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A CONDENSED SUMMARY OP
A WEEK'S DOINGS
Morocco Will Sattla With Spain. A Bis;
Petltlem. Caaaaaaaora Stanton Re
stored to Datjr. Braostraet's Cotton
Crop Estimate. Steamship Fired
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER SO
Robert F. Williams, one of the oldest
wholesale grocers of Richmond, Va., died
yesterday in that city. , n J ---
Joseph Stelner and F0I0 & Steiner, bask
eis, of Greensville, Ala;, have assigned.
Liabilities one hundred thousand dollars.
The XI- 8. cruiser San Francisco hasbten
ordered to Bio Janeiro.. "The cruit Is
bow as Trinidad. Wcftlnih It Is (out
blath tbtXewjYk wil also be sent
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A balloon sixty feet in diameter has been
gent up from St. Louis, carrying self regis
tering thermometers' and barometers and a
camera, which, will take a picture of the
earth from the highest point reached.
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pelled by th Mexican state department to
reimburse the American .board of commis
sioners for foreign missions for the burn
ing of mission buildings by a mob In the
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The Louisiana Rice Mill, at New Orleans
burned yesterday.! ,Loss seventy-five thou
sand dollars. One fireman-was killed .
Two men convicted t Pittsburgh Pa.; of
robbing station agents were senteneedyes
terday to serve; 43 years and 129i years,
respectively in the penitentiary.: i U C
A monster petition was presented In" the
U. S. Senate yesterday. It originated with
Col.. Albert A. Pope, of Boston, and prays
that a Road Department shall be founded
In Washington similar, tij. the, present
' Agricultural Department. The oetition is
1,400 yards long, and contains the names of
over 150,000 signers. r ;
La grippe is rapidly increasing in Lon
don. - ; w '"" ' -' " ' " "
France's new ironclad, the Magenta,
which cost five million dollars, is practi
cally a failure, being unable to turn with
out inclining eight degrees.
mi DAY. DECEMBER
The official count ended yesterday gives
ilopkinf, the Democratic, candidate for
Mayor of Chicago, a majority of 1.041
votes.
The St. Nicholas Bank, of New York,
was closed yesterday by the State bank
examiner. The deposits amount to two
million dollars.
Commodore Stanton has been found to
be guilty of merely an error of judgment
in the Mello incident and assigned to the
command of the North Atlantic squadron.
Bradstreet's 1893 cotton crop report esti
mates the present crop yield at 6,000,000
bales. This is the substance of replies re
ceived from 1,922 correspondents in 668
cottpn growing counties in 95 percent, of
the cotton growing section of the United
States.
yOBKIOW.
The great building of Hovey & Sons.
drapers, at Sheffield. Eng.. burned last
night. Sixty clerks sleeping in the build
ing barely escaped with their lives. Loss,
a million dollars.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3
The Bay View Lumber Company's plant
at West Norfolk, Va., was destroyed by
fire last night. Loss fifty thousand dollars
The trial of Daniel Coughlin, at Chicago
for the murder of Dr. Cronin is bringing
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out some damaging testimony to the pri
soners cause.
The cashier of the City National Bank,
of Brownwood, Texas, was yesterday, in
dicted for the embezzlement of $90,000
which broke the bank. j
Governor Mitchell, of Florida; has Issued
a proclamation calling upon all the sheriffs
of that State to do all in their power to
prevent tne ngnt between Corbett and
Mitchell
FOREIGN.
The Mel ilia troubles are practically set
tied, Morocco having agreed to all of
Spain's demands.
Cholera is still spreading at St. Peters
burg, owing to the consumption of bad
fish among the poor and to the infection of
the drinking water.
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 34.
