s I EI)C (fisljfrmati & armrr. ruALisnED every Friday -BT THE- Merman & Farmer PnlsMnE Co. PRICE $1.50 PER YEAE. FATAL FIRE TRAP. A Succession of Horrors Springfield, Mass. at this, but the pay the can- Six People Killed and Four More Badly Injured. The new office of the Evening Union, at Springfield, Mass., was burned out Wednes day afternoon. The blaze was attended with the most sickening horror ever witnessed in that city. Six of the employes met a terri ble death. Most of them jumped from the fifth story and were crushed into a shape less mass below. The fire was first discovered in the mailing: room, anl clouds of smoke were pouring out of the lower story windows before the fifty souls on the upper uoor were a ware or tneir clanger. The flames shot up an old elevator in the rear, cut ting off escape by the stairway, and most of the employes who escaped found their wav to the ground by way of the roof in the rear. 'I 'Vl . fsw-min . 1 . uuiwtuuow men uuu women wno crowded into the editorial rooms met a hor rible fate. Some were cut off in the composing room, and the employes who ran into the editorial room were cut off from escape in the rear, and had to face the horrible alternative of burning to death or jumping to the sidewalk below, with the probability of receiving frightful in juries. A ladder was placed to reach to the fourth story, and the sight of rescue so near seemed to madden the suffering per sons at the two windows, and, one by one, they dropped to the sidewalk below. Six persons fell in this way. Some of them were forced off and some leaped madl , while the crowd groaned and turned their heads away MS they whirled through the air. There was no fire escape. Dense black smoke issued from the windows in clouds, and by the time the Fire Department ar rived the top windows were filled with about fifty despairing human beings, who did not seem at first to realize their dreadful position. The crowd underneath cried to them to have courage, and on no account to jump or try to climb down, and they at first seemed dis posed to obey, but so slow were the ladders iu uemg erecim mas a panic seized tne vic tims. The scene as they began to fall from the blazing windows was horrible. Shrieks broke from the crowd as each of the vic tims fell into the street b low. There was a great clapping of hands when a woman was seen descending the ladder. A large canvas sheet was stretched over the side walk, and three men 3umped into broke through and fell out on to ment. A woman also fell through vas ana landed on the sidewalk insensible. With Editor Hill in the editorial room were Dan Phillips, Timothy Dunn (the galley bov), Mrs. J. H. Farley, another woman and a compositor. Mr. Hill opened the window and houted: "For God's sake, put up a ladder!" Mrs. Farley saw the ladder coming. In her anxiety she could not brook the slowness of its coming and frantically jumped for it. She seemed to roll down the plane and struck on the walk in a heap. The copy holder started to follow, but Mr. Hill caught her by the waist and held her. "Don't jump, the ladder will reach us," he said, with as much composure as possible. Forks of flames shot through the partitions. Dan Phillips began to choke. He could only say: "Ned (Mr. Hall), I guess our last day has come. I don't care for myself, but for my poor wife." "I have a wife, too," said Mr. Hall. "That is pretty hard, ain't it?" said one, and then all prayed. The woman was still struggling to free her self from Mr. Hill's grasp and throw herself to the trround to escane the flamo Tho smoke curled around them. One and then another dropped to the sidewalk, and the agonized group at the windows could hardly keep back. The impulse that sometimes comes to a man to throw himself down a steep place seemed irresistible and overcame the fear of death. Mr. Hill was the last to leave. He swun" himself under the ladder and made his d& scent, with another man in front. It was re ported that Mr. Hill was killed. Luckily the report was not true. Choking and blackened with smoke, he staggered on, grop ing his way to tho telephone office, and told his wife that he was safe. The list of dead and injured is as follows: Tho killed M. Brown, a compositor, killed by falling from a window; Mrs. Fred erick E. Farley, 'a member of the editorial staff of the rawer, killed bv th foil- Henry L. Gouldmg, foreman of the compos ing room, burned to death; IV. E. Hovev, of Boston, killed by the fall; W. Lamzon Que bec, killed by jumping to the ground; Miss t. Thompson, a proof-reader, was killed by the fall. J The injured Thomas Donahue, composi tor, left leg broken at the knee and bad cut on the head; Timothy Dunn, compositor arm and leg broken; F. G. Ens worth, com positor, compound fracture of the leg; Joseph V. Witty, compositor, hand, neck and ears burned. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Rastern and Middle States. Charles Dowj.es, the missing insane teller of the Castleton (N. Y.) Bank, has been found dead in a church at that place, having shot himself. Earthquake shocks are reported from .Nashua, X. H., and Pasadena, CaU The premature discharge of a blast in a quarry at Bethlehem. Peniu, killed Foreman George Stuber and his seventeen-year-old nephew. 9;" HITE. a business man of Jamestown, X. i.. has committed suicide to escape fin ancial trouble. Two sleeping-cars jumped the track at Scio, Penn., and one lady passenger was killed and fourteen seriously hurt. The Lc-hfgh coal miners' strike has been declared off. Three trainmen were kil'ed and several passengers injured in an accident caused by the blizzard near Huntingdon, Penn. He.vry Bert: h, lawyer, lecturer, drama tist, poet, shipbuilder, traveler, diplomatist and founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died at his home in New York City. He was born of German parentage in and had con secrated hi3 life to the protection of dumb brutes. at Jeffer a convict in Smith and "West. The Piush University for colored students of both sexes at Holly Springs, Miss., was de stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $-J5,000. Charles Park hurst, twelve years old. ""no yKijiuz wim a gun ac Attica, Kan., snot ana Killed Charles Sleppy and fatally T ocLii, v-i-NX, tWIliam Antwerp and Joseph George, squatters on Rabbit Ear creeK, in tne Indian lemtory, were burned out oi ineir snanty by a band of cowboys UliU AAA Lil UCl UU. a desperate fight occurred between irienas oi two rival merchants of New Era Tenn., named Rufus Kittrell and F. Ernstine, j our persons were Killed and many more wounded. The Williamson county (Tenn.) Poorhouse u X ' craz7 inmates perished in kuc iio.ii.ies. Macey "Warner' was hanged auuvnie, ma., ior tne, murder of the prison of that place. ? Mthodist Episcopal University of 1 1 1 YiT , was uestroyed by fire, and wi mo piuiwsors, stuaents. and servants had Lo leap irom tne burning building for their lives, ine use or victims includes one dead, lujwiaiany injured, and eight seriously , T ... 3vu cuum ana nis six grown sons, of .navena, xexas, nave been arrested charged with murdering an old hermit named Mortran 1U1 "wen iiiiis, ttUOUC l,OlX7. Judge Dundy, of the United States Court ? u,liaa, issued an order retraining the en gineers of the Union Pacific Railroad from xT , ' s nam tfte Irght of the Chicao-o Burlington and Quincy road; also restraining the engineers from striking, combining or confederating for the purpose of organiza tion, or advising a strike. Charles Richter, the young son of a wealthy citizen of Evansville, Ind., in a fit of insane jealousy, killed his cousin, Louisa bchmitt, and himself. H. G. Thomas, a wealthy planter of Tampa, Ja., and his overseer, Thompson, ended a spreeby drinking arsenic and both are dead Inreo of the Thomas family drank of the same poisonous mixture with fatal results. The three-year-old son of J. C. Dills! of leon, Kan., m sportive imitation of a hang ing he had recently witnessed, put a noose around his neck and leaped from a waon killing himself. ' The Republicans and Democrats of Mil waukee have united on a local ticket against the Labor party. A boiler explosion at Kavanaugh, Indian Territory, instantly killed one farmer and fatally injured ten. AN EASTERN BLIZZARD. The Worst Snow Storm in New York's History. Almost Entire Stoppage of Busi ness in the Metropolis. The storm that visited New York on Mon day reduced everything to a condition of sus pended animation. Traffic was practically stopped and business abandoned. The elevated railway service broke down completely, but not without supplying a tragedy to the history of the day; the street, cars were