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C. V. Ausbos, Business Manager. PUBLISHED BT llOANOKE PUBLISHING Co. "FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." NO. 18. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1890. THE NEWS. Treacher J. Z. Smith was brutally beaten by AVhitecaps at Reno, Kansas, for proposing to a widow in the neighborhood. The Amer ican Shot and Lead Company has been or- , gamzea. it takes in all the large shot works in different sections. Arthur L. Flint, of Iowa, committed suicide in Delaware county, Iowa. -E. N. Mundy, register of deeds in West Saperior, Wis., is dying from a blow on the head, dealt by W. II. Dwyer during aquar 'rel. Guy Quance was accidentally shot by his brother in Scott City, Kansas, while hunt- Ing rabbits,- Three men were suffocated by gases in an old cesspool on Staten Island, N. Y.- Ex-Gov. Noyes. of Ohio, iudsre of the , , r . S oupenor wouri or Cincinnati, expired sud denly of apoplexy; -Albert Harpending, a New York broker, was arrested on a charge of , grand largeny.-- Philip N. Kuyler, aged twenty-five years, committed suicide by jump ing from a railroad train near Philadelphia. A negro, named Rogers was lynched at .Witter Valley, Miss., for an outrageous assault upon Mrs. Samuel Murray.- The Kansas Itepublican State Convention nominated S. T. Glover for state treasurer. By an explo sion of gas in the Kingston Coal Company's colliery, at Edwardsville, Pa., three miners were killed. -A mob of sympathizers with the street ear strikers in Wheeling, assaulted the drivers and conductors, and blockaded the track. Joseph F. Youug, a jealous husband, of Philadelphia, shot his wifeat the Minenque House, Atlantic City, and then atte npted sui cide. In a freight traiu wreck on theB.&0. near Mannington, W. Va., an engineer and an unknown man were killed.; Confectioners from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware met at Harrisbnrg, and organized the Middle States Confection ers' Association. -FincuB Schenckle, of the firm of Schenckle & Knodler, cloaktnaking contractors, New York, was arrested in Phil ndelphia, on the charge of decamping from 5sTew. York with $460 due w'orkingmen for wages. A young man, named M. F. Miller, from Philadelphia, took a dose of laudanum in the Reading Railroad Station, at Jersey City, and In his pocket was a love note to a Hfirl, telling her kjntended to kill himself. , The department encampment G. A. 1'. of Pennsylvania at Gettysburg decided to hold the next encampment at Williamsport. The Virginia Funeral Directors' Association is holding its third annunl cession at Staunton.- Doring a Lttbor Day celebration in New York, at which too much beer was drunk Franz Maischatz was fatally stabbed.- The New York State "Hoard, of Arbitration began an investigation of the strike on he New VnrV Pnnlrnl nxl -...I 1, U .,.i,lnn of Vice-President .Webb of the Company, Master 'Workman Powderly, of Knights of Labor, and several of the discharged em ployes. Mrs. Adam Kruchter, of White Hall, Pa., has fasted '154 days. The little town of Cocoa, on the Indian river, Florida, was destroyed by fire. Sixty glass nianu Jaeturers met in Chicago to form an organiza tion, the character of which is not yet known. Ballard Bronston, who was divorced from his vife a year ago and recently remarried her, ttas shot and killed at Richmond, Ky., by Gilbert Maupin.- The Louisville and Nash ville north-bound train was held up north of t'i nsaeola Junction and robbed.- The sloop Petrel enpsized just outside of the harbor San Diego, Col., and six persons were ' drowned. . -By the wrecking of a train near Tacoma, on the Northern Pucifio Railroad, two persons wer.e killed, aiid twelveother injured It is icared that the bark Henry Rusk aud her p.'pw oroJost. In Joliet, III., an electric cur became uncoupled and ran down hill. A The broom cutters in Coks and Douglass coun. tus, IlL.struck for a raise of twenty-five cents. - Theodore Brans and Herman Matthes, painters, were killed in Newark, N. J., by the -iving way of the scaffoldinc .Mrs. Sarah Mclntyre, sixty years old, and Mamie and Logne Mclntyre, children, were burned to death at Philadelphia, owing to the explosion of a coal oil lamp. The Pioche consolidated Mining and Reduction Company capital $20,000,000, has been organized at Salt Lake City.1 Fire in a large tannery at Levis, Queeo, threatened the town. The loss is $30,-000.