North Carolina Newspapers

1 ; II! . ; ' - iUv H U lU y V 1 TT j- U DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY. . " r ' . - ..-.j. . ' ESTABLISHED 1890. U U i U ; p I i f f U SOUTHPORT yc.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1894. ' "" " WHOLE N UMBER 2377 THE WORLD'S N KWS. -:o: A CONDENSED SUMMARY OP A WEEK'S DOINGS A Kninmaker Cone. Danage in Alabama by Rain Kndanger tit Cotton. The Krieoa t New York. A Cloudburt in TexaH. Frct Fires. WKDNESOAT. AUGUST 38. Eating watermelons for a wager Wm. Scawortb, of Clara. 111., killed himself and his sister is also likely to die A man who committed suicide at Den ver, Col., last Friday, has been identified a. Frank Melbourne, the rainmaker' The attempt will be made to land the IJennett-Mackay cable,! now reaching Coney 'Island, at New York's harbor front While fittine electric lights on the statue of Liberty on the Capital at Washington, Albert Ports stood erect which 19 807 feet h!gh" on Liberty's cap, Charles Preston, aged 12 years, of Tunk hannock, Penn., yesterday threw ji stone at some loose dynamite, which exploded throwing him 40 feet, and also killing a younger brother ? The condition of the Comte de Paris, who is living in London, the i head of the House of Orleans, is very critical ' 1 THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. :i At Elliston, Mont., yesterday, fire wiped out the town; loss $100,000 - Great damage has been done to many farms near Brighton, X. Y"-, by a- break in the Erie Canal Heavy rains have cut down Alabama's cotton crop 20 to 25 per cent, and badly hurt other products Thrown from a carriage in a runaway at Shelby ville, Ind., Mrs. Emma Newton and Mrs. James Gray received fatal injuries The southslde Polish and low German district, in Milwaukee, " Wis.'; was yester day in the hands of a howling -mob, to prevent the authorities from removing small pox patients from their homes to the isolation hospital, State troops are to be ailed out FOREIGN. The Dutch troops on the Island of Lombok, near Java, were routed by the Kajah's forces, loosing 400 men. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. Within two months over 9,000 men have returned to work in Wheeling. W. Va., in the different mills there The hotels nearest the wholesale districts in New York are crowded with an unpre cedented rush of Western and Southern businessmen The torpedo boat Ericson from Dubuque la., reached New York yesterday via New )rleans and the outside route from New port News In an attempt to take an adopted child from its parents, Dr. T. L. Bates, of St. Louis, was mobbed on the street and beaten insensible Farmer Stone, living near Wilkesbarre Pa., discovered ten men in his orchard, covering them with a shot gun he carried . all to the county jail, with the help of his son, in a wagon., . . . , FOREIGN. The hostile attitude of the native troops has caused an uneasy feeling at Tien Tsin, China. Foreigners are arminc themselves as they fear an attack j Y :Yi i 1 1 s SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Robert J., C. J. Hamlin's wonderful pacer went a mile yesterday in 2.03; breaking Nancy Hanks record of 2.04 ft. G. Dun & Go's weekly review of trade KATZ & POLVOGT'S ..NO. J 1 6 MARKET STREET. THE INTEREST OF THE DECEASED M M KATZ WILL BE WOUXD UP AUGUST 3 1st,; 181?4. Our entire stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Mattings, etc., will be sold regardless of value. Prices cut to Cost in every department. All parties indebted to our firm are kindly requested to pay their account. TERMS STRICTLY CASH." If y0U are in the City durins this Sale be hure to appear 011 tlie scene' ADMINISTRATION SALE. ILINEN & HOUSEHOLD GOODS. COe Fast Turkey Reel Damask, ad ministration price 43c f 30c ; Past Turkey Red Damask, ad jministration price 19c CO to 75c Bleached Linen Damasks, Udministration price 49c- H 1 Bleached Table Damask, adnu jmstration price 69c $2.50 Bleached Linen Colored Bor pered Lunch Cloth, administration price $1..19 . ; - ; . . rf $5 to $6 Lunch Sets Cloths. 2 to yards long, and one dozen Napkins, administration price $3.98 a set apkins, best Belfast Linen, our $i mstration price 21c t and f Napkins, will be sold at $1.25. J 65c 51ack and navy Serge. admistra administration price ! ' Hon' rice -49c Y " J a. ! : ' 2.75 Napkins only $1.49, adminis tration price ,",' - . ;: TOWEL GALE. 1000 Linen Towels. 