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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER: JANUARY 12, 1892. , rtHni of the State Press - Drops of Turpentine nd Grains of Rice from tlie East Clusters of Grapes raid- Tobacco Stems from the North - Stalks of Corn and Grains of Wheat from the West Peanuts and Cotton Seed from the South Bishop Lyman has been in the min istry for fifty years. Mr. Wm. Alphin, of Jones county, fell dead on Sunday last. Ed- nton is trying for a $50,000 knit ting mill stock company. Charlotte is much stirred over the license question in her boarders. Judge Schenck and son David were acqu'tted in the Schenck-Fife case. Gov. Holt has respited the negro burgiar Alfred Dawns to Jan. 14th. Mr. John Cathey died in Meeklen burg county, Monday, of heart dis ease. A very rich asbestos mine has been found near Rich Mountain Watauga county. Governor Scales is not improving any, but he is growing gradually weaker. A. W.Ellis & Co., general merchants at iFarmmgton, Davie county, have assigned. The Baptist church of Cove Creek in Watauga was buraed by an in cendiary. S. D. Suttenfield, dealer in general merchandise at Reidsville, has made an assignment. The Journal reports a cotton stalk from Pantego, me isuring nine feet and eight itches. John C. Davis, the false pretense man of Wilmington, had his bail bond fixed at $700. The penitentiary authorities claim that the institution paid a profit of 1G,000 last year. President Winston states that a busi ness department will be established at the Suite University. Over forty new houses are under erection at Burlington, which will amount in value to 5o,000. A man left hi wife and thirteen children and eloped with another woman in Chatham county. It is reported by the Burlington HawJceye that the are 200 cases of sick ness in lite Haw River vicinity. There were sixty-two deaths in the corporation of Oxford for the twelve months ending Deceniler 3ist 1891. Eighteen degrees below freezing at Raleigh two or three days ago. The lowest thi-t winter in Wilmington is 26 degrees. It is reported that the Charlotte Keening News will soon be changed to a morning paper with press dis patches. Carthage Blade : Died at her home, at Cole's Mill on Wednesddy night last of la grippe, Mrs. Cole, wife of Harbard Cole, Esq. At Clinton Sam Matthews was phot through the head and killed by Sam Wilson. The latter fled but was soon captured. The racke t store man of Burlington failed for more than he was worth last week and his store is now in the haDds of the sheriff . Many heavy failures are reported over the State on account of the hard times. Such depression has not been known in years. Mrs. Mai C. Gudger, wife of Judge J. C. L Gudger, of Waynesville, died at 7 o'clock Weanesday last, of grip complicated with pleurisy. In the liquor question the D-jy says Oxford is in Charlotte's wake. The town commissioners have refused to issue license to bar keepers. Goldsboro Argus : The death of Mr. Harris H Crawford, a long sufferer from paraly sis, occurred at his home in this city on New Year's day. H. J. Whitmore, baker and con feetiouer, of Tarboro, has made an assignment. Liabilities $1,200. The Southerner thinks he will pay out. The Cozart property at Oxford was Fold Monday. The handsoare Cherry Hill mansion was bought by R. W. Lassiter for $15,000, the Day states. In Granville Eli Marable knocked his father in law, Peter Marable, in the head with an iron pan handle and he will probably die. Both ne groes. The county commissioners of Meck lenburg, Vance, Granville and Person counties decline to give any more liquor licenses. Now is the time to fill your jug. W. T. Black well, for years the best known resident of Durham, and whese name is very familiar to people all over the country, now lives at Wash ington, D. C. The editor of the Atlanta Journal made C. F. King a Christmas present of a fine gold watch, as a token of ap preciation of his work in North Carolina and the South. Dr. Stephen B. Weeks, late of Johns Hopkins University, is preparing a complete "Bibliography of the His torical Literature of North Carolina," with annotations. Asheville Citizen: R G. Pearson and wife reached New York on their return from their European trip on the 28th inst., and will arrive in this city to-morrow afternoon. Just before going to press we learn that Mr. W. H. Battle died this(Thurs day) evening, at his residence, about two miles from Louisburg. He was about 70 years of age. A party of twenty-five negroes has left Weldon for Pennsylvania, where they have been promised good homes and work at remunerative wages. They are in charge of an agent. It was the