valueless; the suburban rail- Wash in st on. Mr. Milton H. Northrup, editor of the Syracuse Courier, has been nominated by the President as postmaster at Syracuse, Secretary Fairchild has sent to the House an estimate of $8,000 to defray the ex penses of observations of the total eclipse of the sun, visible ou the Pacific coast on June 1 next. George W. Morse, of Washington, D. C the inventor of the breech-loading system of fire-arms, is dead. -."i," , .?,nate has Passed by avoteof44to iu me oiu granting a pension to ex-soldiers ana manors wno are incapacitated for the yei lormance or manual labor, and providin 1U1 pensions to dependent relatives of de ceased soldiers and sailors. The two Demo- crauc cenators irom West Virginia, and the tyo democratic Senators from Indiana, with the two Democratic Senators frcm New Jersey, voted with the Republicans, as did uibo ru-u, or Alabama. Walthall, of Mis sissippi, anu isrown, ot Georgia. -"liMiwuiauu.urs. Cleveland eave a ";uu" LU -s--oenator Francis ivernan of New i: ork. The ladies and gentlemen of the English txerman Russian, Austrian, Danish and Italian legations at Washington are in deep mourning for the late Emperor of Germany. PKOMINENT PEOPLE. Italy. expenses to pay tax theorist, is monument in is retrenching olT his father's boasts of two mpn in r"K Yale has Henry George, the land aid to be worth i0, 000. Ihe late Czar is to have a the Kremlin, costing SGoO.OOO. Ki:;a Humbert, of uis private debts. Harvard menr iiidicott and Fairchild one vV hitney. nCH ? thQ. nine Trustees of the Standard and the President receives SoO OOol ' mil. UAKKETT ANDERSON the WOman nliveinion nF T.",! 1 V , .v, I " --"ij.uu, mates an v,. iuuuitau pounas a years.. J. G. Blaine, it is rpnorf? ,f t..- ",m imu a view oi makm them. leading m- a book of FoRTY-FrvE years ago David Down, Vice President of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, worked as a porter for 4j i month. 'l Watson, to whom tiia oi , . -.. uutuuisulllUL is most ceiipMiii-flcirii J. w. u i ixy v, Ja niuc generally asorilel. wawu, ouaifiuu in.iii ut seventy who is of ten seen about the streets of New York The aristocratic and conservative Co uif and Soviet,, Review, of England, includes John L. Sullivan among the notables worthv of a paragraph in its exclusive columns. Foreign. France has relinquished all claims to the new Hebrides and the transport Dives has been ordered to take away the French troops. Sir John Ross has succ?eded Lord Alex ander Russell as commander of the British forces m North America, with headquarters at Halifax. Fifty persons were killed by the explosion of the river steamer Rafael Re-es, at Carta gena, in the West Indies. The British bark Linowa was wrecked near Weymouth, England, and thirteen of ' the crew drowned. The British bark Tasmania collirlfv? in tho English Channel with the ship Corinthe, and I nrm.j-trjiius, nves were lost. Five of the Buxton (Eng.,) Life Boat crew were drowned while attempting to rescue the passengers of the stranded steamer Isle of U ight. Twelve passengers were saved, but quite a number perished. The American warship Enterprise has ar rived at Tangier, Morocco, and demanded the immediate release of the imprisoned Aioor, wno is under American n rotation Satisfaction has demanded alsojfrom the Moor ish Government for the illegal arrest. The Prince and Princess of Wales have just celebrated their silver wedding. Th Queen and all the participants were dressed in deep mourning in memory of the dead German Emperor. ways were blocked, telegraph communica tions were cut; the Exchanges did nothing; the Mayor didn't visit his otnee; the city was left to run itself ; chaos reigned; and the proud, boastful metropolis was reduced to the condition of a primitive settlement. The wind and snow did it all. Th miW,ipfWfln brewing on Sunday with drizzling rain and gusty winds, which steadily increased in forca When the city awoke Monday morning, it was staggered and amazed. Great rifts of snow tnat kept shifting and twisting were piled up at the doors; sidewalks and streets were invisible, the air was filled with sleet and fine pellets of hail, which, impelled by the force of the wind, pinched and stung like hot needles, and clouded th vi what looked like clouds of white smoke. Getting to business proved to most people