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It BP 4 VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1887. NUMBER 10. 4 j&WW Ms J 2 DIRECTORY. MAILS. Northern and Greenville Due daily t 8 p. m. Closes at 10 p. m. North and South side river mail )uc Monday, Wednesday and Friday at I Office hours 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. Money Order' and Registry Depart ment t) a. m. to o p. m. STATE GOVERNMENT. governor Alfred M. Scales. Lieut. Governor Chas. M Stedman. Secretary of State "William L. Saun ders. Auditor AV. P. Roberts. Treasurer Donald W. Bain. Supt. of Public Instruction S. M. Fringe r, Attorney General T. II. Davidson. STATE HOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Commissioner John Robinson, Secretary T. K. Rruner. Chemist Charles W. Dabney, Jr. General Immigration Agent J. Patric COUNTY. Sheriff and Treasurer R. T. Hodges. Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkeus. Register of Deeds Burton Stilley. Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, chair' n, J. T. Y infield, F. P. Hodges, F. B. Hooker, II. N. Waters. Board of Education J. L. Wintield, ehair'n, P. II. Johnson and F. B. Guil ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction Rev. Nut Harding, Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T. Tayloe. CITY. Mavor C. M. Brown. Cierk iohn D. Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. -t hief of Police M. J. Fowler. Councilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. Afnrton S. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens 11. Howard, Alfred D. Pevton. (Hl'UCHES. Episcopal Kev. 5 Nat. Harding, Rec tor. Services every Sunday morning and nicr.it. Sundav School at o.:0 p. jn. Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent. Presbvteriau hev. S. M. Smith, pas- tor. Service': every Sunday morning and niht. Sundav School at 3.30 p. m. Superintendent, Jas. L. iowle. 5lethodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor, Services every Sunday morning, and ev ening. Superintendent, Warren Mayo. Sunday School, b30 p. m. TEMPERANCE MEETINGS. K form Club Regular meeting every Tuesday night at 7.30 at Club Rooms. W. C. T. U. Regular meetings everv Thursday. : p. m., at Rooms of Reform Club. Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every Sunday, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m. M-tvs Meeting in Court House everv Od Thursday night in each month. LODGES. 1 Orr' Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M. meets. at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues day nights of each month E. S. Hoyt, W. M ., R. T. Hodges, Secretary. Phalanx LodgeNo. 10, I. O. O. F. Meets everv Friday night at their hall Gilbert Rumboy, P. X. G., J. R. Ross, Secretary. Washington Lodge, No. 1400, Knights of Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P. Crabtree, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor ter. J. R. Ross, F. Reporter. Chicora Council, No. 3-jOI, American Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm. M. Cherry, Collector. Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and Ladies of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall Win. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen. Secretary. Excelsior Lodge. No. 31, O. G. C. Meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall-C, W. Tayloe, Com mander. Wm. Cherry, Secretary. The Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, of Washington, N C OFFICE, CORNER MARKET & SECOND STS- Opposite the Court -House, Washington, n, c. Washington Mutual Benefit Insurance Company. CHARTERED BY THE LEGISLA TURE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Issues Policies on Life, Health and Accidents risks: also Fire risks taken. and a General Insurance business done. . Office, Opposite the Court House. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TOBACCO STORE s- H. WILIiAMS.Prop'r. Sols Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff All Brands of Snufi; Cigars and Tobacco, Everything in the Tobacco line, and New 3oods constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. A meeting, under the auspices of Knights of Labor, was held in New York a few even ings ago to denounce the ratification of the Russian -American Extradition Treaty. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn was the principal speaker. The treaty makes it possible for Russia to arrest in the United States fugitrveo wanted for attempted political assassination. Mrs. Loiieide, the most noted soprano singer in Pittsburg, Penn., has committed suicide by hanging. She had been suffering from menneholia. Ciiart.es B. Reynolds was arraigned in Court at Morristovvn, N. J., for writing and circulating an attack upon the Christian re ligion and the Bible. He was found guilty notwithstanding the efforts of his counsel, Colonel Bob lngcrsoll, and sentenced to pay a fine of Reynolds is an infidel preacher, and has once before been indicted for blas phemy. A fire in Bridgeport, Conn., destroyed property valued at $100,000. Reynolds, the man arrested at Morris town, N. J., for blasphemy, was found guilt) on -Friday notwithstanding "Bob'' Ingersoll's plea on his behalf, and sentenced to pay a fine of ev The great strike of coke workers in the Councils ville (Penn.) region has resulted in bloodshed, two workmen at Sehoonmaker' s works being fatally and others badly beaten by a crowd of strikers. Five whites and three negroes were whip ped from five to ten lashes each at Newcastle, Del., on Saturday for larceny, and William Morris, colored convicted of assault with in tent to kill, stood one hour in the pillory. A ij-:tter has been published in New York from the Pope to Archbishop Corrigan, uj holding him in the matter of the suspension of the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, and condemning the suspended priest's doctrines. 1 PLKAsniE yacht containing eight persons v-apsized in the Delaware river at Phila delphia. Three young men and two young ladies were drowned. Mtss Ida Wesner. the beautiful and only daughter of wealthy parents at Glendonville, Penn. has eloped with her lather s colored coachman, a, married ni;ui. She left a note saying she had become strangely infatuated and could not help her action. A lion Wlonging to Actor Frank Frayne escaped from his cage in a barn near Madi son, N. J., ail killed a valuable horse. Frayne succeeded in lassoing tin lion, who was making a meal of the horse, and dragged him hack into the cage, but was bitten in the arm during the struggle. A Nkw York infant of two years died in intense pain from the effects of a spider's bite. Rkv. Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New York priest, has beep, ord 'red by th" Pox to P; to Rome within forty days under pain of rxcommunication. South and West. A r.on.KK at the sawmill of Hetz & Morri son, at Gallipolis, ).. exploded, wrecking the mill and injuring five men, three fatally. Two Chicairo Senatois came to blows on the rlnor Of the Illinois Senate at Springfield, Each afterward apologize! to the Senate. Ex-Governor William Smith, popularly known as "Extra Billy" Smith, died at his home in Fauquier County, Va., on Winlnes dav. tie had !vn twice Governor of Vir ginia and was a Brigadier-General in the ConfWlerate Army. . He was eighty-nine years of age. Nearly all the Chicago brick yards have shut down, tlierebv adding 7.000 men to the number idle on account of the great lockout by employers in the building trade. Tmj: boiler in a planing mill at Fulton, Ky., evp'oled. killing three men. fatally injuring u lourth and seriouslv wounding live others. ! IIkavy i'orest lires an- raging in five couu j ties in -N'oiliicrn Michigan. Many million I feet of logs and other property have been de 1 ssti'oyed. A vntE in San Frawdsro destroyed several large slaugl'u-T houses. Many sheen, hogs an i cattle were burned to death. Iheesti mavd loss is J 100,000. . Wa !M.,;T' n C DkPatw. who did lately in New Albany. Jnd.. htxniaiths :;,U00,0M)to his family and the residue of his estate, esti mated at ."i,o,hi,coO, is devottd to benevolent and eilucational purpovs. At I'lVAvev'cuvr,' Court House, Cherokee N'r.rioi!. Sarah Fi id, a "elaware Indian wo- in, has Un convicted of infanticide and ".cuteiiced to be .hanged August lO. Thomas Mklson's horse Clydesdale killed his k -eiHT. M ihlon lle.lmond.in Clarke Coun ty, a Kedmond is the third man killed by t.e' animal. At a s h ooi exhibition in Kerrville, Tenn., Maggie Long's dress took fire and she was bipicdto death. The audience rushed out panic stricken, ami many persons were seri ously injured. The two train robbers Henry Schwartz an 1 Newton Watt who murdered the ex press messenger Nichols have been sentenced to imprisonment for life at Morris, 111. Willi an Ani-tEvs.an amateur balloonist, w is making an ascension at Oskaloosa. Iowa, when his balloim caught fire and the aeronaut fell Too feet. Ins body being crushed beyond recognition. Washington. Ma.totc J. L. Rathboxe, of California', has boon appo litod Consul-General to Paris. Thei were more than '600 applicants for the position. The