The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 05, 1892, Image 2
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GOMTIOM OF THE STRIKE
Late Dispatches Regarding the
Situation at Homestead,
The Pennsylvania Militia
Remain on Guard.
Still
Late dispatches from Homestead, Penn.,
Kaye the following particulars concerning
the state of the labor war between the Car
negie mill owner* and their locked out em
ployes: Hugh O’Donnell and Hugh Ross,
against whom warrants had been issued,
went to Pittsburg and held a consultation
with their attorney, W. Q. Brennan. At
the close of their talk with Mr. Bren
nan. the two workmen proceeded to
Alderman McMaster's office and gave ttaem-
■stres up and were by him remanded to
jjii. Mr. Brennan at once entered applica
tion for the release of Messrs. Roes and
O'Donnell on bail. Mr. O’Donnell in an in-
expressed hi* confidence in his being
1 on bail and his ability to ultimately
prove his innocence of any crime.
A secret conference, over an hour in
length, was held between the Governor of
Pennsylvania, the President of the Amalga
mated Association of iron and Steel Work-
are of America, and the chief legal adviser
of the 5000 striking employes of the Carnegie
mttta From almost every aspect toe
meeting of the trio was a remarkable
The place of the meeting was directly
the batter
.ttery of the Gatling guns on
Shanty Hill, and immediatelyiin front of the
main gateway through the high board fence
mnA barb wire barrier enclosing the
marvelous array of furnaces, rolls,
and smokestacks known as the
Homestead works. Through the
date of the gate could be plainly seen
the spot where the workmen and Pinkertons
skmghtered each other. The meeting was
In one of the bouses usually occupied by the
official representatives of the Carnegie Com
pany in Homestead, but temporarily utilized
as a residence for Governor Pattison.
Neither Goveruor Pattison, Mr. Wei he nor
9fr. Brennan would consent to be quoted one
syllable as to the nature of the discussion. It is
■aid, however, that the removal of the troops
from Homestead, and the bearings of that
matter from each possible standpoint were
gone into.
The last day of grace allowed by the Car
negie management for the striking steel
makers and other employes of the Ho me-
stead mills to aunly for reinstatement has
passed. Of the 3800 out one man left the
ranks. He is John Miller, a heater.
Not only did the men refuse to enter the
fold to which they were invited, but they
actually attended a picnic at Big Spring
Grove, held on the last day of grace for the
benefit of the relief fund.
The return of O’Donnell and his hop efnl
words had roach to do with this exhibition
of the perfect organization they have. They
trust him implicitly, and when he stated
with positiveness in the early hours of the
morning that the strike was bound to be
settled satisfactorily to the men, they
needed nothing more te confirm them in
their determination
Superintendent Porter, of the Carnegie
works, made a statement. It was that
thirty-seven men in all had been added to
the force in the mill, of which, he said, seven
were former hands. In addition the com
pany has seventy-three agents on the road
who had engaged quite & number of people.
The fires m the open hearth No 2 mill were
lighted'and the noise of the exhaust pipe
could be heard all day long. There seems
no doubt but that the force inside the mills
has been materially increased from one
source or another, the arrivals amounting,
according to one conservative estimate, to
150 men.
The situation at the Upper and Lower
Union mills of the Carnegie Steel Company
continued unchanged. The furnaces went
on burning as usual, but no new men went
to work, and the strikers maintained their
firm attitude. At Beaver Pedis the mills are
still closed down, and seemingly no efforts
sure being made to start up.
There nave been several little clashes be
tween the soldiers 4nd the strikers. The
guard at the works
-* "trik.'rsf " nia _
Hie opposite kldfi or the street cursed the
soldiers roundly. A Corporal and four mec
t these talkers scurrying home. There
. large crowd in front of the Sukers’
head quarters in the afternoon. A company
of soldiers came marching by and some
one spat from the window of the strikers’
meeting room upon the bead of a soldier.
The crowd laughed. The Captain halted
his men and strode angrily into the
building. He found that ic was a purely
accidental occurrence. When he reached the
street he ordered the crowd to disperse.
There was some hesitation at first, which
the Captain quickly removed by ordering
"Fix bayonet*.”
Governor Pattison continued his inspection
of the regiments and had his picture taken
at sundown sitting on the porch of Mill
Sup erintendent Potter’s house. The Gover
nor refused to say when he was going home.
Brigadier-General Dechert was summoned
to Homestead for a council of war with
General Snowden oa the future relations of
the National Guard to the strikers. The
officers of the different commands are busily
engaged in preparing the pay rolls for the
servioes performed by the troops. Section
52 of the Military Code of the State recites:
* ‘When the National|Guard shall be in ac
tual service it* commissioned officers shall be
paid the same as the officers of like grade in
the regular army of the United States: its
first sergeants, $3 per day; its corporals.81.75
per day: its musicians and privates, $1.50 per
day, and e«ch enlisted man, after serving a
full term of enlistment, shall be entitled to
an additional pay of twenty-five cents per
day for service during the secon 1 term, and
a nirther addition of twenty-five cents per
day for service during each subsequent term
of enlistment.”
According to the foregoing the privates
will receive $10.50 a week each as long as
they stay at Homestead. As there are 6000
of them the State will pay over $60,000 a
week. In the present case it may be a long
time before payment is made, as the appro
priation for the Guard is $390,000 a year,
and if that is used up by an emergency, it
will require an additional appropriation by
the Legislature.
SUPREME COURT VACANCY,
George Shiras, of Pennsylvania, is
Justice Bradley's Successor,
President Harrison has nominated Giorge
Shiras, of Pennsylvania, as an As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court, thus
filling the vacancy which has existed in the
Third Judicial Circuit since the death of
Associate Justice Bradley.
