The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-10-03
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ings Throughout the World.

nah, Ca, is missing.
A special from Mason City, Ia, says:
A correct list of those who persisted in
the terrible cyclone last Friday night,
residing in this state, has been Sc
cured. In Kossuth county there were
10; in Hancock county, %; Cerro
Gerdo, 4 /; Worth, 8; Mitchell, 6, max
ing total of So.
Captain W. Howgate, a fugitive
from Washington, d. c., since the win
ter of 1881, was arrested at New York
Thursday charged with embellishments
and forgeries aggregating 1919, 900.
He was committed to Ludlow street
Jail by United States Commissioner
Alexander.
The London Chamber of Commerce
gave complimentary dinner in the
white rooms, Thursday evening, to
Hon. William L. Wilson, representa-
tive in the United States congress from
West Virginia. Sir Albert ye-Rol-
lit presided and a hundred British
and American guests were present.
AS result of the grand jury inves-
tigation of Chicago gambling, two
owners of property in which gambling
was carried on and keepers of gam
bling houses have been indicted. It
is expected that large number of
other indictm ents will follow and
thorough investigation of the charges
of police corruption will be made.
Ground was broken at Union Springs,
Ala, Thursday and work begun on
laying the foundation of the monument
to be erected by the Ladies' Memorial
Association in memory of the soldiers
who wore the gray. Thursday, Octo-
Der 4th, was appointed as the time for
laying the corner stone. Arrange
ments have been made to do this with
fit and appropriate ceremonies.
Tom Smith, negro desperate, shot
and killed three cOlored United States
deputy marshals and seriously wound
ed two white officers while they were
attempting to arrest him at the Mus
cogee Il. IT, international fair Thurs
day morning The deputy marshals
have organized posse and are IN hot
pursuit of the murderer. Smith used
a revolver and only fired four times.
Mandamus proceedings were begun
at indianapolis, Thursday, to compel
the school board to permit a cOlored
child to attend the school in Thorn
toms district. The officials have ex-
PEELED the child and are attempting to
force him to attend a colored school
some distance away. This is the first
time that the color line has been drawn
in the city and the colored population
are indignant. The case will be bitter
ly fought.
The large western distributors of
spirits and whisky met in Cincinnati
Thursday. The delegates organized
as the Western Distributors Associa-
ton, electing Frank Corning, of PEG
ria, president, and George Deter, OF
Cincinnati, secretary. While the rep
resentatives of the western distrlbu-
tors are all members of the Distilling
and Cattle Feeding Company, the
meeting had no official connection
with what is popularity known as the
whisky trust.
The Carnegie Steel Company, linn
tied, have given notice to its 5000
workmen employed at the Edgar Thorn
son steel works and furnaces at Brad
dock, Pa, of desire to terminate its
sliding wage scale contract with them.
A new scale is proposed, which, it is
said. will make reductions on all clas-
SEES of work except common laborers.
The posted notices contain the infor-
nation that the company will be ready
to present the new scale for the con-
sideration of the men by November
10Th. It is to go into effect January l,
1895.
Specials from various points in the
middle and coast regions of South
Carolina, regarding the West India
cyclone, report considerable damage
to corn and cotton, very serious dam
age to rice, but no loss of life. At
Georgetown the damage to the rice
crop is very great, and it is difficult
vet to estimate the loss, though many
put it at SO per cent. A large portion
of the April planting, either in stub
BILE or stacked in fields, foated of
with the tide, and June rice is, no
doubt, badly injured, for the water
was salt for some distance up the
rivers.