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VOL. II. NO. 9 PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, JULY It, 1890. THE NEWS. The Democrats of Pennsylvania in state con" vention nominated Robert E. Pattison for gov" ernor, Chauncey F. Black for lieutenant-governor, and We II. Barclay for secretary of internal affairs. Pattison subsequently ap peered, before the , convention and made a epeech accepting the nomination. The National Fair Commission has accepted the Lake Front In Chicago for the Columbia Im position, There were three fatal cases of sunstroke in Buffalo. The strike of the East St. Louis Railroad platform men is over and business is fully resumed. IgnatzB. Lourtz and Robert I Wallace, who pleaded guilty to the theft of $58,000 worth of bonds from the vaults of Wm. Wallace, proprietor of Wallact't Monthly, were sentenced in New York each to u eight years, and ele ven months' imprisonment, with hard labor. The National Sulphur ' Company, with a capital of ten million dol lars, has been incorporated in Cincinnati. The striking carpenters in ' Cincinnati have agreed to return to work for the bosses who will give ten hours' pay for nine hours' work. Dr. E. II. Horsey, a leading physician in ; Chicago, is dead.- The Columbia and Sus quehanna Rolling Mills at Laucaster.'Fa., has 'advanced pudlerV wages. Congressman Tost, of Illinois, was renominated by the Illi nois Republicans. The Rocky Mountain Carnival began at Ogden, Utah. John Board, Jr., and Miss Hostetter, while rowing on Moon Lake, at Gravenhurst, Ont, were carried over the falls and drowned. -Wm. Brown, an .-escaped lunatic, killed Charles Robinson, 'a farmer, near Grayhurst,Ont. The Peabody Institute, at Dan vers, Mass., was destroyed by fire. r , . Police Sergeaut Henry W. Thomson, ot mil adelphio, worried over domestic troubles, com mitted suicide. Leroy Ballard was arrested by the United States officers, charged with robbing a postoffiee in Susquehanna county, Pa.-; Herman Lockman, a wealthy brewer of Cincinnati, died of heat prostration.- The . business portion of the town of Troy, Ala., In cluding the opera house, was burned. Loss $100,000. More earthquake shocks in Cali fornia. The Louisiana lottery questiou has been settled by the legislature, the state ac cepting $1,200,000 a year for the lottery privilege.- By the capsizing of a skiff in the Al legheny river near Tarcntum, Pa., Mrs. Estep and Miss Mary Helmut were drowned.. -The dye house and storage warehouse connected with George Brown's" cotton mill at Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pa., were burned. Loss $4,000. Mine Inspector David Jonathan, of the Fourth Anthracite district, died at Wilkes barre, Pa.; aged forty-nine years. -John and Peter Sullivan, aged respectfully twelve and four years, children of the superintendent of - William Pennington's estate on the Passaio river, near Paterson, N. J., were drowned in s'ght of their home.- Charles Benson, of the Scandia Bunk of Minneapolis, is missing, and so is a padkage of bank notes amounting to $1,600. Property owners' of Chicago have asked for an injunction to prevent the location of the World'sFairon thelake front. Sixty persons in New York city were made violently ill by eating ice cream said to have contained some poisonous substance. Chnrles Becker was arrested at Annville, Pa., for counterfeit ing silver half dollars. Miss, Eudora E. Atkinson, a philanthropist of Boston, in; her will left her body to a medical college for dis section. -The Hendricks monument at In dianapolis was unveiled with grand ceremo nies. Mrs. Hendricks drew the yeil from the bronze statue of her husband, and Senator Turnie delivered the oration. A mob of two hundred white men attacked the negroes in a Louisiana town, shooting one of them dead, wounding two, and whipping and driving the others from the town.- -A passenger train oathe Missouri Pacific Rail road, near Nevada, Mo., was wrecked and a number of the passengers injured. Samp son and Tsaao Heidenheiuier, of Galveston, Texas, were arrested, charged with burning an oil mill, of which the first named was presi dent. The United States flagship Rich mond has arrived at Fort Monroe. Miss Frances Potts, of Chester county, Pa., despon dent over a love affair, tried to drown herself, but, failing in that, shot herself, and is now . trying to starve to death. The wife of Eman uel McGee Evans, a prominent citizen of Kan sas City, was killed by being thrown from her carriage to the pavement in front of her residence.