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1 SALISBURY II PUBLISHED EVEKT THURSDAY BT I J. STEWART, Editor and Proprietor. , SALISBURY) N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year ....,.$1.50 Six Months...... LOO Three Months ............ .50 EST Advertising Rates by Contract, Reasonable. Entered in the Post-OfBca at Salisbury ai ecoud-class matter. WASHINGTON ITEMS. PICTURES OF THE DOINGS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. . Tie Departments Getting Down to Bnsinesf " . Again The Nation's Finances Appoint ... fflenti and Removals Personals. OFF FOB THE rACIFIC. -J.. The Albatross, the iron steamship of ; the United States Fish Commission, sailed from the Navy Yard for a three years' cruise of scientific research in the . Pacific Ocean. She will sail down the Atlantic coast and around the Horn, ar riving in San Francisco next May. She is commanded by Lieut. Howard War ring. THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Chief Justice' Waite, at the age of 72, 5s the most energetic member of the United States Supreme Court. He is the only one of the justices who has not Vailed himself of the Act of Congress, giving him a private secretary at $1,800 a year. "I don't want one," says the Chief Justice; "he'd only be in the way," Waite is a hard-headed, practical man, "Who reads nothing but law books, works twelve hours a day, and has little or no imaginative power. -v THE CHINESE CONCESSIONS. Mr. Makietchang, the special envoy of ;' the Chinese government who came to this yuuirjr to corner wun me uninese min ster and Count Mitkiewicz in the settle ment of the Chinese American bank and telephone concessions, left Wasmngton fcn. route to London. Count MitkUftTiuz "mil leave for Europe in a, few weeks and proceed direct to Cnina. All of the papers in the two concessions have been signed and ratified, and, notwithstand ing English opposition, are facts accom plished. SOUTH CAROLINA POSTOFFICES. Postal affairs in South Carolina have been faithfully looked after duriDg the recess of Congress by the members of the Congressional delegation. Nearly all the minor offices in the state have been provided with new postmasters whenever a change was deemed neces sarby the congressman in whose district the office is located. The latent changes recorded are as follows: Miss S. A. Ellenburg has been appointed postmis tress at Eastatoe, Pickens county. W. B. Seary has been appointed postmaster at Searysville, Lexington county, and the postoffice at Mayhill, Edgefield county, of which J. G. Hill was .post master, has been discontinued because the office was not needed. THE LIQUOR BUSINESS. " Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller reports that the quantity of spirits, 77,- 831,599 gallons, produced and deposited in the distillery warehouses buring last fiscal year, is less than the production of the year 1886, by 2,012,781 gallons. The Quantity of spirits GG, 183, 303 gallons withdrawn tax paid from distillery ware houses during the past fiscal year, is less than the quantity withdrawn during the previous fiscal year by 2.919,597 gallons. The quantity of distilled spirits in the United States, except what may be in . customers' bonded warehouses, on the first day of October, 1887, was 104,439, 380 gallons, this quantity being distrib uted as follows : In distilleries and special bonded warehouses, 61,908,377 gallons; In the hands of wholesale liquor dealers ; 14,714,959 gallons; in the hands of retail liquor dealers, 28,210,050 gallons. In making the above computation, the aver age stock of each retail liquor dealer in tho Untied States is estimated at 150 gal lons. The commissioner sets forth the evils arising from the present method of treating re-imported spirits. ABOUT YELLOW FEVEU. Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Ma rine hospital service, has -submitted his annual report to the secretary of the Treasury. In accordance with a provis ion contained in the sundry civil appro priation act, the method practiced in Mexico and Brazil for the inoculation as a preventive against yellow fever, is being investigated by Maj. George M. Sternberg, surgeon, who has been detailed by the President for that investigation. The general opinion of the sanitarians, how ever, has not yet crystallized in favor of inoculation as a preventive of yellow fever. An experiment made on the sub ject in Havana, in 1885, were seemingly as conclusive as those to-day, but they did not succeed in securing general adop tion, and Dr. Sternberg's report will doubtless provide the necessary data for passing judgement on the efficacy of the metnoa. Kegret is expressed, tnat tne bill introduced in Congress at its last ' session, to establish a national quarantine station near Key West, did not become a 1 o nr "ITarl Via Kill lomntt o Iotv Ln says it is strongly probable that the ca lamitous epidemic might have been pre vented, for the first case, with all its belongings, would have been promptly sent to quarantine. i. WORTHLESS BOAT!; The attack on Newport, R. I., by the ships of the.North Atlantic