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'F.OK GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
C. V. Aubbon, Businkbb Mahagkb.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1890.
NO. 23.
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.f THE NEWa : - -
Irs. Mary Rantiahn, of Leavenworth, Ks.,
has confessed thnt she and Charles IlcnRon
had planned and carried out the murder of
her mot1hcr. :-Ten men were blown to atoms
by an explosion in the Rosario (Cal.) gold
mines. Th Supreme Court of Ihdiana has
decided that the provisions Jn the Australian
election law requiring ninety day's residence
live county, and that voters- must ' be tax
payers, are 'unconstitutional. A highway-
nan in Anderson, Ind., committed four rob
beries the same evening and got away.---The
Academy of Mu ic bi Pittsburg was par
tially destroyed by fire.- -At Tecumseh, Ala.,
a man named Dandy killed his wife and bra
tally bent his daughters, one of whom will
3ie. Near Waynesboro', Ga., Homer Glis
on killed Tom Joyner. In Warthen, Ga.,
Jy Thomas Tanton was assassinated. -The
commission appointed :by the legislature to
make a survey will ak the. state of Pennsyl
vania to complete the ship canal. Mary
and Kliga McGunfgle were murdered near
Cumberland, Out. Narcisse Laroeque is
charged with the, crime. r-Philip Flaherty,
iged eleven years, committed suicide in Phila:
"dulphia. r-Companies are being organized
to open up enormous coke fields in the vicin
ity of Fairmont, W, Va. It is now thought
that the war in paswnger : rates in the West
may soon spread to the Eastern roads. The
new cruiser Newark made her initial trip on
the Delaware. -In the Mohonk conference
the Separation' of church and state in work of
educating the Indian was advocated,-
Washington Hitler, the clerk who disappeared
from New York os an emBezzler, was ar
rested in Texas audita Wn back for trial.
I'oumlvr's Day, in commemoration of Asa
Packer, was celebrated at the Lehigh Univer
sity! fin the annual session of the Amcri
:au Missionary Board, Chairman Walker, of
the principal committee,' stated that there
were many churches not in sympathy with the
board, and that the present system of examin
ing candidates should be modified.
James Atkins, a lawyer and Republican
politician of Savannah, Ga., was found dead
from heart disease in his office. -Jano Ka-
. 5ndo, a Hungarian, was arrested in Perth
"Amboy, N. J., charged with complicity in the
murder of JosepnHepner, a boarding-house
boss in Bucks county, Pa. The finding of
gold la' Northern Ontario has caused great
exoiteutent among the Canadians. Nathan
Willet, a farmer near Norfolk, Cal., has been
arrested charged with murdering H.B.Wood
ward, in Anderson county, Texas, seventeen
years ago. -Wm. Sprague, Jr., the only son
of ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island,
committed suicide at Seattle, Washington.
-The books of ex-City Treasurer Fitz
patrick, of Terre Haute, Ind., show a shortage
of $15,522 for his two terms in office, most of
the money having becu lost in politics.
Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, has de
cided that the law does not permit the express
companies to act as agents for the lotteries in
that State. J. C, Forsythe, secretary of the
Norm audale Lumber Company at Macon,
Ga,, was shot ami killed by an unknown
assassin.- The eighth annual Indian con
ference opened at Lake Mohouk. The
eighty-first annual meeting of the American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions
opened at Minneapolis. Michah V. Norton,
Of Skowhegan, Mo, was sentenced to state
prison for life fortius murder of Mrs. Anna
Collcy'his housekeeper, By the explosion
' of boilers in a sawmill in Muskegon, Mich.,
the mill was demolished and six men hurt.
. A three-year-old son of Mrs. James Duffin,
' of South, Bethlehem, Pa., was choked to death
on a grain of coffee.-? II. B. Oliver, a news
gent, in a quarrel with J. R. Blanton over a
seat on a train between Roanoke and Lynch
burg, shot tlie latter. C S. Ball and Bros.'
wire mattress factory, in Harrisbuig, Pa., was
destroyed' .by lire. Loss,' $6,000.- Paulino
Hall, tU actress, hides her diamonds in her
stockings. and. other garments over night in
her dressing-room. Tuesday night the dresf,
in the sleeve of which was Becreted her jewels,
was 'stolen from the theatre, but was found in
a pawn shop ih Philadelphia.
'Diphtheria is doing its terrible work in
, several Delaware families.- Mr. N. Atkins
:ahi& wife. at Aulauder, N. C, were mur
dered by th'eves. Ground was broken in
Chicago for the Newfierry Library Building.
.Mrs,Ada'Richnrd&on obtained a verdict
of $20,000. damages from a New York jury
for the alienation of her husband's affections.
Religious conventions will bo held at
Washington The Maryland Synod of the
Lutheran Church will be in session, the Na
tional Catholic Young Men's Societies will
meet in convention and the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society will also assemble. The
, harborof Oswego, N. Y., is full of barley
laden vessels from Canada. Ed Stacy, a
. de'perado was shot a-id killed by E. A.
