FuBllsnBD BY ltOANOKE PuBLlSHlKG Co.
C. V. Ausbon, Business Manager.
'FOR GOD. FOtt COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. II. ,
NO. 14.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1890.
THE NEWS.
Max Stalla,, secretary of the New York
VJoakmnkeni' Union, was hold to bail on the
charge of Inciting men to riot. Banker Sel-
jgnian and other prominent Ne York He
brews have started a movement to prevent the
pulsion Qf the Jews from Russia. Ray
irv' ik SCd nt,s year8 a son of Trofessor
ll. V.MwrIckofCadJ, Ohio, while ploying
with a YifleshotNorrisGarvin, aged tenyears,
; I,r?l'Ch the heart, killing him instantly.
rce mi were fatally wounded by the ex-
plosion of gns in Norwood, O. A can of
kerosene exploded in Chicago, and killed Mrs.
Borrsna and her infant child. Nine horses
wore burned , to death in. barn atllokadau.
qua, Ta. -Jerome Sweet, of Chicago, poured
wosene overjhis wife and set fire to her dress
ohe is fatally injured. Murrny Hall, a sum
Mier hotel at Pablo Beach, Flu., was destroyed
l)y firo. -Edward Trensh supposedly a poor
pocketbook vender hi Chicngo, dropped dead
and. sewed in his clothes was a roll of $4,000.
-7 There was a fine parade of the Odd Fel
lows in Chicngo. The Georgia Democratic
otate Convention nominated W. J. Northen
for governor. A revolt of convicts in the
Massachusetts state prison at Charlestown re
sulted in a number of them being clubbed by
the officers. Tucson, Arizona, is cut off
from the East by railroad washouts. There
has been no train for five duys. The damage
to the Southern Pacific Company is $150,000.
--The An'J-Lottery League of Louisiana
metinNerv Orleans with five hundred dele
gates, and the campaign against the lottery
s forces, was begun. The House Committee
on Civil Service Reform is investigating the
wavking of the system. Au official rough
"mnt shows that Chicago's population is
'greater than that of Philadelphia, and gives
the Western city second place.
At Carbono, Washington, two miners were
killed by an explosion. Hans Hansen, of
Minden, Neb., killed his wife and committed
suicide. Mexicans fired on Texas Rangers
t JShafter, Texas, killing one and wounding
-another. The Governor of Illinois has signed
the Fair bill. The official rough count by
. the Census Bureau shows the population of
the city of Philadelphia to be 1,044,894, an in
crease during the last ten years of 197,724, or
)&24, per cent Rev. Thomas D. Stewart, of
Wheeling, was buncoes out of one thousand
dollars. Lightning has caused considerable
damage of late in the Valley of Virginia.
Frank Tiffany, of Bennington, Va., while in
sane, stabbed two chambermaids in a North
Adams, ' Mass., hotel. Two English smel
ters imported under a contract to work are
detained at Philadelphia. By an explosion
of benzine in a Denver, Col., drug store a
inuilding was destroyed and J. D. Gorrcll, a
, rlcrk, terribly injured. Mr.T. G. Shanghe-
saessy, assistant president of the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad, estimates on the basis of infor
mation contained in recent telegrams that the
Northwest grain crop will amount to 17,000,
000 bushels, of which 13,000,000 will be for ex
port George Harris, a Chicago postal clerk,
is missing with the contents of two mail
pouches taken from a Chicago and Alton train,
near St. Louis. He is charged with stealing
registered matter from t he mai 1 sacks entrusted
to his care. The amount taken may not be
nore than $300, or may be many thousand dol
lars. He was regarded as one of the most
trustworthy men in 4 the service. Nearly
one hundred men became involved in a fight
at the picnic of the Arbciter Turnverin, at
Ellers Grove, near Elizabeth, N. J. Six police
men were badly handled by the infuriated
anarchists, one of whom, Emil Vogt, was
. locked up. An American ling floating from a
sttaff at the entrance of the picnic grounds was
torn, down and trampled underfootduringthe
riot. A destructive wind and hail-storm
swept over Lyons, Osceola, Dickinson, Em
mett and Winnebago counties, lown, destroy
ing nearly everything in its pathway. Many
horses and cattle were killed nnd men who
were out badly cut by the hail and several
ore reported as seriously injured. v
James Corcoran, a San Francisco iron moul
der, was shot and dangerously wounded by
policemen. A meeting was held at Lexing
ton, Va., in the intercstof the proposed exten
sion of the Cumberland Valley Road.
