The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 14, 1895, Image 3

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Ir^ir ’-^r ^ > : ' - ** : .,yt 5 THE ■WEEKLY LEDGER; GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEStRER 14, 1895. ■^•Yhe Owner of Defender Resents Dunraven’s Charges. El) THE IESTI0N SAW THE WI! r > WE^T. Senator Brice Doesn’t Think Cleveland to Blame, However. •CUOHSD IN NO UNOERTAIN WORDS DISCUSSES THE RECENT ELECTION. CHURCH GORGEOUSLY DECORATED, United to Mr. Almerick Paget Porte Says the Powers Will Be In New York City. Notified “Without Delay.” NO SATISFACTION WAS OBTAINED. Arp Takes in the Fi Ho Mora’ii Ilf) Goti to Tulking Mo: - Times (iol.l nml SHve. tlful, lint Ould I* These 1>4'. s. fie O den S»y» the Man Who Makes the Charges Is a Liar and Hlackgunrd, and That H« Is IVspared to Hack l"p What He Says. Will Vcmand a Thorough Investigation ef tho Whole AflTIdr. New York, Nov. 12.—A demand will made by 0. Oliver Iselin upon the •tip and rapatta committees of the New York Yacht club for an immediate iarestig&tion of the charges attributed ♦e Lord Dunraren in the London Field. Mr. Iselin, as managing director of the Defender syndicate, has decided to take *11 responsibility upon himself, and will Iress the affair to the bitter end. It is apparent that lie feels keenly the |!Tront placed upon him, and in discuss- mg the chargee attributed to Lord Duu- jjaren ho speaks in no undecided fash- "The man who makes these charges |b a liar and a blackguard !” is the way ae puts it. And Mr. Iselin under ordi nary conditions is qiuci and peace lov- 5iip charges against the Defender syn- Aioate were published in *he last issue •f tlie London Field. ! hey occupied irur columns. They a: o to this effect: "It is contended by word Dunraven tdiattheload-water line of Defender was Altered after the official measurement, lifter her trial with Vigilant, the charge r e on, when she went to Erie basin to measured, Sept. G, it was obvious to those on the City of Bridgeport, Yalky- Jic’s tender, that Defender was higher than usual. But early Saturday morn- fag she was visibly deeper than when fiie was measured. When he put Mr, Henderson aboard. Lord Dunraven say» he was certain Defender was 4 inches deeper than when she was measured. He did not complain then, as it was im possible to verify the belief. But when Latham Fish came aboard Valkyrie, Lord Dnuraveu told him that it was his belief that Defender was sailing fully a foot more in length than she was when Jneasrued. He asked Mr. Fish to have Ibe boats measured directly after tho »ace, and if that were impossible to htVe a eompetitor's representative remain on each yacht until each could he measur ed. The only action taken was an or der that both boats should he measured ■fine next day. The result was that Sun day’s remeasuring offered no proof Yfhatover that the load-water line of Defender had boon altered.” The remainder of the four columns gives an explanation of Dunraven’s ac tion in the protest against a crowded •eursc and over the foul between the ♦wo yachts. It is hardly necessary to tmy that Lord Dunraven argues liimself fato the position of injured innocence throughout these statements. The ♦barges, bluntly speaking, allege gross fraud against the Defender syndicate. "I am fully prepared,” said Mr. Ise lin, "to say to any man who makes these charges that ho is a liar and a blackguard. J will stand by what I have to say, no matter to whom I Pay it,” "Would not tho application of find ‘blackguard* to the author of is Y __ ‘MpC-'tat ..“roughly prepared to back cverj „ I. ssert . Such statements as those which ‘liar* these T I am ick everything ' appear in the Loudon Field are an at tack upon my honor. As managing di rector of Defender, the responsibility for the handling of the yacht rests upon trie. Mr. Vanderbilt has said nothing t- r-.; -b"ut tho cha^s. Neither have I written to him about them. "I shall demand of tho New York Yacht dub a full investigation. It will, moreover, have to decide whether I or Lord Dunraven is lying. "Until I see the article as it is pub lished I cannot make an official state ment. I presume that «ic charges in The Field are over Lord Dunraven’s sig nature, or, if not, a report of an inter- riew with him.” Mr. Iselin was unable to say what form the investigation by tho commit tee would take, as that, he explained, Would rest entirely with the yacht club; BTit til (it ho will insist upon a comploto, rigid and searching examination is cer tain. Mr. Iselin said he had not yet •ettled upon the action he would take after the investigation. A MUTINOUS CREW. They Say They Were Cruelly Treated and Will Have the Captain Arrested. Ban Francisco, Nov. 12.