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UPWARD AND ONWARD.
VOL. 1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. JULY 18, 1895.
NO. 25. ,
THE WDMS EPITOMIZED'
Washington Items.
John W. Foster has arrived at hl3 home In
Washington from China, where he served as
puselor to the Chinese peace envoys in the
flegotiatlons to end the war with Japan.
Mr. Foster nas Deen aDsent rrom wasningion
on this mission nearly seven months.
Secretary Herbert's investigation of the
labor system in Brooklyn Navy Yard led to
the removal of Naval Constructor Fernald
and Civil Engineer Asserson.
; President Cleveland has pardoned Edmund
L Crittenden, of Kentucky, sentenced on
June 28, 1804. to eighteen months imprison
ment in the Ohio Penitentiary on the charge
of robbing the mails.
Secretary Carlisle has directed that the new
revenue cutter now being built for service
along the New England coast be named the
Daniel Manning, and that the one being
built for service on the great lakes be named
the W. Q. Gresham, both after former Secre
taries of the Treasury.
' The appointment of Willis L. Moore, of
Illinois, as Chief of the "Weather Bureau was
announced from the White House.
: Fishermen who, by squatter sovereignty,
occupy shanties at Sandy Hook, were ordered
to leave by the War Department. They
threatened to resist eviction by arms.
' The State Department instructed Ambassa
dor Eustls to take steps for the relief of ex
Consul Waller, who is ill in a French prison.
The principal postoffloes throughout the
country have discontinued the use of the
cancelling machines, by which letters are
postmarked and the stamps upon them can
celled. The total number of stamps of all kinds is
sued to postmasters in the fiscal year just
closed was 2,823,000,000, valued at $56,885,
418. This is an increase in valuation of 1 4,
000,000 over last year;
Secretary Hoke Smith accepted the invita
tion of the Cordele fGa.-) Sound Money
League to deliver an address there on the
currency question.
The total value of envelopes issued to post-
offices during the fiscal year was fl2,036,019f
and postal cards $4,963,161.
Domestic.
fiZCOBD OT THE LEAGUE
Per
CXTJBS.
Clubs. Won. Los of
Baltimore .34 21 .fil
Boston 33 22 .60f
Chicago... 40 2S .588
-Fittsburc' 37 2fi .587
Ueveland..37 23 .569
Brooklyn.. S3 26 .559
Hub. Won. TMf,
lincinnatl.31 27
hiladel. . .32 26
Jew York.28 31
VVash'ng'n.23 35
St. Louis. .21 43
Louisville .10 49
ct.
.557
.552
.475
.397
.323
.169
Senator Blackburn has been called off the
Istump in Kentucky by the Democratic State
Central Committee because of his free silver
views. -
A tornado of terrific violence and wide
spread extent swept over the country near
pewton. Kan., destroying everything in its
rath. Four houses were wrecked and over
Wrty. farm houses destroyed. Twentv-flve
ersons were injured, seven of them fatally.
One man was killed and sixteen people
ere injured in a trolley-car accident at East
verpooi.-uhlo.
Josiah Chamberlain, a farm hand, went to
is wife's boarding rfs.ca at Norwich. N. Y..
fnl after firing two bullets into her neck
nd abdomen killed himself.
Justice fiflvnAr nf TtwirkVltm crrrtT.taA fn
fx-Polioe Inspector McLaughlin, of New
yr uy, a certificate of reasonable doubt,
"flleh acts as a stav of iudament pending de-
ision by the Court of Appeals.
ihe President and Mrs. Cleveland received
OtntleSS cnncrntiiliiflnne of ('Hihiv CI a Kl oc "
daughter.
I Abram Eckert, janitor of the High School
fa Nanticoke, Ponn., killed wealthy Frederick
Bittenbender, chairman of a school com
pute?. At San Luis Obispo, Cal., ex-Governor
uVeas,011, of I,iaQ0' committed suicide by
ng laudanum. He was a great sufferer
'oni sciatica. -
iefnd's trial trip Indicated that she
w have wonderful racing qualities.
I Sheriff Tam
-a Keepers Schneer and Schoen,of Ludlow
ii t .Ai,1' Xew York Citv because of the
4 UISiM tiling tt.V,Iu . i -v
'A It.-ffitt W - 1T1II .11 J
I Charles J Kinder, a Philadelphia alder-
nt .vm Ul auu ueJ, eviaentiy oy acci--at.
while watching a flag-raising,
trover an.l Tain
tiuhl I?C8spectively' children of William
fca- .'v ?ar!line' were drowned in
.yiQTer.wbathing in tha
creek, and the girl, hearing his screains7w6nt
to rescue him from drowning.
Dernberg, QUck & Horner, proprietors of
the Leader, one of the large department
stores of Chicago, have failed. Creditors
hold a chattel mortgage for $225,000. It is
said that the assets of the firm will realize
over $400,000.
Three people were drowned in the Dela
ware River at Beverly, N. J., by the capsizing
of a boat. They were John Anderson, Frank
Bevans, a bicycle manufacturer, and Miss
Marembeck.
