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VOLUME II.
WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1887.
NUMBER 14,
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DIRECTORY.
MAILS.
in. Closes at 10 p. m.
KOl'tll ;inu ouum Biuu iivt'i man
Monday, Vi edncsday and Friday at
m. Closes at 7 following mornings.
hrhce hours i) a. m. to 10 p m.
Ionev Order and Kegistry Depart-
lut 0 a. m. to o p. m.
STATE GOVERNMENT,
nveinor Alfred M. Scales.
,1011
t. Governor unas. ji.
Stedman.
L. Saun-
t:irv
of State "William
Auditor -u . r. noueris.
IV Us
apt.
urer Donam v . mm.
of Public Instruction S.
M.
in.-1"- .
Uttoruey General--1.
H. Davidson.
STATE HOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
John Robinson.
k'm'tary T. K. Bruner.
C hemist Charles N . money, tlr.
General Immigration Agent- J.
T.
ItncK.
COUNTY.
Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T.
Hodsie
Siinerior Court Clerk G. W likens.
.Register of Deeds Burton Stillcy.
:Kiirvevor J. F. Latham.
Commissioners Dr. W. J.
Bullock,
, Hodges,
Winfield,
B. Guil-
aair n. w. i. m"imi -
11 Hooker, II. .N. Yaters.
Board of Education J. L.
T- IT Tl "C
nair n. 1 . n. donusuu auu j. .
ird.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
iRev. N:U Harding.
Superintendent of Health
-Dr. D. T.
'avbe.
CITY.
Mayor C. M. Brown.
Clerk John D. Sparrow.
Treasurer W. Z. Morton.
Chief of Police M. J. Fowler.
Councilmen C. M. Brown, Y
B.
Jforton, S. R. Fowlerr Jonathan Havens,
II. Howard, Allred D. Peyton.
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec-
or. Services every c?unuay mummg aim
iffht. Sundav School at 3.30 p. m.
Rev-rNat. Harding, Superintendent.
Presbyterian Rev. S. M. Smith, pas-
r. n . .. J : 1
lor. services everv ouuuav uiurmug mm
ht. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m.
upeTmtcndent, Jas. L. Fowle.
Methodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor,
ervices every Sunday morning and ev-
mws;. Superintendent, vvarren Mayo.
uudiy School, 3.30 p. m.
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
Reform Club Regular meeting every
ues lav niLnit at 7.3U at Lluo Kooms.
W. C. T. U. Regular meetinirs everv
rThursdav. 3 p. m., at Rooms of Reform
Cuil).
Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every
fcundav. m Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m.
. A
M:-;s Meeting in Court House everv
2d
"hursdav nidit in each month.
LODGES.
Orr Lodge, Xo. 104, A. F. and A. M.
... "xt it. ii - 3 rr-. .
S"iet.'i ;u jiasonic xiaii, isc auu ou i ucs
. av nights of each month E. S. Hovt.
. M . , R. T. Hodges, Secretary.
Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O O. F.
Meets everv Friday nisrht at their hall
fGilbert Ilumbev, P. N. G., J. R. Ross,
rSecrctarv.
Washington Lodge, No. 1490, Knights
k)f Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday
jnights at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P.
jCrabtree, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor
ter, J. R. Ross, F. Reporter.
I Chieora Council, No. 3.30, American
jLegions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and
rfth Thursday nights at Odd Fellows'
iiill-C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm.
PVI. Cherrv. Collector.
Pamlico Lodge. No. 715. Knights and
tUdies of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th
Monday nights at Odd Fellows1 Hall
Wm. M. Cherrv. Protector, T. B. Bowen.
Secretary.
Excelsior Lodge, No. 31, 0. G. C.
Meets 1st and 2nd Tuesdav niffhts at
Odd Fellows' Hall-C. W. fayloe, Com
mander, Wm. Cherry, Secretary.
The Mutual Live Stock Insurance
Company, of Washington, N- C
pFFICE, 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,
ad a General Insurance business done.
-Office, Opposite the Court House.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
STORE
S. H. WIILLlAMS.Prop'r.
Sole Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff
All Brands of Snufi; Cigars
and Tobacco.
"&eiTthin2 in the Tobacco line, and New
TOBACCO
Goods Constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Smith Billixgs and Joseph Thompson col
lided while playing baseball at Marblehead.
