The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 83.
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THE WAR CLOUD LIFTS
AN AMICABLE ADJUSTMENT OF
THE NICARAGUAN AFFAIR
PROBABLE.
ENGLAND MAY GRANT MORE TIME
Bat Secretary Herbert Has Ordered
Three War Vessels to Nicaraguan
Waters to Protect American Inter
ests—Policy of the United States in
Matters of This Kind--Nicaragua is
a Soyereigu State and Cannot Insult
Other Nations With Impunity,
Washington, D. C., April 29.
Within the next forty-eight hours the ar
mored defense vessel Monterey will be
near the Nicaraguan coast, not far from
Corinto. Whether she will stop at that
port or continue leisurely to Panama is
claimed to be unknown to officials of the
Navy Department.
Secretary Herbert this morning re
ceived a cablegram from Capt. Higgin
son, of the Monterey, dated at Acapulco,
yesterday, simply announcing his des
tination as Panama. Nothing is said
about intermediate port, although 1,490
nautical miles between Acapulco and
Panama are generally believed too
long a stretch for the Monterey to make
without stop for coal, unless her com
mander has taken precautions during
his week’s stay at the Mexican port to
take a supplementary cargo of fuel on the
monitor’s deck.
After several conferences to-day be
tween Secretary Gresham and Secretary
Herbert, the Secretary of the Navy sent
dispatches to the commanders of the
United States gunboats Alert and the
Atlanta, directing them to proceed with
out delay to San J uan Del Sur, and
Greytown, Nicaragua, respectively.
The Alert is at Panama, and it will
take her about a day or a half to reach
San Juan Del Sur, which is the cable
station nearest Corinto, situated about
100 miles below that port. The Atlanta
is at Key West, and can make the dis
tance of 750 miles from that place to
Greytown in two and a half days.
To Protect American Interests.
When Secretary Herbert was asked
the significance of these orders he an
swered as follows: “The newspapers say
that a revolution is probable in Nicara
gua. They state that the people are
very much dissatisfied with the course of
the'government and are likely to attempt
to overthrow it. In order to protect the
interests of American citizens, their
Tv*, «’’J..Jn!V'*d T ' t !. the
policy always pursued in such contin
gencies, I havo ordered the Alert to San
Juan Del Sur, and the Atlanta to Grey
town.
“In addition to these vessels the
Montgomery, now at Mobile, will sail ou
May 7th for Greytown, conveying the
Nicaraguan Canal Commission to that
place. The Monterey, which has sailed
for Panama, will remain at Panama for
the present. With two United States
ships on one side of Nicaragua and one
ship on the other side it is plain that
American interests will be well pro
tected if the rumored revolution should
take place. But I wish it dis
tinctly understood that these ves
sels are sent to Nicaragua for the
purpose of caring for citizens of the
United States and their interests, and
not on any business connected with the
situation at Corinto.”
The “Alert” is one of the older vessels
of the navy, an iron cruiser of 1,020 tons
displacement, and propelled by a single
screw. Her main battery consists of
four guns and she does not compare
formidably with either of the British
ships now at Corinto, although she would
probably not be overmatched by the
Wild Swan, now at San Juan Del Sur,
the port of her destination.
Policy of the United States.
While the policy of this government
in the trouble at Corinto is well under
stood, the first authorative statement on
the subject was not made until to-day,
A cabinet officer said this evening that
the United States could not interfere be
tween Great Britain and Nicaragua in
their matter of difference, because Nica
ragua was a sovereign State, recognized
as such by Great Britain for offences
committed against British subjects.
“The United States government,” he
said, “does not undertake to extend a
protectorate over Central America or
South America, to such an extent that a
sovereign State of one or the other of
these countries may insult another
sovereign nation with the expectation
that this government will protect it
from forcible resentment by the nation
insulted. Such a principle has never
been recognized by the United States,
and if we attempted to assert it, we
would secure the enemity of every na
tion having dealings with Central and
South America.”
