VOL.1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. FEBRUARY 27, 1895. NO. 5.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
x Waahlnjrton Items.
nv. Hmft limit havinff exrdred the TTnlted
ites four per cent, bonds cailed for by tha
mont-Jiorgan syndicate agreement were
erea to m pnntoa.
ttw. hundredth anniversary of the birth-of
forge Pea body was celebrated in Massa-
tts. :
uz second triennial convention of the Na-'
rial Council of Women began in Washing-
1. I
KrrRii'TART (lAntisi.s issued a statement civ-
h a complete history of the Belmont-Mor-
,n go4d bond contract. Mr. Morgan with
ew the bond contract to which Mr. Cleve
nd, as Presldenf;, agreed.
Senatob Hill defended President Cleve
nd from the attack made on him by the
Iver Senators. - - '
Gold is pouring into the Treasury for the
few issue of bonds. The gold, or most of it,
kme originally from the Treasury.
The Ways and Means Committee recom
mends that England. Russia and Japan be
fequested to co-operate with the United
pates in protecting the seals.
Eighty-eight employes of the Census Bu-
feau were dismissed, leaving less than one
undred now performing the work. .
President Cleveland signed the Chicago
ublic Building bill.
5v the death of a husband in Ohio three
reeks ago and of a wife and son on the Elbe,'
i ashingon charity will receive a Dequest of
12,000.
The steamer Lady of tho Lake wa3 burned
her wharf. Washington, because all the
rater plugs in the vicinity of the wharf were
frozen. .' -
I The President approved the act to establish
National military park at Gettysburg.'
fenn., and the act changing the name of
frhieh provides that it shall constitute a pari;
if the city of Washington.
Seceetaby and Mas. Carlisle gave their
huuuui vaumci uiiuiur m uuuyr ui tua a. ioci
klent and Mrs. Cleveland. Th6se outside of
he Cabinet invited to meet the Chief Execu
ive were Mrs. Perrine,. Mrs. Daniel Manning
and Assistant Secretary Hamlin.
President Cleveland decided the boun
dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina,
n favor of Brazil.
Foreljrn Notea.
ebman and French farmers are making
n active campaign against American grains
ind meats.
k despatch from Wei-Hai-Wei, China, an
nounces the capitulation of that place and
the surrender of the Chinese warship in port
' to the. J apanese. The Chinese were rephlsed
with heavy loss in an attack on Hal-Cheng;
Japan is to have two battleships built in
England.
Repobts of further outrages by Turks in
Armenia reached London.
The resolution to call another silver con
ference was adopted by the German Reich
stag and has the approval of tho Imperial
Government.
Roeebt Newbury, of Tottenham, Canada,
murdered his wife and little niece and then
tried to kill himself.
The Radicals and Socialists were defeated
in the communal elections in Italy.
Famine was threatened in the district oH
nungary southeast of'Budapest. The Social
ists took advantage of the situation to incite
rioting. They were dispersed with fixed
bayonets.
A paraffin lamp was overturned on board
the Flushing mail steamship Princess Eliza
beth in Queenboro Harbor, England, setting
fire to the vessel and killing two persons.
The trial of ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Ha
waii, lasted from February 5 tp 8; she testi
fied in her own behalf and submitted a writ
ten statement. .
Chang-Chituno, tht Viceroy of Nankin,
China, has tendered an apology to the Brit
ish representative for the action of the
Chinese soldiers who attacked Captain Cart
wright, of the British warship Pigeon.
Domestic.
. W. S. Gcmmsee, of Trenton, was nominated
by Governor Werts to succeed the late Jus
tice Abbett on the New Jersey Supreme
Court bench., :
Chakles Ansoby and Luis Busam, aged
nine and eleven, respectively, broke through
the i?a at Cincinnati and were drowned in
tho Ohio River. Their bodies have not ycS
been recovered. -
Tn. Retail Butchers' Association and the
r;?ta i Grocers' Union have boycotted those
bi dy goods stores in New York City which
sell meats and nrpceries. and have notified
wholesalers not to supply tne drygoodi pecP
pie.
