North Carolina Newspapers

!' k 1 III' I) ! j 1) ! I --r r a T, II? f ROANOKK ICBLtsniNQ Co. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." 7- VOL. PLYMOXTTII, N. C, F:;Y, JUNE 28, 1880. ) I r f THE NEWS. ' v Sirs, Job a Marries and hni iti.in were drowned, ncor Wabash, Ind., while .'I tfordmga stream in a light spring wagon. I - At horB3 raco Sunday at Silver Ltiko. "Moutann, by way of a sido diversion. Scoioi iVrry, a prospector, 'fatally shot William 'iicCoyand slightly wounded two others. 8t vu.vt in tho far west are doing great damn;,-u to grain. A row boat, In which were four boys, collided in the East river with a &d boat. Two of the boys, Benja jamla ; Poster, and Robert Birnley, . were drownod. The residence of Richard Wil wi at Manotick, Ont, was burned, and Mrs. Wilson and two young children perished. Tho forty-third annual meeting of the association of medical superintendents ol American Institutions for the insane is being fciold at Newport.- John Williams was shot ind fatally wouuded by Mrs. , Hattie Camp bell at Sardls, Miss. Tho Amalgamated Association has admitted one. thousand nub ruekers to membership. The New York jury ia tho case of Wm. E. Howard, for ob taining $0,500." from tho defunct . Electric Sugar Company, fouud the defendant guilty of grand ' larceny. Tho Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Eastern Railroad Company was organised at Wilkesbarre, Pa.' -The daugh ter of a prominent summer resident at Cape May has eloped with a French cook.- -p, G. Shawn, of Mathews county, Va., a mail carrier, was drowned in Cow Crcok. Azariah McDaniel, Of ' Rockingham county, Va., died at the ago of one hundred and two years-' ' , .;': - , .. The Civil Service Commissioner have re quested the President to place the census force under the.,civil sorvice law.- The Airockvllle Chemical and Superphosphate Company's powder works,; in Brockvtlle, N. Y exploded, wrecking the building. The )rnttuj,9 manufacturers adopted a report nmending fhe subsidizing of freight tfjajpers and ships and abolishing 'tfuty on afl. raw material-- The Ciiip. 'psws Indians are on, the warpath,. and there . -are fears of an uprising. They have alrealy killed and scalped seven Swedish laborors. Judge McLaln, president of the Savan nah Saving Institution, has been arrestod for receiving deposits kaowntng that ; the bunk was insolvent. Charles WPtsteio, of Cin cinnati,' committed , suicide. During a thunderstorm In Cincinnati two children of Lowe Emerson, a prominent carriage manu facturer, were struck by , Kghtnihg. One child ' may die, Watson " Goodspeed, : o 'Pittston, M& , an imitator of .' Dr. Tanner, died after : fasting thirty-nine , days. 'Sauire J. G. Melone. one of the oldest maz- 1 tr.atfOn Jefferson county, Ky.', dropped dead of; heart disease while testifying in I Jourfc ine stanaara sugar xwnnery, or ?ton, has effected what Is believed to tib the gest purchase of sugar evor made, having .cured twenty-five thousand tons in Cuba at ,ve cents calling for some , 2 500,000, iUv. W. P. Kramer, D. D., of the Reformed rfl U' T ,.V T .... u yer, ilasa., was instantly killed while cross- Ine a railroad track. Six men were killd i .1 a free fight in Texas. Mrs.' Kinfehoian .nd her daughter, Mrs Goldberg,- wyCfc burn-' to death at a Ure iu New Yorh There , Vre three executions In Goorafct; AJexan r Henderson . was hangedr5i ;Bainbridgei Uhm Dibill In TjJavlllo and 'John teJTBjgrrLTl were colored men on convicieu pi muruor.- a ction, Dallas county, Ala., J. p. ection man, shot and killed H.G. bnductor. The trouble was about aTonce was sliot and killed near C.,' by Whitfleld Murrell ond L'arpduter, who objected to him m boys. Major -William S- S. A., retired died in Washington. hy led Newton G. Moorp to murder Iwife at Lake G'fty, Col. John i ami Richard M. Fowler, of Fay. 'luarreiled about the former's wife. : to pistol, and Manfon. was killed er wounded. David May, of iia, was arrested in Montreal on a having stolen (21,000 from a brick firm in PhiIadelpbia.---'The June Vs done great damage to &e farms pa In, Southern Indiana. -The liood of United Libor, T. B. Barry's ba organization to the Knights of J as organized In Chicago, and a mom I of 7,000 reported. A Bronze me .tQtho late ex-President Arthur ,was d in the Rural Cemetery, at Albany, j4Seven sailors, of the German war ixie, lying at Norfolk, were lashed' tempting to desert. Harrison Rob I. a well known citizen of Piquasia, Va., reoen drowned.