VOL. 1.
PLYMOUTH, N. bM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1889.
NO.
THE NEWS,
'" A conflagration in Lynn, Mats., destroyed
twelve blocks of large shoe manufactories,
burned over a square mile from the heart of
the town to the sea, and entailed Josses esti
. . mated at ten millions of dollars. Hundreds
r of small dwellings were also burned, and
several btnk buildings and churches1 were
Included in the sweep of the flames. Every
. . newspaper office in the city was destroyed.
Thousands of operatives in the &ho3 factories
. ' are thrown out of work, and the mmy homo
,l less families hive been furnished temporary
:. refuse in churches, schoolhouses and public
' i balls. Fire at Leechburg, Fa., destroyed
" . the greater portion of that town. Losses
over $30,000. -Tbe British steamship Sin
" tinge-Captain Potter, from New York for
- Hull, was burned at saa, the passengers and
crew being rescued by the ship A. J. Fuller
. and carried to New York. Tbe Eat Ten-
. nessee, Virginia and Georgia passenger Irain
No. 3, jumped the track near Greenville, and
Eugineer Gregg Duon was fatally hurt and
several passengers injured. The roller
j process flour mill and J. A. Taylor's lumber
1 yard at Sofo. Harbor, near Lancaster, Pa,,
' were burned. Loss $10,000.
j- Four men were whipped at Newcastle,
De)., for larceny. -Half a dosmi miners
wero suffocated by smoke from a lire In the
. 'Anaconda mines at Butte, Montana.?
iAldu.1 C. Herr, hardware dohr, of Lan
caster, Pa., is financially eml arrassed, Lla-
' bilities $10,000.- Henry Blauii t.T a for
mer, near Dover, Dal , was nearly gored to
: death by a cow. Itobort Bland, colored,
' ..'who attempted u criminal assault upon An -
" fnio Geo, aged sixteen years, in Prince George
' county, Vs., was taken from jail and lynched
rby a mob.- John C Raymond, of New
.York, was found guilty in the Middlesex, N.
J. Court of arson in setting fire to the Adrian
Institute at Igejin, N. J., for the purpose of
defrauding the insurance companies.
t Frank A. Aldrich, convicted of "bucooing"
John K. Lemmon,a Pittsburg merchant out
of $10,003, was sentenced toeibt years' im
prisonment. Sbarpless Brothers' ' large
..dry OoJs house in Philadelphia was badly'
daraagel by fire. Losses $83,000, " Several
other stores adjoining were damaged.
. The Newsteamshjlp Oris iba, bui.t at Roach's
' yard, Chester, Pa., for the .Now York and
Cuba Mail Steamship Company, was launch
ed in tbe presence of a number of members
of the Pan-Americaa Congress. The rain-
fall in .Western Kansas, being inadequate foi
proper irrigation, Congress will be asked tp
. assist in providing for means to obtain sup
ply from the river valleys. James A.
. Smith, Sr., presLiont of the Smith & Sons
Ice and Fuel Company, of 8f. Louis, has dis
appear ed, and it is believed I hat he has prob
ably joined tbeCanalian colony with $60,000
of other people's money, Nearly all of the
. evidence has been heard in the Croniu oase.
;; The cltftens of Cleveland, O., are making
war on tbe electric street car motor wires on
the streets. The territorial asylum at
Blackfoot, Idaho, was burned and half a
. doz.m of the inmates perished. Two rob
bers successfully plundered an express car
,on a train in Iudian Territory, terrorizing
jt be train men and compilling the express
messenger to deliver,; Wellington Hart,
. and R. A. Smith, farmers of Woodsocket,
" l. I.; while driving homo late Saturday
jhtjptlieir way, and their horse plunged
y IntO'a creek drowning both men. Philip
" LecoEt-1, a life-convict in the Rhode Island
state prison, was-nearly stabbed to death by
JohnF. M6Carthy,a fellow prisoner.
. Kehlor Brothers' mill and a number of other
. Luildinss in Eiwardsville, 111., were de
stroyed by fire. Losses aggregating $253,-
000. Banker Sinkskind,of New York city,
bns disappeared, and hundreds of poor Ger
mans, Norwegians, and Danes are' clamoring
for their little savings eu trusted to his care,
J. F. Davis was arrested at Dan vilIe,Va,,
charged with the murder of J. D. Horton,
near Durham, N. C A. G. Jackson &
Co. 's wholesale hardware store and other ad
jacent buildings at Parkersburg, V. Va.,
. were damaged by fire, ; ,
Farmers in tte vicinity (of Hiawatha,
Kansas, fla J it cheap ?r to burn corn than
coal f' .- fuel. The will of John H. Shoen-
berger, ' Pittsburg'" iron master, provided
- (8JO.0JO Joe a memorial hospital, and leaves
$200,000 to tho Episcopal Church. Tim
othy McCarthy, uu electric light lineman at
Providence, It. I, fouled a live wire and was
killed. Oliver Drake, aged seven ty-flvo,
' was married to Ella Freuud, aged nineteen,
at .Newark, N. J. A. B. Han's cotton
', warehomt, together wiih 7,000 bales of cot-
Ion, at LaUe City, Flo., wero destroyed by
lire, ' ' Loss over 100.000. A freight train
j on the Lehigh Vmle Railroad dashed into
' lu.Teurof apasjooger trjinnear tethlehem,
. Fa., two cars ton j telescope J. E. V. C'lrry,
of Beihleliem, a postal clerk, being killed,
and several passengers Injured.
