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' - J - 4 - -1 . - - BOMTY PROVE ALL THINGS AND UOLD FAST TO "THAT WHICH IS GOOD". ; Jf : 1 . f - - . ar in advnce. r VOL VI. DUNN, N., C. WEDNESDAY. MAfir 13, 1896- NO. 19. A GREAT CUBAN VICTORY Patriots Repulse the Force oi Inclan, Who Beats a Retreat. fHE RAINY SEASON SETS IN. CJetuils o' tie Cacaraplara Fight Show Thjt the Insurgents Won and Were Not I;?feafe:J, as tU Spanish Official Report fct.itaJ Xo OtfancB at Pants Brava Spanish G leriilas Turned Away. Havana, Ci'o:s. May 7. Details of the CiaarapIrvr-i fK-'it Itave been received and ihow that tho Cabaas won a great victory 'tu-i wor.; rot defeated, as the Spanish official report .-'.au l. Miceo was not present. The iD.Tur: numbered 2000 under Del- ?aio an ! Soe.irras, and occupied a strong fortiilei p 5ition. Their position was at t.iked cy Spaniards under General Inclan. v.ho tp:o repulsed repeatedly. Finally the insurgents charged and drove :hn Snaii:;r.l5, the latter retreating to Bahia Honda .-.a i t?lng continually harrassed. The -: acish Ios was a':out 200 killed and nearly Jjj vo The insurgent loss was ii?:!r. cri-iio !-. protection of the hills. "General. iJ has been recalled and it is rtiiv.vi In court, rnartialed for failing to jrri"a in time to aid General Inclan. Tae fir at Punta Brava was very destruc tive. The or.tire town was burned. The riar was -eeo in Havana and caused great --; tear. -'it. T:vo forts surrendered to the a; icrEt.-. Tha Spanish commander has ? a arre.e-l by Weyler's orders, and it is .vi'.l 03 court martialed and shot. Only shouldering ashes now mark the site ?j Panta Orava. Several persons perished a tfie Harris, and out of 200 houses, 165. ail 3 :he c ritra of the place, were burned. On reauue of the destruction of the town made :.u'-s?!t!9 for the Havana papers to print i2?'d-:-tails. - run i THE WAB IN CUBA Ihs forts manned by Spanish troops had surrendered to the enemy and had been stripped of their arms and ammunition. The soldiers wero compelled to give even their clothes to the insurgents, and were turned out oa the road practically without loverinsr to seek assistance in adjoning vil lages. Beside?, tbe commander of the looal guerillas fai;ei to respond to an appeal made for aid, turning withhi3 men in the opposite direction. ::ad llaally goingto Punta Brava at noon on the following day, when the town was in ashe.-. The rebels were then far away. About half the whole body of rebels en tered th-j town. They were motley crowd, bidiy dr essei and poorly armed. Some were on horsf back, bat more were afoot. Some were infirm and aged; otht-rs were mere boys. Thre were no women. They left the scene ::t thrft? o'clock in the morning, taking all :he available provisions and many other things ihiown into the streets to save them from fire. The captain of the guerillas tras, It is said, neir enough to hear the firing, but turned directly around with his men and went rapidly into the cane, where he re gained till the following morning. RAINY SEASON IN CUBA. rt Hsi Set In All Over tbe Island Spanlsb Keports of Flffbting. Hatana. Cuba, May 7. The rainy season has set ia and heavy showers are reportei from all parts of the island. An atts3k has been made by insurgents upon tee town of Esperanza, near Cienfue c?. and fourteen hous3 have been bnrned. Ihs Spanish garrison made a brave de fence, driving off the insurgents and pre- entinr the entire destruction of the town. Colonel Pareja, with a detachment of troops, pursued tbe patriots to the zone of Cienfue-i-'o The insurgents lost nineteen men kiiied, and on of their number was taken j r.rouer. i.ie Spaniards lost only on man killed. CU5A IN THE SENATE. Reolat:o: on 'Belligerency Referred to i'ra?ar.i Affairs Committee. f' A?n.'xr.i-y, 'lay?. The resolution here :o' oStis. -' in the Senate by Mr. Morgan, i-'-.tiz.' to thf recognition of belligerent '.: in Cuhu was at his request laid fft that body yesterday. He moved reft'reuee to the Committee on F ;r?k'Q Relations and expressed the hope :- at that committee would, before Congress ? -'Ijouriied, report some action that would be "i- liberate, firai. consistent and energetio for iol'ition of tiie question. He did not be !iQve that Congress could adjourn finally !" '.vinj that uneation as it cow was. The oiution was. with a similar one .nioa ha -i c.een offered ty lir. uan. reierrea tv the Committed on Foreign Belations. The resolution offered by Mr. Call as to the t'aited States citizens captured on board of rbe schooner Competitor was also laid before theSecxte. Mr. Sherman moved to refer it Jo the Committee on Foreign Belations. . That motion was opposed by Mr. Call, but it a? so referred. New York Correspondents Expelled. Havana, Cuba, May 7. Captain-General weyler has expelled from the island James Creelm m and F. W. Lawrence, New York newspaper correspondents. General Weyler -targes that they have attempted to hold htm :.c 1 the army of Spain responsible for atroci ties aliened to have been committed by the jasargents. It Is said that the correspondents ait'.e been ordered to leave Cuba by the first steamer. Will BuiWTSOO Houses Bight Off. What i? no doubt the largest building r- Iteration ever undertaken in America by "ce rnan will be begun in the Twenty-eighth ar i or Philadelphia by James E. Dlngee. He is the millionaire brick manufacturer. Mr. Dingee will build 7500 three-story houses i the site of his mammoth brickmaking piant. putting