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VOLUME II.
WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1887.
NUMBER 26.
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DIRECTORY.
MAILS.
Vortbcrn and Oreenrille Due
daily
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JsOrtll anil ouulu siue liver man
Due Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
6 p in. Closes at 7 following mornings.
Money Order and Registry Depart
ment 9 a. m. to o p. m.
STATE GOVERNMENT.
Governor Alfred M. Scales.
Lieut. Governor Chas. M.
Secretary of1 State William
Stedman.
L. Saun-
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Amiitor . r. KODcns.
Treasurer Donald W. Bain.
Supt. of Public Instruction S. M.
rrin irer.
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Attorney ucnerai r. n. uavmson.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Commissioner John Robinson.
Secretary T. K. Bruner.
ut Charles W. Dabney, Jr.
noniTil Immigration Agent J. T.
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Patrick.
COUNTY.
Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T
Hod sre
Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. -Putter
of Deeds Burton Stilley.
Surveyor J. F. Latham.
Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock,
chair' n, J. 1. Winneia, r. iioages,
m --rr 1 1 Tn IT "1
F, B. Hooker, H. N. Y aters.
Board of Education J. L. Winfield,
chair'n, P. H. Johnson and F. B. Guil
ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction
Rev. Nat Harding.
Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T.
Tayloe.
CITY.
Mavor C. M. Brown.
Clerk John D. Sparrow.
Treasurer W. Z. Morton.
Chief of Police M. J. Fowler.
Councilmen C. M. Brown, Wi B.
Morton, S. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens,
W. H. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton.
CHURCHES.
Episcopal-Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec
tor. Services every Sunday morningand
night. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m.
Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent.
Presbyterian hew S. M. Smith, pas
tor. Services every Sunday morning and
night. Sunday School at 3.80 p. m.
Superintendent, Jas. L. Fowle.
3Iethodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor,
Services every Sunday morning and ev-
ang. Superintendent, Warren Mayo.
Friday School, 3.30 p. m-
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
Reform Club Regular meeting every
Tuesday night at 7.30 at Club Rooms.
W. C. T. U. Regular meetings every
Thursday, 3 p. m., at Rooms of Reform
Club.
Cub and Unidn Prayer Meeting every
Sunday, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m.
Muss Meeting in Court House every 2d
Thursday
night
in each month.
LODGES.
Orr Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M.
meets at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues
dav nights of each month E. S. Hoyt,
Wi M., R. T. Hodges, Secretary.
Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F.
Meets every Friday night at their hall
Gilbert Kumbey, 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
4th Thursday nights at Odd Fellows'
Hall- C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm.
M. Cherrv. Collector.
Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and
Ladies of Honor.' Meets 2nd and 4th
Monday lights at Odd Fellows' Hall
ym. 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, COSHER MARKET & SECOND STS
Opposite the Court House,
Washington, n. c.
Washington Mutual Benet Insurance
Company.
CHARTERED BY THE LEGISLA
TURE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
t Issues Policies on Life, Health and
Occidents risks; also Hre risks taken,
fc&u a General Insurance business done.
Office, Opposite tne Court House.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
TOBACCO STORE
s- H. WILLI AMS.Prop'r.
Sore Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snufl
All Brands of Snuff; Cigars
and Tobacco,
rything in the Tobacco line, and New !
Goods constantly on band 7 :1 :ly
1ELEGSAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Two children were fatally burned in
a
stable near Lancaster, Penn., which they
had set on fire by playing with matches.
A prolonged battle between Irish and
Italian laborers at Hazelton, Penn., resulted
in the death of one man and injuries, in two
cases of a fatal character, to thirteen others.
E. S. Wheeler & Co., New Haven, im
porters of bar iron, steel, zinc, etc., have
failed. Their liabilities are about $1,000,000.
The first occurrence of the holiday known
as "Labor Day" was celebrated in New York
City, Brooklyn and Newark, N. J.,
by imposing parades of workingmen. In
New York more than 20,000 men
were in line, and the procession was reviewed
by Henry George and other leaders of the
Labor party. A few associations carrying red
flags hissed George as they passed the grand
stand.
