The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 30, 1896, Image 2
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEYJS. C„ JULY 30, 1806.
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Seventeen Persons Killed and
Thirty-Six Injured.
WREOK AND RUIN ON ALL SIDES
A lloarjynjfb^mo In ,SijUiirb4 of til*
City Mlowo *>own oml Waslird Aw»y »ml
Fine*n of Hie Oocnpunt* Drownnl—I'rop-
•rty DMiiiaKetl to tb«« IJx^oot of Ouq Huh*
\ dr^d Tlioaunnil Dol l.'i.ri. , ,
PlTTRBtJKO, Jaly 28.—Tho full cntelit
6f the damage wrought' by Monday
night’s hu.Vienne was not known until
daylight, when wreck and ruin wore
apparent on all sides. Steeples were
blown from churches, and adjoining
buildings crushed, houses were unroofed,
trees-broken off. and in some cases torn
up by tho roots, while tho haroc caused
by the heavy rainfall of last week was
repeated. Summed up at noon, with
several outlying districts to hear from,
the result is: Seventeen lives lost, 3(1
o^her persons, were injured, a pumber ,
fatally, apd property damaged to, the
extent of *160,000. The list of dead and
injured,'as far ai known, is aft follows: j
‘ The dead:
Jacob Affeitcr, aged 35 years, 17 TY.r-
ward avenue, instantly killed onCueen-
field aveiiuo by a falling fence. •
John Fjgus, aged. 22, skull crushed by.
fallihg-lree at Sugar Camp Crovo.
Injured: , . I
Abuer Hays, receiver for the P. \V. &
O., struck by lightning.
August Sendiz, Robinson road, Alle- j
ghqny, with family of'six, shocked by
lightning; ail in a critical condition.
H. A. iienuett and two. children, St. i
Clair street, struck by lightning; condi- |
lion critical.
George Miller, 220 'lain street, A^ 0- .
gheiiy, fatally injured. ’
Thomas U’Uoniiell, Jacob Metz, Frank
Ott, Charles Kosack and Harry Hadtbm,
all seriously Injured by fining' trees at
Sugar Grove.
Henderson Ritchie, aged 03’, struck by
lightning at McKee’s Rocks; -will not
iwcover. .....
Sidney Gebbart, Soutii .^ido,, ctruck
by lightning; will recover.
Will Partitt, postal ‘^hessetiger, shuck
by lightning; in juries sliglit.
James lirsedy, janitor of the Ralston*
Public school, struck by a Hying lough. ;
Police Ullieer W. P.. Smith, struck in
the back by,a flying signboard and badly
l»urt. . . , !
Motormau Shaw of tho Erookfield
line, shocked by lightningl
Six girls in Armstrong’s cork factory i
StrtH’k by flying glass. ' ' * ' •' * I
'•Uncle Bob,” a well known negro,
shocked by lightning. .. - •
E. McGovern, a baker, and- on-uu- j
l^nown boy sliglitly injured by debris. .
—— Miles, the 8-year-old boy of
George Miles, struck in the head with
a brick.
Mrs. Thompson bf Carbon alley struck j
by foiling chimney.
Unknown stable boy blown against a
cart at Twenty-second-street-and Penn- :
syivauia avenue and two ribs broken.
■ FWtemi Mlm>r» Dio-wncii.-
One of the most terrible*results of tho
storm was the drowning of a number of
coal miners, in the Painter’s-lUm dis
trict, just over the. Washington, county,
lijie. The boardinghouse which they
occupied was blown dowp aip( swept
away and of the Id iftiners sleejiing in
it, 15'arc believed to have beeii drowned.
The Ixxlies Of live have been’recoveml.
One-of the men was revived. ‘They
were till foreigners, mostly Italians, aod
were employed in the mines of Colonel
. P. ,Randolph pf tno Ridgeway-.
Bishop Coal company. The boarding
House was a littio settlement called
Cedtl, ou tho line of the 8-mile branch
of thw Panhandle road, which'leaves th©
Chartiers division at Briiigeville. The'
branch runs over to McDonald, and
Cecil is .located midway between the
two points, . . . ....
The fatality occurred at 4 a m, when
the small stream, Pain to;.’s Run, whjch
empties into the Chartiers creek, was
suddenly swollen into a raging' torrent
by a cloudburst. The stream had been
running high 'bil account of’ rain, but
little damage had beou -done-before Mie
rush of water which carried away the
tenepient hopse. , . ..
‘JThe particular! of the fatality which
have'been received thus far are very
meagre owiiig to the remoteness of the
locality and the fact'that thd’wires are'
down. Five bodies of tho unfortunates
were recovered during the morning at
various i>oints about a mile away f-rom
where the. housu stood. The other tea
are believed to have, perished. , .
