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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
RIFLES IN A CITY FIGHT.
THE TWO PARTIES MAKING 1T HOT
AT Ell PASO,

An Attempt by the Old Republican
Mayor to Turn the ONCE over to n
Successor of His Own Political Stripe
Preoipitates the Conhict-The Court
in Charge.
Ell PAso, TEN, April 19.--The contested
city election took new turn yesterday.
For several days past the old mayor (repub-
licanl and the old council, composed of five
democrats and three republicans have been
sitting as a canvassing board, hearing argu-
ments from the lawyers for the democratic
and republican contestants. Yesterday
afternoon at an adjourned meeting of the
old board the mayor put motion made by
democratic member.
THE MAYOR EXCITED.
Another motion was made by another
democratic member, wnen the mayor
sprang to his feet declined to recognize
him, pulled the election returns from his
pocket, and announced that he proposed to
have the vote counted. A democratic
councilman moved to adjourn, but the
mayor ruled him out of order. The demo-
cratic members then left the hall, leaving
the council without quorum. The mayor
| instructed the city clerk to take down the
returns as he read them, but In the absence
Of a quorum, the clerk declined to do SO.
COUNTED WITHOUT A QUORUM.
The mayor then had the vote counted
without "a quorum and declared the repub
| lican municipal ticket elected. The repub-
| lican contestants were sworn in and the
| new mayor began to swear in special police,
| after appointing the old city marshal aud
| police force to act He then tried to get
into the city SAFE While he was working
at the combination the marshal sent police
men to guard the safe.
WINCHEsTERS AT HAND.
The officer pushed the new mayor back
and took charge of the safe but found him
| self covered immediately afterward by a
double barreled shot gun in the hands of
one OF the new officials. Five cases of Win
chester rifles were procured and placed in
the hands of special police sworn in by the
new mayor and other republicans who had
assembled. The city hall was then in charge
| OF an armed posse who refused adlnittance
| to two regular city policemen.
IN THE HANDS OF THE COURT.
The democrats went before the district
| judge and secured an injunction restrain
ing the new mayor from acting and putting
the city hall in the hands of the court. The
sheriff served the injunction and the armed
posse at the city nall quietly dispersed,
| leaving him in possession. At 10 o'clock
| last night the old city council met again
with quorum present and adjourned until
| to-day when the canvass was to be con-
tinued. The old mayor having refused to
recognize the old council, Councilman
Johnston presided and appointed large
force of special police to act with the city
| marshal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
A TARTAR FOR M0RM0NS
TAR AND FEATHERS AFTER A
WHIPPING WITH SWITCHES.

Two Of the Riders tainted While the
Blows We're Being Laid On-A News
paper Article Aroused the Indigna-
tion Which Led to the Punishment
More Trouble May Follow.
ST. LOUIS, April 49, The information
comes from Dale county. Ala, that Ave
Mormon missionaries were severely whipped
and driven from the county last Monday
night. These men had been holding meet-
ings among the ignorant classes OF the
county, and had formed a colony to 60 to
Utah. This had been carried on against
the judgment of the better class of citizens,
but no action to stop it was taken until the
last issue Of the Ozark Star advised the
people to tar and feather the Mormons and
drive them away.
ACTING ON THE ADVICE.
Monday night some forty Of the so-caled
best citizens of the northern part of the
county, without the slightest attempt at
disguise, surrounded the house OF Gid Irons.
a recent convert, who was entertaining five
missionaries. Without delay they were
brought out, stripped to the waist, and tied
In row. Then each Of the regulators,
with long switch, struck each Of the pris-
oners sounding blow. By the time the
last blow was given two of the men had
tainted and the Others were wet with blood
FEATHERS ON THEIR LEGS.
After the whipping, the mems legs we're
given thick coating of tar and feathers,
and they were warned to leave instant ly or
suffer death. Irons was told that if the
Mormons were found in his house again, he,
too, would be whipped. The names Of the
Mormons are Asa F. Hixson, f. w. Hag-
arom, M. #. Miller, John Pearce and A.
Morrison.
NOW IN A NEIGHBoRING COUNTY.
They have gone to Henry county, but ID
is certain if they attempt to hold meetings
they will again be whipped. Their follow
ers in Dale county talk Of avengiug the
whipping, but If anything of that kind Is
attempted bloodshed will follow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Reed and Mckinley Each Confident of
Election.

