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J. M. MORGAN, A. M. WOODALL, Managers. "CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSING ATTEND HER Subscription: $1.00 Per Year. VOL. 9. SMITHFIELD, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1890. NO. 17. Farm and Fireside declares "that far mers arc taking more interest in politics than ever before." The curator o the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Institute told a i 'porter the other day that one beautiful butterfly in the col lection of the institute is valued at $1000, that sum having recently been paid for a duplicate. One of thi latest financial organiza tions which has come to the notice of the Detroit Free Presses a syndicate to con trol the price of turtles along the Atlan tic coast, and the first result of its labors is to raise the price fifty per cent. "Drop sunflower seeds into mutton broth," the Free Prest asserts, "and you can out turtle any turtle soup you ever saw.'' General Nelson A. Miles has assumed command of his military division at Chi cago. A reporter asked him if there is any danger of another outbreak among the Indians, to which he replied: "Not at present auyway. The danger of Indian troubles is decreasing every year for various reasons. I hardly think there will ever be another serious Indian war." A writer in the Labor World points out the fact that the important ot the posi tion which women occupy in the labor world is only now beginning to b3 rec ognize!. Their pawsr to pull wage3 down and hardships up, to render in etfective unions and strikes, and to make the battle of life harder for the worker, has naturally advanced with the increases of their opportunities to put themselves ia the places of men. "There is probably no industry that a Ids so much to the pleasure and health of the public," affirms the Boston Culti vator, "as that which preserves iu perfect condition, by canning, fruits and vege tables for all seasons of the year. Fruits and vegetable are thus put up wherever cheap, preventing the glutted markets that woull result were these perishable article! all to be used at once. Thus they equalize prices throughout the year. More than this, they give to many locali ties fresher and better vegetables than are often offered in their season in our large cities. It is to the interest of farjaers everywhere to encour.iga the establish- lucut ot OAuain fwustoriui in t1"'- "-:ju borhood. They make as good a market for fruits and vegetables as many cities or villages can supply, and by diversifying the products of farmers do much to in sure Ihem against the losses to which they are liable when growing only grain and other crops in which tha severest competition prevails." During a conversation one day re cently, Congressman Flower, of New York city, casually remarked that he represented the richest district in the country. "More than that," said he, "my district, the Twelfth, is richer than any State in the Union except New York and Pennsylvania. It is richer than Mas sachusetts, or Illinois, or Ohio, or Cali fornia." Of course, says the New York Star. Mr. Flower's little observation set everybody to discussing, and it was ac knowledged to be true. The Twelfth Congressional District extends from East Fortieth street to East Eighty-sixth street and from the East River to Seventh ave uue. In it live the Vanderbilts, the Fockfellers, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, D. O. Mills, and, in fact, almost ail the very rich persons in the city except the As tora, who live in the Eleventh Assembly District. The united possessions of the residents of the Twelfth Congressional District must be more than $4,000,000, 000. Illinois is valued at about $3,000, 000.000, and Ohio and Massachusetts at a billion and a half. Says the New York Time: There are always difficulties ic the selection of judges at the fairs. An exhibitor, of course, is disqualified unless he has the unseldsh disregard of his own interests to withdraw his animals from competi tion, which is too much to expect, in view of the fact that his stock is shown for business purposes.- A prominent breeder is also excluded because he is in terested in th.3 stock of his breding, and few outsiders have the confidence of the exhibitors because they lack the requisite expert knowledge. The selection of pro fessional judges who are properly com pensated for their services and have the requisite knowledge would seem to re move the difficulty, as they could act at several fairs in the same capacity and would be quite disinterested. This method has been fouud satisfactory at the English exhibitions, and would doubtless be so here. It would not, perhaps, pre vent disappointment on the part of some of the exhibitors, who might be apt to protest against the decisions, but that difficulty might be met by the selection of a jury of the exhibitors who should decide any questions raised by a disap pointed party on the basis of the scale cf points. The matter is one of sufficient of THE NEWS, James O'Brien, an old soldier, killed him self near Shenandoah, Pa. Norfolk's pea nut crop will reach three million bushels. The United States grand jury of San Francisco has indicted ex-Senator James McCuddeu, a Vallejo contractor, on the charge of presenting false claims against the govern ment. -James Fahey stabbed Edward Tooney in a saloon in Kansas City. Postmaster Hitchie again threw the mail edition of the Leavenworth (Ks.) Times out of the mail. A number of French Canadians came to Worcester to engage in cotton weaving. The steamer Vizcaya collided with an un known steamer offBarnegat, and both vessels went down. It is believed that over sixty lives were lost. Some of the rescueJ were brought to New York by the steamer Hum boldt. The whiskey dealers in