Thomas Hcsoir, Business Makaqeb
VOL. 1.
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1890.
NO. 42,.
4 "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
THE NEWS,..
p Contracts hare been signed for the else
.trical equipment of two hundred miles of
road to tha cities of SU Paul and Minneap-
.oil, DjtUs Alexander, Bishop Wbitta-
Iter's assailant, baa been declared Insane.-
Jake. Staples, a negro ravished the wife of
Farmer Rufe Lewi, who lives about twelve
mile from. Knotville, Tenn. John Wall's
Viody was found in a flume at Hoos'.c Falls,
if. J. He had been missing four days.r
The nineteen-year old son of Henry Moore,
of Dover, Del., was burnt to deatb while
suffering with an epileptic fit Willis T.
'Case of the Arm of N. C Case & Sons, of
8yracue, N, Y., was arrested on the charge
of forgery. -The American Cottonseed Oil
Trust has increased its capital stock from
nweniy io mirtv minion aouars. Mrs.
Gilo Collins and daughter were arrested in
'WcKeesport, Pa,, for shoplifting. The Vir
ginia bill tor the inspection of fresh meat
e'aughrered ovf r one hundred miles from the
State has become a law. Mrs. Ida Walker,
a passenger on the steamer British Princess,
committed suicide at sea, -William Tay
lor's hou?et Pbillipsburg, N J., wis wrec'-i-el,
an 1 Mr. Taylor's wife and children serl
ouslv injured, by the explosion of dynamite
cartridge in a stove. Thomas Kavanagb,
, nccustri .of being implicated in attempts to
, br.b Cronin Jurors, has been acquitted.
'Grant I D iv , a co-nmroial traveler, was
drowned in the Oa-co Outlet, N. Y.
Th httor trouble in Woburn, Mvs., has
been Battled. Chirles VU 1, or St. Charles,
'Mo., is fh-trgred with the murder of bis wife,
Fannl John Wylie, who was charged by
murderer Haww, with killing Mrs. Emma
Haw, was, after a hearing, dscbargtd. -Th
I wii deadlock has flu illy ended, both
Ms' agreeing to the compromise. -Tbe
.IVes'de-it was given a h -arty welcome in
I'it'urr.
At a ball at Hardman, Oregon, Zl D'ck
ena, in a fit of jealous rage, because his
brother took his w,ife to supper, shot and
killed him.- Chris)opher Lithain Shotts,
, one of the early settlers of Wisconsin, and
the inventor of the typewriter, died 'iu Mil
waukee. Marcus Marx, member of a
wholesale clothing Orm ia Chicago, was fa
taHy injured by falling down an elevator
shaft six stories. Owing to paralysis of
the throat, Samuel L. Bay less, of Fort Waye,
Ind,,' U slowly starving to deatb. The
Chicago police captured a couple of spiritual
ists, oa tbe charge of obtuinfng money under
faltte pretenses. The National Starch Man-
ufneturing Company, comprising starch
manufacturers in nil parts of the country,
has been incorporated in Covington.Ky.
The Manufacturers' Association at Woourn,
Mass., has decided to closo every leather
factory represented in the association, en
forcing the idlenrs of 1,500 men, unless tbe
strikers at Be'gs & Cobbs' factory return to
work -The bh-nuial convention rf tbe Sons
of Benjamin is being held in Cleveland,
In tbe burning of Henry Fritz's confection"
crys:oro and riienco at'Newark, N. J.,
Mr. Mary Brown, aged twenty-two years,
lost her life. Mr. Rebecca Taylor, the
mother of the late Bayard Taylor, the author,
tiled at ber home in K nnett Square, Pa,
Black Brothers' tobacco factory at Wheeling,
Va., wls seized by United States revenue
officers, the firm being charged with issuing
VWcdghti packages. Dr. WG. Thomas,
a pronifHuut Korth Carolina phys'eian, aged
s -veuty-two years, died of diphtheria In Wil
mington, N, C. A mnn giving the name
of J, B. Kelly, bnt supposed to be Smith, the
friend of Dan Coughliu, who drove tbe
buggy in which Dr. Cronin was conveyed to
the Carlson cottage, in Chicago, to be mur
dered, has been arrested in Sc. Louis. A
nineteen-year-old youth named Booth killed
Rev. Michal Wbisman at Coinpton, Ky..
Fire at Hummillstown, Pa., destroyed
Casse.'i tannery, warehouse and other build
in js: lo $15,000. -C. L. Hammit, of Fin
'rastle, Va., dropped dead in a hotel at Roa
noke. Tbe Lincoln (Pa ) National Bank,
wh!ch was plundered by Cashier Bard and F.
W. Hull, has closed its door, and It is re
ported that the defalcation is much larger
than the first estimate, which placed tbe
amountat between f 30,000 and 40,000. A
freight train jumped tbe track at pounding
Mill, Taxiwell county, Va., the locomotive
and five cars wrecked, and Capt. It D. Peck,
Engineer Samuel Clower and a brakeman
killed.- Seventeen citizens of Sharon, Ga.,
were arrested by United States officers,
charged with intimidating E. L. Duckworth
the newly appointed postmaster of the town.
