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Ml Mm ?y- any VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1887. NUMBER 37. Ml lit. , .Ml. 1 xCsKX DIRECTORY. MAILS. Korthcrn and Greenville Due daily t p. m. Closes at 10 p. m. v.lrth and South side river mail w . Trr J J a t a . . . j Monday, v eunesuay ana x naay at OlDC" Jiuuia i-ui .v iv l uti . . U .iiro U m TA 111 m jlouey Order and Registry Depart ment 9 a- m- t0 5 P- m- STATE GOVERNMENT. Governor Alfred M. Scales. Lieut. Governor Chas. M. Stedman. Secretary of State William L. Sauix- aitor W. P. Roberts. Treasurer Donald W. Bain. gupt. of ruDiic instruction S. M. Attorney General T. H. Davidson. STATE BOARD OF AGRICTJLTTJRE. Commissioner John Robinson, Secretary T. K. Bruner. Chemist Charles W. Dabney, Jr. General Immigration Agent-J. T. Patrick. COUNTY. Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge 8. Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. Reuister of Deeds Burton Stilley, Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, cbairn, J. T. Winfield, F. R Hodges, F. B. Hooker, H. N. Waters. Bxird 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. Tayioe. CITT. Mayor C. M. Brown. Clerk John D, Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. Chief of Police M. J, Fowler. Cor.acilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. Morton. S. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens, VT. H. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton. CHURCHES. Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec tor. Services every Sunday morningand eight. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent. Presbyterian he v. S. M. Smith, pas ter. Services every Sunday morning and niht. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. j Superintendent, Jas. L. rowle. Methodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor, Services every Sunday morning and ev ening. Superintendent, Warren Mayo. Sunday 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.r at Rooms of Reform Ciuo. Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every Sunday, in Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m. Mass Meeting in Court House every 2d Thursday niht in' each month. LODGES. Orr Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M. meets at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues- aiy nights of each month E. S. Hovt, I W. M T, R. T. Hodges, Secretary. " Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I, O O. F. ! jleets every Fndav night at their hall Gilbert Ilumbey, 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 ts, J. R. Ross, F. Reporter. Chicora Council, No. 350, American Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and ta Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' Hill C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm. & Cherry, Collector. Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and Ladies of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall Vm. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen. Secretary. rExcelsior Lodge, No. 31, O. G. C. '-ets 1st and 2nd Tuesday nights at Odl Fellows' Kall-C. W. fayle) Com naaaer, Wm. Cherry, Secretary. Tlie Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company, of Washington. N- C. 9?HCE, 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 Occidents risks; also Fire risks taken, and a General Insurance business done. Office, Opposite the Court House. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL I0BAGCO STORE s- H. WILLIAMS.Prop'r. ie Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff All Brands of Snuff; Cigars and Tobacco. ! -ytliing in the Tobacco line, and New oods constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. D03IESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIT.P WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns. A coal miners' strike, involving 509 men. with a strong probability of extend ing to 1,000 men, on the line of the Shen&ngo and Alleghanv Railroad, has been inaugurat ed in the shafts at Stoneboro, Grove City and the Carver mines. The men are employed by a half dozen firms, and demanded an advance of 9 cents jer ton, which would, if granted, make what is known as the Columbus scale. At Englewood. N. J., the Athenaeum build ing was burned. Loss $100,000. Mr. Beaver-Webb, the English yacht builder, was married in Washington to Miss Alice May, daughter of Dr. John F. May. They will live'in New York. A new railroad is announced as snrely to be built from Orange, N J., to connect with a railroad entering New York city. The largest elephant in this country as among those burned at Bridgeport. His name was Samson, and he was about 50 years old. Only five horses were burned. A piece of incandescent carbon, falling from an electric street light in New York city, set flre to some cotton bales. St. Louis is much exercised over the for est fires. News from Arkansas, Texas, and as far west as Fort Worth, a distance of 8C0 miles, indicate no abatement of the fires. In sections remote from telegraph and railway stations it is feared that terrible loss to hu-' man and animal life