PUBLISHED BT KoAKOKB PUBLISHING Co." FOIi GOD, rOI COUNTRY AND FOU TRUTH. CV V. Acbbon, Business Makager; VOL. II. Plymouth; n. c, Friday; December 5, 189.0. NO. 30. THE NEWS. James Milton Smith, ex-Governor of Georgia, died in Columbus, Ga. Dulness in the conl trade hits caused a number of mines In the Sharnokin region to stop work.? -The Brazilian fleet of three vessels arrived at New York, and will remain there some time. Benjamin Penhallow Shi laber, widely known as "Mrs. Partington," died in Boston, aged ieventy-six years. Judge Gordan.of Phila delphia, refused the application of the-Rich-mond Kefail Coal Company for incorporation on the ground that it was a trust. reter Mueller, reputed to be worth three-quarters of ft million, was tent to prison by a Chioogo judgefor begging in the streets.- Tod Pryor, night watchman, has been arrested, charged with the mil id er of Banker H. C, Mead, of Waupaca, Wis. A firebug whov escaped from the officer who caught him in the act eame near roasting four families in Chicago. -Conductor John C. Stakely was arrested in Chicago, charged with intimidating men employed by the railroad company.- Lizzie JIall was shot and probably fatally wounded by her husband in Chicago. -Thomas Thompson, of Bordcntown. N. J., is charged w ith beating his five-roonlhs-old child while he was intoxicated" Charles Councilman, a prominent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, for refusing to nnnwer questions pntfey the Interstate Commerce Commission, was ordered to the custody of the Unite 1 States Alarglial. Lyman O. Clark, of North River Junction, has been arrested, charged with the murder ot Mrs. Miriam Marstoc. ' ' " Over 2,000 miners are idle near Brazil, Ind. During a fight near Mitchell, Ind., one student was slabbed and another cut. A gang of bulldozers are maltreating negroes in southeastern Louisiana. A special session of the New Hampshire Legislature9 will be called on December 2d. During a, fight between a pose and horse thieves in Osborn county, Ks., two of the thieves were killed. Freight rates will be advanced ten per eent December 1st from Chicago to the Paeifio eoast. -In a wreck ou the Illinois Central Railroad, near Kankakeej 111., a fireman was killed, and the engineer, Ed Barker, had one leg cut off. 1' is said that nine-tenth's of all the miners in Alabama will strike December, lst. The National Council cl Women wilj meet in Washington iu February.- Diph theria is ragingat Garner, Ioa. The sohools are closed. The United States Rolling Stock Company, with a plant at Hegewich, 111., is in the hands of a receiver. -Liabilities $3,81(5,000, assets $0,053,000. Three build ' ings of the Illinois Glass Works Company, at tfew Alton, III., were burned. Loss $100,000 It is said that Birchall confeised'to Rev. Mr. Wade his spiritual adviser. The American Hotel and three stores at Brussels, Outarie (Canada,) were burned. Loss $20,000. Tht National Line steamer Canada ran short ol - 1 i . . mi it a coui at sea. -i no wans or a new briCK baud' ingiu Jersey City foil Saturday, killing one man and injuring a number of others.- Fire in Bamford Bros.' silk mill, Paterson, N. J., destroyed the valuable works, causing a loss of $400,000.- The iron propeller steamei Washington, of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, was launched at Wil mington, Del The Bellaire Stamping Works of Bellaire, O., was burned. Loss $100,000. R. F. Tobin, national vice com mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, died in Boston, agud forty-six years.- John Ahearn, an eight-year-old boy, was instantly kilk-d in New York by being thrown from a truck on which be was riding, one of the wheels of whioh passed over his head. Alderman Andrews and wife, a newly-married' 'couple of Winnipeg, Manitoba, broke through the ice on the river AsBinaboin ard were drowne.1. Rev. Thomas C. Hartshorn, of pontiac, III., general ngent of American Bible Society, is dead. Filmore Miixson, a prisoner, jumped from a train near Springfield, 111., and was fatally hurt. Dr. James Leonard, of Fall River, Mass.,' was sent to prison for three years and fined $T00 tor performing a criminal uperntion. Mrs. Miriam Marston,, living near White Rivor Junction, Vt, was found murdered in her house. The postoffice at Pocatello, Idaho, was robbed of $1000. The sleara barge William Bowie burned to the water's edge, ten miles north of Saginaw, Mich. Norman Nye, a farmer, in Jackson township, pa., committed snieide. August Belmont, the New York banker, is dead. Captain Salsberg' and crew, of the bark Sinken, were rescued by a fihing Bchooner. troops toxthe Indian reservations. Startling -ttories are being reported of Indian outrage but they are unreliable. -Fire did $27,000 damage to stores in Akron, N. Y. -The Ihirty-Mxth annual session of the York County Teachers' Institute epened at York, Pa. Two men were killed and two others injured by (be explosion of a dynamite cart ridge in New York. Carney Brell, of But ler, Pa., killed