The News &nd Observer.
VOL. XXXVIII. HO. 87.
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SETTLE IS FOR REED
HE THINKS McKINLEY WILL NOT
GET A SOLID VOTE FROM
IIIS OWN STATE.
ALLISON HIS SECOND CHOICE.
Says That McKinley is Uncertain in
His Attitude on Silver—Minister
Ransom’s Reception in Mexico —His
Speech Highly Praised by the Mexi
can Papers—Rapidly “Turning the
Rascals Out”—Another Civil Service
Commission Resignation.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. 0., May 3.
Congressman Settle is here, and in
talking with a Post reporter is quoted as
saying : “It seems to me that it will be
impossible for McKinley to get a solid
delegation in his own State, and if this
be true, he is, of course, out of the race.
My own opinion is that Mr. Reed has far
more friends in North Carolina than Mr.
McKinley, but Allison is the second
choice of everybody. The friends of
Reed are for him as long as he is a can
didate, and then they are for Allison.”
“Will the Southern Republicans be
allowed their full representation in the
National Convention, or will they be
asked to decrease the number of their
delegates, as was suggested some time
ago.”
“I have the written assurance from
Chairman Manley that nothing will be
attempted in the way of decreasing the
representation of Southern Republicans.
It could not be done, anyway, unless by
authority of a national convention, but
I do not believe that there is any desire
to curtail our rights. I wrote to Mr.
McKinley about the matter, but he was
very non-committal, being apparently
afraid to take a stand on one side or the
other. He is also uncertain in his atti
tude on silver, although I believe that he
is against it, as he has been reported as
being.”
“But suppose that Reed should ma
nipulate the committees so as to antago
nize silver or should show himself hos
tile to legislation friendly to silver ?”
“Oh,” replied Mr. Settle, “if he should
slap the silver men in the face, he could
not expect to hold their support.”
‘'Turning the Rascals Out.”
The Democrats here who believe in
turning the rascals out “point with
pride” to the record of Fourth Assistant
Post Master General.
There are about 66,000 fourth-class
postoffices with salaries ranging from 2
cents to SI,OOO per year. The number
of appointments made up to April since
Cleveland’s second inauguration is 34,-
000. This gives Maxwell a record great
er by 10,000 than that made during the
same period of Cleveland’s first term by
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson, and is a greater record by
3,000 than that made by Mr. Clarkson.
About two-fifths of the fourth-class
offices are practically unchanged on polit
ical grounds, the revenues of such
offices in many cases not exceeding $lO
per year, it will be seen that the record
in this respect made by the present ad
ministration is a phenomenal one. The
number of offices available for distribu
tion, taking two-fifths of the fourth class
offices as not worth applying for, would
be 39,400. As 34,000 changes have been
made in two years, there remains but
about 5,400 more removals to make dur
ing the remaining half of Mr. Cleveland's
incumbency.
Os the presidential offices there are but
3,000, and about 3,125 appointments
have been made by this administration.
This leaves Mr. Wilson about 475 con
tests to settle.
Ransom’s Reception in Mexico.
I have just had opportunity to read
the papers published in Mexico on the
morning after Minister Ransom had de
livered his speech upon the occasion of
his reception by President Diaz. The
speech, which you have already printed,
was a departure from the beaten track,
and the Mexican papers praise it in the
warmest terms. The Two Republics, of
April 27th, contains the following edito
rial reference to Minister Ransom’s happy
speech:
“The speech delivered by Hon. Matt
W. Ransom, when he was received by
President Diaz, as Minister of the
United States in Mexico, has from the
very moment of its utterance attracted
attention. That speech was a departure
from the stereotyped form usual on such
occasions. It was longer than is the
regulation speech; it was frank and out
spoken, instead of being obscure and in
sinuating: it expressed without re
serve the sentiments which animate
the Minister and his government
in such emphatic terms that all
could understand. In its frankness and
its sincerity, it was unlike diplomatic
speeches; yet it has proved to be most
diplomatic or politic, for, as the Partido
Liberal says, it has won for the minis
ter the sympathy of all who heard, or
have read the speech. ‘We declare
sincerely that the speech has produced
on us a profound and pleasant impres
sion on account of its substance and not
a little surprise by its form. It seems
to break the old European diplomatic
form, which has always shaped speeches
es this class, and assumes an ampleness,
a tone of sincerity and simplicity
which agree admirably with our
democratic institutions.’ Further on
the Partido adds: ‘He should
be considered as the perfect type of the
American citizen, of the believer in God,
in country, in honor and in justice.’ It
is doubtful if ever before in the history
of Mexico has the speech of a minister
presenting his credentials received such
high praise from an organ of the Mexi
can press as that bestowed on the speech
of Gen. Ransom by the Partido Liberal.
