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THE ' ' ' BEA( 5lV? . 0 PUBLISHED BY ROANOKB PcBUSelSO CO. TaoiS Hcsos, Business 3Ijiag:r "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1889. NO. 2G, .THE NEWS, Ulcaael Breen, a laborer, was stiot and' lulled by Fat Mulbera, a Chicago bartender,' uhilo forcing bis way into the saloon. Uarlan Court-housj,Kentucky, is threatened by outlaws, who hare declared war against tbe Law and Order party. -Harry M. Loehr, of B.oom ngton, Id., has been convicted and ensanced to one yejr In the penitentiary for raising taxes and altering tar records.- ; The steamer, G. Ballentine, the barge Irou ton and the tug Protection went ashore dar ing a etorai ou Like Superior and may prove a total loss. f letro Baronorskl was hanged at PotWvilie, Pa., for the murder of two wouien la-fc November.-; Christopher Fick n, barveuder, and Max Boscer, a waiter, were sofUba ted by gas in a New York tenement- -The fburing mill of L. C. Porter Milling Company, ia Winona, Minn., vtjm destroyed by lire. Loss,? $150,000.- Lyman Dav.s, age 114, and probably the old est mau ia the State of New York, di d In the town of Salisbury, N. Y. Julge John A. McDonald, of Kansas C.ty, assaulted a reporter because of a criticism passed upon oue of his decisiohs.--The Surrey German (Savings Bank, of Newark, N. J., was robbed of $1, 150. Charles Mcllvaine, the young burglar, who killed Christian TV. Luca, the grocery man, in New York, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. In Trenton, Ivy., Jumesa Smith shot and killed City Marshal W. T.Williams. The South ern Exposition opens in Montgomery Nov. 5. -Ffre destroyed the Pat ton Hollowware ManuCactufiig Company's works in Colum bus. The loss is heavy. - Willlatri it. Bartholomiw was convicted nit murder in the first degree for shooting Aaron W.Dilliard, of Eastqn, Pa., and whoe "wife confessed to having led her husband into the hands of the murderer, b.T pira-Jnour.- Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton, Pa. , ileposji the pastor of the Polish Catholic Courch a( Plymouth. Htlf tha congrega tion sympathized with the priast and tried to prevent the church authorities from taking possession of the " property. The jury in toe Cronin case has finally been completed. ' Sigmuud Silbermana, aged twenty-two years, sou of Jacob Silbermmn, a wealthy ilk importer ; of Now York, shot him- self.- The completion cf the Knox ville, Cumberland Gap and Lou sville Railroad was celebrated at Knoxvllle, Teun., by a grand trades di-play. Jinny families in the Dakotas are destitute, ow ing to a failure of the crop3. The Sev enth Day Ad vent is t congresa is in session at Bale Creek, Mich. .Sman B. Aithony has been making a tour of inspection f South iDakota, and will immediately place ( corps lof woman workers in the field to advocate female suffrage. -Congressman Ahiler (Taylor.of the First Illinois district.h. s sloped 'with the daughter of Col. A. C. Babuock, of jChicaso. The home of ex-Mayor Ballard, of Lexington, Mo., was destroyed by fire, and his wife perished.- The jute bagging factory of the Southern Mills Bagging Com pany In St, Louis was damaged $50,000 by firo. A railroad train daubed into an elec tric street car at Wichita, Ks., seriously in juring three young women. -The Chicago Brewers' Association subscribed $200,000 to (the Chicago World's Fair Association. (Nearly one-third of the eight hundred resi dents o( Woodville, Ohio, are down with i typhoid fever or diphtheria. ; ARAejleAdlns barbBd wire manufactur ers have formed a combine. -Chanes Schultzman, aged fifteen years, has b?en found guilty at Conshocton, Ohio, of man slaughter for killing eight-year-old Frank Fredle. Johnsfown is overriden with dis- reputallii characters. William Goddard, a saloon-keeper of Bameot, ill., was find f 8,000 dollars and cost tot selling liquor on Sunday. 3y the mirriage of Frank Tol- liver and Mits Grace Maitiu, in" Roman county, ; Ky., peace has been restored be tween lae fnaiillej that have so long Leen at war. i-Walton's saw mill, at Andsrson.Ind, was demolished by tho exolosiou of a boiler, uud Horace Kuhn and Walter Manila wers killed and' two 'others injured. General Given B. Raura, of Illinois, has been ap .-. jointed Commissioner of Pensions. Bill Watton, the veteran moons'.iiner of Ken tucky,, has finally beea capture 1, having eluded revenue officers for twenty years. Bium & Illiugswortli's tnoro-OJ factory, in Philadelphia, "damaged . $3,00) by fire. Susan B. Anthony, the noted woman suff ra gitj and hor sister, Miry S. Anthony, h ive FU-dtbe American Gluicose Co:np iny, of Buffalo, N. Y.,for$13J,0J0.