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VOL. 1.
HERTFORD; PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. MARCH 27, 1895.
NO. 0.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
Washington Itemf.
The President arrointed Joseph R. Herod.
of Indiana, to be Secretary of the Legation
of the United States to Japan.
Ye Hecn Gik, the Korean Charge d' Af
faires, who ha3 been confined to the legation
by serious illness for the past three months,
has been recalled by his Government at ms
wa request. -
A deleoatiox or Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians called upon the Secretary of the In
terior to pay their respects. They .are the
most notable Indians that have visited Wash
ington for some time. Among them are chiefs
who participated in the Custer massacre at
the Little Big Horn and engaged in many
other fights. -
The question whether diamond cutting is
a now industry in the United States ha3 been
decided in the negative by Acting Secretary
Hamlin, of the Treasury Department. There
fore, Holland diamond cutters cannot come
here under contract.
The Government filed a olaim involving
$15,000,000 against the estate of the late Sena
tor EelanA Stanford.
For the eight and a half months of the
current fiscal year just ended the receipts of
the United States from all sources have been
$223,776,901, and the expenditures $263,414,-
191.
Captain Leonard G. Shepaed, Chief of the
Revenue
ton.
Marine Service, died in Washing-
. Secretary Carlisle designated the United
- States revenue cutters Corwin, Rush, Bear,
Grant, Wolcott and Perry, to patrol Bering
Bea this season. .
Joseph H. Choate made the. closing argu
ment in the Income Tax case before the Su
preme Court, leaving the matter before the
Justices for decision.
The wounding of Purser Bain in New
Orleans was made the Subject of a formal
eomplaint by the British Ambassador at
Washington. .
, Arguments for the Income Ta: were made
before the Supreme Court by Attorney-General
OIney and James C. Carter; Mr. Choate
mad a his argument against it.
'The Ways and Means (Committee recom
mends that England, Russia and Japan be
requested to co-operate with the United
States in protecting the seals.
President Cleveland decided the boun
dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina,
iu favor of Brazil.
Foreign Notes.
In the Verde mine, at Minis Prietas, Sonora.
Mexico, four miners were killed and one
fatally injured by an explosion of giant pow
der. ' ,-
Nearly fifty thousand English boot and
shoe operatives who objected to improved
American machinery have been locked out.
.Before Queen Victoria left England for
her outing she made the Liberal and Tory
loaders promise, it is said, that they would .
not break up the Government while she is
gon.- 1 -
Kino Humbert,' of Italy, pardoned many
imprisoned Italian rioters, in honor of his
birthday. '
Private cipher telegrams from Cuba, re-'
ceived in Madrid, Spain, say the insurgents
are steadily gaining strength. J .
It was reported that ex-State Treasurer
Taylor, of South Dakota, who is a defaulter
to the amount of $355,000, had been arrested
'at Vera Cruz. Mexico. . .
Queen Victoria, of England, started from
'London on her journey to Nice.
Cmperor William opened the session of
the Prussian Council of State; in his speech
he urged theadoption of measures to relieve
tu? agricultural distress.
Great destitution prevails in St. John's,
Now -Foundland; fifty per cent, of the people
an said to be receiving or in want of assis
tance to keep them from starvation.
'Martial law. has' been proclaimed in Tan-
cuwuu urob on ana 'sank ah " American
schooner off Puerto del Padre, and that the
crew of sixteen was lost. -
$1000 reward for the arrest and conviction of
the lynchers of Italians at Walsenburg. He
received a telegram from the State Depart
ment at Washington saying that the Presi
dent approved his course.
Daniel Wabd, who was arrested in Bos
ton, has been identified as one of the gang
who tried to burn New York City during the
War.
The fifth attempt to burn Algona, Iowa;
was made. : Four business houses were
burned. The i militia was then placed on
guard.
The New Jersey Senate, as High Court of
Impeachment, removed Justice Connolly, of
Bayonne, from office. v
Police Captain Cross and Wardman
George Smith who were dismissed from the
New York force by the Police Commissioners
as guilty of extortion and neglect of duty,
were reinstated by a decision of the General
Term of the Supreme Court.
The General Term of the New York Su
preme Court ordered a new trial for Erastua
Wiman, convicted last summer on a charge
of forgery. -
Between $100,000 and $150,000 in money
and bonds, which was in care of the Adama
Express uompany, was believed to have been
destroyed in a fire which followed the smash
ing a passenger train at Terre Haute, Ind.
Johnson Jacob, a full-blooded Choctaw,
was executed by shooting at the Pushmata
District Court House, Indian Territory, for
the murder of his wife.
Wreckage from the steamer Chicora,
which was lost with twenty-four persons on
board several weeks ago, has begun coming
ashore at St. Joseph, Mich.
The Supreme Court of Illinois gave a
decision declaring that the eight-hour law,
or, as it is generally known, the sweatshop
law, is unconstitutional. About 40,000
women in Illinois who work in factories are
aJTected. t .
At Forsytho, Ga., Amos Gib3on, colored,
assaulted Mrs. Martha Waller and Miss Hart,
white, the latter an imbecile. He was hanged
by a mob and his body riddled with bullets.
