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ncroasinc: Circulation MURE T lio O nly Wooklv PAPER Published in. the Territory Lyin bet ween the Roanoke anI M n rnn rircr$, embracing the three coutdiis cf Hertford, Northampton and Her tie. A X) V i: RTISIN 0 M. K.DIU 1U, JOHN W. HICKS, Editor and Proprietor. DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF HERTFORD AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. SI .50 Per Annum VOL. Ill: MURFREESBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. V3 Hates Reasonable. NO. 15. 'REESBORO INDEX ROBBED BY BEARS JUIUN' 1XVADISG. FARMS IX TKAL PENNSYLVANIA. CO- f ornflelus Foraged and Ho?? Pens Raided Vy l hem. According to the accounts of hunters, black J-f.-ir w ere never so num?rou.s an'l bold in Central Pennsylvania as th.y are this falL In Centre county, says a dispatch to the New York Stn, they have walked boldly into villages, and one was killed the other day on a farm within eight miles of Bel'.efonte, the county seat and home rf 'Governor Curtin. In Franklin county, in the Noth Mountiin region, bears invaded the corn fit-Mi in such numbers during tha husking teuton Just ended that great Jo was sustained by tbi farmers in the corn yyiirt-d and carried away by the anil's- Over Ihe line in Fulton county, fviif-rially in Tod township, more than one f irmer lias beea robled of his winter's pork r,y marauding bears. In Cumberland coun ty, near the 1'erry cxinty line, many bears have heen seen this mouth and three kille 1. The oth ?r day an immense bear was seen entering, the village of . Milesburg, Centre county, having come down from the wood 4 nfir by. He coolly crossed the iron bridge ovir Pa'd Eagle Creek, and walked Ic p who were in the street got -jui kl y out of it. Hoir.es snorted and tug ged at the.' r tie straps, but the bear kept on it-; way. Before it had gone far a num b'r.of dogs got wiul of it, and appeared Un tho scene. The lear turned i:n! dashed through A. T. Bogg's front picket fence, smashing it down fis .if it had. beui made of glass, and too'c a f1i.ii t cut out of town for the wools. There was no one in Mil- sburg anxious to go bear hunting, and the l.-eir lead the -dogs a long i-hijse, and returned to t he 'mountains. Two f tlier bears that treithe brave and impudent act at William Farner's, near the hoop, in Centre County, on Tuesday night, di l not fare as well as the lone visitor at M ilesburg. Farner and his wife were return ing home from a neighbor's, at 8 o'clock, when they saw a loar walk out of their front yard, shu!fie across the road ahead ot them, an I stop under a tr-e in a field a few yards away. As they stco 1 looking at ti:e. inv aid -nt be-ir, another o:ie earn i sliding down ou1; of the tree and . . i 1 1 . . . .i t u,, t w-. . . . r u 4 .... . rri ;ii uir vtic lie hi' " i ul 1 117 lie.. J. lieu the first Jear l'mled the tree, and, after r aching the branche.;, slid hack down, as his. mate . ha 1 done, and then th" latler repeated the peform an e. Whi'e the two boars, were having this sj ort between thenr-eives, paying no at tention to tho spectators, Farner io'.d his wile to o into the house and get his gun, his revolver and his axe. By the time she re- 1 . . A- . "11 lurneu prayer nieeimg was over in mo Village and tde K'opfo were returning home, 'lhey all stoppxl to see the. extraordi nary sight o: two genuine wild bears having a circus under the noses of twenty hprtutors.' The U;ars paid not the slightest attention to the pe.ip.e, but took turns in rlimbiiig. nnd sliding down the tree. l'; rner :e t a load of buckshot into on.3 of the bears as it sto x on the ground waiting for its turn to climb, ana it limped hur-ri'-liy oft" toward the woods, howling fear f(jy. The other lar did not slide down the tree: that trip, but remained among- the branches. Farner went closer, awl bombarded the b-'ar as it - perched in the tree, but he shot it 'four times, literally rid dling it with buckshot, before it fell to the 'ground. It was at once set upon with poles, clubs, nn 1 axes by t'i-3 crowd, and the little life left in it was beaten out. Too Jentzell farm is two miles from Belle fonte, at the foot of Bald Eagle Mountain. A lew days ago John Gentzell, who owns the farm, was told' by a neighbor that a big leir was in his corn field, stripping the shocks and playing bob generally, farmer Gentzell is no hunter, but he keeps a gun, and taking it- with hi in, h went to his corn field, which was in nht of his house, to see if there really was a lrar there husking his crop. ISure enough, b enormous black fellow stood at one of the thocks, scattering the stalks about and strip ping oiF the ears. Gentzell .gave bruin one . rharg. from his rifie. The tear jumped into Hie air and fell back llat on theground. The fanner supposed he had kille 1 his game, but w htle he w as loading his gun the bar jumped n; anl slouched away and disappearei uii'ng the corn shocks. Gentzell followed l;m, expecting every moment to come upon . hi ilea 1 body, but was surprised to discover h;m at the other end of the field, working .ft way at another shock of corn as if nothing had happened. ( -'entell then shouted to his brother Henry, who wa? at work m another field, and while Jbnry was o:i his way to join him, John put two more hills Into the bear. Bruin then made for the mountains, limping along en three legs. The brothers followed hm, and a fourth shot was fired into l.im. This did not finish th3 tough ill customer, and, now, thoroughly Moused, ho turned on his pursuers, and rushed upon Henry Gentzell in such a furious i hnrge th;it the farmer was prostrate on the ground, with the bear pawing and chewing r.t I.:. i I C 1 1 I A. 1 l. ei ins iee- ueioi o " Knew wuni ii.ni naii- Jf ne l. It w as lucky for Gentzell that his U'rother was there, for the bear would hive torn him to pieces in a minute more. The brother sprang forward, and with one blow of the heavy rule broke the bear s baek, and the fierce brute fell over hnd died. Th-3 flesh was torn from Henry I 'eiit.ci l"s !(" from t.hn IrniKi rlrwi TIih lj':ir is one of tne biggest ones ever killed in the iviiidv, weighing between oO) and 4(X) land's. Three bo3-s were hunting rabbits on Tues (! iy )iear Cowan's Gaj, in Franklin County. 