Mr. Warner Miller, President of the
Nicaraguan Canal Company, had an in
terview to day with Secretary Gresham
and Secretary Herbert. “My business
with the Secretary of State aud the Sec
retary of Navy,” he said, afterwards,
“was for the purpose of informing them
of the physical configuration of tbe
country ou the proposed canal route, in
order that the canal commission may te
assisted in facilitating its work. My expeii
ence in Nicaragua has enabled me to
give information that will be valuable to
the commission, and I have offered to
afford such assistance as is in my power
to make its duties less arduous. In at
tempting such a survey iu a tropical
jungle it is necessary to be prepared,
and I am here to help in that prepara
tion.”
Mr. Miller said he did not care to talk
about the present situation in Nicaragua
because he was the representative of the
canal company, which had the greatest
interest at stake. He made the positive
statement, however, that the United
States would not permit Great Britian
or any other country to underminer her
interests in the canal property.
An Agreement May be Beached.
Washington, D. C,, April 29. —Un
expected developments in the Nicaragua-
British situation may be expected within
the next 48 hours. From present indi
cations an agreement will probably be
reached which will be mutually satisfac
tory to both countries, and which will
result in the withdrawal of the British
forces from Corinto, and bring the pres
ent complications to a close.
It is understood that the situation at
Corinto has been relieved of much of
its tension by an intimation cabled by
Ambassador Bayard, that in case Nicar
agua would guarantee payment of the
indemnity asked within fifteen days,
Great Britian would accede to a request
for such an extension of time.
Disposad to Accept the Terms.
London, April 29.—A Manuaga dis
patch says : At a late hour this even
ing President Zelaya received a tele
gram from Washington stating that
Great Britain would withdraw her ships
from Corinto and give Nicaragua fifteen
days in which to pay the $75,000 smart
money if such a proposition will be ac
cepted by Nicaragua.
The dispatch also stated that, so far as
the remaining conditions in the ultima
tum were concerned, they should be so
modified as to meet the objections of
Nicaragua.
It is understood that these propo
sitions are the results of the
efforts of the United States to
bring about a settlement of the
pending difficulty in a manner alike
honorable to both countries. Upon the
receipt of the dispatch Zelaya at once
held an audience with his principal ad
visers, and a reply will probably be made
within a few hours. President Zelaya,
it is believed, will be disposed to accept
the terms outlined in the dispatch.
It will, however, require considerable
consideration owing to the intense hos
tilities which exist between the British
government and the willingness on the
part of some of the people to continue
the struggle indefinitely.
Wreck Near Weldon.
Special to the News and Observer.
Weldon, N. C. April 29.
A wreck occurred on the K. & G. R. R.
about two miles from here last night.
It was due to the breaking of an axle in
a £it%he train. * osttd cars wm do
railed. The passenger trains transferred
without much delay.
FIVE MEN WENT DOWN.
Collision ol a Russian War Vessel and
a Mail Steamer in the Black Sea.
Vienna, April 29.--A despatch from
Sebastopol says the Russian warship
Penderaklia, of the Black Sea fleet, col
lided at 3 o’clock this morning with the
Russian mail, steamer Kotzebu near
Takinhut lighthouse. The Kotzebu filled
rapidly.
Most of the passengers and crew were
taken aboard tbe Penderaklia from the
Kotzebu’s deck; others were picked up
after she went down. Five men sank
with the ship and were lost.
The warship was damaged below the
water line. She is an iron vessel nearly
twenty years old.
JEALOUSY W AS THE CAUSE.
A Husband Tries to Kill His Wile and
Then Commit Suicide.
Columbia, 8. C., April 29.—At Union
this afternoon V. L. Crompton, formerly
of Danville, Ya., while at the dinner
table had some words with his wife—it
is said he was jealous of her—and shot
her in the side.
Thinking he had killed her, he turned
the weapon to his breast and fired twice.
One bullet glanced off; the other fol
lowed a rib around the body to the back
bone, struck the spinal cord, paralyzing
his lower limbs.
His chances of recovery are slight.
