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GOOD FOR A GOLPITE.
EDWARD ATKINSON SPEAKS TO
SOUTHERN EDITORS.
The Ranking Laws?Admits tlielr Iniquity
and Suggests their Reconstruction?Silverltew
Present CJrici-anccH.
Richmond, Nov. IS.?The Southern
Associated Press met in annual session
at the Jefforson hotel, this city, this
morning, transacted considerable routine
business and re elected the old offers
Mr. M. Glennaan of the Nor
folk Virginian was added to the executive
committee.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston,
who was in the city, addressed the
meeting at some length and among:
other things said: "I need make no
excuse for being here. I came here
for rest, but when I find myself beforethe
Southern Press association Ihere
is a word wliich must be said. I have
_ my "finger on the centre of the nerve
of the southland whence the influence
may come that may make or mar the
mighty future of this nation. I know
not what all your views may have
? *X"1- tt/VII T llQTTA Viplfl A
oeen; wim sumo ui jwu * u?..v ?
somewhat bitter contest in the late
war; others have been with me?'let
the dead past bury its dead.' At the
beginning of the financial reconstruction
of this nation on you falls a stern
responsibility.
"Several years since the president
of the largest bank in came to my
office. He put to me this question:
'What will be the end of the purchase
of silver bullion under the Sherman
act?'to which I replied: 'A financial
panic such as this country has never
seen and a paralysis of industry such
as we have never witnessed.'
44 'When will that happen?' To
which I replied: 'No man can fix the
date; when the doubt passes through
^ the land of the ability of the treasury
of the United States to maintain the
payment of all its obligations of the
lawful unit of value?a dollar made
VI U1U. UO UVWU bUio {/ivpuvvT mmm
went away preparing: like myself for
the future. That crisis has come and
from that paralysis we are now emerging?the
verdict of Ihe nation has
been rendered. I impute no wrongful
motives to those of your section
who hav3 sustained the acts which
have brought on this contest. It is
ended; 'let the dead past bury its dead.'
May we not join together hand to
band in the efforts to restore conditions
under which all may make progress
to prosperity alike? Years ago
I thought that I had found in the re
strictions upon banking the cause of
the danger which -we have just sur
mounted. In our section of the country
we _ have more banking capital
than we can use. In your sectien and
in the far west it is lacking. Your
people are distrustful of banks and
bankers, not knowing or believing in
the service which banks render to the
community, yet subject yourselves to
the worst and most costly system, because
you have no other. Your people
depend upon traders at the four
corners, taking advances from them at
excessive rates of interest, put yourself
upon obligations to sell their producls
to them at as much as they may fix
and paying to them double price for
all their supplies. People cannot
prosper under these conditions and the
restrictions of the present bank act,
suitable for the period of war, and,
perhaps, justifiable, preventing that
mutual service which banks ana bankers
might render to your community.
"It has been difficult for the men of
the north and east to comprehend the
real grievance under which you have
suffered while tfcey deplore yaur mis
taken effort in tne recent election to <
bring bad money not only upon yourselves?but
upon us?money which required
a force bill or act of legal tender
to make it circulate at all.
"We now ask you to formulate your J
needs, to state your case and to join !
with us in such a reconstruction of the
banking system of the country as shall
make this nation a unit, knowing no '
sectional wrong to prejudice, each :
serving the other according to its abil- J
ity and its needs. There are many ,
methods by which this can be done. ,
The adjustment is a matter of detail.
Are we such incapable people that, j
possessing the greatest resources of the (
world, we are smothered in our own j
grease because we cannot organize a |
system by which we can serve each
other? (
"The lawful unit of value, surviving
centuries of struggle throughout the J
world is now the unit of commerce, to
which this and every other country ,
must adjust it own conditions, or else .
suffer loss. Shall not our unit of value,
the stand of our commerce, be the
equal of any in the world? Then, as
I said, *Iet the dead past bury its dead.'
Let us join hands. The solid south is
broken, even color line is broken. It
is the most hopeful period that I have
witnessed since the civil war. Iiight- \
minded men may now lay away their
prejudice with the struggle that has
just ended. Find out wherein we may
reconstruct the financial system of the
country and then join together, and by
the force of the united public opinion
bring about the removal of the artificial
construction to our mutual benefit.
