North Carolina Newspapers

Published bt Hoanokb Pubu8hino Co. "FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." C. V. Ausboit, Business JIahageii. VOL. II. NO. 25. PLYMOUTH, N.C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1890. THE 'NEWS. - Fire at Norfolk, destroyed the drying kilns of the At'lantiesaw iHli;' 'Loss $15,003.- Fire at Durham, N. C, did $25,000 damage A quarrel over land ncaraWaycross, Ga. used for turpentine purposes, resulted in the total shooting of several men. The flash of , mighty meteor with a report like that of a cannon caused excitement at Claremont, N. IT. W. J. Birch, station master at the Phil- ndelphia, Pa., Depot of the Philadelphia aud Reading Railway, was arrested on a charge of embezzling $2,000 from the company. United States Senator Joseph Blackburn was seriously injured In a driving accident near Versailles, Kyi- Four persons employed in the Quaker City Dye Works, of Philadelphia, xvere poisoned. The mills of the Tampa Lumber Company;' at' Tampa, Fla. were struck by lightning and burned. Loss $30,000. The easterly storm did considerable damage to the 'Jersey-coast summer resorts. EnjiineerGoodale, of Hinton,VA., received fatal injuries in a railroad accident on the Chesakeoke (and Ohio road. 1. Blakely Crcightop, a New, York bauker, committed uicider- "-Michael Brazlll, liring near Chi cago, was murdered and robbed by tramps. Wm. Galow, of Oshkosh, Wis., killed his wife aud himself. George Baker was killed by an explosion in the fulminate department ' ofhero6 HejaUic Cartridge, Company in Bridgeport, Ct.- George Elliot, of Perry, Tetas, murdered Mr. Abb Rico without cause. The First National Bank" of Dur ham, N C, was consumed by lire. O. E. Wilkert, an old man, was robbed and killed at Chicago, and his body put on the railroad tracks. Isaac Weiss, a deserter from the United States Army, shot and killed Mrs. Margaret Mehlin, whom he mistook for his wife, at San Antonio, Texas',' and then killed himself. A remarkable cave has been discovered near Pilot Knob, 111. David Grubb, a farmer living near Granville, 111 was shot and, killed, by Arch Wick, his step- son. Grubb was nialtreafing his wife when shot. Fires are . reported, on the Sioux' reservation. 'Gold-bearing quartz has been discovered in Indian Territory. Natural gas has been discovered near Florence, Ala.' Thomas Bowers, of Wichita, Kansas, tried' to take his life by shooting himself in the left breast. His physicians say he will die. He had been jilted twice. Jerome Sweet was found guilty of murdering his wife at Provi dence, R. I., and sentenced to prison for life. Fire damaged the Davis-Chambers White Lead Works, at Pittsburg, $20,000. Two fire-: men were hurt Property insured. -M. C Beardsley was arrested at Troy, Pa., charged, with operating forDun'sCoromercial Agency,' and obtaining money under false pretenses. Fire destroyed the .Mission Soap and( Candle Works, the Pacific Mattress Factory and other houses' in Ban Francisco. Loss $80,000. Two men were killed and a num ber wounded by a railroad collision on the KansasCity, Memphis and Birmingham Road, two miles from Birmingham, Ala. A Rock Island trairan into a Pullman sleeper near Kansas City, and eight people were injured, two or three supposed fatally. r-It has been decided to fill in sixty acres of the Lake front at, Chicago for the World's Fair. Four Chinese who had been smuggled across the Northern border were arrested at Fort Benton, Montana, and sent back to British Columbia. The rapidly increasing influence of the Chicago Lodge, Brotherhood of Telegraphers, has led the Western Union Company to dis charge" several of the leaders, in the hope of discouraging the movement. J. H. Wither- spoon, hi a' quarrel over shares in a cotton crop, shot and killed his uncle, J. G. Rainer, at Charleston, S. C Albert LuJemycr, of Kewdunee county, Wis., quarreled with his bride? about t he quantity of potatoes to be laid in for the winter and 6hot her dead, and then committed suicide.' ; ' Every window-glass factory in Find ley, O. went into the new trust. George Johnson colored, killed his mother, at Spottsylvania Court House, Va. The proposition of a federation with the trainmen's organization was rejected by the locomotive engineers. The Farmers' Review, of Chicago, says that a careful examination of estimates shows that the corn crop is turning Out somewhat better than,(was expected. The grand jury of Camden, N. J., found a. true bill against Francis Lingo for the murder of Mrs. Annie Miller. Major II. C- Seymour, U. S. A.. ' died ' in .Galveston, Texas, aged fifty-eight yearg. -George Hall, who had been suspected of. the murder of Able Hawkins, in Dor chester, Mass., was c!eared after twenty-eight years by' the death-bed confession of the murderer.' At the funeral of Willie Sprague, ,at Narragxins'elt Pier, his mother was pre- ' vented , by his father, the ex-governor, from faking a" last took at the remains. Peter McCortney, one of the most notorious counter feiters in the country, died in the penitentiary at Columbus, O. Officer James Dorau was fatally wounded at the.