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’A' field, in 1868,
as han'dsome a
.ess - ; low of
twenty find as one
m in a
Search. He was
civil engineer,
the employ of
company that
at that time making a survey for
railroad through New Mexico.
.was so noticeable in figure and
ing that a stranger would be sure
look after him if he passed him on
street. But there must have been
other man in the world that
very much like him, if he were not an
actual double, and the adventure
arising from this resemblance was a
remarkable blending of the tragic and
comic.
Santa Fe had in it then, and no
doubt has still, very many beautiful
brunettes of Spanish and aboriginal
descent.
54 Senorita Maria Diaz—a year previous
to the date I have given—was engaged,
according does to the Mexican custom that
not consiijgr the wishes of the
lady in the matter, to Bernal Valdez,
who, like her father, was a rich,
middle-aged man.
Seuor Valdez would undoubtedly
have married the lady had not. a young-
army Doctor surgeon appeared on the scene.
Brandon met the beautiful
Maria Diaz, and it was a case of love
at first sight.
The young American would have let
the cause of his wooing follow the
regular and eminently proper chan-
_.nels, if there had been time for it,
but, unfortunately, week‘before he only met his
enslaver a the day an-
pointed for her marriage with Valdez
To secure the lady there was not a
moment to lose, and the only means
he could think of was to enact the role
of young Loohiuvar. He found friends
to help him and the lady willing
they They eloped to Fort Union, where
positively wero married, aud as it was
dangerous—indeedit would
have been death—for the doctor to
return, with or without his bride, he
very City, prudently kept on to New York
where Iris parents, well-to-do
people, resided, and where he subse-
quently The remained.
advent of a troop of soldiers or
of any considerable body of strangers
into a New Mexican town is always
celebrated by a “fandango;” or “baile;”
the former word, though originally
the name of a special dance, is now
applied in that region to an evening ° of
general dancing?
The coming of the ohgineer- corps
was celebrated after the usual fashion,
Tlie men were encamped near old Fort
Marcy, and the officers of the expedi-
tion took up their quarters at the
Fonda, as the hotel facing on the
piazza was called, though it may
be amiss to add that “fonda” is the
Spanish name for “hotel.”
Raul Mansfield was writing up his
field notes in his room at tlie hotel the
night of his arrival, when Captain La-
mar, who commanded the engineer
cavalry escort, entered, and, without a
word, removed the papers and put
away the ink.
“Hello, Lamar! Making yourself
at home, eh? Come, bring back my
profile blanks; I must finish a report
to-night!” said Paul Mausfield.
“Finish it when we get back!” re-
plied Captain Lamar, as he took up a
hat and coat, and, putting the former
on Paul’s head, evinced a desire to
help him on with the latter.
“Why, what’s up?” asked Paul.
“A fandango.”
“That is not unusual here, 1 under-
stand.”
“But you never saw one, and this is
to be a swell affair. Come, old fellow,
don’t neglect the chance of seeing a
pretty woman. Think of tlie dreary
mountains and sterile plains, with not
a woman within hundreds of miles,
that lie before you. And then every
scientific man should know something
of human nature. I will show you a
new phase of it to-night—”
“But I don’t dance,” pleaded Paul
Mansfield.
“Very well, I’ll dance for both and
you can look on,” replied the Captain.
After much urging Paul Mansfield
said he would go to the fandango “for
just one hour. ”
The dancing took place in a low,
adobe building on the outskirts of the
town. The long room was illuminated
by suspended oil lamps, and at the
entrauce was a “refreshment” counter,
at the farther end a platform for the
two men with fiddles and the one man
wit-h a guitar, while on benches around
the walls sat the senoritas—many of
them chaperoned by their mothers,
and a thoroughly democratic gather-
ing of cavaliers, American and Mex^
can.
Paul Mansfield stood near the door
watching the graceful dancers, among
whom was his friend, the Captain; but,
though much interested, he could not
help noticing that the Mexican men
stared at him by twos and threes, and
that they whispered excitedly, and
that their black eyes burned with
anger. As he could not think that he,
a perfect stranger, could be the cause
of tlieir excitement, he gave it no
further thought.
