North Carolina Newspapers

P.AnP.A.lIAN m m .B a a aa fa ii c- Vol.. XIX RALEIGH. NOKTH CAROLINA. APRIL 25. 1901. So. lt NEW MO TIVE POWER. TWu WONDKItFUL KX11IBI TIu. ATTHEWASII INliTOX CITY PLANT. THE MACICOF LIQUID AIR. A touH.MIra ami Koa-tnea Hum by a New I'ower A Union of two Hitherto IUal t omptoix Th Tripler and (iroirl I.luld Air Coiniiu, WaHhington Star. It 1 not generally known, but nevertheless a fact, that tin two hitherto rival and combating liquid air fomiatiie of the (r. S. have practically combined and in a few day will have lxen legally const I tuted one ciiiitany, to l known art the Trlpler and Cleneral Liquid Air ComHiny, ojKTHt inir under the pat ent of Charle-t K. Trlpler and ( Mergren A Ilurgcr. The combhuMl cinnpanics have a Washington plant, just Installed, and are now doing their preliminary work In the building of the Capital Traction Cominy at the foot of Seventh Street. KxhiUition were given yenterday afternoon and on Wednesday after noou at the plant by the company, under thy auplceH of Prof. O. A. liobrick, E. T., il chief engimrr. They were exhibitions of magic, Mpectacular and vivid, that would have put to thamo the performance of the elder Hermann in hi palmiest lays, but they were coiubiutd with a mont convincing ocular demonstra tion of tremendous and hitherto al mont unthought-of iower under lrfect control. The exp riment wwre watched at both lectures by distinguished groufiH of scientist and husine men From the freezing of a beefsteak to the consistency of a jiaue of glass, to the running of an automobile, a lighting plant, and a refrigeration plant, every step of the wonderful progress that has teeu made with the development of this new energy was exhibited In a manner quite startling even to the scientific men prewent for it is only during the last few month that many of the most remarkable development have ten reached by Prof. Bobrlck, and the learned world is only now be ginning to liear of them. Pro! liobrick is a twentieth cen- tury magician, dealing not with mumbled word, sleight of hand, and artful mirrors, but with the paraphernalia of a combined chemi cal laboratory and engine shop. He work not in charms and hoodpo for the destruction of hi enemies and the production of love philters, but in sober earnest for the genera tion of energy in a new way to turn wheel and produce actual, tangible, valuable result. Hi mysteries ar mysteries no longer when he ex plain them, but they are none the less bewildering for all that. He 1 a dark, quiet man, rather under the ordinary size, remarkable in appearance only for a pair of vivid black eye that show the fire of a fine Imagination. He Ui lluian by birth, and received a thorough education in the bt. Petersburg In stitute of Technology, one of the leading technical school of the world. He has been experimenting with liquid air for some years, and during the past two year has been doing practical work in harnessing its energies so clearly demonstrated by Prof. Tripler and others. It is by hi effort, however, almost en tlrely, that these practical working machines using liquid air have oeen devised and constructed, and it is on these machine that the Tripler and General Liquid Air Company ha been allowed a laree number of patents. Prof. Hobrick began his exhlbi tion yesterday with the new liquid air automobile. lie explained its mechanism and then gave a practical demonstration of its running capa city, so far as this could be done on the floor of the company's plant. which only gives a "track" of about 200 feet In length. The automobile is particularly noticeable because of its extreme lightness and gracefull ncss, with an entire absence of big and heavy machinery. Further ex amination shows a number of ad vantages which it seems to have over machines run by other motive lowers, but this point is first to attract attention. The reason for this is shown when the "framework of the vehicle is removed and the mechanism is revealed. There is no electric battery and no steam engine and no gas iline tank. Explained In the fewest words, which do not really explain, of course, the machinery of this auto mobile consists of a reservoir con taining liquid air and a series of pipe, carrying the air as It expands to a little postou. which turns the wheels of the vehicle. The elabora tion of the machine is all in furnish ing mean by which the air may be made to expand more rapidly and hence develop Its latent power more quickly As Prof. liobrick explained the nearest analogy to this enarine in mechanics is the steam engine Liquid air is at a temperature of 312 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. When it is encased In a reservoir properly constructed it evaporates Continued on fourth page. FEET ROASTED