squadron, was successfully carried out. The squadron, consisting of the' Dolphin, Ossipee, At lanta and Galena, steamed down to Point Judith and came abput. Soon after nine o'clock, two of the enemy's torpedo boats were discovered in a cove and the fleet ppened fire with Gatling guns and mus ketry, while the fleet's torpedo boats gave chase, socn dispersing the enemy's boats.' After a heavy underfire for fif teen minutes the fleet passed safely out ol range of the fuit'-s guns,all having passed through the line of torpedoes without in jury, except the Ossipee, which ran out of her course and was ruled out. - " ., .,, -. --. - r RIOTS IN VIRGINIA. Intense excitement has prevailed ir the coal mines at Pocahontas, Va., for s week, between the colored and Hunga rian miners, which culminated in a riot. .The negroes drove the Hungarians oul ;of the mines, and took possession. 'There- were some forty or fifty $hots fired 'during the fiht, but no lives were lost. Governor-Lee ordered three companies of military from Lynchburg to be sent there. They now hold possession of the town. CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. GOVERNOR OGLESBY'S STERy DE CREE SETTLED THEIR FATE. Liang- Commits Suicide Bemba Exploded la Jail-Clemency Toward Fleldea and Schwab The Beat 'Hang. Louis Linng, one of the aeven con demned anarchists in the Chicago jail, ended his life the day before the one fixed for the execution, by means of a fulminating cap. He had the case in his mouth and lit it with a candle which was burning in his cell. The explosion was the first warning that the jail people had, the guard seeing him with the can die in his hand supposing that he was lighting a cigar. Immediately after the ex plosion Deputy O'Neill ran into Linng's j cell, which was completely enveloped in smoke. There he found the anarchist lying on hi3 back with great holes in his head from which the blood was rushing in torrents. The scene in Linng'a cell after the explosion was ghastly. Teeth, bits of jaw bone, shreds of flesh and i blood were scattered all over the narrow compartment. A little trail of blood marked the way over the stone flagging to the room where Linng was carried. The dying man was carried to the office of the jail, and placed on a hastily im pro vised tabic. By this time threephy sicians had arrived. One dressed the torn flesh, another gave attention to tongue of the mortally wounded man. A portion of the tongue was left and was attached to the palate. This fell back Into his throat, stopping Linng's breath ing. The physicians pulled this back and a string was attached, which was held by a deputy, thus allowing respira tion. While this was going on another surgeon operated a deodorizer. , Another had a syringe in his handy and frequent ly injected portions of brands and again doses of salt. Morphine injections were also given. Linng died four hours after he exploded the bomb. - When the explosion occurred, all the anarchist prisoners were on their feet i in an instant, and every one of them looked stunned and frightened. Jailer Foiz at once give Orders to have every one of the other cells searched, and Par son's was the first one a descent was made upon. Deputies entered his cell, took him by the wrists, and shoulders and led him to Jailer Folz's private of fice. ThSre he was detained until his cell was thoroughly searched, and noth ing was found. The ex-editor of the Alarm shivered with, excitement, fear and curiosity. His face was white and his eyes looked ( ready to start from their sockets. He was in his shirt and trous ers, and a wide felt hat shaded his face. Within fifteen minutes after the explosion, Fischer, Parsons and Engel were taken from their cells and searched in the jail er's office. All their clothing was taken from them and new suits, made by the sheriff's orders, were given them. ' Turnkey O'Neill discovered the little agent which had served Linng to accom plish his terrible work. ' It was a small fulminating cap, little over an inch long. It had been filled with fulminate of mer cury and a ; m ill fuse, which is usually attached to these instruments of death, had been touched off by Linng. At the time of the report it was thought he was lighting a cigar. When Linng committed the deed he was lying on his cot. After the affair, when his cell was searched, another candle was found. At the top of it, barely concealed by the ends of the wick, a second fulminated cap was found, 30 it is supposed that Linng's att3mpted suicide was committed with one similarly hidden. The candles were furnished by the jail, so that the caps must have been put in by Linng himself. The explosion in Linng's ceil created a decided sensation in jail. All the prison ers, over two hundred, heard the report. Jailer Folz was the one who carried the' news to to -the other anarchists. The jailer approached Parson's cell. "Linng has killed himself," said Mr. Folz. "Great God, i3 that so?" exclaimed Parsons. "Yes, it's a fact," was the re ply, "Well, my God," exclaimed Par sons, "I wish I had some dynamite. I would kill myself only too quick." Au gust Spies was then informed of the trag edy. "I expected nothing else," said Spies quietly. "Ever since the finding of the bombs in his cell, last Sunday, I was satisfied that if it were possible ha. would make away with himself. For my own and my comrades' sakes, I am glad he is out of the way." How the dynamite was smuggled into the cell is not known, but it is generally believed that there is a traitor among the death watch who gave him the dynamite and cap. This is the theory at the sheriff's office. Jailer Folz said, "Linng had a very bushy head of h9ir. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he placed the cap in his locks and kept it there while wre searched him last Sunday. At that time he was stripped completelv. My deputies searched his clothing and could find nothing of a suspicious .char acter." He thus explains the manner in which Linng took his life. . He said : "Linng, in some way,became possessed of a dynamite cap. This cap is between one and one-half inches long. It is made of copper, and the outer end is plugged up with a piece of lead. The copper for ut ieasthalf an inch is filled with dynamite. Then a small portion is filled with fulm inating powder. Into this powder runs a fuse made of braided cloth. In my opinion, Linng, while lying in bed, reached out his hand, took from his table a lighted candle, then placed the explosive, in lis mouth with the fuse outward, lhis he placed to the candle and his mortal wound followed. As soon as the surgeon arrived he ordei ed Linng carried to another roo:n . f The governor made the following de cision: " 1 Executive Office, Springfield, November 10. On the 20th day of Au gust, 1886, in CooTc county criminal court, August Spies, Albert R. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab, Adolph Fisch er, George Engel and Louis Linng were found guilty by a verdict of a jury; and afterwards sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Mathias J. Degan. An appeal was taken from such finding and sentence to the supreme court of the state: That - court, upon final hearing, and after mature deliberation, unani mously affirmed the judgment of the court below. The case now comes before me by petition of the defendants for consid eration, as governor of the state. If the letters of Albert Parsons. Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Louis Linng, demand ing "unconditional release," or, as they express it, "liberty or death," and pro testing in the strongest language against mercy or a commutation of the sentence pronounced against them, can they be considered petitions? A pardon, could it be granted, which might imply any cuilt whatever upon the part of either of them, would not be such a vindication as thev demand.- Executive intervention upon the grounds insisted upon by the four above-named persons, ;ould, in no proper sense, be deemed, an exercise of the constitutional power to grant re prieves, commutations and pardons, unless based upon a belief on my part of their rrtirc inn ce ice of the criin? of which they stand convicted. A'carful consid eration of the evidence in the record of the trial of the parties, as well as of all al leged and claimed ir them osttside of the record, has failed to produce upon my mind any impression tending to im peach the verdict of the jury,i or the judgment of the trial court, or of the su preme court affirming the guilt of the&e parties. Satisfied, therefore, as I m, of their guilt, I am precluded from consid ering the question of the commutation of the sentence of Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Couis Louis Linng. to imprisonment in the peniten tiary, as they emphatically declare they will not accept such commutation. Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab nd August Spie3 unite in the petition for "executive clemency." Fielden and Schwab, in addition, present separate and supplementary petitions for a com mutation of their sentences. While, as said above, I am satisfied of the guilt of all the parties, as found in the verdict of the jury, which was sustained by the judgment of the courts, a most careful j consideration, of the whole subject leads me to the conclusion that the sentence of the law as to Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab may be modified as to each of them in the interest of humanity and without doing violence to public justice. And as to said 3amuel ' Fielden and Mi chael Schwab, the sentence is commuted to pnsonment in the penitentiary for life. As to all the ether above named defend ants, I do not feel justified in interfering with the sentence of the court. While I would have gladly come to a different j conclusion in regard to the sentence of the defendants, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Albert R. Par sons and Louis Linng, I regret to say that under a solemn sense of my obligations of office, I have, been unable to do so. Richard J. Oglesby, Governor. When the news of the commutation of the sentence of Fielden and Schwab was received at the jail, there was an extras ordinary scene of activity. The news