- The case of Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead, charged with the murder of W. E. Pettit, was iol prossed at Lafayette, Ind. -Hixie & Miller, lumber dealers near Oshkosh. Wis., have failed. The strike at the Westinghoue works, Pittsburg, is over the strikers having yielded. Peter Pearson was stripped of his clothing and killed by s lightning bolt while working on a threshing machine at Doland, IS r . w A...i.lr Adnm Amlung, a prominent manufacturer of Cin cinnati, to commit suicide. rAugut John son, while talking to his sweetheart in the parior pi nernomeatuutnrie.i. x.,wos ihuujj shot through the window by an unknown party. A short, sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Gilroy, California The Kansas Republicans renominated Governor Humph rey and other state officers. The Chicago carpenters strike is a failure. STY PERSONS DROWNED. The Sloop Petrel CapiUei While Sailing . .. , off San Diego, California. . - The sloop Petrel, commaneed by Captain Wm. II. Hoy, a well-known shipping man, capsized just, outside the San Diego, Cal., har bor. No one sawthe accident A sharp wind was blowing, and it is supposed the sloop was overturced suddenly. It was found by some returning fishermen, who also saw the bodies of two women floating near it. They tried to secure the bodies, but were unable to do so, owing to the hisrh sea. They came to the city And gave the alarm, and a lartre fleet of boats Wtnt on to Rearch for the bodies, but without success. There were six persons in the yacht, Ml of whom wer. ndoubtedly drowned. The occupants were Captain and Mrs. Hoy, Miss Wallace, a daughter of a Presbyterian min jFtr, and the wife and two children of J. W. Collins, cashier of the California National Hunk. It is believed the bodies have all been . carried mt to iea by the tide. '.Hi-, Thirty People Drowned by a Bridge Collapsin, People Taking Refnge on House Tops The Mighty Torrents Sweep Build Inge Away A Turkish City Bnrned. ' The condition of affairs in Prague is rapidly becoming worse. The water is still rising, and rushing torrent, impassible by boats, have converted whole blocks of jiouscs into islandr. Every hour come reports of people drowned and property destroyed. In some of the villages along the swollen streams the people have fled, leaving their houses to the fury of the torrents. -,, : Two arches of the Charles Bridge have col lapsed. '- The monuments on the bridge were destroyed. The inhabitants of the flooded districts are taking refuge on the housetops. The dam of Prince Schwarzenberg's great fish pond, at Wittingan, has burst. - A bridge in the city over the Moldau, on which were a number of persons watching the flood in that stream, collapsed and thirty of the sightseers were drowned. The floods have cut off all communication between Vienna and the Bohemian spas. The Drave river has overflowed its banks, and vasts tracts of land in Corinthia have been laid waste. - . . Berlin Havoc has been canned by floods in the Southern part of Germrnf. The crops arejpoiled and railway communication is stopped. The Lake of Constance is higher than it has been since 1770. Navigation is completely stopped. A landslip has blocked the Tamina Defile and stopped traffic on the Ragatz Springs Railway. Many passengers have been held captive for days in Austrian villages. The Orient express was stopped in Bavaria. An inundation committee is, sitting in Vienna. ' Salonlea -tn Flames. Fire broke out almost simultaneously in four different parts of Uhe city, and did im mense damage. The Greekand Jewish quar ters are devastated. It i$ supposed the fires were set by incendiaries. All the consulates, the Cathedral and most nf the public buildings have bsen destroyed. Twelve thousand houses are in ruins. Salonica is a seaport city in European Tur key, in Roumelia. It has a population of about 30,000, of whom 25,000 are Jews and 6.000 are Turks. The town stands on a hill slope, and is inclosed by walls five miles in circuit, its numerous minarets and domes in terspersed with gardens of cypress. The city is commanded by a large citadel termed the "Seven Towers." Several of the mosques were originally Pagan temples. In theeentre of the city was the hippodrome, a noble area entered by a magnificent colonnade of five Corinthian pillars. Salonica was the resi dence of Cicero daring a part of his exile. BOLD TRAINR0BBERY. The Engineer Forced to Assist In Getting . Out the Safe. , The Louisville and" Nashville Cannon Ball train which left Mobile, Ala., at eight o'clock the other night, was held up at Big Escambia bridge, half a mile north of Pensacola Junc tion by robbers who entered the express car and compelled the messenger to give up the contents of his safe. It is not known just at this time, the extent of the loss. Having se cured the valuables, the robbers jumped off and took to the woods. The first news of the robbery received in Mobile by the railway of ficials was but meagre. The train was held up about half a mile above Flomaton Junction, and the people there know very little of what occurred, for the train was delayed seven minutes oujly and there was not much chance of learning what had occurred. Engineer Bob Sizer 6ayo that he was pulling out of Floma ton and just as his train, which is the through express lrom New Orleans, got under way ne turned around and saw a man standing near him. Before he could ask a question or look twice, two big revolvers were in his face. He was told to run his train up to the Escambia river bridge some miles distant, and stop on the bridge. There