WITH LAMPS. Horrible ToHar laflicted by Kobber t care I nuim. Blnghampton, N. Y., April It. A ivljf ii of terror ex Ists among the mndents of Smoky Hollow, Staruc ca and adjacent places In Susquehan na county, result In from a series of outrage committed by a gang of masked burglars who have tortured their victim when it wa supposed many ere concealed about tie preui ise to extort Intonuation. A few nights ago tarly in the rap wa Hounded on the ter Khlnehart at .Smoky Hollo v, and a voice inquired the distan e to an adjoining farm. Wh-u Kblnehart opened the door to answer he wan overpowered, bound and gagged. Ill- wife wan treated in a similar manner, and the aged couple had T n ..T wiui lamps wcoin. pel the disclosure of hidden w. alth. As a result of the assault both of Mr. Jthlnehart' leet will have to !...! .. . i ...,. i I l . i ihj anipuiaieu. V II III . ! (1 . . . 1 ues wumore, oi nmoicy nowow, reee.veu a large payment Tuesday. That tiljfht he was visited by three masked burglar, but drove them away with a revolver. The same night the ioM:ft1ce at Staraoc was roblied. Thursday nieht Patrick Kigley was held up by the r bber D I and beaen Into insensibility. He claims to have identified th roMier, lut refused to dicloHe their names, fearing death. At blaraccu a vigilance committee has been organized to dual summary vengence to the bandits if captured. A BIG FIRE AT CAROLINA BEACH. Cottaa; Destroyed to 810,OOO (he Value of Wilmington, N. C, April 18. Carolina lieach.one of Wilmington' a height never seen before and serl two summer resorts, sustalued se- ous delay to traffic' is feared The rious lo by fire this morning te- rain has changed to snow to-night. tween midnight and day. The flames started in the cottage of Dr. J. D. Webster and destroyed that aud all the other cottages south of it. Fortunately it was pretty well to wards the southern end of the beach so only about a third of the cottage on the beach were lost, the Oceanic iw 1". J ; Jl" ' "I": .r. noun anu ouier property ui uie New Haven Transit Company es caping. The Kure House and three cottages owned by Hans A. Kure were destroyed. They' were worth six or seven thousand dollars and were insured for three thousand. The following lost summer cottage worth $500 to $1,000 each: Jno. J. Fowler, Mrs. C. P. B. Mahlar, 1 j 1 a tir L3 i.i- r t t r i. ster. The toU. daauiw b about rvi iitirL ww - rMiiiui. nr. . i. w ten thousand dollars, I doUaw, wUh less than one-half insured. FILIPINOS BURIED ALIVE. ItecauM They Wera Opposed aarractloB. to th- Iu- Manila, April 20. The trial of the member ofthe Maudo-Ducat secret society, who are charged with burying alive Filipinos who were opposed to the insurrection, and the P8 & ous, steel manutacturers, or daring nerve ot his lo-year-old son, trial of Insurgent agents have elicit- Sheffield, Eng., will erect a mam- Cleveland, would have robb d the ed the fact t hat In one locality all ojoth steel plant here. The English safe of a large sum of money. The the local officers, the parish priest nrm nas purchased 37 acres of land office is situated near the residence, and the president were the chief of- 'hp Gordon farm and property of and the light from the lantern car fenders. tne Canton Company, northwest of ried by one of the cracksmen, A reign of terror was secretly in town, on which site the plant will streamed into young Cleveland's augurated, and person refusing to be erected. In a few days ground room and awakened him Going contribute to the insurgent cause w 06 broken for the erection of out to investigate, he was held up were buried alive by the direction the plant, and it is expected that at the point of revolvers in the hands ofthe president. y the close of the pre-ent year it ofthe men and commanded to come a a a m a a , a a . All the details of the conspiracy have been unearthtd, many arrests have been made, there is abundant evidence, and it is probable that all of the ringleaders will be hanged. Kentucky Outlaws Surrender. I Ar.d.iina. Kv..Anril 20 A reoort reached here this mornintr reiort reacned nere tins morning lllOl uiajuitii wa .uv -.T o ,.,air.r,Tr ht T?oiMirkl1a band of feudists who were intrench ed on Boon's Fork, in the vicinity nf VVhUtashnrtr. Ixteher eountv. de- a.; a. i Kr. " e " ' !' T1 sui.tuuci. uaancTTo h1ri out until a small sized armv i- .m Ar;..i,a u iti 1 rr" them ThStothiW nilSr r0 rcturn of ex-Governor W. S. leased himself soon after the depar .T "iJSL xn,nfil Taylor, from IndW for trial. the bursars. Mr. Young .T.T'r aiiW uua W www "tlicin .to to hive escaped. The outlaws are said to have been bountifully sup- piled with up to date rifles, ammu nition and war equipments. That Nea-ro Under Sentence for the M der of Joeena New Declared Insane. Newport Newg, Va , April 19. In the E beth City County Court to- day a jary heard evnci submitted - . aa a . by cnuuei for K caaid rniiups, tne Washington negro wuo lsunaer sen tene oi deth for murdering Anil- cryman Joseph Nrw in Pnoebna -.boat twelve months ago, to show hattbe prisoner is insane. Alter Hearing u& tT . L a a taam a va a II I 1 1 1 atf v a . a I aa. 1 a uitii rituimcu a.ua.a.., " IpeaU has refused to interfere, and Pnilips will naug unless the Kovnrn or commates the senteaee. HnAniaii War claims. Washimrton. April 20. -Claims to the amount of nearly $1,000,000 have been filed with the Spanish war claims commission. All of them, with one exception, are for losses of property, and in the major- ity of the cases the auegea aepreoa - tions were inflicted by the Cuban insurgents. Mr. Doll Socceedf Mr. MeConneU aa General Paaeangar Areat H. A. L.. Washington, April 19. It is an nounced officially to-day that W. H. Doll rum been apnainted srenexal agent ofthe passenger department of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, 0l w M. McConnell. re- t 1 xria KHnnartaara will h sigma. uas uwi- hLi cit V v - THE IKE DELL C03ITY SAITEL i It I la steeie ( ruck and taa 'cn reJl ! or Her. or It a "Ho- Molly." Charlotte Oberer. The negroes of Steel Creek town ship are in a state of abject terror. For the last lew days some strange aniiU4l about the bIia: of a half grown calf, nlih a head like a wild hog and feet like a d.ig ha been slaying negro latbles, pfg. lamb and doifs. From what an Ob-a-rva-r man learned vea.er.lav. It must t,e colored people of Steel Creek The varmint carried off and ate iIvm i,r .iv ,, flk.ln.. Monday night ami is still at large. It coraw at an hour when no man looketh for him, or her, or it, and frightens the dog, the cattle and the hogs. One negro claims that It charged under his house where one ofhi8 hound8 nad eleven . t. ., ' A fU miles ami urri-wl them away. The thing has bristles . -v,.. instead of hair and it can carry a small animal on every bristle. No doubt this is the same animal that the Lineville people thought wa a bear. Al TArlfirUVI M aVMA il tmm a A a a I aiuH m itRHtsstt. The Track of the Southern Ilailway under I V atr- l he llain 1'urns U snow. . . . . . . China and that the prohibition or Knoxville, Tenn., April 19. A Interference in China by any Euro torrential storm raged throughout pean government would tend to he east Tennessee to-day, making two riously Injure, not only the cotton das of continuous rain, and as a manufacturing industries, but other result the s reams are out of bounds important products ofthe United and threatening great damage. The states which are being shipped to tracks of the Southern Ilailway and China. It i not onlv the mann- Queen & Cresent road are under ' 1 water at various points and the con- tinued rain is raising the streams to Another Skirmish in Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., April 19. In a sensational pistol duel this afternoon V. D. Nicholas killed Owen Brad ley, the noted trainer of thorough- brcds. shootine: him through' the rieht side. A woman Is said to he " . . A. .L"w7 " men met in a down town saloon. Nicholas was the onlv man 10 sneak- "understand you are looking for me," he said. Then he drew his re volver and Bradley fell dead, his own pisioi nan drawn, uotn men are known to have been paying at- tention to a woman named Smith. Nicholas is said to have spent a i. f.11 f.j!Hr:?A lT V T aP'? V VTMley. NlCft- oias is a young lawyer 01 one or tne 1 best known families in Lexington. His father, CapUin W. D. Nicholas, was a former sheriff of the county and afterwards cashier of a local bank. An Eng-lUh Firm to Erect a Mammoth Steel Plant near Washington, Washington, April 19. W. Jes- W1U 06 in operation. ine deal was closed last nignt oy dney J. Robinson and Colonel Herbert Hughes, English attorneys for the firm. "p'J "" ojvueuury. m..l. A 1 a. a .a. -V Frankfort, Ky., April 20.-The W in the of Capt. Garnett ui rUfc k.,: : , . i"Ftj , va.ai6c w im irii.K in a V.OU- sination of William Goebel, today rendered a verdict of not truiltv. a! . t:..i . ,., fourth one of I Vtttti. iviuifv waa mc the alleged .Goebel suspects to be , . , m . . tried, rnejury wa composeu ex Cluslvely Of DCUlOCratS. The matter of a requisition for iRiini theme of popular specula- I i: v...a a a "j " I wou uul up lu iiuou Mjuay uo appii cation tor extradition papers naais"oi a, uurgutr wuo waa suempuug been filed. The WrU Trained Servant Gotna; "orth. Washington, April 19. At the meeting of the American Social Sci ence Association today, Mrs. Olga T nwntk nt. Vii. t . - Ti Pf on domesUc service in the South, I Mhii atioil f no amnta rtvm rrtA itvt r u,w "6tu "-" uu Yti ournug ugu and taking away all the well-trained