One of the 10 was resepod, while cling
ing to a tree, and another of the occu
pants of the house was discovered cling-
mfc to the boughs of u free three niiles
down. He was unconscious and died a
few hours later. A great deal of- min
lug and. oil property was damaged in
<ho .district along the run. Thu water,
rose in some places to a depth of, 18.
feet. The loss in tho district will
Amount to thousands of dollars.
‘Aft Ml the miners ih the houfto which
waft swept uway were ‘foreigner*, and'
luostly Italians, it was- impossible to
learn their uaifies. - -
Meteorological Keoords liroken.
Throe meteorological i coords wore
broken Monday. It was in the itist
place the hottest day of the year; the
thermometer at 4 o’clock -was !HI de
gree*. Die maximum point. The rain
fall for six minutes beats all, records in.
the local weather bureau, which extend
back 28 years. From 4:30 to 4:3(1 over
©fie-thlrd Of an Inch of rain fell in the
I$aug0 oh ‘ tne roof of the government
building. The other was the cohl wave
that passed over the city dnritig tho
stunn The register in tliu thermoiue-
ter fell from 90 degrees to 71 and then
went back to 84. Had it not been
that the slightest oliauge is regis-
kerod in aink tips phoiiomepon
ft’ould not have been ppticfMi.
The sudden Change in a largo extent
cauft d U terrihlo eb* , trie''(ifsp1ny that”
continued ‘without intormrsftion ’until
widiiight. Up to 9 o'clock TB<*sdny'
mining the rainf.-ill was 1.42 IucIm's,-
ami as the ground is thoroughly soaked,
all of it will rbju’h ,the riyenj, nn<l tho
flood of Saturday will probably bo re
peated*.
The approach of the storm was her
alded liy black cloud* thrtt tufued day:
light iiitodnricnoHK. There was a'0011-
slant lull of - terrifying thunder and iu-
tunwaut dasluM ut vivid iightiuug that
gave warniug to pedestrians to soca
places of safety. The wind rose to
gale ns tho rain began to fall and tire
tliu hurricane came op with a roar. (Riv
ing the rain in solia sheets before it.
In nu instant the streets in many parts
of tho city wore flllod with flying
branchos of trees, tin roofs were lifted
from houses and sent whirling over i —
chimney tops, knocking them tioWat like* Vr aIj"v' 'to 1 ’p'tlt'q
ton inns, signs and fences and trees fell, mivn x i iPtao
crushing out tkc U**es of two men a d | —
injuring others. For a little over a min
ute tho hurricane blow at the rate Rf UO
miles an hour aud then decreased to 24
miles for five minutes and ceased. The
thunder and lightning, however, kept
»p*!i torrjfrfing -display,- while*- the’ Irain
continued to pour down for an hour.
After an hour of low murmuring thun
der and.Alioet lightuiug tho storm broko
out again, but the force of it seemed to
be in the country d ■Ktricts buck of the
south side hills, aud reports coming in
at a lato hour contained the informa
tion tliftt'much damage had been douo'
by lightning and an excQptiogally heavy
dowujjour of rain.
Silver Lake Dam Gave Way.
Silver Lake and dam, unable to sus
tain the strain, gave way under it and
turned Finley’s run into a river until it
emptied into the river near the Brilliant
Pumping station. At Lraddock hail j
added to'the damage and when the hur- '
ricane reached Turtle Creek it assumed |
the proportions pf u cyclone, doing great
damage. In the oil fields, derricks
were blown down, particularly in
O’Hara township. Sewinkley, Ooraopo-*
lis, Bellevue and McKees .suffered ^e-. i
verely. At Millvale aud Sharpsburg tho
storm played great havoc: *
Fmnk Ridge pay, tho. local forecn«fc
official, was at his desk when the storm*
cloud darkened the sky. He said that'
ho had never seen a more perfeokcycloim i
formation in the clouds, and, the fact
thdt tho cify* was not visited with a cy
clone worse than that which caused the
St. Louis horror, is duo to the iuterven- ;
iiig hills. The circular movement of
the wind was broken in the lower si rata, '
or else'there Would have .ecu a path
plowed through tho two cities several
blocks wide.. * •
In tho evening another storm swept !
over the city, during which torrents of.
rain fell, while the wind blew a gale, \
but no serious damage resulteib .Fropi
8 o’clock until midnight .75 inches of
rain fell, making a total of 1 42 inches j
The storm died in Mug-continued riihilf-
ling that rolled through the heavens
with the noise of distant cannonading, ;
the lightuiug. meanwhile, illuminating
tljo sky with incessant flashes of bluish,. i
glaring light. It was not until the mid- j
night hour that tho god of storm ceas'd
his foud inurmtuiugA
Many Houmis Ct;ro»f,Ml.
