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VOL. 1, HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO,, N, C. FEBRUARY- 20, 1895. NO. 4.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
LA CASCOCNS SAFE.
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Washington Items.
Seceetaby CAniisLE sent to the House, of
Representatives in reply . to a resolution, a
statement showing that the share of the
united States in the expense "of maintaining
a protectorate over Samoa up to the present
time has been $71,346. . -
The President sent to ' the Senate a bulky
faokage of documents in response to a reso
atlon calling for information about sealing
in Beririg.Sea.
j Secbetaby Gbesham suggested to the Brit
ish Minister that the United States, England,
Russia and Japan unite to preserve the seals
of the North Pacific from extinction.
; The. President appointed J. Nelson .H. Pat
rick, of Omaha, Neb. , Government . Director
of the Union Pacific Railroad. .
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Gresham
gave a dinner in honor of the' Diplomatic
-Corps."
' The President has approved the act amend
ing the Inter-State Commerce. Iav relative
to the issue of joint interchangeable 5000
mile tickets' with special baggage privileges,
better known as the -Drummers' Baggage
bill; the act : providing for an additional
Circuit Judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit
Court (Indiana, Illinois and "Wisconsin).
. f Secbetaby Lamont, took General Schofield's
commission .. as Lieutenant-G.eneral to th?
Cabinet meeting at. the White House, where
it was signed by the President. General
Schofield, who was ill, took the oath of office
iat his residence in the afternoon. '
i The President, in response' to a Senate
resolution, transmitted to the .Senate a
message in regard to the enforcement of the
Tariff act.
Pbesidext Cleveland decidedtihe boun
dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina
in favor of Brazil.
' The. rebellion injColombia is so formidable
the "Secretary of her Legation at Washing
ington has been called home to command
the Government army.
; The Evilly bill to fund the debt 01 the Pa
cifio road-tr the Govenneat was recommitted
l-y the Hou-fy-vy-H, vote of 177 tc 1C3. Thk
kills the bill. -.
The President nominated General Schofield
to be Lieutenant-General in the Army.
Foreign Notes.
A despatch from Wei-Hai-Wei says that
the Chinese General Tai committed suicide
In a fit of anger at the desertion of some of;
his inferior officers. " '
-The revolutionary forces of Tolima,; Co
lombia, have sur render i d.
j J. Cbanston, A. Muller and J. B. Johnston,
who were forcibly deported from Honolulu
by the Republican Administration, arrived in
Victoria, British Columbia, by the steamer
Warrimoo.
' An appailing story.comes from Liverpool,
Nova Scotia. The Gloucester (Mass.)
schooner Clara F. Frlenjd ha3 been lost near
there and her entire ere ' v of fifteen have been
drowned.
Thbee more Chinese warships at Wei-Hai
Wei were sunk by Japanese torpedo boats.
I TrjBzisn attacks on foreign ere are so fre
quent the American Minister has a3ked the
Porte to increase Constantinople's police
rforce. "
' Ten men,, all the crew of the British brig
Nelson Rice', were drowned by the wrecking
of that vessel on the rocks off Douglass, Isle
of Man.
. Seven men were killed by an explosion in
the Timsbury colliery, near Bristol, Eng
land. ,'
Heavy snowstorms prevailed throughout
Great Britain, and gales swept various other
portions of Europe.
An envoy from China has landed in France
who is said to bo chareed with the mission of
asking the great Powers ot Europe to inter
vene in the war in the East.
dying
Peo-
Doraestic.
People in North Georgia have had a novel
xperience. Snow fell to the depth of about
.ye inches and4 sleighs were hastily impre
ssed by placing buggies on runners. Busi
ess was almost suspended in Atlanta.
Cattle in the Indipji Territory ere
in large numbers, because of the cold.
pie are in a destitute condition and starva
tion is staring them in the face. j
At Pittsburg. Kan., the safe in the office of
the Long-Bell Lumber Company- was bur
glarized of $120,000 in notes and 'mortgagee.
John Bubke. living near Manersville, Utah,
stabbed his brother-in-law fatally and then
borrowed a gun from a neighbor and blew
out his owif brains.