Collector Magone of the New York
Custom House, ordered that six web weav
ers, hired in England to work in Bridgeport,
Conn., be sent back under the law prohibit
ing the importation of contract labor.
During a hurricane a heavy wave washed
Captain Faulkenberg, of the schooner Will
iam H. Jones, from New York bound for
Hayti, and one seaman overboard and broke
First Mate Schultz's leg. The schooner
turned about and returned to New York.
Jockey Joseph Warder was thrown from
his horse and killed in a steeplechase at the
Niagara Falls races.
By the careless handling of naphtha the
schooner War Eagle, l":ng at her dock in
Chelsea, Mass., was blown to atoms. Two
men were killed, Captain Philpott and Mate
Charles Friend were seriously injured, and
damage was done to buildings and shipping
in the vicinity to the extent of 350,000.
The New Ycrk Herald has received infor
mation that Grand Master Workman Pow
derly, of the Knights of Labor, will soon re
sign and go to Ireland to participate in the
campaign for Irish home rule.
The Massachusetts Prohibitionists have
held a State convention at Worcester and
nominated a ticket with William H. Earle
for Governor at the head. The platform
favors woman suffrage.
The State Convention of the Pennsylvania
Union Labor and Greenback party, held in
Wilkesbarre, nominated Charles S. Keyser
for Supreme Judge and H. L. Bunker for
State Treasurer.
The failure of E. S. Wheeler & Co., the
New Haven metal merchants, has caused the
suspension of several other houses East and
West.
The longest towboat in the world has just
been launched from a Bath (Me.) ship-yard.
Its length is 100 feet.
South and West.
The lawyers in Chicago employed by the
imprisoned Anarchists and boodlers claim
that the Illinois conspiracy statute is illegal
and are trying to get their clients out of jail,
on this plea.
Frank Rollins, aged seventeen, stabbed
and killed Frank Whatt, aged nineteen, at
Columbus, Kan., on Sunday afternoon. The
murder occurred at a Sunday-school, and
was the result of a quarrel between the young
men brought about by each cutting off the
other's mustache.
Ex-Goverxor William Atkex, of South
Carolina, died a few days since at Flat Rock
in that State, aged seventy-one years. He
was elected Governor in
A waterspout on a Montana creek
drowned 1,200 sheep, principally spring
lambs.
Twenty-five thousand ersons attended
the opening of the St. Louis Exposition.
A large temerance vote has been cat in
the local elections in Missouri. More than
thirty counties have declared for pro
hibition. Rev. William Tclly slipped while as
cending a flight of stairs in a hotel at Hurri
cane, "U . Va.. and a pistol in his pocket was dis
charged. The bullet entered the minister's
body, and he died in a few minutes.
Jacob Albise fatally wounded his wife at
Omaha and then killed himself. The crime
was due to jealousy.
Washington.
The Ninth International Medical Congress
has been in session at the National Capital.
About 5,000 doctors, among them many of
the most eminent medical men in America,
Europe and Asia were present. The Congress
was opened by President Cleveland in a short
speech. An address of welcome was deliv
ered by Secretary Bayard and acknowledged
by leading physicians from England, France,
Germany, Italy and Russia. The social pro
gramme of the Congress included receptions
by the President and Secretary Whitney, a
reception and banquet at the Pension Office,
and an excursion to Niagara Falls.
The President, Speaker Carlisle and ex
Speaker Randall have been conferring over a
new tariff bill to be presented to the next
Congress.
Georoe W. Thobe, the labor candidate
against Speaker Carlisle, has filed notice of a
contest with the Clerk of the House.
Foreign.
EJSix sealing vessels four English and two
American have been seized so far by the
United States authorities for unlawful seal
ing in Alaskan waters.
While a big gun was being cast in the
Vicker's foundry at Sheffield, England, an
explosion occurred, by which five men w ere
killed outright, and many injured, of whom
three have since died.
A revolution has broken out in San Sal
vador, Central America.
Reports are just coming in that the gale
of August 26 along the coasts of Newfound
land and Labrador resulted in many wrecks
and large loss of life. Ten schooners were
lost.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in London.
