North Carolina Newspapers

t - . . . V - .. . i : ;t . V m. sA H H AY ESTABLISHED 1867. WILMINGTON, N. C, SUN DAY, SEP TEMBER 23, 1894. 5 t 1 1 - . - : ' 1 ; TELE 3-R APHIO SUMMARY. The Republicans and Populists of Wayne J pounty form - a combination TThos. J. Watts,' druggist of Raleigh, assigns,; with abilities of about $2,500 -The Republi cans of Durham endorse the Populist county candidates The trial of E. J. Puller was jbegun yesterday. The jury was secured and six witnesses examined foT the State' j -St. Louis "has a 8200,000 ; fire Bruno jCaslenedy a prominent merchant J of , New prteans commits suicide The Democratic icommittee of the SeyenthKentucky dis trict; yesterday declared Osvens the nomi" pee- There is a heavy demand on the Federal treasury from the South and West for small notes.' In the West gold is beins; freely deposited for suchnots A cyclone passed over parts of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Friday ni?ht. Many peo ple are reported killed and a number in 3ure&. A great many bowses, were blown dowi and in some places fires followed the storm A man in Philadelphia js, killed by coming in contact with an electric wire " i The sugar planters of the first Louisiana district nominate a candidate for 'Congress j John Knox,- charged with train, wreck ing at Sacramento, is nominated for sheriff 1 by the Populists Seven prise-liters make a daring, escape from the ante court roomat St Louis Constable McLendon is about to die frolpi the wounds received in the Dar lingtori dispensary riots Senator Stewart, the co-irespondent in the Glasscock divorce suit, fils an amdavit saying it is a case of blackmail TheTcotton seed mill men of Texas say they lost $1,000,000 last year by laying tpo much for seed Two Alabama men quarrel about horses and one kills the other- Farmers in Texas are indicted for combining to keep, up the price of cotton seed and some mill men are to be indicted for frying to force it down Gladstone has created a sensation in England by com ing out in opposition to local option The , discovery is made of the reyival of thelrade in girls between the, Continent and London" I :Congressman Wilson and others are dined at the Piccadilly club The courts decide that Gen. Ezeta: can not be extra dited, his offence being political- -The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows adjourned yesterday after sustaining the Grand Master of Kansas in suspending most of the Lodges of that State The Demo- crats of Southern Georgia have a grand rally- -The Prohibitionists of the Rich, mohd, Va., ' district nominate a Congres sional candidate-- A British gunboat is asked for at Yokohama to protect British subjects there who' are , considered in danger Americans in great numbers are asking for admission into the Japanese service Senator Voorhees V opened the Indiana campaign at Terfe j Haute last i - . . - night. AMUSEMENTS 'Spider and FJy" Next Tuesday f Evening, . ; "" I We clip theifqllowing cohcernicg M. B. Leavitt's new company which will appear at the opera-house next Tues day evening in the successful extrava ganza, 'Spider and Fly:" -1 4 'The scenery and costumes aire all new and there are also new ballets, specialties and jpriginal novelties, including an4 elaborate and artistic series of the now famous Living Pictures, ; which New York and Europe have gone 1 so daft over. I The beautiful scenery is rendered prettier by a series of ingenious transfor mation. Symmetrical ,young jwomen, encased in dazzling armor, perrorm in tricate j evolutions j, In the ballets are ivea rare illustrations of the poetry of niotione. The vocal music is made up of : solos, duets, trios, quartettes and sex tetts. I Nearly every scene is a kaleido scope (of rare beauty, varying from marches to ballets,f rom vaudeville gems to pantomimic tricks.? 'H;- 1- t Never Heard of. Before. 1 A strange thing lias come.