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UPWARD AND ONWARD.
VOL.1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N C. JULY 11, 1895.
NO. 24.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED-
TVashington Item.
Tiere will be twenty-six contested seats In
the coining Congress. .
The expenditures for the four years of
civilian administration oi tne v earner
Bureau, ending June 3U, are esumaiea ai
( 3 393,090. The appropriations for the same
period' have been $3,632,953.
The Belmont-Morgan syndicate made the
last payment on the bond contract with the
Government.
Thft state Department received the gratify
ing information that the Government of
Honduras has at last taken positive acuon
toward brinsring to justice the murderers of
Charles W. Renton, an American citizen.
Tha tiftnri svndinato completed its pav-
Tnpnt for the last issue of Government
bonds, making the gold reserve $107,392,355.
SPrtret&rv Carlisle approved about six hun.
pred changes in the Treasury to conform to :
the new Appropriation Dins. me cnanges
consist of removals, degradations and pro
motions.
President Cleveland decided to send Con
sul-General Williams back to Cuba.
Six Chinamen who reached New York from
Cuba, claiming to have been residents of
New Orleans, have been ordered deported py
Secretary Carlisle.
The cold reserve in the United States
Treasury now exceeds $100,000,000.
Rarnn von Thialman. the now German
Ambassador, paid his first visit to Secretary
of State Olney, accompanied by Baron
Ketteler. late Charge d' Affaires of the Ger
man Embassy.
Hnhh.irrt Tnvlor Smith, of Indiana, made
th highest percentage in the examination
held at the State Department for Consular
clerk, and has been recommended to the
Secretary of State for appointment. The
term oi tne omce is lor me.
Domestic.
EECOBD OT THE I.UA.GUK
Pe-
Clnbp. Won
Boston 32 17
Baltimore 29 19
Pittsburg.. 33 22
Chicago... 31 24
Cleveland..32 23
Cincinnati 23
CX.T7BS.
Per
ct I Club, wo". Tt. ct.
.653 ihiladel. . .27 24 . 529
.604 Bro6klvn..28 25 . 523
.600 Sew York.26 27 49l
.586 Vash'n2'n.22 30 .423
.582 St. Louis.. 17 33 .309
.549 Louisville. 7 43 .140
Advances were made in the price of foun
dry and bar irons and the wages of 10.000
miners were raised fourteen per cent, in Ala
bama. "Jack" Fisher and Bill" Durham, moon
shiners, in South Carolina, were killed by
State liquor constables. Two constables were
badly wounded.
Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, was
banged in effigy in Hazleton, Penn., because
he vetoed a bill creating the new county of
'Quay.
Secretary Carlisle visited President Cleve
land at "Gray Gables," Buzzard's Bay. Mass.
Alfred Stickwell and Edward Sutton were
drowned in the Connecticut River, opposite
Colts' Fire Arms factory, Hartford, by the
capsizing of a boat. ' ,
The Austrian naval school ship Donau ar
rived at the Port of New York with 367 schol
ars aboard.
Octavius O'Cottle, an aged and wealthy
Buffalo (N. Y.) lawyer, was abducted by
Grange men and held two days in an unoc
cupied dwelling for ransom.
Philip rhillips. the evangelist known as
thSin'arinsr Pilgrim, died at the house of a
friend in Delaware. Ohio. He was born in
Chautauqua County, New York, on August :
13.1834.
Commencement exercises were held at
lale, Harvard, Amherst, Dartmouth, Wes
leyan. Williams, Trinity and other New Eng
land colleges.
The Harvard Athletic Committee ha3 de
cided to decline the Oxford-Cambridge track
athletic challenge.
?X-Governor Beaver received notice from
the Governor of Pennsylvania of his appoint
ment as a Superior Court Judge.
The Rev. J. J. Wilson, a well-known Cum-"-nand
Tresbyterian minister, was killed
r'ar Huston. La., bv Jame3 Howell, a gar-..
eaer. Trouble had been brewing between
l-e two men for some time.
