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EXPLODING BOILER KILLS FOUR.

Naptha vspor Caused Accident-Besldes
the Dead Others Were Fatally Hurt.
At6:30 o'clock Friday ev ming an
explosion occurred on the steamer
Nutmeg State of the Bridgeport Steam
boat company's line while she was
lying at her wharf at the foot of South
street, Bridgeport, Conn, and as re-
suit four men are dead, three others
are thought to be fatally injured and
a number more are in a serious condi-
ton.
The men were all connected with
the boat. Immediately after the ex-
plosion an alarm Of fire was sounded,
but the flames were quickly extin-
guished and the fremen had little to
do but to assist and care for the in.
jured. The explosion was probably
caused by the ignitiAg OF naphtha.
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soUrHERs PROGRESS.
New Industries Established In the South
During the Past Week.

New Industries Established In the South
During the Past Week.
Special correspondents, located at
the prominent trade centers OF the
south, continue to send in encourage
ing reports, and excepting the strike
among the coal miners, there are no
unfavorable features characteriSing
business conditions.
The iron and steel trade is active
and prices are steady. Several fur
naces have been blown in since July l
and the output is large, though not ex-
ceeding the demand.
The movement in lumber is good
for the season and the textile trade
shows improvement.
Among the most important new in
dustries established the past week are
car shops at Paducah, Ky; the Texas
Coal Briquette Co., capital $50, 600,
Norfolk, Va; the Hays Construction
Co., capital 800, 900, Charleston, w.
Va. q $4,000 fertilizer factory at
Cordele, Ga. the Worth Ice and Fuel
Co., capital 800, 900, Wilmington, N.
c.; the Texas Coal, Coking and Oil
Co., capital $3.50, 900, Garrison, Tex,
and the Empire State Rubber Co.,
capital 81, O0O, 900, Norfolk, Va. The
Railroad Oil Co., capital 500, 900,
has been chartered at Petersburg,
w. Va, the Hughes River Oil Co.,
capital 800, 900, Phillippi, W. Va;
the Dixie Oil Co., capital 500, 900,
Savannah, Ga; the Raocourci Cotton
Oil Co., limited, capital $25, 900, New
Orleans, La, and the Southern Tile
and Artificial Stone Co.. capital $25,
600, at Jacksonville. Fla. A SIS, 600
tobacco factory will be erected at
Monroe. La, and another to cost not
less than $25, 900 at Richmond, Va.
Woodworking plants will be establish.
ed at Brewton, Ala. Dexter, Ga, Kit
trell and State Line, Miss. /; 'Chatta'
nooga, and at Bluefeld, w. Va
Tradesman Chattanooga, Tenn.
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BODIES BLOWN 70 PIECES.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN ARMO.
RY OF WINCHESTER COMPANY.
SEVEN PEOPLE INSTANTLY KILLED
Accident Occurred In the Loading Depart.
ment-Four Women Among
the Dead.

Four women and three men were
killed in an explosion in the loading
department at the armory Of the Win
chester Repeating Arms company, at
New Haven, Conn, Wednesday. Five
Others were taken to the hospital badly
injured.
The dead are; William F. Banners
ter, Mrs. Mary Baumerster, Miss
Josie Bennan, Miss Ida Brown, Will
liam Hill, Miss Tracy Conroy, Ed
ward Barderf.
George Barderf and Edward Blair
were fatally injured,
The explosion occurred in the load
ing room. Employed III this room
were $50 hands, two-thirds of them
girls or women. Nearly oil Of the fe-
male hands are employed on the load
ing machines, each of which require
three operators. The full complement
of hands WAS ut work in the room
when the explosion took place. Forty
feet of the side Of the building was
blown out and hurled in pieces many
feet, and fragments of human bodies
were scattered in sickening manner.
Two of the bodies had been decap-
itated. Others had been partially
torn asunder, and still others had
been dismembered. The officials Of
the company expended every effort to
assist in the work of relief.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined, and perhaps its
source may never be known. Some
of those at work in the room at the
time say it was due to the fact that
cartridge in process Of loading had
been improperly placed in the ma.
chine.
The two Barderf boys, working side
by side, were thrown at tangent ont
one side Of the building.
Edward Blair, working ten feet away
at his machine, was sent upward
through the roof. He fell on an ash
heap, with broken bones and frac-
tured skull, and his legs twisted out
of shape. The doctors soy he, too,
will die.
Edward Barderf died after being
taken to the hospital.
II. G.. Bennett, president of the
company, expressed the belief that the
machine that exploded had been over
charged through the carelessness Of
the operator or powder boy.
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CHOPPED wIFE's HEAD OFF.

