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'lBHSHBD BY 'ROANOKB PUBLISHING Co. 'TOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Thomas Huson, Business Majugxk L VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1890. NO. 30 X THE NEWS, Raff son & Rugler's furniture manufactory t Sandusky, Ohio, was burned. Losses UOd.OO; insurance t5,000.- Fire at Brad lock, Pa., destroyed Orannis Brothers' plain ng mill and lumber yards. Loss til.OOO; no insurance. Gov. Lowery, of Mississippi. in his annual message, condemns the carry: iug of concaaled weapons.-John W. Kauf man was elected president of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange. Final pipers of 'rea'ty between the United States and the Coeur d'Alena Indians has been signed. The Patoka river, in Indiana, has overflowed and flood od a tract of country twenty miles long by three miles wid?. Isadora Mon arch, the defaulting secretary of the Turner Building Association of Minneapolis, has been arrestid, charged with embezzling f 30, of the society's funds.: The West Indian apolis Hominy Mills at Indianapolis, was destroyed by Are. Loss $75,000; insurance U'J, 000. One of the walls of the New Pres. kylerjan Church in Brooklyn gave way un der the force of the wind, and crushed an adjoining dwelling, killing several of the in mates and Injuring others. Five woolen tniiie of Norton Manufacturing Company, of Walpole, Mass., were burned. William r .......... wrens, ot muaaelpnla, in a quarrel with Belle Carter, his sweetheart, shot tbegirland then committed suicide. -L. P. Scoville, a nephew of tad assassin Gaiteau, and secre tary of thi Chicago Building Association, lias disappeared, and it is charged, short in iiis accounts $5,000. A pile of timber in "Chicago toppled over and crushed John Thompson and Andrew Johnston to death. The Connellsville coke workers have offered their new scale, but the operators have' not yet accepted it Calvin S. Brice was nominated for United States senator by the Democrats of tho Ohio legislature in caucus. The Iawa Prohibition Convention adopted resolutions demanding tbe enact ment of laws to compel tho absolute enforce ment of the prohibitory law. Fourteen men were killed by the giving way of a cais son under a new bridge ia the course of con struction over the Falls of Ohio, between Louisville and Jeffjrsonvillc The Florida. Su-Tropicol.Exposition was opened at Jack son ville. Jacob Kosco, once a Prussian nobleman but reduced to penury, committed suicide in New York. The National Mo rocco Manufacturers' Association met in t omi-annual session in Wilmington, Del. Judge Willi im D. Kelley, the father of. tbe House of Representatives, is dead. Vice President Morton gave a brilliant dinner in houor of President and Mrs. Harrison. Bonjamln Burr, of Fredericksburg, Va., 'nged sixty-eight years, dropped dead of heart disoass beside his cart while hauling stone. Nurse Mary A. Donnelly, who bad the fight with Eva Hamilton at Atlantic City, lias sued Mrs. Hamilton and Ray Hamilton for f 10,000 damages. Three bills p.-oviding for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad secur ing an independent line to Washington were introduced in th3 Virginia legislature. Tbe Chicago courts have boen called upon to settle a factional light between the societies in a Polish Catholic church of that city. Mrs. Henrietta Bellaire horsewhipped Jean Pouche for insulting Lor In Newark, N. J. Mrs. I. 11 Siatler, an evangelist, was chloroformed and robbed in a hotel in Cin cinnati. Chirles Bartow, grocer) man, of TlsJmar. N. J., after foreinsr notes to the amount $&-f feral thousand dollars, has de camped. Jackson Day was celebrated at Nasaville,'Tenn., by a big procession and the organ's tion of the National Jjcksou Club, ' with Hon. A. K. McClure, of Pennsylvania, president Dr.- Kmflln and MissPurcell, of Trenton, N. J., were arrested on suspicion of being connected witn the murder of tbe former's wife. Johnston Calhoun, au old farmer of Beaver ccunty, Pa., was ridden on a rail by a band of regulars until be promised to treat his young wife better. Hon. George L, Woods, who bad filled tba position of governor of Oregon and Utah, died at Portland, Oregon'. Clement FJiut, the eleven-yenr-ol 1 son of a prominent Saa Fran cisco lawyer, committed suicide. Otis H. Brown, a spirit uilist.'c hermit, committed suicide in a cuttle hut in Osaeo, Minn. r Mrs. Elizbetli Timerman, an eigbty-year-old widow, of Bioomiugton, Ilia, has had Wil liam Proctor, a traveling insurance agent, with a family, arrested on the ground of 'winning ber heart, and $4,000 and then dc B.Tting her. Naomi Fairchild, a woman who recently created a sensation in the Chi cago courts by claiming to be the w.dow of Colonel Eabcock, a wealthy lumber mer chant, who was mysteriously murdered, is dead. She failed to establish ber claim to the Colonel's