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The Frostburg News.
VOL, I. NO. 1.
It cost only $5 to inaugurate the
Populist Governor of Colorado this
year. _____ _
A St. Paul (Minn.) judge recently
awarded a citizen $5 damages because
a motormun refused to stop a oar for
him.
Bald-headedness is a more common
affliction of men than of women, but
the men say this is due to the greater
mental activity of their sex.
The present tendency on English
railways is to lower the price of
second-class tickets. In Scotland
there are no second-class cars at all. .
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In referring to Boston at the recent
dinner of the Sons of the American
Revolution in New York General
Porter said : “Boston is not a city ; it
is a state of mind.”
An English writer says that “Mr.
Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary,
holds fast to the soothing belief that
when a man has walked up stairs to
bed he has made as much demand on
his physical energies as is good for
him, and that exercise was invented
by the doctors in order to bring grist
to their mill.”
Complaint is made in Paris that
wealthy foreigners are conspicuous by
their absence this year from the Rue
de la Paix, the street with the richest
bait for opu’ent customers. The
trouble seems to be that these rich
travelers pass through the capital to
the Riviera and other winter resorts
without tarrying to squandor their
cash as before.
Noting the fact that the losses by
fire in the whole country were some
($7,000,000 lessin 1896 than in the year
previous, the American Architect con
cludes that this gratifying decrease is
due in great degree to improved
methods of construction. This view
of the cast, L unquestionably warranted
to a great extent by facts, but a con
siderable share of the credit also be
longs to increased promptness and
efficiency in the fire service in our
great cities. The steady improvement
in appliances for extinguishing fires
end the admirable system with which
they are employed constitute one of
the most important features of muni
cipal government, and they are fac
tors of incalculable importance in the
general problem of preventing the
destruction of property.
From the seventeenth annual report
of the New York Free Circulating
Library, it appears, by actual obser
vation in April last, that in history,
biography and travels a larger per
sentnge of works (mostly juvenile,
loubtless) is taken out by children
Ilian by adults. The library has be
gun a sort of card catalogue of eriti
jism * ‘clipped from the current literary
magazines which were formerly sold
for old paper,” to be accessible to the
public. Books too hopelessly worn
out are no longer sold as waste, but
are devoted to the city asylums and
prisons. These economies remind us,
says the New York Evening Post, of
the use of the discarded leather cover
ings of car seats on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for bookbinding in the
traveling library maintained by that
road.
The New York Tribune says: Nina
miles east of Uniontown, Penn., on
the north side of the old National
turnpike, in a field belonging to the
estate formerly in the possession ol
■James Dickson, is the grave of Brad
dock, which is still well cared for and
tended. Pious hands guard and dock
the resting place of the gallant but
unfortunate warrior, who, here amid
the wilderness, fell asleep, Ins find
action, though of bravery without
stain, linking his name forever with
calnmity. The grave is protected by
a fence and surrounded with trees,
some of them brought from his native
country and planted there. There
are an English elm, two English
larches, two Norway spruces and
a willow from one of those grow
ing above the grave of Napoleon
at St. Helena, and there are also sev
eral varieties of American shrubbery.
It is in better keeping than the graves
of the great majority of our Revolu
tionary heroes-—more shame to us—
and the hands of those stretched out
to protect and adorn it have been not
only the bringers but the carriers
forth of honor.
WORTH KNOWING.
A child just born has less chance of living
a year than an octogenarian.
Fully one-third of the land in Great
Britain is owned by the members of the
House of Lords.
Europe has four times as many cities as it
had in 1831, and the United States fourteen
times as many.
The whole number of members of the
Christian Endeavor Societies is 2,836,748.
There are more than 47,000 societies.
An acre of good fishing ground in the sea
will yield more food in a week than an acre
of the best land will do in a year.
There are nearly a quarter of a million
more men than women in Australia, and in
New Zealand also women are in a minority.
| The gold yield in Western Australia for the
i year 1398 amounted to 281,265 ounces, being
! in increase of 49,753 ounces as compared
I with that of the previous year,
j Spain’s wretched showing in agricultural
• pursuits is said by the British Consul at
Cadiz to bo due to the use of primitive imple
| ments of the time of Julius Caesar.
The Mosque of St. Sophia, at Constanti
nople, was built o\ r er 1003 years ago, and the
mortar used is said to have been perfumed
with musk. The musky odor is still per
ceptible.
Denmark's foreign egg trade has grown to
tremendous size, mainly with England.