was sent to the relatives of all the con demned men and in a short time they be gan to arrive at the jail, and the first of the women to come waj Mrs, Schwab, Soon after Schwab was brought from his cell to the main office. His wife quickly advanced to him and throwing her arms about his neck burst into tearr. Schwab returned the embrace in a calm . manner f and soon the two were chatting quietly together. After this, Spies and Fisher were brought from tljeir cell and taken to the jail library. Engel was brought td the private office of Jailer Folz. This was done for the purpose of allowing rel atives to take their last interviews. The first one of the women to arrive after Mrs. Schwab was .Miss Engel, daughter of the condemned anarchist. When thfe two met in the" private office there was an outburst of grief, which it is impossible to describe. The father and daughter clung to each other and sobbed convul sively. Their conversation was in Ger man and listened to only by Deputy Ole son. Then came Mrs. Spies, mother of August. She had been waiting outside for an hour and a half. Her sobs could be heard through the corridors of the building. She did not stay long in .the library with her son, and on her exit from the jail, Mrs. Fischer was admitted. She went into the library, and her lamen tations were heard above the tramp of the deputies, who swarmed about the places. But the crowning scene of all was the visit of Nina Van Zandt,the proxy wife of Spies. She was couducted to the library by Deputy Eason. As she walked through the main office she betrayed no emotion, but the moment she saw Au .gust, however, her demeanor completely changed, and there was a look, then a gasp, and in a trice the lovers were in each other's arms. A number of curious reporters and officers crowded up to the door of the library, but it was quickly shut by a deputy. The interview between the prisoner and his faithful devotee lasted nearly a half hour. Mrs. Lucy Parsons created a scene in the Crininal Court building about ten o'clock at night. Approaching the door which leads to the jail-yard, she demand ed permission to proceed. This was de nied. "But I must go in to see my hus band," exclaimed Mrs. Parsons. "You cannot," was the firm reply. Then the dusky wife of the anarchist threw up her hands and" fell to the floor in a dead faint. It took over twenty minutes to bring her tp consciousness, but when this was done she was escorted from the building. Chief Ebersold had a line of police, flrmfid with riflpn. fhrnwn nrnnnrl tha block immediately surrounding the jail, which prevented the approach of crowds. Ten companies Qf twenty men each, all bearing rifles, were posted about the' jail and streets in the vicinity, all under command of Capt. George Hubbard, of the central detail. Squads from the com panies did guard duty at the entrances to the jail and the Criminal Court building. At the Central station, Harrison street, West Twelfth street, Desplaines street, West Chicago avenue and East Chicago avenue, companies were held in reserve, while one company were left at each of the fifteen sub stations. Rev. Dr. Bolton, of the First Metho dist church, called on Parsons. His visit lasted about three minutes and his effort to get Parsons to consider spiritual mat ters were of no avail. The gallows was put up in the northeast corridor of the jail, where for many years all Cook county hangings have taken place. The scaffold was the same used in the hanging of the three Italian" mur derers, but it had been lengthened for the purpose of swinging off the foijr an archists at once. It was painted a dead brown color. The sheriff gave personal no tice to Spies, Engel, Fischer and Parsons, that they woulc) have to suffer he ex treme penalty of the law. A bomb was found by Thomas Maloney in the rear of the residence of James Brayton, not far from the jail. The bomb consisted of a piece of gas pipe .twelve inches long and about twro inches in diameter, filled with pieces of iron and a substance sup posed to be dynamite. Mr. Brayton was one of the jurors who convicted the an archists. Tho death warrant for Spies, Parsons Engle and Fischer was officially deliv- red to Chief Deputy Gleason on board the 7 o'clock train from Springfield at 22d street, in the morning, by RoVert Uglesby, the Governor's son and private secretary. The hours passed slowly in the county j il that night. Spies did not at first find slumber, and was up until nearly 1 o'clock, and he fell asleep a few moments-later. Before that he chatted ieasantly with Deputy Sheriff Quirl smoked cigars and enjoyed himself iiF well as he coulJ. He did not say much about anarchy, except that he believed the sacrifice the law was about to make would help ,. the cause. The deputy sheriff, who was with Parsons for two hours, undertook, when he was relieved, at 1 o'clock, to tell what the condemned man had said, but when he began to realize the enormity of the task, he cut his narrative short by saying: "He was cheerful and hopeful." Fischer was the least tawMvj qf the. four condemned . j ! meai, though he was cheerful