Published by Koanoke PcBLiem kg Co.' ' "FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
C. V. AusBorr, Business Makaoe..
VOL. II.
NO. 17.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1890.
THE NEWS.
In the wreck of a freight train on the New
York Central llaitroad a number of cars were
iemolished and Albert Huck, the engineer
fatally injured. Lelan Beck, an old man
frpm St. Clairrounty,Ill., leaped from a train,
bound from Philadelphia to New York, and
Xros killed, and his little daughter jumped off
Xhe train alter him receiving fatal injuries.
The couplo were on their way, to Hamburg.
John Meehan, who four years ago robbed
the Bank of England of $48,000, has been cap,
tured in Chicago. Henry Duffield, aged
seventeen years, died atBridgeton, N. J., from
injuries inflicted by Harry Pierte 'with a whip.
- General Millcdge L. Bonham, railroad
commissioner of South,; Carolina, was found
dead in his bed at Hawood, White Sulphur
Springs, N. G Ace Madison, a farmer of
Edmondson county, Ky.; shot and killed his
sixteen.year-old daughter. The trial trip of
the United States cruiser San Francisco was
successful, making an average speed of 191
knots. C. II. F'chols, C. Tideman and
Charles Warriner, officials of the Nichols
banking Company, of Kansas City, were ar
rested on the charge of fraud. Wilson N.
Jones was elected governor of the Choctaw
Nation. A fire in an electric fixtures fac
tory, West Thirty-fourth street. New York,
caused a damage of 1-25,000. A fourteen-year-old
boy killed his father at Nebo, III.
Fire damaged the Eastern Manufacturing
Company's plant at South Brewer, Me., $30,-
O00. Seven aldermen of Biddleford, Me.,
were arrested for irregularties in Election mat
ters. By the explosion of a locomotive boiler
on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad near Mansfield, O., Albert Graham
tond Joseph Murphy were killed and the train
(oil) set on fire. -Jacob Reed, a wealthy re
tired merchant of. Philadelphia, is dead.
Peter Diehl's machine shops and McSweeny's
glove factory at Gloyersville, N. Y., injured
$10,000 by fire.
Mrs. Mary Wilson, with her Tnfnnt in hei
nrms, was sitting in. a cemetery at Carbonado,
Washington, on the grave of one of her chil
dren, when a tree fell and killed both.
Three persons were killed at Mullen, Neb., by
an accident on the Burlington and Missouri
Railroad. Two boys died at Knoxville,
Tenn., from an overdose of morphine, taken
by mistake for quinine. The druggist made
the mistake. The Duluth and Winnipeg
Ilailroad Company has ordered to stop work
on the Winnebagoshish reservation. Scott
Shoemaker, a hotel clerk, killed himself at
Scranton, Pa. Frank Boland, a real estate
sharp of Topeka, Kansas, was arrested in In
dianapolis. A strange disease has appeared
among cattle in Missouri. The Grangers
National Exhibition -was opened at Williams'
Grove, Pa. Commodore Chubb, harbormas
ter at Galveston, Texas, died at Post Mills, Vt,
aged eighty-four.- The American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, in session
at Chicago, passed resolutions asking Congress
to protect forests. --McVicker's Theatre, in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire. Loss about
5200,000. Eniil V. Kocstner was arrested in
Philadelphia, charged with embezzling $7,000
from societies in Philadelphia. The Demo
crats of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district
nominated John B. Reynolds, of Kingston, for
Congress.- The Kansas Central express was
derailed in the Salt Creek Valley, near Leav
enworth, Kansas, and several passengers badly
hurt.: The first Democratic state conven
tion of Idaho, held at Boise City, nominated
Benjamin Wilson for governor.- Major Mc
Kinley was renominated for Congress with a
tremendous demonstration at Massillon.Ohio.
The steamer Lcthanla, frsra Philadelphia
for Glace Bay, struck on Soldicr's'Ledge and
sunk, the crew being rescued and taken to
Yarmouth. The Mountain llouse,on Orange
Mountain, near South Orange, N. J., was
burned. Loss $6"0,000. Ex-Congressmsn
Horace F. Page, of California, died in San
Francisco. Hundreds of negroes in Missis
sippi are preparing to emigrate to Oklahoma.
