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VOL 111. ODR LATEST DISPATCHES, The HappeniDgs of a Day Chronicled in Brief and Concise Paragraphs And Containing ti e Gist of tlie INeivs From All Parts of the World. The Dumas Woolen, Warp and Bag- Ring mill at Westbrook, Maine, was destroyed by lire Monday night. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, insured. A New York special skys: The last trace of acute stringency in the money market disappeared Tuesday,there be ing no premium on cash. The banks are now paying out cash freely. The Richmond, Va., local optionists Avon in Tuesday’s election by 142 ma jority, in a total vote of 3,509, there by carrying the city against licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. The ingrain department of the Low ell Manufacturing company at Lowell, Mass., started up Tuesday. The cot ton department of the Hamilton mill also started and the print works will start in a few pays. Advices of Tuesday from Moscoav, Russia, say that thirty-five students, eight professors and five Avomen of rank have been arrested there on sus picion that they were implicated in a nihilist plot against the czar’s life. Five car loads of negroes passed through Memphis, Tuesday, on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birming ham railroad, making 1,200 in all. They came from around Birmingham and were destined for the mines in Kansas. Monday the National Tube Works Company, at McKeesport, Pa., re sumed operations in another puddling department, comprising twenty-two furnaces, and Tuesday morning the. continuous rolls of the finishing d*£ partment resumed. Leidy & Cos., retail hats, and one of the oldest firms in Memphis, Tenn., made an assignment Tuesday. Liabili ties, $31,185; assets nominally, $12,- 000. W. L. Cooper is the assignee. The creditors are principally New York hat houses. Two asssgnments were made in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. Cohen. Collier W Cos., wholesale clothing and notion dealers, failed for $55,000; as sets nominally the same. S. Mason, who is attorney, also failed, owing $30,000; assets $23,000. A boiler connected with A1 Brun field’s grist mill, at Hart’s Creek, in Lincoln county, Va., exploded Tues day morning. John H. Boyd was in stantly killed and the wife of Brunfield received injuries from which she died later. .Six other people, whose names are not given, were badly hurt. Dr. H. C. Hooker, for eight years past superintendent of the Arkansas insane asylum at Little Rock, tendered his resignation to the state board of charitable institutions Tuesday to take effect at once. Dr. Hooker declines to give his reasons. It was one of the best conducted asylums in the whole Country, and has a national reputa tion. The American National bank at Nashville, Tenn., re-opened its doors Tuesday after being closed nearly four weeks. Only $7,000 was withdrawn, while the deposits amounted to $360,- 000. The First National will also open on Monday and has promises of support. Both of these banks were absolutely sound, but closed because of a threatened run. The free bridge commissioners Tuesday rejected all bids received for the building of the free bridge across the Arkansas river at Little Rock, the bids being considered excessive. The lowest bid was $545,000. This prac tically*defeats the free bridge question in that city for some time to come. It has been a bone of contention be tween prominent rival factions for several years past. A Nashville special of Tuesday says: J. J. Pryor, assignee of the Mechanics’ bank, lias brought suit to collect the life insurance on three policies trans ferred by the late defaulting cashier, J-ohn Scharat. The suits are against the Pennsylvania Mutual and Phila delphia for $12,500; the United States of New York for $20,000 and the Mu tual, of New York, for $30,000. Innumerable dispatches received at "Washington indicate that a general re sumption of business in the manufact uring plants in the north and west has begun or is in preparation. This is particularly marked in the cotton fac tory secticgi of New England and iron working plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, also in the miscellaneous indus tries of Philadelphia and New York. State Comptroller James A. Harris and Captain Keller Anderson met in consultation at Knoxville, Tenn.. Tuesday regarding the funds necessa ry to remove the standing army from Coal Creek. Everything is now in readiness and it is understood that the move will be made in a few days. There seems to be no fear of further trouble, though no one can tell what a day may bring