- to ' pass in Wilmington, never t heard of before by the oldest fishermen. All day longes terday at Uxont street market qock. lot of boys with hook and ; line caught numerous small white shad and rock fish from four to six inches in length. . The.oldest fishermen tell us that they never knew the small fry of shad to take the hook before, and the fact; is none can remember of evei: seeing young shad in the river before. " j' . I - It ia well known that in the spring the full grown shad come up stream to spawn and that the small fry, after be ing hatched, migrate to the ocean where they come to maturity only'again to re peat their spawning migration in the spring. It has never been known, how ever, where or how the little shad get back to the ocean, and the circumstance mentioned above is quite'a curious one. I The little fish bit right along yesterday : and the boys had to be interfered with in their sport to stop their . wanton de struction of this valuable fish. I Off For the Penitentiary. In the case of the State vs. Benj. Lane, convicted of . seduction in the Criminal court on Thursday, we were in error in Btating that the defendant was offered a new trial on the condition that he pay the costs of the action and give an ap pearance bond of $300. - The court over ruled the motion for " a . new trial, and the defendant's attorneys appealed to the Supreme court The appeal bond of $25 and an appearance bond, of $300 was re quired pending the appeal, but the ap peal was withdrawn, as the prisoner's attorneys saw. no ; chance of succeeding before the Supreme court. Lane jwas consequently taken to Raleigh yesterday and delivered to the penitentiary authori ties along with the otherpriscners con Ticted during the session of the court. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. RALEIGH KEEPS UP WITH THE ADVANCEMENT. Contract for." Floor Mill Awarded To Double Capacity of Wagon " Factory Heavy Criminal Docket Another Death at the Sold iers Home J udge Clark's "Experience at the Bat- ' tie of SharpsJburg. Messenger Bureau, ) Haleigh, Sept. 22. Bishop Cheshire, who is now here, will to-morrow inorning ordain Rev. J. D. Mil ler, of Greensboro, to the priesthood. The services will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd and quite a number of the local and nearby clergy will take part. Ex-Governor Black ia at t'Oconeechie" farm, with Col. Julian S. Carr, and will re turn here Monday. g , r An appointment is made for Senator Ran som to speak at Clinton October 3rd.x Governor Carr was requested a few days ago to offer a reward for several men' who assaulted Mr, J. R. Jones, a prominent citi zen of Buncombe county, and he had. that matter under advisement. To-day , he re ceived news of the capture of the men wanted. J. E." Pugb, of Durham, is appointed a notary public. The wagon factory here is Tto double its capacity, so as to turn out ten wagons a day. It has a great number of orders. Forty men are to be employed. . The contract tor the building of the Farina roller flouring mills here has been awarded to the Wooif company, of Cham bers burg. Pa. Work begins next week. St. Augustine's normal school, colored, opens next Thursday. Rev. A. B. Hunter, its president, says an increased attendance U expected. One new professor is added to the teaching force. ' The criminal docket at the Wake Superior court, which begins next Monday is un usually heavy. There are five capital cases. It is said, that never before have so many been on the docket at once The most in teresting of them all is that of George Mills, who stands charged with the murder of Ina Wimberly, his niece. It is expected that this case will reveal a horrible story of crime and unlawful love and will have some most sensational developments. To-day from the Soldiers Home . the funeral of Mr.hJohn C. Harris was con ducted. He was a member of Company H, North Carolina State troops. The veterans who die at tha Home are buried in a special section of theConf ederate cemetery. Already there are quite a number of graves in this special section. t Judge Walter Clarke, of the Sharpsburg committee; had a singular escape during that battle. A ! rosy-faced, girlish looking stripling of 15 or 16 years, he was adjutant of Col. Matt W. Ransom's regiment and of course, therefore, a-mounted officer. When the ' Confederate lines to the left of the Dunkard church were broken, his division was thrown m to stop the pouring flood of blue coats. The opposing lines of battle came together with a crash like a clap of thunder and as suddenly. Every other Amounted officer, of course, instantly dis mounted, leaving his horse to gallop to the rear, ltpeing the first time our young ad jutant had been so suddenly brought into action and not seeing the others dismount, he thought it his duty to stick on his horse and he stuck. In a moment more when the smoke lifted, the enemy's line of battle lying down not fifty yards off, seeing him alone mounted woufd haye taken him for a general officer, and he would have been swept out of the saddle by a hundred bul- lutsHe was very popular in the regiment and"a kind-hearted yeteran close by, with more vigor than respect for his rank, promptly jerked him off his horse saying, "Get