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The News and Observer. VOL. XXXIX. NO. 1«. Tin LAMEST gome MF AMY WBIM (BAHIA 111! REPUBLICANS CONTROL i»oli rj ai. vi plexion or rif t: SENATE COMMITTEES CHANGED. T«E POPULISTS DECLINED TO VOTE Evcept Kyle who Voted with the Dtm• oc-ats—Butler Make* his First Speech . and Denied that the Popu lists Are in Any Way Responsible lor the Re ult—Republicans Strongly Pretest Against Being Saddl <1 with the Responsibility for Legislation. WASHINGTON, I>. Dee. 30. The committees of the Senate to-dav pass ed ii *o the control of the Republicans. The change in the political complexion of the committees was effected by the adoption of a resolution organizing the committees, as agreed to by the Republican and Democratic steering committees. ThF Populists, with the exception of Mr. Kyle, of South Dakota, declined to vote, and the Republicans having a plurality of the Senate, were thus enabled to adopt the resolution by a vote of 30 to 28. Mr. Kyle voted with the Democrats against the reor ganization. A two-liour debate followed the adop tion of the resolution, the purjjo.se of which v. as political. The Democrats, under the leadership of Senator Dor man, ably seconded bv Senator Harris, attempted to show that the reorgani zation was effected by an alliance be tween the Republicans and Populists, contending that the silence of the lat ter, by making possible the reorganiza tion, indicated acquiescence. They also insisted that the Republican as sumption of control saddled them with resjionsibility for legislation. The Populists, led’ by Senator Allen, (Neb.), and Senator Duller, (X. ('.) denied that they Were in any fashion responsible for the result. * The re pub*.cans, under the leadership of Senator Mitchell, chair man of the Republican steering committee assisted by Senators Hoar. Hale. Allison and ( handler, combatted the argument of the Democrats by as serting most emphatically that ihe Populists had even refused to make any suggestions as to their committee assignments and had, as a matter of fact, been assigned under the re-or ganization in the positions to which they had been assigned under the Democratic control of the Senate. The Republicans strongly protested against being held responsible fox legislation. Before the re-organization Henry Lodge, the Senator from Massachu setts. who has made a brilliant repu tation as an historical biographer, de livered an address on the Monroe doc trine. He treated it from an historical stand [joint and gave an exhaustive sketch of the dispute over the Vene zuelan boundary. Although tempor ate in language he took the ground that unless we insisted that Vene zuela's dispute with Great Britain Rad bet n submitted to friendly arbi tration At e would surrender the es sence, spirit and vital principle of the Monroe doctrine, which he contended was as esential to J lie safety and wel fare of America as the balance of *b<* power was to flit- safety and w<l faro of European nations. HITLER’S FIRST SPEECH. Mr. Butler (Pop., North Carolina) to-day made his lirst speech in the Senate while debate on the resolution for the re-organization of the commit tees avhs in progress by adding to Mr. Allen’s explanation his own views re garding the attitude of the Populists. After explaining the condition in which they found the Senate with re gard to parties, he said it became plain that the Populists must either act with the Republicans or Avith the Democrats or remain quiet and allow the “tAvo old parties to tight it out among themselves.” Referring to the efforts of the Popu list Senator to secure an organization -on a silver basis, he asked Senator Har ris if he had not received an invita tion to the conference called for this purpose. “I did,” replied Mr. Harris, "and I have but one remark to make in that connection. Cp to this hour there has never been a period in my life when I was willing to join any party based upon one single idea.” He want ed to say that he was as earnest an ad vocate of the free coinage of silver as any man in the Senate. Explaining, in reply to a question of the combina tion by which he had been elected to the Senate, Mr. Butler said that his success was due to the faet, that Ihe Democratic party in North Carolina had gotten to be so