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THE W BLACKSHEAR TIMES. .
VOL. VII.
“Trade and manufacturing combina
tions are still the order of the day, as
serts the Chicago Sun.
The French are practical in some
things, admits the Atlanta Constitution.
They have 30,000 schools in which ex
perienced teachers train boys in garden
ing.
An attempt was recently made to ban
ish American silver from Manitoba, which
proved unsuccessful because of the failure
of the bankers to provide their clients
with a sufficient quantity of Dominion
coin.
Out of 73,000 farms in Kansas, 45,000
are mortgaged to the extent of $146.
000,000; 21,000 others are rented by
farmers who were formerly owners of
their own farms. In all, there are 270,
000 farms in the State.
The Droves' Journal predicts that “in
ten years Pennsylvania will have an ex
tensive coal trade'with Europe.” It is
expected that shipments will begin in a
short time on account af the steady ad -
vance of coal prices in England.
It has been computed as an illustration
of the great cheapening of ocean freights
which has taken place in recent years
that half a sheet of note paper will de
velop sufficient power, when burned in
connection with the triple expansion en
gine, to carry a ton a mile in an Atlantic
steamer.
An agriculturist says that one reason
for the fact that children leave the farms
is that they are not inculcated in rural
tastes. “Agriculture is too often madt
a slaving business,” adds the Chicago
Herald , “instead of an elevating pursuit
where skill is highly esteemed and science
has its proper place.”
The Chilian Government will maki
liberal appropriations for their exhibit at
the Columbian Fair in Chicago in 1893,
with the avowed purpose of astonishing
us, announces the New York Commercial
Advertiser. They claim that they lead
nil of the other South American Repub
lics iu industrial euterprises, and are go
ing to prove it.
A revolution is taking place in the
drinking habits of the Japauese. The
rice brandy called “saki,” which has
long been their national beverage, is be
ing supplanted by beer brewed after the
German method. In Osaka the number
of beer saloons has increased from thir
teen to almost 600 in the last four years,
while the number of resorts where “saki ’
is sold has fallen off. Years ago the Japs
were wont to drink 130,000,000 gallons
of “saki” annually.
The demand of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Firemen,’ assembled in conven
tion at Hartford, Conn., that Congress
require railroad companies to adopt safety
brakes, is, in the opinion of the New
York Herald, reasonable and just. On
nearly all the railroads in the United
States the old fashioned hand brake and
coupling are still used. The danger of
these contrivances is proved by the fact
that thousands of employes are thereby
killed and injured every year. The sta
tistics are simply startling. They show
an appalling loss of life and limb.
Professor Mayo says the power of the
Mormons is broken in Salt Lake City,
Utah, and vicinity. They are now in the
minority and have hardly a hand in the
government of the city in which they
were once supreme, The entire munici
pal government and the schools have
passed into the hands of the Gentiles.
The social customs which distinguished
the Mormons are fast disappearing. There
is even a society of young Mormon wo
men who pledge themselves not to marry
ft polygamist, all of which, remarks the
Times-Democrat, is very encouraging.
The Commissioner of Patents at Wash
ington says that “the time is coming
when our homes wiil be made cool by
the very same furnaces which warm us
in winter. As a matter of fact there are
plans and specifications already in this
office which scientists have been engaged
upon for some time past and hive nearly
perfected, that make it possible for every
one who can afford to own a furnace to
make, if he chooses, bis house as cool as
an ice vault.” Unless the furnace eats
up ice in the summer as fast as it eats up
coal in the winter, this should be a rather
useful invention, comments the Chicago
Herald. Perhaps, however, the best in
ventions for beating and cooling lie in
the moral improvement of coal and ice
men.
