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HA Or VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1887. NUMBER 27. 21 4tft II I h 1 A DIRECTORY. MAILS. Northern and Greenville Due daily "1 i HA g p. 111. v luses ui iu p. m. 'orth ana ooutn side river mail i js j t:j i. Due .uonaay, y euut'suaj anu. x nuay ai. g p. m. Closes at 7 following mornings. '1.',. 1 A 1. 1A Ufut'C nours y a. m. iu iu p, in. )oney Order and Registry Depart ment 9 a. rn. to 0 p. m. STATE GOVERNMENT. Governor Alfred M. Scales. Lieut. Governor Chas. M. Stedman. Secretary of State William L. Saun ders. Auditor W. P. Roberts. Treasurer Donald W. Bain. sunt, of Public Instruction S M. Attorney General T: II. Davidson. S 1 A 1 1 jua lu r Auiutuuiuniii Cuinmissioner John Robinson. Secretary T. K. Bruner. Chemist Charles W. Dabney, Jr. General Immigration Agent J. Patrick. T. COUNTY. Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge s. Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. Register of Deeds Burton Stilley. Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, ehair'n. J. T. Wintield, F. P. Hodges, F. B. Hooker, II. N. Waters. Board of Education J. L. Winfield, rkiir'n, P. II. Johnson and F. B. Guil ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction Rev. Nat Harding. Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T. Tayloe. CITY. Mayor C. M. Brown. Clerk John D. Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. Chief of Police M. J. Fowler. Councilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. Morton. S. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens, W. H. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton. CIU'KCHES. Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec tor. Services every Sunday rnorning'and night. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent. Presbyterian Rev. S. M. Smith, pas tor. Services every Sundav morning and night. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. nerintendent, Jas. L. Fowle. Mhodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor, Serdces every Sunday morning and ev ecin. Superintendent, Warren Mayo. Sunday School, 3.30 p. m. 1 TEMPERANCE MEETINGS. Reform Club Regular meeting every Tuelav night at 7.30 at Club Rooms. W. C. T. U. Regular meetings every Thursday. 3 p. m., at Rooms of Reform Club. Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every Sunday, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m. Mss Meeting in Court House every 2d Thursday night in each month. LODGES. Orr Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M. meets at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues day nights of each month E. S. Hoyt, W. M., R. T. Hodges, Secretary. Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F. Meets every Friday night at their hall Gilbert Rurabcy, P. N. G., J. R. Ross, Secretary. Washington Lodge. No. 1490, Knights of Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday eights at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P. Crubtree, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor ter. J. R. Ross, F. Reporter" Chieora Council, No. 350, American legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and k'a Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hail c. M. Brown, Commander, Wm. M. Cherry, Collector. Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and Ladi.-s of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall Wm. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen. Secretary. Excelsior Lodge, No. 31, O. G. 0. Meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday nights at Odd Fellows' Rail - C. W. Tayloe, Com mander, Wm. Cherry, Secretary. The Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, of Washington, N- C OIFICE, CORNER MARKET & SECOND STS Opposite he Court Houce, Washington, n. c Washington Mutual Benefit Insurance Company. CHARTERED BY THE LEGISLA TURE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Issues Policies on Life, Health and Accidents risks; also hire risks taken, and a General Insurance business done. Office, Opposite the Court Housa WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TOBACCO STORE .H.WILTlAMSfProp'r. Sols Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff All Brands of Snuff) Cigars and Tobacco, rerything in the Tobacco line, and Ne &ods constantly on fcaod 7 jl ;ly TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY, r" Eastern and Middle States. Jockey Joseph Warder was thrown from his horse and killed in a steeplechase at the Niagara Falls races. By the careless handling of naphtha th schooner War Eagle, lying at her dock ir Chelsea, Mass., was blown to atoms. Twc men were killed, Captain Philpott and Matt Charles Friend were seriously injured, and damage was done to buildings and shipping in the vicinity to the extent of $350,000. The Nw Ycrk Herald has received infor mation that Grand Master Workman Pow derly, of the Knights of Labor, will soon re sign and go to Ireland to participate in the campaign for Irish home rule. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists have held a State convention at Worcester and nominated a ticket with William H. Earle for Governor at the head. The platform favors woman suffrage. The State Convention of the Pennsylvania Union Labor and Greenback party, held in Wilkesbarre, nominated Charles S. Keyser for Supreme Judge and H. L. Bunker for State Treasurer. The failure of E. S. Wheeler & Co., the New Haven metal merchants, has caused the suspension of several other houses East and West. The longest towboat in the world has just been launched from a Bath (Me.) ship-yard. Its length is 100 feet. A preliminary organization of the new American party has been made in Pittsburgh. Three men were buried alive under 120 feet of earth by a cave-in at the new ae queduct, Yonkers, N. Y. The Governor of Connecticut has received from Colonel Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, I the old battle flag of the Sixteenth Connecti- ! cut Volunteers, captured at Plymouth, N.C., I in April, IStVt. The Pennsylvania Railroad's roundhouse, machine shops, five locomotives and six tanks were destroyed by fire at Lewistown, Penn. C. B. Ide, a Sunday-school Superintendent of Glens Falls, N, Y., and bookkeeper of the First National Bank, has confessed to stealing $18,000 of the institution's funds. Herr Most, the Anarchist leader, wanted to declare his intentions of becoming a citizen of the United States in New York a few days ago ; but as the questions put to him regarding his allegiance to the laws of this country were unsatisfactory, his application was refused. Sonth and West. Ex-Governor William Aikex, of South Carolina, died a w days since at Flat Rock in that State, aged seventy-one years. He was elected Governor in 1S44. A waterspout on a Montana creek drowned 1,200 sheep, principally spring lambs. Twenty-five thousand persons attended the opening of the St. Louis Exposition. A large temperance vote has been cast in the local elections in Missouri. More than thirty counties have declared for pro hibition. Rev. William Tclly slipped while as cending a flight of stairs in a hotel at Hurri cane, . Va. ,and a pistol in his pocket was dis charged. The bullet entered the minister's body, and he died in a few minutes. Jacob Albise fatally wounded his wife at Omaha and then killed himself. The crime was due to jealousy. Jefferson Davis has written a letter favoring local option in granting liquor licenses. A "League of Personal Liberty'' is being organized in the Western States to counteract the rapid spread of Prohibition sentiment. Lizzie Abbott, aged eleven years, com mitted suicide at New Smyrna, Fla. She ad mitted to her mother having taken strych nine, and said: "Mamma; I am tired of living; I want to go to papa." John T. Ross (colored) was hanged at Bal timore for the murder of Emily Brown, a white woman. The object of the murder was to secure the body and sell it for dissecting purposes. A tremendous flood has swept away twenty miles of track of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona. Two persons were killed and a number se riously injured by the falling of some rickety old sheds in New Orleans. Washington. A Treasury Agent's report on the Alaskan seal fisheries says 50,000 sealskins have been unlawfully taken the past season by marauders. The International Medical Congress ended on Saturday. Resolutions compli mentary to the President and Mrs. Cleveland were passed. The President has pardoned Thomas R. Knight, John A. Brooks and Henry Patz, of Arkansas, convicted of murder. He was sat isfied that rashness, not malice, influenced the crime. Foreign. A revolution has broken out in San Sal vador, Central America. Reports are just coming in that the gale of August 2(5 along the coasts of Newfound land and Labrador resulted in many wrecks and large loss of life. Ten schooners were lost. Scarlet fever is epidemic in London. More than 1,200 cases have been reported.and the fever hospitals are full of patients. Canada' s population is estimated at 7,000, 000. MARKETS. Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$3.0G a$3.50; Wheat Southern Fultz 80a2cts: Corn Southern White, 54a55cts, Yellow, 53a 55cts. ; Oats Southern and Pennsylvania, 28a34cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania, 49a50cts. : Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 14 00a$1500; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8; Butter, Eastern Creamery, 28a29ctsM near-by receipts 20a21cts ; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, VS aiSKcts., Western, Hal 1 3cts. ; Eggs 17al8i Cattle 2.75a$4.12 ; Swine 6a6cts.; Sheep and Lamb 2a4 cts; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la$2.50, Good Common, 3 50a $4 50, Middling, 5a$b50 Good to fine red, 7a$li Fancy, 10a$12. New York Flour Southern C o rnrion tc fair extra, 3.40a$400; Wheat No. x V"bit.,84 a85 cts. ; Rye State, 54a5t3; Corn Southern Yellow, 47a4Scts. ; Oats White State, 31a3i cts. ; Butter State, 15a25 cts. ; Cheese State, lOalOKcfcs-; Eggs 16al6 cts. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania, fancy, 3.50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 82a83 cts ; Rye Pennsyl vania 57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 45a47 cts. Oats 36a37 cts. ; Butter State, 18al9 cts. : Cheese N. Y. Factory, Hal2 cts. ; Eggs State, 17al8 cts. Professor Bunge.a distinguished German Professor of the University of Basle, charac ierizes beer as the most mischievous among ilcoholic beverages, because no other is so teductive. This opinion of Professor Bunge Might to stop the spigot of many a barrel of bear. GOAL IMS STRIKE. TWENTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE THE LEHIGH REGION. IN An Increase of Fifteen Per Cent, in Wasres Demanded. Twenty thousand miners and laborers in the Lehigh Districts of the anthracite coal region on Monday morning responded to the order to quit work, which was issued by the Joint Committee of the Knights of Labor and the Miners' and Laborers' Amalgamated Association; and what promised to be one of the longest andniost bitter strikes in that region since lS7o was begun. The men demanded an in crease of lo per cent, in their wages. The op erators refused this and refused to arbitrate, as they have agreements with their own men to work out the year on a schedule adopted last January. Committees of the several local organizations waited upon A. Pardee & Co. , Cove Bros. & Co. at Dritton, and other operators, but the operators refused to recognize the committees. Thirty collieries in the Lehigh region were affected by the strike, and all of them were idle. At several of them it was attempted to run the breakers with the aid of a few Hungarians and Italians, but after running for several hours they were obliged to shut down. In accordance with the orderof the joint committee all the engineers and pump men remained at work, but only to do what dead work was necessary in order to keep the water out of the mines, and they were under strict orders not to hoist a single carload of coal. At Dritton all the men, numbering over 1,000, were ordered to go to work at once or else take their tools from the mines and go to the office and get their pay. They refused to go to work and all were immediately dis- nmrgeu. present, says a aispatcn on Monday, the men are all quiet, but should the operators carry out their expressed purpose to operate the mines with Hungarian and other imported labor, serious trouble and possibly bloodshed is anticipated. It is believed that the strike will not be ail justed for many months.unless a mu tually satisfactory agreement is arrived at tlm week. Work will be continued in the Schuyl kill and other regions, and the Lehigh operatoi-s will have all their orders filled there. There is no fear that the price of coal will bo materially affected, as the orders can be easily filled in the other regions. The men who have gone out are employed by tho Lehigh Valley Itailroad Company, the Lehigh Coal and Is a vigation Company and a number of other companies and individual operators. The strike affects nearly all the mines in the upper and lower Lehigh regions,' but not including the Wyoming district or the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley mines in the Schuylkill region. In reference to the great strike of the coal miners in the upper and lower Lehigh regions, a Philadelphia dispatch says General McLeod, of the Reading Railroad, said: "There has been no strike of the employes of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and we do not expect any. In fact, I am confident that we shall have no trouble. We know what