corrupt that it was repudiated by good men in all j>n rt ie*. THi: BEER WAR SETTLED. CHICAGO. Dee. 10. The beer war ,wliich has waged for a year or so has been settled, all the brewing com panies doing business in Chicago hav ing perfected a mutual agreement by which the price of lieer will be ad vanced oil January Ist to $5 a barrel, the present price being $4 or less, it is estimated that this will result in the losing of some 20,000 saloons in Chi cago during the first three months ol IS9O. PERSON A I.S FROM CARY. ( ARY. V ( .. Dec. 30. -(Special) Mr. S. A. Best, Agent Southern Rail way at Haw River and wife spent Sun day in Cary, visiting relatives. Mr. Geo. \V. Franklin, foreman of Dunn furniture factory, spent a few davs with his familv at Cary. THE LYNCHERS USED EIRE. \ H’cman Burned to Death and a Man shot by a Mob in Keiiiuckv. LEBANON, Ky., Dee. 30. Within two miles of this city Saturday night a mob set fire to the house in which lived Mrs. Thomas West and Win. De veres. The Avouinn perished in the flames and the man was riddled Avith bullets in attempting' to escape. Several months ago Devores, a mid dle aged widower, was accused by Thomas West, a prosjjorous farmer, of intimacy with Mrs. West. Quarrel followed quarrel throughout the fall, until West instituted divorce proceed ings and declared that Devores must die. The men met in Lebanon. West snapped his revolver, which missed tire, and Devores killed him on the spot. On ihe plea of self-defense the mur derer secured bail and scandalized the neighborhood by immediately taking his own daughters ami moving into West’s house. The relatives of the murdered husband swore vengeance. ( lose to 10 o’clock a band of men rode up to the West homestead and demanded admittance. “Tom West is dead. Now is your turn.” Ihe spokes man called, and Deveres and the wo man awoke to find their house sur rounded. All's. West rushed to a darkened win dow and began a Avild hysterical plea for mercy. A dozen bullets answered her cries, and the demand for. immedi ate surrender was repeated. Deveres too asked for it hearing, but the request avus greeted with a shower of shot. "We'll give you ten minutes to open up. Then you burn.” said the mob’s lender, and liis men quietly retired from the door. A hurried consultation avus held in side the house and then the little girl of Deveres Avas thrust out to plead w ith the mob. Clad in her night-robe, barefooted and unprotected, she brave ly walked out into the moonlight and sobbingly pleaded for her white-hair ed father's life. “(iet out. You're liable to get shot yourself,” a ruffian said, and the child fled to the cabin of a negro neighbor. Mrs. West then appeared at the door, and, referring to her delicate condition, made a last appeal for mercy, it was unavailing. in another moment the house was set on fire. The shrieks of the im prisoned wretches failed to move their torturers who,as the flames reached the living room,could see mail and wo man in the agony of death by fire. Just before the roof fell the woman was seen to reel across the room and plunge headlong into the fireplace among the burning coals, and there she died. Wild Avith pain, Deveres at the last uionicnt made :: da -h for liberty ■ 5-4,1 a score of bullets stopped him and In* fell dead half a dozen steps from the door. Sunday morning the little girl led her negro protector to the scene and there the bodies, scorched beyond re ognition, were found, untouched by the lynchers. There is but little doubt that the members of the mob will lie capture*l as they were without masks and made no attempt at secrecy. The child of Deveres is dangerously ill as the result of the fright and ex posure. but upqn her recovery she may be able to identify some of the lynch ers. The scene of the horror was visited by crowds of curious people yesterday and it was well toward noon before tin* bodies were cared for by an under taker. Mrs. West's corpse was charred al most beyond human semblance. Deveres’ body was pierced by at least twenty-five bullets. Before his desperate dash for liberty he had been frightfully burned and would proba bly have died without the gunshot wounds. No arrests have so far been made. (iov. Bradley feels that the law has been greatly outraged and the State disgraced by the