Published Bf Roanokb Publishing Co.
Thomas Husoic, Busizrxsa Majjaqib
VOL. 1.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1890.
NO. 40.
. THE NEWS. "
T'. - ' . A
I A "Wichita, Kaa., Judge decided that corn
as fuel -P.trick Ryan was killed and five
other Injured bv th n! rtilnn n? still in
' Lima, O F. A. Walton, money clerk in
"o ractnc Express Company's office at Dal
las, Tex., has skipped wit i $33,000. Cash
ier TV. E. Crnulev, of the Fanner' Bank at
Sullivan, Jnd., get fire to a barn and then cut
fcis throat The Bar Association of New
. York tendered a reception to the Justices of
the Uuited States Supreme Court. -Portland,
5fe. was visited by destructive fire.
Three wharves and the buildings thereon, a
dob-house and a vessel were destroyed. 7-
' ?te bodies of Mrs. and Miss Tracy were
buried in Rosk Creek Cemetery. ; A large
concourse or people attended the funeral. The
members of the Cabinet; except Mr. Blaine,"
' acted as pall-bearers for Mrs. Tracy. ' The
President attended the funeral. Secretary
Tracy, though weak, was present, and his son
Frank, who came near fainting. Acting
Secretary Batcholler appointed John Curtis,
of Peterson, N. J., a speoial inspector of
eoBtoms for duty on tbelsthmusof Panama.
A deal is being perfected in Pittsburg
whereby the control of the edge-tool trade
3f the United States will be raonopolizad and
parcelled out to differeat'coucerns. -7 Gran
ville Moreuus, the newly elected president
ui tue winaow uises workers Association
of North America has .resigned. During
a gale in Eimira, N. Y, , Kate Sullivan, a
domestic, was crushed to death by an out
building falling on her. John E. Keyburn
jias been nominated by the Pennsylvania
Republicans to succeed Judge William D.
Kelley. "-By the upsetting of their boat,
"James Bury, Fred Ypung and Frank Chap
noon, of , Somora, Cot., were drowned.
.John Halcomb, a Kentucky postmaster,
while in Jersey City, wes victimized by a
green goods man, fired at the' swindler, and
was then arrested and, fined ten dollars. ,
, , Th centennial of the; organization of the
(United States Supreme Court was observed
With interesting exercises in the Metropoli
tan Opera House, New; York City; Presi
dent Harrison and members of tho Cabinet
did not attend because of the deaths in the
families of SecretariesTracy and Blaine. Ex
President Cleveland,' Justice Field and oth
brs, made addresses. ' Alt the justices o: the
Supreme Bench were present.- -Eli Jones,
the widely known Friend preacher and phil
nnthropist, died in South China, Maine.aged
eighty-three years.. Litigation regarding
the tomb of Mary . Washington will be re
sumed by Messrs. Colbert and Kirtley in the
(Fredericksburg court.- -The Abraham Cox
'& Co, stove works at Lansdate, Pa., were
destroyed by fire. Loss $75,000. - The New
York Presbytery has adopted an overture
to the general assembly inviting the co-opera-'
tioti of alt Presbyterian churches to formu
late a short, simple creed. Teller George
!A. Dinniston, Jr., of . the National Bank of
Orange County, N. Y., proves to hava been
a defaulter to ins extent 6' $20,003. We
Werchon, was instantly killed at Roelling's
wire nU.ls, Trenton, N. J., while trying to
straighten out a tangle in electric light wires.
Despondency over an attack of. the grip
led Ed win Wilder Goodell, aged twenty
year?, second son of General Arthur A.
Goodell, to shoot himself at bis home in Wor
cester, Mass. Oliver Shuck, a;ed seventy
two years, publisher of the Democratic Press
"a-YorhRa., died of the crip.- The aa
BigueeToTtbe U acnorgan Iron Company, of
Philadelphia, have sued the proprietors of
several New, York gaming, bouses in which
it is charged, Charles B. Wlgton, the embez
zling secretary, lost $51,000,- The wife of
George F. Harding, a millionaire lawyer, has
filed a bill in the Chicago courts for separate
maintenance. Thieves eutercd N. Leon
ards jewelry store at Charleitown, Mass.
and after knocking thi clerk senseless, car
iried off a bag full of watches and jiwelry.
A freight train on the Indiana and W sc
lera Railroad went through a bridge near
JPoorla, IU.,killlng Engineer William Neville,
iFireman C. O'Brien , and vBrakeman R. M.
'Lewis. The gubernatorial contest in the
West Virginia legislature ended in. Fleming,
Democrat, being declared elected by a vote
of 43 to 40. Thomai W arnock, secretary
land auditor of the N. w York Pennsylvania
a id Ohio Riiiroad, died.in Cleveland. A
river pirate was h it dead by a canal boat
captain in New York harbor. Frederick
L. Burnett, of Washington, committd sui
cide in a Philadelphia hotel. -John E.
Holcomb, postmaster of Maiden, Ky., was
was victimised by "green gooJs" men in
'New York, but attempted to shoot one pf
the swindlers in a railroad ferry-house in
Jersey City. The window glass manu
facturers of the West have advanced prices
live per cent -. ' .
