The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 12, 1892, Image 2
MURDEROUS ANARCHIST.
lie Shoots Chairman Friek of
the Carnegie Mills.
An Attempt of the Man to Com
mit Suicide Frustrated.
An attempt was made in Pittsburg*
Penn., a few afternoons ago, by an an
archist from New York, to murder Henry
C. Frick, Chairman of the Carnegie
Steel Company, Limited, and the sole
manager of the great Carnegie fteel
mills in Homestead and elsewhere. He was
shot twice in the neck. The murderer’s hand
was knocked aside at the third shot, and the
bullet embedded itself in the wall over Mr.
Frick’s head. The would-be assassin then
attacked him with a knife and stabbed him
twice in the back before he was overpow
ered. He was jast on the point of being
shot down for his deed when Mr. Frick, who
retained consciousness, interceded for him
and saved his life.
Later the man tried destroy himself by
cbewine a fulminate of mercury cap, such
as Anarchist Lingg used to kill himself in
the prison in Chicago while he was awaiting
the execution of the death sentence. He
was seizfd before he had succeeded in biting
into the cap, and his plan of suicide was
frustrated.
The would-be assassin called indifferently
“the Anarchist,” Alexander Berkman and
Simon Roachman for some time remained
uncommunicative. No one even of the
shrewd detectives or the shrewder news
paper men who had been at work
on him ever since his desperate
attempt at assassination got
anything hnt contradictory or trivial in
formation from him. He stated that when
he was ready he would make a written state
ment for the press, and until then he would
decline to answer anv questions. He is a
printer and cigar maker by trade and lived
m Fortv-second street, New York.
He speaks plain English, is twenty-four
years old, weighs 12'J pounds and is five feet
four inches in height. His face is clean
shaved, from its sharp, protruding chin to
its narrow, retreating forehead. He bad
under his tongue when arrested one fulmi
nate cartrir' e similar to. that used . by
Lingg, the Ctncago anarchist and suicide,
and another in his pocket.
For nearly a week he bad been catling at
the Carnegie office on a mysterious errand,
but disappeared each time before word was
sent to him to come in. .
The entrance to Mr. Frick’s office is by a
swinging door. Mr. Frick’s desk is a long,
flat, oak affair, and is directly in the
centre of his room. Back of it against
the wall is a leather-covered sofa. There are
two or three oak chairs between the desk
and the window, but the space between the
desk and the door is'unoccupied.
When Berkman called the last time Mr.
Frick was sitting in front of the desk and
sideways to the door. On the opposite side
of the table Vice-Chairman Leishmann sat.
The latter was looking out of the window
and was talking. Mr. Frick’s left elbow
rested on the desk, one leg was thrown over
the arm of his chair, and his faco was partly
turned away from the door.
When the office boy took the visitor’s card
he started at once for the private office.
sassni pus ea open
stepped LPS'dq {htf rail.
said sharply, “ft ait. >
The man paid no attention. In two stn.les
he reacted the door to the private office and
caught it just as it swung back after the boy
passed inside. He pushed it in. The boy was
just coming out to tell him to wait till the
Chairman was disengaged. He brushed the
boy aside. He to- i a step toward the desk
and drew a revo’wk* from his coat. At the
moment that he did so Mr. Frick looked
around. Instantly the man pulled the
trigger.
There was a sharp report. Mr. Frick started
back, and a stream of blood gushed from his
neck. The man took a step nearer and fired
again. Again Mr. Frick started back, and
for a minute he appeared about to swoon. At
the first shot Mr. Leishmann had leaped
to his feet. He was bewildered. His eyes
bulged out. At the second shot he re
covered himself. He bounded around the
desk; the man was in the act of pulling the
trigger the third time, when the Vice-Chair
man came within reaching distance. He
threw up his arm and caught the man’s
wrist and swung the latter’s arm up and
back. The bullet crashed up into the wall.
Mr. Leishmann held the arm with the
pistol with one hand, while he seized the
man by the throat with the other. Then
began ‘the struggle. At the second shot
blood had spurted from the other side of
Mr. Frick’s neck, and it was running down
over his clothiug. ^
He recovered from the shock of his two
wounds at the third shot, and got on his feet
an t threw himself on the struggling men.
Kcund and round the trio wrestled, getting
nearer to the iront windows all the time.
Though slight in figure the assailant seemed
icssessed of herculean strength.
Twice he nearly wrenched himself loose.
He was trying hard to free the hand in
which he held the pistol. Once he succeeded
and pulled the trigger. The pistol missed
tire. Le.shmnnn seized the band again an i
held it. Mr. Frick had grasped the mau
uLout the waist, pinioning the other hand.
^ il three appeared about to fall. They
fwaved l ack and forth. Not a word was ut
tered. Mr. Frick was becoming weak. His
b.oou was staining his assailant’s clothing.
Finally th? man wrenched himself loose. His
left nani was freed, and he plunged it into
his hacti pocket.
At just that instant Leishmann, by a
mighty effort, wrenched further back the
hand holding the pistol, and gaining a
purchase, succeeded in tripping the assail
ant. Down cm the floor he went in a heap.
Adi this had taken place in less than two
minutes.
Then the clerks outside recovered from
the shock of the three pistol shots and
rushed pell mell to the door and in time to
see the fall. Thera they stood stupefied. As
the stranger fell be succeeded in drawing a
stiletto-like knife from his pocket with his
free left hand.
Mr. Frick and Mr. Leishmann were on
their leet bending over h’.m. The knife
bashed through the air and was driven with
force into the hack of Mr. Frick. VV ith
har.ily an instant’s pans? it was withdrawn
and again driven forward into Mr. Frick’s
back.
