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CURRENT TOPICS.
I reland id to have a second electric rail
way.
Three Georgia weeklies are edited by
ladies.
It is denied that ex-Secretary Freling
huysen is insane.
A n'ieijf. of ex-President V T an Buren is an
applicant for a Post-office.
The tenement house system in New
York has lailen into disfavor.
Gen. Grant was unanimously re-elected
commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Blkick Pomeroy has finc’lv securedxon
trol ol . the United Slates Democrat at
AT ashington.
A New Orleans editor has discovered
that a “voting lawyer is the smartest thing
in the world except a young widow.
“Eve&y navy yard in the country is to
be vigorously overhauled,” is the edict that
has gone forth from Secretary Whitney.
The pendulum of the clock in Dr. Tyng’s
church in New York has not stopped 9ince
it was first started, nearly twenty-six years
ago. ,
An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned to
death recently by his tribe for having
failed to cure a patient placed under his
charge. »*
Jas. D. Fish has acknowledged that Sal
lie Reber Lalng, whose recent mysterious
death has created so much comment, was
his wife.
It is said that Princess Beatrice is the
mistress of five tongues. Goodness
gracious! Does her intended husband
know it?
It is said that the electric lights at Sac
ramento can be seem from the high land
near Jackson, Amador County, a distance
of sixty miles.
Philadelphia’s claim to be called the
City of Brotherly Love is endangered by
the .existence within her borders of 268
base ball clubs.
The Cascade tunnel of the Northern Pacific
will be 9,800 feet long—one of the longest in
the country. The material and machinery
for construction will cost about .>IOO,OOO.
The current of Lake Erie has an effect
upon the adjacent shores sufficient to make
the spring season from two to four weeks;
earlier in and around Toledo than at Buf
falo.
J. M. Rice, of Austin, 111., has been
awarded the contract for tho stone and
brick work of the superstructure of tin
Jeff of sou City (Mo.) public buildings a»
$44,000.
At Ash Ford, a station on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, in Northern Arizona,
thewatersupplyis broughtbyra.il a dis
tance of sixty miles and sold for fifty cents
per barrel.
The Archduchess Maria Valeria, of
Austria, a charming girl of seventeen, is
being taught watchmaking and the manu
facture of jewelry in the shop of a Tyro
lese worker.
Germany contemplates a grand exhibi
tion of German industry in 1888 as an in
termediate link between the Exhibition of
1879 and a future World’s Exhibition in the
Prussian capital.
During 1884 the number of persons killed
on railways in Great Britain was 1,134 (as
compared with 1,167 in the previous year.)
The number of injured was 4,100 (as com
pared with 4,187 in ISS3).
Miss Haddie Rogers, a dashing young
wopian of Erie, Pa., is in jail for horse
stealing. she has a passion for equestrian
spqyts. She hired a horse for an hour and
took a glorious dash across the country. •
. ’According to a writer in the London
\Lancet a consumptive patient is in fleeter
condition for recovery if he lies on a couch
\isi h judiciously selected spot in the open
-ail’, evenin winter, than in a shut-up room.
The richest colored man in Philadelphia
is John(McKee, a real estate dealer, who is
estimated to be worth between 8-00,000 and
$300,000. There are two or three others in
.thesMthe ejt&' whose fortunes run up into
the" hundred thousands.
One of the new laws of Nebraska pro
hibits thellmarriage of divorced persons
within sig-iatuiths after the granting of
the.. "'decree,Mn order to allow time to be
• given for setting aside said decree by
proper legj^lpfVfOeedings.
--<3l/eenVictoria is attended during her
excursions by (jeorge Brown, a brother of
the l&te J. l£, v \k4P-.fc as taken into the royal
service *hfteKlhe death of his relative. He
attracts much-attention, as he is invariably
clad in the Highland garb. >.