; LUNATICS CREMATED.
Eight Lives I.ottt by (lie BarnSus of
llio Idaho Asylnni.
, The territorial iiutme asylum at Blackfoo:,
Idaho, caught firo troin a defective flue in
the basement at I o'clock fh the morning aud
the old building ws burned to tbe ground.
An annex lately built, but unoccupied, ei
capod. The inmates wet all in the old
building. Of sixty-sven inmates four are
known to have perished In tbe flunks, four
are . uiiuccountoa for and supposed to have
perched also, and the remaining fifty-nine
were rescued.
All tbe rescued inmates were placed in
places of safety, tbe Women in the Methodist
Churoli and t ne meniu tha jail, wnere they
will remain until tbe annex is made ready
for occupancy, 'ibis will take about three
days. The uurned building will be imme
diately rebuilt. The contents of the building,
including Air the clothing of the inmates,
were lost. The peoplo of the town responded
nobly, mid are doing everything possible to
replace the clothing lout by inmates and em
aluyet s. The fire was discovered by tbe night
watchiimn, who was attending to his dunes
on the thud floor, but taa discovery wn
madi too late io h:vij the contents i-f t'.e
build uic.
, LYNN IN ASHES. ;
The Great Shoe Town Partial
ly Destroyed,
low ?12,000,000 -Nothing Iift of the
Buslnes Ncctlnn Help Sent From
Boston nntl Neighboring Cities.
Lynn, Mass., tbe city of boes. was visited
by the greatest fire in its bis'ory, and wjfth
two exceptions tbe conflagration is tbe most
disastrous with ever visite 1 New England.
Tbe exceptions are the great Boston fire of
1872, which destoyed bstween $300,000,000
and $100,000,000 worth of property,-and tbe
Portland fire of 180tl, which caused a loss of
between $1 ,000,000 and 113,000,000.
Tho fire started at 1 1.5.1 A. M., raged over
eight hours, devas ated a square mile of the
business section of the city, and caused a loss
estimated at 12.i)00,UOJ. In fact, the greater
part of Ward Four la wiped out as regards
the important shoa manufacturing blocks
and prominent places o( business.
The fire 6tartxd in wooden budding, on Al
raont street, over the boiler, and spread with
such rapidity that tbe excellent fire depart
ment of tbe city was poweriest to cope with
it. Tbis large wooden building was soon
doomed, and tbe fl imes leaped across a nar
row passageway and communicated with tbe
6ix-story brick block known as Mower's
block. When, these two buildings got well
under way it wasevidentthat a terrible con
fliKratioi) wou:d result.
Almost simultaneously the four-story
wooden shoe factory of Bennett & Barnand,
on Central avenue, and tlie lour-siory wood
en buiidiitg on .Aunont street caught fire,
und, when under way, a hurricane of fliins
was in progress which blanch jd tbe cheeks
of an wtio were looicmgon.
Foi- eiglit hours tbe flames had full sway,
the efforts of b rem an and citizans seemingly
being of no avail, although of course they aid
valiunt work. Tha uurned territory is
bounded by the following street: AIniont,
Central avenue, at its junction with Willow;
Union street, from its junction with Broad
to the Boy den block on uoth sides; Alt. Ver
non strtet entire; Central square entire;
Beach street on uoth s.des a far down as
Lee's lumber yard; Washington street, from
Monroe tbrouyu to Union; ltailroad avenue;
all of Excbauge street; Broad street, from
tbe engine house on boih sides up as far as
the corner of Exchange; Sprtnz street entire,
besides dwelling-houses too numerous to men
tion on Suffolk, Am.ty, Higamoreand fijach
streets.
V Aid arrived from Boston, Salem, Marble
h .'ad and surrounding towns, but their united
etf ort seemed to have iittle effect on tbe hur
ricane of flames, ticeuesof tbe geat Boston
and Chicago fires were repeated in alt their
horrors; mothers fL-eing with babes in tneir
arms ami express wagons loading at businet s
and dwelling-houi.8 and transferring goods
to a placa or safety, in many cas.-s a second
removal being necessary.
Al ter tbe tire bad been in progress two
hours everybody declared that it would not,
ejop until it reached the ocean. So it looked
and so it proved to be. Four daily news
pap rs are burued out the Item, Bee, iess
unJ Neios three afternoon and one moi-mmc
paper. Three national banks the Central,
Security, and First National ogetber with
tbe Jynn institution lor savings, located in
the first National bank block, are all wiped
out. ,
Twelve of the finest shoe blocks in tbe city
are in tbe ruins and about twenty five stores.