- A crazy man with a long knife caused a pmic on a Chicago streetcar-- The Department of State at Washington has received intelligence that t he Yellow r.vir In China has again over flowed, and a larse agricultural section has been devastated;- William Carey.a farmer diod at Altamont, Ills., supposedly from the effects of poison placed in bis well. THIRTEEN STARVING MEN. Found Clinging: to tho Bowsprit of a Water-loosed Visel. Arkell & Co., agents of the Bristol line of steamers, in New York, received a letter from Cip ain Fitt, of the steamer Brooklyn City, dated at Bristol, Id which a detailel account of the rescue of a shipwrecked craw la gireu. The Brooklyn, City left here on September 1 Jih, about the beginning of the cyclone. On the 13th h) sighted the bark Baron Podester. The bark was water-lo??ed. ller decks were awash. The crow of ttnrti-en. were clinging to the bow.-prit half famikbrd. The seas were rolling high. The men were ro- jued along a hawser fastened to tlu end of the bowsprit hi ul to the rescuing steamer. The men said l Ivy ha 1 been on the bowsprit three days, 'i'hey hud some salt beef, and quenched their ll'.irs; a best they could by squeezing water i ul of their clothing. Tbe bark was lumber hi leti. The cook and part of the cargo had l,fen washed away. The crew were landed nt IJridtol and placed in tbe hands of tbe j Hlian consul. The bark was from Pensa colafor St. Nasaire, and was afterward towed into Boston. DAYS OF AGONY AT SEA. Three Weeks in an Open Boat l Without Food. Arrival of i h o Earnmoor'a Survivors ; Thrilling Stories of th Tortures) - of Hunger and Thiist They Suffered. . The seven survivors of the crew of twenty Q ve of the ill-fated gt .am jr E trnmoor, of the Earn Line, which foundered at sea on Sep tember 5 in a cyclone when 3) miles oS Turk's island, bound from Baltimore to Bio Ja neiro, arrived in Philadelphia from New York, to which port they were brought by the steamer Santiago, from Nassau. Thoy tell a story of terrible suffering. The Earnmoor struck a terrific gale on Septem ber 4, which increased in force and at 11.33 A M. on the following day the vessal gave a lurch and foundered. As the steamer sank the port life boat floated off from the ship betwean the funnel sndthe mainmast, and tbe man clung to the boat and scrambled-in the secon I officer," lecond and third engineers four s iilors,tbree Uremen and tbe cook. An effort was made to save the rest of the ;rew, aud a drag was mide oJ the punter, but the boat was blown away and toe oars wrestled from tbe h inds of the men, so that so more could be saved. The cries of the drowning men as they were lashed about by the mountainous wares were heard by the men in,tbe boat, but they could Qot be reached, and bad to be abandoned to their fate. It was impossible to put the boat back for them. It was an ov. rsignt that the boats bad not been provisioned m anticipa tion of the calamity, as it would have saved tbe terrible sufferings of tu survivors. For tunately, tha boat drifted into the -Gulf Stream and the air was warm, but this in creased tae intensity of their thirst. "The horrors of hunger on the second day became awfu:," said Carl Crane, one of tuo lurvirors, "and it increased as timj wore on. We managed to pick up seaweed ulloat iu the Gulf Stream, wuica gave us a little autritneut, and on ttie third day a flying fish was caught. This was immediately cut up into a portion for each man aud d voureU. We also captured a sea bat and sucke 1 its blood and then ate tha flash after it haddr.ed (a the sun. The first man to die was a saamm and the ucond was the third engineer. One uixbt while wo were all asleep, except a German fireman, who was on watch, be suddenly be came insane and jumped overboard. We were to i weak to save Dim. We were without a comp iss and steered by the sun by day and the itars by night. "Eleven vessels passed us, one a British birk, we are certaiu saw us and de ibf rately left us to our rate. Wueu 3 JO miles off Hat teras we were picked up uy a schooner. I cannot describe la words our joy uc the sight of this deliverance. We were so weak tuat we hd to be lifted upon thj vessel's deck, an.i one of our men, a Norwegian, fell overboard aud was drowned." TANNER'S SUCCESSOR. Gen. Green B. Raara Appointed Com missioner of Pensions. Tbe President has appoiu ted General Green B. Raum, of Illinois, to be commissioner of pensions. General Raum was born in Golconda, Pope county, Illinois, D.cember 3J, 1829. He re ceived a common school education, studied iaw, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed with his family to Kansas, and at once affiliated with the Free-State party. Becoming obuoxious to the pro sla very faction, lie returned tb) 'following year to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. At tbe opening of tbe civil war be made his first speech as a "war" Democrat while be was attending court at Metropolis, Illinois. Subsequently be entered tha army as major of the 'if ty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was promoted lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier general. He was made brig adier general of volunteers on 15th February, 1805, which commission he res gned on Mny btu. He served under General Wm. S. Rose crans in the Mississippi campaign of 180 J. At the battle of Corinth he ordered and led tbe charge that broke the Confederate left, and captured a battery. He was with General Grant at Vicksburg, and was woundrd at tha battle of Missionary Ridge in November, 1S03. During th-j Atlantic campaign be held the line of communication from Dalton to Ac worth and from Kingston to Rome, Ga. In October. 