15 to 18c quali- psall linen, administration price 10"c jc extra size Damask Towels, ad ministration price 18c 4Uc Towels, extra size. A 1 quality, tnotted'fringe, only $3 per dozen, ad ministration price says that there were 18& failures in the United tat8 during rthe past week. arainst 356, last yean ' i ; John E. Mc'Crikart. a Pittsburg. Penn., fire insurance agent, has been missing since August 20. and is charged with em bezzlement amounting to $10,000 A cloudburst that flooded Uvalde and Dharvis, Tex., drowned five persons. The Southern Pacific Road was washed out badly, and trains will be stopped for a week ; ' : I A trolley car on the. Aslteville'& Sulphur Springs railway became unmanageable yesterday morning and flew the track at a curve on a down grade, the car was full of people and many were injured FOREIGN. I Hong Kong has been declared free from the plague 1 SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. Forest fires continue to bum 'hr Wiscon sin, several sawmills, towns and villages have been burned ) A fire from a lamp explosion burned several stores in Sumter, S. C, yesterday, causing a loss of about $25,000 The Associated Banks of New York now hold $62,820,850 in excess of the require ments of the 25 per cent, rule J The Pemberton mills at Lawrence. 3Iass which have been closed for several weeks will resume operations next Tuesday The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2,005,584 bales, of which 1.589, 484 bales are American; against 2,227,789 bales, and 1.770.789 bales respectively last year. Receipts of cottbn this week at all interior towns 29,524 bales ; receipts from the plantations 25,720 bales. i - Vi ;J. V.J I FOREIGN, The state of seige at Bio de Janeiro has been raised ' 'i - t " f " ' MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. Gen, N. P? Banks, soldier and statesman, aged 76 years, died at his home at-Wal-tham, Mass., on Jpept, 1st ! Domestic troubles in W; K. Yanderbilt's family are likely o lead.to divorce proceed ings between the millionaire and his wife Western New York is suffering severely from drought and grasshoppers, and valu able timber tracts are , threatened with de struction j Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's war Gov ernor, and secretary ot tne interior in President Garfield's Cabinet, : died at his home in Iowa City on Saturday The last month of the National Base Ball league opens with intense excitement among lovers of the game. Only a few points separate the three leaders.Baltimore, Boston and New York. Attendance at all games very large j FOREIGN. A petition has been received by the Emperor of Germany from Samoa, asking to be annexed. TUESDAY'. SEPTEMBER 4. Eeneseo, N. Y-. reports hottest day in three years, 98 decrees, no rain in three months. Vegetation generally burnt up jit is expected that some 20,000 of the workers in the clothing . trades in1 New York city will go out on a strike this week The State election in Arkansas yesterday was a very quiet one, little interest shown, and small vote cast. Estimated Democra tic majority, 20,000 i The announcement is made that Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada, representing the Republican party for 21 years in the Sen ate, hasdeclared himself a Populist . The annual trade review of Charleston, S. C, for .the year ending August 3 1st, shows' a falling off of three and one half million dollars, as compared with the pre irious year ; 'DEESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. 7c . Indigo Prints, administration I price 5cj j 1 - U 10c Ginghams, plaid and fancy, ad- ministration price 5c 2oc Colored, figured ana uottea Swisses, administration price 8c 35 to 40c Jaconets, Persian effects, French and Scotch Ginghams, admi - 'l nistration price 19c t 40 to 60c Organdies, Swivel bius, jChambrays and fine Imported Dress 3 ! Fabrics, administration price 25c j WOOL DRESS GOODS. 