a any one of them. . For netiSy three hours be satm the edge of a cot an iia cell, puff ing at a cigar. He spoke rarely to Schaumberg, Deputy. Sheriff, who was sitting in his doorway. Qnce Schaum berg aid to him: "Fischer, how can you be .cheerful when you know jour fate is suchhort time removed" "now can 1 die?" the aaarchlst said, and he looked full at his questioner. "I will tell you," he said. "I die willing, in the first place, because I believe it will help the cause I e?poued the greater part of my life, and which I lore better than life itself that of the laboring man. Besides this, my conviction was unfair, unjust and illegal." Engie was cheerful and contented, and at times even witty. Later at night, when the death watch sat on the threshold of his cell, he scarcely ever removed his eyes from him. Engle became reminiscent and to!d some stories. At 7 o'clock a. m. food, which had had been ordered, was brought in and ta ken to the cells. AH had ordered beef steak, coffee, b;ead and butter, but Par sons, who had expressed a desire for raw oysters, fried eggs and milk toast. All of them eat heartily, Parsons especially cleared everything before him and asked for a plate of fried oysters. They were quickly procured aud as quickly put out of sight. When the prisoners had fin ished their "last meal" a touching letter of farewell signed by Fielding and Schwab, part being in the hand-writing of each man, was brought down stairs by a big turnkey. It was first passed into Spies, then in turn to Parsons, Engle and Fischer. Dr Gray, physician of the jail, arrived at 7 : 30 and visited ench of the men ; a few moments later Rev. W. S. Bolton, pastor of the First Methodist church arrived at the court yard door and asked to be permitted to talk with the condemned men. He had been with them up to 11 o'clock the night before, but had encountered cool treatment from all but Engle, who remained passive and allowed the man of God to talk freely. As the time for the execution approached, the men were more ffiedit(iatye. Several of them wrote Tetters to iriendsandremtive"S, gave thL the eriff to deliver after the execution'. All appeared nervy, an? with the exception of Engel would not talk to a minister who had called to tender consolation. At 10 o'clock Deputy Sheriff Gleason hurriedly entered the of fice with a letteiy whicji he passed, to Spiesv The superscription was in a fem inine liand. He read it without a move ment of his facial muscles. Two telegraphicdispatches were taken to Parsons. Just as the dispatches had been taken in, the sound of singing in a guttural voice broke upon the ears of those gathered in the office. In an in stant all was as still as death. The voice was that of Fischer,, and he was standing at his cell door singing the Marsellaise with all the strength of his powerful lungs. There was a smile upon his face, not one of cynicism, but a hearty, open faced smile as that of a man who was entering heart and soul into the sentiment ?f the words he was singing. He sang wo stanzas of "Pouget de Isles," a fa mous song of the French Revolution, and when it subsided none of his com rades joined in the chorus, although the faces of Parsons and Spies brightened up, and they listened intently until the notes had died away. After the condemned ate a hearty lunch a little after 11 o'clock, the subsequent proceedings are detailed in the telegrams from the scene : AH the men took stimulants except Par sons. ; 11 :10 a. m. The sheriff is reading the death warrant to Spies. 11:10 a.m. The procession will start in a few minutes. 11:14 a. m. Spies is losing nerve. Engel is self-possessed and laughing. The death warrants are not yet read. There is some slight delay cause un known. The cell doors are open and the prisoners are talking to the deputies. The sheriff shakes hands with Spies, and bids him good-by. ' 11 :38 a. m. Spies is being strapped, and the warrant being read to Fischer. 11:40 a. m. Putting the white shroud on Spies. 11:42 a. to Engel, Fischer. 11:47 a. He looks pale and haggard, m. Reading of the warrant and putting the shroud on m. Reading the warrant to Parsons and putting the shroud on En gel. 11 :50 a. m. Parsons shudders percep tibly at the proceedings. The others are self-possessed and calm. 11 :52 a. m. The procession forms. The men walk entirely unassisted, and with firm, steady steps. 12:11 p. m. The drop fell at 11:59, and the pulses of all the men at 12:11 have just stopped beating. ' 12:14 p. m.- -As the drop fell, Fischer cried: "Long live anarchy !" 