At ibis writing it is impossible to state how
many dwediug bouses are burned, but they
were mostly occupied by the poor class in
the vicinity of Beucli street and the wharves.
It is impossible to givo any estimate on in
surance, but conservative estimates place
tbe losi on property at SIO.OJO.OOO. Tnere
were mi ny narrow escapes from accidents,
but no fatalities aro reported.
DEADLY NATURAL GAS.
A Home .Blown U a IVuniber of
Persons Injured.
A two-story brick dwelling on Robicssn
street, Braddock, Pa., wis blown t pkce3
by an explosion of natural ga. Two per
sons were fatally burned, and six others seri
ously injured. The accident was caused by
a leak in the main. Charles Householder, an
employe of the gas company, was sent to re
pair the trouble, lis decoded into the base
ment and almost immediately there was a
terrible explosion.
At the time there were in the house Pet;r
Kelsh, bis wife aud six children, besides
Householder. The foundations unheaved
and the sides and front of the budding en
tirely callapsed. Mrj. Kelsh, who waseick,
was thrown into the street aud fatally in
jured. Her three days old babe was not hurt,
ilousshoider was frigntfully burned from
his bead to his feet, arid will die.' Peter Kelsh
and five children, rangiug in age from three
to eleven years, were thrown into tbe street
or buried in the debris. A 1 were seriously
injured, but will recover
Burned by Statural Gas.
Washington. Ill, An explosion occur
led in a buuaiug over ta? pospcti.ig shaft
lor natural gas in this plau . Ki4 n been
flowing very freely for weeks. The buildfnats
were tilled with people, when booh one
thought-sly lighted a m-itcb, and a torn lie
explcsiou followed. Two pro Rectors, who
names are unknown, and lieury Denharr, tbe
Rev. Mr. Smith and J. B, Soyder, of this
p ace, were irightfuliy burned. ItisDeliered
that several d-.-atbs will ensje.
SHOT HIS TWO BABES.
A Father JDcllberatcly fflnrders II in
Mttle Children.
' Two babe's were shot by .their father,
Joseph Smith, at 32t East Ninth strea'r, New
York. - Eii2ilolh, aged two years, is dead,
with a bullet i 1 hor sto:mch, and eleven
months' old Mary U at the hospital, with a
bullet in bar breast Tbe father,, who is
thirty years of age, was arrested. .
' Smith is a letter-carrier, lie and bis wife
bad frequent quarrels, and she left him abouc
a week ago, vaking tlw cmldrea with hr.
Two days afterwards she returned while her
busbanu was at worn aud took away ail the
furniture and her husband's c.othiiitf. Smith
aid nobbing about bis wife's abieuc, and she
was supposed to ba stopping with telitives.
He returns 1 to the rooms with bis two
children," aud leaviog them in the care of a
neighbor tor an hour, returned, -and took
tbeui to bis room. Shortly attrr this, pidtoi
shots were heard in the room. Tue father
was found s.ttiug in a chair, holding the
youngest child oa his kuee, and with a re-,
volver in oue hand. Tbe eldest girl was seated
in a bth chair dead, with tbe o.ood dripping
from A wound in ber abdomen. The b.by
was shot through the breast and cannot Ji vt-.
A police offlser was suinmoned, aud Smith
wu4 arrsroJ. IIo uiad i no resist i no:) utid
hurreiidured bis revolver, I; is supposed that
pjverty uiid tUe desert!') i of Lin wile Jed to
. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
M. Ue Lesseps will be 81 years old next
Tuesday. . '
The Duke of Edinburgh is a postage-stamp
collector.
' Prinea - Bismarck - considers Sir Charles
UUke the greatest English statesman.
Kate Fields says women area! solutely on"
fit for the management of public affairs.
' Sir Charles Dilke- says that bis heavy lit
erary work leaves him no time lor anything
c.. -
King Tantol, potentate of Annam, is 9
years of age, but fully conscious of the im
portance of bib positioa.
JangLandsing is th latest native of China
to capture a white bride in Connecticut. He
wus a student at New Haven.
Bancroft, the historian, takes a long walk
every pleasant afternoon, often with a vol
ume o Shakespeare in his hand.
-Miss Mtud, the eldest daughter of Sir
Julian fauueefote, is skilled in sketching and
painting, and :s a tine equestrienne.
'Archdeuc jii Jones, late archdeacon of Liv
erpool, wbo has attained his DStb year.has been
in holy orders lor 74 years. v . w ,, '
' lr iic'eis Militza,-of Mo itehegTO,J divided
the i,lWu,000 rouoies presented to her by the
needy lutiaoitauu ot Montenegro.
Colonel Swopj, who was killed by Colonel
G odtoe at Lexington, Ky., bore a striking
rsemb.ante to Col. UjoertTG; Ingersull.
Ljrd Salisbury ha dispensed with the
&U4i d of detectives that nave watched over
ins saincy for tue p .st three years.
The ilrst of tho sculptures tobeexecutod
lor the Puns Pautueon will le the raouu
uieuls to Mirabeau aud Victor Hugo.