Mr. Frick succeeded in grasping the hand
that held the knife, and throwing his whole
weight on it piuioued his arm to the floor.
Leiscmanu held the other hand.
The man was helpless. Then it was that
the clerks recovered their selt-posse-sioa
and ran to the aid of their employers. Dep
uty-Sheriff May was at their head.
He got to the door of tne private office
just in time to see the stabbing. He drew nis
revolver as he ran forward, and was about
to shoot. “Don’t shoot. Don’t kill him, ’
pleaded Mr. Frick.
“Don't >hoot. Don’t shoot. The law will
Xiumsk him.'’
One of the Clerks seized the dennty sheriff's
revolver and held it. Two others got the
stranger’s pistol an 1 the stiletto.
Within a minute or two after the man
was conquered i o less than 2.1J persons were
crowding into the room, and it was only
through the intercession of Mr. Frick that
the anarchist esc iped lynching. He was
removed at once to the station house.
While being searched the prisoner had
held his head high and had talked as though
he bad a pebble in bis mouth. T. J. Moyer
discovered under his tongue the cause. It
was a little cartridge less Thau au inch in
length and of the thickness of a camel’s hair
brush quill, but of sufficient explosive
power, as Arthur Kirk, the dynamite manu
facturer and expert said, to have blown the
would-be murderous head into as many
nloody iragments as a cartri Ige of the sac-tu
character blew tne head of Liagg, the Chi
cago anarchist.
“Wh*t hav» you got that thing for? - ’ asked
Inspector McKeivey, as with a growl Berk-
snau spat out the morsel of neatu. “None
of your business.” was the answer. A
further search of the prisoner’s clothes re-
Teaied the presence of another fulminate
cartridge.
The doctors cat the builet out of Mr.
Frick’s back and dressed his wounds. He did
not become unconscious at any time. He re-
fused to take any anaesthetic?. After the
E ration he took an opiate and fell into a
P sleep. An ambulance was summoned
mt 7 o’clock, Mr. Frick was carried down on a
stretcher, carefully put aboard and driven
to his home, seven miles away in Borne wool,
east-end suburb.
The doctors said that unless some _ unfore
seen complication occurred Mr. Frick was
almost certain to recover.
Expressions of regret among the locked-
out men at Homestead at the brutal attack
with knife and pistol on Mr. Frick were
numerous. The leaders of the men took the
earliest opportunity to contradict the belief
that the man had anything *o do with the
Homestead trouble.
W. K. Vanderbilt's Yacht Run Down
by the Steamer Dimock.
While at anchor in the fog on Nantucket
(Mass.) Shoals early a tew mornings ago,
W. K. Vanderbilt’s yacht Alva was run
into by the steamer H. F. Dimock and sunk.
All on board the Alva, including W. K.
Vanderbilt and party, were saved and taken
on board toe Dimock.
As soon as it was certain that the yacht
would sink, a steam launch, four rowboats
and a nuphtha launch were lowered from
the Alva, which was rapidly sinking, and
the owner and passengers, with the crew of
fifty-two mea, were soon afloat and rapidly
pulling away from their doomed craft.
They left none too soon, for when they
were about a cable’s lengta from the vessel
she made a violent keel to port, and, right
ing again, plunged down bows fi^st, and
nothing but the tnree masts sticking out of
the water indicated taepresence of the ma;-
aincent ocean rover they had so lately de
serted.
1'bs party were ail safely landed ou boar d
the Dimocs, waich anchored and remains 1
until about 1:40 o’clock in the afternoon,
when the fog iittad and a course was _c; for
Boston.
Tue Dimock sustained some slight in
juries to her stem and bows, but they were
na ie temporarily safe by her crew while sho
was awaiting Clearing weather. So hurriedly
w^re tho occupants of the ill fate!
cr.Mc oblige l to leave that they were ail
with the excoption of the wutc i on deer,
clad in nothing but tneir nigat clothes, an l
lost everything they had in the way of vnl-
uaoles.
Tne Alva was one o! the Jarg’st and
handsomest yacats afloat. Her owner made
a trip to Europe in ner two years ago. cine
was built by Harlan & Hollingsworth, o!
VVilmiugtccj Dei., in aai rebuilt in
1688.
WQ&LD’S FAIR NOTES.
Th* Wisconsin W orld’s Fair building will
have a f 3000 grand staircase.
Butterflies to the number of 150.000
will be shown in the Pennsylvania exhibit at
the World’s Fair. The collection is said to
be the most complete and finest in the
world.
It is estimated that the thirty-five rail
roads which enter Chicago will expend #110,-
OCO.OOO in increasing and improving their
equipment and faculties for transporting
World’s Fair visitors and freight.
Costa Hica’s pavilion at the World’s Fair
will t>e surrounded by gardens ornamented
by a prolusion of tropical plants, and in the
galleries of the pavilion will be placed more
than 3000 beautiful birds, many of which
Lave very gorgeous plumage.
Mrs. Paul and Mrs Wise, Lady Manag
ers for Virginia, together with their aux-
Uiary board, have undertaken to raise
fl6,bOO for the Virginia building at the
World’s Fair, which is to be a full-sized re
production of Washington’s home at Mt.
Vernon.
For the Washington State building at the
World’s Fair, the lumbermen of the State
have already donated 113,000 feet of lumber |
and 174 huge logs, measuring from twenty-
four to 121 leet long and from twenty-one to
forty-two inches in diameter at the small
end. The logs alone are valued at $10,000.
Conspicuous in the shoe and leather ex
hibit at the Worl i’s Fair will be the display
made by Lynn, Mass. Lynn is the largest
shoe producing centre in the United States,
and fully seventy-five and perhaps one
hundred of the shoe manufacturers of that
city will furnish exhibits. They are acting
in harmony in the matter.
