People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-05
ALL OVER THE NATION
The People of Sister States and
Their Movements.
ITEMS THAT ARE FRESH FROM WIRES
A South Carolina Preacher Kills his Wife.
A Son Born to.Grover Cleveland.
Kansas Woman Trying to
Reform Preachers.

An iowa husband and wife were ad-
mitted to an insane asylum at Mount
Pleasant at the same time recently.
On an Indiana railroad there is a
section hand who is graduate of q
college in Paris, and also of the Uni
versity of Madrid.
A son was born to the household of
Grover Cleveland, the former President
of the United States, at noon last
Thursday.
A chain bridge over the Merrimac
river at Amesburg is said to be the
oldest suspension bridge in the United
States. 1t was built in 1882
President Mckinley has issued his
-frst Thsrl1agivipg praclsraatioS Set
ting aside Thursday. November 18th, as
day of Thanksgiving and prayer,
Mrs Sally Betsey Jennings of Fair
field, Conn, who has just celebrated
her one hundredth birthday, is grand
daughter of Orpha Hamilton, who was
sister of Alexander Hamilton.
A post Office clock in Sidney, N. S.
w, emits an electric fashlight, lasting
five seconds, every hour during the
night, thus enabling those living miles
away to ascertain the exact time.
Two anarchists under arrest at Port
land, Ore, so annoyed their cell mates
by efforts to propagate their doctrines
among them that the other prisoners
petitioned the jailer for relief.
Miss Harriet s. Huntingdon, daugh-
ter of Bishop Huntingdon of Central
New York, has been nominated for the
school board of Syracuse, and is sup
ported by the progressive women Of
the set in which she moves.
Five men were caught in the Van
Storch slope by fire in that shaft and
persisted. When the firemen succeed
ed in getting the fire under control a
rescuing party entered the mine an6
found the five men dead from suffoca
ton.
DIR. Otto Nordenskiold, the well
known Antaric explorer, will superin
tend an expedition to be fitted out al
the joint expense of Norway and Swe
den, to ascertain whether any trace O
Prof. Andrees balloon can be found
near Prince Charles promontory.
Rev. ]. L. Burdine, Baptist preach
er living near Columbia, S. c., while Oh
protracted spree, killed his wife By
shooting her through the head with {
revolver, he then fired a So caliber bull
let into his brain, is living though I'm
conscious
The Rev Charles L. Berry, a Presby
teri&n minister, has been convicted a
Pawnee, o r., of looting the defunc
Poop e's bank and given 20 years in the
penitentiary. Berry is 60 years olt
and was formerly minister in Toledo
o. He spent several years in Kansas
City, where he owned and edited a re
ligious journal and was the pastor o
one of the most fashionable churches.
The new Mills hotel which has beer
designated the waldorf of the Slums,
located in New York, has been formal
ly opened. The hotel, which is nine
story brick building, trimmed will
light sandstone, is provided with baths
elevators, electric light and steam
heating apparatus. The main CORR
dor, which is as elegant as any of tn
expensive hotels up town, has marble
tiled floor. The rates will be 20 cent
per night, including bath,
Ella Barnes and Bessie Thomas, TIVE
sixteen year old cotton factory opera
tives, at Admission Alabama
quarreled over their mutual re
gard for the same youth. The Thoma'
girl advanced on the Barnes girl will
a pair of scissors. Miss Barnes threw
lighted lamp at her adversary, the
lamp exploded and the burning OF
enveloped Miss Thomas and she wa
burned to crisp before succor came
Her murderess is in hiding.
Kansas woman has reached tn,
conclusion that the preachers of he
state need reforming, and she ha
taken upon herself the task of bring
ing about reformation in them. Sht
is preaching to them against the grea
sin of using tobacco.