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"FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND fJOR" TRUTH.!! VOL. II. NO. 8. PLYMOUTH; m C., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1890. Tfc. THE NEW& ' , About two thousand acres of valuable tim ber land were destroyed by fire in Boulder, Col. A row between two railroad compa nies in Spokane Falls ha led to row between the City and county authorities. In Yates Centre, Kan., A. E. Coe shot his twobrothers- in-law, his 'wife and himself. Annie Tur- ner, of Groveston, Tex., committed suicide, and her father used the same revolver with . which she shot herself to kill, Prof. Davis, who ' was in some way connected with her death. - Michael D. Uartar, of Mansfield, (X, re ceived the Democratic nomination for Con gress for the Fifteenth' Ohio district. Mar garet Lukeman died in a hospital in Albany, .N. Y., from the effects of a blow with a shoe, ler danghter says the husband inflicted. Hazel Lillis, daughter of Police Commissioner Jillis, of Kansas City, committed suicide in Denver, Col.- The Pennsylvania Republi can Convention nominated a state ticket. Delamater is the candidate for governor, aud Petres for lieutenant-governor. A platform was adopted endorsing the administration and . Senator Quay. -The wholesale liquor dealers of New York decided to build distilleries on thecorporatiou plan.- -Congressman Howell, of Illinois, w as renominated by the Republicans.- Henry Frauklin, found guilty of rob bing a man of fifteen cents in New York, was -feent up for fourteen years.; It is feared that every railroad 'entering" Chicago will be tied up. The i Louisiana House -ot Delegates passed the bill amending the constitution granting a recharttr, to the Louisiana State 'Lottery Company for twenty-five years, for one million dollars a year.- Rev. C.F.Boh- ' mert, a Catholic priest, shot himself fatally at Ocean Springs, Miss.- John Schultz, a B.& O. engineer, was scalded in a collision near ' Wilmington, Del. "i 1 Samuel White's carpet mills, Philadelphia, . were damaged $3,5,000 by fire. Charles E. , Culver, a prominent merchant and ex-president of the Chicago' Board of Trade, died at the age of fifty-nine years. -Wilson Green and Elray H. Ray, of Buda, 111., were arrested in Chicago on a charge of robbing the mails. Patrick Barry, an authority on pomologi- cal matters, died at Rochester, N. Y. Eight-year-old Raleigh Patterson was killed by lightning at Chambersburg, Pa. Fire in the King's county penitentiary at Brooklyn did $30,000 damaged.- -A negro woman assaulted and robbed a white man in Richmond,Va. Congressman Scott's large colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa., was badly damaged by firei- ' Richard E, Owcrt, aged twenty-one years, at tempted to shoot Miss Nannie Shaw, of Peters burg, Va., who bad declined his attentions, and then seriously'wounded himself. Two hun dred girls in Lorillard's . tobacco factory at Jersey City went on strike.- The locomo tive and several cars of the Reading Railroad Jumped the track near Tuckerton and Lewis Heller.tbe engineer, was killed, and his brother George, the fireman, fatally hurt. Captain C. O. Boutelle, United States coast survey, died in Hampton, Va., aged seventy-seven years.- The steamship Sardonyx of the C. P. N. Company was wrecked off Queen Char lotte Island. No lives were lost.- The town of Plcasanton, Neb., was demolished by a tor nado, and several persons injured, but no one killed. Harley Russell was shot dead while Bitting in a buggy beside Iris wife driving to their home in Monticello, 111. R. A. Jacob- , son and his wife were killed and several other persons severely shocked by an electric storm in Omaha. -By the explosion of the boiler of a tugboat at Brooklyn, N. Y.; four lives were lost. A charter has been granted to the Pennsylvania Midland Railroad for the construction of a line in Monroe and Lacka wanna counties, Pa.- -One thousand opera- fives in the silk mills at Yonkers went on strike. -A tank filled with ammonia in Ho boken, N. J., burst. Henry Drake was killed, and J. J. Meyer and Thomas Kelly badly hurt A Methodist church in Stark county, O.,' was struck by lightning, and the son of the pastor stunned, and another lad killed- Hon. George W. McCrary, the author in Con gress of the famous Electoral Commission bill, died in St. Joseph. Mo. ; The temperance people of Ottawa, Kansas, .threaten to tar and feather an original pack age dealer, who has started business in that locality.' L. Guy Harris and Miss Susie Walker, a youthful couple of Columbia,S.C., eloped twice and were married twice. Judge Henry W. Thomas died at Fairfax Court-house, Va., in the seventy-eighth year of his age.