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UPWARD AND ONWARD.
VOL. 1.
HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. 0. MARCH 13, 1895;
NO. 7.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
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Washington Items '
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2 American liimeiamc party
Issued,
Washington, an address In behalf of
er. JJemocrau representing sixteen
f m ' ii t i ' s a a
les ana two lemiones signed me aa
L calling for a new silver and gold party,
the nomination or its own candidate ior
ldentinl896.
he United States Snpreme Court decided
Inst the Bell Telephone, General Electric
other companies, in respect to claims
original patents. The decision covert
case of the Berliner patent, and many
ers. involving, In the aggregate, some
100,000,000 capital.
The United States Supreme Court, In the
ite Refrigerator case decided that an Ameri
a patent expires with the expiration of a
reign patent previously granted on the
me invention.
The Senators whose terms expired on
arch 4th were Messrs. Butler, of South Caro
na; Camden, of West Virginia; Carey, of
'yominjr; Coke, of Texas; Dixon, of Rhode
land; Dolph, of Oregon; Higgins, of Dela
are; Ilunton, of Virginia; McLaurin, of
ississippi; McPherson, of New Jersey ;Man
?rson, of Nebraska; Martin, of Kansas;
owers, of Montana; Ransom, of North
arolina; Shoup, of Idaho; Walsh, of
eorgia; Washburn, of Minnesota, and Wil
n, of Iowa.. . : '
I At the closing sessions of the Women's
ouncil in Washington a proposition favor
ig a National university for both sexes was
dopted after an animated discussion.
Postmasteb-G enseal Bissell attended the
egular Cabinet meeting at the White House
r the last time. All the Secretaries were
resent. Only routine business was tran3
cted. The Argentine Minister and Mme. Zeballos
ave a dinner in honor of the Secretary of
tate and Mrs. Gresham.
Conobessmax Joseph H. O'Neil. of Mas
ichusetts, has been nominated to be Assist
at United States Treasurer at Boston.
,Secbetaby Gbesham intimated to France
at she will not be permitted to forcibly col-
t her San Domingan claim, as it would de
oy an equity held by an American com-
iny ;
The Ways and Means Committee rccom-
ends that England, Russia and Japan be
quested to co-operate with the United
ates in protecting the seals.
Pbesident Cleveland decided the boun-
kry dispute between Brazil and Argentina,
favor 01 Brazil.
Africa, aa Cecil Rhodes could hot' get along
with Sir Henry Loch.
Fibe at Halifax, Nova Scotia, destroyed an
elevator and a wharf stored with merchan
dise. Loss, $1,000,000.
Li Huso! Chang's yellow jacket, peacock
feathers, etc., have been restored to him' by
the Emperor of China.
Domestic.
GEORGIA'S NEW SENATOR
Foreign Notes.
A' defeat of the Colombian revolutionists
reported. Reports' fron Peru Indicate that
&e revolutionists there, are eaininer. ne
overnment troops dispersed bands of insur
ants in the provinces 01 Santa Clara ana
untiago, Cuba.
Li Hung Chano started for Japan to begin
pgotiations for peace.
Li .Hxtng Chano's credentials as Peace Com
issioner to Japan have been completed and
b will leave Pekin at once. . , -
The insurgents in Jaguey Grande, Cuba
ave Surrendered.
Pope Leo XIII. celebrated at Rome. Italy,
ie eighty-fifth anniversary of his birth.
The epidemic of influenza in London in
eases in virulence.
Loed Rosebebt was only prevented by
hrnest pleading of friends from throwing
own tne Premiership of England in disgust.
Professor John StuabtBlackie, the great
'holar, died at Edinburc. Scotland. He was
orn in Glasgow in 1803.
Tbince Achillk Napoleon Mcbat killed
imself in hLs house s ZmiirdidL He was a
descendant of the family that used to live in
pimento wn, N. J. .
The Japanese are steadilv drivincr back
he Chinese armies in Manchuria and around
pjueawang and Liaoyang.
