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Between Wilmington and Norfolk;
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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
K. .- Clark, Chairman
SH.IK KKLTON, J
I c. IIadlky.
H. Newsom
- Isaac Felton.
W.J. Cherry, Shenff,
J. 1). Hakdin. Clerk of Superior Court
J H Griffin, Register of Dee is,
S. H. Tyson. 1 reasurer,
V.i. Hakriss, Coroner,
J. T. Rkv-el. Surveyor.
TOWN (IKt-H EltS.
, aldermen:
J. I). I.KE. ISt
. A. Clark; 2nd
Dk A. 'Anderson, ' 3rd
. Gko. IIacknhy, 4th
J. T. Ellis. 5h
P. B. I)eas, Mayor;
Jno. R. Moore, Town Clerk;
V. E. Deans, Collector.
Ward.
police:
W. P. Snakenberg, Chief.
F.I'HKIAM ItARRELL, FRANK FeLTON
James ,Marshbourne.
1 P.' Christmas. St Commissioner.
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St. Timothy's Episcopal church.
Rev. F. C. Bayliss, Priest-in-charge.
Services: Sundays 11 a. ni. ai d 7:30
p in.. Sunday School at 3 p. m , Week
Ja:-v Wednesdays and Fridays at 4 P
m. "rhlyM.is at 10 a. m. Celehra
tion .f Hoiy 'Communion 011 1st Sun
H;n in . f-4n h month at 11 a. m.T oth-i
.Sun-days at 7:45 a. m.
Methodist Church. Rev. J. B. Hurley
Pastor; st r ices t 11 a. m. and 7:30
p. 111. Sunday School, 5 p. ni., J. b
I'.ruton, Supt. Prayer meeting Wed
ntsday night at 7:30.
D.sciples C Jiurch, Rev. D. W. Davis,
Pastor; services every Sunday, nam,
7:0 p m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
ni-ht. Sunday School at 3 o'clock; p.
ni., Geo. Hackney, Supt.
Presbyterian Church, Rev. James
Thomas. Pastor; services on the First,
Third and Fourth Sunday in every
month and at Eouisburg Second Sun
day. Services at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p
m. Suiidty School at 5 o'clock, p. m
Baptist Church, service as follows:
Preaching Sunday morning at 11:00
o'clock and 8 u. m. Rev. W. H Redisb
Pastor. Prayer meeting Wednesda
evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday School
at 5 p. ni., 'D-'S. lioykin Supt.
Primiuve Baptist Church, preaching
0112 d Sunday b Elder Jas. Bass; on
3rd Sund.-iy-by Eider jas S. Woodard;
on the 4th Sunday and Saturday before
i th,- ..Ktor K.ldor P. I). Gold. Ser
vices Itein at 1 1 a. m,
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-Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon
Ld-e No. 117 A. F. & A. M. are held
in th.-ir hab. corner of .Nash and Golds
h to streevs-f-ni the 1st and 3rd Monday
nik'i.s at 7:3 .) o'clock p. m. each month.
C. E. Moore, W. M.
R-giilar' meetings of Mt. Lebanon
Chapter No 27 are held in the Masonic
' lliai every ziuPMonday night at 7:30
o'cloxtf p. m. each month.
1 W. H. Applewhite. H. P
fir meetings of Mt. Lebanon
is-lery No. 7 are held in the
hall every 4th Monday nighi
7:3 ' o'clocTc each month.
v R. S. Barnes. E. C.
R-kr";ar meetings of Wilson Lodge
K-"Hi NO. 1694 are held in their hall
over 4lu
'hursday evening at 3:30 o'clock, p. m
B. F. Briggs, Director
Ke-utar meetings of Contentnea
I f,(l, Xo87, K. of "P.. are held in
Udl Fellows' Hall every Thursday
mSht. Visiting members always wel
Kevrular meetines of Enterprise
1o('kc. No. 44. are held every Frday-
"'Klifiri Odd Fellows' Hall.
Fatal Accident on the Chesapeake
and Ohio m Virginia.
FOUR EfLLED, SEVENTEEN HUET.
Am on a: Those Who Escaped From the
Wreck Were Senator O. II. Piatt,
Commissioner Evans ana Congress
man Kvns Broken Truck the Cause.
