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posed, have been repealed by royal decree.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.