writer's pleasure to attend the last meeting of Excelsior Alliance which met at Lawrences. There was a good attendance and the members are full of enthusiasm over the work in which the Alliance is engaged. This Alliance has excellent material and is doing good work, says the Tarboro Advocate. The Lenoir Topic gives an nrmurt of a disastrous fire in that town on the night of December SOth. The loss is estimated at $10,000, nearly two whole blocks having been burned. Durham Globe: Mr. Hawkins col ored, who escaped from the authorities of FJorance, S. C, was arrested here Monday morning, and will go back again. He is being held here. King's Mountain News: Mr. C. R. Fall, who left our town rather ab ruptly two weeks ago to day, lias not been beard from and his whereabouts is not known by our citizens. The schooner M. A Small, Jas. Small, of Weeksville, owner, struck a log in Narth river, near the A. & C. canal, on Thursday night and was sunk, records the Economist Falcon Henderson Gold Leaf: Mrs Margaret Taylor, wife of Mr. Thomas J. Taylor, died at her home in this place, Monday night, December 28th, at 10 o'clock, after a long and painful illness. On one day last week a cow belong ing to Mr. James M. Bunch, was ran over and killed by the Branning Mfg Co's train near Drew's Station. Loss about $10, says the Windsor Ledger. Winston Daily : The tobacco manu facturers did a creditable business during the year 1801. The net ship ments of their goods aggtegates just eleven million and nine ly two pounds. Laurinburg Exchange: Mr. Cary Covington, we regret' to learn, had the misfortune to lose his store and stock of goods by fire last week. In surance on stock amounted to $3,000. The concensus of a recent meeting of the Scotland Neck Alliance was very pronounced in favor of reducing the acreage in cotton, diversifying the crops, and, first of a!!, raising home supplies. Asheville Citizen: A letter received from California by Dr. John Hey Williams states that Jordan Stone, a former resilient of Asheville, died in Los Angels on the 26 :h of December of pneumonia. Charlotte News: Mr. John H. Mor rison, a member of the board of county commissioners of Cabarrus and one of the most prominent men of that county, died suddenly last night at his home in Rocky River township. Mount Airy News: The city of Balti more is getting granite from the Mount Airy Granite Quarry for the paving of its streets while there is a Baltimore company quarrying granite within an hour's ride of that city. Oxford Diy: Owen Davis' large prize house at Henderson caught fire at 2 o'clock Monday and was destroyed with its contents a heavy stock of to b iceo The fire department prevented the spread of the flames. Messrs. A. S. R iscoe and T. Gillam, Jr., killei in two days last week twenty two woodcock and a number of par tridges. We nev er heard of so many woodcock killed before .around here, says the Windsor Ledger. The Wilmington Messenger an nounces the death of M;j. T. i. Love. He died Wednesday, after an illness of about ten pays. The announcement of his death will be a-groat tr hock and sur prise to his many friends At St. Peter's Episcopal church Sun day night the first animal sermon was preached to the Charlotte naval bat talion by the chaplain, Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire The members of the bat talion attended in full uniform Mr. William T. Shipp. one of the most prominent men in Gaston county, died at his home near Mt. Holly Mon day. He was 74 years of age an;! was the father of Mr. R bert Shipp, of Newton, the Charlotte News says. Mr. W. E. Sizer, who was for a long time crier for the Superior court of Mecklenburg county, died last night at his home in Paw Creek township His death was sudden, and was due to an attack of the grip, says the News. Winston Sentinel: There are over fifteen hundred children connected with the several Moravian Sunday schools in the Twin-City. Counting tnose who attend from the Academy the number is increased nearly two hundred. Two negroes living at the depot had a fight Saturday night. One drew an axe" on the other, and attempted to inflict a blow, but was prevented. They were brought before the Mayor and made to pay a fine, says the Tar boro Advocate. Raleigh Visitor: There is a very pleasant rumor on the streets to day. to the effect that the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad company will be en abled perhaps during the coming month to reiiistate several of the employees rec nil suspended. Durham Sun: Deputy sheriff D. A. Moore, passed through Durham last evening with Dick Jeffreys, one of the five prisoners who escaped from the Oxford jail some, time