North Carolina Newspapers

! ' i 'PROVE I ALL ' THINGS AND HOLD "FAST TO THAT WHICH "US GOOD.' . "' ! . - ? r,i' ' '' " .""i ?$fov&?en In Aavaboc: : ' . 11 1 ; 11 1 1 . - 1 1 ' ' ' . " ' : - - .' ' ,, i- - "r . THNLIYBS LOST IN A: PIRB A Four-Story Tenement in Brooklyn Proves a Death Trap. THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY. One Man Escapes to the Roof From the To; 8try, but No So-itmI is Heard From Any of the Other Tui It;:12an Who Slc;t in That anl the Tkir.l Story Thrilling Itecltal of a Survivor. Brooklyn, April ?. Fire broke out short ly before daylight yesterday morniuff in the four.i3ry tcr.o'ni; : ;it No. 3 r. Union street, in the heart ol the Sulh Brooklyn Italian colony, anil before it was extinguish I teu persons were burned to death. TIvj flame3 did th'ir work "tly an.l mi rely. Only seven peojdv out of seventeen osenped their, and all th'-ir efforts were destroy 1. Tho building itself w i-s 'vmj'li'ti-ly gutted, even tho panels of tho doors being burned through. Followin :ir; t v'''tims: Nicolo Tralia., -aped thirty ycjiir; '-:ninlck Tralia, aged twenty-four year.-: L.iria Tralia', aged twenty-four year.-; TraUa's baby, aged eight days; 'August Biiono. ns:l forty years; Maria Ruono. aged thirty-five years?; Fannie Btiono, aged live years; Johanna Huonoy age 1 eight een months; Lu'ia Calabria, aged clghte3a years; Cvnelo MartttoJ, ag'i.t tweaty-flvo years. ; ' , It teemed M range that so raan'v should J have perished in so .small a fire. The build- J .-. mil .i jitrtjo uu jiuu lua iiain;H ion will be covered by a few thousand dollars. - A fire escape in the rent of the building .of-.-'fered a way out" to the inmates, and, tho fire men were on the scene promptly with a dozen engines. But before their e-es, and tftho statements of several of them aroto " be credited, almost without their knowledge, holocaust was going on while they were bending their energies solely to putting out tho flames. One ot thorn said it wa? fully an, hour after they arrived before they knew that a scene of - death wa3 being enacted within tho walls of the smoking brick tene ment. There were no screams of .distress, no out cries of any kind. The inmates simply smoth erod and wero burned to death like rats in a trao. The position of their bodies when they were found showed that death had Bot come by the painless, merciful processes of 'suffocation. T!iey had been awakened to the realization of their predica ment and had sought in vain to avoid it. The bodies were piled in heap3 by the rear windvs, as if the panie smitten people had sought escape there and had been stricken down. One or two were in an attitude of prayer. The impress of agony was shown on the limbs of all, an I the devouring Are had burned every vestige of clothing from thera. Only one victim, a girl, had any covering on when the firemen reached the upper stories, and the bodies wero seared almost beyond recognition. . There were two incidents cf escape. John Calabria, who live;! with his wife, Lucia Calabria, and his parents-in-law, t he Buonos. on the top floor, broko through the smoke and flame to tho iiro escape, and instead of going down it, clambered up to the top and swung himself by; the guttor of the adjoining house to safety. He was unable to rescue his wife, and ho said that she had died in his arms, while he was half carrying her to the window. He loft behind him to their fate his fathor-in-law and mother-in-law and their two children. Calabria is of a small, nervous build, and could scarcely fhavo sustained the weight of anyone on the narrow, perpendicular iron ladder which did duty as a Are escape. He said the rounds were heated red hot when he seized them, and this may explain tho failure of the others to follow his example! Meanwhile another perilous scene was be ing enacted two flights below. wher Joseph Espostto lived with his wife Maria, and four children, over the grocery and fruit store conducted by him on the street floor. Carl Eposito, a bright lad of, thirteen, told how his family escaped. "My mother does not sleep well at night." he said, "and early in the "morning, while all of us wero abe.l, she was awakened by a crackling sound like a Are makes. She start ed up and then shesaw the flame through the door outside and the smoke coming under the cracks. My father was going to open the doordo lead us down the stairway, but - she said we could not get out that way. By this time we were all awake. Then, my father opened the front window and we crept along tho cornice oyer his grocery front to the1 butcher shop at No. 40 Union street, which my uncle, Antonio Esposito, keeps. There we were let in at his window. We were all in our night clothes." The origin of the "fire is not known. What is known is that it broko out in the hall on the tlrst floor and swept up through the stairways, cutting off at onco all avenues of i escape. It is a curious fact that there had -been .another fire of tho same kind half a ! block down on the othpr side nf the cfrpni- and that the engines had only left the scene 1 1. I. .. il Jt. . . e uan uu nuur umorc meywere recaireaio ui9 : secona ure. . . THE PUBLIC DEBT- There Was a Net Increase of 85,274,783 in j the Month of March.. iThe debt statement for March issued by tho United States Treasury Department shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the Treasury