When the hour he had set himself
was up he decided to go home without
notifying his friend.
He had gone but a few paces from
the door when ho heard a rush and
felt, himself being hurled to the ground,
Looking up he saw a number of men
bending over bim with knives in their
hands, and one of them hissed:
“Make an outcry and we will kill
you!”
Paul was unarmed, and, though
brave as a lion, he realized that resist¬
ance would make a bad ease worse. As
the men began to bind his arms he
asked:
“What are you going to do with
me?”
“We will take you to Senor Diaz’s
house and keep you there till Bernal
Valdez returns from Agua Caliente in
the morning,” replied the man who
seemed to be in command.
“But why take me there? I will
give you all the money I have about
me.”
(1IXT We do , not want your money.”
Vell fl e ance for Bernal Valdez! He
wiU . !d)1 Y ou wit!l lj is oml hand for
ruttuiu S <way with the girl that was to
h »™ boen hia wife--”
Upou m Y soul > 1 never ran away
wltl * a R a ' 1—:Ilov er dreamed of doing
such a thing. You have the wrong
man - Let me tul1 you who I am—”
“You are Doctor Brandon! Not an-
°^ el word. Come, come, padres; let
ns _f rl 7 this gHngooff.”
Ihe latter part of this remark was
addressed to the other Mexicans, who
lla< | Bolv b ° uud tb e young man’s feet,
aatl .forthwith they picked him up and
rallied him oil with much ease,
Being a perfect stranger in the town,
Paul Mansfield knew nothing about
tliu narr °w streets and dark, dingy
5l ? uses which they passed. At length
ca P tol ' s entered an arched gateway,
au, l, taking him into a dark room, they
ttu ' ew him on the floor and told him
tbat be would be killed if he raised his
voice.
He heard the shooting of a bolt in a
heavy lock and then the retreating
steps of the men.
The apartment was very dark, anil
i be cords hurt him. His paiu was
growing unendurable, when, to his
great joy, he heard a door opening
softly behind him.
Before he could turn his head a beau-
tiful girl appeared before him with a
lamp in her hand,
Without a word she cut his cords,
and as he rose to his feet to thank her,
indescribable was liis surprise to find
the arms of the beautiful girl about his
neck and to feel her kisses on his
bronzed cheek while she sobbed,
“My brother! oh, my brother, you
must fly!”
It must be confessed that a sense of
gratitude prevented tlie young man’s
permitting all the kissing to bo on one
side; or it may be that he did not wish
to retain what was evidently intended
for another person, and so gave the
kisses back. Briefly, he told her that
he was not her brother, and explained,
so far as he could, how he came into
his present embarrassing situation.
And with a bewitching smile she told
him how she had heard his captors say
that they had caught Doctor Brandon,
the gentleman who had married her
twin sister, Maria, and that she came
to free him.
She did not tell him, for it was a sad
subject with her, that her father had
settled that she should take her sister’s
place and become the wife of Bernal
Valdez.
Paul Through a faithful servant sho had
Mansfield conducted back to the
Fonda, where he found Captain Lamar
anxiously The searching for him.
adventure was explained, and
the Captain laughed at it very heartily,
declaring that lie would willingly un
dergo the same suffering if assured of
the same treatment by a beautiful gill
at the end. Bernal Valdez and a nuin-
her of Mexican called at the engineer
camp the next day and eyed Paul
Mansfield sharply. Though appear -
ances were against them, they had to
be satisfied that this was another case
of mistaken identity. Had the advou-
ture stopped here” they would have
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 1(5. 1897.
been certain tliat they had hit the
wrong man, but it did not.
Paul Mansfield’s mind and heart be¬
came so full of the beautiful girl that
kissed him and called him “brother”
that he lost his interest for the present
in engineering, and applied for a leave
of absence.