-The Knoxville Southern Railroad from
Knoxville to Atlanta, Ga., two hundred and
twenty miles, has been completed. Thecoun.
cil of the Federation of Railway Employes or
ganizations is still considering the appeal of
the Knights of Labor to support them in their
strike on the New York Central Railroad,
Chief Sargent, of the Firemen's Union, com
pares the utterances of President Depew in
favor of organized labor with the action of
Vice-President Webb. Andrew Belton, a
yonng sailor, of the man-of-war Boston, lying
in New York harbor, was stabbed, to death,
and John Parkinton, a painter, was arrested
charged with the crime. H. A. Smith, a
farmer, of Kansas, was killed by an infuriated
horse. -An incendiary fire at Ness City,
Kansas, destroyed the big sugar mill at that
place. A ranchman named Quinn, near
Livingston, Montana, while insane, murdered
his wife and five children, chopping them to
death with a broakaxe, The steamer Rich
mond Hill arrived at New York from London
with several cattlemen who had been robbing
. the cargo locked up as prisoners.- During ,
a performance of the Sunny South Theatrical
Company in West Virginia a riot was started,
in which pistols and clubs were freely used in
the theatre. Some pf the actors were thrown
Into the river.
1 FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE.
Three People KIHea..and Number In
jured li Nebraska.
Owing to a misplaced switch two freight
trains on the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad collided at Mullen.killing three per
sons and seriously injuring six others. ,
The killed are: Myrtie Willgus, daughter
cfatan r; John Wymore, station foreman:
"and an unknown tramp. A box car on oneof
the trains, in which thirteen men were steal
ing rides, was crushed into small pieces but
mi y one r the men was killed, the others
esc'pinis unhurt. Six of the train men were
badly hurt, but none of them will probably
d e. . ' iimBl ' .
THR mnt valuable metal in the world ia
said to be gallium, which is worth $3,250 an
ounce. Calcium brings 1,8K) a pound and
cpHouj $1,20 per pound, , Gold is worth t-10
a oound.
DOWN TO THEIR DEATH.
A Fearful and Fatal Ride on a Gravity
Road near Reading, Pa.
A Car llrealts Away at the Top ofj a
Mountain and DaihM Down at si ,.
Frightful Veloelty.
A horrible accident occurred shortly before
eleven -o'clock A. M.,on the MountPenn Grav
ity Railroad, a mountain route encircling
Mount Penn, eight hundred feet above the
city of Reading, Penn. A car running at a
frightful velocity jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment. Four persons were
killed and sixteen injured.
The road was opened five months ago and
has been doing a good business ever since.
The cars were taken from a point on the out
skirts of the city, to the top of a mountain, a
distance of five miles. On returning, the cars
were allowed to go down the mountain by
gravity by way of another route to the point
of starting. At about 10.30 o'clock a car con
taining about eighteen passengers was taken
from the station to the top of the mountain.
This consumed about thirty minutes. On top
of the mountain there is a high stone tower,
where the passengers are allowed to alight to
enjoy the scenery for thirty miles around.
There are different stories ns to the cause of
the accident, but it appeurs that when the tower
was reached, the point where the gravity por
tion of the road commences, the engine was
detached, when the car ran away while the
passengers were still on board.
The distance to the point of starting is five
miles, and it is estimated that this was covered
by the runaway car in about two minutes, the
car attaining a fearful speed, estimated at
eighty miles an hour. It remained on the track
tothe foot of the plane going around all the
curves, while the passengers shrieked in their
fright and several jumped off. When the car
reached the station at the foot of the plane it
jumped the track and rolled down a fifty-foot
embankment, where it landed, up-side down,
with the passengers imprisoned inside. The
greatest excitement pre vailed, and soon a large
crowd gathered. Doctors and the ambulance
were sent for, and the dead and injured re
moved. The road was built at a cost of $S0,00O, and
has been in operation since May. It is cwned
by a stock company, most of the stockholders
being residents of Reading. : j
Superintendent C. M. Dechart gives as the
cause of the accident the refusal of the brake
to work properly. It was a new brake and weo
being experimented with. Thecar was splin
tered into kindling wood, and the escape of a
single passenger is miraculous. ,
WORK AND WORKERS.
A CALL has been issued for a convention in
New York city, on October 6th, to organU" a
National Association of the marble cutters of
the United States.
THE stone masons' unions of Pittsburg,
McKeesport, Baltimore and Syranuse have
united in a call for aconvention at Baltimore,
I on September 8tb, to organize a national
UlllUil.
The long strike at the works of the New
Jersey Steel and Iron Company, at Trenton,
has been ended by the submission of the men,
they returning to work without the firm sign
ing the scale.
A STRIKE of the journeymen plumbers of
Milwaukee is threatened unless the Master
Plumbers' Association gives an answer to the
demand of the men for eight hours' work and
ten hours' pay.
The strike at the axle works at Wilkes
barre, Pa., has been declared off by the Mas
ter Workman of ihelocal assembly of Knights
of Labor. The old men will be reinstated as'
soon as places are open for them.
Eight Italians weredetained atNewYork,
Antonio Oanrilli. of Hamiuonton. New Jer
sey, having admitted to the inspectors that he.
had imported them to worn on nis irun, num.
They will probably be sent back to Italy.