Because Mollie Biers would not marrvhlm
Luke Hoyer blew up her home, In Le
mont, HL, with dynamite, fatally wounding
her, her mother and her aunt.
Francis M. Dickinson, seventy-one years
old, a prominent Belchertown (Mass.) far
mer, was gored to death by a bull. His sons
round him mangled and dead, lying In the
mud.
The safe in the County Treasurer's office at
Harrlsburg, Ark., was robbed of $3400 at
noon while Mr. Vanderver was in court con
sulting with the judge.
Foreign Notes
The Prince of Wales announced that he
would not be able to visit the United States
to see the America's Cup yacht race.
The French Chamber of Deputies asked the
Government to negotiate an arbitration
treaty with the United States.
An Imperial ukase relating to the Chinese
loan has been Issued; Russia will indorse tne
coupons of the bondholders.
The railway station at Dortmund, Ger
many, was destroyed by fire and two men
were killed by the falling of its walls.
Ambassador Eustis presided at the Fourth
of July banquet given In Paris by the Ameri
can Chamber of Commerce.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, siys that
a committer of the Ministers will arrange a
settlement of the Mora claim.
Michael Cleary was convicted in Ireland
of burning his wife to death as a witch.
Four hundred Cuban insurgents, under
Amador Guerra, were defeated in two bat
tles in Palma Saltas, Cuba. Their leader
and three lieutenants were killed, together
with sixty men. The los3 of the Government
troops was seventeen killed and about the
same number wounded. Expeditions for
Cuba are leaving North, South and Central
America.
Fire in Godillet's military e3tablishment,in
Paris, caused 11 1,400,000 damage.
HOT FIGHTING IN CUBA.
Insurgents Lost 380 and Spaniard Fifty
in One Battle.
Advices from Santiago de Cuba are to the
effect that Major Sanchez, commanding a
Spanish Government force, discovered 1500
Insurgents under command of the rebel
chief, Rabi, strongly posted near Manzan-
U1- ,c
Major Sanchez sent a message to Majoi
Aznar inviting him to join forces and attack
the rebels. The insurgents captured the
messenger and hanged him. They then sent
a reply to Major Sanchez's message, signing
Major Aznar's name to it, directing that an
attack on the insurgents be made at another
point. ,
Major Sanchez fell into the trap and ad
vanced as directed in the forged message.
His force was attacked suddenly by the reb
els in a narrow defile. The insurgents
charged the Spanish troops in fine style.
The troops were unable to manoeuvre ow
ing to the lack of space. Two sergeants,1
one at the head of thirty and the other at
the head of twelve men, gained commanding
positions, and succeeded in checking the in
surgents, shooting all that came within
range of their rifles.
Their fire was so deadly that the rebels
made no further attempt to charge and the
troops were enabled to escape from the defile
In which they had been ambushed. The
Government force then attacked the main
posstlons. of the rebels and compelled them
to retreat. The Insurgents lost 280 killed.
The Government loss was fifty killed and
wounded.
Woman Ties the Knot. !
Rev. Ella G. Thorp, a roving preacher, and
a young couple from Bentley, Kan., met by
appointment "at the Keystone Hotel in
Wichita, Kan., and the lady performed the
wedding ceremony. The couple were L. C.
Kennedy and Mrs. S. F. Helvie. The wed
ding attracted much attention from the fact
that a woman tied the knot. It is the first
instance of the kind known to have occurred
in Kansas.
1LA.UGHTER OF PILGRIMS
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A Terrible Collision on the Grand
Trunk Railway in Canada
CARS TELESCOPED AND WRECKED
The Second Section of an Excursion Train
Dashes at Fall Speed Into the First
The Victims Were Pilgrims to th
Shrine of St. Anne de Beanpre An En
ineers Awful Blander,
, A terrible accident occurred on the Grand
tTrunk Railroad at Craig's Road, Quebec,
Canada. A special excursion passengei
train, rushing along in the darkness of th
early morning, crashed into another excur
sion train preceding it, killed thirteen peo
ple, and wounded thirty. The trains wert
filled with pilgrims en route from Shet
brooke, Richmond and Windsor MIUl
to Levis, where they were to cross ovel
to Quebeo and proceed to the shrine at St
Anne de Beaupre. One was following th
other and there was supposed to be an in
terval of twenty minutes between them;
The forward train was making good time,
having left Richmond - at 10 o'clock tha
night before. On the rear of this train was
a Pullman car, in which were the priests
and others in charge of the party, and it was
in this car that most of the Ipsa of, life oc
curred. , , . ' ' ' ' i l m i:
The first train reached Craig's Road about
3 a. m., and stopped at the tank to take
water. Dae precautions were taken, and
the semaphore was thrown to danger. Only
the train men were about. The Pullman car
In the rear was wrapped in silence.
Suddenly there was a great crash tho
second train coming at full speed had dashed
into the rear Pullman of the first section.
