North Carolina Newspapers

THE PROGRESSIVE FAMfflR SEPTEMBER GENERAL STATE NEWS. Cream of the State Press. nrope of Turpentine and Grains of Bice from the J East ; Clusters of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the North ; StalW Corn and Grains of Wheat from the West, and Peanuts aid Cotton Seed from the South, The population of Nashville is 407. There are 3,000 tons of ice used in Morehead City annually. It is rumored that Durham is to have an electric street railway system. A bed spring factory is a new industry soon to be started in Dm ham. Sixteen young men from Texas have entered Bingham School this session. High . Point has orga- ized a develop ment company with' a capital of $30,000. Cabarrus county has 239 insolvents; 76 of these are white and 163 are col ored. The barrel and keg factory of Duke & Miller, of Statesville, was burned last Monday. An unknown man was run over and killed on the W. N. C. Railroad one day last week. Jas. Fleming, colored, of Greenville, has been found guilty of burglary in the second degree. It is rumored that Northern capitalists will build a large hotel at Beaufort on the old " Atlantic." Wilmington Star : Mount Airy apples retail at 40 and 50 cents a peck in the Wilmington market The store of Mr. Lee Setzer, of New ton, was robbed of about $65 worth of goods a few nights ago. The census gave Selma a population of 212 A census taken by the chief of po lice of the town, gave it 673. The Coffin factory at Burlington was burned last week. Two thousand coffins were burned. Loss about $7,000. The Durham Fertilizer Company has purchased a hundred and fifty horse power engine for its new factory. The chewing gum factory at Kinston is in full operation, and gives employment to four men and eight or ten girls. In the western part of the State there are some pure blooded Indians. One of their preachers is named Suate Owl. Cass Hill, colored, was badly cut by two white men on a train at Wrightsville. The names of the men are not known. Charlotte Chronicle: The bonded debt of Mecklenburg is to be refunded on No vember .1st. It amounts to $300,000. There are rumors in the air of the early extension of the Danville and New River Railroad from Stuart, Va., to Mt Airy. The grand jury of Wake county found a true bill for murder in the case of police man Hogue. The trial is in progress this week. Mr. Thos. Cole, a farmer living near Bentonville, was so badly injured by be ing thrown, out of a cart that he died a few days after. The entire family of Mr. J. F. Jordan, of Greensboro, were recently poisoned by eating custard flavored with vanilla. None of them died. The Political Broadaxe is the name of a new weekly Journal published at Randle man, in the interest of Prohibition in the approaching canvass. The ladies of Asheville, N. C, have formed a Housekeeper's Union to piotect themselves against the incompetency and unreliability of servants. - Kinston Free Press: Mr. J. B. Smith's turpentine still, in Pink Hill township, was burned about ten days . ago. He thinks it was set on fire. The demand for Asylum brooms is so great that we have been obliged to seriously consider the enlargement of our factory. Orphan's Friend. Mr. S. W. Pearce, of Franklin county, was shot in the abdomen by a negro boy aged 15 a few days ago. Mr. Pearce may die. The boy is in jail. A lot of 125 bales of cotton from the Yadkin river wreck was sold at auction in Charlotte Tuesday to O. P. Heath for $40 a bale. Concord limes. John Koch, charged with the murder of Joseph Ramsden at Wilmington, has been found guilty of manslaughter. Sen tence has not been pronounced. Monroe Register: A Land Improve ment Company has been organized at Norwood by Messrs D. N. Bennett, S. Emberton and C. D. Bennett. Chatham Record : A colored child was accidentally killed near Green's mili on last Saturday, by a tree falling on it, hich its older sister was cutting. newIv carried couple has been ar jested at Charlotte. They claim to be both negroes, but there was a crave mi. picion that the bride was a white girl Asheville Citizen: W. H. Martin, col ored, a barber of South Main street, recently received a letter that was from father, and contained two pieces of ract10nal currency of the ten cent denomi vt ?p The tetter was mailed at Moss t Ct' Robesn county, and addressed to mberton, Robeson county. It has been Marching for the owner for 20 years. Mr. E. J. Rathol, a merchant at Max- Asheville" Citizen : Only thirteen prison ton, tried to get a negro from his store a ers are confined in the county jail at the few nights ago and was badly cut by