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VOL, VI.
SALISBURY. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1893.
NO. 15. f
Ill CONGRESSIONAL HALLS.
Mly Eontine of Eotl Houses oi ltis
Filty-Seconi Cocsjess.
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Measures Discussed and Bills Tassed
By Our National Law-Makers.
THE SENATE.
The death of Senator Kenna, of West
Virginia, immediately after the reading
of Tuesday's journal, was announced to
the senate Wednesday morning by Mr.
Blackburn. Feeling remarks were made
by him in praise of the dead senator and
tbe usual resolutions were presented and
adopted including invitation to the
house of representatives, president and
members of the cabinet and supreme
court to attend the funeral ceremonies
in the senate chamber at 1 o'clock Thurs
day. A committee of seven senators
Faulkner, Blackburn, Ransom, Daoie',
Walthall, Manderson and Squires were
appointed to take orders us to the funeral
T and to accompany the remains to West
Virginia, and-then as a further mark of
TtXfLGt the senate adjourned.
The't'.inernl services over the remains
of the laU .Senator Kenna were held in
the senate chamber Thursday afternoon.
At the residence the late senator Mrs.
Kenna took leave of the remains alone,
her grief too deep to be shared by any
one, ami the agony too great to
be witnessed even by friends. A few
minutes after 11 o'clock the body of
tbe dead senator was carried into the
senate wing of the capitol a.nd laid in
state in the marble room under guard '
the capitol police. The remains were re
moved to tbe senate chamber about one
o'clock and the funeral services began.
They were conducted with all the impres
sivencss and solemnity of the service for
the dend prescribed by the Catholic
church, und were conducted by Bish
op Keiine, assisted by almost twenty
priests.
In the senat?, Friday, the electoral
certificates for the electors for president
of the states of New York aud South
Carolina whs presented and placed on
file. Jlr. Sherman, from the committee
on foreign relations, reported back the
senate bill introduced by him December
20tb, to extend to the North Pacific
ocean the provisions of the statutes for
the protection of fur seals and other fur
bearing animals, and after a brief expla
nation the bill passed. Tbe certificate of
the governor of Louisiana, of his ap
pointment of Donelson Cofl.-ry to fill the
vacancy in the senate caused by the death
of Senator Gibson, was presented and
placed on file. The McGarrahan bill was
under consideration for half an hour, and
after a speech against it by Mr. MiUs, it
went over till Mondav. At 2 o'clock the
anti option bill was taken up, the pend
ing question being an amendment
offered -fty Mr. White, of Lou
isiana, to strike out the last proviso
in 6cction 2. The proviso is that "such
contract or agreement shall not be made,
settled for by delivery or settlement of
, dufference or by any other mode of per
formance or settlement in or upon any
board of trade," etc. This was rejected
jeas, 15; nays, 42 So the proviso is re
tained in the bill. Mr. Vilas moved to
attend the second section by adding the
words, "and does not in good faith in
tend to purcl ase and deliver articles con
tracted to be sold and delivered accord
ing to the terms and requirements of
tucli contracts." He said that the pur
Toso of the amendment was to distinguish
u legitimate transactions from gambling
'Operations. Debate on this amend mett
occupied the remainder of the day's ses
sion, and, without action upon it, went
over.
In lhe senate. Saturday, Mr. Coffery.ap
pointed bv tbe irovernor of Louisiana to
fill the Vacancy caused by the death1 of
tne lau; senator Gibson, was introduced
ly his coli.-ague, Jlr. White, and took
the oath o office. Mr. Wolcott ottered
a resolution it structing the committee on
soreign reiilon3 to inquire what were
the sums thtvave been expended in and
about the commotion of the Nicaragua
canal since the it account was rendered
The resolution , a-tr over till Monday.
The resolution iff ercd Friday by
jlr. Morgan, instructing the com
xnmee un vuiuiuumc to inquire ana re
port the advantages, U anv tnat would
nccruo to -production industries, etc., by
ine .PUcarnKui euip Wos taken up,
and Mr. Morg-m addnd tne 8enate
upon it. At tbe concius.tJU 0f Ajr Mor
gan 's speech: the anti-optic iu Cune up
as a special oraer. dui nrngonism to
it Mr. Wolcott moved to itoCced to the
consideration of the first biu0a tne CHi
endar. A vote showed no quon,. Mr.
bhcrman asata unanimuu ccit,.cnt to
have the vote on the anti-option vm t ik-
ea Wednesday. At a:ou ocicOi ,he
en ate went into executive s8ion
and soon afterward adjourned till Xon
day. "'"-V;- -
tub nocsK.
house, Wednesday,
the bi
kansas. and placed upo
The report upon the measure has not yet
been reported. The house adjourned out
of respect to the late Senator Kenna.
