The News and Observer. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 24. TTKIE BJ&OSffifESTT ©offß©Qll[Lft¥o(DK] ®F A&W KKBUnTGQ ©zS\[J3®[LoK]A [MOOf. FREE SILVER FIGHT THE JONES BILL AGAIN TAKEN IT AM) DISCUSSED IN TIIE SENATE. BUT NO VOTE WHS REACHED. Mr. Vila* Make* a l ong and Able Speech in Delen-e of the President mut Secretary Carlisle in the Bond Sale Tne Republicans Begin a Sys tem of Obstruction, and Farther Consideration of the Bill is Post poned Until To-Day. Washington. D. C., Feb 19. * Rou tine business consumed the first half hour of the Senate today with matters of little public concern. A conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation was pre sented and agreed to, except as to the appropriation o! $500,000 to begin the construction of the cable to Hawaii. A further conference was ordered on that item. A conference report on the bill as to the time when income tax returns are to be made was presented and explained by Mr Vest and agreed to. Mr. Vest, from tbe committee on com morce, reported a bill postponing the time when “Tne Rules of the Sea" to prevent collisions arc to go into effect After remarks by Mr. Frye and Mr. White the bill was passed Mr. Bate introduced a bill to aid the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tenn , in 1896. The Senate t a*sed a bill to aid in the erection of a monument to the Maryland heroes of the Revolutionary war. It ap propriates $40,000 to !>e ex|X)uded by tire Maryland Society of the American Revo lution, to aid ill er< ettnrr in Ralriirmre a monumeut to the memory of the patriots who aided in establishing the independence of the United States. The credentials of Mr. Wilson, the new Senator from ihe State of Washfrgton, were presented and ho was sworn in, thus completing the full Senate mem bership to 88 The hour of meeting to morrow was fixed at 11a. m. The Free Silver Bill Taken Up. Jones, of Arkansas, then moved to take up the regular order, the free coin age bill, and it was agreed to—36 to 27. Then the tug of-war was on. The bill was read in full. In the opening skirmish Join s said the friends of his bill were w illing to put the matter to a test now without a word of debate. If the opponents of the bill saw fit to resist and to discuss it, of course its friends could not help it, but they bad to make an earnest effort to get a vote. Mr. Joins added that he did not pro pose to jeopardize any appropriation bill. There was pleuty of time to pass them all. It was apparent, however, that no vote could be taken at once, nor at any time that oould lie definitely stated, so that Mr. Jones said he had only to re quest that debate would proceed as rap idly as possible, and that the vote might be bad at the earliest j>oasiblc hour. He would therefore ask tho Seuate to re main in session to-day until a vote was got, if that could be accomplished. Mr. Vilas* Speech. The general debate was opened by Mr. Vilas, who made a long, able and elo quent speech in defense of the President and his Secretary of the Treasury in the matter of thesale of #62,000,100 of four per cent bonds for gold. The speech was made on the bill before the Senate for the free coinage of silver, but had no reference whatever to that bill Mr. Vilas showed That the President had endeavored to get Congress to act upon the financial difficulties in which the Treasury had found itself by the drainage of gold, and that as Congress had declined to act, he had to avail him self of the power which the existing laws gave bun and to buy gold by the issue of bonds. The price obtained for the bonds, Mr. Vilas contended, was the highest that could be obtained under the circum stance* ; or, in other words, 83 4 per cent, was the lowest rate of interest at wnich the bonds would be taken by the great banking houses which had been applied te Three and five eighths per ceut. had been offered in all the great mouey centres and had been refused, and all because the bonds did not pro vide specifically for repayment in gold coin. While Mr. Vilas was speaking, Mr. Aldrich started to read a dispatch just received, but Mr. Vilas declined to yield to him. The dispatch he intended to read was as follows : “L noon, February 19. “The prospectus for the new bonds was issued at Up. m. here. It is for $62,000,000, ore half to be placed in America and the other half in London The issue price here (lx>ndon) is 1.15 12. or 227 pounds per SI,OOO. Ten per cent of the price is payable on application Pa> meats are to te completed in four installments, ending July 23rd The lists will open Wednesday and close Thursday or Friday. “(Signed) Dow, Jonks & Co.” Mr. Vilas concluded his argument with the declaration that “The people of the Uuind States love her honor as they prize their liberty, aud their judge meat never has tolerated aud never will tolerate the national reproach of the least equivocation in dealiug with its creditors. The gentleman never lived, however high bred, honorable and chiv alrous whose sens*'of honor was