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a J. P. Pi-ttman, Editor and Projf. PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICn IS GOOD." 1.00 Per Year In Advance VOL. VI. DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1896 NO. NORTH STATE CULLINGS. iOCCURRENCES WORTH XOTI?(J FROM ALL OVEK TJJ-E STATE. Wreck on the Seaboard. There was-a bad wreck at Manly,, on .'the Raleigh k Augusta division of the .'Seaboard Air Line, -which resulted in 'the death of two men,"' Walter Flana gan and Isaac Bovrec, both colored. Ihe train was a north-bound freight and the switch had been left open. The train was signaled to go forward and it crashed into a line of freight fears on the siding. The big engine was smashed and overturned and six teen freight cars were wrecked. In od? of these were 20 mules, consigned to Leach & Barbee, of lialeigh, and all were killed. Engineer Thad. Pleas ants, of Raleigh, was badly scalded, but his injuries are not dangerous. Th'V are mainly of his hands. Fire man Flanagan was literally cutto pieces and was instantly killed. So "was the rear train hud, Bowen. The wreck tore up the track and broke down tele graph poles. Engineer Pleasants -was carried to lialeigh. He was suffering i a" good deal, but bore the pain like a I hero. The blame for the accident is f put on Conductor Dunn. The latter t was delayed about four hours, north f bound. The train which was wrecked fwab.the same one which was in the wreck on the G. C. it X. division. -- SOrniKRN lilliLICAL ASSEMBLY W!l! Hold Its St'oiidMeetlng in Ashe ville July "53. In the interest of tho Southern Bib lical Assembh, Rev. Dr. Gilbert, of "Washington City, Secretary of the Na ticnr.l Society of Religious Education; Dr. Thos. Hume of the State Univer- jfiity, and Dr. J. B. Shearer, President of Davidson College, visited Asheville I and held conferences. As a result of 1 these conferences with resident pas- tors and represenutivc ' laymen it was determined . hold the second meeting of the Assembly in Asheville, begin f ning July 23rd and continuing three I weeks. Prominent pastors and pro- fessors from different sections of the South will conduct the exercises, first, of tho department of the English Bible, ! second, of the Freachers' Institute and I third of the Sunday School Teachers' "Normal School. Arrangements will be made for rates of 'board Buited to the plender purses of some ministers. Asheville is making financial ar rangements for securing the success of the Assembly, and it is believed that there will be a numerous attendance. Last year's experience gives assurance of scholarly yet popular v ork along this lice. ' " A S'aval Reserve Quarrel. Fudge Starbuck, of the Superior Court, upon, application of Comman der Francis Winslo", of the North Carolina Naval Reserves, whose com mission has been i evoked by Govern or Carr, has issued an order to Lieu tenant Commander George ."L. Morton, second in command, to appear at Clin ton, February 12, and show cauj why he should not be restrained fr$n pro mulgating orders to the Naval Re serves or exercising other functions of command. M .1 W ir.ston Ahead In Hie Sale of Stamps. Winston beat all former recofdsthis month in shipments of manufactured tobacco, which aggregated 1,600,417 pounds. Stamps ind revenue collec tions footed up S96,02:. The next largest collections in the history of the market are about $73,000, The stamp office there has closed until Col lector Rogers riles "a new bond and makes a report of work in the district Fi'nce his appointment. Fell From a Train. John T. Tweed, a prosperous and excellent Buncombe citizen, fell from a train on the Asheville it Spartanburg Railroad near Busbee. Eight ribs and liis collar bone were broken, and his injuries are so serious that he died less than an hour later. Mr. Tweed went out on the platform, . intending to get off at the'station. No one went back from the train to investigate the matter. Fell Under the Wheels and Killed. George Pugh an employe of the Asheville Cotton Mills, while ridirg on a freight car which was being shifted in the Southern's yard at Asheville, fell off and under the w heels.; He was so badly injured that he died. The Founder of Shaw University Dead. ? Elijah Shaw, aged 79, died at his home in "Wales. Mass. He was the founder of Shaw University, at Raleigh, N. C, and was the largest property owner in Wales. Fire in Louisburg destroyed the storehouses owned bv Mrs. J. B. Clif ton and J. W. Ponton, respectively. Mrs. Clifton's loss is $1,500. She was insured for $1,000. Mr. Ponton's loss is $1,000 with no insurance. K. P. Hill ,t Brothers' Toss on stock is $3,000. Insurance, $1,000. Winston brought more . tobacco stamps in 1895 than in any year of it historv. flordon Insists on Withdrawing. It is said that within the past two or three days Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith j and ex-Speaker Crisp have urged Senator Gordon, of Georgia, to withdraw his de clination and be a candidate for re-election xo the Senate, and both men assured the senator that if he would do bo they would uui permit ireir namps tn r him na nn. didates against him. Senator Gordon, while appreciating the friendship that caused the j.ijnr. remains nrm iu his determination ono agas.