Daoud Sifico, a wealthy merchant of
Algiers, on a recent visit to Chicago, ob
tained from the World’s Fair authorities a
concession to establish an Algerian village
and attactions on Midway Piaisance. Ac
cording to his account the village will be a
marvel, in its war. of Oriental construction
and highly interesting exhibits.
The Duke of Edinburgh has announced
his intention of sending for exhibition at
the World’s Fair some of the almost invalu
able co.lecdons of ancient musical instri*-
ments which he possesses. A part of the
collection is now on exhibition at the Inter
national Music and Art Exnibition at
Vienna, where it attracts much attention.
A Sioux squaw living near San Diego,
California, will exhibit in the Woman’s
building at the World's Fair a dress of deer
skins, richly embroidered with sixteen
pounds of biads. She worked for two years
in making the garment. From the San
Diego Mission will be exhibited a valuable
collection of fine needle work by Indian
girls.
French breeders have become so much in
terested iu making an exhibit of their horses
at the World's Fair that they have sought
to stimulate competition, and thus secure
the best results, by offering as a prize a
handsome bronze statue of a typical French
trotter. This statue is to be moueled from
life by Isadore Bonheur, and be awarded
the l>es5 CiU/etion of trotters exhibited at
the Exposition. ,
FRANCE intends to show its skill in land-
Aiape gardening at the World’s Fair. A
cablegram has been received from the French
commission asking that it be allowed to do,
and bear the expense of, the “whole decora
tion of the spaces surrounding the Horticul
tural and the Woman’s buildings. This
generous offer, doubtless, will be accepted if i
it does not interfere witu plaus too far ad
vanced to be changed.
HOTTEST OF THE YEAR.
A Warm Wave Pievails AU Over tlie
United States.
A hot wave on a colossal scale prevailed
all over the country a few days ago. It
extended from Kansas in the West to the
eastern borders of Maine, and from
Canada to the Gulf. The maximum tem
perature throughout this vast region
was 94. It was as high in St. Paul,
Minn., as it was in New Orleans, and as
high in Portland, Me., as it was at Key
West, Fla. The temperature of New
York City was the same as that of Key
West, New Orleans and St. Paul.
It was the hottest day of the present sum
mer, and the hottest day since June 13^ 1S91.
The highest temperature was reached in
New York City at 1 o’clock, when it was 94
on the roof of the Equitable Building.
It was the higuesi known on that day in
the weather annals of the New York Signal
Service Bureau. The suffering of the peop e
in the streets and m tue tenement-
houses was intense. No one could
walk a Wock in the middle of
the day without dripping witu perspiration.
The tenement houses were like ovens. Per
spiration streamed from people’s laces as
they stood m the streets. 'The air was like
that of a furnace. Mta were prostrated at
their work, or fell on the sidewalks, over
come by heat as they walked along the
streets. Street car horses tell in the traces,
and were dragged to one side to die. Nine
deaths in the city were attributed to the ef
fects of heat. Many cases of prostration
were report®!.
In the vicinity of New York the heat
reached the highest point of the season, ami
several cases of prostration were reported.
In several points in New Jersey the tempera
ture reached 105 degrees. Iu some places
factories were closed on account of the
heat, dn Brooklyn eight cases of prostra
tion were reported.
Washington had its “hottest day of the
year” that day, the mercury reaching 94
degrees at the. highest, 2 o’clock in
the afternoon, au i causing manv
prostrations. At Chicago, ■where
the thermometer reached the same
point, six deaths from heat were re
ported. All over Virginia it was very hot,
getting up to id! degrees at Richmond, while
at Manchester one mau died.
Pittsburg suffered a great deal under
ninety-eight degrees of heat, and workmen
were obliged to “knock off - ’ and go home.
Kentucky seems tc have stood near the
head of the list, for at Louisville the tem
perature on the streets was 110 degrees.
In Illinois and Iowa the air was so stifling
that people had to leave their work in the
fields, although the temperature only reached
98 degrees. Many prostrations were re
ported in all parts of the country.
THE ALVA SUNK.
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THE NL./S EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle State*.
Robert Rat Hamilton’s body has been
taken to New Yor«c from Wyoming and
placed in the vault of his uncle, Robert Ray,
in Greenwood Cemetery.
Part of the New York Biscuit Company’s
plant, in New York City, was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of over $160,000.
Louis Coucher, a farmer of Myersville,
N. J., was clearing away the grass in front
of his mowing machine, when the horses
started and he fell in front of the knives. He
grasped the reins and tried to stop the
horses, but could not. The top of his skull
was cut off by the knives, exposing his
brains. His death was witnessed by his
little son.
Frederick Mollick, a baker, was ar
rested at Long Branch, N. J.. accused of
complicity with the Anarchist Berkman in
the attack on Chairman Frick; H. Bauer,
also an alleged accomplice of Berkman, was
arrested in Pittsburg. The police of that
city thought there was a plot to assassinate
Frick, which had its inception in New York.
Intense heat prevailed throughout the
Eastern and Middle States, causing many
deaths and interfering with work in fac
tories and mills. Tne highest temperature,
101 degrees, was reached at Philadelphia,
where there were thirteen deaths from
prostration.
The Inman line steamer City of Paris,
which flies the American flag, smashed'
all records on her late trip from Liverpool
to New York, and is now Queen of the
Ocean. She accomplished the run in the
marvelous time of five days, fifteen hours and
fifty-eight minutes, beating the best previous
record by thirty-three minutes, which was
held by the White Star steamer Teutonic.
At Wilkesbarre, Penn., Alexander Eg
gleston shot and killed his wife and then
Jatally shot himself through the head. Eg
gleston had been a very hard drinker, and
six weeks before his wife left him, taking
her eight children.