During the 20 odd years he was on the turf
thd late Lord Faimoutn too.c in l,5J0,000in
sb .kes and purses, out never bet but once.
The richest womau in Wisconsin is Mrs. ;
AiexanJtrr Mitchell, wife oC the late presi
dent of thj Miclugau aud St. Paul Kaiiroad.
W. J.' D. Moucure, of 'Richmond, Va., is
six feet tall, duep-cbested and vigorous,
thougii he otten smokes 100 cigarretes a day.
Siegfried Wagner, son of tbe famous con
poser, has determined to devote hinnelf to
music, and has entered his name upon the,
roll ot tbe musio school at Frankfort-ou-the-Main,
', ; '. .
Mrs. Richnrd A. Proctor has come before
the public, reading her late husband's lec
tures and displaying the samo illustrations
that he usad. .
Mit-s Theo Alice Ruggles, one of the three
American sculptors who rtceived honorable
meution at the Paris Exposition, is only IS
years of ag?. . .
Julian Story, the younger son of the
sculptor, now in Pat is, has just completed a
uabitiet-sized portrait of M si Emma Eames,
the ycung singer.
Mrs. Cleveland-is havinz her portrait
piinted by a Washington artist. It is said
in it the picture win De prese,niea no me Cor
coran Art Gallery.
Minister Lincoln's daughter, who is now
18. aud finds life in the. English court very
pleasant, is described as having girlish beauty
and amiable, winsomo manners.
Sir Gaoree Grove, the musician, was edu
cated to be a civil engineer and designed the
first two modern lighthouses erected by the
British Government in the West indies.
James D. Reid, United States Consul at
Dunfermline, Scotland, appointed the first
woman telegraph operator in this country,
at Lyons, N. Y. She was kuownat the time
as "ibe Lady of Lyons."
LYNCHED BY A MASKED M0E.
A Virginia Nerrn Who Aswan I ted a
White Girl.
Robert Bland, who, law week, attempted
to commit a criminal assault ou Miss Annie
Oifi, aged sixteen years, daughter of Hon.
Charles Gee, United States inspector of lum
ber in Sitka, Alaska, but whose fumily reside
In Prince George county, Va., a short dis
tance from Disputant! t,Station, on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, was taken from
thrf jail of Priuce George county aud lynched.
A moo, consisting Vt lorry mounted men,
well masked, went, to the residence of Henry
King, the negro jai er, au i demanded the
keys of the jail, iln oioutly reiused to sur
render the keys oi to o to tbe jail and un
lock the door.
Tbe mob then burst open tbe doors of the
jailer's housa, aud again demanded the keys.
On refusing to give them up, they placed a
rope around bis neck and dragged him to tbe
j mi, several hundred yanis lruiu tbe house.
jJespite bis treatment, King still refused to
tell wuere the keys to tue jail were. Just
before tbe j til was reached the keys were
beard rattliug in King's pocket. Tue mob
then took the keys from liiui aud carried
bun into th jiii aud made li.m lead the way
to tbe Cill in which Binnd was confined.
Bland h id nothing to say he.i the lynch
ers came to his cell, but mus perficuy quiet,
ile was tied hand aud foot and carried otf
about seventy-live yimts lrutu the jau.wbere
be was swung up by a rope to the uraucb of
a tret. H begged-piteously for life, but the
lynchers were deal to h.s appjai" lor mercy.
His body was riddied with bullets and lelt
dangling. from the tree. BluuU was about
twenty-one years of ae, and a worthlesi
character.
MYSTERIOUS' DISASTERS
Three FJy wheel Explode and Fae
tory Burned. .
Without any apparent cause three immense
flywheels controlling the machinery of a
large factory belonging to the Parkersburg
Mill Company at Parkersburg, W. Va. , sim
ultaneously exploded, tearing the entire in
side out of tbe building and destroying en
gines, machinery and other valuable prcper
ty. The repjrt was like that of a canLO i,
and the earth was shaken for a great dis
tance. Fifty employes a minute aiierwards
would have been in the line of tbe explosion.
A short time afterward a fire equally as
mysteriously totally detroye 1 the plant of
the A. G. Jackson Hardware Company.
Several men were bad y cut aud dangerously
hurt. . - . .
EATEiY BY-SHARKS.
Awful Fate of a 1'arachiite Jumper
Who Fell Into the Ocean. -
The Oceanic steamer Zjlandiu arrived
from Sydney aud Auckland, via Hoaolula,
at San Franc so.
She reports that as sha was entering tho
harbor of Honolulu on ' November 10 Pro
fessor Van" Tassel., the balJoouisr, made an
ascension from the shore and dropped irom
tnu buiioon in a parachute. . He feu into the
ocean about two miles irom shore aud one
mile from the steumer. lie was seen no
more, au l it was supposed be was eaten by
sharkSjf ,
- V an I I'a -i 5 51 left Sin Francisco few weeks
ngo foV" JJonoluiu and Australia,-whore La
x rf . ' . ! s
Unfavorable Weather Causes
a Decreased . Movement
Fears of a Monetary Stringency Ow
ing to Rnniors Regrardtng the Gov
ernmenfa Silver Policy EflTect
of tho Braxilfan Revolution. .