BLACKSHEAR GA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1890.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
Before the reading of the journal, in
the house, on Tuesday, Mr. McClanimy,
of North Carolina, made the point of or
der ot no quorum present. A call of the
house was ordered, but 126 members re
sponded to their names. Mr. Brosius. of
Pennsylvania, demanded the regular or
der, and contended that the unfin
ished business was the Conger lard bill,
the vote upon the passage of which .was
inconclusive Saturday owing Baker, to the ab
sence of a quorum. Mr. of New
York, who was interested in the senate
bill on the speaker’s table, argued tnat
business on the speaker’s table must first
be disposed of. Mr. Blount contended
that in the special order there was a dis
tinct time given to each bill mentioned
therein, and the time designed for the
lard bill had expired. The day was con
sumed in contentions for persoual privi
leges and sharp coloquies, adjourned. and without
action, the house, at Tuesday, 5:45, substi
In the senate, on the
tute for the bankruptcy bill by Mr. Boar,
from the judiciary committee, was placed
on the calendar. The memorandum of
fered Monday by Mr. Aldrich, fixing a
time for the consideration of and voting
< n the tariff bill, was presented, that
the presiding officer stating
unanimous consent was asked for hav
ing it entered as an order of the senate.
The memorandum was as reed toby unan
imous consent. The conference report on
the sundry civil rend. appropriation long bill debate was
presented and After a
the conference report was agreed to. The
tariff bill was then taken up. Many
amendments were Pending presented, discussion, but were the
unsuccessful.
senate adjourned.
In the house, on Wednesday, made Mr. Mc- the
Clammv, of North Carolina,
point of no quorum present. Mr. Bro
sius moved that all further proceedings
under call be suspended led with. The Mason, op
ponents of the lard bill, by Mr.
ordered the yeas and nays in order to
consume time. The motion was agreed
to—yeas 146, nays 21. The read
ing of the journal consumed pre
cisely one hour, and then Mr. Dinglev, of
Maine, moved its approval, and on that
motion demanded ordered—the the previous clerk question, noting
which was a
quotum. Mr. Turner, of New York,
again set out on his task of consuming
time, taking ns his text the Cannon reso
lution of Wednesday. Be yielded to Mr.
McAdoo of New Jersey, who heaped de
nunciation and ridicule upon Mr. Can
non’s statesmanship and historical knowl
edge and his love for the farmer. Then
ensued the stormiest scene of the session.
Mr. Cannon rose to reply. [Here Mr.
Cannon used language unfit for publica
tion j. There was instantly great confu
sion and disorder in the hull. Mr. Mc
Adoo shouted out that Ire wanted the
words to go upon vulgarity. record us Mr. a specimen Curiith, of of
Mr. Cannon’s
Kentucky, suggested the propriety of
clearing the galleries of ladiec;
while .Mr. Enloe was clamoring order.
for recognition ou the question which of ensued,
During the pandemonium Wilson engaged in
Messrs. Beckwith and
a lively fisticuff on the floor. Mr. Can
non apologized for the remarks he had
made, but Mr. McAdoo rose to a question
of privilege, and said the gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. Cannon; had made what he
-ailed an explanation, but what
he (McAdoo) and those around
him considered as very unsatisfactory.
A motion to dispense with further pro
ceedings was lost. Yeas, 57; nays, 115
Mr. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution for the arrest of absentees,
directing the sergent-at-arms revoking to telegraph
for a\mat members, and all
leaves of abseiwie ; except those granted
on account of illness. The resolution
was agreed to, and the fiogse adjourned.
The tariff bill was resumed in the sen
ate, ou Wednesday. In the course of a
sit speech upon the general advocated subject of
the tariff bill, Mr. Davis plac
ing farmers’binding twine on the free
list, Mr. McPherson's substitute for the
wool schedule, and some amendments of
fered by Mr. Plumb to some of its para
graphs, went over without action, leav
ing the whole schedule open. The sugar
schedule was also schedule passed over taken informaly, but
and the tobacco up,
no changes were made in the house rate.
When schedule G (agricultural products
and provisions) was reached no amend
ments from the democratic side were
successful. The amendment of the finance
committee to reduce the duty on barley
from 30 to 25 cents per bushel was with
draw and the bouse rate stands. The
duty on barley malt from 45 to 40 cents
per bushel was disagreed to. This
brought the senate to the paragragh
about rice. Without entering on the
discussion of it, the senate proceeded to
executive business and at 6 o’clock ad
journed.