Frank Mollick, the alleged accomplice
of the Anarchist, Berkman, who shot Frick,
was forcibly takvn from Long Branch, N. J.,
to Pittsburg before his lawyers could serve
a writ of habeas corpus.
A plot to blow up the Carnegie mills in
Pittsourg, by an explosion of natural gas,
was accidentally discovered in time to pre
vent great destruction of life and property.
It is believed to have been the work of An
archists.
The Chief of Police of Long Branch, N.
J., was arrested for permitting Ffank .Mol
lick, the Anarchist, to be taken out of the
State of New Jersey' without extradition
papers.
George K. Sistare, the well-known
broker, committed suicide in the Manhattan
Club, New York City.
The Crane Chemical Works, at Spring-
field, N. J., blew up, and several of the
buildings which composed the plant were
shattered. A number of houses in the vicin
ity were blown down and a number of people
slightly injured. The shock was tremendous,
ttw vibrations being plainly felt in Ocange,
foar mllas from the scene of the explosion.
General Snowden, in command of the
Pennsylvania militia, left Homestead with
a large portion of his staff.
James Riley, a flagman at one of the
railway crossings in Chatham, N. Y., shot
and stabbed Thomas Kildary and then blew
out his own brains. He was insano.
The forest fires that raged in the southern
part of Ocean County, New Jersey, during
the dry spell caused considerable damage.
South and West.
A disastrous hailstorm visited Lakefield,
Minn. The storm covered a strip of coun
try three miles wide. The fields in the strip
were utterly laid waste.
Expert accountauts who have been ex
amining tee books in the Treasurer’s office
in Dakota County, Nebraska, have com
pleted their work,'and report that ex-Treas-
urer Wilkenson is $13,400 short.
Bodie, the largest town in Mono County,
Caliiornia, has been wiped out by fire. The
fire burned up the entire business part of
the town, only one store escaping. Over
filty stores were destroyed and many ’dwell
ing houses. The loss is about $200,000, with
small insurance.
The West Virginia Democratic State Con
vention met at Parkersburg, W. Va., with
1200 delegates present. A. McCorkle was
nominated for Governor,
A steam engine boiler, used with a wheat
thrashing machine near Kyle’s Station,
Butler County, Ohio, burst.' Ambrose Al
exander and Perry Holden were killed, and
George Wilev. Edward Taylor, William
Shark and John Kyle were painfully
wounded. The barn was set on tire and
burned to the ground, with about $2000
worth of grain and farming implements.
A boiler in the shingle mill of Hartnell
& Smith, on Otsego Lake, Mich., blew up,
killing four men, fatally injuring another
and demolishing the mill.
The Michigan Supreme Court has de
clared the recent Reapponionment act un-
coustitutioaal.
Mp.s. Robert Mop.ell, an old woman,
living ten miles from Hillsboro, III., was
stung on the back of the neck by a bee aud
died from the effects in thirty minutes.
The Colorado People’s Party State Con
vention met at Denver and nominated a full
ticket headed by Ju.ius Thompson for Gov
ernor.
A desperate fight occurred at Flat
Rock, Ky., between Deputy Sheriff Grant
Sellers and John Coffey, in which both were
killed.
Application was made in Indianapolis,
Ind., lor a receiver for the Order of the
Iron Hall: serious charges were made against
the Vice-President of the concern.
Julius Wise, colored, was hanged at Lex
ington Court House, S. C., a few days ago,
for :he murder of another colored mau.
A severe storm, amounting to a tornado,
swept over Harrisonburg. Va. Houses were
unroofed and tress uprooted.
Ex-Congressman Kxute Nelson was
nominated for Governor by the Minnesota
Republican State Convention at >St. Paul.
The nomination was made by acclamation.
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Washington.
George Shiras was confirmed by the
United States Senate as Associate Justico
of the Supreme Court.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
opened the tariff debate in the Senate with
a speech in which he asserted that the cost
of living bad been decreased under opera
tion of the McKinley bill and that wages
had been increased. His statements were
denied by Senator Vest, of Missouri.
The President has approved the act to
enforce reciprocal commercial relations be
tween the Luite 1 States and Canada.
Ix the House of Representatives, a vote on
the proposition to appropriate $5,0.10,01)0 for
the World’s Fair at Chicago, resulted 117
ayes; 1(5 nays.
The 'enateia executive session confirmed
the foLowing nomination-: A. Barton Hep
burn, of New Yora, Controller of the Cur-
renev; Watson R. Sperry, of Delaware,
Minister and Consul-General to Persia;
Truxton Beale, of California, .Minister and
f'onsul-Cieueral to Roumania, Servia and
Greece.
The President nominated Watson R.
Sperry, of Delaware, to be Minister Resident
and Consul-General of the Unite! States to
Per-ia. He is editor of the Wilmington
News.
The Secretary of the Treasury instructed
customs officers to deny admission to rags
exported from France during tne prevalence
of the cholera epidemic. He also directed
collectors of customs along the Atlantic sea
board to prohibit the landing of immigrants
from France.
I he Committee on Territories was in
structed to visit (during the recess) the Ter
ritories of New Mexico. Arizona, Utah aud
Oklahoma to inquire into their resources,
population, etc., and as to the propriety of
their being admitted as States.
The President approved th-* act granting
pensions to the survivors of the Indian w. rs
of 1832 to 1842, known as the Black Hawk,
Creek, Cherokee and Seminole wars.
The President vetoed the famous William
McGarrahan bill. The bill provided for tne
payment of the McGarrahan claim tor
about $3,000,000, which had been before Con
gress many years.
Secretary Noble issued a public notice
warning all persons now on the Colville
Indian reservation, in the State of Washing
ton, without express authority to leave tne
same without delay.