Charlottesville, Va., ' Nov. 5. The
Chesapeake and Ohio vestibule 'express
known as the F. F. V.. from Cincinnati
to "Washingtor was wrecked pear Old
Shadwell, five miles east of this place,
yesterday afternoon. Four persons
were killed and 17 injured. The dead
are: Henry Burnett, ml
Keswick; an Italian woman, named
Mary Merara. and infant,' believed to
Be from Cincinnati. Phellx Mareno
died after removal to chari
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Injured: Moses Goldblatt, Cincin
nati, knee cap 'injured; Conductor S. C
Buster, legs injured; Engineer Duke,
dangerously hurt; Baggasman Peers.
Gordonsville. Va,. internally injured;
A. Mareno, badly hurt; Mary Mareno,
hurt about head; two small children of
Mary Mareno, one badly hurt; W. L.
Gochenor, of Stuarts Draft, Va., right
hand cut; J. F. Miller, Pullman con
ductor, painfully hurt' in the back:
Richard Berkley, Hanover, Va., ex-
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press messenger, 'bruised about the
body and badly shocked; J. N. Haig,
Baltimore, knee sprained; Mrs. Busch,
New York, bruised about head and
arms; Lee Crandall. Globe, A. T., slight
scalp wound and fingers sprained; J.
W. Elder, "Washington, head and nose
considerably bruised; C. R. O'Brien,
Louisville,, slightly cut about head;
Jonas H. Hinckel, Trenton, O., left hip
painfully injured.
The locomotive suddenly left the track
on a sharp curve and was - hurled
agaiast a rocky hill. All of the cars
except the dining car and the Rich
mond sleeper were derailed. Two cars
plunged end foremost down the steep
embaihkment," and one of them went
into the Uivanna river, which at this
T place skirts the track. The day passenr
ger coach and the express car were
badly wrecked. As the locomotive
plunged' from the rails and overturned
Engineer Duke was hurled from the
cab and crushed under the engine, be
sides being terribly scalded by es
caping steam. He was rescued by his
fireman and the conductor.
As soon after the crash as possible
the uninjured passengers and train
men began the work of rescue and aid
ing the injured. Word was sent to this
place and a wrecking train with phy
sicians, was immediately-' dispatched to
the scene of the wreck. The body of
Henry Burnett, the colored porter, was
the last recovered. He was terribly
mangled, having been in the baggage
car. A foot, supposed td have been his.
was first recovered, and later a por
tion of the head. The body was liter
ally dismembered. Mareno had both
less cut off and died at the hospital at
Charlottesville.
Among the uninjured passengers on
the train -were Senator Orvil-e K. Piatt
of Connecticut, Commissioner of Pat
ents H. C';ay Evans and Representa
tive Walter Evans, of Louisville.
Late last night it was stattd that the
accident was caused by the breaking
of a5n axle cf the forward truck of the
locomotive.
ASSASSINATED IN BRAZIL.
War Minister Killed and President
Monies' L,lfe Assailed.
P- Janeiro, Nov. 6. At 1 o'clock
yesterday afternoon a soldier of the
Tenth bjittalion, which constitutes part
of the local garrison, attempted to
shoot President Moraes with a pistol.
The president was just landing at the
Marine Arsenal after visiting the
steamer on which General Barbosa,
minister of marine, had returned from
Bahia. '
The bystanders frustrated the at
tempt, but Colonel Moraes, the presi-
NINETEEN LIVES LOST
By the
Wreck of the Steamer Idaho
on Lake Erie.
ONLY TWO SAILOES WERE SAVED.
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dent's nephew, was slightly wounded
in disarming the soldier. General
Betancourt, minister of war, then in
terfered, and was himself stabbed. The
wound was so serious that he died soon
afterward. The attack has caused the
greatest agitation throughout the city.
After Clintrlner to the Spar For Honrs,
They Are Picked Up by a Passing
Steamer and Safely Landed In. Buf
falo A Survivor's Storv.
Buffalo, Nov. 8. The following are
the names of 16 of the 19 men who lost
their lives on the steamer Idaho, which
sank during the gale on Saturday
morning above Long Point, on Lake
Erie: Alexander Gillies, captain;
George Gibson, first mate; William '
Clancy, chief engineer- John D. Tay-!
lor, steward; Nelson Skinner, first as- i
sistant engineer; Louis Gilmore, watch- '
man; Richard McLean, wheelman;
Robert Williams, wheelman; A. J.
Richard, lookout; Henry Thompson,
lookout; Conrad Blanker, fireman;
William Gregory, fireman; John Healy,
assistant steward; Frederick Miffort,
oiler; Edward Smith, deck hand; M.
Bell, deck hand. , - .
When the steamer Mariposa arrived
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.