The Associated BanksV New York now
hold 77,937.775 In excess of the require
ment of the 25 per cent, rule h
The British steamship Buckingham was
fined $900 yesterday at Norfolk, Va.t for
landing three stowaways.-, -j , -w-, f
'Flfteen hundred bales of 'cotton" were
damaged by a fire in Flannery's warehouse
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1viwhites and 19 Mexicans are reported
t(J have Q kUed !q a nce war 0New
Mexico sheep ranges. Further trouble is
anticipated and the Governor will be ap
pealed to to send troops to quell the dis
turbance. ;" . ) ; - ! : '
FOREIGN.
Great opposition is being made In the
English Parliament to an allowance for the
Duke : of j&xe-Coburg-GothaVp formerly
known as the Duke of Edinbtirg. ., -v.
A Berlin cable says that the present con
dition of starvation tin German1 industries
has resulted in a notable falling off in
Christmas sales, which aro small beyond
precedent .
MONDAY. DECEMBER 5.
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St. Augustine, Fla. has been selected as
the place for training quarters for Charles
Mitchell, the English pugilist who is soon
to meet Corbett ; -
Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal John Walter
with twenty guards, will leave San An
tonio, Texas, this week for San Francisco,
having in charge 65 Chinamen sentenced
to be deported for violating the exclusion
act. : " '
The American steamship Seneca, Capt
Stevens, wmcn sailed from Havana on
Saturday for New York with a cargo of
tobac.co, retnrned to Havana with her fore
hold on fire. The fire was discovered when
seventy-eight miles out and the steamship
was taken back with great difficulty,
FOREIGN.
It is rumored at Buenos Ayres that two
of Mello's war ships have left for Montevi
deo to attack the small government fleet
stationed there. j
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 86.
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The U. S. cruiser Mohican, now at Mare
Island. Hal., has received orders to prepare
for sea. Her destination is not given
The Pacific Express messenger was
knocked down by a negro ori the station
platform at Marshall, Texas, yesterday and
robbed of his pouch . containing about
SI7.500. The nero disappeared in the
darkness.
A dynamite crank has threatened to
blow up the Armour Institute at Chicago
and has also threatened to murder its pre
sident. Rev. Frank Gunsalus and its
founder, Philip D. Armour. (The police
are on the lookout for the crank.
FOREIGN.
Germanv has a creed to lower her duties
on Russian rye and oats to the level of the
Austro-German tariff, in return for which
Russia will reduce her . tariff on German
iron, tin, machinery and j agrarian imple
ments 10 to 20 per cent.
Big Values in
I Lace Curtains.
We offer the following exceptional
values in Nottingham Lace Curtains:
100 pairs, choice design and quality;
actual value $1.25, for 98 cents.
100 pairs Antique and Brussels
effect ; actual value $2.50 for $1.40.
150 pairs superior quality net in
Irish point and Brussels effect; actual
value $3.00, for $1.98
250 pairs choice Point d'Esnnt and
Brussels effect; actual value $6.0(, for
holiday
novelties
at $1.79,
$3.50.
Portieres.
25 'pairs Chenille
dadoes, foil ltagth, reduced from $5.00 to
$3.88. . .
200 pairs heavy quality Chenille Por
- tieres, J cheice, deep dadoes and heavy
fringe; worth $6.00, at $4.98.
75 pairs superior quality Chenille Por
tieres, all colors, very pretty dadoes, at
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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THE TARIFF FIGHT WILL
SOON BE ON.
The Senate on the Hawaiian Question.
An Epidemic of Cranks. One of them
Caught. The Bimetallic League.
Pension Matters.
Washington, December 25, 1893.'
-'Peace on earth, good will to men,"
is of course, the proper sentiment to
express upon Christmas day, but if
there is either peace or good will
among the politicans it is not visible
to the naked -ye at Washington. The
angry passions stirred, up by the de
bate just previous to the adjournment
for the recess are still very much in
evidence, although probably four
fifths of both Senate and House are
absent from Washington. It is diffi
cult for a man to feel peace and good
will in his heart, when he is making
preparations to enter one of the bitter
est partisan fights ever engaged in by
Congress, and that is just what every
Senator and Representative is doing
to day. The tariS will come up in
the House on the very first day of the
session, and although it is expected by
all that the administration will be
strong enough to put the bill through,
practically as it was reported from
the committee, it will not be done
without some hard fighting. There
is an element of uncertainty about the
visits of the Representatives to their
homes just now, that is exciting much
interest. Whether it will change the
sentiments of any of them towards
the tariff bill remains to be seen.
