The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 19, 1892, Image 2

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\ I | CONGRESS ADJOtJRNS. The Fifty-second Ends First Session. The Bill Giving $2,500,000 tc the World’s Fair Passed. The President at the Capitol. The President scant considerable time due in; the evaain; in a reception room off the Senate lobt y signin; bid*. Senators cam.* in to shake bands with him and ask about Jlr.-. tiarrtson. Various bills were presented, and then aritn unusual ceremony the Senate clerks brouzet >n the bill wh : e i wa« immediately signed, appropriating ?2,5'>J.0CK) to aid the Cnicago people to matte tne World’s Fair an exhibition worthy of the name. After a session of eight months, the firsl session of the Fifty-first Congress at ex •ctly 11 o’clock p. m. adjourned to tttb firsl Monday in December next, and foui minutes after the two gavels descended in the Senate and House, indicating the ad journment, a special train started' on it- journey northwaid, bearing the President to his sick wile at Loon Lake, N. Y. The principal events of the day were the passaze of the World’s Fair bill appropriat ing $2,500,000 and the presentation to the House of the reports of the special commit tees on Congressional drinking, and the workingmen’s strike at Homestead. The report* were ordered to be printed, but action upon them will be deferred until next winter. The Capitol was crowded during the last hours of the session with curious sightseers, hundreds of ladies remaining in their seats in the galleries for four long hours anxious not to miss the interesting scenes that usu - ally precede an adjournment of Congress. The utmost good humor prevailed^ on the floors of both Houses during the closing hours, and many expressions of good will were exchanged alike among Democrats, Republicans and Third partyites. The Senate. When the Senate met at 2 P. x. there were thirty members present, but the num ber soon grew to forty. Some routine busi ness was disposed of, "and then there was a patient waiting for a message from the House. The Senate then went into executive ses sion. The action of the House on the Dtir- borow World’s Fair bill was reported to the Senate soon afterward, and the doors were immediately thrown open and the bill was read to the Senate and delivered at some length. Shortly before 4 o’clock the Senats took a recess until 8 p. M. Promptly at 8 o’clock, in a sultry atmos phere, witu well filled galleries but a very sparsely occupied floor, the Vice-President ranoed the Senate to order after the recess. It was 9:25 before Chief Clerk Towle, of the House, announced the House agreement on the Sundry Civil bill. The report of the conference was then unanimously agreed to. Mr. Allison said that the appropriations for the first session of the last Congress were, in round numbers. *463,000,000; for this session, $507,000,000, showing an increase of $44,000,000. Tne principal in crease for the present session was found in the appropriations for pensions and the Postoffice department. There were some diminutions, notably in deficiencies, wnich were $5,000,000 less this Congress than two years ago. and in miscellaneous expenses. Mr. Allison at 10;25 reported the House adjournment resolution, substituting for Saturday. July 30, at 2 p. m., “Friday, August 5, at 11 p- M.” The resolution was agreed to, and the customary committee of two, Messrs. Allison and Gorman, was ap pointed to wait upon the President of the United States. At 10:50 the Senate Committee reportei that they had waited on the President and he had no further business to lay before Congress. The Vice-President paid a fitting tribute to the two Senators who had died during the session (Messrs. Plump and B irberj and ap propriately acknowledged the vote of thanks, and then declared .the Senate ad journed without day. The nouse. When the Speaker took the chair and called the House to order there were not more than 103 members'in the Chamber. After some unimportant business, the House went into Caffitfnttee of the Whole (Mr. Dockery, of/Missouri, in the chair) on the Durborow'World’s Fair bill. The measure was debased at length. Wbea/i o’clock was reached, the time pfrfeifJIFa vote on the Durborow bill and ameadmeuts. a vote was first taken'on the substitute offered to the first section of the bill bv Mr. De Armoud, of Missouri. The Re publicans made a point of order against vot ing on the substitute, but Speaker Crisp ruled against the point. The substitute was rejected by a vote of 139 to seventy-six. The Durborow bill was then ordered to a third reading, and Mr. Holman demanded the yeas and nays on its final passage. The bill was passed—yeas. 131: nays, eighty- three. An ineffectual attempt to filibuster was made by Mr. Kilgore, of Texa*. Expectation of an adjournment filled the galleries of the House at its night session. wnrl toe same reason brought au unusual at tendance of members. Promptly at 7 o’clock Speaker Crisp called the House to order, and soon afterward the Duroorow World’s Fair bill was reported from the Senate. After the passage of several bills on the private calendar, Mr. Holman presented the report of the conferrees on the Sundry Civil bill. Mr. Holmau explained the nature of the agreement, detailing the items in disoute and the compromises effected. He said tne bill, as finally azreed to, carried $37,837,428, being $9,600,233 less than the bill as it passe t the Senate, and $2,614,240 more than its ag gregate when it passed tne House. The totals in the regular appropriation bills for this session are $385,837,500, and for the first session Fifty-first Congress, $301,770,057 and the reduction of first ses sion. last Congress, from this session is $17,476,004. The permanent and annual appropriations of this session were $12L,803,S80, and for corresponding session last Congress, $101,- 