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THE OLD NORTH STATE FOREVER."
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TAItBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1890.
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Only one county (Washoe) in Nevada
fart an increase in population oyer vao
eosaf tea years ago..
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gars the Boston Globe: The applies
of electricity and tha overhead trol
u. jjtem for prope'ling canal-boats pro
pjjes an economy of fifty per cent. The
jjusl-boat mule will soon take hi placa
0 innocuous desuetude along with the
gf(t car horse. , ;-
' T5 Ibutwife exultantly exclaim
jijjt "the college girls are walking
tnj with t,ie nonor rapidly. It is no
def the male colleges are chary of
la&jg Uin to women students; the
en would stand little chance, except in
jjje field of athletics, if the women were
paired to compete oa equal terms for
The Mayor of Newport, Montana, de
jjjred somc new baths open. He then
itbdrew, and throwing aside his robes
pf office, reappeared before the large
ptberingof ladies and gcntlemed in a
jhing suit. Plunging into' the water,
be wam the full length of the bath, and
hit example was followel by several
rvn Councilors and policemen."
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
fait decided that a man cannot be ex
cluded from the witness stand in that'
State on occount of his religions disbe
5ef. The witness in the case under re
new believed in a God and a hereafter,
ind in punishment through th.3 courts if
be more falsely, but he had formed no
opinion about punishment in the next
torld. The Supreme Court held that
be was a competent witness.
It is "ripe meat" that you must ask
for now, if you wish to stamp yourself as
I true disciple of epicureanism, says the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. . "Ripe
meat" is meat that lias been killed and
kept from three to four months in an even
temperature just above freezing. This
softens the fibers and makes the coarse
part luscious because of the absence of
"full blood." Meat subjected to such a
process is so tender that it melts in your
mouth as easily as charlotte russe; so
tender, in fact, that the fastidious epicure
will eat no other kind.
The Commercial Advertiser has coma
to the conclusion that lovely woman is
the same all the world over at Buda
pest as well as in other places. The
ether day six hundred females -forced
their way into the palace, their object
beinto inspect tho trousseau of the
Archduchess Margaret. They fought
toe police and lackeys with their para
noial and then, tho. enemy being con
quered, fought with each other. Of
the parasol handles there were after
ward taken up several basketsf ul. Good
business for the local umbrella makers.
Koble Sir Hundred I
The Chicago Herald claims that
"when typewriters become cheap a great
change will occur in the education of
children. There will bo littlo occasion
for teaching them to write. Experi
ments made with somo quite young chil
dren show that by tho use of one of
these instruments they will" learn to read,
pell and write in le3s time than they
learn to do one of these things under the
present methods of instruction. All
children delight in using a machine.
Thj are fascinated with an instrument
tiat enables them to print their own
Mmes and those, of their companions
They do not tire of using it for the rea
oa that it enables them to do a great
iety of things. It is pQsssible that
tbc typewriter may accomplish more ia
creasing intelligence than the printing
press has done.' It will be a time and
bw saving machine adapted to the ac
laireaient and dissemination of knowl-
J W. Brayley, one of the foremost
merchants in Newfoundland, recently
''"ted ilontreal, Canada, it is said, on a
2ret mission in connection with tho
knders' troubles. Ia an interview he
ft that many of the people express
Melves as strongly in favor of an
wtion to the United States if
is not a satisfactory aettle
Blent of the question which is now
iag so much anxiety oa the island,
argue that if there is to be any
of allegiance at all it is better to
"t with the United States, which they
ee will protect their interests and
the same time they gain a market of
millions of peoplo for what they
produce, while if they joined with
oada their gain would bo a market of
"ty ix millions of people. It was an
y;lisb. man-of-war and not a French
.U-5Vht close UP Baird'a lobster facs
V'fin the French coast, and English
vsel5 are responsible for most of the
ct which are causing the present
tfouble. Ia connection with the ball
terofore given annually to the officers
f Her Majesty's ships, Mr. Brayley said
llat if guch courtesy had been officially
given this year it would have led to the -
rerthrow of the Government.
THE NEWS.
The next farmers' congress will be held in
a city In Missouri, to be selected by the Mis
souri delegation.- Tristram Barges, past
grand commander of the Calif rnia Knights
Templar, U dead. William A. Quigley.a
fruit farmer, living near Gjand Rapid,Mieh,
was brutally murdered by two inknownmcn.
-Councilman Michael J. Shprkey, of Wil
mington, who challenged Chaj. W. Edward,
of Wilmington, to fight a duel, has been held
for trial. The stock yards Jtrike at Chi
cago has been declared ofll- 'John Davis, .
colored jockey, who was mysteriously shot at
the West Side Driving Turk, In Chicago, in
dead.- The Tunnel House, 4 large frame
botLf the Sanda entrance tl tbv,f?f. rlair
Kfver tunnel, was burned, and one of the
female employees, unable to make her escape
from the upper room, was buijried to death.
; Benjamin Carter, aged fifteen, fatally in
jured Lis thirteen-year-old sister at Rosedale,
Ks. Rug weavers in Bethlehem, Pa., went
on a strike. Jennie Ed J r a burlesque
actress, attempted suicide at Chicago. An
English syndicate is after the menhaden fish
ery basins in this country. I
In the wreck of a freight train on the New
fork Central Railroad a number of cars were
lemoltshed and Albert II uck.j the engineer
fatally injured. Lelan Beck, an' old man
from St. Clair county. III., leaped from a train,
bound from Philadelphia to New York, and
was killed, and his little daughter jumped off
the train after him, receiving jfatal injuries.
The couple were on their way to Hamburg.
John Meehan, who four years ago-robbed
the Bank of England of 48,00ojhas been cap.
tared in Chicago. Henry Da (field, aged
seventeen years, died at Bridget n, N. J., from
injuries inflicted by Harry Pierte with a whip.
General Milledge ' L. Bonlhain, railroad
commissioner of South Carolila, was found
deal in his bed at Hawood, White Sulphur!