his wife and committed suicide. Rev. Peter Roberts, of Wilkesbarre, Pa , is in jail tor not paying the damages awarded Miss ITnsitboe against liim in her breach of promise suit. In the trial, at Wheeling, W. Va,, of Harry Seyliold, a teller of the Bank of Wheeling, the president of the bank testi fied that Seybold had confessed tohim that he had stolen $24,000. -Dr. Andrew A. Lips comb, ex-chancellor of the University of Georgia, died at Athens, Ga. HAUNTED BY HI3 VICTIMS. A Triple Murderer Crazed by Visions of II. s Bloody Crimes, , Tom Smith, of the French faction in the French-Eversole feud in Perry county, Ky., was released from jail at Winchester under $3,000 bail. With others he is indicted for the murder of Ed Campbell and John Me , Knight at the battle of the factions at Haiard last November. He is al o indicted for the murder of J. C. Eversolc, the original leader, and of Dick Comb, a hoy. Smith's health is tailing fast, and he will probably not live to be tried. His mind has been aft'eeted by his troubles, lie often crii'S out in his sleep, and it is c'a'iiU'd his erics indicate that bis dresmq are tilled with visions of tie murders he bid .taken jpirt in. HOLL&ND'SKING DEAD. The Insane Ruler Docs Not Long Survive His DeposaL , Ills Reign was Peaceful His Towns; Daughter Will Succeed Him to the Throne The King of Holland died at six o'clock P M. During the day there was a sudden change tor the worse in the King's condition, the symptoms being those of urwmiaV The Queen was immediately sent for and stayed at the patients bedside during the night Life passed away quietly. The public buildings are closed and all amusements have been suspended. The min ivers assembled in council at noon. The shutters of all the' royal palaces are closed and flags are at half-mast. Four physicians have made an autopsy on the King's body. The features of the King have not changed. The body lies on a bed and is covered with palms. Court chamber lains are iu constant watch. . The remains will probably be conveyed to the palace at The Hague, followed by the royal family. Princess Wilhelmina gathered flowers in her own garden and laid them upon her father's deathbed. The minister of the colonies and the minis ter of justice have formally announced the death of the King, and have prepared a de claration in regard to the inriiner of govern ment. It is expected that Queen Emma will be proclaimed regent, and that aha wW take the oath at an imrly date. After an anxious day the Queen appears to be more resigned. Emperor yilliam has sent a telegram ol condolence to the Queen of Holland, and has deputed Prince Aibrecht to represent him at the funeral. William IIT."haa governed the Dutch since 1849, when, after the revolutionary storm that disturbed Europe, he quietly succeeded to the throne. His reign has been tranquil and almost uneventful. He has held apart from European wars and intrigues, relying in a large measure on the jealousies of the great powers for the security of his own dominion, lie enjoyed life, being fond of the pleasures of the table and the charms of feminine' so ciety. Two weeks ago he van relieved of au thority because of his impaired mental condi tion, and during bis disability tbegoverntnent has been in the hands of the Queen. The full name of the King was Alexander Paul Frederick Louis. He was a Prince of the house, of Orange-Nassau, and Grand Duke of 'Luxemburg, was born February 19, 1817, and was the son of King William II. and of Queen Anna Paulovna, daughter of Czar Alexander I. of Russia. He was twice mar ried, the first time June 18, 1839, to Sophia, daughter of the late King William 1. of Wuertemberg.' She was one year his junior, and died June 3, 1877. On January 7, 1879. the King wedded Emma, the daughter of Prince George Victor of Waldeck and Pyrmont. A daughter, Wilhelmina, was the issue of this union. This daughter, who is now 10 years old, Is the Crown Princess and will ascend the throne. THE FIREBUG ESCAPED. Bat Cor. (he Officer, Me Wonld Hn Roasted Four 'Families. , An incendiary fire, attended with numerous accidents, occurred at an early hour the other morning at 378 State street, Chicago. At about three o'clock a policeman saw a man throw a bundle of biasing atraw into the window of Frank Beaumont's shooting gallery, in the basement ot the building. The officer caught the firebug as he ran away, and attempted to hold him. The biasing bundle of straw had set fire to the building, and as the officer de sired to turn in an alarm us speedily as pos sible, he dragged the man toward a fire-alarm box. The man struggled desperately, and finally slipped from the officer's grasp and made his escape. When the fireman reached the burning building the basement was in a sheet of flame. Pipeman Thomas Dougherty was among the first to be ordered into the building. He was overcome by the heat, and was carried out. Four families were living in the upper floors, and they fled precipitately in -their night clothes. Next door, at 