628.453. or au increase of $20,235,427. The grand total appropriations of this session were $507,701,380, and of last ses- s on, $453,378,510, or an increase of $44,332,- 873 over the first session of the last Con- gress. In the interim between the transaction of further business the House devoted itseif to private pension and relief bills, and a large number of them were passed at locomotive speed. At 10:40 o’clock the Secretary of the Sen ate reported that the Senate had adopted the resolution of the House, agreed to last week, providing for adjournment at 2 o’clock last Monday, with an amendment providing that adjournment should take place at 11 o’clock that night. The resoiu tion as amended was agreed to. Mr. McMillan reported that the committee appointed to join a committee of the Senate aba inform the President that Congress was ready to adjourn had performed its duty, and the President had said that he had noth ing further to communicate. It was just one miuuteot 11 when a resolu tion was offered directing the President to invite representatives of the Nations of the earth toattendthe International Arititratiou Congress to be held in Chicago curing the World’s Fair. This went through without objection. It lacked five seconds of 11 when a dozen i members shouted wildly for recognition, waving papers in their bands. But they were too late. Senator Crisp announced that the hour of 11 o’clock had arrived, and, bringing his gavel down on his desk with a bang, declared the first session of the Fifty- second Congress adjourned without day. A g-eat shout west up from the members on the floor; great bundles of waste paper were thrown high into the air and fell in showers on the happy Congressmen, while from the press gallery cam-* the deep reso nance of the Doxolozy, “Praise God from wh'im ail blessings flow.’’ Then there was a handshaking and many rood-byes, and in half an hour the House of Representatives was deserted. About 10:3 * the committee appointed to notify t’u-* President that Congress bad completed its labors entered the room. It was composed of Senators Gorman and Al lison and Representatives McMillio, Fel lows and O’Neill, of Massachusetts. The President greeted each cordially and de clared that he bad never received a message in his life that was more welcome. A pile of pension bills had gathered on the President’s table by this time, and, after he had attached bis signature to the last one, he arose with a sigh of relief, put on his Uat, and, accompanied by Secretary Tibbott. entered the White House carriage, which was in waiting at the east front. Just three minutes later the big bay team that draws the President’s carriage pulled up alongside the tracks at the Baltimore and Potomac station. The President and Mr. Tibbott sorang out and climbed up the steps of the private car. Standing on the platform the President waved the signal to the station master and at 11:04 o’clock the train shot out of the station hearing the President to his sick wife at Loon Lake. BIOT IN DUQUESNE. Carnegie Strikers Attacked Desert ers With Stones and Clubs. Strikers took to clubs and stones to pre vent or delay a stampede at Duquesne, Penn, As a result several persons were beaten, and the military was placed in charge of the steel works there. It became evident the day before that a break was imminent. A large number of the strikers bad become convinced that the fight was lost and went to the mill office, where they inscribed their names in the application book. There were a number of departments out of order by reason of the sudden shut down, and Superintendent Morrison ordered William MileslageU foreman of the mechan ical department, to report with thirty men in the morning for work. Notice was given in the night, and this spread until about sixty men, who had led the strike, hearing of it, determined to stop the work. Twenty Homestead men started for Du- quesne also about daylight to assist the ring leaders in preventing any persons enteriiig the works. They were in charge of two brothers named Harris. About 6 o’clock twelve deputy sheriffs, in charge of Captain Gray, were stationed at the mill gate, and a crowd began to gather. By 7 o’clock it numbered 300. About this time members of the mechanical department, in obe dience to the order of Foreman Mileslagel, arrived with lunch pails. They were halted by the crowd, which was armed with clubs aud bould?rs. Every man was ordered home with such threatening demonstra tions that the majority fled in terror. The others determined to attempt an en trance. When they did so some of the mob set upon them with clubs, ani, although the . confer beads tried to prevent trouble, sev eral men were badly injured and many re ceived slight cuts and bruises. The nine deputy sheriff* iu charge of the property were powerless to protect the work men, and the latter hastily retreated. The deputies immediately telegraphed to Briga dier-General Wylie, at Homestead, that they were unable to preserve order, and asked that troops be smt at once to assist them. General Wylie ordered the Sixteenth Regiment to proceed at once to the disorder, but, on learning that a regiment was not re quired, he seat two com jauies. On the ar rival of this d**taobmeut of the National Guard the crowds disperse 1 and no further lawlessness was attempted. During the fight Foreman Mileslagel ani another workman were badly cat about the head and otherwisa injure i. Tue list ot those suffer ing from minor injuries is very large. WOOD ELECTROCUTED. A ■Well-Conducted Execution at Clinton (N. Y.) PHson. “Cal'” Wood, of Warren County, was ex ecuted, a few days ago, at Clinton (N, Y.) Prison. He was the first to suffer electrocu tion at that place. It was 11:47:40 o’clock A. M. by the stop watch of Warden Brown, of Sing Sing Pris on, who acted as official timekeeper, when Wood entered the execution room escorted by