Springs, N. C. -Ace Madison, a farmer of
Edmondson county, Ky., shot and killed his
sixte-.year-old daughter. The trial tripof
the United States cruiser San Francisco was
successful, making an average' speed of 19
knots. C. II. Nichols, C. ' Tideman and
Charles Warriner, officials of the Nichols
Banking Company, of Ka nsas City, were ar
rested on the charge of fraud. Wilson N.
Jones was elected governor o T the Choctaw
Nation. - A fire in an electric fixtures fac
tory, West Thirty-fourth street, New York,
caused a damage of $25,000. t A, fourteen-year-old
boy killed his father at; Nebo, III.
Fire damaged the Eastern Manufacturing
Company's plant at South Brewer, Me-, $30,-
000. -Seven Aldermen of Biadlefbrd, Me-,'
wore arrested for irregularties inj Election mat
ter. By theexplosion of a locomotive boiler
on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad near Mansfield, O., Albert Graham
and Joseph Murphy were killed and the train
(oiJVet o Jre,- Jacoh Reed a wealthy re
tired merchant of Philadelphia, is dead.-
Peter Diehl's machine shops and McSweeny'a
glove factory at Gloversyille, N. Y., injured
$lt.000 by fire. T
Mrs. Mary Wilson, with her!
Infant In hen
vms, was sitting in a cemeteryjat Carbonado,
Washington, on the grave o? one of her chil
dren, when a tree fell and killed both.-
Three persons were killed nt M lllen, Neb., by
On accident on the Burlington and Missouri
Railroad. Two boys died at Knoxville,
Tenn., from an overdose of m irphine, taken
by mistake for quinine. The druggist made
the mistake. The Dulufh i nd Winnipeg
Railroad Company has ordered to stop work
on the Winnebagoshish reservation. Scott
Shoemaker, a hotel clerk, kil ed hinself at
Scranton, Pav-7 Frank Roland, a real estate
sharp of Topeka Kansas, was arrested in In
dianapolis. A strange disease has appeared
among cattle in Missouri. The Grangers
National Exhibition was opened at Williams'
Grove, Pa. Commodore Chubb, harbor mas
ter at Galveston, Texas, died at PosJ Mills,Vt,
aged eighty-four. The Amejrican Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, in session
at Chicago, passed resolutions asking Congress
to protect forests. McVicker's Theatre, In
Chicago, was destroyed by fire. Loss about,
f 200,000. Emil V. Koestner was arrested in
Philadelphia, charged with empezzling $7,000
from societies in Philadelphia.-!- The Demo
crats of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district
nominated John B. Reynolds, of Kingston, for
Congress. The Kansas Central express was
aeraiiea in tns salt creen vauey.
Nelson Morris, a packer, intends to build
large slaughter and packing-houses on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts. jCaptain Ihur
ber and his daughter were drowned near Good
speed, Ct.-r Congressman Hoar (Michigan)
discussed the tariff before a large body of far
mers at the Hudson county (N, Y.) fair.
John Porter, of Buffalo, Was fatally injured
by being thrown from a carriage. Fire in
Bannister fe Lewis lumber yard at Bisbee,
Yt, destroyed $15,000 worth of! property.
Otto Schultz and Carl Skow were killed at
New Brunswick, N. J., by timber falling on
them. Frank Rogers, who r cently robbed
a stage coach in Wyoming, has been arrested
in the Blue Mountains or Utah.- William
PJchter, ot Roxborough, a subu rb of Philadel
phia, dropped dead after workii g hard to save
his burning tarn. The pcai at crop about
Norfolk, Ya promises to be a good one.
John F. Broden, of Johnstown Pa., shot and
instant'y killed his wife, whom he had ar
rested on the charge of being c riminally inti
mate with a policeman. -TLe New. York
State Board of Arbitration has informed Vice
President Webb, of the New York Central
Railroad, and the master workman of the Dis
trict Assembly, K. of L., that a investigation
of the strike will be made, aad the strikers
now think that Mr. Webb will iave to submit
to arbitration. The railroad officials, however,
declare the strike ended. William Fiamella,
an Italian, stabbed and killed his brother-in-law,
William Vrapp, and wasj subsequently
detected by the finding of thi blood-stained
dagger upon him. The latest thing in trusts
ia a barber-shop combine, by which it is pro
posed to establish barber shops in all barge
cities, tickets of membership to be sold to travelers.-
Moab Turner and Stephen Wannick
fought a duel with knives ' toj the deaih at
Middlesborough, Ky.- The London Invest
ment Company has bought oui several Chi
sago brewing com pan i es. M rs. Jjena Ma-
thlas, the wife of Colonel Ad.tm Mathias, at
Decatur, IB, was murdered by William Craw
ford, with whom she was supposed to have
been intimate, and who, when hunted down by
a posse, committed suicide.' -The Nebraska
Prohibition Convention nominated Dr. B. I
Paine for governor and George "W. Woodby,
?oored, for li eu t e nan t-go v ernor.
TITO EXILES SLAIN.
Details of the Latest Horror in the
Wilds of Siberia.
A RwMtaa lat Sew Tvrk Tells tHw Avrfml'
Story of lite Tlnmta Tramedy Traao;
. . prt4 In Iron Cases."
Fix weeks ago a cable dispatch from Berlin
stated that another horror had been perpe
trated on Russian exiles in Siberia, that a
number of the so-called "political unfortu
nates" had been slain by their guards at or
near the town of Tinmen, in Western Siberia'
People had already been so surfeited with
horror in reading the heart-rending accounts
of the flOAsaere at Jaktosh, when 3j "politi
cals" were shot down, and of the flogging of
Mme, Hihida at Kara, that the few ii lies about
the Tinmen affair created only a moderate ex
citement at the timeit was published. But de
tails. have now been received that bring its
horrors fully up to those perpetrated in the
extreme northern Siberian capital.
