THE NEWS,
—————
Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive Engineers,
has arrived in San Francisco to adjust the
difficulty between the engineers and the
Southern Pacific Railway Company. ——A
coroner's jury at Butte, Mont, put the re-
sponsibility for the loss of life at the recent
explosion in that city on the Kenyon Com-
mercial Co., and the Butte Hardware
pany. Several millionaires own property in
these companies, —— Will Ward, the section
band, who killed four men asd wounded two
south of
with
Lom.
others near Miilican, twenty miles
Bryan, Tex, and attempted suicide
morphine, has been lodged in jail at Bryan.
The convention of the woman suffragist:
was continuel in Atlanta, Ga.——Dud Eilis,
a farmer of Aurora, Mo, while insane kiiled
his wife, child aad bimssit - R R.
and Pat MeTigue, who ars neighbors
prominent farmers near Russellville, Ky, had
na diffloulty over a law suit about
It resulted in Lamb emptying the contents of
Lamb
and
some land,
a shotgun into MeTgue's left side, —Mulli-
han. Elliott, Roy and Harris, charged with
being the lynehers of Barrett Seotr, ths de-
faulting ex-treasurer Holt county, Ne.
braska, were released on $2 000 bounds by the
county judge, who decided that not enough
evidence had to
charging the prisoners with murder
first degree,
C. G. Schnellers’ frame building at Catasa
qua, Pa., used by the Union Foundry
Machine Company as a pattern shop, was de-
of
been produced warrant
in tie
and
stroved by fire. Sechnellers' loss is £2000,
£30.000. — Chancellor MeGill has at the in-
stance of Heary Johanson, of Rahway, N. J.,
granted a temporary injunction
the Johnson Railroad Signal
further parting with any of
Safe robbers rifled the safes in
its assets, -
Piace Pet:
L. and secured £10.00) worth of gold rings,
scrips, diamonds,
buildings in Costicook, Ma.
by fire,
of the Exeter Nationa! Bank, of Concord, N.
H., who was found gulity of embe
was sentenced to five years in state's prison.
His defaleation wrecked the bank,
Christian Zindlinger and her twin children
were burned to death a: their home ia Phil-
adelphia. ——A deficit of two thousand
lars was discovered in the
Postmaster Phillips, of Borlington, N. J.
Two men were killed and others seriously in-
jared by the explosion of a boller in Danver,
Moses Avener, one ofthe A, RK VU
fendants, was disc
cup in
Clough was sworn in as Govern
gota.
W. 8. Stratton has shipped from the
ous Mine, x
’
Creek district, one hundred tons of
'
ete, —— Twenty
were des: royed
Zioment
eM rS,
dol-
accounts of
de-
harged by Judge Gross.
Chicago, ——Lisutenant Governor
r of Minne.
fam-
Independence
in the Cripple
ore, which
is expected to yi
ald $1,000,000 at the smeiter
works in Denver, Some of the ore is rich
tellurium, which runs $30,000 in gold
less, af
ton, —James McCan mem!
of the firm of Me & fo
Pittsburg, died in Philadelphia, in his e
first year. Heart disease was the
Lis death, —— The shareholders of t
Commercial National Bank, of Denve
rmer
andiess, Johns
ghty-
aotitled of an asec men?
—e While attempting to
John N. Walsh
at Canal and Ad
killed by an explosi
workmen were
pipe leakage, when a slight explosion cen
ed, —— Mrs, L
Niles, 0. Charles
using a eandie examinin
abme “ide in
Jr.,
{ Lima,
ymmitte] sul
M. Hughes
eashier of the First National
ex-
Bank
charge of
O., was arrested ono a misappro-
wiating funds, Firebugs are again
f 8
ing uneasiness in and the fire
of that town bas been increased
Waynesboro,
department
~ Joseph Greenhut, president of the Whis-
key Trust, and E. B
tbe First National
appointed receivers of
Awrence, a directo
Bank, of
Disti
waiyjknown
as the Trust, —— The railroad war in the West
ing and
Cattle Feeding Company
caused the price ol slit coal In Chi
drop to £20 a ton, ~The will ol James
Fair disappeared from the county
office in San Francisco, —— Mes, U. 8. Grant
received and shook bands with a large num.
ber of the members of 8 Confederate
zo to
Cr
clerk's
veteran
association in Atlanta,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
to be chosen heir to the Siamese throne,
studying at Ascot College, Eng.