an- present time. Twelve of the "number are other negro who was standing at the county prisoners and one is "a Staje door. " ' - prisoners. Thejiilor says ti at it. is the Nashville Argonaut: Our farmers hav ing their time taken up with their tobacco, hav picked out very little cotton as yet. J Tra- fields are white and need Picking badly. We are pleased to inform our readers that the latest information from, the French Broad Vally Railroad is of a very encouraging nature, says the Brevard Carolinian. There are now 200 convicts in the penitentiary. Of these twenty-five are engaged in the brickyards. The making of brick is profitable and is done on an ex tensive scale. F. T. Banks, who lives near Arrapahoe, Pamlico county, was bitten by a rattle snake while helping a neighbor to raise a barn a few days .ago. He is very low and not expected to live. Work on the Kenilworth Inn, in South Asheville, is progressing rapidly. It will be one of the most elegant hotels in the South when finished, and will :ost over a quarter million dollars. The cotton gin of Mr. Samuel Watts, on the Louisburg road, four miles from Raleigh, was burned together with six bales of cotton, last Wednesday. Loss about $1,200; insurance $400. Charlotte Caronicle :' The white graded schcol starts off with 662 pupiles enrolled, on the third day of the session. Last session at the end of the fourth we, the total enrollment was only 613. Goldsboro Dispatch : Fish are running heavy on the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. This morning there were over 200 boxes transferred over that road. averaging from 100 to 150 pounds each Mr. H. H. Ransom, a former student of Catawba College, who has many friends in Newton, has been elected superintend ent of the city schools of Monroe, Louis iana, at a salary of SI. 800. Newton Enterprise The Asheville Democrat tells a yarn about a hog belonging to Mr. Jas. Davis, of Buncombe county, staying in a hollow log 31 days without food or water. The sufferings of the animal must have been very great. The cow of Mrs. Martha Hedgecock, of Abbott creek, Davidi on county, leads. There has been sold in the Winston mar ket, from the 10th of May until the 10th of September, (four months), 130 pounds of her butter. Just as we go to press we learn that in a- 1 ,1 a drunken row. Monday night, m me vicinity of Adderholt's distillery, John Hobbs was cut by John Jolly and will probably die. Jolly has run away, says the Lenoir Topic. The verdict in the case of the State vs. Wheeler, which was tried at the present term of Randolph court, was manslaughter. It will be remembertd that Wheeler killed one vt the guards at the stockade about a year ago. Two hundred and fifty-six convicts have been sent to the Yadkin railway, on which the State has taken a large contract for grading. Over a hundred of these were transferred from the Roanoke and Southern railway. i. Salisbury Watchman : The Stone Moun tain Granite Company is a bigger thing than most of our readers suppose. They employ from forty to fifty hands all the time, and their pay roll foots up in the hundreds every month. Carolina Banner: In a difficulty at Centre Bluff, Pitt county, on last Friday, t w . omiin received a painiui stao in the back from a knife in the hand of Howell Hearne. Mr. Smith is not serious ly, hurt and is improving. Raleigh Chronicle: There are eight Raleighs in the JJnited States not includ ing Raleigh, K. C. There is a Raleigh in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ken tucky. Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia, and North Carolina. Through service on the-Lynchburg & Durham Railroad from Lynchburg to Durham began pn Monday. By this route the distance from Milton by rail to Durham and Raleigh is lessened at least sixty miles. Milton Advertiser. Roxboro Courier: Roxboro will have anew bank and ten prize houses ready for the mw crop of tobacco. With two banks, two warehouses and plenty of storage houses, sne wiu do reaay 10 nanaie i a large quantity of leaf this season. . T , t m tt remove .r " " this city to Oxford. Bishop Hargrove having declined to release him from his duties as presiding elder, he will carry his double burden until conference meets There was an elopement near Dudley early Sunday morning. Miss Fannie, daughter of John Underhill wanted to marry W. H. Kelly, of that neighborhood, hnt the father obiected. The trirl. firm in -her resolution, left her parental home that j a x. i Tr a luuiuiug ouu juiuu jdicx xuvcjl att iu. derson's house, where the knot was tied, says the Goldsboro Headlight. smallest number he has had in