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FCBLISHbD BY llOASOKR rUBLISHINO Co. C. V. Ausdow, Business Makagki. FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. II, NO. 10. . PLYMOUTH,, N. C, ERIDAY, JULY 18, .1890. THE NEWS.' " ' V. " ' i L 1 - I - Captain Walter Campbell, of the ship Hong ley, arrived in. New York, and tells a terriblo story of how he resoned the crew ef the mis sing schooner Carmelite, which was burned Jit sen. .'yThe two. crews nearly famished on Iward t'ae Hoaglcy by the food and water giv-. Jug Cut. The refinery of the Southern Cot tonseed' Oil Mills, near Atlanta, Ga., was turned; Loss $100,000. 'Cowboys at' Syd ney, Neb., amused themselves by shooting at it4 clipping telegraph wires and insulators, and thereby cutting 611 all communication be tween Chicago, and the Pacific eoastf by the' "Westarn Union's main route.- William O. Morchead, a banker $f Philadelphia, became suddenly demented at Asbufy Park, N. J.,and vrnudered oWrrjL JoobaUflidwaJO,. with., . n shaggy beard and- Only covered : by a red blanket, has been; alarming the women and children of the vicinity of Palmyra, Mo.. John O. Nottinger, one of the oldest settlers vt Illinois, died at La Salla, aged eightly-two years. The home of Hirura Stanton, at Moorcsville, Lid., wasstrhekby lightning and nil the familystnnned. Threchundred brake men and switchman of the Louisville and Nashville PUulfond went on strike. Both branches of the legislature of Louisiana havo lenicdthe right of the Governor to veto the Lottery bill. The Clothing Manufacturers' Association, of New York, intend locking out their one thousand cutters.- Delaware Re publicans fixed upon Dover as the place, and September 0th as the date, for the state convention.- The new hotel at Bucna Vista, Va., was burned. Loss, $30,000.- Thomas Wlllctt, a young man of Accornac county, Va., in a jealous frenzy stabbed and nearly hacked tospieces tvoJ disreputable women.- -by the premat ura explosion of a blast in a quarry at IIunt::igdon, Pa 'G. L. Sacrist wns killed aud "Robert S. Iloutz severely, injured, Bishop Ireland, in an address on the school question nt the educational convention in St. Paul," Ad vocated the English plan of paving for seen J lar instruction in the denominational s-jhodlif --Thirty thousand Applicat ions for pensions under the Disability act Jiavc been veceived- Michael Roach, aged, fifteen years, died in .Ameterdam, N.' Y., from cigarette smoking. ' The Alabama Midland llailroad has been .'sold to the Savannah, Florida, and Western (Railroad Company. Grand Secretary More ilaiicl, of the Order of Elks, was expelled, by jthe Grand Lodge in session at Cleveland and JNew York Lodge had its charter revoked. '"Miss Genevieve Green, of Fair Haven, Vt., nn art teacher, committed suicide in Newman, !Ga. John Stansberry was banged at Fort IjScott, Ark., for killing his wife. William Jlittamcl, a carpenter in Chicago, shot his rwife, and was in turu shot by his son, who Irushed to his mother's defense.- Cleveland 'was struck by a cyclone, which did consider ble damage to property. At House's Point, jN. Y., the steam yacht Little Nellie went down land three of the crew were drowned. -The Striking dock laborers in West Superior at tempted to stop work and a riot ensued. Two nien were fatally Injured. -John Jones, a ttough character, was shot near Shenandoah !by Richard Gosgheu. . lie will die. John J W. Rjeedy, the parricide, of La ncaster, Pa., hag 'had his sentence commuted to life-imprisonment. -;'V . - j A unugnter and a son of Henry Henderson, of Port.' Huron, Mich., were killed by being thrown from a carriage at a picnic- James West, the young man who shot William Trit apoe,ata dance near Berkeley Springs, W. Va., committed suicide the next day.- -John Moody, colored, was drowned in the Susque hanna river, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., while try ing'to save a white child that had fallen into the i water. Harry Marsh, a miner, at Al tooayi, Pa., in a jealous rage, cut the throat of Clara Jones, aged nineteen years.- George Seals, a desperado of Perry county, Ind., beat his wife to denthond SherifTOardner, who at tempted to arrest him. Mrs. John L. Wright, . the American Presbyterian missionary at Sal mos, Western Persia,", was murdered by a native school teacher. 