Atlanta Constitution, The (Newspaper) - February 19, 1894, Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA VOL. MONDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1894. PRICE FIVE ARE DIVIDED Hoi State Bank Tai Soald Ba f BEEN REPORTED of the Committee Want an Unconditional LE OTHERS THINK DIFFERENTLY Will Ba Kept Before tzo Housa Until Disposed of. Washington D. February newspapers that are but to the state bank tax plank have been en- why that has 1 to the Among that Mr. of the in voted the each A majority of the repeal this are divided as to how it should be Ally all the democrats are in an unconditional while a them want a conditional of New whose vote the reporting of tlie to the saj s he is of this but wants yl that notes lor general 10 under supervision of Such other the as Judge and Major do not want the oral t to have anything to do state MnK They want it i by the as as the silver seigniorage and two or three bills art if thf this be taken up the will ample opportunity st to adopt it. Its adoption entirely upon whether the of the house will stand on the it upon they were IE the state bank tax be member of the Georgia to the repeal of this and i and every one of as well as all of the southern rote for it. me of the eastern members have 11 righting silver all and who have been fighting every effort to increase currency of will join witn in fighting it. Whether they sufficient strength to defeat it re- to The two sides seem to almost equal difficulty in the way ia that Mr. eland has never seen ht in any of his to say anything one way or 'the r-r this plank of the If Cleveland come out in advocacy it could be put through congress the slightest But his silet ce aken to that he opposed to tne cuckoos of the house to fight it lie The following correspondence explains it- February 15, L. F. M. An impression prevails a certain portion of the Grand in the event of a decision to hold the encampment in in the reception tendered those who wore would not be the purpose of showing to the of the leading northern papers that sere nc reasonable ground for such it is desired to have from a. statement which will serve to show true feeling of your people on the you do me the kindness you will be rendering your people valuable service and a ry truly JOHN L. House of February L. Con- of the i instant is I aware that much north in the of the people the Let Assure you that the Grand Army of the people never had a more fuh welcome in any city or among people than they will receive in I hope people will determine to go that they may see for -N and one good it no acquaintance closer between the people that Uae blue and F. including one or two re- garding the business for the coming shall go right he in his hearty as we have been going until a quorum votes upon the tion of closing debate and remains until the vote on the passage the is will that Mr. was I think we shall have a quorum with us certainly by But whether or he with something like grim determination in his will go right and the will be This last statement was in response to Governor chairman of the tee on who had expressed the opinion that Mr. Eland would not ceed in securing the of a rum favorably disposed toward his said Speaker have only been nine votes of a quorum in the house this In that number were nine populists and eight Those eight republicans will become I am the is before the house for its many days tho Bland will cupy this of be de- finitely stated but its supporters dently expect that it will be out of the way by Tuesday at the In answer to a Question why the committee on rules was not asked to bring in an fixing time for taking a Mr. Bland explained that under existing con- ditions such a proceeding would be we get a quorum he couldn't adopt the and when the quorum is at we won't need an After the to coin the seigniorage of the treasury silver bullion has been dis- posed of. Representative chairman of the committee on will ask the house to take up the report in the of O'Neill vs. from the eleventh dis- of a is the and the by a straight party has recommended that a democrat and former member of be given the The speaker Ins stated that he favors action upon this subject next in but Chairman of the appropriations will an- motion with the fortifications appropriation unless Representative of asks to have the pension appropriation taken Mr. O'Neill is chairman of the subcommittee in charge of that Mr. Sayers said am getting a little bit anxious about our and although I promised Speaker Crisp to let the elect on case up last in case the Bland was out of I think I must now in- sist upon having at least one of the bills disposed of. We have five upon the dar all good and I want them well on wav to the The committee has Inade an excellent record for promptness S getting them ready for but I want to supplement that record with one as good for getting them out of it is to be the election bills that will follow free sugar i Tlie views of 1he people are beginning to a decided impress upon is stronger today than it has been In with You will find that the Win pass the house this rge Though neither 1 Cleveland nor Carlisle is in favor that filibustering nave resorted to by some nearly all the defeat the will go through more than of crats of the Tax was fought m the when comforted themselves with the 11 be defeated in the the latter body by a large fuch as Mr. Utterly opposed to is ready to t- il- Jt the most of the senators the of the The the well as It. the tax in all manner of The was A cent a something over The income i that The tax if they finance committee to l they could based thls belief on Upon be without it and then of lit be tho tree y the an income tax is 5 to income tax will large in 1: the honse a at CONGRESS Ivn Be n the Disposed Of February 18.