More than 1,200 cases have been reported, and
the fever hospitals are full of patients.
Canada's population is estimated at 7,000,
000. Mr. Hayden, an Irish editor, has been
sentenced to three months' imprisonment for
obstructing the police during recent evic
tions. Seventy-two years ago Robert Tirrell, of
Rhode Island, then a soldier in the British
army, deserted and came to America. The
old man. who is ninety-three years old, has
just received a pardon from the grand
daughter of the King he deserted, and is
going back to the old country to die among
his kinsf oik.
In Salem, 111., a flock of 150 sheep were
overtaken in their pasture by fire. They at
once made for a knoll in the field, and there
bunched themselves, with the lambs in the
middle, and began moving in a circle, tread
ing the weeds and grass into the dry earth
until the fire was out. I
Water is so scarce in some parts of
Northern Illinois that the rabbits and coons
come boldly up to the farmyard watering
trough to get a drink. "Many of these wild
animals, bv their frequent visits, appear to
have lost all their fear of men.
A LAKE DISASTER.
THE SCHOONER NIAGARA FOUNDERS
IN LAKE SUPERIOR.
From Ten to Fifteen Persons Go Down
With the Tessel.
A Marquette (Mich.) dispatch says that the
schooner Niagara, which sailed last week
from Ashland for Ashtabula, foundered six
miles above White Fish Point in a heavy
gale.
The crew of ten men were lost. The Cap
tain was H. Clement, and his family are said
to have been on board with him. The
schooner was ore-laden, and must have sunk
at once.
The ill-fated Lucerne, which went down off
Ashland last fall when eleven persons were
drowned, was the sailing mate of the Niag
ara. Captain Delos Waite, of the steamer Idaho,
reports passing the wreck of the Niagara.
She lies in nine fathoms of water ten miles
from White Fish Point and five miles
from shore. Her mizzenmast just reached
above water and her main and fore
masts were floating near with other pieces of
wreckage. Captain Waite saw no traces of.
any of her ill-fated crew, and says that,
though not many miles from the shore
and the White Fish Point Life Saving
Station, no small boat could have lived hi
the terrible sea which was running there
on Wednesday. The United Empire, which
arrived at the Sault during the day, reported
that it was the worst sea her crew ever ex
perienced, and when the Idaho came up it
was still running.
Captain Waite said that in addition to the
crew of the Niagara there were a number oi
ladies aboard of her, as he met her as she was
bound up and noticed them. All must have
perished ; doubtless thirteen, possibly fifteen
souls. The gale was one of the worst on the
lake for years, the wind reaching a velocity
of sixty miles au hour.
A Chicago dispatch gives these additional
Particulars of the disaster: The schooner
iagara, laden with ore and towing with the
steam-barge Australasia, broke her tow
line off White Fish Point, Lake
Superior, during a westerly storm and
went down in deep water witn all on board.
Thj captain's wife and family and crew of
eight men were included in the lost. The
Niagara was owned by Corrigan & Co., of
Cleveland, and was valued at $30,000.
White Fish Toint is at the Lake Superior
entrance to the straits connecting Lake
Superior with Lake Huron. The point juts
out from tli? shore of the Upper Michigan
peninsula, and it is only a few miles across to
the Canadian shore. The port which the
Niagara left is Ashland, Wis., and she was
bound for Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie.
TRAILED BY BLOODHOUNDS.
Spirited but Unsuccessful Pursuit of
a Condemned Murderer.
It is now a settled fact that James P. Mc.
Cabe, the man who murdered Farmer Ril y,
in Perston Township, Pa., in the winter of
1885, and escaped from the Wayne County
Jail a short time before he was to have been
executed, has been ever since in the vicinity
of his home near the scene of the murd r.
For two weeks a posse of men has been search
ing barns, houses and forests in Mount Pleas
ant and Preston townships, and twico were
right u;on the heels of the fugitive. At one
time he was in a barn when the men were
searching an adjacent farm-house. The
barn stood near a piece of woods and faced
the house. McCa!e could not get out of any
of the doors without being observed from
the house, so he kicked off a couple of boaids
on the back part of the building and fled into
the woods.
