Published by Koanokk Publishing Co.
"FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
C. V. Acbbon, Business Manager.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C.v FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1890.
NO. 1G
THE NEWS.
' The thousand Island Tark Ilottd, St. Law
Vcnco river, was destroyed ly fire, Many of
the guests made narrow escapes. Two women
servants were injured. Two Italians were
arrested in Philadelphia caught passing coun
terfeit two dollar silver biIls.The Third
; "West Virginiadistrict Republicans nominated
J'heophilus Gaines for Congress. -In the
ississippl constitutional convention a reso
lution was offered providing for female suf
frage Mrs. Robert Gray, of Fredericks
. town. Mo., was arrested, "charged with the
murder of her husband, la whose stomach
arsenic had been found. -Adam Trout was
found dead in his wagon, at Paradise, near
York, Pa. Heart trouble was the cause.
Uriah E. Blair, a pension agent of Philadel
hia, was arrested charged with demanding
more than the legal rate for obtaining a pension.-'
Martin J. Mahoney.a traveling sales
man from Portsmouth, Va., fell over a high
wall at Lynchburg, Va., and was seriously
hurt A wall of one of the big street car
f tables in Philadelphia was blown down and
l.:n.l - 1 ... u .. l a
dumber of persons injured. Mary Jane
Morgan was sentenced to the penitentiary for
jlifo at Ravcnswood, W. Va. It is the first
' time such a sentence whs ever imposed on a
woman in that state. By a terrific explo
sion in the Dupont powder mills, near Chi
tago, one Snan was killed and others injured.
Jerry Cleveland was murdered in Sawyer
Bounty, Ky., for his money. John Hender
son, colored, who murdered Gilbert Sntter
white, a farmer, who had discharged him,
near Midway, Ky., was lynched. William
Rowlands, of Placersville, Cab, killed his
wife,from whom he had separated two mouths
eo. and then committed suicide.
William Coe, of Webster, W. Va., was sen
tenced to life imprisoment for the murder of
Millard Roder. -James Jameson, a New
York banker, committee "uicide in Central
Park. Mrs. William A. Porter, a farmer's
wife, at Mount nolly, N. J., is charged with
brutally treating a ten-year-old girl.- -The
National Single Tai Convention will be held
In New York in September and five hundred
delegates are expected to attend.- Crooked
work is supposed to have caused a collision on
the Harlem division of the New York Cen
tral Railroad.- Pinkerton men are causing
trouble at Albany, N. Y., by inflaming the
passions of strikers. One of them shot a boy,
and was nearly mobbed by the strikers. -In
a row among sailors on the steamer Rhodora,
lying at New York, one man was struck on
tne beaq witu a ship's spanner and fatally in
jured. By a train robbery oa the Missouri
Pacific Railroad the Pacific Express Company
lost about $90,000. -Fifty horses were burned
to death in the destruction of the Lion Brew
ery stables, in New York.- Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad officials have discovered that
thieves placed the cross-ties on the track at
Osceola Station, near Pittsburg, and wrecked
the train, The Chicago Elevated Railroad
Company has been incorporated with a capi
tal stock of $25,000,000.- Michael J. Shar
key, a city councilman of Wilmington, Del.,
was arrested on the charge "of challenging
Charles W. Edwards, business manager ofthe
Wilmington Evening Journal, to fight a duel.
-Fire at Ilarrisbnrg, Pa., did $4,000 worth
of damage to.the lumber yards of Messrs. Sad
ler & Musselman. -The machine paper mill
ofthe Patten Parer Company, at Appleton,
Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss $160,000,
--Edward Worswjek, of Lawrence, Mass.;
shot and fatally injured his wife, and then
committed suicide. A buggy containing
Mr, Boynton,. aged seventy-five years, Mrs.
Vrnnlr Tnwlw and nop infant ain woa 4ttii1r
by a railroad train near Rochester, N. Y.,
and all three instantly killed. A general
strike of cigarmakers was started in Cleve
land, Ohio, the men demanding an advance ol
$1 per thousand. After balloting for six
days, the Twentieth Ohio district Republican!
nominated V. A. Taylor, of Cuyahoga county,
for. Congress.- t Superintendent of Censui
Porter now estimates the population of tlx
"United States to be 64,0X1,000, an increase oi
nirty per cent, during Ihe last ten years.
Mm. Francesco M. Bacon, of Republic, Mo.,
who became acquainted with W. O. Bacon
through a matrimonial bureau and married
him last spring, now seeks a divorce, charge
ing that he tried t) get possession of herprop
rrjy The steamship 2ormandie arrived at
New York with the statue of Lafayette which
France ha presented to the United States.
