The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, September 06, 1894, Image 1
VOL. XXI, NO. 3G
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1894
WHOLE NUMBER 1,022
THE CALDRON BOILS
The First Guns of the New York
Campaign Fired.
THE ENEMIES OF THE TIGER CONFER.
Good Government Clnbe Addlnjc to Thetv
Strength end Membemhlp—Polttl-
chine Beturn to Their Ward*
In the City.
New York, September 5.—This week
signals the formal opening of the polit
ical campaign in this city. The politi
cians are hurrying back to the metrop
olis from their summer outings, ready
and eager for the fray. Mayor Gilroy
has sailed for home on the Trave. He
is expected to arrive Saturday. Ex-
Sheriff O'Brien has returned from his
Saratoga sojourn and assumed personal
charge of the anti-Tammany democracy.
Ex-Mayor Grace and ex-Secretary Whit
ney are preparing to cut short their
European tours.
The first real gun of the campaign
was fired last night when a conference
of anti-Tammany organizations was
held to talk over a basis for a union tic
ket. The conference was called by the
good government clubs. It was attend
ed by representatives of the O'Brien
faction, the Grace democracy, the Ger-
inan-Ameriean reform union, the inde
pendent county organization and other
organizations. The regular republican
organization was also represented.
Cl eat activity prevails among the
good government clubs. The monthly
meeting of the council of confederated
good government clubs was held yes
terday afternoon. Matters of impor
tance came up in addition to the routine
business, among them the admission of
several new clubs to representation in
the council. The municipal reform
club met last night. This organization
is a new one. The leading spirits in it
are ex-Alderman Horatio Harris, who
severed his connection with Tammany
hall some time ago, and William E.
Lowe, formerly of the defunct Massa-
soit club.
TROUBLE FOR A CONTRACTOR.
Strike May Reirait from Using Iron from
the Kagle Works.
New York, September 5.—A big
strike, it is said, threatens Contractor
Condon, who has the contract for build
ing the new Roman Catholic church at
1117th street and Franklin avenue, this
city. It is alleged that the contractor
is employing non-union men and secur
ing his iron work from the Eagle iron
works of Williamsburg, where non
union men are said to be employed. It
is expected that the board of walking
delegates and the building trade sec
tion of the central labor union will
support the iron molders' conference
board in any fight against the use of
material from the Eagle iron works.
FOUGHT OVER THE BOUNDARY.
Ancient Quarrel Results In the Killing anil
Wounding of 75 Mexicans.
Oaxaca, Mexico. September 5.—The
officials have received further details of
the fight between the people of the
towns of San Miguel, Achiutla and
Teposeolma over the boundary line.
The liattle lasted two days, and there
were about twenty-five killed and fifty
wounded. About thirty of the leaders
were arrested. A renewal of the hos
tilities is threatened. The contest over
the correct boundary has been in prog
ress for almost a century, and many
bloody conflicts have occurred.
Citium Tra n'. Crank Convention.
New York, September 5.—Citizen
George Francis Train is in constant at
tendance and in all his glory at the big
crank convention now being held at an
Eighth Avenue museum. The suicide
crank, the horse racing-crank, the spir
itualistic crank, the political crank, the
woman's rights crank and a half dozen
others of both sexes and all tenets are
there haranguing and arguing. Every
crank tells a pet tale to the audience.
The Sew Bleeping C»r Company.
Chicago, Keptemper 5.—It is again
reported that the Pullman strikers are
alxrat moving to Hiawatha, Kan.,
where a new car factory is to be started,
backed by Chicago and Eastern capital.
This company is reported to have se
cured a patent on sleeping cars that is
of groat value. The company will be
run on the co-operative plan. Six per
cent profits are guaranteed the stock
holders.
Negotiation. For the New Treaty.
Maphid, September 5.—It is re-as
serted that negotiations have been
opened here for a modus vivendi, or for
a now commercial treaty between the
Spanish colonies and the United States
in view of the cancellation of the recip
rocity treaty between Spain and the
United States.