and reliable colored people from that section. Th who am left are mostiv what are called the "new issue" ne- I trprvAa urhn have trrntcn tin in fWaA. dom uttf untrained as cooks, - 1 """"""us uuibco. ojto na. nopeiuuy oi tne prospective results of the estabushment at Hampton ana eiPew nere oi scnoois tor tne in- letrUCtl0I0fJy0un? men and In household work. A West Vtrrtniaa Coaaal Appointed Washington. April 19. The Pres- Ident to-day ' appointed Samuel T. 1 supleton, of West Virginia, to be 001 Gf, the United States at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Richmond to Have a 100,000 Library. Richmond, April 19. The board of Aldermen decided tonight to ao- cent the Carnegie proposition of a gift of $100,000 for a public library pro- vided the city shall : appropiate $10,- 000 a year for the maintenance of the in I Institution. The common "council IT7.V. : . "I lUi W " 011 hUV 4ou " THE CHIKESE UI1ISTEI AT CHAILOTTE Ja WM Barter! aland by tba Mutbrtimn l lab. kra Charlotte, N. C. April Is Wu Ting Fang, Chli minister, arrived lu Charlotte this uiorolug ,frotu Washington at I spent the day ax a guest ofthe Southern Manufacturer' Club, together with Senator Mc Laurin, Senator Pritchard, Dr.Chas. babney, President of the L'nlver ity of Tenneiweearui other dlstiii- gub0ed pernouagtM. i aa-t t ,... i usicr v u iuiuiuuiiriy uou rival was ecorted to the club by l)m A TomPkilu aui others. Ou "chin the club breakfast for four was served with the orient net in the midst ofthe bustling and mod ern Occident. Indeed, the Chlnt-se have come to Identify California with America, but the recent dis turbance in China have made some unexpected revelatlahV The un settled state of things of North China is found to affect seriously the cot- rt!0?' 801,1 b;rn Statw of the United States. "In a memorial from the cotton manufacturers of the South, addr ed to the Hecretary of - State In No vember last, commending the open door policy in China, the statement is made that laree oart of trie nm- " ductlon of the cotton drills and shefttineM manufactured in the u,,.krn mlllj Sj .w.i ,v v. i. - facturers of cotton goods that would be seriously affected, but the South ern planter and cotton grower u ho finds a ready cash sale for his pro ducts at his very door; and also the good of employes and laboring classes who are engaged in the cot ton mills and depend on the success of these manufacturing industries for a livelihood. "This Is a new bond of sympathy between China and the United States. I say a new bond, because it is of a comparatively recent grow in The trade has oracticallv aorunir uo sine I 1HAA A a. A s f a t J I 10WD l,8lHa WU1 xnw ou !hlna Imported last year over five times the amount of American cot ton goods measured In American dollars that she did in 1895. The value of American cotton goods im P011 into China in 1899 accord ing to the imperial maritime us- 10018 of China, Is even larger than S. T Z a 111 A. , TtKrT " " ' DARING DEED OF A YOUNG BOY. Uereated Baadlta In Their Attempt to Kob bis Father Honae. Greensboro, N.C.April 19. Last night burglars visited the office of John A. Young, at his nurseries, just east of town, and but for the into tne omce and Keep quiet. wniie tne Durgiars were discussing what to do with him, the boy seized a rifle from its rack on the wall and would have shot one of the men had not the other knocked the I a 1 a a weapon rrom tne ooy-s grasp. I fl-a a . . a uieveiand was vnen seized, pound and gagged, and leix lying on the fl.w. hv the side of the safta whiph It 1 ,1 l.V.,.! A T V ' ' struggle he managed to oixn his pocket knife and cut one ofthe cracksmen, but it is not known how seriously he was injuted. The man 'cu un t "tuuu nuui utc uuitc I l ;t , 4 C a , t to his buggy, in wnich he and his companion drove off. The boy re- was in Mt Airy at the time I A fan, nmnthc lh!a aomoW. i -" u.vuaa . to enter his father's commissary store. The dead body of an unknown man was found lying by the side of the railroad track, near Mnrehead station, eight miles north of Greens boro, this morning. It is supposed that he was run over and killed by a train. Mr. Wu to a Young Iaady. Charlotte Observer, Minister Wu knows how to out- wit the women, as is evident . I from what he Raid to a Charlotte vounsr lady yesterday afternoon at the re- i cepnuu. . me aaar uuo aaj.tx. m. wu, are all tne men in , unina as nice as you are?" The fhrewd orentleman answered: "1 snail an- wer your question by asking -one. Are all the young women of Char lotte as sweet as you are?" At this juncture the curtain fell and the young lady passed on. A Talking Clock. The High Point correspondent of the Charlotte Observer eayte ; . Mr. J. J. Oakley, electrician, whose place of business is in the rear of the Brower House, has by a simple contrivance invented a tant ing clock. A small motor connects the clockTo a phonograph andev.ry hour the clock speaks out: "It is 12 o'clock," or whatever the hour i mav be. It is truly a remarkable I , , : I Pw u,auiuvjf UNUSUAL stors.i: RAINS, SNOW AX1 ULSHIMi STREAMS CAir.SIMi PE ST RUCTION AMI DISTRESS. DISASTER FROM NORTN TO SOUTH. trtdr Ooaa-Traia. Wreck d l.arv laaarartarina- I'laata Habturx d jW and Freeaiac Watber la vjuifc.rn c- Uoaa, roarteea locbeaor iau ia Kea tacky Moaataloa. 