. Da vidsW,' in M nllen, Idaho.- Gold in large
quantities was found in the Arhiicklc Monn-tain.-r
At a farm near Candor, Pa., Mrs.
. Landshaw used. iiit,ro-glycerine lor Carbon,
oil, and blew.up the house. -BurchaJJ, the
' mdrderer of Ben well, has partly admitted his
erime.s-Attrtchnieuts have been issued by
creditors against the Eureka Silk Manufac
turing f Company, of Chicago. Ainos Bills,
the murderer of George Boots, has been cap
tured near Lancaster, Pa. 1 Cottle thieves
have been working the Cherokee strip.-
John W. Foster was arrested at Leavenworth,
Kansas, on a charge of counterfeiting. Ed
ward T. Martin, a business man of Birming
ham, Ala., was si otand sei u j w umded by
a woman calling herself 5lr. Clarence O.
jr, nin, Cadet MeCounico, of tho Virginia
Military li'tstitcte, who struck Cndet Talia
ferro a fatal blow in a fistic encounter, was
discharged, fhe grand jury failing to find a
tn c bijl against him. Captain Cannon, ol
the famous Ffambepu CJubof Kansas City,
lias been- arreMed on the charge of cutting
down with his word a spectator at one of
the parades of the club.
Luiz ik DF.siiNDO, a Rio June ro Jeweler,
bss bouitht from Dom Pedro for iOJ,uuO the
Jewels of the deceased Empress
BOBB BURROWS KILLED.
The Desperado Shot While Trying
. to Escape.
. . .i i- i : ' ir "
A Counterfeiter, a Murderer itnd Moon
shiner A Career of Crime that Ter
rorlted tike Bonthcm People.
Rube Burrows was shot and killed in the
Linden, (Ala,,) jail the other morning by the
sheriff and guards. At night Burrows was
placed inside the sheriff's office in the tail
under the guard of McDuffee, one of' his
captors, and a negro named Carter. The
other captor was at the hotel with the money
found on Burrows. The outlaw's hands and
feet were tied.
Burrows complained of hunger, McDuffee
answered that he had nothing to eat. A pair
of saddlebags, taken from the prisoner, were
lying in the corner; of the room. "I have
some crackers in my saddlebag, if you will
hand them to me," s tid the outlaw. i
McDuffee did so without opening them.
Burrows instead of the crackers drew forth a
pair of pistols and covering MuDuH'eeand the
negro, ordered them to untie him, wljich they
did, and keeping them in front of him, he
walked out the Iront. door. He then asked
for his money, and started to the hotel to re
cover it of Carter who had it. The men
opened fire and Burrows was killed, while
Carter received nn ugly wound in the breast.
Rube Burrows' life furnishes an exciting
piece of criminal history. Ho was born in
North Alabama about the beginning of the
war of the rebellion, and is about twenty-nine
years old.
His first crime was committed when he was
nineteen years old. A companion and he were
out hunting one day. when u dispute arose
over some trifle; and Burrows killed him.
There were no witnesses to the killing and
Burrows claimed that he did it in self defense,
and was released.
Vernon, Ala., is his home. It is a villago
situated away up in the mountains of North
Alabama, remote from civilization. The in
habitants of the vicinity are a set of lawless
and reckless people.
Along in 1883, when Burrows was a mere
youth, ne organized a band of thieves. JIo
was their captain. They made whiskey and
sold it to the farmers up in his neighborhood.
They had spies out around , the still, and
whenever a stranger appeared he had to givo
a very clear account of himself. One or two
deputy marshals have been left over there in
their efforts to break up the gang.
Burrows, it is said, tried counterfeiting
money, but was unsuccessful, and gave it up.
His next escapade occurred near Pi tic Bluff,
Ark , three years ago. He, his brother, Jim
Burrows, and Niek Thornton robbed an ex
press car ot $2U,00. Jim Burrows was cap
tured, prosecuted in the Arkansas courts, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty yenrs.
Alter that bobbery Rube and Nick Thornton
concealed tuemselves in a little hut in the,
mountains near Vernon. If they were sus
pected of .being the robbers, 110 officer was
ever brave enough to beard these two des
peradoes in their den. '
After a while they camo out from their fort
and resumed making whiskey, and it is said
that they were experts at the business. They
matle money by their illegal work, and their
families and sweethearts lived in the height
of mouutain style. -
On the night ol December 13th last, as the
north-bound Illinois Central express train
No. 2 was pulling out from Duck Hill, nsmall
station midway between New Orleans and St.
Louis, the engineer was ordered to stop his
train two hundred yards north of the station.
He obeyed, and a man jumping from the, en
gine, with the engineer and fireman in front,
with hands up, marched to the door of the ex
press car ami demanded admittance. The
express messenger, in his fright, responded to
the robber's request to help him in the car.