Edward Hake, who took $4,600 out of his
futher'a safe in St, Louisand left the city.shot
6,nd serionsly wounded his wife and then com
mitted suicide. -Martin Fleenan, of Pros
pect, Ohio, was shot in the face and fatally
wounded by an Italian scissors-grinder, who
narrowly escaped lynching. r-The Jefferson
Ironworks, at Steubenville, Ohio, were de
stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. Albert P.
Lawrence, S. P. Qninn, MissMoLic McNama
ia and Miss I.izzie Gort were drowned in
Chrystal Springs Lake, California. Samuel
Jacobson, oi'Sau Francisco, was shot through
the breast and latally hurt. Charles Cole,
colored, while crazyfrom liquor, nearly killed
several men at Racine, Wis. -Eleven houses
nd stores were burned at Winona, 111.; loss
f 30,000. -Clinton Schneck.who tried tocom
mit suicide five weeks ago, after murdering
Louise- Brunst, died in the county prison at
Morristown, Pa. George . Haddon wm
knocked down and robbed in the center of St
Joseph, Mo., by negroes.- The Central Trust
Company, of New York, is reorganizing the
.tigar trust under a new plan within thescope
of thelaw. An early morning blaze in a
f ourth street apartment house in New York
eity gave the occupants all they could do to
mve their lives.- Antonio Coprilli, of Him
oionton, N. J., was detected in New York im
porting, under contract, laborers to work on
fruit frtrms. Henry HerscUy, a valet of
Unwell Osborne, was arrested as he stepped
off" the fiteamship Nornijindie in New York,
charged with steeling $.10,000 worth of dia
v.. ni.ii f, urn Vs Hi .-ter, "ten led a a gift to
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THE WIND'S WORK.
About Forty Lives Lost in and Near
Wilkesbarre, Penu.
Ilonsea Blown hown, Trees ITprootetl,
Wires Torn Off, Railroad and Other
Properly Destroyed.
At five o'clock in the afternoon themostter
rible cyclone that was ever experienced in
Pennsylvania struck Wilkesbarre. It came
up the river. From what point it originated
is not now known. The suddenness of its com
ing was one of its most awful features. The
heavens were as black as night, and the wind
blew with - most frightful velocity. Whole
rows of trees were blown down. Following
this, hundreds of houses were unroofed, par
tially blown over or completely demolished,
anil, worse than all, the visitation of death was
sent upon a number of people. How many
were killed is not known. Large districts in
several sections of the city are in absolute
ruin. The damage will reach hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Passenger trains and
locomotives at the depot were blown over, and
every wire in the city--electric light, tele
phone and telegraph is down. The devasta
tion is to be compared with nothing in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. Everybody
is rejoicing that no fires have as vet followed,
for the streets are impas.-ible with trees and
fallen buildings, and the engines could not be
drawn through them.
. The total death loss so far as ascertained is
twelve. Four men are known to have been
killed in the Hazard Wire Rope Works. A
house on Scott street occupied by miners who
bad just returned from work, fell in, and three
ot the inmates were killed. The btige stack
of the Kytle planing mill fell on a man and
two horses a nil all were killed. A little colored
fill was killed by a falling building on South
Iain street. Two men suffered death by the
falling of a portion of Stegmaier's brewery,
and a third incurred the same fate through
the almost complete demolition of S. L.
Brown's handsome brick business block, on
East Market street. There are undoubtedly
fifteen or sixteen other killed. Reports are
coming constantly to that effect Many poor
people have suffered heavy losses. (Fully two
hundred buildings have been blown down or
otherwise damaged. Many of the' structures
were of large size and great value.
The names of some of those killed, as far
as known, are Evi Martin, a baker, buried
beneath ' a falling smoke-stack. His two
horses were also killed.
John Fritz, a laborer in the spool mill at
the Hazard Works; taken from the debris
horribly mangled.
Burrell Bendenmeyer, salesman for Hart
lee & Co., grocers, instantly killed by falling
in otj Brown's business block.
SamueJ Rouse, machinist at Hazwd Works,
killed by falling timbers.
Peter Rittenmeyer was killed in Frederick
Jacob's hotel, which was wrecked. When
removed his skull was found to be crushed.
Joseph Kern, a prominent milkman, was
blown from his wagon. He was found two
hundred yards away, lying on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad with his head crushed.
Adam Frantz, of the firm of Jones AFranta
who was struck byflyingtimbers, died at nine
o'clock. George Hamilton, employed lor
twenty years in Stegmaier's brewery. Mamie
Thompsont aged six years, blown against a
house and instantly. George Hamilton, John
Kleinkauff and a Hungarian entered a barn
for shelter. The large double doors were
blown in, killing Hamilton instantly and fa
tally injuring the other two.
Mayor Sutton issued a proclamation call
ing on the members of the Ninth Regiment to
assemble at the armory to aid in the police
supervis:on of the city. He also requested
all idle workingmen to report to him fbr labor
in clearing the debris, the city to pay for the
same. - , ,
Berlin Vandermark was struck by timbers.