fortune. James L. Scheetz, of Liberty, Mo., a lawytr, shot and killed John Luytou in a quarrel, is ia thought, glowing : out of domestic troubles. James Kenferos has been arrested near St. Joseph, Mo., on ths d arge o' swindling two Eistern capitalists c it of (20,000 by selling tbem ''salted" mines. Four men are to bs executed in Worth f farolinaon February 27. Charles Cleary if Lockhaven, Pa., was denied a new trial and was sentenced to be banged. Malcolm McLo I, a mail carrier, was frozen to d. stu wbilo carrying mail to Washington, CL Vera men Vennan, a German, is siowiy starving to death in a Chicago hos pital; owing to the remarkable growtu of his abdomen. Frank Mahon,a lineman in St. ..Louis, wan shocked by an electric light wire and hurled to the ground. cannot live. -Mrs. Southwortb, the ,Iayer of Stephen Pettus in New York, died in prison of heart failure. Throe men wore buried undur falling walla in Long Island City and instant ly killed. Edward L. Loweree, clerk of the Hoard of Education of Giendale, Ohio, haR been prrested on the charge of embezzle- . njent. Kansas City it; threatened with a water famine. -O. born, Hall, Ytlle's now TiCitation Luilding, was, dedicated in Nw IlaTou. Tb muu'strof Customs in On tdlio has dec;Je.l itat, ddiy mint be paid on the cycler im;i f'.we, "TL Crut.A rk-n ot I N i Fourteen Men Meet Death in the Fails of the Ohio. A Trrlble Accident at the New i Britlire at Louisville Without Warning; the Workmen are -9Innglel to Ienth or Drowned. The most appalling accident known to Kentucky in many years occurred at Louis ville. It was nearly time for work to stop all over the city, and workingmen were ex pected home by their families, when the re port spread rapidly that there was a wreck or crash of some kind at the new bridge nnder construction between Louisville and Jeffersonvillc. - - It was first reported that a span of the bridge had fallen and a gang of men had been thrown into the river, but that wan at once denied, as there was no span. Then came the truth, that a caisson had given way and the workmen employed in it had been crushed to death by Bton and timbers. The caisson, known as No. 1, was about 100 yard from th Kentuoky shore. As the orkmen or the pumping station were molt- in tnr thn mn the eaisaon to tint off in 1 thir boats, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low. dark structure disap pear in oasmnr. wnite waves, ana neara, De fore they could realize what had happened, the roar of the furious maelstrom. ; A runner was despatched to tbe life-saving station, and three skiff were manned and pnllel to the soene of the wreck. Word was sent to the police station, and a rquad was at one ordered to tb ground, to aid in the work of recovery. The coroner was called, and went with a corps of physicians. Tba site of the bridge is at tbe nppr end of the citv, just below Tow Head Island. Within an hour from the disappearance of the caiRon, throe thousand people were on the shore straining their eyes In trying to see something of the wreckage. Dozens of boit were plying about over the spot where tbe caisson bad stood, and lights danced to and fro with them : but there was no trace of the massive structure of stone and timber which hnd kept off the hungry river, to promise any hope to tbe anguished, stricken mothers and wives who stood in the throng on the shore. The water rolled sullenly but smoothly down from the cofferdam above the pumping barge below where the caisson had stood. It was Boon known that onlv four of the eighteen men who were at work at that time had escaped. Thn list man out of the caison was Frank Haddox. He was barely saved by Murray, who dragged him from where he was caught woit deep in the quicksand. Taylor says he stood nearest the iron ladder by which they got in and out of the caisson. He heard a rumblin?, and there was a rush of air almost at thn same instant. He jumped upon the rungs of the ladder, followed by the other men. They had hardly got clear of the Caisson when the water hurst through the manhole in a surge, knocking them all into the river, where ibey were picked up. Haddox says he siw Ham Morris, who was climbing next I elow himself, swiftly drawn under by the sand and heard bis cries for help but could do nothing, Tbe caisson is not wrecked, as at first sup posed, but has settled down in the bed of tbe stream, completely filled with sand and water. There seems absolutely no hope for an v of I hose caught within the caisson. John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of the work Monday. The men who escaped say he had them dig too deep before letting tba caisson settle, and tbe digging was too close to tbe shoe of tbe caisson. J ust before the accident Knox gave some order to Robert Baldwin, the keeper in charge of the upper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened this door, and tbe com