'The assessed value of real estate in New York city for this year is $1,303,290,000. There were 181 business fail ures in the United Statesand 18in Canada the past week. Patrick Landrigan was killed at his; home In Brooklyn, N. Y-, by Philip Kavanagh, a boarder at the house, who got into a dispute with Mrs. Lai'tlrigan about his board bill. -Professor Robert H. Bishop, one of tlic early presidents of Miami University, died in Oxford, Of William Se'ybert, sen--t enccd at Wheeling, W. Va-, & three years' imprisonment foriraising silver certificates, confessed to having passed large amounts of bogus money in West Virginia. John Pctil lot, of Columbus, Ind.,quarreled with his wife, and shot her dead. D. Tindall, of Canada, and his grandson, Edward . Baker, of Fall BiVer, Mass.,jwere found asphyxiated in a hotel at Newport, R. I. The Atlantic Juris diction of the , Young Men's Institute began its first grand council iu Cincinnati. -The village of Dunfield, Warren county, N. J., is '.nfesied with rattlesnakes. Atimns Wilcox, aged twenty years, was killed, at South Dan ny, N. Y., by the premature explosion of a cannon. Two men were killed by a west bound train on the Long Island Railroad, near Rockville Centre, L. I. Joseph Shannon, aged six ty-three 'years, was swindled out of $9,000 by sharpers at Beaver Falls, Pa AN AERONAUTS FATAL FALL Ilia Baloon Take. Fire in Mld-Alr A . Terrible Spectacle. ( Prof. Samuel Black; an aeronaut, met with a horrible death at Beardtown, I1L 'When at a height of four hundred feet in his ascent he signalled that be was about to descend, but something seemed to have gone wrong with his parachute. A few minutes later a thin strew i of smoke was seen issuing from the parachute, which in a few seconds burst into a tlame, severing the parachute from the bal loon and the aeronaut was seen fullingthrough the air at a frightful Bpeed. Half an hour later his body- was found mangled about two milt'H from the scene of the ascent. It is sup. posed the parachute caught lire from sparks lxvia miii "ear It- Another Western Town Devastated by a Hurricane. . Seven Children 1 and Two Unknown Tramp. Killed A Train Dlown from , the Track Damage to Crops. A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., gives tho following account of a cyclone hi Fargo, N.D.: A straight wind from the northwest struck Fargo at 2.30 A. M. Great damage was done the city. . . . ' Electric-light towers were blown down, while blocks were unroofed, Yerxa'a wigwam, Mc GilL & Co. 'a warehouse, the Opera House, the Republican office, Keeny block, the battlement on the bank of North Dakota, the Chapin "block, Exchange Hotel; Continental block and Manitoba freight-house were unroofed and the Milwaukee depot blown down. . Dozens of small houses were razed an'l almost, every plate-glass window, on Front street and Broadway wns broken. The Jay Cooke Hotel and the Grand Pacific, at Moor liead, were unroofed. The residence of the late Captain McCarthy, corner of Fifth and Ninth, was struck by the storm and demolished. Seven 'children were instantly killed and Mrs. McCarthy is not expected to live. Two unknown tramps sleeping in a box-car were killed. : ; No. 1, passenger train on the Northern Pa il ic going west nad just pulled out of the yards, aud had stopped at the Milwaukee crossing. The train was made up of three baggage, nine coaches and sleepers, a party of Chicago and Northwestern officials in a private car and Superintendent McCabe's car. - ' All of thecoachesand the tender were blown from the track, but no lives were lost. The lights had been put out, so that there was no fire or steam. Superintendent MeCabe and the conductor, brakemen and porters acted very .coolly and calmed the frightened pas sengers, who were sent back to the city in special coaches. From the surrounding country within a radius of 30 miles reports of damage to grow ing crops come in. Many places where wheat was standing two or three feet high and head ing oat reports say it is badly lodged, and in some instances whipped and torn to pieces or broken off, bnt in the majority of cases it will not suffer material injury. Farm houses, barns and outbuildings in all directions are reported leveled to the ground, and trees along the river banks for miles in both directions from this city are broken off entire or shorn of foiiago t DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. W. II. IlAMMELLand wife, of Hutchinson, Kansas, were burned to death by the explo sion of a gasoline stove. ' Mns. EmasuklM.Evass was thrown from her carriage to the pavement in front of her residence in Kansas City and was killed. Melj.vilj.I5 Pbrdenhebg, 13 years old, was killed in New York by the explosion of a can of gunpowder with which he was playing. John Boabd, Jr., and Miss Ilostetter, while boating on Moon river, near Graven hur.it, Ontario, were carried over the falls and drowned. - ' A boat; containing four persons was upset on tile River at Brockville, Ontario, aud Mary. McMann ' and William Casselman were drowned. ' , WiixIam Roth aud Edward Weller were drowned while bathing at Buffalo, N. Y., and Louis Kavcppel was drowned at the name place by his boat capsizing. y - A Chicago-bound passenger train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad is reported to have been wrecked near Joliet. Two women are said to have been killed. L. C. Cumback, a travelling salesman for a Boston bouse, and a son of ex-Governor Cum buck, of Indiana, was found dead in bed in a hotel in Iowa City. He had been drinking heavily. - - ,r . v , ' ; -; ' ' ' -J Pier No. 2 of the Philadelphia and Read ing Company's coal docks, at Elizabeth, New Jersey,fell with 92 cars filled with coal. Coal and timbers were mixed almost