President has appointed the following postmasters: Alfred R. Toland, Asbury Park, N. J. ; Cyrus F. Osgood, Harnmonton, N". J. , George Wt. Nott, Now Orleans : J ohn M. Campbell, Carlisle, Ky. The Secretary of the Interior has made re quisition on the Secretary of the Treasury lor $1),)()0,01X) to be used in the payment of pensions due in May. t L the joint session of the Florida Legisla ture the hnal vote for United States Senator resulted as follows: Samuel Pasco (Demo rrat), 34; Goodrich Republican), 17. Mr. Pasco is a native of England, served in the Confederate army, and at present is Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. . The Mint Director estimates the production of the precious metals in the United States last vear to have been: Gold, $05,000,000; sil ver, "V 1.000,000. These figures show an in crease of &),200,000 over the gold production of 1885, and a slight decrease in the silver pro duction over the previous year. The opening formalities of the National Drill look place on Monday in Washington. The city was filled with troops from all parts of the country, who had come, on to partici pate in the competitive drill. The President has appointed Andrew H. Dill to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Foreign. The police ; returns show thai on Sunday eleven persons in Berlin committed or at tempted to commit suicide. Queen Victoria will review 80,000 poor school children at Hyde Park; London, on June 22. Each child will be presented Avith a mug commemorating the Queen's jubilee. ANOTirto Dlot to kill the Czar of Russia is reported to 'have been unearthed at Novo Tcherkash. Thirty arrests have been made. Mr. Parnell appeared the other day in the British House of Commons for the first time in some weeks, but looked feeble and emaciated. After his rough reception in Toronto Editor O'Brien went to Ottawa, where he received a hearty welcome and addressed a large meeting. The vaults of a leading banking house in the City of Mexico have been robbed of $300,-000. fHE NATIONAL GAME. President Cleveland's private secretary, Lamont, is a base ball enthusiast. It is estimated that $S50,0l)0 will be paid in salaries to baseball players this season. Moolic, of last season's Chicago Club, is doing some clever batting for the Boston Blues. The National League and American Asso ciation use about 4,000 balls in the course of a season. Galyin, of the Pittsburgs, is said to be one of the greatest base-watching pitchers in the League. - The Detroit and St. Louis Cluhs are hold ing the lead manfully in their respective as sociations. The strength of the Pittsburg, Washington and Indianapolis Clubs seem to have been un derestimated. Governor's Island, in New York Bay, ha a fine ball team, composed of soldiers stationed there. Old Pete Browning, of the Louisville Club, i proving himself one of the greatest batters in the country. Hardie Richardson made the first home run at Detroit, His reward is 100 shaves at a first-class barber shop. Ramsey, the pitcher of Louisville Club, has leen lined $o0 and indefinitely suspended by Manager Kelly for getting druuk. New Haven made the first triple play of the season. On the following day the Ath letics followed suit in the gaino against Bal timore. - There are now two on?-arme i pitchers in the profession, not including Daily, namely Ed Rabbets, of Jersey City, and England, of Sandusky, O. The first catcher to wear gloves behind the bat was Delaverag. of the N'ictory Club, of Troy, ISO!). The first to wear a mask "Was Thayer, of the Newarks. in I STo. Glasscock, of Indianapolis, is playing the greatest game of his life at short, covering a great extent of territory, and making mar vellous stops and throws. At the bat, how ever, h ' has shown up weak so far. Professional baseball players make plenty of money and many of them are wise enough to sjve it. There are probably at least twenty-five players in the National league who have baiiii aeeountsof from sio, 000 to $:o,ooo. Of the International Iagm players now with the League and Association, Grillin, of Baltimore, is the omy o.e who is holding up his end. Morrison, of the lets., Darling, of the Chicagos, and Morrison, of the Clove lands, have not yet played up to last year's form. A kinotlar thing occurred in the sixth inning of the tiiirteen-inning Detroit-Pittsburg game. Miller was at the bat and struck a ball foul into the air. A sparrow was at that instant skimming over the field, and the ball struck the bird squarely, bringing it to the earth dead. The Detroit management in a circular says: "The