—The Ameri- ♦an ship Bohemia arrived from Phila delphia with stories of mutiny and dis aster. The crew, headed by Second Mate Egan, mutinied after the ship had been through a storm off Rio do Janeiro and against his will the captain had to ■lake for port. With the exception of Ihc chief officer, there was not a man Who sided with the skipper. The second officer who led mutineers •Mcrteu at Kio de Janeiro, but there- mainder of the crew are aboard. Ther will probably be arrested on complaint jffthe captain, and their part say ♦bat they will have the captain taken into custody for cruelty on the high teas, mid do not scruple to state that, h. y as respontible for the loss of on« of tha •tarboard watch overboard. Maine Found Guilty. Los Angeles, Nov. 12.—Clifton E. Maine, who lias been on trial for ths fast week for assaulting Elsie Bhipton, his ward, has been found guilty. Maine Was formerly in the real estate business fa Omaha and later in San Francisco. Little Girl Itnn Oyer and Killed. Atlanta, Nov. 12.- -Little Bertha Lee Bedford, f) years old, was run over by an electric car on Marietta street and instantly killed. The child was mangled almost beyond recognition. The I'urltan Iteneued, New London, Conn., Nov. 12.--Thc steamer Puritan was pulled off (Jreut Gull island during tho mnming. She is in New London harbor, apparently not greatly damaged. Say* the Kr*ult* Make It Almost a Car- tnlnly That the Next President Will Be a Republican—McKinley Seems to Be the Most Available Man—Says That Sena tor Gorman Is Not Permanently Downed. Pittsburg, Nov. 11.—"The results of the election of 1895 make it almost cer tain that the nominee of the next Re publican national convention will be elected president,” said Senator Calvin S. Brice to a reporter in the union depot. Mr. Brice was seated in a Pullman car on the eastern express. The senator •aid lie was going to New York. The reporter asked him how the election would affect presidential politics, and Mr. Brice made answer as above quoted. The senator continued: "If the next president is not a Repub lican the last election has at least added very much to the interest that will b* felt in the deliberations of the Republi can convention. Who will he nomi nated? Well. Mr. McKinley is a charm ing gentleman, able, popular and proba bly as magnetic as any of the candi dates.” To the reporter’s suggestion that th« public would like to know the senator’s explanation of the result in Ohio Mr. Brice said: “Ohio did just what the other states did. The result in Ohio was not differ ent from what it was in New York or Maryland or Kentucky. The people arc dissatisfied with the general policy of the Democratic party, and no local argument has any effect on the national impulse. "In Ohio we did our best, but it was useless. Chairman Anderson of the Democratic committee, did excellent work, but the odds were too great. Governor Foraker will be elected to suc ceed me ns senator, and what I shall do does not concern the public.” The repea ter asked Mr. Brice if Presi dent Cleveland’s policy was to blame for the wholesale Democratic disaster. Tho Ohio senator hesitated a moment and then said: "No, I don’t think Mr. Cleveland is blamed personally for the tidal wave. Btill, he will have to hear his share of the blame, as being part of the national organization and leadership of the Dem ocratic party.” "How about Gorman?” asked the re porter. l Mr. Brice arched his eyebrows. "Gor man? Gorman’s all right. Your Matt Quay was twice beaten worse than Gor man was last Tuesday, and ho seems to be doing pretty well. No, Senator Gor man is not annihilated, and the man who thinks he is is very badly mis taken.” A SOUTHERN MAN. Senator tJiiaj’H Choice For a Candidate For Vice President. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 11. — “If Senator Quay’s advice is followed, the i Republicans will name a southern man for vice president next year.” The speaker wuS- h .fl’rom Washing- can leadejc—effivillo with Senator Quav party, who passed through on route to St. Lucie, Fla., where they will hunt and lish. On the trip south Senator Quay dis cussed the elections quite freely, and said that there would bo no more "Solid South.” The break ing away of Kentucky and Maryland from Democratic control, Quay‘said, meant that business, and not sentiment al politics, would prevail in the south hereafter. He thought the nationalism j of Republicans as opposed to sectional- | ism of Democrats had taken firm hold on southern whites, and doubted if at present there were more than four southern states safely Democratic. Accordingly, in Quay’s opinion, it would ho good polities for Republicans j to name a southern man for vice "presi dent, ns it would fittingly recognize the victory southern Republicans had won against tremendous odds. Tho senator would not specify his choice, but it was plain he favored Bradley of Kentucky, whoso fight, he said, was magnificent. Senator Don Cameron, Frank Willing Leach and several others accompany Senator Quay. WANT THEIR PARDON. The Friend* of Marshall, Fox and Cole man Circulating a Petition. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 11.—Under the new constitution petitioners for pardon must publish their intentions to make application to the governor for 30 days in a newspaper in the county in which tho crime was committed. In each publication tho crime for which the conviction was had, the rea son for asking such clemency, the date of conviction and the term of sentence must be stated. Friends of Marshall, Fox and Coleman, citizens of Warner county, where the young men lived, have begun publication in the Brandon News, in which they ask their pardon, "because of extenuating circumstances attending tho killing and which led un toil.” Counter petitions were circulated iu Rankin county on the day of the elec tion, and it is stated that those returned contained about 800 names, running even with the tally sheets at the general voting precincts. Two of the petitions were not returned to Brandon, being held for additional signatures. PURVIS SET AT LIBERTY. th * Convicted Wliltecitpper I* Given HU Freedom by a Mob. Purvis, Miss., Nov. 11.—The jail at this place was broken into at 12:25 a. m. ^ by a mob, and Will Purvis, the alleged ! murderer and whitecapper, was libera- i ted. Tug Nuuk and Two M«u Drowned. Fortress Monroe,Va., Nov. 11.—The tug Katie of Norfolk was run into and sunk in Hampton Roods about 7:30 p. m. by the Norfolk and Washington steamer Newport News. The cook and tinmun of tho tug were drowned. Tho Itrido Is the Daughter of Kx-Secreta- ry of the Navy W. C. Whitney- Many Noted Persons Were Present, Including President Cleveland, Two Member* of UU Cabinet and haegicey M. Depew. It Looks as Though tho Sultan Were .Hook ing tlie Ambassadors— Fresh Disturb ances Reported and Considerable Anxiety Is Felt For the Safety of American Mis sionaries—Sultan May De Deposed. [Copyrighted, 1895, by Associated Press.] Constantinople, Nov* 18.—Each day Almerick Paget was solemnized at noon shows the situation of affairs hero to bo at St. Thomas church. Tho bride, who growing more threatening. New York, Nov. It.—The marriago of Miss Pauline Payne Whitney to Mr. is tho daughter of William C. Whitney, former secretary of tho navy, is known favorably in New York, Washington, London and Paris society. The groom The reply of the porte to tho commu nications sent to it after the meeting of the ambassadors Monday has been awaited with interest, as in the note tho is tho youngest son of the late General representatives of the powers used much Lord Alfred Paget, who was personal stronger language than Ijerctofore, and aide de camp to the queen and grand son of the first Marquis of Anglesea. The first Marquis of Anglesea mar ried a Miss King, of Georgia, and Mr. Paget’s brother, Colonel Arthur Paget, married the only daughter of the lato Mrs. Parana Stevens in 1878. The scene within the church was a truly beautiful one. The interior was positively insisted upon being immedi ately informed as to what steps tho Turkish government intended to take for the restoration of order in tho dis turbed provinces of Asia Minor. The porte, replying to tho identical notes of the ambassadors of Germany, Austria and Italy, simply said that in formation regarding the scheme for re form in Armenia would he forwarded completely hidden beneath ivies, chrys- ^ ^ representatives of the powers anthemums and lilies; these flowers be- '' l h out delay In other words, these ing arranged on four triple arches erect- l’ 1 ?