30c double width Cashmere, admi- - j fii nioi,t.rt'ji1i cnlnrs of Whircord ''TSetmt "54-inch, administration price G9c per yard s ; ; i t $1.50 54-inch Habit Cloth.; admims traiion price $1.19 ; 60c Plaids, wool goods, administra tion price 39c- ' 14 sl 1 .A ' Silk Finished Henrietta, regular price 40c, administration price 29c Al 1 wool Henriettas,b!ack and colors FURNITURE GIVEN AWAY WHEN CUSTOMERS HAVE BOUGHT TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS WASHINGTON NEWS. LABOR DAY AT THE NA TIONAL CAPITOL. The Tariff Law Worries Treasury OIHcials Reciprocity Treatie beiiig- Swept away by the New Tariff Law. No Seed for Campaign Fur pones. Washington, Sept, 3. Labor Day is for the first time being observed as a legal holiday, Congress having at the late session passed a bill making the first Monday in September a legal holiday and designating it Labor Day. The parade was a very creditable one, consisting of four divisions of organ ized labor. As was entirely fitting, Mr. Milliard Hobbe, who is the author of the bill passed by Congress making the day a legal holiday, was chief marshal or the parade. The printers, book-binders, electrical workers and several other organizations had hand some floats, emblematical of their trades, in the procession. .All in all the debut of labor day as a national holiday at the National Capital was a great success. Treasury officials are having no end of work and worry with the compli cations, some important, some trivial, but all troublesome, which are con stantly arising m connection with the administration of the new tariff law. One of the most important compli cations is that arising out of the repeal of the sugar bounty. Last week Secretary Carlisle decided that no more bounties should be paid, and even ordered that checks already made out for the payment of bounties should be held, but it is doubtful whether that decision will stand, as strong pressure is being brought to bear to get it changed so as to allow the bounty to be paid upon all sugar that had been made when the law went into effect. Something like a half million of dollars is involved in this decision. It is expected that an at tempt will be made through the courts to compel the payment of the bounty on the entire crop of this year. The abrogation of the one recipro city agreement that with Spain, for Cuba and Porto Rico that had been productive of more good to the farm ers of the United States than was expected when it was negotiated is one of the results of the first week of the new tariff law, and State Department officials say they expect that other countries with which we had, or have reciprocity agreements will follow the example of Spain. I said "had" or "have," because, owing to the wide difference of opinion existing among those who are supposed to be learned in international law and diplomacy, I am not ceitain whether the new tariff law swept away all reciprocity treaties or not. But if the anticipations of the State Department officials be realized all doubts will soon be removed by the action of the foreign countries. The tariff on sugar was the cause of this Spanish retaliation, which it is feared will result in the loss of a large and profitable market for American flour. GREAT ADMfflSTRATION SI READ THE COc quality, administration price 35c 40-inch all wool Henriettas, in colors and black, 75c to 90c qualities, admi nistration price 62ic Hop Sacking, patterns in two toned colorings, regular price G, adminis tration price $3.98 $1.25 54-inch Broadcloths, adminis- tration aac , Cheviots, Hop backings and hancy Weaves, regular price 60c per yard, administration price 39c BATH TOWELS. Rough Turkish Towels, bleached and unbleached.-worth 75c. adminis tartion price 50c Extra size Bleached Towels, worth 50c, administration price 35c Bleached Towels, worth 25c. admi - nistration price 12ic 30c. LACES 10c. Point Venise Insertions, A to 2 price 10c inches wide; ail Silk Black Chantilly, j ISc India Linens, administration 2 to ,4 inches; White Oriental Net price 12c Top, 3 to 5 inches; White Point dTarisj 25c India Linens, administration 2i inches wide; Point d'Irelande Net j price 15c Ton. 4 inches wide hundreds of dif- j French Nainsooks, Organdies, etc., ferent patterns It was predicted more than once be fore the tariff bill passed the Senate that the tariff on sugar would pomuch more .harm than tjie revenue thus brought in would ever do good; but the sugar trust wanted the tariff and it remained. ? ' c V 1 The Congressmenill have to make their campaign fo re election without the assistance of judiciously placed packages of agricultural department seeds, because the delivery of seeds will not, owing to tardiness in getting the appropriation for that department through Congress, begin until some time after the Congressional elections. Secretary Morton is not a believer in the indiscriminate distribution of seeds, anyway, and had it not been the will of Congr jgs no appropriation would nave been made this year for that purpose. ' . i "Do you know." said a Democratic Congressmen, "that I believe the stories about President Cleveland de siring to see the Democrats lose con trol of the House are based on the truth. 