‘That is the way to talk,’ exclaims the
Partido ‘and the way everybody should
talk who desires to strengthen
the bonds of friendship between
neighboring nations and when in
ternational relations are based on reci
procity and mutual convenience. Thus
it is that fears are dispelled, that the
bad effects of the boastings of senseless
and unrefiectiDg people are removed.’
The Partido is right. The stereotyped
and stilted phrases of diplomacy, well
turned and elegant as they always arc,
are as meaningless as they are stale. No
wonder then that the hearty, frank
words of the new American minister, in
which he greeted with sincerity and cor
diality the president and people of Mex
ico, should have attracted the attention
and admiration of the Partido Liberal.
Those words impressed themselves
on President Diaz, because his reply was
couched in language equally cordial and
sincere. General Ransom’s happy speech
has ushered him into office as the diplo
matic representative of the United
States under the most favorable aus
pices, he having already won the re
spect and esteem of the Mexican govern
ment and people.”
Commissioner Lyman’s Resignation.
It is reported that the President has
asked for the resignation of U. S. Civil
Service Commissioner Lyman. If this is
true, it is the best thing Mr. Cleveland
has done since he came into the White
House. Lyman is a more-holy—than
Pharisee whose venality has been exposed
ever since he gave his relative the ex
amination papers on the fly in order t
help him pass.
SUN’S COTTON REPORT.
In Spite ot Bearish News the Market
Closed Steady and Unchanged.
New York, May 3.— Cotton fell 8 to
10 points, but regained this and closed
steady with sales of 107,100 bales. New
Orleans declined 6 points but recovered
this and Augusta advanced 2 points.
Liverpool declined 1-32 on the spot with
sales of 10,000 bales and futures fell 3
points, closing quiet and steady. The
dissolution was announced of the firm of
A. N. Selter & Co.
Fall River was 1-16 cent higher. Fall
River advices indicate that New England
cotton manufacturers have sold freely
ahead, and fair profits are now assured.
The consumption is large and the curtail
ment of the past two years has prevented
an accumulation of stocks. Increased
business is looked for by cotton mill men.
In Manchester, cloths were quiet and
yarns in buyers favor. Spot cotton here
was weak and unchanged with sales of
223 for spinning and 500 delivered on
coutract. The Southern spot markets
were generally quiet and unchanged. St.
Louis advanced 1 1-16 New Orleans
receipts to-morrow are estimated at 2, 500
to 3,000 against 5,037 last Saturday and
1,594 last year.
The'port receipts were 7,039, against
14,746, including “Various,” last week
and 16,365 last year; total for the week
55,483 against 70,483 last week and 41,-
557 last year. The total interior receipts
for the week were 19.185 against 27,516
last week and 16,674 last year, ship
ments 42,916 against 62,225 last week
and 35,627 last year; stocks 162,348
against 185,252 last week and 165,122
last year.
Today’s Features.
Another exemplification of the steadi
ness of the undertone of the cotton mar
ket was afforded to-day when, in spite
of some undeniably bearish news the
market closed steady at practically the
same prices as at the end of the session
yesterday. Early in the day, it is true,
they showed quite a fair decline, as a
result of confusing reports in regard to
the Japanese treaty, a decline in Liver
pool, a depression in Manchester, some
cheerful reports in regard to the crop
prospects at the South, and quite a little
liquidation, not to mention a little bear
hammering.