- Hewitt Van Marter, aged 20 years, a clerk at Trenton, N. J., committed suicide because of a love affair. Samuel Riper, of'Rcading, Pa., was drowned in the surf at Cape May. - A passenger train on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail road was wrecked near .Birmingham, Ala., and one person killed and several hurt. An attempt to place elcctrio light poles in front . of a Catholic Church at Saratoga, N. Y., caused a row, and the military was called out. -B,obert Brecken, a travelling salesman, of Indianapolis, committed suicide at Louisville, Ky- Austin Corbin will resign the presi dency of the Reading Railroad, and Vice President A. A.McLeod will succeed him. Hon. t Worth .Diekersou has been elected to . succeed Carlisle as the representative in Con gress of the Sixth Kentucky district. BRAZIL'S NEW CONSTITUTION. A System Patterned, After That of the '; ; ; ',' .' ' ' ;, United State. : . ' ' ' The new constitution has just been promul gated. !-It recognizes a federal system based upon that of the United States. The president alone is responsible to the nation. The minis- 1 ' -tersare replaced by secretaries ef state, who are answerable to the president alone. Parlii.. niwit will consist of a house of representatives und a senate. - The powers of these two bodies A will be of a purely legislative character, and i pu adverse vote- by cither chamber will not ctitafl a cliHiigc of ministry. A uew house of rppreseotativtti will be elected tri-enuially, Riid a new Bcnute every nine years. The presi dent's term of office will besix yea in. The first presidential election will be by congri'w, and . van teen fixed fur Js'cn ember next, , WIl'S'TElIBLBWOBK. Many Lives Lost in a Tornado in the ' . State of Illinois. ' ' . A Teacher and Her Seven Little Puplli I Crmhfil In n-.i. h. Wni.bl Sehoolhonsei ' Details of the havoc of. the Tornado in Illi nois tell a thrilling story of destruction to life and property.; Thestormcanie from the South-, west, from the vicinity of Sublette, and had apparently spent its furry when it reached the vicinity of the Field's school house, a new building standing at the . southwest of the Four Corners. At ' this time a black cloud driven from the Northwest sweptup and gave the cyclone renewed energy. ': The fury of the storm was awful. In a second the whirling tempest had struck the little school-house, and in an instant the building was torn to pieces. At the time there was but eight per sons in the school room, and as the storm was heard coming up, they attempted to rush out side and seek safety in the open air. It was too late, however, for the death-dealing temp est was upon them, and not one escaped to the fearful exnerienceof that moment The teach- I er. Miss Maggie McBride, and her seven pu i pils were instantly killed, and their bodies earned some distance. ! All were fearfully bruised, and some were crushed and pounded almost beyond recognition. Several , of the bodies were hurled into a little creek that flowed near, which was now swollen into a torrent . . , " . The storm here swept the ground clear of everything. Hughe trees were tornnpby the roots; fences were swept oat of existence, orchards obliterated, and everything in the path of the tempest destroyed. The width of the storm was about eighty rods. ; Leaving the school house the storm swept onward in a direction almost straight north, destroying everything in its path. Occasion ally it lifted, but the whole country from near Earlville to Paw Paw, in Lee County, is marked with ruin. At least fifty farm-houses and other buildings were wrecked, and eight more persons were killed. Allbuildings, fences, orchards ati crops were ruined, ana the damage done was very great Even the forrests were unable to resist the. terrible force of the wind, and huge trees were torn up bodily or broken down as if they had been but reeds. ' The cyclone continued increasing in violence until it reached the village of Paw Paw Grove, where the greatest destruction of life and property was caused. This thriving village was struck by the storm and left in ruins. The loss of life was here very great, and it is reported that seventeen persons were killed and many seriously injured. Twenty houses were torn to pieceB, and the eastern portion of the town was entirely wiped out After the storm had passed the work of rescue began. The bodies of some of the victims had been carried hundreds of yards, and some of them were mangled almost beyond recogni tion. Not a thing was left standing in the path of the cyclone, and where once stood a score of comfortable homes there were now but scattered ruins. . At the scene of the calamity near Earlville search is still going on for the bodies of those who perished in the school house. Jacob Rudolph was the first on the scene, and in crossing a swollen stream between his resi dence and the school house he, too, was carried down, and only saved himself by grasping a overhanging limb of a willow hedge some distance below. While yet irf the water the bodies of Miss McBride and a little girl floated down to him, and all were taken out together. Searching parties from the immediate neigh borhood are now engaged in the hunt for the bodies, and others from the city have en deavored to reach the scene, but have been forced to turn back . . - . DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. John Fuenston and wife were struck and killed by a train near Big Spring.