The News and Observer VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 20. TIME QjSMSdESir (§D[B(B(U)EairO®RI ®F AOT MOOT (MMEOCM OMDUf. STILL IN CONFERENCE TIIK *OUriIEKN*S EMPLOYES HAVE NO r-ACCEPTED THE’ NEW SCHEDULE. LlWr MR. BALDWIN AGAIN QUESTIOMtO Norik Carolina Representatives Be lieve the Matter Will bp Arranged— The New flood Contract Create* a Scaoaiioa and Cause* Some Grave Charges trt be Made Asainst the Ad ministration--Wit ny Census Office Em ployes Losing Their Places. Special to the News and Observer. Washington, D. C., Feb 14. The committee representing the dis satisfied employes of the Southern Rail way Company held a meeting rhis morn ing to consider ilie schedule of wages submitted to them yesterday ny Mr. Baldwin, third Vice President of the company. At the request of the committee, Mr Baldwin app* ared before it, ami answered some questions concerning some conditions prevaiPng in the South on which tin* new schedule, which gives higher wages than those paid at present, was based Mr. Baldwin told the committee that it was welcome to all the data from which he had prepared the statement submitted yesterday, showing the pecu niary reasons governing the new sche dule rates. Messrs Witherspoon and Fefzer, of North Carolina, representing the rail road brotherhoods ani unions, declined to be interviewed, but say they think things will run alright, ami that a proper adjustment of salaries will be made. Tke Boud Contract. The appearance of the contract, bo tween Secretary Carlisle and the H« I moni-lt >thare thorough, he decided to look at it on the other side He left hi re for Raleigh and Chapel Hill, where he will tfcke advantage of the lib'arils aud para e his studies mere ard. ntly Postal Nates. There has b vn a temporary failure on the part ' f W.S. Harrism, of Popular j Branch, to carry the mails from Snow ] den to Popular Branch. This route i : made six rim* s a week, and is a distance i of twenty miles. In a letter to the Second Assistant 1 " < ■ al, Mr Harrison states v Of ‘’••“g'’"”' not carrying the mol * >5 ias been too cold, and , v.iat it would bo contrary to his belief ot self protection to carry it. j The route baa temporarily been given i to Abner Dey, of Snowden, to be pa d I $3 a trip. The contract for carrying the mail fr im Hatteras to Avon was to day granted to H J. Austin, of Hatteras, to be carried twice a week, receiving pay at toe rate of $175 a year. This route is still carried by water but soon will tie changed. The Postoffice Department is rnakirg an attempt to give better service to the people of this section of the State. The site of the post-office at Cowarts, Jackson county, ba* been moved some distance to the ea."t —thesite of the post office at Chandlers has been moved three quarters of a mile to the north. The name of the late post office was changed two weeks ago from Chandlers Grove to Chandlers. The mails of Clay brooks, Rockingham county, from Stoneville have been dis continued. This route paid SI,OOO an nually and causes a Rockingham man to loose the annual income. The routes to Manteo aro going to be increased and as many routes iu that sec tion as can be changed from water to land will be so changed. This will cause the time taken in delivering the mail to be decreased at least one half. ♦ ¥ * The President to-day appointed Homer L Ferguson Assistant Naval Construe tor. Mr. Ferguson is a son of ex-Sol ici tor Garland 8. Ferguson, of the Ashe ville Judicial District. Mr. Ferguson, senior, is one of the most prominent politicians and one of the ablest lawyers in the Ninth Congressional district, and has been a strong candidate for Judicial and Congressional nominations. Mr. Ferguson, junior, graduated from second in the ela*s of ’9l at the Naval Academy and has made the highest stand abroad of any of those sent by this government to study naval construction. Branch and Bower did not vote on the boud resolution. Woodard i* at Wilson, but is paired against it. Others voted against it, except Mr. Henderson, who failed to vote at all. * * * District Attorney Glenn is here on legal business. * * * Senator Coke, of Texas, a brother of Secretary