inextricably. No person was injured. John C. - Wheeler, who was bitten by a dog several weeks ago, died at his home in Brunswick, Maine, of hydrophobia. Two other men, who were bitten by the same dog, will be sent to the Pasteur Institute, New York. ;; - -V--V , ': WilUAM Castleman, John Mnyer, Annie McMahon and Annie Graham were out row ing at Brockville, New York, when Castlemun stood up and began to rock the boat. As a re sult of his folly it capsized and. he and Miss McMahon were drowned. . v A Missouri Pacific passenger train was wrecked by the spreading of tlic rails on a sharp curve near Nevada, Missouri. Three coaches fell down an embankment Conductor Samuel Jones and a child were fatally injured and twenty-seven passengers were hurt, j i': A west bound freight train on the Pennsyl vania Railroad was wrecked at North Bend and eight cars were destroyed. The Pacific express ran into the wreck and the engine was badly broken. Traffic was interrupted for six hours. Millard Hilton, of Pomeroy a. section hand while going to the wreck was thrown under a freight train and had his leg cut off and received other injuries of a fatal character. , The bark Athena, which has just arrived at New York, from Windsor, Nova Scotia, had among its crew two seamen, Henry Williams and George Walker, of the Norwegian bark Nordcap, which was burued at sea on June 9th, on her way from Loguna, West Indies, to London. One of the N urdcap's sailors was swept overboard on the 7th instant by a Wgb sea, and during the fire, two of the crew were killed by the tailing of ihemizzenmast. Three others were drowned and the remainder of th crew were picked up by the Norwegian bark Agatha, for London. IN A SHEET0F FLAME. Three Firemen Killed at a Coal Dock Fire In Wisconsin. Three firemen met death in the burning of the 2000-ton steamer Iron Kiug and a portion of the Columbus & Hocking Coal Co.'s dock, at Ashland. Four others were injured, one probably fatally. The dead are are: George Tanton, a merchant tailor and secretary of th City Fire Department, who leaves a young wifaand two pretty babes; Elias Baucholtz, leaves a widow and five young children; Jack Prothers cannot live. He, too, it married. An unknown man jumped down into a sea offlaines and was cremated in sight of five hundred people who were powerless to help him. ' J. J. Moore may die. The fire started on the Iron King while dis charging coal. All the boat's upper works and machinery were destroyed.. While half a dozen firemen were holding a stream on the burning boat from a place on top the coal dock, tlic flames leaped from the dock to an immense mass of blacksmith coal directly under the firemen, ami a terrific ex plosion of coal gas followed. The men, blind ed by the l!anieM( ran through it like tshecp, and jumped ull-in a head to the dock forty feet below. The money 1 sts is !out tlM.Wi FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. , Senate Scaalont. 148th Day Messages from the President as to Indian lands in Kansas; as to postal and cable communication between the United States and the Latin-American States; as to t he celebration of the fcurt l centennial of the discovery of America, anu as to the agreement between the Cherokee commission and the Iowa Indians in the Indian-Territory were presented and referred. Senate bill to estab lish a United States Laud Court and to pro vide for the settlement of private land claims in certain states and territories was taken up, explained and advocated by Mr, Edmunds and discussed until 2 P. M, when the "unfished business" was taken op, being the Postal and Ship Subsidy bills. The bill went over with out action. The conference report on the Agricultural Appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The Senate then adjourned. LiMSftUr aUi&Tv-tfae-geaate the onfecaaaaa report on the consular and diplomatic appro- nation bill was presented and agreed to. Mr. torrill moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the tariff bill. He said that after the tariff bill was taken up it could be laid aside informally until the two shipping bills were disposed of, - This excited a very lively debate and the motion was finally lost by a vote of 20 to 25.. Senate bill to establish a United States land court and to provide for ie settlement of private land claims in the Territories of New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona and Utah and in the States of Nevada and Colorado, was, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, taken Up and discussed until 2 o'elock, when it was laid aside without action, and the con sideration of the two shipping bills (reported by Mr.Frye from the committee on commerce) was resumed. Messrs. Reagan and Morgan both made arguments against the bills, and Mr.Frye made a few additional statements. No action was taken. While the debate -was in progress the election bill was received from the . House, and whs, on motion of Mr. Frye, ordered to lie on the table until the return to Washington of