The conductor, P. li. Wilkinson, stepping on
the outside to see the cause of the halt, was
commanded by, another robber," who, up to
that time, had been unobserved, to return to
his car. Wilkinson appealed to the passen
gers for aid in driving the robbers away, but,,
instead, they all crowded under their seats,
with the exception of a young man, Chester
Hughes, who borrowed a Winchester, and
went out to hel p the conductor. Hughes was
shot down and died a few minutes afterward.
Wilkinson had exhausted his cartridges and
returned inside.
Meantime, the robber in the express car
proceeded to business, and while filling his
pouch with valuables, whistled some lively
country tune. Thirty-five thousand dollars
was the amount the robbers got U-
The country soon swarmed with detectives
and sheriff's posses, so daring was the deed,
and as. one of the robbers resembled the no
torious Captain Bunch, the crime was at once
charged to him, but even he was not captured,
and they afterward found that they were on
the wrong scent.
In July, 1880, Burrows ordered masks from
a Chicago firm under, an alias. He directed
them to be sent by mail to Jewell, a Postotlice
near Vernon. Nick Thornton went alter them,
but as they were registered the Postmaster
refused to deliver them to any other than the
party to whom they were addressed. Bur
rows then came. lie met, with the same re
fusal. Old man Gardener, the Postmaster,
became angry at Burrows'threatsand ordered
him away. Burrows killed him, Somewomen
who were near rushed in as soon as they heard
the shooting. He tipped his hat to them as
they entered the door, and selecting the. best
looking one in the crowd, threw his arms
around her neck and implanted. a very heavy
smack on her lips. He then quietly walked
to his horse, tipped his hat agatu and galloped
away. " ' .
Burrows and Thornton then left the coun
try lor a short time, but soon returned. Tn nn
attempt to arrest them shortly afterward an
officer was shot down.but recovered. They
kept hiding around after that until a few
weeks ago ndeteetive happened along in that'
country. . He cnught Jiitle Johnnie. Burrows,
a nephew of Ktibe, and he gave the whole
snap about tho Duck Hill robbery away, tell
ing nil about how the outlaws left home and
how they returned. ;
The rihbn heard of thjiKamt tbe-y again
left. Noonekncw where they liadgdne. Since,
that time many ffforts have been made to cap-,
ture Burrows,ybut no oflicer Juts succeeded in ,
laying bauds on him unlil .now. , A sheriff s,
posse nad several desperate fights with him iti
Blunt county, in October, lX8y and in one of
them James Deleno whs killed.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Fearful VUanter in n Cnllforta Gold
Mln Ten Men ISlown to Atom.
News has been received from Rosnriii gold
mine, 0 miles inland from Muzcthuf, ut n
tcrriflio explosion which occurred there.
An American i named McCioe,- who en me
from Napa, Cala., was working with nine
Mexicans in a 50-foot level near themnenximv
which containe I several hundred pounds of
dynamites This exploded in some way, and
the ten men were blown to atoms.
. Mrs. Zerelda G. W tUlaeo mot hr of ten
eralLew Wallace, although now in her 7't!i
year, is said to be s briirlit nndfrchm if Si
years youiu:i'r. She Itos jnm 'been b-eturuig
in Kaiian (it v, lnd ire the Womitn's t'liristmn
Temperance I'ni'ni !! "Woumiu'k I'oMtii'u,
Social, Civil uti' IUdv..Moo, irom u !
Kt.'.Ipoait."
E0UTHERN ITEMS.
IXTKUESTIXO NEWS COHIML.ED
FUO.U MANV SOUltqEi.
-Buena Vista, V., is organizing a fire de
partment. The Presbyterians will erect a church to
co!.t 15,W0 at Bue;ia Vista, Va.
A Northern syndicate has contracted for
the construction of astreet railway in Wythe
viie, Va.
The American Society of Mechanical En
gineers will be in session in Richmond, Va.,
trom November li to 14.
Lewis Ball, a well-known citizen of Nelson
County, Va., shot himself to death with a
double-l.arreled shot gun.
--The secretary of the North Carolina state
farmers' alliance reports a gain of nearly lour
hundred sub-alliances since January last.
A rrangements have been perfected for an
electric street car system in Durham, N. C,
togo into operation about the firatof January
next.
Joseph Clements, aged 26 years, while re
pairin roof at New Orleans came in contact
with .a electric wire and was instantly
killed.
The water works at Wnrrenton, Va., have
been completed and tested, proving a com
plete siicuitix, the supply being ample for all
demands.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has
awarded a contract for the erection of a
handsome passenger and freight depot at
Basic City, Va. s .
Thomas Roman, of Bloomingtou, Md., a
Baltimore and Ohio fireman, lell from his
engine at Piedmont, V. Va., having both feet
terribly mangled.
A beautiful gold horse-shoe is offered by
Stewart, and Wutson, of Philadelphia, for the
best horse .raised in North Carolina on exhibi
tion at the state fair, f
The large grist mill and box factory or J.
