People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-20
Items of Interest from ALI Sec
lions OF the Country.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
The News as Told by the Daily
Papors National and For
eign Occurrences.

0GbSl "a S9Nur1 VA N@tSH"tNS'1 "Nu
the nomination to succeed Senator
Pugh, on the first ballot, beating Ex-
Governor Oats by vote Of 81 to
26.
a Utah woman has been elected
to the State Senate. She ran agsins
her own husband and showed him
under by over four Thousand ma
jority.
The famous Ferris Wheel at Chi
cage has gone into the hands Of a
receiver. The company is nine
months in arrears on the mortgage
, bonds of 100000 and 10 SAID to be
totally insolgont.
Mr.. Ryan's scheme to get control
of the Seaboard Air Line road has
/ been baked BY President Hoffman
and his friends. The seaboard will
continue to be rcn 80 an independent
line, competing with the Southern,
and Mr.. Ryan is LETT with large
block of stock on hand for which he
paid exhorbLtanJ rates.
Policeman Lyman, Of Ocsls, Fla
fred into squad OF feeng crap
shooters on Saturday night, killing
one and wounding a second. The
officer surrendered himself and was
placed in jail. He claims to have
fred in order to brighten, not to kill
The Washington city book makers
are puzzling over the problem of how
to bs6 on the horses at the approach
ing races without violating the local
law againss betting on horse races,
At first glance it seems to be knotty
problem, but with this aid OF the
astute law makers now gathering at
the capitol they will doubtless sue
coed in finding solution.
An epiiemiO OF diphtheria is
threatened in portion of Northern
Louisiana. An entire family, six in
number, living near New Carthage,
has been wiped out by the deadly
malady. -Four children Of one family
at Auburn have d,ed and general
alarm in the stricken district prevails.
David Larick, confederate veteran,
and prosperous farmer of Lexington
county, South Carolina, was killed on
Satu lay By colored field baud
Frank jones. While MIR. Lariok was
driving some hogs, they we're attack
cd by cur belonging to the nearo
1Ir. Larick drove off the dog, which
the negro resented by striking him
on the back OF the head, killing him
an ost ias antly.
Omaha Democrats are drawing the
line. The J aoksoniAn club, the lead
ing Democratic organization, at ite
last me ling expelled q number Of
members for voting for MoKial-y
and ordered the pictures Of Carlisle
and Norton removed from the wsll.
of the olub room. WIZ other Deno-
cratic clubs dare follow the rexample?
The Army and Nay deparj ments
are sad to be quietly bpt actively a
woIk strengthening fort faatioas on
the coast and generally getting hing
into state OF readiness la the event
of trouble sPriuging up between this
country and Spain over tbs Cuban
question. Is 1t possible that some
symp Thy for the struggling patriots
has at last found Its way into the i'm
manse bowels Of the President?
Miss Seals, white girl about four
teen years Of ago, living near Nc
Kenzie, Tenn, was assaulted by q
negro, Charlie Allen. The grl was
choked into inaensibility, but as soon
as s9e regained consciousness she
gave the alarm and the f8nd was
soon captured. o. being identified
by his victim he wss taken ont Of
town by the infuriated neighborB OF
She unfortunate girl and his body
Tiddled with bullets.
Professor Sloan Of the South Caro-.
lina College, has scccessfuIly used
the y ray and phonoscope in photo
graphing the bullets in the bodies of
two wounded men, one bullet beipg
locsted in the shoulder and the other
in the ball Of the foot, Whist pgoteo-
ton will clothing be to modest PEG
pie after the opera glass is fitted up
with this new tangled light that goes
right through q two inch board?
An unsuccessful effort was mads
TO hnch three negroes at Her derson,