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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FEIDAY, MARCH 28, 1890.
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THE NEWS,
The" Chairman of the North D iketa IToue
of Delegatsa' Railroad committee' ran oft
, with a bill iaslng corporations. Toe price
, .ci Unlr crude oil has. been advanced to
twentysRye cants per barrel; Rot. J. Car
ro;c!iel,ot LUbrop, Mo . aoouaos hU wi e
f Jultery.and win apply for a divorce
S n cruiser Newark wa launched la Phila
delphia in a blinding snowstorm,-' A col
lision oocurred oa the Northwestern road at
.Lsvalle Station, near Barbuboo, Wis., and
six peroous were more or lesj. injured.
vonduotor Houtling, of the Lake Shor train
wrecked near Bay View, N. Y. , was arraign
ed at Buffalo, charged with being responsl-
b.e for the accident. - The Fiorlda South
ern railroad his been placed in the hand of
receiver,--31. J. Cheatham was hanged
at Grenada, Miss., for the murder of a col
ored man.-7-J. Frank Armstrong, aliat
Tompklns.the erabeEzliuj; Philadelphia book
keeper, It lield in $ld,0J0 bail fo'r court.
In BraidwooJ, III., Joseph Nodak shot and
killed the fourteen-year-old. daughter of his
fcrother-in law. Assistant Naval Con
:ruc;or Charles Iiewes died at Norfolk.
$Tve miners penned in the- burning mine, at
Hurley, Ma, perished, and six others were
seriously in juredLdau Nickers m, widow.
of the late Captain Niukerson, was awarded
3,500 damages for libel against the Central
Safe Deposit Com; any of New York.
Jacob Arnold and his son Charles, and
Joseph Schinitt, were arrested in Now York,
charged with smuggling. .' . :
' Bfshop ShanIey,-of North Dakota, appealed,
to a large congregation in the Philadelphia
Cathedral for aid fortho Chippawa Indians,
whose coalition he described as most de-
. plorable, hundreds of ' tbem on the govern
tnent reservation having neither sufficient
food nor shelter. H. W. King, prefect of
tbn Pennsylvania institution for the instruc
tion of tho Blind,' in Philadelphia, was ar
rested on the" charge of immoral conduct
made by the pupils. A quarrel over a
pew in St. Mary's Catholic Church, at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. .caused a fl ibt, In which
the priest and several of the congregation
participated. : Fire cnussd a panic amonx
the inmates of the House of Gxd Shepherd,
Chicago. A fight between English and
: Irish girls in a mill at Fjll River, Mass., led
to a strike of the latter.- A post of the
Grand Army of the Republic is to be formed
In Montreal of Canadians who served, the
Union. Frank Grottner, of;' Allegheny
City, Pa,, murdt'ro I his ten-year old Btep
dsn hter. John William', an Englishman
owner of a large cattle ranch in Montana,
while cn his way to New York to sail for
Liverpool, s'oupedin Milwaukee, where be
" ra-.-t Emil Constants, who showed him the
rights and relieved bis pocketpook of $1,400.
- Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, is again
' after the railroad managers for a lower
.freight rate on corn for tho benefit of the
' farmers. Henry Boss and his wife were
fatally injured at Holland, Mich., by a faa6
train on ibe Chicago and West Michigan
' striking their carrage. F.li Stahlnaker, in
n fit of insinity, attempted to murder Con
' stable Prater, and then committed suicide,
at P easant Hill, Mo. ;A Inndslide at Troy,
J, N. Y., destroyed a dwelling, and three pur
Vons wore killed. Two children of Mra.
. . Joliiine, of Greenburg, Pa., ware po'soned
by eating " wlH - parsnips. Henry Furdy,
his wife and daughter were all killed by a
locomotive striking their carriage at Jack
' son5, Mich, By an explosion of boilers in a
colliery engine-room at Carbondale, Pa., two
rn.-n were killed. The Philadelphia Con-
ference of tl.e Methodist Episcopal Church
rej'cteda proposition to increase tha lay
representation to' tin General Conference.
The federal contract labor Inspectors at
Cat!e Garden have been neglecting their
duty and the commissioners of immigration
have discovered that hundredd of men under
contract hive been permitted to land in di
rect violntioi of the law. -Mrs. Grover
.Cleveland laid the corner-stone of the new
K and ear infirmary in New York city.
- ,e South Pennsylvania Railroad was sold
W at sheriff's sale to parties In the interest of
the Reading Railroad. '
The sheriff of Moctevixtn, Col., shot and
killed three prisoners who had etcuped from
the county J ail. Tho recent freezing
weather has in jurW the growing wheat in
', Illinois. Jonathan Young Scainmon, the
founder of the Chicago Inter Ocean, and for
t ' many .years prominently ident.fijd with the
growth and prosperity of CUicago, died at
h s home in Hyde Park, aed seventy-eight
Jearfr.Fire at Whitall, Tatum & Co's
'f t glass works, at Milville,N. J., communicated
Wlia IDs BaiLoeicr vuts. nuivu mr
formed into roaring furnaces, which, when
' water was throws-upon them, exploded with
'f- torrlflo force, Bi'. D. Spencer, to whose
" bid -management wak. attributed the failure
of the Cook County National Bauk of Chi
cago, in 1877, has returned to that city after
so alsence of thirteen years. -Despond-
eney, caused by iil-healtlJ, led Miss Katie,
O.t, a Cincinnati teacher to commit suicide.