* ' am kassadors, at 1< ast, ha\ o Jb iug arranged on four triple ed across the center aisle seats, while the stone gothic pillars and abutments were entirely hidden in masses of rho dodendrons. Round tho chancel and quires, tree ferns and palms were placed. The chancel rail, galleries and side aisles of the church were banked with flow ers, over which was artistically draped a hanging green and white tracery of foliage and lilies, which gave a natural unstudied effect to the decorations. Froniincnt People Present. The family and immediate friends had scats separated from those reserved by t ho guests by a floral gate built on tained no satisfaction at all. It is not yet known if the notes of the ambassa dors of Great Britain, Russia and France have been replied to, but it is presumed that they were also assured that their requests for information re garding the proposed reforms would ho complied with "without delay.” Surprise is expressed even by the dip lomats of this city, who expect almost anything from tho porte, at the actb m of the sultan in sanctioning tlie official note issued Monday as cabled exclusive ly to the Associated Press, expressing Abdul Hamid’s thanks for tho "ener getic measures taken by the imperial gothic lines, extending across the center ! authorities,” in “suppressing” the dis- i • I.*. 4. tv *3 a. i. i a • Tkr:.. „ aisle. On the right sat President Cleveland and Secretary Daniel E. La ment and Secretary of the Navy Her bert, and in the scats immediately be hind the presidential party were seated Governor and Mrs. Morton, Sir Julian Pauncofoto and members of the British embassy, Dr. Chauncey M. Depew and specially invited guests. On the left were seated members of the Whitney household, Lady Colebrook and Miss Alice Paget, sisters of the bridegroom, Lord Westmeath and personal friends of the bride. The bridal party was met at the chan cel steps by the groom and his best man, Mr. Gerald M. Paget. The bride and E -oom were met at the chancel steps by ishops Potter and Leonard, and the rector, Dr. John Wesley Brown, where the charge was read by the rector of tho church. Bishop Leonard performing tho betrothal service and Bishop Potter offi ciating at the marriage ceremony proper at the chancel rail. Immediately after the ceremony the newly wedded pair were accompanied to the vestry by the president and Sir Julian Pauncofoto, who subscribed their names to the marriage registry as wit nesses. While the bridal party were signing the registry, Mme. Nordica f<i tavors" toTlie %fl<>wer girls present- A reception wa^ 111 ?’ iimte : d quests, tor the ceremony immediately af- bride’s father, 2 residence of the street, to which 400 giM Fifty-Seventh In the inner hall uu were bidden white flowers was hung 1 iPJPie bell of the bridal couple ivcoived (Laoatii lations of their friends. eongratu- tions in the house were sin\ 10 decora- fective. Ajle and ef- D; nut iltilly Decorated. , Around the stairway palms' grouped and the balustrades \vere WPro twined their entire length with v PU ‘ leaves and smilax. In tlie corridor fenl 10 and ropes of chrysanthemums wereP wound round the oaken walls and drap ing tlie rare tapestries. In the anteroom leading off the hall, tall palms with yel low feathers, Japanese blossoms banked at their base, wore placed. The draw ingroom was decorated in mauve pink catalaya orchards, which hung from vines, and palms which were draped luxuriantly around tlie mirror and ean- delbra of the room, counteracting pleas antly tlie massive furnishings of deep crimson, black and gold furnishings. The windows w< .anked