Cholera Outbreak In Germany.
Washington, September 5.—Acting
Secretary Uhl, of the state department,
was notified yesterday in a cable mes
sage from Consul General Mason, at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, that cholera
had broken out at Hurgela, near Mar
burg, Germany.
Prof. Mtephen. for CorneU.
Ithaca, N. Y. September 5.—Prof.
H. Morse Stephens, M. A., of Cam
bridge, England, has been chosen to
succeed the late Herbert Tuttle as pro
fessor of modern European history at
Cornell University. He Is a graduate
of Oxford.
Wilson'. Trip to Europe.
Washington, September 5.—Chair
man William L. Wilson, of the ways
and means committee, will sail for a
hasty trip to Europe tonight, for the
benefit of the sea voyage.
John Velteh Dead.
Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5.—
John Veitch, the eminent philosopher
and literary critic, died at Peebles yes
terday from asthma. He was born in
im
LOOKING AFTER THE EXHIBITS.
Mooting of Tobsoeo Rolirra of tho Unltod
State. Colled for tho Farpoee.
Atlanta, September.—1 In this city,
September noth a meeting of tobaooo
manufacturers and tobacco raisers of
the United States has been called, and
Indications are that the convention will
be largely attended and enthusiastical
ly determined to make the exhibit one
of the most notable of the exhibition.
The local organisation of tobacco
men, with Mr. Eugene Christian at the
head as permanent chairman, and Mr. 1
J. E. Maddox, secretary, first enter
tained the idea of a tobacco building.
The idea was fully discussed and reso
lutions looking toward that end
adopted.
Thanks were returned to Mr. Thomas
Delano, editor of Tobacco, a paper pub
lished in New York, for the work done
by his paper for the exposition, and
notably the tobacco exhibit.
MISS GOULD WILL MAKE A LAKE.
Spending Money to Itesutlfy Ro.bury, the
Birthplace of Her Father. ,
Kingston, N. Y., September S.—Miss
Helen Gould proposes to beautify Ro>-
bury, Delaware county, the birthplace
of her father, where she has erected a
church to his memory. She has bought
a large tract of lowland surrounded by
hills through which a stream, fed by a
never-fading spring, flows. Several
thousand dollars will make of the low
land a beautiful lake and add to the at
tractiveness of the quaint village as a
summer resort. Miss Gould is also in
terested with others at Koxbury, in a
movement to build a handsome sum
mer hotel.
THE GRAND JURY ADJOURNS.
Must Scathing Denunciation of Crooked-
ne.s In Now Orlean.' City HaU.
New Orleans, September 8.—After
Indicting 11 members of the city coun
cil, Including its president and besides
the city engineer, the term of the
grand jury expired yesterday and It
was discharged by Judge Moise, after
presenting a report which Is a most
scathing denunciation of the crooked
ness rampant in the city hall, and ex
plains wh3' several indictments which
were expected could not be found' ow
ing to the inability to get evidence on
which a conviction in the court would
be certain to follow.
CAROLINA PICKERS ORGANIZE.
The Cotton Field Negroe. Demand Fifty
Cent, per Hundred Pounds.
Columbia, 8. C., September 4.—The
negroes in Georgetown county, on the
Santee river, are being organized into
clubs for the purpose of demanding
fifty cents in cash for every one hun
dred pounds of cotton they pick. All
members pledge themselves to abide by
this role and to thrash any other ne
groes who set otherwise. The fields all
around are almost groaning with cotton
bursting from the bolls, but the negroes
have tieen so stirred up by secret agents
travelling about that they will not
touch the cotton, although they are in
want, except for fifty cents cash.
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BEST COUNTERFEITS MADE.
Twenty Arkan.as Cttlsan. Have a Llva
Hn.lne*. Spoiled by Detective#.