Principal Keeper McKenna and two dep uties. As the condemned man approached the chair ho turned toward the witnesses, who were ranged in the west end of the room, and said: “I would like to make a few remarks.” W araen Thayer gave his consent, and Wood proceeded in a voico slightly busty but distinct to think Mr. Whitman, his counsel, and the officials of the prison ior their kindness to him. Wood then turned and took his seat unassisted in the chair, where be was dexterously strapped by the prison officers, while Dr. Ransom, tho prison physician, quickly adjusted an i se cured the electrode upon the head. At the same time the leather mask covered his eyes and chin from view and shut off the last ray of light from the eyes that four minutes later were olind forever. As the apparatus was being placed in position the wretched man continued to pray; ‘"God remember me in heaven. God help. God help. God remember me. Lord remember. God help. God rem—•” Here the whits kerchief in the bands of Warden Thayer waved. All hands were off the apparatu?, and sitn u’.taneously the switchboard clicked from toe partition behind the chair at the touch of Electrician E. F. Davis. There were no contortions of the body such as hive bean described in previous electrocutions. Only a eligat expansion of tho chest was discernible during the first contact. As tho second contact was turned on, the hands, which lay on the arms of tho chair, liftad as if by contraction of the muscles for a second, and then dropped. The two suc ceeding periods of contact produced no con vulsive action whatever. At the close of the circuit Dr. Ransom and his assistants. Dr. W. N. Bullard, of Boston, and Dr. R. T. Irving, of tiing Sing, quickly exam ined the body, an operation ot about tea sec onds, and agreed that it was lifeless. Ten minutes later Dr, Ransom officially de clared the man dead. After a post-mortem examination the body was given over to his brother, who, witn Wood’s wife and cousin, was waiting on the outside for the end of the execution. It was taken to his old home in Thurman for burial. The crime for which Wood was convicted occurred May 10, 1890, when Leander Pasco, a Warren County farmer, was found dead, with twogunshoc wounds in his boJy. ool had secretly married Pasco’s daughter. Pasco would not forgive the marriage aud refused to recognize Wood. A SUDDEN_FL00D. Three Persons Kilted and Many In jured at St. Paul. A sudden flood at St. Paul, Minn., besides doing great damage to property, caused the death of three people and the fatally wound ing of a number of others. The killed were: Mrs. August Adams, Mrs. J. Hern, William Erciger. The fatally injured were: Philip Stroe- her and five-year-old son, August Adams, Frederick Kreiger, Paul Keuk, Henry Lud wig, John Wilich. The accident was the result of the late heavy rains. Upon the hillside above Page street was a deep gully.the natural outlet of* the water from the country above. A year ago Page street had l»een filled up across this gully, leaving a small culvert to carry off the ordinary water. This culvert had long ago been choked up, and the recent storm had hilled the deep basin to the brim, making a lake two acres in extent and forty- five feet deep. A crack three inches wide appeared on tho lower side of the fill, but no one thought of any danger. Suddenly the fill let go, aud the body of water swept down upon the low laud below. In ten minutes the whole thing was over. A general alarm of fire was sounded, and all the ambu lance and patrol wagons iu the city were on the scene. Men, women and children were fished out of the debris for nearly half a mile. To add to the horror of the scene the water bad carried away the gas pipes and left everything in darkness. The loss to property will amount to $50,000. Conservative estimates are that 43,001 laborers will be needed within the next month ir, order to harvest the immense gram crop of the Northwest. The acreage is a little less than last year, bat the yield promises to be equally great, if only the crop can be secured. In order to indue.* laborers to co.ne to toe relief of tae waeaf farmers of the Northwest, all the railro i is in taut section have announced a special rate of $5 from Chicago to the Dakotas for farm laborers. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Easter** and Middle State*. Frederick Moldzck, who was arrested as an accessory of Berkmann, the would-be assassin of H. C. Frick, has been discharged from custody at Pittsburg. W. J. Brennan, representing the Amalgamated Association, applied in court for the appointment of a voluntary trade tribunal to settle the Homestead trouble. Lieutexaxt-Coloxzl Stbeatob was ar rested at his home in Washington, Penn., on the charges of aggravated assault aud bat tery, and assault and battery preferred by Private lams. He gave bail in the sum oi 150(1 on each charge and was released. The threatened proceedings by the strik ers at Homestead, Penn., against the officers of the Carnegie Com pan v were taken. War rants were issued for fi. C. Frick, Chair man; T. F. Lovejoy, Secretary; H.M.Curry, Treasurer: J. G. H. Leishman, Vice-Chair man, and others, their subordinates. Each of these appeared by counsel, pleaded not guilty to tne charge of murder brought against them, and were liberated in $10,00'. hai!. The statue of John P. Hale, presented tc the State of New Hampshire by Senator William E. Chandler, was unveiled in the State House yard at Concord. There was a large concourse of people present Dox M. Dickixsox was chosen Chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Com mittee in New York City. The dead bodies of Andrew J. Borden and his wife were discovered by their daughter in their home at Fall River. Mass. The couple, who were wealthy, had been murdered and their bodies had been horribly mutilated, as if with an axe or a cleaver. There was no clue to the