! The Bank of Superior has been closed by
the State Bank Examiner' of Nebraska. Gen
eral business depression was alleged as the
cause of failure.
All Sections of the Country (Suffered
- . : by Snowstorms,
A REGULAR WINTER v.CYCLQ WE.
It Spread North, East, South and West-i
Rivers, and Harbors . Chjakd With Tc
and Navigation Impeded People
Frozen to Death in Various riaces-r
Ice Gorge in the-Ohio.
Despatches from all" parts' of the United
States showed that" the intense epld, from
which New York' City antf "tne East'
suffered, was -:. widespread. ?.'..Ia- Z.toahy
places raging buzzards.: the ,wors$. jex-U
penencea in years, developed, and ;the
suffering jcaused was intense. Trains' to: all
the large cities ran ten and fifteen h,ours. be-
hind time, and a large number of towns
were storm bound, and business was i practi
cally .suspended. On several railroads, nota'
bly the Union Pacific, trains .were . .stalled,: -
owing to great snow drifts." ' ... - .
Numerous deaths -from exposure, especf-"
ally in the ..West, were reported.. Serious
trouble has' been caused in Ohio and 'other
localities where nataral gas is generally used
by the diminution in the supply, of that. fuel
and the impossibility of securing an adequate
supply of coal on short notice. From all the,
large centres of population news came of the
most intense suffering among the poor. ThS4
ordinary bureaus for the relief of the desti
tute were practically., paralyzed .by the uni;
predetle'nted demands made upon them.
In the northern part of New York State the
thennor ip-.er fell to an unusually low tjoint,
reaching 6i degrees below zero at the Thou
sand Islands and Alexandria Bay, 26 to 80;be-"
low in St. Lawrence County, and 10 to 15 De
low in Watertown and vicinity. Some of the
cities of the State set idle mechanics to
breaking stone to prevent widespread starva
tion. j ; . ;
In New England the; thermometer ranged
from two to thirty-five degrees below. 'New
London ' (Conn.) -Harbor is frozen to the
mouth of the Thames River for the first time
in twenty years, and " at Portsmouth, N. ,H
the Piscataqua Elver is al30 frozen, a thing
which has hot occurred since January, 1857s
The blizzard struck Chicago before it was
expected,' and early in the morning the ther-i
mometer registered several degrees below zero
and continued its downward course all day,
reaching ten degrees below late in the after
noon. : The wind blew from forty to sixty
miles an hour, and a fine1 snow which - fell
obstructed street car traffic. In -St. Louis, at
nine o'clock, it was seven degrees below and
'the thermometer fell all day. in Milwaukee
the day started in with the mercury at eight1
degrees below zero and a four inch snow fell.
The South and Southwest bad their full
share of the blizzard, Texas and Arkansas be
ing the worst sufferers. In Texa3 the wind
blew at the rate of fifty -miles an hour and
the thermometer fell below zero. Thousands
of cattle died of -exposure. In Little Bock,
Ark., the.leoldest weather on record there was
experienced, the mercury - registering three
degrees below, and in Memphis, Tenn., the
zero mark was reached.
Eastern Colorado reported a blizzard with
great suffering among destitute on isolated
farms. The thermometer was below zero
for two days.
Throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware a fierce snow prevailed. At mid
night the wind shifted to the northwest and
Kie snow ceased. . The . thermometer was
near zero.
Blinding snow storms raged all ' along the
line of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway.
Snow which fell in Northern Texa3 eleven
days before was still upon the ground. A
howling blizzard,: with the wind blowing
fifty 'miles an hour, prevailed throughout
Northern Texas.
The blizzard is the worst sf orm Oklahoma
Territory has experienced in twenty years.
The thermometers register from ten degrees
to fifteen degrees below zero.
A cold wave struck Atlanta Ga., and the
the thermometer fell from forty degrees to
six degrees. A blinding snow fell.
Washington City had a heavy snow storm.
The thermometer registered five degrees
above zero, The Potomac is frozen.
At JeUersonville, Ind., the ice in the Ohio
stopped, forming a gorge sixty miles long.
