Published bt Koanoke ruuusinKQ Oo.
C. V. Aubbon, Business Manager.
"FOR GOD.' FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL.. II." ;
NO. 19.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1890.
THE NEWS.
r Joni Goats, who stabbed Harry V. John
"tone on Decoration Day, at Huntingdon, Pa.,
in a quarrel concerning a keg of beer,was con
victed of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary.
Madnmo Leroy was ennght under a bal
loon which, fell into the river at Wheeling,W.
a., and was nearly drowned. An English
syndic te Js Puylng P boot and shoe manu
ncto.ies in St. Louis, Rochester, New York,
Chicago and Cincinnati. Frank A.Diekinr
"on and his wife were found dead In their
home in Cincinnati from an overdoseof chloro
form, which they had taken for neuralgiaand
to produce sleep.- At ajeonference of miners
nd operators at Altoona, Pa., a scale of wages
ffe the workers in the Clearfield district was
manged, and a strike averted. J. Alexan
der Johnstone, the Western mind-reader, per
formed a remarkable feat in Chicago finding
a name on a hotel register previously selected
by a committee. Mrs. E. II. Bissel, ayoung
widow of tfew Orleans, cowhided Hypolite
Tachaux, a hotel proprietor, for making re
marks about her character. The Massachu
etts Prohibitionists held a state convention
d nominated a ticket, headed by George
Kcmpton for lieutenant governor.- Citizens
an the Bear Tree Creek section of North Car
olina are alarmed overseeing smoke issuing
from seven peaks of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains. Five buildings, owned by Jos. M.
Mogall&Son. and three other buildings at
Duncannon, Pa., were, burned, and eight fam
ilies rendered homeless. Loss $15,000.
Isaac K. Knoll, ex-clerk of the Orphans,
Court of Reading, Pa., aged sixty-five years,
committed suicide by drowning himself in a
3i sh pond. A Convention of delegates from
six Southern states was held in Atlanta to
take steps to secure a direct trade with Euro
pean ports. .
California celebrates the fortieth anniver
sary of its admission into the Union. -John
Iarkcr, a yonng farmer, was instantly killed
nd Oliver Hughes was mortally wounded,
in a fight in a disreputable house at Pleasant
Hill, Mo. Ethl Curtis, nineteen years old,
while smoking a cigarette "" in bed in New
York, set fire to her clothing and was fatally
Imrned. Mrs. Edward Reiniger, of Milwau
kee, wa shot and mortally wounded by her
husband, from whom she had separated be-
canso of his brutality. Major Gleason, of
Long Islnnd City, brutally assaulted George
It. Crowley, & well-known newspaper man.
The Lynn Morocco Manufacturers Asso
ciation has locked out 1,500 workmen.-
Two bold thieves cleaned out agamblingden
in Chamberlain, S. D., terrorizing forty gam
blers and pocketing all the stakes. Indus
trial Art Hall in Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire. The farmers of New? York have
organized a state league for political action.
'James Currey, a farmer of Conoserogo,
N. Y., was fatally injured by the explosion
of dynamite cartridges. High Hughes,
Aged thirty-five years, a longshoreman of New
York, cut his thront in the presence of his
wife and three ehildren.--The Chicago pack
ers talk of removing their establishments
across the Indiana line.---The London and
Chicago Contract Corporation has heen formed
with a capital of $0,000,000. A baby in a
trnrringe fell five stories from the roof a house
in New York and ei-enped injury, theenrriage
landing on a bale of rugs.- -In the wreck of
a work-train, near Canon City, Col., a number
of workmen were killed and fort'y injured.
Lightning struck an I burned tho Pennsyl
Tania "Rail road offices at Altoona. -Fire has
again broken out in tho Dunbar mine, in
which tho bodies of the twenty-nine miners
killed in the explosion still lay- The city
of Springfield," Mass., is infested with black
Ilea. Jerome A. Brown, conductor on the
fjulem and Lowell division of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, was arrested, charged with
larceny 6f tickets. -Emil Schnltz & Co.,im
portcrsof winw8 and liquors. New York, made"
jn assignment. Customs officials in New
York seized about $0,000 worth of diamonds
concealed in the baggage of W. II. Medhurst,
g wealthy young Englishman, who arrived
from Liverpool. A number of the leading
.businessmen of Bclvidere, N. J., have formed
n syndicate, and are bnyingahd shipping thou
sands of bushels of potatoes to the West The
formers all through that section are selling
their potato crops. They get fifty cents cash
a bushel, and the crop is an immense one.