General Manager St. John, of the Rock
Island Railroad at Chicago, has decided that
George Murphy, whose discharge caused the
strike of the -switchmen on that road a few
days ago, should be reinstated.
The 500 furnace workers of Boston and
vicinity have decided to inaugurate the nine
hour day on September 8th, with eight hours
Saturday. The manufacturers have not as
yet agreed to the proposition.
Thb Westinghouse shops, at Pittsburg,
made an attempt to start up with non-union
machinists, but were unable to secure enough
to run the plants. The men are confident
that their demand for nine hours will be con
ceded. One thousand men are out of employment
at Lynn, Mass., owing to the morocco finish
ers' strike, although the men of one factory
are alone directly concerned. It is feared that
the tanners and beainsters will also be called
out by their union.
A DESPATCn from the Spring Hill (Nova
Scotia) coal mine, where a strike has been in
progress for eight weeks past, says that the
engineers and firemen were ordered out.
Should they 'quit work and the pumps be
stopped the mine would be flooded and much
property destroyed.
The Federation of Labor, at Washington,
D. C, have endorsed the action of a local as
sembly of the Knights of Labor, com posed
largely of the women employees of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving, demanding the
removal ot Civil Service Commissioner Ly
man, because of his alleged attack upon their
characters.
A SEdRET meeting of engineers, conduc
tors, brakemenand switchmen connected with
the Nickel Plate Rond was held at Toledo,
Ohio. The men say they have no thought ot
striking, and that the object ot the meeting
was to discuss the different phases of work in
their several departments, and to form some
sort of amalgamation whereby they would
better understand each other.
TWO DEATHS IN A DUEL, ;
Robert Ferguson Kills the Klan who Slan
dered Ills Wife and Die Himself.
A desperate duel to the death took place at
Rowland, Ky., the junction of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad with the Kentucky
Central, at nine o'clock the other morning.
Robert Ferguson, a fireman on the Louis
ville and Nashville road, was recently mar
ried to a pretty young woman, and "Boss"
Hamilton, another fireman, was reported to
hove told tales about her.
The trains of the two men met at Rowland.
Ferguson walked up to Hamilton and in an
excited manner exclaimed: "Vou hnve been
talking about my wife, so I understand."
"No I haven't,"says Hamilton, "and the man
who says so tells a lie."
"I say so," replied Ferguson, and at the
same instant both men drew pistols
They fired almost simultaneously, and in
lea than fifteen seconds each man had tired
four times. Then both reeled and fell, their
heads almost touching as they dropped. The
train men rushed to them, only to find both
dead. Each hud tliree bullet holes in his
body.
An eye-witness said it M'as the gamest fight
he ever (saw. Neither man flinched nor ut
tered a sound filer the shooting commenced.
CABLE SPARKS.
. THE novelist Charles Gibbons is dead.
Several cases of cholera are reported in
the vicinity of Berlin.
There are 11,500 miners on a strike in the
Poerinoge district of Belgium,
At Conway, In Wales, a boat was swamped
in the river and eight persons were drowned.
AT Grata, in the Duchy of Styria, Austria,
a hurricane wrecked the national exhibition
hall.
It is reported that 150 persons were killed
by the cyclone in the cannon of Vaud, Switz
erland. A CASE of Asiatic cholera is reported in
London, the victim being a fireman on board
a vessel.
British shipowners representing a capiat
of 80,000,000 have decided to unite in a fight
against labor unions.
The German Miners' Congress will meet at
HaJlc on September 15 aud the sessions will
continue to September 20.
Datis Daiton, an American, swam across
the English channel from Gisnez taFalkstone
on his back in 231 hours.
THE English Pa permakers' Association
will start a chemical works of its owb if a
chemical union is formed in Paris.
' Two men were blown to fragments aw sev-.
eral others Injured iu an explosion at the
British government's powder house, Waltham,
England-
" The Argentine government has introduced
Into the Congress of that country a proposal
looking to an adjustment ot the finances of
the country.
Messrs. Gates and Jaderquest and Mrs.
Kingman, American missionaries, o their
way to the Soudan, died at Sierra Leone lrom
African lever.
The President of San Salvador has been
informed by an agent of his government that
peace has been arranged between Guatemala
and San Salvodor.
The progressist journals of Lisbon declare
that the Anglo-Portuguese agreement relative
to the territory in East Africa is not satisfac
tory to the honor and interest of Portugal.
The Berlin Post states that Emperor Will
iam has written a letter of thirty-six pages
to Emperor Francis Joseph explaining the
cause of the dismissal of Prince Bismarck-
The members of the Servian progressist
committee who attended the banquet at To
pola were taken ill, and from their symptoms,
is is suspected arsenic was placed in their
food intentionally by political opponents for
the purpose of poisoning them.
