The News and Observer
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 133
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THE SHEMWELL TRIAL
THE GROUNDS ON WHICH THE
TWO SIDES WILL FIGHT
IT OUT.
SELF-DEFENCE WILL BE THE PLEA
The State Will Attempt to Show That
Sheiuwell Came op Behind Dr. Payne
and Shot Him Without Provocation
While the Defence Will Seek to Prove
that the Paynes Had Formed a Con
spiracy to Shoot Sheiuwell on Sight—
Yesterday’s Proceedings in Court.
Special to the News and Observer.
Lexington, N. C., July 6
It seems fair to say that the theory
both of the prosecution and of defence
is sufficiently apparent to say that the
State will claim in alleged consonance
with the testimony yesterday of Dr.
Payne that Shemwell came up behind
him and his father and without warning
shot old Dr Payne down in cold blood,
with the intention of shooting young Dr.
Payne also. The contention of the State,
it seems almost certain, embraces all this
claim.
Appearances indicate that the defence
will stoutly hold that there was a con
spiracy between Dr. Payne and his son
to attack and shoot Shemwell when the
first fight of the morning occurred And
that is why so much store was set yester
day upon the late coming evidence of Dr.
Payne, which, however, he said he would
have given sooner had he been asked or
thought of it. In this testimony Dr.
Payne said that he opened the door,
heard friendly words between his father
and Shemwell and then closed it.
Moreover, it seems from the trend of
the questions, that the defence is try ing
to establish the fact that at the time of
the second shooting, one of the Payn s
attacked first, and to day Mr. Watson
called attention to the dent in the unex
ploded cartridge in the pistol carried at
that time by young Dr. Payne. But the
witness, Policeman Michaels, snid he did
not think the dent came from a snapping
of the hammer, and therein lies the
rub.
There were, however, some new facts
which came out from witnesses to day
for the State, the first three simply in
corroboration of Dr. Payne, and not con
taining any new matter worth attention
But W. B. Hamner was called as fourth
witness. He is a harness maker living
quietly across the street from where the
tragedy occurred. He was in his shop
at work and saw the Doctora Payne
going down the street. In a moment he
heard little Dermott, Shemwell’s son,
crying earnestly from across the street,
“Papa, papa,” and ‘‘l saw him making
gestures,” continued Hamner. Hooking
out Hamner said he saw Shemwell just
across the street walking very rapidly.
He stepped to the door and Shemwell
was four or five steps behind the Doctors
Payne with a pistol in his left hand
Reaching the Paynes Shemwell threw up
his right hand and fired into Dr. Payne’s
bosom. Hamner said he couldn’t see
Shemwell’s right hand but that he had
not shifted the pistol.
Watson attacked the eyesight of the
witness, who said he was sixty-three,
aaklhis door and window was distant 6
orTfeet and the window not a particul
arly clean or particularly dirty one.
Watson’s questions, moreover, inferred
that if Hamner heard little Dermott’s ex
clamation at that distance young Dr.
Payne should have heard it too at closer
distance" as he knew the boy well, little
Payne being a playmate of his. Hamner
said in reply to a question from Mont
gomery that he was no relation to Payne
and that his, Hamner’s, son was now
working for Shemwell.
John W. Lee. chairman of the board
of county commissioners, was called,
and said he heard the prisoner give him
self up to Sheriff Leonard after the kill
ing, and heard him then say, “I have
accomplished what I had determined to
do.” He said he was no kin to any of
the parries. Cross-examined by Watson
he said he didn’t go into the store at all
where Shemwell gave himself up, but he
said he was right near to the door.
Asked if he would stick to his statement
if all the other folks present in the store
said differently he replied “yes.”
D. D. Cutrell, a drummer, who was
here on the day of the killing, said he
had never before then heard of any of
the parties, and saw Shemwell go in to
his drug store and come out quietly and
then up the street in the direction of the
Paynes; saw Shemwell reach to his
pocket; saw his coat tail fly up; saw Dr.
