People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-03
THE LATEST. NEWS.
HAPPENINGS AS TOLD BY
DAILY PAPERS.
A VARIETY OF NEWS ITEMS
Collected and Condensed from
the Highways, By-ways and
the State Press.

Ten Thousand dollars have been
pledged for free library in Washing
ton city
There are now 1900 men at work on
the exposition buildings and grounds
at Atlanta.
The Parkhurst testimonial fund, New
York, now amounts to over $4,000.
The money will be turned over to the
City Vigilance League.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a first dividend of so per cent
in favor of the depositors of the Doxer
National Bank of Dover, N. II.
James Samuel Thomas Stranahan,
one of the oldest citizens of Brooklyn
by whom the town sets great store,
was eighty-seven years old on April
25th.
Frank Bowes, assistant general pas
senger agent of the southern division
of the Illinois Central Railroad, has
been appointed general freight agent,
to succeed D. B. Morey, resigned.
There is talk at Albany of creating
two additional assistant district attor-
neys for New York city to help out Dis
Mrict Attorney Fellows. The Office has
6,Ooo cases to look after, and is run
ming behindhand 800 to 1880 cases a
year.
Mrs Hetty Green has satisfied the
NewA York tax board that her legal
residence is Hampstead, Long Island,
r and that the assessment on her per-
bal property, valued at $l,5OO,OOO as
ssident of the city of New York,
.sgpe be maintained
am erlanes' the anonymous first
ook of poems published by Edgar A.
Doe, was sold by auction in Boston and
bid in by Dodd, Mead & Co., of New
York. for 81, $50. The only known COM
panion to this copy is in the British
Museum.
The Kansas City Democrats object
W Vic dRPAlSdVlOA Va btAN Liz GO
plan" in that city, as all the vacant lots
are needed for housing bogus voters
for registration purposes, The Au-
gusta, Ga, Democrats could object
upon like ground.
The Republican State League met at
Topeka, Kansas, on the 25th inst, with
an attendance of I, 900 delegates. They
expressed satisfaction with the Demo-
cratic tariff legislation, and pledges
a monetary system that will imme-
diately add the product of our silver
mines to the currency.
Secretaries Herbert and Lamont,
Postmaster-General Wilson and Presi-
dent Cleveland while on their way to
attend meeting of the farmers Club
near Philadelphia had their photos
taken in group. The Farmers Club
is ahead of the Chicago goldbug club
in the estimation of these illustrious
politicians. After the election they'll
grayitate to the tail end of the pro-
cession.
The Governor of Maryland has made
a requisition upon the chief justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia for Belle Farrall, who is
wanted in Charles county, Maryland,
where it is charged that she poisoned
her husband, Frank Farrall, December
II last, by mixing strychnine with his
medicine.
The will of Mrs. Mary E. Richmond,
of Batavia, N. Y, widow of Dean Rich
mond, the famous railroad and steam
boat man, leaves an estate of SIS, O0O,-
900 to be divided among her children.
Notice has been given, however, that
the will will be contested by Miss
Rosalind A. Richmond, of New York, a
gran daughter, on the ground of undue
influence by other heirs. Miss Rich
mond and her father were both over
looked in the division of the estate.
June 18th has been selected as the
date for the Iowa State Populist Con-
vention at Des Moines. Chas. A. Lloyd,
of Muscatine, will be temporary chair
man. Hewa the candidate of his party
for congress in the Second district last
year and refused to withdraw in the
interest of Judge Hayes, who was de-
feated by George M. Curtis, Republi-
can. He is opposed to political combi-
nations. Expressions for free silver
were freely made by members of the
committee
The famous Fort Brown (Tex) mill
tary reservation case which has been
pending before the War Department
since 1s4s and before Congress since
1870, was finally settled last week by
the payment of $4,000 to John A. Gar