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ESTABLISHED 186 TELEGRAHPJO SUMMARY. The Attorney Gem rai ot Illinois pro nounces the American Tobacco trust dangeronts arid gigantic tru-t and will bring fciiit ajrainsc ic and 200 leading business men of Chicago as its Mr. Frank Hatton, ''editor Washington Post, died at 4:30 agents, of the o'clock last afternoon.- Trouble on the Nor folk and Western railroad has been averted by the company restoring the 10 per cent, cut in wages to train men. No decision has ye, been made as to the location of the next S ate Guard en campment. Mr. L. T. ilyers has re signed as general superintendent of the Seaboard Air Line S3 stem. The new company of the Fourth regiment at Elk in is armed. -Gen. Cotten, Grand Master of Masons, goes to Oxford to turn the asylum over to -Mr. Lawrence, the new superintendent. Strawberries are being injured by the. drought A number of employes at the Seaboard Air Line shops at Raleigh will be dropped from the rolls. A boiler ex plosion at Williamston kills one man and wounds many others, three fatally. Carelessness of the engineer was the cause The negro Lawrence Speller has been indicted at Staunton, Va., for the murder of Lottie Ilowe and has been arraigned. The case will be called for trial to-day.- -At Tallulah, La., the court yesterday allowed four of the men in jail, charged with the Boyce assassi nation, to plead guilty of manslaughter and they were sent to the penitentiary. The others were discharged. Coxey and his army have reached Washington and put up their tent in Brightwood park. No J ad mission fee is charged, but all who enter are requested to make con tribution. The receipts Sunday amounted to $700. Coxey says he will march to the Capitol to day and will camp oh the LCapitol grounds to-night. The miners in two of the mines at Coal Creek, Tenn., strike. -There is probability of a case of lynching at Hick's Wharf, Va. The-India mints will not be opened to the coinage of rupees. By the earthquakes in Greece 400 persons are killed and 20,000 ren dered homeless.- Thirty thousand masons and bricklayers are on strike in Vienna. A fearful landslide occurs on St. Annie river above Quebeq. Six square miles slip into the river. Many houses were destroyed and persons killed. Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, died in Chicago yesterday. Jl FEARFUL EXPLOSION Of Saw Mill Boilers at Williamston The Bnu'dinfiT Wrecked One Man Killed lkai,y Wounded Care lessness of the Engineer. -Special to the JKessenger. Williamston, N. C, April 30. This morning at 7 o'clock our town was thrown into a fever of excitement by a terrific explosion. Some thought it an earthquake, others a falling meteor, while others would not venture an opin ion. The explosion was found to be the. boilers of a shingle and lumber mill, owned by Messrs. Robertson and God win, located on the river near the wharf front of Main street, It was indeed a fearful casualty. . Excitement ran high: and in a re markable short space of time hundreds had gathered upon the scene and willing hands, both white and colored, went Jto work manfully removing the debris and ' taking out the unfortunates. Some of them were cut and mangled almost be yond recognition. Ten were taken out who had been caught by falling timbera, etc. One of these, Isaac Bright, was dead. Three others will probably die. They were all carried to Mr. S. R. Biggs' drug store, which was made a temporary hospital where both of our doctors, Har reJ and Knight; were kept busy for over three hours, dressing their wounds. They were then carried - to their, respective liomea. Some ten to fifteen men in the building were slightly injured, but not seriously. One of the boilers was blown to at oms, while the other waa thrown. thirty yards from his bed. A portion of one of them was thrown 100 yards away and through one of the steamer's warehouses, other portions from 100 to 300 yards in different directions, while flying lumber went in all directions. To stand and look at the scene now one can hardly see how any of those in the building escaped alive. All of the unfortunates were colored men and women, except one, and some of them very good citizens. The wo men had gone there to carry breakfast to thei; husbands. The cause was carelessness. The fire' man allowed the water to get below in nf thft boilers. Some think he was drunk. Mr. Robertson, the manager, says it was carelessness but he is not disposed to think him drunk, although he wB drunk yesterday. ' Mr. Warren, the white man, escaped with a slight scald and few scratches Mr, Robertson, the manager, was at Llhe boiler only about three minutes pe fore tfee aiscent and was called out of the bui1 'J asure 001116 lumben But for th woul bave gOD6 With .l m. tuiock wm t eifr over seven merest, me - miles away. MR. Li. T. MYER3 BESIGNg. The Office of General Man' Jfe10 e' main Vacant The New . Naperin. tendent of the Oxford As'am to be installed Straw berries SufferinjrJFrom the Drought. . fSpeeUl to the Messenger. Raleigh, April 30 Mr. L. T. Myers has resigned as superintendent of ;the Seaboard Air Line. There are intima tions that the office may remain vacant. The new company of the Fourth regi ment at Elkin was armed to day. Gen. Cotten, Grand Master