. lira Coprdnger, tie eldest daugbtr of S.'Or
retary Blaine, died at her home in Washing
ton. Patrick Hagney, aged forty-three
years, a special oillcor at Pbconixville, Pa.,
was Bhot and fatally wounded toy unknown
pirties. Five biocks of buildings a. Dan
bury, Ct., wero burned. Loss $301,000. -Nathan
C. Barnett, secretary of state of
Georgia, died at Atlanta in his ninetieth
year. Philadelphia brickmakers will de
mand an increase of twenty per cent, in
wages. The dislike of the Polish Catholics
of East Buffalo, N. Y., for the new pastor j
of the Catholic Church developed into a riot,,
in which the women fought like tigresses,
and tried to kill the priest -An explosion
in the Nottingham fhaft of the Lehigh and
V ilkesbarre Coal Company buried five min
ers alive, fatally injured several and badly
burned others. Governor Thayer calls the
Trans-Missouri Trsflin Association to ac
count for not reducing the' freight rates on
corn, and thus relieving, the suffering far
mert Alfred Brown of Westchester, Pa. ,
was arrested for practicing mediclna without
a diploma and for using hoodoo" methods.
A 11-year-old son of Lawyer Flint,'- of
San Francisco, shot himself because he
thought lie oinJ t0 ct a. wtl,:sr-IaS'
DEATH IN A FIRE.
Secretary Tracy's Washington
. , Residence Destroyed, f
Mrs. Tracy KUIed-Kcr Uaiia-htcr and
: Freitfh Maid Lote Ihclr I.Jvcs-
Tho Secretary Injured. .
The residence of Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy,
Secret iry of the United States Navy1, was de
stroyed by fire at quarter before seven o'clock
in the morning. Mrs. DelindaE. Trady.wife
of the Secretary, Mins Mary Tracy, their
daughter, and Josephine Morell, a French
maid, lojfc their lives. Secretary 'iracy was
seriously effected by inhaling smoke, and
his widowed daughter, Hre. Ferdinand Suyt
dam Wilmerding, and granddaughter, Alice
Wilmerding, were bruised In jumping from
a window. Tee bereavement In the family of
a cabinet officer, following; so soon after the
recent deaths in the family of the Secretary
of State, creates profound sympathy for the
administration and practically ends the gay
eties of the social raason m oHIoial circles, it
was announced that the S-cretary might be
considered out of danger if no change for the
worst occurred. - rU K;1;
The house is a three-story -and-basement,
brick, situated on I street,te$ween Connec
ticut avenue and Seventeenth street. Per
tons pausing at seven o'clock siw smoke is
suing from th front windows, and at once
raised an alarm of firs , Tue tire ana police
depirtmentrespunded promptly. The prem
ises were almost concealed by a dense smoke,
which was thickened by a hsavy fog which
was just lifting. It was soon discovered that
the uouse was all a'wlize inside and that the
maiu stairway was burnt, thu3 cutting oil
communication With the sleeping apartments
on the second and, third floors. Several
streams of water: were played on the build
ing, and every effort was nude to check the
d imes and rescue thi inmates. A scene of
the wildest confusion ensued when it was
known tr.at all the members of the lamily
were in the house. -The firemen behaved like
heroes in the emergency, and went through
tire and smoke in searching for thtm ir. the
diiVrent ap-rtment-. , -
Mrs. E nma L. Wilmerding, the Secretary's
diiurfhur, and MUs Alice vvilinerding, his
gi and laughter, forced their way through
thi blinding smoke and jumped from the
second story windows frout La lders were
raised for them, but in their excitement they
fated to see them, t Mrs. Wiluierdin? broke
her left wrist, and was severely, bruised. Her
daughter was badly injured a&out the lower
limbs, but broke no bones. . They both suf
let. d severely from tho shock. They were
ialen at once to the residence of Dr. Baxter,
near by, and restorat.Vjs applied. While this
sad scene was being enacted in the front ot
the house firemen were engaged in the sad
task of removing other members of the fam
ily from the rear. r , : , . ; -
Mra Tracy endeavored to escape the rag
ing element by dropping hemic from her
bedroom window, and iu her effort to de
crease ihetlistii ce to the ground shegrasped
the narrow stone window-silt and lowered
herself as far as thi was able Those who saw
her iu uer perilous position shouted to her to
holil on, hue either she did uot hear or her
strength tailed her, for, after thus hanging
a moment between iito and dath, she fell
1 ovcy feet into an area way before uny thing
Cjutd be done towards rescuing: her or reliev
ing her fall. She was immediately taken to
the house of a neighbor, Mr, Rueem, aud
placed upon a lounge in the sitting-room. She
was pertectly conscious and did not seem to
suffer puin. Occasionally she complained of
an oppression in the neighborhood of her
heart and found a difficulty in breathing.