St. Louis have formed the Central Distilling Company. This organization is not iu sympathy with the trust. Julius Svenson, a Swede, employed in Chicago, fell iuto revolving machinery while skylarking, and was killed. Ameri- cus B. Messimer, a Philadelphia and Reading conductor, was arrested in Pottstown on a charge of beiug responsible for the disaster at Willianisport. Near Birmingham. Ala., the jealous wife of John Williams, shot and killed her husband. Near Valdosta, Ga-, a negro named Palseo outraged a youug lady, and was in turn riddled with bullets. The Arkan sas Traveler, published in Chicago, is in the sheriff's hands. Robert Washington, a laborer employed in Braddock, Pa., was instantly killed by grasping an electric light wire. "WiYiiam Morteii and James McGraCh were sentenced to life ir.iprisonnient in Chicago for the murder of Policeman Fryer. Bosnian's flouring mills in Marion, Ks., were wrecked and two men were fatally injured, by an ex plosion. The Chicago Postoftice building is aid by Inspector of Buildings Cluss to be beyond redemption. A call has been issued for a convention of the retail clerks of Amer ica. The stockholders of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad have de cided to increase the capital stock of the com pany ten per cent. Mrs. Matthews, of Athens, Ala., shot a negro who assaulted her He was afterward found dead. Margaret Parker was sentenced to imprisonment fir life in Montgomery, Ala., for being an acces sory to the murder of another woman's hus band. William T. Tennehill, of the New York Cotton Exchange, killed himself in Englewood, N. J. William Mottling and wife were asphyxiated by gas in their room in Chicago. Leo Ileolfner, a Pole, is missing from Minneapolis, lie left behind his wife and mistress. Judge Hughes has given an opinion in Richmond that Registration books are public records, and registrars are required i to permit United States election supervisors ' access to them. An old man named Heller ; dropped dead of heart disease, brought on by political excitement, at a meeting in Bloom s- j burg. Pa. A heavy fall of snow on theTen- : nessee mountains. By the overturning of metal in a foundry at Bethlehem. Pa., six men were horribly burned. A Hungarian wo man poured boiling water over two quarrel ing men at Gallltzen, Fa., and badly scalded them. In a quarrel over taffy, fifteen-year-old Johnnie Amdo shot his younger brother in the head in their home in New York. A company his purchased five hundred : acres of land across the river from Petersburg, Vs., and will establish a town. The steani- I fitters of Chicago are on strike. The Non- 1 partisan National Woman's Christian Tem perance Uuion has "sued a call for a national convention. A section of Barnunrs circus train was wrecked near Macon, Ga, aud eight horses killed. W. S.Wharton, a Chicago money lender, and also interested in the in surance business, has disappaared, and it is l.it hw indebtedness amounts to j . 'WS l V M - - -- - $5o,XiO. Deputy Circuit Clerk E. Ward Houston, of Parkcrsburg, W.Va., was arrested, charged with forging certificates of pay for witnesses. Judgrj Robert I Johnson, of EWusburg, Cambria county, Pa-, died of apoplexy, aged seventy-six years. The legality of Speaker Reed's quorum rulings is to be tested in proceedings brought by a New York importing firm against the McKinley bill. Lee Allen, a notorious horse thief. waa captured in the Comanche country by United States officers. Lpnis Rittenhousc, an insane man, living near St. Louis, shot a neighbor and his brother, and while attempt ing to kill his father the latter split his skull with a hoe. Percale anl Anliey, two riai- head Indian ninrtierers, were sentenced to death in Helena, Mont Mrs. Rearick, of Woonsockct, S. P., has confessed to poisoning her husband. James Prenell, a noted Chi cago thief recently released from prison, tried to kill Miss Alice Oakes, the girl whose testi mony convicted him. He did not succeed. S. S.Cole, a freighter, was murdered by Indians in the Big Betid conntry, W ashing- ton. William Watson, a Santa Fe section hand, was murdered and his body secreted in a closet in the railroad station at Fort Madi son, Iowa. William Darn well, an Austii Tex., police officer, shot Maggie Null and then killed himself. The steamer Alex ander Swi:t collapsed near Elcuwood, Pa. Juliu. Dornsipe, a son of ex-Mayor Dornsipe, ; of Kansas City, committed suicide in San Francisco. Thomas Tag art, a Columbus, Ind., farmer, confessed on his death bed to having murdered Thomas Jameson, in 1S85. E Iward T. Childe, of Terre Haute, Indiana, waa killed by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Philadelphia. Fire in the buildings of the Robert Smith Brewing Com pany, in Philadelphia, did 17,000 damage. Eight horse were burned. Julius Vos, gent of a Hungarian colony of settlers at Esterhaxy, N. W. T, committed suicide. He was about to be arrested for shortage in his accounts. Lawrence Roach, Republican, was shot ana tinea at can irui; James J- Allen, Democrat, during a political quarrel. Secn-tiry Ru-dc MTS that pleuro pneumonia has been stamped out in America. Drury Underwood, a prominent citizen of Kansas City, was killed by a Chicago and Alton train, near Sheffield, Mo. Miss Lixiie Phelps, a society belle worth $100,000, of Binghainpion, N. Y., married the family coachman. Brings Swift, a pork packer and merchant, of Cincinnati, is dead- The Edwards (.Co.) Bank, of Kansas, failed. No statement has been made. Frank Berg- strom, an expert Swedish forger, was arrested in Chicago. Diseased cattle have been hipped from Canada to Scotland. Trinity M. E. Church, of Cincinnati, haa voted to admit women s dt legates tothe General Conference.