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DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY.
VOL. III.-NO 14.
SOUTHPORT. W. C. THURSDAY MAY 26. 1892.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
V 1 1 V V( V UK X V VJ '
llllj. liwill.ln .UjM O. !
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A :onii:xsi:i summakvop
a wi:i:k's doinos
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Terrible Flood, iu the WmI. Th MmIcm j
- Outlaw Garza at Kry V-t. I-true- .
tlvf Hurricane at Mwuritlun.
Iloubl Potal Card Iu-1.
TUI,ItKIAV. MAV 18
i Hundreds of cattle perished in the recent
cold rains in Northern Nebraska.
hlrikcrsart subjected of netting lire to .!
Simond's .Stove Works at Long Island City i
.1 ... tv ,jL- . , a ri i
yesterday. Damage toThenmount of $"0,-
000 was done.
II. II. Warner of Rochester, N- Y.. the
patent medicine man, has purchased the
Hillside g roup - of mines near Prcscott,
Arizona. The pricc( paid was t:00,000.
An explosion of stove at the cavalry
barracks at Fort MeKiuney, Wyoming, de
slroyed the quarters of the three companies
and the post canteen. ' Loss 200,000.
! Iy the overflowing of the Floyd river,
which runs throtigU the centerof Sioux
City, Iowa, the lower ortioiis of the city
were Hooded and many jieople rendered
homeless.
The Department of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, Grand Army of the Republic, have
passed resolutions surrendering their divi
siou charter, and refuse to do as Comman
der in Chief Palmer orders, fraternize with
the colored posts.
FOliKlGN.
E. P. Deacon, whose trial for killing M.
AU ille will soon In-gin, has surrendered
himself to the authorities in Nice.
A Paris fencing master named Rouloz
fought lour duels j'estcrday, in the lJois de
Boulogne and came off lest in every one,
wounding his antagonists each time
The French forces in Toncpiiu recently
attacked and captured a pirate stronghold.
The pirates made a desperate resistance,
losing 125 men.- The French loss was also
heavy, lifty-three soldiers and live ofticers
losing their lives in the attack.
KKIIAV. IAV 19
A cold wave struck Cellar Hapids, Iowa,
fn Wednestlay, the thermometer dropping
forty degrees in a short time. The wind
is blowing fiercely.
I The, British steamer Falconhurst has
-arrived at quarantine, New York, from
Brazilian ports- Five of her crew died of
yellow fever while at Uio Janeiro. '
The works of the Binghampton Woolen
r.,,..f. ,.,. ..,.... u;.,
.11 4111 II IJIll HI 111 ti WIIIIIYIII V J11I11111II l'll,
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N. .. were destroy hy tire yesterday,
loss al)out f;o,(MM); partially covered, by
insurance.
All the delegates from the Democratic
State Convention held yesterday at Fresno,
Cal., have declared in favor of G rover
Cleveland. The convention adjourned with
three cheers for the ex-President.
It is now definitely known that Garza,
the dcsH-rate -Mexican outlaw, is in hiding
at the island. of Key West. Fla. The place
is lK-ing scoured, by paities anxious to
sir nre the large reward offered for his
capture.
j A destructive cyclone passed over St.
Louis county Missouri yesterday. Great
damage was done to trees, buildings and
fences, and there was considerable loss of
life. The Union stock yards at East St.
Louis were washed away. Railroads have
btrn greatly damaged. '
KOKEIGX.
An epidemic of virulent cholera is raging
at llarrar, Egypt and is spreading inland,
causing 100 deaths. The Italians are taking
vigorous precautious to prevent the disease
from spreading toMassowah.
A hurricane unprecedented in its violence
passed over the island of Mauritius on April
21), causing enormous danurge to shipping.
A majority of the vessels at the island were
Mown ashore. The western Imlf'of Port
Louis, the capital, was devastated. The
loss of life was appalling.
JATi:illAY. 3IAY !4t)
Snow was falling lasC night throughout
Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts of Iowa.
The damage to all kinds of property by
the recent thnxls in the West will amount
to many millions of dollars.
I The Prcshylertan General Assembly,
Combining the Synods -of all the Southern
ta-tis. in iw eetMHMi At 1 f - Springs, Ark.