'J iey start ed a, rabbit and it ran into corn sto -k. One of the hoys went t' the stock to kick and scare the lahhit out, while the two others -stood r r.ilv to shoit it. The rabbit jumped tit of on1 side, bui neither by shot i,t. for 'i th o her side a Lear tumbled out andsur eelthe youthful hunters iri astonishment. Ttie rabbit got away, a:vl so did the Ikvs. " he in ar was afterw.ird killed in the same tvll by a fanner named Wagner. "Oi FIGHT AN EDITOR. A liitmlous Florida Ijawyer Takes OiTencc and Writes a Challenge. G..5re- M . Walker, a prominent and high ly c.jiiuect d lawyer of Jacksonville and ,ve!l-known throughout the State, seat '.a challenge to mortal combat to W. N. Doug lass, city editor of the Evening Metropolis. V alker is of convival habits and of late his .I'Hsiness has severely suffered therefrom. Wednesday his condition necessitated the rtponeinent of a case in Avhich he was c" ni.sel. The paper sai t ho was indisposed J? noting the matter, which nettle J Walker. ' nursd jy forenoon he denounced the paper ' ttcrly in open court, for which the paper jv.'ted hini in the afternoon. This incensed fj'ni still more and he gought courage in the . j'.'mg bowl. His friends, fearing trouble, x ke,i iiim np in the jury room all night, early Friday morning, more enraged i-:an ever, he sent the challenge worded in th t i i keeP the affair secret. Copies of B' ;, JJ'tenge were refused the city reporters. "" i efforts made to laugh it off. The chal ft ' f; aIened with the abuse of the scribe;' i a (l ne him PrePare to meet him (Walker) 1 u? ly t:ombat at once with any weapon night choose, closing with the cheerful Uv(UUCc,ment that he (talker) intended T'. ''-'ve and bloodthirsty terms. , l" Sheriff , h wever, intercepted the tor . V 1 vurnea it over to juage isaKer f Slfe-kprinnr UtroTitiAiio oft.-ii.ro warn KILLED BY A WHALE. Desperate Fight Ret ween "a Boat's Crew and a -Marine 3Ionster. The whaling steamer : Lizzie N., Capt. 'est, which has b3en engaged in the finback whale fishery on the eastern coast this season, when about fiftjen miles east -so jlhent from Heguin Island, off the coast of Mai ns, saw a large lone whale of that spe.-ies, and at tempted its eaptureJ A loat was lowered and manned by Capt. West, his mate and four stamen. CaptJ West, with a large, heavy whale-gun, in which was an exp'.cs vc boinb-lanc, Uok the breach of the boat while the mate steered. Upo.i approaching th9 wba'e it was seen f iat ho would be ai ugly customer to deal with, as he showed no inclination to run, but ..kept slowly milling around, evidently waiting to be attacked. When the boat was near enough to warrant a shot Captain West fired the gun, but as the sea was rough the motion of the boat de stroyed the accuracy of the aim. The whale was Ladly wounded.i but not in any vital part. The whale then made for the boat, and in passing under it struck it with his flukes, throwing it som thirty feet into the air with its craw. As the boat descended tho whale again struck it with his tail and com pletely demolished the boat and killed one of the crew, Jacob Klock, cutting him com pletely in two. The whale then commence 1 to bite and strike with his tail at the pieces of the boat, killing two more men, Neal Olsen and Chris. Johnson, who were supporting themselves on pieces of the wreck. Captain West, the mate and the other men were safely taken aboard the steamer and another toat was lowered to capture the monster. Then tho whale attacked the steamer. By a quick turn of the rudder the steamer cleared him by a few feet. This occurred a second time, and the swell which was created by th-3 whale's fall back into the water knockei all on board off their feeti By throwing over an immense cask, at which the whale, thinking it was the ship, kept bucking away, the cap tain was e nabled to get a shot with the bomb lance, and finally the whale was killecL When the whale was brought ashore, R. F. Pierce, of Chicago, lought him and will exhibit him through the West. A large car to transfer him has been built at an expense of j? 1,0 )). UNDER A FALLEN HOUSE. A Little Girl Horribly Burned and Jler Mother Escapes Uninjured. A two-story frame dwelling-house at Brooklyn, N. Y that had been undergoing re pairs, fell, and a woman and child were buried in the ruins. !A kitchen stove set fire to the wreck, and. the childwas very badly burned. j For some weeks men have been engaged in raising the house to make a basement under it and many people remarked that the props under the building did not appear to be firm enough to support the weight of the house. Mrs. Lanigan and: her twelve-year-old daughter lived in the house while it was be ing raised. At about ten o'clock a terrible crash was heard. Men and women hastened to the ruins, and led by the agonizing ap peals for help from Mrs. Lanigan and her child, they began to lift the heavy timbers. Before they reached the victims flames were discovered and little Lizzie was heard to cry that she was being roasted. A few pails of water extinguished the flames, and after half i an hour's work Lizzie was pulled from under a beam, and it was seen that she had been lying on a bed of live coals that had rolled out of the kitchen stove. Hot coals had eaten into the flesh of her legs, exposing the bone, and her face was badly burnod. I She was sent to the hospital. It is feared that she will die. Mrs. Lanigan was found under a tablef and, except a few slight bruises, she escaped uninjured. j RICH AMERICAN WOMEN. Hardware turned out three million hard dollars for Mrs. Robert Goelet. Mrs. John Mintcrx is worth ?:J,00J,000. Her husband was au eminent ban ver. Mrs. Johx Jaco3 Astor has some $8,000, 'M 0, the aggregated result ot" veal estate hold ings. I Mrs. Hetty- Green has 30,000,0)0, most of which she has made herself in the stock market. j Mus. J AYXK,the widow of the patent medi cine man, is worth j .y,000,0iX, caught by making pil's. j Mrs. Kate Terry is worth fR,0C0,0OG. She got it from her father and her husband. They got it in railways. Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of New York, en joys the income of !15,OJO,000, which her father, the banker, 1-fo her. Mrs. Jane Brown has about 4,000,000, which represents some of the banking profits of .her deceased husband. Mrs. JosEmiNE Mi Ayeri's worth .?4,000, 00,), and she still couducts tha patent medi cine business her husbamd started. Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts has $ 8,000, 000, which is the chief part of the fortune her husband mada in mining. v Mrs. Joseph Harrison's husband built the first railroad in Russia before he died. As a consequence she is worth $4,000,00!). Mrs. Thomas A. Scott's husband left her $5,00,)oo, which he made out of the stock of tho Pennsylvania and other railways and the Westinghouse air brake. Miss Garrett, of Baltimore, is the richest single woman in America. She has $20,000, 0(H), left her by her father, John Garrett, the great Frosident of the Baltimore an 1 Ohio Railway. i JUDGES 1 1 INDICTED, A Grand Jury Charges Them "with Failing to Protect Public Intesests. j j . Great excitement was caused in Edgefield, S. C by the presentment of the Grand Jury of that cou ity, which charged every Ju Ige and solicitor who has held court in Edge field for a number of j years with having vio lated his sacred oath of office and with fail ure to protect the public interests in certain cases. This action of the Grand Jury was caused by the failure of the courts to indict two count treasurers of Edsrefield who had been sue essively reported by grand juries as king defaulters. Neither the treasurers nor their bondsmen were he'.d accou i table, aftd the treasurer last year, reported a de faulter to the amount of $10,000, was stiil in office and refused to turn over to a successor the oflico books. The Court had the delin queut Treasurer, Tompkins, immediately arrested. " i - A FATAL JOKE. Young Men Try to Frighten a Traveler "Who Fatally Wounds One of Them. p. - , Peter Bayes, of Hartford, Ky., a stock dealer, received cash for a check for a con siderable sum and started to go home after night, eight miles distant. Three miles away he was halted by three men, one of whom took his bridle while the others de manded his money. Baj-es quickly "fired on t' e man holding the bridle, put spurs to his horse and es caped, ai d the next moming returned to investigate with a neighbor. They found Harry Flener, a reputable young- man of the neigh oorhood, wounded. 'He refused to tell who his companions were, but said they were only inten ling to frighten Mr. Baye3. Flener was in a dying condition. UNITED STATES ARMY. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAX'S ANNUAL REP0KT. Recommending an Increase of 5,000 Men in the Sertice. Iieutenant-General P. H. Sheridan ha? pra sented his annual report to th? Secretary of War. From the report it appears that at the date of the last consolidated returns the army consisted of 2,200 officers, and 24,236 men, including Indian scouts.; Troops have been continually occupied in patrolling the Oklahoma country, aid h ive been" suc cessful in keeping intm lers out of that region. The gradual spread of rail roads throughout the territory can. how ever, ultimately have but ono effect, and General Sheridau is no a- of opinion that Congress may well consi ier tho, advisability of opening up portions at least, of this coun try to settlement. In order to quiet the re t!ess young men among the Crow Indians, 'the reoort savs, General Rnger has been authorized to enlist about thirty of their number a? scouts and take them to Fort Custer. The Crows have al ways been friendly, and make it a boast that they have never killed a white man, audit would b3 a pity if anything should now oc cur to disturb the pea-eful relation? so long standing. General Sheridan is confident that General Ruger will be able to effect a lermanent settlement that will be satisfac tory to the Crows as well as to the Govern ment. In regard to the concentration of the army in the larger posts, the report s lys th it the work on the new post- at Denver, where it is proposed to p'aee ten companies, will shortly be commenced; that at San Antonio has been progressing favorably during the year; the ground for tti3 new r:ost near Chicago will pass into the posses sion of the Government at an early day, and at Fort Snel ling beta tho reservation and Other attendant conditions are favorable for the establishment of a large garri son, and only some additional buildings ire re mired for their accommodat'on. The re oiiitruction of Fort Riley has been actively prosecuted during the yeir, but ; eforo it can be completed, aJditional vppropri.it "ons will be r.ejssary. General Sheridan expre.-s:s regret that the very rapid decrease in Ihe number of 1csor ,ions from the army during the previous two 3-ears has not lcen continued; the n- rease is. however, very slight, being only about one half cf one per cent more than last year. The de ertioiis. as a general rule, h? lays, are mostl y confined to soldiers in the earlier years of thrdr first enMstmant, and to :nen who enlist oniy for a temporary oecupx- ion, for transportat'on to a different section f the country, or for apparently the mere deasure of deserting. ; Tiies latter form io inconsiderable part of the whole number, ind it is not possible to recognize them unless hey happen to be person lliy ; known to the ecruiting officer, it is probable that they will continue annually to swell the number f deserters. General Sheridan renews his previous -re-eommendat'ons touching the increase of the army by 5.0):) men and perfect ng the oran ization of the infantry arm by the addition of two majors and two comoanies to each regi ment, f 5 General Sheridan sajs that "the measures w Inch would most promore the efficiency ot the service would l? the passage of a law authorizing the immed ate retirement of those officers, about eighty in number, in whoso cases such action has already been recommended; by military boards, or who have for jeome time been absent on account of sickness from ther commands with but little prospect of ultimate recovery." Attention is called to the needs of the army in the matter of improved small arms, and General Sheridan says: "The Spring field rifle still remains the weapon of our service, and it is undoubtedly a very good one. In my opiuion, however," the magazine gun. must be the arm of the future, and a glance at foreign armies shows that fu ture to be very near at hand. Every lead ing country abroad has either adopted a masrazine erun or hrpr HfHvoii.