*'oreigrn.
Th* English have armed the natives of
East Africa to fight the Germans.
Eighty persons ware injured by the fall
ing of Ihe seats in the theatre at Rued,
Franc?.
A commercial treaty between Germany
and tne Repuolic of Colombia was signed.
In view of the cholera in certain parts of
Russia all the schools under the control of
the Holy Synod have been closed.
A recount in Scotland reduces Glad
stone’s majority in the British Parliament
to forty.
The customs revenue of Cuba is to be
farmed out by Spain to a syndicate of for
eigners.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
In the Senate.
i41st Day.—Mr. Sherman introduced a
bill to promote peace among Nations Mr.
Morgan introduced a bill providing that the
Government should take possession of the
Central and Union Pacific Railways until
their indebtedness to the Government is dis
charged The Anti-option bill was farther
discussed.
142d Day.—The conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was pre
sented Messrs. George and Hunton siioke
in favor of the Anti-option bill
Mr. Peffer asked for the appointment of a
select committee on the Homestead conflict.
Mr. Sanders objected, because he thought
that the resolution should also include th®
troubles at the Co?ur d’Alene mines in Idaho.
143d Day.—Mr. Aldrich sooke on the re
sults of the McKinley Tariff law. Mr. Vest
replied The Anti-Option bill was laid be
fore the Senate as the “unfinished business”
and it went over.
144th Day.—The New York Bridge bill
was taken up, but went over without action
The Anti-Option bill was further dis
cussed.
145th Day.—The bill, abolishing the office
of Post Trader in the army on the termina
tion of the present appointments, was
passed The Senate refused to recommit
the Anti-Option bill by a vote of
thirty-two to thirteen The O’Neill
Eight-Hour bill was passed The
proposed investigation of the Homestead
strike was discussed——The Hudson River
Bridge bill was consigned to the calendar
A House resolution to adjourn in two
days was brought to the Senate and there
referred to the Committee on Appropria
tions.
146th Day.—Messrs. Carlisle, Sherman
and Proctor spoke upon the tariff, consum
ing the entire day’s session.
In the House.
164th Day.—The General Deficiency bill
was discussed. The item for the payment
of the Indian Depredation claims, amount
ing to£475,252, was agreed to, 9-.i to 9i, and
then the House further insisted on it? disa
greements to the Dill, and again sent it to
conference.
165th Day.—The report on the Raum in-
vestieation was presented and discussed.
166th Day.—The Deficiency bill was
passed The Sundry Civil bill was dis
cussed.
167th Day.—The World’s Fair appropri
ation of $5,0jo,000 was passed, but on a
motion to reconsider filibustering was be
gun.
168th Day.—Th? Hous? spent th? day in
filibustering against the motion to lay th?
motion to reconsider the World's Fair ap
propriation on th? table A resolution to
adjourn in two days was passed.
169th Day.—Mr. Hatch, of the Ccmmit-
te? on Agriculture, submitted the majority
report ou the effect Oi tne present tariff law
upon agriculture. Mr. Funston presented a
report containing the views of tue majority
committee Great excitement was arouse l
by a charge in Mr. Watson’s boo.-c o:' dm ik-
eune.-s in the House Tne deaaioeR over
the World’s Fair appropriation remameJ
unbroken.
THE HOMESTEAD LOOKOUT.
000 and the
lost as muen raoj
The workmen a
Ah Estimate of What It Will Cost
AU Concerned.
A dispatch from Homestead, Penn., says:
“The great lockout at Homestead is just one
month old, and has already cost over $L.
000,000 besides the sacrifice of a half-score
ot human lives an^cer^ous Injuries to many
times that numbed a Of the loss in cash, the
military has costfin round figures $320,003,
th? workmen )|ave lost in wages $159,-
negies have spent and
in getting new workmen,
eaver Falls, Duquesne and
the Union mills’ln Pittsburg have lost about
$100,000 in wages by their sympathy strike,
and the firm is out $100,003 by the idleness
of these plants. Added to this will be the
county expends for deputy sheriffs and
murder trials, the expense to the city
for hunting .Anarchists and to the Nation
for the Congressional investigation. An
other item of no mean significance is the loss
to workmen and manufacturers in plants
indirectly affected, which have been forced
to close aown for want of material. The
locked-ouc workmen hrve not as yet been de
prived of anv of the necessaries of life, and
if the fight should last several weeks longer
there is no danger of the workmen’s families
coming to actual want. Subscriptions have
been coming in liberally and the relief work
has been carried on judiciously and well.
Every day people come to the Amalgamated
headquarters and receive orders for gro
ceries and provisions. The funds already
collected will hold out for some time. The
people who are receiving aid are principally
those who received $1.40 a day, the cheap
laborers, who left their places out of sym
pathy tor the members of the Amalgamated
Association.”
On the 29th of June, 2000 men having
been locked out, 1800 others struck out of
sympathy, and only a few watchmen were
left around the plant. Now there are about
723 men in the mill, and the firm says it has
a quantity of beams ready for shipment.
The men claim that their ranks are as
so.idasonthe first day after the mills were
closed against them, while the officials of the
company assert that there are gaps that are
daily becoming wider.
IV hen the striking workmen at the Alle
ghany Bessemer Steel Works at Duquesne
were paid off a watchmau named Foley got
into an altercation with a man named
Bourse, a striker. They were arrested
and taken to the Aldermen’s office.
While there Foley’s son attacked Bourse
and cut him over the right eye. A crowd
of several hundred workmen gathered
around to see the fight and nearly created a
riot. The crowd was ultimately scattered
by the Sheridan Troop, which was tele
graphed for to the heights above.