two years., Alex . Morton, the negro woman in man's clothes " who was sentenced to be hanered October 17m for murdering a woman at Kingston, will not swing at. that time. An appeal to the supreme court puts off the execution to December. Durham Globe : At hapel Hill yester day a n-wly married doctor held up a target for a student to shoot at The distance was across the street and the result was that the student missed the target and shot the doctor throught . the arm. - Winston Daily: The recent duel in Montgomery, Ala , in which Gleen Dus kin and a man named Turpin were killed, deserves more than a passing notice, as Duskin is a North Carolina man. He was a son of George M. Duskin, of Orange county. The JMonroa correspondent of the Char lotte Chroidcle writes that paper as fol lows : A centipede was found at N. S. Ogburn's this morning, and is on exhibi tion at the drug store of S. P. Blair & Co. This is the third one found here this summer. Henderson Tomahawk: Mr. Jas. Par- ham, Sr., living about six miles west of this place had a barn, and the tobacco in it, destroyed by fire this morning. Yes terday his son, W. L. Parham, lost a fine barn from same cause. Both have our sympathy. Goldsboro Dispatch: Deputy collector of internal revenue, Mr. J. D. Grimsley, informs us that there are in his division are in his division. now in operation, twenty five fruit and cr.in rlisHlWiAa "fiW. this it would f. ,i. ,1 . - B n L 1 I short after all The Carolina Banner says that ii a difficulty, at Centre Bluff, Pitt county, on lac TTriav R W Smith received a rain- J I ful stab in the back, from a knife in the hand of Howell Hearne. We are glad to learn that Mr. Smith is not seriously hurt and is improving. Darham Sun: The arrangements for a free ma 1 delivery in our city have been perfected and the system will be put in operation November first ; that is provided the town commissioners will make it possible by numbering the houses which is yet to be done. Tarboro Southerner: Geo. Sugg, the champion pumpkin raiser of this county, says that his biggest pumpkin, weighing 100 pounds, was washed away by the heavy rains, but he has another still smil ing on the vine that will tip the scales at ninety-four pounds. A Washington State paper says A. L Herren has arrived in Seattle from a town in the mountains of North Carolina 2,000 miles above the sea. One can meet with men from most every place on earth in Seattle, but this is the first arrival re- ported from Heaven. We learn from the Stanlev Observer that Mrs. Fannie Howell and children vttnrrmtaA fr wnc o onlUn rV in ihttt county a few 8y8 ag0 The wagon bed fWiul nff th wftn ftnd fhpv had ft Mr T),nmM awnn rftH- narrow escape. cued them with his boat. Chinquepins are now all the go and china ueoin parties supersede all other A 1 A amusements, especially among the young people. On last Saturday four or hve ii different parties went out in the country from Reidsville to hunt this toothsome nut, says the Reidsville Review. Franklin Press : .Mr. John Corbin, of Mill Shoal, is 85 years old, has raised 14 children, has 74 grandchildren, 125 great- grindchildren and 3 great-great-grand jo m . ' - - , and of oats this vpur And a fpw riavs children. Me cultivated o acres or corn .(, ' ' 'I ago walked 17 miles in 5 hours. We learn from the Western Free Lance that all the excavating for the Catawba Hotel has been completed, and the ma tenai is being placed on me ground as fast as possible. Active work will be begun on it in a short time. When the material arrives the work will be pu-hed. Miss Maggie Neely met with a very painiui accident last Monday evening while' riding a horse home from Brevard. The animal stumbled and fell, thro win er Migs Maggift tQ lhJ where ghe struck on both outstretched hands dislo- ltin? the wristj sajs the Brev8rd a Jaro- A i. U UI A l 1 1 TTT. J j I mo wis cuuauuu ureas. eunesuay, v,apu aivin arues, nau some oi uie finest tobacco ever seen in this section. One lot sold at $7.53 per pound; another lot sold at $5 per pound and another lot sold at 75 "cents per pound, Wilson Mirror. Miss Mildred Lee. daughter of the great Chieftain, Robert E. Lee, is in Ashe I villeK stopping at the Battery Park. One I of our citizens, who wasNin Asheville last week reports her as bearing a "striking m v u ou 1 icocuiuiauw -v xauux. uuo 10 iwj J reserved in, her manners and of true Southern type. Henderson Times. t Wid " Medlord, die famous bear hunter of Western North Carolina, will regret to learn of his feeble condition of health. Age, exposure rheumatism have slowed th f tstep t i faithful old pioneer. of