She talued awhile, coughid slightly, then be
came sileuS. , The physicians luolted at each
othersigniflcantly. Mrs. Tiacy wa dead. Tna
immediao cause of her death was supposed
to be from injuries to her heart sustained in
her fall from the window, which flooded her
lungs with bio jd.' It is said that bad she
delayed her movements a couple of minutes
ladders and mattresses and other means of
safe escape would have been at band. Her
body was yocn removed to the residenca of
Attorney-General Miller, ou Massachusetts
avenue. '. .:
Almost at the same time two bodies ware
taken from the burning building one was
tue Secretary's daughter, Miss Mary, a young
lady, and the other, was that of the Frencu
mala, Josephine Morell. That of the former
was found oy Caief Parris lying on the floor
in the Hecond floor ball, at the head of the
stair. The body was not greatly disfigured
by the fire ; she had evidently died from suf
focation, v The chief lifted the lifeless body
in bis arms, aud although the staircase was
abLze, he brought it safely out into the
street. It is said that Miss Tracy could have
saved herself if her strength bad hetd out a
few minutes longer. , She fell in the hallwy
Ot the second etory,a few yards from the
baturoom, which, if she had reached aud
closed the door, would have insured her
against the fire and smoke until assistance
could have reached her. Of the French
maid little is known cave that her dead body
was found in her room on the top floor of
the house burned beyond recognition. Both
.the toiios of Mis Tracy and her maid were
taken to an undertakers establishment in the
Secretary Tracy himself had a most won
derous escape. He was taken to the retidence
ot Hon J. 0. Bancrots Davis, on H. street,
near eighteenth. . Like all the others he was
overcome in his sleep by the smoke which
ruled tna bouse, and rendered ooinpio ely
helpless. He was discovered in this condi
tion, and with considerable difficulty was re
moved to a place near one of the widows.
Cries for a ladder was quickly answered, and
many willing hands were raised to assist
him to the ground. : He was at once removed
to a neighbor's housa aud was soon sur
rounded by physicians, including Drs. W ales
and Ruth. ' . He was suffering from asphyxia.
The doctors applied artificial means to in
duce respiration and succeeded, after an
hour's work, in restoring him to semi-consciousness.
It was then thought safe to re
move him to Judge Davis's house. He im
proved slowly from that time on and soon
regained consciousness, recognizing friends
who callel to inquire in regard to his condi
tion. Among the first of these were tt
President, the Vice-President end several
members of the cabinet. - .
' Dr. Vv ales, who is one of the physicians in
attendance upon the Secretary, said the Sec
retary was getting along very well, and that
the only danger now to be feared is tnac tne
fmoie m nu iuoga wiu causJ oroiicaius.
Tne Secretary,: ha Baid, was bearing up
bravely in his great affliction. His greatest
anxiety was in regard to his wife, and the
first words uttered by him on regaining con
sciousness was to ure them to s ive'ber iif e.
''Save her I Save herl" he cried piteousiy end
then relapsed into a state of insensibility.
It lasted a short time only, however, and he
again called out to the doctors to leave him
and nave her. He subsequently inquired tor
)ns daughter, and told the doctors that she,
too, must be saved. Finally it was conclud
ed that tne best course would bo to tell him
the truth, as the terrible, suspense he was suf
fering might retard his own recovery, Tntf
President was w.th him at the time, and -wai
troin his lips that be Kerned the sc
rews that his wife ml duulmr were dead.
The b.ow was a terr.bit ou, but he stooi it
iwith tortituae, sua smii uuer leil m.o a
restitsj vlee. Dr. Wales san.i tlat thu tJ-.C"
retary's breatn was still saturated with the
pmoke ha had inhaled, but there was a slow
but steady improvement iu his general symp
toms, .."v,
jroultifr tbo Mecpera.
James Welsh, the Secretary's butler, ' told
hishio.y ofstue tire. He sum: "I sleep
in the basement. 1 -got up auou 1 6. SO. There
was 110 smell of fire aud no appearance of
anything wrong.. About 7 o'ciuca 1 started
10 cieau my diuuig-rooui, when there Was a
ring at the bell, and when 1 anawered it a
colored niau ba.d, ' Your house is on tire.' At
one I rushed upstairs to arouse the lamily
and, although tue smoke was very thiclc, I
succeeded iu knocking at every door, and
troui uath one in the rooms f k cured a re
fpouse. Tuen 1 started to go downstairs and
hourly choked with smoke. 1 fell three times
but tuiaiiy got to tue trout door. I went
around to the rear of the housu and tried to
get a ladder so as to reach the Secretary afad
jlrs. Iracy's bedroom. , Mrs. Tracy was then
at the window, and while the few of us who
were there appealed, to her to keep still for
pne minute more sha climted out on the sill
Jand lowered herselt until she hung by her
hands : on tha narrow .' slbne "projection.
iKverybody who saw her yelled to ner to hold
on lor a moment, and we looked around for
something on whlcn to eaten her so as to
break the fall, which had to come. Mrs.
Tracy may have heard our cries,' but. it is
uot certain that she did. The coolt, who was
ton the roof, was screaming so that we could
ot hear anything distinctly." How iong
did Mrs. Tracy hang there?' " "Not more
than a few seconds, s She tola ma afterward
that she slipped. Bheieit into the area way
almost toucuuug me in her swit t desceut (I
was on the ground level) and struct on htr
ldit side. No Bound, save a little incoherent
murmur, came from,, her lips. 1 picked htr
up and carried he-r into Mr. Bheems's bouse.
I have no idea of what caused the tire ir
what time it originated. 1 do' uot -think it
paugbt from the lurnace, buu lain unable. 10
lorta even a theory auout it. I closed up the
house about 10 o'clock Suuday night aud
Went to my room in the basement.: Mrs.
