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THE DALTON ARGUS.
Dalton, Georgia.
11. A. WRENCH, Publisher.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
The latest arrival in the field of
weather prophecy who predicted that
there would be no rain from June 1 to
July 10, has frot sadly ruined by cloud
bursts and things.
Rev. Virgil Maxey, a Baptist min
ister and a nephew of ex-United Stales
Senator Maxey, of Texas, is going to try
io unite the pulpit and the stage. He
will act six days in the week and preach
on Sunday.
Missouri last year paid $4,999,842 for
school purposes. There were 9,687
schools in operation, employing 13,634
ieachers, and the number of children
snrolled was 611,541, with an average at
tendance of 376,977.
The perfection of ventilation is now
attained by electricity. The new United
States man-of-war Baltimore is supplied
with an electrical ventilator which will
change the atmosphere of the engine
room completely in two minutes.
The Board of Visitors of West Point
is considering the subject of increasing
the number of cadets at West Point to
600. The plan for the increase is to al
low each Senator an appointment and
to give the President ten every year.
The army of Franco exceeds that of
Germany by 40,000 men. She has also
800 more guns in her field batteries.
With Bismarck in retirement and
Count Von Moltke too old for active ser
vice, is it any wonder Germany is
alarmed?
The union of the five Central Ameri
can States is soon to be consummated.
All the States have signed the new ar
ticles es confederation with the excep
tion of Nicaragua, and there is reason
to believe that she will soon come into
the fold.
The English P. O. Department real
ized last year a clear profit to the Gov
ernment of $15,000,000. It is now pro
posed to reduce postage nearly two
thirds, which would cut off $528,000 of
revenue, to bo soon recovered, however,
it is thought, by increase of business.
Costa Rica’s latest scheme for raising
money and the purpose for which it is
to bo raised are novel, to say the least.
A new theater is wanted at the capital,
and an export duty has been placed by
Congress on coffee in order to raise the
necessary money. However, as only
$200,000 is needed for the purpose, the
tax will not last long.
It is not easy to keep track of African
affairs, and speculation concerning the
future of the Dark continent can taße
a wide range without violating reason
able possibilities. It is becoming more
and more apparent that the great strug
gle for territory will bo between Ger
many and England. Minor conditions
may change from week to week, but
they w’ill not essentially modify the
general character of the main situation.
J. G. Fitch, inspector of training
schools in England, who came to Amer
ica in 1888 to study the public school
system, has made a report which is not
very complimentary to our schools. He
says they give no better education than
•s now afforded by the elementary
schools of England, the chief fault be
ing that the minuteness of the rules
laid down for teachers and pupils
“leaves little room for the spontaneity
of the former and the individuality of
the latter.”
A company has been formed, with an
immense capital, for the purpose of
ouilding a railway along the north
shore of the river and gulf of St. Law
rence, from Quebec to St. Charles bay,
on the Labrador coast, a distance of 844
miles. The aim of the company is to
reduce the length of the Atlantic voy
age to about 1,700 miles, as against 3,050
miles between New York and Liverpool.
Those who take this route to Europe
will only be exposed to the dangers of
the sea between three and four days.
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CHEESE-POISONING.
Singular Outbreaks in Several Spots
in Ohio.
DeGraflf and Shelby Visited—An Epidernlo
Xaglnjr a* the Latter Place.
Secretary Probst, of the State Board
’ of Health, has been notified that cheese
poisoning has made it® appearance in
Ohio, and the first reports come from De
Graff, Logan County, where there were
several cases last year. Dr. Hinkle,
health officer of the village, writes that
a number of persons have become ill af
ter eating cheese, and that at the pres
' ent time there are at least twenty cases
1 of sickness in the village from this
cause. The village of Shelby, Richland
County,appears to be having an epidemic
, of the poison. Dr. Love, the health
officer, stating that there are not fewer
' than sixty persons in the village and
vicinity 5 affected, many of the cases be
ing of a serious nature. Secretary
Probst will institute an investigation as
soon as he can learn where the cheese
was made. Dr. Probst thinks the sick
ness may be due to the presence of tyro
toxicon, a poison frequently found in
milk.
HUNTRESS DEAD.
The Great Mare Will lie Buried at Latonia
and a Monument Erected.