Littlk Rock, September 4.—United
States secret service detectives have
run down a gang of counterfeiters at
Ilodcaw, Nevada county. There were
twenty in the gang, and ten hare been
arrested. The ten are George Vought,
a cattle dealer. James McNatt, a gen
eral storekeeper, and Rerry Huckelby,
Jack Smith, Mose Wesley, Charles De-
loncy, Riley WUs, Sam Ferguson, Dave
Nichols and William Steele, farmers.
The counterfeits consisted of dollars,
halves and quarters, and are the best
that were ever made. Several thou
sand dollars of the spurious coin were
circulated in southwest Arkansas.
LABOR DAY IN NEW YORK.
From SS,000 to *5,000 Men Marched Be
hind the American Flag.
New York, September 4.—The first
national labor day in New York was
celebrated yesterday in grand style.
The occasion was made memorable by
the largest and finest parade of organ
ized workingmen ever held in this
country. It is estimated that from
2'!,000 to 25,000 men were in line, march
ing behind the American flag, and with
their hundreds of hsndsome banners
lending color and brilliancy to the
scene. AH of the offices and institu-
tians closed and there was a general
suspension of business.
ROYALTY AT HIS BEDSIDE.
Feeling et the Death, In Exile, of an Hon
orable Man and a Zealous Worker.
London, September 8.—The eondition
of the Count of Paris Is not improved.
The Princess de Joinville, Prince Em
anuel D'Orleans and the Due D'Alencon
arrived at Stowe House to-day. The
Paris Matin, referring to the Count of
Paris, says: “If his illness should prove
fatal, thoughfnl Frenchmen will feel
remorse at seeing die in exile an honor
able man. a zealous worker and the pos
sessor of all the solid qualities that
France needs to-day."
Cockraa In the Booth Carolina Campaign.
Columbia, 8. C., September 4.—It it
generally talked In political circles
here that Bourke Cockran, of New
York. Senator Gordon and Speaker
Crisp, of Georgia, will come to this
state and make speeches In favor of
Senator Butler's candidacy against Till
man for the United States senate.
Another Tragedy la the relmrrv—
Maxton, N. C., September 4.—Mr.
James Martin, living just across the
state line in South Carolina, while
asleep In bed at his home, was shot and
killed Sunday night by a negro. A
poese is In pursuit of the murderer and
if caught he will be lynched.
■atom WiU m rreeeoa
New York, September Mgr.
8atoll! has accepted an invitation to be
present at the consecration of the
Church of the Sacred Heart m Bloom-
Bold. N. J.. Sunday. Dot SL
THE HALFONLY TOLD
The Llat of the Dead in the North
west Increases Hourly.
RELIEF PARTIES ASD THEIR LABORS.
The Story of Loos to Life end Property In
crease# la Magnitude ae the Work
Progresses- Heavy Rainfall has
Extinguished the Flree.
Duluth, Minn., September 5.—Not a
single human habitation has been left
standing except a section house at
Miller in a stretch of territory twenty-
six miles long and nearly as wide; and
in every part of the track of the flames,
bodies of men, women, children, horses
and cattle were found. The position of
every body found outside of Hinckley
shows that shelter of some kind was
sought by the agonized sufferers, and
the dead are found in holes, behind
overturned stumps, trees, msrshy de
pressions, and in every water course.
The general shape of the fire-swept dis
trict is like a huge cigar, with a south
western end about Mission creek and
the upper terminal a few miles east of
Finlayson or Rutledge.
Settlers and Their Homes Gone.
From this a number of branches ex
tend northward to beyond the tracks
of the Eastern Minnesota railway. The
work of the flames has been complete
and cyclonic in character. Where the
fire held sway not a single tree Is
standing except as a blackened stump.
Thousands of overturned trees are
lying prostrate and the roots were
burning fiercely up to last evening,
when the welcome rain fell. A careful
canvass reveals the fact that seventy-
two settlers' homes, outside of towns,
fell. As near as can be learned about
500 people were in these homes. At
Brookdale. a little town on the Eastern
Minnesota railroad, south of Hinckley,
about ninety persons took refuge in
the water of a small creek. Out of this
place sixty-seven dead bodies were
taken and buried and some thirty liv
ing persons were rescued, some badly
burned.