the entire number under way at oris time. The houses will be of the same general etvie, and will be for one family each. Beansylvanta Prohibition Delegates. The Pennsylvania Prohibtioniste' State Convention to elect delegates to the National Convention at Pittsburg was called to order y State. Chairman Patton. of Lancaster, in Young Men's Christian Hall, Philadelphia, About 4C0 delegates were present, of whom aoout one-sixth were women. James Slansel, the Mayor of Williamsport and the 3rst Prohibition Mavor in Pennsylvania," as Chairman. The 'following delegates-at-large to the National Convention were elected: D. ft. Hendricks, Delaware; H. L. stle. Allegheny; E. H. Molley, Lebanon; -iiss H. Francis Jones, Philadelphia? the rt. William N. Yates, Philadelphia. rs II jr m AI'A 11 a k T-v K. M m I ; in 1 1 1 1 a- B M -- -ino .wviii' TVO NOBLE MONUMENTS. Incidents of the New ton don (Conn.) Ann versary Celebration. New London, Conn., had a fine day of It observing its 250th anniversary. It has re ceived the handsomest soldiers' and sailors monument, a granite shaft fifty feet high, to be found in New England, through the gen erosity of Sebastian D. Lawrence. New Lon don also honored the meroorv of Connecti cut's first Governor, John Winthrop, who came from Groton, England, with a little band of Puritans and founded the town. The Winthrop monument is near the spot where Winthrop lived. v Nearly 400 schoolboys, drilled for the oc casion and sansr "Our Flag is There," and Grand Master Walsh placed the cornerstone In position. The singing of "America" fol lowed. The day was an ideal one, aid the city was at its best. Buildings, public and pri vate, were adorned with tho Stars and Stripes.. In the harbor a couple of warships, the Cincinnati and the Montgomery, were lying. The streets were filled with people. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was accepted by Mayor Johnson. Addresses by United States Senator Hawley and President Smith, of Trinity College, followed. The singing of "America" by all pr?sentani a sa lute from the wanships ended the ceremony. At 2 o'clock a parade, in which were de tachments from the Armv and Navy, tr Third Eefiriment of State Militia, companies of the Governor's Foot Guard, Putnam Phalanx, the Fire Department and civic or ganizations, took place. An elaborate display of fireworks was made in the evening. SWEEPINC CIVIL ScRViCE ORDER. 30,000 Government Employes Transferred to the Classified Lists. The President, by his signature, extended the provisions of the Civil Service law to 30, 000 Government employes, increasing the number of positions on the classiaed lists from 55,738 to 83,135. With a few minor ex ceptions between the extremes of t officials whose confirmation by the Sanate is consti tutionally requisite, and mere laborers and workmen, Government appointments are withdrawn as far as possible from political INSUBGENT SCOUTS. influence and Drotected in their tenure of of floe by the merit system. The new order cancelled all former orders previously Issued and went into effect at onoe. From the moment of its signature the new order made all Government officials directly responsible to the Civil Service Com mission for appointments and change?. The new rules divide the execntive civil service into five branches, as follows: The departmental service, the Custom House ser vice, thePostofflce service, the Government printing service and the internal revenue service. In the departmental service are classi fied all offioers and employes (except laborers and persons who have been nominated for confirmation) in the several executive departments, the commissions, the District of Columbia, the railway mall service, Indian service, pension agencies, steamboat inspection service, marine hospital service, lighthouse service, dints and assay offices, revenue cutter ser vice, s nb-treasuries and engineer depart ments, and the forces employed by custo- anus ui jjuduo Duiiamgs. xne only excep tion made in the Treasury Department is in 1 avor of those in the life-siving service. In the Custom House servico are classified p-11 officers and employes in any customs dis trict whose employes number as many as five. In the Postofflce service are classified all officers and employes in any free oellvery postofflce. In the Internal Eevenue service are classl Hed all officers and employes in every i nter ual revenue district, except, of course, as in the other cases, mere laborers. The number of classifiai places exempted "from examination ha been reduced from 2099 to 775, which are mainly positions of cashiers in the customs, postal, and Internal revenue services. Indians employed in minor capacities in the Indian service are necessarily put in the excepted list. CALIFORNIA FOR M'KINLEY. ( She Instructs for Him and Declares for ! Tree Silver. The California State Republican Conven tion at Sacramento declared "flatly for Gov ernor McKiuley and has instructed its dele gates to vote, for him at St. Louis. This decisive action, which leaves no delegate any loophole to escape, ws due to the elo quence of George A. Knight, a San Francisco lawyer. The platform as originally submitted endorsed Governor McKinley and instructed the delegates to vote for him, but its language was cold. Mr. Knight submitted a substi tute whlan expressly instructed delegates to vote for him as long as there was any chance ot his success. This substitute wa? passed with a, whoop, and