ESTABLISHED IF .
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMAUT;
Last night was seniors' second night at
the Salem Female academy. In the
afternoon art and industrial exhibits
were made. The Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad will parallel the Norfolk
and Western through Southern West
Virginian. It will open up immense
coal fields and tracts of hard timber
A big Confederate reunion is being held
at Fort Donaldson battle field. Hun
dreds of men in Pennsylvania are idle
because of works shutting down for the
lack of coal and coke. The people in
the Patalka, Fla., section have discov
ered a plot among Borne negroes to seize
certain white women and take them to
the swamps for vile purposes. The ring
leader has been captured and hanged.
The new French Cabinet has been
formed. -The announcement is made
by Senator Gorman's friends that he is a
very sick man. lie has been sick ever
since the day he made his speech on the
Tariff bill. Nearly 300 employes in
the War Department were discharged
yesterday and other reductions on the
force will follow. Secretary Lamount
will send to their commands nearly half
the regular army officers now on duty
in his department. The borings off
Ilatteras have be hi successful. A solid
bottom has been reached and the work
of erecting a lighthouse there will be
prosecuted as fast as possible. An ap
propriation of $500,000 is now available.
Capt. Clarke, of a British cruiser,
has found a dangerous reef near Ranca
dor reef in the channel off. East Servia
bank, which is in the line of travel of
vessels from7 this country to Bluefields
and Colon. It has been decided not to
make any change in the armament of
the Detroit, Montgomery and Marble
head. The Patri, of Paris, says an
invt-ntor offered to sell the French Gov
ernment a new explosive of great power
to he used in an electric metrailleuse,.
'firing automatically 25,000 bullets; that
the Government declined to buy and the
invention was sold to the German Gov
ernment. Jt Presse says it was sold to
England. The Senate sugar trust in
vestigating committee yesterday ex
amined Senators Voorhees, Jones and
Vest of the Finance committee and Sen
ator Caffery and Mr. Lefevre. They all
denied the statements of the corre
spondents. All preparations are com"
plete for unveiling the monument at
Richmond to-day. The houses are hand
somely decorated. Troops from South
Carolina have already arrived and others
from Baltimore will arrive early this
morning. Seven United States deputy
marshals and commissioners in Ala
bama are under indictment for present
ing false accounts. One of them, Rob
ert Char tsen, has been convicted in one
of live such cases against him. The
Pittsburg coal operators are anxious to
end the strike on most any terms. They
appoint a committee and give it un
limited power to act in the matter of a
settlement. One of the officers of the
Colorado strikers, J. J. Johnson, is a
West Pointer.
SENATORS ON THE STAND.
Senators Voorhees, Vest, Jones and
Caffery Examined, by the Senate
Bribery Committee They Con
tradict the Correspondents.
Washington, May 29. The Senate
Sugar trust investigating committee con
tinued its investigating to-day and ex
amined Senators Voorhees, Jones and
Vest, of the Finance committee, in re
gard to the allegations made concerning
the elTorts of the Sugar trust to influence
legislation. They made a general denial
of all the charges made of the exercise
of inlluence by the.Sugar trust and specL
fically contradicted the story that Secre
tary Carlisle had made a secret visit to
the committee and demanded that the
sugar interest be protected because of
the Democratic party's indebtedness to
the Sugar trust. They agreed that Secre
tary Carlisle had not made such a visit to
the committee that no such demand had
been made upon the committee for the
' reasons gif en in Mr; Edwards' letter or
any other.' They also denied the report
that a meeting had been held by the
committee on the Sunday before the
Tariff bill was reported for the considera
tion of the sugar schedule, and said that
- if the sugar people had been together in
an adjoining room while the committee
was in- session at any time they were not
cognizant of the fact. Senator Vest
denied emphatically that he had in
formed Joe Rickey of the progress of the
committee in fixing the sugar schedule
while the bill was in committee. The
committee adjoined over until Thursday.
The examination" of members of the
Finance committee will be resumed at
the next meeting. The following are
the salient points of the testimony of
Senator Caffery Jrof Louisiana, as laid be
fore the Senate to-day:
After reading the "Holland" letter
ch?re reference was made to his makiDg
a schedule, Senator Caffery said; "In so
far as any part of this statement con
nects me with any conference with the
men named as belonging to the Sugar
trust, Messrs. Havemeyer, Terrell and
Meyer, - in so far as it connects me with
any conference with these people it is
unqualifiedly false. In so far as the
statement m.i Ves me the draftsman ot a
schedule which Havemeyer accepted,
and when I wrote it was looking over
my shoulder that is unqualifiedly false,
1 had no conference with Havemeyer
nor any one of the Sugar trust."