- Lake Shore Depot, at . .Ashtabula, Ohio, by men whom he caught roloing'a store.- In Butler, 111., Florence Tyler severaljy, wounded Eugene F. Mease, who had promised to wed her, but married another woman.-1 Two children of Nicholas Brandt, in 'Dubuque, Iowa, were scalded to deajth with hot .water. -In Rolfe, Iowa, a house was struck by lightning, and. though the beds were torn to atoms, their occupants escaped injury. It is stated that the Adams and United; States Express Companies have consolidated. S. P. Quinn, an ex-gambler of Chicago, was assaulted and then tarred by some unknown parties.- G. Blank shot and killed his paramour in El Paso, Texas, and then committed suicide. Charles Arm- etrong, of Harvard, III, robbed his clients of 1 f i(x. Mayor Glennm, of Long Island City, L. was sentenced to fiv days im prisonment and to pay a line of $250 for as suiting a reporter. A YOUNG man in Savannah, Ga.. tried to pny hi street car tare with a $1 u bill. The conductor, stopping the car, went into a Mnr and got the till changed, givintr theyoim man a t. hot-bug full ot silver uiiuiunling i Collisions in Ohio, Alabama, Missouri and Georgia. Men and Women Injured on (he Italian City mid Birmingham Line An Engine Rnni Into a Cfar. A disastrous collision occurred at 4.30 o'clock A.M., on the Cincinnati Southern Railway in a tunnel at Elihu station, two miles below Somerset, Ky.. The engines of freight No. 22, north-bound, and passenger No. 5, south-bound, dashed into each othen and the cars following jammed into each other in a mass. The cars caught on fire. Six lives were lost and a number injured. The initial eaus- of the collision was a wreck which occurred at Elihu Station. A mixed train was stopping to leave a car and had not yet got into motion, when a freight came up in the rear and struck the rear car, causing a serious wreck. The delay to the passenger trains by this wreck caused the mistake of the engineer and conductor of the freight train No. 22 by which the tunnel col lision occurred. Fortunately the passenger train had not entirely gone into !tne tunnel when the crash came.and so the three sleepers, which did not leave the track, served as a means of escape for the passengers. These sleepers were detached and drawniaway from the burning train, but the basgnge ca, mail car and two coaches were burned. Collision In Alabama. A terrible collision occurred on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Road at Ensley City, Ala. Two men were killed out right and a number wounded. The Kansas City passenger train due to leave at 9 P. M. was an hour late owing to a wait for the Georgia Pucifie train. The sleeper tor the Kansas City train had not been attached, but when the Georeia Pacific train arrived the depot master signaled the Kansas City train to get out of the way. The conductor of the Kansas Citv train was on the sleeper, but the engineer, John Russell, of the Kansas City train understood the depot master's signal to go aheid and pulled out for Memphis. He nrrivedat Ensley City before he discovered that he had left the sleeper and conductor Popphnm, and without hesitationimmediately started back to Birmingham at forty miles an hour. The train had not gone half a mile when, rounding a curve, it was crashed into by an outgoing freight train. The coaches of the returning passenger train were telescoped in a frightful manner. Missouri Accident. A serious tail-end wreck occurred on the Union Pacific Railroad, one mile and a-half west of Armourdale, a surburb of Kansas City, in which nine persons were seriously injured and the engineer of the Rock Tsland train fatally. The Rock Island use the Union Pacific track into the city. An east-bound freight which leaves the depot before the Union Pacific passenger train was delayed near the scene of the accident, and, as there was a very heavy fog, placed torpedoes on the track to warn the following train. The passenger engineer, warned by the tor pedoes, slopped his train, and before a flag man could be sent back to warn the east bound Rock Island train, which was follow ing, the Rock Island train crashed into the Wathena Pullman sleeping car of the Union Pacific train. The Rock Island engine was completely wrecked and the engine?r was buried under the debris. The fireman jumped and probably saved his life but received severe bruit es. The damage is estimated at $60,000. A Train Strikes a Wagon. A special despatch from Rome, Ga., says: A terrible accident occurred on the lino of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad. Four persons were killed, three instantly. The other died afterward. A