Hundreds of people, including those
of the very highest social standing In
the city, hare been working day and
night since Saturday night, having or
ganized thoroughly Into all needed sub
committees, and have, in a systematic
way, taken care of men and women,
children and babies.
The Countj Thorough)j Csuvseae4.
8. A. Thompson, who went out on the
burial train yesterday, has returned.
All the way down the trainmen almost
had to throw people off who wished to
go along and take In the grave sights.
At Finlayson a party headed by Ed
Finlayson dropped off and went east
several miles, visiting among other
places the Billedeaut farm, where the
bodies of three children were found.
The rest of the family had gone to
Sandstone. A party headed by Fred
Reynolds dropped off near Skunk lake,
and got the bodies of Mrs. Lind and
five children, whose home was a half
mile west of the track. The train
picked up the bodies of Little and
Elder, two operators of the North
American telegraph company, who had
been sent out to the scene of the
trouble. The train picked up eleven
bodies, including that of General Pas
senger Agent Rowley, of the Winnipeg
road, near the track.
It was learned that Pine lake, a set
tlement seven miles west of Finlayson,
was untouched, bnt nothing has been
heard of Sand lake, a settlement away
from the railroad, and it is feared it
has gone up in smoke.
The burial train reached Hinckley at
0 p. m. The coroner of Pine county
said there were 271 bodies already
picked up in Hinckley alone, with more
to follow. They were piled up in boxes
and coffins near the track like so much
cord wood.
PRESIDENT PHINIZY RETIRES.
New O IB ears of the Weetera Railway of
Alabama Elected by the Director*.
Montgomery, Ala., September 5.—
At a meeting of the directors of the
Western Railway of Alabama, held in
Montgomery yesterday, Geo. C. Smith,
of SL Louis, was elected president and
general manager. This appointment
will result in the retirement of the for
mer president, C. H. Phinizy, and Gen
eral Manager K. L. Tyler. Mr. Smith
was formerly general manager of the
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain railway
system.
POPULATION PANIC STRICKEN.
The Remarkable Spread of Cholera la
New Field# la Earopa.
Vienna, Ana, September 5.—Numer
ous members of the Landwehr, en
gaged in military manenvers, in Hnko-
wina, have been prostrated with an Ill
ness which resembles cholera. It la
stated that the merchants who have ar
rived at Nljnl Novgorod, Russia, to at
tend the great fair, are leaving, owing
to the rapid Increase of cholera. The
population has become panic stricken
over the spread of the disease.
IOWA TOWN WIPED OUT.
Oaly Two Brisk Bulldtao Rewisls la the
Buelaeee Portloa ef the Little City.
Mason City, la., September 5.--The
town of Daws, In Wright county, with
a population of 1,000, was nearly wiped
out of existence by fire last night. Only
two brick buildings remain, and a good
ly portion of the residences were also
consumed. Iowa Falls and Clarion fire
companies responded on calls for help
bat they were powerless. Losses wLl
reach nearly $100,000.
Wilt Clave lead Flalt Berkshire?
Lbnox, Maaa, September L—It isn't
at all settled that Preaident and Mrs.
Cleveland will pay s visit to Tyring-
hsm, at H. B. B. Moore's place, on the
invitation of Mr. and Mr*. Richard
Watson Gilder. The Utter hsa just re
turned from a visit to Gray Gables, and
1 aiab aa i&TitattQB wm wriM**
PLANS FOR THE SOUTH.
The Meeraree Adopted Looking to Her fa-
teroete.