But the market looked different
later on. It was reported that the Em
peror of China had ratified the treaty
with Japan, but if this was generally
known, less attention was paid to it than
to some unfavorable crop reports from
Texas, and a rumor that the Galveston
News to-morrow will state that the Texas
acreage has been reduced 10 per cent.
The crop in Texas is still declared to
be late, and private reports declare that
the acreage will be reduced. Silver
was higher, Fall River was active
and advancing, the dry goods
trade was generally in a better
position, woolen goods are advancing in
Europe, and this has, of course, indi
rectly a more or less stimulating effect
on the general dry goods trade of this
country.
A large bull house is understood to
have given the market a little support
this afternoon, but after all, the rally
which took place in the late business
was traceable not so much to bullish
sustaining orders as to covering by the
shorts and buying by the outsiders.
a.RESHAM aTery sick man.
And His Family are Anxious About Ilis
Condition.
Washington, D. C., May 3.-—Secre
tary Gresham, it is feared, is a very sick
man.
Those most intimately concerned as to
his health make no denial of their anxi
ety as to his condition. His main affec
tion has been diagnosed as gall stone
and this is complicated by the weak
physical condition from which the Secre
tary has suffered for some time past.
No visitors are admitted to see the
patient, |who is confined to his apart
ments at the Arlintdn Hotel.
RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT
THE SITUATION AT THE FLAT
TOP MINES GROWING
SERIOUS.
UGLY THREATS FROM STRIKERS.
The Miners at Pocahontas Decide not
to Join the Strikers— Force will be
Used to Compel Them to Quit Work
and This Will Precipitate Trouble—
The Railroad Alarmed tor the Safety
ot its Property—Troops Leave Rich
mond and Roanoke tor the Scene.
Lynchburg, Va., May 3.-- -It is under
stood that many miners have declared
their intention of remaining in
Pocahontas until Monday to keep out
the miners at that point. The strikers
committees have been working on the
men at every available opportunity, but
they have had poor success as
yet. There is now every reason to be
lieve that it will require force to keep
the men here from work, and the crisis
is apt to come Sunday or Monday. It is
the miners on the Elkhorn side of the
large tunnel who seem to be in the most
ugly mood.
A telegram received to-night from
Governor O’Ferrall ordering the Home
Guard to proceed by first train to Poca
hontas,the scene of the miners’ strike.
, It is now probable that the United
States regulars will be called for. There
is a regiment at Columbus, 0., in easy
reach. Governor McCorkle is advising
strongly against this step, and has
wired Colonel Tierney, of his staff,
■•ho is an Elkhorn operator, that
he is able to cope with the situation.
However, if Federal troops are asked
for, it will he by the Norfolk and Wes
tern Railroad. It is the general belief that
1 Gov.O’Ferral and McCorkle are both
ready to render such assistance as may
be necessary. It is predicted by some
of the most largel interested parties
that the field will >e idle for several
months. Fully one-third of the strikers
have left the region and are still going
on every train.
Trouble Expected Sunday.
Lynchburg, Va., May 3.—A special
from Elkhorn, W. Va., says :
There were few developments in the
strike situation to-day; probably the
most notable was the meeting held at
Powhatan. Reports had gained cur
rency among the miners that J. W. Law
less, the mine workers organizer, had
been placed on a salary by rival fields to
induce a strike to divert trade from this
field. The meeting was called and
Lawless, who was on North Fork, was
sent for. It is needless to say he denied
the charge and denounced the author,
placing it on enemies of the miners.
The miners at Pocahontas decided not
to come out to a conference with the
Mine Workers’ Union. This will pre
cipitate trouble. It may not occur be
fore Bunday, however, at the meeting at
that place, when it is expected the at
tendance will reach five to six thousand.
