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There are altogether about 17,00®
Arabs h» this country, and not ten per
eent. of them have a settled home or any
other means of support than peddling.
It is said that the British Government
has refused to allow the Pacific squadron
to interfere in the Behring Sea difficulty.
Canada, it says, must settle the difficulty
herself. The evident intention of the
home Government is to throw the coloDy
on its own resources.
The Manufactures' Jtveord believes that
the whole country is “entering upon a
great speculative period of advancing
prices, when we will probably see the
most active times ever known iu the
financial and speculative history of the
country. The South will take a very
prominent part in these matters.”
The latest European estimate of the
wheat crop from Vienna is that the
world’s supply is 180,000,000 bushels
short, and that the European crop this
year is 222,000,000 bushels below the
average. If these figures are correct
there ought almost certainly to be a mar
ket for the whole of our great surplus.
Canon Farrar's visit to this country a
few years ago apparently impressed him
pleasantly, since he has sent his sou here
to complete his education. The youug
man, who is said not to resemble the
typical Englishman in appearance, will
take a scientific course at Lehigh Univer
sity, and will afterward take his degree
of civil engineer at the Rensselaer Poly
technic Institute of Troy, New York.
Four Mandara natives are about to ap
pear at the German Court as Ambassadors
from their African Sultan, who are said
to be marvels of intelligence, anti with
a moral standard extraordinarily high.
Though they will dress in their own cos
tume, the etiquette of the German court
cannot be foregone, and so the regular
dress coat will be woru over the African
costume.
The people of the United States lose
millions of dollars yearly by the destruc
tion by fire of flimsily constructed build
ings. Moreover they pay out hundreds
of thousands of dollars in the support of
fire departments. Fire and Water states
also that the value of the fire apparatus
and the building devoted exclusively to
purposes of fire protection amounts to
the large sum of $38,644,755.
The editor of the Popular Science
Monthly, in considering the idea of co
operative management of all industries,
remarks: “Society is becoming every
d&y more closely knit in the bonds of a
common sympathy; the self-respect of the
average man is daily increasing and pub
lic opinion is becoming at once more
rational and more humane, What we
have chiefly’ to contend with to-day is
not the idleness or extravagance of a
few, but a general lack of knowledge as
to the best methods of social co-opera
tion.”
Mr. Edmund Yates writes to the New
York Trilune that French sentiment is
now nearly extinct iu Alsace. But in
Lorraine everything is different; the
people still detest the Germans in their
heart and do everything in their power
to disconcert them. “Metz is as French
a city as Orleans or Rouen, in spite of
the desperate efforts of the German
authorities to convert its inhabitants.
Everything is stagnant there, and there
are whole streets of empty houses, for all
the French who were able to leave have
gone, and the only Germans who settle
there are officials. The officers of the
■army cannot help themselves.
At a dinner not long ago, Wilkie Col
lins related instances proving how im
possible it was to introduce into a novel
descriptions of places and things wholly
imaginary. In one of his works he de
scribed a house which he had never seen
and which was entirely the offspring of
his imagination. A few days after the
publication a man called upon him to
protest upon the introduction of his house
into his novel. Strange to say the pages
of the novel contained a perfect descrip
tion of the man's property. At another
time he used as one of his characters a
man who was so exact about his eating
that he weighed every morsel that en
tered his stomach. Mr. Collins had in
reality never heard of such a man. He
was greatlv suprised one week after the
appearance of his book bv the visit of an
v .'
, . . , ,
lous in print by mentioning one of his pe
culiarities.
BLACKSHEAR, GA~ THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
COSI) ESS A TJOS OF CURIOUS,
ASH EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
TIKES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Italian government lias refused
to receive Mashan Effendi, whom the
porte wishes to appoiut as Turkish am
bassador to Laly.
The bodies of thirty-seven of the men
killed in the explosion in Bentelee col
liery, day, at Longtou, Euj'aud, ou Wednes
have been recovered.
Up to the recess Tuesday night 027
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
case in and at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
four temporarily passed.
The trial of Father McFadden, charged
with having participated in the murder
of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, in Feb
ruary last, began Thursday.
By t ie capsizing of the schooner
Laura in East River, New- York, on
Tuesday, William Janies Hughes and
Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Captain Eugene McLean and James Law
ler nverely injured.
A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne
Gazette , says that the Austrian Lander
Bank, jointly with the German banks,
has loaned the Bulgarian government
25,000,000 frmes, of which 10,000,000 is
to be paid immediately and the remain
der in two installments.