during JIarch, of $5, 274.782. The interest-bearing debt increased 514,788.970; tho non-interest-bearlng debt decreased 579.447. and cash in the Treas ury increased $'S,93!,741. The bal ances of the several classes -ot debt at the closo of business March 31, were: Interest-bearing debt, $837,404,140; lebt on which interest ha3 ceased since ma turity. fl.659.510; debt bearing no interest, . $374.9i0,351; total, $1,213,984,001. "The cer titicates and Treasury -.notes offset bv an equal arnout of cash iu the Treasury out standing at the end of tffe month were $2,902,253, an increase of $4,357,980. The total cash in the Treasury: was $874,968. S47. The gold reserve was $ 100, 000, f WO- ..net cash balance, $171,641. i 743. In the month there was an increase in gold coin and bars of $4,189,711, the total at the close being $171,885,709. . Of silver there was an increase of $ 1,665,284. Of the . sur plus there was in National bank depositories, $27,010,993, against $24,394,556 at th end of the preceding month. Hay tl' New President. The National Assembly of Hayti elected as President General T. Simon Sam, Minister of War and Marine in the Renublie. Affairs in the country are in the most peaceful condi- i .Three Men Rob Train.. " ' The eastbound cannonball train No. 6 on the St. Louis and 'Frisco Railroad was" held ip three miles east of Lebanon, Mo., at l.Oo o clock a." m. by three masked men and -the pare blown open and robbed. The rob bers held, up the engineer and flre man, . stopped the train, and with the engineer In front of them marched to the ox press car." The messenger refused to open up and the door was blown open with dyna mite, the safecracked and Its contents re moved. The passengers were not molested. The engine was detached and ran by the robbers to Sleeper, where it was abandoned. The Wells-Fargo officials at St. Louis say the amount of money obtained by the men was ioal, 11277, t FIRST OF '96 ELECTIONS Republicans-Carry Rhode Island bj j 10,000 Plurality. i '.A VERY APATHETIC CAMPAIGN. Only Six Democrats Elected to the Legisla ture The Democratic Cities Swept bj the Republicans- Although. He I Ke elected, Governor Uppitt'a Fluralirj Was Reduced The Causes. Providence, R. I., April 2. Rhode Island yesterday elected a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Slate, General Treas urer and Attorney-General. The election resulted in the usual Republican majority. Tho following State officers were elected: Governor, Charles Warren Lippitt; Lieutenant-Governor, E. li. Allen; Secretary of State, Charles P." B?nn?tt; General Treas urer, Samuel Clark; Attorney-General, Ed ward C. Dubois. The contest was one of the dullest cam paigns in the history of the St ato. The total vote was somewhat larger than last yeari but this was du9 to a movement against liJ cene in Providence l The entire Republican St ato ticket is electi e l by something like 10.000 plurality, and the Democrats have only a-small representa tion .in the Legislature. Thero aro eight Democrats in the present Legislature, but the next will see but six. The city of Providence, which went Dorno ' cratio la?t fall, goas Republican by over 2000. Tho same is true of tho Democratic cities ot Woonsoeket, Newport and Central Falls.1 Each of these cities has a Democratic Mayor, who was elected on local issues. Tho .Republican campaign was fought on the issue of "Protei tion to Amerrican indus tries." The Democracy mado almost no fight at a'.L In some of tho towns tho election . was permitted to -go by default, no candi dates for the Legislature being placed in the Held. The plurality of Governor Lippitt was re duced somewhat, and this is attributable to a number of eaues. In the first place, the Governor is not well liked within his own rarty, and in the second place, he came out for McKinley against the avowed sentiment of nearly all the prominent mombera of his p:irty, as well as the rank and file. Tho Assembly will be very strongly Re publican in both branches. Thi3 was as ex peeled. It was thought that the Democrats would reduce the majority of their oppo nents in tho Houso of Representatives by the election of a numbefof members from the city. This was prevented, however, by tho introduction of the license ouestion. The liquor dealers supported th3 Republicans. When the Democrats heard of this they sent the word around to vote for no license, and as a result many thousand votes were piled up in favor of 'absolute prohibi tion. Thi3 was revenge to a certain extent, but the Democrats did not get the Assembly men they expected. In the city of Woonsoeket tho Demoorats made a game fight and wore defeated but by temall pluralities. The result was the same in all the cities. BISMARCK'S BIRTHDAY. "A. Great Crowd Celebrated. It in the Castle r.iTk. Tho eighty-first anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismarok was celebrated at Fried riehsruh, Geimany. with great enthusiasm. The woather was clear and cold, and the sun shone bright. From tho railway station, the Postofiice, the castlo gates, :md many private buildings flags were flying in pro fusion, and by noon there were many other evidences of a general celebra tion. Crowds of villagers and strang .ers assembled at the entrances to the TBISCE EISH&BCK. castle park, which were guarded by gen darmes, who rigidly excluded the public. The bands of the Ratzoburg