down, you d d little fool." At that second a minnie whizzing over the just emptied saddle struck the back of his left hand, which was still grasping the pom mel leaving a slight scar which he still wears. -There were thousands of narrow escapes that day, some escaping only to fall in another battle and others surviving the war. The friends of . Gen. Anderson, Col. Tew, and Gen. Branch and others, while the survivors still live could easily have small monuments put up, inexpensiye but com memorative, to mark the spot where each of those gallant officers fell. It is proper to say that the committee served without com pensation and paid their own expenses. They visited the battlefield as they and their comrades did thirty-two years ago, at the command of their State and from patri- i otic motives. a tThe Railway Commission will on the 25th instant give Mr. Culp. traffic manager of the wuuicm railway, a Hearing on rule t OI tne aajuunwu xvaiiwas. Xllla 13 me xuie which rates all freight packages under 100 pounds as of the latter weight. If he does not show good reasons to the contrary, the commission will refer this matter to the Inter-State Commerce Commission. "Ihe Danger Signal" at the Opera House. The Cincinnati "Enquirer" of , recent date has the following to say of "Ihe Danger Signal," which is to be repro duced at our opera houre next Wednes day evening: The Danger Signal" the prettiest of all the railroad dramas, was presented yesterday for the first time in this city at Heuck's and was greeted by two audi ences that tested the capacity of this commodious theatre. The drama is by Henry C. DeMille and is interesting from the first to the Jast. Its plot is pretty and maintains the attention of the audience to the, end. Laid in the beauteous moun tain regious of the far West, the scenes presented are picturesque, and through out the play are superbly mounted. The railroad effects are new and realistic. The flying lighting express, the freight train, the railroad locomotive, the snow plow throwing the snow from the rail road track are deserving the applause they received..: . , The company, includes Garland Gad en, Lyon L. Adams, Paul Dresser, Will Robyns, Wm. L. West, Laura Lorrains Gad en, Adelaide Mitchell and Ida Sollee. Paul Dresser sang some very taking songs. The general verdict of all was "The Danger Signal" is tho ideal rail road drama, and if thehearty endorse ment of the hundreds who witnessed the performance yesterday is worth any thing "The ganger Signal" will do big THE FULLER TRIAL. The Jury Secured and the Examina. tion of Witnesses Begun. ; Special to the Messenger". RocKiyGnAM, N. C., Sept. "' 22. The most important trial now going on in the State, if not in'the South, is the noted Fuller trial, which commenced here to-day. Court con vened at 9 o'clock and Fuller was one of the first to enter the court room, looking well and not all excited. He was kindly greeted by many friends and acquaintances. The jury was completed by about 2 o'clock and is composed of the following, all white: S.-A. Moffit, W. W. Covington, D. B. Mc Queen, B. J. Bostick, Walter L. Steel, J. A. Harrington, Duncan McComick. J. M. Pat terson, H. H. Covington, J. B. Covington, J. B. Gibson and Murdock McDuffie. The foUowing named lawyers are engaged in the case: For the State Solicitor Frank McNeill of Rockingham, J. F. Musselwhite of Fayetteville, F. P. Jones of Dhnn, Walter H. Neal of Laurinburg and N. A. McLean of Lumberton. For the defense John D. Shaw & Son of Rockingham and Laurin burg, Geo. M. Rose of Fayetteville, -W. H. Day of Weldon, W. W. Fuller of Durham and Chas. M. Cooke of Louisburg. "At S o'clock the examination of witnesses commenced and up to the time court - ad journed six had been examined. As the readers ,of the Messexger , gen erally have read the evidence in full, as re ported while the trial was going on at Fay- etteville, your correspondent thinks it en tirely unnecessary to give it aain from here unless something new should be de veloped. The trial, it is -thought, will con tinue through most of next week! Fusion in Wayne County. tSpeclal to the Messenger. GoLDSBpRO, N. C. Sept. 22. The Wayne Populists' met in convention here to-day and accepted the fusion proposition of the Re publicans, conceding to them the offices of sheriff, register of deeds and one Legislator They nominated candidates for clerk of the court, treasurer, coroner, surveyor and one Legislator, and adjourned, to meet again next Thursday to ratify the nominations of the Republicans, to be made the previous day."; ;.' ' . An Assignment in Raleigh. 