Special telegrams to Bradst reef's Report a
fair volume of trade. Except in holiday
specialties, however, the movement, checked
by unfavorable weather and tbe lateness
of tbe Bsason, has been smaller than during
October, though still in excess of tbe total
one year ago.
The approach of the close of lake naviga"
tiou has an influence on rail rates. Declin-,
lug cattle receipts at the West make prices
6teady, but' large offerings of bogs depress
quotations. Pork is steady, and lard, on hot
ter export req-iest, is up twelve points. The
Western tobacco leaf crop is reported 15 to
20 per cent, less than last year, when it
u mounted to 27'), 000 hoisbeads.
Jtteports f rom uinety-nlne railroads of gross
and net earnings to Bradstreefs for Sep-'
tern ber show a ga u ot 8. 1 x-r cent, in gross
and of. IS per cent, io net over September,
188$. From January 1, to September 30, 1C5
raiiroids show gtins ot 6.6 per coot in gros'
and j3.1 per cent, in not over tbe nine month V
lagjtyear. Share speculation tends to im
prove oa the material condition of railroads
and general business, but is unsettled by the
n irrow financial situation and apprehensions
of an agitation in regard tothe currency
and tbe fiscal policy of tbe Treasury.
Bonis are more active higher rates for
money causing increased sales of prime
bonds. ' Money at .New York is easier, but'
is in a sensitive Condition. Call loans 0u7
par cent. Foreign Exchange is steady to
firm on scarcity of commercial bills. Bar
silver is lXc higher at fid, on rumored!
changes in tue silver policy of the Govern
ment. ,. .
Very mo lerate offerings of raw sugar and!
the needs of refiners at Atlantis ports com
bine to establish in advance ot Melt
ings by Eastern refiners are 66 per cent,
less for nine months of this year than last,
while domestic stocks of raws are only 75
per cent, of those held a year ago. Tbe in
creased demat'd for refined advanced sev
ers I grades 1-16 io.
The reports ot the revolution in Braz
being quite pacific, coffee prices . were not
affecceu as might have been expected. The
lower crop estimates, moderate primary mar
ket deliveries aud increased domestic de
maul quickened speculation and strength
ened pricts about i at cents per pound.
There bas been a tendency to weakoess in
breedst'uffs this Week. Receipts of Spring
wheat at tbe Northwest bontinue about as
heavy as heretofore. The export demand,
wbicu increased noticeably within a fort
night, maintains only fair proportions.
Pricew, however, remain hardly steady for
flour, and c lower for wbear, with cable
demand ligut.
Indian corn is off tlc on fears of heavy
shipments from the interior. Oats are up o
on better export demand and firm holding.
Exports of wheat (ind flour as wheat) from
Itoth coasts tbis wrok aggregate l,b61,46i
busbelj, against 2,501,530 bushels last week,
and ,iVM'i bushels in the like week last
year, 'ibe total shipped abroad, from July
1 to date, amounts to 4'J, 818,770 bushels,
against ,15,013,OUO bushels in a like portion
of 1888.
Cotton nnd woolen goodi present a sharp
contrast as regards demand und prices. The
former are in liberal request, and in the
case of brown sheetings, drills and print
cloths at advancing prices. Woolen men's
wear goods are moving; slowly. Manufac
turers efforts to Get higher prices tban last
Season looks dubious.
The jobbing trade as a whole is slow, tba
exception being in holiday goods. Haw
wool is in slightly better d.-raand, both at !
the seaboard aud in tbe interior. Haw cot- !
ton is dull and featureless with a bearish
tone, due t issuance of large crop estimates
on Liverpool.
TERRORIZED BY TWO THIEVES
A Couple of Bold Rohbers Hold I'p
and Rx a Train.
A train robbery of extraordinary boldness
was accomplished in tbe Choctaw Nation,
Iudian Territory. The Missjuri, Kansas
and Tex is express train, north bonnd for St,
Loute, was held up on Pryor creek, near
Perry Station, and the express car robbed of
ubou. $50,000. The robbers d splayed cool
ness, aud went about their woi k in such a
iauiiliar mann r as to convince the train
men that they, were old time professionals.
The road agents were only two in number.
They had concealed themselves iu a clump
of bushes uear tbe water tank on Pryor
cr. ek, and wben tbe train stopped for water
they boarded the engine, one on either side.
und, covering tbe astounded engineer and
fireman with their revolvers, explained to
ibem their design of robbing the train. One
ot tbe robbers ciimbed into tho tender, aud
from that point of vantage was master of
the engine. lhem?um tho cab were at
nis mercy, and were compelled to obey his
commanui. Tho o'.h r robb r, in tbe
meantime, bad cone t ask to the express
cr, and bad uncoupled it from the rest
ot the train. Euteiiug .the car, he intiru
idatea ' the express messenger by pre
senting a brace of revolvers at. bis bead and
ordering bim to disarm bimse.f. Tbe mes
senger obeyed, aud the robber pojsesjed him
selt of tbe messenger's weapons, und then,
through the window called to bis confeder
ate in tbe tender, "Ali right; let her ga"
The latter repeated toe command to the
engineer, who ua l nothing to do but to obey.