-i i.e a candidate Jfor the Senate. WEEKLY REVIEW O? Til VtE. A Good Spring Trade i3 Looked For, and We Hope It Will Come. B. G.Dan tCo.,ofNew York in their weekly Review of trade say : Failures in three weeks of January show liabilities of S17,37,511 against $10,635,0g0 last year ; in manufacturing i 6,661,129 this year against 82,179,103 last year; in trading, 10.317.360 agaulst 88,165,267 last year. Failures this" week have been 401 in the United States against 851 last year and 70 in Canada against 51 last year. Though business is stiil waiting, there are some signs of definite improvement. It i3 now belie ed that the first payment for bonds will cause no further pressure, and the mon ey markets are easier a3 respects loans on col lateral, though the difficulty ot making com mercial loan3 still cheeks operations. Large maturities at the enl of January have been met more satisfactorilv than was expected, and merchants and bankers report that the eigns promise a good spring trade. No in crease appears as yet in the demand for the principal products, unless for some forms of iron and steel, in whici: good contracts have been made this week. Domestic trade re corded through clearing houses is 6.5 per cent, smaller than a year ago. The cott n mills are discussing curtailment of production, as goods continue weak, with an output largely exceeding distribution, though the week has brought considerably mote inquiries tand a larger spring trade is still hoped for, AVoolens are practically un changed. Cotton is a shade tower than a week ago, notwithstanding strong argument by 'eill and others; but receipts from planters go on at nearly the same rate. Spinners' takings fall behind last year a3 before, and tho marketing of goods does not support the brilliant estimates of increased consumption this year. Exports in January have been 50 per cent, less, spin ners' takings 35 per cent, less, and receipts from plantations 39 per cent, less than last year, and receipts have been larger, but spinners' takings and exports both smaller than in 1892-'J3 from a crop of 6,700,000 hp.U s, TWO NEW UTAH SENATORS. Frank J. Cannon and" Arthur Brown Are Added to the Republican Side. Arthur Brown and Frank J. Cannon, the new members of the United States Senate from Utah, have increased the Republican strength in the upper branch of Congress, k short sketch of their careers follows: ABTECB ESDWr. (United States Senator from Utah). Arthur Brown is flftv-three jrears of age, and wa3 born near Kalamazoo, Mich. He was graduated from Ann Arbor, and prac ticed law in Michigan with much sac cess from 1863 until 1S79. when he came to Utah and at ence took a position as one of the leaciers of the bar. He was one of the founders of the Republican party of Utah, and has been active in politics since. He is aggressive and fearless, and will cham pion the coinage of free silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. m.' f-a. a. few? PRiXK 3.' CANIO. (United States Senator frcm Utah.) Frank J. Cannon, the junior Senator, is a Mormon, the son of George Q. Cannon, of the Mormon Church. He was born in San Francisco, but spent most of his life in Utah. He took up journ ilism when a young man, and was connected with the San Francisco Chronicle. Afterward he became editor of the Ogden Standard, and his home is in that city. THE GRAND AR3IY COLONY. The History of the Town of Fitzgerald Keads Like a Fairy 1 ale. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Manu facturers' Eecord from Fitzgerald, Ga., the location of the Grand Army "colony,- says there are now between six and seven thou sand people at Fitzgerald and the colony is growing rapidly. The Georgia & Alabama Roadroad brought in one day this month more than five hundred colonists, and Mr. Fitzgerald, the organizer ot the movement, states that there will be between 35,000 and 40,000 people within the next twelve months. The colony already includes people from -every State in the Union except two, Canada also being well represented. A careful in vestigation shows that many of the coloni-ts, all of whom have come into this section with in the last live mouths, are well-to-do people financially and that quite a number of them are men worth from 850,000 to 8100,000 each. In this respect it is probably different from any great colonization work ever seen. Three banks are already organized and buildings are under construction for them. Two local papers have also been started. The sale of the Abbeville & Way Cross Railroad, extending from Abbeville, Ga., to Lulaville, eighteen and a half miles to the Georgia Jt Alabama Railroad, has just been consummated and the nw owners have be gun the operation of the property. The road will be immediately extended from Lulaville to Fitzgerald, four" and a half miles. This extension will be completed by the 10th of February, and what was live months ago practically an unbroken pine forest will then be transformed to a thriving railroad town. Must Dissolve. George B. Hopkins and Harry L. Terry, of the firm of Kennett, Hopkins fc Co., of the New York stock exchange, must dissolve their co-partnership with F. J. Kennett and J. F. Harris, of Chicago, the two latter have been expelled from the Chicago board of trade for maintaining a connection with a bucket shop. mi