Ir. Levef re stated emphatically that
he haa .never been in the emmov of the
Sugar trujt. did "not know some of the
men mentioned and had not been at the
Capitol or elsese-Jiere with them. " There
was, he said, so fax as he was concerned,
absolutely no foundation for any part of
the statement in which ?U name had
been mentioned.
The publishers of the New York Mail
"nd Express and of the PhiJadelphia
JfVm are in the city and thev announce
that Messrs. Schriver and Edwards will
have the moral and material support of
the respective newspapers until the pon
elusion of the investigation.
It is stated that Senator Hill will re
new the fight in the Senate Thursday
when he will introduce a resolution di
recting the Senate committee to conduct
its investigation of theSugar trust and
the, doings of Senators in connection
therewith, with doors open to the press
nd the public.
Confederate Eeuuion.
Clark-ixe. Tenn , May 29. A big
Confederate rt'Uiion is being held on the
r ort Donelson bat: e nei- -uy. r
erans from manv states and many dis
tineuished Conf ederata ve present. The
assemblage is estimated at TM.OOO. Ear
Congressman John F. Housa .Mivered
the oration. Addresses were mad a hV
Governor Turney and others.
ANOTHER . REPORT
FROM THE SUGAR TRUST BRI
BERY COMMITTEE.
It Sets Oat the Refusal of the Wit
nesses to Testify Asks to Have
Tliis Certified to the District
Attorney Senator Hill's
Opposition The Bank
Tax Repeal Bill Un
der Discussion.
SENATE.
Washington, May 29. In the morn
ing half-hour in the Senate Senator Kyle
succeeded in having his Hawaiian reso
lution taken up, and accepted as a sub
stitute for it the Turpie resolution, as
reported from the Committee on Foreign
Relations. It declares that, from the
facts and papers laid before -the Senate
it is unwise and inexpedient, under ex
isting conditions, to consider at this
time, any project of annexation of the
Hawaiian territory to the United States,
that the Provisional Government hav
ing been duly recognized, the
highest international interests re
quire that it shall pursue its own line of
polity and that foreign intervention in
the political affairs of the island will be
regarded as an act unfriendly to the
Government of the United States.
The resolution was then displaced by
the Tariff bilL and Senator Proctor took
the floor to speak against it. He finished
his speech at 11:45 o'clock, and then Sen
ator Pettigrew addressed the Senate in
opposition of the bill.
Senator Gray rose and said that he
had been directed by the select commit
tee, appointed on the 17th of May, to
make a partial report, and he asked that
it be read.
Senator Hill said that before making
any objection he would bike to know
from the Senator from Delaware what
the programme was. y
Senator Gray replied that he had no
programme other than indicated in the
speech. The committee had submitted
a report which it considered as one of
the highest privilege, and he supposed
that there was no question that the re
port was in order at any time. . It con
cerned the privileges of the Senate, and
he asked that the report be read in order
that the Senate might determine whether
it was a question of privilege or not.
Senator Hill In the light of the ex
planation of the Senator from Delaware,
or rather in the light of the explanation
which he does not give, I am compelled,
at this time, to object to the reception of
that report.
Senator Gray I make the point of
order that a report concerning the privi
leges of the Senate is one entitled to pres
ent consideration and is not subject to
objection.
Senator Manderson coincided with the
view expressed by Senator Gray, and
argued that the chair, or the Senate,
could not determine whether it was a
question of privilege unless the report
were read.
The presiding officer (Faulkner) ex
pressed the opinion that the Senator
from Nebraska was right. I
The report was then read. It consists
of five printed pages, some of it being
quotations from that part of the testi
mony where answers were refused. A
portion of the testimony is also submit
ted to the Senate. It relates that Elisha
J. Edwards appeared before the commit
tee May 24th, and stated that he was a
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press,
and wrote the letter signed "Holland" rel
ative to the doings of the Sugar trust' and
certain Senators. It appears from this re
port that the specific questions Mr.
Edwards declined to answer were those
asking him who informed him of Mr.
Carlisle's recent visit to the Committee
on Finance, when he, as Mr. Edwards
alleged, made an appeal to the Demo
cratic members in February, that appeal
being supposed to have reference to a
duty on sugar. The committee states
that it overruled the objections of Judge
Dittenhoef er, Mr. Edwards counsel, and
insisted upon an answer to the questions.