sinee. He was captured near Selma, and was being taken back to Oxford. Durham Sun: Virginia papers are now publishing a rumor to the effect that the N. fc W. Railroad had or were about to secure control of the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad. We have no doubt our people would be glad to see the transfer. The Atlantic Seaside says that Mrs. J. L. Gibbs, of Beaufort, has an orange tree in her flower yard that bore four teen oranges the present season. One of the fully developed ones wras pre sented to the editor of the Seaside last week, and he pronounced it delicious. Raleigh Visitor : Gov. Holt is busily engaged in examining into all the particulars in the case of Dawns, the Charlotte burglar. There are an im mense number of applications for a mitigation of the sentence, and the Governor will decide the matter this week. Raleigh Chronicle : Late Christmas eve a rather jolly negro blew a horn in the face of a woman who, accompanied by a man, approached in the opposite direction on the street. There was a quick blow, perhaps with a sanbag, and the horn blower, when found, was unconscious. A rumor came from Jackson countv. says the Franklin Ires. that a negro and a white man engaged in a diffi culty; the white man disemboweled the negro with his knife, and the neg?o e;zed an axe and knocked the white man on the head, ami bor.h died in a very short time. At the Irving place near Oxford a little daughter of Mrs. R. E. Haskins got too near an open fire place, her dress caught, and the little ore badlv but Inot f atally burned. S. P. Couch, her grandfather, had his hands con siderably burned extinguishing the flames, the Day says. Concord Standard: Some time ago Dolph Litaker, of No. 4, accidentally shot himself. The physicians failed to get the ball by probing. On last Tues day Tom Litaker, brother of Dolph succeeded in getting the ball, it having shown itself on the opposite side from where it penetrated. Raleigh Chronicle: Rev. L. L. Nash, D. D., and family left yesterday for Wilmington, their new home. Dr "Nash has already commenced work vigor ously, and had raised one tenth of the amount needed to paj the debt of the church before Christmas. He is a "hustler" and an able preacher. Raleigh Chronicle : Mr. James Car penter of Cary, died Saturday, January 2d. He was born iu the year 1788. anil was therefore 104 years old. News has been received of the burning of Joseph Sabeston's general store, at Stella. Craven countv, causing a loss of $4,000, with $2,000 insurance. Raleigh Visitor: There will be a large increase in the acreage of grapes in this section this year. Although the shipping last season did not turn out as well as desired, yet much of the fruit this season will be utilized for wine making, a process which, it is thought, will bring better returns. An exchange states that two negroes had a dispute over a fifty cent piece in Asheville Tuesday evening, which re sulted in the death of one of them. The razor wa.s freely used and both negroes were badly cut to pieces. One of them died m a short time and the other is in a dangerous condition. A St. Louis paper submitted a long list of historical questions to the Sena tors and Representatives in Congress and Hon. B. F. Grady, a North Caro lina Congressman, made the best an swer. It is said that he would have obtained 9( out of a possible 100 in a public examinationation on this list of questions. A few days ago while Mr. W. M. Black well was siting at home by the tire he leaned over and lost his balance fell forwanl and his right hand went into the fire burning it to s me extent. We are glad to learn that the burn is not serious and our venerable friend will le all right in a short time, says the. Oxford Ledger. Tarboro Southerner : W. T. Bras well of this county, has a mule which is excited to fnmzy at the sight of a young calf. A few days since it av tackel one, and the stock feeder, a white man, whose, name 1 could not learn, essayed to drive the mule away. The mule turned upon the man and stamped him to death. Monroe Enquirer: On Monday night Mr. Tilero Wantz, who lives on the public road near Mr. Condor Stinson's Zn. in Vance township, went to a neighbor's houe after some milk for a sick child. As it was some distance Mr. Wentz rode mule back, and as he was returning, he met a man in the road who deliberately fired at him three times from a revolver. Raleigh Chronicle: It was not the model barn at the experiment station which was struck by lightning and destroyed, but an old barn. The loss will be $1,000, with $450 insurance. The meeting of the congregation of the First Presbyterian church, called to he held last