II will prohubly hist about two weeks
The lYetfident ha prtxlaimiHl a treaty of
reciprocity- with Guatemala; to go into
iilTirt May 30, 1892. Its terms are similar
to the existing treaties w ith the West India
IslanMs.
H G I)unt Co's weekly review of trade
says: Money is in large supply and light
demand. At New Orleans tnuk is fair
w iiu cotton in better demand and firmer.
At-Savannah, though trade is falling, the
prospects are favorable. Business at the
South seems to be relatively less embar
rassed than of late. Failures for the past
week, in tlie United 'States and Canada,
Ml2 HplPSl ?f the pprrtispoiiflipg week of
1-ist year, r
FOBIC1QK,
ChoU'rn U mging along the Afgan Per
iitn frontier fern hundretl milei south of
.Minlunl.
Spain has cancelled the prohibition
against the importation of American pork,
which has lrn in existence for so many
years.
SUNDAY, MAY SI
Hereafter all the Philadelphia A: Head
ing's collieries will work ten hours a day
instead of nine hours.
The recent mysterious murder at Deni
wn. Texas, has aroused considerable frl-
A reward of r,,on W Iioen offered
for the arrest of
the murdere.
(litirm- If. Piillrmm'u u.-ifi1S1 fit liilti.
more on Friday, and his mmther died at j
New York yesterday.
The United States steamer I tanker sailed I
trorn Port Townsend, Oregon, yesterday, j
. . . fo,. fl . I ' ' j
j The Louisville, Ky., Evening Post, here- i
I tofore a II 11 paper, has comf out boldly in
j an eliU)rial for Cleveland. j
j It is reported that Tiffaiy fc Co , the
New York jewelers, will crcj-t an immense
I factory at Newark N. J to -ost 1.000.-
oX).
, .
tvery- grain elevator and
tli Hiring mill.
but one, at Oswego, N. Y
were destroyed
by fire yesterday, involving
a loss of fully
roo,ooo. :
KOHEIGX.
iMward Parker Dt-icon,
has lx-cn Hen
imprisonment lenwut .Nice to ore j r si
for the killing of the FrencJ
Jinan Abcillc.
A dynamite cartridge was discovered at
the residence of M Bcauaire, at Paris
yesterday. M. Bcaupaire Sis the public
prosecutor and conducted the case against
the Anarchist'Iiavaclutl.
MONDAY, MAV 'i'i
The First Baptist church at Meridian,
Miss., was destroyed 'by jtire yesterday.
The fire was caused by an Explosion of gas
in the basement. Loss $''j000.
J. W. Cassell A: Co., .contractors and
builders at Chicago, have
inent giving $.0,0X) t''
Imade an assij;n-
wnount of their
liabilities. Too much competition is the
alleged cause of their diflWiultics.
The Government has awarded a contract
to the Morgan Envelop; Company of
Springfield, Mass., for 24.000,000 double
postal cards. The cards will be folded in
the middle. At the fold jthe card is jer
forated so that the recioient will tear olT
onO half and then answer On the other.
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The journey from Chicago to New York
by relays of bicycle riders.carrying a sealed
dispatch from General Mi
plished in 101) hours, or
es, was accom
1,3 hours and oO
minutes late. The bicyclers were drenched
and pursued by torrents o rain during the
entire journey, and overwhelmed with
mud.
KOHEIGN.
Deeming the wife murderer was hanged
at Mel,lMurne, Australia, t
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I The .lebu arm' has been! defeated by the
British forces in West Afnca. The Jebus
lost 400 killed. The Britis!
i loss was small
A dispatch from Montevideo states that
the Brazilian turret ship Siilimoes has been
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wrecked ou (;ape Santa
mouth of the io de & p
Maria, near the
ata. Only five
men out of a crew of 12.) Were saved
TIJHSDAY MAY 23
Three lumber cutters at Suffolk, Ya-,
were killed by lightning 'yesterday while
sitting under a, shed during a thunder
storm. .j . ' .
The mules owned by the Mobile Street
Kuilwny, at Mobile, Ala.; ire affected with
glanders and some of -them have been
shot. 1
Another meeting of the Richmond Ter
minal security holders was held yesterday
in New York and another .plan to re-organization
proposed .which ' is said to be a
feasible one.
A telegram from Castona, Ark., states
that 1,500 men, women and children at
that place are waterbound and ask that the
committee at Little Rock send them relief.
