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. THE FLOfttr? -COUCCTiOa r 1 1 J VOL. I. MADISON, X. C, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1888. NO. 8 . SON LEADER TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. The floods have done serious damage- In A rkannas. Two children were struck by lightning and killed at 8t. Joseph, Mo. Tbe total gold exports from Tew York this month. amount to f5,'.J00,0O0. John McMahon ai arrested at Wilming ton, charged with the ,muruer of Carmen Malacaiz. Extensive frauds upon the custom -hou si in the shipment of grain have been discov ered, at Oswego. Thre men were arrested at Fort W. yne, I red., charged with counterfeiting. One of them was caught in th art. Henry Carroll pleaded guilty of counter- . letting in, 1 1'ulaoelphf&i auI was sentenced to three yearsMniprfsonmeut Charles K. Rotrock ha been pardoned by the governor of Kansas, on condition that he forever abstain from the use of liquor. Col. John A. Fagg, one of the last surviv ing orncrs of the Mexican war, of North Carolina, died suddenly at Asheville. a"ed HI. ' e A building in process of demolition at the corner of Broadway and John street, Ne York, fell, killing the forem in and iiijurin ; five men. Allen B. Hills, a well known and highlv resected farmer of Webst -r, N. C. shot an.' killed William H. Bumganier a;id j'atall. woun m his father. Iin Bum .nrner. The diflicuity grew out of a misurideixtand ing nout a small tract of land, and the termination of an old feud. rimii. n. o ;i t,n , ... . v!u 1 merchants, Now Yoj i;, in tie uii i-.-.iiiiiic:.t. Col A. Wil.s-.ju No: ris, licit r general of Pennsylvania, iii.il in Phi.aii4phi.i. The iron manufacturer- of the Mahoning alley have- combined fur mutual interest. The steamer Atl.inti'-, nar Killarney Out., p. cited up t-(.Miiuui:is!i.il tu their boat dead. Peter Knh, of San Francisco, shot the girl 'w ho irj-uu-d his o:ror of man lago and then kill, himself. Chicago's Catholic nMennen aro bitterly denounced for not opposing the location of bnloon.s near the churches. George Th.jin.is shot and killo! Maggie V i, a divorced woman, in Cincinnati, und then cotnmitb d suicide. lfv. J. I.. Hamilton, of the M. K church u the village of Bay Shore, I, I., was lined Uitceii dollars for petit larceny. Fire in a Chicago st -.bit sull'oeate'd seventy horses, and two families living over th'j sUble were nearly asphyxiated. Chicago church M.op0 of all denomina tions arc uniting to force the fitv cocn.'il to resign, because it failed to pass an anti saloon ordinance, , John Silver .c Co, wh .lesale and retail dry g-'.ts, ot Halifax, N S , 1, lVe suspended labilities, (i.-,M;. English hous -s are the 1 1 1 iic-. (a I creditors. A w. nn. in in male attiro attempted to kill ?.. Moiainier. a unii-airo rea estate Mwiir but recently separated. Simon Hamburg, of San Francisco, for swindling a man out of 10,000, has been sentenced to a tin.' of f I'.t.IKH), and in default to serve a day for c-. ery dollar of the amount. Voter J. Quinn, chief too!lceeper for Chris. O. Dixon it Co., of i'itt-burg, large contrac tors and builders, Ins been uii.ssin for sev eral lays mi l it is supposed that, he has gone to Canada. An exammntio.i of his accounts show a shortage at la, 000. Miss Mary Ingel, while standing on n bn.lge over Fislung Creek, W. Va., p!fty. lully dropped a .small stone, intending to plah the water over licr companion, Klmer I' i-i.-nd, who was U-ndiug over, washing his Man. Is m the str am. but the .stone, stric k::-.: umi on the head, caused instant death. The JVtrr.it river at the city of Detroit is to I' tK.'.noled. The Rhie Ui Ige Springs Hotel, near Lynvh burg, was burned. Iaxss & ,AM Dr. William J. MKre. a noted Virginia physician, died at Norfolk, aged sixty-nine years. Edward U'ilman, of St. Charles, Mich., killed his wife for joining the Advent Church. Mrs Klizil'oth Iwis an 1 her thre" grand ejhjldren were smothoril m a burning house in Cleveland, (.)luo. Henry Ettert, convicted of the murder of bis wife in Jersey City, has been sentence I so le hangeil July IS William Andrews, a sa'oon pv prietor of Ashland. Fa., shot and killed Lu wife, ami then cut his own throat. Deputy Sheriff Ship. of Knoxville, Tenn., was shot and killed l.v Hicks Martin, colored, whom he was attempting to arr.