Fire in the Charlotfe mines at Scottdale, Pa.,
has caused a suspension of all work.- -John
Markell was arrested in York, Pa,, on charges
of ftygery, alleged to have been committed at
Clurinda, Iowa, six years ngo.- An attempt
was made to wreck the St. Louis aud Chicago
express on the New York Central Road near
Poughkeepsie. John Kiernnn and John
Cordial, striking Knights ot Labor, were ar
rested at Albany on suspicion of being con
nected with train-wrecking on the New York
Central. The police raided the Philadel
phia gambling houses and captured two hun
dred players of fan-tan. The wife and child
of Abel Hughes were drowned while tryingto
ford Buffalo creek, in West Virginia. John
Riley was murdered in Chicago. Win. Pris
coll is suspected of the crime. ,
FIVE LABORERS KILLED.
VI Frightful Accident on the Denver and
Rio Granite nallroml.
A terrible accident occurred on the Denve
and Rio Grande railroad at 5 o'clock A. M.,
near Adobe, Colorada. ' v
The train was running in two sections.
The first section had two day coaches loaded
with laborers and had become derailed some
four miles below Florence.
The second section dashed into them with
terrific force, completely smashing the two
roaches, injuring 3 men and killing 5 out.
rij-'hu
Most of the men in the wreck were Italian
laborers just shipped here from New York.
w. fl. Harbin 5s the' latest aspirant for
literary fame from the South. He is years
oiJ and was a merchant in Georgia he for s he
took up the pen.
BY A PREMATURE BLAST
Details of a Horrible Accident
- Spokane Falls, Wash. ,
at
.Twenty Thousand Cable Feet of Rock
; Hurled Hundreds of Feet In all Dlrec-
tlons How It Occurred,
Five minutes before 6 o'clock the other even
ing a premature blast in the Northern Pacifio
yards, Spokane Falls, Wash., killed 18 men
and possibly more. .
It was just before the hour of quitting work.
A large force of men were engaged in blasting
out a huge rock pile in the Northern Pacifio
freight yards in the eastern part of that city.
From 60 to 75 men were at work in the cut at
the time.
At 11 P. M., the men engaged in the sad task
of taking out the mangled victims were forced
to desist, because among the rocks which were
being cleared away were five other blasts that
might be exploded in the task of removing the
mass ot debris that buried the victims.
Up to that hour 18 bodies had been taken
out. : .
There are yet 27 men unaccounted for, all
of whom are probably buried beneath tho'
mighty mass of rock. The ravality was ter
rible. The men were given no chance lor life.
It was either instant death or slight injury.
There was about 200 pounds of giant powder
in the blast. The accident was caused by some
one's carelessness. ( The man In charge of the
blast and three assistants were blown to atoms..
It is the custom to prepare blasts and charge
them at the hours of 12 noon and 6 o'clock In
thc.afternoon after the men have left work
and gone to a place of safety to shoot them.
- In this case, however, it seems that one blast
had been prepared, and the foreman, C. Mc
Pherson, was preparing a second. The men
had all finished their work and putting on
their coats, ready to go to their homes, when
they met a horrible and unexpected death.
Either the rock was too hot from the action of
the drills or else the tamping exploded tha
second blast, and that exploded the first.
A man who was tamping paid the penalty
with his life. A man who stood beside one
who was tamping escaped with slight bruises
although 20,000 cubic feet of rock were hurled
for hundredsoffeetin every direction. Another
man who was near the deadly blast and who
was supposed to be dead was seen shortly after
the explosion in a half-crazed condition walk
ing around with his clothing torn to shreds.
The men were working in a cut leveling off
the ground for tha new freight yards. The
cliff of rock on the side of the cut which was
being removed was 20 feet high. The blasts
are so arranged that the rock is thrown toward
the cut. Not anticipating the blast, about 30
men were under the cliff when the blast ex
ploded. A great mass of rock and earth raised
in the air and pitched over into the cut, bury
in? the men beneath its awful weight None
of them bad time to run, but a few escaped in
a miraculous manner.
Over 100 men were at work in the adjoining
cuts, and at once were on the scene ot the ter
rible accident, and began with picks and shov
els to hunt for the buried bodies. From all
over the huge mass of rocks groans and shrieks
issuer, and the air was filled with the horrible
noistk and the appeals of the wounded and
dying. A short naif hour, and all was still
except for the workingmen with pick in hand,
who, with the light of lanterns, worked late
into the night removinrthe dead bodies.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
Two unknown men, supposed to be brothers,
were drowned in the lake in Garfield Park,
Chicago. v
E. W. Bennett and David Williams were
killed-at Durango, Colorado, by the prema
ture explosion of a blast
The scaffolding on a new house in Newark,
N. J., gave way. precipitating Theodore Burns
nd Herman Matthes, painters, to the ground.
Both men were killed.
Dubinq a fire in a dwelling in St. Paul,
Minnesota, a gasoline stove exploded, burning
four firemen, Lieutenant Haines so badly that
it is feared he will die. ;
The engine of a construction train left the
(rack at Shawnee, Ohio, ami turned over. En
gineer Hill and Fireman John Scanlon were
killed and a brakeman was injured.
