C. V. AUSBOIT, TJU8I5fESfl Manager.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1890.
NO. 7.
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THE NEWS.
Near Johnstown, Fa., a conch containing
fifteen young ladies was precipitated down an
embankment and nearly air the occupants
evf rely injured. Ex-Councilman Wm. T.
Meads, of Camden, N. J., wassent up for three
. years for forgery,- Job II. Sweeny, a gold;
brick, swindler, was sentenced to nine years
;nJ six months' imprisonment in Watertown,
J -A bloody race war is feared at! Hous
ton, Tex.- The sheriff of Rock county, Wis.,
hts served a writ of mandamus on the county
Vihool board to prevent the reading of the
Bible in the schools. The men employed in
the Michigan mines threaten to strike. A
plot to fire the Cincinnati House of Refuge
whs frustrated by Mike Kelly, an eleven-year-
.old boy. The business part of Harlem, Mo.j
was destroyed by fire. The body of an Ital
ian, with his' throat cut from ear to ear, was
rund in the woods, near Camden, N. J. In
Philadelphia brewery a mash-tub exploded
and two of the employes were fatally injured.
A collision near Atchison, Ks., resulted in
.the killing of L, W. Yocum, ah engineer, and
the injury of four other trainmen. Com-
tninrioncr Edmunds, of Philadelphia, decided
toxoid Frederick Stevenson, of Leeds, Eng
land, to await the extradition papers from
England. A general tie-up in the building
industry in Cincinnati is threatened. Judge
Twiggs, of Augusta, Ga., challenged to fight
a duel. Switchmen, conductors and brake
men on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad
have quit work. -Herr Most was removed
1'rora the meeting of the locked-out cloak cut
ters and tailors W New ; York. ,
' Henry Smith was hanged at London, Onh,
for wife murder. John T. Forrest, , aged
eighty-one years, who imagined himself a bur
den to his family, committed suicide by hang
ing in New York. Unusually heavy rain
fall at Rockford and Joliet, 111., the former
town being flooded and many small houses
' demolished. -Six thousand cutters and cloak
jmakcrs of New York were locked out because
of the refusal of union cutters to turn their
jwork over to non-union workers. A mail
train on the Richmond and Danville Railroad
"was derailed near Marshal, N. C, and a num-
Jber of persons hurt. John H. Thomm, a
member of the Select Council, of Reading, Pa.,
Charged with sounding false alarms of fire
' and ringing up the whole town at unreason
able hours.-Casterline & Co.'s nitro-glycer-ino
works near Findlay, O., was blown up,and
the people for miles around thought the con
cussion was caused by an earthquake.-
C, Caughman and Pearce G. Taylor, indicted
for the Lynching of William Leophardt for
. committing an outrage upon Rosa Cannon.were
acquitted by the Lexington (S. C.) court
X. Kennedy's boarding-house at Osceola Junc
tion, Mich., was destroyed by fire, and his
twelve-year-old son perished, the mother being
badly burned in trying to rescue him. Fire
destroyed the grain building of the Carter
White Lead Works at Omaha, Neb. Loss
$150,000. A memorial in favor of free wool
has been sent to the Senate Finance Commit
tee by the Wool Consumers' Association of
Boston; A . freight train on the Philadel
phia division of the B. & O., struck two boys
at Gray's Ferry, killing one and seriously in
juring the other. Two brothers, Otto and
Herman Bert, aged twelve and fifteen years,
erromed by an approaching" train on the
Chicago lake front, were struck and both in
stantly killed. Captain Clarence N. Clarke,
a prominent civil engineer of Washington,
committed suicide. William . Walton, of
Louisville, Ky., struck Benll. Kerrick a blow
in the stomach with his fist, killing him al
most instantly. 'An oil well on the premises
of the little Forest Grove Presbyterian Church
at Chartiers, Pa.', enabled the church to sell
out to the Standard Oil Company for $92,000
eash.
James C. 1 nCrmton, a younjj ntlornT. com-.
mittcd suicide in his room in Scuttle, Wash
ington. The chief of police in Sun Fran
cisoo will endeavor to stop prize fights in that
pity.T- Jamc: Whitman, a farmer.was killed
while mowing in his field in Auburn, Neb.
JBis brother-in-law is suspected of the crime.
Indians attacked cowboys on a ranch in
New Mexico, and are thought to have killed
nil, with one exception. Two women in Os-
ceola?, Pa,, were drowned by the rising of the
waters of a brook swollen during a storm.
Harris A.'Smiler, convicted in New York of.
killing his wife, was sentenced to death by
electricity. Wealthy citizens of New Haven
have been arrested for not answering the cen
sus enumerators. Benjamin Hongass, of
London,bas offered a million and a quarter for
the New Orleans lottery privilege. A peti
tion was made to the United States Court in
Philadelphia asking for the extradition of
Thomas Fred. Stevenson, of England, charged
with embezzlement. The wholeHale liquor
dealers of New York have decided to raise a
fund of half a million dollurs with which to
Luild 'distilleries. On the West North" Car
olina Railroad, on the Saluda Mountains, near
Asheville, N. C, a coal train r$n wild any was
wrecked. Tho engineers and a fireman were i
killed and five other trainmen were injured.
