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THE NEWS. The National Convention of Christian Scien lists began in New York. The rubber goods Bianutaoturers decided to advance the price of belting, packing hose and '.rubber goods Renerally ten to twenty-five per cent John , Kenan,' of the 1884 New. York boodle com , tic, delivered himself up to the authorities. w - John Hanlon, aged fifty-two years, hung himself by his suspenders in a cell in the Tombs, New York city. C A. Thompson, cashier of the Nationul Bank at Oswego, N. fa short in his accounts" about $75,000. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church completed its business at Saratoga, and adjourned to meet next year in Detroit. AdoIphandOustav Wilkc.of Sheboygan, Wis., were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. Mrs. Swertz, of Catlin, 111, became insanecver fcliginn and attempted to sacrifice her child In church.- James Quick, a miner, was sud denly killed near Duluth, Minn., and his wife, on hearing the news, became' hopelessly insane.- James N. Lee, an Estheryille,' Iowo, merchant, cut his throat from ear to ear John Starling, the terror of Johnston county, NV C, was taken from his wagon and riddled V '-. .lltll J0 UUUUO, . iUl I 111- cent Antiga, a Mexican, killed two brothers named Conway. He was arrested. James Williamson is charged with killing Jeff Moore nd his eon Charles in Sedalia, Mo. A. N. Kimball, of Jackson, Miss., was murdered bile on his way home by parties as yet un known. A passenger train on the Atlantic Coast line whs wrecked, and Conductor G.W. Gruber was seriously hurt. Ex-Sergeant . Arms Silcott has been traced to the Saguenay region, Canada. -Col. W. D. Wyatt, ex-waster in chancery of Logan county, Ul., who dis appeared leaving a shortage' of $10,000, has been arrested in New Orleans.- The deposi tors of Philadelphia's defunct Bank of America held another meeting, and the special commit tee made a report,-showing up the officials in a bad light.- -In testing Dr. C. S. Justin's dynamite cartridge in Madison county, N. Y., the big gun burst. The shell, including the hullet and dynumite, weighed 290 pounds. . ' The rise in the Allegheny river is causing floods in the lowlands nhont Pitishnrc The principal span of the Union' Railroad bridge, in course of construction at Wheeling, W. Va.was carried away, and the contrac tors lose about $30,000.- -The -steamship Aurania ran down a steam-launch in New York bay, and Henry and Charles Beal were drowned. Differences between the high and the low church elements in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, has caused a split, and the Rev. Samuel Twee dale and a number of the congregation have brothers, while working in a field in Darling S. C, quarreled, and Murray shot Benjamin to death-.- In a collision on the East Tennessee .Railroad, some distautifrom Chattanoogo, Engineer Dougherty , and. Mail Agent J. II. Bchroder were badly hnrt-7 The Mohawk: Valley, N. Y., was shaken by an earthquake, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Lightning struck and fired a warehouse in Lucas, near Mansfield, O., and fifty pounds of . . .. .si j ujruaiuiia ytaa c.yiuucu, uuu jihi a uuxcu people were killed and a number injured. Five workingracn were crushed and burned by the explosion of a blast furnace of the ' steel works in Chicago. President Chaun cey M. Depew, of the New York Central Bail road, addressed the Brotherhood of Locomo motive Engineers at New Haven, telling them that the question of capital and labor has been better settled by the Brotherhood than large meeting of railroad employees was held in Indianapolis, looking to the federation of the various unions of railway employees.-1 Chicago and New York capitalists will con struct a steel tower 1,500 feet high in Chicago. Lightning struck two churches in Har risonburg, Vo. rErnest A. Young, a cabin boy on the ship John Haney, told the United States commissioner in New York & thrilling story of the captain's cruel treatment of the sailors.- Frederick Romano, and Italian, in New York, shot his wife, his mother-in-law and himself during a family quarrel. The i eight-hour day has be'eii secured this season for 23,350 carpenters in . twenty-seven cities and towns. George Francis train arrived safely at, his home in Tacom a, Washington, making the trip around the world in 67 days 13 hours. - .' Edward Kenna, superintendent of a hotel at Florence, Ark., hung himself to the tran fora of a door with a twisted United States flag. Foor aldermen and seven ex-alder- ,men of Dcs Moines, Iowa, have been indicted ' far drawing , illegally sums from the city treasury aggregating $12,000. -An- insect ailed the saw-fly is reported to be ruining the "wheat in various sections of Illinois. Mrs. Sarah Rothschild celebrated, with her twenty seven grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren, in Chicago, the l02d anniversary of her bit th. The Western window-glass manufacturers decided to 6hut down all fac tories on June 14.