North Carolina Newspapers

4s WW VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY,; OCTOBER 4, 1887. NUMBER 28 hi hi in 8) DIRECTORT. MAILS. Vortln'rn and Greenrillc Due daily PIaoaa 1A n TV .On IX). Vli'oco ai xv jj. ut. v'nrth and South side river mail vL. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at & n in. Closes at 7 following mornings. (jttu "v v jlouiy Order and Registry Depart- STATE GOVERNMENT. :n or Alfred M. Scales. Govc Governor Chas. M. Stedman. secretary of State William L. Saun- dfs .. ir r t1 i.- Tre:i :n r Donald VV. Ram. Supt. of Public Instruction -S. M. Attorney uenerai i. H. Davidson. ?TaTF- BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. fonirniioncr John Robinson. rretarv i . K. iiruner. Chemist Charles W. Dabney, Jr. General Patrick. Immigration Acent J. T. COUNTY. sarntl and Treasurer, R. T. Hodsre 5nj t rior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. fleeter of Deeds Burton Stilley, Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, chair'n. J. T. Winfield, F. P. Hodges, F. B. Hooker, H. N. Waters. Board of Education J. L. Winfield, chsir'n, P. H. Johnson and F. B. Guil ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction -Rev. Nat Harding. Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T. Tayloe. CITY. jlavor C. M. Brown. Cltrk John D. Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. Chiuf of Police M. J. Fowler. Councilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. Morton. IS. K. Fowler, .Jonathan Jiavens, W. H. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton. CriURCHES. Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec- ' , .... : ' 1 tor. ervices every ounuay niuiuiugkauu nig'it. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent. Presbyterian hev. S. M. Smith, pas- tor. Services every sunuay morning ana night. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Superintendent, Jas. L. Fowle. Methodist Rev. . K. Ware, pastor, Services ererv unuav morning ana ev- pnin". Superintendent. Warren Mavo. ,. - , - rf , uadur School, 3.30 p. m. l ' TEMPERANCE MEETINOiS. ,v:orm Club Regular meeting every Toeji ty night at 7.30 at Club Rooms. W. C. T. U. Regular meetings every ThursJav. 3 p. m., at Rooms of Reform Cub. Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every Sundav. in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m. M 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 nitrhts of each month E. S. Hovt. W. M., H. T. Hodges, Secretary. Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. 0. F. Meets every Friday night at their hall Gilbert Kuinbey, P . N. G., J. R. Ross, Secretary. Washington Lodge, No. 1490, Knights ot honor. M . eta 1st and 3rd Tnursday aishts at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P. Crabrrec, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor ter. J. R. Ross, F. Reporter. Chic ra Council, No. 350, American Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and foh Tnursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall- C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm. M. Cherry, Collector. Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and Ladies of Honor. Meet's 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall m. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen. Secretary. Excl.sior Lodge. No. 31, O. G. C. Meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall C. W. Tavloe, Com- rnand er. Wm. Cherry, Secretary. The Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, of Washington, fl. C. ICE, COSffSR MARKET & SECOND STS Opposite the Court Houe, Washington, n. c. Washington Mutual Benet Insurance Company. chartered by the legisla ture OF NORTH CAROLINA. Isnr.g policies on Life, Health and Ac idents risks; also l ire risks taken, and a General Insurance business done. OfSse, Opposite tne Court House, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STORE M. WILLIAMSt Prop'r. s ii for Ralph's Swssi Snuff &U Brands of Snuff; Cigars and Tobacco, 'y thing in the Tobacco line, and New G oods constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly T9BAG00 TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. r Eastern and Middle States. Seven persons were injured by a collision on the Elevated Railroad in Brooklyn. A great stringency in the money market has created considerable excitement in Wall Street, followed by quite a drop in prices of stocks. Appeals have been made by many business men to the Treasury Department to adopt a more liberal policy in the purchase of bonds, and thereby give relief. The Massachusetts Democratic State Con vention, held in Worcester, nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Hon. H. B. Lovering; Lieutenant-Governor, Walter E. Cutting; Secretary of State, John F. Mur phy; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher; Attorney-General, John W. Corcoran, and Audi tor, Wm. F. Cook. The platform adopted endorses President Cleveland's administra tion; urges judicious