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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. Y1I.
BURROWS KILLED.
THE GREAT OUTLAW FOR
EVER SILENCED.
HE IS CAPTURED, FREES HIMSELF AND,
AFTER .A DFSVKRATF. FIGHT WITH *NE
OF HIS CAPTOltS, MEETS A THKIL . ING
DEATH.
Telegrams wore received at Birming
ham Tuesday night announcing the cap
ture of the noted train robber, Rube Bur
rows, in Monroe county, Alabama. He
named was caught McDuffie, Tuesday afternoon by a farmer
who succeeded in draw
ing him secured into a trap. The great outlaw
was without a struggle, and is in
jail at Linden. Marengo county, Alabama.
The total of the rewards offered for the
capture of Bunows is $7,500. The South
ern Express Company, which has been
the greatest sufferer by his robberies, has
spent thousuuds of dollars in efforts to
capture him. In addition to his numer
ous robberies, he is wanted in Lamar and
Blount counties in Alabama for murder.
TnE STORY OF Ht9 CAPTURE.
A Demopolis This dispatch of Tuesday
says: afternoon, in South Marengo,
Mr. John McDuffie and others, sent out
by the Southern Express Company, cap
tured the real, genuine llubc Burrows.
As reported his in the back daily papers, he was
makiug way to Lamar county,had
passed through Monroe, and has been in
Marengo the past few days. Detectives,
assisted by deputy sheriffs, have been
close behind him in this county since
Sunday. Today Mr. McDuffie came upon
Rube, who had stopped out of the raiu
in a house. Mr. McDuffie arranged with
two colored men to go in the house, os
tensibly for some other purpose.
Rube had placed his rifle in the corner
of the room, but had hi 3 revolvers on
him. The darkies engaged him in con
versation, and then grabbed him by his
hands, the preventing darkies his shooting. He
fought manfully, until Mc
Duffie and others got in, when, after a
desperate conquering straggle, and they tieing succeeded in
desperado. securely the great
STRAPPED HAND AND FOOT.
McDuffie went to Linden jail this after
noon, with Rube strapped hand and foot
in front of him on his horse, being across
the head on one side and the feet on the
other. His position was very painful,
but he had to be allowed no chances.
The great Rube is now in jail in reality.
He had only $17,800 on his person.
RUBE IS KILLED.
A later telegram Lain Demopolis says;
Rube Burrows, train robber, murderer
nnd outlaw, is dead. He died with his
favorite pistol in his hand, in a daring
and and reckless attempt fell, to regain his liberty,
when he two men had gone
down before bis unerring aim. To the
last he displayed that spirit of devilish
cunning and daring which for years and has
made liis name a terror in the South
West, but at last he was face to face with
a man his tqnl in courage and his match
in the skill of handling a revolver.
Tuesday night Burrows was taken by
his four captors to the little town of Lin
den. He was a valuable prize, and they
could not trust an outsider to watch him.
With his hands and feet tied they placed
him in tho sheriff’s office in tho jail, and
John McDuffie nnd a negro named Mar
shall sat down to watch him through the
night. The negro was one of the captors.
J. C. Carter, who planned the capture,
took the money found on Burrows,
and went to the hotel to sleep. McDuffie
and the negro, Marshall, were to re
main on guard all night, and they did
not dream that their shackled prisoner
would think of escape. The door was
heavily barred, and while Burrows was
quietly sleeping, his captors sat near him
with pistols in their hands.
THE GAME COMMENCES.
At 4 o'clock Wednesday morning the
prisoner awoke. “I am hungry, get me
something to eat,” he said. “We cannot
get anything at this hour,” answered
McDuffie. “Well, hand me my satchel.
I havo some crackers in there.” A
leather satchel which Burrows carried
in his hund when captured lay in one
corner of the room where it had been
thrown without examination. McDuffie
handed the satchel to Burrows. The
manacled hands of the prisoner were
thrust inside, and bringing out a handful
of crackers he handed them to his guards,
and McDuffie and the negro put down
their pistols and began to eat the crackers.
Again the shackled hands went down
into the satchel, and when they again
came forth the startled guards looked
into the muzzles of two gleaming re
volvers.