Ex-Senator Reagan, of Texas,
ed his reappointment as a member of the
Lone State's Railroad Commission,
Govoxer, Wanixa, New York's new street
cleaning commissioner; is cleaning the
streets, nnd in order to let no mud increase
under his feet worked his force on Sunday,
No one seemed to object to this, as the re-
freshing change in affairs is rather a sur-
prise tothe regular New Yorker.
Rev, Epwarp Davis, of Oakland, Cal, res
cently illustrated a sermon on “Eternal
Judgment” by assuming the character of
Ricbard IIL and quoting in a dramatic man-
per the famous soliloquy in the first scene
and also in the fifth act of the play, The
preacher's acting was realistic, There was
a big audience,
Priace Volkouski's name, as well as that of
Nathan Haskell Dole, lias been mentioned in
connection with the proposed chair in Har.
vard College to be devoted to the Siavonie
tongues, Prince Yolkouski fs a Russian no.
blemen who stands high in the estimation
of the Imperial Government, a man of some
reputation as a philologist, and a warm ad
voeate of the beaurosraey of the empire.
Tuoxas W. Palmer, of Detroit, ex-United
Slates Senator, ex minister to Spain and
president of the World's Falr Commission
was fn Baffalo recently, accompanied by
William A. Moore, one of the leading oll.
zens of Detroit. They ‘went to eall upon
their old college mate, Judge Charles Deck.
with, The three entered the University ol
Michigan nearly 50 years ago, and they have
been warm friends from that time to this.
On February 1st salaries of all employes
of the Florida Central and Peninsular Rail
road will bo reduced 10 per cent. “The
reason given for the cut is the falling off in
earnings due to the destruction of the crange
erop by the freeze, Bome of the train men
¢hroaten to strike.”
The President Sends a Message
to Congress.
BONDS NEEDED AT ONCE.
Business Disaster Should Be
Averted at Once~TIime for Patri-
otic Duty—-The Retirement of
Currency Notes Urged.
To the Senate and House of Representatives,
In my last annual messagas I commended
to the serious consideration of
the consideration of our National finances,
and in connection with the subject indorsed
the plan of currency legislation which at that
time seemed to furnish protection against
impending danger. ‘This plan has not been
approved by the Congress.
In the mean time the
the Congress
situation has so
threatening that I derm it my duty to ask at
the has
Government such |
as will restore coufiienos
soundness and avert
universal distress among our people,
Whatever may be the merits of the
outlined in my annual message as a re;
for ills then existing and ns !
against depletion of the go!
then in the sasury, I am now
that its rece
present advan
plexity necesciintes
legislation,
With natural resources unli
and productive sires
whose activity and
fair opportunity to a
and greatness, our progress
chec by a ial
needless disr
nor should
they engende
perity.
It 1s hardly
ment conirouts
one in any
in
our
ian
addy
v
i
the
aot
stage of
additic
fluancial
ked flaanc
disputed that this predioa-
to-lay. Therefore, no
us ¥
Free responsibis | tha
MAK~-
) id fail to
in bonestly and sincere
ve the situation,
BU CCee
iw
un-
Artis nship,
dministration to
An
resist
tion of
mitting «
disastrous
It is also of
we approach the study «
sented as free as p
4 ¥
the Td
ini
real trouble which
lack
onstantis
ing abilit
to pay its o
Ths lack ¢
ten: out ot
harrassme
Governme
gold,
poss
ure
ture a
The
ment
fale
be jase
mans certain that
ean mu
cradit :
Government,
Tae moet dang
of the situs
mentionad,
which tb
thus obtal
Government oblig
benefit of those who
ft abroad, or whose
hoard it at hon
We have on
millions of curren
ment. for which
when presented and in fact redeemed and
paid in gold they shall be reissued,
Thus the same notes may do duly many
times in drawing gold from the Treasury ;
nor ean the process be arrested as lone as
private parties for profit or others see
advantage in repeating the operation,
lars in
these notes have already been redeemed in
gold and notwithstanding such redemption
they are still outstanding.
Since the 17th day of January, 18M, our
sminded interest-bearing dett has been {i-
;rensed $100,000,000 for the purpose of oie
taining goid to replenish our ¢oin reserve,
090,000 sach—one in January, and the other
in November, As a result of the first issue,
there was realized something more than
$58,000,000 ia gold. Between that issue and
the succeeding one in November, comprise
ing a period of about ten months, nearly
$103,600,000 in gold were drawn irom the
Treasury.