-Ther7 nt prospect of a variation 2 followed by the house Mr. Bland has Speaker support in his tn before the all be disposed of in some adjournment on the conversing with several per the is to fought tho committee standing in the of raking no recommendation on the t TMs it is decided upon because of the ab- solute inability the committee to arv on the Question would be Senators the surar interests of southern and the and sorghum nf northwest reluctant no hope now of anv favorable in but they still threaten a in the In tariff can be matters will probably engross to the exclusion of other Although the newspapers have got con- ahead of the state department in the publication of President Dole's letter to Minister its transmission to con- gress tomorrow in connection with Mr. reply will certainly spring a 21 embers ot the committee on tions are preparing to speak in the light of the information gathered by the tion just The supposition that the committee's report will be submitted to the senate within the next ten days tends to fasten the attention of the sanate upon this subject and expectancy as to the position Mr. Morgan will The resolution of Stewart denying the authority of the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds the provisions of the resumption which was lost sight of during the business of two or three days still remains undisposed and may be made IN His Friends Call bnt Most of Them Were Tamed Brooklyn v February 18.-John T McKane passed a quiet day in the mond street Throughout the day merous friends called to see but most of them were turned A few bers of the board of supervisors called and were to see their ex-president pro in the warden's During thf afternoon ex-Judge Troy Lawyers Roderick and Glendenning called and were in consultation for some tirne with Mr. McKane The ex-king of Cones island appeared to be in excellent spirits and did not seem a bit Ho laughed heartily over the printed in one of the New York morning in wnich It was that friends would attempt to rescue him while he was being taken to court HP will bp sentenced by Justice Bartlett at 10 o'clock a. m. XO MAX TAKE Was the Text Rev. Anna Shaw eel February National American Woman's Suffrage Association held religious services this Rev Anna H. Shaw preached a sermon in which she appealed to women to assert their rights as given by but withheld by custom and Mrs. Shaw also read a scripture lesson from the third chapter of the book of Revelations and preached the eleventh verse of that no man take thy Julia Ward Howe and Elizabeth Yates in the will be elected for the coming Mrs. Gets Her February interesting case has been reported to the house oy the committee on war which re commends that Mrs. Flora A. Darling who was arrested in New Orleans n Lv the military authorities while under a safe conduct N. P. be awarded Mrs. Darling was the wife of the erate brigadier Edward I. and was a New Hampshire worn in. She had gone to New Orleans to attend her husband during his last Illness starting to return home when TPn thousand dollars In confederate in the notes of Louisiana and Tennessee and valuable jewelry which she were Mrs. was for but the committee cut the confederate sustaining claim for the state bank notes and General Takes nn February the prise of his physicians and Early left his and the circuit of the city on the car Despite il accident of and tld turn ml is f I AGAINST Conmel Taking mony at THEY SHOW SBE HEAVILY And Stood as the Bride in a Mock SHE RECEIVED MEM OF BAD REPUTATION And Took Late at James Bodes Educated Her on a to Become His February that the date of trial ot the celebrated case has been fixed for March at the taking of testimony has commenced in earnest in before Judge who is Attorneys W. G. of and K. P. of this sent Miss while Colonel is represented by Messrs. John T. Charles H. Desna ridge and Dr. R. J. Catesby a testified that he knew Pollard when she moved to Bridgeport with her who was a saddle and She was at that time a little girl four or live years and he believes that her age at the present time could not be than three or From the time he saw her he knew her continuously until she was a grown-up young lady or years He being at a party at a house In the neighborhood of At that party there was a mock marriage between Miss Pollard and brother to Ira of They had all been drinking and were ty He knew that Julian but could not say whether Miss pollard was