pressed air, which kept out the river, rushed out, letting in the strram. Tbe men say they were working in an ngly quicksand at the time. The caisson was about, forty feet by twenty, and built of timbers twelve inches square. It was pro tected by a cofferdam, but the river is very bign and tne pressure ot cne water very great. TWO HUNDRED KILLED. Collnnse of a Chlneae Theatre Many Miifrocnteil. The following particulars of the theatre co' lapse in Hauling, China, reported by tele graph from Shanghai, Deoember 3, were re ceived by the steamer which arrived at San Francisco. The accident occurred on Octo ber 13. Tbe temple where tbe performance was being held stands on a high terrace in the middle of the town. A hill was once there, but it bad all been cut away except a portion on which tbe temple btands. During the performance theentire wall gave way, either from being defective, or from the great pressure above, and the whole gather ing of men, women and children were hurled to the Gtreet below. Groans and shrieks rent the "street below. Tbe people who bad first fallen, some of whom had escaped with only Lrutses, 'were killed outridit a moment later by their comrades falling upon them. Many died of suffocation. At tbe time, tbe immense blocks of stone and concrete from tbe broken wall fell with deadly force, heads were burst open, bodies crushed, arms and legs broken, and in a num ber of cases almost severed from the body. A total of 200 dead bodies bad been taken from tbe ruins, and it is thought that tbe list of the dead might number SJ50. MARKETS. BALTiHOn Flour City Mills, extra, 1 25 a4 50. Wheat Southern Fultz, 80aSl; Corn Southern White, S:0a28 cts, Yellow 80a37c. Oat- Southern and Pennsylvania 2o;ilcts. ; live Maryland & Pennsylvania 57a60cU. ; Hay Mary land and Pennsylvania 13 00a$13 .D;8traw-tieut,7.5u4.50;liuttcr, Eastern Creamery, '.'CSc., near-by receipts lOnlJOcta; Cheese-Eastern Fancy .Cream, lOJf all cts., .Western, 10al0 cts; Eggs JcO a21j Tobacco Leaf Inferior, laf 2.00, hood Common, 3 00al 00, Middling, f 5a7.00 Good to fine red,8alv Fancy, lOatli . New York Flour Southern Common to fair extra, ta.50ai.85:Wheati-JSo 1 White 85 aH5.4; live State. 5tia59; Corn Southern yeilow,3y;id40X.Oats-VVhite,State2!5ga2 ets. Butter State. lUe33 eta. Cheese titato, 8al0 cts. ; Eggs 24a24tf cts. iHiLADKLPHiA Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.W0al. 75; Wheat Pennsylvania and Boutliorn lied, tteaOij Rye Pennsylvania 5i(Wo: Corn-Southern Yellow, 87Ja37cts. Oftta aOaSlcts. j Buttor State.lyailS cts.; Choose N. Y. Factory, Da'J) cts, Eggs bin La, cts, CATTLE. -B a IT? Hoi k Hf!ff, 4 ko.il C5j Sheep ?4 00 U'j '.'J, 1 I O'.';:! 4 T-'j. jsf-W Vi-r.i. i '-VI i'l S3.3 aVL'ic-p-f 1 00 ..5 ;..; i:- ts : -.-.'.,". FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, Ncnnle NcksIoiia. . Fourteenth Day. Among the bills Intro duces aud reterreU were the following: By Mr. Fryi r promote Ocean mail ser vice betweou the United S.aies and foreign porta By Mr. Cuilura Authorizing the Secretary of tne '.treasury to loon nuney to farmers at a per cent. By Mr. dandier Proposing on amend ment to tbe constitution so that if any State shall fail to enactor effctually to enforce laws against murder and other felonies, Congress may provide- for punishing thoee crimes within such State. Mr. Davis offered a resolution (which wss agreed to.) calling on tbe Postmaster General for information as to ihs proponed connec tion or the poEtofttce department with tbe telegraph companies, and as to the probable cost of the erection of a gpverrmont indepen dent telegraph lioe between the cities ot St Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. On motion of Mr. Quay, the Senate passed tbe bill to increase itie pensions of certain soldiers aod sailors, who are totally heipless from injuries received or from disease cou- I tracted while in tbe service of tbe United 1 l . 1. a . T. 1 1 . . . . . t oiiuMjH. x uxes toe rate at ia per uioutn. Tbe Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and at 3. 40 adjourned. Fifteenth Day. iir. Faulkner introduc ed a worm's fair tilL It provides tnat tbe exposition shall bo be d in Washington, and authorizes the President to appoint gov ernmental board of nine directors to formu late and superintend tbe execution of a plun lor such exposition. Mr, Harris, in tbe absence of Ur. Beck and in his name, introduced a b.li to suspend the operation of the sinking l und laws until a further order of Congress. A report recommending the passage of the bill for the appointment of an Assistant Sec retary of War was submitted by Senator Cockrill from the committee on military af fairs. , Tbe Senate then proceeded to the consid eration of executive business, and at 3. 50 ad journed. Sixteenth Day.