Washington, September 8. — The
Southern Development Convention
adopted the following measures:
1. That s permanent organization be
effected by the establishment in Wash
ington, D C., of a permanent bureau
for the exhibition at all resources of
the southern states, to receive, cata
logue and properly list all properties
with authentic information concerning
them, and such exhibits as may be sent
in for the general information of capl-.
tal and labor, that may desire to settle
in any section of the south, and to pro
mote immigration to the southern
states. The expenses of the bureau are
to be paid out of a fund to be contribu
ted pro rata by such southern states as
may take part in ita establishment and
organization.
2. A committee of one member from
each state and the District of Columbia
is provided for to protect the details of
the plan of organization.
1. The convention shall adjourn to
meet In Washington at such time as the
committee of one from each state may
determine. The governors of the vari
ous southern states and the commis
sioners of the District of ColumbU are
requested to appoint as delegates to the
adjourned convention ten citixens from
different sections of their states, and
ten from the District of Columbia, giv
ing preference, as far as possible, to
members of the present convention.
Detail* Veated With the State*
The governors of the southern states
sre requested to attend the meeting in
Washington, and a committee of one
from each state and the District of Co
lumbia are directed to perfect all the
details of the plan for permanent or
ganization, of a bureau of advancement
and advertising, and the promotion of
immigration to the south, and have it
ready to submit to the proposed Wash
ington meeting.
4. The resolutions cordially endorse
the movement Inaugurated and the bill
pending in congress looking to the erec
tion of a government building in Wash
ington for a permanent exhibition of
all the states of the union.
BACK TO LEGAL DEATH.
Hake Bearcat Flay* the loaaalty Dodge hat
Is a Hardeaed Criminal.
Columbia, S. C., September 4.—B. E.
Gray, alias Hoke Secrest, a white man
from North Carolina, was released
from the state penitentiary yesterday
after serving a term for assault and
battery, and immediately thereafter he
was ''jugged" by an officer from North
Carolina, who carried him to what will
probably be his legal death.
Twelve years ago Secrest went to
Union, in this state, and married a
young girl. The pair boarded the
train at once and after they had reach
ed North Carolina, scarcely twelve
hours after they were married, Secrest
took his child bride into the woods and
killed and buried her. Twice was he
tried for murder and convicted, but
each time he played the insanity dodge
successfully and each time he escaped.
After the first escape, he came to this
state and served two years in the peni
tentiary for larceny. After being tried
again in North Carolina for murder,
and after again escaping from the in
sane asylum, he went to Spartanburg,
s. C., married and beat his children.
For this inhumanity he got another
term in the atone hold on the Congaree,
in this city, and yeaterday his term ex
pired. During his term in the penlten-
siary here he showed no signs «f insan
ity, but tato all appearances a hardened
criminal.
KILLED IN THE YARDa
Tore Acetdeata at a Btrmlaghaan Kallread
Depot. Beth Fatal.
Birmingham. Ala., September 4.—
Two fatal accidents occurred in the
Louisville and Nashville railroad yard
here last night. John Hammock, the
north yard foreman, waa hanging on
the side of a box car going under the
Twenty-first street bridge when he was
struck by a bent. His head was badly
bruised and his skull crushed. He died
in thirty minutes. He was from Colum
bus, Georgia. A block away, a boy
eighteen years old, named Hob Cannon,
tried to Jump into a side of a car in a
moving train and he was struck by a
bent of another bridge. His skull was
crushed and his back broken. He lived
one hoar after the accident He was
from Reed's Gap, Ala., and was at
tempting to steal a ride.
CLOUDBURSTS IN TEXAS.
Towns Completely Flooded, aad Life aad
Property Deetroyed.
San Antonio, September 1.—News
reached here by private telegams that
a cloudburst flooded the town of U valde,
the oonnty seat of Uvalda county, eight
miles west of the Southern Pacific and
the town of Dhanis, Medialla county,
fifty miles west, Wednesday night
After midnight, the water in Uvalde
was three feet deep and the population
took refuge on high ground.' Three
people were drowned. In Dhanis two
children were drowned. The water is
four feet deep. The bridgee and ap
proaches of the Southern Pacific were
washed away, which will stop trains for
a week. _________
A PAPER MILL SYNDICATE.