-Bernard F. Martin, deputy commissioner
' of pulio' works, New York city, was arrest
ed oi sn indictment charging him with re
ceiving bribes while in the sheriff's office. .
' Deputy Sheriff Patrick Fitzgerald was also
; arrostod. Tne Iowa legislature passed a
' till reducing the maxiinutn rate of interest
on negotiable paper from ten to eight per
. t.nt The widows of the victims of the
NottinghatB mine disaster have entered suits
against tha Lehigh and Wilkesbarra Coal
CompMDy for damages agarogutlni ?100,UUO.
Many tobacco plants in North Carolina
luva been' blighted by frost. A twelve-,reai'-old
son of S. D. Ch-'unberf, near" Hot
Spring, iladison county, N. C, cccideatahy
iiot and killed his mother. Two Yale Col
tesja stu ieuis WerelroWfed nearNdW Haven
L't,,by Lhuir Lu-it i aau:ij; aalufet tLe Lrdak
- --w..fcv ti!id .' ip.i.'i..t. J-'i3 A. DAvi', di-
tS'i'.ty ti frit -'i )Vf t'" i.D,ti"t r, N.
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Ten Men Loso Their Lives and
a Score are Wounded.
Col In pse or . Unrnlng- Ilulldlnc in
lM4llanMolU Men l'lulouoil Be
nrntli Tlmbcri Die In Agony.
What at first seemed an insignificant Qre
in the Bo wen-Merrill bookstore at Indianapo
lis, Ind., resulted In a catastrophe in which
at least ten men were killed and dszea
wounded, some of whom will die.
Tho buildiLg occupied by the beck com
pany was a four-story and basement marble
front building facing Washington street,
just west of Meridian. The fire started short
ly before three o'clock P. M., near the fur
nace in the sub-basement,
The fire department, when it arrived,
seemed at a loss to locate the fire, and tegaa
pouring water into the building at the front,
when the seat of the trouble was in the rear.
Fur two Lotu s the fight had continued this
way, until a majority of thesp ctators bad
ltfr, under th impression that the fire was
out. About 5.90, Uowwer, there was a terri
ble crash, and the entire building, except
the front wal , fell inward.
At the time a number of firemen, variously
estimated at eight to twenty, were oa tha
roof ot the building and were buried in tha
debris which waspded forty feet high within
the walls or the burned building.
Immediately the work of rescuing the liv
ing aud extrioating the dead was begun by
at least 5U0 volunteers, who, in addition to
tha injured Are men and- members ot. the
police force, formed a strong corps of work
era. : ':.
At times their ears would be greeted by fie
groans ot the wounded underneath tha ruins,
and then the work would be pushed with re
newed vigor. For tLree hours the force
labored to rescue the vrounded and recover
the dead.
- "Here's IVells," was tne cry. Acheerbroko
out among the band of rescuers, and through
an opening in the ruins appeared tha black
ened, grimy faoe of the Veteran of No. 6. .
"I'm not hurt, boys, but there are others
in there who are," ha said, pointing to the
cellar.
He was at once carried into Sloan's drug
store, where Dr. Canfleid examined fain in
juries, which consisted of a badly bruised
ana cut luit ieg. itobertson, or "Wells" as
he is more familiarly culled, gives the follow
ing acoount of ths disaster:
- "I was working in the cellar when tho
crash came, and I was knocked down, and
muse have lost consciousness for a moment.
When I recovered I lound that a uioje of
timber bad lodged across my leg, ana held
me fast. Espey Stormer I could bear calling
lor help about ten feet away. He was in a
worse place than I was, and be became quiet
after a time. I struggled bard to get free, as
it was terribly not, ana tne burning timbers
were all around me. I jerked my leg free at
last, and crawled out between ttie wall and
.the ruins."
,The scenes at the fire headquarters were
only exceeded in pathetic Interest by those
at tha homes of the doid firemen. : Old men,
latbers of the younger men who last their
livt-a, wives, mothers and children ot the dead
aud living have crowded mio the room seek
ing miormation of their Joved ones, and gat
ing none, have rushed to the scene of the fire,
and by their frantio appeals have made
doubly arduous tha work uf those endeavor
ing to get at those imprisoned beneath tho
ruins. ; - . i
The first ambulances to leave the scene of
the five carried the remains ot the first four
rata taken from beneath tha fallen floors.'
They were followed by an impromptu vro
eession of carriages, wagons aud pedestrians,
nd proceeded first to the undertaking es
lablisnments and then to the homes of tha
deceased, where in two instances their com
ing gave the first iutiuatton of the tor row
that had fallen oa the home.
. HALF A MILLION SHORT. ' .
City Auditor Vfrnon WUltealdr, of
SjllAttMIIOOtfH, 31Issliiff.
In the proceedings of tho City Council of
Chattanooga, Tenu., the Unanc al committee
made a report relative to the present invea
ligation of the books of the rity, which
showed a decrepancy oi $683,250 between tne
accounts of City Auditor Vernon Whiteside
ana the city.
- Upon the receipt of ibis report the oflloe
was declared vacant, and Auditor-elect Stew
art was installed. The investigation of tWo
books will be c ireful y made; but as it is
now in progress, the final result of the in
quiry cannot now be ascertained.