- Tha seventieth anni rsafy of Odd Followship in Philadelphia V ! appropriately observed. William ges of Boone county, W. .Va., playfully Ited a gun at his mother. She diodfrom "wound in a, few hours. George Me la, of Philadelphia, killed his wife by ping her head inn brutal manner. A , pany is bcln formed-to lay a cable bo.' Jan San Francisco and Honolulu at a cost 61,500,000. The question of reviving fold fornisOf servico in ''the' Lutheran ireu caused a lively discussion in thj ) nt Pittsburg. A St. Louis jmlso llecided that a gambler is entitled to his I and all other paraphernalia, of tho i-captured in a raid. The co-operative ; factory at Roading, Pa., started sev-'.-fxrsBKO by cinriiiiikcrs on a strike, jviol upon Sciturd.iy by the sheriff, and nnnagoo.R'nt of the concern mado an as- iiont. Lightning on Saturday struck sires of tha South Park Presbyterian i ch and fSt. Patrick's Cathedral in Now ' N. J. Tho cupola "and roof of tho i,t th'f Irinmoulatj Conception in r.-ik ciiy, vs'tfj t jittered by a bolt of .''".'.5 instructimn fir Kt;a to maintain the i1" IT t',i n'inrt" ent tJ tf TBAI1E OF THE WEEK, The Condition of Jrado Onlv Moderately Favorable. Anti-Trust Legislation Not, Di fee ted Against Mercantllo Con tracts. Stocks and Bonds Strong ami ' ,. v Money Easy at New York. .V i Special telegrams to BradslreeVi con itnue to report only a moderately favorable sondition of general trade. ' The Increased activity at Philadelphia, notably in lumber ind iron and in general lines, is due to tha reopening of railcommunicition, which was Interrupted by floods in Pennsylvania. There M also some improvement In demand for and ihipment in staples at St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Galveston, .Dda Moines and Uemphis, and at Louisville and Cincinnati susiness is reported fair. .Our low preliminary estimate of $15,000, K)J loss of property by the floods ' in four itatoa is more likely to be roduced than other wise. The wheat crop prospect has not im prove! since June 1, but the outlook for :otton is rather better since the Louisiana "lrouth has been broken. At Baltimore, New .York and Boston trade is quiet, with souutry produce, naval stores and furniture relatively most active. Numerous inquiries have induced Brad' itmeVi to examine the "Anti-Trust" legisla tion of Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and" it ir found that such legislation is not, as ha been widely and erroneously-published, di rected against mercantile contracts generally but is aimed against contracts or combina tions designed to limit or control production of prices. Under the Influincaot renewed speculative Interest tha New York stock market isaotive ind tends higher, attention being rapidly transferred from one stock to another. Bonds ire very strong under increasing investment lemamls. Money at New York continues iasyin spite of largo gold shipments, the imounts of specie engaged aggregating f3,y75,U0a Call loan, 2x2 per cent. For sign exchange to Europe is very firm, bough sterling is easier, demand sterling oeing quoted at 4 83a4 80. Wbiie sugar prices continue to advance, laving gained Jfa7-l6o this week on smaller visible stock, unfavorable crop reports, (inner cables and pronounced activity for refined, interest now centres on what we are to receive and where " it is to come , from. Reflnors' stocks are greatly depleted, and the outlook is for a demand for. unusually large supplies, with a dearth of them in tight Sugar Trust certificates have ad vanced from $35 5J in March to $110, with higher figures in prospect- Luge coffee srop reports and light distributive and spec ulative demand again depressed the staple? she decline being about 1 cant. The Government cereal crop report tended to depress prices, being interpreted as very Favorable, but later, weather and crop re ports, backed ' by speculative influences, served to advance wheat on the week la2c. Indian corn has been lower after an advance, on light deliveries, bat shows a gain of Rye is up Jo on bettor export demand. All Australian wheat exports have ceased, sup plies on band being needed at home; , San Francisco wires that inquiries for wheat are received at Montevideo; that 60,000 bushels have been shipped to Rio, Janeiro, and that the total of wheat stocks in California J una 1 ws only 3,487,383-bushels, indicating that on'y 6(10,000 bushels will be aarried over July 1 Australia", has been'df awing wheat from New Zealand and India as well as California, Hog products ara. depressed on extraordi narily heavy receipts of hogs at prominent Interior markets. Dry