- ME TIMES nHRDESEB. Tom Woolfolk Pays the Death Penalty at Perry, Ga. Ilia Horrible Crime-Hatred ot Ilia Step mother and Avarice Alleged M the Motives His Trials. Thomas G. Wool folk was hanged at Perry, Ga., for murdering nine persons, all members of his father's family, on August 10, 1887 The doomed man slept well from two o'clock until four. He got up at eight, and had a interview with a party of newspaper me with whom he conver ed for half an hour, laughing and exchanging jokes. About one o'clock he was conveyed, under the escort of the local military, to the gallows which had been built iu a little valley in the outskirts of the town. Seven or eight thou sand people swarmed the hillsides around to watch the execution. On the gallows Wool folk was cool and composed. . After the ministers had prayed, he himself prayed fervently, declaring his innoeence in his invocation. A written statement, signed by Woolfolk, was read, in which he gave it as his dying declaration that he was innocent of the crime for which he was being executed. At Ul the dro, fell. The fall failed to break his neck, and death resulted from strangulation, his pulse continnin? to beat for eleven minutes alter the fall. Twenty-five minutes later the body was cut down. The victims of the awful butchery were: CapC Richard F. Woolfolk. Sr.; his wife, Mrs. Mattie Woolfolk; their children, Richard F, Jr., aged 20; Susan Pearl, ayed 17; Annie, aged 10; Rosebud, ae;ed 7; Charlie, aged 5; Mattie, aged 8 months, anil Mrs. Temple West, aged 84. The first alarm of the tragedy came from Tom Woolfo'.k, the only survivor of the massacre. Tom went to the honseof a negro tenant named Green Socket, not far from the Woolfolk house, about daybreak, and called to him that someone had killed his father. Hurried investigations revealed that the crime had not leeii exaggerated. Nine dead bodies were lying in horrid confusion in the house, everyone of them brained with an ordi nary wood-axe that had evidently been se cured irom the yard. In the room occupied by the parents were six bloody corpses. The bodies of Captain Woolfolk, his wife, their infant and Miss Pearl Woolfolk lay on the bed in the corner, the father and mother and babe having been struck on the head with the murderous axe apparently before they awak ened, while the eldest daughter's body had Wen cast upon the bed alter death. On the floor were the lifeless IkkHcs of Richard Wool folk and his younger brother, Charlie, welter ing in pools of blood. Death had been in flicted in each case by blows with the butt of an axe. Three other bod.es lay stiff in death in the girls' room on the o her side of the corridor. The corpse of Mrs. West and of Rosebud, the 7-year-o!d daughter, reposed where they had tdept side by side in one of the two beds in the room. The body of 10-year-oM Annie Wool folk lay near the window, as if she had been warned of the approach of the murderer and had sought to escape by jumping out of the window. Suspicion quickly fell upon Tom as the murderer, ana he was taken in custody. In vestigation showed that the only tracks about the house, traced in blood from the blood bestrewn floor, were those of Woolfolk. Torn adnd.ted they were his, but said he made them when he went into the bloody room alone after the murder. He was searched, and on of a bloody hand." He had on a shirt much too large for him when searched, and after ward his own shirt was found in the well, blood-stdned and clotted with human brains. The motive for the crime was found in Tom Woo!folk's enmity for his stepmother and his desire to have undisputed possession ot his father's property. Woo'iolk was charged with murder of the nine members of hi lather's household by the coroner's jury, and in December, 1887, he was brought to trial in Macon before JudgeGusttn, of the Bibb County Superior Court. The theory of the defense was t!. at a crazy negro of the neighborhood had committed the crime, but the theory failed, and was practically abandoned before the trial ended. The jury found Woolfolk guilty after being out but a few minutes, and he was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court granted a new trial, how vr nil d in March. 1889. he was tried at Perry, Houston county, a change of venue having been granted because a jury could not be secured in Bibb. Again Woolfolk was convicted. Another appeal was taken, but the Supreme Court sustained the court below, and he was finally sentenced to be hanged at Perry. MARRIED AND DIED IN A DAY. Krnrrsrntatlve Bntlerwortli's Daughter Lrt a Widow While Vet a Bride. Houghwout Howe, who was married Wed nesdiyto Miss Mary Butterworth, daughter r pAnuaalltttirA Till tterwortb. of Ohio, died Thursday of pneumonia. K marriage ceremony Mr. Ilowe appeared to be greatly relieved iu mind and to suffer less pain than for some time pre viously. Toward evening, however, he grew raD-dlv worse. Throughout the night he was delirious, and struggle succeeded struggle. Every effort was made by his physician to pro . .1.- I. -t nf (ho natient and to quiet him ir. Howe's ravings increasea in violence, it was even necessary to make use of hypod ermic injections to quiet him. 4 .rl niffl.t it was tor the young bride. All through the weary watches she sat by the sick bed, not retiring for a moment until 6 o'clock, when she took an hour's rest. Later on, as the morning passed, Mr. Howe a heart was found to be jumping at a fearful rate, and shortly after noon he died. Grouped around the bedside at the time were theyoung bride of a day, Dr. and Mrs. Roosa, Dr. Ma gruder and Isaac Roosa. , Mr. Howe was thesonof the late Col. Frank E. Howe, of New York. At the tun- of ins death he was dispatch agent , t New Yoftfo1 the State Department. He had held the posi tion of private secretary to Postmaster James and was disbursing officer of the International American Conference. A CASE OF LEPROSY. Cbester, Fa., la