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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, SEPTEMBER 9, 1890.
GENERAL STATE NEWS.
Cream of the State Press.
,4mn-of TnrDentine and Grains of Bice from the
Rt fStere of Grapes and Tobacco Stems
romNon ; Stalks of Corn and Grains
o? Wheat from the West and Peanuts -aid
Cotton Seed from the South,
The Laurinburg Female Institute school
began Monday.
The sale of cider in Laurinburg is now
forbidden by a special ordinance.
By sentence of the Governor, Steve
Jacobs will be hung cn Sept 26th.
Transylvania county has voted $50,000
to the French Broad Vally Railway com
pany. The Wilmington military company will
go to Atlanta to compete for the $7,500
prize.
The population of Richmond county by
the recent census is 23,882, or 5,637 in
crease. Less than thirty persons own one-third,
100,000 acres, of the county of Edge
combe. Jno. H. Leary, the negro lawyer, is out
as a candidate for Congress from the 3d
district.
Shipments of sumac from Littleton so
far this season amount to about 400,000
pounds.
The Panact a Springs, in Halifax county,
have been sold to a party of capitalists for
$50,000.
A great deal of typhoid fever, says a
Battleboro correspondent, is prevailing
through that vicinity.
The printers on the News and Chronicle,
at Charlotte, all struck a few days ago
and are taking a rest
Richmond capitalists have bought lots
in Henderson upon which they propose
to erect large factories.
Concord has one of the largest cotton
factories in the South, just completed at
cost of half a million of dollars.
W. T. Crawford, of Haywood county,
was nominated for Congress in the Ninth
district, at Asheville on Friday.
Capt. T. C. Evans, a well-known news
paper man, died at Reidsville last Tues
day. He was about 51 years old.
Mr. Earnest Ferguson was badly in
jured while unloading a boiler at a saw
mill near Liberty on last Tuesday.
Rev. J. T. Harris, presiding elder of the
Durham district, has been elected super
intendent of Oxford Orphan Asylum.
A son of Mr. Peter Pool had his : and
and arm torn to pieces in a cotton gin
near Auburn, Wake county, last week.
Tarboro Banner : There is some com
plaint of rust in cotton. No very great
damage is expected, as the crop is early.
The Laurinburg Baptists have raised
$2,500 and will rebuild their church which
was destroyed by lightning last summer.
Mrs. May Boyd, postmistress at Biles
ville, N. C, has been arrested charged
with robbing the maih of registered
letters.
It is estimated that the oyster business
in Elizabeth City, alone, will pay out $800
a day in wages and other expenses, says
the Falcon.
Thirteen counties in the eastern part of
the State show an increase of 36,607 in
population, since 1880, according to the
new census.
A thief stole a gold watch and a pocket
book containing $130 from the residence
of Prof. Kneringer, at Asheville, one
night last week.
We learn from the Wilson Mirror that
Dr. King, of that place, had his collar
bone broken last week by the overturn
ing of his buggy.
Joe Alston, colored, aged about seven
teen, accidentally shot himself near Ran
dlemau a few days ago. The ball went
through his heart.
The G. C. & N. Railroad now reaches
out 91 miles from Monroe to Clinton, S.
C. and 18 new coal-burning engines have
been ordered for it.
Anthony Taylor, who was struck on
the head with a rock by Tobe Smith yes
terday, is improving and will recover,
says the Oxford Day.
J The Concord Standard has been pre
sented with a post oak knot that is aper-
feet picture of a man's face. Mr. J. H.
McLelland found the curiosity.
The revenue collections in the whole
Raleigh district for August amounted to
$74,842.55. The collections for Wmston
alone amounted to $82,211.97.
White caps demolished six buildings
occupied by disreputable women at Dallas,
Gaston county one night last week. The
, inmates were told to leave the county.
W. J. S. Whitfield, employed at the
saw mill of V. B. Batchelor, had Lis hand
badly torn on Tuesday, while sawing
tobacco sticks, says the Nashville Ar
gonaut. Maj. W. J. Montgomery has a little
) mint. It is a gold mine, but unlike mnst
of them it is paying splendid profits. He
tad 108 bushels of ore ground at Reed's
mill and he realized $127 worth of filthy
lucre. The expense in its handle from
beginning to end was only $30, says the
Concord Standard.
Capitalists representing Durham, Ham
let and Chatham, were at Maxton last
week, negotiating for the purchase of
abou ont fourth, of Maxton, some 400
acres of land.