his occurred. South west Missouri timber regions are all ablaze. Some of the Chicago employing printers have accepted a compromise offered by the men of nine hours' work for nine hours' pay. A startling report comes from Fisher's Station, Ind., a small village. Since the open ing of a mammoth natural gas well at that place, a few days ago, there has been a settle ment of the earth of several inch s, and the whole population are terrified beyond descrip tion. PANIC IX 3I1XIXG STOCKS. The Bottom Knocked Out of the Gogebic Iron Mine. A panic; has seized the h irers of what are known as Gogebic iron mining securities The Gogebic iron range is a strip of land moiling some twenty miles through the northern por tion of Michigan and Wisconsin, about twenty miles below the shore of Lake Superior. Its development was begun about two years ago, and during the present yea" something like 1,350,000 tons of high grade hematic ore were shipped from there. This is the ore that is used for the Bessome processes of iron mak ing, and is valuable beeause it has hitherto been scarce. Quantities of it have been im ported annually. The finding of this ore Btarted up a speculation in the mining prop erty and this has been followed by the wildest kind of wi dcat operations. Some fifty mining companies have been or ganized on the range, though there are not above fifteen shipping mines. These com panies are none of them organized oa a less capitalization than a million dollars, and some of them are capitalized at two millions and even more. The total capitalization of tho several companies will reach $70,000,000. Many of the' mines exist merely on paper. Others were organized under lraes of prop erty or on the promised payment of royalty for ore produced. The nominal values of the shares were made low, in some instances only $10, and ranging from that up to $50. With such a small par value it was easy to work off large quantities of the stock upon small in vestors at 30 to 50 per cent, for ea.h. Thou sands of dollars' worth of this stock found its way into the hands of mechanics and trades men in Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, and in the small towns surrounding thee cities. One year ago Moore, Benjamin & Co., the heaviest firm of speculators and promoters on the range opened a branch office in New York and through heavy advertising large sales were mad- to persons then- and throughout out New England. Offices for the sale of the stocks were opened in B s:on about the same time. About $3, 00 00 to SlO.OOOOoO of stocks were sold in New York and New England. It was also about this time that the public be gan to hear of a great scheme for the eon valida tion of mines on this range. Ex-Senator Steph en V. Dorsey was the principal figure in the manipulation. It was given out that through Moore, Benjamin & Co.. he and a syndicate of wealthy gentlemen purchased or secured an option to purchase fourteen of the best mines on the range, which were to be oper ated by one company Ex-Secretary William Windom, of Minnesota, was chosen chair man of the company, apd Jesse R. Grant as Secretary. The Lake Superior Consolidated, as it was known, held an agreement to pur. chase properties at certain prices for the stocks which were then ruling in the market. Almost immediately the prices began to de cline. They can now be bought for a third of the prices "then qu ted The Lake Suoerior Consolidated people under these circumstan ces declared themselves unable to go on with their option, and reconveyed tae mines to their original purchasers. Moore, Benjamin A Co. have made an as signment whieh. taken in connection with other depressing causes, has knocked the bottom all out of the Gogebic stock market, and sent holders of these securities rushing around to realize on them at any price. Glasgow's World's Fair. The prospectus of the international exhibi tion that Queen Victoria has authorized to be held next summer in Glasgow has arrived on this side of tho water. It gives many particu lars about the proposed industrial, scientific and art display, and announces that a guaran tee fund of $r,350,000 ha? been raised to equip the exhibition. The exhibition will include exhibits from the United Kingdom, India and the colonies, and America. Special features of the exhibition are to be the "Women's In dustries Section" and tho "Artisan Section." The exhibition buildings will cover about ten acres, and the surrounding grounds- are fifty acres. The river Kelvin, which intersects the proposed grounds, will be used for the exhibi tion of naval, ship-building and life-saving apparatus. . Our Internal Revenue. The collections of internal revenue during the first four months of the piesent fiscal year were $41,631,310, an increase of $3,135, 770 as compared with the collections during the corresponding period of last year. There was an increase of $1,446,907 on spirits; an increase of $953,869 on tobacco; an in crease of 1596,531 on fermented liquors; an increase of $311,811 on oleomargarine, and an increase of $333 on banks, bankers, &c. The only decrease was S73,681 on miscellaneous objects. The receipts for October were $674, 608 greater than for the same nonth laat year. Insane by the Faith Cure. Mrs. Margaret Kidder, of Chicago, was men tally sound up to six weeks ago, when she went to see Mrs. Johnson, a faith cure doc tress. She first visited Mrs. Johnson out of curiosity, was fascinated with the doctrines of faith cure, and then went repeatedly to be treated for some stomach disorder. She took lessons in the art and talked of nothing else at her home. A few days ago she was taken with acute dementia, and she is now in an asylum. SUGAR FRO 31 SORGHUM Successful Experiments Carried out by the New Process. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 22. Commissioner of Agriculture N. J. Colman, in attendance upon the sessions of the National Grange, at Lans ing, stated that he had received a telegram from Chief Chemist Wiley, of the Agricul tural Department, announcing that experi menting at Magnolia plantation, Louisiana, in producing sugar from sorghum by the new process, which is juat at present a pet project of the Commissioner's, had produced the best results at the first trial. Mr. Colman is con fident that his method will revolutionize tho sugar industry of tho United States. The roller process of extracting sugar sorghum which was in use when he became Commis sioner three and a half years ago, pressed out only about half the juice, or 40 pounds of sugar to the ton of cane, while every ton of sugar contained over three times that amount. He at once sent a special agent to Europe to study the system of beet-sugar making, known as the diffusion or saturation process. The agent brought home plans and drawings of the entire apparatus required, and from these the battery of cells that has done such excellent work at the experiment station at Fort Scott, Earn, during the last year was made. Overcoming many difficulties, the station produced over 235,000 pounds of fine' sttgar from sorghum, over HO pounds of sugar be ing turned out from each ton of cane. 'Be sides this amount," said the Commissioner, "many more thousand pounds will be made from the seconds, which is the molasses re boiled. Aside from the sugar, there aro many thousands of gallons of molasses and about the same number of bushels of seed of sorg hum are grown to the acre that there are of corn, and it is just as valuable for feeding all kinds of stock, and really pays for the raising of the crop. A fair average yield is twelve tons of cane to the acre. The Louisiana ex periment has produced 98 per cent, of the sugar from the cane, while the old milling process obtains only 60 per cent." Mr. Colman says the prospect is that in a few years America will make all the sugar she can use. and the $100,000,000 annually sent out of the country for that item will be kept at home. The new industry has come to stay. It will draw followers from other branches of farming and give great relief to other indus tries in which there is an overproduction, and the sorghum sngar can be made just as good as tUat from Southern cane. MISS FARGO SUES. Says Her Share of the Estate !s Withheld. Georgia Fargo, the daughter of William G. Fargo, th late President of the Wells-Fargo Express, has just brought suit against her uncle, James C. Fargo, and Charles Fargo and Franklin D. Locke, to compel them, as exe cutors of her father' estate,' to pay over to her about $40,000, which she claim's is due to her as one of the heirs. President Fargo died in August. 1SS1, and by will, after providing for his wife, left in trust for each of his two daughters a third of the income of $1,500,000, payable semi-annually. The other daughter, who has since died, was the wife of Lieut. Squires of th Saventh United States Cav alry. Georgia Fargo, through her counsel, Geo. H. Fester, declares thit the income from the money in trust with the executors amounts at this time to more than $300,000. and that her share thereof is more thau $87,500, but that the executors never paid her anything until last January, when they gave her $10,000 on account. She asserts that they have wrong fully withheld the rest from her when she needed it for her comfortable support, and that meanwhile they have drawn from the es tate $3,00 a year each, making $18,000 each all -old, nearly double what they paid over to her. The executors set up the defence that they ire paying the plaintiff her share of the in ;ome of the estate as rapidly and as fully as die condition of the estate will permit. They leny any intention to wrongfully withhold inything that bedongs to the plaintiff. John Bright Excited. A letter is published from Mr. Bright refer ring to his proposal to send Irish bills to a irand committee composed of Irish members. In the letter Mr. Bright says: "The rebel oarty will not accept the proposal becase they ire rebels, and with the rebel Irish members n the House of Commons the plan would not ,e allowed to work. Mr. Gladstone has a aobby in which the rebel leaders for a time lave agreed to join him. He is committed to that hobby and cannot condescend to consider i plan less pretentious but more reasonable ban his. Nothing can be done until Mr. Gladstone's bills have