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Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

| REPORTS from the western part OF
Kansas in regard to the wheat prospect
continue to be discouraging. The neces-
sity is rain, and unless there be down.
pour soon the crop in that section will
be failure.
THE drouth in South Texas is begin
ming to alarm planters. At the Prairie
View State College and Farm, all
cisterns have failed, and river water is
being hauled in barrels.
| TIE weather at San Antonio, Texas,
during the past three days has been
excessively warm, the mercury ranging
from 95 to los degrees. There were
three prostrations from the heat on
the 5th.
BONDED warehouse No. 368, at the dis
tillery of the Allen-Bradley Distilling
Company, in East Louisville, together
with $4,000 barrels of whisky, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 5th.
| A NEGRO desperate named Morgan has
been lynched by m OBJ of his own color
at Graham, Va. Morgan murdered a
young negro of the town at frolic.
The mob is looking for confederates of
Morgan and other lynchings are ex-
pected.
NAH. advices confirm. the news of the
triumph of the revolutionists in Hon
duras. Fighting continues among
nomadic bands, but the encounters are
unimportant.
The revolutionary expedition against
Cuba is about to leave Key West, Fla,
on it's mission. The greatest excitement
prevails among the people, while the
Federal officials are anxious, but
vigilant.
CARTER HARRISON has been elected
mayor of Chicago by plurality of 90
900 over Samuel w. Allerton, the candi-
date on the allied Republican and
Citizens ticket.
THE trouble in the Indian Territory
is already stralning the credit OF the
Choctaw government. Scrip is being
issued to buy supplies and pay the
militia, and the scrip is now going at
so cents on the dollar. A still further
reduction is inevitable if the trouble
| continues.
| REV. S. III. BUCHANAN, the Cumber-
land Presbyterian minister who IS
charged with embezzling $4,000 OF the
| States funds while acting treasurer OF
the Arkansas State insane asylum, has
been indicted by the Pulaski grand
jury.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
Personal AND POLITICAL.

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
given his consent to the proposal that
the whole of the imperial opera shall
appear in London in 1894.
On the Sd advices were received from
Hayti, that President Hippolyte, with
his army, had reached Cape Haytien.
All along his line of march he met with
enthusiastic receptions, although it is
possible that much of the enthusiasm
was forced through fear.
BY reason of the opposition of the
park commissioners of Chicago to the
nse of any portion OF Washington park
as an encampment ground for troops
it now appears that the intention of
| the war department to have battalion
of regular troops and a corps of cadets
from West Point at Chicago during the
| summer will have to be abandoned.
On the Sd Rt Hon. A. ]. Balfour,
conservative leader in the house of
commons and formerly chief secretary
for Ireland, arrived in Belfast to deliver
addresses in support of the opposition
of Ulster unionists to home rule A
vast concourse greeted Mr.. Balfour on
his arrival, and the thousands OF union
lists cheered loudly as he made his APP
pearance.
MRS ANNIE LOUISE CHURCHILL-CAMP
BELL CACAcE Mrs. James Ii. CaldwelD
is dead. She was the woman whom
Customs Inspector Traitteur at New
York accused of smuggling several
cases of oil paintings by foreign artists
into this country. What caused her
death is kept secret
Hon. w. III. WADswoRTH, a prominent
Kentucky lawyer and minister to Mex
leo under President Grant, was stricken
with paralysis at his home in Maysville,
KY, on the 3D. and it was not thought
he could recover.
Mrs. ELLSWORTH MILLER, Of Cold
Spring, Pa, aged 81, gave birth, on
the Sd, to triplets-two girls and a
boy In the past eight years and seven
months she has become the mother Of
seventeen children-three sets of trip
lets, two sets of twins and two single
births. Eight of the children are liv-
ing.
Gov. HoGG of Texas has issued his
proclamation quaranGinlng the 1eAaS
gulf coast and the Rio Grande border
after May 1. 1t ltapplies to all vessels,
persons and articles from places infest-
ed with cholera, yellow fever or small
pox. and extends to all places south of
the twenty-ffth degree of latitude,
which are not proved to be free from
infection.
IT is stated at the state department
that no protest against Max Judd, of
st. Louis, has been received from Aus
tria The opinion seems to be that
none will be made. A diplomat is au-
thority for the statement that the
prejudice against the Jews is nearly as
strong in Austria as it is in Russia. He
further said that it is race rather than
q religious prejudice.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
4 DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