reduction of the tariff in accordance with Mr. Cleveland's sugges tion to Congress; expresses sympathy with Ireland, and says all "offensive partisans1' should be discharged. Twenty-four coal boats belonging to the Pittsburg coal combination, and vaiued at $3,000 each, sank at Willow Grove, Penn. General L. B. Faulkner was arrested at Buffalo, N. Y.. on the charge of fraud in connection with the suspension of the First National Bank, of Dansville, of which his brother, now supposed to be in Canada, was President. E. S. Wheeler, the New Haven iinrorter who recently failed for $2,000,(HK, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining money from a Hartford National Bank under false pretences. He was taken to Hartford and placed under $.5,000 bail. Word conies from Pittsburg, Penn., that all the large salt companies of the United States are about to form a mammoth company, to be known as the National Salt Union. The object is mutual protection and to keep up prices. Governor Hill, in a speech at the Orange County Fair, Newburg, N. Y., favored a State law legalizing another holiday, to be known as "Arbor Day," to be devoted to tree planting, tree culture and education in forestry. South and West, Part of a freight train broke loose near Canton, Dakota, and ran down a grade until it collided with a passenger train. Five per sons were killed and eight cars completely demolished. Minneapolis is shocked at six sudden deaths in a week, two of them suicides. By the collapse of a grain loft in the stables of a Cincinnati street railroad, ten horses were buried and suffocated. Assembly f 302, Knights of Labor, of Chi cago, has adopted a resolution declaring the Supreme Court's decision in the Anarchists' trial unjust, and urging Governor Oglewby to pardon the prisoners. Numerous other ap peals for executive clemency have been sent to the Governor. General William Preston, Minister to Spain under Buchanan's Administration, and representative of the Confederate Statas in England, died a few days since at Louis ville, in his seventy-second "year. " Regulators" of Southern Indiana, known as" White Caps" from their wearing white masks, have again become very active, and one night recently whipped seven men with hickories. About seventy Regula tors were in the band. A fire in the Northwestern Ohio oil fields burned over many acres. The Glenn bill, which passed the lower House of the Georgia Legislature, has been practically killed in the Senate by the adop tion of a substitutes It made it a penal offense to teach whites and blacks in the same school. Ax industrial parade ten miles long was a feature of the Federal and Confederate Beunion at Evansville, Ind. Thirty-five thousand people attended. Emancipation Day was celebrated at Jackson, Miss., by a very large procession of colored citizens. An ad ir ess of welcome was delivered by Mayor McGill Almost the entire business part of San ford, Fla., has bor n destroyed by fire. Total estimated loss, $300,000. Washington. Governor Ross, of New Mexico, says in his annual report to the Secretary of the In terior that the marked increase of residents during the past few vears will result in a pop ulation of 20J,000 by 48.K). During the first half of the fiscal year 1,141 entries of public lands, aggregating 152,500 acres, were made. The collections from Internal Revenue during July and August aggregated $20, 950,036, an increase of $1,607,280 as com pared with the first two months of the last fiscal year. Land Commissioner Sparks has prepared a statement of the disposition of public and Indian lands during the past fiscal year. It appears that the sales, entries and selections of public land under the various acts of Con gress embraced 25,111,400 acres, and of In dian lands 74tf,637 acres, making a total of 2o,85S.037 acres. The receipts from the dis posals of lands aggregate $10,783,922; from sales of Indian lands $1,484,302, making a total of $12,209,224. A forthcoming statement by Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller will show that internal revenue receipts are steadily de creasing, because the people of this country drink less whisky and more beer. Tae internal revenue receipts for distilled spirits the past fiscal year were S05,82.),321, a de rease of $3,302,944 over the previous year. The receipts from beer during the past fiscal yearwere 621,922,187, an increase of i?2,245, 450 over the previous year. Fred. Douglas, the noted colored orator, was given a reception and banquet by two thousand people of his race in the largest colored church of Washington. The occasion of the demonstration was the return of Mr. Douglas from his recent trip to Europe. Foreign. King William has opened ' the States General, or Parliament of Holland. An advertised foot-race at Lillie Bridge, London, did not come off, and the thousands of spectators took revenge in partly demol ishing two grand stands, a large assembly hall and a dancing pavilion, setting fire to the debris. Four