Masteb YITIA.X Hodgson BrEXErr, the
original Little Lord Fauntleroy, is now six
teen and a football player.
AN AUSTRALIAN EUTCHERY.
In' the Senate.
" ' 42r DAiw-The establishment of a cable to"
Hawaii by the Government was discussed.
3Ir. Clark, the new SenatoV from Wyom
ing, took his seat. The 'credentials of Mr.
Elkins j of West Vlrginiaand of Mr." Chilton,
of Texas, werer presented.
: 43d Dat. DLscussion of the proposition for
' a eable to Hawaii continued, The nomina
tion of General Schofield to be Lieutenant
General was confirmed. - -
. lx 44th -. Dat. The . President notified the
Senate that he had' arranged 'for the pur-.
cSiase of 3,500 000 ounces (about :6-65j000,OCO)
.01 goia witn tnirt y-year bonos oeanng prac
tically Z per cent, ihtsrest: A message
was also received announcing that ..three
Royalists had been condemned to' death' in
Hawaii. :. After debate it was ref erred..
! 4Sth Day. By a vote of 36 to 25 the Senate
adopted' an ; anJendmht- to.": the Diplomatic,
Appropriation bill, appropriating $500,000
- for commencing the work oh the Hawaiian-
caQle. -The day s session . closed with the
delivery of eulogies bn the "late Senator
Stockbridcre, of Michigan. The adjournment
waat4.C5p. m.
." 46th"Day. Mr. Hili introduced a resolution
declaring. that coin bonds shall be payable in
gold if the Government cannot 'maintain the
parity between j?old and silver. : The cre
dentialsof Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, for an-.;
'Other , term beginning March , 4 . neit the
fourth term of Mr. Hoar were presented by
his colleague, Mr. Lodge. The President
.sent in documents .containing., the inforina
'tion about sealing" iri , Bering Sea' "asked
. for by the .resolution adopted . January S.
47th Day. All the private pension bills on
the calendar -Were : passed. -fConsideration.
of the Postofflce Appropriation bill was con-
tiaued. Finance -Committee reported a.
Jtree coinage .bill. rThe question of elec
tion" frauds in Alabama was discussed at
ioaruch length by Mr. Allen, Messrs. Morgan
and Pugh replied. A resolution in rela-
tion .to Presidential appbintmenta of postmas
ters in the State of New York wa3 offered by
Mf. Hill and was agreed to. :
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47th Day. The Hduse.in C 0 mmit te-i 4. ii. .
Wliole, proceeded to the further considera-'
f ion of the Banking and Currency bill, and
several speeches were made" for and against
it The District of C61umbia Appropriation
bill, as passed by the Senate, ;wa3 laid before
the House, and on motion the Senate amend-'
cients were non-concurred in, and a confer
ence ordered. .
48th, Day. The Administration, - Or
..Springer, financial bill and all substitutes
proposed for it were defeated by a vote of
161 to 134.. .!.:-.
. 49th Day. Messages were received from
the President announcing a forthcoming bond
issue, and transmitting information that
three Royalist conspirators in Hawaii had
Jaeen. condemned to death. :The messages
were debated and then referred to the usual
committees. .
. '50th Day. The House made some progress
' with the consideration of the Legislative.
Executive and Judicial. Appropriation MIL
rJ?he amendment to' make the "personal
clerk3 - of members " of the. House
annual ' employes.1 , instead of ses
sional, was agreed to in Committee
of the Whole by. a vote of 124 to 59. A joint
resolution, extending for this year only the
time within which returns may be made un
der the Income Tax law ..from March 1 to
April 15, wasagreed to. The House pro
ceeded at 5 o'clock to listen to eulogies upon
the life and services of the late Myron B.
Wright, of Pennsylvania.
51st Day. Among the executive docu
ments laid before the . House, was one from
the Secretary of the Treasury giving addi
tional information respecting the Bering
Sea seal herd. Tho consideration of the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial-Appropriation
bill wa resumed in Committee of
the Whole. An amendment offered by Mr.'