A young man' named Buck, from
Cnicod,-told u Thursday he had a-last
year's cotton stall? that sprouted and now
has 45 large bolls on it, says the Green
ville Reflector. ,
John Miller, coL, was shot in the right
shoulder by Will Wiggins, col., Saturday
nigh while in Green's bar-room. The
wound, while painful, is not dangerous.
2 win City Daily.
Laurinburg Exchange: Deep religious
interest has been manifested .in. the re
vivals at the cole red churches in town.
The Methodist church had an accession cf
61 and the Baptist 30.
Mrs. J. J. Hayes and Miss Irene Jack
son narrowly escaped drowning while
bathing in the surf at Ocean View a few
days ago. Several gentlemen rendered
timely and heroic aid.
A passenger train on the C. F. & Y. V.
Road run into some cars on a sicing at
Hope Mills, and was delayed several
hours. The engine was badly broken and
the engineer slightly hurt
A Johnson county merchant who went.
on the Fayetteville excursion to Norfolk,
Thursday, was robbed there that night of
$50 by an actress, named Nellie Hall,
whom he had been treating.
A neg: o named Gus Wilson who was
J arrested here Tuesday night, is wanted in
Reidsville upon the charge of cutting a
white boy in that town several months
ago, says the Twin- City Daily.
The Taylorsville Index says that while
Aaron Deal was rambling over Brushy
mountain last week he discovered a mam
moth grape vine which measured three
and a half feet in circumference.
Danbury Reporter: We have just
learned that a man in this county has
mortgaged his property to get money to
help pay for building a church, not to pay
a debt but for building a new one.
A valuable mule of Mr. W. R. McEachin
ran away and killed himself last Wednes
day, and last Friday also a valuable one
belonging to Mr. J. H. Jones died like
wise, says the Laurinburg Exchange.
Salisbury Truth: Six negroes were
sentenced to the penitentiary at court
here last week. Three f vr highway rob
bery ; two for burglary, and one for an
assault with intent to commit a rape.
- One of the largest beets on record was
brought us Monday by Mr. J. R. Congle
ton, of Carolina. It. weighed exaatly 10
pounds and is almost as large around as a
peck measure, says the Greenville Re
flector.
It h said that $1,000,000 have been in
vested in Winston by outsiders in th past
six months. Winston is b-yondadoubt
the livliest city in North Carolina. Her
citizens are progressive and deserves
success.
Chadbourn limes: Crops in this sec
tion have fallen off some during the past
few weeks; cotton will at least be one
fourth lighter than was predicted a month
ago; corn will not be injured to any great
extent.
We are requested by Mr. Wm. H.
Smith to state that the report that he was
robbed of $180 during his recent stay at
the Atlas House, Ocean View Beach, is
absolutely false, says the Wilmington
Messer.ger.
The streams between Charlotte and
Concord were yesterday higher than they
have been this summer. The corn crop
along Buffalo, Coddle Creek and Rocky
river suffered serious damage, says the
Charlotte News.
A negro named Baxter Morrison is
under arrest at Manly, charged with kill
ing Neill McKoy, also colored. He con
tends that the killing was caused by the
accidental discharge of a pistol, says the
Carthage Blade.
We have recently seen a turtle with a
beautiful and variegated back in tints and
colors. Lengthwise across it are. the
figures 333 surrcunded by figures on the
border, resembling those of ladies.
Laurinburg Exchange.
Albert' Herring, who killed Grant
Kenan, (both colored) last Tuesday, in
Turkey township, is still at large. The
jury of inquest rendered a verdict to the
effect that the killing was accidental, says
the Clinton Caucasian.
Miss Esella Moore, daughter of Mr. E.
F. Moore, died suddenly on Tuesday
night. She fell over dead while sitting
on the porch. The funeral was held from
the Presbyterian church Wednesday
a' ternoon. Robe sonian.
The Durham Consolidated Land and
Improvement company was organized in
that city Saturday with one million dol
lars capital. Improvements to the amount
of $600,000 will be made by the company
within eighteen months.
The tobacco season this j ear is a most
remarkable one. There is nocessation in
sales, or cleaning of old stock, as is usual
about this time. The season laps and it
is now going right into the sale of the
new crop. Durham Sun.
Clinton Wilson, a young man, of Quit
ford county, has invented and patented
an oscillating steam engine which is at
tracting a good deal of attention, and for
the patent on which he is said to have
received some veryjrig offers. V
Wilmington Messenger : Capt J. R.