Anderson's Small Son Saws His Father
and Brother Did the Deed.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala, George Ander-
son, aged sixty-two, and son, Wesley,
aged fifteen, were arrested Friday on a
charge of numbering the formers wife.
A seven-year-old son of Anderson
says that while the family were trav-
cling through Jefferson, Tuscaloosa
and Shelby counties, old man Ander-
son held the woman while Wesley
chopped her head of with an ak.
He cannot tell where the killing oc-
Cured, but says he can lead the way
to the hole where the body was thrown
in.
Sheriff Shirley, of Tuscaloosa, is
trying to locate the woman, Anderson
claiming that she is in poorhouse at
Columbiana, and IL she is not there
the boy will lead the way to where he
says the body is buried.
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CUBA IN A BAD WAY.

London Chronicle Correspondent Draws
Gloomy Picture OF the Island.
The correspondent of The Daily
Chronicle LOndon) in Sagus La
Grande, province Of Santa Clara,
Cuba, writes to his paper terrible
account of the condition OF affairs in
the island.
Both the government troops and the
insurgents, he says, are suffering hor.
ribly from famine aud the ravages of
smallpox and. yellow fever, while
butcheries of prisoners after inquisi-
torial tortures are OF daily occurrence
if the victims be suspected of with
holding information.
Captain General Weyler, the cores
pondent says, las shown neither
mercy nor quaater, and has turned the
campaign in Cuba into near approach
to that OF duke Of Alva on Holland in
the sixteenth century.
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GOLD MEN ARE HOPEFUL.
Executive Committee Members Hold u
Meeting In New York.

Executive Committee Members Hold u
Meeting In New York.
The executive committee Of the ma
tional democratic party, the gold wing
of the democratic party, met at New
York Wednesday. There were on
hand w. d. Bynum, late of Indianap-
oils, and now of Brooklyn, chairman
of the national committee and ex. officio
chairman of the executive committee;
G. B. HOLMAN, Rockland, Me-; w.
d. Hsldeman, Louisville; John G.
Bullitt, Philadelphia; George F. Pea
body, New York; F. w. McCutcheon,
st Paul; w. w. Screws, Montgomery,
Ala, proxy for j. NJ. Faulkner; II. P.
Linn, Of Columbus, o., proxy for l.. c.
KrauthoA, of Kansas City; Charles j.
Canada, New York, proxy for j. P.
Frenzel, Indianapolis.
There was much disappointment
over the absence Of the three members
of the committee and also because OF
politicians, who had expected to be
present from Iowa, Kentucky and
Ohio, to talk over the prospects of
the fall campaign, did not appear.
Il. p. Linn, of Columbus, o., chair
man Of the state committee OF gold
democrats, said that the outlook was
very encouraging in Ohio. Mr.. Linn
stated that many Of the rank and file
who were Bryanites last fall had come
to a serious contemplation Of their
error and would be found with the
national democracy this year.
At the close Of the meeting Chairman
Bynum gave out statement. He said
that after discussion il was decided
to assist the states of Ohio, Kentucky
and Iowa this fall in their campaigns.
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PLANNING FOR BETTER ROADS
STATE GEOLOGIsT AND GOVERNOR
HAVE A GOOD SCHEME.
BULLETIN TO Be ISSUEDONSUBJECT
win Contain Valuable Information on
Road Construction, and May Solve Con-
vict Lease Prolen.