goods are very quiet, but generally strong in- price at New York and Boston. ; Cotton goods stocks ara well under control, aiid holders are confident. Several grades of bleached goods' have been advanced. Print clothes are in moderate sale; firm at New York, hut rather easier at Boston. , .. . Woolen goods are in moderate demand, but in fairly liberal movement, notably un derwear and hosiery, and prices are well held, Fl.inr.el manufacturers ask an advance on present values, and these goods are in satisfactory movement. Foreign goods are rather duller than usual. Raw wool is firm in price, but active only in the country. Manufacturers' stocks are light An upward tendency In price is noted. Raw cotton is in good domestic and ex port demand, at 1-10 j decline. Speculation is excessively dull. ' Crop prospects have Improved. . ' THE SAMOAN AGREEMENT. Signed by the Three Natives Having It Under Consideration. ; The agreement between England, Ger many and the United States on the Samoan affair was signed at Berlin. , The announcement that the agreement had been ratified was mads at tho Cabinet meet, ing by Secretary Blaine and it was said that it was eminently satisfactory to this Govern in its final shape. , The agreement will not be made public through the State Department until confirm ed by , the Senate.' While it ' is called an agreement by oQioefs of tho .State Depart injut Mr. . "Walker Blaine said that he thought it would undoubtedly require ratifi cation by the Senate. If the instrument sign ed were one regulating the. conduct of two countries towards each other, as for instance botweom, the United States and oamoa, H would properly bo designated as a treaty, but where the instrument signified is to shape tha conduct of three Governments, viz., the United States, England and Germany, " to wards a-'fourth party Samoa, it is held that Ha prop nomenclature is an agreement At the sama time, as it is a matter affecting the foreign policy, of the . United States. It ta said that it will ? need ratification by the Senate and that, therefore, it cannot be made publia prior to action by the Senate. - The agreemeuc was cordially approved by all the members of tho conference and by their respectives Governments. The best of feotjng prevailed at the termination of tho labors of the commissioners. ;; Terms of the Agreement. - America having abandoned her principal al jaetlous to the agreement previously ar rived at tha plenipotentiaries had 'Only to make uuessenUAi nioiiiiitatious in th word ing of the "draft of the agreement The draft guarantee an autonomous, ad minis -tratiou of the lUt4il.! under t he joint control of Germany and America, Eagland acting as Arbitrator in tiia event of diifrn-uce arising. The Samoans are to eloct their own king and viceroy a id to ba represented In a Senate composed of tli principal chiefs and chamber's elect'Yi by tin people. " Samoa is to have the right of levying duties of evitry kind. Th ajtrwmnt also stipulates that tha Germa,w bhall rooive money indemnity (or the losses. A ; ."Q'.itl court will bj e; -poiatod todefl inn land qu"!tija. The breaki; efirhcs of ajf U" -i1 Valley It'JUroiJ, t: threw seweral oar . i t..- i . M" N . it 1 1 tTi'bi. us i;r- 1, HON: JAMES P. .WILSON. - Senator James F. "Wilson wa3 born at Newark, Ohio. Oct. 19, 1828. He received an academical education, at the conclusion of which he studied law, commencing its prac tice in Iowa, where he had removed in 1S53. Three years later ho was elected a member of the convention to revise tbo State constitu- .'..3 SENATOR WILSON. tion. In 18T)7 be wag appointed by tho Gov ernor of the State. Assistant Commissioner of the Des Moines River improvement, being elected in the sumo year to the State Legisla ture. In 1M57. he wns- sont to the ; State Senate. lie soon won tho confidence of that bo ly, so that in 1801 b was made President of the Senate. Wr. Wilson ht i always been a determined Republican, and in 1801 he was elected a Representative from his State to the Thirty-seventh Congress for tho unex pired term of S. R. Curtis, and reelected to the Thirty -eight Congress. He. served as chairman of the Committee of Judiciary. He also served itr the two following Congresses; he continued at the head of the Judiciary; Committee, was also chairman vbf that on unfinished Business. Mr.' Wilson ' was also one of, tho managers of the ' impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and in 1839 was appointed a Commissioner, or the: Pacific Railroad. In 1873 bo . was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to suo iceed Jamos Harlan, of the same party, and 'took his seat March 4, 187o. Histerm of ser ivice will expire on the 3 1 of .March, 1801. , ' , CABLE SPARKS. . The Egyptian cotton crop is In a healthy condition. . . i ; The Czar" and family, will arrive at Copen hagen on August 20. . Corl Ireland,-has subscribed 250 for the Johnstown sufferers.. , -The striking Paris cabmen did not resume work as was expected, . . A'dispatcb to tho London Lancet from Rome says the Pope is well and hearty. The Shah of Persia went on a hunting ex pedition in the forests of Wilhelmshobe near Cassel. ' ., .