A Russian, Alexander Kwiatkowski. ar
rived in New York direct from St. Petersburg
and brought with him the first account of the
Tinmen tragedy. He had rained his news
almost at first hand from a relative of one of
the victims, a beautiful young girl, the Prin
cess Eleneoginska, 18 years of ze. From
Prince Adam Oginska, Kwiatkowski learned
the following details:
The story begins with the exiles, 100 in num
ber, who left Ekaterinburg about the end of
May. They had been transported with a
eteamer load ot exiles politicals and crimi
nalsfrom Nijini-Novgorod to Perm, living
in iron cages on deck, and were then sent by
the railroad across the Ural mountains, 12
hours' journey to Ekaterinburg, where the
real horrors of the Siberian journey began.
From that point the exiles had to go on foot
all the way to Tinmen, a distance of nearly
500 miles, where the rage steamer would be in
readiness to transport them via the Jenessei
and the Obi to Tomsk, where another 1,000
miles would have to be trodden by the weary
exiles until Irkntsh was reached.
According toOginska's account, as told to
Kwiatkowski, the journey from Ekanerinburg
to Tinmen was one of indescribable hardship.
The heat during the day was intense, and for
15 days the exiles were compelled to walk
under the burning sun along the roads half a
foot deep in dust. They usually made 20 to
25 miles, and sometimes 00 miles in a day,
resting at night in the prisons which line the
great Siberian post road straight across the
continent from the Urals to the Baikalas, then
further to the Pacific Ocean. The letters re
ceived by Prince Adam say the sufferings of
the .beautiful Princess Elene was intense,
arousing even the sympatny of the Cossack
Guards at times. She was the youngest of the
group of exiles, but much as she suffered her
seFf she was never heard to complain. All her
companions were in a similar pitiable condi
tio of exhaustion, from the journey. Their
feet were swollen to such an extent that some
of ihem sat down by the roadside and declared
it bras utterly impossible for them to move
another step, and asked permission to ride in
the wagons that always accompany an escort
of exiles for the purpose of transporting the
sick and the women unable to w alk. They ap
pealed to the guard in vain, however, for as
answer they were cruelly beaten by the soldiers
with the stocks of their guns and ordered to
get up and march on.
These scenes happened frequently on the
journey-always with the same results in
cruelty. Bnt at last, when within only a few
stations of Tinmen, : the small band of exiles,
driven to despair, turned fiercely npon their
guards and began to fight, for their freedom.
But it was a very unequal fight, for the sol
diers who made the journey with loaded rifles
immediately began firing on the crowd. The
result was horrifying. The first victim was
the beautiful younjr princess. Her head
was pierced by a bullet t and she fell dead
without, uttering a word. Still the soldiers
kept up the firiug, and out ot the band of po
litical exiles who left Ekaterinbbnrg 20 were
shot dead and 12 were wounded. As nearly
all the exiles in the group participated in the
"rebellion" to a greater or less degree, it is
feared that the remainder will be severely
punished, if not hanged.
Such i3 the terrible story as told by Kwiat
kowski. It sounds incredible, and would
doubtless be considered so were it not that so
many previous horrors of a like description
have been reported and proven.
M. Norralkow an old Siberian exile, who
is now in New York, says that the ease of the
princess has been followed with deep interest
in the Russion colonies in Geneva, Paris,
London and other cities. She belonged to an
old and honorable Lithuanian family, several
members of which spend the winter in St.
Petersburg. How she came into the trouble
originally is not known. She-was probably
connected in some way with the societies in
St. Petersburg for the bringing about of po
litical reforms. M. Norralkow expects that
still more complete accounts of the Tinmen
horror will be published in Geneva shortly.
POUND WITH HER THROAT CUT.
An Illinois eandal Kndi its TJoobl
Tragedy. -
A sensation was caused at Decatur, Ills-, by
the murder of a married woman and the at
tempted suicide of the fleeing murderer. The
body of Mrs. Lena Mathias, wife of Colonel
Adam Mathias, was found with her throat cut
from ear to ear. About the place there was
every appearance of a strurgle. One stroke
of a razor or sharp knife killed the woman.
She had evidently been dead eight or nine
hours. There were evidences of criminal
outrage. Because of Mrs. Mathias' supposed
intimacy with William Crawford, aged 27,
son of W. H. Crawford, of Decatur.it was be
lieved that he had committed the horrible
crime, and officers were sent eight miles in the
country to run him down. He wasdiscovered,
and the officers gave chase through the tim
ber. As they gained on him, Crawford cut
his own throat. He cannot live. Crawford
had worked for Colonel Mathias, who is in
the hay and lightning rod business, and five
years ago became acquainted with Mrs.
Mathias, whose age was twenty-six, and whose
maiden name was Lena Culver. She was born
and reared at Rochester, Ind. What the rela
tions of the couple were is not known. The
husband was jealous of Crawford and let him
go. Since his discharge the woman had at
tempted to get Crawford to go away, as she
feared a tragedy.
MARKETS.
BAT.T73TOM Flour City Mills. extra,v25
$i50l Wheat Southern Fultr, 1.02L05.
Corn Southern White. 5S5)c. Yellow.
' 57i58c Oris Sou them and Pennsylvania
I 24oe. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania
d66Se. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
11JXK$1X)0. Straw Wheat, 7-OUfcfcO0.
j Butter Eastern Creamery, 2K$21e-, near-by
' receipts 1213c. Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 99lo, Western, 8(91c. Eggs 2Ua
21c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1(J$Ut0, Good
', Common, 4(a.$5.0u, Middling, 6a.fS-00, Good
t to fine red, 10.00. Fancy, 10((t$13.oa
5 NEW YORK Fiour Southern Good to
choice extra, 2.60(&35. Wheat No. 1 White
10.71(5 l.OTle. Rye-State 58G0c Corn-Southern
ellow, 5o56c Oats White, State
3c Butter State, 1219c Cheese
State, 681e- Fgs 2021c
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4-353$i85L Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 10.4 UMJc. Rye- Pen usy 1 va-nia657e-
Corn Southern Yellow, 4343ie.