of Masons, was here this evening on his way to Ox ford where hewill to-morrow supervise the turning over of the orphan asylum by Rev. Dr. Black, the retiring superin tendent, to Mr. Lawrence, the new one. Reports to-day state that the drought is cutting off the Btrawberry crop. It is thought that a number of the employes at the shops of the Seaboard Air Line here will be drooped from the ANGRY SENATORS. DECIDEDLY UN PARLIAMEN TARY LANGUAGE. Senator Voorhees Crosses Swords With Senator Sherman Senator Tarpie's Vicioua Attack Upon ' Senator Aldrich, Charging Malicious Falsehood The Letter's Signifi cant Reply. , SENATE. Washington, April 30. Senator Wol cott promptly brought on the tariff dis cussion in the morning hour by asking Senator Harris "if it is not fair to us that he should inform us whether or not this is the bill - on ' which we shall be called upon to vote? 1 Ilere fe a bill reported by the Finance committee. - Every -'section must be dependent and inter-dependent on other sections. If yon cut off revenue by changing the duty on one article, you alter the whole scope and harmony , of your bill. If this bill is to be the billon which your party is to stand; if this bill is to furnish you the revenue for which alone you institute a tariff, with a possi ble incidental protection, is it not ex tremely unfair to us to ask us now to vote on the bill, having in your mind the knowledge that committee admendments will be offered that will entirely change its scope and character? It has been .widely and openly asserted that thi in come tax provision is to be emasculated, or changed; that the sugar trust is to re ceive an additional differential, giving it in all about ic a pound; that specific duties are to be restored for ad valorem; that the lead trust is to receive from H to 2 cents additional, and that then, with the income tax cut out, the bill is to go through booming. It is not fair to us that we should be called upon to vote for section after eeo tion. if the knowledge rests within the heart of the Finance committee, or any member of it, that there are changes contemplated. I understood the Senator from Tennessee the other day to deny in dignantly that there were to be any changes. I do think that those of us who want to help get the question settled are entitled to know whether or not this is the bill on which we are to be called upon to vote." Senator Harris I stated to theSenate on Saturday, and I am ready to re-state it here and now, and all times, that I am ready to compromise conflicting opinion, and am willing to make modifications where they are absolutely necessary in order to pass the bill. Exactly what those amendments are to be I am not prepared to tell the Senate. I am now prepared to tell the Senator that when ever the Finance committee shall have determined on any specific amendment I shall insist upon its being reported to the Senate, printed and laid on the table, so that every Senator can scrutinize it and be prepared to express his judgment upon it. Senator Wolcott Is it fair then for the Finance committee, with the knowl edge resting in their breast that there are to be amendments off ered, to present this bill for us to vote on by sections? Is it not the only fair and the only upright thing for the' committee to take back this bill and fix it up -and then present it to us Senator Teller joined in Senator Wol- cott's suggestion and Senator Aldrich said that it was evident that the majority of the Finance committee was as far from agreement as to the terms of the bill as it waa three months ago. it was due to the country and to the Senate to know what bill the Senate was to be asked to consider. Senator Harris House bill No. 4864 is the bill which the Senate is asked to consider. Senator Aldrich was about to read tne Carlisle interview published this morn ing, but was cut off by a demand from Senator Allen for a vote upon the pend ing question a motion to take up the Tariff bill. . . The motion waa agreed to ana the Tariff bill was taken up. Senator Aldrich referred to senator Voorhees' statement last Saturday that he (Aldrich) had uttered an untruth in saying that some 800 amendments had been agreett to in conierenee nutweeu " Secretary of the Treasury and some Democratic members or tne rinance committee. - Senator Voorhees difipjaimed any in tention of personal offene. fte had mfirelv wanted to convey to me senate and to the country the fact that the Sen- ator was taiKing un uuuiuiuuu, as he wa now. When the Senator from Rhode Island stated the other day that there were 200 or 300 amendments agreed upon, he (Voorhees) said that the state ment was not true, anti no repcau i that it was not true not one word of it. poubtless," Senator voornees aaaea, there were amendments in contempla tion, but toe statement or tne secretary of the Treasury as published in the news papers was merely conjectural as to what might happen. Be wished to make no question of veracity with the Senator from Rhode Island; but his in formant had informed him falsely, and if after tnat, ne mais. me omwuwu again, he wold do it on his own respon sibility." SAnatnr Aldrich I am informed and believe that at this very moment in the neighborhood of 300 amendments have hwin nracticallv: aerreed uoon