- . -. . Mr. Gladstone addressed an open-air meet ing at Launceston and was enthusiastically received. . . . The new Comptolr d'Escorapt was defin itely organized' with M. De- Ncrnumdju as president. t - - : j - Count Herbert Bismarck has gone to Koeningstein, In the Tauuus, where he will make a three weeks' sojourn. ' A letter alleged to have been written by the Prince of Wales says the Emperor of Germany's bod , seriously attacked with . disease. . ; . -,' The Emporoc of Germany has been ad vised by bis physicians to make a trip to Norway for the benefit of his health before visiting England. The Paris police have received a number of letters from General Boulanger to the Boulangist national committee in the house of Madame Bonlou. Twelve hundred cabmen, who wore not among the strikers, met at the Labor Ex change and unanimously resolved to make the strike general. - , ......- Russia, Germany and Austria have sent an identical note to the Swiss government advising it to deal more severely with an archists and socialists. ' .. The committee of Senators and Deputies of France, appointed to consider the recruit ing bill, find it impossible to reach an agree ment on its present basis. ' - At a meeting of ship owners of Newcastle it wes decided to form an association for the protection of ship owners against the Sea men and Firemen's Union. Ex-Premier Garashanine, who was arrested for inciting the Servian progressists to vio lence on the occasion of the recent riot, hm been released from custody. ' ; , The editor and staff of the Italian irreden tist paper L'Independtmte, published in Tri este, have been arrestoJ. The discovery of criminal documents led to the arrests. The French Cabinet discussed the difficul ties of the Panama Canal Company. The liquidator of the company read his report, and tha result of his lindings was presented to tho Chamber of Deputies, The lord provost of Edinburgh has refused to confer the freedom of the city upon Mr. Parnell on the occasion of the visit of the Irish leader in July. The senior magistrate present at tho ceremony will, therefore, officiate. ' S MM. Lagucrre nnd Laisant, members of the Chamber of Deputies of Franco, who with M. Deroulede and others were arrestod at Anaiouleme for rioting, have -written to M. Meline, president of the Chamber of Deputies, protesting against their arrest as an attacx upon the inviolability of Parlia ment." :. - u. . -..j At the hearing in Liverpool in tho case of Mrs. Maybrick, who is charged with poison ing her husband, Michael Maybrick, a broth er of the decasod, admitted that he had given to the police a copy of a dispatch which tho accused had requested him to cable to New York. lie bad sont the dispatch the next dfy. ' , : The French address, lnf reply to the me morial from members oibo English Housa of Commons expressing! regret at tho t sence of the English ambassador 'from thn ceremonies connected with the opening ut the exhibition is msiuM by MO S!uatort, m well as tbo l!50 Deputius, previously men tioned.. , . The powdor whV thn -ockviUe Chrrn-i-al and i'w :;), ' t Jinjiany, nbntit '-'.(-if 1 . Mitario. cuii'-i-- ' : ' 1 . u" 'mg an 1 tl ; ; . ! -io hvc-i .-r - , t - . . t ''fttth. j; , i i.:..-. ,, , t - ana ij .,, ' ! : v ; , , m . i- . , , ' .... -.'