Of all the issues which must come ,
to the front in the immediate future, I !
believe that the reconstruction of the
banking system is the most important.
Had that been undertaken when it became
so manifest to the few as it did a j
few years since, we should have had <
no silver craze, or we might have been ;
saved the disaster and panic of recent :
years.
"Upon you rests the great responsibility.
As you may mould public
opinion of your section through your
press association, so may be the welfare
or the ill fare of the nation in the
immediate future. But let us remember
we differ, and that, struck through
the shoulder by the sparks that are
elioited, the light of truth is extended.
Whatever might have been our errors
in tfie past we may now work heartily
for the honor, the integrity and the
welfare of our common country. I
thank you for the opportunity which
you have given me, and leaving you
now I would again try to get a little
rest when I betake myself to the sea
p in going home from Norfolk."
The members of the association 1
spent the afternoon visiting the points 1
or interest in tne city, and they were <
entertained at the Westmoreland club. 1
Tomorrow they will take a trip to Old I
Point and dine at the Chamberlin ho- I
mjft tel. The local members are making it
|?8| pleasant for the visitors.
Used Poison. ]
HHkk St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 19.?Rev. J. i
C. Hull, the preacher on trial charged <
with attempting to poison his wife, i
NK this afternoon pleaded guilty and was i
sentenced to the State prison for six ;
|||K years.
GOLD BUG PROSPERITY.
A Sample of WlmtWo May Expect Under
Its Rule.
New York, Nov. 17.?It was announced
in the tanestry mills of the
Alexander Smith & Son Carpet Company
in Yonkers tonight thas one-half
of (he force employed in the mills
would be laid oJF Friday and the remainder
by "Wednesday of next week,
and th it the concern would shut down
until January or later. It was also
nnnounced that probably the other
mills of this company would do likewise
within the next two weeks. If
this occurs, about 7,000 hands will be
thrown out of employment. The cause
given is that there is no marketJSt&rcarpet
and that the comaaa^Tad on
hand manufactured stock far in advance
of^arfty^robaKTe demand. The
"nt~? i r, 1 in nammarifin(y ati
i>v'f? iorii wuuiuai m tvuiMivu?iUri w?
the above says: Hardly had the employes
of the A. SmithSons1 Carpet
Company, of Yonkers, N. Y., had a
chance to rejoice over the restoration
of the 30 per cent, reduction, which
was made in their wages previous to
election, than they are confronted by
the statement that the mills would
close down, to renew work possibly,
but not positively, by January 1,
This is a severe blow to theworlrin?
people, who were given to understand
that by the restoration of that reduction
they were to taste the sweets of
the so-called "good market," brought
about by the election of McKinley
and Hobart. The announcement was
made in what is known as the "tapestry
mills," situated on Palisade avenue,
yesterday, and it was immediately
circulated throughout the entire
city, creating much gossip and condemnation.
This mill employs about
2.500 hands, -who are naid on an aver
age of $1.25 a day. A large number
of these employes are men with families
relying upon the mills as their
only support. Beginning Friday
evening, when the hands are paid off,
one-half will be thrown out of em
ployment, and by Wednesday night
of next week the looms will have
ceased to operate. Not only does this
apply to the tapestry mills, but, it was
learned, on good authority, that all
the Smith factories in Yonkers will
cease operations within two weeks,
thus leaving no less than 7,000 people
without any source of revenue. Harold
Brown, treasurer of the company,
refuses to be interviewed on the matter,
but it is generally known that the
company has kept its looms at work
with practically no market for its
goods. The Smith carpet is sold extensively
in the West, where banks
? milra Inane pr?n in fhft mftst
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reliable until business has revived in
that section. The Smith Carpet Company
is easily the largest carpet manufacturing
concern in the world. It
turns out between 40,000 and 50,000
yards of carpet a day and has a pay
roll amounting to nearly $60,000 a
week. The weavers receive between
$1.20 and $1.40, which is the highest
pav of any of the laboring class of
employes. The company is at present
carrying a tremendous stcck. The
businessmen and merchants are much
disturbed over the pending depression
of business.
Ilryan Will Lecture.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 17.?It has
been definitely arranged that William
J. Brvan is to take the lecture platform
and his first address will be delivered
at Atlanta, Ga., early in December.