between the high contracting parties which will change completely the character of the pending measure. Now vfcat J desire imnrpfis udou the Senate and the country is the fact that to-day, three months after the passage of the bill in the House of Representatives, the official organs of th majority of this body are no nearer in conclusion as to the charac ter of the bill than they freye three months ago. Senator Mills characterized the discus- started bv the other side as a pyro technical digpjay from the enemy, got up for the amuseme& qf the ground- linrra orri ftf t.hrw.ft in the sit. ' tie de clared that the rules of the Senate ought Ho rhonced and then the bill of the mainritrv wnilld DaSS Oromptlv. nnrAeA frnm the rec- 1 rAew passages in Senator Shermans Lk Ae Jpnr.Satni'dav. comprising the sp V'A ' - -CJ Kl.lJ , vw-. o This bill has never been con oanffin, -j j 1 Xl Journal 4 i .... j. V" com tutu wuuuu . ... hill had ittee sw-: nn March reported to tne iuu w" - u.f. o fiharmnn being oreseCj that it remained subject , to consideration oy the committee unui uui.a vw; it as actually considered by the PPf& mitte? tor twelve aays, or i" eluding Sundays; and tft&S smeuuiucuw had been offered byfSento Sherman and Morrill, discussed and some O seem agreed to. He added that his respect; for the character of the Senator from Ohio prevented him from characterizing him as the circumstances would warrant the recklessness and carelessness evinced in that Senator's statement. . . Senator Sherman insisted, fhafc his statement was subitantially true,- be: attemnt to change . what had haon aeraed upon in advance oy the ma jority of the committee, was 'so utterly r"iiU that the minority should have declined to present any anndmenteat, . . L . tt. ninuf Via sail. th?t the bill had not baen treated as other Tariff Ptt.VUT k. trotted. It had not been read in full committee, ipnffnce by sen tence, with an opportunity for friendly suggestion ann discussion. Senator' Morrill, another minority members .of the Finance committee, made a statement to the like effect. Senator Voorhees read the journel of the Finance committee from the 8th to the 27th of March to prove the correct ness of his assertion iu contradiction to Senator Sherman's statement, and added, with strong emphasis: "Whatever, may be floating in the air, the income tax will stay in this bill. I have made all the con cessions to trusts and to great protected industries that I shall make. I .have gone to the limit. I see what is in the newspapers as well as others. There will ba amendments. I am ready to make amendments of a certain character for example, to the administrative features of the measure. -1 would be willing even to adopt amendments to the administra tive features of the income tax. But as to interfering with its vitality, its sub stance and. its force, I never intend to yield. As to conceding further tr. the Sugar trust, or anything on the subject of sugar, I never intend to go a hair farther. If I am overruled by my own party I will go with my party, unless there be something in it so flagrant and outrageous that it would not be prefera ble to the existing law. In other words, as long as the .measure before us Sah improvement on the monstrous system of injustice now on the statute books, I will embrace it. But as to making fur ther concessions for the benefit of trusts, or of any other kind of protection in the direction indicated in the papers of the country, it may as well be known now as at any other time that I shall not! be a party to it. Senator Chandler inquired of Senator Hai xis when he could have the oppor tunity of making some remarks which he had kept bottled up since last Wed nesday, and was told that the obstacle was.the fact that the floor had been held for the last two weeks by Senators Quay and Dolph who "farmed it out." He hoped that that condition of things would not survive to-day. At this point in the proceedings, Sen ator Turpie rose and in a voice quivering with passion, attacked Senator Aldrich, charging him with having put forward "three lies, gross palpable; three lies basely born; three lies of inconceivable mendacity that there were 300 amend ments to be offered bv the Finance com mittee, that the bill has never been considered by the committee; and that it was not the bill which would be finally presented for action." There had been, Senator Turpie went on, denials of Sen atoi: Aldrich's statements by four Sen ators. He (Turpie) believed the greater number and disbelieved the lesser num ber, or rather the lesser unit the dimin utive unit which asserted the contrary. Who, he asked, was the father and author of all these reports with reference to these fictions? Who claimed the pa ternity of them? The honorable Senator from Rhode Island was equal to such paternity. That Senator might claim the fatherhood of many more such fables. such fictions, such falsehoods. The only notice which Senator Aldrich took of this bitter attack upon him was a quiet remark that he did not suppose that the Senator from Indiana repre sented anybody but himself, and that under other circumstances and condi tions that the Senator would not have made the speech he has just made. Senator Quay then took the floor and delivered the third