-st. A granite monument has lvn erect od on the spot wh-Te General lliiieoek f-il woutuletl during I 'ickett's charge at tKHtyswurg. Robert Smith, who, while inb)xicabd, was Iocko.1 up in the little ja I at Cario. Ill , se1 fire to th" place and was tiurnod to death. Julius Rockwell, of lnoy, Mass., an ex judge of the Masachus,tts Sujerior Court diel fnm injuries revived by being thi-own from liis carriage. Alj t,he sire 'l-.' r e iipl ayes in Il h sfer, N. Y., haw srru -k f r u. " hoars and m re pay. '. he postui'Tice at AttleWo". Mass . was en -tered by burglar ai.d atuit $1,M m stinui? taken. Two men were killed and othei-s hurt nv an "xplosion in s. H. Hac-ietts ciiair f.u-.orv. l'uiladelph'.a. Jos ph Siehuh, a cigar dealer, blew his brains out n: his home m I i-v.;!e. Ky. Tne cause was business einbarnsiueat. Thom.-vs Wynne, nge.1 of ( avtn. Fa., was found thing from extuu-tpu and ex pssiremu fivight carat Cimeumi:i. Tin large irnaud m-iclii:.e work of the lWlmont Inm Coinp,-inv m Fhdad.-lphia were d.tnn,sl by tire." causing kw of lit year ther we: e ",7i;; t'o .-is iieois.d in Fuilad. lphia. bat i. i d-r t-i.e r.ew ' (w. nit of ;;.4.'. appla-.r.ivi.is on! v 1 ' .7 were granUsl. " William Hubert and H..irv Uvs tn.sl t.. .le-nobsli Ni v.;i .s."N. J., sal, ,'.n' KH-ause ot thesutrermg 1:1 the.r uoais caul by drink Horav Ellis. agl eighte.-n. f -l! under a saw in n null in St. Lawrence o.i. it v. N Y aui ms n i was siv,.rwl fis.u, h IS Im1v aa.i urop;tsl tli.ougu a hole river. iuto tue Judge WalKifvof the Cmted Stales Circuit tourt U;ls Uvid.l tnat 1!,.. Chnr- h of the Moly Trinity. N.w Y.rk, mu,l iav 1UJ for uu;rtiug its ns-tur, t:u, Rev Mr War reti, tnmx England, co.,trurv to the nUMet- LUMBERMEN DROWNED. Five mmcm,.,. ...r, crossing tbe Arxxm toos. Iaver.at St. John. N. when their McQuade a d Cole were dro w0j. XtS & lonsl near Fririetoa. 7 DEPARTMENTOF AGRlCULTURi ! The Itotl.Ho passes the hill for a Xetv Kxecutive Offlf.-c In- the House Mr. Hatch, o! Missouri, from the Committee on Agriculture, moved tha the rules be suspended aad tho bill passed to enlarge the power and dotb s of tn-j Depart ment of agriculture and to create an execu tive department to be knowo as tb.9 Depart ment ol Agriculture. Mr. Herbert of Alabama, opposed tbe pro vision of the bill transform;; the weather service of the United States Signal Service Bureau from the War Department to the new Department of Agriculture. The pur pose of the measure was to dismiss the pres ent officers of tbe bnrean aud to provide for a new organization corniced entirely of civilians. Mr. Blount, of Georgia, could see nothing j in tho bill which would benefit the farmers or promote agriculture. Mn Oates, of Alabama, asserte ' that th. bill would not increase the agricultural pro ductiveness of the country p. single hill of beans, but would only create additional offices for politicians to till. The motion to suspend ti.e rules and pass the bill was agreed to yeas nays 13. The bill creates an executive department to be known as the Department of agricul ture under the supervision and control of a Secretarv of Airricur nr nnH r.mvi.i -J f . pi u. run AW. th- aprxjintment of a tirst assistnnr seeretnrv of acricuitnro It. nln Inimf.,,,. th -r- - ...... .. .....j. j.- " i IJ 1 service of the United .States Signal Service Bureau from the War Department to tbe Department of Agriculture. sun forTTalf a city. Claimant for Abotit liair thoGround ot Which Streator. III., btands. D. W. Moody, of Milwaukee, has filed in ti.e recorder's ofiice at Ottawa, 111., a power of attorney for the heirs of Elizi Cramer. Mr. Moody was sought out anl through his attorney, Mr. Duncan McDonald, master in chancery for Laalle County, it was ascer tained that suits would hi at onco instituted for the possession on tin ground of which about half the city of Streator is built. Mr. Mnody claims and substantiates his claim by tho original Government patent that Uii) acres of the heart of Stre itor belongs to the heirs of Mrs. Cramer, decease 1. The territory which wi.l at once be thrown into litigation takes in the nniu street of tho city, public pirl., post ofiice, banks, school houses and nearly all the busineas hous s of Strealor. There is no conveyance on re.-ord from Mrs. '. a .i"r to th p: M-':it occupants, an I ! he alt r i -y in the cas are confident that i h.-ir cj liuis will b p.Mved. Over (JU.).OvM of prop Tty is involve!. SWEEPING AWAY SALOONS. Over n,00 lo Ix? Closed hy.the JiiiLi. tlelpJiiiv Iiicciise Cu: L. The Licpior Ricensj Court b in le I do va the decision in the final list of ivt.ib ap . -cants, compri-siiifj the Twenty-idght , Twe .