assassin. Charles Stockix and his son, Charles Jr., were drowned m the Niagara River at Buffalo, N. Y. They ware fishing, when the boy slipped and fell into the water. The father, who held the local championship swimming medal, plunged in after his son, but being bandicappet with his clothing and a swift current was unable to reach the boy, or return to the shore. Jcdge Rcmsey, of the New York State Supreme Court, handed down a decision de claring the recent Legislative Apportion ment act unconstitutional. H. C. Frick, manager of the Carnegie Steel Company, who was shot by the An archist Berkmann, has returned to his office in Pittsburg. South and West. At Lake Providence. La., three children of Robert Dorsey, colored, the eldest seven years, being locked up in their cabin while the parents went to church, set the place afire and were burned to death. Gexeral Speed S. Fret. Superintendent of the Kentucky Soldiers’ Home, died, a few night ago at Louisville, in his seventy- fifth year. He servod in the Mexican War and in the late war on the Union side. He became famous as the man who killed the Southern Brigadier-General. Zolliecoffer, at the battle of Mill Springs, January, 1862. The first State Convention of the People’s Party ot Michigan was held at Jackson. J. W. Ewing, a farmer, residing in Grand Ledge, Eaton County, was nominated for Governor. Fifteen thousand people at the Chau- tauqaa Grounds, Beatrice, Neb., listened to an address by Governor William McKinley, of Ohio. The Democrats of Minnesota met at Min neapolis and nominatoi a State ticket headed by Daniel Y. Lawler for Governor. Thomas E. Davis, of Taylor County, was nominated for Governor by the West Vir ginia Republican State Convention at Hunt- mgton by acclama.ioa after the first ballot. The North Dakota Republican State Con vention at Fargo renominated Congress man Johnson for Congress by acclamation. Governor Burke was placed in nomination for Governor. At Goodland, Indian Territory, Martin Holmes was shot and killed by John Bohanan in the court-room. Holmes married Bo- hanan’s daughter and killed her about one month azo in a fit of jealousy. Bohanan was not arrested. ' The Wattersoa Club House at Louisville, Ky., was dedicated; Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, made the dedication speech. The Nebraska Independent State Conven tion at Kearney nominated ex-United States Senator Charles A. Van Wyck for Gov ernor. Frank Mackin, Superintendent of the large tanning establishment in the peniteu- tary at Jefferson City, Mo., was murdered by a colored convict named Jack Brown. The convict was armed with a heavy shoe knife. Lorenzo Crounse, Aisistant Secretary of the Treasury, was nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Nebraska at Lincoln. Allan Carter, colored, who had been arrested at Wynue. Ark., on a charge of as saulting his fourteen-year-old daughter, was taken trom jail by a mob of colored men aud lynched. Washington. A. Barton Hepburn, the newly appoint ed Controller of the Currency, assumed the duties of that office, hisofficial bond of $100,- OuO having received the approval of the Secretary and of the Solicitor of tne Tresis ury. Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel P. Whit ing, a retired officer of the Army, died at the home of his daughter in Wasnington at the age of eighty-four years. Representative Boatner, Chairman of the House Special Investigating Committee, and Representative Watson, who made the charge of drunkenness against members of the House, engaged in a war of words in the Judiciary Committee, during wnich Mr. Boatner declared he was responsible for what he said and hoped Mr. IV atson knew his adores?. Chief Justice James O’Brien, of the New Mexico Supreme Court, tendered his resignation to the President, to take effect September 1. The “Peace Committee,” annointed to arrange a settlement of the Word’s Fair fight, reached an agreement to vote a dona tion of $2,530,030 to the Cnicago Exposi tion. The President has approved the act grant ing certain public lands to the State of Minnesota for perpetual use as a public pari. Foreijrn. Exercises celebrating the four hundretL anniversary of the sailing of Columbus from the port of"Palos, in Spain, were held. Emperor William’s yacht, the Meteor, formerly the Taistte, was defeated through a time allowance in the race for the Queen’s Cup at Cowes, England. General Leonardo Nuila has been comoietely successful iu the Honduranian revolution, and ex-President Brogan has been shot, after having been imprisoned for some time in Santa Barbara. Dr. Bonilla is Provisional .President, and a new Govern ment has been organized. According t< last reports the country was fairly tranquil At Swinemude, Pomerania, eight person have been drowned by the foundering o two fisuing smacks. Sixty thousand acres of forest in the dis trict adjoining Frankfort-on-the-Oder, it Germany, have been swept by fire and tb< trees charred or destroyed. The Russian famice is regarded officiail} as over. Tolstoi is sojourning at Raiz-in, to wind up his famine labors and a 1 just his accounts. The British are said to have seized upon Pago Pago Harbor, Samoa, as a coaling station. This harbor was formerly used bj Americans as a boating depot, but with the loss of their ships in Apia in the hurricane of 1889, its use has been discontinued. Eng land seems to intend to use it for the same purpose The new British-Parliament was opened; Mr. Peel was again chosen Speaker of the House, Mr. Gladstone seconding the motion for his re-election: John Moriey was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. The town of Rzecz*. in Volhynia, Russia, was set oa fire in four places daring the night and completely destroyed, fourteen oersons being kUled. sixteen seriously in jured and two thousand rendered homeless. King Malietoa, of the Samoan Islands, oas been presented