Oats 2434c Butter State, 2u21c.
Cheese New York Factory, lOQIOie- Eggs
- State, 19i20c
CATTLE. ' - '
BaT-TTHOKE Beef l-25$4-37J.
S-Wc.M.75. Hoes L25(u$43Q.
Sheep
Nkw Yorx Beef GoKXTjOO. Sheep
UJOrLSS. Hogs 4.105$4.4a
East Liberty Bcev 4.fHj'a Sheep
SJOOioJtQ. Hess 4?G$t3jb .
HOT-PIEST C0NGRESSL
" SVsMtto eaBlo
191st DAT. The Senate renewed the rW
sideratina of the tariff bill by paragraph,
the pending question being on Paragraph 193L
Prg 1 45, imposing a duty of 1 cents a nonad
on lead ore and lead dross; provided that
silver re and ail other ores containing lead
shall pay a duty of 1 J cent a pound on the
lead contained therein, according to sample
snd assay at the port of entry. Mr. Cuke
moved to amend by striking out the proviso
and inserting a proviso that ores containing
silver and lead i a which the lead is of lesa
valoe than the silver shall be admitted free
of duty. Mr. Plumb moved to amend the
paragraph by reducing the duty on lead ore
iroin H cents a pound to of a cent. These
two amendments were the subject of debate
for the rest of the semion. end no action was
taken upon them. The HSusc resolution for
the appointment of a committee of seven Rep
resentatives and three Senators to take order
for superintending the funeral of the late
Representative Lewis F. Watson, of Pennsyl
vania, was laid before the Senate. Senators
Cameron, Cullom and Faulkner were appoint
ed a committee on the part of the Senate, and
then the Senate at 5.30 adjourned.
192D DAT. The Senate unanimously agreed
to close debate and vote on the tariff bill Sep
tember 8. The conference report on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was presented
and read. After a long discussion on the
paragraphs referine to reservoir sites and irri
gation the report was agreed to. The tariff
bill was then at 2 P. M. taken up, the ques
tion being on the lead paragraph. Schedule
E, relating to sugar, having been reached, Mr.
Aldrich said that the committee proposed to
let that schedule be passed over informally
for the present, so that Schedule F., relating
to tobacco and its manufactures would be the
first thingto come up to-morrow. The Senate
then adjourned.
193d Day. The resolution heretofore of
fered by Mr. Plumb instructing the com-nit-tee
on rules to issue such orders as will wholly
prevent the sale of spirituous, vinous and
malt liquors in the Senate wing or the Capital
w as taken up by the Senate. Refered to the
committee on rales. The tariff bill was then
taken up and -discussed until six o'clock,
when the Senate adjourned. -
194th DAy. The resolution heretofore
offered by Mr. Bate for the suspension of the
work in erecting the Lafayette statute on the
site selected in Lafayette Square was taken
up, and Mr Evarts, on the part of the library
committee, stated reasons why, in his opinion,
the r solution should not be agreed to and
the work should be completed. After remarks
by Messrs. Spooner and Bate the vote was
taken and the resolution was adopted. The
conference report on the railroad land for
feiture bill was presented and ordered printed.
The tariff bill was then taken up. The bill
was laid aside after 10 or 11 pages had been
disposed of. The House lard bill was present
ed to the Senate and referred to the committee
on agriculture. .The Senate at 6 P. M. ad
journed. 195th DAT Mr. Blair presented a me
morial of the Woman's National Industrial
League for the suppression and punishment
of the "armed assassins, known as Pinkerton
detectives." Referred to the judiciary com
mittee. Mr. Edmunds offered the following
concurrent resolution, whieh went over for
the present: - s
Jtesolced, That when the two houses ad
journ on the 19th of September, 1890, it be to
meet on the 10th of November, 1890. M :
Considerable progress was made on the
tariff bill, the salt and spirits clauses being
disposed of. - . - " " ,
Hobm Sesatonv '
200th Day. The session of the House was
very short, owing to the sudden death of
Representative Watson, of Pennsylvania.
The conlerence report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was presented and agreed
to. On motion of Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky,
Saturday, September 13, was set apart for the
delivery of eulogies to the late Senator Beck,
of Kentucky. Mr. O'Neill then formally an
nounced the death ot his colleague, and offer
ed resolutions of respect, which were unani
mously adopted. The Speaker appointed aS
the funeral committee Messrs. Culoertson of
Pennsylvania, McAdeo, Craig, Townsend of
Pennsylvania, Maish, Wallace of New York
and Kerr of Pennsylvania. The House then
as a mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned.
201st Day. The House spent the session
over the lard bill, its opponents successfully
filibustering against taking a vote on it. i
202D Day. In the House the filibustering
against the lard bill was continued. During
the proceedings Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, made
an undignified attack on Mr.McAdoo, of New
Jersey, which the latter sharply resented.
Mr. Beckwith, of New Jersey, ana Mr. Wil
son, of Washington, also passed hot words, and
the latter struck the former. Finally a reso
lution was adopted revoking all leaves of ab
sence except those granted on account of ill
ness. .
203d Day. Things moved along more
smoothly in the House this morning. No op
position was made totheapproval of the jour
nal and immediately after the decision of the
Speaker that the lard bill was unfinished
business was sustained by the House and the
lard bill passed. Finally the House proceed
ed to business and resumed the consideration
of the bill for the adjustment of claims of
laborers under the eight-hour law. At the
cl se of the morning hour this was laid aside
an I the House, under the special order, pro
ceeded to the consideration of the bill called
up under the special order by Mr. Connell, of
Nebraska, constituting eight hours a day's
work for all laborers, workmen and mechan
ics employed by or on behalf of the govern
ment or by contractors who do work or fur
nish material for the government, and pro
viding penalties for violation of its provis
ions. Brief remarks were made by Messrs.