George Shiras, Jr., was born in Pittsburg,
Penn., in 1632, where his father also was
born and still lives at eighty-eight years of
age. One of his sons is a United States
District Judge of eight Western States.
The nominee for new judicial honors is a
cousin of ex-Secretary Blaine, with whom
he is on intimate terms. He entered
the Ohio University in 1851, and
entered Yale Law School in 1853.
He also studied law in Pittsburg,
where he was admitted to the bar, where
almost continuously since he has led the
uneventful life of a hard worker whose
time and thought have been occupied with
his profession. He is one of the very few
men upon whom Yale College has con
ferred the degree of LL.D. In 1881,
when the great fight against bossism
was made in the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, and when a deadlock ex
isted on the selection of a United States
Senator. Mr. Shiras, in a secret caucus, was
chosen by a majority of two votes as a com
promise for the place. The next morning,
however, another caucus was ordered by
the political leaders, and John J. Mitchell
was nominated and elected, serving until
1887.
Jar. Shiras has never been an active parti
san. His income from his legal practice is
said to be second to no lawyer in the State.
As a lawyer he stands very high. His fam
ily consists of his wife and two sons.
The Pittsburg Bar Association and law
yers from all over the State endorsed lus
candidacy with much enthusiasm.
Antoxio Sebilio and Angel Santibara:
of Victoria, Mexico, have been arrested on
complaint of Antonio Delryo, of Laredo,
Texas, charged with embezzling 1000 parrots,
vaineo at $10,000. Mr. Delryo claims that
hi is the owner of the parrots and that the
two men were the keeper?.
THE NEWS EPITOMiaEU.
Eastern and Middle State*.
The Atlantic Hotel at Long Branch. N. T..
was burned; the guests had jewelry and
clothing worth $30,000 stolen from them.
Lawrence and Georoe McDermott,
twelve and fourteen ve&rs old respectively,
were drowned while bathing in Mill River,
New Haven. Conn.
Dr. Charles D. Sccdder, a son-in-law
of ex-Sena tor Ev&rts, committed suicide at
North port. Long Island, N. Y. He stabbed
himself to the heart.
James Burns and two boys, aged seven
and eight, were killed by a train at the Fifth
Street Pennsylvania Railroad crossing,
Newark, N. J.
Michael Varlev and his crippled nine-
year-old daughter Annie were found in a
bathroom in New York City, both dead from
suffocation by gas.
Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead,
Penn., charged with mur er in connection
with the recent labor riot, was released oa
$10,000 bail.
Lieutevawt Sidney H. May. of the
United States Navy, a member of the
United States Naval Board, committed sui
cide by shooting himself in the head in his
room, in the United Service Club, New
York City. He was born in 1847.
The greater part of the business section of
the village of Moosup, Conn., has been
burned. The burned portion includes tie
New York and New England Railroad pas
senger station, two new dwelling houses,
Hyde’s meat market, the old Masonic Hall
and two other business blocks.
At a meeting in New York City William
F. Harrity was chosen Chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, S. P. Sheerin,
Secretary, and R. B. Roosevelt, Treasurer.
The Sagamore Club, of Harlem, New
York City, entertained Grover Cleveland
and Adlai E. Stevenson at a reception.
Governor Flower, of New York, re
viewed the Naval Militia and the National
Guard at the Peekskill State Camp.
All the skilled workmen in Carnegie’s
steel mills at Duquesne, Pittsburg, Penn.,
numbering about 750. went out on strike in
sympathy with the Homestead men. Gov
ernor Pattison left Homestead for Harris
burg.
South and West*.
Mrs. Emma Phipps, aged thirty-five years;
Miss Blanche Phipps, aged twenty-six years,
and Frank McCamp, aged thirteen years,
were killed at a railway crossing near New
Albany, Ind., a train striking their car
riage.
At Frankfort, Ky., Ben Calmer, a young
man, killed his brother, Samuel Calmer, a
bachelor aged fifty years. A dispute arose
between the brothers and Ben seized a chair,
striking his brother, killing him instantly.
W. J. Stone, of Nevada, Vernon County,
was nominated for Governor by the Missouri
Democratic State Convention at Jefferson
City on the nineteenth ballot.
The People’s Party of Georgia met at At
lanta and nominated William L. Peck for
Governor, and selected an Electoral ticket
pledged to vote for Weaver and Field.
The colored school in Brick Head village,
Ga., was struck by lightning. The school
was filled with pnpils, fifty in number, and
two teachers. One of the teachers. Miss
Butler, and two pupils were fatally injured.
Sydney Stanfield and George Turner were
killed outright.
The Michigan Republican Convention at
Saginaw placed a State ticket in the field
headed by John T. Rich for Governor.
The business portion of Rio Vista, Cal.,
has been destroyed by fire.’
The stallion Palo Alto, who held the stal
lion trotting record, died a few days since
at Senator Stanford’s farm, near Redwood,
Cal., from pneumonia. Palo Alto made the
mile stallion record at Stockton, Cal., on
November 17, 1891. Time, 2:08%.
The Republican State Convention at Mad
ison nominated C. £. Sheldon for Gov
ernor.
The People’s Party of Florida held their
State Convention at Jacksonville. A State
ticket was nominated, beaded by A. P.
Baskin for Governor.
The school enumeration iu=t '
J*" - *—*~^**“f “"“Vigioo has been found
A DISCREPANCY of J-^VNiyi^aiikee (Wis.)
in the accounts of the
Water Department. -w j
Two timber men named Wilcox arS^R a t
were shot and killed by J. J. BowlOiput
Arkansas City, Ark., during a quarrel af
a business transaction.