Professor Yeates, state geologist OF
Georgia, has inaugurated q movement
Tor the improvement Of every road in
the state, and has already taken the
first steps toward the naturalization
Of his plans.
Professor Yeates is strong believer
in good roads, and he will exert every
effort to make every thoroughfsre in
Georgia comfortably passable.
Considering the unsettled condition
Of the convict question, the movement
is particularly opportune at this time,
and may aid in the solution Of the
problem of disposing Of the state
criminals. Professor Yeates has the
hearty Endorsement of Governor At
kinson in his plan, and their efforts
may result in wonderful good to the
rural districts of the state.
Professor Yeates will soon issue a
good roads bulletin, which will largely
aid in the progress Of the work. The
bulletin will be complied with great
care, and will be largely conducive to
the future prosperity Of the state.
Professor McCallie, assistant state
geologist, will have charge of the bull
letin, and has already begun securing
data with which to begin. He will
start soon on an inspection OF the
whole state, and the report Of his
observations will be published in this
bulletin.
The bulletin will contain informa-
ton exceedingly valuable toward the
construction of good roads. 1t will be
handsomely illustrated, and will con-
tain the most up.to-date methods for
road construction.
The pamphlet will contain practical
lessons on the details of roadbuilding,
will point out the best materials, and
the most approved methods for grad
ing. 1t will make the work so plain
that every man can understand 1t, and
improve his property accordingly. Cop
les will be mailed to every farmer al
most in the state.
The soil of Georgia contains some
very fine material for road construc.
ton, which, il properly utilized, would
make the very best highways in the
country. The red shale, near Rome,
is particularly fine for roadbeds, large
quantities Of which are now being used
in aud around that city.
The ebert is also very fine for this
work, and the bulletin will locate and
describe these natural materials, giving
their quantity, how best prepared and
lai%1 The preparation of FIJI pomnbl At
means an immense amount of work
and a good expense, but the state will
no doubt be fully repaid for the ont
lay.
If the convicts are ever put to work
on the roads, and the directions of this
bulletin followed, there is no reason
why Georgia should not have as. good
roads as any state in the union. A
wheelman could then ride from one
end of the state to the other without
any trouble, and general travel would
he made much easier
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DISCOURAGING FOR STRIKERS.
Efforts to Bring Out West virginia Dig
gers May Fail.

Efforts to Bring Out West virginia Dig
gers May Fail.
Dispatches from Wheeling, w. Va,
states that Wednesday morning open
ed with the coal strike situation ma
terially changed in West Virginia.
The Watson mines, with 1000 men,
hold the key to the Paramount region,
for Monongah cannot be kept closed
unless Watson's men quit work. Debs'
failure to do anything with the Wat
son men at Reevesville was disheart-
ening, but the organizers have re-
gained their nerve, and early Wednes-
day morning general conference was
held to devise new plans.
The Kanawha Valley miners COM
mittees are daily presenting their de-
mand for an advance of Is cent? a ton
to last throughout the year. This
may cause a strike where sympathy
was impotent.
On the Norfolk and Western the or.
ganizers find little encouragement,
and there is no better outlook.
The strike in the state as q whole is
regarded as lost unless local senti-
ment can be made to figure sufficiently
to interest where sympathy is lacking.
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RACE CONFLICT IN ALABAMA.
Riverton Aroused Over u Lynching and
whites and Blacks Are Arming.

Riverton Aroused Over u Lynching and
whites and Blacks Are Arm,ng.
A race war was precipitated at Riv-
erton, Ala, Tuesday, and serious
trouble is feared.
The trouble was caused by q negro
attempting to assault q white woman,
who fought him off and aroused the
neighbour God. Searching, parties were
formed and the entire section was
secured for the negro. 1t is believed
that he was found and shot, but the
searchers will not admit it.
After the attempted assault became
generally known the white men be-
came incensed at the negroes and
threatened to run them ont Of town.
The negroes began arming and several
conflicts occurred between Them and
the whites.
Riverton is q town OF 800 inhabi-
tants and is the headquarters OF the
government work on the Colbert
Shoals canal. Several hundred work.
men are employed on the works, two
thirds of them white men. The trouble
can only result in the utter routing OF
the negroes and the possible e1termi-
nation Of them at the point Of guns,
for the white men are of the class that
fight with desperation.
In the surrounding country there
are hundreds Of negroes employed on
plantations, and if they should enter
the conflict race war of no small pro.
portions will inevitably result.
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no TRANSFERS FOR ATLANTA.
Consolidated Street Railway Company
Wins q Decisive Victory. ~