- -After some routine bus iness Mr. Voorbees called up his resolution relating to the charges against W. W. Dud ley of bribery at the last Presidential elec tion. Mr. Edmunds offered an amendment strik ing out tbe preamble and making it call on tbe Attorney-General isr imorraatiou as to what instructions his department bad given District-Attorney Chambers in regard to the Dadley arrest; and by what authority of law such instructions were given; and oailing lor all correspondence on the subject. After a long discussion between Mr. Voor bees and Mr. Edmunds, the latter' amend ment was agreed to by a party vote 31 to 24, and the resolution as amended was adopted. The resolution calling on the President for copies of tbe correspondence between tbe United States and China on ths subject of Chinese immigration, since tbe passage of the Exclusion Act, was reported favorably from the Committee on Foreign Affairs Re lations and passed. Among the bills introduced was one toipro vide for tbe purchase of a site for a new building for the Interior Department, and appropriations for statues of Gen. John Stack in Manchester, N. H. and iSdwiii M. Stantion in front of the War Departmeut building, Washington. The Senate preceeded to the consideration of executive business, and at 3.10 o'clock ad joumed. Seventeenth Day. The Vice-President laid before the Senate a communication from Attorney-General Miller in response to the resolutions adopted by the Senate yesterday, Tbe Attorney-General states that no-intfruo tions, oral or written, bate b?en given to District Attorneys. N. Chambers on the sub ject ot tbo arrest of W. W. Dudley. No com niumcations, says tbe Attorney-General, has been sent by tbe Department of Justice to tbe district attorney of Indiana, uor has any been received fromn'm directly or indirectly with reference to thd subject. Tbe communication was ordered printed, and referred to tbe Committee on Judio ary. The Senate went into secret session, and when, at tt.25, the doors were opened, the Senate adjourned until Monday. Ilonse .Session. Twelfth Day. Bill were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Peel, of Arkansas--To regulate and limit the charges of express companies. By Mr. Stjwart, of Georgic Requesting the executive departments to change the ex tradition laws with Great Britain so that persons charged with grand larceny, embez zlement and other crimes may be extradited from Canada. By Mr. Lane, of Illinois For a graduated Income tax; to ascertain the amount of the mortgage indebtedness of the farmers of the United States. By Mr. Springer, of Illinois For tbe ad mission of Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming into tbe Union as States. Mr. Parkins, of Kansas, from the Commit tee on Territories, reported back the bill pro viding for town fite entries in Oklahoma. Printed and recommitted. The House at 2.15, adjourned. Thirteenth Day. The Speaker stated to tbe House that in accordance with tbe au thority vested in him yesterday he had ad ministered the oath of office to Bamuol J. Handall, ol Pennsylvania. Mr. Fun tt on Introduced a bill appropriat ing $5J,000 (or the erection of a new build ing tor tbe Department of Agricultural. Mr. MoComas offered a resolution that tbe House resolve itself into committee of tbe whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, tbe committee to be governed by tbe rules of the last Con gress. Tbe democrats opposed tbe motion on the ground that the House was yet with out rules for its government. After a long debate tbe House, by a strict party vote, adopted Mr. McComab's resolutions, and took up toe bill. The committee, however, re mained in session only a few minutes, con sidering the first paragraph of the bill, and having arisen the House, at 4.10, adjourned. Fourteenth Day. The Speaker laid be fore tbe House a letter from the Secretary o War enclosing a petition from non-commis- lioned officers pray ins for an increase of pay. Tbe House went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair, lor the turther consideration oi tbe District of Columbia Appropriation Bill. Among the bills introduced and referred was one by Mr. Grain, of Txas, providing that the terms of Members ot Congress shall bgin on January 1. The House at 4 3J adjourned till Friday. FOv'IR MENDROWNED. Falal Accident to n Fishing Party It Han Franelsco. A man was seen clinging to tbe rocks at Point Bonito Lighthouse at the northern side of the Golden Gate, California, and was taken off several bourn by tbe crew of a tugboat wbich was sent to his assistance. lie proved to be a fisherman. lie bad been on the rocks six hours, aud was nearly ex hausted when rescued. He said that he and four companion! wore reiuraing home in a iUhinfcboat., and whn o'J Point onlto, the Ijo.t c; iis-.hI. 1,IU c.'i-.-'r.v.? ve-re f-'l townid, but g.'?-." r-..i i:i ri'-uhip'T s r :-!-?, v i.er; t.rf.'