with $2309 by Mr. Blacs- lock, agent for a wrecking company, being the proceeds from the sale of the wreckage of the naval vessels lost in the great storm. presented to th^Samoans by the American Government. Part has been distributed atnoag the chiefs. Six miners ware drowned in a coal pit near Dewsbury, County of York, England, by a flood from an adjoining abandoned pit. THE LABOR WORLD. There are 1,833,405 domestic servants in England. The lumber manufacturers in the South see better times ahead. Twenty thousand men are wanted in Kansas to harvest wheat. England employs 5630 women and girls in and about Its «oal mines. Alger, Mich, has 200 Indians picking 20) bushels of huckleberries daily. Chinese control almost the entire shoe- making businesi in California. Suicide is less common among miners than any other class of jyeople. ArVages have been advanced to the Fall River (Mass.) cotton mill people. Southern Minnesota needs help in the harvest field; Also, North Dakota. In the Italian silk trade there are 117,000 women employed, an d but 17,703 men. For the first time there will be but one Labor Day parade in Chicago this year. Waiters employed on the Iron Pier. Rockaway Beach, N. Y., have beencompellad to shave off their mustaches- In a mill in Berlin, Germany, where shod dy cloths and yarns are made, the earnings of 433 hands averages 62>£ cents the year through. Watkin Ja’ies. the aged stepfather o*" Exolorer Henry M. Stanley, is one of the strikers at Homestead, Penn. Stanley’s mother is dead. There is great activity in foundries, wagon and carriage works, tool works, cotton mills in the South, saw mills, and in establish ments turning out material for the inside finishing of nooses. It is asserted that the average earnings of trainmen on one of the Texas railways for the month of May last were as follow.-: En gineers, $275; firemen, $169; freight con ductor?, $243; brakemen, $17o. The dronth in Mexioo is driving laborers across the border into Texas, where they offer to work for almost nothing. Hundreds of these panoer laborers are living in ma 1 huts on the river below El Pasi, Texas. Berlin employs about forty women to sweep and trim the grass in the squares, pick up the leaves that tall from the matchless trees and keep the walks and rustic seats tidy. They work from 6 to 7 o’clock and get $2.45 a week. • FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 147rk Day.—The Senate postponed con sideration of the Anti-Option bill till next session when it will come u > as unfinished business The Senate passed a joint reso • lution extending the appropriations for the branches of tde public service iucluieliu the Sundry Civil Aopronriations bill. 148th Day.—Messrs. Hawley and Hiscock spoke on the results of the McKinley Tariff law The House joint resolution "extend ing appropriations incluied iu the Sundry Civil bill till the following Thursday was passed. 149th Day.—In the absence of any other business the Senate discussed the Homestead affair with some warmth and personality. 159th Day.—Routine business only was transacted The Senate Committee on the reception of the G. A. R. in September was named as follows: Messrs. Hawley, Man- derson. Quay, Palmer and Vilas. 151st Day.—Only routine business trans acted. In the House. 173th Day.—Filibustering against the World’s Fair amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was resumed. A quorum was not present to vote. 171st Day.—The provisions of the Sundry Civil bill were extended until August 4 Tne House passe-Xthe bill changing the date of dedication of the buildings of the Worl d’s Columbian Expostion from the 12th to the 21st of Octooer. 172d DAY^WiijigjfBiing over the World’s Fair appropriaticBcontinned. Several pro positions were •bmitted but not enter tained, and a con rnittee of ten members was appointed—3l e for and five against the appropriation—to consider the matter and report at a future i neeting. 173d Day.—The/House was in session only two hours, andl jjjthing was accomplished. Several votes LgJe taken oa dilatory mo- fions, but no qfo7um appeared at any time. 174th £)AY.-Jrne filibusters were defeate i in the attemptlo prevent consideration of the World’s Fair Appropriation bill, an d under a suspension of the rules it was de cided to vote on the bill next day. A COUPLE KILLED. Andrew J. Borden and His Wife Found Mysteriously Murdered. A bloody double tragedy was enactetf at Fall River, Mass., a few days ago. Andrew J. Borden and his wife were found dead at No. 92 Second street at 11 o’clock in the morning. Both had been frightfully mutilated about the head and face with an axe, cleaver or razor. Mr. Borden lay on a sofa in a room on tho top floor of the house. His head had been cut, and gashes from four to six inches long were found on his face and neck. Mrs. Borden was in her own chamber on the upper floor, and the condition of her face and head was the same as that of her husband. She lay face down in the bed, which was a veritable pool of blood. The police were notified, and immediately an in vestigation was begun. No implements that could have been used in the commission of the crime have been found. The daughter of the unfortunate couple was the first to make tne discovery. She went upstairs after finding the body of her father and saw that of her raothc-r. She thought her mother had fallen in a swoon, but on finding that she, too, was murdered, the girl fled downstairs and fainted. The police have searched in vaiu for any clew to tue murderer. Word was sent to Mrs. Borden that morning that a sick friend desired to see her, but she did not go out. It is said that the servant, Bridget Sullivan says she went into the room to make some inquiry of Mr. Borden about five miautes betore Lizzie Borden gave the alarm. He was then sitting on the sofa reading a news paper. Mr. Borden was a wealthy real estate owner and mill man ani was seen on the street half an hour before he was found dead. There is not even an apparent motive for the crime. A reward of $5300 has been of fered for the detection of the murdwer. A BABY THE PREY. Two Fables Fi^ht lor Possession of a Child. Two eagles hal a duel to the death for the possessiou of th» six-months-old baby of Pete Shaw, who lives four miles north of Allis, in Presque Isle County, Mich., a few days ago. Mrs. Shaw had laid the baby down in the grass and returned to the house for a few moments when an enormous eagle swooped down on the infant and sunk its talons into the little one s flesh and clothing. Ihe motner heard her baby’s cry, but came too late to save it. 