These questions sought to ascertain the
authority for the statement ; that Sec
retary Carlisle signified his willingness
himself to prepare an amendment to the
sugar schedule, which he thought would
be fair to the Government and yet just
to the sugar interests; who gave the
information concerning the alleged in
terviews between officers of the Sugar
trust, Mr. Havemeyer, the New York
sugar refiner, Senator Brice and Senator
Smith; who was his informant that on
that day Senator Voorhees denied any
amendments were proposed to the bill,
as originally reported to the Senate, the
ist of 400 amendments as prepared by
Senator Jones, was in the hands of one
of the members of the brokerage firm of
Moore & Schley; that the draft of the
sugar schedule, as finally adopted, was
the result of a conference between Sena
tor Caffery and representatives of the
trust, meeting in one room of the Capitol
building, wniie the committee was in
session in another. All of these ques
tions, the committee say, Mr. Edwards,
acting upon the advice of his counsel, re
fused to answer. :
Referring to the testimony of John
Shriver, correspondent of the New York
Mail and Express, the committee quoted
from his letter detailing what a pro
minent wire manufacturer was alleged
to have overheard at the Arlington hotel
in a talk between Senators and represen
tatives of the Sugar trust. Shriver said
a member of Congress gave him the in
formation, and the committee say that,
in response to the direct question, he de
clined to giye the name of either the
Congressman or the wire manufacturer,
to whom he referred in his news dis
patches. In conclusion the committee
sav: - '" "
'In the opinion of the committee each
of the questions put to each of said wit
nesses was a proper question ana perti
nent to the question under inquiry be
fore the committee and was necessary to
make the examination ordered by said
resolution of the Senate, and that each
of the said witnesses is in contempt of
the Senate and merits to be dealt with
for his misconduct; and that each of said
witnesses by his various refusals to an
swer the questions as herein setforth has
violated the provisions of that certain
act of congress in such cas? s made and
provided, being Chapter 7 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States."
The closing words oi the report are as
follows:
Wherefore.the committee request that
the Pr&sident of the Senate certify aa to
each witness hw aforesaid failure to
testifv and hia aforesaid refusals to
answer and all the facta herein, unaer
the seal of the Senate, to the United
States district attorney for the District
of Cabimbia, to the end that each of
said witnesses may be proceeded against
in manner ana lorm crovided by law.
There is no reference ' to tLa case of
Hariy Walker, correspondent of the
New York Itoily America. r
When the jreadingof the report was
concluded Senator lull took the floor
and argued that the report did not present
such a question of privilege as should
displace the pending bill. If the report
had been on the first part of the inquiry
(the attempt to bribe two Senators) it
would have been a Question of the high
est privilege, but Jhat report had been
already inaae ana dispose o,i. oui iue
second part of the inquiry as to whether
Senators had been specmating iii sugar
"dckid JWt involve a question' of
crime, although it might involve a ques
tion oi impropriety. ........
' Senator Harris interrupted Senator
Hill with a question of order, and argued
that the report presented no question for
the Senate to vote upon and, therefore,
no question for the Senate to debate.
There was a statute which devolved a
duty on the chair on the presentation of
the report, and the chair alone could act
upon it.
Senator Hill, regardless of Senator
Harris' point of order, went on with his
own argument and was after awhile
again interrupted by Senator Harris,
who asked the ruling of the chair on his
point of order.
The Vice President, who had resumed
the chair, made the following ruling:
"This is a privileged report. And it is
not such a report as calls for any action
on the part of the Senate. The only ac
tion called for by this report is the action
of the presiding officer. That is the de
cision of the chair. The question before
the Senate is the amendment of the Sen
ator from Kansas to the lumber schedule
of the tariff bilL"
Senator Hill appealed from the decis
ion of the Vice President, and argued
that the Senate had a right to direct the
presiding officer not to proceed further
in the matter until after further action
of the Senate. The statute in question
was loosely and carelessly drawn. But
the Senate had complete jurisdiction of
the matter until the last moment. Con
tinuing he said:
"So long as you have entered upon
this inquiry foolishly, in my judgment
it is yoar duty to exhaust it and to go
to the bottom. If you have seen fit to
investigate mere idle newspapercharges,
not founded on affidavitts, not founded
on personal knowledge, then carry it
out and do not simply take the news
paper men who started the inquiry.
There is no objection to swearing every
Senator around the circle. If any news
paper man had circulated a t tory which
reflected on my honor and integrity as a
Senator and if the Senate had seen fit to
have an investigation of this sort and if
the newspaper man disclaimed on the
stand all personal knowledge of the mat
ter, I should be the next witness to be
called. I do not think it was wise to
have entered on this branch of the in
quiry, but the committee having en
tered upon it should follow it up.