A woman in Bogaiej lowa, who was sup.
ported by chafftV dtifing the past winter,
-saysr’the Times, is showing her
gratitude by a public spirited effort to aid
in the improvement of the town by build
ing herself a tine.residence.
Mrs. Ella Brackett, is Register of
Deeds for Franklin County, Maine. She was
appointed by ObvurgQr -Rubio to succ -ed
her died last,fall, when only
two" Of, the four years’ term for which he
had been eleiSgjl had expired.-
A si+erficiML, examination of the
Goethe paper.-,; left’by the poet’s grandson
to the r "wand" I)j}ches® of'Atf'eiinar, has
brought tp tiVo precious treasures—
the last iftarfuscript of “Gotz von Berlieh-
Ingen” and of the “Roman Elegies.’’
The farmer king of Alabama is Bragg B.
Comer, of Barbour County. He raised
*2,2.10 bales of cotton . hast year, besides a
large amount of corfiT He has from eight
to ten thousand acres in cotton and corn
this y ear, and says crop prospects were
never better.
The King of Denmark is father-in-law
of both the Czar of Russia and t(je Primes
of Wales. There never can be any rest in
this wor.d for the of girl babies.
An Indiana salesman was mean enough
to strike, with a stave, the panier of a lady
who had been stealing grocery, eggs and
concealing them big rear ‘ pockets.
If the eggs were fro fresher than a good
many that are sold in groceries, the friends
of the lady ought to take the law on him.
GREAT FOREST FIRE.
Michigan Woods Burning, and the
Flames Sweeping Fiercely.
Everything in the Way of the Fiery Ele
ment Falling—The Loss Great in Tim
ber and Other Property.
East Saginaw, Mich., May 17.— The
woods around Harrison are red-hot, and
fires sweeping in every direction, burning
timber and logs. Eight hundred thousand
feet of good white pine logs, valued at $lO,-
000, were totally destroyed. In Cass Coun
ty yesterday 12,000,000 feet of lumber was
burned. Fawcett’s mill, near Cedar Lake,
and Pierce Bros.’mill,near same place,were
destroyed. •
Milwaukee, Wis., May 17.— Reports
from various towns within "fifty miles from
here, west and northwest, show that the
forest fires are becoming widespread, and
are.doing great damage.' Several settle
ments are theatened, and in a number of
instances families have abandoned their
homes, leaving everything behind. Unless
a drenching rain should set in soon, that
being the only thing that can stay the
progress of the fires, the destruction of
property will be very great and the loss of
lives not improbable.
Death of Commodore Young.
New London, Conn., May 17.—Commo
dore Jonathan Young, commandant of the
New London Navy-yard, died of remittent
fever at the Crocker House to-day, aged
fifty-eight years. The disease was con
tracted while he was in Washington six
weeks ago as a member of the Wales
Court-maftial. He entered the navy as
a midshipman, from Illinois, in 1841; went
around the world in the ship Colum
bia in 1845-G, and forced an entrance to
Yeddo, Japan, to deliver a letter from the
President to the Emperor. He took part in
the Mexican war on the California coast.
He was promoted to passed midshipman in
1847 and made a second trip around the
world in the St. Marys to 1850-52. He was
commissioned Lieutenant in 1855 and
fought the Indians on Puget Sound, and
took Rn'active part in the war of the re
bellion, and in 1867 was recommended for
promotion by the Board of Admirals on
account of gallant and meritorious service
during the war.
v. Foreign Notes.
London, May 17. —The Irish party will
introduce a bill to reforpi the administration
in revenge for* the Government's course.
At Coatsbridge, a Glasgow suburb, a col
lision occured between Orangemen and
Catholics. A number were injured and
many arrested. General Wolseley has an
nounced to his men the abandonment of
Soudan, and made his farewell address. A
fierce snow-storm is raging in Austria-
Hungary. Many people have been frozen
to death and crops are destroyed. John
Naish, Attorney General, has been ap
pointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Min
ister Pendleton has arrived at Berlin.