English Capital Bald to Have Boaght
Thirty-fear Mill# la Wleeoaala.
Appleton. Wia., September 8.—An
English syndicate has closed a deal for
the purchase of all paper and pulp mills
in Wisconsin. The mills in the deal
number thirty.-four, and the price
sgrbed upon is $14,000,000. The trans
fer will be made March 1.
Half the price is to be paid in cash and
half in bonds secured by mortgage.
Host of the property involved is located
on Fox river and fifteen of the mills are
at Anoleton.
Fair Weather,
Washington, September 5.—Forecast!
I For Georgia and Alabama, fair, south-
I east to southwest winds. For Teonas'
I ana falx, variable wihda.
BOTH SHOOT TO KILL
WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.*
Typhoid fever is increasing In Eliza
beth. N. J.
The state siege has been raised at Rio
de Janeiro.
Newcastle, Pa., is flooded with bogus
dimes and quarters.
Buffalo City Elks have joined the At
lantic City faction.'
A young woman horse thief is under
arrest at Guthrie, 0. T.
Simon Rumpf, a Jeweler, of Seattle,
Wash., Is missing with $10,000.
My Lord Satolll denies the report
that he has been recalled to Rome.
Experts are trying to learn the exact
amount of the Tennessee tax fraud*
Five hundred government printers
in Washington were laid off yesterday.
Samuel Woolner's anti-trust distil
lery at Peoria. Ills., was incorporated
yesterday.
The Saratoga county democratic con
vention will meet at Ballston, Spa.,
September, 22.
An eleven-inch shell was found on
tho Grand Trunk tracks at Portland,
Me., yesterday.
John J. Staunton. Bayonne City, N. J.
has been appointed to the West Point
Military Academy.
The Third National Bank of Provi
dence R. I., will vote October 10 to re
duce the capital to $300,000.
The Pemberton. Mass., mills, which
have been closed for several weeks, will
resume operations Tuesday.
The steamship Dolphin, with Secre
tary Herbert and party, left Newport
yesterday for West Island.
Several hundred Commonwealers. en-
route west, are stalled in Omaha, Neb.,
unable to procure transportation.
The Poles and Greek Catholics of
Hazelton, Pa., have formed a new sect
known as the American Catholics.
Van Rensselaer 1 totaling shot and
killed his cousin, Alfred Hotailing, at
Hufftail Hollow, N. Y., Sunday evening.
Members of the Engineers' Brigade
of the Potomac held their twenty-
fourth annual reunion in Binghsmpton.
John E. MeCrickart, a fire insurance
agent, left Ifitteburg for New York Au
gust 20 and has not been heard of since.
Thomas Ryan and Kd. weyver, coun
terfeiters of American dollars and
quarters, have been arrested in Wind
sor, Ont.
The pay rolls for the service of the
militia during the railroad and mining
strikes in Illinois show a total of
$244,457.
Albert Reed, absconding postmaster
at Albion, Idaho, has arrived at Colum
bus, O., In charge of a United States
marshal.
F. A. Hobbs, ex-receiver of the Stock-
bridge (Mass.) Savings Bank, under In
dictment for embezzlement has been re
leased on ball.
" 1 ft
AVill retire from
business
AND
Will Close out their Enlire
STOCK OF
GOODS
AT COST
For Cash!
The Stock is all
Respectfully,
Nneit l Co.
Aug. 23-
Duel Between an Atlanta Physi
cian and a Negro Burglar.
DR. JACKSON WILL 1’ROBABLY DIE.
Tha Barpular Kacapad. Though BellavaG
to ba Mortally Woundad Bloody
Bean# In tha Fbyslclan's PFi
rm ta Boom la Atlanta.
Atlanta, September 5.—Dr. R. O.