the demands of the men are. and they understand their position thoroughly, and we can adjust the difference without trouble. Iso reports of strikes have been received, and we believe that all of our men are at work and will not go out. The strike may have some effect upon the coal trade, but we shall not feel it" TRAIN THIEVES TAKEN. Successful Work of Texas Officers Pursuit of Bandits. Ill Since the first train robbery of the year, in Texas, which occurred at McNeil station on the International and Great Northern Railway two months ago, the officers though, hampered by a heavy country and very vague descriptions, have been actively at work. It is believed that they now have the major part of the gang and that the rest can not escape. Four or five days ago Thomas Jones and Billy Humphreys were arrested near Meridian, Bosque county, in the north ern pa: t of the State. Humphreys is a man who has been "up' several times for stage robbery, but has been smart enough most of the time to prove an alibi. When this plan would not work he turned State's evidence and got off that way. He and Jones are noted pals. 1 JThe :trrests were kept a careful secret, as Humphrey's penchant for giving things away was well-known. In this instance he wished to tell conditionally all he knew, but by playing Jones off against him the officers obtained a full and free conftssion from them fcoth. Acting on information given to the officers Stephen, Bales and Hamilton sur rounded the house of John Creswell who lives twenty miles west of Medina City, Bandera county, and called him. He step ped outside and was promptly nabbed. He had a preliminary trial before the Deputy United States commissioner ana was piaceu under 8,000 bonds, which he has failed to five. lie IS one Ui. me pai titra iiaiucvi uj ones and Humphreys. According to Jones and Humphreys there were thirteen men in the McNeil affair. After getting that train they divided, six of them going the Flatonia and seven repairing uo inumu ioajb mm making themselves famous by the celebrated stoppage of the Texas and Pacific train on a trestle and the systematic burglary of every thing in it. A GRADUATE'S PROTEST. Contract with Her Annulled Account of Her Race. on Considerable feeling has been aroused at Dallas, Texas, among the H . brew population caused by the receipt of a letter from Prof Massey, Principal of Sherwood Female Col lege, Staunton, Va., asking a talented and highly respected Hebrew to releass him from a contract made with her for her services as teacher the coming season at his school. He had made the arrangements with her by let ter on the strength of her unquestioned repu tation as a scholar and a lady, and when in a personal interview he learned that; she was a Hebrew he refused to carry out the contract, telling her that he could not r sk the experiment of placing her in charge of his pupils. Miss Jeannette Goldberg, the lady referred to, at once annulled the contract, but took Prof. Massey to task in a letter in which she reminded him that the pat onage of Israel ites was not rejected, and that under Ameri can institutions, as taught by American col leges, the race in life is free to all with apti tude and merit; "if not the rightful clai mant of reward, at least not subjected to hindrance that found no objection from the staadpoin: of jus tics or sense." FATAL WRECK. K ashing Down Grade at 80 Miles an c Hour One Man Killed. A serious wreck occurred on the Baltimore a i Ohio Railroad on the Cranberry grade a point about 18 miles west of Oakland. The train which met with the disaster is known as No. 47, and is due at Oakland at 10.05 A. M. It usually carries nothing but press matter, and runs on fast schedule passenger train time. However, in addition to the five express cars usually hauled, the train had one immigrant car attached loaded with Scotch immigrants, and it is fortunate that the loss of life was not much greater than it was. At Terra Alta, ten miles west of Oakland, the decent of the Cranberry grade is commenced, and for a distance of ten miles runs down the side of the mountain at a grade of one hundred and fifteen feet to thef mile. While the scenery on this part of the road is grand, almost beyond description, O'ie can scarcely look from the car windows Vwn into the apparent bottomless gulches without a shudder, thinking what if the air brake should fail to perform its part as the train rushes down the incline When train No. 47 started down the grade yesterday about 12 o'clock, the engineer, Wm. Paxton, soon discovered that the air brake would not