North Carolina Newspapers

ml 4 A"$v9 IB III 11 X W hi II r m VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1887. NUMBER 15. I4 . A lift r N 1 1 I 3 DIRECTORY. MAILS. Northern and Greenville Due daily j s j). in. Closes at 10 p. m. North and South side river mail pur Monday, Wednesday and Friday at ; p. m. Closes at 7 following mornings. Office hours 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. Money Order and Registry Depart ment t) a. m. to 5 p. m, STATE GOVERNMENT. . 'f-n,1 TVT Ol Lieut. Governor Chas. M. Stedman. s,t, !, t;iry of State William L. Saun-ier-. Aii'litor W. P. Roberts. Tir.-ixurcr Donald W. Bain. surt. of Public Instruction S. M. r ringer. Attorney General T. H. Davidson. STATE HOARD OF AGRICULTURE. ( 'ummisioner John Robinson. Secretary T. K. Bruner. C'iicmit Charles W. Dabney, Jr. General Immigration Agent-J. T. ?;itmk. COUNTY. Siientf and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge s. Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. Uegister of Deeds Burton Stilley. Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, chair'n, J. T. Wiufield, F. R Hodges. F. B. Hooker, H. N. Waters. Board of Education J. L. Winfield, -chair'n, P. II. Johason and F. B. Guil ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction Kev. Nat Harding. Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T. Tayloc. CITY. Mayor C. M. Brown. Clerk John D. Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. Chief of Police M. J. Fowler. Councilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. 31orton, S. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens, Y. II. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton. i CHURCHES. .Episcopal Rev, Nat. Harding, Rec tor. Services every Sunday morning and r.ig'.it. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Rev. Nat. Harding, Superintendent. Presbyterian Rev, S. M. Smith, pas tor. Services every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Superintendent, Jas. L. Fowle. Methodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor. Services every Sunday morning and ev ening. Superintendent, Warren Mayo. Sunday School, 3.30 p. m. TEMPERANCE MEETINGS. lufurm Club Regular meeting every Tuesday night at 7.30 at Club Rooms. N C. T. U. Regular meetings every Thursday. 3 p. m., at Rooms of Reform iub. C ub and Union Prayer Meeting every Sunday, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m. Ma Meeting in Court House evej-y 2d Thursday nisdit in each month. LODGES. Orr Lodge, Xo. 101, A. F. and A. M. meets at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues day nights of each month E. S. Hoyt, M., R. T. Hodges, Secretary. Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F. Meets every Friday night at their hall Gilbert Rumbcy, P. N. G., J. R. Ross, Secretary. Washington Lodge, No. 1490, 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. 350, American Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and th Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall c. M. Brown, Commander, Wm. M. Cherrv, Collector. Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and Lad ifs of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall Wm. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen. Secretary. Exc elsior 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, Jf. C. OFFICE, C0ENER 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 TOBAGGO STORE S.H.WIIlAMS,Propr. Sole Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff All Brands of Snuff; Cigars and Tobacco. Everything in the Tobacco line, and New -Goods constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly CONFLAGRATION A MILLION AND A LOSSES. HALF OP Groat Destruction of Property in the City by the Lakes Thousands of Barrels of 3Iess Pork Consum edSerious Accidents to the Firemen Scenes and In cidents. A dispatch from Chicago, says: Early Sunday morning one of the employes of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company discovered a fire in the tank-room. In a few minutes one of the tanks exploded, scat tering burning lard over the adjacent buildings, and a dozen seperate fires were soon burning. The destruction of the im mense establishment was nearly complete. Though the fire was under control this evening, tourteen and halt hours alter it started the embers Loss $1,250,000. are still smoldering. The Chicago Packing and Provision Company's works occupy atout six acres of ground, but the fire wa-; kept within the district bounded by Fortieth street, Centre avenue, Forty-second street