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VOL. 1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. APRIL 3, 1895. NO-10. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items The President appointed Joseph H. Outh- walte, of Ohio, an ex-Member of Congress, to be member of the Board of Ordnance and 3igned. The State Department has been Informed that the Russian Government is to hold an exposition at Odessa, beginning on May 5, of objects concerned in the construction and the inner arrangements of dwelling houses. Lvcunocs Dalton, Postmaster of the House of Representatives, i3 dead. He was a native of Bedford, Ind.. and was a prominent Democrat. Tvhs. Eelgian . Government has. informed the State Department that the discriminating duties against food products, recently im posed, have been repealed by royal decree. Mb. J. B. Pioda, the new Swiss Minister, was formally received by the President in the Blue Parlor of the White House. After the Minister had presented his credentials the usual complimentary remarks wore ex changed. Income tax returns are pouring into the office of the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue at such a rate as to make the income tax division a beehive of industry and activ ity. Clerks from other divisions have been detailed to assist in the work of properly A party of Cheyenne and Arapahoe In dians, in full costume, were received by the President and made known to him that thoy would like a distribution of money paid for their lands. The President appointed Constantino Buckley Kilgrove, of Texas, Judge of the United States Court of the Southern District of the Indian Territory. Secbetaev Cablibue appointed William Martin Aiken, of Cincinnati, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to succeed Jere miah O'Rourke. - A special meeting of the Cabinet was held to consider the . situation of affairs in Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Ways and Means Committee recom mends that England, ?.urdla .and Japan be requested to cooperate with the United States in protecting the seals. President Cleveland decided the boun dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina in favor of BraziL Foreign Notes. There was a fight between Mussulmans and Armenian Christians in Tokat, Asia Minor. . Forty were killed and many others were wounded. Senor Cakovas del Castillo has formed a new Spanish Cabinet, which has been ap proved by the Queen Regent. The British House of Commons has adopt ed a resolution to pay members. Peru's Provisional Government issued a manifesto promising to restore peace and order and institute reforms. The village of Bollara, Italy, was over whelmed8 by a landslip, extending over two thirds of a mile. Many were killed. Troops were summoned to help search the ruins for bodies. ' ' Drought and locusts have caused wide spread famine in Eastern Equatorial Africa. Villages have been depopulated and mission pchools and churches have been closed. Many natives are selling themselves and their children into slavery to obtain food. The Japanese fleet have taken possession of Fisher Island, one of the largest of the Teseadore group, between Formosa and the mainland of China. The peace conference began at Shimonoseki, Japan. President Hyttolite, of Hayti, left Port .iu Prince with a large sum of money and troop.? and munitions of war, and took up a position where he would be better able to eope with fho threatened rebellion. Tnx Duchess of Leinster. the noted beauty and leader of London society, is dead. Li Hcxg Chano arrived in Japan to treat on behalf of China for peace. Several bands of Cuban rebels were de feated by the Spanish forces. Peru's revolutionists carried their war Tan? risht up to the door? of the capital, Lima, where a three days' battle was fought. gehcy of currency. Approximately the" as sets are $262,403 and liabilities $160,293. E. 8. Jaftbat & Co., the well-known dry goods house of New York City, went into the hands of receivers for liquidation. Collis P. Huntington, President of t Southern Pacific Company, was indicted at San Francisco, CaL, by the United States Grand J ury for violating the Inter-State Commerce law. Sidney W. Spbaoue, cashier of the Con tinental Clothing Company, was arrested at Boston, Ma3S., charged with embezzlement of the fund3 of the concern to the extent of $25,000 or $30,000. In New York City fifteen election inspec tors and votere charged with felonies and misdemeanors, were arrested on indictments. - A jewelry store in upper Sixth avenue, New York City, was robbed in daylight of diamonds valued at 86000. The clerk in charge was called to a carriage. Mayor Stbono, of New York City, appointed Edwin Einstein a Dock Commissioner, Dr. Daniel E. McSweeney a School Commissioner, and J. Van Vechten Olcott a Civil Service Commissioner. - A train, southbound, was stopped by five masked robbers just outside Victor, Col. The bandits went through the mail and express car, but found nothing valuable. The rob bers relieved passengers of $500 and watches. Two were tracked by a bloodhound and cap tured in a log cabin in the woods. The New Jersey Legislature took