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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 259
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1SS0.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
George McKinney Sends a Bullet Through
His Own Brains.
tip IMps In n Cell St tlip station Ilmisp— Fiinonil of
Poor lloli Alston—Up lollopim! (lip Kiunllj Tra
dition—Cornor-Stoiio for the V. M. ('. A.—Miscel
laneous Notes.
Special to Enqutrer-Sun.
Atlanta, On., October 25.— Sunday
morning about 2:30 o’clock George W. Mc
Kinney sent a bullet crashing through his
brain, and fell down to die upon the floor
of his cell in the station house. McKinney
was employed in the Franklin job printing
offlde, and was arrested Saturday by Sta
tion House Keeper Buchanan because of
his resemblance to a description of a man
wanted in Sewanee, Tenn., for whom there
was a published reward of $150. When
taken to the station house McKinney ad
mitted that he was the party wanted in
Tennessee; and, after being searched, lie
was locked in a cell to await the next
morning, when Mr. Buchanan would leave
with him for Setvanee. It seems that Mc
Kinney and Pillett. a tailor in Sewanee,
had quarreled about a bill, and Piltet
bad sued and garnisheed McKin
ney. Bitter notes had been
exchanged and when they met upon the
street McKinney had fired several shots at
Pillet, none of which took effect. Pillet
ran to escape being killed, and then Mc
Kinney fled to escape arrest. After hiding
out in the neighborhood for a week. Mc
Kinney came to Atlanta, and began work
in the printing establishment of Franklin
& Co. In the meantime Pillet had pub
lished a reward for his arrest and issued
descriptions of the fugitive. One of these
being received at the Atlanta police head
quarters, stationkouse keeper Buchanan
recognized McKinney and made the arrest.
He expected to take McKinney on the
morrow to Tennessee, but the, desperate
man put an end to his career, and his re
turn was as a corpse.
When the report of the pistol attracted
the station-house keeper to the cell McKin
ney was found lying upon the floor with
his brain oozing from a hole over
his right ear. In a chair lay a pistol and
the following note, written upon a tele
graph blank in pencil:
“Dear Sisters: When you read these sad
lines my poor spirit will have flown from
this prison house of clav and from these
cruel walls of stone and iron—from the
power of merciless money-loving men to
the paradise of an all merciful God. My
life has not, for some years, been worth
living, and now it is intolerable. I have no
hope for future pleasure on earth, and
there is certainly no worse hell elsewhere.
Do not weep,but count me at rest,sweet rest
from the distracting sorrows of this life.
May our merciful Father send the holy
comforts to your poor hearts. The laws of
man have no further claim upon my worth
less body. Take it and do as you like.
Goodbye and God bless you. Your lovir.g
brother George McKinney.
To Mrs. M. P. Orr, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Mrs. Julia Price, 28 Winnie street, Lexing
ton, Ky.
“P. 8.—I am not afraid of men, but care
not to live.”
The wounded man lingered but a short
while before breathing his last. In re
sponse to a telegram received from his sis
ter, Mrs. Orr, in Chattanooga, his remains
have been forwarded to that city.
As he Was carefully searched before be
ing locked up in the cell, how he got the
pistol was a mystery, but when the under
takers were dressing the body for burial
they found a pistol thrust into the left
sock wlieye it was secured by pinning up
the leg of the hose and tying a string
around the barrel of the pistol and the
ankle holding it in position. It is supposed
the other pistol, with which the shooting
was done, was concealed in a similar man
ner in the other sock.
McKinney was a neatly dressed, attrac
tive looking man.
Boll Alston'* Funeral.
Atlanta, October 25.—The funeral of
young Robert W. Alston, son of the late
Colonel Robert A. Alston, who committed
suicide in Washington city Saturday, will
take place to-morrow at 10 o’clock at
Decatur. The remains will reach Atlanta
to-night at 9:40 o’clock, accompanied by
his sister and several of Mr. Alston’s asso
ciates in the treasury department.
Bob Alston is the last male member of
the family but one, so I am informed, and
he f dlovv’ed the family tradition and “died
with boots on.” Twenty-eight years of
age, he was yet at the dawn of what might
have been a useful and distinguished '
career. He possessed a mind of more than i
ordinary brightness and a heart full of
generous impulses. Tint he should have I
ended life’s possibilities in a moment of
depression is a source of regret to numer
ous friends of the brave hearted, impetu
ous boy.
Hi 1 Mmlc a Fool of Himself.
Atlanta, October 25.—Denuty United
States Marshal McDonald telegraphs back
from Texas thattbe man arrested there on
suspicion is not John Coffee, the moon
shiner and murderer of Deputy Merritt at
Lula.
To Lily life Cornerstone.