380 State street, is a clothing store, over which are the living-rooms of U. F. Livingston and his araify. Tne stifling smoke bad entered this building, and when the fireman broke in the doors they found nine persons lying uncon scious in their beds. They were U. F. Liv ingston and his wite Sophia; their children, Eddie and Edith, aged bcvh and two yearn respectively; Mrs. Peck, Miss Olga reck, Miss Currie Houseman, Mrs. Frank Beau mont and her child. They were removed to a neighboring house and cared tor. The finan cial loss was sl.ght. Nothing is known of the Motive that prompted the firing of the house. Worse than Indians. carle Fever in a Refuge Bought tr Frightened Settlers. .In their fright at the report that an armed body of Indians, 600 strong, were approaching from the Northwest, all Oneida and the sur rounding vicinity of Sully county, S. D.f gathered into the largest v hotel and men awaited, armed for the fray. The old,-the sick, women and children, were huddled en masse in the building. The children of Mr. Livingston, lying low with scarlet fever, were crowded in, exposing the whole company to the dreadful disease. Oneida has been furn ished 100 gnns and 700 rounds of ammunition from Fort Sully. A stage driver from Fairbanks arrived and reports one half-breed killed at Fort Bennett for not participating in the ghost dance. Shields, a noted chief from the lately ceded Winnebago Reservation, who ha been par ticipating in the ghost dances at the Rosebud Agency, was in, Blont and acts very sue pii ious, And is held my the marshall until he is proven other than a spy. Great exc'rUwvrat prevails- .. KILLED A U. S. MARSHAL. Deputy Lest range Shot Down while At tempting to Make an Arrest. Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Lestrange was shot and instantly killed at Webster, Fla., by R, E- Burford, against whom he had a warrant for arrest for viola tion of the postal lawr. i Burford's offense, it is said, was sending threatening letters and postal eards through, the ni. i!s. The in en had a few words, Bur ford simply rfsismig arrest, and when cor nered deliberately drew a revolver and shot the deputy. Lestrange will he remembered as one of the United States officers who went to Cedar Leys fat-t, April for the purple of arresting Mayor Ontietl. lit wiim about years old, and Jived in Jacksonville. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ; IXTBRISgTIXG NEWS COMPILED FROM MANY SOURCES. -The pay of the' police of Charlottesville, Va., has been increased from $45 to $50. The Norfolk and Western Railroad intends to erect a $1500 atone depot at Glasgow, Va. It is proposed to bnild abet line railroad froniJlasgow. Va., to various points in Rock linage county. Building operationsin Petersburg, Va., have been more active during the past year than for many years past, John T. King has been appointed store keeper and gauger at Tim, Va.and Fabiua H. Perry at Raleigh, N C. Work has been commenced on the new Ma sonic temple at Glasgow, Va., ex-Governor Lee thro wing the first spadeful of dirt. The President has appointed John Corcoran on alternate commissioner to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago from th- State of West Virginia, Carpenters and other workmen engaged in building are in demand at Norfolk, Va., and contract work is often dtdaved for want of i workmen. Miss Mildred Lee having declined to serve as a manager of the World' Fair from Vir ginia, Commissioner Groner has nominated Mrs. John S. Wise. . . . . While Ed. Webb and several others were out hunting near Floyd Court-house. Va., Webb was accidentally struek fey a rifle ball below the left eye and fatally injured. Bishop Kain hns decided to enlarge the North Wheeling Hospital, in West Virginia, and the plans are now being prepared lor the additions xhich will almost UoJbJe its capaci ty. . Dr. S. W: Battle, a leading physician ot Axhville, N. C, is ou his way to Berlin under orders from the navy department to make an eflidal investigation of Professor Koch.'s dis covery. ... . , ' Hon. Francis J. Murphy, who has been con- '. a acting sucn a succmrul temperance crusnue, in Norfolk and Portsmouth, .Va., has been engaged to conduct a, eerie pf meetings in Richmond. A farmer in Forsyfh.'countjr, Va., has re ceived the prize-of $100. ottered by a Phila ilelphia seedsman, for the largest tomato of the Turner 11 y bird variety, raised in the United States. A site has been donated by the West End iand Company, of Danville, Va., for the Con federate Soldiers home to be erected there. The late fair to raise funda fur that purpose was very successful. Captain Birchfield, of New River, Va., haa a curiosity in the shape'of a petrified baby It is a piece ot stone, about three feet high, and weighs eighty pounds He has retnsed large otters for his rock baby., Near Greenville, N. C, Louis McGlohon and hit twelve-year-old nephew went out hnnting. They carried pistols, and while practicing with them an accidental shot from Louis's pistol went