This made tho second Imus necessary,
and upon that more than $58,000,000 in gold
was again realized. Between the date of
this second issue and the prusent tine, cov-
ering a period of only about two months,
more than $68,000,000 of gold have beeu
drawn from the Treasury.
These large sums of gold were expended
without any cancellation of Government ob
ligations, or in any permanent way benefit.
ing our people or improviag our pecuniary
situation,
The financial events of the past year sag-
gest {acts and conditions which should cere
tainly arrest attention.
More than one hundred and seventy-two
millions of dollars in gold have been arawn
out of the Treasury during the year for the
purpose of shipment abroad or boarding at
ome.
While nearly one hundred and three mil.
Hons of this amount were drawn out during
the first ten months of the year, a sun ug-
ting more thea two-thirds of that
amount, being about sixty-nine millions, was
drawn out during the following two months,
thus indicating a marked aceeleration of
the depleting process with the lapse of time,
The obligations upon which this gold has
been drawn from the Treasury are still out.
standing and are avallable for use in repuy-
ing the exhausting operation with shorter
intervals as our perplexities accumulate,
Conditions are certainly supervening tend
ing to make the bonds waloh may be issaed
to replenish our gold less useful for that
purpose,
An adeqnate gold resaryas {5 in all olrenm.
stances avsolntely mscential to the npholds
ing of our public eradit and to the mainte
nance of our high National eharacter,
I cannot wee that the diffsranses of opinion
concerning the extent to which silver ought
to ba colupd or need in our earrency shonld
{ateriere risk the as of thoss Shioss
uty 0 revtify evils now apparen
our finnncial situation,
the question of
he insixtel upnn ds to sliver or bimetallism,
a proper solution of the question Now pross.
ing upon us only requires a recognition of
gold as wall as silver, and a concession of
its importance, rightiully or wrongfully ac-
quired, isn basis of National eradlt, a nooss.
ir the honorable discharga of our
obligations payable in gold and a badge of
solveney.
I do not understand that tha real friends
of silver desire n condition that might follow
in aetion or neglect to appreciate the mean-
ing of the present exigenoy if it should re-
sult in the entire banishment of gold fron
our financial and currency arrangements,
Besides the Treasury notes, which cer-
tainly should ha paid in gold, amounting to
nearly £500,000,000 <here will fall due in
1004 £100,000,000 in bonds Issued daring the
last year. for which wa hava received gold,
and in 1907 nearly 2609.000,000 of four par
cent, bonds fssusd In 1877.
Shall the payment of thess obligations in
rold he repudiated? If they are to be paid
in such an manner as the preservation of our
National honor and National solvency de-
alty
mands, we should not destroy, or even im.
peril, our ability to supply ourseives with
gold for that purposes,
While 1 am not
gllver nnd while 1 i
recognized to such an extent as is
consistent with floancial safety and the
preservation of National honor and eredit,
I am not willing to gold entirely ban
ished from our currency and finances, To
avert such a consequence, I believathorongh
and radical remedial legislation should be
yromptly passed, [I therefore beg the Con-
gress to give the subject immediate atten
tion,
In my opinion the Secretary of the Treas
vry should be authorizad to fssus honds
the Gov it for the purpose o! procur-
ing and maintaining a sufMal { re
nt gold
serve and the redemption asd cancellation
uniriendly to
desira to sen it
Hees
ol
ram
‘reasury notes jssuwd for the paurchass
r under the law of July 14.
Ya should ba relisaved from th
ou issuing bonds to procure
to be | sdintely and repeatedly
drawn out on t + obligations for purposes
not relisted to the benailt of our Government
Our neopis,
The principal and interest of these bonds
piuyable on their facs in
hey should be sold oaly for
iis represontative, and ba
now probably be diffiealty in favorably «
posing of bonds not containing the stipula-
tion, 1 suggest that the bonds ba issued in
denominations of twenty and fifty dollars
and their maitiplies, and that they bear in.
terest at a rate not exceodiag three per ¢
per anna m.,
I do not gon
able fifty
present
s hnmilise
ot
or
gold be-
gold or
muse thers would
wld be
t
fn TY 46
why they should not be pave.