The Waters-Pierce Oil Company’s ware
house, in St. Louis, Mo., was destroyed by
lire. Loss, $200,000.
The remains of J. S. Breedlove and the
Pennsylvania capitalist. Fish, have been
found in & canyon of the Cocopah Moun
tains, near San Diego, Cal. No trace could
be found of Breedlove’s son, wno started out
with the party. These gentlemen leftCarapo
J uly 4th, in searca of a gol d mine on the
desert.
Washington.
In the House of Representatives the bill
appropriating $5,000,000 to aid the World’s
Fair in Chicago was defeated.
Chairman Carter, of the Republican
National Committee.haudel to the President
his resignation as Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, and returned to New York
to assume active control of the campaign.
President Harrison reviewed the
League of American Wheelmen, 5000 strong,
from the portico of the W hite House.
The President has signed the Naval Ap
propriation bill.
Colonel E. A. Carr, Sixth Cavalry, has
been appointed a Brigadier-General of the
Army, vice General Stanley, retired.
Louis E. McComas, of Maryland, has
been appointed by Chairman Carter Secre
tary of the National Republican Committee.
Mr. McComas accepted the position and
will begin the discharge of its duties iu New
York City forthwith.
The President has nominated the follow
ing to be Consuls of the United States: John
A. Barnes, of Illinois, at Chemnitz; Darley
R. Bruk, of South Dakota, at Messina:
Cyrus \V. Field, of New York, at Bruns
wick; Carl Bailey Hurst, of the District^ of
Columbia, at Catania; Charles August Vor-
triede, of Ohio, at Horgeu; Aulicn Palmer,
District of Columbia, to be Consul-General
at Dresden, Germany.
The President made the following nomina
tions: Charles F. Market!, of Maryland, to
be Secretary of the Legation of the United
States at Brazil; Adam Everiy, of Pennsyl
vania. to be Consul of the United States at
Birmingham.
Robert and William Pinkerton, the
proprietors of waat they style *‘a general
detective and watchman business,” were
put upon the stand by the Congressional
Committee aoboiuted to investigate the
Homestead stri ;e, an 1 were questioned as
to the methods pursued in the organization
of such bands as tuat whic.i invaded the lit
tle Pennsylvania town on July 6.
f The President granted pardon in the ease
of Willard M. Cooper, convicted in New
York of passing counterfeit silver dollars,
and sentenced in March to two years’ im
prisonment.
1 The Senate, in executive session, con
firmed the following nominations: Envoys
Extraordinary and Ministers Pleniootenti-
! ary—Andrew D. White, of New York, to
I Russia; A. Loudon Snowden, of Pennsyl-
j vania, to Spain, and Truxton Beale, of Caii-
| fornia, to Greece. Roumania and Servia.
Cyrus W. Field, of New York, was also con
firmed as Consul to Brunswick, Germany,
Foreign.
The Province of Ravigo, in Northern
Italy, was swept by a cyclone, with great
loss of life and property.
stringent measures to prevent the spread
of the cholera were taken by Russia, Aus
tria, Spain and Braz 1.
Telegraphic reports from all parts of
Manitoba. Canada, state that the crops are
in magnificent condition, not a single draw
back being reported.
The Hazaras, who are fighting for their
independence against the Ameer of
Afghanistan, have ambushed his troops and
killed many hundreds of them.
Severe storms were experienced through
out Great crita’.n; the snip Maxwell was
wrecked off the mouth of the Mersey. Three
Gloucester fishermen were drowned.
Chile’s influenza epidemic has grown to
such proportions that Congress has ad
journed.
Henry B. Ryder, the United States
Consol at Copenhagen, Denmark, has been
arrested, charged with fraud In connection
with the liquidation of a testamentary
estate.
Three persons were killed and a number
injured in a railroad collision at Tam worth,
Canada
The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss
of the City of Chicago has ended. The
judgment of the Board is that the disaster
was due to careless navigation. The Cap
tain’s cartificate is suspended for nine
months.
Orders were issued by the Italian Gov
ernment for the cruiser Giovanni Bauson to
take part in New Y ork’s Columbus celebra
tion in October.
Candblarce Perez, the famous Mexican
bandit, has been executed at Lacatecas
Mexico.
The Government of Honduras closed its
coast to foreign commerce.
A heavy thunderstorm, followed by a
terrible hailstorm, passed over Marmora,
Canada. Fruit and grain were completely
destroyed. Hundred of windows were
broken and other damage was done. Some
of the hailstones picked up measured six
inches in circumference.
The Arion singers of New York City were
received at Munich, Bavaria, by the United
Singing Societies of that city, and a festival
with illumination and fireworks was given in
their honor.
The recent account of volcanic eruptions
on Great Sanguir Island were confirmed by
official dispatches, which said that 2000 per
sons had been killed.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
Ewing's days as a catcher are over.
The Louisville Club has signed Denny and
W bistler.
Manager Hanlon, of Baltimore, thinks
there is too much sacrifice hitting.
Brouthers, of Brooklyn, was the first
League player to make one hundred safe
hits.
No pitcher should fear base hits. If he
does he cannot excel in strategic play in the
box.
The Philadelphias and the St.^Louis Club,
only, won the series from the Boston cham
pions.
Childs, of Cleveland, now leads the
League m run getting. He averages a run
to a game.
Cincinnati is this season, without doubt,
one of the greatest, if not the greatest, base
ball city in America,
Anson’s poor playing has lost him control
of his men and this accounts for the poor
work of the Chicago team.