He opened tho throttlo, aud the engine and
express car sped a way irom tbe train. Mean
wuile the rohuer in tue exprts car bad not
been id.e. Hocomptlled the messenger to
open the sale, by a threat of death, and, to
'truusfer the tale's contents into a large
guuny sacit wbich the robber bad broiigtit
along to convey the booty in. The messen
ger again oLeed. The robber then made a
iuaty examination of tbe car to see that
.nothing valuable wasovorlooked.and, giving
a signal to his confederate, the latter ordered
the engineer to slacic up. Tois done the
roobefs disembarked and made their escape
in the darkness, AU this was done so quick
ly that tbe engine bad proceeded only a mile
aud a half from Prior Creek, and tho robbers
had completed tbe robbery and effected their
escapj before tbe surprised trainmen knew
what bad occurre L .No attempt was made
to pursue the road agents, and tbe engineer
ran back to the creek, picked up bis train
aud pursued bis trip. ' .,
"DAimixGiER, what's become of the
friend I've Been yon with far a wcokV"
4 1 cut him. His name is Ilava
3rir.lt. mi.l every ti r,t I calloj him tluii
He said" il.v.i'l care if T do.' Jlcvni
CABLE SPARKS.
Stanley, the explorer, has arrived at Hp
wapwa. ,
Mr. Gladstone is In favor of local option it
England.
Italy has assumed a protectorate over f
portion of tbe coast of Est Africa.
Tho ex-mayor of Sheffield, Eng., dropped
dead while Hastening to catch a train.
The elections of Gen. Boulanver and M
Naquet were Invalidated by the French elec
liou bureau. ,
Weighing dues on cotton and other agri
cultural products have been abolished in tb'
Egyptian budget for tbe coming year.
The British steamer Edith Godden, from
New York, November V&, foundered at sea.
Tbe crew are safe.
Lord Koseberry, at a meeting of liberals
at Glasgow, said be was not in favor of abol
ishing the Housa of Lords.
Lord Salisbury presided at the first sitting
of tbe special cabinet committee appointed
to consider tbe Irish policy of the govern'
inent.
Koas Raymond, who was at one time con"
nected with Baltimore newspapers, was con
victedof forgery at Manchester, England.
The Kurdish chief, Moussa Bey, is in prison
to answer charges ot perpetrating outrages
upon Christians in Armeuia.
The anti-slavery conference, in session in
Brussels, have asked Standley aud Emln
Pasha lor a narrative of their exoeneuce
with slaves and slave-dealers iu Africa.
' The proprietor of the London Mining
Record and Mr. Maris, ot the Financial
Times of the same city, have been indicted
by the London grand jury for blackmail.
There is a movement on foot in London for
the cou version of the people of the West End
of that city by visiting their dwellings.
' Rumors of a revolution in Cuba ere con
tradicted by Havana advices, which state
that the islaud politically is entirely tranquil.
Judge Br is to we, of Nottingham, England,
was shot and dangerous wounded by a Ger
man dentist against whom he gave judgment
in a suit
A number of the followers of Bishop
Smytbies, of the Central African mission,
were killed by Chief Maholodo and his war-
rlers. 'ibe oisnop escaped to nyassa.
Mr. Parnell was greatly surprised wben he
read in newspapers tbe reports of his mother's
ooverry, and immediately cabled from Lon
don to bis agent in New York to supply her
with funds.
Sir Edward Guinness has given 200,003
for the erection of dwellings in London for
:he laboring classes, and o0,U00 to be simi
iirly used lor tbe benefit of the poor of Dub
En. Russia continues musing troops upon her
frontiers and is steadily extending her rail
way system in order taat her strategic sys
tem may be completed by May.
Owing to the withdrawal from the Cham
ber ot Deputies of France of M. Leydet's
bill against tbe match monopoly, tbe minis
ter of finance announced that the French
jovernment would work the monopoly.
Emperor William of Germany is opposed
to tbe betrothal ot bis bister Margaret to
tne Czir's son because of the weakly consti
tution of tbe latter. Tbe Princess herself is
willing for the - match aud so is Prince Bis
marck. Iu his speech before the Parnell commis
sion, Sir Henry James, couusel for tbe Lon
don 1 imes, declared that there was proof
showing tue association of Patriot Ejan, now
United States minister to Colli, with the
i-bceaix Para murdererp.
'lhereare conflicting reports of the death
of Dr. Peters, tne German explorer. Lieut.
Bore her, one of tue commanders of the
second column of Dr. Peters's expedition, re
ports from Lockermani, Africa, that Dr.
Peters ud bis party are save and well, and
nave established a fortified station at the foot
of Mount Keuia, while advices received in
Ziuzibar from Lamu state that Dr. Peters
aud all his companions, Bafe five porters,
were massacred by the Somalia at Addu Bur
rorabo.on the Tanarivcr, eibt days' march
above Korkorro,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
A snow storm iu Montana caused several
wrecks on tbe Northern Pacific Railroad.