The damage to pooperty was general
and various. The wind unrooted dozens
of hOdftes,' while others were damaged :
by the water washing thdir foundations' i
a-way. Still others were struck by light
ning. Tho traction lines as • usual, were
compelled to suspend operations. Groat
heaps of dirt and debris, from the pre
vious floods,, piled pegr the tracks wijro
washed dow n again and the only lines
which escaped serious damage were
thofce on the south side. In the Penn
sylvania avenue mill district, 25 largo
smoke aud draft stacks were blow'll
down, buildings were unroofed, trees
were uprooted aud .scarcely a house iu
the district, passed through tho storm,
intact. Budfer stree); got a it* petit ion
of the storm of July Jfi, ami many por- #
sons wdio liad suffered property loss on
the occasion hail tlie same experience
again. Trees'and telegraph poles went’ i ^nikiing.
down under .the wind. Fences amj '
outbuildings, wrere • destroyed and largo
buildings suffered tlva loss of roofs and
windows. Brush ton aud WilkinsUurg
suffered to a considerable extent, but
not so badly as the districts not far from
the river. - * • •
The telegraph and telephone systems
of the two* cities wore badly damaged:
All the police aud lire ohirin-wires were
wrecked to a greater or less extent, but
by, dint of hard work during the night,
they have beep put ip fpir /hape again.
Mor-than half the telephone wires iu
iu Allegheny'county are out of order,
and- strenuous efforts' al’e being made to
repair the damage; At 9 a. nr. it tVas
estimated that 700 lines were still out
of order- The Western Union and Pos
tal, suffered much damage, but by hard
Work enough Ruijs were kept open to
handle press business. The electric,
liglit and street railway wires were
badly disordered by the wind and word
crossed aud recroased with other lines
and liuemon got them straightened out.*
AH the railroads suffered heavily from
laudsl .-io*. but the through lines were
all open and trains, are ruuuiug. with
very little delay.
SllllMOUNANEWS
A Week’s Happenings Gathered
From All Parts of the State.
Items Gathered From All Parts
of North Carolina.
6? IMPORTANCE UAPPtNlN'GrS OF' TffE ?AST ‘WEEK
VlJB*’ /'aft® V n, t Governor ChikII- .
ilati-K For tlie United Staleii Senate, Come
to lllow* at Laurens —Tliree I’rlsoners
Lsca|te From t!ie Aiken Jail—i Convict
.Guard Accidentally Sliools Himself.
’ Columbia, 8. C., July 25.—At tho
caihpaigh meeting ht Florence Friday
Judge Joseph H. Earle, candidate for
United States senate to succeed Senator
Irby, and Governor John Evans, who is
a candidate for tho same office, came to
blows. Earle struck Evans first and
Evans responded with a blow under tho
eye. They were- quickly surrounded
and 1 Separated by reformers aud con
servatives. Several men had their hands
on their pistols, but comparative quiet
was finally restored. ’
Tho mayor of Florence sent tho chief
of police to amvt tlie governor aud the
judge. The governor told the chief that
if bp attempted to arrest him lie would
resist with force and take possession of
the police of the city under the law.
’Tlie chief went aWay and later re
turned with the mayor. The latter
said he had been misinformed as to the
law; that he realized thar lie could not
arrest the chief executive and the apol
ogy was made. , .
Governor Evans, in concluding his
speech after the fisticuff, made no fur
ther reference to General Earle.
• Judrfe Earle was after the meeting
loudly called for. ‘ He was forced to
show himself for a few moments. Ho
expressed regret for the action ho had
been forced to take, but his father had
taught him never to take an insult.
General Earle remained in Florence
while Governor Evans camo on to Co
lumbia.’
• The personal encounter created great
excitement, not only at the scene but at
the capital, and many say it means the
end of tin? biennial primary canvass iu
this state. For the past six years tho
campaigns have been characterized by
endless mud slinging, the lie lias been
given anil’taken time and again, while
many times it has only needed a s gnal
tdoJttiHC bloodshed; but none of the can
didates had over come to blows until
Friday.
. Tlie presnntcampaigu has been pitched
on .a peculiar piano and many hayo
wondered wha.fc the candidates would
say next. For several days it lias been
obvious that General Eurlo was weary
ing of the style of tho campaign and
was lilroly to make things lively.
, Jail Delivery at Aiken.
‘Aiklx. S..C., July 23.—A jail delivery
was effected here, three prisoners mak
ing their escape. Guo of them, Bam
Goldman, Waft'held on a charge of mur
der, which crime was committed at
Biackvillo several weeks ago. Another
prisoner was Dan Hammond, charged
with assault with intent to kill. Tho
third was. Will, Walker, under two
years’ sentence for larceny from tlie
house. The men made their escape by
tearing out a part of the jail wall and
scaling the high brick fence arenu ithe
An DfHrial llaport Made to the Govrrnor
of th(- Djiil»S e Done to the State'll Farm*
by Iterent Heavy Ilaina—One Hallway
Ititya Another—Myora to I'e Drought
Dackto ^forth Carolina. ,
Raleigh, July 25.—An official report
of the damage done to tho three peni
tentiary farms on tho Roanoke river has
been made to 'Governor Carr. Three
thousand five hundred acres of corn and
975 of cotton were utterly destroyod.