thus places California squarely in the MeKlnley column. The convention platform declares flatly in favor ot free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. and favors making silver as well as crold legal tender in payment of all debts. There was no opposition to this, as the free tilver senti ment in California Is practically unanimous. The platform also contains a plank favoring woman suffrage. U. 8. Grant, of San Diego, son of the late President Grant; John D. Spreckels, George A. Knight, of San Francisco, and Lionel A. SUeldon, of . Los Angeles, wera elected dele-gates-al-large. John C. Lynch, of Sah Bernardino, was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor by ac clamation. " ' v Most Cultivate "Bnrusides." The members of Burnside Camp, Sons of ' Veterans. Tekonsha, Mich., passed resolu tions ot a hirsute-order at a recent meeting. The resolutions staf e that since the camp is named after the famous General BumSide, the originator of the notable Burnside cut in whiskers, the members are commanded to put forth their best efforts in growing Burn side whiskers. The resolutions remain in force until after the next annual encampment at Holland Jane 23. The penalty of failure is any treat the successtul members may de mand. . Seyr Jersey Prohibitionists. The New Jersey Prohibitionists held their State Convention at Trenton and elected twenty-eight , delegates to their National Convention, to be held at Pittsburg on May i!8. About 250 delegates were in attendance, includiner half a dozen women. Mrs. Emma Bourne, of Newark, was elected one of the delegates- at-large. Each of the eight Congress Districts elected two dele gates. In the delegation-at-large aie four men who have been candidates for Governor on the Prohibition ticket, Messrs. Nicholson Lamont. Solomon Parsons, of Paterson, and Henry W. Wilbur, of Vineland. The Er. Charles H. Mea4 was te Chairman. mm state CELINGS. JUDGE DILL ARD DEAD. Passed Away Afteraghort Illness at His Home In Greensboro. Judge Jno.H. Dillard, a disting uished, juri'slof Greensboro, died at his home onWeel Gaston street Wednes day. He had ben ill only since Satur day, although he has been in very feeble health for years. The judge was born November 29th, 1819, in Rockingham County, -ind wis therefore nearly 77 years old. Ho itudied law at William and Mary .College and begin the prac tice of law in Patrick county, Va., in 1846; was. elected Co the Supreme court bench in 1878 but resigned one year later on account of ill health. The judgamoted to Greensboro in 1868, where he has, fiace resided. He was married in 1.84-6 td' Miss Ann Martin, daughter of Col. Jos. Martin.of Henry county, Va.x seven children were born to mem, nve oi wnom survive, xne judge also leaves a brother and sister, Mr. J. P, piflard and Mrs. Aiken, now residing at Leaksville, N. C. Settlers' Convention. The Southern States Settlers' Con vention has adjourned after a two days' session. Most of it was devoted to epeechmaking. Among the speakers were General J. E. Lewis, of Atlanta, Ga., permanent president of the con vention and of the settlers' associa tion. Marked interest was manifested in the plan of makirg an exhibit at Chi cago, and the convention unanimously adopted the following: Resolved, That the liberty and enter prise of, the citizens in Chicago, in proposing to organize and maintain Chicago and Southern States exposi tion for the display of Southern re sources and industries, is character istic of the great western metropolis of our country. Resolved, That this convention of Southern citizens from many cities ex tend most hearty thanks to Chicago and the enterprising gentlemen who conceived and will carry to successful termination this proposed exposition. Cotton Mill Accident. Quite a eerious accident occurred Thursday at the Cabarrus Cotton Mill it Concord. ' In the new weave room it the new mill a nut worked off a oolt, which caused the main shafting which drives the several hundred looms in the room to jump out of its hangers, throwing pieces of machinery in all directions, and breaking up fourteen looms. Oil from the hangers was scattered over the cloth, ruining several thousand yards of woven goods and a large quantity of warps. About 65 feet of 3-inch steel shafting waa twisted in various shapes. Operatives were working on either side of where the shafting fell, but fortunately es caped any fatalities, one or two boys being bruised on their hands or feet by falling pieces of iron. The dam ages will probably amount to SI, 000. Mecklenburg's Court House. The county commissioners of Meok lenburg have decided to commence at once on the new oounty court house. They have authorized the buildirig committee to dispose of all stocks and bonds held by the county in the Southern Railway. The site for the proposed building was purchased some time ago at a Cost of twenty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand dollars is the amount to be expended on the build ing. . J. 13. Duke Indicted. The grand jury of New York has in dicted James B. Duke, president, and the directors of the American Tobacco Company. They are charged with conspiracy and violation of the law in that they formed a trust or monopoly of paper' cigarettes. The evidence was presented by the National Cigaratte and Tobacco Company. Gen. Peyton Wise, of Virginia, Bends to Adjutant-General Cameron an invitation to all military organizations in North Carolina to attend the cere