Payne turn and saw the smoke of the
Eistol. On cross examination, he said
e simply saw his coat tail fly up, but
did not see him pull a pistol
Another drummer, J. W. B Battle, of
Tarboro, said in his evidence that he
heard, after theshootiDg, little Dermott
say, “Mama, I have saved papa’s life
by jerking the pistol out of Dr. Lee
Payne’s hands.”
He said he did not hear but oue fire,
under cross-examination.
The atternoon was almost entiiely
consumed by witness J. L Michaels, the
policeman who arrested Shemwell and
the Paynes. He was followed by Dr.
Long, who testified to the cause of
autopsy, etc.
Michaels said he saw Shemwell and
Pavne in the barbershop Saturday night
before the Monday shooting, Shemwell
walking to and fro and saying some
thing about Payne interfering with his
business. Dr. Payne, he testified, said:
“If you let my business alone I’ll not in
terfere with your's, and there will be no
trouble.” Shemwell said: “You shall
let my business alone, or there will be
trouble.” Under cross-examination this
statement was changed to run thus:
“They said if there was no interference
with one another’s business, there would
be no trouble and if there were such in
terference there would be trouble.”
Michael’s evidence described mostly
what has already been told, with the ex
ception of his relations with the prisoner
and the Paynes that day. Michaels failed
to take Sbemwell's fire arms away from
him by force or refusal of Shemwell to
give them up and finally wound up by
giving back to Shemwell £the pistols
already given up to him, on condition
that Shemwell would lay them away in
his d:awer in the drug store, which was
done. It was a little after the laying
away of these pistols in the drawer, that
the same pistols were brought away from
the scene of the killing. Two pistols of
the Paynes, also were brought away from
the scene and a few days later another
pistol was brought to Michaels seemingly
the same one which S. E. Williams had
lent to young Payne after the appearance
in court.
One of Michaels' statements was “I
says, ‘Now Baxter give me the pistols,’
and he says, ‘No we will go to the drug
store and lay them away.’” While
Michaels had gone to arrest the Paynes,
he left Shemwell in the hands of other
officers, but on returning with the
Paynes, he left them for some reason,
and went to the drug store and found
Shemwell out of the hands of the officers
with whom he had left him. Then Shem
well went to the court house with Mich
aels, who went back to the drug store
and fiaally found out, after difficulty,
that the pistols were still laid away in
the droWjr and were still logically
on Shemwell’s person.
All the pistols were exhibited in court
and Michaels was sent to a back room to
unload them. In unloading them one
of the empty shells that contained the
bullet that, of the two shots, may have
been the one that killed Dr. Payne, fell
on the floor with a hollow sound that
was heard over the court house and
which caused the women of the Payne
family to bury their faces in their
hands.
On cross-ex rmination Michaels said
that the old doctor said he had gone to
make friends and he was sorry now that
he had gone. Michaels said moreover,
that in the trial the old Doctor said he
would have to put his spectacles on to
sign the bond. Upon which Shemwell
said, “I wish I had got the other.” Mi
chaels said he was sitting between Payne
and Shemwell, but under Watson’s ques
tioning changed his statement and said
Robbins sat there. Again Michaels
said that just after the shooting he met
Shemwell near the fatal spot, and he
said to him : “June, I thought you told
me you disarmed these men ?” and I said
to him, ‘yes, and I thought I did.’ ” This
statement, too, was changed in a few
moments, Michaels saying he could not
locate the place, and the evidence was
excluded. Mr. Michaels had gone
through a scorching ordeal.
Over forty of the best women
of the town were in court to
day outside of the bar. The house
was densely packed and attention united.
The relatives within the bar were about
the same as yesterday.
Charlie Christian another eye witness
agreed with the other eye witnesses save
that he positively swears that pistols
were drawn by Bhemwell some distance
before he reached the Paynes, and that
he walked along with them in his hands,
and also that there were two shots; that
he heard both reports and saw both pis
tols smoking in Sbemwell’s hands. This
witness got rather badly bothered as to
the location of the homicide, on cross
examination. Court adjourned till Mon
day at 10 o’clock.
