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IE 8FPIG1AL ORGAN
OF-
PIKE COUNTY,
BtJBSCIUPTION, 61.00 PER ANNUM.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFT7-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, on Saturday morning, tlu
regular order being demanded, Mr,
Hooker, of Mississippi, proceeded to ad
dress the house upon the world’s fair bill.
He spoke in favor of Washington. Mr.
Miffs, of Texas, in a short address also
favored Washington as the site for the
fair. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, an
rounced his opposition for one reason,
held, that the would proposed involve exhibition, loss the wt-reve?
of the United a to several treasury million
States of
dollars. Mr. Bianchard, of Louisiana,
in reply to Mr. Mills' re
marks said the discovery by Colunbus
argued that the south had more benefits
to expect from tho fair than any other sec
tion. The fair would call the attention of
/orests capitalists of the world to the O'Ferrali, fields and of
of the south. Mr.
Virginia, sakl that the rity of his choice
was and Washington, where beauty and grand
Gibson, eur magnifioience filled the eye. Mr.
of Maryland, was in favor of one
spot which commended itself as a place
where national progress in wealth ana
grandeur could behest seen—Washington.
5dr. Honk, of Tennessee, wanted eWorld's
fair at which our wonderful wealth, skill
aud energy could be exhibited. To have
it anywhere except at the national capital
would take from it much of its impor
tance. Mr. Wilson, of West Vir
ginia, air. Vandero, favored California, the national argued capital, itt
of fa
vor of St. Louis. Mr. Carlisle wished to
restate aud emphasize the consideration
that would influence his vote. Each of
the four cities was worthy of the fair.
the The exposition old world was to give the people into of
not aa insight our
great manufactories and industries only,
but to show- them our great country.
The cxjsjsition should l>e held at the cen
ter of the country. St. Louis was the
nearest and Chicago next. He would
vote first for St, Louis and next for Chi
cago. Messrs. Kinsey and Wilson, of
Missouri, and O’Neill, of Indiana, spoke
for St. Louis, so also did Mr. Forman, of
Illinois (whose district lies opposite St.
Louis aud includes East St. Louis), and
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, and Mr. Outh
waite, of Ohio, advocated the claims ol
Chicago. Mr. Mason, of Illinois, was in
favor of Chicago. General Kerr, ol
Iowa, Owen of Indiana, and Springer, ol
Illinois, spoke for Chicago. Messrs.
Fitch, Flower, Dunphy, Lansing,
Spinola, McCarty Wallace, und Farquhar, Raines, all of Turney, New
Vork, again pre*»ed the claims ol
the empire city. Faquhar concluded
by offering in Whalf of New York $15,
000,000 and a cosmopolitan people that
know how to rare for visitors. Mr. Can
dler, of Massachusetts, closed the debate
in words, saying the country could safely
trust he the house for to discharge favorable its full duty,
and hoped a conclusion
upon the question. The house, at tho
evening bills, session passed forty private pen,
siou and at 10.25 adjourned.
In the house, on Monday, when tht
speaker’s gavel fell, the galleries were
packed with spectators aud crowds ob
structed the corridors. All of these peo
ple had gathered to witness the deciding
struggle between the adherents of tht
cities of New Y'ork, Chigago, St.
Louis, and Washington, upon the result
of of the which world’s depended fair be, the held in location
to 1892.
Representative opened tho proceedings O’Neil, of by Pennsylvania, presenting
John E, Reyborn, Vuet-eftsor of the lllte
Representative Reybum Kelly, bis place of Pennsylvania.
Mr. took before the
bar and was sworn in by the speaker.
The clerk read the special order of tho
house prescribing tbe method of voting
upon the site for the fair, requiring some
one place to have a majority wished of the votes east
Mr Blount, of Georgia, to know
if there would be an opportunity afforded
to pass upon tbe question as to whether
there shall be a fair before selecting a site.
The speaker replied that, under the spe
cial order, this opportunity could not la
had, aud immediately directed the clerk
to call the roll. The vote resulted
Chicago, .1 Iff; New York, 72; St. Louis,
61; Washington, 56; that scattering 1. The
speaker announced the total number
of votes cast was 305, and 153 w r as a rna
jority. 'Hie contest finally narrowed
down between New York aud Chicago.
Ou the seventh ballot the result was 311
Mr. iromler waved Ills handkerchief
around his head and shook bands with
everybody within reach. The house ad
journed at 0 o’clock in the wildest ol
uproars.
In the senate on Monday a number ol
bills were reported from the committees
and placed on the calendar. Among
them was one to authorize the purchase oi
gold and silver bullion and the issue ot
treasury notes in payment therefor. The
bill directs the purchase of silver bullion
to the amount of four and a half millions
a month, of such gold bullion as may lie
offered, and the issue therefor of treasury
notes. It repeals the law directing dollars the
coinage of two million silver per
month.
