Published by' Roanokk Publishing Co.:
-; "FOR GOD,' FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.
Tbomas Hcsoit, Business Mauager
VOL. 1.
PLYMOUTH; N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1890.
NO. II.
THE NEWS.
: Many peoplo were driven from their homes
v. Jby th3 recent fl xds ia Oregon.: Dr. Ro-
jmn, of St. Paul, Minn., must pay Miss Ttrt
'$3,000 for breach of proraia?.- Saloonkeep
ers wl.osa plaoshave been demolished by
. Iwoman cruVa ier in Lathrop, Ma. have filed
aflTJavits against the women. The schooner
. Isaac A. Chatman, from Gloucester, Mass.,
. if or Newfoundland, is thought t be lost.
j8. D. Welling, of Des MolneB, was killed in
: lDvenport,' Iowa, by lo'mg run over.
5 jThpmaa ane was banged in Toronto, Out.,
or the murder of his wife.- Dr. Marvin
! Tosdycfc Was shot by an unknown person
iwhile rented in bis office at his home in Paw,
... IPaw, Mich.' Ho may recover. The resi
- tionce o Oliver "Benwayat Central Lake,
Mien., was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Ben
Avay's ; mother ; burnel tof death. Bertie
Brown, four years old, of Ypsllanti, Micb.,
fell into a vat of hot grease aud was scalded
( to death.' During tfre temporary absence
of John Metevix and wife, of Bay CU7,
. Minn., theip. hou.ie was burned and child
burned, Mrs. Metevix Is a raving maniac.
. Liour. Thomas Rideway, of the Fifth
United State Infantry, was married tolvl ss
' Ruth Bunker at Long Island City. Robert
Kingston, an exprt si messenger, was killed
by two trains colliding on the Canadian and
t Pacific Railway near Montreal. A general
strike is threatened throughout the mining
districts in Alabama. rNIne cases of typhus
; fever have been discovered in New York city,
" -Engiueer Ed ward Dorlotte was killed and
- ten or twelve persons seriously injured in a
collision near Coaling, Ala. -Professor
Louis Hait, . of Louisville, Ky., went into a
Cutlery 6b66 and out,hfa' throat from ear to
ear. -7 Jacob D. Heft & Sou, dyers, Phila
delphia, have made aa assignment, -The
, American ;Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion is in session in New York. Harry Lj--bo,
a dissolute eti iracter, shot aud killed his
wife in R jadiug, Pa., because sha refused to
live' witb him. While Wm. Mayne was
v bulug tried for assault to murder in San Die
g t. Col., Berth Johnson, the prosecuting
witness, shot him. Robert Henderson, a
" member of Moody's congregation, in Chica
co, shctHattie Hind, a member of the choir,
and then killed himself. v - '
;W. LCowarden, president ol the Virginia
Fire and Marine Insuranoj Company, die J at
Ricilmond, aged seventy-two years. J ames
- B. Clary, o Newberry county, .8. C., at
tempted to murder his wife and daughter,
And the former may die, he having inflicted
a terrible wound upon her head with an ax.
fr-NtarJy one thousand Indians, belonging'
' to the Devil's Lake Agency, North Dkota,
ore destitute of clothing and nearly starving.
, A mountain slide in Benton county, Ore-
gon; buried Robert Barclay's home, and kiif
ed RoberfrSrown.", Birelay and his children
were extricated. Now the various maun-:
feu'rers of flint glass tableware are talking
of consolidating their interests. A mem
; ber . of the! executive board of the United
Miners' organization predicts that unless the
operators siga the interstate scale, a great
strike will take place. -While James Scale
and his family were crossing a creek, near
BurnsvilleMiss., the wagon was upset by,
the flood, and four children drowned. The
falling wall of a burnel building in Rich-
TTlfirifl (Mtl Will Ml 1 I . H . IIIL'IIJUIUU DIIU
R.ohflseij, and seriously injured Mrs. Jaoi
. ion. Wm. FerreH, a, farmer of Ironton,!
O., was ' killed, by his son who interfered to!
protect his mother -The works of the,'
"'. Parlor Furniture Company of Grand.Riptds.j
Mien., were burned. L,oss $ ao.uuu. jl du
to Incorporate the Norfolk and Richmon d
Railroad ' Company was introduoel In the
Virginia legislature. -'F. H. 8 Morrison, a
young Virginia lawyer, was murderously as-;
saulted at Roanoke. What appear to have"
' been an attempt by an ex-convict in Bostonj
- to do away with his brother and his seven-
year-old niece' is being investigated by thej
police.- Fire at Huntington, W. Va.. de-'
stroyed several buildings. Lms $15,000.-
Jobu Kosek, worth half a million, and known
in Wilkesbarre, Pj.i 'as the "King of the,
- Hungartans'was thrown from bis buggy
and killed, -Christian B.'Herr, of Lancav
' ter county, Pa., dropped dead at the age of)
eighty years. t L .
Ellis Bard, cashier "of the National Bank
. at Llnooln, Fa., is a defaulter to the extent
id 135,000. The towbbat Port Eads struck
a pier of bridge at Memphis, Tenn.i and
, sunk. Mrs. J. A. Price of E arekar Cat,
was shot dead by Charles H. Bowden, who
claimed that be was her son, bui is baliived
to have been a rejected suitor, who became
enraged upon learning of her recent roar
. riage. James DIafleld Trenor, an expert
n art matters, died in New York from a frae
tured skull, the wpunls probably bavjfig
been inflicted by thieves; Rev Dr. Tal-'
m A -va' I a 1 1 tha nAfnn etntiA Ct Vila YIAW ffft .