management feels confident that the Detroit Balft'lub will be able to win the championship of the Le.egne. and trusts that its patrons, at the -nd of the season, may have the pleasure -of witnessing a series of games for the world's championship with the champions of the American Association."' ' T want my men to play with their heads as well as their hands and feet." says Man ager John Kelley of the Louisville Club. "No club can win if it does not resort to st rat-'gy and science, and there is as much of this in baseball as chess, cards, "or anything els I have been driving this notion into th heads of the Ixtys lately, and now, for the first time in their lives, they use signs in fielding, bit tinr and base running to a rood advantage." A NOVEL INVITATION. How The President and His Wife Were Requested to Visit St. Louis. A dispatch from Washington, D. C. says: A delegation of twenty-live gentlemen, rep resenting the business interests of St. Louis, and including representatives of all branches of the municipal government, waited on the President and extended to him and Mrs. Cleveland a cordial invitation to visit Sr: Louis during the coming fall. The delegation was headed by flavor Francis. The invitation was contained in a large el egantly bound book, with earwd wo den covers, the carvi .g representing the great bridge and the'principal municipal build ings of St. Louis. The clasps and edges of the book are of solid silver bearing the ini tials "G. C.r The invitation is beautifully engrossed on satin and is signed by over SO. 000 persons. The President received the delegation in the cabinet room. Mayor Francis made a short address in which he said that while the people of St. Louis would be glad and honored, to receive a visit from the President at any time it would probably afford them greater pleasure if he could arrange to be in St. Louis during the Grand .Army Encampment in .September. The President accepted the invitation, which was also extended to the cabinet. A SUSPICIOUS FIRE. Property Formerly Under Dr. Mo Glynn's Charge in Danger. A dispatch from New York says: A tire occurred for the sec nd time within a month in the church property of St. Stephen's par ish, of which Dr. McGlynn formerly had charge. The children had just concluded devotional exercises of the morning at St. Stephen's Home," Nos. 14o and 145 East Twenty-eighth street, when flames were dis covered issuing from the b g cupola skylight of the institution. A messe. ger hastened to sound an alarm while the children, panic-stricken, were quickly marshalled on the ground floor of the building by the sisters in charge of the institution. The fire was soon extinguished. The bulkhead of the skylight was found to have been burned away irom the cupola. The police and firemen regard the aff air with" suspicion. At the time 100 children, ranging in age from o to 15 years, and sixteen or eighteen Sisters were in the building. A sister who discovered the fire found that it started in a bund e of clothing that was stored beneath the cupola. The Sister was severely burned while endeayoring to quench the flames with blankets. AN OCEAN DISASTER. TWO GREAT ATLANTIC STEAMERS COLLIDE IN A FOG. A Number of Steerage Passengers Killed and Others Injured. A collision between the great steamers the Britannic and the Celtic, both of the White Star Line, occurred about 350 miles east of Sandy Hook in a thick fog Thursday afternoon about 5:25 o'clock. The Celtic was coming to Now York and the Britannic was on the second day of her iourney to Liv erpool. The Celtic struck the Britannic three times on the side, cutting a big hole in her beneath the water line and in flicting other serious damage to both ves sels. At least four steerage passengers on the Britannic were killed instantly by the falling bars and plates of iron. ( )thers were thought to have been swept overboard and drowned. About twenty ersons were injured. The story of the collision is as follows; The Celtic had about S70 cabin and steer ag passengers on board. The Britannic car rkt some 450 passengers. The weather wes foggy at the time and the sea calm. The Britannic's fog bell had been kept ringing 1 all the after-no- n, but her speed had Invn kept at a high rate, The Celtic was not sighted until the mo ment lefore the collision, although her bell had beeii heard. The Britannic, un ler command of Captain Hamilton Perry, Avas kept straight on in lav course. The Celtic appeared on the port side of the Britannic and when she saw her. reversed her engines, but it was too late. -Approaching in an