-The friends of Mr. Whit;side inform the
city officials that any UeBoiency th it arises
will be promptly paid to the city authorities.
Mr. Whiteside's whereabouts are unknown.
FATAL FIGHT JN A SCHOOL. .
Tho TeHrhr la Clubbed, snd it Tnrn
. Htibs a Fnpll to Jcafh.
News has teen received of a murder in a
school-house in Clay county, W. Va., Terry
Gjff, a sixteen year old boy, quarreled with
his teacher, Morgan Rose, and was expellel.
In the afternoon Goff, with his father and
two companions, returned and assaulted
Kos. Young Goff knocked Rose down with
aciuend when tha teacher regaloea bis
feet be drew a knife and slabbed GoS to the
heart. A geueral fight followed, m which
toih Boa-. and toe o.der Goir were seriously
injured. Ro will prot aiy die.
MARKETS.
Baltimore FlourCity MUla, extra, tlSO
at4.4'J. Wheat Southern . Fultz,? SOutf;
Corn Southern Wbito, 37aS8 cu, Yellow
Ba35c. Oata-Soutbern aud iJenasylvania
a7aoOcta, ; live Maryland & Jfennsylvan a
5.')a57t!. , Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
lii 4jal3 0J;btraw-VV heat, 7.60a ts.oy;iiutter,
Eastern Creaui3ry, 'AJaaiio., near-by receipt
lOaAicts; Cheese Kaatern Fancy Cream. 11
&l)4 cts. Western, UalO eta; Egs la
aia; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, 13,00, Uood
Common, a Waf4 00, Middliug, 5a7.(W Good
to iinered,8a'J; Fancy, lUa4ld.
Naw Yobk Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, i. 50a 4 85; Wheat No! White
87a"i7Xl Kye-Mtata. 57ati0; Cora Soutbern
ellow, iJ7a:J7V.Oac-White, State 2)jna9
cKBotter-iuite, 8al7j cts. Cieese iitAtj,
bjlilU ctv, Esa lUUii cbj.
I'an.aBSLPSiA. Fiour PerjiisylTaEis.
fancy, 4'&a7o; Wheat Pennsylvania an 1
Moutnern ited, 85c.Vl; - Rye 1'annsylvaniA
5diOUc; Corn Southern Yoiiow, tfla-JS cts.
jnx23M'J4 ct; uuctor duw, y&airj cti. ;
Cliuw N. V. Facry, 'JaJ; cU Ejj:
State, eta.
CATTLE.
lUF.riO1":: H'-f, 4 7.a 9J; Shwep 15 00
tii i j , a -? 1 1 ;-'j
t w 0i .i -v- v r- ; 0u7 oo-hi-;- 3
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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
' Senate McsNlnn.
- B7th Day. Mr. Frye, from the Commerce
Committee, reported a bill to repeal the law
ot last Congress requiring steamships to
carry guns and rockets for casting lines in
case of distress. The reason for the passage
of the bill, he said, was that "the gr.-ed of
certain compauies might receive tha notice
required," lie explained that after the pas
sage of the act the companies furnishing the
guns and rockets had exorbitant.y raised
their prices. The bill wa placed on the cal
endar. Nearly the entire session was then
taken up with 'a political discussion, the
speakers being Messrs. JEustis, Hoar, Chan
dler, Sherman and Butler. After an execu
tive session the Senate ad journed.
6STH Dat. Mr, llala, from tho Commit
te on Appropriations, reported the Urgent
Deficiency bll, aud said that he would call
It up for action next week. The Blair Kdu
catlonal bill was taken up as "the unfinished
business," and Mr. Teller addressed the San
Ate in support ot it. . Tha bill then went over
without action. Mr. Cullom presented resc
lutfons relative to the death, on March 9,
1SS9, of Representative Townshend. of Illi
nois, declaring that the Ssnate shared with
thi House in its expression ot sorrow, and
directing copies of tha resolutions to be for.
warded to the family ot the deceased. Hi
pronounced a eulogiu in on the dead member.
After foiling and appropriate remarks bv
Senators Vast, Hale an 1 Jones, of Arkansas,
the Senate, as a further mark of respect, ad
journed. 60TS Dat, Mr. Cockrell presented a num
ber of petitions from felt. Louis against Sue
ratification of the extradition treaty with
Russia. Mr. Evarts introduced a bill to in
sure preference to veterans ot tha late war in
government appointments, and Senators
Plumb and Htwiey introduced bills to pre
vent desertion in the army. Mr. Voorhees
offered a resolution for the prompt adoption
of such measures as are required for the relief
of the farmers and other overtaxed and un
derpaid laborers of the United States. The
Educational diii was tnen taken up as the
"unfinished business." aud Mr. Daniel ad-
dressed the Senate in advocacy of the bill and
Mr. Hawley obtained the floor to speak
agalntitthe bill, the bill went over till to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Hale, the Urgent
Deficiency bill was then taken no. and the
following amendments, as reported by the
Committee on Appropriations, were, among
others, agreed to. Tha House appropriating
$50,000 for a public building at Houlton, Me.,
was reported and placed on the calendar. The
Senate then adjourned. - .
0th Dat. Mr. Sherman, from tha Com
mittee on Finance, reported a substitute for
the bill against "trusts," in restraint of pro
duction, and it was placed on the calendar.
