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j TH E COUNTY RECORD 10MG8TREE, S. C. _ ?? LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Kd. & Prop'r? A striking feature iu the food situation is that every country in Europe, with the solitary exception of Russia, will want to import wheat. Bishop John P. Newman stated iu recent speech that the annual liquor bill of this county amounts to SI.000,000,'HK). This, he claims, is equal to the cost of twenty leading necessaries of life. Says the St. Lonis Dispatch:?The bicyc' , as well as the grain, is bringj* in * n..>ney to the United States. tViiiic all the Europeans have not moiK-r to burn, many of theui have %Uo i to scorch. ? The Phoenix (Ariz.) fire department turns out for parade and jolification L lrhenever one of its members becomes ; k father. They have had eleveu such . "birthday parades" this year, and ex nv- v s; P~t several more. Encouraging infant industries the social economist r. might call it. r England, as well as the United ?> States, complains of an oversnpply of a J *otore. More are annually grailuat < I than there is room for, and the t .me is true in other countries. What t >do with the surplusage is a problem t,f which no solution has yet been I,- found. If the yoang sawbones could be set to doctoring each other for a term before trying their hands on the jj. public their ranks would thin out with > great rapidity, but such a course would jf. probably be against the ethics of the proiessiou. me euiupmiui ui u>w many doctors is not a new one, and ?? the condition is not one easily reme died. The fittest will continue to Ij^. aurvive, and the others will continue <. . to starve or go into the drag business, according to their wont hitherto, serv> ing as doorkeepers in the temple of r.% -medicine if they are not permitted to dwell in its tent 3. The thriving city of Williamsport, IPenn., has adopted a weed ordinance requiring all householders to keep their properties free from all vegetable nuisances that mar the lawns and injure the gardens. A small penalty is provided for negligence and a strict enforcement is said to 0} er&te most beneficially to the general appearance of the ciiy. We all have so much to do in country (though for several years hundreds of thousands of ablebodied men have been unable to find anything to do) that we have not yet come to realize the duty each owes to all to prevent the spread of weeds. Here indeed "a stitch in time saves nine," only the ratio of the tfiultiplicatiou of weeds due to letting them go to seed is far greater thau this. If our farm and village communities would only swear the vendetta agaiust all maturing weeds, as in the old countries of Europe, these pests, which are now so disastrous to agriI culture, oould be largely eradicated. < Further industrial disturbance oaueed by the bicycle is reported by jv. the New York Tribune, from (irea: Britain. It has hitherto been ex&> ' plained how cycling has affected the horse trade, the book trade, the jewelry trade and various other liues of l\ > business. Now Yorkshire tells of its effects upon textile manufactures. These are two-fold ?one bad, one Kpr good. The bad came first, nud is only - temporary. The good came second, and will probably prove permanent. The former was seen in a diminution or purchases. Thousauds of women ?or their husbands or fathers?had to choose between bicycles and new dresses. They chose the former, and j$ the drygoods trade accordingly ; nfjf/ fered. Manufacturers, retailers and dressmakers all felt the loss of custom, which was sufficient to make a serious depression in trade. The second effect has beea a change oi rasmou. i nere j'\ is a vastly increased demand for dress .. goods suited to bicycling. It comes s both from those who can afford special cycling suits and from those who cauR not, for tli? latter uatm-ally now make ^ ' their ordinary street costumes of goods that will also do for wheeling. The goods demanded are chiefly tli:>*e that are soft, cioseli woveo a id lustrcie^. The manufacturers who a few years ago were turningtout mohairs and other "lustres" have adapted their works to Li the production of serges and similar goods, and are now prepared to supply either class with equal facility. That is a great gain for the Bradford district. It means that manufacturers will no longer be depeudeut ti]M>n the vagaries of fashion Cycling has come to stay, and so have its requirements of dress. S '-r '- ; ; > ''' ' V'* '. * ' '-* ill i ?f Items of People and Things in the Palmetto State. j HAZING WILL BE PUNISHED, j Sneezed Out a Bullet?State's Phos- j phate Industry?Gov. Ellerbe Asks j Ministers for Their Opinion. The following is a copy of a circular letter that is being sent out to the ministers of the State by Governor Ellerbe, asking their opinion of the dispensary: i Columbia, S. C\, Oct 1, 1897. ! Deak Sik:?The following questions are submitted to ministers throughout the State, for the purpose of ascertaining the sentiment and opinion of Christian citizens with reference to the dispensary law. Please answer each question in the space following it, and after signing and stating to what denomination you t^loug and your postoffice address, return tnis in the enclosed envelope to the undersigned. Your prompt attention will be appreciated. Very respectfully yours, W. H. Ellerbe, Governor. 