oblique direction the Celtic struck the Britannic a slanting blow, right abaft the engine room, glanced oil, and then, carried forward again by her own momentum, suck the briinmc a stunning blow, almost at right ane '.os, a few feet further aft. The prow of the Celtic crashed through the railing, break ing into the cabin and cutting a hole in the Britannic below the water line. Her nose en tered the Britannic's side fully 10 feet. The steei age passengers were gathered there, and at least four of them were killed outright by the crash of the Celtic's prow and by falling pieces of iron. A number were seriously injured. The Britannic was still moving, and, as she urew on ironi me eeltic, tno Lei tic Avas shunted to one side, only to advance a third time on the Britannic, a few feet further on, and ripping open her side for a distance of twenty feet. Then the Ce'tic shot lehind the Britannic and stopped about eighty rods off on her port side. Every one thought the Britannic Avas sink ing, and Captain Perry ordered tlv boats lowered. Some of th" men tried to enter the lifeboats, and a party of fifteen firemen got in a launch and started for the Cel tic. The Captain drew his pistol and threat ened to shoot any of the crew who would repeat the act. Some of the women and ehil-divh'w-'ire then transferred to the Celtic, and whef. was discovered that there was no im mediate danger, the panic was allayed and th v.Hsels lay to. The Captains of the two t earners consul te! t"gether, audlvin mo- tionlos about five hours, the weather cleared a ntt le, and in company the two disabled steamers ;.oirneyeds.owry toward iew York. Before I he sun ros3 tlu next morning the so!eum service of the burial of the dead at ?ea was rea'd, an 1 the killed passengers were dipped overboard to their graves at the bottom of the oc an. The steamships Marengo, of the Wil-ou Line, and the Brit ish Queen, both lound for New ' York, overtook the Celtic and Britannic Fri l;wy,the day after the accident, and accompanied them to Sandy Hook. The passengers were in consternation all the tim. and went about with life preservers bound fast to their bodies. Taking to the Boats. lieving that the Britannic Avas in a sink- iug condition, her Captain, gave the order to take t ) the lxats. The word passed like a flash through th"' ship's crew and among the pas sengeix Then began a fight for life pre servers. In a few instances men took them from women. Occasionally ' tvo or three men got hold of one pre M'rver and fought hand to hand for it. With a few shameful exceptions, the gentlemen who were alone assisted ladies who were without escort or in other parties. With the exception of four firemen who were the first to enter the first boat lowered, the crew were notably cool. Captain Perry got' his men to work promptly, cleared away the wreck and examined the in jury, and began the work of lowering boats. The sea was smooth, and shortly after the collision the fog lifted for awhile. Chief Engineer Sewell went below and closed the sliding door in the water-tight bulkhead dividing the injured compartment from the rest of the ship, and then, pistol in hand, drove the remainder of the stokers back to discipline and duty. Three boats were smashed in the collision, and the stokers and steerage passen gers filled a fourth. -There were six left, and the first shock and conf usion being over, and System and order somewhat restored, the word was passed from the Captain all along the line of officers and passengers: "Women and children first." This command was obeyed with very few exceptions. Husbands and fathers put wives and daughters from them, and the latter ac quiesced tearfully and tremblingly. Mr. C. P. Huntington, the railroad magnate, had several ladies in his party. His daughter went to the Celtic clad in her night clothes and her maid's ulster. The rest remained on the Britannic. Mr. Jose Ma. Miyares, a Cuban, tried to induce his wife to take the only vacant place in one of the boats. She threw Ler arms around his neck and de ciarea tnat it he was going to die slie wa3 going to die too. and she remained. The men who made trouble were those who had no one but thcms.