- John Kampfer, near Carlisle, Pa., was arrested on the charge of murdering his wife. Judge Murray F. Tully, of Chicago, wrote a strong letter to the Turners' Personal Rights League, endorsing their views. Walter A. Huffman; the president of the Dem ocrat Publishing Company and chief owner of the Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette, died in Chi cago, leaving an estate of $1,000,000. --Several slight shocks of earthquake in California. A tornado destroyed a colored people's church at Gallatin, Tenn., and two persons were "fatally injured. W. II. nammel and wife were burned to death at Hutchinson, Kansas, by the explosion of a gosoline stove. The Shawnee Indians have signed the treaty, receiving their lund in severalty and $65, 000, $100 per capita. Suits aggregatingnearly hah' a million have been begun aguinst Nathan Corevitte, of Chicago, growing out of his futile attempt to corner the lead market.' OCEAN. STEAMERS COLLIDE. ' I . . t v BIX Live Xxtt by (he Sinking of One of (He Vesael. The Dutch steamer Prins Frederick, from Amsterdam for Java, was sunk on the night of June 25 in latitude 47 N., longitude 6 Wy by collision with t he British steamor Marpessa, from Taganrog for Dunkirk. The collision occurred during a dense fog. The Marpessa has arrived at 1 nl mouth with her bows stove and her forepeak full of water. She had on board the crew and ninety-three passengers of the Prins Frederik. Six lives were lost in the collision. The Prins Frederik was of 100 tons register. ? . , The details of the dnmngo done by the pales p the Scotch const during the middle of the week show that nine vessels were wrecked ud thirty-fire persons drowned. FIVE ACRES OF FLAMES Terrible Fire aud Oil Explosion at Louisville, Ky. A Tank Torn to - Pieces Three Men Fa-' ; tally Injured and OtUerc Badly : Hurt Work Destroyed. v ' ' Five acres of fire was the awful sight wit nessed at the Standard Oil Refinery, at Fifth and C streets. The immense structure was blazing at every point, and the heat was so Intense that even two hundred yards away persons were overcome. The following is a list of the casualties: , ,' Andrew McDonald, 'aged twelve, badly burned about the face and breas', but will re cover. . . , . 1 - John McDonald, aged fourteen, . literally roasted alive; cannot live but a short time. - Dan O'Neill, aged twelve, burned almost to a crisp and will die. ' ' John Cline, aged twenty-two, frightfully burned all over the body and cannot recover. Severn Skene, aged forty -one, terribly burned, but will recover. ' J. D. Pittigo, aged forty-five, badly, though, not fatally, burned about head and breast. , Arthur Yonkers, aged eighteen, slightly burned. - . ; ? ' It was at first reported that seven. had lost, their lives, and , later that three were killed and thirty-live wounded, but it. is now be lieved the above will cover the casualties. The fire broke out at 8.45 o'clock, and was in many respects a remarkable one. The re finery is on the east side of the Louisville and r Nashville track, but the tanks are scattered along it on both side... On last Saturday a tank of crude oil came in on a flat car from Cleve land, and it was to be turned into the refinery vats. Some of the workmen thought the iron tank was too hot for such a thing to be done with safety.; After consultation it was post poned, in the , hope that the weather to-day would be cooler. It did notproveto, however, and it became necessary to run the oil out of the car tank into another one in the yard. In-, spector Severn Skene took John Pettigo and another workman, whose name could not be learned, with him, and they climbed on the car. They mounted the manhead and were about to unscrew the cap when they felt that there was a tremendous pressure from the in side against it. At first they decided not to open it. but finally they changed their minds, and did so. In an instant there was a dull puff as the vapor escaped, filling fhe air all around. The gas, as is known, is heavier than, the air, and sank to the ground, spreadingout all over the locality and moving with the wind. Aliflost in a twinkling it reached one of the sheds under which was a fire. There was a flash as the inflammable vapor ignited, and immediately after there was a tremendous explosion. The tank was blown to pieces, and the hundreds of gallons of burning oil were scattered all over the great works. A wall of fire three hundred feet high and nearly nine hundred feet long moved with lightning rapid- ity to the building. In less time than it takes to relate it the canning-house, filled with thou sands of gallons of canned oil, the cooper shop, carpenter shop, pump aud engine houses, the filling, and lubricating houses, the storage houses, the paint and glue houses and nine hundred feet of platform were all ablaze and burned furiously. - At the first - intimation of the explosion all of the workmen who could do so started to run. - Johnny Cline, however, stumbled and fell, and 'his clothes caught fire. The men bravely returned to his assistance, but the fire that enveloped him could not be extinguished until he had been frightfully burned. Three little boys, Denny O'Neill and An drew and John McDonald, were walking along the railroad track when the explosion occur red. They were slightly to the east of the tank, and the wind blew the blaze directly ' down upon them. Shrieking with pain, they impulsively jumped backward, and into the clear space ou the western 6ide of the track. Their clothes were on fire, aud they ran down the track with t he bright blazes streaming after