The prosecution and its fnends are
free to claim that the statements set
forth in its affidavit, alleging that nearly
all the men of morality and intelligence
in the county had formed and expressed
an opinion, has been fully sustained by
the jury that was finally selected. The
Payne side, not necessarily the lawyers
alone, say that those men who were ex
amined and whose faces and appearance
were marked by intelligence and the
higher sort of respectability, were found
almost invariably to have formed or ex
pressed an opinion. Therefore, the
claim is made that the State is under
the burden of not being able to have its
side heard by the better people of the
county.
On the other hand, some people claim
that the jury is an average one, and
represents about the rank and file of the
county, while to a stronger eyes, the
jury, in perfect candor, does not seem to
come up to the average appearance
of what a county might put forth as a
jury, yet here comes again the sugges
tion from the other side, was it contem
plated by the Anglo Saxon arrangement
of juries hundreds of years ago to put
altogether the finer sort of ci<izens
upon the jury or to put up an
average sprinkling of the peers
of the vicinage. Os course this tacit dif
ference of opinion as to the jury will not
be abated, and in case of a verdict, no
doubt back references to the jury will be
made by the losing side, notwithstanding
the fact that Robbins and Long were
Greek against Greek in the selection.
But they are in the box now and are
hearing the case, and yesterday listened
very Intently to the testimony.
The trial will continue certainly until
next Saturday night, and some say
longer.
Hcwgate Admitted to Ball.
Washington, July 6.— Captain Henry
W. Howgate has been admitted to bail
in the sum of f 1,700, pending an appeal
from his conviction and sentence on
charges of forgery and embezzlement.
RALEIGH, N. C.. SUNDAY, JULY 7. 1895.
A FATAL RAIN STORM
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND
A SCORE 01.0TIIERS WERE
INJURED.
DEVASTATING FLOOD AT WINONA.
The Scene Was Oncol Great Contusion
and Damage to Property Was Great
—Ten Persons Were Drowned at
Winona, Mississippi—Freight Cars
Thrown From the Track by the wind
—The Rivers the Highest in Many
Y ears.
Baxter Springs, Kan., July 6.—The
storm struck the city at 6 o’clock accom
panied by violent rain storm, which was
as quick and destructive as a wa. r
spout. Fully twenty people were more
or less injured, some fatally.
The storm was not anticipated and no
preparations were made by the citizens
to get out of the way in storm cellars.
When it had abated and the work of res
cue had begun, a dozen homeless fami
lies were found in the streets or in the
ruins of their homes.
Five people were killed and twenty
others badly wounded by the cyclone
that struck the town.
Two currents of wind swept the town,
one from the North and the other from
the West. They met near the Methodist
church, joined forces and returned East,
completing the destruction after coming
together. In the track of the current
from the North, the passenger depot was
the first thing damaged.
The current from the West was the
stronger. It lifted the roofs of resi
dence, and when it reached the yards of
the railroad, twenty-eight freight cars
were thrown from the track, the depot
was moved from its foundation.
When the current met the damage to
property was great. The M. E. Church
was totally destrojed and it lies in a
heap of ruins. The cyclone veered
slightly to the Southeast. The Christian
Church was directly in the path, it is a
pile of kindling wood. The Episcopal
Church, one hundred feet away was
not touched. Further up the street
not a residence escaped. The members
of the Webster family, the mother, aged
60; daughter, aged 30, and the grand
son, aged 4, were killed by lighting.
Another son had his leg broken and his
shoulder dislocated, and will probably
die. M. B. Hibbs, aged about 60, died
from excitement.
The old Occidental hotel was struck
by lightning and badly damaged. Four
large hay barns were completely wreck
ed. A conservative estimate of the dam
age places it at SIO,OOO. There was
little if any cyclone insurance. *
Ten People Drowned Ht Winona.
Springfield, Miss , July 6.—Thirty
houses were washed away and ten peo
pie killed by a flood at Winona, on the
Current Branch of the Memphis railroad.
Many other washoats along the branch.
Winona has seven hundred inhabitants
and is the county seat for Shannon
county. Mayor Evans telegraphed here
for help.
A slashing rain preceded by a fierce
wind set in at 9 o’clock last night.