Only three of the New York Brotherhood
men are feft in the New York team, viz.:
O’Rourke, Crane and Ewing.
Corcoran, Brooklyn’s clever short stop,
was formerly a Western Union messenger
boy. He graduated from the lots.
Hutchison, who has pitched the Chicagos
into a commanding position in every pen
nant race since his connection with that
club, is being hit freely all along the line.
The fact should not be lost sight of that
the twelve clubs now battling for honors
make the strongest League ever organized.
There is not in the League a “cinch” for any
club.
T he Bostons have won more games in the
last inning and by one run than any other
team. It may be luck, but there is a great
deal of good, nervy ball playing mixed in
with the luck.
The Philadelphia Club’s feat of winning
the entire first season series from the Louis
ville team is not unprecedented. That verv
thing happened to the Philadelphias in 1SS3,
their very first season in the League, when
the Bostons won all of the ten games of the
series from them.
Considering theuntriedpitching material
when the season opened, ward has made a
wonderful record with his Brooklyn team.
He has certain'y handled his team iq a man
ner to completely o vers dado w Anson, of
Chicago, Ewing, of New York, and even
Comisky, of Cincinnati.
The second championship season of the big
League has begun. There is every reason to
believe that it will be a much more exciting
toft'll /->•*»»
equalized, and those that have been markc
weak have made mighty, and probably '
cessful, efforts to strengthen.
A Chicago correspondent, who is
observer and well-posted baseU^ra close
attributes the loss of interest man,
poor playing, and suggests tba^l Chicago to
edy would be to move the best rem-
aty. Ho is as unpopu|^-t to some other
Itoniisky was in later^^ ar ln Chicago as
the Chicago^r^ay® ln St - Louis; ia
ahor%w. ^jtis^oople are tired of Anson.
re^JSt op ihe league clubs.
Cltj'ja. Won. Lost.
Brooklyn... 5 2
Philad’lp’a. 5 2
Cincinnati. 5 2
Cleveland.. 5 2
Washing’n. 4 3
Baltimore.. 4 3
Ber
Per
ct.
Clubs. Won. Lost
CL
.714
New York 3
3
.500
.714
Louisville.
X
4
.429
.714
Pittsburg.
o
&
4
.333
.714
Chicago...
2
5
.286
.571
Boston....
2
5
.286
.571
St. Louis.
1
6
.143
RIOTOUS REAPERS SHOT.
They Seized Corn to Enforce a De
rail ml For Higher Wages.
A band of 180 reapers, men and women,
employed at Bebar, Hungary, struck for
an increase in their wages. When their de
mands were refuse i they seized a wagon
loaded with corn, declaring that that would
be a fair share of the profits. Their em
ployer summoned the gendarmes to restore
order and get back his property.
The presence of the gendarmes did not
frighten the strikers. They threatened to
burn the farmer’s house anil to lay waste
his fields. They even went so far as to
threaten the gendarmes if they inter-
ferred.
The Inspector commanding the gen
darmes gave the command to fire to his men
and they poured a volley into the riotous
strikers. Oue of the strikers stabbed the
Inspector. The mob showed no disposition
to disperse after they had been fired upon,
and the gendarmes, who were armed with
Mannlicber rifles, fired volley after volley
into them, uutil forty-two rounds were dis
charged .
Twelve men and women were killed and
many were wounded before- the mob was
driven from the place. The strikers, for
tunately for themselves, were scattered
about the field, and it was owing to this
fact that a larger number were not killed or
wounded.
OFF IN HIS TINY BOAT.
Captain Andrews Sails for Spain from
A tlantic City.
Captain Andrews sailed from Atlantic
City, N. J., for Spain the other afternoon
in his tiny craft, toe Flying Dutchman, the
smallest craft ever built for the purpose.
Fully three thousand people witnessed the
start.
The sea wa< calm. As the boat touched
the water at 5.30 a rousing^ cheer was given
by the waiting throng. The supplies were
quickly lowered and stowed away in the
compartments on either side of the dory.
At precisely 5.45 sail was raised and the
canvas immediately took the breeze. Re
moving his hat Captain Andrews stood up
and shouted to the cheering throng. ‘‘Within
sixty days l will be in Spain.”
Captain Andrews stated just previous to
going that he would set his course due east
and would probably first sight laud at Fayal
in the Azores in about thirty days. Every
evening during the voyage before turning in
he will fill out a printed blank, seal it in a
bottle and throw it overboard. They will
include local incidents of the trip.
NINE MEN KILLED.
Buried by Falling Earth in an Irish
Slate Quarry.
A fatal accident occurred at the Benduff
slate quarry, in County Cork, Ireland.
While the workmen were at work a por
tion of an overhanging bank of earth and
slate collapsed, aad ten men were buried
beneath the debris.
Willing hands removed the earth and
broken slate as rapidly as possible, but when
they reached the men nine of them were
dead.
The other man was taken oat badly in
jured.
■FIFTY-SIOOND CCNGRESS.
Ii the Senat;
/ I35tr Day.—’he General Deficiency bill
was discussed—A reeolutio was agree-1
to,instructing te Couimitteton Contingent
Expenses to imyire into the working of the
immigration lars.
i 135th DAY.-The Anti-Otion bill was
made the unfinihed business— The General
Deficiency bill was passed—Mr. Morgan
introduced the fill introdued in the House
some time sinotgranting toC. C. Moreno
and hi* associates the right t> lay telegraph
cables in the Pacific Ocsa between the
American and Asiatic coasti
137th Day.—The nomin-ion of George
Shiras, of Peinsylvania, 1 be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Coufc was received
A partial report of the Finance Com
mittee on the elect of the triff on prices
was presented.