Another time he was w rkir.g in a hay
field when the men went to search the house
on the farm The farmer's wife blew a horn,
which was a signal of danger to McCabe,
ami he again fled into the woods. Oij. Satur
day last it is reported that a pack of blood
hounds was let loose in the forest in .which
McCabe was concealed. Tneir howels'spread
terror among the people who live iii the
small clearings, and the greatest excitement
for a time j r.' vailed. The pursued man soon
emerged from the woods, but not until night
fell, and the last tidings of him was in Clin
ton Township, where ho was seen going in
the direction of the coal regions
A band of men was organized in Hones
dale to c aitinue the pursuit. They deployed
along the crest of tho Moosic Mountain,
where it was thought McCabe would cross to
reach the Lackawanna Valley, but they
failed to capture him. A number of build
ings in Carbondale and along the base of
the mountain in Wayne County were search
ed, but without success. Those in quest of
the fugitive completely lost track of him and
returned to Honesdale. Where he is now is
a mystery.
MEN BLOWN TO PIECES.
Carelessness Causes a Disastrous Ex
plosion of Naphtha.
By the careless handling of
Naphtha the schooner War Eagle, Captain
Philpott, lying at her dock in Chelsea, Mass,
was blown to atoms, two men were killed.
Captain Philpott and Mate Charles Friend
were seriously injured and damage was done
to buildings and shipping in the vicinity to
the ex ent of $350,000.
The schooner was laden with naphtha,
which, at the time of the explosion was
being removed to the storehouses on the
wharf. Henry O'Donnell, a longshoreman,
had been engaged to assist the crew and
went into the hold. He had been at work
but a short time when a terrific crash was
heard; the entire schooner's deck seemed to
lift from the bulwarks ani speed high into
the air, which was filled with broken glass
and in another minute the vessel was aflame
from bow to stern.
When the explosion occurred Cook Moran
was at work in the galley, and he was blown
to pieces. O'Donnell, who had carelessly
attached the grappling hook which, loosen
ing, let fall the cask, so causing the disas er
was blown into the air and his body has not
yet been recovered.
The remainder of the crew miraculously
escaped with slight burns and bruises.
When the fire apparatus reached the wharf
the outbuildings, storehouses and laboratory
connected with them were afire, and owing
to the combustibility of their contents de
feated the efforts of the Fire Department.
In the vicinity of the wharf is the old bridge
The Chelsea end was s ved, but the Boston
end was badly burned.
The vessel and contents were not in ured.
The wharf and buildings were insured for
about $3,500 and are a total loss.
XJZ BLAZING THEATRE.
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More Than 180 Lives Lost in Exeter,
V England.
Thtfatal Opera Coaiique fire in 'Paris has
had I parallel at Exeter, England, in the
burning, with great loss of life, of the new
and large theatre there, opened for its sec
ond season only two wesks ago.
Sim's play, -'Romany Rye," was under per
formance, and the pit and gallery were
packed with auditors. The piece pro
ceeded all right till near the end
of tie third act, about half-past ten
o'clock, when, as one of tha characters
wasfinishing' his lines, a drop soene sud
denly fell in front of him. There was some
laughter in the house at this, as it was
thought to be a stage blunder. In a moment,
however, the scene bulged out in the centre,
and great flames shot out. It was then seen
that the whole stage was a mass of fire, and
there was a wild panic instantly.
TK? fire spread with marvellous rapidity
and rilled the house with suffocating smoke.
The occupants of the upper circle and gallery
rushed in numbers to the windows
and screamed for ladders. As soon as
possible these were brought, but several per
sons had jumped into the street before they
arrived, and were taken away more or less
hurt. Others got on to the veranda over the
door, and some jumped and others were taken
off.