His route as far as it has
been arranged will be, after leaving
Atlanta, Jacksonville, Savannah,
Charleston, Augusta, Birmingham
and New Orleans. After leaving the
latter city, Mr. Bryan will go through
Texas, then on to California and Oreeon
and will not reach the cities of the
East before the latter part of February,
1S97. The man behind the enterprise
isV-E. McBeeof Norfolk, Va., the
superintendent of the Seaboard Air
Line. On election night Mr. McBee,
who had been a hard worker for the
Bryan ticket, wired jo this city offering
Mr. Bryan a very large amount
for a series of lectures in case the election
should turn against him. No attention
was paid to the matter at the
time by Mr. Bryan, but after the defeat
of the Democratic ticket had been
formally acknowledged by the Democratic
leaders, Mr. McBee once more
renewed his offers, negotiations were
begun and the result has been that Mr.
Bryan has signed contracts for a series
3f lectures under the management of
Alexander Comstock, who is the representative
and associate of Mr. McBee
in the enterprise. The terms of
the agreement from a financial standpoint
have not been made public, but
it is reliably understood that the remuneration
which Mr. Bryan is to receive
is to exceed the salary he would
have received as President of the United
States In the event of his election
to that office. Arrangements are alreadv
under wav to have the delivery
of Mr. Bryan's first lecture in Atlanta
made the occasion of a great demonstration,
which will be in the nature
of a monster reception. The lectures
to be delivered by Mr. Bryan will be
oon-partisan in their character and
will for the most part be upon governmental
and social. topics, as it is
expressly stipulated in the contract
that the tour shall have no political
aspect or color.
No XegtoeH Wanted There.
Paducah, Ivy., Nov. 17.?Four negroes
were seriously wounded and five
others sprinkled with buck shot last
night by a mob of white men at Altoo- j
na, fifteen miles from here, on the
Tennessee River, Fifteen negroes were
engaged in cutting timber for the
Standard Oil Company. They had
been ordered to leave, being told that
no negro was allowed to stop there.
John Keeber, . the foreman, decided
that there was no danger of violence,
and the negroes were sitting around
an old smoke house, when a mob of
Sftv men swooped down upon them
ind began firing. Some of the negroes
ran into the woods and others sought
refuge in the house with the foreman,
rhe mob then started to burn the
house, but the foreman sued for peace
mdthe negroes were given twenty;ive
minutes in which to leave. The
seriously wounded are: Smith, forenan;
Mitchell Clark, John Boyd and
?ena Jenkins. They were brought to
ihis city. No effort has been made to
ipprehend the mob. Not a negro can
be found for miles around Altoona
:o-day. Several men havejbeen killed
by mobs in this neighborhood before^
Fatal Fire Damp.
Berlin, Nov. 19.?An explosion of
[ire-damp which has occurred in a colliery
at Kecklingheusen, Westphalia,
caused the death of a large number of
miners. A score of bodies have been
Lancu jiuui tut; muiu. r my miners
are still missing ar.d arn thought to
bave perished.
ELECTING THE PRESIDENT.
FORMALITIES TO BE OBSERVED IN
CANVASSING THE VOTE.
Meflftongora Got Good Pay?Three Sets of
ltfHlirUH 1TIHUU?IT IIHl nuuiu ?
McKJnley was to Die IloforeDecember 2.
Washington, Nov. 18.?How many
people are there in California and
Oregon who would be willing to take
atrip across the country for $800?
That is what the electoral messengers
from those States will receive for
-bringing the votes for William McKinley
to Washington.
The electors chosen in the different
States will meet on the first Wednesday
in December, according to the
law, in the place provided by the
Legislature of each State. In every
case this is the Stite Capitol. At this
meeting the electors will give their
votes for McKinlev or Bryan?no
other of the candidates having received
enough votes in any State to enti
tie them to consideration. The result
of the vote will then be made out in
triplicate. One copy will be sent to
the President of the Senate by mail;
one copy will be sent to him by mes
senger, and oce copy will be delivered
to the judge of the district in which
the electors assemble. To these copies
will be annexed lists of the electors
prepared by the Executive of each
State, according to the official returns.
The reason for taking three copies
of the vote of the electors is the possibility
that one or two may go astray,
and the precaution has been found
wise in more than one instance. At
the time of Mr. Harrison's election it
was necessary to send to the District
Judge to obtain the vote of one of the
States, the messenger having gone astray
somewhere and the vote by mail
having been lost in transit.