keener. higher, or more sensitive than the pub lic opinion of the free men of America. Mr. I’latt Opposes Free Silver. Mr. Vilas spoke for nearly four hours and commanded close attention all through his speech. When he took his seat Mr. Squire (Rep.), Washington, sent to the clerk's desk and bad read the act of June 26, 1878, expressly declaring that all United States bonds payable in coin should be paid in gold or silver coin at the option of the government. That act, he said, was a full and complete an swer to the argument of the Senator from Wisconsin. After Mr. Vilas’ speech, Mr. Platt made a speech against the free silver bill itself. An effort was made by Mr. Jones to have a time fixed for taking the final vote on the Dill; but as its antagonists refused to fixed any time, the debate went on. Another proposition, to have the vote taken to-morrow, was made by Mr Jones and objected to by Mr. Aldrich, who said that when the bill was first in troduced by Mr. Jones it contained nine sections, insuring one for the issue of $500,000,000 and one for the retirement of greenbacks, and ho thought that the Seriate was entitled to an explanation as to why those sections should be aban doned. Republican Tactics Begin. At Bp. m. the R< publican opponents of the silver bill began a system of ob structive tactics under the lead of Mr. Aldrich. He moved that the Senate proceed to executive business, aud all but six of the Republicans withheld their votes. This necessitated a call of the roll, to which 52 Senators (seven more than a quorum) responded. Again the vote was taken; again no quorum responded, and agaiu the roll call was resorted to. This relation went on uutil finally, at 8:40, only twenty-nine Senators answer ed to the roll-call, when the Sergoafit-at- Arras received an order to request the attendance of absent members, and was furnished a list of their names. While the Seuate was waiting for the appearance of a quorum negotiations were being carried on for away out of the difficulty, aud the success of these negotiations, of which Mr. Cockrell was the principal manager, was apparent ►when, at 9 p. m., the quorum was com pleted; the motion for an executive ses sion was withdrawn by Mr. Aldrich, and the following resolution was offered by Mr. Wolcott (being the one agreed upon among the negotiators): Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the welfare and prosperity of the United States require the enact ment of a law for the free aud unlimited coinage of silver at (he ratio of 16 to 1. Resolved , Th at in view of tne fact that Uougress will expire on the 14th of March, aud that there are important ap propriation bills requiring the attention of the Senate, it is the sense of the Sen ate that the consideration of such a law should not be entered upou at this sis sion of Congress. “Let that resolution lie over till to morrow and be printed,” said Mr. Jones, of Arkansas. The resolution went over and the Senate, at 9 p. ra., adjourned till tomor row at 11 o'clock, THE DAY IN THE HOUSE. It is Spent in the Consideration of the Naval Appropriation Bill. Washington, D 0., Feb. 19.—Anoth er day was spent in consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill without dispo sing of it. The proceedings were marked by sev oral spirited passages between Mr. Say ers, chairman of the Committee ou Ap propriationa aud members of the Com mittee on Naval Affairs, over the amend ment offered by the former to reduce the amounts carried in the bill. Only in two of these was the Texas mendter sue cesaful, aud then the amounts were in significant. At the beginning of the consideration of the bill, Chairman O'Neill (Dem), of Massachusetts, overruled the point of order made yosterday by Mr. Sayers against the proposed increase of the force of enlisted men iu the navy, hold iug that it was in order, notwithstand ing existing statutes limiting the num ber to 9,0' 0 men. From this ruling Mr. Sayers appealed, but the committee sf the whole sus tained the chair—l 43 to 37. And against this Mr. Sayers nttered his urn phatio protest. lu the course of the day several other important matters were acted upon by the House. The joint resolntion reported yester day by the Committee ou Ways and Means, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the sbipmeut in bond to the United States of goods de stined for tho tree zone of Mexico, was passed. Also a bill authorizing the Pres uiout to appoiut General Don Carlos Bueli a colonel ou the retired list of the Army. A conference was agreed to ou the Ag rieultural appropriation bill. The re** >rt of the conferees ou the joint result on extending from March Ito April l, ,95. the time within which income tax re turns can be made, was agreed to. The House at 5 p. m adjourned till to morrow. Editor Latham Married. Special to the News aud Observer. Asheville, N C., Feb. 19. Holier A. Latham, editor of the Wash iugton Gazette, was married to day to Miss Ella tX-mouia Reed, daughter or Ex-Representative M. L Reed. Th* wedding occurred, at noon at the resi deuce of the bride’s parents near Ashe ville, Rev. J. T. Bell officiating. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1895. RAILROAD TROUBLES SOUTHERN EMPLOYES SUBMIT DIFFERENCES TO THE BROTHERHOODS. BOYCOTT AGAINST THE SEABOARD. 1 The Southern Railway and Steamship Association Ch *rge that the Air-Line has not Maintained Rates on Cotton --Seaboard Officials Deny the ( barge end say They Know Nothing of the Trouble, but can Stand the Boycott if the Association Can. \ Washington, D. C., Feb. 19 —The committee of tho employes of the South eru Railway f’ompany, which has been in session iu Washing for nearly a week have been unable to come to an agree ment with the representatives of the Railway Company. The company, through its third Vice-President, Mr Baldwin, made a very full aud frank statement of the affairs of the company and showed why it was not advisable that there should be a general increase in wages as demanded by the employes Since receiving the statement the employes committee lias been iu secret session and has finally con cluded not to accept the schedule provided by Mi. Baldwin, and the grand chiefs of the various trainmens’ brother hoods have been summoned to this city to assist, if possible, in arriving at a sat isfactory arrangement of the difficulty. These gentlemen are expected to arrive here to-night. Those into whose hands the mat ter now passes are Mr. P. M. Ar thur, grand chief of the B. of L. E ; Mr. E E Clark, grand chief of the or der of Railway Conductors; Mr. Wilk n -Bon, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and P. F. Sargeut, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Rail way Firemen. It is not yet known certain when the grand chief will arrive, but they are ex p cted to-morrow morning. It was learned to day that Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is not in Cleveland at present, and it is not expected that he will be able to at tend the conference here. Chief Bar gent of the Firemen, was at his home in Terre Haute, In diana. when the committee noti fied him to come, and he is probably ou his way uow. Chief Clark, of the Order of Railway Conductors, will have to come all the way from Cedar Rapids, lowa,’ and will not arrive until some time to morrow. In the meantime nothing eau be done towards solving the knotty problem and the members of the committee are sim ply waiting. It was stated to-day that Vice-Presideut Baldwin had gone South, but whether on business connected with the present agitating question concern ing wages, is not known. TO BOYCOTT THE SEABOARD. The Southern Railway Claims That it lias Nut Maintained Its Rates. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 19.—A boycott has been declared against the Seaboard Air-Line railway system by Commis sioner Stahlman of the Southern Rail way and Steamship Association. The Commissioner states in his circu lar that the Seaboard, including the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, has not maintained rates on cotton. He says that during tho past two months sweeping irregularities, manipulations and rate cutting have beeu indulged in by this system ou Western traffic em braced in clas es O, D, and F. A Seaboard official denies the charge of manipulation and is quota d as saying that the Seaboard cau stand the boy cott If the association can. The boycott was not received seriously by other r.Vdway officials. It is stated that while the Seaboard company was not, a member of the Southern Associa tion it has maintained a i ro rating ar rangement. There is said to have been eonsiderabe friction during the past year, and as a result it is claimed that the association is practically dismem bered. Commissioner Stahl man’s action is looktd upou by some railroad men as au effort to force the Seaboard company into the association to prevent its final dissolution. President HoHhihu Denies the Rumor. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 19.— President R. C. Hoffman, president of the Sea board Air Line, said to night that he had received no official advices touching the boycott of his line by the Southern Railway and Steamship Association. He *d that none of the charges of irregu larnies and rate cutting, frequently made against the Seabqprd Air Line, had been sustained. In the absence of more definite informat on Mr. Hoffman de clined to discuss the subject. Another Boycott Threatened. Memphis, Teun., Feb. 19. —Railroads engaged iu hauling cotton to the East threateu to boycott the Kansas City, Memphis aud Birmingham and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis lines be cause these lh.es ref us) to comply with a division of the cot<n business that w; s agreed upon early in the season, a physic U division of the cast bound cotton business was changed The two Kansas City roads were regarded as one system, aud were awarded the share of one. They have received their full quota of the business aud uow claim the quota of another road. They persist