Chasseurs, the Hamburg Seyonty-stxth Regiment, and the Altona Thirty-first Regiment arrived at 11 o'clock, at which hour a cartload of floivers arrived at the castle, together with a great number'of presents for the ex-Chancellor. The mail brought a package from Naples containing a present from the Emneror. Three special trains brought 2500 persons to take part in the torchlight procession in the evening. The paraders, with bands playing, marched to the castlo and halted in front of the castle terrace. At about 8 p.m. Prince Bismarck, attired in the uniform of a cuirassier, over which he woro a gray cloak, appeared upon the terrace and was greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the thou sands assembled to do him honor. Tho bands played a thanksgiving hymn, after which Herr Staelin, a merchant of Hamburg, delivered an address, than ting the Prince for what he had done for Germany, which, he declared, would ever be faithfully" remem bered. Prince Bismarok returned thanks in a brief address In which he quotod tho words of Martin Luther that "the good will of one's neighbors is a necessity for a German Chris tian." Before retiring from the terrace Prince Bismarck, uncovering his head, said. In a-trembling voice: "My body is unable to stand long. fa tigues," and added, in faltering tones: "My heart goes out with you." At this tho wo men sobbed, and the men cheered and shout ed: "Wiedersehen." "Wiedersehen," and these cries were continued until the last of the crowd had taken their departure. "The present of Emperor. William, which was forwarded by mail from Naples, con sisted of a small photograph of the Emperor and his family, upon whicli was inscribed in penoil: "First of April, 1896. . Wilhelm, Im perator, Rex." Governor Hughes Refused to Retire. The Interior Department authorities at Washington, on receipt- ot a "telegram from Secretary of Slate Brucef Arizona, that Governor Hughes refused to vacate his office, sent a telegram to Hughes, advising him of his removal, and to Bruce, instructing him to fake possession of the office as Acting Goyernor under the law. Where Bleached Blondes Are Plentiful. It Is "said that every man, woman and child that lives at Point San Pedro, Cal., is a bleached blonde. This peculiar -condition of affairs is due to the chemicals used tn the powdez lactorj at that place. TAR HEEL NOTES. THE SETTLERS' CONVENTION To lie Held at Southern Pines Pro mises folic h Grand Success. Mr. John T. Patrick writes as fol lows: "The Southern States Settlers'1 Convention at Southern Pines in May promises to be of the greatest advan tage to the South. Hundreds of let ters are pouring in from all sections of the South, indicating that the liveliest interest is being' taken by natives as well as settlers. Boards of trade and chambers of commerce are arranging to send delegations and some of them are going so far as to prepare samples of manufactured goods, and in Florida one town is to send a delegation of Northern settlers with an exhibit of early fruits' nnd vegetables. They pro pose not only to talk up their section but to show it up by actual exhibits. ! The rates from the North insure a large j crowd of prospectors. Tho round trip rate from Boston and Tow York, via j fcteamerw, including meals and I state rooms is less than $16, and the round trip from Baltimore is less than $7 for the entire round trip to Southern i Pines. The water route in May, you know, will bo most delightful, and many v?ho are thinking, of coming ; South prospecting will avail themselves of this opportunity to get down at a very low cost. The Northern editors are to be extended free transportation from Boston to Southern Pines and through the South, and many write us they will attend the convention.' KENTUCKY "WILL BE THERE, j Tho Governor of Kentucky comes to tho front with a list of twenty dele gates to the Southern States' conven tion. The Governor shows himself alive to the best interest of the South,, and will do all in his power to further and make a success of this important work. lie feels, as does every earn est thinker, that this convention will do more toward the upbuilding of the South at large than any step that could be taken at" this time. The conven tion is to be held at Southern Pines, May 5 th. TOBACCO CULTURE. A Tar Heel Farmer Gives His Expert ence With the Weed. Mr. T. V. Davis, of Fork Church, in a letter to the Louisville Home, and Farm gives this information in regard to Davie county and tobacco culture there: This county is situated in that part of the State known as Piedmont, N.C. It is very well watered, having several streams that go to make it up. Davie is bordered on the east by Davidson county, the old Yadkin river being the dividing line. This river, as is shown by the geography, becomes Great Pee Dee within the State of South Caro-. lina. Davie does well in tho produc tion of "wheat, corn and tobacco, to bacco being the leading money crop. Cotton is also raised to some profit. I have been raising tobacco for thirty-five years and have been study ing the nature of the weed all the way along and have decidedly learned that there is a certain time to cut tobacco better than others. Twenty years ago I discovered this, but to' find the exact time in each year it has taken twenty two years. There is a sap in tobacco, as in a tree. When the sap raises in