Mrs. Crompton is not dangerously
; wounded. _
DURR ANT AGAIN ON TRIAL.
Arraigned Yesterday on Charge ol
Murdering Blanche Lamont.
San Francisco, Cal , April 29—Dar
rant was arraigned this morning on the
! charge of murdering Blanche Lamont.
He listened to the reading of the com
plaint in the stolid manner which has
characterized him since his arrest. The
preliminary hearing of the prisoner was
set for to-morrow morning with the un
derstanding that a continuance would
j be granted until after conclusion of the
coroner’s inquest.
Coroner Hawkins has fixed the time
for beginning the inquest in the case of
Blanche Lamont for Wednesday morn
ing.
WILL FIGHT IN FLORIDA.
A Check of $5,000 Put up to Bind the
Corbett-Fitzsinimous Match.
New York, April 29. —J. H.
the manager of the Florida Athletic
Club, arrived in this city from Washing
ton yesterday, and last night seut a
check for $5,000 to P. H. Dwyer to bind
the match between Corbett and Fitzsim
mons.
The $5,000 in question will stand as a
forfeit, and will be divided between Cor
bett aud Fitzsimmons if the Florida
Athletic Club fails to bring off the fight
at the time and place to be appointed on
July Ist.
RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1895.
THERE IS NO FAILURE
THE ROXBORO BANK IS STILL
OPEN AND IS DOING
BUSINESS.
CASHIER JONES HAS GIVEN BAIL
He is Now Out ot Prison and Helping
Straighten Up the Books—Friends
Will Make Good All Shortage in His
Accounts—His Trial Set for August
Term of Court-Public Opinion Di
vided as to His Robbing the Bank—
J. S. Merritt Appointed Receiver.
Special to the News and. Observer.
Roxboro, N. C., April 29.
The Farmers’ Bank of Roxboro has
not failed. Checks are being paid aud
the business will continue as before.
Cashier Jones has given a $3,000 bond
for his appearance at the August term
of court, and has been in the bank most
of the day trying to get matters in shape
so as to show a correct balance.
It is said friends will make good all
discrepancies and the sentiment is about
equally divided as to his robbing the
bank, some believing that he did and
many that he did not.
The State of North Carolina had sl,-
000 in this bank. Depositors will be
paid in full.
President Winstead’s Statement.
Richmond, Va., April 29.—001. C. H.
Winstead, president of the Farmers’
Bank of Roxboro, N. C., the doors of
which were reported closed, owing to a
small defalcation of the cashier, has tele
graphed to the Richmond correspondent
of the bank that the bank is all right
and the report of its failure was false.
Yesterday Mr. W. H. Worth, Btate
Treasurer, received from Special Bank
Examiner Palmer a statement of the
affairs of the closed bank. The defalca
tion or shortage amouuts to about
$5,000.
Treasurer Worth was seen by a re
porter yesterday afternoon, lie said
that the bank was insolvent, but that the
depositors would lose nothing; the loss
would fall upon the stockholders who
will be responsible.
Yesterday Maj. William A. Guthrie,
of Durham, came down, and had a con
ference with Treasurer Worth. They
decided, in view of the statement of
Bank Examiner Palmer, to apply to
Judge Starbuck for the appointment of
a receiver. This they did yesterday
afternoon and their application was
granted. Mr. J. S. Merritt, of Roxboro,
was then appointed by the Judge.
.--•pH.-- r f examiner Palmer Is
quite voluminous. The following are
the main points:
“The Daily Balance Book showed
$9,602,64 on deposit subject to check.
By examination of the individual ledger
I discovered SI,OOO entered to the credit
of depositors which did not appear on
said Daily Balance Book and therefore
did not appear as a liability of the bank.
When the cashier of the bank said that
he was caught he admitted that he was
short in cash about $2,300, and I have
added this amount to $9,602.64 under
the head of deposits subject to check.
This admission by the cashier was not
made to me, but to Mr. W. W. Kitchen,
one of the Directors of the bank and
others, who informed me.