Rankin's estimate of the cotton rece pis
for the year just ended came nearest the
figured, and he therefore has to set 'em
up to apples. He guessed 134,900, and
the receipts paan id . out 134,919
The Carolina Veneer Works has just
shipped two more car load 5 of buttt-r
dishes. Wer understand that there is
competition and cutting in prices just now,
but our factory holds its own with the
world, says the Clinton .Caucasian.
The Charlotte News says that Rev.
Robt Bell, the colored preacher of Bid
dleville who preaches every Sunday to a
tree near his house, was the first colored
man to pay his taxes this year. He got
his receipt from collector Torrance yes
terday. Madison Leader : It is a genuine treat
to ride on the R. & S. road from Madison
to Walnut Cove. The road runs through
some of the finest farms in the country
and the luxuriant crops can be seen in all
the grand panorama, one which beggars
description.
Oxford Ledger:. We exceedingly re
gret to learn that the residence of Mr.
Andrew Owen, near Dexter, together
with a double log house used for cooking
and eating, was consumed by fire on
Tuesday night The origin of the fire is
not known.
The Wilson Mirror says: " That precious
little leaflet in the beauteous wr ath of
womanhood the sweet Estelle Brodie
has returned from Henderson, where she
has been distilling the delicious fragrance
of her angelic disposition." Ain't that
dreadful, though?
Oxford Day : The family of Policeman
Hogue, of Raleigh, are said to be in des
titute circumstance s. The Policemen here
are appealed to to contribute to their
sustenance while the breadwinner is in
jail. Hogue4s trial comes off the latter
part of this month.
The Oxford Day says that Captain W.
H. Snow, of modern barn fame, has pat
ented a new tobacco granulator which
promises to outdo all others in clean and
effective work. It is constructed upon a
new principle and cuts the tobacco a uni
form shape and size.
High Point Enterprise : There is not
only a great deal of building going on
here, but the houses are being buht in
better style and taste. The canning
factory is now running to their full
capacity, and the proprietors are turning
out some excellent goods.
Master Lionel Weil, while stepping
from his father's carriage Sunday morn
ing, missed his footing and fell, breaking
the small bone of his arm just ahove the
wrist Medical aid was promptly sum
moned and the fracture soon adjusted,
says the Goldsboro Headlight
A large canniog factory is to be estab
lished by a Baltimore firm in Beaufort.
It will can oysters ia winter and vege
tables in the summer, and will give em
ployment to 300 or 400 hands. The
citizens of Beaufort have donated a site
for the factory, says the Seaside.
Morganton Herald: Em ly Avery,
colored, about sixty-five years of age,
dropped dead Taesday evening at the
house of Reuben Avery, her son, in the
northern part of town. She was one of
the largest women in the country, weigh
ing nearly three hundred pounds.
We leaen from the Carthage Blade that
Mr. W. E. Black made an assignment
on last Saturday night to T. J. Shaw,
Esq., for the benefit of his creditors.
Liabilities are about $800 ; assests from
$1,500 to $1,800, Mr. Black thinks he
will be able to pay dollar for dollar.
The body of Mr. F. L. Bond, of Tar
boro was found in Tar River on Saturday
last about eight miles from Washington,
N. C. It is certain that he committed
suicide ; in his pocket was found the fol
lowing note written on a piece of paper :
" I have been in ' torment ' for ten
dajs."
New Berne Journal: Mr. E. G. Ed
wards, the Purgatory postmaster now in
the New Berne jail awaiting his trial on
the charge of robbing the mails, has been
very ill for about two weeks. He re
ceives good medical attention and his
wife came to town and ha? been staying
with him about a week.
Oxford Day : The executive board of
the Oxford land, improvement and manu
facturing company decided yes;erday
evening to offer the white Baptist, .Meth
odist, Episcopal and Presbyterian congre
gations of Oxford each a good site and
I, 250 in money if they will build church"
edifices in South Oxford.
The Concord Standard of the 2d inst.
reports three accidents in that town. A
boy was carrying a child of Mr. John
Willeford around and dropped it, serious
ly injuring it. Adolphus Neisler fell and
his wagon wheels passed over his leg,
hurting it badly. A mule kicked A.
Bishop, a blacksmith, on the jaw.
. The north bound passenger train on the
0, O. & A. Railroad, near Black Stock,
S C, yesterday, struck a two-year-old
nero child and injured it so ba'Uy that it
will probably die. The child was on the
(rac k j sr on a j ji ve and the engineer did
not see it in time to stop the train, say
the Charlotte Chronicle of the 3d.