Atlanta, October 25.—To-morrow the
corner stone of the new Young Men’s i
Christian Association building will be laid
with impressive ceremonies. The address
will be made by lion. E. P. Howell, and .
short talks will be made by Gov. McDaniel,
Chief .Justice Jackson, Mayor Hillyer and
Dr. McDonald. Exercises at 10 a. m. The
building when completed will be one of j
the handsomest in the city.
M. Stewart, wife of the late millionaire
dry goods merchant, A. T. 3tewnrt, died
suddenly this morning at h -r residence on
Thirty-fouth street and Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Stewart died at 10 o’clock t his morn
ing of congestion of the lungs and heart
trouble. On Friday she took dinner with
Mrs. Henry Hilton, and on the way home
contracted a heavy cold. On Saturday she
was so ill that she was compelled to go to
bed.and Dr. Milner was sent for. Yesterday
Mrs. Stewart grew worse and Dr. Milner
remained at the house all night. At half-
g nst 9 o’clock this morning cx-Judge
[oraee Russell called at the Stewart man
sion and was'informed that., although Mrs.
Stewart spent a restless night, she was feel-
inabetter and was able to sit up In bed
without great effort. A few minutes after
10 o’clock ex-Judge Russell was surprised
to learn from a messenger that Mrs. Stew
art was dead.
ON ’CHANGE.
A <{til<>t,Steady Market—Fluctuations Couflnod to
a Narrow ltniige.
New York, October 25.—The stock
market to-day was again dull, and fluctua
tions as a rule were conllned within a nar
row range. There was some wide fluctua
tions, however,In Jersey Central, Canadian
Southern, and Union Pacific. The general
tone of the market was weak, which was
almost entirely duo to heavy selling by
room traders. Though there were some
fresh short lines put out by the more
prominent bears. There was some ex
citement in Wall street in the early part
of the day and Louisville and Nashville
was conspicuously strong. In buying
for foreign account, Vanderbilt’s and
Grangers’ were heavy through the day,
St. Paul being the only one which
showed any activity. There was
considerable strength shown by Central
up to the last hour, which was attributed
principally to the covering of shorts. The
general weakness in the market is attrib
uted to the efforts of the bear leaders, who
have made a scare-crow of the possible
election of Mr. George the advocate of
higher prices. In the meantime little or
nothing in the market was done. The
opening was generally Arm, the first
prices showing advances of J to a. Trading
was tlie dullest for the first hour for many
weeks. Prices were somewhat irregular and
In some cast’s feverish, being left at
noon at about the opening figures. The
market then became intensely dull except
for a movement in Jersey Central and Ca
nadian Southern; but prices began to yield
and at the close, which was steady, at'quo
tations generally fractions below the open
ing. Jersey Central was the only active
stock on the list, and is V higher to-night.
Louisville and Nashville, New England
and West Point sho P advances of slight
fractions. The remainder of the active
list is invariably lower. Sales 243,000
shares. ,
BOYCOTTED BY GAMBLERS.
Curd Players Propose to (let Even With a Poilre
Commissioner.
The Diplomacy of the Bear Exhibited.
Murks Site tins Made Kiurhuiil's Old Enemy on
Her (iiinril -Lookout for Bussia - It is Meek or
Nothing Now.
Cincinnati, October 24,—A boycott has
been declared by the Cincinnati gamblers
against the house of Russell, Morgan &
Co., printers and lithographers. A profit
able part of t he business of the house is the
making of playing cards, which are sold in
large quantities in all parts of the country.
Robert Morgan, oneof tho firm, is presi
dent of t he board of police commissioners,
and instrumental in getting an order pass
ed by the board directing that al) the gam
bling houses should be closed. The gam
blers retaliate with the boycott. They
state that in the various gambling anil
poker rooms of the city not less than 500
50-cent decks of Russell, Morgan & Co.’s
cards were used and thrown aside for new
ones daily up to the time the order of the
police commissioners was made.
This boycott will not bo limited, how
ever, to the Cincinnati business of the of
fending houAc. The gamblers have had
circulars printed, which are being sent to
every’gambling house and poker room in
the country as fast as the addresses can lie
secured. The circulars call upon the frater
nity generally to join in the boycott. It is
stated that the business of Russell, Morgan
& Co. can easily he injured in this way
many thousand dollars a year.
POUND TRE POLES.
They Art Outrageously In Milwaukee.
Chicago, October 25.—A Daily News
special from Milwaukee says : “Considera
ble excitement was created here Saturday
night by the wild actions of the mob of ,
Poles, who succeeded in breaking up the I
democratic mass meeting. The people, it i
is claimed, iiad been commanded by the j
priests to attend the meeting, which was
held in the parish school house. Before J
going there they went to a hall and were |
addressed by Alderman Reedzinski, who |
obtained some notoriety during the May j
labor riots. He showed the crowd pic
tures of the Polish insurrectionists, |
who have been put to death
in the past and made an incendiary speech.
