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NO. 35. THE NEWS. ' The sheet mill of the Brooks Iron. Com pany, at Birdsboro', Pa., closed clown in con sequence of the strike of 150 nailers. An epidemic of typhoid feirer prevails in North' ern Berks county, Pa. -Hon: Philip W. WcKinney toolt, the oath of oflbe at Gov eruor of Virginia, and J. Hoge Tyler quail- fi-.nl ai lieutenant governor, Elipbalet Kimball, a veteran of the Texan Army of Independence,- diod at Hartford, Ct, aj;od ninety years. The oity of Boston has con'ractel with Henry Hudson 'Kitson, the sculptor, for a bronze statue of Admiral Farragut to cost 123,500. Daniel M. Bow. , man, a well-known, Chicago business man, ft 11 off a train near Louisville, Ky., and was instantly killed. The steamship Strabo, at New York from Rio, reports that the Bra gilian flag has been changed three times since the revolution. The Liberty Silk Works iu New York city was destroyed by fire, and several other manufacturing concerns were budly damaged. - Losses aggregate 1323,000. .P The Sheldon Axle Works of Wilkesbarre Pa., employiug over one thousand hand', has been purchased by an English syndicate. A mail pouch was robbed at Lyoohburg.Va.; ' of valuable letters, and three men have been arrested in connection with the theft. Charles King, aged jpne hundred and nine years, and probably the oldest man. in New England, celebrated New Year's day by a reunion of ' forty of h:s desendants, at his home, in Middl ton, Miss,- Miss Cather ines Servls, of tiridgetowu, Mo,t eloped with Alexander Vest, son of UuitJd S ate Senator Vest.- Hon. Henry JL Fierson, chancellor of the regents of the University of tha State of New York, died suddenly at his residence, in Albany. Th Ohio senatorship contest is becoming lively, with Calvin S. Brice ap parently leading the race. Paul Young, aged twenty-two years who had been suffer ing from tnfluenzi, committed suicide, at Canton, Ohio. The British stermer ' In diana, at Liverpool, from Philadelphia, was damaged by collision and lost 115 bead of cattle overboard. The Irflaenzaor la grippe, has attacked a number of Northern cities, and in some of, , i bes nearly every family is affected. Miss Dol:Ie Brown, of Mid Centre, K Y., died while ( kneeling in prayer.-Red Tendall mill Choctaw Pete were shot 'an t killed in TisUwawo, Li lian Territorry," while terror-; iz vz th residents, by Winchester Frank, t he crack shot. Alexander Hamilton, a grandson of the first Secretary of the treas ury, is dead. Engineer War,r and Benja min Lent z wi re held responsible by a coro net ' jury for the railroad accident at Laury'd Pa. James P. Wright, a Jetfcr-carrier in the Kiclinioud Fostoflia.,. is charged with ro bin thb.inails. Governor Richardson of South Carolina, has offered a reward for the B iruwell lynchers. Dr. J, C. Black bum, a v.teran Georgia journalist, is dead.' Mr6. Erwin and her two daughters were ftsph xiated in a. San Franciwo hotel.-M. G. Patterson, of TJecotur, III., is missing. It ja feared he has been murdered. The time ly interference of officer Haiiiuao.of Chicago t revented James Lerilz from killing his wife. Home thieves are operating successfully in Ibe counties in Middle Tennessee. The employes of Carnegie's' Homestead Steel Wurks will receive an advance in wages of, about i cf ntsper ton.- Otto Bets, a lith- r7 committed suicide in Rochester, N. V - The dissolution of the Western Passen ger Association will be followed by a war of rates.- Gertrude Rapp, granddaughter o. the founder of the Economite Society, died u-Ecouomy, Pa, Jacob Gre-rory, adts- p.-rato, shot andkllied Adolphus Griffiths at h country dance in MeDonal county, Mo. Miss Lucy Womble.a young school teach er of Goldsborj, N. G, committed suicide, Elward Wise of Pleasant Valley. Va.. incidentally shot and killed himself.-Mr;, Geo. W. thilds was presented by the Welsh citizens of Philadelphia with a white marbl statuette of Marguerite. The Geneial Term of Ibe Fifth Department in New York has banded down a decision which deolarei tlw law providing for the execution of crim inals by electricity constitutional. Marcel Bernier, who was the first white child born in Washington, then Oregon, ter ritory, died at Prairie, Lewis county, that state, aged sixty-nine years. Three lives were lost and several persons seriously in jured in a tenement-house Are in San Fran cisco. Governor Goodell, of New Hamp shire, has issued a proclamation to all county and city off cers to more vigorously enforce the Prohibitory laws. The National Build ers' Association, at its coming meeting, will take steps to oppose ibe eight-hour movement- A mob of, white men raided the jail at Barn welt Court House, 8. C, and shot to death eight hegroe prisoners. Wro. Major, of Mount Vernon, Mich,, murdered bis wife, daughter i.and granddaughter. The United American Miners in tiu Con nellsville region will take steps to oust the Slavs and Huns from that region. I, Mon arch,' financial secretary - of the Turners' Building and Loan Association of Minneap olis, is short about . 