AUIUj9 IViu wuv W w nvwn v "
pie In Brooklyn. Suse Tbompson,Of Cam-!
, eron, Moi,7whilepiaylnwill a"; revolver,
f ataUy shot Allie E4ti;coniVihIon.-- M'si
, Elna Buscb,thednuhtirof Adolphus Busch
.the wealthy St Louis brewer, Is likely to be
qut off in her fatber'i will for marrying her
;cou9in, -CharleM Maoilfater,of the Frlnce-
1 ' .ton C'ub, . Philadelphia, won tun f 10,
pigeoa shootmg match with , Dr. Gideon F. i
f, r. -- -
: New York,-Thei widow and children of .
' the late Coiirad t5ji'pp,,tbe"CblcKO brewer,
' gavi $13000 'to ch4ritable"4u8titutlo,is ot -'
tbat city. The I'hliadelphia Journey men
BricU'luyers1 Union voted against the eight
hour working' daft ' . ' v s
Heavy' ice' has-forroed above Atchison,
Kai sas, in a narrow plicj in the river, aud
almost tbe entire volume of "water bus been
' backed op and orced through the Govern
ment,NorUs on the Missouri to protect the
citv . Unless tbe ice dmn shall giva way.ihe
works, which cost - $ 150,000, the railway
bridge. and East Atchison will be at the
roeN-y of tae flood.
A train (,n the orth.rii Paeifie Ertilroad
struck a hud car ner fit. Cloud, Minne
sota, and ki W tbrcj i---.Uon i.sen who wre
ouit.
MPJHMfflpip.;
The Great Sioux Reservation
Opened to Settlement,
Eleven Bfiliion Acres of Fertile Land
I11 Sooth Dakota Added I the ,
j. ,'-t ."; X; Puble Domain. ,
President Harrison has jujt' issue.1 his.
proclamation opening the Sioux R sji vntloa
in South Dakota to ssttlement. At tbe same)
time ho issued an order establishing land
c faces at Pierre and Chamberlain for the
new country. The proclamation sets forth
the portions reserved for the use of the In
dians, and warns all persons not to enter on
those lands. The necessary surveys will bo
made as early as possible
Tha great Sioux Reservation, upon which
the various bands were established.af ter pro
tracted negotiations and with no 1 ttle diffl-'
culty, abcut ten years ago under Secretary;
SchurM, contains more than 22,000,000 acres;
of land,. Tbe enormous developuieut of Da
kota during tbe last ten years bas been so
extensive as to form a basis for tbe admit
tance of the Territory into tbe Union as two,
Statt e., Tbe Sioux Reservation forms a great)
bloon in tbe midst of tb s busy and growing,
life. Itstretcbeia distance of nearly 25
miles northward from Nebraska, and has a
width fully 160 mile - ' t .);
In May, lbJ8, Cougress passed a law pro
viding for opening part of the resjrvaiion'
for settlement, and a Commission was ap-
pointed by President Cleveland to negotiate;
with t'je Sioux for the puruuaso of about
11,000,000 acres, or about one-half of the res-i
t-rvation. The landing chiefs were opposed
to tbe sale, and the Commission abandoned,
the task. In Apiil, 188'J, another Commis.
sion was appointed by President Harrison
its marnbero beinf General George Crook, U.
S, A. ; ex-Goveruor Charles Foster, of Oaio:.
and ex Congressman William W arner, o.J
Misouri.' ' This Commission was more buc
oessful, and finally secured a sufficient num
b. r of signatures of the Indians to seoure tbe
transfer of tbe 11,000,000 acres to tbe Gov-
ernment. ' m -' -': ' . . . '
. lite land thrown open to settlement will,
be disposed of by the United States to actual'
settlers only at the , following rates: Ode;
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre foe all
lands taken witbin the first tnree years after
tho act takes effect, seventy-five cents per
acre for alt lands disposed of within the sue-'
cevdiug two years, and fifty cents per acre!
for the residue of the lands then disposed of.)
A residence ot five years is necessary to oa-'
tain a patent. Each entry is limited to a;
half-mile square, or 160 acres. As there are;
no free lanus, the boomers who rushed, into,
Oklahoma will find no attraction ia this new
land. " ' - tv;v - ' , -
Tbe tract which has been ceded to the gov
ernment, and has now been thrown opeu to
settlement, extends from the Missouri to the
Black Hills and then North; it etnbraoes,
likewise, a part of the fertile Wiunebago
Crow Creek Reservation on the East bank of
the Miisouri ; River, South of Pierre. ' The
-area of this great tract is equal to that of
N.w Hampshire and Massachusettscomuinad
and lias, ail of it, ia South Dakota. Three
rivers ruu through it and tbe valleys are of
wonderful fertility. Since tbe extirpation
of tbe gregarious bison no animals beyond
a few beavers are found in the area, although
the grass is luxuriant iu its growth and
plenty of water is found there.