Fifteen or moie Granville young men
were emplo ed to cuietobaccathis season
by farmers of eastern North Carolina. A
number retained to Oxfoid yesferdy
afternoon, having finished their work.
The others will be back in a few days.
The boys say the crop i are very fine in
that sectio- , says the Oxford Day.
New Berne Journal: Emigrant agent,
R. A. Williams, better known as u Peg
Leg," was on the morning train He
claims to. have taken out 22,000 colored
people the last season to Louisiana, Mis-"'
sissippi, Arkansas and Texas, and wants
to secure 20;000 more farm hands in the
next six months to work on share?.
The Wilson Mirror is in love. There
is no mistake about it Hear him. "When
one of the handsomest, most bewitching
maidens that ever gave glory to woman
hood, tells us as she did on Sunday that
she enjoys the Mirror so much, it fills our
life with brightest gleams of cheer and
the sweetest fragrance of purest delight"
Pa son Alfred Merrick, who is some
what a farmer as well as a preacher,
brought us a sample of his golden flood
rice, which is fine. He has a quaiter of
an acre planted in that kind and is well
pleased with it. It has to be plowed
three times, and when fully matured the
grain is as white as ivory, says the Robe
sqnian. Col. A. B Andrews, second vice-president
of the R. & D. Railroad system, has
been in Stanly county loking after the
building of the Yadkin Railroad. Eight
hundred hands are at work, and by spring
the road will be completed from Salisbury
via Albemarle to Norwood near the Pee
Dee and Rocky River, a distance of 41
miles. News and Observer.
Salisbury Watchman: Nearly 10,000
baskets of grapes have been shipped from
Salisbury this season and they have
brought good prices Graves, Parkins
and Johnston, the negro boys who stole
the money and jewelry from Mr. Judd
were sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary for the former two and two
years for the latter for receiving stolen
goods.
Rutherford Bauner : We have just
learnt of a serious difficulty, which took
place last Sunday -at the house of one
Bridges in Golden Valley township,
between George Hunt and two of the
Gray son boys. Several shots were fired,
and Will Grayson was shot through the
shoulder, the ball passing near the lef
lung. Grayson is said to be in a very
critical condition.
Our old friend, Riley Murray, of Hyde
county, has a work steer that weighs
2,200 pounds that has never eat anything
but grass, so Prof. Sheep tells us. We
suppose if he was fattened to obesity he
would nearly double his present weight.
Mr. Murray is approaching 90 and is
sprightly and sound of mind but entirely
blind and physically infirm, says the
Elizabeth City Falcon.
Nashville Argonaut: We leara that
the townships through which it is pro
posed to run the railroad from Hender
son to Nash county, have agreed to vote
upon a proposition to issue bonds for the
following amounts : Shocco township,
in Warren, $25,000; Fork township, in
the same county, $20,000; Centreville
township, in Franklin, $20,000; Cedar
Rock, $15,000; Castalia, 10,000 Hilliard
ston, $20,000.
- Carthage Blade : Sheriff Currie carried
three convicts to the penitentiary last
week. One was white and two negroes,
one for three years, and two for two
years each. A corps of engineers are
here surveying the extension of the
Carthage Railroad. Two routes will be
run, one out by the Bay Pond, and the
other up Killett's creek. The work of
grading the extension will begin in a short
time, we learn.
The E. City Falcon tells it this way :
' We looked around yesterday and there
was a blank and a stillness in the atmo
sphere. In one night the lawyers had all
vanished for Currituck court What a
pity that the Farmers' Alliance has black
balled all the legal brotherhood, and
banned them from decent association. We
thought they were a very decent set of
f-llows until the Alliance tabbooed them.
They now-stand apart and suck their
thumbs like, poor fo ks at a frolic."
SaLford Express: S. D and S. M.
Jones and J. W. Scott, Jr., will run a
mixed excursion from this place to Wil
mington and returi the same day, Sept.
16th. On Mo .day afternoon a con
vict on the Osgood and Egypt railroad
feigned sick. He was sent to his tent,
where he procured a case knife, removed
his shackles and succeeded in making
good his escape. The postcflice at
Ore Hill has been discontinued by the
government because the people there had
boycotted the office The postmaster,
Mr. Cheek, is personally offensive to them
and so they mailed their letters on the
train. The postmaster has retaliated by
getting the government to abolish the
postoffice.
