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VOL. X.
ARRAXGINGTHETIMBEB
THE CABINET CONTINU S TOBE MADE
AND TAKEN APART.
Mr. Manning Preparing to Accept a Port
folio—A Messenger on Ilia Way With
Tidings—The Sure Trio—Congres
sional— News Notes.
New York, Fib. 21.—The Times’ Albanv
special says: “Rumor brings td the front one
more the old Roman of Ohio. A confidential
agent has been dispatched by the president
elect to Mr. Thurman, it is said, with anus
sage concerning a certain cabinet office. The
office is said to be the secretary of the inte
rior. The bearer of the message is reporb'!
to be Francis Lynde Stetson, the Now York
lawyer, who made Mr. Cleveland a visit late
one night this week in company with William
C. Whitney, and who is supi>osed to have
taken the train for the west Cot Lamont,
with charming frankness, says he is not
aware that any prominent democrat is
expected at the Towner mansion this we* k.
Mr. Cleveland had no visitors. Mr. Manning
is putting his house in order preparatory
to making a change in his business routine*.
The stockholders of the Argus have held a
meeting and discussed the arrangements ne <is
vro I* mr.de n a change o oa-rigen civ
01 dm newspaper at an eaiij itea Ti y
are satisfied that Mr. Manning will l>e a mem
ber of the cabinet, and some of them have
nrfc *d him to accept the portfolio knowing
v, ; . 1 that he bad it under consideration
f< .nth;- -fine. Three other democrats are l»e
--lievcd G.> 4tfpud.lv certain of portfolios; they
ar- i' . ard, Garland and Vilas, the last
t:al entleman. by the way. being one of
th.-individuals whom the confidential agent
lias been commissi-aed to sec in the west.
Th ■ latest visitor to Mr. Cleveland’s residence
in ■* arch of news said, w ith a disgusted air,
‘A ft ’l* v can guess more news than he can
get up there. 1 ”
The l imes' Washington spx-ial says: “The
only assurance that democrats have been able
to get in regard to the cabinet was that con
veytsd in guarded statements by Mr. Bayard,
that Mr. Cleveland would probably not an
nounce any of his ministers umii all were deci
ded uf»on, had been consulted, and had agreed
that they would get along together amicably
and with some degree of harmony. While the
make-up of the cabinet continues to occupy
much the largest share in conversation among
senators and representatives, information
ujaon the subject does not grow definite and
trustworthy with that swiftness which the
statesmen would like. That Mr. Bayard will
perform the duties of secretary of state, Mr.
Garland those of attorney general, and Mr.
Lamar those of postmaster general or secre
tary of the interior, during the next adminis
tration, is all tha’ the politicians here are
agreed upon. There st ems to Im 1 no doubt in
the minds of their colleagues that these three
gentlemen will step out of the senate into the
cabinet next month.”
Senate.
Washington, Feb 21. After the usual
routinp business, on motion of Mr. Gorman,
tie ret an of the interior was called upon
for information as to whether the Pacific
railread, to whom subsidies had been granted,
had built aud maintained and operated their
telegraph lines, and were receiving massages
without discrimination in prices, a> required
by law.
The chair laid before the senate the Des
Moines river bill.
Mr. Lapham continued his opposition to the
bill, when the Galveston harbor bill came up.
Mr, Morrill moved to give preference to the
bill for the retirement of the trade dollar.
After some discussion the motion was
agreed.
The result had hardly been ann< >unced be
fore Mr. Hale moved to take up the agricul
ture! appropriation bill.
The senate agreed to the motion by a viva
voce vote, thus remanding the trade dollar
bill to the calendar. The agricultural appro
priation bill was read and discussed by sections.
House.
Washington. Feb. 21.—The house matin
continuation of Thursday’s session, and im
mediately went into a committee on the river
and hnrbor bill Various amendments to the
Mo-k -pi river clause were voted down.
Finally, to get the bill into the bouse, the
friends of the measure ] r.niit.' I the entire
clause to be stricken out, thus cutting off the
amendments.
The Hennepin canal clause, upon which cer
tain points of order had been made, was fin
ally erased, and the decision of the chair was
reserved.
The chair overruled the points that it was
not Germaine, but sustained the point that
the proposition should have been considered
by the committee on railways and canals, and
that paragraph must go out.
Mr. Henderson appealed from the chair’s
decision.
Pending the action on the appeal the com
mit tee rose, and the house adjourned, and
■was immediately called to order for Friday’s
session.
Ou motion of Mr. Dorsheimer it was or
dered that when the house adjourn it be to
meet at the call of the speaker upon the arri
val of the procession from the Washington
monument.
Mr. Wolford iKy.i called up the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the house re
fused to pass the bill granting a pension of
fifty dollars per month to the widow of Maj.
Thornburg, who was killed at the Ute massa
cre. After various motions for recommital
the bill was finally i a fed.
The > nate bill inc. < using the pension of the
widow of Commander Craven was lost.