“Untie me, and be quick about it,”
said Barrows to the negro, who obeyed
at once. “Now, unlock the handcuffs on
my wrists.” and again the negro obeyed.
“Put them on that man,” was the next
order. an1 the trembling negro closed the
cuffs with a snap on the wrists of Mc
Duffie.
“Open the door,” commanded
Burrows, and the bars were
hastily removed. Keeping the negro
covered with his revolver. Burrows
locked the door on the outside, leaving
McDuffie a barred and helpless prisoner
within.
“Now, where is that man Carter with
mv money?" asked the outlaw of the ne
gro. The neero told him. and was or
dered to lead the wav to his room. They
went to the hotel, but Carter was not
there. He was sleeping in a room in the
rear of thc store of a merchant named
Glass. The negro led the way to the
store, and Burrows knocked loudly on
the door.
“Who is that?" asked Carter.
In a whisper Burrows ordered the ne
gro to answer, which he did. “Tell him
to get up quick, that McDuffie wants him
at the jail,” said Burrows in the sam e
BLACKSHEAR GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16.1890.
siow whisper, and the tremP’ing ncoro
repeated th< words. Carter recognized
the voice of the negro, and coming to
the door he opened it and asked, “What
is the matter. John?"
“Where is *ny money? Give it to me
at once!" said Burrows, and his pistol
was at the brea't of Carter. A glance in
the semi-darkness was enough Carter
recognized the situation in an instant,
but he was not going to lose his $7,500
prize without a struggle. bed Instantly he
sprang back to the where his pistol
was lying, seized it, and turning to the
door again, fired almost at the same in
stant that the report of the outlaw’s pis
tol woke the slumbering echoes of the
quiet town. shots . well aimed The ball
Both were
from the outlaw’s pistol struck Carter in
the left breast aliove the heart, and pass
ed through the lungs. Burrows was shot
through the bowels, the ball passed en
tirely through his body. lie staggered
back into the street, but raised liis pistol
again and sent a ball crashing through
the shoulder of Marshall, the negro, who
was standing there half dead with fear.
THE FIGHT CONTINUEE IN THE STREET.
Carter was staggering from the shock
of the wound, hut he ran out into the
street and seven more pistol shots rang
out on the night air. Both men hau
emptied their had revolvers. By this time
Burrows crossed to the opposite
sidewalk and Carter was near the middle
of the street. As the echoes of the last
pistol shot died away both men sank to
the ground. The shots had aroused half
of the people in the little village, and
the inhabitants, running into the streets
in their night clothes, stumbled over the
bloody forms of the two men lying prone
in the dark street. Soon a lantern was
brought, and its pale light cast ghostly
shadows about the weird scene. The
startled people heard a groan from the
man lying on the sidewalk. They gath
ered about him just in time to witness
one long, convulsive shudder, and then
Rube Furrows, the man who had so
often defied the grim destroyer, was
dead,
Mr. Carter was carried to his room and
everything possible done for him. his lie is
yet alive and may recover, but wound
is a terrible one. The negro, Marshall, is
badly wounded also, but his wound is
not considered dangerous.
After an inquest, the body of Burrows
was turned over to the officer* of the
express company, and they decided to
send it to his relatives in Lamar county,
Alabama, for burial. So ends the career
of Rube Burrows, a nuiu whose history is
without a parallel. The identity of the
dead man seems to be established beyond
(jueotiuil.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The announcement in the evening pa
pers that Rube Burrows had been killed
down in Alabama, created a great deal
of interest around the postoffice depart
ment Wednesday nfternoon. Rube has
robbed tlie mails three times, nnd the de
partment lias a standing reward of $1,000
lor his capture and conviction.
TIIE BURIAL OF RUBE.
In a little graveyard, among the hills
of Lamar county, Thursday afternoon, all
that was mortal of Rube Burrows was
laid in the grave by the side of his wife,
who died six years ago.
Hundreds of men and women who had
been playmates and friends of the dead
outlaw came for a last look at hi . face, and
one and all recognized him at once, The
last link in the ehaiu of his complete iden
tification had been forged. His relatives,
frieuds and neighbors, who have known
Lim from childhood, said without hesita
tion that the dead man was Rube Bur
rows. A gray-haired man of seventy
years was the last to look upon the face
of tho dead, and when he turned from
the coffin a sigh of relief came from liis
lips, -while tears flowed freely from liis
eyes. The old matt was Allan Burrows,
the father of Rube, an honest citizen,
loved and respected by all who knew him.