through the heart of the other bov, who died instantly. - The Real Estate Exchangeof Roanoke, Va., has appointed a committee to co-operate with the one appointed by the Commercial (Hub to urge on the authorities of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the importance of the exten sion of that Road to Roanoke. Good progress is being made on the Mar tin's Ferry extension of the Wheeling and Lake Erie, rails have been laid for the Y at Portland Station to Yorkville and Deep Run. The company expects to have trains runuing into Martin's Ferry in p, few weeks. Corn wall, about nine miles from Lexington, Va., ia the name of anew industrial town that is said to have a valuable mineral property as its basis, and which promises to occupy a prominent position iu the development of J lock bridge, county. . . A curiosity in the way of a water-fowl was killed near Summerfield, Guilford county, Va., a few days since, it was pronounced by the knowing ones to be a "loon," a fowl said t& oc peculiar to the sea and the Arctic re gions. How it came in this section is a mys tery. - Warren G. Elliott has been elected presi dent of the Petersburg Railroad Company in place ot Col. John B. Palmer, resigned.- Mr. Elliot is president of the Wilmington and Vlilon Railroad. Mr; Harry Walter was elected vice-president of the Petersburg Rail toad Company. A substantial new iron bridge is in process of erection at Hunter's Island, near Freder icksburg, Va.;to take the place of the ill-fated i-tructure which was swept away during the flood of 1889. The stonework is completed, and it is expected that the? whole structure will be finished by January .15. A big deed from the Northbrook Land Company to the Central Land Company has been plat ed on record in the clerk's oflice of the Norfolk Corporation Court. The price paid was $107,830, and the property comprises two tracks lying on the south side of the Lambert Point Road, containing 107 acres.-' -George M. Bowers and John R. Wilson, representing a syndicate of Baltimore and other capitalists, have bought.' the entire Fanlkner estate of six hundred acres, lying on the southern borders of Martinsburg, W. Va., paying $55,000 for it. The same parties obtained an option on the Rpush land, on the western border ot the city; The Laughlin Nail Company at Martin's Ferry, W. Va., is preparing a shipment of 1,000 kegs of cut nails of assorted sizes to be sent to Spain, Six hundred' kegs have been taken from the stock in the warehouse, and the kegs strengthened to withstand the rough image on the trip. This is the first shipment ot cut naiia made to a foreign port in a long time. The ere w of a West Virginia Central freight train near Dobbin discovered a bear on the track in front of the engine. It wat deter miued to capture the animal if possible, and an the bear did not seem inclined to leave the track, the engine was uncoupled, and then began an exciting race for a quarter of a mile, when the biar was run over and killed. The animal was in good condition, and weighed about 140 pound. A.iW. Ilassell and John Robinson, two young men of Chattanooga, Tenn., stonecut ters, working side by side and long-time friend, got into a dispute about a trivial mat ter. The lie wa passed, and llasseil struck Robinson with a wooden mallet, from the effects of which' he died. Hassell is a sober, hard-working, peaceable managed twenty nine. He is in jail, charged with murder. A freight car loaded , with gravel on the BeltRoadin Birmingham, Ala., broke loose and ran wild down a heavy grade. The en gineer' of a passenger train in front saw it coming, and made a desperate race to get his irainoutof the wav. The wild car crashed into the rear coach of the passenger truin.kill-' tng conductor John Carney and seriously ni jurin T.J. O'Brien, George Farrelland Elias Farrell. tiassenters. faRS. mma BTtTAFT was an invalid for mnnv Tears, durinz which time she had S3 I different doctors, all of whom had diilerent j treatments for her dir.ease, Strange to say, I Mrs. Stuart lived through it all and has wriu ! n a book on "How to Got Well and Keep Well." Doctor and their pills are "not in it." lltrri'cipe is, in brief, to ent rare bcu; aud drick Lot water. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. CffARtits OsTERMAW, Fay Barto ' and Edward Brown, aged respectively 16, 11 and 14 years, were drowned while skating at Phillips, Wisconsin. V ' Daniel HoouB and Edward Murray wer struck by a train on the Fort Wayne Road, near New Brighton, Pa., and killed. IJotb men were young and but recently married. , A. building in course of construction in Lima, Ohio, fell while a number of men were fit work upon it. F.Spridel and James Coble were killed, and a number of others were badly injured. A PAT car on the International and Great Northern road dashed int' the rear of a pas ganger train near Kyle, Texas. - More than twenty passengers were injured one, an actress named Mrs.' Mundy, perhaps fatally. Neab West Duluth, Minnesota, a. man