1. Has the dispensary system increased or decreased drunkenness or drinking in you" community; and to what extent, indicatingvour opinion by j percentage of increase or decrease. 2. .What is the preference of your people as between (1) prohibition, (2) dispensary law aud (3) high license, under the restrictions of the Conslitu1 * 1 oua tion, and wnicn 13 muoi. kuw<.v ? temperance measure, under existing conditions ? liemarks. Name Denomination Postoffice County The phosphate industry of the State isofin.erest to all the people of the State, and all are interested in the success of those engaged in mining the rock, as a large amount of royalty is received by the State and taxes are reduced iu proportion to the amount mined. The receipts up to October 1st, from this source, have been $89,140, distributed by months an follows: January, $10,397; February, $1,229; March, $0,493; April,$6,099; May, $1,875; June, S3,838.50; July; $7,490; August, $1,700; September. $2,559; which is an average of $4,349.55 a month. The total receipts of phosphate royalty for the last fiscal year, which was fourteen months long and included November and December of 1895, ware $62,787.96, or an average of $4,484.85 a month. The great State Fair is only a little over three weeks otL All concerned are hard at work, and it is intimated that the list of attractions will excel those of all previous State Fairs. The State ball is to be revived, and is to be one of the principrl features of the week. There will be a wheelmen's meet, balloon ascensions, and many other attractions, too numerous to mention. The Fair Society this year has offered a special prize of witn $">0 for second best, for the best bale of South Carolina rafeed cotton shown at the fair. This, the officials say, will bo the means of bringing to the fair oue of the greatest exhibits of baled cotton ever seen in the State. The letters recieved indicate that the competition ia going to be very lively, Mr. Isadore Wolfe, of Camden, recently had a singular experience. About seven years ago he was snot in the face with a 32-calibre pistol ball. His physician probed for the ball and got the greater portion of it out, but at the time it was thought the entire ball was extracted. Since the shooting Mr. Wolfe has experienced some slightly unpleasant sensations in his fare and on one side of his nose, and last week he sneezed out the remainder of the bullet. At Charleston the operatives of the Charleston shoe factory threw down their tools and quit work. The female operatives were the first to strike, and when the male operatives heard that the factory would replace them with negro labor they stated that they were opi>osed to mixed labor, and would also quit work rather than hold their jobs with negro operatives. One of the recent matriculates of the South Carolina Militarj' Academy was handled roughly bv members of the sophomore class. The practice of haziag was abolished several years ago, but seemr. to have broken out again. The matter has been referred to the board of visitors and an investigation will be made and the guilty parties punished. The continued low price of cotton is playing havoc with the farmers in central Carolina. Most of them borrowed money on their crops; the New York banks are shutting down on the local banks, and the local banks have to press all paper. The result is that they caunot hold their cotton and it is going at the present low figures. Judge Simonton decided in Charleston that "O. P." stores and dispensaries cannot bo opened in dry towns. In the Guckenbeimer case he decided that the contract between the non-resident dealer and resident seller is a good contract of agency. Successors to Chief Justice Molver of the Supreme Court and Justices Benet, Buchanan, Watts and Witherspoon of the circuit bench will be elected at the approaching session of the Legislature. ? -?<?