The theatre by this time was biasing fiercely,
lighting up all the city, and the people were
running up in thousands inquiring
for friends or relatives. The fire
escape soon came on the scene and
took off some more people. A stall occupant
thus describes the scene: '"The fire was dis
covered toward the close of the third act,
immediately after the representation of the
deck of the Saratoga. What followed was
awful. Men implored the audience to
be ;cool and tried to check the fran
tic rush, but to little purpose. Women were
fainting and wringing their hands. Rome hus
bands carried out their wives. Children were
screaming, and everybody was rushing
to the nearest exit. Short as was the time,
those who escaped into the corridor leading to
the vestibule found the place filled with dense
smoke and escaped in a half suffocated con
dition. In a few minutes the hose always
kept in readiness was pumping water on the
stage from the dress circle, but this had no
effect."
At one o'clock in the morning 10G bodies
were lying in the London inn Square await
ing identification. They were all frightfully
burned, chiefly about the hend and hands.
The majority of them were men and boy's,
although thirty women were counted as the
stretchers parsed. They were apparently for
the most part occupants of the gallery.
A heap of bodies still remained in the
higher gallery staircase, on the first dozen
steps, before the fire destroyed that part of
the building. Unfortunately, as was the
case with the Paris Theatre, the escape
doors in one street were fastened, and the
people behind them yelled madly and threw
thir whole weight against the doors until
they were wrenched off the hinges.
1 he bodies presented a sickening aspect.
Every shred of clothing had been burned off
of some of the bodies, and the skin was
blackened or burned off, presenting a raw,
bloody surface.
It was evident that the worst crush had oc
curred at an angle in the first flight of stairs
from the gallery. As the policemen, military
and civilians entered through a window they
observed a great heap of bodies at this point.
( They were carried out down the escapes and
I airs llu.lte aa, a?a Irighttully disfigured.
upon going a little mguer on tne stairs more
bodies were discovered and taken out. These
bodies were laid in rows in an adjoining alley
for identification.
Those who showed signs of life were con
veyed on stretchers to the hospital. All
the medical men of the city were
on the spot rendering what assistance they
could. The Sheriff stated that he had counted
lo0 dead bodies
STAGE SPARKS.
New York is threatened with a great sur
plus of theatres.
The mclograph has been invented, by
which a person can improvise on a piano and
have the music recorded.
Sir Charles Young, the author of " Jim,
the Penman," is dying slowly in London from
a complication of disea-s.s.
Mme Niemann Haabe, the great German
comedienne, will appear at the Star Theatre,
New York, on January 2d.
Mrs. Langtry has replaced Charles
Coghlan with Maurice Barryniore as her
eading man for the coming season.
The first Italian woman who fang in pub
lic in England was Francesca Marguerita de
l'Epine, who appeared in various operas in
1693.
Messrs. Robsox and Crane, during
their ten years' partnership, have paid in
royalties to American dramatists nearly
$45,000.
Mabel Sterling is the name of a Ken
tucky girl who proposes to come forth as a
star this season. She is described as young
and handsome.
Mlle. Teresina Tua, the celebrated vio
lin player, will make her first public appear
ance in America at Chickering Hall, New
York, on October 1.
Mme. Adelina Patti does not begin her
South American tour, under the management
of Mr. Henry Abbey, until some time in the
Spring, and after Lent.
The tenor, De Rege, engaged for the next
season at the theatre in Cologne, while out
bathing with a lady a short time ago on the
Main, was drowned with his companion.
The German Government has issued the
order that lowers the pitch of all orchestras
and pianos a full half tone. This brings the
standard pitch of France and Germany the
same.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$3.00
a$3.50; Wheat -Southern Fultz, 80aS2cts;
Corn Southern White, 54a55cts, Yellow, 53a
55 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pen sylvania,
28a34cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania,
49a50cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
14 00a$1500; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8; Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 28a21)cts., near-by receipts
20a21cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 13
al3 cts., Western, Hall Jcts. ; Eggs lalb:
Cattle 2.75a$4. 12 .; Swine -6a6cts.;
Sheep and Lamb 2Ja4) cts; Tobacco
Leaf Inferior, la$3.50, Good Common, 3 50a
$4 50, Middling, 5a$6.50 Good to fine red, 7a$9
Fancy, 10a$12.