Timothy McCarth v, an electric light line
man in Providence, Rhode Island, was killed
by fouling "live" wires at a . street corner.
His body hung on a wire and bad to be taken
down.
Annie McDonald and Mary Mullarky,
each about 16 years of age, were killed by a
freight train at a street crossing in Cincin
nati. Daniel Ryan a young man, woo ac
companied them, was severely injured.
A boiler exploded in Joslyn, Missouri,
while being tested. Jobn Madison was
killed and I nomas Johnson and A. T. Crock
ett dangerously io jured. C. J. Johnson aud
his sons, John ana George,' were scalded.
Frank Foster attempted to shut off an
electric iiht in Gloucester, Massachusetts,
with an irou Gaff, and was instantly killed.
William Bogh and Frank Berger were killed
near Catasauqua, Pa. , by the premature ex
plosion of a blast in a quarry. ,
It is believed in New York that there were
niue lives lost through the collision and sink
ing of tbe steamer Manhattan by tbescbooner
Anes Manning, off Fenwick shoal lightsuip.
'1 he men suppjsed to have been lost depended
upoa life preservers for their safety.
A despatch from Butte, Montana, say
that a lire started in the cross out, on tue
5U0-foot level of the Sc. Lawrence mine, and
the draft blew it into tbe Anaconda works
ings. Patrick Murphy, Henry Page, Jerry
Sudivan and Tim Keiieher, were suffocated
in lha Anaconda, and there are nine more
men unaccounted lor.
A freight train on thj Lehigh Valley Kill
road dished into the rear of a passenger
train, standing at Botblehem, Pa., and two,
cars were telescoped. E. V. Curry, of Beth
lehem, railroad postal clerk, was taken from
tbe wreck dead. . John Vanhorn, of Bethle
hem, received injuries which will probably
prove fatal. Charles Nonnemacher, of
Hokendaqua, hai his leg cut off, and an un
known woman was injured about the head.
A NOVEL PROPOSITION.
An Alabama Couvlct Whii tn the People
to Vote far Ills l'unlon.
Isaao H. Vincent, who defaulted lor $ 2U3,
000 while State Treasurer of Alabama, about
five years ago, and who escaped and went to
Mexico, subsequently being captured and
brought back to s$rv a fifteen-year sentence
in the penitentiary, will submit a strange
proposition to tbe Legislature next Spring,
lie will ask that body to allow the people of
Alabama to vote ou whother or no he shall
be pardonod.
If tbe majority vots "No" he wilj srve
out the remainder of his flttean years with
out a murmur, but if the people say ' Yes"
he wants to be release 1. He was a very pepu
lar man while it) otlic, and it is not improba
ble that the people would release him tf iha
( matter were left to the vols). Vincent is now
j a'jout fifty ye irs oi l nwl li.aumco T&r.uy
hvmg in : "i'.ro.'iiery, A ',:.jublin v a
A CRASH ONTHG OGBAi;
The Steamer Manhattan Sink:,
in Ten Minutes.
Iler Collision With tbe Biff Schooner
Agnes Manning;, Irons Baltimore
Fourteen Men Adrllt on n tY.fe
Baft-Three Lives Lost.,
Tbe Old Dominion Line steamer Manhat-
tan, Capt. Jenny, was run into at five o'clock
the other moraingoff Fenwlck's Island light,
Maryland coast, by the four masted schooni r
Agnes Manning. The schooner proca?deJ to
Philadelphia with one man missing, supposed
to have been drowned. Tbe Manhattan soon
began to settle, and sank within ten minutes
after she was struck. Only one boat, No. ?
could be lowered. Tbe Captain and fourteen
of the crew manage 1 to save their lives by
getting Into tbe boat. Tbe Manhattan's top
masts were above water.
Quartermaster Olson was tiken from on
of the masts, , and near him was the lifeles
body of Engineer Hayden. The quartermas
ter made'aimost superhuman efforts to save
tbe engineer. Hj p issed bim a bowline, tel- -ling
bim to put it under bis arms, but Hay
den did not have strength. The bowline was .
made fast to the engineer's wrist, but Olson
could not raise him abov; the water, and lit
drowned, tbe body butog taken in boat No. IL
Thereat of the crew, eleven in nnraber,
and three passengers, two black and one
wnite, gotontheidVraft, and wben the boitc
parted' company,- all seemed safe for a time
at least. After being in tbe boat three hours,
they sighted tbe schooner Van Nams and '
King,-of New H ien. v
Tbe fourteen survivors and the remains of
the engineer were taken. The revenue cut
ter Dexter, in' passing out, responded to tbe
signal of the schooner and landed the sur
vivors. . ....