Hartmaa was agreed to, greeting, the Segri
tary of the Treasury to arrange for the ru
nning of gold and 'silver . bullion at the
Helena Assay Office and melting it into bars;
5 2d Day. The Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill was passed. 'A"3
it passed, the total was f 21.825,976.03.
She Was. Swept Far North of Her Conrs
'While Disabled. - "j
La Gascogne is safe. The big French liner,
eight days overdue and 16 daysout front
Havre, dropped anchor at the New York
Harbor just befdre'rnidnight -of the 16th day,
all well on board, and a sigh ol relief went
up from two continents. Delay was due to a
"broken piston rod and to' the terrific 'galea
which swept the" North Atlantic for a
week or morej and brought disaster tci
many a stanch craft. Captain Baudelon and
the officers and prewof La Gascogne brought .
. the ship and passengers through the gales'
and' made port without help."
From the time they left Havre on January
26 until the dayj'she reached port they spbkei
- no transatlantic steamer and saw only a four-;
masted schooner, Nthe one which"; reported at
St. Pierre Miquelon, Nova Scolia, having
seen a large steamer off the Banks apparent-:
ly in distress. - "'".
It was the third day out, about: 10 o'clock
Gold Seekers Charged With Massacring an
Entire Native Tribe.
A dispatch from Perth, West Australia,
Bays that seven men have been arrested in
Coolgardie for massacring ' an entire native
tribe, including women and children. The
inen had gone out gold seeking, and were
encamped near the village of the tribe which
they are accused of exterminating. They
say they acted in self-defense, as the natives
menaced their lives. - '
GASCOGNE.
in the morning,' when a violent shock made
the big vessel tremble thr6ughout her 490
feet ot length. . Immediately following
Was a series of - violent concussions. Th
women . fainted and men bit their lips;
for all knew something had happened. Th
Gascogne , came to a fall stop. The passea-1
gers congregated in the saloon, discussing
the accident, but they were relieved when
one of the officurs informed them that it was
nothing more -serious than a break in the
piston rod of the intermediate cylinder,
which could easily be repaired.
The hatches were battened down, and ex
cept for the intolerable pitching and tossing
and the confinement to the saloons and
staterooms the passengers' suffered little.
They were all well behaved, and there was
nothing that might be called an approca to a
panic. " !
The passengers all united in saying that
they were not alarmed, and had a good time
aboard. Th&- ship was out sixteen days In
all and both coal and provision held out to
the end. I
' ; The repairs to the piston rod were made
by splicing W with steel bands. These
worked loose or broke after a day or two's
6teamjng and had to be made over again.
On thi3 trip 'La Gascogne's cabin passen
gers numbered : forty-four, and there were
about 125 steerage passengers. . Most of the
passengers were French.
SWEPT OVER THE LIGHTHOUSE.
A Great Tidal Wave on the Northeast Coast
of Cape Breton. t
A terrible gale with snow and a tidal wave
Ewept over the northeast coast of Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia, doing damage to prop
erty on St. Paul's Island.' The tide gauga
was swept away and thirty-three feet taken
off the lxat house by the sea.
All telegraphic communication was so com
pletely cut off that it Is only now particulars
are coming to; band." The sea went com
pletely over the North east lighthouse and the
keeper's. dwelling, and flooded the buildings,'
the occupants 1 being compelled to bail con
stantly from 9 a. m. till 3 p. m. Boat houses,'
stores, and fish houses, with their contents
were swept away at New Haven, Green Cove,
Ingonish fcnd Middlehead.
At South Biy there Is a total loss of all
property.1 Ev(ry wharf wad establishment
with Its contents and every boat are washed
off the beach. A mile of wire and poles- was
carried away en Ingonish bach.1
Debt I'ald With Heavy Interest,
.Dr. Allan' Nj Lest?, of Scranton, Torm.,
formerly an editor of tiis New York Tribune,
has been bequWtbed 50.000 by Henry B.
'Carey, of Los Angeles, Coi., in consideration
of $500 which Carev borrowedlrom Dr. Leete
at Newark, N. J., in 1SC2. Carey afterwards
became a land owner at -Los Angeles, and.
died in January worth 7.000,000. ,