I desire to offer a resolution on this
subject, and I withdraw the appeal in
regard to one part of the ruling of the
chair."
Senator Harris objected to a part of
Senator Hill's appeal being withdrawn
and also to the reception of Senator Hill's
resolution, but Senator Hill continued to
hold the floor and rad the resolution
which he desired to offer: ''That the
questions asked and refused to be answer
ed are not pertinent to the inquiry ; and
that the presiding officer be requested
not to certify the same to the district
attorney until further direction of the
Senate."
The resolution was not received and
Senator Hill's appeal from the decision
of the chair was laid on the table.
Senator Dol ph. offered a resolution re
citing that .Elisha Edwards, a witness
having been lawfully required to testify,
had refused to answer questions" and di'
recting the presiding officer to issue hi3
warrant commanding the sergeant-at-arms
to arrest and bring to the bar of the
Senate, the body of Edwards, in order to
show cause why he should not be pun
ished for contempt, and, in the mean
time, to keep him in custody to await the
further order of the Senate.
Recalling his experience a couple years
ago when the newspaper correspondents
declined to tell him and the Committee
on Rules how they obtained information
of what occurred in executive sessions,
Senator Dolph said that this was his op
portunity, and he quoted from Mazeppa
the line that "Timfl makes all t.hincra
even." His resolution went over till to-
morrow and then the Tariff bill was
again taken up the question being on
the amendments offered yesterday by
Senators Hale and Peffer to the lumber
schedule. Both were rejected.
Senator Allen offered an amendment
putting on the free list logs, lumber,
shingles and such building materials as
are commonly used in the construction
of dwelling houses, barns and fences.
He warned Democratic Senators that
their bill would not be swallowed by
him and other Senators of his party
without some modifications.
Without action on Senator Allen's
amendment, the bill was laid aside with
the arrangement that the lumber sched
ule will be disposed of on Thursday with
out any further discussion.
Then after a short executive session
the Senate at 6:25 o'clock adjourned till
Thursday at 10 o'clock."
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
To-morrow being Decoration day, Mr.
Catchings, at the opening of the ses
sion to-day, moved hat when the House
adjourn it be until Thursday at noon
agreed to. '
ThesHouse went into Committee of the
Whole on the 10 per cent, bank tax bill.
The first speaker was Mr. Cox, Democrat,
of Tennessee, who was permitted to
speak without limit. He favored the re
peal of the law. At 2:30 o'clock Mr.
Cox concluded his remarks, having
spoken almost two hours.
Mr. Johnson, Kepubiican, or lnajana,
a member of the Committee on Banking
and Currency was the next speaker, tak
ing a position opposite to Mr. Cox.- He
spoke an hour and three-quarters, and
was followed by Mr. JtsiacK, uemocrat, oi
Georgia, also a member of the committee
lie first referred to the statement maae
by Mr. Springer, chairman of the "Com
mittee which was, he said, not the least
of the strange doctrines asserted by
the latter, that the Supreme court was
the final arbiter of what the constitution
meant and was, and that its decision was
binding on the House. Ik would be, he
said, remembered that, at least, in one
instance in this Congress the repeal of
the Federal Election laws) that doctrine
was entirely repudiated. The Congress
was a co-ordinate branch of the Govern
ment, and was no more dependent upon
the Supreme court for an interpretation
of the constitution than it was upon the
House. In support of this Mr. Black
quoted Jefferson's letters to John Adams
upon this subject, which he commended
to the chairman.
Without concluding: his remarks, Mr,
Black gave way to a motion that the
committee rise. This was agreed to, and
at 5 o'clock the House adjourned until
Thursday.
To Parallel the Norfolk and Western
Road.
Baltimore, May 29. The Manufac
twers' Record says the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad company lias decided to
parallel the Norfolk and Western
through Southern West Virginia, and
tap the finest coal seams and some of
the, best timber lands in the world. The
new iine will be about 100 miles in
length, running from the moutl of Piney
creek through the valley to the Guyan
Ar.Ht mountains and 'will reconnect
nth the main line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio at Barboursville. It was esti
mated bv the State geologist last year
fhora arrf in" the country which
yt i try v-av V '
would be controlled by the Chesapeake
and Ohio with its new line not less man
3,000,000,000 tons of coal. This is not
the rmiir wealth in fchis refrion. It is all
heavily timbered with hard woods and
when accessible, the trees are worth
$400 per acre. The Chesapeake and Ohio
already own more than 50,000 acres of
land in Raleigh county and are buying
lumg luaii is wuereu iniaat vixuiij'.