work and that he had no control of his train, which was momentarily increasing its speed. Notwithstanding his perlious position, Pax ton remained at his post and used every means in his power to save his train; all however without avail. The train attained a spewl of some eighty-miles an hour and literacy jumped and plunged along down tao mountain until within about two miles of the foot of the grade, while rounding a sharp curve the tender and two express cars jumped the track end shot like bullets down an almost perpendicular embankment to the bottom of the ravine about a hundred feet deep, where they lay in an unrecognizable mass. The two cars were loaded with fine goods, such as cigars, cl thing, millinery goods, etc., and the loss wi 1 be heavy. A. W. Cooper, of Keyser, W. Va., a brakeman, who was riding between two cars which went down, was c mght beneath them at the bottom and instantly killed. No one else was sen usly hurt, although the ear contain ing the immigrants was turned over on its side. The track was blocked and travel de layed several hours. The cause of the acci rdent as asserted by some was the usual one, Tiz.,the failure of the air brakes to work. It is claimed however, that the brake appara tus was known by the train hands to be out of order before the descent was made. When the train reached Oakland the gum air-hose it is said was leaking and in an unsafe condi- , 4M-I Wi 1 1 1 n tn iir o 1 rn 'nniMn TX'li rv tvn ?ided at K r whilst the engine was taking water endeavored to repair the hose by wrappers or trying in some way. rule Virts was thus "engaged the engineer, Pax ton, was, it is stated, heard to say: "lam afraid to go down the gr de with that hose," Nevertheless,the descent was attempted, with tho result as state i. There were two brake "r'n on the tra n besides the conductor and two express messengers. One brakeman, it is sai 1 was not at nis post, but in the im migrant car, and the expressmen, and they found th' train was running away, worked their way back to the rear car. The brake man was at his post, went down with his train and lost his life. William Paxton, the engineer, is a man past middle life, and is considered one of the most careful men on this division. IMPALED IN MID-AIR. A Workman Falls 100 Feet Cpon an Iron Hod and Hangs There. J. Tierpoat Mo :-gan, the well-known hanker, is erecting a memorial chart 1 aim library to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tracy, the deceased parents of his wife. It stands on Six teenth St., near Rutherford place, New York. Claus A. Peterson, a young man who had abandoned a seafaring l;fe a few months ago because of its perils, and resumed his trade as an iron-worker, was at work on the build ing. While bracing irn beams on the roof he stepped upon a box and was thrown head long towards the wt U-hole in the cellar a distance of over one hundred feet. In flying thr. ugh the open space his body swung around and struck against the unfinished nvn stairway. The rail had been left ex posed, and Peterson fell face downward upon one of the upright iron prongs. It pierced his body like a lance, leaving h m suspended in mid-air over the well-hole. The iron bent nearly double with the writhing man. His fellow-workmen hnstened to his rescue, but Peterson was so firmly fastened upon the iron upright, which bad run completely through him, that they were powerless to render him any assistance, and the poor fel low was slowly bleeding to death when a sur geon arrived It required the combined strength of three men to tear Peterson's body fromthe iron vroddurinr which he suffered excruciating a-ouy. w tien lie reacned tiie hospital it was found that his lungs had been pierced and his body had terrible wounds in the breast ami baek,"f rom which he had bled profusely. The surgeons said that there was only one" chance in ten of hi: recovery. A. GOVERNOR DEAD. California's Cbicf Executive Dies After a Long Illness. Governor Washington Bartlett, of Califor nia, died on Monday at his residence in Oak land, after suffering several months from Bright's disease and having been partially paralyzed about the 1st of August last. Mr." Bartlett was born at Savannah, Ga., sixty-three years ago and became a citizen of California in 18-0, settling at San Francisco, where he published the rlrst daily news paper issued in that city. Nine years later he was elected County Clerk, and in 1870 he became Harbor Commissioner. He was elected Mayor of San Francisco in 1832 and was re elected at the end of his first term. Last year he defeated Mr. Swift, the