-ty-ninth and Thirty-first wards, in which are a majority of the suburban U-er parks, small beer saloons and a cent whiskey houses, th " judges have totally alxbsii-,d th s;i u - ban t.eer p irks, and the many music gar teas in th'i shadow of the big breweries of tli Twenty-ninth Ward, The Thirty first, ward will, after June 1st, be entirely tre from cent whiskey taverns, an I will lose ne irly tv. thirds of the many liquor place--. In these wards there were "i'i applicants, and of i hese 1 to were grante I. t'ho total' I'.nm'o -r of saloons permitted to sell liquor after June 1 will lie l.;i(), against ti.i 1.), as at present. There will b but two saloons on Broad street north of Columbia ave. Th Casino, which is to open next month, was among taos re fuse I. Saloons on other fashionable thor oughfares wi.l als(j c me up scattering. MICHIGAILIQUOR LAW. The Supreme Court Declares tlio LcMral Option Act Cneons.i tutional. The Ixx-al Option law pas, 1 by the last Legislature of Michigan, and which within tho last few days bad gone into elTiM-t in thirty-six counties of Michigan, was deelar d unconstitutional by the Supreme Court with out a dissenting opinion. T:ie point u; on which the decision is loosed was, the constitu tion provides that no law shall embrace nmro than one bbject. which shall oe ex.wvssed in the title. The object of the L e.il Option law, its pissd, was clearly to prohibit the sale and manufaeture of liquor. Th" titl" f the law was "An ae to-regulate the manu facture and sab of malt, b.-w.wvl . fermented, spirituous and vinous liquors m tin several counties in the Stat. " This defect in thj title alone was d clire I fatal to the lvv, though there were others in the bo I y ef it equally unco.tstitutional. The tank found, t'.vrefore. vr s n t. wi h the principle of the iiquo- law. bit to ti manner in whica to !x-g!skr are c.ad -i t . ; to aex-omi lish its end MARKETS. HAt.TiMoitK Flour City Mills, ext.--1.5 ... J- afii. 7."; V heat - Southern Full., K'o'.ivt., Corn Southern Whit, iiib7i-is, Yeiio.v i'o cts. ; OaUs Southern and I'.ei. syi vaina kiatiVts. ; Rye Maryland and I'emi-yi vauia 7aOc-ts. ; Hay Maryland an i Femes . 1 vaxn.i l'ioifci $ 1 7V; straw-W heat, FJiid.v; Rutu-r. riasteru Crva:nery,'iu..'vis.. .ear-by iv.vip s .DnJcts; Cheese-Eastern Fancy Cream. '. 4 alO ets.. Western, 'Ja'."1, E-rg' 14 a 141,; Cattle 4. i-l.'.; w.a, ". ' e .-v. : Saevp and Lam?) :kvS t; 1 tc IiMif Inferior. la-. ), G1Cj nm n.-. .'i f-l "0, Mill Uing, .a7.0,JGil to ti.ie re I, 7aj. Fancy, loati New York Flour Southern Cornmia t fair extra, oL4ia$4.oi, Wheat No. 1 Wiiit .- Mtr7cts. ; Rye Suite. .VfcwV; Corn Southern Yellow, tiAatitvbs. ; Uats White State. ,;."a;? ets. : Butter State, '2U6CT7 ct. ; Cheese Slate, llalcts.; Eggs loalo) ets. 1'lilLADELPHtA Flour Pennsylvania, fancv, ;i..VHi$4; Wheat I'ennylvania an I Southern Ked,Utiai7ets; Rve Pennsylvania bTaets. ; Cvrn SouthernVellow, tiViti. ct. Oats ila4i ets.; Butter State, lAic eu ; Cheese N. Y. Factory, 11a I J et.Es SUte. Uiaiacu. DISROBED BY LIGHTN1N 'i. l.i:,. ml boi BAker. aged twv- -.id thiruen years, were struck by lightning while playing on the common at St. Joseph, Alo. , and every particle of clothing torn from their bodies. Lena was nothurt in tha least, but L'.uie was so badly shocked that jit ; Lis is la disss r. 1 CABLE SPARKS. Ihe Brazilian Government has approved the bill abolishing slavery, and it is now a law. The anarchy which prevails along the Nile above Assouan has stopped Dr. bchiiemann's researches. The King of Sweden was received with great ceremony on his arrival at Lisbon. The city is en fete. The Anglo-Danish exhibition at Kensing ton was formerly opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Admiral Sir William Hewett, commander of the channel fleet, died at Portsmouth. He was 54 years old. Hundreds of Jewish and German bakers in East Ijondon have struck .work on account of excessive hours of labor. King Milan har. gone to Vienna to confer in reference to a settlement of the misunder standing between him and his wife, (u.-en Natalie. The Libera, Bucharest, announces tha Parliament will be dissolved in July, and thac the elections for new members will be held in September. A volcanic eruption and a waterspout have occurred in New Pomerania. New Guinea, doing immense damage. Many natives and three Germans were killed. The government has refused to sanction the grant of lO.OOe) francs voted by the muni cipal council for the relief of the striking glass workers in the department of the Seine. The government has ordered that two mcdern iJO-touguns be mounted on the Cen tral bastion facing the sea at Sheerness. Other measures of defense will be adopted on the Thames. The Queen of Greece, it is expected, will soon pay a three months' visit to St. Peters burg. Her daughter. Princess . Alexandria, will marry Grand Duke Paul, the