Smithfield, Va., Nov. 2. Thieves loot
ed the post office early in the morning,
securing $400 from one registered letter
and $650 in currency .4 from the safe,
which was blown open. There is no
clew to the Identity of the robbers,
although they were seen by several
persons.
Lynchburg. Nov. 2. A telegram was
received at the headquarters of the
j United States marshal today from the
attorney general stating that Mr.
; George W. Levi had been reappointed
I marshal for the Eastern district of Vir
' ginia. For the past eight days the dis
trict has been without a marshal.
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Receiving Propositions For the Re
form of the Banking System.
THE PLAN OP JOHN 0. BULLITT.
Gold learner
Brings Catarrh.
Thougb. the disagreeable effects of Ca-
It Gives Great Powers to a Currency tarrh are felt all the year round, cold and
aisaereeao:e w earner aggravate, tne
Richmond, Va., Nov.- 2. Saturday
night, at Newberne, Pulaski county,
guards stationed to watch a grain stor
age house saw a man coming out of it
with a bag of wheat . on his back.
Upon, being challenged he dropped the
bag, and they, thinking he "was going
to shoot, fired and killed him. He
proved to be John Teagles, the newly
appointed postmaster of Newberne.
Nashville, Nov. 5. At a meeting of
the executive committee of the Tennes
see centennial exposition Auditor Frank
Goodman filed his report,, showing that
the total indebtedness of the exposi
tion is now onlv S36.000. The DroDertv
of thexpesition company is valued at
in port Saturday midnight with news of j far mote than this sum, and there are
A BRUTE'S CONFESSION
Tells How He Killed His Three Sis
ters and Little Brother.
Montreal, Nov. 8. Thomas Nulty, 21
years of age, brother and confessed
murderer of the victims of the Rawdon
tragedy, was taken to Joliette jail yes
terday. Tom and the two older sisters
had frequently quarreled, and it ap
pears that on Thursday he had a row
with the eldest girl, E.izabeth, who
was only 16 years old. Words had been
succeeded by oaths and blows, until
Tom drove his sister out of the house.
Then, according to the confession of
the crime made by him, he followed
her to the barn, threatening to murder
her. The second sister. Annie, arming
herself with a keen bladed ax, follow
ed Tom, - resolved to protect her sister
from violence, even if she had to use
the ax. Tom turned sharply around,
and before she was awafS he came sud
denly upon her. A brief struggle for
the weapon was followed by Tom
wresting the ax from her hands and
striking savagely at her neck. His
woodman's skill did not fail him. The
keen weapon was buried In her neck,
and she fell dead, Just as the horrified
Elizabeth ran up to see what had hap
pened. As Elizabeth turned to flee the
murderer remembered her as the' first
cause of the crime, and resolved to
carry out his original impulse of re
venge. He chased the shrieking girl
to the barn and struck her also with the
ax, felling her as-he had done poor
Annie. Tom then returned to the house
and forced open the door, which the
two other rluidren had barricaded, and
killed thern as he did the others.
the disaster to the Idaho, haying on
board the two surviving members of
the crew, Captain Root had this to say
regarding the storm on the lake and
the rescue of the two men:
"It was about 12:30 Saturday after
noon when I first leafned of the wreck
of the Idaho. We sighted a spar off to
the north with two men clinging to it.
We were running under a good head of
steam at the time, and I put on more
and headed for the spar.
"When I got near I was puzzled how
to help the men off, for f could not low
er a boat in such a storm. Finally I
circled' about the spar until I ran along
side, when my men picked the poor fel
lows off. They had to drag them away
from the spar by fore, for the men had
been there so long that their arms had
become numb and were twisted about
the mast and almost frozen fast to it."
William Gill, the rescued deck hand,
a swarthy, well built man 23 years old,
has sailed the lakes since he was a
youth. He is more intelligent, than
the average seafaring man, and his
story of the disaster is a thrilling one.
"We left here Friday' night, bound
for Chicago, with a cargo of general
merchandise," said he "Everything
seemed all right until we got outside
me DreaKwaier, ana tnch we were-t
struck by the worst storm that I ever
saw. When the first big breaker struck
us we were tossed up in the air like
a top, and a second later a big roller
came over the port bow and rolled
down amidships a foot deep.
"We moved slowly against the heavy
wind and sea, and when we were well
up the lake we founi that the boat was
making water. Ifckcr coming faster
and faster, and the,, bilge pumps were
put to work, but the water gained, and
every minute the ship kept getting
less buoyant and the big combers con
tinued breaking over her. '
"The water gained on the pumps and
the buckets, and soon the water put
the fires out. The only hope left us
was to run out the anchor and bring
her head up to the sea and let her ride
LAST WEEK'S ELECTIONS.