The Brooklyn trolley men formally de
clared the strike off, with the exception oi
the men on President Norton's Atlantic Ave
nue system.
A large boiler exploded in Cobb's sawmill,
two milesjwest of Towanda, Penn. Theodore
Pencil, fireman, and John Mack, teamster,
were instantly killed, and Frank Meyers, a
mill hand, was fatally injured.
Philip Martini, colored, was hanged in
the jail yard at Kansas City, Mo., for the
murder of Eli Still well. aspromient stock
man. T By blowing out the gas in their hotel room,
at Springfield, I1L, George Harpool and Casey
Gregory, of Fairfield, compassed their own
deaths.
James Donohce, of New York, engineer of
the New York Central fast mail. No. 32, wa3
killed in a collision near Rhinecliff, N. Y.
Pbesident Benjamin Norton and Superin
tendent D. J. Quinn, of the Atlantic Avenue
Trolley Railroad, were jointly indicted by
the Grand Jury, Brooklyn, on two charges of
navmg violated the Ten-Hour Jaw. Twenty
seven other indiccment3 were found against
persons: some of them strikers, for injuring
railroad property.
Ma yob Strong, of New York City, ap
pointedA. D. Andrews, a .We t Pointer. Po
lice Commissioner, and G. W. Green Aque
duct Commissioner.
Accusations of corruption were made in
the miners' convention at Columbus, Ohio,
against John McBride, President of the Fed
eration of Labor. ,
A number of appointments were announced
by Mayor Strong, of New York City, among
them William Brookfield as Commissioner of
Public Works, F. M. Scott as Counsel to the
Corporation, four Civil Service Commission
ers and three members of the Park Board, the
new officials being taken from all the reform
parties. .
Dennis McLaughlin, John C. Carr, Gott
fried Walbaum and John N. Crusius, known
as the Guttenberg race-track "Big Four,"
were sentenced at Jersey City, N. J., to a
year's imprisonment at hard labor.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Texas and
the Southwest. The fall of snow in Louisiana
and Texas was the heaviest for nearly twenty
years. Street-car traffic in New Orleans was
suspended. 1
While John Burke, of Sedalia, Ind. , was
chopping wood his brother, Willie, stooped
to pick up a stick and received a blow from
the axe on his head. His skull was split open
and fatal injuries were inflicted.
An explosion of natural gas at Meadville,
Penn., wrecked two buildings. One person
was killed and three others injured seriously.
By an explosion of natural gas at Elwood
Ind., the building occupied by the Eiwood
Fruit Co. and C. C. Henze Co. was wrecked,
and three persons badly injured.
Edwin P. Bbown, a hermit, was found dead
in his hut of field stones which he occupied
in the . woods about a mile from Westport
Harbor, Mass. The body .wasfrozen stiff and
had been nibbled at by rats.
Fibe destroyed the car barns in Chictgo.
The ios3 to the company will be fully $130,
000. One hundred and ten cable cai3 were
burned. " -
FiGGAT FILCHED FOR YEARS.
BOKD BILL IS DEFEATED.
House of Representatives Refuses to
Meet President Cleveland's Views.
Ills Huge Defalcation Caused the Dank of
Lexington, Va., to Collapse.
The defalcation of Cashier C. M. Figgat,
which has practically put out of existence the
Bank of Lexington, Va., and the only finan
cial agent of the entire community and county
people, has fallen with a telling effect. Over
twenty thousand people are victims of this
financial collapse. .
The liabilities of the bank are 8193,402.42.
The assets are $133,202.32. This leaves a
shortage of 865.200.10, not including the'
capital stock valued at $30,000. It is said
that Figgat used up the $80,000 and 65,--200.10
of depositors' funds, leaving a cash
balance of $6573.12 to meet the cash de
posits of $72,000, It is given out that the
period of defalcation covers twenty-three
years. .
The Virginia Military Institute had nearly
$20,000 deposited in the bank. A large
amount of the County Treasurer's funds was
also in the bank.
A laving Death.