138th Day.—Mr. Vest spke in opposi
tion to the Anti-Option bl Mr. Pad-
dock reported » bill to proMU> for the es
tablishment, protection an ll, ministration
of public fores; reservation* «nd for other
purposes. r
139th day—The Anti-Opton bill was op
posed by Messrs. Daniel ad White The
bill to accept a bequest mde by General
George W. Cullum for tte erection of a
memorial hall at West Poin was passed——
Mr. Warren addressed ;be Senate in
favor of the bill introduce by him for the
irrigation and reclamatiorof arid lands. It
was referred to the Oomiittee on Irriga
tion The House joint resolutions as to
sending from the Patat Office to the
World’s Columbian Expoition models and
drawings of inventions by women, and as to
requesting froqn the Quee Regent of Spain,
the municipal 'governmet of Genoa and
others the loanpf relics t Columbus were
passed. !
140th Day.-<The Houa bill providing for
retaliation a gap at Cana>a in the matter of
the Welland C^nal was unanimously passed
desuitor talk on the Home-
> Senate continued the de
bate on the An i-Optionbill. Mr. White, of
Louisana, cone uded bu speech against the
measure.
i the louse.
158th DAY.-lDiscussbn of the appropria
tion o£ $5,000,010 for tie World's Fair at
Chicago was continued
159th Day.- Mr. Iroderick introduced
a bill forbidi |lng tie interstate trans
portation of • armsd forces. The
measure is a ned at the Pinkertons
The Hou J alopted the Senate
joint reeolutio ■ auborizing the Com
mittee on La ! or ti make an investi
gation of 'be slums of cities
Mr. Lind, of Mi neso a, on behalf of the
minority of tl 3 conmittee appointed to
'investigate the t Iminstration of the Pension
Office r .submitte * the views of the minority
Ati evening essim was held for three
hours, during wlich the World’s Fair ap
propriation wasjlebate i.
160th Day.—d'be Senate amendment to
Sundry Civil bi 1 , appropriating $5,000,000
for the World’s i air was non-concurred in;
the Sunday closi g proviso was concurred
in. The Sun^T Civil bill was then
passed as amended, and the Speaker
appointed Repi »sennatives Holman. Say
ers and Bin bam as the conferees
A resolution was passed for the appoint
ment of a specia committee of five members
to investigate tb 1 election laws and methods
in the city and c'unty of New York The
conference repoi > oa the Fortification bill
to. W-
was agreed to.
j 161st Day.—'
pay was passed;
try to the Cbin<
port of the Yell
Committee oom
tion by Russell
the Governmen
162d Day.—
Canada in can;
Hooker, of Missi
on Foreign
to provide
international
The Senate bill
tion and promo
army to the
Also Senate bQj
and arrangem
Revolutionar
163p DaY/P '
amf^MS^le <
bill to raise life-savers
^tbt to give American regis-
ras defeated The re-
Jytone Park Investigating
its upon the alleged exer-
rrison of influence with
favor of a corporation.
Ibill for retaliation against
I tolls was passed Mr.
{ppi, from the Committee
lirs, reported the bill
the calling of an
fbitration congress
passe.! for the exaniina-
of enlisted men of the
fe of Second Lieutenant,
jr the collection, custody
)f military records of the
■and thi War of 1812.
Liscussion of the Senate
•neral Deficiency bill
>n an<£ nonaotthem
WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.
The World’s Fair Directory has expended
up to date approximately seven and a quarter
million dollars.
The famed “Six Nations” in New York
State will be represented in the Indian ex
hibit at the World’s Fair.
Before being sent to Chicago, the Argen
tine Republic’s World Fair exhibit* will
be exhibited in Buenos Aires.
The Secretary of Michigan’s World’s
Fair Commission has estimated that 250,000
people from M chig&n will visit the World’s
Fair.
The World’s Fair Commission for Peru
has asked Government aid to enable it to
make an exhibit of living animals of that
country.
It is proposed to hold world’s fairs in Ber
lin in 189S, and m Paris in 1900, but definite
action has not yet been taken by the Na
tions concerned.
In Denmark’s exhibit at the World’s Fair
will be a fine array of porcelain ware and a
notable art display, including reproductions
of many of the Thoswaldsen sculptures.
The work of assigning space to the thou
sands of exhibitors in the various World’s
Fair buildings ha* been entered upon and
will be pushed to a finish as rapidly as pos
sible.
Several Amazons of the King of Daho
mey will probably be seen in the Dahomey
village, which will be established at the
World’s Fair. Sixty or seventy natives and
their manner of living will be shown.
An effort is being made to have the cot
ton mills of Georgia make a fine exhibit at
the WorlJ’s Fair. It is believed that such
exhibit would greatly stimulate the invest
ment of capital in the cotton mills in the
South.
Th* authorities of Harvard University
have applied to Chief Peabody of the De
partment of Liberal Arts of the World’s
Fair lor 7000 square feet for a thoroughly
representative eiuoatkmal exhibit from that
historic institution.
The exhibit to be made at the World’s
Fair by Krupp, the celebrated German gun
maker, will represent an expenditure of
$1,500,000. The largest cannon ever made,
weighing 122 tons, will be in the exhibit, as
will be also several hundred tons of war
material.
An effort is being made to show by an
exhibit in the Woman’s building at the
World’s Fair the relics and data of the past
and present literature, musical, dramatic,
industrial and philanthropic work of
women. The Irish portion of this exhibit
promises to be particularly complete and
Interesting.