-Nebraska. : Otto and Sherman Bert, aged 12 and 15 years, respectively, were struck and killed by a train in Chicago. On the . Canada Pacific Railroad, near Toronto; an engine, with four men, plunged into a creek, ana all on board were drowned. A passenger train on the Richmond !k Danville Railroad was wrecked near Marshal, North Carolina, on Saturday. Ten persons were hurt ) The explosion of a steam cylinder in the rod mill, at New Castle, Pa., killed William Prjce, assistant engineer, and injured three other workmen. The steam pipe of the tug Lightning at Newport New, Virginia, exploded, killing Captain Darby and the fireman and fatally scalding the engineer. Professor E. Hutchinson, a balloonist, while making an ascension at Knoxvillc, Tennessee, fell when the balloon' had reached a height of 75 feet. He was fatally iuj ured. A COAl train drawn by two engines on the Western North Carolina Railroad plunged down the southern side of the Saluda Moun tain, and was wrecked. Three train men were killed and five others injured. ALOISE and Annie Fellker, aged respec tively 8 and 12 years, were killed by a train on a bridge at Perry ville, Massachusetts. Their father, who was fishing off the bridge, was injured, but not dangerously. The boarding house of . D. Kennedy, near Osceola Junction, Michigan, was destroyed by fire, and the 12-year-old son of the pro prietor was burned to death. His mother was badly burned in trying to save him. . Sukgeon General Hamilton is advised that a second case of yellow fever has ap peared on the British vessel Avon, now detained at the Chandleur quarantine station. He has also received a report from a special . . . Tn,.lAn Vn.f.n in invAimitd its sanitary condition, that 12 cases of yellow fever have occurred there, ana tnat mere are fears of an epidemic. , . The powder building of the Anglo-Canadian Asbestos Mine, at Black Lake, Quebec, ; was struck by lightning and set on fire, re i suiting in the explosion of about 180O pounds 1 of powder and about 30 cases of dualin. The ( shock was very severe and caused damage to about 50 buildings, but to no greater extent than the shattering of glass and doors- The loss is estimated , at $i0,000. One man waa injured. ' IT EXPLODED TOO SOON. A Horrible Aecldent by a Premature Dis charge of n Cannon. . A horrible accideut occurred at the fair grounds at Columbia, S. C, during the firing of salutes for the Democratic meeting. . By the premature discharge of a cannon, Olin Barrer, ot Lexington, lost both arms aud lxlh eye und received a gaping wouud il the Joint Stoke, of Co'vur.bia, was badly wounded in Ix'ih Hi-msand one litis teen amputated. ii. Casson,! ot Columbia, had his hand ehuHored. , X.)id tHiiimneerssay the mutilation was worse thftn any they had ever witneteed during the- i war, ' FIFTY-ITRST CONGRESS. Senate Sen ton. . 137th Day. The Postoffice Appropriation' bill and the Consular and Diplomatic Appro priation bill were reported and placed on the calendar. : The consideration of the Legisla tive Appropriation bill was resumed. After adopting a number ofamendments the Senate adjourned. i , ;- -' 138th Day. The Senate passed a resolu tion providing for a committee of seven to tike into consideration the state of the ad ministrative service of the Senate, and to re port what measures should be adopted in respect to the greatest efficiency and economy of the service The Honse bill supplementary to the act of March 22, 1882, in reference to bigamy was taken up. It provides that all funds or property lately belonging to the Mormon Church shall be devoted to the use and benefit of common schools in that State. After some debate the bill was passed with out division. The Senate then discussed at length the bill to establish an educational fund and apply the proceeds of the public lands and the receipts from certain land grant railroad companies to the more complete en dowment ana support of colleges for the ad vancement of science and industrial educa tion. Finally, the bill and several amendments went over without action. Adjourned. - 139TU Day. The Senate resumed'the con sideration of the Agricultural College bill, and Mr. Morrill offered a substitute for the various amendments pending on Saturday as to the division of the fund Ibetwecn colored and white schools of a state, Some formal amendments were made to the bill, and it was then passed. The conference report on the Dependent Pension bill was taken up and agreed to. A conference was ordered on the Fortifications bill, and Mesprs. Dawes, Plumb and Gorman were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate. After a short executive session, the Senate adjourned. : V 140th Day. The conference on the Naval Appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The Senate took up the Postofnce Appro priation bill. Passed. Senate bills to adopt regulations preventing, and in relation tocol Jisions at sea, were passed. When the confer ence reports on the Pension Appropriation bill were presented Mr. Gorman moved that the Senate recede from the only amendment not arranged in conference that for the ap pointment of two additional pension agents saying that there was no possibility of the House agreeing to it The motion was agreed to; the Senate receded, and the Pension Ap- ?ropriation bill now goes to the President he Senate, at 6 P. M., adjourned. 