Willie nnd Freddie Preston, aged about nine
and eleven years, respectfully, were drowned
at Ambler, Fa., while bathing in the Wissa
ln'ckon. William Sayre, of Xewark.N. J.,took
corrosive sublimate in mistake fcrwhiskey
nnd is in a critical condition. Thepuddler?
at the Reading, Pa., rollingmill have returned
to work. -A tramp brutally outraged a ten-year-old
daughter of Joseph Van, a one-legged
soldier, near Belvidere, N. J. The
President, assisted by Secretaries Blaine and
vWanamaker, received at Cape May. Fire
destroyed half the business portjon and forty
residences of What Cheer, Iowa. Lucius
C. Rickets, a lawyer of Huntington, W. Va,
attempted suicide. Edwin S. Koon, a New
York traveling salesman, committed suicide
in a Philadelphia hotel. Two daughters of
James F. Parhani, in Prince George county,
Va., were struck by lightning and killed.
Two human skulls and a lot of human bones
were found i:: a trench in New York. -The
employes of the Carbon Iron Company, in
Pittsburg, struck because an uttempt was
make to put negroes to work. Henry Scher
nitz, the k'eeper of a New York shooting gal
lery, was accidentally shot by n man nnng ai
targets. Samuel Wilson, a St Louis gam
bler, shot to death Mrs. Clementine Manning,
his mistress. A fight in the Italian settle
ment in Bound Brook, N. J., between Italians,
resulted in the killing of two and wounding
of others. Chemicals exploded in tbeoflice
of the Denver Fire-brick Supply House nnd
killed one man.
"Uncle Pave," one of Andrew Jackson's
ioldiers, died near Sheffield, Ala., recently. His
Wife died in 1842, and every day since her
burial he had prayed at her grave.
SINCE Ms retirement from olflce Prince Bis- i
ro-irek has reduced his weight, has slept better
and is generally In bettex toeulth.
MMLER'S AGONY.
The First Infliction of the New Death
, Penalty.
A Spectacle That Shocked the Men of
! Science Who Witnessed It It Will
Probably be the Last.
-WILLIAM ETKMHLER.
William Kemmler was executed between
six and seven o'clock A. M., by electricity in
the basement of the State prison in Auburn,
N. Y. the first convict in the State to have
visited upon him this form of capital punish
ment Kemmler murdered his mistress "Til
lie" Ziegler, on March 29, 1889, and his death
under the law was the penalty for the crime,
lie breakfasted lightly between five and six.
Religious services were held. He made his
own toilet He was cheerful, cool and with
out apparent dread. He entered the death
chamber about half-past six. He assisted in
preparing himself for death. He was placed
in an ordinary chair by the warden, who in
troduced him to those present He made brief
farewell remarks. There were no prayers in
the death room, ne was tree from nervous
tension throughout the ordeal. His voico
while speaking had no tremor. He submitted
to the straps quietly. lie directed the adjust
ment of the electrodes. He made suggestions
to the warden, nnd finally sat without tremor
to await the stroke. A convulsion marked
the application of electricity. He was said to
be dead in seventeen seconds, and the current
was stopped. Later respiration was resumed,
the current was again applied, and in thirteen
minutes from the first stroke he was again de
clared dead. The flesh of the back was burned,
also a spot upon the top of the head. During
the minutes the current was doing its deadly
work one of the twenty-five witnesses sum
moned by the State fainted, and the nervous
tension of all present was extreme. It was
thought after the lapse of seventeen seconds
that science had achieved a notable triumph,
and the experts were amazed at the 6igns of
returning animation in the prisoner, though
it i believed he was unconscious from the
first and felt no pain. The second application
is considered to have been of unnecessary du
ration, and altogether the experience gives
rise to many questions which bear directly on
the desirability of the system over the old
mode of private executions by the rope. Ques
tions also come up as to the good order of the
machinery, the voltage power, strength of cur
rent and other points to be dealt with by ex
perts, who are already sifting and analyzing
the process from beginning to end. An autopsy
was made on the corpse immediately after the
execution, as required by law.
Kcmmler'i Life ami Crime.
Kemmler wa born in Philadelphia 30 years
ago. brought up in ignorance, never learned a
trade andf for years has been a waif and a
wanderer. He does not know now whether
he has a relative living, although shortly
after he came to Auburn he received a letter
from a man living in Ohio who was probably
his uncle.
So he grew'up, like a lost child nnd natur
ally, because his father was a butcher, worked
more at that than anything else. It was the
only business of which he had the least know
ledge. Some three years ago, in Camden, N.
J., he married Ida Porter. The day after his
wedding he learned that she had another
husband living. Immediately he left andran
away to Buflulo with Mrs. Tillie Zeigler.
There he became at once a huckster and a
drunkard. The woman, too, was cursed with
taste for liquor. They quarreled continually.