constables were injured while quelling the riot. Antonio Gayon, chief of one of the bu ureaus of the Mexican War Department, was fatally wounded by General Rocha in a duel in the city of Mexico. Official statistics of the damage done by the floods in Egypt show that property was destroyed to the extent of $2,500,000 and 800 families were made destitute. The British Government has begun its work of suppressing the National League in Ireland. A proclamation wThich has been issued makes it criminal to convoke, hold, or publish meetings or to do anything in connec tion with the League. A riot broke out among the artillerymen stationed at Hilsa, India, because they were ordered abroad. During the melee many soldiers and citizens were seriously injured. mr thousand inhabitants of Messina, Italy, have fled from thatch on account ot cholera. PATBB PENSIONS THE METHODS ADOPTED BY SOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Points of Interest From Commissioner Black's Annual Report, The most original feature in the current annual report of Commissioner Blacik is its description of the pension systems of for eign countries. The facts for this purpose, says a Washington special to the New York Sun, were obtained in response to re quests made by him to American Ministers and Consuls-General in various lands, and General Black says that "th most courteous consideration has been paid to the requests in every instance save in the one addressed to the Minister at the Court of St. James." Turning to the individual foreign systems, in the French each pension for any grade is observed to contain what is called a maxi mum aiid a minimum figure: "For instance, that of a private soldier has a minimum of 000 and a maximum of 750 francs. The minimum pension is gained by the length of service above stated, and for each additional year of service the pen sioner is entitled to an addition of one twentieth of the difference between the minimum and maximum until the maximum is attained. An applicant who is entitled to less' than the maximum service pension is al lowed an addition for active campaign ser vice, graded according to the nature of his service in the campaigns in which he served." This is practically only analogous to our longevity pay system, which accrues to the benefit of those who go on the retired list. The German system is founded on the law of 1871, and its general basis is laid down at the outset of that law: "Every officer and military surgeon hold ing the rank of officer who draws his pay from the army appropriations, receives a life pension if, ifter a period of service of at least ten ye rs, he has become incapacitated for active service, and u discharged lor that reason. "If the incapacity is caused by a wound or other injury received in tie service, without the fault of the person thus injured, he will be entitled to a pension even after a shorter term of service than ten years." The length of service becomes a ground for a higher rate of pension, as in the French system. Some of the raies of pension in Spain are furnjshed by Commissioner Black: "If by reason of wound or other accident of war a soldier loses his sight or the entire use of a limb he receives, if Colonel, 32,000 reals ($1,000); if Lieutenaut-Colonel, 25,000 ($1,250); if a Major. 22,000 ($1,100); if a Cap tain, 15,000 ($Y0j; if a Lieutenant, 8,0J0 ($400) ; if a sub-Lie itcuant, 0,000 ($300). The real in our money is worth about five cents. After twenty years of service a Sergeant re ceives per month $0; after twenty five years of service $7.50; after thirty-rive years of service, $8. A Ser geant entirely disabled by accidental in juries received in the service shall receive the regular retired rate of pension per month, from $2.25 to $6.75; corporals and privates of all branches of the service receive as ser vice pensions after twenty years of service, or in cases of total disability, from $2.25 to $7.50 per month." The Turkish and Italian svstems present no great elements of novelty, but the Rus sian has a peculiar feature: "The pension system in Russia seems to be rather in the nature of a mutual insurance company operation. The fund was established in 1859 bv a donation from the imperial treasury of 7,500,000 rubles. All the bene ficiaries legal and possible of this fund were from thenceforth assessed 0 per cent. kt annum on the amounts of their salaries until the date of the first pay ment of pension, which began about the year 1805. The fund had then increased to 18, OOO.Oi) rubles. In 18$) the principle of the fund reached 'thp sum of (8,OiX),0OU rubles. The number of beneficiaries is very small. " China's system of pensions, like its other Government institutions, is seen to be inter esting, although it may not invite imitation. It dates back several centuries. The service age is sixty years: " The forces of the empire are composed, first, of the Eighth and Manchu Banner Corps; second, the Army of the Green Standard or Chinese provincial