Republican, candidate for Governor. The L eatenant Governor, H. W. Waler man, who succeeds him, is a Republican. A NEGRO VENDETTA. A Colored Man Riddled With Bullets and His House Burned Down. A shocking affair occurred at Margarette ville, Va., on the Seaboard road. Aaron Goode, a respectable colored man, attended services at a church in the neighborhood and while their had a difficulty with several men. Goode went home and went to bed. Later in the night the same men with whom Goode had the trouble at church came to his house and spread broom straw all around it, and then set fire to the straw. Goode got up and went out to extinguish the burning brush, when he was shot by negroes in ambosh. The gun was loaded with steel bits, lead, slugs and bullets. Goode was in stantly killed. The dwelling was entirely consumed. TELEGRAPHIC TOPICS S0ME NOTABLE NEWS HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS QUARTERS. Editor O'Brien, the Home Bale Leader, Arrested in Dublin Mr. O'Brien was arrested in Dublin Sun day while seeing Mr. Labouchere, the editor of London Truth, off on the steamer. Mr. O'Brien spent the day at Ballybrack with Messrs. Dillon and Harrington. He re ceived a telegram from Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Brunner, requesting him to accompany them to London. Mr. O'Brien, accom panied by Mr. Harrington, went on board the Kingstown boat for the purpose of declin ing the invitation to go to London, when a detective met him and said he would not be arrested if he pledged himself not to go to England. Mr. O'Brien refused this condition, when he was taken into custody and escorted to the Imperial Hotel by the detective, who in formed him that he could stay there all night if he would give a promise that he would not make a speech. This promise was not given, and Mr. O'Brien addressed a crowd from the balcony of the hotel. In the course of his brief re marks he said : ' 'So long as there is breath in my body my voice will not be silent until I am gagged. I am proud to suffer for Mitchellstown. When in Kingstown I was told that I would ! not be arrested if I did not undertake to go to England. That shows that the covernment is beginning to dread us in England." Mr. O'Brien in an interview on the subject of his arrest, said he had no intention of going to England when he boarded the boat, rle merely went there to see Mr. Labouchere. As to making a speech at the hotel he said he had no idea of doing so until the detective mentioned it. Filibusters Repulse 300 Soldiers. "While in ambush some miles from Matan zas, Cuba, the other afternoon, just after land ing, the band of Cuban filibusters that re cently left Key West, Fda., were attacked by a detachment of o('0 Spanish soldiers. The latter were repulsed, leaving three dead and carrying five wouuded, the result of the dynamite bombs thrown by the filibusters. Four of the Cubans were wounded, but not fit all seriously, by shots from the soldiers. The expedition party then made its way into the interior, and private advices re ceived from tho leader by a re presentative of tho cause at Key West announces that they have joined those who went there previously. It is believed that certain Spanish smacks, the property of a wealth' Cuban Home Ruler, and supposed to be engaged in the fishing, trade, sailing out of Havana and frequently seen in American waters, are really doing a profitable business smuggling aguardiente one way to the Florida main land and carrying arms and reinforce ments to the Cuban revolutionists on their re turn to Cuba from Tampa and Key West Two Spanish gun-boats have been cruising in sight of Key West. Powderly's Next Message. General Master Workman Powderly, in an interview at Scranton, Penn,, said his next annual message to the Knights of Labor will advocate Government ownership of tele graph and railroad lines, and the establishment of a postal savings bank. Bills will be prepared by him to carry these suggestions into effect, and they will be submitted to the General Assembly for its approval. Should the As sembly approve these measures, they will be introduced in Congress and backed by j th" fuli?r"th of the Knights of Labor. He added that there was a misunderstand ing about his rumored resignation at the next General Assembly. He said it probably arose from a statement which he made in Omaha and Boston, some time ago, to the effect that he was now serving his last term as chief of the organization. As he was elected for two years at Rich mond, he has yet a year to serve, but he says that he is ready at