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yOLXJME XXVI
WILSON, X. C, AUGUST 6, 1896.
! Secret of i
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N these clays of keen and constant
competition the path to prosperity
must be cut out by the blade of common
sense, as applied to the act of buying.
To underbuy is our constant effort,
And to undersell is our settled
determination, . . ." .1
0 ALL who appreciate the winning combination of LOW
PRICES for BETTER GOODS, we offer our .
;ionists killed;
Fearful Eailroad Accident Hear
Atlantic City,
NEARLY A HUNDRED YICTIMS.
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HERE ARE SOME OF THEM.
Lf-sicl ie s U rt b re 11 ei-s .
We know that we underbought on these and are underselling
all others. Don't; buy till you see them. Prices start at 47c,
but' that quality would be cheap at 70c fully
as
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better Grades.
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THAT MUST CLAIM YOUR ATTENTION ; ; .
Always remernber that a piece of Ribbon at the
same price as we ask Js not the same Ribbon.
TTJE claim to give you better values than others at same'
price. Test us and be convinced. 1
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Of These' Forty-four Are5 Dead and Three
Others May Die A Reading Engine
Crashes Into a Pennsylvania Train,
Cutting It in Two.
Atlantic City, July 31. -A railroad ac
cident, horrible in its details and sicken
ing In its results, occurred last evening
just outside this city, and as a result nearly
a' hundred persons are either killed or in
jured. The Reading railroad express
which left Philadelphia at 5:40 o'clock
last evening crashed into a Pennsylvania
.excursion train at the second signal tower,
about a mile from here. The Penn
sylvania train was returning to Bridgeton
with a party of excursionists from that
place, Millville and neighboring towns.
At the second signal tower the tracks of
the- two roads crass diagonally. The
Reading train was given the signal, but
it either failed to work or the speed of the
express was too great to be checked in
time. It caught the excursion train broad
side, and ploughed through, literallycleav
ing it in twain. The engine of the Read
ing train was shattered to splinters.
The excursion train was made up of
fifteen cars,' the foremost of which was a
baggage car. This and the next two
coaches caught the full force of the crash,
and were utterly demolished. What re
mained of the third car was tumbled into
i a ditch at the roadside.
Edward Farr, engineer on the Reading
train, was killed outright, as was another
road man who rode oil the; engine with
him; This man saw the collision coming
and leaped from the cab an instant before
the crash. Almost at the tame time the
engine- cut its way through and caught
roil stands at lorty-iour. There is a pos
sibility' that it may remain at that figure,
but it is only a remote one. At the Sana
torium last evening it was reported that
the fifteen patients still there were doing
as well as could be expected, and while
there was a bare chance of pulling them
all through safely the odds were against ,
at least three. They are Frank Morele of
East Orange, X. J. ; William Johnson of
Bridgeton, and Lizzie Branih of Millville.
Miss Branin has not recovered conscious
ness since the collision, despite reports to
the contrary. She is the pretty 19-year-old
girl who was engaged to be married
to Charles' Horner, the Bridgeton' grocer,
who lies on the cot next to her. Horner,
too, is very severely hurt, but the chances
are now in favor of his ultimate recovery.
The official list of the dead is as f ollows :
, The following among the dead all re
sided in Bridgeton: Charles Mute and his
daughter Pearl, John Griner, Sr.,. Charles
McGear, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jrenchard,
Joseph Peters, J. D. Johnson, Charles
'Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. ,H. Frazier Bell,
William C. Loper . Mrs. llattie Loper,:
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Goldsmith, Miss Tillie4
Leeds, El mer entzcll, Harvey Hughes,
Mrs. Sallie Freas, James N BUteman, Mrs.
Lizzie Bateman, Frederick Cheney, Joseph
Cheney, Minnie Cheney, Joshua Ernst,
Morris Peters, William Pricket t, Charles
W. Sooy, x William Carr, Benjamin JJV
Wood, Charles W. Sooy, Jr. ' -'..,
The dead who resided in other, places
than Bridgeton are as follows : Samuel
Thorne, Reading baggage master, Atlantic
City; Edward Farr, Blading engineer,
Atlantic City ; Patrick Feighan,- Philadel
phia ; Charles Eackler, Salem, N. J. ;
Franklin Dubois, Woodruff, X. J. ; Nan
nie Freas, Yorktown, X. J.; Mary TYent
zcll, Alio way, X. J.'; Lydia Carl,' Hancock
Bridge; Mr?. Ellen May. Palatine, X., J. ;
Reba Loper, Yorktown, X. J. ; Mizael May
(boy), Palatine, X. J. ; William Spaulding,
I'hiladelphia ; Kate Freas, Yorktown.