The copy of the last statement made
to the Treasurer of the State, could not
be found by cashier or officers of the
bank. The law requires one to be kept
in the bank. The last statement was
made in March.
The cashier informs me that the bank,
when the last dividend was declared,
embraced in said dividend interest due
the bank and that the amount of this in
terest was $422.01. The liabilities of the
bank exceeded the resources by an
amount sufficient to wipe out the sur
plus fund and the undivided profits, and
impairs the stock to the extent of
about $3,000. The $5,000 item on
the liability side of the report enti
tled “bills payable” was contracted on
the 25th April 1895, after the alleged
robbery of the bank. I was examining
the bank when the loan was eonsumattd.
You will note that this amount consti
tutes almost all the available cash of the
bank.
Judgment has been obtained against
one note in the bank for $1,475.42, as
stated before. The Cashier admits a
shortage of about $2,300, i. e., that so
much of the bank’s money had been
used improperly and the Cashier, of his
own accord, went down to fail, and
asked to be locked up and a warrant for
his arrest was afterwards sworn out.
THE JURY AGAIN DISCHARGED
Pannill’s Second Trial Results Just as
Did the First.
Lynchburg, Va., April 26.— 1 n tie
case of R. H. Pinnill indicted for com
plicity in the robbery of the Lynchburg
National Bank on trial in the United
States district court the jury failed to
agree and were discharged to-day
It is reported that eight of the jurors
were for acquittal. Pannill’s bail was
reduced to $6,000.
The Population of New York City-
New York, April 29. Mayor Strong
late this evening made public the census
returns gathered by the police depart
ment. The official figures show’
the number of males in New
York city to be 925,310, and the
number of females 924,556, a grand
total of 1,849,866. The increased popu
lation of this city from October, 1890
(police census), to April, 1895 (police
census), is 139,151, making the annual
increase 30,966.
THE GEORGIA SOUTHERN.
The Sale to the First Mortgage itoiut
jiolders tor $300,000 Confirmed.
Macon, Ga., April 20. The sale of
the Georgia Southern Railroad property
was confirmed to-day. The $300,000 re
quired by decree has been paid into
court. The first mortgage bondholders
are the purchasers. The expenses
accrued are to be taken out
of the $300,000 price. No prior
obligations are binding upon the new
company. The receivership’s agreement
with the Southern Passenger Association
is it no effect and the purchasers come
ini possession of the entire property as
untrammelled as if it 'were entirely a
new enterprise.
Nothing is decided as to new adminis
trative personnel. The new board of
directors will probably consist of several
additional members.
The sale of the Macon- and Birming
ham railroad property was postponed
until the first Saturday in November,
1895, upon motion of the bondholders.
An effort is being made to set a day
for the sale of the Macon Construction
Company. The hearing was not con
cluded but will be resumed to-morrow.
A. E. Baines, B. M. Davis and R. A.
Nisbet are the commissioners appointed
to make the sale.
A Receiver Appointed..
Macon, Ga., April 29. —1 n the United
State Circuit Court to day Judge Speer
appointed John R. Young, of Savannah,
permanent Receiver for the Macon A At
lanta Bhort Line Company. The Macon,
Dublin and Savannah people expect
eventually to come into possession of the
property at the price of $250,000.
MURDERED IN A BAGNIO.
The Trouble Began La*t Week at the
Reidsville Races.
Richmond, Va., April 29. —A Dan
ville, Va., special says:
Last night about 9:30 o’clock in a
bagnio Kept by Fannie Loftis, a row oc
curred between Jim Wallace and Louis
Shaner, of Lynchburg. The trouble first
occurred at Reidsville, N. C., during
l?>;t week’s races over a gambling affair,
and it was renewed last night in the
house above named.
Shaner was heard to say by one of the
women a day or two before the shooting
that he intended to kill Wallace on sight.
When Shaner entered the house last
night Wallace was there and Shaner
went to the room where he was.