In the meanwhile the before-men¬
tioned “faithful servant" became the
bearer of many notes between the
young people who met so strangely,
and more than once he found his way
to the garden of the house where he
had beon imprisoned.
Again Santa Pe was startled; again
Bernal Valdez was robbed of a possible
bride.
Paul Mansfield had eloped with the
beautiful Isabel Diaz, News came
that they were married at Las Vegas,
and had gone on to the East for the
honeymoon. •
Paul Mansfield has since met Doctor
Brandon, now his brother-in-law, and
they do not resemble each other so
much when together.—New York
Ledger.
POP ULAR SCIE NCE.
Lord Kelvin, the great British scien¬
tist, declares that the earth is 30,000,-
000 years old.
The New York University purposes
to establish a station in Bermuda for
the study of marine life.
Notwithstanding the rapidly increaa
ing use of electricity there is no di¬
minution, but rather an increase, in
the use of gas in Germany. Last year
733,000,000 cubic metres of gas were
manufactured.
A complete cure in a case of lockjaw
is reported from the German Hospital,
San Francisco. The case was treated
by an injection of a tetanus auti-toxiue
similar in its source to that used in
cases of diphtheria.
An Austrian Lieutenant named
Schimatzel lia3 made an important
military invention. It is a cover,
made of leather, canvas, or rubber, for
keeping out dust of moisture from the
breech mechanism of a gun. It can
be rapidly opened, and when closed it
has the further use of preventing the
gun from going off accidentally.
The latest enumeration of tli6
Asteroids, or small planets, circling
the sun between the orbits of Mars
and Jupiter, shows that up to the
close of 1896 no less than 429 had been
discovered. The number of new ones
found last year was twenty, but some¬
times it turns out that the supposed
discovery of another asteroid is really
only the rediscovery of one that had
been seen before. They cannot be
identified by their appearance, since,
except a few of the larger ones, they
are mere specks of light, and'the only
way to keep track of them is by study¬
ing the orbits in which they travel.
Pretty soon after the cricket frog
appears the cry of the peeper is heard.
Much erroneous information has been
published about this tiny the young fellow.
Many persons believe cry to be
made by tlie young of other frogs. As
a matter of fact, the peeper is a distinct
variety, and a very curious little fellow
at that. He is not more than five-
eighths of an inch long. The peepers
hibernate under sod and in such
places a few inches beneath the sur¬
face, and when they come out in the
spring are of a grayish yellow color,or
a reddish brown. During the summer
they are nearly white, but at all times
they bear upon their backs a well-de¬
fined “X” mark in brownish bands.
A Bullet in His Heart.
“It is generally thought that a man
cannot live very long after getting a
bullet in his heart,” said a South
Carolinian to a Star reporter, “but
there is an instance on record in my
State of a man carrying a bullet in his
heart five weeks before death. The
matter is fully authenticated, the post¬
mortem examination having been
made by Dr. Curran B. Earle, a
nephew of the late United States
Senator Earle. The wounded man
was named Tom Ferguson, and he was
shot by a colored man named Dock
Chaney at Greenville, S. 0, Fergu¬
son lived five weeks, and at tho post¬
mortem examination a thirty-two*
caliber bullet was found firmly im¬
bedded in the exterior wall of the
heart. The cause of Ferguson’s death
was the inundation of the pericardial
cavity, which impeded the action of
the heart, which in plain English
means that the cavity surrounding the
heart was punctured aud flooded to
such an extent that the heart was pre-
vented from beating. 1 Tliis carrying
a bullet in the heart is a remarkable
case, but the physicians were not able
to say, without tedious research,
whether it has a like in the medical
records or not. A patient, it is said,
may live several days with a wounded
heart, and a metaphorical wound,
however severe, may not shorten his
life at all, but tho cases, if any, where
one carried a bullet in this sensitive
organ so long are few and far be¬
tween.”—Washington Star.
Electric Hoads In Europe.