1I.. .1... II. a it . . m. tit-uuii, 1 .prii iu. mis dty is a centre of a h ide-pread and disastrous storm. For a radius of 150 miles lu western Pennsylvania, '"' vui-j aim tri inriuia. 1 rain or snow ha been falling almt without intermission for three lay.come rents, creeks are swollen and out of .UUI1IIMIU DIIT-BII1S IM11IIIIM Itir.l ALaI- W 1. . Jal a- . I tut-ir urauras anu uie oig UVers irv SWwaXl no , at!., is! wm . . . . n 1 . aJ I a i-tum mr. in- nnan-i lusscauuoi oeesumaie-j. in ad- dition to the hundreds of thousands A Vw lKo n l.v... - . f .1 11 fa I uu j.u. m. ..amis ui uuiiars u I will cost to put large m inu tact u ring plants in com mission again, 'ens of I thousand of skilled workmen are thrown out of employment and Io-e their wages just at a time when all the Iron and steel mills are rushed with order. While few and iin authenticated reports of sta istics have been made, disease and death will follow in the wake of the fl..od. To-night thousands of people ar lying in the upper rooms ot their water-so.nkeil Imuses without neat, light or food. Where gas fuel 1 used the pips are fl(Mled ami cut off, and what coal there may ba is under five to ten fe t of water. At Schoenville, the home of tv Pressed Bteel Car Company, the lit tle town is completely surrounded by water. The" workers and their families constitute a community of several thousand persons. Wheeling, W. Va., fears the most ILsastrous flood in its history. In many parts of Penn-ylvania and Ohio, probably the heaviest storm ever Known at this semon ot the year has been raging for two lays. Reports from Ohio towns are to the effect that church services may have to be abandoned and in hustling communities where gas is a- I 1 a. . 1 . 1 .-. 1 a? I uie regular luei, ueaiers are masing arrangements to deliver coal to- morrow. On one railroad in Ohio, passenger trains were stalled, engines a a - a 1 r 1 a - . I rwtit iaj ucir rescue oecame uurieu in the snow, and all must wait with a hope for milder weather. Busiuess, religion, domestic com fort and health are all at the mercy of the storm. Several narrow es capes from death have been reported and it is probable that whin t'.. flood sub-rides it may reveal a num ber of ghastly secrets. In thousands of places in the storm stricken dis trict it is but a short step from safety to death. Steam and electric railroad tracks are buried undr thousands of tons of earth, washed down irom tne mil sides and in some cases the tracks have, been moved. Where the snow ami sleet a., . ail t- went down under the burden and costly railroad and other have been washed away and their piers weakened. The big manu facturing plants in this, .the indus trial centre of the world, have suf fered severely. The workers will lose their watres lor two days to a week or more, and many of them can Illy afford the loss. But. the most serious item of all will follow the flood. That is the little homes that are almost ruined and the sickness that inevitably succeeds. flood Recedlnc. Pittsburg, April 21. Pittsburg and Allegheny are slowly emerging from the murky flood. At 8 p m. the rivers were receding nearly a foot an hour. The highest point reached at Davis Island dam was 25.8 feet at 3 a. m.. which mean 28 feet at the junction of the Alle ehenv and Mononghela rivers. I he water ramiued stationary until about 3 p. m , when it began to fall. Con servative estimates of the total dam age in this district is between $2, 000,000 and $3,000,000. Fifty thou -and workers are suffering from enforced idleness. While there have been greater floods at this point, there was never one that caused so much financial loss and discomfort This was due to the denser popula tion caused by the recent rapid growth ofthe two cities and to the fact that all the manufacturing plants on the river banks were in active operation, most of them work ing night and day, until the rising water put out the fires and drove the workers to higher ground. PECULARITIES OF THE STORtt It waa Attended by Some Featarea aitaer to Unknown - A Zone of Rain 200 Mllaa ta Diameter. - Pittsburg. April 21. The most widespread ana destructive storm, mm 1 irom a material point 01 view, nas Dassed it nas leit a zone 01 nun 200 miles in diameter. - It was un usual in that it possessed so many differiner features. Cities 70 miles from Pittsburg were tied up by 01 of the worst snow storms ever known. While the snow tall was so wet that it clung in weighty reiepnone messages irom uie wesu masses to. shade and fruit trees and u section of this county report that electric wires and poles, bearing 'the South Fork river Is very high, lhn ! tbo earth, it artted ' steam and trvt rllndji like rtd, -tapping all trrh- aixl tna td trlarliu a tt-at fr oil tlw m4 hardy. T1h fall vtt t lttv ud -iuian-4i in 4ih pit.