George H, Bradford, a prominent citizen
of Boston, while riding horseback, was run
down by ah electric car, and both horse.and
rider were instantly killed. The flrstship-
ment pf iron fro u Sheffield, Ala., to Pitts
burg, Pa , Jy targes, via the Tennessee and
Ohio nvers, was Appropriately celebrated
atSbffllJ. a A contest over th will of
Maltby G. Laue, of New York, was begun
1 y bis daughter and grandchildren, the es
tate being vaiunl at one million dollars.
A broker and a. lawyer punched each other'a
noses, and created a lively scene in the New
York Customhouse. Simuel H. Knight,
paymaster of the Chicago and Alton Rail
road, died in St Louis. John Campbell
of Newtown, Ct, was whipped by masked
men for beating bis wife. After a year of
total at stiner.es of the liquor traffic in Plain
N. J. , the C ty Council at one meeting grant
ed fifteen hotel and 8 iloon licenses. Na
poleon Laval shot and fatally wounded his
wife, from whom be h id been separated for
lome tim1, and also her mic e, B.Feldemann,
t Charleston, 8. C. The President has
issued a procluroatioii directing the removal
of all cattle from graaing up-n the Cherokee
Oulleit, in the Northern part of Indian Ter
ritory. Secretary Tracy has recovered
suffieentjy to attend to business. Advices
from China, via San Francisco, report tbe
loss of a stemn .r witli four hundr fd Chinese
passengers in a-typhoon on b China Sea,
Floods in Northern Q?ens!anl have
caused serious low to Ufe and property.
1)W
Suffering the Penalty for His
; Part in the McCoy Murders.
The Condemn id Man Nay) the Hut
Held Gang Farced If im to Commit
the Terrible, Deed.
Ellison Mounts was hanged at Pikevillo,
Ky., for participating in the murder of Miss
Alafair McCoy and her brother. The con
demned man was cool to the last, and as the
black cap was pulled over his face he de
clared that the Hatfield gang forced biro to
engage in the murder. The drop fell at 12. 37
o'clock.
The execution was practically public. Tha
scaffold was erected in tbe suburbs of the
town in a valley overlooked by the grave
yard. A small board fence was built around
the instrument of death, more to avoid the
law prohibiting; public hanging than to pre
vent the multitude from witnessing the pro
ceeding?. Ia view of the threats made by Mount's
friends to rescue him tbe greatest care was
observed to prevent such an arrangement.
Tbe jail was closely guarded and the town
was surrounded by armed pickets.
Mounts did not close his eyes during his
last night on. earth. His attorneys were
hopeful for a reprieve, but not so with tbe
condemned.
While tbe death warrant was being read
in the jail the prisoner appeared utterly in
different, quietly smoking a cigar. When
the hour arrived for tbe trip to the scaffold
the officers began to arm themselves. Tvr
doa n men composed the guard. Each was
armed with a revolver and a Winchester. It
was a determined looking posse.
'I be prisoner took his seat on a coffin in a
wagon. Tbe guards surrounded tbe vehicle
and the death march commenced. Only a
few minutes elapsed after reach ng tbe scaf
fold before the execution occurred. Daath
was instantaneous.
After the execution tbe offioers discovered
a plot which, if successful, would have re
sulted in the escape of tha prisoner and tbe
probable rteith of a number of tbe guards of
the j il. Through the confusion of the jail
cook the discovery was made. The Hatfield
ganz, with whom Mounts was connected at
the time, planne I tbe affdr. The Hatfield's
bad paid tbe cook $200 to place a drug In tbe
food of th j'iil guards.
The cook was told that tbe dru which
wasiven her was merely to make the guards
go to sleep. She became suspicious and con
cluded to try tbe effects of tbe . preparation
on the jiil cat. Tbe result was the instant
death of tbe animal in horrible agony. She
then became alarmed and re used to put the
poison into tb- fuol. She did not communi
cate her intentions, however, to the outlaws,
and they were gathered near tbe jail to await
tie signal which would indicate that all the
guariia were sick wi&oid.
Had this wholesale attempt at murder been
successful, not only tie prisoners in the jiil
would have been killed, but also the 3 leriffs
farm y and the posse. Tbe drug was found
to be strychnine. Ttie cook was immediately
nrr ted. All the outlaw gang have Hid to
the mountains of West Virginia, where it is
s.n e death for o fillers who io low them.
The sheriff is having tbe necessary papers
arranged tos cure requisitions for tbe would-b-
murderers, and every effort will he made
to bring them to jus tic. Should they be
frouiht back hereduring the present intense
excitement, every one of tbem would be in
stantly mobbed, as the people are crazy with
indignation.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Horrible Fate of n Yoimar Woman in
a Burning: Building--
A terrible tragedy occurred at a fire at
Newark, N. J., the other morning.