iu hauling cotton. The boycott is threatened A lively war in cotton rates is a certain^. TO LEAVE HIE TRUTST. Largest Stockholders of American Tobacco Company to ithdraw. New York, Feb. 19. — Rumors have beeu circulated recently to the effect that Major Ginfer, of the firm of Alien and Ginter, aud Francis Kinney, of Kin ney Brothers, two of the largest stock holders in the American Tobacco Com pany, are about to withdraw from the company. At the offices of the company iu this city the truth these rumors isemphati cally denied. George Arents. the treas urer of -the company, said to a reporter of tho United Press : “1 have uot heard a word about Major Giuter's intention of retiring, n* ither do I be lieve he has *ueh intention. lie is adi rector in the company, aud, although he was opposed to the formation of a trust, he was not opposed to tho formation of a legitimate tobacco company, and has been one of its main siq porters: Francis Kinney is not a director but a stock holder, and I am sure that he has no in tention of retiring. 1 take no stock whatever in these rumors and believe they have been circulated more through malice than any true motiie.” KNIGHTS IN SESSION. The Virginia Regiment of the Uniform Rank to Form a Brigade. Richmond, Va., Feb. 19.—A Staunton special to the Dispatch says: “The Vir ginia regiment of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, was in session last night until past midnight, engaged lu forming a Virginia brigade. Hon W. J. Turner, of Norfolk, late Colonel of the regiment, was elected Brigadier- General. Captain T. H. Virnelson, of Portsmouth, was made Adjutant Gen eral, with the rank of Colonel. The brigade staff will be completed at a later time. At this meet iug of the uniform rank twelve of the fifteen State divisions were represented and two regiments were formed. Over Twenty Million** Now Paid in. Washington, D. 0., Feb. 19.—The United States Treasurer reports that up to and including February 18 the Treas ury had received in gold coin on account of the recent sale of bonds to the Bel mont-Morgan syndicate $20,484,500, and had given in exchange for the same cer tificates entitling the holders to $>9,603,- 402 in the bonds when ready for deliv ery. The amount of gold paid iu represents the principal and accrued interest. The bonds will bear date of February 1,1895, and interest on them will be paid by.the treasury from that time. As the gold is paid in by the syndicate accrued interest from February 1, 1895, ceases. Richard Malcolm Johnston Honored. Baltimore, Feb. 19.—St. Mary’s Seminary was the scene this evening of one the largest gatherings of Catholic clergymen, laymen and authors ever held in this city. 'lhey assembled to witness the conferring of the honor of Doctor of Laws upon Colonel Richard Malccm Johnston, the well known lec turer and author, by the board of trus tees of the Seminary. Col. Johnston has always been willing to assist the students of St. Mary’s by his lectures on the higher branches of education and the trustees were anxious to show t heir appreciation of his services, The Captain an>l Two Men Lo*t. Savannah, Ga , Feb. 19. —A special from Darien, Ga , to the Morning News says: Captain Thomas McLean, of the British Bark Valona, loadiug at Sapelo, left his vessel in a small boat for Darien on Thursday afternoon and has not beeu heard from since. He was accompanied by two firemen. Captain Patterson of the tug Maloney, has just returned from his search and reports finding the boat bottom upward near Sutherland’s Bluff and there is no longer any doubt as to the party’s being lost. V% reck on the Southern. Charleston, S C . Feb. 19. —A Spar tanburg, S. O , special to the News and Courier, svvs : A treght train on the Southern Rail war, near Thiekety, was derailed this afternoon. There were twenty-two ears off the tnuk The blockade had not been removed up to 8 p. m Tim north bound vestibule reached here at 7 o’clock, and went to Charlotte byway of Columbia No one was in jured except one brake man, whose head was bruised. Tennessee’s Gubernatorial Contest. * Nashville, Teun., Feb. 19.—The gn bernatorial contest investigating com mittee met in the Sachem boro this morn ing. When Chairman Caldwell called the committee to order all the members answered to roll call. The counsel for Mr. Evans asked for time to consider the questions that were presented for argu ment. and a recess was taken until 8 o’clock. Small Box Recoin ice Upolemic. Si. I amis, Mo . F b. It) —At noon to day there wire seveuty-tv.o casesj ot sraall|4 \ reports d at quaran tine. Tea new casts Were reported to il i\ and it is thought this number will be greatly increased when full returns; are received tonight. Notwithstanding the health authorities are making great efforts to combat the spread of the dis ea.'-e it is feared it will become epidemic. NEW ELECTION LAW MOKE THAN SIXTY SECTIONS STOLEN FROM THE DEMO. CRATIC LAW. MR. RAY S SPEECH IN THE HOUSE. He Discovers Some Wonderful Thing** in This Remarkable Measure Now Fending—Think* The Big Five Should be Indicted for Larceny aud the Fusion i*t.