. Peter F, Rafferty, a New York Custom
house employe, was indicted on a charge of il
legally soliciting campaign contributions. -Aaron
M. Jones, of Denver, Col., shot his wife
and then committed u icicle;
CH8LERA IN SPAIN.
Tbe Disease at Pnebla de Rngt Pro
nounced the True Aftlatlo Type.
, Much alarm is occasioned by, the continued
spread of the cholera at Pueblade Rugat The
authorities are making strong efforts to 6tarap
out the disease, but so for they have been nn
tuiecessfnl and new cases are reported daily.
overworked, and the authorities have tele-
' graphed to Valencia asking that physicians be ,t
sent from that city to aid them. The supply i
of drugs is runningshort and the town officials
have also telegraphed for a fresh supply from
Valencia.
The total number of cases thus far reported
jsninety-one. One of the persons who fled from
the town for safety has died from the disease
at Albaida. Dr. ('andela, who is an expert, de
clares that the disease at IVebla de Rugat is
trie Asiatic cholera, ,
DEATH IN THE TEIJPEST;
Cloud Burst Wrecks a Train With
Awful Results. 1
The State of Kentucky Visited - by
Catastrophe Three Men Killed by
the Washing out of a Culvert.
At Bull Creek, Ky., six miles above Mays
ville, two dark clouds met and burst. The
creek jumped over its banks and swept like
drift several dwelling houses aud their fright'
ened occupants. , r , -
The stone cnl vert on the Chesapeake A Ohio
Railroad over Bull Creek was washed out into
the river, and about midnight, while the storm
was at its height, the west-bound freight train
ran into the washout, causing a fearful wreck.
The engine and nine cars were piled one upon
top of another, almost out of sight, in the
creek bottom. The killed were: .
Charles Eaton, Brakeman. Morris Honaker,
Fireman. C. C. Roadcap, Engineer.
They were burried beneath the wreck, and
their bodies had not been recovered at lost
accounts.
Conductor W. R. Watts and brakeman W.
W. A. Love jumped from the hind car and es
caped unhurt. '
The train was made up of thirty-two cars.
Nine carloads of shoes and boots for Louis
ville went down in the wreck. A fast wreck
ing train on the way to the scene ran over
Frank Scott, a colored employe, and killed
him. , . .
About n dozen person, living on the banks
of Bull Creek are reported drowned. :
The nineteen cars in the washout were
dashed into kindling wood. The train was
the first section of freight No. 33, drawn by
engine No. 154, which is one of the largfct as
well as the finest engines on the road. The
engine is now out of sight in quicksand. The
train was running over thirty miles per hour.
A little later an east-bound mixed passenger1
train would have passedoverthe fatalculvert
when the loss of life would have been appal
ling. It seems incredible that some cars could
be jammed into so small a hole as there is at
the culvert ,
James Irwin had a portable saw-mill located
several hundred yards up Bull Creek; above
the railroad. The clouds suddenly bursting
caused a rapid rise in tho creek, already badly
swollen by the storm. Farmers sty the creek
rose two feet per minute, and the'water looked
like a wall twenty-five feet high when it got
to the railroad fill. The saw-mill was lifted
fro 'ii its fastenings and with over a hundred
big logs hurled violently against the rail
road stone culvert. This is probably what
caushed it to give way. Huge stones weigh
ing several tons were carried by the creek
long distances. The creek rose two feet higher
than it has been in forty years. '
The fury of the storm caused many persons
on Bull Creek to abandon their homes and
take to the hills, else the loss of life would
have been greater. The Btorm did much dam
age to buildings, fences and cropt in that por
tion of the county. A barn on the farm of
Dick Dawson, was struck by lightning and
burned. . Tom William's dwelling was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground, his
family barely escaping.
Some half dozen persons on Bull Creek are
yet missing, but it is believed they will turn
up all right, v
' DOWN THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE.
The Frightful Plunge of a Train on the
Western North Carolina Railroad.
Perhaps the most destructive wreck both in
life and property ever known in the history
of the Western North Carolina railroad oc
curred at Melrose Station, at the southern side
of Saluda Mountain, about 32 miles from Ashe
ville, on the Asheville and Spartanburg divi
sion. The following is a listof the dead: Engineer
J. J. Smyra, of Chester, S. C; Engineer Lewis
Tunstall, of Yorktown, Va.; Fireman W. G.