Tnun ERS WICKED 1)1 A Bis Cuban Expedition Founders Off New Jersey. MEN AND MUNITIONS !0ST. Tlio J. JT. Hawking, an Old Tul In YTHlch They Put to Sea From few Tork City, Goes Down A Terrible Blow to tho Cuban Insurgents' A Thrllllnz Ees cue Guns Thrown Overboard. The fishing 'steamer, J. N. Hawkins, re cently purchased in Baltimore, Md.. by the agents ot the Cuban Junta in New York City and eonverted into a transport to carry men, arms and ammunition to the insur gents, sank eft the New Jersey coast while on the way to Cuba. She had on board 120 volunteers, 5000 "Winchester and Remington rifles, four Hotchkis3 rapid firing guns, 4000 pounds of dynamite and raw material for use in the manufacture of high explosives, 2000 machette3 and 2,030,000 cartridges. The en tire outfit cost about 120,000, nd the loss is i he heaviest blow the revolutionary party has received. Reports vary as to the loss of life, but six or ten men were drowned. They were Spaniards. The exoedition was com manded by General Calexto Garcia, and hi3 Etaff consisted of Colonel Carlos Garcia, his son. General Rosso aad two other officers, said to be Americans who saw service in the late war. " STORY OF A SURVIVOR. Terrible Scenes Aboard When a Storm Disabled the Boat. One of the survivors, Joseph C.r Hernan dez, told the following story: The Hawkins, he said, left New York at midnight. She had been purchased by the Cuban revolutionary party. The crew consisted of sixteen men. The captain was R. Hall, and the mate, O. H. Croweli. who belonged in Brooklyn. They left East 133ih street, while in Port Morris, in the dead of night, and headed straight up the Sound. All went well until ibreo o'clock a. m., when a storm eame up. and the sea became rough. The engineer reported that there was a leak In the engine room, and that the pumps were choked. The engine room was soon flooded and Captain Hall saw that they were In a critical condition. Orders were given to throw the coal overboard to lighten the ship. It was done, but without effect. The Hawk ins pitched and rolled, and began to settle in the sea. The men had on board two Hotch kiss guns, 14 0 American rifles, about 1,000, 000 rounds of ammunition and 300 pounds of dynamite. It was feared that the dynamite would break- loose and blow them all to atoms, and it, with the arms, was then thrown overboard. Still the vessel wa3 not relieved. The water gained on them, and soon the engine room fires were put out. Then the vessel was completely at the mercy of the v?ave3, which broke over her. Signals of distress were fired, and eventually the rockets brought three schooners near them. At this juncture all hands were ordered to take to the boats. There were six boats, but one of them had been rendered useless in throwing overboard the coal and guns. The crew could not handle the boats with facility and the result was that nine men were drowned. Sonv Nay ten. AMERICANS ITO THE RESCUE Boats Filled With the Unfortunates iked Up at Sea. Abaut 7 o'clock a. m., J. W. Braokett, master of the schooner Helen H. Benedict, sighted the Hawkins. Captain Brackett says the Hawkins was showing signals of distress. Ho bore down upon her and found her passengers and crew already in the boats. He picked up the first officers, etew ard and twenty-three of the Cubans, who were in an exhausted condition. Twenty minutes after he said he saw the steamer go down. The locality was about seventy three miles south-southwest of Montauk Point. The wind was blowing hard from the north-northwest and the sea was very rough. Captain Brackett landed his rescued men at Martha'3 Vineyard. The remainder of the passengers and crew were picked up from boats by the schooners Leander V. Beebe and Alicia B. Crosby. Tne men lost everything except two satchels, filled with greenbacks, which General Garcia ajuL Jus son carried. A Hard Blow to the Janter. The hopes of the Junta in the United States and of the army in the field in Cuba were centred in this expedition. It was be lieved that when the carefully laid plans to land the men Rnd arms in Cuba had been carried out a blow would be struck which would go a long way toward establishing the independence of tho island. Maceo and Gomez, who are practically hemmed in near Havana, have been relying upon the arrival of Garcia and his cargo to enable them to attack the capital. LYNCHED A DESPERADO. Han Amuck in a Train, Killed a roitroar. ter and Wounded Others. Alexander Jones, a colored ' desperado, ran amuck in a car on a passenger train in West Virginia, and killed ono man and wounded two others. Ho was lynched nest morning in Hemphill. Jones boarded the train in Keystone, W, Va., drunk and quarrelsome. When Con ductor McCullough came throunh to collect faro he refused to pay and became very boisterous While the conductor wa3 re monstrating with him, he drew two revolvers from hi3 belt and began to shoot indiscrim inately through the car. The passen gers crouched under the seats and tried to escape through the doors. Before any one could get away, however, the desperado had fired all of his twelve shots. The miscreant then tried to reload his weapons for further execution, but he was overpowered by the trainmen, who suc ceeded in disarming him. W. :H. Strattus, Postmaster of Elkhorn, was lying