installment of his speech against the Tariff bill assisted by Senator Gallinger in the reading of sta tistics. He was asked by Senator Mitch ell, of Oregon, at 5 o'clock p. m. whether he would conclude to-day, and replied that he would not. Senator Quay went i on for a few minutes longer; and than yielded for a motion to go into executive session. On that motion there was no quorum vot ing. The roll was called and forty-five Senators two more than a quorum responded. Then the question on going into exe cutive was voted on again, with a simi lar result as before; and for an hour there were alternative roll calls and votes by yeas and nays. t maliy, Senator Harris, tired of this fruitless waste of time, agreed to move an adjournment. He gave notice that if the Senate should be left without a quorum again he would move that the sergeant-at-arms be directed to compel the attendance of absentees, and Senator Gockrell, chairman of the Committee: on Appropriations added that he would in troduce a resolution directing the sergeant-at-arms to put in force the pro vision of law for deductions from the salaries of absent Senatoas. Finally, at 5:50 o'clock, the Senate ad journed till noon to-morrow, that hour being fixed to allow senators to attend the funeral of the wife of Senator Mor gan, of Alabama. Xhe tariff bill occupied nearly seven hours of the time of the Senate to-day. HQUSE ,QF REPRESENTATIVES. The House, immediately after the formal routine proceedings, took up the Army Appropriation bul and passed it without any important amendment either of appropriation or of legislation The Agricultural Appropriation bill was then reported from the Committee on Agricultural and the House adjourned until to-morrow. The'Sun's Cotton Review. 5Nbw York, April 30. The Sun's cot ton review says: It could hardly be said that there were, any new features m the cotton market to-day. ihe Bame depressing features which have brought about the recent decline were still ob- seryabje and still operative. Depressions at home &i) abroad, dullness of trade, and discouragement among tne duus caused further liquidation, and increased the confidence of the bears. The market showed . depression all day. The dry goods trade seemed to be in a rather less favofajjJp condition.; The speculation is dull and tiie iiies of the actual cot ton are disappointingly' sm&il. gne firm said : "What this market requires is that there' shall be buyers for the summer months, or that there shall be a bejer demand for the unsold cotton out of the Dresetti igd; otherwise,- it means th oarrvine over of. a' large w-Gfek, Md that means that notices will be tendered panh month as thev mature, and there will h no one to take the cotton. On the other hand, present prices are below what even' the bears generally have been expecting. There is an unltiite Supply rst An nnrl wheat, but there is only one character of oottan fcn&t -can fee dealt in speculatively, and the American crop nmmises to approximate, for some years to come, perhaps, between 7,000,000 and 8.000.000 bales. We, mention thiV because ' there seems to be j personable analogy between the low nrule ios : vrheat and the price of (fi.ton: BB bears? on tt& contrary, ar cue that cotton should go lower b&w.m t.h nnce oi wneat uao uovhv -- 2L,i'c.in hetter trade conditions and ,nfavorn.ble sr&D conditions are neces sarv to stimulate prices, ovt as any, hub Of these Or IU1 W mem ucj, when expected, it does not seem cod serVatJye to be selling the market down at present figures, as the majority seein to be doing in the f future markets of this country, as well as at Liverpool,and yet the market has very little support. S3 Death, of Senator Stockbride. Chicago, April 30. Francis Browne Stockbridge, United States Senator from Michigan, died in this city to-night a few minutes after 7 o'clock. The end came suddenly, although the Senator had been sojfined to his bed almost all the time pincl coming to Chicago from Washing ton Anril 2nd. WILMINGTON, N. C, wiJUiUlISljlUiN. N. I;.. Ill KrS DAY. MAY 1. lfiU i X AT WASHINGTON. THE COXEYTTES PITCH CAMP IN BRIGHTWOOD. Forlorn Condition of the Men Inci dents of Their Arrival Heavy Gate Receipts Almost a . Mutiny in the Army To March to the Capitol To lay Hunirry Men Bejrjfed For Food. Washington Post April SttlL After five weeks of almost continual tramping over nearly 600 miles of coun try, after fording rivers,-climbing moun tains, and facing every variety of weather from sleet and snow to summer sun, the Coxey army yesterday reached the District of Columbia and reared the walls cf its canvass home on the green infield of the Brightwood Driving park. It was a very different entry from that expected by half the country a few weeks ago. A great crowd filed down the old Rockville turnpike, with chews ing and music and waving hats, but the Coxey army was the least part of the demonstration. There was a crowd of 3,000. The army was but a scant 300. Instead of the whole police force, the District National Guard, and all of the, regulars from the surrounding country massed for a struggle with a host 150, 000 strong, a solitary mounted policeman, waiting at the District fine, rode down the pike at the head of the procession, the sole representative of the municipal