The would-be assassin Berkmann was
given a preliminary hearing in the County
Jail office in Pittsburg, and was admitted to
bail aggregating $24,009, which was not
furnished, and the prisoner was remanded
for court.
SHOT BY A HORSE THIEF.
Two Deputies Killed While Trying
to Capture a Kentucky Freebooter.
In Montgomery County, Kentucky, early
a few mornings since, Kavanaugh Tipton,
the jailer of the county: Thomas Howard, a
constable, and George Rayburn, a member
of the posse, were shot by John Sherrell, a
horse thief. Tipton and Howard were kille 1
and Rayburn mortahy injured. Last wee.c
Sherrell stole a horse iro n a man who lives
near the foot of the b g hill in Madison
County. Kavanauga Tipton learned that
Sherrell had gon*- to Montgomery County,
and he located him at vh - hou-e of George
Pipps, near the Menitee ,ine. He took Con
stat le Tom Howard. George Rayeurn, and
two other men \v,th him and s.a: ted 10" tne
I’ipps hous?.
Tnev arrived there abau’. 2 o'c’cc’c in th*
morning. Tipton ied the way uit-.i tne house.
A voice from one of the rooms, wnu-ii ■>?
recognized as that of Pipps. mke .: " ho is
that, and what do you want''’
"Kavanaugh Tipton.” replied th? jailer,
‘“and 1 am out electioneering.
“All right. Til get up an li.ght the lamp.”
said Pipps. He aros?, and coming toward
Tipton struck a matcc. As he di i so liptou
a-Ked him who the n.aa was that was in bail
w ith him. Before Pipps could reply Snerred
fired his pistol from toe Led andsuo* fiptoa
through the head. He fell without a groan.
A second shot killed Tom Howard.
Bv this time George Rayburn had entered
the room, an 1 before he could shoot in the
direction of Sherrell the iatter shot him
through the arm. Then Sherrell dashe 1
out of the door and disappeared :n the dark
ness. Rayburn followed him. but two bull
dogs attache i him, inflicting fatal injuries.
THE GEM OF THE OCEAH.
Columbia. Our Commerce De
stroyer, Launched.
Descrintion of the Greatest and
Fastest Vessel Afloat.
The new United States commerce destroy
er Columbia, officially rated as Cruiser No.
12, but nicknamed "The Pirate.” was suc
cessfully launched at 3:50 o’clock a few
afternoons ago in Cramp’s shipyard, Phil-
delphia. The young lady who was selected
to christen the beautiful craft was Miss
Edith Morton, the daughter of Vice-Presi
dent Morton.
THE COLUMBIA.
W hen all was ready she broke a bottle of
champagne, gaily decorated with a hand-
painted picture of the cruiser and red,
white and blue silk streamers, upon the
cruiser’s prow, and the new mem
ber of the navy gracefully slid from
the ways and beautifully settled
in the water. As the stern struck the river
every whistle in the vicinity began shriek
ing, and the pandemonium continued for
some minutes. The Columbia’s anchor was
cast when the middle of the river was
reached.
Among the christening party who
mounted the flag-covered stand at the bow
of the vessel were Secretary of the
Navy Tracy, Vice-President Morton
and Mrs. and Miss Helen Morton.
The ladies carried large bou
quets of roses, and H. Cramp, of the ship
building firm, stood at the side of the fair
christener as prompter. Thera were also
several hundred persons from Washington,
New York and elsewhere on the platform.
While no invitations were issued by the
firm of William Cramp & Sons, the yard
was earlv thrown open to the public and all
were made welcome. From Washington
came a small but distinguished party of
officials, including Commodore Norman H.
Farquhar, Chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks; Commodore George De-
vey, ot the Bureau of Equipment;
Commodore Francis S. Ramsay, Bureau of
Navigation; Commodore William M. Fol-
ger, Bureau of Ordnance; Chief Construc
tor Theodore D. Wilson, of the Bureau of
Construction and Repairs; Paymaster-Gen
eral Edwin Stewart and Captain John A.
Howell, President of the Steel Board.
Fifty thousand people watered the launch
ing from the yard and neighboring docks,
and, in fact, from every vantage point.
Tne Columbia is named in honor of the
capital of South Carolina. She is of a class
that takes the name of a city. In view of
the near approach of the Columbus Cent?n-
nial. Secretary Tracy thought that the name
might have a double significance.
Description of the Vessel.
Crnsier No. 12, when completed, will not
only be a triumph of shipbuilding, but will
embody all the essentials of propulsion,
offensiveness and defensiveness which have
long been recognized as combining. the fac
tors necessary to a maximum efficiency in
naval architecture. She is termed “t ie
7000-ton, three-screw commerce destroyer’
in the Congressional Appropriation bill.
She is prmarily designed for speed, for
her chief function will he to sweep an
enemy’s commerce from the seas. To do this
she must be able to overhaul in an ocean
race the swiftest passenger steamships. The
trans-Atlantic record being five days, nine
teen hours and five minutes, she must break
it down to five days and a fraction of an
hour. A combination of perfected ma-
cbifiery such as has never before been de
signed will accomplish this end.
The cruiser is full of intricate mechan
ism and has ten boilers, six of which are
double ended, 15}£ feet in diameter by 21V
feet long. Two others are 1114 f eet in di
ameter by 18J^ feet long, and the remaining
two, which are single ended, are ten feet in
diameter by eight feet long.
The boilers are made of steel and carry a
pressure of 160 pounds. Eight of the largest
are built in air and water-tight compart
ments, into which is forced a draught of 216-
500 cubic feet of air per minute when run
ning at full speed.
The engines are three in number, consist
ing of vertical, triple-expansion cylinders,
each of which develops 7003 horse power
and drives a separate screw. Under full
pressure, each of the three screws should
turn at the rate of 12S revolutions per min
ute. Ninety revolutions was the maximum
of the Citv of Paris. The cruiser’s shafts
are made of forged steel 16.5 inches in di
ameter.