In the house, on Tuesday, i
biff discontinuing the coinage of one
votes, divided as follows: Chicago, 154:
New York, 112 ; St. Louis, would 27; Washing
ton, 17. A majority be 156, and
Chicago had 154. just two votes short.
So another roll call was necessary. It was
the eighth and last, for Chicago total achieved of
her victory, and out of a 307
votes, received 157, three more than a
majority. New York had 10T, St. Louis
25 and 'Washington 18. greeted The announce- with
ment of the result was tre
mendous applause by the Chicago adher
ents. They shouted aqd cheered while
dollar and three dollar gold pieces and
three cent nickel pieces authorizing was passed. the Also
a bill was passed appoint two suitable rt
tarv of state to per
sons to represent the United States at
the international conference in reference
to protection of industrial property to b(
held at Madrid, Spain, April 1, 1890.
Tlie house then in committee of the
whole resumed consideration of the
Oklahoma bill.
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr,
Chandler, ii New Hampshire, Arkansas, presented
ft petition ffom Union couytv,_
pike Comtft) onntfli
YOL. II.
reign ot mobs terror paraded prevailed; the that armed night and
reckless couuty,
and day, terrorizing the whites and shoot
ing and whipping the colored voters;
that schools and churches had been de
moralized, and ballot boxes carried off,
and asking constitution. for the protection This petition guaranteed
by the (with
several others from Arkansas on the same
subject) was referred to the committee
on privilege i mid elections.... Mr. Call,
of Florida, offered a resolution, in rela
tion to lands claimed by the Florida Cen
Iral and Peninsula Railroad company, be
tween Waldo and Tampa, directing tht
ittorney-general to Institute proceedings
to prevent any ittrtncr saies-ot Mien mna
until action be taken by ts tigress. .. Busi
ness on calendar was then taken up and
twenty-six pension ami private bills
passed. The Blair educational bill Was
hen taken up as unfinished business.
After a brief executive session, the senate,
it 4 :45, adjourned.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal in tho hott-e, on IV ednesaajf, Mr.
Rowell, of Illinois, called up the contested
election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton
from the first district of West Virginia. champ
Tlie case of the contestant was
ioned by Mr. Rowell, and Mr. Pendleton’s
claims were maintained by Mr. O'Ferrali,
)f Virginia. Mr. Rowell was seconded
!>y Mr. Lacey, of lown, and Mr, O’Ferrali
by Mr. Wilson, of Missouri. All the
-perches were routined to in analysis of
the evidence, and were dry and uninter
esting. Pending this debate the house
adjourned.
NOTE*.
ing The Maryland congressional re-district
bill, which makes five of the six dis
tricts solidly Democratic, passed tlie leg
Mature Tuesday.
The President, on Tuesday, nominated
Richard G. Banks collector of customs
for the district of Norfolk and Forts
month, Va.; Edward W. Mattesou, Bur
veyor of customs at Chattanooga, of Term.,
and Harold M. Bewail, Maine, consul
general of the United States at Apia.
A brief executive session of the senate
was Held Monday afternoon, at which the
matter of the publication of proceedings
of the executive session was tinder dis
cussion. It was decided to make an in
quiry into the method by which news
papers secure their information concern
ing proceedings in executive session.
Though ( hicago has been voted ns the
site the bill to hold a fair has, however,
oot yet been passed. The southern men
will vote almost solidly against it. Some
fears are entertained that it will not pass,
but the Chicago men seem determined to
rush however, it through. The New Yorkers are,
quietly working to kill
the bill. Speaker Reed voted on every
ballot for New York. It is the first ac
tion tlie house has taken this emigres*
Unit lie did not
Representative McCotnaa, of Maryland,
is preparing a new biff to cover the point*
that the Wickham bill left unprotected.
It has been discussed by the leading re
publicans in the house, and will have the
undivided support redistricting of the majority. It
provides the United that no States Until after shall the occur
in census
is taken, when the various state legisla
tures shall make congressional apportion
ments, to remain in effect for ten years.
It also provides that the regular state
canvassing board shall certify to the elec
tion of representatives.
There is a great scramble being made
by various companies control of all the over seal the fur country fishe
to secure the
ries in the Behring bids sea. The the government control of
has opened the for
these fisheries for the next twenty years,
[t allows fltl.OOO seals to be killed annu
ally. The Alaska Seal Fur company has
bontroliea It lor twenty years past. They
are among the score of bidders this lime.
Their profits for twenty years have beer;
999 per cent annually, consequently the
great scramble and large number ot
bidders.