Huntress, G. V v Hankins’ famous rac
ing mare, died at Warrenton, Mo., from
the effects of injuries received in the
railroad accident at that place a few
days ago. She was in such fine form
this season that her owner declared
several of his other horses out of valua
ble engagements, expecting to reap
the prizes with the premier animal.
The loss, therefore, is doubly severe.
The winnings of Huntress this year
would, no doubt, have amounted
to many thousand dollars. She had
already this spring made a small
fortune for her owner by winning race
after race, her most notable achieve
ment being her triple victory for the
Jack-pot Stakes at Lexington, Louis
ville and Latonia. Upon being informed
of Huntress’ death Hankins telegraphed
Secretary Hopper, of the Latonia Jockey
Club, for permission to bury the dead
horse at the pretty course near Coving
ton, Ky. Answer was returned that the
wish would be granted, and that the
grave of the great mare would be kept
green. Under orders from Hankins the
body of Huntress has been embalmed,
and will be placed in a coffin, w hich will
be shipped to Latonia for burial. Mr.
Hankins also proposes to place over the
grave a very handsome monument.
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A Colored Man’s Horrible Death.
Wm. Lowry, an aged colored resident
of Marquette, Mich., was found by a
party of woodsmen in the forest, near
Onota, Mich., pinned to the ground by a
tree which had fallen upon him. He
had barely strength to speak to his res 1
cuers and to thank them. He said he
had lain thus four days, without food,
and tormented by insects. Portions of
his body swarmed with maggots, making
a sickening sight, lie was brought home
where he died on the 13th death re
sulting from exposure and starvation, as
the internal injuries sustained were not
severe enough of themselves to be
fatal.
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Died While Laughing.
Julius De Vanique, who served in the
Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment, known
as the Confederate Tigers, died while
eating dinner at Buffalo, N. Y. A post
mortem showed that a large piece of
beef had lodged in his throat at the
larynx, causing suffocation. The Ex-
Confederate Tiger, who had been work
ing for the street railroad company, was
laughing heartily over war jokes when
he was prostrated. Had some one slap
ped him on the back and dislodged the
meat the doctors say he would have
lived.
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Lake Front Favored for the Fair.
The Executive Committee of the
World's Columbian Exposition assem
bled to hear the report of the Committee
on Site. The lake front, the committee
held, was the ideal site, barring certain
legal disabilities which were in process
of adjustment. More time was asked
for before a final recommendation be
made. The extension of time was grant
ed. The Governor has called a special
session of the Legislature to act on Fail
matters.
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< 'anadia n Independenco.
Hon. Oliver Mowatt, Premier of On
tario, says there is no sentiment for an
nexation in Canada. If a change ever
doos come, it will be independence from
Great Britain's control—not annexation
to the United States.
Street Car Strike Settled.
The Columbus (O.) street car strike is
over, and the street cars are running as
usual. The compromise proposition of
fered by the Consolidated Company was
accepted by the men, and the cars were
started on the 13th.
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I General Alger Howards the Policeman
General Alger has rewarded the New
Y'ork police officer, who saved the Gen
eral from possible serious injury by
stopping a runaway team, with a silver
bowl, gold lined.
The Quickest Trip Yet.
The steamship Columbia has made the
voyage from Southampton to New York
In six days, fifteen hours and fifty-one
seconds, actual sailing time, beating ali
records.
BEHRING SEA QUESTION.
The Hritloh Will Not Submit to Seizure
Without I’rotext, at Least.
The correspondence between our Gov
ernment and Great Britain over the
Behring Sea dispute is becoming some
what serious. In one of the latest,
notes from the English Minister the
statement is plainly made that Great
Britain will not quietly allow such
seizures as took place last year in
the waters in question. This corre
spondence has also of late broughttothe
attention of our State Department an
early decision of our Government made
known to Russia many years ago when
that Power threatened to treat the Beh
ring Sea as a closed sea, to the affect
that the United States would resist such
a claim even by war, if that became nec
essary. But while trouble seems prob
able under the orders already sent to our
gunboats on the Northwestern coast, it
is not believed that it will be allowed
either side to drift into permanent mis
understanding.
ONLY ONE FLAG.
A Protest Against the Confederate and
Anarchist Hanners.