Preliminary surveys have been made.
Wprff qn $ he new road will be begun
this summer.
WILMINGTON, N, C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30,
IN WAKE JAIL.
' "
THE FIEND MAD KINS PLACED
THERE FOR SAFE KEEPING-. ,
He Confesses His Crime , and Says He
Would Repeat it Mr. Englehard
Again Celebrates His 21sr,
Birthday The Wilkinson
Alcott Marriase Ad
dress to the King's
Daughters.
Messenger Bureau, 1
. Raleigh. May 29.
Robert Madkins, the negro who out
raged Miss Mary Phillips at Burlington
was brought here this morning about 9
o'clock and placed in jail, for safe keep
ing. This transfer from the jail at Gra
ham was made by order of Judge Hoke,
who is now holding court at Greens
boro, and was done tor prevent a lynching.
Solicitor Parker says he will use all the
means in his power to get a special term
of Alamance court to try this case. Mad
kins' arrival caused no sensation here
It was not expected he would be brought
here. The train on which he was on his
way here was delayed at Durham and a
great crowd gathered there. He is only
21 years of age and has rather a good
face. He confesses his crime freely and
expects to be hanged but had the audac
ity to say he would do the same thing
over again if matters happened as they
did.
Two companies of troops from South
Carolina passed here this morning on the
Seaboard Air Line, on their way to
Richmond. There were ninety-six offi
cers and men.
Adjt. Gen. Cameron left yesterday
afternoon for Richmond, and this morn
ing Cols. Benehan Cameron and E. G.
Harrell left for the same place. All will
be in the procession to-morrow.
Gen. Mead post, Grand Army of the
Republic, will have charge of the deco
ration day ceremonies at the beautiful
National cemetery here tomorrow. Rev.
A. W. Curtis delivers the address and
Rev. I. McK. Pittinger, rector of the
Church of the! Good Shepherd, will offer
the prayer. The members of Meade post
specially invite all Confederate veterans,
and particularly the inmates of the Sol
diers' Home, to join with them in the
observances. The veterans from the
Home will go to the cemetery in a body,
as they did last year.
This morning Judge Walter Clark, Mr.
John C. Scarborough and Col. S. McD.
Tate left for Sharpsburg, or Antietam, to
mark the position of the North Carolina
trcops there. Mr. J. M. Monie, another
member of the- commission, left yester
day. They will be engaged perhaps two
weeks. Gen. Harry Heth wilt meet
them at Washington and go to the bat
tle ground with them, he being a mem
ber of the National commission.
Mrs. Wilkinson (Miss Mamie Alcott)
whose marriage was the local sensation
yesterday, was not present at Peace in
stitute last evening, her name was not
called, nor did she receive her diploma,
as a member of the graduating class.
Her husband is a very clever and popu
lar young man, and is a native of
Lynchburg. All parties have become
reconciled and the matter ends most
pleasantly.
Capt. E. B. Engelhard, chief "of the
Raleigh fire department, to-day cele
brated his birthday (said to be the 21st)
by giving a picnic at the water works
pump house in compliment to Mr. and
airs. James Jf. rerraii, wno were re
cently married.
The weather is again unreasonably
cool and fires were in vogue this mo: n
ing. There were heavy hailstorms n ar
here yesterday afternoon. Cotton is
having a hard time this season.
Special Agent Spaulding is here, mak
ing an inspection of the revenue office.
fcsix convicts were brought from
Robeson county to the penitentiary last
night by Sheriff Frank Floyd and four
from Halifax, by Sheriff Alsbrook.
The band of the Lafayette Military
academy, of Fayetteville, has been en
gaged to furnish music at the Teachers'
Assembly at Morehead City , next Jud6.
Mr. Logan D. lerrell, clerk of the
Commissioner of Labor Statistics, is in
yery poor health and left to-day for Pan
acea Springs.
Mrs. Davis, of New York, one of the
founders of the King's Daughters, was
here yesterday and at Edenton Street
M. E. church addressed all the members
of the order in Raleigh. She left this
morning for New York.
Invitations have been received for the
commencement exercises of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical college. It is the
second annual commencement. Con
gressman W. H. Hatch, of Missouri, de
livers the annual address June 19th. Rev.
W. A. Creasy preaches the baccalaureate
sermon June 17th. The next day the
class exercises will be held. There are
eight members of the graduating class.
On the 19th of June there will be an ex
hibition of practical work and military
drill. The next day is commencement
day.
Richmond's Big Day.