Gang of Whitecaps Attack the Houss
OF osorge Black. Spaniard, Near
conesvoro, Ark.-The Leader of the
rarity, j. w. Metcalf, Mortally Wounded
py Back. and the Latter Shot Down
and Left for Dead-Many Arrests Being
Made.
JoNEsBoRo, Ark, April 4.-Jonesboro
has been in a fever of excitement to-
day over the murder of Spaniard and
the killing of prominent man of this
city, the leader of a gang of white
caps, al an early hour Sunday MORN
ing. George Black, Spaniard, has
been living on his farm few miles
from Jonesboro. About ] o'clock Sun
day morning a gang of about 100
whltecaps, headed by j. w. Metcalfe,
OF this place, went to Blacks residence
and demanded that he open the door.
Black refused, whereupon the gang
proceeaed to batter down the
door The Spaniards family be.
came terror-striclzen and sought
refuge in wardrobe, but the
head Of the family coolly armed him
self with an army musket loaded with
slugs and disputed the entrance Of the
marauders The moment Metcalfe
stepped in the door he received the
load of slugs in the breast just below
the right nipple. The gang then
dragged their wounded comrade into
the yard, and when Black attempted to
leave the house he was shot down and
left for dead
After the whitecaps left, Black
crawled to the public road, few hun
dred yards away, where he was found
in dying condition by party Of ne
groes.
When the news of the tragedy
reached Jonesboro the sheriff organ
lied posse and started in pursuit of
the whitecaps. Metcalf was soon
found and placed in the railway hos
pital, where he died Sunday night.
Black fingered until Sunday after
noon, when he died. He made sworn
statement in which he testified that he
recognized Metcalf, but could not iden-
tify the others, as they were all
| masked. Metcalf refused to make any
statement further than that Black was
not the man they were after.
The sheriff made eight arrests Sum
day night and eight yesterday on sus-
picion Of being implicated in Blacks
murder Several parties are well
known about town and their arrest
has created sensation
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

IN the senate, on the Goth, the report Of the
committee on privileges and elections in favor
of the three senators appointed by the govern
ors of the states of Montana, Wyoming and
Washington was taken up and the discussion
which followed indicated concurrence with the
views Of the minority OF the committee adverse
to the admission OF the three senators. The
question went over, the senate soon after going
into executive session.
in the senate. on the 50th the session was de-
voted almost wholly to the debate on the ques-
tion OF admission OF senator's appointed by the
governors of the states OF Montana, Wyoming
and Washington. after the legislatures of those
states had adjourned without making regular
elections. Mr.. Mitchell, member of the COM
mittee on elections spoke for nearly three
hours in opposition to the majority report of
the committee, which favors admission, but
confessed, in the close of his speech that the
die was cast and that the majority report
would be adopted. The senate then went into
secret session.
IN the senate on the Sd. the petition of Jos.
w. Ady, claiming legal election as senator from
Kansas as against John Martin, was read and
referred. The report of the committee privi-
leges and elections In favor OF the admission of
the three senators appointed by the governors
of Montana, Wyoming and Washington was
then taken up and argued until the senate went
into secret session for the consideration of ex-
ecGtiye business.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
A SPANISH SNUB
Causes 4be United States War Ships
Newark and Bennington to Depart from
Hav

Causes 4be United States War Ships
Newark and Bennington to Depart from
Havana.
New YORK, April "A special dis
patch to the Times from. Havana says:
The sudden departure of the United
States ships Newark and Bennington,
owing to the snub administered by the
captain general to the American rear
admiral, is S till subject of discussion
here.
The Newark and the Bennington ap-
peared off the port in company
With the Nina and Pinta, the two mod
ern models of the ancient caravels,
which they had escorted across the
ocean, and slowed down to await the
coming of a port official to advice the
admiral where to place his ships. No
such officer presented himself, how
ever and after waiting for some time
the ships were anchored in that part of
the harbor usually reserved for such
vessels.
Salutes were exchanged with Fort
Cabanas and the ships of the Spanish
feet, and subsequently, the admiral
went ashore and called on the captain
general, and it was understood that
the captain-general and his staff would
return the visit at o'clock in the
afternoon, and accordingly elaborate
preparations were made for their recep-
ton on board the Newark. Finally
at p. IN. messenger came out to
the Newark to say that the captain
general would pay his visit on some
other day.
The understanding here is that the
American admiral, feeling the slight
which had been put upon him, COM
municated at once with the secretary
Of the navy in Washington, and received
orders by cable to proceed at once with
his vessel to Norfolk.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