There is a great rush of speculators
and boomers to Pierre, the new capital
of South Dakota. On Friday a large
number of speculators from Kansas City.
Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the
Pacific coast reached the embryo city to
invest and to help make things hum.
The finance committee of the World’s
Fair, at New York, on Thursday re
solved to take, without further delay,
the necessary steps to obtain subscrip
tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub
committee was appointed to prapare the,
necessary subscription books for that
purpose.
The threatened strike of the bakers be
came general at Newark, N. J., on
Wednesday. Five hundred men are now
out on strike, and a boycott has been or
dered against the boss bakers. Pickets
are keeping New Y T ork men from going
to work and persuading them to go
home.
The announcement that the steamers
had advanced their freight rates caused
considerable stir on the floor of the pro
duce ' exchange, at New York, on
Wednesday. Freight on grain has ad
vanced to 5 1 pence per bushel. This is
the highest figure reached for this sea
son’s crop.
United States government officers have
seized the distillery of Freiburg & Work
um, of Lynchburg, Ohio, upon the
charge of defrauding the United States
by equalizing shortages from shrinkage
in packages before the guager seized measures
the contents. The whisky amounts
to more than a million gallons.
A dispatch from Kansas City, says.
II. D. Gregg, for many years private
secretary of General Sheridan when the
general had his headquarters in Chicago,
III. , and for sometime department clerk
it Washington, and later a newspaper
nan at Omaha, Neb., was sentenced to
he penitentiary Tuesday for horse steal
Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, N. Y..
whose celebrated tabernacle was de
stroyed by fire, one week ago, announced
an Sunday that the trustees of his
church had purchased property 150x200
feet, ou the corner of Clinton and Greene
ivenues, for the erection of a new taber
lacle. The ground will be broken on the
28th inst.
The Pope, in an address to some
French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday,
advised the formation of an association
which shall be devoted to securing the
material welfare of the workmen by
procuring increased facilities for labor,
calculating principles of economy and
iefeuding the rights and legitimate
claims of workmen.
The senior class of Harvard college, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected a
colored mao, Clement Morgan, as class
urator. The election was hotly contested
out Morgan received a substantial major
tv, about 270 men voting. Last year as
i competitor for the Boylston prizes he
tarried his audience by storm and won
lie first prize.
r Tuesday made a sale r-rr* of their stocks ri 0 ol
nds and store to II B. Clafim & Co.,
Exports of specie from the port ol j
New York for week ending Saturday,
Oct. 19th, amounted to $437,855, ol ,
which $32,830 was in gold and $455,025
in silver. Of the total exports, $17,o0C
in gold and $454,650 in silver went tc
Europe and $15,830 in gold and $875 in
silver to South America. Imports of
specie for the week was $34,234, of which
$26,299 was in gold and $7,965 in silver.
^
ago they made a demand for an advance
ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to
a late hour Saturday night, none of the
j”" a decided
to nrike on j| ondav morning Th-re are
about 1,009 moulders in the city.
*fesE:4ES „ t. , . . . , -
Marrarette and Prince Bernhard of
Sax ._ax-Jieinengtn, Me menu ea husb-nd nusoana of oi Princess i rinct.s
Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat- A
urday, for Venice, on their way to Ath$
ens, where Pi iucess Sophia is to be mar
ried on the 27th inst. to the crown prince
of Greece.
The cotliu containing the rental ns of
Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass.,
whose grave was disturbed last week,and,
whose skull was erroneously reported to
have been carried away, has been placed
in a securely bound bov, which has in
turn been deposited in cemented a grave composed together
of blocks of granite
and securely fastened with a granite cov
ering. The generally accepted theory is
that the vandalism was committed tc
create a sensation.
About three weeks ago Dr. E. T.
Schneider, of Pelee Island, was taken ill
with a disease which proved to be small
pox. Wednesday word came from Pelee
that there were nearly one hundred cases
of the disease on the island. The Can
adian government has established a
quarantine against the island The
state board of health at Columbus, Ohio,
has issued an or.ler closing all ports
along the shores of Lake Erie against
Pelee Island.
At one o’clock Thursday, the grand
jury of Chicago came into court and
handed up twelve indictment*, eleven of
which were for every day crimes. The
twelfth was a joint bill against Mark Sal
omen,John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh,
Fred Smith, Jeremiah O’Donnell, Alex
ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. All
of these men were already under indict
ment for conspiracy to bride the jurymen
in the Cronin case.