forces; and, third, the irregulars, or Braves. All de scendants of the Mongolian and Chinese soldiery of the conquest are enro.led in the Eighth and Manchu Banner Corps. "The amount of pension depends not only upon the service, but upon the quality of the service and the character and degree of peril to which exposed during service. Divisions are ma fe of wounded soldiers into classes ac cording to the length of time assigned for re covery. Five such classes have been cre ated. For a considerable time differences were made in the amount of pensions to be allowed for wounds made by spent cannon balls. Those, who served and were killed or disabled in the froat ranks are regarded with distinguished cons:deration. Those who suf fered disablement in what may be called the "subordinate services," such as guard duty or train-guard duty, who were in the rear of an army and in positions less exposed to the actual danger of war, re ceive correspondingly less, and the pension system is made a prolongation and continu ance of the rewards offered for valor and honorable service in battle." It is noticeable, also, that under certain circumstances China makes provision for the support of the widow and for the son of the soldier killed in service. Toere is a differ ence in the compensation for marine and coast guard service in the outer and the in ner seas, just as between service in the front or the rear of an army. SIX ROBBERS ARRESTED. Capture of a Whole Gang of Thieves By Railroad Detectives, For about five or six weeks past a gang of robbers has been making systematic raids ,upon the freight cars of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the vicinity of Harper's .Ferry and Martinsburg, in the eastern part of West Virginia. The railroad authorities sent Railroad Detectives Daniel F. Sloan, John Lloyd and M. Riordan to work to fer ret out the thieves. After a few days1 search the detectives became certain that the head quarters of the gang was at Harper's Ferry, and they began a systematic search, which resulted in unearthing plunder in the old engine hous of the Government Rifle Works, made historic as the fort of old John Brown. Here a large amount of miscellaneous property was found, and with it three of the robbers, named John Wallace, Aloysius Taylor and Charles Brooks. The men admitted their guilt and were locked up in jail Martinsburg. From state ments made by them the officers went to ' LteIJ 7aXd(Jr THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP. The Places He Will Stop At South and. West. The completed arrangements for Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland's extended trip South and West were announced on Wednesday as fol lows: Leave Washington by Pennsylvania Rail road Friday, September 30. at 10 a. m. Arrive at Indianapolis Saturday, October 1, at 11 a. m Leave Inf.$napolis Saturday, October l,at 3 p. m. Arrive atiTerre Haute Saturday, October I, at hxx p. Leave TeriS Haute Saturday, Oct. 1, at m p. m. v5. Arrive at. Rt Louis Saturday, Oct. 1, at 12 o'clock midnight. Learve St Louis by Chicago and Alton Railroad Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 11 p. m. Arrive at Chicago Wednesday, October 5, at 9 a. M. Leave Chicago by Chicago" and North western Railroad, Thursday, October 0, at 10 a. M. Arrive at Milwaukee Thursday, October 0, at 1 p. m. Leave Milwaukee Fridav, October 7, at 10 A. M. Arrive at Madison Friday, October 7, at 1 p. m. .... Leave Madison by Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Monday, October 10, at 9 A. M. Arrive at St. Paul Monday, October 10, at 5 P. M. Leave St. Paul Tuesday, October 11, at 12 noon. Arrive at Minneapolis Tuesday, October II. at 1 p. m. Leave Minneapolis by Chicago. St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Tuesday, October 11, at 8 P. M. Arrive at Omaha Wednesday, October 12, at 1 1 a. m. Leave Omaha, by Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Wednesday, Oct 12, at 12 noon. Arrive at is. Joseph Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 5 V P. m. Leave St Joseph Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 8 P. M. Arrive at Kansas City Wednesday, Octo ber 12, at 8 p. m. Leave Kansas City, by Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad, Thursday, October 13, at 11 p. m. Arrive at Memphis Friday, October 14, at 6 P. M. Leave Memphis, by Louisville and Nash ville Railroad, Saturday, October 15, at 1 P. M. Arrive at Nashville, Saturday, October 15. at 1 1 r. m. Leave Nashville by Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis and Western and Atlan tic Railroad Monday, October 17, at 11 a. m. Arrive at Atlanta Monday October 17, at 11 P. M. Leave " Atlanta Wednesday, October 19, at 12 o'clock midnight. Arrive at Montgomery Thursday, October 20, at 8 a. M. Leave Montgomery by Kennesaw and Western North Carolina routes Thursday, October 20. at 1 P.Ttf. Reach Washington Saturday, October 22, at 0 a. M. ACRES OF OIL BURNING. The Parker Wells in Ohio Explode