His head was crushed and his ribs and legs
were broken. He cannot recover. Max
Bramer, fatally injured by a falling wall;
Jesse Houser. legs broken and internally in
jured by a falling roof; Miss Mary Henwood,
seriously hurt; while descending from a car
riage was blown tyty feet away; Albert Smith,
a paper hanger, ribs broken and bead injured;
Jacoh Falk, a butcher, blown from a wagon;
arm dislocated: M. Bnnkman, injured inter
nally and arm broken; Jacob Bergot, butcher,
blown from a wagon; arm dislocated; M.
Brinkman, injured internally and arm broken
Jacob Bergot, butcher, ribs broken and head
bruised; Ambrose Constine, a liquor dealer,
ribs broken and injured internally.
A furious rainstorm set in shortly after the
cyclone, and drenched the exposed property
which lies in the track of the cyclone.
Horrible was the scene in the" Hazard Wire
Rope Works. , Dead and dying lay on thd
floor, and their heart-rending groans and
cries filled the air in the room. The cyclone
struck the rear of the large brick building.
About 200 men were employed in the works.
The roof and side walls were crushed in and
lay in ruins all about. The bricks and pon
derous machinery were scattered all over.
When the storm was imminent the men
rushed for the door, but many of them were
caught in the ruiu. As soon as the calm
succeeded the awful cyclone, menruBhed into
the ruins and carried the injured into the
portion of the building uninjured, and lay
them on the floor.. One by one they were
dragged out from under thedebris. Three or
four were taken home. Rude beds of matting
were made for them on the floor, aud physi
cians w ere summoned. Tearful women from
the vicinity lent their aid. ;
r The scene was an awful one. St Mary's
Catholic Church is a total wreck. The entire
roof was blown off, and the workmen and
decorators used every endeavor to make their
escape when the signs of the storm came.
They all got out safely.
The great massive tower in the rear of the
church was blown down clear to the base, and
fell with tremendous force against the resi
dence of Michael Cuogan, on Fell street,
smashing it The inmates were all huddled
together in the hall, and escaped injury.
St Mary's parochial school, a brick build
ing on Canal street, opposite the church, was
also wrecked. The steeple and roof were a)l
torn off. The front portion of the edifice was
leveled to the street. It is a ruin. Appealing
to God when the cyclone was doing its deadly
work, interceding for aid from where aid
alone could come, consolation in the midst ot
destruction this was the scene iu the Asltiev
street car on South Washington street near
the Catholic Church when the furious cyclone
cut its path.
In the midst of all the terror a large' tree
fell on the roof of the car, and the passengers
gave themselves up for lost Rev. John M.
Evans, of Long Branch, was within, endeav
oring to appease the terror-stricken passen
gers. He led ,in orayer, and the passengers
silently joint-i him. The Hillmau breaker,
North Canal street, was blown into shreds.
It will take mouths to repair the damage
before the miners will be able to resume work.
The storm lifted the P. A'H. round-houses
and curried them away, bricks and all. The
hoaxes adjonning were, all demolished. -
Approximate looses only can be given, as
follows: Hazard Wire Rope Works, $25,000;
S. L. Brown, fJD.thK1; iSt. Mary's Catholic
Church, l.tyH: Matiukrodt Convent, i't.(W;
Murray slintt.Sl'.i.WU; llollenback shaft. fr,(XK;
WhtviiHwu l.'el'ontp my.? -.)ihi: i.ehi'i Va!
ley ii- '.in- ; IVrii -vfv .i'l li . .livn i ( ui.
packing house, $5,000; Painc'soil house, $2,000
Dickson Manufacturing Company, $3,000.
In addition to these, hundreds of citizens
have suffered losses running from $500 to
$5,000. .
Reports come from Sugar Notch, a mining
town three miles from here, that the destruc
tion of property is terrible, and that fifteen
persons were killed.
At Parsons and Mill Creek, four miles from
here, coal breakers in all directions havebeerj
more or less damaged, and the number killed
will reach ten. Telegraph wires are down in
all directions, and communications all shut off
In Other Sections.
Scr ANTON, Pa. Trainmen of incoming
trains report that the village of Summerville,
thirty miles west of Scranton, was struck by
the eyclone about 6.o0 and totally annihilated.
Engineer William Fischer, in giving an ac
count of his train experience while passing
through the cyclone, said the engine was lifted
from the track, the cab was blown off, and all
the windows in the cars were crushed in by
the terrible force of the wind. Two of the
train hands were seriously injured. Any def
inite account of the storm or the damage done
by it is difficult to ebtain, as all the wires to
the west of the city are down.