In the house Thursday morning a reso
lution was adopted that at 12:45 o'clock
the house attend as a body the funeral
ceremonies to be conducted in the sen
ate chamber over the remains of the late
Senator John E. Kenna, of West Vir
ginit. In the consideration morning hour
lhe house resumed consideration of the bill
to promote the efficiency of the malitia.
No action was taken, and at 12:45 o'clock
the house, in a body, preceded by the
speaker and sergeant-at-arms, proceed ed
to the senate chamber. Immediately on
returning to its own chamber afbr at
tending tbe funeral services, the house
as a further maik of respect to the mem
ory of the deceased, at 1 :50 o'clock ad
journed. In the hour e, Friday, on motion of Mr.
Culb-Tson, of Texas, Tuesday as sub
stituted for Saturday for the considera
tion of bills reported by the coitmittee
on judiciary. Mr. Richardson, from tbe
committee on printing, reported a concur
rent resolution of the printing of 60,000
copies of the report of the agricultural
depaitmtnt on the sheep industry and on
diseases of cattle for distribution by the
Tn tliA
L nrhiian M vaa 1 DOISOUOUi UrU8. OI
,w rfP,1 from th committee on bankin na consumers are m i
and currency by Mr. Cate, (dein.) of Ar- pWt of the rect.ti,rs
n trtA n anrltr cu mat tuo uuiuu
S'rators nn'J represents ives. lhe reso
lution a agreed to, but it will he some
weeks before copies of tbe work will be
ready for distribution.- Saturday was
assigned for tbe consideration of meas
ures called up by tbe committee on Indi
an affairs. Mr. Beltsboover moved that
the bouse go into committee of the whole
for the consideration oi tne private cal
endar which was rgreed to. The first
billon the calendar was one for the
relief of Hiram Johnson and others,
and the republicans resoited to their fili
bustering tactics and left the house with
out a quorum. After a couple of hours
consumed in a vain attempt to secure a
quorum to vote upon, the democrats be
came irritated, and under the lead of Mr.
Enloe, champion of the Johnson measure,
attemped to force an adjournment. The
t fleet of this would be to vacate the night
sesnon lor the consideration of private
pension bills. The republicans then
came to the fore, and with the help of
some democrats defeated the motion to
adjourn yeas 74, nays 128. Tfce house
then at 4:30 o'clock, took a recess until
8 o'clock, the evening session to be for
the consideration of private pension bills.
The meeting hour of the house Satur
day was devoted to consideration of the
bill to promote tbe ethciency of the mi
litia. No action was taken, and the
bill resumed its place upon the calendar.
The floor w&s then eccorded to the com
mittee on Indian affairs. The first bill
celled up wa3 one appropriating $8,595,
000 to ratify and confirm an agreement
with the Cherokee nation. The agree
ment for which this appropriation is a
consideration provides for the cession by
the Cherokte Indians of Cherokee outh t,
which contains about 8,000,000 acres.
The bill was discussed by Messrs. Peel,
Otis, populist of Kansas; Rock well,
Dingley Helman, Bowers and Pickler
and wa3 passed.
and the house
adjourn-
ed till Monday.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
The Norfolk and Western railroad bill
was passed by the house, was sent over
to the sennte Friday and wns, under the
rules of the senate and without any spec
ial motion, referred to the committee on
the District of Columbia. .
The reports received from the navy de
partment from the government inspector
at Carnegie steel works at Homestead,
Pa., shows that the armor plate manufac
tured there for the new , naval vessels is
quite as good as any turned out by the
establishment before the lockout of last
summer. The plate has stood all the se
vere tests prescribed and the men are
working night and day to till the con
tracts. Senator Kenna's death marks a singu
lar fataliiy nmong members of the senate
during the present congress. There have
now been four deaths among them since
the fifty-second congress wa9 called to
gether a little more than a year ago. First
there was Senator Plumb, who died in
Washington December 20. '1891. Then
Senator Barbour died in this city May
14th last. Senator Gibson died at Hot
SpriDgs, Ark., December 15th last, and
Senator Kenna, making an almost unpar
alleled death record for one con gress.
The Nicaragua Canal Question.
Mr. Morgan introduced in the senate,
Friday, the following resolution : "Re
solved, That thee mmittee on commerce
is instructed to inquire and report to the
senate the advantages, if any, that will
accrue to productions, industries, coast
wise and foreign commerce, immigration
and other interests of the "United States
by means of additional facilities of trans
portation and reduction of cost thereof
that wou'd be afforded by building a
ship canal to connect tbe waters of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Lake
Nicaragua." '
A Pertinent Resolution.
The house adopted Friday afternoon
a resolution which reads: "Resolved,
That the secretary of the interior be di
rected to inform the house whether an
executive order has been issued restoring
tothc pti blic donatio any portion of the
Navajo Indian reservation lying in the
territory of Utah, and, if so, that he
furnish lhe house with a copy of
said order and report what action tas
been taken regarding the same."