been entirely got rid of md the position wholly changed. Mr. Glad stone stops the way. He insists upon impossi ble legislation for Ireland to the exclusion of legislation for the whole kingdom." A HEAVY FAILURE. Rumored Collapse of a Farm Mort gase Company How it Worked. The Western Farm Mortgage Company, o: Lawrence, Kansas, is reported to have lailec with liabilities which, it is believed, wil reach $1 ,000,00 J. Case after case in Elk, Greenwood, Lin coln. Woodson and Lalxjtt counties is report ed where farmers have placed mortgages ir this company's ha' d and have recorlied the same, expecting to get their money at once, and have be n waiting from three to sis months and have never received a dollar, although in some cass the farmers havt been notified that interest is due on the same mortgages which th y gave to the company, clearly showing that the mortgages have been sold and the money used for other pur- Eoses than paying these farmers, who now ave a mortgage on their property but have never got a doilar for the same. The company has admitted that it was in straitened circumstances an 1 that claims amount to $175,000, A committee is to be appointed t investigate fch.' concern. WHY HE TOOK HIS LIFE. Approaching Exposure of Forgeries Drove a Lawyer to Suicide. Charles Albert Kebler, a leading attorney of Cincinnati, committed suicide. He was driven to the deed by the approaching revel ation of heavy forgeries committed by him in tho management of estates and of trust funds. It is estimated that his liabilities amount to about $175,000, while tho property left will not exceed $60,000. The persons most s:riously aected are bis own family and friends. Tee astonishing revelation discloses bis motive to have been nothing more than to keep up a style of luxurious living bsyond his means. The use of trust funds having been begun, the continuance became an ap parent necessity. An instance is given where $10,000 was invested for a client and all the papers relating to it, including the mortgage, were forgeries. Friends believe, that insanity must have led him into such a course. WALKED OFF WITH $250,000. A Jhicf Easily Captures a Valuable Valise, but is Arrested. Cot Andrew J. Rogers, of Brunswick, Ga left a traveling bag in the Old Colonv Deno . U L while he bought a newspaper, and when he i returned the bag was missing, It contained many valuable papers and $25 ',000 0f the Brunswick Land Improvement and Coloniz ation Company. Of this company Col. Rojers is President, John M Olmstead is Vit&President, and its New York office is at No. 220 Broadway. Col. Rogers, who was i one- of Jefferson Davis's right-hand m9n during the war, came to Boston to engage local capital in his enterprise. Ha left his lodgings in Boston to go to New York by thrall River line. He arrived in the Old Colony station sometime before 6 o'clock in the afternoon and, having to wait for the train, he left his valise on a settee while he went over to the fruit stand in the station. Whip making the purchase he looked around towards the settee and saw that the valise was, gone. He saw amm going through the entrance with it. C)i Rogers was shot at appomattox, in coatequence of which he has to wear a sole several inches thick on one of his feet. For ' this reason he could not rnn, and the man had escaped bef o e ho could interest anybody sufficiently enough to give chase. He report ed his loss at police headquarters. Last Sunday night a stranger at the Parker house came to his room and gave him a letter addressed t himself. It had been in the inisjing valise. The stranger was S. M. Kopchovskv, who said a young man named Robert Wald had probably stolen the valise, A valise answering the description of the one lost was in Wald's bedroom. The valise was found where Kopchovsky said it was. but there remained in it only $157,000 of the stock. All that had . been indorsed by Col. R.ogeis was gone, likewise an important contract with englishmen, W aid has been arrested and has a police record. INVOLVING MILLIONS. Revival of au Old Suit on 3Iisc:ssippi River Improvement Bonds. Detroit parties and Detroit lawyers are J about to figure in a lawsuit involving nearly ?2,l00,000, before the Supreme Court cf Illinois. It will be a revival of the some what celebrated litigation over bonds issued to drain Mississippi river flats. The suit is to be pushed to a conclusion, with such abie pagal talent as United States Senator Edmunds, ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, and James Caplis and Henry M. Duffield, of" Detroit, as counsel. In IST1 the people own ing land along the bank of the Mississippi river in Adams, Pike and Calhoun counties, 111., secured an act of the Legislature for the issue of $650,000 of 10 per cent, bonds for the purpose of constructing a levee to protect theso lands from the overflow. The lands comprised an area of about one hundred thousand acres, extending fifty-four miles aloithe river. The bonds were readily floated, the late Francis Palms, of this city, talking about half of the issue and other Detroiters taking smaller amounts. The leas"? was completed, and its value was evident from