Thomas Dew, aged 22, a lineman of the
Brush Company, was killed in Cincinnati by
accidentally catching alive electric light wire.
His right hand was nearly burned oil'.
Simon McKenzie, living near Faradisci
Utah, last week started out to shoot coyotes.
His gun was accidentally discharged and the
ball killed his little boy aud badly wounded
his wife. ' , '
A smaix yacht, owned by J. P. Hall, was
capsized in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. Hey.
wood Hall, aged 17 years, nephew of the
owner, and W. II. Seymour, aged 21, were
drowned.
An explosion of gas occurred in the Diller
Hotel, in Seattle. Washington. Several per
sons were injured, among them being Dr. Otis
F. Presbury, of Washington, I). C, editor of
Public Opinion, who had his face and hands
badly burned. ,',.:.:,...',
A cartridge in a hole drilled in a rock
ledge at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Istund, waa
exploded by some Italian laborers, with disas
trous effect One of the men was so badly
injured that hedied in two hours, another had
bothe yes blown out, and three others were
severely injured.
The scaffolding on a building in New Or
leans, on which five men were at work, gave
way. Harvey, a carpenter, was instantly
killed; Wm. Ray and Henry Allbricht, pain
ters, fatally injured, while Leroy Smith and
Tom Peterson, also painters, were painfully
hurt.
Mrs. Catherine Sadick. took a draught
of aconite at her home in New York, by mis
take and died in ten minutes. She was 67
years old. The medicine, mixed with other
ingredients, was intended for her grandchild.
Mrs. Sadick did not look at the directions, put
it to her lips and tasted. She fell writhing to
the floor. The daughter, Mrs. Arabes. touted
it, but not so freely. While the old lady died,
the younger woman was, with the vigorout
use of a stomach puiup.s wed from death her
self. ;
SHOT WIFE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW.
The Crime of a DUiolut Man Whose
Wife Had Left Him.
A terrible tragedy was enacted in Wauwa
tosa, a suburb of Milwaukee. Wis. Mrs. Ed
ward Reiniger had left her husband on ac
count of his brutal treatment and dissolute
Jin bit, and returned to her mother's home.
She and her mother were sitting on the porch
when Reiniger came to the house and asked
his wife if she would return to him. She re
fused, and he pulled out a revolver and shot
her three times. The mother interfered and
she, too, was shot twice. Mrs. Reiniger will
probably die. Mrs. Raymor's wound may not
prove fatal. Reiniger was arrested.
Rev. D. BCRcriARD is in Saratoga. lie is
a well-preserved and affable old gentleman.
The Doctor fits well into Saratoga life, and
there is nothing he likes better than to pit
down in the evening to a game of cards with
some bright young ladies.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
Senate Session.
20J6T Day. After the reading of the jour
nal the tariff bill was taken up and the con
sideration of the free list was proceeded with.
Mr. Vance moved to strike out Pnragrnph
540 "fashion plates;"defeated. The pars
graph putting fish on the free list was laid
aside without action." Mr. Davis moved to
insert binding twine on the free list; agreed
to. Mr. Plumb moved to strike off the free
list (Paragraph 379) "hides, raw or uncured.
whether dry salted or pickled," and argued
in support of the motion; rejected. Mr. Vet
moved to insert in the free list "timber, hewn
and sawed, squared and sided and sawed
boards, plank, deals and other lumber, of
hemlock, whitewood, sycamore, white pine
and baaswood;" rejected. Paragraph 713
placing tin ore and tin on the free list was
amended, on motion of Mr. Aldrich, by ad
ding the words "until January 1, 1892, but
not thereafter." The. consideration of the
free list having been concluded, some of the
preceding paragraphs were, on motion of Mr.
Aldrich, taken up again and modified. Ad
journed. '
202D DAY. After the transaction of the
routine morning business the Senate resumed
the consideration of the tariff bill. Before the
end of the session the consideration of the
tariff bill was concluded, except as to the
sugar section, reciprocity and some few re
served paragraphs. The voting is to begin
on Tuesday; and, after the stage of the third
reading of the bill is reached, three hours is
to be allowed to each side for general discus-
ftlnn. TKfl PAnfprpnnA FAnrtrf nn tha rivA. flnrl
I harbor bill was presented and read. On a
. Hlui.inrt 41m.j. K... Of ! ., .
v. .o.vu tiicic uut t ocilaiurs vuilii,
and so, without action on the conference re
port, the Senate (at 6" P. M.) adjourned.