12:5 p. m. The coffins have ju3t reached the scaffold. Sheriff Watson says that the bodies will be delivered to relatives when application is made. THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. ADOLPH FISCHER, HANGED. ttlCHAEL SCHWAB, SENTENCE COMMTTED TO LIFE DCPRISOXMZST. iipi a " f 2311 -b p-"' A. B. P ARSONS, HAJGSr. AUGUST SPIES, HANGED. GEORGE ENGEL, HANGED. SAMUEL FIELDEX, SKXTiiXCE COMMUTED TO LIKE IMPRISONMENT. LOUIS LINGG, COMMITTED SUICIDE. TIfE NEW NAVY. Commodore Sicard, Chief of Ord nance, Navy Department, asks for an ap propriation of $2,000,000 toward the armament of the vessels authorized by law. He says that the six and eight inch guns and their carriages and equip ments sustained the statutory tests in the most successful manner. The guns of the Atlanta and Boston have been, be sides, fired a number of times,and no de fects have been developed. The Charles ton, Baltimore, Miantonomoh, the four gunboats, the dynamite cruiser, the tor pedo boat Newark, and cruisers No. 4 and 5 are so far advanced that by the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, three-fourths of the appropriation for their armament will be required. He says that the pres ent factory at the torpedo station is not adapted to the safe manufacture of large quantities of gun cotton, and a larger laetory should ba erected at some point on tljj Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific coastt nARCOAJ, IRON MEN. The eighth annual meeting of the United State3 association of charcoal iron workers met in Nashville, Tenn. This is an important meeting of gentle men, who are interested in the develop ment of iron industries, and especially of the manufacture and improvement of Cpareoal Iron, which, by reason of its superior qualities, is constantly coming ito increased drrnand in the markets of the world. The meeting will be pf gj-. Cjal interest and significance to Tennes see, in view of the fact that it will bring very many of the most prominent iron-1 workers in the country there, and atlord thm opportunity for becoming more iujuy impressed with the vast mineral resources of that state, and particularly with the advantages which Tennessee possesses for the manufacture of the bost quality of charcoal iron. GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE. Prof. Stork, a doctor who makes a specialty of throat diseases, in a lecture at Vienna, created a sensation by declar ing that the German crown prince i3 suf fering from cancer, and that Dr. Mac kenzie's treatment is entirely wrong. This view, he said, was confirmed by the opinions of Bergemann and others. Jt was the grossest blunder in the world to travel about with the crown prince. It was impossible to say whether a radical operation would prove successful now; it ought to have been performed long ago. Prof. Bergemann will perform the opera tion on the throat of the crown prince, if the physicians decide that such a step is necessary.' The prince has been fbr bidden to talk. JjC, vj"aa "' "' or" l w j SOUTHERN BRIEFS. HE A DA RLE ITEMS CAREFULLY OA. Til Eli HD HITHER AND JtOlf. Saeial Trmperancn and Religious More menta Fires, Deaths nad gaicides Rail road Operations aad Improvements. First ground was broken on the Knox ville Southern Railroad, which is to run from Knoxvillle, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga. A large crowd attended the colored fair at Athens, Ga. The exhibits are very good. The horse racing was very fine. Tuck A gee was hanged at Lexington, Ky. This is the first execution of a white man in Central Kentucky, since the War. At a little show in Dacusville, S C., three negroes and three white men be came engaged in a difficulty, in which two of the latter were severely cut. The Gulf division of the American Shipping and Industrial League met at Birmingham, Ala. Organization was ef fected and several addresses were deliv ered. " N. C. Summers was run over by a hand-car on the ,East Tennessee, Vir ginia & Georgia Railroad, several miles from Rome, the other evening. He sustained injuries from which he died. A dynamite cartridge was exploded in j the gutter alongside the residence of j lauou wise, a retired capitalist, in Wheeling, Wr. Va. The force of the ex plosion tore out the paving stones of the Lloyd J. Beall. one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Richmond, Va., aqd who was, during the War, com mandant of the marines, Confederate States Navy, died there in the eighty first year of his age. A freight on the Western & Atlantic Railroad ran into the second section of another freight, near Dalton, Ga., wherjs the tracks of the East Tennessee run parallel with the Western & Atlantic Railroad, and a bad wreck caused. A convention is being held at Albany, Ga., for the purpose of building a high school, to be controlled by the colored Baptist denomination. Three associa tions are interested, viz. : Fowltown, Krokee and Camilla. Rev. Willis War ren presided. Thomas ifedsely, known as the big man, died at his home in Todd county, Ky., just across'the state line, about ten miles from Clarkesville, Tenn. He was about 47 years of age. He weighed, when in good health, 485 pounds. He was a successful farmer in good circumstances, generous and social in his nature. Sheriff Thumm, of Medina county, Texas, was convicted 1 at- Bares of the murder of J. W. Hildebrand, a lawyer of San Antonio, and was sentenced to a term of 25 years in the penitentiary. The murder occurred at Castroville, the county seat of Medina county, last July. Thumm had killed so many men that he had become the terror of Western Texas. Gov. Lee, of Virginia, accompanied by his staff, went to Weldon, N. C, to at tend the annual meeting of the Roanoke and Tar River Agricultural Association. Gov. Lee was received' with a tremendous welcome. His presence created the pro foundest enthusiasm. He spoke for nearly an hour to a vast audience of soldiers and citizens, men and women. The campaign over the pastorate of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Sa vannah, Ga., is very bitter. It is con tended by Dr. Bacon's opponents that Dr. Axson was elected for life ;iik1 cannot be suspended except for cause, fie is old and not strong, and last fall was virtually T I TIT!.