drunk or The witness baid she had like whisky and It was about 12 o'clock when Juhar and Miss Pollard were taKen upstairs and put to He did know whether lian stayed there all night or but he was to have gone home with but after waiting a considerable time for Julian he went by arriving at his home some time in tte Hawkins further said that Miss Pollard at that time was a tive and that the talk about Madeline in the neighborhood was that she was John a former resident farmer at the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic and when James Redes was in charge of the ground cultivated by that was next James Rodes told him that he was using his money to educate line had promised to become his wife when she finished her On this account Rodes was always hard up and wanted to money from the witness that he might give it to Miss Rodes was continually ter him for was then a man about lifty years of whose home is in and who is there by the testified that when she was a girl she lived in where her parents and she was taken into the home and family of Mrs. an aunt of Miss In the same year Mrs. Stout removed to and she went While there Miss lard visited them and remained about three She Was a. Rapid Madeline's conduct while at the house of her aunt caused frequent family dis- and occasion her aunt called Madeline into her room and her She received many young men for visitors whose reputation was She took rides them at often staying out as late as 10 or 11 Her conduct became such that the bors talked about and she bore the tation beng her actions frequently in the presence of gentlemen as to excite Madeline Pollard terwards visited and there she bore the reputation of being a rapid While at the residence of Mrs. Ed made an in- decent remark to the witness in the ence of Miss which the latter did not The witness stated that she left the homp of Mrs. Stout In 1877. She afterwards moved to Lexington and en- tered upon a public and led that life until about eight or ten years John Brand testified that he knew Miss and that he first met her at the house of Lena who occupied a small tenement in Third who was the reputed mistress of James then farmer at the lunatic Lena house was known as a ble When Brand was admitted into the house a woman that Miss Singleton told him afterwards was Miss Pollard ran out of the room and Some days afterwards he called and this time was introduced to Miss Pollard by an- other whose name he could not He afterwards saw Miss Pollard at the same place in conversation with On one occasion he called there with Jim Rodes and Miss Pollard was there He did not call frequently after for the aSd Rodes out about his visits to Lena He understood from Rodes that he was Miss or would educate and that after she completed her education he was going to marry After that time he saw Miss In 1885 he frequently took Miss Pollard buggy would pick her up on the take her several miles in the try and bring her putting her out upon the never taking her to her which Tie said he never knew HP had to quit taking her for was he was a ous On cross-examination he was asked if he had ever said anything improper to Miss He answered that he might done so. DOUBLE 3It RDER AT A One of the Killed Two Men and Cnt the February At a wedding in county day a large among those present being Daniel of Carroll after the wedding ceremony Slaughter passed near an eld man who seized his hand and made some re- Slaughter spoke roughly and was told to leave the He did but in a few minutes The friends of the old man were angry and a peacemaker ored to keep them while at the same time he told Slaughter to keep denly Slaughter sprang at John Bare and stabbed him to tho Bare fell dead and Slaughter made an attempt to again stab but the bride seized his She was cut in the hand and arm and Slaughter dashed for the On the way he stabbed Edward killing him and then He was captured two miles There threats of but he was safely taken to jail at He claims some of the crowd struck him in the The Fatally i February Freight and work train on the Richmond and Danville railroad collided nsar Profits neer Jl. Grant had both Being through the He died in the Both engines and several ears were badly ed. The flagman of the work train failed to do his GERMAN Protest Against the Commercial February 1894, by the United The agrarians rallied their thousands in Berlin yesterday to make their final protest against the man commercial The tion was successful from the party point of as the assemblages were enormous and The agrarian league had spent much money in preparing tor the Nobody could doubt that the speakers were in deep They felt that both party and national interests were imperiled by the treaty and they argued with all the force of their the expectation of de- feat was apparent in the The as well as the public at do not longer doubt but that the treaty will be ratified by the Even the realize that their op- position will be The one question now will make up the ment How They Will In the lobby the consensus of opinion is that the national the radicals and the social democrats will vote solidly