These 11,000,000 acres will afford farms for
not less than 70,000 families. The climate is
good, the mean annual temperature being
45 degrees above zoro; the nights are cool,
itbe days warm in summer. The soil is de
clared to be for the most part a rich, dark
drift of alluvial loam, the very kind that
delights the eye of the intelligent agricul
turalist, who sees in it the sure promise of.
riohyieids of golden grain. Tbe clay sub-
isoii is also of tne ante formation, aud de
clared to be as rich as the loam of the sur
face, and is pronounced absolutely inexhaus
tible. - It invites to tbe raising of stock as
well 'as the growing -of the cereals,, and
Imost of the fruits ot tbe Northern temper
ate belt will thrive there. Markets are ac
cessible. Twogreatraiiroadsruu intoFierre
but a short distance away, opposite the cen
tre line and but half a mile distant from ttta
'border. Each road has a right of way tbrough
itbe country aud will bi sure to get there
shortly. - ,
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.
C'hftHe Emory Smith Receives the
Kusslan Mission.
The Preliuenllsent to the Senate the fol
fowlng nominations:1'' .V .'.
. S&ate Dapartmeot- -CbarIeiEmorySmitb4
of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraordiuary
and minister plenipotentiary to Russia.
Samuel Merrill, of Indiana, to be consul
general at Calcutta.
J. Feoner Lee, of Maryland, to be secreta
ry ot legation at Rio de Janeiro.
- Harrie R. Newberry, of Michigan, to be
secretary of legation at Madrid.
Mr. Charles Emory Smith, who receives
the ' Russian mission has been for the past
ten years the editor of, the Philadelphia
Press. His newspaper career began when he
was out sixteen eir of aze, when. he wrote
for tbe Albany Evening Transcript. IIs wm
subsequently connected with tbe Albany Ex
press, and in 1S70 became editor-in-chief on
the Albany Journal. In 1S7B be was a dele
gate from New York to the Rupublican
National Convention, and wrote a large por
tion of tbe platform. He was a so president
ot th9 Rpublicau State Conventiou of New
York, and presided throughout the session.
In February, lS80, ,be resigned the editor
ship of tbe Albany Evening Journal to as
sume the position on tbe Philadelphia .Press,
wbich position he now relinquishes. Mr.
Smith has been an aggressive nod active Re
publican, and duriug the past two presiden
tial campaigns was he&rd, frequently in mass
meetings. . , . , , .
TRAINS COME TO GRIEF. -
Two Trains Olllde In Alabama Only
One Man Klllou-Nevcral Hurl,
A bad collision occurred the other morn
ing on the Alabam-iand Great Sout he -a rail-,
road near . Coaling-, Ala. between a south
bound special excursion train consisting of
12 fnllman coaches, carrying over 1,000 pas
sengers, and a ijnitb-bjund Tuscaloasa ac
commodation train.
E igineer Elward Doolittloof the fp.'Cial
train was killed instantly, and sorao ten or
twelve persous on tha accommodatioa train
were hurt. '
Tbe trail s were running at a grat speed,
and totU engines and the baggage-car . and
Bjvei at oilier cars wer demolished.
,The exo-.irsion' train, was en route to New
Oriean-. Nona of the issenRers on the ex
cuisiou trm 11 is rportd killed. They v.-re
IromCL . -oand poiati In Onioan 1 ll'.i-a-
SOUTHERN ITEMS;
INTERESTING If EWS COMPIEED
. FROn MANY KOUKCES.
Nearly onehundered Micbigandera have
located in Caroline county, Va., witbin tha
past year. ' - .
-7 Returns show that Fayette county, W
Va., contains 9,000 dosrs, one township alone
containing l,00JtJf them. v ' '"'
The Union Mining Company are making
surveys in the New Hope drift for the purj
pose of opening tbe Coal laud beyond th"j
end of Bowery, Ml. . ' . ;
A colored laborer, named Stursjis, while;
unloading a log train at Pinner's foiut, Va.;
was caught under a heavy log falling from a
car and crushed to death. , ,
The grip has attacked the horses In Ches
ter county, VY Va., the veterinary surgeons,
reporting quite a number of cases. No deaths'
to stock have yet occurred. ' , . - j
It is estimate 1 that $20,000 worth of
tickets have bean sold at the Selma sution,
Johnston county, N. C., to colored exo
dusters ncs the spring of 1889.
' C.: H. Robinson,' of Frederick, Md., has
an egg that was laid by one of his hens, which
measures 6 inche? around, 8 1-16 inch.'S
long and weighs four ounces. .
Mr. John Nait unearthed . two human
skeletons in an old barnyard, near Keedys
ville, Md. No one has any recollection of
anyone being buried, at tbis place. - y '
Another ice factory hai arranged to Io-!
cate its plant in the skating ring at Hagers-'
town, Md.,and tbe building wil) be prepared'
for placing the machinery in a few days. . I
- The babe of Captain Williamson, of
Warren ton, Va., was found smothered the
olht-r evening. The mother rocked the child
asleep, and it turned over on its face, smoth
ering todeath. . :
The supervisors of Darby township, W.