Immediately after the morning business the
urgent deficiency bill ' was taken up and
amendments giving relief to . tha Turtle
Mountain band of Indians and soul agricul
tural stations wore passed. The Blair Edu
cational bill came up at SF.M. as unfinished
business, and; Mr. Hawley made a speech in
opposition to It Mr. Moody offered some
amendment to the bill, and made a brief
i-peecb in support of it. Mr. Chandler also
argued in favor ot it. At the close of Mr.
Chandler's speech, Mr. Call obtained the flior,
nd tha bill went over until to-morrow. The
Houb amendments to the Oklahoma bill
were rfretunted to the Senate, and on motion
of Mr. Piatt, - were non-concurred in. A
confereno was aiked, and Senators Piatt,
Cullom and Jones, of Arkansas, were ap-
?ointed conferees on the p-irt sf the Senate,
he Senate then adjourned. -
6isx Dat. Vice-President Morton ocot'.
pled tne cnair at tne opening of 10 'lay's ses
sion. Tne resolution olf sred ly Mr. Voorhees
lust Monday as ti agricultural depression
was taken up, and Mr. Voorhees addressed
tue Senate in relation to it, Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Stewart also spoke. The Blair Educa
tional bill was taken up as unfinished bui-uf-s,
aud Mr. Fierce ma le a speech. Mr.
Evarts madi a long address on the bill. Mr.
Call spoke in favor or the bilL Mr. Bats ob
tained the floor, and the bdl went over till
to-morrow. Tne Senate then ad j turned.
Hrna Seoalona
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' 63rd Dat. At tha conclusion of the morn
ing hour, the House went into committee of
the whole, Mr. Fayson. of Illinois, in the
cbalr, for the further consideration of the
Oklahoma bill. The hour of four o'clock hav
ing arrived, the committee arose and report
ed the bill to the House. The amendment
adopted in committee of the whole providing
that section 2139, Revised Statutes, prohibit
ing the introduction of intoxicating liquors
into the Indian Territory, shall be in lorce
'in Oklahoma until after tho adjournment of
the first session of the legislative assembly,
;was agreed to yeas 131, nays 103. The bill
;was then passedyeas 1150, nays 25. It is a
substitute for theSmatebillonthesamesub
ject, The House then adjourned.
61TH DAT. The Hous j went into commit
tee ot the whole (ilr. AlbD, ot Michigan, in
the chair) on the private calendar. The bill
taken up was o:ie auth jrisiug the President
to retire General J. 0. Fremont, with the
rank of majjr general. Mr. KHgore, of
Texas, offfre i an amend meat for tin retire
ment ot General Fremont with he rank of
brigadier general. Mr. Julgore's amend
ment was rejected 1 to 1 10 -and the bill was
laid aside with a favorable recommendation.
Tbese bills together with one appropriating
1 18,000 for the relief at the owners, oillcers
and crew of tha British Birk Cbauce w.r j
subsequently reported to the House, but no
financial action was taken, and at five o'clock
tbe House took a recess until eight o'clock,
tha evening session being for the considera
tion of private pension bills,
65th DAT.Thn House adopted a resoTn
tion offered by Mr. Bn:ckinriag. of Arkan
sas, calling on tha Secretary of War for in
formation as to whether tberj are sufficient
mouey and facilities at command of tbe War
Department to guard tha levees and other
workaod the plant of the government from
destruction and injury by the present flod,
and if not, to report whatmty bo nt o-ssary;
also to inform the House it there is reason to
apprehend unusual danger to human life,
and what steamers can bemad ty the de
partment or the Mississippi river comnvsriou
to rescue those in peril. Public business was
then suspended, and t he House proct e led to
pay the Inst tritut of respecto to the rmmory
of tbe late Hon. Wia D. Klley. of Pnn-.
sylvania. Eul'iies were dliYt'rd by rep
resentatives O'Neill, Hoi man, Mdls, Banks,
JeKinIey, Wilson, (W. Va.,) Breckinridge,
(&y.,)and others.
C6th Dat. On motion of Mr. Hitt, of Il
linois, acting under instructions from tbe
Committee ou Foreign Affairs, the rules were
suspended, and a joint resolution was pn.tstd
requesting tbe President to invite the King
of the Hawaiian Islands to select delegates to
represent bis kingdom in tha Pan-American
Congress. Oa motion of Mr. Robertson, cf
l.touiiana, acting under in tructions from the
Committee on Military Affairs, the rules
were suspended, and a bill was passed appro
priating $13,500 for tho construction of a
road to th JNatioual Cemetery at Port Hud
son, h", Mr. Loie, of Massach'i-mtts. nct
injr undor in-iiru -110113 froui the Committee
on Naval Affairs, inov.jd tosu-pj;:d iftarulus
and f s a t.ill to trunsf.-r tl.o revenue int'.r
,vrvi-- frt.ru ti, 'J'rt-i"'-'ry i) 1 'irti.Mont to tfe
jivy Ti-j-.j iri t. Tii-j i.'. mi wm a';r 1
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67TH DAT. After tbe morning boar ex
pi red tbe House went into committee of tbe
whole Mr, Burrows, (Michigan) in the chair
-on the Pension Appropriation bill. Mr.
Morrow (California) in charge of tha bill,
which appropriates $93,427,461, explained its
provisions in detail, and in reierenoe to the
general subject of pensions said that it might
safely be ashamed that tbe number of pen
sioners would reaoh its maximum about July
1st, 1694, when tne expenditure would be
$113,000,000. On that date, under existing
law, tbe number of pensioners on tha rolls
would be 750,000. Pending debate, the com
mittee rose, and the House adjourned.