Twenty years ago the annual Danish export
of eggs -was 600,033, now it is reckoned at
111,000,000.
Paris is making the venture of laying down
mahogany roadways. The Rue Lafayette
lias been pulled up and relaid with real
Brazilan mahogany of a peculiarly line tex
ture and color.
In India there are 100,000 boys and 627,030
girls under tbe age of 14 who .are legally
married, while 3000 boys and 24,030 girls
who have not attained the age of 4 arc
under marriage bonds as arranged by their
parents.
The Spanish sombrero was worn practically
as it is now over two thousand years ago. In
Cuba and in Spain it is possible to see in the
dress and habits of the people many such
survivals from a remote antiquity.
Statistics show that 90 per cent, of the
children in Quebec schools do not attend
after they are 12 years old. and also that the
average attendance in the Montreal schools
only covers about two-thirds of the children
of school age.
A shopper in a Brooklyn department store
engaged the shopgirl in conversation and
learned that, although the young lady was
twenty years old and had been born in
Brooklyn, she had never been to New York
in all her life. When she was asked how that
happened she answered. “Oh, t don’t know;
I’ve always gone to Coney Island.” Some
i one who has made a point of looking into
the matter says that there are hundreds of
persons living wfthin 10 miles of New Y'ork
who have never yet been in that city.
WORK AND WORKERS
The plant of the Russell Counter Company.
Woburn, Mrss.. has shut down on account
of slack business. About 250 employes are
out.
The Aetna Nut Company’s nut works (mil
colling mills, at Southington, Cona., are at
a standstill, and the works-of the Southing
ton Cutlery Company are running on short
time.
The Alice Mill of the United States Rubber
Company, at Woonsocket, R. X.. started up
after a 10-day shut down. It is running
eight hours a day, aud employing 1.009
bauds.
In accordance with a vote of the executive
committee of the Edgernakers and Sole Fas
teners’ Union of Brockton, Mass., at a meet
ing. the men employed in those departments
of the factory of T. D. Barry & Co. struck.
In-Boston, Mass., as a result of the granite
cutters’ strike, the granite manufacturers
have arranged to put at work a large number
of Italian cutters. If the Italians do not
answer the requirements men are to be
brought from New York to take the strikers’
places.
The condition of the dockers’ strike at
Luddington, Mich., is more aggravated.
Manager Crapo, of the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Railway, will not discharge non-union
men. The strikers offered to work for 13
cents an hour. The new hands are cut down
to 10 cents per hour.
The big Derby Cotton Mill, at Shelton,
Conn., at which 27 weavers recently struck,
has been permanently closed by Robert
Adams, the owuer. Mr. A.lams ordered all
unlinished work shipped to his Patterson,
(N. J.) mills. Two hundred hands are
thrown out of employment.
All of the factories of the Peck, Stowe A
Wilcox Company, manufacturing edge tools
and general hardware, at Southington, Conn.,
have shut down indefinitely. This throws
out of employment a largo number of hands,
who for the past six months have bocn
working on a short schedule.
The Lowell (Mass.) Carpet Mill, who oper
ate one of the largest carpet mills in the
country, shut down for one week owing tc
the light demand for carpets. Impending
tariff legislation makes it unwise to stort
carpets at present. The curtailment of pro
duction will affect 2,500. employes, while it
will keep the market well in hand. Repairs
j also be made in the interval.
KEEI) IS RENOMINATED.
He Wilt Be Speaker of the New Blouse
of Representatives.
A despatch from Washington says:—The
caucus of Republican members-elect of the
Fifty-fifth Congress, which was held Satur
day night, voted by acclamation to renomi
nate Ex-Speaker Reed and all the officers of
the last House to serve during the Fifty-fifth
Congress.
The slate chosen follows:
j Thomas. B.Tteed—Speaker,,
j Rev. Henry M. Condon—Chaplain,
i Alexander McDowell —Clerk.
I B mj. F. Russel!—dorgeaut-at-arms.
j W. J. Glenn—Doorkeeper.
Joseph C. McElroy—Postmaster.
The result of the caucus was a foregone
conclusion. An effort to change the rules of
the House had been expected, aud a strong
speech was male in advocacy of su:li a
! change by Mr. Walker, of Massachusetts,
i but the attempt Washed ia the pafl. There
were 175 of the .203 Republicans present.
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER, DEVOTED TO LOCAL NEWS AND HOME INTERESTS.