The people left Reedzinski all in a
body and went to the school house where
John Black, the democratic congressional
candidate and other politicians were con
gregated. Black was chairman of the
grand jury that indicted the rioters last
spring, and when lie attempted to speak
the mob hooted him and his companions,
and made such a demonstration that the
politicians had to leave the hall. For two
or three hours about 300!) Poles crowded
the streets for blocks around, yelling like
madmen.
London, October 25.—General ICaulhars
has informed the Bulgarian government
by note that Russia will regard the pro
ceedings of the sabranje as null land void.
A dispatch from Athens says a rumor is
current there that tlie czar has consented
to occupy Bulgaria.
Nobody will Cure.
PARIS, October 25.—The Edgnro says: It
is expected that Degiers, tlie Russian min
ister of foreign affairs, will issue a circular
to the powers declaring active measures
necessary to terminate the anarchy pre
vailing on Bulgarian grounds. It is dan
gerous to the pence of tho Balkan states
and offensive to Russia.
Work of tho Royal Commission.
Dublin, October 25.—-The royal com
mission. which lias been enquiring into the
causes of the recent riots in Belfast, con
cluded its labors to-day. The Irish Times
says: The reports in circulation that the
government’s programme includes a visit
ol’the queen to Ireland in 1887 are true.
The ministry has already submitted "the
project to the queen, who entertains the
suggestion favorably.
('rownoil Beads I’rpsont.
St. Petersburg, October 25.—'The czar
and czarina yesterday, after unveiling the
monument in memory of tlie Russo-Turk-
ish war, attended a lunch given by
oilicers of the army. The czar, proposing
a toast to the officers, said: “In drinking
to you, permit me to wish you success and
full enjoyment of health in tl\e future. In
the hardships you underwent in the war
with Russia and Turkey, I express these
thanks in the name of him who is no
longer among us. Once more, I thunk
you.”
Four Deaths from Clialoni.
London, October 24.—Four deaths from
cholera have occurred on the British troop
ship Euphrates, now at Suez homeward
bound.
The Old Man Is All lllt-lil.
' London, October 25.—The Times’ corre
spondent at Berlin suys: “The Emperor
William looks astonishingly well, and at
the opera he apparently led the cneering
of the scenes in the military ballet. It is
learned from an undoubted source that
Bismarck is equally averse to the Bussiau
occupation of Bulgaria and to the English
exit from Egypt. In accordance with
French notions M. Herbet is making the
most favorable impression.
It May Be So.
Vienna, October 25.—A political corre-
sponeent here has a telegram from Sofia
saying that tlie Russian partisans tln.ro
have circulated the report that two Rus
sian frigates have arrived at Varna. The
Bulgarian government puts no faith in the
report, and consider ttiat- it was invented
with the object of intimidating the people.
ltussiiin Citizens In Dnnitcr.
Vienna, October 25.—The Political Cor
respondence has received a telegram from
Odessa which says the Russian consul at
Varna asked for tlie despatch of a Russian
war ship to that place to protect the con- i
sulate and the Russian residents from tlie j
violence of the populace.
It's Tiki Thin. (’Iinrley.
London, October 25.—The Evening j
News publishes the notes which Sir
Charles Dilke, after his trial jn connection
with the Crawford case, banded to the {
committee of gentlemen formed for the
purpose of making enquiries into tho I
merits of the case. The committee is now
at work upon its investigations, and Sir j
Charles Dilke has sent to it new evidence
which ho has recently obtained. The .
committee will, within n few months, pub
lish the evidence taken at both trials of
the Crawford case, together with the last
criticisms made by Sir Charles. Tlie edi- j
tor of the Evening News says it is not pre
tended that tlie notes which lie publishes
to-day embody completely the opinions of
Sir Charles Dilke or the case. But he says
that with some necessary omissions they
form the first part of Sir Charles’ defense.
They Went for ’Km.
London, October 25.—The Crnfters of
Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, attacked a force of
police who were assisting the sheriff to
make evictions and the military had to lie
called out. It- was necessary to charge the
crowd with bayonets before it could lie
dispersed. Several were wounded and six
were arrested.
Vou Don't Say So t
London, October 25.—The lord mayor
has received a letter from tlie mayor of
Charleston expressing thanks for the
money forwarded from London for the
Charleston sufferers. The fund has been
closed.
BLASTED BY A NOMINATION.