Mr. Spooner (R. 1.1 < ailed up the bill for
the transfer of ground to the city of Provi
dence for highway purposes. It was passed.
Washington Notes.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Detectives Wright
and McElfresh went before the house commit
tee on pensions, bounty and back pay and
testified that their expenses in Ohio were paid
out of the campaign funds. They were under
the direction of CoL Dudley. Their official
positions were not exercised in the campaign
work. The committee adjourned to Monday,
When Chief Special Examiner Rathbone will
be heard.
Dakota*** Dream.
Bismarck, Dak., Feb. 21.—The council by
unanimous vote passed a bill providing for a
constitutional convention for South Dakota,
to lie held in Sioux Ealls, September 8, and
appropriates $20,000 for the mileage and per
diem of members, and providing for refund
ing to the territorial treasury by a tax levied
on the South Dakota counties. The bill was
als< >to pass the bouse, and is regarded as a
step toward statehood. It is proposed to elect
state officers next fall, but they will not as
sume their fmictions without authority from
congress.
Hie Oregon Deadlock.
. a •.eM. Ore., Feb. 21. —The legtslative ses
si :i .as expired by limitation. The senato
rial situation has hardened into what seems to
be a fixed and permanent deadlock. A ma
jority of the republican members are now
voting for HiitL and declare they will not
feilji gjbateggit Ww.
desert him even If the result should be no
( lection. The minority of the republicans
ho are voting for ex-Attorney General
'Villiains are equally firm in their declara
tions. The democrats are eager to unite
i the election of a mugwump, but
neither of the republican factions are in
lined to unite with them. It is proposed
rs a solution of the problem to elect
•■ames G. Blaine, and this extraordinary
i esult ir a possible outcome of the deadlock.
The efforts of the democratic national com
utee ha>e been chiefly directed against
a’illianis. but they are as yet without effect.
. here is considerable talk in the lobbies about
! '-ov. Moody and Henry Tarling, of Portland.
' uning in toward the last a* compromise can
lidates. It is understood that in the event of
ho election Gov. Moody will appoint W. Mir
: 1 all, of The Dallos. The free-for-all contest
hi ch began thirty-nine da vs ago will be re
amed with every bow bent, and there will
■w no armistic* until some one is elected or
ike legislature expiree by limitation.
INSANE ASYLUM SCANDAL.
A Slander Case Which Involves the Reputa
tion* of Several Officials.
Chicago, Feb. 21.—Several benches in
Judge Garry’s branch of the criminal court
nere filled by plump looking women with
I anged hair and fashionable hats. They were
i 'male attendants from the county insane asy
lum subpoenaed to testify in the criminal
•ci case against Dr. Charles Koller. The
ioctor is being tried for an alleged malicious
, bel against Miss Kittie 2m Andrew, the
. csekeeper, and Messrs. Hannigan and Ley
lea, of the board of county commissioners.
Til.■ i»ersons named were charged with im
noral conduct in the asylum, and the art icle ■
•mis published in the Staats Zeitung
the instigation of Dr. Koller, who was at
me time assistant physician in the institution.
Dr. Charles Koller was ••ailed in his own
liehalf. He gave his age as twenty-five,
th- High he looketi fully forty-five, with a heavy,
taded red l>eard. He acknowledged that he
ave the “pointe” to the reporter from which
was written the allured lilwdous article, but
that he went to the newspaper office the next
iaj' and made a partial retraction; ho said
bis room ail joined the one occupied by M’ss
McAndrews, and that he had heard voices in
he room at different times, winch he recog
nized as those of Mi s McAndrews and Cum
missioner Hannigan. On one of those orca
rions, it was about 5 o’clock in
the morning of September 17 last,
i'* was not so positive in his state
ments about Miss McAndrews, but he had
ocn her on one occasion run from the flist to
ihe third floor, chased by Kavanagh, the ei*-
jnecr. He also sw >r»‘that he had seen Miss
M. Audreys under the influence of liquor on
•»' end occasions. I'p >n cross examination
;.h- witness said he had a lock put on the door
leading from Ins room to Miss McAndrews
for fear she might come in the night and “do
bim up.” Witness further said that he was
responsible for all he had told the Staats Zui
u ig reporter as to KI ttie McAndrews and
[.ommissioner Hannigan, but had retracted
as to Commisisoner Ixstien.
Fire keconl.
New York,-Feb. JI. - Hames were discov
■-nd in the real* of iho second fl<x>r of the cen
tr.d portion of Marvin's safe factory, West
venth s. ret t, between Eighth and
Ninth avenues. There were three elevator
shafts in the front building, an 1 through them
l flames spread with lightning rapidity, and
in less than a half hour the whole building
was blazing. Occupants of the tenemeut
hou.->e adjoining the building were rutiseu
f .n!) their sleep and forced to vacate the
house. Several hvndred massive sales fell
through the upfier floor with a tremendous
crash, carrying down the other floors. Then
the front and I .ack walls fell in. The build
in ' wan completely destroyed. Loss on stock,
£75,000; on machinery, S7O,(XX); on building,
f 125, MO. Two hundred and fifty persons lose
employment.