ir date, We ol
Iargns amounts to
ligations, and loag
« The Secretary of
ba pe y
the
MIS ror
eration
si
on
der existing laws conid be
sosited by National banks as sacurity for
culation, and such banks should al-
*uiRtion
to issue eir
of these or any
br
other bon
4 f » 1
standing in «
iin ti
lowed to
ROTO ¢ SEO
when
1% Treasu
io ) ienom!
an npwaris jesus a th
Niiver cortifleates of
$10 and u
vat on of
g
wards should
the provisions |
i be ex bodied in our
a complete re
inl condition,
ot interfers with any
bave sug
AW we
. i
§ oy at
ins
in
waring obligations 10
the not terest-bearing legal tender
Ia point of fact, however, tiiess notes
burdened us with a Iarge load of inter.
and it is stili aceamainting
he aggregate ints
fssae of bonds, the proceeds o
conditute the remerve
those notes, amounted
anuary 1, 1805, and annual charges for
jterost on theses bonds and thoss lssaed for
1 same purpose daring the last year will
be £9.145,000, dating from January 1, 1885,
While the canecsilation theme notes
sould not relieve us from the obligations al-
on their account, these
tires are given by wa suggesting that
their existence has not en free from inter
st charges, and that the longer they are
outstanding, jo lging from the expeciensse
the iast year, tie more expensive they will
pars Of
ra-
4
rest original
which in gold
for the pa
to $70.3
#
nt of
J the
$
of
fig-
Of
of
In conclusion, I desire to frankly confess
my reluctance to issuing more honda in
present ofreumstances and with no better
results than have lately followed that course,
I eannot, however, refrain from adding to
an insurance of my anxiety to co-operate
mvith the present Congress in any reasonable
measure of relief, an expression of my de-
whieh
furnishes a hope for improving the situation
wr checking a suspicion of our declination
sr disability to mest with the strictest honor
lho National obliga fon.
Grover CLEVELAND,
The Executive Mansion, Jan, 28, 1845,
sms ss —.
WORK AND WORKERS.
sn hii
The Riverside Iron works at Benwood, W.
Va , was placed in operation jn all is de
tartments, affording
ment,
The $2,000,000 plant of the Ohio Steel
Company, at Youngtown, to begin
operations this week. About 500 men wil
Le employed,
The Buckeye Glass Company, at Martin's
Ferry, Oblo, yesterday succeeded in getting a
number of non-union men past the strikers’
pickets and into the works,
About 500 employes of the Union Pacific
Rallway, between Council Bluffs and Chey-
sane, were aid off, and the men at the Se.
dalia shops wero put on hall tima
Agents from the new Michigan coal flald
are said to have offered Ohio micers 85
conts a ton for mining-—au advanes of 33
cents over the rate paid by the Ohio oper
ators.
It is reported in Chattanooga, Teanesses,
that the United Leather Company will move
| » tannery, the largest in the world from
there to Filntstone, Georgia, the cause being
heavy taxation,
Two thousand miners employed in the
con! mines of BL Clair county, Illinois, are
hreatening to go on strike for a highm
sonle of wages, as the scale, it is said, is not
oqunl to that paid in Central and Northern
Lilinols,
- ol
Assrohists Expelled From Switzerland,
Eighteen Italian anarchists of Lugano, one
of the three capitals of the santon of Tieino,
ho in nit
fet hgiged in smile. sya
5,000 men employ.
iw
[HE ELBE SUNK.
in the North Sea,
OVER 300 LIVES LOST.
Only Twenty-One Persons Known
to Have Been Saved-The Sur-
vivors Nearly Frozen-Life-
boats Swamped.
steamer Elbe,
for New
York via Southampton, has been sunk io coi-
The North German Lloyd
Captain Yon Gossel, from Bremen
lislon with the British steamer Crathie bound
from Rotterdam for At the
of sending this dispatch the exact loss cf
has it
Aberdesn, time
fe
that £4 was
is unknown, bat report
The dis surred belore dny-
light at a point some thirty
of I
The fi
Lowestoft
enormous, peter oc
miles from the
Hook
from
ish flsbing ports,
lispateh was received
haat it was reported
MnCKs
Later dispatches
t reg
bad minimi
Many dispate
sking bin had resc
However,
tivmet
Sates,
United
THE
From the details now at hand it is learne
that the EF. be was proceeding ni her
usual rate of i
fhe
was Do gaie,
speed an i Keeping ‘he ordinary
jpokouts, tidgh. was dark, butt
Suddenly the forward look
on the E be reported to the officer on dec
that the Jights of a sie immer were close aboard
over the port bow
Before the courses of the Ei be could
changed so ns to sheer her off from the ap
proaching steamer the latter struck her
abalt the going
Just
engine. room, thie
sticking her nose almost through the hall o
the Eile. For a
Elbe on ber nose, but then her engines wen
she had made, Az she dil so the water
rushed into the E be in a torrent and sbe
Legsan immediately to settle,
The most energetic efforts on the part of
the North German Lloyd Steamship Com.