Consolidated Street Railway Company
Wins . Decisive Victory. ~
Atlanta, Ga, loses in her transfer
case. The decision Of Judges Newman
and Mccormick squarely knocked the
city's claim Of power to require trans
fers off its feet II left it not leg to
stand on, declaring clearly and def
nitely that not upon q single ground
upon which the city had based its
claim for authority TO force transfers
was there legal warrant for the action.
It went q step further. 1t made the
remark that the power sought to be
exercised went to the extreme munich
pal authority even under legislative
authority.
1t is complete victory for the Con-
solidated and thoroughly establishes
the fact that the company has the
right to name its own rate of fare
within certain limit.
The decision not only overrules
the city's demurrer, but goes so far as
to emphstically deny the right of the
city to pass an ordinance requiring
the street railway company to grant
transfers.
Most OF the public and many con-
nected with the case expected that the
decision would be different. 1t was
thought that q special master would be
appointed to investigate the case and
that the end would not come in pos
sibly two years, but the judges have
surprised every one with decision
that settles the litigation, so far as
their courts are concerned, definitely.
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MORNONS CAUSE TROUBLE.

Fairfield County, 9. c., 10 Not Inclined to
Tolerate That Sect
Information from Fairfield county,
South Carolina, is that il the intense
feeling between Mormons and Christ
ians is not allayed Immediately there
will be bloody work.
Following the successive burning Of
the frame and brush Mormon churches,
tho dwellings OF w. w. Collins, an
earnest adherent Of Mormonism, was
visited Tuesday night by a party of
men, who opened fire on the building.
Collins's large family was within range
Of the bullets, which penetrated and
wounded one Of his daughters in the
arm.
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LYNCHERS TO BE PROSECUTED.

Men who Hanged Ryder are known.
Conspiracy Charged.
The excitement occssioned by the
lynching near Talbotton, Ga, Of w. L.
Ryder, the murderer Of Miss Sallie
Emma Owen, has not yet abated.
It is known that fifteen men COM
posed the mob aud their names are
known. There is now little doubt that
the plan to lynch Ryder was made
several days preceding the date for
the case to be called, the conspiracy
having been formed on the supposi.
ton that the case would necessarily
have to be postponed, due to tho ILL
ness Of Colonel Worrill, the leading
counsel for the defense.
The mob seemed to have been or.
ganized openly. Carriages were hired
from the livery stable and the parties
left town by back street. There will
be no trouble in identifying large
portion Of those engaged in it, it is
said.
A secret service officer OF the United
States was in town at the time and he
says that it was evidently case Of
conspiracy. He has obtained the
names Of large number Of those sup
posed to have been engaged in it and
will lay the matter before the proper
authorities.
Governor Atkinson will be request
cd to offer reward later, II is also
stated that q detective was present on
some other business and caught on to
what was up, went to Waverly Hall
with the crowd and is now in posses
sion of all the facts and large num-
Der of names. Not being acquainted
with the sheriff, he and the secret SER
vice officers were unable to communi-
cate with the sheriff in time for him
to protect Ryder.
There is no doubt that the parties
will be prosecuted.
The body of DR.. w. L. Ryder was
carried to Macon Tuesday night and
on Wednesday morning the remains
were inferred in the family burying
ground at Walden, near Macon.
Judge John Hart, who presided in
the Ryder hearing Mt Talbotton and
who granted the continuance, express
es himself in regard to the lynching as
follows:
''The continuance was on the ground
Of illness Of leading counsel which
was proved by physicians certificates.
In their certificates the doctors stated
that while he was too i'll to appear in
court, Mr., Worrill would be we'll
enough to try the case by the Septem.
Der term.
"That made case for continuance,
Had ! not granted it, the supreme
court would have given a new trial,
thus protracting the case.
"There wac no application for a
change OF venue. 1 think that the
law should be changed so as to give
judges more discretion in that matter,
and allow them to change venue when
in their judgment the ends of justice
demand il.
"There was no indication of violence
while I was in Talbottom. On the
contrary, was impressed with the
good behavior of the people. do not
believe they approve what was done.
1t was the work of few lawless men.
"Lynching is always done by law
less element. Your paper is right in
saying that lynching is cowardly. II
that position was generally taken,
lynching would be less frequent. 1t
is an easy matter for sixteen men TO
murder one. hardly think the name
of one of those men could be found in
jury box"
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LARGEST GEORGIA MELON,

Weighs 10 Pounds, aud viii He Presented
to President Mckinley.
The largest watermelon grown in
the south this season was shipped
from Atlanta, Ga, Monday, for Wash
ington, and will be presented to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The melon was grown in Georgia,
weighs seventy.eight pounds, and
took the prize Of $25 offered by w. N.
Mitchell, southern agent Of the Balti.
more 4 Ohio railroad.
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SNOWSTORM IN COLORADO.