- Ueorge Dunnaway, who outraged and murdered his cousin and also killed her mother at Murfreesboro, Ten n., has been captured. Front-is J. Holland, a Har vard student, was arrested on the charge of stealing a watch and several bicycles. There were 190 business failuresin the United .States and 32 in Canada the past week.- Harper Bros., died in New ' York. First Assistant Postmaster General J. S. Clarkson made a speech on the national political issues before the Norfolk Club in Boston, Wind, hail and lightning did considerable damage in Pittsburg and vicinity. -Cornelius Pctrey, snperintendent of the almshouse of Pasaio county, N. J., was indicted by the grand jury on charges of gross immorality and cruelty. Captain F. Sandys Ddgmore, who re cently had trouble with Sheriff's officers in Florida, allied himself with the Home Rulers when th Land Leslie was started and was frequently seen on the Irish platform in the earlier years of the acitation making charin.' terintie speefh'-s. Of late he has lived quietly md traveled about a good deal in bis yacht. mi mm hail; k Terrific Electrical Storm in Western : ," Pennsylvania. r.-. Several Lives Ioit at Different Potn , Property Greatly DamagedHomes . i ' Swept Away by th FJood. ' - . The heaviest rain and electrical storm known in years passed over a large section of Western Pennsylvania, doing great damage to property and resulting in the loss of several lives. The storm struck Pittsburg about 4 o'clock but no serious damage was done in the old city. In the east end, however, the wind played havoc. Houses were blown down, trees up rooted and small buildings demolished. On Winebiddle avenue live new frame houses were lifted from their foundations and com pletely destroyed. The loss is $30,000. , , At McKeesport hail-stones as large a wal nuts fell, while the rain poured down in sheets for a full half hour. The greatest injury was done by the water which came down White's hollow in a stream 75 feet wide. The water was 6 feet deep on Fifth avenue at a point below Carter street and a number of houses which were below grade were submerged. At Greensburg, Wiljiaru Fry, the gardener at St. Joseph's Academy, was struck and in stantly killed by lightning. Lightning also struck Colonel Huff's residence, the First Re formed Church and other: buildings. , Near Washington, Pa., lightning struck a derrick on the Col. Robert Miller's farm, shattering it and killing William Furman, single; seriously injuring William Gates and stunning two others. . . . - The Baltimore and Ohio is a heavy sufferer. At Bradford the tracks are covered with water. A heavy landslide occurred at Oakdale, block ing both tracks.,; The flood in Mountas creek carried away many small buildings atLayton Station. An immense amount of mud, rock and trees came down on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks, covering it for a long distance. ' At Scottdale the storn was particularly de structive. Cellars along all the principal streets are nearly filled with water. The creek is rising steadily, and the safety of a coupleof the railroad bridges between Scottdale and .Fahthance is endangered, , The construction train has beo ordered to the scene. . t , In Pittsbugtbeheavyrainis likely toswell Hie rivers to flood proportions. "Aral! points along the Alleghany,; Youghioghewy aud Mo nongahela rivers the rainfall was unusual. - A west-bound freight train on Uie Nickel Plate Railroad went through a bridge near urayton. ' The bridge was a' wooden structure and was 200 feet in length and 30 feet high. The floods had washed out the foundation and when Engineer Daniel Ellis struck the bridge almost the entire train went down in the sweeping torrent; 4 Eliis was caught under t he submerged engine, but his brave fireman, William Nicholson, although badly hurt him self, was able, through; a super-human effort, te relieve his engineer and got him on top 01 the wreck. lie was assisted in his labors by the head brakemau, William Johnson, who was also. badly hurt. . The three men weretaken off the wreck and attended by physicians. Engineer Ellis ii badly hart and may not recover. Overscan tumbled into the flood. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. . It is thought that all the bodies have now been recovered from the Hartford mine at Ashley, Pa. . , ''!: k . ' . ' ' . Blackleg has appeared among cattlo. in sections of Schoharie county, New YorkOne farmer lost seven cows last week. 1 , Ex-Senatok Charles W. Jones, of Florida, was adjudged insane in Detroit,Micbigan, ana committed to St. Joseph's Retreat by Judge Durfee. ' ' ' By the breaking of an emery wheel at McCormick's reaper works, in Chicago, one man was killed and three others were badly injured. , . ' Theee was a severe frost in the vicinity of Waterloo, Iowa, Vegetation and fruit were damaged,; At Galena, Illinois, the grape crop was ruined. 1 Bacteano Ipoldo, 24 years of age, was killed by contact with an electric light wire while cleaning av window of the Inter-State National Bank in New York. A farmer named Tucker was rowing on a small lake near Staunton, Nebraska, witn his two children, when the boat was overturned and all three were drowned. 