-'iav-; in ; I I v tl ' i'f SOUTHERN ITEMS.' INTERESTING NEWS i. COMPILED PROM MANY SOURCE. Hattie May Corley was drowned in Buf falo Creek at Davidson, near Rowlesburg, Preston County, W. Va. The chamber of commerce of Durham, N. C, is urging the erection of a union pas senger depot in that city . -The Lynchburg, Va., Marl and Phos phate company has been organized with a paid up capital of $'20,000. '; . J , M. Guest, gs rdener at the Allegheny "Spring, Va., committed suicide by taking laudanum. - lie was from Gloucester county. So far as learned there is not a mill in Stafford or Spotsylvania . counties in Va., tiiat has not been seriously damaged hy the recent fresbej. Chatt&hoochee is one of the oldest townB in Florida, but never bos had a church build ing for whit4 folks. The Methodists are going to tut up,one this year, C. Baker ubot and killed Terry Smith, a member of. the order of Locomotive Engi neers, during a quarrel at Aberdeen, Miss. Baker declared he acted in self defense. - , -While playing with some boys; William Bouldin, colored, fell on the railroad track at Blackstone, Va., and died in a few min tes. ft is thought . he broke an artery in his fall. ; . t : Iron . work for the one hundred arid ninety car's to bo built by the Roanoke, Va. Machine Works for the Norfolk and Western Railroad has been begun in the blacksmith and foundry departments. - . , William Bush died suddenly In Augusta 'county, Va. A jury of inquest rendered a verdict that Bush died from poison adminis tered by Peachy Atkinson and Ida Busch, his wife. . Harry Lambert, watchman at Rock creek bridge, Metropolitan Branch, B. and O. Railroad, who was struck by a passing train some days ago, died at his home in Wheaton district, Montgomery county, Md. At Marion Junction, Dallas county, Ga., J. P. Stevens, a section man, shot aud killed H. C. Segnor, a conductor on the Mobile and Birmingham Railway. The trouble was a 'out a woman. -' During a recent thunder storm, the lightning struck and killed four fine three-year-old steers, one cow and calf for Capt. J W. Marshall, of Mingo, ' Randolph county, W. Va. r 7 --Miss Jane Woods, a young lady of Wet zel county. W. Va., has just completed a nice quilt, containing 23,140 pieces. Sbe com menced it when seven years old, having worked at it for fourteen years. Three horses valued at about $200 each, owned by Win. Davis, near Fountain Mills, Frederick county, Md., were struck by light ning while standing under a tree in a field during a thunder storm and instantly killed. Constable George Brill, of Hagerstown : Md., while gathering an armful of grass for bis horse was stung in the arm by a snake, wbich escaped under the stable. . By iinmo diately applying antidotes, he will pull through all right. . One of the prisoners confined in Monroe county, W. Va. . jail managed to get posses sion of a table knife, with which he dog a hole through a brick wall, and stealing the keys from, the jailor's room let two other prisoners (ut During an altercation near Plains, Fau quier county, Va.,' between Robert and C E. Turner, Jr., and their brother-in-law, E. P. Turner, Robert was shot and killed by E. P. Turner, who, in turn, was shot in . the breast and.hand. . E. P.Turner was arrested. Messrs. Stall and Duvall, of Frederick, Md, made a narrow escape from death. Their horse and wagon was cro8injcthe railroad-as Mrain of car came aound the curve. By quickryj?fhiping from the wagon and holding the animal a fatal accident vriis averted. Robert Terrell, a section boss on the C. & O., while sleeping on the track at Ceredo, W. Va., was struck by a train and fatally injured. It is believed lie was intoxicated. His remains were taken to Virginia, bis for mer home, for interment. The deceased was 38 years of age and unmarried. . -i The young daughter of Rinton Langfitt, of Hancock county, W. Va., with her brother, stopped at a burning gas well, and the boy turned on the gas full force, which flashed out and caught the girl's clothiug, burning her to death. v At Dalton, Ga, Hon. S. E. Fields, State penator, was shot and killed by his step-son, Dennis Taylor, whom, he attempted to chas tise. Young Taylor was arrested and taken to Dalton. His mother is prostrated with her double sorrow. ' r . The director's of the Lynchburg (Va) Land Company have decided to erect ten dwellings on their property in West Lynch burg at once. The foundations of the sine works are now being laid, and the plans of the paint works are being prepared. At Helen wood, Tenn., a mob broke into tb3 jail and took Lloyd and Reynolds, the double murderers, and hanged them to a tree near by. A note was pinned to the bodies threatening vengeance on any in former. . Public sentiment justifies ' the lynching. . - William Bagges, a son of-Mrs. J. D. Bagges, of Boone county, W. Va.,' came .home from a hunting expedition, and play fully pointed bis gun at his mother. The weapon was discharged, and the ball passed through her body, death resulting in a few hours. - An attempt was made to burn the Marion county, W. Va. court housv A quantity of oil was poured under the door and ran down over the floor. Two lighted matches