of State, Octavius Coke, of Raleigh, oame from the Senate in a hired carriage to-day. The horse took fright at Peace monument, and rau away, run ning over a capitol employee, who is seriously, maybe fatally, injured The horse ran for several squares, and Sena tor Coke jumped from his carriage with out falling. * * * Bids were ojiened here to day at the Treasury Department for the construe tiou of the Newbern, N. G., public build ing. Robert M. Jack & Son, of Chicago, 111., were the lowest bidders at $28,800. * * * Senator Pritchard will leave next Mon day for Madison county where he wi 1 remain two weeks. He has several cases iu the lower court next week aud also several in the criminal court the follow ing week. Mr. Pritchard’s family will remain here. * * * Hon. Carrol D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, will next week for Ral eigh ou a business trip to see some of the labor office agents in that section. * * * J. L Mayo, of Wilson, has beeu ap pointed to a position in the revenue ser viee. * w * There is some criticism here against Hon. Thos. Settle because he was the only North Carolina Congressman who voted to pay clerks of Congressmen dur ing recess. Hebrew Orphanage to be Enlarged. Atlanta, Ga , Feb. 24. The Bnai Britti convention adjourned this morn ing after a four days’ ses-ion. This morning’s session was devoted mainly to routine matters and consideration of the means of increasing the room at the home which is located in Atlanta, and which is filled with Hebrew orphans from all over the South It is now full, and one result of the convention will tie | an increase in its size. Mayor Strong’s Appointment!*. New Yore, Feb. 14 —Mayor Strong this morning appointed Avery D. An | drews, a lawyer, a police commissioner in place of John C. Sheehan George Walton Green, a lawyer, ap pointed an aqueduct commissioner in place of Francis H. Scott, who yester day resigned to accept the position of corporation counsel. The salary of the acqueduct commissioner is $5,000 a year. Sixty-One Cases ot Cholera. Constantinople, Feb. 14 —The health autho iiies rejiort that between February sth and 12th, sixty-one eases of cholera occurred in this city, aud during the same period there were twenty nine deaths from the disease, which i? still spreading Silk Fa*tor? Burned. Paterson, N. J., Feb 14.—Doherty and Woodworth’s silk mill was burned to-night. Loss, S3OO 000; insurance $240,000 There were four hundred hands employed in the factory. RALEIGH. N. C.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY >5. '895. GOLD BOND BILL DEAD j THE HOUSE PUTS AN EM> TO ALL HOPE OF FINANCIAL LEGISL 4TION. AND THE VOTE WAS 120 TO 167. The Opposition Even Stronger and More Aggressive than on the Springer Bill—The President Attacked and hi* Motives Questioned—Dark Hint- ot Impeachment—The Debate an inter esting One, and a Large Crowd wn* Present to Hear It. Washington, D. C., Feb. 14 An other day’s debate in the House upoi the financial qu*p.), New York; Stone, (Rep ), and Hendricks, (Rep ), New York, aud Cooper, (Dem.), Virginia. The opposition to the passage of the joint resolution was led by Mr. Hopkins, (Rep ), Illinois, and Mr. Brvau, (Dem.). Nebraska, members of the Committee on Wavs and Means, and it developed some startling points. Mr. Hopkit a asserted that the Presi dent was not inspired by patriotic mo tives but by a desire to unload upon that body the responsibility for a trans action, negotiated by his former law pirtner, that would net the syndicate represented by him, $25,000,000. Mr. Bryan declared the scheme pro posed in the j< int resolution to be but another step in the accomplishment of toe cotispi-acy to strangle silver, and solemnly assured the House that so se rious d d he consider it to be, that were there any probability of its passage and the forfeiture of his life would prevent if, he would gladly lay down his life in that behalf. Hinted at Impeachment. Mr. Cannou, (Rep ) of Illinois, hinted at impeachment, and Mr Hepburn, (Rep )of lowa, said that Republicans who favored the measure proposed a new policy, a repudiation of all their declare tions in the past, and the institution