New York Flour Southern C o n uon to
fair extra, 3.40a$4.00; Wheat No. i vV'lmV,&i
aS5 cts. ; Rye State, 54a56: Corn Southern
Yellow, 47a48cts. ; Oats White State, 81a33
cts. ; Butter State, 15a25 cts. ; Cheese State,
lOalOcts. ; Eggs 16al6K cts.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania,
fancy, 3.50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 82aS3 cts ; Rye Pennsyl vania
57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, 45a47 cts.
Oats 36a37 cts. ; Butter State, 18al9 cts. ;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, llal2 cts. ; Eggs
State, 17al8 cts.
The people of Switzerland, by a vote of to abstract the bullet without nlarging the shot down by the Deputy Sheriffs. Thepub
252,791 to 127,474, have approved a law which wound but they were frmtless. The chances lic here conider th t anZ a cold
Svtsj tuts uruveraiuciib uiobuid rigaii w uiauu
cture and sell spirituous-liquors.
BOOM) BY Mm
A WHOLE COUNTRY IN A
STATE OF SIEGE.
An Old Fned Breaking Out Anew
Illinois Two Victims Already
Murdered.
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A dispatch from Elizabethtown, 111., says
that the notorious Belt-Oldham feud, which
has caused the murder of not less than a
dozen persons in Hardin county, is likely to
break forth again at any time. Oath-bound
oaganizations are known to exist among the
lawless people of the hills, and these have
demonstrated that their purpose is assassina
tion. The feud began with the murder of "Doc"
Oldham by Logan Belt in 1876. The neigh
borhood is divided into functions over the
affair. At this time the "Sons of Liberty,"
who committed so many outrages and assas
sinations, were formed. While the excite
ment in regard to this organization ran
high, Belt was arraigned for the murder of
"Doc" Oldham. He was tried on a change
of venue at Shawneetown and sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary. He served
six years and then was pardoned by Govern"
or Oglesby.
During his incarceration ugly rumors
reached him about the conduct of his wife
and daughters; and when he reached heme
he was divorced from his wife and drove his
daughters from home. Then his wife's
brother, who had been associated with Belt
in numerous crimes, went before the Grand
ury in the tall ot lb and gave his,testi
mony, resulting in the indictment of Logan j
Belt, "Jim" Belt, Earl Sherwood, George
Ratchfr, Harry Ledbetter and Matthew
Ledbetter for the murder of Luke Ham
frink. On the morning of the indictment Logan
Belt appeared in Elizabethtown with a new
bride. He was promptly arrested, together
with the others indicted with him. They
were arraigned in April last, and after a ten
days trial the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty.
The desire for revenge in the breasts of the
enemies of Logan Belt and his clansmen
prompted them to become assassins. Belt
was warned of his danger and kept his wife
constantly by his side as a precaution. But
on the avening of July 6 last he drove along
the public unattended, and at the crack of a
rifle from a clump of bushes near the road
side, he fell from his buggy dead. Notices
were sent to other members of the Belt fac
tion to go or they would be killed. "Jim"
Belt was preparing to go', but on the evening
of July 18 he was riddled with a charge of
buckshot within half a mile of his own house
George Ratcliff an ther member of the Belt
faction, was with "Jim" Belt when he was
killed, and only saved his life by running
away. He has received a notice to leave
Hardin county, but at last accounts he was
safely garrisoned at the' home of his brother-in-law,
County Judge Jacob Hess.
The other members of the Belt faction have
received similar notices and some of them
have obeyed. The friends of both sides now
go armed daily, and band themselves to
gether for protection at night. Many of
them are afraid to sleep in their houses, but
with guns by their sides, lie beneath the
shade of bushes, alternating with one an
other in sehtry work. The Governor has
offered the customary rewards for the arrest
of the assassins of Logan and "Jim'' Belt but
no ore is brave enough to meddle with those
mysteries. Strangers in passing through
that neighborhood meet with a cool recep
t.on and" are warned to go elsewhere.
CONFUSION OF IDENTITY.
Respectable Girl's
ODouble Causes
an Unpleasant
Cortiplication.