and the rail road tracks, a block west of Centre avenue. This territory contained four large build ings. The main building was 300 by 475 feet. In it a portion of the killing was done and the hanging, cutting, packing, curing and other work incidental to a slaughtering establishment. Except the curing aoom, in which were 19,000.000 pounds of short-ribs, the main building and its contents are a total loss. The curing room, 100 by 150 feet, and four stories higg. lost its roof, but stone flre-walls saved its contents, a portion of them m a roasted condition. Li tne east side of the main building was the warehouse, 120 by 400 feet, with four-stories and a basement. The two upper floors at the south end were used for killing purposes. In the warehouse were 17,000 barrels of mess pork belonging to Armour & Co. The building and much of the pork was wholly destroyed. About o,000 live hogs were in the building when the fire started, but the company's employes succeeded in getting most of them out. Between 000 and 700 hogs were burned alive in the building. Back of the main building was the fertiliz ing factory one hundred feet square, and the engine-house, fifty by sixty-five feet. Both structures were burned completely. The fact that ni wind was blowing when the fire started was probably the o ly cir cumstance that saved the entire stock yards from destruction. No jx?rson seems to know ihe origi n of the fire. While one little squad of firemen were standing in a freight car playing on the burning tank-room, the tanks exploded, heavy beams slashed through the roof of the car, smashing pipeman's ankle and knocking Lieut. Elliott unconscious. Soon after the walls of the warehouse tumbled to the ground, disclosing great heips of mess pork. P. D. Armour immediately set 100 men to work removing the meat. Mr. Armour ruefully watched the mass of pork and cinders being cleared away, while his mauager stood on an elevati n of mess pork and superintended the work. In the debris were carcasses of hogs roasted whole. After the flames had consumed most of the wood work of the buildings the fire still held sway in the great mounds of burn ing meat. Smoke thick with the fumes of tons of roasting pork, rolled over the stock ?mis and drove into the eyes of the firemen, he firemen were at times compelled to leave their hose and plunge their heads into buckets of water. Tnen they sat in turns with handkerchiefs dipjed in water on their swollen eyelids or bathed their blistered cheeks in dirty water. The men who were attempting to drive through the covered runways the live hogs in the upper stories were forced by the flames to desist. Dozens of affrighted ani mals jumped from the windows or sprang through the 0xm hatchways. The men who had braved the flames fled from the falling hogs. During the afternoon, while a num ber of the men were inside the main building one of the division walls fell, seriously injur ing J. A. Schaffer, Michael Murphy, W. V. White, Capt. Nichols, and Thomas Elliott. Murphy died to-night. Mr. Armour valued his 17,000 .barrels of pork at $360,000. He said that with the sdvage and insurance he would come out even. He was unable to give the amount of insurance. The plant of fie Chicago Packing and Provision Com pany was valued at $: 500,000, and the stock at $700,000. A large p rtion of the stock in store belonged to other parties, .'aid the loss will be sustained by them. About hdf of the Chic go Packing and Provis on Com pany's 2,000 employes will be thrown out of work. SUIT ON AN OPTION. A Novel Case of Stock Speculation Decided in Richmond. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says: tv, rN..,.if Pnurt of Richmond decided an i nt: v ii v i -www. important suit, that of Thos. A. Seddon against S. M. Rosenbaum for forty thousand dollars for illegal breach of contract in ref erence to the purchase by the former of the latter of two" hundred shares of Richmond and Danville Railroad stock on March 11th, 18S). Seddon, while on the train with sev eral gentlemen, stated that he thought Dan villestock, which as then selling at 80, would go up to 250. Rosenbaum remarked: 'You talk pretty strong about Danville, but you won't bet any money on itf fr seddon made a proposition, which was accep ed bv Mr. Rosenbaum, which was afterwards eciared off, as Mr. Rosenbaum said that it was not legal. Subsequently they verbally agreed that Mr. Rosenbaum was to sell Seddon two hundred shares ot the capital stock of the Richmond and Danvi le Railroad Company at per share, the stock to be cal.cd for at his option, at any time within three years from d ite ot con tract; whenever the call was made, Seddon to pay $'.