Taylor, of Morristown, Tenn. ,
The injured are: C. Bowcock, flagman, leg
broken; George Ricketts, conductor, injuries
not serious, ' escaped by jumping; William
Hoe, fireman, slight injuries .escaped by jump
ing; two colored brakeraen named Foster and
Greenlee, painful but not dangerous wounds.
- From the apex of Saluda Mountain to Mel
rose, the scene of the accident a distance of
less than three miles, there is a fall of fully 600
feet. This fact has made the railroad authori
ties specially careful at this point, and an en
gine is kept constantly there to help all trains
up and down the mountain.
The track was very wet when a coal train
started down, and, soon, after beginning the
descent, it became evident that 12 loaded cars
were to much for both engines to hold with all
brakes down, and the speed gradually quick
ened under the heavy pressure until a speed
of 75 -miles an hour was reached, when the
tracks spread and the entire train plunged
headlong down the mountain with a terrible
crash, burying beneath the broken cars, cross
ties and earth tbe brave fellows who had stood
to their posts.
- The loss to the company in engines and cars
lone will reach $75,000.
MAY BE A DOUBLE LYNCHING.
The Sheriff of Boonevllle, Mo., Shot and
Killed by a Prisoner. .
Sheriff Thomas C. Cranmer, one of the most
popular, and efficient officials in Booneville,
Mo., was shot by William West, a prisoner in
the jail. The sheriff went in the jail,as was
his custom, to look over his prisoners while
they were getting supper. At a favorable op
portunity West covered him withac-.ked re
volver, and shouting, "Hold up your hands,
old man," fired twice. The sheriff fell, and
West rushedahrotigh the open door flourish
ing his revolver. Ue was pursued, and two
hours later was captured and returned to jail,'
A mob gathered, but public announcement
was made thatthe sheriff was not severely hurt,
and public anger was quieted. The sheriff. '
however, died next morning and West said
that he shot the officer solely W get out of jail
and thatWesliensley.of Sedalio, a friend who
visited him, furnished himtberevolver. Hens--ley,
was arrested.
13oth men are in the same jail. The streets
are filled with angry people and the idea of a
double, .lynching seems uppermost i every
body's mind. -
CLOUDS COLLIDE.
People Drowned and BtttUltugs Washed
Awny at Osceola,' Pa.
Two clouds, meeting, broke over Osceola,
Pa., causing the. waters of Holdei'i Brook to
rise to an unprecedented height. '
Mrs. Tripp and Miss Mary Thompson were
drowned, and their bodies have not yet been
recovered.
Nearly ") buildings M ere moved from their
foundation and a fr ghtful jam was formed at
tho trestle of the Fall brook railroad. The
trestle ol'the Addison and Pennsylvania rail
road is gone. .
One liorxe wiik drowned and Tannertowii is
in ruins. Many people were rescued from
hftiisefi Ht t'r''t ris. Oflly one bridge remains
on JloIJttJ Hrwk, ',
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING HEWS COMPILED
1 . FROM MAWV SOURCES.
The fund raised in Georgia for the benefit of
Mrs. Jefferson Davis amounts to nearly $8,000.
The Baptists of Roanoke, Va., have con
tracted for the erection of a new church to
cost $15,000.
The real estate assessment in Roanoke, Va,
aggregates about $6,000,000, an increase of $5,
000,000 in five years. .
The county levy in Loudoun county, Va.,
has been fixed at 20 cents on the $100... The
State tax is 40 cents.
Mr. "James M. Marshall, of Hume, Fauquier
county, Va has 310 ewes from which he sold
$1,760 worth of lambs and wool. -Rocky
Mount, Franklin county, Ta,, unan
imously voted a subscription of $20,000 to the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad.
-r-A Philadelphia firm has purchased a lot of
round in Roanoke, Va., on which a business
lock costing $73,000 will be erected. i
'Frank Joseph, who killed Jeff. Bonds in
Kanawha comity, W. Va., a few weeks ago,
was tried at Charleston and acquitted. .
Harry Saybold, who robbed the Bank of
Wheeling, W. Va., of $30,000 and forfeited his
bail, has been arrested in Winfield, Kan.
The real estate assessment in Salem, Roa
noke county, Va., aggregates $987,044, an in
crease of $dU7,112 since the assessment of 1885.
The ice factory at Greensboro, N. C, will
be in full operation by Jnly 1st, and is ex
pected to turn out seven aud a half tons per
day. : , , . , . . ,
Parkersbnrg has been fixed as the place
for the coining reunion of the Society of the
Army of West Virginia. The date of the
reunion will be announced later.
By September 1st Warrenton, Va., will be
supplied with', water from a reservoir now
being built on View Tree mountain, about
two miles distant, and having a capecity of
over 1,000,000 gallons.
A terrific hail-storm passed over the coun
ties of Lunenburg and Nottoway, Va., a few
days ago, doinganimmense amount of damage
to the crop of wheat and oats. A great deal
of damage was also done to vegetables.