She frequently stole his money, and, taken
altogether, their life was as degraded as could
be.
One night, crazy with drink, they had a
row about a few cents, and he struck ber on
the head with an axe. Next day she was
dead. That night, in the station-house cell,
he was plied with liquor until he grew talka
tive, and told enough to convict himself.
That is the whole story of his life, common
enough in its beginning, and uncommon in
its ending only because he is the first to die
this new death ordained by the law.
BURSTING 0i?AN ICEBERG.
A Passenger Steamship Almost Crashed.
Excitement on Board.
The steamer Portia, which just arrived at
Halifax, N. S., from St. Johns, N. F., had a
narrow escape from destruction on her way
from Pilley's Island. On July 30, when near
Fogo Head, a hugh iceberg was noticed dead
ahead. The steamer sailed close alongside
and while passing the glittering mass a terrific
report was heard, which shook the ship, and
the berg broke into three pieces, each piece
going under the water with a roar and crash
like thunder. The steamer slid up on one
piece, wmcu wppeu over, iiuiuiug Her ior a
while clear out of the water.
For a time it looked to all on board as
though sudden death was inevitable, but in a
moment the sea, which had hitherto been as
placid as a millpond, suddenly became a
urging mass. This driving sea rushed down
upon the Portia and lilted her oft'the ice into
the . water. On examining the shin it was
found that stanchions in the saloon had been
displaced and beat and the under girders of
the dining table smashed, ('apt. Ash was at
his post on the bridge at the time of the acci
dent After the report he saw a third of the
berg tip over and slowly rise trom She water.
The engines were stopped. Had this order
not been promptly executed the steamer would
have gone down when lifted from the iceberg
by the seas.
The excitement among the passengers was
intense. The captain and chief officers shouted
to the passengers to keep cool. The terrilie I
passengers grew calmer and almost immedi
ately afterward the Portia was in clear water
and out of danger. The bow of the ship was
damaged by the ice and a portion of the for
ward compartment wns flooded. The passen
gers speak in the highest terms of the judg
ment and coolness displayed by Capt Asii,
who was a member of the Ureely Relief expe
dition. The passengers presented the euptain
with an address. Mr. Northcote, the chief
officer, was in his berth when the iceberg
broke, lie informed a reporter that he was
startled by lumps of ice coming through a
port hole into his room.
FLFTY'FIRST CONGRESS.
Peltate Session.
172D Day. The Senate met at 10 A. M. A
call of roll showed that there were forty-nine
Senators (six more than a quorum) present.
The credentials of Edward D. White as Sena
tor from, the State of Louisiana, for the full
term beginning March 4, 1891 tto succeed Mr.
Eustis), were presented and laid on the table.
The resolution offered by Mr. Blair, instruct
ing the Committee on Rules to report, within
four days, a rule for the incorporation of the
previous question, or of some method for lim
iting and elat ing debate in the parliamentary
procedure of the Senate, was taken up and re
ferred to the Committee on Rules. The Tariff
hill was taken up and discussed untill 5.15;
the Senate then adjourned.
173d Day. Mr. Davis! in course of some
remarks called the attention of the Senate to
the fact that the House had not acted upon a
bill providing for new locks in the SanteSte
Marie canal, which had been passed by the
Senate months ago. The Tariff bill was then
taken up, and before adjournment 18 or 19
pages had been disposed of. During the alter
noon Mr. Blair again made some attempt to
get the matter of the adootion of the previous
question up, but failed. During the day:
Messrs. Plumb and Paddock continued to
vote with the democrats, and on one vote Mr.
Ingalls also cast his ballot on that side. .
174th Day. The Senate met at 10 A. M.,
and at once took up the Tariff bill. Mr.
Berry spoke on the general subject of tariff
legislation. Other Senators took part in the
discussion, and it was 1.30 o'clock before work
was actually begun upon the bill. When
paragraph 127 was reached Mr. Morgan moved
an insertion to allow the free admission of
steel ore. Mr Gorman was still speaking at
5.40 o'clock, when the Senate adjourned, hav
ing reached the 24th page of the bill.
175th Da y. The Senate bill granting leave
of absence to clerks and employees in first
and second-class Postotliees was put on the
calendar. The Senate then took upthe Tariff
bill, the pending question being on Mr. Mor
gan's amendment to paragraph 127, page 24,
in regard to iron ore. Mr, Morgan withdrew
his amendment in order to allow Mr. Gorman
to offer one, and Mr. Gorman thereupon moved
to amend by reducing the duty on iron ore
from 75 to 50 cents per ton; rejected. The rest
ofpnragraph 127 was agreed to as reported by
the Finance Committee. The Senate, at 5.55,
adjourned till to-morrow at 10 A. M.