H. Walker, at Reidsville, N. C, was totally
destroyed by fire. . The loss is estimated at
43,0(jo, and the insurance $2.1,000.
It has been settled that tho college for the
colored people of the state will be located at
Lynchburg, Va., and the site has been selected.
The building to be erected will cost about
&K),0tW.
-The ladies in charge of the Confederate
Veterans' Fair enterprise, at Danville, Va.,
have issued a circular announcing that the
fair will begin November 11, to continue for
feeveral daya.
A piece of the pole on which floated the flag
on the capitol tit Richmond, Va., duriiig the
sessions of the confederate congress has heen
placed among the Curiosities in the State
library in Raieigh, N. C ( i ,t
Col. M. B. Hardin, formerly professor of
chemistry at the Virginia Military Institute,
has been elected chief professor ot chemistry
of the "CleiHson Agricultural College," of
Pendleton, South Carolina.
The North Carolina fuudfor the purpose of
placing headstones at the graves of confeder
ate soldiers in the cemetery at Fredericksburg,
Va., is daily increasing, and the necessary
amount wilt soon be raised. 1
There is a movement on foot in Richmond,
Va., to bridge Broad street for a distance of
nine squares, to do away with the steep hill
which has to be climbed in that portion of the
city, the cost of which will be about $500,000.
Col. Frank G. Ruffln, second auditor of the
State, announces that of the a7,OU0.000 of
Virginia securities outstanding $21,000,000
have been pooled under the Olcott plan, and
he thinks t ne re will be $2,000,000 more by tue
cud of the mouth. ,
In Salem, Roanoke county, Va.. in twelve
months, 31S houses of all kinds nave been
built or m the course of erection, including
I'll residences, 68 buildings for stores, offices,
and other building purposes, and 39 for vari
ous manufacturing enterprises.
Lynchburg, Va., is to have a great sham
battle during their fair. FiKeeh ci more mil
itary companies from different sections of the
state intend to participate, their movements
during the engagement being directed by sig
nals Jrom a tower on the grounds.
The new peanut factory to be builtat Smith
field, Isle ot Wight county, Va, will be quite
a large one. Its dimensions will be 6u by
110 leet, four stories high, and equipped with
the very best and latest improved machinery.
Last year the business in peanuts there
ainouuted to over $500,000.
The ladies ot the Memorial association have
taken in hand the proposition to erect a
monument to. the .Nortii Carolina soldiers
killed in the civil war, and the matter will be
vigorously pushed in, the different counties of
the State. It is proposed to locate it on the
Capitol square in Raleigh. ,
The cotton factory at Raleigh, N. C, is
running day and night with a large number
of liniKi, and 'yet the superintendent says it
cannot keep up with the constantly increasing
orders for tpuit yarns. The plant has thus fur
proved a success beyond the highest expecta
tions and another factory is almost certain in
the near future. -Work
is rapidly progressing on the new
rsilroaM- from the Raleigh & Augusta Air
Line to Egypt, in Chatham county, N. C.
There are about two hundred convicts doing
the work ot grading. The road branches out
from the Air line near Sanford and will run
near(the coal mines and brown-stone quarry
of the Fgypt Coal company.
A fire at Fairmount, W. Va, destroyed the
wood-working establishment of U. A. Clay
ton & Co., Ott's blacksmith Woiks, N. O.
Dickerson's residence, and several stables and
othersiuall buildings, aud badly damaged the
icfddenceof A. S. liayden and several other
buildings. The loss will exceed $25,000, about
one-third of which is covered by insurance.
Bears and deer ore very plentiful in the
Dismal Hwamp, Va., and old residents 6ay
they are more numerous than for many years.
It is no unusual thing to see deer drinking
from the canal, and several boatmen have
taken flying shots at them. The bear causes
the Dismal 5 wanip farmer much trouble, play
ing havoc with ids growing corn crop, aud
numerous catches are being made in the bear
traps, which ure scattered through the fields.
The Kanawha Valley is on the verge of
an oil excitement that will probably rival
4 that of any of the other fields in the state of
f uesi Virginia, xor mounts vnrura iivj
Ik ...7.1 ... i. i i i... i..ni,.
have been secured at several places, wells
liave been put down and two of them, located
'.in the Elk River Valley, a short distance
above Charlestown, it is said, have struck oil.
It is understood here that the well at Wiu
field, Putnam county, has come in, and been
plugged up to await piping.
The big Forcpaugh circus, enroute to
Parkeisburg from Cumberland, stopped at
Clarksburg. Va , for two hours to water the
animals,. during which time the showmen en
gaged in fights and rowdyism and took pos
session of the town. Samuel Laughlin, of
Bridgeport, Conu.. and Richard Whitehead,
of Philadelphia, both connected with the
show, got into trouble, when Whitehead drew
a razor aud nearly severed Laughlin's head
from his body. Laughlin cut Whitehead
horribly, but his own wounds were fatr.l.