The Senate, although democratic
by a small margin, has certainly not
shown any disposition to be dictated
to by the administration, and it is al
ready certain that the few Senators
who have announced their willingness
to champion its Hawaiian policy will
find themselves with the fight of their
lives on their hands as soon as the
Senate comes together again. The
House may be willing to favor the
administration by adopting the Mc
Creary resolution providing for an
investigation of the relations of the
last administration with Hawaii, with
out touching upon those of the pres
ent administration, but it may be set
down among the certainties that an
overwhelming majority of the Senate
favors Senator Morgan's resolution,
providing for an investigation of the
whole subject right up to date. This
resolution has been approved by the
benate committee onForeignRelations,
of which Senator Morgan is chair
man, although it is known that Presi
dent Cleveland disapproves of it. The
Senate committee will in fact begin
this investigation this week. '
Somebody is going to be made ridi
culous through the nonsensical crank
fright which has recently made its ap
pearance in Washington.Thejrwill not
allow a stranger to carry a bundle or
package into the Capitol building for
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SOUTHPORT. N. C. THURSDAY, DECEIXBEB 28, 1893.
fear that it may contain dynamite;
detectives in citizen's clothes con
stantly watch the White House and
follow President Cleveland wherever
he goes outside of the building, and a
foolish telegram printed several days
ago about an alleged plot to kidnap the
Cleveland children is actually serious
ly discussed by men who ought to
have better sense. Senator Mills has
been receiving some threatening let
ters ever since he voted for the silver
repeal bill, and the other day his son
allowed himself to be so badly stam
peded as to apply for and receive a
permit from the police authorities to
carry a revolver to protect his father
from murderously inclined cranks;
he came to his senses4ater and asked
that the permit be cancelled. All of
which is calculated to increase the
number of cranks who write threat
ening letters, and the pay of private
detectives, some of whom probably
could tell the source of many of the
letters, and to disgust other people.
A member of the executive commit
tee of the' Bi metallic League, which
recently held a long secret conference
here, says the League will take no
steps towards trying to got either of
the several silver bills that have been
introduced in both House and Senate
passed at the present session. He
thinks that the well-known hostility
of President Cleveland to such legis
lation and the certainty that the bill
will be voted, if it were passed, make
it useless to do anything in that direc
tion. The League will concentrate
its efforts upon the election of mem
bers of the next House.
The urgency deficiency bill, which
became a law on the day that Con
gress took its holiday recess, contain
ed a clause declaring a pension to be
a vested right that cannot be taken
away from a man without notice, but
that did not detract from the interest
felt in the case of Judge Long, of
Michigan, who is suing to have his
name restored to the pension roll
from which it was dropped by Com
missioner Lochren. The case was
argued at length on Friday and Sat
urday and a decision is expected this
week. From several questions asked
by the Judge during the argument it
has been inferred by many that the
decision will be in favor of Judge
Long.
The latest revised estimate of the
Treasury officials is that the deficiency
under the new tariff bill, if it became
a law as it now stands, would be
$56,407,900. That is the amount that
will have to be raised by internal tax
ation of some sort.
Joseph Dan jan, the crank who has
been sending threatening letters to
Vice President Stevenson, Secretary
Lamont, Senator Mills, and other
prominent public men, was arrested
in this city about 6 o'clock this even
ing by Capt. James A. McDevitt,
chief of the McDevitt Detective
Agency, and locked up at the First
precinct police station on Twelfth
street.
Capt. McDevitt recognized the man
from descriptions which had been sent
out and placed him under arrest.
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PLUNDER IN KANSAS.