- onr.,-m i ; experiments looking to the development of an effective system. With us, progress in this direction appears to be very slow, and, as far as I know, no very decided steps have been taken during the year, nor any definite conclusions yet reached." The report says that the condition of our coast defences has continued to deteriorate during the year, and thac they would be of little real s-rvice in time of war. General Sheridan concludes his report with the following remarks concerning State militia: 'M am strongly in favor of the gen e:al Government extending air possible aid to the National Guard of the different States as they constitute a body of troops that in any great emergency would form an import ant part of our military force. They should be armed with the best weapons, amoly provided - with complete Camp and gar rison equipage and instructed in the various drills and exercises according to the tactics and systems followed in the regular army. According to my observation and experience, most of the State troops now march well and handle the gun well, but they are deficient in discipline and in all the duties that teach a soldier to take care of himself while in camp or upon a march. This defect can best be overcome by establishing some system of encampment under the control and direc tion and at the entire expense- of the general Government, i In the development of such a measure the entire arm v, as well' as myself personally, will be glad to render such assist ance as hes in our power, and I recommend that the favorable consideration of the sub ject may be commended to Congress." GLEANINGS. Connecticut Las eleven living centemv rians. : The cattle industry of the United States represents $ l,2iK.),0J0,O00. ; j Ohio ' celebrates its centennial by holding 100 farmers' institutes the coming year. Profkssor Ccshmas has unearthed a city and 2,00 i) skeletons in Southern Arizona. A company has been organizel in New York City to insara merchants against bad debts. . ; ; i . ' Chicago gains 60,000-1 inl population through the annexation of the Hyde Park suburb. , ; j At Gardiner, Mo., at a recent wediing.the groom was but nineteen years of age, while his bride was sixty. A mammouth ci ve containing thousands of tons of zinc ore has been discovered in th3 town of Shullsburg, Wis. A water famine is prevailing at Vandalia, 111. Farmers have to haul water eight and ten miles for all purposes. The lumber outnut from the Chippewa Valley, Wis., will be 350,000.030 feet for this season, a slight excess over last. Harvard distributed last year among needy students". $53,000-, and will distribute this year ?0.0jJ in the same way. A prisoner in the Franklin (Penn ) Jail named Joseph Reed is but seven years old. He was arrested for "maliciously trespassing."- ' .; :;:f - - i;-;- ; . ra"oREiGN correspondents write that Egypt is to be the most fashionable winter report this season, and that the Emperor and Em- nrpss of Urazu have turnel tue true in tnac direction. The invitation extended by the Southern members, through Dr. Kerry, to hold the next biennial .meeting of the American Pomologieal Society in Florida, during the month of February, IN, was unanimously aceeoted. ' , , I The report is confirmed, at Vienna, that Baron Hirsoh has devoted $4,000,000 to the ' relief of distressed Jews and to the assistance of Jewish ckaritiej of, Eurona. THE NATION'S FINANCES. THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURER. Government Receipts and Expenditures for a Tear, i The annual report . of James W. Hyatt, Treasurer of the United States, shows tliat the revenues of the Government fc- the fiscal year end 3d June 30, 137, were $371,4-33,277, and the ordinary expenditures $27J3i,17J; the surplus receipt!, available for the re duction of the public debt being $103, 471,037. As compared with the previous year the receipts increased $3i,93,553, the expenditures $25,449,041; and the surplus revenues $'3,514,500. The receipts of the Post Office Department amounted to ,$54,752,347, and the expenditures to $53,583,8-15. The operations of the year involved the redemption of $127,911,950 in United State3 bonds, of which $47,S94!23( was on account of the sinking fund; the issue of nearly 630, 000 drafts and checks; the redemption of upward of $193,00 ,0J0 in ' United States paper currency and National bank note3;and the handling of $192,003,03) in United States bonds deposited or withdrawn by National banks. During the year ended October 31 the gold balance increased $44,322, 553, the silver balance decreased $21,280,772, and the total balance -ran up $1,959,283. The total assets at the end of this period, exclusive of certificates ; and other obligations held as cash, were $319,190,905, and tho total liabilities $W2. 432,2 30. The statement of United States notes out standing shows that between June SO, 1884, and September 30, 1887, the circulation of one and two dollar notes generally ran down from $51,500,030 to $15,400,000. This de crease has been made up by chans.es in other denominations, the volume of lives, tens and twenties increasing about 43,000,000. The demand for notes of these denominations has been constant and greater than the Treasurer has been able to supply. Under the provisions of the act of June 8, 1872, certificates of deposit amounting to $31,'.HX),(h 0 were issued during the fiscal year for United States notes lodged in the Treas ury. The redemptions in the same period were $43,990,000. There remained outstand ing June 30, only 19,020,0)3, which is the least amount shown at the end of any fiscal year since the issue began. There were no gold certificates issued dur ing the year. The redemptions amounted to $9,07,4.r8. Of the total of 1, 173,354,8S' issued from November, 1805, there were out standing at the close of the year $121,485,817, of which $30, 201, 380 w ere in the Treasury and $91,225,437 in circulation. The holdings of the Treasury decreased nearly $25, 000,000 in the 3rear. The amount out standing October 31 was $132,542,931, of which the Treasury he'd $:12.858,158. The silver certificates outstanding at the close of the fiscal year amounted to $145,- 543,150, an increase of nearly $30,009,030. The amount in the .treasury fell off in the same period from nearly 28,000,000 to $3,- 42o,lo3, while