The operators from this district went
to Bluefield to-day to confer with the
road officials as to the propriety of
starting their works soon. Strong oppo
sition to this will be made, yet there are
indications of divisions among the
miners, some wanting to return to work.
Militia Ready to Move.
Huntington, W. Va. May 3—Re
ports from the mining districts along the
i Norfolk & Western railroad are of a
more serious character than yesterday.
Several coal ears are reported burned at
different points along the line.
About 100 colored miners from * the
Elkhorn region came to this city last
i night on a freight train and started east
by foot, claiming they were going to the
: mines on New River. So ne think they
i are lurking its these parts with a view
i of destroying property dowu uu this end
■ of the line of the Norfolk & Western.
A gatling gun was sent to the Blue
, field militia this morning.
Advices to-night received here from
■ the mines along the Ohio extension of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad say that
i the miners are almost all out and that
the non-union men are joining the
i strikers who are armed in some places
i but have not yet committed any vio
lence. The mine owners are demanding
i protection from the United States Mar
; shal in some cases and it will probably
■ be given.
1 The two regiments of State militia
1 here have been ordered to be ready to
' move at the call of the Governor should
it be necessary to send them. Many
miners from the Elkhorn passed through
here to.day to look for work elsewhere.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company have put on guards to protect
' their property.
Troops Leave Richmond.
Richmond, Va., May 4. —The Rich
mond Howitzers, twenty-four strong,
, with a three inch rifled gun and their
Gatling gun, left for the coal fields at
midnight. The officers of the First
Regiment were summoned to the
Regimental armory just before mid
-1 night and told that the services of that
command might be needed.
The Howitzers will meet other troops
on the way. Graham will be the con
centrating point for troops.
The step is a precautionary one on the
part of the Governor. The Adjutant
General is at the scene of the trouble,
i Roanoke lutantry Ordered Out.
Roanoke, Va., May 3.— The Roanoke
Light Infantry and Roanoke Machine
Works guards of this city received orders
s from Richmond to-night to prepare to go
to Graham, Va., in the morning and are
now hurriedly preparing to do so.
STRIKES A BIG FACTOR
THE CHIEF OBSTACLE AT PRE
SENT TO IMPROVEMENT
IN BUSINESS.
THE WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS.
But in Spite ol Labor Trouble Business
in a Better Condition Than it has
Been in Two Years and the Outlook
Briehtens—The Money Market in a
Healthy Condition and the Specula
tive Fever Grows'More Fierce--The
Failures-Triankjclearingsj |
New York, May 3.— R. G. Dun
Co’s weekly review of trade to-morrow
will say: Business begins May in better
condition than at any other time since
the break-down in May, 1893. Smaller
in volume than then, it is not now
shrinking but enlarging.
The chief obstacle to a more complete
recovery is the anxiety of many to pluck
fruit before it is ripe. Holders of some
staples have lifted them so far as to pre
vent their marketing; consumption of
materials in some branches is checked
by advances which cannot be realized
for finished products; workers in some
industries are demanding wages that
cannot be paid oui of any business in
sight.
In spite of labor troubles, and specula
tive excesses, the outlook brightens
and money markets continue healthy, and
with heavy sales of railway bonds abroad,
and the deficiency in public revenue,
$8,742,840 in April, causes no appre
hension.
Demands for full restoration of
wages to the level of 1892 have closed
many woolen mills, and threaten to close
others employing about 9,000 hands at
Olneyville and about Providence, and
have arrested work at other mills of
some importance already. Similar de
mands are made in cotton mills of Mas
sachusetts. The strike which closed iron
furnaces at New Castle, Pa., has just
ended without success, but other strikes
have stopped numerous works about
Pittsburg, and others are threatened.
Exaggerated accounts of recovery in
business, so often published and some
times prompted by manufacturers them
selves, make it not entirely strange if
operatives fail to see that the business in
the great industries is without profit, and
much of the working force is still unem
ployed.