who essayed it an insurmountable task. In the earlier hours of the morning here and there a street car might have been seen lurching like a ship in a storm behind four or eight horses. Most of the people who suc ceeded in getting down town had to foot it or endure the extortion of some mer cenary Jehu. Fabulous prices were de manded and often -paid for carriage hire. To add to the difficulty of locomotion was the danger of getting one's legs snarled up in the wrecked telegraph, tele- pnone and electric light wires that were plentiful lv strewed nhrmt The storm stopped the work of the law courts; the legal mill ceased to grind and for a day offenders went "unwhipt of justice.' Sad was the plight of man' who had come into tne city on tne early suburban trains and when they started homeward learned that there were no trains. To make matters worse when they hurried to the telegraph offices to send re assuring messages to their wives and families, they were frequently told that the wires were down" and there were no "communications open." Many people rather than mit. ii r with tho discomfort of a return uptown on foot stopped for the night at down-town hotels. laken all m all it was a unimie PTivrifinpo for New York, one that New Yorkers will talk about for manv a da v. TTti 3, , ,cIck two feet of snow had fallen. The blockade on th roads was complete and there trains out of town all day. Superintendent ioucey, of the New York Central, said thnr. some forty trains were snow bound between lluth Street and Avoodlawn Junction nn the Harlem Road land Spuvten Duvvil. and that the blizzard nad cantured all tho trains within a distance of at least thirtv But two trains were disrit.phrd nno rf them the newspaper train with two fn cringe and the other the Southern express with three locomotives, rjotn were sent out wild, with out reierence to tne time table. All tele grapuic communication was cut off between New York and the .1 Pn;pv nna ct The telegraph wires began to give out shortly after 1 o'clock a. m. This was kept up until daylight, by which time there was only one vi ou in operation Detwepn Naw v ri-L- and Chicago, half a d f7PTI rT en tr r .i - : : - -w our,nern points, and fw tr 'R-et-.n J - WOUWJl. Aiijjuem auu otner ixew tinsriand cities These did not last Ions. At noon communi cation witn tne west was almost entirely u, uii cji.-triL iii, intervals, inen r.n fsrmth- ern lines went down, except at Philadelphia, where a wire was occasionally obtained for a i w moments and tnen lost. It is calculated that not less than 500,030 men, women and children, who are classed as wage-earners, were idle in New York, Brook lyn, Long Island City, Jersey City and Ho boken in consequence of the blizzard Then there about 40,000 men who are employed in various capacities by street, steam railroad and elevated railroads who could not work. They are employed as drivers, conductors, freight clerks, freight handlers and cneckers, yard and switch men, truck-drivers, expressmen. Streets wnicu generally afe lined with moving freighted wagons and trucks were deserted. It is estimated that 20.000 truck and wagon drivers did not work. Thousands of porters, cab-drivers, store-clerks, printers, agents, collectors, slaughter-house men, lumber-handlers, 10,0(00 longshoremen, dock-JaborerSjbrick-handiers.blue and brown-stone cutters, coal-yard employes, granite cutters, derrickmen, hod-carriers, laborers remained at home. When dusk came there was no abatement of the fury of the blizzard. It ' howled more and more loudly, accentuated by the darkness and absence of all distract ing sounds. New York had at last experienced -at least one dav with a Hestem blizzard. Business was totally suspended in Wall street, the Ex changes, the Clearing House, the banks, the Sub-Treaury, the Custom House, an l the business that centers about them. All the great Exchanges were practically closed at noon. A collision occurred on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad in which one jerson lost his life and several passengers sustained in juries. A serious accident occurred at Dobb's Ferry, in which several persons were injured, and one very seriously, and it is almost a miracle that there were not a number killeL The ferry-boat Oswego, of the West Shore line, came in collision with a schooner on