Seven men have been anjested in Orange
count'. Fla., on suspicion (f being connec
ted with the murder of expressman Saun
ders on Saturday last. AW the men are
white.
A serious break ocenrrtjd at S o'clock
last night in the levee on Fesier Place,
three miles lielow College limit, La. Water
from it will overflow a lfrge part of St
John Baptist Parish, and; greatly damage
the Mississippi Valley Railroad,
FOKKIGX. I
The meat cotton warehouses at Monet cl
Bassel, Egypt, have leen jburned together
with 7,000 bales of Cotton
Two huge petitions w(ltc presented at
the British House of Comfnons yesterday
They bore the signatures jof loS.Sb.") mem-
t bers of the Protestant Alliance and 101,406
memlcrs of the Loval Protestant Ix-ague,
praying for the appointimnt of a commis
sion to iiupiire into the j condition of the
x i ... .... . i.. T..:...i
con veins uno monasteries in me mui
Kingdom
WKDXKSD.VY. MAY 24
The Republicans of Indian Territory heU
their first convention yestt rday and ekrtei
delegates to Minneapolis.!
The Spokane- 31ill Coinpany's factory
ami several other lane buildings, at
Spokane..-- Wash . were destroyed by fire
yesterilay- Ixxss nea-ly at quarter of a mil
lion dollars. .
The Louisiana legislature took one ballot
for U. 8. Senator yesteniay. There were
seven candidates in the ielJ, the highest
number yocd w as 44. tjie lowtt L No
clpction.
Col. Chan. Marshal, of Baltimore, who
served ou Gen. Root. E. j-ree's stail during
the late war, has accepUtJ an invitation to
deliver an oration at the Memorial Day
exercises at Gen. Grant's jtomb.
One of the Monroe Juni t io munlerers is
in custody at Orlando jaij. says' a Jackson
ville, Fla.. dispatcli. .Tjbe man has con
fessetl aud given an accurate description of
his accomplices. He chums to have had
nothing to do with the killing of Sanders
but merely borfrded the train-
FOREIGN".
A dispatch from India reparts an epidc:
mie of cholera in the Casliiiiere Valley,
TiALKKiH'S BiTiMiKT.
o-
COKUESrOXDEXTS VIEWS !
ON KALKI'GII AFFAIICS.
I'oiitirai Talk of aii Kimi. ht will j
Marion llutl-r Do? favorable Crop ;
IC-porU. Ntate Normal and In- j
duMtrial Srhool.
Hai.kigh, N. C.May 24. Tjast week
nn; lairv was tji tint, tuc i jutiLi; nvntt
might bje; this week the talk is of how
satisfactory the ticket is. The haps
and the mishaps of politics were never
more strikingly illustrated. Elias
Carr, who was barely inentioiied for
(iovernor, gets that prize; Sanderlin,
whose frieuds take two chances in
dame Fortune's wheel, gets nothing;
fltsi .nil ...AO ff urt.Af tlwt Ctntn ft.t--. t '
and
inger, whose renommaUoi, iora
i 0
third term .appeared -to be a certainty,
was left in -the lurch.-- The ticket,
taking it "by and large,'' as the sail
ors sav, is a capital one. and what is
better, it is a winner. .
The Third party is out in all its
glory and at last th; Temocrats can
see their adversary. The county
conventions are : meet Juno 11, and
if they see proper can put i rip county
tickets. Thev wiii'also fleet delcgales
to the district conventions which meet
June 10. These will elect delegates
to Omaha and wili also nominate can
didates for Congress. The call for
these meetings was officially made tj-
day. It may happen that then
W'lfel !
be no' State convention, as the Thirp
j)arty conference last '-.Wednesday i4
solved itself inti a convention. It
lected eight delegates to Omaha.
These are headed by Harry Skinner.
w..o will be the chief orator of his
arty in the State.
This same con vention endorsed Polk
in the most gloomy language, as a
candidate for the Presidency of the
United States. That is Mas goal,
evidently. Tie has always aimed
ligh. I
What of Marion Butler V many peo
ple ask. He and Polk do not aree.
It is said to day that in his paper, the
(Muca-stHH, this week, Mr. Butler will
renew his devotion to the Democratic
State ticket. He and the other work
ers failed to capture the Democratic
convention. What will the Republi
cans do? Nobody knows. On one
hand there is a demand for a State
Convention and a complete ticket;
with others a demand that no ticket
bo put out for the State. Rut this
much is certain, that the Republicans
will bend every energy and spend
plenty of money to get the electoral
vote in North Carolina. They want
to buy 10.000 votes for that business.