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.
Liverpool, Spt. 2- The failure of the
large Steeustra-td cotton firm is repotted:
Clerks in London have formed a uriior
and intend agitating for better pay and
shorter hours.
Liverpool, Aug. 30. In the exchange
to-day the fai'ure of another small cotton
firm was announced.
A party of seventy -five negroes are
preparing to go from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
to Africa in a short while.-
Salvator is king of running horses now.
He made a mile in 1:35-$-, lowering Ten
Broeck's recoid by 3 seconds.
A party of 130 Mormon converts from
Georgia, Alabama, North- Carolina and
East Tennessee went to Utah last week.
Vienna, Sept. 1. An expl jsion occur
red to-day in a mine at Boryslow, in
Galiuia. Eighty miners were suffocated.
A negro by the name of Scott was shot
and killed by a white man named Dudley
at a negro meeting near Gibson, Ga , last
Monday.
London, Sept. 2. The British steamer,
Partuense went down in the channel
with nine persons on board. All were
drowned.
George Holloway fell down the inside
of a factory chimney at Indianapolis, Inc.,
a distance of ninety-five feet, and was not
seriously hurt.
. Within the past decade the producti n
of pig iron in the South has increased
from 350,436 to 1,780,909 tons. Isn't
Dixie getting there on the iron schedule?
Pesth, Aug. 30 By the falling in of
the roof of a burning building at the vil
lage of Mejo, Kerestze, in the district of
Borsod, to-day, fifteen persons were
killed.
Paris, Sept. 1. A train was thrown
from the track at Arenes, Department of
Creuse, to-day. Seventeen carriages were
wrecked, and several persons were killed
or injured.
Cairo, Sept. 1 Since Tuesday last
there have been 48 fresh cases of cholera,
one at Eltor and 18 deaths. Advices
from Mecca are to the effect that the city
is free from cholera.
Susanville, Cal., Sept. 3. The stage
on the Legion and Susanville line was
stopped by a masked man near Milford,
Monday night, and the Wells Fargo box
taken at the muzzle of a revolver.
Senator Stanford's fruit farm in Cali
fornia is the largest in the world. It con
tains 30,000 acres, and the grapes raised
and the wines made there are famous
where Stanford himself is unknown.
The aeronaut Borletti met with a ter
rible death August 28th, at Idralia. The
balloon in which he ascended caught fire.
Borletti was precipitated to the ground
from a great height and instantly killed.
Vienna, Aug. 30. The Rhine has over
flowed its banks in the Vorarlberg dis
trict The villages of Albach, Hohenems,
Holchst, Lust nan and Fuessach are flooded.
Bridges have been swept away and many
persons were drowned.
Chicago, Sept. 3. A resolution was
yesterday adopted by the glassmen of the
country, who are in session here, to ad
vance prices and limit production and de
mand a prohibitory tariff, so that Belgium
and other European glass may be kept
out.
New York, Sept 3. The Evening Sun
to-day as a result of its investigation
prints a long expose of the " abuses and
mismanagement " in the Biackwell Island
penitentiary, the conduct of which, it
states, is a disgrace to a civilized com
muntiy. Liverpool, Sept 2. At the opening of
to-day's session of the trades unions con
gress, President William Watkms deliv
ered an address. He said the time had
undoubtedly arrived when an energetic
attempt should be made to secure eight
hours as a day's work.
The first jury drawn in the Chickasaw
nation, under the Oklahoma bill, was em
panelled on Saturday to hear the cases of
Washington against Hodges for the pos
session of a horse. The court ruled that
Indians or white persons, citizens of the
United States, were competent j irorf.
Prof. Carter, a well-known aeronaut,
went up in his balloon at Woodfield, Ohio,
on the 29th ult As the balloon left the
earth, Milton Redin, a prominent young
man, became entangled in a rope and was
carried up a thousand feet. He fel tiat
distance and was mashed beyond recog
nition Columbia, S. C, Sept 2. At a picnic
in Orangeburg yesterday, Patrick Low
man and William Beckman, representing
the contending Democratic factions, Low
man being a Straightout and Beckman a
Tillmanite, became involved in a heated
political controversy. Angry words led
to blows, and finally both drew knives,
with which both fought desperately, un
til compelled to desist from loss of blood.
Lowman was horribly cut in several
places, and died a few hours later. Beck
man will recover.