Reed and Mckinley Each Confident OF
Election.
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Thomas B. Reed
of Maine is serenely saying that he will be
the speaker of the next House. He even
thinks that he will be nominated on the
first ballot. Personally and through his
friends he has communicated veEbally or in
writing with almost every republican mem
ber-elect, aud thinks he knows Just how
they will all stand. He claims New
England entire, with possibly two exceptions
and New York entire under the agreement
reached by the New York delegation at the
dinner given by Representative Belden in
auguration week, to vote as unit for he is
sure of majority. He has expectations
that the Pennsylvania delegation may
agree to vote as a unit and thinks that in
that event he would get its votes also. He
claims scattered votes all over the west,
aud regards himself as the second choice Of
the majority OF the Cannon men, and the
Burrows men, should the contest come to
be settled by second choice.
M'KTNLEY ALSO CONFIDENT.
Mckinley on the other hand is almost
equally as confident as Reed. He has been
in communication personally or through
friends with the republican members elect,
and claims as many pledges as Reed. He
claims them in New England delegations
and in New York, so some of the members
elect must be making double promises
Mckinley claims peculiar strength with
the new members. One thing seems
certain. Either Reed or Mckinley will
lead on the first ballot, the other will be
second, and Casson and Burrows and Hen
derson, who are all still here and working
as candidates, will be distanced. However,
these three regard themselves as hopeful
dark horses.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
CoMProIR D'HsCoMPTE DEALS.

The Liquldator Seeking a Release
from the Mine Owners.
PARIS, April 19.-The Temps says that
the shareholders of the Compton d'Es-
compte have deposited sufficient stock to
enable the meeting on April 30 to legally
take definite action. M. Moreau, the
liquidator of the concern, has gone
TO London to obtain the release
OF the Compton d'Escompte from the
guarantees given to English and
American mines under contracts with the
Societe des Metaux. Nj. Moreau is fortified
with the recent decision of the court Of
cessation in the case of the Terrenoir Iron
Works, in which delivery on bargains is so
restricted. This judgment, if applied to
the Compton d'Escompte, would free it
from its guarantees
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
A PLOT TO KILL THE CzAR.

Nihilists Were to Make Another At
tempt With Dynamite
ST. PETERSBURG, April 19.-The prefect
of police has discovered the existence of a
nihilist plot to assassinate the czar while he
was attending the funeral OF Gen. Paucker,
minister of roads. The czar was immedi-
ately warned not to attend the funeral. A
number of persons charged with being i'm
plicated in the plot have been arrested.
The nihilist intended to use dynamite on
the cZar
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
AN APPEAL FROM VIRGINIA.
The People of Patrick County Impovs
erished by Forest Fires.

DANviLLE, VA, April 19.--Judge A. M.
Lybrooks, and other prominent citizens of
Patrick county, will publish in to-morrow's
Register a pathetic appeal for aid for the
Patrick county people who suffered by the
recent forest fires. The letter says hundreds
Of people are left houseles and utterly desti-
tute of means of subsistence. They must
have aid or starve, as everything they had
was entirely consumed and their neighbors
are not able to supply their wants They
have neither homes, clothing nor provisions.
All contributions SHOULD be sent to Rangely
e. Perkins, Stuart, Patrick county, Vir-
ginia, who are entirely responsible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
ANoKA's BROKEN BANK.

The Woman Who Indorsed the CASH
ier's Checks Refuses to Pay.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April 19.-The
Tribune's special from Anoka. Mimi, says:
ut has been decided that the First National
Bank Of this city, which was recently cleaned
out by Cashier Pratt, shall 60 into the hands
Of receiver. The directors do not tank ID
wise TO resume bosiness until all the OUT
standing claims are settled. Mrs. Nell, the
lady who was on the absconding cashiers
paper TO the extent Of about $40, 900, ref ises
to pay the notes. and long law suit is in
nrORDeCt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
At THE ROPES END.
The Condemned Refused to Talk Be-
fore the Reporters.