"NUMBER 32.
im IV WASHINGTON.
The National Chairman to Consult
Demotic Leaders.
BEY AIT'S POPULIST 1T02HHATT0N.
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aeaa ixiunmore convict :wno eoniessea to 1
killin-g old man Bonnecka in this city,
and hidinj
StineLwhen
: his money,-was no donbt in
lae told the story. Bonnecka
Confessed . the ' Crime for Which
." Another Awaits Death.
was killed in his house, and not on the ;
streets, and he had no money. j
TEES EE
COMMITTED
SUICIDE.
Inconsistencies in Ills flatement, How
ever, Lo.k! to the Cfjnciasion- That II
"as lentally Unbalanced When He
2lr.tl the Confession ta the Warden.
B altt mo Au g; 3. Frederick R.Whit
a convict in the .Maryland ' re-niton-tuirj
in this c ity, committed Vuicide on
. atimi.'.y i, y jumping from the window of
fe thinl tiur of cells to.the' stone floor of
;theynrcl !; rfeath. He struck-on his head,
tru :iir;nr jV;s cki am death was instan
tanc6u. Whitney is a self confessed mur
eier as well, a s a high wa y mran. Warden
t,Tlerys -jUt tho lonjx term of impris
cnnient l.'efore him and the knowledge
-that hj hands, were stained with the' blood
.a fallow nvm' doubtless unbalancGd his
Hand. . ; j::;-.
"hi;.!t.v held upcx-CouncilTnan Walter
"'p.&H(lelioa.March23,- 1895. and with
.mspal, John R. - Williams, immediately
. jwttowm They were traced to Philadel
Jhu thenoe across the state of Pennsyl
tan'm to Pittsburg, where they were cap
Jttedon April G. The two men were sub
eVKC1!tly .('onvicte.l and sentenced to
Ween years' -imprisonment.
sUa Friday last Whitney ' confessed to
lairden W('-V?er th-t he had in April of
, fi 3"er, whiie.fleeing from Baltimore of
5s' killcd and robbed an old man in
Aitoona, p;l, Mr. - Weyler endeavored to
tall ails (,f the critic, but the incoherent
- of the prisoner led him to believe that
-. was demented. ; v
oner Ul leapon Saturday of the pris
WiivCUU?;etl the Warden to cross-question
4ljJm nd the latter confessed yester
derprt u Whitney had on April 5 mur-
doll 17: Bonnecka. Eleven thousand
. . was secured, which Williams as-'-It
buried V himself and Whitney.
mm.1!5 earned that there was such a man
tionert1 Altoona at the time men-arre-t
a Ud that a named Wilson was
. !, and convicted of the crime on
How eumstantial evidence,
W .-?.ItlnS the death
real 1)6611 ascertained that Whitney's
' komT6 is JosePh Hildebrand' and his
servhi111 Detroitv Six years ago, while
from ff a sentence for murder, he escaped
getw Penitentiary at Little Rock, to
ith nine other prisoners.
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Al Th Convict's Story Exploded.
; toxa. pa.. Aur 3.whitney. the
Rockefeller Mines Glosetl Dawn. j
.. .t.- L.. i , t,;.u a..x revealed a still more ghastly remnant, a
him directlv in its path. His body and
that of Farr were found undar'a heaii of
debris, but the engineer lay in what re
mained of the - cab, and his : right hand
still clasped the throttle. He had been
faithful unto death, and met it at his post..
le fireman on the train had leaped a few
seconds before and escaped with trifling
injuries.