While the wind ceased, the rain in
creased intensely, until at 10 o’clock it
became a warring tumult. At 10:15
four feet of water stood on the streets,
in fifteen minntes more buildings could
no longer stand the strain and began to
careen and topple into the raging waters.
The down-pour was like the ‘alls of
Niagara Houses were smashed and in
the waters hundred of men, women and
children were dashed about, ciiaging to
wreckage. It was a shipwreck on land.
Cries of terror and shouts for help from
the struggling humanity clinging to
pieces of timber made the scene one that
baffled intelligent effort to save the help
less. The strong current rushing down
the ravine or valley carried many to
higher land and places of safety.
By three o’clock in the morning the
worst was over. Those who had escap
ed the sweep of the devastation stood
shivering with wet clothing and without
an opportunity to dry themselves, When
day dawned there was nothing of their
homes in the town. There was no shel
ter, no food and no clothing.
As soon as the telegraphic communica
tion was restored Mayor Evans tele
graphed to this city for aid. To night
the inhabitants of Winona are sheltered
among farm houses or having gone to
neighboring towns.
The Heaviest in Five Years.
Jefferson City, Mo , July 6 —The
heaviest rainfall this city and vicinity
has had in five years fell last night.
Fully seven inches of rain came down.
Goose Creek, which flows through this
city, overflowed its banks, flooded the
valley and filled many houses with water
to the depth of three feet. Several
bridges have floated away.
The Storm iu Dakota.
Fargo, N. D., July 6 -A storm last
night extending from Ansoiem, fifteen
miles west of here and from one to two
miles wide, damaged thirty or forty
thousand aeres of grain, threw build
ings from their foundations and deluged
the country. Four inches of rain fell in
a few hours.
River Two Miles Wide.
Salina, Kan., July 6— Smoky River is
running from bluff to bltrff— two miles
wide. People were rescued from the
second story of houses in the river bot
toms. The water is the highest ever
known.
The Highest in Thirty Years.
Ottawa, Kan., July 16.—The water
in the Marais des Oygnes river here is
the highest known in thirty years. For
est Park is flooded, the water having
reached the platform of the Tabernacle,
submerging nearly all the tenting grounds
occupied at the recent Ohautaqua assem
bly. The Hood reaches to the Santa Fe
shops.
Too Much Rain for Cotton in Texas.
Huntsville, Texas, July 0. Informa
tion from reliable sources indicate that
the cotton crop is in a dangerous condi
tion iu Arkansas and Texas. Unless it
stops raining and that very soon, the
cotton crop will probably be cut short
fifty per cent.
SEVENTY-FIVE DISMISSALS.
The Expenses of the Pension Bureau
arc Being cat Down.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. 0., July 6.
The Civil Service Commission 1 received
to-day from the Interior Department
about seventy five dismissals from the
Pension office, which went into effect
June 30th. Among them were
Grandy, daughter of the late O. W.
Grandy, of Elizabeth City, and Joseph
Hannoe, (col ), of North Carolina. The
salaries of nearly all the higher priced
clerks were reduced. Capt. W. E.
Dulin, of North Carolina, was effected
by this change.
Minister Ransom leaves to-night for
Hickory, N. C., to rejoin his family
where he will remain several days, then
he goes to his home in Northampton
county to spend the remainder ot bis
vacation. His health is greatly improved
and his old time vivacity is again show
ing itself.
Mr. T. J. Allison, wife and three chil
dren, of Statesville, are here.
Miss Viola Boddie, of the Normal and
Industrial School, Greensboro, is on a
visit here. She is going to Europe next
week to prosecute her studies.
MITCHELL IS A DEFAULTER.
His Sadden Disappearance a Great
Shock to his Friends.
Special to the News and Observer.
Winston, N. C , July 6.
Further particulars in regard to the
sudden and mysterious disappearance of
ex-State Senator R. 8. Mitchell, of Cas
well county, which was published in the
News and Observer a few days ago,
reached here to-day.
Mr. Mitchell is said to be heavily in
volved and he is charged with misuse of
trusted funds and his disappearance is
attributed to the latter fact. It is said
that quite a number of attachments have
been served on his property. Mr.