18G4, he reimorced Resaca, Ga.. and held it against General John B. Hood. In 1860 he obtained a charter for tbe Cairo and Vincennes Riilroad Company aided in securing its construction and became its first presideut. He was then elected to Cougresi, and served from 4tb March, 1SCT till 3d March, 1809, Ia 1S70 he was president of the Illinois Republican Convention, and in tbe same year he was a delegate to the National Convention of that party iu Cincinnati. He was appointed commissioner of internal rev enue ai August, 1876, and retained the office till 31st May, WJ& During this period he collected 85O,0uO,tX 0 and disbursed $30,000, 000 without loss. He wrote "reports" of bia bureau ixc seven mccessive years. He is also tbe author of "The Existing Confl ct Between Republican Government aud South ern Oligrachy." He is at present practicing Jaw iu Washington WEST VIRGINIA OIL STRIKE An Exciting Scone at the Piold Prop erty ChanK'injr Hands. A reporter who visited the scene of the oil excitement in tbe new field near Mannington, Marion county, W. Va,, regarding the coming-in of the Jackson well at one thousand barrels a day, states that while somewhat ex- agga-ated, have some foundation. Tne well j u.d comi in strong, but it is now plugged, awaiting tbe arrivalof machinery and tanks, and its capacity has not yet been thoroughly tested. The excitement over tha development of this new territory is intense. The town is crowded with oil men from ail pirts of the country, and property is chang ing hands at fabulous prices. Tnouan Js of acres of land have bt en leased, and those who were fortunate enough to get options before tbe drilling comroeuced are now realizing handsomely by selling .heir options. Prepar ations are making fur tbe staking of other wells, and extensive operations will soon be under way. The Standard Oil Company con trols a large number of leases In this terri tory. Experienced oil m?n aay the field has a K.reat future. Oil was struck in tin "Big Injun" sand at a depth of two ttiouaitJ fee;, a half mile fiom the Baltimore and O.i'.o Rulriad,and demon Htr&iei that the town ot Mannington is about the center ot the belt which runs fro.n tbe Pennsylvania oil field to (he Parkersburg district. CABLE SPARKS. ' Sir Daniel Goocb, the engineer, is dead. Two thousand coal miners are on a strike 'at Cnarleroi, Belgium. The Chamber of Deputies of France will be opened November 12. , Tbe strike of coal miners at Lens, France, bas been settled, tbe masters conceding the demands of the men. Three thousand miners whs worked In Lord Londonderry's colliery at Durham, Eag., bave gone ou a strike. A would-be assassin slightly wounded the Chines minister of foreign affairs in Yoko hama and afterward committed suicide. Tbe bodies of thirty-seven of the men killed in the explosion at Bentilee colliery, at Loagton, Eng., have been recovered. The Italian government has refused to re ceive Wasban Effendi, whom the port wished to appoint as Turkish ambassador to Italy. Prof. Rudolph Virchow, of Berlin, has been elected president of tne International Medical Congress, which wilt be bold nex: year. A man named Klaiber fired at Prince William of Wurtemburg, while the latter was driving to church. Tbe Prince was not hurt. Twenty members of the guard of tbe Sul tan of Morocca were drowned while cross ing a river with the Sultan, who was return" iug to Pec The fire on the steamer Pocasset, at Liv erpool, from Savannah has been quenched. Three hundred bales of cotton were damaged by fire and water. Prince Hatzfeldt and Miss Huntington will be married October 23 iu the Brompton Oratory, London, by Bishop Patterson, of tbe Catholic Church. A convention of the National L?ague in Tipperary, Ireland, will be held at Thurles, to which ad tbe Catholic clergymen of the district bave been invited. At a banquet given him in Palraero, Sig nor Crispi, the Iuilian premier, said Home existed ix'fore the temporal power of the Pjpd was recognized, and would continue to exist without it. M. Koechlin, the engineer of the Eiffel tower, bas applied to the Swiss Bundesrath for a concession of tho construction of a rail way to tbe summit of the Jungfr&u moun tain, in the Swiss Alps. The French board of trade returns for the niue months ended