. An Associated Press reporter was on
one of the first relief trains sent out by the
Pennsylvania railroad, and he was the
first newspaper -epresentativo .on the
seen,?, staggering in and '; out ot ditches
and stximbliL': over masses of broken
timber with only a few fitful lanterns to
help their straining ' eyes the rescue gang
set bravely to work. Axes ' and shovels
were plied with the grentsst vigor, and al
most at every half dozen nti'okesa mangled
form was .brought, up and laid tenderly on
the waiting pallets. '
A heap of bloodstained tii-ibers. turned
aside by one of the rescuers, brought to
sight a woman's arm. , It ' had been
wrenched oil almost by the roots, and
nothing remained but a dripping stump,
even the hand being .gone! It had been
clad in a dainty white linen glove, the
sleeve of which still clung to it. Not five
minutes later a chance blow from a pick
and night shifts of No. 9 shafts. This com- )
pletes the shut down of the Rockefeller j
mines in this city: Xos. 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 ,
shafts now employ just enough men to j
keep the mine clear of water. In a largo ;
number cf mines the pumps have been ;
taken out and the' mines allowed, to" fill'
-with water. Gogebic range mines aro .
practically all shut down at Hurley, Iron- :
wood. Bessemer, and Wakefield. There i
iireless than 1.000 men at work on -the j
range where atone time there were over;
;3,0u0 men employed The idle miners and
their families are facing starvation. :
Kills Four Thousand.
and is
sentence in Al-
. Tidal Wave
. Sua vfi i r a t. Anr. 3. Aha recent disas
trous tidal wave aiodg the coast of north- j
ern Japan has been paralleled by a siiv- '
ilar phenomenon on the coast of Haichii, i
northeast of the province, of Kiangsu, in
which Shanghai is' situated. From the
stories of eye witnesses and the reports cf :
people in the country bak f rbm the coast
the wave was five miles Kid:, Thousands '
of tons of water were thro wnf or miles in- j
laiid, and everything . in its path was ;
swept away. Many villages were entirely j
. destroved, and it is estimated that luiiy ;
4,0(J people perished. . AU the cattle were
drowned and the rice fields were obliter
ated.
Strikers Said to be Arming.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 3. A startling
niece of news in
connection with the
Brown strike, which comes from ah ap
parently reliable source, is to the effect
tw. th strikers, are; arming themselves
human heaft that only a few short hours
before had been? throbbing with life and
love. V "
One woman whose body "was recovered
still held in 'her dead hand a plate bearing
a picture of Atlantic City. . It was un
broken. Scattered about the grou nd near
the wreck were many pieces of clothing
which had been torn from the bodies of
the victims, hats, dainty parasols, fans
and glove-;. 4 .
The. investigation into the cause of the
collision and the fixing of the responsi
bility . began today in earnest.' Corcner
McLaughlin ii;npanneled'i jury consisting
of six of Atlantic City's wealthy and in
fluential citizens. The jury, after view
ing the bodies, visited . the scene cf the
wreck and 'made an exhaustive ; examina
tion of the ground and devoted considera
ble time to the inspection of the. signals,
which still remain as they wbr3 at; the
moment of the . accident, that facing the
Reading being the red, or danger, signal,
and that towards the Pennsylvania moan
ing , "come ahead." - v ;; ! ;
George F. Hauser,. who had charge of
the tower, and who is now under-arrest,
has made several statements to the police.
,He- told them he saw both trains conung
when both were sufficiently -'far away to
admit of the f iill'display of signals, but as
the West Jersey was the nearer, he gave
the Reading the red light and signaled the
other train to come ahead. The Reading,
: ho wever,'never slacked speed, but ; came
r on. The men in the cab either thought
I they could easily clear the point in' time;
j or the brakes failed to work, and they
Another Atlantic City Fatality.
Atlantic City, Aug. 3. About 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon the floor of the photo
graph gallery of - R. Renshaw, oh the
boardwalk, collapsed, precipitating twelve
persons a distance of twelve fdet. Mr.
Williamson, of Johnstown, Pa., and Mrs.
E. Hohlsworth,' of Philadelphia, were se
verely injured about the head and taken
to the hospital, while Proprietor Henshaw
had his cheok cut open. Last night as the
Reading excursion train was leaving the
depot William O'Xeil, of Philadelphia,
fell .beneath the wheels and had both legs
amputated. . He died lat night.
mat me bwuvwi. as i could not stop in time. The only living
and drilling. It was said yesterday that positively knows this is Fireman
fortv of the strikers had organized a com
pany last Saturday, elected a captain and
purchased revolvers. The company drilled
Saturday evening, and it was announced
that the purpose of the men was to avenge
the death of the two men who were shot
at different times in conflicts between
union and non-union men. Four com
panies of militia are on duty at the works.
Sudden Death off Consul Sparks.
