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1 f j1 UPWA RD AND OX WARD. VOL. 1. HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. OCTOBER 9, 1895. NO 37. f 7 OS 11 : . i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED! "Washington Item. 7h,. T)i-triet Grand Jury at Washington r- mantled the whipping post for wife i ,.;vr.'r- and petty thieves. United States Treasurer Morgan mailed 2.74 checks aggregating $4,899,830.50 for th' inf ro?t due on United States registered four cent, consols of 1907. A year aero th- number of checks mailed was 26,832, avn'nting $4,895,059.50. Tli- United States Treasury daily stain n.'-nt hereafter will have added to it details .giving the redemption of United States notes Htvl Tn-asury notes by the day, month and ypar to date. President Cleveland' approved the repri in and of Admiral Kirkland for congratulat ing President Faure on his election. Captain Winfleld S. Schley was ordered to Command the United States cruiser New York. ' s-crt'tary Herbert awarded, the oontraet fur building one of the new torpedo boats v Moran Brothers, of Seattle, Wash., at their bid of 8100.000. The poor showing made by the United State ram Katahdin on the last private trial was due to the fact that the propeller blades were badly 'bent, having, it is supposed, pieked up a log while running. Government receipts for the first twenty six davs of September exceeded the disburse ments by $112,744.36. Spain paid to Secretary Olney the Mora '.raft in gold. . Attorney-General Harmon instructed T'nite.1 States District Attorney Blatek, of Chicago, to prosecute the Beef Trust. A dispatch to the State Department from Ambassador Eustis announced the arrival of x-Consul Waller's family in Paris; Mrs. Waller decided not to attempt to see her bu-'viud. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. . Per ClnM. Won. 1.ot. rt I Clnb. Won. Baltimore. 87 43 Clevelaud.84 46 I'hiladel ..78 53 'hieago...72 58 Brooklyn. .71 60 Boston. . 71 60 .669 .651 .595 .554 .542 Per ft. .538 .503 .504 .333 .298 .267 Pittsburg.. 71 61 Cincinnati. 66 64 New York. 65 65 Washing'n43 85 St. Louis.. 39 92 .542 Louisville. 35 96 The Gentlemen of Philadelphia won the leading match with the Oxford-Cambridge leven in Philadelphia. The steamship Margaret, of the Plant Line, was wrecked near Cape Henry, Va. ; no lives were lost. Many vessels were wrecked in heavy gales n ttie great lakes A mass meeting of Brooklyn citizens nomi nated Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor for Mayor. The Sheriff at San Francisco, Cal., made defensive precautions in anticipation of mob violence in case Durrant, on trial for the Emmanuel Church murder, is acquitted. Forest fires broke out afresh in Southern New Jersey. William Steinfort, eighteen years old, and bis brother Gerry, a nine-year-old pupil of th! public schools, were drowned in the North River, New York City, when the rowers of nearly a' dozen boats were almost ready to rescue them. William lost his life trying " save his little brother. Frank P. Allison, a nephew of Senator Allison, of Iowa, was severely hurt in an at tnpt to esaipe from Castle Williams, on Governor's Island. New York Harbor, where be was in prison for desertion from the army. Frank Andrews was also wounded in attempt to escape. Ethelwynn, the American boat, gave up third race off New York with Spruce IV. the British challenger for the Corinthian awanhaka Cup, her owner claiming it was 1 ) rough for the small yachts. Irishmen in Chicago organized the Irish Rational Alliance of the World, to effect the "eedom of Ireland by any means "consLs 1 -nt with the laws and usages of civilized Na : r.'s.'' half-rater. )ruce lv., in b.H ia-Corinthian Challenge Cup; Spruce IV. The Grand Jury found indictments for -ianlauf-hter against six men connected 5-th the construction of the Ireland build 's.:, which collapsed in New York City. Train No. 1. New York and St. Louis ex rss, on the Baltimore and Ohio r.ailroad. -into an east-bound train at Tunnelton, a.; seventeen persons were injured. Tha worst drought ever known, in Maine ! broken by rain. One forest Are the Ethplwvnn, the American lOUrth TAOf nT Vow Vnrb- burned over a tract six miles long aha two miles wide, and another over a territory five miles long and a mile wide. The Demncrata nf Vonr W.l. - i. -,.. ,. w . A, wii met in estate Convention at Syracuse and adopted a plat form favoring Home Rule for cities and Lo cal Option. The StRt T)om to accept the representation of one-fifth and icii iuo uu. au me canainates on the State ticket were nominated by acclamation. .Contractor William Tnvlnr focfifla . t,. Dock Board mauirv. in Nw Yortr cm-v . he gave M. J. Fenton $500, which Fenton &iu ne paid over to Richard Croker. and tuai mereaiier ne was aDie to get contracts from the Board. 