Connell, O'Dannell, Atkinson of West Vir
ginia, Caldwell. Wade, Reilly, Cummings,
McCoinas, Lawler, Farquhar and Mutchler.
The bill was then passed. Mr. Henderson, of
Iowa, tubmitted the conference report on the
bill for the relief of the sufferers in Okla
homa, and it was agreed to. Adjourned.
204th Day. Immediately after the reading
of the Journal the House went into committee
of the whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the
chair) on the private calendar. The first bill
to be considered was that which has been pend
ing for Ibe past 1G weeks, the omnibus South
ern war claims bill. The committee rose, the
bill was passed and the committee resumed
its session. When it again mee half a dozen
private bills were passed. The House at 5
o'clock took a recess until 8 o'clock. The
House at its evening session passed 72 private
pension bills, and at 10:30 adjourned.
A GREAT WORK FINISHED
The Tanael U aider ike . Clat JU-
The workmen engaged upon the two ends
of the St- Clair river tunnel between Port
Huron, Mich, and Sarnia, Out, shook hands
with each other the other morning under the
St. Clair river, and made the great subter
anean highway echo with their cries. When
but one hundred feet of the tunnel proper re
mained to be completed, work was suspended,
and an eight foot drift w as begun- Tnia was
to enable tae engineers to adjust the soaasive
shields so that tney will torm a perfect liain?
for the tunnel when brought together. The
tunnel is practically completed, and every
one connected with it ia jubilant, for their
iucces has surpassed the most sanguine an
ticipations of it promoters. . -
Tnis marks tne completion of the greatest
river tunnel in the world, and poasioly the
greatest piece of engineering in thi country.
It ia eleven feet longer tnaa the Brooklyn
bridge, and the difficulty of naderground
wont compensates for the finer work neces
sary on that structure. The tnnnel will not
be in use until some months, as a thirteen
thousand leet of spproacn is to be dag on the
1'anauian side, aixi one of nine thousand on
the Michigi
SOUTHERN 1TE2SL
fTTKRKSTTJVa XKWI C09TPI1KD
PBOW HAXT SOURCES.
The Lawrence Iron Works, st I ronton, Ohio,
will be removed to Glasgow, Va.
George Nace a prosperous farmer, of Bote
tourt county, Va, was thrown from a hay
wagon and killed.
The school population of Roanoke, Va Is
4.1 18- Eight years ago its entire population
was less than sua
A. large factory for the production of woolen,
knit couds H to bo erected in Charlottesville,
Va., by a Northern grm.
Land "for a new hotel in Winston, N. C, to
cost (00,000, has been selected, and wqrk will
be commenced at an early day.
While Benjawia A. Neal wne being tried
at Port Deposit, ML,on thecharge of robbery
he jumped through an open window ani ca
rs ped.
The peanut vines in Sonthside Virginia are
looking very promising, and the indications
are that a good crop of "goobers' will be
made. . - '
Scott Pierce, of Alexander, Va a brakeman
on the Virginia Midland Railroad, shot him
self twice at his home in that city. Ilia wounds
are fatal, .r -
A wealthy northern gentleman has proposed
to give 92 for every $1 subscribed in North
Carolina, for the further endowment of Wake
Forrist college. "
W. P. Wyer, recently of New Windsor Col
lege, Maryland, has been elected professor of
ancient and modern language of Reachie Col
lege, Louisiana.
About $6,500 acres of coal land near the
Monongalia river, in Marion and Monongalia
counties, W. Va-. have been sold to a syndi
cate for $23 per acre.
There is more building going on at Roan
oke, Va., than at any time in its history, and
residences and business houses are rented
before the foundations are completed.
Frank Kale, a brake man and assistant yard
conductor on the Norfolk and Western Road
at Radford, Va., fell between two freight cars
and was so terribly crushed and mangled that
he lived only three hours.
A big barn on the farm of Bedford Glass
cock, near Rectortown, Va., was burned with,
five hundred bushels of wheat and a large
number of agricultural implements.
The ay-roli of the Roanoke, (Va.) Machine
Works shows 1,692 names. , The amount of
money to be paid out this month will be over
(63.000. The works are now running night
and day.
A large boiler and machine works, giving
employment to eight hundred men is to be
removed from Col uu bus, Ohio, to Buena Vista,
Va-, the contract having been signed.
With but finr dissenting votes the town of
Fincastle, Va., has subscribed $10,000 to the
proposed railroad from that place to Trout
villu, on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. -
There is to be a Confederate reunion at
Franklin, Pendleton county, W. Va, Sept. 5,
Senator Faulkner, Congressman W. L. Wil
son and ex-Senator Camden are expected to
be present and make addresses.
Nelson Villers, a brakeman on the B. and
O., was instantly kilted at Moundsville, W.
Va., on the Camp Ground switch, near the
Moundsville Coal Works.
J. H, Wiggin, of New York, who recently
purchased tne ice plant in Raleigh, N. C, has
.reorganized the same under the title of the
Raleigh Plate Ice Company The operaVJn
will be largely increased next season.
Steve Jacobs, a celebrated outlaw of Robe
son coutty, N. C, who was to have been
.hanged some timcsince, but escaped, has been
captured in Georgia and returned to the
proper authorities. .
At Fort Sprinjr, Greenbrier county, W. Vrn
Elmer Manu and kelson Say lor, tbe latter of
Cincinnati, were out hunting, when Mann's
gun was accidentally discharge djtSaylor re
ceiving tne Dail in tils heart, causing instant
death. .
J. W. Taylor, of Magnolia township, Samp-
son county, N. C, has just finished a cart body
on which lie used nails bought by his great
grandfather one hundred and sixty years ago.
They are .wrought iron, and cost twenty-five
cents a pound. Mr. Taylor is over seventy
years old.