The Washington State building at the
World’s Fair will show to some extent the
forest resources of the State. The founda
tion alone will contain 171 logs, some of
them 120 feet long and forty-two inches in
liameter at the small end. The superstruc
ture of the building will contain, besides
heavy timber, tine finished woods, showing
the grain and structure of the woods, an i a
complete exhibit of shipbuilding material.
Captain R. H. Pratt, of the Government
Indian School at Carlisle, Penn., wants to
place 300 of the young Indian scholars at the
Carlisle school in the civic parade at the
time of the dedication of the World’s Fair
buildings. Captain Pratt desires also to
have a full military band, composed exclu
sively of these Indian scholars. He intends
to make at the Fair an exhibit illustrating
the educational and training work of the
Carlisle school.
It is next to certain that the date of dedi
cation of the World’s Fair buildings will be
changed from October 12 to October 21, the
latter being really the 400th anniversary of
the landing of Columbus, allowance being
made for the correction in the calendar
made in the time of Pope Gregory. The
change was requested by the World’s Fair
Commissioners of New York,the Legislature
of which State had provided for a Columbus
celebration on October 12. It was thought
that the two celebrations, if held simul
taneously, would detract from each other.
DISCOVERY DAY.
PROMIMNT PEOPLE.
The Pope can
French perfectly
Eugene Kell’
has been decoral
Prince Bismai
cause of his disi
Senator PeffJ
dren and delight
around him.
General Joh
candidate for Pi
weighs 270 pounds
Senator Hoa
cently been the gi
Coleridge, of Engl
General Sno 1
Pennsylvania ts
merly a Chicagj
Cockrell,
Montana, are
j who were born
Justice La;
the United Sta|
mountains of Ni
Marshall
square feet of
largest price evi
John C.
Pathfinder, is
was on duty al
vama riots.
ik English, Germau and
the New York banker,
I by the Pope.
2K says he never knew the
from office.
of Kansas, loves chil-
^to see them gamboling
iell, the Prohibition
&nt, is six feet and
issachusetts, has re-
if Lord Chief Justice
in command of the
t Homestead, was for-
urnalist.
[Missouri, and Power, of
only Western Senators
the West.
of the Supreme Court of
always summers in the
Hampshire.
,D paid $200,000 for 800
icago land recently—the
aid in that city.
ont, son of the famous
newspaper reporter, and
e scene of the Pennsyl-
October 21st Proclaimed a National
Holiday by the President.
William Waldorf AsroRhas purchase!
the mansion on Carlton House terrace, Lon
don, which was occupied by George IV.
when Prince Regent.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison are
occupying the President’s Cape May iN. J.l
cottage, and passing the season quietly and
entertaining only a few guests.
Joseph Dion, the once famous billiard
player and ex-champion of America, is now
an inmate of the home for pauper insane at
Ward’s Island, New York City.
The late Samuel McDonald Richardson,
President of a savings bank in Baltimore,
had a wonderful memory of faces. He per
sonally knew and could call by name over
46,000 depositors, most of them people of
small means.
Emanuel Lasker, the great chess player,
who recently defeated Blackburn, the Eng
lish champion, is only twenty-four years of
age and looks even younger. His face is
beardless, his spectacled eye cool and cal
culating.
Thomas Cook, founder of the “personally
conducted tour” business, who has just died
in London, aged eighty-four, was totally
blind for some years, but took great delight
in traveling, “Just to see the sights,” as he
said. He traveled extensively in this coun
try two or three years ago.
John A. Brashdar. of Allegheny City,
Penn., the astronomer and manufacturer of
telescopes, was once a laborer in one of the
Pittsburg iron mills. His talents came to
the attention of Henry Pnillips, the million
aire, who persuaded him to give up puddling
and devote his future to astronomy.
Dr. E. Poe Harris, of Indian Territory,
was formerly a resident of Pettis County,
Missouri. On the morning of June 14, 1861,
he left his home intending to return for din
ner, but one thing after another engageci
his attention, the first being the battle of
Booneville, and he never saw Pettis again
until the other day.
ffiuwmg p
®ued by the President:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, Bv a joint resolution, approved
June 29th, 1892, it was resolved by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assem
bled, “that the President of the United
States be authorized and directed to issue a
S reclamation recommending to the people
le observance in all their localities of the
four hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America on the 2lst day of October, 1892,
by public demonstrations and by suitable
exercises in their schools and other places of
assembly.
Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
in pursuance of the aforesaid joint resolu
tion do hereby appoint Friday. October 21,
1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America of Columbus, as a
general holiday for the people of the United
States. Oa that day let the people so far as
possible cease from toil and devote them
selves to such exercises as may best express
honor to the discoverer and their apprecia
tion of the great achievements of the four
complete centuries of American life.
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer
of progress and enlightenment. The system
of universal education is in our age the
most prominent and salutary feature of the
spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly
appropriate that the schools be made by the
people the center of the day’s demonstra
tion. Let the National flag float over every
school house in the country, and the exer
cises be such as shall impress upon our youth
the patriotic duties of American citizenship.
In the churches and in the other places of
assembly of the people, let there be ex
pressions of gratitude to Divine Providence
for the devout faith of the discoverer, and
lor the Divine care an 1 guidance which has
directed our history ani so abundantly
blessed our people.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this 21st
day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-two and
of the independence of the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President: John W. Foster, Sec
retary of State.
A CONDUCTOR’S NERVE.
He Binds His Crushed Lex in a Dy.
in^ Condition.
At midnight a special freight broke into
thr^e sections near Shubeuacacadie, Nova
Scotia, and subsequently the rear collided
with the middle section.