The messengers have one month in
which to reach the Capitol. If they
have not arrived by the first Wendesam/1
i t f Ua n ncfnl >?o_
utijf ill uaiiuarj', auu 11 mo uotm aw
turn has not been received by that
time, the President of the Senate sends
a special messenger to get the returns
from the District Judge.
For performing the service of carrying
the returns safely to Washington
the messengers are allowed by
law 25 cents for each mile "of the estimated
distance by the most usual
road." The distance from Annapolis
is short and the messenger of Maryland
will not be overpaid for his labor,
but the distance from San Francisco,
by way of Omaha and Chicago, is
3,227 miles, and the California messenger
therefore will receive more
than $800 for his journey. The distance
from Portland, Oregon, is 3,310
miles,and the messenger from Oregon
will receive about $20 more than the
messenger from California. The messenger
from Minnesota will receive
pay for only 1,254 miies,or about $300.
He can perform the service in three
or four days at the most; so you will
see he is not ill-paid.
The messenger from Illinois will receive
more than $200.
When these messengers reach Wash
incton they will call on the President
of the Senate and deliver the returns
to him in person. If one of them arrives
on a day when the Vice President
is not at the Capitol he will have
to wait. If the Vice President is presiding
over the Senate when the messenger
arrives he will be called out. The
Vice President will receive each of the
.returns sealed, and will give a receipt
for it. Then he will placa the envelope,
still sealed, in a little iron safe which
stands in ono corner of the Vice President's
room. It has stood there for a
great many years and is not a very
modern safe; but there is no inducement
for anyone to break into it. If
the original returns should be stolen
it would be easy enough to obtain the
duplicates.
There is a reverse side to the joyful
occupation of electoral messenger.
The messenger who fails to perform
the duty for which he lias been chosen
and does not deliver the vote entrusted
to him "shall forfeit the sum of one
thousand dollars," according to the
statute. He is not to pay a fine in a
sum "not to exceed one thousand dol
lars;" but it is imperative he be fined
the whole amount.
There is a provis'on to protect the
messengers m case the Vice President
should be absent from Washington.
In that event the messeneer may deliver
the vote to the Secretary of State
who will give a receipt for it.
A great many persons no doubt are
puzzled to know what would happen
if Major McKinley should die before
the electoral vote was cast, on the first
Wednesday in December. That Happened
in the case of Horace Greeley in
1872. He died before the electors met
and all of those who had been chosen
on his ticket, with the exception of
three from Georgia, voted for whomsoever
they pleased. The three cast
their votes for Mr. Greeley, but when
the votes were canvassed by Congress
it was determined not to count the
three votes for Mr. Greeley. If Ma
jor McKinley should die it is quite likely
the votes of the electors would be
cast for Mr. Hobart, but it is possible
that they would be scattered, and in
that way the election would be thrown
into the House ef Representatives. In
such a case there is no knowing who
would be President.
The House and Senate will canvass
the votes of the electors on the first
Wednesday in February. The Senate
will go over to the House of Representatives
in a body, headed by Vice Presdent
Stevenson and Secretary Cox, followed
by Chief Page Stewart, over
whose shoulders will be hung by a
strap two wooden boxes containing
the precious votes. The members of
the House will rise as the Senators enter
two and two. The Vice President
will mount the rostrum and take a
seat at the right of Speaker Reed.
The two tellers for the Senate, (Mr.
Hale and Mr. Blackburn officiated
four years ago,) will sit al the desk below,
and below them will sit the two
House tellers. The Vice President
will then take the envelopes handed
to him by Stewart in their alphabetical
order. In the first count the States
were taken according to geographical
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location, oegmmng wnn maine, dui
since 1376 they have been taken alphabetically.
Each certificate as it is taken
from the envelope he will hand to
the tellers and they will read them in !
turn, the Senate tellers reading the i
first two and the House tellers the :
next two. The vote of Alabama will
be read in full and then unanimous 1
consent will be asked and granted that .
the remaining certificates be summa- ]
rized. A double tally of the votes !
will be kept. That will be a compara- <
tively simple matter this time, because '
it is known now what the vote of each <
i
H .< ' -j.
'deft JT-.