for the The clericals are expected to di- vide their but the majority will go with the The free conservative vote will be Some conservatives are likely to abstain from the to lead the opposition to the Newspapers are spreading the familiar rumors of a deal between the government and the Chancellor Caprivi is said to have ised the restoration of a Catholic ment in the ministry of public worship in exchange for clerical This report is Caprivi has given no pledges to the As the question at issue is an economic the clerical deputies will vote independently of party pressure or intrigues of the A study of the Russian concessions in the treaty is ing its This fact has been im- pressed upon the agrarians and has their They know that if they should defeat the the ment could and would now appeal to the country with a certainty of complete tri- umph in the great industrial The result of such a. triumph he a further restriction of the protective policy in many and the agrarians shrink from the Besides what it actually the treaty raises expectations of It Is believed that the two governments have an understanding which points to the re- duction of Russia railway traffics and a. re- call of the German decree forbidding the imperial bank to grant advances on sian Last Wednesday's debate in the Prussian lower house has widened the breach be- tween the and the The have given up hope of accomplishing through the currency commission anything more than a few in- reforms likely to increase the of silver this hope may be vain for the government declared re- cently in the Prussian upper houee that no great increase of the silver circulation was Ill Treatment of The Augusberger published Friday several letters from the African who confirms the stories as to 11- treatment of negroes the The natives employed there m the official Kallenberg are lashed for the slightest In instances that came under his personal black soldiers got 200 strokes consciousness were carried m a pitiable condition to their August the made a powerful attack In the reichstag last Friday upon the administrations in the He exhibited whips of erous which were used in punishing the Vice Governor of the he had enforced tions that every native must make a laam whenever a German passed him If sitting or reclining when the German the native must spring to his feet in time to make the Prince von Arenberg told the committee on estimates he had decided a trading m several other thp colonial administration he ff military and bureaucratic Chancellor von Caprivi deprecated the savage attacks upon the officials in the Judgment should be reserved he until the accusations against the officials should have been proved or proved by the government The Upon Bebei hoUy and made a scorching review of his Colonial tHe the debate excited the deepest interest IN AIR of Feet Above the Waters of tlie Tennessee A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT A Cable of the Aerial Line Suddenly Snaps in Two AND ONE PASSENGER IS KILLED By the End o' the Cable Crushing the End cf the Thrilling Near with increased legs on and his Inquiries were made at the foreign office yesterday as to the report that the V protest The report was flatly S ROA of such a wal Another report is that the chiefs of tne metropolitan police forces will mpet in London to agree upon international the story that London is the center or anarchic They sav trat when the necessity a suspect ran DP shadowed more easily in London T- An European The hoi K 1s? was assured also by a high police that no posal for international anarchists had been made recently by any TIG women of and the have formed a committee to give a present on next The present will consist of an illuminated and eighty bottles of old wine from tnp Dr. H. of in a letter from last said that the was becoming TO RESCUE THEIR The Miners Worked to Get to the En- tombed February cuing party at Gaylord mine worked ily all during the day and succeeded in making rapid The work of ging and timbering is being pushed with the greatest possible and it is now believed that there will be no further Superintendent who is In charge of the afternoon is of the opinion that if no unforeseen obstacle inter- if not all of the men will be dead or within the next eight The pastors in almost every church in Plymouth alluded in touching during services to the that has brought gloom and distress so many Plymouth and urged that hand of charity extended to those who are in such dire need of February mer Blooming rail and merchant mills of the Pennsylvania Steel up The for a full week are Bailey's in after a suspension of two will rename operations tomorrow February About a mile below on the is high known foi i years Cherokee but more recent y called Longstreet The bluff and hill behind it is owned by the Unaka Park which planned to establish a pleasure ground The river at that point is of a mile broad and very The bluff is 325 feet above the but the opposite bank is only about twenty feet As a means of transit from the north to the south side of the river the park company has rigged up a unique contrivance