Conductor P. Y. Christian was thrown
over the rail of the van, but grasped it with
such force as to dislocate his suoulder. Un
able to hold on, he attempted to throw him
self clear of the rail, but failed, and the
wheeis of the iron van passed over one leg,
crushing it terribly.
With remarkable nerve he tied bis hand
kerchief around the lacerated limb and
tightened it w<th a sliver from a sleeper, so
as to prevent bleeding to deatn. He was
subsequently picked up and taken to Trurot
where ue died shortly after his arrival.
TEHEE MINISTERS NAMED,
Nominations to the Courts ot Russia,
:*t>ain and Greece.
The President sent to the Senate the fol
lowing nominations of Ministers:
Andrew D. White, of New York, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary of the United States to Russia.
A. Loudon Snowden, of Peunsylynnia
(now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States to
Greece, Roumania and Servia), to be Envoy
Extraordinnry and Minister Pienipotenti-
ary to Spain.
Truxton Beale, of California (now Minis
ter Resident and Consol General of the
United States to Persia), to be Envoy Ex
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Greece, Roumania and Servia.
Andrew D. White was born in Homer,
Cortland County, N. Y., November 7, 1832.
He was a student at Hobart and at Yale,
graduating at the latter place in 1853. He
was for a time attache to the American
Legation at St Petersburg. In
1857 he became Professor of History
and English Literature in Michigan Uni
versity. He went to Europe on account of
failing health, and on his return in 1862 was
elected to the State Senate of New York.
Mr. White was a stanch friend of the pro
ject to establish Cornell University, and
when it was established he became the Pres
ident. He was one of the Commissioner®
sent by President Grant to San Domingo to
consider the question of annexation. In 1879
be was appointed Minister to Berlin. On
his return be assumed his duties as President
of Cornell, a position which he held until his
resignation in 1885.
Archibald Loudon Snowden is a veteran
office holder. He began in the Mint at
Philadelphia in 1857, before he had attained
his majority. He remained there until 1885.
He was Postmaster at Philadelphia for two
years.
Truxton Beale is the son of General E. F.
Beale, the intimate friend of General Grant,
who has for a number of years resided in
Washington. Mr. Beale was appointed
Min later to Persia at the instance of Mr,
Blaine.
Owing to the shortness of the fruit crop
in California, especially apricots, prices
have gone up in the past few days, and or-
chardists who held their fruit are getting
good figures. Apricot*, which were selling
a few days ago at 1% cents per pound, or $39
per ton, now bring $60 per ton; prunes,
which sold for $30 per ton now bring $50,
with a corresponding increase in price for
other varieties.
There are over 2000 tons of silver bars,
55,000,000 sliver dollars and $55,000,000 in
gold coin stored in the Philadelphia mint.
THE MARKETS.
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HOPS.
State—1891, choice, per lb...
1891, prime
1891, common to good...
1890, common to choice..
Old odds
LIVE POULTRY.
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn..
Western, per lb
Spring Chickens, large, lb...
STABBED WITH A BAYONET.
A Drunken Militiaman Attacks a
Citizen at Pittsburg.
David Lester, of Company A, Fourteenth
Regiment, stabbed Frank Calhoun with his
bayonet on Grand street, near Fifth avenue,
in Pittsburg, Penn. The affair is the out
come of a night’s carousal that Les
ter and Howard Hook indulged in
the night before. They were still
drinking. They went along Grant street
insulting almost every person they met
and brandishing their bayonets iu the
faces of passers-oy. They entered the rooms
of Undertaker Beinhaur, singing and very
noisy. Mr. Beinhaur ordered them out.
They went out, but renewed the noise out
side and defied arrest.
vV hen they reacned Devore’s undertaking
establisnaient, wuere Calhoun is employed,
the latter advised Lester to be more careful
with the bayonet. Lester, with an oath,
plunge! the weapon into Calhoun’s ab
domen. Calhoun fell without a struggle.
Lester rushed upon him again, but "was
caugnt by bystauders. After a nard fight,
L ister and Hook were arrested.
The liver was penetrate! by the bayonet,
and there was no hope of Calhoun’s resovery.
Calhoun was fifty-four years old, a member
ot the G. A. R , and ha l a family. Lester
lives in the Thirty-second War! an! is
twenty-six years old. Lester and Hook
were deserters trom the camp m Homestead.
Roosters, old, per lb
Turkeys, per lb.
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penu.,
per pair
Southern, per pair
Geese, Western, per pair,..
Southern, per pair
Pigeons, per pair 39
Turkeys—Selected hens, lb.
Mixed weights
Toms,fair to prime
Chickens—Phila., broilers...
L. 1. broilers
Fowls—St. and Penn., pier lb
Western, per lb
Ducks—Western, per lb
Eastern,., per lb
Spring. L. 1. per lb
Geese—Spring Eastern, per lb
Squabs—Dark, per doz
Light, per doz
vegetables.
Potatoes—Southern, seconds
Norfolk, bbl
Eastern, shore, per bbl..
L. 1., in bulk, per bbl...
Cabbage, L. I. per 100
Norfolk, per barrel
Onions—Eastern shore,bbl..
Eastern shore, basket....
Squash—Southern, marrow,
per barrel,
Southern, yellow
L. L, yellow, barrel....
L. I., white, barrel
Tomatoes,Nor,carrier crate
Asparagus,N.J.,doz. bunches
Peas, S. Jersey,% bbl. basket
Long Island, per bag....
Cucumbers, Norfolk, crate..,
Jersey, per box
String beaus, L. 1., bag
Tomatoes, So. Jersey crate.
Maryland, per crate
LIVE STOCK.