State will be, and even if some consti
tutional objection was raised to thi
counting of the vote of one of th
States, it would not involve enoug]
votes to affect the result of the election
When the votes have been couatei
and the results have been announce!
for each candidate the Vice Presiden
will announce that William McKir
ley, of Ohio, having received a majoi
ity of all the votes cast for Presidenl
has been elected President of the Unil
ed States, and that Garret A. Hobari
of New Jersey, naving received a ms
jority of the votes cast for Vice Pres:
dent, is elected Vice Piesident of th
of the United States. He will thei
adjourn the joint session of the Hous
and Senate, and the Senators wil
return to their own hall or Senat
chamber. If, after the canvassing c
the electoral vote, the President-elec
should die before the day fixed for hi
inauguration, the Vice-Presiden
would become President.
EASTERLIN ACQUITTED.
The State Failed to Fstabllah the Corpn
Delicti.
CHARLESTON, b. U*, JNOV. IB.?Jttiiec
trician Wm. H. Easterlin was ar
raigned in the Court of Sessions Tues
day morning for the murder of hi
child on September 2ist. This sensa
tional cause drew a large and interest
ed throng to the court room, Jwhicl
held their places throughout the day
It will be remembered that on the 23r<
of September Mr. Easterlin was ar
rested on the charge of having mur
dered the new-born infant which wa
found dead with a stone tied aroun<
her neck in Bennett's Mill Pond. Oi
the night of the 21st of September
Easterlies paramour, a young womai
with respectable connections, gav<
birth to an infant, which was believec
to have disappeared. On the after
noon of September 22, the day after
a child was found dead in the mil
pond. Easterlin was arrested on th<
charge of murder and the three-folc
problem which the state now has t<
solve is to identify the body as that o
Easterlies cmid; to prove mat it wai
born alive and was done to death bj
violence, and to show that Easterlii
is the party that did the deed. It ma^
be said here that there seems to be lit
tie doubt in the minds of many tha
the body of the infant found In th<
mill pond is identical with the illegiti
mate offspring that was born to Eas
terlin and his paramour oa the nighi
of the 21st of September. The princi
pal question remaining to be solvec
tafpre the tribunal of public opinion
all seems to have arrived at its verdic
in advance, is as to whether the fathei
was the murderer alone, or at all, anc
as to whether the women in the case
a mother and daughter, are not alsc
principals. Several supposed strong
circumstances are mentioned as point
ing to their complicity, at least, m th<
crime. The defense, too, seems to b<
adopting this line in laying the foun
dation of their case, of shifting th<
motive ana metnoa 01 ine crime u.
other than Easterlin's shoulders.
The trial terminated this morning
in the verdict "not guilty," which wai
read on the opening of court at 1(
o'clock, the jury having reached theii
conclusion in the wee sma' hours o
the morning and having transmitlec
it written and sealed to the Judge
The verdict was generally anticipated
It was evident to the least expert tha
the State had failed to make out it
case. It was one purely of circum
stantial evidence, and the one, impor
tant and indispensable link in the cir
cumstantial chain was not only want
ing but was strangely, if not purpose
ly, overloooked by both sides in th<
case?that is to say, the corpus delicti
the identification of the body of the in
fant found with that of Easterlin'j
child. While all the circumstance)
seemed to point to the identity of th<
two, no stress was laid upon this point
and even when the grandmother ir
her testimony stated that after deliv
ering the child to Easterlin she die
not see it any more until the occasioi
upon which she saw it in the hospital
it was noticeable that neither side un
dertook to draw her out as to hov
she identified the mutilated ant
lish eaten cadaver with that of the in
fant in question.
The failure to establish the corpui
delicti absolutely, in a case of pircum
stantial evidence?where the accusec
had not been actually seen to commi
the deed?would alone seem to be i
prima facie confession of weakness
But the truth seems to be, that th<
Coroner's inquest was perfunctorj
merely, as these too often are, ant
the proper legal precautions for iden
tifymg the remains were not fully ob
served. The swaddling clothes of th<
child as found seem to have beer
buried with it.