Plymouth, Pa. Harveysville, a farming
village ten miles from here, was wrecked by
the tornado. The M, E. Church and the ad
joining parsonage were blown down. Har
vey's largestore wastotallydcstroyed. Nearly
all the houses in the village and on the adja
cent farms were unroofed and rendered unin
habitable. The crops in the fields were mined.
Elijah Fahringer, a well-to-do farmer, was
killed, and several others were injured.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
Mrs. John Zucher and two children were
thrown from a buggy by a runaway, at Lima,
Ohio, and killed. -
Simon Washburn, of Plattsburg, New York,
a veteran of the late war, was cut to pieces in
bis saw mill, by being caught in the shafting
while grinding an axe. : ,
"William Spitler, aged 30 years, was burned
to death, at Eden, near Westminster, Mary,
land, in a fire which destroyed a store and
dwelling at that place.
Captain Henry D. Perry, a farmer and
fisherman, of Agawam, Massachusetts, went to
the Connecticut river for water, and, backing
his team into the river, was drowned.
The breastwork of a blast furnace in ths
Illinois Steel and Iron Company's mills, at
Joilet, Illinois, blew out The molten metal
burned two men, one of whom died soon after
ward. '
Henry E. Waldo, of Minneapolis, and Miss
Gussie Hoffman, of Kansas City, were drowned
by the capsizing of a boat, from which they
were fishing, on American Lake, Tocoma,
Washington. , ,
An outbreak of small-pox is said to hav
occured at Haitlesburg, Mississippi, and
several towns in the State have quarantined
against Hattlesburg. Four cases of sickness
have been reported.
An epidemic of diphtheria, of the most
t maligaut type, is reported from Chicago, iu
that portion or me town oi jjaa.e Known as
"the New City." The section is said to be in
bad sanitary condition.
A collision between an east-bound freight
and a locomotive and caboose occurred on the
New York Central Railroad, near Pittsfort.
New York. Both engineers were killed, and
one fireman fatally injured. '
A boiler in Clajk & Sizer's saw mill, at
Elliston, Montana, exploded, wrecking the
buildings, killing G. S. Keegan, fatally injur
ing James Conniff and George Melbell, and
ten others more or less seriously.
A freight collision occurred on the Auburn
road, near Fisher's Station, New York, owing
to the carelessness of an operator. Engineer
Darcy and Fireman Lighthart were buried
beneath the wreck, and 1 red. Harris a brake
man, was also killed.
A boy rowing in the harbor at Portland,
Oregon, picked up a sealed bottle in which
was found a message purporting to be written
by the first mate of the British bark Edmont,
June 23, 1890. The vessel was said to be
sinking and the crew of 13 men starving.
A severe wind, rain and electrical storm
passed over portions of northern Wisconsin,
doing great damage. The Lake Shore Rail
roadlmildings at Three Lakes were destroyed
by lightning, and the Wisconsin Central was
badly washed out at Prentice, 10 miles from
Ashland. '
An explosion occurred in the Kendall
Manufacturing Co.'s soap factory, at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and flames and acid
were blown about in a room where 80 persons
were at work. Michael Carroll and John
McElroy were fatally burned, and a number
of others were injurod more or less seriously.
The. explosion, it is thought, was caused by
escaping gas.
V ' WASHINGTON NOTES.
The House passed the Senate bill granting
ieaves of absence to per diem employees and
the custom service.
A bill was passed by the House fixing the
wages of printers, bookbinders and pressmen
in the Government Printing Office, and mak
jng CO cents per 1000 cms the pay for all piece
work on the Conffressional Record.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed
that there is a case of yellow fever on the
Spanish bark Castillo from Clenfuegos, now
detained at the Chandeleur Quarantine
Station, Miss. -
Senator Plumb offered a resolution, which
was laid over, to have the Committee on Rules
make such orders as will wholly stop the sale
and drinking of liquors in the Senate end of
the Capitol.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that notaries public appointed under the ad
ministration customs act are not aut horized to
take declarations of importers for use at ports
other than those at which they were appointed.
President Harrison is being urged to send
an unofficial agent abroad to sound European
powers as to their position in regard to the re
monetization of silver.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES.
Two Boy Killed and an Bictttng Scen
In a Depot. 'i
The east-bound North Shore limited train
on the Michigan Central Road was badlj
wrecked at Augusta, Mich. The report sayi
the limited struck a protruding car of a freight
train which had been side-tracked. The en
gine thea jumped the track and crashed intc
the depot, completely wrecking the building
and, it is rumored, two boys who were insidt
were killed outright After striking the bull
ing tho engine ran a few yards ana then ei
plodsd, blowing Fireman Gregg to atoms aml
instantly kjlling Engineer MeUoberts. Par
ticulars thus far received do not mention any
passengera being killed, although the numbei
of injured in triven at from twelve to fifteen
j Among those are I, P. Morriti, of IMroif, in
ternal injuries ami riiw broken; rx-Mnyot
11 owes, of Baltic Creek," back and side in
juri'd. l'n"r;.-'r Mcl!''""-rN :vv, I'ir-.-jn
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BANDITS STOP A TRAIN.