1 Special to tne Messenger. Raleigh, Sept. 22. Thomas J. W atts who not long ago began the drug business here, assigned to-day, with about $2,500 liabilities. J. E. Johnson 1 is the largest creditor, being preferred for $1,660. ' mm mm Fusion in Durham. Special to tne Messsenger Durham, N. C, Sept. 22. The RepubUcan county7 convention wa3 held here this after noon. It endorsed the 'candidates "nomi nated at the Populist convention, thus mak ing fusion in Durham county complete. DEMAND FOR SMALL NOTES. The Treasury Receiving Many Orders From the Si)uth and. Southwest Senator Stewart Charges Blackmailing. Washingtox, Sept. 22. The general but gradual revival of business is making itself felt in the treasury by the heavy .demand for small notes of the denominations of 11 and $2. Money of this class is in great de mand in the South and Southwest, and while the treasury is doing its utmost to ac commodate all who ask for small money, it cannot always supply all orders as promptly as desired. Preference is given to orders when gold is deposited for small notes, as it is the policy of the treasury to build up its gold reserve by all legitimate means. In the West gold is -being freely deposited for such money as tne banks desire, and no de lay is experienced in filling all orders promptly. In the West, however, very little money of denominations lower than fives and tens is wanted, and this class of money can be readily supplied. For the past six weeks the amount of money sent to the treasury for redemption has been un usually heavy, averaging $750,000 a day since September 1st. Senator Wm. M. Stewart, of Nevada, who is made a co-respondent in a suit for divorce, brought in the courts of the District of Columbia by a man named Glasscock against his wife filed in court to day volumnous affidavits, setting forth that the case is one of conspiracy to blackmail and that the plaintiff and respondent have continued to reside together as husband and wife after the suit was filed. In a sworn statement furnished by his attorney, Sena tor Stewart says: "From the foregoing, you will see that there can be no considera tion by me of any suggestion of a settlement of any demand of this woman or of her husband and there will be none. They are certainly blackmailers, and it is my duty to state these facts to you frankly and truth fully that you may know what I solemnly declare to be the truth; "namely, that I have had no relations whatever with this woman except as herein stated, that there is no foundation for any charge of any name or nature against me. The Sun's Cotton Review. - New York, Sept. 22, The Sun's cotton re view sapsn Cotton declined 3 to 4 points, but recovered this and advanced 1 point, clos ing very steady with sales of ,79,000 bales. Liverpool declined l-16d on the spot and 1J to 2 points for future delivery, closing easy. New Orleans declined 2 to 4 points, but re covered this and advanced 1 to 2. Spot cotj ton here was quiet and unchanged. Sales were 137 bales for spinning. Port receipts were estimated at 24,371 bales, against 18, 458 this day last week and 19,871 last year. New Orleans receipts on Monday are esti mated at 9.000 to 10,000 bales, against 8,866 last Monday and 5,853 last year. Print cloths are quiet, butcottoh goods are gener ally firm.- ' u To-days f eatureS:Liyerpooi was depressed and this fact, together with some : further liquidation, caused an early decline here, but this was soon recovered, owing to local and continental buying and the market ended at a small improvement.. The price is considered low.; A good deal of the long cotton in the hands of small operators has been shaken out and the decline has been so great and so continuous that some have an idea that a rally would not be at all sur prising at the present time. - The crop re ports .were generally pretty favorable, how ever, and there were no aggressive bull operations, only the market acted a little ' more stubbornly. SWEPT BY CYCLONES. THE NORTHWEST THE SCENE OF MORE DISASTERS. sections or JUlnnesota. Iowa and j Other State Visited by Fearful Vina Storms Towns Demol ished and Their Inhabi tants; Killed Fires In creaset the Devasta- " tion Many Deaths.. iWASHrNGTO, D.; U., Sept. 22. A cyclone passed over parts of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin last evening, doing great dam age to property and killing and injuring a great many people; A Fort Dodge special savs: JJive or six persons were killed nt. Maniey Junction I by the cyclone, nine at Grafton and