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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12
FLoRLpA,s LEaIsLATuRE.
The Work Of the Commit ees Begin
ming to Bear Fruit.

The Work Of the Commit ees Begin
ming to Bear Fruit.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April 1.-THE leg
stature has now got down to solid work
and the work OF the committees is Begin
ming to bear fruit.
House bill No 2, defining the duties OF
common carriers, was ordered engrossed,
the regular order being suspended by the
speaker, and in the Senate the bill providing
Tor a commission to assist the supreme court
In dsposlng OF accumulated business was
put through. This measure is one of first
Importance. The condition OF the docket
III TINS court mas become a serious matter.
In the House the veto of two bills by
Gov. Fleming in 1891 was sustained, one
being the famous measure regulating the
redemption of lands sold under foreclosure.
Thirteen bills were placed before the
Senate, ana the House was also literally
supplied. The supply is, however, clearly
becoming exhausted, and the flow of new
legislation Is likely to soon be checked. This
Will hardly prove public calamity, unless
the bills be of more importance than many
that have already sprung up in the native
hotbed.
Senator johnson introduced bill moor
porating the Tampa and Western railroad.
The more important among the House
bills introduced to-day are:
No. lis, by Mr.. Foreman, to abolish state
and county boards of health, except in
counties having port Of entry.
No. ll9, to reduce the sch Dol tax.
No. ia, by Mr.. Priest, relative to a
board of examiners for certain railroad em-
ployes.
WEEKS CONTEST.
The committee on privileges and cleo
tlons met this afternoon and continued the
examination into the contest over the seat
OF Senator Weeks, the third party man
from Washington. The evidence in this
case is not suggestive, but voluminous, and
the committee will have to move rapidly to
get through it Tomorrow
G. J. Martin. who is contesting the seat.
is confident of success, and Tallahassee will
soon see list OF little third party oraces.
Mr.. Vaughan of Escanbia has been
elected chairman Of the House side Of the
Joint committee, to consider the financial
condition Of the state, whose task is by far
the most important and difficult of any
that will be imposed upon a committee this
session.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

The grip continues to do deadly work in
New York city. For the past three weeks
each weeks mortality report has showed a
larger death rate than the week previous.
Last week there were 1913 deaths in New
York, of which SIG we're caused by pulmon-
airy complaints During the week previous
the total number of deaths was J., 1863.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

Miss Mitchell. the Chicago young lady
who Travelled 10000 miles without putting
her feet on the ground, has kindly promised
not 20 write book. VIII she please also re-
frain from going on either the stage or the
Fosrrt1r,,g
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

An unsophisticated visitor to the post
office department was the unwilling cause
Of considerable commotion recently. His
business took him into the Office of the ep-
poiutment clerk. This Office is connected
with the Offices Of the department clerks by
system of electric calls centering in a
small square over a table. The visitor was
invited Co be seated for q moment until the
appointment clerk bad dispatched a piece
OF business. Being from way back, and
thoroughly democratic, the visitor bounced
upon the table and leaned back. AS be did
so the back OF bis head pressed against a
dozen electric push buttons on the wall and
set as many bells jsngling in the offices OF
the clerks, who were thereby frightened
half out OF their wits. For a ring from the
appointment clerks Office meant their
presence in his office was desired, which in
turn meant that they would probably be
informed that their designations were de-
sired. With heavy hearts che dozen clerks
laid down their pens and marched to the
appointment clerks Office. There they
learned the truth, and while inwardly ours
ing the countryman for frightening them,
they blessed their stars that It was he who
rang.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

The New York HerGld'S usually reliable
South American news service made "slip
up" in the matter of that outrage in Peru.
On Monday the Herald published dispatch,
in which it was said that no outrage had
been committed on United States consul
late in Peru, but that in Bolivia a consulate
Of this country had been attacked. The in
ference drawn by the Herald was
that Minister Hicks had been
hasty. The Washington dispatch concern
ing the matter, published in the MORNING
News yesterday, indicates that it was not
the minister who was hasty. Meanwhile
the Herald'S report of an outrage in Bolivia
ia without confirmation. However, that
the state department has no report of it
does not indicate thatsu an outrage did not
occur. For some time it has been notorious
that the HeraIds South American CORE
spondent has been more prompt than the
official correspondence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12
The Junior SENATOR'S Cards.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.1.


The office-seekers of Georgia have IA griev-
ance a zainst senator Gordon OF that state He
answers their applications for Office by using
postal cards, and they are angry at his stingi-
ness. and the opportunity he gives every one
through whose hands the postal cards pass Of
knowing who the hungry are and at what sec
ton OF the pie counter they are standing 1t
may be, though. that Senator Gordon has hit
upon a shrewd method of discouragng the
the same time save postage stamps 1t looss a
little cowardly, however, for a man who wants
office to be afraid OF the fact becoming known.
II hs doesn't want it to DC made public he had
better lot apply, or inclose stamps for an an
sWer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12
a Wooden Mil Burned.