In the house, on Thursday, no objection
was made to reading the journal in the
usual abridged form. The speaker sta
ted that the [rending decision question of was the a chair vote
on sustaining the
ruling that the lard bill w:is unfinished
business. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
made the point of order that the day had
been assigned to the labor committee.
The hog had knocked cut the negro, now
he wanted to see whether it would knock
out the workingman. The speaker order, de
dined to ru e on the point of stat
in" that the very question decide which whether the
house was about to was
the lard bill was unfinished business. Not-
withstanding the protests of Mr. Turner,
of New York, and Mr. McClamuiy, of
North Carolina, the speaker directed the
clerk to proceed with the toll call. The
decision of the chair was sustained—yeas,
130; nays, 40. The lard bill was then
passed—yeas. 120; nays 81. the clerk
counting a quorum. The question of the
Cannon resolution was again brought for- be
ward and the wild scenes of the day
fore in the house found an echo. The
language, however, was not so objec
tionable, and words instead of
fists' were used. Messrs. Mason and
and Funston were the principal actors.
Finally, personal explanations and ques
tions of privilege being disposed of for
the present, the house proceeded resumed to bus
intss, and in the morning hour adjust
consideration of the bill for the
ment of claims of laborers under the
t igh-honr law. The bill went that over. Mon- Mr.
Lacy, of Iowa. j.nvc notice on
day lie would call up the contested elec
tion i use of ( lay ton against
Breckinridge. The house then, un
der special order* procecded
,o the consideration of the bill consti
tuting eight hours a day's work for all
.abort rs, workmen and mechanics em
p'oyul by or on behalf of the govern
ment. Mr. Cntchcon moved to strike
t nt the clause providing that no contrac
tor shall permit any laborer to work more
than eight hours. Agreed to. amendment On mo
tion of Mr. Mcl'omas an
was adopted, striking out the clause re
quiring contracts for furnishing material
to the government to be on the basis of
the eight-hour law. The bill was then
parsed. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, sub
mitted the conference report on the bill
for the relief of sufferers in Oklahoma,
rnd it was agreed to. The senate con
current resolution was agreed to, author
izing the hoard having the matter in
.-barge to select another site for the La
fayette statue to be erected in Washing
ton. The. house then adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, considera
tion of the tariff bill was resumed at par
agraph 24(1, page 50, relating to rice.
After some discussion, the paragraph
was finally amended by making the duty
on cleaned rice 2 cents per pound; on un
clcaned rice flour, lj cents; on paddy and f cents,
and on rice rice meal broken
rice which i cent had per been pound. passed Paragraph in its 135,
over regu
lar order, was taken up. It relates to
railway bars and the committee’s amend
ment, which reduces the rate from 0-10
to 5,-10 shotgun cent per paragraph, pound, which was agreed lmd to.
The also
been passed over, was taken up, and the
committee's amendment agreed to, after
being modified to make the duty $1.50,
instead of $2, on guns valued at not over
$0. The substitute of the finance com
mittee lemons for and paragraph limes, 280, as opposed to oranges, by
was
Messrs. Call and Pasco in the
interest of Florida orange growers, but
was agreed to. It reduces the duty
from $2.50 as fixed by the house, to
$1.50 per thousand. In paragraph 208,
relating to extracts of meat, the clause
that the dutiable weight shall include ex- of
tract and tins or jars, was, on motion
Air. Carlisle, struck out. When salt was
reached, Mr. McPherson moved to strike
out the whole paragraph, thus leaving
salt on the free list. The vote on this
was; Yeas, 13; nays, 22—no quorum.
The bill was laid aside—sixty paragraphs
between tenth and eleventh pages having
been disposed of for flip day. The house
lard bill was presented to the senate and
referred to the committee on agriculture.
The senate thou adjourned.
NOTES.
The house committee ou war claims,
Tuesday, reported favorably the bill au
thorizing the secretary of the treasury to
pay William and Mary college, of Vir
ginia, $64,000, to reimburse it for the de
struction of its buildings and property
during the war.