> ? ? Senator Tillman is in Columbia, under the treatment of Drs. Babcock and Taylor, with some serious affection of the stomach. The Register says his friends are apprehensive of his condition. ??? At Laurens John Johnson was found guilty of the murder of Dan Johnson. It will be remembered the quarrel was about two pennies and a half. Rober Hook, the slayer of Policeman Goss at Brookland, has surrendered, and is now in jail. fejt .... k'-' ' , .afe ZWTVV- * - 3VST. V . ' r palmetto pointers. At Anderson, Mrs. J. G. Harmison committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. Mental depression the cause. Some unknown disease is carrying off all the poultry in Clarendon county. They apparently lose use of their feet, flutter and fall over dead. Negro labor only will be emplojTed in the Montieth Cotton Mill to be built in Columbia, and the promoter says the negroes are subscribing freely. Ben. Hutto, colored, living two miles from Willistou, shot li s wife four times, killing her instantly. He was in ambush for a negro man, and mistook his wife for the man. Jealousy was the cause. Ben has gone to parts unknown. The situation in Greenville abiut the :A. ? ai. . i 12 t\ miposmou oi xue neavy license uu kj. P. stores by the city authorises ia growiug apace. All but two of the 0. P. shops, it is said, have quit the business, and the next thing will b? a -ase to test the validity of the action of the council. The following is a list of those who have filed applications for the position of Comptroller General: J. K. Alston, Columbia; \V. H. Lawnnce, Darlington; I. P. Epton. Spartanburg; X. \V. Brooker, formerly of Edgefield, now of Richland; J. P. Derham. Horry, and J. J. Neill, Fairfield. The city council of Anderson has appointed a committee of prominent citizens to perfect arrangements for a large railroad meeting to be held there on the 4th of November, looking to the building of the Black Diamond road, which ia meeting with so much encouragement iu Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and In* diana. A VALUABLE VOLU3IE. A Bible One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Years Old. mi m i . . # n i i_ ; meoiaie, 01 uoiuqiuih, says meie ??o a Bible exhibited in their office last week that was worth examining. It was found on James Island in 18(54 by a negro, June Mobley, who now resides here. At that time Mobley was the body serAant of Sergt. Jas. M. Hill, of Union. Mobley has kept the valuable book all these years, praserving it well. It is a pnlpit size volume, bound in red morocco. One of the backs has long since disappeared The title page shows that it was printed in London by John Baskitt, "printer to the King's most excellent majest" in the year 1738. In the preface is found the royal decree relating to the volume. In the center of the book on a half blank page io the inscription in ink, "Kebekah Kace, Her Book; She Was Born, July the 9, *1732." Further on, inscribed on a blank page is a family record, which may lead to the discovery of the heirs of the original owners of the volume. This record starts with the marriage of Benj. Kace to Kebekah Dixon, on May 29, 1751. Other names that appear in this record are these: David Stoll, Sophia Bour quin, Lewis aud Margaret Bourquin, and John Lewis B. Stoll, the latter being born in November, 1788. Here and there in the old volume are prosed flowers. The book is printed in old English. ILLICIT STILL RAIDED. 700 Gallons of Sorghum Mash and Grape "Pumice" Dumped. * The United States deputy collector , made a raid on two illicit distilleries, in Bull Swamp township, in Orangeburg county. He seized and dumped about seyen hundred gallons of sor ghum mash and grape "pumice," as a result of the arrests David M. Jeff coat, John M. Sturkie, Leslie Livingstone, Paul L. Livingstone, Adam Oliver, and Joe Mack have been bound over for trial at the November term of court. The stills were found on the edge of the North Edisto river, and apparently a good business had oeen going on tor some little time. Stnrkie claims that some time ago he had a government license to still, and finding the business unprofitable, gave np his license and quit the basinesc. He did not care to store his still, as it was liable to be stolen in oase it was known where he had stored it, so he hid it out in the swamp, and now seems to be very much surprised that some one else should be found operating it. Illicit stills in Orangeburg county are a raritv. Additional railroad facili ? ^ 1 ties ana new ideas comiug iuiu mc county with the march of progress brought the illicit stills into the county. Of course the stills were all destoyed. O. P. LICENSES. A Concert of Action Should Be Had Between the Cities and the state. The following is Columbia's city attorney's reply to a. recently adopted resolution by the city council of that city in the matter of licensing O. P. stores: "In reply I have to say that this question affects the administration of the liquor laws of the State and is a matter which concerns the municipalities of the State. Upon this subject the