was nothing left for him to do but obey and he did so. There the train stepped on the bridge. The engineer was told to get off his engine, and he did so. Then the robber directed Sizer to go to the express car and force an entrance. The robber putting a heavy mallet in his hand, Sizer did so and burst open the cor door. Express Messenger Archie Johnson was standing in his car with his pistol in his hand, but seeing Sizer he lowered it. The next minute he was covered and told to lay down his gun and he obeyed. Then t he robber standing in the car door com pelled the messenger to open his safe and hand him all the money. While this operation was going on the fellew was standing in the door coolly looking at bis victim and firing first to one side of the train and then to the other to overawe the passengers and the train crew. When he got the money the robber told Sizer to follow him. The man showed the way to the engine, bade Sizer to pull ont and with a parting shot and a wild yell dashed off in the bushes and M as lost to sight. A posse has left Flomaton and another has left Mobile in pur suit of the robbers. Some surprise is expressed that the robbers selected this particular train, as it is well-known that the other trains carry the most of the express money; number six, the robbed train, carrying a very little at any time, and a small amount on this occasion. It is said Rube Burrows was recently seen in Florida, and there is a possibility that he ordered the assembling of his gang at Floata tion and joined them there to superintend the conduct of the affair, and that this robbery looks more like the work of the celebrated Cuptain Bunch. MARKETS. Baltimobe Flonr -City Mills, extra,$5.25 $5.50. Wheat Southern Fultz, 1.02 1.06. Corn Southern White, 6859c, Yellow, t7458c. - Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 245c. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 86(68c. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 11.00$12.00. Straw Wheat, 7:tX)$8.00. Butter Eastern Creamery, 20to21c, near-by receipts 12 13c. Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, 99jc, Western, 8 91c Eggs 20 21c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1$IJ0, Good Common, 4$5.00, Middling, 6$8.00, Good to fine red, 9$10.00. Fancy, 10$13.00. New YOKK Flour Southern Good to choice extra, 2.603.25. Wheat No. 1 White I0.7i1.07ic. Rye-State 58 GOc, Corn-Southern Yellow, 55j56c. Oats White, State 4344c. Butter State, 1219c. Cheese State, 68ic. Eggs 2021c. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.35$4.85. Wheat, Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 10.4J 1.04 Rye-Pennsylva-maMa7c. Corn Southern Yellow, 43 43c Oiits-42J134o. Butter State, 2021c Cheese New York Factory, 10 101c. Eggs State, 19J 20c. CATTLE. Baltimouk llecf 4.2r!M.371. Sheep -8.fi )felN.75. I fog 4.2 4-50. Nkw Tonic lu-e.f (i.OiK'iiSr.00. Sheep 4.rn ift $.;:',. Hoc 4.10rr$4.4'.l. East Li uf'.uty IWf- -4.40r ; J 1.70. Sheep- FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Senate SesslonW 196th DAY.-In the Senate the tariff bill wa further considered. Mr. Carlisle's mo tion to strike out the Vool paragraph, to place the wool on the free list, was defeated by a Pfrtyvote. During this debate Mr. Allison admitted that he was not satisfied with the wool schedule. 197th Day. The Senate met at 10 A.M., but it was half an hour afterwarda before tunt 88 could be Proceeded with, owing to it ence o a quorum. In the meantime, ' rJV askecl whether a motion to adjourn wculd be in order. The conference report on the bill in relation to collisions at sea was presented and agreed to, The tariff bill was then taken p, during its consideration Mr. Paddock, republican, of Nebraska, made a speech in which he favored the reduction of duties on the necessaries of life to the lowest point consistent with the maintenance of the home industries. At 6:45 the Senate ad journed. - 198tm Day. Mr. Evarts presented resolu tions of the Buffalo Merchants Exchange favoring reciprocity not only with the nations to the south of the United States, but also with that on the north. Tha Houd hill in relation to lotteries was reported from the postoffice committee and placed on the calen dar. kMr. Quay gave notice that he would ask the Senate on Saturday, the 13th, to consider resolutions relative to the death of Samnel J. Randall. The tariff bill wm then taken up and the sugar schedule considered until the Senate adjourned. 