12.3,000 in his accounts, and ha disappeared. Miss Susan Stan wood, aged twenty-six years, a sister of Mrs. Blaine, died at Augusta. Chu Fey," a young Chinese merchant of New York city, has been arrested charged with swindling' people' out of f 30,000. There was a largo increase in the number of deaths in New York, last week from pulmonary diseases. V John Tembletoo Coolidge, president of the Columbian Bank of Boston, died with ; the "grippe", and the peculiar roalada is be coming almost as elarmiug in this country as in Europe. Eleven persons were killed and several injured in the wreck of a pas senger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near White Sulphur Springs.'- Tne contract for t'ae organ for Talmage's new tabf-rnacle ia Brooklyn has ben awarded to the firm that btiilt the old one. It 17M liaVc MTS i V"' And 119 arid it ia aalw it will be the litrg.st ever buiit,, , Tho Present State of Trade ' Not Satisfactory. Tlie movement or Indian Corn and Flonr Heavy Hog Products I7n-" ettlcl Failures in the United States and Canada. Special " telegrams to - BradstreeVa show that general trade has been much quieter, even : than is customary at this season, in jobbing circles, owing to the observance ef holiday ceremonies, to the prolonged mild weather and to the interference of stock taking. In California there have been only six fair days within a month and trade is much depressed by continued rains The movement of Indian corn and flour is heavy, and the lack of railway ears at Western dis tributing centers t ) meet demands made upon railway companies f or'freigbt room on old business remains as cont-picuous as last week. - -. , ' " Wholesale trade has been quiet. Retail trade during the holidays has been disap pointing in I uts, woolens, and other, lines of beary goods. Country road wavs are heavy. Special returns to BradstreeVa show that the wool an t woolen goods trades have suf fered thrte times as he ivy financial losses from failure in 189 as they did in 13SS. The total of such failures iu the United States is seventy-two this year, against fifty-seven lust year, and of iiabilit.es $10,443,000, as compared with $8,637,000 in lmi, and of assets $7,033,000 against $1,970,0 JO a year ago. ----- Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat), both coast p, for thi week continue heavy, aggregating 2 251,634 bushels against 2,873, 531 bushels lass week and 1,229,141 bushels iu the last week of Decracer, 1888. Toe total shipped abroad July 1 to date is 52,417, 2i6 bushels, against 51,230,000 bushels last year, and 71,500,000 bushels in a like portion of 1887. , All cereals declined this week. Flour has shaded on free offerings and reports of heavy shipments. Wheat markets abroad are very dull, and prices here are down Q, In dian corn on a heavy movement from the interior, has been very active, with prices 2i23 lower. The use of corn lor fuel in tbe Yv tern States, with coal at 20c and corn at 15c per bushel, is extending. Oats shared in the depression of corn to the extent of ao. Hog products have been unsettled auu depressed in sympathy with the West, lard and pork noticeably so. ' . : Business failures repsrted to BradslreeVs number 237 in the United tStites tuis week, against &ij last week and S34 this week last year,' Canada bus 3J this week against 34 last week. The totii of failures in the United States, Jan. 1, ISS'.l, to date, is 11,590 against 10,416 in 1888. , The disturbing political and financial news from Brazil, coupled with the decline in Rto exchange, checked trading in coffee und price t.nded 2535 points lower. On a re stricted movement refined sugar is lower.'- WORK AND WORKERS. The Delvirmar Bilk Association has been oriraoized in W llmington, DeL , witu $50,000 capital, to conduct (be various brancnes of ads: culture. A silk farm for this purpose will be established near Wilmington. Last week a charter was issued at Harris- burg, Pa., to the Greensburg Steel Company of Greeusourg.' Uapical $10J,000. The di rectors are Kotiert U. Jamison, A. C. Isaacs, J. Clark Williams, Thomas Doaahoe and Jobn Kuhues. H. Belmer & Co., the Cincinnati Barb Wire Fence Company and others have incor porated the Ohio Valley Steel Company of Cincinnati, with a capital stock of $400,000, to manufacture rods, steel wire, wire mats and barb wire. Thera are 196 women operators in the operating room of the Western Union in New Yurie. a this room a husoaud and wite are warning side by side. They are perfectly matched iu s.till, but tin in an gets $13 more a month than the woman. Tiie furnaces at the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company, at Columbia, Pa., whicn have been idle for mrea years, are beiug repaired to be put iu bloat immediately. Thoy are among the largest furnaces in the State. Messrs. Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of Pitts burg, Pa., will give fcioumeru Bessemer pig iron a tnuh Recently, it is reported, 2.U00 tons ot this material was ordered from a Talladega (Ala) lurnace company, and at the Homestead vVorRs the pig will ue given a practical test. The arrival of this iron, it is said, will be the first considerable quantity oi the Southern article that has beeu uroughl mto that uistnct. 1 In Arkansas the proportion of farmers in d b& in tt-e CJitoa rj&ioa is 75 per cent,, and m the grain and grass region 25 p-r cent. The most of the laoor is performed by the tenant or share-hand farmer. He rents tu land at from $6 to $10 per acre, or works for part of the crop. Ibe risk on him being great, the inercUants score him from 50 to 1U0 per cent.; in other words it costs him two-thirds more to live than if he bad cash. Mr. B. F. Jones, president of the Western Irou Association, has been notified by letter mat the rtceut meeting of the Eastern Iron Association, held in Philadelphia, a commit tee tiad been appo.iited to meet with a sim ilar committee to be appointed by the West ern Association and cousider the revision of the card of extras now in usj by the two bodies. The idea has met with much favor in Pittsburg, and io is very probaule that a conference will be arranged. Secretary . Weeks of the association, baa been instructed to take the necessary steps to have a meet ing. BULLIES CATCH A TARTAR. Winchester Frank Itltls the World of m Pair of Raseals. - Word comes from the Indian Territory that two notorious Indian desperadoes, named Red Tendall and Choctaw Pete, heavily load ed with tanglefoot, took possession of the town of Tlshwawa and carried things with a hlh hand. After nearly killing the town marshal, when he attempted to arrest them, they emptied a drug stori, and tried to ride their horses into the hotel. . At this juncture a well-armed stranger io k) p to the hotel and dismounted. The outlaws ordered him away, and tjcut the collar. "his horse. Tne stranger remonstrated, whereupon Choctaw 1VU) covered him with his revolver and or dered Tendall to disarm him. As Tendall ap prouctied, the stranger shot him through the h, srt. A dufl theu occurred betwenu Pete and thr ktraner, and Pete was soot through i, e head-acid killi-d. The stranger offered to Munvnder, , but tht terroria d citizens felt like liivm.' ban a vote of thauks, and j. tri takinK oiimer he leisurely rode away. vt uj.lond to be . Winchester Frank, n ctuwb shot at' d reuowoed bcou ABOUT : NOTED PEOPLE. . Bronson Howard, the play wright, is going to Europe at once. He may be absent two or three years. Count Thomas A. Edison says that ha still cares more for business orders, than for for eign decorations. ' . l Rev. George C. Lorimer, D. D., of Chicago who has recently beeu called to a Boston church, was at one time an actor of no mean ability. ' - , . Marshall Wilder, the clever dwarf humor ist, made his first appearance on the stage on the back of Mr. Joseph Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle," Robert Browning is reported to have said to Mrs. James Brown- Potter that be believed that his poems were more fully appreciated in Chicago than anywhere else in tnis coun try.; ' Rev. Robert Collyer, who began life as a blacksmith anl is now one of the most pop ular living preachers, has just entered, his 67th year. "I have never been sick as much as one day in my life," be says. Robert Browning is likely to be the last of the English men of letters (save Tennyson) who will find a grave in Westminster Ab bey. The interment of any more bodies there is opposed on sanitary grouaifcMMw, . Dr. Cronin's life insurance was paid to his widow fast Saturday. The policies were in beneficial companies which, apparently were loth to pay the claim until bis murderers were actually proved to ba guilty. Professor Dilthey ha undertaken the edW torship of several important manuscripts showing Kint's struggle witn the royal cen sor at Berlin in 1793, recently discovered in the University Library at Rostock. Lord Randolph Churchill has fired off a manifesto in favor of aa eight-hour law for a laborer's day's work. His advocacy Is, however, quahded in that if be finds the measure uupjpular he will not defend it. Francis Murphy the temperance' apostle, reoeutfy expressed bis contempt for prohi bition by saying that "the people of Iowa were trying to change the Lord's prayer so as to make it read, 'Our Fatuer wuo art in the Legislature,' " - Edward Strauss, the brother of