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HPT I WILSO M . . - - ' '-' . ADVANCE, inn tut imnwPD iAK, Man in aimawr. "LET ALL THE ENDS THOO AIMS1' AT BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S AND TROTHS." BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUU. t i i t . ' . , - .- - . - -, ' - y r . . . ; . . - - yOLXJME XXVI WILSON, X. C, AUGUST 6, 1896. ! Secret of i i T N these clays of keen and constant competition the path to prosperity must be cut out by the blade of common sense, as applied to the act of buying. To underbuy is our constant effort, And to undersell is our settled determination, . . ." .1 0 ALL who appreciate the winning combination of LOW PRICES for BETTER GOODS, we offer our . ;ionists killed; Fearful Eailroad Accident Hear Atlantic City, NEARLY A HUNDRED YICTIMS. J6tiOns rives m HERE ARE SOME OF THEM. Lf-sicl ie s U rt b re 11 ei-s . We know that we underbought on these and are underselling all others. Don't; buy till you see them. Prices start at 47c, but' that quality would be cheap at 70c fully as in the better Grades. 1 s 1 1 rcii crnnr v1np; & a THAT MUST CLAIM YOUR ATTENTION ; ; . Always remernber that a piece of Ribbon at the same price as we ask Js not the same Ribbon. TTJE claim to give you better values than others at same' price. Test us and be convinced. 1 1 1 1 Of These' Forty-four Are5 Dead and Three Others May Die A Reading Engine Crashes Into a Pennsylvania Train, Cutting It in Two. Atlantic City, July 31. -A railroad ac cident, horrible in its details and sicken ing In its results, occurred last evening just outside this city, and as a result nearly a' hundred persons are either killed or in jured. The Reading railroad express which left Philadelphia at 5:40 o'clock last evening crashed into a Pennsylvania .excursion train at the second signal tower, about a mile from here. The Penn sylvania train was returning to Bridgeton with a party of excursionists from that place, Millville and neighboring towns. At the second signal tower the tracks of the- two roads crass diagonally. The Reading train was given the signal, but it either failed to work or the speed of the express was too great to be checked in time. It caught the excursion train broad side, and ploughed through, literallycleav ing it in twain. The engine of the Read ing train was shattered to splinters. The excursion train was made up of fifteen cars,' the foremost of which was a baggage car. This and the next two coaches caught the full force of the crash, and were utterly demolished. What re mained of the third car was tumbled into i a ditch at the roadside. Edward Farr, engineer on the Reading train, was killed outright, as was another road man who rode oil the; engine with him; This man saw the collision coming and leaped from the cab an instant before the crash. Almost at the tame time the engine- cut its way through and caught roil stands at lorty-iour. There is a pos sibility' that it may remain at that figure, but it is only a remote one. At the Sana torium last evening it was reported that the fifteen patients still there were doing as well as could be expected, and while there was a bare chance of pulling them all through safely the odds were against , at least three. They are Frank Morele of East Orange, X. J. ; William Johnson of Bridgeton, and Lizzie Branih of Millville. Miss Branin has not recovered conscious ness since the collision, despite reports to the contrary. She is the pretty 19-year-old girl who was engaged to be married to Charles' Horner, the Bridgeton' grocer, who lies on the cot next to her. Horner, too, is very severely hurt, but the chances are now in favor of his ultimate recovery. The official list of the dead is as f ollows : , The following among the dead all re sided in Bridgeton: Charles Mute and his daughter Pearl, John Griner, Sr.,. Charles McGear, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jrenchard, Joseph Peters, J. D. Johnson, Charles 'Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. ,H. Frazier Bell, William C. Loper . Mrs. llattie Loper,: Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Goldsmith, Miss Tillie4 Leeds, El mer entzcll, Harvey Hughes, Mrs. Sallie Freas, James N BUteman, Mrs. Lizzie Bateman, Frederick Cheney, Joseph Cheney, Minnie Cheney, Joshua Ernst, Morris Peters, William Pricket t, Charles W. Sooy, x William Carr, Benjamin JJV Wood, Charles W. Sooy, Jr. ' -'.., The dead who resided in other, places than Bridgeton are as follows : Samuel Thorne, Reading baggage master, Atlantic City; Edward Farr, Blading engineer, Atlantic City ; Patrick Feighan,- Philadel phia ; Charles Eackler, Salem, N. J. ; Franklin Dubois, Woodruff, X. J. ; Nan nie Freas, Yorktown, X. J.; Mary TYent zcll, Alio way, X. J.'; Lydia Carl,' Hancock Bridge; Mr?. Ellen May. Palatine, X., J. ; Reba Loper, Yorktown, X. J. ; Mizael May (boy), Palatine, X. J. ; William Spaulding, I'hiladelphia ; Kate Freas, Yorktown. "NUMBER 32. im IV WASHINGTON. The National Chairman to Consult Demotic Leaders. BEY AIT'S POPULIST 1T02HHATT0N. 7 iv 1 - ; .; Casli Mora delivery I m pries to all tells f lis tale.il 1 . 