State has addpted a certain policy and mapped out a certain line of action. For this reason I think there should be ccncert of action between the law officers of the citj and those of the State. I will, therefore, confer with the Attorney General of the State upon the subject to the end that there may harmony of action upon this question in which the whole State is concerned. " Mrs. Adelaido E. Sherry, a young and pretty widow of West Point, Ind., runs one of the largest farms in the State. She hires and directs her large corps of assistants, indoors and out, entertains generously, drives over the estate daily, buys pigs and calves, ships Percheron horses to Germany, cattle and hcgs to Chicago, cribs annually an tYerage of 10,000 bushels of corn, ' aveis extensively and write? for publications. She bas lately re trrned from a sojourn in the Holj Laud, and "after husking done," she purposes investigating occult philosophy among the Mahatmas in their mountain abodes in India. ' ' ' V'jmSTiSi n ! The. Venerable Jurist Resigns From the Supreme Court. ' HIS TERM OF SERVICE LONGEST. ! i I ; In April, 1896, Justice Field Wrote to the President Informing; Him r? His Intention?The Retirement Aw .ltn. In- , i terest in Possible Cabinet Changes? i' , Career of the Distinguished Judge. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Tho re-' tirement of Justice Field from the bench of the Supreme Court after the longest term of sen-ice on record was publicly announced in the court. The correspondence Includes four letters. In April last Justice Field wrote to the President informing him of his intention to retire on December i. i\u respuiiso was muuv iu mis tium October 9th, when President McKlnley an 'x'i VW JUSTICE STEPHEN ?. SIELD. wered the Justice's letter In a complimentary note and accepted the notice of retire: meat. j Justice Field formally communicated the fi.ct to his associates, and they signed a joint letter expressing the regret at the ne' cessity which com pelled the venerable Jus| tice to oe&3e his active labors. Upon the ; adjournment of court they called in a body | upon Justice Field at his home opposite the I Capitol. I The retirement of the Justice has awak' cned interest in the Cabinet situation. It | has been rumored ever since McKinley took office that the venerable jurist would leave ! the Bench, and that in making Judge Me' Kenna Attorney-General the Chief Execu' live was looking forward to a vacancy on ' the Supreme Bench, to whioh he would ap; point him. Should Attorney-General McKenna sqcceed Justice Field it is not I deemed improbable that Seoretary of the : Navy Long will take the legal portfolio and ! his assistant, Mr. Roosevelt, become full Secretary. . JUSTICE FIELD'S CAREER. His Early Life and Service on the Bench ?Many Dramatic Incidents. Justice Field, one of the most notable men who have sat on the Supreme Bench of the United States, comes of a distinguished family. As is well known, he is a brother of Cyrus TV. Field, David Dudley Field and the Rev. Henry M. Field. He is the sixth son of Rev. David D. Field. Stephen Johnson Field was born in Had dam, Conn., on aovemuor 4,1316. lie wau | graduated at Williams College in 1837, and ; went to New York and studied law In tbe office of his brother, David Dudley Field, with whom he subsequently practised. He removed to San Francisco In 1819. and was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of California in 1853. When, in 1863. a tenth Judge was to be appointed to the United States Supreme Bench from the Pacific Coast, the whole Congressional delegation from the Paeiflo Coast, without regard to party, went to President Lincoln to urge the appointment of Judge Field. The President accordingly appointed him, and he took the oath on May 20, 1863. Washington now became his res.de.ncefor most of the year, though, as he was assigned to the Pacific Circuit, he held court each summer In the far West. Early in 1877 Justice Field was designated, by the act of Congress creating the Electoral Commission, as ono of the Ave Justices of the Supreme Court who were members of ir. He dissented from tbe view of the majority of the Commission, who refused to go behind the certificates forwarded from the different States. His position here, together with his previous opposition to the reconstruction aots, gave him prominence in the Democratic party, so that in the Cincinnati Convention of 1880 he was among the Presidential candidates. One of the most striking episodes in Justice Field's life was the attaok on him by Judge Terry, which resulted in the latter's death at the hands of a deputy marshal. It took place in the little town of Lathrop, Cal., on his way from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Justice Field has been