A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur
lington and Missouri road,at Gibson,a few
miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Wednes
day. About tifty passengers were in
jured. Two engines were completely combin
demolished, and a chair c; r ind
ation car were th own from the tracks
und reduced to atoms. The combination
coach and chair car were both crowded
with ] a c sc lgers, all of whom were more
or less injured. Many of the passengers
were badly burned in addition to their
other injuries.
THE AMOUNT NEEDED
TO IMPROVE THE RIVERS AND HARBOR*
OF THE SOUTH.
General Casey, chief of engineers at
Washington, D. €., in hia annual esti
mates submitted to the secretary of war,
makes the following recommendations
for appropriations for continuing work
on the principal improvements under his
charge during tho year ending Juno 80,
1891. Potomac river flats, Washington,
D. C., $1,000,000; James river, below
Richmond, $400,000; Great Kanawha
liver, $500,000; Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Georgia
and Alabama, $225,000; St. Johns river,
below Jacksonville, $300,000; Black
Warrior river, Alabama, $300,000; Cum
berland river,above and below Nashvibe,
$500,000; Tennessee liver, above and
below Chattanooga, $1,030,000; Missis
sippi river, Minneapolis to Des Moines
rapids, $1,000,000; Mississippi $300,- river
from Des Moines to Illinois river,
000; Mississippi river, from Illinois tc
Ohio river,$000,000; Norfolk harbor and
approaches, $109,000; Charleston, 8. C.,
harbor, $750,000; Winyaw bay, 8. C.,
$300,000; Cumberland sound, Georgia
and Florida, $500,000; Savannah harbor,
$590,000; entrance to Key West harbor,
$100,000; Mobile harbor, $500,000. The
total amount recommended by General
Casey for river und harbor improvements appropriated
is $30,186.300.Total amount bill for the
by the river and harbor year
ending June 30, 1890, was $22,397,617.
The Mississippi river commission rec
ommends appropriations for the fiscal
year 1890-91 as lollows: Continuing
surveys, $150,000; from mouth to the
Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at
Hickman, Ky., Greenville, Vicksburg,
and Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans,
La., $1,080,250; rectification of Red and
Atcbafalya rivers, $50,000. Total, $5.-
586,250. The Missouri river commission
ask the following appropriations: Sala
ries, surveys, etc., $150,000; general im
provements, $1,000,000; Platlsmouth, special work Ne- at
Sioux City, Omaha, Atchison, M:a
braska City, St. Joseph, $1,375,000; rivei
mi and Ariow Rock, $60,000.
above and below Sioux City,
Total, $2,760,000.
A HARD WINTER,
PREDICTIONS OF A LONG AND HARD
WINTER BY A VETERAN.
- ter the Pacific coast h ,s ever expe
u
riented Hesaid: -j have just come
_
^at have never been known to heve
snow on them even in the dead of win
ler _ are already covered with a white
mantle, and have been for several weeks,
There i'a one, to me, significant fact, and
that is that the fail geese flight is almost
over now, and not in one year for the
last fifty has this flight begun until
October 15.”
ROASTED ALIVE.
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A yocsc MANS er. other saturated
with gasoline and set on i ire.
GrteSe, 777.. ,
Ala., *ays: Early Saturday
morning a quarrel between a negro and
a young white man named Roberta re
suited in the negro pouring gasoline over
i
ert ® wrapped m flamesland waa ut- J
erally roasted alive. One of the negroes
waJ arrested. The other escaped.
SOUTH EM NEWS.
ITEMS OF IS TERES T FROM VA
R1U VS PUIS TS IS THE S OUTU.
A COXDKXSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOIN1 ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Florida has received twenty awards
and four gold medals on its exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
Edward A. Perry,ex-governor of Flor
ida, died at Kcvrville, Texas, on Tues
day, from paralysis, after an illness of
about a week.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, one of Geor
gia’s wealthiest and most respected Athens, citi
zens, died at his residence m
Ga., on Sunday, st the age of seventy
one years.
At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the New Orleans board of
t ado, limited, held on Friday, the fol
lowing was unanimously adopted: the
‘•Resolved, That this board favors
city of.Chieago as the site for the World's
i fair of 18112.”