-lve; to look out for. Some of thesis sai 1 to be from the steerage, were menaced by an ither pistol in the hands of the first officer. Others were undeterred even by this and sprang over the side into the boats on top of the women and children. One man. Ricnard Littler, of Cleveland, a steerage passenger oh his way to his home in England, was sliding down a davit rope to a boat when a sailor cut the rope and let him drop overboard. lie was then pulled into J J V "I MVCXl I. the ooat. ilis watcu h cfvmiuwl nt1. :c"l o'clock. A -10-potmd emigrant made a leap for a boatload of women just as it was shoved oil". lie fell into the water. A line was thrown him but when he was drawn up to the boat lie could only get his head over the side. The people in the boat laid hold o)f his clothing and completely disrobed him in short order. Finally a rope was tied to a belt which he wore, and he was towed astern over to the Celtic. The women were handed down into the boats by men standing each side of the gangway, and men who stood below were supposed to catch them. The ladies say they were kept from going overboard, but that it did not seem to mat ter how they got into the bo-ats. On reaching the Celtic, whose people had just about come to the conclusion that she was not in a sinking condition, they were pulled up by ropes. The Killed and Injured. When the collision occurred the steerage passengers on board the Britannic were taken completely by surprise. Many had hung over the rail and others were sitting on the deck engaged in peaceful occupations. Mrs. Robinson, a steerage passenger, was peeling potatoes, her little thirteen-year-old daughter was writing a history of the voyage and her son of fourteen was shelling peas for the next day's dinner. A man sat beside them smoking a pipe and lazily watched their domestic occupation. When the cry "She is going to strike" was raised there was a rush of passengers aAvay from the place, but some had not time to escape. Mrs. Robinson got out of the way, but as she ran she looked around and saw her daughter's body cut in two and her son crushed doAvn bv a terrible pile of debris. The pipe smoker was stripped naked by the wicked prow and his body was cut in two and one of his legs torn off. Another man was torn into shreds. Still another was decapitated, and a woman near bv was buried under such a load of iron that it took seven, men to lift it off. She was badly crushed, but survived. There were othei-s wounded by flying bolts and perhaps other casualties. The accounts differed so materially that it was impossible to measure the extent of damage to human life. An Official Statement. Purser R. N. Musgrove, of the Britannio made the following official statement: "On Thursday, 19th May, 1SJS7, at 5:25 p. m. , weather calm, sea smooth, fog at inter vals, the steamship Celtic collided with the steamship Britannic, striking her on the port side aft, and doing considerable damage. The boats were lowered and tilled with women and children from cabin and steerage in a ATery orderly and expeditious manner. It is to their shaine that seveial men forced themselves into the boats. Meanwhile an examination was made and the damage to the ship ascertained, and finding that the ship Avas not likely to founder, an order was giA-en re calling such boats as were within hail and the occupants receiver! back on board the Britannic. The others had boarded the Ce'tic. We made a pad and coATered the hole in the ship's side to stop the leak, and re turned toward New York, having arranged with the Celtic to keep company. "The saddest and most deplorable phase is that several steerage passengers, who were lying about aft, were killed and several oth ers injured. Both ' ATesse'.s, accompanied by tho steamships Marengo and British Queen, arrived at the Bar at 1 a. m., 22d inst., Sun iay." SWEPT BY FIRE. Two IT u nd red Buildings Destroyed anil the Loss Estimated at Two Million Dollars. A special from Calumet, Mich., says: The town of Lake Linden, or Torch Lake, was destroyed by fire Friday, involving a loss of 2,000,000. The flames broke out at 11.55 A. M. in a brick block occupied by Newman & Trelease. From there they spread rapidly. Calumet, Hancock and Houghton were call ed upon for help and responded quickly with their fire department, but the firemen were unable to stop the spread of flames, and be fore 2 o'clock the town was a mass of smok ing ruins. Over two hundred buildings were bumed. The only business buildings left are one sa loon and one small store. The insurance ag gregates $T35,000, in English and East rn companies principally. During the fire a heavy gaje prevailed. The flames'leaped from block to block, destroying brick and stone structures as readily as wooden buildings. A special from Houghton, Mich., says: The fire at Lake Linden is now (5.50 P. M.) under control. The flames were first noticed is suing from the second story of Newman & Treleases general merchandise store. Ev