the seat before the house
of representatives was unsuccessful.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Saturday
says: For the past two days experts have
been working on the ,accounts of M. J.
O’Brien, de'milting supreme treasurer of
the Catholic Knights of America look
ing towards a settlement of the steal,
charged without cause, that it is the
manifest desire of the management to
get rid of all the old men.
The Federation of Trades, of Atlanta,
Ga., held a largely attended meeting
Thursday night at their hall. An eight
hour working day bill has been intro
duced in congress by Hon. John J.
O’Neill, of Missouri, relating to the
working of government employes, and
the federation passed resolutions unani-
While this has been going on the fugi
tive’s friends have been arranging to give
bond for him in the event he is caught oi
gives himself up. The officials are not
making any vigorous efforts to secure
O’Brien, and it is implied that he in
tends giving himself up.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says:
The labor people at Coal Creek have been
holding numerous conferences. One
thiDg which has caused some of the con
ferences was the proposition made by the
Tennessee Mining Company, Saturday,
viz., to conduct the mine at Bricevilleon
the co-operative plan. The miners have
not fully decided yet what they will do,
but indications are that the offer will be
accepted. It is said now that if the offer
is not accepted, the company will sell its
property to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, and the peniteutiary
i-.ssees will put convicts to work.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the week ended Feb.
12, as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for the United States 235, Can
ada 41, total 276, against 3i9 the week
previous, Silver and cotton have de
clined yet further, the latter to 7 3-16
cents, the lowest price for many years,
and silver bullion to 41 pence at London,
the lowest price ever recorded, though
there followed a slight recovery to
41*. Cotton receipts and exports have
both been much lar. er than a year
ago, but stocks on hand decreased but
slowly and are very large, and spec
ulative sales for the week have been 932,-
000 bah# Wheat declined 1 1-8 on sales
of 46,000,000 bushels, exports beiDg se
riously diminished, and corn has fallen
1* cents on sales of 15,000,000 bushels,
western receipts beiDg unusually large.
Lard and hogs were somewhat stronger.
Exports of products from New York fall
a little below those of the same week.last
year, but shipments from other points
continue very large.
THE IRON MARKET.
The production of pig iron is about
stationary, amounting February Ist to
188,333 tons against 188,028 January Ist,
and 146, <6O a year ago. The stocks of
charcoal iron are substantially unchanged,
and unsold stock of anthracite are a lit
tle smaller than a month ago, but the
stocks of coke iron are considerably lar
ger, so that consumption does not appear
quite up to tb enormous supply. No
change .ppeuts iti ti.fc Sis'fcut for pig
iron, and rails are in small demand at
fair prices.
A GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.
Peports from various cities indicate a
general improvement in trade. At Phila
delphia the dry goods trade is quite en
eoumointr and business in groceries is
generally satisfactory, but very little is
being done in wool, and other lines are
quiet and without change. The pros
pects at Baltimore are much brighter,
with a decided improvement in leather,
shoes and harness. Better accounts also
come from the south. At Louisville
trade has improved; at Nashville it is
very fair; at Memphis light, but improv
ing, and at Montgomery increasing. At
New Orleans business in all lines is
only fair, but there is a slight improve
ment in cottoß, and sugar is firm and
active with light receipts. Nearly all the
southern points report an easier money
market and more hopeful prospects.
The treasury continues to lose gold,
and has caused some embarrassment dur
ing the week by refusing to supply do
mestic exchange except upon actual de
posits of gold, but it has put out $281,-
000 more money of all kinds than it has
taken in. With the much reduced rev
enue and large disbursement required by
appropriations, the treasury is not in
shape to bear with ea=e the strain which
financial vagariei in congress might put
upon it, but confidence is felt that no
measure calculated to do harm can be
passed over a veto. Meanwhile, the dan
ger of accumulation in excess of public
needs is illustrated by the furious specu
lation in stocks and cotton, which may
vet result in some difficulty.
NUNNALLY INDICTED
As a Party to the Murder of Dr. and
■ Mrs. Barrett.
It was rumored on the streets of Griffin,
Ga., Friday night that true bills had been
found by the grand jury against W. W.
Nunnally, Jerry Holt and Sam Kendall,
for be murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. M.
Barrett. When it was known for a cer
tainty that true bills had been found, in
view of their not having been returned,
it was deemed best not to mention the
fact, lesi some one be placed under the
censure for the act. Whst the evidence
was on which the indictments were found
is, of necessity, withheld, but it comes
from good authority that it is of a most
reliable source, and damaging in point of
fact. These cases will nut come up at
the present term of court, but will very
likely be heard in March at an adjourned
term of court.
agains'Fcigarettes.
Congress May be Asked to Make a Pro
hibitory Tax.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says .