The quarrel was renewed and without
the least warning Shaner drew his pistol
and fired the first shot passing through the
heart. As Wallace turned Shaner fired
second shot, the ball entering under
the left shoulder blade. The wounded
man never spoke after being shot.
Wallace’s body was taken to the home
of his sister. Shaner, after the shooting,
made his escape. The woman at whose
house the shooting occurred, and one of
the inmates, were examined this morn
ing and held for the inquest this after
noon.
The cornorer’s jury this afternoon
rendered a verdict that James T. Wal
lace came to his death from a pistol shot
wound at the hands of Louis Shaner.
Shaner is still at large.
DEATH OF HANNIBAL KIMBALL.
lie Was Oue ol the Most Enterprising
Men of the South.
Boston, Mass., April 29.— Hannibal
I. Kimball, who died late Sunday night
at the residence of his brother,
E. N. Kimball, in Brooklyn, was a
prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga.,
and had lived there twenty-five
years subsequent to the war. He was
one of the moving spirits in the develop
ment of the railroad enterprises of the
South, not only in investing a large part
of his own fortune, but bringing a large
amount of Northern and Foreign capital
into the country.
Almost the last enterprise with which
he was identified was the opening of a
new railroad line in Oregon. He was a
banker and dealer in high class securi
ties, having offices iu Atlanta, New York
and London. He considered Atlanta as
his home, although he has resided for
the past few years in New York city. He
was a close friend of the late Henry
W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Kinball gave munificently to the
city of Atlanta and donated the capital
building to the State of Georgia. He
was the proprietor of the Kimball House,
in Atlanta, and was tbe organizer of the
Pullman Palace Car Company.
Mr. Kimball was the director general
of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition last
year, and during the World’s Fair he
was president of the board of judges and
took an active part in promoting the
welfare of the exposition.
Will Invite Veterans to Charleston.
Charleston, S. C., April 29.— At a
meeting of Camp Sumter, United Con
federate Veterans held in this city to
night, it was determined to send a large
delegation to the re-union of Con
federate Veterans in Houston, Texas,
for the purpose of inviting the veterans
to hold their next annual meeting in this
cby.j The invitation will be supplemen
ted by another from the Mayor and the
city council. The belief is expressed
here that there could be no more suita
ble place for such a meeting than the
“Cradle of Secession.”
Gamblers Expelled and Dives Closed.
Charleston, W. Va., April 29.
Mayor De Gruyter issued orders to-day
expelling all gamblers from the city,
and to-uight all the dives are closed.
HOLLAND NOW IN JAIL
HE SURRENDERED HIMSELF
SUNDAY NIGHT TO HIS
BROTHER-IN-LAW.
THE PRELIMINARY TRIAL TO-DAY.
The Ex-Cashier Has Never Left Char
lotte but Read Accounts ol Ills Es
cape in the Daily Papers—He Pre
ferred to Serve Out His Sentence to
Being a Fugitive From Justice—An
Effort Being Made by His Friends to
Secure Bail for His Release.
Charlotte, N. C., April 29.— Another
chapter in the J. R. Holland defalcation
has been recorded.
For a week past the ex-cashier of the
Merchants’ and Farmers’ National Bank,
has been missing. Telegrams describing
him had been sent to all parts of the
country, and the bank had offered SI,OOO
reward for his arrest. The concensus of
opinion, however, was that the defaulter
was hiding in the city, and this proved
to be true.
Late last night he sent from his hiding
place for his brother-in-law, Mr. W. E.
Shaw, and the two together proceeded
through the deserted streets of the city
during a dreary, steady downpour of
rain to the residence of Bank President
Dr. J. H. McAden, where the ex-cashier
declared his intention of surrendering
himself to the authorities, preferring this
course to anxieties consequent upon au
attempt to escape justice by flight. Hol
land, his brother-in-law and the bank
president then proceeded to the house of
United States Commiasioner D. G. Max
well, whom they awoke and to whom
Holland told his intention of surrender
ing himself.