Mitchell enjoyed to a very high degree
the confidence of the community in
which he lived. So much was he trusted
that people having surplus money in his
neighborhood would earnestly insist upon
loaning it to him. He was also a man
of very extensive affairs.
His recent donduct is a severe shock to
the people of his section and will involve
many in financial distress.
A BIG CATCH OF FISH.
Oue Hundred and Eighty-Six Caught
at Morehead in Three Hours.
Spesial to the News and Observer.
Morihead City, July 6.
Tonight arrivals at the Atlantic swell
the number of guests considerably.
Many prominent people are among the
new arrivals from Charlotte, Raleigh,
Norfolk and Goldsboro.
A pleasant and popular event of to
day was an exhilarating sail given by
Mr. Ashley Horae, of Clayton, compli
mentary to Mrs. Carrie Carr Mitchell
and Mrs. E C. Dunn, of Asheville.
The largest catch of fish of the season
was made today by Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
Matson, and a party of Roaaoke. They
brought in one hundred and eighty-six
in three hours.
HOLLAND’** SUCCESSOR.
John Miller, Jr., Become** Cashier aj
the Charlotte Bank.
Winston, N. C., July 6.— John Miller,
Jr., Bank Examiner of Lynchburg, Va.,
who was the first man to detect James R.
H Jland’s defalcation as cashier of the
Merchants’ and Farmers’ National Bank,
at Charlotte, N. 0., has been elected by
the directors ea hter of the bank to suc
ceed Holland. Mr. Miller will enter
upon his official duties September Ist.
Georgia Central Reorganization.
Nbw York, July 6 —The Georgia Cen
tral re-organization committee has
reached an agreement with the bond
holders committee of the Savannah and
Western by which the prop >sed issue of
$4,000,000 of Savannah and Western
four pic cent bonds is abandoned, and
the Georgia Central consolidated mort
gage is increased to $16,000,000. Sa
vannah and Western bondholders are to
be given an exchange for their bonds 55
per cent in consolidated mortgage bonds,
35 per cent in first preferred incomes,
and 25 per cent in second preferred in
comes.
No Truth in the Settlement.
New York, July 6— Vice-President
Wm. H Baker, of the Postal Telegraph
Company, said to day that there was no
tiuth in the story published in Chicago
to the effect that the Standard Telephone,
which is backed by the Standard Oil
Company had secured or was about to
secure a controling interest in the stock
of the Postal Telegraph Company with
the view of entering the field as a com
petitor of the Bell Telephone Company.
A Chinese Loan Completed.
Berlin, July 6. —Advices received here
from St. Petersburg say that the ar
rangements to issue the £16,000,000 to
China on Russian guarantee have been
concluded, and that all the papers will
be signed to day.
SStLIiHiQ) jq A.iquj V
IT BROKE UP IN A RIOT
UNHAPPY ENDING OF A HAPPY
CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCHOOL
PICNIC.
THREE PERSONS WERE KILLED.
And One Hundred Others Were In
jured, a Number Fatally—The Riot
W as Oue to the Outgrowth of Relig
ious Differences and the Church is
Now Converted Into a Hospital—One
Hundred Persons Participated in the
Conflict—Another Version of it.
English, Ind., July 6—A desperate
riot occurred at Siberia, Berry county, in
which 1,000 people took part.
Siberia is a Roman Catholic commun
ity and yesterday the inhabitants were
enjoying a great picnic in the woods
when a gang of disturbers appeared on
the scene. The priest who was present
counseled his people to avoid trouble if
possible and to pay no attention to the
jeers of the half drunken maurauders.
Mistaking this tolerance for cowardice,
the intruders became bolder and precipi
tated a fight, which, in a few moments,
assumed the proportions of a desperate
riot, in which every body took part.
Clubs, chairs and beer bottles were
brought into play and the peaceful pic
nic was immediately transformed into a
great group of struggling, cursing men
and screaming women.