* for Receiving Stolen Property—% n Incompetent Makeshift and Cowardly Substitute. “I want to congratulate the people of the State.’’said Mr. Ray, “that the end of this election humbug is at hand and the long looked for promises of the Fu s’oui-ts are fulfidled as to the wonderful product of the gigantic brains of the Big Five, l believe it is I believe it was Cicero who shaved his head and went into winter quarters in order to prepare* himself to charm with his musical and matchless eloquence the listening multi tudes of the cent uries. When he emerged from his seclusion, his hair had probably grown some, but he brought out with him a geui that out shined the stars iu the firmament. This immortal Five un like the statesman of old. did not shave their heads, as most of them were bald on account of wisdom and the weight of the responsibility that rested upon them, but they went into seclusion, and the last word we heard them say when they went out of sight was to damn fro the thousandth time, perhaps, the Democratic election law. They re mained till everybody was uneasy about them and the nominal members of the Legislature were going to and for aud asking ‘where are we at?’ “Had tiiey uot promised the people everywhere, from the mountains of the West, where the spruce pines, tall and dark moan in the breath of the passing breezes to the sea where the wild, grand music of the storm has its birth, that the Democratic election law was au in famy and should be at once forever blotted from the books f The people watiid long for the fulfillment of these promises, and just as we were all about to dispair, lo ! the light breaks, the clouds vanish and the Big Five appear in sight with the new, improved aud original election bill in its hand, shout ing as they came, back, back, ye de mons of Democracy, we have found and formulated the most wonderful election law ever seen by the children of men, and Democratic frauds must go aud for ex er. “At first I hesitated to touch a copy of this wonderful law. I got bolder and ventured to put one in my pocket, and took it home. •• Personally, I felt like I uever had committed a sin against the election law and had never defrauded a mortal man »u earth out of his vote, but haviug been elected under the inhuman law placed j on the books by Democrats, l felt a sort of original sin, as it were—a kind of a total depravity, and ever so little was enough to place me beyond tho pale of the Fusiouists’paradise, and like Eugene Aram, I felt that night ‘That guilt was my giim chamberlain That lighted me to bed, And drew the midnight curtains round With fingers bloody red.’ “Next morning, after having said" my prayers, I ventured with a teeling of awe to read the bill. “At first I came to where Secretary means Secretary of State, and clerk, means Clerk of the Court, and pre cinct means territorial unit of elec tions according to the contest, and the singular meant the plural and oath meant affirmation, aud so on. I knew I had never seen anything on earth like this before, and it surely must be origi nal with the B’g Five. Stolen from the Democrat*. “I came to the next section aud its leatures seemed familiar, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, aud to my infinite aud unspeakable amusement the Big Five had luerally stolen, soul aud body, these sections from the Democratic election law with the change of county commissioners to clerks of the court ami other unimportant changes in some of tho verbiage Then 1 reached section seven of the new and wonderful law. ami there I met an unfamiliar face. I will admit it is not stolen from any civ ilized men on earth, for there is nothing iu the Heavens above or in the earth beneath, nor in the waters down under the earth like it. It provides for the Chairman of the State Executive Committee of each po litical party to recommend to the clerks of the court for each county suitable meu for registrars and judges of elec tions for the various precincts of the State, aud that the clerks shall appoint those so r commended. Os course you cau see how this will lieat the old way ! Y>u can see why our worthy chairman, Mi*. Pou, should of all men be expected to recommend to the clerk of the court of Cherokee county suitable men for judges and registrar in Hanging Dog precinct. Or why Mr. Holton, the Re publican chairman, should recommend to the clerk of the court of Mitchell eouuty suitable men for judges aud reg- j istrare in “Scuffle Nubbin” or “Loafer’s j Glory” precincts iu that county. I soon saw it was a most glorious plan, aud ! having broken the ice I read on, and < sou-d to my utter consternation that \ more than sixty sections of this grand j law were takeu, stolen, feloniously taken j from the Democratic law almost I PRICE FIVE CENTS. j ipsissinvs verbis, vtrlmtnn, es ; puHctatim “Yes, the Big Five ought to bo in • dieted for larceny, with a count in th» bill agaii at the Fuaionists for receiving j stolen property, and they could all be | convicted before any honest jury in : America for stealing the IVmocratu j election law. There is not a decent line i nor a section in tho bill but what was j purloined from chapter 16, of the second volume of The Code, and poor Payne, j they have even plundered him, after j abusing aud slandering him aud taking : from him his seat in this House, have j stoleu one of the In'st features of their ! bill from hint from the Payne law 1 And this is the party of reform, the j party of progress. 