LATIMER, the recaptured double muir
derer, is existing on bread and water.
The solitary cell in the Jackson Mich.
penitentiary, in which he is confined, is
smaller than the regular size, and con-
tains nothing but straw mattress on
the floor. No one but the chaplain is
allowed to talk with him.
The steamer Haytien Republic, it is
said, has smuggled ten tons of opium
through the port of Tacoma, Wash,
during the past few months, under the
ewes and bv the collusion of custom
house officials.
On the 1st Miss Effie Clark, of Spo-
kane, Wash, member of the North
west university freshmen class at
Evanston, Ill, was shot and instantly
killed by f. Ross Smith, who then IA
tally shot himself The cause of the
tragedy was Miss ClarK's rejection OF
Smith as suitor.
DUKES tobacco factory, in New York,
was burned on the 2d: loss, s400, 1000.
On the Sd two men were drowned by
the sudden flooding of the Laurel Hill
mine, on the outskirts of Hazelton, IA.
Although 500 men worked in the mine,
but ten were present at the time The
water burst in from an abandoned
chamber Of the Sugar Loaf mine ad-
joining.
On the Sd James W. Hamilton, col
pred ex-preacher, was electrocuted at
the Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison. A single
shock suficed to cause death.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

he recent escape of Latimer, the
ua'rlclde from the Michigan state
pisoh at jackson, after administering
ietaI dose Of poison to the gate
4 aeeper' is a strong argument in favor of
%V more rigid enforcement of dis
u Spiine IN our penal institutions. BY
~. ',ipIine IS not ment brutality, but
,ra' hrm, unyielding enforcement of
rNoh regulations that knows no IA
asa'ilSm' and that can not be made the
col ope ol a murderer's cunning. A life
~ VINO murdered his mother and,
ssumao ply, his father for money gain
~ .'rta'nly not safe person to treat
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
CLEvELAND'S FADS.
CIVIL Service Reform That Disagrees with
Democratic Chuck Hunters.


President Cleveland's civil servics
''fads,n as some good democrats are
pleased to term his advanced ideas, are
more far-reaching in their effects than
a superficial consideration would make
apparent. At first thought one would
say that the principles and professions
set forth by the new president would
affect only the Eeekers after appointive
offices, but elective offices arc involved
as we'll Every democratic congress-
man has on his list from five hundred
to five thousand applicants for federal
offices. Each of these Is not only a
voter but worker. He gave his time,
his money and his influence to the cleo
ton of democratic congressman, un-
der distinct pledges of substantial re-
ward. If the reward is not forthcom-
ing off goes the congressman's head at
the convention two years hence, or if
he succeeds in securing n nomination
he will be knitted at the polls
1t is a serious situation for the aver
age democratic congressman and it is
little wonder that threats Of revenge
are heard. 1t will be no surprise if
Mr.. Cleveland meets with open opposi-
tion in his own camp when he at
tempts to carry his pet policies into
practice.
While the congressman and their
oflice-hungry retainers will be dis
gusted and angry, their matter Of fact
constituents who are not looking for
spoils but for good government will be
pleased. For generation it has been
the common complaint of senators and
representatives that their time is so
taken up by the demands of place
hunters that they have little left for
the proper discharge of their legisla-
tive duties. With the advent of each
new administration every senator and
| representative of the successful party
is made mere employment agent.
This is not the work they are elected
to do and if Mr.. Cleveland succeeds in
| re ieving them of the burden he will
perform a service to the country that
will more than countcrbalance the di-
| lemma with which office -peddling con-
gressmen will be perplexed for time.
l-MiuneaDolis Tribune
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
On the I'd the boiler Of a shifting en-.