The direct laud tax bill, which recent
ly passed the senate, was on Tuesday re
ported favorably to the house by the ju
diciary committee. However, Colonel
Oates, of Alabama, in the uame of the
democrats of the committee?, is preparing
a minority report, which will hold that
if the direct tax is refunded, the cotton
tax should he likewise refunded. The
direct tax carries with it seventeen million
dollars, while the cotton tax carries sev
enty million dollars. The majorityof the
refund of the direct tax bill, ho wever,
goes north, while the cotton tax money
... irect - to tax the bill cotton will growing certainly states. pass, The but
there seems no chance for the cotton tax
amendment going through. Georgia bill. will
get $108,000 from the direct tax It
is the money that she paid lands to the govern
ment as a tax on her du ring and
after the war.
DOWNED BY THE ALLIANCE.
SMALL DEALERS FORCED TO THF. WALL BY
CO-OPERATIVE STORES.
A dispatch of Thursday from St. Jo
seph, Mo., says: During the last week
there has been an unusually large numbet
of failures of small grocery firms and gen
eral dealers in Kansas; in fact the fail
ures have been so numerous as to at
tract the attention of the jobbing been
trade, and an examination has
made into the cause of the seeming
epidemic of failures. The work was
placed in the hands of a mercantile agen
cy, and it was found that the Farmers’
Alliance was’at the bottom of the trouble.
The alliance has adopted the co-operative together
store plan, and their trade,
with that of such outside custom as
they can influence, is thrown to the al
liance stores. The result of the estab
lishment of the alliance stores has been
painfully felt by the regular retail traders.
As a consequence many small dealers
have been forced to the wall and com
pelled to make assignments,.
B08T0N’8 LEGISLATURE.
KICKING AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OP
A PROHIBITORY LAW.
A dispatch from Boston, Mass., says
The liquor committee of the legislature against re
ported on Thursday unanimously and
enacting a straight prohibitory law,
also against reduesng the high license fee
of $1,500 to $500. The same committer
reported it expedient to appoint a eom-
ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, M ARCH 4, 1890.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITU
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTION?
OF THE COUNTRY,
There is talk of building an Alliancq
cigarette factory at „** Oxford, N, 0.
The Alliance Tribune is the uame of a
new publication which lias appeared at
Topeka, Kan.
*
* *
The Fort Gaines, Ga., Alliance is con
templating the establishment of » guano
factory and oil milt at that pluce.
The South Carolina Alliance Ex
change was opened at Greenville bt
the State Business Agent on the 6th ol
January. *
sjt has been
A joint stock company 8. C., or
ganized at Fairplay, to manufac
Invented ture the “Grady Alliance King. plewstock,”
by .1. O. L.
The Executive Committee of South
Dakota Alliance, have bought the Da
kola and it Ruralist will be conducted published at the Aberdeen, state
as or
gan.
The Alliance in Hillsborough county,
Fla., have raised nearly $8,000, with
prospects of $1,000 more, for the estab
lishment of ah Affiance Business Ex
change at Tampa.
***
A Minnesota misrepresented paper jumped it the bitterly. Alli
ance and most
The object was to keep ttie farmers front
joining. An Alliance was organized the
next Week w ith 52 members.
**■
Tin: Allianeemen of Franklin, Rowan
and Habersham counties, of Georgia,
have organized a joint stock company the
with a capital of $15,000 to sell pro
duct raised by their members.
*** A. Chase,
the The eminent appointment Alliance of Mr. champion, I). rail
as
road commissioner, the is farming a very appropriate element in
recognition of and gives
the state of Dakota, great sat
isfaction.
***
The Alliancemta of Brooks county fee:
sure that they will succeed in establish
ing a bank at Quitman, Ga,, this spring.
The committee report about $10,000 al
ready subscribed to tlie capital stock,
with eight Bub-Alliances yet to hear from
on the third Wednesday of March,
The Farmers’ Alliance has t-uv tk thij
farniAMi of Amorim $5,000,0<Hi in twine,
$4,500,000 on bagging, and if is claimed
that through tlie discounts operations have of the been Alii
ance Exchange tlie saved se
cured that will make amount
by farmers $10,000,000 annually.
***
The Allianeemen in Iowa, Kansas, Da
kota petitions and other western their representatives states are sending in
In to
congress asking them to enact laws to
suppress gambling on the board of trade
by selling or buying products which the
owner does not own nor expects to own.
The Allinnoemen A in Bowie county,
.
Texas, have organized an “Alliance eon
mercial association,” the shares of which
are $5 each, and bear 10 per cent, inter
est from date. On the funds raised in
this way the farmers are easily carried
through the year in their buying and sell
ing operations.