- EMPRESS AUGUSTA DEAD She Succumbs to an Attack of Influenza. Pausing Away Peaecfallyarrontided by All Her Wear Kelallvea Beau llfnl Still in Death-A Sketch r Her Life. The Dowager Empress Augusts widow bt the late Emperor William of Garmany and grandmother of the present Emperor Wil liam, died at 4.30 P. M. of influenza. The death of the Empress Augusta was an nounced to the people by tbe lowering of the imperial standard from its place over tbe palace. The Empress passed away peacefully, sur rounded by all ber near, relatives and ber much-attached attendants. As the end came tbe mourners knelt around the bed and the court chaplain offered a' prayer and then blessed the remains. The Emperor William and the Empress soon after left tbe chamber. As early as 3 in tbe morning the doctors had perceived there was no hope of saving the Empress's life, Bbe had Buffered from the iufluenz x for tbrer1 days, and bore tbe malady so welt that on Monday night ber recovery was looked upon ascertain. But in the course of the night pneumonia was developed and presented a crisis too great for ber remaining strength. Her body is laid upon an open couch and is shrouded with a white mantle. Oa her right hand is laid a spray of lily of tbe val ley, tier bead reposes upon white pillows and her face is wrapped round with a cover ing of wbite lace. Tbe absolute peace and repose of her beau tiful, classical face is like that of a perfect statue. . The Dowager Enpress was born September 33, 1S11, the daughter of the Grand Duke Chanes Frederick of Saxe Weimer, and was married to Prince William of Prussia, after wards the German E Jiporor,' on June' 11, 1S&). The only children ot the marriage were Frederick William, afterward Emperor, aud the Princes j Louise. Tbe health of the Dowa ger Empress has been poor for many years, but she managed to perform tbe duties of ber station very faith, ully. Her husband, the Emperor William, died in March, 1583. DEATH OF JUDGE KELLEY. The Loner Lire of the Father of the House Ended. Judge William Kelley, of Pennsylvania, lied at Washington at 6.30 o'clock Thursday evening. At his bedside were Mrs. Kelley ; his daughter, Mrs. F. O. Horstman; his ions, William M. Kelley, Jr., aud A. B. K-jlley; Dr. Stanton, bis attending physician, and J. H, Weirick, bis private secretary. His death was painless, and to the watchers at bis bedside be seemed to have fallen into a deep and peaceful sleep. Ha was unconscious at the last, as be had been at intervals during the last two days. His remains will be buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. The immediate cause of Judge Kelley's death was intestinal catarrh, brought on by a cold contracted during Curistmas week. For some years, however, be has boen almost a constant sufferer from a cancerous g -owtb in the side of the face, which was removed about six years ago by a surgical operation. Tbe relief thus obtained was only tempo rary, and since that time it has developed so rapidly, especially during tbe past year thit it mast have soon conquered him b id he not earlier fallen a victim to the catarrhal affcC tiou. He was nearly 70 years old, and dur ing the later years of bis life his general health has not been good, so that be easily fell a victim to the weakeuiug influences of disease. Hist Long Career. Judge Kelley was born in Philadelphia on April 13, 1814. His grandfather, John Kel ley, served as an officer in the Kevo.utionary War. Having lost nu latner at an eartjr age, be learned the printer's trade, and later served an apprenticeship to a jeweler in Boston. In 1S4J he returned to Philadelphia und began tbe study of law, aud a year later was ad mitted to thi bu, aod while practicing his profession devoted much of bis time to literary pursuits. lie was elt cted Attorney-General of Feon svlvania in 1845, and in 1846 was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Pniladelphio. Iu 180J he was a delegate to the National Repub lican Convention, and in the same year was elected to Congress, where he has served con tinually ever xince. He has been a member of numerous committees of the House, aud chairman of some of the most Important, no'aHy tbe committee ou ways aud means, lie has served iu tbe lower bouse longer than any other meuiUer, aud for this reasou is often culled the "Father of tbe House." He was at one time a freetrader, but lat?r became au ardent protectionist, . and bas written several works in opposition to tbo tree-trade theory. Amoug his works are; "Reasons for Abandoning the Theory of Free Trade ond Adopting tbe Principles of Pro tection tu Aiuericau Industry," -'Letters on Industrial aod Fiuauciul Questions" and "Tbe New South." The Speaker of the House as soon as be heard unomciauy oi me aeatn requesieu tue sergeant at-arms to ascertain th wishes of the family with request to the fuueral ser vice. Tbe funeral ceremony at Washington will be public and will be h-ld iu tbe hail of the