Mae. Joniaux, the Belgian poisoner, has
entered on a term of life imprisonment, tc
which death would be far preferable. She ii
confined in a cell to which a ray of light can
not penetrate. She will never so much as
hear a human voice. Her food will be
passed to her through a slit in the wall. She
will probably go ma 1 tifore many months,
if death does not come first. ,
WAS REJECTS BY 47 MAJORITY.
Ninety-eight Democratic, Sixty-two Re
publican and Seven; Populist Votes Cast .
Against the Measure Report of the.
Committee and Details of the Presi
dent's Contract TTith a Syndicate.
The Committee on Ways and Means, by a
vote of 8 yeas to 5 nays, decided to report '
to the House of Bepresentatives the follow
ing resolution, practically a3 agreed upon by
the sub-committee:
"Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States in Con
gress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be and is hereby authorized to is
sue and dispose of, at not less than par in
gold coin .bonds of the United States with
the qualities, privileges, and exemptions
of bonds issued under the act approved
July 14. 1870, entitled an act authorizing
the refunding Of the National debt,
to an 1 amount not exceeding $65,116,275,
bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three
per cent, per annum, principal and interest
payable in gold coin of the present standard
of weight and fitness, said bonds to be made
payable not more than thirty years after date.
Provided, however, that no part of the pro
ceeds of the sale of such bonds nor of the
notes redeemed with such proceeds shall be
available for the payment of the current ex
penses of the Government."
The vote of 8 to 5 on reporting the bill
showed party, breaks on both sides. The vote
in ful! was as follows:
For the bill Wilson, Tarsney, Turner,
Montgomery, Stevens and Cockran, Demo
crats; and Reed and Payne, Republicans, 8.
Against the bill McMillin. Whiting,
Bryan, and Wheeler, Democrats; Hopkins.
Republican, 5. -
A minority report was made byjthose who
voted against the bill. It was decided that
Chairman WilsoD, for the majority, should
report the resolution to the House. .
menf with the European syndicate ror the
purchase of the new bonds. The text of the
bond contract shows that the bankers drove
a hard bargain with the Administration. In
addition to the jrate of interest agreed upon,
the bankers are given an option on all
u.i.u.io i&aut up vi ucxoDer 1 next.
ACTION BY THE HOUSE.
After-
the
CHAIRMAN WILSON'S REPORT.
Details of the Administration's Contract
With a Syndicate of Bankers.
The report which Chairman Wilson sub
mitted for the majority of the Ways and
Mean3 Committee says:
"From the reading of this contract it will
be seen that the arrangement of the Secre
tary: with the parties to this contract af
fects the purchase of 3,500,000 ounces ol
standard gold coin-of the United States
(amounting to $65,116,275) at least one-half
of which shall be obtained in and shipped
from 2urope. For this gold coin he has
contracted to issue to the parties furnishing
it, under authority cf the act for the resump
tion of specie payments approved January
li, 1815, 4 per cent, thirty-year bonds of the
United States, at a price which realizes to
them interest at the rate of 3 per cent., but
the Secretary of the Treasury has reserved
the right, if authority be given him by Con
gress, to substitute at par any bonds of the
United States bearing 3 percent. interestt o.
which the principal and. interest shall be
specifically payable in United States.gold coin
of the present weight and fineness, said sub
stitution to be made within ten days from the
date of the contract.
"It is the object of the joint resolution
herewith submitted to give to the Secretary
oi tne ireasury auinonty to suDstitute sucn
bonds to the amount of the contract. The
saving to be effected by the Government,' as
set forth in the President's message, will be
539,159 per year for every year the three
percent, bonds run, and' of the amount or
f M,17,770 should they run thirty years.
"As it w not believed by the committee
that the issue of bonds specifically payable in
goldiil impose any additional burden of
liability upon the Government than it they
are made payable in coin under it3 pledge
and policy to preserve the parity of the coins
in the two metals, the saving of this large
amount becomes a matter of substantial mo
ment and advantage of the Government, and
as the parties to take the bonds are under con
tract to furnish gold coin for them, it seems
no hardship on the Government to contract
to pav them back in the same coin that they
turnHied to it."
The report of Mr. Wilson included a copy
of the President's recent message to Congress
bearing upon the subject, and also a copy of
the contract, made by. the. Treasury Peoart-
a Debate Lastlnsr Six TTnnr
Measure Falls of Passage.