The Condemned Refused to Talk Be-
fore the Reporters
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April 19-Sylvester
Grubb was hanged at Vincennes at IL
o'clock this morning. On the scaffold he
was asked il he had anything to
say. and responded that he had
plenty, but declined to open bis
mouth because there we're 30 many re-
porters present. Grubb's neck was broken,
and there were no unusual incidents con-
nected with the execution. Grubb was
hanged for the murder of Miss Gertrude
Downey, his sweetheart, on Sept. Is last.
at the Gibson county fair.
TWO HANGED IN ARKANSAS.
ST. LOUIS, April IA special from
Fort Smith. Ark, to the Post Dispatch
says: Malachi Allen, a one-armed negro.
and James Mills, half Indian and half ne
gro, we're hanged here to-day. Their necks
were broken. Allen was convicted of mur-
dering Shadrack Peters and Silas Love in
the Chickasaw nation last July, and Mills
killed John Window, a negro, in the Semi
mole reservation. Dec. IS, 1887.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Virginia's Lunatic Asvlum.

STAUNToN. VA, April 19-Dr. Benjamin
Blackford Of Lynchburg was to-day unaui-
mously elected superintendent Of the Vest
ern Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, to sue
ceed DR.. d. B. Conrad. The board has
been in session since April 16 investigating
the management Of the institution with the
above result.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
AMERICAS FIRST PAPER MILL.
Its Erection Two Centuries Ago to be
Celehrated.

PHILADELPHIA, April 49, In September,
1890, two centuries will have passed since
the first paper mill was erected in America,
at Foxborough, Philadelphia county, and it
is proposed that the biennial anniversary Of
tho event be flttingly celebrated. George
W. Childs and ex-State Senator Horatio
Gates Jones, who has written the full his
tory Of the mill desire the paper makers
and printers to correspond with them as TO
the best plan for such bi-centennial celebra-
tnn.
Senator Jones has prepared a circular on
the subject, which will soon be forwarded
by him TO the newspapers throughout the
country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
SHOT DEAD BY HER BROTHER.

The Bullet Was Intended for a Back
Yard Bruiser OF the Feline Type.
NASHVILLE, TENN, April 49, - Miss
Mamie Totum of South Pittsburgh, was
accidentally shot aud killed yesterday
morning by her brother, Joseph Totum.
Totum was awakened by cats fighting in
the room occupied by his sister. Sec lring
his revolver he entered the apartment aud
fired at the cats. The bullet missed its
mark and pierced the brain of the girl.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20

CHICAGO, April. 49,. A. Enandsr. re-
Gently appointed to the position Of United
States minister 10 Denmark, is very IN.
Last Saturday be had an attack of hemor-
rhage Of the lungs, aud since then be has
been very low. Some years ago Mr.. Enan-
der suffered severely from the same cause.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Depopulatine Ireland.

DUBLIN, April 10. The rush of emigrants
from the southwest of Ireland is causing
alarm. The country is being rapidly de-
populated.
the release of Father McFadden. This
evening bonfires blazed all over the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
sMALLs NOT so SAFE.
Charges Filed That May Cut Him Out
OF the Collectorship

of the Collectorshlp.
WASHINGTON, April 1o.-Charges have
been filed with the President against ex-
Representative Smalls of South Carolina
which, If proved true, are likely to prevent
his appointment as collector of customs at
Beufort, s. c., said TO have been previously
determined upon. Oae of the charges
made against him is that be bolred the
tion, and that he has committed acts Of
treachery to the party which make him
unfit for the least recognition ut the hands
Of the present administration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
AN ALABAMA APPOINTMENT.
M. d. Wick ersham Made the South
ern District Attorney.

ern District Attorney.
WASHINGTON, April 49, The President
to-day appointed Morris b. Wickersham OF
Alabama to be United States attorney for
the Southern district OF Alabama.
Mr.. Wickersham is one Of the most prom
ineut lawyers of Mobile. He served in tho
union army during the war, and rose to the
rank Of colonel. He is an old resident of
Alabama, and is said 10 be a man Of char
acter and ability He was recommended
for the Office by the leading republicans OF
the state and by many Of bis soldier com
radas In tho north
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Queen Natalie to Return.

LONDON, April 20, 8 A. M-The Times
Vienna correspondent says: "Grand Duke
Nicholas has visited Queen Natalie and in
duced her to return to Servia shortly. Ex-
King Milan has therefore decided to re-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
A River Bursts It's Banks.

VIENNA, April 19.-The river Thesis has
burst its banks. The ad djacent country is
flooded and the banks province is threat
ened with inundation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
serajevo to be Fortified.

VIENNA, April 19.-It is stated that the
government has decided to fortify the town
Of Serajevo in Bosnia at a cost of 2,000,-
0n0D
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
To Strike at Vienna.
Hungary's Snow storm.