( per share. Mr. Seddon m July, lKMi, tendered to Mr. Rosenbaum 24,OJU, that being the agived price of W per share, for the two hundred shares, and demanded of him the shares of stock. Mr. Rosenbaum refused to deliver the same or any part thereof, saying that he considered the mat ter all a joke. At the time . r. Seddon made the tender, Danville had gone up to onenuti dred and fifty. One of the gentlemen in the party made a memorandum of the agree ment. Under the instructions of the court, the jury found for the defendant. Up to June 1 there had been redeemed nearly 7,000,000 trade dollars, which is the sum estimated by the mint director as the probable maximum of these coins outstand ing. After September 1 no more trade dol lars can be redeemed under the e listing law. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. Rev. Father Michael, principal of a UithoJic College, was struck by a train and killed at Olean, N. Y. John Engberg, a young printer of Brook lyn, N. Y., wound up a protracted spree by shooting his widowed mother and then him self, both wounds being fatal. He expressed great satisfaction at having committed the unnatural crime. Charles Aldex, seventy years old, the inventor of milk -condensing, fruit-evaporating and other processes, committed suicide at RanfhJph, Mass., by shooting himself . Ho was temporarily insane. Five men were buried under a sand bank at Erie, Penn. Two were killed. (A stroke of lightning fatally injured two gypsy girls while sitting under a tree at Reading, Penn. A family of five persons was made iil at Philadelphia by eating canned salmon, and alarming revelations have been made in con nection with deleterious ingredients used by bakers and confectioners in that city, from which several leaths have recently occurred. By the upsetting of the barge P. H. Walter on Lake P'rie during a cyclone eight persons lost their lives. Daniel Pratt, a crank, known all over the country by the title, "The Great American Traveler," of which he was very proud, died a few days since in a Boston hospital. He had led a wandering life for many years . It took a large police force to quell a dis turbance around Faneuil Hall, Boston, in which British-Americans were holding a jubilee banquet against the protests of Irish Americans. Permission to use the hall had been granted by the Board of Aldermen. Five men were fatally injured by an ex plosion of fire damp in a Scranton colliery. British-born residents .of New York cele brated Queen Victoria's Jubilee by speeches and music in the Metropolitan Opera House and fireworks on Staten Inland. Irishmen ana women opposed to tne Juoiiee held a crowded meeting in Cooper Union "to com memorate the dead of the Irish race who have perished on the scaffold and in the Irish dungeon, and by famine and eviction during the tifty years of Victoria's misrule." The first surprise in Jacob Sharp's tria was the appearance on the witness stand of W. H. Miller, one of the New York Aldermen of 1884, under indictment. Miller testified for the people, and told how he had received $5,000 from "Boodle" Alderman De Lacy, now in Canada, but had suspected the source, and returned the money to De Lacy. Other evidence was also given tending to show Sharp's intimacy with the "Boodle'' Alder man. The Army of the Potomac Veterans have been holding their annual reunion at Sara toga. Resolutions were presented by General D. E. Sickles and adopted that the next an nual meeting be held at Gettysburg, July 1, 2 and 3, 1888. and that the survivors of the Army of Northern Virginia be invited to meet with the society. General J. C. Robin son, of New York, was elected presideut and an oration delivered by Chauncey M. De pew. Moses J. Speights, a fifteen-year-old in mate of the House of Refuge for Juvenile De linquents on Randall's Isiand at New York killed Watchman Cole with a baseball bat in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. The collapse in the coffee und wheat "deals" has been followed by a bear raid on the New York Stock market, Manhattan Ele vated stock tumbling forty -one points in a few minutes and other stocks all reaching lower figures. Great excitement prevailed for a while on Wall street. The Reading (Penn.) Iron Works, employ ing 2,000 hands,, have been closed. The em ployes refusal a contemplated reduction of ten per cent, in their wages. Mrs. John Lyons, aged forty years, com mitted suicide at Amsterdam, N.Y., by plung ing