Chicago, Feb. 20.—A fire broke out in the
r.piM r story of the fine Grannis block, 113 and
115 Dearborn street. The building contains
three banks—the National Bank of Illinois,
E. L. Brewster & Co., bankers and brokers,
and the Continental National Bank. The iq>-
p-r sUTies were occupied by some forty law
and other offices. Notw it hstanding the build
ing was considered fire-proof, the upjier
stories were gutted by fire and the lower ones
flooded with w'ater. An expi-zd'-n of gas in
the vault of the Ba :of Illinois occurred,
v recking portions of t ? c lower walls, but it is
thought the valuables and records are safe.
St rimers are still playing on the building.
The total loss will rc.u ■: from $125,000 to
£150,000. The block wa-purchased by Shep
pard Trucks, of Boston, for $|75,000 a few
months since, and its annual rental amounted
to S4O/MJO.
Fort Worth. Tex.. Feb. 20.—Jos. H.
Brown’s wholesale drug house, the largest in
Northern Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss
nearly SIOO,OOO.
Hamburg, la., Feb. 20.—The Hamburg
plow factory, withall its contents of manu
factured farm implements has been consumed
by tire. Ixjhs $ SO,(XX); insurance $20,000.
Desperado Lynched*
Portland. Oro., Feb. 21. —Intelligence has
just been received here U' the lynching of a
desperado named Calvin Pierce on Palouse
river, Wy. T. Pierce was mining at a camp
known as Hoodoo diggin ;s. Pierce provoked
an altercation with a young miner named W.
H. Newcomb and split hLs head open with a
pick-ax. The murdi rt r fled, but an alarm
was given raid h< was speedily captured. A
vigilance cimmittee composed of miners tried
Pierce, condemned him to death and he was
immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The
body was left suspended swne time, but was
finally buried. Over one hundred miners
participated in the lynching. After the body
was buried the vigilantes quietly dispersed.
The authorities were notified, but have made
neither arrests nor an investigation. Pierce
vias generally n g irded as a desperado of the
“cowboy” type. He shot and killed George
Curtis last April at Grand Ronde, Ore., with
out provocation, but the jury acquitted him.
Tins so incensed the ciuzi us that they gave
Fierce twenty-four h«hi >to leave the country.
UNNATURAL PARENTS
Freeze Their Child Fntil the Toes Drop Off,
and He Dies.
Geneva, 111., Fob. 21.—Michael Nolan and
his wife have been held in bail on a charge of
inhumanly acd brutally causing the death of
their son, aged twelve years. After cruelly
beating the lad they kicked him out doors. The
Ixiy crawled to the cow shed and found shel
ter during the bitter cc! of the night, freez
ing his hands to the db >ws and his legs to the
knees. Next hk min he crawled to the door
and was tak n in and laid down by the stove.
Hi- toes hit against the door casings and
braking off fell to the floor. The boy was
left to lie on the floor until he died shortly
after.
Gone Beyond.
Nlw York. Feb. 21.—Dr. Lewis Esberg.
.•I ' • . 614 Fifth avenue, died after a short il
Dr. Esberg was perhajis the most cmi
ne.it specialist of the diseases of the larynx i.i
th. world. He was forty-eight years of age.
He graduated in medicine at Jefferson col
lege, Philadelphia, and afterward became a
general practitioner in that city.
COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. 18S5.
HE DIED OF HIS WOUNDS
ANOTHER GREAT MAN IN THEENGLISH
RANKS SACRIFICED.
General Sir Herbert Stewart Fa«»eA Away
at Gakdul Wells —The Gloomy Feeling
in England—“ Who Next ? *’ —Off for
the War —The News.
Korti, Feb. 21.—Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart,
who was wounded at the battle of Abu-Klea,
died at Gakdul Wells, to which place he had
been removed. His death cast a gloom over
the entire British army.
London, Feb. 20.—The news of Stewart’s
death spi'ead like wildfire throughout Loudon,
and on every side expressions of regret were
heard, and the names of Gordon, Earle and
Stewart are on every lip, and the query of
the moment is, “Who nextf” The surgeons
state that Gen. Stewart’s wound was of such
charactor that recovery was hopeless from the
first.
Off for the War.
London, Feb. 21.*—The third battalion,
grenadier guards, started for Suakim. Pre
vious to their setting out from Windsor they
wore addressed by the IM nee of Wales. He
said he well remeinliered the day, thirty-one
years ago, when this same battalion departed
for the Crimea, and he distinctly recalled the
bravery with which they boro their part in
that great struggle.
The prince shook hands heartily with the
officers, while the men raised enthusiastic
cheers.
The queen commemorated the occasion by
sending an autograph letter to the officers.