Jackson, a specialist, upon returning
to his rooms in the Hirsch building, on
Whitehall street, at 8 o'clock last night,
found a negro burglar there. The bur
glar was hid behind a portierre. Jack-
son began firing at him. The burglar
returned the tire with one of the doc
tor's pistols. Ten shuts were fired in
half as many seconds. Jackson was
shot In the head, in the thigh, and in
the leg. He tried to reach a shot gun
but was weak and could not. The bur
glar jumped through a window to a
roof and climbed down a fire escape.
He has not been caught. Whether he
was wounded or not is unknown, only
two ballets fired by Jackson can be
found. Dr. Jackson is badly wounded.
He came here from New Orleans. It U
thought he will die.
COLONEL OATES' - SUCCESSOR.
Ganaral Harrison Nomlnatail to Suraaad
tha Govarnor-Klaat In Congraaa,
Union Springs, Ala., September 5.—A
convention of the 3d congressional dis
trict of Alabama, held at Union Springs
yesterday, nominated unanimously Gen
eral G. P. Harrison, of Lee county, to
the full unexpired term of Colonel W.
C. Oates, governor-elect of Alabama, In
the fifty-third congress and for the full
term of the fifty-fourth congress. The
convention passed resolutions unquali
fiedly endorsing the administration of
Cleveland, the “people's president," and
closed with the following: “We com
mend him for his unfaltering integrity;
his bold adherence to the right, his un
compromising fealty to his party and
his country; we look forward for such
results from his administration as shall
secure the fulfillment of our party's
pledges of republican misrule."
REVEREND BEN. GASTON SHOT.
Tha Causaa Laodlng to tha Harder of the
Macro Kiulxrmtlon Advorate.
Atlanta, September 5.—Rev. Ben.
Gaston, who recently gave a personally
conducted emigration excursion for ne
groes from Atlanta to Liberia, was shot
last night during a general fight in
Hancock county. Gaston has been in
that county working up an emigration
scheme. Two or three thousand ne
groes have become worthless. They
quit work and even refused to take an
interest in politic* A negro politician
named Jenkins told the Gaston crowd
that they were deluded. Gaston and
his lieutenants got mad at Jenkin*
Last night there was a pitched battle
between the two force* Gaston was
shot in the head. Six others were
wounded but none dangerously.
THE WAR AGAINST HIPPOLYTE.
Plottlnx Against tha Fraaant Praaldant
With tha Purpuaa of a Changa.
New York, September 5.—The steam
er AUsa, from Port Limon, arrived in
port yesterday. On her voyage she
stopped at Kingston, Jamaica and Port
an Prince. It was stated by an officer
on board that affairs politically were
seemingly quiet there, but at the same
time a revolutionary bubble was grow
ing which was liable to burst at any
time. There Is much discontent at the
methods of Preaident llippolyte and his
enemies are continually plotting againat
him with the hope of placing Mantigant
at the head of the government The
latter is at Kingston, penniless, and de
pendent wholly upon the bounty of his
friends.
MILLS MUST STAND IDLE.
Unsaaeoatfal Attempt to Start Up Two la
tha Strike Circle at Fall River.
The Preaident has commuted the
death sentence of Mitchell Thomas, the
Indian murderer of Wisconsin, to life
Imprisonment.
Annie Londonderry, who started
from Boston a month ago on a wheel to
girdle the globe in fifteen months, has
reached Erie, Pa.
MI!!
The corner stone of the soldiers’ mon
ument at Louisville will be laid In Oc
tober by the Woman’s Confederate As
sociation of Kentucky.
The president, In Indorsing the appli
cation for the pardon of Otis Allen
Gould, and that he was satisfied that
the ends of justice were answered.
The management of the Texas state
fair to be held at Dallas, commencing
October 20th and ending November 4th,
has extended an Invitation to Mr. Cleve
land.
The National Pythian Press Associa
tion has chosen Fred t E. Wheaton, of
Minneapolis, as president and James
A. Kehlbeck, of New York, a member
of the executive oommittoe.