monies at Richmond, June 30tb, to July 2d, at the laying of the corner stone of the Davis monument. Ra-' tions and quarters will be furnished free. The Adjutant-General desires to be informed by May 20th, of all organi zations which will attend. Governor Carr has issued commis sions to the following officers of the State Guard: W. E. Warren, of Wil son, Major First Battaliion, Second Regiment;' Thomas R. Roberson, of Charlotte, Major Second Battaliion, Second Regiment; W. S. Harris, of Wilson, Adjutant Second Regiment. A colored brick mason, Dave Parker, at work on the smoke stack of the Er win Cotton Mill at Durham, fell from the top of the scaffolding, 80 feet, to the ground and jwas not seriously hurt. The scaffolding all the way down con tinually broke his fall. Newborn has the largest colored population of any town in tbe South, in Droportion to tot&l population 4,000 against 3,000 whites. Bucket Shops Legitimate. Saturday at Chicago, 111., Judge Horton decided that bucket snops are as legitimate as tho boards of trade, and quashed eleven indictments against persons charged with be ing proprietors of or employed in buoket shops. "The board of trade does a whole sale business in wheat dealing," said Judge Horton, "and what is called bucket shops do a retail business. There is abso lutely no difference in their methods of oper ation, and the statute which makes the board of trade business legitimate does the same for the lesser dealers, who conduct the same kind of trade. While I believe personally that it la ill nothing but gambling, the law allows it, lad the courts are powerless," LITEST NEWS I IN BRIEF GLEA PROM Jf ANY POINTS: I ImDortent Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, nifly Told. ! " -t - - . r Southern News Notes. I 1 Editor jCrlass, of the Lynchburg, Va. News, died Thursday, aged 73. f; ! Solomon Marable has been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Pollard, in Virginia, and will hang July 3rd. The Settlers Association at Southern Pines, N. 0., was represented Tuesday by 1,000 people, representing every State in the Soutb, also Northern newspapers and railroads. . Gov., Carjt made the welcome address. Baker county, one of the most fer-f tile counties in Georgia, has no rail road, telegraph or telephone line in iti borders, and it has no newspaper. The'American Academy of Medicine met in annual session in the ball room of the Aragon Hotel, at Atlanta, GaJ Tuesday. Jt was a distinguished gathering of rmedical men from all sections of J;be country. j; The General Conference of the Afri can Methodiot Episcopal Church open'J ed Wednesday morning at St. Stephr ens r'A. M. E. Church, Wilmington with 374 delegate's present, and wiH continue in session for three or fcftti weeks'. Ten . bishops and general tilV ficers were present and, assisted in tbe opening exercises. Bishop Turner, of Georgia, presided. . .Northern News Item. H. H. Holmes was hanged at Phila-i dtlphia, Pa., Thursday, for the mur der of B. F. Pietzel. . A terrific gasoline explosion in Cinf cinnati, O., Monday wrecked a five; story building and killed a number o persons. ,Mrs. Kate Stokes Stetson, widow of John Setetson, late theatrical manager and millionaire, died at Boston, Masd. Monday. " Round houses and twelve locomo-f tives- belonging to the Queen and Cret cent Railroad, at Somerset, - Kap-i burned Thursday. Lose, $$00,000:; fully insured. At Clayton, Mass., Monday Edwirl H. Plant, aged 26, shot and instantly killed his wife and two-weeks-old daughter. When found that thero was no possibility of escape Plant ehof himself. 1 The Denver, Col., chamber of com merce authorizes the statement that no contributions for the Cripple Creek fire suffers from other States are needed. The contributions in sight in Colorado amount to nearly $50,000. A Btrike of street railway employe! for an advance in wages and recognil tion of the union began Monday morn iEg at Milwaukee, Wis., tying up, every line in the city. Over 1,200 men are out, including conductor; motormen, electrical workers and barn men. I Washington. F. J. Keichofer, until recently the disburing officer of the State departf ment ot Washington, found to b $127,000 short in bis account'. . f The State Department at Washing! ton has been authentically informed; that, while of the prisoners captured on board tho Competitor, some were killed, during the fight that ensued be tween the Spanish steam launch and the schooner, and while many more are supposed to have escaped, only -one of the persons captured is an Ameril can citizen, who thus far has refused to give his name. General Superintendent Kimball, of the Treasury Life Saving Service, hal issued a circular forbidding memberf of a life saving crew, during the activ' season, ferrying, boating, oystering crabbing, fishing, shooting game,gath ering mosss, or engaging in similar; employment, for pay or market, in competition with other persons en gaged in such business. I I Foreign. Col. North, known as the nitrate kinp, and one of the wealthiest men? in the world, died suddenly in his; office in London Tuesday. Cause,! heart disease. . The Sultan of Turkev is terribly! frightened by the news of the murderf of the Shah of Persia. Telegrams! concerning it have been forbidden to enter his dominions, and newspapers to mention the affair. i The French excavators at Delhi havej unearthed a life-size bronze statue of at bearded man, the largest yet discov- ered. The date of the