'Ihe mother’s shrieks brought the father, who quickly mounted a horse an 1 arme l with arine rode to the shore of a nsarijy lake, where he knew was an eagle ey.ie in the ciiffs. tshaw arrive^ jqsj j a time to witness a terrible sight. Two eagles were hovering a hove a c»ag of rock, filling the air with taeir cnes and battling for possession of the oaby that lay high upon tne cliff. Before tne father reached the>ummit one of the ea.des had fallen to the ground while the other had again taken uo the child for another flight, ihe fathe.*" fired, and ’he bird and baov fell into the water. The fiacticfather plunged into the lake, caught ui the body, but tne litt --* one was dead. He took home the body, a mg with those of the two eagles, one of waicn had been killed in the fight over the prey. German nedicai experts warn Americans to be extremely careiui against any infec tion of chol.AVrom Europe. TRAIN ROBBERS’ BICE HAUL Dynamite Used to Splinter the Express Car. NEWSY G-LEANING-S. Two Masked Men With Shot* guns Do the Work Quickly, The fifth train robbery in the San Joaquin Valley in three years occurred early a few mornings ago near the small station of Col li*, fifteen mites from Fresno, Cal. There were two robbers, and their methods of pro cedure were precisely the same as in pre vious cases, except that they were not molested by any passenger. After rapidly splintering the express car with dynamite they cleaned up about $23,- 000, jumped into a wagon aui struck off across the plains. They selected one of the loneliest spots on the line, and showed such knowledge of the country that there is no doubt they belong near Fresno. As the train was pulling out of Collis just after midnight the engineer and fireman were startled by the appearance of two men on the tender. The strangers were armei with shotguns, and quickly covered the trainmen, at the same time telling them to obey orders. Wben the train passed Rolando station the engineer was ordered to stop and the fireman was ordered to touch off with a lighted cigar the fuse of a dynamite cart ridge which the robbers placed on the piston of the driving-wheel on the left side of the locomotive. The fireman hesitated, but under the persuasion of a shotgun touched the fuse. The explosion was terrific, breaking the piston rod and disabling the engine. The engineer was ordered to get off and walk up the track while they proceeded to bombard the door of the express car with dynamite cartridges. About eight car tridges were used and the door was torn to splinters. Big holes were knocked in the sides of the car and the floor smashed into kiniling wood. Then the pair, masked and completely disguised, entered the express car covering Louis Roberts, the messenger, with shot guns aud ordered him to open the Wells Fargo safe. Roberts set about doing this, but he was so excited and nervous that he forgot the combination. He so informed his captors, and one of them struck him a heavy blow on the head with a gun aud threatened to kill him if he did not immediately open the safe. This action strengthened the messenger’s memory, and with trembling hands he opened the strong box and they took out all the sacks of coin. When the desperadoes exoloded the first cartridge on toe engine the passengers poked their heads out ot the windows to see what was up. Their curiosity was amply satisfied when one of the robbers Area a pistol twice along the row of win Iowa There was a panic, and the passengers made a wild scramble under the seat*. The explosions of the bombs against the express car rocsed and shook the train with the violence of an earthquake. A window in front of the passenger coach immediately behind the express car was shattered to pieces. For twenty-five minutes the train was held, but only one passenger attempted to interfere with the robbers, and as he was armed only with a small revolver he soon retired. The safe contained three bags of coin, each holding $5000. These the robbers compelled the engineer and fireman to carry to a wagon which they had hitched by the side of the track. When the coin was thrown under the seat the masked men jumped in and rode off. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Harrison has a gold mounted gun. Cyrus W. Field’s life was insured for $250,000. Prince Bismarck has an income of 5253,- 000 a year. Justice Shiras is the only member of the Supreme Court who wears whiskers. Representative Cable, of Illinois, is declared to be the best camp cook in Con gress. v «* Chauncey G. Smith, of Hartford. Conn., has been fifty years a deacon of the First Baptist Church in that city. Superintendent Byrnes, the head of the New York Police Department, has just cel ebrated his fiftieth birthday. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a cor don of detectives as many as those about the person of his Czarship of Russia. The present Lord Fairfax, who lives in Virginia, is a doctor and practices his pro fession. In England his title is fully ac knowledged. Chauncey M. Depew says that while on shipboard he sleeps upward of eighteen hours out of the twenty-tour in every day of the voyage. Secretary J. TV. Foster is the only diplomat who has held three first-class mis sions. Grant sent him to Mexico, Hayes to Russia and Arthur to Spain. Princess Mary of Edinburgh, who by her marriage to Prince Perdmini will be come a future Queen of Roumania, is not ■quite’seventeen years of age. Governor Peck, of Wisconsin was once a printer living on a back street. He now lives handsomely in the house in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist, once lived. Captain Fred I. Dean, of Washington, D. C., though not au old man in years, is said to be the oldest G. A. R. veteran liv ing. He is one of its original four organ izers. Henry M. Stanley has become so angered by the allusions in the American newspapers to his late canvass for Parlia ment that he declares he will never set foot in the United States again. Robert H. Folgkr, of Massilliou, Ohio, is claimed to be the oldest practicing attor ney in the United States. He was born in Chester County, Penn., 1812,*and began the practice of law thirty years thereafter. Edward Oliver Wolcott, of Massa chusetts, who served as a private in an-Ohic regiment in 1834 aud now represents Colo rado in the United States Senate, has taken Oakview, ex-President Cleveland’s old home. Richard Croker, who rose from a ma chinist’s bench to be the head of Tammany Hall, was engineer of the first steam lire en gine used in New York City. He afterward became foreman of Engine Company 28, a position of influence and importance in pol itics, and his election as Alierman a few years later, in 1867, gave him a start oa the career he has since followed. Joseph Senior, whose death occurred recently, was lamous in England tor the verse? he wrote while toiling at his forge as a cutler in Sheffield. He published his poetry under the title of “Smithy Rhymes and Stithy Chimes,” and tne book nad a large sale. At the age of sixty-five Mr. Senior was stricken with blindness and he thenceforth devoted himself entirely t* ”erse-making. SIX BOYS DROWNED. Their Skiff Was Overturneil and All >ank to Death. Six boys, wno had secured a skiff and gone bathing In the Kentucky River, were drowned a few days ago by the overturning of their boat. The accident took place near Winchester, Ky. The larger boys undressed and want in the water, while the younger, who were unable to swim, remained in the sniff. The boys amused themsalves by (living from the boat and climbing back into it. While two of them were clambering up the side together the host was upset and the younger boys were thrown out. Jbe surv.vors were’thrown into a panic, and though the older ones made brave attempts at rescue they were unable to right the boat, and becoming exhausted, sank one alter another before aid could be sent to them. Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen is preparing the designs tor a set of stamps to be issued by the Postoffice De partment in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. He is getting together material that will suggest to him the most appro priate subject* to be illustrated on the stamps. The grape crop is promising. Paris eats 1000 horses weeziy. Alabama has 167,159 white voters. Canadlan finances are not in good shape. I Cholera has made its appearance in Germany. _The corn crop this year is estimated at 1793 million bushels. A great many new manufactories are be ing built in the South. Chinamen are beingsmuggted across Mex ico into the United iStates. Pittsburg is sending a number of small locomo.ives to South America. The British Government has assumed con trol of the Telephone Trunk lines • On July 1 there were 72,030.033 bushels of wheat in store in the United States. Portland, Me^ exported $1,500,003 worth of lobsters during the last three months. The hay crop is reported larg *, but of doubtful quality, owing to many weeds. Chancellor Allen, of Tennessee, has decided that dealing in futures is gambling. Throughout the Southwest there are many signs of improving commercial ac tivity. A severe storm lately raged throughout Jerusalem and its environs, causing much damage. The center of the cholera plague in Russia is the Province of Astrakhan, oa the Cas pian Sea. The lawyers get $658,000 of the $923,738 paid by the city of New Orleans to the Myra Clark Gaines estate. The colored farmers near Memphis, Tenn., have the Oklahoma craze and are leaving their crops to go West. Quarantine has been imposed by Brazil against all vessels arriving trom French, Russian, American, or Mediterranean ports. Only 611 planters as against 701 last year have applied in Louisiana for the sugar bounty. Consolidation of plantations is the cause "of the decrease. In the smaller towns in the States be tween New York and Minnesota there has been a greater degree of activity in house building and small shop building than last year. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will start into the saloon business as a municipality, having one saloon in each ward, with whisky at twenty-five cents a drink and no credit. Ninety years at hard labor in a coal mine was the sentence imposed upon Alfred Perry at Dublin, Ga., the other day. He was charged with murdering a colored Baptist preacher, and the evidence was circumstan tial. The haystack and barn belonging to C. Walker, living near Decatur, 111., was burned a few nights ago. The haystack was ignited by a meteor. Several people wit nessed the aereolite as it fell, looking like a ballot fire. £ THREE ARCTIC CRUS0ES. The Order Closing Bering; Sea Vir tually Means Death to i'hein. Three white men, Fred Burns, JohnPals- fordandaman known only as “Frenchy” have been left to spend an Arctic winter on a desolate island, with scanty provisions and absolutely without fuel. That they are in such terrible plight is mainly due to the ririd enforcement of the orders closing Be ring Sea against seal hunters. Just a year ago these men were put ashore on St. Matthew’s Island far up in Bering Sea, from the sealing