One hundred acres of tlie finest bottom
land are c.rerod deep with sand and
2,200 feet of dykes have been swept
away.
The railway cpmmission has been
notified by Bujieriiiteudent Frank Jones
that the Durham and Charlotte rail
way has bought the Gleudou and Gulf
railway, which is 20 miles Jong. Tlie
Durham aud Charlotte railway officials
say they will push into Charlotte as
rapidly as possible. Four inib s of the
railway between Wilmington and South-
port is graded.
An officer from Charlotte loft hero
with a requisition from Governor C|irr
on the governor of New York for
Joseph Piuuket Myers, who Stole $.VJi>0
of the Carolina railway fqnds. aft Char*
lotte and then fled with his paramour,
Mrs. Bossdunctto.
NORTH STATE’S
RAILWAYS.
- Arrested by tits Spanish - Follcs. - f
IIavaVA, July 28.—Tho police, acting
upon information received from a huly
who owned a small hotel' at Barabas,"
which ivas frequented by the insurgents
and their ftimilies; arrested Seilora, Jo*
quinai; Latrudy, her father, Juan Pablo,
and her nephew, Beniguo. They had
with, tlieqi three horses lojuled witJi
groceries,, et"., and a .quantity of cloth
and drygoojis, evidently intended for
the insurgents.
Cretan Insurgents Drfeat Turks.,
* ATfffiXfl, July 28.—A large body of
Mussulmans, supported by Turkish
troops, fcugaged In pillaging the Asofnatl
district in - the island of Crete, has been
attacked by a force of 1,500 insurgents.’
Tho lattes drove the Mussulmans and
Turkish troops out of the district re.
ferrod to and.inflicted serious loss upon
them. t . , , ,
- A-WnahlHgtonlaii IMes la Colorado.
(fLKNtvqoi) Bpkixos, Colo., Jaly 28:--
WiHiaiU'B. Noble, ft wealthy citizen of
Washington,' D. G.. who came to Colo-
ratio-for the benefit of his health, died
in a swimming pool here, presumably
of- heart failure. His family is summer*
iug at Bar Harbor, Me. * - •
Wage Conference at Pittsburg.
Rittsbubo, July 28.—Tho wage con.-
.fqrcnce.qf thp chimney braqch of the
American Flint Glaasworkert’ associur
tiou ip being held hero, and. the ppw
poets are that a settlement will bo made
on the basis'of last year’s scale.* About
2,000 mon aro affocted.
. Soott Jackson Wants a New Trial.
Fhankfob.v Ky., July 28.—The pa
pers in tho case of Scott Jackson, con*
victed of the mndcr of Pearl Bryan,
near Fort Thomas, Ky., wore filed in
t be court of appeals. The court is asked
to.grant.a Lew trial on the ground of
gpou llpd errors.
4 Convict Savoy lily Guard*’ Livcy.
' Columbi a, B- 0-, /Mjr — Neap
Langley, Aiken county, tb® convfets iq
the county chaiugang mutinied. They
turned-upon Frank Woathoi by and his
son,, who were guarding them, beat
them oyer the heads with clubs, and
would have taken their weapons had
not Willis Mention, a negro convict,
picked up’ a weapon aud opened fire on
his brother prisoners. Mention shot one
copvlct and held the others iu check un
til-reinforcements arrived, but six made
their escape iuto gu adjoining swamp.
A Young Lady Attempts Suicide.
, CpLUMBlA. S. C., July 23.—Miss Cora
Campbell, the 22-ycar-qld daughter of
Mr- Jeff Campbell, living six miles south
of B-mioch, S, 0., shot herself with sui
cidal latent. Hhe is Still alive, but there
is little hope of her recovery. The bajj
eptered the left breast ju*t above the
heart aud came out of the back lower
down.
Couvlct Guard Accidentally Shot Himself.
Columbia, 8. C., July 25.—Bunnells,
a ponitpiRiary guard, accidentally stud
hihikelf in the left arm and 1 leg, blow
ing tho whole Calf of his lug off aud also
the hand.' Bunnells is in charge of a
lot of convicts at Bingham's, near Latta,
Si C. .He is iu a- dangerous condition.
Htot While Standing In His Own Door.
. Columbi a. S. 0., July 20.—At Sellers,
S.< C., a negro named Dave Sparks was
shot by some unknown person while he
was- standing in his own door. The
wound is not considered fatal.