Much Excited Over th DlaeoTery. This city is excited over the discovery of a genuine case of leprosy. Last week Dr. Frank J. Evans had a call from one John Anderson, a Swede, who has lived in the city for the past three years, and not being able to di agnose the case sent him to Philadelphia for treatment. Anderson went to the University Hospital on Friday last, and Provost Dr. Wil liam Pepper, Dr. Jndson Doland and Dr. During, a well-known specialist of skii dis eases, made an examination, and came to the that it waa a case of inter-stitial l.nrnr which is one of the mildest forms of . i. ,ifa. Thn aont Anderson back to -kr .ni wrote a letter to the board of l.o.uv, itatinir that thev had no accommoda tions in Philadelphia for a case of leprosy. Tk. choct.r nhvxicians made another at tempt to get hun oft their hands, and went to Philadelphia with that ent in view. They, however, were not successful, as the Philadelphians positively refused to have anything to do with him. It waa then de :.i.i aoml Anderson to the county alms- I boose at Lima, where he was taken. He is ; now confined in one of the buildings, where I he will be kept isolated from the rest of the a ouUTHERN ITEMS. JTERESTING NEWS COMPILED FROM MANY SOURCES. Two military companies are being organ ised at Buena Vista, Va. The chesnut crop of Preston county, W. Va., has already yielded a return of 30,000. The Ohio River Railroad Company is to build an ?3,00J depot at Huntington, W. Va. Roanoke has been chosen as the next place of meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of Vir ginia. There are at Roanoke College this session four Choctaw Indians and two Mexican stu dents. The Petersburg Grays have begun to col lect a fund to enable them to go into camp at Virginia Beach next summer. Fifty wagon are being turned out at the wagon factory in Raleigh, N. C., daily, and still the orders are kept up. The stock is ad vancing. -The Rushville (Ind.) School Furniture Company, which employes over 4 K) men, has signed a contract to remove its plant to Basic City, Va. -The Wheeling, W. Va. Board of Health are arranging to huve built a second garbage cre matory for the use of the city, the cost of which is estimated at S00. The uew bridge at Shepardstown, W. Va, has been completed, as far as the iron Work is concerned, all that remains to be done is the completion of the flooring. A panther has been roaming through the mountains near Keyser, W. Va., for several weeks. One hunter reports having shot at it, but did not succeed in killing it. James M. Harlow, of Orange county, Vaj was accidently sjiot while hunting birds Both eyes'are destroyed, he is paralyzed on the left side, and no hope is entertained of his recovery. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is a large in vestor in Virginia properties of all kinds, and predicts that the time is not far distant when the State will be one of the most prosperous in the Union. In Darlington, S. C, J. Tl. Witherspoon shot'and killed, in self-defense, his nncle, J. G. Raines. The cause was an old quarrel re newed by settling their respective shares in the oottun crop. Mr. George D. Feeny, while saving at his water mill in the Quantico district, in Mary laud, found in the power wheel a mud turtle two feet eleven inches long from the tip of the nose to the tail. M. Kelly, of the firm of Kelly Jfc Richard son, otvners of a planing mill at Buena Vista. Va., while sawing a piece of timber, his hand slipped and came in contact with the saw, am putating all his fingers and thumb. One postmaster in Georgia is now a firm believer in the saying that "a stich in time eaves nine.'" There was a hole in the roof of his ottice, and rain getting through Etock together about $200 worth of stamps. Mrs. J. Bollinger, of Carrollton, Md., gath ered last week on her farm a second crop of raspberries, which were large, well formed, perfectly ripe, and of fine flavor. Two of her neighbors also gathered a small crop. A fruit growers' association has been or ganized by the growers in the neighborhood of Beaver Creek, Washington county. Md. There are now two organizations of this kind in the county, the other one being at Smiths burg. As George St. Myers and William Kelly were walking in tlie street of Wheeling, W. Va.,the latter sinokina pipe,a shot was fired winch struck the pipe and staggered Kelly, but no clew could be found to the source oi Sit ltt viuuge oi toae?ine, iioiiiioitionu county, Va., there lives a girl but sixteen jenrs of age who weigns iour nunoreu uu fifty pounds, measures sixty-one inches around the waist.and bids fairto betb fattest woman that ever Jiveu. While the two sons of Mr. George Bryant, who resides i.ear Lynchburg, V a., were out hunting, the guu in the hands of Willie, the older boy, was aeeidently discharged, the load taking ellect in Edgar's left side, inflict ing a very painful and serious wound. The ticket office of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Depot at Bunker lliu.near Martins Ki.rw U Vh. was broken into by burglars. but they only succeeded in getting $1.50,asMr. Jamon, tbe agent. Having tan-en in migo sum of money, brought it away with him to depo-it. A Parkersburg (W. Va.) dispatch states that in Calhoun county two young men named Richards fell out over a woman. One of them stabbed the other to the heart and escaped, but was captured ana conniieu in jail. The men are said to te memners oi good la mi lies. A few days ago while Dubney Atkins, of Charlotte county, Va., was attending to a. sor ghum mill his head was caught-by the lever propelling the rollers, and before he could ex tricate himself was I rough t in contact with the upper p.Tt of the mill, crushing the skull, and death was almost instantaneous. The financial success of the late fair at Ra leigh. N. C, has