- i - -l ....... . relieved from the active care of the J church. They also charge that Dr. Ba-1 con i" ni advocate of miscegenation and of mixed schools. The Roan iron, works, at Chattanooga, Tenn., have put up another large cupola aud crane for use in the manufacture of steel by the Bessemer process. This will increase the capacity of the plant about one-third, and will enable the company to turn out rails much faster than here tofore. The skilled labor now largely employed by the company is proving of great importance in largely increased production of the mill. A middle aged white man, named George Addison, attempted to commit , suicide in Greenville, S. C, in a fit of tem- ' porary msanitv, he swallowed half an ounce of carbolic acid. Two physicians were summoned and administered anti dotes, and saved him from immediate death. Addison is from Edgefield coun ty, where several years ago he married the beautiful daughter of the famous Preston Brooks, who caned Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate. Developments in the Fifth National Bank suspension at St. Louis, Mo., shows fraud and forgery, and Cashier C. C. Crecilius, now; under arrest, charged with false entry and forgery. President Overstoltz would be arrested if not on his death bed. Bank Examiner Fere mean has made some startling discover ies, which caused him to have Cash ier C. C. Crecilius arrested on the charge of false entry. It is further re ported that on the books the figures of more than fifty entries have been changed. An encounter took place in Richmond, Va., between Congressman George D. Wise and William IL Muller, editor of the Labor Herald (weekly and the Even ing Herald (daily), resulting in both be ing arrested and bailed to appear before the police court. Mr. Wise saya he had been informed that. Muller had been making lying statements in reference to himself, and determined to whip him for doing so. Finding Mcl'er, that after noon, he proceeded to assauit hjm, but was caught and held, and while" being lfld, Muller struck him in the face and ;thenranoff. State Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama, defaulted and fled the state in January, 1883. He was captured in March, ol this year, and was tried and convicted on two indictments for embezzlement in July. He was arraigned on a third in dictment. He made no defence, and the jury was instructed if they believed the evidence to bring a verdict of guilty, which thej did, and the judge sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary. The State Attorney announce! that this made an aggregate of 15 years, which they deemed'sufficient punishment. They dismissed the remaining 36 cases. A lire originated in the press room of the Daiiy Commercial, at Chatta nooga, Tenn., and instantly shot up through the elevator, soon enveloping the entire.interior of the building: The presses and type are ruined and a com plete new outfit will have to be pur chased before the paper can be issued again. The loss of the Commercial Print bag Company will reach $10,000. The Western Union Telegraph Company's office was located in the adjoining build ing, and the office had to be .abandoned. Tne Knights of Pythias' ha'1, thc finest in thc state, is ruined. The fire cau-dit from the fire-box of the boiler. Two printers were badly stiff catc.l, and oao; 4 them, J. M. Haines, will die. THE WORLD OYER. EPITOME OF THE INTERESTING" NEWS OF THE DAT. The Irish Trouble Labor Agitation Erery-wbere-Whai Is Doing North, East; West and Across the Seas. The bridge across the Maumee at Wa ierville, Ohio, fell,earryinga dozen men on it. Later returns donot change the result an the prohibition amendment in Oregon, which is beaten bv not less that 7,000, and perhaps 8,000. Twenty freshmen of the Madison, Wis., University arc under arrest for putting a rope around the neck of a stu dent and trying to drag him to Mehdota A Crow Agency, Mont., special says: it the issue there were about 1,800 In lians, Black Hawk and one hundred peo ple, including twenty-five warriors, have ?scaped from camp and are still out. Eight thousand persons assembled in front of Tullamore jail, Ireland, and ser jnaded Mr. O'Brien, the imprisoned edi tor. He appeared at one of the windows ind waved his handkerchief. ' , . - At the Congress of the Woman's Suf frage Association, which was held at Manchester, England, it was resolved to reintroduce the woman's franchise bill at Ihe coming session of Parliament. The first truss of the Poughkecpsie, N. V. Bridge