Chapman Coleman, United State's secretary
of legation at Berlin, was married at Frank
fort, Ky., to Miss Mary S. Hendrick. The
froom is a grandson of John J. Crittenden, and
as held his present position (since Grant's ad
ministration. A party of revenue raiders recenly captured
and destroyed an illicit distilleryin Turnbull
swamp, Cumberland county, N. C. There were
taken three hundred gallons of beer, forty
gallons of low wines and eight fermenting
stands. " .
The wheat harvest this year in Maryland
will be four days to a week earlier than usual,
and the prospect of an abundant yield was
never more promising. Well-informed farmers
express the opinion that 35 to 40 bushels per
acre will be harvested generally throughout
the State. .
A yery heavy hail and rain-storm visited a
portion ofClarkecounty,Va,,aboutfiveo'clock'
P. M., totally destroying many crops on farms
adjacent to and lying north west of Berry ville.
Hail fell as large ashen eggs, and many pieces
were seen as large as a man's fist.
A few weeks ago the wife of Matthew Sey
mour, of New Hope township. Chatham county
N. C, put some eggs in a basket and soon
afterward noticed that a cat laid down on them.
It continued to lie .'here day after day until a
chicken was hatched from every egg eleven
in number.' ;
A meeting was held at Middleborough. Ky.,
to organize permanently the Grant ana Lee
Monument Association. The subscription
committee, reported $14,100 received. Tele
grams of encouragement were read from Gov
ernors Hill, Camphell and Taylor, Charles A.
Dana and others. At the meeting $3,000 more
was subscribed.
The treasury of the State of Kentucky is
empty and the deficit will by J uly 1 probably
amount to $50,000. Governor Buckner will
save the State's credit by advancing money
without interest from his private fortune to
meet all urgent obligations. He has already
advanced $10,000.
Near Louisville, Ky.. William Walton
struck .with his fist and killed Ben. H. Ker
rick. Both were employed on the farm of
John Kurfess. They quarrelled over some
trivial matter and a fight ensued, in which
Walton struck Kerrick m th stomach, caus
ing a rupture from which death ensued a few
hours later. ,
The barn on the farm ocapied by Kendal
Paradise, near Stockton, Worcester county,
Md., was destroyed by fire, together with its
contents, consisting of a pair of mules, ahorse,
two hundred and fifty bushels of corn ana
other provender. Loss about $600, with no in
surance. -4 census enumerator in Richmond, Va., has
found a colored woman named Martha Gray
who has had thirty-seven children since 18ti8.
She h as given birth to triplets six times, to
twiyb eix. times and to seven others singly. She
is nrw living with her third husband, and of
the wirty-seven children but one survives.
Ifrofessor Ed. Hutchinson, a balloonist,
while making an ascension in the outskirts
of Knoxville. Tenn., fell from a height of 75
feet. When he was picked up blood gushd
from his mouth, eyes,uose ana ears. He was
picked up for dead, bm later revived. It
was found that his spinal column at the base
of his bedy was broken. . '
The Secretary of State of West Virginia has
issued a certificate of incorporation for tbe
Benwood and Moundsville Street Railroad
Company, which is to build a line connecting
with the southern end of the Wheeling Elec
trical Motor Line in the town of Benwood, im
mediately ladjoining Wheeling on the south,
and ruuninir thence parallel with the Balti
more and Ohio roads to Moundsville, Marshall
county, a distance of eight miles,
The Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Rail
road Company, building the Belt Line and
Union Railroad bridge at AVheeliug, W. Va.,
announces the perfection of its plans for the
completion of its lines on the Ohio side of the
river, including a steel double-tract viaduct,
400 feet high and 1,500 long, and also announces
additionaffacilitics in thatcitv. including the
definite location of its freight and passenger
union depots, the building of a bridge and
branch lines in East Wheeling; also, the erec
tion of massive retaining walls along Wheel
ing creek. The new work will cost $300,000 or
more. . .
It is now about settled that a new railroad
will be .constructed in Chatham county, N.
C, during this summer. It will be built by
the Egypt Coal mining company, from their
mine to Oxfot J, a station on the Raleigh &
Augusta Air Line railroad, ten miles distant.
The survey has been made and the route lo
cated, and thegradingwill be pushed forward
as rapidlyas possible. By means of this road
the Egypt company will have direct com.
niunication with the Seaboard Air Line sys
tem of railroads, thus affording better facili
ties for handling the products of their mines-
James Millward, lately elected Mayor of
Yonkers, N. Y., while adjutant of General Cas
piiis M. Clay's command at Washington, in
InrJl, was stopped twelve times in twenty-two
miles while he was on his way to New York,
via Baltimore, with dispatches for General
, ceeded in delivering the papers,
THIRTY-FOUR KILLED. ..
Victims of the Terrible Fire-Damp la
. a Pennsylvania Mine.