Mass., and were rendered unconscious for 8
long time. . Billings' frontal bone was crushed.
The Carlisle (Penn.) Indian training school
has just sent seventy-three pupils West,
nearly all of whom have completed th
course of the school. They were mostly ol
the Sioux tribes.
The vote in the New Hampshire Legisla
ture by which William E. Chandler was
elected United States Senator was as follows.
Chandler (Republican), ISO; Bingham (Demo
crat), 145; scattering, (5.
After a long and harassing struggle af "American
charged with brihing the New York "Boodle'1
Aldermen of 1884 to grant his Broadway
Railway a charter, was obtained on
Wednesday, aid the trial liegan with the ad
dress of Assistant District-Attirivr Kicoll.
-CHARI..KS F. Burcu, a Jersay City (N. J.)
policeman, dangerously shot hU wife and
then committed suicitle.
Sinclair Tousey. President of the Ameri
can News Company, died at his home in New
York on Thursday in his seventy-tinni year.
In a number of towns and villages along
the Hudson River physicians say a peculiar
?pidemic disease is prevalent in the shape of a
vough" which continues exactly four weeks.
Several doctors say the affliction is unlike
my other vhey have experienced in the prac
tice of medicine in many years. The patients,
is a rule, are not incapacitated for work.
Ex-President Mark Hopkins, of Wil
'.iams College, died at Williamstown. Mass.,
i few days since, aged eighty-five years.
Rev. Dr. Roswell Hitchcock, President
)f Union Theological Seminary of New
York, is dead in his seventy-first year.
The Rhode Island Legislature adjoiiod
without accomplishing any business Localise
of the political deadlock.
South and West.
Four Mexican sheepherders attacked their
?mployer, James Taylor, of Scurry county,
rexas.with revolvers and knives while he was
inarmed. He wrested a six-shooter fros
me of them and killed all four of hfs
issailants.
Four miners fell several hundred feet down
i shaft at the Huron mine in Upper Michigan,
md all were instantly killed.
Edward Lickey was struck with a ball
md killed while playing baseball at Lincoln.
A dynamite cartridge exploded prema--urely
in the Imnan mines, thirty miles west
f Chattanooga, Tenn. Five mind's were
eported instantly killed and ten fatally in
ured. ''DApo Joe," a half-breed, was lynched
lear Austin, Miss., for murder, and Peter
3ettery, a colored man. met a similar fate at
Tamestown, Ohio, for brutally assaulting an
iged colored woman.
The sudden drop in wheat at Chicago
aused three Milwaukee firms to suspend.
A missionary who has just arrived in San
?rancisco from Honolulu says a revolution is
mpending, and that affairs there are in a
tate of chaos. A change of government is
lemanded, and the royal paace is barri
caded. I
A total of twenty-nine yellow fever cases,
en of them fatal, had been reported up to
Friday at Key West, Fla.
A tornado at Grand Forks, Dakota, killed
'our arsons, seriously injured thirteen more,
md demolished twenty-live buildings. In
Sast Grand Forks fourteen business houses
.vere destroyed.
Washington.
Vincent Lamantia, of Louisiana, has
een appointed United States Consul at
Catania, Italy.
The President has appointed the following
Tostmasters: .Valentine Butsch, Boulder,
Col. ; John C. Luning, Leesburg. Fla. ;
Walter Kirkpatrick, Virden, 111. ; Thomas
I. Ochiltree, Rushville, Ind. ; James S.
hooper, Mount Gilead, Ohio; Albert C. Robin
:on, Greem Bay, Wis.; James W. Wilson,
iaston, Penn.
Clarence H. Pitkin, of Vermont, has been
ippointed United States Attorney for the'
District of Vermont.
Much opposition has been developed to the
ecent Presidential order to return to the au
thorities of the late Confederate States all the
Confederate flags in the custody of the War
Department which were captured bv Federal
;roops. General Fairchild, of "Wisconsin,
Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., at a re
ception tendered to him in New York, ex
jressed himself warmly against the return of
-hese flags,and in Ohio legal steps were begun
enjoin the return of Confederate flags at
iie State Capitol.
Attorney-General Garland has issued
in order reducing the compensation of As
sistant District Attorneys twenty percent.,
md directing the discharge of ail assistants
ivhose services can be dispensed with without
letriment to the public service.
