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VOL.1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. JUNE 27, 1895. NO. 22,
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED;
Washington Items.
Tfee President directed that Paymaster H.
E. Smith of thenavy be dismissed from the
Service for drunkenness.
The State Department is co-operating withj
the Navy Department in preventing filibus
tering expeditions from leaving the United.
States to aid the Cuban insurgents.
President Cleveland will visit the Atlanta
Exposition in October. This agreement was,
ma le at the White House when the delega
tion from the "Gate City of the South" .
waited upon the President and invited him to
attend their exposition. "
President Cleveland went fo a day's fish--in'near
Leesburg, London County, V-a., ac
companied ky his old fishing companion,
Joseph. S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal
lie venue, and Secretary Morton.
Secretary'Herbert ordered that the United
States battleship Iowa be fitted as a flag
ship. The Department of State received a cable
gram from Cape Town, South Africa, an
nouncing the death there of Charles H.Bene
dict, United States Consul at that place.
Mr. Benedict was born in New York, and
appointed to the Cape Town consulate by
President Cleveland in June, 1893.
The report of the Board of Visitors to the
Annapolis Naval Academy has been com
pleted. It recommend the renovation of all
the buildings connected with the school and
a reconstruction of some of them on a fixed
system.
Washington officials considered the advisa
bility of sending a Warship to Kay West.
Fia., to prevent filibustering expeditions
etarting for Cuba. ')
The President appointed ex-Representative
W. J. Coombs, ofBrooklyn, to be a Gov
ernment Director of the Union Pacific Bail
road, .
Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LKAdHJB CZ.TTS9.
Per
IjwX. ct.
Club. Won
lioston... . .23 13 .639
Pittsburg ..27-16 ' .623
Cleveland. 24 17 .585
Baltimore .21 15 .583
Chicago... 25 19 .568
Hew York.21 19 .525
Club. Wv
CInoinnati.21 20
Philadel...l9 19
Brooklyn, .19 20
Wash'ng'n.18 21
St. Louis.. 15 28
Louisville. 6 32
Per
.513
.503
.487
.462
.349
.158
Mayor Strong, of New York City, signed a
proclamation making Monday, June 17, a
niumoipal holiday, so that all city employes
woma nave an opportunity oi witnessing
the two pageants attending the opening f
the Harlem ghip Canal.
Eugene V. Debs surrendered himself and
was taken to Woodstock (111.) jail.
The graduating class of the West Point
Military Academy received their diplomas.
Siegmund Schmeidler shot and wounded
his wife and then killed himself in New:York
City. .
The Milford (N. H.) Savings Bank sus
pended payment. The Bank of Commerce,
Iad.'anapolis, Ind., suspended business.
Six of the A. R. U. directors were sent to
jail in Woodstock, I1J.. to serve out their
terms. President Debs did not keep his
promise to appear at the station and deliver
himself up to the marshal.
The persons who blew tip a Hungarian
boarding shanty near Wilkesbarre, Penn.,
several months ago, killing four men, have
teen arrested. Five men and two women,
all colored, were concerned in the scheme,
vrhieh was for robbery.
At Harrisburg, Penn., S. Hrrv Kishpaugh,
son of C. M. Kisffpaugh. of the Internal
Affairs Department, died from injuries re
vived in a football game at the Davis Mili
tary School, in Winston, N. C, in the fall of
1893. ' -
The United States ship Monongahela. with
the cadets on board, left the Naval Academy
&t Annapolis, Md., on her summer cruise.
-fifty-two buildings were destroyed by fire
at Cameron, W. Va.
Firo at Milwaukee, Wis., destroyed the
Forster Lumber Company's yards. Uhrig's
coal yard and the steam "barge Raleigh, of
-Detroit. The total loss is about f 300.000.
Mxteen horses belonging to the Forstei
Company were burned alive.
A freight train ran into a trolley car in
creator. 111., and killed two passengers.
Mrs. James Ish shot and killed R, Chapall,
a sewing-machine agent, in Omaha, Neb.
J. K. Emmet, a voung comedian, while
haif crazed with drink tried to kill his wife.
saown on the s:age as Emily Lytton, in San
raacisco, Cal.
Miss Sarah Jane Lester, Assistant ' Secre
cy of the Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation,. of Brooklyn, was instantly killed by
-"'-s caught in an electric elevator.
Mrs. iusrian iWhitelaw Reid, mother of
Whitelaw Reid editor of the New York
Tribune, died suddenly at Xenia, Ohio, in
her ninety-second year.
- Miss Cora Wood, Assistant Postmistress at
Conneaut Lake, Penn., has been arrested,
charged with the embezzlement of $347.
A lumber train was wrecked at Happy Hol
low, in Ouachita County, Ark., and three
men were killed and a dozen injured.
By a fire on East Monument street, -Baltimore.
Md., 100 persons were made homeless
and $125,000 worth of property was burned.