Va., have been arrested for neglecting to
keep the roads under tbeir care in a safe con
dition. The prosecutor, Charles Tribit, had
his wagon ups. t in a mud hole,
'John Lackes, of Tbaxton, Va., was un
loading oats from a wagon, when his horses
became frightened by a passing train, and
in his endeavor to stop them, he was caught
between a tree an i tbe wheel and terriole.
crushed. . ..-' r. --
Mr. George W. F. Ferris, the chief engi
neer of the new Wheeling Bridge Company,
is preparing plans for constructing the two
bridges between Wheeling and S;naville,
W. Va,, wbich work will be commenced very
shortly. . . r. . ...'.. -.. ,'.
The young son of Mr. Powell, of Hagers-'
wwii, iu-Lu iu nutoi BomnamDuiism, arose
from his bed and ran across the field to a
neighbor, about a mile away, by whom he
was aroused. He suffered a saver chill af
terward, v "V.-:,".'"'..-:''.ivi-:
Mr. Flamming of Frederick, Md., has
on exhibition a handsome door brick, com
posed of twenty-two pieces of different kinds
of marble, which wan presented to tbe Purity
Lodge, Lad. TV, by Mr.- Frank Suman.
It is to be chanced off by the lodge for their
benefit. , '''vr1"..-'v '.C'-. ,,
Mr; George Potter, tax collector for
VV ayesboro', Md. , who was buried last week,
was remarkable for his im men Be size. He
was tali and very stout, weighing over 42J
pounds. His coma measured 74j inches in
length . 33-5 iacues in widxh and Ti inches
in uepen. , -
-A fine horse owned by J. P. MolowwCh,
near Newmarket, Md., reared up aud feu
back as he was mounted by his owner's son.
eleven years of age. The horse was killed
Instantly by breakiug his neck, but the boy
escaped injury. T , , " ; . .
George F. Clem, of Front Royal, Va.,
while out fishing, hauled up from the bot
tom of tbe river an old army musket, already
capped and loaded, but the water had of
course spoiled tbe powder. He supposed it
to be a war relic. ; , . ' . -. . , .
' Owing to the prevalence of the grippe
among the teachers of the North Carolina
assembly the proposed trip to the New Or- j
leans Mardi Graa ba been abandoned. A
trip to tbe Pacific coast during the summer
will be substituted. .t . . : Jr .
"Airs. Jennie Barnes,' of Pungo, Princess
Anne county, Vu., was caught under a fall
ing tree which her son .was cutting down,
aud was instantly killeJ.. The tree stood in
the yard of tbe residency and siie bad just
stepped out of tbe house t i spaak to her son
when it felL - ,. ; . ;. t
W. J, Roby, residing in Lynchburg, Va.;
has been to Warreuton, N. C, on a visit to
h a grandfather, who is one hundred and
twelve, and his grandmother, who is one
hundred and sixteen years ot age. Both were
well'ahd hearty people mentally and phys
ically.. ' ', - , --r -
Samuel Carponter.a blacksmith at Fotts
town, W. Va., had beea in the habit of sit
ting on a board laid acrosj a barrel of water.
Some wag sawed the board nearly through,
and Carpenter was precipitated into the
-water and utmost drowned. .
- James. B, Kinnier, of Bedford county,
Va., aged seventy-seven, remembers that the
winter of 1838, resembled the present. one,
that fruit trees and flowers bloomed in Jan
uary, and nearly all tbe farmers lost their
pork. - He also said , that . year had a very
late and cold spring. . , -.
Another gas well has been struck witbin
the limits of ;Barnesville, Belmont county,
,W. Va., and the citizens are quite jubilant
over the fact. The c& found at a depth of
1.780 feet, and its pressure equal to tnat of
tho famous "Granny Parker" well. ' - - ' ,v
Samtiel Morgan, aged seventy-three,
living with his brother-in-law, near-Center-ville,,
Belmont county, W. Va., committed
suicide by banging himself. He wasa great
buffjrer from rheumatism, which, it is sup
posed, rendered him temporarily insane, , 1
! -The; Whitaker Iron Works, of Wheel
ing, W, Va., have contracted for the erec
tion of a' frame structure, &J by 160, to be
devoted to tbe manufacture of soeet steel
ceilings.' This buildino: will bave a skylight
running its full length, supplied with win
dows; and vill cost about $5,000.
J. M, Cralgg, tbe nliht watchman for
the Chesapeake uud Ohio Railroad, after tbe
fast train had passed, sat down onXhe end of
a crosstie at tbe east end of Fudge's Creek
trestle, in W. Va., to wait for the day watch
man, when, he fell asleep. He was run oyer
and killed by the construction train.
yJaoob Fink, an old farmer of Stanley
county, N. C, wen to milt in a wagon, some
eitfbt milef, About nig it his team pulled
up by his house.. The old man was lying
prostrate in tbe wegon anl on investigation
it was found that be wus dead. It Is sup
posed heartdisease caused his death. . . , ,
Ia Unioa township, Randolph county.N.