seven: at Algota and Emmetts- burg. The storm - swept from; Worth to Palo Alto counties. Other despatches are as follows: - New Hampton. Ipwa., Sept. 22. The news from Lowther is that three persons killed and seven in ured in s the cyclone which struck that place late last night. The town is , only twenty miles north of this place, but the telegraph wires are down and no trains have come from the north since midnight. All the information at hand was brought by a farmer who drove down this morning He says yearly all the buildings inlthe village were either, destroyed or dam aged. He also says that traces of the storm arp visible along the road through Howard county arid that there are rumors of dam age in Mitchell and Chickasaw counties at points off the railroad. The storm seems to have swept through the northern tier of Iowa counties and Crossed into Minnesota in the southeastern corner of that State Dodge Centre, nn., Sept. 22. A cyclone I struck this place at :5U o'clocfc last evening, I blowing Warren .-Fairbanks' warehouse down and scatterin it across the railroad tracks. Several ba and smaller buildings were blown down. Ckesco, Iowa, Sept. 22 A severe wind storm devastated this place at 10:30 o'clock last night. Thel uhicago, Milwaukee and SU Paul depot at' this noint was severelv damaged by the wind, and it is feared it will have to be .rebuilt." The storm crossed the Mason City line two miles west of Grafton. The wind left a clean pathway behind it, taking everything within its reach. Pes Moines, Sept. 22. In last! night's storm, north of Mason City, four persons were killed, two fatally and four seriously injured. The cyclone destroyed eight farm Houses. . :"- Lekoy, Minn . , Bept. 22. The damage by last night's cyclone was not fully realized until daylight. . All the buildings in the center and eastern - part of the town have been leveled to the ground, by fire, which started early in the evening and which became uncontrollable when tne cy clone made its appearance at precisely 1:45 o'clock. Four persons were killed. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot was strucK nrst and demonsned. men came three elevators and three flax warehouses, which were neariike tracks. F. J. Trask's business block, 0. a. RoyTs hardware store, Porter & Young's general merchandise stare, and the new residence of Harry Cot ton went over like ninepins before the gale. Other residences and stores were more or less .damaged. The Baswell hotel and Palmer & Brown's new store caught fire during the niaht. and soon Smart & Butler's hardware store was in flames also. The money loss is about $50,000, Spring Vaixey, Minn., Sept.22. Following is a list of dead so fa; as known: N. Dodge, Mis. N. Dodge, Child of Frank Marsh, Eighteen persons were injured.some fatally Algona, Iowa, Kept. rj. Twenty-six per sons are reported killed in Kassuth county, and thirty -nine injured, some fatally, while the greater part of the town of Cyclinder, twenty miles west j, was badly damaged by the storm. North of Cyclinder, the family of I Alix Goulden; four in number, were killed. At Whittemore, ten miles west of here, Robt.' Stephenson was killed and his wife fatally hurt. The village was not damaged. Nearly a score of persons sought refuee in a house on the Durant place. All were more or less injured and his (Durant's) wife fatally miured, une or unaries Lee's children is dead and Mrs. Lee is badly hurt. The wife and children of Fred Hompe,inFen- tori township were in their house, which was coinDletely wrecked, but they were covered bv! the falling timbers and not one of them was hurt- Geo. W. Beaver, living three miles north of Algona. had iust got home from the fair and entered the house with wife and two children and an adopted boy when, the cv clone struck the house and de molished it. Beaver had the baby in his arms and with it he made his way north to the house of Christian Dau, his father-in-law. His wife was iust dying when he re turned and his little girlfcoon afterwards ex pired. Myron Bchenck, wire and cniid were carried lUO feet, and wnen iouna were iym; dri a heaw oak beam. I Both were hurt an Mrs. Schenck was unconscious. 