were then shoved under the. door but by some means failed to connect with the oil and the attempt was fruitless, v ' . i The daughter of ex-Sheriff E. W. Janney of Elkton, Md., has a kitten which is a enn oaity. The animal was born without a tail, and its front paws are double. It moves more like a rabit than a cat. ' Its mother, likewise, has double front paws, but is other wise like acat. Joseph Smith, aned forty, was shot and killed by Samuel Kronpeckor near Roane Court-house,- W, Va. Kronpecker had left his wife and six children in a destitute eon-, dition, and Smith had been caring for them, Kronpecker passed by his house, and seeing Smith talking to his wife, raised a rifle and shot bim dead. The murderer is in jail. Hugh Russum, while ploughing recently in his hold a few miles south of Greensboro, N.. C, turned up a very large spear bead made of stone. The sbaJp point had been broken off but the ides are still keen and the implement ia in a good state of preservation. The length is six inches and . the breadth two. v '. -Preston Yonco was shot and killed near Trenton, a C, by - Whitfield Murrell and William Carpenter. It is loarnad in Angus ta, Ga., that tho parties who did the shoot in x wore On a sproe and objected to being 1 irt-ssed as hot- 1 .-; wa 'n Augusts looking for the Vv fled.- - The streets i V with silver por tuiio of theyt . -Mibhiig cot; 'HTaJ bov the streete were enveloped In. flames. By prompt action of the citizens, a conflagra tion was avoided, but the straw and fodder in the hotel stable, were consumed. While employed in the h Belle pottery in Wheeling, W. Va , Frank Koch caught bis hand in the elevator rope near the drum, and be was drawn around until his head came within reach of the cable. This caught his head and sliced a portion of the skull beyond the1 ear.- He was extricated, but his iu juries were fatal. Duriug a thunder storm a colored man living near Marydel, Caroline county, Md., was struck by lightning while harrowing in a corn field and instantly killed. His name was Gibbs. The horse be was workiog was killed also. Another colored man working in the same field was knocked down by the Shock. '.''-. ..,' . ., . At Now Cumberland, W. Va, a gravel t ain on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad ollided with a south-bound passenger train, killing Charles Rodgers and fitally-. Wounding -Wm. Brown. Both en gines and five cars were demolished. Con ductor Prince and Engineer Montgomery of the gravel train are under arrest. Atlanta, Ga, is to have a factory for the manufacture of sewing machines. The machinery for the factory has been pur chased, a building has been secured and in three months the company will begin opera tions. It will begin with one hundred em ployes, wbich is expected to be increased to at least five hundred in two ; yeara ' Lafayette Pruoty and a man named Wright Children got into a difficulty on Coburn's run in Braxton county, W. Va., 10 miles from Salt Lick bridge. Prunty struck and killed Children with a hand-spike. : fie was. arrested for murder, lodged behind the bars at Braxton Court-house, where he awaits the action of the grand jury. Mr, John Heasry, living ' near Sandville, Ct-rroll county, Md., while feeding his horse put his band into a barrel and felt a sting ing sensation. Quickly emptying the barrel, he was surprised to find a venomous copper head snake three feet in length. lie killed lit, and immediately applied various reme dies to counteract the effects of the poison, but his arm is much swollen and painful, Two men named Dronsonhelder and Gee bad a quarrel, the latter accusing the former of alienating his wife's affections. They afterwards met in a store in Hamilton, W. Va., and the quarrel was renewed, during which Dronsenbelder fired four shots from his revolver at Gee, who fell bleeding to the floor. Gee then drew his pistol and killed Dronsonhelder with his first shot.' Gee can not recover, - - . 