WORCESTER, MASS, April 1.-THE Eagle
wooden mill in Hubbardstown was totally
destroyed by fire early this morning. The
cause is unknown. The loss is 5000 to
800 600.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

A number of the Georgia colonies will re-
turn from Washington after awhile and
write for their respective papers little pieces
ending thus: "Now is the time to sub
scriben
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

The navy department recently issued an
order prohibiting officers and men in the
service from acting as correspondents of
newspapers. An explanation Of the cause
OF the order has just been given out. Dur
ing the Chilean war, it is said. two naval
officers stationed at Valparaiso were in the
pay OF certain New York newspapers, to
which they wired frequently 'inside" news
concerning the movements Of both Balma-
coda and his opponents. These reports were
wired back from New York to Balmaceda
or the oongressionalists, as the nature of the
information made it of interest to either
side; thus the contestants obtained infOrma-
tion that they could not otherwise have OBJ
tanned. This statement, by the way, also
explains the source Of newspaper corre-
spondence which Minister ERan was strongly
suspected of having furnished.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

Those Of the "smarJ set" Of New York
who patrouize the fashionable hotels and
clubs refuse to be served by bearded walters
or bewhiskered coscnmen. Why this should
be SO cannot be explained, except that it is q
''fad." To meet the requirements Of the
ultra-feshionebles whom be entertains, Mr..
Astor, proprietor OF the "smartest" hotel in
New York. has issued an order that oil Of
his walters and cabmen must sacrifice their
hirsuit adornmeuts forthwith They may
not even affect the little two-inch David B.
Hill ''siders" up in front Of their ears. The
same rule has obtained at Delmonico's for
some time. Recently the walters union
protested against the "injusucen Of this
fad. But it makes no difference; they must
shave or 20.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

The New York legislature is now within
less than week Of the day fixed for its adj
tournament, yet there are over 600 bills on
the calendar, the anti-hoopskirt bill among
them. The consequence will be a rush
from nov until the adjournment, during
which nothing will receive proper attention.
Blu. this is the way all legislative sessions
end.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

Lawyer Elmermann, Of Milwaukee, would
probably lend $40 to any man who asked
him for it, for be has just become the bene-
ficiary of an angel accommodated unawares
Twenty-three years ago, in Chicago, man
named Walter applied to him for loan of
$40 with which to buy a ticket to st. Louis
He was dead BROKE" but said he could get
job 10 st. Louis if Elmermann would let
him have the money. He got it, and the
lawyer forgot ali about the transaction until
a few days ago, when he received notice
from Houston Tex law firm informing
him that Walter was dead and had left him
sole heir TO an estate of $l7 600.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

THE BEerNNINa OF IT.-"Henry. have some
thing 10 say to you"
Go aGead, my dear am all ears"
" know you are, but that doesn't alter mat
tiers at all."-HGIper'S Bdzdr.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

The Republican National League, as well
as the republican national committee, viii
assemble at st. Louis on May 10. The poll
ticians of the &. o. p. are exerting them
selves to make this double event the com
mencement of boom for their party. Since
the landslide of last fall there has been no
meeting of persons in authority in the Re-
publican party to decide where they are
'at," consequently the coming meeting
of the national committee will
be matter of interest to
everybody, democrats as well as repub-
hcans. 1t is believed by persons on 1.-THE
inside" that James 8. Clarkson will be retired
from the presidency of the national league
at the coming meeting, and that Joseph B.
Foraker, the Ohio lrebrand Will be elected
to succeed him. The democrats would ask
nothing better. The craftsmanship of the
national committee will 90 to M. H. De-
Young, of California, or be retained by
Tom Carter. Besides attending to other
matters it is possible that the coming meet
ings may ease the minds of dozens of
anxious journals by discovering the identity
Of the greatest living republican"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12

a Suuuen Death from Paralysis.
ATLANTA, GA, April 11.-Dr. R. j. Bates
of Statewide, Ca, was stricken on the
street here to-day with paralysis and died
Tonight.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-12
Overhaullng tho Departments