RACE RIOT IN FLORIDA.
Bis Mcu Killed and Seven Wounded—Fur*
, they Trouble Feared.
Jasi’bk.. Fla., July 27.—It is reported
that a race war lias occurred about i5
tulles east of here, in which six men were
kifled and seven seriously wounded.
Those 1-cportdd killed are: Amos Camji-
bell, Henry Jackson, Albert Sullivan
and Kdwat*d Johnson, white; Tom
Mitchell aud'James Solomon, negroe*.
Tho tragedy is said to have taken
place, at Haggard’s -turpentine still,
Where many negroes aro oin|>loyed. It
lb said til lit the negro men gave a party,
apd while it in progress a nuinla-r
of white men intruded and the shooting
resulted
'A'posse of White men has left here
for the scene of the tragedy, and if the
reports of the affair are found true,
further trouble is expected.
On« Dtuggiat KltW Aiintlior.
Caiuo, Ills., July 28.—I. N. Coffee,
president of the state board of phar
macy, was stabbed and killed ut mid
night while on his way to take a train
to Springfield to attend a meeting of
CM board, by Dr. Crabtree, iu front of
tbe latter’s drug store. Crabtree is in
jail. • Coffee was stabbed tVice with a
dagger, ouo thrust reaching the heart.
•Both men vywo prumiueiit druggists.
Nearly Four Tlioua will Miles of Ituad In
Operation—Tliu * ominNsloii’a Deport-
Kaleich, July 23.—The railway coin-
mission’s report, just prepared, says
there ;ire 3,7(H) miles of road in opera
tion in North Carolina.
Tlie aggregate valuation by the com-
mission for taxation is #2(1,HI6,320. The
increase of mileage is 84. increase iu
valuation $1,850,000.
The Atlantic Coast Line system Jias
722 miles valued at $(>,882.6(H), an in
crease since last year of $193,000. The
Southern lifts 1,000 miles valued at $8,-
393,000, an increase of $1,862,000. The
Seaboard Air Line has (170 miles valu*d
at $5,295,000, an increase of $172,000.
Miscellaneous roads have 1,210 miles
valued at $5,77(1.000.
The commission make* tho rate of as
sessment of the North Carolina railway,
between Charlotte and Selma, $12,000
per mile, which is $2,000per mile greater
than that of any other youd in the state.
There are in all 71 roads and branches.
Con<!it|on of Norib ' arollua Crop?.
Raleigh, July 28.—The state, weekly
crop bulletin »ays; The past week.wgs
very favorable for tho growth, of crops
which, have impr • veil materially. - The
temperature was above tho ijorjuaj.
Ram occurred on four days au-.i was
beneficial. There was too much iu only
u very few localities. There was mi
abuiidam e of sunshine. Cotton, corn,
sorghum, tobacco, sweet potatoes, field
peas and rice aro all iu excellent condi
tion. Tlie prospect for c, rn is good. • It
is caring well. On creek bottoms it was
too much injured by the freshet to im
prove much. Cotton shows improve
ment since the rains ceased aud i<
blooming timely. Very little shedding
is reported. Wheat seems to turn out
better thar expected.
Negroe* Try to Lynch a AV|i|te Man.
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.RAf.KiGii, July 24.—James, I. Mooyp,
Jr., a young white man, killed Genadu^
Jackson, a negro, by a blow on theheaij
ut a picnic. Moore went to FraukRutop
and surrendered himself. The mayor
of the town ascertained that u Lynching
was imminent and ut midnight called
outlie military company to guard, the
stationhouso. The coroner held an in
quest and Moore was required to give a
$2,000 bail. This he could not d6 and
will be taken to jail at Louisburg. Jack-
sou’s friends were at -Fraukliutoii in
large numbers, and protection by tlie
militia alone saved Moore’s life. Tho
latter is a son of a prominent Republi
can politician.
Snow Iu North Carolina.
Haleigii, July 24.—About stpiriso on
Wednesday there was a snow fall ip
Daupliu county, at Warsaw, which cop*
tinned ten minutes. It fell from a nar
row cloud which extended from the ho
rizon to tho zenith. The flakes were
small but well defined. Hundreds of
people witnessed this strange spectacle.
Unparalleled in North Carolina, iu July.
The Wilber was pot pool, thpugh the
air was fresh apd there wap a ligh£
TO CHECK GOLD EXPORTS.
now Ilia Plan DrvUoil by tho Commlltoa
of Forrlgn Dank*™ Will Work.