The reso'ution refers to the reported find
ing of rich placer gold mines n these
lauds. These alleged discoveries have
only been made public within a short
period. It is Said that the discoveries
were made known to Secret iry Elkins
ahead of the public, and that he proceed
ed, in company with others, to get in the
ground floor by iociiting all the choice
finds. Of course these mines could not
be located or work d legally so long as
they rtmained within the limits of an
Indian reservation.
After the Whiskey Trust.
Representative Burr ws, of Michigan,
has begun an active onslaught on the
whiskey trust. On Friday he introduced
ia the house a long preamble and resolu
tion reciting the newspaper charge that
the trust is makins spirits, I igh wines
and alcohol for use as beverages by the
use of adulterants; -that the trust is in
conspiracy with the rectifiers to that end;
that adulteration, is t fleeted by the use of
which fact retailers
gnorance; that the
law is .thus vio
States revenue is
thus defrauded by the diminution of im
Pnacce; that rectifiers are obliged to
convlme only the j. roduct of tbe trust
QlJdet heavy penalties; that such con
tracts jo restraint of commerce be
tween e stales, wherefore it is resolved
thit a speCiai committee of five members
of the house be appointed to fully inves
tigate and report upon the subject, and
especially nat persons are connected
with th font.
THE CENTRAL ATTACHED
Dy Receivers Haidekoper and Fos'.ei
for Honey Paid Oot.
F. W.lluidtkoser and Reuben Foster,
receivers of the Richmond & D-nviile,
bars obtained from Judge O'Brien, ol
thb supreme cw,aA attachment against
the property of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company, cf Qeorgi, in a uii
to recover $1,213,404 for moneyp aid out
na eipe-Tiea i0r the Use of the defend-
'"V .ve1 "wroad Company, in
aiscnarpng tne 5 cciued interest on de-
oona. an in pay
J"K " me dfrndant, be
!r mber' April. 1.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Holes of .Her Progress aM Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized .
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Dr. Samuel Logan, one of the oldest
and most prominent physicians of the
South, died very suddenly at New Or
leansJTriday, of apoplexy.
The nationally regretted death of Sen
ator Kenna provokes a big fight for the
senatorship in West Virginia. The state
legislature met Wednesday.
The jail at Eelma, Ala., was burned
Tuesday. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $3,
500. Nine prisoners were iccarcerated at
the time, but all were gotten out safely.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special of Wed
nesday says: The citizens of Coal Creek
are about ready to get up in arms again.
Their anger is caustd by the airival at
tbe mines Tuesday of fifty more convicts.
Fire broke out Wednesday night in M.
F. Dunn & Bro.'s stationery and print
ing establishment, New Orleans. The
building was partially saved, while the
stock was a total loss. Loss estimated at
$35,000.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The North
Carolina legislature, Wednesday, unani
mously eleeted James W. Wilson railroad
commissioner for six year3 to succeed him
self. He is now chairman of the com
mission. Five storehouses were burned in the
town of Blackville, S. C, Saturday, and
but for the action of the South Carolina
railway employes in running an engine
close to the spot and throwing a stream
on the buildings, others would also have
been burned.
A Nashville dispatch says: For the
first time in fifteen years the Cumberland
river froze thick Thursday night from
the head of the river all the way to
Nashville. The severest weather known
for twenty years is reported from differ
ent parts of the state.
Wa'dleigh'8 old mill, at Atkins, Tenn
burned Thursday night. It was used as
a lodging house, joe English jumped
from a second-story window and broke
his neck. Tom Ashton was suffocated
while trying to escape by the elevator.
Twenty other lodgers barely escaped
with their lives.
On Friday, a syndicate of Knoxville,
Tenn., men completed the purchase of
10,000 acres of coal land on New River,
Virginia, for which they paid $120,000.
The tract adjoins the land latfly bought
by Drexel & Morgan, of New York, pre
sumably for the Vanderbilts, for which
$800,000 was paid.
Colonel Grant, one of the pioneer resi
dents of Atlanta, Qa., and one whose
loyalty to her every public interest was
one of the prime factors in the city's up
building, died Wednesday. His magnif
icent donation of land to the city for park
purposes leaves an enduring monument
to h s memory in the shape of the L. P.
Grant park.
The first train passed over the new
steel bridge across the Tennessee river at
Knoxville Wednesday. This is the com
pleting gap in the new and comparatively
short line between Atlanta and Louisville
and Cincinnati by Way of the Marietta
and North Georgia rad, the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap and Lou:sville road and
the Louisville and Nashville.
Treasurer Patrick Walsh, of the South
ern Associated tress, lorwarded by ex
press from Augusta, Ga., Wednesday
night a magnificent sterling silver cup to
Adolph S. Ochs, of The Chattanooga
Time?, presented to.him by members of
the Southern Associated Press in recog
nition of his services in perfecting the
organization of this association.