September 30 show the imports increased 40,810,000 francs and the exports 215.534,000 francs over those for tbe corresponding period last year, i In an address to French pilgrims, to whom he gave audience, the Pope protested against tbe attitude of tha Italian government to ward the papacy. The Pontiff appeared feible, and his voice was almost inauuible. In tbe recent conference in Berlin with tha Cz r, Prince Bismarck is credited with hav ing assured the Ru sian monarch that Ger many was as little concerned regarding Bul garia as she was regarding Russia's plans in Asia. During his recent visit to Berlin, the Czar assured Prince Bismarck that Russia would not provoke a war, and especially would never begin a war against Germany. In formation from St. Petersburg received in Berlin is to the effect that the Pan-SIavists believe Bismarck outwitted tbe Czar in lead ing him to make tbe statement. The Hungarian cabinet wilt not resign on account of tbe difference with the Austrian cabinet upon tbe ques.ion of tbe recognition of the Hungariau army, apart from the Austrian forces, as there is every prospect that Emperor Francis Joseph will assent to the demand of Hungary and change the title Imperial Royal Army" to "Imperial and Royal Army." DESTITUTION IN THE DAKOTAS Report of the Relief Committee of the at. Paul Chamber of Commerce. The Relief Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Paul, Minn., has presented a startling report on tbe destitution existing in the Dakotas. It says tbe suffering and de. titution is much greater than has yet been reported. The report continues: "Ramsey county has a population of 7,000 people. Of these about 6,000 are engaged in farming. Tha frosts last year cut off the crops generally and the farmers were obliged to mortgage their farms for feed, provisions, clothing, etc., to carry them through last Winter. This Spring personal property, such as stock, machinery, otc, was mortgaged for seed and funds to put in tbe crop. There bas been a continual drouth tbrougnout the en tire season, and the crop bave been almost a total failure. The bot rowed funds are en tirely exhausted, os well as tbe credit of a largo number of these people, and we find that in Kamsey connty alone there are from L'00to50J lamilie-, farmers generally, that are entirely destitute. In Nelon and Walsh counties there is also great destitution and suffering, and there are probably in this dis trict ot North Dakota not less than 1000 fami lies who are nearly or entirely destitute. "We find also that there is a district in South Dakota that is in like condition. This district is embraced within Miner, Lake, San born and Beadle counties, but it is surround ed by populous towns and cities like Sioux Falls, Yankton, Huron, Watertown, Pierre, eta, and it U thought that if application is made to these cities by the proper authori ties in the several counties sufficient relief or assistance can be realized to taae care of this district for the present at leasr. A subscription has been opened by the City Council and commercial bodies ot St. Paul and Minneapolis, and a special collection will be taken up in tbe twin city churches Sun day, November 3, for the bentfit of the starv ing tnousands. ; MARKETS. Baltimore Flour City Mills. extra,?4.5(f a$4.75. Wheat Southern Fultz. ,t;4aS4: Corn Southern White, 40a4J eta, Yellow 40a4tcts. Oats-Souther u and Pennsylvania SlaES ct. : Rve Maryland & Pennsylvania 50a55cts. ; Ilay Maryland and Pennsylvania . 13 o a 14 O0;atraw-w neat.o.uoa . ow ; tsurter, Eastern treamery, laa'JSc.near-oy receipts 9a 1 7cts ; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream. 1 1 al2 cts.. Western, 10a10 ct; Egs 21 a22; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, )a$2.00, Good Common, 3 00a$4 00, Middling, $57.00 Good to ftnered,8aJ; Fancy, l0a13. Niw. York Flour Southern Common to fair extr,W J0a$5. !5:Whwat-Nol White b4 aS5; Rye State. bla52l-i Corn Southern YeUow,8Sa3!tf. OatsWhite; 8taty&X"'2o cts. ; Butter-SCate. 15a24 cts. ; Cheese-State, 8KaW cts. ; Eggs 2la22 cts. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 425a4. 75: Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 83at3; Rve Pennsylvania 53a5Scta: Corn Southern Yellow, 40a4ucts. Oate 26a27 eta. : Biitter State, lua5 cts,; Cheese N. Y. Factory, ai eta.- Eggs State. 