Clerks in the treasury, interior and state
departments are made very uneasy by the
announcement in the newspapers that there
is to be pretty thorough cleaning out of
the barnacles in those departments. There
is some truth In it, though the removals
will be made for cause only. And the civil
service rules will not be violated in the
least.
In all OF the foregoing departments there
are men and women who render practically
no service. There are even men holding
positions of great responsibility who have
never taken the trouble to make themselves
acquainted with their duties. They depend
wholly upon their clerks, who not infre-
uuently are as inefficient as their superiors.
Quite large number of employees in the
interior department have already been dis
charged. The work of the department can
be carried on satisfactorily without them,
or at least with the assistance of a few ad-
ditional competent and energetic men. The
state department. is said to have more than
its share of barnaces. some of whom have
lived at the expense of the government
many years without doing much for the
salaries they receive.
The purpose is not to displace good men,
but to get rid Of the worthless ones.
1t is pretty safe to estimate that the serv-
ices OF several hundred people could be dis
pensed with in the departments at Wash
ington without injury to the service. For
years and years the heads of departments
have been making places for the friends Of
senators and representatives until the de-
partments are 30 crowded that the
clerks are In each others way. Three or
four clerks do the work. in not few in
stances, that one competent clerk could do
with ease. Places once created remain in
existence because no one takes the RESPONSE
bility of abolishiDg them.
1t looks as if this administration was 60
ing to give the departments thorough
overhauling. They certainly need it. By
the discharge of useless employees and max
ing those retained do a full days work.
many hundreds of thousands of dollars an
nually could be saved.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The follow
ing is the outline of the report made
by the subcommittee to the full com
mittee on banking and currency yes
terday for bill to repeal the 1O'Iper
cent tax on state banks:
Section l. The tax of 10 per cent
against bank notes, etc, paid out and
as currency is repealed.
Sec. 2. Except as below provided,
no state bank notes, etc, will be paid
out and used as currency outside OF
the state of their issue, except subject
to penalty of 10 per cent each time
paid out.
1t is not expected that this penalty
will be generally collected.
Sec. 8. State bank notes may be
paid out and used as currency Tout
side of state issue on compliance with
certain conditions providing for their
redemption, etc.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14
MOST DAsxSG ROBBERY,
The Plano. Collin Con- Bank Is OYnamited
and Robbed by Experts.
THEY GET AWAY WITH si9,44a.ao CASH.


PLANO. Tex. Dec. Saturday
morning between and > o clock the
Dalton gang, or some other gang.
came and went. and the Plano ma
tionai bank momns the loss Of 3d.
1880 Of its good and lawful money.
The first intimation of the robbery
was when Bookkeeper Wallace Hugh
ston ana Cashier r. G.. Jasper arrived
about 7.sd a. IN for the purpose Of
opening ~ for the DAYS business.
They we're surprised TO find
thu door q the vault open,
the combination broken oil and
lying On the floor. An inspec-
ton Of the inside Of the vault
revealed tho fact that the safe had
been blown to pieces with dynamite.
A picce of the fuse eighteen inches
long with a cap on the end was found
on the floor Pauers and money were
scattered pell nell all over the floor
Of the vault. A dark lantern was
placed on a shelf and one Of the bank
lamps was found on what was left Of
the ,aie. The safe had been over
TUNED 10y the use of iackscrew.
which was afterward found in lum-
Der yard about 200 yard, from the
scene Of the robbery. and the floor
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WAsHINGToN, Dec. mir. Hit OF
Illinois, ex-chairman of the foreign
affairs committee, introduced two
resolution yesterday bearing on the
Hawaiian policy of the government,
the first calling for papers in the case
and the second declaring it the sense
of the house that Intervention by the
United States in the affairs of Il
friendly recognized government to
disturb or overthrow it and substitute
a monarchy therefor is contrary to
the policy and traditions of the re-
public and the spirit of the constitu-
ton.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Senator PEI
fer stated yesterday that his subcom-
mittee, which has been investigating
the depression in the food producing
industries, had completed its work
Discussing the report to be made, he
said that speculation and our financial
legislation were the general causes OF
depression, Mr.. Petlor says the COM
mittee will make recommendations as
TO the remedies for the existing evils,
but he is not prepared to say what
these recommendation will be until
the report is submitted to tho full
committee, which will be done soon
after the Christmas holidays.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

LUNGVIEw, Tex, Dec. Little
Henry Horton was standing in front
Of the cattle chute while the cars
passed. A boarding car, which is
much wider and broader than other
cars which pass the chute, caught the
boys head and rolled it tho entire
1ngth of the structure, eighteen feet,
grinding his blood, hair, teeth and
brains in the rough planks, Henry
was only 10 years. His younger
brother was the only witness to the
Incident.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WACO, Tex, Dec. Sat an early
hour yesterday morning the yardmas-
ter of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
entered the pumping house and dis
covered William Brown, the pumper,
dead in his bed. There were no traces
of pain on the dead mans face, ami
everything indicated that after getting
the pump in good order for the night
he retired and died while asleep with
out a struggle, probably from heart
disease. For years William Brown
has run the engine.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The decis-
ion of the ways and means committee
not to take up the tariff bill in COM
mittee until Monday leaves the time
of its being reported to the house in
great doubt. When the committee
takes it up Monday there will be a
general discussion of its provisions,
and the Republicans may decide 10
to offer amendments. The Democrats
of the committee have been consult
ing, and while no agreement was
reached, there seems to be an under
standing that the bill, even if report
ed before the holidays, will not be
called up for discussion until after the
holiday recess. The Republicans will
probably have several meetings be-
tween now and Monday to consider
what action they will take.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WAsHINGToN, Dec. s. -During the
morning hour yesterday resolution
authorizing additional clerical force
for the house aroused some opposition
from Messrs Sayers and Kilgore and
Cannon of Illinois took occasion to
chide and reproach the Democratic
side with backsliding in its pledges
of retrenchment and reform. Tho
resolution, however, passed. Upon
the announcement of the expiration Of
the morning hour the house resolved
itself into committee of the whole
for further consideration of the bank
ruptcy bill Representative Bailey Of
Texas, in charge of the opposition,
antagonized it.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