1 In a runaway accident at Plainfield; New Jergey, Miss Marion Duroont and Miss Mol lic Lawrence were thrown out and badly in jured, the latter, it is feared, fatally. : AKTHirB Beix, Frank Griffith and James Wilcox were drowned at YorkvUle, Illinois. They were out in a boat fishing and it is sup posed had been drinking. The boat upset . TlXJE schooner Jessie Brech.from Toledo for Garden Islands, has been found capsized near Nine Mile Point, in Lake Erie, and all on board, eight iu number, are believed to be lost A Despatch from Castine,' Maine, says that Captain Melvern Urinule ana His hroth er Frederick, were urownea oy ine capstzui; of Uieir Doat on . aanay jromiy wmie go s from the Penobscot to their vessel. , A despatch from Kirkwood, Delaware, says that a freight train on the Delaware Rail road plunged through a drawbridge over the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. The engiue and seven cars went over. The engine fell fully 60 feet on top of several canal boats, two of which were sunk. THE steamship Beacon Light, which ar rived at New York from England, reports that on May 13th, at midnight, latitude 43.55, longitude, 48.18, uunng a aense log, whs iy collision with an iceberg, about 90 feet higlil and WO feet long, striking 1$ a glancing Dlow on the starboard side. About 60 tons of ice fell on the bow, which stove the decks ar Jp rails and threw the steameron her beam end, causing her to spring a leak. A despatch from Stockton, California, says that the warm weather has raised the water in the Saeraniento and San Joaquin rivers, and the - leyees are in great danger. Several bad breaks have occurred, flooding" 4(00 acres of grain. - The water is four inches higher than ever before. Several breaks oc curred in the Union Island levees, flooding 12.000 acres, half of which is in wheat KENTUCKIANS USE THEIR FISTS. State Legislator Pummel Kaeh Other and Then Apologise. ' , There were two fist fights between member and attaches of the Legislature at Frankfort, Ky., and in two other instances fights were barely prevented. All the gentlemen con cerned made apologies to each other." The first fight was over a railroad bill in connection with which Representative Lang try was charired with being bribed. Railroad Attorney Wallace called "Railroad Attorney Friclt liar, and Friek retaliated with ablow. whereupon Sergeant-at-Arm Castle, knocked Friek down. Wallace ig his brother-in-law. In the second fipht Representatives Farmer and Bent ley quarrelled. Bent ley struck Far mer in the face and Fanner kicked Bentley in the side, and several other blows and kicks were exchanged before the House official could restore oider. FLTTY FIRST CONGRESS. . - Senate Sessions. , j . . 115th Day. The consideration of the Na val Appropriation bill was resumed, and the amendment of the Committee on Appropria tions to strike out the item of $.t0,0OO for re pairs of the dry dock, at the Boston Navy Yard was disagreed to.. So the item. remains in the bill. The next amendment was to strike out the appropriation of if.50,000 for reconstruct ing buildings destroyed by fire) at-Portsmouth, N. H., iavy Yard. After discussion, this amendment was also disagreed to. Sev eral other amendments reported by the Com mittee on Appropriations to strike out other items for the same navy yards were likewise disagreed to. - Pending the discussion, the silver bill was, at 2. P. M., taken up. as the unfinished business and laid aside informally. The Tariff bill was received from the House, and referred to the Committee on, Finance. The Naval Appropriation bill wasagain taken! u(j, me question oeinjj on ine amendment to mouth amendment. After a short executive session the gehate adjourned. , , ' 116th DAT.Mr Blackburn presented the credentials of John G. Carlisle as senator from the state of Kentucky, for, Mr. Beck's unexpired term, which commenced on March 4, 1880. v They were read and placed on file. The, Naval Appropriation bill was taken up, the pending question being on the amendment reported from the Committee on Appropria tions to strike out the item of $50,000 for im provement of the plant at Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard.; The amendment was disagreed to yeas 18,; nays: 29. Mry Cockrell moved to strikeout the provision for three seagoing coast-liil battle ships, not to cost more than four millions each. After further discussion, and without action on Mr. Cockrell's motion to strike out the provision for the three ships-of-war, the Senate, at 4:15 adjourned. 