Whitehead is in a critical condition. . "
President Kimball, of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, it is said, is going to erect
a magnificent triumphal granite tower on the
wet of Woodland Park, in Roanoke, Va., f .r
which purpose the owners have d, -led u s .u.
T; r? ot : -t of ;-.e i ir i to i -.crw
enduring record of the progress of Roanoke
from the struggling little village of Big Lick
with 40) inhabitants in 1880 to the Koanoke
of 1890 with 20,000 inhabitants. The motive
of this gill lies in the close identification ol
the Norfolk and Western Railroad with Roa
noke's growth. -
ABOUT NOTED PE'jai
BOuTANGEB'S mother was an English wo
man. j
. Roger Q. Mills is now "6turaping" In Wis
consin. . ,
Thk Queen of Roumania will visit Queen
Victoria at Balmoral.
Twelve members of the United States
Senate are natives of New York. ,
Hexky Wattersos was originally in
tended for a pianist by his father.
Senator Wade Hampton, in spite of his
cork leg, is an expert horseman.
Madame Modjeska owns one of the larg
est farms in Los Angeles county, Cal.
General Spinner's vision is completely
gone and his general health is extremely pre
carious. Christine Nelson is supposed to have
been Cabanet's model for the famous "Mar
guerite." .
Mr. Bdckxe, the editor of the London
Times, is reputed to receive a salary ot $25,
000 a year, ,
Mme. Michelet, the widow and collabor
ateur of the historian, is preparing a volume
of his travels for the press.
Wilkie Collins' grave in the northern
part ot Kensal Oreen Cemetery is marked by
a neat, farms unadorned marble cross.
J. M. Sourbeeb has purchased the Parsons
(Kan.) Journal, and, notwithstanding his
name, will run it as a Prohibition paper.
Mr. George Meredith has become a con
vert to vegetarianism and intends, it is said,
to write a novel in support ot this theory or
living.
THE Duchess d'Uzes, who furnished Bon
langer with his money, is the owner of the
Veuve Cliquot champagne business which
she inherited from her mother.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has received $2319,
her half of a royalty on the two months' sale
of the memorial volume of her husband, pre
pared by iriends for her benefit.
Henry Francis Moore, of Medford,
Mass., is said to be the original of Longfel
low's "Village Blacksmith," and the idea is
supported by circumstantial evidence.
Colonel John Benton and N. M. John
sou, respectively Democratic and Republican
candidates for Congress in North Dakota, will
jointly discuss the tariff throughout the cam
paign. .
Captain James BEND,who saved the lives
of 21W persons wrecked off Long Branch oa
the ship State of Georgia in December, 1852,
still lives ut the age of ninety near Beach
Haven, N. J.
General Barrundia's married daughter
will shortly visit the United States to consult
with the President concerning her father's
murder. She is now with her mother at
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mackenzie, the well-known chess player,
who went to England against the advice, of
his friends to take part in the international
tournament, is reported to be dying of con
sumption in Manchester.
Ex-Congressman John Turner Wait,
of .Norwich, Conu., who no one would take to
be eighty years old, though he is, has just
presented Trinity College, Uarttord, with
uearly a thousand volumes.
MR. Stanley will deliver his first lecture
in New York in the Metropolitan Opera House
on November 11th. The subject will be the
"Rescue of Emin, the Forests, the Pigmies,
aud the Marcn Across Africa."
Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Dr.Tal
mage, preaches to the largest audiences in
Brooklyn,-was a sailor boy. It was in that
capacity that he first arrived in San Francisco,
wnere he remained some time, aud then went
to Boston to study lor the ministry.
Russell Sage, in a recent interview, said
Jay Gould's income from dividends is $2,000,
UOu a year, and from other sources $10,000,000
to $12,000,000 a year. Mr. Gould claims to
make an average iucome of 6 per cent, off his
investments.
The Maharajah Dhulecp Sing, who has re
cently been pardoned by tne British Govern
ment, and permitted to return to England, is
passionately fond of shooting, a form of sport
in which he has hardly any superiors, and but
very few equals. An odd tact is that he shoots
sitting dowu, and in the old days in Norfolk
it used to be an am using sight to see thisdusky
little gentleman squatting on a matting and
whirling around as if on a pivot as he shot
with unerring aim all over the place.
Prince Bismarck has a strong superstition
concerning the number 3. The arms of his
lamily bear over the motto. "In trinitate
robur," three trefoil leaves and three oak
leaves; ail caricatures of him represent him
with three hairs on his head; he has three
children Herbert, Wilhelm and Marie; he
has three estates Friedrichsruhe.Varzin and
Schonhausen; he has fought in three wars
and signed three treaties of peace; he ar
ranged the meeting of the three cmperorsand
established the Triple Alliance. Finally, he
has under him three political parties the
Conservatives, the National Liberals and the
U Itratnontanes and he has served three Ger
man emperors.
MARKETb.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, eutra.$5.10
$5.25. Wheat Southern Fult, !Ja98i
Corn Southern Wrhite, 6456"c, Yellow,
6758c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
424(a)43c. Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania
74 7Gc. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
10'00$U.00. Straw Wheat, 7.00$7.5O.
