. C. V. W. Ausbon, Business Makaoer.
Published bt Koanoke Publishing Co.
"FOR GOD. OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1891.
NO. 35.
THE NEWS.
Miss Thurston Cuntming, of Canton, Ohio,
was outraged and stabbed by a man who
broke into her house. Clinton Prison, in
' Ty was destroyed by fire- Robert
i Sirueek, an engineer, feUrom a window in a
Philadelphia buildingand waal killed.--
Alex. XlcOowun and hf a son William are
; charged in New Vork with throwing Mrs.
Alexander McOowan bus of a window and
causing her death. -Jas. Kabter, a middle
aged German, ran amuekin , New York with
1 a butcher knife, and stabbed four persons.
Engineer AVolcott was; killed, and several
passenger hurt in a wreck near Oskaloosa,
Iowa. -Pirates attacked and robbed two
lalies of the American Methodist(Mission in
China. A highwayman attacked Dr. John
B. Hayes in Union Square, New York, and
attempted to rob him. The family of Benj.
. Sours, at Luray, Ya.t were poisoned by rat
poison in a pumpkin pie. -Reuben" Young,
'of Riverton, Pa., was taken out and flogged
by whiteenps. City Councilman Jn Kansas
City charged with accepting bribes were in.
dieted. Fire destroyed two hundred thou
sand dollars' worth of property in New York.
-The fl remen of the .Western' New York
and Pennsylvania Railroad hare received aa
advance of ten per cent, in wages.. Mrs.'J.
Fisher, near Lang Station, Falls county, Tex.;
was brutally assaulted byanegroi Edward
Schoering, ot Phi'adelphia,sang a song prais
ing FarnelJ, and was fatally , injured, it is
alleged, by Patrick Fitzgerald Striking
Hungarians attacked workmen, M the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works, in Braddock, Ta. A
bloody riot-ensued, and a number of men
were seriously irjured. Heavy rains are
reported in West Virginia. Prpf. Edward
A. W. Morley, of Cleveland, and Prof. Wra.
A. Rogers, of Colby University, Maine, at the
latter place, measured the . changes in the
length of bars of metal in millionths of an
inch. The Wallace County Bank, in
Abilene, Kb., has closed its doors. A ten
million-dollar mortgage, given by the Mil
waukee Street Railway Company, has been
recorded in Milwaukee.
. Bud Jloore was shot in the head at Terra
Haute, Ind. Fire destroyed a block of
buildings ot Viroqua, Wis. Loss $150,000; in-
sursnce $16,00. Two people were killed
and others wounded by the explosion of a
boiler at Newport,, Ark. -Oscar Conrad, a
boy, was acciiletitly shot and killed at Mifflin-
town, Pa. Telcgr:iph operators on the Lake
Shore Road hare been asked to withdraw
from the Order of Railway Telegraphers or
resign.: Four people were burned to death
at Rochter,.N. Y. Dr. John Davis died
at Cincinnati of heart disease, aged seventy.
Mrs. El!en Gibbops, nged eighty, was'burned
to death at Saratoga, N. Y. C. C. Jones was
shot and killed at Elgin, Kg. George Kelly
and Jack Lynch, railroad men, were fatally
stabbed by unknown men in a saloon in
Birmingham, Ala. During the past week
there were 303 business failures in the United
State'.- Chevenne scouts encamned at BatfJ
Creek, S. D., had nn encounter with hostile
reds, in which several wi re killed and wounded
on both sides. -The.EdUto Phosphate and
Fertilizer Works, near Charleston, 3. G, was
burned. "Loss about $200,000. Daniel W.
Talcott, bookkeeper for H. W. Sage Sc. Co.,
lumber dealers of Albany, N.Y., was arrested
on the charge of embezzlement. Minnie
Wilkes had her scalp torn off by her hair
catching in the belting of machinery in a New
York lauudry.- Three highwaymen, im
personating officer)", arrested Frank Myers,
knocked 'hirri feuseless and robbed him of
$K300, in Fostoria, O. Nineteen counter
feiters of silver dollars were arrested in Pitts
burg. The station of the Erie Kail road
Company at Port Jervis, N. Y., was bnrned.
Loss $30,000 insurance $20,000. George A.
Green wns killed and his wife seriously hurt
by a runaway team near Williamatic. CL
The Mt Porter House Hotel, in Keene Val
ley, N. H., was burned. 'Loss, $40,000; insvj
f 17,000.-- Winnie Cronp,' a pretty Hun
garian girl, was murdered and mutilated at
Bohrtniaville, Long Island. Frank Krulisch
was arrested and charged with the crime.
A number of fine horses were sold at the Bel
mont farm on Long Islands ?The strike at
the Pullman car shops, was ssttled, -the men
returning to work at the new scale of wages.
A child was killed and seVeral people
injured by a boiler explosion in Cincinnati.
Frank Brown, a saloon-keeper in Chicago,
was found dead 'behind his bar with a bullet"
hole in his hearr.'r- George F. Work.of Phil
adelphia, charged with rehypothecating stock,
has beeu released on-bail. James- H.