$15,OAK). This afternoon lie gave some j
startling testimony id It is examination, j
James-Moran, of t he board of public affairs,
who is charged with certifying to fraudu- j
lent roiiehurs, is one of Ids victims. Ht> j
said he got Ids nephew, Joseph Peters, to |
personate Joseph Meyers & Co. and draw i
money on false bills, that Peters gave
money to him and lie paid three-fifths of
it to James Morgan, lie mentioned specifi
cally where and when lit: paid money to
Morgan on two of llicse hills for $500
each on c ross- uxam i nut ion. Sioter admit
ted lie hud sworn in Ids former trial that
Peters did not personate Meyers & Co.,
and lie did not draw money, but said lie
swore in fhat way to shield Peters. The
case of Morgan was submitted without
argument. Judge Fitzgerald held Morgan
to answer to the grand jury in $2000,which
was given. This testimony by Sieter was
wholly unexpected at this time, although
it has been thought lie would tell all he
knew before the trials were ended.
DUDLEY ON THE CANDIDATES.
Hn Thinks Blaine Is FtarOil of Defeat and tliat
Bill Is tlie Coming Man.
Washington, October 23.—Colonel Dud
ley, ex-commissioner of pensions, is noted
throughout tho north as one of the most
vigorous and energetic managers of the
republican party. He was one of Mr.
Blaine’s confidential lieutenants during
the canvass of 1881. Dudley has just re
turned from Pennsylvania, where he was
with Mr. Blaine for two or three days.
When asked if lie thought Mr. Blaine
would be a candidate for lenomination. lie
said: |
“1 have no such relations with Mr.
Blaine that I think he would have told me
if he was a candidate if he laid made up
his mind on tlie subject. I am certain Mr.
Blaine does not want to go through
another fruitless campaign. Outside of a
personal campaign .ur. Blaine’s judgment
is clear and unbiased. I feci perfectly con
fident that lie doubts his ability to lie elect
ed if he should he’ nominated again. If lie
becomes convinced of that you may be
sure lie will not permit his name to be pro
se. lied to the convention.”
“Do you think Mr. Blaine will be re
nominated?”
“It will depend upon what the democrats
do. 1 think Air. Blaine could carry New
York against Cleveland, but 1 do not think
he could carry it against Governor Hill. 1
regard Governor Full as oire of the most
astute and able politicians of his time. If
he were to he nominated the republicans
would have lo he governed in their choice
by that fact.” Colonel Dudley tlie-i went
on to say there were a number of Western
candidates coming up. li the nomination
should not go to Mr. Blaine it would prob
ably go west, and in that event would
naturally go to somebody agreeable to Mr.
Blaine. Mr. Allison he regarded as very
prominent on this account. If Indiana
should go republican this fall by any
chance, that fact would bring General
Harrison to tlie front. Governor Foraker,
of Ohio, was also coming up. He is very
popular with young men, and in the event
oi Blaine’s nomination might go second on
the ticket.
“Do you think Cleveland will be renomi
nated?”
“No, I do not. I am almost alone among
my friends in taking this view, but I have
been all over the north during the sum
mer and have made a careful examination
of this possibility of opposition to Mr.
Cleveland within his own party. The lead
ers do not like him, and the people with
whom he is popular are not enthusiastic
over him. l am confident lie will not be
renominated. The feeling in New York,
especially, I know to be very strong against
him.”
BUTTONS MOVED THREE INCHES.
Till) President Sim Taking an Adipose—To Try
Mnssiuc Trent ment.
New York, October 23.—A Washington
special to the World says: The expert
from the Neiv York School of Massage,
who lias helped Secretary Manning so
much, had an interview with the presi
dent yesterday. Mr. Cleveland intends to
take a course of treatment to see if lie can
not reduce his flesh. He has gained so
much in the lust six months that lie has
had to have the buttons on iris coat moved
three inches. Gen. Sheridan placed him
self in the hands of this massage professor
yesterday to have his waist reduced to
normal size. Massage and Swedish move
ment promise to t)e very fashionable with
Washington notables aiiiieted with large
waistbands.
And Shed Crocodile Tears at the Grave
of Thaddeus Stcvcn9.
An Analyst* nl’ I lie VoltMif I’l'iinsylvaniii anil tlie
rrnlialiilltli's The Ki'iinlillnin Figuring Milken
(lie Margin I'ncfiinfeirtilbly Narrow -The Con-
gresslnnal (hillnok.
Pittsburg, Pa., October 23. — Tlinn
IleulI, In a Steam Mill.
Reading, Pa., October 25.—Information
reached here to-day of a fearful accident
which took plneo in the Woodland district
in East Nantmeal late Saturday evening.