203d Day. The conference report on the
river and harbor appropriation bill was taken
up In the Senate and agreed to without dis
cussion and without a yea and nay vote. The
tariff bill was taken up the debate on the bill
and amendments to be limited to 30 minutes
for any Senator on any one subject An
amendment offered by Mr. Plumb providing
a tax of $1.25 per gallon on distilled spirits
was defeated. The sugar schedule was amend
ed in several particulars. The Senate at 5.30
took a recess till 8 P. M. At the evening
session Mr. Casey addressed the Senate in
tavor of the reciprocity proposition. A de
bate on the reciprocity proposition began and
lasted until after midnight, when the Senate
adjourned.
l204th Day. The tariff bill was taken up,
the pending question being on Mr. Gibsons
amendment to reduce the sugar test from 80
degrees by the polariscope to 7(i degrees. The
amendment was rejected. Messrs. Gibson and
Carlisle offered other amendments tothesugar
section, which were rejected. The bill was
then reported to the Senate, and all the amend
ments that had been adopted in committee of
the whole were agreed to in the Senate except
those on which seperate votes were demanded.
All the reserve amendments having been dis
posed of the presiding officer announced that
the bill was now before the Senate for amend
ment Several amendments were offered, and
then the question was "Shall the bill be mi-
frrosserl and nrrlorari tn n tkiwl ...ilmniii
I this question yeas and nays were taken and
rcBuiieu.- i rus.oe; nays.zs a party vote, rne
bill was read a third time and the question
was said to be "Shall the bill pass?" Without
acting upon this question the bill was laid
aside, and tho Senate, after a short executive
session, adjourned.
205th Day. The tariff bill was taken up
in the Senate, the question being on its pas
sage, six hours being allowed to close the dis
cussion, after which the vote is to be taken.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Hoar, His
cock, Gibson, Turple, Vest, Vance and Jones
of Nevada. The vote was then taken and the
bill was passed yeas 40, nays 29. Mr. Al
drich moved that the Senate insist on its
amendments to the House biJl and ask for a
committee of conference the conference to
consist of seven on each side. The motion
WHO arreed in Ttcarm Alil-ir.1i Shi,..i.n
Allison, ; Hiscock McPherson, Vance and
vHm.Nit; were appoinuta conferees on tne
part of the Senate. The Senate at 5.45 ad
journed. - Hons Seaslottj '
210th Day. Immediately after the read
ing of the journal the Clayton-Breckinridge
case was ngiin taken up and Mr. Breckin
ridge was accorded the floor to argue in his
own behalf. Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
closed the debate with an argument in favor
of the majority report Mr. Crisp, of Georgia,
then moved to recommit the case, with in
structions, to the committee on elections to
report which of the gentlemen received a
majority of the votes of the Second district of
Arkansas; lost The vote was then taken on
the minority resolution confirming Breckin
ridge's right to the seat; lost. The resolu
tion declaring the seat vacant was agreed to
yefis 106( nays 62. The House then took a re
cess until 8 o'clock. The House at the even
ing session passed 30 pension bills, and at
10.30 adjourned.
211th Day. The House proceeded to the
consideration of the conference report on the
rivet? and harbor bill, and, after a , brief de
bate, it was agreed to. The Speaker pro tern.
(Mr. Burrows) laid before the House the bill
for the erection of a new tower near the site
of the lighthouse on Smith's Island, Va., with
Senate amendments thereto. These amend
ments are very general in their character,
and provide for the erection of lighthouses
and fog signals throughout the country and
increase the original appropriation of $150,000
for one specific object into an appropriation
of almost $1,000,000 for general purposes.
After some discussion the Speaker pro tein
referred the bill to the committee on com.
nierce. The House, at 3.15 o'clock, adjourned.
212th Day. The floor was accorded to the
committee on the District of Columbia the
pending question being one to recommit tho
Atkinson bill with instructions to report it
back with an amendment requiring the Bal
timore and Potomac Railway to remove its
depot in Washington to the intersection of
Maryland and Virginia avenues. After de
bate the motion to recommit the bill to the
committee on the District of Columbia wa4
lost yeas 42 naya 113 the clerk noting a
quorum. Under the rules this vote, without
further action, recommitted the bill to the
committee of the whole, and Mr. Atkinson
thereupon moved that the House go into such
committee, and the motion was agreed to. The
entire afternoon was consumed in the con
sideration of the measure, but when the com
mittee rose and reported the bill to the House
with a favorable recommendation a quorum
had vanished and the House at 5.30 adjourned.
. 213th BAY. Mr. Haugen, of Wisconsin,
called up the Virginia election case of Langs
ton against Venable. Mr. O'Ferrall. of Vir-
finia, raised the question of consideration,
'he vote resulted yeasS9, nay 14; noquorum.
A call of the House was ordered. A bare
quorum was disclosed on the call, and the
question returned npon the question of con
sideration, pending which, Mr. O'Ferrall
moved an adjournment, which was Iot yeas
40, nays 93, On the question of consideration
the quorum disappeared, the vote standing
yeas 87, naya 7, and another call was ordered.
