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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. ___ 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. 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