head foremost into a barrel of water. Residents of a part of Shenandoah, Penn., have been much alarmed by the subsidence of the ground on which their "houses stood. . South and "West. A lady or rortsmouth, V a. was gored to death bv the same bull which killed her hus- band a year ago. The Fidelity National Bank, one of Cin cinnati's most solid financial institutions, closed its doois because it was $1,:0i.000 short, the money having been used by three of its officers to carry on the late Chicago wheat deal. Vice-President Harper, Cashier Baldwin and Assistant Cashier Hopkins were arrasted for fraudulently using the bank's funds. Later developements in the failure of the Fidelity National Bank at Cincinnati show that its losses will reach $fi,(X)0,0(K), and that its depositors may get nothing. Three other concerns dragged down by the Bank's suspen sion will lose 'from $,0U0,000 to $4,000,000 more. Great fraud was used by three ofricei's of the institution in using its funds to "corner"' the Chicago wheat market. A freight train of eighteen cars was wrecked near Sedalia, Mo. Loss, 50,000. John R. Btchtel, the founder of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has just given $175,000 to the college. His total gifts to the college are $400,000 The State Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Ala. , has been destroyed by fire. Total loss, $300,000. Twenty boarders in a Chicago boarding house were chloroformed and robbed. Misy Mary Wakefield, a passenger on the steamer Champlain, recently burned on Lake Michigan, swam ashore with a child in her arms. THK entire plant ot the L'meno. Milwaukee ,nd St. Paul Rolling Mills at Watertown, Vis. , has been destroyed by lire. Loss,S150, 00. Alfred Blunt (colored: was hanged at St. Louis for wife murder, and Edward need suffered a similiar fate at Indcpen lence, Mo., for the murder of O. H. Loomis, n a drunken row. Washington. The President's next trip with Mrs. Cleve and will probably be to the mountains of Virginia, where they will spend Mis. Cleve and's twenty-third birthday, July 21. The President has appointed the following )ostmasters: Edward A. Preuss at Los Ai jeles, Cal.; Willis fj. Masters at Pasadena, .a.l; John H. Steubenranch at Pella, Iowa, fames H. Freeman at Franklin, Mass.: lames M. Nickail at Hannibal, Mo. The estimated increase of the population )f the United States by immigration alone luring the fiscal vear ending June oO, i: norethan 500,000." The aggregate popula iion is put at nearly 62,000.000. The President has appointed James Sheak ey, of Greenville. Penn., to be Commissioner :or the District of Alaska, to live at Wrangel. A table has been published showing the iotal production of coal in the United States n 1886 to have been 107.682,209 tons, worth f 147,1 12,755. The Interstate Commission has adjourneJ 'or a few weeks' vacation. Foreign. Queen Vitoria granted United States Minister Fhelns a niTvatft finrlifinr rnr ...ip Durpose of jollowing him to present President 2level lid's jubilee congratulations. The ueen .returned warmest thanks for the Presi dent's ;ood wishes. A M( b fired the" Jewishtquarter in the town f Dui tszerdatelv, Hungary, causing great mfferi g and misery. The British Minister gave a dinner to the Diplomatic Corps on Tuesday in honor of the 3ueen Jubilee, An ixplosion destrdyed large chemical works esiT Manchester, England, and partly iemoh -bed adjoining houses. Many persons were injured. At tie children's festival held in Hyde Park, fiondon, in honor of the Queen's Jubi lee, 30 iTX little ones were present. Queen Victor a, the Prince and Princess of Wales greeted the children from a platform. p Among the many Jubilee presents received :y Queen Victoria was one of $37,000 sub scribed by 3,000,000 women. By the wrecking of a train in New South rVales seven passengers were killed and forty jijured. King Otto, of Bavaria, has been officially leclared to be insane. The Mayor of Cork has been removed be cause he hoisted a black flag on the occasion of the' iQueen's Jubilee, and because he has favored the Irish Nationalists. Consul-General Waller, of the United States, presided at a Jubilee banquet given by the foreign Consuls in London. Two hun dred persons were present, including the rep resentatives of forty nations. A Rio Janeiro paper says that on a farm in Brazil monkeys have been taaght to cut iiemp and prepare it for the market. At Valparaiso, up to May 21, 899 cases of cholera had occurred. Of this number 628 lied. MANGLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Four Men