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THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLING3 Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Dispatches of Friday state that prairie South fires arc doing great damage in Dakota. Seventeen miners were killed in an ascending cage at Anaconda mine, Mon¬ tana, Wednesday. Ex-Governor T. Gregory Smith, railroad, presi¬ dent of the Vermont Central died at St. Albans, Vt., Fright night. Between two and three thousand hands employed in the moquette carpet mills, Yonkers, N. Y., were thrown out of em¬ ployment Saturday by the shutting down of the mills for two weeks. Thomas Fortune, colored, has received a verdict for $825 in a suit against a New York saloon keeper, who ejected him from the house and assaulted him. A number of zemstones, or provincial assemblies, in Russia proposes to close all drink shops in famine district in order to prevent the peasants from spending the relief money for drink. Miners in West Newton, Pa., mines went out on a strike Friday for the rein¬ statement of three leaders in the late strike. The company refuses to take the leaders back. Three hundred men are out. A dispatch of Wednesday from Rio de Janerio attributes the crisis there to the action of the Brazilian congress in pass¬ ing a bill depriving the president of the right to vote. All telegrams are subject to strict censorspih. The treasury department, at the re quest of Secretary Blaine, directed the New Orleans customs colli etor to extend the usual courtesies to Mrs. Montf, wife of the Chilean minister, wbo arrived there Thursday morning. Advices of Friday from Boston, Mass., says that a run is being made on the D’Falippos Italian bank, on deposited North btreet. in The bank had some money the Maverick bank, but is perfectly sol¬ vent. The depositors are all Italians. A Washington dispatch of Thursday says: Mr. Mason, the commissioner of internal revenue, is going to Louisiana and Texas for the purpose of making a personal inspection of the operation of the sugar bounty clause of the tariff act. Eight hundred and fifty boxes of choice cigars were seized at the New York cus¬ tom house Thursday. The cigars were on board the City of Alexandria, a steamer which arrived from Havana. The owner of the cigars was not named. A cablegram of Thmsday from Dublin says: All the employes of the late Charles J Stewart Parnell on his Avondale estate have been dismissed, and the sawmills tand Arklow quarries, which also belonged to Parnell, are to be sold. Only the family mansion is to be retained. A cable dispatch from Rome, Italy, says: It was. announced Saturday that the pope is suffering from cerebral condition anae¬ mia, due to old age. His causes grave apprehension. He recently remarked to the archbishop of Rheims that he thought the end was near. A New York telegram of Friday drinking says: Not for years has the supply of water for the city been so low, nor has the danger af a genuine water famine been greater than at present. Commis¬ sioner Gilroy says that if there is no heavy rainfall soon the water would only last fifteen or twenty days more. A San Francisco dispatch of Wednesday says: The following Chinese advices have been received by the steamer City of,Rio Janeiro: Particulars of a serious ridt in the province of Fukien have reached Hong Kong. The scene of the trouble is Tehhua, which was attacked and captured by 3,000 insurgents. As a result of the democratic victory in Iosya the hope that the prohibition law will be in soon Sioux repealed, City the Union stock it yarffs the construction announces that of will soon begin asserted a large brewery there. It is also that two breweries, which have been idle for several years, will be started up. A Paris cablegram of Thursday says: It is reported that the Russian ministry the of finance has made overtures to Bank of France for the purchase of silver bullion to the amount of 100,000,000 roubles. This is wanted by the Russian finance ministry for coinage into roubles for state redemtion of Polish treasury obligations. A dispatch hundred from Brooklyn, working N. Y., says: One men were Satur¬ day night at the navy yard on the Chi¬ cago, Miantonomah and Atlanta, and passes were issued for as many more for Sunday. This is said to be the first time since tthc late war that workmen have been Brool'lin jemploved yard on war Sunday. vessels in the navy on A dispatch Isays: of Friday from Columbus, iDd., There is no more prospect of rain than there was two months ago, and everybody views the situation with alarm. Wells, streams and sections, ponds and are completely jthe fifties dry in nothing entire like has since |nown. this been In many inland towns, like Charleston, dispatch water is being sold. A of Friday says: The strike that has been in progress at the tinplate department of tbe St. Louis (Niedring house) 1 Stamping Co.’s mill has been efficiently declared off by Ivory Lodge Amalgamated Association of iron and steel workers, and all men, including im¬ ported 4nd skilled laborers, have returned ito worg. themselves Messrs. Niidrioghouse ex¬ press satisfied with the settle¬ ment. ) Two buildings in (ho business center of the city of Akron, O., collapsed Sat¬ urday afterm on. One building was oc About a dozen people on the streets were more or less severely hurt. Whoever is buried in the wreck is beyond human help. Twenty people were in the store at the time of the collapse. Loss $ 75 , 000 . A dispatch of Friday from Leudville, occurred Cal., says: A terrific explosion at the heading to the Rusk Ivanhoe tun¬ nel Thursday night where nine men were at work. Bob Wilkinson was torn into atoms. Gus Johnson died in one hour, and Jack Scott nad both eves torn out. Ihrec others had their legs broken and were internally injured, while three oth¬ ers were badly bruised, but not seriously. The explosion was caused by one of the men striking giant powder in one of the shafts with bis drill. A Washington dispatch of Thursday says: The secretary of the treasury has ask¬ ed the solicitor for an opinion as to whether the government has a good case against the Memphis and Little Rock railroad for duties on a large amount of railroad iron imported at New Orleans piior to ti e or¬ ganization of the so-calltd confederate stages, and which was released hr the lat¬ ter Authorities to the railroad company without the payment of duties to the United States or to the confederate state authorities. The firm of Thomas Dana & Co., wholesale grocers at Boston, Mass., dis¬ solved Thursday owing to the Maverick bank complication. continue The younger the business, mem¬ bers hope to capital. It is said backed by outside that of $400,000 borrowings of Dana & Co. from the Maverick bank, Dana re¬ ceived i nly $100,000. The rest was re¬ ceived 1 y the company, which will pay in full. Examiner Ewer reports that there is now $2,500,000 in cash in the Maverick bank vaults, and collections are still coming in. Much of the paper in assets will prove available and mar¬ ketable. A Washington dispatch of Wednesday says: Notices of intention to contest the right to the seats of six members-elect to the house of representatives in the fifty-second congress, have been filed the clerk of the house. They are as fol¬ lows: Noyes, republican, will contest Rockwell’s seat from the twenty-eighth New York; Miller, republican, Carolina, contests Elliott from the seventh South and McDuffie, republican, contests Tur¬ pin’s from the fourth Alabama district. Three other cases are from Pennsylvania, where three democrats contest republican seats. A dispatch from Five-cent Boston, Savings Mass,, bank, says: The run of the which began on Wednesday, is more ap¬ parent outside than inside the bank. About fifty people are only admitted to the bank at one time. Outside of the bank there is a crowd of people, mostly foreigners, who are waiting to get into the bank, or are selling their the accounts dollar. to speculators at 95 cents and on decided The bank’s trustees met to take no action on the sixty day clause, and they will pay depositors who desire their money as fast as possible. gold The bank has drawn $50,000 in small notes from the United States treasurer, and is paying its depositors practically in gold. PREFERED DEATH TO DISGRACE Two Busted Bankers of Berlin Blow Out Their Brains. An Associated Press dispatch Berlin, Germany, to the At¬ lanta Constitution, from states that a sensation was caused in fi¬ nancial and social circles in that city Sat - urday by the collapse of the bankin'- in stution of Friedlander & Summerfield. The usual scenes of excitement among depositors anxious to secure their money, occurred around the offices of the firm, and the effect upon the creditors may be imagined when announced that the had¬ ing partner of the concern, together with his son, had committed suicide. The failure is associated with the recent sus¬ pension of Bankers Hirshfield & Wolff. As the facts in tbe case de¬ veloped, it appeared that the father and son met in their office in the bank at an early hour in the morning and discussed the crisis in their affairs. Af¬ ter talking over the matter, prtfand con, they concluded that, as they would were hope¬ lessly embarrassed, they die. It is understood that this resolution to take their own lives was due, in a great meas¬ ure. to the fact that their arrest on a criminal charge was impending. death Hav¬ ing arrived at the decision that was prefferable to arrest and disgrace, both father and son shot themselves in the head, using revolvers. The firm has been in existence for a long time, and held a good position in the fi¬ nancial world. It had a solid reputation as a steady-going house. Its customers, who belonged chiefly to the middle class, were scattered throughout the empire. The police took charge of the firm’s office, and have placed seals upon the safes. THE WOODS BURNING. Alabama Farmers Suffer Heavy Losses in Fencing and Timber. A Montgomery dispatch of Monday says: Forest fires about a mile west ol Vernon have been burning is since Thurs¬ day morning, and its path, now about a mile wide. Several fanners have suf¬ fered already great loss in the way of fencing and timber lands, and there is jauch danger to residences and barns. The flames have been fanned by a strong wind and have been beyond control. Another forest fire is reported in Coosa county, spreading toward and barns the river, its the fire burning houses on way, There has been no rain in several months. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming: an Epitome of Daily Happening's Here and There. The large dry goods firm of Weiss Bros at Galveston, Texas, made an as¬ signment Fiiday, The assets are about five hundred thousmds dollars; liabili¬ ties, $450,000. Snows are reported along the Alle¬ gheny mountains, from Pennsylvania to Virginia. The earliest snows in years fell Thursday at Charlottesville, Va., and four inches at Winchester. A Florence, Ala., dispatch says: The bank of Florence failed Friday morning to open its doors. The officers refuse to make a statement, and the assets and lia¬ bilities cannot be ascertained. A Charleston, S. C. dispatch says: T. J. Reynolds, colored ex-state senator from Beaufort county, was convicted of defrauding pensioners. There are sever¬ al other cases of similar character pend¬ ing against him. The round-house of the Cincinnati Southern Railway at Lexington, Ky., caught fire Saturday morning and was entirely consumed. It contained five lo¬ comotives, will three of which were ruined. It be rebuilt of brick. Loss, $25, 000 . On Thursday night incendiaries burn¬ ed a three-thousand-dollar wooden bridge across the Richland creek in Giles county, Tenn. The bridge be¬ longed to the county, but a turnpike company had recently been granted the right of way over it, and the people objected to paying tolls. San Francisco wants the next national conventions, and on Thursday Mr. H. DeYoung was authorized to offer any inducements, even to the extent of de¬ fraying all necessary expenses, that would bring tbe republican convention to that city. The same offer will be made to the democrats later. Cochrane, Fulton & Co., distillers and wholesale liquor dealers at Louisville, Ky., made an assignment Friday to the Louisville Trust Company. Liabilities and assets cannot be learned within any satisfactory approximation, but are sup¬ posed to be about equal, and to reach nearly half a million. The commercial rating of the company is $500,000. A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch says: The jury in the case of the Motz boys for the murder of their cousin, Sam Motz, re¬ turned a verdict of acquittal, Friday afternoon. This trial, whioh has been progressing at Shelby for the past week, has not been excelled in interest by any previous one from the fact of the promi¬ nence of the parties interested. Near Lumberton, N. C., Thursday, Edward Pittman, a well-to-do negro, was on his farm with his wife, picking cotton, having left locked in his house three children, the oldest aged seven years. The house caught on fire and burned like tipd-'-. 'Ci^e only remains of the children/ ” the skull and 1 four bona/ a/ ..aest one. O’Kelly/ Mich ... eily, better known as The, Charleston, a well-known S. C., Thursday. politician, He died is said! atj to have been the only politician public in Charleston who never wanted a office. He was an all-around politician, owing allegiance to no party and used to write political squibs for the papers cracking a head wherever he saw one. A fire, Friday morning, destroyed most of the buildings and material of the Berkley Phosphate Company, at Ashley Junction, 8. C., seven miles from Char-; leston. The insurance on the plant is $150,000, of which amount $92,000 is on the acid chamber, which is saved, thus leaving $58,000 on the burned property. The actual loss is estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000. A Nashville dispatch sb J’s: The miners in in the Coal creek district are still a ferment. Their releasing the convicts and does not seem to have satisfied them, unless other demands made by them are conceded by the operators, a employed big strike may occur. Friday the men in the Thistle mine, which is operated by the East Tennessee Mining company, de¬ manded a check weighman to be put on Saturday morning. The company had no opportunity to act, and the men walked out at once. A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch of Friday says: Mrs. Alice Miller, the young wife of a railroader, is under arrest for forging four notes of $500 each, aud obtaining the money on the same. One of the notes bore the forged signa¬ ture of George W". Ochs, manager of the Tradesman, on which paper Mrs. Miller had been employed previous to her mar¬ riage. She was sent to jail in default of $1,000 bond. The woman is thought to be mentally unsound, as no reason can be assigned for her a ctfopfl . THE VOTE OF OHIO. McKinley’s Plurality is Semi-Offlciallj Announced as 21,583. A Cincinnati dispatch of Saturday says: The official returns of the election in Ohio have not yet been received from all the counties of the state, but the of¬ ficial and semi official vote as sent to the secretary of state at Columbus, gives McKinley a majority over Campbell of 21,583. The official figures will not vary 209 from this. The republicans have 52 majority on joint ballot in the legislature, giving the democrats two doubtful dis¬ tricts. There is no reason to doubt that Sherman will be returned to the United States senate, fight. although Foraker will make a hard THE GREA ^ 1 SOUTH AMERICAN S.' . ■ EMI TONIC AND Stomach^Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Meuical Discovery ot the Last One Hundred Years. It Is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar. It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest\Mllk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently Keen introduced Into this country by the Great South American Medicine Com pany, and yet its great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬ itants of South America, who rely almost by which wholly they upon overtaken. its &reat medicinal powers to cure every form of disease are This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. 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