the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, Mr. Hoar. Mr. Sherman also presented the conference report on the silver bill. After it was read in full he gave notice that he would call it up for action to-morrow. . ' - . k 150th Day. The conference report on the silver bill was taken up in the Senate, and ji r.' v est stated tne reason wny ne snouia vote against the report. Mr. Sherman defended and explained the conference report. It was the best measure that could be agreed to. Mr. Voorhees attacked the bill, and Mr. Teller said that he didn't like it but would support it. Mr. Stewart spoke in favor of the report, while Mr. Cockrell opposed. The discussion was interrupted at 3 o'clock andthe bill went over without action till to-morrow, the Sen i v assing from that subject to the memorial exercises in respect to the memory of the late Representative S. S. Cox. of New York,which had been made a special order for this hour to-day, after being several times previously postponed. Eulogistic remarks were made by Messrs, Hiscock, Yoorhees,Sherman and Vest, Appropriate resolutions were then adopted, and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned. ' 151ST DAY. The presiding officer of the Senate, Mr. Ingalls, announced his signature to the bill for Ihe admission of Wyoming a a state. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. A short executive session was held, and when the doors were reopened the sundry civil appropriation bill wus re ported, and Mr. Alien stated that he would ask for its consideration to-morrow. The con sideration of the conference report on the sil ver bill Was resumed. The Senate at 5.50, ad journed. - - ' ' s ; - ' - 152D Day. The Senate resumed considera tion of the conference report on the Silver bill, and was addressed by Mr. Morgan in op (KWitlon to the report. After a long debate the vote was taken, and the conference report agreed to. The Senate then adjourned. , ' ! I - House Session. 157th Day. Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, Isked for a reprint jof the Federal Election bill, as passed, with marginal notes. There guest was not acceded to. , Mr, MeComas, of Maryland, presented the conference report on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill. After debate, and pending a vote on the con ference report, the House, at 1.45, adjourned. 158th DaY. After disposing i of some routine business, granting a dozen leaves of absence, &c, the House went into committee of the whole for the consideration of Senate bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpoetf aiding in the construction of railroads with a House substitute therefor. This occupied the attention of the House the remainder of the day, and the committee rose without coming to any conclusion in the matter. x 159th Day. In the House, on motion of Mr. Baker, of New York, the Senate amend tnents wero concurred in to the House bill for the admission of the State of Wyoming. The Speaker having laid before the House the Senat? bill to adopt regulations for prevent ing collisions at sea, Mr. Dingley, of Maine, asked for its immediate passage. The bill was then i-eadj briefly discusd and passed. There were 12 pairs aNiiedlduring the voting. Mr. Cannon, t Illinois, from the committee on rules, reported a resolution providing that immediately after the adoption of the resolu tion it shall be in order for the committee on the judiciary to call up for consideration the "original package" bill and afterwards the bankruptcy bill, this order to continue from day to day tor four days successively. , The House to consider this resolution. 160th Day. Mr. Ilitt, bf Illinois, from the House committee on foreign affairs, reported back a resolution requesting the President to furnish the House with correspondence be tween the Government of the United and Great Britain touching the subjects in dispute in Bedring Sea since March 4, 1889, and it was adopted. . Mr. Hitt presented the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appro priation bill. The confereffce report was not agreed to or the present. Mr. Dingley, of Maine, entered amotion to reconsider the vote by which the marine signal bill wns passed and then, at 6.55 o'clock the House adjourned. 161st Day, The House was engaged in killing time, a motion to amend the "journal being carri d after a long contest. During the proceedings Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, severely criticized Speaker Reed. The con ference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was agreed to. , - A MANIACAL DEED. Fonr Children Murdered by Their Father, Who Then Kills IllmsclC A special from Day's Gap, Ala., says that Dr. John Monroe killed his four children and then committed suicide. - . , It is supposed he was insane on the subject of religion. He was alone with the children, Mrs. Monroe having gone to visit a neighbor, and the horrible tragedy was not discovered until her return. The Doctor used a pistol to accomplish his purpose. , . ' ----- Count Dillon's friends say he has been