brutal murder of Win. Deveres and Mrs. T. .1. West at the hands of it mob near Lebanon yester day. The Governor dropped work on his message, and acquainted himself with all the facts obtainable. He is communicating with the local authori ties. In his inaugural address the Governor condemned lynchings very vigorously. He will offer a reward of S3OO, the limit of the law, for the arrest and conviction of the members of the mob and issue a proclamation accord ingly. Fill I v 1,000 pcojile assembled at the court house, in Lebanon, Ky.. to-day to take action on the burning to death of Mrs.J.T.West and the killing of W. \. Deveres. They were all vigorous in W. A. Deveres were aJI vigorous in denunciation of the disgrace on Marion county and some very strong resolu tions were drawn up. A fund was raised to employ detectives to aid in ferreting out the perpetrators oft U teri me, CRAZED BY THE SIGHT. A KANSAS CITY, Dee. 30. Henry Harrison, living near Mound City, pot. up last night and falling in the fire place, was burned to death. Ilis grand son, w ho discovered the. burning body, was so overcome with the horror of the scene that he has become a raving maniac. VIENNA, Dec. 30. The St. Peters burg correspondent- of the Nenf Friere Press telegraphs that Russia and France have actually promised diplomatic support of the Fui ted States in the Venezuelan trouble and he adds that Russia is prepared to facilitate the United States loan with her own reserve. RALEIGH, N. C.. TUESDAY. DEC. 3'. L/J. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Mr. C. C. Taylor,Formerly ol Raleigh, Killed Near Wilson. WILSON. N. (~ Dee. 30. (Special.) To-day ('. ('. Taylor, a young man, aged 22, while leaning from tin* plat form of the regular passenger train,No. 78. on the Wilson iV Fayetteville Short- Cut, was struck on the head by one of the supports of the iron bridge, over Little river, near Ken ley, and was in stantly killed. Taylor, until two months ago, had been employed bv the Park Lumber Company, of Ral eigh. He had been drinking heavily during the holidays. He was original ly from Pleasant Grove, Guilford coun ty. 'The remains were brought here this afternoon on the local freight. Yesterday tit, Lncama. Roselle Lucas, a boy about 13 years old, was accident ly shot by a companion of about, the same age. The gun was loaded with bird shot, and inflicted quite a serious wound in tiie shoulder. It is not thought to be fatal. A man named Andrew Williams v ■ s struck by a train near Battleboro. X. ('.. Saturday morning and very seri ously injured. He attempted to run across the track in front of an ap proaching train. BE A M ' E MR JO D A. LASH. Cadet Res , ol Devi - Selioa!, Hie*- ol Pneumonia. WINSTON. X. (~ Dec 30.- News was received here to-day of the death of John Augustus Lash, a prominent citizen of Midway, Davidson county. The deceased was a former resident of Salem. He was 32 years old. Cadet Louis Rose, of Davis School, died of pneumonia yesterday at his home. His brother. Quartermaster J. 11. Rose, took the remains to Ridge way to-day for interment. It is learned here to-day that .7. O. Foy has sold his paper, ihe Danville Evening Star, to the Register, of that city. Mr. Foy will probably go to Lynchburg and take charge of the Ad vance, an afternoon paper now pub lished by owners of the New s. There were forty accessions to the Moravian home church yesterday. Dr. Henry Stockton left here to-day for Bennettsvilie, S. (~ in response to a telegram stating that his dental office, with fixtures, was destroyed by fire Saturday night. He carried no in surance. Chief J. W. Hanes to-night tendered the memljers of Winston's fire depart ment a big oyster supper. BIG EIRE AT ASHtHDRU. The l.osx is Some $25,000, W it It Very Little Insurance. AS! IE BOKO. X. ('., Dee. 30. (Spe cial.)