The Committee on Platform in the Demo-
ratv State Convention of Kentucky at
ui5ville adopted three reports, that of
i- 'majority being in favor of "sound
Jnny." Senator Biackburn was defeated
ior representation on the committee. Con-
Kre.mfm Berry was made Permanent Chair
man. A . eo,red man named Bill Stokes was
jya-hM at Raysors, S. C. Stokes attempted
aault a white woman.
-
'ore W. Rouis. v?ho wa3 formerly a part
ner with his cousin, Rphine, shot himself In
New York City immediately after having hadj
a souffle, during which one shot was fired,
with a stranger, who escaped. The description-
of the stranger answered to that of
Bouis's cousin.
Gretna, La., was the scene of a lynching.
The victim was John Frye, twenty-two years
old,.a white man. He was a firebug.
The doors of the private banking house of
Cowles & Eldridge, of Norfolk, Conn., were
closed. The , notice tacked on the door
caused muohsexcitement. It was said that
depositors would lose nothing.
John B. Specker, doing business as Speck
er Brothers & Co., wholesale dry goods, Cin-'
cinnati, Ohio, failed. The assets were
placed at $730,000 and the liabilities at a
lower figure.
The application for the removal from New
York City of Charles A. Dana, editor the
Bun, to Washington for trial In the Noyes
libel suit, was denied by Judge Brown, in
the United States District Court, and the de
fendant discharged.
Foreign Note.
Maso was chosen by Cuban patriots to suc
ceed Marti.
The new British Ministry was officially an
nounced by Lord Salisbury.
Sir Graham Bower has been, appointed to
succeed Go vercor O'Brien as Newfoundland's
Chief Executive.
Captain-General Campos notifledthe Span
ish Cabinet that he will require 14,000 addi
tional soldiers to prosecute an offensive cam
paign in Cuba.
The New York brig Pearl was chased and
Bearched by a British cruiser at Jamaica.
The Prince of Wales opened the Interna
tional Railway Congress in the Imperial In
stitute, Kensington, London.
The Belgium Government will send an of
ficer to Canada this year to buy horses for
remounts and the artillery.
Violent thunder storms prevailed in Eng
land and Ireland. Lightning struck a tree,
adjacent to the Royal pavilion at the agri
cultural show at Darlington. Two people
were killed and three were injured. The
Duke and Duchess of York had just departed
from the pavilion.
Minister Terrell, United States representa
tive to Turkey, has made a vigorous demand
upon the Porte for the punishment of the
murderers of Lenz, the American bioylist.
The first anniversary of the assassination
of President Carnot was observed through
Cut France. " r
France" ha3 demanded redress from China
for ill-treatment of missionaries.
A Radical motion of want cf confidence in
Premier: Crispi was defeated by an over
whelming majority in the Italian Chamber
of Deputies. ;
Prince Emanuel, Duke of Aosta, was mar
ried in St. Raphael's Catholic Church, at
Kingston-on-Thames, England, to Princess
Helene of Orleans, second daughter of the
late Count of Paris.
The Hon. Hetoert Gladstone told a press
representative that his father, Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, would take no further part in
public life.
-The revolt ! m Macedonia is said to be
spreading rapi 41 y. t
END OF DA CAMA.
HUM LOST BY FIBEJ
San Francisco Visited by the Greatest
Conflagration in Twenty Years.
A FATAL MINNEAPOLIS BLAZE.:
The Insurgent Leader, Defeated, IUlli
Himself In Brazil. .
Insurgents under the command of Admiral
Da Gama in the Province of Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil, have been defeated by the Gov
ernment troops at Campo3. Admiral 03oriG
was wounded and captured; he succumbed
to his injuries. Admiral Da Gamn, finding
himself overpowered, committed suicide.
General Taveres assumed command of the
rebels.
Sal daub, a Da Gama was born in Rio de Ja
neiro and was descended from the noble
Portuguese family the most illustrious of
whose members was the celebrated Yasco
Da Gama. When the revolt against Peixoto
occurred about two years ago, he remained
neutral for some time, but decided at last to
join the Insurgents.
