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HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. JUNE 6, 1895.
NO: 19.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED!
-: TVashincrton Itemi. :
Tho revolution in Ecuador assumed so
threatening an aspect that the Navy Depart
ment cabled the commander of the United
Htatesship Ranger to proceed with his vessel
to Guayaquil. -
Secretary Herbert approved the unani
mous recommendation of the Naval Small
Arms Board that the new Lee rifle be adopt
ed as the service weapon.
Domestic.
BECOBD OF THE LEAGUE
Per
Lost, ct.
8 .714
Club. Won.
Pittsburg. .20
Cincinnati.20 10 .667
Chicago... 19 11 .633
Cleveland. 17 12 .586
PhiladeI...13 12 .520
New York.13 12 5?0
CLUBS.
Per
Clubs. Won. It. ft.
Boston 12 12 .500
Baltimore.il 11
Brooklyn.. 10 16
St. Louis.. 11 19
Wash'nR'n. 9 17
Louisville. 5 20
.500
.385
.367
.346
.200
Cashier Griffin, of the Park Bank, Albany,
N. Y.. confessed to stealing $18,000 from that
institution.
The Presbyterian Assembly at Pittsburg
adjourned to meet at Saratoga Springs, N.
Y., next May.
General James B. Swain died in,his home,
at Sing Sing, N. Y., seventy-five years
old. He was one of the earliest associates
of Horace Greeley.
Ferdinand Harris, a colored butler em
ployed by M. C. D. Borden, in New York
City, was murdered by two unknown men.
Edward A. Griffin, cashier of the Park
Bank, Albany, N. Y., confessed to a defalca
tion. Grand Army posts and patriotic societies
were represented at memorial services in a
number of churches and cemeteries in New
York. City and Brooklyn.
George Montgomery killed Archibald Riley
while coming out of church at Versailles,
Ky. .Riley had wronged his slayer's sister.
John A. Morris, the millionaire capitalist
and turfman died on his Texas ranch, aged
fifty -eight. He was worth $20,000,000.
The Jefferson County Grand Jury at Louis
ville. Ky., refused to indict Fulton Gordon
for killing his wife and Archie Brown, son of
the Governor of Kentucky.
Secretary Carlisle discussed the currency
rroblem before a Bowling Green(Ky.) audi
ence. .
Rather than endure the reproach of living
upon his wife's earning, Louis Kraemer
killed himself and his daughter, two years
old, at Chicago. .
The State Department .of Education rules
that nuns may not teach in the public schools
of Texas. Catholic nuns have been conduct
ing free schools in Southwest Texas.
Solomon. H. Mann, accused of wronging
and causing the death of Loretta Hannigan,
his typewriter, was fatally shot in New York
City by the dead girl's brother, David F
Hannigan.
Frost has not seriously blighted the great
Aorthwestern wheat crop.
Johann Tranquilini. one of the witnesses
f'f the death of Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria, died in Ward's Island Insane Asy
1 am, New York City.
At New Orleans, La,, Mehalia Ebbinger,
Pleven years old, was run down by a trolley
ir and her body was cut in five pieces.
At Clinton, Ky.. Mrs. Victoria Machen,
widow of United States Senator Willis B.
Machen, killed herself bv shooting herself
through the head. Mrs. Machen had large
landed interests.,
It was announced in New York City that
some one who wished to remain anonymous,
had given a cantral building, to cost about
5230.000, to the New York University.
The Democratic Editors' Association of
New ork State held their annual dinner at
JJelmonico's. New . Turk City. President
Cleveland sent a letter on sound money, and
speeches were made by Senator Hill, Con
troller Eckels and'others.
Seventy thousand children took part in the
Brooklyn Sunday-school parade, and were
reviewed by ex-President Harrison and Prince
traneis Joseph, of Battenberg.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, in
iittsburg, Tenn., committed itself to the
ause of prohibition, and resolved to raise a
1.000,000 Reunion Fund.
A dynamite explosion occurred on the
!fm of William Pyle. six miles south Of Elk-
u" ; , rle an(1 several workmen were
Evident was presented to the Grand Jury
'tw i Tiewto indicting the projectors of
weive of the largest department stores in
ware k Citv for selling spurious silver-
Th overdue French line steamer La Gas-K-ne
arrived at New York with the piston
Lertj of tier intermediate cylinder broken.
Eight thousand union brickmakers of
Chicago went on strike.
Twenty shopmates saw sixteen-year-old
Rachel Radus caught in the machinery and
whirled to her death in the bindery in New
York City where she worked, and many
fainted at the sight.
i Foreiam Notes.
The body J ose Marti; late President of the
Cuban rebels, was disinterred, identified and
reburied by the Spanish authorities in Cuba.
A Japanese war fleet arrived at Formosa
and fighting was expected.
The torpedo boat built at the Germania
wharf at Kiel, Germany,for the Turkish
Government, was making her trial trip to
Eckernfoorde when her boiler exploded. Six
of the crew were instantly killed and four
teen were mortally injured.
. Italy's elections appear to have increased
Premier trispi's strength.