for many years fV?n aanl^F mumhflr nt the finnrAmo Pniirf IUV nwuiv* 1MVVMVWA V4 >uv vv???t both in point of age and length of service. On August 15 of this year he surpassed the record of service in the Supreme Court, even that of Chief Justice Marshall, who served from 1801 to 1835. In 1886 Justice Field became eligible for retirement with a life pension, but refused to leave the laborious duties of his office. FOUR KILLED IN A WRECK. Three Other Persons Hurt in a Collision on tlie Canadian Pacific. The Canadian PaciQc express from Toronto , collided in a fog with a freight about sixteei miles from Ottawa. Four men were kl led and three hurt. The dead are: James Hostey, brakeman of the freight; Frank Lamendeau, engineer of the express; Robert Peden, mail clerk; John Kearney, a tramp. Mall Clerk Peden was taken out of the wreck living, but he died In a few minutes. It is said that the operator at Stittsville failed to hold the express, as he should have done, until the freight engine had returned to Stittsville with the part of its train which it had been unable to take up the grade. Double Tragedy In Baltimore. Matthew Rogers, a grocer, and Mrs. Ida Wright, who lived with him, were found dead In Rogers's house at Baltimoro, Md. Both had boenshot. The police look upon it as a case of murder and suicide, but Rogers's relatives insist that it was the work of a former admirer of the Woman. Merciful Spain. The Spanl.< h Cabinet has decided to suspend the s6. Are decrees recently issued against political associations in the Philippine Islands. Tt has also decided to pardon all Cuban exiles who were not inolnded In previous amnesties. - j.*. , - . -1 ~r THEATRE CEILING FELL Fatal Disaster In a Playhouse at Cincln. nati, Ohio. About 8.30 o'clock p. m., shortly after the curtain rose at Robinson's Opera House in Cincinnatti, Ohio, the framework of the huge dome fell upon the occupants of the orchestra chairs and narrmet seats. Most of the lights were extinguished by the accident. Alight was turned on the audience from the stage, and this caused the alarm of Are to add to the horror of the situation. Manv of the audience were injured seriouslv by the falling ceiling, but manv more were crushed and tramuled under foot during the rush for the doors. Three persons are known to be dead and several were not expected to live. It is said that a dozen may be hurt, fatallv. "The Hangers of a Great Citv" was the name of the nlay being given. A little girl, Alice Onie. was singing a song with a bass drum acenmnaniment when the crash came. With th? dome and ceiling the immense central chandelier came down. All of the debris fell within a circle of aPout thirty feat diameter in tne narnuet. The crash wa? as loud a? a thunder clan. Oreat clouds of dust added to the terror of the darkness that followed, and wild cries came from all r>arts of tho house. About tweniv victims, some of them wounded fatallv, were oufekly taken out and conveyed to the Cincinnati Hospital, A large number of those who were not hurt so seriously ran through the streets, black with dust and with torn clothing. On account of the disannearanoe of these to their homes it was difficult to get even a tolerahlv accurate list of the wounded, but two were killed outright. One of these was an unidentified aped man who was almost cut in two bv a falling timber. The other was an elderly lady, name also unknown. whose hack was broken. Manv of the injured received their hurts from being tramnled underfoot hvthe terror-stricken audience. The attendance was not verv large. None of the members of the theatrical comoanv was injured. The house belongs to the e?tate of the late .Tohn Ttobinson. the noted cjrcus owner. The latest reports place the number of probablv fatallv fninred at twelve and the more or less severely hurt at from thirty to forty, strangely enough, the nlnv tnat wns hooked for next week is called "Under the Dome." CREATER NEW YORK FOLITICS. The Hot Municipal Campaign Formally Opened By Tammany Hall. The forma! opening of the Tammany Hall campaign took place Friday night in the big hall of the Wigwam, in New York. The candidate for Mayor, Judge Yan Wyck, was JVIX3E BOBERT A. VAX WYCK. [Tammany caniiiuaie ior jiayur ui uicoiu New York.) not present. The principal speakers were Amos J. Cumrnings, Thomas F. Grady, John B. Stanc'nfleld, and Arthur P. Gorman, Jr., of Maryland. Various meetings for Low, Tracy and George were also held. FIRE IN_DURHAM, N. C. i District of Eight Acres Burned Over,and Tobacco Factories Destroyed. A destructive fire occurred at Durham, N. C., In which $500,000 worth of property was destroyed. At 11.25 o'clock a. m. Are was discovered in H. J. Bass & Co.'s prizBry, on Morgan street, and for two hours it ieemed as if the town would