31. LEATH, mvr. Cor: Nash and Goldsboro Streets. j .19 ws 111.11 R lit 1 . ; . -r- 1 . . - - : ; - aeaa ixiunmore convict :wno eoniessea to 1 killin-g old man Bonnecka in this city, and hidinj StineLwhen : his money,-was no donbt in lae told the story. Bonnecka Confessed . the ' Crime for Which ." Another Awaits Death. was killed in his house, and not on the ; streets, and he had no money. j TEES EE COMMITTED SUICIDE. Inconsistencies in Ills flatement, How ever, Lo.k! to the Cfjnciasion- That II "as lentally Unbalanced When He 2lr.tl the Confession ta the Warden. B altt mo Au g; 3. Frederick R.Whit a convict in the .Maryland ' re-niton-tuirj in this c ity, committed Vuicide on . atimi.'.y i, y jumping from the window of fe thinl tiur of cells to.the' stone floor of ;theynrcl !; rfeath. He struck-on his head, tru :iir;nr jV;s cki am death was instan tanc6u. Whitney is a self confessed mur eier as well, a s a high wa y mran. Warden t,Tlerys -jUt tho lonjx term of impris cnnient l.'efore him and the knowledge -that hj hands, were stained with the' blood .a fallow nvm' doubtless unbalancGd his Hand. . ; j::;-. "hi;.!t.v held upcx-CouncilTnan Walter "'p.&H(lelioa.March23,- 1895. and with .mspal, John R. - Williams, immediately . jwttowm They were traced to Philadel Jhu thenoe across the state of Pennsyl tan'm to Pittsburg, where they were cap Jttedon April G. The two men were sub eVKC1!tly .('onvicte.l and sentenced to Ween years' -imprisonment. sUa Friday last Whitney ' confessed to lairden W('-V?er th-t he had in April of , fi 3"er, whiie.fleeing from Baltimore of 5s' killcd and robbed an old man in Aitoona, p;l, Mr. - Weyler endeavored to tall ails (,f the critic, but the incoherent - of the prisoner led him to believe that -. was demented. ; v oner Ul leapon Saturday of the pris WiivCUU?;etl the Warden to cross-question 4ljJm nd the latter confessed yester derprt u Whitney had on April 5 mur- doll 17: Bonnecka. Eleven thousand . . was secured, which Williams as-'-It buried V himself and Whitney. mm.1!5 earned that there was such a man tionert1 Altoona at the time men-arre-t a Ud that a named Wilson was . !, and convicted of the crime on How eumstantial evidence, W .-?.ItlnS the death real 1)6611 ascertained that Whitney's ' komT6 is JosePh Hildebrand' and his servhi111 Detroitv Six years ago, while from ff a sentence for murder, he escaped getw Penitentiary at Little Rock, to ith nine other prisoners. r , . tit Al Th Convict's Story Exploded. ; toxa. pa.. Aur 3.whitney. the Rockefeller Mines Glosetl Dawn. j .. .t.- L.. i , t,;.u a..x revealed a still more ghastly remnant, a him directlv in its path. His body and that of Farr were found undar'a heaii of debris, but the engineer lay in what re mained of the - cab, and his : right hand still clasped the throttle. He had been faithful unto death, and met it at his post.. le fireman on the train had leaped a few seconds before and escaped with trifling injuries. . An Associated Press reporter was on one of the first relief trains sent out by the Pennsylvania railroad, and he was the first newspaper -epresentativo .on the seen,?, staggering in and '; out ot ditches and stximbliL': over masses of broken timber with only a few fitful lanterns to help their straining ' eyes the rescue gang set bravely to work. Axes ' and shovels were plied with the grentsst vigor, and al most at every half dozen nti'okesa mangled form was .brought, up and laid tenderly on the waiting pallets. ' A heap of bloodstained tii-ibers. turned aside by one of the rescuers, brought to sight a woman's arm. , It ' had been wrenched oil almost by the roots, and nothing remained but a dripping stump, even the hand being .gone! It had been clad in a dainty white linen glove, the sleeve of which still clung to it. Not five minutes later a chance blow from a pick and night shifts of No. 9 shafts. This com- ) pletes the shut down of the Rockefeller j mines in this city: Xos. 