Tammativ's Victory Ir. svy-allow's
Bltr Vote In Pennsylvania.
There were some surprises" in last
week's selections. The great mayoralty
contest in New York, which has at
tracted the attention of the whole
country for weeks, terminated in a
sweeping, victory ior tne lammany
candidate, Robert A. Van Wyck, who
had 81,548 plurality over Seth Low. the
Citizens Union" candidate, and 118,401
over Benjamin F. Tracy, the regular
Republican candidate. The vote of
young Henry George and the other can-.
didates was insignificant. On the state
ticket Alton B. Parker, Democratic
candidate for chief judge of the court
of appeals, was elected by over 55,000
plurality.
In Ohio Governor Bushnell was re
elected by over 28,000 plurality, but for
several days there was the liveliest
kind of a contest over the legislature.
both sides claiming a plurality. It
seems to be now generally accepted,
however, that the Republicans will
have a plurality of five cn joint ballot,
and there is talk among Democrats of
voting for any Republican who may
be named by the opponents of Senator
'Hanna in his own party.
In ' Maryland the election of a Re
publican to succeed Senator Gorman is
assured. Here, too, Doin siues uanucu
the legislature, but it is now admitted
that the Republicans have a majority
nf 17 nn 1oint ballot. Postmaster Gen
eral Garv fs being boomed as the sena
torial candidate. Baltimore city went
Ttenublican.
Fusion candidates won in lxeurasKj
Pninraiin Rpnubiicans won in
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South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Mass
arhusetts. In New Jeresy's legislative
contest there were Democratic gains,
but the Republicans still control, me
silver Democrats won in Virginia and
Von tuck V.
The greatest surprise oi tne eiecuons
,o the hie vote cast ior iev. w,
Swallow the Prohibition candidate for
treasurer of Pennsylvania. He carried
ten j counties, and his total vote was
1- Ait
"iU'ii tlK rascaldom" the familiar
party cry may be applied to microbes
as well as to men. The germs of di:--ease
that lurk in the blood are "turned
out" by Ayer's Sarsaparill as effc.-
ually as i he old postmasters are dii
placed by a new adininistrat :o:i.
Mine Fire Was "Incendiary."
Scranton, Pa., Nov. 8. A verdict that
the Von Storcfe mine fire on Oct. 30,
which caused -the death of six miners,
was the result of incendiarism was re
turned by the coroner's jury. The
Verdict releases the Delaware and Hud
son company from all blame. Nothing
in the testimony indicated incendiar
ism, but there was nothing to suggest
an accidental origin.
Major Butterworih Critically 111.
Cleveland, Nov. 8. The physicians in
attendance upon Major Benjamin But
terworth, commissioner of patents, who
is ill with pneumonia at the Hollenden
hotel, give but little encouragement of
his recovery. Mr." Butterworth's wife
and daughter, who were summoned
from Cincinnati, are at his bedside.
Ineeiidiai ie.- lJestioy a Uitr Hotel.
St.v Augustine, Nov. 8. The Hotel
San MarCo, one of the finest and most
commodious hotel properties in this
city, was burned to the ground yester
day by incendiaries, entailing a loss of
about $250,000,, with less than $50,000
Insurance. Hundreds of men assisted
in removing the furniture from the
main floor and a large quantity was
taken out. the main floor being almost
entirely bare before the fire drove th1
workers away. The citizens have offer
ed $500 reward for the capture of the
incendiaries.
Rich Gold Find in Montana.
Butte, Mont., Nov. 8. A great geld
strike has been made up Upper Sage
creek. A ledge extending for many
miles, and the quartz running $100 a
ton, has been discovered, and the peo
ple in that part of the state are wild
with excitement. The little town of
Utica has been almost deserted by the
male inhabitants, who have staked out
the whole surrounding country. Some
of the excited prospectors have gone to
work with plows and scrapers to un
cover the vein.
T-t-Coiisnl Iasl:I Convicted.
Won. Nov. 5 The superior court
ist National Bank every isl lury which has been trying tne c.a&c
against Josepn a. i.asie. -consul,
charged with embezzlement, re-
o rnict of guilty. Iasigi was
accused of the embezzlement of $200,000 Wednegday morning, found the chil
Quadruple Murder lu Quebec.