141st Day. In the Senate-there wasa sharp passage of words between Senators Ingallsand Call growing out of a publication by the lat ter in the Congressional Record. The bill foi the admission of Wyoming as a State was taken up.' Mr. Vest spoke against admission and Mr. Piatt in faviv At the closeof Mr. Piatt's remarks he made an effort to have the vote taken on the bill, but Mr. Vest objected aud moved an adjournment; and the Senate, at 5.50, adjourned. v ' , House Sessions. -146th Day. In the House, the motion to approve Wednesday's journal, with Mr. Mills amendment declaring that the Speaker had erred in referring the Silver bill to the coinage committee, was adopted by" a vote of 132 to 130. The conference report on the anti trust bill was unanimously adopted. A motion to take up the Silver bill was made from the democratic side. This led to another long contest, and the matter was' not disposed of at 5 o'clock, when the House adjourned. 147TH DAY. In the House, Speaker Reed came out victorious on the silver bill, a dozen democrats voting with the republicans to sus tain the action of the Speaker in referring the bill to the committee on coinage. The contest opened on Mr. Bland's appeal from the decis ion of the Chair Friday declining to entertain his motion to take the silver bill from the Speaker's .table. Mr. Bland's motion tore consider was defeated, and Mr. McKinley's motion to table Mr. Bland's appeal prevailed, nine democrats voting in the affirmative. The speaker then announced that the silver bill was now referred to the committee on coinage. From the decision Mr. Bland ap pealed, aud a lengthy debate ensued. Then Mr. McKinley moved to table Mr. Bland's ap peal from the Speaker's decision, and the mo tion was adopted. The bill stands referred to the coinage committee. The House then ad journed. , 148TH Day. The Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Brewer, Butterworth ana Sayers as conferees on the Fortification bill. On Motion of Mr. Grout (Vt), chairman of the District of Columbia eommittee, the House went into committee of the whole on District business, taking up the Atkinson bill, amendatory to the act authorizing the con struction of the Baltimore and Potomac Rail road in the District of Columbia. For nearly four hours the bill was debated. At five o'clock the committee rose without acting finally! upon the hill. Mr. Morrow Cal.) re ported tfie inability of the conferees on the Genecal Pension Appropriation bill to agree, arid, aft his instance, the House insisted upon its disireement to the Senate amendments. The Huse then adjourned. 149th Day. The House was eifgaged the entire- session in debate on the Silver bill, with Senate amendments, which was reported from the coinage committee with the recom mendation that the House non-concur in all the Senate amendments, and requesting acon ference on the same. The previous question on the report will be ordered at two o'clock to-morrow. The House then adjourned. 150th Day. The House agreed to the con ference report on the naval appropriation bill. The silver bill was then taken up and the House refused yeas 135, nays 152 to agree to the free coinage amendment A conference on the bill was ordered. The House then took up the Federal election bill and arranged to devote six days to its debate, the previous question to be called at 5 o'clock, July 2. Dur iuc this behate the House will mpct (. 11 A.M STORMS IN THE WEST. Newspaper Offices Flooded A Man Wash ed Into the Sewer. Several electric storms, accompanied by much rain and heavy winds, in Northern Kansas and Western Missouri. At Atchison the fall of rain was exception ally heavy. The water forced itself into tha water mains, several of which burst and flood ed the cellars all along Commercial Street The greatest injury was occasioned to the offices of the Atchison Champion, the Globt and the Patriot, whose press rooms were flooded. At St. Joseph the rain fell in torrents and flooded the streets and burst several sewers. Joseph C. Coombs, while attempting to keep Rn inlet clear was overcome by the force of the water and carried into the sewer. His body has not been recovered. At Moberly, Mo., lightning struck Governor Fry's house. The members of the family were stunned, but were not severely injured, J. W. Alb'n'fi house wasaliso struck by light ring and two small children were prostrated. Ihey have recovered. KMrEKORTVn.TLIAM Tins conferred the dec oration of the Order of the Black Eagle upon C'himcellur Von Caprivi. 