czars youngest brother. The Russian Count Strogonoff and his sister, Prircess Tacherbaotoff, with an es cort of 150 men, have been captured in Asia Minor by a trioe of Curd Nomads, who de mand an immense ransom, A R.usso-Swedish commission has been ap" pointed to survey and detine the boundary between Sweeden and Finlmd. The work will occupy three months. It is not expected to present any difficulty. A dispatch from Wrvrsaw says that the managers of railways at Warsaw, Granica and Ivan-Gorod have received a military or der directing them to accumulate without delay on each line 600,000 tons of coal. Emperor Francis Joseph accompanied by all the members of the imperial family, the Austrian and Hungarian ministers and for eign diplomatic represenatives, was present at the unveiling of a monument to tho Em press Maria Theresa. A grand banquet at the palace followed. SAD ACCIDENT TO A BOY. Nearly Haimed to Death While ltci-re.s-.-iit in ; Winter in a I'nbleau. A shocking accident occurro I at an exhibi tion given at Mr. Boyd's private school at Montrose, N. J. A part of the programme was representation in tableau of tiie s asons. Jose Del Yalle, a bright lad of fourteen years, represented winter and was clad in otton to carry out the illusion, lb wore a big beard and musta -he of the same material Aider his apj-earanee he was called lefore the - urtain by the ajjplauding audience, which numbered over one bun red persons. In bowing his thanks be incautiously r.p proached bo near the footlights and his cos t u me caught fire, In an instant he was cov er, d from head to foot w it h the Hames, The excitement was inten.v, and in their eirorts to be p the poor boy some of the spectators interferesi with others who were more cool beaded. Finally a Mr. Baril, who also had n son at tlie school, jumped upon the stage and smoth ered the flames. Three doctoi-s weix almost immediately in attendance, but beyond alle viating the pain of the suflerer they could elo little or notuing. They found that his face, arms and legs were shockingly burned, and expre.-.-ed tne tear that he had inhaled some of the Hames. in which event fuciv was but little hooe ol - .-cover ' v. FATAL EXPLOSION 7a ; I'roni a Varnish Barrel Causes the Loss of Tve Live-. An explosion occurrel in the furnitu:-e manufactorv f Stanton II. H ick tt. No. S)l South Scond Street, Philadelmia, Pa. Aftesr a hard struggle the firemen got the firj under c ntrol, and then inquiry Ix'gan to be made in the erowd for two mis,ing p-.tiph. The.e were Jo'.ui Crilly, of No 114 Christian str. ct. age 1 lifte -n velars, and David Claytn, a color si man, of Federal stret, aged thirty one years. Yo-.it g Criily had lnn sent into the cellar t draw- some varnish from a barrel and he w as arc npnnied by Clayton. Tuis was th lat seen of them. Several of th firemen volunteer. -d to go in sear h of the missing men. even while the fire w;is smouldering ami th- ivllar filksl w itu smoke. They gnoKHl tia'ir wav through the cellar and found the twoder.d lxiif.s. B th were t -rriblv tuirned and l-sfigured and without e.othmg. They lad evidently I een kilhd by the explosioa, which was iK-oU".bly eaus-'d by holding a lighted cmdle near the vamisli barrel in which explosive gas had gieraTel. Several oti.er jieopie w r-- slightly injure! bv the cxplon. whicii re itsl ainmeiu the building and uc;giil)r! O i. LOSSES BY FIRE. heiandle fa.-forv ..f Fitrjer.-.ld oi: Co., of t hie-ago w,vs burnoiL Ijxss ?l-i .). The Auste.l budding, in Atlanta, lia., w a alm. tvt entirely detrovei bv lire. L s f 1 K'- TUe peeking bnaof Uk Dakota l acking and !'riv,i.ia Company ;n Huron was burned. i iJ.oew. The entire business iortioa of Lioldendiily, Washington Territory, was se4 aay by fire. Lijss i i7i,.XJ. Fire in Blackville, S, C, .jestroyed twenty four stores und reside noes. 1 ne UCoJ kxn is losurauee .4.sJJ. The large feed mills of Charles V. Hummel, at Lrie, were totally destroy cxl Lues r?.tMj; naif covered by lasuraiioe. Tbrt works of L Richardaon. manufacturer of r'ntenor -lroratHHis and line cabuiet wort, CleveLi. .l, Ouio, was dastroyi by fire. Fire destroyed Oil Fellows' Hall, Good Tempiar H al. simlers store, Fwber s book store, and , ajrtu ka 1 Ru'ple'f law ofiice at bomerset, IV Tbe ore u supposed to be ths work of inceadiaxie Tbe los will probaldzr rtaca ISOXaj, milgr iasarad, GREAT FLOODS. Illinois Farmers Lose Nearly , Four Million Dollars. ' i Great Suffering in ihe Inundatexl Bottoms, but the Worst lias Been Done The Mfc-sislppi Still Covers the Terrhorr, hut the Waters Are Snbs.idin-The Ijos is Est f ma ted at $3 000.000. A