Representative Funston, of Kansas, on
Thuisdny, introduced in the house for
reference to the committee on rules, a re
solution getting apart Tuesday, the 2d of
September, immediately after the morn
ing hour, for the consideration of the
Butterworth option bill, and providing
for ordering the previous 3d. question ut 3
o’clock Wednesday, the
Conferees on the land grant forfeiture
biff have agreed upon u compromise. It
is the house biff, with some modifications,
providing for a general forfeiture of un
earned grants. As to the Mobile and
Girard railroad company of Alabama, it
is provided that it shall lie entitled to
land earned by the construction of its
line from Girard to Troy—eighty-four
miles.
A FREE FIGHT
INDULGED IN BY SOLDIERS, CITIZENS AND
POLICE.
Information from Sabinas, Mexico,
says that an affrav occurred there Mon
day morning. The military escort ac
companying the pay ear of the Mexican
International railways, all got on a
druDken spree at Sabinas leaving the pay
car unguarded. The soldiers became
noi-y aud their arrest was attempted by
the police, when a fight ensued, and a
citizen named Danancio Darrila was
killed by one of the soldiers. The sol
diers were all finally arrested and jailed.
FOREIGN SYMPATHY
EXPRESSED RY RESOLUTION FOR THU
AMERICAN KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
A London dispatch says: Five thou
*aod dock laborers held a meeting Hun
W. Mr. Burns, labor agitator, sympathy presiding h
They passed resolutions of wit
Jhe American Knights of Labor in their
on the New York Central railroad.
The resolutions also express a hope for
he success of the knights.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH,
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
riTHY ITEMS FROM AU POINTS IN T1IK
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WU.I. ENTER
TAIN THE HEADER— ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The Richmond, Va., paper mill was
destroyed $35,500; by fire Thursday night. Loss,
insurance unknown.
ficial The census office has completed Savannah, the of
Ga. count of the population of
It is 43,212, or 41 per cent increase
over 1880.
The census office, ou Thursday, com
pleted a postal card estimate of the pop
ulation of Georgia. The figures are 1,
900, t OO, an increase of about 350,000
over the census of 1880.
Spartanburg, S. C., is to have a grand
gala week the latter part of September, which
during the sale of city property, and 2t!th of
takes September. place on the 24th, 25th
News comes from Goldsboro, N. 0., of
the arrest there, on Wednesday, of Alexia
Thompson, a negro woman, charged with
poisoning Samuel Cohen's family of elev
en persons by deadly poison in the coffee.
She is in jail.
A petition for charter was filed by the
incorporators of the American Investment
Company, in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday.
The capital stock is to be $100,000, unless
an increase is desired, which is not to ex
ceed $500,000.
Labor Agent H. A, Williams was in
Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday, and gave notice
that he desires to secure 25,000 negroes
from North Corolina to work in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas. He will begin
their movement out of the state iu Octo
ber.
A letter from Hazard, Ky., where court
is in session under the protection of
troops, dated August 25th, says twenty
three men engaged in the French-Evcr
solc feud, have been indicted for murder
and as accessories, and many of them
have been arrested.
B. Wcllfnan, a wealthy Birmingham, and prominent
itebrew citizen of was run
over and killed by a train on the Kansas
City, Tuesday Memphis afternoon. and Birmingham He attempted railroad
to get
ou the caboose of a passing and freight tram,
fell under the wheels was crushed to
death.
A Charlotte, N. C.,dispatch, excitement of is Thurs
day, says: Much imuii
festeil over the recent suit that lias been
entered by the county officers of Cabarrus
for $50,000 against libel. the Something Daily Standard. of
of Concord, for a
sensational character is thought to be be
hind this action.