They count upon the Third party heip,
indirectly if not directly;, in this busi
ness. They have already seen it fail
in the State matter.
The campaign thus triangular
Democratic, Republican and Third
party will have another feature in
the presence of the Prohibition party,
whose great exponent, St. John, is
now stumping the State, and whoso
members one and all declare they will
poll the biggest vote since 1S81.
Nobody will forget the campaign
of -1S92. People will take part in it
who never so figured before, and new
influence will be at work in many
ways.
The Third party will elect members
of the Legislature wherever it can.
It counts on securing some Con
gressmen, and on getting GO, 000 votes
for Polk, or whoever is its nominee
for President. On tne other hand
some Democrats and Republicans will;
not givo it over 10,000 votes.
Turning from politics it is pleasant
to know that every inch jof the ex
tensive space granted this State at the
World's Fair will be filled and well
filled. It means great things for the
State. Your correspondent happens
to know that the extent- in a thor
oughly practical way to which the exi
hibit will be carried will place North
Carolina among the first States, in
point of merit ';
The crop reports for the past week
are in the main favorable. Those this
week will be better, Rain was needed ;
now enough has fallon. Rut it is a
cool May; too cool for cotton. For
small grain it is all right. There will
be grand crops of rye and wheat and
clover and grass. It is a sight to see,
these in the parts of the State where
this year their cultivation is resumed
after niauy years interval. the glass, smashing it to flinders and
It is decided by the officials that j also demolishing a lamp. Great con
the State Normal and Industrial I steruation was caused, resulting in a
school for white girls, at Greensboro, j fire alarm from box 34, at the coiner
shall open Sept. 2-S. The teacheis ; of Lenoir and McDowell. No damage
have been chosen and the selections w-as done The goat when iast seen
are Well made. There were 1-0 apT was voraciously devouring the fiag-
rlicants for positlors as teachers. Tin
j women of the Statu are taking mark
i ed interest m this school. The build- 1
ings are well designed acd spacious.
The Railway Commission has had
very little business of importance
this month. In all. it has had 9i com-
plaints, in just a year from the day it
began its work.
, deWale3 f roI, ns Sute to tJ,e
j National Democratic Convention are
certainly very conservative. They
are for the strongest man. Ed. Cham
; bers Smith, one of the delegates, is a
j Hill man. but though formerly very
pronounced is now much more moder
ate. Cleveland has some strength
More perhaps than delegates, will ad-
mit. If delegates see things going
! his way they will 1 a for him.
A Republican said to me to day
that HlJssen aml Molt are determined
j not to have a State ticket in the field.
and that if Eaves and his faction take
that course will get together and also
I put out a ticket. He confessed that
; the Republicans counted on tarrying
the electoral ticket.
John ('. Davis, Wilmington's legal
fraud, was brought to the insane asy
lum today. As soon as he g;ts well
he will be tried for embezzlement.
The case, involving the State's right
to i:nt' )-j th ; tonmigj tax oa fertili
zers has been set for hearing at the
June term of the U. S. Court' here.
Preparations are being made for a
(jrirnr at timil'i vwi at t lit ivimnur rntn
...noiwo.w.nt nt tlw. Vtottft TTrii trarcitv
1 1 iv" ill. t. t J I uii L. civ t,u.; taiv umiviouy
than at any time sine.;-the Centennial
of its foundation. Carlisle's speech
will be a great attraction.
Gov. Holt has been sick for ten
days. Yesterday he was at the Kxe.
cutive office a short while. He is
quite feeble, but as his trouble is not
sericjiis will soon be in his usual
health.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WmstoYi has a great ball team and ;
they afrj covering themselves with
glory by regularly knocking out all
comers.
The postoQice at Cedar Falls, Ran
dolph county, has been closed by one
of the inspectors for irregularities.
Press-Cdiohniiiit,
Rocky Mount is enjoying a good,
substantial 'boom. The Argonaut of
last week tells of numbers of new
buildings going up and railroad tracks
being laid.