work is 500 B. C. The statue is holding the bridle ofi a horse, and portions of the horse's figure have also been found. Mrs. Langtry's action against the': Union Bank of London, England, to recover 200,000, the value of jewelry? deposited with the bank for safe keep- f ing and which was delivered to an un-j known person upon a forged order, has been settled by agreement, the de-l fendants paying Mrs. Langjry10,000. f The jewels, if recovered, remain herjli property ; but if recovered b( yond the value of 25,000 the excessf goes to the bank to the extent of 810,000. , . J'! Oeath of a Great Hanker. ' :! George S. Coe, for nearly thirty-fle years! president of the American Exchange Bank, ? cf New York, died at Euglewood Cliffs, N. J.,1 MoEday. The immediate cause of hiadeathi was paralysis. .Mr. Coe devised the system of issuing clearing house certificates, and; this system has been the means of arresting; panics. The system was used on a gigantic scale in 1S61. when the bank3 of New York. ( Boston and Philadelphia formed themselves into an orpauization to purchase and sell atj par f 5,000.000 of treasury notes to, supply: the nwvwiiiea of the OoTernmenL -...si THE FIFTY-JOUKTn CONGRESS. A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both Houses. THE SENATE. MO"DAY. Mr. Butler offered a joint resolution Mon day in the Senate to carry Into effect two res olutions of the Continental Congress direct ing monuments to be erected to the mem ory of Generals Francis Nash and Wo. Davidson, of North Carolina. It appropri ates five thousand dollars for each monu ment and directs the money to be paid to the Governor of North Carolina. TUESDAY. Tuesday the river and harbor bill was taken up. After discussion the committee amendments were rejected, and the bill re mains as agreed to by the House. In the item as to Savannah, Ga., the aggregate -cost was reduced from $1,093,950 to $887,950. Alter disposing oi thirty pages oi the bill Mr. Frye said that 'he would not push the consideration of the biil further. The Peffer bond resolution was taken up, and Mr. Hill continued his argument in opposition to it.. Twenty-seven private pension bills were passed. WEDNESDAY In the Senate on Wednesday the chief point of discussion was the compensation of of United States district attorneys and mar shals. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Morgan, Democrat, of Alabama, relating to the recognition of belligerent rights in Cuba, was, at . his request, laid before the Senate. He moved its reference to the com mittee on foreign relptionp and expressed the hope that that committee would before Con gress adjourned, report some action that would be deliberate, firm, con sistent and enfrgetic for tho solution of the question. He did not believe that Congress could adjourn finally leaving that question as it now was. The resolution was, with a similar one which had been of fered by Mr. Call, refer -ed to the committee on foreign relations. Tae river and harbor bill was then taken up aad proceeded with. . YHCBSDAY. In the Senate Thursday a resolution di recting the Commissioner of Agriculture to report to the Senate immediately the reason for the delay in distributing seeds, was offer ed by Mr. Gallinger, and agreed to. The resolution for an inquiry astto bond sales in 1894. '5 and '6, was taken up, and Mr. Palm er, Democrat, of Illinois, addressed the Sen 'ate. He felt that the animus ot the resolu tion was to affect the public mind with refer ence to the silver question. After the bond resolution was disposed of the river and har bor bill waq taken up and its consideration continued. FBI DAT. ArcoEg tho dozen or moie bills which were passed by the Senate Friday, because they were unobjected to, was one permiting the erection in Washington of a monument in honor of Samuel Haneman, the founder of the medical school of homeopathy, and ap propriation 4.000 to defray the cost of the foundation. The only restriction imposed in the bill is that the monument is not to be placed in the capital grounds. A bill to pro hibit the issue of United States bonds with out authority of Congress was introduced by Mr. Bacon. Democrat, of- Georgia, and laid on the table for the present. The considera tion of the river and harbor bill was con cluded, with the exception of one amend ment. BUTCBOAY. In the Senate Saturday after the river and harbor bill was laid aside the unorjected-to bilk on the c alendar were taken up and come thirty were passed. Among them were the following: Senate bill appropriating $25,000 for a monnmeut to General Nathaniel Greene, on the battefield of Guilford Court House, N. C, fought March 15th, 1781. Senate joint resolution for a commission to determine the cost of securing for the United States the channel in Atchafalaya Bay, La. House bill concerning the distilling of brandy from fru.tj having been reached, Mr. Harris, Democrat, of Tennessee, suggested that this fce passed over without prejudice. Some dis cussion ensued and the bill went over with out actioD, THE HOUSE. MONDAY. Mr. Butler offered a joint resolution Mon day in the Senate to carry into effect two resolutions of the Continental Congress directing monuments to be erected to the memory of Generals Francis Nash and Wm. Davidson, of North Carolina. It appro priates $5,000 for each monument and directs jthe money to be paid to the Governor of North Carolina. ' TUESDAY. Tuesdaythe question of concurring In the Senate amendments to