The census report of street railroads
shows that increased the mileage in Atlanta, Ga.,
has been from 15.48 miles in
1880 to 28.93 in 1890. Birmingham has
70 miles, Charleston 19, Dallas, Texas,
20; Galveston 32, Memphis 52, Nashville
45, New Orleans 104, Richmond 14, 8a
VHiinali 12. Atlanta and Havanuah are the
only Georgia cities noted,
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn., says:
Ed Johnson, the Memphis express train
robber, was released Thursday after buy
ing served fifteen years in the peniten
tiary. Be was immediately Cincinnati, arrested and by
Detective Regan, of was
taken away on the morning train, to an
swer a charge of stealing lumber in Cin
cinnati.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch the says; Ne- will
groes from all parts of country
assemble here in large numbers on the
15th, 10th and 17th of October, to par
ticipate in the great jubilee anniversary attending the
celebration of the 27th of
the emancipation proclamation. Special
railroad rates have been made, and the
celebration will occur in the exposition
grounds. One of its features will be ad
dresses Irom prominent colored leaders.
A Knoxville, Term., dispatch, says:
John P. Smith, eleven-y ear-old son of F.
M. Smith, and a boy nam'd Hutchins,
died Tuesday from a dose of morphine,
and three other children of Mr. Smith's,
who had taken another dose, were made
sick by the same drug which wus admin
ister ill for a cold in mistake for quinine.
The mistake was made by a druggist in
filling the prescription.
It is rumored that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad will probably be the
purchasers of the South Carolina railroad.
It was stated that a director in the Louis
ville and.Nashville is authority for the
statement that when the road is put up
for sale the Louisville and Nashville will
have a bidder there. That purchase perfect
would complete one of the most
railway combinations in the United
States.
In the Mississippi constitutional con
vention, Thursday, Mr. Henderson,
of Clay county, submitted a resol li
tion providing that transportation interstate traffic com
panies engaged prohibited in in of strikes
shall be cases
of employing armed bodies of men,
or non-residents, calling themselves
detectives,^ under the penalty of forfeiture
of charter privilege.
A Richmond, Va.. dispatch democratic of Thurs
day says: It is believed in
legislative circles that the legislature will
be convened in extra session probably
early in January next. The most import
ant subjects to lie considered at the extra
session will be the re-apportionment of the
state for members of congress, necessi
tated which by Virginia the increased will be entitled, representation and the to
debt scheme, expected to be submitted by
the creditors.
AMBITION DEFINED.
“My son, define ambition.”
“Well, it's always feeling that yoi
want to do something that you know yor
can’t, ”-«LLife.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN 4 co's. REPORT of business fob
WEEK KNPEO AUGUST 23.
The weekly review of trade of I{. O.
linn & Co., says; The signs of monetary
disturbance which were noticed in previ
ous reviews were not misleading. Money
loaned at half a cent per day premium or
about 190 per cent yearly, and most of
the loans wore at a quarter premium.
Money for commercial loans is scarce and
rates nominal. The treasury has an
nounced that it will redeem $20,000,000
of the 41 per cent, bonds, and accelerate
payment for silver bought. The obvious
and only sufficient relief is the liquidation
of wheat, money. Speculations in s.oeks, in
corn, oats, cotton, leather, hides,
coffee, wool, and especially in silver bul
lion, have locked up enormous sums. In
silver alone about ten millions have been
locked up to wait for high prices. In
grain products several times ns much and in
other many millions. In addi
tion, the enormous imports intended to
anticipate the pending tariff bill have
virtually locked up for an indefinite time
many millions paid L r goods and in du
ties on them. The volume of legitimate
business throughout the country contin
ues large, exceeding that of Inst year by
10 per cent, outside of New York, and
the desire rise, to market products quickly
ns prices causes a greater demand for
currency from the country than usual.
Reports exceptions, from the various indicate cities, with
very few a larger
trade than ever before is in progress with
satisfactory collect ions and a bright out
look. Crop reports are less discouraging
though the yield must f-II below early
anticipations condition of legtimntc as to grain, lti general, the
business is enoour
controversies aging, unless monetary pressure and labor
interfere. The threat of a
great strike on all the Vanderbilt roads
has helped to depress stocks and to dis
turb shipments. Business failure of the
week number for the United States 1,-
172, Canada 20. Total 192, against 197
la it week.
APPEAL TO CONGRESS.