Rain-Making: a Humbug:.
Frank Melbourne, whose services were in
'argent demand in the West two or three
years ago as a rain-maker, is now in Cleve
land, Ohio. In speaking of his experience as
a rain-maker, Melbourne admitted that the
whole; thing was a humbug, and that he
never possessed any more power to bring
rain than any other man. He says the Amer
1 lean people like to be humbugged, and the
greater the fake the easier it is to work it
Melbourne made a fortune in th business.
without warning and fell "outward just
where there was a long line of firemen at
work. The crowd shrieked with horror and
the other firemen rushed to extricate those
buried in the! ruins. In a short time five
bodies had been recovered and the Injured
had been removed in ambulances.
One Whole Block and Portions of Other
In Bains at the Golden Gate The Loss
Perhaps 81,750,000 Died at Their Post
- FlTe Firemen Crushed by Falling;
Walls Many Others Injured.
Fire which started at 6 o'clock p. m. de
stroyed four blocks in the heart of the man
ufacturing district of San Francisco, CaU,
Involving a loss of $1,750,000 in property)
and sacrificing one life. The firemen battled
in vain to make inroads on the advance of
the flames until they were blocked by the big
brick wineries and the Southern Paciflo
Railroad offices, and chance given to do the
first effective work. The burned area is
bounded by Townsend, Bryant, Third and
Fifth streets. It was the greatest conflagra
tion In twenty years.
A Miss Gilroy was burned to death while
attempting to save some of her belongings,
through the explosions of a lamp. A num
ber of people received injuries from falling
walls and flying timbers.
The people in the burned district inhabit
ed wooden houses scattered among the man
ufacturing plants. The loss will be com
plete in most cases, as, owing to the inflam
mable nature of the materials, few of the
firms were able to carry insurance.
Probably 100 poor families have been
made homeless, besides losing all their pos
sessions. Another hundred or more of small
manufacturing establishments, such as fur
niture factories, machine shops, etc., were
destroyed. Three wineries, containing mill
ions of gallons of wine, wool warehouses,
freight houses, railway yards, docks, lumber
and coal yards had narrow escapes.
The people who lost their homes are utterly
destitute, and must be cared for by the city
Until they can rebuild.
The burned area is in that district known
as "South of Market." the most densely
populated district in the city. The buildings
were mostly frame structures, two stories
high, tenements and lodging houses occupied
by the working classes. The fire depart
ment has long regarded the district as a men
ace to the city, owing to the inflammable
nature of the buildings.
During the progress of the fire a steam
boiler exploded in a French laundry and
sent about half a ton of boiler iron flying
through the building. There was a thrilling
scene while the convent and parochial school
attached to St. Rose's Church were in flames.
A few moments before the roof fell in a boy
was seen at one of the upper windows. A
blanket was held out. and as the roof fell
with a crash, he jumped and escaped unin
jured. When the water supply gave out the em-
doyes of the Lachman winery attached a
ong two-inch hose to an 18,000-gallon tank
of claret wine that is perched upon a shed
outside of the winery. Over an acre of
lumber and dry roofs were drenched with
wine.
FIREMEN CRUSHED.
Walls Falls on Them While Fighting
Flames at Minneapolis.
Five firemen lost their lives at Minneapo
lis. Minn., in a fire which broke out at Nos.
240 and 242 First avenue, south. The men
were buried under a fallinsr wall. Four
others were seriously hurt. The damage to
property is 8200,000.
The dead are as follows: Joseph Hoy,
pipeman; Christian Sande, truckman; John
Horner, truckman; Walter Richardson, lieu
tenant; Ed. Thielen, pipeman- The injured
firemen are: Frank Grau, Frank Egan,
Captain Caldwell. Fred. Thomas.
I The building In which the fire broke out
was a five-story brick structure. It was
used by McDonald Brothers as a wholesale
and retail crockery store. The building
seemed to be full of straw used in packing
and the flames gained a tremendous head
way at the start. One alarm followed an
other in rapid succession until the entire fire
department was at work.