Stevemson, of Philadelphia, died from injuries
received on the North. Penn Railroad. A.
K. Hntheway, nged fifteen years of Staunton,
Vs., wbg shot accidentally and killed by Jas.
Whitworth, at Su'phurV Spring, Texas
Louis Sehwinf, ot Cincinnati, gave his child,
by mistake, u doe of carbolic acid, which
killed it Charles Mayers, a brakeman on
the Frisco Road, was killed by a drunken
passenger nnntd Blunt, at Springfield, Me.
Fire at Auburn (N,;Y.)priHtdjd $18,000
damage. No insurance. T. A. Seeley,
driver of a meet car in Indianapolis, shot
and killed aJhiff wdy attempted to hold him
np. -The resideti-e f K. IIekdf z, at Mc
K export, tn- wus wcked by-' statural gas
explosion, and his wife injured. The Fish
i nc Creek Lumber Company, of Lancaster
ni Columbia, 'a., made an aFriunuier.t. -:
In ah t-fforj tort JT3:- FjyrMof Da vis
ton, Jliss. who, charged .wjth betng implv.
co ted in the shooting ot a. mail natneti rarker,
had lecu rinsed on bail, Sheriff 1. B.Whit?
whs shot, "d. My re, himself .killed.- The
freight leo! of the'lilt'e.Miami Railroad, in
Cincinnati, was bitrnid, together with a large
quantity of UTitfht car.. Total los about
j;.i',oo. '
, EDSA Lyall, the iiove isf- f hardly thirty.
She i a demure and unit'suming little woman
v ami with hpst fill ion. MllCll
of her literary work is done o;i a type-writer.
FX-knatoh Fair hiw within the )ut
eignteiMi MHi.uh invivtel ?,",,.' '.' iu fcan'
F.an'ic ri en ate.
WAR IN THE BAH LANDS.
Captain Wallace, of "the Seventh
Cavalry, Killed.
Big Fool's AVarrluis Open Fire on th
. Soltllcra last end at Ulvlng Up Their
Arms Af.cr the Surrender. ,,
Couriers from the Bad Lands who arrived
nt the Pine Kidge Agency announce that a
bloody and desperate conflict occurred on
Porcupine Creek between, the United States
troops and the hostile. ; 1
Bright and early were the troops up. At 8
o'clock they were ordered to be in readiness to
mote.. At tljMt hour the' cavalry and dis
mounted troops were massed about the Indian,
village, th Hotchkiss guns overlooking the
camp not fifty yards away. Colonel Forsythe
ordered all the Indians to come forward away
from the terns. They came and sat in a half
circle until counted. The dismounted troops
were then thrown around them, Company K.
Captain Wallace, and Company B, Captain
VarniHft. .
The order was then given to twenty Indians
to Koaiul frol their guns. Upon returning it
wan een that only two guns were had. A
It tflchinent atonce began to search the village,
resulting in Ihirty-eiaht guns being found.
At the tusk was abont completed, the Indiana,
surrounded by companies K and B, began to
move. All o' nsinlilen they threw their hands
to the ground and liegan firing rapidly at the
troops, not. twenty feet awav. The trocps
were at a great disadvantage, fearing shooting
of their own comrades, The Indian men,
women and ' children then ran to the south
. battery, firing rapidly as they ran. Soon the
mounted troops went after them.shootingthem
down on every side. The engagement lasted
fully an hour and a-half. To the south many
took refuge ih a ravine, from which it was
difficult to dfrttHlge them.
It is estimated that the soldiers killed and
wounded number about fifty. Just now it is
nn possible to state the exact number of dead
Indians. There are many more than fifty,
however, killed outright. The soldiers aro
shooting the Indians I'own wherever found;
uo quarter being given by any one.
Captain Wallnep, K trono, with cavalry,
was killed, ami '.ietttennut Garlington, of
Arctic tame, w;i- i t through the arm at the
elbow. The tro.. aro stilt firing from the
enmp anil pursuing the enemy in every direc
tion. ''
To sny that it wns a most daring feat, 120
Indians ut lacking 5i0 cavalry, expresses the
situation but faintly. It eon Id only have
been insanity which prompted such a deed.
It is doubted that it before night either a
buck or a sjuaw out of all of Big Foot's band
will be J eft to tell the tale of this day's
treachery.
The members of the seventh cavalry have
once more shown themselves to be heroes in
deeds ot dnring. Single-handed conflicts were
seen oil over the field. The death of Captain
Wallace cause much regret. The poor fel
low met his death by a blow on the head from
a war-club.
CAPTAIN WALLACE'S KECOKD,
Captain George D. Wallace was the junior
captain of the seventh cavalry. He was born
in South Carolina and educated at the mili
tary M-aupiny of that State, lie was appointed
a cndel nt West Point September 1. Iti(i8. L He
graduated in 1872 and was assigned to duty in
the seventh cavalry. Four years later he was"
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Dur
ing ail this period he was with troop L, and
most of Ms service has been in the North
wet, lie was regarded as one ot the most
gallant ofiicers in the service. He was pro
moted to a captaincy in September, 1SS2, and
stands No. 8'J in the line list of ofiicers or that
crude.