the North River. An unknown woman who was a passenger ou uieienvuuai,. lost ner ine tnronsrn t ie acci dent, ihe mail service was at a standstill; the carriers could not make their roiinfJu and no mails were received frcm the outside world. The loss entailed on th city by the storm is simply incal culable. Figuring only on the few cases in which definite amounts are obtainable the losses mounts up into hundreds of thou sands, and if estimates based on the total sus pension of business in all branches ba in cluded the total will reach far into the millions. sunk or siran ie i in . ths Horseshoe. Not long afterward came the news of three pilot boats wrecked at Bay Ridge and another at Fort Wadsworth in" all nine vessel The crews floated ashore on huge blocks of ice. Several prominent citizens became lost in the snow drifts and perished. The appearance of the city after the storm in the early morning was a picturesque spec tacle never to te forgotten. The streets were chocked with ice and snow, varying in depth from two to fifteen feet. Narrow thoroughfares were blockaded com pletely for all kinds of vehicles. Buildings were ornamented in fantastic style with deposits of, snow and festoons of ice. Signs were obliterated and doorways were hidden behind enormous drifts. On some of the cross streets there were drifts as high as the second stories and mountainous ridges of snow extend ed along the curbs like oulwarks. The parks were literally buried, and broken trees and shrubs scattered over the white desert were sfint but eloquent testimonials of the gale. Not a surface car track could be seen, and only the long blocks of buildings marked the chan nels of travel. The elevated railroad struct ure was the most unsightly object alwve ground. Many hats anil caps blown from pedestrians' heads and not recovered lodged in out-of-the-way places. Broken Iwindows. wrecked signs and awnings, and abandoned snow-bound cars and wagons were conspicu ous monuments every wnere. Ihe river fronts were interesting points to study marine pictures and arctic scenes. The East Biver was gorged with ice from shore to shore below the Brooklyn Bridge, and people later crossed on tne solid Hoes. The. rsorth River was open, but filled with enormous cakes of ice. Many people crossed from city to city on tne ice during tne morning. Ihe treneral description of New York by day liht would also answer for Brooklyn and Jersey City. In the height of the great storm the roofs of a block of five tenement houses in Brook lyn were blown away, and several children were seriously hurt. BAY VIEW HOUSE, KING STREET. Nrr Court Square, EDENTON. x. a F. A. WHITE, Proprietor. I. I. RAXFE, Clark. This magnificent hoae has jat lately hn f r. iwed and furnithed n from Up to bottom anj ;t" now public Iti larj and :xni roci ' FACING EDENTON BAT, t an attrictioa not nrpa?d In Kat?ra Care"- b!e will be tnpr:ied with the bet the market ' da. Polite and attentive wrrauta In aitetdLcr are Ta forda. Free Hack to meet Trains and Steamers. First-class iccommodatioii fn Erery Wav en!4-T New It n d nop EDENTON, N. C. Daring jnst purchased a complete set or NEW TOOLS, &c. I am better prepared to do all k!nds of Roofing, Guttering, SpouUng and Tiaworfc years the ruin resulted was wires have the railroads The Storm Elsewhere. ine disastrous effects of the great -storm nave been widespread, though confined for the greater part to tue States bordering on the Atlantic coast. 1 he storm did not extend west of Buffalo, X Y., and the trains west ward continued running as usual. Within the area covered by the nearest approach to a blizzard the Xorth Atlantic States have ex perienced for very many and desolution which fearful. The telegraph been thrown down ; have been compelled to cease operations; trains niiea wnn passengers nave been - 1 , C f Bujpjjwu, in many cases iar irom stations or any place where supplies could be obtained; stock in transitu on the cars has been frozen to death; the country roads have been so blocked as to render travel upon them im possible; in the various towns and villages the schools and many of the public i : i i ' i . i - - uuiiumrs nave oeen ciosea, and a general prostration or business nas resulted. At Albany the storm rased with srreat furv. and the Legislature wascompelled to adjourn without a