.Montreal, Que., Nov. 5 A quadruple
murder is reported from Rawdon,
Montcalm county, province of Que
bec. The victims are the three daugh
ters and the son of Mr. Bullev,. a
farmer, who. having gone on a visit
I'OST OFFICE HOURS.
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nice 0,,t ns 8 a m. and closes a sunset
"rtV mails lwe f,r North at I P. m.
' " " West " i P m.
V; . " " South " 1.3 P- m-
"'gni mails for all points close at 9 p.m.
- I-N 1 n.,r r n n
Pierre Chanes jLeiicuj.
Charles Antoine Armand Berger De La
Villardiere, of France, of whose estates
he U-u.cc. J.-.h:u v'
- Twin's counsel in which to file
the exceptions taken during the trial..
Many people, when a little consti
pated, make the mistake of using saline
or ether drastic purgatives A that
eded is a mild dose 01 - .yer ,
dren murdered when he returned home
at night. The girls were 18, 16 and 14,
and the boy 10 years old. Three large
parties are hunting the woods for a
tramp, who is supposed to De tne mur
derer.
"In a minute" one dose of Hart's
Essence of Ginger will relieve any
ordinary case of Co'ic, Cramps or Nau
sea. An unexcelled remedy for Diar
is nteaeu is a - rtUt rhoea. Cholera Morbus. Summer com
. 1 -T-.m f-Ml 1 l Jl LI-- 1
to restore the reguia, . . and a ititeTna, pains SoI by
bowels, ana v t.nrder. B,W- Hargrave.
They keep the system ... H
out the
heavy.
gait. But the sea was too
and instead of the anchor
catching with a firm grip and bringing
the ship
s head up to the storm with a
jerk it went too slow, and she simply
tumbled into the trough of the seas,
which bf-oke over her in torrents. The
load was too much, and after a moment
the ship keeled over to starboard and
went down, stern first.
"Wrhat became of my mates I don't
know. I remember that the boats had
been loosened and that some of the men
were ready to take them if the vessel
werit under, but no boat could have
lived for a minute In that terrible sea,
and if any of them did get in the boats
it was simply to be swamped as soon
as the first Wave struck them. May be
they did not leave the ship at all. I was
near the spar, and when the stern of
the veser began to go under I went for
the rigging and went up as fast as I
could. Another man went with me the
second mate and I thank the Lord
that he was with me, or I would have
gone mad. . -
"The hail, and sleet was coming down
in a cutting sheet, and we were covered
with ice in a few minutes, for though
the top of the spar on which we were
hanging was 25 feet above the water,
the big waves struck us and broke
ovefriand the hail cut us like shot.
"I .kjlw that it was about 3 o'clock
when we went down, and it seemed
to me that daylight would -never come.
For what seemed to be an acre we hung
on . to the rigging, and we twisted our
arms about the snar and let them
freeze in position, tor otherwise we
would have fallen into the fearful sea,
"When daylight came we could not
see a sail anywhere near us, and the
sea was as bad as ever. There did not
seem to be any chance of it going down
Hour after hour we waited there, and
then we saw the Mariposa coming.
When she finally sighted us and we
saw her head for us I tried to tell my
mate, but I could not, and he looked
at me with a happy look on his face.
On the third trip around she ran right
alongside our spar and as she went
past a dozen men reached for us. An in
stant later we had passed the little
stick on which I and the mate had been
hanging for almost a day, although it
seemed a week."
The second mate, Louis Laforce, told
a harrowing story to the crew of the
Maripcra. lie said that in the rush of
tha men from the hold one of them, a
watchman, was trampled to death. The
crew was frantic to get out of the place.
Six or eight, he said, must have been
drowned lia.o rais in the hold. They
were not warned of the sinking of the
boat. The first long dip of the stern
was the first intimation they had of
the final danger, and then they made
a frantic rush to get cn deck. The
hatchway was top small 'to let them
through together, anil the result was
that one of them was tramp'ed to death
and several were left to drown.
Pittsburg, Nov. 8. Two football play
ers received probably fatal injuries in
games Saturday. Robert Grange,, of
the Bellefieid Athletic team, suffered
concussion ,",'of the brain, and is now
"vine- iti a nrecarioun condition. Bert
Ritchie wrs hurt" internally.
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uncollectab!e assets amounting to $39,
000. The total attendance officially re
ported was 1,682.305.
Jacksonville, Fla. Nov. 4. The steam
tug Dauntless, which left Savannah
under suspicious circumstances about
two weeks ago. has been heard from
at Key West, where., she put in for coal.