he enveloped In flames. The following are the buildings destroyed: i Two prize rooms belonging to B. L. Duke, occupied by H. J. Bass A Co.; two belonging to G. W. Watts on Fuller street, occupied by the American Tobacco Company; one on Randolph street owned by Manning 4 Morgan occupied by the American Tobacco Company; one owned by W. Duke, ocoupled by the American Tobacco Company; one dwelling owned by W. Duke, two belonging two William Newton, a prize room occupied by the Blackwell Durham Smoking Tobacco Company, three dwellings owned by L. W. Wise, and two owned bv B. L. Duke, W. T. Carrlngton had about 500,000 pounds oftobaocoln danger. He carried $200,000 Insurance on it, and about one hundred hogsheads of it were saved. The water supply was exceedingly low and of little use in fighting the flames. The .burned district covers eight acres. A CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY. Two Killed in a Flglit Between Officers and a Stage Robber. William Harold, of Delta, Cal., and Under Sheriff Radford, of Siskiyou Connty Cal., were shot and killed and Depuiy 8heriff Stewart was fatally wounded while the officers were attempting to arrest Harold for complicity in the robbery of the m * ? 1 *- ??- mm Qnntam_ xreica aua r on duuranagu vu uvynu ber 26. About 8.30 a. m. Radford and Stewart presented themselves at Harold's house and asked for Harold. When he came to the doer, Stewart said: "I want t o see vou, Haiald." The latter replied: "I'm ready," anu eoened fire opon the officers with a rovolvir. The first shot took effect in Stew* art's leg, while the second bullet struck Radford in the left breast, killing him almost instantly. Stewart, who had fallen in front of the door when shot, emptied his gun at Harold, who fell mortally wounded with several bullets in his chest and abdomen. He died shortly afterward. Schooner and Seven Men Lost. The schooner Bloodhound Is a total wreck near Cape Pine, on the southern part of the Peninsula of Avalon, Newfoundland. Her crew of seven men have perished. Spain May Give Up Cnba. According to private information to bankers and diplomatic olroles Spain will give up Cuba after some delay to satisfy public opinion in Spain. The Queen has been urged to this oourse by eocleslastloal authorities and influential banking interests. I Territory of Lincoln. It Is proposed to divide Alaska into two territories, the northwestern portion, containing the rioheet of the plaoer mines to he called Llnooln, with Its capital, Woare, on the Yukon River. P v i ^ TKE NEWS EPITOMIZEDL Washington I^ms. John A. Kasson. of Iowa, was appoint^! 'isja by President McKinlev to negotiate reciprocity treaties with other countries, under the Dingley Tariff act. Attorney-General McKenna has sustained the contention of Customs officials that diamonds imported through Canada from , jig a country not contiguous to Canada must pay a discriminating duty of ten percent. James S. Dodge, of Elkhart, Ind., has declined appointment as Consul-General at Nagasaki, Japan, on account of business and G. A. R. engagements. The Korean Legation in Washington has ucen nouuea mat me tung nas assumed the title of Emperor. ' ig The President made the following appointments: Consuls of the United States? '3 John A. Barnes, of Illinois, at Cologne. Germany; Leonard B. Smith, of Maine, at ?? Cnrncoa. West Indies,: William F. Rands, of the District of Columbia. Secretary of 'JS the Legation of the United ctates at Seoul, Korea. The Inter-State Commerce Commission 4 bas issued its ninth statistical report, for _ ? the year ended June 30,1896. Cornelius N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior. has sent a letter from Washington to General Tracy, indorsing the Jotter's candidacy for Mayor of Greater New York. It is believed in Washington that Justice Field may retire from the Supreme Court bench during the present term of court. Attorney General MeKenna is mentioned as' his successor. Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, has t been informed bv Secretary Sherman that the Austrian Minister has made a complaint that the firing on the mob at Lattimer was a violation of the rights of Austrian subjects. The Secretary asks for * statement of the facts in the case. Sheriff Martin and General Gobin have been asked by the Governor to reply. Clara H. Richards has been appointed rostraistress ai uyea, aiasna. The postal recipts for September show -it a cain of 7 1-10 per cent, over the sanqf month la9t year. The Monetary Commission held a meetIn? In Washington, at which preliminary reports from the committees were discussed.' Domestic. Senator Gorman has written a letter to, Edwin F. Abell, editor of the Baltimore, Sun, offering to resign the leadership of the Maryland Democracy in favor of the !atter! if he will withdraw from Republican alliances. John A. Gordon, the Democratic nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court of "vy? Colorado, has withdrawn. The party. y leaders were opposed to htm because he j sunnorted Mr. Cleveland for President lnj 1892Frank Loretto, aged eighty, committed4 suicide in New York Cltv by plunging: down an nirshaft from the fifth floor of a tenement. Gold has been found In Rock County,! within eight miles of Janesville, Wis. Two, farmers exhibited samples of gravel taken< > fmm the farm which showed gold In fair quantities. 