1 37
1 25
1 50
1 50
2 25
1 00
75
75
1 00
25
20
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1 09
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(ft
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(ft
(ft
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1 62
1 50
1 62
350
250
1 12
1 00
1 00
1 50
1 50
30
1 00
50
1 00
1 50
T. B. Ballentine. the millionaire “truck”
farmer of Norfolk, Va., has purchased an
entire square of ground in that city and
proposes to erect on it a “widows’ home.”
The building will stand in the centre, and
the remainder o: the tract will be laid out in
lawns and gardens. Mr. Ballentine is with
out children, and has provided m his will
that the rent* of his city property be applied
to the support of the home. He is a native
of Currituck county, N. C.. and began
truck farming in the vicinity of Norfolk
with a few hundred dollars.
Beeves, City dressed
7
8%
Milch Cows, com. to good...
30 00
@40 00
Calves, Cit}'dressed
7
Cft
9%
Bhecp, per 100 lbs
4 00
5 00
Lambs, per lb
4% ■ft
6%
Hogs—Live, per 100 lbs
6 15
@ 6 30
Dressed
8
(ft
V
grain, etc.
Flour—City Mill Extra.....
425
(ft
4 45
Patents
4 40
ft
4 75
Wheat—No. 2 Red
88
ft
88%
1
£
£
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(ft
76
Barley—Two-rowed State...
—
ft
—
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
54
ft
63
Oats—No. 2 White
38
ft
38%
Mixed Western
—
ft
Hay—Good to Choice
$9
ft
75
Straw—Long Rye
—
ft
55
Lard—City Steam
—
ft
6.75c
Late Wholesale Prices ot Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
30 beans and peas.
Beans—Marrow, 1891, choice. $ -
Medium, 1891, choice.... 180
Pea, 1891, choice —
White kidney,1891,choice 2 40
Red kidney, 1891, choi<
Yellow eye, 1891, cbok
Lima, Cal., per bush..
BUTTER.
Creamery—St., & Penn, extras 21%@ 22
St. & Penn., firsts 20 @ 2i
Western, firsts 20 @ 21
Western, seconds 18 @ 19
Western, thirds — @ 17
State dairy—half tubs, and
pails, extras. — @21
Half tubs and pails, Ists. 19 @ 20
Half tubs and pails. 2ds. 17%@ 18%
Welsh tubs, extras 20 @ —
Welsh tubs, Ists.... 18 @ 19
Welsh tubs, 2ds 17 @ 17%
Western—Im. creamery, Ists. 17 @ 19
Im. creamery, 2ds 15%@ 16%
Im. creamery, 3ds — @ —
Factory, firsts 15% @ 16
Factory, seconds 14%@ 15
Factory and dairy, thirds. .. 13 liri 14
cheese.
State factory—Full cream,
large size white, fancy.. 8%@
Full cream, colored, fancy 8% @
Full cream good to prime 8 @
Part skims, choice 5%@
Part skims, good to prime 4 (ft
Part skims, common 23£<ft
Full skims.. %@
eggs.
State and Penn—Fresh 17%@ —
Western—Fresh, fancy..... — @17
Fresh, fair to prime...... 16%@ 16%
FRUITS AND BERRIES—FRESH.
Apples—Southern, red, crate
Jersey, bough, bbl
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca
tawba, 5 fb basket...,.
Western N. Y., Concord.
Peaches, Md. & Del., crate..
Cherries, large, black, lb....
Large, red and white....
Small and poor
Huckleberries.'N. J., per box
Jersey, per quart
Md. & Del., per quart...
Blackberries, Md., per qt
Jersey, per quart
Gooseberrries, prime green.qt
Raspberries, red,Jersey,pint.
Currants, large, lb
Small, per lb
8%
9
8%
5%
5
3%
1%
75
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18
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15
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17
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8%
9
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10
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90
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GO
25
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1 25
39
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40
KILLED.
15
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12% (ft
13
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Padgett
WILL PAY
THEFREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
| Cooking Stoves,
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor
nice Poles,
EABY CARRIA&ES,
Clocks, Mirrors, Pic
tures, Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets, Chamber
Sets, Mattresses,
Comforts, Blankets
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same price that you
buy them in Au-
jgusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
You need, and can quote
you prices that will sat
isfy you that I am giving
a dollar value for every
dollar paid. *•
Special Offer No. I ■
To introduce my business in every
neighborhood in the quickest possible
I win rhrp-^rcru
complet^consisting of One Bed-
jstefcd, full i
siK and high head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Htand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Beat |
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well
worth $20; but to introduce my goods
in your neighborhood at once I will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOR ONLY $16.50,
When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, Oak,
Poplar, and all the popular woods,
running in price from the cheapest up
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in
E lush in popular colors, crimson, olive,
lue, old gold, either in banded or in
combination colors. This suite is sold
for $40.00. I bought a large number of
them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago,
hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your
nearest railroad depot, for $33.00. Be
sides these suites 1 have a great many
other suites in all the latest shapes and
styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re
duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid.
Specia! Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, ajl
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $15.
Besides these I have the largest stock
of Cooking Stoves in tne city, includ-
imr the gauze door stoves and ranges,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES!
with patent wire gauze doors. I am I
delivering these stoves everywhere, all |
freight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are tar
superior to any other stoves made. Full
particulars by mail.
100 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
at 37% ’cents each. You must pay
your own freight on Cornice Polea, i
Window Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything I have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room, lie-
sides it* annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
j^Tl shall be pleased to send you
an vthing above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you will say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C.
J5fTNo goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publishe r of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augu-ta, or to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc ;
L. F. PADGETT,
DYER BU1L&INS,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.