She assured them of her good wishes and
prayers.
After inspection was over the guards
marched from the castle to the Southwestern
railway. The streets through which they
passed were brightly decorated with flags and
banners. A crowd of people thronged the
walks and cheered as the grenadiers marched
by. At the station th(\y quietly entered the
train and were brought to Waterloo station.
An immense crowd gathered here, and the
arrival of the train was greeted with tremen
dous cheering. Wives of the soldiers were
admitted to the platfi rm to bid their husbands
good-by, and the pathetic scenes when the
Coldstream guards took leave were again
enacted.
At all stations along the way crowds assem
ble* 1 and enthusiastic cheers greeted the train.
It was a constant ovation from Windsor to
Gravesend. The men, though touched by the
leave-taking, quickly rallied, and were soon
in remarkably high spirits, singing war song
fter war song with stirring effect
At Gravesend an enthusiastic reception
awaited them, and they embarked on the
steamer which takes them to Egypt to the in
spiring strains of music from the bands and
the sweeter music of cheers from the tliroats
of a thousand fellow countrymen.
Marctiing Menaevil,
London, Feb. 21.—Gen. Wolseley tele
graphs the war office that on the 16th inst.
Gen. Buller reached Abu Klea. Here the
rapidly increasing num tiers of the mahdi’s
forces became so threatening that they men
aced the safe conduct of his column back to
Korti. He was oblige* Ito call a halt when
the messenger left with dispatches for Wolse
ley. Gen. Buller expected an attack at any
moment arid his men commenced throwing
upe ntrenchments.
Anarchists.
Berne, Feb. 21—A manifesto issued by the
anarchists to the artisans of Switzerland con
cludes with the sentiment: “The only way
to secure a letter future for our wives and
children, is by revolution. Vivo la Resolution
Sociale.” The police are quite incensed at die
failure of their efforts to silence tlm socialistic
propaganda.
War Measures.
London, Feb. 21.—Active military prepar
ations continue. The war office has issued an
order calling out the militia for garrison duty
to take the place of the regulars sent abroad.
All transfers from the army to the reserves
has also boon ordered suspended.
Fgryptian Blue Book.
London, Feb. 21.—The blue book on the
Egyptian financial question has been issued.
It contains protests from all the powers against
the suspension of the sinking fund, which
measure, it argues, would threaten validity
to the treaties in the east
Roman Dynamite.
Rome, Feb. 2L—A bottle of gun-powder ex
ploded near the entrance of the parliament
house. No harm was caused by the explosion.
No clue to the miscreants.
Notes.
The queen has returned to Windsor.
The Prince of Wales has arrived in London.
Baron Von Schleinitz, German statesman,
formerly Prussian minister of foreign affairs,
is dead.
Mr. Astor, United States minister, had an
audience with King Humbert, and presented
his letter of recall
The government will introduce a bill in the
lords to enable the British colonies in Aus
tralia to organize a confederation.
The Knugburn cotton mills, at Blackbum,
England, burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. Two con
stables were killed by walls falling, and sev
eral employes are reported missing.
Minister ami Brother.
Quitman, Ga., Feb. 21.—While Rev. Rob
ert Raymond was standing on his church
steps after having dismissed prayer meeting
he was called aside by Brother Robinson for
private conversation. The departing wor
shipers were startled by a pistol shot and
rushed to the scene. They found the minister
mortally wounded. No cause for the act is
known.
A New Moon.
Chicago, Feb. 21.—The eastern railroads
are taking slightly more new business and
say they are rapidly cleaning up their tracks.
The officials hope to lx? in good shajie by Sat
urday. Western lines report an improved
condition, which is confirmed by the arrivals
of grain and stocks. Trains are mostly on
time. Merchants say there is little trouble in
shipping to the interior. Trade is slightly
better in the way of orders.
Cutting off Supplies.
Caldwell, Kas., Feb. 21.—Gen. Hatch
1. us just received orders from Washington to
I aul no more provender nor provisions to
■ jamp Russell, Oklahoma, until after the next
dministration. Gen. Hatch has ordered
J?,(XK) troops to be sent to him at Fort Reno t<»
li.-arm the Indians by request of Maj. Dyer,
agent of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes.
Denouncing the Koller.
Oil City, Pa., Feb. 21.—Bishop Mullen, o
this diocese, has condemned roller skati;.
rinks, and pastors of Catholic churches ha. •
notified their flocks that sax rament will here
after be denied to those riaiting such places
in future
PHCENIX-LIKE.
James K. Keene, the Bankrupt Wall Street
King, Klxes Again.
New York, Feb. 2L—The word went
around in Wall street that James R. Keene
was trading in stocks again, and that he had
a hand in the late manipulation of the market.