and the Flames Spread for Miles. The Northwestern Ohio oil wells are in flames and the fire is rapidly spreading. The fields and the forests are filled with waste oil, in some places many feet in depth and the refuse is all on fire. It is feared that the oil-well buildings and farm-houses of whole townships will be swept out of existance. The sight is magnificient. The flames extend over many acres and at times shoot up into the air a thousand feet or more. The whole country is illuminated by the blaze. The heat is so intense that it can be felt three miles away, and it is impossible to ap proach within half a mile of the burning oil. Th creek flowing near is a surging river of fire and is fed by the oil flowing at the rate of a hundred barrels an hour from the big Parker well. It is reported that several drillers were burned to death, but it is impossible to con firm the report. When the well known as Parket No. 1 caught fire from an explosion the flames made a terrible roaring sound, and the burning oil was scattered far and near. Well No. 2 caught fire next and aided in the conflagration. Four tanks were de stroyed, v itn their contents, and the loss will reach $20,000 on these alone. An explo sion occurred, and the burning oil was blown through the woods for a long distance and the trees and fences furnished ready food for the conflagration. When the explosion occurred George Johnson who was fighting the flames, was caught in a whirlwi d of smoke, oil and flame, and before aid could reach him he was so badly burned that his life is despair ed of. His clothes wer e burned off, and the raw and blackened flesh showed were the flaming oil had poured over him. The smoke and light from the burning oil have brought a large crowd of farmers to learn the cause, ITEMS OF INTEREST. There were 52,500 more births than deaths in France in 1880. A movement is onfoot to build a boulevard from Washington to Mt. Vernon. A failure to vaccinate is punished at Phoenix, Arizona, by $300 fine, or six months in jail. There is one bag of coffee in store or in sight for every 120 persons in the United States. Thirteen hundred ex-Union and ex-Confederate soldiers have been holding a reunion at Evansville, Ind. The Turkish Government has forbidden the attendance of Moslems upon the mission schools in Palestine. A petroleum soring which rises to a height of 1.50 feet has flooded the Balakhan country, near Baku, Russia. Sunday factory labor in Germany is en forced by the sharp competition between em ployers, and an agitation which will arrest it is likely to set in. M. D. Ball, United States Attorney for Alaska, died on the steamship Anion white en route to Seattle, W. T. Hj-s body has been shipped to Washington city. England encourages rifle practice by sub stantial rewards. At the Wimbledon meeting this year over $50,00 J in cash prizes was dis tributed among the contestants. Half the work of reclaiming the Potomac flats at Washington is now dona, and 3?.r acres have been evolved for the magnificent new park that the flats are to furnish. Nearly one hundred young ladies of Atlanta, Georgia, have agreed to form a mounted escort to the President and Mrs. Cleveland when they visit the Piedmont Exposition. TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERS. AN EXPRESS TRAIN STOPPED BY FOUR MEN. The Express and Mail Cars of their Valuables, Rifled The east-bound Texas and Pacific train was robbed the other night near Benbrook, Texas, at the trestle over Mary's Creek, where the same train was robbed in June. The circum stances are similar to those of the last robbery. Just as the train pulled out from the station two men got into the cab of the locomotive and covered Engi neer Baker with six-shooters. He was directed to stop when ordered, and when the locomo tive had crossed the trestle the order was given and Baker stopped the train. Two men were waiting here and the engineer and firemen were ordered out of the cab and marched toward the express car under guard. The doors of the car were closed and one of the men, a tall, slim, sandy-haired fellow, yelled out: "Open up that car." Ex press Messenger Maloney paid no attention to the orders, when, after waiting a few seconds, a hammer of some kind was brought and the door was vigorously pounded. About this time some ten shots were fired into the Pacific Express car and then pound ing began again. At last the door was opened and one of the robbers jumped in with drawn pistol and demanded the money. Maloney had hidden a con siderable number of packages and the re mainder were taken from the safe. Order ing Maloney to keep quiet, the robber jumped out and the mail car was entered, but without any shots being fired. Mail Agent Griffin was compelled to give up the registered packages, and is it said that nearly all the registered matter was taken. There was no effort made to rob the passengers, many of whom were con siderably frightened. There were one or two armed men in the coaches who were