Tracy and some of the oihtr members ot the
famuy were in the parlor, and when they re
tired they put out the lights. -1 looiud up
the stair vay to make sure tnac thi lights
iwerdoub, but did not re.urn So tue upper
floors again daring the night.7 , When 1 ran
up stairs to arouse thj family the front par
Ijc was u m ss of flames, showing that the
fir j bad started there. What started it there,
'noweve.', 1 do not expect ever todeiermine."
y To those who were aunii tied to vuw the
(destruction ot property, the bedroom which
bad been occup.ed Dy Secretary-and Mrs:
;Tracy was the principal point of inter, sU it
13 a rear room on tue sacoud flor and mut
ibave been a beautiful apartment. Wit a me
beads towards the west two single brass b.d
sLoads stand side by side, and on' these Mr.
aud Mrs. Tracy slept last night. ,Tue brass
is tarnished and eery tning around is biacx
aud soatted wita water, Ttu room is a huge
ciu ier. Pictures are charred aiid smo&e
siatLeJ, mirrors cracked, aitver backed hair
b. alues and the hundred and one little toilet
accessories are ruiued completely. The
French clock on the mantel was talent, its
penduium having ceusod to swing at tt.-d.
Dirt and dirty water had ruined everything
mat was not impervious to neat and oou
ttuuous wotstun.. . -.
At the White House, v
The bodies of Mrs. Tracy and ber daugh
ter were removed to ttio White House and
placed in the East Boom, where they will
remain until the arrangements for the
funeral are completed. - The . two .bodies
were arranged for removal to toe ".White
House In compliance with the wish of the
President and Mi s. Harrison. : They were
both embalmed and plaoedin handsome
block cloth copper lined caskets, ornamented
with silver. - There were no- ceremonies at
tending tho removal except tboso of respect
paid by the friends of the uufortunate family,
who had assembled at Attorney General
Miller's house. Vice-Prrsident and Mrs.
Morton, Mr. and Mrs. McKee, G?neral Sco
fleld. Private Secretary Haliord, Dr. Ruth
and Attorney-General and Mrs. Miller, com
posed the party present . ,"
The Last Sad Scene.
The beautiful" historic East Room of the
Executive Mansion, the scene of so' many
varied spectacles of brlll'ant ceremony of
social gayety, was devoted to the sadly con.
trusted and solemn impressive purpose of a
funeral.. v. -'-' . -.'''""-'--.'.- "
Very seldom ha" any similar scene been
witness d at tbe Whiae House, and never
since 1865, when the remains of tbe lament
ed Lincoln reposed amid tbe sum) surround-,
ings. ,
The Brrvices over the remains of the wife
and daughter of the .Secretary ot the Navy
were appointed for II o'clock, but long be
fore that hour the East Room was crowded
with people desirous of paying their last
tribute to their d parted friends. It was a
most distin gu saed assemblage, ar.d included
nearly everybody of promiuenco in Wash
ington. Arrangements had been made tor
Beating SoO persons, but over 500 managed to
gain an entrance, All the doorways leading
to tbe East Room were also thronged with
people, and it is estimated that there were
nearly l,00tf persons in tbe bouse.
' Tbe pail-bearers tor Mrs. Tracy wsre Sec
retary Window, Secretary Proctor, Attorney-General
Miller, Secretary ; Noble Post-mtei-Geueral
; Wanamaker, Secretary
Uusk. Admiral Porter, Rear Admiral B. Je
ers, General Sobofletd, and Mr. - J. fc. T.
Stranahan, of Brooitlyn, '
The pail-bearers for Mis Tracy wero
Passed Assistant Surgeon W. A. MeCturg,
Passed Assistant Surgeon Robert Whiting,
Passed Assistant Paymaster Charles M,diayt
Passed Assistant Paymaster A. K. Micholer,
ana Messrs. John B ddle, Frank Lea, Fred
McKenney and Charles Johnson. Both the
bodies were born by sailors detailed from
the Dispatch.
Shortly after 11 o'clock the Schubert Quar
tette, stationed just within the entrance of
tbe East Room iroat tbe main corndor.sing
lln hymn, -I Cannot Always Trace the
Way.'
As soon as they were seated the choir of St
John's Episcopal Church, consisting of 10
white-surpliced boys aud 4 men, under tbe
direction of Mr. William H. Daniel, the choir
master, entered tbe main corridor from the
far en u, and as tbey passed along its length,
with Blow and measure tens, sang as a pro
cess'oaal hymn t'L a ! Kindly Light" Rsv.
Dr. George Williai.t Douglas, rector of St
John' Protestant Episcopal Church, aud
Rv. George Elliott, pastor of tbe Foundry
Metbolict Episcopal Church, entered at tbe
rtar of the choir and to jk their places near
the caskets. Dr. Douglas immediately began
the Episcopal burial service, Al am the resur
rection and the i:fe.n Atiu conclusion the
choir sang the hymn "Jesust Lover or My
Soul." The Scripture lessou was read by Rv,
Mr. Elliott II oegan at the 2Cth verse ot the
15th chapter of I. Corinthians 1 "But now is
Christ risen from th dead and become tbe
first fruit of them that slept. For sitce by
11 an Cimedeatb, by tnsn came alsotho resur
rection of the dead," Tue choir then sanf
'Rock of Ages Cleft for Me." A prayer, read
by Dr. Douglas, concluded tbe srviees.