First Officer Joseph P. N, Davis, in an in
ver view said: "We left New York with
thirty-five persons on board, iucluding two
steerage passengers,' whose names are un
known to me. We were light laden, not
having over five hundred tons of freight, and,
consequently, were able to make such good
time luaf we were on r on wick island snoai
light, near the Delaware Cjpef, by four ,
o'clock next . morning. At tout hour the,
weather being cool, but clear as a bell, the
lookout sighted a silting vess?!' lights dead
ahead. We kept ou pur coarse, steering S.
W. 53., and rapidiy. came up to the vets?!,,' '
wb.cn proved to be a four-masted conl-ladeu'
schooner, sitting low in thi water., This was
what did us the fatal damage, tbe tcbooner
being so low that 6be punched a bole in the
steamer below tbe water line. Sh t wts steer
ing N. E. by N.. and skimming along theso..
Second Officer Alf. .Nelson wus on deck, but
paid very lit tlr attention to the stranger,
although she was very near, feeling confi
dent we would pass her. 'Io make sure, be
ordered tbe steamer pass to starboard; and
tbe helm was put down, when the schuouer
did the same. Both vessels swung together,
and before headway could be lessened or the
wheel thrown over, we came together witn a
crash so heavily that tbe steamer's progrep
was stopped. At first we thought we hud
escaped - injury, wbile tbe crash of the
schooner headway made us fearful that she
was going down. Cipuiu Januey shouted
to her crew to come aboar.t, but tbey said
tfiey were all right, and whm tha vessels
swung apart she continued ou her way.
'A tew moments later, Engineer Hayden,
who was investigating, discovered a large ,
hole in tho steamer's port bow, below tne
water line, and gave tbe alarm that tbe Bhip
would -not float bat a few moments more.
Captain Janney orderedall hand to the boat.-;.
There was no time to gee anytntng, either
clothes or provision!". We who were saved
Jumped into a boat, wbileadozm or moro
got ou tbe life-raft, excepting myself, Quar-
lermastor Fred. Oikoh,' Engineer Hoyden and
two seamen, wbo too to. tbe rigging. Tne '
remainder took to the other boats. Fifteen
minutes otter the collision the steamer' rail
was under water. The ship's boat then ap
proached, and wo were ail taken, one at a
time, off the mast, except Engineer Hayden,
who was so exhausted that, while attempt
ing to pass a life-liue under ins arms, he lull
into the sea and was drowned before he
could be hauled aboard, v He was tbe last to
leave tbe steamer, only tbe tops of whose
masts remain above the water. All Tho
others, I bop?, will u tiioateiy be rescued,
although when we got clear of the wreck tnu
raft could not be seen. The night was still
dark, however. . At sunrise, after being half
frczjn, we were picked up by Captain Cur- -tis,
of New Haveu, bound tor Providence.
AU of us lose all our ciothes and considera
ble money. The schooner committed tbe
fatal error wben 6he swerved from her orig
inal coarse, wben it was our duty to got out
of the way.
The purser and other Manhattan survivors
wbo were on the life-raft wer picked up by
the schooner Charles H. Tuttle, Captain i vs,
bound from Baltimore to Providauco. IU L
C. W. Hammoxd, of Cowim Station,.
Ky., turned a fine-blooded" uiaro, valuo.1
at 500, a jd a large os iato the same
enclosure. The two' animals La 1 boon .
together soveral times before, bit sun
soon as thej en ered the lot on this pnr
ticulor ooiaslon, they rus'ied at eacli .
other. To or three firm hands -fc era
rresentand attempted to sepa ate them,
but narrow.y escaped serious injury
endfai ed in the endeavor. The mars
kick xl the ox in the sio wiUi both fee ,
nearly stunniDg him, but the Jatte: re
covered and goied the mare t ao or thre
times. Both fought with, the greatest
fury. The mare-both kiaked and bit,
tearing the - flesh' from- the ot -wi h her
teeth, while she in turn 'Was' raked again
aid again by the ox's eharp boras. ' At
last-tbe os plunge 1 his horn almost
entirely through;; te 'thick fart of the
fare's heck. The blow. was fa'al, but
'as the mare stiiggere 1 her weight broku
the ox's horn snort of,. and he fell aid
dlel with it. in. her .body. The ox was
BOftlly hurt .thaii h.died in the aftor
udon. ?
WHO IS KING IN SAMOA?
Slataafa and JtaUetoa Elected King
and Tire King-, aud Vice Versa.
Notwitbstauaiog the provisional election
held at .Apia, Samoa,' by the natives last
month, which resulted in th choice of
Mataofa as King and Malie'oi as Vice-King,
the followers of Taroasese. List week elvctt-ti
Malletoaes King aud Tauiaseso as Vice
King. All foreign residents of Apia are anxio:
to have the question as to who shall bo ru r
of Samoa setLlel by the three nations rp;'i
sented in tbe rocen lJerun conference. Ui
selection of. Matoata last inuntn wan a rcr?
temporary arrangement, nnd the mitiv ".
look to th three powers to sottU thscl.:: .
cnlty for tb(Ti.
There b K'nn no trott 'n'lmj tha r
tivea rei"''U' '7, tul rcjv: N Vi.r out!;
h.jre a i T' 'vi .,.1'