Bismarck has declared 'himself a bimetal
lism At London a verdict of guilty was returned
against Oscar Wilde, ani he and Taylor, an
accomplice, were each sentenced to two
yearsMmprisonment with hard labor. Oscar
Wilde's hair was cropped and he was put in
stripes.
America's warships will be the swiftest at
the great naval display at Kiel, Germany.
Henry Irving, the actor, Walter Besant,
the novelist, Lewis Morris, the poet and Dr.
Willam Howard Russell, war correspondent,
have been accorded the honor of knighthood
on the occasion of Queen Victoria's birth
day. In the trial of the Hyams brothers, Ameri
cans in Toronto, Canada, for the murder of ,
Willie Wells, the jury? disagreed.
The cloth works in Bialystock, Poland,
were burned. Five persons were burned to
death and seven others fatally injured.
Diplomatic relations between Japan and
China have been resumed.
The Belgian, Minister of Finance has re
signed. At Apia, Samoa, fire destroyed eleven
principal structures besides small outbuild
ings; loss estimated at $52,000.
Pirates captured a Dutch brigantine in the
Adriatic, shot her captain and mate and
Btole nearly everything on board.
The Emperor of Austria has finally accepted,
the resignation of Count Kalnoky,' Imperial
Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Queen Wilhelminia and Queen Regent
Emma returned to Tho Hague, Holland,
from England.
BOOMERS TAKE KICKAPOO.
Thousands Swarm Into the Reservation
and Stake Out a Town.
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Tw.enty thousand men rushed into the
little triangular reservation of the Kicka-
poos, Indian Territory, at noon on the day
appointed for the opening, fighting for the
choice of 437 claims opened to settlement.
There were few accidents, however, and ill
feeling got no further than dispute. The
Kickapoo Indians who loitered about wore
their store clothes, and made a holiday of
it.
At Sweeney's Ranch, near a newly erected
bridge across the Canadian River, the big
gest crowd gathered. As noon approached,
Sweeney, who had been selected a3 time
keeper, stood in front of the boomers, watch
in hand. For half an hour the crowd waited
impatiently on saddles and wagons. When
Sweeney gave the signal there was a wild
dash for the bridge. . . ; , '
By noon the reservation was swarming
with people. There was a spirited rivalry
between" two town-site organizations, and
thousands abandoned their chance of secur
ing a tract of land and contented themselves
witk a lot. The rival towns were to be called
Dale and Aurora respectively and were to be
located on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
Railroad, a few miles apart. By a com
promise a new site was chosen between the
two. The new town is called McLoud, in
honor of the general solicitor of the railroad.
W. F. Gillette, of Perry, was elected Mayor.
McLoud on the first night had a population
of 3000 people.
The Largest Cylinder of Glas.
were
All window glass blowing records
broken by David Shields, a blower at the
North Anderson (Ind.) works. The largest
cylinder ever turned out In that city here
tofore was by Amiel Michel, a Frenchman.
It was fifty inches in circumference and
ninety inches long. . Sbields's effort to break
all records was rewarded by a cylinder fifty
six by ninety-six, which is thought to be the
largest ever blown. It vas perfect glass in
every particular, and as good as the small
cylinders.
A GREAT RISE 1H WHEAT.
Speculation Has Been on a Scale of
Unprecedented Magnitude.
COTTON ALSQ TAKES A JUMP.
Operators All Over the" Country Have
Been Bovine Heavily and Unfavorable
Crop Reports Caused a General Rise in
Prices The Trend of the Markets Here
and-in Europe is Upward.
The wheat markets in New York and Chicago
have been a speculative Vesuvius sending up
molten lava, burning cinders and red-hot
stones, with the bears running for their lives.
Prices shot up 2 to 4 cents a day. When
July wheat touched 80 cents in New York the
brokers on the Produce Exchange gave a
ringing cheer. The Speculation of late has
been on a scale of unprecedented magnitude.
In three days the sales at the New York Pro-
due Exchange have reached 102,000,000
bushels. la Chicago the dealings were
much heavier. Operators all over the coun
try have been buying heavily, and the wheat
market has been a sort of El Dorado for
many an obscure trader in the West.
The rise was due largely to uniavorable
crop reports, but it was partly traceable to
the general bull craze in this country.
Everybody thinks everything is going up.
Liverpool, which has been trying to resist
the advance, threw up the sponge and
marked up its prices 2 to 3 pence. Glasgow,
staid and stolid as a rule, was in the throes
of speculative excitement. Paris was high
er. The foreign houses were buying in New
York quite freely.
After July wheat" had reached 84 in New
York a reaction came, and prices tumbled
several cents. . -
Bradstreet's, the Commercial Agency's
mouthpiece, stated that the world's visible
stock of wheat had fallen off within a week
5,438,000 bushels, the most bullish statement
in regard to this matter that has been made
for many months. Chicago wa3 selling cash
wheat freely to St. Louis, Toledo, Milwaukee
and Kansas City. The Government weekly
report said that the winter wheat crop had
been damaged. The temperature at, the
West and Northwest was high, a cold wave
having passed eastward, and throughout the
grain country the thermometer was in the
fifties. A stream of despatches from the
West said that considerable damage had
been done, and the bullish sentiment spread.