siciaP rrtrar Qniney; 111., ty?; Ths great flood m the Mississippi, whrh will bo t-emembered as without a precedent in tbe destruction and suffering created, is slowly abating and it is thought that the worst of the high water is passed. But the worst that could happen has already occurred, hundreds of 'families being rendered home less, and thousands of acres of growing crops ruined, to say nothing of the loss entailed by demolished dwellings, wrecked fences and washouts. A trip through the submerged regions shows that the stjries of loss and suffering already published have not been exagger ated in the least. From the northern end of Adams county to the southern end of Pike county the I n 1 on the Illinois side of the river was protected by a system of levees, the region embracing 2.;0,000 acres, the soil being th3 richest in the state. Ail the region is now one vast lake from six to ten feet in depth. Along the bluffs on the eastern edge of the submerged district hundreds of fami lies are camped, living in tents, huts and the open air. Before the flood most of these i people' were well-to-do, pr sperous fanners, J but now they have little or nothing. Much , sickness prevails among the unfortunates, ; but prompt measures have t ecu taken to al 1 leviate their sufferings. The inundated regions are full of desola ! tion. Dos rted homesteads, with the water j lapj ing the eaves, are the most frequent, as ! well as the most pathetic sight. But here j and there is a spark of life not yet extin i guishel by the all-destroy ing waters. While I the vast majority of the mhabitans fled to the higher land a few were not graiced time to get away or misjudged the character of i the breaks in the levee and d; termined to ' stay with their homes, and are now living in i the trees or on the roofs. Every roof has bexm turned into a place of refuse for live stock, 'poultry, cc, but. numerous hous.? have Iwen lit" ted from their foundations and carried away with the irresistib e current or demolished entirely. In the Suy levee district below Quincy, the situation is infinitely worse than in the regions to the north. The crevasse, which Miipletecl the inundation, opt-wed at th3 up per end of the embankment and tho pent-up waters from the river poured over the vast tract of rich farming land, swevping every thing before it. The torrent rushed do wn in a great wave several feet high with a force which nothing could w ithstand. The towns of Fall Creek, Seehorn and Hulls are but mere isl mis and hundreds of refugees nre huddled together in limital space. Four or five families are living in each of the rooms of the few houses above the water and are suffering intensely. The damage to railroad property is enor mous and it will bo t hive weeks after the water subsides before trains eai: be running o;i time. Cminey is c ut oil from railroad eomir.uuie tion north, west and south. The Quincy and Carthage track is under water for adistanceof several miles. The Quincy, Alton ami St. Louis track is washed for miles, the bridge's are gone ami telegraph poles down. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Wabash tracks a: East Han nibal were washed out Saturday morning. On the west side of the river no attempt is uade to run trains on any ot tho roa is. 1 Owing to the great confusion it is impos- j sible to obtain detail-d losses, but the aggre- ' gate will reach fully &$.00t),U0) from croj-s j alone. The damage to the levees, houses i und railroads witi approximate 5-tJ UJO'J. j Reports received record the drowning of j Samuel Moore by tho floods in the Indian ; Grove levee district and of t wo children of j Win. Johnson in the Sny district. Two j famdies living in' tho S"ny district are unac- ! counted for and no trace ot them can be j found. It is probable that fatalities will be ( recorded when all the facts regarding the i floods are fully knovyn. Much sickness pre- j vails among th destitute jeojle from the ! inundated districts but the relief committee ! of Quincy is rendering every possible assis- tance. to ihce in distress. Trains on the , western roads will le resumea to-morrow i and the damage to all the rot. is in this locality possible. w.'ii bo rep lire ! as tjwedily as ; FOUR PERSONS SUFFOCATED, An Aged Woman and Her Three Grand -Children iViv-h. W m LI. well vn, a 1. tt-r cari i. r. '. ft h:.s o . in i-:i.tl. if.-Kiat l.ttle home at Cleveland. )i .mpa'-y with his w:f When ;bev r - a few hours later, th partially eousiimei by fir nirroun lel by a crowd ldies of Mrs LIew llvn found the li.ci-e wldle in the arlor, f fire nen. lav the ni th- r ar,d three children of the faisi.iy. ail MifToeab-d to d.