the mountain country. Vuyntsviile Courier. i ' Asheville has formed a company to ! bore for gas. Geologists say there is no gas in this country, but Asheville has push and energy enough to learn the geologists that they can sometimes be mistaken. The ?as will be used for fuel and possibly for light. Wavnesville Courier. A new gold mine has. just b.en dis: covered on the land of A. A. Laney not far Jfrom Monroe. The ore appears to be very r ch. Two pans full of dirt was washed and an ounce of gold was found. I Others around in the community are turn ing up rocks, and hunting gold in all . a rocky places. Frank Hanks and Jerry Mabrey, col., had a serious auarrell Tuesday moraine: at the Hamilton depot. Mabrey struck Hanks over the head with a heavy stick, inflicting an ugly wound. Dr. Baker was called and reports the wound to be nearly two inches long and to the bone, says the Carolina Banner. : Nashville Argonaut : Our farmers hav mg their time taken up with tobacco have, as yet, picked out very little cotton. The- fields are white and need Dickin badly. The citizens of Rocky Mount .i , , .i M rn I.n Kill J K fl X III KHI' II H III tT r.i ri'.I.HIII 111 I a first-class buildiner for a male school. We hope they will succeed. Scotland Neck Democrat: Air. Weslev uougnenour, tne supenmenaent i r. AilC01 s saw mm near Pring I 5 l.'iil . J3C 1 i !.L came engaged m some mueuwicuuy wiui colored man at me mm one aay mst week, when the colored man struck Mr. yi 1 1 1 iL. 1 3 :il Coughenour a blow over the head with a cant hook which came very near killing him.. From the reports received b us from . . .i. u;u every section oi me couuiy, wt? mm. we are justified in saying that something . . -H i-. over an averasre crop oi cotton wui De gathered in Anson this year. Nearly $6,000 is in " sight for the building and equipping of the Wadesboro cotton mills, says the Wadesboro Messenger-Intelli- gencer. We learn from the Greensboro Patriot that Dr. R. K. Gregory has obtained pat ents on his new treat rent and bandages for wourfo's in this and several foreign countries. They are already m gret de- mand. Dr. Gregory proposes to organize a stock company and erect a lactory here tor tne manuiacture oi nis meuiwuss auu oanaage$. . Concord Standard: Paul Miller, col- ored, the champion cotton picker in these parts, picked 304 pounds of cotton on 'Mr R. K Gibson s tarm yesterday, raul says he is groiner to pick 400 pounds to day. -Some of the cotton that was in town 1 ' - today was trapped in jute, and Eome in UOLLUU " - se"u-uauu "KB"' near ice mourn oi iuse mer, I .1 Y 1 A J AW I TkT i 1 XT r A soum sioe, d ars are reporieu very uumex- I ous and troublesome. They have killed three hOgS OeiOHging lO iir. vr.m. uiu- coin, and several belonging to three otner farmers in the neighborhood, and another farmer, Mr. C. H. Sanborn, is losing hogs nearly every day. One of the bears killed sometime ago weighed 380 pounds.- Ntwberne Journal. On Friday night Capt. Jno. Weatherly noticed Sandy Brown, a colored man sit- t.incr on the rails at the deoot drunk. He o ' roused him up and ordered him to move on. On Saturday morning his mangled body was found lying . beside the track, about one mile this side of High Point It is supposed he was stealing a ride, and I ffoing to sleep fell off and was crushed I 6,J1"o oiy i iL- 1 1 A I nnv.oV.-v-k unaer. xne wneeis. says iub vuccusuuiu Patriot. Burgaw Herald: H. L. Alderman killed three turkeys at one shot in his pea field on Moore's crerk. Rev. O. Miller closed a successful revival of re ligion at Union Chapel on Long creek, Pendercounty, on the 12th inst. Thirty- five penitents were immersed, and eight restored to fellowship. some or our enterprising citizens are going pretty extensively into, the truck business next season. Mr. , John G. Grady, son of our countyman Mr. J. R. Grady, was accidently killed at the saw mill of his brother Mr. D. Mc. D. Grady, at a point on me uape Fear River, known as Uld Jerry ; in I . , . , r I ctenmncr anross the drivmer Deit DlS iooi i tvrr o . - - - . , -- t .ff.nto died in about two hours, says the Dunn a trams i uie iikjui . nuu uuuj mo ui.bw Courier. In 1888, Mr. Lawson Knot, of Gran- .rtnt, hnnrht find arre of land in ,u,v , "-"c,"- this county, and from his first years' crop on 30 acres, he made more than enough to pay for the land, besides paying all expenses. This year his profits on less than 50 acres will be over 51U.UUU. inis information comes directfrom Mr Knott himself, who is. a man of the highest i Qaracter and "whose statements can ue implicitly relied upon, says the Nashville