At 11.30, just when it seemed as if the Are
had been subdued, one of the side walls o!
the McDonald building gave way almost
PROFESSOR HUXLEY DEAD;
The Famous Scientist Passes Away Peace-'
fully in England.
Proffissor Huxley died, after a brief illness,!
at Eastbourne1, England. The end was
peaceful, in keeping with the retirement he'
sought when he took up his residence near
Eastbourne, pis wife and daughter were at;
his bedside when he breathed his last, but;
his son arrived too late. During his dying
moments Professor Huxley displayed forti
tude and resignation. - I
Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing,'
Middlesex, England, May 4, 1825. He spent
about two years and a half at Ealing School,
although he received most of his early edu-
cation at hom6. At the age of seventeen he,
entered the Charing Cross Hospital Medical)
School, obtaining his degree of M. B. in'
1845. In the next year he was appointed assist-!
ant surgeon to Her Majesty s ship Victory!
and went afterward in the same office oj
Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake. From 184T
to 1850, while on the Rattlesnake he passed
most of the time off the coast of Australia,'
and the fruits of his studies during this
Eeriod appeared a few years later,
a 1876 the J Professor visited thi3 coun
try and delivered three addesses, in which,
he illustrated the doctrine of the evolution
of higher from lower animal forms by relat
ing the growth of the modern horse from the
ancient hipparion. In his later years Pro
feasor Huxley devoted his attention more to
the scientific jaspects of the political and
social progress of man and the ethical ad
vancement oi (Civilization. Tne last volume
of the "Collected Essays" of 1894 is entitled
"Evolution and Ethics." A man of many
titles, he was always known simply as Pro
fessor Huxleyj, He was privileged to write
his name Thomas Henry Huxley, LL. D.,
Ph. D..D. C. L.t M. D.,F. C. 8 Ehg.,F. K. 8..
A CREAT SHOOTING "FESTIVAL
The Largest
Meeting or the Kind Eve
Arranged.
The first annual shooting festival of the
National Schutzen Bund Of the United States
of America was opened with a night "Com- "
mers,"and on! the morning after a shooting
tournament begun greater than any that
had ever yet taken place In America or
Europe. The; tournament with its attendant
festivities, planned to last eight days, was
held at Glendale Park, Long Island.
The Schutzen Bund (National Sharp
shooters Association) was organized in 1893.
It is composed of fifty-four shooting clubs in
different parts of the States, with a total
membership of over 5000. Vhile a majority S
of the promoters of the "Schutzenfest" are ' :
Germans, it was a cosmopolitan event, and
many American gun clubs joined the Ger
man riflemeri in the festivities. With the
single exception of t he honor target competi
tion, the contests were open to all comers -t
no club or marksman from any part of the
United States; or Europe was debarred from
competing fof the numerous prizes. The as
sociation offered nearly $10,000 and about
(25,000 in cash or valuables was contributed
as honorary prizes.
The shooting was at the Association tar
gets, Columbia (ring target) and Germania
(stick target), and at general prize targets
ring, man, American standard, and point.
All these targets were used at 203 yards
distance. Each shooter had three
shots, so tne highest possible score
is 75. The plan was thdt the
shooter making the most points in his first
200 shots should be declared King and be
awarded the gold king's medal, value 100
and 50 cashJ Second, most points in 200!
Shots, got $50. There were 18 more prizes
for most points in 200 shots, ranging down
from $40 to $2. Premiums were given of $5
each for first I bull's-eye at opening of the
festival and fpr last bull's-eye at closing of
the festival, and of $2 each for first and last
bull's-eye every day.
The Unusual Exodus to Europe.
The figure of the Passport Bureau of the
State Department at Washington show that
more persons will leave the United States for
Europe this summer than ever before, except
during the Paris Exposition of 1889 and tha
exceptionally prosperous year of 1801. The
passports issued up to date number nearly
1700, and probably will reach 2300. The ma
jority of the travelers are naturalized citizens,
of the Unite! States.