1 Horace Schenck, Myron's father, was covered up with a nile of lumber. iis condition is sen ons. as he ia 73 vears of iage East of the river in Plum Creek township, the house of George Holman was carried thtrtv rods and droDned with such force as towreck it. - In it were Mr. Holman and wife and six children. One of the children was killed outright and four were injured and Holman seriously hurt. An old man named Dingman, who lived a mile noth of Holman's place was killed, and seven more are killed northeast of Holman's, including a man and wife, name7 notknown. Mr. Sweeper and two children and an infant nhild of Clausden's are dead. Orders are coming in to local I undertakers for coffins. A relief committee has been organized. Burt, Iowa, Sept. 22. In the cyclone which tassed from west to east between here; and Algona last night, the following , i , j nr. TnWV.w?a ' rfK51 were Kinea: jilt, .lmwhiuw o vllaaia, iu ,uu dren of Mr. Swappas. -Mr. French's two chil- Hrn Mrs. George Beaver. Myrtle Beaver, Geo. Holman's child, Mr. Dingman, Frank Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U: S. Gutf Report 34' - - ' - j- - ' j. , , j - Bicklemeyer, and twelve persona were wounded. ! Cresco, la., Sept. 22. The Kenvon I fam ily, consisting of five persons, living ten miles nortn of here, were killed last meht nd the residence converted into kindling wood. The tornado also passed over this place, demolishing the Hollister lumber company's sheds, tore the end out of Nor ton's livery stable, unroofed half a dozen houses and flattened more than half the barns and outhouses in the citv.1 Trees twelve inches in diameter were snapped off like pipe stems. ! - Osage,! Ia., Sept. 22. Five persons were killed by a cyclone- which passed five miles north of here at 10 o'clock last night. Many others were hurt and will probably die. oprikg valley, Minn., Sept. 22. This beautiful and prosperous city, situated amid peace and plentv. was struck bv a cyclone at 10:30 o'clock lost night, wrecking the north or residential portion of the city. While a large audience were in the opera house witnessing a tragedy, anotherjtragedy was ueing.enaciea a snort distance away, caused by the storm, which struck the finest portion of the town. The teams were set to work 'o carry the dead away and re move the injured to the Lewis house; which was converted into a hospital. Physicians were sent for from Wykoff, Racine, Grand Meadow and Austin, who, with the help of the resident doctors, were kept busv. all night. The first intimation of anything un usual was when the electric .lights in ; the opera house went out. Other lights were soon obtained and the play went on and finished After the theatre was over and the people had got on . the street, it was noised about that a cyclone had struck the city. A large force of men was soon provided with lanterns and searches made throughout : the wrecked district and it is believed all have been found who were killed or injured.l The cyclone was about twenty rods wide. The houses destroyed were, witnout exception, new and many of them expensive and situated in the fashion able part of the city. It is impossible to estimate the damage done. , The flesh of the dead and injured is blackened, as is usual m cyclones. Hundreds of fine old jshade trees and miles of wire I cover the streets render ing them impassable. ' Elma. Ia.; Sept. 22. The town of Lowther, located hye miles north of this city, which vvaa uuiuiiuuaic cuuugu lu uc in Llltt pa ill of last night's cyclone, is now a mass of bent timbers and splinters. The damage done to Lowther and vicinity will exceed $100,000. Owing to the situation of this village and from the fact that telegraph and telephone commumtion have been shut off for tbe past twenty-four hours, it has been impossible to confirm the reports sent from Oelwein, Iowa, until tnis auernoon, when a reporter visited the scene of the disaster. A severe wind and rain storm struck Oelwien- about 6 o'clock p. m. last night and grew worse until 1:30 o'clock when without warning those able to regam consciousness found them selves in corn fields or on the open prairie. The width of the storm is estimated at half a mile and its course due east and west. No deaths have been reported in Oelwein, but several are fatally injured. . A creamery owned by Spellman, Owens & Brown, is a total wreck. Tne vats used in the creamery weighed not less than 200 pounds, yet they were found fully half a mile from where the creamery stood. Aberdeen, s. Ul., Sept. 22. The fiercest storm of wind and dust known here for years is. now raging. Much damage has been done to property, of various iinds and .much more is imminent. Reports of heavy losses are coming in steadily from neighbor ing towns and country points. Tne wind blows from the northeast and the tempera tuie has fallen to an uncomfortable point. J oeest Uity, ; laL, sept. 22. A disastrous cyclone passed through . this county last