WHOLESALE MURDER.
A Shoemaker Trie to Kill Ills Whole
Family and Then Sntcldei.
Henry Eehr, who lived fifteen miles west of
Fergus Falls, Minn., went home from Eliza
beth, where he has a shoe shop, and, after
some pleasantry about" Christmas presents,
drew a self-cocking revolver and began shoot
ing at his wife, son and daughters. He hit
his eon twice in the arm and stabbed him in
the back with a carving knife, as he was try
ing to escape from the house. . The light went
out in the midst of the shooting, and three
daughters got outside and hid themselves,
one of them with a bullet ' wound in her
shoulder.
Then Rehr turned on his wife and stabbed
her repeatedly with the knife. Af terward, he1
went in search of his daughters, and, not
finding them, came back to the house. His
wife had crawled away, but he followed her
apd stabbed her-apai ti and again. Finally,
he returned to the house and hanged himself
to h beam, at the same time putting a bullet
into his heid. The son managed, to get to a
neighbor's house, two miles away, and pave
the alarm. When the neighbors arrived tbey
found Kehraead, his wife just dying and the
three daughters still hiding.
Henry Rehr.the son, will probahlydie from
his wounds and loss of blood. The family
has some property, but is a rough lot The
son has served a term in the state prison for
horfe stealing, and the girls do hot bear an
enviable reputation. The family had num
erous quarrels, and llehr went away a few
weeks 2go with the intention of not coming
back.
i He was perfectly sober at the time of the
murder, and nobody can tell what his object
was, unless it was simply a fit of desperation
or frenzy. He went home with the intention
of doing the deed, becausej he took with him
from Elizabeth the rope with which he banged
himself, three revolvers and a butcher knife.
; r AMERICAN MONETARY UNION.
Delegates from Varlott Kepal:ic to the
International Conference ' ' 1
Th recommenda'tioB of the late Interna
tional American Conference for the establish
ment of an American Monetary Union and
the issue of a com moo silver coin have been
adopted by all the American republics, ex
cept Guatemala, ' Urngu ay and" Paraguay,
which have not" been heafd ' from. The first
meeting of tb union takes place at the De
partment f State at noon, on Wednesday,
the Tth of January. ;
The folJowfng delegates harwbeen reported:
Argentine Republic, Don Viceniej.ues;da;
Brazil, Salvador de Mendonca; Colombia,
Don CJimaoo Calderon and Dna Julio Ken
gito; i Mexico, Don if. Romero; Vcnetuela
Don Etniiile Vetaiicourt IUsudon; Chili,
Don Prudencio La!?oo; Salvador, Pb Ben
jamin XI. Guirolii; Keuinlor, Don XI. Romero.
Delegates have been appointed irotu Peru,
Costa Rich, Honduras, and Bolivia, but their
.names nave not been reported. Mr. Romero,
the Mexican .Mtnisftr repr-Kf!ii K-uii'ior as
W:il H tin ii .vil coiiiil ,"V. Tht- ilM'g;lt i Iroin
t:' I'iiite ! -'ei4-. i :,:.'( : nimv , !,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
, Mb. Chauncet.M., Depbw, so the gos
sipers tell, gives every .year three or four
Yale College scholarships to deserving young
men whom he chances to meet or hear about.
' George W. Cable is a .man of slender
physique and medium stature. His beard
and eyes are dark and his high forehead is
surmounted with a head of jet black hair.
He has a soft, almost feminine voice, aud is
45 years old.
, Prince IIebsyasawo is the Hon of the
day in Berlin. His uncle, the Mikado of
Japan has sent him to that citv. Accomnanied
I by three secretaries and six young Japanese
, noblemerj, for the purpose .of attending mari-
time and other studies.
Judge'E. R-Ho ab, of Concord, is one of
1 the few eurvivine members of the literary
club that made Boston famous lit the days
when Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow,
Agassis, Benjamin Pierce, Holme?, Lowe'l,
and Whipple were enrolled among its mem
bers. Dr. Kerr, medical missionary of the Pres
byterian Board at Canton, has treated 520,000
canes in the past thirty-six years, and has
treated 100 medical assistants, mostly Chinese.
In addition to thi, the reverend gentleman
has prepared twenty-seven medical and sur-.
gical books.
Senator-elect Gordon, at the battle of
Seven Pines, received three bullet wounds,
and at Antietam he got two bullets iu the
leg, one in the arm, one in the shoulder, and
onein the right cheek. He also had a horse
killed under him, the butt of. his pistol
smashed, his canteen pierced, and his coat
torn with bullets.
Baron de Bar ante's memoirs, which are
about to be published, show that Talleyrand
fled to America, menaced by the Reign of
Terror, his worldly wealth consisting of 25.
louis d'ors, and that Mine. DeStael prevented
him from committing suicide by obtaining
for him a post.
Saba Bernhardt has set all Taris crazy
by her African complexion, the cosmetic for
which is a concoetion of her own. The com
pound oonsists of Saffron; w-ell kneeded with
powdered coffee, combined with a delicate
mixturo of musk and chicUory, diluted with
rose water until sufficiently liqnid to be
spread over the skin. Instead of making up
for the part, she brushes up.