tobacco it runs the oil out and is very sorry. When the sap is out of tobacco there is nothing in the plant but oil. It seems to be fat, and if then cut would be very profitable. Tobacco continues to make these changes as long as it stands on tho hill. Tobacco raisers of any experience at all will agre with, me on these matters. You have experienced cutting tobacco one week, when it iuay cure up all right, and then cut offdhe same piece the next week, and it will cure up sorry. Our IJonded Debt and Income. The bonded debt of the State is now as follows: 4 per cent, consuls $3, 3-47,-750; G per cent. North Carolina Bail road construction bonds $2,720,000; total 60,067,750: The interest on the 4 per cent, bonds is $133,910, on the G per cent, bonds, $163,200; ' total $297,110. The income from the rental of the North Carolina Railroad will bo $225,015, and if all this should be set aside to meet the interest on the band ed debt ($297,110) there wsuld be left a deficit of only $72,095 tqbe provided for by taxation. There are old "bonds outstanding which will require the is sue of $270,910 in 4 per cent, bonds, provided these are presented be fore January 1st, 1897, when the fund ing act expires. j North Carolina Banks. There are iu this State,. -according to Chief Clerk Denmark, 89 banks, of which 27 are national,. 40 State, 1G private and G savings. The loans 5 and discbunts are $12,954,278; the total re pources : $20,007,336. The capital fctoc-k paid; iu is $2886,000 j for national bankR, S1,9S0,435 j for State banks, '$294,000 for private banks, and $334,315 for savings banks; total, $5,296,750. The total surplus fund $1,074,G07; undivided profits, 3529,984; national bank notes ont ttandiug $673,075; individual deposits, $5,05S,736;in-iiational bauks, $3,293, 721; in State banks, $761;511;. in pri vate, $718,617; in pavings; total $,530,149; United States deposits, $09, 402. ' ; Do nigh Taxes Make Low, Prices! "There i3 not an article that we make to-day made possible by a pro tective tariff that has not been cheap ened by protection to the American consumer." Hon. William McKinley. If this is true, why do Major McKin ley and the high tariff press denounce the Wilson tariff because, they say, it has lowered prices? Protectionists claim that our wool growing industry was made possible by the tariff. Will the Ohio Major dare to tell the farmer of his State that their wool has been cheapened by protection t ' ; - ; LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLKANINGS FKOSI MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Blefly Told. Southern News Notes. A big fire at Brunswick, Ga., de stroyed tho docks and warehouses of the Plant System,, and other proper! yv The two massivo "boilers of the Planters Oil Mill at Greenville, Mies., exploded, wrecking the mill property and causing tho death of five men and the serious injury of half a dozen' others. Lieutenant Col. Wm.- II. Forwood, Major Blair D. Taylor and Captain M. C. Wyeth, all of the Army Medical Department, have been detailed to represent that branch of the service as delegates at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association at Atlanta, Ga., May 14th. The Eagle and Phoonix Cotton Mills at Columbus, Ga., have shut down, throwing 1,700 employes out of wo'rt. The shut-down was the result of a strike by the 270 weavers. The weav ers prevented others from takiDg their places. The cause of the; strike was a cut of 10 per cent." in the wages of the weavers. After a week the strikers' places will be filled. - Tho Southern Baseball League will be composed of New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, Atlanta and Columbus, Ga. ' The season opens April 16th, and each club plays 105 games. Accordiug to the schedule each team will travel the number of miles as follows: Mobile 3,998; Colum bus 4,330; New Orleans 4,446; Mont gomery 4,623: Birmingham 4,782; Atlanta 4,753. South Pittsburg, Tenn. with 3.500 people, is without postoffice facilities, owing to the pique of J. J. Ingle, who, it is charged, was dismissed for incom petency. Peter Bradshaw, the new Cleveland appointee, took charge of the office April 1st, and is now dis tributing mail from over' the tops of several big dry goods boxes. The old fixtures, consisting of an elegant outfit of lock boxes, desks, tables and safe, were the personal property of the re tired postmaster. He refused to rent or sell them to his successor at any price. J ... Northern Nws Items. Ten persons perished by suffocation in a Brooklyn, N. Y., tenement -house fire. Lippitt, Republican, has been elect ed Governor of Rhode Island by a plurality of 10,000. The Southern New England M. E. Conference has endorsed the plan of admitting women as lay delegates. The color line ; was distinctly drawn in the New York M. E. Conference, on the proposition to put a negro on the -bench of Bishops. ' The boiler of a portable saw mill, owned by Fredrick Groves, of Miamis-' ville, O., exploded. ' Two men killed and three injured, one fatally and the other seiiously -Five desperate men attempted to hold up the West bound express on the Baltimore & Ohio ai Bremen, Ind,. but police went to the rescue, and after a desperate 1 battle three of the robbers were wounded and captured. Washington. The Haytien legation at New Vork has ju6t received a cablegram announc ing the election of Gen, Tieresias