*
* *
News comes from every county in Geor
gia that the Affiance is learning growing strong
IT. Aliinnccmen arc practical
lessons of economy and co-operation:
those who have had the courage and pa
tience to stand beginning by the principles the of bene- the
Alliance are to reap
fits of the order.
* * Allianeemen
A number of Fanners’ art
borotving money at eigtit per cent, giving
joint security notes, and cash. buying They claim their
guano and supplies for of managing,
they that at the with present good crops, way soon pay out
can, and their feet financially
of debt get on
onee more.
* ❖ Alliance
The Johnson County b.
North Carolina, deserves offered a gold last medal.
It won the ton of guano yeai
bv the State Agricultural society ,foi
largest, and best lot. of cotton at statt
fair, and with a noble spirit and of donated patriot
ism it has sold the guano
the money to the Soldiers’ Home,
*** Alliance . . calls
The Ocala, Fla., Marion upon
the sub-Alliances of county to
discuss the phosphate “craze.” As the
Allianeemen are large owners of the new
ly discovered phosphate lands it is deemed
wise to meet and consider the real value
of these lands, some of which arc being
sold to speculators at too low a figure.
***
The Clarksville, Ga., Sentinel says; “II
the Farmers' Alliance continues to in
crease for a year or two more at the rat<
at which it has been if gaining will during the
last twelve months, soon bo the
largest organization ever known in this oi
any other country; and if it sticks together
and properly exercises its great power it
will be, easfly able legislation to accomplish of the such 3
revolution in the coun
try as will result in giving citizen, the farmer, but aftei not
only his rights the as a and the combine!
breaking up him trusts of much of his
which now robs earn,
mgs. will also place the farmer again in
position to become a legislator in the in*
tercsts of his country and his claims.”
*** Alliance has adopted
Hall county, Ga.,
the following resoluti mis:
Whereas, the present Alliance plan Exchange ol raising i|
funds for the State
inequitable, unjust and oppressive; there,
fore be it
Resolved, That stockholders our representatives be instructor, o:
county trustee
to insist on and work for the adoption o
the following plan, which w ill equalize tin
amount to he paid by each member ii
good standing now, and make every on.
hereafter initiated a member of tb eEx
change, thereby putting into practice aud gpecia ou
motto, ‘ ‘Equal rights to all,
Becond—Collect front every memnei
and from each one in it luted hereafter, fifty
cents, to be paid to the trustee stock
holders and ten cents a duarter for tht
term of five years from the date of or.
ganizatiou of each Affiance; allowing
those who have paid their installment!
credit for the amount paid by each ntem
ber.
BODY SNATCHER8 FOILED.
—
THREE LOUISVILLE PHYSICIANS DETECTED
IN A GRAVE ROBBERY.
While A dispatch from Louisville, its height Ky., say:
the storm was at aftei
midnight Monday night, a party of gravt
robbers in Northern cemetery, at Nett
CCrafcinjKj Albany, were surprised in the act of lit*
itio *rl<m J, a»u
one of them wits killed. Three other!
were tiftli arrested escaped. and The placed in jail, consisted but tin
three Louisville physicians—Dr. party J. T. ol
Blackburn und Dr. W. L. Grant, and an
other whose name is unknown, and col
ored assistants. They had gone over tc
steal the bodies of Thomas Johnson and
Edward Pearce, which were buried last
Sunday, and had deliberately betrayed, however, planned tlu
affair. They were bj
a boy whom they had wanted, employed to point
out the graves they and as soon
as they begun operations, hands. they were or
dered to hold up their Instead ot
obeying they ran, and a volley was tired.
One colercd roan was killed, aud one es
caped. hired. The three physicians were cap
NEGROES FOR MEXICO.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE TABES A HAND IN
THEIR COLONIZATION.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas, *r.ys
W. II. Ellis, colored, who is heading a
big scheme to colonize the negi roes from
Texas into the State of Chihaiili an, Mex
ico, arrived there from the City of Mexico
on Monday, en route to New York, where
he will meet the members of a wealthy
English syndicate, with whom ho will
close the sale of the lands in Mexico,
amounting to several hundred
thousand acres, and containing
gold, silver and coal mines.
He stated that he had ngeuts at Houston
who would start with two hundred fami
lies of negroes for Chitaauhua next month,
where they would locate in two towns
just above laid named out and syndicate now being built. interesting Tho
is
itself in the movement. Tho colonists
will be transported by'he company and
supported for a year, if tbousund necessary. He
expects to take several negroes
from the South to locate in Mexico,
where the government has granted two
million acres of land for that ourDOse.
LOTTERY TALK.