A 6PEECH by the burgo master of Nurem
burg at the close of a concert in the choral
festival hall at Vienna, proclaiming the union
of all German-speaking races in peace or on
the battlefield, made the audience so enthu
siastic the Austrian and German conductors
embraced and the audience kissed and hug
ged one another,
TORTURING CONVICTS.
Ilrntal Methods of Punishing Inmatea
- of the Colorado Penitentiary.
A startling story of the horrible cruelties to
which the convicts in thp Colorado State Peni
tentiary at Canon City are subjected to has
just come to light. A convict several days, ago
managed to smuggle a letter through a visi
tor and a private investigation haa resuitea
in a corroboration of all the charges made
therein.
At the least offense a convict is subjected to
a punishment known as the drowning pro
cess." He is strapped to a post so that he can
not move a muscle. With the nozzle of a hose
within six inches of the convict's face, a stream
of water with sixty pounds pressure is turned
on. The unfortunate convict cannot breathe,
and when he opens his mouth he is stranglsd.
The water is forced down his throat and aT
through his head. . The punishment is con
tinued until the convict becomes unconscious,
and then the prison physicians arc called to
resuscitate. Many are to-day physical wrecks
thrtfugh this torture.
A worse means of torture even than this is
frequently used. A convict is strapped to a
bench with head between two boards, a bucket
of water i placed over him with a small fau
cet, so arranged that a drop of water will drop
on his foreheadevery fiveseconds. The victim
is generally kept in this position for an hour.
In many cases nis mind becomes so weakened
that he never recovers.
Another engine of torture consists of a pair
of hundcuffsandarope. The prisoner is taken
to the warehouse and obliged to ascend a plat
form where ropes are twisted so that when the
offender is swung from the platform he is
whirled in the air at the rateof 100 revolutions
a minutes. The man is left until non-circulation
causes insensibility.
There are nearly sixty cases of fever in the
hospital at present caused by eating putrid
meat.
ACTORS ATTACKED BY A MOB.
The Members of a Variety Tronpe Rough
ly Treated In a West Virginia Town.
, There was a very serious riot on the floating
theatre at Ceredo, Wayne county, W.Va. The
audience drove the preformers from the stage
into the river, and there stoned them in a most
inhuman manner. Several of the troupe ns
well as the citizcnsandpolice who went tothe
rescue were badly wounded. The "Sunny
South," variety troupe were at the theatre,
which had all along been disorderly, made an
open attack on one of the performers. Two
members of the company went to his aid, but
were overpowered and terribly beaten. The
whole troupe then went to the rescue, while
the two police of the town deputized half a
dozen citizens, and tried to quell the riot. The
lights were put out, and police, citizens, per
formers, and audience became mixed up m a
confused, mass.
The audience drove the police and perfor
mers back through the stage and all were
crowded into the river, while crowds on the
bank began to stone the half drowned and
helpless wretches. Finally the police got
ashore and began shooting into the crowd. Jim
Frv was badly wounded. While thiswas eoine
I on the company got a shore, when they were
i again attacked, and four or five were knocked
eeiiseient wiui uiuua ur bioiiid. rinuiij wi
were rescued by citizens, but the company is
badly need up.
MURDERED HIS FAMILY.
A Crazy Man Chops Up Ills Wife and
' Five Children.
A man who gave his name as Arlington re
ports to Sheriff Templeton about five o'clock,'
P. l. that a rancher named Ouinn. livinc
I twelve miles west of Livingston, Mont., had
killed his wife and five children with a broad
axe. The man was crazy, and when discov
ered was sitting in a corner of the room eat
ing from the arm of one of the children. The
bodies of all were horribly mutilated, the
arms and legs being severed from their bodies.
The eldest a girl of about fifteen 'was cut
almost in two. Several men went tothe house
and tried to capture Qninn, but he would al
low no one to approach him, and wa killed
by one of the wen in pclt-detense.
Bright Outlook for Early Autumn
Trade Over the Whole Country.
The Monetary Stringency and Strike
Talk Weaken the Stock Markets
The Business FaUnr
Special telegrams to Bfadstrtet't show that
general trade incident to Autumn has begun
with a fairly good demand. It is relatively
most active at New Orleans, where the tribu
tary region is enjoying prosperity based upon
excellent crops. Rice, it is believed will ex
ceed 10,000,000 sacks and cotton will yield
heavily. Chicago, New York, Boston and St,
Louis all report a large volume of business,
dullness being chiefly conspicuous among
handlers of imported articles. At Philadeb
phia, notwithstanding a better request for dry
goods, a large share of textile machinery is
idle. G-aiu leather is generally scarce and in
active request, with prices higher. Boots and
shoes have advanced 10al5c. per pair at first
bauds. Cattle are lower for common, but hogs
are 5 cents up, on increased demand. Crop
reports from Nebraska show a much reduced
output of cereals, though there, as elsewhere,
the enhanced price will probably do much to
offset restricted production.