caused much taiK iavoraoie ; to a grand exposition in 1891. A great deal will depend on aid furnished by the state to the scheme, but as the general assembly is likely to be composed largely of t';e agricul tural element, encouragement from that source can be confidently expected. Two weeks ago Mrs. Brannon, a half-demented woman, traveling from fct. Louis to Philadelphia, jumped from a Baltimore and Ohio train at Clarksburg, W. Va., and fled to the mountains, leaving seven small children on the train. Hundreds of persons liavetned to fir-d her without avail, and thechildren are being cared for at Clarksburg. Fifteen thousand acres of the most vaiuaoie coal lands in the new field now being opened by the Camden system of railroads was sold to outside corporations at large figures, $2o, 000 in cash being the first payment. John Barman bought 5,0u0 acres, extending five miles along the Fairmount Railroad.in which the coal is eight feet thick and of a fine quality. , . In 1864, while the Union army was lying in - ,7 l . n toman irlm 1 front ot reiersDurg, - now a Washington attorney, iouuu family bible, in which was a genealogical tree of the Hatcher family. He did not snc in looatin ' the owner until a few days aeo when he forwaraea ine Prlzt".1 . Thomas C. Hatcher, of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Kenna Gentry, an eight-year-old nephew of Senator John E. Kenna, met with a horrible accident at Char eston. W. va xte CUUlW" F . 1 J . , - 1..4 n 1 into a tree, w iieu ing and fell. He came uow i. - -pilket fence, his mouth stnaing one of the pickets. Nearly all of histeeth were knocked 1" . ...i. .nf nun to the raid- out, ana nis rnoum r-" r die of his cheek. Henry Sisler, near Terra Alta, W. Va. was seriously gored by a bull which had escaped from the car at the Snowy Creek wreck. '1 he animals! from fright and liberty had gone il.Lw wild and when Mr. Sisler and his .nn,niiiniia annroacnea tiem. the brutes ... i h ftirr of demon. Mr. Sisler was run down, painfully gored, and coming within a hair's breadth of losing hs life. James Ke-tley, of Indian Mills Vf. Va., look a double-barreled shotgun to the black smith shop of U. F. Dillon to have the tubes repaired. He shot off on barrel, and said the other was not loaded. Mr. Dillon put the end of the barrel in the ferge to heat pr- para torv to the work he had to do, when the fire caused the discharge of the other barrel, slightly wounding both Mr. Dillon and Mr. Keatley. Great excitement prevails over the discov ery ot natural g near Florence, Ala., by H. O W'ellT and others. It has been known for months past that gas existed in this tio and several surveys have been niaoefo th nurpose. One company has been at work for months getting up options on isni "" acighlorhood. Prominent geolog.sta and ex- perts have relied forcibly on the indications for finding ga, which has at last been accom- pushed. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. The public library building in New Haven, Conn., was struck by lightning, and a portion of the roof was torn off. The public schools in Oxford, Blocming Grove, and other villages in Orange county, New York, have been closed because of diph theria. . There was a heavy rain storm, accom panied by lightning, in Waterbury, Conn. Much damage was done in Waterbury and surrounding towns. A passenger train on the Keoknk and Western Railway struck a wagon, near Cen tervlile, Iowa. The occupants, Isaac Bremer, wile aud son, were killed. An express train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ran into a rock that had t alien on the track, near Hir.ton, W. Va. Engineer Goodale was badly injured. Abijah Tisdeix, his 14-year-old son George, aud a man, are be Sieved to have been drowned while shooting coots near Hanover, Mass. Their dory went ashore empty. One of the fulminate departments of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company ut Bridge port, Conn., blew up. George Baker, aged 60 years, employed in the place, was killed. A collision occurred between a freight and a construction train on the Elgin and Eastern Railroad, near Joliet, 111. Thomas Lawler was killed, and eight others were in jured. Two children of Nicholas Brandt, aged 2 and 3b years, upset the stove at their home in Dubuque, Iowa, while playing. They were io badly scalded by hot water that they died in a short time. Felix Young was killed James Turnei Erobably fatally injured ana several others adly bruised, by the fall of a der.ick on a new building in Chicago. They were laying bricks on the third floor. When the Chicago and Eastern Illinois passenger train was mar Watseka, Ind., a rail broke, throwing two of the passenger coaches on their sides. Several ot the pas leugers were badly bruised, and the conduc tor was dangerously hurt. George Khinefield, aged 9 years, died at "Stony Lonesome," near West Poiut, N. Y., of a gun shot wound in the head. Before ex piring the boy said he had been shot by his sister Ida, aged 10 years. Whether the shoot' iugwas accidental or intentional is not known. Captain Nicholas J. Skottowe, of the Brit ish army, and his wife, fell from the railroad bridge to the rocks, 20 leet below, at The Dalles, Oregon. Both were dangerously in jured, Skottowe, who is about 70 years of age, perhaps fatally. Captain John O'Grady, a mysterious sort of a character, perished in a lire iu u Front street f-uement, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was an officer iu the Fenian invauou of Canada, nd was atterwards an officer in the regular army of the United States. The boiler of a shitting engine, at Eliza Furnace, near Pittsburg, exploded, killing cugiueer John Flatley and fireman Thomas McGuff. Pieces of tne flying boiler struck aud injured Joseph Ferrin and John Clark, employes at the furnace. The cause