Butter Eaitern Creamery, 222Sc., near-by
receipts 13(14c. Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 10 Uc Western,89ic; Eggs 20
2lc. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, l$l0, Good
Common, 4$5.00, Middling, 6(a$8.00, Good
to fine red, 9$ll.0O. Fancy 1213.00.
NEW York Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, 4.00$3.75. Wheat No. 1 Whit
l,001.00ic. Rye-State 5860c. Corn-Southern
Yellow. 65551c. Oats White, Stato
4550c. Butter State, 12(2$ 19c. Cheese
State, 6Slc. Eggs 2H$22c
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.50$5.00. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red,1.001.00ic. Rye-Pennsylvania,
5657c. Corn Southern Yellow, 52S(3
63ic. Oats 41(g)43e. Butter State, 2320c
Cheese New York Factory, 10 10c. Eggs
State, 2222Je.
CATTLE.
B a lti more Beef-4.2fi $4.50. Sheep
3.50W$5.00. Hogs 40(Tii$4.70.
New York Beef 6kWo)$7.00. Sheep
4.00$5.25. Hogs-4.20$5.O0.
Eari Liberty Beef 4.40($$4.70. Sheep
100660.20. Hons 4.90ta$5.00.
VTi A.SART0RI8, England, and uncle ot
Nellie Grant Sarforis, has been making a
quiet tour of the West with a vie w of making
um iuvoetmentft. It la his first visit to
America, and he expresses himself as being
much surprised at the great mineral wealth
and natural advantages ot the West.
.;-V' . ' r 'SO- T 'vi
Dr. Von Ftkphfn, Secretary of Slate for
posts unit Telegraphs, in Germany.is going to
iu O.i'i cuitry to fctudy cur postal and ul-
i'rni U sytlervss.
Phenomenal Activity Displayed in all
Lines of Commerce.
Bank Clearing Active and n Falling Off
' In Fatlarea Reported Iron : Market
Sustained and money Easy.
Special telegrams to Bradstr eel's report a
very general and seasonable activity in the
distribution of staple goods. At several points
the volume of September business is in excess
of that for September, 1889. Rains have con
tin n,o J to affect the cotton crop, but the wine
and raisin yields in California, instead of
being short, it is now reported, will equal
expectations. Hides are dull.ajyifend lower
in price pfter recent activity Provisions
have been a shade lower. , '
Dry goods have been in fair demand East,
although the movement is quieter. Spring
wear cotton and wool dress goods are more
largely sold ahead than in previous year.
Clothing woolens are improved in tone and in
better demand. Price steadiness is a feature.
Special offers by jobbers are mor numerous.
Wool is in moderate manufacturing demand
and very- firm. Recent advances have been
well held and some lines, notably combing
wool, are still further advanced. Spot cotton
is unchanged. Speculation is fairly active.
Reports to Bradslreet's of mercantile fail
ures throughout the United State during
nine months of the current year show a total
of 7538 against 8333 in the first nine months of
1889. Tho aggregate liabilities of failing
traders are $92,541,950, against $101,755,518,
and actual assets $44,450,712, against $50,751,
994 in the first nine months of 1889.
i September bank clearings reflect an in
crease in activity in all the centres over the
preceding month. Stock speculation at New
York. Sub-Treasury transactions, and free
crop movement West and South, have been
factors in enlarging aggregate transactions.
Compared with 1889, the grain is the largest,
except in May, of any month in the year.
Total clearings at fifty-three cities for Sep
tember equal $4,994,220,382, a gain over last
year of 16.7 per cent. Tne nin e mon t hs cl ear
ings at all cities aggregate 43,856,658,487, a
gain of 9.2 per cent, over 1889.
Available stocks of wheat increased only
4,115,042 bushels during September, east of
the Rocky Mountains, in the United States
and Canada, as compared with an increase
of 5,874,358 bushels in September, 1889, and
13,230,844 bushels in September, 1SSS. Stocks
available October 1, 1880, were not materially
larger than on July 1, last, while in 1889 they
were 6,359,965 bushels larger on October 1
than on July 1, and in 1888 they were 4,698,
215 bushels larger.
; Exports of wheat, both coa ts, this week,
and of flour as wheat, show some increase,
and the movement is freer from first bands.
Prices are slightly higher. The total of
foreign shipments is 1,593,900 bushels, against
1,155,121 bushels last week (due to heavy
Pacific cost shipments,) and 1,624,493 bushels
in the like week of 1889. The aggregate ex
ported July I to date is 25,760,201 bushels
against 25,839,207 bushels in a like share of
1889, and 33,201.024 bushels in 1888. Exports
ot Indian corn this week equal 876,449 bushels,
against 747,??2 bushels, last week. Other
cereals, except barley, are fluctuating with an
upward tendency. The latter shows a pro
nounced advance, owing to higher duties and
need of a foreign supply. JSradstrecX's cable
from Melbourne, reports available stocks of
wheat in Australia and New Zealand on
October 1, amounting to 4,755,000 bushels,
against 3,365,000 bushels of one year ago.