Passenger Believed ef Money and Other
Yalnables. Train Bobbers Fail la
Their Pnrpose an the Son therm
Pacific Ballroad.
Coitetville, Kans., Dec 2. The
southbound passfenger train No. 12,
on the Iron Mountain division of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, which left'
this station at 6:30 o'clock this even
ing, was held up and thoroughly rob
bed by five masked men, at Seminole
Station, in the Indian Territory, five
miles south of Coffey ville. The
switch lock was broken and the train
ran into the siding, on which a box
car was standing, on which was a red
lantern. The point of the robbery is
a small station on the open prairie.
The engineer, James Harris, was
carefully guarded by one of the men
with a Winchester, while the rest pro
ceeded to rob the mail and express
cars and every passenger oa the train
from the smoker to the sleeper. The
leader was a tall man who went
through the cars and relieved the
frightened passengers of their money
and valuables while the party kept
up a fusilade with their Winchesters
and revolvers. They evidently se
cured a large amount of booty,
A party of youg people from Cof
feyville, who wore driving, sat in
their conveyance close to the scene
and witnessed the affair. They were
the first to bring the news of the rob
bery to town. Several gentlemen of
this city, who do business in the Ter
ritory, were on the train and were
victims of the brigands. Fortunately
no one was injured by the shoo tine:,
which was all done by the robbers.
One young man, who was in the smo
ker, got up as the robbers came in
and walked ahead of them through
the different cars in the hope of
avoiding them. When they got to
the rear of the last car, they caught
him, and took his watch and $17, and
made him jump off, H& walked back
to Coffey ville, but was too badly rat
tled to describe the affair.
They held the train for about an
hour and a half, and the rear lights
on the car could be seen from the
Missouri Pacific yards here while the
tram was being gone through. Con
ductor Brownel, the engineer, the
fireman, and the porters were relieved
of everything they had, even to their
pocket-knives.
The train continued on toward Fort
Smith, after being relieved, and the
desperadoes mounted their horses
and left in a westerly direction. They
were dressed in cow-boy outfit, and
were all young men. lhey were a
remnant of the Starr gang, and from
the description given by Conductor
Brownel, the leader is Jim Wooten,
the fellow who led the raid on Mound
Valley Bank. '
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 24. At
about midnight last night the Los
Angeles and San Francisco express
train on the Southern Pacific Railroad
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was stopped by two masked men
about twelve miles north of Los An-
iceles. near Burbank, a small station.
After the tram pulled out of Bar bank
the robbers climbed forward over the
tender to the engine and with leveled
six shooters forced the engineer to
stop the tram. They then uncoupled
the express car and pulled ahead 200
yards, where they stopped and called
on the express messenger to open the
door. - He refused until thev aDDlied
a
dynamite and blew the car open. The
messenger then surrendered.
One of the men kept the conductor
and a few venturesome passengers at
a safe distance while his confederate
attempted to blow open the treasure
safe. This halaikd- to accomplish,
and the robbers, "after relieving the
engineer, fireman, and express mes
senger of what money they had ! in
their possession, mounted horses.
which had been left near the robbery
and made their escape.
Good descriptions of the men were
obtained and officers from all direc
tions are in pursuit In addition to
the reward offered by Wells, Fargo
& Co., the Southern Pacific Company
have offered $1,000 for their capture.
Wells, Fargo k Co.'s agent here will
not say how much Was in the express
car, out admitted that an unusually
large sum of coin was being shipped.
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PENSION DECISIONS.
Washington', Dec. 24 Assistant
Secretary Revnolds has decided that
where at the date of his death a sol
dier leaves a wife, from whom he has
been legally divorced, and minor chil
dren over the age of 16 years, his
mother will occupy a pensionable
status, and can apply for and receive
a pension as dependent mother of
such soldier upon making the neces
sary proof showing compliance wtth
the statutory requirements in such
cases.
