People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-08-06

1872. 80. He was discharged, as it could
not be shown that he possessed $40
worth of property.
Theodore Schmitz, prominent Chi
cago lawyer, is under arrest on the
charge of EN- bezzling $1,000 given him
for investment.
Smallpox has again broken out in
Birmingham, Ala, there being so cases
in the pest house and detention camp.
All negroes.
In 38 hours, "Pedro" a carrier pigeon
of South Bend, Ind, flew from New
Orleans to his nest, distance of 1000
miles, breaking the worlds record.
Charles Schank, of Chicago, awoke
! speechless one night eleven years ago.
| He has had his speech restored by use
of electricity after this long silence.
John Willie, a young man of Rich
mond, Va, tried to kill Miss Mollie
Jenkins, because she refused to marry
him
A felon on the thumb of Wash Du-
rant, a South Carolina negro, has prop
agated worms in the member, and
number have been extracted.
Troopers Bertrand and Jackson, of
B. troop, Second U. S. Cavalry, were
drowned Friday night in reservoir at
Denver, Colorado.
]. H. Ingraham, indicted for the
murder of John l. Hoss, escaped from
the jail at Clayton, Ark, one day last
week.
There are threats of lynching Ben
Vaughan at Perry, Okla for shooting
into crowd of children at Sunday
school picnic.
A Swedish colony from Illinois has
purchased 1000 acres of land on Mo-
bile Bay, Ala, and will make their
homes there.
General Wade Hampton, U. S. Com
missioner on Railways, is in San Fran
cisco on his annual inspection tour of
government aided lines.
Forty steamers have been chartered
to ship grain from this country to
Europe. They will take 1000, 900 bush
els of grain.
The Negro Chautauqua Association,
which was to be held at Talladega,
Ala, August 5th, has been postponed
to December 20.
A cyclone struck the farm of A.
Mcdowell at San Jose, H., last Friday
killing seven people and seriously in
juring three others.
Matte Pardon and Francesca Oclepo,
two girls of Passaic, N. j., were fined
$25 each last week for combining two
pet robins in a cage.
The Brownlow Car Company of st.
Louis, one day last week, filed deed
of trust to f. W. Thompson for $751;
1884, SO.
An express train on the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Rail
way was derailed near Thornton, Ind. :,
on the SOth ult., and four people were
killed.
An attempt to kidnap Ernest Ochs, a
wealthy Williamsburg, N. Y, brewer,
on last Thursday, failed. The object
was to get a heavy ransom for his re-
lease.
The Natchez Cotton Mills of Natchez,
Miss, suspended last Saturday on ac-
count of lack of raw cotton. Three
hundred people were thrown out of
employment
Sunday August 1st was hot day all
over the country. At St. Louis. Louis
vile, Atlanta and several places the
thermometer ranged between 9S and
1O1.
Captain James Whalen, of Union,
N. Y, jumped on a bicycle Saturday
and pursuing a runaway, caught the
horse. In the carriage were his wife
and children, frightened but uninjured.
The Grand Army men Directing tc
the Confederate flag, the ex-Confeder
ates of Springfield, Mo-, have refused
to go into a parade at coming re
union,
Governor Barnes, of Oklahoma, is
charged with appointing marshals fol
portion of their fees. He denies the
charges which are filed with Attorney
General McKenna in Washington.
Anton Lucki and Angelina Musca
t limo eloped Sunday in Hackensack
II N. ]. The girls father pursued the