68th Dat. Mr. Cooper (O.) a member of
tha Committee on Elections, called up the
Maryland contested case of Mudd against
Comptos, It being agreed that debate shall
be limited ti six hours, at the end of which
time the previous question shall be consider
el as ordered. Mr. Laoey (la,) opened the
discussion with au argument in support ot
the claims of the contestant. Mr. Dalzell
(Pa.) and Mr. Greenhalge (Mass.) advocated
the case of the contestant, and tha ease of
tbe silting member was upheld by Mr. Moors
(Tex.) ana Mr. Gibson (Md.) Pending a vote,
tha House adjourned. , -
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Edward Bellamy la dramatizing looking
backward."
Mary Anderson is always a welcome visi
tor at Tennyson's bousa.
James Gordon Bennett's hair has turned
whits since he was last saen in America.
Mrs. Senator Pettigrew believes in co
education and all things that will assist wo
man in earning her bread.
Green B. liaum, the Pension Commis
sioner, is a stout, broad shouldered man,
with dark whiskers and haxjl eyes.
Lieutenant Jerrold Kelley, U. S. N., Is a
naval olHo.-r and a journalise rolled into one.
Hs is also a capital raconteur, with a ready
wit, and a well-stored memory.
Florence Finch-Kelly , the newest authoress
to bid for popu.ar favor, is a girl with jet
black hair, and eyes so dork that they sm.
black.
Miss Paunoefote, the eldest daughter of
thj British Minister at Washington has douo
much by her personal example, to make
walking fashionable among the girls of the
Capital.
. Dr. Holmes rad a number of bib poems to
tbe students ot Boston University a few
d tys Hgo, the selections fnclud ng "The Lat
Lef,n Dorothy Q." "Toe Voiceless'-' and
"The Chambered lVautilus."
William Lloyd Garrison is tall and slim
and gray, and bald. He has amassed a con
siueraule competence out of wool, and is ot
a decidedly literary turnof mind. Ha has a
weak voice, which mars the effect of hia pub
lic speeches, '
Joan Jacob Astor owned 2,700 high clas
dwelling houses, rented at au average of
$ J,000 a year each. He owned besides tene
ment houses in uutold number, and uo end of
real estate devoted to businees uses.
Mrs. Senator Hawley is one of tbe notice
able figures in Washington Society because
of ber pure Eogtisn ways. She is said to
have-warmed up. if not thoroughly converted
b r husband to equal suffrage.
Ex-Minister MeLne Isa thinbuilt.mlddle
s s -a, courteous-mannered man, baa been a
promlneue figure in public life for close ou
tuif a century. He first entered Congress
in 1817, having previously fought ' in tbe
Fl nid a War.
- Senator Stanford's gray eyes have lost
Hamt ot their light since the death of- bis
son, but ba has lost none of bis vigor, aud
bticks as sternly as ever to tbe simpie life of
early rising ao-l plain living wbica has al
ways characterised him. --
Speaker Reed has received at least one
novel by every mail sine. it became known
tuaii he is fond of liirbt literature. Dunlioue
copies of the same work have sometimes
reached him from the author and tbe pub
lisher. , .
Ex Governor George 3. Boutwell is one
ot tue grjtud old uieu of Masaaobusetta. List
Jauuary he passed his seventy-second birtb
day, One day last week be made a ten
hours' epeecb before tbe Supreme Court at
Washington iu a patent cost involving fttJO
000, Mr. BoutWbll has entirely wituurawn
from politics.
Georee William Curtis is 63 years old, but
he looks younger ttian mauy men ot 50. He
is oc the miUiutn heigoc, well built, well
uressadand well mannered., His large gray
eyes have a genial expression and bis manners
have a boarty, engaging warmth. He works
in the Harper's oflloe every day from 9 to 3,
for which he draws a- salary of $J5,C00 a
year. , '
Orun Fallett, of Sandusky, is the oldest
tduor iu Oaio. He was past U0 when be
voted for President in 18&. anl is in vig
orous healtb. He began bis journalistic
career over seventy years ago, was in the
New York Legislature in 18'JO, was tor many
years au editor at Batavia, N. Y., and wjs
ilia editor of the Ohio State Journal before
the war..
Tello J. D'Apery, a thirteen -year-old boy
of Greek extraction living la New York,
ed.t and puolishes The Sunny Hour for boys
and gins, and devot.'s tun pruiits toalieviat-.
ing tbedistrefs of boys anl girls. The Pres
ident of the United, States of Columbia has
conferred. the decoration of the Liberator on
biinfor bis humanitarian efforts, and bis
patrons include the Queens of England,
Greece and Romania, tue Priuosot Monte
negro, tbe Presidents of Colombia, .Bolivia
and Veuzuela, Von Moltke, Boulanger, Mar
shal MaoMabon. DiLesepj, Lorci SxlUbjry,
Premier Crlapi and several othr :Prino-n
and statesmen. He is "tbe marvelous boj"
of this generation, handsome and manly
looking. ( . .
MEXICO'S PALACE HOTEL.