Killed and Several Injured in a Nanticoke Mine. A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: The busy valley of Nanticoke, a few miles away, is excited over a terrible mine acci dent that occurred in No. 4 slope of the Sus quehanna Coal Company. Three men were instantly killed. One died at noon and three others are so badly injured that it is thought they will not recover. The names of the dead are as follows : John McMadaman and three children. mmer, aged 40; wife John Keeley, miner, aged 24; single. Lotsy Vinoski, laborer, aged 28; single. Joseph Lesseps, aged 18; driver boy. The injured with no hopes of recovery are: Parney and John Lezkoski, 17 and 19 years old; door-tenders. Norman Thomas, a miner. It is reported that the latter is dead. The accident was caused by an explosion of dead ly fire-damp, but in what way is a profound mystery. The men wore engaged in driving a gangway while the 700 miners employed in the shaft were fortuna'ely absent. Had the full force been at work it is estimated that the fatality would have been frightful. The explosion was heard by Stable Boss Thomas J. Looman half a mile away underground, who gave the alarm. k few minutes before the explosion Fire jBoss John H. Williams passed through the ch miber where the men were at work. They were then partaking of a lunch. The boss found everything all right. A little later Joe Lesseps passed by with a car and a mule. The explosion followed immediately. Three men who sat on a tool-chest were hurled against the rocky walls and dashed; to pieces, their bodies being terribly mangled and burned. Young Lesseps was knocked senseless and the mule was killed. The boy fell under the car and was found where he had fallen. He died at noon. When discovered the clothing of the victims was found burned completely off and t eir bodies horribly eaten by the fire and mutilated by being hurled against the rocks at the side of the chamber. It is believed by those at work in the mine at the time of the accident that the mine was set on fire b' powder explosion, as sev eral kegs of powder are missing from the storehouse. BRAVE MARY WAKEFIELD. The Heroine of the Champlain Disas ter Deserving of Reward. A dispatch from Chicago says: The schooner Racine, the crew of which rescued the survivors of the Champlain disaster, ar rived here last evening. At the time the Champlain caught fire the Racine was lying alongside a pier six miles from Charlevoix. Captain Hanson woke up, saw the burning steamer, and sent a part of his crew in a yawl to rescue the perishing passengers. With the remainder of his crew he ran down the beach to an old fish-boat, launched it, and started for the wreck. The boat had not been used for a long time and le ked. When about half-way out to the Champlain, Captain Hanson came across a young woman who was toward shore with a child. This was Miss Mary - r n r Wakefield, of Charlevoix. She had lumped overboard with the six-year-old child of Captain Kehoa clasped in her arms. Grasping a broken fender, she clung to it, and seizing the cloth ing of the child in her teeth, she bravely struck out for the shore. Captain Hanson says she is the pluckiest woman he ever saw in his life. When he started to take her and the child into the boat, she told him to hurry away to the others, as she could takfe care of herself. She reached the shore in safety, and when another of the shipwrecked pas sengers was taken from the boat in an almost frozen condition, she took off her flannel un derskirt and v rapped it around him. When Captain Hanson reached th wreck the yawl of the Racine had picked up fifteen persons. He saved six more, and seventeen others floated ashore by the aid of planks and life preservers. SHOT BY A MANIAC. A Man Killed in Attempting to Pre vent a Crazy Saloon-Keeper's Suicide. A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, ?ays: W. T. Grisby, proprietor of the Unique Sample Rooms, became suddenly insane from brooding over financial trouble. He stood leaning on his safe before a crowd of friends, toying with a 45-calibre revolver, making elaborate preparations for suicide, and keep ing the crowd at bay with the weapon, threatening to kill any that approached. D. B. Kenny, his best friend, came into the saloon at the time, and running toward Grisbysaid: "He shan't be allow d to kill himself, poor tVll w, I will s ve him." Not heeding the command to halt. Kennedy pressed on and was shot through the heart. The maniac realized what he had done, sank to the floor helpless, moaning : 'The gai- lows, the gallows. 