176th Day. After some preliminary morn
ing business in the Senate the tariff bill was
taken up, the pending question being on Mr.
Vance's amendment to reduce the duty on
pig-iron (Paragraph 128, Page 25) from 3-10 of
a cent per pound to $5 jper ton; rejected. The
discussion of the tariff ran on for some time,
and several paragraphs were disposed of. The
conference report on the sundry civil appro
priation bill was presented and ordered printed
and went over until to-morrow. Mr. Hoar,
irom the committee on privileges and elections,
reported a substitute for the House election
hill, and it was placed on the calendar. Mr.
Dawesprescntedand explained the conference
report on the fortification bill. A lone discus
sion ensued between Mr. Dawes, Mr. Edmunds,
Mr. Dolph and Mr. Plumb, and the conference
report went over without action. After abrief
executive session the Senate adjourned.
House Sessions.
1S18T Day. The journal having been read
and approved, the House proceeded to the
further consideration of the Senate amend
ments of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill:
the pending amendment being that appropri
ating $75,000 for a lightship at Frying Pan
Shoals, N. C. The amendment was non-concurred
in yeas 136, nays 27. One hundred
and forty members were announced as paired
on this vote. There was a great difficulty in
disposing of the remaining amendments,
uffmg to the slimness of attendance, but after
a resolution was adopted revoking leaves of
absence, the bill was finallysenttoconference,
and at two o'clock the House adjourned.
182d Day. The House went into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in
the chair) on the general deficiency appro
priation bill. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, made
a vigorous attack on Speaker Reed, and Mr.
Breckinridge, of Kentucky, made a patriotic
appeal for harmony and good feeling between
the sections. Pending a disposition of the
Mil. f l" committee rose and the House ad
journed. lbHu Day. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from
the Committee on Rules, reported (as a sub
stitute for the Cummings resolution) a reso
lution asking the secretary of the Navy for
the reasons for the increase of the force at the
Kittery Navy-yardj adopted. The report in
the Clayton-Breckinridge case declaring the
pent vacant was presented, ordered printed
and laid over. The House then went into
committee of the whole on the general defi
ciency bill, but rose and adjourned without
disposing of it
184th DAY. Mr. Reed (Iowa) presented
the conference report on the Original Package
hill. The report leaves the bill exactly as it
passed the Senate, and is dissented from by
Mr. Oates. of Alabama, one of the conferees.
He argued in favor of the conference report
nnd Mr. Oates against it; adopted. The House
then went into committee ot the whole (Mr.
Payson, of Illinois, in the chairl on the Gen
eral Deficiency bill. Some irrelevant discus
sion was indulged in.in which John I. Daven
port and the Federal Election bill were the
objects of attack by the democrats, nnd of
defense by the republicans. Without dispos
ing of the bill the committee rose and the
House adjourned-
185th Day. The House went into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in
the chair) on the general deficiency bill. The
bill having been disposed of the committee
rose, all the amendments were agreed to, save
that granting an extra month'; salary to Sen
ate and House employees, pad then the bill
went over until to-morrow, and at 4.50 the
House adjourned.
AFTER THE CHINESE.
A Bill to Keep Them Oat Forever Its
Provisions.
Representative Morrow, of California, from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, has re.
ported to the House his bill to absolutely pro
hibit the coming of Chinese persons into the
United States, whether subjects of the Chinese
empire or otherwise. The bill proposes to
exclude all Chinese, even those who may
hereafter leave the United States and attempt
to return, excepting diplomatic and consular
officers and commercial agents, and the com
ing of Chiuese to the United States for transit
is expressly prohibited. A fine of $500 for
each Chinese brought into the United States
is provided for the punishment of vessel
masters bringing them, and thevessels are to
be subject to forfeiture. Provision is also
made for the punishment of persons aiding
Chinese to enter the United States by land or
otherwise, and for the removal of Chinese
found unlawlnlly in the country.
It is further provided that the Chinese shall
not be admitted to citizenship, and that con
flicting treaty provisions shall bo abrogated.
Chairman Hitt presented a minority report
dissenting from the favorable action of the
majority upon the bill, as it is in conflict with
a treaty now in force to which the faith of the
United States is pledged, and which declares
that "the United States may regulate, limit or
suspend such coming or residence, but may
not absolutely prohibit it" ...
TRADE OF THE WEEK.
Hot Weather in the West Makes a
Bad Crop Outlook.
General Trade Reported Good, and the
Iron Market Continues Firm Gold
Shipments to Europe.