The scene of the frightful panic riot at
Siberia in which three persons were
killed and fifty injured, a number fa
tally, resembles a battle field after a
severe encounter with the exception that
the dead and wounded have been re
moved. Broken bottles, clubs and
splintered chairs litter the ground for
half an acre. The sod, which was torn
up by the struggling mass is tinged with
blood and bloody garments torn off in
the desperate encounter are strown every
where.
Up to this time there has never been a
serious outbreak between the German
Roman Catholics and their opponents in
the vicinity, although there have been
minor encounters indicating that the
feeling of bigotry was growing. The riot
was largely the outgrowth of religious
difference. A thousand people partici
pated in the conflict. Over 100 were
more or less seriously injured. The little
hamlet consists of a store, a restaurant
and a Catholic church. The latter is
now converted into a hospital.
A Free-for-all Fight.
Louisville, Ky., July 6.—A special
from Huntingburg, Ind., says: The re
ported riot at Siberia, Berry county, on
the fourth inst., turns out to have been
merely a free-for-all fi ft -ht, ’be result of
jealously between two young men, cou
sins, who were paying attention to the
same young lady, and was not brought
about by religious discussion as reported.
Four young men were pretty badly used
up and a great many who were engaged
in the fight were considerably bruised.
No deaths will occur from injuries re
ceived in the affray.
IN THE VIRGINIA COAL FIED*
All in Quite at Pocahontas but Trouble
is Feared at Eikhorn.
Blubfisld, W. Va., July 6.—There is
nothing sensational in the condition of
affairs at Pocahontas, Ya. Major Sim
ons reported that the coal companies
there are working a larger force and get
ting out more coal than at any previous
time in the history of the operations.
He reports that there was a great deal
of disorder and drunkenness on the
Fourth and that the West Virginia miners
made an ugly demonstration at the tun
nels near the town. Fully 500 men at
tended this meeting. Many of them
were armed with Winchesters and diffi
culty was narrowly avoided betweensthe
strikers and the railroad guards
In a telegram to Gov. O’Ferrall, Maj.
Simons says that in his opinion, unless
Gov. MacOorkle sends troops to Eikhorn
there will be trouble. The miners are
reported as being demoralized, hungry
and desperate, and they are known to
have a large supply of arms on hand and
every means is being used to deter the
working men from entering the mines,
Lawless, their leader, is growing bitter
and the element which he now controls
are said to be unmanageable.
Gov. MacOorkle has been notified by
the operators of the change of affairs
and a telegram came this evening to the
local company here to be ready to go to
the fields on a minutes notice. The
companies in West Virginia were mining
to day but apprhension exists that an
outbreak is not far off. The firing of
guns and the use of dynamite in blowing
up loaded cars has compelled the coal
companies and railroads to increase their
guards.
MacCoikle’s View of the Situation.
Charleston, W. Va., July 6 —Gov.
MacCorkle’s representative at Eikhorn
wires today that operators have made
formal demand upon tho sheriff of Mc-
Dowell oounty for protection against
a threatened outbreak of miners in that
region, and the sheriff has virtually ad
mitted that he is unable to give it. He
has, however, made no demand upon
the Governor for the military, although ,
Gov. MacOorkle states that he is in con
stant expectation of such a demand.
The Governor states that while the ,
men never, during the strike, committed j
any infraction of the law, yet within the
past few days the outlook has materially
changed. Instead of being content to ]
wait for work to resume, the men are i
becoming restless and are congregating I
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
at various places. Many of them are
carrying arms.
Several of the operators have tried to
resume with non-union men brought from
Virginia and against them the feeling
among the strikers is very strong. I,arge
bodies of men, some of them armed, are
marching up and down the valley and
while committing no overt acts still are
practicing virtual intimi iation. A large
body marched last night to North Fork,
with every seeming intention to violence
but were prevented by arrival of guards
from doing any harm.
“The situation,” says the Governor,
is very serious as the men have been
long out of employment, have exhausted
every means of living and are evidently
determined that non-union men shall
not work. No outbreak has been com
mitted, but there is no telling at what
moment theymayburn tipples and destroy
railroad property. A conference between
operators and the sheriff will determine
the future condition of affairs this even
ing. I have the situation thoroughly in
hand and in case of an outbreak feel able
to give absolute protection to all. Spe
cial engines are in readiness to take
troops to the field of trouble and owing
to actual service last year, the troops are
evidently well qualified for good service.