In another case it is held that where
an invalid nensioner dies leaving no
claim for increase or re.ratmg of his
pension pending in the Pension Bu
reau at the time of his death, but has
accepted the rate of pension he was
then receiving without demur or com
plaint, his widow has no right under
the provisions of section 4718, revised
statutes, United States, to file an ori
ginal claim for a re-rating of her de
ceased husband's pension. j
A third decision is that the terms
of the act of Congress, approved
March 1, 1893, prohibiting payment
oi pension alter July l, load, to a
non resident who is not a citizen of
the United States, except for actual
disabilities incurred in tne service,
applies to the cases of widows who
are' non-resident aliens.
The Commissioner of Pensions hag
no authority, it is decided, expressed
or implied, to varv the tenns or a
contract for attorneys fees in a claim
for pension, where such contract has
been duly made and executed in ac
cord an ce with the provisions of the
law, nor can he refuse to issue a pen
sion certificate to claimant for the
reason that the allowance is insuffi
cient to pay the fee contracted for.
ine certincate should issue irrespec
tive of the amount found due. It is
then within power of the pensioner
to prevent payment of the fee by de
clining to execute his voucher or to
execute his voucher and pay the fee
subject to any equitable arrangement
that may be agreed upon between the
, attorney and the pensioner.
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STATE NEWS.
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRA
TION AT MT. HOLLY.
Heavy Verdict Agalast tbe sUebsaead
Danville Ballroad. K Tang list Xe's
Great WTk. Aanmal Be port of the
C F. A T. V. Ballroad.
The store of Wilmoth & Flemmine
at Boonville, N. C, was entered on
the night of Dec 14th and a quanti
ty of goods stolen. After the thieves
had helped themselves they saturated
portion of tbe floor with keroseno
oil and set Are to it The flames were
brtunately discovered and extin
guished before much damage had, re
sulted. Wintton Repuhlica.
The case of J. a Fin ley against tha
Richmond & Danville Railroader
crushing his hand in coupling cars, oc-
upied the attention of the Federal
Court all Monday. It was determined
by the jury rendering a verdict in - . .
favor of the plaintiff for $2,500 and
costs. The defendant company prayed
an appeal to the Court of Appeals, at J
Richmond. Va. Charlotte Democrat.
During the past Conference year
Evangelist J. W. Lee preached 575
lmes in various parts of the Stato,
having a total of 1,856 professions and ;i,
reclamations as a result. Out of this '
number 691 handed in their names
for membership in tbe Methodist
church, 140 in the Presbyterian
church, 140 in the Baptist church and
20 in the Lutheran and other
churches, making a total of 1,091 who
joined the church. The other 765
were back slidden members who pro
fessed reclamation.
The report of the C. F. k Y. V.
Railroad for tbe fiscal year ended
June 30, shows gross earnings of
$594,354, against $550,552 tbe , pre
vious year, a decrease of $1,197. The
operating expenses were $353,909,
being a per centage of 64.42, against
$353,961 the previous year, a decrease
of $52. The net earnings weae $195,-
445, against $196,591, r decrease- of.
$1,145. Increase of business by 'con
nection with the Norfolk k Western
and the additional output of granite
and brownstono quarries along the
line about equaled the decrease in the
general business and tbe redaction in
passenger travel, which is always af
fected by a closeness in the money
market.
The most disastrous conflagration
which has visited the town of Mt.
Holly since its birth occurred Wed
nesday morning at 4.45 o'clock. The
wooden block belonging to Mr. W. ,
Dove and Mrs. Louise Henderson and
occupied by Wriston k Co., druggist;
Dellinger k Son, groceis and general
merchandise with annex filled with
dry goods; Cavin, Hayes k Co., gro
cers; W. T. Love's undertaking es
tablishment; printing office; barber
shop; three rooms of tbe Eutopian,
brass band and adjacent was the office
and sleeping apartments of Mr. A. M.
Herron, all being totally destroyed.
The fire was incendiary. Charlotte
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