Since our exposing the escapades of
Mortimer Jones, alias E. Y. Hale, un
til recently a schoolteacher at Prince
ton, the County Treasurer of John
ston finds himself in the possession of
a forged school order issued by the
former, to the amount of 30. Jones
still lingers in the Tarboro jail as his
wife refuses to interfere in his behalf.
Goldsboro Headlight.
The Charlotte Observer of last week
is a fine eight page edition and con
tains a full copy of the Mecklenburg
Declaration, also a number of other
interesting historical matters relating
to those stirring times. It is said that
fully 25.000 strangers attended the
anniversary exercises at Charlotte of
May 20th. Senator Hill of New York
made the address of the day.
On last Friday while Deputy 'Sheriff .
Rush, who is the keeper of the county
jail, was away from town attending
the exercises of Farmer's Acadamy
near his old home on the Uwharrie,
all five of the prisoners confined in
the county jail made their escape.
The escape was effected by taking out
the bars in a window and letting
themselves down to the ground by
means of their blankets. Vsheboro
Courier.
The election "For Subscription'' to
the Norfolk, Wilmington and Char
leston railroad of A15,000 in this town
ship yesterday passed off quietly. Out
of a total of 82S registered votes 511
were cast for the railroad and 19
against it, giving a clear majority of
all votes in favor of the subscription
of 97; -298 not cast, The white and
colored citizens worked together in
perfect harmony to carry the election.
Windsor sihier. ; .
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The fire alarm last night was caused
by & festive William goat. The goat
had been allowed to disport himself
in the house of a colored man, and
espying his ugly image in a looking
i glass he aimed a well directed butt at
1 inputs of jjlass A "---vrrrr.
THE I :IEX1) IDKAI).
IKK3IIXG, THE UCTCIIKK OF
MANY WOMEX. HANGKO.
The SuppoKMl Whltrt-bajM-1 Plrnd Vmym
the IVoalty of III Crime 1'pwa th-
timllowft. ltut Make no Cuafrtulaa. i !
.
Hit CnparallHeU Atrocltlem. T j
Mki.bockxk, Australia, May 23.- j
Frederick Rayley Deeming, the notor- j
lous murderer was hanged -At one !
minute after ten o'clock this morning, i
The execution of this man removes !
from the world one of the most notor
ious criminals of which1 the world has
lecord. Ilcwas known to have mur
dered no fewer than seven people and
the number of his victims was likely
double that, as he was j believed to le
implicated in the Whitechapel out
rages. - I :
It was expected up to the moment
that Deeming was sent out of the
world that he would make an honest
confession of his scores of
At the beginning of Marc
ni speeds.
i last the
police at Liverpool received a dispatch
from the police at Melbourne, stating
that the murder of a woman had just
come to light at Windsor, a suburb
of Melbourne, and that from certain
facts that had been revealed it was
thought that the Windsor murderer
had killed another woman at Rain
Hill at Liverpool.
The police of Liverpool staited an
investigation and soon a most horrible
crime was unearthed.! Beneath the
hearthstone of a residence known as
Dinhain Villa, at Rain Hill.there were
found not only the bod v of a woman,
but also the lodies of four little chil-
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d'en. all of whom had leen buried in
a pit that the murderer had dug, Af-
ter the earth had been thrown over
them the surface was cemented and
the hearthstone ; relaid. The house
had been occupied by a man who had
given his name as Williams, but who,
it was subsequently ascertained, was
Frederick Bay ley Deeming, whose
family resided in Birkenhead, across
the river from Liverpool.
Deeming had married at Rain Hill
a young and beautiful girl. Miss
Emily Mather, and had sailed for
Australia with her. and it was her
body that had been found at Windsor,
She, too, had been buried under the
hearthstone of the house there and her
grave was covered witli a , coating of
cement. I
Numerous swindling transactions
were traced to Deeming, principally
in mining lands. Detectives followed
him to England, where' it was found
he was living in Birkenhead. Thede
tectives, gaining admission to the
house, found it occupied by Mrs.Mane
Deeming and the three elder children,
whose bodies have recently been found
at Rain;IIill. The fourth child was
not then born.
Deeming later appeared in London
under his alias of Williams. He paid
addresses to a number of Liverpool
women, among them one who, from
his conversation about the ''Jack the
Ripper" crimes, became afraid of him.