on the floor of the car breathing his last, with a bullet in his abdomen. He onK lived a few minutes Peter Rice, a col ored miner, was fatally shot through the right breast. Conductor McCullough was wounded in the side, but his injury ia not serious. Jt was decided to take Jones to Hunting ton for safekeeping. The officers boarded the train without trouble, although a great crowd had gathered to witness the depar ture. A short distance from Elkhorn the train was flagged, and fifty men, armed with rifles, jumped aboard. They forced the officers to release the prisoner, and then took him out and hanged him to . a tree on the side of the roadbed. The President's Outing;. President Cleveland and Dr. O'Reilly, his private physician, left Washington on an other brief shooting trip. The President with his physician and his guns rode away from the White House at a little after mid night to the Seventh street wharr, where they boarded the light-house tender Maple, which was lying there with steam up. The lines-were quickly cast off, the boat headed down the river and was soon lost to view. Cnlxtn Amazons. Women have fought side by side with revolutionists in engagements in Cuba. . rlLlDu THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both Houses. THE BEJfATE. The two Senators "from the new State of Utah took their places in the Senate Monday, makiug the whole number of members of that body 80. The joint resolution reported from the committee on agriculture instruct ing the Secretary of Agriculture to comply with the law requiring the tourehase and dis tribntion of seeds, was debated. No action was taken. The House bond bill, with the free coinage substitute, was laid before the Senate as unfinished buiuess. Two speeches were made on the bill, but the bill went over without action. After a short executive ses sion the Senate adjourned j Three speeches were made in the Senate Tuesday on the nouse bond bill with the free coinage substitute, reported from the committee on finance, but ho action was tak en. Mr. Turpie, of Indiana, in presenting a memorial on the subject iof the Armenian horrors, indulged in a tierce invective against the Sultan and Mahammedanism. The Mon roe doctrine was discus-sod, by Mr. Thurston. The debate on the be i. l bill v.ith its free coinage substitute foil ;"ve,'l. At its conclu sion, resolutions express-hie of regret at the death of Fredericfe'Ricniarin. late representative-elect from Illinois, .wjcre presented by Mr. Palmer, and agreed to After the usual opening jcereinonies in the Senate on Wednesday, came a concurrent resolution reported Ironi' the committee on foreign relations requesting the President of the United States to use his good offices with the government of Spain o have belligerent rights extended to the Cuban revolution ists. The resolution went to the calendar. The committee on foreign relations also re ported back the resolution introduced on the 21st instant by Mr. Call, with an amend ment striking out the sentence requiring the President to demand the immediate release of Mark E. Rodriguez, liouis Somellan and his son American citizens arrested in Havana. The resolution simply requests the President to report the facts as to such arrests. The resolution was placed on the calendar. Senator Tillman addressed the Senate on tho bond bill, and after his speech the Senate adjourned. j ' The proceedings of the Senate on Thurs day were dull and commonplace in contrast with the excitement which the speech of Mr. Tillman created the day before. Most of the morning hour was consumed in a dis cussion upon the joint resolution order ing the purchase and distribution of seeds by the Secretary of Agriculture (on which no action was taken). The urgency deficiency appropriation bill was reported back from the committee on appropriations. This bill carries an increase over the House bill aggregating 619,50.664. The only item of reduction is the decrease of f 400 in additional compensation to a clerk in the Department of Justice. Among the Senate amendments is one paving Gen. Matt. W. Ransom. , minister to Mexico, the sum of ?2 806.48, salary due from that being the July 1st to August 28th, which to tho irregularity was withheld owing of his appointment. The Senate also gives the Secretary of the Treasury the 25 temporary expert money counters for which he asked to enable him to catch up with the currency business. Mr, Allen introduced a bill tcj prohibit the pur chase or use by the government of any wares or manufactures made in any penitentiary. workhouse or other onspn bv convict labor. Referred to committed on education and labor. The Senate on Friday stderation of the House finance committee free continued the con- bond bill with the coinage substitute. The end of the long debate on tho bill was sighted when a unanimous agreement was made that after au evening session to be de vuted to clearing off belated speeches, a recess shall be taken till il a. m.. Saturday and that then, after Mr. Morrill shall jhave ' been heard, the discussion shall go on under the five minute rule until 2 p. m.. when the final vote 19 to bfs taken. The discussion of this bill consumed the wbnle day, . The long struggle in tne Senate over the question of tho free coinage of silver ter minated