At 5. 33 o'clock Are was discovered in tbe
basimentof Henry Fritz'sconfectionery, and
before tbe firemen arrived was beyond con
trol. All attention was turned to the saving of
the inmates, and it was supposed that every
one was out of the blazing building, wh'ii
suddenly, amid the crackling of tbe flames,
a terrible cry which arose above all other
no se, came from out of the burning muss.
At the same time an agoni.xl face was seen
to press against the pano of one of tbe upper
windows.
Another cry rent the air, the window
broke, and the head and upper portion of the
body pressed against tbe sash for a moment,
and theu, exhausted and stifled, tbe fated girl
toppled bacx into the flames.
Several firemen dashed up tbe burning
stairs without waiting for orders. The dimes
bal now burst from the window where the
girl bad been saeu, and licked and lapped the
side of tbe bouse. Tbe great crowd waited in
breathless anticipation of the brave fellows'
fate. A few moments of suspense and tbey
were seen descending to the street, bearing ia
their arms a figure about which what re
maiued of a white night-robe bad been wrap
ped. A shout of rejoicing went up, which was
instantly hushed as tbe fireman laid down
their burden and t was found that tbe woman
w is dead.
The body was that of Mrs. Mary Burns, a
handsome young woman,22 years of age. who
came to visit ber sister, Mrs. Jack on.
Tbe firemen found ber lyin? upon thestair
way leading from tbe third floor of the bouse,
, where she had dragged herself after her mo
mentary appearance at the window and ber
prostration by the smoke. She must have
made a brave fl bt for life, as the stairway
was quite a little distance from tbe window.
Fireman Harry Durman, who bad assisted
in bunding the body to tbe street, was badly
injured by availing beam, and it was found
neovssai y to remove biui to his home in an
ambulance.
HIS -FATHER'S SLAYER.
A Southern Sheriff's Trying Ordeal
Danger of Lynching?.
It is not oftea that the issue between duty
and a desire for revenge is drawn so sharply
as it. was In tbe 'mind of Sheriff Hood, of
Chester county, S. C. His aged father, John
Htod, was shot down and murdered on aside
street of Cbestor. His body was discovered
and a colored man named Green Brown was
arrested on suspicion of the' crime. There
was strong circumstantial evidence against
biui, and tbe old gentleman's relatives and
citizens generally proposed to yncu him
forthwith. '' "
Butt the fheriff determined that the law
should have its way. He telegraph Gov.
Richardson that if the maa remained in Ches
ter he would certainly be lynched, and asked
for authority to send hiui to Columbia ior
safe keeping. The Governor sent the desired
authorization aud ordered the Chester miii
tia to aid him if necessary. .
A forceof deputies appointed by the sberiil
took the prisoner from jul and with hini
boarded the train for .Columbia, where they
arrived safely. If tbe sheriff had remained
passive tbe murderer of bis father would have
had short ehnfc
SOUTHERN ITEMS;
INTEUESTIKO NEWS COMPILED
FROM MAN Y SOURCES.
The Granville Farmers' Allianoi ware
bouse baa been incorporated at Oxford, N.
C. , with a capital of 110,030.
David Cable, of Stanley connty, N. C,
is tbe father of S3 children, of whom 25 are
now living; 14 boys and 11 girls.
Jasper S. Sbeely, of Greencastle, Md..
had three of his ribs broken by a well direct
ed blow from tbe hind legs of his horse.
-The liquor men of Frostburg, Md., are
much excited regarding tbe proposed local
option movement, and a secret meeting was
held to frustrate the design.
The Seaboard and Roanoke, and tbe At
lantic and Danville Railroad Companies,
will join in erecting a union depot as soon
as the preliminaries can be arranged.
-A neero by the name of Enoch made a
bet in Lincoln county, W. Va., that he could
drink a quart of whiskey in fifteen minutes.
He did it, but was buried on Thursday.
- A desperate encounter between a large
bald eagle and two dogs took place near
Derwood, Md., in which the bird came off
victorious. Tbe fight was for a piece of fresh
beef.
-A mad dog made its appearance in Elk
Neck, Md., and before it was killed had suc
ceeded in biting a calf and a large number
of dogs, feveral of which were immediately
killed.
The longest train on record on the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad was hauled last
week by one engine. It contained ninety-
seven rreignt cars, and was just a mile ia
length.
The famous belled buzzard has been ob
served by several partis in the vicinity of
Greensboro, Md.t and Mr. Thomas saw him
sitting on the fence in bis garden one day re
cently. .
The St. George and Parsons Telephone
Company will extend its lines to Hendricks.
The West Virginia Central Railway Com
pany has given them the privilege of using
its telegraph poles.
While Charles E. Carbangh, of Union,
town, Md., was turning a pulley for a mill
shaft, the piece of wood split, and a portion
struck bim below the eye, cutting his cheek
and splitting the cose.
Four prisoners escaped from the Durham,
N. C, j ii a few days ago. Tbe escape was
made by picking a large bole through the
wall underneath tho rear window. No cap
tures have so far been made.