Representative Williams introduced
in the House the following petition. It
was signed by 135 G. A. R. men of Ohio,
and eminated from the headquarters of
Old Guard Post, No. 23. G. A. R.. at
Dayton, O.: “The undersigned, ex-sol
diers and ex-sailors, would respectfully
call your attention to the propriety of
enacting a law that will prohibit the
use, sale, manufacture and importation
of any banner or flag purporting to be
or resembling in any way the so-called
‘Confederate flag,’ or the red flag of the
Anarchists, or any other so-called flag
or banner of any society or class of peo
ple whose principles are at variance
with the Constitution and laws of this
country. Also, to prevent the sending of
matter through the U. S. Mails the
wrappers or outside coverings of which
shall contain any such representation,
device or emblem.
A Lucky Church.
Three months ago the Forest Grove
Presbyterian Church at Chartiers, near [
Pittsburgh, Pa., was a modest little as- |
fair with a debt and a meager attend
ance. (Some of the elders after a hard
fight succeeded in gaining a permit to
drill an oil well on the premises. Oil
was found in abundance and the little
church was sold out bodily to the Stand
ard Oil Company for $92,000 cash.
Considered the Questions Insulting.
At Grand Rapids, Mich.. Mrs. Mary
Holland was arrested for refusing to an
swer a census enumerator and driving
him out of her house with an axe. She
admitted the charge, but said he insult
ed her by asking if her husband was
black, a homeless child, pauper, prison
er or convict, and she would not stand
that from any man. She was held for
the grand jury.
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A Fatal Duel.
Chas. Fulsen and Robert Eckstein,
two farmers, living near Akron, Kan.,
became engaged in a quarrel while go
ing to church. They emptied their re
volvers, but before the last shots w’ere
fired, both had fallen from their horses
helpless. When found, half an hour
later, Eckstein was dead. Fulsen died
within two hours.
Subdued by a Brick.
Isaac Sampson, colored, quarreled
with his wife at Angora, Delaware
County, Pa., and slashed her in a fear
ful manner about the head tvith a razor.
Citizens attempted to arrest him, but he
held them at bay with his razor until a
well directed brick thrown by one of the
crowd felled the desperate negro and he
was secured.
A Generous Governor.
The Treasury of the State of Ken
tucky is empty, and the deficit will, by
July 1, probably amount to $50,000.
Governor Buckner will save the State's
credit by advancing money without in
terest from his private fortune to meet
all urgent obligations. He has already
advanced SIO,OOO.
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Peace Guaranteed.
In a recent conversation with a mem
ber of the Italian Chamber of Deputies,
Premier Crispi declared that Italy’s re
lations with both France and Russia
had become cordial, and that the epoch
of European difficulties had passed,
and a long period of peace was guaran
teed.
Cholera in Spain.
Cholera has broken out at Puebla de
Rugat, in the Province of Valencia, and
there have already been fourteen deaths
from the disease. It is believed that
the disease was conveyed to the place by
some soldiers who recently arrived there
from North Africa.
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Miners’ Stealings.
The Michigan Mine, at Marquette,
Mich., is said to have been robbed of
SBO,OOO worth of mineral by the miners,
who secreted it in trunks and carried it
away. Employes are now required to
change their clothing before leaving the
premises.
Candidate for Governor Dead.
Hon. Francis W. Hill, of Exeter, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, of
Maine, died very unexpectedly at his
home Sunday. Death resulted from
acute bronchitis.
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Children Killed by Cars.
Otto and Herman Berta, aged 12 and
15, w’ere killed while walking on the
railroad track at Chicago.
MINERS ENTOMBED.
Explosion of Fire Damp in a Coal
Mine.
Thirty Men Imprisoned In the Shaft —Ho-
role Hut Fatal Efforts of u
Bravo Lad.