a recess . to June 4, when it will meet to hear the re port of the Voorhees Investigating Com mittee. The Oyer and Terminer Extraordinary Grand Jury brought in another batch of in dictments against New York police officials. A special freight train comprising twenty nine cars, all loaded with cotton gOods con signed to Shanghai, China, left Biddef ord,Me. Wallace & Sons' bras3 works at An3onia, Conn., have been bought for 11,000,000 by W. A. Clark, of Butte, Montana. At Buffalo, N. Y., Ciarence Robinson was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and Sadie Robinson, of manslaughter in the first degree for the murder of Lawyer Mont gomery Gibj? : Clarence Robinson was sen tenced to LUe imprisonment and Sadie Robin son to twenty years. General Philip 'St. George Cooke, the oldest general officer in the United States Army, died a few lays ago in Detroit, Mich. He was born near Leesburgh, Va., June 13, 1809. In 1827 he was graduated from West Point. - Three children, all under three years, oi Charles Ross, were left locked in their home at Springfield,- Mo. The house caught fire and all the children were burned to death. The strike of about ten thousand men in the building trades in New York City was de clared oft and the new agreement between the bosses and the men was signed. The settlement was brought about through the efforts of the New York Council of Concilia tion and Mediation. An eight-hour day will be granted on May 1. Ten of the eleven New York City police of ficials indicted) by tho Extraordinary Grand Jury appeared before Justice Ingraham and pled net guilty to the indictments. The only absentee was ex-Wardmah James Burns, who jumped his bail. Domestic. The tallow caked and the big ship St. P vjl could not be dragged from the ways at ' ramp's shipyard, Phi'adelphla. It was the first failure of the kind at Cramp's in twen-'y-two years. There was discovered at Chicago a short as?'1 of nearlv 2,000,000 in the accounts of the Whisky trust. , The Newport (Perm.) Deposit Bank failed ojya Its doors owin tr ;be fireneral stria- DEATH OF RICHARD : VAUX. mm TO MAM MRS.; The Well-Known Philadelphia Gentleman of the Old School Fasses Away. Ex-Congressman Richard Vaux, who had been ill of the grip at his home in Philadel phia. Penn., for several days, is dead. . He was seventy-five yeara of age. Richard Vaux was born in Philadelphia in 1819. He came of old Quaker stock. For years he had been prominent there, and was one of the most eccentric men in that city. Mr. Taux was a gentleman of the old sehool, and a man of striking personal appearance. One of his marked peculiarities was that he has never worn an overcoat nor carried an um brella, no matter what the state of weather, and he always appeared on the street in patent leather pumps. While Secretary to Minister Stevenson at the Court of St. Jame3s many years ago Mr. Vaur enjoyed the honor unusual to a citizen of a republic of being selected by Queen Vic toria to dance a quadrille with her. Mr. Vaux was Mayor of Philadelphia, Recorder (an office now abolished), and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress to finish the unex pired term of Samuel J. Randall. Old World Battleships. In the British House of Commons Mr. Ed, mund Robertson, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, said that since the beginnings of 1894 seven battleships have been started in England, one in France and none in Russia. Fatal Result of an Explosion in a Wyoming Coal Shaft.' FIREDAMP KILLS THREE SCORE.' i The Frightful Catastrophe Occurred in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Com pany's Mine, No. S, at Bed Canon Scenes as the Families of the Victims Gathered at the Mouth of the Fit. Sixty men lost their lives by an explosion I in Coal Mine No. 5 of the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company at Red Canon, Wyoming. The explosion demolished the powerhouse at the mouth of the shaft. About twenty men were in the house at the time, and only one or two escaped with their lives. The explosion filled the mouth of the shaft with wreckage of the power house and prevented egress. Subsequent developments showed that it also caused several cave-ins, thus hampering attempts at rescue. Many of the miners had quit for the day and left the mine, and to this is due the fact that the death list is not 1 oncer. Rescue parties were organized immediately after the explosion. About three hours later one of the parties which had entered the main slope returned with two bodies, bring ing also the bad new3 that cave-ins barred further progress. This necessitated labor . ious work removing the obstructions, as the main passage is some 2000 feet in length. and has lateral galleries or drifts on nine differ ent levels, each of which is from a mile to a mile and a half long. The work of recovering the bodies went steadily on night and day, rushed forward by volunteer squads of miners and other citi zens, who relieved each other from time to time. The work was attended with grave peril, and the first group of miners which ventured to brave the perils of gas, fire damp, and crumbling walte were overcome, and had