- Fire originated her** to-day in Boyette & Richardson's drug store. The buildings burned were Boyett* Richardson's drug stoic, J. L. Brit tain's law office, Burns’ hotel, W. F. Morngne’s jewelry store, E.A. Moftitt's store add the Argus new pa per office. There was no insurance except on the drug store stock ami on Moffitt's store house. The others are a com plete loss, except Brittain and Sapp's. The library, pari of the drug store stock and part of the furniture of the hotel were saved bv the most heroic efforts. The store of \\. P. Wood «fc Co., the court-house. J. A. Black's residence. X. H. Stack's residence, the law offices of J. A. Blair. Win. ('. Hammer, Geo. S. Bradshaw, Wiley Rush and M. S. Robinson were saved. Twenty-five thousand will cover the loss. FOLLOW GROVER’S EXAMPLE. Two War Officials Come to North Carolina «o Hunt. AURORA, X Dec. 30. (Special) Gen. Doe, Assistant Secretary of War and Col. Whiton, General Supply Agent for the War Department arriv ed in our town last night on a hunting trip. They have been reading in the News and Observer of the 18 opossums up one tree and the killing of 60 wild geese by the gun a day in this section, hence their trip here. Monday morn ing they will sail with Capt Thompson on his pleasure yacht to the geese and duck grounds, where they will spend a few days. Gen Doe sjjent a few days in our water last winter on the govern ment boat Jessamine. They are pleased with this section. They will hunt around Oeraeoke and Portsmouth because the water is not as rough as near Hatteras. THE PRESIDENT CONDEMNED. Baptist Pastors in New York Pass Hesoliitions About Venezuela. NEW YORK, Dee. 30.—At 1 bi weekly meeting of tin* Baptist pastors of this city to-day the following reso lutions were passed: Resolved, That, in our opinion, a war with England in the present circum stances will l»* a crime against Chris tian civilization, against the English speaking people and against God. and Resolved, That we. regard the Turk ish massacre of Armenians as a very much more urgent subject for investi gation by this government than the disputed boundary lines of Venezuela. Copies of the resolutions will be sent to the President and to the Sec retary of State. WATTING FOR HIS PIE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.- (Special.) Maj. IJ. L. Grant, of Wayne, State Senator, is at the F.bbitt. lie is keep ing a close watch on Butler and Pritchard to force them to insist upon their demand that he shall be given a soft berth in the Senate. They prom ised before the election that he should be Secretary of the Senate or Ser geant-at • A mis. MRS DAVIDSON S STORY SAYS IIMI CHARGES AGAINST Ml vISTER BROW N WILL BE VERIFIED. HIS LOVE FOR MISS OVERMAN Mr-. Davidson Taught a I las- in Sun day School at Dr. Brown’s ( lunch and Smj > he tor tided his Love tor ihe Young Lady to her Over a Year Ago --Dr. Brown Denies it all and Ex plains Why lit* Gave Mis Davidson Money and Took a Receipt Tor It. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dee. 30. Mrs Mary Davidson, who was arrested Saturday night on complaint of Rev. Dr. C. (). Brown, pastor of the First Congregational church, on a charge of extortion, has been unable to obtain bail, ami is still in prison. Mrs. David son taught in the Sunday school of the church, which is one of the largest and most fashionable in the city, and her arrest has caused great astonish ment in church circles. She adheres to her original statement w ith regard to Dr. Brown's alleged offenses, and says that, although sin* may be sent to State’s prison, she believes her charges against the minister will ulti mately be verified. I)r. Brown as steadfast) v' denies the accusations made against him and declares that he vvil exert every effort to send Mrs. Davidson to prison. Mrs. Davidson says she had long been aware of the alleged relations be tween Dr. Brown and Miss Overman. "Dr. Brown called ujioti me often and asked me to pray for him. I promised to do so. Mrs. Mason, a member of the church, came to me one day and suggested that we should both go down to the church at 10 o'clock every Sunday morning and pray for Dr. Brown and the congre gation. “We wt lit to the church as sug gested. but Dr. Brown did not receive us in the manner that a line Christian would have done. ll** seemed annoyed at our actions. "ilc called upon me again at my place of business and asked me to go with him to the Y. M. ('. A. building as he wished to speak to me privately. 1 thought it a strange request, as I knew no one there, and had never been then*. 