Garibaldi’s memoirs have been completed,
but will not be issued until ten years from
his death. The Sultan offered employment
toJGeneral Lew AV allace, the retiring U. S.
Minister. He declined, and starts for home
this week. Another motion of censure of
the British Government will be made when
Parliament reassembles after its recess.
The President and Good Templars.
‘Washington, D. C., May 17.—Several
days ago a delegation from the Order of
Good Templars of the District of Columbia
called on the President, and left with him
a written address, urging him to make dili
gent inquiry into the personal habits and
associations of the persons he should ap
point to offices in the District. In reply to
the address the President said: “I read
your address late last night with great
interest and it is something tangi
ble, and if all men would come to me as
you have, my labor would Be greatly les
soned. The temperance people are good
people, and friends of law and order. Be
fore I left Now York I determined to give
the District good government, but there
are so many conflicting claims that I am
sometimes at a loss to know what to do,
but you come with clear statements, of
which I will take further notice.”
Storms In Kansas.
Kansas City, Mo., May 17.—A special
states that ten tents at Couch Oklahoma
Camp, near Caldwell, Kan., were blown
down during a wind storm Friday night
and a number of persons injured, though
none dangerously hurt. Considerable of
their property was destroyed. Reports
are delayed by the prostration of telegraph
wires.
Independence, Kan., May 17.— One of
the most heavy and severe rain-storms
that has ever visited Southern Kansas oc
curred last Friday, flooding Elk and Ver
digMs Rivers, drowning a great number of
cattle. Six persons were drowned in Caid
Creek, seven miles west of this place,
among whom were Mr. Ria, Mrs. Wood and
two children. No telegraph connections
with the. west line of the Southern Kansas
Road. Great damage to railroad and other
bridges.
Killed By a Blow,
St. Loris, May 17.--Between 8 and 9
o’clock this morning John Coleman, a team
ster, while drunk, quarreled with his wife
and struck her over the head with a metal
bucket, cutting a severe gash. Shortly
afterwards Larry Cunningham, another
teamster, also drunk, took Coleman to task
for his conduct, and Coleman showed fight,
whereupon Cunningham struck him with
his hand and knocked him down. Coleman
tried to get up, but immediately toppled
over and died. His head was badly cut,
but it is not yet determined whether his
death was the result of Cunningham’s blow,
or whether it was the effect of striking the
pavement when he fell. Cunningham was
arrested.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. MAY 21. 1886.
THE EXPRESS ROBBERY.
Baggage-Master Weber Identifies hi» As
sailant in Chesley Chambers.
Bloomington, Ind., May 16.—T0-day at
the trial of AVm. Wright, who was ar
[ rested on suspicion of commiting the dar
j ing express robbery on the night of April
| 20, an unexpected event took place. It was
believed by many that when Baggagemas
ter AVeber would arrive to-day to identify
his assailant on that night, that the trial
1 would end with the wounded baggage
man’s own words, that AVright was not the
1 man. In the meantime another clue,
which the few hours developed, proved a
successful one had been worked by a few
officers. The morning after the robbery
had been committed, Chesley Chambers,
a man in the neighborhood heretofore bear
ing a good character, went to work for a
farmer. On the left side of his head, a
few inches from the ear, was a bad bruise
and cut, and his hands were both
bruised in the palms, so that they were
bleeding and quite sore. At ten o’clock
that day he stopped work, seemed greatly
agitated over the news that a train had
been robbefl, and came to town at once.
The man for whom Chesley Chambers was
working did not have the heart to suspi
cion him on all this evidence, until from
time to time he talked of the robbery, won
dering if they would catch the robber, and
when AT right was arrested Chambers
seemed confident that the right man had
been caught at last. So much interested
was he in the case that the man for whom
he was working grew suspicious, recalling
the masks on his head and hands, and be
came so confident that he informed
a neighbor of what he knew, leaving such
fin impression that the story was at once
repeated to the officers. It was decided
that as Chambers knew so much about the
case he should be supen’aed as a witness.