The President, with Sscretary Truoy-oa hii
arm, first pasted-out of' the -room, -mid next
to them enmo Air. Frank Tracy,. the son, who
wa ' overcome that hu had to be supp rted
by two of the usaeis. Following the proses
sioa c-jiethtf choir si-ijtina', ai a reci'-sional
hymn, , .
" Abid'e with me, fast falls the tvsning tide,
Tbe darkness deepens, Lord with me abide."
The scene throughout was most impressive.
Tne beauty of tbe spacious, noble room, with
its lofty, panel d ceiling, fluted columns,
glittering chandeliers and wtlte and gold
decorations, all reflected in the great mirrors
and heightened in effect by the subdued light
of the shaded windows; the reverent still of
the assembled tbrong ot deeply sympathizing
friend, and the solemn pathos of the funeral
servlco with its musio and its touching elo
quence, all combined to make the scene ex
traordinarily memorable. "
The bodies were removed to the hearses and
the funeral procession was formed, the cor
tege moving slowly to Rock Creek Cemetery,
just beyond the Soldiers' Home, where the
bodies were placed in a receiving vault to
await Secretary Tracy's determination in re
gard to their permanent resting place.
. -WORK AND tWORKERS.
' Sir Edward Gulnnes has given 11,000,000
for tbe erection of dwellings for tho laboring
poor of London.
The Baldwin (Philadelphia) Locomotive
Works expect to turn out 1,000 engines dar
ing 189J. -
The Shawnee furnace at Columbia, Pa.,
win be put in operation in a few days and
give employment to a large force of men.
v Omaha horseshoers had to work all right
to keep no with orders after a recent snow
storm, r They get double pay for .ovmnne.
- The whisky trust will be reorganized F.b
mary 11 as acorporatioa of gigantm propor
tions; in substance another trust, under the
laws of Illinois, will be considered.
At the first annual meeting of the Union
of Milk Producers for Kupplyihg the City of
Naw York an effort was made to do away
with middle men.
The new Lincoln colliery at Pine Grove,
Pa, has resumed shipments after a suspension
or several weeks, during which needed im
provements for handling coal were made.
About 300 men and boys are employed, .
' When tbe failure of CKlver Brothers, iron
manufacturer of Pittsburg, was announced
with $l,5v,0,00 j liabilities, the laborers off ereu
to work for half wages lor a year, and their
action has placed the firm in its old place.
The woras employ 4.QJ0. v vj H .
A cracker trust has been organized under
the guidance of the D.amoud Match Lom
pany, which has ebsor bed nearly every match
matuifacturing concern in this count. y. . It
bos been incorpoi a ted under the - laws of
Illinois, with a capitalisation of 15,00,000,'
;- - The strike in the nail factory' of the Brooke'
Iron Company at Birdsboro'. Pa., resulted in'
a victory ior the men, -and 250 men go back;
to work, the firm agreeing to restore the 10,
per cent. reJnction 1a wages made four and
a-haif months ago. The company ba vol-1
untarily increased the puld'ers' wages to
3 7d per ton. .,;.; ..-( i
. Profit-sharing is repeatedly commended by
employers who nave tried' the experiment as
a preventive of strikes. Wurd comes from.
Fail River that the expjrimjnt has proven
sosuce ssiulata big will that other e&tab
lishments of a similar character have de
eded to adopt it It not only prevents
strikes, but euio.oyers assart that as an in
centive for increased interest and effort t
compensates fiuanciaiiy tor the incidental
deduction of a firm's profits. ; , ,
The completed.statiBtics for 1889 show tbe
number of immigrants arriving iu this coun
try to have been 420,13$. In 1SS tbe numner
was 518, 528. This mat year Germany, led,
sending 9j,y47, or less than. half the numter
she contributed in' the previous 1 welve
months. England and Wales c line next with'
62 510, then Ireland with bM,875, Sweden and
Noi way with 43,410, Austria-iiunzary with
4.5,174 and Russia with 33,174. From Ger
many, England and Ireland there is a falling
off from last year, but from Austria-Hun
gary, Italy and Russia there is a large in
crease. '-V-- ' ' '' '."' -,
RAILROAD HORRORS.
Ten Mcu Hilled anl Klxteeu Injnred
Two TerrlbJo Bridge BlsnNtera.
Owing-to thi heavy rains and washouts
west of the Dalles, Oregon, and also in the
Willamette Valley, there has been no tele
graphic communication with Portlanl, Ore
gon, or with points on Puget Sound. ;,
A telegram received in S m Francisco from
Dalles states that a construction train with a
gang of laborers which left there to work in
the track went through a bridge 63 feet high.
The engine passea over safety but the tender
fell on the caboose and killed 10 men and in
jured 15. Conductor French had bis leg and
skull broken. Engineer George was badly
hurt and Brakeman Seely was also injnred.
Peqba., III. At 6.30 o'clock P. M., as the
O010 aud Iu iana western freight train No.
1 10 started over the bridge f panning tbe river
at Bridge Junction, the first span of thiiron
bridge suddenly sank, precipitating tbe en
gine, tender and three cars Into the river. -
Throe men were in thecal -Engineer Wil
liam Neville, Fireman C O'Brien and Head
Brakeman Ii. M. Lswis ail of Urbana. The
fireman and the brakeman were buried under
the engine iu eight feet of water, and tbe en
gineer was pinned in the cab, with his head
just a hove the water. -
As soon as the wreck was noticed, tbe banks
ot tbe river were lined with people anxious
to render assistance, it was found that the
engineer was standing on the dead body of
the fireman, but fastened in such a way that
.be could not be extricated.