After a sharp depression, due to the strin
gency of money, stock prices show a tendency
to rally on the expectation of increased sup
plies of funds from the tender of 41 per cent,
bonds to the Treasury. The threatened ex
tension of the New York Central strike is
also an element in the market. Bank clear
ings at fifty-one cities for the week are
$1,107,580,271, a gain over this week last
year of 16 per cent. New York city's clear
ings, which constitute 61.5 per cent of the
grand total, are more than those for the like
period last year by 12 per cent, while at fifty
other cities the gain is 23 per cent.
Moderate gross earnings in June, with in
creased operating expenses, growing out of
low freight rates West, and large expenditures
for betterments, have reduced the proportions
of gain in the net earniugs of railroad com
panies generally.
Copper tends upward at home and abroad,
notwithstanding the present high prices.
Sales of Lake Superior ingot for export to
Germany at 171 cents per pound ae reported
at Boston Producers are offering their stock
freely. "
Renewed short crops as to wheat at homo,
and a decided preponderance of bullish senti
ment, served to push wheat up 21 cents this
week, despite the natural bearish tendencies
of the, Northwest, exclusive of producers.
Indian corn, too, advanced g cents and oats 11
cents. The causes are those which have here
tofore acted. .
Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat), both
coasts, equal 3,489,925 bushels against 2,703,
145 bushels in the like week of 1889, and
1,983,189 bushels last week. The total exported
July 1st to date is 16,407,153 bushels as com
pared with 13,953,29b' bushels in a like portion
of 1888, and 15,990,600 bushels in 1887. Indian
corn exports were 1,084,106 bushels this week
against 900.000 bushels last week.
Dry goods are more actively distributed at
the East, and the general tone of the market
is buoyant. Jobbers are most active, while
agents are doing a good re-order business
through mail and personal demand. Prices
are generally well held, print cloths alone
weakening slightly.
Woolen goods have shared somewhat in the
better tone of the general market, but demand
is still only moderate. Foreign goods are very
dull owing to delayed action on the tariff. A
fair business is doing in raw wool, but the
market lacks strength. The better tone of
the woolen goods market prevents any further
decline in raw material. Liquidation of old
cotton contracts has been the order of the day
in all markets, and prices are off" iall-16c.
New crop is moving freely.
Business failures reported to Bradstreet's
number 160 in the United States thj weehk
against 148 last week, and 218 this week last
year. Canada had 20 this week, against 29
last week. The total number of failures in
the United States, January 1st to date, is 66C3,
against 7127 in a like portion of 1889.
DROWNING OF SEVENTY-SI MEN.
Horrible Scenes at the Sinking of the
Oneida In Alaskan Waters.
The first detailed story of the loss of the ship
Oneida and the drowning of seventy-six Chi
nese in Cooks's Inlet, Alaska, are given by
John Ericsson, one of the crew of the wrecked
vessel, who has just arrived in Sau Francisco
on the schooner Carapier.
"We sailed from here," said he, March 28
On April 26 a fog came down and about nine
o'clock at night, when we thought we were
well out from land, the shock came.
"The water was flowing into the ship at a
furious rate and the order was given to getout
the boats. The scene that followed that order
was simply terribly. Two hundred Chinese
fishermen,"who were in the hold, came swarm
ing up on deck, and it was as if the imps of
hell were let loose. They cursed anil swore
and cried and kicked and charged on the boats,
and had to be driven off the deck by the crew.
Some ran up intotherigging, then down tothe
deck again. They attempted to take posses
sion of the boats,which by this time were man
ned. "It was necessary to push out from the side
of the ship. To attempt to hold them in check
was impossible. They wcrelikedemons. Many
of them leaped into the water and wero
drowned. None of the white men were lost,
"Twenty minutes after we struck there was
nothing to be seen on the ship. She landed
fairly on top of the rock and was broken in
two. As the ship was settling three dories
were washed out of the davits. There was a
scramble for them by the panic stricken Chi
nese, but only four of them eot into the boats.
"It was terrible to listen to the wails of the
doomed creatures. We could give them no
help. A number of them were caught like
rats in a cage and went to tho bottom on the
Oneida. Thirty minutes after the ship struck
we were all in the boats.and not a sound could
be heard except the oars in the row locks. We
reached land safely, and when day broke went
out to see if we could find any survivors. We
found twelve Chinamen floating on the wheel
honse two days later.
"Threeof the Chinese had managed to reach
the rock, but these were notfound'until seven
days later, and two of them in the meantime
had perished from exposure. The third had
found a keg of spirits and had kept himself
alive on its contents."
THREE MEN KILLED.