forth. A Houston, Tex., despatch of Tues day says: A reduction in force has just gone into effect along the Southern Facifio from El Paso to New Orleans. The reason is that there is very little business being done and a smaller force is competent to handle it. The reduction effect a large number of men, however, and is applicable, for the most part, to telegraph operators and men doing clerical work in the general office. The republicans, who are prohibi tionists, the most important political question before the people of lowa, held a state convention at Des Moines, Tuesday, and parted company with the regular republican organization for the remainder of the campaign by nominating a candidate for governor and repudiating the liquor plank adopted at the August convention. Three hundred delegates and 1,500 visitors Avere in attendance. A Norfolk, Va. , dispatch of Tuesday states that Amanda C. Ribble, an in mate of the Richmond alms house, won her suit, the corporation award ing her real estate valued at $70,000. Mrs. Riddle has been an inmate of the almshouse constantly since May 23, 1891. The suit was for the pos session of real estate near Norfolk and had been in the courts for several years. Mrs. Riddle is about sixty-five years old, and has one brother. Sev eral of a sister’s children are also liv ing. The case will be appealed. THE PRESIDENT’S RETURN. The Sojourn at Gray Gables Benefi cial to All. President Cleveland, accompanied bp Mrs. Cleveland, their daughter, Ruth, nurse and maid, arrived in Washington Friday morning from Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. The party Avere met by Secretary Thurber with carriages and driven to the white house in a drenching rain. Mr. Thurber was afterward asked as to the general health of the party and he replied that everybody was feeling first rate, and that the sojourn at Gray Gables had been beneficial to all. Mr. Cleveland, in particular, was in excellent spirits. His eye was bright and his complexion clear, and he look ed vigorous and strong. GOES BIGHT TO WOBK. Mr. Cleveland’s first day at the white house after his absence at the sea shore, vras spent in the hardest of work. After breakfast, the president went to his office, and from half past nine until haif past eleven, he and Private Secretary Thurber disposed of a very large amount of accumulated public business. A CABINET MEETING. At half past eleven the babinet meet ing began, and lasted until one o’clock. All the cabinet officers were present, except Secretary Smith. The silver question avbs discussed with reference to the chances for repeal by the sen ate, and the president expressed him self as satisfied that his recommenda tions would be carried out. Another most important question considered Avas the condition of the treasury, but no definite plan of relief was dicussed Avith any view to immediate action. BUSINESS MORE PROMISING. Bradstreet’s and Bun Give Encourag ing Reports. ' Bradstreet’s report of trade for past week says: The clouds over the gen eral business situation throughout the country have continued to break away. This is the second week in which the actual improvement has been recorded, as indicated by an increase in volume and distribution of merchandise re ported at Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. More travelers have been sent out from these and other points, and manufacturing industries there as well as at larger eastern centers have in a number of instances begun starting up, some without special orders. R. G. Dun & Cos. says: The indus trial situation mends but little. The signs of improvement observed a week ago were scarcely sustained, for, while twelve textile and thirteen steel con cerns have resumed after stoppage, fifty-five textile and two steel concerns have stopped. In addition, thirteen others have reduced working time, and several have reduced working forces. A more satisfactory indica tion is that the failures are greatly diminished in importance and some in number. The number reported dur ing the past week in the United States is 356 against 148 for the same week last year, and in Canada 29 against 28 last year. In the eastern states the failures number 149; in the west ern 142 and in the southern 65, show ing an improvement in each section. COTTON MONEY. Jfew York Banks Will Furnish What is Needed. A special "of Tuesday from Mem phis, Tenn., says: All the banks in tln/city have been notified by their New York banking connections that they are prepared to ship all the money necessary to Memphis to move the cotton crop. This news was re ceived with joy by the local financiers, who regard the financial stringency as a thing of the past. The cotton crop will begin moving in earnest about beptember 15th, TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1893. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Condensed from Our Most Important TelegrapMc Aims And Presented in Pointed and Reada ble Paragraphs. Sunday’s dispatches state that no new cases of cholera have developed in Jersey City. Jersey City announces that there is only one case of cholera there, and that it is isolated. The scare is about over. At 6 o’clock Sunday evening the Louisviile and Nashville railroad em ployes of all classes except telegraph operators, in Evansville, Ind., struck. The Second World’s Sunday School Convention met in Music Hall of the Exposition building at St. Louis, Mo., Sunday. Delegates from all over the Avorld Avere present. A dispatch from Woodsville, N. H., says: There was a severe frost on the highlands in this region Saturday night. Vegetation was damaged' con siderably, but a heavy fog saved the river crops. The large plant of the Olivo Iron and Steel Company and the Haines worth Steel Company at Pittsburg, Pa., were plaeed in operation Monday morning with non-union forces suffi cient to operate every department. Captain Concas, commanding the Spanish Caravels, arrived at Washing ton Monday morning to consult Avith navy department officials regarding the transfer of those vessels which the Spanish government wished to present to the United States. A Denver special of Monday says: The attorneys and special friends of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, the famous prisoner who killed himself in the county jail Sunday by taking some sub tle unknown poison, are opposing the effort to hold an autopsy and inquest. A St. Louis dispatch of Sunday says: Charles A. Gunn, under arrest as a suspected train robber, has been pos itively identified by the creAv of the Mobile and Ohio train he held up in June last and his case has been turned over to the officials of the Souther n Ex - press company, who will prosecute. Outlaws held up the ’Frisco passen ger train at the little toAvn of Mound Valley, Kas., at 4 o’clock Sun day morning, shot and killed Express Messenger Chapman and robbed the passengers. They secured nothing from the express car, but not a pas senger escaped. Even the women were relieved of jewels and money. Every department of the Carnegie steel plant at Homestead was started Monday morning, giving employment to about 2,000 workmen. About 5,000 are yet idle. They will also be pro vided with Avork within a few days. About 700 men were given- employ ment in the Braddock wire works which also resumed operations. No duction was offered as had been anifPi pated. What will prove, perhaps, the most disastrous street car accident ever re corded took place in Cincinnati Sun day evening at 7 o’clock. An electric car dashed down a hill at frightful speed, left the track, broke a telegraph pole and shot into a saloon, Avrecking both it and the structure it struck. Asa result of the collision two people are dead, six injured beyond recovery and nearly forty more are hurt, many dangerously. A special cablegram of Monday to the New York Herald from Kingston, Jamaica, says: No tidings of the missing Atlas line steamer Alvo have been received at Fortune Key, one of the Bahama islands, Avhere she would put in if she was disabled and had met with any severe stress of weather. News has been received from Fonaives, Hay ti, where she Avas to call but the steamer had not put in there or at any other Haytien port. She has been given up as lost. A Denver, Col., dispatch says: Dr. Thatcher Graves, the convicted poison er of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, com mitted suicide in his cell in the county jail Saturday night, presumably by taking poison. On his person was found a note which ran as follows: “To the Coroner of Denver. Dear Sir: Please don’t hold any autopsy on my remains. The cause of death may be rendered as follows: ‘Died from persecution; worn out, exhausted. ’ ” A New York dispatch of Satifrday gives the statement for the Georgia railroad for the year ending June 30th, which shows: Net earnings, $484,771, an increase of 109,444; charges, $626,727, an increase of $2,011, and deficit, $141,956, a de crease of $107,433. Coupons from the Georgia Pacific Railroad com pany’s 5 per cent, equipment mort gage bonds due August 1, 1893, will be paid by the receivers on presentation at the Central Trust company of New York. A Washington special of Sunday says: The United States treasury is