North Carolina Newspapers

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: DECEMBER 6, 1892. 3 ' Or SSe ;age elyj STATE NEWS. press-Drops of Turpentine flfthfl f Rice from the East-Clusters C. msof Bice ii from the Stalks of Corn and Grains of fPf,m tne VVbdCotr0need from the South Edward, Jr., killed a V r -newest of town a tew aays a0, N" 0 Railroad is erecting aud pretty building at La for a passenger waiting-room ticket office. 43(1 ,fficers made a raid and Kf Jpstrovtd five illicitatills u.?h,rfurd county yesterday, says i9 ur;,.iP fazette B Wood's house at Grifton, pr' i bv Mr Earnest Pittman was few nights ago. The loss was fet nun No insurance. A - 11 1 1 ii Xar: itoooers uroite . J, ie depot Tuesday night and blew I iron sate aoor mi V te 1 cm .-ill Mim of money. Ofljj e r1P,,ll,m'c! con vehn t tri)t tl oui" fr Henry .uuvunuu .o.. i i,ao n fAw rfiii'R afro, is u.r o hnrfifi a. few davs aero, is oeup and will probably recover able to u:. ,.irips Rava Our Home. from ru 111 j ... General Conference of the Chris- ain Church, Au ' . i ... l. ;.-.K roa in coaamn n 1" n-..i, n.ninf.v lqfc wppk. renre X ttv.c v u"j , - - - ... , ..... -i ti ,.Viitrhoi in this Srntfi aouut -i-i'j i-huiv- and Virginia. nne of the smallest men in the world ,u4t -huvlerville, N. C., November St! of luug disease. He was Henry Baker and was than forty inches tali, fly ae was 37. j R Moore, at Providence, we learn, hast'o pig 11 months old that weigh bOU pounds apiece. Granville is Lily coming on raising meat, says theOxf-Td Ledger. (tawba river eels were on the mar H to da v in great quantities. Twenty jjiecvnis would get enough to stock a jim j un factory on a small scale, says thet'uariotie Aetrs. fcw Berne Journal: Dr. S. R Wood's house at Gritton, occupied by Mr E n nest Pittman, was burned a few i lh-s a.-o. The loss was aoout fl 000. C No insurance. w J E Pnillips, general mercnant of Omer m, made an assignment last vet k Li.ibiiines ana assets not kdowu. Kr. Ji-hn MeDunald is the assignee, savs the Sanford Express. Mr A Branch offers a reward of $500 for the apprehension and convic tion of tne person wno assauixeu uis 5th' bays the Wilson Advance. The. North Carolina Baptist Coi ven- tion will meet at Raleigh, December 8th. This being 44 the Centennial Mis sions,'' the session will be an important one and will be largely attended. J. F Wilson, a farmer residing near Alenudtrd, Monday had the misfor tune to be thrown from a horse and sustained a oreak in the leg above the ankle, s-iys the Asheville Crazette. Favetteville Gazette: News was re ceived here on Monday of the escape d J M. Benson the defaulting treas aier o Bladen county, from the jail at Elizibethtown last Saturday night. The pian of having a North Carolina building at tne World's Fair is defi nitely abandoned. The ladies who undertook the task of raising the money found that they could not do so. Charlotte Neicn: The fire at the residence of Dr. E Nye Hutchison, re ported in yesterday's Kews, practically destroyed the building, as the portion of is if ft standing was not worth con eidering. On last Thursday night the saw and grist null of Mr. John W. ritovall, near Stovaii, was destroy ed by fire. The caue is not knowD, but it is thought to hiive been accidental, says the Ox ford Ledger. Wimfcin Sentinel: Phillip Hanes, brother of the Messrs. Hanes, of this city. i- in the lead so far as has been heard from on large hogs He has one that will tip the beam at not far from one thousand pounds The C C. & C Railroad ae running their trams on the C. C. Railroad from Mooresooro to this plar-e. They will continue to do so until the new bridges are completed on the C C. & C. road, says th Forest City Ledger. SShelby Aurora: Dr. John Miller Uaton. aftr having passed an honor able and useful life of three score and ten years dud suddenly at his home in Rmhfordton,of hart trouble Satur day morning, Nov. 19, 1892 The employees of the Asheville Street Kiiliy are rej ,i0ing over the fact that they now receive their pay every mt ys T,f, lhe word for Months past, say 8 the Asheville Democrat. IJ 0,ln lady who had been ?nl f Hewlte gotreidy to but ' Lalln W!i otie dav recently, said th 5 H,mi!ltHi t0 sho UP- " la S c., ,(lH.dls,iard, d "imonce and he considered turn about fair play. "RiTir 'f b? Aurora 9av8: The small thoiL,TH nFe eonlaimng nearly one ZXTWOrh of s made Nov,mrrmehyav. the 29ih of mVn. ,u' L onr b- Tiddy is the a-j- t T I1HS cnarg of the store. Mr T tit ! " has a hf " A. VMiaon f.f WTilu'a Mill and h- avS8 thdt Weighs 5J otince8 - -vsiueamith field Herald. died 7 q n; , 2'lr- R H. J. Blount ocUk t ,::!turd.a7 evening at 8:20 law ir u residence of his son-in