A Peculiar VVreek on a Southern Rail
roadThe Loss Heavy.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad. An extra freight train
collided with a car thirty miles west of Roan
oke, and the engine and seven cars, loade.l
with dry goods, were thrown from the track
and down an embankment. William Cook, of
Corning, N. Y., the engineman, was caught
under the boiler and crushed to death. A ear
dashed into a r.hanty filled with Italian labor
ers, killing two and wounding three. The com
mnv'sloss is heavy. '
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
The Hon. E. J. Phelps, formerly Minister
to England, takes much interest in base ball.
The Crown Princess of Denmark is the
tal'.est princess in the world. She is six feet
three inches.
News received in London from Florence
states that Ouida isengaged on the production
of a play for Sara Bernhardt.
Miss Phiuppa Fawcett, the mathemati
cian, is quite an expert bookbinder, fond ol
fine needle work, aud given to artistic em
broidery. ,
Mbs. Frances Hart Dat, daughter ol
Senator Day, of Michigan, lives in Kansas
City and is an enthusiast on the subject ol
women's federation Of clubs.
Miss Kate Marsdek, an English woman,
has been decorated by the Empress with the
insignia of the Russian Red Cross for services
as a nurse during the war with Turkey.
M. NaQITET, author of the French divorce
law and one of Boulanger's right-hand men.
i about to retire from the turbulent arena of
French politics to become director of a dyna
mite factory.
Professor J. O. Harrison, of Orange, N.
J., has cords fixed toa tree and connected with
his room. When English sparrows become
too noisy he pulls the cords and shakes the
branches violently.
John M. Ste adman, of Brockport, N. Y.,
who has accepted an appointment as biologist
in the Agricultural Department at Washing-
ton, graduated from Cornell university tw?
years ago, and is only 24 years old.
James Robinson, who could not read ot
write, went to Phcenix, Ariz., and became a
millionaire. He could not write his name,
but could make his X mark. He is now forty
years old, and is attending a primary school
in Kansas City.
L. D. Richards, Republican candidate for
Governor of Nebraska, is banker, real estate
broker, and insurance agent, about 50 years of
age. He was one of the forty veterans from
his state to attend the Grand Army Encamp
ment in Boston.
Countess de BiRON.nee deLesseps, drives
about Paris in her $1800 victoria dressed in
white paneled silk with hand-painted rlowerB.
Her white parasol is ornamented witn a urea
den china handle, the cost of which would pay
for a whole tea set
Captain Kim'berly, the newly appointed
consul general to Guatemala, has a fine setter
dog, said to be one of the best in the country,
which, when a puppy, cof-t $200, and whose
father cost $3,000. Before leaving for bis ps!
he intends to present the dog to Secretary
Blaine. '
Judge Jeremiah Smitk, of Dover, N. II
who has recently been appointed to a profes
sorship in Harvard, is said to be the youngest
of the few sons of Revolutionary soldiers now
living, having been born in 183. His father,
Jeremiah Smith, fought in the battle of Ben
nington. James Allison, of Cincinnati, who is now
being "boomed" for Director General of the
World's Fair, is president of the Mechanics'
Institute in the "Queen City," and was at the
head of the Cincinnati Exposition of 1888. At
one time he was president of the Master
Plumbers' National Association.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is preparing to
leave Chicaco for Rome. She hopes to return
late next Winter with a wax model of her
statue of Queen Isabella, whicb.it is expected,
will he one of her createst works. She will
be represented at the World's Fair by this
statue and a pair or Dronae aoors.
Queen Victoria contemplates publishing
a volume of tlie f mice consort s correspon
dence, consisting of letters written by him to
the late Enmeror William (then Prince Regent
T ... 1. .. C O .. ..
01 1 russiaj anu 10 me isu&e ui oaic-uuuijj-Gotha.
The Prince Consort wrote a confi
dentially t y these two personages that his let
ters would require considerable revision, as
his strictures upon public men were often
very severe.
A CONGRESSMAN DEAD.
Representative Watson Attacked With
Heart Disease.
Representative Lewis F. Watson, of Penn
sylvania, died suddenly in Washington. He
was about to enter his carriage at the Shore
ham Hotel to drive to the Capitol at about
eleven o'clock, when he was suddenly over
come by an attack of heart disease, and died
soon alter being carried .nto the hotel. Mr.
Watson represented theTwenty-seventh Penn
sylvania district.and his death makes the third
which has taken place in the ranks of the
Pennsylvania delegation this season. He was
an elderly man, and had been in feeble health
for some time. He was from Warren, and was
born in Crawford county. With an academic
education as a basis, he engaged in mercantile
pursuits, and for the past twenty years was an
extensive operator in lumber and petroleum,
besides organizing a railroad and acting as a
bank president. He was a member of the
Forty-first and Forty-seventh Congresses, and
was elected to the present Congress as a Re
publican by a large majority.