Noquorum appearing, Mr. Haugeu offered a
resolution directing the sergeart-it-arms to
summon absentees. Mr. Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, moved to lay Mr. Haugen's resolutions
on toa table. Lout yeas 40, nnj's i. Mr.
ilaugea moved that the .llonxe adjurn. The'
motif ft ; tjrrt ci t.
TRADE OF THE WEEK.
Activity Reported in Jobbing and
Y Manufacturing Circles.
The Labor Situation Improving Bank
Clearings for the Week Comparison
. of Business Fallnren. ....
Special telegrams to Bradltrett't this week
indicate a fair degree of activity in jobbing
circlcsandamongmanufactnrers, particularly
as to the distribution of dry goods, clothing,
boots and shoes, and hardware.
At almost all the cities reporting, business
Is said to fairly active or satisfactory for tj16
season. i ne most pronounced anuvuy in uis
Iributing circles as heretofore is at Chicago,
New York in special lines, St Paul, New Or
leans land Kansas City. At the latter city,
receipts of cattle and hogs have declined,
while the demand is fair. Prices tend upward.
At St. Louis provisions are steady with large
Southern orders for better classes of meats.
The labor situation on the whole has rather
improve t. Several of the more threatening
industrial disturbances have practically dis
ippeared, except the brick boycott and strike
It iVew York city.
St cks speculation at New York is dull and
Jubjcct to bearish attacks upon the Gran
ger shares, based on the deficieut corn crop.
Unw sugar is 3-16e and refined 5-16c up on
food demand, decreasing stocks, and bullish
beet crop reports. Wheat has reacted on more
favorable foreign crop reports and corn has
lympathized.
, Cotton goods prices are firm. Foreign goods
re more active. Wool is quiet. Odd lots are
j chief demand. Fine territory wools and
:arpet grades show most firmness. Foreign
wools have relapsed into dullness; prices are
unchanged. Cotton is aa lower on large re
ceipts, weaker cables and long selling on
Southern account.
Speculation is quite active. Anthracite coal
is dull and heavy, with production this year
to date nearly 600,000 tons behind the like re
cord last year. Copper remains firm.
Bunk clearings for August show someeffort
from the decrease of railway share specula
tion at New York, but not enough to mater
ially affect banking transactions at the me
tropolis. Clearings at fifty-three cities in
August aggregated $4,791,908,601, a gain over
last year of 10.5 per cent., and next to those
for May this year, when the clearings' total
was the heaviest on record, showing the lar
gest percentage of gain over 1889 of any month
this year. Only six cities show a decrease
from last year, the smallest number on record.
For eight months of the year clearings at thirty
seven cities aggregate $38,956,120,045, a gain
over 1889 of 8.3 per cent. New York city's
clearings show a gain of 6.4 per cent, while
outside of that city the gain is 11.6 per cent
Stocks of available wheat, both coasts, ag
gregated 27,711,000 bushels, the smallest
total reported on a similar date since 1882.
East of the Rocky Mountains available wheat
supplies havecontinuedtodecrease each week
down to date. August heretofore, of late years,
always furnishing increased stocks. In August
18!X), Eustern coast available wheat stocks fell
away 1,397,000 bushels, while in August, 1889,
they increased 4,800,000 bushels, and 4,862,000
in 1S88. .
Exports of wheat, both coasts (and floor as
wheat,) equal 1,575,673 bushels this week,
against 2,679,007 bushels the first week of Sep
tember, 1889, and 2,562,322 bushels last week.
The total exported since July 1 is 30,545,147
bushels. Iu a like part of 1889, the aggregate
was 19,720,560 bushels, and in 1888 it was 21,
807.597 bushels Exports of Indian corn were
659,608 bushels this week, against 800,000 bush
els last week.
Business failures reported to Brrdstreel'$
number 141 in the United States this week,
against 134 last week and 143 this week lat
year. Canada had 25 this week, against 36
last week. The total number of failures in the
United States January lj to date, is 6,938
ngainrt 7,746 in a like portion of 1889.
END OP AFAMOUS FEUD.
The Hatllelds and JUeCoya Said to Have
Agreed to Live In Peace...
. The Hatfield-McCoy feud is at an end. Af
ter partaking in the butchery of all the men
they could kill, after living as outlaws with
prices on their heads, defying arrest and
courting meetings with their enemies, after
seeing their young men shot down and their
old ones murdered, each side has at last agreed
on peace.
Two men wers seen on the streets in Hun
tington, W. Va, conversing together in a
friendly manner. One was a brother-in-law
of the old man McCoy, the other a son-in-law
of Anse Hatfield. They said thatby common
consent the feud would be allowed to cease.
Both factions have gone back to work and
are living honest lives. A number of the
members of both factions are still under in
dictment for murder and crimes less grave,
but as they have agreed to live at peace they
will probably not be troubled by these charges.
