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THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The United States steamer, Maiioa,
has sailed for Behring sea.
Sixteen hundred miners in the Peoria,
Ill., district, struck Friday.
The strike of omnibus employes at
Berlin ended Friday. The men accepted
the company’s terms.
At the cabinet meeting Thursday it
was decided to extend the 4J per cent,
bonds at 2 per cent.
The influenza is raging in the province
of Toledo, Spain. 1 here are 700 cases
at Mora and 300 at Orgaz.
Early Sunday morning the Park thea¬
ter at St. Paul, Minn., caught fire, and
was entirely consumed. Loss, $35,000.
In a fight Monday with Indians in
Mogave desert, California, John Powers
and Sam E. Gun were killed. Two In¬
dians were also slain.
The press mill of Moosic powder mill
at Jeremyn, Pa., exploded Monday
morning, killing John Louty and Philip
Forkel, employes.
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
review of the Britisn grain trade, says and
English wheats were 6 pence lower
foreign 1 shilling lower.
The police of Paris searched the offices
of the Panama Coal company Saturday,
and seized all documents in any way re¬
to the affairs.
The injunction against the payment of
the sugar trust dividcud, in New York,
was vacated Friday, owing to the faulty
allegation on which papers were granted.
A dispatch of Thursday says: The
large Cooke locomotive works at Patter¬
son, N. J., employing 1,000 men, will
close down in a few days owing to dull¬
ness in business.
The president, by proclamation, has
ordered that the national flag be dis¬
played at half mast upon public build¬
ings of the United States on the day of
Hannibal Hamlin’s funeral.
On the morning of the Fourth at Chi¬
cago, a Northwest railroad freight train
ran into a street car at Dearborn street.
Of the six wounded, two are dead and
one is dying. The accident was caused
by the absence of the flagman.
A cablegram While from Berne, Switzerland,
says: a party of soldiers were
practicing bridge the construction river, of a pontoon Solenre
across Aar near
Sunday, the structure upon which they
were at work capsized and eighteen of
the party drowned.
A London cablegram of Sunday says:
Mr. Spurgeon has experienced a sudden
increase of kidney congestion, accompa¬
nied by nausea, drowsiness and prostra¬
tion. Mr: Spurgeon’s physicians say
the patient is in a most dangerous required. condi¬
tion, and that the utmost care is
All the preparations for the execution
of the four murderers who are under
sentence of death at Sing Sing were com¬ inti¬
pleted Saturday, and although no
mation was given by Warden Brown of
the time when the execution would take
place, would it is the general’ executed opinion Monday that the
men be morn¬
ing.
A London cablegram says: Mr. Wil¬
liam Henry Gladstone, eldest son of
Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone,
the great English statesman, died Satur¬
day morning. The deceased was born at
Hawarden, Flintshire, in 1840; educated
at Christ Church, Oxford; entered parlia¬ from
ment in 1865, representing subsequently Chester
1868 to 1880, and repre¬
sented Worcestershire.
The monument erected as a testimonial
from the letter carriers of the country to
the late Congressman Samuel S. Cox,
who was a great friend of the postoffice
employes, and who rendered them great
service during unveiled his political New York, career, Satur¬ was
formally at The
day, with appropriate ceremonies.
statute is of bronze, and stands in the
Astor place. It represents subscriptions
from every state in the union.
Frederick Douglass, United States
minister to Hayti. arrived in New York
city Friday morning on the royal Dutch
mail ship Prinz William III, and his re¬
turn to this country is said to be a prac¬
tical recall, although disguised by will a
leave of absence. lie says that he
not return. The party consisted of
Douglass, his wife and secretary
of the legation, Bassett. This comprises
the entire United States legation at
Hayti.