in green and tho bride and bridegroom received the wedding guests in a grove of green. The wedding breakfast was served at small tables set in the ballroom and dingingroom. Tho bridal party was seated at a crescent shaped table arran ged across the bay window. The bridal couple will pass part of tho honeymoon at Mr. Whitney’s country seat at West bury, L. I., and later will slowly tour through the eastern states on route to St. Paul, Minn., where Mr. Fagot and his bride will make their fu ture home. turbances in Asia Minor, asserting that "order has now been restored in all the districts recently the scene of riots and conflicts,” and adding that "precautions have been taken to insure the main tenance of order.” Looks Like Mockery. This looks like mocking the ambassy and is second in importance only to the snub administered by the sultan to Great Britain in decorating Bahri Pasha and giving him the command of tho troops going to Zeitoun, after lie had : been removed from a governorship at the instance of the British ambassador, Sir Philip Currie, for his ill treatment | of Armenians. As to order being restored in the dis tricts. it need only he said that the Mo bilization of about 150,000 troops to bo sent to these districts is progressing as actively as the Turkish government can push such an undertaking, hampered as it is by lack of funds and the incom petency of its officials. Then again, ad vices received here announce fresh dis- , tin Lances at Marash, Bitlis and tiivaa, with their attendant massacres. .It is also announced that a battalion of Turkish troops which was in garrison at Z: ilouu, and which recently distin- gui: bed itself by surrounding and shoot ing down a number of Armenian sur- gents, was later besoigod in its bar racks by the Armenians, to whom the . soldiers eventually capitulated with arms, amnninitiuii and baggage. It is 1 added that tho Armenians now occupy , the quarters at Zeitoun previously occu- 1 mod by the Turkish soldiery. Tin Yrmenians, it is further stated, have also g.vrrisonod all the important j positions in and ti’iout Zeitoun, and are gathering ammunition Wld provisions, j throwing up other fortilicatioifs ami iu every way preparing to hold the plttcb.- Zeitoun is on the route from Arabghor to Alepho and is an important iron min ing center. Considerable anxiety is felt in American circles here on account of V the absence of news from the districts Avhcre the American missionaries are bdioned and the United States ambas- teleg’ 1 ’, ■ dr - Alexander W. Terrell, has at Hnri'P^d Commissioner Darnham , • .-.T^nit asking him if tho American f,- V,, ir\ i s wife. According to advices cinitv h\j iu several villages in that vi- . • ‘ Ve been attacked by rioters r.i.,,,.,,.,. 1 'i S !\cred the inhabitants and n r ,. property. It is feared H iriiu Ir .^Jp-banees will spread to “.‘ J ;. , lr YSlstated in Euro ,canoffi- , ' that as a result of an 1 l ? m V' p of views between l w°*TVh their ropresenta- tnes lu rc and at th^t ^ it is believed that a \ <ll . npront capitals, ■ , • ‘ •vxpmt course of ae- tion. invohing a displ^L of naval aud possibly, military force 1\ 1S ah ,, ul v boen decided upon, with the v\, w of {. est ,, r . Dig order in Armenia, nry have clearly demonstrated tli I witnessed the street jageant of Buffalo Bill’s "Wild West" show. I suppose there wore 50,000 people who did the same thing. That much was free, and quite enough for mo. Some how I have lost my appetite for circuses and other spectacular amusements. The time was when 1 never missed one if I could help it; but now I prefer to seo things that provoke thought instead of • miles. Tho wonders of tho exhibits in the exposition, tbo progress of man kind in tbo arts and sciences fill the mind with pleasant contemplation. When tho telegraph wire# first reached our town wo felt sure that fiere was nothing else to invent or discover; that nothing more was ne’ded. But so many wonderful aud useful things have piled up on us since, that now we live in a state of expectancy. What will come next? When I was a hoy we studied a philosophy which said that tho load must ho near the power, and there was a picture of a horse trying to pull a hag of sand by a rope that