A boileb in a dlstilerv at Itzkanv. Rou
teanta, exploded, doing great damage to the
unaing and causing the loss of twelve lives.
Commandant Lechattelieb, of the marine
)rce, lought a duel with M. Percher. an ed-
tor in Paris, inflictinsr a wound from the ef-
ic -isoi wnicn Percher died in a few moments.
ae weapons were swords.
The German Reichstag approved the ap-
"-Tnauon ior tne four new cruisers.
i he loss of life in the wreck of the Inter
eeanic Railway, in Mexico, has just been
a ie known. Sixtv-flve person were killed
--tea 1 of forty-two. as first stated, and forty
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ii.ck Liobanoft Rostovsxy has been ap
iuod Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
su eei the late M. de Giers.
C . TT -
iiERctXEs Robinson has been reap-
vui.-a iiveraor of Caoe Colony. South
The business portion of the town of Alvo,
Neb., was almost destroyed by fire.
Mabia Bohan, aged twenty-two years, and
her sister Anna, aged twenty, orphans, with
a good income from a relative s estate, were
asphyxiated in Chicago, 111.
The announcement was made that Justice
Barrett, of the Supreme Court, New York
City, had ! granted a decree of absolute di
vorce to Alva S. Vanderbilt against her hus
band, William K. Vanderbilt.
Hetty and Mamie Logan and Linda Fields
were drowned while skating at Sergeant,
Ky. Their bodies were recovered.
Fifteen thousand coal miners in the Pitts
burg district struck unexpectedly.
Patbick Campbell, for twenty years Sup
erintendent of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Police
Force, handed in his resignation. He asked
to be retired on a pension, which in his case
will be $2500 a year.
THBEE!bodies were found in the ruins of
the New York tenement houses that collapsed
owing to; the use of inferior building ma-
erials, and a tvictim died In the hospital,
bringing the death list up to five.
The boiler of a locomotive exploded near
Weems, Ala. Engineer F. k. Maguire and
Firemaui William Reeves ' were instantly
killed. I
Tom Jones shot his father near Anding,
Miss., four times, killing him instantly. The
father came home intoxicated and was abus
ing his family.
Alfbed E. Jewell, a policeman, of Rah--
way, ti. J., was snot and Kinea Dy jmn
Stone, member of a band of tramps, whom
Jie, with' a party of other policemen, was
trying to arrest.
At New York City the jury in the case of
former Police) Captain Michael Doherty, ac
cused of bribery, failed to agree, and they
were discharged. They stood nine to three
for acquittal.
The United States cruiser Montgomery
sailed from Mobile, Ala., for Truxillo, Hon
duras, tin a secret mission.
The ice gorge in the Susquehanna, just
above Port Deposit, Md., broke, and the
railroad tracks and streets along the river
front were flooded.
Max H. Gbaueb. the firebug, convicted of
arson in the first degree, was sentenced in
New York to hard labor in Sing Sing Prison
for thirtv years. As Grauer Is forty . odd
years of age, this is practically a life sentence.
Mrs. Liebermann. his accomplice, was sen
tenced for six years.
Fbeshets in Pennsylvania and Ohio have
done great damage.
The doors of the Holdredge (Neb.) National
Bank were closed and the Government was
notified to assume charge. The capital stock
is $50,000.
The Washington express of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey ran into coal cars
near Bayonne, N. J., and two men, Winfleld
Holland, fireman, and William Thomas, en
gineer were killed and three injured.
At Kingston, N. C, fire, which originated
in Bryanfield's stables, spread to the wooden
buildings in the rear of Oettedger Brothers'
store and to the Opera House. The two
main business blocks of the town were de
stroyed. The loss is fully $ 225,000 and the
insurance smalL
MoBOANFiELDj the Aquia Creek (Va.) train
robber was found guilty and sentenced to
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
Coubt Offices RichabdMobeis was fatally
wounded at Cincinnati, Ohio, while serving
a warrant on Louis Stolzenberger, a black
smith.! and Patrolman Fred Shaffer instantly
killed Stolzenbercer.