On the I'd the boiler Of shifting en-
gine exploded near Connellsville, Pa,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and
three brakemen were fatally scaled
and otherwise injured.
NINETY houses in Klein-Poehlarn on
the Danube, were burned to the ground
on the Sd. Fifteen bodies were re-
moved from the ruins. and twelve moro
were known to be in the ashes.
CITY TREASURER JOHN W. WEST of
Grand Island, Neb., confessed to his
900 short, and offered to turn over his
property. He stated to friends that the
money was lost in private enterprises.
WILLIAM II. CHILDs, 3" years old,
physician of Pittsburgh, Pa, took an
overdose of morphine in New York
city on the night of the Sd. He was
taken to the New York hospital uncon-
scious.
GEORGE KAssEL, son of John Kas-
sci, of Danville, Ia, was found drowned
in fsh-pond on his fathers farm on
the Sd. The young man had just re-
turned from an extended trip in Cali
fornia, and it is thought he suicided on
account of domestic trouble.
THE business portion of the town of
Florence, S. c., was destroyed by fire
on the Sd. Flames started during the
night and burned until a. m. The
Central hotel, the city hotel, and four
teen dwellings were destroyed. The
loss is estima ted at at least $3.50, 900;
only partially covered by insurance.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

~ AZ remarka BILE facilities for through
ras,1 Ipdu service in the United States
H. w not be better illustrated than by
N, Ipurneys undertaken by Miss Bess
Mcneil, of Chicago, and Miss Edith
NJ y' OF Portland, Ore. who, start
t,s..l. from their respective cities and
j NnR IN opposite directions expect
E,.to meet in the City of Mexico on
ca; sunday and then, after cross
,ba s OF the United States, return to
M soinls OF departure. The nub of
s.r.;n u"l Trip is to demonstrate the as
tbs ',vn n made that a lady could cover
si,r P.oposed routes without of neces-
b4s;a .ouchlng her foot to the ground,
sa.. showing to the world the vast.
,sd ~ the American railroad system
tss Us remarkable connecting .facili.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
DRIF OF OPINION.

| sT Grover Cleveland appears TO feel
that he is the only democrat who held
| Office four years ago who deserves re-
appointment Philadelphia Press.
| sH Democratic economy during
+! the past two years has cost the people
of the United States just S3S, 400, 066
more than republican 'extravagence"
during the two preceding years.-Alba-
| nv journal.
-E-Why don't the democratic papers
teen with denunciations Of billion dol
lar congresses as they did two years
ago? The congress just closed spent
more money than its predecessor.-T
ledo Blade.
~ If it had been known six months
ago that Cleveland would not reap
point any Of the men who held Office
during his first term, every doubtful
state would have gone republican. st
Louis Globe Democrat
~ Grover is said to be in good hui
NOR and cracking jokes" with call
ers. If he would crack a few offices
and let the contents run out the faith
ful will be more appreciative Of the
humor Minneapolis Journal.
The fellows who held Office un-
der President Harrison are not the only
anxious men in Washington just now.
In fact they are more composed than
the democratic patriots who have held
Office under President Cleveland. Min
neapolis Tribune.
~ The appropriations of the last
cong ress, democratic, were forty mil
| lion dollars greater than those made
! by the Fifty-frst congress, with the
republicans in control of both branch
es. We trust the people of this coun-
try will not lose sight of that fact.
Cleveland Leader.
rs Under President Harrison the
revenues have been collected with great
fidelity and economy, and there has
not been the slightest suspicion, even
in the minds Of partisans, Of any mis-
conduct or abuse either in the collec-
tion or in the disbursement Of the pub
lie tunds.-N. Y. Tribune.
~The southern dimmycrats are
growing restless. They want more
mon sy-rag, silver or wildcat-and
they want it suddenly. Our million
aire president is naturally inclined to
move slowly He will soon hear the
caterwauling Of the southern cata-'
mount N y. Advertiser.
YFree trade England has for six
months had a great cotton strike on its
hands, and cotton spinners by the thou
sands are suffering because Of alack Of
food and clothing. In protected Amer
lea cotton mills are running on full
time and paying good wages. Comment
is unnecessary. Toledo Blade.
rB Adlai Stevenson has appointed
his son secretary and Isaac Pusey Gray
will take his son TO Mexico to act in
the same capacity. Secretary Carlisle
has already appointed his son to pri-
vate "snap" Nepotism never ruled
with a more absolute hand than at
present. Iowa State Register
The Georgia democrats nave Sg-
ured out their division of the spoils at
two thousand four hundred offices, and
they have arranged grand excursion
Of office-seekers to Washington to de-
mand their rights. With Hoke Saith
in the cabinet the Georgians feel that
they have at last realized the assertion
of Senator Ben Hill that they are again
in the house Of their fathers, and they
propose to have the orthodox treat
ment of prodigal sons. The fatted calf
must be brought to the slaughter.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE national guard of Pennsylvania
will probab encamp at Chicago during
the Worlds fair, the usual summer en-
campment at Mount Gretna being
abandoned and the trip to Chicago
taken instead.
NEARLY 6,000 immigrants arrived at
New York by the steamships on the
afternoon of the 31st and the morning
of the 1st. This is the largest mum ber
since last October, when the cholera
was brought over from Hamburg.
On the I'd a mutiny that threatened
to have serious consequences broke out
in the st. Michael prison, in Rome, ow-
ing to discomfort on account of the poor
quality and meager quantity of rations
allowed the prisoners.
AT Toledo, o., on the Sd. Judge Taft
rendered his decision in the Ann Arbor
cases, granting the injunction prayed
for against the engineers of the Lake
Shore and other roads who refused to
handle Ann Arbor freight. and against
Chief Arthur Of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, in the matter Of
ordering boycott. In the contempt
case Judge Ricl1s fined Engineer Len
non $50 and costs.
A VIRGINIA man appears to have pro
duced the best smol1cless powder which
the army has tested up to date. The
test was recently held at the Franlxford
pa. arsenal, with excellent result, and
a request was sent for additional and
larger quantities of the powder. The
composition came from Leonard Mason,
who has been known as chemist and
ordnance expert
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