Richmond, Va May 29. All the pre
parations for the unveiling of the Con
federate soldiers and sailors' monument
here to morrow have been completed
and veteran organizations, active mili
tary, and distinguished ex-Ccnf ederate
officers are arriving by every train. It
is estimated that there will be some 5,
000 persons in the parade. . There is
hardly a house on the line of the march
that is not profusely decorated, the Con
federate and Virginia colors predomi
nating. Military organizations from as
far South as Anderson, is. u., were
among the arrivals to-day.
Among those who will take part in
the exercise to-morrow are Gen. Wade
Hampton, who will command the vet-
el an line, and Miss Mildred Lee, daugh
ter of Gen. R. E. Lee. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee will be the chief marshal. The
monument is a reproduction of Pompey's
Pillar surmounted by a bronjie figure of
a Conf ederate soldier.
Baltimore, May 29. The steamer
Baltimore left Light and Lee streets this
evening with the Maryland contingent
to attend the unveiling of the Conf eder
ate soldiers and sailors monument on
Libby hill, Richmond, to-morrow. They
will wear badges and carry their old bat
tle flags. Tne Richmond Grays are to
act as an escort from the Kicbmond and
Danville depot en route to the Maryland
headquarters. The contingent will pass
Governor O'Ferrall's residence and will
be reviewed by him.
Highest of all in Leavening
ABSOWaTaar paras
COMMERCIAL, NEWS.
Stocks and Bonds in NewJTork The
Grain and Provision Markets
of Chicago.
New York, May 29. The dealings in
stocks to-day amount to 137,000 shares
against 144,000 yesterday. In to-day's
total, American Sugar, Burlington and
Quincy, Chicago Gas and St. Paul figured
for 9,130 shares, leaving only 45,582 for
the remainder of the active list. Sugar
went down to 99 and rose to lOOf and
closed 100i to 100. The stock is still
sensitive to Washington rumors. The
old stories about prospective legislation
were circulated and the stock moved up
and down according to the tenor of the
advices. Chicago Gas figured for 27,000
shares in the total sales. There was no
new development to account for the rise
which was generally attributed to the
efforts of a short interest to cover. The
April statement of Burlington showed a
surplus of $40,323, against a deficit
of $93,515 for the corresponding
period in 1893, and had a good effect
on the Grangers and especially on the
stock named and proved to be a disap
rintment to the shorts in the Grangers.
Heading was in better request on rumors
from Philadelphia that various bond
holders' committees will get together in
the early future and that the assessment
on junior securities will be a small one.
London bought moderately of its spec
ialties. In the last hour there was a re
action of i to 1 per cent, on realizations,
but at the close there was a recovery
and the market left off firm in tone.
Net changes show gains of i to 11 per
cent, for the day. The bond market
was strong. Sales of listed stocks were
98,000 shares; unlisted, 38,000.
Chicago, May 29. A holiday spirit
prevailed in wheat to day. Unless some
thing extraordinary happens this is the
customary manner of anticipating a
holiday, the precedent being followed in
this instance. Pardridge did some fine
work on the curb, forcing prices down
fc from last night's close and with this
Iops the market opened. Most of the
wheat bought on his bulge, in expecta
tion of frosts, which were predicted for
some States, was,for sale at the start, the
loonea-ior ireeze not materializing. The
weight of these offerings caused a
further drop of c in the space of a very
lew minutes, alter which there was a
slight recoveay. July wheat opened at
55fCj eold between 55 to 55c and 55
to o5c, closing at 555c. a net loss of ic
for the day. Cash wheat was steady.
At first the corn market was firm on
its own account. After the temper had
moderated there was less disposition to
go it at one and more to abide by the
tone in wheat shown. July sold between
38i and 37c, closing at 38ic. There was
a fair inquiry for cash corn. Offerings
were moderate and price held steady.
Oats were independently firm, the poor
crop prospects being the sustaining fac
tor The trade was not large on account
of to-morrow's holiday. July closed ic
higher than yesterday. Cash oats were
in good demand and prices to c higher.
lhe dullness in product was more pro
found to-day than for some time past,
the inactivity being accentuated by the
approaching holiday. Wheat opening
weak and some grades of hogs sel ling
lower caused an easy opening and the re
covery oz gam, with a later report
from the yards, quoting a firm close in
that market, resulted in a better tone to
provisions. The close was 2ic lower
eaci for July pork and ribs and 5 to 7ic
lower lor o uiy iara.
A BAND OF FIENDS.