Special telegrams to Bradstreet't show no
special gains within a week, though there is
some variation in conditions. The wheat crop
has not improved any; Indian corn has made
no headway owing to dry weather in Eastern
Kansas and Nebraska, where rain is badly
needed, but rice promises (the largest crop on
record and the cotton crop advices are quite
favorable.
Our own crop advises from Eastern Kan
sas are, in brief: "Leading crops as com
pared with one year ago: Potatoes, one
fifth; Indian corn, one-fourth; Wheat, not
quite half. Corn and oats are worth twice
lost year'B prices at primary markets; wheat
flax, and tame hay one-fourth more, and
potatoes three times as much. Rain would
help corn and potatoes and double tha bean
crop. Weather very warm; poor prospects
for rain. Prices advancing."
Bank clearings at fifty-one cities for the
week are $992,442,541, a gain over this week
last year of 12.3 per cent New York City's
clearings, which constitute 69.5 per cent, of
the grand total, are more than those for the
like period last year by 11.7 per cent, while
at fifty other cities the gain is 12.7 per cent
Raw cotton is off 4c, with the bulls in con
trol, and practically no opposition owing to
the absence of any consiberable short interest
Nebraska merchants are not buying as freely
since the change in the local agricultural out
look. The reverse is true in Louisiana, owing
to good crop prospects. Hides are stronger
than before, and the price is higher. Boots
and shoes naturally feel this and a good
Autumn demand has begun at the higher
figures. Importations' of foreign fabrics have
bwn quite heavy and tend to further depress
woolen goods. Cotton goods stocks at the
East are fairly well held, with a prospect of a
further advance in brown and bleached sheet
ings and sortings.
Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat,) both
coasts this week, are larger, notwithstanding
the falling off in the Atlantic coast San Fran
cisco alone having exported more than 600j000
bushels. The total is 2,272,858 bushels, against
15,444.568 bnsh'els last week and 1,572,397
bushels in the last week of July, 1889. The
aggregate exported July 1 to date is 8,757,776
bushels, against 7,279,694 bushels during J aly,
1889, and 8.812,871 bushels in July, 1888.
The stock market has oeen irregular on mo
que to the Areent:
cal and financial. Sugar trust has risen on
the prospects of its reorganization and bull
speculation in silver bullion certificates is a
feature.
Business failures reported to Bramtreet't
number 131 in the United States this week
against 186 last week and 213 this week last
year. Canada had 28 this week, against 23
last week. The total number of failures in
the United States January 1 to date is 6,200,
against 6.859 in a like portion of 1889.
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
The Corn Permanently Injured In the
Went Rain Much Needed.
The weather crop bulletin for last week says:
The weather during the past week has been
unfavorable for growing crops generally
throughout the entire corn belt, extending
from Ohio and Michigan westward to Kansas
and Nebraska and the continued drought, in
connection with the hot, dry winds west of the
Mississippi, has permanently injured the corn
crop, especially m Kansas, JS ebraska and Mis
souri, and lowered the prospects of this crop
in the States of the central valleys.
In Minnesota and the Dakotas the weather
was favorable for harvesting, which is well
advanced, but the hot, dry winds were un
favorable for wheat The week closes with
showers and cooler weather in this section,
conditions which will prove favorable for the
Avheat crop in the northern portions.
All crops need rain in Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Arkansas, although the cotton crop con
tinues in good condition in these States. Re
ports from the South Atlantic and Gulf States
indicate that the weather duringthe past week
has been generally favorable for cotton in
Eastern Louisiana and thence eastward over
South Carolina, although in some sections of
Alabama and North Carolina cotton is shed
ding badly, and some slight injury, is re
ported from black rust South Carolina re
ports crops benefited, and cotton uninjured
by rain. In portions of Texas and Louisiana
the crop is suffering from drought, and in the
latter State the cane and rice crops continue
in excellent condition.
From Virginia northward over Western
New York recent showers have improved the
crop conditions, but corn, tobacco and pota
toes are in need of more rain. In New Jersey
all crops were improved by rains and warm
weather, except the grape crop.which has been
permanently injured by black rot. The
weather was very favorable for farm work in
New York, where a large hay crop has been
secured. The drought has been broken in
New England, and all crops, especially corn,
tobacco and potators were very much im
proved. The hop prospect is excellent The general
failure of fruit crops in the East has increased
the demand for California fruits, and prices
are reported better than in years.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$4.87
$5.0O. AVheat Southern Fultz, 96(&97.
Corn Southern White, 50352e., Yellow,
500fi52e. Oats Southern ana Pennsylvania
4045c. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania
oWaioOe. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
I2.00$12.50. Straw Wheat, 7.50$8.50.