C,' D. .11, Miller, killed James Luther, nav
ing shot him three times with a revolver in
the doorway of Goorge Luther' house after
a quarrel and struggle. There was a feud
between- Miller and JUuther, and Miller had
gone to George Luther's h ause. which he
was endeavoring to enter, lie made his es
cape just alter Luther felt dead. Four shot i
were iirod at Miller as be fled. -A
syndicate of capitalists has just pur
chased from tbe Williamson heirs tneir es
tate, umr CUt ton .Forgo, Va., lor IW.'M),
aud aUo 400 acrei adjoining for $18 0JO. .-.-iix-t:en
(iwfiiings are in tho coarso o construc
tion, tti'-t it is tbe purposaof tii synuicnte
to lay . . ' tli9 ground iotj lot?, P1: to"- N '
for tho erection 01 factories and other indus
trial plants. - '
Ths town of Woltsburg, W. Vs., Is ex
cited over the public whipping of a female
Bcandal-mongerr by a pretty youn girt of
eighteen, wuos good name she bad been
liueling and who bad traced tbe story to its
source. She had entered tha room of her
defamer, locked tbe door and pounded ber
until tbe police officers were forced to break
the door au to reseua the victim. The young
girl s promptly paid ber flue of $10, tor as
sault - vv-. V ,
As C. T7. White, -cooompanied by other
gentlemen, were walking on the track of
tue Norfolk and Western Railroad, they met
au east bound passenger train. .As thy
stepped to tne other tracic. large hog took
their place in time to be-truc by the pilot
of tbe passing train. Tue autniii, was thrown
some feet into the air, and as it descended,
its snout struck Mr. White with suon to.-ce in
the side as Vo break two of bis ribs. Tbe
hog was uninjured. u .; ;
Rather a novel suit has T. j lnstltutel
at Lauren burg, N. C. L. A. Moore told
Luther Aydott that be would give him $5 if
he would climb aud go over the south wall of
a certain building. Aydott at once began
the job aud succeeded in successfully scai
and going over the top of the wall. Im
mediately alter coming down Aydott de
manded the money of Monroe but ha re
fused to pay it, declaring that Ee made the
proposition only in joke, Aydott then em
ployed a lawyer aud sued Monroe for the
money. The case was heard before G. , W,
Wright, a justice of tbepeaos, aud hi de
cided tnat Monroe should py over tbe
mpney.
CABLE SPARKS.
The Czir will not rcognizs the republic
of Brazil while Dom Felro lives. 1
The Duke of Montezuma, a descendant of
the Mexican Emroror of that name, is dead.'
The revenue of Franca for the year 1S89
was $614,200,000, and the total expenditures
5621,O00,u0O.,;-
, Oa board the cruis:r Chicago, of the
squadron of evolution, there are one hun
dred and fifty caes of grip. ; ; :
' Emperor William has requested the British
government to send the English squadron to
attend the German naval maneuvers. V: V
During a test of tbe boilers of a' British
cruiser off Margate, England, a cylinder ex
ploded, killing two men and injuring ten.
A nrofesior at!the Klansenberar University.
j in Austria, claims to have discovered an ab
solutely certain antiseptic remedy for
hydrophobia.
The Portugese consul in the Transvaal has
published a proclamation deolariae tbe ab
solute sovereignty of Portugal over North
east joasnonaiand.
The ex-King; of Servia, who is deeply in
debt because of his love for gambling, is a
victim of melancholia caused by his finan
cial condition, aad threatens suicide. :
Riotous studeatB smashed the windows of
the leading sooial club la Oporto, Portugal,
because it bad not rxpelled Eagusbmen be
longing to it and bad admitted otters.
The Canton of Basie, Switzerland, has de
cided to put the administration of its govern
ment into the hands of a body elected di
rectly ly the people iustead of continuing
the grand council. 4 ;
CoL Edward James Saunderson, conserva
tive member of the House of Commons for
North Armagh, will deliver a series of lec
tures on "Unionism" in the United States,
Canada and Australia in thi autumn. )
At the anti-slavery conference at Brussels
it was intimated that Great Britain, wnile
maintaining the principle involved in the
right of search, is willing, out of deference
to France, to renounce the exercise of that
rigjt on the high seas. , .
A meeting of representative of agricul
tural societies has oeea held at Lemburg,
Austria, to provide means to relieve the suf
ferers from the famine existing la Russian
Poland and Galicia caused by the failure of
tbe crops. .. v . ' -, v- -'. v-
The suit of Charles Parnell against the
Londm. Times for libel has been comprom
ised, tbe Times - paying Mr. Parted 3,000
damages. Tne suit of Henry Campbell, Mr.
Parneit's private secretary, against the same
newspaper bas also bee 1 settled, tbat gentle
man receiving JO0 damages from tbe paper.
M. Liguerre, a Boulangist deputy and aa
advocate, was tried at Paris upon the charge
of assault. ng M. tteaurepaire, another advo
cate, and was sentenced by the court as an
advocate to be deprived for six months of the
right to practice in the courts..
Major Llebert, who Is temporarily filling
tbe putce in Berlin made vacant by, tbe ap
pointment of Major Wissmann as imperial
commissioner to East Africa, will shortly eo
to Z mzlbar to conferwith Maj. VVlssman in
regard to plans for tbe future colonization
of East Africa. ,.
Emperor William has issued an imperial
rescript announcing new mdisures for. im
proving tbe condition of tbe working peo
ple and directing certain specific reforms;
also affirming that it Is tbe duty of tbe state
to insure tha health, morality, economic
wants and t quality before the law of
laborers. ' P . ; -
The Duke of Orleans, who has jttst reached
tbe age of maoboud, was arrested at tbe
house of the Duke de Luynes, in Paris, and
held by the police of that city on a charge Of
violating tbe law of bauisbment made against
his father, the Count of Paris, and himself
as enemies of Fmuce.' ' la ths possession of
the joung Prince was found a letter, written
and signed by the father, abdicating claims
to the throne of France in favor of the son,
and a manifesto addressed to tho people of
that nation. It is supposed tbat the purpose
of the visit of the Duke was in connection
with a general royalist movement
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST.