1 am gom g to the gal- j i0ws." He is now a raving maniac. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY THE CULMINATION OF A SANGUI NARY FACTION FEUD. Craig Tolliver and Three of His Followers Killed. A Kentucky feud of long standing which has cost many lives is ended at last. A Louisville dispatch gives the f ollawing his tory of the terrible series of tragedies and their origin: In Kentucky's lawless mountain county of Rowan was this morning enacted the final chapter in the bloodiest mountain vendetta known in the history of the State. Four desperate men forfeited their lives while re sisting the mandates of law. After the destruction of thousands of dollars' worth of property, and -he less of twenty-one lives. Rowan County can now return to peace and prosperity. To-day's work ends the succession of tragedies that have been enacted in that ounty since the beginning of the Martin Tolliver feud,not quite two years ago, the re sult of which up to date has'been, besides the killing of twenty-one men, the maiming for life of at least a score or more of persons, the destruction of all social relations and of nearly the entire business interests of the county, and a state of lawlessness and terror ism that have driven good men, with their families, away from home and friends to seek new homes in other parts of the country. The feud out of which to-day's tragedy grows began at the August election in 1884, when Cook Humphrey for Sheriff defeated Sam Gooden by a majority of 12. A drunken fight occurred, in which John Martin was badly hurt. He claimed that Floyd Tolliver and John Day beat him with clubs. Shooting followed in which Solomon Bradley, a bystander, was killed, Tolliver said by Martin. As a result of this fight, John Martin, "Ben," his father, "Will" and "Dave," his brothers, and Cook Humphrey, who had lived with the Martins when a boy and gone to school at Morehead from their farm, were ranged on one side; Marion, Craig and Floyd Tolliver, brothers, and "Bud," Jay and Wiley Tolliver, cousins, living in Elliott' County, on the other side. In December, John Martin met Floyd Tolliver in a whisky shop at Morehead and killed him. To escape lynching Martin was taken to Winchester jail. Six days later a forged order was presented to the jailer and Martin in irons put on the train to return to Morehead for trial. At Farmers, an inter vening station, a masked mob boarded the train and killed Martin. The Tollivers then began the work of exter minating the Martins and their friends, prom inent among them being the Cook Humphreys party, who sided with the Martins. Humphreys was chased into the bushes, escaping, but his friend, Ben Rayburn, was killed and a notice posted on his.body forbidding burial. Sym pathizers with the opposing faction were ambushed and shot down without mercy, until the blood of at least ten victims cried out for vengeance. The militia were called in, but the Tolliver gang were pro tected by a court in which Judge and jury were friends of the Tollivers, and the court proceedings were a farce. Perjured witnesses and a partial Judge and jury wiped away effectually each crime and turned the mon sters out to commit fresh iniquities. Sheriff Hogg, presumably acting under in structions from the State authoritiesfor he recently visited Frankfort to see Gov. Knott has been for about a week quietly organ izing a very large posse of determined men in the upper part of Rowan county and the ad joining counties for the purpose of arresting Craig Tolliver, or all the party that was impli cated in the murder of the Logan boys, two weeks ago. Craig Tolliver Tiad received in timations of this, but they were so vague that he supposed the party would be regula tors instead of a Sheriff's posse. Tolliver and his party, consisting of about ten men, were quite vigilant, and went heavily armed to meet every east ward bound train at the depot to search for suspicious characters, and to see that no one got off at Morehead but those whom they de sired. Sheriff Hogg equipped his large party with Winchester rifles, and the ammunition was secretly conveyed to his rendezvous while he was organizing the posse. Sheriff Hogg's band of men, numbering 200, appeared suddenly at Morehead about eight o'clock this morning. A cordon was first established around the entire town in the brush where the men could not be seen. The Sheriff then en tered the town at the head of about 100 well armed men. Craig Tolliver and his ten fol lowers immediately retreated to the Cottage Hotel, which they had previously