They Rifle the Safe and get away
With a Fortune.
Robbery tn Missouri Th Train Stopped
In Robbers' Cat, the Scene of Jesse
. James' Exploits.
The Kansas City limited express, No. 3,
from St, Louis, on the Missouri Pacifio Rail
road, fell into the bandits' hands the other
morning. The train was! crowded with pas
sengers, and the safe of the express company
was stuffed wfth money consigned, much of itf
to Western banks. The train left Tipton,
Mo., at about 3 A. M. Two mysterious figures
were seen by the engineer lurking around the
forward end of the train, but no particular
attention was paid to them... Just after leav
ing Tipton the fireman turned toward the
tender to fire up the engine and looked'
iquarely into the muzzle of two revolvers In
ihe hands of two masked men, who were lying
on their faces on top of the coal. They were
doubtless the two mysterious men who were
hoticed at Tipton. They had evidently
boarded the forward platform at the "blind"
mail car at that place and were crawling over
the tender toward the engine. Oneof the ban
dits covered the fireman with his "revolver
while the other took care of the engineer.
They were told to hold up their hands. Their
hands went up.
"Now, yon run this train to Otterviile water-tank,"
ordered the leader, "and stop there
If yon attempt to stop at any other place or
giVe a signal of alarm, you'll be dead men,"
and the robbers placed their weapons close to
the heads of their victims. The engineer and
fireman were at the bandits' mercy, and they
could only obey. The Otterville water-tank
stands in Robbers' Cut," iust out ot Otter
ville. It was there that the noted outlaws,
the "James" boys, committed one of their
most daring robberies, and the Younger
brothers perpetrated one of their boldest
crimes. -"Robbers' Cut" is at the bottom of a
steep grade, and when the train approached
it the engineer had great difficulty in attemp
ting to bring the engine to a standstill. His
attempts were redoubled, when the leader of
the two robbers pressed the muzzle of his re
volver against the engineer's temple, and just
Is the historical spot was reached the train
Mopped.
"You come with me," the leader addressed
Frank Droyer, the engineer, "and yon attend
to the fireman," he said to his companion.
The engineer was commanded to go to the ex
press car and tell the messenger to open the
door.
He did so, under the threat of death if he
ihould fail. When he reached theexpresscar
he found that the two jobbers had five con
federates stationed at convenient places about
the car, all heavily armed, aud their facesnron
eealed behind masks. He walked to the door
of the express car, and, "covered" by the re
volvers of" three of the robbers, called to the
express messenger, Sam Avery, to open the
door. Avery, suspecting no danger, pushed
back the door. As he did so, the leader of the
robbers and one confederate pushed their re
volvers in and ordered the messenger to hold
up his bands.
The order was promptly obeyed and three
ofthe robbers jumped into the car. They
proceeded immediately to the safe, which
was locked. Avery was commanded to open
it, and at the point of a revolver did so. One
of the robbers unfolded a gunny sack, and
into it were placed the entire contents of the
safe. The robbers then made a cursory ex
amination of the car to see if they had over
looked anything, and finding nothing more of
value, backed out of the car, their revolvers
always pointed at the messenger. In the
meantime the conductor, alarmed at the un
usual stoppage of the train, went forward to
see what was the trouble. He got only as far
as the rear end of the express car, when he
was halted by one of the robbers, who told
him to go back and collect tickets.
"We'll take care of this end of the train,"
the robber added.
The conductor hurried back to the first
'passenger coach, and excitedly informed the
passengers of what was going on. and advised
them to hide their valuables. Money, watch
es, jewelry and everything valuable was
shoved into boot tops, iuto the cracks of the
cushioned seats and anywhere to get it out
of sight. The conductor had just warned the
passengers in the second car when the train
started on the journey again.
The robbers had finished their work and
escaped
The engineer pulled the train into Otter
ville, a half mile distant, where a part of the
crew were left to arouse thesheriff and organ
ize a posse to pursue the robbers. AtSedalia,"
seven miles from thesceneof the robbery, the
news was telegraphed to headquarters at St.
Louis, and all the available detective force of
tho road was sent to "Robbers' Cut."
The exact amount of money and valuables
stolen cannot be learned. The agent of the
express company will say absolutely nothing
about the occurrence, except to give the story
of the robbery. Tne newspapermen got
a hold of Avery for a short time, and from his
interview and other sources it was surmised
that the money in the safe aggregated about
$75,000, mostly paper money, and that the
other valuable property amounted to about
$15,000. There is no suspicion as to who the
robbers are,
FIGHT WITH " A WILD CAT.