In addition to the fact that then
was no positive evidence to connec
Easterlin with the destruction of thi
infant that was found, there was n<
testimony beyond that of the two wo
men concerned to show that he hat
been the instrument for carry ins
away the infant that had disappeared
and as all through their testimon}
the women evidenced a stronger mo
tive for keeping the matter secret ant
of getting rid of the encumberanc<
without exposure than Easterlincoulc
reasonably have entertained, a fata
suspicion was necessarily cast upoi
their story.
The circumstance which bore strong
est against their testimony was thai
they admitted not having made anf
preparation for keeping the child ir
the way of clothing. The prisoner
who has grown much thinner since
bis incarceration, and who has al.
through the trial shown a degree o!
nervousness natural to the occasion,
and to the fact that there was muct
prejudice against him, which was nol
altogether owing to the belief in his
homicidal guilt, heard his acquita]
with composure and, together with
his brother and son, who have stood
I*-* /VM/Iaa] Knovrlo/l o
uy mux uunug ljuc ui ugai, wu?iv?w? ?
street car for the home to which ht
has been a stranger since Septembei
23.?llegister.
As Popular as Ever.
Spkinqfikld, Mo., Nov. 17.?Hon.
William J Bryan and his distinguished
party of hunters from St. Louis arrived
here this morning. The train was met
by an enthusiastic crowd, including
many railroad shop men, and before
the party could make its way up town
Mr. Bryan was compelled to make a
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snort speeuu m reapuuso iu mo ??
mauds of the shop men. The party
were finally escorted to the hotel by
the crowd, which cheered the Nebraskan's
name at every step. From the
hotel balcony Mr.-Bryan made another
short speech. The party left for
OhadwicK, where they will be conveyed
to the game preserves in Taney
Oounty.
ilHiS fiSSli
WRECK AND RUIN,
e
g Terrible Hardships Caused by Floods and
tl ~ Storms In Washington.
i Seattle, Nov. 18.?Residents of
3 Seattle and vicinity, who by reason
t of the flood?i and snow have been virl
tually prisoners in the fastnesses of
- the Cascade mountains since Friday
;f last, are coming in, some on gravel
1 rains, some afoot and others bv boat
;t Tbey tell harrowing tales of suffering,
i- devastation and destruction. The
i- situation as described iD these dise
patches from day to day has not been
a exagerated in the least, if indeed the
e fierceness and fury of the storm has
1 been fully portrayed. There has been
a human suffering and no iloubt vnany
,f miners and prospectors in the Casit
cades have been either drowned or
s have met death from snow slides,
t Four prospectors, headed by Jos.
Nicholson, operating a claim on the
Snoqualime pass, arrived this afternoon.
One of the men is a raving
maniac by reason of the suffering and
g hardships endured in their efforts to
get out of the mountains. Saturday
night to prevent being swept down
. the mountains by snow sliaes they
' lashed themselves to trees, where they
remained in the drenching rain for
i- six or eight hours. Meanwhile great
s boulders of earth and huge sections of
snow kept sliding down into the can -
yons and gulches below. Trees were
i torn up by the roots and carried away
by the avalanche and the noise was
* indescribably horrifying. At day'
break on Sunday the prospectors tore
1 iU? 1 l a.:.
away iuo laouiu^a auu uct^au biicnr
s perilous journey out of the moun1
tains. They followed Gold Creek to
1 Lake Keechsler, tramping through
? snow four and five feet deep, crossing
1 small streams on logs; finally finding
? their way to the point where the
* Northern Pacific crosses the Cascades
* and thence proceeded down the raili
road track to this city.
1 Two Seattle business men were
? caught at Index Thursday. They were
' three days walking 35 miles to Snohoj
mish, crossing small streams by means
of driftwood and the larger ones in
3 row boats. They report that the
7 Great Northern westbound overland
1 passenger train with 41 passengers,
r due here last Friday morning, is stalled
between Wellington and Madison,
t owing to great washout on both sides.
* When last heard from 12 first class
passengers on the train were supplied
; with half rations from the dining car,
1 while the day coach and second class
: passengers, including 24 Chinese,
' managed to procure scant food sup
? plies from Wellington. The gentle
1 men giving this information say there
[ are 10 washouts on the Great North'
em between Index and Sultan, a dis?
tance of four miles; that the upper
) falls of the Skihomish river two bridg'
es are gone, together with 1,200 feet of
" track.