1 , Edwin Bryce, of Swansboro', Vs.. bad a violent coughing spell, lasting several hours, during which he coughed up a two inch English galvanized horse nail, which be had swallowed fifteen months ago. Physi cians endeavored to find it without success, and it was thought that he was mistaken. His health began to fail, and as he had sev eral spells of couching, his case was pro-, nouueed consumption, for which be had been treated. ; . Near Hallies Cburch, Accomao county, Va., Mrs. Lillie Stevens made a serious as (ult upon Mrs. John Henry Mears, because the latter had expressed herself to neighbors that ber husband was too intimate with tdrs. Stevens. Mrs. Stevens beat Mrs. Mears unmercifully with a stick and might have killed her bad she not been stopped in time. Hhe was arrested and released on bail for the V tion of the grand jury. . v;;? DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Mrs. - Kirshman and ber daughter, Mrs, Goldberg, were burned to death in a fire in Norfolk street, New York. .During a thunder-storm in Cincinnati, two children of Lowe Emerson were struck by lightning. One of them is thought to be fatally injured. . , ' - Two bodies, a man and woman, supposed to be, victims of the Johnstown flood, were found In. the river near Cincinnati. There was nothing by which they could be identi fied; '.-.. ; , A gravel vtffljn collided with a passenger train on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati anJ Sr.. Louis Railway, nifr awCumlyrind. W. Va. Charles iiodgers was.,ueu and William Brown fatally wounded. Both were engi neers, . '. -. i. - . Raphael F. Ferraudini, aged 8 years, while trying to catch a floating ball in a gutter, after a rain storm in Baltimore, was swept into a Be wer. and drowned. His boJy was not recovered. . D. L. Phillips was killed and his wtfo bady injured on the Boston and Albany Railroad, near Worcester, Mass. They were return ing from the funeral of a sister of Mrs. Phillips, and were crossing the track. Mr. Phillips was 74 years old. Three men jumped from a freight train at Suter, Pa., just as an empty engine w passing, and fell under the engine. Joseph Barker and another man, name unknown, were killed, and Isaac Williams was fatally injured. All were stealing a ride from Cou neilsvllle. Harry .Stevens and his cousin, Charlie Clemens, aged about 13 years, were rehears ing a border drama, in the attic of their home in Cincinnati, and, becoming excited, discharged their revolvers. Stephens was dangerously wounded in the abdomen, and Clemens was shot in the hand, Kev. Dr. W, F. Kramer, pastor of the Reformed Church in . Lebanon, Pa, was struck 'And killed by a railroad train while driving at the head of. a funeral procession across a crossing in that city. - He was 70 years of age and had been pastor of the church in Lebanon for 38 years. .: , A collision between two freigh trains nesr Havre-de-Grace, Md., on the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, resulted in killing Joseph McKean, brake man, and , wrecking several cars, two of them loaded with provisions for the Johns town sufferers. The train hands say the tel egraph operator gave the wrong signals. . A passenger train was wrecked near Oak land, M., by a washout. The Injured were Engineer Wm. Underwood, Lewiston, arms, legs and breast, not dangerous; Fireman S. Coburn, South Unity ,legs badly crushed; Mail Agent Patterson, Belfast, legs and left band badly hurt; Mail Agent Speare, Gar diner, legs crushed, dangerous; Mail Agent Libby, Portland, ribs broken and head cut; Express Messenger Roscde Stevens, one leg torn off and the other badly crushed. - Careless blasting of rock in a vacant lot adjoining a four-story brownstone dwelling on West Sixtieth1 street, New York, caunod damage estimated at about $23,000. Tbo house was owned: by C. W. French, who occupied it with bis family. The explosion was followed by a strange upheaval and shak ing of the ground and a rocking of the walls. Heavy chandeliers fell from their fastenings; the stone porch was demolished; the cellar wall bulged six inches or more, and the eu tire side of the house was a face of broken brick. Tb blasting was done only four teuS from ho house. . ;-?' -' iountatn paseiger trala . curve on Poplar street, I..., ,Uforo reaching the Union LVp ngi!ie left the track urd r.vi irt.j "m buiM'i!. John Utohard w.-i .'ihree traiu una .w-ro liang-r.-' . 1 ) Abo Von Bnlow says a t - , not a t. is an illness. Queen Maria Pia, 1 . billiard player. "Graham R. Tomso'i," fame, is a "Mrs." aud a b; . JoelT. Headly, the hi-v ton, still lives in his old hm ,1 is a t izlne i id wj- sf Ws, 1 i ifewbarj The coraroander-in-ciiit of t; Morocco's army is Jid McLw; m , a He man. ' ' ' . Mnt Francis Hodgson I',ir"- ft In ' visiting Oudia during ber f j ' road t summer. Edna Lyall's new novel will btrn iee -laid in Norway, where the aulU-i- a ep ; her summers, . Kate Greenaway has been elect-1 a-ojoi fi ber of the Royal Institute of l iii. ters i Water Colors. .,. Secretory Rusk has been visiting l.i Wi . cousin neighbors for the first tiuie ;-je b ? was made a Cabinet minister. M. Taine. whose