Argonaut The manv frieids and acauaintances of THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR A WEEK. Sparks from the Wires. The British ship Venura was capsizet uem tidu riauci&oo, lait luesday. iwi men were drowned. Paris, Sept 23. Railway traffic hfc been stopped between Nimes and Alaio by the floods and landslide. ' Jas Glodson and his son were killed by an.euifiut: ou tiie iiiast xennessee rioad. I near Nashville one day last week. The business portion of Whitehall, Michigan, has been swept away by an in cendiary hre, causing a loss of $100 00J A Turkish man-of war was foundered at sea, causing the loss of 500 lives, in- eluding two Pashas, envoys to the Em- peror of Japan. A health officer of Philadelphia fled from the dreadful malaria of that afflicted I city, but failed to leave $ 17,000 behind to pay for his "shortage." I w I Paris, Sept. 23.-Eight thousand lace makers are idle in Calais and rioting- is feared. An extra regiment of troops has been ordered to the spot. I Galveston. Tex.. Sept. 23. Panama dvi .iAa fitato tW Asm'nwall i hincr ri . drnr Vw fira oT,a tW a lorrro rHrtr, j o x of the town has succumbed to the flames. Greensburg. Pa., Sept 23. A wreck occurred at the Derry yard of the Penn- I i - . :i 1 i 1.4. ...u: T a lvia trainmen were lnmrea, ana two or mem mav die v A Party of tea. Turks and their bears on lhelr wav South were overflowed by seven of the Turks and all of L, v the bears. Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 23. A col- hsion between freight trains on the New York Central occurred here to-day, wreck- ing ten cars and the engine, causing $15, 000 damage. Glasgow, Sept. 22. Tne Scotch fur nacemen have struck for higher wages. The furnaces are b insr blown out The iron market here is excited in consequence of the strike. New York, Sept 22. Julius Schott, one of the members of the Astoria police force was killed early this morning by an ex policeman. The fight was over a strange woman. A bad wreck cccurred near Reading, Pa., a few days ago. A passenger train I vt ao viii j v aa v 11 i ii v uaa auu ivnu uuttu an emoanKment several . people were killed and many injured. Corpus Christi Texas, Sept 23. Yes- Wov j,.,,,, 0 .u or I .Vs tA tVA UVVU U S J viVUv Oil V V tiA town nf T)rfCf1n TVl tnrn ar! C Hp.- vastated a strip of county fifty yards wide J and three miles in length. - Columbia, S. C, Sept 23. Six distinct shocks of earthquake occurred here about o flu thia mn,-n .nn4.f I V V V1WJ1 VUIO 111 l U1UC . Jl 11 V T Cl UVUi U to CQme ff0m the gouth and the Iagt f hock lagted fop nearly a minute Chicago, 111, Sept. 23. Millie Pilgrim, aged 22, died at noon to-day, making the . . .., sixth tataiity resumng trom last nights 1 B . . TI collision between me Illinois uentrai ana Chicago and Burlington trains. On Monday night last, while James Pefner and wife, residing near Boy les- town, Pa., were on their way home, they were attacked and Mr. Pefner killed. His wife was not harmed. He was robbed of London, Sept 22. Later advices from Goa, India, state that eighteen persons were killed and fifty wounded in the elec tion riot at that place by the Portuguese troopg wno fired upon a crowd of Re Tjuhlicans. London, Sept 23. The two sluggers, Slavin and McAuliffewho were to have an international prize fight in Scotland and who were arrested here yesterday, have been placed under a one thousand pound bond. New Orleans. Sept 23. Ihe aati- Lottery bill passed by Congress has had wonderful effects on the New Orleans postoffice and its business has decreased so that a large reduction in force has be come necessary. Berne, Sept 22. The village of Ruthi, in Cauton of St Galle, is on fire. Three hundred houses are already destroyed. A loss of one life is reported. All t e peo- I pje whose houses are burned are in a des- titute condition. Cattlettsburg, Ky., Sept 20. The Brewerj Dempsey and Baisden war broke t j Loeran county. West Virerinia. I O " f ' ' y euiicSUoy. At mo iuuuiu ui x igcuu ttt.j j a t t; h.B Rme Demnsev shot and kiled J Qeorge Walter, a member of the Baisden 1 y - I faction and one Clark was severely cut in Macon, Ga., Sept 21. A mysterious attempt to assassinate JJranK rroctor , r .. . . , . . 0 w and wife, colored, is reported irom Waynesboro Friday night - They were attacked with an axejwhile in, b .d and fearfully gashed I ii Vear-old brol and bruised. Proctor's year-oid oromer is oeueveu to u would-be assassin. The affair has created great Incitement in the neighborhood. New Orleans, Sept'. 