GEN. JURAL a. EARLY MAKES A DENIAL OF
THE LOTTERY STORIES.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says
Concerning the reports obtain of the Louisians
Lottery company to Jtibal A. a new ehartei join!
i.i Dakota, General Early
c immissioner of the drawings of that in
ititution with General Beauregard, makes
a public statement in which he %ayn the
Louisiana Lottery company had nothing
to do with the proposition Dakota reported legislature. to
have been made in the
Nor had the company auy connection
with the proposition. General Early
also announces as unfounded the state
ment that tho company proposes to
procure a renewal of its charter
by bribing the legislature of Louisiana.
The constitution of that the State, the gen
eral says, prohibits charter of
any lottery after the expiration The of that that of
the present company. statement
the lottery company contributed to the
republican campaign fund during denied the late
presidential campaign is also by
the General.
A NOBLE BENEFACTOR.
ITOW MIL CHANTELOUP DISPOSED OF Ills
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
Mr. Chanteloup the brass founder,
who recently died in Montreal, Canada,
left his entire fortune to his employes,
except a few thousand dollars,
which wero bequeathed $500,000. to charity,
The estate is valued at Each
of the 500 workmen receives $400, and
the balance is left to three foremen, who
are to carry on the business with it, Mr,
Chanteloup was a Frenchman, riot and had
to flee from Paris during the th ere.
He settled in Canada and built up a large
business.
GOOD FOR GEORGIA.
EDISON, TUB INVENTOR, TELLS OF BIG DE
VELOPMENTS FOR THE EMPIRE STATE.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, hat
established a laboratory at Charlotte, N.
C., and his experts are ransacking the
Piedmont country for certain ores
which he can treat to great ad
vantage by the magnetic processes. . Al
ready he owns twenty iron mines, and he
is acquiring more, The Atlanta Constitution
commissioned a mining engineer to in
terview Mr Edison on Georgia ores, and be
sent a report which Georgia told of big magnetites, develop
ments to come in
»>i\kel ores and gold gulphurets.
A ROUSING WELCOME
TO BE GIVEN THE CONFEDERATE VETE
RANS ASSOCIATION.
At a mass meeting of the citizens ol
Chattanooga, Tenn., held Tuesday confederate night,
it was decided to give the
veterans association, which meets there
in July, a rousing welcome, and a com
mittee of leading citizens, of old soldiers
of both of armies, the was appointed of the to affair. take
charge indications, management received
The from letters
from all parts of the country, are that
there will be an immense crowd in at
t mdance.
BUYING KAOLIN.
BOSTON CAPITALISTS GOBBLE 3,800 ACRES
OF KAOLIN LAND IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Manufacturers' Record reports that
Boston capitalists have bought S. C.
acres of land in Lexington county,
Professor Hitchcock, of Dartmouth col
letre. sa.ys the tract i« .me great body
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPFKN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The German government proposes to
intrduce new laws against socialism.
American donations to the French land
league received during the last fortnight,
a sum of $50,50(1.
The appointment of General Chlncella
to be governor-general of Cuba, is offi
cially announced,
nomination Tin, .-. 001110 , of uu Charles Tuesday, IV. oonfivmed Childs, the
as
postmaster at Marion, Ala,
The French government has accepted
the invitation of Germany to take part in
the German labor conference at Berlin.
The lower house of the Ohio legisla
ing ture, the on Weduasduy, State for passed n biff redistrict
congressional purposes.
The vote of the socialists in the recent
election in Germany, ns compared with
the last of previous election in 1885, shows
a gain 5(16,405 votes.
George Dowell, for of ChiHicothe, Mo., set
a gun trap a thief. Mrs. Dowell did
not know the trap had been set and
walked into it aud was killed.
Alfred Wolf, deputy commissioner of
lhteriial revenue at Richmond, Va., com
mitted suicide Monday by jumping in the
river at Smithficld, Isle of Wight. His
mind waft affected.
In executive session on Monday the sen
ate decided to make an inquirydnto the
methods by which newspapers secure
their in executive Information session. concerning proceedings
The schedule committee of the Ameri
can Monday, association and arranged met at Philadelphia which on
ii schedule
will be submitted to the association at
their meeting at Syracuse, March 10th.
Tho order grnnted enjoining the Cotton
Oil trust from disposing of property by
Iransferring it to the -American Cotton
Oil company of New Jersey, was vacated
on United Monday by Judge Wallace, of the
Stales court in New York.
Two masked men entered the store
of W. C. Henderson, at Berwyn, Indian
Territory Tuesday night, Ono of them
covered tho clerk with a revolver, while
the other dumped into sacks a large
amount of jewelry and money, and moun;
ted their horses with thejr booty and es
caped.