117th Day. Immediately after the read ing of the journal, the oath of office was ad ministered by the Vice-President to Mr. Car lisle as senator from theState of Kentuekyfor Mr. Beck's unexpired term. The Senate re sumed consideration of the Navy Appropria tion bill,' the pending question being on Mr. Cockerell's amendment to strike out the pro-; vision for the construction of three heavily, armed battle-ships at a cost of four millions each. It was not agreed to. Mr. Dolph offered an amendment providing for three floating batteries.!; Disagreed to. On motion of .Mr. Butler, an item was inserted appropriating $200,000 for a drydockat Port Royal, S. Cthe whole cost not to exceed $500,000. The bill was then passed. ' . - :,- 118th Day. Among the. bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar were the following: The Se.iate bill for the adjustment of accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising under the Eight Hour law. j Senate bill providing for the making; ftubheation and distribution of a register of abor. The Honsie amendments to the Senate bill for a public Building at Martinsburg, W. Va., were fcgreecr to. lhe eura fixed iu the bill is $75,000. "The Vice President announced the aDDointment of Mr. Blackburn as a mem ber of the Committee on Appropriations, and or Air. Carlisle as a member or the commit tees on Finance, Territories and Woman Suf frage. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. v Honse Sessions. 124th, DAY- The House went intocommit tee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan in the chair), on the River and Harbor bill. Mr. Elliot, of South Carolina, moved to increase the appropriation for improving Winyaw Bay,' S. C. from $100,000. to $150,000. The motion was lost When the paragraph appropriating $500,000 for the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi (Hennepin ) Canal was reached, Mr, Turner, of Georgia, made the point of or der that the Committee on Rivers and Harbors had no jurisdiction over canals. He said that on April 9th a communication from the Sec retary of War, transmitting the report on the survey of the canal, was referred to the Com mittee bqRiversand Harbors, and there might be a question 11 to whether that reference Save the committee jurisdiction. Pending a ecision,the committee rose. The House then, at five o'clock, took a recess until eight o'clock, the evening session being devoted to the con sideration of pension bills. v 125TH DA.Y. The House went into com mittee of the whole, Mr. Burrows, of Miehi- an in the chair, on the River and Harbor ill. The pending question was the point of order against the Hennepin Canal proposi tion. -i The motion to strike out was lost 50 122. .On motion of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, an amendment was adopted reducing from $2,000,000 to' $1,000,000 the appropriation for .the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio river. Public business was suspended at four o'clock, and the House proceeded to pay fitting tribute to the memory of the late David WiTber, of New York. After eulogistic addresses by Mesers. Sherman .of New York, McCormick- of Pennsylvania, McRae of Ar kanssii, Russell of Conneticut, Tracy and Far quhanpf New York, the House, as a mark of respfi to the memory of the decea'ed, at 4:ot), aajo H Day. The House was called toorder bv bv Clerk MePherson. and ort motion of Mr. McKinley, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, was elected speaker pro tern., and took the chair amid applause. The floor was then accorded to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and Mr. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania, called Tip the Rock Creek Park bill. The bill was passed. . The bill is a Senate bill, but was amended in various particulars by the House, and will have to be returned to the Senate for its action. The following bills were also passed: Establishing a free public bathing beach on the Potomao river, near Washington Monu ment Requiring street railway companies of the District of Columbia to make annual re port. The House then adjourned. 1 , 127TH DAY. On motion of Mr. Wilson (W Va.) a Senate bill was passed for the erec tion of a public building at Martinsburg, W. Va with an amendment reducing the limit cost from $125 000 to, $75,000. Mr. McKinley (O.) submitted the conference report upon the customs administrative bill. Adopted. The House then went into committee ot the whole, Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair, on the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. Vari ous amendments making appropriations for specific points along the Mississippi river were offered and rejected, among them one offered by Mr. Boatner, of Louisiana, for $2,000,000 for the protection of the harbor at Natchez. The House then adjourned. THE EARTH TREMBLED. Mohawk Valley in New York Experl- men a Slight Karthqmake Shock. ShortIyafter 7 A. M., the Mohawk Valley was disturbed by a slight shock of earthquake, accompanied by lightning and; heavy winds. The shock in this vicinity was very ligh but increased in intensity to Montgomery county, where, at Fort Hunter, it was quite, severe. At Little j; Falls, dishes were rattled and a rumbling as of distant thunder was heard. At Fort Hunter mirjdings were shaken and beds moved so that the occupants were awakened. In Utic&dishes werentttled, and some people report a slight vibration but the shockn were hardly perceptible. No damage was done in any quarter. Jhis is the first seismal f he nomeaon of note here since 186L ' ' CABLE SPARKS. ,' President Caknot has