The commissioner then proceeded with
Mr. Holland and Mr. Shaw to the county
jail, where he was made comfortable in
the corridor by the sheriff, who did not
think it necessary to lock him up in a
cell.
Mr. Holland had been in hiding since
last Tuesday night, and his suffering had
at last proved too much for him, and
thus he had concluded to face the worst
the law could do rather than the more
powerful predicament of a fugitive from
justice.
It is not yet stated where the ex cash
ier was in hiding, and it seems that this
is not known even by his own family or
to Mr. Shaw.
k He got the papers and read every ac
count of his defalcations and flight. He
said last night he had not been out of
town. Besides the wrong he had com
mitted, the grief of his family had well
nigh era zed him. His ffirst question
when he saw Shaw was : “What does
my family think ? I never had any in
tention of leaving Charlotte; I wanted
quiet and rest, therefore left home, but
I meant from the first to stay and face
it out.”
Holland looks care-worn and weak; is
unshaven and unshorn, and his hair
seems grayer.
The preliminary trial was to have
been held to day, but United States Dis
trict Attorney R. B. Glenn, not having
arrived until late to-night, it was post
poned until to-morrow. An effort is
making among Mr. Holland’s friends to
furnish bail for him. It is rumored to
night that twenty-five or thirty have de
clared their willingness to go on the ex
cashier’s bond.
It is now thought his defalcations are
more than SBO,OOO. Bank Examiner
Miller is still at work with the bank’s
books.
I! THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA.
A Baud ot lusurgents Commanded by
Gen. Maceo Defeated.
Guanantanamo, April 29 —lt is re
ported that a column of government
troops under Colonel Copellos made an
attack to-day upon a band of insurgents.
700 strong, under command of the rebel
leader Maceo, killing nine and wounding
a large number of the revolutionists.
The government forces had two killed
and five wounded.
More Spanish Troops Arrive.
Santiago, I)e Cuba, April 29. —Eleven
hundred Spanish troops arrived here to
day on the steamship San Francisco.
They were welcomed by cheering crowds
at the docks.
OVER ONE HUNDRED DROWNED.
Aud More Than 1,000 Persons Suffered
Loss by the Great Dam Disaster.
Paris, April 29.—M. Leygens, Minis
ter of the Interior, who has gone to the
scene of the disaster at Bousey, near
Epinal, has distributed pecuniary and
other relief to 1,040 victims of the flood
caused by the bursting of the dam.
La Liberte has a dispatch from Epinal
stating that 110 dead bodies have been re
covered and the military who are at
work upon the scene of the flood are
busy digging trenches for the purpose of
burying the carcasses of the thousands
of cattle that were drowned.
It is reported that the heavy frosts
which prevailed in that section during
the latter part of the wiuter aud early
spring were the primary cause of the
disaster, through throwing the masonry
of the dam out of plumb.
Preferred Death to Capture.
Manchos, Cala., April 20.—Grant
Wheeler, oue of the gaug which held up
a Southern Pacific train at Wilcox, Ari
zona, several months ago, committed
suicide by shooting himself near this
place. The officers were close on his
trail and he preferred death to capture.
VI J() Ajqiri _
x mvju x-IVE CENTS.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Cincinnati:
Chicago, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o
Cincinnati, 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 x—3
Batteries: Griffith and Moran: Dwyer
and Merritt.
At St. Louis;
Pittsburg, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2—5
St. Louis, 021 0 0230 I—9
Batteries: Hawley, Sugden and Mack;
Breitenstein Peitz.
At Louisville:
Cleveland, 3204 30 4 3 x 19
Louisville. 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0- 8
Batteries; Cuppy, O'Connou; McDer
mott, Knell and Wadsworth and Cote
and Zahner.
At New York:
Philadelphia-New York postponed, rain.
At Washington:
Brooklyn-Washington postponed, rain.
At Baltimore:
Boston-Baltimore postponed, raiu.
In the South.
At Memphis:
Memphis, 3366101 2 0 —22
Little Rock, 0 4 2 1 0 2 0 0 o—9
Batteries: Gillen and Land; Briggs
and Corcoran.