Si monsam, Minister of War under Hip poly to, as President of Hyti, and that the country continues perfectly quiet. - The President has further amended the civil service rules by placing under the classified service the assistant attorneys and law clerks "of the De partment of the Interior. .This order includes about thirty persons whose" salaries range from $2,000 to $,700 per annum. , - The official figures of government 're-"ceiptsaud-expenditures for March show a deficit for the month of 1,250,000 and for the year to date of $19,000,000. The receipts for JMarch foot "up $26,-' 1000,000, a slight increase over March, 1895, and about the same as for Feb ruary, 1896. f The President sent to the Senate the following nomination: William A. Little, of Georgia, to be Assistant Attorney General, vice John Hall, re signed. Little was several - .times Speaker of tho Georgia House of Re presentatives, and afterwards Attorney General of that State. Representative Dingley, chairman of the committee on -ways tmd means, stated that from present Appearances Congress could adjourn by the 15th of May. He was not prepared to say that an adjournment would be reached at that early date owing to the pos sibible contingencies, but he saw no reason why ajournment .should be de layed .after June 1st. . . . Foreign. At Friedrichsruhe, Germany, the eighty-first anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismark was celebrated with great enthusiasm. . - - - - Oklahoma Don't Want. Grcpj:. County. The Supreme Court at Guthrie, O. T., refused to recognize Greer county, just added to Oklahoma by the Su;remw Court of the .United Sr;:, as u eounty and attached to Oklahoma,5'J0 miles aw.ty lor ju iiiial pur poses. This Jeeves xus -.utity as au unor ganized territory with 2!J ii.Ui derers applying for writs of ha:un.s e. Tp; .. iniau Will prevail. Utiea. N. Y.. has got up a petition with 1200 signatures asking for a eurfewbeHtq bj9 rung at 9.30 i very night. : - - THIS FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both Houses. THE SENATE. ' ! - MONDAY. . The bill to approve a compromise and set tlement between the United States and the State of Arkansas?, arising out of mutual elaims for the principal and interest due on State bonds held by the United States and for lands claimed by the State under the swamp lands act and other acts, was taken up in the Senate Monday and was passed af ter a debate lasting a couple of hours. No other business was transacted except the passage of some bills on the calendar that were unobjected to, including one for a pub lic building at Indianapolis to cost .2,000, 000. TUESDAY Mr. George occupied nearly the entire ses sion of the Senate Tuesday in an argument against the claim of Mr. Diipouito the vacant seat in the Senate from tho State of Dela ware. About half an hour was : given to the con eideration of the postoffice appropriation WEDNESDAY,. In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Butler, of North Carolina, introduced a bill, which: was referred to the II nance committee, providing th.at payment of notes, bills, chocks', etc., shall be In legal tender money, irrespective of any stipulation in the contract. He ex plained that his object was to stop gold mortgages and gold notes. It did not affect existing contracts. A committee of" conference, was ordered on tha legislative appropriation bill, and Messrs. Cullum, Teller and Call were appointed con ferees of the Senate. A' resolution heretofore offered by'Mr. Call, for ah Inquiry by the committee on public lands as to the patenting of unsurveyed lands in Florida, was laid before the Senate and referred to the committee on public lands. The postoffice appropriation bill was taken up, the question being on the amendment reported by the appropriations ,. committee, allowing 480,000 additional compensation, to the Oceanic Steamship Company for carry ing the mails" froiu San Francisco . to Uew -Zealand and New South Wales. At the sug gestion of Mr. Allison, chairman of the com mittee on. appropriations, the amendment as to the Oceanic Steamship Company was pass ed over without action and the rest of the bill was procee-led with tnd agreed to. . Mr. Allison said, however, that 'he expected to bAve final action on the bill Thursday as it WM expected that the Senate would not be in session on Good Friday. THUK8D4Y. Most of the time of the Senate Thursday was devoted to the discussion of the right of Mr. Dupont, of Deleware to a seat in that body. No vote was taken. The remainder of . the day's session was taken up in the disoussion of an amendment to the postoffloe appropriation bill, relating to the consolidation of suburban postofflces and changing them into stations and sub stations. No result was reached and the Senate adjourned until Monday next. THE HOUSE. MONDAY. r In the House Monday the Senate joint res olution was agreed to appointing Bernard B. Green as successor to the late Gen. Casey as superintendent of the new Congressional Eibrary. The sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up in committee of the whole, after notice had been given by Mr. Hitt, that When the appropriation bill had been dis posed of he would present a conference re- )ort on the Cuban resolutions. After- pass ng over twelve pages of the bill tho House adjourned, TUESDAY. The sundry, civil appropriation bill