-atn by smoke. The alarm of fire was turned in a!out eleven o-kvk. The fireman were n't aware at first that any one was m tbe building, ami when they l-am-aware of the fact it was too bate to save the unfortunate inmate. In a rear ro m m n- found loe If of four victim. Tu ag-1 granltiioth.-r was lying on the floor, wit!. tie youn-t r-hiid f tsl in her arms, hav ng.-vi Jentiy p-rtsJe.l while endeavoring ta mike h.-r C "-ij Tbe loy was in dead. vh;le th- four jenr old girl was u the flor-r, t--m i h-r Vf.b. where she hal fai l-u in Lii-r struggle for l.fe. Their names and agrs an Mr FJizalieth Lj-ww, agsl sml Albert LleW'diyn. get ix Liewellyn. az 1 f.mr v.-.i s -.s' as f. !; w. . j -igbt years ; vears. Fanny aa.j r.'Uie i Jewcilyn, ageii ighteeu h3 ONE PISTOL KILLS BOTH. A tragedy crowing out of a religion dlf hculty between Ei word Wilnion and his wtf occurred a few mile from S- Coarles, Jlfich. A deire by Mrs. Wilaiio wnw time fo to unite with th A i eat cbcreh met ith roch rtrong oppoawtioa from her has- in-i tt at re nrallv wt him and retunvKi her father's itottse. Sunday afternoon dman drove ud to the house, and as soon h ha met her he shot her through toe breast and an instaat it-r bol himself throaoh - Ti I tha hearu FIFTIETH CONGRESS Senate. IOGth Dat. The Senate pass! in an amended form Mr. Yesfs resofation for an investigation of the cattle trust, file lrats passe4 thirty-eight bills, mostly of an unim portant character. I06TK Day. The pension appropriation Dill was taken no. the Question beimr on tbe amendment reported by the committee on f appropriation to rtrifee out tbe words "Ut in all pensions to w lows payment shall be made from the dai of the. death of the hu.-lanV' and to insert ' that all payments which have tecn or which may hereafter be ft ranted under . the general law regulating pensions to wilowj iu co .sequence of death occurring frem a cause which originated in the service since fourth of Mnrcb, 1151, shall commence ifrouUa datdf death of , After considerable deltate the amendment Was agreed to without division, and the bid was passed. It Ttu Day. the Svnata was not in session to day. IOSth Dai. The 33natewas not la session to-day. KOTO DAT.-Vr. Morrill, from the coro- m ttee on public buildings and grounds, re ported the bill appropriating flT.VH fof making the west end of the Smithsonian building tire proof. Th bill was passed, after an explanation by Mr. Morrill. 'Die Senate then proceeded to business on the calendar and passed numerons bills. The Senate bill for the erection of rostoffice buildings in towns and cities where the post office receipts for three years preceding have exceeded three thousand dollars annu ally was reached on the calendar. After eonrnd rable discussion, tbe bil! went over without final action. 110th DAV.-The floor was accorded to the committee on labor, and Mr. O'Neill, (Mo chairman of that eommittee, called up tbe "bill to confine tbe s ile of tbepreducts of con vict labr to the State in which they are pro duced. The majority and minority reports were read at length, and an hour was thus consumed. Mr. Cannon offered an amendment pro hibiting the importation for commercial pur poses of all goods, wares or merchandise from any foreign country to the United States which in whole or in part were manu factured or produced by convict labor, and prescribing penalties for the violation of this prohibition. Adopted. The previous question was then ordered yeas 1C, nays 44 on the engrossment and third reading of the bill the Hous.? adjourned. 111th Day. Mr. MePherson introdueed a joint resolution providing for medals to the officers and enlist d men of tho three months' service in ls'd. On motion of Mr. Sherman, tho Senate, at 12.J0, pnx-eeded to executive business. Tho doors were reopened at 1.2) and legislative busir.es was resumed. After some routine matters were disposed of Mr. Spooner said: "It is known to Sena tors that death has crod the threshold of my colleague's heime and has stricken down at his side the conijwiniyn of his life long journey. Many Senators on both sides of tho chamber have intimated to me a desire to testify their respect for my-eSllengue ami their sympathy for him in his sorrow by at tending the obsequies of Mrs. Sawyer, which are to occur at two o'clock. To enable such Senatoi-s to do so I move that tho Senate do now adjourn The motion was agreed to and the Senate adjourned. Housc. IOoth Day. The House met at 10 o'clock, and vent into committee of the whole on tho tariff bill. Speeches against the bill were theu made by Messrs. Baker, Bound, Farqu-h-r, Bayne, Ryan, Laird and Dalzell, arid in favor by Messrs. Weaver, Russell and Fitch. Kvcuinn Session. Speeches were made by Messrs. Montgomery, of Kentucky Shively, of Indiana, and Mr. Clemmy, of North Car olina, in favor of the Mills bill, and by Mr. Wiekbam, of Ohio, in opposition to in. The House at 10.15 adjourned. lObTii Day The House went into commit tee of the wuole on tbe tariff bill. Messrs. Peters, Stewart, Anderson, Her mann, Felton, Spoone, Romeis, Sawyer and Nichojs spoke against the bill, and Messrs. Breckinridge, Cox, Maish and Lane in favor of tbe measure. 