The duk of Veracua, the only living
lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus,
and minister of the interior in the former
cabinet, is very ill at his home in Madrid, aud
will probably only live a short time. He is
a breeder of the best fighting bulls, and is.
president of the Columbus Association.
Senator Hearst's gold mine is the largest
in a group of mines near Dead wood, S. D.,
and it said to be the richest, mine in the
world. Tbre'e thousand miners are employed
upon it, and they take out from $150,000 to
$JOO,000 every. month. What is more, there
ds ore- enough in sight, according to" recent
estimates, to run the present stamp mills at
the mines lor the next twenty years.
Ax engineer of Copenhagen, Denmark, has
invented a thermo-alarm apparatus, which
he Calls an ad monitor, for averting danger as
well as for saving in repairs by rendering in
directly the wear and tear induced by a rise
in temperature of surfaces in friction. The
invention is described as cheap, easily ad
apted to existing machinery, and as effective
in every trial that has hitherto been made
of it. ' :
CABCInal Manning owns a small farm,
from which he daily receives dairy produce
and such vegetables and fruits as are in sea
son. The librury is his working and living
room, and here he. almost always has a fire,
for his decreased vitality makes him feel
chilly. The place is chock-full of books, not
only in shelves around the walls, but in cases
in the middle of the room, leaving just a lit
tle gangway in which to take a walk. The
Cardinal knows the place of every book.
A TRIPLE MURDER.
Husband, Wife and Bystander Shot fey a
Hungarian. ' .
A despatch from Wilkiesbarre, Pa., says:
The little mining hamlet known as Broder
ick's Patch, which is located under the sha
dow of. the "mammoth breaker of the Wyo
ming Valley Coal Company.'was thrown into
excitenicnt over a most brutal aud terrible
tragedy, which has resulted in the death of
three persons by gunshot wounds. John
Tirello, a Hungarian, from Edgerlon, who
had been in the hamlet tor a few days, entered
the saloon of Michael Cnrley, and in the
presence of the letter's five-year-old-daughter,
Mamie, who was holding an- infant, shot
Mrs. C'urley, who was working at the wash
tnb, in the front part of the bar-room-, and
then shot Corley, who had just come down
stairs. Tirello next turned and shot a man
named Michacl llodok, n llunsrurian, who
died instantly, and then laying the revolver
upon the prostrate form of Curley, decamped
for parts unknown. He has been traeked as
far as the stone bridge nt Wyoming, three
miles away. The shot entered Mrs. Curley 'a
head from the back, and she died instantly.
Curley was shot in the forehead and livedtwo
hours. There were apparently only five per
son in tha room t tlie time of the shooting,
Curley, his wife, Hmlok, Tirello nnd the little
girl. 1 he first three arc dead, and Tircliohas
thus far escaped the officers. The child is too
young to make nn intelligible statement. The
theory that Tirello did the shooting is the
most reasonable, but there are few persons
who hold to the belief that Curley shot Hodok
in nn altercation, and Tirello, who was im
plicated, did the rest of the shooting. The
termer theory ia probably correct. '
KEROSENE IN A MINE.
A Terrlfle Kxploslon, and Some Remark
at hie Kscapen.
An explosion took plaee in the entrance
shaft of the United Coal and Coke Works,
Seottdale,JP&., operated by. the ITnlted Coke
Company.1. It was caused by the ignition of
kerosene oil. " The' report was terrific. One
hundred-and forty miners were at work at
the time, but all made their- escape through
the various. openings for that purpose.-. Some
escape? were miraculous,"'. -iy5'V' V-"
Jh'e fire, which is still "raging fiercely; de
stroyed allthe loose property in the mine, and
has already done enormous damage. Every,
effort is bein? made to extinguish the fire.
The coal is already said to be ablaze, and an
immense, conflagration, which won ki prac
tically ruin the mine, is feared, . The United
Mine is situated on the Sewiekley' Creek, and
5s pronounced one of the finest in the region.
General Manager Lynch, of the Frick Coke
Company, who thoroughly understands every
thing about tba roine, is on the scene direct
ing the work, and at a late hour it is thought
that the llanies tn y possibly hesubdnf '. The
excitement in the vicinity T the exjd e ion is
widespread. T'i'1'iri.iis wire jnjnr-i by a
fill ot tin-' r. r r " burs-; , sdia't. Cvtr
' -'ff h i!' I !'' i ;) b'1 nt out t f t ui
BOLD BOBBERS.
They Clear Oat a Bank in Brcai Day
light in Chicago. i
.
Compelling the One Clerk, o Snrrendcr .
and Locking Hint In the Vault The .
Th lev-! i Cm pt a red .
Jessie James' wildest exploits at frontier
settlements were 'outdone in Chicago a few i
days since by three stock yards toughs. The' j
Chicago bandits are undoubtedly, the same i
that a fortnight ago coolly-robbed the office i f I
the Allerton Packing House, within a few feet I
of hundreds of Allerton's butchers, armed
with cleavers and knives. The lutest feat wns
a desperate bank robbery, followed by a break
neck race and running revolver fight with the
poli:efora number of miles on the boulve
yards. It was a few moments past noon when three
men entered the Merchants' Exchange Bank,
on Commercial avenue, South Chicago. The
cashier, Mr. Williar, and the bookkeeper, Mr.