- tt.a th rvoi.U-nt-. tlnUn- it --n.-.l hie IM- I'tir-Ullar (ii a kImiW uxttavra Nurk a4 rtuul IHiivill-, Ky.. April Ju IUar- ? ama-a.1 l.t.. a. . . . I . : . a ! pripiiati.Mt . i ram ami . 'Jiow, have la-en prrvaleut t.djy in j iiaan states 01 ittv .ulti. It i leared that in rsjin.- lliiU- uug cn;pn liaw Xmrn -luni.il vjr k lld by the fru-t or cold. At iiutiv uiinin. Irtlcularly in e-a.teni Ktfitieky, eastern Tenu--u aixi N'iriru.ii, thn U-mpetature wi lower than ki .wu in a decade at thitim of year. In the mountains of Ket.tu-k v th.- now fall Wb- unbroken an I tbl- afternoon I4 1mh-s wen n-port el at Ix.ntlon and MtdIltt m. All the Mr. -am there aiv liank lull hjetural orei-ratioi... .r.. l-i .... ... 1 vu iu 11.. hoints In I lie Vkl.- -f.ir.. thaws and exfa'ted tio hI- I m-hjiis 1 it "in jriioi, a, 1111a UrteriiiMiii w,r that a .ia..v.-r..... 1. -a. !.: . 1 . I : -av- fluo.1 was rairli.w ata.ut ii ...il f - of that place. A lu fool bridge .mi the Norfolk A Western Uailr.rad WmA washe! away near Wvth. vitle. Va and tor .iifht or t.-n n.ii.t. th. track ii from four to mx twt under water The Big Sandy, Twelvr Pl, and New River are at flood tide and many thousands ofhig luve U-t-n swept away, lu Wet- Virginia over a foot of snow has fallen in the lat 3d hours. Near Blacksburg, S. C, a tow 11 on the South Carolina aV lsr;ia Kx teusioii Itailroad. a tre tl was uu- derminvd by the high walr ami to day a combination freight and a-seng.-r ran into a wa-thout. (tut- trainiuan was badly hurt an. I the other is missing. 'I he water in all the streams about Btack-bug U higher than has been known in J years. Hichmond, April '2. There has iK-eu heavv snow in Smith inuiilv. Lnd the streams are iinisl,le. At one time toniav the Norfolk A Western Itailniad tracks were t.mr lVet uader water at a ooint U t , ,, Wvtheville and Max Mead..w. tint no HIiai damatrH u asdt...... Tht 1 4 . - bridge on the ISorth Carolina divi- sion oi the same road at rosters Falls, New river, ha leeu swept away entailing heavy loss. New river is higher than at any time since 18S7. It Ls up 21 fiet &ud twice iu witlth. The roll er mill. iee oi-nt and eve.al r.i dences are under water to their first Tories and the water Ls still rising Watermelon Crop Injured. Atlanta, April 20. A sjaviai to The Constitution from Allany. (la , savs: "Growers of watermelons and cantaloupes iu this section of Geor gia fear that last night's cold and high wind has done them ceriou- damage. Some farmers report the destruction of cotton plant just out of the ground. THE STORM IN NORTH CAROLINA. Kngrin er Metclf Killed at Huflalo reek Treat le Ki rem an Khyna lteecued After Br aklng- Ilia Arm. wnviu. 4 i'i 11 a--r a uutair SlhulKv & i.ril !! Tka ...). bound S. C. A ;. freight train fell in the Buffalo trestle, this side of Blacksburg, S. C, eleven mile east of here, this mornine and killed Engineer J. D. Metcalf. Fireman f red itiiyne jumped in the river and was rescued a mile and a hall further down, his arm broken and otherwise injured. Only the engine and one box car fell in the river. which wa greatly swollen. The engineer is buried beneath all this debris. The engine and box tar are sunk out of sight iu water and mud. Bridg-ea Wubnl Away. Mill. TotnMod Into ttreanta and Ian-l Badly Waab-d. Monroe, April 20. The rain storm in this county was m -st de al ructive la-t night. Bridges were torn up and washed away, mill houses tumbled Into the creeks and disappeared and the land every where was frightfully damaged. The bridge across Bear Skin creek, next to town, was moved down the stream about a hundred yards. Three bridges on Richardson creek, at Lee's lower mill, and the Mullis bridge, on the Gold Mine road, were washed away. A great number of th smaller bridges were destroyed, while others of the larger ones were considerably damaged. Mr. Jim Simpson's grist mill, on Stuart Fork, was moved down the stream about a half mile. The Tarlton Mill, on Richardson creek, belonging to Messrs. J. H. and E. C. Williams, was completely destroyed. The oldest inhabitant, truly, never saw anyining use 11. ine a a a a. Man rainfall " yesterday and last night measured 3 inches, most of this falling between 7 and 9 o'clock