along, as did The hay inside. There
were but few persons around and they
did what they could but their puny
efforts awaited nothing. A general
alarm was turned in and the fire
companie, wcre on the ground
in few minutes, With the
inlammabe character Of the build
ing and cont3uts. and with the
wind in addition. the department
could do little Five streams were
at once turned on tine stables, from
front, rear and sides, but the Grcmen
might just a. well have been trying
TO uuench the fires of the hereafter.
Ii was known that inside the stables
We're large number of mules. Sew
eral men tried to 90 to the rescue Of
these animals. but the intense heat
drove them back. and through the
thick, rolling clouds Of smoke it was
impossible to sec three feet ahead of
you. one man did succeed in with
standing the heat, and, cropping his
way around, he saved three Of the
mules. but sixty were roasted to
death 1t was a sic5ening thing.
The beasts brnyed and uttered the
most peculiar and appealing cries as
the flames slowly consumed them.
The odor from the great barbecue was
nauseating. Many a man, hearing
the poor animals braying. tried to
rush through the impenetrable wall
Of fire and clouds of smoke and had to
fall back The buildings in the rear
of the stables on Elm street and the
frame structures to the west of them
on Main street had caught fire in the
meantime and we're burning right
along. The department, fighting at
great oddsi accomplished wonderful
things. They stood in the thick of
the fire from beginning to end and
never faltered. 1t is impossible to
give n complete list Of the losses and
insurance at this time; Dallas Consol-
dated Street Railway company's sta
bles, motor cars, IA mule cars, 13
cars for repair and 90 head Of mules,
25O bales of hay, tools, appliances, etc,
about $l7, 900; insurance, 81, 800. Pat
sy Connerty, saloon, building and con-
tents, $4,000 insurance $2500. Mrs.
Kelley boarding house and contents,
$4,000 insurance $500; a meat mar
liet kept by man whose name could
not be learned, $500; insurance
$1,000. On Elm street there we're four
frame buildings destroyed valued at
$4,000, with an estimated insurance of
$1,000. one wa 4 butcher shop, two
We're grocery stores and one was Il
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14
A Groon's Predlcamcnt.

A bride tells OF difficult moment
of her recent wedding trip A few
days of it were spent with an uncle
of hers, very deaf and very ptous.
When they sat down to dinner on the
night OF their arrival, with a consid-
cradle company OF relatives assem-
bled to do them honor, tl'Zgecle ex-
ploded bombshell by asking the
groom to say grace. Much embar-
raised, as he was pnaccustomed to
officiating in this way, he leaned for
ward, murmuring request to be ex
cused, Whereupon the uncle, watch
ing him, only waited until his lips
stopped moving to utter a sonorous
amen" in response. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that not only did
the blessing for that meal go unsaid.
nut also that the effort OF everybody.
except the uncle, to keep from
laughing quite took away the appe
vites for the first course.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WAsuINGToN, Dec. 11.-Almost all
of the field work of the geological sur
vey has been abandoned, and the
work is now confined mainly to the
south. The temporary field assist
ance, of which there have been 200
in round numbers, have been dis
charged. The scientists permanently
employed by the bureau are gather
ing in the city, preparing the reports
on the work done during the past
summer During the summer field
parties were scattered over the
United States, with the greatest pro-
portion in the west. Some of the
field work is in progress in California,
and probably these parties will re-
main at that work in that state during
the wiister, Active field work will be
resumed by the survey early in the
spring of next year.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The senate
met at noon yesterday with very
light attendance. A motion by Mr..
Gormon, dem. OF Maryland, that
when the senate adjourned it be to
meet on Monday next, was agreed to
Mr.: Hill dem. OF New York gave
nooce that o. Monday next, imme-
diately aftcr the conclusion of the
rning business. he would move to
up for consideration the bill to
peal the federal election law re.
ported from the committee on jud :.
ciary. Several minor bills were passed
in executive session. Adjourned till
Monday.