schooner, Mattie Dyer, from San Francisco, Cal. They assisted in building*a rude hut and were given a year’s supply of food and wood, and seventv pounds of powder was left with them. The plan was for them to hunt and skin polar bears and blue faces until this season, when the Dyer was to remov * them. The schooner arrived at San Francisco a few days ago without the tnree hunters. Captain Macklar stated that he dared not venture into Bering Sea for fear ot seizure, and had been able to make no provision for the relief of the men on the island. Two parties of Indian hunters left there in pre vious seasons under similar conditions were devoured by polar bears. George H. Maynard, a saloonkeepsr at San Francisco, CaL. was killed in a drunken brawl by two hoodlums. What makes his death noteworthy Is that a while ago his brother was kilted by a blow on the head. An examination showed that his skull was the thinnest that ever came into the hos pital. The police then warned the victim of this fight to keep out of quarrels, as he came of a ’"paper skulled family.” A child was sent back t<^school in Paris before having recovered completely from scar.et fever, with the result that 150 cases broke out in the school, followed by eight een deaths. THE NATIONAL GAME. Caruthers’s pitching days are over. Kelly is Nash’s successor as Boston’s cap tain. Sanders is now Louisville’s winning Dit cher. This is truly the championship race of the decade. Pitcher Knell has signed with Phila delphia. Bassett is fielding and batting finely for Louisville. Glasscock, of St. Louis, is again nlaying “dirty bail.” The pace seems to be too hot for Getzein, the St. Louis pitcher. Anson, of Chicago, has decided to take a team to Cuba next winter. New York was never such a strong base running team as at present. Crane and P.usie are at last doing some good pitching for New York. Davis, of Cleveland, is in the very front rank of all around ball players. Core, late of New York, has been ap- pointei captain of the St. Louis Club. , The St. Louis team is playing the best gamezif any losing c.ub in the country . Four ex-Brooklyn players are now with Pittsburg, viz., Terry, Donovan, Corkhill aud Bierbauer. . Portkr, the catcher of the Atlanta (Ga.) C ub, has only two fingers on his left hand, but is a clever backstop nevertheless. The New Yorks seem to have pickkd up a jewel in Doyle. He is not only catching remarkably well, but is batting hard and effectively. Burke is playing a fine second base for Nwv York. He is quick in touching a run ner on the line, and makes a double play w.thout loss of time. Some years ago Gillespie, while with the ola ’".Met?,” insisted that he couldn’t afford to play for .*1503 per season. Now be is making about a dolllar a day at coal min ing. Chicago’s whilom grand combination of layers—Flint, Corcoran,Goldsmith, Anson, feftVr, Burns, Williamson, Dalrymple, Gore and Kelly is considered by experts the best team ever put together. One of the gratif ying results of the con solidation is the discipline and good behavior that now prevails among the players. Tne centralization of power in the hands of the magnates has led to the elimination of the rowdy element that once made life in the same hotel with a bail player a terror to all the other occupants. Bas -ball is a peculiai" business and the artists wno play it are merely transients. When their usetulness is at an end they are bundled off the sporting earth with but scant ceremony. Once New York raved over Ewing. Two years ago he could have strangled the Brotherhood. Now the threat to put him off the team arouses no comment whatever. RECORD or THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Ferr Per Chiba. Won. Lost. ct. Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Cleveland..13 5 .722 Cincinnati 9 9 . 509 Boston.. ..12 6 .667 Washing’n S 11 .421 Brooklyn.. 12 7 .032 Pittsbfirg. 7 10 .412 New York.10 7 .588 Chicago... 7 11 .389 Baltimore.. 10 8 .556,Louisville. 6 12 .333 Philad’iD’a. 9 9 .SOOiSt. Louis. 5 13 .278 Twelve thousand men are laying the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Rail way wor.». and it is expected that it will he completed next autumn. 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, 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 pr ce that you buy them in Au-I 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 Tdble, Four Cane Seat Chairs, One.' Rocker to' tna'a||^velL worth $20; but to/introduce ^o^oods in your neighborhood at once 1 will deliver the above suite at your railroad depot, all charges paid, FOB 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 iu 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 $40.90. 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 nave a great many other suites in all the latest shapes and styles, ani 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 $11.50, all 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 the city, includ ing the gauze door stoves and ranges, and the CHARTER OAK STOVES with patent wire gauze doors. I am I delivering these stoves everywhere, ail 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 roils of Matting, 40 yards to the roil, $5.50 per roll. 100.) Cornice Polls, 25 cents each; 100 Window Shades, 3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned, at 37>£ cents each. You must pay your own freight on Cornice Poles, 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, be sides its annexes and factory in another part of the town. shall be pleased to send you anything 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. ESfNo 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., all whom know me personally. Yours, etc.; L. F. PADGETT, DYER BUILDING, 805 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA, Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture, Stove and Carpet Stores. Factory, Harrison St.