them. As soon as the bystanders could recover from their horror, they pursued the three boys. Covering them with coats, they soon extin guished the flames, and laidthcin under a tree near by. When on attempt was inade to re move O'Neill 'sclathes, great pieces of his flesh peeled off his face and body at the slightest touch. He was conscious, and never uttered a cry. ' A WEST VIRGINIA EPIDEMIC. TerrRle Fatality Among the Mountains of Clay County, W. Va. From , the head of Sycamore and Parallel Creeks, which have their source in the moun tains, and even so faj; away as Pocahontas, an extremely fatal disease, of a character entirely unknown to the physicians of that broad re. gion, prevails, J Out of nine families along one creek thirteen persons are said to have died in one week. Nothing seems to have any effect on the disease, although almost every remedy has been applied. BeVond Sycamore Creek in the wilderness nearly every family is said to have from one to three or four cases, and the people have become so worn out with watching and helping each oth?r that when one of the watchers or nurses took the disease he succumbed rithin an hour. No cause can be ascribed for the epidemic, the symptoms of which are those of poisoning in many in stances, On theopposite side of the mountain from the head of Sycamore scarcely a family is said to have escaped the dreaded disease. Children are said to lie less liable to take it than the older ones. There .are many who believe that the head waters of the streams have been poisoned by some mineral substance in the mountains where the springs which feed the streams originate. ' , Several years since .an epidemic somewhat similar broke out in Logan and adjoining counties, and carried off many people; in fact, almost depopulated that section before, the disease was gotten under control. The real extent of the fatality it is impossible to ascer tain, as Clay county is away from telegraph and telephone communication, away up in the. mountainous section of the State. CYCLONE IN MICHIGAN. : Houses and Farm Bnildlng Blown Down Little Von of Lift. Acycloncpassedover Portland and Orange, in Ionia county, Mich., causing greatdamage. The storm first struck William Sayre's tim ber, a trtfet often acres of fine hard wood, and traveled the whole grove, tearing up the trees by the root or-twisting them into ail kinds of fantastic shapes. -'.From there the cyclone crossed a belt of open country, can yine fences and trees with it, Edward Harwood's barn was in the track of the tern pest, and it was first set on fire bv lightning, then demolished by the winds. -Threw valuable horses were killed. Stephen Drum's house was blown to atoms, and the family of rive buried in the ruins. All escaped alive, however. Furm fences are ob literated and dozens of persons injured. Crops ruined and much stock killed. . , ' A cyclone is reported as having struck Read ing. Several buildings were blown down, one man was killed and several severely hurt Particulars aro very meagre as the wires art down. ' ' 0UTHERN ITEMS. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED . . V - FROM MANY SOCRCES. V ' Jerry Scott, an old batchelor.livingin Han cock county, W. Va., blew his brains out with a rifle. . . ' The Luray Inn and Caverns have been sold tothe Luray Land Improvement Company for $180,000., 'i . ' , .( Simeon Snjith and his nephew captured seven young wolves ift Nickolas county, W. Va., last week. , j ; Monongalia county, W. Va., is to have a court-house to cost $50,000, to be paid for in five annual instalments. . Upon the favorable report of their geologi cal expert, Scottish capitalists will invest about two million dollars in Glasgow, Va. John Toland, an employe of the Top Mill, at Wheeling, W. Vs., was badly cut by hav ing a truck of sheet iron overturned on him. Charles Burkholdcr, a brakeman on the B. and O. Railroad, was drowned in the Potomac river, at Cherry Run, W. Va., while bathing.' Farmers around Lynchburg, Va., are in trouble because the laborers needed for har vest are leaving to work on the various rail roads. . ... Ohafles Cook, a puddler in the Belmont mill, near Wheeling, W.'Va., lost his left eye by being struck with a sledge while breaking a tap. . ., : . . -v. The wheat crop in the neighborhood of Wheeling, W. Va., willhavetobe cut with the sickle, a the recent storms have beaten itdown o badly.