KNIGHTS OF I. A null ASKING FOR FUNDS FOR
THE STRIKERS.
At a meeting of the central council of
the Knights of Labor at Chicago, Sunday,
u committee the aid was appointed the to solicit
funds for of Now York Cen
tral strikers, and the following resolutions
were Resolved, adopted That unanimously; do hereby . demnud
we
that the congress of the United States
shall at once authorize and instruct the
secretary of war to seize said Vanderbilt
system of railroads and operate the same
at the cost of said service for the benefit
and pleasure id' the public.
Resolved further, That said railroad
shall be turned over to the department of
transportation bill, just number as soon as
iiio senate 4106, or
some similar measure, can bn enacted by
congress, fm the reason that it is a mon
strous absurdity that any private person
or corporation transportation should presume thought to throttle
the of persons, or
things within the limits of this republic
at their own sweet pleasure.
Resolved, That we do hereby ask all
bodies of gunized labor in the United
Btates to substitute mimes for ours in this
declaration, and have said declaration
published in their local papers, as well as
fm ward marked copies of said papers to
their senators and representatives in eon
gress, witli a red-hot letter of instnio
lions to obey their wants and wishes o
resign forthwith.
Resolved, Tlmt th s declaration be
published in all the city papers, so that it
will meet the attention of I lie public.
A SLICK CITIZEN.
Mil. MYKIIS, OF CINCINNATI, AND HIS
ESCAPADES IN HIltMINGHAM.
On Thursday the Alabama National
Bank at Birmingham, received from a
bank in St. i'an 1 a cheek for $40,600, to
which the name of J. 1*. Mmid, president
of the Central Savings Bank, of Birm
ingham, had been forged. The check
w as payable the I'uul to J , Meyers, bank. who Meyers had cashed
it at St. came to
Birmingham from Cincinnati lust Feb
ruary and announced that he represented
the stockholders of the Birmingham Roll
ing Mill Company mid had been sent to
settle a strike w hich was on at that time.
The strike was settled without him and
then he which engaged in him several little transac
tions gave the reputation of
being a very slick citizen.
THEY WILL RESIGN.
rn i: Elions OF 1 UK AMERICAN COTTON
M.I-.D COMPANY W ILL GO OCT.
A New York dispatch says: E. D. Ad
ams, of the firm of Winslow, Lanier A
Co., on Wednesday, stated that he holds
the resignations the American of a majority of the di
rectors of Cotton Seed Co.,
successor of the cotton seed trust, and
that their widely places will soon be filled by
men of known business ability,
who will represent the real holders of the
property. He also states that the trust,
or company, has a floating debt of $2,-
500,000, and that a circular will soon be
issued, announcing the issue of $5,000,
000 of 8 per cent debenture bonds, which
will be offered to stockholders at par.
The steaming steamship Portia reports that
while slowly along the fishing
banks, off New Brunswick, she sighted a
huge iceberg. Just as the vessel was
passing it the berg split iu three piece*,
one oi which sank aud rose beneath the
Portia’s stem, The ship's stern was
lifted high in the The air, and her nose forced
under water. passengers and crew
were badly scared, but the ship was only
slightly damaged.
NO 16.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCI.E SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CAI1I.U BRINGS.
The Oklahoma legislature met Tues
day.
The striking miners in Belgium now
number 18,000.
hma, Three-quarters of the town of Kines
Russia, has been destroyed by fire.
The London Dockers’ Union ou Thurs
day subscribed JL‘1,000 to the strikers in
Australia.
The sub-treasuries, on Tuesdny, pur
chased $2,404,000 four and a half per
cent bonds.
The socialists of Berlin, Germany, held
a which midnight meeting Tuesday night,
was attended by 7,000 members of
the party.
A dispatch of Tuesday says; Kennedy
& Co., cotton brokers in Liverpool, have
suspended. Other failures in the cotton
trade arc expected in consequence of the
collapse in prices.
Owing to a misplaced switch, two
freight trains on the Burlington and Mis
souri River road collided at Mullen, Ne
braska, Tuesday morning, killing three
persons and seriously injuring six others.