The University of Virginia, at Char
lottesville, has just received a donation
of $60000 ftom Mrs. Lirden Kent, of
Washington, D. C, for the establish
ment of a new chair to be known as the
Linden Kt nt memorial chair of English
literature. The board of visitors ordered
the establishment of the new chair and
Appointed Prof. Charles W. Kent, of the
University of Tennessee, to fill it.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Fri
day says: W. A. Bly, late general pas
senger agent of the Kn' xville, Cumber
land Gap aud Louisville railroad, has
been misd-ig several days. His where
abouts are unknown, but supposed to be
near New Orlen?. Officers of the road
practically adnrt th it he is short in "his
accounts. R ibert Vestal, his nngraph
erand son of a p:ominint family, is also
missing.
A Nashville special says: Governor
Buchanan signed the resolution Si turd ay
authorizing a commit'ee to go to Win
chester, Tenn., the home of Governor
elect Turney, and administer the oath of
office .there, ne said in his message
which accompanied the resolution that
he 'housht this was setting a bad prece
dent, but he did not wmtto s'and in the
way or delay the inauguration of the
sjovernor the people had chosen.
An appeal has been issued by the La
dies' Memorial Association, and the con
federnte camps of Richmond, V., in
behaf of the monument to the private
soldi-r and sailors. There will hortly
be held in this city a memorial bazaar.
In it there will be a table or tent for each
state bearing its name, shield, colors and
motto, and it is earnestly desired that
each state shall assist its own table with
contributions of all kinds.
A special of Friday from Richmond,
Va.f says: Msyor J. Taylor Elyson,
president of the Jeff Davit Monument
Association states that it is probable that
that the remains of Mr. Davis will be re
moved from New Orleans to Richmond
for final interment in the early spring;
that he has received a number of satis
factory letters from tbe c Hectors of the
monument fund and that when tbe
weather opens permanently, anew impe
tus will be given to the scheme.
The bondholders1 committee of the
Georgia Southern and Florida railway
met at Baltimore, Wed n't day, to receive
the report of W. P. Hardee, the account
ant selected to examine into tbe financial
condition of the company. The report
shows that the earnings of the company
have steadily increased, and that the
railroad is the only one in Georgia whose
earnings in 18C2 increased over those of
1891. The bondholders will insist that
the road be sold under the foreclosure.
The Southern Architects in session at
Birmingham, Ala, Wednesday, unani
mously elected L. F. Goodrich, of Au
gusta, president; E. S. Lind, of Atlanta,
vice president; Secretary Tinsley was re
elected. The following board of direc
tors was unanimously elected: D. B.
Woodruff, Macon ; T. H. Morgan, . At
lanta; C. C. Burke, Meapbis; Tom
Wood, Sherman, Tex.; I. H. Maddox,
Birmingham. Augusta, Ga., was unani
mously selected as the place of meeting
next year.
A Raleigh, N. C, special says: The
legislative committee on judiciary, on
Friday decided to make a favorable re
port on a bill intended to put a stop to
lynching. It is important as the first
ever introduced in tbe state, and is cer
tainly etringent. It imposes a penalty of
$500 and imprisonment on any person
engaged in a lynching. It also holds the
authorities of a county responsible if a
lynching occurs. The governor will be
allowed to send a judge and solictors di
rectly to the place wher the lynching
occurs and try any persons concerned in
the affair who may be apprehended.
TO 8E SOLD
To fliA Fata rT tlia flanrtri SkAldfore'
Home as Decided by the Trustees.
The board of trustees cf the Georgia
Soldiers' Home met in Atlanta Thursday
to make final disposition of the -matter.
There were present Col. W. L. Calhoun,
Gen . C. A. Evans, Richard Hobbs. W.
H. Ross, T. L. Massengale, W. D. Ellis,
Dr. Amos Fox, Governor W. J. Northen,
Col. T. L. Langston, Dr. R. D. Spald
ing, Major A. M. Foute and Gen. Phillip
Cook. Colonel Calhoun stated the ob
ject of the meeting. Among other things
he said :
"I never expected, gentlemen,", said
he, "to be subjected to the humiliation of
havinrr to appear before the board of
trustees of the Georgia Confederate Sol
d:er's Home and tell them that the home
had again been repudiated by the legis
lature of Georgia. I could not imagine
such a thing as being possible. When
the home was built the sentiment in favor
of it seemed to be so general through
out the state that it seemed" to us that it
would be most readily and thankfully re
ceived."
"I do not wish to unkindly criticiee
the action of the general assembly, but
for myself I wish to say that the action
of the legislature was very humiliating
tome, and I think a disgrace to the
state. The fact confronts us that tb"e'
home has been refused and stands there
tenantless;
We have the property on our hands
and the object of this meeting is to' de
vise some plan for its final disposition.
Under our charter we have no right to
divert the home from the purposes for
which it was erected without the sane
tion oi a court or equity, or oi tne con
tributors to the fund"
TO BE SOLD.