Foreign.
A Cabinet crisis in Servia has been pro
longed by the fact that the new Cabinet will
be expected to arrange for a divorce between
!;he King and Queen.
There has been serious rioting at Athlone,
Ireland, between soldiers and .civilians. The
soldiers wrecked a number of houses and
many citizens were injured with stones. j
Owing to the failure of the crops a famine
prevails in Asia Miner, and 100,000 people
kre in danger of starvation.
Prince Bismarck is reported in poor
health.
IlAiLoTOrrrrJ weighing over a pound each
recently fell during a heavy storm in Eastern
Roumeiia. Th3 hail stones destroyed the
harvests, killed many laborers in the fields,
and pierced the roofs of houses like bullets.
An official statement is made in London of
the discovery of projected attacks by dyna
miters upon public buildings during jubdea
week.
At the auction sale of Lord Crawford's
library in London a Gutenberg Bible, the ear
liest book printed with movable metal typeJ,
brought $13,250. r
When news of the arrival of the st?amer
Knnvimr F-Htnr O'Brien was received, the
whole Irish coast became ablaze with the
flames from tar barrels lighted on every hill
in testimony to the people s joy at .the agi
tator's safe return.
The Queen's jubilee has been celebrated in
Glasgow by a public dinner to G,G0J poor
poopJe.
Advices from India say that 500 men of
the garrison at Herat mutinied recently. A
short and siiarp fight ensued, in which thirty
loyal and fifty rebel troops were killed. The
mutineers fled, but most of them were cap
tured. James G. Blaine and the members of his
family who accompany him on his trip to
Europe have reached London.
Frederick Bock, of Cincinnati, has a very
intelligent black-and-tan terrier that has but
two legs, having been born with none in front.
The other day she gave birth to three pups,
one being perfect, one having three legs, and
the third, like the mother, having but two.
TIE PAMA CANAL.
1 GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING DOOMED
TO EARLY ABANDONMENT.
The Work Done so Far, the Money Spent,
and Human Lives Lost.
M. Boulange, a French engineer who re
cently came from Panama to recuperate his
health, talked about de Lessep'S great ca
nal scheme the other evening before the
Society of Civil Engineers in
He is a compact, wirv little
New York.
man, with close-cropped
black hair and a
complexion tanned to
wears goia spectacles, vvnat looked nice a
plaster cast, but which in reality was a
unique model of the Isthmus with the line
of the canal marked in blue the gift of
de Lesseps to the society was con
spicuous on an easel and used by the guest of
the evening for illustration. M. Boulange
has been three years attached to the canal en
gineers' corps from France, and therefore
knew what he was talking about.
"The construction of the canal," he said,
"has been very difficult work, aiid the com
pletion will be much more difficult. I have
grave doubts that it can be finished, and, if it
is, the cost will be three or four times what
has already leen expended. The New York
steam drill is being used by some of
the contractors, but with such little
success at certain points that only
about five blast holes are made a hour. The
climate is very discouraging, and none of the
engineers who had plans for necessary dams
could remain long enough on the ground to
finish them. I was obliged to return to
France myself, and when I got home the
isthmus fever prostrated me for three months
consecutively.
''Even at this late day there is not a first
class map or profile of the canal. Neither are
there any official data of practical value to
the surviving engineers."
For those and other reasons M. Boulange
thought the gigantic undertaking would
eventually be abandoned. Speaking of what
had been done and the cost, he said: "Not
more than one-fifth of the work has
been done, or about 30,000,000 cubic
metres out of 140,000,000 cubic metres
have been excavated. It has cost
900,000,000f., equal to about $200,000,
000. Nothing has been done in Colon harbor,
but about sixteen miles of the canal route in1
land from the harbor has been opened up.
It is true, as reported, that a dredge did
not shift its position for six weeks,
having all it could do churning out
the sliding clay. The great cut,
which is to be 318 feet in depth, has been dug
out about thirty-eight feet. The original
urvey made by Lieutenant Wise is of little
value. There is very little sand in the soil,
but plenty of clay and more solid rock.