authority. A sergeant of the force stood by the roadside, but he boarded an elec tric car and came in ahead, leaving the "army" to the mercy of Patrolman Hess. The army itself was a weary and foot sore company of 338 beings, scarcely to be distinguished at first glance from the veriest tramp. ; The little company soon set up its tab ernacle in the Driving park, and all through the afternoon and evening was the center of attraction to thousands of curious visitors, most of them from the very working class the army was sup posed to represent It was a rough, weary, and it must be admitted dirty, collection of men, who were "down on their luck," and who belonged to the class who always have the "world agin' 'em." But none the less it was a strangely interesting community. If was not a collection of ordinary "bums" out for a holiday jaunt. The majority of them were men who had faced hardship and suffering enough to cast a glamor of ro mance and heroism over their perfor mance in the mellow light of history 100 years hence. . On looking at the army, with all id dirt, coarseness and uncouth speech, it would be hard to dignify their suffering as a sacrifice for a principle, but they had certainly gone through experiences tnat would stagger the ordinary tramp. An advance guard of about thirty-five men, commanded by Marshal Broderick, arrived at the park soon after 10 o'clock. They brought with them the tent wagon, drawn by two stout and sleek-looking horses. They set to work at once and set up a wall of canvas inclosing a space on tne greensward about a hundred feet long and perhaps about seventy wide. On the inside of one of the canvas strips was the announcement, painted in large black letters: "He Is Alive." The can vas had formerly been used to shelter bearded ladies, tattooed men, fat men, skeletons,-and other freaks, and the let tering had not been obliterated or changed to suit the present aggregation. Un tne outside, at the entrance to the incloeure, a rudely constructed canvas sign was affixed, notifying the public that: No admission price is charged to these grounds, but all persons are ex pected to contribute 25 cents or as much as they can for the good of the cause. All penniless permitted free. "Carl Browne." This notice was afterward transferred to the gate at the entrance to the park, there being obviously no use for it inside, since those who came early got in with out contributing and the later ones did so at the gate. By this ingenious method they evaded the law, which requires a tax. . ,4By Southern Press.1 Washington, April 30. There was almost a mutiny in the Commonweal camp at Brightwood to-day. Coxey and Browne registered at the National hotel, where they spent the night comfortably. But the rank and file slept on the ground in the open air or in guch shelter as they could find in the Driving park, and this morning they were stiff with cold as well as hungry. Nothing had been pro vided for breakfast and they had noth- uig to eat until l :dU o'clocJS. There was great deal of growling and some threats and some of the men started out foraging on their own hook. Men were begging from door to door at private dwellings in Washington this evening, representing themselves to be members of Coxey's command. Early in the aiternoon some provisions arrived from the city and after the men had been fed Browne arrived with ad ditional supplies. He explained that the delay was due to the fact that he and Coxey had trusted to the local Com- gjonwealers to feed the men. "We were usy & day attending to other matters'! he said, 'trying ta get a place n town for you boys, so that you can go about the city and in the Capitol and wherever you please. We think you will behave yourselves. As Shakespeare says, 'all's well that ends wen ana so as tnis has enoefl wel I hope there wont be any more trouble. Pass the word around the boys and tell them they'll get their meals regular hereafter." There was not a murmur of dissent and so the proposed mutiny was dissi pated. Browne gave audience to the newspaper men m nis teni aiterwarus - i i i . and told them that the army would re main at xsrigntwooa park to-night ana form the line for the march to the Capi tol there to-morrow morning. "We don't know whre ve!U Stay to-morrow night" he said. "Perhaps we'll camp in the Uapitol grounds. We are going to carry tins thing through to the ena. Haven t we done everything l said, we would?:' "All except haying 10Q.00Q men to form the Darade'i sonde one said. "I did not say we'd have ltiO,'O00 men in line," answered Browne, "I said there would be 100,000 people with us in Washington. And so there will be, but they won't be in line. I know the peo ple. They sympathize with us, but they won't join in the procession to the Capi tol. But we will have luu.ouu people along the route. Trains are bringing in thousands pf rjeole, and there'll be 100, 800 strangers In W$3hiDgtp.n tq-morrow to see us." Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest LT. S. Gov't Report. mm ii i j Li TUESDAY, MAY 1, Browne said that the band and gage wagons and all the camping bag para- pnernaua would appear in the demon stration to-morrow. He was asked what ne pioposea to do if the District authori ties decided that the Darade waa in viola. tion of the law, and he answered that the army had as much right to inarch to the oapitol as any one else had, and they piu(jusBu lu uo so witn tne band playing ouu lias uying. - is early all of the foragers returned to camp in time for supper. The route from the camp to . the city has been changed. The parade will come in by the Fourteenth street road to Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of the city, thence via Fourteenth street proper to Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol grounds. At this point the body will turn into First street, up B-street to Del aware avenue, Northeast, which will place them on the northeast border of the grounds. Here it is proposed to dis band and enter as individuals unless per mission is subsequently granted them to go in as a body. Browne and Coxey spent a large part of the day seeking a location within the city for their camp. An enclosed square of vacant lota southeast of the Capitol has been offered them and if they can obtain permission from the city author ities they will doubtless occupy it. al though it affords no shelter except that from the winds by the fence. The sani tary conditions are unfavorable also. The purpose of this is obvions. Conven ience to the prospective throngs of visit ors and to the base of supplies. To evade a city ordinance which im poses a license fee of $5.00 per day upon exhibitions charging admission fees, no stated charge was made to the crowd that visited Brightwood yesterday, but a lusty lunged Commonwealer stood at a table at the entrance and announced vociferously that contributions were so licited. In this way $700 were realized and knowledge of this fact intensified the dissatisfaction at camp this morning against Bro ne's desertion to the luxu ries of the city while the men hungered. A GIG-ANTIC LANDSLIDE. Six Square Miles of Land Slide Into St. Anne's River- Above Quebec Ijoss of Ijife and Destruction i of Property. .Quebec, April 30. About 8:30 o'clock Friday night the inhabitants of the vil lage of St. Albans, situated some fifty miles from here in Port Neuf county, heard a terrific noise; resembling the roll of thunder in the distance. The soil commencing to vibrate, a panic ensued. Farmers ran out of their dwellings to avoid being buried under the ruins, as they believed the ground was going to give way beneath them. At the upper end of the yillage, some three miles from the parish church, is a curve formed by the river St. Anne, and close to the curve is a water fall 150 feet high. The ground forming the right hand side of the fall gave way, burying the pulp wood mill, which was situated under neath, and blocking the course of the stream. The stream, which was very rapid on account of the melting snow over the mountains and adjacent valley, spread over the adjoining farms and caused the undermined embankment to slide into the river, filling it up. Several houses along the river bank were car ried into the river. One of them was occupied by a family named Oaulhire, numbering four persons, all of whom perished. Smoke was seen to ascend from under the ruins showing what an awful death the occupants must have met. The ground which slid into the river measured about six square miles, whole farms being destroyed and their stocks and farm produce. The old bed of the St. Anne river is now levelled and the river runs miles from where it coursed before. Three bridges were carried away. People in the neighborhood of the scene of the disaster are still terror-stricken. The oldest inhabitants never witnessed or heard of such a thing before, although several land slides have occurred in the neighborhood during the last years. The rush of waters in the Laurentian chain of mountains is tremendous during the spring time, owing to the melting snow, and it is thought by scientific men that the ground had been honeycombed by the water, owing to the fact that the lower strata of soil forma- Imuax B myovij viaj uiauia vr- land. with trees and vegetation, have been shifted without the least disturb ances. The St. Lawrence at Quebec is covered with wreckage and carcasses of animals. ' Market boats were unable to come down. Saturday, from adjacent parishes, owing to the amount of wreck age floating on the stream. The losses are estimated at $500,000. . Base Ball. Philadelphia, April 30. Philadel phia, 5; Boston, 6. Batteries Weyhing and Clement; Nichols and Ryan. Cincinnati, April SO. Cincinnati, 6; Pittsburg, 15. Batteries Chamberlain and Murphy; Nicoi, Gumbert, Sugden and Mack. St. Louis, Apru 80. St. Louis-Cleve land game postponed rain. New York, April 30. iNew xork, o; Baltimore, 10. Batteries Westervelt, German and Doyle; Mullane and Robin son. Washington, April SO. Washington, 10: Brooklvn. 15. Batteries Hgan, Mer cer. McGuire and Dugdaie; ijastnght, Daub and uauey. Louisville, April 30. Louisville. 8; Chicago, 2. Batteries Stratton, Kilroy and Earle; McGul and Kilroy. Richmond, April 30. The game of ball to-day between Richmond and Lynch burg was" a veritable spring match. The home team were the victors by a Bcore of 42 to 8. The game was called after the eighth inning on account of darkness. Macon, April 30. Macon, b; JNew Or leans, 4. Batteries Kerwin and Hoover; Braum and Schabel CHAELESfON. April 30. Charleston, 18 Nashville. 