The crisis in Canadian affairs which
followed on Sir John Macdonald’s death
has now reached an end through the ap¬
pointment of Senator John Joseph Cald¬
well Abbott as his successor. The new
premier was born 70 years ago at St. An¬
drews, Quebec. Having been one of Sir
John Macdonald’s most trusted advisers,
his appointment to the premiership gives
great satisfaction to the western provinces. provin¬
ces, Ontario and the maritime
For the present at least he will follow the
footprints of his predecessor.
Returning Home.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
Many Jews are are arriving in Palestine:
from two to three hundred families week¬
ly. They are entirely destitute, and the
distress among them is terrible. Bread
is very dear. Typhus and and scarletina pesti¬ are
raging in Jerusalem a general
lence is feared.
The mede of costuming in India obviate*
the necessity that tailors supply.
THE GREAT REUNION
To be Held at the World’s
in 1893.
A Word’s Chicago Fair dispatch of Sunday says:
The m magers and the G. A.
R. men of Chicago, and the best business
men of the city, heartily approve of the
scheme fora grand reunion of the blue
and gray at the World’s Fair in ’08, and
will assist in the matter. A committee,
consisting of the leading ex-soldiers of
the G. A. R, were selected to have
charge of the work at Chicago, and a
like committee will assist them, com¬
posed of the ex-Confederate soldiers liv¬
ing in Chicago. They are all well-known
business men. The reunion is now an
assured success, and the old veterans of the
North and South, who faced each other
on so many battlefields, will meet in
peaceful and reunion, to talk over their old
battles attend the world’s fair to¬
gether. On May 80, 1893, there will be
and a grand the blue union memorial service held,
and gray will decorate with
flowers the graves of the 6,000 confeder¬
ate soldiers buried at Oakwood cemetery,
Chicago, and the graves of the union
soldiers buried there. There will be a
national committee who will assist the
committee at Chicago in this reunion.
Tents will be furnished by the govern¬
ment to camp in, and the old boys
who wore the blue and the gray can
go into camp by states, and have
one they pitch good time together before
their tents beyond the silent
river. There are hundreds all over the
land who wore the blue and gray, the
best men both north and south, who are
offeriog their reunion services to make this the
greatest ever held -on American
soil. A mass meeting of the survivors
will be held during the encampment of
the Grand-Army of the Republic at De¬
troit, Mich , to boom this reunion. All
true soldiers who wore the blue or the
gray are invited to this meeting and to
the grand reunion at Chicago in 1893.
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE
Visits Baton Rouge—Ten Con¬
victs Killed Outright.
A terrible cyclone struck Baton Rouge,
Louisiana’s capital, a little after 6 o’clock
Monday morning, passing from southeast
to northwest. It'entered the city at Garig
brickyard, passed up through Catfish
town, and struck a hill just to the east of
John Johnson’s residence. Its path con¬
tinued in a northeasterly direction, cross¬
ing North Boulevard a hundred yards to
the east of the governor’s mansion. It
then went north, striking the penitentiary
building and J. A. Dougherty’s residence
on North street, and thence beyond the
city. The cyclone was 300 yards wide,
and ricochetted along its course like a
cannon ball, devastating as it went. In
the city no one was killed, though several
persons were Beriously injured.
CONVICTS KILLED.
The state penitentiary was partially
wrecked. Ten convicts are killed and
thirty-five dangerously. injured. Five of these are
dead: Whites—Isaac Following McClelland, is a list of the
of Cal
casin; J. A. Waggoner, of Claiborne;
Fred Gage, of Ouachita; James Van
Metter, of Natchitoches; John Gibson
and William Willow, of New Orleans.
Gibson was one of the Maly murderers.
Colored—Nathan Chancy, of Eart Felici¬
ana; Henry CaiestiD, of New Orleans;
Beauregard Harden, of Bossier; Edward
Buckner, of Caddo.
WEEKLY PRESS ASSOCIATION
Of Georgia to Meet in Atlanta
on July 13,1891.