New York, July 28.—Referring to
the plan to cheek gold exports, devised
by the commi tee of foreign bankers and
unanimously agreed to by the members
of that cimmittee, The HeraidFayai•, v
“The attitude of the bankers toward
their customers, it is said, will be sim
ply to assure .tneni that there will bo
an abundant supply of hills in tho
market at low rates. Though discount
ing their own paper and establishing
credits abroad to draw against, the inter
national houses will bo able to keep tho
exchange rates at a figure that will make
gold exportation iri expensive transac
tion. Although officials of the banks
who deposited with the subtrcasUry to
restore tlie reserve disclaim any connec
tion with the foreign bunkers, it is gen
erally admitted that the success of one
was dependent upon the action of. the
others. Many hunk presidents wopld
not have parted with their gold had
they not been assured that foreign
houses Would arrange some pinu
whereby the metal might remain in the
country. They-saw no use of placing it
in the treasury if it was to lie as
promptly withdrawn and in .copse,
quenco the foreign bankers’ actiop was
a necessity.
“There has been considerable discua*
as to the amount of'exchange that will
be necessary to tide over the intervftl of
depression resulting from the agitation
of the election. It may bo $15,000,000
and it may be and probably wifi lie
more. While tho period that is consid*
ered necessary to make provision for Vs
set down as 60 days, it is understood
that if the supply of cotton ami grain
bills in the market bo not sufficient to
mljn.t affairs within that time, then
the pool will continue in operation for a
longer period. The intention is to off.
| set any sudden panic which may follow
j tlie blathering yf demagogues during
the campaign.
“The w> rkiugs of tho syndicate will,
of course, entail iueouveuieuo» upon in
dividual members and possibly to some
a loss of profits. The latter, it is said,
will be borne pro rata among the mein;
j bers The linns that will. manage the
: pool, or. as it will be called, the clearing,
house for exchange, aro J; F. Morgan
& Co., August Belmont & Co., • Ll vdtl
Hoffman & Co., Kahn, Loeb & Go. and
Luzurd Freres. The Brooklyn banks
Declines tj Discuss the St. Louis
Convention.
WILT, ACT WITH DEL 1 BZRATION
Con 6 tent That a Wlm- Snip Mon of tho I’op-
pU-Klng *Corf<t1tlon* Will Ho' Ilr:irh«n1.
Dt-innoi ncj*« Xomlnet) J* Mill Itrcetving
Knbblt*’ F<-«t and Four Lr;»f ('lovers.
Wl*con*ln kilvcr Men I* me an Aililn-a*.
11. ri» »fi x • i n *t
Lincoln, Nob., July 28.—The stream
of visitors to tho Bryan homo is on tho
Increase. Two of the delegates 'frdtu
Nevada to -the. St. Louis s Ivor conven
tion, Messrs. Nixon aud Davis, enrouto
liqtne, stopped off here to consult with
Mr. Bryan, doubtless upon his probab 0
cousse in r*lutiou to the Populist nomi
nation.
Mr. Bryan ha - received a number of
telegrams containing suggestions 111 re
gard to the action of tlie Populist con
vention. aud to all of them ho replied in
eff* , ct tiiat ho will act with deliberation
and that nothing will 1)0 done which
! can lie justly criticised by any of tlie
, elements who an) sincerely interested
iu the success of the cause of bimetal*
lispi. In Ids replies to tlicso expressions
lie earnes'v advises all friends of tho
cause iu ail parties to refrain from harsh
cyiticUm pf those who, however widely
they may differ, otherwise occupy c«'m-
lUdh gTonnd in bettering tie* car<e of
free siivej-. They express the utmost
confidence that a wise and gratifying
Solution of’ tho perplexing conditions
will is* presented aud adopt hI. Further
than.this Mr- Bryan declined t»l talk oy
(lie situation. Every entreating inquii-y
calculated to’ fathon) his platis or par*-
poses.met with the simple rcqsinse;
‘ l must doelino to bo interviewed
Concerning' tjic St. Louis couveutio'u uf
jte results.”
However, his loquacity in other di?
rections w’as not so circumscribed, ami
jie found plenty of material for an etr.
tertaining disoon rso.
“I received,’’ lie said, “another rab.
hit’s foof. It was sent to mo by n b’lo.
granh operator in Montana. That makes
the sixth rabbit’s foot, besides a great
ihauv four leaf clovers and a horseshoe.
maintain the reserve inaugurated by
New York aud joined by the Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago banks. The
movement seems, therefore, to be in
fectious, and no doubt remains aft to iffc
success aud wisdom of the movement;’’'
. RATE WAR STOPPED. ’ .
will fall into line at once in tlie effort to- l A vrr, |° the donor of the last rabbit s
breeze from the southwest.
8t*te Cuiuiulttoe Heats July SO.
Ralkiuh, July 22.—Democratic State
Chairman Pou was here and conferred i
with the state nominees regarding the
date of the state committee meeting.
July 30 was fixed. Pou will not allow
his name to bo used as a candidate for
re-election. Clement Mauley of Win
ston will be the new chairman. The
headquarters will continue at Raleigh.