illns nf ; D- Blacknall, after an last iife tdis- He was taken moni 1. y Wlth SOfnething like pneu- whcVrr,nenfleZ; P- T- Lehman, inoDd R f httIe diUShter to Rich Br Mm- daya a8 to be treated by succprfTlUre' writes back that a very the rem LTT atlon waa Prrmed in from thM 2f a twenty Pund cancer littE i?H ttbdomen of the child The pita? m p,novv at St' Luke' Hos rapTiiv "hmoud and i3 Proving A fire occurred at Scotland Neck last Fridav niarht on th nrpmisjpfl nf Mr J. H. Lawrence. A large quantity of nne iurnuure ana crockery was de stroyed. The house was turned into an unsightly wreck, says the Wilson Aavance. Brick is now bein hauled for an ad- dition to the county jail. The size has not yet been asrreed unon but it i quite likely that the Board of County commissioners, at tne next meeting, win aeciae the muter, says the Dur ham Sun. We do not remember when during a whole fall the water has continued so low in the river as it has this season. Notwithstanding this the boat have had good freights over the half of the river they could travel, says the Green ville Reflector. Mr. B. L. Bitting, a prominent resi dent of Rural Hall, says that the peo ple there desire the establishment of factories. A proposition is pending to locate an academy there and other improvements are awaited, says the Winston Sentinel. Concord Standard : Mr. J. W. Burk head his commenced a subscription list, looking to the establishment of another cotton mill in C neord. The plan is on the building and loan order, the subscriber paying 50 cents per week on each share. Winston Sent iu el: Rev. H. W. Peebles, a wel known and highly es teemed minister of the methodist Pro testant church, died last Thursday at his home in Kernerdville, aged 70 years. The deceased had been in declining health for some time. A fire at Lynchburg, Va , at an early hour Thanksgiving morning, de stroyed a number of tobacco factories and several large business houses. The loss is estimated at consiberably over $200 000, with only partial insurabce says the Winston Sentinel. Graham Gleaner: No county in North Carolina is making greater prog ress in stock raising than Alamance, in fact she is the leader now, and the business will bring mu :h money to the county. Alamance is proud of her horses, c ittle and other stock A ten year-old colored boy named Joe Bradshaw was drowned in a well near Princeton, Friday evening, while attempting to dra v watt r. He being suj 't to fits, it is believed that he tumbled into the well while having a fit, says the Goldsboro Hr ad light. Henderson Gold Leaf: Authentic information that a well to do man liv ing in the ColeyT's Cross Roads section, one day last week lost a fat hog weigh ing about 125 pounds by natural death, which he had dressed brought to town and sold for eight cents per pound. Jas Morris and Octavia Snipp, two colored people, had a quarrel out Mont ford avenue Sunday night, which re suited in the woman inflicting a severe cut with a knife in Jame' breast Oc tavia was yesterday arrested and pl aced in j lil, says the Asheville Gazette. Jailor A vera with the prisoners in jail is making a valuable improve menr, on the turnpike at Swift creek The next legislatuie should give John ston a work-house so that we could improve our county roads with our prisoners, says the Smithfield Herald. An old colored man named Zack Johnston, while returning from this city to his home in Graham's tow nship. Saturday night, in an intoxicated con dition. fell from his cart and sustained injuries, which makes his recovery doubtful, says the Goldsboro Head light. The Catawba county Sunday school Association met in Catawba Thursday. A large crowd attended, and the in teresting program, prepared by the committee, was rendered Speeches were made by Prof Blair, Rev. J. L. Murphy and others, say s the Press and Carolinian. Mr. K E. Terry has commenced work on his mamoth dry kiln at Caro lina City, two miles west of Morehead. Capt. D wis Wade informs the More head City News that $15 00 will be spent on it and that it will furnish work fo neary fifty hands, says the New Berne Journal. A petition is being circulated in this city and largely signed for the pardon of a young white man named William Smith, who about two years ago was convicted of breaking into the Wayne Agricultural Works and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, says the Goldsboro Headlight. Rockingham Rocket: As an ex ample of how short the crops are in the upper portion of the county, a farmer from Mountain Creek was in office this week who said he usually made from 15 to 20 bales of cotton, but with the same land and fertilizer would make but Gi bales this season. Eikin