This was done this morning. At first he
hesitated,‘but when the officer insisted he
said he would come. A close eye was kept
upon him, and it was quite noticeable that
he was much agitated. As the noon train
arrived, bearing AVeber, description of the
robber was at once lobtained, with minute
details, all of which answered in every
particular to Chambers. It was decided
to let the trial of AVright proceed, so
far as the public knew, and in this way get
Chambers where 1 he could be identified.
To carry out this perfectly, Chambers was
to be taken in the same room with AVeber,
ostensibly to be questioned as to what he
knew of AVright’s character. And soon,
unbeknown to either him or Weber, they
were face to face. AVhen Chambers
saw*Weber he turned white as a sheet, and
seemed to lose his voice, never looking at
W eber again. As soon as Chambers left the
room, as with uncontrolled emotion, AVeber
jostled Friedley’s arm, saying, “My God,
that’s the man that shot me; I am sure of
it; I know it! For God’s sake, don’t let him
get away.” AVjth no intimation of the guilt
offithis man, Weber had recognized him.
Chambers was allowed to go on up to the
Court-house, where he was told he would
be wanted to testify in a few minutes. At
once a warrant was sworn out and put in
the hands of the Marshal to execute.
Chambers was arrested and marched to
the front, charged with the crime. It
would be utterly impossible to describe
the scene. Neighbors who had kdbwn him
for a long time said Such could not be the
case. The man seemed clumbed
with amazement, and as he answered
“Guilty” to the charge when read by the
Prosecutor! he appeared as if he wished
the earth would swallow him. The excite
ment was intense as- the poor fellow took
his seat amid the immense crowd, charged
and identified as committing a henious
crime. He was placed under bail of $5,000,
his uncle, Chesley Woodward, going for
the full amount. Chambers is twenty
eight years old, unmarried, and a member
of church.
Catholic Knights of America.
Baltimore, May 16.—The Supreme
Council of the Catholic Knights of Amer
ica convened from Tuesday, the 12th, until
Friday, the 15th inst., at St. Xavier’s Hall,
New York. The Sinking Fund was adopted,
and the Supreme President’s decision as
to readinission into the order over
ruled. Members of the Graud
Army of the Republic were
declared welcome as members.
The newly-elected officers are: Supreme
President, W. G. Russell, of Lebanon, Ky.;
Vice-President, Mr. O’Rourke, of Indiana;
Secretary, John Barr, of Lebanon, Ky.;
Treasurer, Mr. O’Brien, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., Trustees, John J. Duffy, of Mem
phis, Tenn.; J. B. Eveslage, of Cincinnati,
and J. B. Zwartz,.of St. Louis, Mo. They*
adjourned sine die, to meet the second
Tuesday in May, 1887, in Chicago.
Swung Off".
Washington, D. C., May 15.—John
Langster, negro, ex-cavalryman, ex-luna
tic, desperado, thief and murderer, was
hanged in the corridor of the City Jail at
9 o’clock this morning.
Springfield, 111., May 15.—Charles
Houldon was hanged at Petersburg to-day
for the murder of his wife last March, the
execution being under the supervision of
Sheriff Harwood. ->
Hunter’s Point, L, 1., May 15.—Charles
Henry Rugg, the negro who murdered old
Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her daughter
Mary, at Oyster Bay, L. 1., nearly* two
years ago, was hanged in the jail here at
7:45 this morning. He died without a
struggle.
This Government's Policy.
New Yolik, May 14. —Secretary Bayard,
in a letter to the Minister Roberts Banquet
Committee, says: “This Government has
no plan inconsistent with the integrity,
prosperity and development with every
State in the entire hemisphere. Our poli
cies, continercial and political, are such as
cannot fail to strengthen tho cause of law,
order and morality, and of such I am sure
Mr. Roberts will prove himself an able and
worthy representative.”