Utat« Kouutor Dice Badly Injarrd.
Ralkigu, July 22.—At Wilmington a
horse ran away with a buggy in which
State^eimtor Rice ml his wife were
riding>aTbe voliicle was wrecked and
Senator Itieo badly injured.
Atowoiidor Myera Arreatad In New Ywrk.
New Yokk, July 23.—Joseph Myers,
the Charlotte, N. 0., absconder, is un
der arrest iu this city. . .
Two Killed at a Croaaliig.
Lancaster, Pa., July 18.—Enos 'M.
Burge, aged 21 years, and Barbara
Horseboy, slightly younger, while re
turning from an outing iu a buggy,
were struck and instantly killed while
crossing the track of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The young woman’s liody was
carripd seveTfU Itumlred feet on the pilot
of the engine, finally b-4«jg hurled under
the wheels and literally cut into frag
ments.
An Aiuuricna Win* Iu London.
London, July 28.—Roas Wiuflos, the
Americiiii pistol shot, has won first prise
iu tho first, second and third serfes of
the revolver .competition* hero, the score
being 3b, 42 and 38. .,
Elinniiton Will Not Allow Railroad* to,
Maki- an Kiglity IVr Cent tl,-dan Ion'.
^PARTANBCBG, S. C.. July 28.‘—Col-
cnel A. T. Smytho of Charleston ap :
peared before Judge Simoutou, UnitecJ
States judge, af Flat Rock,. N^ C,, in
chambers, for nu injuncting fo stop tho
nttd war bo tv. ecu the Southern ral-
way and tho Soaisjard Air Luic.
Colonel Symfho’caiue in behalf of J.
H. Averill, receiver of tlie Port Royal
ami Augusta railroad. Judge Simoutou
ordered that tbe defendant*, the South
ern railway and tlie Georgia, Carolina
and Northern, appear before him at
Greenville. S. C., Aug. 15, to show
cause why the injunction should not bo
permanent.
It is further provided that until the
hearing above provided for .and, until
tin* fi ii g of any order which the court
may sec fit to make upon or after such
Imaring, tlie Georgia, Carolina and
Northern, the Seaboard Air - Lino and
It. C. Hoffman, president; E. St. John,
vice pres dent, and V. E. McBee, gei>-
oral Kuperkiteudeut. be restrained and
.enjoined from continuing in force oi:
further operation the reduction nut into
effect July 17, 1893, in tho rates^ for
freight and pdssengor traffic at ’that
time or the ypil 1101 ! 01 ! nuuoUuUed 014
July 12, 189$. and afterwards with
drawn, or iroiq making any further or
other cut whatever iu rates for-cither
passenger or freight traffic,, or from
making any change whatever, or from
operating eitiier alone or in combina
tion with other transportation lines
other or different rates from'thosA iu
effect J ly 12, 189(1. - -
It is further ordered that the defend*
nuts, the Southern railway; tho South
Carolina railway nml Georgia railway;
John B. Cleveland, receiver of. the Port
Royal aud Western Carolina; the yifil-
mington, Columbia and Augusta rail
way; John Gill, receiver of the Capfe
Fear and Yadkin V’aley railway; the
Southbound; tho Georgia railway and
T. K. Scott, manager; the Central of
Georgia; the Ocean Steamship company
aud H. M. Comer, president, are cn-
enjoined aud forbidden, collectively or
individually, from carrying into effect
the reduction of SO jier cent from 'the
pate iu eff-ct July 12. 1896. ’
fl. S. Haines, coiuinissiouer of thq
Southern States’ Freight association, ift
enjoined from making any reduction
Whatever i» rates. (Jopies, pi this iq-
junction will bo served on do-
feuduut* at once.
Bade Convict Catap Braftop Up,
Ati-anta, July 28.-Thu decree of
Governor Atki son, ordering that the
convict camps at Colo QUy, Ris ug
Fawn and Bartow be broken up because
jf tho failure of Julius L. BroVnu the
president of penitentiary camp No .1,
to pay the flue of $750 imposed upou
him for misuiatiageinout, has been car
ried out. A special train brought- 400
convicts who hare been working iu
these mines to Fulton count} Monday.
Tlie greater part of the convicts got off
at Bolton aud were marched across the
country to the Chattahoochee brick
yards. About 60 came to Atlanta and
were sent on a night train to the lum
ber camp of Mr. George W. Parrott, ou
the Georgia Southern and. Florida rail-
roa<t Fifty-three moved on to Mr. T.
J. James’ camp, al Adrian, Ga., 011 the
Dantral railroad, Tuesday morning.
foot'that while lam not at all supersti
tious, under the circumstances I cannot
but feel that every condition and neces
sity.to insure my triumphant election
has lieeii secpml, except tho votes.”