The planiag mill of A. Storck A Co., the lum
ber yard adjoining and nineteen dwellings
were destroyed. M '
Three miners were killed by the caving in
of a portion of the roof of the Doe Run Lead
Company's mine in Farmington, Mo.
Secretary Herbert presented the diplomas
to the graduating class of the Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis, Md.
JohnH. Cooper, an amateur musical com
poser, died at White Plains, N. Y., of hydro
phobia. ; i
Mayor Strong, of New York City, an
nounced his new Justices of Special Sessions
and City Magistrates, giving seven to the
Republicans, six to the various independent
Democratic element arid one to Tammany.
Governor Altgeld and other free silver
Democrats, of Illinois, determined to organ
ize a National silver party.
A MONUMENT TO AN APPLE.
Foreign Notes.
Three more survivors of the Colima disas
ter have been heard from in Mexico.
The new-born 'American liner St. Louia
finished creditably her maiden voyage across
the Atlantic. Her actual time from Sandy
Hook to, the Needles was seven days, three
hours and fifty-three minutes. She made ail
average speed of 18.37 knots. Her engines
worked to perfection.
General Maximo Gomez invaded the prov
ince of Puerto Principe, Cuba, with a force
of insurgents. M ;
The cloudburst in Austria washed -away
a great number of bridges and houses in the
communes of Schwareenbach, Schlatten and
Hochwoltersdorf. j . Twelve persons were
drowned in the town of Schwarzenbacb
alone. i
The Greek Ministry resigned; M. Theodore
Delyannis was Summoned by the King to
form another Cabinet.
Further news from the Roberndorf Valley,
In Austria, which was swept by a storm, shows
that seventy persons were killed.
The British, French and Russian Ambassa
dors made a formal demand upon the Sultan
of Turkey that ) he disarm the Jeddah Be
douins and pay indemnity for the attack
upon the Consuls, j
The French Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 362 to 105, declared its confidence in
the policy of the Government. M. Hanotaux
declared that the visit of the French squad
ron to Kiel, Germany, was merely an act of
politeness H i
A statue of the late Sir John A. MacDon
ald was unveiled at Montreal, Canada.
The new Italian Parliament was opened bj
King Humbert. ; j
Cholera has become alarmingly prevalent
in. the Zsborze district of Pmian Silesia.
FLAG DAY.
The Anniversary of the Adoption of the Ka
jfonal Emblem Celebrated.
The anniversary of the adoption of the
American flag was observed universally
throughout the; Union. In New York City
Flag Day was celebrated by the display of
flags on public: buildings and private resi
dences, by exercises in the publi" schools
and by presentation of a flag by Lafayette
Post to Greenwich School.
The celebration of Flag Day. thn 118th
anniversary of the birth of the National
emblem, was appropriately observed in
Philadelphia, j It is in that city, on Arch
street, that the house stands where BIrs,
Betsy Boss, the maker of the first flasr. lived.'
and thousands of public school pupils and
a number of other persons visited the dwell
ing, which was profusely decorated. There
were several flag raisings at public schools.
Stole a llltte to neath.
Two passenger trains ran into each othr
on the Charleston an 1 Sivannah. Railroad at
Yemassee, S. C.
The engines i telescoped and weir com
pletely wrecked. Engineer William Black
ium'ieda3 the collision came and broke his
Us Four unknown colored tramps, who
were stealing a rile on the front trucks., were
ground and cut to pieces.
To Be Erected Where the Baldwin Va
riety Was Discovered. .
The Rumf ord Historical Society of Woburn,
Del., will erScT a monument where one hun
dred years ago was discovered the kind of
apples now known as Baldwins.
Samuel Thompson, of Woburn, Mass.,
while surveying a route for the Middlesex
Canal, discovered this apple. His attention
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had been drawn to it by the number of wood
peckers which gathered about the trees on
account of the apples. Mr. Thompson thought
it a new variety, and as it pleased his taste
he called the attention of his neighbors to it,
and he and his brother hastened to graft
from it many trees on their own estates. It
was first called the "pecker" apple, then the
"Butters" apple, from the owner of the land
where the tree was found. The brothers
Thompson were constant in their efforts to
scatter it far and wide, and for miles around
the people secured branches of it and grafted
their trees.
The neighbor and friend of the Thomp
sons, Colonel Loammi Baldwin, the eminent
engineer, showed-the fruit to his many
guests, who came from distant parts of the
country, and this did much for the spread
of the apple's fame, which in a few years
came to be known as the "Baldwin."
The granite shaft which is to be erected
by the - Rumford Historical Association of
Woburn is seven feet high, and is surmount
ed by a representation of a Baldwin apple.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Four Persona Killed in an Accident at
Fall River.
A fifty-horse power boiler exploded in the
rear of the basement of the Langley loom
harness shop on County street. Fall River,
Mass., a three-story wooden building owned
by Henry L. Langley.. The sides of the
building were blown out, knocking away the
supports and allowing the upper floors to.
settle into ruins. Fire started in the ruins
and began to burn briskly.