Walter Wallis, had both gone 'out to lunch,
aud the person left in the bank was Frank
Lynn, twenty years oldwho acted as assist
ant cashier. There were two windows in the
bank railinir. One uf the men u-hn eiihrwl
the bank went to each window, and the third.
one walked to the rear, and going through a i
wooden gate, came to the locked wicket which j
divided the cashier's apartments from the !
office proper. The man at the first window
said to young Lynn, "Hand out the cash
you've got there," at the same time putting I
up two revolvers for him to look at. Lynn
hesitated an instant, and the man at the
second window, who had one revolver out,
drew another, and pointing them at Lynn,
said: "Nowjut let thatJcllow in back there,
and be quirk about it." .
Scarcely breathing, Lynn minded like a
good child and nerrnusly unlocked the door.
The robber immediately 'entered, and, with
out a word, knocked theyoug man down
with a terrific back-hauder, and t.ien suddenly
as a flash kicked him in the stomach. Leav
ing the young clerk , on the floor dazed and
groaning, the assailant unceremoniously,
entered the vault and took from the safe three
f 500 packages of bills .nd about $80 in changej
besides a tin box containing deeds and mort
gages. After securing this he walked out,
and picking Lynn up, threw him into thu
vault and turned the lock.
After Lynn had been carefullystored in tht
vault the burglars pocketed their guns and
put their spoils into a large sack which the;
had brought along for the occasion. They
then started out, and as they got to the door
met Mr. Willis, the bookkeeper. The robbers
walked out, and, taking a buggy, drove down
the street -
Mr. Willis was amazed to find the vault
locked and no one. in the bank. The first
thing he did was to hurriedly open the safe,
when, to his utter astonishment, out fell
young Lynn, bloody and groaning: 'Willis,
the bank's been robbed."
The bookkeeper, with Lynn struggling after
him. at once started t give the alarm. A few
yards from the door Police Lieutenant Jen
kins wasmet coming from the railroad station,
with Sergeant Powers. The clerks excitedly
informed the Lieutenant what had happened.
Pausing only long enough to send word for
the patrol watron to follow, sergeant and lieu
tenant gave chase on foot. The patrol wagon
was but a minute in getting out with three
ofiicers, Jenkins and Powers soon overtaken,
clambered in, aud, whipping the horses, started
in hot pursuit. As they turned into Sooth
Chicago avenue they vould see a fleeing buggy
a mile ahead of them, which they instinctively
knew carried their men.
The long race continued unabated until the
buggy got to the corner of South Chicago
avenue and Cottage Grove avenue. Itstopped
short, nnd the robbers deserted it, getting into
the meat wagon of Charles Mulliii.
Near Sixtieth street the others came within
reach and fired their first volley. The horse,
to the meat delivery wagon had about fagged
out, and the men jumped from the wagon
and Mullin jogged along with his wagon
When the men jumped they separated, and
the officers, leaving the patrol wagon, followed
the nearest man. He took in the situation,
and throwing up his handy, surrendered, giv
ing his name as John Corbett. Lieutenant
Jenkins now came dashing by with the fresh
patrol, and overtook Mullin in his delivery
wagon. Mullin protested that he had drivei
the fellows nt the point of the pistol, but he
was handcuffed just the same in a jiffy.
The other two highwaymen meantime wcrt
out of sight. While all this was transpiring
Chief ot Police Marsh was notified. He wu
in the Mayor's office at the time, and in com
pany with Inspector Hunt drove at a mad
pace for the Hyde Park Station. Before leav
ing, however, thirty men were detailed by th
chief to watch every railroad and cable trail
and every road through the district. When
the chief reached the station he gave orders
to have every opeir place searched for iln
missing men. This was done, and the robbers
were found in a barn at Filty-sevcuth street
and Woodlawn avenue. They opened fire on
being discovered, and Patrick O'Brien, i.
watchman, who joined the party, was hit in
the thigh. The shotguns Were too much for
the robbers, however, and they concluded to
give in..
There was a short parley, and five minutes
later every one of the burglars and all of the
stolen property was landed in the Hyde Park
Police Station. Along the1 road the rubbers
had shot the lock ofl the tin box, and finding
no money in it, had dropped it in the road.
The last two men captured gave their names
as Frank Bennett and Henry Featherstpne.
It is said the robbers, notwithstanding their
coolness, overlooked in the vault and the
cashier's drawer funds to the amount of
$10,100. . ...
NEW CONSUMPTION CURE.
A Hooiler Doctor Vacs Disinfectants as a
- Remedy. ." ' ' .
Dr. A. F: Ilenry, a reputable physician of
Wingate, Iod., has invented a simple method
of curing consumption, which, it is' claimed;
has produced; beneficial results ' in a series of
six experiments. It is easily within Veaelj of
not only physicians, but of trained nurses as
well.- The" preparation used is ; any of the:
modern antiseptic disinfectants or germicides,
except toxic substances or noxious gases!