compelled to go into trade to make good the money losses he bas sustained in trying to mak e General Boul anger dictator of the Re- fiublic. As Dillon made his money by dealing n horses and assumed the title of Count to aid him in horsey traimaction s, the fall does not seem to be a treat one. THREE PERSONS KILLED. A Dozen Others Injured and a Wagon Smashed. Wreck of a Chesapeake and Ohio Ex press During a Storm A Hall Pierces .One of the Cars. The Injured, - A Bad accidentoccurred at the Preston street crossing of the Louisville Southern llailroad in Louisville, Ky., Mr. Frank Akin,, who li vet on a large farm two miles out, came in and took to his place a party of young people to spend the day. These were Frank and Ben jamin Pratt, Xillie, Lizzie, Pheniceand Katie JNolteuieyer aud their sister, 9 months old; Mary Green, Louis Uerber, Tillie Hagemacn and William ..andJSadie. Vance and, Lulia Steult." They started out In Mr. Noltemeyer's heavy furniture car, driven by Akin, and at4 o'clock thye were joined by Mr, and Mrs: Nolte nieyer. The day was spent by the young people very happily, and at 7 o'clock they began prepara tions to return. All piled into the large furnitnre car, Frank and Ben Notemeyer oc cupying the front seat, the latter driving. They were drawn by two frisky young mules and to this fact, in all probability, is due the la mentable accident. The young people were laughing and chatting during the ride in and none of the party had any suspicion of their terrible fate until it was upon them. When within a few yards of the crossingthe rays from the headlight of engine No. 415, of passenger train No, 4, were seen dancing down the track almost on the wagon. Louis Uer ber was the only one, it seems, who saw the light, for he threw himself over the side of the furniture car, falling in the road. The tram men say they blew tor the crossing, but at all events the mules dashed furiously ahead, the children still laughing and singing merrily. Just as the wagon was full upon the track the train struck it squarely in the side completely cutting it in two. The laughter and singing were changed in the instant to shrieks and screams of agony and those in the train, as they flew by, saw bodies scattered in all direc tions. Frank and Ben Pratt. Mr. and Mrs. Noltemeyer, and William Foulks were thrown to the right On the left side of the track Wil liam Vance and his sister Sadie were hurled thirty feet into a field while the girls were dashed every way. Mary Green was dragged some distance and then forced aside by the cowcatcher and the baby was evidently thrown under the wheels, for its little right foot was crushed to a shapeless mass. - The train, which was running at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, was brought to a stop so quickly that the last coach stood touching the fragments of the wagon which were leaning up against the side of the car. The . wounded were lifted carefully into the rear coach and taken to St. Mary's and Eliza beth's Hospital, a short distance beyond the scene oi me acciuent,on tne line or me csouin era. Here they were carefully cared, the two young men and brothers, Ben Pratt, 18 years of age, and Frank Pratt, aged 21 years,-and the little child, Mary Noltemeyer, only 8 months Of age, expired after terrible sufferings. Some of the parties in the furniture wagon declare that the engineer failed to whistle for the crossing, though he, ' as well as the con ductor, denies this. Both of the latter claim that a prolouged whistle was given. ' - MONTHS WITHOUT FOOD. The Remarkable Fast of a Pennsylvania ' .Invalid. The little station of Whitehall, on theLehigh Valley Railroad, a few miles above Bethle hem,, contains a case of prolonged life with out food which is believed to be without' parallel. The faster is Mrs. Adam Wuchter, the wife of a laborer. Mrs. Wuchter, is af flicted with cancer ofthe pharynx, and the in udious growth, which has been going on for years, has so filled the upper portion, of the oesophagus that no food can reach the stomach. Ten years ago Mrs. Wuchter was a strong, healthy woman twenty-eight years old, and weighing 140 pounds. To day she lies helples in bed, and her weight, as nearly as it can be guessed, is not over 60 pounds. Since April 4 she has taken no food or drink. When asked if she was hungry she replied in an almost inaudible whisper that she was not, but that she was very thirsty; She is unable even to swallow water. "Nobody can help me,' whispered the poor sufferer, "only the Lord," and her mind seemed to roam to thoughts of the hereafter, as she began to repeat fully the lines of the well knqwn hymn, "I need thee every hour." ' Dr. C W. Sieger, of Siegfried's Bridge.who lias been Mrs. Wuchter's physician for fifteen years, says that for months he has been un able to dcteet any pulse at her wrist. Speak ingof his patient, Dr. Sieger said ihat she was no weaker now than two months ago. It was impossible to say how much longer she. would live. In explanation of her remarkable vital ity