Immediately after the adjournment of tho
House the Pennsylvania representatives met
in the House lobby. Representatives O'Neill
presided, and Representative Kerr acted as
secretary. The following resolutions were
adopted?
Jiesoived, That we, the members of the Penn
sylvania delegation in Congress, having been
informed of the sudden demise of our esteemed
colleague, Lewis F. Watson, of the Twenty
seventh Pennsylvania district, it is hereby
Jtesolved, That in making this public an
nouncement of his death, we desire to express
our extreme sorrow and regret at the loss sus
tained by the state of Pennsylvania, and par
ticularly by the congressional district which
he so faithfully and ably represented; also, as
a further mark of respect and esteem, we, the
members of the Pennsylvania delegation, at
tend the funeral in a body.
MARKETS. ,
Baltimore Flour City M ills. extra.$5.25
$5.50. Wheat Southern Fultsi, 1.02(d) 1.05.
Corn Southern White, 6S59c, Yellow,
57158c. Oftts Southern aud Pennsylvania
42(i)45c. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania
66(a)68 Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
11.0lKft12.00. Straw Wheat, 7.0t$8.00.
Butter Eastern Creamery. 20(ai21c.. nenr-by
receipts 12(c13c. Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 9ic, Western, 8(m9ic. Eggs 20
21c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, l$lJo, Good
Common, 4(a,$5.00, Middling, 6Oi8.00, Good
to fine red. 9$10.00. Fancy, 10$13.00. '
xr... V- 7. EM t!.. ... !... nJ i.
ir-w ium t iuur ouuiuerii uuou m
choice extra, 2.60$3.25. Wheat No. 1 White
10.711.07ic. Rye-State 58(60c. Corn-Southern
Yellow, 55i56e. Oats White, State
4344c. Butter Slate, 12(7$19c. Cheese
State, 68ic. Kegs 20(i)21c.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.3rif-f4.85. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern lled,l0.4i(ail.(Mic. Rye- Penns,vlva
nia,5b57c. Corn Southern Yellow, 43(43lc.
wats 4Zf((V4oc. uuuer Mate, . liuw-'ic.
Cheese New York Factory, 10(o; 101c. Eggs
State, 19i20c.
CATTLE.
Baltimore Beef 4.25(3: $-1,371. Shcop
3.50(':-?4.7r. Hops 4.2iH't4.50.
Ni:w York Hoef fi.o0(ri,$7.00. Sheep
4.00(a-$5.25. 'Hosts 4.1 0(.i! M0.
East Liberty Bet' 4.4iifd;.$ i.70. Sheep
pm-FIRST C0NGRE33L
Senate Session
tr89Tn Dat. Mr. rinmb'a resolution to
-prohibit the sale of liquors in the Senate res
taurant was taken up, but in the absence of its
author it went over without action. The
Tariff bill was taken up, and when the Sen
ate adjourned at 6.10 o'clock nine pages had
been disposed of. Several rather lively dis
cussions occurred, but nothlngnf an gnusual
nature. When the paragraph relating to lead
ore was reached, Mr. Vest suggested that j
desired to disenss that question, and that it
was time to stop for the day. The Senate ao- .
cordingly adjourned.
190th DAY. -Memorial addresses were
made in honor of Senator Beck, deceased.
Speeches of eulogy were made by Senators
Blackburn, Ingalls, Vest, Allison and Car
lisle. No business was transacted - ' -
191st Day. The Senate renewed the con
sideration of the tarifT bill by paragraphs,
the pending question being on Paragraph 193,
Page 45, imposing a duty of 11 cents a pound
on lead ore and lead dross; provided that
silver ore and ail other ores containing lead
shall pay a duty of H cents a pound on the .
lead contained therein, according to sample
and assay at the port of entry- Mr. Coka
moved to amend by striking out the proviso
and inserting a proviso that ores containing
silver aud lead in which the lead is of le4
value than the silver shall be admitted ree
of duty. Mr. Plumb moved to amend the
paragraph by reducing the doty on lead or
from 11 cents a pound to of a cent. The?
two amendments were the subject of debate
for the rest of the session, aud no action was
taken upon them. The House resolution for
the appointment of a committee of seveu Rep
resentatives and three Senators to take order
for superintending the funeral of the late
Representative Lewis F. Watson, of Pennsyl
vania, was laid before the Senate. Senators
Cameron, Cullom ana Faulkner were appoint
ed a committee on the part of the Senate, and
then the Senate at 5.30 adjourned.
192dDay. The Senatetmanimoiisly agreed
to close debate and vote on the tarifT bill Sep
tember 8. The conference report on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was presented,
and read. ; After along discussion on the
paragraphs referingto reservoir sites aud irri
gation the report was agreed to. 1 ne tarm
bill was then at 2 P. M. taken up, the ques
tion being on the lead paragraph. Schedule
K, relating to sugar, having been reached, Mr.