ATowboat Kinks In the Mississippi
Exeitliig Scenes. ;
The towboat Port Eads, Captain Nelson
Davis, of the St Louis and Mississippi
TrahsDortation Company, was sunk at seven
o'clock in the morning at the site of the- rail
road bridge, two miles below Memphis, Tenn.
She carried a crew of forty men. six of
whom were drowned.- : - :- . ' '
' The Port Eads bad a tow of six grain-laden
barges and one f ml barge; destiued for New
Orleans from Cairo. They . passed tho city,
during heavy fog, hugging he Tennessee
shore clossly. The stamar approached the
bridie'as slowly as posjvble, but owing to the
dmse fog she was unable to tooite the sunken
pier. A moment later she was seen to stop
suddenly, haini stationary for a minute, and
then swmg round with heavy force, and set
tle on one side. ,
Men ran from overy direction to ths yawl,
lighting each other in panic stricken desper
ation to reach it. One man detached the
ropes holding it and was about to climb in
when the water rushed ia over the boat's
deck and all ran to the other side.
Another wave closed over the boat's deck,
and all ran to tha sida whan she settled lower.
Ten of the crew were takn to the Uaitnl
ritate Hospital near by, suffering from cuta
TRADE OF THE WEEK.
A Moderate Improvement
Noted in Staples. : ;
An Increase lu .Wheat Khtpmettts
B ink Clearings for Jan uary Ef
feels of Ihe Weather.
Special telegrams to Bradstreefs Indicate
a moderate Improvement in the movement
of general merchandise Eist of the Rocky
Mountains, with more seasonable weather
and consequently a more active demand for
staple goods. Prices of cattle and hogs gen
erally tend lower on a free movement; wheat
is depresied on the Pacifio Coast by free of
ferings and long interior stocks; groceries,
dry goods and drugs are fairly active. t ,
The bank clearings at thirty-five oitie for
January aggregate $5,130,044,911, or 1 per
cent more than in January, 18S9.
The movement of flour has been dull and
prices have been shaded.:
Ssocks at New York are officially reported
at about 282,000 barrels, though it is notori
ous tbat tbe total on dock and in store here
far exoeedd tbat aggregate. Reports to Brad
street's show 1,731,707 barrels in stock, first
am second hanus, at 53 cities .February 1,
au increase of 17 barrels since January 1.
W beat reacted some after advancing la on
heavy sales, depressing cables and indiffer
ence of exporters, closing Jo. on the week.
Bradstreet's reports of available stocks of
wueat, Etst of Rocky Mountains, United
States and Canada, sbows 49,6'Jl.Siy bushels
on February 1, or 4,535,827 bushels less than
ou January 1. The month's decrease for both
coasts is 5,98(5,761 busbe s.V Compared with
a year ago Eastern stocks are 8,276,737 bush
els larger, and for both coasts 8,77, 150 bush
iels larger. Bradstreet's, totals with Beer
bo bin's report of stocks In Eurooe and afloat
1 herefor, February 1. shows a decease of 9.-
5orf,5S5 bushels duriug January, or 8.3 per
cent., and a decrease of 13,025,584 bushels
compared with February 1, 1SS0, or 1L0 per
cent. , . , - . '
. Export purchasers of corn have been free at
.atiautio ports, but free offerings and large
supplies depressed prices. Exports of wheat
are larger oecause of a larere amount from
the Pacific coast. Exports of wheat (and flour
s wneaij mis weeg irom botn cots equal
,214,IT. bushels aeainst 1.613.854 busnels
last week. The total shipped July ! to date
is (51,032,093 bushels, against 50,455,500 bush-
010 iu a iu jioruoa 01 1003 ow, . - - -
- Sugar iu Uepreed and weaker for both
1 aw and refined o j model ate deallngsand dis
couraging caoies, tne latter declining l-ioi
3 ltla. Sugar bas been firmer speculatively
at New York, and later in diitritmtive lines
advanced gic, ..... r .
Dry gooua at e more active, but trade as a
whole does not equal expectations. Ginghams,
prints ana wool dress goods are most active.
Prices are steady. Cotton goods are strong,
some wide brown and bleached sheet! nes hav
ing advanced. Print cioihs are very firm at
late advance. . Wool is inactive, prices favor
ing buyers, particularly on nulled and terri
tory grades. . Larger port receipts and weaker
cables have depressed cotton prices at all
markets, except iNew- York, where strong
speculative buying has advaaoed prices 3c.
WORK ' AND WORKERS.
Cigurmakers are on strike in .Chicago
against a reduction in wages. .
The miners of Great Britain bave resolved
to demand a ten per cent, advance in wages.
Tha TntafnafiAnal Ptrfavm.lrapiil TTninn nrft
making a great success of their out of-work
fuud, . i :.
In Colorado in case of debt the law allows
45 per cent, of a man's wages till the bill is
paid. . ,:.
Lowell ingrain weavers won a strike
against carrying tbeir own filling from down
stairs.
Amsterdam has 7,000 idle diamond cutters
and a cooperative factorv will be estab
lished. . - ..