After an hour and a half discussion
the following resolution was adopted:
"ltesoivea, mat tne board, tnrougn a
committee of five, obtain leave from the
court to sell the soldiers' home' property
and to use the proceeds for the benefit of
ex confederate soldiers of the state of
Georgia, in the discretion , of the board
of trustees."
Col. Calhoun named as the committee
W. D. Ellis, chairman ; Gen. Evans, Gen.
Cook, Col. Hobbs, Major Foute. Col.
Calhoun, upon motion, was added to the
committee, ine committee win rile a
petition with tbe courts as far as possible
and when they nave secured tne proper
authority to do so, they will sell the Geor
gia Soldiers' Home at public outcry. The
committee will hold another meeting at
an early day.
Bid BOSTON BLAZE.
k Number of Large Business Houses
Destroyed with Heary Losses.
Fire broke out Tuesday morning in the
building 207 to 219 Federal street, Bos
ton, occupied by Hecht Bros. & Co.,
Korsbland & Co., Wool and Patterson
Bros., market men. After spreading to
221 Federal street, occupied by Chris
Carvin & Co., liquor dealers, and burn
ing around into bummer street, the fire
was gotten under control.
Amon? the firms burned out ar Pfister,
Vogel & C"., bire wool houe; Genrge
II. Goodhue & Co., wool; White Broa.
fancy leathers; Benjimin F. Thompson
& Co.. leather: Baxter Fruit Comi. any.
basement of Hecht Bros. ; New Englaud
market, on the street floor of Hecht
Bros.; Frank Supee, wool; Charles Or-
ven. hou- rs: Carro Hon cafe, ana Ale-
w -l
Garry Sc Murnhv. liquors.
A tangle of trolh y wires in front of
the Hecht building was an ehment of
great danger to the firemen and impeded
hem very much in their work, lhe to
tal loss by the fire as estimate by tl.e
firms interested is $1,655,000. Five fire
men ere hurt, but nobody was killed or
lataily injured.
A VETERAN NEWSPAPER
to Suspend After Sening Bonanza
Millionaires for Twenty-Are Tears.
A Sm Fra cisco special of Saturday
says: one of the siffna that the bottom
has really dropped out of the great Com-
iurn. ioae is tne telegraphic rder from
xj. yj. .aims, now in New York, to sus
pena the publication of The Vi'giais
vny lemtorui Entenrie. the oldest
Vta
newspaper in Nevada, which for twenty-
uve years nas Deen controlled bv bonanzt
millionaires and the bank
of California.
It was the organ of
T .
these B,eo
- the naner
pic. xor over ten years
n;
tas not paid expenses. The EnternHae
i i a. i . - i
uu me nonor oi serving as a kindergar-
aen lor most or the nottd California
writers. With the exception of Bret
tiart all have served on this Nevada pa
per. Hark Twain. Jmnnin lf;n. mnA
Dan de Quille were reporters io the early
uays, ana some oi i wain's best stories
first saw the light in The Enterprise.
: Blalae Resting Ejy.
A Washington special says: Another
almost miraculous and unexpected im
provement in the condition of Mr. Blaise
occurred early Tuesday morning. Dr.
Johnson reports that Mr. Blaine rested
fairly well and u in so immediate dan
ger of derth.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Tie Hews of tie fori! CculeM Mo
Pilhy amfl Pointed Faraojaplis.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The St. Louis the oldest hostelry in
Dulutb, Minn., was totally destroyed by
fire Friday. The total loss is estimated
a ? 100. 000. with an insurance of halt
that amount.
The trial of Hugh Derapsey, district
master workman of the Knights of Labor;
J. M. Davidson and Robert Beatty,
charged with poisoning non-union work
men in the Homestead steel mill during
last August, began at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, Thursday, in a crowded court
room.
Two firemen were caught under falling
wans at a final! fire in Kensington, a
suburb cf Chicago, Saturday morning.
une named Stephen Morgan was instantly
Kiued and James Cunningham iatniiy in
jured. At another fire one,of tbe men
fell through an elev&tor thaft and was
Killed.
A St. Paul, Minn., special savs: The
temperature Saturday ranged all the way
irom twelve degrees below zero to twen-
iy-eignc Deiow. All anncesoia pomis
rave had the coldest day of the winter.
It was thiity degrees below zero at 'Elk
river Saturday morning, and at several
northern Minnesota points forty Deiow
was registered.
A special of Thursday, from Fort
Smith, Aik., says: The table hns been
computed of reports ot cotton at various
neighboring points for the past two years.
lhey show that the total receipts for leys
at eleven points in Arkansas and Indian
Territory were 51,617 bales. For the
previous year at the same points the re
ceipts were 122,201.