The speculative fever grows more
fierce, as is natural when business starts
up with prices at extreme low points, and
the prices of staples have gone above the
exporting points.
The strike at New Castle, Pa., now
over, stiffened Bessemer pig so that
$10.75 was quoted at Pittsburg, and the
closing of a Wheeling mill stiffened bil
lets, while Southern makers have nomi
nally advanced their price, though sales
have been made here under $lO for No.
2. Additional contracts for structure
work here and at Chicago, sales of 7,000
tons of rails at the east, a better demand
for wire and its products, and the plates
and sheets, are the encouraging features
this week. Cotton ties are a shade
higher at 55 cents per bundle, and wire
nails at 85, and cut nails at 70 cents by
car loads are less demoralized. Con
sumption does not yet equal capacity of
works or output of’ pig, but improves.
Late in the week important strikes in
iron works about Pittsburg threaten
serious disturbances. Another heavy
decrease of 11,667, tons in output of
coke, makes the shrinkage nearly 20
per cent in two weeks, and furnace is
offered at sl.lO.
Anthracite coal agents agreed to mine
only three days of the week in May, but
prices are unchanged. Window glass
makers have adopted a new scale, for
the two lower brackets 50 cents higher
than before.
The remarkable rise in leather con
tinues, and yet shipments of boots and
shoes from Boston for April were
slightly larger than two years ago or
ever before, and most of the works have
orders for three or four months produc
tion at a material advance in prices.
The chief embarrassment is uncertain
ly as to the future price of leather. The
rise iu prices of cotton goods also con
tinues. The woolen year ends with the
lowest prices yet known.
Failures in 25 days of April showed
liabilities of $9,536,960, which $3,614,-
746 were of manufacturing and $5,705,-
650 of trading Last year in
four weeks ending April 26th, liabilities
were $8,826,862 of which $3,687,220
were of manufacturing and $4,677,669
of trading concerns.
The week’s failures 231, in the United
States against 233 last year and 34 in
Canada, against 35 last year.
Bradstreet’s Review.
New York, May 3.— Bradstreet’s to
morrow will say: The manifest improve
ment in many lines of general trade has
resulted in an increase in the volume of
business, notwithstanding the impend
ing idleness of 9,000 Rhode Island
worsted mill operatives and many in
other industrial lines.
Industrial unrest now takes the form
of striking for higher wages. This week
about 50,000 industrial employes, prin
cipally coal miners and cotton and wool
en mill employes, have struck and the
tendency does not seem to be checked.
About 3,000 people are reported to have
obtained higher wages without striking.
April bank clearings reflect improved
demand for staples and enlarged specu
lation in stocks and bonds, wheat, petro
leum and cotton in a monthly aggre
gate which is, with two exceptions, the
largest reported since June 1893. To
tal April clearings at 61 cities are
$4,232,322,999, a gain, over 1894, of 14
per cent and over March this year of 5.5
per cent. The increase over February
is 25 per cent. Three fourths of all the
cities reporting show increases over
April 1894, special improvement being
noted in the eastern and middle States
and in the South and Southwest. The
far western group alone shows a de
crease.
Nashville and Galveston report some
little improvement in the volume of bus
iness, but they prove the exceptions
among Southern cities. Agricultural
conditions in Tennessee are said to be
favorable. In Texas the coast country
still needs rain. At Chattanooga and
Augusta the week's business has been of
somewhat smaller volume although at
the former some of the manufacturing
industries are better employed than one
year ago.
There is only a fair business in cotton
goods, and prices remain firm. No gain
is looked for until demand for fall sup
plies becomes general.
IIOKE SECREST SENTENCED.
He Gets Twenty years lor the Murder
oi His Wife and Child.
Special to the News and Observer.
Rutherfordton, N. C., May 3.
The noted case of Hoke Secrest, who
murdered his wife and child eighteen
years ago in Burke county, this State,
was called this morning. Counsel for
the State and defence announced that
they had agreed upon a compromise,
verdict of manslaughter.