south-hound passenger train left Chattanooga ou time and was running at a moderate rate of speed. Approaching Chicamaus'a.as the train dashed out of a cut a covered wagon was upon a crossing. The engine struck the wagon and killed J. W. Jenkins, his wif and baby and Mis. James Bowman, all of Walker county. POUR MEN POISONED. A Peculiar Affection, Probably Caused by a New Dye. Four persons employed at the Quaker City Dye Works, in Philadelphia, were poisoned in a peculiar mauner. Two of them will die. For a week past a chemist has been en gaged in experimenting with a new dye. Di rectly beneath the laboratory is the dressing room in which the street clothes of the em ployes are kept. It. is supposed that the in. gredients used by the chemist in his experi ments formed a compound which produced prussic acid, and that some of the deadly fluid leaked through the floor of the laboratory to the dressing-room, and saturated some of the clothing there. Hughes entered the dressing-room about noon and came out complaining of feeling ill. His face was of an indigo hue, and he was conveyed at once to St. Mary's Hospital. By the ime he reached the institution his heart had almost ceased to beat. Tighe, Spellman and Eberhart, who went into the dressing room after Hughes, were seized with the same symptoms. The two were taken to the same hospital, and Eberhart was carried home. A physician visited the dye works to dis cover, if possible, the cause of the men's ill ness. He at once detected the odcr of prus sio acid, and although the chemist denied using it in his experiments, he learned enough to convince him that other chemicals used had formed the compound. The men had in haled the fumes of this deadly poison. The phyhicians attending Hughes and Eberhart say they will probably die. Tighe and Spellman inhaled lesi of the poison, and their cases are not so dangerous, although they are still very sek. It was deemed advisable to send the other employes home, in order to avoid the possibility of their being made sick. The doctors say this is an extremely rare case of poisoning. A FATAL BAPTISM. Religious Cranks In Michigan Kill an Invalid by Cold Water Doueh. Last summer William Fillinger and h'.s wife, who live three miles from Perry, Mich., attended a Beries of revivals and became religion mad iu a mild way. With them lived Fillinger's mother, who has long been physi cally frail. It worried Fillinger and his wife that the elder woman was unbaptized, and they de cided that the necessary religious rites sbould be performed, although the poor woman was con tiiied to her bed; unable even to rise. Bringing water to her room, they began the ceremony by dashing water in her face, and continued it until, from shock and exhaustion, their vicini died. Fillinger and his wife were arrested aud taken to jail. SOUTHERN ITEMS. IJTTE RKSTING NEWS COMPILED FROM MANY SOURCES. Triplets born in Newman, Ga., hare been named Red, White and Blue. Dealers report a big rush of tobacco In Danville, Va., at the present time. There are about two hundercd students en- rolled at the West Virginia University at Morgantown, W. Va. Montgomery county, Va, boasts of saving the best tobacco crop that has been made in that country for many years. The seniors of Harvard University have elected Hugh MoCullough, Jr., jof Howards ville, Va., poet of the class-day exercises, By actual count there are now thirty-two annual county fairs held in North Carolina under the auspices of permanent local organi zations. Mrs. Ella M. Gifford, of New England, has presented ?30,000 to the, Richmond Retreat lor tne Sick, $10,495 of which has been already received. By resolution of the Council, Lynchburg, Va., will present to each of her policemen and firemen a winter overcoat, to cost not more than $20. The home of Mary Washington, in Freder icksburg, Va., has been purchased by the So ciety for the Preservation of Virginia Anti quities for $4,000. At Estill ville, Scott county, Va., Pat Dig non, while intoxicated, got into a fire built by him one mile from town, and was so badly burned that he died. A. S. Asbury, postmaster at Roanoke, Va., fell from the second story to the basement of a fine residence he is erecting, and sustained serious, but not fatal injuries. Farmers from Bedford, Amherst, Halifax, Appomattox and Campbell, Va., report the tobacco crops just housed as unusually fine, and all has oeen saved in nice condition. Harry Christian, the negro desperado who murdered Detective Crow on Elk Horn, Sep tember 2, has been captured in Logan county, W. Va. A purse of $200 was made up for his captor. The Htrmon, Parsons and Rswlsburg Rail road Company, organized for the purpose of eon.