Sugar is dull, and raws are 1-lb'c lower,
while refined is steady and unchanged.
September consumption was very, large' in
spite of a deficient fruit crop. Low prices for
refined (lo below last year) have aided con
sumption heavily.
Coffee is only in fair demand at unchanged
prices. Case oil is higher, owing, to ithe
advance on tin. Anthracite coal prices have
been advanced and promise to go higher.,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
A LTGTtr sliced of earthquake was felt at
I'ointe de Monto, Quebec. ' - ' '
.A uesfatch from Caithnjrc, Illinois, says
that la grippe has made us.'Je;.ppcnrance
there. ,
Fireman Payne was killed by a collision
of trains on the Cincinnati Southern Iioad,
near Chattanooga. . ,
The boiler of a steam thresher exploded at
Buxt ri, NorthDukota, killing-Osmund Knut
eon and Charles Stertn .- t . , , . .
A boiler exploded in the tile mill in
Deedsville, Indiana, killing Charles Deed,
and dangerously injuring Charles Abbott and
Elijah Shoemaker.
A SPECIAL freight train ran into the rear
of a passenger train on the Southern Pacifio
Road, at Tenino, -Washington. Jacob John
Bon and C. D. Stanberg were killed.
A Despatch from Toronto,- Ohio, sqys that
the works of the Acme Torpedo Company,
on the West Virginia side of the Ohio river,
were blown up. . Ralph SchoefT, an employe,
who was making glycerine, was killed.
A-freight train -on the- Louisville and
Nashville Railroad collided with ' a switch
engine near Warrior. Alabama. M. B.John
son, engineer was killed, and William. Bailey,
Isaac Patterson and R. E. Purtlow were - in
jured. ' . ..
At the country' residence of M. L. Dey ins,
near Des Moines, Iowa, James Devins picked
up a belt containing a revolver to inspect it.
The weapon fell to the floor and exploded.
The ball entered Mrs. John Devins's breast,
causing death almost instantly.
A Builmng in Chicago occupied by 8.,
Franklin A Son, as a picture frame factory,
aud the Mills Railway Gate Company, was
destroyed by fire a few days ago, Causing a
loss of about $10,000 During the progress of
the fire the roof fell, burying a number of
firemen. . .- ... , '
Geo. Mplligan, 18 years of age, climbed
on top of a passenger train at Crestonj" Iowa,
to steel a ride. 'While going. nnder.a bridge
his head struck a rafter an.d.jhe ' w as' killed.
A companion, named Brown'j held--Wto' the
body for many miles , befori tB (rain : was
stopped, and was in a pitiful condition from
fright and exhaustion. - ; ' " ' '
W00LF0LK TO DE HANGED.
Result of the Second Trial of a Mu Yt'ho
. ; Killed Ten People. '.
In the Houston county Superior Court at
Perry, Ga., Thomas G. Wool folk was a second
time sentenced to be hanged on October 29th
for the murder of ten members of hisfathei's
family in' Bibb county in August, 1S87. On
the night of August 7, 18S7, Wool ford took an
axe, and, going from room to room in his
father's house, butchered every one of its in
mates while they slept.' They were his father,
stepmother, three half sisters,: three halt'
brother., one infant in arm and an at;edaunt,
Mrs. West When Hsked what he had to say
why sentence should not be pronounced, Wool
folk said: - . ., " . - . . .
"Nothiii! at all, only I am innocent. I did
notdt if; tuil I would inuch.rniher be in my
grave than surrounded as I am. I'm ready
to receive -my senu-iice."
CABLE SPARKS.
Mb, Joseph Savoms ;has been elected
lord mayor of London.
Jean Baptists Alfhonsk Kakr, the
well-known French author, is dead.
The Russian government is nbtfot to send
an expedition to Mongolia to explore the
desert of Gobi. ... , ,
Herb Von Soden, 'ex-Governor of Cam
eroona, has been appointed Governor of Ger
man East Africa.
Cenf.bal Lord Wolsely, accompanied by
his staff, has gone to Dublin to assume com
mand of the troops in Ireland.
Mr. IlEDLET, of the cutter Isabel, of Ilart
lepoof; England, and his crew were massa
creed in' New Guinea while fishing for pearls.
Seshob Ferrao is now meeting with more
success in his efforts to form a cabinet fur
Portugal, but he will be obliged t exclude
progressists. ... -
The royal physicians declare that there in
no cause ior serious anxiety regarding the
condition of the King of Holland, and that he
will soon te able to resume his duties.
A German lady has been arrested at Cannes,
France, who had in her possession a number
of topographical charts of the fortress and
plans of the other defenses of the town.
It is denied at Lloyds, in Linden, that chol
era has appeared at Aden, but quarantine has
been established at the Frenoh and Algerian
ports against vessels arriving from . Aden.