22a23 cts. CATTLE Baltimore Beef, 4 00u4 15; Sheep $3 00 a5 00. Hoirs 4 25 4 40 JNEW York Beef sri 50a5 50;Sheepf4 00 a5W); Hogs $4.25a5.yj. j East Liberty Bef f 4 40a4 AO; Sheep $4 50a4 75 ; Hogs fi,5a4 75 1 Slight Check in the Move ment of Trade. Speculation Limited by Money Strin gency Fall in the Prioe of Wheat Moderate Tradrt In Dry Goods In the East, "Special telegrams to BradstreeVa indicate a slight check in the movement of goods to consumers from several points, notably Chi cago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Joseph. But, on the wbole, tbe volume continues to materially exceed that movement at the cor responding time last year, and is especially noticeable at St. Louis, Omaha, St. Paul, Kansas City and Louisville. Collections are active or prompt at a few of tbe cities heard from. Prices of California wines are strengthen ing on tbe short crop. The largest week's business on record at Kansas City haj been done at that place. The sugar season bas opened in Louisiana. Farmers in various por tions of the Northwest are holding grain for higher prices. High rates for money at New York limit share speculation and open the way to bear manipulation. This tendency is checked some what by the successful progress ot the Atchi son reorganization, and by cessation of de pression in the trust shares. Bonds are dull. Money on call at New York is about 10 per cent, and the supply of funds limited. For eign exchanges is low and dull on scanty in quiry and free offerings of commercial. Reports from ninety-six railroads of gross and net earnings for August show a gain of 3.3 per cent in gross an 1 22.9 per cent in net jver August, LUSH. From January 1 to Au gust 31, eighty-five railroads show gains of 5.7 per cent iu gross and 15.4 per cent in net over the same eight months last year. Depression bas characterized breadstuff's, Influenced by weaker cables, higher ocean freights and a Government crop report in Veasing the crop estimate. Wheat is off o2c and flour 5al5c, while the export sile aru noticeably oueciced. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat,) both coasts, July 1 to date, are 30,443,643 against 37,357,112 bushels ia a like portion of 18iJ& Exports this week equal 2,758,533 bushels against 1,815,808 bush els last week. Corn is off lo and oats, in sym pathy, 2o. Tbe free movement of corn is checked somewhat by the late decline in price. Hog products bave nad frequeut, though less vio lent, fluctuations in pnees at tbe West. East they have been only moderately active w.th slight variations in prices. Raw sugars bave continued heavy on slow demand in spite of a concession of l-16c, and reports of dacreased yields in Brazil and in Java and of disquieting reports from Louis iana. Warehouse deliveries and meltings are lioeral an 1 arrivals moderate. Refined, on free offerings and a moderately active de-. mand, is off Mo. Dealings in coffee .are. moderate and ftiazil growths declined c T :as are in limited sale. There is talk ot a possible corner in the London market. Leading Eastern dry goods jobbers report trade moierate. Early promises have not been realized. There are liberal orders with agents for Spring goods, while seasonable goods are dull. Prices are firm except for priut cloths and some inaKes ot brown sheet ings, which are lower on tho week. Demand for raw wool is uusa.isfactory. Raw cotton is lower on heavy movement. The business failures during tbe last seven days number, for the United States, 182, and for Canada, 41, or a total of 223, as compared with a total of 214 last week and 211 the week previous to tbe last. For the corresponding w,?ek lust vear the figures were 224, repre senting 202" failures in the Unit.'d States and 22 in the Dominion of Canada. KING OF PORTUGAL DEAD. HlaSon Succeeds to the lhrono The Naw Ruler Blessed by His Mother. Tbe King of Portugal, who was ill for some time, died Satdrday. Tbe Queen was present aud kissed ber busbacd' corpse. She then embraced Prince Carlos, her soa, who sue eetds to the throne, nnd said: "I bless you as monarch. I hope you will prove as good a king as you bave always been a son." Zing Carlos issued a proclamation at once announcing bis accession to the throne and promising a faithful observance of tbe politcal institutions of the country. He says ue will loilow the example of bis father and try to merit the affection of the people. The burial cf tbe late King will take place In the Royal Pantheon. The body, accompanied by the royal fam ily will be taken toBelem, where the re mains will lie in state ia the monastery of th Church of St. Jerome. Kmg Louis 1, the dead monarch, was born on October 31,1838, and was the son of Queen Aiaria II, and Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe Coburg. In 154, whe Duke of Oporto, he visiwd England with his brother, King Pe dro V. The latter died on November 11, 1861, and the Duke of Oporto ascended the throne. On October 6, 1802, he married the Princess Maria Pia, youngest daughter ot Kinz Victor Emmanuel, of Italy. He leaves twosons, Prince Carlos, Duke of Braganzs, and Prince Alphonso.Duke of Oporto., Prince Carlos was born on September 28. 