THE SCENE IN BIRMINGHAM.
The body of Burrows arrived at Bir
mingham from Demopolis at 3:39 o’clock
Thursday morning. Even at that hour
thousands of people were gathered giimj*e about of
the depot, hoping to catch a
the body, or at least the coffin containing
it At every station along the road
where the train stopped hundreds had
fathered out of morbid curiosity, i he
coffin was opened, and all who cared to
were allowed to - ■ <• the body.
Placing the open coffin on end, and ar
ranging °side, the outlaw’s rifle photograph and pistols at
his a flash-light articles found was the
taken. Among the on
outlaw when captured were the railroad
checks and vouchers for $2,000, and the
lottery tickets taken from the express
car at*the Flomaton train robbery. He
also had the pistol he took from the ex
Dress messeDger at the same time.
THE CABIN BOUGHT.
THE LOG HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN LIVED TO
BE EXIB1TED AT CHICAGO.
A committee from Chicago, in the in
terest of the World's Fair, has visited
Washington county, Ky., and purchased in which
of Henry Reed the log cabin
Abraham Lincoln lived as a boy and
where his father was married to Nancy
Hanks. The price paid was $1,009, anil
it will be torn down and erected on a
prominent site at the World's Fair.
A TIME CONVENTION.
A LARGE GATHERING IN NEW YORK OP
LEADING RAILROAD MEN.
A New York dispatch says: The gen
eral time convention opened Wednesday
morning. There was present a large
representation of leading railroad men
of the country. President H. S. Haines,
of Savannah, Ga., was in the chair.
Those present represent 101,000 miles of
railroad.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WIIAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE GREAT ORGANIZATION. —LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
A number of prominent Allianccmcn
have leased the Southern Mercury, the
State organ of the Farmers' State Alliance
of Texas. They propose to put
capital behind the enterprise and make
a strong Alliance publishing house.
will employ an able editorial corps and
make the Mercury one of the best reform
papers in the land.
***
A few weeks ago the Farmers’ Alliance
nnd Industrial Union of New Mexico
met in the city of Alboiqucrquc, for the
purpose of completing a constitution and
by-laws for tho territorial organization,
placing in the efficient and energetic lecturers
field, nnd attending to such other
business as may come before it. Presi
dent Polk and Natioual Lecturer Ben
Teircll were present. Thus the good
work goes grandly on.— The Southern
Mercury.
***
Ihe condition . in . Mall „ street for the
past demonstration two weeks is a living and practical the
of the nec«3sity for
sub-treasury plan. 1 he only thing that
saves the country from a panic when the
exploiting class let out credit paper as a
circulating medium to supply the defi
cieney of money to movie the crops, and
‘ t it out much slower than needed, in
order to produce a stringency that will
reduce prices, the only thing that pre
vents a panic as a result ot this pressure
is money furnished New 5 ork bankers
from the United States Treasury. When
the debt is paid we will be compiled to
have the sub-tressury plan or a panic.
national Economist,
»**
The Democratic convention of the sixth
congressional district of Louisiana adopt
ed the following resolutions:
We demand the abolition of national
banks at as early a duy as practicable,
and in lieu of national batik notes the
Government shall issue legal tender treas
ury notes in sufficient volume to do the
business of the country on a cash basis,
and all money so issued shall be a legal
tender for all debts, both public and
private.
We indorse the sub-treasury or ware
house plan as a means of relief to the
agriculturalist within the scope of the
federal constitution, and urge the nom
inee of this convention to advocate such
legislation products. as may permit graduated sales
of our
***
On Tuesday Col. Livingston, president
of the Georgia Stato Alliance, spoke at
Raleigh, (’. He devoted himself to a
description sorted that of lie the would sub-treasury bill, and
a vote for no
man,not even his own father, who did not
support that raensure, lie declared that
the farmers must and will not give up
their plan for sub-treasuries, and that if
they arc not given a better bill than the
one now before congress, they will push
that one right through, no matter how
great the fight. He called on all classes
to aid the farmers in their struggle, say
ing- it was not between farmers and the
lawyers and merchant*, but between the
money power and the people, and that
the lawyers and wholesale merchants of
Georgia ure now with seeing this, and falling
right into line the alliance.