- : , ; 1 - On the farm of Dr. Friend, in Chesterfield, county, Va., two colored men plowed up a jug containing about fifty dollars in gold and sil ver coin. . t, . Big blneGsh and mackerel are again run ning heavily on the coast, aud the seine-haulers below Virginia Beach are catching more than they can ship or sell. ' ' ; . . -The new court-house at Warrenton, Va., has just been completed, the new structure being almost an exact reproduction of the one de stroyed by fire last November. , The Shenandoah Valley road is kept busy, hauling vast amounts of machinery for the new manufacturing plants that are sprinking up through Southwest-Virginia. kW ii Rapid progress is being made on the exten sion of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail road, and it is now thought the state line will be' reached about the 1st of September.. , The farmers of Albemarle, Va., have been ladly disappointed in their harvest, the wheat fields that looked as if a good yield might have been harvested, harvesting but a small Crop. ... " '. :,-:-x, Workmen are putting down a side track at the site located for the iron mill at- the Mid way ( Va.) Iron Company, and the foundations for the plant are being pushed rapidly for ward. , . I . -" Oliver Perry, in charge of a saw mill, near FishvillpAugusta- county, Va., fell on the saw and was cut ia-iwo, the saw entering the left shoulder and passed diagonally entirely through the body. ; . -The Danville and New River Railroad is ad vertised for sale on August 27, and it is sup posed that the Richmond and Danville will be the purchaser, to utilize the road as a part of a through line to the West At Rowlesburg.'W. Va., in the damage suit f Joseph Carrico vs. the West Virginia Cen tral and Pittsburg Railroad Company, based on the loss of an arm by the defendent, the (ury awarded damages $8,500. ! : , A deposit of what promises to be rich gold bearing quartz has recently been discovered on a farm in Prince William county, Va.,near Independence Hill. Specimens of placer de posits ore yielded from $9 to $13 per ton. . Tne next annual meeting of the Carolina Tobacco Association will take place in More bead City, in August, but theprecise date has not yet been announced, AH persons regu larly engaged in the tobacco trade will be wel comed as delegates. . -( . .- . . . The Grottoes Company owns 30,000 acres of iron, timber and town site property, including the Weyer and Fountain, caves, with a fine hotel, electric plant, water power, twenty-five houses, and the city of Shfendun is being laid out on their property. , Thomas A. Edison, the great electrician x in Moore county, N. C, making .examination of certain gold mining interests. ; He has se cured an option of one thousand acres of land, and expects tc form a syndicate of English gen tlemen for development. The land side lieson the south of Deep ri ver. ; Senah nounshell. acolored woman, and two younger brothers, in walking from Wvthe ville, Va., to Cripple Creek, stopped under a tree to avoid a passing shower. While there they were struck by lightning, and the woman was instantly killed, and the two boys so badly injured that they will die. - tj "-Senator Barbourhas written a letter stating that many of his friends have asked- him to consent to become chairman of the Virginia democratic executive committee, and while he appreciates all this, yet he cannot think of accepting should it be tendered, as his publio dutiogand the state of his health will not per mit', ypV, ' ; - . A white man named W.O. Pace, of Person conuty, .N. C, has deen arrested and placed under 700 bond for his appearance at court charged with being oneofamobof masked men who recently entered the jail at Roxboro and took therefrom a lot of whiskey which had been stored in the building by revenue oflicerii for safe keeping. , ' At the recent term of the United States Dis trict Court at Danville, Va., fifty cases were disposed of, resulting in about a dozen convic tions of persons who had violated the internal revenue Jaws with reference to distilled spirits. In- no case, was the punishment, more than three months in jail. It is said that the cost of this term of the court amounts to something more than ten thousand dollars. A large tanning plant has been established near Raleigh, N. C., on the Raleigh and Gaston railroad, by Messrs. W, F. and J M. Wyatt, two enterprising citizens. The capacity of the plant will be about fifty thousand pounds of hides per year. Operations will betsommenced by the 1st of August, or perhaps sooner, as every convenience will be furnished for an earnest presecution of the business. Notwithstandingthefailureof the fruitcrop generally in North Carolina, grapes seem to form an exception, and the yield, it is pre dicted, will be nearly or quite the average. The eighth annual grape fair will be held at Mount Holly, August 1st, and J. Van Lindley, presidentof the state fruit-growers association, says there will be the finest exhibit of fruit yet held. The premium list is liberal and the pro gramme interesting. Unfavorable reports are being received at the agricultural department in Raleigh, N.O., relative to the tobaceo crop in the Piedmont section. It is said that in Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and other counties near the Yirgiuia line, the tobacco worm has made its appear ance in large numbers and is playing liavoc wjth the plants. The worms are said to be as large as a man's finger, and their appearance, thus early, is attributed to the unusually mild winter. . , " TuK"relieffund"of the Pennsylvania Rail road is no small a flair. Last year it is said that the employes contributed $;177,4SI and the company $0.1o"t, making a total of $117,0:21, Of