A Heroic Miner Lad Gitea Vp Hilt Lite In
Warning Endangered Comrade Fit ,
' Iful Scene at tnnbar.
"At 11.10 o'clock A. M., an explosion shebk
the miners' dwellings on Hill Farm, Id Fayette
county; near Dunbar, Pa., and hundreds Of af
frighted persons, who knew the sound too well,
feared another mine disaster, and they reasoned
far too well. In a moment the fearful sews
had spread that the Hill Farm mines, owned
by Philadelphia parties, had exploded. Ther
low-browed hill from which the slope entered
(shook from mouth to pit, and the score of
miners' houses lining the fatal hill trembled
tor a moment, and then poured out their
frenzied inmates by the hundreds. A rush was
made to the mouth of the pit, but ingress was
impossible, as Bmoke, in dense volumes, was
Jssuing forth. Fifty-two miners had gone to
work, and were in the slope when the explo
sion occurred. Of these fifty-two, eighteen
were in the left heading and thirty-four in th
right heading. Those in the left heading got
out all right. The rest of the others were cut
off, and not one escaped.
At f even o'clock the gang turned in at the
mines, the smaller crowd drifting off to the
1 eft, while the larger, some thirty-five in num
ber, drifted to the right and descended some
eight hundred feet from the surface and at
Jeast a mile from the opening. These two
Jrii'ts are connected, but the connection is from
the main stem, some half-mile from the en
trance. ' The mine, it seems, had been some
what troubled with water, and an air-shaft had
been drilled from the surface to the i tincture
of the right and left shafts where the water
seemed to be most abundant. As the miners
branched off from this point they knew that
nu air-hole had beendrilled there that had not
yet been broken into the mines, but they did
not know that the shaft was to be broken into
to-day. A miner named Kerwin had been leil
in the right drift near where that branch
joined the mine's exit, and in the course of
his labors broke into the perpendicular shaft
The moment this was broken into a flood of
water gushed out, and Kerwin and a man
named Landy standing by yelled out for some
one to save the men in the right drift, as the
water was pouring down the hill in a stream,
and he feared they would be drowned. Young
David Hays, who had seen the affair, leaped
forward at the call, and turned down the left
drift in a deluge of water to warn his endan
gered comrades below. Just as he passed the
air shaft that had been broken, into, the rush
of waters had changed to the ugly roar of a
flood, which blanched the cheeks of the man
who stood behind and towards the light.
Tbe flow of water had changed to a deadly
volume of fire-damp, and as young Hays swung
by the shaft a flash of blazing light slid through
the shaft from end to end, it seemed. The dar
ing youth carried an open burning miner's
lamp in his hat, and he had hardly taken a
step beyond the roaring shaft when the spark
ignited a reservoir of the deadly fluid, fire
damp,' ihat had already accumulated, and he
sank a corpse near the men whom he had
hoped to save, and whom he certainly doomed.
In an instant an unquenchable fire sprang up
in tho nine-foot vein, just between the main
entrance and on the right drift, forever shut
ting the thirty-two men imprisoned there.
Poor David Hays,the father of the mistaken
bero, driven mad by the fate of hisson, dashed
into the sulphurous smoke and strangling
fire-damp, only to fall blindly by the side of
his son, and to be drawn out an hoar later
with James Shearn, both recognized enly by
their wives, ,
The fire, fanned by air from the main drift,
and from the fatal shaft itself, Boon sprung
into a conflagration.
The miners from the left drift escaped,
blackened and bruised, but safe, and they tell
a fearful story of the scene. J ust beyond the
blazing coal, on the right, cotrld be seen a score
of terrible faces; walled in by a flame no man
could pass and live. . Willing hands and hearts
were not wanting on the outside, and clerk
Cook of the mine, with the mine inspector
himself, Kcahley, headed a party of 100 who
entered the main shaft, and after grouping on
for a quarter mile at least, were driven back
again and again by the deadly gas, only to
recover breath for a moment and again plunge
in. They finally came upon two bodies, and
they were brought to the opening of the mine.
The volunteer corps worked steadily from
noon until late at night, with no result but
the two dead above named, and each trip but
brought a deeper despair to those above, and
showed there was no hope and no one alive
below. Thecorpsofonebundred was changed
again and again as each exhausted squad stag
gered to the outer air, but all in vain. One
man, Kelly, who had entered several times,
finally, from shear exhaustion, fell into an
open pit, and was drawn out fatally injured.
At midnight the smoke and gas from the
right shaft poured upthemainexit in a broken
volume, and after trials most beyond human
endurance, the rescuing party gave up all
hopes ' of recovering their comrades' bodies
from that entrance and turned their attention
to the Ferguson mine, one and a half miles
away. The universal and unwilling verdict
from the old miners about the shaft is thatthe
entombed men have either been killed outi icht
by the explosion, or later by suffocation. The
latter seems to be the more probable, at least
in part, as sounds were heard f?oni the en
tombed men as late as one o'clock. These
grew weaker and weaker, however, and half
an hour later the most hopeful of the rescuers
could hear nothing.