All is Now* Quiet.
Huntington, W. Va., July 6.— A dis
patch from Eikhorn says everything In
the mining district is quiet and that no
outbreak is expected to-night. The ru
mor that the strikers are going to make
an effort to destroy property seems not
to be well founded. All three companies
of milita iu this county are still assem
bled at their armories but Capt. Lyons of
the Second regiment thinks their services
will not be needed.
TO COLONIZE THE NEGROES.
Immigrants Wanted in the Congo Free
State to Cultivate Tobacco.
Los An' ILKS, Cal , July 6.—The Gov
ernment of the Free State of Congo,
Central Africa, through its Secretary of
State at Brussels, is in correspondence
with C. C. Carter, of Riverside, relative
to a plan for settling several colonies of
negro farmers from the United States
in some of the favored districts of
the Congo territory. The idea of
the authorities of the free State is to
procure men whose ancestors, having
come from Africa, will be better fitted
than white men to cope with the climate.
The letters from Carter as received
state that tobacco culture is to be made
an important industry in the free States
and the first attention will be paid to
negro immigrants who have learned the
culture in the Southern States.
81X LIVES WERE LOST.
A Mississippi River Steamer Sunk in
Fourteen Foot Water.
Memphis, Tenn., July 6.—Six lives
were lost by the sinking of the Memphis
and Ash Port Packet Lady Lee last
night, at the head of Island Forty, four
teen miles above this city. The missing
•are:
Harry Robinson, the boat’s baker, and
Peter Wilson, the barber, both of Mem
phis, together with a negro roustabout
named Ady, also of Memphis, and three
colored deck passengers, Mary Winder
and Mamie Stewart, of Deans Island, and
a preacher, name unknown, who belong
ed to Osceola, Ark.
The boat had made a landing and was
backing out when she struck a hidden
obstruction and sank almost immediately
in fourteen feet of water. In sinking
she careened to starboard side and a
number of persons jumped overboard,
all of whom were rescued except the six
mentioned. The boat is breaking in two
and will be a total loss.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Cincinnati:
Cincinnati, 53030320 x—l 6
Brooklyn, 0 0 4 0 2 3 4 2 1-15
Batteries: Foreman, Phillips and
Murphy; Gumbert, Stein and Grim.
Base hits: Cincinnati 20; Brooklyn 17;
Errors: Cincinnati 6; Brooklyn 3.
At Cleveland:
Cleveland, 20000010 o—3
Philadelphia, 00001001 3—5
Batteries: Knell and Donovan; Taylor
and Buckley.
Base hits: Cleveland 5; Philadelphia 9.
Errors: Cleveland 2; Philadelphia 4.
At Pittsburg:
Pittsburg, 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I—2
Boston, 10 11 10 0 0 I—s
Batteries: Hawley and Merritt; Nich
ols and Ryan.
Base hits: Pittsburg 5; Boston 3.
Errors: Pittsburg 9; Boston 0.
At Chicago:
Chicago, 00000000 o—o
New York, 20200040 o—B
Batteries: Hutchison and Kittredge;
Rusie and Wilson.
Base hits: Chicago 4; New York 3.
Errors: Chicago 11; New York 2.
At Louisville—No game, owing to
Washington’s failure to arrive on time.
At Bt. Louis—No ball game, wet
grounds.
At Baltimore—Game postponed, wet
grounds.
The Farrall Murder Trial.
Baltimore, Md., July 6. —ln the trial
to-day at La Plata, Maryland of Mrs.
Belle Farrall, for the murder of her hus
band, the testimony was in the main to
show existing bet ween
Mrs. Farrall and Eugene Hall. Judge
Brisco issued an order to day for she
arrest of Hall and his production in
court.
Negotiations for the purchase in Eng
land of ships for the purpose of patroll
ing the coast of Cuba, to preve it fili
busters landing, have been concluded.