On his return from ihc Populist con
vention, Governor Holcomb brought to
Lincoln a cage containing two very
pretty birds of the variety do: ointuatc l
love birds. They were sent by ti-.o
Kansas delegation. Tney werq.chri*i-
Ivansas and Nebrask.t
Candidate Tom Watson Tulk*.
Nfew York., July 28.—Thomas E.Wal;
candidate for vice president o:j tfiij
Populist ticket, iq a telegraiq frouj
Tliomsoij, Ga., to Tho Herald, s.iV«*
“Our executive committee must dq*
ride'the question of dividing alee tors.
If Mr. Bryan accepts our nomination
aud Mr. Scwull shonid retire, T«xus
Popudstw would probably l»e content
with Bryan and Watson, even though
Bryan did not indorse all the platform.
“I was absolutely sincere when I said
T would not accept either place 0:1 tho
Pop'ulisf national ticket. I thought ottv
party would have no difficulty in mim
ing a straight >ut Populist ticket, and I
did not desire either puic**.
“,I stag’d pway from tlie conveuliou
.partij’ulprly to avoid prominence and
the Georgia delega ion had positive in
structions to avoid tlie use of my name.
‘After the coliv’ention met and the 1j-
ston strength developed, it seemed that
t>u^ party Would be swallowed np liy
Jli'e Rryaq forces, and to have gone
I nto the preidential campaign with, nq
Populist 011 the national ticket meaiR
(jpath, fo t)ie'*Peop!e’s party.
“The Georgia de.ogatiou then telex
graphed‘me, urging me to allow the use
of ‘ray name to harmonize the factions
and save the party. I consented and I
will abide the consequences. When I
said I would not accept I did not dream
that snch a crisis could possibly come
upon our party. ”
• Cal»!« Talks of a Third Ticket. ••
Washington, July 28.—Ben T. Cable
df Illinois, a former member of the na
tional Democratic committee and a
strong sound money man, lias expressed
phnself as being much pleased with tlie
fiomiuatiou Tom Watson for the vice
Safeblowsn Captarad at Alapalia.
Tikton, Ga., July 2*—the safeMow-
ers who cracked two safes at Alapahn,
Ga., n few night* ago, securing dnVeral
hundrod dollars, have lieert arreste'd
there after a hot chase. Detective^
spot tod the men, who were acting sus
piciously. They started to ruu. Tbe
ileteclivo* gave chase and fired several
shots. While running t u robbers throw
each a bag of ootn into the grura Spot?-
tatorr saw them and recovered the bags.
A good part of the stolon mouoy was
recovered. * /' *
bresidUhcy W thp Bo0gli*|.v
“I think,” said ho. “that the result
will bp, a very material weakening of
the streugth of the Bryan ticket. The
sound money Democrats are going to
nominate ft third . icket. Tiiat apjtears
‘to be a certainty. It will probably add
to thc strength - of McKinley by taking
from Bryan the sound money Dento-
cnRs who will 1 ;jot vote for tlie Rcpublj
pap. paqdidate. Moreover, tiip tninj
jipket wjll giyp the Dcnjocrats an or
ganization fo rally around after thf*
free silfOr Populist craze has passdtj
•*' , *Nothing has bepn done as yet u*
ward the selection of candidates for
■tliia third 4icket. hat I should like to
see Senator Palmer at it* head. He,
with Turner of Georgia for second
place, would make a splendid ticket,
aud I believe would poll a large vote. ’*
.Hirer Men l*»*»i* an AiLIrr**.
■ Milwaukee, July 28.—The silver del-
egrrtes tn the Dmnocratic national con-
•veuttou Rave given out their add reus
to the public, replying to the letter pul>-
J Ushed by the gold delegates, hea«led by
Senator Vila* and General Bragg. It u
devoted mainly V) answering the charges
promulgate 1 by tho gold men, but guos
to home Extent' iuto the merits of the sib
veT"question. The point is made thrft
silver delegates obeyed their instruc
tions. until the chairman of the Wis
consin'delegation refused to allow the
; vote of ihajitate to be cast for any pro*
| .ideutial candidate, and that they tlieu^
otitaiued permission from the presiding
j officer oT (he convention to cast their
' vfdes. In coucluKion. the Democratic
i Vdters of the state are urged to get to-
gwlier to sec that silver men are sent fto
•the slate convention. *'
al .in. 1 snUiii' ——
Will Sapport tits Rapultllcaa TR-kot.
\p, Nev., 4 *117 28.—The Reno (fii;
, I’. ’ttn, one of the largest pajters in Ne
vada, has declared its intention to suu-
pori M< Riuley -#nd I|nbftrt on the
ground that protu'lion Instead of siivej
u the paramount issue of fthc caiupaigu.