The lockout of hat factories in Danbury,
Cb, is at an end, and the men have returned
to work. 1 1
.'ihe next meetincr of the ceneral executive
board of the K. of L. will meet in Cincinnati
on March 17 next. . ' y
' A general strike of tbe greeu bottle blowers
employed in Pittsburg aud the entire western
district is threatened. - :
There are several strikes in progress among
the help in some of tbe Fall River mills, but
a speedy sett ement.is expected.
- The operatives in the Bourne mill, at Fall
River, Mass., will receive as their share of
tbe profits for tbe past six months $1,020.
It is reported tbat trouble is bre wiug among
the weavers at the King Pbilip Mill, Fall
River, where there is dissatisfaction about
wages. V -
Two thousand men were thrown out of em
ployment last week by the shutting down of
tbe Locust Spring, Reliance, Burnside, Pact
and Funnel coilenes at Shamokin, Pa. ; .
' The strike at the Brooke Iron Company's
nail factory, at Br ids Dor 0', Pa., has been set
tled, the men having been granted the restor
ation of tbe 10 per cent, reduction made some
time ago. - -
' A Chicago brewer was expelled from tbe
onion for rt fusing to pay an assessment for
tbe anarchists. The union secured bis dis
cbarge and prevented him from getting em
ployment. Ho sued the union and got $000.
It is announced that unless there is a de
cided change in the preseut condition of the
coal trade tbe mines operated by the Read
ing Riilroad, as wed as those owned by pri
vate parties, will be closed down. This would
throw thousands of workmen out of work. -'
MARKETS.-
Balwmorb Flour City Mills, e xtra, $ 4. 1 5
a$4 40 Wheat Southern Fultz, SOaSl:
Corn Southern White, 84al0 cts, Yellow
3SVa37c Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
asatflcts.: Kve-rMaryland: & Pennsylvania
MaSttci , Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
Vi 50a$13 00;Straw-Wbeat,7.50a$S.50;Butter;
Eastern Creamery, 26a28c. near-by receipts
lUa'iOcte; Cheese-Eastern Fancy Cream. 104
&U cts. Western., 010 cts; Eggs 12
al3; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la$2.U0, Good
Common, 3 00a $4 W, Middling, $5a7.00 Good
to fine red,8a$i; Fancy, 10a$13.
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, $3.50a$&83: Wheat No I White
WU'aSOM; Rve-rftate. 57a60; Corn-Soutnern
Yellow;boKJW- Oabs White,State30Ka30
cts. Butter State, 8al7 cts. Svheeje atate,
8eAf)X cfe? EH& Mat4 eta. if,
rHllA.tELrHiA. Fiour Pennsylvania
f.incy 4 25 14 75; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, SUjfabO; Rye-Pennsylvania
5Sat50c ; Corn Southern Yellow, 863? cts.
Oats -MyjaZJ cts; Butter State, i!8aK9cts.;
Choe Is. Y. Factory, 9a,))4 cts. Eggs
State, 13XH cts.
CATTLE.
B a.i,timoek Bef , 4 5t)a4 75; Sheep ?5 30
aG00,Hogs $475a500.i
rw York Beef i'A 85a4 70;Sbeep-f 4 50
eCStrHogs J4Wa4 4J; V: - , v :
Babt IjIBE rt y Btx'f $4 25ai 50; Sheep
5 W --11 20a4 o. ,. a
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
Senate Sessions.
ZZmt Day. Ia tbe Senate there was a ion r
discussion about renting rooms in tbe Hot t
Maitby for committee uses. Tbe resolution
to rent them was finally referred to the Com
mittee oo Rules. Mr, Blair called uphisbUlin
reference to aid to common schools and ma i i
a speech, but yielded to Mr. Sherman, who
reported this joint resolution, wbich was put
on the calendar: "That thi United States cf
America congratulate tbe people of Brazil on
their just and peaceful assumption of tbe
powers, duties and responsibilities of self
government, based upon the tree consent of
the governed, ar d in tbeir recent adoption of
a republican form of government,"
- Tbe joint resolution is reporte t as a sub
stitute for tbat of Mr. Morgan. introJneKd
on tbe 18th of Dumber, and referred to tbe
Comoiiite on Foreign Relations, j 4 i
Mr. Alair continued his speech, but yfoUel
the floor for a motion to proceed to execu
tive business, and, after a short executive
session, at 5.25 the Senate adjournal. .
,33rd Dat. The Senate took up the bill to
provide a temporary government for the
Territory of Oklahoma. Various formal
amendments were offered and agreed to but
tbe bill was not finished .
Mr. Dolliver, of Iowa, from the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs, reported the bill for the
relief of survivors of the wreck of the Tren
ton, and "Vandalia" and the stranding of
the ".Nipslo" at Apia, Samoa. The bill was
prifsed without division.
The Educational Bill was then taken up,
and Mr. Butler resumed his speeca in advo
cacy of it, and will continue it on Monday.
. The Senate then proceeded to theconsldui
ation of Executive business and at 4,45 ad
journed, i 1
84th DAT Mr. Evarts, from the Commit
tee on privileges and Elections, reported a
resolution wbich was laid over, that it is
competent for the Senate to elect ft president
pro tempore who shall bold office during the
pleasure of the Senate aud until another is
elected, and . who shall execute tho duties
thereof when the Vice President is absent.