A special from Jink on, Tenn., says:
Two Deputy United Mates Marshals ar
rived here Saturday morning having in
custody Bill Mutton, the oldest moon
shiner in southern Kentucky. West
Tennessee officers have been searching
for him for the past twenty five years.
A dispatch, on Saturday, from Nash
ville, Tenn., says. Congressman Whitt
liorn, of the seventh Tennessee district
and at one time chairman of the commit
tee on naval affairs iu the house of rep
resentatives, is lying at the point of
deutli at his home iu Columbia.
Govcrnov Seay of Alubtuua, while iu
New York on Tuesday, placed through
Uhlfelder Bros., of Montgomery, the
new issue of $954,000 state bonds, bear
ing 4 per cent., at one and one-tenth
premium. The bonds were taken by the
New York Security and Trust company,
of which the late secretary of the treas
ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds
run thirty years.
The Birmingham Age-IIemld states that
agents of the Corona coal mines and the
Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton
have just closed a contract with an ex
port agent for 00,000 tons of coal, which
is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will
he shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence
it will be sent iu tugs and barges to
Cuba.
A horrible outrage, committed
upon a negro woman by another
lias just come to light at Charleston, named Re
S. C. A negro woman
becca Perkins, on her way from church
Saturday night, was horribly burned by
a rival with a can of vitriol, or concen
trated lye, which was thrown in her
face. The victim’s eyes were burned
out, and her face horribly scarred.
A fatal and disastrous tire occurred at
Dawson, Ga., on Friday, in which two
young sons of Judge J. il. Guerry, and
a colored boy were killed by falling walls.
A warehouse containing 175 bales of cot
ton and a whole block of business houses
with their contents were wholly de
stroyed. The estimated total loss is
about $40,000. The lire is believed to lie
tire work of un incendiary.
A dispatch from Birmingham on
Wednesday says: The Richmond Ter
minal, Georgia Central, East Tennessee,
Louisville and Nashville, Southern Pa
cific and other south and southwestern
railroads, and the Plant system of rail
roads and steamships, have united in a
movement to make Tampa, Fla., the
shipping point for all freight handled
on these lines.
At llallctt, N. C., on Sunday, a mad
Jog sprang upon the 11 year-old son
of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its teetli in
the child’s arm. His father and mother
ran to his aid and made dog desperate at
tempts to tear the away, but were
insuccessful. Not until the dog’s throat
was entirely severed would he relax his
hold upon the prostrate and fainting
hoy. The muscles of the arm were torn
to pieces.
The office of the Southern Express
company, at Mi 11 sport, Ala., a small town
ubout ninety miles west of Birmingham,
on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was
robbed Monday. The robbery was kept
secret by the officials of the com piny
until Thursday, when a man named
Abercrombie was arrested in Lamar
county, charged with the robbery. The
prisoner is believed to be a member of
the Rube Burrows band of outlaws and
train robbers.
Danville, Va.,on Tuesday,voted $150,
000 towards the western extension of the
Atlantic and Danville railroad, from
Danville to the coal fields of southwest
Virginia. The city has already voted a
like amount to the eastern end of the
;ir.e, Danville to Norfolk, and that end
of the road, two hundred miles long, will
soon be opened for business. Bristol,
Tenn., the probable western terminus of
the line, telegraphed greetings and as
sured Danville that Bristol will also sub
scribe $150,000 to the road.
FARMERS IN DISTRESS.
A THREATENED FAMINE IN NORTH DAKO
TA—APPEALS FOR AID.
A special dispatch from Sioux Fails,
South Dakota, saya: There is great dau
gi;r that the lamine among the farmers
of North Dakota last year will repeat it
^/m ALrlorcount^d.Vd^the in that ta* section that
a , number of farmers
sre in destitute circums-aoces. Owing
,i j omrth their crops were a total
toWM throughout the state are respond
in g liberally to the call for assistance.
UNDER BOYCOTT.