gone on a tour of tha French provinces. :. The Prussian General Edward Frederick Fransecky is dead. !. . The International Miners' Conference is in session in Brussels. Major Wissmas will return from Eatst Africa to Berlin in June. ' . , The German go?i rnincnt intends to form a labor information office on the English model. Miss Clare Ward and Prince Chimay, son of the Belgian minister of foreign affairs, were married in Parif. Dr. Bayol, forme.'ly French governor of the Gabon colony, snj'i he saw 127 prisoners immolated in Dohomcy. - A6C0IXING match has been arranged be tween Kemp and McLane to take place in July in. New South Wales. AT THE papal consistory to be held in une the Bishop of Geneva and the papul nuncio at Lisbon will be created Cardinals. '. , , . Ix A duel between a young doctor of Vienna and a Croatian girl whom he insulted the for mer was twice wounded by the girl. . The telegragh line connecting Tonqnln and China by way of Yunnan, capital of the prov ince of the same name, has been opened for business. ' '. . 1 ? , Sir Henry PARKES.premierof New South Wales,who was thrown from a cab, is seriously injured, and will be confined to his house sev eral months. ' , . . THE federal council of Switzerland has de cided that when an alteration of the constitu tion is demanded by 50,000 citizens the ques tions will -be submitted to a popular vote. . The French government has asked the Spanish authorities for the extradition of Michel Eyrnud, who was arrested at Havana for the murder of MGouffe, in Paris, in July laSt. ' " ' .. A DAUcftiTKR of the chief dragoman of the Russian embassy in Constantinople, while out walking with her governess, was assaulted by four Turkish soldiers, who vcexs subceque'ntly arrested.' : . - M. RiROT, minister of foreign affairs, and the delegates of the . Egyptian government have begun the final consideration of the text of the desree for the conversion" of theEgyp? tian debt. . .. ,i "" t Mr. 'Gladstone, in a speech at'Uncoln Eng., said he was confident the British people would declare for Ireland's rights at the first opportunity ihey might have to make their voice heard. . - - , , English liberal newspapers condemn Mr. Gladstone's comparison of the atrocities per- tet rated by Russian officials upon exiles in iberia with the shooting affair, at Mitchela town, Ireland. . There is a report in Berlin to the effect that the chancellor of Germany will introduce in the Reichstag a bill to tax all Germans in eligible for service in the armyjand all Ger man citizens residing abroad. , , V Lightning struck a cnurch at St Mahlen, near Hildesheim, Germany, while a congrega tion were praying'for a cessation of hail-storms, which did great damage, and four persons were killed and twenty others injured. A BANQUET was given In Lisbon in honor of Major Serpa Pinto and other Portugese ex plorers, but no allusion was made to the Anglo-Portugese dispute over African territory, nor anything said which could give offence to any foreign power. Arthur Newton, the solicitor who pleaded guilty in London to the charge of conniving to defeat justice by assisting certain persons ' charged wit h complicity in the Cleveland street scandal to escape, was sentenced to imprison ment for six weeks. :. . A MOB in which there were five hundred women tried to force an entrance into the town hall of Conselice, Italy, crying," We are starv ing," and stoned the soldiers guarding the building, who in turn fired on the mob, killing several persons and wounding a number of others. , CAPTURED AT LAST. The Bold Bank Robber of Denver Caught In Itliiisourl. Mansfield King, the self-confessed murderer and horse-thief in jail at Clayton, Missouri, has been identified as Wells, the Denver bank robber, who compelled President Moflfet, of that institution to hand over $21,000 in cash in March, 1889, at the point of a r avolver. H. N. Otis, the assistant cashier of the bank, who was in the bank at the time the bold act waa com mitted, arrived in St Louisa few days ago, and in company with several detectives went to Clayton, where King was lying at the pointof death, Mr. Otis was then in doubt as to his identity, but the sick man's beard havingbeen shaved, he positively identified him. King said he waa glad he was satisfied. After the identification Otis and the detec tive had another interview with King as to what become of the money he had taken from President Moffatt King informed the trio where he had planted the money, which was in a certain place in Ralls county. The rob bery of the bank was a desperate one. Wells went into Moffatt's private office and drawing a revolver said: "Mr. Moffatt, I am adesperate man. I must have money. Write a check for $21,000 and take it over to the teller, draw the money and come back here. I will go with you and if you make the least resistance or cry for help I'll shoot you, dead. In this other pocket! have a bottle of nitro-glycerine. I dont care whe ther I live or die, and if there is any outcry I'll blow the whole bank sky high." Since his arrest at Clayton Wells has con fessed to the