The Czar of Russia has definitely consented
to act as arbitrator of the question at issue
between France and Holland regarding the
boundary between French Guiana and Dutch
Guiana. - '
The St., Petersburg Novosti publihes a
semi-official denial of the report thnt the llu-'
sian government proposed an alliance with
France when M Spuller was French minister
of foreign affairs. ,
Easton, the insane ma who killed him
self in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, during
the service, left a letter in which he said that
he would commit suicide in the Cathedral in
order to destroy false Christianity, j - '
A decree has been issued authorising tho
issue of 875,000,000 pesetas in Cuban five per '
.cent, mortgage bonds, redeemable in fifty
years, guaranteed by the Cuban customs re
ceipts aiid further guaranteed by Spain. .
The delegates to the miuers' federation of
the French department of Loire, in session at
St Etienne, have decided to inaugn ate a
general strike in October if the men who
were dismissed for taking part iu tne Juno
strike are not reinstated. '
The directors of the London Gaslight and
Coke Company emphatically declined to. Tic
cede to the demand mode by the National
Gasworkers' Union that only union men be
employed in the works. The stokers ricclaru
that they made uo such demand.
The Scotch iron-masters have definitely
refused to accede to the terms demanded by
their men, and the Cumberland iron-worker
promise to support the iron-workers who are
now on strike in Scotland ou condition that
the latter insist upon cightdiour shift. .
The police of the Whitechapel district of
London have received a warning from "Jack,
the Kipper," that he is about to kill another
woman. The hand-writing of the letter is
identical with that of the other letters which
it has b;en the custom of the murderer to send
lo the polico prior to the murder and mutila
tion of 3ome poor creature in Whitelia Del.
; WORK AND WORKERS. -
The New York Central and Hudson Rivet
Railroad Company objects to its employees
being Knights of Labor. 1
The Richland and Nelson miners, at Day
ton, Tennessee, to the number of 1200, are on
a strike against reduction in wages. -
An effort is being made by manufacturers
in Fall River, Mats., to induce the Rhode
Island mill men to join the combination to
stop one week in October, but so far without
success. ,j ; . . I
THE Howard Plate Glass Works at Coch
ran Station, near Pittsburg, have , shut down
on account of a strike. The men, to the num
ber of 200, demanded the reinstatement of
some unionists who have been discharged,
and, being refused, went on a strike.
TwENTY-FIVE Italian immigrants landed
at .New l orK irom tne steamer iurgunaiA,
who were under contract to work in a stone
quarry in East Liberty, Pa. Six other Italians
were under contract to work in Western salt
mines. General O'Beirne, of the Barge office
will make an investigation.
Grand Mabteb Downey, of the Switch,
men's Union, is in Denver, Colorado, to in
vestigate :the grievances of the men in the
Union Pacific yard lockout The Union Pa
cific have a large force of men at work in the
yard, guarded by deputy shcrifl's, aud no seri
ous inconvenience to business has as yet taken
place. . .-
Chief Arthur, of the 'Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, met the officials of tho
.Southern Pacific road in San Francisco, to
ptt.le the prievanee of the engineers on the
Atlantic syste-u regarding promotion. Itwas
decided to settle the matter by arbitration, ana
a committee will meet at Houston, Texas,
some time during this, month.
''"A committee appointed by the Federation
ot Labor called upon President Harrison
and requested . that he Issue a proclama.
tion insisting on the enforcement of the eight
hour law in the Government buildings.' The
President replied that he had referred to the
'Attorney General the matter, which had been
'brought 'to his attention by a former commit-
tee. He had not. yet heard from him. He
expressed himself as favorable to the inler
ests of the working men. and said that be
. would insist on the strict enforcement of th
eicbt-hour law.
MORMONS RENOUNCE POLYGAMY.
Am Important (Step Taken by the Ot'i
eers of the letter lay Saint.
. At the general conference of the Church of
'Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt
Lake, Utah, the official declaration of Prci-
marriages in violation of the laws of the land
was read before an audience numbering 10,
000. -. V
The apostles, bishops and leading elders of
the church, by unanimous vote, recogniz" l
the authority of the President to issue th
manifesto and accepted has authoritaliveand
binding. George Q. Cannon publicly an
nounced his indorsement of the manifesto, and
his recognition of the supremacy of the laws
that had been declared constitutional by the
Supreme Court of the United States. The con
ference also readopted the original articles of
faith, among which is this: "We believe in
being subject to Kings, Presidents, Rulers ai.d
Mauistrates, in obeying, honoring, and up
holding the law."
The action taken places an etTeolual bar
against future polygamous marriages in Utah.
JouN Sakgest, the artist, who 1 es most
of his work in London, is saiu ii b t!e ou'y
American who cau command XlUuU pounds
for painting a portrait.
GEN. ADAM Kino, Consul Generd tT,
Is a striking looking man. II hair i
plenty ami very white; his tuoustai-ne heay
and very black. His cowpk au i'-enh.