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VOL. 1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS GO., N. C. MAY 22, 1895. ! NO; 17.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
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Washington Items.
Pnitort States Minister Haselton was re
plied from Venezuela because he was men-
fcjly and physically broken down.
Pnqtmaster-General Wilson awarded, the
lontract for supplying the Pdstofflce De-
iartment wit a registered pacicage envelopes,
kg aad dead letter envelopes for the next
L i . i -m t ' r !
year to tne .riympion juanuuMHuriu
oraDanv and the Morgan Envelope Com-
lany of Hartford. Conn. i
Ttri earlier-General Craichilli the nw Chief
f Engineers, assumed charge of the Engineer
lorps of the Army.
The Naw Denartmenl states that fiftv able
Jpamen of the cruiser New York have been
rdered in irons for desertlon.
Josenh H. Choate closed the argument in
fie rehearincr of the income tax cases. The
kipreme Court adjourned.
Captain Howgate, the ex-Signal Service
Ifflcer, who has been confined in the District
ill awaiting a second trial on the charge of
mbezzlement, has been released on $15,009
ail.
The United States man-of-war Ranger was
rdered to Ecuador to protect American in
srests in a revolution which has broken out
lere.
Argument in the income tax rehearing was
ntinued on the second day of the trial be
re the United States Supreme Court by Jo
ph H. Choate, Attorney-General Olney and
Issistant Attorney-General Whitney.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, wrote another
pen letter to the President on the silver
ju est ion.
The President appointed Herman Kretz.
Heading. Fenn.. to be burterintendent ot
e Philadelphia Mint, and William E. Mor-
n. or Philadelphia, to be coiner in the same
int.
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Cleveland. 9 7 .BR3
Baltimore. 7 6 .538
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Jew York. 7 8
irooklm. . 7 9
Wash'ng'n. B 10
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The comnetitive drill of the military com
panies at Memphis, Tenn., began, j
Eckley B. Coxe. the most orominent coal
Derator in Pennsylvania, died at Drifton
f pneumonia. He was fifty-six years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Hale, a newly-married
puple, wero burned to death in their new
ome at Midland, Mich. The lire was
pcendiary. -
The trial of Police Inspector William W.
HLaushlin "for bribery and extortion in
hkang 50 from Contractor Francis W. sea-
rist, Jr.. ended in a disagreement of the
firy. The jurors stood ten for conviction to
hro for acquittal.
Mrs. S. Lowenstein, of Brooklyn, died in
vug birth to four babies, two of whom
lurvived.
Troops were summoned to Franklin (Minn.)
pines to reprpss strikers.
Three men and a dozen race horses wero
lied in a railway accident near Hornells-
ille, N.Y.
At Lexington. Ky.. Albert S. Hall, a gro-
ipryman, and Volney Hlnton Baird, a clerk
li Hall's nlace. encrasred in a shooting en-
"unter in the home of Hall, because of
aird's attention to Mrs. Hall. Baird was
illed. - '
A cloudburst at Massillon. Ohio, washed
it a number of bridges. People on Sum
It and Erie streets were removed in boats.
pmense damage was done.
A lodcinc hrmcpi ir fhiacrt wfl wrecked
b' natural gas and a number of persons were
iru uuu xnjureu.
Thr TTnifA1 Sfo
:tion of New York was declared insolvent,
iu nauiiiues oi cwu,wu ana asseus oj.
0.
'welve-y ear-old Agnes Buehanan and
Jn-year-old Jsenh Bastino were killed by
fe trolley cars in, Newark. N, J.
-mes A. Weston, formerly Governor of
fw Hampshire, died in Manchester, after
mness of several weeks. He was bom in
Chester, N. IL. August 27. 1327.
our policemen and one striker were hurt
riot between Chicago oolice and Illinois
-el Company strikers.
A general order from Chief of Tolice Ba-
och, of Chicago, dismissed five hundred
uremen. Fifteen detectives were ais-
'irg'sd also.
projectile from the Government proving
l- : is at Sandy Hook. N. J., came witinn
fifty feet of the Fishing Banks steamer as
Foster, which was crowded with excursion
ists. The first annual exhibition of cats at Madi
son Square Garden, New Ycrk City, attracted
a large audience. '
Mayor Strong, of New York City, approved
the Bi-Partlsan Police bill. TRe Legislature
postponed action on Greater New York bill
for this session. This killed the bilL
Dr. John M. Byron, the bacteriologist, who
contracted consumption while experimenting
with tubercle bacilli died in the New York
Hospital. He was a martyr to science.
Dayton, Tenn., was visited by a destructive
cloudburst, followed by hail. Two bridges
were washed j away. Immense hailstones
fell, breaking glass and beating down crops
and fruit. ' .