1&3, and was married on May 2,1886. to Maria Araaiie, daughter of the Count ot Pari They have one son, Louis Pniilippe. Prince ot Beira, -who was born on March 23, 1387. Tbe Dake ot Oporto was bom on July 31, 1863. King Louis was devoted to literary and scientific pursuits, and be translated some of Shakes peare's plays and other works into Portu guese. A PARISH HOUSE STORMED Lively Flfiht Over Cathollo Church Property at Plymouth, Pa. About three months ago Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton, deposed Rev. Father Varnegari, tbe pastor of the Polish Catholic Church at Plymouth, Pa., and afterwards expelled him from the priesthood for unbecoming con duct. The congregation was divided into two factions, and one of these insisted upon hold ing possession of the church and a i onage. Bishop O'Hara appeared in Plymouth for the pu' pose of obtaining possession of the church and its property. He sent for Rev. Father Mack, and deputized him to act in his name. Tbe police were calle I upon to in terfere in case of trouble, and a call was mad at the parochial residence. Upou ad mission being refused tbe officers wero or dered to forcibly enter the building, and a moment later they battered down the do r.- and arrested six of tbeinmates,among whom was Martin Wl.ch. a saloon-keeper, who acted as the leader ft those on the inrd. A fierce fight ensued while the prisoners wer being removed, and in the struzg! Chitf of Police M ch tel Molvin had bi leg brol en aid back injured. Anumbtr it other persons were hurt in the melee, but none are fatally Injured, . v ABOUT - NOTED PEOPLE. The King of Italy is an enthusiastic cha mois hunter. The Quoju's yacht has a cork floorcloth to insure quiet. A son of De Quincy is sergeant at-arms in the New Zealand Parliament. Sarah Kelly, of Honesdil', Pa., would like to be named poet laureate. Emil Zola, the novelist, wan recsntly obliged to serve as a juryman in Paris. Andrew Lang is ou1; in another lett?r In sisting that tbe swallow-tail oaat must go James Russell Lowell says thit h is going to spend the remainder of his life lo the coun try. Profef sor Tyndall has returned to London much improved by bis sojourn among the Alp . Mrs. Henrietta R. Glesy, who now lives in Columbus, O., taught President Harrison bis ABCs. Alma Todems, who looks and is a little over 50. is short and strongly built and most energetic in bis movements. Miss Yda Addis, the discoverer of the pro cess of making irridescent pottery, is a well known newspaper writer on the Pacific coast. The richf heiress of. Mexico is Senorita Ysabel Excheqaeren, her father having a fortune or $80,000,000, of which she will in herit one third. Henry George will lecture in Canada In January, and from there be goes to Austra lia, where his land-tax ideas bave taken root, on a similar mission. The R v. D-. Edwsrd Evt rtt Hale says hat when be was a college student be and bis chum tODk theflrstdaguemotyps picture ever made in Boston. Tbe Su'tan of Jahore. who is shortly to re-visit England, would rcdily pass for an ordinary, well-developed European gentle man of middle age. Both the candidates for Governor of Mas sachuoetts this year are Hirvird alumni Mr. Bracket in the class of 18C5 and Mr. Rus ee 1 in that of 1S77. .. The Duchess d'Aurei, a member of one of tho most aristocratic houses in Italy, has d s nppenred, leaving debts to the amount of $.OJ,000 behind her. Mr. Swinburne never carries a stick or an umbrella when out walkin?, but he ofUn fills his pockets with candy and distributes ii to the children he meets. Senator Allison is pictured as clothed in home-spun and a slouch bat, making speech c s to tbe Iowa farmers at the county fairs in various parts of tbe State. Miss Milla F. Tupper, a graduate of Cor nell, who bas accepted a oil to tbe ptstorate of the Unatarian Church nt La Porte, is tho oaly woman paster in Indiana. Mrs. Anna Lea Merriti-, who was born in Philadelphia, was o e of the three ladies who received honorable mention for oil pvnting in the British section of the Paris Exposi tion. Sansuke Hayaskl, general superlntandent of police in Japan, woo is visiting the var' ous capitals of Europe and studying method of criminal supervision, may come to New York for points. Alexander Dumas' hobby Is to keep his study neat and tidy, and he is often to bo 83en in his shirt sleeves, feather duster in hand, employed in dusting bis den or chang ing the place of a piece of furniture. Henry Hohixioa Lyman, a Sioux Indian, twentv-two years old, has enter d the Yale Law School. He intends eventually to hang out his shingle among bis own tribe, and U described as handsome and intelligent. Miss Mary Maginnes, daughter of the late Hon. T. J. Maginuess, and si-ter of Judga Maginness, whom ex-Pi evident Cleveaud appointed Supreme Juige of Monrana, has decided to take tbe vail, and will enter the Catholic convent in Brown county, Ohio. WORK AND WORKERS. Berlin and Paris streets are cleaned free. Tbe dirt is used as a lertiiizer. During the past week ten new unions throughout tbe country bave been