the doctor says that it is largely due to the fact that she was without mental worry or anguish, such as hastens the death of persons deprived of sustenance under more violent circumstances. Mrs. Wuchter is slowly sink ing. She can not sleep. ' TWO womeiTbutchered. Jack tho Ripper's Deviltry Imitated In ' Aecomac County, Va. , A disreputable den situated in the woods near Locustville, Va., familiarly known as Sand Grabs, kept by loose women was the scene of a terrible crime. : Thomas Willitt, a worthless young fellow, left his family some time ago and took up with Bella Archer one of the inmates ofthe place, who was about twenty years of age. He lived with the woman peaceably some time, when they be came involved in a jealous quarrel while walking on the country road. Willitt, be coming infurated,drew a knife from his pock et, and rushing toward her, stabbed the woman in nnraerous places, first in the breast, then in the right side and again in the back. Mahsly Watson, another inmate of the disreputable house, attempted to interfere, but was stabbed so severely by the enraged man as to be ren dered helpless. After the fashion of Jack the Ripper, he continued to cut and slash the dy ing women, first driving the knife deep into the flesh of one add then into the other. Fin ally, weary of his bloody work, he left his victims and turned down the road toward Accornac Conrt-house, waving his . bloody knife in the air, and telling every one he met that he had killed the women. Arriving near the county set, he was met by officers, to whom he gave himself up. It is thought that both women received mortal injuries. SEVEN HUNDRED LIVES LOST. The Appalling Resiflt of a Cyclone at Muscat, Arabia. A terrific cyclone has prevailed here and in the adjacent country. f Great damage was done in the city and sur rouuding country, , Many houses, both here and. on the plantations, were demolished. . The loss of life was pallinij. Rt ports thus fur received show that over s-even hun dred jKTsons were killed. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Queen Victoria's dinner hour is net until 9 in the evening. . Gail Hamilton recently sent for a wed ding present a complete set of her own books. Lewis Ralston, a Cherokee, is the Indian to be granted citizenship under an act'of Con gress approved May 22, 1890. ; - . f Empebob William has had an electric railway built for bringing dishes from the kitchen into the dining room. ,i Pio Pico, known as the last Mexican Gov ernor of California, is living in great poverty in that State. He is 90 years old. . Mbs. Reagan, wife of the Texan Senator, learned shorthand, without a teacher, in order to become her husband's private secretary, . Rev. HebmanIIalsey, of Niagara county; N. Y., now elaims to be the oldest graduate. He took a degree from Williams College in '1811. .',7- ""-1 . ' The Pope recently administered firss com munion with his own hands to the son of Gen eral de Charette.th e well-known French Legi timist. , John G. Whittieb, the venerable poet,has left Dan vers, where he has been spending the Winter with bis cousins, ana nas returneu w his home in Amesbury, Rev. Sam Small, who recently accepted the presidency of a Methodist college in Utah, now says he will run for the Georgia Legisla ture if his friends desire it ; ., Miss Hannah Pukvis, of North. Lewis burg, O., is one of the few women who are authorized to solemnize marriages. She is a minister of thi Society of Friends. HCBEETllEBKOMEBthedistinguislelBrit ish artist, who is almost equally famous as a composer of operas, an architect and a prac tica1 wood-carver, was at one time an Ohio boy. -. . . -v-.-- Donald GIitctvsll, "Ik Marvel," is now sixty-eight years of age. He lives quietly aC "Engewcod," which has been his home since 1855, and which he has rendered so well known by hs writings. Mb. Gladstone, while recently walking in Hawarden village, was approached by an ama teur photographer, who begged him to stand still while his picture could be taken, and the G. Cs M. good-naturedly complied. J Mb. Geobge Vandebbilt keeps adding to his land estate in Buncombe county, N.C. His last purchase is twenty-eight acres of land adjoining . his place, Biltmore, for which he paid 133,000, being nearly $1200 per acre. Dr. John II all. of the Fifth Avenue (New York) Presbyterian Church, has been nearly twenty-three years its pastor ana in tnai ume has been abse.1t from the pulpit but twice on occount of sickness. . - Sib Fbedebick Leighton, president of the British Koyal Academy, is one of tne hand somest men in England. An anthusiastic ad mirer describes him as havine a "head like that of a Greek god and a bearing like that of an idttal prince. ' , General Glixgman, an ex-Senator from North Carolina and a major-general in the Confederate Army, is now a tail old man with an erect figure und thin white hair. White whiskers cover his hollow cheeks an.d he is in every way a conspicuous personage. ' Lobd Tennyson's health is fairly re-estab-' lished. ' The Laureate is able to