The boiler of .1. C. Fisher's saw mill ex
ploded, wrecking tlie building and scatter
ing destruction in every direction. Loss to
tho building $8000. The workmen injured
are: Calvin Sheets, badly scalded from
1 head to loot, and badly injured internally
] ho was thrown 175 feet. Silas Zeerbo, struck
i and cut in tlie stomach; picked up uncon
scious. These two will die. IJt-nry Stor-
hon, several flesh wounds and hands badly
scalded; Henry Bagentius, badly cut,
1 bru’ ’ " ’
scalded and bruised. Several other cm-
Henry Clay, no public man has had tho | ployes received slight injuries. Tho ex-
■'*' 1 " m " ! “ 1 plosion disturbed the neighborhood like
an earthquake. The wounded men were
taken to their homes to-day.
hold of Janies G. Blaine upon tlie masses
of the American people, liis hurried trip
neross tho state was one continued ova
tion, such as has been necorded no private
citizen since General Grant returned from
Ills tour of the world Admiration for
Blaine, desire to hear him, curiosity to see
him, made obscure way-stations ' tempo
rarily cities of people of all parties, sects
and soxes. It is .beneath true journalism
to strive to belittle such spontaneous and
hearty welcome os was given the great re
publican leader. True, tho welcome, and
the cheer and tlie enthusiasm
were for Blaine; hut if Penn
sylvania bo saved to republi
canism next month, the credit will bo
mainly his. If the wrath of the republi
can masses—enkindled by their leaders’
prostitution of the individual good to cor
poration greed, by their shameless barter
ing of the dearest, interests of the soldiers’
orphans to a machine syndicate, by the V
duplicity and Insincerity of their candi
dates and plntform on the great questions
of labor and temperance—b* stayed, it will
have been the presence and counsel of
James U. Blaine which lias stayed it.
Whether or not his magnetism bo strong
enough to draw his party out of the whirl
pool of distrust, desertion and demoraliza
tion in which it is floundering, lie has se
cured his prime object -the sixty votes of
his party in the next national convention.
THE MAN FROM MAINE
played his part well. His reiterated claim
of a birth-place in Pennsylvania was for a
purpose. His cute yankee trick of drop
ping a few eroeodile tears on the grave
of Thaddeus Stevens was appreciated by
the average Lancaster county Dutctunai
His little sop thrown to tli
whale at Altoona was relished by tho j land alter enduring great hardships. The
Pennsylvania railroad men, magnates and I ship and cargo is a total loss. While com-
mcudicants. Tho capture is complete.'.ing from York factory, the party met Col.
From Philadelphia to Pittsburg, from I'lrio | Glider in company with a party of voy-
to Gettysburg, Don Cameron, Quay, Chris agers on route for H
THE BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION.
The Contract Lot for tile First Twenty-seven Milos.
Birmingham, Ala., October 25.—The
contract has been let for the building of
tlie first twenty-seven miles of the Georgia
Central railroad's extension from Good-
water, Ala., to this city. The completion
of this gap with the Memphis and Bir
mingham road, now building, and known
ns tlie Kansas City route, which the engi
neers say will be finished by the first of July
next, will give the northwest a direct short
line railway connection with the south
eastern gulf const. The Georgia Central
company has bought $80,000 wortli of un
improved property in this city, adjoining
the recent purchase by the Kansas City
road, In lie usod for depot and machine
shop sites.
A Wreck anil a Meeting.
Chicago, October 26.—A Daily News
special from Winnepeg savs: “Captain
lluwles, of the Hudson Bay aompany’s
ship Owen, arrived yesterday over land
from Hudson bay. lie reports that on the
voyage from London to York factory,while
doubling Cape Churchill, a hurricane rose
which drove the ship on the rocks, batter
ing her sides. In a crew of thirteen, and
passengers consisting of a missionary, his
family and a doctor, all escaped to the
shore safely and made their way to York
big corporate factory by boots. The crew came over
Magee and the lessor lights away down to
the scrub-women at the capitol, have lost
their grip. Every mile-board along the
line of triumph proclaimed it. Whether
Beaver or Black comes out second in tlie
race for pluco in November Blaine is
ahead. The Plumed Knight’s dioo were
loaded.
THE MOST CAREFUL FIGURINO
at the republican headquarters makes tho
margin in the state, as Chairman Cooper
Hudson bay.
THE LOYAL LEGION.
d Hi mil Nlii'i'hlaii Succeeds (icnerul llunim'k as
Coin in iinilor-in-CItlof.
Philadelphia, October 23.—The com-
mandery-in-ehief of the military order of
the Loyal Legion held its annual encamp
ment in the hall of tint Pennylvania Kle
in his private circular expresses it; “un- ST
satisfactorily narrow.” The managers i Society to-day. The morning ses-
elaim to be able to win if the prohibition ’.fnHl ??
vote does not exceed 65,000, and concede I 1 ,^° Vm i j
that nine-tenths of it will come from re- i Icrnoon. The following named compan-
publioans. Nobody in tlie inside puts tlie ; ° n “ were present from New York: Major-
prohibition strength at less than SOjOOO, U Schofield, Lmted States army,
while ~ ~
most
the 1
that
loss i ...
vote the democratic ticket. In 1884 the
vote of the state, in round numbers, was: ,, .