***
New Albany (Miss.) Gazette gives this
good advice: “The idea that the Alli
ance is of short duration is a thing of the
past The key-note has been struek at
last, and today all eyes are turned in the
proper direction for relief. No4G, if the
brotherhood will blit hold out faithful
and make each meeting what it should
be, more interesting than the one before,
success is inevitable. Then we would
urge the impoitance upon our sub-alli
ances of making your meetings interest
ing. Meet and discuss matters of
general interest. Don’t stay at home
and say they never transact anv busi
ness of importance, but attend every
meeting, and say we will make our meet
ings interesting. Is it not strange that
farmers (Alliance meny will say “they”
in speaking of their own order? It seems
that many of the brethren fail to appre
date the importance of the position they
occupy. They each have a duty to Tier
form. There is no room for drones and
dead-heads. What we want, and what
the emergency demands, is that each
member do his whole duty, and victory
is ours.”
Looking Toward ( mon.
President Polk has addressed the fol
lowing letter to H. L. Loueks, Esq ,
president of the Farmers’ Natioual Alii
9nce:
“ I he time for action—prompt, united,
decisive action on the part of the farmers
of the whole country, is absolutely and (
imperatively demanded. No argument
could emphasize this truth so deeply and
indeliblv as it has been impressed by the de
alarming and constantly augmenting
pression of our great agricultural inter- al
csts. It is written on the lintels of
most every farmer's home in this land.
Impelled by the force of its demand,
farmers of localities, States and sections
have combined in various forms of organi
zation. Differing only iu name or form,
these various organizations are and actu
ated by some common purpose, are
guided by one common principle—the agricul
elevation and betterment of the
tural interests of the country. But con
fronting them all is the stern truth that
the greatest evils under which they so un
justly suffer, and of which they so justly
’complain, they are national be in corrected their character, lo
ami that cannot by
cal, State or sectional remedies. Na
tional legislation which agriculture discriminates in
against or oppresses New
York, Indiana or Kansas, affects equally
that interest in Virginia, Georgia or t exus.
Hence, to meet the demands of the situa
tion the farmers of the United States
mus form one grand, compact national
organization. against They must make danger. com
mon cause a common
Impelled by these considerations, and
in eonfoimity to the aims and principles
of the great order which I have thchonoi
to represent, 1 beg to extend to you, and
through you to the brotherhood of youror
' der, a most cordial and fraternal invitation
to meet with our Supreme Council at its
regular animal session at Ocala, Fla., on
'1 uesday, the 2d day of December, 1890.
Permit me to suggest that properly ac
credited delegates, representing your en
tire order, or the separate States compos
ing it, vested with such powers ns would
give them full meeting authority in conference to act in the
premises, anil with
representatives similarly empowered of
the other orgnizntions, determination would greatly
facilitate the of the great
and vital question—whether any plan can
be devised tor securing fraternity auV
unity of action between the farmers
of the country. The National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union now cm
braces thirty-live which of will the States of the
Union, all of be represented
our meeting, and 1 beg to assure you
that the representatives of your Order
will be welcomed by that body with tlie
most cordial considerations of fraternal
regard and respect. A letter of like im
> )or t has this day been mailed to the
ullit ,f ol n ccr s of the Pattons of Hus
kandry, the Farmers’ National League,
t ] lc Patrons of Industry, nnd the Farni
(TS ' Mutual Benefit Association, Will
you kindly indicate at your curliest con
vcuiench whether this proposition meets
[will ’your approval, represented! ann wiietncr your order
be Any information
cr service I may be able to riudcr is frcelv
your command.