the fact that the improved lands jumped from 5 to 675 per acre. But having secured the improvement the land owners undertook to raise a technical objec tion to the value of the bonds, and when the fourth instalment of interest became due payment was refused. In 1S76 Mr. Palms employed ex-Senator Trumbull and ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, to collect the bonds. The suit had varying fortunes. Judge Drummond, of the Federal Court, finally held that the landholders, having asked for the improvements, were estopped from at tacking the bonds which secured it. A master in chancery was appointed tc. compute the amount due from the various landowners. He made his report, but; here the matter rested. The trustees of the Palms estate and most of the other bondholders now propose to take up the cp.se. The lands are estimated to be worth 10,000,000 anc the claims against them now amount tc $1,700,000. The Palms attorneys will at onc proceed under the docre o J udge Drummonc ts file supplemental bill W chancery to com pel the landowners to pay the amounts dm or surrender their lands to the bondholders A WOMAN'S CRIME. She is Arrested for Aiding a Gang of Counterfeiters and is Locked Up. Mrs. Edna Perrin, a young and pretty woman, stylishly dressed and holding a baby in her arms, was before court in New York city, charged with entrapping people to buy counterfeit money. For many years Mrs. Perrin was a cus tomer of David Hynes. butter merchant, and, when two months ago she requested letters that came directed to Wm. J. Jones might be kept for her, he cheerfully as sented. Half a dozen letters came almost every day, and finally Mr. Hynes, thinking something was wrong, notified the police. Detectives then opened one of the letters. It proved to be a reply from a victim who wished to purchase $5,000 in bad money for $400 good money. The officers shadowed Mrs Perrin in the hope of catching those in league with her, but without success. She was arrested just :af ter receiving a batch of letters. At her house, 231 East Seventeenth street, were found thousands of circulars advertising the bogus money, and addresses of persons all over the country. The woman refused to tell where her husband was, and with her infant she was locked up in Ludlow street 'jail. BLOWN UP BY FLOUR DUST. Destruction of a Mill Incendiaries Active in an Ohio Town. A heated journal caused an explosion of dust in the large flouring mill of T. Ault & Son, at Bellaire, Ohio, and the mill was nearly destroyed with all the machinery, grain and flour; los3 15,000, partly insured. An incendiary fire, the fifth in a week, broke out in Ross's livery stable, at the same place. The horses were saved. The fire de partment labored under great disadvantage, its hose having recently been cut while at a fire. 1 he Disciples Churcb, C. & P. depot and B. & O. round house were fired during the past week and a panic has been created by the activity of the incendiaries. FLAYED HIS BOY ALIVE. Inhuman Crime of a Chicago Step fatherEnding in Murder. A neighbor who had wanted to adopt little Max Gilman, the eleven-year-old stepson of August Hatzka, sat by his corpse at Chicago and sobbed as if her heart would break. The child had been beaten to death by Hatzka His poor, frail little body was literally flayed. The boy was the son of Hatzka's first wife whom he married in Germany and who died there about five years ago. He married again within three months after her death and his second wife died June 15 last, in Chicago. Since then it appears the poor lit tle waif of a step-son has received more kicks than crusts and was half -starved all the time. The neighbors say the boy was a nice little fellow. He could not stay at home to be beaten and starved, but Tuesday night he returned when Hatzka was out. Hatzka went up to the boy's bed when he returned, and, taking a leather strap, to which was attached a buckle, simply flayed the helpless boy alive. This was about 10 o'clock. The neighbors heard the screams of the boy then and later, about midnight, they were awak ened by a fresh attack of the insensate brute. Nothing further was heard until the morn ing, when the sound of blows and groaning could be heard once more. About 9 o'clock in the morning Hatzka told one of the neighbors that the boy had died suddenly, and they sent word to the coroner and notified the police. Detectives found the body, yet warm, at 10 o'clock, showing that he had died after what was at least the third beating. The body of the little victim is a mass of lacerations where the sharp buckle ploughed up the quivering flesh. On the back of the head are frequent imprints of the buckle, and it is supposed that concussion of the brain from the blows ;here caused the boy's death. Examination of the premises showed that Hatzka had wiped the blood off the bleeding body of the boy and burned the rags with which he did it. The shirt the boy wore when he was whipped was found hidden away in a shed back of the house. It is all caked with dried blood, and the clean shirt which Hatzka put on the poor little fellow is almost as bloody. Hatzka is thirty-eight years old. and