FROSTBURG, MD., MARCH 19, i 89 74
AMERICA’S FIRST.
JEANETTE WAS THE PIONEER
ELEPHANT of this country.
Death of the Old Ueast Said to Have
Come to This Country in 1833
and to Have Had Forty
or More Owners.
JEANETTE, an elephant which
most showmen believe to have
been the oldest in the United
Satesand the first ever brought
to America, is dead at Peru, Ind. Her
age is known to have been 116 years.
The Chicago Times-Herald says she !
has been a tenant of menageries in j
this country since 1821.
Jeanette really died of old age. Her
skin was wrinkled and drawn and her
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■JEANETTE, AHEIUCa’s PIONEER ELEPHANT.
eyes had that peculiar lackluster ap
pearance which always accompanies
decrepit old age. Jeanette had passed
through the hands of so many show
men that to anyone of these her entire
history is practically unknown. She
came in possession of her last owner
in 1885. Previous to that time, it is
estimated by those who know scraps
of the aged elephant’s career, she had
been owned by at least forty different
i persons. She was of African birth and
was sold for a bagful of gold. Anyone
who saw her, and was familiar with
elephants, would know in au instant
that she was an African. Her oars
were of the enormous, “umbrella”
kind, which make elephants look not
unlike huge foxhounds.
The first that was known of Jeanette
: in this country was in 1823. At that
tune an agent of au American menag
erie was m England, and there saw the
elephant, in company with a number
of ethers just arrived from the Cape,
j ns Africa is termed in Britain. She
| had been employed as a working ele
| pliant for some time in Africa previous
SETTLING AN OLD SCORE. WEAKNESS FOR LEMONADE.
■ (Two scenes in the life of Jeanette.)
| to her purchase by an English official, j
| who was engaged iu gathing a small ■
j herd to export to England. At that j
j time, it is asserted, there was not au
| elephant in the United States. The
j agent from America conceived the idea
j that he had found a tremendous card j
I for Lis menagerie. He purchased i
j Jeanette for §25,000. The purchase j
was the talk of London.
The next thing to do was to get I
| Jeanette to the United States, and that
I was no irifling matter. The year
| 1823, it must be remembered, was far
! in advance of the ocean greyhound,
I and the voyage across the Atlantic for
even a human being was considered
an event. The agent, however, was
equal to the emergency, and one June
day when a clipper ship sailed from
Liverpool she had aboard of her, snug
ly stowed in the hold, the bulky form
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THE DUEL.
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;of the comparatively youthful !
Jeanette. Detail is lacking as to how
| Jeanette enjoyed the voyage, but she
: reached New York with but a few
I abrasions ox the skin and a sour tem- j
per.
Naturally Jeanette created a sensa- [
tion in Gotham. People came from a |
great distance to see her lodgings not :
lar from Battery Park. Then her
owner placed her in a tent, because
the lodgings were not large enough to
accommodate the people who came to
see her. Be made lqpney rapidly and
j Jeanette waxed fat and strong. Af- i
ter a while patronage began to slacken j
a bit, however, and Jeanette’s owner, [
who had long ago given up the idea of [
| placing her in any menagerie except j
{ his own, put her m a wagon that was j
! considered a triumph of architectural j
skill, and with just enough other j
things to justify him iu calling his
outfit a menagerie started oat to tour i
the east. |
Jqanette’s fame spread far and wide, !
and after exhibiting her until he had
made his fortune her owner sold her
to a menagerie. How often she
changed hands after that even the
THE FUNERAL.
best posted menagerie and circus man
! refuses to estimate, beyond the fact
| that it was at least forty times. It is
! certain, however, that there has been
no prominent menagerie iu the coun
try in the last half century which has
! not had a claim on Jeanette at one
time or another. When elephants be
gan to be common Jeanette’s fame
faded. Bhe was probably the most
traveled elephant the world ever
knew. The fact that she fell from the
pedestal of fame so many years ago
did not sour her temper, for she was
always considered a special pet by
everyone who ever had anything to do
with her.
Although possessed of this good
nature, she was resentful of fancied
or real injuries, and if she once took a
dislike to a person woe betide that
unfortunate individual if he ever
ventured within reach of her trunk.