The jury was accordingly instructed
to render such a verdict and Secrest was
at once sentenced
ment in the penitentiary.
History of his Crime.
On Monday, March 5, 1877 Hoke
Secrest married his wife at Newton, and
Tuesday night she and her little four
year old daughter were killed and buried
one foot in the ground near the road
side. She was a bride one day and the
second night will killed. He has been
twice pronounced a lunatic and has twice
escaped from the asylum and tied to
South Carolina where he sold one farm
and subsequently bought and now owns
a nice farm at Campeballo, Spartanburg
county S. C. Some say he is a sharp,
shrewd rascal; others allege he is insane.
His able counsel, Messrs. D. A. Coving
ton, Justice & Justice, and Judge W. A.
Montgomery claimed he vas insane and
ought not be hanged; the Solicitor and
Attorney Redwine, of MoDroe, were pre-
Eared to offer strong evidence to prove
is sanity.
The bones of the murdered woman and
child with the fragments of their cloth
ing and other evidences of the awful
crime which have been in the possession
of the Clerk of the Court of McDowell
county for nearly twenty years, had been
brought here to the Clerk of the Superior
Court for use in the trial.
LOUIS SIIANER ARRESTED.
He Killed Jim Wallace About a Gam
bling Dispute at Reidsville.
Lynchburg, Va., May 3.— Louis O.
Shaner, the man who killed Jim Wal
lace in a house of ill-fame at Danville
on Sunday night last, surrendered him
self to his brother, Mr. Walter Shaner,
this afternoon, and was taken by the
latter to the police station. The two
reached the court house at 4 o'clock and
found there the Danville officers who
had had some previous intimation of
Shaner’s intention.
He was shortly afterwards taken to
jail, no application being made for bail,
and will be taken to Danville to-morrow.
The prisoner seemed composed. He
wore the grey suit mentioned in the de
scriptions of him, but his face was clean
shaven, aud he did not seem to be any
the worse for his exciting experience of
the past few days. On being asked by
the reporter as to how long he had been
in town he replied that he had been here
about two days. He did not seem to
think that there was a very serious case
against him.
ORIENTAL QUESTION SETTLED.
Japan Abandons all Claim to the
Manchurian Territory.
Paris, May 3. —The Journal Des Debats
asserts that it has information from an
absolutely trustworthy source that the
oriental question has been settled upon
terms under which Japan abandons oc
cupation of or claim to all Manchurian
territory except Port Arthur and in ex
change therefor receives some equiva
lent as compensation from China, the
nature of which is determinable here
after.
Wilde Admitted to Bail.
London, May 3. —The United Press
learns that Baron Pollock, one of the
Judges of the Queen’s Bsnch division of
the High court of justice, heard iu his
private chambers in the High court this
afternoon the application of counsel to
admit Oscar Wilde to bail. Judge Pol
lock agreed to accept bail, and will read
the depositions this evening and fix the
amount to morrovu
A Navel Method of Defence.
London, May 3.— A despatch from
Shanghai to the Globe says that tfie
Chinese with a view of preventing the
Japanese form entering Pekin, have cut
the embankment of the Pei-Ho and flood
ed miles of country. Hundreds of per
sons were caught by the rushing waters
and drowned.
Turney Declared Governor.
Nashville, Tenn., May 8. -Turney was
declared Governor to-day by thirteen ma
jority in the legislature.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DEATH IN A CYCLONE
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED AND
MANY INJURED IN AN
IOWA STORM.
FORCE OF THE TORNADO TERRIFIC
The Whole Country in the Track oi the
Wolul Winds Devastated--A Num
ber of School Houses Destroyed aud
the Teachers and Pupils Killed aud
Injured—The Exact Number of
Deaths Cannot be Obtained—Many
Place it at a Hundred.
Sioux City, lowa, May 3. Sioux
county was devastated by a ter
riffic cyclone this afternoon. The storm
came from the northwest and struck
Sioux Centre, a small town 45 miles north
of this point, at 4 o’clock.