evening, was not held, as Rev. Dr. Watkins had the grippe and could not attend. The boiler room of Mr. Hatch's plan ing mill caught fire Thursday about 12 o'clock, and was entirely consumed, but for the large supply of warer and the favorable position of the wind, the planing mill ould have followed the same fate of the boiler room. The heroic work done by the mill hands as well as other citizens is worthy of praise, says the Tarbo o Advocate. Since January 1S91 the business and population of this town has declined. A friend who was in town on Saturday from Dare told us he was here twelve months ago, and he met on the Water ten men for one this year. All this is owing to unwise legislation. IU ad vised lawmaking has desolated more communities than war, pestilence and famine, says the Elizabeth City Falcon. .New Berne Journal: Mrs Jas. A. Bryan, ho has long been a sufferer from neuralgia, died in Brooklyn from that trouble yesterday morning. Over a dozen witnesses were examined at the coroner's inquest over the body of the poisoned colored woman, Rachel Simmons. The evidence pointed to her husband as the poisoner, and the ver dict of the jury was rendered accord inglj. Charlotte Chronicle : Monday night an unknown white man, apparently about 40 years of age, was killed on the C. C. Railroad near Lilesville. He fell betreen the cars and was cut to pieces. He had on several suits of clothes and two or three dollars in money in his. pocket. It was supposed that he was stealing a ride when he met with the accident that cost him his life. Greensboro Workman : Charles A. McNeill died at the home of his father, A. H. McNeill, at Carthage, N. C , on Saturday morning last, aged 30 years. Robert W. Uonnell, who was born and reared here, and who was engaged in business here over forty five years ago, died in the city of New York on Sunday. He left this city something over forty years ago to try his fortune in the great West. He was eminently successful in all of his enterprises he undertook, and amassed a great for tune. He has many relatives and friends in this community. Raleigh Chronicle : Mr. Wister Tate, j of Morganton, is mayor of the town, ! and on the day before Christmas put a ! man who was drunk in the guard ; hou-e. When the man got sober the ! next day he was relea-cd, and m the afternoon, while the little boys were firing crackers, the drunken man put ; a dynamite cartridge under Mr. Tate's ; office, and when it exploded Mr. Tate ; was seriously injured and died on the same night. ; Friday afternoon, Capt. Ge.org- ; Welsh, conductor on the Carolina! Central road, was shot at by a drunken j white passenger and barely escaped unhurt. The man was drunk and j disordf rly on the train. Capt. Welsh j and another gentleman put him off, wnen ne drew his pistol and nred j twice at them, the balls grazed Capt. i Welsh's head. His assailant, the Char- j lotte Chronicle says, was arrested and ; taken to Monroe and jailed. Winston Sentinel: A citizen of Martinsville, V., brought the news to Winston to-day of the failure at that place Saturday of Mr. J. T. Read, dealer in general merchandise, Mr. R. A. Hay more was made trustee, while the preferred creditors are Messrs. J H. Matthews and W. R. Matthews and W. R. Nunn. The same gentleman says that Evengelist Fife began his meeting in Martinsville yesterday. He preached twice to large congregatins. A sensation has been created this week at the Catawba gold mine, by the abduction of Mrs. Hattie Brown. It appears that a prominent young man living near this place is conneeied with the affair, taking an active part either in his own iuterest or acting as agent for some friend Mr. Redfrow, the step father of the stolen lady, is greatly enraged against the perpe trators and is looking up the law and evidence to prosecute the kidnappers. Winston Sentinel: It is semi of fi cially stated the effort to organize a strong stock company to manufacture cigarets in opposition to the American Tobacco Company has been crowned with success and a charter aviII be asked for within the next few da s. The company, it is said, is composed of capitalists in the tobacco market of Virginia and North Carolina. It is also stated that some of Winston's capitalists will be interested in the enterprise. Stanly News: Died on last Thursday night, near Silver, Ferdinan Foreman, of paralysis. Mr. Foreman is a well known citizen of Stanley, and was about 60 years of age. It is with sorrow that we chronicle the death of our esteemed friend. Mr. M. A Under wood. He was a avi-11 known friend to many of the people of this ant of other counties. While an editor he held rank with tin? best of the State. He