Jeanette had an antipathy to a
painter named Fraser, which seemed
to turn her against all painters. Once
she broke loose and discovered a gang
of painters outside the gate on their
way from work to dinner. Bhe gave a
shrill warning and thundered after
them. They ran as fast as they could,
but Jeanette gained so rapidly that
they were forced to take refuge in a
barn, the great doors of which swung
right open. Jeanette pressed them
so hard that they climbed up into the
haymow, and there the elephant kept
them until their cries for help brought
aid.
Jeaneito was not a large elephant.
She weighed only three tons. She
had a persuasive way, however, when
ever she took after anyone. To tell
the complete story of her escapades
would be an almost endless task. The
greater portion of them were good
natured, and she was never known to
really hurt anyone who had not in
jured her. It was a favorite piastime
! of hers whenever she broke loose in
• the menagerie tent to make for the
; lemonade venders, put them to flight
and drink all their lemonade. This
she seemed to consider a mo3t delight
fui treat. The same method of treat
| ment was applied to the men aud boys
! who dispensed candy, and Jeanette
j appropriated so much of their stock
j that they grew to be afraid to venture
i near her.
Tire people of Peru mourn for Jean
ette. Bhe was one of the sights of the
town during the winter season, and
was a friend of two-thirds of the popu
lation. Her funeral was as largely at
tended as that of the most prominent
citizen would have been. She was
only ah elephant, but it is something
to have been a good elephant.
The Ballot Mere ami Abroad.
In the United States there is one
voter to every four and a half persons;
in Great Britain one to every six per
isons; iu France one to every throo
I and a half persons; in Italy one to
; every ten persons.
The United States cast 13,923,102
j votes in 1896.
J, Great Britain casts 6,416,000 votes.
Scotland has 630,000 electors.
Ireland has 830,000 electors.
France has 10,000,000 electors.
Germany has 10,600,000 electors.'
Austro-Hungary has 5,300,000 elec
tors.
Italy has 8,006,000 electors.
In 1892 out of 3,006,000 qualified
electors only 1,600,000 voted in Italy
| or about five per cent, of its total
j population.
Belgium had 100,000 voters ten
j years ago, but since then has increased
[ its suffrage so that some citizens have
several ballots.
Improved Roads ia the South.
Alabama has been doing a good deal
I iu the last few years in the way of im
j proving her public roads, but she is
| not keeping up with North Carolina,
j Thirty' North Carolina counties have
S levied a general road tax, and from
! the sum thus realized the construction
| of permanent roads goes steadily on.
i Other counties in the State are using
| their convicts in road work, and
j evidences of first-class road improve
j ments are to be seen on all sides.—
! Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
THE NEWS.
Upon the petition ot Frank Hume, one of
the stockholders in the National Life Maturity
insurance Company, a West Virginia cor
poration, having its principal place of busi
ness in Washington. Judgo Cox has placed
the company In the hands of a receiver.
The company’s capital stock is ©20,000.
Ton of the most prominent merchants and
professional men of the Chinese colony of
San Francisco, representing the See Vup
Chinese Society, arrived in Chicago, en
route to Washington,
Specials from North and South Dakota and
western Minnesota show that the recent
snow did more actual damage than any other
of this winter, one that has never been
equaled iu the costs it has levied on the rail
roads.
Two men began io attempt to hold up a
Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw passenger
'.rain near Samaria, Mich., hut lost their
aerve before completing the job.
The Nebraska House passed, without the j
emergency clause, Wooster’s bill prescribing !
,vhat shall be a legal tender in Nebraska. ]
This bill is intended to prevent the insertion |
3f the gold clause in contracts, notes or |
mortgages. j
Rev. Dr. Simon J. McPherson, of Chicago, {
ill., was elected to the board of trustees of I
Princeton University. :
Judge Smith has called a grand jury at
Helena, Mont., and charged them to investi- j
jate thoroughly rumors and charges of
bribery growing out of the recent session of j
the legislature.
The steamer Vancouver, from Liverpool,
irrived at Halifax, N. 8., four days behind !
time. She met with terrible head gales and
high ifeas on the passage, had two life-boats
smashed and received other slight damage.
The three eldest children of Frederick
Boxen, of Bowmansviile, Out . were drowned
just outside their garden gate in a pond that
formed part of a mill race. The youngest
child slipped into the pond, and, in their
efforts to save it, the other two were also
drowned.
The Populist measures providing for ini
tiative and reserendum legislation was de
feated in the lower house of the Kansas State
Legislature, after having passed the senate.
TJie resolution was defeated by a vote of 7(i
ayes to 47 nays, a two-thirds majority being
required.