The vital portions of the vessel are pro
tected by an armored deck 4 inches thick
on the slopes and 2'-4 inches on the flat. The
gun deck will be minutely subdivided by
coal bunkers and store rooms. The bunkers
not used for coal will be filled with a patent
substance of such solidity as to form a wall
5 feet thick, and having all the advantages
of an inner and supplemental armor.
In the event of an emergency this patent
substance, the nature of which is kept secret,
can be used for fuel. Forward and aoaft of
the coal bunkers the cofferdam will be filled
with a water-excluding substance similar to
wnodite.
In the wake of the eight four-mch and
machine guns the ship’s sides will be ar
mored with four and two inch plating. The
six-inch guns, which are lour in number,
will, be mounted on the open deck and pro
tected by heavy shields attached, as in the
new ships, to the gun-carriages.
The coal capacity of the cruiser is 2000
tons. At ten knots speed per hour this will
give her an endurance of 109 days, a radius
of action of 26,249 knots, and she will be
able to steam around the world in 109 days
without recoaling, thus breaking all records
for speed, economy and capacit y.
The batteries of the cruiser will consist of
four six-inch breech-.oadiug rifles, twelve
six-pounders, rapid firing; two machine
guns, one field gun and six torpedo tubes.
She will have two signal masts.
The new cruiser is eminently superior to
any other war ship in the world. The Blake,
the finest ship in the British navy, is the
nearest approach to Cruiser No. 12.
It was stipulated in tue contract with the
Cramps that the vessel, in all its parts,
should be of domestic manufacture.
A sister ship. Cruiser No. 13, is construct
ing bv the Cramps. Her contract was
awarded August 11, 1891. the Cramps’s bid
being $2,745,000, less $55/03, which they
threw off. Both vessels will be identical in
character, except that No. 13 will carry a
heavier battery.
Run, in
south of
A FAMILY DROWNED.
Fatal Work; ot a Cloudburst in West
Virginia.
A severe storm which passed over
Wheeling. W. Va., was disastrous in its
results. There was also considerable loss of
life, besides some destruction of prop
erty by lightning on Long
Marshall County, a few miles
41 heeling. An entire family of nine per
sons was sweet from the fac? of the earth
by a sudden flood following a cloudburst.
The family consisted of William Doty and
wife, their three children, Doty’s lather and
mother. Mrs. Doty's mother and a servant
gin. The house was situated in a ravine
and was swept away by the torrent, not one
of the sleeping occupants being leit to tell
tne tale.
Another house was swept away by the
same torrent, Put all the occupants escaped.
At Proctor, on the Ohio Railroad, a long
trestle was washes out and a freight train
was wrecked. Twenty-eight cars were
piled up, and the engineer. Will Beasley, of
Parkersburg, was injured so that his leg
had to be amputated.
At Parkersburg, the State militia was in
annual encampment, and a second storm
wrecked the camp. Women who were vis
iting the camp narrowly escaped serious in
jury. Near toe encampment, the stable of
C. H. Shattuek’s stock farm was struck by
lightning, and several blood'd horses were
tilled.
Vast zinc discoveries Lave been made on
the Ouasmta River, near the oil wella, not
tar from Denison, Texas.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Pig iron has declined in prices.
Trade is dull among machinists.
The labor cost in a ton of wire-rod is
51.05.
Armour, the Chicago packer, employs
7000 people.
Wages have declined in 229 towns in
Germany, out of 906.
The strike of the section men on the
Wabash Railway is ended.
The Knights of Labor have at present
about 9900 members in West Virginia.
W ages are being reduced in Massachusetts
on account of the new fifty-eight hour law.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of New
England are hurrying work as fast as possi
ble.
A C3TTON mill crisis is imminent in Eng
land, owing to a proposed reduction in
wages.
Converter men in the iron and steel
mills of Pennsylvania are paid $4.50 to $8.50
per day.
Nine thousand children in New York
City make envelopes at 3>£ cents per
thousand.
The lowest priced laborers employed in
mills under the Amalgamated scale receive
£1.50 a day.
The National Union for th? Development
of Co-operative Industry has branches m the
different States.
Servant girls are organizing in Chicago
and intend to striue for more wages during
the World’s Fair.
Workmen are not allowed to work on the
streets in New Bedford, Mass., unless they
have been naturalized.
The telegraph operators on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad secured au advance
of five dollars per month.
The Boilermakers’ and Iron Ship Build
ers’ National Union of Great Britain has
ffl.’S.eSb.SO in its treasury.
On Irish railways women are much em
ployed as booking-clerks, and in Dublin tick
ets are given almost entirely by women.
Labor organizations all over the country
passed resolutions protesting against Sunday
closing of the approaching W orld’s Fair in
Chicago.
The capitalistic combine recently formed
in San Francisco to break up the labor or
ganizations of the Pacific Coast is said to
represent at least $200,000,009.
Girls are employed in Pittsburg bolt fac
tories, as also are children from six to eight
years of age. The older girls, doing men’s
work, receive from fifty cents to $1 a day.
Fifty Japanese laborers were forced to
leave Mountain Home, the county seat of
Elmore, Idaho, recently. The white section-
hands on the railroad have been superseded
by the Japanese am the feeling against th?ss
newcommers is very strong.
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices ot Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
81 beans and peas.
Beans—Marrow, 1891, choice.-? —
Medium, 1891, choice.... 1 85
Pea, 1891. choice 1
White kidney, 1S91,choice 2 50
Red kidney, 1891, choice.
Yellow eye, 1891, choice.