In mileage of electric roads Ger¬
many is foremost in Europe, having
252 miles. France lias 82 miles:
Great Britain and Ireland, 66 J miles
Austria-Hungary, 44 miles: Switzer-
laud, 29 miles; Italy, 24; miles; Sor-
via, Russia, Belgium and Spain have
from 0.21 miles to 18.64 miles. Ol
111 lines of electric railway in
93 are worked on tho over¬
trolley lino system, 12 on the
underground system and 8 by meant
accumulators.
GoldfiMh in Niagara Kivcr.
Niagara River is said to be teeming
jth goldfish, but as they are hard t« !
and bad to eat they aro not re*
as a very desirable acquisition.
Obey have been seen there only within
; lie past year. Tho fish arc said to
come from a creek in Forest Lavu
Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., where a few
. ere placed several years ago.
THE FINAL VOTE WAS
EIGHT TO TWENTY-EIGHT.
POPULISTS HELD OFF FROM
MeEnery the Only Pen o'rat to
For lh<^ Rill—Measure Will Now
Go to Conference.
The tariff bill passed the
Wednesday afternoon, the vote
38 to 28.
This large majority of ten votes
was due to the action of some of the
populists and silver republicans in
withholding their votes. But, one
democrat voted for the bill, McEnory,
of Louisiana. There was nothing
dramatic about the final vote.
before it was taken there were some
interesting explanations by individual
senators as to their position. Every¬
body was anxious for a vote and every¬
body seemed glad when the vote was
announced and the end of the senate
Speaker Reed, Chairman Diugley
and many of the members of the house
of representatives were in the rear,
while every seat in the galleries save
those reserved for foreign representa¬
tives was occupied.
The early part of the day was spent
on amendments of comparatively minor
importance, the debate branching into
financial and anti-trust channels. By
4 o’clock the senators began manifest¬
ing their impatience by calls of “vote,”
and soon thereafter ihe last amend-
ment was disposed of and the final
vote began.
There were many interruptions ns
pairs were arranged, and then at 4:45
o’clock the vice-president arose and
announced Ihe passage of the bill—
yens, 38; nays, 28
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas Allison, Baker, Burrows, Farter,
Clark, Cullum, Davis, Doboo, Elkins, Fair¬
banks, Foraker, Gallingcr, Halo, I (.-in mi.
Hawley, Jones of Nevada, Ledge, McBride,
MeEnery, rill, McMillan, Mai le, Mason, Mor¬
Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Con¬
necticut, Platt of New York, I’rttehard,
Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner,
Warren, Wellington, Wetmore an l Wilson—
88 .
Nays—Bacon, Bate, Berry, CatTery, Han¬
non, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner,
Gray, Harris of Kansas, Jones of Arkansas,
Mitchell, Kenney. Morgan, Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills,
Pasco. Pettus, lt.-uylins.
Roach, Turner, Turpie, Vest, Walthall and
White -28.
The following pairs wero announced.
The first named wou'd have voted for
the bill and the last named against:
Aldrich and Murphy, Chamber and
McLaurin, Frye and Gorman, Gear
and Smith, Hansbrougli and Daniel,
Hoar and Harris of Tennessee, Thin s
ton and Tillman, Wolcott and George.
An analysis of the final vote shows
that the affirmative was east by thirty-
five republicans, two silver republi¬
cans, Jones, of Nevada, and Mantle,
and one democrat, MeEnery, total
thirty-eight.
The negative vote was cast by twen¬
ty-five democrats, two populists, Har¬
ris, of Kansas, and Turner, and one
silver republican, Cannon, total twen¬
ty eight.
Eight republicans wero paired for
the bill and eight democrats against
it. The senators present anil not vot¬
ing were: Populists five, viz: Allen,
Butler, Heitfeld, Kyle and Stewart,
Silver republicans two, viz: Teller and
Pettigrew.
Following the passing of the hill a
resolution was agreed to asking the
house for a conference, anil Senators
Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of Connecticut;
Burrows,.Tones,of Nevada; Vest,Jones,
of Arkansas, and- White were named
ns conferees on the part of tlie senate.
Story of tho Debate.