-tructing a railway from Harmon, Ran dolph county, to Rowlsbr.rg, Preston county, W. Va., has been incorporated. A corporation, under the style of the "Burgwin Bros. Tobacco Co.," has been chartered in Oxford, N.C., with a capital of 250,000, with the privilege of increasing to $50(1,000. Colonel W. H. S. Burgwin is presi dent. - ' M. H. Danhart, a Baltimore and Ohio brakeman, from Great Cacapon, Morgan county, residing in Martinsburg W. Va., was run over and instantly killed by a freight car backing over him and cutting him completely in two. Three young sons of W. B. Bardin, of Grant Township, Wayne county, N. C, recently picked out in one day, twelve hundred and thirty-three pounds of cotton. This beats the record of even the most experienced in this section. Capt. A. G. McAhee, of Roanoke, a freight conductor on the Norfolk and Western Rail road, was killed at Radford, Va., by an engine running into his caboose. Henry Weller and Andy Dawson, brakemen, were probably fatally injured. A silver knee-buckle, set with diamonds, was found a short time ago in SwiitRun Gap, Va. It is suggested that it may be that lost by Governor Spottswood in his famous expe dition described in Fontaine's History. An aged white woman named Sallie Scoggins was killed by a train on the Oxford & Clarksville road, three miles beyond Dur ham, N. C. She was about seventy years old and very deaf. The engineer gave the usual warning and no blame attaches to him. The iron bridge over Principio Creek has been opened for public use, and it is the first iron bridge in Cecil county, Md. It was built by Mr. McQuilkin, of that county, and was awarded to him in competition With a num ber of prominent bridge builders. A wonderful balsam apple was plucked at the residence of Mrs. J. V. Shatter, of Cum berland, Md., its peculiarity being that it is in the shape of a perfect bird except that it has neither feathers nor legs on it with beak, eyes and tail complete, and looks as if dressed game grew on trees. Front Royal and Riverton, Va.j have raised $G7,(XI0 aud a site valued at $3.-,000 for the Randolph-Macon College to establish there a great academy, similar to that lately opened at Bedford City. President W. W. Smith, of the college, assumed $10,000 in addition, mak ing the money contributions in all $77,000. Henry Belcher has been arrested on the charge of murdering a small boy named Rid ley, near Waverly Station, Va., on the Nor folk and Western Railroad, a few days ago, and committed to the county jail of Sussex. Ridley was sutfocated to death and then thrown into a marl pit. Within the past week trees and shrubbery in tire- vicinity of Ellicott City, Md., have been bloonjing. A pear tree on the estate known as "Tipton," managed by Mr. John J. Ver nay, although denuded of leaves, has shown blossoms and iucipient fruit. From various sources come reports of blossoming cherry trees and rose-bushes. Mr. Thco. Mitchell, of Hagerstown, Md., has a squash with the initials "J. 11. B." on it iu letters two inches iu length, which look as if mode of thread, worked after the manner of a buttonhole. The letters were scratched on it when about the size of a hen's egg, and the : wounds healed so that the letters were raised at least an eighth of an inch above the sur face of the squash. J. Hampton Hoge, of Christiansbnrg, Va,, has purchased of A. L. Humphreys, of Charles ton, W. Va., the celebrated tract known as i Mountain Lake, situated in Craig and Giles j eounties, Va., and Monroe county, W. Va. The tract compri-es 103,000 acres, some of it the finest timber land in the South. It . abounds in rich deposits of iron ore and man ganese. The price paid was $250,000. A terrific tornado passed through the niii'.theru section ot llobeson county, JN. (J. . Much damage was done to property and ! i-everal persons are reported killed. AtFloral . College the belfry of the Presbyterian Church ( was blown clown severally injuring two per sons. Several barns, saw mills, Ac, were demolished. Recently a citizen of Monroe, Union county. N. C, received an anonymous letter, contain ing $2.r), which the writer says was in payment i'r certain confectioneries stolen by him from the store of the citizen (a merchant) many venr ago. The sender ol the money declares ih.it his conscience had lashed him into mak ing the return. The receiver of the money turned it over to the Methodist church at Muroe. ( Mr. David A. Fries, wcattle dealer of near S"infh-Fter, Va-, who was drugged and robbed at the tuir at Hagerstown, Md., und incorrectly i-exrtcu dend, has recovered. He says .hree men fell in with him and pretended to want to buy some of his cattle. He drank ...nie beer with them and shortly afterwards iH-eime unconscious. The robbers only got ii u dollars from Mr. Fr e. They overlooked ,i pocnet containing thirty dollars. -The cither day a white man snt down on the u-m of ii N.ore neur the court-house in Amer Klis, Ga., and went to sleep. While asleep he fell off the steps and cut his head quite badly. Stransre to any, the man didn't