It was the first news that the street had ob
tained of Keene’s being on his feet. It was a
little less than a year ago that in the language
of Wall street, Keene “lay down” and con
fessed himself “broke.” He was cleaned out
and owed $250,000 besides in balances on his
“privileges” which he gave notes for. Had
he been driven to it he might have scraped
together $300,000 or so m “cats and dogs” by
which is meant old laces, diamonds, pictures
and the like that he had accumulated in his
prosperous days. Those things were all he
had. His money was entirely gone and with
out money, he was helpless.
The predictions about his future were
conflicting. Some said his days in the
street were ended, but others who knew his
pluck said he would get a start again. The
talk about him finally subsided and he dropped
out of sight altogether. He was never re
ferred to in the street It was thus that he
got into the market and to making a little of
his old power fait before the finaijcial world
knew it. He never did anything so quietly
before. He had scraped a little money to
gether, and two months ago he caught a drop
and then a rise in petroleum and cleared
$300,000. That sum enabled him to settle ev
ery embarrassing obligation and also to lx>gin
speculation in a trifling way for him in stocks.
■When a reporter calle 1 he would say noth
ing. There were a number in liis office dial
ing and smiling, and, judging by their looks,
they were on the right side of the market.
At the close of 187 V Keene counted his riches
at SI9,(XX),(XX), and no one put them below
$13,000,000. When he came from California
to New York he was worth $5,000,(XX), and
he “played it up.”
Keene is an Englishman. When he firet
came to this country he peddled milk some
where in the western part of this state. He
afterward taught school for a time, and sub
sequently edited a newspaper in the Red river
country. When the Cdmstock mine excite
ment was at its height he discovered that- the
ore had run out. He scraped together all he
could and sold the stock short. Then he cir
culated the news that the ore had given out
and the Comstocks dropped like a plummet.
In the Comstock operation ho hurt Flood,
O’Brien and Mackay, the California million
aires. He knew if he stayed in California
they would lay plans to break him and he came
east with his newly acquired fortune.
DIDN’T STICK.
The Charge of Conspiracy to Kill Is Dropi»vd
and Prisoners
Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 21.—After a two
days’ hearing in the district court of the ease
of John D. Allan against Cyrus Smith, Win.
Hill, and John Martin, charged with conspir
acy to kill Allan and his wife and kidnap his
young son, the jury were instructed by th j
judge to render a verdict of acquittal upon
the grounds of want of proof of conspiracy,
and improbability that such a nefarious
scheme was contemplated.
The court also ordered the arrest of Jack
Berringer and Charles Millspaugh, Allan’s
two principal witnesses, for perjury in con
nection with the case. The tlu’ee defendants
wore set. at liberty after having been confined
in jail about six months. Allan is from Chi
cago, where he has a wealthy brother, and
about two years ago purchased Smith’s in
terest in the local smelter, the last payment
on which is soon to fall due, and Smith’s im
portunity for payment last August gave rise
to the charge of intimidation ami conspiracy
with intent to commit the above named crimes
by use of poisons.
The Demon Jealousy.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 21.- Wm. Coombs
and Jake Mason, neighbors at Hodgerville,
have been enemies for some time, jealousy
being the cause. Wednesday Coombs told
ins wife he was going to Elizabethtown and
would not return until the next day. He sus
pected Mason of intimacy with his wife and
hid in the vicinity. Mason came to the house
in the afternoon, and Coombs suspicions being
confirmed he fired both barrels of his gun at
the pair, filling their heads, nocks and face
with large squirrel shot. Mason was killed
almost instantly, and Mrs. Coombs was badly
injured. After the shooting Coombs went to
Mason’s house and told the dead man’s wife
what had happened. The two then packed
up a few things and left for Nashville or
Memphis. The wounded woman dragged her
self a mile distant to a neighbors, where medi
cal treatment was given her, but it is thought
she will die of her wounds.
Courting the Noose.
Pittsburg, Feb. 21.—About 150 socialists
of various degrees of ferocity gathered in
Turner hall to hear the much advertised mis
sionaries of their gospel Mr. W. J. Gor
such, the anarchist, did not appear as ad ver
tised. Samuel Tieldon, an Englishman of the
inflammatory type, addressed the audience.
He advocated the destruction of the present
system of society and government, and ad
vised the tearing down of property, and,
after that, to consider what to build up. Citi
zen Frick poured forth a stream of furious
denunciation of the greedy capitalists. Con
rad Miller also made a highly inflammatory
speech. Those among the audience who
owned property looked upon the proceedings
rather gloomily, but those who had no such
incumbrance applauded without a pang of
regret.
CHICAGO SOCIALISM
!• What Drove the Olivers Out of South
Bend, Ind.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21.—James G.
Oliver and son, of the Oliver chilled plow
works, South Bend, are in the city prospect
ing for the removal of their works to this
city. The removal contemplates the expendi
ture of S6OO,(XX) for the plant. The works
employ 1,000 men. The Olivers say they are
too near Chicago and its socialistic influences
for their own good.
A Matter of Policy.
Cleveland, 0., Feb. 21.—John Newell,
president of the I.ake Shore railroad, has de
clined the offer of the presidency of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. Mr.