The pissengers and others worked all night
trying to get him out, applying hot water to
keep bim from chilling to death and pouring
! brandy dewn his throat, but he floaily died
of cold an i exposure. . The engine was one of
the heaviest made, weighing 10U tons. Il
stands upright against the bridge.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra, t4. 25
i!4.50. Wheat Southern Fultz, 78at50;
Corn Southern White, S4a40 cts, Yellow
SGUa37c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
28a;ilct8. ; Rve -Maryland & Pennsylvania
6Ga5Sets. ; Hiy Maryland and Pennsylvania
12 50a13 00;Strw-VV Beat,7.5Ua$&50;Buttcr,
Eastern Creamery, 'AkUJbc..near-ty receipts
JOaiiOots; Cheese-Eastern taucy Cream. lOJi
all ct, Western, 10al0 . ets; Eggs 14
al5; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la2.00,Good
Common, 3 00a $4 00, Middling, Jf5a7.00 Good
totlnerftd,8a; Fancy, 10a$id. -
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, $a.60afi85: Wheat No 1 White
1,7 L'vsS '''-; Rve-State. 57a60; Corn-Southern
YcuowS Oats White,8tate30a30K
cts. Butter estate, 15a 23 cts. Cheese tftate,
8KalO cts. ; Eggs 17al7M cts.
PHiLADKLrHia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.iWa4. 75t Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Rod, olX3"-t Rye Pennsylvania
WattOc: Cora-Sou tuera Yellow, 37ia37cta.
Oats SSK38! cU- ;Butter-State,Boa2ttcU. ;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, 0aV; cts. Eggs
State, locale cts. .
f ' CATTLE. -
BlLfiMORB Beef, 4 50a4 75; Sheep $5 00
a0 00, Hrgs 54 75a5 00.
IN few York -Reef 5 75a7 00;Sheep-$4 50
a4Cl); liogs 3.00a 4 20. .
Eat LiurKTV Biwf f 4 23a4 50; Sheep
t5 7l);i5'J0;H?ss 4C;a4 10. '
SOUTHERN ITEMS:
INTERESTING HEWS 03f PILED
FROM MANT SOURCES.
-Measles are epidemic in many portions
of Bedford county, Va. v
Tbe citizens of Wilmington, N. C., have
iubscribed f Sll to the Davis land fund.
Six business bouses in Goldsboro, N. C,
were destroyed by fire last week, Loss $3,000.
A syndicate has purchased another large
body of land near Salem. Va, for which they
paid $63,000.
- It is said that the Norfolk and Western
railroad will build a depot at Liberty, Va,
to cost $40,000.
- Near Wheeling, W. Va., Brakeman Geo.
Buokhannon had his skull cracked by strik
ing a post as his train went past.
Reports from the South mountain. Md.,
peach belt indicate that the late warm weath
er has greatly damaged next season's crop.
A little boy named Williamson was
burned to death, near Parkersbarg, W, Va.,
by bis clothing catching fire from an open
fireplace.
The Mercy Seat Church, near Hampdc n
Sidney, Va., oconpied by a colored Baptist
congregation, was burned to the ground a
few days ago.
By a boiler explosion at a saw mill on
Falling Rock creek, W. Va., three men lost
their lives. Their names were Joe Wright,
Morgan Hoover and Bud Mullins.
Among a party of young men, ont coon
banting in Randolph county, W. Va., Claude
Gaspei was killed by the gun of one of their
number being accidentally discharged. -A
new sash and blind and barrel factory
has just been established in Charlotte, N.C.,
opening with a contract for 15,000 barrels
for the oil and fertilizer company there.
The largest single load of lumber which
ever passed through the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal went through on a barge
on January 3, It contained 300,000 feet.
Advices from Cooke teounty, Tex., are
that a terrible epidemic is raging there, tbe
symptoms of which, resemble those of spinal
meningitis. Tbe stricken die in a few hours.
A cave-In of earth, at Adams Brothers
Lrickyards, near Lynchburg, Va,, caused the
death of Johnson, and serious injury of Dan
iels, lahorers,who were buried under the fall
ing earth.
- P. Hill, of Charleston, W. Va., has
worked and saved seventeen years to build a
bouse. , He built it, and last week it was
earned. There was no insurance, ana tne loss
was $3,000. . -
It is estimated bra large planter in
Franklin county, N. C., that there will be
at least ten thousand acres ia tobacco plant
ed there this year, as against two thousand
last season.
Tbe grand jury has returned three in
dictments agaiust A. S. Babbitt, coroner of
Jefferson county, Ala. The charges are em
bezzlement of money taken from bodies on
which he has held inquests.
-Samuel C. Haugb, living near Ladies
burg, Md. , was severely bitten on the left
arm near tbe shoulder by his stallion. The
arm has since become very much swollen,
and presents a horrible appearance.
- -The name of tbe village of Halifax
Court-house, Vs., has been changed to Hous
ton, In hiuorof the president of the Penn
Construction Company, of Philadelphia, tbe
builders of the Lynouburg and Durham road.
A corps of engineers is now in Smytbe
county, Va , making a survey for tbe Vir
ginia and Western Railroad irom for Buch
auan to a point in Tennessee, near Kington,
the policy Doing to connect with the Tennes
sea Midland.