107th Day The House went into comm.t tee of the wt.ole on tbe tariff bill Messrs. Kinsley, Randall and Cbeadle spo';e against the bill and Mr. Breckuendge in favor of it. lOM'H Day. The gen-ral debate on th. tariff bill was closed with a speech in favor of protection bv Mr. Reed, of Maine, and one in favor of tariff reform by Speaker Carlisle. hf.nn Day -Under the call of State tbe following bills nn, inti o lu. e, : By Mr. Spring, r. placing on the free lit articles of m.-iv.iandisc, the production of Waieui ii. ny le c..li oiit-d by trusts and com bomtions. I y Mr. Crown, for a public building at Martinsville, Va, Mr. Hatch, from the comm. ttee on agricul ture, mo veil that the rules te upeiidf J and the bill as-rf-d u e.iiarg- the powers and du ties of tie Depn tn.ent of Agriculture, and to create an .-.x. ut;ve department to b: known as tu- Depai tuK-ut of Agriculture. After a brief d 1 ate trie motion toi:pe d the rales and pas tho bill wn agreed I j yeas .'.. 1 1 i- 3-.3. 1 IdTH Da v Th" ff -Hawing bills were takn from the calendar and is-i: Senate bill to incoqxjrate the National Academy of Dental Science; House bill aj propriating ?l:5',0"0 for en'.argemtnt and re pairs of the public building at Atlanta; Senate bill to anv-nd the law making annutl appropriation to provide arms and equip me:it for ihe militia, increainr tho amount to the Se:nte bill appropriating f4u,buu for li e improvement artd enUrge of the pobbc building at Petersburg, Va. Tbe Senate then adjourned. lllTH. Dw Th Ho went into cnn m it ! e Uv; whole on the pbf.ice aj;ro- J.nation bill Aft-r bd-ite the bill was read by etions for atiicn-inifit. Mr Kerr moved totrike ut th appropriation for rent, light and fuel for third xla ptMomV-. It- l'eiiing a tinal dipitko of th bill 1 the com.-nitb-e roe, and the Hou ad journ L A FATAL JOKE. v v ounjg Lady Kill! a Companion bj Accident. Ebue; I reij-l, a well-known and oular young man, met b. tl-oth. aljocit eight mile from New Martmvillet W. Va, under very peculiar orxafoisXance. H was out walking with a number of ladies and gentlemen, among th former b-ing Mow Mary lng"4 lletvtiittg a small bftvl? jannteg a creek, the party tofj.d axd Friend it down to the edge of the water to wash bis hands. Some one S5irges4l that it would be a g i joke to paiah him, sivl Mia lu??A pscij op a round tone anl threw it orr tive bridge Instead of alighting m the water, however, tl struck FrkrJT on tha top of Ins bead and he was instantly killed The lady is now almost wild with grW at th result of hrr throw. CHURCH OFFICERS FINED. Compelled to Pay Oiw Thousand Dollars for Importing Their Preacher. Judge Wallace, of the United States Cir cuit Court for the Southern district of Now York, has handed down a decision in the. famous case araint Holy Trinity Church-. New York city, undf?r the law prohibiting tbe importation of foreign contract labor. The action was brought against the rector, church wardens and vestrymen of the Church of the Holy Trinity to rscover thai penalty of $1,000 imposed by the act of Con- of VeitcmLryiutrjxnoa or corporation violating its provisions oj knowingly encouraging the immigration of anj aliens to the United States to perform labor or service of any kind under contract or agreement, expressed or implied J udge Wallace recites the facet in the case Tbe action wai legun by United States Dis trict attorney Walker at the repust of New York citizens, who laid the matter beforo him. The corporation offended against tho law in that it hired the Rev. M. Warren, of England, a clergyman of the Church of England, to become its rector at a salary of f 10,000 a year. Judge Wallace held that tbe law was plain, and that while its framers presumably did not intend to have it affect clergymen, there was no escape from iu language. The statute excepts actors, singers, lecturers and artists only, and bono leaves no possible interpretation as regards clergymen except that they are included In the interdicted classes. Had not exception been made there