1 accompanied him. how ever. and In* introduced me to the secretary, Mr. McCoy. ’Then he asked Mr. McCoy for the use of a private room, one that he had often used. Mr. McCoy said he could have the room and we entered if. Mr. Brown swung the door backwards but did not com pletely close it. "It was there that lit* told me that his passion for Miss Overman was con suming him; he said he would be willing to give up his family, his pro fession and entire career tor her. 1 was greatly shocked and again coun selled with him and warned him of his danger. Once more I advised him to stick to the text: ‘Love Thy Wife.’ 1 ad vise* 1 him as a mother and a son ami told him he should sec the danger be fore it was 100 late. 1 called the affec tion an ‘unholy passion.’ Ho corrected me by styling it •unlawful love.' •'ll** went away greatly comforted. He said it relieved him to unfold to me.” •"Mi*-. Davidson's defamation of my character is utterly inconsistent with her actions for the past year, said Dr. Brown. “She says she knew of all my illegal relations with this innocent girl? If she did. why did she walk, talk and eat. or sleep with any woman guilty of such a crime? “Cp to the time she robbed me of SSOO, for I can use no other words to characterize the manner in which she got the money, she says she knew I u as not morally tit to occupy the posi tion of pastor of my church. Yet she was one of the people who went about singing my praises to flic trustees, deacons and other officials of the First ('ongregat ioual church. "It may seem strange that I have given her any money , but when I come to think of it, or rather figure it out logically, you will readily see there was no other course for me to pursue. If | had not given her the money and secured the signed receipts, she would probably have gone about circulating her infamous lies about me. I would have nothing to show that she had first come to me with th»* same story with the purpose of extortion. Now that I have the receipt i have positive, as well as legal evidence to prove her true character. “Miss Overman will tell her story in the court room. She will take the stand and proclaim my innocence. Sin* will tell all she knows about the dia bolical plot of her pretended friend to ruin me.” Dr. Brown is one of the most promi nent ministers in this city and is well known throughout the Pacific coast. He was formerly identified with religi ous work at Battle ( reek, Mich., and Dubuque, lowa. MAY ALSO BE A SWINDLER. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 30. -The police here believe that the Mrs. Davidson under arrest in San Francisco charged with blackmail by Rev. ( . 0. Brown, is the same, who had an interesting experience in this State several years ago. She was charged with defraud ing piano factories while in the music business at Lynn, and the trial, which resulted in her conviction and sentence, to two years imprisonment, was highly sensational, the prisoner acting as her own counsel. ANOTHER ISSUE OF BONDS. AII The Details ot the Contract Have Already Been Agreed Upon. WASHINGTON, Dee. 30. ’There is now no reasonable doubt that another bond issue has been fully agreed upon, and that I he details of a contract with a syndicate of which Mr. J. l’ierpont Morgan is the head, have lieen arrang ed so that, nothing remains to be done to carry it into effect lmt for the Sec retary of the Treasury to sign his name thereto. Under thcs*> circumstances the Pres ident, can well afford if lit* desires, to await, llu* defeat by flit* Senate of the [lending bond bill without taking tin risk of being compelled at the last mo ment to accept unfavorable conditions which the gravity of the situation will then render necessary. In other words the President is prepared for an v <m ergeucy, and there is no doubt Jliat should heavy withdrawals of gold for export, again set in another issue would be announced. 'The fact that there have been no withdrawals for export within tin.* last several days, although sterling exchange has ruled at or above the shipping points, gives credence to an opinion held in t reasury circles that the market has already begun to feel flu* syndicate's influence against exports. 'The amount of the next issue it is almost certain, has been fixed at SIOO,- 000.000 and it is Relived that, the terms of the contract are rather more favor able to tin* government, than these under which the last issue was made. SOL II i AS II AN fc EmGN t;i». The Southern H ill Kim hfotiHi to Norioik 3 o- •»orrow WASHINGTON. Dec. 30. Sol. Haas has resigned the position of assistant to tin* president of the Southern Rail way, effective January 1, 1896, the position on that date will be discon tinued and the duties performed by th** tid'd vu-e-president. 