1 The defense as outlined in th rn case at San Francisco. Cal. . shows that nn attempt to establish an alibi and to throw suspicion on -astor uioson will be made. Valkyrie III., instead of retiirntnc umtar sail to England, will be dismantled and winter on tnis siae. The four printers who were on trial in Trenton for conspiracy to defraud the State of New Jersey were acquitted. Spruce IV., the English boat, defeated the Ethelwynn in the second race off New York City for the Seawanhaka Corinthian Inter national Challenge Cup. More than twenty thousand members of the United Societies "or Liberal Sunday Laws paraded and held a mass meeting in New York City to show their disapproval of the present excise laws and their adminis tration. In New York City Robert Fair, an insur ance agent; killed his wife and himself while frenzied with drink. John B. Manning, a millionaire broker, was expelled from the New York Stock Ex change for fraudulently altering Union Pa cific Donds. Mrs. Thomas Kane was burned to death in her house in Lawrence, N. J., a3 the result of the explosion of a lamp. She was alone. Irish-Americans from all over the United States and from Canada and Australia gath ered in Chicago to inaugurate a new move ment for Erin's independence. Health Commissioner Starkloff has in-" formed the Board of Health that diphtheria was epidemic in St. Louis, Mo., 170 cases having been reported since Septeu':or 1. INT BIBECTOR'S REPORT The Year's Production of Precious Metals in the United States. SILVER OUTPUT DECREASED. THE LABOR WORLD. ForeJsn Notes. Fifteen hundred rebels were routed in Cuba by the Spanish troops, with forty killed. In the lower House of the Hungarian Diet bills were adopted providing for the recog nition of the Hebrew religion and establish ing freedom of worship.. The monument to the late President Car not was dedicated at Fontainebleau, France. Brazilian Deputies engaged in personal encounters and fierce debate over the pro posed measure granting amnesty to those recently en gaged in rebellion in Rio Grande do Sul. Friends of President Moraes, of Brazil, attempted to prevent his resignation. An attempt was made to assassinate Presi dent Alfaro, in his palace, in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Sir Herbert Murray ha3 been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. The village of Oberunsbach. near Kis singen, Germany, has been destroyed by fire, and its inhabitants, one thousand in number, are camping in the fields. The French Government decided to send more reinforcements to Madagascar. . TOUCHED OFF THE WRONG BLAST A. Blunder Costa Six Lives in a Missouri Quarry. A premature explosion -jccurrel in a quarry seven miles northeast oflndepenl ence, Mo. Five men and a boy lost their dves. Two blasts were set just before quit ting work, one on top of a large ledge of ocks, the other much higher and further up ihe side of the hill. They were to be touched off with wires from an electric battery. The men took refuge under the ledge of rocks immediately beneath the first blast, intend ing to touch off the one higher up. By a mistake the blast over the ledge was fired fllThe explosion tore loose the whole ledge sf rocks, and the whole mass fell forward on he men. The de:ii are: ililes MeTiernan, contractor; Thoma? Ferguson, fourte?a years old, son of John Ferguson, a farmer; Dan Roigers. Pat Welsh, Charles Truett and an unknown Italian. All the dead except 'he boy are of Kansas City. In addition to ihee John Ferguson, father of the boy -iiied: Joseph Fleming, and an unknown Italian wer seriously injured by flying rocks. Over S100.0O0.OO9 Worth of Gold and Sil ver Dug 8101,988.753 of Gold Went Abroad S5 3,000,000 Worth Was Used In the Industries in 1893 The Supply of Gold Is Believed to Be Short. The report of Director of the Mint Preston on the production of the precious metals in the United States during 1894 has been sub mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The production of gold is placed at $39,- 500.000, and the coinage value of the silver production is given at $64,003,000, while the commercial value, at the average rate per fine ounce during 1894 of .63479, was $31,- 422,000. The production of silver in the United States decreased from 60,000,000 ounces in 1893 to 49,500,000 in 1894. The total gold, imports for the year were $21,350.6C7. and the total exports $101,988, 753. It is noted anent the exportation of gold that it was at no point accompanied with a rate of exchange above 4.88 and that on October 15 and 19, 1894. there were two shipments to Germany of $500,000 each, with the rate of exchange at 4.87 and 4.87W. The exportation of gold is credited with having decreased the total stock of gold coin in the United States from $663,013,158 on January 1, 1894, to $577,182,792' on January 1 , !1895, a loss of $86,730,366. A fairer state ment is that of the total metallic stock of the United States at the corresponding periods, this of course including the bullion held by the Government and privately. It shows $624,239,753 in gold coin and bullion on January 1, 1895, against $663,998,934 on January 1, 1894. The contraction in the amount of money (paper and metallic) in circulation between the same periods amounted to $103,428,783, due mainly to the exportation of gold, i It may be said in this connection that grave doubts are arising in the minds of economists as to whether the actual amount of gold in the form of coin and available bullion, in the United States, is not largely overestimated. There is a fueling that the actual figures are fully $50,000,003 less than the estimates. Director Preston believes that not less than $50,000,000 in gold was taken from the world's production for industrial consump tion in 1893, while of silver it is estimated that 663,000 kilograms, of the commercial value of $16,622,980, was similarly used in the same year. He ; places the world's in dustrial consumption ot gold ror iy at over $52,000,000, while the consumption of silver he places at over $33,000,000. These figures, he declares, must still be considered too low. ! The world's gold nroduct has steadily in