the naval appropria tion bill reducing the number of new battle ships to be authorized from four to two, was called up by Mr. Boutelle, and Mr. Sayers addressed the House in favof of his motion to concur. Ho expressed the opinion that this was a business question and that no pol itics were involved. . He did not propose to criticise the appropriations that had been m'de at this session. The appropriation bills independently of the contracts author teed by them, he regarded as fair and reason able, and not extravagant. He directed the attention of the House to the estimated reve nues for the next fiscal year, which were placed by the Secretary of the Treasury at 6464,793,000, including the postal revenues. The appropriations that had passed the House amounted to $386,000,000. If to these be added ' the permaneut appropriations, amounting iu round numbers to $119,000,000, there was a total appropriation of $505,000, 000, as ngaini-t estimated revenues ot four hund red undfiixty-f our million. Of the per manent; appropriations fifty million dollars was estimated for the sinking fund, WEDNESDAY. In the House on Wednesday, Mr. Miller, of West Virginia reported the decision of the second elections committee in the contested electiojJ case. The resolutions declared Thompson not entitled, and Shaw entitled to the seat. They were adopted without oppo sition. They. lose both sats in the long run, for a Republican, and not Martin, will be Mr. Lockhart's competitor next time. THCHSDAY. In the House Thursday there- was a re minder of the scenes and experiences In the Fifty-first Congress when Mr. Pickler, Re publican, of South Dakota, who was unable to secure as long a session of the House as he desired for the consideratl. n of private pension bills, made the point of no quorum before the journal proceeding was read. Fifteen minutes passed before 159 members appeared, and then Mr. 1 ickler insisted upon having the journal read ia full, includ ing the names of the absentees at roll calL He also objected to tbe suggestion that tbo journal be considered as provided, requir ing a vote upon the question. TBIDAY. After several years' discussion and many unsuccessful attempt?, members of the House Friday voted ISO to 303 to place themselves on an equality will- Ite Senate in respect to the matter of prowling themselves with clerks the year roii lid instead of for the ses sion of Congress only. It wasjnot until 1593 that the House went even so far as that. SATTTBDAY. There was no session of the House Satur day. P.6tor Diaz's startling Story. The Rev. Alberta Diaz; Southern Baptist missionary, expelled from Cuba by Weyler In a long interview at Jacksonville, Fla,, tells appalling stories of atrocities being commuted by Spaniards. In the last two weeks in the rural districts ot San Miguel, Del Pardron and Minas. Mr. Diaz says col. Fondeville has had more than one hundred persons butchered and then reported them to the world as having been killed in battle Among those killed were children 13 and 14 yearsofage. The victims were compelled to dig their own grave before oeing shot. As the steamer was leaving Havana Mr. Dias says new3 was brought on board that c oi. ron.leville'a troops near Havana. Co.. Fondeville is one of Weyler's favorites and is atiCJf under the Captain General orders. DEATH DEALT BY GASOLINE. A BUILDING IN CINCINNATI BLOWN UP. Morgue and Hospitals Had Their Capacity Tested Undertakers Kept Busy. At Cincinnati, O., Monday evening a ter rific explosion occurred in Adolph Drach'g saloon on Walnut street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, and immediately opposite the Gibson House. The building, a five-story brick, waa shattered to splinters. The ex plosion shook large buildings for squares, while hundreds of windows in tie Gibson House were broken and plate glass windows on .both sides of Walnut street, the entire length of the square, were shattered. ' The building was occupied on the ground floor by two saloons. Adolph Drach's on the south, Louis Fey's on the north. The upper floors were living rooms. ! The build ing was twenty-five feet front and ran back sixty feet. The explosion tore the entire structur from between the adjoining buildings on either side as neatly as it could have been accomplished by workmen. All that is now left is a mass of brick, mortar and torn tim ber, over which tbe roof rests In a slanting position. ! The explosion of a gas machine caused It. Only a few days ago Fey had a gas machine placed In a rear room and made his own gas. A large tank filled with the explosive fluid was in the room in the, rear of the saloon. In addition, a barrel of gasoline was being unloaded at the time. An electric motor furnished the power. The motor was oper ated at two high a rate of speed, causing the commutator to burn out. This ignited the gas, causing the explosion. ! The identified dead, Injured and missing are: Ronald A. Davi-, traveling salesman, of Hamilton, O.; four unidentified; Adolph Drach. Missing: R. A. Frioke, traveling salesman, of Norwood; William Lauth, bar keeper for Drach; Mrs. Adolph Drach and two servants; Louis Fey, wife, child and two servants. The Injured: H. E. Run wick, bookkeeper, 15 East Seventh 6treet; Joseph Spriggs, por ter, 19 Harrison: (.'. S. Wells, clerk.. 