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 , shafts now employ just enough men to j keep the mine clear of water. In a largo ; number cf mines the pumps have been ; taken out and the' mines allowed, to" fill' -with water. Gogebic range mines aro . practically all shut down at Hurley, Iron- : wood. Bessemer, and Wakefield. There i iireless than 1.000 men at work on -the j range where atone time there were over; ;3,0u0 men employed The idle miners and their families are facing starvation. : Kills Four Thousand. and is sentence in Al- . Tidal Wave . Sua vfi i r a t. Anr. 3. Aha recent disas trous tidal wave aiodg the coast of north- j ern Japan has been paralleled by a siiv- ' ilar phenomenon on the coast of Haichii, i northeast of the province, of Kiangsu, in which Shanghai is' situated. From the stories of eye witnesses and the reports cf : people in the country bak f rbm the coast the wave was five miles Kid:, Thousands ' of tons of water were thro wnf or miles in- j laiid, and everything . in its path was ; swept away. Many villages were entirely j . destroved, and it is estimated that luiiy ; 4,0(J people perished. . AU the cattle were drowned and the rice fields were obliter ated. Strikers Said to be Arming. Cleveland, O., Aug. 3. A startling niece of news in connection with the Brown strike, which comes from ah ap parently reliable source, is to the effect tw. th strikers, are; arming themselves human heaft that only a few short hours before had been? throbbing with life and love. V " One woman whose body "was recovered still held in 'her dead hand a plate bearing a picture of Atlantic City. . It was un broken. Scattered about the grou nd near the wreck were many pieces of clothing which had been torn from the bodies of the victims, hats, dainty parasols, fans and glove-;. 4 . The. investigation into the cause of the collision and the fixing of the responsi bility . began today in earnest.' Corcner McLaughlin ii;npanneled'i jury consisting of six of Atlantic City's wealthy and in fluential citizens. The jury, after view ing the bodies, visited . the scene cf the wreck and 'made an exhaustive ; examina tion of the ground and devoted considera ble time to the inspection of the. signals, which still remain as they wbr3 at; the moment of the . accident, that facing the Reading being the red, or danger, signal, and that towards the Pennsylvania moan ing , "come ahead." - v ;; ! ; George F. Hauser,. who had charge of the tower, and who is now under-arrest, has made several statements to the police. ,He- told them he saw both trains conung when both were sufficiently -'far away to admit of the f iill'display of signals, but as the West Jersey was the nearer, he gave the Reading the red light and signaled the other train to come ahead. The Reading, : ho wever,'never slacked speed, but ; came r on. The men in the cab either thought I they could easily clear the point in' time; j or the brakes failed to work, and they Another Atlantic City Fatality. Atlantic City, Aug. 3. About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the floor of the photo graph gallery of - R. Renshaw, oh the boardwalk, collapsed, precipitating twelve persons a distance of twelve fdet. Mr. Williamson, of Johnstown, Pa., and Mrs. E. Hohlsworth,' of Philadelphia, were se verely injured about the head and taken to the hospital, while Proprietor Henshaw had his cheok cut open. Last night as the Reading excursion train was leaving the depot William O'Xeil, of Philadelphia, fell .beneath the wheels and had both legs amputated. . He died lat night. mat me bwuvwi. as i could not stop in time. The only living and drilling. It was said yesterday that positively knows this is Fireman fortv of the strikers had organized a com pany last Saturday, elected a captain and purchased revolvers. The company drilled Saturday evening, and it was announced that the purpose of the men was to avenge the death of the two men who were shot at different times in conflicts between union and non-union men. Four com panies of militia are on duty at the works. Sudden Death off Consul Sparks. Eagle Pass, Tex., Aug. 3. Major Jesse W. Sparks, United States consul at Pie dras Negras," Mexico, died suddenly on Saturdav at his room at the International hoteL of heart failure. Major Sparks was a prominent candidate for governor of Tennessee when appointed consul by Presi dent Cleveland. He was vice president of the United Veterans an