stud v of Enelish III art has been little less than profound, ij: i speak a word of the language. Secretary Blaine and family wiil Washington the latter part of the nu. spend the seasou at Bar harbor, ' Prince Albert Victor will make" to-. ;" India during the coming winter. Tho t will include visits to the native states. John Alton Wolf Grip, the new Mini from Sweden and Norway to this count! .? , a tall, broad-shouldered, handsome yv. man. . .: . Sir Julian Paunceforte, who is a gi walker, has. wandered all over 'Washii;;s". and is met at all hours in the most unexi -: ed place. , . . Five hundred women in Tokio and Y ' hama have subscribed to a fund for the ; chase of a handsome Bible to be preserl the Empress of Japan. Postmaster-General Wanamakor tm expresses his opinion of the New York i' office In these words: "The builJ.. magnificent, from without." Kaiser William II. bought up all f peaches at Montrenil, France, the othT to entertain King Humbert with. . Tl u.. corner was produced and peaches sold f .,-r apiece. ' . . - . : The Shah is everywhere accompanied I . boy of only five or six years of age, a fa" soothsayer of Teheran having told tie ' that he will have nothing to fear so that little boy is by his side. ; , The oldest living peer is George Rupi zon. Baron Teynhan, who has just cosnj : bis 91st year. He entered the English only a few months after the battle of V. l. " loo, and retired more than 00 years n;; The late Mr. Maybrick, husband vf . Maybrick, who is charged with havi : : ; oned him, was a brother of the song vw and baritone singer of the same nanur-, -known as Stephen Adams, . the autti. x "Nancy Lee." M-iss Dallas.. .ockaaJiM her wed gown made by a woman wi5-Jas done of ber sewing since ber childhood;--""vl wardrobe was prepared on an tcu. j scale. As Duchess of Portland sho will ; not have to be so careful about her eh-j ' bilL ,, - .'.. APPOINTED TO OFFICE: Changes Made in the tloverum; Sorvice by I lie President. A The Presideut has made the following pointments: Royal A. Jonbson, of Arizona, to be sur veyor general of Arlaona James J. Stokes, of Dakota, to be rece! v er of public moneys at Grand Forks, Dak. Thomas J. Butlsr, of Arizona, to be re ceiver of publio moneys at Prescott, Arizona. To be Indian Agents William McKusick, of Dakota, at the Sisseton Agency, in Da kota; Stanton G, Fisher, of Idaho, at the 11 Azency.inr Idaho; Wm. It. liisnop, btat the Klamath Agency, in Ort- Mission Tulen River; ffonsolidated) Aency, in Calirornia, embraciogv Uoopa Valley. Lucius Falrchild; of MadishmvYij , to bn commissioner to negotiate witXyChtTX " ' ' Indians, vice John D, Miles, declined. . " The AttoriKy-Genral appoiuted Juf-r.i i. j Firestone assistant Uoitoi , States at;., -v for the Southern iistrict of Ohio, at va. u nib us, and Marshal M, MotB assists n 1 1 1 r. States a ttorney for tha Western Diu . North Carolina at Baifsbury. John A. iLacey, T. J. Gamble and li. ifc Curtis, niembw M f fc Board of Pension; Appeals, in the laiarksr-..IJepartment h&vm'i. been uotified f-Ammmmt,- Secretary Bamef that, owing to a redoci In the meiBbwi last Appropriation act, their resi:, ;:; wmf will be accepted to take effect Juiv Sat' Their places will be filled by detail. -j "i the Pension Bureau, as follivs; ( '; -Hickox, of Connecticut; A. li. I: New Jersey, and H. L, Bruco, of I! PENNSYLVANIA GOES Prohibition Amendment. Urate? i' a IMg Majority. ' The Prohibition amendment In Pen vanla was defeatd at the polls by a un ity of from 150,0000 175,000. ; This is gro than even the most sanguine of the Ik; men anticipated. Philadelphia alone f 02,525 majority against theamendment. ' total vote in Philadelphia was as follow.: , For the prohibitory amendment, .", against the prohibitory amendment, 11V ma jority against, 'JdjoO.' For the amendment alKIishing p 112,471; ac;aiitKt the amendment a poll-tax l'J.Oi:); majority for, !2,5 ! Every ' fresn batch of advice state Bhowod atitl-Prohibition g agricultural rontons wher a vote was expected, the fi;;ti. far below expectations. Ali-'gu-. and Pittsburg gav 8.3,000 for every county iu the anthracite re' whelming against prohibition. 4 Returns from (4 of the 67 c state gives a majority of lf- r, prohibition amendment, l-'o,-(not including Allegheny), s of 4,525 in favor of the at-' tax. The rural district- t against this amendment, . maining counties show a : poll-tax will remain in f - While crossing tha I track, near Canton. Edward Stiob, I nd two orp'i' h id a h-ptrt''' a iid ? v- t Fore Ua Xton, bam i