People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-05

The Mardi Gras carnival opened il
New Orleans on March LIST.
Ex-president VIM. Fl. Harrison, is thu
father of girl baby in the Gath yea
of his age.
Blondin, the famous tight rope walk
err, the first man to walk rope across
Niagara falls, died near London recent
ly.
I H. G. Pendleton, a young Atlantis
man vas seriously if not fat ally beater
in Chattanooga for making impropel
remarks about young woman.
The notorious Princess de Chimay has
offered to fill an engagement at the
Olympia Music Hall, New York, a.
80, 900 per week. If her offer is accept
ed it is presumed that her gypsy para
mour, Rigo, will come with her.
Col. Carey W. Styles, the founder Of
the Atlanta Constitution, died at Steph
ensville, Texas, on Thursday of last
week. Col. Styles was a native Geor
gian and a member of the Georgia Sc
cession Convention. He moved to Texas
about 20 years ago.
1t is announced that Secretary of the
Navy Herbert, will not return to Ala
bama after his term expires. In be-
coming the plant tool of Grover, he
has lost the respect and confidence OF
his people at home.
Miss Hulda Duestrow, sister of the
millionaire hanged recently in Missou
for the murder of his wife and child,
has declared her intention of becoming
catholic nun. She has an annuity of
$50, 900 which will go to the church in
case of her entering the convent.
The approaching execution of Jack
son and Walling for the murder of
Pearl Bryan is the exciting topic of
conversation in Covington, Ky. Mrs.
jackson has urged her son to make a
cent.
At Soddy, Tenn, a negro, Charles
Brown, attempted an assault upon Miss
Lille Walker. Failing in his attempt
he hid in barn. When discovered by
the sheriff posse, he opened fiee upon
them, fatally shooting deputy sheriff
Sadler.- A mob quickly gathered and
hanged him to tree.
The noted old Kentuckian, General
Cashius M. Clay has applied for and
received pension of $50 per month.
Two years ago General Clay married a
fourteen year old girl whom he had
taken under his protection. Believing
she would not be cared for by his fami-
" after his death, he applied for pen
sion to make sure of her future sup
port.
An income tax bill is before the
South Carolina legislature. The bill
provides for tax Of l per cent on
incomes between 50, 500 and $4,000; ~
per cent on incomes between SIS, 900
and 81, 500; 2 per cent on incomes be-
tween 81, 500 and $4,000; "a per cent
on incomes between $4,000 and SIS 900
and per cent on all incomes above
SIS, 900. The bill will likely pass.
Antonio Scarwoski of Warsaw, Po-
land, and Marie DENTS of Venice,
were fellow passengers on the steam
ship Scythia. On arriving at Jersey
City last week they sought a justice of
the. peace and announced through an
interpreter that they wished to be mar
ried. Neither could speak the language
of the other but while crossing the
Atlantic they had done their counting
by looks and signs.
Consul General Lees kilograms to
Olney have been given to the public
In the case of Scott who was confined
for IA days in a narrow cell with water
sisted that war ships to back up his
demands if necessary, should be sent
to Havana OF he would leave. Scott
was most barbarously treated, being
furnished with water to drink at inter
walls of IL to "a hours, and the dis
charges from his body were removed
from the cell only at intervals of sew
eral days. Olney's replies to Lee are
not given.
A serious riot occurred on the streets
of Knoxville; Tenn, on Monday NOR =
ing. At an early hour the Citizens
Street Railway Co., set two hundred
negroes to tearing up the tracks on
Depot street. The city police arrested
the negroes and the Sheriff and his
deputies began to arrest the policemen.
The fire department was called out and
ordered to dispense the crowd by turn
ing their hose upon them. Serious
trouble may yet result from the con
fict of city and county officials.
The allied powers have determined
that Greece shall not take possession
of Crete, but that Autonomy shall be
the Cretans. 1t is recognized
that unless Bulgaria, Servia and Mon
tenegro actively supported Greece,
Turkey would be able to overcome and
Greece and in the former
case the peace of Europe would be
seriously threatened. Turkey is safe,
no matter what enormities she may
commit, until the great powers can
come to a satisfactory and amicable
agreement as to how her territory may
be divided among them. The Sultan
does not look upon such an agreement
as possible, hence he feels safe in the
possession of his territory and his free
dom to murder christians.
What seems to be a new chapter in
the history of Richard Ashe, the Aus
tralian murderer, has come to light. 1t
is declared on good authority that the
man of many countries and many ali