Dispatches from Madrid, say: Cholera
continues in Valencia and Alicante. In
Toledo, Wednesday, eight new eases and
four deaths were reported. The director
of the military academy there has suc
cumbed.
Thu Chicago express on the Baltimore
and (>hio railroad, ran into an open switch
near Point of Hocks, Mil., Tuesday even
ing. The engine and postal car were
wrecked and Engineer David Ziler was
killed. The fireman was injured.
A Viena, Austria, dispatch of Wednes
day says; A terrilHe storm has visited
Trieste, causing a great loss reported of life and
property. Many wrecks arc on
the Adriatic sen, and the crows of several
vessels have perished. At Wittingiui
three persons were killed by lightning.
The boiler of a locomotive on a freight
train on the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio railroad exploded Wednesday morn
ing while the train was running, six
miles cast of MunslUdd, O. Engineer
Albert Graham, of Gallon, and Fireman
Joseph ly killed Murphy, and horribly of Urbans, mangled. were instant- Fire
was communicated to oil ears in the train
and fifteen were burned. *
Fire was discovered in MeVieker's
theater, ou Madison street,Chicago,Tues
day morning, and was soon beyond con
trol. The rear wall foil nnd all the fire
men of No. 7 were buried in the ruins.
All wero more or less hurt and Fireman
Jack Dully had his skull fractured, and
will probably die. The total loss to the
theater building and occupants is esti
mated at over $200,000.
The Nebraska state prohibition
convention concluded its tubers at
Lincoln on Thursday. Dr. B. L.
Paine, of Lincoln, was nominated for
governor by acclamation. George W.
Woolby, a colored man, was unanimously
chosen for lieutnnunt governor; Charles
Watts, for secretary of state; A. Mitch,
Jr., for auditor; B. VV. Hardy, for state
treasurer; Judge F. P. Wigtou, for at
torney general; C. Cleson, for commis
lioner, ami Mrs. Mary It Morgan, for
stale superintendent of schools.
A Guthrie, Indian Territory, special of
Wednesday says: Both houses of the ter
ritorial legislature in that city effected a
temporary organization as follows: Coun
ci 1 , G. W. Gurdonhery, democrat, of
Payne county, president; ('. P. McCabe*
colored, clerk of I he house; .1. C. Host,
republican,of Beard, of Oklahoma Payne county, City, chairman clerk. It ; H. is
G.
almost settled that the democrats and the
people’s party will co-operate and then
have a fighting show in the house.
It was rumored on the streets of Boston
on Wednesday afternoon that Potter Lovell
& Co., bankers, 43 Federal street, were
financially embarrassed. There are two
concerns carrying on business of a similar
character ut the same place —Potter, Lov
ell A Co. and the Pottci-Lovell company.
The Potter Lovell company was incorpo
rated under the laws of Massachusetts, in
1884, with a cash capital of $400.000 with
the purpose of discounting commercial
paper.
A MIDNIGHT HANGING.
I WO SM KM BROKEN IN T HE OHIO I "KKt
TKNTIAK Y.
A dispatch the from Columbus, O., says;
Otto Louth, boy murderer, of Cleve
land, was banged in the annex of the
penitent buy shortly drop after midnight Thurs
day night. The fell at 12:05 o’clock
». m. His neck was broken, aud be was
pronounced dead in seventeen minutes.
The body v.as removed, and in less than
twenty-five minutes Broeky Smith was on
the trap. He admitted his crime, and
j j 12:40 xprcsM-d o'clock regrets when at he the dropped. same. It The was
j-xecution [ Smith's crime was a neat the murder piece of of work. old
was an
| ladv.
A REFLECTION.
Mr. Yamacraw—Miss Priscilla, you an
j u first-class mirror,
i . Miss Priscilla Pulaski (blushing)— La'
I Mr. Yamacraw, why ? Because I am so
truthful?
Mr. Yamacraw—No; because you an
such Miss a good looking lass.
Priscilla—Oh, Mr. Yamacraw!
and am 1 then to regard you as an ad
mirror t —iSavauuah News.