the increase in the actual cir culation was a little more than $54,003, 01, 0. Under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1887, there was received within the limit of six months tixea oy congress $Y,t(Oy,uoo m trade dollars in exchange for standard silver dollars and fractional silver coin. The Treasurer believes that few trade dollars not in the hands of collectors of coins remain in the country. The coinage of standard silver dollars for tho fiscal year w as $33,216,831, an increase of. $3,377,926 over 1886. On October 31 the Treasury held $214,175,532, and there were $'12,5-10,625 in circulation. The storage vault in the Treasury building, completed in 1884, is entirely filled with standard silver dollars and gold coin, and the new vault in course of erection is urgently needed. Jiet.veen June M, lbaj, and Uertober el. 1887, the fractional silver coin in the Treasury decreased from $28,901,681 to $24,468,135, and tho inmor coin from $377,814 to $51,403. The one and five cent pieces on hand are not more than sufficient lor payment over the counter. .Between the end olthe hseai vear and Lc- tober 31 the number of depositary banks was increased from 203 to 2.20. MURDERED AND CREMATED. A Man Kills His Wife With an Axo ahdl Burns Her Body In a Furnace. Stephney Baily, an old man who is the engineer at J, C. Poncheo's steam mill, near Duck Pond S. C. on the Northeastern Rail road, had a quarrel with bis vife and killed her with an axe. lie hid the body until n ghtfall, when he procured a wheel borrow and carted it to the engine-room. Here ho stripped part of the clothing from it and threw the body into the fiery furnace. Then with cool and calm deliberation he hlled ths furnace with wood and left it burning. lu his hurry to leave tho entrme-room Bailey ' neglected to hide the bloody gar ments. The next morninjr his children were anxious for their mother to come home and went in search of her, but without succsss. In the meantime the clothes were discovered in the engine-room, and on further exami nation the charred remains of the woman were found in the furnace. Suspicion point ed so strongly toward Bailey that he was arrested. He made a full confession, giving in min ute detail an account of the killing. The cause assigned by him for the killing: was that he and his wife were always quarrel ing and that he could not tret along with her. Bailey then was taken to jail, handcuffed and tied to a post in order that die might not escape. He borrowed a knife from the lit tle son of the constable to clean out bis pipe, and at night while no one was watching at tempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. The confined condition of his hands and the dulness of the knife prevents I im mediate death, but his throat was horr bly gashed when he was discovered in an uncon scious condition. He is about sixty-five and his wife was a few years his iunior. STREET CAR STRIKE: Three Hundred Drivers and Conduc tors Quit Wcrk. A strike of the "Consolidated Street Car Railway conductors and drivers at Cincin nati is in progress. The conductors and drivers' committee demanded that the com pany discharge John Harris, its superinten dent. The company answered, declining firmly to graut the request. There upon the drivers end conductors beg n turning cars in. One hundred miles of street railway line was thus left idle. The only line of the Con solidated operated is the Vine street cable, on which five cars were run, heavily guarded by police. Three hundred drivers and as many conductors were thrown out of work by this act. ' TRAGEDY iN ARKANSAS. A Planter Knifed by a N'ero Whom the Former's Son Kills. George W. Russell, the largest cotton planter in Texarkana, Texas, was fatally wounded by a negro at Garland City, Ark. The negro had been a tenant of Russell's and indebted to him. In the heat of conversation about the negro's failure to pay Russell as sumed a bel igerent attitude, whereupo.i the negro drew a large bowie knife and plunged it into his bowels. - Russell was unarmed, but his young son. Rut, who wit essed the attack, ran to a neighboring store and grabbing a shot gun 1 discharged both barrels into tne negro, khi iag him. Russell has since died. He had tt massed about $300,000. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle State. Later figures give Hart, Republican candidate for State Treasurer of lYnns-id-vanii, a plurality of 44,88 votes. A. S. Hatch & Co., a well-known New Vork firm of brokers who bare been operat ing on the bear side o" the market, got caught in the recent rise of stocks and hava been forced to suspeni. The liabilities are about $250,000. A railroad depot and extensi ve car stables in Brooklyn have been destroyed by fire. About 150 horses were burned to death. To tal estimated loss, $160,0,. . Senator Joseph R. HAWi.ET,ot Connect i- j cut, was married a few davs aero in Phila- ' delphia to Miss Edith Horner, of England, who has been for several years one of the head nurses at the Blockley Hospital in the Quaker City. With only a single dissenting voice the members of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, have extended a all to the Rev. Charles "A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, England, to take the place of the late Henry Ward Beeeher. The annual dinner of the New York Cham ber of Commerce brought together a notable assemblage of prominent business men. Among the speakers were Seeretary Lama-. Chauncoy M. Depew, Mayor Hewitt, and Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlin, of Euglan b A Tetter of regret from President Clevelan i, was also read. The strike of the 11,000 miners in the Lehigh coal region reached a crisis a few days xince. The company declared that if the men would not work they must vacate the houses. The company owns 400 houses there. Charles Canovan, ast-ilwart young New York porter, was bitten on October 8 by a dog. A few days since symptoms of hydro- Ehobia appeared, and after suffering horri ly f or forty-eight hours he died. r A great scarcity of coal exists in many quarters, and higher prices are predicted. Rev. Thomas Rose, widely known as a Baptist minister in Southern" Pennsylvania for fifty years, while in a state of mental aberration burned himself to death In his son-indaw's