barricaded in such a manner as to make it quite a for midable fortress. Sheriff Hogg then notified Tolliver that he had warrants for the arrest of all the men implicated in the killing of the Logan boys, and asked that they all submit peaceably to arrest under the law. Tolliver's reply was that neither he nor his men would be arested, and that a hundred men jcould not take them. His party then opened fire upon the Sheriff's posse. Quite a brisk rattle of mus ketry ensued, and the fighting was kept up for about two hours. The only casualty for a time was a flesh wound received by one of the Sheriff's posse. The attacking party, however, were gradually drawing their lines closer aronnd Tolliver's fortification, and the besieged party, finding things growing too warm, finally concluded to make a bold rush for liberty, cut their way through the Sheriff's lines, and take to the adjacent brush, which once reached would afford them a secure escape. As they made the rush they were met by a volley, which killed Craig Tolliver. Bud Tol liver, Jay Tolliver, and Hiram Cooper. They were all shot through the heart and died in stantly. Craig Tolliver seems to have been a general target, as he was so thor oughly riddled as to be scarcely rec ognizable. The other men of the gang got through safely, but as they ap proached the brush they were met by a vol ley from the outside cordon, a line of men stationed ten or twelve feet apart, all around the town. This volley wounded Cate Tolliver, a twelve-year-old boy, and three others, all of whom were capture! except Cate Tolliver, who CTriv;e 1 into the brush and escaped. The other three also escaped, but one was cap tured afterward. This brought the battle to an e:Hl, and the slain were viewed by the people, and the passengers from the train. The four men killed to-day were the lead ing spirits in the vendetta. A splendid cigar case made by a Havana firm from the finest woods grown in Cuba, handsomely carved and bearing a profusion of solid silver ornaments, will be filled with the finest cigars manufactured by the firm and sent to the Prince of Wales as a present on the occasion of the celebration of hia mother's jubilee. John Rosenfeld, of San Francisco, Cal., recently sent to Liverpoo1 a cargo of 4,000 tons of wheat.- This was the largest cargo of wheat ever sent through the Golden Gate on a sailing vessel. Elder Philip S. Fales, of the old Camp bellite Church in Nashville, Tenn., has nrpAnhed there since its dedication, sixtv-six years ago, and his age is eighty-nine. LOUISVILLE'S BIG SMOKE. Great Warehouses. Filled With To bacco, Burned to the Ground. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.T says: The most destructive fire that h ts occurred her in years broke outin tne tobacco quarter early Saturday morning. The entire square between Main and Market and Ninth and Tenth streets was the scene of the fire, and two acres of buildings, with their contents, were lost. The loss is estimate at fully a half million of dollars, and the insurance cannot be obtained for weeks yet. The pa pers of the various firms are in the safes, which are mixed up with the debris. These will have to be recovered, and the 5,000 hogsheads of tobacco destroyed checked up before the accurate figures are known. The box from which the alarm was turned was defective, and as a result, the flames were almost beyond control when the engines ar rived. The fire was incendiary,it is thought. It broke out in the middle of the block, at the rear end of the market street L of the Boone warehouse. There was no light or fire of any kind from which the flames could have started. The Banner tobacco ware house and the Sawyer, Wallace & Co. ware house, both fronting on Main street, soon caught fire. They occupy nearly the whole square, aud both were closely packed with hogsheads of tobacco The Sawyer, Wallace & Co. house is a branch of the big New York firm. All that could be done was to save the adjacent residences and business blocks. A vast crowd of people quickly assembled on the scene. The families living in the square on Market street were greatly frightened. They excitedly threw their furniture and household effects on the pavement and in the streets, fearing a total wreck by fire. No lives were lost, though several narrow es capes were had. Sawyer, Wallace & Co.'s warehouse, No. CO Main street, was owned by Henry Glover. It was a solidly built brick building, with metal roof, the several de partments comprising an immense structure, and was valued at $20,000. It is partially insured. In