evening about 10 o'clock. At Ellington, six miles south of here, one woman, Mrs John son, was killed, and Mrs. Koberts was. prob ably fatally j miured. ' The family of Mr Pitkin received some serious injuries: his house and barn were swept away. At Hay held, nve miles southwest or here, many houses were earned away, and several peo ple were killed and many wonnded. In Bingen township, Hancock countyfive peo ple are reported "killed. AtHayfield the cy clone divided, one part going directly north and the other east. In Newton town ship one woman was killed and thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed. At-1 o'clock a. m. to-day a message was re ceived from Tompkins, calling for medica aid. The message stated that several people were killed at that place. .Later reports from Bufialo township state i that seven people lost their lives. A number of others were severely wounded. r - f ' A Big Fre in St. Liouis. St. Lotus. SeptJ 21. At 7 o'clock this morning fire was discovered on the upper floor of the big five story building at Nos. 1918 to 1926 Chestnut street. This floor was occupied by the Columbian mills company and seventy employes, including about forty girls had just commenced wark. They became panic-stricken and made a wild rush for the stairs and fire escapes. The oc cupants of the lower floors and adjoining , -it j 4.1 i I T . DUuaings juiueu m tiie struggle lur iety and, a number were slightly , injured, but none seriously. Owing to the inflammable character of the material used by the Col umbian company the flames spread with great rapidity and in less than ten minutes me enure uuiiuiiig waa uuxuxug. xi. general alarm brought over twenty engines to the scene and after an hour of hard fighting the flames were under control. While righting the hre fourteen nremen naa a narrow escape from being crushed to death under a falling wall. A few firemen sus- foinorl siicrht lmnrifis hv hemer struck: with bricks. The building was totally destroyed. together with all the machinery and tools oi employes. ;ine loss is nearly tzw,iiuu. .a. defective electric wire caused the fire. j London. Sept. 22. The Times Shanghai correspondent telegraphs that advices have been received trom unemuipo, unuer aaie of September 16th, stating that a fleet of thirty-two Japanese transports, convoyed hv a number or warsnips. nave arrived there. The transports had on board 7,000 soldiers 3,000 coolies and 2,000 pack-horses. The troops are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible toward eeoui in oraer w protect that city from any attack that may be made upon it by the Chinese. GLADSTONE'S SOMERSET ANNOUNCED OPPOSI- ON TO LOCAL OPTION. Pledged to the Princinle for Mnnv Years he Now Saya be Has Long Since Considered it an Impos tureMuch Consternation Caused Thereby Traffic in Xbung Women Mr. Wilson Dined. London, Sept. 22. Mr. Gladstone, in re- ply to a request for his views as to tlie proper method of dealing with the House of Lords, declines to express an opinion upon the subject because of his retirement from the leadership of hid party. About tb.4 same time, hbweyer, the ex-Premier has thrown a bombshell into the -midst of the strongest group of his followers by addressing a letter to the Bishop of Chester against local option. In his letter Mr. Gladstone declares that if, local option pretends to be a remedy for the evils of drinking, it is little better than an imposture. The principle of the Gothen-. burg system he maintains , to be the only one, permissible or at all . tenable. and to the great amazement of both the Gladstoniahs and the Conservatives, adds that for long years he has been strongly of this opinion. The Temperance party in Great Britain has been highly scandalized b 7 this declaration, and their organs recall the fact that when Gladstone last came into power it was largely in consequence of his having repeatedly pledged himself to secure the passage of a local option measure. Con sequently, during his incumbency of. the Premiership he approved the bill and did not say a word m reference to the Gothen burg system. Since Gladstone s retirement Sir Wm. Har- court, who is his successor in the leadership of the party, has renewed the pledges made. absolutely and .unqualifiedly committing tt e Government to the introduction of a local option bill before the dissolution of Par liament. . In the course of his letter to the BishoD of Chester.Mr.Gladstone says: "I am glad to see that jut., unamberiain actively supports the Gothenburg system. .. The influential Isntish icevuio