'The Southern Railway Company has made a joint trackage arrangement with the Wilmington and Weldon and the Norfolk and Carolina railroads, w ill on and after January L 1800, run its own trains, both passenger and freight, to and from Seliua. N. (~ and Norfolk (Pinner’s Point). Ya., desig nating that portion of the line as part of tin* first division. E. T. Lamb has been appointed gen eral agent of the Southern Railway, with office at Norfolk, Ya. He will have general supervision and control of all this company’s business and jiroperty at Norfolk, Pinner's Point and West Point, Ya. SENATOR JO ’ EH’ SILVER BILL. He \ViII Offer it as an Am* ndnieui to the Boiid Bill. WASHINGTON. Dee. 30.- Senator Jones, of Arkansas to-day presented an amendment which he proposes to offer to the House bond bill. It pro vides that any holder of silver bullion who is a citizen of the United States may tender the same to the Secretary* of the Treasury and have it coined in to dollars, the seigniorage to be the dif ference between tiie coinage value and the market price of Ihe bullion in New York; for the cancellation of all bank notes of less than SIU: directing the Secretary of the 'Treasury to coin the silver bullion in tin* 'Treasury into sil ver dollars to be used in redeeming the treasury notes issued for the pur pose of purchasing silver bullion under the Sherman act; and for the redemp tion of the greenbacks in either gold or silver and for their re-issue accord ing to the provisions of the#ct of 187*. ACCIDENTALLY’ KILLED BY A BOY. DANVILLE, Ya., Dee. 30.-—At the re sidenc of .1. H. Wilcox, six miles from this city G. Berry Voss, a prominent citizen of Caswell county, X. C., was instantly killed by the accidental dis charge of tt shot gun in the hands of Mr. Wilson's little son. The little boy wtis carrying the gun to Mr. Voss for him to shoot a squirrel with, when in some way it was fired. DELTBER \TELY BURNED Ills WIFE PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Dee. 30. Jno. Martin, a Lehigh Valley dock hand, threw a lighted lamp at his wife last night. The lamp broke and the oil igniting, set fire to the woman's cloth ing. The husband, who was drunk, shut himself into a room and permitted his wife to burn to death. The house was saved from destruction by neigh bors. Martin was arrested. SITUATION IN COREA SERIOFS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 30. A des patch to the Novoe Yremya from Vladivostok, says that th** situation of affairs in Corea is serious. The King is constantly surrounded by Japan sjiics and he fears that he will be assassinated. The despatch adds that his Majesty is guarded nightly by th** American missionaries. BIG POSTOFFICE ROBBERY. CHICAGO. I IT., Dec. 30. Safe blowers entered the postoffice at Highland Park last night, wrecked the safe and escape*! with money and postage stamps amounting to between SI,OOO and $1,700. From the appearance *>f the safe it is believed dynamite was used and the work appears to be that of professionals. IT WAS A JUST VERDIC T. BABDSTOWX, Ky.. Dee. 30. Mrs. K. W. Nally, was found “not guilty” to day of the murder of school-teacher Frank Doherty. Doherty attempted to assault Mrs. Nall.v in her husband's absence, and she killed him. PRICE FIVE CENTS. A HOT BATTLE IN Cl BA. Spaniard" Claim the Victory lint Have not Chi c »* *1 the Unbans. il ANA, I)**<*. 50. .News has been received during the day of movements by the insurgents w liich would indi cate thiit their forces still overrun pretty much tin* whole of the province ol Mataii/as, and they seem to ln*e tin uninterrupted line of communication clear across the province and into the southern part of Santa Clara to the eastward of Cienfugos. They have burned the village of Gavilun, in the ( ienfug-us district, southeast, of Cien- I’ugOK, near th** coast. I lie stations at Caobas and Cabazas, where arc in the neighborhood of Ma tanzas and to th** south, have Im'cii burned as well as the cane fields of the Joaquin plantations. Some stores have a Iso lieen