5. Batteries McFarland and Zahner; Moran and Stallings. Savannah, April 30. Savannah, 10; Mobile, 8. Batteries Cain and Jantzen; Knorr and Trost. Atlanta. April 30. Atlanta, 0; Mem phis, 2. Batteries Chard and Boyle; Ma3on and Boian. peath of Col. Frank: Hatton. WASHiNG?QN,April 80.-rCol.Frank Hat ton, editor of the Washington Post, died at 4;30oclnck this afternoon. Me was born in Cambridge, Ohio. April 28, 1846. He began his journalistic career in the office of the Cadiz, Ohio, Republican, while he was still a boy. Upon the 1 breaking out of the late war, he enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ubio infantry; was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1864; served throughout the war, coming out aaacolqne, . ' . TWO STATUES OF VANGE IT IS PROPOSED TO PLACE ONE IN STATUARY HALL. Charged With the Harder of His Father Negroes Preferring the " Democratic to the Populist Party State Press Meeting "Postponed Decision on a New Point by the Supreme Court. Messenger Bureau, ) Raleigh. April 30. f There is a decidedly strong .effort to get up a game of base ball between Wake Forest and the University of North Carolina teams. The former team has challenged the latter. . ; Nicholson, the old white man who was taken to Webster for trial for the mur der of his son, has died. There are sus picions of foul play, so sudden was Nicholson s death. One of his also charged with the murder. The American Baptist home sons is mission society will make many improvements at Shaw university, colored, here. The buildings 'will be repainted and repaired. The pharmacy building will be enlarged and the old family mansion of the Bar ringers, now used as the president's home, will.be torn down and a new and larger one will be erected in its stead. It is now proposed to have two bronze statues of Senator Vance cast, one to be placed in the Capitol square here, the other in statuary hall at Washington. tieorge a. White, colored, is to be the Republican nominee for Congress in the Second district, it is stated. Some of the negroes have begun to at tack the idea of fusion of Republicans and Populists and say that as between Populists and Democrats they will vote tor the latter every time, . - Two convicts have arrived at the peni tentiary from Cleveland county. One is Lawson Howard, colored, who gets twenty years for murder; the other is a white man named Etters, who murdered a physician on a highway and gets fifteen years for his crime. The State universitv s summer school of geology will have its headquarters the coming summer at King s Mountain. The date of the meeting of the State Press association had been so changed as not to conflict with that of the com mencement of the State Normal and Industrial school. The trustees of the latter school met in session to-day. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Scarborough is attending the meeting. me date or the commencement of the State Agricultural and Mechanical col lege is June 20th. There are eight grad uates this year. Much work is being done at the Con federate cemetery. Many flowers and shrubs have been set out and the walks have all laid with crushed stone. The Supreme court has decided an in teresting case. A man standing in this btate Bhot and killed a man in Tennessee. In what State ought he to be tried? The court says in Tennessee. It is the first case of the kind which ever came up in this State. The cut-worms, usually bad in cool weather in the spring, are now doing an unusually great amount of damage. They are cutting all kinds of vegetables, and also corn. Many persons say they will not set out tobacco plants for fear the worms will cut them down also. Some persons from the North write here that they wish to purchase 40,000 or 50,000 acres of land in the eastern part of the State, for a game and fish preserve. ihe weather crop report to-day says of the Central district: The week was very favorable for farm work, and planting has made rapid progress, but it was too cool and dry for crops to come up and grow. Rain is very much needed every where. Cotton planting has been finished by many farmers, though some are still Elan ting. Corn is coming up fairly well, ut there was a poor stand of early corn and much will be replanted. 1 he acre age of corn is much larger than usual. Tobacco plants are scarce and flies are injuring them. Wheat is looking well everywhere, although needing rain badly, Oats are generally poor. CJlover, grass and gardens are not growing fast on account of drought. Kains reported are: Kural JJaii, inch; Haleigb, U.U6. End. of the Tallulah Tragedy. New Orleans, April 30. A special to the State from the Tallulah says: The closing act in the late ambushing affair i given to-day. The district judge called a special term for the purpose of investigating the case of the prisoners in jaiL The district attorney, at the solic itation of citizens, concluded to only proceed against four of the most guilty of these prisoners. They were Evans Smith, Chas. Claxton, Rufus Hawkins and Giles August. They were each indicted on the oharge of manslaughter, and be ing called up to plead, pleaded guilty and were by the judge sentenced each to ten years m the penitentiary at hard labor. The remainder of