The Hamlin House, the principal hotel at
Hamlin, the county seat of Lincoln county,
W. Va., was totally destroyed by fire. Sev
eral persons occupying rooms in the hotel
were heavy loners in clothing and money.
The building was insured.
, Advices from Hon. Wn. A Anderson, who
was sent to London short 4ime ' ago by the
Rockbridge Company of Glasgow, va., to ne
gotiate with a wealthy syndicate whieh pro
poses to in vest $1,500,000 in industries in the
city ot Glasgow, state that all arrangements
have been made and the money assured.
William T. Harriott, a farmer on Bohemia
Manor, Cecil county, Md, lost two valuable
heifers by lightning. A valuable gray Mor
rell eolt, which took a $50 premium at tbe
Cecil county fair a year ago, was found next
morning in a gully with its leg broken. It is
supposed it became frightened du ting the
itorm. - . :
i J. H. Coulter,-of Monroe county, W. Va
weighed a few days ago from his flock of
sheep one thoroughbred Cots wold buck, three
prears old, which pulled the scales at 238
pounds. One average yearling ewe weighed
140 pounds. Twin lambs, five months old.
Weighed 2-H pounds, an average of 120 pounds
each.
r-A desperate affray occurred at Cross Keys.
Southampton county, Va-, John Doyle ana
John Scott became involved in a quarrel, and
the former grew so enraged that he procured
a shotgun and discharged both barrels into the
body of Scott, killing him almost instantly.
Doyle was arrested and taken to the jail at
Courtland. A woman was at the bottom of
he quarrel.
Walter Aves, a youth of Charlestown, W.
Va, jumped off a train at Cumberland, MtL,
jammed his thumbs into hi ears, and ran
wildly up and down tbe station platform
praying at the top of his voice. He was put
under restraint and Dr. Braer summoned.
He said that the young man1 was suffering
with acute mania, caused by the immoderate
ase of cigarettes.
After the death of Hampton Langdon, near
Rising Sun. Cecil county Md, bis house
keeper, who' had been in his employ 22 years,
while in tbe garret, removed a loose board ia
the floor and brought to view two tin boxes
containing greenbacks, gold coin and a cer
tificate of deposit, the total value of the dis
covery being $6,000.
The secretary of the North Carolina Agri
cultural society says that the coming fair will
embrace new features of special interest to the
farmer, the mechanic and educator. Amuse
ments will not be neglected. Negotiations
have already been completed for some of the
best and most unique entertainments ever of
fered to the pntdic os a similar occasion, and
the grounds will be crowded with shows and
curiosities.
A Wheelingdispetch states that a syndicate,
of which Stephen H. Elkins and ex-Senator
Henry G- Davis are the pnxne movers, com
pleted a deal for 7,000 acre of coal hud on tho
llonongahela river, near Morgantown, paying
$195,000 for it- Similar deals to tbe amount of
half a million have been made in the same sec
tion by the syndicate. They aie believed to
foreshadow the extension of tbe West Virginia
Cen'Tal Road to the Monoagahela Valley aad
eventually to Pittsborx.
- AT AJt KCEXT marriage in Boston, the bride
groom, who is interested ia mining ia itii
West, conceived a very pretty idea in regard
to the wedding zing. Instead of parchasjaf a
Hag in the' conventional way from some jew
eler, he himself mined the quartz, panned it
oat with his own hands, had it smelted under
his own eyes and took it to a jeweler and had
it made into a heavy gold hich hie wife
THI most valuable metal in the world fa
aid to be ralliam, which is worth $3,250 an
nnee. Cakiura brings lUqpa pound a d
ceri am SlCO per pound. Gol J xs worth ZU
a, Bound. -
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Edoab Fawcett Is fascinated with the
aa barbs of London.
Senator Enjirxns is aaid to be much eon.
emed about hU tailing health.
George T. Beck, a son of the Kentucky
Senator, is now canraasiag Wyoming lor Coo
gress. Gexeeal Lew Wallace writes a amall
and neat hand which is as clear snd legible as
copper plate.
Maktix Iboxr, who led the strike on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, now sells peanuts ia
depot at St. Louia.
MtssAxxiB A-De Bark has receir d a
license as mechanical engineer front the Chi
cago Board of Engineerm.
Sesatok George, of Mlaaieslppi. has a
bead of long, flawing hair that waves pictur
esquely about when he is excited.
Mariox Ceawfoeo, the novelist, keeps
himself in fine pbyaieal trios by fencing and
indulging in other athletic exercise,
. Miss Rachel Sherman has the reputa
tion of being the best toast-mistress among
(he politico-society circles at Washington.
George Meredith has finished his novel
The Journalist," and is taking a holiday. lie
has been engaged upon this book for' several
fears. .
"Mose" Jacoba, a Des Moines, Iowa, new,
boy, has a fortune of $10,000 invested in real
estate. He is one of the best known persons
tn Iowa.
Colcmbus Delano, of Ohio, who Is presi
lent of the Woolgrowers' Association was
Grant's Secretary of the Interior. He is welt
advanced in years, but active enough to visit
Washington frequently.
Miss Grace Kino, the Louisiana novelist,
is described by one of her friends as a woman
jf stately figure and striking features. Her
aair and eyes are brown and she ia twenty
even years old.
Texxyso.Vs back yard is said to be strewn
with clay pipes that he has used and discard
ed. The poet is a prodigious smoker, and like
Carlyle, be .prefers the humble clay pipe,
rarely smoking a cigar.
Professor Jakes D. Dana, tbe geologist,
the only man I. ,-ing who assisted in forming'
tbe American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, fifty years ago, attended the
Indianapolis meeting fast week.
Elizabeth Comrtock, an aged Quaker
preacher, living at Union Springs, N. has
visited in her lifetime 122.000 persons, and
nearly twice that many sick persons in and
out of poor houses, battlefields, etc.