Blaine,473,000; Cleveland,392,000; Butler,17,- j
000,and St. John, 15,000 Upon that basis, ,
with the estimated diverted ilote properly “X. or “ , , , - .
placed—473,000 Biaim, votes; minus is,009 i i'chl Scott Hancock, late commander-m
prohibition and 14,000 liquor, equals 401.- ^ w , Lieutenant-General 1 I
000 for Beaver, while 392,000 Cleveland
votes, minus 7000 prohibition and plus 14, cniei. tie
000 liquor, equals 399,000 for Black—makes . - , , . , . , , •
the republican margin 2000. Of course not vor, ‘ *} G hoped to. be present in the even-
nearly the vote of 1884 will be polled, but , At 6 ° clock tho encampment was
both the total and the percentage or tho I nV, ' , „ , , ,
decrease will be against the republicans. f'i?. , c0 " 1 V l,lc Sy w"“ n h . eld 8
The larger the majority the more voters meeting at the Union League at 6.30 p. m.
and invested the oincers-eiect with their of-
die.-General Charles A, Carleton, and
Brigadier-General John J. Milhau. Ex-
. Hayes filled thechair made
dentil of Major-General Win-
hilip H.
vvaH elected eommander-in-
cliiei. General Sheridan was unable to
ho present at the business session, but sent
larger the majority
there arc who stay at homo, and besides „ . , , . . ., ,
the chances are in favor of the democrats ! 1< i lul h . on °f. B l„ A “ ke £1”?
getting the bigger half of the 17,000 labor
votes. These figure’s of arithmetic tho re-
a banquet was tendered to the companions
of the commundery-iii-chief in the league
building.
A LiVELY CAMPAIGN.
C'oiurrrssiiuui
Knell Ol In i
Shot.
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Alinse
Being
Mlsi'rlln nee
Note
Atlanta, October 25.—Gov. McDaniel !
to-dav issued a warrant on the treasury for |
$3000 in favor of H. L. Jewett, treasurer of j
the academy for the blind, the same being
the appropriation for the fourth quarter. |
It is somewhat hazy in Atlanta to-day
and the possibility of ruin in the near fu- ,
ture is hailed with delight.
It is intended to make the military pa
rade at the inaugural ceremony an impos
ing one. The legislature will lie asked to
fix Tuesday 9th for tlie inauguration.
The ladies hospital fair for the benefit of
Ivy street hospital will begin to-morrow.
A number of railroad magnates are in
session in Atlanta to-day discussing rates. ;
Batteries B and H, of 2d U. S. artillery,
quartered here during the summer, have
been removed to Florida.
Anil the Boy Salli'il III.
Atlanta, Ga., October 25.—Mr. T. A.
Hommond, jr., a son of Congressman Nat
Hammond, married Miss Clifford Putnam,
a charming young lady of this city to
night. ’ Augusta, Macon and Columbus
were represented in the bridal party—Mr.
Archie Wilcox representing Columbus.
The church and vestibule wfere crowded
to the utmost. The bridal party were en
tertained at the home of the bride after
the ceremony, and at 11 o’clock Mr. and
Mrs. Hammond left on an extended north
ern tour.
Tho Ftioh Bio. Too.
New York, October 25.—Mrs. Cornelia
THE NORTHERN EDITORS.
They’ll Fowl' cm mid It Will Pay.
Raleigh, N. C., October 25.—The
twenty-sixth annual fair of the North Caro
lina State Agricultural Society begins here
to-morrow. It will be opened by Gover
nor Scales. The attendance will be very
large and the exhibit, particularly of cat
tle, is superb. The state department of
agriculture makes a remarkably fine and
complete display which tills a i-ery large
portion of the exposition building and
contains many thousand articles, includ
ing ores, miners’ woods, gems and all kinds
of crude products. To-morrow evening a
large number of northern editors will
arrive and be welcomed by Governor
Scales and Mayor Dodd, of this city. They
will meet with the convention of northern
born settlers in this state, which meets to
morrow evening. Wednesday night the
city of Raleigh gives a banquet to the
northern editors.
A Steamer tin Fire.
Liverpool, October 25.—The National
line steamer The Queen, Captain Milligan,
which arrived at this port Saturday from
New York and which is lying at Alexan
dria dock, is on lire. Tho fire is burning
in three holds. Several engines are pour
ing water on tlie flames. The steamer is
gradually sinking from the weight of the
water thrown into her. The fire originated
in the cotton stowed on the Steerage deck
iu No. 2 hold. The ship was filled with
water and the flames extinguished.
Tin: Curious l’llulif of ti Bi'iiulilican Nominee in
Mii'liimiii.