of a new policy that called for a new fol lowing. Other speeches against the joint reso lution were made by Messrs. MeMillin (Dem ), Tennessee; Wheeler (Dem.), Ala bama, and Grosvei or (Rep ), Ohio, mem bers of the committee on ways and means, and by Livingston (Dem ), Geor gia; Northway and Hufiek (Rep ), Ohio; Bland and Hatch (Dem ), Missouri; Kem (Pop ), Nebraska; Simpson (Pop.), Kan sas and VanVoorhis (Rep.), New Yoik. The vote was taken at 5 o'clock upon the question “Shall the joint resolution l>e engrossed and read a third tirrn ?” The result being as stated, yeas, 120; nays. 167. “The bill is dead,’’ officially declared j the Speaker and at 5:30 o’clock the House ! adjourned till to morrow at l: o’clock. ANOTHER LANCIIER CONFESSES The Kins of Murray County W hite Caps Says he Shot Worley. Atlanta, Ga , Feb. 14.- MeCutchin, known as t‘King” of the Murray county white caps, made a full confession to day He was brought back yesterday from Arkansas. MeCutchin says that he led the band which tried to lynch Worley, and a few days later was a member of the crowd which killed him. MeCutchin states that he fired the second shot and hit Worley as he was falling to the ground. Another member of the party having shot him first. MeCutchin states that he was tired of trying to elude arrest aud is willing to take the consequences Sunk on Lookout shoal-. Beaufort, N. G, Feb 14 -An uu known seh oner is sunk ou Lookout Shoals. There are no signs of life aboard. On account of the extreme cold, the life-saving station crew could i o‘ gtt to her. STORM IN THE SOI Tlf. Thr Heaviest Seoxv on Record Falling in All the Gulf States. Nkw Orleans, 1.a., Feb 14 —A ; special to the State from San Antonio, ■ Texas, says: The heaviest fall of snow ever known ' here has been falling, and there is four ' and two hundredths inches recorded, ' and it is still snowiug. In New Orleans, this morning, roofs | and gables and window sills and lawns j were covered with a thin covering of ! snow, but the fall altogether did not | average more than half an iuch and j though in some iustanees it remained i long enough to give school children and j the young folks an opportunity to shape j snow balls and have some sport, last j night's fdl melted rapidly and by ten I o'clock there was no traces of it left. Advice* from different sections of Louisiana and Mississippi were to the effect that snow had fallen all around ! and the early morning trains came iu | with their tops fairly covered with the j white garmeut. To-day at 11 o’clock it began snowing I heavily and continued without inter I mission uutil seven o'clock this evening. There was a heavy snow in 1881 and j previous to that in 1852, but it is thought this is the heaviest on record. At least nine inches of snow have fallen. Street ears were abandoned on all roads all over the city to night, and not a car is moving. Chesapeake Bay Frozen. Gap* Charles, Va 4 Feb. 14 —Chesa peake Bay is frozen from shore to shore. John Thomas, keeper of the Old Planta tion lighthouse, was taken from his po>t this morning nearly starved, having had nothing to eat since Monday. Two Inches in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 14.— Snow liegan falling here to night about 7 o’clock, but soon turned to rain. Spe cials to the Times-Union from Talla hassee, Jasper. DeFuniak Springs, Live Oaks, and other points in Northern Florida, report snow falling at 9 o’clock to night. Iu some places it was two inches deep. Snowing iu Savuunah. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 14. —Snow began falling here at 11 o’clock and melted as it struck the gronnd. At midnight it is still falling, with indications that it will continue for some time. Snowing in Alabam. Mobile. Ala, Feb. 14.—Snow began falling here at 1 o’clock this morning. The ground is yow white. This is the second suow fall this season. Mach Damage to Light Houses. Washington, D. C., Feb. 14 —Cap tain Wilde, of the Lighthouse Service, lias received ri r >rts stating that much damage was done to government prop erty among the lighthouses on the At lantic coast during the recent storm. The lighthouse at Maryland Point, on the Potomac river, is surrounded with ice twenty feet high and fears are enter tained for its safety. Other lighthouses in that locality are similarly threatened. U. S MINISTER GRAY DEAD. lie was Suffering from an Attack ol Double Pneumonia. City of Mexico, Feb. 14.