erything was aS dry as tinder, and despite the efforts of the firemen and citizens the spread of the flames was very rapid. In less than two hours alter the first alarm the entire business portion of the town, from the starting point of the fire to the public school-house building, was in ashes. Every saloon but one, and every stone structure except that occupied by F. Weber & Co. and the meat market, was de stroyed. The .oss is a terrible one to Lake Linden and conservative judges place the pecuniary loss at one and a-half million dollars. The insurance is probably not less than three quarters of a million. Nearly every family was burned out. Hundreds of families are homeless to night, without bedding or clothing except what they have on. - No stores are left tc furnish supplies, and Hancock and Hough ton merchants are sending mattresses and bedding to the homeless peonle. COLLISION AT SEA. A St amcr Sinks a Schooner, but Res cues the Crew. A dispatch from Charleston, S. C says: The steamer Cherokee arrived Monday Morn ing from New York. Captain B. Doane re" ports that in a thick fog Friday night, be. t ween Barnegat and Absecom, steering south west, going under reduced moderate speed, blowing wnistle every minute, saw a green light close aboard starboard side. He im mediately ordered the helm hard st irboard and came into collision, striking a schooner on her starboard bow. He turned the steam er around, searched for the vessel and found and rescued the crew. The schooner had all sails set, with a fair wind. He heard no fog horn from her.- He had a lookout forward, and the second mate and himself were on the bridge. He says the man at the wheel took every precaution to avoid the accideut, and that the collision was unavoidable on their part. The schooner was the Marietta Stefelman, belonging to summers point, N. J., bound from Richmond to New ork, with a cargo of coal. She sunk. YELLOW FEVER. Two Fatal Cases at Key West Cause 3Iuch Excitement. A dispatch from Key West, Fla., says. Mr. Baker, who was declared Saturday 'to have yellow fever, died Monday morning. His wife, who contracted the disease a few days later, also died the same day. Both de veloped the most malignant symptoms and threw up black vomit before death. A sister of Mrs. Baker, residing in the same building, is also down with fever. The appearance of yellow fever so early in the season, which will restrict all outside communication, is depressing all business in terests, while the deaths have cast a jilooin over the city and created a panic anions the large number of strangers here Many took passage on the steamer Friday night, while others are chartering sailing vessels. There are- several other suspicious cases of illness in town. mm if mm. ATTEMPT TO KILL EDITOR O'BRIEN IN HAMILTON, CANADA. He and His Friends Fired Their Cab. Upon in Editor O'Brien was more enthusiastically received at Hamilton, Ontario, than in any other place he has visited since he began his torn. No demonstration was made against him during his passage from the depot to the hotel, or from the hotel to the Palace Roller Rink, where he sp6ke Monday even ing. The meeting itself was a most enthusi astic one, and there was no disturbance, ex cept that made by a few persons outside, who were quickly dispersed by the police. When Mr. O Brien left the rink, had he gone out of the front door, where the police had cleared and were guarding the street for him there would have been no attempt upon his life to record. But some foolish friend ad vised him to go from the rink by the private side entrance on McNab street. Mr. O'Brien consented, thinking merely to escape the crushing in the crowd which awaited him if he went out at the front entrance A closed coach was in waiting on McNab street, and just as the meeting closed Mr. O'Brien went quietly from tfi rink and entered the carriage. He was accompanied by Mr. Kilbride and Messrs. McMahon and Roach of the National League. O'Brien and Kilbride sat on the back seat of the coach, and McMahon and Roach in front. The coach was driven by John Nelson. Presi dent T. P. O'Brien, of the National League, sat on the box seat with him. As Nelson whipped up the horses and faced for the hotel, a crowd suddenly -appeared, which proved unfriendly, for no sooner had Mr. O'Brien and his friends taken their places than they set up the usual hissing and groaning which proved to be a signal to a group of five men who lurked around the market building, in Market Square. The men who hissed and groaned followed the carriage, and as it wheeled into Market Square there was a sudden click, the horses pranced and a flash of light suddenly over spread a group of buildings where the men lurked. The reins dropped out of John Nel son's hands, and with the exclamation: "Oh, my God, I'm shot!" he fell forward on the seat. Crash, crash, crash, quick as lightning, and through bright flashes of flame sped the bullets from two revolvers until eight distinct shots had been fired. Mr. O'Brien stretched forward to look out, and as he did so a ball whisked by his face and passed through the opposite window without harming anybody. 