The tariff debate began on May 25th,
on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of
the finance committee, made the open¬
ing statement oil tlie bill.
The actual consideration of the bill
began the next day, May 26th, when
schedule A, relating to chemicals, was
taken up. The debate was continuous
since that time,covering six weeks and
one day.
Mr. Aldrich’s illness took bim from
the chamber after the first day, and
the bill was then in the immediate
charge of Mr. Allison. The opposi¬
tion has beon directed in the main by
Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and Mr, Vest,
while Senators While, Oaffory, Gray
and Allen have frequently figured in
t.ho flplmfp
HOSPITAL EOR ASHEVILLE.
Milliouftire Vanderbilt Will Erect One
For Treatment of Indigent Sick.
Asheville, N. C., is to have a mam¬
moth hospital. Tlie institution is to
be erected and maintained by the
Biltmoro millionaire, George W. Van¬
derbilt, and is intended for patients
who are unable to pay for treatment.
All kinds of diseases will be treated,
especially tuberculosis, and ailments
that ,, . are contagion.. . . A corps of ex-
l ,er ^ physicians will bo m charge, and
f] ’UJ’U’w c 'J eon ™ ‘ nen ™ ‘T “jd 1 /somfort °"-,7! 1! '-'W'' poss.-
s<a 0 / V v «n.lwl.ilt i p wi 1 begin the
P™ject with n an outlay of $100,000.
KEEK TRUST PROBABLE.
Twent,v-Stx Itrinverli-H In Detroit Contem-
plate Doing Into One Syndicate.
It is reported that the proprietors of
the twenty-six breweries in Detroit
are planning to sell out to a syndicate
composed chiefly of English capital¬
ists. Nearly all tlie brewers have
signed an agreement for the above
purpose. The result of the combina¬
tion will lie a rise in the price of beer
from $1 and $5 to $6 per barrel.
CYCLONE KILLS FOURTEEN.
House* Demolished ami ltailron<l Trains
Wrecked By Wind In Minnesota.
Fourteen people are known to have
been killed in the cyclone and cloud¬
bursts in Minnesota Wednesday. The
storm was general and it is impossible
to estimate the amount of damage with
y degree of certainty. The cyclone,
which was central near Glen wood, was
the worst that ever struck the state.
The list of dead at Gleuwood, so far
as known, is as follows: ToleffLnvan,
Samuel Morrow, Mrs. Samuel Morrow,
Winnie Morrow and Oswald McGow¬
an. Others were fatally hurt.
Trainmen say that a number of
houses were blown from the founda¬
tions by their storm, and undoubtedly
more lives are lost.
Railroad traffic is paralyzed because
of the heavy fall of rain. The rain
came places so suddenly and so fiercely in
some that many trains ran into
washouts before they had any intima¬
tion of danger.
A bad wreck on the Great Northern
is reported about eight miles west of
St. Cloud, twenty freight ears being
ditched. Charles Washburn was in¬
stantly killed and W. H. Pepper, the
engineer of the train, was seriously
injured.
A freight train on the Chicago, Mil¬
waukee and St.Paul road was wrecked
near Faribault and two of the crew
were killed. Crops have been damaged
to an irreparable extent, and a large
amount of live stock was killed. Re¬
ports of washouts, floods and cyclones
arc being received hourly. Every rail¬
road in the state has some damage to
the tracks and rolling stock. It is hard
to even approximate the loss, 1ml Cllll-
sidering other damage it will probably
exceed $1 ,000,000.
TRANSFEREI) TO GOVERNMENT,
MoiiDiignlieln lilvt-i Is Now Open Cm- Na¬
tional Commerce.
Tlio formal transfer of tiie property
of the Monongahela Navigation com-
puny to the United States government
was made at Pittsburg "Wednesday aft¬
ernoon. The Monongahela river is
now free to the commerce of the na¬
tion.
The transfer was made to Assistant
Secretary of War Micklejohn, who de¬
livered the warrant drawn on the
United States treasury for the amount
awarded .$3,601,615.50, to President
Donnell, of the Navigation company.