An explosion took place in the Hill
Farm Mines, near Dunbar, Pa. The low
browed hill from which the slope enter
ed shook from mouth to pit, and the
score of miners’ houses lining the fatal
hill shook for a moment, and then pour
ed out their frenzied inmates by the
hundreds. A rush was made to the
mouth of the pit, but ingress was im
possible, as smoke in dense volumes
was issuing forth. Fifty-two miners
had gone to work in the morning, and
were in the slope when the explosion
occurred. Os these fifty-two, eighteen
were in the left heading and thirty
two in the right heading. Those in
the left heading got out all right. The
retreat of the others was cut off and
not one escaped. These two drifts
are connected, but the connection
is from the main stem, some half mile
from the entrance. The mine, it seems,
had been somewhat troubled with wa
ter, and an air shaft had been drilled
from the surface to the juncture of the
right and left shafts, where the water
seemed most abundant. As the minors
branched off from this point they knew
that an air holo bad been drilled there
that had not yet been broken into the
mine, but they did not know that the
shaft was to be broken into so soon.
A miner named Kerwin had been left in
the right drift near where that branch
joined the mine’s exit, and in the
course of his labors broke into the per
pendicular shaft. The moment this was
broken into, a flood of water rushed out.
and Kerwin and a man named Landy
standing by, yelled out for some one to
save the men in the right drift, as the
water poured down the hill in a stream,
and he feared they would drown. Young
David Hayes leaped forward at the call
and turned down the left drift in a del
uge of water to warn his endangered
comrades below’. Just as he passed
the air shaft that had been
broken into, the rush of waters had
changed to an ugly roar which blanched
the cheeks of the men who stood be
hind and towards the light. The flow
of water had changed to a deadly vol
ume of fire-damp, and as young Hayes
swung by the shaft a flash of blazing
light slid through the shaft from end to
end, it seemed. The daring youth car
ried an open burning miner’s lamp in
his hat, and had hardly taken a step be
yond the roaring shaft when the spark
ignited a reservoir of the deadly fire
damp, and he sank a corpse ten feet to
ward the men whom he had hoped to save
and the men whom he had certainly
doomed. In an instant an unquenchable
fire sprang up in the nine foot vein just
between the main entrance, and on the
right drift, forever shutting off the
thirty-two men imprisoned there. Poor
old David Hayes, the father of the mis
taken hero, driven mad by the fate of
his son, dashed into the sulphurous
smoke and strangling fire-damp, only to
fall, blindly, beside his son. and to be
drawn out an hour later, with James
Shearn, both recognized only by their
wives.
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The Census a Farce.
Kansas City newspapers are unani
mous in the belief that the census as
taken in that city is little less than a
farce, and their columns have been
filled for several days with the names of
persons who have not been enumerated
in proof of their belief. Superintend
ent of Census Porter was acquainted
with the facts, and he telegraphed Su
perintendent Miller that the census
must be completed properly if it took all
summer.
Bottled Beer in lowa.
Judge Ney has rendered a decision in
an original package case at Independ
ence, la., in which he holds that,though
beer be shipped in cases, a bottle of it,
if sealed, is an original package. lie
further holds that a man, to sell origi
nal packages, must have them sent to
him from outside of the State, and not
get them of another person inside the
State.
British Sealers Courting; Trouble.
The sealing schooner Lillie sailed
form Victoria for Behring Sea. A re
porter met her owner just before she
sailed, and was informed that he had
given the Captain positive orders to
hunt in forbidden waters. Other owners
have given their vessels similar instruc
tions. The full Victoria fleet will enter
the sea.
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Belgian Competition.
A Belgian iron firm has offered to
supply the structural iron for the court
house at Minneapolis twenty-five per
cent, cheaper than it could be furnished
by Pittsburgh manufacturers. The firm
has already secured contracts from Hous
ton and Austin, Tex.
Switchmen Strike.
A general strike of switchmen on all
the roads entering at Cleveland. 0., has
been inaugurated. Five hundred men
are out. They demand the Chicago rate,
which is an advance of about twenty
cents a day, and a reduction of hours
from twelvd to ten.
Passenger Train Ditched.
A C., B. and Q. train was ditched five
miles east of Council Bluffs, la., by the
spreading of rails, and a number of pas
sengers were hurt, three or four seii
, ously.
Mine.
FREE COINAGE.
Full Text of the Silver Hill as it Passed
the Senate.