1122 Samuel Wilson, acred sixteen years, nas been shot and killed at Carlisle, Ky., by; Edward Crump, aged fifteen years. Crump, was arrested on the charge of murder. Crump was worsted in a fight with Wilson and secured a revolver and lay in wait for. * 0. M. Wolburn, an ex-Collector of Inter, nal Revenue in the Northern District of, California, who has been on trial in the United States District Court, on an Indict-, m*nt covering forty-two distinct charge* of embezzlement, was acquitted by the . Judge ShowaltT in Chicago gave a decision to the effect that the makers of a '&M certain line of goods, in a certain place, do not have the right of a trade-mark to the name of that place. This decision is of general interest to milling people, and especially to those of Minneapolis. The organization of the greatest combination of window glass makers ever formed in this country was completed at Camden, N. J. Pittsburg was chosen as the general selling agency. At a boxing bout, for the benefit of yel low fever suderers, in New OrTean^-ia.,- t Jack Cummings was fatally injured, and died next morning. Walter Griffin, who 1 fought against him, is under arrest. Fifteen men, including strikers and members of a brass band, were arrested at 8andy Creek, Penn., by Deputy Sheriffs of the De Armitt mines for marching on the a public road. They were taken to Pittsburg for a keanpg. Charles W. Dayton acoepted the nomlna- < tion for Comptroller of Greater New York on tho Henry George ticket. Fairohild in will remain on tho Citizens' Union ticket. Two women were drowned In the Never-' sink River, In Sullivan County, New York. The fifteenth conference of friends of the *3 Indian was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. Railroad traffio in Texas was almost en- V tirely suspended on account of thp yellow fever scare. Philadelphia authorities barred Yietor Hugo's "Lcs Miserables" as a toxt-book for r> high-school girls. j The Western Carolina Bank of Asheville, N. C., failed to open its doors. The steamer City of Topeka arrived ft Seattle, Wash., bringing miners returning from the Klondike region and (300,000 In gold. The miners say the wealth of the Klondike has been underestimated, and one of them places the value of the claims thus '?? nnanuA aft tM <100 000. Conrad Heidelberg shot and killed Thornas McSorley daring a quarrel at Castletou, - (-> Staten Island, and attempted suicide by cutting his throat and wrists. Heizelberg -'mj will recover. The largest cattle deal made in Texas since the boom days of fifteen yeas ago was arranged at San Antonio, Ike T. Pryor, ' r?nf selling to Winfleld Scott, of Fort Worth, 20.000 head of cattle of all classes for <1$ per noad, fall delivery. Other big sales are pending. Former Governor Boies, of Iowa, in a letter said the Chicago platform had had its" day in the "tribunal of last resort/' ^ The Treasury statement of domestic exports in September shows that the shipment of breadstuff* exceeded that of Sep- ?% tember. 1896. by 100 per cent. Over $1,850,000 of the school fund money* of Chicago has vanished, and the account has been overdrawn to the amount of $117,000. This is the startling state of at- y -q fairs that confronts the Board of Education, according to the story of one of its employes. Foreign. Colonel Jose Zayas* who is Minister Plenipotentiary of the Cuban Republic to -|J Great Britain, says that the time for 8paln to grant autonomy has gone by, that the ? Cubans to not waut annexation with the United States, but recognition, and that the mot'.o is still "Independence or Death." President Faure, of France, has signed the appointments of Ambassador Patenotre to Madrid and Ambassador Cambon to Washington. Ana Sotolongo, the Cnban woman who ?$ has suffered so much at the Casa de Becogldas, in Havana, in which she wee -ygffl looked up nearly two years ago charged *39 with conspiracy against the Spanish Government, has been released, as no proofs of 1*. her guilt could be obtained by the Military Attorney. J. Sterling Ryerson. a Toronto Conserve- | tlve legislator, has published a protest against letting the United States gunboat Yantio pass through Canadian canals to Lake Erie. . ^ 'I