A considerable portion of the route
is through swamps and has not been sur
veyed. Owing to the peculiar formation of
the rock in the big cut the blasting will have
to be more extensive than was at first calcu
lated. "Great difficulty has been experienced in
getting laborers owing to the unhealthy
climate. I was four months . getting six
men. We have sent to Trinidad, Hong-Kong
and other remote places with varied succ ess.
We got about 800 Chinese, and they brought
their own cooks and physicians for sanitaiy
reasons. Sixty per cent, of the coni
moivlaborers die each year. Eighty per cent,
of the white jK-rish. Last year our society
sent seventy-two engineers, agents, clerks,
etc., to Panama, and there are eleven of us
left fit for work. Forty-live died and the
remainder are as good as dead. It is
a fact that there is a sliding mountain
on the line of work which is. and
promises to causa, no end of trouble. Scotch
dredges only are in use. We got 170 coolies
to go to work after much time and nion"V,
and they stand the climate and labor better
than any other class.
We have enough funds on hand to con
tinue the work about four months. After the
money is exhausted I think de Lesseps will be
forced to abandon the enterprise for good or
or some yea re at least. Th? scarcity of
money; impracticability of the present route,
and unexpected obstacles are reasons suifi
iient. "It rains about nine months of the year on
the isthmus, day and night. The three dry
months are not entirely free of rain either.
The result is that there are frequent freshets
jdong the line, and portions of the work have
had to be rebuilt repeatedly. At one point, in
January, 1883, the water rose 21 feet in six
hours, and -not only destroyed our railroad
bridge, but other valuable superstructures. "
BLOWN UP BY FIREWORKS
Several Workmen and one "Woman
Injured in au Explosion.
A dispatch from New York, says: Six
Italians were brought to this city from Co
rona, L. I., and were sent to Bellevue Hos
pital. All were more or less burned about
the head, face and the upper p rt of the
body by an explosion of fireworks, in the
manufacture of which they were engaged at
the time of the accident. The explosion oc
curred on the ground floor of Michael and
Maggie Varone's shanty, near the Varona
station. Maggie was most severely burned
about the face. She sought to save he child
renJoseph, aged three years, and Frank,
aged fourteen monts a d in this way in
creased her injuries. Michael, the husband,
was only slightly burned.
Just what occasioned the explosion none
of the injured ones seems to know. It oc
cured while they were rolling and topping
fire crackers. The others who suffered be
sides the Marone family were Tony and
Michael Carra and Tony Delapenda, all
three of whom boarded with Mr. and Mrs.
Varone.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra, $3. 25
a$3.75; Wheat-Southern Fultz, 83a84cts;
Corn Southern White, 52a53cts, Yellow, 48a
40 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pennsylvania,
33a37cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania,
58a60cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
14a$1450; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8.00; Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 18a20cts., near-by receipts
16al8cts. ; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 11
allcts., Western, 9Kal0cts.; Eggs 15al6;
Cattle 4.25a$5.25; Swine oa6cts. ;
Sheep and Lamb 2a4X cts.; Tobacco
Leaf Inferior, la$1.50, Good Common, 3aS4,
Middling, 5a$6, Good to fine red, 7a$9, Fancy,
9a$12.
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, 3.50aS4; Wheat No. 1 Whit , 93
a94 cts.: Rye State, 54a56; Corn Southern
Yellow, 47a48cts.; Oats-White State, 38a39
cts. ; Butter State, 14al9 cts. ; Cheese State,
llal4cts. ; Eggs 14al4 cts.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania,
fancy, 3.50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 86a87 cts ; Rye Pennsyl vania
57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 45a47 cts;
Oats 36a37 cts.; Butter State, 18al9 cts.;
Cheese N. Y. Factory. Hal2 cts. ; Eggs
State. 12al3 cts.
NEW HAVEN MONUMENT.
Imposing Ceremonies at the Dedi
cation of a Soldiers' Memorial.
More than 100,000 strangers, not including
th military, navy, war veterans, and in
viiid guests were in New Haven, Conn., on
Friday, to witness the exercises of the dedi
cation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monu
ment at East Rock Park. It was the greatest
holiday New Haven has ever known. Busi
ness was almost entirely suspended. An the
public buildings were profuselv decorated
with flags and bunting, and so were thousands
of private dwellings, not only along the line
of inarch, but in localities far distant from
where any of the imposing ceremonies took
place.