At New York, on Wednesday, Broker
Pell, Under $20,000 bail on the charge of
grand larceny, in of connection Hill with bank, the re
cent surrendered wrecking Lenox and was
again by one of his custody, bondsmen; pending
was taken into
his endeavor to secure other security.
A jV ac's Paris correspondent says that
Dnm Pedro is unwilling to dismiss bis
imperial suite. He has, therefore, resol
ved to endeavor to come to terms with
the Brazilian government, to renounce the
crown anil to return to Brazil and live ns
a private person.
A Providence, prohibitionists R. I., dispatch Wednesday says;
The state on
put in nomination tlie following ticket:
Governor, Rev. John Larry; lieutenant
governor, Joshua C. Brown; secretary of
state, John W. Mooney; attorney-general,
John T. Blodgett; Hazard. general treasurer John
John P.
A dispatch of Tuesday,from Baltimore,
Md,, says: A. Brehme – Co.,' importers,
German street; H. P. Towles – Go;, fur
nishing Welsh, goods, Baltimore Lexington street; and filed 8.
A. notions, benefit street; of their
deeds of trust for the
creditors. The bonds filed are respect
ively $24,000, $40,000 and $1,000.
A dispatch from Kansas City says: C.,
II. Epplesheimer, manager of the Pink
erton detective agency in that city, to
which was entrusted tlie task of captur
ing Frederick A. Walton, the cotapanjr absconding
ugent of the Pacific Express at
Dallas, Texas, received a dispatch on
Sunday from bt. Johns, N. B., stating
hat Walton had been arrested. Walton
itole $35,000 of the company’s money..
Only $7,000 was found on his, person,.
His offense is not extraditable.
THE DAM GIVES WAY.
A OREAT DISASTER IN ARIZONA—MANY
PEOPLE DllOWNDD.
The fine largo storage darn limit across
Passayampa river by tho Walnut Grove
Water Storage Company,'two years Saturday ago,
at a cost of under $300,000, gave way the
morning flood the 4ud great pressure everything of
heavy it. Bwcpt known
before Forty persons are
to have lost their lives, and
the dam which, held tho water back
wax 110 feet long at the base and 400
feet at the top. It was 110 feet thick at
the base and ten feet at the top, forming
a lake three mites in length by hundred three
fourths of a mile wide and one
and ten feet drowned deep. Of those .1. known Haines, to
have been were:
wife and four children; H. Boone and
daughter, John Silby, Joseph Reynold*,
Mrs. McCarthy and 8. McMillcr.
A 8T ARTLING CONFES8ION.
A Russian exile says i« was in a plot
to kill the czar.
-
A Pioneer Press special from Pierre, N.
D,,says: A man fell from a scaffold at the
electric light works at that place Tuesday
light and broke both thighs. He thought
lie was about to die, and made a confess
ion. He is an exile from Russia, being
implicated in a plot to blow up the czai
two years ago, and gave the ironies of sev
eral high Russian officials who were alsc
concerned. He has important documents
in his possession to substantiate his asser
tions, and has promised further develop
ments.
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H16 BONDSMEN LIABLE.
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the DECISION rendered in deeAU i.TBi)
TATE’S CASK,.
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The court of appeals at Louisville, Kv.,
on Thursday, decided that the bondsmetj
of Defaulting Treasurer James W. Tatt
are liable, but his case must be tried be.
NUMBER 14 .
DISASTROUS 8TORM3.
OREAT DAMAGE DONE IN TENNESSEE, OHIO,
KENTUCKY AND THE WEST
A Johnson vine, Tenn., dispatch says
One of the fiercest and most destructive
storms that has ever swept over our town
occurred about one o’clock Tuesday, thunder and ac
companied rains. by Two lightning, of the Nashville,
heavy spans Lotlisrailroad bridge
ChattAttOOga and Bt. entirely
across the Tennessee river, were
demolished. but Several loss buildings life is were reported. blown
down, no of yet
All telegraph communication west ol Jobn
sohvllle in is debris cut off,aa the wires are bridge tangled
the below tho
The news from Hopkinsville, and destructive Ky., says:
One of the most violent
passed atoi-nio over known in southern Kentucky
over this section Tuesday morning,
destroying Beveral houses and doing
great injury to property. In the city ol
Bellevue, a village south of that city, six
tobacco barns, with all their contents,
were destroyed, and a dozen down. houBes were
unroofed ahd blown The wind
blew From it perfect Hayton, cyciofie Ohio,—A over the city.... trrriffio
electric storm, with heavy raifl, flooded
the rivers here Tuesday. Tlie teprops
and lervecs were slashed out, and a ten
inch natural gas main was torn away.