was considered by the House Tuesday A conference w is ordered on the legisla tive, executive and judicial appropriation bill. WEDNESDAY. The House do voted the whole of Wednesday to the consideration of tho sundry civil ap propriation bill . . THUB8DAY. - I Pn Thursday tho consideration of the sun dry oivll appropriation bill was practically, closed in the House, and the bill was passed as reported from the committee of the whole. Mr. Hitt reported from the committee on foreign affairs the rsolutlon asking the Pres ident to transmit to Congress all correspond-: enoe In the State Department since Decern-! ber 1st, 1896. relating to offers of mediation' or intervention by the United States , in the affairs of Venezuela, and it was agreed to. j FRIDAY. Dn Friday before tho Cuban matter came up, the House passed 38 private v pension bills, which had been favorably acted upon at previous Friday night sessions. In the course of this part of the proceeding?, Speak er Reed reversed his - famous ruling in the Fifty-flrst Congress which has been the sub ject of so much controversy. and declared that a majority of the actual membership of the House constituted a quorum. ... In the Fifty-first Congress he held that it required a majority of the actual membership of the Hor.se constituted a quorum. In the Fifty- nret congress neheid that it joritv of all the members House to make, a quorum vacancies. required a ma elected to the irrespective of Mr. Hooker, of New York, reported the river and harbor appropriation . bill for. the year ending Juno 30th, 1897, which will be called up Monday. . ' A bljl was passed asking the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at St, Loqis. ' ( Mr. Hitt calied up tho report of the con ference committee on the. Cuban resolutions. The report recommended the adoption of the resolutions as passed by the Senate. " The report was discussed at lenprth,; .but no vote was taken. It is probable that the resolutions will bo adopted Saturday. . . ' HATCKDAY. - . t In the House on Saturday Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, calied up" the coherence report on the Cuban resolutions. Mr. Turner Democrat, of Georgia, argued somewhat elaborately against the resolutions. He said:' "My "regret is that in so grave a matter; involving delicate foreign affairs, we have so little Information on which to pre dicate oux action. I yield to. no man in my sympathy for' any people struggling for.free doin, but-it ii notaquestion of sympathy. It Is a question which effects our. awn .interests and which relates to our duty as a member of the family of nations". It" also deals with eur doty under treaty stipulations with oth er nations." ' yhese, as Mr Turner said, involved all the reasons which ho advanced for .opposing the resolutions. In the course of his remarks Mr. Turner referred to the trying circum stances in which the Southern States stood during the reconstruction period following the rebellion, Jind called the attention of the House to the fact t; at In.Cuba there existed, a condition which was not equalled in any Southern State. . The Anglo-Saxon race had the instinct of government and no other race.had it in nearly so large a degree. A contention for the mastery between the two races in Cuba, Mr. Turner said, would be in evitable. Having had an experience in re construction he would not willingly undergo it again nor do aught to. bring about condi tions of things in any country that would re peat there that. experience: - The Only One of His Kind. Prof. J. W. Hoffman, of Toskegee insti tute, the only distinguished negro - scientific agrio'uitiirlst of America, has been elected a-member-6f 'the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in oognitiori of the work he is do ts g for the raca along scientific line' and for Originating a n$w variety of strawberry a few years agoi now -oultivatedfrom New Jersey to Florida and alppg the Pacific coast. Prof.HffmnB worth has been" recognized by merftber i leading societies in this coun try and Europe. GOVERNOR HUSHES ASSAULTED. attacked th Samo Day He Kecelves Uto tlce of Ilia f'eiuaval. . j P. J. Clark, at Pho?nix, assaulted L. O. ' Hughes, Governor of Arizona," while the lat ter was standi nir on a street corner reading a letter. The Governor's glasses were broken - and his face was considerably cut. 'Bystand ers interfered and Clark was hurried to jail and liter released on bail. C art, while acting as correspondent ot the Denver News, sent a telegram about Governor Hughes for which ho was dis charged,, tha paper subsequently making aa an apology for its publication. Sectary of the Territory Bruce received a despatch-: from Washington, reading: - " 'Order for novernor Hughes's removal Bigned by the President to-day. - "Keykoeds, . - . "Acting Secretary of the Interior." ' The news soon spread :;iud caused tmxedv Burprise, The Governor said he had rc3eive.l no other intimation of his removal. Oa year ago charges were preferred ;ij:ainrt hi;n. by members of the Democratic party, somb of them dating back tjyenty-fivev 3-eari-Special agents of the. Interior Department were sent there to examine ic.to.thm. Tho Governor apparently answered the accusa tions satisfactorily, for nothing was done to ward his removal. , ' . He says he will ask for a thorough exam ination by" the Senate into the. causes whi.h jsrompted the President to remove him, aa 1 Will meet au charges tuat nmy be preierrao. B. J.