House of Representatives on Saturday at noon DOWN THROUGH A BRIDGE. two Hen Killed and m Number at Others Injured In Pennely vwnla. A Fall Brook construction train, with a rull crew of sixteen men, in charged of Mas ter Mechanic Zura Baker, left Wellsboroto do some repairing on the road. When pass ing the Sherwood bridge, just inside the borough limits, it was noticed that the der rick on tbe wrecker slightly touched the top of the bridge. Baker noted the fact, and when the train started to return at night, be Instructed the engineer to run slowly. As tbe tram passed Stakesdate Junction, a number of young men aud boys, who bad walked down to see tbe wreck ot the trains that collided some days ago, climbed on the wrecker to ride home. Ttie train proceeded slowly at about four miles an hour. Thn en gine and tender crossed tbe bridge in safety, but tbe derrick auia caught tbe bridge cover, and the next instant the bridge brok down, plunging th i train into tbe creek. Grant MiihUio, Daniel Howard and Conrad Ditteubcffr were standing on the center platform. Milli ken's neck was broken, How ard's head was struck, killing birn, and Dit tenhoffer's right arm and leg were crushed. His arm was amputated, and be will proba t ly die. Ja tbe curs msn were pilel up and oiii'wa unaer a tatus or rcpe, touis andtim of tS--"s wfi- esty rrfC'),'!L by the (pent afforttv'4M SOUTHERN ITEMS; IJflTEIlESTINO NEWS COMPITj13D FROM MANY SOURCES. 5x-Governor Lee of Virginia bos become a railroad president. .-.; -A charter for a new bank at Sutton, Braxtbn county, W. Va., bas been applied for. -Alick Weste t deiid byassi Westerlins; and another man were shot assassins In JUarlington county, S. Walfjg Flntahar. a Ttntavllle. Kentnokv. boy, smoked fifty cigarettes a day. He is now dead. I Four rsons were burned to death in a cabin at ebee's Camp, on tbe Tennessee River. The growing wbeat and rye all through Virginia is Reported as being exceedingly promising Charles Gway was run over by a shifting ngioe near CKoal Valley, W. Va., and had uuba tegs cat on, Scarlet feve has become an epidemic in the town of Salary's. W,Va.,and the school is closed until 1 1 abates. - Phil more Ball, colored, was banged at Louisville, Ga. , fdr the mnrder of J. Evaus, a while man. Batil confessed. Baltimore andl Ohio engine No. 443 blew up at Benwooii. W. Va., fatally injur ing the engineer andl fireman. There is considerable excitement through out Florida over tbe recent discovery of phosphate deposits in ullarion county, Dan M. Rawmar. k prominent journalist aod business man of Kentucky, was killed oa the Monongahela railrokd near Louisville. A Connecticut man has purchased a site al Salem, Roanoke county, Va., on which ha will erect an extensive brQck-making plant. , John S. Fisher, at work with a hatchet about bis place, oa Gee Lick, W. Va., mis took his finger for the stick; be was cutting and amputated it Clarence Fisher, a young man of Perry ville, Md. dropped dead on tbe platform at the depot at Elkton, while watching the pranks of-a lot of drunken men. Caroline county, Md., has1 now tbe best roads in the state. They are properly drained and worked, costing only one-third as much as they did under tbe old system. -Tbe postofllce at CbristianbuVg, Va., was broken open and robbed of $150. i Tbe post office had no safe, and tbe money was kept in a desk, wbion was split open with an axe. At a late meeting of the Board of Coun cil of the city of Frankfort, Kentucky, an or dinance was adopted prohibiting thtj sale of cigarettes within the limits of the Corpora tion. The water tank of tbe Wheeling Ioe " r Company's plant in Wheeling, W. Vay, fell to tne grouua, damaging tne plant consider ably, making it necessary to close operations for a few days. Gerard Gregory, his wife and fonr Chil dren, were poisoned with arsenic in their coffee in Louisville, Ky., placed there it is supposed by Emma Dames, a servant, who is now missing. ' The secretary of the Grand Lodge ot MasoQS, in North Carolina, say that the of-. Hcial revenue of the order is about $3,700. Of this sum about $3,000 goes to ths Oxford orpban asylum. One of the last official acts of Gov. Lee was to commute the sentence of Jefferson Adair, who killed Peter Smith in Nortaamp ton county last spring from eighteon to three years in the penitentiary. At Claringtoo, WrVa., James Linegar was accidentally shot by Henry HubermehL The men were talking in a store, while Hu bermehl was cleaning a revolver. Tbe wound will prove fatal. A large furniture factory is to be estab lished in Charlestown, Jefferson county W. Va., by Chicago capitalists, the plant to cost tflO. 000. 