was employed in a furniture factory. He has two little sons of his own, aged four and three years respectfully. Hatzka obtained an unenviable reputation in the neighbor hood sometime last summer by his treatment of a young woman whom he engaged as housekeeper, he made proposals of marriage to her after she had been working for him four days, and was very much enraged at her because she was already betrothed to another man and declined the honor of being his wife. It is related that he charged her with stealing half a shawl of his late wife and some table linen,' but she not only proved her innocence, but showed that he nad cut the shawl himself and hidden away the linen. When the officers arrived at Hatzka's house they found him seated in the kitchen smoking. He was promptly arrested. The man had evidently been drinking, but whether before or after the tragedy was not apparent. He was very reticent, and pre tended not to understand English. HANGED BY A MOB. A Negro Taken From Jail in Frederick City, Maryland, and Lynched. John H. Bigus, a nego, on Friday night attacked Mrs. Yeakle, a widow, on a street in Frederick City. He was not found until Sunday. Mrs. Yeakle recognized him as her assailant. The Sheriff, to protect the prisoner, put him in chains in the strongest ceil in the county jail and doubled the guards. Fifteen minutes after midnight a mob of over one hundred men wearing white muslin masks, and the foremost of them armed with picks and axes, marched from the suburbs of the town to the jail. The mob, at a signal, rushed at the jail-door, and a long heavy pole, used as a battering-ram, in a few min utes splintered the door. The guards about Bigus's cell were overpowed, the locks broken. The terrified negro was found couched in a corner, his hands held beseech ingly toward them for mercy. A rope was placed about his neck, He cried out that he was innnmnt. but he was ordered to come on, and with the rope tied around his neck was led to a tree in front of the house of George H. Rider, on Jefferson Heights. He persisted in declaring his innocence, until he was swung up and nearly strangled. Then he made a confession, in which he implicated "Joe" Hull, another negro. He was then given three minutes to pray. The leader of the lynchers held a dark lantern so that the light would fall on his opened watch. When the three minutes expired, be remarked,. ''Time's up," and the next instant the negro was swinging in the air. The death seemed rather too slow; for one of the lynchers drew a revolver and emptied three chambers of it into the suspended body. FORTUNES IN MILEAGE. Large Sums Paid to Lucky Csagress men Who Live Far Away from Washington. The clerks in the office of the Sergeant-at Arms of Congress are busily engaged in revising the mileage accounts of the Repre sentatives in the next Congress. Under the law each Representative is entitled to mileage to and from Washington at the rate of twenty cents a mile. In the case of Mr. M. A. Smith, the new Delegate from Arizona, the sum of $1,600 will be paid to reimburse him for his expenses from Tombstone and back again. Mr. Herman, of Oregon, who comes next on the list, will be paid $l,:3d0. The two San Fran cisco members, Messrs - Morrow and Felton, who will travel 0,340 miles each, will receive $1 269. Mr. Craiu, of Tesas, who lives 2,000 miles from Washington, will be allowed $800. Mr. Milliken, of Maine, whose home is 703 miles east of Washington, will receive $281, and Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, $456. The New York city members will receive $92 each, enough to pay their traveling ex penses half a dozen times or more. Major farquhar, of Buffalo, exceeds this sum by SS6. The smallest mileage credit will be to Mr. Lee, of Alexandria, Va., who will succeed Mr. Barbour, of that place. Alexandria is eight miles distant from Washington, ac cording to the Sergeant-at-Arms' computa tion, Mr. Lee will therefore receive the sum of $3.20. Mr. Halman will draw the respectable sum of $254; Mr. Carlisle, $220, and Mr. Randail, who lives in Washington, but who represents a Philadelphia district, $55. I SUFFERING ON THE LAKES. The Sailors Lost Their Way Almost Frozen to Death A Crew Rescued by Life-Savers The schooner Alice Craig, laden with camp supplies was driven ashore near Bayfield, Wis., and went to pieces. The crew escaped in a yawl and landed in a dense forest. A blinding snowstorm was raging and the crew lost their way. After wandering about in the woods for hours with the r clothing covered with ice and almost perishing from cold and hunger, the crew, with the excep tion of Captain Bunker, reached Bayfield and reported that the captain had lain down in the snow to die. A rescuing party after a long search found the captain. He w.