A special of Wednesday to the New
York World from Uvalde. Ttx.. enys
Catarino Garza, tbe revolutionary agita
tor, after eluding the Uuited States and
Mexican autboricies in search of him for
months, has returned to the Rio Grande
frontier and is in person organizing band-
that have of late been springing up
among the cSrral.
Over a quarter of . a million dollars
worth of property was destroyed by fire
in seventy minutes at Chicago Wednes
day morning. The fire was ia the five
storv stone front bnildirur-at-Tfiii to 781
riaistead street, occupied as a dry goods
store. The establishment contained 800
employes and was one of the largest dry
goods stores on the west side.
Wednesday morning fire broke out in
the block occupied O. M. Sheldon's
drug store and Thomas Dealy's meat
market, at Chateaugav, Franklin county,
N. Y., and almost the entire business
portion of the town on North Main street.
comprising fifteen business houses, was
destroyed. The loss will be $150,000.
The thermometer was 26 below zero at
the time.
Cushing academy, at Ashburnham.
Mass., a noted educational institution
and preparatory school, was burned
Thursday morning, and the loss on the
building is fl60,0u0; insurance $ 90, 000.
The institution has a fund of f 100,000
and a new building will be at once erect
ed. Two hundred and twenyt-five stu
dents escaped without injury. The fire
originated in the chemicals in the labor
atory.
A Washington special' says: Indica
tions Thursday evening were that Mr.
Blaine a condition has taken another un
favorable turn. At 6:25 o'clock mes
sengers were hastily dispatched for both
Drs. Johnson and Hyatt, Mr. Blaine's at
tending physicians. Young James G.
Blaine was also quickly summoned. Dr.
Johnron remained- twenty minutes but
Dr. Hyatt did not leave the house at all.
lhe physicians are as usual non-com
mittal.
In the Wyoming state penitentiary at
Laramie, WednesdMy night, six desperate
characters were beinc brought to their
cell rooms, when one of thtm attacked
Warden Briggs, who was standing at tht
doorway. The rest of tbe convicts
joined in the assault and badly beat tbe
wnrden. Two iail cuards heard tbe row
ad came to the warden's relief with
Winchesters. They "opened fire on the
convicts, mortallv wounding one and
shooting another. The four remain
mg convicts returned to thtir cells sub
dued.
While Sheriff Lre was conveying four
handcuffed prisoners across the river st
Cummins, Ark., Thursday, Ed Taylor,
one oi the prisoners, caused the boat to
capsize while in the middle of the stream.
Taylor and his partner, Walker Wooden,
were drowned. The sheriff and the re-
luaiumg prisoners naa a narrow escape
ii . .
irom a waiery crave, lavlor had sworn
that he would never be taken to the
workhouse alive, and in carrying out his
"w
threat caured
the death of himself and
Wooden.
The city natural gas trust of 'PindJav,
u., nas s nut on tbe supply! of
gas to all the glas factories
. r i a M . t..
tones id town, me auinotuies gave no
tice that the companies could have thirty
j r -V. i. :t J
uajs m wuicu iu cuauge 10 on or json e
other kind of fuel, and all except (hree
ot the eighteen compinies paia no atten
tion to it. They claim that they were
induced to come to Findlay by offers of
free natural gas for fuel.' and thai the
I city cannot lawfully take tbe gas awsy
I 'rorn mem. -a. mjc uniuwc u nuu wui
probably result,
A Trenton, N. J., special says: Chan
cellor McQi'l filed his opinion Wednes
day on the app'ication for a receiver for
the Central Railroad Company of New
Jersey, deciding every point in favor of
the state and ordering the sppointment
of a receiver, w bo is, however, not to be
named until tbe master reports wbetbsr
there has been any change in tbe status
of the case iccc it was argued. Thu
provision is made because the counsel for
the Central have asked pennbsion to
show tht the company have cut loose
from the Reading coal combine.
A Topeka, Ksn f special says: The
supreme court decided Friday afternoon
that it had no jurisdiction in the man
damus proceedings instituted by the re
publicans to compel the secretary of state
to hand the election retmrns over to
George L. Douglass, republican speaker.
Tbe bond of State Treasurer-elect Biddle
has net yet been made complete, and no
attempt has been made to have it ap
proved before the populist executive
council. The republican treasurer is still
in full possession and has been compelled
to reopen his accounts, which he had
closed to turn over to his successor. The
muddle that the legislature Has bren
placed in has frightened those who had
already signed Riddle's bond, and they
are withdrawing their names.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
The Way It Will be Announced to the
House and Senate.
Here is how the vote will stand when
footed up by the tellers and announced
by Vice President Morton to the joint
session of the house and senate:
C
STATES.
Cuj
Alabama. ...
Arkansas . .
California.
Colorado. . .
Connecticut
Delaware ..
11
8
8
6
3
4
13
24
Florida ....
Georgia ....
Idaho
Iilinoia ....