The water of the creek shot into the ait
like a geyser and a column of gas, re
sembling black smoke, asscended two
hundred feet, terrifying the people....
patch A special to the terrible Bt. hurricane Louis Post Din
says portion a northern swept
over H of TexaH
Tuesday morning. The Masonic hall in
Gainesville was torn to pieces and the
Court iiotiSe Unroofed, the Santa Fc rail
road depot unroofed and t wen
IV buildings blown down. Sever
dardage n\ person* trill aggregate Trtvrto , JnjnTCft. $300,000..... Till
At Limn, Ohio, there is heavy damage
from the flood. Many county bridges
were sWept away, and also the railroad
bridge's Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad.... .Considerabledamage
'his been done to railroad property
all over Indiana by heavy rains
in Indianapolis and vicinity.
ALL THROUGH THE WEST.
Dispatches of Wednesday say; At Wa
tertown, Wis,, the most vicious snow
storm in two years raged Tuesday and
Wednesday with nights. The snow was ac
companied a fierce wind from the
north. ■ The roads are drifted badly and
the railroad.? are blocked to some extent.
At Wednesday, Mason'City, covering Iowa, a blizzard entire northern set in
the
marks portion of the and state. all trains The thermometei delayed.
zfefo,' cloudburst are
At Cambridge, Ind., a on
'Monday night caused Martendale creek,
hear that place, to rise so quickly that a wo
woman ana three children were
drowned. They belonged to a party of
gypsies (‘itrbondaif, encamped III., Mondaynight, near the stream. the placf At
was visited by the heaviest rainfall that
lias occurred for the last 15 years. It rained
incessantly until noon accompanied Wednesday. bt
A severe rain storin,
thunder and lightning, and began lasted at Anna, unti
111., Monday evening
r.uon Wednesday. The flooded. streams weri
swollen ana the lands It ha:
been snowing and blowing Saturday at Ash
land, Wis., ever since uigld
At Oshkosh, Wis., within less than lial
Sri hour, three inches of snow had fallen
and it was with the greatest difficulty
that street ears operated. The storm i
by far tlie worst of tlie year. The elfec
will be keenly felt in the lumber camps
where the snow is already carried so deep tiro
logging operations wero on witi
great difficulty.
WARM WEATHER.
TWO OF THE WARMEST DAYS'KVER BEFORE
KNOWN FOR FEBRUARY.
Weather reports from tho south-Atlan
tic and east'gnlf states indicate that on<
of the record warmest periods month of which of there Febru- is
any during tho section Tuesday
ary, occurred over that,
md Wednesday. Following arc the
maximum temperatures of Tuesday at
selected stations, with their relation to
the highest temperature ever observed
during February, viz: Washington city,
seventy-two degrees, six seventy-eight degrees below:
Wilmington, K C., de
grees, twelve degrees below; Norfolk,
Va., seventy-eight degrees, three de
vices below; Lynchburg, Va., seventy- below
two degrees, two degrees degrees,
Augusta, Ga., above; eighty-four Charlotte, N. C..
seventy-eight two degrees degrees, tivo degrees above
Atlanta, Ga., seventy-six degrees, om
legrec above; Montgomery, Ala., eighty
itigrees, one. degree below; Savannah,
3a., eighty degrees, one degree below.
The highest recorded temperature during
February, at Washing city—seventy-eight
degrees—occurred in 1874.
ASTOR’8 WILL.
THF, DEAD MILLIONAIRE MADE LIBERAJ
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.
At New York, on Wednesday, Wil
liam Warldorf Astor and Lawyer South
mayd entered the surrogate's office witt
John Jacob Astor’s will, and filed a pe
tition for it* probate. The will covers
only two and a half sheets of parchment,
J3y the will, St. Luke’s hospital receives
$100,000; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
$50,000; New York Cancer hospital,
$100,000; Astor library, $350,000; Alex
andcr Hamilton, $30,000, and James
Simmons Armstrong, $30,000. All the
re st, the residue and remainder of his cs
talc, goes to his son, William Waldorf
Astor. _____
TO CONTROL OKLAHOMA.
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the colored people organized to take
possession,
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A special from Topeka, Kan., reports
the existence of a secret political society
of colored people, railed the First Grand
Independent Brotherhood." Its object i*
to settle the negroes in Oklahoma as
numerously as possible, so that the rare
will have control, of Oklahoma when it
becomes a state. Wlute men will then
be compelled to recognize the negroes ns
equals or keep out^of “j
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SOUTHERN KOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN TNE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCE!
WniCH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s line.
Charleston S. C'., city council, has visit in
vited Vice-President Morton to
Charleston.
A bill making General Robert, E.
birthday a legal Monday. holiday passed the
ginia house
The bill to incorporate the
and Mount Vernon railway was
In the Virginia legislature Monday.