named Mori and placed a can Of .dynainitfti near the stove to thaw it out,' -It. soon ex ploded, wrecking the house, killirfg Morland and severely injuring his wite and. children- A FREIGHT car , loaded with gravel, on the Belt Road, broke loose near Birmingham, Alabnnia, and ran wild down a heavy grade. The engineer of a passenger train in front saw it coming and made a desperate race to get his train out of the way. The wild car crashed, into the rear coach of the passenger train, killing conductor John Carney and seriously injuring T. J. O'Brien, George Farrel .and Elias Farrel, passengers. A despatch from Gallatin, Tennessee.sars tne fi read in I spotted lever that made its ap pearance, last ..March, near Fountain Head, ftbut 15 miles fmm -Gallatin, killing about 80 per cent, of the yictims, has reappeared. James Simpson, living in the affected section, lost three grown sons, ail in abodt two days. He has since moved within abovit three miles of Gallatin, and now his daughter has a gen uine case. The young lady is about 13 years of age, and the doctors do not know-how to,' handle the disease. ; ".'.' . The' MHflsae-tmsetLi Board -of . Railroad .Commissioners ha" f epoitedjin relation to the disaster on uie uiji .oiony . jvayroau near Quincy on- August -H from ;which 28 deaths'' resulted. The report lays the immediate re eponslbility of the accident upon Joseph'F.'.'1 Welch, the section master, who was in charge of the muter of workmen that whs. u sin it the track jack that caused the accident. .Jiie Com nus-iioners cal 1 for more deti ni te and1 stringent regulations from railroad isompse-' nies regarding the use of jacks;"- The .repprt claims that the brake power on the train was not as great as it should have been. - DURING a revival at a colored Methodist, Church In Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Davis and Rhoda.Wr gh't became wildly ex-, cited by a kind of reHgious frenzy. They began shouting at k terrible rate and htfgging eac v other. witn all their strength. This was kept up some time when the Wright woman fell to the floor exhausted.' The other wqman fell on to.her:and'ntinted shouting. In lalling the Davis woman's knees struck Rboda in the chest. In a few minutes the congregation noticed that Rhoda had ceased to shout and was gasping for breath. Mary was polled off, but too late. Rhoda had breathed her last in a few minutes. . AUGUST BELMONT DEAD. The Banker, Art Patron and Horse-Racer Succamb at Last to Pneumonia. August Belmont, hanker and owner of some of the fastest and best known.. horses on, the American turf, has just died'at'his home in New York. sir. JJeimont nas been suffering ' witn a severe cold ever since the late horse show. He was outland about last week, hut became very ill, his symptoms, developing into pneu monia. He continued io grow worse until he died. A ; Mr. Belmont was born in Alzey. Germany. December 8, 1816, where his father was a landed proprietor. He was educated in Frank fort, and for several years was in the employ of the Rothschilds in . their banking-house in that city and also in Naples.' I nl 837 he settled in iew York and became agent for the Rothschilds. A quarre con-. cerninga lady about this period led to a duel, in which he was shot and lamed for life. From 184 1 ti 1850 he was consul-general at New York for. the-Austrian Government, but owing to his disapproval of the treatment received by Hungary irom Austria he resigned his office. . Mr. Belmont in 1853 wa appointed United States Charge d'Afiaires at The Hague, and a year later became minister resident Here- . sinned in 1868. having first negotiated a hiehly- iniportant consular convention, for which, 1 wnn oiner uipiomiuiu service, ne recti veu ins special thanks of the department at Washing ton. For many years he was engagqd in .banking busipesv and, was, well known- aa a patron pf & ne arts, hif collection of paintings being one'of the finest in New York. Mr. Belmont took an active interest in poli tics. In 1860 he was a delegate' to thesDeihof 4 cratic rtational Convention, and from .that , year, until 1872 was chairman of the National'' Democratic Committee J ,, For 20 years he was president of the Ameri. can Jockey Club, and was a member of the Union and other clubs in New York. He married a daughter of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. The Funeral services of : Mr.. BeJmout will he Held in.the Church of the Ascension. The interment-will be at Newport. .. . 