wake at all, and he didn't know anything of his injuries until a patrolman woke him. An artery was cut, and the man might have bled to death hud he kept on sleeping. The man waa not drunkf DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. John Rea, a seaman of Philadelphia, was drowned at Baltimore while attempting to leave his ship. Jonatiiax Risley, 80 years of age, was burned to dnatii at Smith's Landing, New Jersey, by his clothes catching fire from a stove. A Wall at the Chicago Crucible Steel Com pany's Works, at Chicago, was blown down, killing two men and dangerously injuring two others. Five men were buried by a cave-in of rock in the Ludincton Mine, at Iron Mountain, Michigan. Three were taken out dead. The others were uninjured. OAs the funeral procession of Mrs. John Nelson was proceeding to the cemetery in Illipolis, Illinois, four teams ran away and injured quite a number of people. By acollisioK on the Attleboro and Wal pole extension of the Old Colony Railroad, Elisha Merrill, foreman of a construction gang, was killed and 13 others were injured. By the explosion of a box of giant powder in a tunnel on the Colorado Midland Railroad, 30 miles west of Leadville, two men were killed and eight injured, six, it is thought mortally. Isabella Bergen, 30 years of age, sud denly became insane and tried to jump from a window on Third avenue, New York. Her husband caught hold of her and held her suspended in the air until a policeman with a ladder effected her re.-cue. As an Illinois Central train was nearing Thomasboro, Illinois, the enginser discovered that his train was broken in two. A moment later the rear section dashed into the forward section, demoli.shing several cars. Two trun,s in a car of lumber were killed. Patrick Kilby, a gardener in Plainfield, New Jersey, died in great agony from lockjaw. He fell from a tree, striking on his right shoulder, and sustained a compound fracture of the elbow. An operation wa performed,, which was pronounced successful, but lockjaw set in. Two freight trains, one loaded with live stock, the other with merchandise, collided in one of the suburbs of St, Paul, Minn. James Hill, fireman, was killed; William Johnston, stockman, was fatally injured, and four others suffered serious injuries. Forty head of cattle were killed, and 35 freight cars and both engines wrecked. A despatch from Calistoga, California, says that near the Bradford Quicksilver Mine, several masked men raided a saloon kent by Steven Rich and wife. As soon as the raiders entered the place they begun to shoot. Rich and his wife were wounded and W. R. Mc Queen, one of the raiders, was killed. A passenger train on the Illinois Central Railroad was wrecked by a misplaced switch at Mound Junction, Illinois. Engineer Van Pattou was caught under the cab of the engine and scalded by the escaping steam; Fireman Robert Stewart had his left leg badly lacer ated, and Express Messenger Southeriand was badly bruised about the head. t Four lives were lost by a fire in the Put nam European Hotel, in Chicago. The fire was "uused by an explosion of a coal oil lamp in one of the hallways. The victims were, Mrs. Minnie RobinsoD, who jumped Irom a fifth-story window; Richard Peyton, the colored porter, and Thomas Dowler and 11. K. Saras, boarders. The loss on property is estimated at about $63,000. Patrick Gorman, foreman of the gas de partment of the Otis Iron and Steel Company, in Cleveland, Ohio, went into the drying, department, which is a large room built of iron tor the purpose of heating trunnersso the molten iron will not be chilled in passing over them, and laid down for a nap. The room at this time was at a comfortable temperature. Soon afterward some person turned on the pas without knowing i nut ho was in the room, and when the doors were opened Gorman was found literally roasted. THE WORLD'S PAIR.. Sixty Acres of the Luke Front to B Filled In-The Cost. At a meeting of the local board of directors of the World's Fair it was ordered that the work of filling and piling the lake front jshould begin ns soon as constructs can be let. I A bout sixty acres of the submerged land will be used. The Ways and Means Committee Teported to the board that the submerged sand ou the lake front could be filled and piled for less thau $700,000, and pledged itself to provide $8J0,O0O for that Durpose. The Ways and Means Committee presented a resolution, which was adopted, authorizing the Executive Committee to proceed to let the contracts for the necessary filling and piling ull that part of the lake front which the United States government, through the Secretary of the War, has authorized to be used, t he cost thereof not to exceed $700,000, the contracts to be let on or before November 1st next, and the work to be completed on or before July lbt, 1891. The .SU0,000 will be raUvd outside and independent