A heavy rain and hail storm swept over
Alabama Monday afternoon. Some hail
Btones at Livingston measured seven
inches round.
W. H. Harris’ distillery burned at
Louisville Wednesday afternoon. Loss
1100,000, covered by insurance. the roof being Tho
fire caught by a part of
blown in and striking a whisky liquor barrel.
The pipe bursted and the was
throw'n out into the furnace. ;
The secretary of the navy, amounting on Tuesday,
made the first, payment, to
457,800, to the Richmond Locomotive
Machine works, of Richmond, Va., for
work done on the machinery desig: ned for
the battle ship, “Texas,” which is being
built at Norfolk. This is the first large
payment of made money that the since navy the depart
ment has to the south war.
The twenty-second annual meeting ol
the Georgia Press association will be held
at Savannah on Tuesday, March 25th,
18110. The association w ill make excur
sions to Havana, Jacksonville, Sanford
and Tampa, Fla., and Jacksonville. will visit the Sub
Tropical will also exposition trip at St. John's They
make a up the ri
ver, Their sojourn will occupy about ten
days.
A dispRteh of Monday from Birming
ham, Ala,, says: As the day of his exe
mftion draws near, Hick Hawes grows
very nervous, but be seems to be making
a desperate effort to control his emotions.
He sleeps very little now-, and cats but
little. His face is very pale, and there is
a frightened look in his eyes. It is ex
pected he wilt break down completely on
the gallows.
A dispatch from Birmingham. Ala.,
says: Another arrest has been made In
tiie celebrated Hick Hawes murder case.
Will Roebuck, a negro hack driver, was
arrested Tuesday on suspicion of being
the man who helped carry the bodies of
Mrs. Hawes Rnd Irene from the cottage
to the lake, half a mile, away. The evi
dence against Roebuck is all circum
stantial, but is said to lit- rather strong,
and bis sudden flight from the city was
suspicious.
made Majority by the qml legislative minority committee reports were
pointed examine the office of the ap
to State
Treasurer of Mississippi. The reports do
not differ materially. They express the
opinion is credited that with where $100,550 Treasurer paid Hemingway by him
out
for coupons in 1870, and for which no
credit can be found on his general books.
It will be found that the State owes him
more than $2,000.
There and was a joint meeting of the stock
holders directors of all the street car
companies in Nashville, Teiio., on Wed
nesday, for the purpose of formally rati
fying the consolidation of the different
street car companies and the organization
of the United Electric hereafter Street Railway
company, which will assume
control of all tho lines. The company
will control fifty miles of electric railway,
which will all be in operation in thirty
days, with one fare from all points to
all other point? in the city.
AN ANCIENT LANDMARK
IS HUNTSVILLE DESTROYED BY FIRE—AN
ANTE-BELLUM RELIC.
A dispatch from Huntsville, Ala.,
says: Tho old Malsny carriage Meridian shop, al
the corner of Green and streeti
wa destroyed bo tire Sunday. This nn
oient building has stood for half a cen
t lry, and was a landmark of ante-bellum
days. Here was built beforp the war
hundreds of Sue carriages ana buggies ad
for tho wealthy planters of this and
joining states. The fire engine kept the
Baines confined so that the The adjoining entire
residences wore not injured. manufactured
bstlding and a lot of work
by tho Montezuma Rustic company and
its tools were destroyed.
CLOSED AT LAST.
AFTER REPEATED EFFORTS TO SETTLE
DIFFERENCE THE MILLS snUT DOWN.
A dispatch from Nashua, N. 11., says:
The operatives of Nashua determination company’s
mills manifested their to
’.i fid out against the reduction on wages
in the most decisive manner on Tuesday. recently
Under Treasurer Armory’s be
posted ultimatum, the help were to
given a final day. opportunity If this to return disre- to
•vork on that was
garded the mills were to be closed. The
employes failed to respond to the bell
,mi after a brief wait tne mills were shut
lown indefinitely. The operatives by arc
leaving town in large, numbers every
train.
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GEORGIA TO AUSTRALIA.
A SCHOONER LOADED WITH GEORGIA PIKE
LUMBER WILL SAIL FOR ADELAIDE.
A special of Saturday from Savannah,
Ga., says: There is a large schooner now
in the river loading with lumber for Adr
laide, Australia. This is the first time, so
far as can be ascertained, that Georgia island,
pine has been sent to that great
many thousand miles away. Large quan
tities of it are shipped to South America,
and occasionally some this'growing goes to Europe.
The new departure in export
will be watched with much interest.
A MILLIONAIRE DEAD
JOHN JACOB AflTOR SUCCUMBS TO AN AT
TACK OP PERITONITIS.
John Jacob As tor, leader of the great
family of that name, and grandson^ ol