depleted. But little over the gold re serve remains. Funds must, there fore, be raised at once. President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle had a conference Saturday and agreed that of all the plans proposed the best was to coin tho seigniorage of silver now in the treasury. That amounts to $52,000,000, Mr. Carlisle talked with the leaders of both houses of congress about the matter end found them all in favor of the plan. A dispatch from Beverly, Mass., says: Jerome Bonaparte died at bis summer home, Bride’s Crossing, Sun day night. Jerome Bonaparte was nearly sixty-three years old, and was a graduate of West Point. He served several years in the United States army and afterward in the French army, winning distinction in the Cri mean and Franco-Prussian wars. Col onel Bonaparte wan the third of the namo in the United States, being the elder son of Jerome Napoleon Bona parte, who was the only son of Prince Jerome, king of Wurtemberg. NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL. Many More Dead Bodies Being Found and Unceremoniously Buried. A special from Port Royal, S. G., states that the islands around Port Royal and Beaufort presented a sad der scene Friday than was that of Thursday. The waters have begun receding rapidly, and as they disap pear, leaving the land in view, pictures of desolation and destruction multi ply. Dead bodies are being found on all portions of every one of the islands and in most instances decomposition has gone so far that anything like a certain recognition is almost impos sible. The discovery of the bodies is sad enough but the burial which they aro given enhances the sadness of the story. No one-has time now to join a funeral cortege unless the funeral be that of a member of his own family. Those who have not lost by death a relative are kept busy repairing the damage to their property or saving what they can from the wreckage. The dead, when found, are left on the ground where discovered until grave diggers can be secured. Then a shallow hole is made in the earth by scooping out the mud. No digging is now nlfecessary, as the earth is almost a piuddle for from two to ten feet. The hole once made the body is dumped in without coffin or clergy and the mud trampled back again. Sometimes .lie discoveries are so frequent and the burials so multiplied that more than one body is placed in the same hole. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES. ► Many Big Business Opoaations. The Oliver Ircm and Steel Company at Pittsburg, Pa., started up with non-union men Friday. The compa ny has enough orders on hand to run the whole plant for an indefinite peri od, and there is very little stock on hand. The plant employs about 4,000 men and has been idle since June 30. Aisiness men and banks of Kansas are unanimous in their opinion the low points in the present financial depression has been reached in that city, and that tho upward ward movement has begun. Bank presidents estimate that the banks have gained $2,000,000 in deposits since the run in July. The suspended Bank of New Eng land, at Manchester, N. H., having assets sufficient to pay depositors and stockholders in full and have a sur plus, will resume in a feAv days. The St. Louis Stamping Company has resumed business, Mr. W. F. Neidringhaus, the proprietor, agree ing to sign the Amalgated scale. This will effect 10,000 persons. A general mass meeting of the striking coal miners held at Loaven worth, Kas., decided to declare the strike at an end and return to work at the old scale. The Cocheco Manufacturing Compa ny, at Dover, N. H., will start up Sep tember 6, after a three weeks’ shut down. An Iron Trust Organized. The organization was completed at Duluth, Minn., Tuesday, of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron company, a corporation which will have much the same relation to the Bessemer iron ore trade of America that the Stand ard Oil company has to the oil trade. It will control fully nine-tenths of the productive mining capacity for Besse mer ores of the United States. The company has made an agreement to maintain a standard of prices. The prices will be such as will preclude the possibility of competition by the deep, hard ore mines of the older ranges. Seventeen Drowned. Advices oi‘Tuesday from Rotterdam state that during a tire which occurred in Florestry, opposite the Rotte quay, at Rotterdam, Sunday night, twenty live onlookers who were aboard a lighter rushed to one side, causing it to capsize, and seventeen were drowned. A Family of Five Bnrned. A family named "Wall were burned to death Monday morning in