The Senate on the 17th passed the
Silver Bill. Following is the full text:
Section 1. That from and after the date
of the passage of this act the unit of
value in the United States shall be the
dollar, and the same may be coined of
412hj grains of standard silver or of
25 8-10 grains of standard gold; and the
said coins shall be equally legal tender
for all debts, public or private; that
thereafter any owner of silver or gold
bullion may deposit the same at any
Mint of the United States to be formed
into standard dollars or bars for his ben
efit and without charge; but that it
shall be lawful to refuse any deposit of
less value than SIOO, or any bullion
so base as to be unsuitable for the
operations of the Mint. See. 2. That
the provisions of section 3 of an act to
authorize the coinage of the stan
dard silver dollar and to restore its
legal tender character, which became a
law February 28, 1878, is hereby made
applicable to the coinage in this act
provided for. Sec. 3. That the certifi
cates provided for in the second section
of this act, and all silver and gold cer
tificates already issued shall be of de
nominations of not less than one or
more than one hundred dollars; and
such certificates shall be redeemable in
coin of standard value. A sufficient
sum to carry out the provisions of this
act is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated. The provision in sec-
tion 1 of the act of February
28, 1878, entitled “An act to
authorize the coinage of the
standard silver dollar and to re-
store itslegalltendercharacter, which re
quires the Secretary of the Treasury to
purchase at the market price thereof not
less than two million dollars of silver
bullion per month, nor more than four
million dollars’ worth per month, of
such bullion, is hereby repealed. Sec. 4.
That the certificates provided for in this
act, and alj silver arid gold certificates
already issued, shall be receivable for
all taxes and dues to the United
States of every description, and
Ehall be a legal tender for the
payment of all debts, public and pri
vate. Sec. 5. The owners of bullion de
posited for coinage shall have the op
portunity to receive coin or its equiva
lent in the certificates provided for in
this act, and such bullion shall be sub
sequently coined. Sec. 6 provides for
covering into the Treasury the fund
held for the redemption of National
Bank circulation. The title of the bill
was amended so as to read “An act to
provide for the free coinage of gold
and silver bullion, and for other pur
poses.”
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Governor Eagle Renominated.
The Arkansas Democratic State Con
vention met at Little Rock, and nomi
nated the following ticket: For Govern
or, James P. Eagle; Secretary of State,
B. B. Chisin; Auditor, W. S. Dunlop;
Attorney-General, W. E. Atkinson; Su
perintendent of Public Instruction, Jo
siah 11. Shinn; Treasurer, 11. B. Mor
row; State Land Commissioner, C. B.
Meyers; Commissioner of Agriculture,
M. F. Lock.
Mary Anderson Married.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, and
Mr. Antonio Nevarro were married on
the 17th at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic
Church at Hampstead, Eng. Miss An
derson drove to the church in a car
riage, the windows and blinds of which
were completely closed. The ceremony
was of the plainest possible description.
There was no orchestra present, the mu
sic being rendered by an organ.
Monument to McClellan.
Philadelphia is to have a magnificent
monument of General George B. Mc-
Clellan. The McClellan association, of
which ex-Governor Pattison, is the
president, has taken the initiative, and
a considerable sum has already been
subscribed. The location selected is on
the northwest front of the new city hall.
Fatal Election Quarrel.
The election for State Senator in the
district composed of East and West
Feliciana Parishes, La., took place on
the 17th. A difficulty occurred between
Hilliard Richardson and Eddy Taylor,
which resulted in the death of Richard
son and the wounding of Taylor, both
prominent young men.
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Alabama Republicans.
The Republican Executive Committee
of Alabama has filled the vacan
cies in the State ticket. B. M. Long, of
Jasper, was nominated for Governor; C.
C. Austin, of Decatur, for Secretary of
State, and Richard Wood, of Talladega,
for Treasurer.
Revolt Over a License Plank.
Owing to the refusal of the Democrat
ic State Convention, of Maine to adopt a
license plank in the platform, there is
a threatened revolt, and a call for a
convention of all those believing in lo
cal option and license.
The Anti-Trust Bill.
A second conference on the anti-trust
bill has reached an agreement, by the
terms of which the bill is stripped of all
amendments added by the Senate and
House, and remains as it originally pass
ed the Senate.
National Millers' Association.
The National Millers’Association was
in session at Minneapolis, Minn., on the
17th. It was resolved to give the ship
ments of flour hereafter to steamship
lines making the quickest delivery.