last night. c A Snow 8ona at AaWviUe. Asheville, April 20 It has been snowing hard here since last night. but the snow has melted fast and there is not over two inc&es on the 1 groun(j. It is still snowing to-night at thia houXt n qc. Aa Iron Bridge In Catawba Cotwty Car ried Away. 2 Newton, April 20 The heavy rains have done much damage in Catawba and Lincoln counties 1 aw a A A aud that mm h U4tuai uil U o.e. ' rd. TUtya Iruo tt-a" at Mu fl' t4t. Mill, atiitli a rtr t ; a fVv tii1ti ax-i. t -d tu r ilM - n kUl itr nr!r tM imrtt i iu, . il a I tllv funlwf d..n n t Irr rru lit fit ur' null dam - .1 a...l.l Tl- ...1 f i ... .1 Vaw M.rirtl. Awil lbi in. -run i; ait th i .finiM-! a wrrr ul d t..ri.i i In ! j.r,r, 1 . niviMi uiMviawiMi sriKi wui.i 1 ttiitKvninrifMnMif tMiat mil I aaK-a a4 Mrrd la t-l a t altaa. a-v Writn fma ai A.tl - aaa I Iai4. aad K4m HdWr'i k. &taaaari af m aval' tian aaxl kla la..laaf y aa4 I a Ta m.mm Mv4lka4 Muw. iaaa aa f Mlta II wM aa f tM aM tmm f Mlt II I. I.I, .1 ill IK., . M i!A ii P.M'l. Ilo. Muilos Hi Tt.I.H, ItAl M.II N t . M llKAKMU: I bae ju-I i-aat yir lat rR-ttl mad- Mi lie- "s-i.at iu It-gard to the iiuu r'i.ator r'. M Siiiuiioii I write lotliaok iu l-r your tailtl and maii'y e&Kiti.xi ttie dirty "ilitll ln. tlt.t- -t thi III all SllliUKilt-. You kltow that 1 am a demitat, but it l a depl.ral. thing to me to any tuau claim ing lo be a leiinrat, r-wrt to melh.als to w-urv hin ov.li 4oln tiou, that would disgrace and hould diogract any u.aii. You also hhowetl the part that John I). Kerr, ot Clinton, placed iu thi" dirty work, llesltoul.i rein.-iu- U-r that the reionl ot !samiu county fifty year tank will -how something of Ids aiM--tors slid old men like myr-elf renieu.U-r tliln- and ta-lieVe there is miiib tiiiiiaT iu the blood oi iim-ii as well as hor- This w iut4-r I have clM-ly r-al the Coiignssional llixiird, and can truly say that 1 feel proud of your course lu the o-nate, ami -iiicerelx hope that the 'ijirk cloU'l thai is now hanging over our nation may ooi pass away, anl that yoj nuv find an opening where you can -rf the people in the future with that in -rvasil ability that lime inul bring. 1 should lie pi ad l ti ar l your ell doing, tor our ctiuntry inu-t deHnd umh I told, In met. t youn men to save it from the corruption of tin present day. Ourople shoulil not de-pond. hut go forward and work with iu i na-sNi . nergv to maintain our n- publit-an firm of government anl mauh.iod. Very truly yours, EvKKtTT Smith. The Mill ne to te IUilMI. New Orleans, April I'asseng er from Havana reiiort that the work of raising the battleship Maine will liegin May i.ih. The cort'er- dams built around the wreck w ill be completed, it U eia-ctel, early In the summer, but the work of pumping out the wat r w ill In de ferred to I he fall because of the stench due to the ofl mud in which the ship is sunk and the fe.r that it may cause disease. The Maine will U bro-ight to New Orleans a soon as raised to be retired litre, so a to stand the longer voyage to some Atlantic a Iort. The tsports that Make the Man. Miir Thomas Upton, K. C. V. O., has writteu especially for The Satur day Kvening Post, of May 11, an article ou The rSjiorts t.'iat Make the Mau. lie places yachting high on the list, aud gives some inter, sting anecdote ol his ow n caieer a- an amateur yachtsman. Sir Thomas U hopeful, if not con- ndenu 01 "Uiuiiir" me .merica Cup next auttnuu. He says, how ever, that it it were a certainly ne would not cross the water; for tber.- 1 no siiorting interest in ure things." This article will apjiear exclu-ive- In The Saturday Kvening Post, ot Philadelphia. HURLED TO DEATH. Body of Mack Orr Broken la to Frac Charlotte, N. C, April 17. Mack Orr, employed at Llddell's foundry. was caught on a revolving shaft while mending a belt this afternoon nd was whirled around perhaps three hundred times beiore the machinery was stopped. At each revolution the unfortunate man's body was thrown against part of a crane sttnding near. The body was finally taken down. Part of the bone of one leg was found after hav ing been hurled twenty feet through a m ar a f a 9 a window, rans oi nis ie-i and legs were picked up all over the foundry. All work wast mmedlat lv stopped by the company for the remainder of the day out of respect for the deceased. School for Rough Riders. Trenton, April 18. The Cody Military College and International College of Rough Riders was incor porated here to-day with $500,000 capital. The company is incorporat ed to conduct institutions to give instructions in military science, cavalry service, scouting and rough riding. One of the incorporators Is Colonel William F. Cody, the noted rough rider and scout, whose home is at Cody, Wyoming. Another is Colonel John Schuyler Crosby, who will have charge of the eastern department of the company, w ith offices in New York. 111 Ut A CTIIMO. 