Rear Admiral Walker, fresh from
Honolulu, says that there appears to be
no change In the sentiment of the white
people of Hawaii In favor of annexation
to the United States.
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Fall River, Mas*, September 5.—An
unsuccessful attempt was made yester
day to resume work in the Globe yarn
and Sanford spinning mills. The card
ers positively refused to resume under
a reduced wage schedule and at a meet
ing held in Tammany hall they decided
to remain away nntll better terms are
offered. There is no change In the lo
cal situation- The Iron works, Seacon-
net, Durfee and Kerr mills continue to
run and are able to secure much more
help than is required.
ABANDONMENT OF PARNELL.
The Beading ef the Irteh Party’s Kaee to
England.
Dublin, September 5.—John E. Red
mond, M. P., speaking here yesterday,
declared that the greatest crime, the
abandonment of Parnell, had resulted
in the corruption of the real Irish party
and in the bending of its knee to Eng
land. This generation, he said, would
not see the end of Ireland's suffering*
With the suppression of Parnell, Ire
land ceased to have a national leader or
a national organization.
DUTCH REVERSES IN THE EAST.
Capteb* Uadgreea'* Fora* Sunrooadad by
Batavia, Java, September 5.—The
Sasaaks are advancing along the high
banka of the river. The force com
manded by Captain Lindgreen is sur
rounded by Balinese. The Dutch war
ships are continuing the bombardment
of Mataran, the capital of Lombok,
The Balinese garrison of that city has
not ventured to attack the Dutch force
ashore.
Troop* ood Peaaaate Meat.
Rome, September 3.—Dispatches from
Spin&xzola say that a mob of peasants
there set fire to a communal plantation
of which they had been reftued a share.
Troop# were summoned and after some
■harp skirmishing the dUtwhano* was
vaHafc
Mrs. Phoebe Card, of Los Angeles,
Cal., has got Into trouble in trying to
get a pension by filing fraudulent pa
pers, stating that Mr* Johanna Card,
of New York, was divorced from Wal
ter D. Card.
Louis Galvin, 15 years of age, held up
and robbed five boys at 8L Joseph, Mo..
Saturday while they were playing ball.
He used a revolver to show he meant
business. Galvin gut $1.20, and was
soon arrested.
Corbett and Jackson Will Fight.
Sioux City, In., September 4.—It
looks very much like n fight between
Corbett and Jackson. The impression
is that the Sioux City Atbeletic Asso
ciation means business, and has money
to back it up. The officials of the club
say that they will make whatever
showing is demanded by the principals
in the flghL
Tho Turf Bonaatloa of tha Tear.
Shkepshead Bat, September 4.—
Domino and Clifford wUl meet in n race
for a mile at weight-for-age on Thurs
day. The Coney Island Jockey clnb
agrees to add $5,000. It is expected
tliat this race will prove the turf sensa-
sation of the year. Both are to start
mud the track to be dry.
Tha War Over Kora*
mark all the dealings of
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Restaurant.
Shanghai, September 4.—Skirmishes
between the Chineae and Japanese
troops are occurring at several points
in Korea. The importance of these
collisions is being greatly magnified by
both sides, who dignify them with the
title of battles. In every case victory
is claimed by both side*
Entire Wadding Party Paiaaaad.
Madison. Mis*, September 4.—Thir
ty-seven persons were poisoned at a
wedding party last Thursday night.
Watt Muse died yesterday, and hu
brother is very UL The others are re
covering. The doctors say tha people
ware poisoged
I desire to announce to my former
customers, and to the public gen
erally, tliat l expect to reoneti my
Restaurant on or about Sept. 1 at uiy
old stand in the Manne bnUdlrg on
Pearl Street.
As usual, I will make a specialty of
oysters this season, and will suupiy
them to families or for •nfert*wi»iuo*.ta
in any quantities if given timely no
tice,
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