called an aerial cable Two heavy wire are stretched across the river four feet with both ends firmly fastened in the On these cables is a car six feet wide and twenty feet long To the top of the car running wheels are traveling on the The top of the car is somewhat like the noor of a car turned upside to the car is another cable which runs a pulley on the bluff and is wound around a drum in the engine house on the north side of the The tive of the road is like that of an in- cable A suspended car is equipped with automatic brakes and thus the conductor and engineer can control it. These details are necessary to understand the for the whole contrivance is and is the only passenger line in the United The Cable This afternoon the car was running as usual and a large number of passengers had been carried About 4 ock six people entered the including one young The trip was made safely until the car was two or three feet of the when a loud popping sound was in the engine house and pulling cable began to run out with great The engineer was not much for hp thought the brake would stop the which it did within thirty or forty feet ol the The proper forethought had not been given the action of the small This of and the weight of cable was pulling it through the pulleys with great The cable IP to prevent slipping and great flares of name shot out around the Suddenly there was a crash and the car was seen to rock from side to side and then the saw the planks shoot out and down as if the car was falling to pieces The broken end of the cable had struck the end of the car and knocked it in. When the smoke from the burning tar haC cleared away it was seen that tne car was at an angle of at least 45 degrees and thai the passengers clinging to the window the sides and the upper end of the car with the energy of Their sition was most for they were pended over the river at a height of not less than 200 The Work ol The employes of the company pulled themselves together as quickly as shouting to the passengers keep up their they jumped m a across the river and the precipitous appearing soon at the other end of the bearing a long coil of One end was thrown over the ble and slid down to the It was then doubled over the to the in the was a larger rope and a block and When this had boen pulled up to the car the work of was A loop was made and a foot in it four of the passengers reached the boat in Oliver But a man and woman were and a negro man stepped in the loop to bring them When he reached the car it was readily seen that the horrors were not ail A body was handed out that was limp and It was Oliver a young lawyer and of this In his temple was a horrible wound and his face was battered and He died before he could be brought to the Miss who had accompanied him on the was rescued and was the coolest person in the A boy the Hugh was also wounded by the trailing Examination of the parted cable leads some to believe that it had been but this belief is not shared by a great many This is the second accident on this the other not being The matter was investigated by a. who returned a verdict that the accident was due to negligence of the com- HARVEY COMMITTED For a LOUR Time the Was Xot Generally February Suit to collect a debt brought before a justice of the peace here a day or two ago brought out testimony that settles beyond question the fact that the late J. W. vey committed suicide as the finale of a life drama stranger than Harvey was one of the pioneers of the marble business of He lived with his wife in this city for many One day they quarreled and separated and soon after- wards Harvey claimed he never gally married and married another woman The wife went into the courts and a very sensational legal battle was waged He made a voyage to England to collect idence and spent money lavishly to win his After a long battle he lost and wife No. 1 was declared lawfully It was a genuine cause celebre in afterwards he his friends of a. broken as he was most de- attached to wife No. 2. Many said it was but in some way the ter was hushed up and the truth did not come Just before he made his trip he loaned a Knoxville man fearing the dangers of had the note made payable to wife No. 2. The money was but the note was not Then suit was brought by personal friends ol dead who that they had letters written the day his death telling them he would the nest Halm Brought New February James J. the man who is charged with stealing in negotiated bonds from his Mrs. and also ROeo worth of diamonds from his wife in in city yesterday in the cvr The de- and their prisoner left thit morning for Hahn was arrested in Guatemala capital of and it was with much difficulty that the authorities of Mississippi succeeded in ting the Guatemalan minister to promise to have Hahn surrendered to an American Forty thousand dollars worth of bonds and the jewelry were recovered by the FIGHT A Pistols Were Fired and Chairs The Cause of the February The bitter war that has been raging in the First colored Baptist church of this city broke out anew this morning and a general fight with chairs and pistols lowed an