1 will tell you why. Mr. Cleveland fears the passage of a bill for the free coinage of silver. That's one reason, aud a good one, but there is another equally potent with Mr. C. The tariff question was only half set tled by the bill which became a law last week without the President's signature, and there is little proba bility that it will be any nearer settled at the close of the short session of Congress that will begin in December. Now, if the Democrats lose control of the House it is certain that there will be no iinpoitant tariff or silver legis lation by the Fifty-Fourth Congress. Where does that bring us? Why, to the Presidential campaign, with the tariff question in a position to be once more made a big factor therein, and Mr. Cleveland ready to inscribe free rawmaterial upon the banner which he believes will be carried in the next campaign either by himself or by a man whom he shall name and who will represent all he stands for. Think you not that's a plausible way to ac count for many recent happenings?" The gentlemern whose remarks are quoted is so good a friend of Mr. Cleveland that he is classed as a "cuckoo," and he spoke as though he thought such a position as he outlines for Mr. C. entirely creditable. Rear Admiral Henry Erbin, com manding the European squadron, will retire on account of age on Thursday next, and on that day he will haul down his flag from' the cruiser Chicago now in English waters. He will return home at his leisure and will make New York city his permanent residence. Acting Rear-Admiral K?rk land 'will succeed hira in conmand of the European station. He was re cently detached from the command of the South Atlantic station and left his flag-ship, the Newark, at (Jape Town, Africa, and is jpw on his way to England. It is expected that he will arrive at Southampton in a few weeks until which time Capt. Mahan, com manding the Chicago, will have com mand of the station. Admiral Kirk lands home is at Hillsboro, X. C. FOLLOWING ENORMOUS VALUES. POTIERES, LACE CURTAINS. $5 Fotieres, per pair, administration price $3.50 j $6 Fotieres, per pair, administration price $4.50 $7 Fotieres, per pair, administration i price $5. v i o-. vrtfHiriim r.9a to a oil nr,inH o, arHs dftMns f adrmnistration price 89c s2 Nottingham Lace taped all 'around 3i yards long, new designs. j administration price $1.25 t $3 Nottingham Lace taped all around, 3 yards long, new designs, j administration piice $1.98 j INDIA LINENS. ; 10c India Linens, administration price 7c j 15c India, Linens, administration at actual cost ROASTED ALIVE. WELCOME KA1X CHECKS FOREST FIKES. An Awful Valley of lleatli. Nine Miuue ota ami WiM'uiii Towns in Ahe Estimated Number of Lives I.o lUtwrni 9AO ami HOO. St. Pail, Minn., Sept. 2 The town of Hinckley, l." miles from St. Paul, on the St. Paul &; Duluth road. with a population of 1000 to 1200. was wiped out of existence last uight by a raging forest fire. The smaller town of Mission Creek, about five miles away was also wiped out. The Ws of liile is variously estimated at from 300 tc 400, and it is almost certaii the loss will equal 300. One hundred and forty-eight charred bodies have already been recovered at Hinckley and forty-five at Sandstone, a neighboring town. Many others are injured, a number of whom will die. The vast valley between the Kettle River and Cross Lake is laid waste, including several villages and settle ments Besides the towns that were reduced to ashes, farms were swept clean by the flames. The forests are still burning fiercely, and rain is re quired to drown the fires that are sweeping over a vast region. Whole families have been cremated. In some instances only one Or two men escaped from a neighborhood to tell of the destruction. Thev saved their lives by running to small lakes o." hiding in potato fields, and reached Pine City more dead than alive. The 'dead are being picked up by the score and taken to Pinet City. Searching parties are penetrating the burned district, but find none but the charred remains of the inhabitants. The people from Ilincklej' and Mis sion Creek who escaped with their lives are destitute, having neither homes nor food. The walls of the rail road roundhouse and of the school house are the only