Three Inches Cover the Ground ut Cripple
Creek and Other Points.
A severe now storm is reported from
all the higher portions in the noun.
tain districts of Colorado.
Three inches Of snow is reported at
Cripple Creek, Aspen and Old Points
and one inch at Leadville.
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AUSTRALIAN GOLD FOR AMERICA.

II 10 to BE Shipped Here Direct From
That Country.
A special cablegram from London to
the New York Evening Post says:
Arrangements have been made to
ship direct to the United States con-
siderable amount Of gold from Austria
liza. This is not generally known,
and coming at o moment when gold
movements from New York to London
are looked for, will create much inter.
est.
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Cleveland and Bryan Invited.

The executive committee in charge
Of the celebration to be given at Ere.
mont, Ohio, September I'd, when Pres
ident Mckinley will visit the city, have
issued invitations to William Jennings
Bryan and ex-President Cleveland to
be guests Of the city the same day and
to take part in the exercises.
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SILVER AT BOTTOM PRICES.

white Metal Makes y New Record for
Low Quotations.
A New York dispatch says: The
silver market was unsettled Friday on
the decline in London. Silver bars
and Mexican dollars made q new low
record quotation for the last two years.
The decline since Saturday has been
7-S for bars and So for Mexican dol.
lars.
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A CHASTITY FIND.

Bodies OF Twenty.six Infants Found In .
Chusch Tower.
Special dispatches from Madrid
state that the bodies Of twenty-six in
fants in rough deal boxes have been
discovered in the tower OF st. Peters
church at Seville.
1t is supposed that Wholesale crime
has been committed by the church
warden, Orellans and his wife, and
they have been arrested.
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BOUND FOR THE GOLD FIELDS.

Steamer Leaves Seattle With Many Pas
sengers For Alaska.
Thursday afternoon the North Amer.
lean Transportation Company's steam
or Portland sailed from Seattle, Wash,
to st. Michael, Alaska, from which
point her passengers will be trans.
ferred to the Yukon river steamers and
carried TO the famous Klondyke gold
fields.
There were 1913 passengers, q few OF
whom were women.
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Wholesale Arrests For Murder.

Six men and two women are under
arrest at Trinidad, Col, for the muir.
der Of Deputies William Green and
William Kelly, who we're in search Of
cattle thieves, in 1896. Officers are
in pursuit OF two more men who are
implicated. ..s s5r
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A COLGRED POSTMISTREsS.

She Gets o white woman's Place In =
North Carolina Town.
Mary Guion, negro woman, re-
ceived notice from Washington that
she had been appointed postmistress
for Tar Heel, Bladen county, North
Carolina.
Mrs. T. B. Robinson, q white
widow who has been filling the posi-
ton, was turned down for the negro
woman.
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FURNITURE WORKS DESTROYED.
Big Factory Burned to Ashes at Cam
bridge, Mass.

The furniture factory of Keller &
Co., East Cambridge, Mass, was WIS.,
tied by fire Wednesday night, and
although the blaze was confined to the
top floor, the loss will be about
$25, 200, fully covered by insurance.
The top floor was taken up by the
furniture just finished for j. Reed
Whipple's new Boston hotel, La Tou-
raine, which was of special design and
very costly. This was all ready for
shipment and was destroyed. =.
Cobb, Bizzel e. Co. had a large guam
tity OF furniture stored on the floor
beneath and their loss will reach
$4,000. ....
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ANDREWS RESIGNED

Rather Than Forego His Free Silver
Convictions.
President E. B. Andrews. OF Brown
university, at Providence, r. l., sent
a letter to the faculty Thursday re-
signing his Office.
The letter was in response to com.
munication sent to President Andrews
by the special committee appointed by
the trustees and fellows in June, who
at that time called him to account for
his silver utterances.