at 3 p. m. Saturday, in victory of the friends of silver. The great light was over the finance committee's substitute to the House bond bill. Almost the entire day was consumed in the Consideration of the bill. Its title was changed .so as to make it read: "To restore the coinage of silver dol lars and for other purposes." There was a brief executive session and the Senate ad journed, i . f THE HOUSE. Tho House discussed for four hours and passed, by a vote of 113 to 2G, the Senate concurrent resolution declaring it to be an imperative duty, in the interest of hu manity, to express the earnest hope that European concert brought about by the Berlin treaty may be speedily given its just effect in such decisive measures as shall stay the hand of fanaticism and lawless violence, and assure unoffending Christians of the Turkish Empire all the rights belonging to them as men and Christians and as bene ficiaries of the explicit provisions of that treaty, and requesting tho Presi dent to communicate the resolutions to the five signatory powers thereof; and de claring that Congress will support the Pres ident in the most vigorous action he may take for the protection and security of American citizens in Turkey and to iJotain redress for injuries committed upon the persons or property of such citizens. A message was received from the President asking an appropriation for the transporta tion for the regro colonists who went to Mexico. The diplomatic and consular ap propriation bill lor the coming fiscal year was reported. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill went through the House Tuesday without discussion and practically without amend ment. Bills were passed authorizing the Secretary of the State to re-convene the in ternational marine conference; and author izing officers and soldiers of the army who are members of the Sons of Veterans to wear the badge of the society on occasions of pub lic ceremonv. Upon hearing the formal an nouncement of the death of the late Fredrick Riemann. representative-elect of the eigh teenth Illinois district, made by his successor. Mr. Hadley, of Illinois the House passed the usual resolution of regret and adjourned A resolution called j up in the House Wednesdav. donating condemned cannon to a Rochester C. A. R. post, brought out so many amendments extending the like privilege to other Grand Army posts, that the whole subject was referred to the naval affairs committee. The regular order was demanded, and the first call of committees for consideration of bills in the morning hour for this session was entered upon. T ii consideration of; a bill reported irom the committee On invalid pensions, directing the Pension j Bureau to accept as satisfactory evidence ot the death of a soldier proof of his unexplained absence ior seven years, was begun, but a vote to order the previous question on a proposed amendment developed the lack of a quorum in the House and adjournment was taken. "Strictly business' seemed to be the mot to of ihe House in its two hour's session Thursday. The committee on agriculture reported the agricultural appropriation bill, and the District of Columbia appropriation bill for the year ending June 30tb. 1897. The elections committee ro. 3. reported its unanimous finding that David Culberson, Democrat, was entitled toi his seat . as a Representative in the Fifty-fourth Congress from the f,l"rta Tex" as district, J. H. pavis hav ing abandoned the contest of which he gave notice to the clerk ; and a resolution to that ef fect was agreed to. The same committee re ported its unanimous report in lavor of the sitting member in the contest between Rosen thal and Crowlev, from .the tenth Texas dis trict. Friday Mr. Rosenthal will be granted the privilege ot tho floor for an hour to pre sent his side ot the cae. A resolution was re ported from the committee on inter-State and foreign commerce and was agreedto asking the President to transmit it to Congress the re port of the board of engineers appointed by him to investigate the Nicaragua Canal. The bill directing the Pension Bureau, in claims by widows for pensions, to accept as evidence ol the soldier s death proof of his unexplained absence for seven years was jassed- lhe House inaay tn committee ot tne whole entered upon the consideration of the bill making appropriations for the District of Columbia for the year ending June 30th 1897. Much o! the time was spent in discussing the provision reported by the committee for opening to competition the gas and electrio lighting of the city of Washington, each of of which is now, it was asserted, practically a monopoly. Objection was made to the provision on the ground that it changed ex isting law. and therefore had no place on the appropriation bill; such provision should be made in a separate bill. The chairman of the committee of the whole ruled that the provision tras a change of exist ing law, and it was - stricken out. Before finally disposing of the lighting schedules of the bill; the committee rose and the House took a recess until 8 o'clock for the consideration of private pension bills. The following were passed earlier in the day: Authoring the Secretary of the Treasury to exclude from the operations of the internal revenue law, except as to the