Charles Garrett was hanged at Lebanon,
Penn., for the murder of his wife, Louisa,
September 13, 1894.
John R. MeLean, of the Cincinnati En
quirer, has bought the New York Morning
Journal.
Robert S. Green, ex-Governor and Vice
Chancellor of New Jersey, died at his home
at Elizabeth. .
The Nicaragua Canal Board and assistants
left Mobile, Ala., on the cruiser Montgomery
for Greytown. .
; Foreign Notes.
A decree was issued by the Mikado an
nouncing that, in deference to the wishes of
Russia, France and Germany, Japan would
not insist on retention of theLiau-Tong Pen
insula. The Japanese Nation is greatly ex
cited over the Mikado's submission.
Queen Wilhelminia and Queen Regent
Emma returned to The Hague, Holland,
from England.
Ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, entered Bel
grade in triumph after her four years' ban
ishment. King Alexander and his Ministers
and high officials welcomed her at the sta
tion. The-crowds received her enthusiasti
cally. "
The Anti-Socialist bill was unanimously
rejected in the German Reichstag.
O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish agitator, was
ejected from the British House of Commons
for raising a disturbance.
Emperor Francis Joseph refused to accept
the resignation of Count Kalnoky, Premier
of Austria-Hungary.
It was said ' that Japan would receive an
additional indemnity of $50,000,000 for aban
doning her claims to the Liau-Tong peninsula
PUT HIM TO SLEEP.
A ft&ted Woman Politician Gives an Ex
hibition of Her Hypnotic Power.
At an investigation being held against of
ficers of the Kansas State Insane Asylum, in
Topeka, Mrs. Mary Lease, the woman poli
tician, gave an exhibition of her hitherto
unknown power as a hypnotist. Dnring the
CLOUDBURST IN NEW YORK.
A Fierce Hall Storm, Terrific Thunder And
a Brilliant Electric Display.
Reports of a terrific cloudburst were re
ceived from the southern part of Ontario
County, New York.
A passenger on the Middlesex Valley train
reported that when the train left Naples and
had proceeded about a mile from the depot
the clouds came together accompanied by
terrific thunder and a brilliant electric dis
play. Immediately the rain began to fall in
torrents.
In the Middlesex Valley, in the vicinity of
West River, the railroad was washed otit in
many places and crops and vineyards de
stroyed. When the train reached Rus3ville
the storm was such that it was not considered
safe to send'it further.
'The storm was the worst in years. The
bed of the railroad from Middlesex to Naples
was washed out most of the way. Fields
have been furrowed and the small streams
were transformed into rivers.
The freight house at Russville was struck
by lightening and completely destroyed.
Great damage was done to telegraph and
telephone wires, and in many offices the
wires were burned out. Great damage was
done along Canandaigua Lake, both to vine-:
yards and to cottages.
CROPS HURT IN TEN STATES.
The Icy Visitor Destructive In the TVeit
- I and Northwest.
Jack Frost suddenly dropped down on the
West and Northwest and destroyed fruit,
corn and vegetables in ten States. The de
vastation was widespread. Reports poured
In showing that the grape, apple, plum and
strawberry crops were almost ruined, while
corn and vegetables were cut to the ground.
Corn can be replanted, but the loss in many
of the vegetables will be permanent.
At Findlay, Ohio, ice formed, and damage
from frost was widespread.
It snowed at Dunkirk. N. Y. The air was
very cold, and fears of a frost were general
MBS. MARY. K. LEASE.
(Kansas Woman Politician,- Who Hypnotized .
- an Insane Asylum Attendant).
proceedings Mrs. Lease, without announcing
her purpose, walked across the committee
room to where J. L. Flint, an attendant at
the asylum, was sitting, and made a pass cf
her hand before his eyes. Flint appeared to
be asleep.
Mrs. Lease made him do all sorts of things,
ridiculous and otherwise, and finally
brought him out of his trance by other
passes of her hands.
NECROLOGY.
The llsta of Deatli Claims Distinguished
and Representative Persons.
Ira J. Chase, formerly Governor of In
diana, died in Lubec, Me., from erysipelas.
He went to that place several months ago to
conduct evangelical work. He was born in
Rockport. N. Y., December 7. 1834. He
studied for the ministry after the war, and
was a Christian minister till he entered poli
tics. In 1883 he was elected Lieutenant
Governor with Governor Hovey, and upon
the death of the latter succeeded him a?
Governor.
Mrs. Mary Ridgely Brown.wife of Governor
Frank Brown, of Maryland, died a few days
ago at the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore. Al
though she was only thirty-eight years old,
she had not; been well for more than two
years. While shopping two years before she
had an attack of sunstroke from which she
never entirely recovered. Mrs. Brown was
the daughter of the well-known David
Ridgely, of Baltimore.
Ex-President Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst
College, died at Amherst. Mass., of erysipelas.