- Franklin, who has been nomi.noed by the President, for Governor, is a lawyer of ability and stands weli there.: During Presi dent Cleveland's first Administration he was Minister to China, and has served tv.'O terms in Congress from Missouri- i NEW LABOR COMMISSIONER. John T. McBonoiiRh, of Albanj", Nominated j by Governor Morton. . John T. McDonough, of; Albany, wa nominated by Governor Morton to -bo the New York State Commissioner of Statistics Labor, - to fill 'the vacancy '.caused by "the expiration of the term of odea, of Thomas J. Do wling, also of Albany. " t Mr. McDonough served hisj party In tho Constitutional Convention as a deleate-at-large. He was born in Ireland In 1843. When he Was seven years years old his parents came to this country and settled in Dunkirk.) His education was secured at the public schools. St. John's College, and Columbia Law SohooL' He served two terms as Police Magistrate in Dunkirk, and in 1876 was elected Special Surrogate of 'Chautauqua' County. For fifteen year3 past ho ha3 been; practicing attorney, .and counselor-at-law. Mr. McDonough allowed these of his name upon several occasions when there was not a ghost of a show of election to fill out Repub lican tickets. NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS MEET In Convention at Concord They IJeclare for Keed or McKlnlejr,. . The New Hampshire Republican State Con vention held at Concord incorporated in Its platform a; declaration .-favoring ihe nomination to . the Presidency of fjther Keed or' McKinley.- It is proba ble that, the delegates-at-large will, vote for Reed on the first ballot, although; even this -is by no means assured in thoj event of a close division, in which McKin-i ley would heed them to secureanominatjou.! After the first ballot they may be counted! "with reasonable certainty for McKinley. . A proposition to c'.uplicato the Massachu-', Betts' currency plank, favoring the - gold standard, - was overwhelmingly defeated. Tho following plank was adopted: - "We de mind the ' enactment of currency laws that .will provide a. circulating medium in gold, silver and paper, which will always buinter changable at its face value, because each and every dollar of it Is o.f the same purchas ing power as1 a "gold dollar." Senator Chandler acted as Chairman oftha convention. '' KILLED. rN A CLOUDBURST. r Several Idve" tost and .Property He- troyed in Kentucky. . A cloudburst devastated a strip of country in Clay and Qwsley Counties, Kentucky, and destroyed.BevjraMhouaud dollars' worth of Property and cost sev.erai. people their lives- The house of Mrs. Martha Marders, on Lit- j tie Sexton Creek, was torn down by the rush of water, and Mrs. -Hardens and her six-year-old daughter were drowned. .Th woman's, husband wa not at home, and it w as several hours after the rain before he.coruhf reach tho ; place. "At last accounts. the podies.of the wife and child.had not been found. - Three or four other houses, were also torn down, but jjo other deaths hav-Vbcen report ed. People have been made d-fititut.by th destruction of their provisions and feed fpr their live stock. . Enonnoni Ke'sonrces of Nation?! .l!aDk... The enormo'os resources of the National banks of the United States are show in the last abstract of their condition, made pub-' lie by Controller Ecke's. .. -Tho. 3639' Na- tirmal banks liadFebruary 28, 1.031. 311, 731 in loans .and. discounts, $iS2.0G, 933 in stock and securities, a lawful money reserve" of 4337,259.922, of wnich $156.000,0 0 was in gold;. capUato -tee 'ex tent of f653.994.915, surplus fund of 247,-. 178 183. undivided profits ot f 87,011,520, uu--paid dividends ot S 1.233,515, iadivHaald-, Jiosita Qf 143,092.3S,-anl- bills payable of 20,104,667, , - . i . . u : j Shot HJs,TVife.Jtntfifmelf. At Kansas City,.Mo., Henry Hill .shot, hp Vife,' Dottie,' and then himself. Death in laeh-pase iwas almost instanlanisotls.' ' Hill Cas twenty-eight years old and 'his wife twenty -one. ' Jealousy Was tne cause, a aey jams from Charleston, Mo,, sever! weeka EgO. ' S Nevada Gold Output. The Superintendent of the Mint at Carson, Nvada, reports Nevada V gold utpHt,iox, 1895 as tl,780,200,'ari Ificrease or 1894 of 1 559.500. I The coining value of the.Bilver product of Nevada for 18S 5 to f 952,000, an increase over XHH ol t54,5JO. JOHN T. M'DOKOUGK. w - I" WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.4 The Outloql Joes Not Appear Very Encouraging. i . Dun & Co. andj Bradstreet, of New York, In their weeily jreview of trade say: . . - The regular .quarterly statement of failures is 4,512 with the" liabilities ot $ 57,425,135 against 3,802 last year, with liabilities of $47,813,683. -j . . The improvement expected with spring weather, begins, -though in some branches of business is scarcely visible As coosum- -era make spring purchases they must lessen stocks and compel buying. ;The stocks taken in advance of consumers' dem&nds last sum mer have, been distributed far more slowly than fras expected, but months or waiting have helped to. lesson the load which it is hoped Spring buying will clear away. Thf backward season has "been a hindrance, and also the number; of. hands unemployed in important; industries' and the low price ol larmpjoaucts. .lApprenensiens of foreign of flnaiKiial