9l 4 a - . . lU, tU- , tt.4 -ltiMt. tahkb t-. w. , tn.K) Wi,n,.fi!, t;a, uf rmJu. t4" a awiii da U. tla Miik- u..-?. .4 le-. tl au j .t .itrta-lty. Sr a 114. u t-t taW '!y a at I iu c. um.w. v t n th . f4 a iwrmt-jf ..J ;itKitt. tr4 iu m4i.ai ao.1 .-ai.t r.Hr. .j I -roti l. r riuit. aaa .ati-w. ,u l.-t mm3 Xtaaii. 'that Wh.fl IU llt-ulatral ta. . tvv.ad n.atwt il .rti.- ebatru-lty u-.u it-i. St,, tt earth l an tnu..td t-.I at.. r,.. v.r in an lit !... u.afiM-tic r 14 r.lit.. tty Uh aun, tlw r-m t-u iri uifiMt aajr aa a r (riu. I ra. earth I ti..u.aUl N.tuw tf. air that Hiui.. tt km a I.. lt-t or, and t..f that ra.ii J.tr. Hv - lM ra:.I . I! .a- l-olul..i ,a tt.- . artlt i ii itiiitwati tnit i r.- taln-l and utai.ll.w-t. it li hi v i,t e tail lite WeatlM-r." "Aifl a that Ibe r.-tatl-.n .. tb tarth on t at.it . at. t Utrt.al lt-totlieta.)n alai" ; Iiimmk lu-i.Ni i rv.., r eal prx.laat.Je hy uy al i -l4t,. Not Miy Um. rotatl.Hi uu n. but It. reVolutl.Mi, taai, ataaut tin--Uli l tin- reauit .t ritriil off elaxtro-maiH-lic aa li... V'- klta.W Utal lite fUfi rt taw lUiil. .Nov.. I find by - tie rin.ent thai w ImIi a magnet otaUa it inw iii'ttl. Ini.1j.-h m itniii it UitliH-iK' to rt-..v. atatul it. The Leaf . r lliey ar- l.i Ihe InaiCIM t II.. a-lr tiny revolt,-, altd till- la tta-tM y v. nat we o! a re Hi the u-. .. tl- pUi. ta. And 1 have al-s. di-ovt-rea that a -iWi-fe ivoi atatut a ii.Ak-ii. t tun.a m alv Tlli- la due to the al ihat tb-fide iM-anat the luaglM-t ia -lighlly r tard.il by tiie ef!. I ,f (m attraction, aud thla iius tlw gl.ata. to rotate w bile moving lu iu .. rl.it rouli.l I lie magnet. fo we rat that the Mill by its OW II liMKiotl tauaa Ibeeartii to revolve ataaut it and l nat iu turn produc. the rotation .. iheearih oil ltata, whlcli givtva ua ur at uip.ph. ric eh tr Icily. " A laar for l.aaaia- ta If i at il Jai ksoUVllie, HI., l)ifaatl li to tha lUltiuiore JSuu. The Lunatic 1 1 era).!, a n-w a-r lsr.ue.1 lien by m-h . J. lia-ja-r, who dclan-a "it is no dlgra to liave gone crazy," is lt.un.i to t reat lively interest m Iim ImUi plunge In to the jouruali-tic m. The eilitor admits he m a lunatic, aud stales that the oltject of Ida -prr is t. pruinote the lntenv.; ol' asylum inmate.. Itn tir-t nuutU-r Uars atate of April, r.t K uM, first articlt la-gin- in thin bra-y way: Miell. A. I J. Il-a-r of (lUltixf, 111, It. n. A., lite man who put down the rebellion, al-o the mau v ho has the iAst nor.! as a first - class lunatic of any mau iu tin- hta' or nation irhas, having Lain de clared I tisane lhre dinVrent tliije. and nerved five different timea In tt Illinois (X-ntral Hospital for iiisan at Jacksonville, 111., in tteu last three yearn, and exa-cta to Uktti lupt-graduate txsirse; tiM mau who hat been lied on and misrepresent! more tliaii any tuan or woman ou earth, extept M. i'aul and Mr. Mary Baker ii. liddy; aiol protably i he only mau in the Uuiul Htatea having two e.iuervators at the name lime, benidos one excons-rator, all living anI doing wed, tia .tablltb- eil a two-column, '12 iage hand- somely illustrated inU-rnatioiaal hu manitarian monthly magazine. known a-t The lunatic Herald, own- el, edite-i and con I rolUd exclusively by a chronic lunatk, aud devoted to the interest of that most fortunate (? or unfortunate (?) clam of io ple. who are iDtuttcn of the varioua hospitals for inue, tjith public ami private, throughAit the civilized vorld; al-o to secure a mend men la to tle lunacy law of tlie varioua slaten, many of which are imperfect, and ai-o to counteract tlie Tevaillng sentiment that it is a disgrace Vj liave gone crazy or tjeeu an inmate of a h.jr.pital for insane. "A fool never go crazy or get bald-headed. Subscription priSl per year In advance. Single num ber, 19 cents. A first-clam adver tising medium." An Attempt to Kidnap a Child. Rutherfordton, X. C, April 18. A few nights ago some unknown persop attempted to kidnap the three year-old -child of Mr. W. A. Parker, in Cleveland county, at Camr. The kidnaper could not Uj captured and there U no clue a to who he was, or what he wanted with the child. The man was concealed near the house, and when the child came out on the porch attempted to make off with it. Tax on Runs! an Sugar. New York, April 19. The Board of Classification ofthe United States General Appraisers today, announc ed a decision In the Russian sugar case. The board by a majority vote holds that the United States Gov. eminent was justified In Imposing a countervailing duty on Russian sugw ar. The opinion was written by Judge iSomerville and General Ap prabr Fischer concurs w ith him. Color el Ticbenor writes a dissent ing opinion. . Taw .