take his two hours' morning walk without fatigue, and we may hope for more poems from his hand. His elder brother's poems are shortly to be pub lished. Frederick Tennyson, who is 84 years old, lives in Jersey. - v Vebdi is reported from Geneva to be In ex cellent healthand although his white hair and flowing beard give him a venerable appear ance his eyes are full of fire. He will not ad mit that "Othello" is his last work and says there is no telling what he may do yet if the inspiration comes to him. Justin Hntly McCaethy. author of "The French Kevol ution," is not the entertain ing novelist and historian of "Our Own Times', tad "The Four Georges," but the sou of the latter. He is, like his father, a Para ell ite member of Parliament. He is a successful playwright. "The Candidate," Charles Wynd barn's comedy, beini; from his pen. VICTIMS OP THE CANNON. A Coufe 'erate and Union Veteran Badly Injured. Adrian Boche, a Frenchman of Petersburg, Va, and a member of the R. E. Lee battery, was firing an old cannon when it exploded, knocking hm down and, burning him badly about the hands and face. . - , i ACBCBN. N.Yi By the premature discharge of an overheated cannon. , Thomas Ditton, a veteran of Cowan's battery and a member of Seward Post, G. A, R., lost his right arm above the elbow and his left hand. He was also burned seriously in the face and iostthe sight of bot h eyes. , He will probably die. The ram rod which was in the cannon at the time, was blown a distance of fifty rods along. State street and was shattered against a telephone pole. The street was filled with people, but luckly no one was injured. DIED OP INSECT BITES. Thomas Yonng Lies for Five Days Slelt and Ilelplesa in a Deserted Camp. A singular accurrence is reported, from Pen broke, Ontj.Thomas Young, aged 23, of Clark River, who was engaged as coek in one ofthe lumber camps above Chaplcau, feeling unwell, decided to go home. On arriving at Chap leau he found that the train he wished to take had not arrived, and thinking a walk ought to do him good, determined to try it to the next station. About half way he became so sick that he was obliged to seek refuge at a deserted camp. i There he lay forfivedays.a preytothemos auitoes and black flies, unable to summon as sistance and without anything to eat. Finally he managed to drag himself two miles to the railroad track where he met station men who placed him on the train for home. He died soon after reachimr his destination.sodisfieured by the bites of insects as to be hardly rccog- nizaoie. FIFTY-NINE WERE DROWNED. A Sailing Vessel In Japan Turned Com pletely Over Many Injured At Osaka, Japan, fifty-nine people were drowned June 15th, during the launching of a new sailing vessel. The occasion excited considerable interest, and about two hundred and fifty people crowded 6n board the boat. The owner, Mr. King, however, became appre hensive and ordered one hundred and fifty of them ashore. When the launch, commenced it was ebb tide, and as the ropes used in secur ing her were too short, the vessel keeled. The people on boartl immediately rushed to tho other side, which had thcellect of turning the vessel completely over, and those on board were precipitated into the water. Those on shore rendered every assistance possible, but their efforts were generally unavailing. Fifty five bodies have boon recovered. There are funr persons siill missing. About twenty per sons were tnire or li injured. The vtscl was f.;;nd to have hud her bottom badly dam-i'.STf'd. CABLE SPARKS. A CBISIS is reported in the Spanish cabinet. Mb. Johnson, chief justice pf Quebec, has been knighted .by Queen Victoria. The Duke of Connaught has received the grand cross of the order of the Bath. , , .Fbancis Bennoch of London, Eng., a friend of Hawthorne, Longfellow and D;ck-, ens, is dead.'. : " p -,, - , :- h, J j O'Connob, the Canadian oarsman, was de feated in a second race with Stausburry, ot New South Wales. y v In the House of Lords, Lord Salisbury said that the inhabitants of Heligoland wouhl be subject to German laws. - ' Queen Victoria has presented a lock o( her hair to Miss Dorothy Tennant, who is to marry Stanley, the explorer. The Tribuna, of Rome, states that Osman Digna led the dervishes, who were defeated by the Italian allies at Keren. , The Prince of Wales hasgiven twenty-fiva guineas to the Stanley fund for placing a steamer on the Victoria Nyanza. ' The National Bank of Buenos Ayres hai suspended payment of the quarterly dividend which was approved at the last annual meet ing. ' The American riflemen who visited Ger many to participate in the international shoot ing contest were received in splendid style in Berlin. , . THE bill providine for Germany's share of the cost ot maintaining the judiciary in Somoa passed its second reading in the Reichstag. -:' '' Me. Caine, formerly a liberal-unionist member of Parliament, who was defeated at the Barrow-in-Furness election, has ia turned to the Gladstonian party, , ; THE lifeboat Storm King, which sailed from London