'SI Better Outlook .for Crops and Fair V Demand for Goods West A Considerable Gain In Railway Earn ( logs all along the Line Cotton Goods , Firm The Wheat Exports. Special telegrams to BradslreeVi do not indicate any noteworthy change in the move ment of general trade within a week, i There is reported a' very general and reasonable activity, but at such points as Omaha, Kansas City ' and New Orleans the distribution of staples are not equal to anticipations. St Louis, Chicago and St'Paul make the most favorable trade reports, while Cincinnati, Clevelaud, Boston and Philadelphia report moderate activity only. California wheat crop prospects were never better and reports as to the condition of growing wheat East of the "Rockies" are less bullish than recently. Hogs are at lowest prices for the year at Western cities, and cattle are declining in price as well. 'Pork and lard, too, are lower. Doubts regarding action on the silver ques tion and the continuance of gold shipments have increased the disposition of bulls to liquidate and opened the way to bearish attacks on stock prices, although share specu lation has been on the whole very dull. Bank clearings at fifty one cities for the six days' are $1,158,615,929, a gain over the like week last year of 3.2 per cent New York City'a clearings, which constituted 6U per cent, of the grand total, are less than those tor the like period last year by nearly, L7 fer cent Takings of raw sugar by refiners are more restricted, and the prices are off ia3.1tic. Re fined, too, is 4e lower. Coffee shows a frac tional decline in speculative lines and in less ctive movement lor consumption at a loss of -5c More favorable reports as to the con dition of the domestic whvat crop, the presence f 30,UUU,U00 or more bushels of wheat in the lountry in eicess of the quantity held one year ago, heavy stocks afloat, and generally fair wheat crop prospects abroad, combine to depress wheat prices and quotations are off !a2c per bushel. Indian corn, too, is Jajc ower, while oats, on better export demand, are fractional higher. Cotton i3 iaic lower on less favorable cables and liquidating by long holders. Crop pro spects are good. Uncertainty as regards silver legislation strengthens next crop deliveries. VV ool prices at the sea-board are barely main tained on a slow demand. Net railway earnings for April continue the previous good reports except in a few in stances. The total earnings of ninety-six companies for April show a total of SM,0b'6, 110, a gain over April last year of 14.0 per cent. .rJvery gruup except the Granger eilows gains. The latter presents a loss of over 5 per tent in net, while gaining over 9 per cent in gross. Expenditures for betterments have reduced net earnings of many companies heavily. For the first four mouths of this year the net earnings of ninety-five roads aggregate $50,951,304, a gain over 1889 of 10.4 percent Every group but one, the Pacific, shows increases.- Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from both coasta this week equal 1,224,400 bushels, against 1,105,810 bushels in the third week ot June, l8Si), and as compared with 1,362,080 bushels last week. Total exports of wheat (including flour) June 30, 18o9, to June 20, 1800, from leading ports, both coasts, as specially reported to liradxtreet's. equal 103, 09,U24 bushels, against 84,275,800 bushels in a like portion of 1888-80. Business failures reported to Braditreel's number 144 in the United States this week ugaiust 149 last week, and 234 this week last year. Canada had 18 this week, against 18 last week the total number of failures in the United States, J uue 1 to date, 5235, against 5672 in a like portion of 1889. SUFFERING AT SEA. The Terrible Experience of the Crew of ' a German Bark. A terrible story of suffering and death on a long voyage at sea was told by Second Officer Spreen, of the German bark J. C. Warns, which arrived at New York, a few days ago from Pedang and Macassar, East Indies. Since June Hth the bark had been in charge of Spreen, who is only twenty-two years old. He brought her safely into port, with a cargo valued at $400,000, after an experience seldom equalled. The bark is owned by Herman V arns, of Elsfleth, Germany, and was com manded by the owner's son, Captain J. C. Warns. She, sailed from Macassar on Feb ruary 16th wfth a crew of twelve men. Every thing went well until the first of April, when the crew began to get sick with symptoms of dropsy. It was thought this was due to the fact that the cargo of cofl'ee and spices got damp, and afterwards being heated by the not sun of the tropics produced an odor which the crew inhaled. The captain died of the disease May 20th, and t wo days later was buried at sea. Then on June 11th First Mate Ottmaus died in terrible agony. All th crew were more or less prostrated bythestrange malady, and could do little work. Provisions becanfe low, little progress could be made, as 6mall sail could be handled by the weakened crew, and the men were put on rations. AVhen the first mate died the crew mutinied, and de manded that the vessel should put into a Euro pean port Only at the point of a gun were they induced to go on. Gale after gale added to their misery. The vessel is now at the Brooklyn dock, and t'ae crew will all go to a hospital- CARS INA HEAP. A Night Express Wrecked on tha Bal timore and Ohio. A serious accident, which