THE FARMERS .VI.FIANCES OF SOUTH CAR
OLINA ON THE WM-PATH
A dispatch The from Charleston, 8. C. *
snys: win waged by the Farmers
Alliance in this state i gainst the jute
bagging trust, is becoming serious, and
gradually involving side issues of a some
what serious business charneler. The
alliance is extending the boycott, not
only to the manufacturers and dealers of
jute bagging, but also to newspaper
towns and cities. The Greenville N'etcx,
one of the five daily newspapers pub
lished in this state, has been boycotted
by a local alliance, because the editor
wrote s lnething that didn’t please the
alliance nun. The city of Greenville,
the third largest city in the state, is suf
fering a stagnation of business, The
city of Spartanburg, the fourth boycotted largest
city in the state, has also been
by the Spartanburg County Alliance,
who, on Saturday, published the follow- the
ing official notice: “Whereas, wo,
members of the Fanners’ Alliance, rep
resenting 234 bale* of cotton, which was
properly graded by an experienced mem
ber of the alliance, long in the business,
and offered tor sale in the Spartanburg and
market on Friday and Saturday,
firmly believing from all wo can learn,
that there is a deliberate attempt among
the cotton buyers and cotton mills to
cripple our order, and to defeat our or
der and to defeat, our co-opcrativo plan
of grading and resolved; selling our own cottou, take
therefore be it That we
our cotton o,T this market, and sell it in
some other market, and recommend that
Inembeis of the alliance heretofore, as
far as possible, keep their cotton away
from Spartanburg market.” The city of
Charleston, the metropolis of the state,
has been boycotted by the Sumter Coun
ty Alliance, whose members are forbid
den to send any cotton to Charleston.
In muny sections the farmers are holding
back their cotton, and, as a consequence,
there are complaints of dull business.
The boycott dimensions. war promises to assume
large
HURLED TO DEATH.
A TERRIBLE ANI) FATAL ACCIDENT ON AN
INCLINE CABLE HOAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred nt
Cincinnati Tuesday on one of Mount
Auburn inclined planes which lies at the
head of Maih streot and reaches to the
height of between 250 and 250 leet in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, ouo on each truck.
They nro drawn by two Btecl wire cables
that are wound up on a drum at the top
of the hill by an engine located there,
and nine passengers had entered a car
at the foot of the plane, and a number
were on the other car at the top. The
passage of the useending car was nil
right until it had reached the top, when
the machinery refused to work und the
engineer could not stop it. The car was
drawn against the bumper, the cables
snapped in two and the car ran back
wards down the incline at lightning of
speed. The crush at tlio foot
the piano was frightful in the extreme.
Tho iron gate that formed the lower end
of the truck on which the car rested,
WHS thrown sixty feet dow n the street.
The top of tlie car was lying almost as
far in the gutter. '1 lie truck itself, and
floor and seats of the car formed a shape
less wreck, mingled with the bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers.
The list of dead, so far as known, is as
follows: Judge W. M. Dickson, Mrs.
Caleb Ives, Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Knciss, Joseph Hochstetter. The
wounded are: Charles McFadden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFadden, Mrs.
Hochstetter, and Mrs. Joseph McFadden,
cuts and internal injuries.
ALLIANCE DAY.
PRESIDENT LIVINGSTON’* ADDRESS TO
THE ALLIANCEMEN.
President L. F. Livingstone, of the
Georgia State Farmer*’ Alliance, hag is
sued the following address to alliance
men, dated at Atlanta, Ga., Thursday,
October 17, 1889. To Allisncemen of
Georgia: The managers of the Piedmont
exposition have very kindly fixed Thurs
day, the 24th of October, as “allianee
day” on the fair grounds. They have
and will incur a heavy expense in getting
Hon. Evan* Jones, president of the
Farmers’ and Laborers’ union of America,
from Texas, also Hon. L. S. Polk, secre
tary of the State Alliance of North
Carolina, a* speakers for the occasion.
There will be a double wedding, noted Gov.
Gordon officiating, assisted by two
divines, the parties to be dressed in cot
ton bagging, with many useful gifts
to the parties by the management and
citizens of Atlanta, as well as many from
all sections of the state and the union.
Let us all meet on that day at and around
the grand stand and do honor to our elo
quent speakers named above,and witness
not only the double “cotton wedding,”
hut the magnificent agricultural, mineral
and other worthy and interesting dis
plays on the grounds with hearty good
reuu ion, and thus have our renewed hopes and
out faith strengthened and for
the great contest that awaits us in the
future. Come one, come all.
L. Livingston,
['resident Georgia State Fair Association.
A STRANGE CASE,
A negro man went before the grand jury
of Irwin county, Ga., a few week* ago,
and swore that he had been offended by
another negro c irsing in his pretence.
term of the superior court, found guilty, dol
and sentenced to pay a fine of five
lars and coats.
NO. 3.
A NEW SECURITY.!
Pl(! IKON LISTED ON TIIK NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE.