Johano, the famous waltz writer, is coming to this country with bis orchestra. He is said to be a magnetic leader. He uses his bow for a baton or to scratch a note here and there just to show his men bow it ought to be done. Airs. William Astor, the unquestioned leader of New York society, recently said that well-bred American women are dressing more and more plainly every year in puolio places. ''Jewels," she thinks, "should never ue worn b afore evening and never on the street" ; - ' T. DeWitt Talmage is rich. He makes more than any otner lecturer and lectures of tener. He is up for the highest bidder and inexperienced managers of lyceums .take great risks on him, but the Doctor has an invariable rule. "Settle before the lecture and avoid misunderstanding." Edward Bellammy, author of "Looking Backward," and touuder of the Nationalise party, is described as a wiry-looking man, fetal m bis thirties. There are a few strands of silver in his dark: hair, and bis face is illumed by a pair oi brown eyes.. Mr. Bell amy was bqru in the little vidage of Ch.oa pee Falls, Miss.,' where he still lives. CAVE-IN OF AN OLD MINE. A Church and Residences Above It are ltulned. The little town of Plains, Pa., was startled the other afternoon by a cave-in of the sur face over the mines, which, while not affect ing a large area, wrought great destruction. The cave-in was caused by th falling of the roof in the workings of the Mill Creek col liery of the Ddaware and Hudson Canal Company, 400 feet below. , A tout five hun dred square feet of the surface was affected, and in this area stood the large and hand some Roman Cathode Church of the Sacred Heart, the parsonage attached to the church and several small houses. Th j shock came about four o'clock. In the church men were at work putting ingas Xp . They were thrown to thj flxir ana al most, covered with falling planter and debris torn from the walls and ceiling. The front part of the church went down several teet und tbe foundation walls were torn from the superstructure and rent apart in many places. Fortunately tne cliurca is a wooden structure or it would hive tota ly collapsed. The steeple is thrown out .of plumb, and, as ii ball weighing over 2,400 pounds hangs in it. it is greatly feared it will fall. Tbe inte rior is uadly uamaged, the fl iors are split, the walls cracked and t ie piaster torn off. A iargt and costly organ bad just been pus in, which, it is feared, is ruuieu. , The parochial residence is even in worse pligoc Th front portion has dropped live or six feet and tan rear portion is lifted up. The floors and walls are alt split and the rear extension torn from tbe maiu building. Two siuuii frame bouses s;a idin cIojj by, are in the same condition. The road in xront oil ine cburch has dropped nine on Cu feet. DOM PEDRO'S CONSORT DEAD. The x-mpreas of Braail Falls Vie tin to Heart Disease. The ex-Empress of Brazil and wife of Dom Pedro died Saturday, of heart disease at Oporto. It bad been the intention of the im perial family to visit France. The doctors forbade the journey, for fear that excite meat and fatigue would precipitate a crisis. During the morning Dora Pedro went out for a Promenade, and visited the Museum of Fine Arts. He was found there by the Bra zilian consul, who hod been dispatched to hasten his return to the bot;l, because the condition of the Empress had suddenly be come critical. Before Dom Pedro arrived the Empress was d?ad. The remains will be temporarily deposited in a mortuary chapel in tbe Lapa Convent Oporto, and will be afterward taken to Lis bon for interment in i he roval pantheon. The municipal authorities returning in full state from the celebration of tbe King's proclama tion in the cathedral, went to the hotel of the ex-Emperor to offer their condolence, but Dom Pedro was so overcome by the event that be could not receive tbem. The Cardi nal Archbishop of Oporto, also called. Tbe ex-Empress was tbe Princess Theresa Christiana Maria, daughter of Francis I., King of Naples. She mirrled Dom Pedro September 4, 1843, when she wastweuty-oue years ot age, and he but a youth of eighteen. Two daughters were born of this marriage, of whom the elder survives, h Princei-s Isabella, who was born Julv 29, 1845, The Princess Isabella married October 15, 18(14, Louis, Count d' Eu, son of tbe Duke of Ne mours, a d' Orleans by a Saxo-Cotmrg mother. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. By the falling of ascaffo.d at a new building-in Omaha, three men were injured, one, named Fiatis. Wert?, it is believed, fatally. A boiler in Neff Bros.' mill, near Edinore, Michigan, exploded, killing F. Stedman ana injuriuz'John VVa.cb, Charles Saunders and Charles iiowen. - - John P, Jones and William H. Palmer, of Bangor, were found dead in a room ia th Pacitio Hotel, at Bethlehem, Pa. Toey had blown out tbe gas before retiring. . At Diwltt, near Syracuse, N. Y., Sarah Remerett, aged 80 years, and Charlotte Thompson, aged 70, who lived alone together, were found suffocated by coal gas. O je was dead and the other past recovery. Michael Marker, James Hardie and Tug ilson left Alba, Oregon several days ago on foot for a contractor's camp in the Blue Mountains. They have not arrived at tha camp and are supposed to have perisned iu tbe snow, wbicn is irom eighteen inohes to four feet deep. Scarlet fever and diphtheria are prevalent in Cinopbsli county, South Dakota. Forty cobe bave been r p ji t jd, : twenty-six of wuich proved fatal. Several deaths nave aUo oeen reported from Mitchell, Huron and Ab rdeeu ounties. Some of the public scboois have been closed. " A telegram from Yaquin City, Oregon, says that tbe steum schooner Frauonp, after bang towed over tue bir, was struck by a heavy sea, which carried overboard Chief Engineer Pugsley, a cbin by and three sailors, namei Frank Johnson, Onarles Dick inson and William Brown. Tne chief engi neer and the cab-u boy were rescued, but tue others were drowuid. Mrs. Mary Eiropa, aged 20 years, died in New York from tho effects of pans green. On Sunday night she became thirsty and aiose from her ted to get a drink. She went to a closes to get a cup, and in the dark took by mlstaue one containing the poison, which had been kept for roaches. Withoutstriking a light she filled the cup wita water and drank the content Tbe latest reports from the Angel's Camp disaster, near San AhdreaB, C-tlifornia, u that tbere are at least 17, and probably 19, men buried in the mine. Tbere are little hopes o ever recovering the bodies. Tbe miners are now at work taking out oar, and tbe work of developing the mine will proba bly be resumed vtry suon. It is probable that the work will be directed to the spot wnere the bo Jits are buried. PORTUGAL'S NEW KING. Carlos I. Proclaimed With Grand ' Ceremony in JLIsbon. The ceremony of proclaiming his Majesty Carlos I, asking of Portugal and Algarves, took place at Lisbon. Tbe weather was cloudy, but this had no effect upon the crowds of enthusiastic people, who thronged the streets through which thj King passed on his way to the Palace of Necessidados. The Kiug left tbe castle at B.lem at eleven o'clock, and the journey to the palace, where the Kiug took tue oatn of office before tbe Cortos, was made witnout the occurrence of any incident of an unfavorable character. ibe royal oortege proceeding to the cere mony ot inauguration consisted of eight state carriages. Tne route was held by liuea of troops for tbe whole distance, and all the population was in the streets or ac the win dows, Both houses of the Cortes were as sembled in tbe palace of Nosna Senhora De Necessidades awaiting the King, and, im mediately upon his coming, tue president of the Cn a ruber of Peers administered the oatn of office. Theu tbe grand ensign . of the kingdom was raised, and the King was pro claimed from tue ba'.cony. Tbe enormous throng of people responded with enthusiastic cheers. ' From the palace the royal party proceeded to the Cburca of Santo Domingo, where tue "Te Deum" was sung. Thence the party went to tbe town nail, and the keys of tbe city were tbere delivered to his majesty in sign of submission. Tbe king returned the keys,and graciously thanked the mayor forhis assurances of loyalty and fidelity. Then tbe president of tbe couucil, bearing tbe standard of the city, announced the proclamation to the people, and salvoes of artillery, cheers and greetiBgs concluded the ceremony. The whole diplomatic corps was present, and walked toethr. Tbe officers of the United States tquadroa also walked in the proces sion. Telegrams from the provinces an nounce the greatest enthusiasm throughout the country . ELECTROCUTION GOES. A Decision In the Hemmler Case Net tles the Qnestlon. - Tbe General Term of the Fifth Depart ment in the New York handed down a deci sion in the Kemmler case with a long opinion by Judge Dwight in the course of which he says: ' ' "Tbe light of the scientific evidence in this case is sufficient, as we think, to remove every reasonable doubt that tbe passage of a current of electricity of a certain well-determined intensity through tbe vital parts of the body, under chosen conditions of contact and resistance, roust result in instant death. "If tbe question were of tbe advisability in tbe charge of the mode of inflicting death by capital punishment, the discussion might be prolonged. 