Eagle Pass, Tex., Aug. 3. Major Jesse
W. Sparks, United States consul at Pie
dras Negras," Mexico, died suddenly on
Saturdav at his room at the International
hoteL of heart failure. Major Sparks was
a prominent candidate for governor of
Tennessee when appointed consul by Presi
dent Cleveland. He was vice president of the
United Veterans an association of Union
and Confederate soldiers," and was widely
known throughout the south.
pof
O'Houlahan, who saved his life by leaping
from the cab. -
Newspaper men had bean unable to lo
cate O'Houlahan until last night, though
his whereabouts were known to the au
thorities. Tie was finally located last
night at a boarding house at 21 South Ar
kansas avenue, but despite all kinds of
pressure, probably acting under instruc
tions, he refused to discuss the accident
from any point of view. ,
Last nigh.fe Coroner McLaughlin called
Hauser before him and gate him a hear
ing It was purely perfunctory, however,
and, but little was said. Hauser refused
to,inake any statement whatsoever at this
time, and was held in $500 bail for a fur
ther hearing. Bail was furnished and he
was released. ; .
Atlantic City, Aug. 3. No additional
deaths have yet occurred as a result of
Thursday nisht's collision, and the death
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QUEEN' VI CTORIA" MAY RETIRE.
Rumor Tliat tlie Venerable Monarch Con
templates'' Abdicating ' the TIi rone.
Londom, Aug. 1. The rumor that Queen
Victoria intends to retire in favorof . the
Prince. of Wales is again current to-day.
It is added that court circles are greatly
troubled reccarding the' condition of the
queen's health. Such . reports frequently
have appeared of recent years, only to be j
semi-omcially contradicted later: But it
now seems that there may be some actual
foundation for the statements made.
It is qdded that her ma jesty has decided
to spend her time in future at Balmoral
or at Osborne, and that she will give the
Prince and Princess of Wales the use of
Biickingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
There is no doubt that the queen feels
greatly, the weight of her years and be
reavements, and her majesty is quoted as
having repeatedly remarked during her
last stay in this city, at Buckingham pal
ace, upon the occasion of the recent mar-;
riage of Princess Maud of Wales to Prince
Charles of Denmark: "This is my last
visit to London." . -
Color is given to the rumors in circula
tion by the deep emotion displaced by the
queen as she bowed in , reply to the en
thusiastic .cheers of the multitudes which
lined thsfe route from Buckingham palace
to the railroad station, where she took
the train for Windsor after the marriage
ceremonies. ;
Li' linn g Chang: in England.
Loxdox, Aug. 3. Li Hung Chang,,rep
rescntative of the emperor , of China, ar
rived at Southampton yesterday from
Havre, and was received by various' offi
cials of the British government; and
among others, by the martaprer.s af the
American steamshi line. The Z distin
guished Chinese visitor proceeded directly
td London, where he was inst'alled.in Lord
Lonsdale's magnificent niansion in Carl
ton House terrace, which is to be his resi
dence during his visit to England, , which
is expected to last three weeks. Li
Hung Chapg is the guest of the British
government during his stay , in England,
and at Its conclusion his plan is to sail for
the United States He will leave the United
States via Vancouver on steamship Em
press of China. - '
The' Democratic Chairman Declines toDis
cuss the Candidate's Attitude on That
; Qnestion-r-Knows of No Bargain Calling; i
for Mr. SeAvall's Retirement.
Washington, Aug- 3. Senator Jones, of :
Arkansas, chairman oi the national Dem i
ocratic committee, returned to this city
yesterday from his to trip west. The sen
ator expects to remain in the city during
the week for consultation with some of
the Democratic leaders who will be hero i
from time to time, and later will go to :
New York city to attend the meeting of
the, national committee on tha 11th and
the Bryan and Sewall notification on' the .
day following. The; understanding now
is that the two candidates will be lrotifled
at the same time, as has bpen done by the
.Democratic party in H,he past. .
Pending the meeting of the national
committee in New York the final dis
position of the establishment of permanent
headquarters during 'the coining cam
paign is hardly looked forJ Senator Jones
had nothing definite to .say on this sub
ject, and expressed tha opinion that the
matter would not be settled until the :
committee meets. j i
While Senator Jones is believed to have
about decided upon the formation of tho
executive committee which will have ac-t
tive charge of campaign work. 'he is not.
yet prepared to -make public any names.
In this case also he expressed the opinion
that the . commiftee will not be - fully
named until the meeting in New York.