Times: In a recent morning tramp we inspected a giant cherry tree which is situated on the ola Edwards place on the Brushy Mountains near Jonesville. By ectual measurement this tree was found to be 21 feet in circumference. It is over fifty years old and bears fruit every year. We learn that the North Carolina Lumber Company of Tillery, has se cured plans and will at once begin the erection of a large peanut factory at that point. It will be the next work they will engage upon. The building will be forty by eighty feet and two btorie high, says the Weldon News. Chatham Record : We are informed by Mr R. C. Cotton that the old can non which was bursted at this place the night after the election was hauled here from Fayetteville by his father, Gen. Cotton, shortly after the war of 1812, and that it was a present from Mr. Thomas J. Davis, of Wilmington Now that we've turned down the Republicans and the Third party and the Alliance has snlit ud and the churches are divided and the preachers leaving, air. w. L. (Jallant says he can think of nothiner that will harm nizo j and unite our people and make them feel as one lik a flyin' jinny. He threatens to start a subscription to , build one as a permanent institution,- The Oxford Ledger says Mr. Addicus Morris, oc Brassfield township, Gran ville county, this year from one acre of land harvested fifty three bushels and three pecks of corn ; has just killed two oigs thac tipped the scales at 720 pounds and in 7 months with two cows maae ana sola 372 pounas oi butter. The fish caueht last year in North Carolina were valued at $1,057,000 to the fishermen. The money received by the shore industries dependent on the fisheries, such as oyster canneries, fertilizer factories, etc., amounted to l.l23,Uuu. The capital invested in vessels and appliances for fishing is $1,250,000. On Wednesday of last week a horse attached to a buggy, in which were .air. w. j. Meaim ana Miss Uettie Boseman, ran away in the upper end of town throwing the occupants out. Mr. Medlin escaped injury, but Miss Boseman was druerered some distance and quite seriousty injured, says the v eiaon iews. About sunup yesterday morning the gin house ot Mr. A. B. Young, located near the depot at C aicord was burned to the grouud. In addition to the house and machinery, 3 000 bushels of seed and eight balea of cotton were burned, and the worst feature of it all is that Mr. Young had no insurance; says the Charlotte News. There cama near being a serious ac cident in Charlotte Monday. While one Mr. v alter Farres was driving his team across the railroad near the Rich mond & Danville depot, the south bound passenger train ran over and killed his team, perfectly demolishing his whole outfit. Mr. Farres barely escaped with his life. Lu m berton Robesonian: Truss Cov ington, the mulatto who was tried and acquitted last winter on the charge of outraging a colored woman in Max ton, was shot and killed at Bennetts ville, S C, last week by a negro who was m Maxton for some time with the Hobby Horse men The shooting is maimed to have been accidental. Mr. J. W. Hughes, who is living at the Bullock plantation has the finest crop of tobacco in E'gecombe county. Mr. Jlughes is irom Vance county has had 18 years experience in the tobacco raising business, and his knowledge in handling the golden weed in ail its stages, seems t be perfect, says the Rocky Mount Phoenix. Charlotte News: A little negro named Sam Rbb, who is porter for Hudson' beef market, went out with one of those cast iron single barrelled $1 50 guns to day for a Thanksgiving hunt, and he wa brought bak at noon with his face shot, torn and powder burned. The gun couldn't htand the load Sam put in it, and explode d. The store of Mr. Geo. W. Watts, on Goldsboro street, was last Monday night, entered from a rear window, and a number of articles stolen. The window appears to have been broken open by an ax The full extent of the robbery has not yet been ascertained nor is there any clue to the guilty per sons, says the Wilson Advance. Mrs, Nolan, wife of Capt. Jas. Nolan, superintendent at Carolina Beach, was so badly ourned last Saturday that it is feared that her injuries will result fatally. Her clothing caught on fire fr m a burning brush heap m the yard, and before the fl imes were extin guished her garments were almost en tirely consumed, says the Wilmington Star. Joe. Parker, a 5'oung man who lives in Wake county, near Morrisville, has invented a kind of combination plow that can be made to do the work of three or four different implements, simply by moving a single bar. The farmers who have seen the model are much pleased with it and think he will make