1 As we are confined to tbe ques tion of constitutionality, we deem further discussion unneccessary. Tbe order dismis sing the writ ot habeas corpus and remand ing the prisoner must be affirmed." , ; MARKETS. Balttmork Flour City Mills, extra. $4.25 a$4.60. Wheat Southern Fultz, 79alr2: Corn Southern White, S623 cts, Yellow 44a45c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 28a31cts. Rve Maryland & Pennsylvania 57a00cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 13 00a$13 50 ;btraw-W heat,7.5Ua$ii. 50; Butter, Eastern Creamery, '.Ma2Sc., near-by receipts 10a20cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream.: 11 allK cts., Western, 10al0 cts; Egs 28 a2il; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la$2.00, (ood Common, 3 00a 4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Oood to fine red,8a$y; Fancy, 10alii - , " New York Flour Southern Common to fair extra, $2.50a$2.t5: Wheat-No 1 White 85 a5U; Rve State. 56a5'J; Coru Southern Yeliow,S9)40X.Onte-Whlte,Htate2yXa28H eta. Butter State. 12a 23 cts. Cheese estate, tSX10K cts.; Eggs 24&'M4 eta. 1'HiLADELPHiA Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.204.75; WheAt Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 8Sa93; Rye Pennsylvania SSatWc; Cora-Southern Yellow, 37a37cts. Oats 29a3lK cts.; ButterState, la25 cts.; Cheese N. ST. Factory, ilay,1-,' cts.' Eggs State. 24o25 cts. CATTLE, Baltimore Beef, 4 12a4 25; Sheep $3 00 a5 00. Hogs $4 755 00. ntw York Beef $ S0a5 20;Sboep-$3 50 a5 50; Hogs S&70a4.10. - East Liberty Beef tl 2.jai 50; Sheep 15 00a5 25; Hogs $3 73a'3 WO. Eleven Lives Lost in a Rail . .road Wreck. About Twenty. Five Passengers Seri ously . Injured Spreading Bails ; Happosed to be the Cause. . ' One of the most disastrous acoideats ever occurring on tbe Chesapeake and Ohio rail road happened at 7:30 the other morning a short distance west of White Sulphur Springs, Va. The fast west-bound express train was wrecked by spreading rails and six cars were telescoped. , Eleven people were killed and 23 more or less seriously hurt. The first pas senger coach, which was well filled,' was crushed to pieces most of the killed and in jured being In it. " The wreck did not take firs and all the injuries were due to crushes and bruises. The train was behind time, and running 40 to 50 miles per hour. The conductor says it was only running 35 miles, but otners say 40 or 50. The wreck occurrdd on the fill over - Jary's Run, which is 190 feet higb, and said to be the highest nil fa ,tbe United btates. . All of the lulled were in tha smoking car, which was telescoped by another c-r. Every person in the smoker was killed excepting tbe conductor, who had his leg broken. He will probably recover. , Dr. W. P. Caldwell, the only physician in White Sulphur, repaired to tne scene of the accident aud uid all in his power to alleviate the suffering, but could only aid one person at a time. After some time a number of doctors along the line arrived and worked faith tutly among the suffering. Ladies turned out ea tnasse and, tow much cannot be said in praise of thoir noble efforts. Among hi injifred were several of tbe Karl Gard ner Company; one will probably die. One noteworthy feature was that no ladies nor children were injured. " SHOT TO DEATH. Eight Defenseless STen Killed in . Noiitlicrn Town. A mob of several hundred men raided the jail at Barnwell Court-house, S. C, at two o'clock in the morning, overpowered the jailer, and took out eight negro prisoners charged with murder. These were Ripley Johnson and Mitchell Adams, charged with murder .ng a man named Hefferman, and six others, charged with i he murder of young Martin. The prisoners were taken out of town and shot to death. The jiiler was tied and f6rceJ to accompany Ue lynchers. Many negroes are collected at the scene of the lynching, and more trouble is anticipated. The following statement, signed by Ro' ert Aldrick, Mike Brown, George H, Bates, Win. McNab and James A. Jenkins, some of the most prominent-and influential citis ns of Barnwell, has besn sent to the News and Courier in explanation of the horrible bu ch ery ot defenseless men at that placet , In consequence of tbe lynching which took place at Barnwell, the uuderigned were re quested by tbe sheriff to act as an advisory, committee to counsel such stps as may be deemed best ta secure order. We at first pro- ceeded to investigate, and deem it right to put the publio in possession of tbe facts of tbe tccurrivoce, aid caues which we believe led r- it. On the 2Q.h or October last, John H. HtfTerman, a prominent young merchant and a brave, public-spirited citizen, was shot down and killed in Barnwell by negroes. Threats of lynching were freely made, but this was deverted by cooler counsel. At tbe last term of the court the grand jury found true bl U against his murderers and acces sories, but the cases were continued. On tbe VJA of December James S. Brown, a planter of Fish Pond township, was shot to death on his own premis s by negroes without the slightest justification or excuse. . 