The Alabama (Selnm) Mhror says: “In
the light of the present manipulation of
the price of cotton, bill the intention of the
sub-treasury to prevent such an oc
currence is clearly manifest. With some
such relief afforded to the farmers they
could have held their cotton crop
until the manufacturers would pay the
value of thcstaple instead of being forced
to sell to speculators at a loss of $1(1 per
bale. The sub-treasury bill 1ms received
no recognition at the hands of Congress,
but the farm rs can now sec tlie necessity
of dein Hiding some protection against
1 ... t 5 f I »»(!*» ;>i.» 1 1 fix. f-»i 4 tp
in power.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN & CO.’S WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE
CONDITION OF HL'SINKHS.
The weekly circular of I). G. Dun & Co.
says: Business in all branches shows an im
improvent and speculation in breadstuff's
is stronger, but the stock market lias
been liquidating and is quotations have de
clined. The street no longer a barom
eter and the industries and trade of the
country pay no attention to the stock
exchange. The prices of commodities
are a shade stronger than ti week ago,
grain and oil having advanced with many
kinds of manufactured products, but the
general advance since Oct. 1st is not a
quarter of 1 per cent as yet. The move
ment of commodities is very heavy. The
jjioney market is nowhere a source of em
barrassment, and the feeling of confidence
everywhere increases.
Southern reports arc generally bright,
the movement of cotton being remarka
bly early and large. Great industries arc
gaining. pig-iron In spite the of the is enormous out
put of tone stronger, and
at Philadelphia Breadstuff's mill had iron is 25 cents
higher. been advancing
in spite last of year’s small exports, Wheat which has full risen far
below as yet.
3£ cents for the week on sales of 20,000,
000 bushels at New York, and corn nearly
2 cents on sales of 10,009,000 bushels
Oil has risen 2 cents, with insignificant
dealings, and coffee is a quarter lower,
the present range of prices being decor
ously , described as straineJ. komgn
Made is fairly satisfactory, U>r while ex
ports of grain are restricted, cotton
rnovefl largely, though the value of ex
l ,or j H ^ ts *- B't-'ek showed ..... a decline in com
panson with last year. I he number of
failures for the week in the Lnited States
is 186, compared with 182 for the surne
time last year.
8TILL AT WORK.
NINE WEEKS OF MISSISSIPPI'S CONVENTION
AND TIIE END NOT VET.
A Jackson dispatch says: The ninth
convention week of the closed Mississippi .Saturday constitutional evening, and
it now appears that its work cannot be
properly finished before November 10th.
The judiciary article is still under eon
sideration, and while the vote was decis
ive that supreme cout judges shall con
tinue to lx: confirmation appointed by the the governor,
subject to by senate,
the friends of the elective system wilt
make a fight for the election of criminal ,
judge* and --------------------- ehancllors.
AN HARBOR WANTED
AND A COMPANY ORGANIZED WITH $1,-
500,000 TO BUILD IT.
A San Antonio dispatch of Wednes
day says: Another enterprise has been
formulated and work is soon to begin,
looking to thc securing of a deep-water
harbor on thc Texas wharf at Padre is
land. The harlxir will be secured by the
building of a viaduct sea wall, thc esti
mated cost of which will lx: of $1,500,000. local and
The syndicate is composed backed by
eastern capitalists, and is
limited capital.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
>
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WIIAT
THE CAULK UH1NUS.
The Jews in Scbastapol have been or
deied to leave that city.
Pillow & Mersey's rolling mill, in Mon
treal, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Six men were injured Wednesday by a
boiler explosion at Muskegon, Mich.
A dispatch from London says that the
new button tariff trade. bill will destroy Birmingham’s
Secretary Halford says the question of
calling an extra session of congress lias
not yet been decided.
Fire in the Academy of Music, at Pitts
burg, Thursday, damaged the structure
to the extent of $10,000.
The strike of the silk ribbon weavers
tit the mill of Johnson, Cowdin A Co.,
Puttferson, N. J., has been settled.
The first picking of the Egyptian cot
ton crop has been finished. The quality
of the cotton is reported to be very good.
The population of Brooklyn, N. Y., ns
announced by the census bureau Thurs
day is 804,877, au increase of 2:17,714 or
41.95 per cent.
Wm. Peters, supposed to have been
the lurgest man in the country, weighing
over 400 pounds, died in Lukin town
ship, Ill., Saturday.
The Servian government, finding tho
presence of ox King Milan in the country
intolerable, has resolved to ask theskupt
schina to pass a bill providing for his ex
pulsion.