At Nashville:
Nashville, 2 0 1 9 3 0 0 1 o—l 6
Evansville, 00000300 I—4
Batteries: Herman and Trost; Osseu
burg and Fields.
At Chattanooga:
Chattanooga. 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 o—s
Atlanta, 40300200 x—9
Batteries : Callahan and Wilson;
Weeks, Seerist and Fisher.
At Portsmouth:
Portsmouth, 300 0 000 1 o—4
Norfolk, 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 2—6
Batteries: Brander and Vetter: Herr
and Purcell.
SUN’S COTTON REPORT.
Prices Were Irregular But There Was
Little Change in Quotations.
New York, April 29. —Cotton fell 3
points on May and 7 points on the other
months, recovered this and May ad
vanced 1 point, lost the rise and de- c
dined 6 points, then rallied and closed f
steady with some months 1 to 2 points
lower than at the close on Saturday,
with sales of 170,700 bales.
Liverpool was weak on the spot, but
without quotable change, and the sales
were 12,000 bales; futures declined 1
point there, but recovered this and ad
vanced 1-2 to 1 point, lost this and closed
1-2 to 1 point lower for the day with the
tone quiet. A private Liverpool des
patch said there was a lack of buying
power there to-day.
New Orleans declined 4 to 5 points,
but recovered part of the loss. A mem
ber of a large Texas firm now here, says
the crop in Texas looks well, and that
though there may be a reduction in the
acreage in some sections of that State,
there will be an increase in others.
Spot cotton here was quiet and un
changed with sales of 87 for spinning.
In Manchester, yarns were strong; cloths
dull. The Bombay receipts for the half
week were 45,000 bales. The New Or
leans receipts to morrow are estimated
at 6,000 to 7,000, against 5,019 last
Tuesday and 1,425 last year.
The Southern spot murkets were gen
erally quiet and unchanged. Wilming
ton advanced 1-4 cent and Augusta 1-8
cent. The port receipts were 9,360
bales, against 19,608 last week, and 7,-
851 last year; thus far this week 18,807
against 24,082 thus far last week. The
exports from the ports were 4,568 to
Great Britain, and 50 to the Continent.
The port receipts this week are estimat
ed at 60,000 against 42,000 last year and
51,000 in 1892.
To-Day’s Features.
Irregularity of prices was very notice
able to-day, but after all the market
wound up about where it left off on Sat
urday. It is true that Liverpool was
quite irregular and dosed lower, that
the crop outlook in some parts of the
South was reported more favorable and
that Liverpool, local and Southern opera
tors sold here atone time pretty freely,tut
on the other hand, it was stated that the
rain-fall in the Atlantic States of late
has been too heavy to be beneficial, and
the continent sent buying orders, while
in the later transactions there was con
siderable buying for local and Southern
account. Fall River was stronger.
Prominent bulls here were good buy
ers of the distant months though
they are understood to have sold
some August. The weather in Texas has
cleared up. There was some effort to
make capital of a decline of 3 16d in
Ixondon and 3 cents here and talk to the
effect that jthere is danger of complica
tions growing out of the treaty of peace
between Japan aud China, but the mar
ket here closed steady and practically
unchanged nevertheless.
Accident to a Young Naval Officer.
Washington, D. C., April 29.—Capt.
Redd, of the Olympia, telegraphed the
Navy Department this afternoon that
when that vessel was coming to anchor
at San Francisco yesterday afternoon
the port chain parted at the fifteen
fathom shackle, which, in running out,
struck Ensign George Mallison just above
the ankle, breaking his leg, necessitating
amputation. Mr. Mallison is one of the
popular young officers of the Navy aud
has just been married.
Shot Him Five Times.
Asheville, N. C., April 29.—Special
to the Citizen from Marshall says: Sun
day morning Harlon Shelton shot and
killed Solomon Hensley, on Shelton Lau
rel, in Madison county. Shelton shot
Hensley five times. Cause of killing un
known.