199th Day. The Senate was engaged on the tariff bill, the question of reciprocity being discussed by Senators Evarts, Edmunds and others, whilst Mr Voorhees denounced the ta riff bill. There was but a small attendance of Senators at the evening session, which was m u'nly occupied by Mr. Pierce in a speech advocating the idea of reciprocity. The Sen ate, at 9.45 o'clock adjourned. :.. : 200th Day: Immediately after the reading of the journal the tariff bill was taken up nnder the agreement limiting the discussion on each subject to five minutes for each Senator. The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls) announced that general debate on the tariff bill had closed with the exception of the reser vation of the day when the final vote is to be taken, and when three hours time is to be allowed to each side. The sugar schedule was laid aside informally and Schedule I, "cotton manufact urers," was taken up. Amendments to reduce the rates in various paragraphs of the schedule were offered by Mr. McPherson, Mr. Carlisle and Mr.' Vance, and were uni formly rejected without a yea and nay vote. The committee amendments were agreed to. Schedule J was passed over in the same way. Schedules K and L (wool and woolens and silk and silk goods) having been already dis posed of. Schedule M (pulp, papers and books was taken up and concluded. Schedule N relating to sundries, was taken up and partially completed, the bill being laid aside when Paragraph 332 was reached. After a brief executive session the Senate at 6 P. M. adjourned. Honae Session. 205th Day. The House met at 11 o'clock to-day, the understanding being that the first hour of the session should be for debate only on the bill for the adjustment of the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising under the eight-hour law. The measure was earnestly advocated by Messrs. Caruth of Kentuckj, Dingley of Maine, Covert of New York, Morrill of Kansas, Flower of New York, Wade of Missouri, Iieilly of Pennsylvania, Osborne of Pennsylvania and Farquhar of New York; the bill was then passed. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the bill amending the alien contract law. After some discussion the bill was passed without opposition. Bills were also passed prohibiting the employment of convict labor on public work and to prevent the purchase by the United States ot supplies produced by sonvict labor. The conference report on the bill to prevent collisions atsea was presented and adopted. Adjourned. 206th Day. Mr. Stockbridge (Md.) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill provid ing for government inspection of coal mines in the territories. Agreed to. Mr. Osborne, of Pennsylvania, moved to suspend the rules and pass Senate bill for the relief of certain officers of the retired list of the army. The bill affects only Major Lewis Merrill, "First Lieutenant Henry H. Bellas and First Lieu tenant G. W. Kingsbury, each of whom is ad vanced one grade. Lost. The House at 5.10, adjourned. 207TH Day. The House began the con sideration of the Clayton-Breckinridge elec tion case. Mr. Cooper, of Ohio, opened the debate for the majority (whose report declares the seat vacant.) Mr. Wilson, of Missouri, replied declaring that the investigation had been partial and demanding another hearing. Mr. Bergen, of New Jersey, spoke for the ma jority report. The case then went over until to-morrow. The House then, at 5.45 o'clock, adjourned. 208th Day. During the absence of the Speaker, on motion of Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, Mn Burrows, of Michigan, was elected Speaker pro tern,, and took the chair amid applause from both sides of the House. The considera tion bt the Breckinridge-Clayton election case was resumed. Speeches were made by Messrs. Bergen, Crisp. Lacy, Outhwaite, Kelley of Kansas and Kennedy of Ohio. At the con clusion of Mr. Kennedy's address the case went over and the House adjourned. 209th Day. Mr. Cummings. of New York rising to a question of privilege, protested against his being "black-listed" by the famous Cannon resolution. He spoke for an hour despite frequent interruptions, and was then ordered to stop by the Speaker pro tem. The greater part of the remainder of the session was spent in discussing whether or not the hour rule held on a question of privilege. At the closo of this discussion Mr. Lacy, of Iowa, called up the Breckenridge election case. After some parley (which was unavailing in result) as to the time when the debate should close, Mr. Lacy gave notice that he would call the previous question at 1 o'clock to-morrow. Speeches were made byO'Ferrall, of Virginia, McCarthy, of New York, Tracey, of New York, and Mainh, of Pennsylvania. The case then went over. A FATAL RAILWAY WRECK. Two People Killed and Sixteen Injured on the Northern Paelfle. An east-bound passenger train was wrecked four miles from Eagle Gorge, about sixty miles from Tacoma, Wash., on the Northern Paoifio Railway. The tender of the second engine, mail, express and baggage car, smoker, emi grant, and two day coaches, were thrown from the track. Sixteen persons were injured and two were killed, Benjamin Young, umpire of the Northwest Baie Ball League, and J. D. Keppler, of Red Bluff. Cal., were the killed. The wreck was caused by a broken rail. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Ralls Plied on a Track Wreck a nail road Train. . .Train No. 13, the Adirondack, Montreal aud Niif,'.ira Falls express, was wrecked thre miles north of Castleton, N. Y. Four men and u. iriimim hi'i rrnrtrled kil!iil. It is reported rails or tics wern fastpnrd on 1 the track. Di'taui are not olt :;iua,!ie. TliC; truin consicteu mostly oi bleeps, . Details of the Latest Horror in the . Wilds of Siberia. A Rasslan In Sew York Tells the Awrnl Btoiy of the Tinmen Tragedy Trans ported In Iron Cages., Six weeks ago a cable dispatch from Berlin stated that another horror had been perpe trated on' Russian exiles in Siberia, that a number of the so-called "political unfortu nates" had been slain by their guards at or near the town of Tinmen, in Western Siberia People had already been so surfeited with horrors in reading the heart-rending accounts of the massacre at .J&ktush, when 35 "politi cals" were shot dwn, and of the flogging of Mme. Sihida at Kara, that thefew lines about the Tinmen affair created only a moderate ex citement at the timeit waspublisbed. Butde tails have now teen received that bring its horrors fully up to those perpetrated in the extreme northern Siberian capital. - A Russian, Alexander Kwiatkowski, ar rived in New York direct from St. Petersburg and brought with him the first acconnt of the Tinmen tragedy. He had gained his news almost at first hand from a relative of one of the victims, a beautiful young girl, the Prin cess Eleneoginska, 18 years of age. From Prince Adam Oginska, Kwiatkowski learned the following details: Thestory begins with the exiles, 100 innnm ber, who left Ekaterinburg about the end of May. V They had been transported with a steamer load ot exiles politicals and crimi nals frem Nijini-Novgorod to Perm, living in iron cages on deck, and were then sent by the railroad across the Ural mountains, 12 hours' journey to Ekaterinburg, where the real horrors of the Siberian journey began. From that point the exiles had to go on foot all the way to Tinmen, a distance of nearly 600 miles, where the cage steamer would bein readiness to transport t hem via the Jenessei and the Obi to Tomsk, where another 1,000 miles would have to be trodden by the weary exiles until Irkutsh was reached. According to Ogin ska's acconnt, as told to Kwiatkowski, the journey from Ekanerinburg to Tinmen was one of indescribable hardship. The heat during the day was intense, and for 15 days the exiles were compelled to walk under the burning sun along the roads half a foot deep in dust. They usually made 20 to 25 miles, and sometimes 30 miles in a day, resting at night in the prisons which line the great Siberian post road straight across the continent from the Urals to the Baikalas, then further to the Pacific Ocean. The letters re ceived by Prince Adam say the sufferings ol the beautiful Princess Elene was intense, arousing even the sympathy of the Cossack Guards at times. She was the youngest of the group of exiles, but much as she suffered her self she was never heard to complain. All her companions were in a similar pitiable condi tion of exhaustion from the journey. Theit feet were swollen to such an extent that some of them sat down by the roadside and declared it was utterly impossible for them to move another step, and asked permission to ride in the wagons that always accompany an escort of exiles for the purpose of transporting the sick and the women nnable to walk.. They ap pealed to the guard in vain, however, for as answer they were cruelly beaten by the soldiers with the stocks of their guns and ordered to get up and march on. These scenes happened frequently on the journey, always with the same results in cruelty. But at Inst, when within only a few stations of Tinmen, the small band of exiles, driven to despair, tnrned fiercely npon their guards and began to fight, for their freedom. But it was a very unequal fight, for the sol diers who made the journey with loaded rifles immediately began firing on the crowd. The result was horrifying. The first victim was the beautiful young princess. Her head was pierced by a bullett and. she fell dead without uttering a word. Still the soldiers kept up the firing, and out of the band of po litical exiles who left Ekaterinbburg 20 were shot dead and 12 were wounded. As nearly all the exiles in the group participated in the "rebellion" to a greater or less degree, it is feared that the remainder will be severely punished, if not hanged. Such is the terrible story as told by Kwiat kowski. It sounds incrediblet and would doubtless be considered so were it not that so many previous horrors of a like description have been reported and proven. M. Norralkow, an eld Siberian exile, who is now in New ork, says that the case of the princess has been followed wkh deep interest m the Russion colonies in Geneva, Paris, London and other cities. She belonged to an old and honorable Lithuanian family, several members of which spend the winter in St Petersburg. How she came into the tronble originally is not known. She was probably connected in some way with the societies in St. Petersburg for the bringing about of po litical reforms. M. Norralkow expects