resulted in the death of two persons and the injury of thirteen others, occurred near Childs Station, Cecil county, Md., on the Philadelphia division oi the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at 2.15 oe'lock in the morning. . The train was bound from Washington to New York and left Camden Station at 11.50 o'clock. It was drawn by Engine 824 and consisted of a CenV-al railroad baggage car, two coaches and the Pullman sleeping cars Lebanon, Fan wood and De Soto. On nearing Childs' Station, at a speed of 65 miles an hour, the main rod on the left side of the engine broke, and, was forced through the cap. The rod struck Fireman John McNamara, of Philadelphia, hurling him from the cab to the road-side; killing him instantly. His skull was fractured and both arms and lgs were broken. Engineer J. P. Fitzgerald put down the air-brakes, reversed the engines, and escaped injury by jumping behind the firing place. The sleeper Lebanon, which contained the passengers who boarded the train at Wash ington, were ahead of the other sleepers. It was derailed and hurled down an embank ment 50 feet, and broken in two by striking against a stone abutment "The Lebanon con tained 17 passengers, all of whom are more or less injured. Charles Ackenheil, chief en gineer of the Staten Island Railroad, wat thrown from the car into the roadway, where he was found unconscious. . He was placed io a train for Philadelphia, hot died tjefore resell ii' ' ihcre, CABLE SPARKSL The Senate of France has passed the bill imposing duties on maize and rice. Thirteen thousand dock laborers are on a 6trike at Swansea, Wales, for higher wages. The collection of manuscripts of the late Wilkie.Collins were sold in London for 1,309. Major Wissman, German- imperial com missioner for East Africa, is on his way to Berlin. .' STANtEY, the explorer, will assume the duties of the governorship of the Congo State in 1891. FOCB New Yorkers were among the prize winners at the German international shooting contest. . It is stated in Zanzibar that Dr. Peters, the German explorer, has mede no treaties with Mwanga, King of Uganda. Ahchduchess Valerie, of Austria, has renounced all her rights to the throne of that country in srder to marry as she chooses. ; PRINCE Dondukoff has retired from the gov ernorship of the Caucasus, and Gen. Chere metieff has been appointed to succeed him. The disease at Puebla de Engat, in the province ot Valencia, Spain, which continues to spread, is declared to be true Asiatic chol era.". . Eg t PT cotton is to be exported to Massa chusetts cheaper than it can be transported there from the Southern section of the United States. The new minister of finance of the Argen tine Republic will burn pnblicly fifteen mill ions ot illegal one dollar notes which were placed in circulation. The North German Gazette says that Prin cess Victoria of Prussia will shortly be be trothed to Princess Adolph Korsakoff of Schaumburg-Lippe. Count Tolstoi, author of the "Kreutzer Sonata, 'declares that, service to God and hu manity, to science and art and to one's country is far beyond personal enjoyment. The Reiehsanzerger of Berlin says that Germany has ceded Vetu and Somahland to England, and England in turn has ceded to Germany the territory of Heligoland. Three hundred Soudanese and 300 Indian troops commanded by English officers, will go from Zanzibar to Mombasa to enter the ser vice of the British East Africa Company. Miss Mary Anderson, the American ac tress, and Mr. Antonio Navarro were married in the Catholic Chapel of St Mary's, in Ham stead, London, byCanouPursell,of Brompton Oratory. The north coast squadron of the Chinese navy is in a bad way, Admiral Lang, the English commander, having resigned, and the Chinese admiral and captains being totally incompetent. The Grand Council of Ticino, Switzerland, has absolved the authorities of the canton from all responsibility for the recent embez zlement of one million francs by the treasurer of the canton. , - Messrs. John Dillon, William O'Brien, and John Redmond, Irish nationalists leaders, will visit the United States the coming au tumn in the interest of the home-rule move ment in Ireland. Mr. Gill, a home rnle member of the House of Commons, accused Mr. Balfour, chief sec retary for Ireland, of lying during a heated debate on the police system of "shadowing" persons in Ireland. ' The London jury in the case of Miss Weid mann, a German girl, against Capt Robert Horace Walpole, for breach of promise of marriage, were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged. The Paris Figaro says the premier of Eng land will not agree to submit the Newfound laud fishery dispute to arbitration, and in case France refuses to accept pecuniary compen sation, will repudiate the treaty of Utrecht and open negotiations for a new one. Madame Tschbrikova, whose recent let ter to the Czar protesting against the system of government prevailing in Russia, led to her arrest, has been removed to the village of Yarenski. Russia, in the remote northern part of Vologda, where fifteen other prisoners were