Newell intimates that he has tx'cu too long
with the Vanderbilts to leave them for an op
position line. He was offered $25,000, which
is said to be an advance of $5,000 over the
Lake Shore figures.
A Bluff.
New York, Feb. 21.—Assistant District
Attorney Purdy has said: “Had I known
that Phelan intended flight I would have
clipped his wings, and had him put in the
house of detention. We will see on Saturday
what can be dene.” Short’s counsel says he
will not move for the dismissal of the case,
but will demand that Phelan lie produced in
court.
Legal Light Extinguished.
.Meadville, Ba., Feb. 21.—Hon. Hiram L.
Richmond, sr., is dead, after a long illness from
erysipelas. The deceased was the oldest men.
ber of the Crawford county bar, having stud
led law and was admitted to the bar with
Hon. David Dickaca la ICJb.
RAILIIOAD HOLOCAUST.
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE AND A SLEEPER
JUMPS THE TRACK.
New and Fatal Diseases Among Cattle and
Hogs Which Can Not be Kxplained—
Ravages Among the Cattle - Hog
Cholera Rampant.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The collision ou
the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railroad
at Four Mile Ru i was more disastrous than
the meagre d< <-tils obtainable at first indi
cated. The lollowing are killed: Andrew
Augur, conductor of freight train, aged thir
ty-eight, married, lived in Alexandria; Thos.
Dowling, fireman of the passenger train, in
jured; John Bruce, engineer of the passenger
train, seriously injured; Brakeman
Steward of the freight train is thought
to be fatally injured; Geo. Miller
brakeman on the freight train, ear cut off and
head badly mangled and arm broken in sev
eral places; T. W. Jones, chief clerk of postal
car, injured alxmt the head and body; W. A.
McNeal, mail agent, injured about the head;
C. T. Stewart, postal clerk, J. T. Frane, col
ored, postal clerk, and Thomas Gaylor, mail
weigher, are in ju red se ve rely.
The missing ?ire George Freer, engineer of
the freight train, who was probably killed;
Fireman Moloney, of the freight train, is be
leived to be in the burning wreck As soon
as the collision occurred the freight train
caught fire and was consumed.
The freight train consisted of thirty-one
freight cars and four new passenger coaches
just built for the Midland railway company,
and were being taken to Alexandria. Twenty
seven freight cars were destroyed with their
contents. The passenger train, consisting of
baggage, express, postal and smoking car,
was entirely destroyed, with their contents,
both engines lx?ing in the center of the burn
ing pile, and they were completely destroyed.
The safe in the express car, containing $200,-
000 in cash, Was destroyed.
A Sleeper Derailed.
Cincinnati, ()., Feb. 21.—Information is
received that a sleeper on the Ohio and Mis
sissippi eastbound train went over the Muc
catatack bridge half a mile above North Ver
non, Ind. Among the dead is a commercial
traveler, 12Mridge by name, and a man un
known. Two others are also reported killed
and wounded.
Fatal (attie Disease.
Geneseo, 111., Feb. 21. —Stockmen say
this has bi'en the severest winter in their rec
ollection, and that generally stock is in a very
poor condition. A peculiar and unknown dis
ease has appearol in t his locality among cat
tle, and has resulted fatally to every animal
attacked. The disease affects the spine at first,
and the skin Incomes loose along the backs
of the animals. In removing their hides nu
merous places i »n eit b.er side of the backbone are
filled with water. Monroe Brown, John Cos
tello, and others have lost some fine stock in
the. past: few days from this disease.
They are inclined to (.he belief that the se
verity of the weatiw r. is . tha cause of the
trouble, the cattle baving been housed most
of the time instead of being turned out in
stalk-fields, this having been found necessary
from the fact that the fields are snowed under
from two to live f<*et deep. This has been an
expensive winter for stock-raisers here, and
unless blessed with an unusually early spring,
many of them wall have to buy feed. J
Cattle Disease on the Hudson.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 21.—An offi
cial communication from Washington, from
the chief of the bureau of animal industry,
indicates that an expert will be sent into this
district at once to inquire into the alleged re
ports of rinderpest, meningitis and other dis
eases among cattle. One of the local sur
geons reports a strange disease among the
cattle of John Winslow, and that there are
forty cases of bog cholera on a farm four
miles from the city.
Hog Cholera.
Boston, Feb. 21.—A peculiar and fatal hog
disease is raging in many sections of Massa
chusetts. The symptoms are loss of appetite,
sight and strength, death invariably resulting
in three days. Thousands of hogs we dying
off.
Captured Prisoners.
Olean, N. Y., Feb. 21.—Three prisoners
have from the jail at Smithport, Pa.