Telegraphic reports from the scene of
the storm are very meagre, the wires be
ing down, but it is understood that a
considerable number were killed and in
jured.
The first reports were received by the
Sioux City and Northern railroad from
their agent at Sioux Centre. This dis
patch read: “Cyclone passed three
miles northwest of here. A school house
near town was blown down, teacher
killed and several children killed and in
jured. The exact number and names
have not yet been learned. The whole
country in the track of the storm was
devastated. The Sioux City and North
ern tracks between Perkins and Doon
are washed out for several miles.”
Despatches from Sioux Centre at 8:30
say that three school-houses and at least
twenty residences and barns near that
place were swept away. At the school
house two teachers and three pupils
were killed and many injured. He him
self escaped and says that at least a
hundred people must have been killed.
Parties have been sent out from Hull,
Sioux Centre and Orange City, neighbor
ing towns, but their work is being car
ried on in total darkness and in the
midst of a tremendous wind and rain
storm. It is consequently progressing
slowly. A number of bodies have al
ready been recovered, although the ex
act number cannot be learned.
Every one is violently excited and de
finite accounts cannot be obtained. It is
said that Perkins, a small town between
Sioux Centre and Doon, was directly in
the path of the storm and was almost
entirely wiped out.
The wires leading to it are all down.
The tracks are all washed out and the
roads cannot be safely travelled over,
owing to the manner in which they were
gullied by the rain. It is consequently
no easy matter to reach it.
Physicians have already set out from
Hull, Orange City and Sioux Centre but
are meeting with every conceivable ob
stacle in their effort to reach the scene
of the storm. Help has been refused
from here, but if the same character of
reports continue to come in a train may
be sent out.
Late this evening news was received
from Sibley to the effect that a storm
struck there at sp. m., destroying the
house of John Watterson, killing Mrs.
Watterson and wounding Watterson and
his son. No names can yet be learned
of the people injured about Sioux centre
and Perkins.
The Sioux City aud Northern train
which arrived at 10 o’clock this evening
brought several passengers who witnessed
the storm. They reported that 13 dead
had been brought into Sioux Centre at 6
p. m. It is estimated that 50 people
must have been killed.
The Northern train barely escaped a
smash-up in a washout near Doon, but
was stopped by a section man before it
passed upon the dangerous territory.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Philadelphia:
New York, 000000 2 1 2-5
Philadelphia, 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 3—B
Batteries: German and Schriver; Mc-
Gill and Buckley.
At Boston:
Washington, 1 3 020050 o—ll
Boston, 3410953 2 x—27
Batteries: Mercer and McGuire; An
derson and Mahoney; Dolan and Warner;
Sullivan and Tenny.
The Virginia League.
At Petersburg:
Petersbnrg, 01110 2 00 o—s
Norfolk, 11 000 2 0 0 0-4
Batteries: James and McClung: Mc-
Donald and Purcell.
At Portsmouth:
Portsmouth, 1 0 2 2 0 5 2 2 o—ls
Lynchburg, 00001013 o—s
Batteries: Halman and Vetter; Gray
and Schabel. Umpire: Crowley.
At Richmond:
Richmond, 0 1 5 3 1 0 o—lo
Roanoke, 224010 0— 9
Batteries: Behne, Flynn and Foster;
Lloyd, Gaffney and Clark.
The Railroad Greatly Alarmed.
Charleston, W. Va., May 3.— This
afternoon upon application of the Nor
folk & Western railroad, through its at
torney, Judge Jackson issued au injunc
tion restraining the strikers along the
Norfolk & Western railroad from inter
fering with the United States mails or
inter-state traffic.
Marshal Garden will put a force of
deputies in that region at once, to en
force the court’s order. The latest in
formation is that the railroad company
is greatly alarmed as numerous threats
have been made and the temper of the
people is such thai they expect interfer
ence with the movement of their trains.