MARKETS.
" Baltimore Flour City Mills,extra,$475
$TO0. WheatSouthern Fultz, 86488,
Corn Southern White, 4546a, Yellow
41(3420. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
31w-55c Rye Maryland and Pennsvlvania
61(o)62c Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
12.50$13.CK). Straw-Wheat, 7J50$8.50.
Butter Eastern Creamery, 1415c, near-by
receipts 1213c, Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 10llc, Western, 9i91c Eggs
14115c Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1$2.00,
Good Common, 3.00fo$4.00, Middling, 6$7.00.
Good to fine red, 8(S$9. Fancy, 1013.
New Your Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, $3.063.15. Wheat-No. 1 White
051 96. Rye State 68 60c. Corn South
ern Yellow, 42142ic Oats Whit. State
34235ic Butter State, 1818!c. Cheese
State 91 10c. Eggs 141 14Jc.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.254.75. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, S396. Rye Pennsylvania
6860c Corn Southern Yellow, 404 40zo.
Oats 3535Jc. Butter State, 1414c
Cheese-New York Factory, 1010ic, Eggs
Btate, 15155c.
- CATTLE.
' Baltimore Beet $4.75$5.0a
$4.00($$5.00. Hogs $4.00$4.50.
New York Beet W.5ii(a)t7.75.
t4.7.'SfS'S.M. Hos $3.K)(ait4.15.
Sheep
Sheep East Liberty Beef $4.50(3 $4-75. Sheep
t5.0O5.75. ,Hogs $3.90$4.00.
' :c . SS' ' "--'
A plaster living near Corinth, Miss,
PhiliD Hen&en. is believed to be the twMessor
of the longest heard in the world. Although
he is aiuuu bj icet tail, r. is beard toucricjtJ)
grofind M heo he is stan Lcg crcctj ?
r ?IFTYfliRST CONGRESS,
Senate Stolen. ,
132xd Day. Mr. Morrill spoke in advocacy
of thfi bill to establish an educational fund
and apply the proceeds of the publio lands
ann the receipts from certain land grant rail
Toad companies to the more complete endow
rtieiit and support of colleges for tbe advance
Went of scientific and industrial education.
The deflate passed thirty-five private pension
bills alia adjourned.
. l33t DAYrTha Deficiency Appropriation
hill, for pensions and the census was reported
and passeVL .. Mf.- Dawes introduced a bill to
retire Gen. Banks as major general of the
United States army. Referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs. The House Silver
hill was then taken np. Without coming to
any definite arrangement, the Senate went
into executive session, aud when the doors
were afterwards reopened, adjourned.
134th Day. The Senate passed the Silver
hill, with a free-coinage amendment. Twenty
eight democrats and fifteen republicans voted
for this amendment, and twenty-one republi
cans and three democrats against it.
135TH DAY. Mr. Morrill, from the Finance
Committee, reported back the Tariff bill, and
said that it was not expected that it would be
brought Up for consideration earlier than a
week from Monday next, The bill was placed
on the calender. Mr. Frye from the Com
mittee on Commerce, reported back the River
aud Harbor Appropriation bill, with a written
report as to each item. Calendar. The con
ference report on the Anti-trust bill was pre
sented and agreed to. The bill remains exactly
as it was passed by the Senate. The Senate
took up the Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation bill. The Senate disposed
of seventy pages of the bill and then ad
journed. - .
136TB DAY The Senate spent the day dis
cussing the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, but laid it over without
coming to a vote. Eulogies on Messrs. Nut
ting and Wilmer were delivered by Senators
Evarts and Hiscock; the usual resolutions of
regret and sympathy were adopted, and, as a
further mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, the Senate, at 4.45, adjourned.
- Home Seaatons.'
141st, DAY. The House went into com
mittee of the whole(Mr. Burrows, of Michigan
in the chair) on the Sundry Civil Appropria
tion bill. .
On motion of Mr. Brown, of Virginia, an
amendment was adopted appropriating $8,000
for macadamizing a road to the national cera;
etery near Fredericksburg, Va.
Pending final action on the bill, the com
mittee rose, and, public business having been
susoended, the House proceeded to pay trib
ute to the memory of the late Samuel J. Ran
dall, of Pennsylvania, after which the House
adjourned.
142d Day. The House went into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan,
in the chairi on the Sundry Civil Appropria
tion bill. Mr. Sayers, of Texas, oflered an
amendment, making a specific appropriation,
instead of an indefinite appropriation, for the
payment of back pay ana bounty. Mr.Sayers'
amendment, as fnr as it affected back pay, was
agreed to, but as far as it affected bounty was
lost. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, offered an
amendment to enforce the eight-hour law in
the Government Printing Office. Ruled out
on a point of order. Pending action on the
bill, the committee rose and the House ad
journed. , -
143td Day. The House went into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Borrows, of Michigan,
in the chairy on the Sundry Civil Appropria
tion bill. Mr. Dockery's motion to recommit
the bill with instructions to the Committee on
Appropriations to report it back with a clause
making specific appropriations for back pay
and bounties, was rejected. The bill was
passed. The House then went into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in
the chair) on the Indian Appropriation bill.
Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, in charge of the
measure, stated that it appropriated about
$6,000,000. The .bill was read by sections.
Pending action, the committee rose. The
House adjourned at 5.40. ,
144th DAY. The House went intocommit
tee of the whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in
the chair) on the Indian Appropriation bilL
Mr. Bland, of Missouri, moved thatthe com
mittee rise, his purpose being to have some
action on the Silver bill. The committee re
fused to rise. The bill was passed, and the
House at 4.45 adjourned.
145th Day. In the House there was a pro
longed contest overa resolution offered by Jlr.
Mills reciting that theorderof reference made
by Speaker Reed referring the Silver bill to
the committee on coinage was incorrect under
the rules of the House, and directing that the
journal be corrected. ; Mr. Milli' resolution
was finally adopted yeas 121, nays 117. A
motion to table Mr. McKinley's motion to re
consider was also adopted yeas 121, nays 114.
Mr. Mills then moved the approval of the
journal as amended, asking to withdraw .the
preamble, but Mr. McKiiiley objected, and
the question recurred on the adoption of the
preamble. It was lost yeas 109, nays 121
the republicans voting in the negative. At
this point the House adjourned.
TWO BROTHERS KILLED.
Victims ef Tbelr Own Terror A Shock
Ing Scene In Chicago.
Two victims of their own terror met a fear
ful death iA full view of the hundreds of
promenaders in the Lake Front Park, Chicago.
Otto and Herman Bert, aged twelve and
fifteen, were the two unfortunates. They had
left the park and were crossing the network
of the railway tracks skirting the edge of
Lake 'Michigan when an in-bound passenger
train comingat high speed attracted, suddenly,
the attention of the lads. Both boys hesitated
as to whether they should turn back or con
tinue on their way. The longer they waited
the more undecided, apparently they became.
The engineer, recognizing the boys' peril,
blew his whistle a terrific blast This, instead
of warning the two brothers, seemed to only
add to their fright, and each stood, to all
appearances, literally unable to move. The
train struck and killed them instantly. Her
man's body, smashed to a pulp, ascended high
in the air, while Otto's was ground under the
wheels, the head rolling aside as though from
a guillotine.. It was some momenta before the
throngof pleasure-seekers, equally spellbound
with the little victims, recovered sufficiently
to aid in gathering the remains.
- CHECK BUTN0 MONEY.
A Man With a PUtol Obtains the Former
Bat Is Arretted at the Bank.
President Tyler, of the W. S. Tyler Com
pany of Cleveland, Ohio, had a rather thrill
ing encounter with James P. O'Day, who was
formerly employed by the company.
MrTyler was standing in his barn on St.
Clare street, when O'Day entered hurriedly,
and pulling out a revolver, covered Mr. Tyler
with it, at the same time demanding that heat
once draw a check for $1,000 in O'Day's favor.
Mr. Tyler attempted to persuade O'Day that
the time and place were not suitable to draw
ing checks, and tinallv both adjourned to the
company's office, not far awaj'. O'Day, how
ever, n jintainitiga firm grip on his revolver.
At the office erretary Patterson drew the
check, and when O'Day went to the bauk with
it he was arreted.
CABLE SPARKS, i
MicnAEL Davitt, he Irish nationalist
leader, is seriously ill.
A violent shock of earthquake was felt in
the department of Jura, France. .:
The freedom of the city of Glassgow has
been conferred on Henry M. Stanley.
Dk. Riegeb .leader of the old Czech party
In Bohemia, has resigned from the Diet of' that
country. '
Elections in Belgium resulted in the losB
of Ghent by the liberals, and Berviers by the
Catholics.
Chancellor Capkivi, of Germany, is op
posed to the abolition of passport regulalions
in Alsace-Lorraine. :
The Chamber 0f Deputies of France has
decided to preserve the exhibition building in
that city known as the Machinery Hall.
In conseqtt ekce of a quarrel between him
self and the English government authorities,
Chief of Police Muuroe, of London, has re
signed. '','
Chakcellob vox Capbivi says tbe rcsig.
nation of Prince Bismarck has not changed
Germany's policy towards foreign govern
ments. The Archbishop of York looks with dis
favor an the scbeiae to compensate publicans
in Great Britain who have been refused
licenses.
The Prussian Bundersrath has resolved to
erect a national equestrian statue of the late
Emperor William of Germany opposite tho
imperial castle in Berlin. '
William O'Brien, editor of the Dublin
Freeman's Journal, was married to Mademoi
selle Raffalovitch, daughter of a banker of
Paris, at Brompton Oratory, London, by Arch
bishop Croke, of Cashel, Ireland. .