All members of the Georgia Weekly
Press Association are requested to be in
Atlanta Monday, at 12 noon, July 13, as
carriages have been ordered to carry
them to all the principal parts of the city
in the afternoon of that day. The mem¬
bers, with their ladies, will be the guests
of The Atlanta Journal while in Atlanta,
and this f ,ct guarantees that they will be
royally taken care of. The excursion has
been arranged to go to Washington, D.
C., and New York city, and transpor
tation thereto has been procured by Hod.
Clark Howell, of the Atlanta Constitu
tion. Each paper is entitled to one
representative only, free. Half railroad
ce will have to be paid for ladies. Pub
lishers of new papers may become
bers of the association by applying to S.
W. Roberts, Sparta, Ga., or by being
present at the meeting in Atlanta on the
13th, in join which case they excursion. are cordially in¬
vited to the present Pub¬
lishers who propose to attend the con¬
vention and go on the excursion should
so notify one of the committee of arrange¬
ments at once so that accommodations
may be arranged for them.
F. II. RreUARDSON,
II. D. Wakefield,
Chas. D. Barker,
Committee arrangements, Atlanta, Ga.
State papers please copy.
ASSESSMENT UNFAVORABLE.
The Slick Scheme of a South
Carolina Bank.
A Charleston, S. C., telegram says:
The People’s National bank of this city
has d( termined to fight the comptroller
general’s assessment in a novel way. At
a meeting of atockholders held Saturday
it was decided to divide the surplus and
as a commencement have declared a divi¬
dend of 30 per cent.; 5 per cent, payable
Monday, July 6th, and 25 per cent, on
October 26th. This process will doubt¬
less be followed by the other banks whose
capital is assessed by the comptroller
general at what he calls the market value
of the stock.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of
Happenings Here and There.
The East Birmingham (Ala.)
line hn9 been sold under a foreclosure of
mortgage to James E. Webb and
C. Tompkins.
The body of Mrs. Julia Jackson Chris¬
tian, daughter of Stonewall Jackson, has
been placed in the crypt in the vault at
Lexington, Va., beside her distinguished
father.
As a result of the celebration of the
Fourth in San Francisco, the Centenary
M. E. church and four handsome resi¬
dences were totally burned. Loss,
•$ 100 , 000 .
Commemorative services were held in
the First Presbyterian church of Norfolk
D. Thursday night in honor of Rev. has George retired
after Armstrong, D. D., who
a pastorate of forty years.
A Charleston, S. C., dispatch says: J.
D. Shaw, editor of The Bishopville Eagle,
was killed Saturday at a picnic near that
place by two drunken rowdies whom he,
with others were trying to keep in order.
Sales of leaf tobacco on the Danville.
Va., market last month were 3,000,000
pounds; sales same month, last year,
1,300,000; sales for nine months,
32,616,836 pounds, an increase this year
over last of 11,281,644 pounds.
A cyclone is -reported as having
passed through Madison, Miss., Mon¬
day morning. Several buildings were
demolished and considerable damage was
done. No further information is obtain¬
able, ns the wires south are all down.
the General Jubal A. Early has accepted commit
invitation of the monument
tee as orator on the occasion of the un¬
veiling ington, of the Jackson monument at Lex¬ will
be Va., July 21st. His subject charac¬
the military achievements and
ter of General Jackson.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in Nashville,
Tenn., when was perpetrated at noon Friday,
$8,000 worth of diamonds were re¬
moved from a show case in E. Wigger’s
jewelry store, on Union street, without
the robber being seen. A pal of the rob¬
ber engaged Mr. Wigger’s attention while
the robbery was committed.
A telegram from Pigeon River, N. C.,
says: As Farmer J. A. Jones was driv¬
ing home from Clyde, a neighboring
village, his horse became frightened and
backed his buggy off the Tate cut, fall¬
ing about thirty feet to the Richmond
and Danville railroad track, instantly
killing both horse and driver, dnd break¬
ing the buggy to pieces.