The feud has been in progress for nearly
twenty years, and in that time at least a score
of the Ilatfields and McCoys have been mur
dered. Only one member of either side has
been legally punished. ; That was "Cap"
Hatfield, who was hanged at Pikevilie, Ken
tucky, some months ago for the murder of
Alfare McCoy, a young girl whom he shot
down as she was trying to escape from her
father's house, which the Ilatfields had set
oa fire.
SHOT DOWN IN COURT.
A Fight Over a Will Leads to the Killing
, of Two Men. . -A
terrible tragedy occurred atHamersville,
Ohio, during the trial of the case tt George
Barngrover vs. Joseph Hiler before Esquire
Vandament Mr. Hiler died some months
Ago, leaving a will in which he devised most
of his property to two of his sons and two
daughters, to the exclusion of other children.
There has been talk of contesting the will,
and much bitterness has been manifested.
This was a Case for damages under an alleged
breach of contract between Joseph Hiier and
Barngrover, who was one of the sons-in-law
of Mr. Hiler. During the trial Constable I. '
N. Allen, another son-in-law, stepped to the
door.wheu a pistol shot was heard. Allen eame
staggering into the room, and fell across a
chair, exclaiming "John Hiler did it" Be
fore the terrorized spectators could realise
what had happened, the murderer was seen
standing in the middle of the crowded court
room, and fired a second shot, which took
effect in the right breast of George Barngrover
passing entirely through his body. The ex
citement was indescribable, the court room be
ing crowded with men and women. As Hiler
rushed from the court-room into the darkness
he was heard to remark! I have loads for
two more men." It la understood that he
meant by that remark John Hiler, Jr., a
cousin of the murderer, and aa important
witness in the case, and Attorney "W. F. Me
Betb.who has charge of tliftaae tor the plain
til!: The town i swrooaed'antl is searching
f'.-r t'e; nnjnirrer. wbo h . nt large.
CABLE SPARKS.
Ten thousand of the Belgian strikers have
resumed work in the mines.
Turkish soldiers have expelled the Fran
ciscan priests from Jerusalem.
' AT Borystav, Galicia, eighty men were
suflocated by an explosion in a mine.
' As express train was wrecked near Calais,
France, and four persons were killed.
The King of Portugal drank polluted water,
and as a result he has an attack of typhoid
fever.
' A MOVEMENT is on foot in England for the
erection of a monument to the late Cardinal
Newman. :
IN the programme of the German socialists
is included a demand that women should be
'allowed to vote.
M. Alexander Chatrianthe, the French
novelist who wrote over the nom-de-plume of
"Chatrian," in dead.
Several persons were killed at Arrenes,
department of Creuse, France by the wreck
ing of a railroad train.
The condition of the potato crop in Lime
rick, Waterford and Cork counties, Ireland, is
reported as deplorable.
The British Trades Unions Congress de.
clared in favor of a working day of eight
hours made compulsory by Parliament.
The governor of the Trans-Caspian terri
tories has ordered several Jews to settle their
affairs and quit the country within a month.
The French army used smokeless powder
at the army maneuvers in the north of the
country last week and the smoke was nearly
invisible.
The presidentbf the British Trades Unions
Congress believes that the time has arrived
for British workmen to secure a working day
of eight hours. K '
M. RocnEFORT and M. Thiebaud went to a
town near Ghent, to fight a duel, but were
prevented by a party ot gendarmes who ap
peared on the scene.
M. Laguerre, the well-known Boulangist
tnd member pf the French Chamber of I)epu
ties, says the Duchess d'Uses spent three
millions of francs, to advance the cause of
Gen. Boulanger. -
IT is semi-officially announced in Berlin
that the reports from St Petersburg that cool
ness arose between the Czar and Emperor
William during the latter's recent visit to
Iiussia are completely baseless.
Owing to the dispute with Italy regarding
the formalities that were to be observed at
Spezzia on the occasion of the visit of King
Humbert, France has countermanded the
order Bending a squadron to that place.
The Patriarch of Armenia has agreed to
withdraw his resignation and continue at his
post pending the fulfillment of the Sultan of
Turkey's promises that the privileges of the
Armenian Church will be restored and the
condition of the Armenians in Asia Minor
improved.
Dr. Peters, the African traveller, in a
speech at a banquet given a his honor in
Munich said that he had been authorized by
Emiu Pasha to state that one of the reasons,
the latter left adelia was because Stanley,
the explorer, threatened to use force.
. Lord Sackville. as lord of the manor of
Stratford-ou-Avon, in which is situated the
town in England where Shakespeare was born,
has presented to the town authorities a claim
for rent for the ground on which is located the
fountain and clock tower donated by George
W. Childs, of Philadelphia.
WORK ANDW0RKERS.