murder of a man in Missouri many years ago. END Of A. DESPERADO. . John Starling Will Nevermore Terror ise II U North Carolina Neighbors. John Starling living near; Selma, in John eton county, N. C, was surrounded by a party of masked men while on his way home, tied to a tree and shot to death, twenty bullets be ing put into his body. He had made some threats against a peaeablc citizen, and was re turning home from a magistrate's trial, where he had been to answer to summons of a peace warrant. His wife was in the wagon with him; The mob threw a rope over his head, dragged him out and carried him far enough i i tne woo 'a to prevent her from being an eye witness tur his late. Homo time ago an old lady named Cenia Brown, and her grandson were foully murdered in Johnston county. Mrs. Brown was Starling's mother-in-law, and there, was a well founded suspicion that Star ling murdered her, that he might get posses sion of her property through his wife. He was tried on the charge of murder, but he had so terrorized the community that it was im possible to get any one to testify against him, id he was acquitted for want ot sufficient ' .dence to convict. Lawron the houses'oi two perwotiK who made .themselves conspicu ous in the trial against hirn were burned. People of. this community thought this was Starling's work of vcmreance. They deter mined to subni f to his temriutioit no longer, they banded together, took him from his wiigou, and left his JitVless tody hanging to a tree, ' The Volume of Business, Both West and East, Improved. Stocks Active and Money Easy, aud Prices for Wheat Range Higher. A Falling off in Somber of Foil n res. Special telegrams to Bradttreet'tK::. port a fairly active distributive movement in geaeral trade circles at most of the more important in terior trade centres. . A noticeable activity is shown at Omaha, with 'large and increasing eountry orders and bright agricultural pros pects in the surrounding region. J At Memphis the feaure is in the increased demand for plan tation supplies, and at Boston the better re quest is for cotton, goods at enhanced prices due to higher prices for- raw material. Mer cantile collections West and Northwest are irretrular, with the tendency toward greater eas An increased demand from - country merchants is reported at New Orleans, and the recently overflowed district is said to be rapidly recovering from the effects of , the floods. .5 New wheat has been received at tide water, California, earlier than ever before. Lard and meats are weaker, and cattle and hoes SalO 1 cents lower on heavv receipts. Coffee on a better consumptive demand is quoted Je higher. ' Exhaustion of buying power and discourag ing rumors about silver legislation has caused , a reaction in the stock' market Easier money and important railroad combinations were powerless to check this tendency. Bank clearings at fifty cities, for the week ending i...oa 1 onv rn - : . last week of 4.7 per cent and over this week last year of 23 per cent Unfavorable wheat crop reports have sent the price up la3c, per bushel in spite of a smaller weekly decrease in the quantity avail able. Oats, too, advanced fractionally. In dian corn, tinder free offerings and shipments, declined jafc. The week ' exports of wheat (and flour as wheat), both coasts, continue heavier than expected by those who watch only Atlantic port shipments, amounting to 2.373,994 bushels, agninst 1,564,091 bushe Is in the like week of 1889, and as compared with 1,785,066 bushels last week. " The total ex ported July 1, to date equals 96,484,948 bush els, against 78,873,304 bushels in a like portion of 1888-89.. . Farmers' deliveries, both coasta, for two weeks past have fallen short of ex ports and home consumption by only about 1,000,000 bushels weekly, showing increasing sales on tfcir part. , Dry goods are in better demand from agents, staple cottons and cotton and wool dress goods particularly so, and tcadeas a whole compares well with that of last week when the flannel sales checked outside business. Flannels and blankets have been . in active request from jobbers who report mail order demaad is the regualr way relatively mort active than that by personal selection. . Large jobbers also re port a fairly good demand for package lots. Cotton goods prices are as firm as before, and some makes of brown and bleached goods have been advanced ialc on the week. Men's wear woolens are slow of sale. Uncertainty as regards tariff Jegjslation adds to the be-tween-seasons quiet in foreigns goods. Raw wool is in fair demand and one-half cent higher on light stocks. Holders at primary markets demand higher prices. Raw cotton is 7 l-16c higher, on heavy speculative de mand for short covering and small domestic stocks. .... Business failures reported to Brndrtreefg number 186 in the United States this week against 16 last week. The total number of failures in the United States January 1 to date is 4627 against 4909 in a like portion of 1889. 