Detroit, Mich., October 24.—Louis R. !
Littlefield was recently nominated forsher-
itf of Wayne county by the republicans.!
To-day he ieorne I that to-morroiv the 1
democratic organ would publish the fact
that twenty years ago he was a convict in ;
the Albany, N. Y., penitentiary, lie there
fore visited the offices of the oftornoon
papers and beginning with tlie startling
statement, “I am a convict,” went on to
relate that, buying a horse in good faith
from Thomas Manning, in New York state
twenty-one years ago, lie was arrested in ;
Utica on the charge of having stolen the !
animal. The ease dragged along in tlie j
courts for several years, and finally, on the :
advice of his bondsman, his lawyer and the I
prosecuting attorney, Littlefield pleaded
guilty, being assured that the judge would j
suspend sentence. Instead he sent Little-:
field to the penitentiary for a year. He j
was pardoned out in two'months.' lie says j
that he has always lived the life of an hon
orable man. There is a probability that i
Littlefield will be asked to retire from the j
ticket, lie has lived in Detroit for eighteen '
years, and his record here is clean.
drover Hunts In stair II.
Washington, October 25.—The presi
dent will leave Washington for New York
Wednesday afternoon and return
tlie following evening. He will bo
accompanied by Secretaries Bayard,
Endicott and Whitney, and possibly
by other members of the calu
met. There will lie no ladies in the party.
The president will review the procession
in New York on Thursday morning at It)
o’clock, and will remain on the stand in
Madison square until it is necessary for
him to leave for Bedloe’s island, where the
inauguration ceremonies will begin at 2
o’clock. The president will remain there
throughout the proceedings, which will
probably last till 6 o’clock, and will then
proceed direct lo the Pennsylvania rail
road station in Jersey (fiqy and take the
first regular trail. io Washington.
publican bosses hope to reverse lay
BLAINE’S FIGURES OF RHETORIC,
Colonel Quay stopped fishing at Atlantic
City this week to assure a newspaper re
porter that the republican majority in the
legislature would lie twenty-five. That in- |
ideates that lie is nearly as badly seared as
Chairman Cooper. Twenty-five majority I
an joint ballot means thirteen Li'the house, | -•
for the twelve in the senate will he by | Knoxville, Tenn., October 24.—The
members holding over and from over- 1 congressional canvass m the fir-.: Tennes-
Wlielming republican districts, or the one ; see district is growing lively. Roderick R.
hundred and l'orty-one republicans in the j Butler and Parson James White, respect-
last house twenty came from tlie demo- iveiy republican and democratic nominees,
cratie counties of Adams, Bedford, Bucks, ! spoke in a church building at Rutledge
lirin, Fulton, Lycoming, Mifllin, Mont- j yesterday. For several days they have
ginnery, Northumberland, Wayne and been calling each other liars, thieves, etc.,
Westmoreland and the city of Lancaster, but yesterday Butler overstopped the
These twelve districts are sure to return bounds and called White a d d liar,
Tic republican counties of ' whereupon tlie parson whipped out an
Ci
(limit
Beaver, llutler, Crawiorit, Franklin, Hunt ugly hull-dog pistol and snapped it at his
ingdon, Mercer, Perry, Venango and Wash- antagonist. The weapon failed to go off,
nigton, with ^tiventy-lhree members, and j and friends prevented further disturbance,
five in tlie cities oi Harrisburg and Phila-! Bloodshed is imminent,
delphia arc fairly in doubt. Twenty-one
of tlie twenty-eight members to he chosen !
in those districts will almost, certainly be |
democrats. The counties named gave St. !
An I)mailIi'd For Murder.
Louisville, October 25.—A Courier-
Journa! special says: A large Welch dis
tillery near Ownesboro, Ky., owned by
Triplett & Walden, was burned this morn
ing. Loss $30,000.
After a friendly wrestling match yester
day near Williamsburg, Ky., Win. Brough
ton shot and instantly killed John Wisten-
hunt and wounded Wistenhunt’s brother.
The shooting was a cold blooded murder.
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Di'indy Si'luilli'lil to lie I n vest I ga t oil.
Washington, October 25.—Commssioner
Miller has directed investigation to lie
made of the charges that W. H. Schofield,
deputy collectorof internal revenue for the
first Pennsylvania district, is, with the con
sent and approval of Collector Frederick
Gerker, levying political assessments
amounting to three per cent, of their sal
aries, upon tlie employes of that service
in violation of the law.
GlnrliimttFs Sin.
Cincinnati, October 25.—Geo. T. Sieter,
ex-clerk of the board of public works, was
bound over to the grand jury to-day iu
c 8-20.000.
October 25.—It was
H. J. Landers, a ilis-
anders, Given A Co., pork
't a number of creditors
is conducted as a broker.