might have been room for interpretation of the law. As the statute, staiuls tho Court bad no other course than to overrule the demurrer, which, while it admitted the fact alleged in the cotnpialnt that the clergyman cainu to New York city under contract, objetd to having the statute apply U the case of ministers of the (j oi pel. The church will therefore have to pay tho fine of f 1.110, but the eiergvmei cau go on preaching, and no lurther pmaty can im visited on the church, while trie not subjected to any peualty. lumiste-r is DID HE BURN HIS WIFE? nigamfst Beyond a IKmht and Tor haps a Murderer, Too. The bones of a partially cremated women were found by some boys near Grace & Coleman's turientino distillery, at Mount Vernon, Cla-, and the discovery tells the -quel, it is thought, of a story of the crimo and double life led by a South Carolinian while in Georgia. Dan Davis, a white cooper by trade And a roan of uu usual per sonal attractions, made his appearance at Mount Vernon about two years ago. He secured employment with Grace & Coleman. He had not been long in the service of the company when ho met Miss Mollie Grace, daughter of his employer. It was a genuine case of love at first sight The fatlier ob jected, but the paireloed and were married In duo tlmt the angry parent releuUd and the young people were reinstated, not only in his affections, but in in household. Everything went smooth until reorU be gan to circulab to tbe effect that Davis had left a wife in Carolina. About thi time he pretended that be had received news from South Carolina of a legacy that bad been left him, and he went there to see about it. After his return from South Carolina it was noticed that he was calbd upon fre quently by a s;range woman who lived in a cabin out iu the wood la tbe n-ighborbod of the turpentine distillery. A traveller from South Carolina recognized the worn in as Davis' first wife. She disippeared oon after and ha not been seen since. Da via was put on trial for bigamy, and on the te timony of this man was convicted aud Is. now in th" p-nitntiary. Thursday a ptrty of boys who were hunting through te wood discovered an ash pilo and found the frag ments of human bones arlly buwied. Further search resulted in lb finding of a woman' breastpin, hairpin and a handker chief. The people bid. eve that th- looe ar those of DaviV firt wife, wi.ui.i. it is thought, he murdered and burned. A colored man claims to have poed near the wools one night about tbe time tbe murder is supposed to have been cornmitud, and he heard the cry of a woman as if in danger. He stopped for a rooineut, and as be berard nothing more pursued bu way. DECOY LETTERS ILLEGAL Decision that Will f;iy.!e the Iot Office Inspector. A Judge Spier, in tbe United States District Court! in Aiaeon, Ul, held that deeoy letters sent out to catch postal officials are not such letters as tbe law contemplate when it pun ishes those who tamper with th?m. Tha cavj arose oat of the trial of Rud Jph Dennick-, a route agent on the Central Radroa! b tween Macon and At.anta. Tb t.uaiber of letters tampertvi with on that run wo o large that a strict watch was instituted. A Oecoy letter aHresd to an :nxnry per son in At Unto, was mailed in Macon. At Barnesville, Hal way along the route, a post office inspecVr ent-red tie car, arrested Dennicke and found the letter, with th eaJ broken, upon bis pernon. Tbe trial of the case lias excited much in teres When the -vklenew ws oil In Judjp Bpier ordered tb Jury to bring in a vrtut of not guilty, sj th Uru character wf ibn k-tler affected tbe entire proceeding. Thu will break up a very ownwofl practice anioog tbe PoVOfIior detcUre. SHOT 8Y A MURDERER. lep-atT Sjierla' 8Jnpe was shot aal kilie! by Hick Martin, a n-gro, whom h was attempting to arrwit on the Powe 1 Valley Railrotvi we-rks, twenty Ui.lei north of lCnox rille, Tenn. The nejrr was wonted is Ala bsuna for a marler rom-aitted there. Dep uty Sheriff Hblpw ha.1 found thst Uartin was working en the new railroad aril a ent , to the camp tbn morning to arrest him. He - went to the tent where Martin was, in com pany with other negroes, and eajlad for him. He met the Deputy Sheriff at th door wita 1 two pinols and bean firing on him. Stipe ! fell and died in a few minutes without : speakusx word Tbe negro made bis Reseat?, and oflksrrs and cltin are now scouring the country fuf him. lie Is heavily armed, and will doubtles fiht his punraers to the last snould they overtaka him, tthoold he bs taken alive h wiU bo ivnebai.
The Madison Leader (Madison, N.C.)
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