Butter Eastern Creamery, 1516c, near-by
receipts 1213c. CheeBe Eastern Fancy
Cream, P9jc, Western, 89ic. Eggs 16
17c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1$1.60, Good
Common, 4(ui$5.00, Middling, 6$8.00. Good
to fine red, 9$10.00. Fancy, 10$13.00.
New York Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, 2.60$3.25. Wheat No. 1 White
S!9c. Rye State 5S60c Crn South
ern Yellow, 43844c. Oats White, State
37S4()c. Butter State 1718c Cheese
State, 78o. Eggs 14J14ic
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25(5i$4.75. Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 95i96c Rye-Pennsylvania,
5657c. Corn Southern Yellow, 4142c
Oats 4748c. Butter State. 1617c
Cheese New York Factory, 10 IO40. Eggs
State, 1717jc.
CATTLE.
B Ai.Tt mork Beef 2.75$4J0. Sheep
3.50$5.00. Hogs 4.00$4.15.
N v.si York Beef 3.40$470. Sheep
4.00a.60. Hogs 4.00$4.30,
East Libsbty Beef 4.40$470. Sheep
S.0O(ji$5.20. Hogs A.10$4.15.
R. B. Hayks, Grover Cleveland and James
G. liluine are the only living Presidential
candidates nominated prior to ISSS.
drain of $6,000,000 gold to Europe ana me
disturbed condition of European markets
owine to the Argentine complications, politi
CABLE SPARKS.
There are eighty deaths daily inMecca from
cholera.
There are one hundred deaths daily from
starvation in the Soudan.
A company has been formed in Rio de Ja
neiro to facilitate business in coffee.
Capt. Casasi, the Italian explorer, is writ
ing a history of his travels in Africa.
FLOODS in China cut off all communica
tions for seven day between Shanghai and
Tientsin.
Chancellor Von Caprivi believes that
Heligoland will give Germany more power in
the North Sea.
Archduke Charles Louis of Austria,
who was expected in St Petersburg in August,
has postponed his visit
A report was spread in Paris that the
young King of Spain was dead, but inquiry
showed the story was false.
A steamer which has arrived at Sydney,
New South Wales, from Apia brings rumors or
disorders in Siunoan villages.
It is estimated that one thousand persons
were killed and five thousand wounded dur
ing the insurrection in Buenos Ayres.
A UKAEE has been issued authorizing the
Great Russian Railway Company to issue
bonds to the amounts of 15,625,000 roubles.
Owing to the riot in the American Cathe
dral in Constantinople, that quarter of the
city known aatheKroom Kopo,is under "mar
tial" law.
Germ any will allow free trade to thewhole
of her sphere of influence in East Africa except
a strip of coast territory ten miles deep be
longing to Zanzibar.
The failure of the Limerick corporation to
censure Bishop )'Dwyer for his course in re
gard to John Dillon, the Irish leader, is creat
ing intense excitement in that city.
The funeral of seventy-five victims of the
fire-damp explosion in the Pelissier mine took
place at Etienne, and was made the occasion
for a display of oratory by socialists.
Russia has ordered the application of the
edicts of 1882 against Hebrews, and it is esti
mated that under them over one million He
brews will be expelled from the country.
According to a dispatch received in Lon
don from Buenos Ayres, the Argentine gov
ernment has granted an amnesty to all per
sons who took part in the revolution in that
country.
The North Germ an Gazette ascribes thepas
sages in Chancellor Von Cnprivi's memoran
dum referring to the necessity for harmonious
relations with England to the direct initiative
of Emperor William.
Senor Navarro, a member of the Portu
guese Chamber of Deputies, is dissatisfied at
the action of that country in paying $28,000 to
England on account of the seizure of the
Dalagoa Bay Railroad in Africa.
The president of the Argentine Republic
has issued a manifesto to the people of that
country, in which he attributes the sole cause
of the recent insurrection to the ambition of a
local party in Buenos Ayres which wished to
impose itself on the whole republic.
The Archduchess Maria Valeria, youngest
child of the Emperor and Empress of Austria,
and who renounced her rights of succession to
the throne of her country that she might
marry the man of her choice, was united in
matrimony to the Archduke Francis Salvator
st Ischl, Austria.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
TERRIBLE suffering is reported among the
poorer people in Japan, owing to the failure
of the rice crop.
Lightning struck a barb-wire fence at
Amcricus, Missouri, killing one man and in
juring several others.
Lightning struck a house at Rockland.
Mass., and killed an 18-months-old child
standing in the doorway.
Texas fever has made its appearance
among cattle withinthe city limitsof Chicngo,
and about 20 deaths are reported.
A hailstorm, the stones being "as large as
hens' eggs," destroyed the crops on a strip of
country ten or twelve miles long by five wide,
near Cassellton, North Dakota.