4 :.j Oa the 18tb' December, while going from his more at Martin's Station to his bouse, a mile away, Mr. Robert Martin, a young man, was i olio wed by a negro and shot in the back with a gun loaded with slugs, on the publio road which passes through his father's plan tation, in hearing of ntgroes and whose houses wera all around the spot where he was shot, and who udmitted that, they heard the shot and bis o 'Kb when shot, and none of them went' to bis relief, and' none of them went to bis body, although it lay in the road all night aud for several hours after daylight in plain view of them all. These te vera! brutal murders of white men by negroes caust d a state of indignant resentment among our people tbat can oe better imagined than described, but cannot be imagined by anyone not present in our midst and standing. This explanation of tbe causes which led to the lyuulung do?s not, in the opinion of abiding t-itiz ma, justify the atrocious murder of eight de;etiseurss human beings. The greatest in dignation is expressed here at the brutality of the deed. All u quiet at Barnwell, although trouble has been anticipated, and may jet come. LA GRIPPE'S WORK. It.Causca n Naieldc Increased Mor. tnllty Everywhere. Canton, Ohio Paul oung, aged 29, son of Coh J. J. Young, president of tbe Bolton Steel Company, of this city, committed suicide by shooting himself through the riht temple with a revolver. He bad been suff.r mg with influenza during the past few days, and, the doctsrs tbink, did it while tempo rarily insane from brooding over his sick Two Deatbs In New York. New York. Two policemen have died of pneumonia lollowiug attacks of tbe pre vailing "rip." There were 161 death re ported in tbe city, 5G ot which were from pneumonia, 21 from phthisis and t from bronchitis. Tne death rate, owing to the pre valence of tbe ibflunxi, is unusually high. Lord Sal s!ury Better. Losdon. Lord Salisbury, who is suffering from the infiueiisa, is makiug favorable profres toward recovery. Barrardo's Homes for Destitute and Orphan- Children at Stepney are Visit 1 with great severity by tbe influenza tSo alno is lue Jesuits' College at Canterbury. Tbere are tuauy cases in London. .. . , . OTstny Deaths in Npnin. Madrid The mortality here from tbe in fluoi.zi is vt-rj Kreat, but there are indica tions that the malady is decreasing. Cay arre, the tenor, ta not expected to recover The disease is spreading iu the province- And has assumed a very severe form at Barcelona. , , Spreading: in Italy. , IioMK. Tbeinfluet.Ba wsureading in Italy. Is has appeared at Vrjn, Medina and Modena. The pupils of the milit ary school at Moiena have ben sent home. Temporary Hospitals Ilullt. ' Berun The rapid iucrease iu the num ber ot oaaes of l;itlji.z at Wuraborg, Ba varia, has rendered necessary the vrect'n of several tmpurjry hospitals. Tiutj re 40, IWO cases ot the uiMase in Munich- f he eoi- dvmia Is spread:r ia Dresden. CABLE SPARKS. ' The miners of Belgium hare Inaugurated a general sfrliteV . t: The Kin of Portugal and the Czar are affected by influenza. j Herr Guttenstein, publio prosecutor of Baden, has declared himself a socialist. The National Congress of India has agreed upon a plan of political organisation in that country. . Tbe Fortuzese secretary of war visited the Chicago, the flagship of tbe American squad ron of evolution, at Lisbon. - ; - Influenza' continues its ravages in Paris and other European cities. In the former cit p one-third of tbe population is prostrated. Portugal, Germany and Italy will protest against tbe scheme of tbe provisional gov ernment of Brazil for the naturalization of foreigners. . : ' ; The American legation in Lisbon will give a banquet in honor ot Admiral Walker and the otber officers of tbe American squadron of evolution. , - - . The ministry of Japan has been recon structed in order to introduce European metbods in a larger degree into the legal and administrative system of that country. Herr Eblers, with a detachment of Major Wiseman's corps, has left Panganl for Mount Kilima-Njaio tor the purpose of presenting Prince Moschi with gifts from Emperor Wil liam. Tbe provisional government of Brazil has ordered the confiscation of the property of the ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, and forbidden tbe imperial family to return to that country for two years. Count Karolyl, formerly Austrian ambas sador to Great Britain and Germany, was found dead on his estate at Pressburg, Hun gary with his neck broken. He had gone bunting on horseback. : Cipher cablegrams to a Lisbon newspaper state that there was a revolt in Rio de Ja neiro, Brazil, in favor of the monarchy, and that it took two days' fighting before the forces of the provisional government were able to disperse tbe monarchist!. BURNED IN