of the $10, OuO,(X)0. The capital stock of the corporation will in no wise be impaired by the enter prise. Details of the filling and piling, the space to be covered, and its arrangement will be planned by the executive onimittee at once. The directors indorsed the Committee on World's Congresses, a body instituted iu No vember, 18S!, during the preliminrv organi zation of the Wor d's Fair movement, and authorized it to assume the name of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition.' The committee was authorized, subject to the rules and limitations preoenbed by th diiectors, to proceed with its work, add to ita mem hers, and appoint sub-committees. The Foreign ExhibitsCoinmittee, which will meet in New York, was authorized to make such arrangements for soliciting exhibits from Mexico, Central and South America, and the West 1 ad it s as in its judgment might be deemed advisable. STABBED TO DEATH. A Cl'lzrn of Winston, C, Killed In Street Bmwl. Silas Riggs, a prominent citizen of Wfns ston, was killed in a street brawl the other evening. He became engaged in a quarrel with a party of colored men and ran into a bar-room, where he appealed for protection. A few white men who were in the place ac companied him into the street, and a fight with the colored men ensued, in which Riggs was stabbed to death and several other people were seriously hurt, A colored man named James Scales is sus pected of having killed Riggs, and a posse is now searching for him. It is feared that seri ous trouble may cenn out of thisuiiair, as the colored peopie ure Highly excited. BARGE IN A GALE. Nine of the Crew Tae to a Lifeboat, but are Drowned. Terrible Experience of Sailors on a Ves sel n Lake Huron Keacaed at m Critical Moment The Anchor Line steam barge Annie Young was burned to the water's edge off Lexington, in Lake Huron, Mich. Nine members of her crew, who tried :o escape the flames in a life boat were lost. The remaining, after being driven clear into the fore peak, where they stood until their clothes caught fire and their faces and h a Is were blistered by the heat, were res cued by the steam barge Edward SrcUh. The latter bore down on the buring vessel from windward, and despite the heavy wind and sea ran so close that the endangered sailors were enabled to leap from her rails and es cape what had seemed certain death. The Annie Young passed out of the St. Clair River into Lake Huron at 7 o'clock. The wind was blowing a rattling gale from the northward. A heavy sea was running, and when she got beyond the theltcr of the point she made little or no headway. Just as she was abreast of the Lexington Lighthouse smoke was seen issuing from the main hatch. The hatch cover was removed, the crew sent to fire quarters, and ever preparation made to extinguish the flames, but the latter had gained such head way in ithe highly inflam mable cargo that it was impossible to check them. The firemen, engineer, and stewards had to run for their lives, aud it was only aftei they had all been severely burned that they reached a spot amidships where the rest ol the crew, under the leadership of Captain Miller, was making a gallant but hopeles fight to save the vesso'.. She fell off into th. trough of the sea, where she rolled nnd plunged in a way that threat ened to send her to the bottom. Sen after fea swept over her deck.'', tons of water poured into the opi'n hatches, but the fire seemed to burn more fiercely than ever. As it ap proached the foremast, driven out by the gale, it ignited a lot of oil barrels stowed on the main deck. Barrel after barrel of the blazing oil ex ploded, with such force as to tear the deck planks from under the feet of the men. The fire spread all through the hold with the rapidity of lighting. Flames shot out of the forcastle hatch aud enveloped everything about it. When the danger to the boats first became apparent. Captain Miller ordered the star board boat cleared away and lowered. Nine men took their places in it before the falls were cast adrift. They pushed away from the burning vessel, manned tlveir oars and made a gallant attempt to bring the frail craft heoil into the sen. Just as they were rounding to under the vessel's quarter a ter rific sea caught the boat, and, seemingly lift ing it clear oft' the water, threw it end over end. In a moment nine men were struggling with the waves for their lives. One poor fellow reached the capsized boat and wus working with the energy of despair to get astride of the -keel, when he was torn away by another sea and sent to the bottom. The catastrophe to the boat happened in full view of Captain Miller and the twelve brave fe.'lows who re mained with him aboard of the burning vessel. They watched the drowning men go down, one by one, all the time shouting words or encouragement to those who were trying to swim to the doomed vessel, and