A Conspiracy Among a Band of Ne
groes Against a Number of White
Women The Leader Lynched.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 29. A spe
cial to the Times-Union from Palatka,
Fla., says: The people of this section
are very much excited over the discov
ery of a diabolical conspiracy among the
negroes to commit a series of outrages
upon white women. The pcrficulars
are that about eight weeks ago a negro
preacher by the name of Burgis came to
the turpentine stills in the neighborhood
of Putnam Hall, and procured employ
ment. After becoming acquainted with
the colored employes, he made damag
ing remarks about the daughter of a
farmer living nearby and proposed to
the negroes that they should size this
girl and several other white women and
carry them into the swamp and make
them submit to their demands. It is
understood that several negroes agreed
to the plan, and that the preparations
were being made to carry it into effect.
Fortunately the white people got a
hint of the conspiracy andbegan to make
an investigation. They secured evidence
that such a conspiracy did exist, and
they took steps to guard their homes.
Meanwhile, the negroes learned that
their diabolical plan was known and, se
cretly, they began to leave the country.
One of those to leaye was Burgis, who
had suggested the outrages upon the
women. He fled just in time to escape
from a number of white men who had
gone to secure him. It was learned that
Burgis had gone to Georgia and the
father of the young lady whom he had
so vilely slandered swore out a warrant
against the negro. The Georgia author
ities were communicated with and Bur
gis was arrested. ;
A Florida officer left to secure the ne
gro Sunday. The officer returned with
him and fearing a mob, stopped off at a
little station called New Burg, intending
to secret the prisoner at a friend's home
near by. The officer started to this
house, but had not proceeded more than
half a mile when he was confronted by
75 or 100 mounted men. They
covered him with guns and rifles and
demanded the prisoner. Being over
powered, there was no other alternative
but to give him up, and the next morn
ing tmrgis was seen hanging from a
limb two miles from the place where he
was taken from Deputy Lane.
Burgis was about 45 years of age. He
confessed to Mr. Lane that the report he
circulated about the farmer's daughter
was untrue, but he made the remark
about her to interest the negroes in his
damnable undertaking. The white peo
ple are wild with rage and it is believed
that more lynchings will speedily follow.
Suffering from the Coal Famine.
- Braddock, Pa., May 29. Braddock is
suffering much from the coke and coal
strike. The entire Edgar Thompson
steel works are practically closed and
3,500 men are idle. The two blast fur
naces and 150 coke ovens of the Currie
Furnace company at Rankin are shut
down and 600 men are out of work there,
The Pittsburg wire works, employing 550
men, are shut down tight for the lack of
coal. The Duquesne forge at Kan km,
employing 200 men, has suspended oper
ations for the same reason.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
1894.
HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE.
SUCCESSFUL BORING- FOR ITS
FOUNDATION.
Solid Bock Bottom Found The
Lighthouse to be Built at Once
Senator Gorman Very Ill
Wholesale . Discharge of
Clerks by Secretary La
mount A Menace to
Navigation.
Washington. May 29. Senator Gor
man has not been in his seat in the Sen
ate since the day he delivered his recent
speech upon the Tariff bill. It was known
that he was indisposed, but each day the
announcement was made that rest was
all he needed. To-day, however, the
Senator's brother is quoted as saying that
Senator Gorman is a very sick man.
Overwork, he sayB, is the cause of his
illness. In addition to the neuralgia
with which he has been suffering for
several years, he has suffered from some
trouble with his kidneys. He is also
said to be subject to fits of nervousness
which have brought on frequent at
tacks' of insomnia, which latter have
also oeen aggravated by his old enemy
neuralgia. In addition to the above
causes, ever since the inauguration of
Mr. Cleveland last year, Senator Gorman
has been besieged at all hours by crowds
of omce seekers who have literally worn
him out. That he is a very sick man is
admitted by all his friends.
The wholesale discharge of clerks, for
which Secretary Lamont has so long
been preparing, took place in the War
Department to-day, nearly 300 employes
receiving notices that their services were
no longer required. Many of them were
also notined that they would be allowed
pay until various dates in June on ac
count of regular leaves of absence.
Nearly 100 vacancies had already been
created in the record and pension offices.
and the total contemplated reduction of
force, numbering 500, is about accom
plished, although it is expected that
twenty-five or thirty more vacancies will
be created by the end of the fiscal year.
ui tne aiscnarges to-aay, twelve vere
from the Secretary's office, and 200 from
that of records and pensions. The ad
jutant general lost thirty and the sur
geon general nineteen. These reductions
are all recommended in the Legislative,
Executive aud Judicial Appropriation
bill now under consideration by Con
gress. The Secretary will next turn his
attention to sending back to their regi
ments arjouc nail tne regular army
omcers now on autv in the department.