this Jl3,5tJU was paid out. ,.' v o RACE fit Misguided Negroes Get into . Trouble ' in Louisana. , One Colored Man Shot Dead, Two Seri ously Wounded, and others Whipped and Driven away Alarming reports have been circulating for some time in regard to a threatened uprising of colored people in Amite, La. - The rumors say that misled colored people are holding frequent night meetings and are procuring arms and ammunition from many quarters to use against the whites in a contest which they propose to precipitate. By some these rumors have been regarded as canards, but recent events indicate that they are not groundless and the whites will do well to pre pare for the worst a - For some time past two white men have been living in this community who are said to associate with the colored population of the parish on terms of social equality. It is also said that they: have used their influence to incite a strike for higher wages among the blacks. :' '. '.-.-. . W eek before last a meeting of white citizens was held, and a committee was appointed to interview the two offenders. When the com mittee attempted to carry out its instructions the men called the negroes to their support, and several pistol-shots were fired, fortunately no one being injured. Quiet was restored, and no further tmuble occurred until about 7 o'clock when several gunshots were heard about a mile above town.. bhortly afterward George Howard the most desperate negro in the parish, came in on a horse-wagon wounded in the arm with a ball from a Winchester rifle. It is reported that he had beeu intercepted on his way to work by an armed posse of white men and shot , Within five minutes after Howard arrived there was a simultaneous charge into the town frpra every road of armed men on horseback, numbering about 200. Most of them were dis guised.. They surrounded the important squares of the town, threw out their pickets and asked the whereabouts of Henry Daniels, Zack Taylor, Dug Tillis and George Howard. Armed posses of 10. or 15 were sent at once in search of them. - . Howard was found in Tom Sewell's garden He refused to surrender and was killed. Two of the horses of the party were wounded by shots from the garden at the time the shooting was going on, yet there was no guu near Howard when he was found dead. , Two other negroes, Jake Ransom and Tod Flanders, were wounded at the same time in the garden. ; Dag Tillis was' found and he, with two other bad negroes, were taken to the outskirts of the corporation, whipped, and ordered to leave. Armed squads were then sent out to capture the arms of the suspected colored people. Eighteen or twenty double barreled guns, two Winchester rifles aud a number of pistols were taken. ; This ariaed crowd then dispersed. The re peated threats on the part of the negroes against the whites, the firing upon the com mittee named above, and the cruel beating of a white child bya negro man a few weeks ago. and their making arsenals of their homes' Bp incensed the whites that they concluded that Chey would bear it no longer but would meet the issue as they did. Everything is quiet now. f . -.: - '.; WORK AND WORKERS. ' The strike which commenced at the stone quarries in Joliet, Illinois, is not yet settled. The cigar manufacturers in Binghamton, New York, have refused the demands of the strikers for an advance in wages. Two hundred girls employed in the strip ping department of Lorillasos's. tobacco fac tory, in Jersey City, went on strike for an ad vance in wages. - The miners in the Phillipsburg. Beech Creek and Osceola bituminous coal districts, have prepared a circular demanding of the mine operators a higher scale of prices, with increased pay for "dead" work. jrw The employes of the MeKee Brothers' flint glassworks, at Jeannette, Penna., have struck because the firm employed a non-union man from Bochester, New York. About 400 men are idle and the works have closed. Members of the Bricklayers' Union in Bos ton have decided to refuse all the material handled by non-union laborers. This action, it is thought, will precipitate a general stop ping of building operations or a general con cession by the bosses to the Building Laborers Union. One thousand operators in the silk mills of John Copcutt and tho Tatroon Mills, owned by W. II. Copcutt,. in Yonkers, New York, went on strike against a reduction of 15 and 2o per cent in their wages. They offered to ac cept a reduction of 5 per cent, but the compa nies refused to agree to this, A SPLIT occurred in the New York Central Labor Union. The Socialist delegate with drew and formed a new central body, which will be known as the Central Labor Federa tion. Anticipating this action, the conserva tives passed a resolution denying them the right of representation in the original organi zation.'; .; . , , . ' The backbone of the cloak-cutters strike in New York is broken. Popkins & Marks be long to the associa tion of the cloak firms. They lurrendered to the terms of the loeked-out workmen. The men have it all their own way virtually. They will go back to work at once and will be paid in full for the time they have been out - Immigrant Inspectors Lester and Stitch, at Chicago, have reported to Secretary Win dom that there is no foundation for the com plaint recently made by the Carpenters' Coun cil, that the alien contract labor law had been violated by the importation of John Jett'ry, a carpenter from Scotland, by the contractors who are building Fort Sheridan. The inves tigation showed that Jefl'ry bad been in this country for eight years aud had been a citizen for thrt-e years. CENSUS FIGURES ESTIMATED. Total Population of the Country Phll adrlphla'a Comparison with Chlcogo. Mr. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, estimates the population of the United States in round numbers at 64,500,000. The official returns will all be made out within the next thirty days, and the figures will be known to a certainty. The instances in which a recount has been allowed are few, though every vil lage which is disappointed in the outcome wants another "go" at sslving the population problem. . ' ' v The returns from the cities given below have been announced in a semi-official way thus fan New.York. . .1,627.227 , Nw Orleans. .246,000 Chicago. 1.08o,(KK) Washington., .230.000 Philadelphia 1,U40,4")0 Milwaukee.... 200,000 l',rooklyn......0.0,670 Detroit '.197,000 Baltimore. . ,.-500,000 - Minneapolis ...18.",000 St. Louis.. 440,000 Louisville 180,000 "Boston .417.720 St. Paul . 138.000 Cincinnati.. . . .306,000 Indianapolis. .125,000 Buflalo ... 250,000 Columbus.... 114,000 Pittsburg.;-.... 250,000 Ciand Rapids. .'5,(W Cle child 243.000 CABLE SPARKS. The new constitntion of Brazil has been promulgated. The American riflemen had a cordial re ception at Hamburg. , Sevejtty houses have been destroyed by fire in Oleenburg, Germany. . France and. England have reached an agreement wjth reference to Zanzibar. Chancellor Von Caprivi has requested the Reichstag to adjourn from July 8 to November The Duke of Clarence took the oath of office and his seat as a peer in the British House of Lords. , It is reported at Cairo that Osman Digna I has left Tokar and is marching northward with a large force. Serious conflicts are reported between Ar- j menians and Kurds, in which many have been killed on both sides. . , : The government of Brazil has established quarantine against all arrivals from Spanish and African ports on the Mediterranean. A mob attacked a voting station at Kaloosa, Hungary, and were driven off by soldiers after three of the attacking party were killed. Sabah BernhAbdt. the French actress, being unable to sleep took 120 grains of chloral, which was an overdose, and nearly killed her self.,.;:; . . , T , ,,.., The Sultan has pardoned all prisoners con-' victed under the common law in the Island of Crete whose sentences do not exceed three years. 't--. . - Emperor William, of Germany, has bestowed the decoration of the order of the Black Eagle upon Count Von llatzt'eldt, the German am bassador to England. ( The North German Gazette says that Lord Salisbury and Count von llatzfeldt, the Ger man embassador at London, will sign the basis of the African agreement. , , Prince Bismarck told a deputation of Ber lin citizens that he would express freely his opinions regarding public events in Germany, and he would not give way even if he stood aloue. , The Australian government subsidy to ths San Francisco mail line will cease after No vember next unless the American government subscribes toward the expense ot maintaining the service. The government d Berlin has arrived at an agreement with the parties in the Reich stag not to discuss the Anglo-German agree ment during the third reading ot the East Africa estimates. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has sanctioned the first compromise bill passed by the Bohemian Diet in May last, which divides the provisional education at council into two sections German and Czech. . . ;, , : Tub Volksraad of the South African Re- ublic has passed a bill providing that the egislaturc of the republic shall consist of two chambers instead of only one, the Volks raad, as at present. , ' .. - The. Liverpool Board of Trade, which in vestigated the Amber Line steamship City of Rome, which ran on Fastnet rock, finds that the failure of .Captain Young to attend the warnings of the lead caused the trouble. Thr municipal council of Rome broke up in a row over the bill introduced into the Chamber of Deputies by Prime Minister Crispi to assist in the reorganization of the municipal financial affairs, and all the members of the councils except Mennotti Garibaldi resigned as a protest against the proposed measure. -.. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. 