An Express Messenger's Lively JtOxperl
ence In a Car.
George A, Taylor, express messenger on the
Alton, had a frightful experience on his run
from Kansas City to St Louis. Among the
packages entrusted to his care was a box con
taining two wild cats. One of them got out
of the box and sprang at Taylor. He waa
unarmed, the train( going at the rate of thirty
five miles an hour and the doors to the car
were locked. The messenger picked up a piece
of tarpaulin, which he held in front of liim,
and when the brute sprang at him its claws
became fastened in the canvas. Taylor kicked
the brnte loose, but it returned to the attack
again. At last he threw the canvas around
the cat, and thus imprisoned he got hold of a
coupling pin and knocked it into insensibility.
HE WASKILLED
A Man nttemps to Open a Can of Powder
With a File. ,
About ten o'clock the other morning Charl n
Seidell, of Cincinnati, employed at the Du
,"ont Powder Works, four miles beyond Blue
Itdaod, a small suburban town, waa trying to
pen a can of powder with a file. -
An explosion followed, by which Seidell
a killed, three others filially injured and
Iwvlve severely: The building was com-
j purely wrecked.
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Iim-FIRST CONGRESS. !
Senate Sessions,
184th DAY.In the Senate the considera
tion of the river and harbor bill was resumed,
the pendingquestion being on the amendment
proposed by Mr. Frye to the Harlem River
Hem. Mr. Hawley moved to lay this amend
ment on the table, and this motion, after a
long discussion, was adopted without division,
the effect of it all being that the whole subject
will be within the control of the conference
committee. Various other amendment! to the
river and harbor bill were offered and dis
cussed. The bill was then reported to the
Senate, the amendments made in committee
ofthe whole were agreed to, and the bill was
passed. A conference was asked, and Messrs.
Frye, Dolph and Ransom were appointed con
ferees on the part of the Senate. The Senate
then proceeded to the consideration of execu
tive business, and at 4.55 adjourned.
185th Day. The Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the deficiency-bill. The
amendments appropriating an aggregate ot
the French spoliation claims were opposed by
Mr. Plumb. , The amendments were defended
and advocated by Messrs. Hale, Blair and
Morgan, and were agreed to. The bill waa
reported back to the Senate, and all the
amendments agreed to by the committee ot
the whole were agreed to in bulk. The bill
w a then passed. The Tariff bill waa then
taken up, the pending question being on Mr.
Plumb's amendment reducing the duty on
tin-plate from 2 2-10 cents a pound to 1 cent,
and providing for a bounty of 1 cent a pound
on tin-plate produced in the United States.
Messrs. Plumb, Blair, McPherson, Aldrich
and Carlisie took part in the debate. With
out coming to a vote on Mr. Plumb's amend
ment the bill was laid aside.
186th Day. The resolution offered by Mr.
Plumb instructing the Committee on Rules
to issue orders that will prevent the sale or
drinking of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors
in the Senate wing of the Capitol waa taken
up, but as Mr. Plumb was absent the resolu
tion went over. The Tariff bill was then
taken up, the pending question being on Mr.
Plumb's amendment reducing the duty on
tin-plate from 2 2-10 cents to l cent a pound,
and allowing a bounty of 1 cent a pound on
American tin-plate. The amendment went
over till to-morrow and the next paragraph of
the bill was read. The discussion urxm the
various paragraphs ran on in the usual way
and nothing unusual occurred. Late in the
afternoon Mr. Cullom made an address upon
the general subject of the-tariff, arguing for
the protective system. The Senate then ad
journed. '
187th Day. Mr. Onav'a resolution fixing
the time for voting on the tariff bill and de
signating the other legislative business to be
taken up at this session was laid before the
Senate, and Mr. Hoar made a lengthy speech
in favor of his amendment to include theelee
tion bill in the business to be disposed of. The
resolution went over. The tariff bill was then
taken up as the unfinished business. Mr. Aid
rich was asked to let thetarift bill be laid aside
temporarily, but he declined doing so, and the
Senate proceeded with its consideration. When
the bill was laid aside only one page had been
disposed of. The House amendments to the
agricultural college bill and to the meat in
spection bill were laid before the Senate aud
were concurred in. The Senate then ad
founed. 188th Day. The resolution heretofore of
fered by Mr. Plumb to prevent the sale ot
spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in the Sen
ate wing of the Capitol was laid before the
Senate; the pending questions being on Mr.
Blair's amendment to add the words "and
drinking" and on Mr. Butler's amendment
directing a daily search for liquor of commit
tee rooms and other apartments. Mr. Blair.
Mr, Aldrich, Mr. Butler and Mr. Hoar all had
something to say on the subject, and finally
the matter went over till to-morrow. The
tariff bill was then taken up, the pending
question being on Mr. McPherson's amend
ment to the parngragh which refers to table
knives, forks, steels, butcher knives, etc., and
imposes compound duties on them, according
to value classification. The amendment is to
substitute for these duties a uniform rate of
35 per cent, ad valorem. Mr. Coke and Mr.