quorum, many of the legislators Demg snow-bound at their homes. Advices from Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Brad ford. Carbondale and other points in Penn- t M I. . syivania stated tnat tne storm was the worst m many years and that the business of tho railroads was completely paralyzed. All Eastern and Southern New York was buried under huge drifts of snow, and busi ness was practically suspended. In and about Boston the storm was comparatively light, and travel was not seriously impeded. Washington, D. C, was cut off from the rest of the world for two daj-s, many tele graph poles and wires having blown down. REPAIRING CUTED. at very short notice. NEATLY ANO PROMPTLY EXD GOOD WORK OR NO PAY. GIVE 1IE A TRIAL. T. II. BELL, Shop at Bond's Bakery. nov25-ly W. J. MOORE & CO. NEW STOCK Wines, Liquors & Cigars, 131 PORTED AND DOMESTIC. California Wines, Foreign and Virginia Clarets. Agents for A. Werner's Celebrated Grape JUilknon alcoholic. Call and examine at BAY VIEW BAR. Louis Tillery, FASHIONABLE 100,000 DEOWNED. Official Ileport of Disaster the Yellow River in China. The steamship City of Sydney has arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yoko hama bringing advices that the Imperial Commissioner who was appointed to invest igate the loss of life in the Yellow River in undations has sent an official report to the Emperor of China that the total number oi persons drowned is over 100,000, and the number destitute is 1,SOO,000, apart from tho-e who have been driven into other districts. Gideon Hill,, a Greene County (Ohio) farmer, claims 3000 acres of tha finest farm ing lands in Madison and Fayette counties, that State, under a land patent granted bv John Quincy Adams when President. LOUIS F. ZIEGIER, ;tb!a malm -AND- UNDERTAKER EDENTON, N. C. EEPAIRINIG, VARNISHING and UPIIOLSTER ING FURNITURE A SPECIALTY. BOOT & SHOE MAKER, Edenton, lJ. C. First-class reoairlnz done at short not'f. aio keep a full stock of Shoe Finding on hud. Vo t orderu solicited. Prompt attention civen. lv DR. C. P. B0GERT, Surgeon & Mechanical ST EDENTON, N. C. PATIENTS VISITED WHEN REQUESTED. ESTABLISHED 1SS6. J. W, WHARTON, WHOLESALE COMMISSION DEALER IN A full enpply of cheap wood Coffin?, fine Capes and Caskets and Metallic Burial Cases furnished at thort nouce and at low figures. ' The Government of Denmark hn? rrorrml- eated an order forbidding the use or import ation of American bacon, steam lard and other pork products. General Antonio Flores has been elected President of Ecuador. Emperor Frederick, of Germany, promulgated a proclamation euloizin lather, the founder of the Emoire romxsina: to lollow his footsteps and ma';e ermany the centre of peace. has his and The Day After the Storm. The "day after the storm New York City was completely isolated from the rest o the world. Business was at a stand still. The greatest precautions were taken to prevent conflagrations, the firemen and entire reserve police force patrolling the business sections all day and night. One-third of New York' spilot-boat fleet lay wrecked along the shores of the harbor and lower bay, and serious fears were en tertained for the fate of fifteen other stanch boats that were la-t heard of cruising ofT the coast. The first news that came of the mis haps to the pilots was brought by the tug boats Zouave and Richards when they de posited their load of fourteen castaway pilots at tStapleton. They were brought from fcvirnlv ITrVlr. wliara 6va rti)-it!wiaf c vera HEARSE AND TEAM FURNISHED WANTED. WHEN it enables me to fil As I do ALL of my own work orders cheap. Pictures and Frame? of every variety furnished upon orderc. Place of business, the old Hanking Cabinet Shop, opposite the Woodard Hoase, Main St. Residence next door. M. E. ELLIOTT WITH CALLAHAN & BEMER, Wholesale Commission Dealers in GAME AND. TSRRAPIN, 3 & 4 Dock Sreet Fish Market, Fruit, Produce, Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, Poultry, Game, JLc, c, In eeaeoo, No. 5 S. Delaware Ave. Market, FOOT OF DOCK STREET, Sjyr PHILADELPHIA. Consfrnments solicited. Returns made prompt. fctenciJs fnrnuhed. y SAM'L J. SKINNER, Attorney at Law EDENTON, N, C. Practice in the State and Fedcal Courts. OFFICE, SECOND FLOOR, HOOPER BUILDING PMTiG -DONJ NEATLY AUD PROMPTLY -by th: Fisherman and Farmer Pablishing Company.