THE BLIND E EE.
A Boy of Fifteen Given His Sight, ant# Still
Governed by the Sense of Touch.
Wheeling, AV.Va., May 14.—An achieve
ment of surgical science which, but for
the fact that it was the work of science,
would be heralded to the world as a mar
velous modern miracle, is reported from
the State Institution for the Deaf, "Dumb
and Blind, at Romney, Hampshire County.
Henry McCrea, blind from his birth, in
1870, was a pupil of the institution from
Pocahontas County for the past three
years, taking the same course, industrial
and literary, which is open to all the blind
boys of the school. At the recent meet
ing bf the Board of R,egents the attention of
Dr. J. R. L. Hardesty, of this city, who ravi
member of the board and a specialist in dis
eases of the eye, was attracted to the boy
by seeing him frown when the rays of the
sun fell on his eyes, and after a thorough
examination he announced his belief!,that
the boy’s eyes could be operated upon
so as to enable him to see. The boy,
who had been allowed to remain in
darkness for fifteen years, * was affect
ed with double congenital cataract
from his birth, and while his ODtie
nerve was unimpaired, it was shut out from
the rays of light. After consulting his fel
low regents it was resolved that Dr. Har
desty should undertake the operation. A
room was thoroughly darkened, and the
operationfsuccessfully performed with the
most gratifying success. The boy's eyes
were opened, and the light being gradually
admitted to the room, he became accus
tomed to it by degrees, and to-day he was
sent home to his overjoyed family with as
keen eyesight as any of them. The case
was a most interesting one. Young Mc-
Crea had become so accustomed to obtain
ing all his impressions of the outside world
by other senses that at first his sight was
of no use to him. The most familar objects
were not recognized until the boy could
touch them. He did not know a key from
a book by the sense of sight alone until he
became familiar with the differences be
tween the two objects.
Diseased Pork.
Mason, Mich., May 15.—News of a terri
ble calamity in Wheatfield Township
reached here to-day. Some time ago a
family named Turah butchered a hog that
had been sick, but afterwards recovered.
The family and several others, eight per
sons in all, partook of the meat, and
about a week or ten days later were} taken
sick, all being similarly affected. On Wed
nesday last John Turah, eighteen years
old, died. Theodore Turah, his fath
er, and Mary and her little
daughter, it is said, can not live. Four
others—Theo. Turah, Otto Turah, Andrew
Linter and Henry Brouthour—are in a
Critical condition. Examination revealed
the fact that the pork is literary alive with
trichina:*. The people of that section are
greatly excited, and there is no demand for
pork. It is doubtful if any of the victims
will recover.
The New Old Testament.
London, May 15. —The Archbishop of
Canterbury is the only person who has yet
been permitted to receive a complete copy
of the revised Old Testament. 'i'o‘ 5,000
people employed in binding and packing
are closely watched to
a breach of trust on their part. The
Dean of Canterbury, who was a
member of tfce Revising Committee, is
preparing a paper on the revised version.
Copies were distributed to the London
papers Thursday night, and yesterday
morning they contained copious extracts.
The book will be Attributed among book
sellers on Monday
Fell Dcld by Her Child’s Coffin.
Philadeiwhia, May 17. —Mrs. Benjamin
Bride, ith her husband and child, ar
rived at Camden a few days ago, died very
suddenly and under peculiarly distressing
circumstances. The family hoped to better
their condition by going to Camden, but
Mr. Bride was unable to obtain work, and
their child died. While the funeral ser
vices were being conducted the sorrowing
mother sat at the head of the coffin weep
ing. Suddenly she was observed to turn
very pale, and fell to the floor a corpse.
Mother and child were buried together.
Crop Prospects in Illinois.
Centralia, 111., May 17.—Crop reports
gathered from this section of the State con
tinue to indicate about half a crop of wheat.