Lemuel Garntia, a Mexican, 20 years
old, was found in the streets of New York
suffering from nausea. He was taken in
charge by the police, when it was found he
was a leper.
A dispatch received in New York reports
the loss of the steamship Gulf St Vincent, on
West Mouse Rocks, oft Holyhead. England.
The vessel is 3000 tons register, ana plies be
tween Liverpool and South Americon ports.
Mrs. Emily Scanlan, of Germantown,
Pa., was killed by being thrown from a car
descending a toboggan slide at Brandy wine
Springs, Delaware. Her child and two others
who were in the car were also thrown out
The child was slightly injured, and the others
escaped unhurt
By the fall of a trestle; in connection with
a new bridge across the Tennessee River at
Chattanooga, 25 men were thrown into the
river. Samuel Gifi'ord was drowned, and Geo.
Hosmer and Alfred Reynolds were seriously
injured by falling timbers. The others were
rescued uninjured.
Joseph Maguirb, keeper of Maguire's
bath houses at Cape May, was drowned while
swimming oil the ocean pier. He was taken
from the surf unconscious and .could not be
resuscitated. Maguire was an expert swim
mer and had assisted in saving many lives.
He was only 32 years of age.
Advices from all sections of Indiana indi
cate that serious damage has been done to the
crops by the drought Pastures are burned
out, and in many sections the new hay is be
ing fed to stock. Wells have become dry, and
in Jackson and other counties the people are
obliged to haul water for domestic purposes.
A freight train cn the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, near Sulphur, Kentucky,
struck a horse which was caught in the ties
in a bridge. The engine was overturned, fall
ing on the fireman, George Barker, killing
him instantly. The engineer had both legs
broken and one brakeman was seriously in
jured. A MAIL bag thrown from a fast moving
train on the St. Paul Road, at Kilburton City,
Wisconsin, struck a truck, knockiug it under
;the wheels of the train. One car wasderailed
. and the train was stopped within a few feet
of the bridge over the Wisconsin river. Had
the train passed on the bridge it would prob
ably have gone into the river, 80 feet below.
MANY CATTLE AFFECTED -
Texas Fever Sprendlng lit Kansas Blood
hrd Is the Result.
Texas fever is fpreading with alarming
rapidity among the cattle in Butler and Elk
counties. Some Weeks ago about fifty thou
sand cattle were taken to those two counties
and represented to be from Arizona. An in
vestigation has shown that they were brought
from the Panhandle and Greer county, Texas,
and this fact has greatly enraged the owners
of native cattle.
Two men were killed two days ago in a dis
pute over the matter and more bloodshed is
almost certain.
So far about one thousand head of cattle
have died.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
' Rev. Sam Jones is under the weather In
his home at Cartersville, Ua. , -
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, and her ;
sinter and niece have gone to the White Monn-'
tains.
Cardinal Newman has been so ill of late
that he had to be carried into the ciiurcn
where he was officiating.
P. T. Barnum indignantly oeiiies that
Jenny Lind's grave is neglected, declaring
that it is strewn with flowers every day. -
Ex-Vice President Haknibal Hamlin,
who lives at Bangor, Me., is probably the
most ardent, out-and-out, indefatigable fisher
man in New England.
Ward McAllister, it is said, anticipates
a sale for his book greater ithan the sale 01
any preceding book in this country, except
ing only Grant's Memoirs.
Loed Brassey is the owner of $10,000 acres1 -in
Australia, and he very properly considers
it his duty to encourage Australian sports ia
general and colonial yachting in particular ,
Miss Fox Wellington has recently per
formed the mountaineering feat of ascending
the Matterhoru. The first ascent of the
Jungfran this year was made by four ladies.
Gladstone makes it a role never to travel
nn Siimrlnv nnrl oY.flnvernaa-PtnT'HiiL makert
ii 1- - 1 1 -liv
it a r yje to never iiavci uu uujr uiui-i uu; ji
it can be avoided. And they have both lived
to a ripe old age. , -
Judge James M. Shackelford, of In
diana, whom the President appointed to th
bench in Oklahoma Territory, took his sob
along as clerkof the court The son has since .
taken a Cherokee to wife. ( ,
Marguerite, the pretty princes who ia
going to marry her cousin, the Due d Orleans,
"the prisoner of Clairvaux" has a good;
temper, good manners, and various musical' -6
ud artistic accomplishments. . , ;
Archduke Franz, of Austria, has a laree
and very interesting collection of relic of ,
criminals who have heen executed. Among
the relics are portions of the ropes used in
hanging the Chicago anarchists. , '
Bishop A. W. Wilson, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, has begun a journey
around the world from Baltimore, and forthe
third time will visit the missions established
by his Church in Asiatic countries. -
Thf Duke of Fife has a.dosen suits of
clothes in constant use, and a gossipy chron
icler says that he keeps his various pairs of '
trousers on shelves labeled "Monday,'' "Tues
day" and so on to the end of the week. t
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuaet Phelps-Ward :
is described as a shy woman of delicate fea
tures. Her eyes have a look of sadness in
them. The strength of her face appears in
her forehead. She is a quiet but engaging
talker. , . .