barn, Ta,ylor Township, Penn. Fourteen men were seriously, and some of them it was feared fatally, burned by an ex plosion of gasoline in a storage house of the Edison Electric Light Company, Philadel phia. Two men were k lled by falling walls at the ruins left by a recent fire in Syracuse, N. Y. South nnd West. John Arensdorf, the wealthy brewer, is to bo tried the second time at Sio-ix City. Iowa, for the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, a prominent Prohibitionist. Investigation showed that Anarchist Lingg killed himself with a dynamite bomb and not a fulminating cap. Fielden and Schwab, whose death sentence was commuted, have been placed at work in their life prison at Joliet, 111. Five laborers were killed in a freight train collision, at Averill, Minn. Stephen H. Culver (colored) and two of his children, one an infant and the other a boy of nineteen, crishod by the burning of his house near Severn, Md. His yvife and two children escaped. A Finnish workman at the Wickes tunnel, Montana, shot and killed John Eid and John Ianburg and then shot himself through tbe heart. Eliza Randall, a nineteen-year-old col ored girl of Quitman County, Ga.. killed her father with an ax, because lie forbade her go ing out after dark. A boy's lighted cigarette caused a fire at Little Rock, Ark, which destroyed property, including a large amount of cotton, valued at $303,000. Tnrc ri -hest gold mine in the world is re ported to have been discovered near Pres oott, Arizona. Six men were blown to fragments by an explosion in the packing house of a dynamite company's works, near Ishpeming, Mich. Not a trace of the men or building could be found. James White swore in Joliet, 111., that the f resident of the Lambert & Bishop "Wire ''ence Company gave him $5,000 to set fire to the- building. Insurance companies have paid $100,000, and now seek to recover. Thomas BEASLEV,-a Kentuckian of weight, is deadi. He was forty-seven years old, and weighed when in good health 4S pounds. A bronze statue of John C. Breckenridg3, has just been unveiled at Lexington, Ky., with appropriate ceremonies. Lewis D. Baldwin, a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, was shot dead at Lex ington, Kv., by Thomas M. Green, a staff correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Green received a flesh wound in the side. The -shooting grew out of an old quarrel. The fourteenth annu xl convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union has just been held in Nashville, Term. Forty States and Territori-s sent 403 delegates. Miss Frances E. Willard, the President, made an address. The receipts of the year were reported at $121,842. Over 52,030,003 pages of temperance literature have been sent cut during the year. Forest fires have done an immense amount of damage in portions of Illinois and Arkansas, destroying bams and crops, and in many instances compelling people to flee for their lives. Memphis has just been visited by the most ;,trnnii fira in Hr historv. About forty cars loaded with cotton and two cotton com- pressers were destroyed. 1 ne cotwm was val ued at $630,000, and the other property at 1125,000. Washington. The Ministry of Agriculture Building in Brussels, the Belgian Capital, has been burned. The loss is heavy. The Lighthouse Board's estimates of appro priation needed for the lisrhthousa establish ments of the United States during the next fiscal year aggregate $2,167,500. ; During the past fiscal year 51,002 claims against the Goverment were passed upon, ag gregating $168,4G4,7T3. Many Department oalcials are busy with their annual reports. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, has sent a "despatch to the President, saying that he would accept the Post Office portfolio if the Senate would unanimously confirm him, otherwise he would not. Land Commissioner Sparks' resigna tion has been plaeedin the President's hands. An oS'cial list of the members of the next Hon:; of Representatives shows that the House will consist of 163 Democrats, 153 Re publicans and 4 Independents. The Inde pendaots are: An lerson. of Iowa; Nichols, of North Carolina; Hopkins, of Virginia, and Smith, of Wisconsin. Joseph Chamberlain and Sir Charles Tupper, who, with Minister West, constitute the Commission on the part o Great Britain to endeavor to secure a settlement of the vexed fisheries question, have arrived in Washington and been presented to the Presi dent. Foreifrn. Dr. Mackenzie, the German Crown Princ-e's physician, declares that his royal patient's throat trouble will eventually prove fatal Tracheotomy may have to be per formed at any moment, and after that the Prince cannot live longer than two years. The Central Bank of Canada, at Toronto, has suspended. Its paid up capital was $500, 00 J. The steamer Wah-Yeung has teen de stroyed by fire in the Cantoa River, China. About 400 passengers are supposed to have been lost. A dinner to Mr. Blaine was given in Paris a few days since by Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Evans. Fifteen people, including Uni ed 1 Statea Minister McLane, participated. After I the dinner ther wa3 a reception. Most of the many prinrs arrested for participating in the riot in Trafalgar Squar?, London, escape I with a tine, bnt some were sentenced to four and six month-f imprison ment. Advices from Panama say that the out loook -for tb?s Panama Canal is gloom v. More than $!60.uM,uirj have already been expended on this great wort, and $tV"O.ln.)0,. CXXi additional will' b? needel for its comp'.e pletion. There are 15,000 men employed. The Empress of Germany is suffering from paralysis of the lower ja'w. She h-ubwa much affected by the condition of the Crown Prince. Explorer Stanlkt is meeting with con siderable opposition from hostile tribe in his exiedition in Africa. The Czar of Russia has been paying a visit to the Emperor of Germany at Berlin. The French ChamWr of Deputies, by a vote of 527 to o. resolvel to prweeute M. Wilson, son -in law of President lirevy, for corrupt practice while holding a high official station. Pre id-mt Grevy threatened to resign. General Valentine Baker, formerly a distinguished British army officer, and more lat3ly known as Baker Pasha, oueof the most prominent officers in the service of Turkey and Egypt, is dead in his