Opening exercises commenced . Thursday
mum; wilu a recepuon to Ixens. Shprman
Sheridan, Terry, SchoSeld, Sickles, and other
soldiers by the local G, A. R. posts. The re
ception was attended by thousands of people.
During the evening there was a brilliant py
rotechnic display in East Rock Park.
The parade was the finest ever given in
New Haven by far, and many say it was the
best ever seen in New England. More than
ten thousand men were in line, commanded
by Brevet-Brigadier General Edwin S.
Greeley, United States Volunteers, Tenth
Connecticut Volunteers.
After a march of five miles the procession
reached the Rock, where it was greeted with
a salute by the artillery. The exercises at the
Rock included an opening address by Presi
dent Timothy D wight, of Yale, who pre
sided; invocation by the .Rev. Dr. Har
wood, rector of Trinity Church; all oration
by the Rev. Newman Smyth.pastor of Centre
-hurch ; short addresses from General Samuel
J?. Merwin.Town Agent Reynolds,and Mayor
York. National airs were siiug by the Memo
rial Guard and a large chorus.
The monument was erected by the town
and city of New Haven in honor of her heroes
of the Revolutionary War, the Mexican war,
the War of 1812, and the civil war. The
height of East Rock, where the monument
stands, is 405 feet, and the height of the monu
ment 110 feet, making a total elevation of 526
feet above the sea level. On the corners
of the pedestal are bronzed figures of
Prosperity, History, Victory and Patriotism,
nine feet in height, and the shaft is capped
with a bronze figure of the Angel of Peace,
eleven feet high. Between the statues and
on each face of the masonry are bas reliefs
commemorating the four great American
wars. x
The monument is of Hallowell granite, and
cost $50,500.
A TEXAS TRAIN ROBBED.
Passengers Forced, at the Pistol's Muz
zle to Surrender Their Money and
Jewelry.
A dispatch from Houstdn, Tex., says:
The most daring train robbery that ever
occurred in Texas was perpetrated a shor
distance this side of Schulenburg on the
Southern Pacific Railway. As the train
drew up at the station two men with drawn
revolvers mounted the engine, covered the
engineer with their weapons and compelled
him to pull the train out to the open prairie
a few hundred yards to the east, where a
fire was burning, around which stood eight
or ten men armed with Winchester rifles.
The two robbers on the engine stood guard
over the man at the throttle while the others
went through the mail, express and passen
ger cars
Nearly all the passengers were asleep and
did not know what was going on until they
were aroused by the robbers. The first man
tackled bv the thieves was W. Newbursrer.
of New ork, whom they struck on the head
with a revolver. They secured from him
seventy-rive dollars in cash and several
diamonds and a gold watch, valued in all at
about .51, (XX). Lou Mayer, of Cincinnati was
relieved of thirty-five, dollars. R. L. Arm
stead, of Ne w York, gave up 0. He had a
larger amount of money with him but it was
hidden in the sleeping" car. A gentleman
from Mexico whose name could not be
learned, lost $400. All of the passengers
lost what valuables they had, and it is diffi
cult to form an esti 1 a! e of the amount of
money and jewelry secured. It is reckoned
however, at $5,000. Wells, Fargo & Co.s
express car was also gone through, but the
amount of money taken cannot be ascertain
ed. No mail route agent was on the train,
but the through mail pouches in the express
car were all cut-open and their contents ap--propriated.
The total amount secured by the robbers
is put down at 8,000 or $10,000, but when a
careful revision of the matter is made the
figures may be changed. There is no doubt
that considerable booty was secured, and
the gang made off with it successfully. The
whole countrv is aroused and in arms.
Several parties have
robbers.
gone in search of the
FIGHT WITH A MADMAN.
He Tries to Kill His Wife, and then
Attacks His Brother-in-Law. A
Struggle for Life.
A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says:
Jas. B. Molcow, an insane patient, escaped
from State Asylum No. 2, and made his way
to his home, near Grover, twenty miles dis
tant arriving there about eleven o'clock
His wife had retired, but her brother Mr.
Allen, was up. The crazy man silently en
tered the rear door, struck Allen a terrible
blow on the head with a. bar of iron, pro
ducing insensibility. Next he entered his
wife's bedrobm and awoke her. He had a
pi tol, which he presented to her head and
bade her follow him. The frightened wo
man obeyed, and he led her to the orchard.