The firemen made heroic efforts to rescue
the imprisoned work people, of whom there
Were seventeen. Shrieks from the girls in
the ruins were mingled with the cries of
their friends, who hurried to tha scene.
Ambulance calls were sent out. and every
physician who could be reached was called.
At 9 o'clock tbe badly charred bodyjaf a
woman was hauled from the ruins. The fire
had then been quenched, and at noon it was
fount! tht four persons had been killed and
seven had been seriously injured.
The killed were: Lelia Horton, aged seven
teen; Adele Dube, aged eighteen; Robert
Murray, aged, twenty-one; Adolph Belle
feuille. aged thirty.
When the explosion occurred it shook
every building within a half mile. It
smashed the Stafford mill windows on the
east side, and in less than three minutes
every operative was out of the building.
There is a great deal of wreckage among the
mill machinery. The force of the explosion
was enougn to send bricks the whole width
of the mill. The boiler was torn apart in
the middle, and the furnace part was blown
into the building.
Dr. Parkhurst has Bailed for Europe.
The Marquis of Lome is going to write
libretto of an opera.
The Empress- of Austria is subject to fre
quent fits of insanity.
The German Emperor has again taken to
riding before breakfast.
The King of Si am in his state attire is -worth
more than $1,000,000.
Krupp, the German gun manufacturer,
pays an income tax of $200,000 a year.
The dignified Charles Francis Adams bowl
ing along on a bicycle is one of the sights ot
Boston.
A recent suit in New York discloses that
the late Henry S.Ives,"Napoleon of Finance,"
left $4590. j .
Joseph H. Choate'ja fee for arguing against
the income tax before the Supreme Court
was 150,000. J
The bicycle of th6j Khedive of Egypt is a
. gorgeous machine, ialmost entirely covered
with silver! plating.
Governor Greenhalge has vetoed moce
bills than any other Massachusetts Governor
within the memory of man.
The executors of the will of the late
Charles Stewart Pamell have decided to de
stroy bis political correspondence.
General von Hanneken, who has played so
great a part in the Japan-Chinese war, is on
his way back to his home in Germany.
Prince Bismarck, by his physician's advice,
declined an invitation from the Emperor to ;
attend the opening of the Baltic Canal.
It is said that the Marquis of Queensberry
gives away more in ! proportion to his means
than any other man in the British peerage.
It is said that in spite of all the talk about
Governor AUgeld's j abuse of the pardoning
power he has pardoned fewer criminals than
nis predecessor.
Plancon, the French baritone, proposes to
become an American citizen. He likes the
United States and j expects tQ , invest most
of his savings in land here.
Edmund G. Ross;! ex-United States Senator
from Kansas, whose vote saved Andrew John
, son from impeachment, is now a job printer
in Albuquerque, Nw MexicoV
Postmaster-General Wilson, who seldom
smoked before he was forty, has become an
inveterate smokeri. Secretary Morton, on
the other hand, had -given up the habit.
Senator Hoar has had the following sign
placed on his grounds at Asnebumskt, Mass.:
"Notice You Are Welcome. Build No Fires,
Bring No Guns, and Pull Up No Flowers by
the Roots." j
Director-General Davis is about to make
his official report !of the World's Fair, It
will consist of 10,000 pages of type-written
matter and 3000 unmounted photographs. It
will not be published, unless Congress puts
up the money. j
Congressman Coggswell, of Massachusetts,
who died recently in Washington, tad a re
markable career in; the army during the Civil
War. Before his twenty-second year he had ,
risen through the grades of Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel
dad Colonel to that of Briga-dier-GeneraL
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TO NORTH POLE BY BALLO0M.
M. Andtee Coins to Farl to Superintend
the Manufacture of Ills Air Ship.
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M. Andree will shortly go from Stockholm,
Sweden, to Paris to ovareee the making of
the balloon in which he will attempt to reach
the North Pole. The balloon will be made
of double silk, and; will be capable of floatins:
in the air for thirty days at a height of two
hundred and fifty metres.
It will carry three persons, instruments,
ballast, four months' provisions, a sledge,
sail boat, weapons and ammunition. M. An
dree hopes to steer his air ship by means of
sails, aud brake ropes dragging on the earth
when necessary, j
He proposes to start in July. 18D6, and
hopes to return toward the inhabited parts
of America or Siberia.
The Ubiquitous Bicycle,
Scarcely a day passes without requesta
from one or more postmasters that their car
riers be permitted to use bicycles and to re
tain, as an offset to the cost, the car fares
now given to them. In every case the De
partment declines to permit the diversion of
the car fares for the purpose, but agrees to
grant from $2 to f3 per month to each car rier,
to be applied to repairs for his wheeL
Patriot Succefal in Ecuador. -
Nearlv all the interior of the Guayas Prov
ince of Ecuador has submitted t- the revolu
tion.