Aldrich said that the committee proposed to
let that schedule be passed over informally
for the present, so that Schedule F., relating
to tobacco and its manufactures would be the
first thingto come up to-morrow. ; The Senate
then adjourned.
193d Day. The resolution heretofore of
fered by Mr. Plumb instructing the conmU
tee mi rules to issue such orders as will wholly
prevent the sale of spirituous,' vinous and
malt liquors in the Senate wingot theCapital
was taken up by the Senate. Refered to the
committee on rules. The tariff bill was then
taken up and discussed until six o'clock,
when the Senate adjourned. '
' Hons Sessions.
198th Day. The report of the Commits
on Rivers and Harbors on the Senate amend
ments to the bill on that subject was si:?- -mitted,
and the House went Into committee of
the whole for its consideration.: After about
half the amendments had been non-concurred .
in the committee rose. At the evening session
the House passed (on motion ot Mr. O'Neill,
of Pennsylvania), a bill granting a pension of
$50 a month to Caroline H. White, widow of
George B. White, late chief of the bureau of
yards and docks. Thirty-two other private
pension bills were passed, and the House, at
10.30, adjourned. . -!99th
Day. Mr. McKinley. of Ohio, from
the Committee on Rules, reported, and the
House adopted, a resolution setting apurt
Thursday and Saturday of next week for the
consideration of the bills constituting eh;ht
hours a day's work, and to alien contract labor.
The House then resumed consideration of the
lord bill. On the passage of the bill the vote
stood yeas 111, nays 46 no quorum. The
House then at 7.1o adjourned.
200th Day. The session of the House was
very short, owinjr to the sudden death of
Representative . Watson, of Pennsylvajiia.
The conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was presented and agreed
to. On motion of Mr. McCreary,ofKentueV:y,
Saturday, September 13, Was set apart for t he
delivery of eulogies to the late Senator Beck,
of Kentucky. Mr. O'Neill then formally an
nounced the death of his colleague, and ofler
ed resolutions of respect, which were unani
mously adopted. The Speaker appointed as
the funeral committee Messrs. Cnlbertson of
Pennsylvania, McAdoo, Craig, Townvend of
Pennsylvania, Maish, Wallace of New York
and Kerr of Pennsylvania, The House then
as a mark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned. , - .
201ST Day. The House spent the session
over the lard bill, its opponents successfully
filibustering against taking a vote on it
202D Day. In the House the filibustering
against the lard bill was continued. During
the proceedings Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, made
an undignified attack on Mr. McAdoo, of New
Jersey, which the latter sharply resented.
Mr. Beckwith, of New Jersey, and Mr. Wil
son, of Washington, also passed hot words, and
the latter struck the former. Finally a reso
lution was adopted revoking all leaves of ab
sence except those granted on account of ill
ness.. ' :''' ' f;C : f
A GEEAT WORK FINISHED.
The Tnnnel Under the St. Clair Hirer,
t Ine Engineering.
The workmen engaged upon the two ends
of the St. Clair river tunnel between Port
Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Out., shook hands
with each other the other morning under the
St Clair river, and made., the great subier
snean highway echo with their cries. hen
but one hundred feet of the tunnel proper re
mained to be completed, work was buswivkmI,
and an eight foot drift was begun. Tins
to enable the engineers to adjust the native
shields so that tuey will lorm a perfect nij
for the tunnel when brought together. is
tunnel is practically completed, ami e.try
one connected with it is jubilant, lor t: eir
success has surpassed the most anguine an
ticipations of its promotert).
Tnis marks the completion of the prf . ' si -river
tunnel iu the world, and posM ufy the
greatest piece of engineerini; in this country,
ft is eleven feet longer tiiuu rhe Brooklyn
bridge, aud the ditheulty of underground
work compensate for the finer wont neces
sary on that structure. The tunnel will not
bem use until some, momhs, as a thineeti
thousand leetof approach is to be diur on the
Canadian tddt., ana one of nine thousand on
tha Michigan.
AT Alt ECENT marriage in Boston, the bride
groom, who is interested in mininir h t!-.
West, conceived a very pretty idea in retard
to the wedding ring. Instead of pn; "bnntpa
ring in the conventional wry from ? sine jew
eler, he himself mined the quartz, r-anned it
out with bis own hands, bad it snir ,.! undr
his own eyes and took it to a jwe! r art i ha i
it made into a heavy gold '-j Ai hi; wii.'
iow wears. ;
THB mot valuable metal in ih world H
'said to be pallium, which in worth W,2.VJ
ounre. Caloium brirprs I'lf- . a p.uinil i
cerium fl.i'-J per pound, ..: I is worm f-i
a pound,