One night he had an engagement to
take tea at her home, but he did not
appear, and she never saw him again
Shortly afterward Mrs. Deeming
and the children disappeared from
Rain Hill, but as Deeming had repre
sented the woman as his sister, noth
ing was thought ot their disappear
ance. It was not long after this that
he married Miss Mather and sailed
for Australia.
After Deeming had killed her he
became engaged to Miss Kate Rouse,
ville, who was on her way to the
Southern Cross gold fields in West
Australia to meet and marry hirn
when she learned of his arrest for the
murder of his former wife.
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A significant fact in connection with
the proposed marriage was that Deem
ing had already procured a quantity of
cement that was found at his homo
in the cold fields, and this suggested
in a Startling manner that he had al
ready made preparations to kill and
bury his bride-elect.
That he was guilty of many other
crimes, including murder, is believed
by every one. lie was a jail bird, hav
ing served sentence in Cuyland and
Australia for theft and other offenses.
Deeming was ia noted forger and
was known to have fraudulently ob
tained at least 30,000, including
money that he robbed ins brothers of.
The crime for which he was tried
here was the murder of bis wife, Miss
Mather. Tbii caimtry has no joris
Jiciiun aver the place where he killed
his wife and fou r childreu in England.
The people were against him here
and it required a constant guarding
by the police lo prevent a mob
from lynching him. On May 2
the jury couvieted him of murder and
at the same time said that Deeming
was not insane, as he claimed to be.
After he had le-n condemned to
death, Deeming made a speech in
Court and said : "I have not had a
fair trial. It is not the law that is
trying me, but the press. The case
was prejudiced even before my arrival
by the exhibition of photographs in
shop windows, and it was by means of
these that I was indentified. I leave
it to the jury to say if it is not the case
that there are hundreds of people in
Melbourne who would execute me
without a trial." . j
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
An association has been formed in
Germany to organize excursion parties
to visit the -World's -Fair and 'inciden
tally to Niagara Falls, and a number
of the larger cities. It is proposed to
accomplish thii within a period of
sixty days and an expense ot oetween
$250 and $300. j
In Topeka, Kan., an organization
termed the Afro -Columbian Auxil
iary Club, has been formed for the
purpose of aiding the colored ixioplo
of Kansas, Colorado an I Missouri, to
attend the World's Fair and obtain
reduced rates and good accommoda
tions. A $30,000 monument to Columbu s,
designed by sculptor Howard Kret
schmar, of Chicago, will be erected in
Lake Front: Park, which has been
termed the "Gateway to the Kxposi.
tion." It will be a statue in bronze
twenty feet high, surmounting a gran
ite pedestal thirty feet high. The
monument will form the design for
souvenirs of the Exposition.
Gen. J. H. Brinker, one of the al
ternate Commissioners from Missis
sippi, has in his possession, and will
exhibit at the Exposition, five bales of
cotton that was raised by slave labor
in 18G2-3.
. Visitors to the Exposition will be
able to go comfortably and expedi
tiously from one part of the grounds
to another and obtain advantageous
views of the buildings. They may do
this either in electric bots -.through
the lagoons, or by the intramural ele
vated electric railway. The contract
for the latter lias been awarded.
There will be fivo miles of double
track and stations at convenient
points. The route, as mapped out,
runs from one end to the other of the
grounds in a sinuous course.; The fare
will be five cents, and the capacity of
the road about 20,000 an hour.
A project has been effected at Mel
bourne, Australia, whereby a large
party of artisans of various craf ts may
be enabled to visit the Exposition at
Chicago for study and pleasure com
bined. In the woman's exhibit from South
Dakota will be a life size statue of a
Sioux Indian maiden. The subject
was Minnehaha, the eighteen year old
daughter of Sitting Bull, who was
prominent in the engagement with
Gen. Custer's troops on the Little Big
Horn. Misnchaha fell in love with a
lieutenant in the U. S. army at Fort
Sully and died of a broken heart.
A glass punch bowl, made by the
glass blowers of Cork in 1825, and
presented to Daniel O'Connell, the
famous Irish patiiot, will appear in
the exhibit from Cork. One side of
the bowl bears O'Connell's initials
and the other a representation of
Cork, as it then existed.
An international chess congress in
connection with the World's Fair is
being advocated, and may be accounted
a certainty, as some of the most in
fiuential chess associations an,d clubs
are strongly in favor of the idea.