charted by tbe United Brotherhood of Carpenters and joiners. European railroads are fenced in, have no grade crossing, the engines have neither bell nor headlight, and the eugineer muat stand. Within tbe past few months there bas been a general advance for tbe ironworkers in the Schuylkill Va.ley of Pennsylvania, and about 6,100 ot them are effect -d by it. ' Paris has a labor exchange which furnishes help to employers and work to emp oyes. The expense of operating is shared by tbe labor organizations of tbe city and the muni cipality. Prominent Tennessee and Alabama capi talists have settled tbe preliminary details of a plau to consolidate all the big charcoal steel furnaces in the two States under one company and begin the manufacture of steel rail Tbe New York Central Labor Federation will hereafter give two hours of the first and third Sundays of every month to tho discus sion ot the eight-hour question. It has ntked ail labor organizations to take up this sub ject. The Wyoming constitutional convrn tion has adopted a prevision which declares eight hours a legal day's work. There have just been two interesting ex amples of moral action by labor organiza tions. The New York Portable Uod-b;ist-lug Engineers' Union expeliod a m-.-inber who offered a bos$3of bis weekly waves "just to have a steady job," and the Bales man's Early Closing Association ot Newark, N. J., ezpiled a member for dishonesty to ward his employ r. Tbe convention to be held next month by the American Federation of Labor, wbico bas its headquarters in New York, will be the largest aud racs: important labor con vention held in tbe United States this year. It will be attended by delegates who bave been elected by nearly all the trade and la bor organizations in the country. Prepara tions tor their reception are being made. Various strikes in England are reported. In Lancashire 7,000 colliers sre on strike for an advance of five percent. Tbe cab drivers and tramway and omnibus employ a of Lon don have organized In preparation . for a strike, and there are apprehensions of a uni versal railway strike in England. The strike of journeymen tailors in Londo& baa ended, the employers agreeing to reduce the daily working hours to ten and a-half. The striking workmen of Thornycroft & Co., engineers, London, have gained the advance in wages which tbey demanded. Tbe strike of tbe Illinois Coal and Coke Company's miners bas been settled by arbitration, the company agreeing to pay seventy cents a ton. Between 3.W and 400 bricklayers are on strike in New York, Lecause the firms employing them use brick and cement j ur chapel I rom a boycotted firm. Tbe custom tailors the past year wou lorty-six strikes and lost live. In 1S37 the association' had 2,100 members; now it has 5,400, and in soma ct ten per cent, in wages has been gained. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.' David Itunyon, 55 v ears of age, book-keeper for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com pany in Newark,. New Jersey, dropped dead! at bis desk... Anrriage, containing Mrs. Chsrles Sipe and M.s. Aust m, was struc'x by a train near auford, Indiana, and both woru'sn wero fitally injured. James McCarrlok, a well-known' base ball catcher, was killed while walking on tbe trices of tbe Central Raiiroai of New Jer sey at Wilkesbarre, Pa. " Tje bolter in Walton's saw mil, at Ander son, Indiana, exploded, Llowingtbe mill to atoms. Honcj Kuhn and Walter. Maugte : were killed and six others severely injured. , The schooner Stephen Msgan, from Frank' lin for New York, with paving blocks, was run down by en uukuown vessel off Tar rnulin Cove, 'Massachusetts. The crew were ved. - ; -j " Miss Adelaide P. Thompson, aged 30 yearn, who bas been under treatment for a nervous diseaS9 affecting her brain, jumped from a thin.-utory window of ber home in Brook lyn, New York, and was killed. -, ; Anthony Helfricb, a miner, and bis two laborers, Thomas Quinn and Patrick Julg Wt-re burned by an explosion of gas in tbe Stanton mii, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. . Tbe lat ter two are thought to be fatally injured. Mrs. Samuel Trice, of Fowling Creelr. Maryland, aged G6 years, was burned to death a few days ego. She was paralyzed, and -being leU alone for a short time, tbe bed . clothes in which she was wrapped caught fire. v; --v - ; A threshing machine boiler exploded on tbe farm of , W. Haakon, near SL Mary's, Ohio, killing Berry Sigler, fatally injuring Joseph Silvers and badly scalding Jacob Hemlern and another man whose name was not learned, ' , , A washout on the Texas and Pacific Roai at Madden, about 60 miles east of El Paso, Texas, threw a freight train down an em bankment. Engineer R. J. Bible, Fireman Charles Jones and BrakemanG. W. Mans field were killed. ? , t ' , . A large number of farm --rs in Minercounty, South Dakota, are