Colored laborers resumed work on the
levee at New Orleans, La., under protection
of the militia and police.-
The annual presentation of Bibles- to the
graduating clas3 at West Point Military
Academy took place.
Mr3. John Zornsho, a Hungarian, and her
ssven-year-old daughter, were murdered in
the woods near Mammoutb, Penn. The
woman, whose husband was recently killed
in the mines, had sold her belongings, and
taking the proceeds, with about $100, was
returning to her native land.
Winchester, Va., was placed practically
under military control to protect from lynch
ing Thornton Parker, colored, arrested for
criminal assault on Mrs.. MeltoD, ,of Middle
town. Three companies, seventy-five men,
were ordered out.
Two men were killed and several injured
by the caving in of an embankment in Brook
lyn. The dead are: Rossi Botti. a laborer,
twenty-eight years old; Patrick Glllen, a
laborer, thirty years old. ,
A WOMAN- LYNCHED. '
Domestic.
Tue National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.,
failed to open its doors. The assets are
Cn,800,000,;with liabilities of $1,050,000.
The Fopulist Convention of the Tenth
C.eorgia Congress District met at Thomson,
thohotneof Thomas E. Watson, and nomi
i 'f.ated him unanimously for Congress, to
aiake.the race in the special election made
necessary by the resignation of Congressman
Bl;v?k.
While Frederick Marcott. the inventor of ,
t patent rope fire-eseape, and his cousin,
I'r.jrc Marcott, aged twelve, were giving
- exhibition at Dulutb, Minn., the rope
It o'ie, find thev fell sixty feet. The boy was
.-instantly killed. Marcott was fatal! v in-"r-irt'-l.
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I'AsSiyarRs Trom Cuba brought a report to
iv- Vet. Fia.. that the Scanisb crunboat
SPAIN HOST APOLOGIZE!
Gresfiam Demands a Prompt Disavowal
for Firing on the Allianca.
I I SECRETARY GRESHAM ON DUTY
WARSHIPS ORDERED TO CUBA,
'instructions Senf to United States Minister
Taylor at Madrid The Spanish Minis
ter at "Washington Very Indignant
Madrid Greatly Excited Forcible In
terference Cannot Be Tolerated
Mr. Hannis Taylor, the American Minister
to Spain, presented to the Minister for For
eign Affairs at Madrid a demand from his
Government for apology and reparation from
the Government of Spain on account of the
Allianca affair. Mr. Taylor's action was
based on the following dispatch from Secre
tary of State Gresham, dated Washington:
''Taylor, Minister, Madrid: -..'"This
department is informed that on the
8th inst. the United States mail steamship
.'Allianca, - on her homeward voyage from
Colon to New York, when six miles from the
coast of Cuba, oft Cape Maysi, was repeat
edly, fired upon by a Spanish . gunboat,
with . solid shot, which, fortunately, fell
short. '. ' ; ; -
His Policy Meets With Approval In Army
I and Navy Circles.
I Secretary Gresham, in spite of his sickness
and the inclemency of the weather, resumed
duty at -the State Department and was closet
ed with Assistant Secretary Uhl for several
hours; Mr. Gresham left the department at
2 p. m. and returned to his hotel. Neither he
nor any other State Department official would
discuss the Spanish affair further than to ad
mit the accuracy of the publisned text of the
despatch sent to Minister Taylor at Aiaana.
No expression could be obtained from them
on' Minister Muruaga's somewhat drastic.
comments upoa the action of the depart
ment. . I
The very serious blunder or outrage com-:
mitted by the Spanish gunboat excited much
comment in Washington, and Secretary!
Gresham's demand upon Spain to apologize
for the insult offered to the American flagi
was almost universally approved in Army
and Navy circles. I
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Excitement in Spain.
Great excitement prevailed in .Madrid, not.
only among the high officials, but throughj
all classes, over the reception by the Spanish!
Government of Secretary Gresham's ultima
tum in the case of the Allianca. - -
Large crowds thronged all the evening;,,
about the newspaper offices, and some hot-i
headed , Spaniards made anti-American
speeches, which were cheered by the crowd.!
It was evident, however, that the Govern-'
ment .was viewing the matter' calmly, for the'
police promptly, suppressed the would-be
orators. . i .
Cruisers to Stop aHarana.
Secretary Herbert did all that he thought
necessary or possible for him to do in or
dering the New j York and Columbia to stop
at Havana on their way to the West Indies
where they had already been ordered, and as I
Secretary Gresham went to the extent of his;
authority in demanding prompt apology, itj
was fair to assume that the incident would;
ranraiu in stntu ouo untiLa reoly hll)ecnl
1 ' rxeTvefc from tie 8 vanish JtfcfYerr atsji - ? 1
belief That She i the Victim of Cattle
Thieves and Their Friends.
Telegraphic advices from tuart, Neb., tell
of the lynching of Mrs. W. E. Holten in Keya
raha County. The outrage occurred near
Brocksburg. ; The crime was 'supposed to
have beeu committed by rustlers or anti
vigilants. who suspected the woman of giv
ing testimony wlucu would ieaa to ine con
viction of several of tho cattlo thieves who
infest that count'.