The State Board of Commerce of
Idaho, has assumed the responsibility
of raising 40,000 with which to sup
plement the State's World's Fair ap
propriation of $20,000. It is reported
that the teopleof the. Slate are greatly
interested In having it well repre.
sented at the Exposition, and that it
is believed that the money will be
easily raised. ;
The New York World's Fair board
has visited Chicago, inspected the Ex
position grounds and buildings and
inquired carefully into the work of
preparation for the great Fair. The
members of the board &xfred their
astonishment and enthusiasm over the
rn&g&ifkiebt buildings, and j the vast
amouut of work that h&a been accom
plished. Thoy iaid that New York
will now ep&all its energies to be
creditably and splendidly represented,
and that hereafter there will be no
ground for accusing the State of hike
warm ness.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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Washington. D. C., May 23 The
nearness of the lime for tho meeting
of the Republican National Conven-.
tion makes the probable action of that
body overshadow everything else as a
topic of conversation at the Capital.
Will it le Harrison or Blaine, or some
one of the numerous other gentlemen
who have been mentioned? Your
correspondent is not lier to guesa,but
to furnish you with the news, as it is.
President Harrison's action in
ordering the members of his Cabinet
to stay away from the Minneapolis
convention, after at least three of them
-Secretaries Elkins and Tracy and
Attorney-General Miller had en
gaged quarters and made arrange
ments to attend, is regarded as signifi
cant, and has revived the rumor that
after all Mr. Harrison's name may not
go before the convention. But the
longheaded oliticians regard it rather
as a very shrewd move to clear Mr.
Harrison's candidacy of the charge of
being backed by the ad ministration
machine. ;
The confidence which the Harrison
people 'have lieen expressing of his
nomination ou the first Iwillot is un
questionably growing weaker, ami
some of them now say that thero will
probably be two or throe ballots taken
before he is nominated' The anli.
Harrison people are on the. contrary
more confident than ever Thev claim
that Mr. Harrison is already defeated,
and that his ifomiuation is absolutely
impossible. Many people havo an im
pression that Mr Blaine is to lie nom
inated in spite of his letter and his
constant reiteration that he does not
want the nomination, and those who
aro WAi-L'inir witli tfiot twl iti uluni
v- nil... bllll, - . V. ( II , V. .
appear to ue conntieni mat no win
accept. Others a' re of the opinion that
the Blaine scheme is merely being
worked to weakeu Harrison in order
to give his opponents a chance to con
solidate uppn some one else.
No surprise was caused by the re.
port of the World's Fair investigating
cominitteo of the House in favor of a
big cut in the salaries of tho officials
connected with the Exposition, begin
ning with reducing the salary of the
Director-General from $15,000 to $8,
000, and ending by declaring that no
other official should receive more than
$4,000 ar year. 'Hie committee also
recommends that the Department of
Foreign Affairs be abolisjiod and its
work taken up by the Director Gon.
eral. The committee does not say so;
but it has long been whispered around
that some gentlemen had made very
expensive and extensive rJcajture trit
( . f g
in connection with the foreign affairs
depaitment of the Exposition without
gaining anything for the money spent.
The committee reports everything in
excellent condition and the prospects
bright for the most successful exjKsi
tion ever held.
A very interesting discussion is le
ing carried on privately it may ls
public before it is ended- in Con
gress, as to tho duty'of tho Depart
ment of Justice to endeavor to seek
evidence to make cases under the
Sherman anti-trust law. Attorney
General Miller's answer to the J louse
resolution asking for information,
stating that he hail no knowledge of
the Reading railway and coat combine,
except what he had seen in the news
papers, started the discussion. It is
contended by some that this is a direct
acknowledgement of neglect of duty,
while others say that it is not the dut y
of the Department of Justice to take
the initiative in such cases. "Then
whose duty is it?" ask the other fel
lows, without getting a 'satisfactory
answer.
The Congressional Joint Immigra
tion committee expect to soon report
some amendments to the Immigration
laws which they think will remedy
the most glaring defects, particularly
those concerning immigrants of the
prohibited classes. No question about
the remedy being needed.
The Alliance Congressmen - are still
keeoinc no the fitrbt for recognition.
and in consequence no bills are being
passed by the House "by unanimous
consent."
Secretary Husk is being congratula
on all sides upon the result of his
efforts to open the markets of Europe
to American pork. The removal of
the restrictions in Sain about com
pletea his task.