creased from $105,774,900 in 1887 to $179, 965,600 in 1894, the increase , for 1894 over 1893 being larger than that of any other year. It is noted, too, that the world's coinage of gold has for three years largely outrun the world's production, the excess being placed at $26,000,000 for 1892. $75,000,000 iH 18W and $46,000,000 for 1894. Blown From the Breech. During a test of a Canet rapid fire gnu at the Sandy Hook (N. J.) proving grounds the breech block flew out as it was being screwed in, instantly killing two private of the Ordnance Department, United States. Army, who were serving the gun, and injur ing three more. Lieutenant Montgomery, who was conducting the te3t, escaped with a concussion of the ear drum. The names of the killed are Corporal Robert Doyle, of Philadelphia, and Private Frank Conway, of Green Island, N. Y. The wounded men are Privates James Coyue. William McDonald, recently of the Kennebee Arsenal, and Patrick Ryan, of Troy. Snake Charmer Dies From a Bite. While exhibiting! at the County Fair at Centervilie, Iowa, William Primmer, a snake charmer, was bitten by a rattler in the tongue. He died. Primmer was new at the business and failed to have the fangs of the reptile remcved. Thirty States no w( observe Labor Day; Three hundred Boston iron molders struck for higher wages, j The strike in the coke regions of PennsyU vania is increasing. ' All the Alabama rolling mills have recently raised wages ten per cent. There is a Knights of Labor local assembly of grave diggers in South Brooklyn. Five of the best engineers on the New York Central Railroad can neither read nor write. i Edward Bellamy twill go to Germany to attend the Social Democrats' Congress in Breslau. ) x There are about 14,000 letter carriers or ganized under the jurisdiction of the Knights of Labor. Nearly 30,000 jute' workers went on strike in Dundee, Scotland, for an increase of ten per cent, in wages, j There is not a woman delegate on the lists of officers or committees of the Central Labor Union, New York City. A sub-contractor was arrested in Washing ton for violation of the . eight-hour law on the new addition to!-the Government Print ing Office. Articles of incorporation of the United! Bootblack's Protective League, whose head quarters are to be in New York City, were tiled at Albany. j Coopers in New York City are threatened with reduction of wages in certain depart ments of the trade (wherein certain bosses want to bring boys ;to work in the ratio of one boy to every two men. The striking spinners of the American Linen Company, Fall River, Mass., voted to resume work under a promise from the agent that the work and wages will be improved. They had been idle nearly five weeks. . All the mills along the Pawtuxet River In Rhode Island are running their machinery in full. The large cotton mills, employing over 10,000 bands, have advanced wages re cently, and there is talk of a further raise. The wooien mills at Moosup, Conn., are running full blast for the first time at this season of ih.1 year. ITho Union Cotton Com pany has advanced wages ten percent, and are crowding their machinery to the utmost. In accord with the terms of the general agreement entered into by the window glass manufacturers all bf the factories in the eastern, western and middle districts re- sumed after an idleness of sixly days. .En;- ployment is given to about 10,000 men. I The 5000 derrickmen and stonecutters of New York City returned to work pending an attempt to arbitrate the trouble between representatives of the unions and the em- ployes' associations, j The derrickmen want $3 a day for eight hours, and the stonecut ters struck out of sympathy for them. The mills at Westerly. R. L,have all in creased wages ten to 12)- per cent, and are running full blast ;with orders far ahead. The mills in Nianticj that have been idle for ten years are being put in readiness for start ing up on heavy woolen goods. The citi zens of this county are employed to a greater extent than in many; years. ( The Aspinook Company, Jewett City Conn,, have commenced work on the walls or a new building for a fruit works that will employ 35Q hands, i- The company has also increased wages. The Ashland Cotton Com pany has raised the wages of their 400 oper atives ten per centr, and are rushing their machinery with three months' orders ahead. . I ' Seawanhaka Cup Safe. After a glorious series of races l isting over a week, the little j American fifteen-footer Ethelwynn won the fifth and decisive con- test on k triangular! course off Oystr Bay, N. YM for the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club's international small boat trophy from J. Arthur Brand's British half-rater Spruce IV. The Ethelwynn not only successfully defended the cup, but she gave the little Briton a beating of ten minutes and foity one seconds over a! twelve-knot course, or over fifty-three seconds a mile." Fort Mackinac Abandoned. TLe last step in the total abandonment of Fort Mackinac in Michigan has been carried into effect in Ihe transfer of the command of the troops under Lieutenant Geary to Fort Brady. Thehonor of hauling down th Stars and Stripes, which for more than 100 years have floated over the fort's historic Walls, was awarded to Judge B. La Chance. a veteran of the late war. The fort and park are now under the supervision of the State, to which they have been transferred by th-i United States Government, i '
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