An alcoholio lamp i placed on' a block' of
wood, and surrounding this lama is a galvan
ized iron cylinder covered with asbestos to
retain the heat Inside" the cylinder, and im
mediately above the flame is a can, from which
two rubber Vubes extend. Within this can'
the preparation chosen is placed and with the
tubea inserter! in his nostrils the patient in
hales the fun es. By this method it H claimed
that the lungs of a pulmonary consumptive
may be disinfected, cicatrized and rendered
s completely aseptic as the stump of an
amputated li nb can be made by a physician.
Dr. Henry says that by his invention the
untiseptio mi y tie dietrihutfd'in the lung",
throat, an naVal 'cavities with as much cer
tainty of conAro) as any ordinary medicine
ce.n be a iniijiitit. red. 1 iie method, it is
rUimed. citnplT airesis disuse, but does not
t'-ftorst'- us a Irt-c.iiy des'-oed,
. SOUTHERN ITEMa
IWTERKSTISO NEWS COHPILKD
FROM MANY SOURCES. .
Some miscreant fired a' revolver, the ball
from which entered the back window of Jox,
McCIain's residence, in Bellaire, V, Va., just
grazing the head of Mrs.McClain and burying
itself in the wall opposite. .
Five children are reported lost in the snow
storm, on Thirteen Mile Creek, in West
Virginia, and they are probably dead by this
time. More than one hundred families, mo-tly
miners, are snowed in near Roucevert, and
their situation is dangerous.
George Young started to rnn' across the
track, in front ot a C. & P. passenger train at
Bridgeport, W, Va., when his foot slipped and
he fell directly iu trout of the engine. Young
jumped to hi feet just in time to he struck hy
the end .of the pijot beam and. wasviolently
thrown into a snow pile. He made a mil acu
lous escaoe from injury.
While a party of young men were skating
on the Back river, near Wheeling. W. Va,,
Win. Ttosensteel broke through the ice at the
mouth ot the creek, and, despite the efforts to
rescue him, was drowned. In attempting his
rescue a stranger alf'o broke through the ice,
but managed to scramble on the solid ice with
great difficulty.
The first rails on the extension of the. Nor
folk nnd Western Railroad across. West Vir
ginia were laid nt Kenoya, Cabell county, on
the Ohio river, last week, 'ihe roid-lied is
nearly all ready fon the raibvflitd several
hundred men wiJIpusirthetracksahcad lively
until it is alt down. Trains will soon be run
niiiB from fronton, O., to Wayne Court-house,
in West Virginia, . -
Randolph Craig created great exeitemept in
Martin's Ferry, W. Va., hy kidnapping his
own child trom Mrs..W. C. Hymes, who had
adopted if, with his consent, alter his first
wife had died. Craig was since married to a
Miss Spaggs and wanted- to take the child
home, hut Mrs. Hytms refused nnd.alapped
him in the fa'-e. Craig then brought his. two
sisteis, who managed to steal the child while
Craig was struggling with Mrs. ilymes, and
the party then escaped to Wheeling.
Mr. William Kelley, an exleusive peach
grower of Preston, Md., expresses the belief
that should there he a crop of peaches next
year, the fruit will be perfect, on the theory
thafthe total failure of last year's crop killed
the curculip. ...
Mr. David Smith has purchased and shipped
from" Centrevi!Ie Station, Md., over !K),000
bushels of corn, nearlv six times the quantity
shipped last year. The corn crop of Queen
Anne's cojinty is not large this year, yet it far
exceeds that of last year.
Patrick Carroll, whileat work in the Kings
land Mine of the Maryland Coal Cpmpany,
near Lonaconing, Md received .severe in
juries, which may prove fatal. While taking
down top coal, he was struck with coal and
slate, driving him face downward, breaking
four ribs and bruising his head and arms. He
was once appointed postmaster by' President
Cleveland.
John Delaplane, of Emmittsbnrg. Md., has
in his possession & relic of the olden time, in
the form of a little steel hatchet, such ns was
used years azo for cutting buttonholes, the
hat die of which is a sharp-pointed spear to
make the hole in winch the eve of the button
was to be inserted. It has been in Mr. Delap-.
lane's family more than one hundred years.
Mr. 'John Barnes, a farmer livin? near
Downsville, Md., met with n painful accident
during the high winds last week. He went
out to close the doors of his barn, which had
blown open, and, while closing ooe, the other
blew shut, striking him ou the head, making
two gntihes on his forehead and completely
laying bare the whole top of his skull, the
scalp hanging bleeding over the left ear.
The first loss of life in Went Virginia from
the great snow is just reported .from Hamlin,
Lincoln county. James Vest, school teacher,
was found frozen .to death jiear there. He
was buried in a snow drift on a road leading
anion; the mountains frotn Six Mile Creek to
Mud River, and was evidently on his way to
spend New Year's.