payment of taxes, brandies made from all fruits, as well as that made from apples, peaches or grapes as provided In the present tariff law; chang ing the time of holding District and Circuit Courts in the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee joiot resolution to perimt the Society for Christion Endeavor to use White l ot, just south of the White House, during its National convention in Washing ion next July; authorizing the Secratary of the Navy to appoint ex-Naval Cadets Ryan, Morris and Wells as assistant engineers. The contested election case of Rosenthal vs. Crowley, from tho tenth Texas district, was settled in favor of the sitting member (Crowley), upon the unanimous report of the committee on elections No. 3. Mr. Rosenthal did not avail himself of the privilege accorded him of addressing the. House for an hour in his own behalf. 1 The House spent most of Saturday in the consideration of the District of Columbia ap propriation bill without concluding it. The committee on foreign affairs reported favor ably the resolution to ask the President to send to the House the correspondence with the German government relative to the re fusal to permit American insurance compa nies to do business in the German Empire, and it was agreed to. THEODORE RUNYON DEAD. American Ambassador to Berlin Suddenly Expires of Heart Failure. Theodore Runyon, the American Am bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany, died of heart failure at Berlin. Theodore Runycn was born at Somerville, in Somerset County, N. J October 25. 1822. He came of a Huguenot family which was driven out of France by the revocation ol the edict of Nantes. In early life he lived THEODORE BUSYO?. 1 in Bound Brook. He received a preparatory education at Plainfleld, and Anally entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1842. He began the study of law in 1842 in the office of Asa Whitehead in Newark, and in 1846 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, and three years later as coun selor. In 1853 he was made City Attorney, and in 1856 City Counselor in Newark. After serving eight years as coun sel he was elected Mayor of Newark in 1864 for a term of two years on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Runyon was appointed in 1856 by Governor Price a Commissioner to revise and codify the militia laws, and in the following year he was appointed a Brigadier-General and soon afterward Ma-jor-Genevnl, commanding the New Jersey National Guard. In 1S60 he was chosen a Presidential Elector, and cast his vote for Stephen A. Douglas for President in the Elec toral College. When the Civil War broke out in 1831 General Runyon was placed in command of the New Jersey brigade of volun teers. - Mr. Runyon practiced law in Newark from 18S7 to March, 1893, when President Cleve land appointed him Ambassador to Berlin. Mr. Runyon was a millionaire. The appointment of Mr. Runyon as Am bassador to Germany was a great surprise. He was pleased with the unsought honor and promptly accepted it. He was one of the most popular men who ever represented the United States abroad. A widow, two sons and three daughters survive Mr. Runyon. One of the daughters is the wife of a New York banker. One of the sons also lives In N'iw York. . A NOTED PICTURE. Sperling's Famous Painting of a Dos "Showing His Splendid Ideal. Sperling, the great dog painter, has just finished a picture of a dog, his Ideal caniu1 that has attr;icted uni versal Interest. The picture is repro duced for our readers. The artist claims that in the picture ho has pro- x-jivv, SS SPERLING'S CANINE CREATION'. rented a perfect dog. Such an animal as the best friend to man in the brute creation should be. . W3 ie Drunk? . A dispatch from Galva, HI , says John L. Sullivan fell from the rear end of a Rock Is land & Peoria train, going 30 miles an hout, between Galva and Layfayette, 111., while on his way from Rock Islrnd to Springfield, 111., where he wag to appear at the opera house. It is thought be was not seriously hurt. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FROM MANY POIXTS. -, i Important Happenings, Both It ome and Foreign, Briefly Told Southern News Items. Capt. J. F. Johnson, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor in Alabama, has declined 16 ac cept the challenge from Hon K H. Clarke for a joint discussion The grand lodge of Tennessee 3J. Bons have issued a circular calling on all members of the. order to unite! with them in endeavoring to maintain peace between this and other nations. Mr. V. E. McBee has been appoint ed General Superintendent of the rail roads comprising the Seaboard Air Lene system, with headquarters at Portsmouth, Va. At a meetinpr ot tne executive com mittee of the Woman's Tennessee Cen tennial board, a resolution was adopt ed under which the wives of all gov- ernors in the United States were State centennial commissioners. tnade At New Orleans, La., while a barrel of tar was beiDg lowered into the hold of the steamship European it slipped from its fastenings and fell upon Jos eph Seymour, a screwman, breaking his neck and killing him almost in stantly. In joint Assemblv the General As sembly of South Carolina re-elected Y. J.