pany to find any additional survivors of the
disaster to the Eibe have proved unsucoess*
ful, and it is probable that the twenty per’
sons landed at Lowestoft, on the northeastern
corner of Suffolk eounty, England, are all
that aro now living of those who were on
board the Elba when she was in oollision
with the British steamer Crathie in the
North sea,
The officers of thas Notth German Lloyd
have given for publication the following fig
ares as the total number of persons on board
the Elbe:
First-cnbin passongors .........ccvievvine
Second eabin..........
Steerage, .........
OMonrs ANd OrOW. ..o..ccovinssnvncnsesy 148
18
31
187
EERE R ARR R RRR EE ran '
Total....0R DOBId. cocoon vrreninnsiniss By
LioBh sivsceavicansnnnssnansnnnnsnnrsnvss 34
ss nn IIIs
Miss Kare Fixro, the well-known Wash.
ingtonian, and George Riddle, the elocution.
ist, who are the niece and nephew of Mra
il. Banford, of Newpor:, R, 1. are contest.
ing the latter's will, Mrs. Sanford having
leit n large slice of her e<tate to a friend.
and ION
M. EAnxgrr CAn¥ot, the second son of the
Inte President of France, has beea elected 10
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
SENATE
Tuinry-Eront Day, The reading of Presi.
dent Cleveland's message on the financial
situntion formed the most interesting feature
of the United States Senate, Most of the day
wis taken up by the passage of the House
Lill, with Benate amendments, disapproving
an agreement with the Southern Ute Indians,
providing for their removal from
10 Utah,
Tinry-Nixtit Day, — President Cleveland's
financial message bins again started the cure
rents of sen iment on the financial question
iu the 8 nate, Mr. Maanderson, of Neuraska,
presented a compromise pl Ia reply .
Mr. Teller, of Colorado, s the significant
declaration that no such compromise legls-
ation could effected at this session of
Longress,
Fortier Day, —Inthel
much feeling was expressed
sions on the financial
man urged the Benate
irom the Finanes Comp
f framing a bill, he dec ared,
tie. Mr. Bherman arraigned
cates of free silver for pushing
paral, zing legi
he
Colorado
Bye
De
d States Senate
the
question, Mr,
to
discs.
Bher-
the subject
ere the 1
Was hopeiers,
jitlee, {ASK
Ly reason of a
the adv
lemands to the point of
He as«erted 1
uid reac
imple
Hor Dresent emner-
on present em
suey © bonds
such that
smMyings in
the governme
WAS also
hail
inistiatd
od bist
uh Banking
order was
A special
1 iat ryt fy
Hepreseniativ
fie matler was 8 ric
our wa« devoted
Latlroad Wil
iebate on the
—————
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
Tare American Hotel at Florence, Ala . Was
destroyed by fire, No lives were Jost,
Tur Red River line steamer Nab F. Doteh,
#lruck a snag and sank fourteen miles below
A'exandria, La. No lives were lost,
Two children of Johh Raybeck, at Dayton,
Key., were killed by the explosion of a ear
of coal ofl, and a third was fatally burned.