Proceedings in the House upon the Bond
bill reported from the Ways and Means Com
mittee opened with the report from the Com
mittee on Rules of an order providing that a
vote be taken at 5 o'clock in the afternoon
;On the question of the adoption of the order
the vote, as taken by tellers, resulted, yeas.
152; nays, 28.
The bond resolution was read by the Clerk,
and the Speaker, dividing the five hours
allotted for debate, said he would recognize
Messrs. Wilson Dem., West Va.), and Reed
(Rep.. Me.), for two hours in the affirmative, '
and Messrs. Bryan (Dem., Neb.), and Hop-;
kins (Rep., IU.)t in the negative for the samer
time; the other hour to be divided among:
other gentlemen.
After six hours of debate the ' House, by a
vote of 167 to 120, refused to order the Ways
and Means resolution to a third reading. Of
the 120 votes cast for the motion 81 were
given by Republicans, Mr. Reed being among
the number. In the negative there were 98
Democratic, 62' Republican and 7 Populist
votes. .
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
Fire Men Instautly Killed and Six Others
Terribly Injured In Pennsylvania.
By an explosion of mine gas in 'the West
Bear Ridge Colliery of the Reading Coal and
Iron, Company at Mahanoy Plane, Penn., six
miners were killed and five were burned,!
four Qf them probably f ataUy. The dead are :
Thomas Durkin, of Glrardville, Joseph
Glibe, of Crescent Hill; Peter Greenback, of
St. Clair; Peter Kline, of Ashland; Anthony
Myers, of Ashland; Benjamin Reaber, ot.
Mahanoy Plane.
All but Myers were probably instantly
killed, and it was some time before their
bodies were recovered from the workings.
Myers was taken out alive and died while
being carried toj the hospital. The injured
are: ' f
Edward Davis, . of Girardville; William
Siinnich and William Goff, of Ashland; John -Lamey
and William Davis, of Mahanoy
Plane. It was feared that the flret four of
these injured men were fatally burned, but
William Davis was only slightly hurt.
The cause of the explosion was supposed
to bo that a n,akied lamp ignited a large body
of gas that had, been let loose from a blast
that was made in . the gangway. The ex-
plosion set fire! to the timbers of what is
jailed the "monkey airway," cutting off tho
iscape of the five men killed in the mine.
WAS 1SHORT $363,000.
i .' :
Claims Against the Estate of the Dead
Treasurer of Illinois.
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When Rufus Ramsey, who died suddenly
three months ago, at Carlyle, Hi, supposedly
of heart disease!, went into the State Treasury
two years ago, he was thought to be the
richest man in ) Southern Illinois. Within a
week over 8500000 in claims against his es
tate had been tiled, but the most startling is
that of the five ) Chicago bankers who were
his surety as State Treasurer.
When Henry Wolf succeeded tn dead man
he found a shortage of 3G3,859.y0. The in
formation wa3 jcqmmunieated to his bonds
men, who suppressed the fact in the hope of
reimbursement lout of the estate of the dead
man. !.
F. M. Blount jand Carl Molt, cashiers oftwc
Chicago National banks, have filed in the
County Court claims for the full amount of
the shortage.
Mr. Ramsey was a banker in Carlyle, and
his estate probably is ' worth $150,000. Ta
bondsmen may ;get $125,000 of that,
EIGHTEEN FEET CF SNOW.
The Danish Peninsula Gets It, Share of
I Winter.
, A Berlin dispatch say3 that the harbor ot
Dantzic is frozen over. The ico is so thick
that vehicle? pass on it from shore to shore.
At Copenhagen people can walk on the ico to
the ships that are icebound in the harbor.
Near Kiel six large steamers are reported to
be fast in the ice.
In North Jutland, Denmark, the snow is
eighteen feet deep. In the town of Hjorrin,-?
tunnels had to be cut through the ssiow an t
the inmatga' of buried houses dug out. Tho
Berlin prisons are overflowing with iersoni
who committed misdemeanors in order to
obtain shelter.