The weather was intensely cold and for -this
reason the fourteen other prisoners did not
take advantage of their opportunity to leave
comfortanle quarters. The mode of escape
was jieculiar. The jail wall consisted of large
square stones laid in mortar and doweUed
with iron pins. The prisoners picked the
mortar out around one of the stones and with
notched case knives attached to a long stick
patiently sawed at the dowels whenever they
could work unobserved. Finally the stone
was loosened and removed. It left an open
ing forty feet above the ground, and the men
escajied by sliding down a long piece of rul>-
ber hose to the ground. They were recaj>-
tured in the woods after twenty-four hours’
search. They were nearly frozen to death.
Revival Me stings.
Muncie, Ind., Feb. 21.—Mrs. Lydia Wood
ruff, the laxly evangelist who recently held
such wonderful religious revivals at Hartford
City, is now at New Comer, a small village in
this county, where her work has already cre
ated intense excitement. More than a dozen
persons have been entranced. It is said some
have lain rigid for more than an hour. Fif
teen or twenty persons have testified to con
version. The largest church in the village is
crowded day and night. The meetings are
held continuously from early morning until
late at night. The entire population bus given
itself up to attendance ujion them.
Harvard Shaken.
Boston, Feb. 21.—An explosion took place
in the yard in front of Sever hall, Harvard
college. The shock was felt very plainly in
the college dormitories. The explosive ma
chine was placed about one hundred feet away
from the hall. It tore up the earth for sev
eral feet and shattered a tree. The instru
ment used was a hollow wooden tube over a
foot long and an inch in diameter, which had
evidently been crammed full of some explo
sive, tightly plugged at each end and then
closely wound over the whole surface with
heavy wire. A searching investigation will
be made.
A Greaser Gone.
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 21.—The corpse
of a Mexican was discovered banging from
the Lion river bridge, ten miles west of this
city, by th<- train men on the Sunset railway.
He was evidently lynched, his hands being
tied behind his back. No particulars.
Bound forth » Circus.
Boston, Fob. 21.—The ancient and honor
able artillery company left Boston by special
train to New York to attend the dedication of
the Washington monument. One hundred
and seventy-five members made t he trip.
Without Pomp.
London, Feb. 21.—1 n conformity with Mr.
Lowell’s desires the funeral of hh> late wife
will be conducted privately.
7HE CONDENSER.
Fresh, Pithy Si items Boiled Down for
the Hurried Reader.
A congregational church is to bo organized
at Zanesville, O.
There is no change in the ballots for the
Illinois senatorship.
C. Cavarois, Son & Co., of Cliicago, large
liquor dealers, have failed.
Fannie Murphy was beaten to death by her
husband in Pittsburg.
The Oliver & Roberts wire mill, Pitts
burg, will start up in all departments.
The Pittsburg Bricklayers’ Assembly has
withdrawn irom the Knights of Labor.
The Pennsylvania senate defeated a bill to
provide a whipping-post for wife-beaters.
A now weekly paper, “Sam, the Scarar
mouch,” will soon bo issued in Cincinnati.
The flouring mills of A. S. Staples, of Rea
dout, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss
$25,000.
The snow blockade in Canada and the
northwest is ended and trains are running on
time.
Twenty knitting girls in Weil’s hosiery fao
tory, St. Louis, struck against a reduction of
wages.*
War Jig, a once famous race horse, was
gold at an auction stable in Cincinnati for
S3O.
The Pennsylvania senate urges upon con
gress prompt action upon the Grant retire
ment bill.
One of French, Palmer & French’s spice
mills, Rochester, N. Y., was destroyed by tuu.
Loss $40,000.
At a roller skating contest in Canton, 0.,
the winner made live miles in 21 minutes and
17' y seconds.
The western export association, holding u
meeting in Chicago, have adjourned without
accomplishing anything.
The postoffice appropriation bill as reported
to the senate appropriates $53,819,990 —$3,279,-
179 less than the estimates.
The schooner Olive was wrecked on Dixie
Island, at the entrance to Mobile bay, and
crew of live and cargo were lost.
A petition in amercement has been filed in
the Hamilton county probate court against
'tiqui: ■ Sanderson, of Cincinnati.
The dairymen’s protective association of Cin
cinnati, has decided to raise the price of milk
to eight cents per quart.
‘•Florida’s Chautauqua” was opened Wed
nesday at Lake De Funiak, Fla, the assem
bly to continue until March 6.
The Western export association decided to
continue on the basis of twenty-eight per
cunt, of productive capacitys.
Vico President Hendrick will go to Wash
ington in the private parlor car of President
Garrett, of the B. and O. railroad company.
Roller skating rinks are to be required by
the council of Newport, Ky., to take out a
license and to pay a heavy fee for that privi
lege. '
The Pennsylvania railroad company has an
nounced that it will not longer recognize the
deferential rate principle iu the passenger
rate war.
A United States marshal arrested C. B.
Sanner and E. L. Bates, of Connellsville, Pa.,
for the robbery of the po.stoffice at Coal Val
ley, W. Va., last August.