46 Har rison avenue; Sidney W. Johnson, barkeeper, Seventh and Culvert streets; W. D. Crisby, paper hanger, 2,806 Park avenue; William E. Cook, clerk at waterworks. Union and Main avenue, Avondalo; J. L. Ward, race horse man, Toledo, stopping at the Gibson house; Barbara Huddtel, domestlo at Louis Fey's; John McCarthy, of Cincinnati Wharf Compa ny; Pete Burns; Charles Spillo; Chief of Po lice Pugh, of Covington, Ky. B. A. Davis, who was killed In the crush, had been married but two months. He mar ried a well-known young lady of Newport, who is how in Asheville, N. C. How little Felita Drach, the 5-year-old daughter of Saloonist Drach, escaped Instant death is nothing less than miraclous. The' little form was taken out of the building from under a mass of timbers. The child was unconscious, bat not seriously hurt. It seems that tbe timber in falling over her formed a bridge which protected her from the weight of the debris above. Various estimates are made upon the loss of life, all of them more or less vague. A fair estimate places the number, caught in the falling building at from sixtyjo seventy-five. At least twenty-five people? and perhaps more, the exact number may never be known were mangled, crushed, burned and scalded to death. The explosion was caused, as has been eaid, by the Ignition of a gasoline tank . The best authorities agree that the commutator of the engine had burned out, setting fire to a tank of gasoline. Hundreds of anxious In quiries kept the telephones In the neighbor hood busy and the hospitals and morgue were besieged with callers, eager to ascer tain the identity of the dead and dying. A GASOLINE STOVE DID IT. Mrs. Jacobs, an aged lady of i espectable family, Who resides at No., 485 King street, Charleston, 8. 0. Was burned to death Mon day. She was cooking at a gasoline stove, When it exploded. A feather bed In the room was ignited and the woman was enveloped In the flames. R9fore assistance could reach her she was bo badly burned that she died a few hours later from her injuries. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Broker Graves, of New York, who started a suit against Secretary Carlisle for awarding (in default) bonds which he had bid for, has withdrawn his suit. The Sb'uthern Baptist Convention convened in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday. At Newark, N. J., a company is being formed composed mainly of army veterans is recruiting for Cuba. The City Saving Bank, of Hot Springs, Ark, has failed. President Hogaboom has fled. Shortage pro bably $200,000. . The extradition of Wm. Turner and Wm. Dunlop, who were arrested in London on the charge of having stolen jewelry valued at $60,000 from Mr. I. Townsend Burden, of New YorK, has been granted. Henry Bollin, ex-city treasurer, of Omaha, Neb., after a second trial, has been convicted of embezzling the sum of $105,500 of public funds of the city and school board of Omaha. Punish ment may be from one to 25 yeais and fine in the amount or double the amount of the embezzlement. Frank Slavin, the pugilist, arrived in New York from England Saturday on the steamer Paris. Slavin is to fight with Peter Maher, and if he i3 successful with the' Irishman he will go after the present champion, "Bob" Fitzsimmons. The annual convention of the Supreme Association is to meet in Washington, D. C, May 12th. Two. boat loads of missionaries and traders have been killed by the natives on the island of Manning Straits, an 1 eaten by cannibals. A dispatch from Havana, Cuba to Madrid, Spain, says that tbe five prisoners captured on the schooner Competitor have been . sentenced to death. The men sentenced to death are Alfredo Laborde, born in New Orleans; Owen Milton, of Kansas; William Kinlea, an Englishman, and Elias Bedia and Theodore Dela Maza, both Cubans. The treasury -gold reserve, at the close of business Saturday, stood at $117,775,490. The day's withdrawals i were $18,600. The three boy train wreckers of Borne, N. Y., have been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary one for fife the other two for 20 years each, WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. The Unseasonably Cool Weather lias Checked Business. Dun A Co., aad Bradstreet. of New York, in their weekly review of trade say : Trader in wheat have lifted prices a little and . yet nobody questions the correctness of Western reports indicating more than ordinary yield of winter wheat and usual progress in the planting of spring. With the narrow stock usual at this season, a speculation for ad. vanee always has many opportunities', but Western receipts are still forty per cent larger than last year; while Atlantic exports, flour included j are for the week, 943,667 bushels, against 1,615.051 a year ago. After a fall to 6sc the price rose about two cents. Corn is also a shade lower, but without definite reason. Cotton speculation has lifted the spot price to 8.31c and' profits have been realized from the men who have sold cotton they did not own, but it is still tho, fact that the outlook for next falls crop l3-."Tinusually favorable, while stocks here and abroad ex ceed all possible demands until September. Failures for the week have "been 238 in the United States, against 227 last year, and 24 in Canada against 31 last year. - That exports of $5,850,000 gold this week have produced no monetary disturbance is at once proof of the soundness of financial conditions and of the prevailing confidence of better things to come. Much of thehesil tation at present Is due to temporary reduced demand In some industries, and in iron and 6teel the power of the new combinations ia