prepared to defend the passengers if the rob bers had attempted to enter. After finishing their work in the mail car the robbers escorted the engineer and fireman back to the locomotive and ordered the train to be pulled out The four men moved off some distance, watched the train for a short time, and walked away. The train reached Fort Worth at S:o0 and the officers were at once notified, and two posses, one headed by the Sheriff, the other by the City Marshal, were soon on the road to the scene of the robbery. The amount stolen is variously estimated from $12,000 to $30,000, but none of the mail men or the Pacific officers will say anything about the matter. The theory of the officei-s is that the same men who committed the robbery in June were engaged in that of the other night, but this is the purest con jecture. PAINFUL SCENE IN COURT. Young Husband Confesses to Em bezzlement and is Sentenced. Pale as death and trembling in every fibre, John J. Love, the confidential manager of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, stood before court at Chicago and confessed to the embezzlement of upwards of $10,000 from his employers. Seated by his side and struggling hard to control her emotion was his young and handsome wife. The stern expression upon the judge's face relaxed as ha looked unon the nleadins: face of the 1 W A F 1 woman, and then, without a word of com ment, he announced the senteme of two years and a half at hard labor in the Joliet penitentiarv. Love turned still paler and murmured," "My God," while his wife fell to the floor and sobbed convulsively. Finally both were removed, the one by officers and the other by her friends. Love is just entering his 23rd year. He went to Chicago in 1884 from Erie, Pa., where he was born and where he hai held responsible positions. He is well connected there, and a large number of witnesses made the journey to testify to his previous char acter. At the time of his arrest in May last he was dock superintendent, bookkeeper and confidential manager generally for the com pany. He began in its employ as a clerk Jan. 1, 188-1, at $50 per monti, and was advanced until he had the principal conduct of the business. He was an honest man until some time during the fall of 1886, when he fell into loose habits, associated with the most dissolute people and spent upon them $11,000- which he retained in sums of from $100 to $1,300 in bills collected from the cus tomers of the company. Not a dollar of this sum was recovered, but it was all taken and spent between October 1, 1886, and May 1 last, about $8,QpO being spent during the last three months of the time. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Claus Speckels, the San Francisco sugar king, is said to be worth over thirty millions. John Russell Young is collecting mate rial for a history of the civil life of General Grant. The aged Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her young American husband - are coming to America. The mad King of Bavaria is learning to make himself useful. He passes his days in paring potatoes. King Humbert, of Italy, is only forty three years old, yet his hair, long since gray, is now nearly white General Longstreet says he expects "both sides to pitch in to him" when his book on the war is published. Henry George, the land and labor agita tor, was fined $100 in New York recently for disregarding the notice to serve as a jury man. Two of Blaine's sons, Walker and Emmons, are citizens of Chicago. Both live at the Union Club in that city. One is a la wer and the other is a railroader. The richest man in Vermont is Colonel Estey, of Brattleboro. He is worth at the present moment 12,500,000, all made in trade. He never speculated a dollar in any of the pet stocks or bonds. The oldest man in Indiana is Samuel Mor rison of Indianapolis. He was born in 1788 in that State, and his faculties are clear and strong. He ischieny occupied with reading and writing in the field of local history. Since the recent death of ex-Senator Cil ley, of New Hampshire, the oldest surviving Senator is Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who was born in 1709. After him come Jef ferson Davis, Born in 1808, and Hannibal Hamlin, born in 1809. Mrs. Rachel Stillwagon, of Flushing, claims to be the oldest woman on Long Isl and. She has just celebrated her 102d birth day surrounded by descendants to even the fifth generation. Three-quarters of a century ago the fame of Mrs. Stillwagon's beauty ex tended as far South as Baltimore, RAILROAD DISASTERS. Four Accidents With Fatal Result in One Day. Four railroad accidents, with fatal results in each instance, occurred on Monday. Two miles north of Dubuque, Ia,T two pe.ssenger trains collided on the curve, and the t ivo en gineers and one fireman were instant 1 y k i1 led,, the other fireman and a brakenisai dying during the forenoon. Charles Fales. one of the oldest engineers on the road, was on the engine of the south-bound train, a'.ia Elmer