77 CHINAMEN DROWNED. The Wreck of the Oneida on Hennlnes Itock, in Behrlng Sea. Captain Anderson, of the ship Oneida, has iust arrived at San Francisco, on the schooner Mary Kimball. He reports that his ship was wrecked on April 26 on Hennines Rock, Lanck Island, in Bearing Sea, and 77 China men lost. U J ' - The Oneida had on board 110 Chinese and 15 white men, nearly all of whom were on their way to a salmon cannery on Lanck Island. On the afternoon of April 26, when the Oneida had nearly reached her destina tion, Captain Anderson stated that he made a run of 30 miles, to clear the Southwest point of the island. At 9 P. M. he" supposed he was a long distance from the isl and. lie cou Id not see on account of a heavy fog. . He put back about three, expecting to pass on the opposite side of the point Instead the vessel struck on Hennines Rock, on the southwest end of the island. A heavy sea was on, and in a short time the Oneida was a total wreck. The white men and 33 Chinese escaped in boats or floated ashore on pieces of the wreck. Seventy-seven Chinese were undoubtedly drowned, as they have never since been heard of. The Oneida had on board material for build ing and running a salmon cannery, which was to nave been erected on the island. She was built in Maine in 1866, and was of 1,300 tons burthen, and was owned by Leon Sloes. MARKETS. , Baltimore Flour City MHls,extra,$4.75 $5 00, Wheat Southern Fultz, 9192, Corn Southern White, 4647c, Yellow 48649o.' Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 83w3Sc. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 8162c. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 13.O0$14.00. ' Straw Wheat ; 7.50$S.50. Butter Eastern Creamery, 1820c, near-by receipts 1214o. Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, llllic., Western, 910c, Ecks llllla. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, l$2.00, Good Common, 3.00$4.00, Middling, 5ffii$7.0a Good to fine red, B9. Fancy, 10tl3. . New YOBK Flour Southern Good to choice extra, $3.053.15. Wheat No. 1 White v7Pa Rye State 6860c Corn South, ern Yellow, 42J43!c Oate-White. State 33g34c Butter Sta'e, 18181c Cheese State 9i10c Egg-13i14c. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.254.75. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 8994- Rye Pennsylvania 5860c, Corn Southern Yellow, 42?$42ic Oats 3233c Butter State. 2 30 Cheese-New York Faetory, 1010iC V-i;a-State, I212ic CATTLE, Baltimobe Beef $4.75$5.00. Sheep $4.50(o;$.ei.75. Hogs-$4.00$4.50. New York Beef 6.5of 7.75. Sheep $5.50Ca$5.75. Hoys $4.30(55 $4.65. East Liberty Beef $40(o)H75. Sheep $5.00C6.25. Hoga-$4J50$4.5A Bismarck is one of the most talked of men of the time, ret few people know how his family came by its name. Bismarck is an ancient castle near StcndnJ, ou the road from Cologne to Berlin, in the centre of the old MarquiKSto, of Brandenberg. It rfenvM iti natne bei'piiie it defended thf "Mov:' or houri hry line f-rmed by the River Pi-.e m that piiiuL Biese-Marca ha beioi-i f is- tBSIXfe. SOUTHERN ITES3& rno.n max? sources. 1 - ' Tirmer9,'alJianeej aro being rapidly organ ized througbttis ths counties of Virginia, A Kent county, Md cow, which gave birth to two calrea iu repeated the act this spring., - : Machinery has been put in .the York Haven ' Mills, on the Susquehanna river, for making paper entirely from, wood. A yclngman from Barbour county, W. Va., by the name of Ware haa invented a quad ricycle. It is propelled by eranks turned by the hands, and ia guided by the feet ; A landslide eccurred at Echo, W. V.,which ' delayed traffic by covering the track for fortv feet to the depth of fifteen feet. It was dis covered in time to prevent the wreckage of traius.' . ThS Glamorgan Iron Works, of Lynchburg, Va., have been awarded the contract for the construction of the new water works system at Big Stone Gap. The price agreed upon is $65,000. A cyclone passed through Nansemond county, Va., and cut a swath through the woods aquarter of a mile in width, tearing up trees by the roots and demolishing buildings in its path. -. - ; The West Virginia Central Railroad Com pany has postponed the building of its depot at Elicins, W. Vs., until next year, but a machine-shoo will be built and five sections added to the round-house. The Norfolk and Western Railroad hava Purchased the two properties adjoining the epot at Lynchburg, Va., for $43,000. The in tention ofthe company is to erect a handsome new hotel on the properties. Near Blackstone, Nottaway county. Va., Hay nie Du priest was killed by a tree felled by an axe in his own hands, and the next day James II. Sullivan, aged 81 years, fell down a pair of steps and was instantly killed. - Reliable reports from all parts o? the East ern Shore of Virginia indicate that the sweet potato crop will be the largest ever known. Nearly all the farmers have finished plant ing, so that the crop will be earlier than usual. A rich-vein of lead ore has been discovered on the farm of a gentleman by the name of Hedger, on Stroud's creek, Webster connty. W. Va. The lead has been tested by running it into bullets and has been proved to be pare lead.