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'

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