m comment ing upon Mr. Gladstone's declaration, asks:. "To what things are we coming to if Mr. Gladstone has taken the field in thus wise against the measures of his own Cabinet? What does the reference to Mr. Chamber lain mean? It seems certain that the last and most astounding Gladstonian develop ment is yet to be witnessed." This remark refers to a rumor that has . been nut in circulationfthat Mr. Gladstone has been advising! Lord Kosebery to subordi nate home rule to questions of English social reform and try to come to terms with the unionists in reference to Irish auairs. Much sensational correspondence appears in the daily newspapers, arising from th& discoyery of a revival of the traffic in- girls between the Continent and London. It had been supposed that the traffic had been sup pressed. The London Times published oh Wednesday a story to the effect that a Frankfort girl, who had obtained a situa tion in London had been saved from pro curation only by accidentally getting the protection of an English lady, who sent her to the German Consulate The inquiries that followed showed that a systematic busi ness of this kind is still carried on. The police are on the. track of the persons en gaged in the traffic and are actively assisted by agents of the Purity society. Congressman Wm. L. Wilson, Consul Gen eral P. S.Coliins, Secretary J.. Sterling Mor ton, and Congressman Isidore Straus were entertained at a private dinner at the Picca dilly club this evening. Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fel- y Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 22. When the gavel fell for the last meeting of S the sev entieth annual session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. this morning and the roll was called the members answered with more than usual promptness,! evidenc- mg a desire to facilitate, the closing bus iness of the session, so as to get away for home to-night or to-morrow, although all . leave Chattanooga with regret after the week's round of delightful drives and social pleasures galore. j The installation Of onicers was jthe hrst business berore the meeting. Hon. John W. Stebbins of Rochester, N. Y., Was in stalled into the exalted position of Grand , Sire; Hon. Fred. Carleton of Texas, as Peputy Grand Sire; Theodore Koss of New jersey, as Grand Secretary and Isaac Shep pard of Pennsylvania, as Grand Treasurer. nB 1 r IV 3 a 1 ine urana Dire men annonncea me ioi lowing appointments: Bev. J. W. Venable Of Hopkins ville, :Ky., reappointed Grand Chaplain, James B. Blanks of Virginia, ap pointed Grand Marshal; James Harwell of Nashville, urand Messenger, and x red iunt of Connecticut Grand Guardian. The retiring and incoming officers made appropriate speeches.' , i ine ivansas case wasiaicen up. xms case involves the standing of nearly all the Lodges in Kansas, and the- membership of nearly 3,000 of the members of those Lodges, who were assessed a certain amount by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kansas for the purpose of sustaining Odd Fellows Homes which they refused to pay, and then the Grand Master refused to consider the LiOdges as being a part or the Great Lodge of Fellowship. - Tne question was appealed to the Sovereign Grand Lodge and to-day that body and the grand Sire sustained the action of the Grand Master of the Kansas Grand Lodge, thus dissolving the recalcitrant Lodges in Kansas until they meet the assessments, i .; , After the singing of an ode and after prayers by the chaplain the meeting ad journed sme die. It had been one of the most enjoyable and profitable sessions the Sovereign Grand lodge ever neld. Owens Declared tbe Nominee. Frakkfokt, Ky., Sept 22. The ' Demo cratic Congressional district committee met tc-day. Maj. Johnston, of Fayette, read a protest from Col. Breckingridge in regard to the injunction granted by Judge Can trill in the Bourbon case as an extraordinary abuse of his powers as a Judge. The protest as serts that Judge Cantrill was his bitter enemy, and that Col. Breckinridge was sat isfied ne had received a majority of votes over Owens, and that the declaration of Owens' nomination will be making the committee a party to the fraud. - The com mittee then counted tbe vote, giving Owens. a plurality of 255 and declaring him the nominee. " " . , . A. Godden, druggist, Birmingham, Ala., writes: PIease publish some of the testimonials I have sent you for Japanese File cure " J. Hicks Hunting and J, tu Hardin. Wilmington, N. C. HIS T2 X - J.- - ! - ': - " " - ,r - i - -Tun mi -1 - - 1- ii nurw.itfi'