He commanded her to take a position with
hpr back against a tree. The woman com
pile I. The man then drew from his po.ket
a number of stones, which he picked up on
the way, and, with a revolver in his left
hand pointed at the woman, began to pelt
her with them. When she turned to run in
to the house the maniac opened fire on her
with a revolver, but did not succeed in hit
ting her. In the meantime Allen had re
turned to consciousness, and, hearing the
shooting, rjashed to the spot armed with a
Winchester r.fle. It was very dark, and be
fore he knew it, the maniac was within ten
feet of bim and began firing. Allen raised
his rifle and fired, Molcow falling to the
ground with a shot through the thigh. Think
ing7 he had fatally injured the man, Allen
dropped his rifle and went to his assistance.
Just as he was stooping to raise him up, the
maniac cauorht him about the neck and then
ensued a life and death struggle. Tfie great
strength of the crazy nian soon overpowered
Allen, and just as he was giving up, Mrs.
Molcow came up and struck her husband on
the head , knocked him senseless. Soon after
the sheriff arrived and ironed the maniac,
who is now safely lodged in the asylum
hospital.
CONFEDERATE
FLAB
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND KETOKtS
THE ORDER FOK THEIR RETURN.
A White House Statement as to the
Origin of the Order.
A Washington special says that the extra
ordinary outburst of public sentiment
throughout the country, condemning the re
turn of captured Confederate flags to the
Grovernors of the respective Southern States,
had an immediate result at the White House
in the issue of the following letter from the
President to the Secretary of War:
"I have to-day considered with more care
than when the subject was orally presented
to me the action of your depart
ment directing letters to be addressed to the
Governors of all the States offering to re
turn, if desired, to the loyal States the Union
flags captured during the war of the rebel
lion by the Confederate forces and
afterwards recovered by Government troops;
and to the Confederate States the flags cap
tured by the Union forces, all of which, for
many years, have been packed in boxes and
stored in the cellar and attic of the War De
partment. I am of the opinion that the return
of the flags in the manner thus contemplated
is not authorized by existing law, nor justi
fied as an Executive act. I request, there
fore, that no further steps be taken in the
matter, except to examine and inventory
these flags and adopt proper measures for
their preservation. Any direction as to the
final disposition of them should originate with
Cougress. Yonrs truly,
Grover Cleveland."
Prior to the issue of this letter dispatches
from G. A. R. veterans and others came pour
ing into Washington protesting against th
original order, and legal proceedings in behall
of the State of Ohio or at least of the Gov
ernor and leading men of that State had beer
set on foot to procure an injunction against
the carrying out of the order. Governoi
Foraker transmitted to the President a tele
gram he had received from the Ohio Depart
ment ot the brand Army 01 the Kepubhc,
said to represent 37,000 ex-soldiers, protesting
against the order, and added tor himself:
k'Tn transmitting this message I desire tc
comply with its request, and do most ear
nestly protest against the action to which i1
relates. The patriotic people of this State art
shocked and indignant beyond anything I cat
express. I earnestly request you to revoke
the order that has given such unqualified
offense.
The Governor also sent the following U
General Boynton at Washington:
"Get the best legal advice, and if action cai
be maintained have appropriate legal pro
ceedings instituted to enjoin the return of th
rebel flags, especially those captured by Ohi
troops. If this outrage must be' committet
it will at least help us to endure it with great
er patience to know tnat all lawtul mean
have been used to prevent it. All expense
will be provided.
General Bovnton. acting upon Governo:
Foraker's instructions, engaged ex-Secretan
George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, am
Judge Shellabarger, of Ohio, as counsel t
institute proceedings to enjoin the Secretary
of War from carrying out the order. Th
matter would have been brought be
fore the Supreme Court of the District
The papers were to have been based upon tht
claim that the Secretary of War was abou'
to dispose of public property without au
thority of law.