of the explosion is not kn wn WORK AND WORKERS. All the tinners and sheet iron workers at Atlantic City, New Jersey, about 21 in num ber, struck for $2.50 per day, an increase of 25 cents. The International Brotherhool of Loco motive Engineers at their recent session in Pittsburg, rejected the proposition of federa tion with the firemen's organization. The threatened strikeof'theslate and metal UCTU tl H ..... ( , the advance of 25 cents per diy and eight hours on Saturdays. There is much excitement among the Western Union telegraph operators in Chi cago. Nine men have been discharged, it is alleged, without being given any reason for their dismissal. All of them, it is said, are members ot the Brotherhoo I ofTelegraphers, and they believe it was on this account that their services were no longer desired. A statement has been prepared at the Posfofiice Department showing that the total number of employes in the Postofbce Depart ment at Washington is G06; of this number 62. or over 10 per cent, are colored. The total number in the mail bag repair shop is 136, of whom 32, or over 23 per cent., are colored. Combining the two there are 94 colored em ployes in a total number of 742, or nearly 13 per cent. Committees representing the conductors, LroUmpn engineers and firemen of the Chi cago, St. Paul and Kansas City Road, have gone to St. Paul, Minnesota, to present their case. The conductors want their pay in creased from 22 to 3 cents and i t to 2 cents per mile respectively, as it is claimed are paid by other roads. The engineers und firemen ask an increase of pay for overtime. The men will await the return of President Eagan from Chicago. The furniture workers of America, at their session in Indianapolis, passed a resolution declaring that it shall De ine autyoi me Executive Board to have an understanding with the Brotherhood of Carpenters by which the furniture workers shall support the car penters in case cTa strike and vice versa. It was decided that henceforth each local union shall fix the minimum wages to be paid in every shop, and that annually a report shall be submitted to the Executive Board ot the wages paid, etc. All local unions were in structed to oppose the contract and piec-j-work systems and not to work under these systems if it could possibly be avoided. Action was also taken which will not allow members of the union to work for sub contractors. A LEAP FOR LIFE. Johnson Jump Into Creek to Mrs. Avoid a Train. Mrs. Kate Johnson, of Merchantville, N.J. nearly met her death, and only escaped by her presence of mind and bravery. The woman had been spending the day with some friends at Moorestown, and had started to walk to her home. When she reached the middle of the tweity-foot bdgf.w,hichcr3 Pensoukin Creek, a short distance . from Merchantville, she noticed a tram bearing on her. With great presence of mind and ex ?ord nary bravery, she turned to the side of hetrack and gave a leap lor the bank of the crlek She landed on the edge of the creek, and rolled iu the water in an unconscious condition. The train was stopped and the IwVman was taken to. the Cooper Hospital, at Camden. IN FEAR OF THE INDIANS. - TiM GoTtrnor of Colorado Te'-graptai tbe Situation to the Pres'.de-it. Governor Cooper has' received urgent ap peals by wire from Glenwood Springs, asking that he take some steps to have the Utes driven out of Colorado to their reservation in Utah. He at once dispatched the following telegram to Washington: T the President: Reliable advices are being received by me that Ute Indians from Unintah and Uncompahgre Agencies are oft their reservations in large numbers and com mittin" depredations in the western part ot Routt County, this State. Aside from damage to private property interests and slaug. ter oi came their presence is a constant menace to , - i .nt serious conseouences are to feared Vrm the present temper of the sett- i.r. The case is an urgent one, and I ur i .,.,( immoili.-itp action lor the pro tection of citizens and prompt return of the Indians to their reservations." The men who have wired to the Governor are heavy cattle owners. They rode forty or fifty miles to Meeker to reach a Postofflc The territory invaded by the Indians is in the western part of Routt County, and as isolated aa any in the country. t , . ( TO AT THE FIGURES SHOW Results of th9 Census Count in the States. The Enamcratlon la About Complete How the States Have Gone For ward In a Decade. The census of the United States is very nearly complete so nearly complete that the total population can be given within some ten or fifteen thousand. There remain, as already stated, only one district in Virginia, and the final count of the city of St. Louis. All other states and territories are in. The total population ot all the states and terri tories, exclusive of Missouri and Virgina, is 58,150,408. The total of the four districts already enumerated in Virginia is 1,330,941. The total population of Missouri, including St. Louis, according to her first count, is 2,606,714. Remembering, then, that theone dis trict of Virginia is yet to be added, and that the population of St Louis will be increased it will be seen that the population of the country will be about 62,450,000. Increase since 1880 States. 1895. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklaho.no, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Verm: nt, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, 1,508,073 245,568 19,241 32,286 339,308 216,648 123,161 21,263 52,172 120,942 29J.1S0 51,619 740,665 210,729 282,1! 4 427,389. 