The chamber of commerce of Wilming
ton, N. C, have decided to hold a grand
"gala week," in May or June, to celebrate
the completion of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley railroad to that city.
John P. Davis, a white man who was
convicted at Pittsboro, N. C, of murder, last
November, of John A. Horton, his employer
and roommate, was sentenced to be hanged
on Friday, March 23th, at Pittsboro.
By a collision between a heavily loaded
special train and a regular passenger train
ou tbe Alabama and Great Southern Rail
road, near Coaling, Ala., an engineer wan
killed and a number of passengers injured.
It is estimated that there will be a very
large falling off in the use of commercial fer
til.zjrs in the eastern counties of North Car
olina this year as there will be a considerable
reduction in the average of land under culti
vation. -Mrs. Virginia Morrison, of Hagerstown,
Md., possesses a finger-ring that was made an 1
presented to ber grandmother at Annapolis
one hundred and lour years ago. Tbe ring
is of gold, tbe setting being lormed in the
shape of a coffla.
The superstructure of the new street
bridge at Wheeling, vV. Va., arrived after a
long delay on tbe road, and a Kang of men
are busily engaged in putting it in position.
Toe stone work has been completed for sev
eral weeks past.
A street quarrel took placa at Taylors
town, W. Va., between Ban Howell and a
man named Martin, during which the latter
drew a knife and gished Howell's leg, mak
ing a dangerous wound. Martin managed
to make bis escape, and has since eluded cap
ture. Tbe citizens of Franklin county Va,,
will soon be called upon to vote on tbe prop
osition to subscribe $75,000 to the capital
stock of tbe Roanoke and Southern Railroad
and it is thought that it will be carried by
a jjood majority.
The citizens of Lynchburg, Va., were
startled by a blinding fliah of lightning, ac
companied by a terrific peal of thunder, shat
tering several incandescent light globis.
Many persons thought it was an earthquake
or an explosion, the shock was so violent.
A number of companies who have here
tofore been selling fertilizers in North Caro
lina have lormed themselves into a pool to
institute action to test the constitutionality
of the license they have been paying. Tuey
now pay an annual tax of $500 each.
. A number of prominent northern capi
talists have arrived in Greensboro, N. C, on
business connected with tbe Bessemer iron
furnaces. Extensive purchases of property
has been made and the plant will be rapidly
pushed to full operation.
A joint stock company is being organized
under a recent act of the legislature, for the
purpose of rebuilding the bridges over tbe
two branches of the Shenandoah river, at
Riverton, Warren county, Va. These
biidges were bunwd during the war and
have never been rebuilt
Henry Williams, colored, a notorious
thief of Fairfax county Va., was taken from
his house by "White : Caps," a few nights
ago and severely whipped. He was then or
dered to leave the neighborhood which he
did.
The teachers in the Washington county,
Md., publio schools are alarmed at the prop
osition to close the schools on the 24th Inst,
on occount of tbe debt of the commissioners,
which would be liquidated if the teachers'
salaries would be topped for tbe balance of
the schoolastic year.
The Cincinnati Southern freight trains
Nos. 11 and 15 collided at Melville, Tenn.,
seventeen miles from Chattanooga. Engi
neer H. Crow, of train 15, and Brakeman
William Gray, of train 11, were killed. Tha
collision was caused by the neglizence of
the flax man, who failed to fUg No. lb
A lar?e and enthusiastic meeting of tbe
citizsns of Durham, N. C, was held iu tho in
terest of a cotton yarn factory. A letter was
read from a prominent northern capitalist,
offering to take I5.0J0 worth of stock, and
will put the goods on tbe market as soon
as they are mide. This will be supplemented
by other subscriptions, and the scheme will,
in all probability, be a success.
An old gentleman named White, keeper
of tbe drawbridge at Bennetts's creek, Nanse
mond oounty, va., has been missing for
about three weeks. Mr. White was paid
beany thirty dollars and started for bonis,
but never reached his destination, and it is
supposed that he was robbed and m ordered
and bis body concealed.
While a young man, a son of Mr. Tbos.
Cullom, living near Gaston, N. C, was cut
ting wood, a chip or stick flew up and struck
bim in the eye, with such lorce as to knock
hiin down.' Dr. A. R. Z olllooifer being called
in, relieved the man of tbe lnteuss paiu he was
suffering, but found the eyesight permanent
ly ruined.
Two singular deaths occurred at Garner,
N. C, presenting a most striking coincidence.
Two brothers, James and David Crocker,
died of pneumania. They were between the
ages of thirty-five and forty, and one died at
12 M., tbe other at 3. Both married Bisters,
and each leaves a wife and six children. Both
were born on the 12th of tbe month, married
on the l&b, and died on the 12th.