In those matters he used the name of J.
Landers, that being the name of his uncle,
Jackson Landers, and at least one of the
houses, a Chicago house, believed it was
trading- with the uncle. What the amount
of the shortage on this line will be cannot
be told until the rat urns are all in. Hut it
is believed it will amount to $20,000.
A (Id lil Kill i’ll In ii Blair.
Cleveland, October 25.—This morning
Rosa, the two-year-old daughter of Henry
Doembriiek, a saloon keeper, met with a
horrible death, being almost eaten alive by
a bear. The little one was playing in her
father’s back yard and got through the
fence into tlie yard of a neighbor, a saloon
keener named Kerns, who kept, a bear
chained in the rear of his lot. The child
ventured too near the bear, which knocked
her down and commenced devouring her.
The body was horribly niutillated before
it could lie rescued. The owner of the bear
has been arrested on a charge of man
slaughter.
John 2800 votes. This year there are pro
hibition county tickets in all of them,
backed by a thorough organization and an
enthusiastic following. Although classed
as republican, these counties are i ot relia
ble, and to-day fully one-half of the. court
house offices are filled y democrats.
Twenty sure to tie democratic and twenty-
one out of twenty-eight reasonably certain
forty-one in all -shows how biinly Col.
Quay is seared and completely wipes out
his narrow margin of thirteen in a
house of 201 members. The republican
congressional stove-pipe
HAS L'NJOINTED
in the Schuylkill district. There Charles
N. Brumm has posed through two con
gresses as a republican labor representative
being both times elected by a trade-off of
the republican county ticket. This year
the labor people declared tlie trade “off.”
So badly is Chairman Cooper seared that
he persuaded the Plumed Knight to plume
himself at PoUsViile on his home stretch.
In Chester county the sturdy old Quakers,
who love fair play and despise trickery as
much in polities as in business, are making
Quay quake and beating the bushes for
Everhart votes. HI-inn’s special train was
stopped at Downingtown and lie induced
to try to stop the stampede there. In the
MeKe,m district the bosses have downed I words, “Orate Pro Nabis.
Senator Lincry. So much for Ids daring 1
to oppose the Cameron dynasty. That
district takes in the great Bradford oil belt
anil tlie greater lumber region of Cameron,
Tliev'vc (iot 'Millin'.
Montreal, October 25.—The Montreal
delegat es to the Knights of Labor conven
tion in Richmond, Va., have returned. It
is understood that efforts will he made by
amending the constitution to satisfy the
Roman Catholic authorities of this
province.
lie si ole II. All tin- Siime.
Mobile, Ata., October 25.—Superinten
dent, C. ti. Meriwithro authorizes the st ate
ment, that ail of Manager T. C. Stewart’s
indebtedness to the Western Union Tele
graph Co. in Mobile has been settled.
Till: I’ejll's Order*.
Rome, October 25.—The pope has re
fused to allow any ornament to be placed
an Lizst’s grave beyond an unpainted
An Editor (loes to Best.
Chicago, October 25.—Rev. Robt. West,
Lycoming and Potter, anifabout equals in’ th” editor ofthe Advance, a widely known
A pro liken Murderer.
Montgomery, Ala., October 25.—A spe
cial to the Advertiser from Gadsden re
ports the killing of the widow Cannon hv
a drunken young man named Albein. He
went to her home wit ii a friend anil was
put out on account of his condition. He
crawled back through tiie window and
while the woman was stooping over he
shot her in the hack of the head, killing
her instantly. He escaped.
c reage to tiie states of Delaware and
Rhode Island. Three of its six counties
are republican. Now tlint district is de
batable. Tlie dead-lock in the Biair dis
trict continues. The millionaire Roberts
is shooting out his hoodie faster than ever
his torpedoes shot oil out of u well, and if
money will place him in brave Captain
Flceger’s seat in congress, h
theologian, died suddenly at Sycamore this
morning where he had gone*to deliver a
sermon.
Tin-
Secretary's Oriler.
Washington, October 25.—The secre
tary of war has directed that Chief Mangus
and the two bucks captured with Geronimo
wili get and nis hand and that the squaws and
children in Mangus’ band be sent to Fort
Marion, Fla.
there. But tile sincere, unpurchusable
publicans of Butler and Crawford are
treasuring up wrath unto the day of wrath'. ,
Scott is successfully withstanding the as- (Jeronimo's Arrival,
saults '3 our "puddler-stat.esman” and our Pensacola, Fla., October 25.—Geronime
glasS].blowing blower, paid emissaries of arrived to-day, and is confined with four-
Maeke.v, and altogether the congressional j teen other warriors at Fort Pickens on
held is ripe ior the harvest. 1 Santa Rosa Island opposite Pensacola.