also sent. The International Prison Congress, in ses sion in St. Petersburg, Russia, has adopted among other resolutions, one declaring that the sellers of alcohol should be responsible for crimes resulting from their serving drunk en men, and that the sale of liquors on credit or to children should be prohibited. , FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. A Steamtog Blown to Pieces and Four Lives Lost. A terrible explosion occurred in Brooklyn, New York, by which four lives were lost The tugboat Alice E. Crue, owned by Thomas O'Brien and which had been moored at the foot of Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, was blown to pieces at her dock by the explosion of the boiler. The cause of the disaster is not known. The boat is a complete wreck. Asleep in the tug at the time were Captain Oscar W. Squires, George Rogers, the cook, and a deck hand, whose name rs not known. They were killed outright. The fireman had evidently attempted to get up steam, and for some unexplained reason, probably a defect in the boiler the cx nlosion occurred. Tie issunnosed to have been killed also, for he is missing. Matthew Bailey, a deck hand, received a lacerated wound ot the hand, and was scalded. The ballast scow Louis Rock, which was lying alongside the tug, had her Bide torn out, and went to the bottom. It is supposed that the watchman on board, whose name is not known, went down with her. The report of the explosion was heard a long distance, and brought crowds of people to the scene. Mr. O'Brien, one of the owners of the tug, says the loss will be about $6,500. He did not know the name of the fire man, who had only been employed a few days. Parts of the boiler and tubes of the tug were blown clear over the warehouse on the dock lhebody ot the captain was blown on the aecK of the ship James Nesmith. His right leg was blown off and was hanging by the sinews. His left arm hung by shreds to the shoulder. The cook's body was blown on the ballast scow. Matthew Bartly, the pilotof theboat.who was asleep in the cabin, found himself beneath the water entangled in some of the ropes. He managed to extricate himselfand was dragged on the dock, where he became unconscious. He was severely injured, and was removed to his home. The fireman's body was not recov ered. A POSTMASTER THREATENED. He Fears Death at the Hands of Hebe nnrrows or the Outlaw's Friends. Postoffice inspectors have been sent to Ken nedy, Lamar County, Alabama, to investi gate the writing of threatening letters to Post master Faulkner, of that place. Faulkner has received several letters warning him to leave the county. The letters were signed "Friends of Rube Burrows," and the Postmaster is afraid to attend to te business of the office. Last Summer Rube Burrows, the noted oat law and train robber, shot and killed Post marter Graves f the same placed Postmaster Faulkner fears Jbe will meet a similar fate if he remains there, as purrows is itlieved to bt i f)jif SOUTHERN ITEMS. IHTKRESTUIG HEWS COMPILED FROM MANY SOURCES.. The Greenbrier Valley Woolen Mill h to be .removed to Clifton Forge, Va. The wheat crop has been harvested in Dor- , Chester county, Md., and promises to be large. The capital fatock of the North Carolina ' Railroad was assessed for taxation at par' $4,000,000. The road bed was assessed at $10,- 000 per mile. , . Raleigh, N. C- has six college?, exclnsiveof the proposed Baptist Univercity. Besides these there are four large public schools and one academy. F. K. Chandler, of Franklin county, Va.,is ninety years of age and the father of twenty five children. He has over one hundred grandchildren. , , ' ' :, - '. , At the regular meeting of the board of medical examiners, recently held in Oxford, forty-six licenses were issued to practice medi cine in North Carolina. : Richmond, Va.. is to have a special census enumeration. The books are to be kept open thirty days, and all complaints of neglect to enumerate will be atteuded to. . , The date of the opening session of the re- union of the society of the Army of West Virginia, to be held in Parkersburg, has been . fixed. . It is Tuesday, September 16, 1890. . The sales of leaf tobacco in Lynch burg, Va-J' warehouses since the 'first of October aggre-f gate 12,496,700 pounds, a decrease of 4,409,000 compared with same months previous year. , Several hundred acres of real estate adjoin ing the corporate limits of Martinsbhrg, W. Va., have been purchased by a real estate com pany for the purpose of starting a "boom." In West Virginia farmers are quitting cat- -tie and are raising colts - instead. "There are five mares bred now toone five years ago." says a correspondent of the Chicago Drevers' Jour nal. ' V- :. ; 4"."