good thing of it, says the Dur ham Sun. A post mortem examination held over Wm. Tilman, colored, wh) was shot and mortally wounded last Fri day night by B-n Huskins, revealed the remarkable fact that the bullet, a (32 calibre) had passed through the negro's heart, notwithstanding which he lived from Friday night until Tues day afternoon, says the Charlotte Democrat. Charlotte News : Mr. W. C. Scronce, of Lincoln county, came to tho city to day on the hunt for Dr D O Dono ghue's mad stone. Mr. Scronce was bitten by an alleged mad dog last Sat urday. "The doctor applied his rock to the wound and it adhered. Mr. Scronce, therefore left for home feel ing that his Thanksgiving was not a failure after all. An accident occurred in the county last week. Mr James Coley, a y Jung man living in Shocco township, acci dentally shot himself while out squirrel hunting. It seems that he had dis charged one barrel of his gun and was reloading the empty barrel when the other fired, shotting him m the face and kiliing him instantly, says the Warrenton Record. Charlotte Neivs : Mr Zeb Morris, of Cabarrus county, was in the city to day and took out a warrant for the arrest of Monroe McCraven, a white man who this morning shot at Mr Morris four times. A messenger came hurrying to the city late this afternoon for a doctor. He stated thac Byron, the son of Mr. W. G. Steele, had been badly shot. Court convened Monday and tried one case, a negro boy for firing the jail who was then in jail Judge Bryan sentenced him to three years in the penitentiary. On account of the burn ing of the records with the court house, in the recent fire, court adjourned and made an order to renew all papers where pending suits had been entered, says the Dunn Times. Parties, who come in from the Pop lar Tenc section, report a bad state among the dogs. The standard has heretofore made mention of the loss to Mr. Will Robinson. We now learrf that he has lost several hogs by hydrophobia-Victor Caldwell had to kill all his hogs; several on Ephraim Fisher's place had to be killed, says the Concord Standard. ' Wadesboro Messenger : Biiiie Hawk, a young colored m n. -was handling a bottle of powder when it exploded with disastrous results. The flying glass cut his cheeks open from one ear to he other, and his left arm was laid open from the wrist to the elbow. He aiso suifered a deep cut across the ! chest, and -vas otherwise injured. His wounds are considered serious. Durham Record : Bettie Daniel, wife of Sanders Daniel, colored, who lived in Patterson township, wandered away' from home last week to the distance of seven miles, in Cedar Fork township, and improvised a rope of her dres3 skirts, by tearing it into strips and twisting it together. She then climed a dogwood tree, as the mud on the tree would indicate, and hanged herself. Fayetteville had quite a large fire yesterday morning about 2 o'clock. Nine stores were burned. Messrs. B. F. Beasly, Q. K. Nimmock, W, C. McDuffie, Jr., A. H. Watson, C. M. Watson, Wm. Watson and others were the hufferers. The cause of the fire is unknown. Some think it was acci dental, while others believe that it wa8set on fire by an incendiary. Loss $40,000. We learn that a very large quantity of syrup has een made in the couuty t his y ear, and of a very superior quality. They have been making it largely in Nash county for several years and planters have told us that it did not cost them more than ten or eleven cents a gallon It is equal to any that can be bought out of the stores at fifty or sixty cents a gallon, t-ays the War renton Record The case of Thomas Clark charged with the killing of R. D. MciJotter wa taken up Tuesday morning, 15th inst., in Pamlico Superior court. Solicitor Brount was taken sick Wednesday and had to leave the court The responsi bility of the trial on the part of the fctate was then thrown upon our towns man, Hon. L. J Moore, who upon as suming it went at the case with a will, says the New Berne Journal. Wilkesboro Chronicle: Monday morn ing, up in Lewis Fork town-hip, Jim Longbottom was found lying dead by the side of the road. From what we learn, L gbottom was a heavy drink mg. rowdy kind of a fellow. He left home some days ago to take a trip across the mountain, and three or four days afterwards was found dead in the wods near the road. He had been drinking very heavily for some time. Shelby Review: The distillery ware house and 400 gallons of whiskey of W. R Lowery, near King's Mountain, were totally destroyed by fire some nights ago. Sunday morning Mart Guyton's three boys began cursing Mart's wife, their btep mother, when Mart interfered. The bo s then sailed into the old man and a lively fight