it were 2,400 hogsheads of to bacco, worth from $120,000 to $125,000. All of the tobacco was entirely destroyed. The stock was well insured. The Boone ware house was owned by Thomas H. Glover, and valued at about $15,000. It contained about 1,500 hogsheads of tobacco, all of which was consumed. This tobacco was worth from 120,000 to $125,000: partially insured, both building and tobacco. The Banner ware house was owned by B. M. Parrish & Co. It was valued at about $7,000, and belonged to an undevided estate. It contained about 500 hogsheads of tobacco, valued at $40,000 to $45,000. It is thought that the litigation that will be brought about by the fire will be some thing astounding. Lorillard & Co. and Lig gott & Meyer, the large tobacce firms of New York and St. Louis, as well as others, bought a large lot of tobacco in this market Friday, and, it is said, they will claim that the sale wTas not consummated, basing their claim upon some technicality. 6.B0UT NOTED PEOPLE. I On June 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe attained the age of 76. I Senator Edmunds, accompanied by his f amily, has been making a pleasure tour of Canada. 1 Frank James, the famous desperado, is at present acting as salesman in a clothing store at Dallas, Texas. General John C. Fremont has taken a cottage on Manasquan River at Point Pleasant, Ocean County, N. J. Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, who will be 78 in August, assures his friends that he feels like a healthy man of 50. Prince Louis, eldest son of the regent of Bavaria and heir to the crown, is forty-three years o age and the father of nine children. Rees Wittler, aged thirty-four, weight fifty-eight pounds, height thirty-six inches, is thought to be the smallest man in the country. He lives at Plymouth, Penn. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is slowly re covering from her recent dangerous illness." It is announced that she will soon bid fare well forever to Meriden, Conn. Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, has returned to Pittsburg, after a successful six months' tour in the West, during which period he obtained over 15,000 signatures to the pledge. Ex-Go vernor James Pollock,, of Penn sylvania, is hale and hearty despite his four score yeafs. He is at present acting as master in some of the Reading Railroad's litigation at Philadelphia General Drum, Adjutant-General of the United States Army, who has been brought into prominence by his connection with the Confederate flag business, is a stocky, de termined looking man of about sixty years of age. He is of medium height and quite soldierly looking. John G. Whittier has spent a part of each summer for the past four years at the Asquam House, Asquam Lake, Holderness, N. H., and at the SturtevantTarni, Centre Harbor, N. H. If his health admits, he will resort to the same places this year. He has no present intention of doing any special literary work. STAGE SPARKS. Four Kings and a crowd of nobles visited the Wild West show in London recently. Mr. Irving, Miss Terry, and party will leave England for New York on October 20. Adelina Path's voice is pronounced by a Paris correspondent to be inferior to that of her sister, Carlotta, in point of freshness and purity. Here are some footings of the past season's lMger: Edwin Booth, $175,000; Adelina Patti, $250,000; Mrs. Langtry, $75,000. Loss: Wilson Barrett, $22,000. It is estimated that Madame Sarah Bern--.It, who sailed for Europe from New York : 'cntly, made $300,000 from her fourteen m ontlis' American season. Sig. Janotta's opera of "Alidor," which hr;s just had its first performances at St. Paul, Minn, during the lost week, is highly spoken of by the critics of that city. Miss Marguerite Hall, of Boston, has been received with, much iavor in London musical circles, and her singing has been highly commended by her audiences. Manager Grau has arranged a contract for an American tour with the celebrated French actor, Coquelin, commencing next June in South America. In the following August he will make his first appearance in the United States, and will play here for sev eral months. This season Bandmaster Gilmore took with him to Manhattan Beach 5,000 separate pieces of music. The day before the open ing of his season's concerts three solid tons of sheet music were packed in twenty -eight dry goods boxes for shipment to the Beach. To make this librar of music of any value, it has to be properly cj sorted, arranged and indexed, which aloni lequires the services ot two competent men.