—United States Minister Isaac Gray arrived here from the United S ates to day. He was insensible, having been attacked with double pneumonia. He was immediately removed to the American hospital, and Doctors Lyceaga and Bray examined and held a consultation. At 5 o’clock they pronounced his case hopeless. Death may come at any hour. Mrs. Gray and Bayard Gray, her son, are in consmut attendanc* on the dying man. Much sympathy is felt for them throughout official circles and the diplo matic corps. Died at 7 O’clock. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14.—Pierre ; Gray, son of the Minister to Mexico, re ceived a telegram at 10 o’clock to-night , saying that the minister bad died at 7 j o’clock. A message was received an ; hour previous saying that cne consulta tion of physicians had been held, the patient being unconscious and that another would be held at 7, but death ensued The minister was at the American hospital in care of Dr. Bray, an English physician. Sale ol St. Lout;* Po-i-Despatcli. St Louis. Mo.. Feb 1! —The an- ; nouneemeut is made to diy that Col j Charles H. Jones, formerly of the Re- j public, and more recently the New York World, has secured a controlling interest : in the Post Despatch, and at once a*- j sumes control of tha’ paper. Mr. Pul- : sifer’s reason for disposing of the paper j is failing health and inability to give j personal attention to its management. The Syndicate’s (told Deposit. New York, Feb. 14.—The bond syndi cate only deposited $72,000 in gold to- j day iu the suo-Treasury, making a total I of $7,767,000 already deposited. The total of $8,101,000 reported last night I was incorrect on account of an error at | the Assay office by which one deposit wits counted twice. i'be Bandit* to be Shot. Puebla, Mexico, Teb. 14.—The large company of bandits who shot the Seoit gaug were caught and wjil be shot. The j Scott brothers and Foreman Franklin are improving and it is hoped they will j recover from their wounds. The bodies of the six persons killed ia the attack were buried yesterday. DAY IN THE SENATE THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE AMENDMENTS DEFEATED IN THE SEN ATE. AGRICULTURE BILL REPORTED. The Di'cu**ion ol tae Postoltice Bill Continue* Until 3 O’clock W hen ihi> Vote Is Taken—The Lottery Hill Post poned—Senator Bacon Sworn In to Succeed ’Senator ttlsh. ofLeorgla— A Short Executive Ses-lon—> ote on the Amendment*. Washington, D O, Feb. 14 Mr Call’s resolution as to the Louisiana } or Honduras Lottery in Florida occu j pied the time of the Senate in the morn , ing hour until it was shelved by a mo | tom to resume consideration of the post office ap propria’ ion bill. General debate on the postal bill con : tinned until 3 p. m., when, in accord- I ante with the agreement made yester j day. discussion cessed, and the Senate j was brought to a vote ou the railway | mail service amendment, and the amend j raents offered to it by Senators Black burn and Vilas. But first, the poiut of order had to be decided, whether an amendment re ported by the committee on appropria tions was or was not in order as “gen | era 1 legislation on an appropriation bill.” The Vice President submitted the question to the Senate. The amendment is to insert these words in the item ap propriating $3,205,000 for railway pos tal car service: “Said sum shall bo ex pended under the direction and in the discretion of the Postmaster General, and any provision of the existing law iu conflict herewith, is hereby repealed.” The Vote on the Bill. The vote was taken, and the Senate decided, yeas 17, nays 39, that the amendment was uot in order. Tho fol lowing is the vote in detail: Yeas: Allen, Berry, Blackburn, Blanch ard, Call, Cockrell, George, Gorman, 'Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay. MoLaurin, Roach, Turpie, Vest ami Vilas—l7. Nays: Aldrich, Allison, Carey, Chand