A new security has recently been listed
on the New York Stock Exchange which
bids fair to be popular with all classes
of traders; from the reckless speculator
to the most conservative investor. The
stock ticker now records along with the
multitudinous railroad shares and trust
stocks, the word “warrants.” This new
character on the price current means a
certificate for so many tons of pig iron,
stacked in a storage yard somewhere in
the United States, and deliverable on de
mand to the owner of said warrant.
These warrants or certilicatos, are guar
anteed by a responsible trust company of
Now York. In other words, staid old
pig iron, which heretofore has been un
available as a speculative commodity,has and
at Inst wheeled into line, hereafter
will bn as easily handled by the traders
on change, ns a barrel of oil, a bushel of
grain, a bale of cotton, a block of bonds,
a share of stock. A company haa
been formed by strong capitalists to
further this end. The purpose of this
corporation is to take care of all the iron
that may be made in the United States
subject, to the running requirement of
the iron trade.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
AGAINST THK .WHY UU1UF.US IN 'I'llK CRO
NIN MURDER CASK.
The Chicago Journal, of Friday, says
that additional evidence has been se
cured against F. W. Smith, one of the
men under indictment for conspiracy to
bribe the jurors in the Croniu ease. The
story is'to the effect that two men vol
untarily sought an interview with State’s
Attorney Longenccker Thursday night,
and revealed to him the fact that Smith
had approached them with the sugges
tion they could make money by acting as
jurors in the Cronin case. They
replied that they had not even been
summoned as veniremen. To this they
said Smith replied that ho would so fix it
that they would be summoned; that if
they would so frame their answers as to
be accepted on the jury, and would thou
hold out for acquittal, they would be
paid $1,000 each. The men referred to
are Francis <& Wolf, drygoods merchants
of Englewood.
VANDERBILT’S PARK.
4,000 ACRES IN THE SUBURBS OF ASHE
VILLE, N, « ., BOUGHT FOR A DARK.
The purchase of 4,000 acres of land,
by G. W. Vanderbilt, the millionaire,
in the suburbs of Asheville, N. C., is a
matter of current notoriety, Mr. Van
dcrhilt is now at Asheville, and brought of
with him from New York city one
the best-known architects of Gotham,
mil a landscape gardener from Europe.
It is now certain that he well make
his largo boundary into u park, not
unlike Tuxedo park in New York. The
work of luying off these 4,000 acres com-i
mcncod Friday, making drives, artificial
lakes, fountains and other natural orna
ments suited to the location. This prop
arty will he made by far the most mag
nificent and attractive of its kind to be
found in the south. It will gradually
be made a aeolusive resort for northern
millionaires, each of whom will own his
cottage for summer use.
SIXTY MINERS KILLED.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE IN
ENGLAND.
A dispatch from London, Eng., saya:
An explosion occurred in Bentilee col
liery, in Langton, county of Stafford,
nt an early hour Wednesday pit morning.
Seventy miners were in the ut the
time of tho accident, only eleven of
whom are alive. The pit getting was completely tho
wrecked, and the tusk of out
buried miner* will be one of great diffi
culty. The men engaged in the search
for the victims have so far found fifty
bodies of dead miners. The bodies re
covered show that the victim* died of
gas poisoning. The latest advices from
the scene state that fire is raging, and
that another explosion is feared. The
rcc< rd of the men in the mines ha* been
lost; hence it is impossible to verify the
number.
PENITENTIARY MATERIAL.
A GANG OF BOY DESPERADOES DI8COV
EKED IN KANSAS CITY.
A large number of small incendiary
fires have occurred in Kansas City re
cently, and the police have just discov
ered that the incendiaries are a band of
school boys, ranging in age from eleven
to fifteen years. They were regularly
organized, and called themselves “Cap
lain Kid’s Pets.” The members were
bound by blood-curdling oaths to not
reveal the secret* of the order, and all
their plans were carried out according to
written orders signed in blood from the
irms of the young desperadoes. One of
their number has confessed that the
members of the band were responsible
for many fires. The leaders have been
arrested.
TOO PUBLIC-SPIRITED.
Emmet V. Rhoades, cashier of the
First National bank of St. Paris, Ohio,
pleaded guilty in the United States
court, to misappropriation of the bank’s
funds, on Thursday. Itewaa shown that
there waa no ultimate intention of de
frauding the bank, and the money was
used in a public-spirited effort to advance
the interests of his community. The
minimum sentence, fire years in the pen
itentiary waa made.