parts of buildings in Hinckley whjch remain standing. All is confusion and excitement among the surviving parents', who are searching for their children, and child ren bearching for parents. The death list increases every hour. Marquette, Mich., Sept. 2. Over thousands of Michigan lands a ghastly yellow glare and dense black smoke has rested all day. It came from the forest fires which are eating up mil lions of feet of standing limber, and hundreds of homes of small settlers and homesteaders. Rumors of the wiping out of small hamlets come from many points, but cannot be verified. All last night the people of Ewen were battling to save the town, and succeeded after four dwellings had been reduced to ashes. From tie Soo comes word of tremen dous fires in Chippewa County as far west as Detour. The dense smoke which hangs ovei Lake Huron renders navigation dangerous, and even breathing for sailors difficult. In Mason and Manistee Counties farmers have sent to the city for aid, ! $1 GLORIA UMBRELLAS 79c. Note Included in this Great Ad-j , 12c Checked Nainsooks, adminis ministration Sale is a special lot of $1 j tration price 9 c Satina Umbrellas, in 20 and 28 inch, j 15c Checked Nainsooks, adminis assorted natural wood handles. We ' tratiOn price 12c offer the entire lot at one price. 79c I 20c Checked Nainsooks, .adrninis- 2C-inch English Helvetia Umbrellas tration prii e 1 1 5c I regular price $2.50, administration; i ia ci Fine Kno-lish Guaranteed Silk Ura j brellas, silk case and tassel to match, i paragon frame, polished hardwood handles, their price $ t to $5, adminis tration price $1.97 MATTINGS. At the Importers Cost 15c Fancy Matting administration price 10c 25c Fancy Matting, administration price lGc 40c Fanqv Matting?, administration price 25c 35c CoCok Mattings, administration price 25c 50c Oi 35c oths, administration price ' 75c Oil cloths, administration price 49c but not all the uieu in both .places could . quench half the fires. Tile nearly continuous belt of timbt-r from Lake Michigan to Lake-Huron, which contains hundreds of homestead settle mints,.. must surely do . unless rain faljls within twenty-four hours. Marquette, while in-uo danger from fire, has been covered with a thick pall of smoke all day, which reached out ten miles over Lake Superior and made entrance to the harbor difficult. Ishpeming is m much the same condi tion, except the smoke is more dense and rendered it necessary to use the electric street lights early this after noon. Great fires are also raging in Mackinaw Count' and.it was reported to day that Trout Lake had been obliterated and Sidn'aw cleaned Jut. At Oscoda and Au Sable, in Losco County, the smoke was so thick tjhw morning that objects could not, be seen .",0 feet away. As far as known, there are no fires within 23 miles of either city, but this dense body of smoke proves that fires of great mag nitude are raging to the westward. Di ixtii, Minn., Sept. 3. Thi3 mor ning the relief train which left here yesterday afternoon returned with about 250 refugees, who had tramped in across the country from Sandstone, and a train consisting of three coaches, a baggage car, and tw6 box cars went out with a large amount of provisions for settlers in the vicinity " of llut ledge. At9:30 the cheering news camo from Rutledge, which is as far as the wire works, that lain was falimg. All the stations, between here and liutledfje report the fires dyin out, and that no fuither trouble need be feared, pro does not spring Pine City this vided a strong wind up. A dispatch from morning also said that a heavy rain had set m and bade fair to continue all day. The refugees presented a pitiful sight. All, "were poor people. Few of the men had hats or. coats, and the women were not more fully clad. Women with babies in arms were ac companied by from two to five child ren, homeless and friendless, except for a charitable public. Man3' of the women were without their husbands, as the letter remained to see if any thing could be saved. In the grimy, soot-covered crowd were many child ren without parents. Never in the history of Minnesota, and never in the life of the Northwest, except at the time of the fires in the Michigan pineries in October, 1871, twenty-three years ago, has their been such a terrible loss of life and suffer ing as has been caused by the forest fires of the past two days in Northern Minnesota. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4. Dispatches Irora the upper peninsula of Michigan show that the rainfall in. that region yesterday and last night has effect ually put a stop to the forest fires and will be the means of saving millions of pines and lots of homesteaders' crops and nouses. j. ne damage already done, however, is immense, and in many localities total lose-can only be avoided by the immediate 1 cutting of timber. KATZ & POLVOGT'S NO. 116 MARKET STREET. IIKMIMSTHATION SALE. ! WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT 20c Dimities in fctnpes and Checks. administratidn price 15c 25c Dimities in Stripes and Checks, administratidn price I Sc 3 3c Dimities in Stripes and Checks, administratidn price 22c nn-urcTiTPCj arrTPTTMaQ o- en ', -"x"t .uctw, - 'I ... x i - . . r , . . , . -.. , . " - . . oi.- . , . . , 4-4 Shirting, without dressing, ad - ' - c- ihirting dnnnief rfltifm 1 nm,, auniimsu aiiun j price vc j Checked Homespun, administration price 3c Heavy Brown Homespun, adminis administration price 3c WORTH FOR CASH. ' I STATE NEWS. ;o:- IMPROVEMENTS ON THE C. I V Y. V. - K'-rier I II rropoea Such. Tvbaeeo llriii llitf Keliirn. Cotton Nat (if -errtllj- DiiittMKetl. Merklrnbttrg IlaM More ;1I. lliilIrihiK in Maxton Gen. Gill, Receiver of the C. F. A: V. V. Railway, has ordered a quantity of steel rails, and proposes to put his road in thorough repair. Faycttevillo bservr The 'damage to cotton and other crops in. this, sectjon of the Statu caused by the heavy a rains is not general. It only efft-cU a portion of Johnston comity.- Smithfield Herald- .. t . t . , ,u , All of. our tobacco buyers arc well supplied with ordcis for the new crop, which they propose to fill asj"apidly as the weed is . marketed. They bid very lively on new dip and prices are exceedingly goood. Oxford Ledger. In addition to the two iron front front brick stores on South Patterson street already under 'way, there are to be two or three ouilt on the opDosito side of the street. One of them by Mr. Jas. 11. Jones. Maxton Corres pondent liobesoiiian. . On Mr. J. II. Henderson s farm in Mallard Creek township 13 two horse wagon luadsof millet were hauled from a single acre. The millet was five Xoet high. On 10 acres on the same farm,, 400 bushels of corn were gathered. This is just a sample of Mecklenburg farming. Charlotte News. Dr. McCombs had a fine report last evening from the Surface Dill mine. A new -ischuto of ore hasjjeen dis covered, gold showing' all along tlio vein, and ore worth $1,000 was taken out yesterday. Better results yet are expected and Dr. McCombs lias still better mining news in store. Char lotte Observer. A stalk of corn 1C feet in height is on exhibition in the clerk of the court's office. Lawyer Rayle claims to have raised it on his upland farm. He oilers to convince any "doubting Thomas" that he has a fine corn crop if they will go with him out to. hisr country jhome west of Winston. Winston Sentinel. Mr. John Hales sold in this market the other day the tobacco from thirty . acres for 0,000, thus making $200 an acre. I f that is not good farming, we should like to hear of some of that article being done. Good tobacco is bringing almost fabulous prices now, and farmers would do well to bring in the golden lear. Wilson Ad vance. Capt. A. P. l'iner, of Morehead city brought up to New Rem Friday thir teen specimens of his taxidermy which will be displayed at New Rerne Fail by iMr. Geo. NY Ives,, for whom ho brought them up. The collection consists of a beautiful fawn and seven varieties of seabirds royal tern, Vilson tern, large laughing gull, kc. It; will make a pretty and interesting group. -Newborn Journal. i - ... GENTS', FURNISHINGS. 75c Ce nts' Night Cowns, adminis tration rice 59c Cents'! Unlaundried Shirts, 50c quality, administration price 39c Cents' Unlaundried Shirts, 75c rmality, administration price 49c Cents' Unlaundried Shirts, $1 qua. hty, administration price. 79c ! Cents' Unlaundried Shirts, $1.25 j quality, administration price 87c ' : New Lot of Neckwear at Cost. 50 and Cue (Jento' Balbriggan Un derwear, administration price 39c 1 Cents' Balbriggan. Underwear, Silk finished, administration pnc Unlv G9c each S 2." to 50c Silk Windsor TVs. Gentt ' rour-in Hands, Bows and in fact lie ; , . ' . , . . . ,- of every deacnption, Administration i Pr1cf- (- SPREADS. ;ir si. 25 line, administration price S9c Our sl.Vline, administration prict $1.2'.. i t Hi ill til i SI i I 4