association of Union and Confederate soldiers," and was widely known throughout the south. pof O'Houlahan, who saved his life by leaping from the cab. - Newspaper men had bean unable to lo cate O'Houlahan until last night, though his whereabouts were known to the au thorities. Tie was finally located last night at a boarding house at 21 South Ar kansas avenue, but despite all kinds of pressure, probably acting under instruc tions, he refused to discuss the accident from any point of view. , Last nigh.fe Coroner McLaughlin called Hauser before him and gate him a hear ing It was purely perfunctory, however, and, but little was said. Hauser refused to,inake any statement whatsoever at this time, and was held in $500 bail for a fur ther hearing. Bail was furnished and he was released. ; . Atlantic City, Aug. 3. No additional deaths have yet occurred as a result of Thursday nisht's collision, and the death ' ; it - - 1. 1 i. QUEEN' VI CTORIA" MAY RETIRE. Rumor Tliat tlie Venerable Monarch Con templates'' Abdicating ' the TIi rone. Londom, Aug. 1. The rumor that Queen Victoria intends to retire in favorof . the Prince. of Wales is again current to-day. It is added that court circles are greatly troubled reccarding the' condition of the queen's health. Such . reports frequently have appeared of recent years, only to be j semi-omcially contradicted later: But it now seems that there may be some actual foundation for the statements made. It is qdded that her ma jesty has decided to spend her time in future at Balmoral or at Osborne, and that she will give the Prince and Princess of Wales the use of Biickingham Palace and Windsor Castle. There is no doubt that the queen feels greatly, the weight of her years and be reavements, and her majesty is quoted as having repeatedly remarked during her last stay in this city, at Buckingham pal ace, upon the occasion of the recent mar-; riage of Princess Maud of Wales to Prince Charles of Denmark: "This is my last visit to London." . - Color is given to the rumors in circula tion by the deep emotion displaced by the queen as she bowed in , reply to the en thusiastic .cheers of the multitudes which lined thsfe route from Buckingham palace to the railroad station, where she took the train for Windsor after the marriage ceremonies. ; Li' linn g Chang: in England. Loxdox, Aug. 3. Li Hung Chang,,rep rescntative of the emperor , of China, ar rived at Southampton yesterday from Havre, and was received by various' offi cials of the British government; and among others, by the martaprer.s af the American steamshi line. The Z distin guished Chinese visitor proceeded directly td London, where he was inst'alled.in Lord Lonsdale's magnificent niansion in Carl ton House terrace, which is to be his resi dence during his visit to England, , which is expected to last three weeks. Li Hung Chapg is the guest of the British government during his stay , in England, and at Its conclusion his plan is to sail for the United States He will leave the United States via Vancouver on steamship Em press of China. - ' The' Democratic Chairman Declines toDis cuss the Candidate's Attitude on That ; Qnestion-r-Knows of No Bargain Calling; i for Mr. SeAvall's Retirement. Washington, Aug- 3. Senator Jones, of : Arkansas, chairman oi the national Dem i ocratic committee, returned to this city yesterday from his to trip west. The sen ator expects to remain in the city during the week for consultation with some of the Democratic leaders who will be hero i from time to time, and later will go to : New York city to attend the meeting of the, national committee on tha 11th and the Bryan and Sewall notification on' the . day following. The; understanding now is that the two candidates will be lrotifled at the same time, as has bpen done by the .Democratic party in H,he past. . Pending the meeting of the national committee in New York the final dis position of the establishment of permanent headquarters during 'the coining cam paign is hardly looked forJ Senator Jones had nothing definite to .say on this sub ject, and expressed tha opinion that the matter would not be settled until the : committee meets. j i While Senator Jones is believed to have about decided upon the formation of tho executive committee which will have ac-t tive charge of campaign work. 