Governor Bud has vetoed Bill 273, relating >
to the transfer of civil suits, the passage of
which by the California Legislature has
caused much scandal. The Examiner charged
that bribery was resorted to to pass the bill,
and the managing editor and one reporter of
the Examiner have been ordered imprisoned
by the senate for contempt.
The shops ot the Sprague Electric Elevator
Company, at Watsessmg, N. J,, were dam
aged by lire to the extent of ©30,090.
Orlando Howe, of Little Bock. Ark., quar
reled with his wife and they decided to
separate. Being without money, Howe took
his twin sons, aged 10 years, and started to
walk to Stillwell, Mo. A train struck the
father and two sous on a trestle near
Oliphant, instantly killing Howe and one
son and fatally injuring the otiier boy.
United States Minister Terrell iu a commu
nication to the State Department from Con
stantinople incloses a note verbal from the
ministry of foreign affairs calling attention
to the necessity for Americans traveling in
Turkey to provide themselves with pass
ports.
Eighteen indictments for forgery have
~iuen returned by the grand jury against W.
J. Dunn, a well-known Pittsburg, Pa., con
tractor. The forgeries were on negotiable
assignments from the city and aggregate
$48,000.
Hon. Aaron B. Shafer coaunitted suicide
at Findlay, 0., by hanging himself. He was
73 years of ago, was once prosecuting at
torney of Hancock county, and served two
terms in the legislature. Xii-health was the
cause.
A. E. Burton, now under arrest in Toronto
for fraud, is wanted by the Sandusky, C.
police on the charge of embezzlement. He
will be held until more particulars are.sent.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. !
John Lawrence, master of the Ltangibby j
hunt, in Monmouth. Wales, has hunted con
tinuously for seventy years. He is now
aged 90.
Dr. Henry Barnard, the well-known edu
cator, has been refused a pension in Con
necticut, His friends have for some time
been trying to get the Legislature to grant j
one, but have failed.
A life-size portrait of Henry W. Grady has
been unveiled in the library of the University
of Georgia, at Athens. The tribute is from
the students of the university. Mr. Grady
was born and reared at Athens.
The German Empress is desirous of be
coming small by degrees and beautifully
lean, as the Emperor has a great objection to
portliness, and. by her doctor's advice, she
has taken to cycling as the best preventive
against the enemy.
Sir Portab Singh, Kajah of Jodhpur, in
Bajutaua, is the hero of an extraordinary act
of chivalry. Though a Brahman of the
highest caste and bluest blood of India, he
broke his caste to help prepare for burial a
young English officer, a complete stranger,
who died in his city. He helped put the
body in the coffin, and carry it down stairs to
the carriage, and, later, to the grave.
Miss Mary Barbour, a student at Smith
College, Northampton, as niece of Mrs. j
McKinley, was a member of the Presidential j
party at all of the inaugural events. She
reports that while Mrs. McKinley is by no
means a strong woman, still, she will, with
the assistance of an aunt. Mrs. Saxton, i
assume entire charge of the White House
also that she endured the excitement attend
ant upon the inauguration with remarkable
vigor. Miss Barbour intends to complete
her college course, being now a member of
the Class of ’99.
BIG BLAZE IN CHICAGO. j
Half a Million Dollars Worth of Property
Goes up in Smoke.
Fire destroyed about ©500,009 of property
at Lake street and Michigan avenue, Friday
light.
The John A. Tolman Company, wholesale
grocers were the principal losers. Fully
* insured.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
ROADBED GAVE AWAY.
Fearful Wreck on an Indiana
Railroad.
Bevon Rillflxt Outright—Train Ran Into a
Washout and Rolled Over—Some of the
Cars Were Washed Away—A I.ist of the
Killed and Injured-AU Traffic Sus
pended.
One of the worst railroad wrecks that have
occurred in this vicinity for many years hap
pened at three o’clock in the morning to the
Chicago andNashvilleLimited, s&uthbonnd,
over the Evansville and Terre Haute Rail
road, one mile north of Hazleton, Ind. The
: train was made up of engine No. 94, in
; charge of Engineer John K. MeCutclinn and
| Joseph Bowman, fireman; a combination
baggage and freight ear, smoker, ladies’
eoaeh and one sleeper. The engine went
over the embankment; failing afdistance of
j fifteen feet into six feet of water. The
j smoker was telescoped by the baggage ear.
j and the ladies’ coach and sleeper remained
j on the track. Engineer Me Cutchan says he
j was running 25 miles an hour and when he
I approached the washout saw nothing but a
1 very small hole. The engine passed over it
i and went down the embankment.