Two farmers from Texas, one of whom had
a big revolver conveniently tucked away in
the leg of ' his boot, and who said they had
come to get money from -'green goods" men,
were arrested in Jersey City, N. J., together
with a sixteen-year-old lad who acted as
'steerer." !
The experiment of sending weather in
dications by flash light from the tower of the
Chicago Auditorium proved a success.
Th Michigan Democratic State Conven
tion Adopted a free silver resolution, with
only one dissenting vote.
Twenty-five men were killed by the mine
explosion atvCerrillos, New Mexico.
Lxboy Febnold, aged thirty-eight, an
insane son, first killed his mother with an
axe aid then set fire to their home at East
Lebanon. Me., where the boflv lay.
Major Bacon Has Long Been Prominent Za'
State and Local Politics, t
Major Augustus O. Bacon, who was elected'
to represent Georgia in the United States
Senate for the longr term beginning Marcht
1895, is, like his colleague, in favor of free1;
silver coinage on the basis of sixteen to one,)
and this fact has imparted more than ordi
nary interest to his election. He had been'
PROPOSED MONEY CONFERENCE.
MA job a. o. bacon.
anacuve candidate ior nrceen monins, and k
was his friends in the main who secured the'
election of the present Governor of Georgia,
W. Y. Atkinson.
Senator Bacon Is a man of fifty and has
been prominent in politics nearly all of his
life. He was defeated for the Governorship
once by the late Alexander H. Stephens,'
again by H. D. McDaniel and again by Sen-j
ator John B. Gordon. Twice he seemed to(
have the gubernatorial prize in his hands. 1
but it was wrested from him; HwasSpaaL-t
er of the State House of Representatives sev-,
eral years ago, but after his defeat by Sena
tor Gordon for the Governorship practlcallyi
retired j from politics until he entered the.
Legislature last session with the expressed;
purpose of capturing the senatorshi p. Major,
Bacon is a successful lawyer and a man of
fine ability. He at one time was general at
torney foribeJ&3t Tennessee, Virginia and;
find Georgia Railroad, but resigned this po
sition and was a pronounced anti-corporation
legislator at the last session. He is a man of
considerable means, comes of an old South
ern family and probably knows more poli
ticians than any other public man in Geor
EXPLOSION OF NATURAL CAS.
A Business Block In Anderson, Ind.,
Blown Up and Scattered Over Town.
The most destructive natural gas explo
sion in the history of the Indiana gas belt
occurred at Anderson, Ind. ,a few mornings
ago. A seventy-flve thousand dollar busi
ness block on the court House square was
blown over all the central parts of the city.
In the building were the When clothing
stores, Prather's shoe store, Hadley's drug
store, and a large number 01 business omces
and halls on the upper floor.
Fire followed the explosion, which was like
an earthquake, and the remains of the debris
began burning fiercely. The entire fire de
partment was called out and prevented the
fire from reaching the new Court House.
Attorney Ballard and County . Commission
er Metcalf lived in rooms above the W hen
store, and it wa feared they perished.
The loss on the building and contents is
total, and will reach $400,000. The fronts of
all business houses In the neighborhood of
the explosion were demolished, paved streets
ripped open and telephone cables torn down.
Bills That Failed.
Fifty-six acts of Congress that reached the
President failed to receive his signature be
forw nA inurnment, and are. therefore, of no
effect. About 100 bills failed to become laws
hvfluae thev did not reach the President In
time.
Are AH
Delegates Appointed toy Congress
Silver Hen.
The text of the amendment to the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill relatingto the'ilnter-
national Monetary; Conference, as finally
passed by both houses of Congress in It3
closing hours, is as follows:
"That whenever the President 01 the
ted States shall determine that the United
States should be represented at any interna
tional conference called with a view to se
cure, internationally, a fixity of relative
value between gold and silver, as money,
by -means of a common ratio between
those metals, with, free mintage at such
ratio, the United States shall be rep
resented at such conference by nine
delegates, to be selected as follows: The
President of the United States shall select
three of said delegates; the Senate shall se
lect three members of the Senate as dtle-
gates; and the Speaker of the House of Hep-;
resentatives shaft select three members ot the.
House elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress!
as delegates. If at any time there shall ba
any vacancy, such vacancy shall. be
filled ' by the! : President of the
United States. And for the comnensation of:
said delegates, together with all reasonable
expenses connected therewith, to be ap
proved by the Secretary of State, including
the proportion to be paid by the United
States of the joint expense of such confer
ence, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropri
ated."
The Senate selected Senators Teller fRen.
CoL). Jones (Deou, Ark.), and Daniel (bem..
Va.) as delegates to the proposed confer
ence. All are mends of silver coinage.
The House of Representatives without a
dissenting voice and with great enthusiasm,
adopted a resolution offered by Representa
tive Bailey (Dem. , ;Tex.) asking Speaker Crisp
to designate himself as one of the three dele-
gates to tne conierence on ine pare 01 tne
House; The SDeaker later in the dav desig
nated himself and Messrs. Culberson (Dem.,
Tex.) and Hitt (Rep.. IlL) as the delegates
iforthe House, i o -
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TEN THOUSAND . ON STRIKE.
A Revenue Carter's Precious Salvage.
One United States revenue cutter, the
Crawford, has given a good account of itself
and. proved its public usefulness. It was
miiner In Chesapeake Bay during the re-
Ant blizzard and it helDed to save thirteen
vf4ols and 139 livai.
Miners in the Pittsburg District Go Out
En Masse.
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Ten thousand railroad miners in the Pitta-
burg District struck for an advance of four
teen cents per ton, or sixty-nine cents, the
, Columbus agreement. , A secret circular was
'Sent out ordering the strike. The operators
and miners held separate secret sessions.
1 ; JLUU ttVUUIl W(k9 UUCAUCVIrOU, WIU UUIO UUk
the threat of the district officials that the1
operators would not have twenty-four hours
notice in which to prepare for the suspen
sion. Ten thousand men were affected.
gate having teleg'raphlo colaniunication with'
hl3 constituency obeyed' instructions, and
wired home that the strike was on.
i It was stated, that not another ounce of.
coal would be mined in the communities so
notified , until the sixty-nine cent rate waa
recognized. The sentiment was for the abro
gated scale price, and no compromise. Ther
plan was laid in convention to notify or con-!
f er with the association of operators, but the?
demand for an immediate strike was so
strong that it was ordered, and all other mat
ters pertaining to it were lost sight or. .
; A WESTERN NIAGARA.
Artificial Falls to Be Made to Secure Hy
draulic Power.
An immense electric power house next laj.
size to. the Niagara Falls plant is to be built
this year In the Stuck-Valley, ten miles east
or Tacoma, Wash. To carry out the project
the White River Water Power Company,-,
with a capital 6f $2,000,000. has been Incor-;
po rated under the laws of New Jersey. Water.
Swer Is to De secured oy tapping tne wmw
ver below Baekley, from which by a sim-j
pie conveyance of an open ditch it will be.
carried to Lake Tappa, near Sumner, which ;
will be utilized as a storage reservoir, a no
lake is three miles long and a third of a mile
wide and 100 feet deep.
From the end of the lake, by a flume over
a natural grade, the water is to be diverted!
to the edge of the bluff overhanging Stuok; .
Valley, giving a fall of 400 to 500 feet to thej
power house, where will be located a gener
ator capable of developing 23,000 horsej
power without counting the surplus power
stored in Lake Tappa, by the use of which;
0, 000 horse power can be developed. .
It is calculated that Tacoma and Seattle
can use 5000 horse power, and other town
3000, leaving 12,000 horse power to meet the
natural-growth of the two cities. An experU
has pronounced the scheme feasible.;