any time to make way for his successor should the order see fit to elect one. Disaster in a Church. A terrible accident is reported from Need more, a small village in Tennessee. Rev. J. M. Carter and Dr. Logan were to speak there in favor of prohibition. When they arrived they found a big revival in progress, and did not speak. The revival was lemg con ducted in a two-story church building, the upper floor being used for church pur poses and the lower floor given up exclusively to school purposes. There was an immense audience in the upper story listening attentively to the exhor tation of the minister, when suddenly the rear floor gave way with a crash, carrying sixty i or seventy people with it. The fall was thir- teen feet,and hardly one of them escaped inju ry. 1 he injured were quickly rescued from the wreck, and three of them found to be serious ly injured. One man was fatally hurt. Every physician in the country was immediately sent for, and the work of relieving the in jured promptly begun. A Train Plunges Into a Ravine. A Baltimore and Ohio train, composed of five express cars and one emigrant passenger coach, was wrecked Sunday near Oakland, Md. The air brakes refused to act, and while descending a grade at great speed the tender left the track and plunged 100 feet down an embankment. Three of the express cars remained on the track, but the two others went into the ravine and were wrecked. A W. Cooper, a brakeman, of Keyser, W. Va., was killed, and brakeman Virtz injured. The loss to the company is heavy. September Crop Reports. The statistical report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington for September presents a heavy reduction in condition of cotton, corn and potatoes, with little change in the status of wheat and other small grains. SIXTY PERSONS INJURED. Fall of a Church Building-The Peo ple Go Down With the Floor. A terrible accident is reported from Need more, a small village three miles north of Manchester, Tenn. A two-story church building, the upper floor being used for church purposes, and the lower floor given up exclusively to school purposes, suddenly and without warning gave way. carrying sixty or seventy people with it. The fall was thirteen feet, and hardly one escaped in jury. The injured were quickly rescued from the wreck, and three of them found to bi seriously injured. One man is fatally hurt. Every physician in the county was immediately sent for, and the work of re lieving the injured promptly began. No further particulars have been received from the disaster. THE GRAND ARMY. Facts and Figures of its Meetings and Membership. The annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at St. Louis, which has attracted more attention than any pre ceding one for 'many years, is the twenty first held since the foundation of the associa tion. Its first post, according to a Washing ton dispatch to the New York Sun, was organized in Decatur, 111., April 6, 1866, and the second quickly fol lowed at Springfield, in the same State. Major B. F. Stephenson of Springfield, who had been surgeon of the Fourteenth Illinois Volunteers, originated the organiza tion, and mustured in the Decatur Post, with General I. C. Pugh as Post Commander, and Captain Kanan as Adjutant He also, a few months later, gave a charter to the first East ern post, No. 1, of Philadelphia. General John W. Palmer was the first Department Com mander. The first national encampment was held at Indianapolis in November, 1806, and General S. A. Hurlbut was there chosen the first Commander-in-Chief. The rules, regulations, and ritual have been materially modified during the lapse of more than twenty years since that first meeting. The second national encamp ment was held at Philadelphia in January, 1868, and the Grand Army then took on a new and far more important form, with pro visions for permanent establishment. Gen eral John A. Logan was elected Commander-in-Chief, and a few months later signalized the beginning of his career as head of the organization by issuing nis famous order directing the observance of May 30th as Memorial Day. The third national encamp ment was held at Cincinnati, where General Logan was re-elected Commander-in-Chief, and General Lucius Fairchild and General J. R. Hawley respectively Senior and Junior Vice-Commander-in-C h ief . The fourth annual encampment was at Washington, the fifth at Boston, the sixth at Cleveland, the seventh at New Haven, the eighth at Harris burg, the ninth at Chicago, the tenth at Phila delphia, the e'eventh at Providence, the twelfth at