206,746 176,882 11,325 105,448 450,322 452,855 519,241 597,453 512,021 92,610 604,391 17,939 28,8:i6 309,9 11 25,297 899,0G3 217,590 145,516 468,6.57 56,346 137,768 891,99-5 68,812 151,584 229,580 221,364 441,471 62,53.5 81 274,4' K) 14,199 3fi8,4 0 A'. " ' ' 1,125,385 1,204,002 410,975 745,861 167,871 22,796 390,43.5 1,834,366 3.818.536 2,189,030 1,906,729 1,423,485 1,855,436 1,116,828 660,261 1,040,431 2,233,407 2,087,792 1,300,U1 1,284,887 2,606,714 131,769 1,056,793 44,327 375,827 1,411,017, 144,862 5,981,934 1,617,340 182,425: 3, 66.7 19 D0,.3o4 312.49J 5,248,574 345,343 1,147,161 327,848 1,763,7-3 2.232,220 206,498 332,205 349,516 760,448 1,682,097 (H5 9 The order of the states in population under the census of'188J was lor the first live as f ! lows: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, I li nois and Missouri. The order as determined Ynrthn-niTh owt-nfMjl--kn-iiy'--"'t'x' In 185J Illinois was eleventh in point of popu lation, but in 1860 she had gone to fourth, while the census of 1890 places her the third state in the Union. According to the first census of 1790. Virginia headed the list In 1800 New York was Ktill only the third state, and it was not until 1820thatshe became first. Pen nsyluaida shows a percentage of 22.o. as compared with New York's 17.69. The actual increase of population in Pensylvanm during the past ten years is 76,020 greater than that of New York. Both the agricultural nirl the suburban growth of New Jersey shown in its percentage of 27.40. Delaware has grown faster than Indiana, proportionately to its population. Besides the three mentioned above, Indiana has increased only 10.65 per cent. NEWS N0TE3. The government of India ha decided to discontinue the annual grant devoted to the iearch for and purchase of the Ganskrit manuscripts. CAPOCL, the tenor, who has been farming for some years past, has written the libretto of an opera entitled the "Black Prince," and Duparto has written the music. It is a Rus sian story. Colonel, Herbert, who has been appoint ed to command the Canadian militia as suc cessor to General Middleton, is a man of thirty-nine years and a favorite of Lord Wolseley. The real name of John Fiske, the historian, essayist and college (professor, is Edmund Fiske Green, lie cnangea nis name wnen boy, upon the death of his father and the re marriage of his mother. It is now more than two thousand years since it was first proposed to cut a canal through the Isthmns of Corinth, but the work is at last under way, directed by a Polish engineer, and promises to be completed in 1892. A LAWSUIT involving the possession of 421,000,000 worth of securities aud gold, of 1 200,000 sheep and hundreds of thousands of acres of land in all parts of European Russia will come to trial in St- Petersburg in about a week Is 1809 there were 630,000 000 pounds of tobacco consumed in the United States. 20 000, 000 pounds of which was imported. There were 4 000,000,000 cigars consumed here in the same period, all but 40,000,000 of which were home made. Col. Charles E. Sprague, of New York, says: "The progress of Volapuk has been oooHv all ill one- the line, both in Europe and the United States. At a congress of i he iriends ot the universal language held in Pais dur ing the exposition conversation was carried on in it by Spaniards. Frenchmen, Ameri cans, Russians, Greeks and Germans." PREFERRED LOTS TO BEALTH. Thirty Men Faint In a Land Company's Building ont In Dolntb, Minn. The excitement over the sale of lots, which were to be sold here by a land company, was so great that about 500" men crowded, jostled and pushed each other in the hall of the com pany's office from 5.30 in the evening until 7.30 the next morning, awaiting the opening sale of lots. There was no ventilation and the fteain heat was intense. Over thirty men were pulled out through the transoms in a fainting condition. The scene was horrib:e and nauseating from the closeness and odor. Whiuhp dnor was ODened the men were crowded between narrow railings, looking as though they had passed through a pestilence up to the counter to select lots. The whole plat was sold, and men went away without lot. According to recant offi,cialr -rT.' j ha. in ita vaults $325,600,003 i "coin and bars, and $318,000 000 to - " gia than the three largest and richest countries in Europe. The latest "boy orator" to come forward is Irvine Jay Steeninger, the child phenomenon of Rochester, Ind. He is not quite six years old but he can deliver a fifty-minute address with astonishing eloquence and self-possession. CABLE SPARKS. Cardial Alimonda, of Turin, Italy, Is dying. Italy hat recognized the 'government of the United States of Brazil. The dew French tariff bill makes flax and hemp free from import duty. Durino a recent journey Baroness Alphonse Rothschild, of Paris, was robbed of jewelrv valued at 60,000 francs. James Lawrence Carew, member of the British House of Commons for North Kildare, Ireland, is seriously ill. Thk Parliament of Holland will meet to decide wheather in view of the King's health a regency shall be appointed. M. Paui- Deroui.edk and M. Reniach, members of the French Chamber of Depu ties, fought a duel with pistols, but neither was injured. The members of the party of the right in the Chamber of Deputies of Franco intend discussing the proposal to place a poll-tax on foreigners residing in that country. Two thousand of the striking lace factory employees of Calais, France, sent delegates from their number to the employers to nego tiate for the adoption of a sliding scale of wages. The liberal party in England won a decided victory in the Lancashire district by electing their candidate to Parliament by a majority of 2u'5. At the last election the tory candi date was successful by 292. Senhor Bocage, Portuguese minister of foreign affiii rs, will conductdirect negotiations with the British minister at Lisbon, in regard to ler.try in Africa which is in dispute be tween Portugal and England. A CROWD of laborers nt Schnll, Ireland, de manded that the board of