'j - DRAGGED FOElV, MILES. . - - The Brntnl Outrage Perpetrated by In dian Scout Upon Kansas Hunter. A story of'brutal outrage perpetrated by Indian scouts clothed with authority to oust all trespassers on 'the Cherokee Strip comes . from Ilunnewell, Kan. " ,- : Threedays ago a party, of hunters, consist-., ing of Perry Stone, T. CrBoynton, Alexander Askew and H. Hoagland, left Ashland for the strip. They camped some 43 miles south of. Ilunnewell. Abuut daybreak a party Of. or 12 Indian scouts swoope I down upon the -camp and without further ado tore the tents down over the inmates and et to work de stroying the camp. ; "Neither expostulation nor the .information that the hunters held a permit Worn deputy United States ninr-ihall was of any avail. The leader of the scouts would listen to nothing, and ordered the alleged trespassers to be gone, adding that their guns and other effects were confiscated to the government. Incensed at such brutality, the hunters re fused to move. This served but to aronse the cruelty of the scouts, and alter first searching victims to see that tny had no concealed weapnw the scouts placed around the waist of each a' lariat, an 1, mounting their horses, ' started off, dragging their prisoners behind them ntsuch a gait that ii was impossible at times for them to keep on their feet. In this way were the four Kansans conducted to Ilunnewell, 40 miles distant, without water or tood, being released oiy wneu in sight o'the border town, where the p;irty galloped away. The vi' tinisof the outrage dragged them selves into Ilunnewell and now lie in a pre carious condition from KhtistHr, This is but one instance of many indiriitics hcapd, upon t!if hunters in the strip, but it is io eri r.usii r:".e t'!.it ei'iie in vcl iiriti ) i will fol!nw a ud i1 n.' i ii ni - l.tutnt w ill doubt. i'SS be :i warded the Of uiffc 'rfcyi STATE" OF TRADE. Movement of Staples Not Afffcted'by the Stock Declines. The Ret Gain in Railroad. Enrnlngi Higher Than UsualTight Money Show no Serious ltetalta. Special telegrams to Bradstreet't rora forty or more important cities indicate that while the stringency of money has Wen pronounced j there have been no serious results to general 1 trade. At New York, where money has been : in relatively greatest demand, bankers have continued to discount for regular customers to the extent of actual . needs, but at higher rates. Brokers in commercial paper have done Jeg than usual. , The stringency at Philadelphia has affected general trade samewhat. Few time loans have been made, and les commercial paper than usual floated. Collections are slow. At Baltimore the contrast is striking, funds be ing in active demand and abundant supply. At Cincinnati commercial paper has not been placsd-f revly, except for regular customers of the banks, witheollections only fair. " Onlr the SDeculative community at Chica go are crumped for want of accomodation, the banks taking care of regular customers in in' dustrial or conimercifil Ijnes. Outside paper has been unsalable taere. The -stringency at St. Louis has been-reflected in a smaller vol ume Of trade, caused in part there as else where by, unreasonably mild weather. Col lections th-ereare only fair and the demands lor Joanjs large. . ' 'In the 'North frest "the situation is not nnfa- vorable, but the outlook is less- attractive." iuiuueajiiin anvi.cee are non-eoiuiuutat, uu St-.-Panl and Duluth-ffankly state thateollec tioiis are 'unsatistiietoty.that the banks for want, of 1u tula cannot' supply, the elevator -companies as in like seasons of other years: tha. ttet.ja6ihaJ' been paying, for wheat i:i l"n " ."-J U-. vim .I'efuueaws auu nave nuyr Bioppeu uuj ing, thus checking, mercantile collections. - A stringency' appears at Portland, Oregon, too. where collections are -poor because the railroads have not facilities necessary to, move the wlieat to market. Money has been tight iu Denver for several months, and several' failures have been announced there as due to .refusals of banks to renew, note. Cleveland and Detroit, Milwaukee and Kansas City re port only a moderate closeness in the money market. . '.Tn? Memphis and New Orleans cotton ex port trade suffered from demoralization of sterling .exchange Thja, has been overcome since. At Buflale. Rochester. Louisville, In-. dianapolis, St Joseph, Grand Rapids, Mich., Jioincs, uaivesion, xsicnmonu, no special, eff'icts ot "tight money have been observed. 'Omaha, ioo, reports ease in the money market. The volume of general trade is.-of fair pro portions, bat not equal to that of three weeks ago. Wheat prices have declined 4 and 5 cts. ner-bushel: corn. .2 cents, and oats 24 cents. Pork j 50 cents per barrel cheaper, and lard . Exports of wheat (and floor as wheat), both coasti, equal 2,283,871 bushels this week. In the same week last year they amounted to 1,861,462 blirshels, and last week to 2,323,321 bushels. The aggregate shipped abroad July let to date is 39,563,029 bushels,, against .40,- 8lS,7Sl hushels in a Jifce portion or ism, 4o, 013,000 in 1888, and 63,278,000 bushels in 18S7. .September net railroad earnings are favor able when contrasted" with, August and July Statements, in which decreases from last year were reported. Every section of the country reports gain over last year except the North west. The. Grangers show gains in gross, while reporting decreases in net returns. The total net earnings of 113 companies for Sep tember aggregates $21,154,432, an increase of 4.2 per cent, over September, 1S89, gross earn