Winchester on the north-bound tram. U'm. Richmond and Edward Cumruings were the two firemen, and all lived in Dubuque. John Pernity, of Milwaukee, brakemtu: on the north-bound train, was among the killed. He was riding on the engine so as to enthe switch at Peru, three miles levond. ;mi the regular meeting place of the two tr.;;u- J. J. O'Brien, express messenger, and o;:e of the postal clerks were badly shaken u.. but not seriously hurt None of the pa.se.'igers were injured, beyond a lew 1 nurses, except Richard Wright, of Holv C. os who was coming to Dubuque. He was in ure i in the back, but not dangerously. Thr'f.vo en gines were badly wrecked and were thrown into a shapeless mass. A terrible accident occurred on the Penn sylvania Railroad, near Moeanaua. the same evening. The train despatch? r at ilay port gave orders for a freight train to pro ceed south. He had forgotten that a Li eight train coming north was about ;ue. The train proceeded south, and when Hearing a long curve at Retreat the two engines ca:ae. in collision. The engineers and firemen iumwd and escaped unhurt. The train coming north pulled, besides other freight, four ;:irs of giant powder. The collision cau-ed the powder to explode with terrific force, setting fire to the cars. The farmers for miles around hastened to the scvic and fought the flames with earth and what water they could procure. The c;rs were shattered into kindhng wood. Thcioreeof the explosion can be imagined si n ee some of the rolling stock was found a quarter of a mile distant from the scene of the explosion. Louis Metz, Ellwood Snark ami ' James Keene, all brakemen, were buried in the wreck. They were all fatally injure !. Both engines rolled down the embankment and are totally wrecked. A collision occurred at four o'clock in the morning near Forest, Ohio, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. The firss section of a freight train broke (low a, and the second section collided with it. killing: John Bouch, fireman of the second section. There were several cars of oii in the second section and they caught lire, and soon the entire fore part of the tr -.in was wrapped in flames. While the trainmen were endeavoring to subdue the tire a car loaded with dynamite exploded, destroying; several cars, tearing up the track, uu i injur ing the engineer of the second ecction and one tramp. The fast day express over the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway was wrecked near Fern station, about forty-five miles west of Indianapolis. The wreck was caused by the breaking of a wheel under the rear truck of the locomotive. The entire train, except the sleeping car, left the track, and the engineer and fireman, named Reddington, father and son, were killed. The elder Reddington, en gineer, was found with his hand upon the throttle. The passengers escaped. BEHEADED BY A WHEEL The Singular Death of a Pennsylvania Farmer. An extraordinary accident occur red near West Nanticoke, Pa. George Davis, a farmer, who owned a tr tet of land about four miles from Nanticoke. drove to Nanticoke with a lumber wagon and double team. He started back wilii his load about dark, Near midnight his wife was arouse 1 by hearing the wagon coming up in front of the house. She waiteJ, but her husband did not come; so she got up, took a iaatern and went out. Shefou d the wagon landing in front of the door, and lying on the lumber was the lifeless body of her h-.naand. He had evidently gone to sleep and fallen down on the lumber, with his had ov . r the side. The horses had swerved, bringin ; the wheel in contact with his head and ne-;., and com pletely severed the head fro-a the body. The horrible s ht sent the pwor wife into convulsioas. Her children came, out and gave the alarm, Some of the neighbors started b ick along the road and found the mutilated head about two miles from the house. A BRUTAL ASSAULT. Saloon Keepers Attempt io Murder a Prohibitionist. As soon as it was known in Sutton's Bay, Mich., that WiPiam A. Taylor, of Lansing, Prohibition State organizer, would speak in the school-house on probibitio , H. and J. Douster and other saloon sympathizers an nounced their determination to prevent the meeting if possible. This they were unible to do, but during ths lecture they paraded the streets with guns and tin p u;s and then gathered about the hall door as the meeting b. oke up to attack the speaker. Tu vior left the hall in company with John Cadham, Levi Cozart and others. The attack began as soon as the party reached the front steps and was fierce and bloody. Cadham received the first blow and was knocks I down and kicked, while the two Dousters, nor, recog nizing Taylor, their special obj cc oi attack, in the dark, cut and slashed at Cozn-fc in stead. His life is despaired of. Taylor under cover of darkness succec -c 1 in awav unharmed. Several roughs ;ttmg chas3d him crying, "Kill him ! " No been made. arrt-its have MARKETS. 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