The freeing of the river meant a sav¬
ing of $225,000 annually to the coal
operators.
The transfer will release nearly
10,000,000 bushels of coal which has
been held in the pools by the opera¬
tors to save lockage tolls. This coal
will be carried down to Pittsburg at
once.
THORNE MAKES CONFESSION.
IlenndMrs.Nack Made Way With William
A New York dispatch states that
the positive identification of the man
arrested Tuesday night as Martin
Thorne, the alleged confederate in the
murder and dismemberment of the
body of William Guldensuppe, was
made Wednesday.
Acting Inspector O’Brien says that
he has in his possession a full confes¬
sion from Thorne admitting that ho
had murdered Guldensuppe aud giving
all the details of the crime.
Mrs. Augusta Nack, who is held as
an accomplice in the murder, is in
prison under a charge of murder nml
with a complete chain of circumstan¬
tial evidence woven about her. The
detectives claim that there will be no
trouble in convicting both parties.
MORE TROUBLE FOR BERESFORD.
Fitzgerald Authorities Ask For “Mo
I.ikI'k” Arrest.
Sidney Lascelles, whose meteoric
financial career startled the sober-
minded citizens of Fitzgerald, Ga., is
again in trouble, it will seem.
A number of telegrams were sent to
Savannah Wednesday asking that Eas¬
ed I es be arrested and held until an
officer from Fitzgerald could arrive.
The telegrams Were placed in the
hands of the Savannah detectives, but
Lascelles could not be found after a
search of the city.
Several days ago Lascelles left Fltz
gorald, going to Savannah. The war
rant issued charges him with cheating
and swindling. Ho is wanted badly
in Fitzgerald, and if he is located, ha
will be carried hack to his home to
face the charges which have been pro
ferred against him in his absence.
RUSSIAN CROPS RUINED.
Excessive Ka In fa 11 If as Nearly Destroyed
If ay and Beets.
Tho London Daily Mail’s eorro
spondent at Ht, Petersburg Bays: The
harvest,prospects in Central and South
Russia are growing worse and worse.
Continuous rains are destroying the
hay crops, while the exceptionally
poor beet crop in Pollution has prac¬
tically ruined tho sugar industry.
The crops in some of the Baltic
provinces also have suffered heavily
from rains, and a significant sign ol
the gravity of tho situation is the fact
that an unusually severe censorship is
exercised over news concerning it.
SENATOR HARRIS SERIOUSLY ILL.
Too Weak To Bo Kornoved to the Teimcs-
Mountalni*, Am Proponed,
A Washington special says : Tlie
condition of Senator Harris is proca-
rioiis. During the heat of Wednes¬
day afternoon there were fears that in
his debilitated condition he would not
rally again, but us tho atmosphere be¬
regained came cooler towards night tho senator
during partly what he had lost
the day. liis proposed removal
to mountain resort has been dismissed.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
RECORD OF GREATEST OF WAGE
STREGGLESFOR A WEEK.
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE IDLE.
Miners Ate flubilimt. Over the Situation
So Fur—SneeeHS Depends on Wcfit
Virginia Diggers.
Sunday marked the beginning of
the second week of the coal miners’
strike and already it gives promise of
being one of the greatest wage strug¬
gles in the history of this country.
The coal operators in the Pittsburg
district atjd the miners themselves little
dreamed that within one short
week such an era of general suspen¬
sion could Ije wrought as now exists in
the bituminous mining industry.
Then the mouth of the many coal
pits throughout the Monongahela,
loughioheny, Creek Allegheny and Peters
Tom’s valleys, and the valleys of
and Miller’s Run were open
and turning out thousands and thous¬
ands of tons of the best coal that ell-
ters into the competitive markets of
the world.
Now, all is changed. The vast CUV
erns are like so many graveyards, On
the hillsides basking in the shade
there is an army of 18,000 men, who
are anxiously waiting for more to join
the troops of idlers. On nearly every
railroad track leading to the mines
there stand empty ears, apparently
anxious to be loaded that their burdens
may he carried to the ports along the
lakes.