23 The Third District Congressional Re publtwi. com mittee met at Morgan City Stu day, but decided not to make anv nom nation on account of the failure of Congress to pass the election law. ! Boylestown, Pa., Sept 22. Last night at one o'clock James Pefner w rr or dered in the presence of his wife and robbed of SS00 which he had w.th him The woman was untouched. The c -uple were on their way from a neighbor's to their hnmp A desperate fight has taken place ner Wajne court house, West Virginia, be tween a sherm s po?e nnri a numW rf Italian laborers, i-i which several of the latter were killed and a number wounded. The Italians refused to let new men work in their places in a railroad cut. State Railroad Commissioner Coffin, of Iowa, has estimated that 2o,000 railroad 1 m - . employees are crippl d every year in this country, and 2,700 killed. Commissioner Coffin denounces the present system of couPg freight cars, and advocates the WUP""S ueu on passenger Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 23 At 11 clock last nigbt the boiler oE Q engine uat;iieu to a ireicru iram on me Jiast Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad at Sherman Heights, five m.les from here exploded. The engineer and the firemen were blown to atoms, and the brakeman was severely injured. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 23. At Banning station, on the lialtimore & Ohio Rail road, a local freight train ran into another freight train yesterday, killing engineer James Shields. A telegram summoned a wrecking train from Connellsville, but it was not flagged in time and ran into the wreck, injuring three men. New York 21. Tre three bell boys accused of sjteal ing Bookmaker Carlan's box containinsr $ 17.000 from the hotel ' w - Vendome, were arraigned in court this mcrning. uasin was held in $10,000 bail, and Mathews was committed to the house of detention, in default of $2 500 bail. O'Brien was discharged. Merrivale, Sept 22. During James Kendenham's absence from home, h's little son was found in the yard plaviner with his father's Winchester. An older daughter attempted to take the weapon from him, and the gun was accidentally discharged with fatal effect The ball entered the boy's mouth and passed through his brain, killing him instantly. v ANOTHER STRIKE. Switchmen at the Chicago Stock Yards Quit Work. 0, Qw ooaiiq I VUIVAVJ .j KJ J V 11 11 tUU VUUlV, t J O I ond fi ram an arr T-1 mraA Kir tVia nam a trri -.Vi " fJ -jr o-,u,u- I ing association at the stock yards quit I wcrk ms afternoon. Their claim is that tw0 of the men are scabs, and they can- not work Wltn them- lf teen engines are idle, and all work of switching, etc,, is at I " a standstill. A DESPERATE FIGHT BETWEEN TWO WHITE MEN AND FIF TEEN NEGROES Montgomery, Ala., Sept 23. year Brungen a desperate fight took place on Sunday between two white men, John and willian Falkner , and fifteen negroes. negroes belonged to the Alabama J Midland Railroad. One of the white men was severely wounded in the fight, and one negro was Killed and several badly hurt. The exact cause of the trouble has not been learned, but it is supposed that it grew out of a drunken row A TEMPERANCE VICTORY. The People of an Indiana Town Rid Themselves of the Last Saloon Keeper. Chicago, Sr-pt. dispatch from Kakomo, Ind., says the temperance peo ple of Greentown, a place of one thousand five hundred inhabitants, have finally driven the last saloon from their midst They have kept up a. continual fight for two years. Three weeks ago the only saloon remaining in the town was de stroyed by dynamite. The owner soon resumed business, and was immediately arrested on twelve affidavits, and court costs were piled up against him until Saturday, when he surrendered his prein- . t sv m . 1 1 ises to the snenn, who closed me saioon. FRIGHTFUL DISASTER. A Switch Engine Runs into an Excur sion Train near Chicago Several Persons Killed and Injured. - Chicago, Sept 21. At 3 o'clock to- night a switch engine on the Chicago, I Burlinerton & Quincv rail-oad ran into the I " I t..It, fV,Q Tii;; na i icu vaim wu &muwio resulted in a fnVhtful tracredv. For a o o j . I ti ne the confusion was so great that even 1 an approximate idea of the loss of life I was, impossible to obtain The first report from the police had it that forty" people I probably had met death, while the rail- I - a kv I sons wer e certainly known-to have been -wifv-vlw seyen mangled corpses Bad been dragged I out ot , the heap ot oroKen umoen and twisted iron that marked the spot where V.o AnlltoiAn V t tk rary r1 9 nc TKxr f Vt t Q time u had risabcen ascertained that at I least threpple were seriously in j ired, and six others slightly. v