The cruiser Montgomery has been pa
trolling the north coast of Cuba for
five day's past in search of the Daunt
less, which was suspected of filibuster-
ng. The Dauntless landed two expedi
tions from the Silver Heels.
Atlanta, Nov. 2. As a result of the
fatal injuries received by Von Gannon,
of the University of Georgia football
team in the game last Saturday the
team will probably disband. In the
house of representatives yesterday a
resolution was introduced to. prohibit
football playing in all universities and
other inslitutions in Georgia receiving
aid from the state. Senator Allen in
troduced a bill in the senate to prohibit
football in Georgia.
Atlanta, Nov. 6. The Georgia senate
yesterday defeated a measure "which.
If passed, would have had the effect of
making Georgia a prohibition state.
The bill has been pending in the leg
islature since last year, and has been
exhaustively argued. The vote on the
bill was 18 to 23. - It is understood that
the majority against the passage of the
bill would have been proportionately
much greater in the house if the meas
ure had ever reached that body.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov, 5. The bill by Mr.
Oliver, of Burke county, to make the
birthday of Jefferson Davis a legal hol
iday in this state was adversely re
ported by the general judiciary com
mittee in the house of representatives.
and Mr. Oliver moved to disagree with
the committee. In an earnest speech
he asked the house to honor the hero
of the lost cause. The report of th,
committee was- diagreed to by an al
most unanimous vote. ,
Frederisksfmrg, Va., Nov. 2. Messrs.
Albert Burdis and Edward Courtney, of
Stafford county, were huning wild
turkeys yesterday. When a flock was
started up the turkeys scattered and
the men separated in the bushes.
neither knowing the location of the
other. They commenced ye ping, and
each thinking the other a turkey ap
peared. Burdis moved his leg and
Courtney, thinking it a turkey, fired, 76
No. 3 shot entering Burdis'' shoulder.
and several penetrated the lungs. A
Dhv.sician was at once sent for. Burdis
Is In a precarious condition.
Why allow yourself to be slowly tor
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and Fever will undermine,' and eventu
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A PIRATE'S CONFESSION.
Bloodthlrst v Cook Confesses Double
Murder and Arson at Sea.
Newport News, Va., Nov. 6. The
United States steamship Lancaster
dropped anchor in Hampton Roads yes
terday from Bahia, Brazil. In military
confinement on the warship are five
men of the schooner Olive Pecker,
whose captain. J. M. Whitman, of
Rockland, Me., and First Mate William
Saunders,, of Sandy Cove, N. S.', were
murdered at sea in August lasL In
the ship's brig, closely Ironed, is J.
Anderson, the schooner's' cook, who is
the self . confessed perpetrator of the
murders, and who afterwards set fire
to the vessel. Anderson last night gave
his version of the tragedy to the press,
He admits the crimes, and from his
statement he is the sole murderer and
incendiary, his accomplices being forced
through fear to obey his orders.
The other five men of the Olive
Pecker's crew are William Horsburg,
Andrew F. March, Manuel Barriatt,
John Lend and M. Barstadt. The Ave
sailors are under the impression that
they are being held as witnesses against
the cook, and will be expected to tes
tify that he murdered the captain and
the mate. It is more than probable,
however, that they will not only be
used as witnesses against the murderer,
but will be held and convicted on the.
charge of firing a ship on the high seas
Board Composed of the President,
Secretary of the Treasury and Comp
troller of the Currency. .
Washington, Nov. 8. The monetary
commission is receiving, in answer to
Its invitation, many interesting propo
sitions for reform of the banking and
currency sytem of the country, and
among these is one from John C. Bul
litt, which, coming highly endorsed as
it does by financial authorities, has
commanded great attention and study.
Mr. Bullitt's plan touches every branch
of the problem before the commission,
and its provision, in outline are as fol
lows:
That all ot the outstanding currency
obligations, amounting to about $800,-
000.000, shall be .taken up and can
celled, being replaced according to
business exigencies (under the direction
of a currency board, composed of the
president, secretary of the treasury
and comptroller of the currency) by 3
per cent bonds. There is to be but one
kind of currency, namely, national
bank notes, redeemable in gold at the
bank of issue and a selected bank of
reserve, and these notes are to be is
sued gradually to replace obligations
as the latter are retired. These notes
are to be secured by a deposit of 1 5
per cent of gold In the treasury, by 15
per cent gold in the bank vaults and by
first lien upon all of the banksassets.
as well as by a -special provision' giving
the government the right to assess all j
national banks when needed to make
good notes of a defaulting bank, the j
notes of which would then be redeemed
by the government.