fifty-ninth year. A REVEREND SCAMP. The Ilev. J. M. Anderson Persecute the Father of Ills Sweetheart. J. M. Anderson, a Presbyterian preacher ( has been painting some jortions of Owtdey county, Kentucky, a lurid hue lately. It seems that .Andetgon has teen paying do voted attention to Miss Lizzie Wilson. Anderson's suit progressed favorably, but the young lady's jiarents objected to her marrying for a J'ear, and promised their blessing at tho expiration of that Anderson was very much enraged at but nursed his wrath and commenced time this, a s-- ries of erseeutions against the worthy couple, t at for pure, unad nlterated mean ness could hardly be equaled. lle first drove best horses, which had to be shot. Next he emptied coaloil into his well and ruined the water. Then he warned the oil man to leave tbe country, on penalty of death. This was do e by cutting letters from a book and pasting them on a sheet of paper to form the necessary words. The old man became very much alarmed, as he had r.o clue to the jer petrator, and actually employed him amo; g others to guard his house. He was in a con stant state of terror, and was afraid ta leave his home. Finally, several days passed without any startling occurrences, so he ventured down to his forgo one morning and started up a fire. As he stepped back to the handle of his bellows, a terrific explosion lifted the whole business out into the road, knocking him down and stunning him for several minutes. This was the last straw, and his neighbors commenced an active in vestigatioa that resulted in Andersons hurried departure for parts unknown. A piece of wrapping paper was found near the shop, with some writing on it that was 'proved to bo Anderson's. With this clue it was soon found where he had purchased the dynamite cartridge. He got wind of the affair in somo way, and lost 110 time m making himself scarce. The last grand jurjT indicted him, and a reward is offered for his capture. ENVELOPED IN FLAMES. Fourteen Person's Seriously Ilurncd by a Gasoline KxploIou in Philadelphia. , Fourteen men yvere seriously, and it b feared some of them fatally, burned by an explosion of gasoline at Philadelphia. Th building is used by the Edison Electric Light Company as a storage houso for tools, gaso line lamps, used by the workmen in lighting up street trenches while yvorking at night, and for other utensils, but no electric ap pliances yvere in the laborers were in the their number named building. : Fourteen building, and one of Dooley was filling a lighted lamp yvith gasoline when the fluid came in contact yvith the flame and nn explo sion ensued. Tho burni : g oil was sea t terd over the room an I, reaching several other lamps, a second and more serious explosion followed. The oil was thrown over the men in the room and in an instant all wero in flames. They rushed into the street in the yvil.lest alarm and created great a arm in the neigh borhood. Policemen and citizens 1 an to their aid and several of them were thrown into the street in the eager endeavor to tear their burning clothes from tneir backs. All were badly burned about the fuce, hinds and bodies, and were removed to the hospital in a pitiable condition. The physicians said that tho injuries of all the men were serious and it yvas feared that some would oie. The firemen yvere called to the scene, but the flames yvere quickly ex tinguished without damage to the building. A BOMB AMONG WORKMEN. ) The Gas-Pipe Weapon of Anarchists in an Ioyva Iron 31 ill. A bomb yvas exp!oded in the Iowa Irou Works at Dubuque. The works are running a night force and of them some twenty work men were employed on a large boiler in thc boiler shop. They were startled by a su Men explosion, some fifteen or twenty feet away on the other side of the boiler. It made n terrible noise and was heard in many parts of the city. The bomb which was p.eked up was made of inch and a half gas-pipe, about two feet lomr. One end was still in tact, plugged up w ith a cap ana a noie in inepr;w " J . . - . . - - near n ior i uc. aims vi several places. Fortunately the explosion was all in one direction away from the men. The flooring and parts of the building were set on fire, but speedily extinguished by men. No other damage was done. It is a miracle that there was not a great Irss of life. It ii supposed the bomb w as thrown in the open window. The works before had no troube at all with their men, but have been running a double force for nine months A theory is that the bomb was prepared by some one having a grudge against the workmen, or osa nn out-and-out Anarchist. It was filled with either dynam te or gun-cotton. Tho bomb is now in possession of the city polios marshal and the Anarcbist is being hunted for A BIG COTTON FIRE. Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars Worth of Property De stroyed. The mo:t disastrous fire that ever visited Memphis, occurred Thursday n'ght, and re sulted in tbe complete destruction of lS,2x bales of cotton and compresses No. 4 and 5 of the Merchants' Cotton Compress and Stor age Company. About 40 cars, belonging to the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwestern Itailroad, and which were loaded yvith cot ton re tdy to be shipped East, vrere burned, together with their content. The cotton destroyed was principally for export. It was valued at $30,00p. The. amount of insurance in all probability yvill not exceed 00 per cant of the loss. The presses anl buil iinrs of th cotton press company yvere valued ai$l2,0)J which were also partially insured. The flames covered an area of three blocks. BLOM OUT OF SIGHT. A. iyxamiti: iwckinc; hoim . i:.rLoii:s. Six Mm Literally Obliterated ly an Iphxdon of Dynamite. The towns of Hano,ck, and 11. 04!.! -i, Mich., wcn .start 1M " by th t-mn-1 wi. it was at first U.ievod to U the txpll i.f one of se ral large pwder-hu--s j-t: side the tow n. The r.oi- was U ri if. .';.'k ing the town as if l y earth juike. At :;-- the street were filled with ex.-.: d ; nme of wh-m kit--w certainly w'.uii h.i I 1. 1; pened, but nearly all of wh-vu b irrs I t wards the f owder-house ith 1!.!iHi1 fi and trembling lim's. Arrivw.e; t ; 1: was soon seen that n n- of il..