waa 100 yards long—and he couldn’t move it. Now wo read that tbo power fr> m tho elec tric plant at Niagara is soon to pull all tho boats on tho great Erie canal, and tho thousands of horses and mules are to be discharged from their monotonous service. More than this—we read that this same power is soon to supercede all other powers in load : ng and unloading tho vessels in New York harbor. If this power can reach New York from Niagara, why not reach across the con tinent? How long before ull our rail way trains will he moved by it? There is sufficient water power righthero near C'artcrsvillo to operate a plant that would move all tho wheels in Georgia. The children now at school will livo to i .ugh at tho simplicity and stupidity of their fathers and grandfathers just as 1 now smile at the recollection of tho time when my father kept a flint and steel and a piece of punk in a little tin box and would strike a spark and light a candle when ho wanted a light in tho night. It is funny to think of the time j when there was no matches. What would these cigarette hoys do without matches? Every decade briims cheaper methods and more comforts. Th<» old rule that 1 Adam Smith taught us iu his "Wealth to hunt for gold, for Moses sayi in th» second chapter of Genesis that the gold , of that land around Eden was good, an! ratio and J reckon old Adam dug for it and molded it and jingled it in his pocket. II# never wore fig leaves long. John KnoX, in his Geneva edition of tho Bible, »• edition that last' d fifty years and wa# very popular, says that Adam and Ev«* when they knew that they were naked, made for themselves "breeches," and so, of course, they had pockets to caff/ their money in. Old Mother Eve wor« breeches then, and her offspring, th# new woman, got her fashion rightl straight from the garden of Eden. W hat will Dr. Hawthorne say about that? But silver c uno along in duo time. Abraham brought the cave of Macpclab aud paid 40,1 shekels Of silver current money with the merchant. It was not coined, for ho weighed it. I reckon it was granulated like wo used to buy gold half a century ago. My father was a merchant, and bought a great deal of fine gold from the miners, and most of it was in goose quills. The quill wa* tran-paront and had a little wood an stopp r, and a good large one held about 810 worth. Josephus says that in hi* day gold and silver were coined and stamped. It was roughly done, 1 reckon, for I have a coin that is 1,000 years old, and it has Constantine on ono sido and wo Roman lictors on the oilier; and it ‘s a rough job. Aluminium would mak# a beautiful coin, and with the govern ment stamp would bo a handier coin than silver, for it is not half so heavy. It is tho stamp that fixes tho vain*. Iron and copper were used by the Greeks and Romans just as wo use nickel now. What a rumpus this question of cur rency has raised, and it came upon u» tliis time so sudden and unexpected. Where all the go 1 is I don’t know, for I never see any of it. Nobody hut tha bankers and tho United States treasury have any use for it or anything to do with it. It travels hack and forth across tho water in bags and boxes and settles tho balances of Uad« with the banks anil merchant princes, and that is what it is for. I reckon. I haven’t seen hut one piece in two years, and that wasn't mine. What good it is doing locked up in vaults f don't, know, but 1 reckon it is all r glit. 1'opo said whatever is, is right, and so 1 don’t worry. We still live and ar ■ ( ill of jail, nd there is peace and harmony in tho ’.ousehold mil that is a biggi-r thing l an gold or silver. — Rill Arp, in At lanta Col: 1.1 U liie.i. education for l oth. Tin average man will no: si:| sons now, for no lent events i of Nations" was t! a Ibovidenco had wisely ord-i'ned that tin* labor of ono man would easily support eight persons, meaning himself an ! vrife mid s x chil dren. But he wasn’t counting on So shoes for th** boys and §10 hats and balloon sleeves for tin girls and a college labor of tho port eight per- , withstanding tho •i capte ss of things our wants are in creased ten-fold. St* pimti Girard said that the way to get rich was to buy nothing you were m t ,dri ig« d to have, hut wo reverse