; When the flood was at its height,
i the Great Northern line between Mon'
roe and Skihomish, a distance of sev
i en miles, was inundated to a depth of
> from 6 to 15 feet. Today's advices,
however, are to the effect that the
' waters of all rivers have receeded ex
=> cept at Snohomish. in tne nats ana
3 bottoms, water covered thousands of
r acres of rich farm land, leaving nothj
ing but wreck and ruin behind. The
' Great Northern is making no attempt
to run trains, save on the coast line
north of Stanwood. Large forces of
men are now at work on the coast
3 and main line, but there is little pros"
pect of early resumption of trafic. On
* Sunday three minutes after theNorth*
ern PaciGc passenger train from Port'
land had passed Ainslee half a mile
' of track and roadbed near that place
3 slid into the Cowlitz river. The east>
ern mails due here Saturday and Sun
day were received today, but there
5 has been none from San Francisco and
3 the south since Saturday night. The
3 Northern Pacific by transferring is
> now running overland trains east from
1 Tacoma and is also making steamer
: connections from this city to Port*
land.
i
They Stick to Bryan.
- New York, Nov. 20.?The O'Brien
j Democracy has made public a series
] of resolutions it adopted, of which the
- following are a Dart.
Resolved, That the Young Democu
racy of the city of NewYork reaffirm
- their support of the national platform
1 of the Democratic party, and pledge
t themselves anew to the support of
i that party and to the principles on
. which the Presidential campaign was
3 conducted.
j Resolved, That we recognize in Wil1
liam J. Bryan a statesman worthy of
. the best days of the Democratic party,
- fitted to lead patriotic men in this cri3
sis, and we offer him our renewed and
i continued support.
Resolved, That the traitorous action
3 ~of men who have heretofore claimed
t to be Democrats, and in the last cam3
paign were supporters of either Mcj
Kinley or Palmer, was in violation of
. every principle of honesty and Demo1
cratic loyalty.
r Resolved, That the use of large sums
't of money by the trusts, syndicates,
j corporations and individuals to cor
rupt voters at the late election, and
1 the system of coercion employed to
* intimidate emDloves in the exercise of
I the right to vote" as their conscience
1 might dictate, was criminally base and
i unworthy of American citizenship.
Resolved, That in our opinion David
- B. Hill, William F. Sheehan, Roswell
t P. Flower, William C. Whitney, Perr
ry Belmont, Thomas F. Gilroy, Hush
l J. Grant, Jacob A. Cantor, John R.
, Fellows, W. Bourke Cockran, Fredj
eric R. Coudert and William R.
I Grace have forfeited all claim to be
f hereafter recognized as Democrats.
, Resolved, That we congratulate the
l Democratic party on the fact that the
I official existence of Grover Cleavland
i will terminate on the 4th of March
[ next.
| Asoaaalnatcd by Negroes.
Wadlky, Nov. JG.?The particulars
rxf n ViAwMiklo rvMir/lay of TTflfln rPflPllflH
J KJL a JUlUllXUiV UtUiUWA MV MWMW
. here yesterday. Joe Smith, a young
white man in the employ of Captain
T. J. James, on Saturday night, at
about 8 o'clock, locked the commissary
door and had just turned away
[ from the door when the top part of
[ his head was shot away. The report
; of the gun brought men, but they
could do nothing for the dying mau.
i He did not speak aftei* he was shot, and
died in a few minutes. A posse with
i boodhounds immediately began the
search for the murderers. Finally
the dogs came to a negro house and
two negro men jumbed out of a win- i
dow and lied, but were captured. They
i were identified as Tony Spikes and
his son Bill. It seems that young
Smitli had a quarrel with one of the
negroes Saturday morning, hence the
OnrtiiVi TITOO cfoaHT7 on
1U1UIC. JLUUUg tJlUUIl TYaJ
ing and popular. j
wit..
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He Skipped.
Winston, N. C.,Nov. 19?Mr. J. B.
Buxton, a prominent lawyer of Wilkesboro,
is missing. He disappeared from
home a few days ago and some very
unpleasant developments have since
been made. A warrant has been issued
for his arrest, charging him with
forgery and embezzlement, signing the
certificates of the county court clerk
and register upon a mortgage deed by
which he obtained money from A L.
Richardson of New York.
It la Said
That of all the diseases that affect
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the most dangerous and fatal. If this
be so, how important it is that the
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
SEE . ;1
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