Springfield, Mass.; the thirteenth at Albany, the fourteenth at Dayton, the fifteenth at Indianapolis, the sixteenth at Baltimore; the seventeenth at Denver, the eighteenth at Minneapolis, the nineteenth at Portland, and the twentieth, last year's, at San Francisco. At the San Francisco encampment, held in August, 1886, there were shown to be con nected with the organization 5,765 posts and 299,087 members at the date of the last pre vious official reports. During the year the posts had expended an aggregate of $205,673 out of their charity and relief fund, not reckoning the expenditures of 750 posts whose reports had not been received, ana. there waa a balance in the fund of $301,012. BOTH TRAINS OFF TIME. Narrow Escape From Disaster of Two Trains in West Virginia. Tu w j.; n J UlUt) SUtfclUU Ol DBUWUUU, IUU1 ILLUBS South of Wheeling, W. Va., narrowly es caped being the scene of a terriblo railroad disaster through the wilful disobedience of orders by an engineer. At 10.45 o'clock the South-bound freight train, on the Ohio River road, pulled Out of the depot at Wheeling for Parkersburg, the engineer having orders to stop at a siding on the upper end of Ben wood to allow the north-bou- d passenger train to pass. On arriving at the designated switch, the engineer found that he had five mintues to spare, and thought he could save that much time by running down to another switch, a mile below, and wait for the pas senger train there. He accordingly put on allpossible steam and started. When about two-thirds of the distance was covered, and when the freight train was running at the rate of twenty miles an hourr the passenger train which was four and a half minutes ahead of time, rounded a curve and came straight for the freight train. Both engineers put on the brakes and jumped. The engines came together and were both wrecked. Four cars of the freight train were thrown from the. track- upon the river beach, twenty feet below and wrecked. The passenger train, of four coaches and an ex press car was badly damaged, and the pas sengers were thrown from their seats, but no one was killed. A number, however, were badly bruised. Had not the passenger train slowed up in order to make the station, a half mile above where the colision occurred, a disaster would have been the inevitable result. PURSUING TRAIN ROBBERS. Hovw- a Pair of Bandits Gave the Offi cers the Slip. Information just received from Manchaca Texas, is to the effect that the two train robbers supposed to be surrounded in a pas ture four miles from Manchaca, never en tered the enclosure at all, and the officers found they had been given the slip. Instead of going into the enclosure they succeeded in getting into a creek bottom, down which they traveled several miles, and then hid in the brush until about sundown, when they approached the farm house and bought two horses and saddles, hats and shoes, saving that they were cattle t uyers and had been robbed. They mounted their steeds and rode off in an easterly direction, leading to the dense bottom in the Geaguas, where, it is generally believed, they have friends. Another pose secretly left, hoping to in tercept them, and later got on their track twenty miles from where they had cut some wire fences. Since then nothing has been ieard from tnem. The governor notified the sheriffs of the counties east to take to the fields and keep a sharp lookout. He is confident that they are the leaders of the train robbers gang and that their capture will break it up. A LONG TRANCE. A Woman Who Has Been in a Cata leptic State For Ten Months. Mrs. John Herbert, the now celebrated cataleptic, confined in St. Joseph's Hospital at Joliet, 111., and who has been in a con tinuous sleeping trance or cataleptic state now ten months, remains about the same, with the exception that she talks more than when her case was last written up. Her talk is-principally about something to eat She is continually ordering her meals, but her apnetite has not improved any. The eyes still remain closed, the muscles rigid, and the joints stiffened. She stands in any position she is placed in, Jike a statue, till moved, and the limbs will remain in any position in which they are placed until changed. She has but slight sensibility to pain, and is a perfect human automaton. Sometimes she cries, not aloud, but with seeming suppressed grief. At other times she smiles, but never laughs audibly. She has become a great curiosity. People come for miles to see her, and on Sundays the place is crowded like museum,
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