that still more complete accounts of the Tinmen horror will be published in Geneva shortlv. . THE KENTUCKY FEUDS. French-Eversole Factions May Make Lively Times In Jail. B. F.French and Ex-Jndge George Ever sole, the leaders of the two factions, whose feuds have resulted so fatally, are both be hind the bars. They both have money, but Judge Lilly will not permit a bail bond in either case. Notwithstanding the fact that several criminals have been sent away to the penitentiary, thirty-two pri3oners still occupy the jail. They are about evenly divided, half being French men and half Eversole men. If they open up the fight in jail there wiU be serious results. , Sheriff Fields with a posse of fifteen men, is scouring the country far and near, hunting for Joe Atkins Tom Smith, Bob Propitt, and Bill Smith. They stand indicted for murder. If they are apprehended it is believed the war will end. Commonwealth Attorney Marcy is vigor ously prosecuting the law breakers. There is considerable activity among the friends of the men in jail and they ask that they be released on $1,000 bail, but the supposition is that Judge Lilly will not allow bail in the mur der cases, which most ot tnem are. The governor ordered fifteen additional soldiers to Hazard in charge of Lieutenant Noel Gains, of Frankfort. The reason for this is explained by the department of Frank fort. They fear an attack from ambush, when it is attempted to take the prisoners from Perry to Clark County, to which county Judge Lilly has ordered the cases, under the recent act of the Kentucky Legislature which allows a change of venue in criminal cases to any court in the State. Kentucky is in a fair way to recover from her outlawry. The recent lawscems to have furnished a key to th situation. There will be seventy-three soldiers in Perry when the detachment just ordcied to the scene reaches there. " , : ' It is said that there are 7000 vacant honsei Jn Kansas City, 1U) , and that it has lct ma;-.y thou 'i:ids i f poj-vation the p.- .6 tc year tJn.-.i ;3 "t-ira'c 'i5- '. GABLE SPARKS. FlEE destroyed the town of Tokay, In Hun gary. t Choleea is spreading in the city of Toledo Spain. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, is re ported as far from being restored to perfect htatth. . ' The strike of coal miners in the Borinago district of Belgium continues to spread, 4,osX' more men having quit work. Progressist newspapers in Lisbon say that the Anglo-Portugese agreement will ruiu Portugal's colonial interests. ' Mr. Lincoln, the United States minister to Great Britain, strongly denies the report that he is about to resign his office. . MOU6SA Bey; lately Governor of Armenia, who was banished to Mecca by the Sultan of Turkey, has disappeared from Constantinople. Owing to the increase of cholera, the Egyp tian government has established a secot.d quarantine station at Rasmailag, on the Gulf of Sues. . In the provinoe of Pernamnuco, Brazil. 4,000 cases of small-pox are reported, ana there is an average of twenty deaths daily from the disease. The Duke of Cambridge nnveiled the me morial erected in the Evere Cemetery, Brus sels, to the British soldiers who were slain at the battle of Waterloo. TiiE Em in relief committee has formally thanked Dr. Peters for the devotion, persever ance, courage and farsight shown by him as head of the relief expedition. Ar A meeting of the Irish National League, it Dublin, Timothy II ealy, referring to the potato blight in that country, said that noth ing stood between the people and starvation the coming winter. During the maneuvers of the Italian army tt Monticheari, smokeless powder was useil, sud so successful were the experiments with it that the batteries of artillery fired half an hour without their presence being discovered. The Russian government is about to ap point a commission to prepare a scheme to open trade routes to Central Asia by connect ing the Amu-Daria river with the Caspian lea, or by a railway from Orenburg to 'li'sh kend. The Mombasa and Nyanza Railway in Africa was inaugurated in the presence of the British and other foreign consuls, Admiral Fremantle, of the British navy, and a large number of other Europeans. DURING a storm at Maisau, Austria, light ning struck twenty freight cars on the Franz Joseph Railway, throwing them down an em bankment and smashing them. The guard on the train were knocked senseless by the shock. The Vienna Tageblatt says that the Czar has refused to give his consent to the proposal made by Emperor William that the forces of Russia, Austria and Germany stationed along the boundary lines between the three coun tries be withdrawn. In the ocean race from New York to Queenstown, Ireland, between the Inman Line steamship City of New York and the White Star steamship Teutonic, the City of New York was the first to arrive on the other side of the Atlantic The Moniteur de Rome, one of the official organs of the Vatican, says that if the rate at which converts have been made for the last half