The following dispatch was received
at Los Angeles, Cal., Saturday night
from G. W. Durbrow, superintendent
salt works at Salton: “An I ndian I sent
out from Volcano Springs has returned.
His statement settles the question of the
water coming from the New river coun¬
try. Water is coming into the sink at
Salton through Cavoresco creek.”
der A Jackson, Miss., telegram says: Un¬
the new constitution of Mississippi
voters months are required the to be election. registered Regis¬ four
before next
tration closed on the 3d instant. While
full returns from all the counties are not
in, it is certain that for the first time
since the negro became a voter that the
majority of legal voters of the state are
while.
Early Sunday morning a fire, originat¬
ing in a cottage on Hogan street, adjoin¬
ing Itjen’s grocery store, at Jacksonville,
Fla., destroyed nearly every building in
the block bounded by Hogan, Ashley,
Laura and Church streets, The fir#
spread rapidly from buildihgs the cottage the to south, a row
of low wooden on
and from there to Hartridge’s livery sta¬
bles, all of which were destroyed.
Galveston, Tex., was visited Sunday
h Y one of the most terrifficstorms known
1Q years. It is impossible to estimate
the damage to shipping and other prop
ert y along the coast, Waters from the
g u ^ are the streets, and many ware
houses and buildings in the flooded. neighbor
hood of the docks are The
telegraph wires are communication prostrated, practi¬
call y cutting off all with
outside points,
The stockholders of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company met at
Louisville, Ky., Monday, and ratified the
purchase of the Kentucky Central rail¬
road, the increase of stock of the Louis¬
ville and Nashville company to $55,000,
000, and the acceptance of the company’s
proportion of additional issue of Nash¬
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis stock.
The stock represented was 368,410
shares, and all were cast for the proposi¬
tions named.
An order was issued from headquarters
in Atlanta Thursday ColonefGeorge by General Gordon,
appointing Mooreman, of
New Orleans, La., adjutant of the
United Confederate Veterans, with head¬
quarters in New Orleans; Colonel J. F.
Shipp, of Chattanooga, Tenn., quarter¬
master general of the United Confederate
Veterans, with headquarters in Chatta
nooga. These officers are appointed general, and on
the staff of the commanding their
will immediately enter upon re¬
spective duties.
Denouncing Parnell.
The Irish Roman Catholic bishops, Thursday, at
the meeting held at Dublin, declaration that
re-affirmed their former
Parnell is unfit to be the leader of the
Irish people; that he was unworthy of
the confidence of the Roman Catholics,
and calling upon Irishmen to repudiate
him.
THROUGH THE TRESTLE.
Fearful Plunge of Passenger
Cars—The Dead and Dying.
A Charleston, W. Va , dispatch says:
The worst wreck ever kuown in this part
of the state, if not the worst that ever oc¬
curred in the state, occurred at about 8
o’clock Saturday morning railway, on eight the Kana¬ miles
wha and Michigan The train
west of Charleston. passenger
for Columbus pulled out with two car¬
loads of excursionists, among them the
Order of United American Mechanics,
who were going to Pocas. The wreck
occurred on a high trestle. The sleepers
had caught fire during the night and
burned so that the rails spread under the
train. The engine-and baggage and mail
car passed over safely, but two coaches
were thrown from the track. After run¬
ning some forty feet on the sleepers, the
forward car toppled to the left, the rear
one to the right, and the forward car
turned completely over, landing right
side up. The other fell some twenty
feet, turning upside down, it, and crushing one the set
of trucks fell on top of
car to splinters. Under this place m<st
of the dead were found. The scenes
among the dead and dying were W. heart¬ E.
rending. The dead are: Colonel
Fife, Buffalo, W. Va.; T. N. Wilson,
travels for a Columbus house, Galliepolis, W.