-Pope associate justice of the State Supreme Court for a period of eight years. Speaker Ira B. Jones, of the House of Kepresentatives, was e ected an associate justice also for a tejrni of six years, tilling the new place re :eutly created. Northern News Notes. Lancaster, Pa., reports several cases of warehouses burned by incendiaries. The members of the New York cot ton exchange voted in favor of estab lishing a clearing house, by 157 tyesto 56 nays. Mrs. Edmund Tucker -was chdked to death in Yonkers, N. Y., by a tramp "whom she refused to give money, Her husband was away at the time. The large boiler in the works of the Holidavsbnrer, Pa., Iron and Nail Company exploded, killing five men and injuring 25, three of whom will die. Harry M. Fowler, of Boston; pas ad mitted that he has forged checks and. otherwise embezzled money to the amount of $50,000. Many New Eng land banks are losers. Judge Payne, of the Circuii Court of Chicago, created a sensation by the announcement that he had full proof that one of the commissioners! Cook county had accepted a bribe ojf $300 in connection with a murder case be fore the grand jury. t Foreign. It is said tfiat Russia is preparing to occupy Armenia with her armed forces in the spring. . j Miscellaneous. An attempt was made to arresl 26 of the Cuban hliuusterers who had es caped from the steamer Hawkins, but the birds had flown. No successor to the late Bishop good will be chosen until 1898 Hay when etho- the quadrennial session of the A dist Conference meets in Baltimore. The congressional appointment act of 1895 has been declared unconstitu tional by the State Supreme Cocirt of Indiana. The act of 1893 was also de clared void and the next election will be held under the old act of 1885! Counsel for the Venezuelan govern ment at Washington says that Vene zuela is now ready, as she has! ever been since 1844, to submit the vhole question of boundary without condi tions or reservations to impartial and friendly arbitration. A WEST VIRGINIA ISEGRO Shoots in a Train and Kills a passen ger, and is Lynched by ah Angry Mob. J Alex. Jones, a negro desperado, boarded a passenger train at Key; tone, W. Va. I He was, under the influence of whiskey and very boisterous and quarrelsome. Conductor Mc Cullough came through the cars ahd, after demanding fare from Jones, adised him to be quiet. The negro became much incensed and when a a attempt was made to eject him he pulled two revolvers from his. jbelt and began firing promiscously through the train, which was crowded with passengers. H-s emptied both revolvt ri and attempted to re load but was overpowered by thetrainmen When the smoke had cleared away and the excitement had abated it wasdiscov;red that W. H. Strotber. postmaster at Elkhorn, wa shot through the abdomen. The w,ound re sulted in almost instant death". Conductor McCullough was shot In the side, but not seriously injured and Peter Bic, colored miner, was shot through the r'ght breast and probably fatally iDjured. Jones was incar cerated "in Elkhorn jail to await the arrival of a train by which to convey him to Hunt ington for safe-keeping. The train arrived and the officers and prisoner boardeU it with out molestation. Mean v, bile a ihob had been organized at Welch, fifteen miles west of Keystone, and "had marched to Hemphill, a small station one mile west of Weljih. The train was flagged by a danger signal and the mob, numbering one hundred men, boarded it and at the point of Winchesters forced the officers to release the brisoner. They dragged Jones a short distance to a tree where he was swung to a limbf and his body riddled with bullets, the following note bing attached: "This deed was donje for the purpose of example and warning to negroes v. j bnvare. . Killed His Baby. Albert Tollis. of Brook, Ind., has been lodged in jail at Fowler to prevent him from being lynched by his neighbors. A few nights ago be became annoyed at the crying of bis young baby and squeezed its head violently, causing its death the next day. A charge of murder has been preferred against Tollis. I MISS MARY GOT DAMAGES. I I I She 3Iade him Pay for Saying She Opened the Letters. In the United Stages Circuit Coujrt at Jack sonville, Fla:, Miss Marv J. Bennctt secured a verdict of f 4,000 for libel againsit John T. Walker. Walker is a wealthy Englishman' who has large property interests at Do Leon Springs, Ga., at which place Miis Bennett was postmistress. Walker spent much of his time at De Leon Springs and 'd hile there suspected that Miss Bennett wi s opening letters directed to-him.! Walker ' went to Washington and complained to the Tost-' master General about Misss Bennkt. When he returned Walker asserted thalj the Post-; uiasicr general saia: x ceiieve tnar woman (Miss Bennett;) is opening your letters. waiter Irequentiy repeated thy statement about De Leoiji Springs, crediting it to the rostmastor General, and it is claimed em- too. On this Miss'B.'nnctt suedjfor $10,000 loruoei. ua me trial waiters attornevs: admitted theiri client had repeated what th .Postmaster General is alleged! td have said about Miss Bennett, but claimed it was priv ileged, juage LjOCKc ruled that what the Postmaster General said was privileged, bo. far as that official was concerned!, but that Walker had ho right to repeat) what the official said td the hurt of MissBelinett. The: case hinged on this and in consequence Miss; Bennett got a verdict for! 1,000, Soon after aiiss uennett prought suit, it is hid the citi-' zens of De Leon Springs petitioned for her removal. Before this petition was acted on however, she resigned. Miss B?auctt is now employed in the Tampa postoffiqe as clerk CONGRESS ACTS OX -CUBA. Rather Weak, but Still an ndication of the feeling of the States. bited The Senate committee on forei n relations agreed to report the Cuban reso ition. The resolution doesn't go quite so ar as to re- commena recognition, ijut is more emphatic than the extention of sympathy as follows: Resolved by the House of Be pfesentatlves, the Senate concurring, that the present dc- piorabie Bwar m the Island Cula bas reached a magnitude concerning all civilized nations to tne extent that it she ducted, If unhappily it ia longer should be con- to continue. on those principles, and laws of warfaro acknowledged to be obligatory u pen civilized nations engaged In open hosti ties, inelud- (ng the treatment of captives enJisted in eitner armyt due respect to thb cartels for other p'ur- the exchange of prisoners and fi poses, truce,! nags of truce, proV ision of pro- per hospitals, hospital supplies to the sick and wounded of nu services either army. Resolved further, that this repr sentation of views ot thelopinion oil Congrc be sent to the President and if he concurs therein that ho will in a friendly spirit offices of the government to so the good tho eud that Spain be requested t accord the armies with which she is engaged in war tho rights of belligerent Ijhe simo as are reeog nized under the law of nations. I COWEN WILL RETAIN HIS -SEAT. He Wants to Help Complete the Cur- reuey Bill. It is definitely stated that President Cowen, i of the Baltimore fc Ohio Railioad,will not resign his sfeat in Congress un til the close of the presenj; session. Ono ot Mr. Gowen's personal and political friends said: "Mr. Cowen toldj me that the cha rman of the committee on banking and currency; of which he is a member, had requested him not to resign at present, and that lie had agreed to retain his seat until the clo ;e of tho pres ent session.) Mr. Cowen is engaged in assist ing in the preparation of a bU on the cur rency question and he desires to pid in the com pletion of the work and tho ct airman of the committee jiesires his aid becau e he is looked upon as one of the best posted and soundest men on that important committee. Besides, Mr. Cowen does not think that Speaker Reed intends to allow much to be done this session and consequently his duties at Wash ington wluj not greatly interfere with hi work as president of the Baltimore & Ohio." Does It Mean More Trtauhle. The Montreal Star's special ondon cable says: Lordj Salisbury and Right Hon. Mr. Chamberlain have been considering the re sults of the inquiries into r?corda hero made on behalf of British Columbia, which show that the United States has no right un der the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825 to three million acres of landl opposite Prince of Wales Island on the Pacific co.'.st. which is of high strategic and commercial value, and wnicn tne L nitea mates has usurped mqcb buying Alaska. The records of the dispatches of Bagot to Lord Canning show that Clarence Strait and not Portland Tnlet th boundary. It is suggested that thu-Canadian. i m t i I cnemoers oi tne Aiastcan iounaary com mis sion have been misled into i correctness of tho United States' assuming thu assumption. A Quibble of the LaKv. A case affecting Germans beco ming Amer ican citizens has just been deciacd by the Supreme Court of the Empire an Leiosic. Mr. F. W. Boehme, a druggist living In Brooklyn, . sentenced by y., and a native of Llepsic, was a lower Court to ay a nne or 200 marks lot emigrating to a f ofeign county without having lulnlled his term of mliitarv service. Hef appealed ; through hi father from the declson of the Court. The Supreme' Court, In rendering its decisidn upon the appeal, finds that Boehme. as a duly natural ized citizen pf the United State." could not be punished for an &'t committed through Lis emigration to America, but tht t he could be punished for any act committed prior to his emigration. The Court, therefore, reversed the" decision of the lower tribunal. If Boeh me had left the country to escape military services tho judgement of the Supremo Court would have been different IT IS ABSOLUTELY The Best SEWIN& ; MACHINE MADE AND SAVE: money! WE OR OUB DEALERS can sell you machine cheaper than you can Cet elHWhere. The NEfV HO.TIB 1 ourbeit,butwe makecbleaper kind uch Ihe CLI.TIAX, IDKAL aud other Illsh Arm' Full Nickel IMate.l Sewinc Jlaebines for $1 ji.00 aad ai. Call on lour agent or Tcrii9 na. W want your trade. !f i-tcc. t kuJ Mjuare aeaii'ng will ivln, wo v. Ill hara ft; j We challenge the world to produce a. BETTER. $50,00 Scrvini; machine for $50.00, or abetter $20, Sewing Machine for $20,DO then yau can buy from us, or ourpgenn. THE KEW HOME SBWIEG il ClUCA'iO, IU- 82. t , XOj. 1' 1 FOR CAUE V't GAINEY & JORDAN Dicn, N. C. i i n
The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
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Feb. 5, 1896, edition 1
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