tho maxim and buy too many things we are not d to have. ■While in tho exposition 1 d d want to 1 ity a lot of those hcmitiful aluminium wans for my wife, b r she does love pretty things and lino thitu r s, but I didn't, have the. mom y. I lot her look at them ami only hotiLrht her a pepper box. Now, that reminds me of our V'.ouble in the South. ’I hat aluminium clay is :t , * l r"' 4 ».bput in > ur hills and is being mined aml-shW^d every day to | lbitsburg nml there it is’'minced and I nianufactiirt d and t he p:o IticDf'SeH'oo i hack to us with two freights and h ; profits added. Just so with our man ganese and ochre and lumber and | hides and most, of our cotton and ! wool. We have got, to manufacture I our own materials or we will never catch up. But we are making i good progress in iron and cotton and maybe the other plants will come along in time. I learn that 80 per cent of that aluminium clay is wasted and | thrown aw ty in the process of reduction. ; Just think what a saving of freight ! there would he if wo could reduce the I metal at the mines. We would soon bo , tho richest people on the earth if we ■ could manufacture our own materials. Tho labor is here, but it is idle. Our hoys are w illing but thev can’t find cm* WHISKY WON. BURNED TO DEATH. Tlie Father Lint HI* Life ami Hi* Wife aud Non Fatally Injured. Chicago, Nov. 13.—John Baramiski was burned to death, ins wife and 24- year-old son, Martin, were fatidly in jured and three other people badly hurt in a lire which destroyed two buildings, 890 and 392 Noble street during tlie morning. The lint was discovered by a policeman, who endeavored to arouse the family. This could not 1st done and the firemen had to break in tho doors. The members of the family were till unconscious, and tho fire gained such headway that their rescue was effected with great difficulty. Tlie father’s body (John Baramiski) was burned to a crisp. Th« Standard Kul»t-s Frlre*. Toledo, Nov. 13.—Tho Standard hriti raised tlie price of crude oil north of Lima to 8 cents, south of Lima 75 cents, Indiana, 71. This is a riio of 5 cent* per barrel. There is great excitement among the oil men. £x-S<*nator Thurman'* Condition. Columbus, O., Nov. 13.—Ex-Senator Thurman slept well during tho night. Ho talks and knows persons who cull in. His injured hip is better and tho doctor says his patient will get op, . , , — - tan has no intention of carrying tho ploy men t. scheme for reform agreed unon some — time auo, after so much delay and an- . how r;i P ull .y wealth noyanco. I imrt **iS's when labor is rewarded. Look ^ at a ruined State iiki* Georiria wih in x, *, • 1805 and now see what thirty years have Nothing definite, however, appears to done. Look at ti be known regarding their course of ac tion; but it is now believed that tho sultan will not be allowed to trifle with the ambassadors for many days longer, and news of an important nature is ex pected at any moment. A prominent member of tho diplo matic corps is quoted as saying that “tho end of all this wretched business is fast, approaching,” and lid* is the view that is taken of the situation by Europeans generally. It is understood tho powers have at last decided that any further "identical notes.” or other Bueh communieatio!^ are useless in tho case of Abdul HumuR and that only prompt and effective mil- itarv action is likely to have any influ ence'on him. The rumors so persistently circulated for inany weeks past as to tho proba bility that the sultan will ho deposed were repeated on all sides, and it would soom that they may have boon .ovivod by some definite statement on tlie sub- jis't. No further details have been receivd hero of tho recent massacre at Dian e- kir, but from all accounts the bloodshed must have Immmi terrible in tho extreme. Two llunilred anil Fifty on Ntrlke. Rothksiun, Nov. 18.