so intense was their interest in the scene that they momen tarily forgot their own danger. The men on the Annie Young could not reach the only remaining life-boat, for it was already ablaze, and a barrier of fire flashed in their way. It looked as if they must all share the fate of the poor fellows who went oft iu the first boat, for inch by inch the fire drove them forward, until they were all huddled together in the forepeak. It seemed but a choice of death between fire and water. The men could not see the Smith as she bore down on the burning steamer, on account of the blinding smoke, aud they did not know rescue wus so near at hand until they heard the cheering shouts of the Smith's crew. It required the most skilful kind ot inanajuver ing to keep the big lumbersome boat headed into the seas, so she would drift down on the Young, and thus give the latter's crew a chance to leap for their lives. Just as the two barges came together Captain .Miller's coat caught fire; the clothes of other officers were also burning and all hands were suffering so fearfully from the heat that they were about ready to plunge into the lake. As the ve-sels came together with a crash the crew of the Young jumped for the rail like tigers and scrambled over to the deck of the rescuing vessel. Toerct the latter beyond the reach of the flumes required but a turn of the wheel, and the Annie Young was left to burn nnd sink. The rescued sailors are unable to give any clear idea as to how the fire originated, but it is the opinion that it was the result of hand ling a light incautiously among the oil barrel?. TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION. A Man' Head Blown From IIU Should" era, and Ilnrled Fifty Yards. A telegram from McNniry county, Tenn., gives particulars of a horrible accident there, in which five mon were killed. The boiler of an engine exploded, and ' John White's head wns blown from his shoulders and hurled fifty yards awav. The body of the owner of . tne mill, ll. Ij. inmpuii. was torn into snrea MARKETS. Baltimore Flour City MiUs, extra.$3.10 $5.25. Wheat Southern Fultz, 101i((Sl02 CornSouthern White, 54(ViWjt'e., Yellow, 57(.i)58c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 4'2(a Wo- Ry Maryland and Pennsylvania 74 Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania , 10"0O(ofi.00. Straw Wheat, 7.uO(($7.5a j Butter Vtislern Creamery, 'I'Xyl'ic., near-by receipt? I(a)14c. Cheese Eastern Fancy ! uream, lutijMC vestern,5(a,yic. rggs zu((U 21e. Tobacer?! Leaf Interior, lisl.oO, Good Common, 4($V"-0, Middling, Ca$8.00, Good to fine red, !($SL 1.00. Fancy 12tl3.00. New York V'our Southern Good to choice extra, 4.00Wk$o.75. Wheat No. 1 White 1.00(a)l.OOJc. RyeKite5Sc. Corn-South-ern Yellow, fl.)ifg5aUc. Oats White, State 4550c. Butter Skte, 12(djl9c. Cheese State, 6 Sic. Eggs 2;22c. PHlLADKl.ru 1A I',' our Pennsylvania fancv. 4.50f$.r.(JO. Wheat. Pennsylvania and Southern Red,1.00l.OOio. Rye-Pennsylya- I ma, 6ti(go7c. Corn Southern ellow, o'-fStco 531c. Oats 4143c. Butter State, 2,'l26c. Cheese New York Factory; lOlOJc. Eggs State, 2222Jc. CATTLE. BaI-TIMOUE Beef 4i25fa$4.45. Sheep S.50$5.Wi. Ho-'s 45U.i;$4."0. f New York Beef 't:.W(t7.oa Sheep 4.00ffg$5.2o. iloirs 4.a0f 4.!0. Eabt LlBF.u-ry-BeJf 4.4OXAJ4.70. Sheep C.0.ifii5i:y. Huts tIOfiif4.85. CABLE SPARKS. ' ; The strike of the dock laborers in Llmer ick, Ireland, has ended in a victory for t men. THR King of Denmark gave a dinner to the officers of the United States cruiser Balti more. Fife in the Cathedral at Sienna, Italy, caused the central nave of the building to col lapse. , ; ' The cabinet of ITolland has declared that owing to the physical condition of the King he is unfit to reign. The Sultan of Zanzibar has surrendered to Germany for four million marks his rights 07er a portion of the Eas; African Coast Seven hundred plush velvet weavers in Listor's factory, at Bradford, Eng., have struck to assist the cutters' demand lor higher wages. . . ; An Austrian tailor traveled from Vienna to Paris inside a truck, and repeated the fe.a by traveling in the same manner from Paris to London. , , The strike in Brisbane, New South Wales, is collapsing, many member of the labor unions having applied to be reinstated in their old position. ' The members of the new cabinet of Portu gal, who include progressionists, conserva tives and nationalists, have taken the oath of allegiance to the King. Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, who be came insane during the recent army maneu vers in Volhynia, will be conveyed to th Cr raea fo spend the winter. The Prussian Staatsrath has decided to summon the Diet to meet early in November to discuss changes in the tariff and reforms in provincial and communal regulations. - Herb Baumgarten, a delegate from Ham burg, Germany, to the Socialist Congress at Halle, Saxony, dropped dead -while partici pating iu a debate before the meeting. German socialists in session at HallA adopted a resolution declaring that members of that party should seek to obtain their objects only through the enactment of laws by Par liament. - r ' "' 1 The Berlin Post says that Baron Wissman will return to East Alrlca in a fortnight, and that the Geriuau government propose to ap point a colouiai advisory council, consisting of 30 men. . - 7 - , The premier of New Sooth Wales said in a speech delivered before the Chamber of Dep uties of that colony that the present strike in Australia has been almost as disastrous to that country as a bombardment would be. The Paris Siecle says It will, if necessary, publish details proving that Bignor Crispi, the Italian prime minister, recently indirect ly orteredto give France full liberty of action iu Tunis if she would abandon her interests in Tripoli. In the lower house of the Hungarian Diet Herr Baross, minister of commerce,' intro duced a bill'relating to the support of trade and factory employes during illness; also, a bill authorizing the government to purchase the Northwestern Railway. The funeral in London of Mrs. Catherine Booth, wife of the general of. the Salvations Army of the world, was a memorable event, thousands of sal vationisists from all parts of , England, and delegates from the British col onies, America, the continent and Asia being present. - . , A detachment of the East Surrey of th British army, on being ordered to India for service, williilly misbehaved, thinking they would be punished in England, and prefer ring to undergo punishment there than do the foreign service to which they had been assigned. RIOT AT A TURPENTINE STILL Several Men Fatally Shot In the Georgia Backwoods. ' L. B. Varne leased a lot of land from the Waycross Lumber Company just over the , Ware line in Coffee county, and who recently commenced preparations for workingit for turpentine. The same lot of land was sold by H. M. Hitt to Tom Searsand the timberleased to F. M. Stokes for turpentine purposes. A week or ten days ago Tom Sears ordered Varne's hands off the land witji his gun. The first of the week Varne had the work resumed, notifying the parties that he wonld submit to legal process; otherwisevhe should workfthe." lot, but cautioned his hands against trouble, and ordered them to act strictly on the defen sive. Tuesday Tom Sears waylaid Varne's wagon nnd shot his teamster, who is not ex ptvted to live. Wednesday afternoon Tom Sears, his father,' Ffank Sears, Bryan McLendon, James Hen-, dricks and others came over into Ware, about one alVJ one-half miles from the lot of hrnd in dispute, to the house of Robert Knight,' where Welcome Golden and other employees . of Varn were stopping out of the rain, and commenced firing into the horse. The hands all ran except Knight and Golden, who re turned the fire, killing McLendon and Hend- ' ricks, woodsmen of Stokes, and wounding Frank Sears. Mr. Varne was six miles awny at his Still, and knew nothing of the trouble until afterwards. ' .,( The sheriff, coroner and the Way cross Rifles, under command of Captain Farrar, proceeded to thscene, and further trouble is not apprehended. rriTJTOTT Rin riT'TYxr Wife and Perhaps Child Poisoned and the Man Shoots Hlmerlf. ', . i rf resiuaiiLS oi rerm a m uov. new .if r. , sey, are horrified over a double suicide and For some time past Gader Showdash and M.i? - r ! o -i i - rels being frequent between them on account of the husband charging tne wire with inflaei- y ity." The accusation seems to have been ut terly groundless, ana jurs. anowaasu re proached his wile with her infidelity, and the quarrel that followed between them was more than usually bitter. . . . ,'-,.. After Showdash left his home to po to werk his wife soaked the heads of a quantity of matches in water and swallowed the Doinon- . ous liquid, tier moans attracted the alien tion ol the neighbors, and medical assistance was speedily sumaioued, but all effort to save tha ivulnflll'u tttw wua ininvsiliiir etfwl .K.rfli&il in great agony, w nen ouowuasn reacnea nis home his wife was dend. Strisken with,- re morse at the awiul result of toeir quarrel, he procured a revolver and shot and killed him self. . During the excitement produced by the . tragedy the young b.ibe of tne conple was for gotten, but when the people in the hocise had recovered from their nrst terror the child was sought for. To their horror it also was found to be dead, and, although it is net yet known positively, it is supposed that tha. luother be- lore she killed herself auuiinifcu-i td some of the poison to her babe. Michigan's newest millionaire-, James M. Ashley, started out twelve years niro witimut i . . I - a . .. i I dollar, aua in mai ii"i? wis mini ;"" conipped 400 miles of raiiroad, which he ivw JntroH and is wi-rih $2.'. .o.oytt. ,