Faulkner both made set speeches against the
bill as a whole. The remainder of the session
was consumed in debating amendments, and
nothing unusual occurred.
f loose Sessions.
193r Day. After some preliminary busi
ness in the House, the vote then recurred on
the Nut McKay bill, and the bill waa passed
yeas 83, nays 65, the Speaker counting a
quorum. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the
committee on rules, reported a resolution for
the immediate consideration of the anti-lottery
bill, the previous question to be consid
ered as ordered at 4.40 o clock this afternoon.
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, put on record
his opposition to a rule which fixed a time for
the previous question on the bill." He was in
favor of the measure, but he thought that the
House (and notthecoramittee on rules) should
determine the duration of the debate. The
resolution was adopted, and in conformity
with its provisions the anti-lottery bill was
taken up. The remainder of the session was
spent in discussing this measure.
194D Day. The House took up the Missis
sippi contested election case of Chalmers
against Morgan. The majority report finds in
favor of Morgan, the sitting member. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to recommit
the bill, and then the majority report was
agreed to without division. Mr. Hitt, of Illi
nois, front the committee on foreign affairs,
moved to suspend the rules and pass Senate
loi ut resolution providing that nothing in the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
shall be construed to interrupt the publica
tion of the reports of the International Amer
ican Conference. The motion to suspend the '
rules and pass the resolution was agreed to.
The House then adjourned.
195th Day. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from
the committee on rules, reported a resolution
setting apart to-day, Wednesday, Thursday
Baturday and Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week for the consideration of bills reported
from the committee on agriculture. A long
debate ensued, but finally the resolution was
r.dopted.and theHouseaccordingly proceeded
to the consideration of theSenateagricaltural
college bill. After a long debate the bill was
passed. It appropriates, out of money arising
from the sale of public lands to each state ana
territory for the more complete endowment
nnd maintenance of colleges for the benefit of
Agricultural and mechanic arts, the sum of
M 5.000 for the year end ing-on June SO, 1890,
ivnd an annual increase of such appropriation
thereafter for 10 years by an additional sum of
Jl.000 over the preeeeding year; and the an
nual sum to be paid thereafter shall be $25,
UO0. The House then adjourned.
196th Day. It was after noon before a
quorum was obtained in the House, and the
whole morning was spent by the members who
were present in firing sarcastieal remarks at
the Speaker, who was not behind-hand in re
plying to them. A quorum was finally ob
tained, and the business of the morning hour
was resumed. A few minor Blatters having
leen disposed of the House proceeded, under
the special order, to the consideration of the
Senate bill' providing for the inspection of
meats for exports. After some debate this bill
was parsed, and the bill defining lard was
tAken up. Tlie House adjourned, however,
without reselling a vote on this measure.
1!7tii Day.----Tlu'inoriiinc hour w pawed
I'VttiC lii'illst1 3(1 GHOHKSSViS: tllf. bill f:ir Out Sill
i nitii'.j i:t i i.-fi'r. v, .iri, ! -!
f ! , n - ! as-, a
nonse proceeded nnder the special order to
the consideration ofthe bill defining "lard."
A long debate followed, and was still in prog
ress at 5 o'clock, when a recess wag tnl-en.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Edward Bella my. is mentioned aa a pos
sible Mayor of Chicopee, Mass.
Madame Aiexandba Elynb has been
elected Mayor of Kniazeff, Russia.
JUDGE LAMAB recently visited his fisrt homo
in Georgia, and slept in the room where he
was born.
is engaged to Prince DeArdeck, grandson of
the Prinee of Hesse. ; ,
Count Casa de la Miranda, the htishand
of Christine JNilson, has been appointed an
Under Secretary of State in the new Spanish
Ministry. -
Empress Frederick, while in London,
visited a number of large houses in order to
get some fresh ideas for bat hi to fit up in her
own home. ; ; -
Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton thinks
death sentences should be qarried out with
carbonic acid gas, the same as used in soda
water fountains. . - v
Rider Haggard is said to look like tho
Emperor of Germany, lie has the blue eyes
and light brown hair and the general physical
appearance of the Kaiser.
Sarah Ai.thea Terry thinks she will
join the dress-reform movement. There i a
widespread impression that she ought to join
some, kind of a reform movement.
Lieutenant Manlio Garibaldi, the
youngest son of the great liberator, is soon to
be married to Miss Mantegazza, daughter of
the celebrated author of that name. , ,
J Mrs. Leland Stanford recently paid JS5
tor fifty menu cards for one of her swell din
ners. The map of the United States was
stamped in silver on the back of the cards.