' They are continually getting np pome
thing for notoriety. A doubt-. -u horse
ba k -wedding, occurred out in Arizona
Territory lhn other rdy. Tn grooms
were cowb.ys, ani the c.t.m.ou) as
witnessed by over 200 leople. It is not
stated whether the brides were cow-girls
or not.
Cincinnati, 0.. Aug. 30. Thos. Dow,
aged 22, a lineman of the Brush Company,
was standing on an iron fire escape and
was about to run a loop info the second
story window when he caught alive elec
tric light wire and instantly fell back
dead on the fire escape. His right hand
was nearly burned off.
New York, Aug. 30-A special from
Parkersburg, W. Va., says the Rev. Wm.
Edgell, a Methodist preacher of Brown
town, has been arrested on a charge of
forging affidavit and making illegal
charges in pension cases. He wa put
under a heavy bond to answer an indict
ment before the U. S. court.
London, Sept 2. Advices from Buenos
Ayres represent that the National bank
was pluadered of about thirty millions of
dollars in so called loans to the ring that
surrounded the late President, Celman.
Efforts are being made to compel repay
ment Tae coupons of the National Ar
gentine loans due in Europe yesterday
were promptly paid.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 30. A dastardly
attempt was made seveu miles west of
here this morning to wreck the Chicago
express and passenger train. All the
guards of the company were locked up
and cross-ties bound down to the track.
The cars came within two feet of the ties
and stopped. Hundreds of passengers
were aboard and it came near being a
serious affair.
London, Sept. 2. The situation on the
American frontier is very grave. The
Russian forces ia that direction are beirg
constantly strengthened, the garrison of
Batoum, Kars, and other fortified towns
have lately been increased, aad the army
of the Caucusus is in a full state of prepa
ration for an advance. It seems certain
that Russia will proceed at an earlv date
o occupy Armenia.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 30. On
Wednesday evening, a sad accident oc
curred on the farm of Mr. J. T. Temple,
near here. Hawks had been killing Mr.
Tern pit's chickens for some time, and he
got his gun and was going to shoot some
of the birds. In leaving his house the
hammer of his gun struck the door step.
The gun was discharged, the ball enter
ing Mr. Temple's right side. He lived
only a fe vv minutes.
Near Mulvaney, Kansas, on Saturday,
a farmer named H. A. Smith was tying a
horse i;i a stable, wlen the horse seized
him by the shoulder and threw him down.
Just then the barn door closed, shutting
off all means of escape, and the horse
viciously attacked the man, biting, paw
ing a d kicking, until Smith seized a club
and with it killed his horse. He was so
badly exhausted, however, that he died
shortly after being discovered.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
The Town of Oxford, Iowa, Nearly De
stroyed. Iowa Citt, Sept 1. A fire last night
almost totally destroyed the tewn of Ox
ford, west of this city. Nearly all the
business part and many private residences
wgre burned. The postoffice ba .k and
many other buildings wera destroyed.
The fire was undoubtedly of incendiary
origin. The fire bell rope was cut. The
loss is estimated at from $25,000 to
$50,000.
A TRAIN HELD UP,
And an Express Car Robbed Blood
Hounds After the Robbers.
Montgomery, A' a., Sept. 2 The north
bound express train from New Orleans,
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
was htld up at the Big Escambia river
near Flomaton last night. Just after the
train left Flomaton, two masked men got
on the engine, covered the engine and
ordered him to hold up over the river.
They then forced an entrance into the ex
press car, robbed it of a considerable sum
of money, the exact amount not being
aown. The sheriff of E-ambia couaty,
with a posse of men and a pack of blood
hounds, is in pursuit.
m
A DRUNKEN SON'S FATAL AWK
WARDNESS. He Turns over a Lamp, and Mother,
Sister and Friend are Burned
to Death.
Philadelphia, Pa , Sept 3. Three un
fortunates, a mother, her daughter and
adopted daughter, were suffocated to
death a d burned early this morning by a
fire at their home on Germantown avenue.
The names of the victims are : Mrf.
Sarah Mclntyre, aged 59 ; Mamie Mcln
tyre, aged 10 years ; Agnes Rogers, the
adopt' d daughter, sged 17 years.
The fire was caused by the upsetting of
a coal oil lamp in the hands of Charles
Mclntyre, a son of the eldest victim, who,
it is alleged, came home at an early hour
this morning in an intoxicated condition.
Mclntyre has been locked up at the 10th
district station house to await the action
of the coroner.