guardiansgivcthem bread or work, on account of the failure of the potato crop. The board's reply was that the law does not permit outdoor relief The Portuguese government denies the statement published that the United States is about to send a fleet of warships to Lisbon to demand the payment of the claims for da n age .rising from the seizure of the Delagoa Bay Railway. The executive committee of the striking docknien at Melbourne, Australia, have sent a cable message to London, saying that the strike has not ceased, that the men will not give way, and that they have no doubt of the ultimate success of the strikers. Mr. CHAPLIX. president of the British board of agriculture, speaking at Stafford, said that although the McKinley and meat inspection laws were intended to bring pres sure upon him to admit American cattle freely, it would be his duty to go straight on as if these measures had never been passed. The minister of commerce of France intro duced in the Chamber of Deputies of that country a general customs tariff bill, provi ding a maximum tariff applicable to product" imported from countries not conceding com mercial advantages to France and a minimum tariff reserved for countries consenting to cus toms regulations calculated to benefit French trade. One of the derendants in the trial of the Irish leaders at Tipperary, Ireland, asked that summons be issued against M r. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, compelling him to ap pear before the court and state under oath what he had said at Newcastle, Eng., but the judges declined, declaring that they refused to be the medium for anything illegal or im proper. mem ABOUT NOTED PEDPLE. TOPE Leo speaks French fluent'y, but knows no English, of Congress. Bret IIarte has forsworn social pleasures for the present, while finishing his literary engagements. Robert Sellers, the oldest Mason in Canada, has just died in Kingston, Ont., at the age of 99 years. DOM Pedko, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has taken up ids residence at Versailles, in the villa Brechignae. Sigxor Appoi.i.oxr, the eculpior, has just completed his moiled for a marble bust cf Chauncey M. Depew. II. C. Wheelei., of OJcbolt, Sac county, has under cultivation the largest farm in Iowa. It comprises 6,200 acres. General Albert Pike, the aged chief of Masons in America, is said to bean inveterate Vnoker, having used tobacco for fifty years. Mrs. Emma E. Forsyth, who has a planta tion of 150,0 X) acres on an i-dand near Nov Guinea, is one of the largest land owners i. the world. Governor Francis, of Missouri, distin guished himself at Jefferson City the other day by stopping a runaway team of horses in a crowded street. Mrs. Stanley has refused to live in Africa, and has persuaded her husband to decline tl. ! Governorship of the Congo, offered to mm by Mie King of the Be guinc. Commodore John Page, of the Argentine navy, who died recently near the Bolivian lrontier, was a native of .Virginia, and had served in the United States navy. Miss Sanger, the President's stenographer, is the first woman to act in that capacity at the White House. She alo fills the position ot private secretary to Mrs. Harrison. Thomas WINA5S, the millionaire, who had lived luxuriously, said on his de tthbed, that he would gladly give a million dollars to be able to eat a piece of bread and butter. CHARLES It. Bishop, general Eastern pas senger agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, who had charge, of the presidential tour through the West recently, hits been pre sented with a diamond-set gold locket for his watch chain, in recognition of his vigilance and efficiency. DSIHORA Kaip.OI F, a Russian Prince, was hanged recently at Viadivostock. lie was a captain in a Tscherkask regiment, and murdered six persons in their sleep in revenge for an injustice which he imagined had beu done hiin. The Prince, who had asked to be shot, did not confess his guilt under me gallows. He was only 30 years of age. 'FEODOR VOJ FbeiMANN, a veteran of the Franco-Russian war ot 1812, died recently at the age of 115, in St. Petersburg. He served in the Russian army twenty-five years, and received a cross of St. George lor his br very. At t: e age of 90 he married a ltf-year-old mri. by whom he had two children l or th? lust. ifiy years he has made a daily practice or .Inking a pint of cognac just belore going to -ed. MARKEfS. BALTIMORE -Flour City Mills, extm.?5.20 f5i&57. Wheat Southern Fultz, 10liriM2 Corn Southern White, (rJlc, bellow, nyfd6lc Oats Southern and Pennsylvania iet5Jc. Rye Marviand and Pennsylvania 75.(7(ic. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 11 50(o,$12.00. Straw Wheat, 7A(,r..AK Butter Eastern Creamery, 2:521c, near-by receipts 1314c. Cheese Eastern limey Cream, 10(fcllc, Vtcrii,hra.9ie. if-1 22c. Tobacco, jeai imrioi, i.- .--' y -4fa.-Nl.00. Middling, Cf'tS.l0, Oooa to fine red. S(n, 1 1 - Fancy 1 2fifil3.'X. 45f350c. Butter State, i'(,r.'c. State, 71(o,92c. Eggs 2.12-lc. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25(4.50. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 1.0.5& 1.031c. Rye- L-nnsylv?-nia,5657c. Corn Southern bellow 59c! Oats 54jfe53e. Butter .State, 2.i . Cheegc New York Factory, 10& l'.Mc. Eggs State; 22g,21c. CATTLE. Baltimore Beef 4.25.$4.45. Slu-ep -' S.50oi5.00. Hogs 5.00M6.W New YORK Beef .2.V.i. .00. Sheep iJW'ttlA.). Hogr-4.20a,l.!n. EaVt LlBERTY-Beef-4.4O04.- 0. hheep- 6.0V$$5.20. Hogs 3.1QCi,H.i). New ork riour .--uineiii ww.-' choice extra, 4.23(i;..5. Wheal No. 1 Into 1.06&1.0HC. Rye-State r:(-t.iH!. Corii-houth-prn ellow. 5SifC.c. Oats White, htate t .it. .. t l.il V it Liienre importance to be met aad disposeU once for alL worxx,
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
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