A tax is to be laid upon the banks'
to cover the expenses of the currency
board and the balance held to secure
redemption of notes in gold, but if this
exceeds $10,000,000 this surplus may be
covered Into the treasury to pay in?
terest on United States bonds and for
general purposes. This tax should be
one-half of I per cent or 1 per cent per
annum, as the commission shall elect.
Power should be given to the banks
under permission from the currency
board to increase the note issue when
demand caused by unusual financial
emergencies, such increase to be sub
ject to a tax (to be determined , from
time to time by the currency board)
upon the notes while in circulation, the
tax upon the notes to be at a rate
which would pxit a pressure upon the
banks to take up the notes when the
emergency has passed.
Silver and subsidiary coins should be
redeemed in gold by the United States
government when demanded. These
amount to about $100,000,000.
No note should be issued for less than
$5.
National banks should be constrained
to .exchange notes now out for new
issue by surrendering notes, as they re
ceive them.
Customs duties and taxes of all kinds
due the government should be payable
one-third in gold and two-thirds in
bank notes. '
The, legal tenderquality of gold and
silver should remain as now provided
by law, and they should be only legal
tender except to the extent of two-
thirds of customs duties and taxes due
the government.-
Confer upon the currency board the
power to regulate the issue of bank
notes from time to time- in lieu of the
government currency retired, and to
authorize new banks and branch banks
to be established.
As banking capital may be increased
by creation of new banks the currency
board should have power to adjust the
note issue, whether4 normal or extra
ordinary, between the new and . old
banks no distinction being drawn be
tween them.
The system of clearing house certifi
cates adopted by the banks in the large
cities in times of panic should be le
galized. "
E. O. Leech, vice president of a New
York bank, has also presented a paper.
He does not believe it necessary to re
deem all of the silver coin and paper
In gold, as the wants of the people are
fully adequate to keeping in active
circulation the $480,000,000 of this money
now afloat, j Mr. Leech favors the re
peal of the yet of May 31, 1878. requir
ing the reissue of United States notes-
coming into the treasury, and would
leave it optional with the treasury to
reissue thes4 notes only In case of need.
This alone jwould insure the stability
of the gold standard.
disea:-e and it is during the winter sea
son that its severest form is felt. Each
succeeding year seems to intensify the .
disease, t-o that it gradually fastens its :
hold upon the sufferer 'with" a grasp that
becomes firmer each season.
Catarrh often appears as only a cold at
firs , and is hardly noticed. - But gradu
ally the cold returns, and it is more ,
diiculttocure,andf.taysiong' r than for
merly. These symptoms cnn-.t be mis- -taken;
they mark the fir. t appearance of a
diseass that will develop la severity and
stubbornness, and which it is impossible
tocnre with the local treatment of sprays,
washes, and similar applications. Being
a disease of the bUod, only a blood
remedv can have the slightent effect
upon it. S.S.S. (Swift's Specific) is the
only cure fur Catarrh, because it is the
on y blood remedy which goes to the
seat of all obstinate aud deep-seated
case , and fores out the disease.
Mr. T. A. Williams, a leading mer
chant of Spartanburg, S. writes:
"For four years I had nasal catarrh,
and though 'he case was a mild one at
fir.-t.it was not long until I noticed that it
was gradually growing worse. Of course
I wa9 under treatment of first-clasaphy-sicians,
but 4htir remedies were applied
locally, aud the disease seemed to beget
ting a firmer hold on me all the while.
"After spending so much money for
treatment which proved to be. all in
vain, I was urged to try S.S.S. This rem- -edy
proved to bathe right ont, for it got at
the disease, an I a few bottle s cured me
perfectly. Tue cure was a permanent
one, and I have not had a touch of the
-disease for many years. Swift's Specific
is tne oniv remeay mat win nave tne
slighest effect upon Catarrh."
Sufferers from Catarrh should get a
start on the disease before the cold
weather asreravates it, Those who have
been jelyiug upon 1 cal treatment will
find winter weather is all that is
needed to show that the disease is still
with thenw A course of S.S.S. (Swift's
Specific) will prove all assertions made
that it i s the only cure for Catarrh; it goes
tot"e cause of the trouble the blood-
and forces out al 1 traces of .th. disease.