The ways and means committee of the
house of representatives will be petition
ed to prepare a bill invoking the pater
nal condemnation of the government
upon the cigarette habit. Representatives
Cochran, Cummings and Stahlnecker,
of New York, all have in their possession
bills which they have been petitioned to
Introduce, providing for the suppression
of cigarette manufacture by imposing an
internal revenue tax of $lO per thousand
on all imported or domestic cigarettes
in this country.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A bomb was exploded Friday in front
of the Spanish consulate in London. It
whs supposed to be the work of some
Spanish anarchists.
The cotton shed of the Bramley-Moore
dock at Liverpool was destroyed by fire
Monday. Over three thousand bales of
cotton were burned.
The Baltimore Evening Mail, on Mon
day, started a subscription, with a con
tribution of SI,OOO, a fund for the relief
of the starving people of Russia.
A dispatch of Friday from Allegheny,
Pa., says: Ex-Mayor Richard T. Pearson,
who was charged with embezzlement
while in office, has been acquitted.
A cablegram of Thursday says: The
Russian government has granted a fur
ther sum of 00.000,000 roubles to be ex
pended for the sufferers in the famine
districts.
The United States grand jury at Dead
wood, on Thursday, indicted eleven
Chinamen for using the mails for the
transmission of lottery tickets and lot
tery literature.
On Thursday the grand jury in the ex
tortion case against Mayor James G.
Wyman, at Pittsburg, Pa., returned a
verdict of guilty in the first and second
counts of the indictment.
The Pall Mall Gazette on Monday pub
lished a long letter in defense of Mr.
Egan, the United States minister to Chili.
The letter was sent from Valparaiso by
“an Englishman and a conservative.” •
A Topeka dispatch of Saturday says:
The Farmers’ Alliance delegates of the
fourth congressional district of Kansas
have been instructed to oppose the sub
treasury scheme at the St. Louis conven
tion.
A great public demonstration occurred
Monday afternoon in Lincoln, Nebraska,
to celebrate Gov. Boyd’s restoration to
the office of governor, as a result of the
recent decision of the United States
supreme court.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Sunday
says: The American Federation of Labor
ha* * grievance aga? At the world's fair
management, and if not settled that or
ganization declares it will bovcott the
exhibition.
Seven more cases of typhus fever were
found Monday afternoon in the United
Hebrew Charities’ lodging house, 42
East Twelfth Rtreet, New York. They
wire Russian Hebrews who arrived on
the steamer Massilia.
A dispatch of Friday received in Lon
don from Montevideo states that the re
port that the troops in the garrison in
that city had revolted is witho'ut founda
tion. There are and have been no dis
turbances in Montevideo.
A Netf York dispatch says: The man
agers and general agents of the New
York Life Insurance company, on Thurs
day, voted John A. McCall their choice
for the presidency, and his selection by
the trustees is a foregone conclusion.
It was announced Monday that the
true secret of the withdiawal of the
Louisiana Lottery Company from attempts
to procure a renewal of its charter is
that arrangements have been made to re
move the lottery to Mexico in 1893.
Meyer, Jonas Sons & Company’s cloak
makers at New York, numbering nearly
one thousand men and women, went out
on a strike Thursday. The trouble is
said to be due the difference which has
sr sen b"tween the employers and em
ployes regarding wages.
A dispatch of Monday says: The
Pottsville, Pa., from and Steel Com
pany will make a sweeping reduction
in wages of 10 per cent at their Fishbach
plant, to take effect at ouce.. The com
pany employs 600 men. A repetition of
the strike of last summer is feared.
A dispatch of Friday says: H. A.
Bruns, president of the failed Merchants’
bank, at Moorehead, Minn., has been ar
rested on the charge of defrauding de
positors out of SBO,OOO. The complaint
is made by Robert Enegren, who has
been the bank’s bookkeeper for about
bighc years.
A Detroit, Mich., dispatch says: Ex-
President Cleveland is to deliver an ad
dress at Ann Arbor on February 22d.
The citizens of Detroit have tendered
Mr. Cleveland a public reception on Feb
ruary 23d, an acceptance of which was
received Thursday. The reception is to
be general in character, and it is the pur
pose of the committee to make welcome
all who come. *
A cablegram of Saturday says: Six
teen thou and more persons from the
famine-stricken districts of Russia have
taken refuge in St. Petersburg and have
been quartered on householders. Typhus
fever is raging at Kazan, and a cordon
has been established there for the pur
pose of preventing any of the inhabitants
from leaving the place and thus spreading
the disease.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
The striking coal porters took tho trade
by surprise, and orders to strike sur
prised the porters themselves, but they
obeyed. The small coal dealers have no
stocks ahead. Nearly every coal depot
on the river is at a standstill, and all are
becoming blockaded with barges waiting
*o be nr loaded. The dealers have raised
the price of coal, and gloomy predictions
are indulged iu as to what will result
from the prolonged strike.
One-third of London’s vinie ta committed
on Batnrdav nights.
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