1 believe in honest ; elections as Ido in everything else, but 1 believe our standard of morals for the Anglo Saxou race, with all their ad ; vantages, should be higher than the j poor negro that goes to his daily toil i like a galley slave, or the negro that loafs on the goods boxes in the cities “The bill is an incompetent makeshift ! and cowardly substitute for what you j promised the people. You got. your j offices by working on the prejudices of 1 the peop’e ou the atrocities of tho tie* i tiou law and county government, ami ; litre you e tne to the people «ith the | Democratic law iu your arms and tell the people it was the best you could do, ! and for the few little changes you made I inthatlawthe people will omfiinu you. “One by one the roses fall and one by | one the Fusion promises tail ai <1 fade ! away. THE \\ I LLF A MS-SETTLE U\SF. Doubts a* to Whether it Will Fvei < ome Up—Raimoin’s Uhunees. j Special to the News and Observer. Washington, D. 0 , Feb. 19 Mr. Brown, of Indiana, Chairman of ; Committee on Privileges and Elections attempted to get unanimous consent and bring up the Settle-Williams contested election ease to day but Sayers, of Texas, Chairman of the Appropriation Commit tee objected because it would delay the navy appropriation bill. Capt. Bunn said he hoped the House wonld not put the matter off any longer as it had been already postponed from time to time. Mr. Talbot, ot Maryland, called for a vote for consideration and was sustained. Brown was voted down aud thus the contest was again postponed. The vote was 48 to 55, many Williams men voting to postpone. Brown gave notice he would call it up at one o’cfi.ck to morrow. Woodard seems to think Williams prospects brighter. Alexander thinks it doubtful whether the House will let it be considered. Craw ford expects it to be considered and be lieves Williams chances belter. Williams thinks it bet ter for him if it be postponed and it is the general opinion of Demo crats that the lougor it is put off the better for Williams. The vote is no test of Williams strength, as many of his friends thought it better to postpone not wishing to antagonize tho appropria tion committee which is very anxious to finish its matters. Settle seems con fident that the end of the contest has come. When questioned about it he said; “The contest is practically at an end, the Hou.se having by an over whelming vote refused to consider the matter, and ou this many of the Repub licans did not vote. J. C. Buxton, Clem Manly and U» j Eugene Gray, of Winston, are here in the interest of the Winston-Salem pub lic building bill, which is under consid eration in committee on Public Bu filings and Grounds, of which Bankhead, of Alabama, is chairman. They will try to get an early report. Dr. Vi. H. Wheeler, of Salem, ex U. 8. revenue collector, is also here about the public building. Cooper, of Indiana, is the only one ot whom most talk is made for minister ex cept Ransom. Ransom is believed t have the inside track now. Arrivals* E. D. Page, North Carolina. ACCIDENT NEAR APEX. Chatham Man Knocked Oft the Tract l»y an Engine. Special to the News aud Observer Apex, N. C , Feb. 19 Yesterday ns tour correspondent was returning from Raleigh there was a sad accident which came near being a fatal one. At the second crossing from Apex a three horse wagon was crossing, and the horses and driver had just cleared the track when the engine carrying the 4 p. m. mail struck the wagon about the cen tre, literally demolishing it. The driver was riding on one of the horses and his brother was iu the wagon behind. It threw him in the ditch and caused some very painful yet not serious wounds. The conductor carried him to Apex ami I)r. Moore examined and dressed the wounds He was from Chatham county, and is resting very well this morning. KTEXUEK NOT HEARD FROM. Thought lo lie Icebound—The New hern Safely Anchored. Special to the News and Observer. Maysvillk, N. C ,F« b. 19 The steamer Neuse that left Newborn eight days ago for Elizabeth City has not yet been heard from. It is thought she is icebound The supply of coal and food was limited. The steamer N**wbern is safe anchored off Roanoke Inland. Thirty Student* Drowned. Moscow, Feb 19.—While a number of students were skatiog on the Mot-kva river to day the ice gave way and thirty of them were plunged into the water and were drowned. None of the bodies have yet been recovered. ,

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