en sued, in striking at his father with a poker one of the boys struck another on the head. Gurham Globe: Eva Evans, col ored, whom the coroner's jury last week found guilty of concealment of the oirth of her cnild, found dead in a fence corner, near the Markham place, atd for whom a capias was issued, wa safelyr lodged in jail on Saturday night, to await the action of the grand jury, at the January term of the Cir cuit Court. It is probable that further developments will show murder, and involve Eva's mother Wadesboro Messenger Intelligencer : About 9 o'clock last Monday morning Mr Geo. T. Little, who lives five or six miles from town, in Gulledge's townsship, m discovered that the lint room of his house was on fire, but by prompt and hard work the fire was ap parently extingushel. About three hours later the gin house was again found to be in flames, and this time, despite every effort, was entirely con sumed, together with its contents. Stanly Nuvs: It is learned that Dr. A. C. Boyles. who suddenly disap peared from New London recently, is in Baltimore and in a very critical state of mind The first discordant note from the cotton gin we have heard, comes f j om the Parker gin at Penning ton, about ten miles from here. Mr. Augustus Tayloi had his left hand torn off arid his arm severely mangled by the gin saws. Only of recent date he lost his right hand in a similar way. Wednesday evening while Mr. Alex. Norris. a farmer living about a mile from here, was out in the woods with his three boys cutting some saw logs, two of them were cutting a tree down and his son about 12 years old was lay ing near by resting, when the tree be gan falling it struck one near knocking off some limbs one of which fell and killed young No'ris instantly. Mr. Norris was also struck by some of the falling limbs and seriously hurt, but some think he will get wt 11, says the Dunn Times Rocky Mount Argonaut: Mr. W. G. Hedgepeth, of Hiiiiardston, had the misfortune to have his pack house burned a short time ago. The house cost $500 and there was about $400 worth of tobacco in it, making the loss about $900 vAiiey Parker, a col ored lad well known in these parts, stole $51 from Ather Garvey's saloon on Saturday night. Through his own words he was detected, and was well under way to the guard house when he bid his escorts a hasty farwell and has not been neard from since. Raleigh Vistior : This morning at an early hour a bold attempt was made to rob the general merchandise establish ment of Messrs. Wyatt & Co., corner of Salisbury and Johnson streets, in the northern section of the city. The would be robbers in their greed at tempted to blow open the safe, when the noise attracted the attention of those on the premises whose appearance caused the thieves to run off whithout secur ing any" booty, although they had re moved a sack or so of provisions near the door to be taken away. In their- flight the fellows left some of their tools wnicn, it is nopea may ieaa ao their detection. The Progressive Farmer has worked hard for. you.-' Now send in what you owe so we can pay our aeots. THE LATEST NEWS. Sparks from the Wires Most Important Events Throughout the World r for a Week. j London, Nov. 29 The London Daily Telegraph announces that the Cynon Tin Plate Works have resumed after a ' suspension of three months. There has been a general resumption in Swansea. Morriston and Lanelly dis tricts, resulting from extensive Ameri can orders. Milan, Tenn., Nov. 29 Samuel Yates, a miser reputed to have a vast hoard of money secreted in his resi dence near this city, was burned in a fire which destroyed his house. The police suspect that he was murdered and robbed and the house set on fire to conceal the crime. San Francisco, Nov. 29 The official vote of all the counties in California, with the exception of San Francisco, give Harrison a plurality of 6.422. Re turns, from all but nine precincts in this city reduce Harrison's plurality in the State to 310. It is possible that when the official vote has been com pleted up m individual electors the electoral vote may be dividec between Harrison and Cleveland. New Orleans, Nov. 29 The curtain has been rung down upon the last scene of the late strike This morning a committee of drivers from the Car Drivers' Association met the merchants' committee at the Board of Trade, and Col. Walker, President of the New Orleans City and Lake Railroad Com pany, agreed" to recognize the twenty two men who have been shut out if they made application in proper form for vacancies. This offer was accepted as a settlement, and all trouble is now considered at an end. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 29. The gang which attempted to n b the Watagua Bank, at Johnson City, at the preliminary trial waived examina tion to- iay anri were held to await the action of the Grand Jury. The arrest unearthed a plot to rob the First Na tional Bank and Citizens' Bank. Some guns stolen from a hardware store were concealed under the First Na tional Bank ready for use, showing that the robbers were prepared to shoot to kill if necessary to accomplish their work. Robbers Mack and Bray have turned State's evidence, and it is likely the entire gang, which during the past month have entered over twenty stores and private houses i a the city, will be caught. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE DE- LAYED. Washington. Nov. 29. Owing to his present affliction, the President will be unable to complete his annual message to Congress in time for sub mission to that body on the opening day of the session. The present ind ica tions are that he will be precluded trom making any progress whatever during the remaining days of the present week Consequently it is more than probable that the completion of the message will be delayed -until the end of next week or the beginning of the following week. The President will probably send a brief message to Congress Monday next. explaining why the regular message is delayed. It is learned on good author ity that the annual message will be about the same length as that of last year, and will include a complete re view of the work of the present Admin istration. It will contain about 15,000 words. . THAT BIG BREWERY DEAL. Notwithstanding the Denials, it is Be lieved to Have Been Accomplished. St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 28 Notwith standing denials from Chicago and Milwaukee, there is a general feeling here that the proposed consideration of the largest four export breweries of the United States is a sure thing. While the local brewers cannot ac count for the statement of the Schlitz people in Milwaukee that there is noth ing in it, they call attention to the fact '.hat the denial from Chi ago by Presi dent Cooke, of the Cooke Brewing Company is of no effect. "The consolidation was to be one of the large -it four breweries manufactur ing beer for export," said a local brewer1 today, "while Mr. Cooke speaks only for these who brew for home consumption. The Rothschilds certainly would not care to back any local enterprise, but it can readily be understood that they would be inter ested in a scheme of such gigantic and far reaching proportions as that pub lished this morning." An evening paper here contains an interview with August Busch, a son of Adolphus Busch, on whose statement the published article was based, in which the son says he knows nothing about the proposed consolidation. TO STOP RAILROAD WRECKING. A Stringent Law Which Bids Fair to be Passed by the Georgia Legislature. Atlanta. Ga , Nov. 27. A great deal of consideration is being given by the people of Georgia to a bill intro duced in th House of Representatives of the Georgia Legislature by Mayor A. O. Bacon, of Bibb county. The bill is designed to prevent the wrecking of railroad property and pre scrnVs severe penalties for acts done with this purpose in view. " Mr. Bacon was for eight years Speaker of the House and is one of the m jst prominent men in the State. The probabilities are that if his bill passes the law will become a general one in the South. Every railroad in Georgia except three is m the hands of receiv ers. Railroad stocks, much of which is held by widows and estates through out, Georgia, bought at good nrices. have become" almost valueless in the last one or two years.TThe impression is prevalent that this has been caused in many instances by intentional wrecking operations and this belief is the reason for Bacon's bill, which in substance is as follows: Any act done by a director or officer of a railroad company with the design to wreck the railroad, by ! which act alone or in cor junction with other acts the railroad company is wrecked, is" made a felony punishable by con finement in the penitentiary for not more than twenty years or. by a fine not exceeding f 25.0C0 or by both. An act done with above design, but not successful in wrecking the com pany, is . made a felony, punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not exceeding ten years or by fine, not exceeding $10,000 or oy both. An act done by a director or officer of a company with intentio depress the value of the stock of the company is made prima facie evidence of intent to wreck the property. Any person not a director or officer of the company who conspires with a director or officer to do acts prohibited