As Miss Mary J. Hardaway was passing
below Buxkevilie, Va.,on tbe Richmond and
Danville Railroad, some cowardly villain
threw a largs stone in the car window, strik
ing tbe youug lady in th face and knocking
her senseless. Great excitement prevailed,
and tbe gentlemen wanted to stop the train
to pursue the assailants, but tbe young lady
recovered and decided to continue ber jour
ney and telegraphed to Richmond for a de
tective. At Wadesboro, N. C, Milton Watson, a
young man who attends tbe feeding of the
prisoners in the county jail, opened the door
to take them their supper. When be opened
the door three prisoners were standing in tbe
hallway near it and one jumped at Watson
with the intention of overpowering him, but
quiok as a flash the young man jerked out
bis pistol and fired twice. Wisdom Smith
was seriously wounded. None of the priso
ners escaped and Watson was not hurt
DISASTERS AWCASUALTIES.
Etta Bixby, 16 years of age, had her fccalp
torn off by her hair catching ia a revolving
shaft in a mill in Hudson, Njw York.
A Panhandle passenger train struck a
strest ear at Newark, Oh la Tbe street car
was smashed, and two of inmates were fatal
ly injured.
A boiler flue collapsed at the Standard
Lumber Company's mill, in Dubuque, Iowa.
Engineer Rjed was killed and Fireman Rich
ard Regiar fatally scalded.
Two trains on tbe Alabama and Great
Southern Rsilroad collided near Cooling,
Alabama. Engineer Edward Doolittle was
killed and several passengers were injured.
There is a theory in Lima, Ohio, that the
explosion at the Standard Oil Refinery there,
by which one man was killed and five others
injured, was the work of some one as re
venge against tbe company.
H. T. Helgeson, State Commissioner of
Agriculture lor North Dakota, has issued an
appeal for aid for tbe farmers in the drought
stricken counties of that State. Their present
condition is due to the failure of their crops.
Susie Thompson pointed a revolver at her
friend, Allio Ellis, aged 15 years, in Came
ron, Missouri, saying "this is tbe way to
scare burglars." A report followed, and Allie
Ellis was killed by a bullet, which entered
ber brain.
Nine cases of typhus fever have been dis
covered in New i"ork city recently. Two
cases have beeu traced directly to infection
from the baggage aud person of emigrants.
The others have been traced to infection in
ioreign countries.
Tbe boiler of a locomotive exploded while
in motion, near Douglaa Station, on the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Rail
road. Charles Jenkins and William Ludwig
were killed, and John Steadman, William
ilcKinley and George Rest were injured.
Last week, during a heavy rain, James
Seals and bis family, emigrants from Ala
bama, attempted to cross Yellow creek in a
wagon, near Burnsville, Mississippi. The
stream wasswollen and the wagon was floated
olf aud capsized. Four childreo, aged from
2 to 10 years, were drowned. Tbe team was
also drowned and everything lost, the par
ents alone surviving.
At Carronton, Louisiana, eight boys se
cured two pinnaces and went out on the river.
A strong current dashed tbe boats against
two coal barges and they were upset Bevea
of the youths were drowned. Wilton tJoby,
aged 7, the only occupant of the boats who
escaped, saved himself by catching oa to one
of the overturned boats.
FOURTEEN CRIMINALS KILLED
Sflne f Them Beheaded and Five
Others Hanged in I'ekln.
Dispatches received in Lndon, from
Shanghai, China, give details of a wholesale
execution ct criminals which took place re
cently in Pekin. The condemned were four
teen in number and were carried to the place
of execution iu wagons.
They were dressed in red, their hands were
tied behind tbem aad a heavy chain was fas
tened around their n.'Cks. At tbe place of
execution the wagons stopped and an Im
perial Commissioner read tho decree of con
demnation. Nine of the prisoners were to be beheaded
and live to be hanged. The former were
placed in front of fhe place destined to receive
their bodies. Their faces were painted rel.
their red clothes were stripped from them
and each one was forced to dig a grave for
himself two feet in depth.
The subsequent work of the executioner
was 8 peed y, and in a very few moments the
nine were beheaded and the five strangled.
The bodies of the latter were stretched on
the ground, and ofHoers pinned on each a
large paper giving th i nam) and crime of the
condemned. Later the bodies wero exposed
to be the prey of carrion birds.
An immense throng flocked to I'ekin from
the neighboring country to witnejs the exe
cutions. LUNATICS WILD WITH FRIGHT
JJnrniiig of an Insane Asylum 500 Pa
tients in Pt rll Water Short.
At 3 A.M. fire bi oke out in the boiler room
of tbeinsano asylum, near Little Rock, Ark.,
and spread rapidly throughout tbe entire
building. There were nearly 500 patients,
all of whom were removed from the different
wards to tbe first floor, preparatory to taking
them out
A scene of pandemonium reigned, the pa
tients scream inc, cursing and sobbing with
terror as the keepers hustled them from floor
to floor until they were in comparative safe
ty. Meanwhile the water gave out and only
tue timely arrival of the fire encine from the
city prevented tbe complete destruction of
the building. One win, including tbe boiler
room, pump-room, engine bouse, laundry,
dry-house, kitchen, bath-rooms and pantries,
was destroyed, entailing a loss of about 35,
000. There is no insurauoe.
PROBABLE DOUBLE MURDER.