being generally tested by refusal' of orders, so that production exceeds consumption, but consumption exceeds hew buying. For textile manufacture, it is trying. " . Print cloths are an eighth hlgher.but some other grades have declined, so that the aver age of all quotations is slightly lower. Relatively unfavorable features of the gen eral business situation this week include un seasonably cool weather, whloh at some centres has checked trade; continued Burplus stocks of cotton, which depresses prices, dull ness and idle machinery in the woolen goods industry; a falling off in demand for lumber at St. Louis and Minneapolis and conntinued dullness in iron and steel, where, although milis and furnaces are fairly active, there is continued absence of new orders. Chicago jobbers report the week's business in light seasonable fabrics as only fairly satisfactory,, transactions in clothing smaller than in. the like period a: year ago, and the leather mar ket weaker, owing to lack of demand, but light hardware relatively more active. The favorable side of the picture Includes a marked decrease in the total volume of bank clearings, a longer list of staples for which quotations have advanced, almost uni form and unexpectedly improved prospects for cereal and cotton crops and a reflection of the feeling as to the autumn's business in an improved demand throughout the territo ry supplied by St. Louis, Kansas Lity, Oma-i La, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Duluth and Sioux Falls. . . - AN APPEAL FOR DIXIE. The Southern fetates Exposition Ad visory Committee Meets. The Southern advisory, committee of the Southern States Exposition' of Chicago met In Atlanta Thursday. Delegates were pres ent from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia. Effec tive and final action was taken by which the majority; of the Southern States are fully pledged to make a display of iiicirxbSotircci at Chicago. Effective Stats organizations for this purpose already exist in South Car olina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Ten nessee. Delegates from Kentucky. North Carolina and West Virginia, also Maryland, are pledged to at once organize those States. Florida will be represented unofficially but fully by railroad exhibits. Alabama has an available fund. Georgia proposes to raise from thirty thousand to fifty thousand. It has 137 Coun ties at work and its leading cities are readily responding to their assesments. Several counties in Mississippi have appropriated from five hundred to one thousand five hun dred. Guarantees have been made to as sure a fine display from Tennessee. The advisory oommlttee directed tbe gen eral manager to prepare adequate general exhibits, showing the resources of the South as a whole. They will compromise separate exhibits of forest products, mine products, agricultural, farm and dairy products, cot ton and cotton manufacturing, tobacco and its manufacturing, sugar culture, iron manu facture, eta. These exhibits will occupy about fifty thousand square feet. Detailed plans are to be prepared by Prof. B. E. Fer now, chief of the forestry division, Ui'ited States department of agriculture; Dr. Ray of the United 8tates geological survey; C. H. Dodge, speoial agent of the United States fibre department, with the assistance of the several State commissioners Of agriculture and geology. The general manager has been authorized to employ a corps of expert assistants to gather materials and arrange exhibits. Means have been guaranteed to properly carry out tho work projected . The leading Southern railways are warmly Interested and proffer ample support. The following railroads will probably make ex hibits and several of them have already ap- Elied for space t The Southern Railway, ouisville; and Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia railroad, Mobile and Ohio, Illinois Central and Georgia Rail road.com pany. Re quisitions for space already in sight will re quire over 80,000 feet. In addition to this at least 70,000 feet will be required for the seven States which today pledged themselves to make exhibits and which have Ibo money to Bight to do it with. . An appeal was issued and signed by the members of the advisory committeo calling on the Southern people to make the exposi tion the most complete object lesson of the South's resources and products ever pre sented to the American people. Professor Roentgen dislikes being lionized. He recently intended to spend a fewdays in Florence, Italy, but hardly hai his srrival become known when 200 students cams to salute him. He told them bluntly they would have done better to attend their -lectures.: Later on, hearing that other :emonstrationi were planned, he took the first train and left the city. IT 13 i ABSourray The Best SEWING MACHINE MADE SAVE MONEY WE Oil OUR DEALERS can cell von machine cheaper than you east Cet elsewhere. The HE W H03IB I o n r beat, hat we make ebeaper klndi, such a the CMMAX, JDEAts and other Ilieh Arm FaU NIefcel Plated Sewine Machine for $15.00 and np. Call on our agent or write us. vo want your trade. a If pricey t? Hi ,uare oeaiine will win, we wll havelt. We challenge the world to produce a BETTER $50.00 Scvtla- i fAr ftso.OO. or a better Sewing Blaehlne for f 20.00 than you can buy from us, or our Aeenia. , THE HEW HOME SE1I5G H1C5IEE CO. ; . fCfl SAUE BY - BAINEY JUKIaN Dunn, N. QV and" p!?? k5 ICVi jams
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