Colonel T. W. Higginson is an enthu
siastic believer in the advisability of combin-
ing literature and riding en a tricycle. Ho
takes a daily run on wheels, and ascribes to
this exercise much of the health which he has
regained.
F. A. S win den, of Brownwood, Tex, has
an orchard of 11,000 peach trees the largest j
orchard of the kind in the world. The av
erage yield of a full-grown tree is about four
teen bushels a year, and which sell for from
$2 to $4 a bushel. .
MAeieLoisinger, the pretty singer, whom
Prince Alexander married, did not die as was
reported a year ago. She is alive, and her
husband is tired of her; but he, not being
born royal more than she; cannot avail him-
Kii ui mii privilege 01 Lulling uer uuiuiguuiiu
wife, it is said.
Mrs. Starkweather and Miss Elliot, a i
Philadelphia girl, are the two most promising
singers of the season in Europe. Miss Elliot
is at present in America, but Mrs. Stark
weather has been 'singing with success in
trrnnfl niujrn It, Tolw mulap tluk .nriAna namA-
of Starvetta.
A. A. Stago, the famous Yale athlete and
base ball pitcher, is not going to be a minister
as was at one time reported. Instead, he has
been retained as an expert athlete by Young
Men's Christian Association, and at preseut
is organizing a base ball nine at the Chau
tauqua Sunday-schoolAssemblr. ' "
WORK AND WORKERS.
Fires were lighted in the Roherstown roll
ing mill, in Lancaster county, Pa., after sev
eral years' suspension, employing a number
of hands.
The lumber mill strike at Ashland, Wis
consin, has been settled, the men accepting a
E reposition to work ten hours for ten and a
alf hours' pay. .
The rest of the locked-out cloakmakers in
New York have returned to work under tha
new agreement, and the troubles between the .
employers and the men are ended.
Tns strike at the National Tube Works at
McKeesport, Pa., settled by the men waiving
their demand for the signing of the amalga
mated scale, the company consenting to sign
an agreement to pay the scale of wages.
A General strike was ordered in New
York on all the public schools which ara
under repair. This action is to compel tin
Board of Education to get rid of three con
tractors who are objectionable to the Board ol
Walking Delegates.
The refusal of 32 puddlers, employed nt the
Reading, (Pa.) Rolling Mill, to go to work,
because the firm-declined to sign the scale ol
the Amalgamated Association, necessitated
the shutting down of the works and threw
200 men out of employment
The Journeymen Bakers' Union of Chicago
have decided to declare rf shut down of every
bakeiy in the city unless Bakers Aldrich and
Brcmner, whose establishments are pnrt ol
the American Biscuit Co., acceded to the de
mands of their striking journeymen.
A STRIKE of sailors and bargemen employe 1
on the lakes is to be inaugurated at Chicago
by the Seamen's Union, which demands an
increase in wages, and that every man on
shipboard under the rank of captain shall ba
a member of the union. The vessel owners
association refused the demand.
Two strikes, which may involve over 10,.
000 men, are threatened at Pittsburg within
the next two weeks. About 400 plasterers
will strike for the control of the apprentices.
The strike will cut off all work in the build
ing trades, and will throw 7,000 men out ol
employment. Unless their demand ior a nine
hour day and Saturday half-holiday is granted
8,500 machinists working in . the 73 shops in
Pittsburg and vicinitv will Btrike.
BROTHEPS DIE TOGETHER.
Fatal Accident on the Ball Near Scran
ton, Fa-A Father's Grief. '
Two young men, supposed from their re
semblance to each other to be brothers, were
hurled to instant death about half-post 12
o'clock In the afternoon by an incoming pas
senger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna A
Western Railroad. While the train was round
log a sharp curve on this side of Nuyauir. a
station nearly aix miles east of Scranton, tho
men who had stepped out of the way of ait ap.
proaching coal tminon the sonth-lKUind track,
were struck by the passenger train.
William Grantlicld. toiured in the dead
house and with tear Ail eyes identified th
liOtlies ui ihottA nf hi twn minn A !,nr I
j lo', and Henry, a&ed 20. '