The locomotive and machine works of
Adams & Price, on the northwest, out
outskirts of Nashville, were destroyed by
fire Friday night. They estimate their
loss at about $20,000.
At tlie session of the Christian Con
ference, ut Marion, Ind., Friday, the
southern wing of the church, which
seceded at the Cincinnati convention,
held in 1854, was restored.
Win. II.Behneber, who robbed the First
National bunk of Columbus, Ind., of
$800,000, fled to Canada, and was
brought back, has been sentenced to
twelve years in prison nnd n line of $500.
Tho census butcati, on Wednesday, an
nounced the population of the state of
418, Vnln—-l-o in he 1.05(1,Too, luuieiuie oof,*
or 185.17 per cent. New Jersey
1,441,017; increase 809,901, or 27.40 per
cent.
The rate war between the Ohio and
Mississi Dpi railway and its connections
east and west nnd the Big Four and its
connections, ended Friday night by a
compact satisfactory to both parties.
Rates will bo restored.
The Indianapolis Car and Manufactur
ing Company, a concern employing 800
hands, was on Friduy placed in the hands
of a receiver. The purchasing agent of
the company cluims that it is Insolvent,
having debts amounting to $050,000.
Captain Peter Foster, the oldest mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic
in the United States, died in Mount
Pleasant, la., Friday night, He was
ninety-five years of age and fought in the
war of 1812, the Mexican war und the
civil war.
The United States court at Little Rock,
Ark., has been instructed by the judge to
bring in an indictment against Captain
Coffee, of Chicago, for sending a chal
lenge to Horace Allis, of Little Rock.
Coffee sent a challenge to Allis, ami he
turned it over to the officers of the law.
By a fire which broke out in the Put
nam European hotel, Chicago, at Adams and La
Salle streets, early Sunday
morning, four had lives were lost and a score
of persons narrow escapes. The fire
was caused which by the explosion of a kero
sene lamp, bail been left burning
in one of the hallways.
A Washington dispatch Commissioner of Thursday
says: Internal Revenue
Mason has informed several collectors
that the section of the new tariff bilj,
relative to the fortification of wines with
brandy, free of tax, December will be practically
inoperative before l»t, because
the new stamps cannot be secured until
then.
The census bureau, on Friday, an
nounced the following populations: Lit
tle Rock, Ark., 22,459; increase, 9,858;
per cent, 91.23. Baton Rouge, La.,
10,897; increase, 8,200; per cent, 44.46.
New Orleans, La., 241,995; increase,
25.905; per cent, 11.99. Knoxville,
Tenn., 22,447; increase, 12,754; percent,
131.56; state of New York. 5,981,934 ;
increase, 899,063: per cent. 17.69.
The supreme court of Michigan, on
Saturday, rendered a decision in a case
where u restauranter refused to entertain
a colored man, In the court below in a
suit for damages the negro was defeated,
but the supreme court says the court
erred, as the negro is a citizen under the
constitution . and , cannot . be , discrirmn : te
and says the only quc-st.on ha
-hould havc becn conBulercd ,n thc *°* cr
court was one of damages.
A San Diego, Cal., dispateh of Friday
says: News has been received from Ros
ario mine, seventy miles inland from Ma
zutlau, of a terrible explosion which oc
curred there in the latter part of Sep
tember. An American named McGee,
who came from Napa, Cal., was working
with nine Mexicans in a sixty-foot level
near the magazine, which contained sev
eral hundred pounds of dynamite. This
exploded in some way, and the ten men
were blown to atoms.
Acting Indian Commissioner Belthas,
at Washington, has issued a letter of in-
NO 22.
structions to Indian agents, in which he
says that the department is informed that
a company is preparing to obtain Indians
from some of the reservations to join the
Wild West Shows in Europe. Agents are
instructed to promptly refuse any appli
cations for this purpose, as it is now
against the policy of the interior depart
ment to grant permits for such purposes
under stiv circumstances whatever.
NEWS OF •-3 sc cn
BRIEF NOTE8 OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THB
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE HEADER- ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, i ETC.
banner Guadalupe county is said to bo tin
Alliance county of Texas.
Free delivery service lias been ordered
for Durham and ’Greensboro, N. C., on
the 1st of November.