VIENNA, April 19.-The car men of vi.
emma will strike Gu masse on Sunday next
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Bond Offerings.

WASHINGTON, April 10, The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated Sl03,000. All were
accepted at los for 49, and 1879 for Is.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
A Petard Exploded in a Church.

MADRID April IA dynamite petard
was exploded in a church at Valencia to
day The altar was badly damaged, but
nobody was hurt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
sPBAKBRsHIP SPECULATION.

VIENNA. Apail l9-Hungary has been
again visited by snow storms.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-20
Postmhster Pearson DYING.

NEW YORK, April l9.-Posl na5tor Pear
son is dying at the residence OK ms fas1er-
iu.law, Thos. L. James, at Highlands, N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
THE AQUEDUCT INVESTIGATION
Can the Contractors be Held Respon-
sible.

The joint committee on the investigation OF
the aqueduct tunnel failed to meet
to-day. Senator Edmunds had hoped, and
SO expressed himself to STAR reporter,
that the report would have been completed by
to-day, and it probably would have been had
the representatives on the committee been able
to attend its sessions.
Mr.. McMillin has been very busy in the COM
mittee on ways and means and the arduous
labors Of Messrs. Ryan and Clements on the
appropriation bills have shut them off from at
tempting during the past few days to share in
the aqueduct inquiry
Another effort will be made on Monday to
secure the attendance of a quorum. and It is
not improbable that two or three hours steady
work will complete the report
new difficulty faces the committee now.
and il may change the recommendation of the
report to a very considerable extent More than
one member Of the committee has an idea
that the terms of the contract with Beckwith
and Quackenbush are rather loose, and there
seems TO be fear that possible way of escape
has opened up for the contractors.
The validity of the s2500O0 bond has also
been questioned, and it is now being examined
carefully for the purpose of finding out
whether, like the tunnel, it will fail to hold
water.
II serious defect is discovered then the
government will have to sustain the loss and
an amendment will be tackled on to the sundry
civil bill, so that the work Of repairing may be
commenced Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
Name.
Baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 16-Cotton nominally steady
-middling. 10. Flour. active and firm. Wheat
southern. firm and wanted: Fultz. 1O7a112: Long
berry. 1O5a111; No. 2 southern, 1O6: western. un-
settled; No. winter red, spot, 95A; March. 97
April, 9S1@: May, 100. Corn - southern firm;
arrivals increasing: white. 4la43: yellow, 4Oa43
western, firm; mixed spot. 3944a4O; March, 4OLf
a4O]4; April, 41a414: May, 42a424; steamer
spot 3glt a9Z. Oats. quiet but very firm-south-
ern and Pennsylvania, 30a34; western white ga
:41(: western mixed, 29a3l; graded No. white
:f3ka34. Rye, quiet and steady, 57a5s. Hay
visions quiet and steady. Butter. very steady
western packed. lSa20; best roll 13a1s; cream
cry. :e2a30. Eggs, easy, baby. Petroleum.
steady-refined, 40. Coffee. steady-Rio cargoes
fair. 111Sal7k. Sugar, quiet-A soft, So: copper
refined. steady, 15sIa16. Whisky, very firm, III.
Freghts TO Liverpool per steamer, steady-cot-
ton. 7-:s,d.: grain. per bushel, 5a514d. Cork for
orders. 5s.3dl:5s.6d. Sales-wheat, 173, 900 BUSH
els; corn. $4,000 bushels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
TOBACCO TAX REPEAL.
Report on the Cowles Internal Revenue
Bill.