died in Montgomery county, of consumption, last. Saturday. A remarkable case of destitution and suffering has just been reported in the western portion of Halifax county. Of a family of ten persons only four are able to do work of any kind. The mother has been an invalid for four teen years, the eldest daughter is deaf, dumb and idiotic besides being bed ridden. Three other children are deaf, dumb arid idiotic, and only the three younger are able to do any work. The father works a small farm with one ox, and made nothing this year. Steps have been taken to give them necessary relief. New Berne Journal: Geo. Best col ored, who lives one and a half miles from Dover Station, was brought to the city last night un ier suspicion of having murdered his wife by poison, which from the symptoms is supposed to have been "Rough on Rats" and is thought to have been mixed with the flour used in cooking Monday's dinner, from which meal Best absented himself, and after partaking of which his famil y consisting of his wife Rachel and two children, were taken violently ill, the wife dying Tuesday night and the eldest child still being in a critical con dition. Greenville Rejlector : On Monday night of last week two barns on the faun of Mr. G. F. Evans, four miles above town, were set on fire and burned to the ground. The barns were filled with corn and provender, and all was lost. Mr. Evans has been living in Greenville the last two months and was surprised when information of the burning reached him, not knowing that he had an enemy. The burning very much excited the community in which it occurred. Suspicion rested upon some colored men living on the planta tion, but no warrants were taken out for their arrest. Wednesday night another barn on the same farm, con taming the crop housed by a colored tenant, was set on fire and burned down , Another horrible w reek occurred on the Murphy branch of the Western North Carolina Railroad Tuesday. While a freight train was making its way to Murphy, the engine became detached on a heavy grade about forty miles south of Asheville. The momen tum it gained in flying down the moun tain grades soon cruised it to become unmanageable, and the engineer sat in his cab utterly powerless to do any thing. He reversed the steam, and . put on the brakes, which locked the great drivers and made them motion- J less, but still the massive weight of j the engine made it slide down the iron track with a velocity seldom ever j reached by the best runners on the i best roads. When the will engine 1 reached the Dark-Ridge trestle, in its! maddened fury, it left the track, leaped ! - A- 1 4. JJ . . .4- . 1 ! into space, auu weui uyiiig into tiie gorge one hundred feet below. The en gine was a total wreck ; the machinery was broken, and the steam made it a fearful spectacle, while the bodies of four men, who went out on this fatal run, were being extricated from the mass of debris. The killed were : Sam. Francis, engineer, of Asheville. Sam. Arthur, fireman. Rufus Hemphill, and a colored man. the waters of the Nile to such an ex-1 tent as to enable a greater extension of the cotton and sugar cane crops in that region. THE LATEST NEWS. Sparks from the Wires Most Important Events Throughout the World for a Week. Cab drivers of Paris are on a strike Dr. Graves, t he condemned murderer at Denver, Coi., denies the alleged con fessions. Miss Ethel Parton is preparing for work upon the biographyof her father, the late James Parton. One of the biggest of the insurance companies in this country pays to a woman manager $10,000 a year. Europe consumes upward of $30,000, 000 worth of gold and silver annually for platu, jewelry and ornaments. Concord, N. H., Jan. 4. There are over 2,000 cases of grip in this cit3 and vicinity and the disease is spreading. The Georgia encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Augusta instead of Tallapoosa The Brotherhood of Rail way Train men paid $30,000 last month for death benefits; the receipts amounted to $35,890. There is a very obliging judge in Ida Grove, la. A juror in his court wras granted a le-ive of absence to enable htm to get married. The Edision Electric Light Company is to put up a one-million-dollar plant in Chicago, which will be the larges-t concern of the kind in the world. Wages are so low in India that men may be hired for $2 a month to do household work, A dollar is a great sum to them, and one meal a day the rule. Boston, Jan 4. Gen. S. Armstrong, of the Hampton Institute, Va., has so far recovered from his recent illness as to be able to leave for his home in Hampton Portland, Oregon, Jan. 4. John L. Sullivan says he has sworn off drink