110,000 of which will be subscribed by the cit zens of Charlestown. Squire Alfred J. Bean, of Hardy county W. Va.. while descending a mountain with a load of corn, the brake be was holding broke and be was thrown under the wagon and killed, tbe wheel passing over bis bpdy. A small wbite boy, while driving a cart atfullBpeed in Norfolk, Va., was thrown out by tbe horse becoming frightened and and running away. Tbe cart passed over the boys stomach, injuring him quite badly. The little three-year-old daughter of M. J. Jackson, of Buokbannon, Va,, having wandered into tbe pasture, was attacked by a savage buck sheep, which knocked her down, broke ber coller bone, and bruised ber considerably. A stick of giant powder was found by the driver for a grocery bouse in Wheeling, W. Va., ia the horse's stable, bidden nnder the feed in the trough, and only discovered by accident. There is do clue to tbe perpe trators of this outrage. Mr. Levy P. Perry, a wealthy merchant of Orange county, Va. , was killed by a fast running train on tbe Midland road, which Was belated. , He attempted to drive over the track at a point three miles west of Orange crossing. Three haystacks on tbe farm of J. F. Turner, near Norwood, Montgomery county, Md., have been destroyed by fire. The foot prints of some one were tracked from the ricks across a plowed field. ;A week previous a tenant house was destroyed by an incen diary fire. Both bouse and bay were in sured. Two fine horses drawing a party return ing from a wedding in Chattanooga, Tenn., ran into a broken telephone wire that bad be come crossed with an electrie light wire. Both horses were killed and the driver knocked senseless by tbe shock. A deposit of valuable mineral paint bas been discovered on tbe land of Mrs, L. C. Crane, near Roanoke, Va., on tbe line of tbe Shenandoah Valley Railroad. Tbe quality of the deposit is very fine aod tbe property willbe developed. Four prisoners confined in tbe Leesburg, Va,, jail made their escape by forcing them selves through tbo trapdoors of their cell sinks, getting into tbe jailors part of the building to the yard, where tbey scaled tbe brick walls surrounding tbe jail and depart ed. By the fall of a trestle on th j Briarfield, Bloctoa and Birmington railroad, in Bir mingham, Ala., Carl Clark and David Webb were fatally injured and 5 other carpenters, engaged at work, narrowly escaped injury. Toe trestle was being constructed without proper bracing and gave way. Petitiocs signed by five hundred hemp producers, working men and business men was sent from Lexington, Kentucky, to Chairman McKinley, of tbe Ways and Means Committee, asking that the present tariff on hemp te maintained und tnat all foreign titles be kept off the lree list. A desperado named Savage, of Roane county, W. Va,, who bai been in Caarleston for about a week, on a druule, wt-nt iuto a barber shop, aod, after insulting and abusing everybody, drew arevelrer and llred at D teciive Humphreys, who wss bfing shaviM, Humi.creya jumped iron a chair and knock ed va dowa before be could f.reL&ia. 'i'-ri-.ri'sii I.e C?.:Tell r"'t t w,ui a J'i- making a coupling, one of bis feet bacam fast nnder a crosstie, and before be could get loose or signal tbe train to stop, he waa k nocked down and bis foot ground off by the wheels. . Isadora Garnie committed suicide at De catur, Ga. Ha was a young man, 2k years old, and was making bis borne with telatives at Decatur. Two years ago be shot a man ia Jacksonville, but was acquitted. He shot himself with the same pistol with which ba shot bis friend two years ago. No cause is assigned for tho suicide save despondency. A terrible tragedy took place ia Mitchell county, N. C, twelve miles irom Bakasvilie, tbe county seat. Ia a drunken row Christ mas, three men were killed. Last fcriday, Monroe Garland, a brother of one of the mur dered men, rode op to a crowd in the same place and fired into the crowd, killing three ond wounding twelve. The little son of Mr. T. J. Jefferson, of Fredericksburg, Va., while on a visit into the country, was playing with his compan ions and climbed a tree. In tbe act of de fending a companion struck at the tree with a hatchet, and tbe unfortunate lad re ceived the blow. His limb may have to be amputated. Several Delaware capitalists at Piedmont Ala., with $1,250,000 capital, all paid In, to build an inaustral city there, with Prestoa Lea, of Wilmington, president, and William G. Led better, of Anniston, vice-president. Two hundred thousand dollars worth of town lots were sold within an hour from tbe beginning of sale. A dispatch from Parkersburg says an epidemic which is supposed to be the black tongue fever, is raging in Mongabela county W. Va. It was first discovered in the fam ily of Thomas Burns a few m.les Irom Mor gantown. Four of bis family died within one week. Thj people of tbe neignnorhood are very much alarmed, and tbe authori ties of Morgantowii have seat provisions for tae balance of tbe Burns family, witb orders) to remove them and burn tbe residence to prevent the spread of tbe disease. TRADE OF THE PAST WEEK. SXHd Weather Causes Ouly a