their shop in Hammersmith, a suburb of London. The father, a widower, lived with four children on the third floor of a building in which he carried on his trade. LABOR DAY. Us Observance General Throughout the Country. Perfect weather characterized Labor Day in New York. All the big manu factories shut down ; all wholesale es tablishments, business exchanges, downtown offices and most of the re tail shops closed. The labor parade moved from Cooper Union it Eighth street to the battery. The labor lead-, ers calculate that 15,000 men were in line. No disturbance of any kind has been reported. In Brooklyn the pa rade was one of the largest ever held. By special orders the leaders prevent ed any flag from being carried, except the stars and stripes and trades ban ners. AT WASHINGTON. Labor Day was observed in Wash ington by an excursion of the brick layers’ association to Bay Ridge, where the excursionists were joined by the electricians’ assembly and the horseshoers’ association. The only parade consisted of the march of the bricklayers’ association from its head quarters to the depot, accompanied by a band of music. A large number of individuals from the other organiza tions of the city joined the Bay Ridge excursion party. COLUMBIA CELEBHATES. The day was celebrated at Colum bia, S. C., in grand style. Being le gal holiday, state offices and banks were closed. Business also was gen erally suspended. There was a grand parade of unions and citizens. State musis was furnished by battalion B, of Charlotte, N. C. The exercises consisted of addresses, bicycle races and other sport and a big barbecue. The exercises were attended by an im mense crowd of people. There Avas also a grand celebration of Labor Day at Florence, S. C. At Chattanooga, Tenn., two thous and men in line marched through the orowded streets to Electric park, where Labor Day was appropriately celebra ted. Every one had a pleasant time and the weather was fine. There was no other demonstration. AT CINCINNATI. Labor Day celebration at Cincin nati was ahead of those of any previ ous year. The parade was the great feature of the morning. The various unions gathered at the Garfield statue and with flying banners and gay badges marched through the principal streets disbanding at the city hall. About six thousand men were in line. BIG PROCESSION IN LOUISVILLE. Labor Day demonstration at Louis ville, Ky., was the largest in the his tory of the city. Between 10,000 and 15,000 were in line. The weather was beautiful. THE WOMEN RESCUED. They Were Passengers on the Wrecked Steamer Savannah. At 2 o’clock Friday the tug Paulsen arrived at Savannah with all of the missing lady passengers of the City of Savannah safe aboard. A great re ception was extended them. When the tug was sighted the news ran like wild-fire over the city. A great crowd quickly assembled on the wharf below the city exchange. As the Paulsen came up she was saluted by tugs and other steam crafts in the river. Marine glasses showed that the decks of the puffing little boat were crowded. A number of them were taken off Harbor island and the others from Hunting island. At the former place they were the guests at Senator Don Cameron’s winter home, and at the latter they were cared for at the homes of the lighthouse keepers. The women looked dilapidated when they came off the tug. None had a change of clothes when they left the j wreck and some had only their ' night dresses. These were provided ; the islanders, but not with fashionable garments. All the ladies J were broAvned by the sun and the sea spray. They tell the experiences of I their trip through the breakers in the small boats. The sailors worked nobly \ and skilfully. Their passengers were soaked through and through but that was no novel experience after the day and night in the rigging. QUIET AT COAL CREEK. Governor Turney to Remove the Garri son of State Troops Stationed There. Governor Turney, of Tennessee, after an examination into the situation at Coal Creek, says he has decided to re- j move within a week the garrison of state troops that has been for eighteen months stationed there. In their place will be stationed a civil guard of twenty men, and at Big Mountain half as many. He thinks there will not be any more trouble. lowa Populists in Convention. The lowa populist state convention met at Des Moines Tuesday and nomi nated the following state ticket: Governor —J. M. Joseph, of Creston; lieutenant governor—E. O. Ott, of Des Moines; supreme judge—A. W. C. Weeds, of Winchester; railroad commissioner—J. A, Gray, of Musca tine ; state superintendent—Mrs. Winthrow, of