by the bill snail be punished to the sme extent as though a director or officer. It is said that there is a good prospect for the bill to become a law. A CRUEL BRUTE AT LARGE. Cows and Horses the Objects of His Vin dictiveness Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 29. For some months the local papers have contained at intervals accounts of cows killed by mutilation with a knife. Detectives have been unable to discover a trace of the perpetrator, but efforts were made to show in individual instances that the owners of the animals had by some means incurred the enmity of neigh bors and suffered a somewhat unnatu ral conseqnence It has gotten past tha stage, and the entire community is disturbed, as last :niht two cows and a valuable horse were horribly carved, and the horse and one cow are dead. The horse was in a 6ta'l of the stable at 383 Neil street, where the "ripper" cut a. gash in the abdomen, from which the entrails protruded, and cut off the animal's tail. The cows were attacked in the same manner, addi tional injuries being inflicted. Volun tary contributions are going into a fund to employ the best detective talent. No one has been able to explain the curious depravity of the brute, whose acts have extended over several months. The cow killed last night was owned by David Greene, eon of the late M. M Greene, President of the Hocking Valley Railroad, and Mr. Greene has offered $100 for the arrest and conviction of the man who killed her. LOUISIANA'S SUGAR CROP. It has Not Yielded as Well as Was Ex pected. New Orleans, Nov. 28. United States Internal Revenue Inspector Ham. in charge of the g .verrurent sugar weighers under the bounty law, gives a mott unsatistactory report or his observations in the Parishes of St. Charles, St. John, St. James, Ascen sion, East and West Baton Rouge and Livingston. He estimates that there will be a falling off of 25 per cent, in the yield of sugar as compared with the crop of last year. Mr. Harn thinks the yield of the State will fall from 370,000 to 300 000 pounds The tonnage is fair but the sucrose is lacking. Grinding bet an on unripe cane to an unusual extent. A number of sugar houses have finished their season's work, as in West Baton Rouge, Westover, Catherine, and . Allendale in Ascension; Peytavin, Pelico, and Germania. Even Hall will dry out 40.000, instead of the expect d 60,000 pounds of sugar. Thohe who h ive still cane to work on are only in few instances getting a satisfaot ry 4 return Mr. Harn concludes: "Many plant ers attribute it to the fight with the Mississippi last summer. They waged war with the river at a time when they should have been cultivating the crop, and then unusually long period of wet weather was a potent factor in making vegetation rank. But after all the sugar planter is not bankrupt . He is all right, and he is a man of nerve abut as nervy &l any agriculturist in the country. SUDDEN DEATH Of Two Medical Students at Atlanta,. Ga., From Some Unexplained Cause. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 29 Two sud den deaths, with the probability of a third, in rapid succession, among the medital students at the Baker House, on Decatur street, has caused great excitement.- All oE them were in at tendance at - the Eclectic College throughout the week. Saturday and Sunday they were taken ill. and two died within twentyif our hours. A third is still alive but; in a critical condition. All as-umed a bluish discoloration. The effect of it has been to deprive the school of its pupils, who have returned to their homes. The three stricken students were John H. Lewis, Oscar L. Hollis and I - E. Dalton all of them young men who came to Atlanta at the opening: of the Eclectic -Medical College in October and engaged quar ters at the Baker House, corner ot De catur and Butler streets. Duri n g t h eir stay here none of them complained about; their health. Saturday after noon Jlollis became suddenly ill and and was compelled to take to his bed. Sunday. Lewis and Dalton, who a mo ment before felt all right, were sud denly stricken. All three grew rapidly worse and turned dark blue. Day be fore yesterday Hollis died, just twenty fours after he was "first attacked. Shortly before 12 o'clock last night Lewis died after being sick the same length of time. Dalton is yet alive. Many theories are advanced as to the cause of death. The doctors . claim that it was malarial fever, but the strange circuit stances were reported to police headquarters and an investi gation as to poisoning is being made. The blue discoloration of the bodies took place before death. The affair is causing intense interest and will be probed to the bottom. :