A number of freight cars running be
tween New vilie and Carlisle, Md., on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad broke loose '
am crushe 1 into the fore part of a passenger
train, the wreck causing considerable delay
on the road. . ' ; J. - " ' ,
Mr. J. B, Pettitt, of Halifax county, N.
C, won the premium of $150 in gold offered
by the Pocouioke Guano company for tbe
largest amount of cotton raised on one acre.
He made l,2tia pounds of lint and took the
premium.- , .
In Martin county, N. C, the wife of G.
S. Powell tied her oue-year old baby in a
cha.r aud left tbe room. When she returned
sue found the chair and child turned over
into the tire aud the child badly burned. It
did in a few hours.
A man named YVinsberry, living in On
slow county, N. C, was visiting the house
ot a lady acquaintance, a lew days ago, and
when about to ent -r the bouse, some one
fired upon bim, killing him instantly. The
murderer is not known. v
-the" Blue Ridge Mineral and Develop
ment Company met at Roanoke, Va. , and ac
cepted the charter reported by the commit
tee uni tne subscription list of 15&0.00J, and
it was determined to commence operations
immediately for the development of miner
al. '
T. P Braswe'l has discovered gold in
large quantities on bis island farm in Nach
couuty, N. C, about fi;teen miles above Bat
tleuoro, and near the renowned Mann-Ar-rington
mine. The find is said to be very
rich. , , '
Miss Bessie List.while walking along one
of the streets of Wheeling, W. Va., after a
light tall of snow, was knocsed down by some
boys coasting down tbe bill on their, sleds.
She was rendered senseless for some lime, but
has slightly reoovered since.
While chopping wood on the mountains
in Frederick county.tMd., Mr. Joseph Smith
had the misfortune to iet tbe axe slip from
his hand, the blade . striking him on the
foot. Surgical aid-was at once rendered, bull
It is feared that lockjaw may set in.
Mrs. Mercer, of Hancock county, W. Va.,
was cutting up soma cold mush, when her
Dine-months-oid child asked for some. She
gave him a small piece, bnt befome swallow
ing it something started bim laughing and
tbe mush went down his windpipe, choking
him to death.
The Longdate Iron Company in Allegha
ny county Va., has bought for $40,000 the
Big Hill iron property bear Gala, Botetourt
county, on the Richmond and Alleghany
Railroad, from the heirs of tbe late Captain
Mason, Three years ago it could have been
bought for $3,000.
' Mr. H. B. McFall, a miller at Port Re
public, Va., went into: tbe mill with his
natchet to fix some of the machinery. By
some means the hatchet caught in the ma
chinery and was hurled against his face, cut
ting and bruising him badly, and nearly sev
ering his nose from bis face.
While Mrs, Edwards and her five children
were asleep ia Blandford, Vh,, some of the
clothing of the children banging on chairs
caught fire from the open grate, and set fire
to tbe room. Mrs. Edwards, awakened by
smoke, with great presence ot mind, extin
guished the fl lines with a pitcher ot water.
After young Kirk Blue bad crossed the
South Branch at Cumberland, Md., while on
a hunting expedition, in leaving his boat he
picked up his gun by the muztlj, and drew
it towards bim. Unfortunately, the hammer
caught on the bow of the boat, caus tig the
discharge of the load in the gun, whicn s
verely lacerated his arm and tbouldei.".
L. Rodehaver, a millwright attho Stand
ard Iron Works at Wheeling, V.Va., while
DUlnz the macfiinerj. tad bis do'Jbus caught
and was whirled around the shaft at the rate
ot forty revo t t ons per minute. He man
aged to throw his arms aronad a large pot
and the clothe were literally torn from his
body. He was taken down almost Urale,
but beyond a number of painful biu'sta, b
was uninjured.
Mr. E. Hibarger, of Hagerstown, Md.,
has in his possession several carious deposits
which he found on the Hebb 1 arm, along
the Potomac River, near Sharpsbnrg. U They
re of different sizes, varying from that of a
hen's egg to a large goose egg, were of a Cayey
nature, very hard and filled with a smooth,
fins sand or dust. Some were so hard that
they could not be broken, and one required
longer to drl.l it than if made of tbe hardest
metal. Expert mineralogists are aaable to
explain their composition. ' .,
Rev. Stephen Nolaad died suddenly at
Nicholasville, Ky. He was an evangelist,
and claimed that he had divine visitations
from Jesus Christ, who appeared to him in
bodily form three times. He gave, a fall
aocount over his signature in his paper tba
Central Methodist, of the strange meetings,
and described the conversations in full.
Many members of bis church the Methodist
South so revered him to tbe last that to
douot his story was impiety. v
A contract was given oat by the Not folic
and Western Railroad Company for a mer
chandise pier 780 feet long by 140 feet wide
at Lambert's Potut, Va. A warehouse wilt
cover the entire pier, which will be ironclad;
and wilt have double tracks running ita en
tire length. A new coal pier is about to bs
constructed immediately, with iron piles, at
the same p'ece. 'As soon as these two piers
are finished, a second merchandise pier is to
be constructed, tbe company thus preparing
tor a vast rush of freigut, which will occur
when tbe seven new feeders are fia isbed.