Tbe Finest nuildlug; of Its Kind on
Tlls Continent. v
Tha City of, Mexico Is to have the finest
bot?l on the American continent. It is to be
erected by a syndicate of Mexican capittlists,
and its cost at tbe lowest estimate will exce. d
1 2,000,000. Qt this sum the Dies government
will provide $1,000,000, In the form of a sub-,
sidy, in addition to granting the free impor
tation of material to be used in the construc
tion. Tbe hotel, when completed, will be five
tories in height, and will contain 400 guest
chambers, built about a court, the dimen
sions of which will be 100 by 25 feet. It will
be constructed of stone quarried seventy miles
farm the City or Mexico, and its interior fin
ished will be arranged oa a scale of oriental
magnifloeLO . The fljors will be of mosaic
marble, ana the wa.ls inlaid with Mexican
onyx, wuicb takes a remarkable polish, while
)ue woodwork will be of cedar, mabogany
and rosewood. Tne entire structure wui be
absolutely fireproof, and the outside dimen
sions will be 45Jx-i.XJ feet As au example
of the wacmticenoe of tbe designs, it tuay is
dialed tbat it is tha intention 10 espeud t&.
WO in fitting up the Turtish batn depart-im-nts,
and Ibo bar an.l llitures will re'jusre
ua o.itiuy r-t ;''.!,U'M. Tha roum-.U tbe
in.t--l w.11 t- tr.i-11 ia ctsarga t'7 Lbe fieral
KOVdriM'V'it, a:,;i it s-. tbe iiieAioo to drto
it. v,-,: s ; -i i.-----.--s rii '''-;:! , a
Emperor William Acespts the
Chancellor's Resignation.
General Von Caprlvl, the Commander
of the Tenth Army Corps, Will ;
Succeed lriuce Hiam.irek.
Emperor William has accepted the resig
nation cf Prinoa Bismarck, and the old
ttatesman, who for so many yars has been
lpoer in European politics, retires from
Che position pf chancellor and imperial ad
viser. A report that the Prussian ministry
had resigned at tbe same time Prince Bis-,
marck tendered his resignation is denied.
Their resignation was merely tbe customary
formal act, but it is reported tbat Count Her
bert Bismarck and Mln'ster Mayboch rexlly
intendea to resign. The Emperor did not
a sitate twenty-four hours in accepting the
Chancellor's resignation through any special
desire to retain him as his chief adviser, but
limply because tbe constitution does not ad
mit of an interregnum in the tenure of the
chancellorship. As tbe choioot a successor
to Priuce Bismarck was beset with difficulty,
his Maj .'Bty deferred his acceptance unt.l he
Gnaliy decided whom to appoint as chancel
lor. Altbougn tbe Emperor has not yet an
nounced the name of tbe new chancellor, it
is uuderstooi that General Von Capri vi, the
commander of tbe T nth Army Corps, wilt
Succeed Prince Bismarck.
It is stated iu well-lntormed political cir
cles that the present difference between the
Emperor and Prince Bismarck is irreconcila
ble. It arises from the Cbancellor'a. refusal
to accede to a rt quest made by Dr. Wind
tuorst, tbe leader of the Clerical party in
Germany, to restore to tbe Duke of Cumber
land, the claimant of the throne of Hanover,
tbe larger portion of thn Guelph fund.
The attitude of the Emperor in opposing
Prince Bismarck In this matter is taken as.
an indication of his dedire to conciliate the
Clerical party. If the government is to se
cure a working majority iu the new Reicns
' tag. it cannot well get on without tbe party
of the Center, which Dr. Windtborst controls.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
The grip has made i:s second- appearance
in Hazteton, Pa. Forty'OAses reported.
The influenza Is racing with great violence
throughout tha State of Hidalgo, Mexico.
J. P. Mitchell, aged 85 years, was blown to
pieces near Fraukliu, Pa., by the explosion
oC nitro-glycerine he was handling.
A water spout at Ullin, Illinois, submerged
tbe tracks of tbe Illinois Central Railroau to
a depth of about nve feet. Traffic was stop
ped. '
The Lithgoa Glass Factory in Bowling
Greeu, Obio, was burned. Loss, J 1,000; iu
surauce, 120,000. It is said that tue fl imes
were kinaiei by a discharged workman.
Micuaol Morgan, a well-known merchant
ot Kaustis City, Missouri, was killed by fail
ing down sLairs. In tbe fall his neck was
broken ana bis skull crushed,
A dispatch from L tke Providence, Louis
iana, s.iys the river id stationary there. The
toushouc in front o; Snein was quite serious,
but sacks were supplied, anJ tue danger is
over. -
Tue house of Charles Gilson in Beaufort
couuey, Suntu Carolina, was burned and Gto
on, bis wueaudcnilupttrisuedin the flunes.
i'Loiu is a suspicion ot foul play and inceu
uiansm, but. uo proof.
A passenger train was wrecked by spread
iug rails uer PtHiioroke, Ontario, A number
ot possuugera were in j urea, A convict
ouaiuea to a seat got tree aud rescued his
keeper aud btlped tue in jjred. .
Tnere la great excitement in CM vicinity
of Fuuutaiu Head, Sumner count, Teuues
bee, oyer fiae appdarauce of spottda fever or
lueniugitU, Tnere have beeu seven aeath,
aud there are several new castes. , .
. A passenger und freight train on the Ciii
ctiO, ttook loaud aud faciho liiiiroad col
uuou at B.U4 Luand,3tear Oiicago, and soiuo
ot tne passengers on tbe express wre out aud
bruiseo. Jvinu Berry, a uianemjn, died ot
bis injuries.