Indiana
Iowa
15
13
Kansas ,
iventnekr ,
10
13
Louisiana
8i
Maine ,
Maryland ,
M'iRsachusetta. . .
Michigan ......
15
Minnesota
Misai-sippi
Missouri
Montana.
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire.
New Jersey
IP
New York...
North Carolina..
North Dakota . . .
11
3
'Ohio
J
2
Oregon
Pennsylvania. . . .
uhode Inland . . .
South Carolina. .
Sonth Dakota . . .
4
Tennessee .......
V2
Teiaa .
Vermont
Virginia
JO
12
Washington.....
West Virginia...
6
Wisconsin.......
12
Wyoming .......
Total ..
280 144 20
ine vote oi tne states raaiKea with a
are divided. In Michigan tbe electors
rtrt , 1 m V a
re chosen by congressional districts, and
tbe division cf the whele electoral vote
of 14 bit ween Cleveland and Harrison
was expected: but in Uamorm and
Ohio, where the state plan of choosincr
(lectors ODtams, me aivision oi tne vote
a 1 a a " m .
was a surprise, and was caused by igno
ranee oi the ballot law on tbe part of the
voters.
SENATOR KENNA PASSES AWAY.
He Represented West Virginia in
the
United States Senate.
Senator John E. Kenna, of West Vir
ginia, died in Washington uuy at three
o'clock Wednesdny morning of heart
disease, from which he had been for some
vears an acute sufferer, so much so that
for long intervals he bad Ixien compelled
to abandon bis duties as senator and to
forego all mental exertion.
Two summers az". with a view of di
verting his mind from his physical ail
ments. he established an smtteur boat
builder's shop and busied himself in the
mechanical operation of constructing a
boat. He partially recovered and re
sumed his seat in the senate and made
one memorable speeen, wmcn was re
a a a
markable, both lor its length and its
viiror. but soon suffered a relapse, from
which he never rallied.
SKETCn OF JOHN KEKXA'b LIFE.
John E. Kenna, of Charleston, Ivana-
wah county. WVt Virginia, was ix.rn at
Valcoulon, Virginia (now West Virginia),
April 10, 1843. lie lived and worked ou
a farm. lie entered the Confederate
army as a private soldier, aud w wun
ded in that service in 1864, and was sur
rendered in Shreveport. Louisiana, in
1865.
He afterward attended St. Vincent's
college. Wheehnff. and studied law with
Miller and Quarner, at Charleston.
He was admitted to tbe bar June 20,
1870. and has continued to practice law
from that time; he wts elected prosecut
ing aitorney for Kat awah county on tbe
democratic ticket in 1872, and setved
until January 1, 1877; in 1875 he was
elected by tbe bar in tbe representative
counties under statutory provisions to
hold the circuit courts of Lincoln and
Wayne.
He was elected to the forty-fifth, frty-
sixth and forty-eventh congress s, and
has been elected to the forty-eiath o-n-eres.
when he was elected to the United
States senate as a democrat, to succeed
Henry O. Davis, democrat, and took his
seat December 3. 1833. and was re
elected.
His term of service would have expired
March 8, 1893.
GAS MAINS BURST
Aad Cause Great Soffertas; and
tress In an Ohio Town.
Dls-
A special of Thursday from St. Mary's.
Ohio, say With the thermometer bug
ging ine zero mars: ana tne natural gas
pressure down to nothing, there came ibe
startling report that the main, which
leids into the field, bad burst from the
intense cold Thursday afternoon and shut
off tbe supply altogether, thus leavine
the inhabitants of the city at the mercy
of this frigid weather. The suffering
a
caused oy tnis unexpected emergency is
indescribable, ss there is neither wood
nor coal ia sufficient quantities to be had
m ue ciiy.
Specie ITovemenL
lux ports ox specvi from the port of New
York for tbe wk 4iB liun,n OtL.'
toiu idu i,vti,vuj in Sliver. OI th
gold enlj two million .Uppe4.So,d.,
America.
Impor s of specie during th.
VEVri .Ml.,??1.W4fof which
s . . v.
114.300 was old and $I,7.H surer.
CRISIS. IN; MICE,
m mni 'ffiiislrf Eess Owins .to
Dillerences In - tbe CaM t
Intense Excitement la "Wv A new
Cabinet to be fonne4. .
A special cable dispatch, Tues
day, from Paris, says;- Tbe Jfreecn
ministry has resigned "Owir to
the differences in the aoinei on
the arrest of the ex-Minister of Public
Works Baihut, and other matters. The
gTeaCest excitement prtvaili snd people
throng the streets Tho police are out
in force dispersing the crodc. Prcm
ident Car'not has charged Mr. Rlbot with
the duty of reconstructing a ministry.