ings on the same roads gaining 7.8 per cent. Bank clearings at fifty-three cities for the week are $1,423,615,646, an increase over this week last year of 14.3 per cent. New York . city's1 clearings, w-hich constitute 63 per cent, of the grand total,' are more than those for the amtetrblast.year by 11.9 per cent., while at fifty-two other cities the gain is 22.5 per cent. Business failures reported to Jiradetreet't number 24,5 in the United States this week, against 200 last week, and 259 this week last year. . Canada had thirty-eight this week, "flgaiiist'forty-six last week. The total num bs of failures in the United States, January .lsttadate, is 8947, against 10,107 in alike por tion of 1889. ' ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE Oliver Cromwell's bedstead has been ,-old at auction for 50 guineas. Maeie Van Zndt will receive $1000 a night for a tour, through all the great cities of Russia.' " . ' ? StNATfjR INGALI.S is said to have had an offer of $15,000 a year to edit Frank Letlie't Illustrated Newspuper. - The heirs of John Ericsson have presented the inventor's models to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Secretary Noble and Mrs. Noble are at the "Lithia'i.Inn;" Lincolntown, N. C. The Secretary of the Interior is shooting quail. Count von Habtesav, better known as Prince Alexander, of Batten berg, haa been 'appointed colonel of an Austrian regiment. Gexkral Lew Wallace, the author of "Ben Ilur," writes a small and neat hand which is as clear and legible as copperplate. Queen Victoria Aas at last announced that she is decidedly averse to having the electric light introduced into Windsor Castle. : The Princess, of. Wales is the Queen's fa vorite Hatighter-in-law, and has always been -most affectionately regarded by her Majesty Senator Spooner has issued a card to bis friends earnestly requesting that the proposed .action m favor of his nomination for the Su preme Court' vacancy be abandoned. ' Miss Lily A. Lokg, of St. Paul. Minn whone first novel, "A Squire of Low Degree," will shortly be published by the Appletons. is said to be a writer ot remarkable promise. Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, the Boston novelist, is a woman of. great beauty. She is 'of medium height, with a fair complexion and a pair of exprwsive brown eyes. Her hair is brown and curly. Queen Emma, of Holland, though coolly received at the time of her marriage, has won the esteem of the nation a diflicult thing lor a German to do. She speaks and writes Dutch very correctly." William E. Russell, fiovernor-elect. of M-a?saehusett8, is 33 years old. He was born in Cambridge, and has been' its Mayor. ; lie is aJgraAuate of Harvard and. the Boston (Jui- versify Law 'S-chool. MOLTKE received on his birthday 2009 con "gratuJatory telegrams. They came from every continent and every big city in the world. An extra force of men wax put on duty at the Berlin postal telegraph oflice to receive and deliver them. Meb. .JAMF.q T5K5WN- FOTTirt'S ycnr.'.t siiW, Mim I'rquhsrt, will shortly po on t.3 usi''i. it i hn'hl. yhc i btuJjin;; uuu.r tins L-frH r.i'rvi'iau t; -'tun. CABLE SPARKS. ' Nationalist leaders have declared their loyalty to Mr. ParnelL Captain O'Shea was granted a divooe by the London court, before whom his case was tried. Two passengers on the mail train from Vienna fur Warsaw were murdered and robbed. A MOTHER in Thaun, Alsace, fearing star vation cut the throats of her five children ard then killed herself. General Sebvkrseoff, a Russian agent, was assassinated in Paris by a nihilist as an act of political vengeance, A member of the Vienna Bourse was whipped by a cr.iwd for spreading false re ports to niakc money dear. A woman nihilist, charged with being im plicated in a plot to kill the Czar, has been sentenced to death in Russia. Lord George Hamilton, first lord of the British admiralty, says, I hut the British navy is superior to any other in the world. Princess Victoria of Prussia, sinter of the Emperor of Germany, and Prince Adolph of Sehaiiinburg-Lippe were married in Berlin, Empekoii William has conferred a decor ation on Professor Koch in recognition of his valuable services in discovering the consump tion cure. OThe Brazilian government has withdrawn decreet of banishment against several promi nent men who held oflice in that country before it became a republic. Mk. Charles Stewart Pa nx ell has not ified his colleagues that a long as he is sup ported by them and the Irish people he will remain at the hel:n iu politics. A CO rises PON dent writing from County Cork, Ireland, states that there is grat dan ger of famine there, as well as in Kerncy, from the failure of the potato crop. . A snip having on board a party of laborers, 'who were going to the Island of Brarza, in the Adriatic sea, capsized off the Dalmatian coast; thirty-eight persons were drowned. . -- One thousand men beseiged the poor guardians at Schall, county Cork, Ireland, .for food or employment. It was stated that thirty families in the parish were starving. .