The police of St, Louis are confronted
with a most remarkable case of mistaken
identity. In the latter part of last June E.
Markowitz, a merchant traveller, reported
that he had been robbed of a valuable watch
and ohain and a considerable some of money.
He said he met a bretty young girl on Wash
ington avenue and spent an evening in her
company. She told him her name was Ma
mie Koester; that she was nineteen years
old, and that her home was fifteen miles out
in the country. The police failed to find the
girl or the stolen watch and money.
As Mr. Markowitz was passing a dry goods
store he saw a young lady who exactly tal
lied with the description of the girl who rob
bed him. He called an officer and had her
arr sted. She was taken to Police Head
quarters, and the description given of Mamie
Koester by Markowitz last June was read.
She fitted it exactly.
Then she was questioned. She said her
mme was Mary Koester, and that she liv. d
in Florisant, fifteen miles from St. Louis.
She sent for the chief of detectives, whose
home is in Florisant, and he said she was
telling the truth ; that he had known her all
her life; that she bore an irreproachable
name, and her family were prominent and
e.ninently respectable. She sent for several
other parties and succeeded in showing that
she was anything but a thief. She was lib
erated, notwithstanding she gave the same
name, the same age, the same place of resi
dence and exactly answered the description
of the girl who committed the crime.
A TOUGH LITTLE HEAD.
LiUle Lawrence Kennedy Continues
His Play with a Bullet in His
Forehead,
Lawrence Kennedy, aged six yerrs, whose
parents live in Philadelphia, and Thomas
I palmer who is only one year older, were
playing in a neighbor's stable, when they
found a small revolver. Young Palmer did
not know the revolver was loaded, but he
pointed it at his companion and fired. The
22 calibre projectile struck' the lad about
half an inch above the right eye.
"Ouch! you hit me, Tommy," the little
fellow exclaimed, and then went on play
ing. Two hours later young -Kennedy went
home and told his mother what had happen
ed. She nearly fa nted at first, but finally
recovered and ran for a doctor. The child
was placed under the influence of laudanum
and the bullet was found lodged beneath the
frontal bone. A consultation of physicians
was i: eld. and several att mpts were made
ui wo uuuus icvuioij oic wu. u.
inflamation does not set in.
MORMON CONVERTS.
A Mother Refuses Her Daughter's
Appeal and Goes to Utah.
The Rev. Thomas D. Drum, a chaplain at
Castle Garden, N. Y., received a telegram
from the Rev. T. J. Danner, of New Brighton
Pa., asking him to watch for the arrival of
Mrs. Barnes, a steerage passenger on the
steamer Wisconsin, from Liverpool. The
telegram further stated that Mrs. Barnes
was in the hands of the Mormons, and that
her daughter was anxious to prevent her
going to Utah. When the passengers of the
Wisconsin arrived, it was found that of the
800 more than half were Mormons, bound
for Utah in charge of President John Isaac
Hart, of Ogden, the Mormon missionary.
Mrs. Barnes was found among them, and
escorted to the Immigrant Post Chaplaincy.
It was then learned that the woman was ac
companied by her second husband and two
stepdaughters.
She is a comely and elderly English woman,
apparently several years younger than her
husband. He embraced the Mormon faith
twelve years ago, and succeeded in convert
ing Mrs. Barnes about two years ago. Barnes
is a shoemaker and both were residents of
Manchester. On seeing the telegram from
her daughter, Mrs. Barnes said: "I have
not been kidnapped, and am going to Salt
Lake city of my own free will. My husband
and two daughters go with me. I guess I
am twenty-one. I love my daughter with a
mother's devotion, but in this 1 must be ac
tuated not by worldly motives, but a desire
to save my soul. I love the Mormon religion
and sincerely believe in it. I would like to
see my daughter, but my duty to my hus
band and to my religious vows compells me
very reluctantly to decline the invitation to
go to Pennsylvania."
Under the exhortations of Dr. Kramer,
her determination forsook her, and large
tears trickled down her cheeks. "Yes," she
suddenly exclaimed, "I am almost inclined
to go to see my daughter." The husband
hurriedly whispered something to her which
at once rKtored her stoicism, Ind she reiter
ated her determination to go to Salt Lake.