ha3 been placed in position. It is 523 feet longbeiween towers, 82 feet leep and 33 wide, being the largest and heaviest steel truss in the world. , The Italian royal family will present a a golden chalice to the Pope on the occa sion of his jubilee. This fact is held to indicate a desire for a reconciliation be tween the Vatican and the Quirinal. The United States sloop of war Ports mouthwhile sailing down the bay of New York, in ship channel, was run into by a schooner, which struck the Portsmouth with her jibboom on the port 6ido and raked her clean to the stern, carrying away three boats and the maintop-gallant mast and backstays and doing other damage. , The Farmers' Congress in session at' Chicago, 111., adjourned recently to meet in Topeka, Kansas, on the second Wednesday in November, 1888. Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, chairman of the com mittee on resolutions presented a major--itv report in favor of increasing tho tariff l an wool, and Mr. Koib, of Alabama, presented a minority report protesting against the introduction of politics into the Congress. Albert Otto, of Milwaukee, Wis., gave himself up at thc jail, saying if -the an archists were hanged he wa9 to be hanged too, and asking that he be protected. Some days ago, he said, he expressed the hope that, they would be hanged and next day he found blood marks on his door step. He believed that '-hey were a death warrant put there by the anarchists, because of what he said, and he became insane. - . - The largest fire which ever occurred in St. Peter, Minn., broke out in the barn of the Northwestern hotel . The wind was from the southwest and just right to fire the north half of the city. Everything was so dry that, the flames were uncon trolable. Thirty buildings were des troyed, including two hotels, the -First National bank,- several large stores and American express office. Thc loss is fully $100 000. One-third of tho business portion of the M is destroyed. DASH FOR LIBERTY. Maachuse!ts' "Boy Fiend'' Attempt Ml Blow Up the .Stati 's 1'rUnq, - Jesse Pomeroy, the "boy fiend, " who is serving a life-sentence in the state prison at Charlestown, Mass., for mur dering at different -times half a dozen children, when he was but 16 years ot age, made a desperate attempt to kjU himself or escape by blowing up tlu: prison. He succeeded ia causing an ex plosion that shattered the plastering and windows in the wing of the prison that1 contained his cell, and he was himself, severely burned about the head and hands. His injuries are not dangerous. This last is thc most startling of hi many attempts t gain freedom. Helms, given the prison officials more trouble than all the prisoners combined, and in his attempts to escape- has shown an in-, ventive genius that would be a credit t him if rightly used. He has many friends among the prisoners, and .they have naturally aided him in his work. In some way unknown to the officers, he obtained possession of a coldrsteel chisel about eight inches long and along biaded' knife. The knife was transformed into a saw, and with these tools he found lit tle difficulty in cutting through brick and iron. In all his other operations he has given his attention to the bars of hi cell door or window, but this time he tried another, method that was as ingen ious as it was desperate. It involved the possible destruction of one wing of the prison and its inmates, including him self, or making a breach in the walls large enough to liberate many of the prisoners. After providing himself with the tools, he severed the gas-pipe that ran between thc walls, and allowed the gas to escape in thc space that was left by the builders. Then he lighted the gan and a tremendous explosion followed, shaking the building from top to bottom. The explosion occurred while the prison ers were in their cells at dinner and a ter rible outcry was made by the men. The' prison officials hastened to the wing with revolvers in hand, fearing that the pris oners had started a revolt. The odor of the gas attracted them to Pomeroy 's cell, and the officers found him lying on 'the floor unconscious and with his hair ami eyebrows burned off. The warden showed the instrument which he had ob tained or constructed to break through tha walls and cut the gas pip?. The im plement which he doubtless found most useful in cutting the stone and brick work, was a cold chisel about six intlils long. How he got this and other things is a mystery. Another curious little in strument, which was doubtless d his own make, was of the size and shape of a shoemaker's awl, with a steel. blade and t 1 projecting at each end." This was used by him in scraping out the mortar? A little saw made of a pocket-knife blade, on a rough wooden handle about a foot long, was used to saw the gas-pipe joint. In Reserve. "I was in hopes, Professor," said a hospital under. surgeon, "that I would be given that leg operation in the , poor ward." - - 'No, I assigned it to Young ' Saw bones, but I'll give you a whack at the autopsy." Epoch.
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