So great was the impetus of the colliding
train that the engine embedded itself In the
palace car. and the latter plunged forward
and partially telescoped the first-class car im
mediately in front. Every berth in the Pull
man was wrecked, and some of the occupants
who were killed never "knew what hap
pened to them. They died sleeping. Others
awoke to their horrible surroundings and'
position, maimed, bleeding, and bruised, con
scious of little but the agony that racked
them. It was an awful scene. ..The cries of
the wounded, the moans of the dying, the
outpouring of 'passengers from cars , that
were not badly damaged, and the hurrying
forms of the uninjured trainmen, with their
flickering lanterns, all combined to make a
Bight seldom exceeded in tragic horror.
The work of rescue was Degun as soon as
possible. When the blinding clouds of
Steam had subsided the trainmen, priests,
and others got together and the dead and
wounded were taken from the ruins of the
engine, the Pullman, and the flrst-clas3 car.
and removed to temporary quarter?, where
the women of tne; party ministered
as best they could to the wants of the
maimed pilgrim?. They tore'off their cloth
ing and made bandages for gaping wounds
and tried, in the absence of enough medical'
aid to go round, tb stanch the flow of blood,
and properly cleanse the wounds. All of the
wounded who could be moved were placed
on board and sent to Levis.
It 'is hard to say where the blame for the
accident rests. It has been suggested that
Engineer McLeod of the colliding train may
have dozed off to sleep and then have missed
seeing the warning semaphore and was un
conscious of his whereabouts.
The following is a list of the dead:
Charles Bedard, mail clerk, Richmond; Miss
Bedard, Richmond; Hector McLeod, engineer,
Richmond; Richard L. Perkins, fireman,
Richmond: the Ret. J. L. Mercier, . Rich
mond: the Rev. F. P. Dignan, Windsor mils;
Mr Cogan, Richmond; Miss Valin, St.
Joseph de' Levis; Miss Phaneuf, St. Joseph
de' Levis; Mrs. J. B. Cayer, Danville; Mlsa
Delicourte, 8hefford; aunt of Miss Yalin,'
name unknown, St. Joseph de' Levis; John
OTarrell, Capleton. .
The scene In the Hotel Dieu, at Levis,
after the arrival of the wounded from th
wreck was something which an eye-witness
Can" never forget. The unfortunate pilgrim!
all occupied beds in different wards of the
hospital, and were attended by physlclani
of Levis and Quebeo and by nuns and ladies
of Levis. The cries of some of them wert
fearful to hear.
All of us waste too much energy.
TRIO OF GIRLS NOV '
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The President's Third TMttfnUr TJorm st
"Gray Gables,' Ills Summer Bomlk '
At "Gray Gables," the summer home ot
President Cleveland; at Buzzard's Bay, Masi,
a little girl was born to Mrs. Cleveland at
4.30 o'clock p. mJ Dr. Joseph D. Bryant;
the attending physician, said that mother
and child were doing well.
DE. J. D. BBYAXT.
(The family physician of the Cleveland.
Ruth and Esther, the other daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, were born respective
ly on October 3, 1891, and on September 99
, 1893, Ruth was bom at Mr. Cleveland's resi
dence at 816 Madison avenue, in New York
City, which was the Clevelands home for a
time after they left the White House in 188?.
Ruth weighed eight uounds at her birth.
Esther was born in the White House after Mr. ,
Cleveland second term had begun.
MURDERED HIS FAMILY.
Horrible Crime of Frederick Hellman, ot
; J Chicago.
Frederick Hellman, a mason contractor, ot
Chicago,' nL.thirtyix years old, murdered
his wife and four children by asphyxiation' . !
and died with them. The victims of his
horrible crime werer Ida Hellman, thirty
four years old; Fritz Hellman, twelve years
old; Ida Hellman, elevep yars old; Willie)
Hellman, eight years old; Hedwig Hellman,
four years old. '
The place of the tragedy was the Hellman
cottage. The house is small, but it was their
bwn, and the family was supposed to bd' liv
ing happily. That the murder was deltb
erately planned by the crazy father of th
family seems "beyond doubt. Ever since
Hellman built his house it has been supplied -with
gas . pipes, but there had been no
connection nith the gas main,' and
there were jno fixtures In th
house until several weeks ago, when?
he had the pipes connected and fixtures put
into the family bedroom only. The entire,
family slept in one small room. It seems!
certain that Hellman had the gas put in for
the express purpose of using it in th mur-'
der of his family! . .
When, the dead 1 bodies were found the t&3 s
was turned on. It had been turned on after
the family, excepting the husband, -had gone ...
to sleep, an 4 none of, them regained con
sciousness, j ,
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LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED ! ..
A Series of Terrible Crimes on the Out
skirts of London. '
A series of outrages and murders of littla
girls of ages ranging from four to seven year -
has created great excitementtamong the work.-,
ing classes in the district of Walthamstow,
seven miles northeast of London,' England. .
Within two months five little ones have ;
been decoyed from near their homes and
vanished completely. Searching parties
have subsequently found their bodies in the
fields stripped of all their clothing, and giv- ;
lng evidence of the mdst outrageous treat-j
meat. In every (Case- the., -victims hare j
ueen shildrn who have been playing
along the roadside or on their way in the dls-j
charge.. ox short errands, ine immeaiaiot
cause ot death in every instance has beea
strangulation- The miscreant usually hides
the bodies of his victims in secluded places
in the fields and under hedges and CO vera