The following statement with regard to th
President's action concerning the propose
return of the battle-flags was made at thi
White House to a representative of the As
sociated Press:
'When the question was proposed toth
President by the Adjutant-General an im
portant feature suggested was the return t
the loyal States of the flags which ha
been captured ' by the Confederates am
retaken by our army at the time o:
the collapse of the rebellion. They, witl
such Confederate flags as had been capt
ured from the enemy by our troops, had, i
was represented, for a long time laid uncara
for and neglected, packed away in boxes, ii
the cellar of the "V ar Department, and hat
been removed to the attic as a better plab
lor their safekeeping. The disposition o
the flags, which seemed to be- answering n
good purpose where they were, was the mail
point, nd the consideration was presented t
the President that some flags had been re
turned to loyal States upon their request ii
individual cases, and the rest, if desired, migh
as well all be returned together. The retun
of the Confederate flags which wrere with th
others in the department was suggested, bu
there was not the slightest thought of interf er
ing in any way with the captured flags now
held by any State. The fact, apparently re
cei ved with favor by the country, that lately ii
one or more cases Northern troops visiting
their late antagonists at the South had returne
to them flags which had been captured in battL
from those whose hospitalities they were re
ceiving, the further fact that northern troop?
who within a short tim had been visitinj
Southern battlefields had spoken in th&warm
est terms of the kind and hospital treatmen
they had received from former Confederate
soldiers, and the fact, too, that soldier;
from the North and South were just gather
ing at Washington to meet in friendly com
petition at the national drill, seemed to indi
cate that if the Union flag's were returnee
to the loyal States which had lost then
in battle it would not oe mconsisi
ent with the fraternal sentiment whicl
seemed to be prevalent to offer, a
the same time, to the Governors of th
States formerly in rebellion a return of the
flags which we had taken from their soldiers
The right of the department to make these re
turns being question d by the President,sucl
right was distinctly asserted and pre
cedents alleged; and thereupon his ora1
assent was given to the proposed
action. The matter was dismissed from
his mind until comment thereupon within th
last day or two brought it again to his atten
tion, when, upon personally examining tht
law and considering the subject more care
fully, he satisfied himself that no dispositioi
of these flags could be made without Con
gressional action; whereupon he directed t
suspension of operations by the letter madt
public this evening."
ELEPHANTS ON THE RAMPAGE
A Panic in a Circus One of tho Lady
Performers Injured.
A dispatch from Chicago says: During
the performance of a" circus at New Lisbon,
Ohio, Saturday night a panic occurred. An
elephant which was performing became un"
ruly and attacked a clown, injuring him se
riously. The trainer, who was coming into
the ring with another elephant, hastened to
the clown's assistance, when the larger ani
mal also started on the rampage, causing a
stampede. The confusion for a time was
terrible men, women and children yelling
and crowding for the entrance When quiet
was restored, it was found that one young
lady's leg had been broken, and several wo
men and children badly bruis d. One of the
lady riders during the excitement fell in the
midst of the four horses she was riding, and
r
w s terribly injured about the head and
chest. Her condition is precarious.
A FALSE MARRIAGE.
The Heartless Triek of a Gang;
of
Sharpers on Poor Serving Girl.
A dispatch from New York, says; Jennie
Schneider called at the Bureau of Vital
Statistics, in New York city, to get a tran
script of her marriage certific its. She said
she was married ou Sunday, June 5, but
there was no record of any such event.
Miss Schneider came from Riga Russia,
seven years ago. fcne gives ner age as
twenty-five. She has worked as a servant
She had saved $125 by the first of the present
month. On the morning of the day on
which she claims to have been married she
met Annie Sammet, a friend, who induced
her to take a walk down-town, In the
course of their ramblings Jennie and Annie
called on Annie's brother, Adolph Sammt,
who lives at No. 9 Avenue B. There Jeuoie
was introduced to Adolph. " Adolph asked
her if she was not tired of being a servant.
She said she was, and would like to get mar
ried. '1 know just the man for yon,"
Sammt replied. Then he went out and
presently returned with a man whom he in
troduced as Adolph Bannet, a cutter in a
large wholesale house 011 Broadway, who, he
said, had an income of $25 a week. Tht
men set about arranging for the inrrriaga
at once. An alleged rabbi was summoned.
The knot was tied, and the bride was given
a certificate in Hebrrew, for which she
paid the rabbi $5. Sammt demanded $10 as a
brokerage fee, which Jennie paid without a
raurnur. Then the groom asked his wife
for money with which to buy furniture.