The board of police commissioners of Day
ton, 0., has ordered the chief of ijolice to
arrest all parties interested in any way in
Sunday theatrical performances.
The Brown, Bonnell & Co. iron mill, at
Youngstown, 0., is in operation in all de
partments for the first time in two years, giv
ing employment to 1,000 men.
The knights of labor of Jackson, Mich.,
presented a petition to the state house of
representatives asking that national leg
islation be urged to make Alaska a }>eual
colony.
L. H. Maloney and J. H. Britz, two firemen
who were testing a portable fire escape at St.
Paul, Minn., fell from a third-story window
aud sustained fractured skulls. Both will
die.
The alumni of Harvard university formally
excluded two colored graduates from the an
nual dinner. The alumni of Anu Arbor uni
versity admitted three colored graduates to
theirs.
There are thirteen descendants of George
Washington liearing the family name, the
number corresponding to the number of orig
inal colonies. They will receive special
honor during the monument dedication cere
monies.
Captain Irving Deaxl.
New York, Feb. 21 —Capt. James Irving,
ex-captain of police of this city, and the most
daring and successful detective, is dead.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotations of the Stock, Produce
and Cattle Markets.
New York, Feb. 20.—Money 1% percent. Ex
change quiet. Governments firm and dull
Alt. & Terre Haute 22 Morns & Essex ...120
Bur. k. Quincy ... Missouri Pacific.... 08'7
Canada Pacific . 89- b N.Y w Erie 12 7 a
Canada Southern.. 88 N. Y. Central
Central Pacific Northwestern 98>j
Chicagc) & Alton... 181 Pacific Mail 54' a
(J., U., C. &1 Bi> Rock Island IIS
Del. <t Hudson ... 75 St. Paul 72U
Del . Lack, it W.... 99 St. P. &S. C
Illinois Central 121% do preferred Bs* a
Jersey Central 38Texas <t Pacific.... 13' H
Kansas it Texas .. 17>b U. Pacific 48,‘/ a
Lake Shore 00> ! s West. Union ..... 5s 4
Louisville *t Nash 28'zi Nash. Chait 39y 4
General.
Cincinnati, Feb. 20.—-FLOUR—Fancy, s4.Afi(flD
4.60; family,
WHEAT—No. 2 red, 86c; No. 3, 82(3)850.
COHN—No. 2 mixed, 45‘.jc; No. 3,45 c; ear, 48c.
OATS—No. 2 mixed, No. 2 White, 86c.
RYE—No. 2,73 c.
BARLEY—Spring, 56@65c; fall,
PORK—Family, regular, $13.50.
BACON—Shoulders, y»s>Xc; short clear sides,
7%ft!>7.65c. Lard —Kettle -7' j' >sc.
CHEESE—Prime to choice Ohio, 10 $llc; New
York, 12!/a((08>- 2 c; Northwestern,
POULTRY—Fair chickens, $2.25'7/3.75; prime,
ducks, $4.00; geese, $8,003)5.00 per
doz.; live turkeys, dressed,
HAY No. 1 timothy, No. 2, $11.50
@12.00; mixed, $10.00@11.00; wheat and rye straw,
$6,00@7.00; oats straw, $7.00@8.00.
New York, Feb. 20.—WHEAT—No. 1 white,
91^0; No. 2 red, 90%@90%c.
CORN-Mixed western, 51'4)55; futures,
58%c. Oats— Western,
New Orleans, Feb. 20.—SUGAR- Refining,
common, inferior, UfSriPjc; choice
white, 5%c; off white, choice yellow,
MOLASSES—Good fair, 25(3)32c; prime,
choice, 44c; centrifugal prime, fair, 32c.
Detroit, Feb. 20^—WHEAT—No. 1 white, 87
No. 8 red, 77c; Michigan soft red, 87‘4c.
Toledo, Feb. 20.—WHEAT—No. 2, No. 2
soft, 85>2(|986c.
Live Stock.
Cincinnati. Feb. 20.—CATTLE —Good to choice
butchers, $4.2.7(05; fair, common, $2
(<08; stockers and feeders, yearlings
and calves,
HOGS- Selected butchers, $5.00(§)5.85; fair to
gcxKl packing, fair to good light, $4.55
common, $8.58<3)4.50; culls, $3.26@3.85.
SHEEP—Common to fair, good to
choice, $8 .'iX(o.2s'; wethers, $4.50@5.
LAMP>> Common, $3.00@4.00; good,
Chicago, Feb. 20.—HOGS—Fair to good, $1.40?$
4.85; mixed packing, $4.5(X<0.75; choice heavy,
CATTLE—Exports, good to choice
shipping, common to fair, $L20(^0.50 f *
Mockers and feeders,
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Randolph Street.
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Crawford, between Troup and Forsyth street
Btpbo-8m
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Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICKt
T. H. EVANS & CO.’S Diw Store.
Residence. Jackson Nt., Southeast of Court
aHouie with W. H. Glaie.
lanfriy
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