The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-15

dieted in Arkansas for robbery, as has
also Sam Martin. who was with Morgan
field and Searcy prior to the Aqua Creek
robbery.
Birmingham, Ala. Feb. i4-The sale OF
the Highland Avenue and Belt railroad
property of the Elyton Land Company to
the Columbian Equipment Company was
ratified by the directors of the Elyton
Land Company at a meeting held in this
city to-day.
Lumpkin. Ca. Feb. 14-The oat crop is
dead. The wheat crop is ruined. Farmers
will begin to sew oats again as soon as
the ground is dry enough. Very little
fertilizer is being SOLD here--not one
third viii be sold this year as has been
for the past years.
Lynn, Mass. Feb. 1.-THE women
stitchers employed in Maurice Flynn's
shoe factory. in which vhere has been
trouble, Joined the strikers yesterday.
There are about thirty of them and they
say they will not work on shoes handled
by non-union employees.
Dover. Del, Feb. 1.-THE forty-third bal
lot for United States senator was taken
by the legislature to-day, and showed
no important change from previous bal
lots. The vote was; Higgins, rep. z; Ad-
dicks. rep, 4; Massey, rep, 4; Wolcott.
dem, 4; Bayard, dem. 3. Absent. S. Nee
essary TO choice 10.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE Episcopal
funeral services We're held over the re-
mains of Gen. James n. Bethune this
morning and his body was sent on the II
O'Clock train to Columbus. Ca, there to be
met by his daughters, Mrs. Hansard The
interment viii be In the old family buryng
ground near Columbus, Ga.
Biarritz. Feb. 14-Richard Trenholm
Prioleau, son of the late g X Prioleau
of Charleston, S. c., was married here this
morning to Miss Elise Gurdon. daughter
Of Phillip Gurdon, land owner in Suffolk,
England, and formerly q captain in the
Coldatream guards. The ceremony was
performed IN Chappelle st. Euginie, by
Able Larre.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The naval medi,
cal board has rejected 2. A. Jonas ap-
pOintmsnt by the president and confirmed
by the Senate to be an assistant pay
master in the navy. The candidate, who
is a son of ex-senator Jonas of Louisiana.
and nephew Of Representative Never of
that state was rejected on account Of
physical infirmity.
Mount Sterling, Ky, Feb. 1.-THE
Montgomery county grand jury has in
dicted James Roach, Richard Foreman
and Charles Sledd for the lynching of Tom
Blair. Sledd is a son of the sheriff of the
county and has disappeared. Foreman
and Roach were brought out of jaiI for
bail, but they waived bail and will remain
in jail until next court
London. Feb. l4-sir Thomas Roe.
member of parliament for Derby, has Civ
en- notice in the House of Commons that
tomorrow he will ask the government
what Information has reached them
in reference to the imposition of the
death sentence upon w. II. Richard, a
British subject, for alleged participation
in the revolt in Hawaii.
Paris, Feb. lin consequence of the
quarrel which occurred on the occasion
of the recent funeral Of the ex-k.ng Of
Naples, Comte De Bari sent a challenge
to q duel to the Duke Of Parma The
latter has written the comte letter in
reply to the challenge in which he says
that on the occasion OF the dispute he
said more than he meant to, and in
view of the time which has elapsed since
the difference, he declines to appoint
seconds.
New Orleans. La, Feb. 14-Three high
waymen this morning at 8 o'clock held
up Baker Christian Frieck at the corner
of Esplanade and Rampant streets in
the heart of the city, commanded him to
sisted the attempt and a fight ensued
between the garrotters and their would
be victim. During the struggle one of
the highwaymen pulled a pistol and
fatally shot q milkman in the breast and
then the trio made their escape and
have not been arrested. The city is run
over with thugs frcm the colder section
Of the country.
Martins Ferry O., Feb. 14-At an early
hour this morning a dynamite bomb.
loaded with slugs, was thrown into the
office Of the Buckeye Glass Company.
wrecking that portion of the building.
Manager Humphrey and one of the non
union men sleeping in an adjoining room
narrowly escaped death, as they were lust
on the point of opening the door leading
to the office when the explosion occur
red. The explosion shook buildings with
in q. radius of half a mile. The bomb
throwing is ascribed to the strikers.
President Seamon of the Buckeye Glass
works when he learned of the attempt
to wreck the factory announced his inten-
ton giving up trying to work and will
abandon the plant entirely. When work
ing fuzzy nearly 800 hands are employed.