Barnes appeared to be very much attached
to the woman, and when asked why he did
not wish her to go and see her daughter, he
knew that if she ever got there she w ould
be persuaded to abandon the Mormon faith.
A short time previous to the departure of
the Mormon party,Dr. Kramer made another
attempt to dissuade Mrs. Barnes, buc it was
equally unsuccessful. The clergyman says
that he knows nothing of the case beyond
what was stated in the telegram and what
the woman told him.
The whole party of Mormons, which is the
largest that has arrived in some time, left
for Utah. Many of them have friends al
ready settled there. President Hart, who
conducts this party, has brought over three
others nearly of the same size. During the
past eighteen months he has baptized 250 in
the Mormon faith in England.
TO TARRY MEANT DEATH.
The Marshals Heard the Moonshiners
Yell and Straightway Departed.
Deputy Marshals Spuirier Henderson
Young and Graves have returned from a
raid on the moonshiners of the Pea Ridge
country in the northern part of Tennessee.
The main object of the trip was the capture
of the Taylor boys, who have so long denned
the revenue officers. By the time the mar
shals had arrived within five miles of the
hiding places of the Taylors some friends of
the men who were wranted discovered the
raiders, and in a few minutes a loud halloo
was heard from an adjoining hill-top. The
cry was taken up and echoed from hill to
hill, and in a few minutes the Taylors and
all other moonshiners knew that the raiders
were out To tjrry in the vicinity after the
moonshiners' signal was heard meant death.
The marshals turned their attention to the
mountain spurs on the head waters of the
Obed River and succeeded in capturing and
destroying one still. This still had been
heard of for several years, but being very
small, it had always been spirited away on
the approach of revenue men. Deputy
Marshals Graves and Youngs succeeded in
capturing one of the Marlows on Martin's
Creek. Some time ago a still on the Marlow
place was destroyed, and Mr. Spurrier went
to a house to arrest the owner. Before he
reached the building he was baited and found
himself confronted with a double-barrelled
shot-gun. He was given his choice between
immediate departure or death, and he de
parted. MARRIED BY THE GOVERNOR.
The Executive of South Carolina Offl-
ciates for an Eloping Couple.
A marriage out of the ordinary line was'
recently solemnized at Columbia, S. C, the
Governor of the State performing the cere
mony. The chief actors were H. A. Harth,
a young broker, and Miss Rachel David, the
pretty daughter of Mrs. Letty David, a
wealthy woman.
By befriending a brother of Miss David
the young broker became a friend of the
family, was for two years past welcomed as
a visitor by the mother, and in that time
won the love of the daughter. When the
latter fact came to be suspected by the par
ents, however, the young man was forbid
den the house, but he secured the consent of
the young woman to an elopement and mar
riage. The prospective pride, being of the
Jewish faith, was unwilling to be married
by a clergy m m and the groom obtained the
consent of Governor Richardson to perform
the ceremony. The marriage took place at
the Executive Mansion this afternoon in the
presence of a few invited guests. The Gov
ernor officiated most gracefully and drank
the healt Hand future prosperity of the couple
he had made one.
FOR SHOOTING A NEGRO.
Deputy Sheriffs Jailed For an Uupro
voked Attack on Colored Men.
Twelve or fifteen Deputy Sheriffs made a
raid upon some negroes near Memphis, and
it was found the next morning that one of
the negroes named Joe Waller had been
killed. Julius J. Dubose, Ju Igeof the crim
inal Court, ordered five of them John R. '
Miller, Mill Brooks, Jake Slasser, H, B. Pass
and Pat Gillespie to jail, and suspended
several others. They were Ed. Carroll, T.
P. Crawford, J. T. Strain, W. S. Pope John
R. Miller and Jim Webb.
The Deputy Sheriffs of Shelby county have
been for a long time in the habit of carrying
pistols, getting drunk and creating terror
among the negroes of this county. This is
not the first time one has been ruthlessly
blooded murder.
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