A Charleston nun Nhoots His Wife
and Jler Uncle.
A double shooting affray occurred at
Charleston, 8. C. , a few days ago. Napoleon
Laval called at the store of B. Feldemann
& Company and akad to see his wife, who
had been separated from him for soma time.
When tbe woman came down, Laval shot
her, and then entering tbe store Bhot Felde
marm. Both of the victims are believed to
be fatally wounded.
Mrs. Laval was the niece of Feldemann,
end had been living with bis family for some
time. On bein arrested. Laval stated tbat
it was merely a family affair, and that there
was nothing more to be said about it. The
parties ere well known and prominent In bus
iness and soc'iPXj circles, .
TEMPBRANCECRUSADE.
Trouble Threatened in the
Town of Lathrop, Mo.
Men with Political Grudges and Kpltes
Behind the Women Warrant
of Arrests t ho Issued.
A Lathrop, Mo., special says: "While tbe
results of the temperance crusade tbat made
such a furore in this little village have been
spread broadcast, the truth of tbe matter
has not yet been published. Men with politi
cal grudges and petty spites have hidden be
hind petticoats and the world has beard only
of a woman's crusade, whereas, as a matter
of fact, masculine enmity and local politics
inspired the whole affair. Nearly fifty of tbe
best women in the town are liable to be called
before tbe Grand Jury to answer a charge of
trespass and riotous conduct
"Their social rank will not save tbem, as
the next Grand Jury will be drawn by offi
cials who are terribly incensed at the recent
outbreak, and the law will be invoked in aid
of injured parties regardless of morals or
equity. But it is feared that this will not end
tbe matter. 'Tnere will bi bloodshed here
yet,' remarked one gentleman. 'Just as soon
as Prosecuting Attorney Cros issues the war
rants fun will commence, and any attempt to
place one of those people under arrest will bi
met with a resistance that will terminate in
a riot There ar j a large number of men con
nected with the temperance people who will
kill any man who attempts to serve a war
rant on their wives or daughters, and who
have already made threats to that effect'
"John A. Cross, tbe Prosecuting Attorney,
told the following story: 'The mistaken im
pression has gone abroad tbat this was a
woman's crusade, when it was realty started
and engineered by men, and during all tbe
disturbance there was present a man for every
woman.'
''There were present, and actively engaged
In tbe disturbance, J. T. Carmichael, a Bap
tist minister; Jacob Bohart, Sr., Dr. Huady,
who had an axe and wanted to smash tbe bil
liard tables; Editor McKee, of tbe Luhrop
Monitor; B. F. Cochran, an ex-saloon keeper ;
K. G. Kinney, a former Grand Jurymen, who
never summoned any witnesses and never in
dieted a man; Chas. P. Jones, Cashier of the
Lathrop Bank, and 20 others. It has been
charged that the city officials were responsi
ble for allowing all of these saloons to run,
when, in fact, there is no law tbat can pre
vent it, as bas been proven by a case in the
Supreme Court, the Local Option law being
declared null and void. Tben, again, taere
is no Council to pass city ordinances.
The crusaders off r tbe following as having
formed tbe basis for their actions; "The
immediate cause of the outbreak was a st ib
oiu,' affray January 27 last, wboJ John L.
Brooks was severely cut by Abe Scruggs, a
farmer, while both were intoxicated. Mrs.
Brooks, the wife of the man who was stabbed
is perhaps more directly responsible for the
outbreak than any one person. She remarked
to a neighbor tbat if she had anyone to help
her she would break into every saloon in
town and pour tbe liquor into tbe street
Tbat neighbor replied, "I will go with you
and can get tweuty-Hve other women to go."
It was tben tbat a publio meeting was called
and it was decided to circulate a paper ask
ing the women of Lathrop to pledge them
selves to exterminate tbe liquor traffic in
their town. Th women gathered together
at the Opera House and, beaded by Rev. Mr.
Carmichael, marched down the street When
tbe women reached Ward's saloon they stop
ped on finding tbe door locked and a crowd
gathered inside. Tbey were ashamed to
back out They went wild, and smashed the
glass in tbe door, unlocked and went in.
The crowd in tbe saloon bad partially van
ished, but Ward, the proprietor, stood guard.
He was swept from the field, and the door
which separated the bar room vom the bil
liard room was burst open,
"The sight of the beer bottles and whisky
barrels incited the women to renewed action.
The whole tbing developed into a riot, each
women vieing with the other in seeing bow
much damage she could do, one woman Donat
ing tbat Bbe had smashed over a hundred
bottles. Some on e started a raid on the liquor
case and in a moment it was cleared out
and the stuff carried off.
"When the whiskey was being poured into
the street it formed in little poois and a brisk
can trade was inaugurated by boys and men
every sp.'Cies of tools be in pressed into use
to scoop up tbe whisky. When the women
saw what was going on they appropriated a
barrel of salt from a neignbonng grocery
and knockibg in tbe head sprinkled the salt
into the liquor.