Corn and oats also advanced in sympathy
with the other grains.
Cotton also astonished people far and
wide. The sales at the New York Cotton Ex
change in one day reached the imposing ag
gregate of 329,300 bales, which beats any
thing that the Exchange has seen in a month
of Sundavs. Prices made a jump in one day
of 20 to 21 points at New York, 19 to 21 in
New Orleans, and equal to 16 points in Liv
erpool, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston. Balti
more, Augusta, St. Louis, and New Orleans
advanced to 3-16 cent. The receipts at the
ports were light, the exports were liberal, the
weekly Government report was bullish, and
a big cotton firm issued a statement to the
effect that the acreage will show 'a decrease .
of 13 per cent. At Fall River, Mass., print
cloths were active and advancing.
R03BED OF $25,000.
A Bank Clerk in London Relieved of a
Tin Case Containing the Money.
A bold robbery occurred in the Williams
Deacon and Manchester and Sal ford Bank,
London. A clerk attached to Courts A Co.'s
bank .went to the former institution with a
tin case containing $25,000 In bank notes for
deposit. Pending some preliminaries to the
fulfilment of his errand the clerk placed the
case of notes on the counter beside him.
Half a minute later a stranger walked in
and placed an empty case, an exact counter
part of the one containing the notes, by the
side of it. The attention of Court's clerk be
ing directed elsewhere for a few seconds, the
stranger removed the $25,000 case and
walked away.
The alarm was immediately raised, but it
was found that the stranger, in the short
time required for him to exchange the cases,
had also bolted the door of the private en
trance to the bank on the outside,' so that his
pursuers were greatly delayed In following
him.
A MCVIUMENT TO KEY,
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Tribute to th Composer of " The Staf
j Spajvrled Banner.
Unhonored by bis countrymen, beneath
the soil of his native country in the cemetery
of Frederick City, Md., have lain for many
years the ashes of Francis Scott Key, whose
hymn, "The Star Spangled Banner," has
been the inspiration ;or thousands of heroio
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. WHEBE FBANCIS SCOTT KEY IS ETJHIED.
deeds. At, last a movement is on foot to s
erect a suitable monument to his memory,
The Key Monument Association was or
ganized in June, 1894. It has raised so far.
about $2000 for the object it has in view, '
and now appeals to the country at large for
funds. As especially appropriate to the day
and in keeping with the spirit, the commit
tee selected National Flag Day, June 14', as a
time when the children all over the land and
all patriotic citizens generally should for
ward contributions to the fund. Governor.
Brown, of Maryland, sent an appeal of this
character tp the Governors of all the States.
The remains of Francis Scott Key were
removed some years ago from Greenmount
Cemetery, Baltimore, to their present rest
ing place. jPiain head and foot stones alonei
mark the grave. This neglect by his coun
trymen is dde, perhaps, not ao much to lack
of patriotisms to the fact that thousands
are not aware of the movement now on'foot,!
and have hot been asked for contributions
to the f undJ
COLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION.
An Increase in the Yellow and a Heavy
Falling Off In the White Metal.
The Director of the Mint, Mr, R. E. Pros
ton, estimates the production of gold by the
mines of tli.e' United States, approximately,
during the calendar year 1891, to have been
1,910.800 fine ounces of the coining value of
$39,500,000, an increase over 1893 of $3,500,
000, which is the largest amount produced in
any year since 1878. The production of slK
ver from the mines of the United States is es
timated to have approximated in 1894 49,500,
000 ounces,! of the coining value of $64,000.
000,. showing a decrease as compared with
1893 of 10,500,000 ounces.
In the production of sold, California leads
with an output of $13,570,000; Colorado
coming second with $9,491,000;. Montana
third, with $3,651,000, and South
Dakota, $3,299,000. Colorado heads the list
in silver byA an output of 23,281.400 flhe
ounces, of the coining value of $30,101,200;
Montana second, with a production
of 12,820,000 fine ounces, followed by Utah
with a production of 5.892,000 fine ounces,
and Idaho Uwith 3.248.503 fine ounces. At
the average price of silver for the calendar
year 1894 ($0,635), the commercial value of
the silver product of the mlna3 of the United
States is $31,432,500.
In regard to the product of the world's
gold and silver for 1894,, the returns are In
complete, but as far a3 received show an In
crease in the production of gold over 1893 of
about $21,000,000, the largest Increase being
in Africa, j .
The production of silver In the world, it Is
estimated, will be from 145,000,000 to 150,
000.000 ounces for the calendar vear 1894.
The heaviest falling off in the production is
in the United States, followed by Australia,,
Mexico showing a gain of 2.700,000 ounces.
Mexico also gains in her production of gold'
$1,500,000.
Patriot Norsewomen.
Norwegian "women are raising money to
Invest in torpedoes for use in case of a poS3i-
ble war with Sweden.
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