The success that has attended the
movement has greatly elated the
miners and during the next few days
every eftort will lie made to bring out
the men in the few mines that are still
working. This will be a difficult task,
but they express confidence in their
ability to make the suspension co m-
plote.
From the best information obtaina¬
ble the Pittsburg operators are in no
hurry to have the difficulty adjusted,
so many of them having stocks on
railroad sidings which they hold for
an advance. Much of this was disposed
of Saturday at. a good profit. One
prominent operator said that it would
take another week to determine the
exact, state of the markets, and by that
time a general cleaning up will have
taken place. All interested will lie
ready to begin business on a new basis
and probably at a higher price.
“This whole thing will result in a
compromise, ” said another prominent
operator. “The operators are in a
position to stand it for some time arid
1 believe the miners are in about the
same condition. It looks as if bnsi-
ness will brighten up and in that.
event Ihe operators will be able to get
better prices and the condition of bus¬
iness and tlie condition of the miners
will he simultaneously improved.”
Tho effect of the strike is being
manifested in the price of coal, An
increase of 60 cents a ton was shown
when an application was made for con¬
tracts and a number of Pittsburg op¬
erators, not boing able to work their
own mines, are seeking to buy coal in
tho West Virginia field in order to
reap the advantage of the advance.
Thorn has been no intimation of
lawlessness as yet in tho region, but
Bhoriff Lowroy, of Allegheny county,
has ant icipated any trouble by swearing
in 500 deputies. The miners say there
will he no overt acts.
No openly aggressive work was done
Saturday by either side, but the mi¬
nors’ officials held a secret meeting, at
which it is believed a vigorous cam¬
paign against the New York and
Cleveland gas coal miners, which will
be inaugurated at once, was decided
upon. The operators apparently®!!! e
doing little and are saying less. How¬
ever, tlieir confidence of defeating the
miners has not abated in the least.
DEMAND FROM AMHAMSADORS.
Turkish GovRi'ninonl; Is Asked to Not Ob¬
struct Fence Negotiations.
Acting upon instructions received
from their respective governments,the
ambassadors of the power: atOonstun
tinople Turkish presented a collective note to
the government Friday de¬
manding a cessation of the obstruction
of the peace negotiations.
A SUNDAY SESSION
H©1<1 By (lOiifcrccM of House and Seniito on
Tariff Kill.
A Washington dispatch says: The
conferees on the tariff bill held a four-
hour session Sunday. The anxiety to
reacli n complete agreement as early
as possible induced them to meet on
the Subbath and at present both the
house and senate conferees appeared
satisfied with tho progress that lias
been made.
Several hundred of tho minor amend¬
ments have been agreed upon. Many
of them were changes of phraseology
and on a large majority of these the
house conferees naturally have
yielded.
COMPETITOR PRISONERS
To He Brought to Trial In Havana at an
Karly Date.
The state department at Washing¬
ton has been informed that the cases
against Competitor prisoners will ho
brought to ati issuo at Havana within
a very short time.
It is expected that the eases of the
Americans, Melton and Leavitt, will
bo separated from the others and they
will be leniently dealt with the Span¬
ish authorities.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
A consultation will be called'at the
chamber of commerce, at Atlanta,
next week to organize for the enter¬
tainment of the confederate veterans
next year. This meeting will be only
a preliminary discussion, and will be
probably followed by a movement to
organize,
* * *
E. C. Flanagan’s trial is set for July
26th at Decatur. His first trial ■
as to his sanity, and he was found to
be sane by the verdict of the jury.
Now he has to he tiied for murder.
Flanagan is in the DeKalb county jail.
His victims were Mrs. Allen and Miss
Ruth Slack,
* * *
Fulton county’s delinquent tax pay¬
ers must pay up or lose their property.
The board of county’ commissioners
have resolved to force a collection of
back taxes due the state and county.
A resolution was adopted directing:
the sale of all property of persons who
have failed to pay their tax assess-
mentis.