- ' ; ivil ' A syndicate of Charlottesville has pur- , chased the Gayle farm, near Portsmouth, Va., -for something like $12,000, which will be laid off into building lots. The tract contains 37 -acres. ."' . , " The receipts from the sale of oysters shipped from Chincoteague Island, McL, annually amount to $313,236. Enough money goes on the island each year to average $1,118 for each of its 3,000 inhabitawjB. ' -. , The survey is now being made and the right-of-way obtained for that section of West' Virginia and Pittsburg Road running from Braxton to Addison, and south through Web ster county, West Virginia. , " :; ; The amount paid Rev. Sam Jones by the. methodist eommittee for his meetings in Rich mond, Va, was $2,000. There was no contract, but Mr. Jones seemed entirely satisfied with $200 per day for himself and his colaborers. The derrick at the nicks oil welf. No. 1, near Moundsville, V. Va., was discovered to be on fire, and before it could beextinguished,. a 250-barrel tank was also destroyed. The fire is supposed to be the work, of an incendiary. While drilling for oil at the Colfax well in Marion -county, W. Va, the drill, at the depth of eighteen feet, struck , a ledge of iron ore five feet thick and very rich fit quality.' A few feet deeper a second vein, three feet thick, was struck. . The celebrated Connelly Springs,'in the western section of North Carolina, nave been ' sold to a wealthy syndicate, which will at " once make important repairs and will open up the resort this season in better style than ever. ',, r Y.-"j;;,v,;; , James Wolz, of Fredericksburg, Va., pur--chased a large water frog with, the intention of eating it for supper. On killing and elean- ing it, he was surprised to find a water snake 15 inches in length crawl out of its stomach. The snake is known as the water moccasin. At Grimthsville, Lincoln county, W.-Va.. , Alex. Stowers and Tom Wheeler quarreled because Wheeler persisted in crossing Stow- ers' field. Stowers knocked Wheeler down, ' when the latter got up, seized a keen-bladed axe, and cut off Stowers' right arm at the shoulder. - ' . ' The report of the commissioner of revenue shows a material increase in the white popula tion pf Danville," Va., during the past year, and a. slight decrease in the colored ranks. There are about 3,000 voters in the city, which indicates a population of 15,000, independent of North Danville, which has fully 4,000 more. W. C. Hickman of Rocky Mount, Franklin county, Va, while attempting to board a pass ing train on the Virginia Midland R.: R. at Otter River Station, was thrown under the train. His left leg was cut off near the thigh, and his rignt ankle was crushed. It is thought he will die from his injuries. A terrific hail storm ' passed over Baena Vista, Va, and vicinity. Some of the stones were as large as hen's eggs; one measured two and a-half by two inches and one inch thick. Window-glasses were broken and tin roofs to houses were so damaged that some will have to be repaired. Considerable damage was done to growing crops. Mr. Michael Kolb, of Frederick, Md, has a" young chicken hatched a few days ago that is Jiuite a curosity. It has four perfectly formed egs, two of which are black and two yellow, all being of about the same length. The chick is quite active, and Mr. Kolb hopes to raise it. " v . . . . An unusual case, involving the violation of the federal laws, was heard before United StatesiCommis8ionerTavenner,atParkersburg W. Va. The defendant was Mrs. Gertrude Russell, a young married woman, charged with passing gilded fifty cent coins tor twenty dollar gold pieces She was held for the grand jury in $1,000. " - 1 ' The Chattanooga Time publishes an ex haustive statement regarding thecrops in Ten nessee, Alabama, and Georgia. It shows the wheat crop throughout the entire territory canvassed to be almost a complete failure. Corn, cotton and tobacco are in splendid con dition, the yield promising to exceed that of last year. Of fruits there is about half a crop. Grasses of all kinds are good. The business outlook is encouraging. Mr. R. N. Koont,f Union Mills, Frederick county, Md., was stunj ia the face by a bee, and immediately bis whole body began to -swell and attained immense proportions. His shoes had to rWs mediately removed, as his feet became so large that it was feared that the shoes could not betaken off if the removal was delayed. By hard work the doctor man aged to reduce the swelling gradually, and the patient is now supposed to be out of dan ger. . ' . Francis Martin and Charles Harrington, two of the criminals who walked out of jail at Martinsburg, W. Va,, hatless and bare-footed, were recaptured in the Pine Hills, about four miles south of .that town. They had become foot-sore and exhausted, and willingly con sented to return with the officers for break fast. ,' Three of their pals, James Ford, Win, (Jross and Thomas Morry, are still out exploring the country, and it is not known when they will return. A reward of $150 is offered for their apprehension. , ' Jamks Mi i.ijWA k r, 1 s tel y el er ' d J,i a y or of Yonkers, N. Y, while adjutantoft ipncr-nl Cas sias M. Clay's command at Wifhiiu-ron, in IBM, was stopped twi Ive tinifs i i tw ty-two miles while he was on his wnv 11 New York. vi Baltimore, with cliwpatche I t cnril . Patterson from lrt-. " it Li-ic. 1 1 '
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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