- Mr. WilliamS. Smithes storekeeper at Lepi dum, Harford county, Md has recently re ceived a quantity of wrapper paper sent to him free of charge by the American Protective Tariff League, upon which is priqted tariff literature. ! Iron ore of very superior quality is being mined in the river hillg five miles from Ber-, ryville Va.,. hauled in wagons to that place for $1 per ton; and then shipped to a furnace in Pennsylvania at an additional cost of about $1.75 per ton. - The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Ednca tional Society, of the .Methodist Episcopal Church intend building an academy for the colored people of Virginia during the coming summer, the location of which haa not yet been definitely decided upon,":? , , . A petrified stump of a tree, weighing ft ton, was shipped from Powhatan, W. Va., to B?rea, Ohio, to be sawed into whetstones for barbers use. The stump resembled the original wood and. bark. . The stone is very, valuable, tho whetstones made from it being in active de mand'. - -y The once beautiful residence of Colonel 5 A . R. Boteler, "Fountain Rock," near Shepherds- ' town, which was burned to the ground in 18t4, by order of General ..Hunter is to be restored to its former fair nroDortions. after ha vine laid in ruins for over twenty-five years. y , An unknown man was killed near Vicar's Switch, Va on the Norfolk and Western rail road, lie was well dressed, but had-no papers on his person nor anything by which to iden tify him. He attempted to cross the track be fore a moving train and was struck and killed. Frank Manning and James Tye, enlisted men at Fort Monroe, Va., had a difficulty at Mill Creek and on their return to the fort, while Tye was seated in his room preparinc for target practice, Manning came to the door rifle in hand, and shot him through the head causing instant death. Terrance Creegan, of Ocean Mines, Md.,wa dangerously, and probably fatally, injured by a fall of about ten tons of coal on him while at work in the Miller Mine. The services o ten men were required to rescne him, and his injuries consisted 01 a nana mashed, collar bone broken, and his breast badly squeezed. J. W. Davis, night 'telegraph operator at Quantico. Va., in attempting to pass between two freight cars on the Richmond, Frederirk burg and Potomac railroad atthat place while they were being shifted, was caught between the bumpers and so badly mashed that be died in a short time afterwards, y : , . The charter of the" Valley Branch of the Bal timore and Ohio Railroad. which was exempted from taxation by Augusta county, Va., haa been uniformly respected. : The county board of supervisors recently took steps to test the legality of the exemption, being advised by counsel that such exception is unconstitu tional. . Two freight trains on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad collided near Scottsville, Albe marle county, Va. The two engines and about twenty-five freight cars, chiefly -laden -.with . coal, were badly broken up., The, trainmen escaped uninjured by jumpu 3." The accident is alleged to have been due io the blunder of the telegraph operator. . , Wheeling. W. Va., andsurrounding country was visited by the Jheavest electrical and rain storm since July, 1888. Over two inches of rain fell in twenty ainutes, deluging tho streets and ; flooding number of business houses and cellars and first floors. Travel on the Elm Railroad was stopped forseveralhouis by a heavy landslide. The newly plowed farm land in the vicinity suffered severely. At Lambert's Point, Va-i the Norfolk and Western Railroad will duplicate the work s at Crewes, not move the latter here, and a round house, with a capacity of twenty-two engines, is to be erected there, In the meantime worse on the projected piers is to be pushed forward vigorously, and the improvement ofthe adhi--cent property belonging to the railway is also to be forwarded as rapidly as possible. -Bob Crawford, a wbJta convict of Pratt MinesBjirmangtorij Ala lay down on a stick of dynamite, lit thefuB,and shouted good-b i to a dozen fellow-convicts, who were wate'u ; him. He was blown to atoms, Crawford v ; serving a ten year' sentence for burglarv. Last week he escaped, Mt was soon recapiu '!. When taken back to the mines be said he tv.-ml J die rather than serve out hi sentence. At iha first opportunity he obtained a stick of dyi;i mite used in blasting and deliberately Il;w himself to pieces. An adjourned meeting for the promoters of the proposed Northern f Keck Kailrtmd -n held at Fredericksburg, Va.- Ili&rmatie-i a to right of way and arorvvy was prf"wfitd td steps were taken for the eonsnmniuvion of t : ? same at the earliest practicable moment. "1 ; statistical rommitteeVMinereaaed to two ir-.ti each county, with inftruetiong to 'report rn early as convenient, tivHrwiiiMm A, of Richmond county, 'chairman of the con," tee ou capital, made 'general report, embrf -ing conferences -"aiMli-corrwpoiidm-e w,- prominent railroad corporations, which very satisfactory and tMourftgiBg.
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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