9 . A passenger train on the Wabash road wsfl wrecked near Silver City, Iowa. The fireman was fatally scalded. ., v ; . , ; A severe wind storm swept over the coun try south of Sclma, Alabama. One man was killed by lightning. Much damage was done to the crops. . ' j . Two cars of the Atlantic Express ran off the track near Capetown, Ontario. E. J. Mc Donald, of Chicago, was killed. Seven or eight others were slightly injured. ' A bad cave-in occurred in Gould's tunnel, ou the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, near Steubenville, Ohio. iFour Italians workmen were badly hurt. 1 The boiler of a steam engine on the farm of W. Craig, near Colchester, Ontario, exploded. George Craig and Thomas Quick were killed and five others injured, Frank Quick fatally. The three rear' coaches of an excursion train, bearing colored Masons from Kansas City, on the Union Pacific Road, jumped the track near Lawrence, Kansas, and went into a ditch. Thirty-seven persons were hurt. , ' A tank filled with ammonia, at Hirtler Bros.' pork packing house, in Hoboken, New Jersey, exploded. Henry Drake was killed, and J. J. Meyer, Thomas Kelly and Henry Hirtler were inj ured. Kelly, it is feared, fata' ly. The Marine Hospital Bureau is advised that a yellow fever ship from Rio de Janeiro isde tamed at the Delaware Breakwater Quaran tine for fumigating, etc. Three deaths occur red on the vessel on her last voyage, but there are no cases on her at present. , A CABLE message was received at the Navy Department fromConsulGaresche.atMartini- Jue, as follows: "Half Fort de France burned; lartinique demands aid. -Five thousand homeless people need lumber, beef, pork, flour and other provisions. Cable quickly what States will do." :' : , : An.accident occurred at the Fair grounds in Columbia, South Carolina, during the fir ing of a salute. By the premature discharge of a cannon, Olin Barrer, of Lexington, lost Dotn arms and botti eyes and received a gap ing wound in the chest. John Stoke, of Co lumbia, was badly wounded in both arms, and one has been amputated. W. II. Casson, .of Columbia, had his hand shattered. J. W. Delaplane, of Hampton, Virginia, with his son, daughter and nephew, went out Bailing at Fort Monroe. Their boat collided with a sailing vessel containing Dr. parra ruore and J. 11. Lake, also of Hampton. Mr. Delaplane's sou was knocked overboard, the father jumped to his rescue, the nephew fol lowing, and all three were drowned. Mr. Lake went overboard to try and save them, but failed, and succeeded in reaching shore. The daughter reuuined in the boat and was saved. UGANDA LAID WASTE. Horror of an African Expedtton Letter! From Peter. A letter has been received from Dr. Peters, the explorer, dated Rubaga, June 8. He dc scribes the treaties fhat have been concluded with the King of Uganda ousting the English from that country. lie says that a lack of Ammunition prevents him from . marching to Wadelai. He also says that he found a num ber of skulls and bones at the place where Bishop Hannington aud his party were mw tiered. : ' A letter has also been received -om Lieut. Tiedemau, of Dr. Peters party, in which he describes the encounters of the expedition. He says Uganda is a land of waste. Every where are seen skeletons and corpses showing traces of murder by burning and every o'.i... r horrible method. rUt Xl'tUVSZ. UUNUJtUliDD. Senate gelot; ' 143d DAY. The consideration of the bill for the admission of Wyoming as a state was resumed. After a long debate the bill was passed by a strict party vote yeas 2ft, nays 18. The bill for the admission of Idaho was then taken up, and went over as "unfinished busi ness." After an executive session the Senate adjourned. , ' , 144th Day. A message was' received from the House asking a conference on thf silver bill, and, on motion of Mr. Morrill, the con- : onrt endar was then taken up and the following bills among others, were passed:' Senate bills, extending tor twelve montns (irom ine pas sage of the act) the time for filingclaimsunder the French spoliation act, andf for a publio building at Altonna, Pa., cost not to exceed $100,000. Senate bills for public buildings as follows: Muckegon, Mich., $75,000; Palestine, Texas, $50;000; Jacksonville, 111., $75,800; ClarksvUle, Tenn., $50,000; Allentown, Pa., $100,000. The conference report on the post office appropriation bill was agreed to. The Senate then adjourned, i 145th Day. In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds offered a - resolution, w hich was agreed to, f calling on the Secretary of the Treawury for information as tothe relative and actual cost of steam printing and hand printing presses in the bureau of engraving 'and printing. The House bill in relative to oaths in pension and other cases was taken from the calendar and passed.; The House bill for the admission of Idaho as a State was taken up for considera tion. The bill was temporarily laid aside. The agricultural appropriation bill was taken np and passed. A further conference was ordered on the legislative appropriation bill. The Sen ate then adjourned. - 146th Day. Mr! Dawes, from the confer ence committee on the Legislati ve A ppropria tion bill.reportedthutthecominiltee had leen. unable to agree. A deficiency appropriation bill for the pay and mileage of members ($!,'.. 