ing for a year. He wants a match with Slavin, but is afraid that Slavin won't come to time. The 8,000 people engaged in watch making in the United States turn out about two million four hundred thou sand watches, which are disposed of by about eighteen thousand retailers London, Jan. 4. The Socialists at tempted to make their uual demon strations in the streets of Chelsea yes terday. They were, as hitherto, sup pressed by the police aft;.r brief resist ance. The domestic potato crop is estimated at from 225,000,000 to 220.000,000,000 bushels, the largest ever gathered. The average was nearly ninety four bushels per acre, against fifty-seven and one half bushels in 1890. Norfolk, Jan. 6. The wholesale grocery firm of J. M. Spindle Sc Co , No. 24 Roanoke Avenue, today made an assignment to B. L. White, a trus tee. The assets oil the firm are placed at $5,000 with liabilities of $7,000. The President of the French Republic has a salary of $180,000, but when he gives receptions to his thousands of fellow citizens taere is something be sides cold tea on the side board and cheese and crackers in the dining room. Chicago, Jan 6. -Dispatches from points throughout Illinois, Iowa, and Miarasota, report the heaviest snow storm of the season, the falling mostly in places over six inches. Intensely cold weather prevails in the Northwest. San Francisco, Jan G. The papers have been forwarded to Secretary Blaine against Chili for $50,000. by Patric Shields, fireman of the steamer Keweenaway, who was maltreated while in Valparaiso by a Chillian mob. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 2. Jesse Friersot, a negro, was hanged in the jail yard this afternoon, for the mur der of D C. Musgrove, who in the sum mer of 1890 attempted to f.rrest him and Oscar Burrow, another colored man. Columbus, O., Jan. 6. On the as sembling of the legislature in joint ses sion to-day, U. S Senator John Sher man was elected to succeed himself on the first ballot by a vote of 52 to 58, his only competitor being ex Governor Foraker. Cortland, N. Y., Jan. 2. David Hannum died at his home this morning. He was well known in Cortland county, and at one time was reported to be worth $10,000,000. He was noted for his reckless expenditures on sports and sporting life. San Antonio, Texas, C. A dispatch from Rio Grande City says Captain Thomas Garza, the deputy marshal, who escaped during the Retinal fight, has come in and surrendered himself. The revolutionists are reported to be badly scattered. Jacksonville, 111., Jan. 5. A ter rible collision occurred at 1 :45 o'clock this morning on the Wabash Railroad at Aladdin, a small station east of Hannibal. Six men were killed out right, two fatally injured and many others badly hurt. Lonon, Jan. 4. There were nine teen deaths from the grip in this city last week. The disease is now preva lent throughout Great Britain. Whole families are prostrated and there seems to be no prospect of a change for the better in-the near future. Jasper, Fla., Jan. 5. The Tompkins building with its contents was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this morning. The building contained C. B. Tompkins drug store, the postoffice, and half dozen professional offices. Total los3 is estimated at $7,500; insurance not over $1,500. Berlin, Jan. 4. One of the most ex tensively used medicines in case of in fluenza has been antipyrine. The physicians have uttered repeated warn ing of the dangers of unprofessional administration of this secret drug, but apparently without much deferring effect. It is now announced by various doctors of unquestionable reputation that several deaths occurred which to their positive knowledge were due to the excessive use of antipyrine. It is strongly urged by some that the gov ernment prevent the 6ale of the dr ag except upon a physician's prescription. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 5. Talton Hall, who has killed many persons in cold bhod, was removed from Glades ville jail yesterday to save his neck. A mob organized and would hae hung him. They advanced on the jail and were o wild over his removal that they set fire to the structure. Seneca, S. C, Tan. 6. Richard Lewis, judge of probate for Oconee county, committed suicide Monday about two o'clock at his office in Walballa by shooting himself through the heart with a pistol. No cause can be assigned. Judge Lewis was an excellent citizen and the most popular in the county. Macon, Ga., Jan. 5 Eight men were killed in a general fight at Bright & Williams' turpentine still in Cliucy county Saturday. The fight started with a iiuarrel between two men named Ed. Williams and John Parker, over alleged cheating in a game of cards. Parker began the shooting, and both he and Williams were killed. Norfolk, Va., Jan 5 Fire was dis covered in the store of Mr. L. II Pear son, on Chestnut street, Portsmouth, this morning at five o'clock, and in a few minutes the building was a mass of flames. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin, as it started in a corner where there was a can of kerosene oil. Loss $10,000; fully cov ered by insurance. London, Jan. 4 The limit or a day's work to eight hours went into effect at the Scotia Engine Works and Snort's ship yard in Suuderlan i to da v. These establishments employ hundreds of men, all of whom accepted a reduction of five per cent, of wages with lower ing of tune. It is expected that large concessions will follow their examples should the change be successful. THE VICTIMS ALL TRACTABLE. Six Thousand Dollars' Worth of Jewelry and Some Cash Taken from Travellers. Helena, Mont., Jan. 4 Three high waymen held up a stage near the Idaho line, not far from Bonner's Ferry, early Saturday night. They secured about $0,000 worth of jewelry from Edward L. Huntley, representing a Chicago wholesale house. The robbers also got about $100 in cash. There were four men and two women in the stage, which was a low sled, and there were three of the robbers No violence was necessary, as the victims were all tractable. The rebbery oceured in a dense wood where there were three feet of snow on the ground. The rob bers were masked. MORE BLOODSHED TO COME. Nasiivjllk, Turn., Jan. (5 The sen timentissuc'h utCoal Creek valley that another outbreak of shooting and bloodshed is expected every moment. The following has been circulated among the miners to rouse them to ac tion: "The convicts shall never gain a foothold again. Our pray r must be, 'Blessings on our people and destruc tion to the .'"-ouvlets, the losses and the State militia? We must art with pru dence and give tit for tat, no matter what comes Death, destruction or anarchy, we must stand together. One hundred and sixty seven men think they may intimidate us. Shall we en dure it? Never. The time to strike once more for our families and homes is almost at hand.1' To el ay when a United States ft ig was put up the troops cheered it, but a miner yelled in deris ion: "It won't stay there long; we'll shoot it down and you with it." The miners come about the camps and watch soldiers standing about in knots and examine their positions. The trouble is bound to come inside of a week and there will be bloodshed. A VILLAGE EXCITED. Negro Desperadoes Commit Various Out rages Several of Them Jailed. Fine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 4. Lanwood, a village twelve mile3 from here, is in a ferment of excitement caused by the work of a mob of a dozen negroes led by a white man named Furyear. It appears that this band had been terror izing the town for some time. Its members have been circulating a peti tion for the removal of the railroad station some distance south of its pres ent location, but they were strongly opposed by Dr. Bryan, a well to-do citizen. In revenge the desperadoes burned the Doctor's cotton gin. They then proceeded through the streets, firing their Winchesters into the houses as they went along, with a view to keeping the villagers indoors. The depot was totally destroyed. The. sheriff immediately organized a posse, and at last accounts had lodged Pur year and three of his gang in jail. The pecuniary loss will not be very great, but the citizens are determined to rid the community of the band, and have thoroughly organized themselves into a vigilance committee. A FEARFUL CONFLAGRATION. Over $1,000,000 of Property Destroyed and the Fire Still Raging. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 2. One of the most destructive conflagrations known in the South began in this city to-night. The loss at 10 o'clock p. m., after the flames had been in progress three hours, reacned fully $1,000,000 ith the fire yet raging. Several lives are reported lost, and help has been wired tor trom .Louisville and Chatta nooga. A strong wind is blowing and makes the outcome terrible to antici pate. The fire broke out in a block be tween Church and Union and Cherry and College streets, and mowed its way steadily toward the Western Union Telegraph Company's office, located at the corner of College and Church streets. At 11 o'clock p. m., the fire was directly in rear of the Western Union office. The heat was so intense and the situation so threatening that the operators, long before, had abandoned their instruments and vacated the building.
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