She turned over to him $101. As Bannet
was about was about to leave the room
Bammt deiraiided the settlement of an alleg
ed board bill, amounting to $50. Bannet
paid it out of the $101. Then he told Mrs.
Bannet that $51 was not enough to begin
housekeeping, on and asked her for her rings
on which to raise money to secure a home.
Jennie,s four gold rings, valued at $25 fol
lowed her money. Bannet failed to materi
alize the next day, and there was a great
howl in the rooms on Avenue B. He turn
ed up on Tuesday and told Mrs. B. that he
had secured rooms at No. 49 Tillary street,
Brooklyn. Accompanied by the Sammts,
the pair proceeded to Tillary street.
There Bannet i-ent Jennie out
for some water, and while she was gone he
cleared out the trunks and left. For a week
Jennie hunted for her fugitive husband, and
on Wednesday turned up at the Essex Mar
ket Police Court, where she sought a war
rant for his arrest. "She never discovered
that she had been victimized until Thurs
day. CYCLONE AND LOSS OF LIFE.
Five Persons Killed and Fourteen
Seriously Injured Prop
erty Destroyed.
A dispatch from Grand Forks, Dak., says:
This city was visited with a destrvctive tor
nado Thursday afternoon. Twenty-five or
more buildings, including the Catholic
church and the University of North Dakota
were blown down. The laboratory and mu
seum in the university were almost totally
destroyed, besides hundreds of smaller dwel
lings, storehouses and sheds. The following
were killed outright; Mrs. Follett and her
mother, Mrs, Davis; Cora Starbird, aged 12
years: a man named Guminerson, in Fast
Grand Forks.
The seriously injured were: A Starbird
and child, Mrs. Ed. Tierney and two chil
dren Mrs. J. Andrews and two children,
Mrs. Talt. n and two children, Mrs. Guyot
and daughter, at the University of North
Dakota.
In East Grand Forks focrteen basmess
buildings were destroyed, tfotn Dnaes
across tne river weiw acp ct,,j.
total loss is estimated at $100,000. The
storm was local. The train from the North
was blown from the track about four miles
out and rolled over a couple of times. No
one was killed, but many persons were ser
iously injured. ,
During the storm Halver Deland,of Wales
township, was killed. The storm is reported
quite severe at Manvel and Ardock, where
buildings Vere blown away. The Andrews
family had their house torn to pieces and
carried 100 feet. Ed. Tieraey's house was
overturned and his wife injured. The chil
dren were carried 1.50 feet and not hurt. One
of them, aged 6 years, was carried across
the railroad track and lay there during the
whole storm. C. A. Myerstrom is danger
ously hurt about the head.
SHOOTING BY A BOY,
A Jealous Lad Mortally Wounds a
Comrade Search for the Assassin.
A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says:
Young Albert Brummell some weeks ago
had a difficulty with a lad named Michael
stag. The latter threatened vengeance, but
it wfcs thought to be only a boy's foolish
utterance. Friday evening while Br ummell
was engaged in playing ball in the eastern
part of the city a shot was fired from a
clump of trees and the lad fell to the ground
with a bullet in his abdomen. .The rest of
his playmates became frightened and scat
tered in all directions. The police were no
tified and responded immediately and took
the boy to the city hospital.
Brummell is only 10 years of age, a son oi
a prominent and wealthy German. It is
understood' that the quarrel occured con
cerning the jealousy of young Michaelstag,
who imagined that Brummell was trying to
unsurp him in the affections of a certain
young German school girl. There is great
indignation in German circles and every
effort is being made to capture the supposed
assassin. Young Brummell is at the point of
death. There is little hope of his recovery. .
A THIEVING SERVANT.
She Stole Three Wagon Loads of Goods
From Her Employer.
A, dispatch from West Chester, Pa., says:
Three wagon loads of valuable goods have
been recovered in the house of Emily Spence,
a colored woman, who had stolen them at
various times from her mistress, Mrs. Mary
Jones, a wealthy invalid residing in the
borough.
Mrs. Jones received an anonymous note a few
days ago saying that she was being systemat
ically robbed by her servant. A warrant
was procured and Emily Spence's house was
searched. There were found five carpets,
laid or stored away in rolls; lace curtains,
fine bed and table linen, brick-a-brack, sdver
wareand silks to the value altogether or
about $600. The woman confessed and said
the thefts had extended over several years.