-s insensible and his limbs were badly frozen. The schooner Halstead, coal laden, f-r Chicago, went ashore in the fog off Glenc 111. She was discovered and the Evansto i.. life-saving crew were sent for. The li -savers reached the scene of the wreck a I the surf boat was launched when a tremeuM ous breaker struch her, knocking overboard Captain La wson and carrying away two oars. Captain La wson disappeared under the boat and came up on the other side. He was pull ed into the boat again with considerable difficulty, uninjured, Tha boat, half full o' water, was headed for the beach, where a was pulled up and bailed out. Cap i La wson, although benumbed with the c entered the boat, launched a second ti Again the boat battled with the huge bn ers, reaching the schooner without fun . accident excepting the breaking of the si ing oar. Two trips were made in the -f boat and the crew of the schooner were sao ly landed on the beach. The Halstead left Buffalo November 12 and has encountered heavy weather ever since. She was com manded by Captain John Pollock and had a cargo of 950 tons of coal, The schooner E. Stevenson, of Chicago, left Ludington for Chicago, loaded witn lumber, i he storm struck her near Kenosha and she was driven in the gale until she struck the bar, near South Chicago. The waves dashed over the vessel and the captain and crew climbed into the rigging and signalled for help. The life-saving crew reached the scene of the wreci and rescued Captain Chapin and a crew of three men. MISSED A RICH HAUL. Frightened Burglars Flee Leaving Valuable Booty behind Them. About two miiesfroin Warwick, Conn., in the town of Ledyard, live Peter Williams, seventy-seven years old, and his aged wife. The house is in a lonely and dismal spot. Mr. Williams is a wealthy retired farmer and was reputed to have some $75,000 hidden in his house, having no faith in banks or bankers. He is a vigorous man, noted for his temper, and when he was awakened by a noise which resembled that of a cat he hastily rose, lighted a candle and went through the house. As he opened the kitchen door two masked burglars, revolvers in hand, sprang upon him and demanded his money or his life. Mr. WilLiams dropped the candle, clinched with one of the men and a struggle followed. Mrs. Williams was powerless to render her husband any assistance. Finally the second robber succeeded in dealing Mr. V illiams a heavy blow on the head knocking him senseless. The thieves then turned their attention to Mrs. Williams, and she besought them to have mercy and promised them all the mon ey their was in the house. She opened a chest where the coveted treasure was sup posed to lie and the two men took the con tents into another room. While they were out Mrs. Williams secreted herself in a closet and when they returned and found her ab sent they became frightened, thinking she had gone to arouse the neighbors and they departed in hot haste, carrying with thim but $20 in their flight. Mr. Williams injuries, although painful arc uot dangerous There is no clue to the robbers. IT WAS A BILLY GOAT. Fear of Escaped Wild Animals Makes Even Policemen Quake. Since the big Barnum menagerie fire in Bridgeport on Sunday night very many peo ple in New Haven have been much scared by what they believed to be prowling wild beasts. Soon after midnight Tuesday m ant ing Policeman Riley while passing Mer win's Packing house heard a great howling in one of the alleyways, and when ha turned the glare of his lantern into the darkness he saw some strange sort of spotted animal crouching against the side of the building as though ready for a spring. He at once came to the conclusion that it was one of the escaped animals and hurried to the precinct office for help. A sxuad of five policemen then hurried to the packing house obtained an entrance to the building and fired a round from their revolvers at the animal in the darkness. The howling ceased and the policemen then went down and made an examination. They discovered a billy goat with a spotted skin browsing on some stubble. Thi3 was the animal they had been firing on. He was un disturbed by the bullets. A PANTHER STOPPED. Too Near Civilization He Meets Hia Fate on the Kail. Engineer Markhan and his Sremr; had a thrilling encounter with a panthe, m th Burlington and Missouri River. I', ilroad between Minden and Axtell, Neb. Jtweefi the two places named the engine slvped an eccentric and came to a standstill Mark ham and the fireman got out to set matters to rights and had about completed the job when both heard a yell that male their blood run cold, and before either could turn a large panther sprang upon the engineer and buried bis claws in his shoulder. The fireman had a heavy wrench in his hand and with this struck the brute on the head This partially stunned the animal and he loosened his hold on the engineer, but before either could take advantage of the situation he make a vicious leap for the fire. -nan and buried one of his claws in hi3 left hip. Engineer Markhim by this tune had drawn his revolver and by a lucky shot struck the brute between the eyes, killing him instantly. Both men were inily hurt and will be laid up for some tirrie. The panther measured nearly 6 feet from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail an i weighed nearly 200 pounds. 'mi - ,1 : ' i i :, 1
Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.)
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Dec. 6, 1887, edition 1
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