Bev. Dr. Julius Hawley Seelve was President
of Amherst College from 1877 until 1890. He
was born in Bethel, Conn., on September 14,
1824. He was graduated from Amherst Col
lege with high honors in the class of 1849.
General Cnarles Sutherland, formerly Surgeon-General
of the United States Army; died
at his residence in Washington, sixty-five
rears old. General Sutherland was born in
1830 in Philadelphia. He served throughout
the war and in December, 1890, was appointed
Surgeon-General of the Army.
Four Persons Killed by Lightning.
Two boySi Fred and Claude Hanner, aged
fourteen and sixteen years, sons of F. W
Hanner, were killed by lightning while
plowing in a field near Hickory, Miss. Two
colored men were killed by lightning
near Lauderdale Station, Miss., the lightning
passing through the roof of the house and
striking them while sitting in chairs.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
Ohio has 10,185 saloons.
Texas has 3,738,000 sheep.
Londoners employ 10,800 cabs. '
Chicago had i'lll suicides between January
1 and May. j
The Board of Agriculture of Kansas re
ports half the :wheat crop killed.
Attorney General Olney directed that the
suit for $15,000,000 against Mrs. Stanford, of -California,
be pushed. ,
On May 1 Ephraim L. Freshing ham com--pleted
fifty years of service in the Boston.
(Mass.) Custom House.
Secretary of 'Agriculture Morton will buy
in future only seeds that are "rare or un
common in this country."
The faAners of Southern New Jersey ar
jubilant over the prospects for an immense
yield of peaches this season. "
The masher has become so numerous and
obnoxious in St. Louis that the authorities
have declared war on the pest.
The Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabel is lying
at the Quarantine station in-Tampa Bay,
Fla., looking out for filibusters.
Brockton (Mass.) manufacturers have de
cided almost unanimously to increase the
prices of shoes from fifteen to twenty cent3 a
pair.
The girls in the University of Michigan
will graduate in calico gowns in order to be
able to subscribe more liberally to the gym
nasium fund
Millers in the West talk of making an at
tempt to limit production of flour, secure
control of the spring wheat crop and force
prices higher;
Much destitution prevails on the Labrador
coast, and the British Government has de
cided to send a schooner with $2000 worth
of seed grain to the settlers.
The output of bicycles in the United States
. this year Is estimated at 400,000, and it ntay
reach. 450,000, which would be double the
production of any previous year.
Professor S within C. Shortlldge, who shot
and killed his wife, formerly Miss Jones, of
Brooklyn, at Media, Penn.; in 1893, has been
released from the Norristownlnsanv Asylum.
The citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, are as
sembling in the night, armed with shotguns,
to get rid of the Eiiglish sparrows. The
feathered nuisances are being slaughtered
by thousands.
A. J. Black well, the rich and erratic In-,
dian who owns the cities of Black well and
David, in the Indian Territory, announces
that he will build a $300,000 temple at David
City, Oklahoma, for the perpetuation of In
dian religions.
The chiefs' of the Cheyenne and .Arapahoe
Indians have practically abdicated in favor
of a committee of the young men of both
tribes, who j have formed an organization
with Paul Goodyear, a young Cheyenne
preacher, as its head.
The Government is endeavoring to secure
possession of some 5000 letters of great his
torical interest and public value owned by
a member of the Jefferson family residing
near Charlottesville, Va., to whom they
were handed down by inheritance from
Thomas Jefferson.
Judge Priest, of the United States District
Court at St. Louis, was so touched the other
day by the letter of a counterfeiter's child
pleading for mercy in behalf of her1 father,
that his Honor reduced a sentence of seven
years, which he had orderedto be entered oa
the docket, to threo years.
Decadence of Bull Fhrhtlnjr.
Everything points to an early decadence of
bullfighting, which has been declining in
the past nine months in the City of Mexico
and throughout the Bepubllc. The last fight
in the Buccareli ring was particularly bad.
This is probably the last fight which will be
given for the present, and it is not yet de
cided whether the ring will be reopened with
the coming bf the new season.
Mother and Child Perished. V
By the burning of the residence of Thad-
deus Browne a farmer residing half a mile
from Bryan; Ohio, his wife perished in the
flames and his five-year-old son was fatally
burned. i
New Civil Service Commissioners.
The. President appointed as Civil Service
Commissioners Colonel William G. Eice, of
Albany, N. jY., to succeed Theodore Roose
velt, and ex-Poitma3ter John B. Harlow,' of )
St. Louis, Mo., to succeed Charles H. Lyman.
Colonel Kice is a Democrat and Mr. Harlow I
a Republican. This will leave th& Commissi
sion composed of two Democrats and one5
Republican! Mr. Proctor, Of lxtitueky, Ul
the holdover Democrat.