century to the Catholic Church in Eng land is maintained that religion will be dom inant in England a century hence. A SHOT AT MINISTER MIZNER A Daughter of Barrnndla Uses a Re volver on Him. A daughter of General Martin Barrundia who was shot to death in the cabin of the Pacific Mail Steamship Acapulco at San Jose de Guatemala, attempted to shoot United States Minister Mizner. Mr. Mizner was at his desk translating the guarantee given to him by this government that Barrundia's life would be spared in case he was surrendered when the young woman came into the office. As the Minister looked up from his work she was standing within four feet of him. with a revolver in her hand. She saluted him, saying: "Are you the American Minister?" Mr. Mizner replird: "I am, can I be of any service to you?" With flashing eyes, she accused him of hav ing been directly the cause of her lather's death, and announced that she meant to kill him. Mr. Mizner took the matter coolly and tried to reason with the girl, who was appar? eutly almost crazed with excitement, and in the most tragic manner poured on him the bitterest invectives of which the Spanish language is capable. At last she pulled the trigger of the pistol. Mr. Mizner had taken up a heavy law-book, which he, with appar ent carelessness, held between himself and the girl, and the bullet which was meant for his neart was caught in the leaves of the book. The sound of the shot attracted attention, and before the second shot could be fired as sistance arrived, and the pistol was taken from the younjj woman. Throughout the entire exciting interview Mr. Mizner main tained the utmost coolness, though the only thing between him and the muzzle of a pistol held in the hands of a woman who evidently intended to shoot, was a heavy law-book. His coolness unquestionably saved his life. Po licemen were called in, and the young woman was arrested. She proved to be Christina Barrundia, a daughter of the murdered gen eral. As soon as President Barillas heard of the occurrence he sent his respects and offered the power of his government to protect the American legation. Mr. Mizner, however de clined the offer, will not prosecute the lady, and insists that no further notice shall b taken of the affair. It is generally believed here that Barrundia would have been in no danger of death had he not resisted arrest. IN A RUNAWAY CAR. Many Persons , Serloasly Injured A Broken Drake the Cans. At Jolie t. III., an e lectrio car became un coupled and sped down hill at a terrible speed. The car was crowded with men, women and children who were going to the grounds where the labor demonstration was held.- Many leaped off. and a number were severely b.nrt, but it is thought none fatally. The severely hurt are: Miss Josie Caul, ngly cuts and bruises on head, neck and back: Mary Caul, serious injuries on arms, body and legs; Mrs. Henry Beck, internal injuries and contusions on shoulder and side: August Bischman, wrist and arm badly sprained and head cut; II. B. Clark, wrist and r,honlder hurt. Oth ers were badly scratched. Mrs. Beck had her baby in her arms when she jumped off, but the child was not hurt. The Caul sifters are most seriously hurt. The curve where the car ran off is but one street back of the bluff. Had the car not stopped by crashing into the gutter and upontheVide. walk, it miffht have gone over the bluS' nnd killed ail on board. The street car oihciala a broken l.raiv? as thu eau:..a f tf aid Ueni. - STATE OF TBAE Favorable Outlook for an Active it. Steady Fall Trade. The neactlon In Wheat Prices Haling Higher and a, Falling OJT in tha Business Failures. Special telegrams to' Bradstrecl'a report all of the evidencesof increasingcommercial aod Industrial activity noted last week. The Sep tember ontlook is for an active distribution of staples. There are no definite reports as to ioroestic crop shortages, other than werem3'5e public last week. Boots and shoes are selling at prices matfr.; tally higher than a year ngo, with the Autumn demand under good headway. Even raw wool Is firmer, whileother staplesshowingrelative- lytnore activity are clothing and seasonable dry goods. These reports come from PhiU-. d-lphia, Boston, Kansas City, ChicagOmslia,: and other distributing centreo. At New York ft very large Antumn trade is going on. The close of the fiscal year at the South checks business somewhat, notably in New Orleans, but the volume of goods moving i rtill large for the season. Bains have check rd the rice movement there, but cotton is moving Ireely. In some sections of Southwestern h braska and of Western Kansas the damage to itnple crops has been so serious as to mater ially check purchasing. . . Bunk clearings at fifty-one cities for the week ended August 28, are H,098,8C8,881. a pin over this week last year of 163 per cent. New York City's clearings, which constitute 62.3 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 24 per cent. . Anthracite coal remains dnll, as consumers arestilldUinclined