dffflculties have hindered but are nowjjoaroalfr -faltf " ; V . Toe gigantic steel combination is expected to have a great f Influence in sustaining markets and . stimulating confidence, ..and though such operations often miss the suc cess ,they . seeki-they rarely .fail to " kindly Bpeculatlvetluyingfor a time. '-' Less, of 'encouragement appears in the boot and "shoe trade, .as i buyers hesitate, though leather ' is still firmly held. The" woolen manufacturer doei not gain In or ders, and a large.j part ol the muchlnery La stopped... Prices of wool have fallen 7 rer cent., the averagej of 1,041 : quotations beiug lSttWt h Cotton mills still pile up goods in advanoe -of orders, as reductions in prions have failed as yet to stimulate buying. Speculation in products has been: tame. Cotton continues to come forward do largely that former pre dictions' Of "6,000,000 bales are remembered with derision and the outlooTc for the nest crop continues good. : .i : . ; - THE ISU3IXESS MOVEMENT, I . . , , ' -j .Report jof -hff Manufacturers' Record jiaKesrt juooa yxeen's showing. Special reports to thg Baltimore Manufac turers' Record Co vering the business Interests of the South for th past week, show that the negotiations for the-capital of a $ 1.000, 000 steel plant at Birmingham, although not yet closed, are expected to' be,, settled within a few days. Extensive improvments in the way of inoreaaed docking ard wharf facilities at Pensacola are to be added at a cost of $150,000. The Illinois. Central railroad an nounces that it will spend $450,000 on its wharf anil elevator drarsrtfvmcnta at New Oriels and about $650,000 on increased track facilities: a ottoir" mill at Anderson, S. C, wiil duplicate Its present-plant at a cost of $250,000; a company is being organ ized at Harmony Grove, Ga:, to build a 16,-000-spindle mill and one atLlncoInton.N. C, ' to build a50,000-spindle.mlll;n $75,000 pack ing and cold storage plant is to bo built at Baltlmore;.a $500,000 ooal apd clay company ba.s been organized at Calvert, Tex.; a 60, 00 lumber company at "Warren, Tex.; a $100,000 construction company at Norfolk, Va.; f30,000 is to bfo exponded,in the enlarge ment of the graia elevator at. .Norfolk, Va., and of miscellaneous -iiterpTlses there has been a largo number througheujc the South .genorany, curing t,ne past weeK. INTER-STATE COMMERCE LAW Sustained "in a Case Before the Su preme Court Jof the United States. The long pending! case involving the opera 'tton of the inter-State commerce Jaw in im portant particulars', is decided y tho Su preme Court of the United States, the opinion being announced by. -Mr. Justice Bhiras. In the first: case, that known as the "Social Circle case," iho court held that Bbipments on a through bill of -l&rhg, as In this case, frcm a. point in one State.tjO a point in another, are subject to the operations of the law and this, applies to any of the roads making up the through route, .although it lies wholly within single State, fit was also hold in this case that the inter-S,tato . com merce, commission jhad no power to make such schedules as it attempted to cd-o when it put the rate 'from Cincinnati to Social Circle, Ga., at $1 per hundred. .TtetjudKe. ment of the Court jof Appeals for tho .fifth circuit to the above effect,-was affirmed. ' The" Cptton Crop Movewejbt. Secretary Hesters Now Orleans cpjton ex change statement:) Semi-weekly movement at thirteen leading Interior . towns For '96, receipts 15,516 bales; shipmegtrro.VW tabs; stock 240,413. For '96 receipts 25,767; ship ments 54,300 bales stock: 241,041. For "X,, receipts 11,947; shipments 16.020;.. stpek 206,- J73 bales. i. Secretary Hester's cottou crqp .'move ment from September. 1st, 18"95, to. -March Slst, 1896,. showaj:.. Ppft .receipts'- 1t;78L i593 bales against 7.357,601 last .year, 5,- i 159,002 year Deiore las hqu 4,yo-,ou ni the same time in 1893; pverlanAito HVtf and Canada 725t876 against' 974,523, 739,527 and ( 757,031; interior stocks in excens, ofjf ptem ber 1st, 2&,337.againstv .232,908, 152:707 and 255,303, Southern mill takings, exeJ.siye of consumption at Souther cutpoffsT C(T0,831 against 609JO5, 535.625 an4Mt4glL&bl i BiKhtut' close-of March; 6:42'7.C07 hgainst 9,194,927, 6,916.)51 . aad- :.,m.M? op brbhght into -sight for the month of Mch 375,605 agalnstTOS.ft IS. 800343 and 23762, Carlisle's Forrhcornf uff JLat.ojrTf tipeTfch at Chicago. I ' . ; . Secretary CarlisleV address on AfTrll'ftlh,' 'at Chicago, it is stated, will bepurely non partisan. It will j be devoted solely toa discussion of the financial problem in . Rela tion to labor. - It. is stafe4-Jn -Washiriglloa that several misrepresentations of the.nW,urej of Secretary Carlisle's address to be delivered' Iwfnri4 nnranl7Ml lnlmr iMririiet and at their1 invitation, have recently .appeared: in", th public: printer- ' .--'" " ' ... ITI3 ABSOLuTELY Tfie'Best SEW1XG MACHINE -MAD E MONEY E fA 6,171 iDirALEJfSjcaJi iH yoya raaiblnes cnenper man yp c : -get eliewhere. TbJtfi W j&OXtVSJX" onl-lraileiiiaKectoeaperWp olbeV lircrh Arm JFall Nickel Plaf-ed, Sewlnz BlacTtllrtei foi-fl S.00 and u p. Call mi our Knt ff ? rtItB3. mat "yonr tTadef.:4 tf rice'-r.ia 4 htVe1 We challenjpo fbq wwi:..v AND fSSEi prq?ea r-ZStli - jriaeiuoe wr.?&Auw''v"',i' SWlns Iffatrm h'e'fof eSd.OO than jqn- FOR SALE EY 5 "-" ! . . ' ' - OAINET & JORDAN Dunn, N, 0. 1 i