Lima, Cal., per bush....
Green peas, 1891, per bush....
1891, bags
1891. Scotch.........
235
1 90
1 70
1 63
1 75
@
@
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@
?2 23
1 90
193
2 55
2 45
200
1 80
butter.
Creamerv—St., & Fenn, extras
St. & Penn., firsts
Western, firsts... 20
Western, seconds 18
Western, thirds —
State dairy—half tubs, and
pails, extras
Halt tubs and pails, Ists.
Half tubs and pails, 2is.
Welsh tub?, extras
Welsh tubs, Ists
Welsh tubs, 2ds 17
Western—dm. creamery, Ists.
W. dm. creamery, 2ds..
W. Im. creamery, 3ds ...
Western Factory, firsts....
23 @ —
20 (&9 21
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W. Factory and dairy, 3ds
cheese.
State factory—Full cream,
large size white, fancy..
Full cream, colored, fancy
Full cream good to prime
Part skims, choice
Part skims, good to prime
Part skims, common
Full skims
EGGS.
State and Penn—Fresh
| Western — Fresh, fancy
Fresh, fair to prime. 16 8
FRUITS AND BERRIES—FRESH.
Apples—Southern, red, crate
Jersey, per bbl
Up River, per bbl
Bell, per bbl
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca-
Duckleberries, N. J., per box
Jersey, per quart
Md. & Del., per quart...
Blackberries, Mu., per qt
Jersey, per quart.
Gooseberrries,prime green.qt
Raspberries, red,Jersey,pint.
Currants, large, lb
Small, perib
Watermelons, Ga., per 103..
Muskmelous, per bbl
HOPS.
State—1591, choice, pprlb...
1891, prime
1891, common to good...
Ib90, common to choice..
Uid odds
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn..
Western, per lb
Spring Chickens, large, lb...
Small to medium
Roosters, old, {>er ib
Turkeys, per ib.
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
p**iii*»•»••••••••• ••
Geese, Western, per pair.
■Southern, per pair...
Pigeons, per pair
DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED.
Turkeys—Selected hens, lb.
Mixed weights
Toms, fair to prime
Chickens—Fhila., broilers...
L. L broilers
Fowls—St. and Penn., per lb —
Western, per lb
Ducks—Western, per lb....,
Eastern,., per lb
Spring. L. 1. per lb
Geese—Spring Eastern,per lb IS 8
Squabs—Dark, perdoz...... ’
Light, perdoz
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes—Southern, seconds
Norfolk, bbl
Eastern, shore, per bbl.. 1 37 (g. 1 62
L. I., in buik, per bbi... 1 62 0 1 75
Cabbage, L. 1. per 100 2 0u 0 4 00
Norfolk, per barrel..
75
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1 37
0 1 00
0 1 75
Onions—Eastern shore,bbl.. 2 25 0 2 50
Eastern shore.basket....
Squash—marrow, per barrel.
L. L, yeiiow, barrel....
L. 1.. white, barrel
1 12
i •>
75
0 1 25
0 1 00
((4 1 03
0 1 09
Peas. S. Jersey, )4 bbl. basket — 0 —
Long Island, per bag....
—
0
5 J
Cucumbers, Norfolk, crate..
—
0
—
Jersey, per box
75
(01
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String beans, L. 1., bag..,,.
—
0
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Tomatoes, So. Jersey, crate.
40
8
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.Maryland, per Lu. crate.
5J
0
75
GRAIN, ETC.
Flour—City Mill Extra 4 30 0 4 45
1 atents................. 4 43 >^ 4 *
Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 (<3
Rye—State 73 0 76
Barley—Two-rowed State... — 0 —
Corn—Ungraded Mixed 43 0 58
Uats—No. 2 White — <g
, Mixed Western —
Hay—Hood to Choice 70 0
Straw—Long Rye — 0
Lard—City Steam — 8
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves, City dressed 4^4^ % l 4
Milch Cows, com. to good...20 0u 040
Calves, City dressed 7j^0 10
Sheer, per lOOlbs 4 00 ^ 0 5 00
l .am b?, per J b..... ........... ' J Q '
Hogs—Live, per 100 lbs — 0 6 33
Dressed 9
8 —
75
55
6. • 5c
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W. Factory, seconds 143-40 15
Padgett
WILL PAY
THE FREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW TIIA.T YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
Cooking Stoves,
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor
nice Poles,
BABY CARRIAGES,
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 vou
buy them in Au
gusta?
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
manner, I will ship you one Bedroom
Suite complete, consisting of One Bed
stead, full size and high^ head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
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,
FOE 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
piece?, walnut frames, upholstered in
E lush in popular color?, crimson, olive,
iue, old gold, either in banded or in
combination colors. This suite is so.d
for $49.00. 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 $33.03. 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.
Special Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for -ell.50, ail
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
‘ ioie range with trimmings for $15.
Jeeides these I have the largest stook
f Cooking Stoves in tne city, inciu 1-
in rr the gauze door stoves aud ranges,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES
with j>atent wire gauze doors. I am
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
freight charges paid, at the price ot an
ordinary stove, while they are tar
superior to any other stoves made. Fu.l
particulars by mail.
109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
roll. $5.50 per roll. 1003 Cornice Fobs,
cents each; 100 Window Shades,
’ feet, on spring roller an 1 frignod,
,* 37A cents each. You must pay
■our own freight on Cornice Poles,
" r indow Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything I have got in a store con
taining 22, *100 feet of floor room, be
sides its annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
£$?~I shall be pleased to send you
anytning above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you wiil say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, published at Aiken, S. U.
gyNo goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publisher of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augusta, or to the
Southern Express Co., aii whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc.;
1. F. PADGETT,
DYER BUILDING,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.