THE TREATY RATIFIED.
The Nennte Confirms the British T.x
tradttlou Agreement.
The Senate in secret session ratified the
British extradition treaty with a few amend
ments. The Senate refused to adopt Mr.
Gray's motion to strike out the sections mak
ing manslaughter and obtaining money or
goods under false pretenses extraditable
crimes.
The treaty makes the following crimes ex
traditable, in addition to those specified in
tbe treaty of 1842:
1, manslaughter; 2, counterfeiting or alter
ing money or putting tbe same in circula
tion; 3, embezzlement, larc-ny, obtaining
menjy or goods under false pretenses or re
ceiving the same knowing them to have been
wrongfully obtained; 4, fraud by bailee,
banker, agent, factor trustee, director, mem
ber or oftioer of any company made criminal
by the laws of both countries; 5, perjury or
subornation of pur jury; 6, rape, abduction,
child-stealing, kidnapping; 7, burglary; 8,
piracy by the laws of nations; 0, mutiny at
sea, wrongfully sinking or destroying a ves
sel or attempting to do so. assaults on the high
seas; 10, crimes and offenses against tbe laws
of both countries for the suppression of slav
ery and slave-trading.
Extradition is not to be had for political
offenses, nor shall any parson surrounded by
either party be tried tor any other offense
than the one for which he was extradited.
Tbe treaty shall not apply to any crimes com
mitted before its ratification.
CARS WRECKED BY TRAMPS.
Part of the Galveston Express Train
Dropped Into a Creek.
The engine and baggage car of the Galves
ton express plunged through a bridge over
Chisholm Creek, Kansas, six miles south of
Wichita. The passenger coaches were left on
tbe brink.
Road master E. Peters, of Newton, was
killed. Engineer Wand and Fireman Smith
each had a leg brokan; the express mss sn
eer, named unknown, had both arms broken ;
Miss Cain, of Udall, four ribs fractured;
Josiuh Erieson, Tope k a. arm broken ;Ed ward
Whitley, St. Louis, fractured collar bone.
Others received cuts and contusiona
Tbe support of tbe bridge through wh'ch
tbe train plunged had been burned away
during the night it is supposed, by tramps;
A sheriff' posse is scourinj the country tor
the miscre&'Hi,
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
Senate Sessions.
33th Dat. The bill to transfer the reve
nue service to tha naval establishment was
reported and plaoed oa thj calendar. A
number of bills were taken from the calendar
and passed, among them House bill for the
relief or sufferers by the wreoklng of our
war vessels at Samoa; bills for the appoint
ment of an Assistant Secretary of War, with
a salary of $4,000; to prevent, the Introduc
tion of contagious diseases from one State to
another, and for the relief of soldiers and
sailors who enlisted or served under assumed
names. A concurrent resolution was also
passed requesting the President as oooasioa
may arise, to inviie International arbitration
for the settlement of disputes between na
tions. After an executive session tbe Senate
adjourned. .
3OTH Day. Tbe bill extending tbe privi
leges of tlie mail free of postage to historical
societies was reported back adversely from
tbe Post office Committee and indefinitely
postponed. Mr. Beck presented the creden
tials of Mr. Blackburn tor bis new senatorial
term, from March 4, 1891, which were placed
on file. The Senate tben proceeded to busi
ness on the calendar, and passed about two
dozen bills, unobjected to, including that for
the relief of tbe German Evangelical Church
of Martinsville, W. Va. ; appropriating $40,
000 for a statue and monument to James
Madison in the city of Washington. Tbe bill
for the admission of the State of Wrominar
having been . reached on the calendar, Mr. ,
Piatt gave notice that he would call it np for .
consideration at the earliest opportunity.,
The Educational bill came us as unfinished
business at two o'clock, and Mr, Blair re
sumed bis argument in support of it
40th Day. bills were reported appropriat
ing to,3uu,uuu i or fcno construction ot a deep
water harbor at Galveston (not more than a
million to be expended yearly,) and provid
ing for the admission of Idaho to tbe Union.
After an executive session, Mr. Blair spoke
for an hour and a half in support of his Edu
cation bid. A conference report on the bill
to include in tbe census an escertainment of
farm mortgage indebtedness was agreed to.
After an executive session the Senate ad
journed. 4 1st Day. Adverse rporti were male
from the Committee on Nival Affairs on the
ill to regulate the pay of employes at tbe
Washington navy yard. Mr. Hale gave no
tice that as soon as the Elucational bill was
voted on and out of tbe way, he would ask
consideration for tbe bill to increase the
naval establishment Mr. Blair made another
long speech on bis Educational bill, in the
course of which be said: "This great Ameri
can press of ours is the source of more mis-
nhl'af irt flin sistii n - than f Kaka BAnlrl fwi 5 9
vmvt su vuo vuuuvi j viwu vuviv w vus ew a
we had no press at all. There may come a
time when a dog fizht will not be more im
portant, in the opinion of this press, than a
great school bill; but tbat time ha sot been
reached." After an executive session the
S.nate, at 5.30 o'clock, adjosraed.