Winie a party of eighteen were sleighing
near Buldwiu, Wincousin, the four nurses
Urawiuj ibd sUih escaped control througu
tue iieitkiug uf a reu, and dubhsd into a
Siiiewaik, tuiowing tbe ocoupauti out. Eight
IMrsoas were injured, five of tbem danger
ous y.
Au explosion of dynamite occurred at th
water works iu Brooklyn, New York, k.lliug.
Voter Statuey aad Tbotuos Bildwiu aud
latally injuring Cuarles Sinltn aud Delias
Kayuor. lue dynamite was being usjd for
Uuwinn' up tree titumps on tbe lr.ie of tbe ex
tausiou of the Brooklyn aqueducb
As a ireigbc train oa the Georgia Pacific
Railroad was crossing a hih trestle, 20 miles
east of Birmingham, AlaLiama, one of the
wbeeis ot a coal car broke, '1'ue bumping of
tbe derailed our broke tbe trestle ana li! cars
weutdown in the wreck, tbe engine aud ouu
car baving passed aaXeiy over. Five of tbe
wrecked oars were loaded witb coal and the
rest witn nierobundue. All took lire from a
stove iu tbe caboose and were destroyed with
tue trestle. Five tram men were injured,
none mortally, 1
BURNED AND SUFFOCATED.
Five Miners Lose Their Llvca In at
V lllaxUus; Pit.
A fire is ragln& in tbe Germania mine in
Hurley, Wis., and threatens heavy loss of
property. Five miners, pinned in the burn
ing mine, have perished. All efforts to stay
the flames have proved unsuccessful.
It was about midnight when fire was dis
covered in No. 2shatt, at the third level la
the Germania mine. The alarm was quickly
given to the force of men st work in the
rein , but in sp:t of their efforts to escipa
five t the men at work between the fifth and
sixth level in tb.4 same nbaft were out off.
Tne men were James Thomas, his son Joseph
Thomas, Hugh Waller, Jimmy Sullivan and
William Banks.
, Jue fire burned fiercely, sndscoa found its
way to tbe surfaoe and destroyed tbe shaft-'
bouse ami threatening the engine and boiler
houe, Tbe entire timbering of the sbaftand
tbe roofs in that part of lb mine will be en
tirely destroyed. As soon as it became known
that the inon were in the burning snaft
searching parties were organized and sent
into tbe mine to rescue tbe mtsoing men or
find their bodies.
Wail.-r came to tbe surface once and re
turned to look for bis companion anl there
is no doubt that he suffocated and fell down
the tbui t.
The to lies of Thomas and his son were
found at noon near No. SS shaft. Could tuey
Have none 25 feet further they would have
bseu saved. T Ua 1 js$ so tar will roaca about
$100,003. y .
Mads.uie 1)3 Moi:donoa, wife of tt,e EraJI
lan iin.-aibr of the 1'au- Amorio m delesatiou '
taik- politics . wf!l as wiMibor, la tno b-s
cf liioi. i lie is rro;.i j.i-.iC!5-..! r.,y btrfip rt
"u piTU'vt typo ot t-iu'.y." Li
t,r t-i'tiiuy bii i I- -r l-.'-.-v'i lua:"---.!-.-.,
SOUTHERN ITEUS:
IXTERESTHra NEWS COMPIIX
FItOM MANY SOURCES,
4-Cbarlotte, N. C, is preparing to cle
brute the Declaration of Independence on the
SOthof May-
In portions of Fauquier county, Va., far
mers Intend devoting themselves to raising
cane for sorghum.
The-Methodists of Lexington, Va., baro
swarded a contract for tbe erection of a new
church to cost tl2,O00. ; - ,
The cold weather has killed all the straw
berries, peaches and other early fruit on the .
Eastern Shore of Virginia,
-A pack of bounds belonging to Henry
Loving, of Amherst County, Va., have caught
forty three foxes this season.
The citizens of Rockbridge county, Va,,
bought a piece of property in Florence, Ala
bama, one year ago, and sold it at an advance
Of f 10,000 last week. .
The shipment of manufactured tobacco
wm Danville, Va., last week amounted to
100,000 pounds, and tbe sales of leaf tobacco
to about M,000 psunds.
Sarah Huggins of Tifton, Ga., beat ber
two children to death. One died whil she
had it under tbe lash aud the other died
daring the night The woman has flad.
A Cjnadian syndicate have recently pur"
chased $4). 000 worth of standing timber in
Carroll county, Va. They propose getting
the timber out as soon as Spring opens.
Judge M. B. Wood, of Bristol, Vs., has
told ten lots in Big Stone Gap for 25,000.
Judge Wood brougbt these ten lots not lone
ago for a little over $37 for the whola ten.
Abumber of business men at Rarlin, Md.,
have employed bands to sink a shaft for coal, '
and the prospects for striking a good vein of
1 bituminous coal are considered favorable.
Two iron bridges to span the Roanoke
river at Salem, Va., were contracted f or last
week to a Pittsburg firm at the pr.ee of f 10,
500. They are to be complet-.d witnin forty
five and sixty days, respectfully. -Reports
throughout West Virginia show ,
that tbe late cold snap has played navoo with
sue small varieties of fruit, butthe wheat has
keen saved ty the snow, wbich is from six to
Bight Inches oeep in the Interior. 1
Mrs. Ellen Ranalds, wife of Mr. James
Renalda, who lives near Criglerville, Madi
son county, Va., has sold this wiutr over
(100 worth of butter, and now over 600 young
chickens, 100 of which are ready for market.