to Cape Town, Africa, And from the latter place to Albany, West Australia, has completed the long voyage in safety. Europe and one deputation from America were present at the re-interment of the Polish poet Mickiewicz's remains in Cracow. Stb.king employees at the Leeds (Eng land) gas works attacked policemen who were endeavoring to preserve ordert and in the , fight many on both sides were injured. AT the request f America, Germany and England, the King o! Sweden has nominated Conrad Cederkrantz an assistant judge in IN the trial in Paris ofthe nihilists ar rested in that city the accused mainlined that they were engaged in the study of chem istry and not in making dynamite bombs.. Mb. New, United States consul-general to Great Britain, presided at a banquet at the Century Club, at which Paul Du Chaillu, . Moncure D. Conway and Commander Cam eron made speeches. - , At a meeting of the German Colonial So ciety, held in Cologne, a resolution was; adopted regretting the conclusion of' the Anglo-German agreement relating to the divi sion of territory in East Africa. IN THE Chamber of Deputies of France, M. Rouyier, minister of finance, accepted the pro posal for an immediate debate of M. Laur's interpellation of the government regarding the aiiairs of the Credit Foncier. The committee having in charge the erec tion o a monument at Berlin to the late Em peror William have decided to leave the final settlement of all matters in connection there with, including the selection of a site, to the Emperor of Germany. Later advices regarding the shooting of a " French inhabitant of Cobroy,near the French frontier, by a German sentry, show that four of the residents of that place' had gone S3.5 metres into French territory when the sentinel fired upon them, wounding one of their num ber, a man named Claudel, whose wound, however, is not serious. DEATH OF GEN. FISK. The Noted Soldier, lawyer und Prohi bitionist Expires in New York. . Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, who was the national prohibition candidate for President of the United States in 1888, died at' his residence, No. 175 Fifty-eighth street, New Yorkat 10.30 A. M. in the sixty-second year of his age. Clinton Bowen Fisk was born in York, Liv ingston county, N. Y., December 8, 1828. His parents removed to Michigan in his infancy. After a successful career as merchant, miller ana nanser m Michigan he removed to fct. Louis in 1859. Early in the wf.r he became, coloneliof the thirty-third Missouri regiment in the Union army, and was promoted tJ be brieadier-sreneral in 1S62 andbrevetteHmsiAr. general of volunteers in 1885J After the war he was assistant commissioner under General O.O. Howard in tho management of tbefrecd men's bureau in Kentucky and Tennessee. He afterwards removed to New Jersey. Gon. Fisk actively aided in establishing Fisk Uni versity, Nashville, Tcnn.. in l$G5t and it was named for him. lie has been identified with its financial and educational interests, and wtw president of its board of trustees until his death. He was also a trustee of Dickinson College, of Drew Theological Seminary, and also of Albion College, Michigan. He was .trustee of the American Missionary Associa tion and also a member of the book commit tee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has rendered conspicuous service to Metho dism in his efiorta toward a reunion of the . Northern and Southern ' branches of the Church. . He has also been identified with the temperance movement, and was the prohibi tion candidate for the Governorship of New Jersey in 1S8G. The Prohibition National Convention, which met May SO, 1S88, at J n dianapolis, nominated him by acclamation for the presidency, John A. Brooks, of Missouri, being the nominee for the vice-prcsidencv. The ticket received 213,5KJ votes in the United Status. ,- . - ' ,y v - r , "JVy ', : MARKETS. '(- ' Baltimore Flour City Mills, xtTR.?4,75 $5.00. WheatSouthern Fultx, 9UVJ3. Corn Southern White, 43(3)43Jc., Yellow, 41(S)42c.- Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 31321c. aye--Maryland and Pennsylvania 60ti2o. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvnm'a 12.OO$13.O0. Straw Wheat, 70fa.,v0. cuuer riern vreamery, l4f(Ui;C- near-Dy ltjc xuiMu;i-u, ajbiu interior, i(Oia.w, tioo.i Common, 4$5.0O, Middling, (a,.$8.00, Good ta fine red. fxViJIOYW Pannv 'KiW.ti? nn .what Jim. riour noutnern awi to .ni.n nw.M H ftE O S"l . I- 11 1 . "V 4 1 I t .. S4J351c. Butter State, 18 181c. Cb ce SState, SiilOc Fgg141(Hic, , Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25$4.?5. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 95(?i(98e. Rye PeniisyJvnnia, 68($J0c Corn Soutberf Yellow, 40(u.4lc Oats 2'035hc. Butter -Stat, lXlijc Cheese M ew York Factory, 10(J U ic. Ef in state, 15(3tl5jc. CATTLE. Baltimock Beef 27;V JU' i'hetp SJHIGi $5.K). Hosts 4.00i'!; 15. Nbw Yobk Beef ti.7.'' ; tr.W. tlic.p I IUsr i.ust'iTv P-ef-4 ' i 1,73. fc:t.t" : I .00(j,5.75k Hogs 4,10,.f 4,1 J-
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