House Seaslona. '
418T Day. The consideration of th? new
rules was continued. The Journal was ap.
proved by tbe Speaker counting a" quorum.
Mr. Candler, from the Committee on tha
W orld's Fair, submitted a report, which was
ordered printed and recommitted. The con
sideration of tbe new rules was then proceed
ed with, and they were finally adopted, al
'most exactlv as reDorted from the commit
tee, by a vote of 161 yeas to 145 nays, a strict
party vote. The House theu adjourned.
42th Day. Tbe Journal was approved-.
123 to I. The Senate amendments to the Silk
Bibbon bill were concurred in. Mr. Banks,
of Massachusetts, asked unanimous consent
for tbe immediate passage of a joint resolu
tion authorizing the appointment of 30 addi
tional medical examiners in the Pension Bu
reau. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, object
ed, saying, he thought the rules should
be adhered to. Mr. Dunnell, from the Cen
sus Committee, reported back the Senate bill
for tbe ascertainment of tbe mortgage in
debtness of tho country. Mr. Dockery of
fered an amendment tbat Sections 13 to IS
ofthe original Census Act (providing penalties
for refusal for answer) be added to the bill.
Tbe amendment was adopted, and tbe bill as
amended was passed. Public business was
then suspended, and after addresses by &
number of members in eulogy of the late
Representative Richard W. Townshed, of Il
linois, tbe House adjourned.
43ao Day. A resolution was presented
from the World's Fa r committee setting
apart Thursday and Friday for debate on the
world's fair bill, and providing for a vote on
Monday next on the selection of a site, unless
the House shall have determined by a vote
that the world's fair shall not be held. The
r -solution was adopted by a vote of 239 to
44th DAY.-'-On motion of Mr. O'Neill, of
Pa., Saturday, March 15, was set apart for
the delivery of euloginson the late Rtprsseo
tative Keller. The Senate bill for the ap
pointment of an As dxtant Secretary of War,
and tbe Oklahoma bill were respectively da
bated in committee of tbe whole. The con
ference report on the hill to collect farm
mortgage statistics for tbe census was agreed
to and the House adjourned.
45th Day.- -Mr. Rowell. of Illinois, chair
man of tbe Committee on Elections, srave no
tive tbat he would call up tbe West .Virginia
contested election case of Atkinson va Pen
dleton for consideration next Wednesday.
Tne House in committee on the whole (Mr.
Payeon, of Illinois, in the chair,) discussed
the bill to authorize tbe appointment of an
assistant secretary of war. Tbe bill was fa
vorable reported, and the Oklahoma bill was
discussed. On motion of Mr. Wilkinson, of
Louisiana, Saturday afternoon, March 23.
was set apart for tbe delivery of enlogiea
upon the lat? Representative E i ward J. Gay,
of Louisiana, and at tbe instance of Mr.
Cummings, of New York, Thursday evening,
April 3, was fixed for tbe delivery of eulogies
upon tbe late Representative S. S. Cox. of
New York. Tbe House, at 5. Si o'clock, ad
journed. MARKETS.
BALTmORB Flour City MUls,extra, $4. 15
a$4.40. Wheat Southern Fult,. 81aa;
Corn Southern White, 41al2 eta, Yellow
38a39a Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
2Sa31cts, ; Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
54a5octa. , Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
12 d0a$l 00,atraw-VV heat,7.50a$S.50;Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 'idaiSic., near-by receipts
lUa'Outs; Cbeeje-Kastern Fancy Cream. 103
alt$ cts. Western, al0 cts; Eggs ia,!
al3 ; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la&uo, Gooa
Common, 3 00a 1 4 00, Middling, oa7.00 Good
to tine red,8atf; Fancy, lOafld.
New YoRr Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, 3.50o&83: Wheat No 1 White
eb)a35 ; Rye-State. 57a(W; Gorn-Southeru
Yeiiow,aoa36 Oats Vhite,Statea7a37
cts. Battel State, 8al7) cts. Cheese Statu,
10al0 cti; Eggs 14ai4f cts.
Philadelphia Fiour Pennsylvania
fincy, 4 25i4 75; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Bed, 7DabO,V; Rye-Penhsylvania
fiiiaCOc; Corn Southern Yellow, otio37 cU
Oate a9aa eta; Butter State, ttb&9cU ;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, 9ayi eta. Eggs
State, 14Xal5 eta.
CATTLE.
Baltimore Beef, 4 50a4 75; Sheep $3 50
aO 00, Hogs $4 ?3u5 00.
JN ew York lf 13 &"a4 70 ; S.ep-$ 1 J
aQ 37; Hogs 4.15 14 55.
East Liberty lieef $ l 25a4 5; Sbev
f 3 7ua5 i'Jj He-3-H S!0a4 45.