plundered. Camarioea is the fartherest point north at which th** insurgents have been reported and ('abitzas is almost on the line of the prov inci* of Havana. No further reports can be hud of the engagement near Cadimete. as tele graphic communication is still much interrupted. It is believed that,opera tions are being conducted by the in surgents in Matanzas are much more extensive than they have yet been re ported. Word has been received from Gen. Valdez, saying lie overtook the insur gent's bauds of Gomez and Maceo tit the Maria plantation where they were found stationed at advantageous |X>ints. The engagement which fol loived was evidently a hot one, the in surgent cavalry making vigorous at tacks upon the thinks of the Spanish troops. Tin* artillery fire of the Span ish proved effective and the official re port which was now received says that the insurgents took flight in two direc tions, having lieen divided by the as ■sault upon them. Thcv left seven killed. 'The troops, it is said, lost seventeen wounded. It is further reported that an engagement is now in progress at a point between the villages of Terico, Cuevitas and Jovellanos, between Gen. Valdez and the insurgent forces. In spite of the official rejiort the be lief is entertained here that the Span ish forces have again sustained a seri ous reverse, and that instead of the insurgents being repulsed and routed the Spaniards are retiring before their advance. There are manifestations of grave uneasiness in official circles, and the belief is prevalent that the insur gents intend another extensive incur sion into Matazas province and west ward towards Havana. UASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE. Two Men Were Kill* d and Stveu Others W ere Injured < INFIX NAT I, Ohio, Dee. 30.—Two passenger trains on the B. & O. south western railway collided between North Bend and Delhi, ten miles west of this city to-night. 'They were tin* Louisville express, which left this city at 7:05 and the St. Louis accommoda tion, due then* at 7:05 p. m. The latter was an hour late. Both engines were totally wrecked is the engineers had little time to check their speed. Ihe combination car of the Louisville ex press and express car on the train from St. Louis were telecoped. The dead are Fireman Wilson, of tin* Louisville express, and unknown man buried under the wreck. Seven others were injured. It. is feared that three of them art* fatally hurt, 'The cause of the accident was the failure of the Operator Sorts, station ed within the city limits, to report t*> th** Louisville train an order to wait at Delhi and let th** St. Louis train pass it there. THE SEABOARD AIR LINE. A Company Formed t*> Build a Biaucti Road to Spartaubiirg. BALTIMORE, Dec. 30.—A compa ny of capitalists of Spartanburg, S. (’., has lieen forced to build a branch rail road to the Seaboard Air-Line, 24 miles long. This will give the Sea board Air-Line a connection with Spar tanburg, which is one of the principal mill cities of the South and one of the largest cotton manufacturing cities. In ease the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railroad is separated from the Southern system, by order of the court the road would connect with it. giving a ifevv independent route by the way of the Seaboard to Augusta, Ga., and Port Royal, S. (’. Mayor Calvert, of Spartanburg, is President of the com pany and a President of one of the largest banks is included in the direc tory. Surveys are now being made prior to early construction. DEATH OF EDITOR MURRAY'. NORFOLK, Ya.. Dee. 30. Kenton U. Murray, editor of the. Nortolk Land mark.’ a long established morning newspaper, died at liis residence in this city this afternoon at 5:40 o’clock from the effects of a stroke of paraly sis. 11** was well-known throughout the State, both as a journalist and a politician. LARGE DRY GOODS FIRM FAILS. PROS'I DENCH, R. 1., Dec. 30. The 11. W. Ladd Company, one of the larg est dry goods firms in Providence, and of which ex-Goveruor Ladd is the head, assigned to-day to James W. Scott. The assets amount to $354,- (>13.78 and the liabilities $227,589. WASHINGTON, Dee. 30. Mr. Jus tice Brewer, of Ihe Foiled States Su preme Court, has been tendered anil lias accepted a position on the Y cne zuelan boiindarv commission.