A full crop has not been raised for som«
years. The recent injury* to strawberry
blooms by frost was confined to the early
blossoms. There will still be more berries
than can be picked and marketed. There
is a large acreage of corn and oats, the lat
ter planted in ground sown in wheat last
fall, but plowed under this spring on ac
count of being winter-killed.
Baby-Farm Keeper Arrested.
Chicago, May 15. —Mrs. M. P. Hunting,
of 490 South Wood street, was arrested to
day on a charge of keeping a baby farm.
An officer found her on the street with a
dying child in her arms, which she says
was left on her door-step. Seven other
babies were found in her house in two beds,
and her register showed that she had re
ceived forty-seven since last July, besides
twelve which she claimed had been aban
doned.
Business Failures.
New York, May 15. —The business fail
ures occurring throughout the country dar
ing the last seven days, as reported to R
G. Dun & Co., number, for the United
States, 203, and for Canada, 26, or a total ol
229, as against a total of 248 last week, and
208 the week previous to the last. The cas
ualties are pretty evenly* divided among
the different sections of the country.
Fran co-Chinese Deadlock.
London, May 15.—A dispatch to th«
Standard from Shanghai says native offi
cials there have received news from Pekin
that the negotiations between France and
China for a treaty of peace have come to a
deadlock, France having made demands
which China is unable to concede.
PENAL SERVITUDE.
Trial of the Alleged London Dynami
ters.
• _____
Cunningham and Burton Found Gnilty and
Sentenced to Penal Servitude for Life.
London, May 18.—Judge Hawkins, this
morning, began the summing up in the case
of Cunningham and Burton, on trial for
treason-felony in connection with the re
cent dynamite explosions. The Judge ex
plained the nature of the charge against
the prisoners, and the law»in relation
thereto. He then analyzed the evidence
against Burton, and called the attention of
the jury to the fact that Burton’s state
'ment was not made under oath, and
was therefore entitled to very little
credence. If there was any truth in
the statement, said the Judge, it was
astounding that no w itness was called to
support it. Mr. E. 3. Phelps, the new U.
S. Minister to England, was in the court
room dressed to mourning, and listened
closely to the Judge’s charge. Mr. Phelps
seemed very much impressed by the stern
language of the Judge. The jury returned
a verdict finding both the prisoners guilty.
The prisoners were both sentenced to
penal servitude for life. Cunning
ham maintained his self-composure, but
Burton broke down and sobbed when the
verdict was rendered. When the prisoners
were asked if they had anything to say
why the sentence of the law should not be
passed upon them, Cunningham protested
that he was innocent. He said he was wil
ling to accept servitude for life, but they
could not touch his soul. Burton
simply declared that ho was inno
cent. The Court-room was crowded with
people to hear the Judge’s charge and to
see the termination of the case. There
were many ladies in the room. The pris
oners wore an anxious look, and followed
Judge Hawkins’ charge with intense inter
est. The drift of the charge was clearly
against the prisoners. The jury remained
out not longer than fifteen minutes.
CHOLERA GERMS
Can Be Transmitted In Cargoes of Old
Bags.
New York, May 18. —Surgeon George M.
Steinberg, of the army, who is now at
Rome in attendance upon the Internation
al Sanitary Conference as the representa
tive of this Government, received a com
munication some time ago from Secretary
Manning,asking for his views regarding the
possibility of the introduction of cholera into
this country through old rags from abroad.
The rag importers have insisted that there
is no danger, and that the regulation re
quiring disinfection was unnecessary.
Surgeon Steinberg is an accepted authority
on disease germs. He has just replied to
the inquiry as follows: “My studies re
lating to disease germs leave no doubt in
my mind as to the possibility of the im
portation of thdQgerms of cholera, malig
nant pustule, smallpox and yellow fever in
old rags, whether baled or otherwise. The
germs of malignant pustule may be pre
served indefinitely without losing their
Virulence, and we have ample evi
dence that the germs of cholera,
small-pox and yellow fever may be pre
served in infected clothing or bedding for
a considerable time—exactly how long a
time has not been determined. That such
infected articles could be preserved in bales
of rags can scarcely be .uestioned, and it
seems apparent that they are likely to find
their way into the rag pickers’ collection
during the epidemic prevalence of those
diseases, especially in countries where
there is no organized sanitary super
vision.”