O.; Charles Huffman, Blue creek,
Va.; L. C. Rose, Blue creek, W. Va.,
Jasper Daugherty, New Martinsville,
W. Va.; Walter Welcher, Charleston;
Mrs. Walter Welcher, Charleston; Elia
O’Leary, Charleston; Amos Coulter, Red
House, W. Va.; Orville Hobinson, Mid¬
way, W. Va.; Thomas Thornton, K. &
M. conductor, Middleport, O.; Polly
Sullivan, Mason city, worked in Charles¬
ton; James White, Middleton, O. Those
fatally injured are: W. E. Reed, E>k
City. James Blackwood, Athens, 0.,
crushed about the head; has never re¬
covered consciousness. Mr9. R. S. Trus
low, Charleston, skull fractured and con¬
cussion of the brain. Will Ford, Elk
City, head and chest crushed. Many
others were more or less seriously injured,
some of whom will probably die.
BARDSLEY SENTENCED.
Fifteen Years in Prison and a
Heavy Fine.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Ex-City
Treasurer John Bardsley was sentenced
Thursday morning by Judge Wilson fn to
fifteen years solitary confinement the
Eastern penitentiary, the and to pay a fine
equaling sutp to which he plead
guilty. Alexander, counsel for Bardsley,
reviewed statements made by his client
and appealed to the court for mercy, on
the and ground his of services Bardsley’s plea of guilty
past to the city. Alex¬
ander said that Bardsley did not get a
dollar of the money he put in the Key¬
stone bank, and that within six months
it would be shown who did. Mr. Alex¬
ander vehemently declared that his client
bad not stolen a dollar, but that he only
plead loaning, guilty speculating to the with statutory and offense of
interest public funds. With receiving
on the ex¬
ception of, his brother-in-law, not one of
the hundreds of frieuds that Bardsley
had a year ago were present when he
arose to receive the sentence of the court.
District Attorney Graham places the
deficit at $553,815.38, which is
$88,000 more than Bardsley ad
mitted in his own statement. This
amount will be reduced by payments to
be made by his surities so the amount of
the fine will not be determined until after
the examination of the accounts shall be
finished. He will be taken to Eastern
and penitentiary; be given will striped be shaved suit, of his beard
a and there¬
after be known by number. Judge Wil¬
son was seen after passing the sentence
upon Bardsley relative to the amount of
the fine, and said that it would be about
two hundred and thirty-seven thousand,
five hundred and thirty dollars.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN DIES
While Enjoying- a Game at a
Club House.
Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
died at BaDgor. Me., Saturday night, at
8:15 o’clock. He was at the Tarritine
club rooms, playing “pedro,” when his
head fell forward on his chest.
His friends gathered around him knd
he was taken to a lounge and physicians
hurriedly called. No pulse was visible
for an hour, and it was thought they
could not bring him out. Finally he re¬
vived somewhat and managed to articu¬
late feebly. The dortors worked over
him faithfully and his family was sent
for. All was done for him in human power,
but failed, and he passed He away leaves peacefully widow
at 8:15 o’clock p. m. . a
and two sons—General Charles Hamlin,
a lawyer of EUswork, and Frank Ham¬
lin, now. living in Chicago. The city
mourns the death of its most distinguish¬
ed citizen
FOR CO-EDUCATION.
Significant Action of Alabama
Educational Association.
The Alabama Educational Association
finished a three days’ session at Birm¬
ingham Friday, and they decided to
meet annually in that city, and a move¬
ment is on foot to provide Three a permanent hundred
pavilion for their use.
and two members were present, and all
the colleges in Alabama were repre¬
sented. A resolution was offered de¬
claring that the doors of all the higher
institutions of learning, including the
state university, should be opened to It
females on equal terms with males.
passed with only three dissenting votes.
This is significant and remarkable, as
the question was never before sprung in
Alabama.
A Very Struuve Fact.