Tha little one-year-old daughter of Mrs
Ditman, ot Parkersburg.W. Va., whUeplay
iug about on tbe floor, tell into a large lard
can full of water, and was strangled to death ;
before the mother discovered ber danger.
In Gaston county, N. C, Mike Cullick,
n operative in a cotton mill, got his foot
caught in some machinery aud his leg was
torn off near the knee. Tne wound is a ter
rible one, anl it is feared the young man
cannot recover.
The Finoastle (Va.) Land and Improve
meat Company was incorporated last week,
with a capital stock of 150,000. JamesGod- '
win is president. Sautillane, a valuable farm
adjoining Fincastle, has been secured and
wiu be laid off into building lots.
A large meeting of citizons of Rappa
hannock county, Va., adopted a resolution
favoring tbe tender of a free right of way
Ihrougn that county for the proposed exten- :
siou of the Chesapeake and Ohio Road Iroin
Croz.-t to Wasbiugton. - ' -A
mob of 400 men, with a field piece, as
sembled in front of the jail at Sprtansnurg,
S. C, to lynch George S. Turner, the factory
owner wno killed bis brotber-in-iaw, butt bey
wern driven off without bloodshed by lbs
sheriff and mayor of tbe city. v
Contracts have been awarded for tbe
construction of three hunerei bouses in Rad
lord, Vs., during the commiug summer.
Tbe Ridiord Land and Improvement Com
pany contemplate an expenditure ot 150,000
uu streets, water-works and otner improve- '
rneuts, to bj commenced at an early day.
Tbe V.rgmia fish oommireioners are mak
ing preparations to bate a tbe eggs of sals
water Dsb. Iu June of 1889 they secured 10,
000,000 eggs of tne Sp-ihwu mackerel, and ai
soou as the hatchery is established it is pro
jiosad to commence operations on a very large
bcale. , . ' .
Tbe question of changing llie name of
Martin's t erry, W. Va., is agiiatiug tbe peo
ple of ti at town, as miuy turns tbat a oitv
uf eight tbousand inhabit ints dusurves a
more ambitious name, but others claim that
tbe city baa grown too lare and too weti
known to be altered.
The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
RailroidComp my have decided to build tais
summer the long contemplated bridge over
tbe Back river, from Kirk wood to the is.and
opposite Wheeling, W. Va, This bridge will
accommodate nut only the railroad trains,
but vehicles and pedestrians,
The Buildin? Trades Council and the
Builder' Exchange of Wheeiug, W. Va.,
have been negotiating for some time, trying .
to come to an agreement, but without suo-o.-ss.
This has led to a quiet unorganized ef
fect to resume operations independently of
these bodies, with every prospect of success.
A little son of Lewis Cray ton went rab
bi; bunting In Alexandria county, K. C, in
tbe snow. While walking througb the woods
a tree fell npon birn and he wax killed almost
instantly. NoboJy was with the ycutti, but
his faitbful dog at once wenthoaiu aul acted
in such a mani.er that the boy's fattier fol
lowed It, and be was horrified when tbe dog
led him to tbe spot where the de:i son lay.
-A party of the Salvation Army -turnirg
from a meeting at Rocky Sprlnzs. MI., found
Elmer Bishop, fifteen years ot age, suspended
bv his hands and arms from a limb of a trer,
Hs had been hung up by n party of mlehieT
ais companions with whom be had been play
ing. He was quickly cut down, anl found
to be unhurt.
A mysterious malady is prevailing in
Jefferson county, Tenn , and mwj people
believe it to be genuine spottea fever. The
contagion bas broken out in Carson College,
and students are leaving. Four deaths have
occurred within the bist week. Tnere is much
excitement for fear the epidemic may be
come general. The bodies of pitioutg are'
covered with white and black blotches u
size of a silver dollar.
-Abraham Montgomery, a farmer, is un
der arrest at MartiDhbur, W. Va. , for big
amy. Tbe testimony discltses . peculiar
condition of affairs. Montgomery married
pne wifo and la a few yoars married another
living only a few mila away. Th wvpu
were kept In ignorance of esch otb'.'r aud
Montgomery divided his timi between them,
staying a few weeks with each o'e. He kert
up this double life for several years aJ was
only detected through an aoold'ont,'
Whilo quarrying stcn' at t?ykesvil!, Cnr
roil county, , wme work-uu oura-? acr j-t
the skolton of a rattUsn:i)t, whirU, wh-n
tilive, must have beii ot enormous pr'-!;rv-tiona
Tlie bscii.iiii tiit-iih-sr.-' I tlitt'c--. ;,: l.'.-s
of en inch in laikiiMt, s.Kj tVi-s ll-rn-i i'--'
in length, and twtuty-oiip--rfe;:t m 1 s-vir.!.
brokea rattles wtre pici 4 u!. Li in--, i
mwtfiJ froxi tLse rrtvi-n.,4 Unl li, s
pmt have l.twn nenr.' f live f-t.-t Im.,
J,,iac.-8 i.i diiiii.iUr i- ijatial iai?:it :.' -