Non. Isaac Stone, formerly. United
States minister to .Japan, died in Deland,
Flo,, Thursday night.
A receiver was appointed by Judge D.
M. Roberts, at Kastman, Ga , on Satur
day, for the Empire Lumber Company.
Estimated liabilities $200,000; nssets
$150,000.
George Adams, agent of a European
government premium land lottery scheme,
was, Ala., on Tuesday, mailing arrested in Birmingham,
for matter in violation ol
the anti-lottery law.
During the first nine months of 1890
3782 miles of new railroad were con
structed by 212 different companies, ac
cording to the Railway Age. The largest
nmouut of mileage constructed in any
one state was in Georgia—8211 miles.
AVhile six perrons on horseback were
passing Webster over Spring, an unfinished W. Vn., Saturday, bridge neai the
structure gave way and all were precipi
tated into Elk river, forty feet below.
Five of the six persons were wounded ’
two fatally.
On Saturday, Mrs. II. L. Whiteside,
mother of Vernon Whiteside, the de
faulting city auditor of Chattanooga,
Tcini,, sent a letter to the mayor inform
ing him that she was ready and willing
to pay any amount the ex-city auditor
owed tHo city. The shortage, amounts to
$25,000.
The owners of the A2tna coal mines,
near Chattanooga, have decided to use
U. -JttvJ/jt Inlirii*. TLo tixiiiuvJ ot: i |>!t«yu/1 by
the company went out on u atrike Homo
time since and considerable trouble lias
resulted. Fifty convicts were sent from
the main prison at Nashville to the mines
on Thursday.
The Han Antonio, Texas, Street Rail
way Company began operating its system
with electricity Wednesday. This system
is one of the most extensive and Ircst
equipped forty in miles the whole south. It em
braces of truck, while fran
chises have been secured and work begun
on twenty udditionul miles.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Secretary
licddiiigfleld, of the Htutc Farmers’ Alli
ance, sends to each congressional nomi
nee wlm) is known us a “demand card.”
On this are the demands of the Alliance,
and the nominee is asked to sign the curd
and return it, thus showing that he con
siders the demand just unu proper.
A Greenville dispatch of Friday Hays:
The hoard have of let Mississippi the levee the commis
sioners contracts for work
of closing the breaks in the levee, caused
by the disastrous overflow of last spring.
The work let will cost about $185,000.
The board will have ample funds on hand
to rebuild the levees in broken places and
to build them above the high-water mark
of this year.
A dispatch of The Thursday, search from Rome,
Ga., says: of Mr. McKee
add Deputy Marshal ilrowu for Mis. Mc
Kee has so far been fruitless. They have
been absent from Rome since last Thurs
day, and no news from them. It is sup
posed their long absence and silence is an
indication of good results, for Brown and
McKee would have returned if they were
not on truck of her. Witnesses were be
fore the grand jury, nnd a b II bus been
drawn against Mrs. McKee by the solic
itor general.
THE TRIAL CONTINUED
NOTWITHSTANDING! THAT DILLON AND
OBRIEN HAVE LEU THE COLNTUT.
A Dublin dispateh says: When the
magistrate’s court morning. at Tipperary Prosecu- reassem
bled Saturday Crown
tor Honan Htutcd that the crown bad de
cided to prosecute the charges of con
spiracy against all the defendants, not
withstanding the fact that Messrs. Dillon
O’Brien had, of their own volition,
their defense and left the
The courts, he said, had de
cided that under the circumstances such
had arisen in the present case, it was
not necessary to stop the proceedings.
CAROLINA SWAMP LAND8.
A I)KAL IN WHICH 100,000 AGUES ARE IN
VOLVED.
The state board of education met at
Raleigh, N. C., and received a proposi
tiou to buy swamp lands in Ilyde county,
known as' Ilyde park, nnd containing
almost 100,0U0 acres. The laud* were
taken twenty years ago by a company of
northern capitalists, which failed, and
they reverteu to the board. 0 he propo- d
sition to purchase is made by the Wum
ington, N. C., improvement company, The
which oilers 45 cents per acre.
board will probably accept the offer, and
tixtv davs have been given to examine
into questions as to the title.