THEIR HOME. Eleven Persons Perish in Blaaing Dwell lug. A family named Gross, consisting of the parents and eight children, with a visitor, were consumad in a burning building at ' Hurontown, Mich. Theodore Gross returned from a dance nearby at two o'clock. Half hour later a son, - Theodore, Jr., returned from the Huron Stamp Mills,where he is em ployed. He went into the housa and to bed. 1 Shortly after he was awakened by hit brother , Nicholas, who beerd screams coming from an adjoining room, occupied by their three sisters and three little brothers. They ran to tbe partition door, and found ths rooms mass of flames. Smoke and fire were ascend- -log the stairway, and th j boys escaped by jumping tbrougb a window; They reached tne ground seriously cut by glass and in a setm-nude condition. - One uttetnpted to en ter tbe bouse on the ground floor, where the ' father, mother and the children slept, but was driven back by the flames that en veloped the building. It was impossible for the spec tators, who quickly gatuered, to save the in mates. They were compelled to stand by and bear their agonizing cries. Ia the course , of three hours a searching party went over ', tbe ruins and discovered the charred remai ns of eleven bodies, distinguishatls only by the size of the boues. They were gathered in a sleigh box and deposited in the public halt. Tbe victims were: Theodore Grots, aged fifty S)ven;his wife, forty-seven; Catharine, Jobn, Toney, Mary, Lizzie, Josepn, Michael, lenie, . all children of Mr. and Mrs. Gross, and Lena Erbst, of Lake Linden; a guest.- The ages of the young peop.e range from two to twenty two years. Tbere is no reliable information as to how the fire started. Tbeodore Gros, Jr., says that it mibt have originated from tbe lamp tbat be thinks he extinguished tbe light before he went to . bed. . THere are r amors that the dreadful calamity occurred . through tbe carelessness of tbe parents, who are alleged to bave returned home intoxi cated from the dance. " ' , - THROUGH A BROKEN . SfAN. Collapse of an TJiiflulshed Bridge in . Pennsylvania. , ' A horrible accident happened on the Mar ket street bridge in Williamsport, Pa. t a few days ago. In putting up the fourth, span of the bridge one of the hangers which, uphold the flooring and Are suspended from the front trusses above, was not finished by. bolting to the flooring, on account of th nuts not fitting, but was temporarily ' bus' pended by a chain, when a lumber wagon,, driven by Burt Thompson, attempted to cross the chain parted, allowing one end of! the heavy-iron girder which it supported:; and about forty feet of the flooring to fait into the river. The horses, wagon, driver! and six or seven men who were on this part' of the bridge fell with it iutj the river. Others fortunately grasped the part still standing and saved themselves. ' ' William Somers, one of the bridge work men, was struck by tbe wagon in his descent and is dead. John Daley, another of the .workmen, had his leg broken. . Frank Cable, tne , jcoremao, nas a oros:en wrist uert rr i . : . . i . x nocupson, ujo uri ver, was oot seriously in jured. The horses were drowned. BOILED TO DEATH IN A BATH, An Old Han Left to Die n a Tnb of llot Water. - A peculiarly horrible death ocenrred at Kokomo, Ind., which created a sensation. George Tykle, an eccentric character, has bees running a bath-bouse for several years, and claiming a wonderful efficacy in his baths in the cure of all kinks of maladies. Among his patrons was John Clarke, an old farmer living near town.and who was afflicted with paralysis. He has been for some months taking one or two baths a week at Tykla's rooms, and Friday evening Tykle put hira into a bath-tub at eight o'clock, and let t him to himself, while he engaged in revelry with some companions. Tykle finally went to bed and forgot his patient whom he had left in a hot bath, with the gas burning beneatb tbo bath-tub. He found Clarke the next day ttiIL in the water; with the skin all cooked oil hia body, as well as portions ot flesh, lie was literally boiled to death, being powerless to help himself out of his awful situation. II has a family of grown children, and is atouii seventy years okL ' . . William K. Vanderbilt's stables on It'.a es tate at Oakdale, L. I., which were d.',4uo..l by Richard M. Hunt, have just been com pleted, at cost of WjQ.OiW. They are ti.l. i with thorough-bred aad manned enure) ly EDglUh men and boys. Tb t urnitiliiu . tv t ar,s possible, are fiugftsh also. Ttxro is kitchen for the men aud a msss-roo.n. ; 1 the horses there is a bath, and a it::-'. -ring under 'glass. AltotUor thpra sr- - ' finer stables in A menu and lew w: pujs tten in Europe.
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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