Thomas G. Massay, a prominent real-estate
agent of Roanoke. Va., was followed by, two
men on his way home the other evening. Just
as he passed Senator Trout's residence, on
West Campbell street, they assnulted hiin with
a slangshot, dealing him two terrific blows on
the head, which knocked him senseless. Rob
be jy was the object of his assailants, who
were unknown. Mrs. B. Lady Hofre heard his
cry for help and ran to him, and when he re
vived assisted him to the bouse. .He is not
seriously injured.
At Bush Creek, nine miles from Mount
Vernon,-Ky five persons were wounded'in a
general row. Jack Baker received n hall in
the lelt breast, ranging upward and lodging j
under the shoulder-blade, and fl. Mason had j
his wrist shattered from a ball; a sou of Mason
got a furrow plowed across his head just over '
the left ear; John Angling received a similar
wound, and his wil'e'was shot in the back.
How the fight came up no one has yet been
able to learn. " All the participants are related
by tiarriage to-each other. . h
Dr. E. II. Riggan, a prominent resident of ;
Mecklenberg county,. a- was brutally mnr.
dered at his door by a party of negroes. The
murdered roan's skull was crushed in and bis
throat cut from ear to ear. The supposed j
murderers are under arrest, lheie arc threats
of lynching. - '
The corner-stone; of. the, .Henry W. Grady
Hospital in Atlanta, da-, was laid with fitting
ceremonies. The Grand Lodge of Masons
conducted the exercises and Hon. Pat Cal
houn delivered the formal address.
A shocking tragedy' occurred at Danville,
Va. Edward Enoch, a railroad man, and Jas.
Gravett, a carpenter, were in a saloon and
both under the influence of liquor. They be-,
gan to quarrel about soiue trivial matters and
Gravett insulted Enoch, when the latter
knocked him down and literally stamped him :
to death with his Heavy b.oots. . -Gravett'sface
was crushed "and he died almost instantly.
Enoch was arrested.- "-
Several of the small towns in Accomac.Va.,
along the line of the !New York,.Philadelphia
and Norfolk Railroad, are-' getting up consid-,
erable booms. Among:: the roost active and
enterprising of these, places, are Parksley,'
Only and Kellar, all of; which promise to be.
prosperous places. Ca'efuUy. compiled sta.':
tistics show that already over seven hundred;
thousand barrels of sweet potatoes have been
shipped from Accomac county this year. ,
The Eureka Pipe Dine "Company was char.
tered at Charleston AV. Vs. w-jih a capital of
ene million dollars. The incorporators are '.
Daniel O'Day, of HuSalo, -a- ivjt 4'W shares;
C. N.Payne, of Titusville, Pa;; JLM. Swee
ney BDd T. R. Campbell, xt OilCitv, and R.
E. Alexander) of Parkersburg, W, Va. The
concern is in opposition tothe. Standard Com
janjr, and will operate in the West Virginia
Thb oldest banker in the.world la woman
Deborah Powers aged ninety-nine, senior
Partner of the bank of P. Powers A Sons,
lansingberg. Her business shrewdness now
is quite equal to that of her earlier years, and
the has also established and maintains the
Deborah Powers Home for Old Ladies.
Mips Ntf.l1y Kelly, of the Ohio State
Jounm', is a ro ruhr "nrst-wire" operator of
.,e Associated Press at the sains salary lhat
iuid to tir,t.ire men. She takes 1V W
v.irJs in ani;:!.i. and at 'J:.1J A. M. she
loui? . fcloaeiud unmolested.
Holiday Time and the Snaw Storm
Affect the General Movement.
A Better Ontlook After the First of M
YearFailures fur 1899 Ltn Thais
th Total for 1889 Money Eaalor.
Special telegrams to Bradstfctt'i report uo"
material change in the state of trade through
out the country as compared with the preced
ing week. The exception to this will appear
to be at Boston, where there is more activity ,
in the movement vot staple goods in several
lines reported; particularly of leather of some
grades, heavy weight dry goods and woolens
Trade is quiet at St. Louis, lighter .at New
Orleans, smaller aggregate volnme at Omaha,
unchanged at Duluth, quiet and featureless at
San Francisco, while at Philadelphia distinct
weakness is shown, with a tendency toward a
decline in prices in nearly all staple lines.
At Kansas City, Cincinnati, St. Paul, and
Chicago a normal volume of business during -holiday
week is maintained. , ' ; ,
The change in the weather promises to
stimulate the demand for seasonable fabrics.
Manufacturer of textiles and metals char
acterize trade settlements as slow. Refined
sugar is lower. Raws are in free movement,
in Louisiana. Coffee and tea prices are re
ported to have an upward tendency. ,.
LIVE CATTta WEAK.
" At Western points live cattle, except tor
prime, are weak. Hogs are in decreased de
mand and are 5 cents lower.- Farm produce, '
fmtatoes and apples, are in good demand and .
ring good prices. Wheat has been quieter
ami quotations have gone ofl I cent during the ;
week. Available stocks east of the Rocky
Mountains increased last week 189.100 bushels
Exports of wheat (and flour) both. eoasu of
the Unhid States and Canada this week equal
1,431,203 bushels, against 2,171,718 bushels last '
week, and 2,251,634 bushels in the like week
of 18M9. ..- . . .