1. P. OBrien, JNelson s companion, who had been amazed and dazed, now grasped the reins and lashed the hordes through the square into James street and down to the hotel. Here there was another hostile crowd, who again hooted as the party within tried to open the door, but could not Mr. McMahon jumped over the door, and drawing a revol ver, held the crowd at bay, while Mr. O'Brien and his' friends were making their exit from the carriage also in the same "uncomfortable way. As the party stepped into the corridor of the hotel a volley of rotten eggs was hurled at them, but no one was hit. Chief of Police McKinnon and his men then rushed up, but all was over. Nelson was taken to the City Hospital. Dr. James White extracted the bullet. He said the wound is dangerous. It is in the left wrist. The day previous (Sunday) Mr. O'Brien had spent quietly at Niagara Falls. He a as suf fering considerably from injuries received in the attacks upon him at Toronto and King, ston, but expressed a determination to keep his engagement to speak at Hatfulton, and did so with the result above described. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Mrs. Grant's health continues to improve very slowly. Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, is the firs Queen that has crossed the Whita House threshold. Kaiser Wilhelm has survived seventy two reigning nionarchs who were his con temporaries. Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas lands cover fully 10,000 acres, located in three dif ferent counties. Isaiah Tuppins, Mayor of Reed ville, Ohio, is the first colored man elected to that office North of the Ohio River. John B. Finch, Chairman of the National Committee of the Prohibition party, is going to Texas to stump the State. Mrs. Garfield's delicate health prevented her attendance at the unveiling of her hus band's statue in Washington. Her two sons, however, were present. Grand Master Workman Powderly was presented with the biggest cowboy hat that could be found in Denver, and had his photo graph taken while wearing it. Mrs? Gladstone nearly always accompa nies her husband to the House of Commons, and she never fails to wrap a stout comforter round his neck when he leaves for home. A few years ago Jossph Brown was the Mav or of St. Louis, rich an ambitious to en ter the United States Senate. A local news- Eaper now records the fact that Mr. Brown as just accepted a small municipal office worth $1,800 a year. Lieutenant FLiPPER,the colored graduate of West Point, who was dismissed from the service for malfeasance in office, is in the syn dicate which has discovered the old gold and silver mines in Mexico, and the probabilities are that before long he will be the richest negro on the continent. General Boulanger, the French War Minister, is described by a recent interviewer as "a short man, rather stoutly built, with brown hair, brown beard, rather a red face; above all things quiet-looking,alraost to com monplaceness. He wore the ordinary French civilian's dress of black frock coat and trousers, with only the single red spot in his buttonhole." FELL SEVEN HUNDRED FEET. A Balloon Catches Fire and an Ath lete is Dashed to the Earth. A dispatch from4 Oskaloosa, Iowa, says. A large crowd witnessed a fearful accident by which William Andrews, an amateur balloonist, was dashed to death. The bal loon, about 20 by 40 feet in size, was inflated with hot air and rose rapidly to a height of about seven hundred feet, Andrews clinging to a trapeze. Suddenly it was observed that the balloon had caught fire, and Andrews was seen climbing upwards to its mouth and endeavoring to put out the fire. His efforts were unsuccessful, and in two or three min utes the collapse came, and 'the aeronaut came whirling down from the awful height and fell upon the roof of a business block, his body being crushed beyond recognition. Many ladies watching the terrible sight fainted and had to be carried home,
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