While Minnie Every, the 14-year-old
daughter of C T. Every, ot Cold well county,
N. C., wi s preparing her father's dinner,
her clothing caught tire from tbe stove. The
giri becoming thoroughly frightened rushed
out of the boose into tbe breezy air and sdbn
she was completely enveloped in flames. Two
young men hearing the pitUnl screams of
the poor girl rushed to ber rescue and were
both badly burned in attempting to save her
life, but the girl was burned fatally and died
in two hours. - -
A night or two ago a gang of fifteen
masked men went f o tbe house of William
Holland, at Latham's Cross Roads, in Beau
fort county, N. C, and took bim from his
house to a tree about one hundred and fifty
yards distant, r Tbey pot a rope around his
neck, intending to lynch him. His mother
and sister came upon the scene and interfered
in his behalf, and were both badly hurt by
rufans. Holland saw a man up a tree, and
recognized him. Before the lynchers suc
ceeded in accomplishing their purpose some
one in tbe bourse fired a pistol, which fright
ened them away. . ' .
TRADE'S INDltATOR. ;
Average of Prices for'jaanary Lower,
and Trade Inaettve.
Special telegrams to BradstreeP confirm
previously reported indications of an unex
pected check to general trade in January as
compared with 1889. California reports de
crease wheat acreage and adverse weather
conditions with reference to the next crop.
General trade on the Pacific coast has been
restricted by eleven weeka bf rain and six
days snow blockade of the Central Pacitto
Railroad. Hats, caps and inrs, boots and
shojs, clothing and wool have alt been un
favorably, affected by a return of mild
weather. Almost all leading trade centres
report only a fair volume of business At
New York stocks of bides are heavy and
prices are lower. It fact,' except fine butter
and cotton goods, steel and the better grades
of iron, nearly all staple commodities bave
declined in price, or have shown a tendency
to do so.
The New York stocks, after the heavy K1p
of $7,000,000 In bank surplus reserves, prom
ised higher prices and a bullish temper. But
a desire to realize on paper profits resulted in
a reaction, and the market closes heavy and
hesitating with prices lower. Bonds are firm
and in good demand. "
Available stocks of wheat. United States
and Canada, East of the Rockies, as reported
to Bradstreefo, aggregated 52,301,33 bushels
January 25, a decrease on the week of ftJ,
403 bushels; like coruntocks were 18,430,01
bushels, a gair. of 147.2U6 bushels. Adued to
Stocks afloat for Europe, the total ot wheat
becomes 72,173,312 bushels, 433,40S bushels
less than on January 18, and of corn, 211.
621 or 473,296 bushels more than on January
18. Exports of wheat (and flour as whaai)
from both coasts this week, equal 1,613,854
bushels, against 1,890,500 bushels last week.
Total exports July 1 to date equal 61,617,781
bushels against 58,'.3S3,101 bushels iu seven
months of th previous cereal year and 83,
410.825 bushels in a like portion or 18iT 88.
Wheat flour, with unusually heavy local
stock, estimated at about 1,000,000 barrels
and tacks, and continued pressure of supplies
and tame demand, is off 5a 15a per barrel.
Wheat bas declined Ijale, in the week
lKaSK t Chicago or weaker home and
foreign mtrkets, and indifference of expor
ters. Ii di in corn, too, has declined sharply
i!"- on doll cables and decreased export
movement. The decline in oats was likewise
o. . Five days' export of oats from New
York equal 323,000 bushels. Toere baa baen
a bharp reaction in bog products, led by tbe
West, - nork dropping 2575c. per bbU, and
lard al5 points per lb.
A light movement ia sugar is accompanied
by a slight weakening iu prices of raw. Fall
prod action with a modified demand tor re
fined at New York resulted in a deehne of
)o. Refiners profits are now estimated lc.
per pxnnd, against o. profit per pounu a
year ago and at other periods, Coffe in job
bine and distributing lines has moved 'le.-s
freely, and prices, notably for Brazilian, are
,offs- . ' .
Dry goods have been quiet,' Cotton goods
prices are firm, with an advancing tendency
owing to higher cost of raw material, Print
I cloths prices gained slightly. Woaiens are
quiet and clothing dull. Raw wool is dull,
with prices tending lower. Cotton Is less ac
tive after a reaction of l-lnio. '
' STRANGE CANNIBALISM.
A Chilian Tries to Eat n EM tie Bey
' Alive While la a Tunnel. .
Tbe following lnstanoe of unique canni
balism is given by a correspondent in San
tiago, Chili: "Peo Perez, accompanied by a
small boy, Enrique Bllo, 7 years old, left
Valparaiso to travel on foot to Santiago.
Upon the arrival at the entrance of tbe
railroad tunnel near San Ladro, Perez seiz i
the boy and undertook to eat him all va ile
ate the lingers off ono hand and ate part of
one foot and bit pieces out of the ch juk. lie
then commenced sucking tb Mood. In th
meantime the boy fainted. The guard of tbe
tunnel surprised Peres in xht midst of his
feast, but could not arrest him, as he flad up
the mountain,
BesatorTTclcott, of Colore, is i1 !ck-p. -"
of build, broad of beam o:J ihori ot n
lie bas a wsii-kect blond r.ioustaen. K.
manners ere r- -Hshei, artd uh found iob-
Is as ir;xhar; ..lie a.? the Vs-s iert... Is
accredit