-m J a It! um anl tho crowd sep-irated un vm!l j ir tes and turned Irom o;ie tvtrt f t! n r ii.'f. to the other endi-a v ring t i e ! Across Port ge I.aket a half im.'e d" people of IIouhoii could I- -half frantic i 1 ali direction. s ! as puzJed as the n--pl of Ha; the origin of the e !sion. N lecertain from what direction the a it h d teen so trenu'ii imis as to feeling that it had tUIol the air : r ! - v 1 : k ( n. !- jZt e I : arouu I. Th.j wife of William l.ij.; nni. i:; t-i group who wen' pxoii'-lly iii-u-v.!i t'r . pi-sion and nkl if nnV one had t :.. -that something might b iv happ-n.-d it chemical works w here li.r liuUui l . with otliei-s making dynamite. Th e . ! . t r k -1 par.. m- junr -j.-! nrim ior a in. :;!!. t 1; l z l ar the thought of an epoi ...s ring there and th-n with Mr-. l.i; p for the workv They are. or v.. i- ; four mile-, out .f tow n au I n-.t tar ir lake. Arriving there the party w- i-.i-od at what th-y xiw. or iat'.. r 1 there yvas nothing whatever t -I Kicking house of the !;ec; j.-al w , ; I! " at. a ' Ui-n as clearly siept froj.i the earth as though it had n.- r lirt exacting to x'e at 1. a-t those present could s n.ithn.g 1 t. V. frag Hut arriving w hail l :i t:.-- I .1! 1 : : of the works, t i 113- s and there minute fi were found, but no: blool or a shred of : o;f rs w ilglllellts of til- a bit of b. M , tl.--!i r.-iuiiii-' 1 1 1. 1 1 a ir. of 1- Jers lu rsmis wiin wore working m t! at the time. Th-e :t w r.-,. Renaud, Charles Purk-tt. i a ,na Ti,. n. Tim Crow lev and Willi - Ki g. ad ! o ! tween fifteen and eighteen ye-rs ! a.-. .1 William !.app. Jr.. a mirriM ih .:i. w leav s a widow .-nd oneendd. All !- w known in In.th Hancock and II - mi i. r . WIki-o the buildnsg stHl was a h !...;,; I in shae and aKmt twdve feet '-,-).. 1:1 ! ; 1. , 1 1 1 , , . 1 ne- :om j n -. 1 as n:u o a e, : it . : .. ing the awful force of the exp!M-n The packing-hou-H wa sma!! an 1 -1! . i1 a quarter of a mile from the r th 1 b ni i.: of the works. Ev-ry building was ti;. ; less shattered. The nearest c-n; I . - . scrnV the explosion as almost stuauo'ig th. out of their sens -s. S.ev,.ral w . r- k down, but escajx d with u fen brui 1 i say tho packing h-us4.iis.ipi-ar 1 1:1 .1 .gi ball of smoke and that no 1 ragtn -nt le seen. They were two fright- a- I I c to town nnd give an alarm, but ran at. almost ainilejvdy hoping to com one of the iw-i sons yy ho hid l - " i at tho building. There were alout , liiM jwumds of dyr mite in the packing-house, nnd t!. -working there were .simply r earrani;; : t boxes of the explosives t . li e m. i -t 1 room. J list what caused ti;.vcjl m.iiwj of course, never b kn .wiu Fatal ;i 1 ! : are common in this, ueopp-r m nsn., di- 1 . but an explosion which has kill 1 ; j - 1 - leaving not even a fragment, s-o Sara- y know n, of any of th.-io. strike, t!i t something appalling. The u-ual iv o : of the iH-ople a:e forgotten, ai: I l.'ii. lr. st ind aiH.ut th neighlxirhot t ' tifi.-.-i ! fa.scinate-1, as at the .;! of a h vr.l i 1;: der. A GANG OF OUTLAWS Scyenty-l lnve llnaii!- Men Who Count v. W. V -t - o 1 . About montu ago Fc Mr. :..t Aft. Hoanj county, W. Va , at his.l r by t'.re or f ir. iramber of m .-.u lynch. 1 a and two brth"rs Mir:i d sujpos-d that the lynchin 1:1 I a a I v. a I, tho men evmmitt.l th c Ti 11 parties mention--1 in ... killing of It van yvas Ii ai ;iie- . 1 ex-detective. He dlsip;. ai affair, but is now in charle-t-.n. inc-ss be for" tho United Stat 1 art- r i. . . : . ir. -i 1 in relation tomoo;ihinig e ;rric l an I Jacks :i counti.-s. in ivht murder of Mr. Ryan, he sai l: :i i!i l; l.i t- "I am here, not to eva l :-.il 1 1. keep out f th- hands of u l.i throats, murderers an 1 d rn :i-. it e.1 that a warrant is out for m , 1 ; not the cas', and I am riot trying t the officers, authorities, saw told them 1 was informed that I I Celled Hi 11 I .- the t 11 l-Hld. 1 tiie Ju lge 1 ready to giv arn i ot wan?'-' I .-ind t keen out of the way of t ie m ., wlo- a . now trying to do. I .-haii ret a; n wanted, provided 1 shall l protect.--;. i gang is still after me and .are m iking effort to ee-t me. They ni-t m t '. several nights last we-k and tri-l har d raise a reward for me, but failed. "They desire te pet ni" into their clu--: and niurd'-r me. None of th outlaw s ha iieen indictel, as it is well know n that -al memU-rs of the r;ran I Jury are in- ti.l of the c J.usoli lit-1 bail I. e of th-ia told me that th-re are sev-. it y -ti.: n liers. and trave m their riaue s. 1 h ru bers are r -sid nts of Ja counties. There has l-cn that band doing illicit d; the late war. list June, t.fon roue tiiin near a;il lc h -aid -a sg ev.-r - lilV !. I L llv 4 IV " ientUck I heard Ilf)ieS a'.d Sl'V s i . ' ! j ; issuing from a d -p boll w- in a th - .; A young man was with in-.- no 1 we . r n osition n-ar the place and tii -r -still in full blast. I report -1 the tia J t Viovernment authorities an 1 was giv. u rants of arrest. I nia.1-- the arrests m any with B-b i)utr. i or this tie was i ed by a mob last month. . .-t;a w a.-. wint-.-r an 1 t L- te i by tnese people i t-i their nrodnet ljroiili.-n-UOti: V I-. ore 1 I- 1- -. gauged by Government otlicers. t Evidence enough has lecn f oun 1 t 1 lhat the murderers of Mr. Ryn:i ar- - Urge and that thoa v.ho v.a-re ly:...h I innocent of the crime. MARKETS. B a LT I M o a E Fl o u r C i t y M 1 1 1 s , c x t r a . 3 ai.t;2: Wheat Southern -uit. Corn Southern White, 5i54.-ts, 1 e.l -a 52cts.; Oats Southern and iVn v 1 v . 31a:i5c:s-; Rye Maryland and F.-m,.. U r0u'?'cts. : Hay Maryland and l'e:n.- . 11 mta$1200; Straw Wheat, 7.5 i Eastern Creamery, 25a2krt.. , r.eur-by r l'.a20cts:Ch.-e Eastern Fancy Cream. al3cts., Western, llalJcts. ; Cattle $2. 75a4.00 ; S w ine '' Sheep and Lamb 2 aa4!4rt-: T ' Leaf Inferior, la2.50, Gl Common. : $4 50, Middling, 5ao.tU Good to fine r-1. Fancy, 10a$12. New York Flour Southern Comm. fair extra, 3. 25a -!.); Wheat No. 1 W h nxTw- ts Ityv State. 54a-V': Corn S.;; Yellow, 52a53cts. ; Oats White State. cts. ; Butter State. 17a2j ct. ; Che.-e Sfi. lOalOJctti-; Eggs H'a20 cts. I'niLADELPn ia Hour IVnn-yl v:u fancy, 3.5a4; Wheiit Pt nnsylvarr.a ar Southern Red, ."MaSocts; Rye iVcti-yi vai: 57ascts. ; Com Southern Yellow, 5: iM Oats 30o:7 cts.; Butter State, 1-al ' Cheese N. Y. Factory, 11a 12 cts.;i:cii State. 17al3 cts. -1
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