In the report accompanying the Cowles bill
the majority Of the committee on appropria-
lions explains that sections and repeal all in
ternal taxes after June 30th, 1885, on cigars
cheroots and cigarettes, snuff manufactured
tobacco, the special tax on manufacturers of
tobacco, dealers in leaf tobacco and on ped
lers of tobacco. The amount of revenue re-
ceived from these sources during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1885, was $50, So. 43l.
The enactment of the bill would reduce the
estimated surplus for the fiscal year $780, from
S53, 1881 to S22, 745, 165, a result-whether
viewed from the standpoint of excessive
revenue or as relief for unnecessary taxation
upon the people-most desirable.
REPEAL OF WAR TAXES DESIRABLE.
The report says: The internal-revenue taxes
levied because of the necessities of war have
heretofore been all removed from capital and
from all manufactured articles, leaving
the products of agriculture to bear all
the burdens Of the internal tax system. The
taxes proposed to be repealed by the bill re-
ported are particularly oppressive on the far
mer, both in the amount of tax levied against
his product well as in the vexatious manner
of its collection.
There is no longer, in the opinion Of the
committee, any justification for the continu-
ance of these taxes. There are no bonds
which are due and payable at par at the option
OF the government. Under existing conditions
bonds will have to be purchased at a high pre-
MUM in the market with the surplus revenue
or else the accumulation of money in the
treasury will result detrimentally to the
commercial interests of the country.
The committee believes that the bill
furnishes practical and simple means of re-
ducing the surplus revenue. as it is evidently
impossible at this late day of the present Con-
gress to pass any bill involving complete re-
vision of our whole revenue system. The con-
GLIDING portion of the report is devoted en-
tirely to an analysis of the bill.
THE MINORITY REPORT
presented by Mr.. Forneyis confined to simple
recommendation looking to the passage of a
substitute bill made up of the sections
of the original Cowles bill repeating
the taxes on chewing and smoking
tobacco and snuff, all special taxes
on manufacturers and dealers in leaf-tobaccO
and fixing at So and 81 the annual tax on cigar
manufacturers and dealers in tobacco respec-
lively. All of the sections of the Cowles bill
relating to the administration of the internal
revenue laws are excluded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
A BLoop AND SKIN DISEASE

CURED BY THE CU1lCURA REMEDIES.
Having been sufferer for two years and half from
. disease caused by q bruise the leg and having
been cured by the CUT1CURA REMEDIES, when all
other methods and remedies failed. deem ii my duty
to them. visited Hot Springs to avail
and tined several doctors without and at last
cur PRINCIPAL druggist, Mr.. John p. FnlAy to whom
shall feel gratefully spoke TO me aboutCUTICURA
and consented to give them trial. with the result
that am perfectly cured. There 10 now sore about
think can show the lArrest surface whore my
sgrering- sprang from Of any In the state. The
CUTICJKA REMEDIES are the best blood and akin
Manufactured refer TO Druggist John p. Fin
lay and Dr. d. C. Montgomery. both Of this place. and
g. Dr. smith. Of Lake Lee, MissI
ALExANDEk BkACH. Gresnvine, Miss
I must extend - y~1 the thanks Of one OF my Gus
TONER. Who Ia Lred. by using the CtIlCOhA
hLdEDILs, ofA sore caused BY long spell OF
sickness eight years He 50 bad he was
fvau Ae would have his leg amputated. but Is
harry to say entirely wellsound as dollar
he quests NE his name, which Is H II. CASON,
merchant Of tins place. JOHN V. MINOR,
Druggist. Gainsboro. Tenn.
Sold everywhere. Price. cUTICUkA. Soc; SOAP,
25c. RESOLVENT, Ell, Prepared BY the POII Eh
DtlUu AND CHEMICAL co, Boston, Mass send for
''nOw a. Cure SkIn Diseases"
IMPLIES. BLACkHEADS,R RED, ROUGH. CHAPPED
and oily skln prevented by CUIlCURA SOAP.
fl.,lS.lJ1O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16
ALEXANDRIA.
Reported for TIE EVENING STAR.

Reported for The EVENING STAR.
BADLY Huntsville Harry Darling was driv
ing his milk wagon on Upper Duke street yes
terday evening the wheel was twisted off in a
rut and he was thrown out with great violence
and stunned He was carried to the house of
Mrs. Iden near by and received medical attend
ance.
The BOARD OF TRADE.-The subscribers COM
mittee having completed the plans of organiza-
ton Of the board Of trade, the work is now
ready for the action Of the subscribers, and q
meeting to receive the report of the commit
tee and to effect an organization, elect officers,
&C., will be held next Monday night at the
chamber of the common council.
NoIEs.-Thomas Arlington accidentally shot
himself in the leg as he was carrying his gun
along Washington street yesterday. -Potomac
lodge. !. o. 0. f.. attended in body last night
the Marley encampment fair at the armory OF
the Alexandra light infantry.-Iti 10 under.
stood that extra guards have been placed on
the graveyards here.--Mr. BENZ. Watkins, oil
West End, was seized with a ut at the opera
house last night and received the attendance
Of Dr.. Birdsel