Rates for money west of the Alleghenies,
except at. San Francisco, .where funds are.
tighter, are unchanged, but with more ease ,
manifest and a disposition to lend more freely
to regular customers. This is in part due to
the lull in speculative and distributive lines
having decreased the demand tor money. No
trouble. is anticipated in making necessary
settlements and disbursements on January 1.
, Heavy receipts of gold within ten days
ehecked the decline in foreign exchange, but
rates tend downward again, and further im-
Eorts of gold are not likely. While New York
ankers very generally prefer not to express
an opinion as to contemplated financial legis
lation at Washington, it remains true that the ;
general sentiment among them is that inap
propriate legislation at the moment; is the
chief obstable to a prompt return to a better
state of financial affairs.
Stock trading at New York is dull and life
less arid prices lower. Holiday indifference
to speculation is intensified by the inclination
of the street to wait till after the first of the .
year, and the railroad situation is better de
veloped. Speculativeinactivitytendstomake
the local money market easier.- ' -
WHAT BASK CTEARIXG8 SHOV.
Bank clearings at fifty-four cities'-for the
week are $859,235,093, a decrease from thin
week- last year of 1.5 per cent." New York
city's clearings, which constitute WUF per cent..
ot the grand total, are less than those for the t
same period last year by J9.6 per cent., while
at fifty-three other cities the 'gain is 9.10 of I
per cent. "
Dry goods have beendull n wholesale lines,
white seasonable active at retail. Prices are
not quotablychangedjbutiuthecase of brown i
and low grade bleached sheetings, lavor
buyers. ' Numerous price revisions' are ex
pected after the first of the year. . ' "
The usual clearing out sales are -now io
order. Texas' and Territory wools are strong
and active. The general situation is cheerful. .
Prices are unchanged. Cotton is 3-16c lower
on increasing pressure of supplies and the late
Jar?e crop estimate.
Business failures reported to RmHrtrttt-'n
number 306 in the United States this week,
against 370 last week, and 237 this week last',
year. C.tnada bad 25 this week, against 35
last week. The total number m failures in '
the United States, January 1st to date,is 10,5 IS,
against 11,590 in a like portion of 1S83.
RIOT AT BRADDOCK. '
Striking Hungarians Have a High Old -Time
at the Steel Work.
The strike of .the- Hungarian furnace men ,
at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Brad
dock, Fa., resulted in a serious riot, in which ..
fur men were seriously hurt and a down
others were battered and bruised. ,
The Hungarians quit work at midnight and
the plant was partially idle, only about 103
men being at work repairing the furnaces.
About 1 o'clock a crowd of 200 strikers armed
with c'.ubs, picks, shovels, revolvers,' bars of
iron and every' -other conceivable weapon .
made an attack on the furnace. The nun at
work were wholly unprepared for the assault,'
but they bravely htood their ground and a
blody riot was the result v -
. The howling mob of Hungarians used their
niideiubbed, bruised and unmercifully beaten-'
The fight latrted nearly half an hour.and whee
the Hungarians were put to flight it was fouuaV.
tliHt. Michael- Qoimi, Andrew Kramer, John
Neason and Patrick Briggs, all workmen, had
been seriously wounded and ot least a dor.en '
others more or lexs injured. Quiiin'alnjui W'S
may result fatally,, but the others are not
dangerously hurt. : . ' :
The-police about the works being unable to
quell the disturbance, the sheriff was called
upon. He swore in 200deputies, and will in.
crease the number to 1,000 if necessary. He ti
oroereu auine saloons in urauaocK ciosea ana
will remain on the ground until the strike is
settled. t ,
The feelinc airainst the Hungarians is very 1
.bitter, and serious trouble is apprehended. -t .
DISASTROUS BOILER EXPLOSION. '
A Cincinnati "ansaige.Mill Blovrs fp anil
Wrecki the 3flh'lorhool.' '
. . A disastrous boiler' explosion occurred "at
11 o'clock A. M, n the premises'of tins.
Locwenstein, butcher and manufacturer of
sausages, at Ninth and John streets. ' ' ...
He uses for the purpose a four horse-prnver '
atetm engine, the Ixiiier of which is located in"
a small brick building in the repr at the fl '
The engineer was. not present hen the ex- .
plosion took place. There was A-terri Iu- ..p-
heaval in the vieinity.'and no lew? than seven ''
buihlincs, occupied ns dwelling-houses were
wrecked end torn so that they will hkve to be
taken down.
Bertha Viray, aged 2 years, was killed, being' .
found under the debri of one ni the !-;
Mrs. Locwpiisu-to has r hrken l-aek and can
not live; Mrs, liauni, lior dnuirhcer, is . (;i"!y
cut PTid bruisrd; Will mm Higcm. rib linden
and badly brniMd; Mike Kenriii'ly, cut al"-'Vt
the head; Mrf. (.iray ami ler (In i: liter, Jt nii.u
(!rsy, were iM'th slightly woundrd.
Tin' abaeuce of the weinctr t.i;ikfS H rt
mi,"!( to use rt ia th1 f-iinc cf i-l-v SC--' ''