He may, however, announce an individual
member or .two during his stay in this city.
Questions bearing on the attitudeof Mr.
Bryan towards the Populist nomination,
and affecting the retention of Mr. Sewall
on tile national ticket, are those on which
the chairman declined to express an opin
ion. The senator's attention was called
to the statement in the Atlanta Journal,
made by Hon. W. L. Peck, who led the
Georgia delegation at the ' Populist con
vention, that there was an understanding
between the Populist and Democratic
leaders that if the Populists would nomi
nate Bryan for president and a southern
Populist for vice presidep t, ' that Mr.
Sewall would retire from the race.' Re
garding this: Mr. Jones declared that so
far as he knew no arrangement of the
kind was entered into.
Transvaal Invaders Convicted.
LoxDOy, July 29. Before the lord chief
justice, Baron. Russell of Killowen,. Baron
Pollock and Justice Hawkins, in the
qUeen's bench division of the high court of
justice, yesterday the trial of Dr. Jame
son and his associates in the Transvaal
raid was concluded with aTerdict, of guilty.
Dr. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen
months' imprisonment without labor,.
Major Sir John Willoughby to ten months,
Major R. White to seven months, and
Captain Henry: F. Coventry (a son of the
Earl of Coventry), Colonel R. Grey and
Colonel F. H. White to five months' im
prisonment. ' ' '
"Mamma, was that a sugar-plum you
just gave me?" asked little Mabel.
"No, dea-, it; was one of Dr. Ayer's
Pills.'' 'Please may I have another?"
"Not now, dear ; one of those nice
pills is all you need at present because
J e ery dose is effective."
1511 YAN'S IJASTEUX TRIP.
Mrs. Bryan Will Accompany Her Una-
band to the Notification Meeting.
Lincoln, Xeb., Aug. 1. Mr. Bryan to
day announced his itinerary for his eastern
trip to meet the notification comniitteo,
from the Democratic national conven
tion in Madison Square Garden, New York,
Aug. 12: V '
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will leave Lincoln
at -6 o'clock Friday evening, Aug. 7. arriv
ing in Chicago on Saturday afternoon.
They will stop over Sunday, and will leavo
Chicago about midnight Sunday night,
reaching Pittsburg Monday night. They
will stay over night in Pittsburg - and
leave for New York early Tuesday morn-.'
ing, arriving there about 6 :3'1 in the even
ing. .-. : ; - '. '
The national committee will meet in
New York at the time of the notilication,
and important campaign work will- be
discussed. Fcm New-York Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan will to Bath, Me., and spend a
few days with the Sewalls. The return
trip. will not be arranged until after, the
New York'; meeting. - Mr. Bryan is n ;f
making any -.dates for speeches at" this
time, and will not do so until after the na
tional committee has been consulted, lie.
has been receiving large , numbers of .' in
vitations to speak in almost every state .f
the Union.-' Most of them have' come. by
mail br wire, but many have been -extended
by men who have come in; person
for the purpose, : f
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' Bryan Has Made No Promises.
Lincoln, Neb-, Aug. 3. Regarding ib
rumor that he had promised, to a ppjint
Governor Altgeld attdrney general,4 in th'.
event of his election, Mr. Bryan .said to
day: 'In order to answer once for all
minor's in regard to places promised, I de
sire tq say that 'I have not directly or in
directly promised any office of any kind to
any person -4.whoinsocvei!r. arid shall 4 nt
during the campaign ijroinise any oiiice of
any kind to anj person whomsoever.1' .
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Vfyclone" Iavi for Congress.
Texarkana, Ark.; Aug. 3 14 Cyclone'.'
Davisj the People's party leader, was on
Saturday nominated for congress by Popu
lists of the Fourth Texas district to suc
ceed Hon. D. B-Culberson. .
' 3Ii StambqloflTs Tomb Desecrated.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 3. The tomb of
M. Stambuloff , the ex-premier of Bul
garia, Iwho was assassinated in the streets
in Sofia in July, of last year, has. been
seriously injured with a dynamite bomb.
A riot was caused at the grave of the dead
statesman while the funeral ceremony was
going on in July of last year by his en
emies and by the friends of Major Panitza,
who had been executed by an order of M.
Stambuloff while he , was premier. For
some time ..after his burial his grave had
to be kept guarded by military.
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the best complexion restored by fohn
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highly medicated. Two cakes in each
package, 25 cents at Hargrave's.