Heavy Dose of Arsenic.
St. Louis, May 18.—Mrs. Matilda Rey
nolds, an old wernan o# sixty odd years,
was found dead in her bed on May 11, un
der circumstances which aroused suspi
cions that she had been foully dealt with.
A postmortem was made, and her stomach
given to Dr. Charles Luedeking for analy
sis. To-day the Doctor reported that he
had found enough arseuic in the stomach
to kill two hundred persons, and the ques
tion now is whether the woman committed
suicide or was poisoned by somebody else.
She had a young husband with whom she
lived very unhappily, and whom she ac
cused of trying to get possession of a little
grocery she owned, and some suspicion at
taches to him. The Coroner is investigat
ing the case.
No Hope for Murphy's Murderers.
New Orleans, La., May 18.— The Su
preme Court to-< jpty affirmed the .decision
of the Court below in the Murphy murder
case, and refused a motion for a new trial.
The was that of Judge Ford, his
brother Pat and Court officers W. E. Caul
field, W. H. Buckley and John Murphy*,
who murdered Captain A. H. Murphy on
December 1, 1884. Pat Ford and Murphy
were sentenced to death, and the rest to
twenty years’ imprisonment.
*apers for Maxwell, Trunk Fiend.
St. Louis, May 18.— Papers on which to
base the demand for the extradition of
Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, at the
Southern Hotel here who is now under ar
rest in Auckland, New Zealand, will be
signed by Governor Marmaduke to-night,
and will be forwarded at once to Wash
ington. They* will name Detective James
Tracy, of the police force, and Frank R.
O’Neal, of the Post-Dispatch, as theStat.e’3
agents to bring the murderer.
High License in lowa.
Sioux City, la.. May 18.—Under the
SI,OOO-license-law passed by the Council,
eleven saloons took out license to-day, and
many more, it is thought, will follow suit
The city authorities promise to close all sa
loons not paying the SI,OOO licenses. Beer
gardens were open on Sunday for the first
time this season. There was speaking and
great rejoicing by German citizens.
V()L II.—NO. 12.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS
An unknown disease is prevailing in
some of the upper counties of Virginia
among stock. At least twenty-five per
cent, of all cattle and sheep have died-
The loss to farmers is incalculable.
George Wilkinson, - a white miner at
Warrior coal mines, seven milee from Bir
mingham, Ala., was instantly killed by the
premature discharge of a blast.
Gen. Hancock was in Atlanta, Ga., a
few days ago, for the purpose of selecting
a site for a permanent barracks in that
city. He was tendered a banquet and re
ception, but declined.
Justice Stanley Mathews has engaged
board for himself and family at Asheville,
N. C., for the summer. Hon. E. B. Wash
burn will also spend the summer at Ashe
ville. .
R. L. Jones, late Postmaster at Lake
Providence, La., convicted of robbing the
mails of over $3,000, was sentenced to five
years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
The safe of the St. John’s and LakeJEustis
Railway, at Eustis, Fla., was robbed of
$3,000 cash.
AVeather unpleasantly warm in New
Orleans.
A three-story brick building in Char
lotte, N. C., fell in a mass of ruins. Loss
$30,000. The occupants all escaped.
early hour on the morning of | the
15th, the house of Mrs. Louisa Daum, at
Wheeling, W. Va., a widow, aged about
seventy-five years who has been living by
herself, was broken into. The old lady
was awakened by being choked, and told
that unless she told where her money was
hidden, she would be choked to death. She
gave them all she had in the house, about
five dollars, but the ruffians, believingl she
had more, choked, beat and abused her so
that it is feared she can not recovec It
she lives her reason will probably be
stroyed. The house was ransacked thor
oughly, everything being broken and cut
open in the search for money. The old
lady owns considerable property, and is
heretofore supposed to have. kept quite a
large sum in the house. After the robbers
had departed she managed to crawl to the
house of her son-in-law, near by. Her
house is in a densely populated locality.