. The woman was' found, in her farmhouse
lying face downward on the floor with n
piece of rope ten feet in length ti91 around
her neck, and a hatchet and a hammer by
hr side.
The room was in great disorder. . A terri
ble struggle must have taken place before
the vfoman was overpowered.
The woman had always born a good repu
tation. She had a good deal of property.
She was living alone when she was killed.
Her husband was committed to an insane
asylum about threu years ago. . !
Drowned by a TTaterspout.
Thirty miles from Gadsden, Ala., near the
Coosa River, a waterspout burst, flooding a
valley for three miles and doing immense
damage. Many houses floated from 'their
foundations and much live stock was
drowned. Jacob Alverson, farmer, his wife
and five-year-old son all lost their live?.
Three men who were cutting timber in the
valley were thought to have perished.
EECBETAKT GEES HAM.
"The Windward Passage, where this oc
curred, is the natural and usual highway for
vessels plying between ports- of the United
States and the Caribbean Sea. Through it
several regular lines of American mail and
commercial steamers pass weekly within
sight of Cape Maysi. . They are well known,
and their voyage embraces no Cuban port of
call. " . ' . ,. . - :
"Forcible interference with them cannot be
claimed as a belligerent act, whether they
pass within three miles of the Cuban coast or
not, and can under no circumstances be
tolerated when no state of war exists.
'This Government will expect prompt disa
vowal of the unauthorized act, and due
expression of regret ' on the part of Spain,
and it must insist that ' immediate and
positive orders be given to Spanish,
naval commanders not to interfere
with legitimate American commerce passing
through that channel, and prohibiting all
acts wantonly imperilling life and property
lawfully under the flag of the United States.
"You will communicate thi3 to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and urge importance of
prompt and satisfactory response.
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MINISTER MURUAGA DISPLEASED.
He Thinks Mr. Gresham Should Have
Waited for "ilore Facts.".
' An interesting and most unusual feature j
of the controversy is the attitude assumed j
by the Spanish "Minister in Washington, j
Senor Muruaga. Diplomacy is not silence
with him, for no diplomat ever talked with
more freedom or recklessness than he has
done since the news flrt came of the ; firing ;
upoa the Allianca. 1-ie Minister insisted:
. that he had been unable, with the aid of all J
the Spanish crmcials in Cuba, to identify
the gunboat which fired the shot at tha
American flag,' and repeated the opinion that I
Captain Crossman's story was a "fake j
Even afjter the receipt of Captain Crossman's ;
affidavit. Minister 31 uruaga was inclined toj
regard the warlike Sprmish ves3?l as a mytb.J
The Spanish Minister was considerably
tlqued that the State Department should;
ave ignored him in lt3 correspondence with!
Madrid, and should have failed to lnfonn!
him that the correspondence had been opened
s fc furnish him with a cozrr of the dispatch.
How Spain May Apologize.
There are various methods by which the
apology of Spam! could be made, the most;
popular one being the saluting of the flag of
the United Stat3 and- a written apology to
the Government for having insulted it.
: THE ALLIANCA'S ASSAILANT.
Identified as the Spanish Cruiser Cond
' . D Venadito.
The commander of tho Spanish cruiser
Conde de Venadito reports that on March 8,
while cruising off the eastern ;oat of the is
land, he sighted a steamer heading for Maisi
Point. I
. The steamer3 course was to tho northeast.
The cruiser hoisted a flag, and the steamer
replied by raising an English flag. The
cruiser signalled the steamer to stop, but
'without effect, j
. As the steamer proceeded at full speed, the
cruiser first fired two blank shots and then
two, solid shots. jThe commander says he did"
not desire to hit the steamer, but merely to
causa her to heave to. Ho. asserts that the
steamer was but bne and a half miles oft tho
Cuban roat when the firing occurred.
Judging from! Captalu Crossman's story,
nobody doubted that the steamer in question
was the Allianca which was 11 red on by a
Spanish cruiser on March 3.
A" "BAD FIRE "iN TOLEDO.
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Wall cf a Round House Falls and Many
Firemen liuried in the Debris.
The round house of the Wabash Railroad
in Toledo, Ohio, wa3
caused the loss of three
burned. The fire.
Iive3 and injuries U
nine persons, of whora one probably was:
fatally hurt. The property damage is be !
tween $75,000 and 100,000, '
The list cf the dead i3 as follows: R. nj
Bohlman, flfty-eix, painter; skull crushed;;
Internally injured. " John Bowen, eighteen,,
a spectator; skull crushed; internally injured.;
. J. J. Preston, thirty-five, car inspector; ack!
broken and skull crushed.
The walls of the building were considered
to besecure,and the bra v fire fighters pressedj
close in toward the building, the more
effectively to j combat the spreading!
flames. Suddenly the southeast walJ,1
weakened . by j the destruction of the
frame supports; that connected it with the
root, fell out and buried a number of flremea'
under a heap of smoking debris.
, The round house was completely wrecked, .
ind the six engines stored there were ren-,
,dered practically useless.
Onr Gold Production. I
; Between 49 and this country produce!
$1.93?.300.000 worth of gold. -