ler, Clark, Cullom, Davis Dubois, Frye, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, IliggiiH, Hoar. Hunton, Lodge, McMillan, M mder son, Mantle. Mitchell of Oregon, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, Puffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Platt, Pritchard, Proctor, Pugh, Ransom, Sher man, Squire, Stewmrt, Teller, Walsh, and Washburn—39. Blackburn’s amendment directs a de duction of at least ten per cent, in the rates paid to the railway companies; and Mr. Vilas offered, as a substitute for that, his proposition for the purchase of postal cars by the government. The Vilas substitute was laid on the table by a voto of 51 yeas to to nays. Blackburn’s amendment was also tabled, 42 to 10 The next vote was ou the amendment reported from the committee ou appria tions to strike out of the House bill the item appropriating $t06,614 for special facilities ou trunk lines from Spring field, Mass., byway of New York and Washington to Atlanta and New Or leans. Mr. Butler gave notice of the amend ment looking to a division of the appro priation between the Southern Railway Company, the Seaboard Air Line, anil the Atlantic Coast Liue, that would seem to be fair. Sherman’s Amendment Defeated. After much discussion a vote was taken on Sherman’s amendment to add to the House paragraph an appropria tion of $150,000 for necessary and spe i cial facilities on trunk lines between i Louisville, Covington, Newport, Cincin ! nati, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Knoxville, Birmingham, New Orleans and Texas points, with a provision that no part of the appropriatrou in the paragraph shall i be expended unless the Postmaster Gen- j eral shall deem such expenditure neces , sary to promote the interest of the postal | service. The amendment was defeated, j i yeas 22; nays 33. The amendment of the committee striking out the Springfield and New Orleans paragraph was then disagreed to Yeas, 27; nays, 33 seas: Alien, Berry, Black! urn, But !e", Call. Camden, Cameron, Cockrell, Davis, Georg**, Harris, Hawley, Jones of Arkansas, Kyle, Lindsay, McLaurin, Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Roach, Sher man. Smith, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Vilas and Wolcott—27. Nays: Aldrich, Blanchard. Carey, Chandler, Dubois, Faulkner, Frye, Hale. Hausbrough, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Hun ton, tx)dge, McMillan. McPher-on, Maa derson, Mantle, Mitchell, of Oregon, Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Morgan, Murphy, Palmer, IVsco, Platt, Pritchard. Proc- | tor, Pugh. Ransom, Squire, Stewart, j Walsh and Washburn—33. Appropriation Hilt*. All the amendments reported from j the committee »>n appropriations having been disposed of, Mr. S’aermau again of- j fend his amendment appropriating i $159,000 for necessary and special facil- { ities from Louisville, New Orleans aud 1 Texas points, aDd a point of order was made against it by Mr. Gorman that the item had not Isen reported from a com- | mittee nor estimated by any department, j The Vice President sustained the point ! of order, aud the amendment was ex- I eluded. Mr. Davis, (Rep ) of Minnesota, offer- j ed an amendment providing that in aue f of special clerks appointed before the j order inquiring them to reside on the i line of railroad on which they serve, that PRICE FIVE CENTS. rule shall not be operative. Agreed to The bill, which hail been all this time ,iu comm tteo, was reported to the ’ Sena-e Mr. Blackburn moved to amend th* item appropriating $196 000 for the fast ! mail serrioe from Springfield, Mass , to : New Oil >atis, by reducing the am mnt to $176,963, a tou per cent, reduction on existing rates. Action was net taken on this rrsolu i tiou and tho bill went over till to txtor row The Agriculture bill was reported from the committi*e on appropriation* and | placed on file. The credentials of Mr. Augustus O. j Bacon a* Senator from the State of i Georgia, for the tenn beginning the 4th j of March next, were presented by Mr. Walsh, (Dem.) of Georgia, read and placed on file. ' Mr. Baton mk. <■« de Mr. Walelu After a short executive session, the