attempt to read a The row started over the insurance the church which was ed some months The better educated members feared to trust the money to the Elder tried to have Purdy fired on account of some very shady Purdy had the majority of the and holds The members who tried to oust him were fired out of the church and have since been trying to have a which lias been refused They enlisted the white pastors and tried to get the request ot these pastors read to the This petition suggested Today Purdy refused to let the petition be read and after the one of the ex- a prominent negro Taylor G. tried to tt The drew chairs on them and began the fight which waxed hot and three shots were one of which struck An- drew Bishop on the Scott a leading negro was down oa the floor with three men on top of when the shots were fired everybody There were ten arrests and the hearing of the cases tomorrow will be At one time about everybody in the house had a chair drawn on some one One sister went out of the window with a chair hung over her carrying sash and Another when fainted while lifted into the patrol wagon and was leit CASES Creditors of the Richmond and ville Are for st February ting in Baltimore as the United States circuit for the eastern district of argument in the Richmond and Danville The hearing was on two one by the Carnegie Steel for a consolidation of the case of William P. Clyde and others against the railroad with the case of the Central Trust of New against the and the other was on the part of the Central Trust Company for a decree of Adrian Joline and Francis L. of New appeared for the Central Trust Company and the Richmond Terminal Henry of New appeared for the railroad Nicholas P. Bond for the Carnegie Steel Hugh L. Bond for the mond and Danville receivers and Frank P. Clarke represented the emergency AH parties represented except the steel favor a sale of the road that the Terminal reorganization plan may be Upon the conclusion of argument the granted an order as by the Carnegie Steel consolidating the Clyde and Trust Company cases and fixed March 3d, for the hearing in to the decree of the foreclosure and WILLIAMS And Over the Dead Body of His Victim Confessed the N. February This morning William a young man of twenty-five was found murdered about two miles from this with dences of severe choking on his cuts on his face and a depression over his right frontal which was the ate cause of his At the inquest Phillip one of the weakened at the sight of the corpse and confessed that he com- mitted the His evidence was also sufficient to criminate Sylvanus who was with him at the time of the der and who is considered equally Williams and Morrow are both peaceable men when and this deed is attributed solely to the effects of corn CYCLONE IX Two Lives Lost and Great Damage to February One of the most destructive cyclones known in the history of Claiborne parish passed seven miles north of this place at 6 o'clock tne roaring of the storm being distinctly heard The cyclone struck the northwest point of the parish traveling in a northeast laying waste everything in its The ties known thus far are one white child and one negro girl and many Cleveland Taylor's store and steam mill were destroyed and Mr. Taylor was ly The track of the cyclone was about 200 yards Forcing Ten Per Cent February The em- ployes of the Worsted Com- when they called at the office of the mills to receive the wages due them were told that they could return to work Monday morning providing they would accept a cut in wages of 10 per cent. This would make the third 10 per cent reduction within the last three There are 700 employes now out ot and their feeling toward the management since this last proposition is naturally There is little probability of anything in the nature of a general strike but many say they will refuse to accept the of T. San February The ex- in Starr county over the recent murder of Severo one of the mosi prominent of that has not and the against the men arrested charged with the crime is so in- tense that lynching is The alleged assassins are ail well known young of the lower Rio Grande Garcia's body was riddled with bullets and was found n detachment Texas rangers buried un- der a sand Garcia had been missing from home several when his body was A Mexican Governor 3tes., February The an- which comes from that Governor Jose Miguel governor of the state of has resigned his has created a great stir in political affairs the Governor was to the office by President Diaz about six months ago and has made a splendid record as His ment was made as a compromise between the two political factions of the state who were for several months in military array against each at the San February L. L a sheepman of Tobrey ar- rived today and brought news of drowning of a ranchman named together with wife amd three in the Rio Grande river at a point near idio San Mex. The river is easily forded at that place but in some manner the in which Randall and his ily were crossing was upset and before of occupants could get from under the box bed they were All the were f t 8- 1' n I;