. The Senate resumed consideration' of tbe
bill to provide a temporary government for
tbe territory of Oklahoma, pbo bill was laid
aside without final action.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
a message from tbe President ou tbe subject
of tbe recent negotiations with tbe Sioux In
dians, and recom meud i ng immediate app.o
priation to carry out tae rtduimeudat.otts
of the commission. . Referred.
On motion of Mr. Morrill, the following
Senate bills were taken from the calendar
and pissed.
Appropriating $45,003 for fi reproofing the
roof of the Smithsonian buildin t.
For the organizition of the National Zoo
logical Park. - i . '.
v Tbe Senate then proceoded to the consid
eration of exclutive business, aud, at 4.15,
adjourned. ' ' -
. Soth DAT. Tbe Senate discussed the bill
io provide a temporary government for the
territory of Oklahoma the pending question
being on the amendment offered by Mr.;
Plumb, to comprise No Man's Land within
tbe limits of the proposed territory. After
a long talk tha bill went over without ac
tio on tbe amendment as to No Mao's Land.
Mr. Blair made a long speech on his Edu
cational bill. Without finishing it he yield
ed to a motion to. proceed to executive busi
ness; and, after a session for that purpose,
tbe Senate, at 5U0, adjourned. "
T,:" -: - r Honao Soaai,'.'"-,;'--.--
34tii DAT. Tbre being a tacit understand
ing betwxn the Republicans and Democrats
that no effort would be made for tbe transac
tion of bustness to-day, a large number ot tbe
wt Mm Wa Kaattin mnnd (a aff Anrl tKa fntoral
(of Mrs. aud Hiss Tracy, the clork waa per
Knitted to read the journal ia its abridged
Vvm rPriA TbmAAfara Ai 4 mrife snioK frt m as
iVi Uli A u7 Jouiwi am um u w w un w w
record as approving the journal, and conse
quently demanded the yeas and nays on that
motion, v- !-..-,v ,
The journal was approved year 150, nay3
0, the constitutional quorum being counted
by tbe Speaker. ,
The House then, at 12 45, on motion of Mr.
McKinley; of Ohio, adjourned.
35th Day.--In the Bouse, the Democrats
continued their policy of silent protest against
the ruling of tbe bpeaker by dec-limn? to
vote upon tbe question of approving the .
journal, it was approved, nowever, Dy a vote
of 153 to 0, the Speaker counting a quorum.
Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on Rules,
reported the new code of rules, and it was
ordered printed and recommitted. The Sea-
ate Direct lax -Dili was received and refer
red. A number of bills were introduced and
referred. Mr. Hays, from tbe Committee on
Accounts, reported tbe bill providing clerks
for members and delegates, and it was order
ed printed and recommitted. Mr. Morrill,
from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, re
ported tbe Senate bill to increase tbe pen
sions of certain soldiers and sailors, with a
substitute. Tho substitute was agreed to,
and the bill, as amended, passed. The bill
for the relief of tbe sufferers by the wreck of
our naval vessels at (Samoa was also passed.
i Adjourned. - . - " '
Soth Dat. Intno House the Speaker said
tbat "the Journal Clerk had been busy in pre
paring the new code of rules for rmblieation
aud that consequently the Journal of yester
day's proceedings was not ready to be pre-
oeubdu io toe nouse, dus would be ready sub
sequently. T.b's statement averted the u8
contest over the approval of the Jour I
Bills were reported establishing the oflioi
Assistant Secretary of War and for the r
of the retired list of the army. They w
ordered printed and recommitted. A bill
reported and passed Increasing to $10vj a'
month tbe pension of General Abram Dun
yea. Mr. O'Neill, from the Library Commit-
V reported oacs toe bill appropriating
$25,000 for a -monument to General Henry
Knox, at Thomas ton. Maine. -Pending not inn
the House adjourned. f
SttH DAT Tho report of too committee
on rules was taken up, and Messrs. Cannon
and Bayne spoke for Uie.r adoptioa, aud
Messrs. Mills and Blount in opposition.
S8TH Dat. Tbe sesnida of the House was
given up to the debate of the rnbi Speeches
we made by Grosvenor of Ohio, Holman
of Indiana, Payson ot Illinois, Hatch of Mis
souri and McAdoo ot New Jersey. ; - . -
The debate will be renewed at U o'clock
to-morrow morning and -continue until 5
o'clock. At 8 o'clock it will be renewed,
when tbe diacussion on the Demoaratio side
will be closed by Mr. Carlisle and Mr.
Springer.. -
PEOPLE STARVING IN DAKOTA
lroatti Causes Famine and Poverty
Unprecedented Tbe Indians.
Many of the counties in tbe neighborhood
of Grand Forks, are drouth-stricktin, and
the suffering for want of provisions, cloth
ing, fuel and feed for stock is nnprecedent v.
" , Alt the inhabitant are afflicted, but th.i
distress among tbe Indians is by far tho
worst. . Between tp) and 1,000 Indians crsd
ited to the Devil's Lake agency art wholly
destitute of clothing aad in the last ita.js tf
starvation.'' Unless furnished with ifoa,
clothing and medicine at once thes' Jndir-.
will 'ilia lika dogs, Diswwo bas brought f- .-one-half
of them t tbs verg; of too pr ,v
and the rt-cent IncleoseBt weather -efcl--