CHICAGO is undergoing an experience
with female footpads. and the stranger
within the gates of the windy city
must needs keep himself within cir
cumscribed and rcspecta bic limits after
dark if he would escape their on.
sIarghts. They are exceedingly bold,
and are evidently getting their hands
IN 50 that they may have a place on the
ground floor with the rest of the rob.
bers when the fair opens.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

We have ambassadors now where
formerly we had only ministers pleni-
potentlary, and Hon. Thomas F. Bay
dfu' OF Delaware, is the first to have
'ne new honor thrust upon him. Some
d.e inclined to think the change smacks
u u snoO6ery, but at European courts
me simple minister, in point of prestige
dHo influence, is about as a captain to
agtneral when brought into contact
mllh a full-fedged ambassador, and we
''e no thlrd-rater. anyhow.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

The Austrian Jew baiters seem to
have determined that Max Judd, of st.
Louis is not the proper person to rep
resent the United States as consul gen
eral at Vienna. 1t would not be bad
IDEA for the United States authorities
to intimate in terms not to be misun-
derstood that American citizenship
coupled with personal fitness are the
only qualifications considered in the
selection of our representatives abroad.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

A STEAMSHIP put four hundred and
.oreptv passengers on shore at Halifax
a few days ago and then proceeded to
yew York. Among them We're two
cholera patients. The immigrants will
scatter over Canada and cross the from
tier into the United States. Quaran-
tine can not bottle up nation Clean
lipess is the only reliance in such cases.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

TUE cranberry raisers on Cape Cod
;,+ond to send supply of their berries
- tbe Worlds fair on exhibition, and
70 furnish the principle hotels in Chica-
~ gratuitously with their fruit, that
her quests may have taste of it. 1t
looks as though they intended to paint
ia town red
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

SAM; eminent French scientist, Nj.
b MInston' Ms is in complete accord with
Of 40 ure prediction of succession
aor;Sn Zones around the gulf of Mexico
The 1o 1Ne summer months, owing to
iae earth, eeP''onal proximity to
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

r-r doctors throughout the state of
York are issuing petition for the
N" Nantation of the death sentence of
Guile culrle Harris. As they could not
'' o. Mrs. Harris, they perhaps feel
sat 'S, thew ought to do what they can to
.--o her husband.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

THE <ery gun with which Gen. Put
billed the wolf is to be exhibited
:. No. fbe Worlds fair; but as every New
r.rlsnd historian denies that Wash
!lrt,n IA ever cut a cherry tree, the bur-
den den Of proof is on New England in the
80 Ter Of the Putnam wolf story.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

THE Orient and the Occident are
about to join hands. Commander Whit
ing of the United States man-of-war
Alliance, fifty years of age, is to marry
the beautiful and accomplished seven
teen-year-old daughter Of All Fong, a
wealthy Chinese merchant Of Homo
lulu whose princely style of entertain
ing is well known to official visitors tc
the Hawaiian capital.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-04-08

THE Western Society of New York is
tbs latest organization formed in the
great national metropolis; and there is
no doubt but it will prove a social
blessing to many who visit the east
every gear or so, as it will help to do
away with that feeling of lonesome
ness that so strikes stranger in a