It is openly charged that 'the President
and M. Ribot are not in earnest ia rte
Panama prosecutions and have no inten
tion of brinciog the bribe-takers to trial
and that the prosecution of DeLessepa,
Fontaine, Cotton and E ffet will be noth
ing more than a farce.. ,
AT THE CAEESET METIfQ. s
At the cabinet council held in lhe
Ely see, Tuesday, Premier Uiboi annoueo-
ed to President Carnot that he ana nis
collesgues recognized that it was nec
essary to reform the cabinet, ine min
isters thereupon collectively presented
thcr resignations to President Carnot ana
be charged M. Kibot s st itcd, witn re
constructing the ministry..
' THE JTKW CABINET." "
The new cabinet-organized by Ribot
is as follows: Ribot. premier and min
ister of the interior; DeveUt. forcicn af
fairs; Tirard, finance; Bourgeois, justice;
General Loizillon, war; Burdeau, colon
ies and marine; Dupuy, instruction;
N'ger, agriculture; Siegfrited, commerce;
Victte, works. The most notable aii-
ference between this cabinet 'ana us pre
decessor is shown by the absence of D
Frc3 cintt and Loubet.
CONDITION OF TRADE.
The Business Ontlook as Reported by
R. (j. Dun & Co.
Dun & Co. 'a weekly review of trade
pnvs: ine pause in business lnciuento
ti e holidays seems to last longer thisyenr
than usual, but the severe weather has
given a powerful stimulus trade la
avy boots and shoes and woolens, and
preparations ior me. sp log business are
going on actively wilh the utmost couft-
lence. In spite of renoris that more gold
will go abroad, and in spite of'unccrtain-
ei regarding legislation on tbe mjiuy
question, the business world seems lo
aned to believe that there will be no
I crious financial embarrasmenf, csrccially
s the average oi commercial inueote'i-
i ess is remarkably low und failures ..
been comparatively unimportant. . 5 I
..v...-j,w-.; .J -
though it is somewhat more deoresac J
but in other important brancaes a dlslir
improvement is noticed in pre para UcJL
far thm anrlnor trade.
, D .
TBE COTTON MARKET.
Speculation in cotton has been 1
dming, tbe price declining a quarte
though receipts, tbis week sre 4
bales less and expotts 40,000 more
a vear ago. .burger estimates or tne
use now sent out. s -
The treasury has been disbursing free
ly since January 1st and very Urge re-
turns of money from the interior have
caused lower rates here, but ' foreign ex
change advances and exports of gold are
expected. Meicbandise imports con
tinue fully up to last year's figures, while -exports
from New York for two weeks
have declined $5,900,000,- or over 80 per
cent. It is evident that no larger ship
ments of securities or withdrawal of
foreign capital will be needed during"
the coming months to cause some outgo .
of gold. ; . "
Business failures during tbe past week
number for tbe United. State 280 and
Canada twenty.
THE POPULISTS RECOGNIZED
In the Orgrantzatioa of the r Kaaxas
House of Ilepresentatlres.
A Topvk spccUl says: The crisis in
tbe legislative confl ct tnat basbeeo wag
ing betweei tho republicans and popu
lists since tbe dsy the legisbiture assem
bled has finally b-n reabed. Tbe pop-,
ulifct house has been r jognizjd by both,
th- govern r and the senate sod the pop
ulist tite government i in a 'petition to
turn the repub'icms ort. Tbe only way
to pass theiTJis wttbout serious. trouble
is tbe acceptance by o th s drs of totne
c&tnpiomtte oicnsur and that now seesr
. a
the remoust p ssibili'y. A
Theonly stp wanting Jitiagp i
sttuatioa to a crjts a as lhe rerogo
of the rxpulUt bouse by tb senate, t j
ter in rxtenrted debate io the latter hi
u til rrt w ttajk ffol rot - rtfSksvt!i An 7
rt-ndt d. . lhe fee in r? f tha hnti if
j au rra'aBw m v j w 'iiibu n hi
marks mde by both speakers wh(
ril in nf thm am ate i innt
Douylas, tbe republican.
stid .tne pnncip;e oi se,
.
rn'-nt was on trial now is it
go and it would tr umpns t
did then. Duosmore Mid I '
a att ' . t a 1
uou baa Deen igm iv fv;
recoenizei. end na&uower.i
the swnrd, Could Uicsoltf
h s bitterness attcnxrfe j
uj iue leiuers oi earn S'd
a compronue. Both hou
to 4 o'clock Hon tsy alteTftV
to give ample time for f ST
negotfstiui.f. The croverrvi
toe trnmiston of his nvt
same purpose. fi
A BRIDGE OP
Formed at Xiarara rallsjV J
Pedestrians WfgWv
A dispatch of Thursday irom 0'
I Oot..
wub r . imp!et. bri"l of to W'lK
I inrr frn. . " . . ' ... ;
hn.d , w lZlZ V'
aaa so solid thu
crossed it. Th:s is th flr.f tUii tutv
rcrrrai BBWUUM MM-.
dred tear, that t w , ton
r
r
7
frozen over.
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