It is a very strange fact that a uroat do many
people, of Bound judgment otherwise, until it is not
stive their eyesight proper core too
T&t6. suited to Will
Glasses not this. your eyes
your sight, lie,member is known all
Mr. A. K. civilised Hawkes, whoso name optician and
over the world as an tenses,
manufacturer of Crystallized has
established a factory occulists’ at 19 Decatur prescriptions Street,
Atlanta, Ga., where
will be promptly filled and the trade supplied. stock
All druggists and merchants keep it a keep on
hand, as they have learned that pays to
the best.
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The time spent in mourning for the dead
might be used in making the living happy.
Foil impure or thin Blood, and Weakness, Biliousness, Ma¬
laria, Neuralgia, Iron Indigestion, Bitters—it gives strength,
take Brown’s young—and
making old persons feel young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
All men aro believe alike there in one particular: kick coming the
most humble is a to
him.__
The Tenrben' Itoiite to Toront®
Is via the Cincinnati, Hamilton of & Dayton fare
Railroad from Cincinnati. A rate one
for the round trip has been made by the Cin¬
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad and its
connections to Toronto and return on account
of the National Educational Association meet¬
ing to be held in that city July 14,16.16 and 17,
The C.. H. & D., the only line running direct
from Cincinnati the to Detroit, South is and the through North car
link between all night trains and chair
with sleeping dav trains; cars on it invites the patronage of
oars on and their friends who want to
all teachers go
to the meeting local comfortably and tickets expeditious¬ Cin¬
ly Ask your agent for via
cinnati and the C., H. & D. For rate and f uU
information address any agent of theiU, H. &
D or E. O. McCormick, Cincinnati, General O. Passenger
and Ticket Agent,
Dearness Can’t be Cured
diseased By local applications, portion the as they cannot reach the
of ear. There is only one
way tional to remedies. cure deafness, and that is by constitu¬
Deafness is caused by an in¬
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in¬
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper¬
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed,
deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬
mation can be taken out and this tube re¬
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in¬
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we
Send cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cur 1
for circulars, F.J. Cheney free. & Toledo,
Sold by druggist75 Co., O.
cents.
Played Out
How often this and similar expressions are heard
from tired, overworked women, and weary, anx¬
ious men, ’who do not know where to find relief
For that intense weariness so common and so dis¬
couraging we earnestly recommend Hood’s Sarsa¬
parilla. It is not a stimulant, but a true tonic
gradually building up all the weak organs in such a
way as to be of lasting benefit. A fair trial will coa*
vlnce you of its merits.
N. B. Be sure to get
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for *5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
iOO Doses One Dollar
u August Flower
Mr. Lorenzo F. Sleeper Is very
well known to tlie citizens of Apple
ton, Me., and neighborhood. taken He
says: “ Eight suffered years ago I was but
“ sick, and as no one a
“ dyspeptic can. I then began tak
“ ing August Flower. At that time
“I was a great sufferer. Every
“ thing I ate distressed me so that I
“had to throw it up. Then in a
‘ ‘ few moments that horrid distress
“ would come on and I would have
“ to eat and suffer
For that “again. of I took tned- a
‘ ‘ little your
Horrid ‘' icine, and felt much
Stomach “better, and after
“ taking a little more
Feeling. ‘ 1 August Flower my
“Dyspepsia disap¬
peared, and since that time I
“ have never had the first sign of it.
“lean eat anything without the
“least fear of distress. I wish all
' “that are afflicted with that terrible
“disease or the troubles caused by
“it would try August Flower, as I
“ am satisfied there is no medicin
“equal to it. > * %
DONALD
Of Roxbury, Mass., says
a
Kennedy’s Medical Discovery
cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep
Seated Ulcers of 40 y ears?
standing, Inward Tumors, and
every Disease of the Skin, ex¬
cept Thunder Humor, and
Cancer that has taken root.
Price, $1.50. Sold by every
Druggist in the United States
and Cana da.
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