moder ate Volume of Cosiness. Special telegrams to BradstreeV report a continuation of a moderate volume of gen eral trade throughout tbe country. Tbe mild weather is largely responsible for tbis, hav ing marked effects upon sales of coal, woolen goods and other seasonable staples. Through out some of the Western States it is reported that low prices of farm products are coun terbalanced la part by large yields of wheat and corn, and tbe excellent condition of live stock. Farmers in these regions are sid to have Urge quantitiesof stock tn sell. But to the Southwest and on the Pacific coast rains (succeeding dry weather at the Southwest) cause uneasiness among country merchants as to large stock of winter goods remaining unsold. ' V- - Most varieties of hog products are stronger on a better demand at home and abroad. Pork ia in fair nqjest and dressed hoe are 3 16o bigber. Tbe New York stock market is firmer oa easier money, and tbe probability of more seasonable weather during tbe remainder of the winter, tbis pointing to a better trade la coal and other staples. Money has been er- t ratio, having twicj touched 40 per cent, per .annum oa call, owing to a natural stringen cy at this tims, aided by manipulation. Bank clearings at 37 cities for 133! aggre gate $55,724,5ti9,:i41 as reported to lirad ttreeVa l'Axi per cent, more than last year, a&ul 9 per uut. over 18&7. Only 6 cities show a (decrease as compared with 1388 or 1337. Cereal products are quits irregular. Fiour is iat fair demand here and for export. Wheas has Vbeen in light request, but on freer call froni abroad, with reported lighter stocks iu the United Kingdom and in Rusia; is stron ger asid up 3- Oats, too, are stronger, and urn J-o. inuiaa corn, however, oa fr?r movenijttuti at the interior, and liberal effjr ioga is Weaker, aud a tr.il j lower. jsUriey ia depressdd, and laj. lower oa light demand, while rye is irregular in demand and price. Exports of wbe-t (tnd flmr as wheat) Irom botn opaats of the Halted States this wet? it aggregate, 1,803,054 fUUel, agaiust 2,231, Co I bushels last wk aud 1,00 3oy busiiels in tbe like week of 13-3 oil, showing a total from July 1, 138'A. to date or 54,313,310 bushels as compared with 5J,30J,UDO tmtmela in a like period one year ago, and with 70,000 buthels two years ago. Stocks of wheat at nearly 10JO points of accumulation ia tne United States and Can ada, east of tbe Rocky Mountains on Deoem ber 2$, as reported to BradxtrecVs aggregated 51,27,170 bumeis, a totil not differing ma terially from that reported otia montu pre viously, when it was 55 ,4 W, 455 busbets. One year ago, like ston.es as reported to tbis jour ual amounted to tU,740,4o4 bushels. Stocks of Indian corn at line points ugrgated 15. 447,400 bushels last Saturday, agaiusc 9,450, tfotf bushels a month ago and 12,130,87';) bush els one yar ago. Mtoeks of oats iucreasei only moderetely diring Deoember, 1330. Stocks of wheat fljur last Siturday were 1,657,07(5 barrels agamist l,0Jtt,024 one month ago and 3,103,144 barrels one year ago. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES: 4- Malcolm F. McLeod, a mail carrier, was frozen to death near Wasbington.California. Henry Gremar was kilUd at North Corn" wall Furnace, Pa., by a crane falling upon bim. While Bertie Beatie wasplaying with a pistol in Atlanta, Georgia, i was discnarged iatally wounding bis brotberi Gar Hel U Two freight trains collidedon the South Cheshire Railroad, near East rdoreland,New Hamshire, Engineer S. W. Sikte and Fire man Gibson, were killed, A construction train coilidedwith an ex tra train on the Pennsylvania likllroad. near Bslvidere, New Jersey. Euglnaer Walton of Pbilllipsburg, was killed, amd engineers Haggerty and Tenncliff were badly injured. Frank Mahon, an electric light lineman, became entangled in wires on ain engine house in St. Louis, sustained a severe shock, and fell to the ground, sustaining probably fatal injuries. A freight train on the Saa AntoiWo and Arkansas Pass Railroad went through a bridge at Hallettsviile, Texas. Oa the cars were twelve men. Seven were rescued, three of them badly injured. The bodies o.t tbe others were not recovered. Two brotbers, named Dyer, and two vpm named Colton and Somers, lozgers, wWe burned to death at Ikeba Camp, oa h Tennessee river, 75 miles from Padua , Kentucky, by their cabin taking fire, One of tbe thousand barrel stills of t) Naphtha Works at tlie Standard's Solar K. Reiinery in Lima, Ojio, exploded, shakin: all the bouses in the city, i'be oil iaime diateiy caught lire. Nine men were bruise.: mad burned. Carson Parker was found dead in a s ilo--n in Pueblo, Caioroio. Ato'f time t . (!.; Of tu i liXvrt t .'..'!'it pVirl.Ts . ' ' t . Mrthoita Eplaoopai.-; Cburott"; 4' Hw-Sork3 i'.- i i - j
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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