to order freely Petroleum, after a little spurt, consequent Tipon listing about 19,000,000 barrels of Ohio oil for invest ment and speculative purposes; appears to have dropped into neglect once more. Hogs are lower in price on heavier receipts. Wheat has reacted Scents from the high prices touched early in the week and corn and oats have, as is natural, sympathized with the decline. This is due to foreign markets refus ing tofollow furtheratthistimethe prolonged advance in domestic markets togther wun some slight improvement in crop reports. Total export of wheat (and flonr as wheat) both coasts this week aggregate 2,562,322 bus'.i els, against 3,088,985 bushels in the like week a year ago, and 3,489,983 bushels last week. The total exported since July 1 is 18,969,475 bush els, as compare! with 17,031,000 bushels in a like portion of last year, and 18,976,311 bshe la InlSSS. Dry goods jobbers are actively engaged, and agents are doing a good re order business in Fall and Winter goods as a consequence. Cot ton and wool dress goods are in chief mov e ment. Foreign goods show more lite, but m fo still behind the average in demand. Manufacturers are as a consequence reput ing a slight demand and are slow buyers of raw wool. A great deal of woolen machinery is still idle, but values are fairly firm. Cotton is and cents off in all markets on continued liquidation of an old crop, heavy new crop movement and good advices from prod ncing sections. New crop deliveries are well held. Business failures reported to liradslrftt'g numbers 134 in the United States this week, against 160 last week, and 176 this week last year. Canada had 36 this week, against 20 last week. The total number of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 6,737, against 7.603 in a like portion of 1889. CONDITION OF COTTON. Growth of the Crop In Tennessee, Mis sissippi, Arkansas and Alabama. The regular monthly cotton report for the Memphis district, which embraces West Ten nessee, Northern Mississippi, Northern Ar kansas, and Northern Alabama, just publish ed, says; . . .-,:; "The weather during the month has in the main been favorable, and 328 of our Ji88 cor respondents report it much more favorably than last yerr for the same period." "There are some complaints of drought pi e vailing in sections of Arkansas, while portions of Alabama and Tennessee report exec-ive rains. The plant as a rule is fruiting well n-id retaining ita squares and bolls, and thous:!i m a few localities of Arkansas report is made of shedding due to the drought, the present ecu- dition of the crop is encouraging and gives brighter promise of a fuller yield than hnn been our province to chronicle for the past three years. Although reports are niaiK- of danger to the crop from sections in allot the four States, doe to rust, drought, and oilier causes, and yet the percentage is very small, and in none of the States will it exceed 6 per cent. In Mississippi it only amounts to 3 per cent." , "Picking will not become general through out the district until about Weptember 2 th. The rains of the past four days may pOMii'uiy have added to the damage from this cause in Tennessee and Alabama, but they have bten general in their nature and in many localities will prove beneficial.';- ' "The condition of corn throughout the dis trict has improved since our Isst rpport. nnd indications now point to a yield ot fully 75 per cent of a fair average crop of this cereal.". A CONSUL IN PERIL. Tha American Flag Insulted Hepa ra tion Made. The following is from a letter dated Gua'.e mala City, August 17, giving an account ol the battle in San Salvador, the ehootii; General Rivas and attending incidents: "v Balana, the palace, was almost desf roye I partly sacked, and the town was also mu The American consul, H. R. Myer, was by Minister Mizner, who had como f Guatemala to protect the American in t there, at La Libertad, going to .New i having hid behind a stone bath-b for thirty hours while his houie, t'i i-oon and .oi. l-H-t roru esti - :k, vf r ana the city, were ociug sacKca uy. Ani.i.iio Ezeta's men. Mr. Mizner scntupnn oi!nvr oi the United States steamer Thetis to d-u, and that the United States flasr, which had !.pi pulled down and draped in ttiestret'ts,be rae I and saluted with twenty-one guns in the pres ence of all American residsiita, a comp& y of soldiers and a band of muv. with the j resi dent and all his officers, which wns dune im mediately upon demand of the officer. '1 he consulate was restored to the United .State consul with the guarantee of all ouluial privi leges, a This was done on August i, um! th minister on invitation of l-eta. vmiiH ih capital and inspected the consulate 1 the city in general." At the circus BesflieOh, rvrs. see! that poor fat clown has f. 'Um ibwn and lost all the wind out of 1 Puj-a Yes, pet, that is what new.- . itnernmn would call a 'burst of mirth.'" Tins. Wis EVANIaVt to;, -; asl a YiWa bald? JTrs. 1; -Jn,'.; ( nad-jO TLore i rA M ' -ire l.cr.L