One thousand union men at the Standard
Coke Works at Scottdale, Pennsylvania, are
on strike.
A number of secret socialistic societies are
being formed in Scottdale and other Pennsyl
vania towns.,
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company has under consideration a request
from the conductors for an advance in wages.
The rug weavers at the Merino Woollen
Mills in Bethlehem, Penna., have accepted
the 23 per cent reduction in wages and have
returned to work. '
A telegram from Panama says that the
Pauama Railroad Company has agreed to pay
its laborers the former rate of wages. The
strikers have returned to work.
One hundred shop "employes of the Pitts
burg, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, at
Logansport, Indiana, were discharged a few
days ago. Dulness of business, caused by the
strike in the East, was assigned as the cause.
The National Potters' Convention, at their
recent session in Trenton, New Jersey, decided
not to leave the Knights of Labor, but to
strengthen the Order iu the West among the
potters by placing a permanent organizer in
the Western States.
A despatch from St. Lonissnys that the coal
miners in the Bellville District have gone on
strike for two cents a bushel for digging coal.
Six mining companies are affected. The
ruling price in the district has heretofore
been U cents a bushel. ,
The broom gutters in Coles and Douglass
counties, Illinois, have gone on strike for an
increase of 23 cents a day in their wages.
They have been getting $t per day. As the
growers must save their crops, it is thought
the demand will be granted.
Asaresultof conferences between the brick
layers and carpenters in Chicago, the former
have agreed to demand of the Master Builders'
Association a settlement of the carpenters' ;
strike by arbitration. Should this be refused
a general strike in the building trades there
is not improbable. This would directly in- 1
volve 25,000 workmen.
The law creating the New York Board of
Mediation and Arbitration provides for the
appointment of the members for a term of
three years. The present members were ap
pointed May 20, 1S87, and their term of oifiee
expired May 20. last. No provision is made
in the law for these members to continue in
office, nor is any provision made for the ap
pointment of successors.
Two hundred weavers on corded cotton
flannel in the mills at Slaterville, Rhode
Island, are on strike. They receive 63 cents
a cut and ask 70 cents. They say they make
bout $6 a week, and that on similar work
ather weavers earn ti). The Superintendent
has refused to make any concessions, 800
employes arc affected by the strike.
According to a telegram from San Antonio,
Texas, tho contest between the Southern
Pacifio Railway and its Brotherhood engineers
has become a dispute between the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers i and the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The
cause lies in the fact that Ritchie whose
uppointment as engineer, of a, passenger train
was objected to by the Brothereood of Engi
neers, is a member of tho Brotherhood of Fire
men, and the latter propose to stand by him,
and, if necessary, prevent the engineers from
tying up the road. i
. na
Ittk puko ot rile started lift with nn
enormous fortune, to which he has steadily
added. Everything that he touches seoniK (.
turn to gold. Stock in a niidon '1 rust ( Nun.
?any purchased by him some yrnrs ni'o it t
150 a share is now quoted ut $L3,t.K.! a Mia re.
Co M MISS TON KK 1! A (' M
medium weight, keeii-l .i ku'
the top of hU head. ILul
wins hers,
" of
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. . ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Mr- Powderly dresses neatly in blac
and his linen is always clean and spotles ...
His head is bald and he wears gold-nmmta
spectacles. :
James O. niLL, president of the Grent
Northern Railway, has given $10,000 to h&z
alester College, an institution under A res jy
tcrian auspices.
Ella Chamberlain, aSwampcott,Mas.,
beauty has developed a talent for whist. ing,
and will go abroad to contend for court honot
with Mrs. Shaw. .
IN addition to the profits from his book.
Archibald C Gunter is reaping a harvest m
the royalties of his plays, of which he now has
tnree beiore the puDiic.
The
peerage ;
65 years
inches in his stockings.
Dhvleep Singh used to hop-nob with ad
vocates of physical force in Ireland, and wns
once mentioued as a possible candidate for
Parliament in an Irish constituency.?
Miss Hattik Blaine, the youngest and
prettiest daughter of the Secretary, is an in
trepid canoeist, and her skill as displayed at
Bar Harbor is admired by many spectators.
Captain James Bend, who saved th
lives of 298 persons, wrecked off Long Bencn
on the ship "State of Georgia," in December,
1852, still lives at the age of 90 near Beach
Haven, N. J. , .
Rudyard Kipling isnowsaid to be Hen ry
G. Bruce, the son of a missionary to India,
and a graduate of the Harvard class of Si
Mr. Bruce is now in Duxbury, Mass., for a
brief holiday. ' s . -
Dr. Norvin Gre en, the head of the - Vv est.
em Union Telegraph Company, isaKentuik
ian of giant fame, nearly 73 years of age-He
waa a practicing physician in the early dajs
of his career. - . "i." -
Miss Garner, a cousin of Lady Vernoji
Harconrt, and an American heiress, is en
gaged to marry Sir William Gordon-Cimi-iniiig,
a colonel in the Scots Guards and a
handsome man besides.
iJacob Seuoman, of Michigan is the
smallest millionaire in the country, being
scarcely four feet high. He came from Ger
many when a boy and went to Michigan
twenty years ago without a dollar. His for
tune is now estimated at $15,000,000.