Minister Pitkin is making a reputation
in Buenos Ayres as a literary light. He re
cently delivered a lecture on The Fools ol
Shakespeare" before the cream of the Argen
tine capital's society, and produced a strong
impression on his audience.
Senator Plumb is described as the very
picture of a rough and ready farmer from the
wild and woolly West. He is a tall, broad,
stout man. with a big head and a big chest
He is a lawyer by profession, despite his
granger-like appearance.
Robert P. Porter, the superintendent of
the census, has the physique of an athlete.
He is an active, clean-shaven man. dark com
plexioned, with black eyes and black hair.
Nearly 4000 clerks are employed in the Cen
sus Bureau at present, though its normal stall
of employees in off years consists of one clerk
and one messenger. .
Professor F. W. Newman, brother of the
Cardinal, is now 85 years of aie. II easy that
fie wad a practical abstainer from intoxicating
liquors from boyhood when he dined alone.
At 62 he turned vegetarian and since then he
has needed no physician. He is as well now,
be says, as any one of his agecaa expect to be,
and he laments because vegetarianism makes
no greater progress with the world.
Hexby Savage La n dob, a gifted young
artist, and grandson of Walter Savage Lan
dor, the poet and critic, is now traveling and
painting in the interior of Japan. Although
only 24 years old, he has visited this country.
Alaska, Egypt and much ot thecontinent,and
hopes during the next three years to spend
some time in Siberia, Cores, China, and Aus
tralia. Then he will exhibit his work in Loo
don. -
DROWNING OP SEVENTY-SIX MEN.'
Horrible Beenoa at tho Slaking of tne
OaMala Alufcsa Watm.
The first detailed story of the loss of the ship
Oneida and the drowning of seventy-six Chi
nese in Cooks's Inlet, Alaska, are given by
John Ericsson, one of the crew of tbe wrecked
vessel, who has just arrived in San Francisco
on the schooner Campier.
"We ssiled from here," said be, March 28
On April 26 a fog came down, and about nine
o'clock at night, when we thought we were
well out from land, the shock came.
"The water was flowing into the ship at a
furious rate and the order was given to getout
the boats. The scene that followed that order
was simply terribly. Two hundred Chinese
fishermen, who were in the hold, came swarm
ing up on deck, and it was as if the imps of
hell were let loose- Tbey eursed and swore
and cried and kicked and charged on the boats,
and had to be driven off the deck by the crew.
Some ran up into the rigging, then down to the
deck again. They attempted to take posses
sion of the hoata,wbich by this time were man-
"It was necessary to push out from the side
of the ship. To attempt to hold them in check
wss impossible. They were like demons. Many
of them leaped into the water and were
drowned. None of the white men were lost
"Twenty minutes after we struck there was
nothing to be seen on the ship. She landed
fairly en top of the rock and was broken in
two. As the ship was settling three dories
were washed oot of tbe davits. There was a
scramble for them by the panic stricken Chi
nese, but only four of them got into the boats.
It was terrible to listen to the wails of tbe
doomed creatures. We could give them no
help. A number of them were caught like
rats in a cage and went to the bottom en the
Oneida. Thirty minutes after the ship struck
we were all ia the boats, and not a sound eon Id
be beard, except the oars in the row locks. Wo
reached land aafely, and when day broke went
out to see if we could find any survivors. We
found twelve Chinamen floating on the wheel
bonne two days later. ...
Three of the Chinese had mana fed to reach
the rock, but these were not foand until seven
days later, and two of them in the meantime
had perished from exposure. The third had
found a keg of spirits and had kept himself
alive on i to contents."
HADE HAD BY LIQUOR,
A Han-xas4 X4ves7nasua Create at
Ftuato fat m Car.
David A. Mills, a livery stable keeper of
Smith ville.Gs boarded tbe south-bound train
at Smith ville en route to Brunswick. He was
drinking, and armed with a pair of pistols aad
brass knuckle. As his liquor began to warm
him ap he became violent, tbe violence taking
the form of insanity. He drove the paenrers
in bis ear out by firing off his ptstola. He then
tried te getout of the ear, bat was so permit
ted to do so by tho passengers, who held tha
doors shut. The conductor endeavored to
quiet him, bat be was evidently a raving
maniac ' '
He kicked the glass out of nearly every win
dow in the coach, cutting bis hands aad Iae
rating bis leg in a moat horrible maaner.aad
erering an artery above tbe ankle. U wee
bleeding profwwiy from every gash, and fcal
anon lost so much blood that be fell upon one
f the seets exhausted. The railroad company
despatched a physician to bis relief, bat cent
bd enme before the doctor could reach hiss.
1 1 is friends who were with him were power
less, and could not manage hint. Mills had
been insane several years a r and had been is
Inmate of the asylum at lliiledeville, and
is iboegiit that fee became vk4eetly iota'
aJUr boar&sg the trsia.
TT0E2 AND TTOIUIIL.
THERE Is much duaAUfetinsm
Sockere at Southampton, England, t
treat strike is iamiaeuL
C8. Wn EATON .President of the Ir,
pendent order of Railway Conductor.
resigned his position. II is toengsg tnthr
Bsaaeas. .
Toe Executive Board of the Knights f
Labor decided to call out every man on the
New York Central Railroad who owed allc
fhuee to the Order.
NEARJ.Y all the yardmen employed by the
Delaware and lludmn Railroad iVuipsn v, at
Green Island, New York, have gone strike.
The men refused to handle New York Crn
tral freight at that point.
IBS firemen and engineer of ihe I'nion
Stockyards Snitching A uncial . ia t'iicr.
have modified their demaad fr an iva-o
ia wages. They now ak T cents an hour for
engineers and eighteen rents fr firemen.
The demand ia under coi Jerattwn by the
toada.
A DELEGATION of Illinois Centra) trainmen
Called upon General Uaka ger Beck wUh the
yew schedule of wae they akrd, Mr.
Beck promised to givW them an answer
tea days hence. The ajale provides fur an
increase of wages all alokig the line of frwa
flva to thirty per cent.