The state school commission is bus¬
ily engaged considering some means
for reducing the expenses of school
books throughout the state. The ques.
tion of uniformity is being discussed,
but the commission refuses to give
out their deliberations. 7 It is proba-
ble, though, they will agree on a rec-
ominendation of non-uniformity of
text books.
Dr. Payne, the state chemist, has
just sent, a magnificent carload of
Georgia wheat, oats and rye to Nash¬
ville for exhibition in the exhibit of
this state in the agricultural building.
The specimens wero among the finest,
ever seen in this section, the rye being
nearly nine feet, high aud the oats six.
The wheat came from DeKalb county
near Decatur, aud is of an exception¬
ally fine growth. This exhibit will
take a stand in the front, rank of the
agricultural products of the south.
The members of the Blalqpk eom-
mitt.ee have resumed their investiga¬
tions at the capitol. The committee
has reopened the investigation corn-
rneneed some weeks ago in the comp¬
troller general’s office and it is said
that fresh data has been secured for
tlie purpose of attacking the present
methods employed in the issuing of
licenses to insurance companies in
Ibis state. The fact that the commit¬
tee saw fit to hold up its investigation
on this matter fur several weeks and
now begins on new lines, gives prom¬
ise of some sensational developments.
The state fair is assured and Presi¬
dent Brown will call his committee to¬
gether in a few days to make final ar¬
rangements. Mr. Brown makes the
following statement: “I think that the
sum sufficient has been raised. The
people of Atlanta have shown u dispo¬
sition to help, and this encourages the
fair committee. I did not like the at¬
titude of the Atlanta people at first,
but they have come to our aid and
there now seems to bo no doubt but
the fair will be held.” The regular
meeting will of the State Agricultural Koei-
efy bo held atTybee in August.
* * *
State Treasurer W. J. Speer has re¬
ceived notice from the treastuy de¬
partment of the United States that-a
credit of $23,000 has been audited for
Georgia on account of colleges of
agriculture and mechanic arts. This
is the annual payment which has been
increasing $1,000 each year for eight
years. This is part, of the fund the
department of which Hon. Pope
Brown’s committee is to investigate.
The other part is the landscript fund
of $17,000 per annum. Together they
amount to $40,000, and constitute the
bulk of the financial support of the
state university.
Several of the Georgia papers have
been publishing statements to the
effect that. Governor Atkinson Was op¬
posed to the plans of tlie state pliar
mnceutieal board in spending the ap¬
propriation of $1,000 from the legisla¬
ture for analyzing aud preventing the
sale of adulterated drugs. The gov¬
ernor was not sure the law granted
the board the right to send out an in¬
spector as they wished and requested
that he be not employed until the
attorney general could ho consulted.
The governor wishes it stated he is
heartily in sympathy with any lawful
plans tlie boat'd may have for the dis¬
position of tho money to good ad¬
vantage.
A final order in the cases of the
Central Trust Company of New York
against the Marietta and North Geor¬
gia Railway Company and V. E. Me Bee
against the Knoxville Southern railway
was placed on record in the United
States court at Knoxville, Tents., last
Tuesday, whereby the receivers are.
dismissed, the final payment having
beon made on the road by the recent
purchasers, the Atlanta,Knoxville and
Northern Railway Company. The new
owners have had possession of the
property for some time and have al¬
ready made many substantial improve¬
ments. The road is 200 miles long,
running between Knoxville, Tenn.,
and Marietta, and does a very heavy
freight aud passenger business.
MANY DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS.
Fearful Heat Fontlnnes With No Kollef
In Slight.
A St. Louis dispatch says: Thurs¬
day was the eleventh day of 100 de¬
grees heat in St. Louis. By 3 o’clock
in tho afternoon seven people had died
from the heat, one man attempted sui¬
cide aud there were at least four out
of tho many prostrations which will
prove fatal.
There is no relief in sight. It is a
cool bedroom in which the temperature
at night is lower than 92 degrees, and
in consequence the vitality of the peo¬
ple is becoming exhausted.