Marshaltown. There were no contests for places on the ticket. A STAY LAW WANTED. South Carolina Farmers Request an Extra Session of the Legislature. The farmers are becoming alarmed at the likelihood of having to market their cotton at present prices and the Mechanicville Alliance unani mously adopted the following: Whereas, The money sharks and goldbugs have contracted the volume of money so that there is practically no money in the country to move the cdtton crop; and, Whereas, Congress does not seem to intend to give the necessary relief in time to Bave us from bankruptcy; therefore, be it ‘ ‘Resolved, That we earnestly appeal to the governor of South Carolina to call an extra session of the legislature, not later than September 15th, to pass a stay law on all debts falling due on or before November 15th, so that we may be enabled to pay our debts with out bankrupting ourselves and starv ing our wives and children. “Resolved, That under the present conditions there is no way whereby we can meet our debts without sacrifiaing our homes and property, which we do • not propose to do. Takes our lives, but do not starve dur wives and chil dren.” THE HOME RULE BILL Passes the House of Commons and First Reading in House of Lords. A London cable dispatch says: The house t>f commons agreed to suspend the 12 o’clock rule Friday night in order that the third reading of the home rule bill might be concluded be fore adjournment. The principal speakers were Justin McCarthy, John Morley and Chamberlain and Balfour. The time having arrived for the third reading of the bill, tho speaker form ally put the motion and ordered a di vision of the house. Mr. Gladstone was the first to record his vote, and Mr. Morley was the last. Each was given an ovation, as was also Balfour. ‘ The division resulted ; For the mo tion, 301; against, 267. When the figures were announced the Irish members sprang to their feet and cheered wiidr. , Avaving hats and handkerchiefs and ’ like, Avhile the opposition members raised their coun ter cheers and shouts of ‘ ‘resign! resign 1” The house then adjourned. Imme diately after the sitting of the house of lords was resumed and five minutes later the home rule bill passed it on the first reading. THE STRIKE POSTPONED. The L. k N. Employes Accept a Reduc tion Until December Ist. The final conference between tho cheifs and trainmen on one side and the leading officials of the Louisville and Nashville on the other, was held at Louisville, Saturday lasted and from half past 2 o’clock until 8:15 at night. The following is the text of the agree ment reached. On December Ist there will be an other conference as to the restoration of rates. In the meanwhile the 10 per cent cut will operate as President Smith’s order intended it should. At the deferred meeting of the trainmen and the officials December Ist, the business before it will be the considera tion of the restoration of rates and this will depend upon the volume of the road’s business at that time and its ability financially to restore wages to the standard existing before the cut. The Louisville and Nashville does not bind itself to restore rates, regard less of business alone as the trainmen at first wanted the management to do. In other words, the question of resto ration is left open for adjustment at the time upon. Declared to Be Asiatic Cholera. A cable dispatch of Friday from London states that the epidemic in the Lincolnshire seaport, Grimsby, has been declared officially to be Asiatic cholera, after having been call ed a “choleraio disease” for many days. The last victim of the disease was a woman, who died last Tuesday. Several other cases before hers had ended fatally. The authorities of Grimsby believe that the cholera was brought to the city by immigrants from the infected ports, Antwerp and Rotterdam. Lighthouse Service Damaged. A Washington special of Friday says: The lighthouse service, as a re sult of the recent storm near Charles ton, sustained serious losses. Among them are: Total loss of lightship, sta tioned off Rattlesnake -shoals; Morris island range-light keeper’s dwelling at Fort Sumter, lighthouse depot at Cas tle Pinkney, lighthouse tenders Wes trfa and Taros badly damaged and all the buoys in Charleston harbor de stroyed or out of place. Cholera in Jersey City. A New York special of Friday, says: The health inspector of Jersey City announces officially that the death of Martin Crowe, at the Jersey City hos pital, was caused bv Asiatic cholera. Another case—that of Mrs. Shod* Black suspected to be suffering from the same disease, is still under inves tigation. NO. 26