AMONG the passenger on the steamer City
of Peking, which sailed from San Francisco,
was an attorney who goes to China to secure
$,000 Chinese laborers, who will be employed
tn the eonstruction of a railroad acrws the
Isthmus of Tehnantepee, The mad is to bo
built by Engliah capital, and work has been
let to Mexican contractors."
A PAPER is being circulated among the
mill men in Fall Run, Mawachutettn, bind
ing those who sign it to sell no print cloths
under 3 5-16 cents during September. Over
three fourth of the mill men have signed it.
This wss considered the only chance fr bet
tering the market except by a cut down or
shutdown.
P. M JkRTHCR,Chief Engineer of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, has written
a letter in which he says that when tbe pres
ent trouble on the New York Central first
occurred he ordered the engineers to abstain
from all participation ia it, and to attend
strictly to their own business, lie holds that
they are justified ia occupying a neutral po
sition when others are engaged in a conflict
with their employers.
The joint conference of the Mine Workers'
Association, representing 12.0UO miners of
Blair. Cambria, Clearfield, Centre, Hunting
don, Jefferson and Carbon counties, and the
operators ia those counties, held in A I loon a,
I'Sh, adjourned without agreement. Tha op
erators claim that the scale was unreasonable
and they could not accept without loss. Tho
miners are firm and a general strike may b
the final result. Another meeting Wilt bo
held on September 12.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Attorney-General Miller has returned to
Washington from a short visit to Asbury Park.
The cruiser San Francisco left the city of
that name for Santa Barbara to begin her of
ficial triaL
. Secretary Wiodoro baa returned to Wash
ington and resumed hisduticsat the Treasury
Department. .
Acting Admiral James ILGillis has Wen
detached from tbe com t and of the South At
lantic Station and placed on waiting orders.
" Tie female eraplftjeea of the Government
Printing Office scut a petition to the Senate
asking that they be paid not less than 2 a day.
Assistant Secretary Batcbeller has rrsunicd
his duties at the Treasury Department, after
a month's vacation at Block Island, Saratoga,
and other places.
Tho bankruptcy bill will be reported to the
Senate favorably, with certain amendment,
and it is understood that an e tit or will be made
to pass it at this session of Congress. ,
Captain Allen V. Reed, who was recently
investigated by a navsl court of inquiry on
charges preferred by Admiral Gillis, has been
res-ored to bis old command of the Richmond.
The Senate Committee on Postal Affair de
cided to make tbe bill to extend the free de
livery systrnt apply to cities of 5,000 inhabi
tants or to cities where the postal receipts
amounts to 15,000. :
Bill were passed by the Senate holding every
bidder for carrying the mails to his contract
obligation and requiring him to deposit with
bis proposal a eheck for 6 per cent, of the
amount of the bid, the check to be forfeited fur
failure fo carry oot contract.
The Committee on Railroad and Canals re
ported to the House the bill to compel rail
road companies engaged in interstate com.
merce within a reasonable time to equip their
cars with such safety or automatic safety
couplers ss will not require trsinmen to go be
tween the ends of the cars to couple or to un
couple them, and with 'automatic brake so
that tbe speed of the train can be controlled by
the engineer.
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
Lie Wires Play Ilaeoo In a West Vir
ginia To wss . .
About seven o'clock in the evening two
men one James Sullivan, ind the other an
Italian were instantly kil ed by electricity
In the south heading of thel Wheeling Bridge
and Terminal Company's tunnel, nnder con
struction in Wheeling, W. Va.
As far as can be gathered from workmen
who were ia the immediate vicinity at the
time, the two unfortunates, together with bail
a doren others, were standing in a group a,
on ride of the tunnel talking, when a dang
ling wire, from the electric light system Ujfht.
ing the tunnel, came in contact with Sullivan.
Tbe man fell dead at once, as did al his
Italian neighbor standing next to him. Four
others were badly shocked by the current, but
recovered ia a short time. A similar accident
occurred at Martin's Ferry an hour Utr.
Albert A reaon, George Appelbarh, Mrs. Wil
son and a boy being severely aod dsnrerposly
shocked by a guy-wire ofaderrick which was
charged with electricity from com in- in con
tact with an electric light wire. Albert t il
soa got hold of the roy line and could not let
go. H ia so ran to bis aid and got in the sm
fix, aad so oa with Appelbacb and Mrs. Wil
eon. TWO DEATHS IN A DUEL
Bsnast Irwsrnson Kill tne Man who Stans
Sleroal Ills WMSs s4 DUm Illsnaetfc
A desperate duel to the death took p!see at
Rowland, Ky., the junction of tbe Loo is ill
aad Nashville Railroad with the Kentucky
Central, at nine o'clock tbe other more ing.
Robert Ferguson, a fireman oa the Louis
ville and Nashville road, w a recently msr
ried to a pretty young woman, and
Hamilton, another fireman, was reported to
have told tales about her.
Tbe trains of tbe two men met at Rowland.
Ferguson walked ap to Hsmilum and in an
excited manner exeisimed: "You hare hern
talking about my wife, so I undersTand."
"No I haven't," y I lamiltoa, "and the man
who asy so telu a lie."
"I say so," replied Ferjrnaon, aad at the
same iaafnt both men drew pitof.
Tbey fired almost simuitaneoasly, end ia
lea thaa fifteen seconds each man bsd fired
four times. Then both reeled and fdl, 0.-ir
heads alls art touching as they drofped. Tbe
train sue rasbed to them, only u find Loth
dead. Each had three ballet holes ia his
body.
Aa eye-sritae aaid it was the gamest C;!it
he ever aaw. Neither an a Cinched nor ut
tered a sound alter the shooting emimenced.
A wom. feature has derek?pJ la tho
frsia market siaea trices Lavj trun ex
port deallr s. At rrent f. srea. b.it caa
ta l-m:' ksr trvr 1 zz'' m'-'-1 1 .