Senate, at 6:15 p in., adjourned until j to morrow at noon. tV.4l*ll El-tVAI SURRENDERED. Rut Live* of the Chinese Sol«li»>r* nut Foreigner* are to be Spiirril. j Washington. D. O , Feb. 14 A tele ; gram from Tokio dated to day, has beeu : received by the Japanese Minister, stating j that on the 12th instant Admiral Ting sent to Admiral lto a gun lioaf display ing a flag of truce, and proposed to sur render to the Japanese all the men of war, and fortifications at Wei Hal Wei, together with the arms, stores, muni tions of war, etc., in his possession on condition that the lives of the Chinese combatants and the foreigners in the Chinese service should lie spared. The conditions were accepted by Ad miral lto and it is thought that a sur render has already l>een accomplished. The following cablegram was n o» ived at the Stato department to-day: Tokio, Feb. 14. Gresham, Washington. February 13th, Wei Hai Wei 13th. Admiral lto reports Chinese gnu boat tiling white flag; brought Admiral Ting’s message, proposing surrender of ships, forts, arms, provided lives of crews soldiers, foreigners bo secured. Formal surrender being arranged. (Signed) Dun” Admiral and General Commit Suicide. London, Feb. 14—The Central News correspondent iu Shang llai says that after t tie surrender of the last forts and the Chinese fleet at Wei-Hai Wei, Ad miral Ting and the Chinese General committed suicide. 1.1 II ung Chang Reinstated. London, Feb. 14.—The Central News correspondent in Pekin says that Li Hung Chang has becc reinstated and ap pointed ptace envoy. STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK. Almost a Ftunipede ol Men Applying for Work on Brooklyn City Railway. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 14.—Despite the votes of tho delegates of I) A 75, K. of L, to continue the strike, there was almost a stampede of strikers this morning to get back to work. Some of the men who applied at the office of the Brooklyn City Railway said the vote of the delegates was simply a “bluff,” and that, the secret order was for the men to get back to work as best they could. At 8 o’clock over one hundred of the men who went out on the strike had ap plied for work at the Ridgewood stables. Superintendent Goodwin gave them slipa showing the order of their applications, and sent them to President Lewi*’ office. The same course was pursued at the other depots. President Lewis did not have time to consider the applications to-day, but he put them on file. The men who are taken back will bo hired under individual contracts, and put to work beside non union men. The Ke*alt of n How. Later in the day it developed that the return of many of the strikers to seek work was the result of a big split in the ranks of D. A. 75. At the meeting last night, it is said, there was a great row. Some of the mester workmen of the local assemblies insisted that the strike should be declared off, saying that their assemblies bad so voted. The majority of the delegates have voted to continue the strike. When the result was announced, the master workmeu, who wanted the strike ended, arose hi d said they would not abide by tho vote. This accounts for the rush for work, * despite the vote of tb" assembly. DID STRONG BREAK Ftlt lif IMatt Nay* Hint He Did iu Appuiuiiu* Brookfield, and lie fan Prove 11. Nkw Yoiik, Feb. 14. -Mayor Strong to day created a sensation by confra j dieting Thomas C. Platt. The Republi- I can leader said last, night that the Mayor j had broken faith iu appointing William | Brookfield as the Commissioner of Pub lic Work* Today the Mayor said ho*bad uot given Mr. Platt or any laxly else any promises as to whom he would ap{x>int or whom he would lot. When asked re garding Mr. Piatt's positive statement that he has witnesses to prove that the Mayor gave his assurance that Col. Fred Grant would probably get the place, aud that Brookfield, his opponent, would not, the Mayor said emphatically: “I made no proaitoa nor gave assurances of appoint ment to any one The only promises I made were in my letter of acceptance to the committee of seventy, in which i said that my appointments would tie of a non partisan character.”