On May 21st the seventy-first anniversary
of the birth of Queen Victoria, the Ships of
the United States squadron of evolution,whieh
were then at Gibraltar, dressed with the Brit
ish flag at the main and fired a royal salute.
George W. Butteiifield, an American,
who is interested in a mining company in the
'United States, has brought an action of libel
against the London Financial News for assert
ing that the scheme is an imprudent and wild
one.
, In the mining districts of the Ural moun
tains, Russia, fire destroyed 1,000 dwellings,
four school-houses, three churches, hospitals,
iron works and magazines, leaving 18,0uu per
sons homeless and causing tbe loss of forty
lives..
WHEN the steamship City of Rome, from
New York for Queenstown, met with an ac
cident at Fastnet, off the Irish coast. Tbe
vessel was so close to the rock that passenger
leaning over the bow of the steamship could
touch it. ; '
Cardinal Manning, in an address to a
deputation that brought hi m gifts on the anni
versary of his ordination as a priest, men
tioned tbevarious charitable objects on which
he intended to bestow his jubilee gift, and
said he desired to die as a priest ought to die,
without money and without debts.
V HE SHOT HIS FATHER. ,l
A Six teen-Tear-Old Boy'a Terrible Crime
He Did tt to Protect Ills Mother. ;
Frank Warren, living at the corner of Sec
ond and Columbia streets, Elmira, N. Y., was
shot and instantly killed by his 16-year-old
son about 2 o'clock A. M, '...
Warren was a traveling man working for
the Owego Wagon Company. He went away,
telling his wife he would be gone 10 days. He
returned, however, about 10 o'clock at night
and commenced quarreling'with his wife.
The quarrel continued for some time, when
his son, Herbert, arose from bed and inter
ferred. During the trouble Herbert prod uced
a revolver and shot his father in the right
breast. Warren died almost instantly.
Young Warren, who is s school boy, has been
arrested. He is very cool and collected, but
says nothing. During the trouble between his
father and mother the boy laid on a bed in a
room adjoining where they slept. About 2
o'clock he arose and said he saw his father
chasing his mother about the bed.
He bad a cheap revolver of 32-calibre in his
room, and he procured it, and seeing his father
threatening to strike his mother he fired, ,'f
bullet struck his father in the right breast.
The wounded man wheeled about and walked
toward the dining-roomnear by, and fell dead.
The cries of the mother soon attracted the at
tention of the occupants of the npper part of
the house. . , -
When the polipe responded the boy gn ve up
his revolver and said he had shot his father
because he was abusing his mother. Tho
mother is hysterical, crying: "My poor Her
bert! My poor Herbert!" In an Interview
Mrs. Warren said her husband came hme
early in the evening and woke up her son and
conversed with him pleasantly about the races.
He then came into the bed-room where shewai
sleeping and commenced an old quarrel with
her about a simple matters
TWO MEN KILLED.
A Score of 'Workmen I nj tired by m Train
Toppling Over m. Trestle.
An accident occurred near Mofrisville, N.
J., on the freight road which is being con
structed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany from Morrisville to Dowiugton, which
resulted in the loss of the lives of two men,
one named Murphy aud another, an Italian,
named Egoglia, and injury to aboftt a score c,
others.
A high trestle work stands near the irck.
from which the cars are damped whiliywid.
ing. Six of the cars became detached from the
engine and ran down grade aqnartef a mile
at a very high rate of speed. Wheqtheycame
near the bottom of the trestle wr). they top
pled over on a gang of men whj ere working
beneath. The two ill-fated mn were horrioly
mangled, and death must Ve been instan
taneous. The injuries ofae other men are
not serioos. s
The gangwaseonjieaof Italians, withthe
exception of Mu , who had been only five
w?eks in this t i.
BUCKSHOT.
Myatefloda Assassination of a Railway
Sab-Contractor In Georgia.
H. n. McCannon, a sub-contractor on the
Savannah and Western Railroad, wa assas
sinated about seven o'clock in the Earning
near his home, about a mile and a half from
Lyons, Ga. Fourteen buckshot lacer. : Li
right arm and seventeen tore agapin,! wound
in his right breast. Death must have been
instanfaneovs. The wound in th brfftsi in
dicated that the pun was pressed cIoka r-gainst
the body when the shot, was fir'd. H H pre
sumed, therefore, that theaNain,8?V.r tripp
ing McCannon to the ground v izh t-;
barrel, rushed upon him and tired the M'fond.
McCannon had been tardy in wt?
counts witn his employees, an i this f '
some people to believe that trm eriv
work of a vengeful ncf.ro. M x 'arnx
ever, had gained the ill' will "' n g
white men, and some pre pie uevt t
thoe fired t',e mui- s -s.
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