Miss Carrolan, of San Francisco, is de
scribed as a "sunny-haired girl with a Dres-,
den shepherdess complexion." She is im
mensely rich and extremely charitable. .
General Ezeta,' who hus turned things
topsy-turvy in Central - America, has j u st
reached hia 27th year-r-the age at which Na
poleon assumed command of the army of
Italy. '.
Prince George's full name is George
Frederick Ernest Albert. He is the second
son of the Prince and Princees of Wales, snd
is just 25 years old. He resembles his ins her
in looks and manners. . ; ;
Lady WlZ2E's name has been placed on
the civil pension list. Her poetry is nvsinly
Irish patriotic. She was oneof the best-known
writers for the Dublin Nation during" tha
"Young Ireland' movement in 1863.
M. STAMBOUXOFF, the Premier and prac
tical ruler of Bulgaria, is about 46 years old.
He is short and rather stout, and with hu
round face, black mustache, and small gray
eyes somewhat resembles the Chinese.
V Representative McCreary, of Ken
tucky, who is serving his third term in Con
gresses a man of medium heightwitb around
and partially bald head. His eye is piercing
and he haa the "bulging brow" that denotes
intellect . . I v
Senator Edmunds has a very lucrative
law practice, and is continually obliged t o de
cline business that is brought to him. it is
alleged that the Senator is not so old as he
looks, and that he may be good for a deca de
more of Senatorial lite. w ,
Queen "Victoria pays great attention to
the floral wreathr which she sends out. In
quiry is made as to what were the favorite
flowers of the deceased person, and. if it is
possible, they are obtained. " All the royal
wreaths are made at the gardens at Frogmore.
Jules Simon, the French statesman end
philanthropist, owes a deal of his freshness,
at the age of 77, to a ministering angel iu tho
person of his wife. After being first-rate as a
professor, lecturer, parliamentary orajr, and
writer of singularly attractive though "olog
ical" works, he has come out as a Tbrilliant
journalist. In this capacity his working power
exceeds that of any young man on the Paris
press. His function of Perpetual Secretary
to the Academy obliges him to get through
masses of correspondence and nianuwnpt
"reading," not to speak of other business.. At
the Senate he is no idle member. - , ""r "
WORK AND WORKERS.
The strike at the works of the New Jerser
Steel and Iron Company, at Trenton, is still
unsettled.
The trouble at the Reading Rolling Mills
is at an end, and operations were resumed wit h
nearly all the old employes at work. The firm
did not sign the Amalgamated scale, hut pay
the same wages. ' ,
The strike of the axle workers at Wilkes
barre, Penna., which has extended over the
past five months, has been settled. Mutual
concessions were made and the old employe
will be reinstated.
Striking freieht conductors and brake men
m the Erie and Western Railroad, at Limn,
Ohio, prevented the movement of trains by
pulling out the coupling pins. Police dis
persed the strikers. '
The cotton duck factory of the Druid Mills
Manufacturing Company, at Baltimore.which
has bten idle for the nast two or three wfif ks.
is again running on full time, with between
600 and 600 employes. -
A dispatch from Pittsburg says that nearly
all the flint glass houses in the West have re
sumed operations after the usual summer slmi-
uown ot six weeks, and that the prospects oi a
busy season were bright.
The demand for nine hours made by th
Pittsburg machinists went into eflect -a few
days ago. In nearly all cases the don1 !"
were granted, but about 500 men went oot. is,
IS thmicrllf tllA 4iaiiK1a will KaAaftlt-xt t i p .l
bly. .
The motor men of the electric etret t rail
road of Dayton, Ohio, struck because t f a re
duction, of wages from $1.8 to ? I .X c ,
They left the cars at the end of tho li !.: '
from the power-house, and refused to s ilow
them to be moved. j
Dispatches fiom Cloquet, Michigan, in-.V. ,
cate that serious trouble may grow out t ti 4'
strike of the 150 mill hatds there. The ! iicriii i
haa Called on the Governor for the id ot Mate j
A number of arrests were made but io farther
serious trouble i feared.
All but 11 of the employing innchisiists nt !
Pittsbure, the latter number Iiu-UkI. ,; th-
Westinghouse interests, havo t;raiild ; e de
mand of the men for nine hours' work with
outrednction of wages. Of 4,500 men ern ployed
by the Westinghouse Comntwy, 2,fnJ0 tu e out
and the firm refuse to make any .conecwdon.
The. Bakersr Union of New York, Penn
sy 1 vania, New Jersey. Massaohns'v s s a h Von -Tiectieut.heldaspeciAl
convention i i New 'nrk
to casiuer the question of l njc -,, 1 leis-h
man yeaRt. It was agreed that -up of th?
members represented would u -- tho vph-t
until the firm hassetUcd wisii ti.- .Sew Voj
onion.
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