Drownlee & kaw mill at Deuray,
Michigan, was wrecked by a boiler ex
vas
plosion
aud Frank ( ollain, the engineer was killed
Murs. Many Hoor, a widow, and ber 3.vear.
vid ehild were found frozen 10 death at Ww ar.
saw, Ind. They lived in a single room, and
when found were without fuel
Myrtio Towsend, aged 18; Elsie Hughes,
13, and George Cro sty, 18, while skating at
Green Bay, near Fort Madison, Iowa, broke
through the ice and were drowned,
A tornado struck Covington, Tenn. blew
off the top of the court Louse and demolished
a dozen residences and a score of barns and
outhouses, The damage is $30,000,
A nEan-xxp collision oceurred on the East
River Bridge, near iis Brooklyn side in
which three passengers were injured, one
seriously. Traveling was suspended for ap
bour and a balf and the footways and wagon
roads were packed with pedestrians
William Killoy and George Gates, of Fai
Haven, died of exhaustion at Lake Salton
stall, near Now Haven, Conn,, while atte pt.
ing to make their way through the brokes
loa. Their frozen bodies were discovered ye
ing near tho edge of the Lake, They had
been fishing and broke through the fee,
A Lanark soction of scaffolding surrounding
the top stories of Fort Dearborn building, »
12-story building in course of erection in Chi
cago, was blown across the street by a vio.
lent gust of wind, smashing the plate glass
windows of soveral stores and injuring eight
pedestrians, ous of them, H. IL, Erwin, fa
tally,
A dispatoh from Teli City, Ind, says that
the compleio report regarding the loss of Ii ¢
by the sinking of the styamer Sate of Mis.
sourl, piace the lows of life at 18, This in.
oltides the cabin crew, the oarpenter, one
5
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
Epitome of News Gleansd From Various Parts
f the Btate
decided in
Wilker,
The Jeddo Tunnel Ca
invor of the tunnel
Barre,
The House amended the Gobin
$0 f
1 we for ser
Vile J I
Wernersville Asyi
fs 10 pro arate nye
if Norristown and
hinstown god
Farmers met at J
eke for
to foreign Luliding associations 101
lefrauding them,
President
was
i carry their cau
Al a
imorality at I
meeting of the Co
{arrisbu
1 § a rout fe thea
point omnmiltee investigale the
£ » aovn le : whois wey d 3A FLT Be
uarges against Aor i 3 Ang YY erpers
ville Asyiuns
Hyphant, closeq itv
8
Bale uperinlend
aisr the trust ¢ my any
nent and Cashier Stone
exzlemenut and forgery.
yrved
an
Was arresied
¢
PORTE emt
1 PY fan g
It is reg that the famous Je
be settled
ihe total atstinence societies of the Beran
; i a1
ton Boman Catholic Dik
fo
pM TY
i Esherite
Evangelical Association
3 f
the vicinity of Dellef
Waller Harvey made an atten
r-da-law, al West (
THE MAFIA AGAIN.
nieione, a larg shoe n
of the wea thiest Italians
The letter demanded that he g
+. in the same section of the
Sate as and place $21
sid
m ons 0. the
hind a tree roods, which wo bo
known Ly a red mag haoging i
Limbs,
It
teed,
stated that the woods would be closely
and advised tha: no po ic» be
It thr -atened assassi.
nation in case the po.doe were notified,
ught to the scene,
but
the
lics and appeal {or protec.
Mostelone was very much frightened,
lecided to
the i
nally places the mailter in
bands of
tion.
The police and better elass of people think
it is a genuine letter, and that the Mafia
which has been «lent since the uprising of
1801, bas again sprung into ex sience,
The Mafia is a secret oath-bounl society,
whose members are pledged, on pain of
death, to obey any order of their superior
officers and to execute any death sentence
passed bry the society.
The high-hand d course of this society,
which was charged with the asassination of
Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, who bad
been active in prosecuting its members, led
10 an uprising of the people of New Orieans
on Saturday, March 13, 1801. A band of
citizens went to the county jail ani took
therefrom eleven Sicdian prisoners and exe.
cated them. The uprising was precipitated.
by the failure of a jury to conv.el, notwith.
standing clear evidence of participation on
the part of the prisoners la the sssassination
of Chiel Hennessy,
st ———
KILLED IN A COMEDY.
A Pisiol Pointed in Amateur Theatricals
Proved to Be Loaded.
News of a sensational tragedy eascted ip
Chambers county, Alabama, jast across the
Georgie line, has reached Logrange. A T
Davidson was killed by his brother Will. The
two, with their sister, Mrs, Jones, and a
Mrs. West, wont from Lafayette, their home,
to Daviston, to give a musical entertain.
ment,
The two Adams boys were giving a com.
ody in which a pistol was to figure. William
drew the pistol at the proper time and pull.
od the trigger. He wag horrified to see his
brother drop, and when it became kuown
tion, No one scomed 10 know how the pistol