Swift's Snecifjc is the o ilv remedy
which reaches real obstinate blood dis
eases; it- cares Catarrh", Rheumatism,
Cancer," Contagious Blood Poison, Ec
zemar, Scrofula, and in fact every other
disease of the blood. It is guaranteed
TerrliDIe Work of Ononis. .
Millville, N. J., Nov. 8. As R. Simp-
kins and Charles Wiser were walking
through Mount Pleasant cemetery
they were startled by finding that the
grave of Mrs. Phoebe Tilton had been
opened and the. body exhumed. They
followed the tracks where the body
.had been dragged, and about a hun
dred yards in ' the woods found the
corpse ?ut open with an ax from breast
to pelvis, and the heart missing. The
police have no clew. -
Robbed of His Speech.
Chicago, Nov. 8. William Kastner, a
cook, was held up by footpads when
passing under the Lake street elevated
railroad structure In Market street last
evening. The robbers searched Ka&t
ners pockets, but finding nothing of
value there they determined to rob him
01 ms speecn. one or them placed a
revolver close to the victim's throat
and fired. The bullet cut through the
vocal cords and completely destroyed
Kastner's power of speech. The rob
bers escaped.
The Altitude of Mouut Ranter.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 8. The latest
computation from the abitude of Mount
Ranier,' places Columbia, the highest
point, 14,528 feet above the level of the
sea. These figures have been deduced
from observations made by Professor
Edward McClure, who lost his life w;hile
descending the mountain on the night
of July 27, 1897.
General Lee Off For Cuba.
Washington, Nov. 6. Consul General
FItzhugh Lee. in pursuance of his in
structions, left Washington yesterday
afternoon on his way to Cuba. Tbl
?act is believed to exhibit the cond
lnce of the administration in the sat
isfactory outcome of the pending nego
tiations with Spain.
Valuable discoveries of Iron jre have
been made on the Menomee range, near
the Mansfield mine. Michigan.
The explosion of a dualin cap which
3-year-old Clarence Weir, of Yorktown,
Pa., found and was trying to open Is
likely to cause his death.
It took only one day to convict Giu
seppe Divlva of murder in the second
degree for killing Michael Dudlgan, at
Saratoga, N. Y. .
y tne explosion 01 Kerosene in a
lamp Mrs. Rudolph Wessels and her
child were burned to death at their
home, in San Francisco. -ECONOMY
in taking Hood's Sar
m 8aparilla, because " 100 doses one
dollar" is peculiar to and true only o
the One True QLOOD Purifier. .
Purely
Vegetable
and is the only blood remedy containing
no potash, mercury or other mineral.-
Book s mailed free to any acL..essby the
Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
TRIPLE MURDERER CONVICTED.
Killed Three Last Tuesday and Sen
tenced to Death Today.'
Parkersburg, W. Va,,'Nov. 6. The re
port that Miss Alice Pfost the fourth .
victim, of murderer John F. Morgan,
of Ripley, Jackson county,, was dead
proved untrUe. Her recovery is prob
able. The funeral of Mrs. Green, for '
merly Mrs. Pfost, Mrs. Matilda Pfost,
her daughter, and young James Green,
her son, occurred Thursday. The three
bodies were buried in one grave.
Yesterday . the Jury which was se
cured during the night took their seats
and Morgan was placed in the dock.
Miss Alice jPfost was the first witness.
Her evidence- differed little from the
published accounts, except that the
murderer used an ax instead of a club.
The prisoner testified that he killed
his victims In self defense Matilda "
first, Mrs. Green second and the boy
last. The trial lasted five hours. The
jury in less than an hour returned a
verdict of guilty of murder In the first
degree, without recommendation. The
announcement was recieved with
cheers.
Sentence of death was passed upon
the prisoner today. It develops that
Morgan is not the right name of the
prisoner, his realname being Raines.
Train Kobbetl and Wrecked.
Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 8. Atlantic
and Pacific passenger train No. 2 from
the west was held up by four, men near
Grant's Station, 95 miles west of this
city, Saturday night. After blowing
open the express company's safe, the
robbers wrecked the train, which
caught fire, the express, baggage and
smoking cars being, totally destroyed.
The robbers, who wore false beards
and were unmasked, dynamited a safe
and helped themselves to a number of
packages containing gold and silver
coin. Express route agents think that
the robbery secured several hundred
dollars. 1 '--. "
When a man is suffering from an:
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his muscles are lax and lazy his brain
dull and hisstomach disdaining food .
he will, if wise heed these warnings
and resort to the right r-medy, before
it is too late. "Parker's Sarsapa-
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hearty, invigorates the liver, purines
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