- TUB officers of the Congo State confiscated the steamboat of the Baptist missions and hauled down the British flag, on the ground that the vessel is required for State purposes on the Katfxiae rivcr- DuiUXQ a fight at Bistritz, Transylvania, between opposing members ot a church over the rights of the pastor, who was a Rouma nian, objectionable to the Saxon members of the congregation, six persons were killed and fouutcen iujurcd. . i MR. Juilter, editer of a London review, charges Stanley, the explorer, with opening a 'box containing documents of Lieutencut Jameson confided to his care, and making ex tracts from a diary before he delivered it to a bank that was to take care of it. . . Mrs. Hammeksly, widow of a New York merchant, who married the Duke of Marl borough, has been spending so much money 'on her husband's palace in England and in the purchase of a London mansion that her afiairs have been dragged into court. 1 The court at Clonmel, Ireland, found John 'Dillon and William O'Brien, who are in. the United States representing the cause of Ire land, guilty of conspiracy to iaduce the ten ants on the Smith-Barry estate not to pay rent, and sentenced them to two terms of im prisonment of six months each, the sentences to run concurrently. The peopleof Potsdam, Germany, arranged for asimultaneousillumiuation of the heights around the town at the momentof the arrival of Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-Lippe and his bride, who is a sister of Emperor William. A passenger train came along, was mistaken for the bridal train, and up-biazed the fi res. ,When the bridal train did arrive the illumin ation was all ever. WORK AND WORKERS The sailmakers of New York are on strike for au advance of 50 cents a day. They are now getting $3 for nine hours' work. ' Tuk conductors, brakemen, engineers, fire men and sw itchmen of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad have made a demand for higher wages. The miners and cokers of the plants of the Frick Company, at Scottdale, Penna , began a strike against alleged discrimination by the company. About CoO men are out. . . , ; - Kanawha miners, as a result of the recent meeting at Coalburg, W. Va., are demanding a fourth of a cent advance per bushel, which hai been granted generally. , A few operators have not yet decided. ' The work of pumping the water from Coal Ridge Colliery, at Mt. Carmel, Pa . has been completed. The mine was flooded 17 years ago. The development of the mine will give employment to several hundred hands. Ateleqram from Pittsbiirgsayu the threat ened strike of the coal miners of the Fourth.' Pool has been averted by a compromise, the operators conceding anladvance of four cent per ton. All the. mines are now in operation. The strike among the warehousemen at West Superior, Wisconsin, is at an end. The company granted the demands of the day men, ami the hour men accepted 35 cents, instead of the 40 coiits which they had de manded. The drivers and dly men employed in the Block Mines, at Brazil, Indiana, have struck lor an increase of wages to $2 per day, and. about 2,000 men are out of employment. The operators ret use the advance, on the ground that "it -.would disturb the inatket, being in violation of the yearly agreement." . It is reported that the same committee of employes ut the Erie Railway system whti had a conference with the bead officers a few weeks ago, in reference it a scale of wajjea, will meet the ofilcers at Buffalo tor a further conference. "This time they go with positive instructions for definite action in the matter." AT Concord, New Hampshire, Superintend ent Batterson, of the New" England Granite Company, submitted "a lengthy, proposition" to the committee ot striking workmen looking to a compromise of the difference as to pay ments of wages "by beginning to make them five-minutes before the suspension of work in the forenoon and the same in the afternoon." At a rscent meeting of the Federation of Labor in Baltimore, "several of th- members requested that the delegate to the American Federation of Labor be instructed to use his influence to get individual Congressmen to favor the repeal of the duty on soda ash, which is used in glass making, also to have tho tariff on glass bottles increased, and to pi t hibit the stain ping oflimported cigars, which. j made article, but sell because they are ir- It is reported from Pittsburg that the iren glass workers who are Knights ot i,ss'..r threaten to socede from tbeOrler. '"lbs mov ement originated in the alletred improper runddct of Lmrs Arringtou, liissit-r Woifc inatt of the Green Glass" Workers' Nat'osul Aiv?nibly, an! ihv.atisf.u't;on ot the conrw i the a.ini.uistriition." ThB ? .on "f tt j;roen giiiss worlu-rs would, it, h r least o.tJUO members from the KtiuliH " 1 jinr. A movement h aiso on for '' unu : i!i.'.'p'"iJc;v nr-,':ni. Ui i't it , 'i ; : ' u i;o!.il(j blowvrs.

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