This is the fifth case of this kind that has
occurred in that city and vicinity, and the
people are becoming thoroughly alarmed,
as they realize the presence of a’ gang of
brutal ruffians who would not stop at mur
der in order to secure money.
Johnny Cunningham, aged six, was in
stantly killed at Chattanooga, Tenn., while
attempting to jump on a car on a belt Rail
road.
Withroe McClintic, of Pocahontas
County, W. Va., brutally beat Frank Davis
over the head with a club, and left him for
dead in the road. McClintic had previ
ously quarreled with Davis’ brother about
some logs, which led to the assault on
Frank.
During an altercation over the payment
of a note John Johnston, of Tyler County,
W. Va., used his penknife with probably
fatal effect on Richard Henderson, cutting,
entirely through the wall of the abdomen.
John Hall, engaged in bee culture at
Atlanta, Ga., was stung to death by a
swarm of angry bees which he was trying
to hive.
At Pudras Negras, Texas, David Montez,
a policeman, arrested Aldefonso Wurta for
drunkenness* and beat him. Wurta swore
vengeance, and enticed Montez out and
shot him. A squad of mounted police cap
tu**ed Wurta, and John Rodriqiues, a
brother-in-law of Montez, deliberately
blew Wurta’s brains out.
Some excitement exists over the discov
ery of silver deposits in Catoosa County,
Ga. Some rich specimens are on exhibi
tion.
A disastrous fire occurred at Wartace,
Tenn., a few nights ago. The fire broke out
in the center of the business portion of the
town, and ten stores and their contents
were burned. Two persons sleeping in a
store are missing, and are supposed to have
perished. Loss, $30,000 to $40,000.
Miss Mary A. Stars, aged seventeen,
and daughter of the late Henry Stars,
leather dealer, Louisville, Ky.,died on the
12th of a disease that puzzles the medical;
fraternity, the name of which has never
been discovered. Two years ago deceased
passed through a spell of fever, and while
convalescing the new disease took hold of
her, and her limbs were so distorted as to.
make it impossible for her to sit in a chair.
For over twenty months her only rest, ex
cept in bed, was sitting on th e floor, and so.
fond was she of this that the bones of her*
limbs actually wore through the flesh.
Her health otherwise was good, and until a
few days before her death she could* eat
heartily and enjoy it.
Thomas Green, a negro thief, was shot
and killed at Memphis by Police Officer
Thomas Jackson. Green was in the act of
stealing a bale of cotton.
Lum Callaway, who killed a man
named Winters at Elk Park, Tenn., last
November, has been sentenced to be hanged
June 12.
Thos. Brery, aged one hundred and one
years, died at Liberty, Johnson County, .
Tenn., a few days ago. His wife died a
few days since at the age of one hundred
and four. ,
A negro named Jordon, who attempted
an outrage on the daughter of Mr. Davis,
a respectable farmer near Allshire, Ala.,
was taken by a mob of 130 men and hanged
to a railroad bridge. Jordon confessed.
Larken Maynard was shot and killed
in Wahn County*, W. Va., by John Work
man. It is alleged that Maynard had been
slandering the wife of Workman, who is a
woman of good character. Workman has
left the county* to escape arrest.
Deputy Marshal Cella arrested A. \Y.
Adleta, for several years a railway postal
clerk, running from Dallas, Texas, charged
with robbing the mails. He was traced by
decoy letters, and it is believed has secured
between $5,000 and $6,000 by repeated thefts.
The fires in the Blue Mountains, Virginia*
are dying out,
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