Governor McKinney, of Virginia, sayi
that it is not at all necessary for a public
man to drink, as is often asserted. It has bee s
his invariable praotice to decline all "treats"
in his political campaigns, aud he believes
that instead of losing he has gained votes ly
his abstinence. .
TliK Pope has been ordered to drink beef
instead of wine, and aquantity of bottles hay
been ordered from Vienna. It seems that tho
Pope a beer is to be prepared differently frm '
the ordinary German beer. The Austrian ,
are reported to be in high glee at the hon-r
of thus providing for the Pope's table.
The wife of M.Arthur Dillon, of Bonlan
1st fame, has been unable to obtain permis
sion to visit the Island of Bcbcr, on tho
Brittany coast, which belongs to her husband,
but upon which an embargo has been laid y
the decision of the High Court of the Senate
in the Dillon, Rochefort, and Boulanger case
M. aud Mme. Dillon will shortly leave lot
Canada One of their sons is in garrison at
Valence, while the other is finishing his stud
ies with the Jesuits at Canterbury.
WORLD'S FAIR SITES. ,
Jackaon Park and the Lake Front fe
- lected.
Tho directors of the World's Fair, at a
meeting reaffirmed thei choice of soma
months ago, and selected the dual site of the
lake front and Jackson Park as the place for
locating the great exposition. The lake front
is a long grass-covered common on the edge
of Lake Michigan, and bordering the business
center of Chicago. It contains at present
about ninety acres. It is the design to place
thereon the grand entrance to the exposition
and the buildings for the fine arts and kin
dred displays. Jackson Park is also on the
lake shore, about five miles from the court
house, and is to have the agricultural, live
stock and other exhibits of that nature, be
sides others of general interest. Over five
hundred acres are available in Jackson Park
and the approaches thereto, which were re
cently added to the original tender. The two
sites are to be so connected by rail and waW
accommodations that but a few minutes will
be spent in passing from one locality to an
other. - . '
The final and decisive ballot on the site
question resulted: Lake front and Jackon
Park, 23; North side, 4; West side. 8. The
choice of the duul site was then made unani-
A DUEL TO THE DEATH.
Fatal Saloon Quarrel in Birmingham
lie Had Pistols for Two.
A sensational duel to the death was fought
in a saloon in Birmingham, Ala. The princi
cipals were Thomas ll. Bennett, warden of
the city prison and a local politician of note,
and Will Hardeman, a locomotive engineer.
Bennett was shot four times and killed, ani
Hardeman received a bad wound in the groin.
The men had a difficulty some time n?o
about a woman, and, meeting in the saloon it
was renewed. Eye witnesses say Bennet tol l
Hardeman to come on and fight U out tb.fi
and there, at the same time drawing a piiv!.
Hardeman answered that be was not arme '.
Bennett drew another pistol and handed it t
Hardeman. . "
Then the shooting commenced, and eight cr
ten shots were fired. Bennett sank to the t' 1 c
with four bullets in his body and died ina few
minutes.
Hardeman was arrested. Bennett camel .
eight years ago from Cincinnati. He hasbee.n
a prominent leader in all labor and politu- 1
movement, and was president of a Dernrerflf4j
club which bore bis name. j ; X,
AN AWFUL SPECTACLE. "
The Body of a Man Fun ml Hanging
. - ' Tree. .- . '
A stock man from Fort nancock, Texai,
states that the body of a young man was found
hanging to a tree on the bank of Old Bio
Grande bed, near Fort Hancock.
The eyeballs of the dead man had rolled
from their sockets, bursted and dried up. The
tongue also hung out, dried and parched. Tli
hair had fallen from the head and lo.eJ
upon the shoulders. His feet touched the
ground sufficiently to cause a slight bendiujf
of the knees. The body is to all appearance
that ofayontSg white man, five feet eight
inches in height. The clothes arc of coarse
material and show but little wear.
The indications are that the body been
there two or three weeks. Ah nt tmit time a
young mancorrespoudiiigidenti(':itir with tint
description ot tin body, was .en -to ti"
through this town on foot, and while here hfl
purchased a piece of rope ahmt 12 or K f',''t
long. The body has been left os found awiit
ins: the arrivsil of the eorout r from Sierra
Biaua, whieh iitVi'stujntion may di&eluse h
most gigantic member of the British
is the Marquis 01 .urogueun, "
ofaee. and who stands six iccv