reported destitute owing' to tbe tailure of their crops through drought duiinz the past season. A relief commit tee has teen appointed to solicit aid. Many towns throughout the State are responding. A construction train on the hew Confiu em-e and OaKland Railroad was wrecked near Confluence, Penna., by one of the cars jump ing the track. Fireman James Fitzpatrick, ot Wilmington, Delaware, and James Wil liams, of Snakerville, Penna, were killed. Three men were severely in jurel i George Pffffer was found dead in bd at bis home in New York, having been suffo cated by gas. His room mate, Morris A. Red ding, was unscious and may die. Pfeffer was out ot work, and it is thought that be left the gas turned on in order to end his life, and tlfht Redding was unaware of bis action. The scaffolding around the new stand pipe at Bethlehem, Pa , gave away and precipi tated eight workmen, with their tools, to the iron flooring of the tank balow, a distance of 45 feet. George Murphy, Lonis Rayeur and John Kiernan died of tbeir injuries in a short t me and tbe others, with one exception, were baoly hurt. . '. A telegram from Havana says that tbe co coanut disease has appeared in tbe district of Btrscou The inhabitants are , greatly alirnied, as cocoanuts are tbeir principal i ourco of ice mie. This disease has nearly de stroyed the cocoanuts in the Western and central parts of the island. One freight train ran into another at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Oas engine was wrecked and a caboose and two cm- w?re burned. George Garrabrand and Frank An derson, train bands, were severely icjared. ' A drover who was riding in tbe burned ca boose says be lost f 3300 in a satchel. Two trains on tbe Burlington and M isaoiiri Railroad ran into each other at G.b oi Station, near Omaha, Neb. They weragoiug in opposite directions. Both engines and t c.air car and combination car were smash d, up, and the chair car caught fire, badly burn ing many passengers, in addition to those otherwise injured. About 50 persons alto, gether were injured. Within tbe past few days the general opin ion prevailed in Johristown, Fa., that every body woud be paid on a percentage, and the members of the Board of Inquiry seemed to understand it that way. This being deuied, tbe people were at a lots to understand any thing about the ituation. The dissatisfac tion became so pronounced that the Finance Committee requested tbe Board ot Inquiry to make a statement of the condition of things. . ( . . , . Solomon Davis, eged 45 years, accompa nied by two nieces, visited the blooming de partment of a steel mill in Scranton, Penna., a few days ago. As they stood in front of the large engine which runs the rolls, several carriages with bot ingots approached. Davis and the ladies stepped back out of the way, but Davis went a little too far, and was struck by the massive fly wheel, burled to tbe top, and then fell into the pit where the ponder out wheel crushed his body. THE FLOODS IN JAPAN. ' .fifty Thousand Houses Submersed and 2,410 Persons Killed. The Steamship Bclgic arrived as San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama. Japanese papers state that complete returns from the one prefecture of Aicui ehow that 685 people were drowned and 121 injured during the floods of September 11, and that over a thousand bouses were swept away and tuousandi of acres ot crops d stroyei. Ia a review of the calanoitie cau-sd iiy floods during the year I5ei the Japan Mail s.tys: Incomplete le urns suow that twe ve pie lectures have boeu devastated, 2.41 peop.e til ed, 155 wouuded and over 9.1,000 people ue privedot means of subsistence.: More tban 50.00J houses have been swept away or sub merged, 150,000 acres of crops destroyed, about 0,0U) bridges washed away uud wow nundredsof miles of road broken up. : It the proviuee or KiuahU, near a temple. Is a boys' school. Wane tue ' teacher was called away oue day all the boys except ono with tbe intention of plymg a J jUo on tho teacher bid iu empty co.'Uus that were in tha temple. The boy wno was to act ai seuthiel fcad hardly closed down t hi lids over tha iWa boys when the schooi master appeared. Answering-the teacher's question the uentiiiel said Iim comrudes Lad goue to Heaveu, their bodieatyow beinj; in the colli us. The teacher, fearing1 the joke might have been carried to tar, raised the ddso the coQins, and louut in reality all fire boys had died l rom sulft ton.' Tua ixth boy being now thoroughly scared, started to run.wlieu the teacher ovur took him and whipped him to death. Ahea recently fell into a hot spring ia Yellowstone Park. She laid boiled t for a week. Baar : A fitting tribute The check tl it x for your suit of "clothes. IV'a. .'. Capital, , f- ...,,.
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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