to be rescued by others. I The terrific force of the explosion in find ing vent at the mouth of the slope blew the heavily-timbered shed over the mouth of the slope and over the passageway leading out to the tipple clear into space, mowing down the tops of the power house, tipple shed and other buildings at the mouth of the slope, more effectually than chain shot could have done. The shock of the explosion was felt for miles around, and was distinctly heard at Evanston, seven miles away. At the mouth of the pit the air was filled with the screams of fifty widows and 250 orphans as they gathered about and saw the distorted features and mangled remains of father or husband, son or brother, or real ized at last that there was no hope to see their loved ones rescued alive from the mine's depths. The mules that were in the mine were killed, as were the men, evidently by the force of the concussion. A few lives were saved because of the time of the explosion. The miners quit work at 6 o'clock, and it is customary for them to be near the entrance and come out just as the whistle blows. A number of men had come out, and some had just left the entrance to the mine slope, away from the working tun nel, when the explosion occurred, thus es caping death. Zeke Baker and his father and brother came out five minutes before the explosion. Zeke was hit by the timber which killed; a boy named Crawford but he was not much hurt. ' John Hanna, a carpenter, had just come . out, and wa3 talking to Cox and Bruce when they were kiiied, he being burned slightly. Fifty-one of the victims were married men with larjre families. About thirty of the men kiiied belong to the A. O. U. W., and were insured for f 2000 each. W1LUAM M. SPRINGER SELECTED.' Appointed Judge of the United Stalest Court In Indian Territory. The President ! appointed William MV Springer, of Illinois, Judge of the United States Court of the Northern District of In dian Territory. j ' WIIXIAM M. SraiXOEB. Mr. Springer has been in public life so long5 that he is well known throughout the United; States. He attained his greatest prominence! as Chairman of the Ways and Means Com-' xnittee during the Fifty-second Congress, and as a ' parliamentarian "when Mr.' Reed was Speaker- of the. House. He j was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, May, 80, 1838, went to Illinois. when twelve years old, graduated from the Illinois State Uni versity at Bioomington in 1858, and was, admitted to the bar in 1859. Mr.' Springer's publio career began with nisi selection as Secretary of the Illinois. Constitutional Convention in 1862.. .In' 1871-2 he was a member of the State Legislature and was elected to the Forty-' fourth Congress as a Democrat. He served: continuously as a Member of Congress up tot the 4th of March, but was defeated for re-' election in last November. He was a . candi date for Speaker of the House several timer i, Mr. Springer is of j genial personality, and never appeared on i the floor of the Houser without a red carnation in the lapel of his' coat. Mr. Springer's residence is in Spring field. I TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. . , v - j; Blown, to Pieces by an Explosion of Dyn amite on the Rhine. . While 9000 cases, 'containing 225,000 kilo grams of dynamite, destined for Maasluis, were being transferred by boats on the Rhine from German territory near Lobith, the cargoes of two of them exploded, blow ing the boats and boatmen to atoms. "A church in the village of Elten was shattered and fifty houses collapsed in Emmerich and Keeken. Twenty-five persons were killed. The inhabitants i of Lobith, Cleve, Sal morth, Tolkamer, Spick, and half a dozen other nearby places felt two violent shocks and supposed that there was an earthquake. A girl was found dying in a pile of ruins. She lingered three hours in agony. The cause of the explosion could not be ascer tained. ! . ' :- DIED LIKE A RAT IN A TRAP. An Omaha Locksmith Burned to Death in Hit Shop. Cornelius McGuire, a well-known Omaha (Neb.) metalsmith, was locked in his shop and burned to death. He slept late and was awakened by the flames. Rushing to the door he found it barred on the outside. While hi3 suffering made him delirious he rushed through the flames into the street and died. The door ana windows had been nailed up by an enemy; PEACE IN PERU. An Armistice After a Thousand Dead and' Dying Blocked the Street of Lima. Mr. McKenzie, the United, States Min ister to Peru, telegraphed the State De- , partment at Washington that after three days' fighting an armistice had been arranged between the insurgents and the Government troops, and that over a thousand dead and wounded were left lying in the streets of Lima. Later some sort of an agreement was reached by the belligerents, and peace was restored. A Provisional Government now seems to be in power. Under the terms of the agreement by which hostilities ceased, President Caeeres rtprftd the reins of Government and will retire to Ancoh. Senor Candamo is Pro visional President and also acts as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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