721) was passed. A conference was ordered on the Agricultural Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Plumb, Farwell and Call were ap pointed conferees on the part of the Senate. The bill for the admission of Idaho as a state was resumed, and Mr. Vance spoke in oppo sition to it At theelose ot Air. Vance s speecu the bill was passed without a division. After an executive session, the Senatte adjourned. 147th DAY. The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the two Sena te bills reported from the committee on commerce to place the American merchant marine eng:iffed in the foreign trade upon an equality with that of other nations, and to provide for ocen mail service between the United States and foreign norts and to Dromote commerce. Mr. Fry c made a long address in favor of both bills. He was followed Mr. Vest, who opposed the sub sidy bill. Mr. Vest yielded the floor for an executive session before he had concluded., ' ." '; 'J ' House Session. ' ; . V . 152D DayI The House was engaged in de bate on the national election bill, M r. Vau x, of Pennsylvania, making the principal speech against it. Tne House at 5:40 o'clock, took a recess until eight o'clock, the evening session being devoted to the consideration of private pension., bills. . ' . , o 153d Day. Debate on the federal elections bill was continued. The agreement of the con-. ference Committee on thepostofticeappropria tion bill was adoptecLv Mr. Bufterwortn, of Ohio, presented the conference report on the legislative, executive and judicial appropoia tion bill. Adopted. The House at o'clock took t recess until 8 o'clock. The night ses sion was occupied in debate on the federal , elections bill. Adjourned 11.30 P. M. 154th Day. In the House, debate on the federal election bill was continued, Mr. Cole man, republican, of Louisiana, being one of the speakers against the bill. - -. . 155th DAY. The House continued the con sideration of the federal election bill. The amendment offered by Mr. Lehlbaek. repub lican, of New Jersey, providing that tne chief supervisor of elections for each judical dis-' trict of the United States shall take such action as is requisite to secure such supervision in every congressional district as is provided by the laws of the United States, was rejected yeas 132, nays 138 the republicans voting in the negative. Amendments offered by Messrs. Lodge and Buckalew were agreed to. 156th Day. In the House, after a contest which lasted all day, the federal election bill was passed by a vote of 155 to 14ft, all amend ments from the democratic side having been voted down. - ! SHE , TOOK A BIG TUMBLE. A, Cleveland Girl's First Experience with a Parachute. ,- Estella Leroy, a Cleveland girl, whose real name is Hull, attempted to make her first bal loon ascension and parachute jump at Bcy erle's Park a few days ago. She failed, how ever, and narrowly escaped serious injury, and, perhaps death, Tho balloon was inflated with hot air, and an employee named Ed French was sent inside to k eep' it from Igni ting from sparks from the fire. He M as tor gotten, and when the balloon was suflicicntly inflated, it was cut loose and shot up into the air. French was not prepared for ascension, and he began to scramble out. One of his feet caught In the ropes, and he hung head down ward. After a vigorous struggle, lie succeeded in extricating himself when, the balloon was about thirty feet from the earth, aud after turning two somersaults in the air, he alighted on the ground on his face, and was severely injured. The struggles of French loosened the parachute from the balloon, and wbeu at tue neigni or one nunarea. leer, u suuueniy broke loose. The parachute didnot openuutil it had traversed a considerable disuince, aud the woman descended with a rush. There was a loud cry "f terror and a general' stampede. Fortunately, the aeronaut rfell into tho branches of a large tree, and was rescued without sustaining any injury. She was con., riderably frightened, but declared her inten tion of trying the feat again. KIlAED BY LIGHTNING.' Fonr Victims of Death-Deal! ug Bolts at I tne Ohio Capital. Columbus and vicinity was viwited by a shower of thunderbolts, which dealt destruc tion to life and property. The rain came in torrents and filled the streets from curb to curb. The first death reported wns that of a bricklayer on his way home from work, who had stopped beneath a tree and vn Irr.i.nif against it to keep from the sun. 11 :h unme win Stultz. The tree was struck, the l.:f ruc-.-d through his body, tearing the cl-nM rig from his right side and killing him inta nt v. "Ab "it the same time, the house of Wilson Wise, or the West Side, was struck. Willie ie, acred 19 was instantly killed. A daughter -;itdly injured and two grandchildren mux ked n severely it is doubtful if they wov The house wrt badly torn bv t 1 't. W.-t of the city A fanner named Awlrvw 1 taii'fi and a Mrs. Messiiner were n-linh .! . nrai".!e in a large wagoa.L when tlvy en- - i ork mid killed instantly. There urc icp 1 ?' r deaths iu the vifipity.
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