To-day's discharge amounts to one-sixth
of the entire force of the Department.
Capt. Evans of the light house board,
reasury Department, to-day received a
telegram irom j. n. itettig, superin
tendent oi construction of the light house
board, announcing that he had carried
out his orders with entire success. This
brief telegram meant that the borings
the light house board has been making
off the dangerous coast of Hatteras, N.
C, have been successful. A solid bot
tom has been found and a light house
can now be errected. An appropriation
of $500,000 for this purpose is now avail
able and a solid bottom having been
found, the work will be prosecuted as
fast as possible.
Capt: Phillip- commanding the cruiser
New York, reports, to the hydrographic
omce, from tfluehelds, that Capt.Claree,
of the British warship Magicienne, has
discovered a dangerous shoal having but
seven feet of water over it directly in
the channel off east of Servia bank in
the Carribean sea. This is but a little
distance north west of Roncador reef,
where the Kearsarge was wrecked, and
is right in the course "of vessels from
United States ports bound for Colon and
Bluefields. Naval officers say that if the
New York or any war ship should
strike this shoal there would be little or
no chance of saving her.
The naval stability board was in ses
sion to-day considering the alleged crank
iness of the war ships. Capt. Brownson,
of the Detroit, which was one of the ves
sels upon which the board, some months
ago, recommended changes, and Capt.
Davis, of the Detroit s sister ship, Mont
gomery, were in consultation with the
board. Capt. Brownson showed that the
Detroit's steadiness had been severely
tested on her cruise to Rio and back, and
he protested against the removal of her
heayy battery, which had been decided
upon, lie declared that it would, in nis
estimation, be a shame to curtail the
fighting power of the ship. It was the
Detroit thatnred the first gun at a foreign
vessel since the civil war. The board
finally determined to recede from its rec
ommendation to use 4-inch guns on the
Marblehead. Montgomery and Detroit,
and . to equip those vessels with 5 -inch
rifles. There are enough 5-inch guns on
hand to fit out these three vessels at
once, while 4-inch guns would have to
be made. This decision will result in the
immediate equipment of these vessels
which are now at Norfolk, and will ena
ble the Marblehead to go to sea as soon
as her. battery can be placed, it is
thought the Marblehead can sail next
week. -
A WONDERFUL EXPLOSIVE.
Twenty-five Thousand Ballets' Fired
from an Electric Gun.
Paris, May 29. The Patri publishes i
to-day a sensational article in which it is
said that Turpin. the inventor of the ex
plosive known as pandastite, offered to
the French Government some time ago
a new explosive of very great power, to
be used in an electric metrailleuse, firing
automatically 25,000 bullets. The article
eroes on to say that this invention, which,
to tne army possessing u, wouiu m&Ke
impossible the approach of an enemy,
was refused by the French War Office
. 1 3 1
and was afterwards sold by the inventor
to the German Government. The Patrx
calls the French Government's refusal of
the invention an act of high treason.
Deputy DeRamel, referring to the
Patrfs etorjr, says that he recently
wrote to Casimir-Perier, then Premier,
insisting that the French Government
should acquire the invention, even if it
possessed only tbe one-hundredth part
of the power claimed for it, and that
the Fremier replied that the Govern
ment could not negotiate with M. Tur
pin, in view of his recent quarrel with
the artillery department. Deputy
LeHerissee has given notice that he will
question Gen. Mercier, the new Minister
of War, on the subject in tbe Chamber
on Thursday. '
La Presse asserts that the invention
was purchased by England.
The New Ane to Augusta.
It has heen stated on the best of au
thority that the Atlantic Coast Line sys
tem will begin the survey of its proposed
line between Ashley Junction and Au
gusta this morning. It is understood
that some of the high officials of the road
will be in the city to-day and that the
preliminary steps towards making the
survey will be taken. The readers of
the News and Courier will remember
that it was stated some time since that
the construction of such a line aa this
was contemplated oy tne Atla,ntio Coast
t : . m ' " i ,
uuM Djrausiu. aiio iujuea roaa it is
said will if completed run in as straight
a line as is practicable between Ashley
Charleston News and Covrier May 2&
Sw SJLvttttstmtntf
Notice.
ON AND AFTKH JUNK Snd, 1889 THR
cut will close their t-hopa on baturdav at l
O'clock, n. TO . nntil "ruB " 1
the naif koMkypuir""" ccorau,
Signed
U. QTJINLIVAN,
THvS. QDINLIVAN,
W-P bONBY & CO.,
P. H- HA YD JIN.
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