—Two hundred and fifty enployes of Hardin* & Tod t, inuiuctareri of this city, have •truck. jo exposition that I,as boon planted with the money from one city nml is nuw tbo uonder of tho na tion. Whore docs all this money come fiotn. \ only, it loo,us like aladdin's lamp lias come down to us—and yet almost everybody is complaining of bat'd times. I’ve been reading Ji s phiis again and I don t understand how Solomon got ail bis money, for David was at war with somebody most ail his life. Josephus says Dial silver was as plentiful .n Jerusalem as the ; tones in the street. Tho temple was overlaid with gold and cost millions of dollars. Herod sent a little present of ten mil lions of drachmae to Caesar. Hyrcanus pent ton thousand talents of gold. Tlie I'liiuaoliH built tho pyramids for their own tombs and one of these took UO.OUO men thirty-seven years to complete it and it cost live hundred millions of dol lars and is not worth a cent lo anybody. Tho A7.1 pcs of Mexico built some just as largo. The ruins of them are still thoro and historians say they had idols on their tops that wore thirty feet 1,1^1, and made of solid gold. There Is a cathedral now in the City ( ,f Mexico that cost sixty millions of ioll irs \\ hat a vast amount of money has beon made from tho beginning down to tbo present time. M .nkiod began early No Duty Will lit* Clini'grd on >aini>l«* Olv- cn Away at tin* KxiiosICttu. Washington, Nov. 1 1.—The treasury department has settled th-* question of free distribution of samples of whisky and wines at the Atlanta exposition, which has long vexed the officials. Free whisky won. Among the many foreign exhibitors are several houses which deal exclusively in wtnes aud liquors. They had samples of their liquors put up in small bottles wbioh they distributed free among people who visited their exhibits. Under the law all articles imported for the exposition were allowed to corn* in free of duty, provided an indemnity bond was filed by the importer to pay duty on all articles not returned after tlie exhibition. On articles sold during the exposition the usual duties attach ing to such articles are imposed. The foreign wines and liquordealers contended that their wares, unlike all other wares, could only be judged by consumption, that the quality of their goods could not be determined by look ing at tho bottle containing the liquor, or in smelling the cork with which it was bottled. They were perfectly will ing to pay the duty attaching to ths liquors and wines sold, but, asked that duty on sample quantifies of liquor dis tributed free be remitted. treasury has tried in various wavs (A reatjT^RWt^- satisfactory test of tn* quality of liqiv r Tsodlt by drinking it, but without success, amM>U>ally Socrfr- tary Carlisle has fallen back 7IU treasury regulations applied to tBb W. rld's fair aud the California exposi tion. which permitted the free entry of liquors 1": r free distribution as sam ples at the Atlanta exposition. WILL BRING WARD BACK. All Arrangement* Huvo Been M:»tlo For the Kxtrmlitlon of I lie Fiuhezzler. Washington. Nov. 11. — Attorney General M. li. Patterson of Tennessee, accompanied by Senator Harris, called upon Secretary Olney uLtheriato. partmentjlu^JJj^ cxiia',!,,!! ( f Ward, who is wanted in ••tffiis on a charge of forcing and embezzling to tin* extent of ab ut |::()0,- 000. Ward is now held under arrest by the Honduranian g< vornimr t, which has courier usly consented to surrender him to tii<* I uited States, altlu ugh there is no extradition treaty in forou»nd At torney General Patterson’s visit to the state department was made for the pur- i pose of satisfying himself that all uec- o:sary precautions had been taken to secure the safe delivery t f the prisoner to tho Tennessee officers. He found that the department had taken all necessary steps and that the president s warrant for Ward’s arrest would bo delivered to tho otlleers hers or sent totho Memphisjsilieootllcer now iu Honduras within a day or two. Cigarette Bit Law Con*tltutlou«l. Wheeling, Nov. 8.—In the crim inal court Judge Hughes decided tho stale law taxing eigaretto dealers couKtitntion.il. He overruled detuorrers to indictments against dealers in this city ami practically favored the law as it stands. Trial w m .set for the eight eenth instant. I dted State* Judge (toff recently declared the law uncon stitutional under tho interstate con raorce act. Heavy Fire !.•>»* In uba, Havana, Hot. 8.—A dispatch ij here from Matanzas says that fire occurred there during whij stores and a number of hoi burned. The loss is estimate 000, not insured