'he is not. yet prepared to -make public any names. In this case also he expressed the opinion that the . commiftee will not be - fully named until the meeting in New York. He may, however, announce an individual member or .two during his stay in this city. Questions bearing on the attitudeof Mr. Bryan towards the Populist nomination, and affecting the retention of Mr. Sewall on tile national ticket, are those on which the chairman declined to express an opin ion. The senator's attention was called to the statement in the Atlanta Journal, made by Hon. W. L. Peck, who led the Georgia delegation at the ' Populist con vention, that there was an understanding between the Populist and Democratic leaders that if the Populists would nomi nate Bryan for president and a southern Populist for vice presidep t, ' that Mr. Sewall would retire from the race.' Re garding this: Mr. Jones declared that so far as he knew no arrangement of the kind was entered into. Transvaal Invaders Convicted. LoxDOy, July 29. Before the lord chief justice, Baron. Russell of Killowen,. Baron Pollock and Justice Hawkins, in the qUeen's bench division of the high court of justice, yesterday the trial of Dr. Jame son and his associates in the Transvaal raid was concluded with aTerdict, of guilty. Dr. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment without labor,. Major Sir John Willoughby to ten months, Major R. White to seven months, and Captain Henry: F. Coventry (a son of the Earl of Coventry), Colonel R. Grey and Colonel F. H. White to five months' im prisonment. ' ' ' "Mamma, was that a sugar-plum you just gave me?" asked little Mabel. "No, dea-, it; was one of Dr. Ayer's Pills.'' 'Please may I have another?" "Not now, dear ; one of those nice pills is all you need at present because J e ery dose is effective." 1511 YAN'S IJASTEUX TRIP. Mrs. Bryan Will Accompany Her Una- band to the Notification Meeting. Lincoln, Xeb., Aug. 1. Mr. Bryan to day announced his itinerary for his eastern trip to meet the notification comniitteo, from the Democratic national conven tion in Madison Square Garden, New York, Aug. 12: V ' Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will leave Lincoln at -6 o'clock Friday evening, Aug. 7. arriv ing in Chicago on Saturday afternoon. They will stop over Sunday, and will leavo Chicago about midnight Sunday night, reaching Pittsburg Monday night. They will stay over night in Pittsburg - and leave for New York early Tuesday morn-.' ing, arriving there about 6 :3'1 in the even ing. .-. : ; - '. ' The national committee will meet in New York at the time of the notilication, and important campaign work will- be discussed. Fcm New-York Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will to Bath, Me., and spend a few days with the Sewalls. The return trip. will not be arranged until after, the New York'; meeting. - Mr. Bryan is n ;f making any -.dates for speeches at" this time, and will not do so until after the na tional committee has been consulted, lie. has been receiving large , numbers of .' in vitations to speak in almost every state .f the Union.-' Most of them have' come. by mail br wire, but many have been -extended by men who have come in; person for the purpose, : f t j: , . ' - i ' Bryan Has Made No Promises. Lincoln, Neb-, Aug. 3. Regarding ib rumor that he had promised, to a ppjint Governor Altgeld attdrney general,4 in th'. event of his election, Mr. Bryan .said to day: 'In order to answer once for all minor's in regard to places promised, I de sire tq say that 'I have not directly or in directly promised any office of any kind to any person -4.whoinsocvei!r. arid shall 4 nt during the campaign ijroinise any oiiice of any kind to anj person whomsoever.1' . 1 j 1 1 Vfyclone" Iavi for Congress. Texarkana, Ark.; Aug. 3 14 Cyclone'.' Davisj the People's party leader, was on Saturday nominated for congress by Popu lists of the Fourth Texas district to suc ceed Hon. D. B-Culberson. . ' 3Ii StambqloflTs Tomb Desecrated. Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 3. The tomb of M. Stambuloff , the ex-premier of Bul garia, Iwho was assassinated in the streets in Sofia in July, of last year, has. been seriously injured with a dynamite bomb. A riot was caused at the grave of the dead statesman while the funeral ceremony was going on in July of last year by his en emies and by the friends of Major Panitza, who had been executed by an order of M. Stambuloff while he , was premier. For some time ..after his burial his grave had to be kept guarded by military. All diseases of the skin cured and the best complexion restored by fohn sohn's Oriental Soap, perfumed: and highly medicated. Two cakes in each package, 25 cents at Hargrave's.