the gang con fined were, on motion of the district at- tornery, released from custody. There is no doubt that this ends the most tragic and awful affair that has ever occurred in this parish., In Danger of Lynching. NorfolkT Va., April g0. A special to the Virginian from Hicks' Wharf, Va., says: Luther Ferguson, colored, com mitted an assault on the o-year-old daughter of C. M. Macheq, near this place on Sunday. The citizens organized and started m pursuit of the escaped vil lain. He was captured and ..safely lodged in jail. There are fears of mob violence. He will likely be brought to Norfolk. iHiifiiiH!H!iiini!fti?!t!!!!wniflii)tmi!iniinniiiiiiia HE-NO In this age of adultera tion and cheap goods, Iqw in price and Jowpr in qual ity, It la with pleasure we can advertise He?No Tea as pure, clean and of most excellent flavor. We knew of none better. Bend for free sample. I MARTIN GILIiET 9t CO., (Established 1811.) . Baltimore, BM. 3 GENTJijq; EYE Testing. tT vnrr ftr?BK WITH TOUK STBS? Then why not consul me, m more im probable tkst 1 can affora yow5? J? Strain, Headacne, Granular J?U, Wea Kj e mnd sore Bea. Being a practical Ocultot Optician of eighteen yean experience, you can save ex pense by Baring your eyes examined la the most sertooa case of impaired eyesight and measured for glanees tree oi cnarge. That very few persons have perfect eyes. It mut be evident thu It requires both knowledge and skiU te know what the eyes need sad to fit them properly with glasses. Those who trnat this work to uninstructed dealers are criminally care- less of the most valuable of all the senses, their sifht. V&. M BCHWaB'8 abases cbrrer.t ill visual imperfection that may exist. Spectacles auu jo uumcB iu nun au eyesigK. UT. . XASOOS. Sye Specialist and graduated Opti cian, 830 Market street, a ear South Third street. Spectacles and Se Glasses repaired. Thta OpU fen) 1 m jS m cat Aoyuuic k pcrnianczif. ep n ffcctv &&vtxtls exeunt. c. O. Q. A. P. WE THE LARGESTxSTOCK OF FINE AND ARTISTIC, ME dium and Cheap Furniture and Houso Furnishing Goods in the State - oi noixn i;aroIina, JM.-xTE FURNISHINGS FOR DW Houses, Summer Residences, Steamers, Offices. We can furnish a House from HEYWOODS CELEBRATED i Brake and Rubber Tires. CAR LOAD WI S I liU 1 Car Load Lots, we are enabled justify our claim as "THE XT"TfET " A ftAT ,Uiliu vvaivuliha. the bargains, WE HAVE THEM, To fleet the Demand of the Times, We will add the time interest to conditions : $100.00 PurcMse, $20.00 15.00 75.00 50.00 25.00 20.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 And satisfactory arrangements for larger and smaller purchases and monthly payments. - - To Contractors and Builders we have added to our stock a full and complete line of FINE AND 5IEDIUM WOOD MANTELS. Sz CO. i No. 16 South Front St. The Cheapest Furniture House in Dori't Be Misled BUT GO DIRECT TO HEADQUARTERS FOR YOUR MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, Fashionable Goods and Low Prices Are two of the many inducements offered to all purchasers. It is acknowledged by all that have visited our establishment that we have the - f LaroesD Stock in tne State to Select From. . No pne urged to buy, but a call will convince you of the above. . Tayl or's 118 MARKET STREET. , .. - - . . i Agents for Mme. A. Ruppert's Face Bleach, Soaps and Powders. Orders by Mail Promptly and Carefully Filled. IV TAN IS BORN TO SORROW, JLV.A. Wonder if the writer connected in family as they fly upward ? Anyway, we all admit that tbey are a great source of trouble, especially in the matter of dress. They are constantly out-growing or out-kicking heir suits. " We can save you much trouble on their account if ' you'll let us. .We have made the subject of Boys' Clothing a Study - . - - From the time when they don their first kilt up to the hour when they stand on the threshold of manhood and ask the old man for the last time to put up for a new suit. Scores of styles The chsrm and beauty of which win Everybody's idea in a Junior's, supplemented by numbers of striking and original designs made expressly for us. . IN SHORT PANTS SUITS. Qur stoek is large enough to fit out varied enough to suit the taste of his H Economy, with a big E, tells the story of our HAT TRADE. -We sell as many hats in a month as the ordinarf hat store does in a year. This enables us to buy and sell to better advantage man we " benefit. . All styles and all new shades of SPRING DERBYS. ' S. Ii. FISHBLATE, KING CLOTHXEH j - j PRICE 5 CENTS. A. Y. W. B. S. NGS, HOTELS, BOARDING boats, Public Buildings and Top to. Bottom, and add one o BABY CARRIAG patent Safety IJNli T11K BULK OF OUR OOOns TM to sell at prices that defy coinprtition and CHEAPEST FURNITURE HOUSE IN . CASH 11U YEK need go no where else for but, the cash price, and sell on the following Deposit, " $3.00 2.50 2.00 1.00 , 75c 50c Per Week. North Carolina. :: Bazaar. SPARKS AS THE FLY UPWARD his mind the sparks (children) of the the admiration of all who see them. almost every boy in Wilmington, and sisters, his cousins aDd his aunts. T ELLI oteam ES with rolls this week.
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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May 1, 1894, edition 1
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