The Killed.
George A. Searf, of Terre Haute, conduc
tor, in smoker.
Joseph Bowman, fireman, Evansville,
buried under the locomotive.
Herbert Allen, doorkeeper of the legisla
ture, Evansville.
Four unknown passengers.
The Injured.
Engineer John McCutcheon, of Evans
ville, scalded about the legs and arms and
bruised.
John B. Hanesein, brakeman, Evansville,
foot badly crushed.
The seven above named as killed are
known to be lost.
Tfonduetor Sears was seen in the smoker
before it was washed away by the flood. No
one In the smoker escaped. How many were
in the smoker other than those mentioned,
no one can tell. Not one of |the dead bodies
has been recovered. From a gripsack found
it is believed one of the iost was a traveling
man for W. B. Phillips, of Fort Way-re.
The Good swept away the ladies’ coach,
leaving only the sleeper on the track.
All the passengers in the smoker are sup
posed to have been killed. Four persons,
besides Conductor Seers, were soen in the
i smoker as it broke loose, rolled down the
embankment and floated off with the cur
rent. Harry J. Hill, the baggageman, was
the only member of the train crew who es
caped unhurt.
About 8 o’clock a large section of the levee
broke, sending the baggage cars and Ihe
smoker down into the water, and both subse
quently floated away. The ladies' coach,
which had been lying crosswise on the tracks,
floated off toward the river.
It looks now as though several days will
elapse before trains can be run over the
washout, as there is no way of getting around
it. The cars and engine cannot be taken out
before the water goes down. Then the bod
ies of the unknown dead may be found, but
the probability is that they will have been
washed away.
The only passenger who went down in the
wreck whose identity can be traced was a
traveling man representing W. B. Phillips,
of Fort Wayne, selling, ladies’ shirt waists.
THE SOUTH.
The Manufacturers’ Record’s weokly re
port of Southern business interests shows
that industrial and financial matters ara re
ceiving increased attention, and that the in
dications throughout the South generally
! point to a marked improvement in business
: affairs. During the week the Georgia Kaii
! road and Banking Company has sold ©1,000,-
| 000 live per cent, bonds to retire six percent,
bonds;the Seaboard Air Lineh as sold ©1,000,-
000 five per cent bonds to retire eight pet
cent, bonds; the City & Suburban Railway,
of Baltimore, have sold •$500,000 of bonds to
cover improvements and extensions: the de
tails have been completed for the building
by leading cotton manufacturers ot New
England of a ©600,000 cotton mill in Ala
bnma; contracts have been let for the con
struction of the buildings for the steel plant
in Birmingham, thus definitely assuring the
establishment of large steel works iu that
city; a company has been organized to de
velop a 3,000 horse-power water power near
Gainesville. Ga., for electrical transmission,
to include in its operations a 10,000 spindle
cotton mill and street railway.
An Augusta cotton mill will build a 20,000
spindle mill iu addition to its present plant,
a ©350,000 cotton mill company has been or
ganized at Douglasville, Ga.; a Milwaukee
Manufacturing Company will remove to
Gadsden and spend ©60,0000 in buildings
and machinery; a ©20,003 railroad machine
shop will be built at Blue Ridge, Ga.; a $20.-
000 variety works at Cordale; water and
electric light works at Fitzgerald; in Louisi
ana a ©IOO,OOO company lias been orgauized
to build a sugar mill aDd contracts have
been iet for anothersngar mill in Baltimore;
: an enamel company has increased its capital
| From ©25,000 to ©IOO,OOO and will treble its
j plant; one furnace at Sparrow’s Point. Md.,
, and one at Anniston, Ala., have gone into
blast during the week; a company to manu
j :acture cross arms and insulator pins for
i electric wires has purchased 1,000 acres of
timberland in North Carolina, and will es
tablish a large plant.
These are but a few illustrations to indi
cate tiie diversity and extent of the indus
trial enterprises reported during the’past
week. In all parts of the South and iu all
lines of industries, as well ns la railroad
construction, the indications for increased
I business seem to be more promising thanfot
many months. There is no great rush but a
stsvly grain >,l m tint i.i lie.ibas a
solid and substantial growth with increasing
activity in the near future.
A dispatch from Havana says the family oi
Consul-General Fitzhugh Leo will return to
the United States within two weeks.